You're right from a semantic point of view, the "/" is not necessary and makes things look like GNU/Linux, which personally annoys me. And I doubt the original was trying to get that point across in the first place. But yeah, like saying MS/Windows or whatever.
I hate, hate saying this, but in this case, it might actually add value to say "GNU's version of tar" does such and such. Kind of like comparing GNU/Emacs to Lucid/XEmacs or whatever for a particular command. Compare GNU ping and BSD ping, for an example.
Layer grouping is one of the biggest gripes I've gotten so far. Dealing with a 120MB image with 60 layers isn't easy when they're not grouped in some hierarchy.
I think the rest was general "I hate this because it's different from what I know", rather than actual lack of function, but honestly, the artist involved was...unmotivated...to give Gimp a fair shake. At the risk of having to hire a food taster to test my meals, I decided to let it go.
I'm very glad our forebears don't think this way. RSA wouldn't have done their work, Phil Zimmerman wouldn't have made PGP, there'd be no Hactivismo, no SSL, ssh or anything else that can help anyone, good or bad, hide what they're doing?
Why does Phil Zimmerman hate America? And why didn't he think of the children? THE CHILDREN!
Reading the thread I see lots of "put 'em in milkcrate" type arguments, and lots of people saying "duplicate them to servers and screw the physical media", in contrast to the question, which states that after duplicating them, they have to keep them.
I'd ask to tour a large radio company. They run off what sounds like NAS based systems now, rather than physical CDs, but I'm sure they have to store them somewhere.
For my part, I wouldh have said booklets. 400CDs per book, 30,000 CDs, 100 booklets, 5" width per book, 500" of shelf space, it's a lot less than a law offices law library. I have about 1000 CDs, in like 4 books, Jewel cases are in boxes in the attic, music is all ripped. This could easily scale to their size especially if someone is being paid to maintain it.
Didn't see the GPP. Dumbass = me.
Don't get me wrong, I use GIMP constantly, but I've actually gotten yelled at for suggesting "here, honey why don't you try this at home so we don't have to drop $200 for Windows and ungodly more hundreds for Photoshop". I'll be lucky to walk away with teeth after setting her up with Inkscape on one monitor and Xara on the other and saying "try these so that maybe we don't have to upgrade Illustrator".
I think it's just that design pros know what they know, which is a shitty reason to give up on FOSS software to replace it. My only real gripe that bites me in GIMP is that I have focus-follows-mouse on, if I happen to tag the corner of another edit window while moving from the image I'm editing, all my palettes change, obviously, and many times I don't notice. Not much to be done about that though.
I actually have a friend whose brother in law was visting from the UK. He complained about the lack of security of having "wooden houses" because theives could just "cut through a house with a chainsaw and steal your tv". My friend was telling me this and all I could think is how it must suck to live in England where they have brick/stone houses and no windows or doors.
One major feature that Xara has over GIMP is that we're talking about vector drawing applications, which is what Xara is, and which is something GIMP is not.
Gimp is a raster-based "image editing" app.
And there are many Photoshop features which matter to real designers doing real work that GIMP cannot approach (my wife's biggest usability complaint is lack of grouped layers).
Absolutely. Yeah, ultimately if she hadn't logged into AOL and used AOL's search engine, it would have been much harder to track. And if I did the same thing with, say Google, using Tor, it would definitely be much safer, as long as I wasn't signed into GMAIL at the same time.
TOR doesn't seem like it would have helped in her specific case, since she was searching for things she needed, as a resident of a particular town, and a particular development in that town. That's what made her easy to track, not anything like client IP or anything that TOR would guard against.
It's a matter of search being less useful if you can't search for things that you need to know because of privacy concerns. It's a bummer.
The WarRocketry was really cool, and the badge hacking contest promises to be pretty competetive. Major Malfunction (speaker for magstripe hacking), has already made his into an IR emitter. TV-Be-GOON.
There is also a small bot area where they are doing computer controlled weapons targetting. I watched that for a while yesterday, the results were very mixed, but most of them had the right idea.
What's with Level3 and "social networking" sites? Last year it was LJ in Seattle, now it's Myspace in LA? Last year I guess it was just some moron hitting the EPO and shutting off a couple floors of datacenter, this one's way more serious, but their batteries and generators should have worked.
