Everyone vote Gore before he starts charging royalties for the use of his great invention (the net)
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Simple as this. If a message can be decrypted, it can be cracked. No one encryption method is perfect. If a person can make it, a person can break it. I personally use a 4096 bit pgp key, but even that isnt unbreakable. More of a thing to stall snoopers then to stop them. People are thinking that they will be invincible if they encrypt their data with a 1024 bit key, just because they see it has more bits then they can count (no im not joking about that). IMHO, the only truely secure place is buried deep in your memory, but encryption will stall your average snooper long enough if applied properly.
Video for linux is one of the many things that isnt up to par (among the others is gaming stuff). I've been using mpeg tv, which honestly is just awful. The gui version doesnt work at all, and the command line version is desynced completely. Plus, its proprietory. If xanim can get those last modules opensourced, I know i'll be a hooked user.
While im no big fan of microsoft, this does bring up a good point. Many companies and other enities buy proprietory software. That software is made by a company that sells it, and has rights to restrict licensing. Now, im not saying that i didnt install copies of MS office from one cd onto BOTH my computers at home, but this legal issue could be something to take seriously. (if anything, convince them to move to a non M$ OS). I think that by the time that this issue sees a judge, M$ will have already faced final ruling in its antitrust case (thank god for the ineffecient american legal system) so virginia beach will very likely be safe in the event that they cant dig up their licenses.
Even worse, if you hold Ctrl-Shift while click it then strange people remove all records of your life and hunt you down.
(yes, i stole that idea from "the net". sue me)
Macs and Intel systems have always had ups and downs. For example, Mac's never had the full software assortment of Intel systems. But Mac's always seem to use their hardware much more effeciently. I boot up with an athlon 1ghz and 256 megs of ram into windows 98, and it lags to the point of a crawl, but a nice little 400mhz G4 with 64 megs runs like a lawyer toward a car accident. Hopefully, the bsd core in MacOS X will get more programs ported to the Mac Architechture, or if all else fails, spread BSD a bit farther in computer society.
One other thing you forget, is that many linux things are free. Which means they get a higher profit when they sell a machine at the same price. It's hard to tell whether they want to make better machines or more money =) (Welcome to corporate America)
While many users may consider linux more powerful, etc, they often forget to consider the learning curve. Unix systems are harder to use, lets face it. Linux, BSD, etc, will continue to be powerful, and crash less often, but windows being more "assume the user is an idiot when programming" oriented, it will continue to have a good part of the market. IMHO, unix should be used for servers and for the workstations of advanced users, at least until the interface can become more standardized and easy to use.
On the contrary, some kids love it. At a local business expo, I had a linux stand going. We were playing xbill and a tetris clone when some 8 year olds walked by, and said "Mommy, mommy, lets buy LINUX!". I think the only thing funnier was the look on the face of the @home guy when he found out he was trying to install a cable modem into vmware.
If you really think about it, the Internet is really just the worlds biggest LAN (or more accurately, WAN). No LAN i know of can handle X amount of traffic without having some problems, and since the internet's growth is increasing exponentially, either people are going to have to spend more money fixing the net, or remove some users. (while the latter seems more fun and easier, the former is often considered more PC (too bad))
While it seems that everyone is writing a book these days, its rare to find one that interests you. Most of hte new books have titles that start with "The life of ". slashdot has become kind of a techie culture center, and it would probably benefit those who cannot get online all the time, and those who dont always read the best content, to have it published. I know that I'm going to buy a copy as soon as it hits the local barnes and noble =)
Beta releases are always so much fun. The developers tend to pay more attention to you when you complain about things, mostly because their jobs depend on it then. And i think its about time that slackware came out for sparc. Now we just need to convince redhat to do the same.
Linux isnt something that uses high explosives to put something into orbit. so when linux crashes, you reboot and fix the bug. When a rocket crashes, well, you cant exactly just pick up the pieces and relaunch it (unless its made of legos).
After M$'s use of backdoors in Frontpage, i wouldnt trust anything without proof that it didnt have any little tricks up its sleave. (hence why i dont use M$)
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Everyone vote Gore before he starts charging royalties for the use of his great invention (the net)
Simple as this. If a message can be decrypted, it can be cracked. No one encryption method is perfect. If a person can make it, a person can break it. I personally use a 4096 bit pgp key, but even that isnt unbreakable. More of a thing to stall snoopers then to stop them. People are thinking that they will be invincible if they encrypt their data with a 1024 bit key, just because they see it has more bits then they can count (no im not joking about that). IMHO, the only truely secure place is buried deep in your memory, but encryption will stall your average snooper long enough if applied properly.
