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Re:Windows in DOSBox
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Re:Next up: Blackbox
I used to think WindowMaker to be the best WM, but after it started to feel dated I looked around and finally switched to openbox (another WM inspired by Blackbox). I feel like it took WindowMaker's philosophy even further: it complies with standards and it got rid of a bunch of non-essential features like background setting, quick-launch buttons, dock, and most of the GUI wizardry.
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Re:Do we really have to link to foxnews?
About freaking time. Moon is perfect as the first shipyard for interplanetary craft: shallow gravity well, no atmosphere, abundant solar energy, abundant water, close to Earth, natural radiation shelters with near-constant temperature (lava tubes). Imagine also an optical telescope in a crater near the pole. Astronomy geeks would fight in an octagon to get some time on that, even without any radiation shielding.
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Re:Lava Tube
I think found it on the recent Moon photo: http://melikamp.com/gfx/moon-cave.jpg
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Re:How many can the market support?
My reply is here, enjoy.
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Re:Nokia n900
Yes, this phone... Er, computer, is freaking awesome. Some SSs:
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Re:Nokia n900
Yes, this phone... Er, computer, is freaking awesome. Some SSs:
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Re:Nokia n900
Yes, this phone... Er, computer, is freaking awesome. Some SSs:
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Re:Nokia n900
Yes, this phone... Er, computer, is freaking awesome. Some SSs:
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Re:Nokia n900
Yes, this phone... Er, computer, is freaking awesome. Some SSs:
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Re:Nokia n900
Yes, this phone... Er, computer, is freaking awesome. Some SSs:
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Re:Discount for no subsidy; coverage; restocking f
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Re:Discount for no subsidy; coverage; restocking f
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Re:Discount for no subsidy; coverage; restocking f
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Re:Discount for no subsidy; coverage; restocking f
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Re:Discount for no subsidy; coverage; restocking f
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Re:The longer the gun, the lower the Gs.
May be we could build a very tall mountain, with ISS just on top? I tried drawing to scale.
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Re:Way to make me feel tiny Hubble
I put the new one on top of the old one. XCF here, you will need tar, bzip2, gimp.
I can definitely find a few places where the new image has a small spot, while the old one has dark background.
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Re:Malware and Worms in GNU/Linux and *BSD
What you are saying is true in a way. Given the current level of expertise of an average Ubuntu user, this scenario sounds far-fetched, but we are reaching out to the masses now. We must be ready for a user who does not understand what an OS or a WM is at all. For that guy, a system is a sum of applications and a computer is a sum of peripherals. And in distributions like Ubuntu, whose goal is to be a system for everyone, the default code execution policy must guard this user reasonably well.
That code does not have to be installed, it can simply be downloaded. Currently, one can wrap it in a shell script. Then a (clueless) user can download it and start it from his desktop in just a few clicks.
The file above is a tarball. A user may be instructed to (1) Click it in Firefox and open with file-roller, which is the default behavior of Ubuntu and Firefox combo (2) drag the file inside onto the desktop (3) double-click the file, get prompted and choose "Run". (4) Ta-daaaa.
Here tar preserves x attribute, but other ways are available to achieve the same. The process may perform a task it is claimed to perform (e.g., install GoogleEarth, which is btw distributed precisely in a way described, sans the tar part), while a fork is waiting in the background just to come up with the payload hours later, thereby looking completely authentic.
Not as easy as Windows, but only a few drags and clicks, none of that scary CLI mojo. I can totally see a clueless user being enticed, while lured in by some too-good-to-be-true offer on a website or in an email.
