You do know that Linux users who run Steam under Wine all have their wine config set to either 2000 or XP which means that it influences the statistics. Every time I do the survey it says that I run Windows XP, while I am in fact running Kubuntu.
Yeah but what do you do when you have too much spare and you've already read all TFAs on/.? Digg is unhealthy though, because the stupidity sometimes makes my blood pressure rise and onces in a while it makes me want to bang my head against the wall, which, by each time I do it, kills 10.000 brain cells. Maybe this makes me stupid enough to go to Digg forever one day.
Why bother doing it the hard way? Because they can? Because it's a challenge? Because they can then learn how the anti-virus system works? 'Nuff reasons if you'd ask me.
Doesn't it? 'Mother nature' is always in for balance... so when it gets too hot, deserts will expand and eventualy an ice age will come. It's not like it didn't happen before...
Vienna two years of? Where did I heared that before?
There is going to be backwards compatibility? I must have misheared Microsoft saying that they were going to dump their old OS and start a new one. It must have been the wind when I heared that they were not going to make it backwards compatible.
Apple's marketshare is threatened? That's funny... Since when does the avarage joe knows the Windows EULA? And how many people do you still see without an iPod?
Linux marketshare equales 2,8%? I hope you mean on the desktop...
... because I made a bet with a friend of mine in a café that in five years Windows marketshare on the desktop would be equal to- or below twenty percent when I was kinda drunk.
Oh and I've bet for 300 euro's (about 500 dollars)
Take into account: Apple growth rate (specificaly laptops), Linux growth rate (Eee pc, Acer dumping Windows (yes read that again), Ubuntu acceptance) and the next version of Windows with more bloat, DRM and zero backwards compatibility.
KDE4 has great technology and some great designers. They are open towards new ideas and concepts and seem to be able to think outside of the box. This is why I like KDE4 so much. One thing that they did was a major cleanup of the interface so you no longer have +100 buttons per program. Take a look at KDE Raptor and you will realise that KDE4 is going to bring major usability innovation for the enduser.
I have learned and used a lot of GUIs (Windows, Mac, Gnome, Fluxbox, Blackbox, IceWM, Openbox, E16, E17, JWM, KDE3, XFCE4, and some more) and KDE4 (not previous KDE's) is the first interface I really came to like to the extend that I will be making it my standard GUI.
Should the Linux desktop be pure? That means every single Linux desktop should be pure. That means that RMS should make a GPLv4 license that says that you may only use this program if you have a completely free software desktop. So no.
I think there has always been common sense and good intent. The problem is that the people who 'are the law' don't know what they are really agreeing with/setting up and what the consequences are by doing so. They will always turn to other people for understanding the subject, which can make them extremely vulnerable to pass evil practices.
We can either inform them ourselves, or exploit their vulnerabilities to get them to do what we want instead. But every time we don't try, others will get there first.
When you go to the official distro website and click on the download link, ask the user for two, 6 digit numbers (xxx-xxx format to make it easy) over a secure https connection and tell the user to write it down because he/she will need it later. Now let the server automatically check the database to see if the first submitted 6 digit key matches with another first 6 digit keys another user has already submitted. If that is true; ask the user for another first 6 digit key and keep doing this until the key is unique. You'll understand later in this post why). Now hash those two 6 digit number and put it in a database and link the two keys (which is rather easy by doing 6+6 is one 12 digit key). In the meantime redirect the user to the actual download page.
When the user runs into the installer upon booting the image, ask him/her for the two 6 digit keys. When inserted, hash the keys and write the hashed keys to the medium you're installing the distro on (6+6=12). Now ask the user to get rid of the two 6 digit number he/she has written on a piece of paper because he/she will not need it anymore.
