1. Require.desktop files to be executable to launch them
In addition, make the desktop environment not execute.desktop files under/home, and/or mount/home with noexec.
If a user wants a launcher icon on their desktop, enforce that the icon is actually symlink to the real.desktop file under/usr/share/applications. (Can be done while hiding the mechanics from the UI trivially.)
He probably understands perfectly well, and is just expressing his annoyance at that situation.
Indeed I do, and am.
I wonder if it's possible for proprietary games to have architecture-neutral byte-code blobs, and have an open source "shim" that can be compiled on multiple architectures, which will "compile" the blob into architecture-specific code on-the-fly.
Isn't this something like what Java does with.class files?
You mean apart from the inability of your script to interact with the separate Desktop that UAC prompts occur on ?
Right on the money.
I use Synergy 2, which lets me control my keyboard and mouse from another computer over the network. It's functionally no different to a keypress simulator like the G.P. mentioned.
When using Synergy, I cannot use the remote mouse and keyboard to accept UAC prompts. I have to move to the local machine and physically click the button locally for it to work. Same goes for administrative apps -- if an app is running with administrative privileges, Synergy cannot register clicks on the privileged window. Unless I run Synergy itself as an administrator.
Not if you're signed in to your Google Account, not if you're not signed into your Google Account either! (Whoda thunk it?)
Google will still have the data in their logs, even if the sites you visit don't have it.
Even if you're not signed in, the search will still be tied to your IP address for 18 months, or whatever Google's "anonymisation" policy is.
You could use Scroogle, which claims to store no cookies, and re-route your request through a random IP address out of their pool, but who's to say they'll not keep logs as well?
Not intending to troll, but if suspend doesn't work for you, it's your fault for buying hardware that doesn't support ACPI in a standard enough fashion to make it work.
Go Intel. If you get an Intel-based chipset with Intel graphics, suspend works beautifully. NVIDIA nForce chipsets also work, but are slightly less reliable.
Try and not blame Linux for suspend not working. Suspend already works. If it doesn't work, your motherboard manufacturer most likely hasn't bothered testing with Linux, and finding and squashing ACPI bugs.
Well, for the last year or so, I have been using NTFS-3G every single day of the week, using it to running my virtual machines stored on a USB hard disk (performance is excellent, by the way -- with Linux's tendency to cache the VM images, Windows guest performance is easily better than running natively off a physical partition).
At my college, and at home, there are computers with faulty USB connectors. A few times a week, when running a VM, my USB cable will wriggle loose, and the hard disk will disconnect. Yes, while it's running NTFS-3G.
However, not once in the last 12 months has my NTFS filesystem become corrupted. Not once.
Well, you can see the routes your computer knows about by running ip -6 route. The routes that the Vista machines are advertising should be listed there.
So, say I have a rogue route like this:
default via fe80::280:adff:fe73:9d60 dev eth2 proto kernel metric 1024 expires 1730sec mtu 1500 advmss 1440 hoplimit 64
I should be able to run:
ip -6 route del default via fe80::280:adff:fe73:9d60 dev eth2
I don't know what to do if it keeps reappearing, though.
Counter-Strike: Source actually already has an in-game browser. It's an embedded Internet Explorer ActiveX control that pops up whenever you connect to a server. Admittedly, it's not very useful as a browser, as clicking any links within the page will minimise the game and launch a real browser.
Also, Second Life uses an embedded Gecko browser (based on Gecko 1.8) in its official client, which is much more functional as a web browser. Mind you, it's a lot slower than using a real browser, as you have the overhead of the 3D universe that you have to render it in.
Their aim is to make it so gamers can more easily keep themselves entertained during downtime in games
Blimey, I hope he's only talking about games that are obviously online-only, such as Counter-Strike. During a single-player of SimCity, *boom*, DRM server goes offline. Voice of GLaDOS: "Sorry -- this game is temporarily available."
Why would anyone but a bussiness person want a netbook?
Why would a business person want one in the first place? They are not large enough to stand out among the cubicle desks and their small speakers are not nearly powerful enough to echo their tacky startup sounds to their whole floor.
The GPL only applies when you distribute software. They are probably not distributing the software outside their own company.
