Ask Transgaming about Cedega. As a former subscriber, I can say that while its better than nothing, the majority of games I want to play on Linux still do not work. So i found it kinda pointless.
From what Valve has stated, most of their code is already cross platform anyway. They've simply written some shims for OpenGL and Core Audio for Mac support. Linux will be trickier as you really don't know what is installed, what package manager the user is running, what parts of the OS have been compiled from source by some over-zealous gentoo user (for example) with insane optimization flags, etc.
Baby steps. If the OS X port is successful maybe then they'll do linux in a year or two I would guess. OS X is going to be a lot easier for them.
If I told you that you had a 100% chance of being killed in an accident in vehicle A, but only a 63% chance of being killed if you were in the same accident vehicle B, which one would you take to work?
This gives a safety factor of 2.56, which isn't much!
On the contrary, one could say it is over 2x as difficult to crack.
Whether or not that is worth the effort expended is left to the individual. no its not a silver bullet, but people bet on stuff like flipping coins every day...
That may be the case today, but relying on botnets to be stupid for the rest of your career isn't such as smart idea. there's nothing to stop them trying distributed brute force, other than laziness or effort/return on the part of the botnet operator.
Passwords "leak" via social engineering. If you change them, the compromised password may no longer be usable, if it has only been used by the third party in a low-impact, covert manner. Having a system like the bank mentions isn't necessarily a good idea, but social engineering is a real problem. Just ask Kevin Mitnick.
You're grasping at straws. Damage to life in any of the cases you mention above relies in the fact that essential systems are exposed to the internet, and do not have any sort of fail safe backup.
If some random botnet on the internet can cause any significant effect to any of the systems you mention in your post, they are broken and need to be re-engineered.
If you want end to end shipping either way for defective merchandise, then shopping from a discounted online only retailer probably isn't the place to get it. They can offer the low margins they do, because they have low costs. Want to get a free return? Buy retail. The terms and condtiions are on their page plain to see, if you don't agree with them, then don't purchase.
Maybe the problem is further up the chain than newegg's distributor. maybe THEY got fucked over too?
Agreed, they shouldn't have parroted of some unbelievable line like demo boxes, but I'm guessing that is the official line from D&H. Yes, it would have been better to simply not elaborate, other than "we are investigating, all non-genuine parts will be refunded/replaced".
BSD also has more of a true unix "feel" to it. Consistent performance under load (latency wise - rather than focus on throughput), userland tools that are very similar to SunOS/Solaris/SCO/other commercial unix, similar device naming theory, proper documentation (yes, check the handbook - there's not really anything of similar quality for linux), etc.
I run both/either as the situation requires (generally commercial software support is the only real reason I'll run linux anymore), but I certainly prefer the style and documentation to BSD, hands-down - and I started out with Linux first (not counting a shell account I had on an old SunOS box at university).
AS to your question about BSD vs Linux fans - there are a lot more "noobs" in the Linux community because it has had more publicity. They're ex-windows users who think they're "leet" for running Linux and anything else is inferior. Typically they've never used BSD for any real period of time, and when they tried it, they found it different and not all their linux knowledge applied. Hence, in their opinion - it was crap. I know, i was there until I gave it a proper go and learnt to love the reasons WHY it is different, which aren't immediately obvious).
Thats not a troll, its a simple fact. If you find EXPERIENCED linux users who know what they're talking about, they're as positive/helpful as the users of any other OS. The script kiddie brigade is unfortunately a large component of the Linux userbase, and they're also typically the ones with the spare time to troll forums (while the real developers/people with a clue are probably off doing something productive) - so the signal:noise ratio is quite high.
I seriously hope not, but the cynic in me says thats a scary possibility.
Agree with Apple's policy on various things (drm, itunes app store, etc) or not - Jobs has been responsible for some pretty revolutionary products, and just plain "cool" stuff. I'm talking NeXT, OS X, iphone, ipod, etc.
I mean, look up the NextStep demo on youtube. Thats from 1993! The PC world was on Windows 3.1 or DOS, while Jobs is sending voice annotated email, developing a GUI database app with drag and drop (virtually no code), etc.
Sure, NEXT machines were expensive, but the capabilities were (at the time) just out of this world...
download the warez, have a product with superior functionality.
