Throwing censorship through music like that just majorly distracts from the song. Get the actual albums (or don't download them from Morpheus, Grokster, Kazaa and Limewire) to be able to enjoy them a bit.
Wait, I take my first statement back. Paying 400,000 dollars to corrupt governments and "trying to steer them away from the cheapest and most sensible solution" doesn't seem like such a good thing after all.
My 2 cents about content management: have an application that keeps track and remembers the last 20 files or so opened with any application. The program works like this: it's split up in to three parts:
- A daemon that keeps track of what application wrote data to what file (this should be possible, right?), and stores this info in a database. - A graphical application with a list of "applications that accessed files" on the left hand, and an empty pane on the right hand. Click any application in the list on the left and the right pane will show the files (+ document titles, possibly) it accessed (sorted by last date first). - An applet to quickly access the application and have some options/settings available quickly.
And then some useful extras in the graphical app like setting the importance for a file and putting files into a seperate paragraph; think like this: there's some small bold paragraph text labeled "Last accessed files" with the bunch of last accessed files below it, and then below that another paragraph "important" or "some custom label"... And one global area to put any type of file in any paragraph.
I think it'll definitely help those people who are a mess when it comes to file storage... At least, I'd be able to find my latest/most important things back more quickly, even though I'm very tidy when it comes to file/folder structures.
Regarding the partitioning part, you are oversimplifying it. Windows comes with its partitioner during install, and Ubuntu also comes with its partitioner once you select the custom mode. You WILL need to have some knowledge about Linux partitions if you want to setup the partitions correctly, same for Windows.
Otherwise you are pretty much correct about the difference installation procedure; I loved how Ubuntu (well, XUbuntu) was less of a mess with it.
On an unrelated note... About Ubuntu installation, I guess one thing that would be nice is having some specific "PC/usage type" form where you can quickly and easily have packages installed or left out depending on if you have a "desktop", "laptop", "server", "media PC" etcetera. In other words, it'll only install a mail server if you selected "server", and it'll only install a decent media player and codecs if you selected "media PC".
...I don't know why I'm rambling about it in here though.
Actually, it depends a lot on the kind of PC you have, too - I had bad experience with getting some hardware to work in Mandriva when most it was found in Ubuntu.
Of course, the last time I used Mandriva is just after they renamed it from Mandrake, so hardware support really WAS something different back then. And I'll have to agree on the nice configuration screens.
The person is probably just misinformed or insufficiently informed about open-source software and the benefits behind open-source projects. Link him to this page, which by now should have a whole bunch of useful comments on open-source software.
My main point would be this I guess: it's not easy to have faulty/damaging code accepted into the main branch of the bigger projects. So no, there's no damaging code in the main branch of most major OSS apps, especially the widely used ones.
That's the train of thought you should be having. Assume your public knows nothing about this stuff, and you should automatically take care not to write complicated stuff.
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It might, but I'm running a modified Eee version of 2.6.27 right now, in which case it plain works. Still no webcam (in Cheese) or mic (in Audacity) though.
Whoa! My network card (Atheros) and webcam might finally work out of the "box"! New FS for flash memory sounds great too. Some awesome improvements there.
Regarding speed and power optimizations (Intel apparently has focused on this a lot recently with apps like powertop and latenytop), how much of that has been added to this version of the kernel? And what did the "start in 5 seconds" experiment yield for this version?
I foresee this bringing extra security to already secured sites too. Nice.
What would the general extra overhead be when this is implemented into TCP, though?
One method of security I've seen on forums and such is image matching - you have a field of 9 to 16 somewhat random pictures, and have to pick out the three or four ones that have "a car" or "a cat" in them... This is pretty good human security, especially if you try to make as many pics and only few picture combos.
Wouldn't work on email, of course.
"Concepts such as religion, god, morality, individualism, freedom, identity, happiness, love and billions of others are all just memes."
Think about this: what do you get when you remove, avoid or even imitate these kinds of illogical concepts? That's right, you get emotionless and predictable robots. Fakes. Therefore, please don't explain the unexplainable or illogical as some sort of thought-controlling device.
(I wonder if this will even be read by the guy who sent that mail... Probably not.)
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Throwing censorship through music like that just majorly distracts from the song. Get the actual albums (or don't download them from Morpheus, Grokster, Kazaa and Limewire) to be able to enjoy them a bit.
Wait, I take my first statement back. Paying 400,000 dollars to corrupt governments and "trying to steer them away from the cheapest and most sensible solution" doesn't seem like such a good thing after all.
Well, at least they're doing something positive, even if it's for the sake of not wanting people to use Linux...
But it'd have been a much better idea to spend this money on being able to do something for the poor countries' economies somehow.