Then again, what kind of system can't recover from being shut off? Myspace should have been able to turn back on, reply some tx logs (maybe) and resume when power was available. I wouldn't feel right just blaming the Datacenter wholly, when it's no longer a power problem, but an application failure.
600 million, remind yourselves, half a BILLION is what Myspace is supposedly worth, and they can't recover from a DB failure. What if it hadn't been the DC? What if power to redundant PDUs in whatever rack went down? What if the DB just failed? We'd still be having this discussion.
i must admit to having difficulties imagining how you live...
Quite simple really, I drink, and then I post here... It was an intentional overstatement, but really, I do use the hell of that app. It runs my stereo, for instance.
No, no, you're absolutely right. It's stupid and petty. But I really do listen to a lot of music. We buy a lot of CDs and it's the only thing I've found that is good at organizing things the way I want them organized. From desktop to ipod, to the iBook that we use with our stereo.
One of the main reasons I stick with SuSE is because of bleeding edge KDE builds and bleeding edge builds of every KDE/QT based package (Amarok is very important to how I live). Is this going to be some kind of Grand Plan going forward, or is this "GNOME is easier for the average desktop user, so that's our Enterprise desktop product" because KDE has too much customization for the corporate desktop? Give SuSE's history with KDE, I would really hate to see them fall out of the K mainstream. I don't think I could live with GNOME's limitations on my customization of my own experience, it's very important to me that I can make my desktops do exactly what I want them to do for the way that I do my job.
I was always waiting for the other shoe to drop when Novell bought out Ximian, is this that shoe?
I thought the entire description was metaphorical of some kind of sneakiness on Apple's part. Lock-in of "high level" customers in some kind of corporate licensing back-stab.
Why am I this paranoid? A real elevator really malfunction actually trapping real people. Who'd have thunk? I just bought a MacBook, hasn't even arrived yet, and I'm ready to believe Gatesian levels of corporate nuttiness?
Slashdot Mirror
How many people, knowing they were on a very hostile network, still logged into slashdot, livejournal, ftp sites, webmail, all in the clear...
You're right from a semantic point of view, the "/" is not necessary and makes things look like GNU/Linux, which personally annoys me. And I doubt the original was trying to get that point across in the first place. But yeah, like saying MS/Windows or whatever.
I hate, hate saying this, but in this case, it might actually add value to say "GNU's version of tar" does such and such. Kind of like comparing GNU/Emacs to Lucid/XEmacs or whatever for a particular command. Compare GNU ping and BSD ping, for an example.
Layer grouping is one of the biggest gripes I've gotten so far. Dealing with a 120MB image with 60 layers isn't easy when they're not grouped in some hierarchy. I think the rest was general "I hate this because it's different from what I know", rather than actual lack of function, but honestly, the artist involved was...unmotivated...to give Gimp a fair shake. At the risk of having to hire a food taster to test my meals, I decided to let it go.
CTs can use it to train too.
I really hope that wasn't an English professor.
20 GOTO 10 isn't going anywhere.
Sure it is.
I'm very glad our forebears don't think this way. RSA wouldn't have done their work, Phil Zimmerman wouldn't have made PGP, there'd be no Hactivismo, no SSL, ssh or anything else that can help anyone, good or bad, hide what they're doing?
Why does Phil Zimmerman hate America? And why didn't he think of the children? THE CHILDREN!
Backups of GPG private key.
That thumbdrive isn't getting plugged in much.
Reading the thread I see lots of "put 'em in milkcrate" type arguments, and lots of people saying "duplicate them to servers and screw the physical media", in contrast to the question, which states that after duplicating them, they have to keep them.
I'd ask to tour a large radio company. They run off what sounds like NAS based systems now, rather than physical CDs, but I'm sure they have to store them somewhere.
For my part, I wouldh have said booklets. 400CDs per book, 30,000 CDs, 100 booklets, 5" width per book, 500" of shelf space, it's a lot less than a law offices law library. I have about 1000 CDs, in like 4 books, Jewel cases are in boxes in the attic, music is all ripped. This could easily scale to their size especially if someone is being paid to maintain it.
And you can't stab the walls down with pointy kitchen knives anymore, so I guess that means England Is Safe. Cool.
Didn't see the GPP. Dumbass = me. Don't get me wrong, I use GIMP constantly, but I've actually gotten yelled at for suggesting "here, honey why don't you try this at home so we don't have to drop $200 for Windows and ungodly more hundreds for Photoshop". I'll be lucky to walk away with teeth after setting her up with Inkscape on one monitor and Xara on the other and saying "try these so that maybe we don't have to upgrade Illustrator".
