On either system good virus scanner will keep you covered from 95% of keyloggers so your fine unless you married a geek, but if you married a geek you'd be running linux/bsd anyway (possibly with a custom filesystem)
But there won't be such a thing as "hardware that is not supported by open source drivers", because it will be compulsory for manufacturers to release driver Source Code for all their products. What your going to make it illegal for a company to make closed source drivers?
If they decide to "take their ball and go home" (by just stopping selling their products; no they could just stop supporting linux.
but that really is a case of cortar el pene para agravar los cojones and unlikely to happen in practice) Erm no, if forced to choose between reveal their closed specs * possibly infringing on 3rd party copyright or loosing 1% of their users, most companies will just stop supporting linux, so its like cliping your nails to keep your hand safe.
. There are landfill sites full of computer hardware which worked fine until Vista came out, but then no Vista-compatible driver was released. They all worked with Xp though, and some didnt work with linux at all, so what exactly is your point.
How about you wake up and take a look around. Graphics cards, wireless cards, webcams all work much better under windows, because 3rd parties release binary drivers.
come on this is/. nobody RTFA they're unlikely to read the link:
I donâ(TM)t think Red Hat would see Ubuntu as a threat, we appeal to different audiences.
Have you ever noticed that competing car dealerships, fast food restaurants and other very similar businesses all setup shop next to one another? You get food courts in shopping malls, for example, where you have all the take-away food places in one area. You would think that the competition would be bad for them. But counter-intuitively, all the restaurants do better when they are all in the same place, and the same is true of car dealerships. The phenomenon is called âoeclusteringâ, and it works because people first decide to go âoelooking for a carâ and then later decide which car, or which dealership. I think Linux is the same - if we coordinate our releases, we send a very strong message to the outside world that will bring more people to Linux in the first place - making the pot bigger for everyone.
Do you really want an unstable kernel because there were too many regressions but Linus rushed it out so that it could be put into the latest versions of distros?
Shhh Stallman real world people are talking here. Not all companies are going to publish open source drivers.
Or maybe even, just maybe the existing law which already forbids binary-only drivers will be enforced.
Then we will all lose out, because we will no longer have absolute control over our own computers. No actually forbidding binary drivers means i lose control over my computer as i no longer have the choice to install them and i no longer have the choice to use hardware that is not supported by open source drivers. Im free to do what i want on my computer, and there is no 'law' that prevents me compiling a kernel to with a non-gpl driver in it.
Nice idea with only 2 major problems: 1) API development cant be done for most of the year (depending on how often they put out a kernel) 2) all API changes will be made together meaning that they're a lot more likely to break stuff, and fixing it will be much more difficult too.
There are kernel branches which are stable (bug fix's only) but most people just want the latest and greatest kernel instead so that's what the proprietary drivers work for.
The danger is that if the kernel ABI was stable, then the hardware manufacturers would think they were able to get away with releasing drivers only as binary blobs, without Source Code. This of course is highly undesirable. Not really its exactly what happens under windows, i hear their hardware support it good. But i do agree that a stable ABI is a terrible idea, IIRC the kernel quys have explicitly said this will never happen.
... these people either need self control, or need to realize that they have a problem. Do your bit for globabl warming, laugh at a fat person today! (just to let them know they're overweight ofc)
It doesn't make them smarted but it does mean they know a lot more about kernel coding.
It is a deign issue, but its not that big, most of the kernel has granular locks, this only really affects the goal of having an entirely realtime kernel, so while it is important it's not that important. And im not sure what you mean by a long time ago as having a RT kernel is a fairly recent goal.
Until grub2 has a security module so that i can lock down what you can boot too, im happy with grub, even if grub2 looks nice.
Hell i have 1 second time-out & hidden menu so i never see it anyway, grub doesn't need any nice interface as it shouldn't need to be seen other than when you have a problem in which case a nice UI just adds another thing to go wrong.
Amarok UPnP rediscover your music elsewhere - Provide a plug-in to Amarok that will allow users to discover and stream from remote UPnP shares. This plug-in will discover any UPnP MediaServer DCPs on the local network and display their collections as an Amarok collection.
- The plug-in will also provide the capability to control the current instance of Amarok from a remote UPnP ControlPoint. Since UPnP provides no authentication measures, users will be allowed to turn this feature off. Alternatively, an authentication mechanism could be added to Amarok.
- If there is enough time remaining, add the ability to share a selection of the current users music collection on the local network. Again, due to authentication issues this feature would be optional or an authentication mechanism could be added.
I would personally really like to see that, just connect your laptop to a wireless netowrk and then you can play your music on any uPnP capable device.
But as the list seams rather crap, what do you think is missing from it?
Since VLCs firefox plugin is incompatible with noscript, I've started using mplayer, and as its modular (unlike VLC) I can also throw almost anything at it (actually I can throw more at it as it handles realmedia too). As for interfaces well i personally think Kmplayer beats VLC hands down as a media player too.
I also dont understand the need for a frontend to aptitude, apt + front end is just as powerful, its only dependency resolution that hasn't been well implemented in other front ends.
While they do still carry disproportionate amounts of wikipedia news, its no worse than any other internet based news, its not that bad any more. In fact i've started to quite like wikinews as its editors are free of delitionist scum it feels like wikipedia used to, free, open & willing to take contributions. Wikimedia tightening the reins is a real shame as i suspect it will end up like wikipedia, good but irritating in that it could be so much better
while a 2.7 branch would make sense if stability was important, its not, with 2.6 linus decided he couldn't be bothered with the boring part of stability and so told distros to do it themselves. This happens (with varying degrees of success), and has allows the kernel to develop at a much faster pace. Unfortunately this particular change is too much even for the 'unstable' kernel, so a temporary testing branch to get other peoples code sorted is being formed (a virtual 2.7 in effect only its so experimental it will never get released)
The article describes how the spammers are using their new found accounts, nothing to do with CAPTCHAs other than they had to (either automatically or manually) break them to get the accounts.
