I think it's funny that this has been modded to -1, though it was sadly predictable. To the people modding this to oblivion, I've heard you justify your position because it's what's "right".
It's more to do with it being flamebait than anything else. The right is just as horrible. Unless you're of the opinion that corporations are infallible.
Way to not read the summary. It states that the plugin notifies you when the PP changes. Which means you'd have to have read it in the first place anyways. Do you seriously expect someone to read the PP of every site they visit for every visit they make just to notice changes?
I doubt you'll see this, but, I use Arch on all of the systems that support it (7 now) and the only problem I've found is you get broken dependancies easily, like chromium uses libpng, it gets upgraded but libpng doesn't and chromium won't start because it can't find the newer version of libpng. Other than that it's pretty stable, and if you constantly upgrade to the latest stuff you shouldn't havethose problems. Personally I use ALSA.
> It has painless updating to whatever has been put in apt-get/whatever. Depends on the distro. Most mainstream distros have horribly out-of-date software (by choice). There are distros that do keep near-bleeding edge software in their repos, Arch Linux is one such distro, I've seen packages appear for new releases within a few days, at worst I've seen a package only a few revisions behind.
Sametime? Run far far away. It is the most bloated client I've ever used for any chat protocol, it crashes frequently enough and when it does it will sometimes prevent the user from rejoining a group chat, requiring a new one be made and everyone move over. There isn't a way for people to join a group chat on their own accord and must be invited, nor is there a way to auto accept invites. Any time you need to copy/paste a chat log it must be manually edited so it becomes even remotely readable and some of the GUI settings work contradictory to what you'd expect (like disabling smileys, it just does not work).
Afiak it is just a subsystem of Windows Server thus requires no additional licenses. But there is some bizarre ass license subsystem (of Windows Server) that the summary refers to. I'd suggest reading the ToS.
Becase many nerds have a 'hacker' mentality, where if they purchased a physical device they own it and can do anything they want with it, DRM, DMCA, vendor-lock-in and other such evils are viewed as evil because they inhibit hacking.
X froze up entirely and had to be restarted. No response to any clicking or keypresses anywhere. This happened randomly when loading web pages that used Flash.
The official flash binary is a POS, try swfdec. Since I switched I stopped having crashes from youtube.
The UAC prompts are so annoying that most people will deactivate them.
Personally I think it's more of the way the GUI is laid out, if say you could change all of your options then have them enforced on request that will only trigger one AUC prompt; however since they went backwards with vista and have everything in their own little niche which triggers multiple AUC prompts when changing whatever needs changing it becomes irritating, the design is ok, the implementation is awesome (kernel level gksudo, hell yes) but shitty user-space utilities that trigger UAC too frequently.
Just wanted to make a point about one of my pet hates; that is, americans always putting a country's name after the place name. E.G. Paris, France, or Rome, Italy
You mean like Paris, Ontario, Canada; or London, Ontario, Canada; or Rome, Georgia, USA? Honestly, city names are _not_ unique. Yes they may be famous but say a newspaper from Ontario was talking about Paris, is that the one in Ontario or in France? What-if a reader comes from a place where the name of a famous city is used as a non-famous city nearby? Also, generally, general trends like referring to Cambridge as the one in England may be habit to Europeans but it might not be habit to those who live near Cambridge Mass, or even worse an African, Asian or elsewhere viewers/readers may have not a clue which city is being referred to. The English language has enough inherent ambiguity, we need no more, thank you.
> Vista is still prone to viruses and Trojans in no small part because M$ still lets it run as root and not need physical password entry to install or run a program.
I believe I'm missing something here. UAC will ask you for your password (if set correctly, otherwise it just asks for a confirm/sanity check). Those who are familiar with server will have no problems finding out how to get Vista to behave more like gksudo.
> Pick a funny sentence, such as "my dad has really stinky feet", and have her use the first letter of each word (in this case, mdhrsf). The result is an funny & unforgettable, yet unguessable, password.:) Or better yet just use: "my dad has really stinky feet".
> Don't say "in Linux", say "in Ubuntu" or "in Fedora".
It would be better to mention the WM/DE instead, as Fedora might have Gnome or KDE as the DE which will confuse the shit out of both the support person and the user at the desk. A better solution would be something like remote assistance, which the user can kill at anytime by hitting the ESC key. That tends to be much more educating then just instructions over the phone, the voice communication needs to be there though.
Some one mod off topic please , minicity troll again Does anyone have a better solution than the two I've seen? First being a minicity in itself. Second a vain attempt at slashdoting the minicities which encourages them even more (they want traffic).
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I think it's funny that this has been modded to -1, though it was sadly predictable. To the people modding this to oblivion, I've heard you justify your position because it's what's "right".
