Hey. I don't mean to say you suck, but you should read into this really. Any sensible user does NOT run as root / administrator. That goes for Windows or any other OS. I found sudo an excellent way of doing things, and its equivilent to Windows' "Run As". Big things to remember:
1) Do anything other than run things which NEED to be run as root on your root account, you risk your system. Same goes for windows. Anti-Virus puts up something of a fight, but something always gets through.
2) Sudo helps in making things convenient. For example, I run a shoutcast server. That NEEDS to be run as a user. I also run an apache server, which needs root (I think, please correct me if I'm wrong). If I want to start/stop/restart apache2, I just run the command. Otherwise I'd have to close up my current work, websites, editors, log out, log in, run the command, log out, log in, reopen everything, get back to work.
Time saved? An awful lot when you add it up.
Securtiy Added: Infinity.
People can vote in the USA, can't they? I mean, sure, they can sign their name, but who says its THEIR mind at work behind voting. I read this article and almost threw up. I'm from the UK, and before anyone replies saying I'm being high-and-mighty (I'm not fan of the UK, honestly), I just want to say from an outsiders perspective that ALL I have seen from american democracy is hype spin hype spin war terrorism hype.
This stuff shouldn't be included in elections. Its like bullying at school or something. The popular guy can cheat at exams and get found out by classmates, but they dare not tell because he has all the power. All that is going to happen is the courts are gonna hear this, and act so slowly but by the time a verdict is given nobody cares! Elections should be about ISSUES, not sturring people into sly action. It makes me cringe.
Keeping law-abiding citizens under control is the point though. Its keeping them law-abiding. If you do something stupid on a camera in the UK, the only people interested are gonna be the police, or some security body, like in a record shop. They aren't going to put it on "CAUGHT ON CCTV: MAN PICKS NOSE, LOSES JOB". People are law-abiding citizens till they commit a crime on CCTV. What if some woman got raped, and they caught they guy with CCTV? It does happen. I'm not fan of the current government but this is one policy they got right.
If you dare reply "And you're still dead", I hope no one ever has to listen to you again. It's just childish, this should be a discussion.
Its an entirely different situation in the UK. I mean, cameras DO help. The arguements "You're still dead" means nothing. Thats a horrible point to put across, because you are saying that no lessons can be learnt from murders. They can, and clearly they are being learnt. What theory do you put forward, why would we be putting cameras up if they didn't help catch criminals?
"schools could bring in cards allowing parents to monitor what their children eat". My school already does that. We were all given a card, which took about a day worth of lessons away getting all the pictures taken for "authentification". When we pay, the picture comes up on the brand new expensive tills.
Too bad it doesn't work. It means that people can't put their money together to buy a packet of crisps and share it, etc. But the big problem is if someone's forgotten their card and want to pay with someone elses. Well thats the point, there isn't a problem. I'd say about 75% of the time you go right through, no problem. And if not, you just go to another one of the staff.
They hold all the data but don't share it. Theres a £5 charge for a new card (Thats over $10, I think). This is from a school where we they can't afford good staff. It has got its head stuck up its own ass...
I had problems upgrading hoary to breezy, and breezy to dapper. Each time my X server broke and lots of video drivers broke. This time the upgrade was almost perfect!
I had one very slight problem, and that was my GTK2 theme. I had that fixed within 5 minute. Now I'm on edgy and absolutely loving it.
In the IE Blog, it mentions how a lot of bugs were fixed. Things like the guilotine bug have been annoying people for years. However, in the 5 or so years it took to fix these, almost no new CSS2 was implemented. pseudoclasses are a little better, but basic things like display:table; are still lacking. In my mind, IE7 is purely a bugfix release, so why not call it IE6.5?
Agreed. Seems a lot like Bush avoids the point whenever he's questions. He'll be asked a very direct question and just go off on one... Mind, the conservatives do it here.
So you can plan journeys, print maps for people, link people to maps more easily (like it or not its harder to use on your mobile).
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I'm doing work experience. Beleive me, the kids here play all the time and get hurt sometimes. Its part of growing up, they never have serious injuries. There just isn't a climate here in semi-rural england for lawsuits, people don't do that sort of thing. Every parent has enough sense to know what the school does all it can to keep children out of harms way without ruining their education
And you've got to remember than when you first start primary/elementary school, there is almost no devisions between "working" in a classroom and "playing" outside. Most of the stuff done in the classroom is play-related.
