and applications requiring root just ask for your password... stupid users will still type their passwords in when malware prompts for them, but that's more of a user education issue than anything.
Because telling them to have and use a separate root password, and why, isnt an user education issue? To me this clever trick is actually a nice way to lose an opportunity to do such an education.
2 or 3 days ago, a newbye on a community forum for another user-friendly distro was complaining that he had to type his root password all the time. He said he wanted to login as root which the graphical login didnt even permit. After one hours, he had posts explaining why it was a mistake from a security point of view, from a personnal confort point of view (too late he had already lost one important directory), explaining how to use su, sudo, kdesu, the "choose another user" features of kde, how to use fish and openssh in konqueror to become root, etc etc. In one hour, he was educated, convinced, had ways he could use to go around the trouble IF HE WANTED and therefore, he had been helped A LOT.
This clever trick should happen AFTER a user is educated, at his request, and right now it just prevents that.
This comment talks about him and his car in fact: MDI car made by Guy Negre No surprise it's italian, iirc he was working in Nice near the itlian border and the car lobby in france is too strong.
Yes, the guy was even trying to sell whole factories of his system to countries who wanted to develop an alternative car industry at low cost. Also the car shell was made in really lightweight plastic and was one piece. You could lift it and remove it easily. Meaning low weight and the possibility to easily change it, for customisation for example (think mobile phones mania among young people). I havent heard anymore of that in years.
Meanwhile, they could have seen that what makes valve and blizzard special is not their games, which are nice but are not the most inventive, but the quality of said games at release time AND the life long support they seem to have afterwards. The dedication to quality some have contrasts heavilly whith the dedication others have to crap on the collective toes of their customers, to the point that blizzard CAN start a game again from scratch when others just released it unfinished and scrap support when "sales are disapointing".
I despise diablo, i find and found starcraft outdated and unoriginal, i found half life quite dull, action wise since i didnt bite the xfile story, BUT i would buy any game of those 2 compagnies without thinking twice BECAUSE I KNOW THERE WILL BE A PATCH for any issue, even 4 YEARS LATER. Same for ID, same for Epics.
And I don't want to ear anything about support costing too much or anything. Tribes2 linux port was rock stable under linux years before vivendy coughed a little cash to have another patch for windows users. They did it because they had the intend to keep the franchise alive, but they already had lost their customers in the interval. So doing things right rom the beginning to the end is what is really missing with those publishers. Now that internet is here, ea, vu, atari and the rest are outdated and useless.
BTW, if I'm not mistaking, the author of the tribes2 linux port is now working at blizzard and is the sdl author. There is no coincidence.
I'm playing vampire right now and I love it. Yet, to say that it needs only polish is a little too nice.
The fight system is flawed. This is a gameplay design issue. They didnt choose between fps style fight and rpg style fight, tried to blend the 2 of them and failed. You find yourself, if you go with firearms, with a slow aiming target, when you can finally fire, you do hp damages (!!!) to the guy in front of you (let's say, you just unloaded a shotgun at blank point in his head -> he gets 34 points of damage and immediatly shoots back) meanwhile other guys behind you unload their machineguns in your back with an ease you can't dream of. So it's better to go blades or fight but it is quite dull -> third person view, same moves all the time, only damages vary.
Some quests and dialogues are unfinished, not unpolished, un-FINISHED. If they had time before the release as being said above, those could have been taken care of. The whole game world seems less and less finished as you go further. Santa monica, the first map is so much above the other ones, chinatown seems like a 8th of it, with empty side quests, empty buildings, empty NPCs. Empty as in meaningless.
The loading time are killers. As much as it was bearable in Santa Monica, whith all the side quests and action going on, it is unbearable in Chinatown to have those loading times for uninterresting dull building/quests. It may be an issue with the source engine, i don't know.
How much are those issues due to troika or to activision, i dont know, but ultimately, it is activision which payed and released the game, and in my mind it is activision which is responsible for releasing a great yet flawed game. The worse is that they just have to release a SDK to have all the above fixed. There are a lot of people who loved the game and cried for one, and are ready to develop whats missing for free. Man, it would be free PR for both the videogame and the RPG. Release the SDK!!! please?
Interresting link, thanks. He said it also in the december chat on the mandrakeclub. He was talking of 4 releases at that time, 3 seems more feasible. The good part of this system would be that the community release schedule could be flexible. I mean, just upgrading the current rpms doesnt take as long as incorporating a new glib or kernel, for example.
