I started playing around with colinux (a user mode Linux that runs on Win32) and needed a root_fs. Lo and behold I found a debian 3.0 root_fs. This was enough to get me going, but the packages are really ancient. So next I changed all the sources to Sarge, and grew a beard while updating. Now I have a spiffy Debian 3.1 all running at something like 90% native under Win32!
The only problem was getting networking going, but that was more to do with colinux and the pain with trying to create TAP devices on Win32. I sure hope that MS ship with TAP-Win32 in their next release. They really, really should.
Sounds like another lawsuit waiting to happen. Remember all the blueberry iMac clones that briefly appeared a few years back.
Still, Apple didn't invent this the small form factor space - there's been lots of 'em over the years. Therefore as long as a PC only superficially similar to a mini (i.e. they're both small), I don't think any manufacturer has anything to worry about.
It does seem weird to continue to use an editor that causes you so much pain that you need to modify a keyboard to use it. There are plenty of decent editors which don't require the pain in the ass zillion key strokes of emacs for regular tasks.
I find JEdit to be a very good editor - graphical, but with plenty of complexity and functionality if you need it. I only know a handful of keystrokes and use the menus for other stuff. Then you've got Eclipse, or GEdit, and whatever the KDE equivalent of GEdit is plus a multitude of others. Then on the command line you've got Joe, Nano, Vim and JED. I love JED, (similar to micro-Emacs) for the quick and dirty stuff.
Failing that, why not just bind different keys to emacs? Bind stuff to F12 instead. I'm even sure with some hacking you could make the windows key (that most PC keyboards have), or the popup key (that they have too), or Print Screen or something simulate holding all the modifers down at once.
.NET (as in the CLR) is actually not much different in terms of performance than Java. Any OS built on top of it would run like a slug.
While I can believe that discrete parts of it such as certain services and some eye candy might be implemented in.NET, it seems a little weird to expect critical parts of it to be.NET at all.
Privacy is a concern? It's not just a concern, it's completely discarded. And for little gain, since anyone savvy about such measures would shift their attack to some place else.
For example I shudder when I see the huge snaking queues caused by heightened security at most airports. It would be absolutely trivial to take out a hundred people and severely injure several hundred more in any major US airport. How so? Wait for some popular holiday (e.g. this weekend) and walk in the front door with a suitcase full of high explosives and nails. Then locate the huge winding security line and detonate the bomb.
Once that becomes ineffective, shift to other venues where people gather - malls, cinemas, concerts, nightclubs etc.
The Mac is regarded as secure because it takes the same stance to security as modern Unix systems.
Okay the guy sounds pissed, but it doesn't make sense why you'd drop all your hardware at the same time as you'd drop XP. Any PC that can run XP can in all liklihood run Linux (or BSD) and benefit from security goodness too.
Except this isn't Netscape anymore. Netscape 8.0 was produced by some 3rd party contracted by AOL to take Firefox and rebrand with the Netscape product.
The reason for this is that there is no Netscape browser engineers anymore. They all got laid off. AOL in their infinite wisdom decided after settling with Microsoft that they didn't need to wield Netscape as a stick any more and got rid of it. That was even after Gecko was proving to be a better and more stable browser than IE even in their client.
Still NS8.0 might hold out some hope that AOL will dump IE. The browser switching technology might convince them that now is finally the right time to move. Hell, for all we know someone might be knocking together an AOL branded version of Firefox to replace their crusty client. Pigs might fly of course.
I had until recently, a PC keyboard attached to my Mac. The lousy Mac steadfastly refused to support standard UK PC mappings. It could and should seeing as the Mac Mini is claimed to work with PC kit. So keys like #, @, ", ~, and | were in the wrong places. Not knowing where these keys were except by experimentation in no way speeded up me typing.
In fact the opposite happened since I would have to play "hunt-the-symbol" every time I was programming, using the shell or any other menial task.
By far the worst is the Euro symbol. On a UK PC keyboard you press AltGr+4 to get it, on the Mac you press Alt+2. Neither is particularly intuitive but when the keyboard says it's on one key and it isn't, you find yourself resorting to cutting and pasting the symbol from somewhere else because you give up trying to find it.
Eventually I gave in and got a replacement Mac keyboard (the first just failed for no reason). Now my keys are where they're meant to be - except the # mark whose location isn't even printed on the Mac UK keyboard.
It really boils down to this. Eurovision songs are by and large insipid and instantly forgettable trash composed and performed by talentless nobodies. Occasionally someone breaks the mould but not often.
The problem is that nobody takes it seriously. If they did, they'd pit their best singers and performers against each other. Instead (at least in the UK & Ireland) it's more like a talent show with the people choosing the least worst of a handful of songs to represent the country.
