Ok. I've been against Lindows for, well, as long as I've known about them. They seem to me to be a wolf-in-sheep's clothing, and I'm more than sick of hearing about that stupid rebranded apt-get, as well as the rebranded KDE software.
But, those screenshots look nice. I would not recommend this distro to any of my buddies, but I'm thinking about trying to grab some of that artwork from the ISO... In particular, the Netscape theme is good in that neon-ish sort of way, and the kicker icons are nice too.
Yup, it would - but unfortunately the elephant has a much longer gestation period -- nearly two years! That'd make for very slow generations in the lab, don't you think?
Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man.
Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up, cause chicks dig a dude with money.
Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks.
Lawrence: Well the kind of chicks that'd double up on me do.
Peter Gibbons: Good point.
Lawrence: What about you, what would you do?
Peter Gibbons: Besides two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Well yeah.
Peter Gibbons: Nothing.
Lawrence: Nothing, huh?
Peter Gibbons: I'd relax, sit on my ass all day, I would do nothing.
Lawrence: Well you don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Just take a look at my cousin, he's broke, don't do shit.
Um, do you think the poster knew that Homer's usage of the term "buttinsky" was a not-very-veiled derogatory term used toward a homosexual character? Not so sure that it works in this context...
Ok, if anybody here knows more than what the article says -- presumably, the key will be accessible through direct-level calls to the CD-ROM to read specific tracks; what is to prevent the user from either intercepting these calls or monitoring usage of the CD-ROM, in order to determine where the keys are placed on the CD? I imagine an API implementation like WINE would be able to intercept these calls, with parameters, to find the specific locations.
But, I assume, this has been thought of by JVC. Why wouldn't it work?
Vanilla coke. In my personal opinion, Pepsi Blue tastes (and looks) like coolant, Mr. Green is like green tea that's had the water all boiled off, and Red Fusion takes the worst elements of red pop and Dr. Pepper.
Ok. Besides the monitor and other issues that other posters have brought up, $199 will not get you what you need to do all that. Lindows comes very stripped down - all as an "incentive" to use the "Click-n-run" warehouse. In Robertson's message, he mentions that it comes with a trial membership.
Trial translates to THREE. You get THREE packages you can install - and if they don't work right on the first install, they still count. See this article for more information. A more accurate price would be $298, as the Click-N-Run membership costs $99.
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This sounds sort of similar to the MP3 locker program that mp3.com had a few years back, except more stringent. I don't think it'll fly, and if it does, it'll be AFTER legal battles.
One of the best things about Bruce Perens is that he's so active in the actual community as well as the upper-echelons of aforementioned community - he's so active here, on the Slashdot forums, lending a great dialogue to any article about him.
I really don't know why anyone didn't mention this before, but MPlayer is now able to link to the Real libraries and play Real formats. Those are closed codecs; but Helix looks like it'll be closed as well - so where's the advantage to using a Real sponsored player, when MPlayer uses all the same closed-source libraries, and the base system is GPL'd? If you contribute to MPlayer (which also plays ASF) then Real can't snag your work like they can with Helix...
Well, currently, I do already practice a limited form of code signing. When I, on my Gentoo system, type:
# emerge mozilla
part of the process is for portage to fetch a copy of the source code and compare the MD5 signature against the MD5 signature that I received from a different location (in this case, the portage / rsync mirrors. This actually bit me once, when I submitted a package that retrieved a dynamically created.tar.gz from a CTAN mirror - the MD5's never worked!) Does this protect against a dedicated hacker? No. But, in the recent BitchX scandal, it was noted that the MD5 digest in gentoo was for the tarball without the backdoor. I know that many distributers and packagers (RedHat springs to mind most readily) utilize GPG/PGP signatures on disc images and packages, which further derails crackers, as the public keys are kept by a central authority. FreeBSD uses a checksum, like gentoo, as well.