I consdier this to be analogous to the Fedora/RHEL model used by Red Hat and rumour has it that SUSE will turn into something similar (with Novell Linux Desktop being the RHEL bit).I consdier this to be analogous to the Fedora/RHEL model used by Red Hat and rumour has it that SUSE will turn into something similar (with Novell Linux Desktop being the RHEL bit).
Not quite.
You forget the corporate edition which is the analogous mdk version to the RHEL. The PowerPack/Official version is the retail supported front end user oriented version of the distro which rh hasnt any equivalent for anymore. For rh front end users it's fedora or die. I mean, look at the prices: http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/compa re/client/ With mdk, you can choose for enterprise desktops between the official version or oem deals of the corporate. It's not fat cash or nothing, once again it's more flexible.
For novell, to do something similar to the red hat way would mean dropping front end users to a community based system only (aka dropping SuSe into a community based development model... unlikely?), and to do something similar to mandrake would mean to start to develop a community system to have users become part of the development of the distro (difficult but not impossible, yet it would take quite some time).
Anyway, it's a very french attitude to try to conciliate the best of both, or in this case the best of three, worlds: corporate, front end users, community driven development.
I use the distro since its first versions and one of its biggest grief was its development cycle.
To have official releases wich would go to retail with issues which needed only a little more time to be fixed, was quite difficult to stand for an end user oriented distro (I'm not talking of the corporate version here whose development is quite different). It made support on the forums quite difficult, especially since it gathers a lot of linux beginner, whom you have to explain a lot of things at once to fix small but annoying issues. The other problem was that the community version wasnt that different (in fact not different at all) from the official version, and lost its meaning quite fast.
Now, as I understand things, in a little while, we will have a more polished and stable release going to retail for those who like the userfriendlyness of the distro but hate its bugs, and more frequent bleeding edge community versions (3 or 4 a year) which will satisfy those wanting to absolutly have the latest KDE or Gnome or those who want to hunt the last irritating bugs that escaped the cookers (the dev community).
Perfect! Kudos to Mandrakesoft to take the risk to skip one income date in order to improve the quality of the distro.
The real question is how you can you feel let down when the 10.2 is only renamed and not canceled? Maybe they did translate badly that part of the announcement but in french one it's quite clear: the 10.2 is now the "mdk 2005 l-e", and the real new product will appear in fall 2005 as the "mandrakelinux 2006".
No, of course not. Leia was fighting to avenge her homeworld, Luke was trying to avenge his family, Lando was trying to avenge losing his business, Han was trying to get into Leia's panties, and the rest just tagged along.
So, basically, han solo is the only one that succeded? But did he shot first that night?
I remember seeing something on the making of X-Men, and one of the designers said yellow spandex looks great in a comic book, but it looks stupid on screen. It's also a quote from the movie that wolverine tell to cyclop, and actually they also looked really stupid in their leather suits.
He will lose those after a while in the movie. It is in one of the 2 reviews that were linked here, iirc, et which was quite dispointed by the movie. It was a preview not the final thing tho'.
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OK, it is using bandwidth on one hand, but on the other hand it is providing them with insightfull and informative comments who could help them to find the best approach to the problem. muhahaha, just kidding.
Untrue. There already are indie editors who tries to deliver their programs without getting into the publishers greedy hands. It is not what valve is trying to do. Valve is trying to become the new big guy around the block instead of the current publishers and is already using the same control freaks tactics, but adapted to the current technology. That is the only difference i see here.
So don't tell me no nonsense of a better future or that valve's behavior can be compared in any way to "small developpers". Those are fan boy conceptions which are nice on penny arcade or in a schoolyard, but can't be farther from the truth of what's happening.
All that Valve is doing is part of a strategy to get more control over their customers. Steam is nothing else than that, no small editors could have afforded the cost of that beast, especially considering the time it stayed useless. And nobody would have gone into that costy direction without thinking that it will get big cash in return. To get big cash in return they are forced to tie their customers to steam, since the internet already provides everything that steam can provides but for free. That is what theyr are trying to do, not bringing a better future.
I just tried your search in order to look what kind of porn it would bring, and it gave me only linux and gentoo related sites. Either they upgraded their search engine or they read slashdot.
Having said that: it would be interesting to hear from some MSN people about the architecture: how many servers? What OS? What kind of interconnect? etc. It uses every xp computers online in the world to process requests and also to give every available datas it contains. Don't you ever read the EULA?
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and applications requiring root just ask for your password ...
stupid users will still type their passwords in when malware prompts for them, but that's more of a user education issue than anything.
Because telling them to have and use a separate root password, and why, isnt an user education issue?
To me this clever trick is actually a nice way to lose an opportunity to do such an education.
2 or 3 days ago, a newbye on a community forum for another user-friendly distro was complaining that he had to type his root password all the time. He said he wanted to login as root which the graphical login didnt even permit.