For one of the people who will be running the election hall on election day, when they get delivery of the election machine, is that counted as receiving a copy of the software?
The machine itself is closed and locked down, and most likely cannot be opened without a special key from Diebold.
I think you've been sucked in. Your scenarios, such as accessing Gmail with an external e-mail client, is exactly the problem.
Analogy to Blu-ray player: you bought your own Blu-ray client (player), but it still fetches some of the data it needs from the Blu-ray content servers.
Gmail: you install your own e-mail client, but it still needs the data from Google's servers.
I'm no RMS fanboy, but this is exactly what he warns about when talking about cloud computing. It provides the illusion of you being in control, but really, it is dependant on the data coming in from an external source, which is not necessarily under your control, and is not necessarily an open system.
You won't be in control of your e-mail until you run your own mail server. And iCal server. And search engine.
I'm guessing that they'll be rolling out tagging for non-story items, i.e. comments and journals.
Because they use a generic tag hierarchy, (http://slashdot.org/tag/lolcats), which could conceivably show stories, tags, and journals, having stories tagged as "story" could give you a way to filter out all the cruft that you don't want.
If you actually research this statement instead of taking a knee jerk reaction, I know you'll find that speed variance IS the culprit, established by many studies.
It's kind of like the fact that large falls don't kill you -- rather, it's the sudden stops at the end of those falls that are fatal.
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1. Require .desktop files to be executable to launch them
In addition, make the desktop environment not execute .desktop files under /home, and/or mount /home with noexec.
If a user wants a launcher icon on their desktop, enforce that the icon is actually symlink to the real .desktop file under /usr/share/applications. (Can be done while hiding the mechanics from the UI trivially.)
He probably understands perfectly well, and is just expressing his annoyance at that situation.
Indeed I do, and am.
I wonder if it's possible for proprietary games to have architecture-neutral byte-code blobs, and have an open source "shim" that can be compiled on multiple architectures, which will "compile" the blob into architecture-specific code on-the-fly.
Isn't this something like what Java does with .class files?
I have Linux, which, according to TFA, is supported.
$ ./WorldOfGoo.bin ./WorldOfGoo.bin: cannot execute binary file
-bash:
$ file WorldOfGoo.bin
WorldOfGoo.bin: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
I have a PowerPC processor, and I have Linux, and yet it does not work. They should advertise that it's only available for x86 users.
I don't see wind or tidal power generation needing anything more advanced than fiberglass.
Copper coils in the dynamos? Last I checked, copper was getting rarer. Even things like Cat-5e costs twice as much as it did a few years ago.
Unless you could use iron coils or something like that.
You mean apart from the inability of your script to interact with the separate Desktop that UAC prompts occur on ?
Right on the money.
I use Synergy 2, which lets me control my keyboard and mouse from another computer over the network. It's functionally no different to a keypress simulator like the G.P. mentioned.
When using Synergy, I cannot use the remote mouse and keyboard to accept UAC prompts. I have to move to the local machine and physically click the button locally for it to work. Same goes for administrative apps -- if an app is running with administrative privileges, Synergy cannot register clicks on the privileged window. Unless I run Synergy itself as an administrator.
Get a new dog, and you can keep your good memories of the previous dog untainted.
Says the SatanicPuppy.
Not if you're signed in to your Google Account, not if you're not signed into your Google Account either! (Whoda thunk it?)
Google will still have the data in their logs, even if the sites you visit don't have it.
Even if you're not signed in, the search will still be tied to your IP address for 18 months, or whatever Google's "anonymisation" policy is.
You could use Scroogle, which claims to store no cookies, and re-route your request through a random IP address out of their pool, but who's to say they'll not keep logs as well?
Only way to be sure is to not even look.
You can get it working by right-clicking on the terminal, and unchecking Show Menubar. Then F10 works.
Not everyone gets their electricity for free, or lives in a country where the cost is negligible. Argentina, for instance.
Not intending to troll, but if suspend doesn't work for you, it's your fault for buying hardware that doesn't support ACPI in a standard enough fashion to make it work.
Go Intel. If you get an Intel-based chipset with Intel graphics, suspend works beautifully. NVIDIA nForce chipsets also work, but are slightly less reliable.
