Well, an idiot running Linux isn't such a big threat as an equal idiot running Windows.
I've switched all my family's computers to Linux after I got tired of cleaning malware regularly. And that's beside they all know the basics of computer security. As no one in my family is a hardcore gamer nor a photoshop/AutoCAD user, the switch went pretty easy (they were using firefox anyway).
The situation *might* change, but for the time being I have much less hassle with Linux boxes they use. It's much more easier to remote-administer them too. And I am the only one who knows root password:)
Well, in Iowa case documents there was an analysis of Linux and Open Source: http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/6000/PX06501.pdf It is a 70-page document and it is well made. I'll quote from the summary: Consequently, OSS poses a direct, short-term revenue and platform threat to Microsoft - particuiady in the server space. Additionally, the intrinsic parallelism and free idea exchange in OSS has benerifs that are not replicabie with our current licensing model arand therefore present a long term developer mindshare threat.
A very good analysis though, one of the best I've actually seen. So they did care back then.
If parents could not educate their kid not to tell the real name or address to strangers on net, then no SONY on earth can. They're just covering their asses against potential lawsuits.
As for automatic updates that may (and will) break things -- that's SONY as usual. If you don't like it, don't buy it. They'll reconsider if the losses are too high.
You did mention Gate's insensitive to prevent Linux from being able to use ACPI. I see this being accomplished by Microsoft's compiler. I don't say that every vendor is in bed with MS (although we don't know their contracts), I say that Microsoft has fulfilled the will of Bill Gates by developing this forgiving compiler and knowing that vendor would test Windows only. I see the connection, you don't, that's what opinions are for. Given Microsoft's shady behavior in the past I know about, I think they are more than capable of doing such a thing.
As for Foxconn -- there was a case of a vendor explicitly enabling crippled support for Linux, not excluding it. Malice or carelessness -- we'll never know. They have fixed the issue nonetheless, yet I doubt that I'll buy their products.
The ACPI Specification defines the requirements for the DSDT (and everything else, for that matter) pretty explicitly. Intel's ASL compiler, iasl, used to compile the DSDT to AML from ASL, will throw errors and warnings if the underlying ASL is buggy. Unfortunately, Microsoft's ASL compiler allows many of these errors and warnings to sneak by. As a result, many OEMs write buggy DSDTs, and it turns out that Windows is very forgiving of bugs in the DSDT that get by Microsoft's compiler (not surprisingly).
One may speculate about intentional crippling of Linux (as was the case with FoxConn mainboard), so the GP's post may be valid given the bad business practices that Microsoft was using all the time (I recall them trying to pay a premium to sysadmins who convince their bosses to buy MS-products).
Because if you use a computer you have to know about it. Sometimes knowing how it works and what it is can save you a lot of time. Think of any Car analogy you like. As we talk about students, I hope that those students won't become mouse-clicking monkeys I encounter on a daily basis. Remember -- PC was supposed to make our lives easier, to make most boring parts of our duties. Instead, we have people who rather make a few hundreds identical clicks instead of writing a simple script.
Besides, illiterate users are the main reason for botnets. Think about it every time you read your SPAM.
IIRC, some cycles were skipped during Little Ice Age. We might see similar behavior where the increase is insignificant followed by another period of calm sun.
Long live? I would rather compare them to rabbits - 5000 in 1950, 20000 - 25000 now. But the little polar bear who is apparently in danger looks sooo cute on a poster... Environmentalists are all about donations after all. And saving polar bears is so easy -- you can always show results.
Do you truly believe his mission was more than to do some damage to foreign economies? Flying his personal jet to encourage other people not to fly. Encouraging governments worldwide to pay more to reduce CO2 levels, he, ex-vice-president of USA who has done nothing to reduce those levels in his own country while he was in power (Kyoto protocol, anyone?). You call environmentalist, i call hypocrisy.
Last "Little Ice Age" has ended merely 200 Years ago. It wasn't human-related. Sun-related, most likely. What if the temperature pendulum went that high because of this? We have seen increased sun activity during last decades, now that the sun is calm we see a decrease in global temperatures. Sounds pretty logical for me as I still don't think that human influence would be that significant on the global scale. Environmentalist lobby on the other hand is very influential around the world except for the worst polluter.
How will you know this? Will you check the database for your e-mails regularly? Are you 100% sure that your boss won't find a legitimate way to fire you if he sees the address on this list first? So that you won't be able to sue back when you have proved your innocence.
I personally oppose the idea of such list. Any address can get in and it will be very hard to get out. It doesn't play well with the law â" a person is innocent until proven guilty.