Now that the user and the official server have two identical 12 character (because it got hashed) keys each, pass the first 6 characters of the 12 character key to the server, over a secure connection, upon checking for updates for the first time (which can only be done by the user or the user's distro and not by any server. Let the distro ignore any incoming update notifications that it or the user didn't ask for him-/her-/itsef). The server will then check for a 12 character key that starts with these first 6 characters and send back the other 6 characters plus another 12 randomly generated characters (1). The distro will now check if the received first 6 characters matches the last 6 characters with it's own 12 character key. If it does; check for- and download updates and replace it's own 12 character key with the last 12 characters (1) that were send along with the first 6 characters. If the it doesn't; do nothing and tell the user what's up and direct him/her to a security section of the official distro website to see if the server is down and if not tell the user that a cracker tries to hack his system (repeat this sequence every time a check for updates is done, but do it only about max 3 times a day because a cracker can brute force the other 6 characters).
(1): The order of the (6+12=) 18 characters in this package that the server sends should be determent by the previous 12 character key, so that if this package is intercepted, no one will know what characters belong to the 6- and 12 character keys. If you want to increase the level of security even further, then you can add meaningless characters to the package so that if a cracker intercepts the package, and he knows the current/old 6 key, he can't just filter out the characters of the 6 character key and brute force the order of the 12 remaining characters, so brute forcing will take longer. And another problem is that each time the user check for updates, the key changes, so it will be a pain in the ass to get the key combination right in one time, and it gets harder for the hacker to predict the next 12 character key because he can never know what the last one whas for certain.
Ofcourse this method is not crack-proof, but aint security a bitch?
Apple wan't founded by two kids in a garage? Oh well... But here is a website with the quote and the source: http://www.twokidsinagarage.com/quotes.html
But ignore Nerv because that is from the movie.
First they use the argument that any geek/nerd with a good idea can put them out of business in their anti-trust case (argument also made in Hackers 3: Antitrust (movie)) and now they try to discourage anyone trying to set up something in their garage (while covering their asses to make you believe they try to help these people by giving them 'good advice'). This is ofcourse is totally unrelated to the fact that MS is gearing towards web 3.0 (turn on sarcasm scanners)...
English grammer is perfect for math. I am Dutch and we have the same 'syntax' as the German language and I can tell you that it is far from good for math.
Most people [in germany] speak English as a second language, so if you ever go there, you will be able to settle in gracefully.
Oh puh-lease... People in Germany (except a few maybe) are the worst English speakers I have ever seen. The French are welcoming but the older people still hate the Germans because of WWII. So that is why I always say that I am Dutch (they think I am German) and suddenly out of nowhere they start acting very friendly and really nice. It's a shame though because nobody in Germany today has anything to do with the Nazi's.
I wouldn't do it for the chicks either because 5/6 of them is too fat to be good looking, and 1/6 of them all have boyfriends.
Ofcourse. An example: calculator (like the one you brought with you) on screen so he doesn't have to explain "Ok press this button and then that button and then...", etc. Or when he needs to wipe the board he can just do it with a single click. Like you said you can use one scenario, save it, and bring it back in every hour. He also scanned each page of the math book so he could easily point and explain it to everyone in the class at ones. Or when he needs to make a canvas he can just bring it up with a few clicks and make it larger or smaller. He can also bring back what he had wiped earlyer so he can explain things faster at the end when people would still have questions. We also had a math website which he could bring up fast with *cough*IE*cough*. And lots and lots more. Imagine you need to do all of that without a digital board. On the other hand, if you have a power failure...
That was what I thought. Ofcourse it doesn't matter much to me if someone is not capable of math (if I did I would have to virtually ignore all good looking chicks) but do something different. I am bad at my own language (try to learn dutch. I can teal you it's the worst language of all) so I am not going to take advanced French for example.
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You do know that Linux users who run Steam under Wine all have their wine config set to either 2000 or XP which means that it influences the statistics. Every time I do the survey it says that I run Windows XP, while I am in fact running Kubuntu.
The RTFM days are over. I haven't encountered the response on the web for over two years (with the exception of /. jokes).
