both gnome 3.0 and unity look like they were designed for smartphones and tablets.
The reason why the devs did this is because users are familiar with the smartphone interface, so putting the same interface on the linux desktop would make transition easier.
But - a 1900x1200 pixel pc desktop is not the same as a tiny 100x100 pixel smartphone screen. pc desktop users with a normal size keyboard and big sized monitor have very different requirements.
Why are they responsible? They are a company and they want to make money. Which is reasonable me thinks.
You choose to use the services of FB and the likes. So you are responsible. You are responsible for the choices you make in life.
If you care about your privacy, then stop putting all your personal information on somebody else's website.
Facebook works on the now-standard "Web 2.0" business model: 1. Brutally sodomise the personal privacy of anyone who comes within a mile of your service and say "hey baby, I'm sorry" every time you're busted. 2. Sell ads.
If that's the new "standard", than this world is screwed up badly.
You guys are so dumb. I got this thing all figured out.
Oh, yeah, Malvin? How would you do it?
The first game in the list. Go right through Falken's Maze.
For web browsing, the first game in the list is... Firefox.
Setup Firefox so that cookies for all top-level-domains (.net,.com,.org,.aero, etc.) are blocked. Then allow cookies selectively from the websites where you really need them (slashdot.org, linuxquestions.org, etc.). Make cookies for sites like "google.com" session cookies. Each time you start your web browser, you will get a new id from google.
All of this can easily be setup in Firefox.
Some people complained that other websites will show their facebook picture / profile info. Well - log out from facebook first before you go to any other websites. I always log out from gmail first, before I do any searches on google.
You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.
hopelessly dependent and inert are the main problems.
"... think about the problems created by using software that actually belongs to someone else..." WTF does that mean?
when you pay money at the store for the CD/DVD with software, you do not own the CD/DVD with the software that is on it; you only bought the right to use the software. See
Software License:
The hallmark of proprietary software licenses is that the software publisher grants the use of one or more copies of software under the end-user license agreement (EULA), but ownership of those copies remains with the software publisher
So if MS decides to turn off activation for WinXP in 2014, then you can not use the software anymore. Even though you paid money for it.
So in 2015 we could very well see a rise in the use of pirated / cracked Windows XP installations.
You paid money for something, but you don't own it. And the company you bought it from can turn off the activation and thereby force you to upgrade. That is the problem.
So a message to all pc-fixers out there: if your friend does want the automatic login, make sure it automatically logs in to an account that is in the "Users" group. And you could even go as far as not giving the Administrator password to your friend.
If users log in as Administrator when all they want to do is surf the web, write some email, write a document with MS Word or play a dvd. Then do not blame Microsoft if your pc gets hacked. It's your own fault.
This particular article by Aaron Margosis was written seven years ago.
I guess you didn't actually watch the video.
Windows Me to Windows 2000 Upgrade Is Not Supported
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/272627
See comment in video at 6:07.
I guess you didn't actually watch the video.
Windows Me to Windows 2000 Upgrade Is Not Supported
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/272627
See comment in video at 6:07.
Yes - it is that simple. People need food to eat. Everything else is luxury and nice to have.
And if we would stop this bio fuel crap then we would have enough food for everybody to eat.
You need to stop this "commodity exchange market" thinking. those people are just in between to make an extra buck. and because of their greed they drive up the price.
Farmers should sell their crops directly on the local market. local farming, local consumption.
was only a fictional movie 13 years ago.
Seems that it is becoming reality slowly but surely. Or... maybe we are already way beyond what was shown in the movie.
Larry King: How do we draw the line - draw the line between protection of national security, obviously the government's need to obtain intelligence data, and the protection of civil liberties, particularly the sanctity of my home? You've got no right to come into my home!
Carla Dean: Well, who's gonna monitor the monitors of the monitors?
Looks like nobody is monitoring what Obama is doing.
Govts all over the world - just remember the end of the movie - the bad guys all die because of their greed for power and control.
Obama - just wait until you find a monitoring device in your own bedroom. Then it will not be so funny anymore.
And for what purpose? And most important, how in God's green earth it got into President Obama's bedroom! Listen people, everyone knows where this is going. If this was a legit op, and I can't imagine how it could be, then so be it. But if this was someone's unilateral wet dream, then that someone is going to prison.