I've always wondered how is it possible for a film with a multimillion-dollar budget to make mistakes like this: there are plenty of bad Russian agents sent to their evil deeds by order of Joseph Stalin in 1957. Fucking google for Stalin! Look in Wikipedia at least to find out that he died in 1953! And this is a movie about historian and archaeologist.
Was there no one in the whole crew to point that thing out? That's Hollywood for you.
I'll organize a company then which sells chatbots to men who want to get someone laid.
Just imagine -- you launch a bot and it'll chat with a girl till she's ready for anything. It notifies you automaticaly via e-mail about that. You can even integrate it with a web calender so you don't have overlaps! Finally best nerds will get more women!
Got you wrong then. I still prefer using esekeyd so all my hotkeys work e.g. in fullscreen games. IIRC KMilo works only within KDE so if you start full-screened weshoth you will not be able to adjust sound with your keys.
Besides, can't you just install KMilo3 on top of kde4? I use k3b in kde4 without a problem.
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Yeah, right... Tell that to Plustek who have ceased support for my scanner in Vista and to fujitsu-siemens whose laptops don't support XP at all. Neither of both companies support Linux yet tux is the only way I can scan something right now. And no, I don't want to buy a new scanner.
There are GUIs for that, start it, select programs you want (as many as you like) and click Ok. Much less hassle than going through Next-Accept-Next-Next-Next-Ok and then cleaning some useless app out of system tray.
But a console command is indeed more simple than GUI provided you can type quick. I prefer simple to intuitive: intuitive interface is many small steps, simple interface -- just one big step.
In xorg-7.4 keyboards are handed via hal with evdev driver -- the layout is therefore generic and will make it much more easier for distro makers to configure multimedia keyboards -- all of them will send e.g. the same event on Volume Up keypress.
They'll upgrade to a new version when it is ready. But I agree, that there are some annoying glitches that might scare away average user (i have 4.1.2 atm).
As for kernel -- the newer the kernel, the more equipment is supported.
Openoffice3 -- bad timing, they'll make a release next week, so I guess that was a right decision too.
P.S. when will slashdot support long dash?! Renders my compose key useless...
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Well, an idiot running Linux isn't such a big threat as an equal idiot running Windows.
I've switched all my family's computers to Linux after I got tired of cleaning malware regularly. And that's beside they all know the basics of computer security. As no one in my family is a hardcore gamer nor a photoshop/AutoCAD user, the switch went pretty easy (they were using firefox anyway).
The situation *might* change, but for the time being I have much less hassle with Linux boxes they use. It's much more easier to remote-administer them too. And I am the only one who knows root password :)
Well, in Iowa case documents there was an analysis of Linux and Open Source: http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/6000/PX06501.pdf
It is a 70-page document and it is well made. I'll quote from the summary:
Consequently, OSS poses a direct, short-term revenue and platform threat to Microsoft - particuiady in the server
space. Additionally, the intrinsic parallelism and free idea exchange in OSS has benerifs that are not replicabie with our current licensing model arand therefore present a long term developer mindshare threat.
A very good analysis though, one of the best I've actually seen.
So they did care back then.
If parents could not educate their kid not to tell the real name or address to strangers on net, then no SONY on earth can. They're just covering their asses against potential lawsuits.
As for automatic updates that may (and will) break things -- that's SONY as usual. If you don't like it, don't buy it. They'll reconsider if the losses are too high.
Bash-powered Russian Roulette: /* || echo "You live"
# [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf
You did mention Gate's insensitive to prevent Linux from being able to use ACPI. I see this being accomplished by Microsoft's compiler. I don't say that every vendor is in bed with MS (although we don't know their contracts), I say that Microsoft has fulfilled the will of Bill Gates by developing this forgiving compiler and knowing that vendor would test Windows only. I see the connection, you don't, that's what opinions are for. Given Microsoft's shady behavior in the past I know about, I think they are more than capable of doing such a thing.
As for Foxconn -- there was a case of a vendor explicitly enabling crippled support for Linux, not excluding it. Malice or carelessness -- we'll never know. They have fixed the issue nonetheless, yet I doubt that I'll buy their products.
E17 will be released right after Duke Nukem Forever by the look of it. And I'm talking about first alpha release here.
The ACPI Specification defines the requirements for the DSDT (and everything else, for that matter) pretty explicitly. Intel's ASL compiler, iasl, used to compile the DSDT to AML from ASL, will throw errors and warnings if the underlying ASL is buggy. Unfortunately, Microsoft's ASL compiler allows many of these errors and warnings to sneak by. As a result, many OEMs write buggy DSDTs, and it turns out that Windows is very forgiving of bugs in the DSDT that get by Microsoft's compiler (not surprisingly).
