Facebook is, in the long run, far, far more destructive than 4chan.
If you're baffled I'll give you a hint: On 4chan everything posted is gone in at most hours, or it was screencapped and might exist forever... but is still anonymous. In order to fuck yourself over you have to knowingly enter personal information on a sight *everyone knows* is a seedy place.
Facebook, on the other hand, promotes a variety of character-destroying vices, such as most of the "games", encourages anti-social behavior worse than any high school I've ever heard of, and records each and every thought, picture and mistake, combined with identifying information, forever.
In 20 years the shit I do on 4chan today will be as forgotten as it will be by tomorrow, but anything I might put on Facebook today will be part of a permanent record of my character, no matter how much I might change, and will be used against me in any way it can by any enemies I might make.
Yes, 4chan is safer and better for children than Facebook! All the same, I would not let a child younger than 10 have unmonitored access to/b/, but of course I would not let a child less than 18 have unmonitored access to the hell-hole that is Facebook, either.
People *should* experience this pain. Maybe that will teach them not to **rent** software and not to trust software-as-a-service. If you let your save file and the entire game be stored on someone else's computer, especially at their expense, sooner or later you will lose access to it or have it (mis)used by another party. It's better that people wake up to this sooner rather than later, and if it takes having years of effort poured into a time-sink game to make people start thinking that maybe, just maybe, there's a reason to not give away their data, then that's *good*.
If you can't control it *you do not own it*. Learn to love Free software, learn to love the AGPL and learn to love *open* services you can, if necessary, host yourself or, at the least, pay multiple parties to host for you.
And stop using facebook! If you think *this* is bad, just wait for when that behemoth starts to fall.
If the alternative isn't GNOME or XFce but instead "just" a window manager, then KDE is indeed far more resource-intensive than the alternatives.
Compare your stripped-down KDE with fvwm2, e16 or twm. Go ahead and leave out your launcher, desktop and everything: compare *just* kwin. It's far, far heavier.
When you need "Just a WM" it's better to avoid the DE-focused WMs.
This is why I *do* torrent. I'm perfectly happy to buy when someone will sell me what I want, but when they won't *I'm going to get it anyway*, let the anti-consumer business beware. If what I want is a video I own and can watch whenever and wherever, and keep in my personal archive, then I'm going to get it no matter what laws they buy or technical restrictions they try to enforce. There's nothing immoral about having it your way and I'm going to continue to vote with my economic feet by not buying from those who won't sell me what I want. They can adapt and profit or go out of business, it's all the same to me.
I was going to say this, too. Dorkness Rising captures the feel and some of the fun of playing D&D in an easy to consume 1.5 hour movie format. Some things are easier understood by experiencing them instead of having them merely explained, but in case you can't convince someone to play cold you can give them this vicarious experience.
If you haven't seen this movie and you read slashdot, you need to.
You can hardly blame people for wanting a more robust desktop, with applications that don't start randomly crashing when the sysadmin (or an automated script) runs a background update.
Sure I can. It's an engineering problem they opted to solve in the worst possible way: Not solve it at all. I blame people for being lazy.
While I agree with your sentiment your poor grasp of the facts harms the argument you are making by making you appear to be an ignorant fool.
Debian has not "Handled updated and major upgrades flawlessly for decades," Debian has only handled this for *years*. Debian has not yet reached its 20th anniversary, and apt did not exist at its founding (much less in a flawless form).
You cannot have a host that started on potato in the mid 1990s because potato was released in 2000. The only "Mid '90s" Debian releases were Buzz and Rexx. I don't consider the release of Bo in 1997 to be "mid" enough, I count it as "late" 90s.
Nevertheless, I have personally experienced what you experience: A system installed as potato that is still running today using the current stable. Debian's package system, package manager, policy and culture contribute to a high quality system where updates work smoothly and do not require reboots.
I quit a job over this kind of thing. What it comes down to is that they either hired you for your expertise and respect it or they don't, and if they don't someone else will. No matter where I go I'm constantly fighting the what/how battle: You tell me what, I decide how. Mostly there is no problem with this if I begin with a non-confrontational explanation of why it has to be that way.
