21,4 seconds is about the time I get on my notebook from grub to kdm login (kernel 2.6.28, openrc and ext4). I have Core2Duo 7250, 2Gb RAM and 5400rpm hard drive. The latter is a show-stopper here. I don't think I'd boot much slower with slower CPU or less RAM, but I'd get much better result with a fast SSD.
Somehow most people don't realize that computer is there to automate their work. Learning new features is good for everyone -- in the long run you'll usually save yourself more time by letting the PC do the dirty job (in this case -- formatting). IMO it's the intuitiveness that kills the need to learn -- if you somehow manage to do the work and no one says it's not an ineffective way to do so, you'll think that you are doing it right. I would like to make Lyx a corporate standard -- it'll rocket computer literacy:)
"Productive" is vague too. The day I have started using Lyx wasn't productive at all. After I've managed the learning curve though I am now able to do much more (especially when it comes to formulas). On a side note -- does MS word have a full screen mode where you have no panels, no instruments, just text?
Sometimes I can't recall what the site was about even after I read the bookmark. How am I supposed to remember all those favicons? But, of course, if you've only meant fitting more bookmarks in the same place -- valid point.
It is possible -- there is a patchset for kernel called GrSecurity. In allows you e.g. to prevent user from starting apllications from folders whose owner is not root. So installing programs from a repository is still possible (sudo etc.) but downloading and starting random crap -- close to impossible. Of course, there is always bigger and better idiots, but very few will actually manage to download a file, get root permissions, copy that file to/bin/, change permissions and launch it. I assume, similar is possible via SELinux too.
I'd rather propose that they brick the machines in the first place instead of cleaning it. Cleaning a worm will eliminate the effect only and that for a very short time. Bricking a PC might eliminate the cause -- the clueless user. We now have home PCs that are faster than supercomputers from 15 years ago. Operated by users who have no idea of basic computer security, these PCs pose a real threat to individuals and businesses on the net. Computing power and bandwidth are so great these days that most users won't even notice a worm or two. So learning how to protect their computers is a bigger inconvenience to them than using machines that send spam and participate in DDoS attacks. Should that change, should white- or greyhats who gain control to a botnet simply brick the affected machines or wipe a hard drive, users might care more next time. Hell, the researchers can always blame botnet creators and get away with that!
They have introduced it to Vista because it weren't your documents/videos/pictures anymore, it were vista's. Does that move mean they are ditching DRM in 7?
Oh yes, LiveCD would be great! I would like to give 7 a try after all the positive reviews I've heard, but it'll be a major PITA rearranging my partitions: years ago, for reasons I now fail to recall I have made 4 primary partitions -- swap,/,/boot and/home, not to mention the lack of free space. I won't touch this mess till it's really worth it and virtual machime just don't cut it -- I don't need unpleasant surprises with my hardware. But MS will IMO never release a LiveCD to public primarily for marketing and WGA reasons.
Well, I got it more restrictive and much more safer for I'm the only one member of my family to know root password -- and that's 3 PC's and 3 notebooks among 5 people. Being a family geek I got tired of cleaning PC's of malware on a regulairly basis. The switch to penguines was pretty easy -- they got their PC's preconfigured along with a tutorial on "where is the mail program now". No malware expected within next 10 years and I really enjoy remote administration capabilities of Linux (I am not a typical slashdotter -- I don't live with my parents and they never actually had a basement:) )
I sure do remember my experiments with ME. It was fairly stable -- onless you have actually installed some programs on it. Spent more time reinstalling it than using -- fun times...
Just some random but interesting stats -- according to w3counter W2k and Linux are on par now with a slight advantage to the latter. Other stats vary, but I somehow find the idea that there is about the same number of W2k and Linux users interesting:) I have used 2k -- a very solid OS outmached in stability only by XP SP2 and SuSE 9.3 (IMO).
Not really, I think he wanted to test Win7 on his actual hardware without changing anything on a hard drive (with a possibility of installing it *if* he likes it), not a virtual machine.
Something that Linux distros have been doing for years.
Well, it clearly shows how good their marketing department is: selling 80 million copies of software that noone wants to use -- an achievement of its own.
The instruction also requests that computer traders not sell PCs installed with cracked software, but open source ones.
Nice! For too long MS has been using pirated software as a dumping tool to capture and hold developing markets. Now at least some vietnamese will know about the alternative (alternative you need to know to work for the government).
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21,4 seconds is about the time I get on my notebook from grub to kdm login (kernel 2.6.28, openrc and ext4). I have Core2Duo 7250, 2Gb RAM and 5400rpm hard drive. The latter is a show-stopper here. I don't think I'd boot much slower with slower CPU or less RAM, but I'd get much better result with a fast SSD.