Microsoft is not alone in this initiative - and if the article is right when it says MS will be out of the code signing business completely, this might help the situation. But I really don't see them being all that friendly to non-partnered code-signers.
The Klipboard manager (Klippy? I can't remember) is quite configurable... I got irritated with it doing that every tiem I was in Mozilla (very rarely, mind you) and looked around - there's a section of the configuration where you can define different window classes for it to ignore. I did that, and haven't been happier...
Actually, the Linux Warez scene does exist. While browsing usenet groups I stumbled across one dedicated to Linux warez - they had things like Crossover, a linux port of the old game Raptor, Applixware, RtCW, etc...
I rather liked X-Wing, Tie Fighter and X-wing versus Tie Fighter. I thought they were true to the mythos, and very well executed.
In recent memory, I wasted an ass-load of time playing Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. Yeah, it was a bit dumb in places - why the hell did Lando show up, besides celebrity cameo? But the saber fighting was very well done, and the levels were long and in some cases quite difficult. Tons of fun, I thought.
I'm going to take the conventional approach and buy the DVDs this fall, as they will also include TONS of interviews and JMS commentary on both Signs and Portents and Chrysalis. The following seasons should, well, follow shortly after the first...
"...it's aimed at the reluctant Windows crowd, with the aim of turning them into the Linux crowd:..."
No, and this distinction is subtle: it's aim is not to turn them into the "Linux" crowd, but the "Lindows" crowd - a crowd of people who will subscribe to download rebranded KDE apps, among other things.
Producer Joel Silver says one visual effect for a shot in one of the sequels took two-and-a-half years to create, and prepares for production on "a 14-minute sequence that is the most complicated sequence ever put on film. Silver talks about reaching the peak of visual effects in a recent story in The Sydney Morning Herald, and promises that The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions will provide more than just spectacular visuals. "It's about all that stuff that's going on in our lives that we can't really grab onto." he says, suggesting the films will continue to explore the deeper themes tapped in the first groundbreaking film. Our only question is, this complicated sequence doesn't involve any combination of Keanu and advanced problem-solving, does it?
This would be a hell of a lot cooler if it were done with Radiation Pressure... Unless somebody can explain where my understanding goes awry, isn't this basically just another method of igniting normal fuels?
Well, ask yourself - are you targetting the savvy, internet experienced people with broadband, or are you targetting an introductory crowd?
When I was younger, I bought a Java book that came with a CD. In those days I didn't have high-speed internet, and (more importantly) I didn't really have much understanding of how to research things, or find out which packages were best for me.
I would recommend that if your book takes the attitude that your readers are experienced and savvy, a few words on locations to find the software would be much more valuable than the value-added-CD that comes in the back. But if you're targetting a crowd that perhaps isn't as comfortable navigating, finding out which versions of software to trust and rely on, then I would say definitely include your "Picks" for which software packages are trustworthy, up-to-date, et cetera.
Chances are, the advanced user wouldn't trust the CD, so code out-datedness wouldn't be as crucial, whereas the beginner would be satisfied not having bleeding-edge code.
These are just my opinions - I know that I typically no longer use CDs that come with the books I buy, but I also know that if I were a beginner (particularly modem-based) I would probably swear by them.
Would you buy a Hyundai from a salesman who drives a Toyota? I wouldn't.
That's a bit of an understatement. Maybe a better statement would be "Would you buy a Hyundai from a salesman who bashes Toyotas as being unreliable, expensive and unsafe, but sends his kids to school in a Corrolla?"
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Ok. I've been against Lindows for, well, as long as I've known about them. They seem to me to be a wolf-in-sheep's clothing, and I'm more than sick of hearing about that stupid rebranded apt-get, as well as the rebranded KDE software.
But, those screenshots look nice. I would not recommend this distro to any of my buddies, but I'm thinking about trying to grab some of that artwork from the ISO... In particular, the Netscape theme is good in that neon-ish sort of way, and the kicker icons are nice too.
