PLEASE DON'T POST ON SLASHDOT THINGS THAT SOUND LIKE "FACTS" THAT YOU JUST MAKE UP OR "SOUND RIGHT" WITHOUT ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUBJECT WHATSOEVER. Are you a Slashdot moderator or something?
Rather than just jump on the opportunity to make that guy look stupid, why not instead use his post as an opportunity to enrich the discussion? Slashdot is a discussion community, right? So if he posts something that may be inaccurate, and you claim to be more knowledgeable about it, why not instead correct him with your "list of options still on the table" instead of withholding it for the purpose of scolding him?
...but it is likely to put a stop to the OSS community's celebration of them distributing Ubuntu. The OSS community is celebrating the fact that a Linux distro is getting commercial recognition, I dunno why this would stop it. Were there people in the OSS community celebrating because they really thought that Dell would stop distributing Windows all together??
In fact, you appear to be blowing smoke out your ass. I know you're just trying to make yourself sound relevant and important since this is an online forum that can preserve your anonymity. I say this because otherwise, you would have paused to perhaps give the benefit of the doubt before jumping your little gun there.
I say you jumped the gun because you automatically assume that I don't know what I'm talking about. Such as deleting IE and important system files. Uh, no. Don't know where you drew that conclusion from. Because heaven forbid somebody on a page like/. would know something about computers!
My computer is incredibly fast stable because I removed unnecessary processes and tasks that, as the original parent of this thread had said, are there to deliver shortcuts and conveniences that ultimately aren't necessary.
So, nice try with your little argument there. Next time, remember that helps to know what the hell you're talking about before you start trying to sling shit at people you know nothing about.
Nintendo seems to be the only company who is actually generating a profit from their system. And the demand is still so high that they predict it'll be selling out like hotcakes till 2008.
I wonder if MS and Sony are learning anything from this... Not to say that breaking even would be a major financial loss to (especially) Microsoft, but are they really concerned one way or another about this?
Any Win2k/XP capable computer can run Vista. Just not every computer can run it smoothly with Aero sitting on top of it.
Microsoft really should have printed stickers that said "Aero Ready" instead of "Vista Ready", since any modern PC can run Vista in some form or another...
Vista in Windows Classic mode has nearly the exact same hardware requirements as 2k/XP. Being the system-tweaker that I am, I always disable superfluous graphical effects (even the fade-in/fade-out of menus, since I like things to pop up instantly). Especially under Vista, on my laptop, the very first thing I did was reduce it to Windows Classic and kill every process I could kill (same routine I go through on fresh XP installations), and the thing will go 4.5 hours on the battery, which is exactly the same battery life that XP gets.
And anyway, shiny and transparent graphical effects are overrated. I'll take a clean Win2k-style GUI any day.:P
"But music downloaders are not going to switch to using a service that costs the same as using BitTorrent or Limewire, but comes with abominable disclaimers or advertisements."
While I agree that the concept of ad-supported download services would be a failure, the presence of ads won't be the reason.
I'm sure plenty of people would just as soon use the ad-infested service just for the sake of legitimacy. Hell, I would, just to say I was downloading music legally. Limewire is notorious enough as an effective malware injector. BitTorrent is a tad more daunting to the average user who just wants to get a song or two. And both methods teeter on questionable legality.
Dell wouldn't release their machines with an operating system that didn't include fully functional hardware drivers. So regardless of which distro they choose to ship, the distro's chosen hardware setup tool doesn't really matter.
Bear in mind, since Dell will be releasing official Linux drivers for all of their hardware, why wouldn't it be possible to carry those drivers across to any other distro?
And actually, truth-be-told, I'm typing this message on a Dell laptop running Kubuntu. Setting it up was the easiest installation experience I have ever had. All of the hardware worked perfectly out of the box (audio, keyboard audio controls, ethernet, wifi). The unusual widescreen resolution was the only thing that wasn't readily working, but that was fixed with a quick 'sudo apt-get install 955resolution' and a restart of X11.