You could say the same thing about GNOME3. UX wonks should be kept out of the final UI decision, period. They know how to be wonky but are too narrowly focused to be trusted.
5. Creativity - digital citizens have a right to create, grow and collaborate on the internet, and be held accountable for what they create
Since when is the "right to be held accountable" a "right"? This is a clear attack on anonymity, as is the glaring omission of a right to anonymity from the list of bullet points!
I fail to see how most of the things listed have anything to do with the internet. Equality, Association and Privacy are rights we have anyway, so they should already apply to the internet as with everywhere else.
I like that he's got "Sharing" in there and I think I understand why, but we already have freedom of speech and I don't see how this is any more than that.
The bullet on Property is worrying at best. We already have a right to property, are we now trying to codify additional rights for the ill conceived notion of "Intellectual Property"? Is this supposed to imply DRM requirements as a matter of law for all digital "property"? I don't see that this can lead anywhere good.
So yeah, nice idea but horrible details which are either due to innocent misunderstanding or a veiled ulterior motive. Given the source, I'm guessing that the language here is something that some unknown corporate masters thought would be good for them and not something people who know anything about the internet told him would be a good idea.
I've tried all WMs and DEs under the sun. I've been trying them all for quite a while, since GNOME 1.2 days for sure (some before that, back when the choices were more like "fvwm or afterstep?" but quite consistently since GNOME 1.2)
KDE4, in my experience, on my hardware, is crashy. I've tried running it "just to see" and found that my *entire system* locks up to the point where even a remote ssh+kill of X won't recover it. Even when it doesn't lock completely I see occasional inexplicable crashes.
KDE4 is resource-hungry. Nevermind RAM usage, which is not great, I find that it spins up my CPU and leaves it there. I routinely note high CPU usage from KDE applications and background services. Nepomuk-related things are certainly not good in this area. Often I cannot make the CPU hogging go away without logging out of KDE (and sometimes not even then!)
KDE4 isn't configurable enough. I know GNOME people are boggling at this, but I like to configure my workflow "just so," and KDE doesn't fully allow this. GNOME 2.x was worse, GNOME 3.x is far worse, and Unity... nowhere close. I say this to be fair, but if KDE4 doesn't let me make it work "my way" (and it doesn't) then it's not much good. Example: It only supports multiple desktops, no virtual desktops. This is bad, because I only like virtual desktops. I can't configure which mouse button switches desktops vs. drags windows on the pager. I can't, or can't figure out, how to reduce the panel down to just the pager. I could go on, there are a lot of little details.
KDE4 doesn't do keybindings. KDE3 had some kind of solution for this, but KDE4 is a mess. The only real option is bbkeys, which works but is a stupid kind of a solution. Technically this is a "not configurable enough" problem, but it's so huge that it deserves its own bullet point.
I want to like KDE. I promote it to less adventurous users! But, when my system doesn't work how I need it to work, doesn't have a way to control keyboard shortcuts, keeps my CPU humming at 100%, eats my RAM, grinds my disks, crashes my apps and hangs my computer... it's kind of a non-starter.
I use E16. I've been following the development of E17, which is cool-looking, but until it's "done" I don't really see the incentive to switch.
E16 is stable. In the last 10 years I have seen exactly THREE bugs in E16, one of which is arguable, one of which requires $HOME to be out of disk space, and the other of which is not a showstopper. Crashes? What's a crash? My WM *never* goes down, and I am one of those insane people who has X uptime measured in months, not days or hours. Current score: 9 months. E16 is still running, not leaking memory, not eating CPU... it Just Works. I just can't justify switching to any environment unless it can approach this level of stability.
E16 is lightweight. That's kind of ironic for a WM which was known for "pretty but resource-intensive" in its infancy, but what was resource-hungry in 1998 isn't so bad any more. By being just a WM and some applets, all of which are optional and easy to disable, the complexity is low and the footprint is tiny. Even with all of the "cool" effects enabled the CPU and RAM cost is miniscule (and I don't enable them, because I prefer functional to flashy.)
