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Re:What kind of encryption did the FBI break? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-05-30 00:45 · Score: 0 · on Judge Orders Child Porn Suspect To Decrypt His Hard Drives

How does that "Rubberhose filesystem" protect you from a rubberhose attack? Once they see the random stuff on your harddisk they may decide to "rubberhose" you till you provide the key.

You want real plausible deniability you do something like this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/148440
Basically once significant numbers of normal people have encrypted partitions or containers on their computers but aren't using them, then only does it become reasonable to say "Huh? What are you talking about?". Otherwise any sign of crypto programs or related stuff means you can get the "rubberhose".

Re:Oh the horror! by kermidge · 2013-05-11 09:10 · Score: 1 · on DRM In HTML5 — Better Than the Alternative?

As an aside, I realize you are speaking in general terms, and you may already be aware of this, but one can indeed watch stuff from Netflix on a Linux desktop, at least if it's Ubuntu. See compholio.com and
https://launchpad.net/~ehoover/+archive/compholio/

Works fine on my Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit desktop, anyway. Before I had to watch from within an XP VM under VirtualBox, which does work, just with less screen space available, leastways how I set it up. Don't know if it will work on your laptop's distro, tho. I've also used the compholio setup on 12.10 and 12.04.

Re:Well I might try Flash free browsing again.. by ssam · 2013-05-08 02:09 · Score: 1 · on OpenStreetMap Launches a New Easy To Use HTML5 Editor

it has been able to play h.264 since firefox 14. just build it with --enable-gstreamer. (this is easy to do if you run gentoo. most major distros have a bug open asking them to enable the gstreamer support. eg https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843583 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1051559 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=682917 )

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my name is ssam and i have been flash free for 5 months

Whither ACPI: EC Buffer Is Not Empty? by saudadelinux · 2013-04-29 04:22 · Score: 1 · on Linux 3.9 Released

It'd be nice if they'd build in the patch for bugs like this, which have gone on in multiple distro kernels for years: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/578506?comments=all

Re:So when is it finished ? by kthreadd · 2013-04-25 03:16 · Score: 4, Interesting · on Ubuntu Releases 13.04, Sticks To 6-Month Release Rhythm

Software is engineering, so when will they solve the problem ? at what point do they say "finished" ?

It is finished once bug number one has been resolved.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

Re:Everything he mentions could happen on Linux by geek · 2013-04-22 08:47 · Score: 1 · on Building a Small IT Consulting Business Based on Linux (Video)

Mkay...just a quick google
Here's a bug from 2008 in which an upgrade toasted some Perl stuff. Oddly enough, it seems to show up in a 2012 post as well

Now then, that said. Yes, maintainers make mistakes just like MegaCorp$. Linux is not infallible. Some distros suck worse at things than others. I'm glad there are many. There is only one Apple OS and only one Windows OS. If either of those suck, you're really out of luck. You cannot "switch" to a different, yet compatible, system. With Linux you can. In the end, I'll take wrestling with busted packages on Linux any day. On other platforms is usually shut-up and reinstall. Thankfully, it's not as common as the rpmhell back in the 90s.

Sad example. A bug with a distribution upgrade 5 years ago is not an "apt-get upgrade" issue. Not to mention the one from 2012 looks more like someone dicking around with the perl libraries and it broke when upgrading their distro.

By all means, keep grasping at straws. Linux does have its issues, the vast majority of which are on the backend and out of sight for users. There is no perfect OS, but to try and compare it to the shitfest that is windows and it's upgrades..... sorry no. You're way off course.

Re:Everything he mentions could happen on Linux by sl4shd0rk · 2013-04-22 08:10 · Score: 1 · on Building a Small IT Consulting Business Based on Linux (Video)

Citation needed. I can't remember the last 'apt-get upgrade' that broke something on my system. Not sure it's ever even happened to me.

Mkay...just a quick google
Here's a bug from 2008 in which an upgrade toasted some Perl stuff. Oddly enough, it seems to show up in a 2012 post as well

Now then, that said. Yes, maintainers make mistakes just like MegaCorp$. Linux is not infallible. Some distros suck worse at things than others. I'm glad there are many. There is only one Apple OS and only one Windows OS. If either of those suck, you're really out of luck. You cannot "switch" to a different, yet compatible, system. With Linux you can. In the end, I'll take wrestling with busted packages on Linux any day. On other platforms is usually shut-up and reinstall. Thankfully, it's not as common as the rpmhell back in the 90s.