I only read the articles that I'm interested in and their corresponding comments. It's not like I am going to read every single byte here in /.. Oh and lightspeed's way too slow: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2026317964203376008&ei=lh6bSK3WDpfcjQLF2pDWDw&q=space+balls+speed&vt=lf [flash video]
Yeah but what do you do when you have too much spare and you've already read all TFAs on /.? Digg is unhealthy though, because the stupidity sometimes makes my blood pressure rise and onces in a while it makes me want to bang my head against the wall, which, by each time I do it, kills 10.000 brain cells. Maybe this makes me stupid enough to go to Digg forever one day.
Why bother doing it the hard way? Because they can? Because it's a challenge? Because they can then learn how the anti-virus system works? 'Nuff reasons if you'd ask me.
Doesn't it? 'Mother nature' is always in for balance... so when it gets too hot, deserts will expand and eventualy an ice age will come. It's not like it didn't happen before...
Vienna two years of? Where did I heared that before?
There is going to be backwards compatibility? I must have misheared Microsoft saying that they were going to dump their old OS and start a new one. It must have been the wind when I heared that they were not going to make it backwards compatible.
Apple's marketshare is threatened? That's funny... Since when does the avarage joe knows the Windows EULA? And how many people do you still see without an iPod?
Linux marketshare equales 2,8%? I hope you mean on the desktop...
I can't bet with an Anonymous Coward...
... because I made a bet with a friend of mine in a café that in five years Windows marketshare on the desktop would be equal to- or below twenty percent when I was kinda drunk.
Oh and I've bet for 300 euro's (about 500 dollars)
Take into account: Apple growth rate (specificaly laptops), Linux growth rate (Eee pc, Acer dumping Windows (yes read that again), Ubuntu acceptance) and the next version of Windows with more bloat, DRM and zero backwards compatibility.
KDE4 has great technology and some great designers. They are open towards new ideas and concepts and seem to be able to think outside of the box. This is why I like KDE4 so much. One thing that they did was a major cleanup of the interface so you no longer have +100 buttons per program. Take a look at KDE Raptor and you will realise that KDE4 is going to bring major usability innovation for the enduser.
I have learned and used a lot of GUIs (Windows, Mac, Gnome, Fluxbox, Blackbox, IceWM, Openbox, E16, E17, JWM, KDE3, XFCE4, and some more) and KDE4 (not previous KDE's) is the first interface I really came to like to the extend that I will be making it my standard GUI.
We have to. If not, what do you think will happen to the /.-effect, you insensitive clod?
Should the Linux desktop be pure? That means every single Linux desktop should be pure. That means that RMS should make a GPLv4 license that says that you may only use this program if you have a completely free software desktop. So no.
p.s. yay german girlfriend!
And this 'yay' of yours is an actual English word? And how is this style of commenting not a downwards spiral by going YouTube-style?
I think there has always been common sense and good intent. The problem is that the people who 'are the law' don't know what they are really agreeing with/setting up and what the consequences are by doing so. They will always turn to other people for understanding the subject, which can make them extremely vulnerable to pass evil practices.
We can either inform them ourselves, or exploit their vulnerabilities to get them to do what we want instead. But every time we don't try, others will get there first.
Here is my solution:
When you go to the official distro website and click on the download link, ask the user for two, 6 digit numbers (xxx-xxx format to make it easy) over a secure https connection and tell the user to write it down because he/she will need it later. Now let the server automatically check the database to see if the first submitted 6 digit key matches with another first 6 digit keys another user has already submitted. If that is true; ask the user for another first 6 digit key and keep doing this until the key is unique. You'll understand later in this post why). Now hash those two 6 digit number and put it in a database and link the two keys (which is rather easy by doing 6+6 is one 12 digit key). In the meantime redirect the user to the actual download page.
When the user runs into the installer upon booting the image, ask him/her for the two 6 digit keys. When inserted, hash the keys and write the hashed keys to the medium you're installing the distro on (6+6=12). Now ask the user to get rid of the two 6 digit number he/she has written on a piece of paper because he/she will not need it anymore.