It's more to do with it being flamebait than anything else. The right is just as horrible. Unless you're of the opinion that corporations are infallible.
Way to not read the summary. It states that the plugin notifies you when the PP changes. Which means you'd have to have read it in the first place anyways. Do you seriously expect someone to read the PP of every site they visit for every visit they make just to notice changes?
Which doctors?
That's a subscriber feature.
He was never poor.
I doubt you'll see this, but, I use Arch on all of the systems that support it (7 now) and the only problem I've found is you get broken dependancies easily, like chromium uses libpng, it gets upgraded but libpng doesn't and chromium won't start because it can't find the newer version of libpng. Other than that it's pretty stable, and if you constantly upgrade to the latest stuff you shouldn't havethose problems. Personally I use ALSA.
> It has painless updating to whatever has been put in apt-get/whatever.
Depends on the distro. Most mainstream distros have horribly out-of-date software (by choice). There are distros that do keep near-bleeding edge software in their repos, Arch Linux is one such distro, I've seen packages appear for new releases within a few days, at worst I've seen a package only a few revisions behind.
I get the impression that's what this is doing.
Sametime? Run far far away. It is the most bloated client I've ever used for any chat protocol, it crashes frequently enough and when it does it will sometimes prevent the user from rejoining a group chat, requiring a new one be made and everyone move over. There isn't a way for people to join a group chat on their own accord and must be invited, nor is there a way to auto accept invites. Any time you need to copy/paste a chat log it must be manually edited so it becomes even remotely readable and some of the GUI settings work contradictory to what you'd expect (like disabling smileys, it just does not work).
Can someone tell me how AD is licensed?
Afiak it is just a subsystem of Windows Server thus requires no additional licenses. But there is some bizarre ass license subsystem (of Windows Server) that the summary refers to. I'd suggest reading the ToS.
IANA Windows SA.
Why is Slashdot so biased towards open source?
Becase many nerds have a 'hacker' mentality, where if they purchased a physical device they own it and can do anything they want with it, DRM, DMCA, vendor-lock-in and other such evils are viewed as evil because they inhibit hacking.
X froze up entirely and had to be restarted. No response to any clicking or keypresses anywhere. This happened randomly when loading web pages that used Flash.
The official flash binary is a POS, try swfdec. Since I switched I stopped having crashes from youtube.
Mod parent down. Images of amputations that should not be.
The UAC prompts are so annoying that most people will deactivate them.
Personally I think it's more of the way the GUI is laid out, if say you could change all of your options then have them enforced on request that will only trigger one AUC prompt; however since they went backwards with vista and have everything in their own little niche which triggers multiple AUC prompts when changing whatever needs changing it becomes irritating, the design is ok, the implementation is awesome (kernel level gksudo, hell yes) but shitty user-space utilities that trigger UAC too frequently.
Just wanted to make a point about one of my pet hates; that is, americans always putting a country's name after the place name. E.G. Paris, France, or Rome, Italy
You mean like Paris, Ontario, Canada; or London, Ontario, Canada; or Rome, Georgia, USA? Honestly, city names are _not_ unique. Yes they may be famous but say a newspaper from Ontario was talking about Paris, is that the one in Ontario or in France? What-if a reader comes from a place where the name of a famous city is used as a non-famous city nearby? Also, generally, general trends like referring to Cambridge as the one in England may be habit to Europeans but it might not be habit to those who live near Cambridge Mass, or even worse an African, Asian or elsewhere viewers/readers may have not a clue which city is being referred to. The English language has enough inherent ambiguity, we need no more, thank you.
> Vista is still prone to viruses and Trojans in no small part because M$ still lets it run as root and not need physical password entry to install or run a program. I believe I'm missing something here. UAC will ask you for your password (if set correctly, otherwise it just asks for a confirm/sanity check). Those who are familiar with server will have no problems finding out how to get Vista to behave more like gksudo.
> Pick a funny sentence, such as "my dad has really stinky feet", and have her use the first letter of each word (in this case, mdhrsf). The result is an funny & unforgettable, yet unguessable, password. :)
Or better yet just use: "my dad has really stinky feet".
> Don't say "in Linux", say "in Ubuntu" or "in Fedora". It would be better to mention the WM/DE instead, as Fedora might have Gnome or KDE as the DE which will confuse the shit out of both the support person and the user at the desk. A better solution would be something like remote assistance, which the user can kill at anytime by hitting the ESC key. That tends to be much more educating then just instructions over the phone, the voice communication needs to be there though.
Google blocks pings last time I checked, I use 4.2.2.4 (apparently a DNS server of sorts); nslookup if I need to test DNS resolution.
Which is pointless because the above post is an AC (Parent of Parent of Parent), so it should have actually just been modded funny in the first place.
My kitten tried urinating in out box of mandarin oranges.