Re:Microsoft removed the biggest anti-Linux argume by no+bloody+nickname · 2013-04-12 00:16 · Score: 1 · on Windows 8 Killing PC Sales

I have seen these types of messages on both Fusion (Fedora based), Mint and plain old Ubuntu. All supposedly noob friendly distros
The main issue is when you upgrade to a completely new version (like Ubuntu 10.10 to 12) which rarely works flawlessly.

If you want more factual info just look at bug pages like:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager
And reports like: http://fusionlinux.org/2011/03/17/fusion-linux-update-breakage/
or http://geslinux.blogspot.com/2012/07/fedora-17-gpg-key-retrieval-failed.html

Re:mixed feelings by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-08 03:43 · Score: 0 · on Extended TeX: Past, Present, and Future

The last three points mostly go away if you use Rubber as your front end to LaTeX. They are still there, you just don't see them nearly as much.

Re:Disk encryption by preflex · 2013-03-25 03:52 · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Simplifying Encryption and Backup?

The problem is that you're using LVM. ZFS can do this just fine (unless you're using windows).

You didn't say what you're using, but the Ubuntu PPA is here.

Generic source at http://zfsonlinux.org/

Re:Fix Akonadi, Nepomuk, etc. by KugelKurt · 2013-03-20 14:21 · Score: 1 · on What's Going On In KDE Plasma Workspaces 2?

KDE4 is very good on the desktop, solid for me since 4.2, but this bug locks up my netbook so I use XFCE4 on that.

"Philip Mukovac (yofel) wrote on 2012-10-19:
This is the fault of the opendesktop plugin, once you remove it from the config files page one can be opened fine"

Re:TrueCrypt? by TheLink · 2013-03-19 18:51 · Score: 1 · on Cubans Evade Censorship By Exchanging Flash Drives

If a popular OS/distro encrypts a container file by default, that interrogation method becomes less effective.

Hence the bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/148440

It could be layered - for instance the entire drive can be optionally encrypted. But the container file is always created and encrypted by default (unless you specifically deselect it).

Re:Fix Akonadi, Nepomuk, etc. by horza · 2013-03-19 13:42 · Score: 1 · on What's Going On In KDE Plasma Workspaces 2?

Never liked Kmail, Thunderbird all the way (Claws was like my fav ever, The Bat!, but lacked the polish). The great thing about Thunderbird is that it works on every OS. KDE4 is very good on the desktop, solid for me since 4.2, but this bug locks up my netbook so I use XFCE4 on that. With the Unity spyware scandal, KDE has never had a better opportunity to win back market share.

Phillip.

Re:I hearby volunteer ... by bryonak · 2013-03-13 23:05 · Score: 1 · on Why Freeloaders Are Essential To FOSS Project Success

Splendid! Your offer is graciously accepted!
Please download all of these and then... well... I guess... just have them?

Re:Not entirely the wrong choice though by Plombo · 2013-03-12 12:47 · Score: 1 · on More From Canonical Employee On: "Why Mir?"

Wayland actually [i]has[/i] gotten quite far, though. It's still not ready for widespread use, but there is a lot that goes into a display server, and most of that is in Wayland currently. Mir, on the other hand, is nowhere near that. Just look at the to-do list for Mir. Mir doesn't even have basic things like resizing windows or any form of window decorations yet.

Re:Terrible news from the Soviets at Canonical by Idimmu+Xul · 2013-03-07 08:32 · Score: 1 · on Canonical Announces Mir: A New Display Server Not On X11 Or Wayland

On what basis ? X was originally created by MIT in the early 80's since then there has a been litterally dozens of implementations ,every single Unix shipped it's own (usually proprietary since the MIT license allows proprietary forks) X implementation. Even in the Linux world there are TWO X versions - XFree86 was the one of choice for distro's for a decade and a half, before a fork - x.org largely motivated by a change in the XFree86 license became the new preferred one in around 2005.

I'd call no (at least thet I'm aware of) successful competing standards (on the Linux desktop) a monopoly ;) Regardless of the number of successful implementations of that standard!

Compete ? Sure, but cooperate is better. Every other "competing" item on your list cooperates with the others, gnome and KDE has agreed on a standard for dozens of things, hence we have dbus, the .desktop file standard etc. etc. etc. The word that used to be popular to describe how we do things was coopetition - we cooperated AND compete, because we aren't trying to win, we're just trying to inspire each other to do better.