If that happens -- koffice2 to the rescue :)
Somehow most people don't realize that computer is there to automate their work. Learning new features is good for everyone -- in the long run you'll usually save yourself more time by letting the PC do the dirty job (in this case -- formatting). IMO it's the intuitiveness that kills the need to learn -- if you somehow manage to do the work and no one says it's not an ineffective way to do so, you'll think that you are doing it right. :)
I would like to make Lyx a corporate standard -- it'll rocket computer literacy
"Productive" is vague too. The day I have started using Lyx wasn't productive at all. After I've managed the learning curve though I am now able to do much more (especially when it comes to formulas).
On a side note -- does MS word have a full screen mode where you have no panels, no instruments, just text?
Sometimes I can't recall what the site was about even after I read the bookmark. How am I supposed to remember all those favicons? But, of course, if you've only meant fitting more bookmarks in the same place -- valid point.
The "what" is pretty clear and makes sense. It is the "how" that is not understood. I have switched my family to Linux, but I am not omnipotent.
It is possible -- there is a patchset for kernel called GrSecurity. In allows you e.g. to prevent user from starting apllications from folders whose owner is not root. So installing programs from a repository is still possible (sudo etc.) but downloading and starting random crap -- close to impossible. Of course, there is always bigger and better idiots, but very few will actually manage to download a file, get root permissions, copy that file to /bin/, change permissions and launch it.
I assume, similar is possible via SELinux too.
I'd rather propose that they brick the machines in the first place instead of cleaning it. Cleaning a worm will eliminate the effect only and that for a very short time. Bricking a PC might eliminate the cause -- the clueless user.
We now have home PCs that are faster than supercomputers from 15 years ago. Operated by users who have no idea of basic computer security, these PCs pose a real threat to individuals and businesses on the net.
Computing power and bandwidth are so great these days that most users won't even notice a worm or two. So learning how to protect their computers is a bigger inconvenience to them than using machines that send spam and participate in DDoS attacks.
Should that change, should white- or greyhats who gain control to a botnet simply brick the affected machines or wipe a hard drive, users might care more next time.
Hell, the researchers can always blame botnet creators and get away with that!
This way we can finally drag the user kicking and screaming into the year of Linux on desktop! :)
There is a deeper meaning IMO. Win7 is favoured by the press as much as Vista was hated. It's hard to resist to agree...
You say that you didn't turn it in when you got married?!
So, cloud is basically botnet 2.0?
They have introduced it to Vista because it weren't your documents/videos/pictures anymore, it were vista's. Does that move mean they are ditching DRM in 7?
This is true for OEMs, not for retail copies. The industry will still want that you buy new PC every time you upgrade your OS.
Oh yes, LiveCD would be great! I would like to give 7 a try after all the positive reviews I've heard, but it'll be a major PITA rearranging my partitions: years ago, for reasons I now fail to recall I have made 4 primary partitions -- swap, /, /boot and /home, not to mention the lack of free space. I won't touch this mess till it's really worth it and virtual machime just don't cut it -- I don't need unpleasant surprises with my hardware.
But MS will IMO never release a LiveCD to public primarily for marketing and WGA reasons.
Well, I got it more restrictive and much more safer for I'm the only one member of my family to know root password -- and that's 3 PC's and 3 notebooks among 5 people. Being a family geek I got tired of cleaning PC's of malware on a regulairly basis. The switch to penguines was pretty easy -- they got their PC's preconfigured along with a tutorial on "where is the mail program now". :) )
No malware expected within next 10 years and I really enjoy remote administration capabilities of Linux (I am not a typical slashdotter -- I don't live with my parents and they never actually had a basement
I sure do remember my experiments with ME. It was fairly stable -- onless you have actually installed some programs on it. Spent more time reinstalling it than using -- fun times...
Just some random but interesting stats -- according to w3counter W2k and Linux are on par now with a slight advantage to the latter. Other stats vary, but I somehow find the idea that there is about the same number of W2k and Linux users interesting:)
I have used 2k -- a very solid OS outmached in stability only by XP SP2 and SuSE 9.3 (IMO).
no, you also need to oook occasionally
Till they release it, the economic recession will be over for a long time.
Not really, I think he wanted to test Win7 on his actual hardware without changing anything on a hard drive (with a possibility of installing it *if* he likes it), not a virtual machine.
Something that Linux distros have been doing for years.
Well, it clearly shows how good their marketing department is: selling 80 million copies of software that noone wants to use -- an achievement of its own.
/callvote electric shocks for people who use 'ppl' instead of people
By the look of it, they have fired their entire R&D team and using betas of kde 4.2 instead.
From TFA:
The instruction also requests that computer traders not sell PCs installed with cracked software, but open source ones.
Nice! For too long MS has been using pirated software as a dumping tool to capture and hold developing markets. Now at least some vietnamese will know about the alternative (alternative you need to know to work for the government).