I use Arch on simple/embedded systems only, when using it for something more complex like a desktop, updates tend to break it quite frequently. I used Arch for 12 months on my desktop and for 9 of those months I had to live with bugs that I just didn't have the time to fix. Arch is great, but there's no QC, whereas with Debian you may not get the latest version, but at least your system will be stable.
To summarize, it's a trade off between stability and having the latest version of packages.
I have at least this many tabs open in Firefox across my tab groups, the "Don't load tabs until selected" option in the general tab is really quite awesome.
The two replies above mine make a good point of explaining this, but your system design is extremely flawed. Also, it indicates to me that you've probably been setup for a failure since day 1 due to your project having an insufficient budget.
So many people are worried about how technological advances are ruining the environment. What many often forget is that technology is also the answer (unless you want to go back to a hunter-gather lifestyle and I hear that the drum/smoke-signal bandwidth really sucks, it's takes forever to download the latest movie.)
We're in a race - computational speed, new materials, new efficiencies versus the rate in which we're polluting the environment. Many things make me optimistic: photovoltaic paints for one - and now processing power so efficient that it can be solar powered. Wow. We may win this race after all..
You insensitive clod! Smoke signals release carbon into the atmosphere!
Motorolas are horrible, I had a Milestone for five days before going back and getting an HTC Desire. I had the same problem with the phone completely locking up. So while your point is valid, I would argue that it only applies to certain manufactures, and I have seen iPhones completely lock up as well.
The Kinect has a user base of 18 million units world wide, let's assume only half of those are USB units, that's 9 million units. Instead of Microsoft allowing home users to use their XBox Kinect with Windows Metro apps, home users will be forced to buy a new Kinect to use it with Windows apps (commercial apps anyways, they can use apps made with the beta SDK).
With this move Microsoft has reduced the PC user base of Kinect to 0, eliminating a huge audience for developers. The reason given was that the XBox Kinect was subsidized by game sales, but if using that defence, why not just subsidize this Kinect through the new app store Windows 8 will have? This would let home users use their existing Kinect and keep Microsoft's bottom line doing well in the long term. This is just a very dumb move overall.
Foreword to pro-M$ trolls, I did RTFA and I know about the "near" feature of this new Kinect, but it still doesn't justify this move.
I forgot to add that the reason for re-installing is because you're installing from a known-to-be-clean source. Once viruses get into the image, what's the point?
It's not mentioned, but it'd be nice if you could save the image on an external drive that you could unplug from the system to keep the image safe. Before I switched to using Linux on my desktop, I did much the same thing with a Clonezilla image.
Seriously I get real tired of the America basing some people feel the need to do whenever anything about another country comes up...
2) Not everyone on the Internet lives in America. Maybe they are interested in news about other countries, ever think of that? Stop trying to steer everything back to your country. There are plenty of discussions on/. about the shit that happens in America. Don't hijack others.
You do realize the GP didn't mention America at all in his comment, don't you? It was only you who mentioned America. In essence, you're doing exactly what you said shouldn't be done.
I'm Canadian, and I had a similar sentiment as the GP. I think _you_ should stop steering the discussion towards America.
A publicly posted support ticket they show one their site:
HOLY SHIT... COULD YOUR ENGLISH BE ANY MORE BROKEN? IT REMINDS ME OF A VENTRILOQUIST'S DUMMY AFTER FALLING DOWN ABOUT 12 FLIGHTS OF STAIRS AND THEN BEING CRUSHED IN THE ASS-END OF A GARBAGE TRUCK!
YOU COULD USE A PASSROD WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE! I'LL HAVE TANGO CONTACT YOU, HE'S INTO SODOMY AND OTHER KINKY SHIT.
-NOVEMBER
CHIEF EXECUTIVE WIZARD
SERIOUS MASTURBATOR
HOSTCHOPPER.COM
"Server: wizardfucker.hostchopper.com"
Charlie Sheen started a hosting company?
This hosting company is a good joke, I have mod points but couldn't mod you 'funny' since I wanted to post this, too bad.
P.S. All kidding aside, anyone willing to pay this "company" for services of any type would be brain dead.
comparison operations ( select * where salary > 60000) the encryption used maintains order. The encrypted value of 59,999 is less than the encrypted value of 60,000,
I've never understood this bit. If, without the encryption key, I can compare two pieces of data to see which plaintext is less than then other, that seems like a huge hole. For normalized data in the DB, if some of the plaintext is known or guessable, I can probably guess all the values (since normalized values are generally represented by small integers). Heck, if I have "less than", can't I find the plaintext result of subtracting one plaintext value from another, without the key? That's effectively the same as decrypting English text.