After one hours, he had posts explaining why it was a mistake from a security point of view, from a personnal confort point of view (too late he had already lost one important directory), explaining how to use su, sudo, kdesu, the "choose another user" features of kde, how to use fish and openssh in konqueror to become root, etc etc. In one hour, he was educated, convinced, had ways he could use to go around the trouble IF HE WANTED and therefore, he had been helped A LOT.
This clever trick should happen AFTER a user is educated, at his request, and right now it just prevents that.
It's in the south of France, Nice, near Italy.
And it seems they are a holding from Luxembourg, for tax laws related reasons I guess.
about mdi
This comment talks about him and his car in fact:
MDI car made by Guy Negre
No surprise it's italian, iirc he was working in Nice near the itlian border and the car lobby in france is too strong.
Yes, the guy was even trying to sell whole factories of his system to countries who wanted to develop an alternative car industry at low cost.
Also the car shell was made in really lightweight plastic and was one piece. You could lift it and remove it easily. Meaning low weight and the possibility to easily change it, for customisation for example (think mobile phones mania among young people).
I havent heard anymore of that in years.
Meanwhile, they could have seen that what makes valve and blizzard special is not their games, which are nice but are not the most inventive, but the quality of said games at release time AND the life long support they seem to have afterwards. The dedication to quality some have contrasts heavilly whith the dedication others have to crap on the collective toes of their customers, to the point that blizzard CAN start a game again from scratch when others just released it unfinished and scrap support when "sales are disapointing".
I despise diablo, i find and found starcraft outdated and unoriginal, i found half life quite dull, action wise since i didnt bite the xfile story, BUT i would buy any game of those 2 compagnies without thinking twice BECAUSE I KNOW THERE WILL BE A PATCH for any issue, even 4 YEARS LATER. Same for ID, same for Epics.
And I don't want to ear anything about support costing too much or anything.
Tribes2 linux port was rock stable under linux years before vivendy coughed a little cash to have another patch for windows users. They did it because they had the intend to keep the franchise alive, but they already had lost their customers in the interval.
So doing things right rom the beginning to the end is what is really missing with those publishers. Now that internet is here, ea, vu, atari and the rest are outdated and useless.
BTW, if I'm not mistaking, the author of the tribes2 linux port is now working at blizzard and is the sdl author. There is no coincidence.
I'm playing vampire right now and I love it. Yet, to say that it needs only polish is a little too nice.
The fight system is flawed.
This is a gameplay design issue. They didnt choose between fps style fight and rpg style fight, tried to blend the 2 of them and failed. You find yourself, if you go with firearms, with a slow aiming target, when you can finally fire, you do hp damages (!!!) to the guy in front of you (let's say, you just unloaded a shotgun at blank point in his head -> he gets 34 points of damage and immediatly shoots back) meanwhile other guys behind you unload their machineguns in your back with an ease you can't dream of. So it's better to go blades or fight but it is quite dull -> third person view, same moves all the time, only damages vary.
Some quests and dialogues are unfinished, not unpolished, un-FINISHED.
If they had time before the release as being said above, those could have been taken care of. The whole game world seems less and less finished as you go further. Santa monica, the first map is so much above the other ones, chinatown seems like a 8th of it, with empty side quests, empty buildings, empty NPCs. Empty as in meaningless.
The loading time are killers.
As much as it was bearable in Santa Monica, whith all the side quests and action going on, it is unbearable in Chinatown to have those loading times for uninterresting dull building/quests. It may be an issue with the source engine, i don't know.
How much are those issues due to troika or to activision, i dont know, but ultimately, it is activision which payed and released the game, and in my mind it is activision which is responsible for releasing a great yet flawed game.
The worse is that they just have to release a SDK to have all the above fixed. There are a lot of people who loved the game and cried for one, and are ready to develop whats missing for free.
Man, it would be free PR for both the videogame and the RPG.
Release the SDK!!!
please?
Interresting link, thanks.
a re/client /
... unlikely?), and to do something similar to mandrake would mean to start to develop a community system to have users become part of the development of the distro (difficult but not impossible, yet it would take quite some time).
He said it also in the december chat on the mandrakeclub. He was talking of 4 releases at that time, 3 seems more feasible.
The good part of this system would be that the community release schedule could be flexible.
I mean, just upgrading the current rpms doesnt take as long as incorporating a new glib or kernel, for example.
I consdier this to be analogous to the Fedora/RHEL model used by Red Hat and rumour has it that SUSE will turn into something similar (with Novell Linux Desktop being the RHEL bit).I consdier this to be analogous to the Fedora/RHEL model used by Red Hat and rumour has it that SUSE will turn into something similar (with Novell Linux Desktop being the RHEL bit).
