That happened a couple of times in my IT class in 6th form. In the first year, two students handed in identical work and expected our teacher not to notice. Then in the next unit (databases), a student merely downloaded an example database off the web and tried to submit that as their work. Because, of course, nobody can see a hidden folder with the original copy in!
Then, the next year, two students (one of which was involved in the first plagerism incident) handed in identical copies of a program... which was the first result on google. You'd think that people in voluntary education would actually do the work, rather than copy and paste from the internet...
Except, to get those tens, or hundreds, of millions of people to pool their money, you'd have to peel them away from watching their latest reality TV show. And then you'd have to get them to care, and if someone even breathes the words "child pornography" or "terrorism" anywhere near this single cause, it's trashed in the court of public opinion and you'll never see any money at all.
finally pick one -- namely.deb -- package format and stick to it; so developers aren't put-off by the idea of spending days creating packages for different platforms.
Why not just stick to using tarballs, and let the distro developers package it into whatever package format they want. Also, why should DEB be the template for every distro's packaging format? Let me guess... Ubuntu user? That would also explain it being slow and things blowing up on upgrades...
get GNOME on to QT
What did you mean by this? Re-develop Gnome using QT?
stop! Go and do some work on getting drivers working instead,
Only if you stop commenting on/. and start paying me to do the driver work. It's a hobby, the developers will work on what they bloody well feel like. (Unless, of course, they're getting paid to develop drivers... =] )
It looks like they've completely scrubbed all references out of the site now. ZFS never existed, as far as Apple's site is concerned. And Oceania was always at war with Eurasia. In other news, the chocolate ration was increased today...
But something will. Something without the laughable amount of baggage.
Personally, I'm hoping for MIPS to kill x86, but I won't hold my breath. (Although it would be nice... =] ) On a related note, is there anywhere other than Lemote who sell MIPS processors that could be used in a desktop?
Gosh... I'd better stop printing and scanning from my OfficeJet and the family Canon until I can make them print only ASCII. Can't have you being wrong, can we?
I know I'm feeding the troll, but still... Both multifunction printers in our house work just fine with a fresh linux install (Ubuntu 8.10/9.04 to be exact), whereas with Windows (at least with the Canon printer...), I had to download the 100+MB driver+yet another photosuite bundled with it+the silly misc. apps that are thrown in.
Okay, If I'm perfectly honest, at first the Canon printer was completely unsupported by CUPS. 6 or so months later (when I installed Linux on the family PC because XP ate itself up from the inside and refused to reinstall) it was supported just fine. Works for me. =)
Why is this modded troll? As far as I can see, thinktech has a perfectly valid point. If painting everything white has minimal effect, is it really worth it to go mine all that titanium for this?
Of course, if there's a hidden message in this that I didn't read because I didn't read it backwards or something, please point it out to me.
Shush! Don't say stuff like that, even in jest! The real "Think Of The Children" Brigade will catch wind of it and knee-jerk so hard that we all catch the fallout! D:
Well, the bloggers were raring to blog about it, but then their machines self-destructed too. And then it took longer than their memory span for the install to complete, so they forgot all about it and carried on like usual.;P
I've been meaning to try it. Maybe after I get around to playing with FreeBSD. I need more hours in the day, dammit. this is why the universe needs to be open source!
Yeah, those red access points really do stand out quite a bit. Although, could you imagine the trouble you'd have if they painted them beige or something like that?
> So stop loading people's computers with so much crap that getting to a productive point takes 10-15 minutes and maybe they'll be more apt to shutdown and reboot for you.
AC has a very good point that I wish some admins would learn. If it takes 15 minutes to boot a machine and get to the point of being sat at a desktop, noone is going to reboot the machine. Thus, you're going to be chasing around, booting the damn things off the network until they reboot and get any waiting updates.
It takes a very special kind of setup to make Windows XP run slower and lock up more than Vista on the same hardware. (Yes, RM, I'm looking at you. Start hiring good programmers, dammit.)
"...viruses, Trojans, and other threats--specifically written for Linux has been on the increase in recent years and more than doubled during 2005 from 422 to 863." Also, have a nosey at the list of threats.:)
Okay, then think about this... 1. What happens if the repo that yum gets the files from is compromised and a new checksum is added? yum won't complain, will it? (Chances are, though, that this will be caught fairly quick (or I'd hope so...) and rectified.)
2. See Above
3. Installs from source? (Okay, assuming the average user can figure out the horribly complex "configure && make && sudo make install" sequence. You never know...)
4. Installs of random.deb (or is it.rpm for whichever distro yum is on... I can't remember, it's been a while.) from a webpage? think "Click here to install codecs to get your pr0n!"
I'm sorry for posting as an AC, but the/. login doesn't seem to be working (no matter what I type in to the captcha, it doesn't let me verify my password!).
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Of course! Naturally, one *merely* needs a sufficiently clever compiler...
For all eternity.
That happened a couple of times in my IT class in 6th form. In the first year, two students handed in identical work and expected our teacher not to notice. Then in the next unit (databases), a student merely downloaded an example database off the web and tried to submit that as their work. Because, of course, nobody can see a hidden folder with the original copy in!
Then, the next year, two students (one of which was involved in the first plagerism incident) handed in identical copies of a program... which was the first result on google. You'd think that people in voluntary education would actually do the work, rather than copy and paste from the internet...