Im surprised they're not using them to break the spam filter of yahoo/hotmail/gmail though, I mean if they all started sending each other spam and marketing it as ham, wouldn't that pretty much break any feedback based system that their using to protect their users.
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Install linux, next problem.
On either system good virus scanner will keep you covered from 95% of keyloggers so your fine unless you married a geek, but if you married a geek you'd be running linux/bsd anyway (possibly with a custom filesystem)
How about you wake up and take a look around.
Graphics cards, wireless cards, webcams all work much better under windows, because 3rd parties release binary drivers.
Have you ever noticed that competing car dealerships, fast food restaurants and other very similar businesses all setup shop next to one another? You get food courts in shopping malls, for example, where you have all the take-away food places in one area. You would think that the competition would be bad for them. But counter-intuitively, all the restaurants do better when they are all in the same place, and the same is true of car dealerships. The phenomenon is called âoeclusteringâ, and it works because people first decide to go âoelooking for a carâ and then later decide which car, or which dealership. I think Linux is the same - if we coordinate our releases, we send a very strong message to the outside world that will bring more people to Linux in the first place - making the pot bigger for everyone.
Do you really want an unstable kernel because there were too many regressions but Linus rushed it out so that it could be put into the latest versions of distros?
Nice idea with only 2 major problems:
1) API development cant be done for most of the year (depending on how often they put out a kernel)
2) all API changes will be made together meaning that they're a lot more likely to break stuff, and fixing it will be much more difficult too.
There are kernel branches which are stable (bug fix's only) but most people just want the latest and greatest kernel instead so that's what the proprietary drivers work for.
... these people either need self control, or need to realize that they have a problem. Do your bit for globabl warming, laugh at a fat person today! (just to let them know they're overweight ofc)you mean like carbohydrate offsetting?
quick somebody phone gore.
he said want, i very much doubt id want to sleep with a fatty, even if I was obese!
It doesn't make them smarted but it does mean they know a lot more about kernel coding.
It is a deign issue, but its not that big, most of the kernel has granular locks, this only really affects the goal of having an entirely realtime kernel, so while it is important it's not that important. And im not sure what you mean by a long time ago as having a RT kernel is a fairly recent goal.
Until grub2 has a security module so that i can lock down what you can boot too, im happy with grub, even if grub2 looks nice.
Hell i have 1 second time-out & hidden menu so i never see it anyway, grub doesn't need any nice interface as it shouldn't need to be seen other than when you have a problem in which case a nice UI just adds another thing to go wrong.
Amarok UPnP rediscover your music elsewhere
- Provide a plug-in to Amarok that will allow users to discover and stream from remote UPnP shares. This plug-in will discover any UPnP MediaServer DCPs on the local network and display their collections as an Amarok collection.
- The plug-in will also provide the capability to control the current instance of Amarok from a remote UPnP ControlPoint. Since UPnP provides no authentication measures, users will be allowed to turn this feature off. Alternatively, an authentication mechanism could be added to Amarok.
- If there is enough time remaining, add the ability to share a selection of the current users music collection on the local network. Again, due to authentication issues this feature would be optional or an authentication mechanism could be added.
I would personally really like to see that, just connect your laptop to a wireless netowrk and then you can play your music on any uPnP capable device.
But as the list seams rather crap, what do you think is missing from it?
Since VLCs firefox plugin is incompatible with noscript, I've started using mplayer, and as its modular (unlike VLC) I can also throw almost anything at it (actually I can throw more at it as it handles realmedia too). As for interfaces well i personally think Kmplayer beats VLC hands down as a media player too.
I also dont understand the need for a frontend to aptitude, apt + front end is just as powerful, its only dependency resolution that hasn't been well implemented in other front ends.
While they do still carry disproportionate amounts of wikipedia news, its no worse than any other internet based news, its not that bad any more. In fact i've started to quite like wikinews as its editors are free of delitionist scum it feels like wikipedia used to, free, open & willing to take contributions. Wikimedia tightening the reins is a real shame as i suspect it will end up like wikipedia, good but irritating in that it could be so much better
while a 2.7 branch would make sense if stability was important, its not, with 2.6 linus decided he couldn't be bothered with the boring part of stability and so told distros to do it themselves. This happens (with varying degrees of success), and has allows the kernel to develop at a much faster pace. Unfortunately this particular change is too much even for the 'unstable' kernel, so a temporary testing branch to get other peoples code sorted is being formed (a virtual 2.7 in effect only its so experimental it will never get released)
Are there really teasers like that? find out at 11 here!
Its gone from 0% to 100% on my pcs, everything is relative.
Why is this funny^H^H^H troll?
Yeah we got rid of the Giant lock, this is just the big lock, totally different things.
Yeah fixing this is sooooo easy, as a slashdot reader ofc I know how to do it better than those kernel mailing list noobs.
In fact I've got the code right here.
what you want to see it?
Oh look over there a flying car.
The article describes how the spammers are using their new found accounts, nothing to do with CAPTCHAs other than they had to (either automatically or manually) break them to get the accounts.
Im surprised they're not using them to break the spam filter of yahoo/hotmail/gmail though, I mean if they all started sending each other spam and marketing it as ham, wouldn't that pretty much break any feedback based system that their using to protect their users.
If it looks and acts (gives the same number of results), then why complain?
I for one really like the new address bar, its particularly useful when combined with one click tagging, but suppose it comes down to taste.