shhh, we all know evolution is a lie! It was all designed by some inventor and the tubes are in exactly the same form they were 3 years ago (any good source cites 3 years as the age of the internet and who am I to go questioning this when i find some of these "older" sites)
Lets not forget that in all honesty 24 hour tube isn't something people are that interested in, Brian paddock was proposing keeping the tube open all of friday & saturday (or atleast some of the tube), nobody cared much. There are plenty of 24hr buses to get you home between 1-2 and 5-6 (with the tfl.gov plasterd everywhere, aswell as the nightbus maps its not exactly hard to find them either). Ofc 24hr tube would be nice but id rather see money spend elsewhere than maintaining >250 stations open during the night for almost zero benefit (at night a bus can get from A to B pretty fast, especially as it rarely has to stop ( no traffic & nobody catching the bus at most stops))
Because the interface is pretty good, the comments give good feedback and you agree with their ideals (sweden is not in US jurisdiction). personally i find sites like mininova with its RSS feeds much more useful than limewire ever was for finding stuff to download.
Actually the client is free to choose the order of the pieces, which is why different cleints have different real world performances. A common trick is to first ask for anything and everything then once your d/l at full speed start looking to get the rarer pieces, which ofc leaves the end of the download getting common pieces so even though there are few of them it will not decrease the d/l speed.
Even if it's unencrypted it doesn't mean you can use them - depends on the laws in your country,
No if its unencrypted (or tbh WEP (or wpa with a popular SSID & weak passphrase)) I defiantly can USE them. is it legal? who cares cannabis is also illegal, its not like your going to get caught stealing some bandwidth from joe blogs (maybe if i overdo it but he will probably reinstall windows several times before even suspecting me)
Secondly there is currently no easy way to _intentionally_ _allow_ "anonymous" public users to use an _encrypted_ WiFi network, in a manner where the users can't successfully decrypt each other's traffic. In theory it is technically possible, but there is no standard to make it _easy_ (well at least as easy as using an https website).
unencrypted connection, followed by a vpn, or secure web proxy Im sure when i had a read of the open router firmware pages, it was looked easy to set up. Although they are both theoretically susceptible to a MITM attacks, i think that those attacks are not practical. Needless to say if you did hypothetically sniff the open wireless on a [national-express] train, you would see nothing of interest
while gentoo may have an openoffice 'overlay'(not a gentoo user so that may be the wrong term) most ubuntu users will have to download the deb manually (either from here or a third party repo (cant think of any for ubuntu) or wait for 9.04
oh and from TFA
Only 221,000 downloads by Linux users were recorded, leading John McCreesh, head of marketing for OpenOffice.org, to suggest a massive undercount. McCreesh said 90% of Linux users traditionally receive OpenOffice.org updates straight from their Linux distribution's vendor, which would explain the relatively low Linux count.
but that would still give windows >66% (assuming os x makes up 0%, which is possible due to neo office)
do you mean throttled or scaled, either way its part of the kernel of most modern operating systems, for more control there are userspace controllers for all OSs too.
linux is not great though, even after taking the suggestions from powertop (i believe they are implemented in "laptop-mode" for ubuntu but dont sue me if im wrong), it marginally outperforms windows machines, but still lakes acpi support to make suspend useable (depends on machine ofc). Using a touchpad in xorg also seams to kill battery life.
However what is great is the amount of user interaction with the powersaving, if you use something like kpowersave you just scroll over the icon to change your brightness (which cuts power consumption to nearly half on my laptop), there is also compression on hibernate, which means that you can get back to full desktop much faster than a normal hibernate/boot. In adition using powertop lets you audit your system to see whats wasting your batteries when idle (kicker in KDE is a common suspect, so switching to fluxbox can also give a marginal (5-10 mins) battery life increase)
My point: Linux is no better (and often worse) by default, but if you tweak it you CAN outperfom windows and gain other benifits too (no need for AV, faster boot, faster hibernate, faster file access and chkdsk (reiserfs mainly but ext3 is good too))
4. Network manager: Anyway who has a 3G connection probably has a laptop. And laptop's need network profile. I need one for work and one for my apartment. Ubuntu doesn't support these and this article doesn't mention anything new. Everything listed is minor improvements. Personally, I have to use wicd, which is decent, but isn't quite as well integrated as networkmanager.
I tried the alpha to test it but i was told it was too buggy to bother reporting stuff and the only fix i found was pointless because they couldnt update the versions of anything after the feature freeze.
wtf you talking how does a liveCD install shit anywhere? only if you choose to install stuff does it touch anything or install anything thats why its a fucking LIVE cd
shh its more fun to watch them fight over dst than to point out that changing a clock twice a year isnt going to make anybodies head explode (well nobody that didnt vote for bush anyway)
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shhh, we all know evolution is a lie! It was all designed by some inventor and the tubes are in exactly the same form they were 3 years ago (any good source cites 3 years as the age of the internet and who am I to go questioning this when i find some of these "older" sites)
right click disabling? is that like drm on pdfs, something that all good software leaves optional?
CCTV isnt really effective enough for tracking, too hard to run face recognition over all that data, wifi connections on the other hand...
