Or they could change the worm to format hard disks on infected machines -- once done, a PC cannot send spam till reinstall. And this time, the user will be a bit more careful about PC security. Problemo solved!
Well, graphic benchmarks are faster because of Linux's bad intel drivers and not-so-well-optimized mesa (much work is being done in that direction). A shock on a first glance if you think that intel drivers are open, but it seems logical if you know that they are currently rewriting a lot of stuff. It'll get better sooner or later (hope it'll be sooner though).
As for SQL&: "On 10.5 it's no longer F_FULLFSYNC, which means that SQLite does not do full fsync by default on Leopard, which might be the case on Ubuntu, which might be the reason why it is much slower there."
Interesting is, that 64-bit ubuntu is (sometimes notably) faster than 32-bit one on most tests. So there might be performance reasons to use 64-bit even if you have less than 4Gb of RAM.
Hey, thanks to Ted Stevens./ has one of its biggest memos (the one about tubes). You can't discard THAT achievement because of some minor insignificant gift-accepting felony. That guy has to stay in charge forever!
So USA is a democracy, but people can't change the system they don't like? Can't elect the government which will change the system? Seriously, what's the difference then between USA and USSR except that the lesser did have only one Party instead of two? Remember, USSR's Constitution was among most democratic ones.
I personally thing that things are the way they are because most US-Americans support them and/or don't want to change anything.
So, either stop whining and change the system or stop pretending you have the democracy in the first place.
Not a single Russian victim? Bullshit. How does a program know your nationality? It *may* be working on a certain range of IP addresses excluding Russia or target services which are seldom used by Russians, but claiming that there is not a single Russian victim is just ridiculous.
First download is big, that's true. But you may order Gentoo snapshot on DVDs. Afterwards you just download deltas -- in some cases 90%+ traffic savings.
Amen. OOo portable is a bliss for those condemned to use MSO and occasionally deal with those corrupted documents. Has saved me and my colleagues many hours of re-doing work.
Not really. You see, among all Windows users there is a relatively small minority of those who a) know how to install software b) Don't just use provided software c) Care about office software they are using d) Want to try the latest version.
Linux users, on the other hand, although being much more literate about software, tend to wait for customized Openoffice package from their package manager because e.g. binary OO.o looks just ugly and is not properly integrated into the system. Also, if you install binary package, you will have to remove/update it manually -- too much of a hassle.
As for why there is so few OO.o Windows users -- ignorance is the main reason for that. That counts ignorance about why MSO formats cannot be properly imported. I've heard different opinions about OOo, but for most users it will fulfill its task.
They're really doing their best. Unfortunately, it is not possible for them to include non-free binary blobs and some multimedia by default. Not a Linux problem, but a license/patent one. On my laptop with Intel GPU and a wireless card with free drivers available it installs like a breeze and works out of the box including WPA2 encryption. Of course, I was doing some research before buying that thing and it payed off well. As for Adobe flash -- it installs in two clicks (they ship Firefox with an extension which manages this).
MD5 sums are obtained from another location, so one would have to compromise both servers to squeeze malware into Linux distribution. And shady packages would not likely match the sum without a great deal of effort.
between real hardware and virtual one. Every OS I've seen boots faster in Virtualbox than it does on real hardware. So it is at least partially hardware problem. Autostarted programs are another issue though.
In German his name would probably be transliterated as "Schtschoegolew". And don't bother, I can't recall a single Russian name that English speakers can pronounce correctly:)
Not really. "Svobodnyj" has two meaning in Russian - free as in speech, and loose. Open is "otkrytyj". (damn Slashdot imperialistic engine which doesn't support Cyrillic:)
The minister clearly said about free software, not open source or cost-reducing. So the summary is a bit misleading on that point.
I haven't seen a floppy for years. Yet I see virii on flash usb drives very often. Thanks penguin that doesn't bother me, but not a few Windows boxes got infected via USB sticks.
Oh, they will. But only for themselves. Shared source, they call it, I believe. As for Linux -- it does get better every year, but given the vast amount of inertia in people's minds and shady monopolistic tactics of Microsoft, Linux has to be ten times better to achieve ten times less. There is still much work to do.
Well, you have the democracy there -- vote for the government that supports free software. It is that simple:)
If a country like Russia is "converted" to free software, it will be a great news for the whole movement -- there are be many Russian programmers who will contribute greatly to the movement if the switch is made.
As Russian government wanted to go to the WTO badly, they have taken vast steps towards eliminating computer piracy. So a pirate version of Windows is still relatively easy to get, but so are Linux distros. The people's inertia will still hold windows share high though. It is a great move to offer free software in schools to overcome this inertia.
Going back to Soviet Union? By slashing a monopoly and directing the money towards their own developers and encouraging competition as opposed to paying a foreign corporation which is already known to sue people in Russia? Help me here...
He already got it because he was told that his two-years old computer was too old (and was running very slow due to all the malware). So he went to Wal-Mart and bought himself a new one with (inevitable) Vista preinstalled. It will hopefully last next two years after Windows 7 comes out and he'll be convinced that he needs a new PC. Again. Hey, that's what runs the US economy! Imagine him being happy with his decades-old Linux box? Awful! Where is the profit in this?
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Or they could change the worm to format hard disks on infected machines -- once done, a PC cannot send spam till reinstall. And this time, the user will be a bit more careful about PC security.
Problemo solved!
Well, graphic benchmarks are faster because of Linux's bad intel drivers and not-so-well-optimized mesa (much work is being done in that direction). A shock on a first glance if you think that intel drivers are open, but it seems logical if you know that they are currently rewriting a lot of stuff. It'll get better sooner or later (hope it'll be sooner though).