Glowing elephants would be a cooler trick.
Yup, it would - but unfortunately the elephant has a much longer gestation period -- nearly two years! That'd make for very slow generations in the lab, don't you think?
Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man.
Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up, cause chicks dig a dude with money.
Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks.
Lawrence: Well the kind of chicks that'd double up on me do.
Peter Gibbons: Good point.
Lawrence: What about you, what would you do?
Peter Gibbons: Besides two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Well yeah.
Peter Gibbons: Nothing.
Lawrence: Nothing, huh?
Peter Gibbons: I'd relax, sit on my ass all day, I would do nothing.
Lawrence: Well you don't need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Just take a look at my cousin, he's broke, don't do shit.
Um, do you think the poster knew that Homer's usage of the term "buttinsky" was a not-very-veiled derogatory term used toward a homosexual character? Not so sure that it works in this context...
Ok, if anybody here knows more than what the article says -- presumably, the key will be accessible through direct-level calls to the CD-ROM to read specific tracks; what is to prevent the user from either intercepting these calls or monitoring usage of the CD-ROM, in order to determine where the keys are placed on the CD? I imagine an API implementation like WINE would be able to intercept these calls, with parameters, to find the specific locations.
But, I assume, this has been thought of by JVC. Why wouldn't it work?
Vanilla coke. In my personal opinion, Pepsi Blue tastes (and looks) like coolant, Mr. Green is like green tea that's had the water all boiled off, and Red Fusion takes the worst elements of red pop and Dr. Pepper.
Ok. Besides the monitor and other issues that other posters have brought up, $199 will not get you what you need to do all that. Lindows comes very stripped down - all as an "incentive" to use the "Click-n-run" warehouse. In Robertson's message, he mentions that it comes with a trial membership.
Trial translates to THREE. You get THREE packages you can install - and if they don't work right on the first install, they still count. See this article for more information. A more accurate price would be $298, as the Click-N-Run membership costs $99.
This sounds sort of similar to the MP3 locker program that mp3.com had a few years back, except more stringent. I don't think it'll fly, and if it does, it'll be AFTER legal battles.
One of the best things about Bruce Perens is that he's so active in the actual community as well as the upper-echelons of aforementioned community - he's so active here, on the Slashdot forums, lending a great dialogue to any article about him.
I really don't know why anyone didn't mention this before, but MPlayer is now able to link to the Real libraries and play Real formats. Those are closed codecs; but Helix looks like it'll be closed as well - so where's the advantage to using a Real sponsored player, when MPlayer uses all the same closed-source libraries, and the base system is GPL'd? If you contribute to MPlayer (which also plays ASF) then Real can't snag your work like they can with Helix...
Well, currently, I do already practice a limited form of code signing. When I, on my Gentoo system, type:
.tar.gz from a CTAN mirror - the MD5's never worked!) Does this protect against a dedicated hacker? No. But, in the recent BitchX scandal, it was noted that the MD5 digest in gentoo was for the tarball without the backdoor. I know that many distributers and packagers (RedHat springs to mind most readily) utilize GPG/PGP signatures on disc images and packages, which further derails crackers, as the public keys are kept by a central authority. FreeBSD uses a checksum, like gentoo, as well.
# emerge mozilla
part of the process is for portage to fetch a copy of the source code and compare the MD5 signature against the MD5 signature that I received from a different location (in this case, the portage / rsync mirrors. This actually bit me once, when I submitted a package that retrieved a dynamically created
Microsoft is not alone in this initiative - and if the article is right when it says MS will be out of the code signing business completely, this might help the situation. But I really don't see them being all that friendly to non-partnered code-signers.
The Klipboard manager (Klippy? I can't remember) is quite configurable... I got irritated with it doing that every tiem I was in Mozilla (very rarely, mind you) and looked around - there's a section of the configuration where you can define different window classes for it to ignore. I did that, and haven't been happier...