Incorrect. The GP was speaking about an integer comparison, not a string comparison. Integer sorting is useful for sorting data records, sorting data by the calculated result of text data wouldn't be so useful.
I use iRedMail+SOGo+Funambol... iRedMail is a CentOS based email server that supports domain keys, multiple domains, spam assassin, sieve filtering, mailbox quotas, email aliases, mailing lists and an LDAP/MySQL hybrid backend (and many more features). SOGo is a very nice groupware suite with a calendar and can be hooked up to Thunderbird with Lightening for a desktop UI, SOGo can also pull from POP/IMAP accounts on other servers. You can also link SOGo to iRedMail's sieve server to make email filtering rules from the web UI, SOGo also supports multiple identities for one user and multiple domains. Funambol connects to SOGo and syncs everything to your iOS/Android/Windows Mobile devices, including email, contacts and calendar (you can also save photos and other media/stuff to Funambol, but I haven't used it). All of these services are easy to wrap up in SSL when using Apache as a proxy (SOGo and Funambol are their own HTTP servers, but are limiting if you want to run everything on one domain with SSL). This setup also works great on a VPS.
My only complaint is that iRedMail's use of LDAP isn't great and it can be a pain to configure other services like Samba, NFS/NIS and OpenVPN to use it's LDAP, but it's doable. iRedMail also has a nice web UI for basic operations like adding a domain and users, and there is a more advance admin UI available ($200/year), but if you can use phpLDAPadmin and Google, you don't need it.
As for security concerns, iRedMail is already setup to be secure as far as not being an open relay. As for securing the web UI, modify your Apache config and only let certain services use https (public), and set the admin stuff to use http (or https if you have 2 NICs) via only the local network.
The last step would be to get a cheap little VPS somewhere and set it up to be a backup MX.
Complete bullshit, I'm currently a CS student, and my netbook is absolutely invaluable to me, I use it to take notes and complete in class assignments. There are always going to be in class distractions, and a better rule to implement would be requiring student to mute cell phone ringers. More importantly, in special cases such as my own, it'd be illegal for me school to deny me the use of my computer or at least a computer when writing is required. I write incredibly slow, and as such have been labelled as having a learning disability since I was in high school. I can however type almost as fast as I can speak, and as such am granted a special allowance to use a computer in any situation where writing is required. I don't always take advantage of this, but it makes me comfortable knowing that I can call upon it if I feel I need to do so.
When the facebook addicts see a failing grade, or get kicked out for their low GPA, they'll get the message. Depriving students of these indispensable learning tools would be a crime against academia.
Complete and total bullshit, I'm currently a CS student, and I use my netbook to take notes and work on in-class assignments. I simply would not be able to perform at the academic level I do without it. There are always going to be distractions in a classroom setting, no matter what you do, banning laptops is not the solution. It would even be illegal for my college to ban me from the use of my computer; my penmanship skills are horrible and I write at a painstakingly slow speed, and for this reason I have been labelled as having a learning disability. I can however, type almost as fast as I can speak, and am permitted to use a computer for any situation where writing is required. I don't always make use of this special allowance, but it gives me comfort knowing that the option is there.
When the facebook addicts see a failing grade or get kicked out because their GPA is too low, they'll get the message. Forbidding student use of laptops would be a crime against academia.
I'm also a student, and Zotero is possibly the best tool you can have for writing papers, it makes citing sources a snap, it's also a half decent replacement for OneNote. Also, Zotero is only a Firefox plugin, so it's cross platform, and it integrates into Word or OpenOffice, which is great, because I'm a Linux user. Zotero also has some cloud syncing abilities, but I like my research to stay where it is, in my encrypted home directory. On a random side note, I don't use Ubuntu, I use Arch Linux, but my home directory is encrypted using the same ecryptfs system.
For Personal stuff I use my WordPress blog, I have the "Press this" button in my favourites bar, I just save the links as drafts and revisit them later; I renamed the button to "Send to Blog". I use Blogilo (usually doesn't work right) and ScribeFire to post my entries, I like ScribeFire better because it's a Firefox plugin, so I don't even need to leave my browser.
The scalpers just have to work in teams instead of one person buying all the phones at once... Do you really think they'll have a hard time organizing this?