The days of code-wheels, manual page references, etc were bearable. If you bought the game, it wasn't a major hassle.
Relying on internet connectivity, particularly shit that seems to stream data at something like 128kbit (from memory) is just bullshit. Some countries have ISPs that charge for data. Fucked if i'm going to pay for data to play a game I already fucking bought, that isn't an MMORPG!
If publishers put more effort into putting out a decent game, rather than spending millions on the next generation of DRM that will just inevitably be cracked anyway, we'd all be better off.
Back in the day, you'd get incentives to buy the game, like posters, t-shirts, a decent manual or whatever. Now? A nice big "Fuck you".
Well "Fuck you" ubisoft, I'd download the game to play it just out of spite, but my guess is that as with most of the current crop of games coming out, its barely worth the cost in bandwidth...
Apple has done hardware transitions before with seamless app compatibility. 68k to ppc, ppc to intel... so long as the app is well behaved it has worked. Which is what they're trying to enforce here - well behaved apps that use published iphone APIs.
Yes it sucks that these apps have been pulled - hopefully apple do the right thing and put the functionality they are using into the official public API.
Without jobs, there would have been no imac, ipod, iphone, etc.
So... you take the good with the bad. Without Jobs, or someone like him who is actually passionate about making a product HE would like to use, apple would (and almost did) die.
I am wondering what's going to happen when he retired, which surely isn't that far off...
I'd love to, but have you tried? Finding a distro that includes a half recent version is pretty difficult, and last i tried the freebsd port, it was broken. I don't have time to compile it from source and deal with any of the quirks i might incur doing so.
But believe me, i reckon gnustep is THE most (unfairly) ignored and neglected open source project out there right now.
Where "production" means "if you feel lucky". If (as recommended) you read the freebsd-stable list, there are still plenty of reports about ZFS problems. I wouldn't consider it "production ready" yet, without you doing extensive testing on the exact hardware you're going to run in the live environment.
Problem is, its a slippery slope. Once the chips are accepted on a large scale, companies/banks may start requiring their use (rather than physical cash, or electronic transfer via other means). In which case, your whole life could be pretty easily fucked by government/corp simply de-activating your chip.
Tracking i'm not so concerned about (I have little to hide). its the ease of disablement once they get a foothold, that I'd be more concerned about.
If you're only getting 90% uptime from any of the common OSes you should be shopping for a new admin and/or new hardware as appropriate. 90% is 2.4 hrs of downtime per day. Even windows can do better than that, by a few orders of magnitude - quite easily.
Opensolaris works *just fine* in a vmware virtual machine. Which includes workstation (testing, playtime), ESX clusters, etc.
And virtualisation is a big deal. Who cares what hardware the OS supports, so long as it can run under a hypervisor, which supports your actual hardware?
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From what Valve has stated, most of their code is already cross platform anyway. They've simply written some shims for OpenGL and Core Audio for Mac support. Linux will be trickier as you really don't know what is installed, what package manager the user is running, what parts of the OS have been compiled from source by some over-zealous gentoo user (for example) with insane optimization flags, etc.
Baby steps. If the OS X port is successful maybe then they'll do linux in a year or two I would guess. OS X is going to be a lot easier for them.
If I told you that you had a 100% chance of being killed in an accident in vehicle A, but only a 63% chance of being killed if you were in the same accident vehicle B, which one would you take to work?
On the contrary, one could say it is over 2x as difficult to crack.
Whether or not that is worth the effort expended is left to the individual. no its not a silver bullet, but people bet on stuff like flipping coins every day...
That may be the case today, but relying on botnets to be stupid for the rest of your career isn't such as smart idea. there's nothing to stop them trying distributed brute force, other than laziness or effort/return on the part of the botnet operator.
Passwords "leak" via social engineering. If you change them, the compromised password may no longer be usable, if it has only been used by the third party in a low-impact, covert manner. Having a system like the bank mentions isn't necessarily a good idea, but social engineering is a real problem. Just ask Kevin Mitnick.
If some random botnet on the internet can cause any significant effect to any of the systems you mention in your post, they are broken and need to be re-engineered.
If you want end to end shipping either way for defective merchandise, then shopping from a discounted online only retailer probably isn't the place to get it. They can offer the low margins they do, because they have low costs. Want to get a free return? Buy retail. The terms and condtiions are on their page plain to see, if you don't agree with them, then don't purchase.