Really? I remember it installing some software most people wouldn't need some time ago... Must just be me.
My 2 cents about content management: have an application that keeps track and remembers the last 20 files or so opened with any application. The program works like this: it's split up in to three parts:
- A daemon that keeps track of what application wrote data to what file (this should be possible, right?), and stores this info in a database.
- A graphical application with a list of "applications that accessed files" on the left hand, and an empty pane on the right hand. Click any application in the list on the left and the right pane will show the files (+ document titles, possibly) it accessed (sorted by last date first).
- An applet to quickly access the application and have some options/settings available quickly.
And then some useful extras in the graphical app like setting the importance for a file and putting files into a seperate paragraph; think like this: there's some small bold paragraph text labeled "Last accessed files" with the bunch of last accessed files below it, and then below that another paragraph "important" or "some custom label"... And one global area to put any type of file in any paragraph.
I think it'll definitely help those people who are a mess when it comes to file storage... At least, I'd be able to find my latest/most important things back more quickly, even though I'm very tidy when it comes to file/folder structures.
Regarding the partitioning part, you are oversimplifying it. Windows comes with its partitioner during install, and Ubuntu also comes with its partitioner once you select the custom mode. You WILL need to have some knowledge about Linux partitions if you want to setup the partitions correctly, same for Windows.
Otherwise you are pretty much correct about the difference installation procedure; I loved how Ubuntu (well, XUbuntu) was less of a mess with it.
On an unrelated note... About Ubuntu installation, I guess one thing that would be nice is having some specific "PC/usage type" form where you can quickly and easily have packages installed or left out depending on if you have a "desktop", "laptop", "server", "media PC" etcetera. In other words, it'll only install a mail server if you selected "server", and it'll only install a decent media player and codecs if you selected "media PC".
...I don't know why I'm rambling about it in here though.
Actually, it depends a lot on the kind of PC you have, too - I had bad experience with getting some hardware to work in Mandriva when most it was found in Ubuntu.
Of course, the last time I used Mandriva is just after they renamed it from Mandrake, so hardware support really WAS something different back then. And I'll have to agree on the nice configuration screens.
Right, OpenOffice.org started looking so much more better thanks to Compiz.
The person is probably just misinformed or insufficiently informed about open-source software and the benefits behind open-source projects. Link him to this page, which by now should have a whole bunch of useful comments on open-source software.
My main point would be this I guess: it's not easy to have faulty/damaging code accepted into the main branch of the bigger projects. So no, there's no damaging code in the main branch of most major OSS apps, especially the widely used ones.
Rather just "Blue Screen Death" - the action of causing and displaying a BSOD. :P
First version: 4.3? Something weird's going on with the versioning here...
"MySpace? What is that?"
That's the train of thought you should be having. Assume your public knows nothing about this stuff, and you should automatically take care not to write complicated stuff.
It might, but I'm running a modified Eee version of 2.6.27 right now, in which case it plain works. Still no webcam (in Cheese) or mic (in Audacity) though.
Whoa! My network card (Atheros) and webcam might finally work out of the "box"! New FS for flash memory sounds great too. Some awesome improvements there.
Regarding speed and power optimizations (Intel apparently has focused on this a lot recently with apps like powertop and latenytop), how much of that has been added to this version of the kernel? And what did the "start in 5 seconds" experiment yield for this version?
What about data execution? "init command 'take a leak'."
Bending spoons, you say?
*Imagines Wario Ware: Brainless!*
How do you intend to mash a button when a game is mind-controlled? Visualize a button in your mind?
What do you mean, "no Windows version"? It's a platform-independent GIMP plugin for crying out loud.
Injecting ASP code into an user submission field? Don't make me laugh. These "hackers" are more like script kiddies trying to act cool.
I foresee this bringing extra security to already secured sites too. Nice.
What would the general extra overhead be when this is implemented into TCP, though?
Post titles, dude. Post titles.
It's only a bunch of fud because people keep finding solutions to these limit problems.
One method of security I've seen on forums and such is image matching - you have a field of 9 to 16 somewhat random pictures, and have to pick out the three or four ones that have "a car" or "a cat" in them... This is pretty good human security, especially if you try to make as many pics and only few picture combos.
Wouldn't work on email, of course.
Point 1 and 2 kind of contradict eachother - with the mixing of one's, e1s and i's you're actually forced to slow down reading. :P
"Concepts such as religion, god, morality, individualism, freedom, identity, happiness, love and billions of others are all just memes."
Think about this: what do you get when you remove, avoid or even imitate these kinds of illogical concepts? That's right, you get emotionless and predictable robots. Fakes. Therefore, please don't explain the unexplainable or illogical as some sort of thought-controlling device.
(I wonder if this will even be read by the guy who sent that mail... Probably not.)