I agree with a comment above, this is purely a marketing gimmick.
Sad to see some bible thumpers have modded you up... Your post is filled with purely religious concepts, I'll list them, then fully respond to the ones that are worthy of a detailed response.
Spirits
Original Sin... Or just sin for that matter
Forbidden Fruit
The notion that all people do "wrong" when no one is looking
I'm only going to address the points of sin and your over generalized use of the word "wrong", because the notion of forbidden fruit(therefore "fallen" and "pre-fallen") and spirits are just plain silly and belong in a conversation at an intellectual level on par with a kindergartener's. First off, you have to consider that the terms "sin" and "wrong" are incredibly subjective, they're influenced by things like cultural values, geography and a person's own beliefs, just to name a few. So if we can make the observation that someone else is doing "wrong", aliens probably could too, and there would be groups among their populous that would say the same things your saying, regardless of how benevolent they may be. What people fail to realize is that there are very few things which can almost universally be considered "wrong" for sentient life, and they are as follows:
Killing, assuming most creatures would prefer to not be killed, we can therefore say pretty safely that killing is wrong. The obvious exception is killing for food, and with all the non-sentient life on the planet, there's no excuse to kill a sentient being for food. I'm not going to get into when killing is "right" because it has an elasticity to it that is much like the afore mentioned terms "sin" and "wrong".
Causing physical harm, again assuming most creatures would prefer to not be abused, we can also say physical abuse is wrong. There is a more clear cut time when physical abuse is right, and that's when it's in self defence, and most sentient life would also probably agree that if someone slaps you in the face, taking a bat to their head isn't the right thing to do. To sum it up, the punishment must not exceed the crime.
Lying with the direct intention to do harm, be that physical harm or monetary harm (stealing or vandalism). The exception here is lying to hurt someone's feelings, that is something that can cause emotional pain, but doesn't threaten your life or well being, so in this case, lying isn't wrong.
Last and most importantly is the removal of personal freedom, every sentient being should be entitled to personal freedom, as long as that expression of freedom doesn't harm anyone or their property, unless the second party consents to it. The major exception here is if someone has committed an act of any of these 4 examples, then they should be imprisoned, but the duration of that imprisonment should match their crime, and they should be forced to do labour to repay their debt to society and have a very limited set of rights during this imprisonment. The only other exception is a parent removing the freedom of their child, as long as it benefits the child in someway (although this is admittedly difficult to measure).
Those are really the only things that can be considered "wrong", everything else is purely opinion, some could even argue that these are opinion. So when you state your opinion that humans have the innate trait to do " wrong" and are "fallen", it is just that and only that, opinion, not fact.
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Please take notice, this is how to support GPU hardware correctly.
... have probably never even set food on an actual farm before...
That made me chuckle.
I use Arch on simple/embedded systems only, when using it for something more complex like a desktop, updates tend to break it quite frequently. I used Arch for 12 months on my desktop and for 9 of those months I had to live with bugs that I just didn't have the time to fix. Arch is great, but there's no QC, whereas with Debian you may not get the latest version, but at least your system will be stable.
To summarize, it's a trade off between stability and having the latest version of packages.
I think we can make a good guess about which movies these congressmen may have watched recently...
I have at least this many tabs open in Firefox across my tab groups, the "Don't load tabs until selected" option in the general tab is really quite awesome.
The two replies above mine make a good point of explaining this, but your system design is extremely flawed. Also, it indicates to me that you've probably been setup for a failure since day 1 due to your project having an insufficient budget.
So many people are worried about how technological advances are ruining the environment. What many often forget is that technology is also the answer (unless you want to go back to a hunter-gather lifestyle and I hear that the drum/smoke-signal bandwidth really sucks, it's takes forever to download the latest movie.)
We're in a race - computational speed, new materials, new efficiencies versus the rate in which we're polluting the environment. Many things make me optimistic: photovoltaic paints for one - and now processing power so efficient that it can be solar powered. Wow. We may win this race after all. .
You insensitive clod! Smoke signals release carbon into the atmosphere!
Motorolas are horrible, I had a Milestone for five days before going back and getting an HTC Desire. I had the same problem with the phone completely locking up. So while your point is valid, I would argue that it only applies to certain manufactures, and I have seen iPhones completely lock up as well.
If a user shakes their fist rock-paper-scissors style at their screen, it opens the browser to their favourite porn site in private mode.