Not quite.
You forget the corporate edition which is the analogous mdk version to the RHEL.
The PowerPack/Official version is the retail supported front end user oriented version of the distro which rh hasnt any equivalent for anymore.
For rh front end users it's fedora or die.
I mean, look at the prices:
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/comp
With mdk, you can choose for enterprise desktops between the official version or oem deals of the corporate. It's not fat cash or nothing, once again it's more flexible.
For novell, to do something similar to the red hat way would mean dropping front end users to a community based system only (aka dropping SuSe into a community based development model
Anyway, it's a very french attitude to try to conciliate the best of both, or in this case the best of three, worlds:
corporate, front end users, community driven development.
I use the distro since its first versions and one of its biggest grief was its development cycle.
To have official releases wich would go to retail with issues which needed only a little more time to be fixed, was quite difficult to stand for an end user oriented distro (I'm not talking of the corporate version here whose development is quite different).
It made support on the forums quite difficult, especially since it gathers a lot of linux beginner, whom you have to explain a lot of things at once to fix small but annoying issues.
The other problem was that the community version wasnt that different (in fact not different at all) from the official version, and lost its meaning quite fast.
Now, as I understand things, in a little while, we will have a more polished and stable release going to retail for those who like the userfriendlyness of the distro but hate its bugs, and more frequent bleeding edge community versions (3 or 4 a year) which will satisfy those wanting to absolutly have the latest KDE or Gnome or those who want to hunt the last irritating bugs that escaped the cookers (the dev community).
Perfect!
Kudos to Mandrakesoft to take the risk to skip one income date in order to improve the quality of the distro.
The real question is how you can you feel let down when the 10.2 is only renamed and not canceled?
Maybe they did translate badly that part of the announcement but in french one it's quite clear: the 10.2 is now the "mdk 2005 l-e", and the real new product will appear in fall 2005 as the "mandrakelinux 2006".
and probably elsewhere.
No, of course not. Leia was fighting to avenge her homeworld, Luke was trying to avenge his family, Lando was trying to avenge losing his business, Han was trying to get into Leia's panties, and the rest just tagged along.
So, basically, han solo is the only one that succeded?
But did he shot first that night?
I remember seeing something on the making of X-Men, and one of the designers said yellow spandex looks great in a comic book, but it looks stupid on screen.
It's also a quote from the movie that wolverine tell to cyclop, and actually they also looked really stupid in their leather suits.
He will lose those after a while in the movie.
It is in one of the 2 reviews that were linked here, iirc, et which was quite dispointed by the movie. It was a preview not the final thing tho'.
Is it really stopped?
OK, it is using bandwidth on one hand, but on the other hand it is providing them with insightfull and informative comments who could help them to find the best approach to the problem.
muhahaha, just kidding.
You stopped reading the news at the first letter?
It's A-tari not A-pple the subject! Come on!
What about the lack of noise?
Untrue.
There already are indie editors who tries to deliver their programs without getting into the publishers greedy hands.
It is not what valve is trying to do. Valve is trying to become the new big guy around the block instead of the current publishers and is already using the same control freaks tactics, but adapted to the current technology. That is the only difference i see here.
So don't tell me no nonsense of a better future or that valve's behavior can be compared in any way to "small developpers".
Those are fan boy conceptions which are nice on penny arcade or in a schoolyard, but can't be farther from the truth of what's happening.
All that Valve is doing is part of a strategy to get more control over their customers. Steam is nothing else than that, no small editors could have afforded the cost of that beast, especially considering the time it stayed useless. And nobody would have gone into that costy direction without thinking that it will get big cash in return.
To get big cash in return they are forced to tie their customers to steam, since the internet already provides everything that steam can provides but for free. That is what theyr are trying to do, not bringing a better future.
well, they will have to put some kind of extension for irak and the tiny island state in Europe, what's its name already?
I just tried your search in order to look what kind of porn it would bring, and it gave me only linux and gentoo related sites.
Either they upgraded their search engine or they read slashdot.
And it is famous for working nicely:
from norway to norway
The master of the eye-killer blinking videotapes gets in bed with my unfair lady of blue screens of death.
If there have any offsprings, shoot'em.
Having said that: it would be interesting to hear from some MSN people about the architecture: how many servers? What OS? What kind of interconnect? etc.
It uses every xp computers online in the world to process requests and also to give every available datas it contains.
Don't you ever read the EULA?
They would sue their users doing machinimas.
mmog was the other important word of the news.