Except, to get those tens, or hundreds, of millions of people to pool their money, you'd have to peel them away from watching their latest reality TV show. And then you'd have to get them to care, and if someone even breathes the words "child pornography" or "terrorism" anywhere near this single cause, it's trashed in the court of public opinion and you'll never see any money at all.
Yes, I know, silly me for feeding the troll...
Why not just stick to using tarballs, and let the distro developers package it into whatever package format they want. Also, why should DEB be the template for every distro's packaging format? Let me guess... Ubuntu user? That would also explain it being slow and things blowing up on upgrades...
What did you mean by this? Re-develop Gnome using QT?
Only if you stop commenting on /. and start paying me to do the driver work. It's a hobby, the developers will work on what they bloody well feel like. (Unless, of course, they're getting paid to develop drivers... =] )
It looks like they've completely scrubbed all references out of the site now. ZFS never existed, as far as Apple's site is concerned. And Oceania was always at war with Eurasia. In other news, the chocolate ration was increased today...
I could go on like this forever... =p
Personally, I'm hoping for MIPS to kill x86, but I won't hold my breath. (Although it would be nice... =] )
On a related note, is there anywhere other than Lemote who sell MIPS processors that could be used in a desktop?
You seem to be a little confused here.
emacs, gedit and kate beat notepad. (I actually quite like vim too, but only for quick edits.)
You used VB and still say that? o.O ...
No, it's not. =) /me puts his asbestos longjohns on.
Flame away! =D
Really?
Gosh... I'd better stop printing and scanning from my OfficeJet and the family Canon until I can make them print only ASCII. Can't have you being wrong, can we?
I know I'm feeding the troll, but still... Both multifunction printers in our house work just fine with a fresh linux install (Ubuntu 8.10/9.04 to be exact), whereas with Windows (at least with the Canon printer...), I had to download the 100+MB driver+yet another photosuite bundled with it+the silly misc. apps that are thrown in.
Okay, If I'm perfectly honest, at first the Canon printer was completely unsupported by CUPS. 6 or so months later (when I installed Linux on the family PC because XP ate itself up from the inside and refused to reinstall) it was supported just fine. Works for me. =)
I think I ruptured something laughing at that. Wonderful impersonation of a clueless Microsoftie. =)
Because that would allow us to behave and speak freely... er, I mean... that would allow the evil, bad terrorist pædophiles to win. or something. .
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Why is this modded troll? As far as I can see, thinktech has a perfectly valid point. If painting everything white has minimal effect, is it really worth it to go mine all that titanium for this?
Of course, if there's a hidden message in this that I didn't read because I didn't read it backwards or something, please point it out to me.
Shush! Don't say stuff like that, even in jest! The real "Think Of The Children" Brigade will catch wind of it and knee-jerk so hard that we all catch the fallout! D:
Well, the bloggers were raring to blog about it, but then their machines self-destructed too. And then it took longer than their memory span for the install to complete, so they forgot all about it and carried on like usual. ;P
This may be completely contrary to what you meant, but there is a Gentoo/FreeBSD port.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-freebsd.xml
I've been meaning to try it. Maybe after I get around to playing with FreeBSD. I need more hours in the day, dammit. this is why the universe needs to be open source!
Ah, but that would require effort and waste time that {he,she,it} could be using to whinge on the internet.
Thankyou, I do try. :)
In fact, I'm very trying... ;)
Yeah, those red access points really do stand out quite a bit. Although, could you imagine the trouble you'd have if they painted them beige or something like that?
> So stop loading people's computers with so much crap that getting to a productive point takes 10-15 minutes and maybe they'll be more apt to shutdown and reboot for you.
AC has a very good point that I wish some admins would learn. If it takes 15 minutes to boot a machine and get to the point of being sat at a desktop, noone is going to reboot the machine. Thus, you're going to be chasing around, booting the damn things off the network until they reboot and get any waiting updates.
It takes a very special kind of setup to make Windows XP run slower and lock up more than Vista on the same hardware. (Yes, RM, I'm looking at you. Start hiring good programmers, dammit.)
Percussive maintenance?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Viruses
"...viruses, Trojans, and other threats--specifically written for Linux has been on the increase in recent years and more than doubled during 2005 from 422 to 863." :)
Also, have a nosey at the list of threats.
Okay, then think about this...
1. What happens if the repo that yum gets the files from is compromised and a new checksum is added? yum won't complain, will it? (Chances are, though, that this will be caught fairly quick (or I'd hope so...) and rectified.)
2. See Above
3. Installs from source? (Okay, assuming the average user can figure out the horribly complex "configure && make && sudo make install" sequence. You never know...)
4. Installs of random .deb (or is it .rpm for whichever distro yum is on... I can't remember, it's been a while.) from a webpage? think "Click here to install codecs to get your pr0n!"
I'm sorry for posting as an AC, but the /. login doesn't seem to be working (no matter what I type in to the captcha, it doesn't let me verify my password!).
Hmm... seems to be working fine here...
it's a very big LED.
He *isn't* spelling out his punctuation.
"period (mostly North America) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis."
Please don't try and grammar/spelling/etc nazi without engaging brain, it makes you look silly.