E16 is somewhat configurable. Okay, so the theme you pick matters a lot (bluesteel here, for about 10 years now) but the *behavior* of the WM is all configurable from user-discoverable GUI settings panels. It's not as crazily flexible as, say, sawfish, but it has more than enough for me. Moving windows should show outlines of the new position (with guide lines to the edge of the screen!) and exact pixel dimensions and coords in the corner. Do you care whether iconified windows are shown in the alt+tab list? I don't want them, but if you do you can have them. I like to have 4x16 virtual desktops, but the option is right there if you prefer 4x4 multiple and 4x4 virtual.
E16 has e16keyedit, a crude but effective Enlightenment keybinding management
And this goes especially true for Samba - as GPL3 is worded, you are not allowed to use-it to serve protected files, or, if you do, it's fair game to anyone to steal your data as this whole "domain authentication" stuff is Digital Rights Management. So the lawyers say, and management will listen to the lawyers and not the engineers.
This is complete nonsense and any sane reading of the GPLv3 will make that clear. Even if encrypted authentication were DRM, which I doubt to the extent that I believe no lawsuit attempting to prove it could succeed, it just doesn't matter because (1) the files are not themselves protected by this encryption, (2) even if the files are protected by this encryption the users of the fileserver do not have rights under the GPLv3 (AGPLv3, maybe, but not GPLv3) because they do not at any time receive a copy, (3) even if your users received a copy of the software used on your server they would not have the right to demand *YOUR* keys, or whatever, because the server admin's keys are not necessary to modify, build or install that software on their own hardware, (4) users of your server are in all probability legally the same entity as you (working for the same company one way or another) and thus even if you gave them copies of the binaries it does not count as conveyance under the GPLv3.
Unless you believe that copies of the samba4 software are being distributed to any user with authenticates to a samba4 server AND that the user has the opportunity to replace the copy sent to him with his own custom build before it is used by him AND that said custom build could not be used in conjunction with your network without password details that you wish to keep secret AND that at least one user is legally a distinct entity AND that the user has a right under the GPLv3 to demand access to your network AND that "domain authentication" is the same thing as DRM *AND* that DRM of this type protects not only the connection but individual files. In that case of course it's all quite reasonable.
Pale Moon looks great, thanks for the link! The only problem with it is that it appears to be Windows-only...
I was a netscape fan and an open source fan, I used Mozilla from M14 (back when it really was slow and unstable!), caught tabs when the Tabbrowser plugin was originally released, tried Phoenix when became available, told my friends, watched excitedly as IE marketshare dropped, etc... I have been a staunch fan for years but recent developments for Firefox have been between worrying and horrifying. Broken version numbering? Automatic updates? A series of ever-less-useful UI changes (WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THE STATUS BAR?!)?
I can't possibly use chrome/chromium for lack of features, essential extensions, etc.. I don't think I could ever have a primary browser not based on XUL (or something like it), it's just too useful. My ideal browser would be a Gecko and XUL-based browser which is... well, pretty much exactly like Firefox 3.6 in UI and Firefox $LATEST in terms of features. Does anyone maintain a browser like that? That provides Linux binaries (or even just source that will compile?)
I've had 20+ tabs open with Windows 7 (work computer... not personal). No issues.
20 tabs?! OMG, this guy is a PRO!
Let me count... I have 42 at the moment, and I'm *not even doing anything*, just a bit of news. When I get working this will balloon rapidly into the ~100 tab territory, and when I'm at juggling multiple projects I often sail up to ~500 tabs. I have had 800 tabs open at a single time.
In Firefox this gets a bit slow; it starts to become noticeable after ~200 tabs. In Chrome you will start getting responsiveness issues depending on your hardware somewhere between 30 and 80 tabs. I've never had a session of Chrome with over 100 tabs that didn't end up needing to be killed after locking up. I am using modern hardware with modern CPUs, many cores and tons of ram.
Tabs Firefox: 1 Chrome: 0
Don't even get me started on "tab management" - Chrome's 'brilliant' solution is "Don't have too many open," and then "Uh, use more windows?" Whereas Firefox has tab groups, an absolutely essential feature, and a ton of extensions with many neat solutions.
