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From the article, it seems that you get some games, some sexy pre-defined themes, and some non-standard app behavior (Opera, etc). How is this a meaningful review, and where is the motivation for change? What does this actually do that Gnome or KDE don't? Linux on the desktop requires a good WM and Desktop, but this doesn't seem to add anything...
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i.e. WTF is this? This is like the "random story" Troll - who modded him up?
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Why do some websites insist on serving static images as plugins? This is idiotic, how can all browsers be expected to render this properly? If its a JPG or PNG file on the other hand, everyone can see it. Ugh, the death of the Web.
Since you're blogging away on Slashdot, I'm guessing that you have a 'day job', and hence, are not one who could wander the world as a travelling minstrel.
Defrag does NOT "organize" the hard drive, and per Microsoft, you don't need to defragment NTFS - it doesn't suffer the same penalties as FAT with fragmented files - you AREN'T still using FAT, are you? Defragging also does not save you a single byte of space.
Because my school sucked. You slipped a schedule underneath a random door each term, and later it appeared in the office with a scrawl on the bottom. This allowed you to pay more money to stay there another year. The punch line comes when, in April of your senior year, some other random professor with the "Department Head" title tells you that you can't graduate because your courses haven't fulfilled a requirement. Yes, this happened. The faculty doesn't give a crap about the students, the students have no desire to be there, and the 'Tute keeps raking in the money.
I can sum up the fascinating information about the crackers' socioeconomic conditions and motivations quite easily:
They came from a repressive State where people were State property, and property rights didn't exist, where the Might made Right, where Need justified any excess or brutality, and where a class of "looters by law and criminals by right" was created. Is it any wonder that they became criminals? Their country was a SOCIETY of criminals.
I also have many devout reflections and ejaculations, especially when pouring hot grits down my pants in Soviet Russia while looking a beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans.
The killer app for me was to sync over a LAN connection - I had to use OZ for that. Sharp disabled syncing over anything but USB in ROM 2.38, in the interest of security. OZ lets you specify where you can sync from. Plus the memory management is superior - you can install to flash, you don't have the stupid JVM demos on there, the media player plays Oggs, etc.
Obviously a troll, but I'll rise, it will keep me from drinking more coffee at work. *rolls up his sleeves and gets out the flamethrower*
Firstly, we do have a 1/2 dollar coin. We also have a dollar coin, and a 2 USD note. Secondly, until recent history, the British had the most idiotic currency system - farthings, shillings, tuppence, on-the-fence. WTF is that?
*insert pre-emptive flame defense re: English measuring system here - its based on physical human measurements, therefore does not lend itself to decimal*
Thirdly, just because you're too intellectually lazy to think up names for your coins, doesn't mean we have to be. We even have nicknames for our banknotes (a 20USD note is a "Jackson").
Lastly, you have incompatible money types WITHIN Britain - Scottish money is really only drawn on English banks, yet says you can redeem it for the sum written on the note. Scottish money is harder to exchange overseas than English. What's THAT about?
I'm guess that this is a troll, since its so blatantly wrong and inflammatory, but I'll rise to it.
You can split a sandwich among many people; you cannot digest it in a collective stomach. Smart people understand, you say? You mean that socialist understand, or rather socialists _claim_ that progress of mankind is not and cannot be the property of individuals or small groups.
Mankind's progress has ALWAYS been due to the efforts of a tiny minority of clever people - the first caveman to make a fire, the Wright Brothers, Columbus, Thomas Edison, etc.
The people who write Linux, and Linus himself, deserve the credit for the invention. Linus can claim the credit, and COULD HAVE claimed the total ownership of it, because HE INVENTED IT. What gives you the right to leech off his genius?
I don't understand anything about C coding or systems programming, can you please let me bury my head back in the sand so that I can just run D:\setup.exe and load my gamez?!
With socialization of just about everything in the US on the horizon, it's just one more step until the US becomes another European country. Stupid looking monopoly money is yet another loss of credibility.
OZ 3.2 just came out, and has a slew of features that rock vs. the standard ones, such as: variable RAM vs. storage allotment writeable flash new SSH installed by default ability to sync to anywhere, not just your local USB
Those who would trade freedom for security will lose both, and deserve neither.
The current "hysteria" over spam is going to lead the Joe Sixpacks and the Mothers-protecting-their-children crowd to accept, indeed to beg for, restrictions on their liberties, all in the name of "stopping those spammers". For the rest of us, for whom "WWW" is NOT synonymous with "The Internet", this could have dire consequences. What if I run my own server, and I'm not "blessed" by the current Official AntiSpam Policy Du Jour ? Do I lose out?
Spammers suck, use your filters. DON'T give the government (and media giants, and Big ISPs) the authority to rewrite the way that the Internet works.
Are the worst of philosophers - Kant, Hume, Plato - if people can't tell the difference between reality and fantasy, THEY'RE to blame. The old dead Europeans were good at proving their irrelevance (irrationalism, scepticism, etc.) REAL philosophy is set forth by people like Aristotle, Newton, Rand.
You SO don't get it. Firstly, SMS doesn't work. Everyone knows it. It has failed in every org I've belonged to, and I wasn't the guy running it. People used to laugh about unplugging their PCs so that the IT baboons COULDN'T do an SMS push. ZenWorks might work, only because it's not Microsoft. On Linux, it's all different. Firstly, your "profile" is all in one place. Really. It's called "/home". Secondly, since you can SSH into any box, as an administrative user, you can upgrade whatever you need to. Hell, with a few Perl scripts, you could have the systems autoupgrade - put some.debs or.rpms in a magic directory, and "if -x files, do upgrade process" in a shell script via cron. The thing about a Unix shop is that you can depend on the fact that all systems have cron, an MTA, Perl, and sshd. In a Unix shop, remote administration is the norm, not the exception.
So you've implemented retinal scan hardware, but you're now worried about price? I guess I would be too, if I had blown my security budget on toys before I had a plan...
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From the article, it seems that you get some games, some sexy pre-defined themes, and some non-standard app behavior (Opera, etc). How is this a meaningful review, and where is the motivation for change? What does this actually do that Gnome or KDE don't? Linux on the desktop requires a good WM and Desktop, but this doesn't seem to add anything ...
i.e. WTF is this? This is like the "random story" Troll - who modded him up?
Why do some websites insist on serving static images as plugins? This is idiotic, how can all browsers be expected to render this properly? If its a JPG or PNG file on the other hand, everyone can see it. Ugh, the death of the Web.
Look here for a perfect example.
Since you're blogging away on Slashdot, I'm guessing that you have a 'day job', and hence, are not one who could wander the world as a travelling minstrel.
Except that Ani DiFranco sucks.
First he crows about MS Visual C++, then says It's harder to reverse engineer something created than to create it in the first place..
Who is this, the King of Trolls?
Defrag does NOT "organize" the hard drive, and per Microsoft, you don't need to defragment NTFS - it doesn't suffer the same penalties as FAT with fragmented files - you AREN'T still using FAT, are you? Defragging also does not save you a single byte of space.
Back under your 1993 rock, Windows Troll!
Because my school sucked. You slipped a schedule underneath a random door each term, and later it appeared in the office with a scrawl on the bottom. This allowed you to pay more money to stay there another year. The punch line comes when, in April of your senior year, some other random professor with the "Department Head" title tells you that you can't graduate because your courses haven't fulfilled a requirement. Yes, this happened.
The faculty doesn't give a crap about the students, the students have no desire to be there, and the 'Tute keeps raking in the money.
Posted on Yahoo 2 days ago. Nice to see that Slashdot readers and editors can spot timely news...
The sad thing is that you think that this is a troll, and that everything magically changed post-1989.
I can sum up the fascinating information about the crackers' socioeconomic conditions and motivations quite easily:
They came from a repressive State where people were State property, and property rights didn't exist, where the Might made Right, where Need justified any excess or brutality, and where a class of "looters by law and criminals by right" was created.
Is it any wonder that they became criminals? Their country was a SOCIETY of criminals.
I also have many devout reflections and ejaculations, especially when pouring hot grits down my pants in Soviet Russia while looking a beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans.
Nice to see that Slashdot remains a relevant news source.
