How is that more secure than a default install of Ubuntu 8.04 with all ports closed and no services running? OpenBSD is totally irrelevant when writing documents... Oh and BTW... OpenBSD is running services by default, so it's even less secure than Ubuntu...
Speedcrunch is not the default calculator for KDE4...
You also have Dolphin (file manager), Dragon Player (video player), Plasma (desktop), Phonon (lib), Marble (Google earth but without the satalite pictures), etc, etc...
"How come the security has called us op? Like we're going to steal something..."
-"I stole something."
"I guess we all do..."
-"No I stole something else..."
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Although many will think you might be joking, this might in fact be true. When Wine hits 1.0 (within a month?) major apps will work (Photoshop, MS Office, etc.) and Wine will have two series of releases: stable (regressions are a thing in the past!) and unstable (major changes). In my county (The Netherlands) Linux laptops are now the 'must-haves' on the 'front page' in folders of the giant PC retailers. MS is going to release the new SP for Office 2007 with out-of-the-box ODF support. Support for hardware is about to hit the same height where Windows is today. OGG files are now on every CD I have bought for the last year or so and my Samsung MP3 player supports it... and the list goes on and on...
So... is this it? Is 2008 going to be the year of the Linux desktop? It probably will, because all signs are pointing at that direction...
There are some basic things you can do (keep in mind I am not a security expert):
1) Don't do wireless networking, but if you must then use WPA2-PSK and change the key every 14 days.
2) Let users use fingerprint-scanners instead of passwords.
3) Let the server run Red Hat (selinux and support)
4) All ports closed by default
5) Have something to automatically block clients that transfer data through a p2p protocol. Also block messenger protocols.
6) Change IE to FF on client pc's.
7) Have two guys working on monitoring ports all day long
8) Give everyone an email address and have your own web-based email service that blocks everything but *.doc, *.pdf, *.odf, etc.
9) Replace the encrypted password system on Windows clients with something that hashes the passwords.
10) Maybe you can experiment with modifying a Linux distro so that it has XPDE and a version of Wine that can run MS Office (if you use MS Office) so that it can save you a lot of problems.
It would be awesome if we could genetically modify ourselves in the future so we can remove all our weaknesses, like greed, and make ourselves smarter so we can quit having wars and nuclear weapon programs. Right now we are being haunted by ancient unnecessary genes. I do hope that if this happens that they leave love and sex alone, although you can count it as a weakness, but it is what makes life so much more interesting.
MS decided to break binary compatibility with all previous Windows software. They decided to start from scratch with a new architecture.
But... they also said that they could deliver a new FS ever since Cairo and it still isn't there.
I guess MS will deliver shit, once again, and we will all be complaining about how bad it is. Then, when SP2 arrives for Win7, the Windows Vista users, who said they would never switch from XP to Vista, will all use Win7. Then MS delivers that with Win8 everything will be perfect... again, and again, and-... Ubuntu will be our overlord.
Could you please tell me the reason why a Mac Pro is a great machine for publishing (aside from the fact it has powerful hardware and all that)? I never understood why an Apple computer was the way to go. I always thought it was just because Apple had this creative image.
I think you should have a few levels of payment. For example: a-b MB = $15, b-c MB = $25, c-d MB = $30, d-e MB = $40, e-oblivion MB = $55.
You should make this flexible. For example: you don't sign for any of these levels of MB's. Instead sign/pay for the lowest level of bandwidth, so the ISP can market that they only have one subscription for which you pay $15 a month (fine print: at 'normal' use) and whoever crosses it doesn't pay an insane amount of money per MB extra. When the next month arrives you pay $15 again until you enter a higher level of bandwitch consumption.
This way you have one offering (easy), which is cheap for the average internet user, and whoever crosses the line doesn't empty his/her wallet and doesn't pay too much when he/she doesn't download as much as he/she normally does. With this model both the ISP's and all the customers should be happy, right?
... Photoshop! All these Apple advocates keep telling me that the Mac is the way to go for digital publishing and all that. But guess what? You're now even better off using a Windows box*! How did Apple screw up like this? This way they are losing their original userbase.
*It appears pro's don't use Linux+wine because of some software color... 'thing'. No I am not a troll I use Linux everyday. I honestly dont understand it myself because one can use color calibration software on Linux anyway but oh well... I am not an expert in the field.