Whilst my memory is hazy, the creation of freedesktop.org and LSB was down to lack of cooperation due to competition back in the early days. I might be wrong but I vaguely remember there being issues copy and pasting between KDE and GNOME way back when .. Mir might go the way of Fresco, bring something new to light or just turn in to another implementation of X, who knows, but they are adding a compatibility layer, they're opening the spec up, it sounds like they're doing everything they can to cooperate but sometimes you need to break compatibility to go forwards.

You don't think you should verify something that important before betting on it ? I didn't either - but I'm not going to assume until I know. Canonical has done non-free stuff before after all.

GPL 3, currently .. but I did make some assumptions :)

Fact is - I agree with your basic precept - if Canonical wants to try this, that's their right. I think it's incredibly stupid of them but if I'm proven wrong, that's fine too. However, a valid conclusion does not mean your premisses aren't based on made up and incorrect facts - so now, you know better :D

Maybe :D

Re:So now it's... by kthreadd · 2013-03-04 09:51 · Score: 4, Informative · on Canonical Announces Mir: A New Display Server Not On X11 Or Wayland

Licences:
GNU GPL v3, GNU LGPL v3, MIT / X / Expat Licence, Other/Open Source
(Boost Software License - Version 1.0)

https://launchpad.net/mir

Re:finally, a tablet that will be welcome here by thelamecamel · 2013-02-20 01:50 · Score: 4, Informative · on Ubuntu Tablets: Less Jarring Than Windows 8?

Thankfully the snooping is going to remain optional (although still opt-out rather than opt-in). I've still got it turned off on my desktop, but reading documents like this (specifically the Data and metrics passed to the Smart Scopes service section) are a little reassuring, in that you can see that the developers are thinking about how to take only the data they need and are trying to protect it. I particularly like their (far-off) plans for sending location information: they won't send your exact co-ordinates like Google or Apple does - they'll round them off to maybe a 10km square because that level of location accuracy is probably not needed for the search. There's also a friendlier summary of the spec available.

That said, while this kind of fuck up is still happening, I'm going to keep online search off, despite being tempted by functionality like its iView (Aussie Hulu) support.

I too hope that you don't need an Ubuntu One account to use the tablet...

Re:Ubuntu switching to KDE by Anonymous Coward · 2013-02-06 04:56 · Score: 2, Informative · on KDE 4.10 Released, the Fastest KDE Ever

I bet Ubuntu could recreate their Unity interface in Plasma/Qt easily enough.

They already did (at least the port to Qt part), it was their version of Unity for low-end devices and graphics cards that do not support 3D acceleration on GNU/Linux, and it was called Unity2D.

Unfortunately they ditched it and are going to use LLVMpipe to make the full Unity work with the low-end/non-3D-supporting devices instead. It's easier to support a single codebase, I suppose. However, this does show that you're correct: Unity can (and has) been re-created using Qt.

Re:I'd call that "fried" by Mikawo · 2013-01-30 04:57 · Score: 4, Informative · on Linux: Booting Via UEFI Can Brick Samsung Notebooks

Apparently, you CAN recover if your device is bricked by this issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557/comments/23

Re:A little bias in the article by Eirenarch · 2013-01-30 03:35 · Score: 1 · on Linux: Booting Via UEFI Can Brick Samsung Notebooks

Don't worry you can still blame Microsoft like this guy did:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557/comments/55

Re:hi10p multithreading by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-30 00:47 · Score: 0 · on XBMC 12.0 'Frodo' Released: PVR-Support, HD Audio and More

or you use the packages from https://launchpad.net/~wsnipex/+archive/xbmc-xvba-frodo (Frodo stable)
or
https://launchpad.net/~wsnipex/+archive/xbmc-xvba (tested Git builds)

both do already include the hi10p multithreading patch

Re:hi10p multithreading by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-30 00:47 · Score: 0 · on XBMC 12.0 'Frodo' Released: PVR-Support, HD Audio and More

or you use the packages from https://launchpad.net/~wsnipex/+archive/xbmc-xvba-frodo (Frodo stable)
or
https://launchpad.net/~wsnipex/+archive/xbmc-xvba (tested Git builds)

both do already include the hi10p multithreading patch

Re:Ubuntu LTS by bcrowell · 2013-01-23 03:52 · Score: 1 · on Canonical Could Switch To Rolling Releases For Ubuntu 14.04 and Beyond

For almost 2 years I'll been volunteering for a branch of Freegeek and in that tyme I've installed Ubuntu 10.04 on hundreds of PCs and most of the installs have been fine. So I don't know where you get LTS hasn't worked out well or that Ubuntu's quality is crap. You may not like the DE, Canonical, or how Ubuntu is run but that's different than saying the distro is crap.