Seems to be the reason givem by a lot of people who are not moving away from Windows when they want to...
"If Photoshop were available on Linux, I'd ditch Windows for good" seems to be a recurring theme.
That's an ignorant comment; I was merely demonstrating in a light tone that the school has some connections...
Its not as if we have RMS on speed-dial.
... and a legacy that would suggest more prevalent usage of linux outside of the MC
The fact that the university is known for Computer Science should have no bearing on the Operating Systems used on the terminals of other faculties. As for the Math & CS faculty, they do have Linux terminals
P.s. Stickers aren't neat swag and no one knew beforehand there would be any kind of merchandising or swag at the talk, except perhaps the organizers in the CSC. Thanks for playing. P.s.s. lulz for suggesting stickers can woo people into changing computing paradigms
It seems that this time, yours is the ignorant comment. I never suggested that stickers were neat swag, I suggested that you were upset that there wasn't any neat swag -- that stickers were all that there was.
Moreover, I fail to see what relevence the CSC's RMS talk has. if Theo de Raadt gave a talk, would you expect the IT department to run around installing a bunch of OpenBSD terminals?
All of which is beside the main point, which was that there are Linux labs in the MC, contrary to your claim. From what I've seen, the linux labs aren't usually filled to capacity, so I see no reason why there would need to be more of them, either.
I go to the University of Waterloo, so you would figure that we are big on it. After all, not only does our Computer Science Club (CSC) host the largest linux download mirror in the country, we are known for computing ("MIT of the North" is one of our less savoury nicknames). Despite this, while we have some computer labs running unix based systems (some distro I don't remember with just a basic WM over it), the big thing is our Mac labs. We have rooms upon rooms of shiny Apple computers. Pretty much the entire CompSci department has converted to Mac as well (some profs have two of those 30" apple monitors in their offices. Two!).
Waterloo also has Linux labs in MC -- thin clients running X sessions with what appears to be a customized version of Kubuntu. I believe that there is also a bare-bones Solaris X session option, too, which sounds like what you are descriping.
I mean, linux exists here, but c'mon. We (comp sci & math students) picked Richard Stallman up from the airport, brought him to our school and he gave us stickers. Like wtf.
IIRC, We (the CSC) asked him to come give a talk. RMS and the FSF are not a corporation trying to woo you with lots of swag, nor, I suspect, do they have the budget to pretend to be. If you went to see RMS talk just to get neat swag, you were there for the wrong reason.
So, I delete a file off of a drive such that the Filesystem no longer holds any references to the given data, and the firmware moves in and performs operations to improve the performance of the device.
Its not really rearranging files in to contiguous sections like defragmentation does, its restoring unused sections to an empty state, probably using an algorithm similar to many garbage collectors -- sounds like garbage collection to me.
You're probably a troll, but in case you're simply misguided or poorly informed:
[R]ealize that this is across ALL the stuff - your precious Ubuntu or BSD would never have this many, simply because a distro is not also a browser, office suite, etc.
The point of a distro is that it comes bundled with lots of software. It usually does include a browser, an office suite, an image editor, and more.
It certainly isn't controlled and managed by the same group.
The purpose of a distribution is to have everything managed by a single group. Sure, most -- if not all -- software comes from upstream, but the same single group does manage all of the packaging and updates for the users of said distribution.
btw posting this from an Ubuntu machine, which just pulled down 10 updates.
If you really are posting from an Ubuntu machine, then you should know that the updater will update everything installed by default, and everything installed after-the-fact through the package manager. All other things being equal, distributions like Ubuntu should be expected to have more updates than Windows/Office/IE alone.
As a followup, here is the mime-type definition for mp3 found (on Ubuntu) in/usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml, with some language aliases omitted.
So in addition to using file extensions, it also seems to be looking for a header value and a string containingn "ID3" at specific locations.
Now if you wanted to write your own mp3 decoder (or modify a FOSS one) that would work properly with these values absent...they'll just find it some other way.
Probably better to get something liek TrueCrypt, provided you can not be compelled to reveal the passwords.
I just tried this on Ubuntu, and the file was still recognized (mime-type definitions include more than file extensions in Linux, such as file headers, etc). So if they're booting into a Linux live session, this would presumably fail as an evasive technique.
"There were times when they were the only ones who could solve a problem that could have cost the company millions of dollars. Of course, most of those times were the result of code they designed or influenced in the first place"
Am I reading this wrong, or is he basically accusing genius programming of planting bugs in their code, to be fixed later with great fanfare ?
Not that I disagree with your opinion of this 'author', but I do recall the article from which this quote was taken, and my impression was somewhat different. What I think he is suggesting here is that the genius coder has chosen to write something in an obtuse-yet-better way; this seemingly magical code has since broken due to its over-dependance on a given set of conditions which have since changed, or it has since been maintained by mere mortals who did not grasp the complexity (or simplicity) of the solution -- not that anyone was planting bugs deliberately.
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Seems to be the reason givem by a lot of people who are not moving away from Windows when they want to... "If Photoshop were available on Linux, I'd ditch Windows for good" seems to be a recurring theme.
That's an ignorant comment; I was merely demonstrating in a light tone that the school has some connections...
Its not as if we have RMS on speed-dial.
... and a legacy that would suggest more prevalent usage of linux outside of the MC
The fact that the university is known for Computer Science should have no bearing on the Operating Systems used on the terminals of other faculties. As for the Math & CS faculty, they do have Linux terminals
P.s. Stickers aren't neat swag and no one knew beforehand there would be any kind of merchandising or swag at the talk, except perhaps the organizers in the CSC. Thanks for playing. P.s.s. lulz for suggesting stickers can woo people into changing computing paradigms
It seems that this time, yours is the ignorant comment. I never suggested that stickers were neat swag, I suggested that you were upset that there wasn't any neat swag -- that stickers were all that there was. Moreover, I fail to see what relevence the CSC's RMS talk has. if Theo de Raadt gave a talk, would you expect the IT department to run around installing a bunch of OpenBSD terminals? All of which is beside the main point, which was that there are Linux labs in the MC, contrary to your claim. From what I've seen, the linux labs aren't usually filled to capacity, so I see no reason why there would need to be more of them, either.
I go to the University of Waterloo, so you would figure that we are big on it. After all, not only does our Computer Science Club (CSC) host the largest linux download mirror in the country, we are known for computing ("MIT of the North" is one of our less savoury nicknames). Despite this, while we have some computer labs running unix based systems (some distro I don't remember with just a basic WM over it), the big thing is our Mac labs. We have rooms upon rooms of shiny Apple computers. Pretty much the entire CompSci department has converted to Mac as well (some profs have two of those 30" apple monitors in their offices. Two!).
Waterloo also has Linux labs in MC -- thin clients running X sessions with what appears to be a customized version of Kubuntu. I believe that there is also a bare-bones Solaris X session option, too, which sounds like what you are descriping.
I mean, linux exists here, but c'mon. We (comp sci & math students) picked Richard Stallman up from the airport, brought him to our school and he gave us stickers. Like wtf.
IIRC, We (the CSC) asked him to come give a talk. RMS and the FSF are not a corporation trying to woo you with lots of swag, nor, I suspect, do they have the budget to pretend to be. If you went to see RMS talk just to get neat swag, you were there for the wrong reason.
So, I delete a file off of a drive such that the Filesystem no longer holds any references to the given data, and the firmware moves in and performs operations to improve the performance of the device. Its not really rearranging files in to contiguous sections like defragmentation does, its restoring unused sections to an empty state, probably using an algorithm similar to many garbage collectors -- sounds like garbage collection to me.
How big of a price-cut do OEMs get for Windows XP on netbooks again?
The Reform Party was also called the Canadian Alliance and probably another name or two [...]
I believe the other name to which you refer is the Canadian Reform Aliance Party, or C.R.A.P.
Something about this doesn't smell right.
It's too bad that there is no way to look for the answer on the internet
If graphics artist types can't make the kind of pointless crap that they do now with Flash, we won't see uptake of HTML 5.
I was under the impression that canvas tag was going to allow people to create those kinds of whiz-bang interfaces that are currently done in flash.
[R]ealize that this is across ALL the stuff - your precious Ubuntu or BSD would never have this many, simply because a distro is not also a browser, office suite, etc.
The point of a distro is that it comes bundled with lots of software. It usually does include a browser, an office suite, an image editor, and more.
It certainly isn't controlled and managed by the same group.
The purpose of a distribution is to have everything managed by a single group. Sure, most -- if not all -- software comes from upstream, but the same single group does manage all of the packaging and updates for the users of said distribution.
btw posting this from an Ubuntu machine, which just pulled down 10 updates.
If you really are posting from an Ubuntu machine, then you should know that the updater will update everything installed by default, and everything installed after-the-fact through the package manager. All other things being equal, distributions like Ubuntu should be expected to have more updates than Windows/Office/IE alone.
So in addition to using file extensions, it also seems to be looking for a header value and a string containingn "ID3" at specific locations. Now if you wanted to write your own mp3 decoder (or modify a FOSS one) that would work properly with these values absent...they'll just find it some other way. Probably better to get something liek TrueCrypt, provided you can not be compelled to reveal the passwords.
I just tried this on Ubuntu, and the file was still recognized (mime-type definitions include more than file extensions in Linux, such as file headers, etc). So if they're booting into a Linux live session, this would presumably fail as an evasive technique.
My favorite tidbit is this:
Am I reading this wrong, or is he basically accusing genius programming of planting bugs in their code, to be fixed later with great fanfare ?
Not that I disagree with your opinion of this 'author', but I do recall the article from which this quote was taken, and my impression was somewhat different. What I think he is suggesting here is that the genius coder has chosen to write something in an obtuse-yet-better way; this seemingly magical code has since broken due to its over-dependance on a given set of conditions which have since changed, or it has since been maintained by mere mortals who did not grasp the complexity (or simplicity) of the solution -- not that anyone was planting bugs deliberately.
So this is how they will finally get people to buy bottled air?
And it's ideas like this that make you realize just how useful the accelerometer can be
Given America's stance on copyright these days, this sounds more like a ringing endorsment of Canadian copyright law than a condemnation.