I think it's just that design pros know what they know, which is a shitty reason to give up on FOSS software to replace it. My only real gripe that bites me in GIMP is that I have focus-follows-mouse on, if I happen to tag the corner of another edit window while moving from the image I'm editing, all my palettes change, obviously, and many times I don't notice. Not much to be done about that though.
Bump this guy up, that was pretty much going to be my reply.
I actually have a friend whose brother in law was visting from the UK. He complained about the lack of security of having "wooden houses" because theives could just "cut through a house with a chainsaw and steal your tv". My friend was telling me this and all I could think is how it must suck to live in England where they have brick/stone houses and no windows or doors.
One major feature that Xara has over GIMP is that we're talking about vector drawing applications, which is what Xara is, and which is something GIMP is not. Gimp is a raster-based "image editing" app. And there are many Photoshop features which matter to real designers doing real work that GIMP cannot approach (my wife's biggest usability complaint is lack of grouped layers).
Gesundheit.
"Want a kleenex?"
"No thanks, you got any q-tips?"
"Ah man, you got snot all over my xerox, hey throw me that windex."
Absolutely. Yeah, ultimately if she hadn't logged into AOL and used AOL's search engine, it would have been much harder to track. And if I did the same thing with, say Google, using Tor, it would definitely be much safer, as long as I wasn't signed into GMAIL at the same time.
TOR doesn't seem like it would have helped in her specific case, since she was searching for things she needed, as a resident of a particular town, and a particular development in that town. That's what made her easy to track, not anything like client IP or anything that TOR would guard against. It's a matter of search being less useful if you can't search for things that you need to know because of privacy concerns. It's a bummer.
Dammit, photos of the badges are here: One, Two, Three.
The WarRocketry was really cool, and the badge hacking contest promises to be pretty competetive. Major Malfunction (speaker for magstripe hacking), has already made his into an IR emitter. TV-Be-GOON. There is also a small bot area where they are doing computer controlled weapons targetting. I watched that for a while yesterday, the results were very mixed, but most of them had the right idea.
What's with Level3 and "social networking" sites? Last year it was LJ in Seattle, now it's Myspace in LA? Last year I guess it was just some moron hitting the EPO and shutting off a couple floors of datacenter, this one's way more serious, but their batteries and generators should have worked.
Then again, what kind of system can't recover from being shut off? Myspace should have been able to turn back on, reply some tx logs (maybe) and resume when power was available. I wouldn't feel right just blaming the Datacenter wholly, when it's no longer a power problem, but an application failure.
600 million, remind yourselves, half a BILLION is what Myspace is supposedly worth, and they can't recover from a DB failure. What if it hadn't been the DC? What if power to redundant PDUs in whatever rack went down? What if the DB just failed? We'd still be having this discussion.
i must admit to having difficulties imagining how you live...
Quite simple really, I drink, and then I post here... It was an intentional overstatement, but really, I do use the hell of that app. It runs my stereo, for instance.
No, no, you're absolutely right. It's stupid and petty. But I really do listen to a lot of music. We buy a lot of CDs and it's the only thing I've found that is good at organizing things the way I want them organized. From desktop to ipod, to the iBook that we use with our stereo.
One of the main reasons I stick with SuSE is because of bleeding edge KDE builds and bleeding edge builds of every KDE/QT based package (Amarok is very important to how I live). Is this going to be some kind of Grand Plan going forward, or is this "GNOME is easier for the average desktop user, so that's our Enterprise desktop product" because KDE has too much customization for the corporate desktop? Give SuSE's history with KDE, I would really hate to see them fall out of the K mainstream. I don't think I could live with GNOME's limitations on my customization of my own experience, it's very important to me that I can make my desktops do exactly what I want them to do for the way that I do my job.
I was always waiting for the other shoe to drop when Novell bought out Ximian, is this that shoe?
I thought the entire description was metaphorical of some kind of sneakiness on Apple's part. Lock-in of "high level" customers in some kind of corporate licensing back-stab.
Why am I this paranoid? A real elevator really malfunction actually trapping real people. Who'd have thunk? I just bought a MacBook, hasn't even arrived yet, and I'm ready to believe Gatesian levels of corporate nuttiness?