Just look at Ireland this year. They have the likes of U2, The Corrs, The Cranberries, Enya, Phil Coulter, Van Morrison and even *spit* Westlife. So who did they send to compete? Two nobodies - a 15 year old ginger four eyes and his sister to sing some dirge about "Love". The sad part is that they chose these two after a long running sub-Pop Idol kind of competition.
So naturally when the songs are so appalling, the votes are heavily slanted to their Euro-pals. This year the finalists were heavily Eastern European so the vote reflected that. The stalwarts like the UK, France & Germany finished miserably.
Another weird thing is observing how the songs from past years get ripped off in the following year's competition. Turkey won a couple of years back and you could still hear ripped off riffs from their entry even this year.
If merciless teasing and bullying by their peers doesn't get fat asses to lose weight, what chance have the government got by offering an iPod?
If the kiddies in a school are too fat, there is a simple solution. Tell the dinner ladies to stop deep frying everything and produce something healthier.
Perhaps you should have read what I wrote. I know RH & SUSE have management tools. The point someone was making was that you just tell these enterprises to run "apt-get upgrade" which is patent nonsense.
So you maintain your own repository. Is there software to auto deploy updates to tens of thousands of machines based upon their machine name, location, role or other details? And maintain an inventory of what machines need updating, and what machines have what software?
I'm sure you could go to great lengths writing scripts and cron jobs to do all of that stuff, but that would rather prove whatever point this MS study is trying to imply.
Fortunately, the likes of Novell OES & Zenworks would mean the point is moot. Even if a specific dist like Debian is unable to manage lots of machines, some versions of Linux can do it with no problems at all.
The encryption would stop eavesdroppers from being able to identify the person / card nr making the transaction. It needn't even be encrypted - it could just be some 128/256 unique ID which the clearing house can use as an index to a person's details.
It wouldn't stop someone replaying the same signal which is why I was wondering if there were any kind of challenge / response where the result would differ each time.
Businesses running critical infrastructure or with large numbers of desktops do not blindly use apt-get / up2date / yum to install patches.
While I agree that it's handy to be able to do just that at home, it is necessary in the enterprise to be able to see a list of patches, the advisories for those patches, the dependencies between patches and be able to deploy (and rollback) them to all, some or specific boxes that are managed by a single patch server.
You mean the young bastards with the laser pointers and cell phones? Or the Tall Guy sitting in front of you? Or the uncomfortable seats? Or the fact that you can't pause the movie?
Of course if you download the copy doing the rounds, you'll probably get all of the above lovingly encoded into your home viewing experience.
So you're saying the thief need merely loiter near the victim at checkout when they remove their card to wave it past the reader? I'm sure standing behind them would be close enough.
That assumes people are going to use a shielded sleeve. Precious few won't. And a thief could simply plant themselves somewhere busy like a food court and steal any id that goes past.
Of course any such system would require some other form of protection. The site says encryption, e.g. the card's credentionals are encrypted with a key known only to the clearing house. It still means the key could be vulnerable to a plaintext attack since the data is likely to be short but contain well formed data such as dates, names, credit card numbers. It also means that the card could be vulnerable to some kind of playback attack unless the card itself is capable of giving a different response depending on some challenge.
It seems to me that it would be cheaper and safe if they adopted the chip & PIN system already used by France and recently UK & Ireland. There is nothing to "sniff" and it's hardly less convenient to use or implement.
Or you lose weight / slip some cloth between your skin & the bracelet so that contact is intermittant and drive the guards nuts with false alarms. Get all your buddies to do the same. It might not gain you anything but it helps to pass the time.
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The only problem was getting networking going, but that was more to do with colinux and the pain with trying to create TAP devices on Win32. I sure hope that MS ship with TAP-Win32 in their next release. They really, really should.
Still, Apple didn't invent this the small form factor space - there's been lots of 'em over the years. Therefore as long as a PC only superficially similar to a mini (i.e. they're both small), I don't think any manufacturer has anything to worry about.
Then you touch it with your elbow, or a moistened tissue, or wet leather gloves, or just about anything that will fool it into starting.
I find JEdit to be a very good editor - graphical, but with plenty of complexity and functionality if you need it. I only know a handful of keystrokes and use the menus for other stuff. Then you've got Eclipse, or GEdit, and whatever the KDE equivalent of GEdit is plus a multitude of others. Then on the command line you've got Joe, Nano, Vim and JED. I love JED, (similar to micro-Emacs) for the quick and dirty stuff.
Failing that, why not just bind different keys to emacs? Bind stuff to F12 instead. I'm even sure with some hacking you could make the windows key (that most PC keyboards have), or the popup key (that they have too), or Print Screen or something simulate holding all the modifers down at once.
Erk? Declaring variables up front is a good thing. It means you can do compile-time type validation amongst other things.
While I can believe that discrete parts of it such as certain services and some eye candy might be implemented in
For example I shudder when I see the huge snaking queues caused by heightened security at most airports. It would be absolutely trivial to take out a hundred people and severely injure several hundred more in any major US airport. How so? Wait for some popular holiday (e.g. this weekend) and walk in the front door with a suitcase full of high explosives and nails. Then locate the huge winding security line and detonate the bomb.
