You'd have to go the social engineering route then. You'd need to convince someone to intentionally execute the contents. It's as simple as posting the malware on popular Linux site, with a luring description like "Here's a photoshop clone I started". Malware can then do anything that matters on a desktop machine -- no root privileges needed.
Really, "social engineering" makes it sound like more than it is.
There's more differences between Ubuntu and Debian than just the non-free packages. Ubuntu is heavily tweaked for the "common" (lowest common denominator) desktop user.
The plasma view can get out of sight if you simply drag the grippie and shrink it to 0. Yes, the central view sucks. No, I'm not convinced we've seen the complete potential of it yet. Yes, Amarok 2 lacks basic visual appeal. I believe that once there's a dot-oh release, the devs will grow out of playing with their toys, and are going to revert to a more standard visual theme, ditching most use of SVGs in the process. Re gimped playlist: putting a thousand songs in your playlist because you want to listen to random music is not a targeted usecase. Use dynamic playlists. Re roundey Qt themes: try Skulpture and Plastique. Re kickoff: it's undergone usability studies by Novell. But yes, people have been whining about it from day one, so once the ad-hoc experiments Raptor and Lancelot get usable, the devs might just be shouted into changing the default. Re plasmoids under windows: check this out. http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2007/07/plasma-and-mac-dashboard.html Re lickable shininess: there's a shitload of work going on under the surface. A lot of it is visible in commit digests, a whole lot more goes unnoticed.
A friend of mine is pulling his hair out because he's writing an app on Windows and lots of standard functions are implemented differently than everywhere else (eg. errno being replaced by WSAGetLastError) WTF? Is Windows somehow supposed to be POSIX conformant? Or to implement "standard" functions? Please do enlighten me.
Everybody looks to the right first, why do you think, go now and test it, take a random magazine and open a random page, why is the advertizing on the right side and not on the left? LOL... wild guess: because it would be too fucking intrusive and would drive readers away
A way to let legless people walk again is invented and all Slashdotters can think of is lame bluetooth jokes?? I don't even know why I still come here.
the highlights, in short:
- desktop applets (SuperKaramba, Dashboard) and panel applets (kicker) are now interchangeable. in fact the notions of the Desktop and the Panel are not set in stone anymore.
- it's easier to make and distribute those applets. there's mechanisms to ensure they're consistent and integrated.
- new technology (QGraphicsView for one) allows hitherto impossible features such as rotating and scaling applets.
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The comments to this article contain the '%' sign 114 times. Yes, I'm bored.
Yep, agree completely. Btw XDG specifies ~/.config - pity no one uses it.
Huh? If IE7 had a menubar then I would probably just use Firefox in Windows.
speak for yourself.
Anything by Asimov.
Also, not strictly sci-fi, but Karel Chapek. Krakatit, The Absolute at Large, War with the Newts. Stunning read.
There's more differences between Ubuntu and Debian than just the non-free packages. Ubuntu is heavily tweaked for the "common" (lowest common denominator) desktop user.
Thank you.
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The plasma view can get out of sight if you simply drag the grippie and shrink it to 0.
Yes, the central view sucks. No, I'm not convinced we've seen the complete potential of it yet.
Yes, Amarok 2 lacks basic visual appeal. I believe that once there's a dot-oh release, the devs will grow out of playing with their toys, and are going to revert to a more standard visual theme, ditching most use of SVGs in the process.
Re gimped playlist: putting a thousand songs in your playlist because you want to listen to random music is not a targeted usecase. Use dynamic playlists.
Re roundey Qt themes: try Skulpture and Plastique.
Re kickoff: it's undergone usability studies by Novell. But yes, people have been whining about it from day one, so once the ad-hoc experiments Raptor and Lancelot get usable, the devs might just be shouted into changing the default.
Re plasmoids under windows: check this out. http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2007/07/plasma-and-mac-dashboard.html
Re lickable shininess: there's a shitload of work going on under the surface. A lot of it is visible in commit digests, a whole lot more goes unnoticed.
Well, it's basically [zd3i'arski]
slashdot fails at actual IPA.
Actually, they are talking about interpreting what one is trying to say.
It's sad that you're so cynical.
Are you kidding? This site misrenders /so/ bad I'd be mad to listen to the guy who made it.
A way to let legless people walk again is invented and all Slashdotters can think of is lame bluetooth jokes?? I don't even know why I still come here.
I beg to differ; this design has impact. :D
CONDCOMS.
the highlights, in short: - desktop applets (SuperKaramba, Dashboard) and panel applets (kicker) are now interchangeable. in fact the notions of the Desktop and the Panel are not set in stone anymore. - it's easier to make and distribute those applets. there's mechanisms to ensure they're consistent and integrated. - new technology (QGraphicsView for one) allows hitherto impossible features such as rotating and scaling applets.
That's not entirely correct. GFDL doesn't contain an "or later" clause. Wikipedia's copyright statement does, though.