Wtf is an "indie" coffee shop?
I doubt it has something to do with Indiana Jones, which is what I thought initially.
Why can't coffee shops just be coffee shops like they used to be? A place to get some coffee and meet your friends or just chill - period.
For crying out loud.
Technology and the web are moving much, much faster than that.
That's a big money making scheme. Getting users to upgrade every year.
Windows is a good example: with every new version of Windows you are required to upgrade your hardware - buy new hardware.
Some of us refuse to participate in this scheme. Some of us will stay with Windows XP because it works well with what we have.
Another example: why on earth do people have to buy a new phone every year, even though the old one still works just fine.
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both gnome 3.0 and unity look like they were designed for smartphones and tablets.
The reason why the devs did this is because users are familiar with the smartphone interface, so putting the same interface on the linux desktop would make transition easier.
But - a 1900x1200 pixel pc desktop is not the same as a tiny 100x100 pixel smartphone screen. pc desktop users with a normal size keyboard and big sized monitor have very different requirements.
Why are they responsible? They are a company and they want to make money. Which is reasonable me thinks.
You choose to use the services of FB and the likes. So you are responsible. You are responsible for the choices you make in life.
If you care about your privacy, then stop putting all your personal information on somebody else's website.
Facebook works on the now-standard "Web 2.0" business model: 1. Brutally sodomise the personal privacy of anyone who comes within a mile of your service and say "hey baby, I'm sorry" every time you're busted. 2. Sell ads.
If that's the new "standard", than this world is screwed up badly.
And I refuse to go along.
You guys are so dumb. I got this thing all figured out.
Oh, yeah, Malvin? How would you do it?
The first game in the list. Go right through Falken's Maze.
For web browsing, the first game in the list is ... Firefox.
Setup Firefox so that cookies for all top-level-domains (.net, .com, .org, .aero, etc.) are blocked. Then allow cookies selectively from the websites where you really need them (slashdot.org, linuxquestions.org, etc.). Make cookies for sites like "google.com" session cookies. Each time you start your web browser, you will get a new id from google.
All of this can easily be setup in Firefox.
Some people complained that other websites will show their facebook picture / profile info. Well - log out from facebook first before you go to any other websites. I always log out from gmail first, before I do any searches on google.
NoScript does not help with cookies afaik.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Cookies
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Hostperm.1#Domain_2
You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.
hopelessly dependent and inert are the main problems.
"... think about the problems created by using software that actually belongs to someone else..." WTF does that mean?
when you pay money at the store for the CD/DVD with software, you do not own the CD/DVD with the software that is on it; you only bought the right to use the software. See Software License:
The hallmark of proprietary software licenses is that the software publisher grants the use of one or more copies of software under the end-user license agreement (EULA), but ownership of those copies remains with the software publisher
So if MS decides to turn off activation for WinXP in 2014, then you can not use the software anymore. Even though you paid money for it.
So in 2015 we could very well see a rise in the use of pirated / cracked Windows XP installations.
You paid money for something, but you don't own it. And the company you bought it from can turn off the activation and thereby force you to upgrade. That is the problem.
Actually you are the one paying the tax for your mistakes.
When NASA lost the US$125 million Mars Climate Orbiter for example.
And here are some more examples of where the US is paying for not being consistent.
And when the mistakes include possible loss of life, it's quite a heavy tax you are paying.
ran out of fuel in mid-flight because of two mistakes in figuring the fuel supply
and
confusion between grains and grams is sometimes the reason for medical errors
You really don't know why they're searching again??? Search for "air france 447 lawsuit".
And if flight 447 would have had an experienced pilot like Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger on board, they probably would have made it.
couldn't you just install Windows on the MacBook 2008?
why do you want buy a whole new computer if all you want is a different OS?
Search Google for:
macbook 2008 windows 7
macbook 2008 windows xp
We installed Windows XP Professional on a 32GB partition on our new 2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo powered MacBook with 2GBs of RAM.
What a waste to ditch a computer just because you want to use a different OS.