Because the IBM Cell CPU was made for these kinds of processing in mind. The US-, I thought it was the airforce but I'm not sure, just replaced their 400 node supercomputer with 30 Playstation 3's. Have a look at how much power this console brings to the Folding@home project.
The current mainstream PC architecture was not made with gaming in mind. That said, I believe consoles are much better for games at a stunning full HD res, and the cost no more than $499. Try getting a PC gaming rig which can do the same and look at the price of it. Consoles give the gamer more bang for their buck and therefore I believe it will be the consoles smashing the PC in terms of gaming.
Only Microsoft can come up with such a conclusion... I mean seriously; nothing compares to the power of a Playstation 3. PC's as we know them today suck at games because the mainstream PC architecture is simply not made for it.
... who thought from the very beginning, having experience with minimum sys reqs and having the ability to see through marketing, that 'capable' meant: It can boot and nothing more?
And BTW (this rule always aplies...): always get informed about a product first before you buy it. I can't say this enough times. There are always products that may have downsides/flaws.
Unless you can turn everything into polygons on the tiniest scale and make rays bounce thousands of times. Even then you can't have things like bloom. Maybe it is possible of you have fullscreen shaders on top of a raytraced frame and render a frame for each time a ray bounces, but that requires extreme computing power not even possible within about 15-20 years. 2xFSAA could be possible of you render each frame at least four times, but that would take even more computing power, not to mention putting these four frames together in one frame...
I don't see this coming, if ever, any time in the near-, or maybe far, future...
Ok, so you are saying that everything had to created... Then answer this question: Who created God? And who created the creator of God?, etc.
To which everybody who I asked the same question before replies: "God was the beginning of everything.". You see that is funny, because according to these people, everything that exists needs to be created. That in itself is the proof that God doesn't exists.
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How is that more secure than a default install of Ubuntu 8.04 with all ports closed and no services running? OpenBSD is totally irrelevant when writing documents... Oh and BTW... OpenBSD is running services by default, so it's even less secure than Ubuntu...
They probably never heard of Gobuntu, which is an official Ubuntu variant which has strictly FLOSS software...
Speedcrunch is not the default calculator for KDE4...
You also have Dolphin (file manager), Dragon Player (video player), Plasma (desktop), Phonon (lib), Marble (Google earth but without the satalite pictures), etc, etc...
"How come the security has called us op? Like we're going to steal something..."
-"I stole something."
"I guess we all do..."
-"No I stole something else..."
I thought KDE was dropping the entire 'K-thing'.
Although many will think you might be joking, this might in fact be true. When Wine hits 1.0 (within a month?) major apps will work (Photoshop, MS Office, etc.) and Wine will have two series of releases: stable (regressions are a thing in the past!) and unstable (major changes). In my county (The Netherlands) Linux laptops are now the 'must-haves' on the 'front page' in folders of the giant PC retailers. MS is going to release the new SP for Office 2007 with out-of-the-box ODF support. Support for hardware is about to hit the same height where Windows is today. OGG files are now on every CD I have bought for the last year or so and my Samsung MP3 player supports it... and the list goes on and on...
So... is this it? Is 2008 going to be the year of the Linux desktop? It probably will, because all signs are pointing at that direction...
There are some basic things you can do (keep in mind I am not a security expert):
1) Don't do wireless networking, but if you must then use WPA2-PSK and change the key every 14 days.
2) Let users use fingerprint-scanners instead of passwords.
3) Let the server run Red Hat (selinux and support)
4) All ports closed by default
5) Have something to automatically block clients that transfer data through a p2p protocol. Also block messenger protocols.
6) Change IE to FF on client pc's.
7) Have two guys working on monitoring ports all day long
8) Give everyone an email address and have your own web-based email service that blocks everything but *.doc, *.pdf, *.odf, etc.
9) Replace the encrypted password system on Windows clients with something that hashes the passwords.
10) Maybe you can experiment with modifying a Linux distro so that it has XPDE and a version of Wine that can run MS Office (if you use MS Office) so that it can save you a lot of problems.
It would be awesome if we could genetically modify ourselves in the future so we can remove all our weaknesses, like greed, and make ourselves smarter so we can quit having wars and nuclear weapon programs. Right now we are being haunted by ancient unnecessary genes. I do hope that if this happens that they leave love and sex alone, although you can count it as a weakness, but it is what makes life so much more interesting.
How can you murder that which has no brain?