One may speculate about intentional crippling of Linux (as was the case with FoxConn mainboard), so the GP's post may be valid given the bad business practices that Microsoft was using all the time (I recall them trying to pay a premium to sysadmins who convince their bosses to buy MS-products).
Because if you use a computer you have to know about it. Sometimes knowing how it works and what it is can save you a lot of time. Think of any Car analogy you like. As we talk about students, I hope that those students won't become mouse-clicking monkeys I encounter on a daily basis. Remember -- PC was supposed to make our lives easier, to make most boring parts of our duties. Instead, we have people who rather make a few hundreds identical clicks instead of writing a simple script.
Besides, illiterate users are the main reason for botnets. Think about it every time you read your SPAM.
nope, that one doesn't work anymore. It is rm -rf /* now, as root as usual.
IIRC, some cycles were skipped during Little Ice Age. We might see similar behavior where the increase is insignificant followed by another period of calm sun.
Long live? I would rather compare them to rabbits - 5000 in 1950, 20000 - 25000 now. But the little polar bear who is apparently in danger looks sooo cute on a poster... Environmentalists are all about donations after all. And saving polar bears is so easy -- you can always show results.
Long live my carma...
Do you truly believe his mission was more than to do some damage to foreign economies? Flying his personal jet to encourage other people not to fly. Encouraging governments worldwide to pay more to reduce CO2 levels, he, ex-vice-president of USA who has done nothing to reduce those levels in his own country while he was in power (Kyoto protocol, anyone?). You call environmentalist, i call hypocrisy.
Last "Little Ice Age" has ended merely 200 Years ago. It wasn't human-related. Sun-related, most likely. What if the temperature pendulum went that high because of this? We have seen increased sun activity during last decades, now that the sun is calm we see a decrease in global temperatures. Sounds pretty logical for me as I still don't think that human influence would be that significant on the global scale. Environmentalist lobby on the other hand is very influential around the world except for the worst polluter.
there is nspluginwrapper for that. Works decent although I am waiting for gnash to catch on.
In Linux, you can view *.rm files with rm command.
How will you know this? Will you check the database for your e-mails regularly? Are you 100% sure that your boss won't find a legitimate way to fire you if he sees the address on this list first? So that you won't be able to sue back when you have proved your innocence.
I personally oppose the idea of such list. Any address can get in and it will be very hard to get out. It doesn't play well with the law â" a person is innocent until proven guilty.
I've always wondered how is it possible for a film with a multimillion-dollar budget to make mistakes like this: there are plenty of bad Russian agents sent to their evil deeds by order of Joseph Stalin in 1957. Fucking google for Stalin! Look in Wikipedia at least to find out that he died in 1953! And this is a movie about historian and archaeologist.
Was there no one in the whole crew to point that thing out? That's Hollywood for you.
What did you expect? Emacs? :)
Try it in a decent window manager and we'll speak again.
I'll organize a company then which sells chatbots to men who want to get someone laid. Just imagine -- you launch a bot and it'll chat with a girl till she's ready for anything. It notifies you automaticaly via e-mail about that. You can even integrate it with a web calender so you don't have overlaps! Finally best nerds will get more women!
No, we are at war with eastasia. We were *always* at war with eastasia...
Got you wrong then. I still prefer using esekeyd so all my hotkeys work e.g. in fullscreen games. IIRC KMilo works only within KDE so if you start full-screened weshoth you will not be able to adjust sound with your keys.
Besides, can't you just install KMilo3 on top of kde4? I use k3b in kde4 without a problem.
Yeah, right... Tell that to Plustek who have ceased support for my scanner in Vista and to fujitsu-siemens whose laptops don't support XP at all. Neither of both companies support Linux yet tux is the only way I can scan something right now.
And no, I don't want to buy a new scanner.
There are GUIs for that, start it, select programs you want (as many as you like) and click Ok. Much less hassle than going through Next-Accept-Next-Next-Next-Ok and then cleaning some useless app out of system tray.
But a console command is indeed more simple than GUI provided you can type quick. I prefer simple to intuitive: intuitive interface is many small steps, simple interface -- just one big step.
In xorg-7.4 keyboards are handed via hal with evdev driver -- the layout is therefore generic and will make it much more easier for distro makers to configure multimedia keyboards -- all of them will send e.g. the same event on Volume Up keypress.
They'll upgrade to a new version when it is ready. But I agree, that there are some annoying glitches that might scare away average user (i have 4.1.2 atm).
As for kernel -- the newer the kernel, the more equipment is supported.
Openoffice3 -- bad timing, they'll make a release next week, so I guess that was a right decision too.
P.S. when will slashdot support long dash?! Renders my compose key useless...