That's not to say that/.'s moderation system completely keeps the nasty posts out, either... it only buries them way out of view. It's still a pretty effective system, though, especially in the way that it automatically picks out the people with the best reputations to handle the moderation. Without manually lowering the viewing threshold, I almost never see rude, disgusting or otherwise insulting posts on here.
If/. were even more serious about keeping the crap out, they could disable the anonymous coward. But as you can see, it is still open to anybody's input, even without requiring a login.
I often take the drive from Tucson to Prescott or Flagstaff (I-10, I-17), and my Sprint phone gets undivided service the entire distance (save for one tiny stretch of road just south of Phoenix).
It would be cool if all services just used all the same towers, then it wouldn't matter which provider you have.:\
At the university where I work, there were a number of people running Solaris boxes who weren't even aware that telnet was running. It's not that they weren't aware of the secure advantage of using SSH. But they just weren't paying close attention to what ports they had open.
So if you or someone you know runs Solaris, but uses SSH, make sure that telnet is 100% disabled for sure!
It will literally be like computing at the speed of light!
In using light to relay computer data, the only barrier that would be left would be to reduce the distance between two communicating nodes (or reduce overall size of the technology).
I think you're missing his point. While I wouldn't call them 'yokels', it should be agreed that there are plenty of people out there that just don't understand the dangers of transferring sensitive data.
Consider, for example, a medical researcher. This person may collect any volume of information on a patient for use in research. This person has a very strong medical understanding, but doesn't even know what file encryption is. They may store this information in a MS Word file. This is fine. Then they want to back it up on a remote, unencrypted fileserver to be able to access it from a different PC, or send it to another researcher. But, uh oh, a third party intercepted it, because it was right out in the open. Then the law finds out that sensitive patient information has been leaked out, and completely shuts down the research group and the researcher(s) potentially face time in prison.
That seems like an extreme example, but it's realistic, and I have seen it happen. The university where I provide IT support requires everybody with any sort of involvement with patient information to have a keen understanding and sense of moderation. Myself included, I had to be certified to ensure that my fileserver (which may or may not contain patient information) be impenetrable by third parties. And I've also had to make sure that all of my users are fully aware of the right and wrong way to transfer sensitive files, or else they would be using things like GMail.
I hope the upgrade-via-apt-get process goes much more smoothly this time... I had a lot of troubles going to 6.10 last fall using this method, and I noticed a number of other people did, too. I ended up having to just download the ISO and install fresh because I messed up my existing installation beyond repair just by trying to update... Either way, it was worth it, since I love the improvements that Edgy introduced. It is by far the slickest distro I've used.
One thing to keep in mind is that if you upgrade to Feisty Fawn by just updating your list of apt repositories, do NOT do a dist-upgrade to their apt servers on release day since thousands of other people will be doing it at the same time. The load will slow it down just about to the point of timing out (at least in my experience). If you want to upgrade to it on release day, I'd recommend using bittorrent to get the ISO (faster this way) and then doing an apt-get dist-upgrade with that CD-ROM as a new apt repository.
"You wear different colored gear on your head, upper arms, lower arms, chest, upper legs, lower legs, and your sword. You wear a light VR helmet. Inside the room spawns monsters that you have to fight off with your sword..."
Well, there's kind of a line between the sleek elegance of the Wiimote, and just flat-out looking like an idiot.:P
I think this has been reviewed once or twice before on Slashdot... but I digress.
I agree that this is a fantastic book, as it shows you some incredibly slick stuff you can do using Rails. But unless you already have somewhat of an understanding of Ruby then I'd strongly recommend getting a separate reference book just for Ruby by itself. O'Reilly makes one of those, too.:)
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I don't think Hotmail was developed by the IE team.
If Microsoft in general were to make that criticism toward banks, then it would be hypocrisy.