Actually, the Linux Warez scene does exist. While browsing usenet groups I stumbled across one dedicated to Linux warez - they had things like Crossover, a linux port of the old game Raptor, Applixware, RtCW, etc...
I rather liked X-Wing, Tie Fighter and X-wing versus Tie Fighter. I thought they were true to the mythos, and very well executed.
In recent memory, I wasted an ass-load of time playing Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. Yeah, it was a bit dumb in places - why the hell did Lando show up, besides celebrity cameo? But the saber fighting was very well done, and the levels were long and in some cases quite difficult. Tons of fun, I thought.
I'm going to take the conventional approach and buy the DVDs this fall, as they will also include TONS of interviews and JMS commentary on both Signs and Portents and Chrysalis. The following seasons should, well, follow shortly after the first...
"...it's aimed at the reluctant Windows crowd, with the aim of turning them into the Linux crowd:..."
No, and this distinction is subtle: it's aim is not to turn them into the "Linux" crowd, but the "Lindows" crowd - a crowd of people who will subscribe to download rebranded KDE apps, among other things.
Avoid Wall Drug. Do not pay attention to the signs. Please. Ignore it. Maybe it will go away...
To quote Corona quotion Joel Silver:
Producer Joel Silver says one visual effect for a shot in one of the sequels took two-and-a-half years to create, and prepares for production on "a 14-minute sequence that is the most complicated sequence ever put on film. Silver talks about reaching the peak of visual effects in a recent story in The Sydney Morning Herald, and promises that The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions will provide more than just spectacular visuals. "It's about all that stuff that's going on in our lives that we can't really grab onto." he says, suggesting the films will continue to explore the deeper themes tapped in the first groundbreaking film. Our only question is, this complicated sequence doesn't involve any combination of Keanu and advanced problem-solving, does it?
This would be a hell of a lot cooler if it were done with Radiation Pressure... Unless somebody can explain where my understanding goes awry, isn't this basically just another method of igniting normal fuels?
Sometimes, Microsoft is Right...
Uh, Chris, did you forget again that the west coast viewers haven't seen the show yet?
Mulder: Dana, the cigarette smoking man told me something... Something important.
Scully: Fox, what is it?
Mulder: Microsoft was right.
KMail works much better now. I was able to get it to play nicely with Mutt with Maildirs and archiving with a minimum of fuss.
The funny thing is, all of the things they advertise ARE heavy bandwidth uses. Streaming Video and all of that are high users of bandwidth.
High Bandwidth == High Charges to users.
Advertising high bandwidth applications only makes sense.
They used ports to generate the packages; they're waiting on the official release to put them on CVS.
Well, ask yourself - are you targetting the savvy, internet experienced people with broadband, or are you targetting an introductory crowd?
When I was younger, I bought a Java book that came with a CD. In those days I didn't have high-speed internet, and (more importantly) I didn't really have much understanding of how to research things, or find out which packages were best for me.
I would recommend that if your book takes the attitude that your readers are experienced and savvy, a few words on locations to find the software would be much more valuable than the value-added-CD that comes in the back. But if you're targetting a crowd that perhaps isn't as comfortable navigating, finding out which versions of software to trust and rely on, then I would say definitely include your "Picks" for which software packages are trustworthy, up-to-date, et cetera.
Chances are, the advanced user wouldn't trust the CD, so code out-datedness wouldn't be as crucial, whereas the beginner would be satisfied not having bleeding-edge code.
These are just my opinions - I know that I typically no longer use CDs that come with the books I buy, but I also know that if I were a beginner (particularly modem-based) I would probably swear by them.
Would you buy a Hyundai from a salesman who drives a Toyota? I wouldn't.
That's a bit of an understatement. Maybe a better statement would be "Would you buy a Hyundai from a salesman who bashes Toyotas as being unreliable, expensive and unsafe, but sends his kids to school in a Corrolla?"