RIP Atul, you were one big soldier on the side of FOSS and hacking! Big - not the least because you needed t-shirts with multiple "x" in the size. You will be missed.
then my 5 year old niece can try for a phd! The next gen will be such digital natives as to make us wonder if they come with smartphone manuals pre-loaded.
If the mail client is downloading a *.desktop file, warn the user. Yeah, the social Engineering virus propogators will find a way around it, say give the file in a wrong name and ask the user to rename it after download. There are medicines for that too.
The distributions installing the *.desktop files should create a unique signature and sign each of the *.desktop files it installs. Anything downloaded from the Internet will obviously not have those, even if you rename them. So the desktop environment should prompt the user if it finds a *.desktop file without the signature. And if the *.desktop was in the auto-start folder, heh! forget it getting executed.
And then there are people so naive they will even fall for "Follow these steps to copy the signature file and then double click on the file" social engineering trick. The enemy of humanity is humanity itself, and suddenly I feel the decision of Skynet was not so wrong after all! Oh God, Save the world from me!
When people say (GNU/)Linux is Free, they mean Free as in Freedom, not Free as in price didn't Linus torwalds tell you that? Probably Richard forgot to tell Linux about it.
The license that the patented parts of OOXML is available under is not compatible with any open source license.
Instead developers do rely on reverse engineering laws (which have some provisions for patents) as they always have in the past for developing.doc filters. You mean now we will have to reverse engineer an ISO standard? Now I have seen it all. Yamaraj, I am all dressed up.
... but for a different cause than why he is punished.. Instead of developing for Vista, he could have as well developed for Linux kernel in the meanwhile.;-)
Quoting the article: "It was played out between Indian IT giants, namely Infosys, Wipro, TCS supported by Nasscom on one side and the global IT biggies like IBM, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat backed by te IITs, IIMs and IISc on the other, on their respective positions on Microsoft's OOXML standard."
An honest nation, might be. A nation with honest companies, I dont think so. TCS, Wipro and Infosys : India based companies, for OOXML. IBM, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat: Companies based outside India. For ODF.
Fortunately, the acedamia - IITs, IIMs and IISc - are for ODF.. which means the next generation is a bit wiser.
I have never used BlackBoard. But just reading all the comments I have come to the conclusion it is a "collaboration training tool". It may be that it trains you to collaboratively dislike something together.
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They are working hard to move on from "BigBrother" status to "skyNet" status.
I can almost copy word to word there.
RIP Atul, you were one big soldier on the side of FOSS and hacking! Big - not the least because you needed t-shirts with multiple "x" in the size. You will be missed.
Once perfected , imagine being able to deliver emergency medicine to places not easily reachable by road.
A few years ago LFY= Linux from scratch
Now LFY = Life from scratch
no chdk for sx40?
didn't anyone steal from IBM Simon? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon
then my 5 year old niece can try for a phd! The next gen will be such digital natives as to make us wonder if they come with smartphone manuals pre-loaded.
install Ubuntu on ur phone.
And for all you know a keyboard snooper could easily track your pattern and play it back later.
It's not just the keyboard that you are typing on, but the time of day, i.e. how tried or awake you are, etc.
Yeah. I remember not publicizing my very old VB Course project, which was "password typing pattern matcher" for exactly this reason.
Is there a Wine port for Windows 7 ?
Firefox menu > view > page style >no style
Oh No Anonymous!! Now the FBI is gonna raid /. servers to track you down. damn!
The list of features mentioned is strikingly similar to one mentioned in my halfbakery idea.
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Face_20based_20presence_20sensor_2c_20Auto-brightness_20and_20tilt_20for_20laptop_20screen_20_26_20_20more_21_21
If the mail client is downloading a *.desktop file, warn the user. Yeah, the social Engineering virus propogators will find a way around it, say give the file in a wrong name and ask the user to rename it after download. There are medicines for that too.
The distributions installing the *.desktop files should create a unique signature and sign each of the *.desktop files it installs. Anything downloaded from the Internet will obviously not have those, even if you rename them. So the desktop environment should prompt the user if it finds a *.desktop file without the signature. And if the *.desktop was in the auto-start folder, heh! forget it getting executed.
And then there are people so naive they will even fall for "Follow these steps to copy the signature file and then double click on the file" social engineering trick. The enemy of humanity is humanity itself, and suddenly I feel the decision of Skynet was not so wrong after all! Oh God, Save the world from me!
SO when are these jobs getting Bangalored?
Humans breathe out carbon dioxide. Are we banned from this city ?
One huge step towards freedom from Microsoft, One small step towards complete freedom.
When people say (GNU/)Linux is Free, they mean Free as in Freedom, not Free as in price didn't Linus torwalds tell you that? Probably Richard forgot to tell Linux about it.
Instead developers do rely on reverse engineering laws (which have some provisions for patents) as they always have in the past for developing
... consists of technology as the scalar and human mind as the vector.
GNU/Linux needs more _innovative_ and uniquely integrated distros.
... but for a different cause than why he is punished.. Instead of developing for Vista, he could have as well developed for Linux kernel in the meanwhile. ;-)
Quoting Jane Q Public: "An Honest Nation"
.. which means the next generation is a bit wiser.
Quoting the article:
"It was played out between Indian IT giants, namely Infosys, Wipro, TCS supported by Nasscom on one side and the global IT biggies like IBM, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat backed by te IITs, IIMs and IISc on the other, on their respective positions on Microsoft's OOXML standard."
An honest nation, might be. A nation with honest companies, I dont think so.
TCS, Wipro and Infosys : India based companies, for OOXML.
IBM, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat: Companies based outside India. For ODF.
Fortunately, the acedamia - IITs, IIMs and IISc - are for ODF
I have never used BlackBoard. But just reading all the comments I have come to the conclusion it is a "collaboration training tool". It may be that it trains you to collaboratively dislike something together.