Now that the user and the official server have two identical 12 character (because it got hashed) keys each, pass the first 6 characters of the 12 character key to the server, over a secure connection, upon checking for updates for the first time (which can only be done by the user or the user's distro and not by any server. Let the distro ignore any incoming update notifications that it or the user didn't ask for him-/her-/itsef). The server will then check for a 12 character key that starts with these first 6 characters and send back the other 6 characters plus another 12 randomly generated characters (1). The distro will now check if the received first 6 characters matches the last 6 characters with it's own 12 character key. If it does; check for- and download updates and replace it's own 12 character key with the last 12 characters (1) that were send along with the first 6 characters. If the it doesn't; do nothing and tell the user what's up and direct him/her to a security section of the official distro website to see if the server is down and if not tell the user that a cracker tries to hack his system (repeat this sequence every time a check for updates is done, but do it only about max 3 times a day because a cracker can brute force the other 6 characters).
(1): The order of the (6+12=) 18 characters in this package that the server sends should be determent by the previous 12 character key, so that if this package is intercepted, no one will know what characters belong to the 6- and 12 character keys. If you want to increase the level of security even further, then you can add meaningless characters to the package so that if a cracker intercepts the package, and he knows the current/old 6 key, he can't just filter out the characters of the 6 character key and brute force the order of the 12 remaining characters, so brute forcing will take longer. And another problem is that each time the user check for updates, the key changes, so it will be a pain in the ass to get the key combination right in one time, and it gets harder for the hacker to predict the next 12 character key because he can never know what the last one whas for certain.
Ofcourse this method is not crack-proof, but aint security a bitch?
Apple wan't founded by two kids in a garage? Oh well... But here is a website with the quote and the source:
http://www.twokidsinagarage.com/quotes.html
But ignore Nerv because that is from the movie.
First search result on Google: http://www.rivalfish.com/rivalroom/uploaded_images/SwedishFans-787783.jpg [271280 bytes]
It would a shame if something happened to your file system...
First they use the argument that any geek/nerd with a good idea can put them out of business in their anti-trust case (argument also made in Hackers 3: Antitrust (movie)) and now they try to discourage anyone trying to set up something in their garage (while covering their asses to make you believe they try to help these people by giving them 'good advice'). This is ofcourse is totally unrelated to the fact that MS is gearing towards web 3.0 (turn on sarcasm scanners)...
I don't know much about Canada so if I wouldn't know.
your == you're
English grammer is perfect for math. I am Dutch and we have the same 'syntax' as the German language and I can tell you that it is far from good for math.
Most people [in germany] speak English as a second language, so if you ever go there, you will be able to settle in gracefully.
Oh puh-lease... People in Germany (except a few maybe) are the worst English speakers I have ever seen. The French are welcoming but the older people still hate the Germans because of WWII. So that is why I always say that I am Dutch (they think I am German) and suddenly out of nowhere they start acting very friendly and really nice. It's a shame though because nobody in Germany today has anything to do with the Nazi's.
I wouldn't do it for the chicks either because 5/6 of them is too fat to be good looking, and 1/6 of them all have boyfriends.
I'd definitely go for Swiss... Swedish chicks are the hottest, if your into blonds that is...
Ofcourse. An example: calculator (like the one you brought with you) on screen so he doesn't have to explain "Ok press this button and then that button and then...", etc. Or when he needs to wipe the board he can just do it with a single click. Like you said you can use one scenario, save it, and bring it back in every hour. He also scanned each page of the math book so he could easily point and explain it to everyone in the class at ones. Or when he needs to make a canvas he can just bring it up with a few clicks and make it larger or smaller. He can also bring back what he had wiped earlyer so he can explain things faster at the end when people would still have questions. We also had a math website which he could bring up fast with *cough*IE*cough*. And lots and lots more. Imagine you need to do all of that without a digital board. On the other hand, if you have a power failure...
That was what I thought. Ofcourse it doesn't matter much to me if someone is not capable of math (if I did I would have to virtually ignore all good looking chicks) but do something different. I am bad at my own language (try to learn dutch. I can teal you it's the worst language of all) so I am not going to take advanced French for example.