Inb4 "This is crazy," "WTF are you doing?" "That's abnormal," etc.. Some people actually use their browsers, some just browse Facebook. I don't claim that this is the average workload, but it should still be *possible*. It's not possible in Chrome. Chrome is for casual users. That's fine! If it keeps them off of Internet Explorer, I am totally okay with someone using Chrome... but to claim it's "The best" is naive at best.
For serious users the choices are Firefox, maybe Opera, and then nothing.
Of course, I will move from the community as soon as I can if you are a moron and enforce nothing,
So, you *ARE* a petty dictator enforcing bullshit rules after all!
Despite what you say about it being work and you "representing" 200 households, what you're actually doing is allowing a gang of repressed, dictatorial morons to vote to suppress the reasonable actions of their neighbors... without any recourse to the courts. See, in the real world if the state passes a law that says I can't paint my porch chartreuse and I do so anyway I can sue on the grounds that it's my property and my freedom of expression. I'd have my day in court and (who knows?) I might actually win. If the HOA makes such a rule (which they do, because someone thinks his opinion is more important than mine) my only recourse is to complain and be told "You signed an agreement to abide by whatever bullshit we make up when you moved in here. If you don't like it you can uproot your family and life and go find an equally nice house in an equally decent neighborhood with equal access to the schools for your children and to your own workplace. Don't want to do that just to prove you have a right to paint your porch chartreuse? Haha, we didn't think so. Get back to your house." And I have *EXACTLY ZERO* recourse... except to wait for elections and hope that enough of my neighbors want to stand up for the *PRINCIPLE* involved to (a) vote out a plurality of the board, (b) elect representatives who will change the rules, and that's assuming I can find some set of neighbors who are willing to take time out of their lives to serve on the board with me, assuming also that I want to take that time, all just to uphold the principle that this kind of bullshit should not be allowed.
So yeah, I have the total power to change and control my circumstance by rearranging my life around the campaign to do so. Who's actually going to do that? Not many, even when they DO care and DON'T want to be subjects to your ridiculous power trips. Next week when you decide to, oh, I don't know, ban bicycles or something I'm sure you'll get a nice hard-on through exercise of your unchecked power and I'm sure you will be unsympathetic as ever towards the poor slobs who now have to lock up their bikes and can't ride in your neighborhood "Just because I said so! They're free to drive their bikes somewhere else and ride there, so it's not as if they don't have choice!!!eleven" I'm sure you WON'T see the problem with this and I'm sure that, though people will complain, nobody will move heaven and earth to depose you... and so your abuses will continue and you will continue to think that it is with the consent of the abused.
In theory the idea of an HOA is fine, but these groups have WAY TOO MUCH power to do arbitrary things for which some shmucks may vote but which are not in fact in the interests of their subjects.
Use NoScript + FlashBlock + RequesyPolicy for security and not loading things you don't want. Yes, FlashBlock *AND* NoScript: That way I can whitelist a site for JS and still click-to-activate the flash plugin.
Then, install BarTab. There are versions which still work with FF11 (at least, have not tried 12 yet) - it's superior to the half-assed built-in option the parent mentions. This extension will unload tabs you haven't viewed in a (configurable) while, so if you like to leave FF running for weeks or months and you like to have a lot of task-specific tab groups eventually (for me it's set to after 7 days) the tabs will start unloading and be essentially free. They only reload when I visit them, at which time I am restored right back to where I was. An absolute must!
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Facebook is, in the long run, far, far more destructive than 4chan.
If you're baffled I'll give you a hint: On 4chan everything posted is gone in at most hours, or it was screencapped and might exist forever... but is still anonymous. In order to fuck yourself over you have to knowingly enter personal information on a sight *everyone knows* is a seedy place.
Facebook, on the other hand, promotes a variety of character-destroying vices, such as most of the "games", encourages anti-social behavior worse than any high school I've ever heard of, and records each and every thought, picture and mistake, combined with identifying information, forever.