The killer app for me was to sync over a LAN connection - I had to use OZ for that. Sharp disabled syncing over anything but USB in ROM 2.38, in the interest of security. OZ lets you specify where you can sync from. Plus the memory management is superior - you can install to flash, you don't have the stupid JVM demos on there, the media player plays Oggs, etc.
Obviously a troll, but I'll rise, it will keep me from drinking more coffee at work. *rolls up his sleeves and gets out the flamethrower*
Firstly, we do have a 1/2 dollar coin. We also have a dollar coin, and a 2 USD note.
Secondly, until recent history, the British had the most idiotic currency system - farthings, shillings, tuppence, on-the-fence. WTF is that?
*insert pre-emptive flame defense re: English measuring system here - its based on physical human measurements, therefore does not lend itself to decimal*
Thirdly, just because you're too intellectually lazy to think up names for your coins, doesn't mean we have to be. We even have nicknames for our banknotes (a 20USD note is a "Jackson").
Lastly, you have incompatible money types WITHIN Britain - Scottish money is really only drawn on English banks, yet says you can redeem it for the sum written on the note. Scottish money is harder to exchange overseas than English. What's THAT about?
In short, have a nice day, US State #51.
I'm guess that this is a troll, since its so blatantly wrong and inflammatory, but I'll rise to it.
You can split a sandwich among many people; you cannot digest it in a collective stomach. Smart people understand, you say? You mean that socialist understand, or rather socialists _claim_ that progress of mankind is not and cannot be the property of individuals or small groups.
Mankind's progress has ALWAYS been due to the efforts of a tiny minority of clever people - the first caveman to make a fire, the Wright Brothers, Columbus, Thomas Edison, etc.
The people who write Linux, and Linus himself, deserve the credit for the invention. Linus can claim the credit, and COULD HAVE claimed the total ownership of it, because HE INVENTED IT. What gives you the right to leech off his genius?
Read the parent post as:
I don't understand anything about C coding or systems programming, can you please let me bury my head back in the sand so that I can just run D:\setup.exe and load my gamez?!
With socialization of just about everything in the US on the horizon, it's just one more step until the US becomes another European country. Stupid looking monopoly money is yet another loss of credibility.
OZ 3.2 just came out, and has a slew of features that rock vs. the standard ones, such as:
variable RAM vs. storage allotment
writeable flash
new SSH installed by default
ability to sync to anywhere, not just your local USB
Those who would trade freedom for security will lose both, and deserve neither.
The current "hysteria" over spam is going to lead the Joe Sixpacks and the Mothers-protecting-their-children crowd to accept, indeed to beg for, restrictions on their liberties, all in the name of "stopping those spammers". For the rest of us, for whom "WWW" is NOT synonymous with "The Internet", this could have dire consequences. What if I run my own server, and I'm not "blessed" by the current Official AntiSpam Policy Du Jour ? Do I lose out?
Spammers suck, use your filters. DON'T give the government (and media giants, and Big ISPs) the authority to rewrite the way that the Internet works.
Actually, IPX _doesn't_ run over SLIP.
Are the worst of philosophers - Kant, Hume, Plato - if people can't tell the difference between reality and fantasy, THEY'RE to blame. The old dead Europeans were good at proving their irrelevance (irrationalism, scepticism, etc.) REAL philosophy is set forth by people like Aristotle, Newton, Rand.
You SO don't get it. Firstly, SMS doesn't work. Everyone knows it. It has failed in every org I've belonged to, and I wasn't the guy running it. People used to laugh about unplugging their PCs so that the IT baboons COULDN'T do an SMS push. ZenWorks might work, only because it's not Microsoft. On Linux, it's all different. Firstly, your "profile" is all in one place. Really. It's called "/home". Secondly, since you can SSH into any box, as an administrative user, you can upgrade whatever you need to. Hell, with a few Perl scripts, you could have the systems autoupgrade - put some .debs or .rpms in a magic directory, and "if -x files, do upgrade process" in a shell script via cron.
The thing about a Unix shop is that you can depend on the fact that all systems have cron, an MTA, Perl, and sshd. In a Unix shop, remote administration is the norm, not the exception.
So you've implemented retinal scan hardware, but you're now worried about price? I guess I would be too, if I had blown my security budget on toys before I had a plan...