The Kinect has a user base of 18 million units world wide, let's assume only half of those are USB units, that's 9 million units. Instead of Microsoft allowing home users to use their XBox Kinect with Windows Metro apps, home users will be forced to buy a new Kinect to use it with Windows apps (commercial apps anyways, they can use apps made with the beta SDK).
With this move Microsoft has reduced the PC user base of Kinect to 0, eliminating a huge audience for developers. The reason given was that the XBox Kinect was subsidized by game sales, but if using that defence, why not just subsidize this Kinect through the new app store Windows 8 will have? This would let home users use their existing Kinect and keep Microsoft's bottom line doing well in the long term. This is just a very dumb move overall.
Foreword to pro-M$ trolls, I did RTFA and I know about the "near" feature of this new Kinect, but it still doesn't justify this move.
I forgot to add that the reason for re-installing is because you're installing from a known-to-be-clean source. Once viruses get into the image, what's the point?
It's not mentioned, but it'd be nice if you could save the image on an external drive that you could unplug from the system to keep the image safe. Before I switched to using Linux on my desktop, I did much the same thing with a Clonezilla image.
How long until viruses inject themselves into this recovery image and get "refreshed" onto the new install?
Seriously I get real tired of the America basing some people feel the need to do whenever anything about another country comes up...
2) Not everyone on the Internet lives in America. Maybe they are interested in news about other countries, ever think of that? Stop trying to steer everything back to your country. There are plenty of discussions on /. about the shit that happens in America. Don't hijack others.
You do realize the GP didn't mention America at all in his comment, don't you? It was only you who mentioned America. In essence, you're doing exactly what you said shouldn't be done.
I'm Canadian, and I had a similar sentiment as the GP. I think _you_ should stop steering the discussion towards America.
after trying FDC, Slicehost, Swvps, & Linode, i finally found a hosting solution that had everything I needed for a good price.
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A publicly posted support ticket they show one their site:
HOLY SHIT... COULD YOUR ENGLISH BE ANY MORE BROKEN? IT REMINDS ME OF A VENTRILOQUIST'S DUMMY AFTER FALLING DOWN ABOUT 12 FLIGHTS OF STAIRS AND THEN BEING CRUSHED IN THE ASS-END OF A GARBAGE TRUCK! YOU COULD USE A PASSROD WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE! I'LL HAVE TANGO CONTACT YOU, HE'S INTO SODOMY AND OTHER KINKY SHIT. -NOVEMBER CHIEF EXECUTIVE WIZARD SERIOUS MASTURBATOR HOSTCHOPPER.COM
"Server: wizardfucker.hostchopper.com"
Charlie Sheen started a hosting company?
This hosting company is a good joke, I have mod points but couldn't mod you 'funny' since I wanted to post this, too bad.
P.S. All kidding aside, anyone willing to pay this "company" for services of any type would be brain dead.
comparison operations ( select * where salary > 60000) the encryption used maintains order. The encrypted value of 59,999 is less than the encrypted value of 60,000,
I've never understood this bit. If, without the encryption key, I can compare two pieces of data to see which plaintext is less than then other, that seems like a huge hole. For normalized data in the DB, if some of the plaintext is known or guessable, I can probably guess all the values (since normalized values are generally represented by small integers). Heck, if I have "less than", can't I find the plaintext result of subtracting one plaintext value from another, without the key? That's effectively the same as decrypting English text.
Incorrect. The GP was speaking about an integer comparison, not a string comparison. Integer sorting is useful for sorting data records, sorting data by the calculated result of text data wouldn't be so useful.
I'm Canadian, Thanksgiving was last month!
Someone, please mod this as funny, it made my day. :)
Forgot to add that iRedMail does virus scanning as well using ClamAV.
I use iRedMail+SOGo+Funambol... iRedMail is a CentOS based email server that supports domain keys, multiple domains, spam assassin, sieve filtering, mailbox quotas, email aliases, mailing lists and an LDAP/MySQL hybrid backend (and many more features). SOGo is a very nice groupware suite with a calendar and can be hooked up to Thunderbird with Lightening for a desktop UI, SOGo can also pull from POP/IMAP accounts on other servers. You can also link SOGo to iRedMail's sieve server to make email filtering rules from the web UI, SOGo also supports multiple identities for one user and multiple domains. Funambol connects to SOGo and syncs everything to your iOS/Android/Windows Mobile devices, including email, contacts and calendar (you can also save photos and other media/stuff to Funambol, but I haven't used it). All of these services are easy to wrap up in SSL when using Apache as a proxy (SOGo and Funambol are their own HTTP servers, but are limiting if you want to run everything on one domain with SSL). This setup also works great on a VPS.