Video for linux is one of the many things that isnt up to par (among the others is gaming stuff). I've been using mpeg tv, which honestly is just awful. The gui version doesnt work at all, and the command line version is desynced completely. Plus, its proprietory. If xanim can get those last modules opensourced, I know i'll be a hooked user.
While im no big fan of microsoft, this does bring up a good point. Many companies and other enities buy proprietory software. That software is made by a company that sells it, and has rights to restrict licensing. Now, im not saying that i didnt install copies of MS office from one cd onto BOTH my computers at home, but this legal issue could be something to take seriously. (if anything, convince them to move to a non M$ OS). I think that by the time that this issue sees a judge, M$ will have already faced final ruling in its antitrust case (thank god for the ineffecient american legal system) so virginia beach will very likely be safe in the event that they cant dig up their licenses.
While they are often thought to be the scum of the Earth, in times like this, lawyers can be nice to have on your side in a time like this =)
Even worse, if you hold Ctrl-Shift while click it then strange people remove all records of your life and hunt you down. (yes, i stole that idea from "the net". sue me)
Macs and Intel systems have always had ups and downs. For example, Mac's never had the full software assortment of Intel systems. But Mac's always seem to use their hardware much more effeciently. I boot up with an athlon 1ghz and 256 megs of ram into windows 98, and it lags to the point of a crawl, but a nice little 400mhz G4 with 64 megs runs like a lawyer toward a car accident. Hopefully, the bsd core in MacOS X will get more programs ported to the Mac Architechture, or if all else fails, spread BSD a bit farther in computer society.
Gary larson must have been right about cows having cocktail parties until cars show up.
Does this mean i have to learn japaneese to use freebsd? I learn this 6 months AFTER i turn down the class...
Maybe by next year i can pick up the newest copy of debian when i go to get groceries. Free redhat cd's with a $20 fillup at the local shell station!
A colliding galaxy can really ruin your day...
One other thing you forget, is that many linux things are free. Which means they get a higher profit when they sell a machine at the same price. It's hard to tell whether they want to make better machines or more money =) (Welcome to corporate America)
While many users may consider linux more powerful, etc, they often forget to consider the learning curve. Unix systems are harder to use, lets face it. Linux, BSD, etc, will continue to be powerful, and crash less often, but windows being more "assume the user is an idiot when programming" oriented, it will continue to have a good part of the market. IMHO, unix should be used for servers and for the workstations of advanced users, at least until the interface can become more standardized and easy to use.
On the contrary, some kids love it. At a local business expo, I had a linux stand going. We were playing xbill and a tetris clone when some 8 year olds walked by, and said "Mommy, mommy, lets buy LINUX!". I think the only thing funnier was the look on the face of the @home guy when he found out he was trying to install a cable modem into vmware.
The lego models keep getting bigger. Some day i'll finish my full scale model of Earth. I may need a bigger box...
If you really think about it, the Internet is really just the worlds biggest LAN (or more accurately, WAN). No LAN i know of can handle X amount of traffic without having some problems, and since the internet's growth is increasing exponentially, either people are going to have to spend more money fixing the net, or remove some users. (while the latter seems more fun and easier, the former is often considered more PC (too bad))
While it seems that everyone is writing a book these days, its rare to find one that interests you. Most of hte new books have titles that start with "The life of ". slashdot has become kind of a techie culture center, and it would probably benefit those who cannot get online all the time, and those who dont always read the best content, to have it published. I know that I'm going to buy a copy as soon as it hits the local barnes and noble =)
Beta releases are always so much fun. The developers tend to pay more attention to you when you complain about things, mostly because their jobs depend on it then. And i think its about time that slackware came out for sparc. Now we just need to convince redhat to do the same.
Linux isnt something that uses high explosives to put something into orbit. so when linux crashes, you reboot and fix the bug. When a rocket crashes, well, you cant exactly just pick up the pieces and relaunch it (unless its made of legos).
Cheap launch == low budget == lots of bugs. Common sense is not so common these days.
After M$'s use of backdoors in Frontpage, i wouldnt trust anything without proof that it didnt have any little tricks up its sleave. (hence why i dont use M$)