Agreed, they shouldn't have parroted of some unbelievable line like demo boxes, but I'm guessing that is the official line from D&H. Yes, it would have been better to simply not elaborate, other than "we are investigating, all non-genuine parts will be refunded/replaced".
Well said. I'm in the same boat...
I run both/either as the situation requires (generally commercial software support is the only real reason I'll run linux anymore), but I certainly prefer the style and documentation to BSD, hands-down - and I started out with Linux first (not counting a shell account I had on an old SunOS box at university).
AS to your question about BSD vs Linux fans - there are a lot more "noobs" in the Linux community because it has had more publicity. They're ex-windows users who think they're "leet" for running Linux and anything else is inferior. Typically they've never used BSD for any real period of time, and when they tried it, they found it different and not all their linux knowledge applied. Hence, in their opinion - it was crap. I know, i was there until I gave it a proper go and learnt to love the reasons WHY it is different, which aren't immediately obvious).
Thats not a troll, its a simple fact. If you find EXPERIENCED linux users who know what they're talking about, they're as positive/helpful as the users of any other OS. The script kiddie brigade is unfortunately a large component of the Linux userbase, and they're also typically the ones with the spare time to troll forums (while the real developers/people with a clue are probably off doing something productive) - so the signal:noise ratio is quite high.
Agree with Apple's policy on various things (drm, itunes app store, etc) or not - Jobs has been responsible for some pretty revolutionary products, and just plain "cool" stuff. I'm talking NeXT, OS X, iphone, ipod, etc.
I mean, look up the NextStep demo on youtube. Thats from 1993! The PC world was on Windows 3.1 or DOS, while Jobs is sending voice annotated email, developing a GUI database app with drag and drop (virtually no code), etc.
Sure, NEXT machines were expensive, but the capabilities were (at the time) just out of this world...
download the warez, have a product with superior functionality.
The days of code-wheels, manual page references, etc were bearable. If you bought the game, it wasn't a major hassle.
Relying on internet connectivity, particularly shit that seems to stream data at something like 128kbit (from memory) is just bullshit. Some countries have ISPs that charge for data. Fucked if i'm going to pay for data to play a game I already fucking bought, that isn't an MMORPG!
If publishers put more effort into putting out a decent game, rather than spending millions on the next generation of DRM that will just inevitably be cracked anyway, we'd all be better off.
Back in the day, you'd get incentives to buy the game, like posters, t-shirts, a decent manual or whatever. Now? A nice big "Fuck you".
Well "Fuck you" ubisoft, I'd download the game to play it just out of spite, but my guess is that as with most of the current crop of games coming out, its barely worth the cost in bandwidth...
Yes it sucks that these apps have been pulled - hopefully apple do the right thing and put the functionality they are using into the official public API.
So... you take the good with the bad. Without Jobs, or someone like him who is actually passionate about making a product HE would like to use, apple would (and almost did) die.
I am wondering what's going to happen when he retired, which surely isn't that far off...
But believe me, i reckon gnustep is THE most (unfairly) ignored and neglected open source project out there right now.
Where "production" means "if you feel lucky". If (as recommended) you read the freebsd-stable list, there are still plenty of reports about ZFS problems. I wouldn't consider it "production ready" yet, without you doing extensive testing on the exact hardware you're going to run in the live environment.
Tracking i'm not so concerned about (I have little to hide). its the ease of disablement once they get a foothold, that I'd be more concerned about.
>25% of people (not necessarily just german people) are idiots.
If you're only getting 90% uptime from any of the common OSes you should be shopping for a new admin and/or new hardware as appropriate. 90% is 2.4 hrs of downtime per day. Even windows can do better than that, by a few orders of magnitude - quite easily.
My win7 netboot/install image works on all the hardware i throw it at. Customising it was a piece of piss, too.
And virtualisation is a big deal. Who cares what hardware the OS supports, so long as it can run under a hypervisor, which supports your actual hardware?
Yet ZFS will live on, in BSD. ohwai...
However, there are plenty of mission critical systems running debian, etc...
On the contrary... if you want zfs, and stability under load, there's nothing wrong with it.
more like, the state of the wa police force. if you're not speeding or doing a burnout, they don't give a fuck.