In 20 years the shit I do on 4chan today will be as forgotten as it will be by tomorrow, but anything I might put on Facebook today will be part of a permanent record of my character, no matter how much I might change, and will be used against me in any way it can by any enemies I might make.
Yes, 4chan is safer and better for children than Facebook! All the same, I would not let a child younger than 10 have unmonitored access to /b/, but of course I would not let a child less than 18 have unmonitored access to the hell-hole that is Facebook, either.
People *should* experience this pain. Maybe that will teach them not to **rent** software and not to trust software-as-a-service. If you let your save file and the entire game be stored on someone else's computer, especially at their expense, sooner or later you will lose access to it or have it (mis)used by another party. It's better that people wake up to this sooner rather than later, and if it takes having years of effort poured into a time-sink game to make people start thinking that maybe, just maybe, there's a reason to not give away their data, then that's *good*.
If you can't control it *you do not own it*. Learn to love Free software, learn to love the AGPL and learn to love *open* services you can, if necessary, host yourself or, at the least, pay multiple parties to host for you.
And stop using facebook! If you think *this* is bad, just wait for when that behemoth starts to fall.
If the alternative isn't GNOME or XFce but instead "just" a window manager, then KDE is indeed far more resource-intensive than the alternatives.
Compare your stripped-down KDE with fvwm2, e16 or twm. Go ahead and leave out your launcher, desktop and everything: compare *just* kwin. It's far, far heavier.
When you need "Just a WM" it's better to avoid the DE-focused WMs.
This is why I *do* torrent. I'm perfectly happy to buy when someone will sell me what I want, but when they won't *I'm going to get it anyway*, let the anti-consumer business beware. If what I want is a video I own and can watch whenever and wherever, and keep in my personal archive, then I'm going to get it no matter what laws they buy or technical restrictions they try to enforce. There's nothing immoral about having it your way and I'm going to continue to vote with my economic feet by not buying from those who won't sell me what I want. They can adapt and profit or go out of business, it's all the same to me.
Just because it will never happen doesn't mean it wouldn't be good for society.
I was going to say this, too. Dorkness Rising captures the feel and some of the fun of playing D&D in an easy to consume 1.5 hour movie format. Some things are easier understood by experiencing them instead of having them merely explained, but in case you can't convince someone to play cold you can give them this vicarious experience.
If you haven't seen this movie and you read slashdot, you need to.
A tip of the hat to you, sir, for the only genuinely funny comment posted to this story thus-far.
You can hardly blame people for wanting a more robust desktop, with applications that don't start randomly crashing when the sysadmin (or an automated script) runs a background update.
Sure I can. It's an engineering problem they opted to solve in the worst possible way: Not solve it at all. I blame people for being lazy.
While I agree with your sentiment your poor grasp of the facts harms the argument you are making by making you appear to be an ignorant fool.
Debian has not "Handled updated and major upgrades flawlessly for decades," Debian has only handled this for *years*. Debian has not yet reached its 20th anniversary, and apt did not exist at its founding (much less in a flawless form).
You cannot have a host that started on potato in the mid 1990s because potato was released in 2000. The only "Mid '90s" Debian releases were Buzz and Rexx. I don't consider the release of Bo in 1997 to be "mid" enough, I count it as "late" 90s.
Nevertheless, I have personally experienced what you experience: A system installed as potato that is still running today using the current stable. Debian's package system, package manager, policy and culture contribute to a high quality system where updates work smoothly and do not require reboots.
That whooshing sound is the point passing far above your head. Look up! Maybe you can still get a glimpse of it.
Oh yes, plus one million insightfuls to you, sir.
I quit a job over this kind of thing. What it comes down to is that they either hired you for your expertise and respect it or they don't, and if they don't someone else will. No matter where I go I'm constantly fighting the what/how battle: You tell me what, I decide how. Mostly there is no problem with this if I begin with a non-confrontational explanation of why it has to be that way.
You could say the same thing about GNOME3. UX wonks should be kept out of the final UI decision, period. They know how to be wonky but are too narrowly focused to be trusted.
The idea is sound, the implementation is lousy.