As for SQL&: "On 10.5 it's no longer F_FULLFSYNC, which means that SQLite does not do full fsync by default on Leopard, which might be the case on Ubuntu, which might be the reason why it is much slower there."
Interesting is, that 64-bit ubuntu is (sometimes notably) faster than 32-bit one on most tests. So there might be performance reasons to use 64-bit even if you have less than 4Gb of RAM.
Why do these campaigns matter anymore?
Hey, thanks to Ted Stevens ./ has one of its biggest memos (the one about tubes). You can't discard THAT achievement because of some minor insignificant gift-accepting felony. That guy has to stay in charge forever!
The big question is -- can this program tell the difference between a porn photo and a photo of Fidel Castro eating a banana?
So USA is a democracy, but people can't change the system they don't like? Can't elect the government which will change the system? Seriously, what's the difference then between USA and USSR except that the lesser did have only one Party instead of two? Remember, USSR's Constitution was among most democratic ones.
I personally thing that things are the way they are because most US-Americans support them and/or don't want to change anything.
So, either stop whining and change the system or stop pretending you have the democracy in the first place.
Not a single Russian victim? Bullshit. How does a program know your nationality? It *may* be working on a certain range of IP addresses excluding Russia or target services which are seldom used by Russians, but claiming that there is not a single Russian victim is just ridiculous.
First download is big, that's true. But you may order Gentoo snapshot on DVDs. Afterwards you just download deltas -- in some cases 90%+ traffic savings.
Amen.
OOo portable is a bliss for those condemned to use MSO and occasionally deal with those corrupted documents. Has saved me and my colleagues many hours of re-doing work.
Not really. You see, among all Windows users there is a relatively small minority of those who
a) know how to install software
b) Don't just use provided software
c) Care about office software they are using
d) Want to try the latest version.
Linux users, on the other hand, although being much more literate about software, tend to wait for customized Openoffice package from their package manager because e.g. binary OO.o looks just ugly and is not properly integrated into the system. Also, if you install binary package, you will have to remove/update it manually -- too much of a hassle.
As for why there is so few OO.o Windows users -- ignorance is the main reason for that. That counts ignorance about why MSO formats cannot be properly imported. I've heard different opinions about OOo, but for most users it will fulfill its task.
I would recommend Gentoo with getdelta on dialup. Saves a lot of traffic.
$ genlop -t openoffice
Sat Oct 25 17:09:27 2008 >>> app-office/openoffice-3.0.0
merge time: 1 hour, 22 minutes and 57 seconds.
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name"
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz
They're really doing their best. Unfortunately, it is not possible for them to include non-free binary blobs and some multimedia by default. Not a Linux problem, but a license/patent one. On my laptop with Intel GPU and a wireless card with free drivers available it installs like a breeze and works out of the box including WPA2 encryption. Of course, I was doing some research before buying that thing and it payed off well.
As for Adobe flash -- it installs in two clicks (they ship Firefox with an extension which manages this).
MD5 sums are obtained from another location, so one would have to compromise both servers to squeeze malware into Linux distribution. And shady packages would not likely match the sum without a great deal of effort.
between real hardware and virtual one. Every OS I've seen boots faster in Virtualbox than it does on real hardware. So it is at least partially hardware problem. Autostarted programs are another issue though.
In German his name would probably be transliterated as "Schtschoegolew". :)
And don't bother, I can't recall a single Russian name that English speakers can pronounce correctly
Not really. "Svobodnyj" has two meaning in Russian - free as in speech, and loose. Open is "otkrytyj". :)
(damn Slashdot imperialistic engine which doesn't support Cyrillic
The minister clearly said about free software, not open source or cost-reducing. So the summary is a bit misleading on that point.
Some of the money will surely get to Alt Linux company. As for the rest -- I'd rather give it a try.
On a side note -- how many houses does this McCayne guy have?
I haven't seen a floppy for years. Yet I see virii on flash usb drives very often. Thanks penguin that doesn't bother me, but not a few Windows boxes got infected via USB sticks.
Oh, they will. But only for themselves. Shared source, they call it, I believe. As for Linux -- it does get better every year, but given the vast amount of inertia in people's minds and shady monopolistic tactics of Microsoft, Linux has to be ten times better to achieve ten times less. There is still much work to do.
Well, you have the democracy there -- vote for the government that supports free software. It is that simple :)
If a country like Russia is "converted" to free software, it will be a great news for the whole movement -- there are be many Russian programmers who will contribute greatly to the movement if the switch is made.
It is free as in speech, according to the article. Open source isn't mentioned.
As Russian government wanted to go to the WTO badly, they have taken vast steps towards eliminating computer piracy. So a pirate version of Windows is still relatively easy to get, but so are Linux distros. The people's inertia will still hold windows share high though. It is a great move to offer free software in schools to overcome this inertia.
Going back to Soviet Union? By slashing a monopoly and directing the money towards their own developers and encouraging competition as opposed to paying a foreign corporation which is already known to sue people in Russia?
Help me here...
He already got it because he was told that his two-years old computer was too old (and was running very slow due to all the malware). So he went to Wal-Mart and bought himself a new one with (inevitable) Vista preinstalled. It will hopefully last next two years after Windows 7 comes out and he'll be convinced that he needs a new PC. Again.
Hey, that's what runs the US economy! Imagine him being happy with his decades-old Linux box? Awful! Where is the profit in this?