Once that becomes ineffective, shift to other venues where people gather - malls, cinemas, concerts, nightclubs etc.
Okay the guy sounds pissed, but it doesn't make sense why you'd drop all your hardware at the same time as you'd drop XP. Any PC that can run XP can in all liklihood run Linux (or BSD) and benefit from security goodness too.
The reason for this is that there is no Netscape browser engineers anymore. They all got laid off. AOL in their infinite wisdom decided after settling with Microsoft that they didn't need to wield Netscape as a stick any more and got rid of it. That was even after Gecko was proving to be a better and more stable browser than IE even in their client.
Still NS8.0 might hold out some hope that AOL will dump IE. The browser switching technology might convince them that now is finally the right time to move. Hell, for all we know someone might be knocking together an AOL branded version of Firefox to replace their crusty client. Pigs might fly of course.
In fact the opposite happened since I would have to play "hunt-the-symbol" every time I was programming, using the shell or any other menial task.
By far the worst is the Euro symbol. On a UK PC keyboard you press AltGr+4 to get it, on the Mac you press Alt+2. Neither is particularly intuitive but when the keyboard says it's on one key and it isn't, you find yourself resorting to cutting and pasting the symbol from somewhere else because you give up trying to find it.
Eventually I gave in and got a replacement Mac keyboard (the first just failed for no reason). Now my keys are where they're meant to be - except the # mark whose location isn't even printed on the Mac UK keyboard.
your stake, mallet and holy water.
Now try and find the building behind the building you're looking for. Good luck trying to find anything at all in Manhattan.
The problem is that nobody takes it seriously. If they did, they'd pit their best singers and performers against each other. Instead (at least in the UK & Ireland) it's more like a talent show with the people choosing the least worst of a handful of songs to represent the country.
Just look at Ireland this year. They have the likes of U2, The Corrs, The Cranberries, Enya, Phil Coulter, Van Morrison and even *spit* Westlife. So who did they send to compete? Two nobodies - a 15 year old ginger four eyes and his sister to sing some dirge about "Love". The sad part is that they chose these two after a long running sub-Pop Idol kind of competition.
So naturally when the songs are so appalling, the votes are heavily slanted to their Euro-pals. This year the finalists were heavily Eastern European so the vote reflected that. The stalwarts like the UK, France & Germany finished miserably.
Another weird thing is observing how the songs from past years get ripped off in the following year's competition. Turkey won a couple of years back and you could still hear ripped off riffs from their entry even this year.
If the kiddies in a school are too fat, there is a simple solution. Tell the dinner ladies to stop deep frying everything and produce something healthier.
If its comparable to the many thousands of tons of carbon dioxide emitted when building coal / wood power plants, the question is irrelevant.
It was a joke. Which I see completely passed you by from your rant about "people like [me]".
Which is true, but not the point I was making.
Perhaps you should have read what I wrote. I know RH & SUSE have management tools. The point someone was making was that you just tell these enterprises to run "apt-get upgrade" which is patent nonsense.
I'm sure you could go to great lengths writing scripts and cron jobs to do all of that stuff, but that would rather prove whatever point this MS study is trying to imply.
Fortunately, the likes of Novell OES & Zenworks would mean the point is moot. Even if a specific dist like Debian is unable to manage lots of machines, some versions of Linux can do it with no problems at all.
It wouldn't stop someone replaying the same signal which is why I was wondering if there were any kind of challenge / response where the result would differ each time.
While I agree that it's handy to be able to do just that at home, it is necessary in the enterprise to be able to see a list of patches, the advisories for those patches, the dependencies between patches and be able to deploy (and rollback) them to all, some or specific boxes that are managed by a single patch server.
Of course if you download the copy doing the rounds, you'll probably get all of the above lovingly encoded into your home viewing experience.
That assumes people are going to use a shielded sleeve. Precious few won't. And a thief could simply plant themselves somewhere busy like a food court and steal any id that goes past.
Of course any such system would require some other form of protection. The site says encryption, e.g. the card's credentionals are encrypted with a key known only to the clearing house. It still means the key could be vulnerable to a plaintext attack since the data is likely to be short but contain well formed data such as dates, names, credit card numbers. It also means that the card could be vulnerable to some kind of playback attack unless the card itself is capable of giving a different response depending on some challenge.
It seems to me that it would be cheaper and safe if they adopted the chip & PIN system already used by France and recently UK & Ireland. There is nothing to "sniff" and it's hardly less convenient to use or implement.
Or you lose weight / slip some cloth between your skin & the bracelet so that contact is intermittant and drive the guards nuts with false alarms. Get all your buddies to do the same. It might not gain you anything but it helps to pass the time.
Let me guess what the big surprise is - little DS like screen / touch pads built-in.