5. Creativity - digital citizens have a right to create, grow and collaborate on the internet, and be held accountable for what they create
Since when is the "right to be held accountable" a "right"? This is a clear attack on anonymity, as is the glaring omission of a right to anonymity from the list of bullet points!
I fail to see how most of the things listed have anything to do with the internet. Equality, Association and Privacy are rights we have anyway, so they should already apply to the internet as with everywhere else.
I like that he's got "Sharing" in there and I think I understand why, but we already have freedom of speech and I don't see how this is any more than that.
The bullet on Property is worrying at best. We already have a right to property, are we now trying to codify additional rights for the ill conceived notion of "Intellectual Property"? Is this supposed to imply DRM requirements as a matter of law for all digital "property"? I don't see that this can lead anywhere good.
So yeah, nice idea but horrible details which are either due to innocent misunderstanding or a veiled ulterior motive. Given the source, I'm guessing that the language here is something that some unknown corporate masters thought would be good for them and not something people who know anything about the internet told him would be a good idea.
olvwm is not just "quite old," it has a UI that only a mother could love... twm is far nicer.
I am an E16 guy.
I've tried all WMs and DEs under the sun. I've been trying them all for quite a while, since GNOME 1.2 days for sure (some before that, back when the choices were more like "fvwm or afterstep?" but quite consistently since GNOME 1.2)
KDE4, in my experience, on my hardware, is crashy. I've tried running it "just to see" and found that my *entire system* locks up to the point where even a remote ssh+kill of X won't recover it. Even when it doesn't lock completely I see occasional inexplicable crashes.
KDE4 is resource-hungry. Nevermind RAM usage, which is not great, I find that it spins up my CPU and leaves it there. I routinely note high CPU usage from KDE applications and background services. Nepomuk-related things are certainly not good in this area. Often I cannot make the CPU hogging go away without logging out of KDE (and sometimes not even then!)
KDE4 isn't configurable enough. I know GNOME people are boggling at this, but I like to configure my workflow "just so," and KDE doesn't fully allow this. GNOME 2.x was worse, GNOME 3.x is far worse, and Unity... nowhere close. I say this to be fair, but if KDE4 doesn't let me make it work "my way" (and it doesn't) then it's not much good. Example: It only supports multiple desktops, no virtual desktops. This is bad, because I only like virtual desktops. I can't configure which mouse button switches desktops vs. drags windows on the pager. I can't, or can't figure out, how to reduce the panel down to just the pager. I could go on, there are a lot of little details.
KDE4 doesn't do keybindings. KDE3 had some kind of solution for this, but KDE4 is a mess. The only real option is bbkeys, which works but is a stupid kind of a solution. Technically this is a "not configurable enough" problem, but it's so huge that it deserves its own bullet point.
I want to like KDE. I promote it to less adventurous users! But, when my system doesn't work how I need it to work, doesn't have a way to control keyboard shortcuts, keeps my CPU humming at 100%, eats my RAM, grinds my disks, crashes my apps and hangs my computer... it's kind of a non-starter.
I use E16. I've been following the development of E17, which is cool-looking, but until it's "done" I don't really see the incentive to switch.
E16 is stable. In the last 10 years I have seen exactly THREE bugs in E16, one of which is arguable, one of which requires $HOME to be out of disk space, and the other of which is not a showstopper. Crashes? What's a crash? My WM *never* goes down, and I am one of those insane people who has X uptime measured in months, not days or hours. Current score: 9 months. E16 is still running, not leaking memory, not eating CPU... it Just Works. I just can't justify switching to any environment unless it can approach this level of stability.
E16 is lightweight. That's kind of ironic for a WM which was known for "pretty but resource-intensive" in its infancy, but what was resource-hungry in 1998 isn't so bad any more. By being just a WM and some applets, all of which are optional and easy to disable, the complexity is low and the footprint is tiny. Even with all of the "cool" effects enabled the CPU and RAM cost is miniscule (and I don't enable them, because I prefer functional to flashy.)