And here I am with my lego monster and no money... heh
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I totally agree. My old MP3 player took a single AAA battery. Stick a couple in a charger overnight, no problem. Cost basicly nothing too. $24 is way over-the-top for an unnecessery product!
So you can get an interesting look into my mindset if you want. I expect heavy critisism but I'll continue anyway:
Halo 2 is a fun game. I'm not gamer, and Halo 2 is one of the only games I actually play, besides the ones on my old Megadrive! I played online for quite some time until I experienced a cheater on a matchmade game. I became interested. I'd been using linux for 6 months and the idea of putting it on my xbox - to cheat - appealed to me. It took me a lot of getting to grips with the text talk used by all the "modders" as they prefer to be known on Halo 2.
Eventually I managed it, and got banned in 6 hours on my subscription account! I guess that taught me a lesson. For a few months I cheated offline with friends. Some of the less destructive hacks (such as the new-ish 0 gravity hack) can make some interesting playing, and I agree with said cheater that it can bring a different edge on a game which can become repetitive!
I decided to mod online one day. Not for glory, just to see if I could. It actually takes 2 people to mod online, and 4 hours of fussing around with that meant I totally screwed it up, and didn't have a single sucessful game!
Heres my excuse: I'm a bit of a documenter/tutorial maker myself. Hacking Halo 2 isn't that simple. A lot of newbies get stuck, I was one. A lot of cheaters are fools and pre-teens (including mental age here), but not all of us! Much like the OSS community have their shared ideas, "modders" do too. I'm not demonising OSS here either. I actually wrote a rather lengthy and detailed tutorial, the only of its kind, on this topic (Halo 2 Softmodding, google it). Thats my excuse. I haven't played halo 2 in 6 months now, but cheaters don't always cheat to win. A lot do, but try and bare this point in mind!
And please comment on this =) I just wrote a blog post on my second slashdot comment. Ah, such a newbie.
Am I missing something? It fails to grab any listings from any artists. Even the one used in the screenshot. Thats the web version and the desktop one.
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Hey. I don't mean to say you suck, but you should read into this really. Any sensible user does NOT run as root / administrator. That goes for Windows or any other OS. I found sudo an excellent way of doing things, and its equivilent to Windows' "Run As". Big things to remember: 1) Do anything other than run things which NEED to be run as root on your root account, you risk your system. Same goes for windows. Anti-Virus puts up something of a fight, but something always gets through. 2) Sudo helps in making things convenient. For example, I run a shoutcast server. That NEEDS to be run as a user. I also run an apache server, which needs root (I think, please correct me if I'm wrong). If I want to start/stop/restart apache2, I just run the command. Otherwise I'd have to close up my current work, websites, editors, log out, log in, run the command, log out, log in, reopen everything, get back to work. Time saved? An awful lot when you add it up. Securtiy Added: Infinity.
Find the remote control frequency =)
People can vote in the USA, can't they? I mean, sure, they can sign their name, but who says its THEIR mind at work behind voting. I read this article and almost threw up. I'm from the UK, and before anyone replies saying I'm being high-and-mighty (I'm not fan of the UK, honestly), I just want to say from an outsiders perspective that ALL I have seen from american democracy is hype spin hype spin war terrorism hype.
This stuff shouldn't be included in elections. Its like bullying at school or something. The popular guy can cheat at exams and get found out by classmates, but they dare not tell because he has all the power. All that is going to happen is the courts are gonna hear this, and act so slowly but by the time a verdict is given nobody cares! Elections should be about ISSUES, not sturring people into sly action. It makes me cringe.
So no lessons can be learnt from killings?
Keeping law-abiding citizens under control is the point though. Its keeping them law-abiding. If you do something stupid on a camera in the UK, the only people interested are gonna be the police, or some security body, like in a record shop. They aren't going to put it on "CAUGHT ON CCTV: MAN PICKS NOSE, LOSES JOB". People are law-abiding citizens till they commit a crime on CCTV. What if some woman got raped, and they caught they guy with CCTV? It does happen. I'm not fan of the current government but this is one policy they got right.
If you dare reply "And you're still dead", I hope no one ever has to listen to you again. It's just childish, this should be a discussion.