MS decided to break binary compatibility with all previous Windows software. They decided to start from scratch with a new architecture.
But... they also said that they could deliver a new FS ever since Cairo and it still isn't there.
I guess MS will deliver shit, once again, and we will all be complaining about how bad it is. Then, when SP2 arrives for Win7, the Windows Vista users, who said they would never switch from XP to Vista, will all use Win7. Then MS delivers that with Win8 everything will be perfect... again, and again, and-... Ubuntu will be our overlord.
MS lockin. 'Nuff said.
Could you please tell me the reason why a Mac Pro is a great machine for publishing (aside from the fact it has powerful hardware and all that)? I never understood why an Apple computer was the way to go. I always thought it was just because Apple had this creative image.
I think you should have a few levels of payment. For example: a-b MB = $15, b-c MB = $25, c-d MB = $30, d-e MB = $40, e-oblivion MB = $55.
You should make this flexible. For example: you don't sign for any of these levels of MB's. Instead sign/pay for the lowest level of bandwidth, so the ISP can market that they only have one subscription for which you pay $15 a month (fine print: at 'normal' use) and whoever crosses it doesn't pay an insane amount of money per MB extra. When the next month arrives you pay $15 again until you enter a higher level of bandwitch consumption.
This way you have one offering (easy), which is cheap for the average internet user, and whoever crosses the line doesn't empty his/her wallet and doesn't pay too much when he/she doesn't download as much as he/she normally does. With this model both the ISP's and all the customers should be happy, right?
... Photoshop! All these Apple advocates keep telling me that the Mac is the way to go for digital publishing and all that. But guess what? You're now even better off using a Windows box*! How did Apple screw up like this? This way they are losing their original userbase.
*It appears pro's don't use Linux+wine because of some software color... 'thing'. No I am not a troll I use Linux everyday. I honestly dont understand it myself because one can use color calibration software on Linux anyway but oh well... I am not an expert in the field.
This is just as sad as Apple using blue screens as Windows icons... This will earn them nothing but disrespect and will damage the face of FOSS.
*Novell added to V!NCENT's boycott list*
Ah... so according to Microsoft no one is developing for GNU? What's next?
Because the IBM Cell CPU was made for these kinds of processing in mind. The US-, I thought it was the airforce but I'm not sure, just replaced their 400 node supercomputer with 30 Playstation 3's. Have a look at how much power this console brings to the Folding@home project.
The current mainstream PC architecture was not made with gaming in mind. That said, I believe consoles are much better for games at a stunning full HD res, and the cost no more than $499. Try getting a PC gaming rig which can do the same and look at the price of it. Consoles give the gamer more bang for their buck and therefore I believe it will be the consoles smashing the PC in terms of gaming.
This must be really wierd, but I prefer KDE with a gnome-ish layout. My desktop (1280x800 JPG): http://img291.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshothi3.jpg
And YES! It's a car. These things on four round objects with a engine. Go ahead... make jokes...
Only Microsoft can come up with such a conclusion... I mean seriously; nothing compares to the power of a Playstation 3. PC's as we know them today suck at games because the mainstream PC architecture is simply not made for it.
The only thing that matters to Google is that people visit google.com. The more visitors, the better.
Where's the 'itsatrap' tag?
... who thought from the very beginning, having experience with minimum sys reqs and having the ability to see through marketing, that 'capable' meant: It can boot and nothing more?
And BTW (this rule always aplies...): always get informed about a product first before you buy it. I can't say this enough times. There are always products that may have downsides/flaws.
It might be far below a medical dose, but the question is: Why are they putting it in drinkwater in the first place?
Unless you can turn everything into polygons on the tiniest scale and make rays bounce thousands of times. Even then you can't have things like bloom. Maybe it is possible of you have fullscreen shaders on top of a raytraced frame and render a frame for each time a ray bounces, but that requires extreme computing power not even possible within about 15-20 years. 2xFSAA could be possible of you render each frame at least four times, but that would take even more computing power, not to mention putting these four frames together in one frame...
I don't see this coming, if ever, any time in the near-, or maybe far, future...
Ok, so you are saying that everything had to created... Then answer this question: Who created God? And who created the creator of God?, etc.
To which everybody who I asked the same question before replies: "God was the beginning of everything.". You see that is funny, because according to these people, everything that exists needs to be created. That in itself is the proof that God doesn't exists.
Pooh Pooh!