E16 is somewhat configurable. Okay, so the theme you pick matters a lot (bluesteel here, for about 10 years now) but the *behavior* of the WM is all configurable from user-discoverable GUI settings panels. It's not as crazily flexible as, say, sawfish, but it has more than enough for me. Moving windows should show outlines of the new position (with guide lines to the edge of the screen!) and exact pixel dimensions and coords in the corner. Do you care whether iconified windows are shown in the alt+tab list? I don't want them, but if you do you can have them. I like to have 4x16 virtual desktops, but the option is right there if you prefer 4x4 multiple and 4x4 virtual.
E16 has e16keyedit, a crude but effective Enlightenment keybinding management
KDE 5.0 won't be screwed up like this, as you put it, it will be more like the 2.0->3.0 transition, which was a more or less straight upgrade.
If you want to worry, worry about 6.0. But, be aware that this won't happen for 5+ years.
A desktop Linux client is probably not going to happen until dm-verity gets in to mainline.
See this post, and then the LWN writeup for details.
And this goes especially true for Samba - as GPL3 is worded, you are not allowed to use-it to serve protected files, or, if you do, it's fair game to anyone to steal your data as this whole "domain authentication" stuff is Digital Rights Management. So the lawyers say, and management will listen to the lawyers and not the engineers.
This is complete nonsense and any sane reading of the GPLv3 will make that clear. Even if encrypted authentication were DRM, which I doubt to the extent that I believe no lawsuit attempting to prove it could succeed, it just doesn't matter because (1) the files are not themselves protected by this encryption, (2) even if the files are protected by this encryption the users of the fileserver do not have rights under the GPLv3 (AGPLv3, maybe, but not GPLv3) because they do not at any time receive a copy, (3) even if your users received a copy of the software used on your server they would not have the right to demand *YOUR* keys, or whatever, because the server admin's keys are not necessary to modify, build or install that software on their own hardware, (4) users of your server are in all probability legally the same entity as you (working for the same company one way or another) and thus even if you gave them copies of the binaries it does not count as conveyance under the GPLv3.
Unless you believe that copies of the samba4 software are being distributed to any user with authenticates to a samba4 server AND that the user has the opportunity to replace the copy sent to him with his own custom build before it is used by him AND that said custom build could not be used in conjunction with your network without password details that you wish to keep secret AND that at least one user is legally a distinct entity AND that the user has a right under the GPLv3 to demand access to your network AND that "domain authentication" is the same thing as DRM *AND* that DRM of this type protects not only the connection but individual files. In that case of course it's all quite reasonable.
IANAL.
If they permitted you to plug in a USB flash drive or execute something from %USERPROFILE% then it's not really locked down.
This is why in Debian the binary is called chromium-browser, to differentiate it from the original chromium.
Pale Moon looks great, thanks for the link! The only problem with it is that it appears to be Windows-only...
I was a netscape fan and an open source fan, I used Mozilla from M14 (back when it really was slow and unstable!), caught tabs when the Tabbrowser plugin was originally released, tried Phoenix when became available, told my friends, watched excitedly as IE marketshare dropped, etc... I have been a staunch fan for years but recent developments for Firefox have been between worrying and horrifying. Broken version numbering? Automatic updates? A series of ever-less-useful UI changes (WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THE STATUS BAR?!)?
I can't possibly use chrome/chromium for lack of features, essential extensions, etc.. I don't think I could ever have a primary browser not based on XUL (or something like it), it's just too useful. My ideal browser would be a Gecko and XUL-based browser which is... well, pretty much exactly like Firefox 3.6 in UI and Firefox $LATEST in terms of features. Does anyone maintain a browser like that? That provides Linux binaries (or even just source that will compile?)
I've had 20+ tabs open with Windows 7 (work computer... not personal). No issues.
20 tabs?! OMG, this guy is a PRO!
Let me count... I have 42 at the moment, and I'm *not even doing anything*, just a bit of news. When I get working this will balloon rapidly into the ~100 tab territory, and when I'm at juggling multiple projects I often sail up to ~500 tabs. I have had 800 tabs open at a single time.