Lets not forget that in all honesty 24 hour tube isn't something people are that interested in, Brian paddock was proposing keeping the tube open all of friday & saturday (or atleast some of the tube), nobody cared much. There are plenty of 24hr buses to get you home between 1-2 and 5-6 (with the tfl.gov plasterd everywhere, aswell as the nightbus maps its not exactly hard to find them either). Ofc 24hr tube would be nice but id rather see money spend elsewhere than maintaining >250 stations open during the night for almost zero benefit (at night a bus can get from A to B pretty fast, especially as it rarely has to stop ( no traffic & nobody catching the bus at most stops))
Because the interface is pretty good, the comments give good feedback and you agree with their ideals (sweden is not in US jurisdiction). personally i find sites like mininova with its RSS feeds much more useful than limewire ever was for finding stuff to download.
The pieces come in random order
Actually the client is free to choose the order of the pieces, which is why different cleints have different real world performances. A common trick is to first ask for anything and everything then once your d/l at full speed start looking to get the rarer pieces, which ofc leaves the end of the download getting common pieces so even though there are few of them it will not decrease the d/l speed.
Even if it's unencrypted it doesn't mean you can use them - depends on the laws in your country,
No if its unencrypted (or tbh WEP (or wpa with a popular SSID & weak passphrase)) I defiantly can USE them. is it legal? who cares cannabis is also illegal, its not like your going to get caught stealing some bandwidth from joe blogs (maybe if i overdo it but he will probably reinstall windows several times before even suspecting me)
Secondly there is currently no easy way to _intentionally_ _allow_ "anonymous" public users to use an _encrypted_ WiFi network, in a manner where the users can't successfully decrypt each other's traffic. In theory it is technically possible, but there is no standard to make it _easy_ (well at least as easy as using an https website).
unencrypted connection, followed by a vpn, or secure web proxy Im sure when i had a read of the open router firmware pages, it was looked easy to set up. Although they are both theoretically susceptible to a MITM attacks, i think that those attacks are not practical. Needless to say if you did hypothetically sniff the open wireless on a [national-express] train, you would see nothing of interest
how long has ms been ontop now?
faeries do not run the free market, its not perfect (hence the bailout) accept that the free market has its flaws and move on!
ill be honest I've been having a bad weekend with maths so i just got it completely wrong.
quick Slashdot admins hand over the logs they might take him out for good before they realize the report was about the other annoying twitter.
We can dream.
while gentoo may have an openoffice 'overlay'(not a gentoo user so that may be the wrong term) most ubuntu users will have to download the deb manually (either from here or a third party repo (cant think of any for ubuntu) or wait for 9.04
oh and from TFA
Only 221,000 downloads by Linux users were recorded, leading John McCreesh, head of marketing for OpenOffice.org, to suggest a massive undercount. McCreesh said 90% of Linux users traditionally receive OpenOffice.org updates straight from their Linux distribution's vendor, which would explain the relatively low Linux count.
but that would still give windows >66% (assuming os x makes up 0%, which is possible due to neo office)
do you mean throttled or scaled, either way its part of the kernel of most modern operating systems, for more control there are userspace controllers for all OSs too.
For those of us without 3 button mice, two finger tapping on touchpads also rocks.
linux is not great though, even after taking the suggestions from powertop (i believe they are implemented in "laptop-mode" for ubuntu but dont sue me if im wrong), it marginally outperforms windows machines, but still lakes acpi support to make suspend useable (depends on machine ofc). Using a touchpad in xorg also seams to kill battery life.
However what is great is the amount of user interaction with the powersaving, if you use something like kpowersave you just scroll over the icon to change your brightness (which cuts power consumption to nearly half on my laptop), there is also compression on hibernate, which means that you can get back to full desktop much faster than a normal hibernate/boot. In adition using powertop lets you audit your system to see whats wasting your batteries when idle (kicker in KDE is a common suspect, so switching to fluxbox can also give a marginal (5-10 mins) battery life increase)
My point: Linux is no better (and often worse) by default, but if you tweak it you CAN outperfom windows and gain other benifits too (no need for AV, faster boot, faster hibernate, faster file access and chkdsk (reiserfs mainly but ext3 is good too))
4. Network manager: Anyway who has a 3G connection probably has a laptop. And laptop's need network profile. I need one for work and one for my apartment. Ubuntu doesn't support these and this article doesn't mention anything new. Everything listed is minor improvements. Personally, I have to use wicd, which is decent, but isn't quite as well integrated as networkmanager.
A brainstorm suggestion regarding that it seams to be getting positive votes but not enough to get anything done yet.
shameless plug: other ideas of mine: GUI to show failed log in attempts renice the active program GUI tool to restart subsystems (make /etc/init.d/* easy for new users)
I tried the alpha to test it but i was told it was too buggy to bother reporting stuff and the only fix i found was pointless because they couldnt update the versions of anything after the feature freeze.
wtf you talking how does a liveCD install shit anywhere? only if you choose to install stuff does it touch anything or install anything thats why its a fucking LIVE cd
and what about kubuntu users?
most of the features seam gnome centric. use KDE fans make up ~30% of the *buntu userbase
bullshit! how do you think the jailbreak works? the browser runs as root. iPhone = least secure phone EVER!!!
and that is why we need to use prefetch tags instead of JS/DOM hacks
shh its more fun to watch them fight over dst than to point out that changing a clock twice a year isnt going to make anybodies head explode (well nobody that didnt vote for bush anyway)
sounds like one of those commics they used to advertise .net!
Lets not forget that the NT kernel runs on ~4 arches linux runs on ~16, that has to make it bigger
In addition there is also ksplice, to swap the actual kernel too.
only in the Debian version