My only complaint is that iRedMail's use of LDAP isn't great and it can be a pain to configure other services like Samba, NFS/NIS and OpenVPN to use it's LDAP, but it's doable. iRedMail also has a nice web UI for basic operations like adding a domain and users, and there is a more advance admin UI available ($200/year), but if you can use phpLDAPadmin and Google, you don't need it.
As for security concerns, iRedMail is already setup to be secure as far as not being an open relay. As for securing the web UI, modify your Apache config and only let certain services use https (public), and set the admin stuff to use http (or https if you have 2 NICs) via only the local network.
The last step would be to get a cheap little VPS somewhere and set it up to be a backup MX.
Complete bullshit, I'm currently a CS student, and my netbook is absolutely invaluable to me, I use it to take notes and complete in class assignments. There are always going to be in class distractions, and a better rule to implement would be requiring student to mute cell phone ringers. More importantly, in special cases such as my own, it'd be illegal for me school to deny me the use of my computer or at least a computer when writing is required. I write incredibly slow, and as such have been labelled as having a learning disability since I was in high school. I can however type almost as fast as I can speak, and as such am granted a special allowance to use a computer in any situation where writing is required. I don't always take advantage of this, but it makes me comfortable knowing that I can call upon it if I feel I need to do so.
When the facebook addicts see a failing grade, or get kicked out for their low GPA, they'll get the message. Depriving students of these indispensable learning tools would be a crime against academia.
Complete and total bullshit, I'm currently a CS student, and I use my netbook to take notes and work on in-class assignments. I simply would not be able to perform at the academic level I do without it. There are always going to be distractions in a classroom setting, no matter what you do, banning laptops is not the solution. It would even be illegal for my college to ban me from the use of my computer; my penmanship skills are horrible and I write at a painstakingly slow speed, and for this reason I have been labelled as having a learning disability. I can however, type almost as fast as I can speak, and am permitted to use a computer for any situation where writing is required. I don't always make use of this special allowance, but it gives me comfort knowing that the option is there.
When the facebook addicts see a failing grade or get kicked out because their GPA is too low, they'll get the message. Forbidding student use of laptops would be a crime against academia.
I'm also a student, and Zotero is possibly the best tool you can have for writing papers, it makes citing sources a snap, it's also a half decent replacement for OneNote. Also, Zotero is only a Firefox plugin, so it's cross platform, and it integrates into Word or OpenOffice, which is great, because I'm a Linux user. Zotero also has some cloud syncing abilities, but I like my research to stay where it is, in my encrypted home directory. On a random side note, I don't use Ubuntu, I use Arch Linux, but my home directory is encrypted using the same ecryptfs system.
For Personal stuff I use my WordPress blog, I have the "Press this" button in my favourites bar, I just save the links as drafts and revisit them later; I renamed the button to "Send to Blog". I use Blogilo (usually doesn't work right) and ScribeFire to post my entries, I like ScribeFire better because it's a Firefox plugin, so I don't even need to leave my browser.
Such a shame your comment is close to the bottom of the page, I found it to be the best commentary on this topic so far. Kudos.
The scalpers just have to work in teams instead of one person buying all the phones at once... Do you really think they'll have a hard time organizing this?
I agree with a comment above, this is purely a marketing gimmick.
I'm only going to address the points of sin and your over generalized use of the word "wrong", because the notion of forbidden fruit(therefore "fallen" and "pre-fallen") and spirits are just plain silly and belong in a conversation at an intellectual level on par with a kindergartener's. First off, you have to consider that the terms "sin" and "wrong" are incredibly subjective, they're influenced by things like cultural values, geography and a person's own beliefs, just to name a few. So if we can make the observation that someone else is doing "wrong", aliens probably could too, and there would be groups among their populous that would say the same things your saying, regardless of how benevolent they may be. What people fail to realize is that there are very few things which can almost universally be considered "wrong" for sentient life, and they are as follows:
Those are really the only things that can be considered "wrong", everything else is purely opinion, some could even argue that these are opinion. So when you state your opinion that humans have the innate trait to do " wrong" and are "fallen", it is just that and only that, opinion, not fact.