In Firefox this gets a bit slow; it starts to become noticeable after ~200 tabs. In Chrome you will start getting responsiveness issues depending on your hardware somewhere between 30 and 80 tabs. I've never had a session of Chrome with over 100 tabs that didn't end up needing to be killed after locking up. I am using modern hardware with modern CPUs, many cores and tons of ram.
Tabs
Firefox: 1
Chrome: 0
Don't even get me started on "tab management" - Chrome's 'brilliant' solution is "Don't have too many open," and then "Uh, use more windows?" Whereas Firefox has tab groups, an absolutely essential feature, and a ton of extensions with many neat solutions.
Inb4 "This is crazy," "WTF are you doing?" "That's abnormal," etc.. Some people actually use their browsers, some just browse Facebook. I don't claim that this is the average workload, but it should still be *possible*. It's not possible in Chrome. Chrome is for casual users. That's fine! If it keeps them off of Internet Explorer, I am totally okay with someone using Chrome... but to claim it's "The best" is naive at best.
For serious users the choices are Firefox, maybe Opera, and then nothing.
The Chrome devs are on record as saying that they don't really support more than 30 tabs.
Sorry, but that's a failure.
Of course, I will move from the community as soon as I can if you are a moron and enforce nothing,
So, you *ARE* a petty dictator enforcing bullshit rules after all!
Despite what you say about it being work and you "representing" 200 households, what you're actually doing is allowing a gang of repressed, dictatorial morons to vote to suppress the reasonable actions of their neighbors... without any recourse to the courts. See, in the real world if the state passes a law that says I can't paint my porch chartreuse and I do so anyway I can sue on the grounds that it's my property and my freedom of expression. I'd have my day in court and (who knows?) I might actually win. If the HOA makes such a rule (which they do, because someone thinks his opinion is more important than mine) my only recourse is to complain and be told "You signed an agreement to abide by whatever bullshit we make up when you moved in here. If you don't like it you can uproot your family and life and go find an equally nice house in an equally decent neighborhood with equal access to the schools for your children and to your own workplace. Don't want to do that just to prove you have a right to paint your porch chartreuse? Haha, we didn't think so. Get back to your house." And I have *EXACTLY ZERO* recourse... except to wait for elections and hope that enough of my neighbors want to stand up for the *PRINCIPLE* involved to (a) vote out a plurality of the board, (b) elect representatives who will change the rules, and that's assuming I can find some set of neighbors who are willing to take time out of their lives to serve on the board with me, assuming also that I want to take that time, all just to uphold the principle that this kind of bullshit should not be allowed.
So yeah, I have the total power to change and control my circumstance by rearranging my life around the campaign to do so. Who's actually going to do that? Not many, even when they DO care and DON'T want to be subjects to your ridiculous power trips. Next week when you decide to, oh, I don't know, ban bicycles or something I'm sure you'll get a nice hard-on through exercise of your unchecked power and I'm sure you will be unsympathetic as ever towards the poor slobs who now have to lock up their bikes and can't ride in your neighborhood "Just because I said so! They're free to drive their bikes somewhere else and ride there, so it's not as if they don't have choice!!!eleven" I'm sure you WON'T see the problem with this and I'm sure that, though people will complain, nobody will move heaven and earth to depose you... and so your abuses will continue and you will continue to think that it is with the consent of the abused.
In theory the idea of an HOA is fine, but these groups have WAY TOO MUCH power to do arbitrary things for which some shmucks may vote but which are not in fact in the interests of their subjects.
I second both of these posts.
Use NoScript + FlashBlock + RequesyPolicy for security and not loading things you don't want. Yes, FlashBlock *AND* NoScript: That way I can whitelist a site for JS and still click-to-activate the flash plugin.
Then, install BarTab. There are versions which still work with FF11 (at least, have not tried 12 yet) - it's superior to the half-assed built-in option the parent mentions. This extension will unload tabs you haven't viewed in a (configurable) while, so if you like to leave FF running for weeks or months and you like to have a lot of task-specific tab groups eventually (for me it's set to after 7 days) the tabs will start unloading and be essentially free. They only reload when I visit them, at which time I am restored right back to where I was. An absolute must!