Rather than just jump on the opportunity to make that guy look stupid, why not instead use his post as an opportunity to enrich the discussion? Slashdot is a discussion community, right? So if he posts something that may be inaccurate, and you claim to be more knowledgeable about it, why not instead correct him with your "list of options still on the table" instead of withholding it for the purpose of scolding him?
...but it is likely to put a stop to the OSS community's celebration of them distributing Ubuntu. The OSS community is celebrating the fact that a Linux distro is getting commercial recognition, I dunno why this would stop it. Were there people in the OSS community celebrating because they really thought that Dell would stop distributing Windows all together??Jeez, I hope nobody was that dense.
"I know people like you."
/. would know something about computers!
Uh..... actually, no you don't.
In fact, you appear to be blowing smoke out your ass. I know you're just trying to make yourself sound relevant and important since this is an online forum that can preserve your anonymity. I say this because otherwise, you would have paused to perhaps give the benefit of the doubt before jumping your little gun there.
I say you jumped the gun because you automatically assume that I don't know what I'm talking about. Such as deleting IE and important system files. Uh, no. Don't know where you drew that conclusion from. Because heaven forbid somebody on a page like
My computer is incredibly fast stable because I removed unnecessary processes and tasks that, as the original parent of this thread had said, are there to deliver shortcuts and conveniences that ultimately aren't necessary.
So, nice try with your little argument there. Next time, remember that helps to know what the hell you're talking about before you start trying to sling shit at people you know nothing about.
Nintendo seems to be the only company who is actually generating a profit from their system. And the demand is still so high that they predict it'll be selling out like hotcakes till 2008.
I wonder if MS and Sony are learning anything from this... Not to say that breaking even would be a major financial loss to (especially) Microsoft, but are they really concerned one way or another about this?
Any Win2k/XP capable computer can run Vista. Just not every computer can run it smoothly with Aero sitting on top of it.
Microsoft really should have printed stickers that said "Aero Ready" instead of "Vista Ready", since any modern PC can run Vista in some form or another...
Vista in Windows Classic mode has nearly the exact same hardware requirements as 2k/XP. Being the system-tweaker that I am, I always disable superfluous graphical effects (even the fade-in/fade-out of menus, since I like things to pop up instantly). Especially under Vista, on my laptop, the very first thing I did was reduce it to Windows Classic and kill every process I could kill (same routine I go through on fresh XP installations), and the thing will go 4.5 hours on the battery, which is exactly the same battery life that XP gets.
:P
And anyway, shiny and transparent graphical effects are overrated. I'll take a clean Win2k-style GUI any day.
I agree. The Ultra doesn't have any different features or capabilities over what the 8800 GTX or GTS can already do. It's just a tiny bit faster.
+$1 for a frag, -$1 for a death?
Hardcore.
"But music downloaders are not going to switch to using a service that costs the same as using BitTorrent or Limewire, but comes with abominable disclaimers or advertisements."
While I agree that the concept of ad-supported download services would be a failure, the presence of ads won't be the reason.
I'm sure plenty of people would just as soon use the ad-infested service just for the sake of legitimacy. Hell, I would, just to say I was downloading music legally. Limewire is notorious enough as an effective malware injector. BitTorrent is a tad more daunting to the average user who just wants to get a song or two. And both methods teeter on questionable legality.
Dell wouldn't release their machines with an operating system that didn't include fully functional hardware drivers. So regardless of which distro they choose to ship, the distro's chosen hardware setup tool doesn't really matter.
Bear in mind, since Dell will be releasing official Linux drivers for all of their hardware, why wouldn't it be possible to carry those drivers across to any other distro?
And actually, truth-be-told, I'm typing this message on a Dell laptop running Kubuntu. Setting it up was the easiest installation experience I have ever had. All of the hardware worked perfectly out of the box (audio, keyboard audio controls, ethernet, wifi). The unusual widescreen resolution was the only thing that wasn't readily working, but that was fixed with a quick 'sudo apt-get install 955resolution' and a restart of X11.
I love that sig. :)
*Moves Wiimote like the handle of a digging shovel*
*Runs away*
That's not to say that /.'s moderation system completely keeps the nasty posts out, either... it only buries them way out of view. It's still a pretty effective system, though, especially in the way that it automatically picks out the people with the best reputations to handle the moderation. Without manually lowering the viewing threshold, I almost never see rude, disgusting or otherwise insulting posts on here.
/. were even more serious about keeping the crap out, they could disable the anonymous coward. But as you can see, it is still open to anybody's input, even without requiring a login.
If
I often take the drive from Tucson to Prescott or Flagstaff (I-10, I-17), and my Sprint phone gets undivided service the entire distance (save for one tiny stretch of road just south of Phoenix).
:\
It would be cool if all services just used all the same towers, then it wouldn't matter which provider you have.
Modifying the entry in a local DNS server solves that problem.
At the university where I work, there were a number of people running Solaris boxes who weren't even aware that telnet was running. It's not that they weren't aware of the secure advantage of using SSH. But they just weren't paying close attention to what ports they had open.
So if you or someone you know runs Solaris, but uses SSH, make sure that telnet is 100% disabled for sure!
It will literally be like computing at the speed of light!
In using light to relay computer data, the only barrier that would be left would be to reduce the distance between two communicating nodes (or reduce overall size of the technology).
I think you're missing his point. While I wouldn't call them 'yokels', it should be agreed that there are plenty of people out there that just don't understand the dangers of transferring sensitive data.
Consider, for example, a medical researcher. This person may collect any volume of information on a patient for use in research. This person has a very strong medical understanding, but doesn't even know what file encryption is. They may store this information in a MS Word file. This is fine. Then they want to back it up on a remote, unencrypted fileserver to be able to access it from a different PC, or send it to another researcher. But, uh oh, a third party intercepted it, because it was right out in the open. Then the law finds out that sensitive patient information has been leaked out, and completely shuts down the research group and the researcher(s) potentially face time in prison.
That seems like an extreme example, but it's realistic, and I have seen it happen. The university where I provide IT support requires everybody with any sort of involvement with patient information to have a keen understanding and sense of moderation. Myself included, I had to be certified to ensure that my fileserver (which may or may not contain patient information) be impenetrable by third parties. And I've also had to make sure that all of my users are fully aware of the right and wrong way to transfer sensitive files, or else they would be using things like GMail.
I hope the upgrade-via-apt-get process goes much more smoothly this time... I had a lot of troubles going to 6.10 last fall using this method, and I noticed a number of other people did, too. I ended up having to just download the ISO and install fresh because I messed up my existing installation beyond repair just by trying to update... Either way, it was worth it, since I love the improvements that Edgy introduced. It is by far the slickest distro I've used.
One thing to keep in mind is that if you upgrade to Feisty Fawn by just updating your list of apt repositories, do NOT do a dist-upgrade to their apt servers on release day since thousands of other people will be doing it at the same time. The load will slow it down just about to the point of timing out (at least in my experience). If you want to upgrade to it on release day, I'd recommend using bittorrent to get the ISO (faster this way) and then doing an apt-get dist-upgrade with that CD-ROM as a new apt repository.
"As many as one in five PCs were failing WGA checks..."
That's because at least one in five PC's are running a pirated OS.
"You wear different colored gear on your head, upper arms, lower arms, chest, upper legs, lower legs, and your sword. You wear a light VR helmet. Inside the room spawns monsters that you have to fight off with your sword..."
:P
Well, there's kind of a line between the sleek elegance of the Wiimote, and just flat-out looking like an idiot.
I think this has been reviewed once or twice before on Slashdot... but I digress.
:)
I agree that this is a fantastic book, as it shows you some incredibly slick stuff you can do using Rails. But unless you already have somewhat of an understanding of Ruby then I'd strongly recommend getting a separate reference book just for Ruby by itself. O'Reilly makes one of those, too.
What percentage said they wouldn't buy one at all?
*Runs away*