I mean, if the computer sees that I'm angry or surprised or whatever, what is it supposed to DO?
it should look at my right hand and its fingers ... if the computer can see four ... then ... well, the computer should just ... :-)
I am very surprised that nobody has said that this yet.
Number one rule: never login as Administrator (or root), unless you need to do maintenance. Playing a dvd is not maintenance.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/aaron_margosis/archive/2004/06/17/157962.aspx "Why you shouldn't run as admin..."
So a message to all pc-fixers out there: if your friend does want the automatic login, make sure it automatically logs in to an account that is in the "Users" group. And you could even go as far as not giving the Administrator password to your friend.
If users log in as Administrator when all they want to do is surf the web, write some email, write a document with MS Word or play a dvd. Then do not blame Microsoft if your pc gets hacked. It's your own fault.
This particular article by Aaron Margosis was written seven years ago.
I guess you didn't actually watch the video.
Windows Me to Windows 2000 Upgrade Is Not Supported
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/272627
See comment in video at 6:07.
I guess you didn't actually watch the video.
Windows Me to Windows 2000 Upgrade Is Not Supported
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/272627
See comment in video at 6:07.
A long time ago (almost 15 years) a manager at a big american company gave his team members a t-shirt with the following printing:
Of course I don't look busy - I did it right the first time.
This was after successful completion of a project.
I still have this t-shirt in my closet and wear it at times. A tribute to the only manager I've had who understood this.
Would a whole site rendered in flash be functional on older machines?
maybe ... but a whole site rendered in flash is useless with regards to search engines.
search engines still work with text and images only.
Yes - it is that simple. People need food to eat. Everything else is luxury and nice to have. And if we would stop this bio fuel crap then we would have enough food for everybody to eat. You need to stop this "commodity exchange market" thinking. those people are just in between to make an extra buck. and because of their greed they drive up the price. Farmers should sell their crops directly on the local market. local farming, local consumption.
If you have a 100% accurate method of determining what people will buy - your fortune is made.
Food. People need to eat.
Well - to some extent the consumer is to blame.
Stop using Administrator when you log in to your Windows PC.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/aaron_margosis/archive/2004/06/17/157962.aspx
"If the exploit happens to be written so that it requires admin privileges (as many do), just running as User stops it dead."
Consumers need to learn how to setup and use a Windows PC properly.
Not pedantic at all, simply correct.
See RFC 1392.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1392#page-21 (hacker)
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1392#page-12 (cracker)
Seems that it is becoming reality slowly but surely. Or
Larry King: How do we draw the line - draw the line between protection of national security, obviously the government's need to obtain intelligence data, and the protection of civil liberties, particularly the sanctity of my home? You've got no right to come into my home!
Get out of my home! Get out of my cellphone! See dutch police use stealth sms.
Carla Dean: Well, who's gonna monitor the monitors of the monitors?
Looks like nobody is monitoring what Obama is doing.
Govts all over the world - just remember the end of the movie - the bad guys all die because of their greed for power and control.
Obama - just wait until you find a monitoring device in your own bedroom. Then it will not be so funny anymore.
And for what purpose? And most important, how in God's green earth it got into President Obama's bedroom! Listen people, everyone knows where this is going. If this was a legit op, and I can't imagine how it could be, then so be it. But if this was someone's unilateral wet dream, then that someone is going to prison.
Wtf is an "indie" coffee shop?
I doubt it has something to do with Indiana Jones, which is what I thought initially.
Why can't coffee shops just be coffee shops like they used to be? A place to get some coffee and meet your friends or just chill - period.
For crying out loud.
Under a 1934 law, the President can (under certain circumstances) basically shut off any or all wireless or wired communications.
wow ... amazing!!! The US had wireless communications already in ... 1934 !!!
With the current growth rate we will run out of food to eat way before we run out of ipv6 ... so not an issue ...
Technology and the web are moving much, much faster than that.
That's a big money making scheme. Getting users to upgrade every year.
Windows is a good example: with every new version of Windows you are required to upgrade your hardware - buy new hardware.
Some of us refuse to participate in this scheme. Some of us will stay with Windows XP because it works well with what we have.
Another example: why on earth do people have to buy a new phone every year, even though the old one still works just fine.
looks like the database is still iso-8859-1 charset, whilst the html pages have charset utf-8 now ...