Its an entirely different situation in the UK. I mean, cameras DO help. The arguements "You're still dead" means nothing. Thats a horrible point to put across, because you are saying that no lessons can be learnt from murders. They can, and clearly they are being learnt. What theory do you put forward, why would we be putting cameras up if they didn't help catch criminals?
"schools could bring in cards allowing parents to monitor what their children eat". My school already does that. We were all given a card, which took about a day worth of lessons away getting all the pictures taken for "authentification". When we pay, the picture comes up on the brand new expensive tills.
Too bad it doesn't work. It means that people can't put their money together to buy a packet of crisps and share it, etc. But the big problem is if someone's forgotten their card and want to pay with someone elses. Well thats the point, there isn't a problem. I'd say about 75% of the time you go right through, no problem. And if not, you just go to another one of the staff.
They hold all the data but don't share it. Theres a £5 charge for a new card (Thats over $10, I think). This is from a school where we they can't afford good staff. It has got its head stuck up its own ass...
I had problems upgrading hoary to breezy, and breezy to dapper. Each time my X server broke and lots of video drivers broke. This time the upgrade was almost perfect!
I had one very slight problem, and that was my GTK2 theme. I had that fixed within 5 minute. Now I'm on edgy and absolutely loving it.
In the IE Blog, it mentions how a lot of bugs were fixed. Things like the guilotine bug have been annoying people for years. However, in the 5 or so years it took to fix these, almost no new CSS2 was implemented. pseudoclasses are a little better, but basic things like display:table; are still lacking. In my mind, IE7 is purely a bugfix release, so why not call it IE6.5?
Agreed. Seems a lot like Bush avoids the point whenever he's questions. He'll be asked a very direct question and just go off on one... Mind, the conservatives do it here.
So you can plan journeys, print maps for people, link people to maps more easily (like it or not its harder to use on your mobile).
I'm doing work experience. Beleive me, the kids here play all the time and get hurt sometimes. Its part of growing up, they never have serious injuries. There just isn't a climate here in semi-rural england for lawsuits, people don't do that sort of thing. Every parent has enough sense to know what the school does all it can to keep children out of harms way without ruining their education
And you've got to remember than when you first start primary/elementary school, there is almost no devisions between "working" in a classroom and "playing" outside. Most of the stuff done in the classroom is play-related.
How quickly before someone writes a driver for it, I mean really... If you can get an OS on a toaster you can read a disc...
And here I am with my lego monster and no money... heh
I totally agree. My old MP3 player took a single AAA battery. Stick a couple in a charger overnight, no problem. Cost basicly nothing too. $24 is way over-the-top for an unnecessery product!
So you can get an interesting look into my mindset if you want. I expect heavy critisism but I'll continue anyway: Halo 2 is a fun game. I'm not gamer, and Halo 2 is one of the only games I actually play, besides the ones on my old Megadrive! I played online for quite some time until I experienced a cheater on a matchmade game. I became interested. I'd been using linux for 6 months and the idea of putting it on my xbox - to cheat - appealed to me. It took me a lot of getting to grips with the text talk used by all the "modders" as they prefer to be known on Halo 2. Eventually I managed it, and got banned in 6 hours on my subscription account! I guess that taught me a lesson. For a few months I cheated offline with friends. Some of the less destructive hacks (such as the new-ish 0 gravity hack) can make some interesting playing, and I agree with said cheater that it can bring a different edge on a game which can become repetitive! I decided to mod online one day. Not for glory, just to see if I could. It actually takes 2 people to mod online, and 4 hours of fussing around with that meant I totally screwed it up, and didn't have a single sucessful game! Heres my excuse: I'm a bit of a documenter/tutorial maker myself. Hacking Halo 2 isn't that simple. A lot of newbies get stuck, I was one. A lot of cheaters are fools and pre-teens (including mental age here), but not all of us! Much like the OSS community have their shared ideas, "modders" do too. I'm not demonising OSS here either. I actually wrote a rather lengthy and detailed tutorial, the only of its kind, on this topic (Halo 2 Softmodding, google it). Thats my excuse. I haven't played halo 2 in 6 months now, but cheaters don't always cheat to win. A lot do, but try and bare this point in mind! And please comment on this =) I just wrote a blog post on my second slashdot comment. Ah, such a newbie.
Am I missing something? It fails to grab any listings from any artists. Even the one used in the screenshot. Thats the web version and the desktop one.