Try and not blame Linux for suspend not working. Suspend already works. If it doesn't work, your motherboard manufacturer most likely hasn't bothered testing with Linux, and finding and squashing ACPI bugs.
The only reason Pidgin can't do it is that they haven't supported it yet (and probably won't, because the devs are very stuck up).
Ever heard of libjingle? It's the "video and voice" component of Google Talk, which is basically an extension to XMPP.
Any client that supports libjingle (I use Empathy, see screenshot) can do voice calls to Google Talk users.
Not really. From what I have seen all first person shooters have a shooting ridicule so you know exactly where the shot is going to go.
I think the word you're looking for is "reticule".
He was talking about Slackware.
Well, for the last year or so, I have been using NTFS-3G every single day of the week, using it to running my virtual machines stored on a USB hard disk (performance is excellent, by the way -- with Linux's tendency to cache the VM images, Windows guest performance is easily better than running natively off a physical partition).
At my college, and at home, there are computers with faulty USB connectors. A few times a week, when running a VM, my USB cable will wriggle loose, and the hard disk will disconnect. Yes, while it's running NTFS-3G.
However, not once in the last 12 months has my NTFS filesystem become corrupted. Not once.
Well, you can see the routes your computer knows about by running ip -6 route. The routes that the Vista machines are advertising should be listed there.
So, say I have a rogue route like this:
I should be able to run:
I don't know what to do if it keeps reappearing, though.
Cue the "grumble grumble Australia grumble grumble 2GB grumble grumble download quotas" messages.
Counter-Strike: Source actually already has an in-game browser. It's an embedded Internet Explorer ActiveX control that pops up whenever you connect to a server. Admittedly, it's not very useful as a browser, as clicking any links within the page will minimise the game and launch a real browser.
Also, Second Life uses an embedded Gecko browser (based on Gecko 1.8) in its official client, which is much more functional as a web browser. Mind you, it's a lot slower than using a real browser, as you have the overhead of the 3D universe that you have to render it in.
Their aim is to make it so gamers can more easily keep themselves entertained during downtime in games
Blimey, I hope he's only talking about games that are obviously online-only, such as Counter-Strike. During a single-player of SimCity, *boom*, DRM server goes offline. Voice of GLaDOS: "Sorry -- this game is temporarily available."
*shudder*
Why would anyone but a bussiness person want a netbook?
Why would a business person want one in the first place? They are not large enough to stand out among the cubicle desks and their small speakers are not nearly powerful enough to echo their tacky startup sounds to their whole floor.
The GPL only applies when you distribute software. They are probably not distributing the software outside their own company.
For one of the people who will be running the election hall on election day, when they get delivery of the election machine, is that counted as receiving a copy of the software?
The machine itself is closed and locked down, and most likely cannot be opened without a special key from Diebold.
If that is not the case, hit me with a cluebat.
I think you've been sucked in. Your scenarios, such as accessing Gmail with an external e-mail client, is exactly the problem.
Analogy to Blu-ray player: you bought your own Blu-ray client (player), but it still fetches some of the data it needs from the Blu-ray content servers.
Gmail: you install your own e-mail client, but it still needs the data from Google's servers.
I'm no RMS fanboy, but this is exactly what he warns about when talking about cloud computing. It provides the illusion of you being in control, but really, it is dependant on the data coming in from an external source, which is not necessarily under your control, and is not necessarily an open system.
You won't be in control of your e-mail until you run your own mail server. And iCal server. And search engine.
I'm guessing that they'll be rolling out tagging for non-story items, i.e. comments and journals.
Because they use a generic tag hierarchy, (http://slashdot.org/tag/lolcats), which could conceivably show stories, tags, and journals, having stories tagged as "story" could give you a way to filter out all the cruft that you don't want.
Good thing we can all read Microsoft's self-documenting source code at will!
If you actually research this statement instead of taking a knee jerk reaction, I know you'll find that speed variance IS the culprit, established by many studies.
It's kind of like the fact that large falls don't kill you -- rather, it's the sudden stops at the end of those falls that are fatal.
As of just over a week ago, Gmail has a built-in option for forcing HTTPS. See the official blog entry regarding it.
To enable this, you can do this: