I think KDE 2.0 is a long way off. When it gets here it should be really nice. With KParts and KOffice, it really sounds like something that will be very comprable to windows.
For everyone who replied "DoS isn't a real crack" or something like that please read the post again. Especially the part where he says, "I mean if it causes the server to lock up or crash and stay that way when the DoS attack ceases." Sure flooding is one thing, and there isn't much you can do about that, but if the flood causes the machine to trip and stay down after the flood it's a problem with the machine.
Actually you can. Ever heard of IP spoofing? It's hard to do, and isn't anywhere near 100%. Also it's a one way connection, you can send packets, but you don't receive them. It could actually work quite well with this type of attack. Another thing that's difficult to block on the receiving end are UDP floods. Since UDP is wide open to spoofing you can flood someone's line and they'll never know where you are coming from. Something like this needs to be blocked on the sender's end.
Uhm...that's the point of a feature freeze. No new features, only bug fixes. Btw, if you think that the kernel programmers can't code, I'd love to see what you can do.
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AFAIK celerons do indeed have FPUs. They just have no (less) cache. The 486sx did have an onchip fpu, but intel disabled it so they could sell the dx machines as a top of the line chip. The 386 line had the FPU as a separate chip that went on the motherboard and IIRC a 386sx could just as easily have a FPU as a 386dx. The sx stood for sixteen because the sx had a 16bit memory bus while the dx had a 32bit memory bus, then with the 486 sx started meaning "cheap".
that has nothing to do with load (well not directly). NT and Linux (and many other OSes) send hlt instructions to the cpu when it's idle. By some voodoo I'm not going to pretend to understand the cpu outputs less heat. Win9x doesn't do this (there are shareware programs that will do it for you though, which I think consist of a program that sets itself to the IDLE priority, and just spews out a bunch of hlts). Now cpu load itself doesn't increase cpu temp, but in a situation like this it can because instead of the cpu being IDLE it's constantly working. Atleast that's how I understand it, I'm not a computer engineer yet.
You can get modems for a lot less than $50. Last show I was at I saw 56k modems for about $20. They might not be "quality" modems, but what difference does it really make? They still get your bits from one end of the phone line to the other just as fast.
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I have to disagree with the "another driver running as root" concern you brought up. By that logic linux shouldn't support ANY new hardware, since all drivers run in kernel mode (which is actually more privlaged than root) and can do anything they gosh darn please to do. Then again hardware is pretty much in the same situation.
Software modems themselves are bad. But they do allow for some really cool hacks. You could build an ultra cheap PBX out of some of these, or answering machine, or something else. Think of it more as a computer interface to a phone. Even TCP/IP telephony would be more attractive with a real phone.
If this company sells them cheap enough, and makes the docs completely open, I might pick up some and hack away. I'd never use one of these things as a modem though. Maybe it's just me but I don't think the $5 I'm gonna save is worth the CPU time it's gonna cost me.
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Few minor nits. First off KDE 1.0 was released over a year ago, you are probally thinking of GNOME, which I think was at 0.3 around a year ago. Second, KDE 1.1.2 (not 1.2) is more than a month off. I think it's closer to two at the moment.
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I'm sorry mr. anonymous but you are mistaken. Last time I checked there was indeed a plan to convert GTK themes to KDE (most likely just writing a GTK-Style theme which could read the pixmap themes). But also, there was a plan that when you run a gnome app, KDE would take the current theme, convert it to a pixmap based theme, and tell the GNOME app to use that theme. It's a bit of a hack, but it will work.
Yes they will be (atleast if you are running KDE). I remember reading about a plan to export KDE style themes as pixmap themes for GNOME apps. So your apps will look the same. Also, there was talk of using the same multimedia system. I think DnD is already taken care of. Now if they can just agree on CORBA, the two desktops should be compatible with each other and that is A Very Good Thing(tm).
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I'm fairly certain that's a feature of Konsole specific to KDE 2.0. KDE 1.1.2 should be out within two months (the biggest hold up right now seems to be waiting for the icons and themes (WM only) to be completed).
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What's also nice is KDE and GNOME seem atleast mildly committed to making future versions compatible with each other. I know for KDE 2.0 they are gonna have some kind of hack so if you run a gnome app it will use your kde theme.
I don't know how i feel about a wrist watch size computer, but it would make a really kick ass radio/cd player type thing. You could easily fit a headphone jack into a wrist watch. Or just put the player into the headphones and drop the disc into the side. It would be very cool indeed.
Also, wrt the mechanical components supposedly IBM is working on a read for one of these that is the size of a computer chip, so that really isn't an issue. Also, w/ something this small the power requirements would be very low. The really scarey part, is it kinda looks realistic.
I personally find redhat *simple* to install. Especially 6.0 with the "Workstation/Server/Custom" options. The only part where I can see a novice getting tripped up is the partitioning, and I think RedHat 6.0 will do that for you too. Also, with redhat once setup begins you can walk away and get a cup of coffee or a pizza or watch tv, or go to sleep. Windows needs your attention every 30 minutes to either reboot, or click "next" or configure something that could have been done at the start of install. IMHO, windows is far more of a pain to install than linux. The only thing i'll give it is that it does a better job w/ detecting ISA hardware. I'm sure other linux dists are just as easy to install, I just haven't installed anything other than redhat and slackware. I'll admit slackware was not an easy install, but I don't think it was trying to be either.
I think this is planned for 2.4 (or somewhere in the future). Except it would probally be something like "umount/dev/cpu3" where you have to tell linux that you are killing the cpu. Maybe there could be someway that it could detect a failing cpu and shut it down automatically, but i think yanking a running cpu would do very bad things to the computer.
I disagree. I think that if they don't want people looking they should take advantage of the technical means of preventing linking. There is no need to get the courts involved. And if the court rules in favor of Universal it would pretty much trash the web. www.redhat.com would be illegal, they copy slashdot's stories w/o the ad images. slashdot could also be the same way, look at some of the slashboxes. Basically if Universal doesn't want people linking to them they shouldn't put the content on the internet in the first place.
So they don't want people to skip their adds. That much I get, but why go through a legal battle to do it. They could just setup the server to block people coming from the movie-list site, or only allow people to view the trailers if they are coming from the universal site, or use a cgi setup to generate random URLs for each client. There are a million technical ways they could go about this, and I gaurantee that they are all cheaper than fighting it out in court. I guess it comes down to big companies not having a clue about technology. I also fail to understand the legal issue. Sure the trailers belong to them, but can they copyright the URL? I wouldn't think so, but who knows.
Happened to me this morning, third time this week Seriously, you have a much higher chance of being hit by a car, or slipping in the shower, or pissing on a high power line or something. Maybe we should make laws to make it harder to get a driver's license, that would certainly improve your chances for living.
Thank you, someone else with a little intelligence. I'm willing to bet most of these comments are coming from teens with overly strict parents. For the record I'm also a teen, I guess I just have a different outlook on the world. I agree society/government should not regulate children, that's what the parents are there for. And if you really want to not have any rules, leave home, pack your bags and walk out the door, see how long you survive. It would be worth it just to be "free", right?
Few minor points on why I disagree with you. First, why should parents not have controll over their children? Let me ask you something, have you ever been in a super market or some other public place and seen a 6 year old running around, making a lot of noise, throwing things off of the shelves, and asked yourself 'why won't that child's parent do something?' Parents are responsible and incharge of their children, deal with it. If they weren't society would completely crumble. Most children/teens are not able to take care of themselves or experienced enough to deal with everything life can throw at them. Sure children are just small versions of adults, but they are also less experienced versions of adults.
Now for your comments about the constitution. Do you really think 6 year olds should vote for president? Also, the constitution never *said* equal rights to those under 18, but it meant it. Actually it really meant equal rights to all men (not men and women, just men) over the age of 18 who own land. Read the 3/5ths compromise sometime. Essentially it said (this is from the constitution) that a black man is only 3/5ths of a white man. The constitution said many things that weren't 100% clear, such as the separation of church and state. That was NEVER meant to forbid any type of religious practise in government or school, it was simply meant to prevent an official state religion from coming into existance. And tell me honestly, why do you need a machine gun or a high powered assult rifle to defend your home against the king of england? Sure people in the armed forces are given more rights with regards to fire arms, but they also put themselves in a lot more danger. If you think walking through a bad part of the city at night is bad, imagine walking through a bad part of another country where people shoot at you non-stop, and want to kill you just so they can stay alive.
I am disgusted as well, but for a different reason.
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I think KDE 2.0 is a long way off. When it gets here it should be really nice. With KParts and KOffice, it really sounds like something that will be very comprable to windows.
For everyone who replied "DoS isn't a real crack" or something like that please read the post again. Especially the part where he says, "I mean if it causes the server to lock up or crash and stay that way when the DoS attack ceases." Sure flooding is one thing, and there isn't much you can do about that, but if the flood causes the machine to trip and stay down after the flood it's a problem with the machine.
Actually you can. Ever heard of IP spoofing? It's hard to do, and isn't anywhere near 100%. Also it's a one way connection, you can send packets, but you don't receive them. It could actually work quite well with this type of attack. Another thing that's difficult to block on the receiving end are UDP floods. Since UDP is wide open to spoofing you can flood someone's line and they'll never know where you are coming from. Something like this needs to be blocked on the sender's end.
Uhm...that's the point of a feature freeze. No new features, only bug fixes. Btw, if you think that the kernel programmers can't code, I'd love to see what you can do.
AFAIK celerons do indeed have FPUs. They just have no (less) cache. The 486sx did have an onchip fpu, but intel disabled it so they could sell the dx machines as a top of the line chip. The 386 line had the FPU as a separate chip that went on the motherboard and IIRC a 386sx could just as easily have a FPU as a 386dx. The sx stood for sixteen because the sx had a 16bit memory bus while the dx had a 32bit memory bus, then with the 486 sx started meaning "cheap".
that has nothing to do with load (well not directly). NT and Linux (and many other OSes) send hlt instructions to the cpu when it's idle. By some voodoo I'm not going to pretend to understand the cpu outputs less heat. Win9x doesn't do this (there are shareware programs that will do it for you though, which I think consist of a program that sets itself to the IDLE priority, and just spews out a bunch of hlts). Now cpu load itself doesn't increase cpu temp, but in a situation like this it can because instead of the cpu being IDLE it's constantly working. Atleast that's how I understand it, I'm not a computer engineer yet.
You can get modems for a lot less than $50. Last show I was at I saw 56k modems for about $20. They might not be "quality" modems, but what difference does it really make? They still get your bits from one end of the phone line to the other just as fast.
I have to disagree with the "another driver running as root" concern you brought up. By that logic linux shouldn't support ANY new hardware, since all drivers run in kernel mode (which is actually more privlaged than root) and can do anything they gosh darn please to do. Then again hardware is pretty much in the same situation.
Software modems themselves are bad. But they do allow for some really cool hacks. You could build an ultra cheap PBX out of some of these, or answering machine, or something else. Think of it more as a computer interface to a phone. Even TCP/IP telephony would be more attractive with a real phone.
If this company sells them cheap enough, and makes the docs completely open, I might pick up some and hack away. I'd never use one of these things as a modem though. Maybe it's just me but I don't think the $5 I'm gonna save is worth the CPU time it's gonna cost me.
Few minor nits. First off KDE 1.0 was released over a year ago, you are probally thinking of GNOME, which I think was at 0.3 around a year ago. Second, KDE 1.1.2 (not 1.2) is more than a month off. I think it's closer to two at the moment.
I'm sorry mr. anonymous but you are mistaken. Last time I checked there was indeed a plan to convert GTK themes to KDE (most likely just writing a GTK-Style theme which could read the pixmap themes). But also, there was a plan that when you run a gnome app, KDE would take the current theme, convert it to a pixmap based theme, and tell the GNOME app to use that theme. It's a bit of a hack, but it will work.
Yes they will be (atleast if you are running KDE). I remember reading about a plan to export KDE style themes as pixmap themes for GNOME apps. So your apps will look the same. Also, there was talk of using the same multimedia system. I think DnD is already taken care of. Now if they can just agree on CORBA, the two desktops should be compatible with each other and that is A Very Good Thing(tm).
I'm fairly certain that's a feature of Konsole specific to KDE 2.0. KDE 1.1.2 should be out within two months (the biggest hold up right now seems to be waiting for the icons and themes (WM only) to be completed).
What's also nice is KDE and GNOME seem atleast mildly committed to making future versions compatible with each other. I know for KDE 2.0 they are gonna have some kind of hack so if you run a gnome app it will use your kde theme.
I don't know how i feel about a wrist watch size computer, but it would make a really kick ass radio/cd player type thing. You could easily fit a headphone jack into a wrist watch. Or just put the player into the headphones and drop the disc into the side. It would be very cool indeed.
Also, wrt the mechanical components supposedly IBM is working on a read for one of these that is the size of a computer chip, so that really isn't an issue. Also, w/ something this small the power requirements would be very low. The really scarey part, is it kinda looks realistic.
AFAIK once you are in international waters there pretty much are no laws.
*BSD has the same problems linux does. I don't know if they are working to fix them, i imagine they are, but it's still just as broken.
I personally find redhat *simple* to install. Especially 6.0 with the "Workstation/Server/Custom" options. The only part where I can see a novice getting tripped up is the partitioning, and I think RedHat 6.0 will do that for you too. Also, with redhat once setup begins you can walk away and get a cup of coffee or a pizza or watch tv, or go to sleep. Windows needs your attention every 30 minutes to either reboot, or click "next" or configure something that could have been done at the start of install. IMHO, windows is far more of a pain to install than linux. The only thing i'll give it is that it does a better job w/ detecting ISA hardware. I'm sure other linux dists are just as easy to install, I just haven't installed anything other than redhat and slackware. I'll admit slackware was not an easy install, but I don't think it was trying to be either.
I think this is planned for 2.4 (or somewhere in the future). Except it would probally be something like "umount /dev/cpu3" where you have to tell linux that you are killing the cpu. Maybe there could be someway that it could detect a failing cpu and shut it down automatically, but i think yanking a running cpu would do very bad things to the computer.
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I disagree. I think that if they don't want people looking they should take advantage of the technical means of preventing linking. There is no need to get the courts involved. And if the court rules in favor of Universal it would pretty much trash the web. www.redhat.com would be illegal, they copy slashdot's stories w/o the ad images. slashdot could also be the same way, look at some of the slashboxes. Basically if Universal doesn't want people linking to them they shouldn't put the content on the internet in the first place.
So they don't want people to skip their adds. That much I get, but why go through a legal battle to do it. They could just setup the server to block people coming from the movie-list site, or only allow people to view the trailers if they are coming from the universal site, or use a cgi setup to generate random URLs for each client. There are a million technical ways they could go about this, and I gaurantee that they are all cheaper than fighting it out in court. I guess it comes down to big companies not having a clue about technology. I also fail to understand the legal issue. Sure the trailers belong to them, but can they copyright the URL? I wouldn't think so, but who knows.
Happened to me this morning, third time this week Seriously, you have a much higher chance of being hit by a car, or slipping in the shower, or pissing on a high power line or something. Maybe we should make laws to make it harder to get a driver's license, that would certainly improve your chances for living.
Thank you, someone else with a little intelligence. I'm willing to bet most of these comments are coming from teens with overly strict parents. For the record I'm also a teen, I guess I just have a different outlook on the world. I agree society/government should not regulate children, that's what the parents are there for. And if you really want to not have any rules, leave home, pack your bags and walk out the door, see how long you survive. It would be worth it just to be "free", right?
Few minor points on why I disagree with you. First, why should parents not have controll over their children? Let me ask you something, have you ever been in a super market or some other public place and seen a 6 year old running around, making a lot of noise, throwing things off of the shelves, and asked yourself 'why won't that child's parent do something?' Parents are responsible and incharge of their children, deal with it. If they weren't society would completely crumble. Most children/teens are not able to take care of themselves or experienced enough to deal with everything life can throw at them. Sure children are just small versions of adults, but they are also less experienced versions of adults.
Now for your comments about the constitution. Do you really think 6 year olds should vote for president? Also, the constitution never *said* equal rights to those under 18, but it meant it. Actually it really meant equal rights to all men (not men and women, just men) over the age of 18 who own land. Read the 3/5ths compromise sometime. Essentially it said (this is from the constitution) that a black man is only 3/5ths of a white man. The constitution said many things that weren't 100% clear, such as the separation of church and state. That was NEVER meant to forbid any type of religious practise in government or school, it was simply meant to prevent an official state religion from coming into existance. And tell me honestly, why do you need a machine gun or a high powered assult rifle to defend your home against the king of england? Sure people in the armed forces are given more rights with regards to fire arms, but they also put themselves in a lot more danger. If you think walking through a bad part of the city at night is bad, imagine walking through a bad part of another country where people shoot at you non-stop, and want to kill you just so they can stay alive.
I am disgusted as well, but for a different reason.
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