the worst thing is that I click it and it WITHOUT PERMISSION gets information from my PayPal account. I only use paypal with throaway debit cards, but it should not have that kind of information!
Some firewalls are shit: see, anything relating to SonicWALL or PepLINK (trust me, its a combination that *sucks*
Others are useful once you have the basic idea. Anything is good when configured nicely; even iptables has a reasonable idea of how to do firewall stuff.
Either way, firewalls *are* pretty much entirely shit. There is no "drop-in" security
The problem is that most (if not all) peripheral hardware is not parallel in many senses. Hardware in today's computers is serial: You access one device, then another, then another. There are some cases (such as a few good emulators) which use muti-threaded emulation (sound in one thread, graphics in another) but fundamentally the biggest performance kill is the final IRQs that get called to process data. The structure of modern day computers must change to take advantage of multicore systems.
I ran it on the old RC copies and then went off and ran it on a 30day trial of the RTM. All else fails, go illegit for a few days and try it:) There's nothing wrong with dipping your feet into the mire before diving in full-keel.
Actually I have to place a nice "Windows 7 did its job amazingly" note here.
I ran windows 7 on a machine with the following specs: 384MB of RAM 1Ghz Pentium 3/4 (cant remember which) 4MB graphics card (see http://sonof.bandit.name/files/tehlaptop/wtf.png ) It got a 1.0 on the scale, and I had to hack together some win2k drivers for it to work, but by god it worked and it had better boot times than Linux does on the same machine(a heavily stripped down Xubuntu), down to playing a few mildly graphics intensive games (but it wasnt going to play Quake any time soon. All I used it for was net browsing and IRC) and ran more stably than the 2k os that it came with.
Microsoft has actually done something right.
ON THE FLIPSIDE I got my grandmother up to speed using Ubuntu in a few days, with a few problems here and there with things like scanners and odd bits and pieces. Granted she still wanted her windows machine back because its what worked (and did QuickBooks)
I've had a few headless laptops. I pull out the screen from the case and run it headless for a while, even sometimes if that means buying a TV-Tuner card and running from TVs. Honestly, Its somewhat useful.
Another option is a Razor-Thin server. Load X, CDE/Twm and a VNC Server that asks for login from X (Or just accept remote X logins), or tunnel X over SSH and use Hamachi to do out-of-network-tunneling.
Simple, no?
I grew up in California, and had a friend who worked on the FreeSwan project. I would hang out at his house and sit in the computer lab downstairs. All his machines ran some flavor of *nix, and I used to just oogle at them (mostly because I wasnt quite smart enough to understand GNOME on his laptop running RedHat 4) however one day i got the gusto to sit and use it. He gave me an account so i could work, and I started messing around with KDE and such. I was a child with linux. However I wouldnt consider that my first *real* experience with Linux, as it was a pass-bye.
my first *real* experience with Linux came when I moved from California to where i am now. I had been given a fancy new 2.9Ghz Athlon machine running Windows XP back in 2004. I loved the machine for all it was worth, but decided to run Linux on it. I had picked up a copy of RedHat 5 with a book from my local used computer shop. It wasnt fancy, and it wouldnt install because I was using Bill Gate's Crap FileSystem NTFS. I installed it onto an older machine (a K6 3DNow! box, chugging along at 900mhz) and got to know the shell pretty loosley, however i could never get to compiling the kernel. This lead me to get Mandrake 10 from the local bookshop, which had a few linux books and such. I installed it on my main machine and was building things from source in no time. All this has lead me to run Ubuntu on big fancy rack-mounted server machines with 64GiB of RAM and 3.4PiB total disk space, but to appreciate the simplicity and run Debian on 200Mhz Compaq servers with 64mb of ram.
If anything, What did Linux do with me? Linux taught me the zen of simplicity.
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You keep deluding yourself then...
Eeew.
the worst thing is that I click it and it WITHOUT PERMISSION gets information from my PayPal account. I only use paypal with throaway debit cards, but it should not have that kind of information!
... is derp.
Seriously. What the PTO needs to do is throw out any patent on a software implementation on anything. MPEG-4 for example.
Viva la GNU!
Some firewalls are shit: see, anything relating to SonicWALL or PepLINK (trust me, its a combination that *sucks*
Others are useful once you have the basic idea. Anything is good when configured nicely; even iptables has a reasonable idea of how to do firewall stuff.
Either way, firewalls *are* pretty much entirely shit. There is no "drop-in" security
The problem is that most (if not all) peripheral hardware is not parallel in many senses. Hardware in today's computers is serial: You access one device, then another, then another. There are some cases (such as a few good emulators) which use muti-threaded emulation (sound in one thread, graphics in another) but fundamentally the biggest performance kill is the final IRQs that get called to process data. The structure of modern day computers must change to take advantage of multicore systems.
this is funny.
No, they arent; but if you can run XP, you can run 7.
I ran it on the old RC copies and then went off and ran it on a 30day trial of the RTM. All else fails, go illegit for a few days and try it :) There's nothing wrong with dipping your feet into the mire before diving in full-keel.
Actually I have to place a nice "Windows 7 did its job amazingly" note here.
I ran windows 7 on a machine with the following specs:
384MB of RAM
1Ghz Pentium 3/4 (cant remember which)
4MB graphics card
(see http://sonof.bandit.name/files/tehlaptop/wtf.png )
It got a 1.0 on the scale, and I had to hack together some win2k drivers for it to work, but by god it worked and it had better boot times than Linux does on the same machine(a heavily stripped down Xubuntu), down to playing a few mildly graphics intensive games (but it wasnt going to play Quake any time soon. All I used it for was net browsing and IRC) and ran more stably than the 2k os that it came with.
Microsoft has actually done something right.
ON THE FLIPSIDE
I got my grandmother up to speed using Ubuntu in a few days, with a few problems here and there with things like scanners and odd bits and pieces. Granted she still wanted her windows machine back because its what worked (and did QuickBooks)
I've had a few headless laptops. I pull out the screen from the case and run it headless for a while, even sometimes if that means buying a TV-Tuner card and running from TVs. Honestly, Its somewhat useful. Another option is a Razor-Thin server. Load X, CDE/Twm and a VNC Server that asks for login from X (Or just accept remote X logins), or tunnel X over SSH and use Hamachi to do out-of-network-tunneling. Simple, no?
I grew up in California, and had a friend who worked on the FreeSwan project. I would hang out at his house and sit in the computer lab downstairs. All his machines ran some flavor of *nix, and I used to just oogle at them (mostly because I wasnt quite smart enough to understand GNOME on his laptop running RedHat 4) however one day i got the gusto to sit and use it. He gave me an account so i could work, and I started messing around with KDE and such. I was a child with linux. However I wouldnt consider that my first *real* experience with Linux, as it was a pass-bye.
my first *real* experience with Linux came when I moved from California to where i am now. I had been given a fancy new 2.9Ghz Athlon machine running Windows XP back in 2004. I loved the machine for all it was worth, but decided to run Linux on it. I had picked up a copy of RedHat 5 with a book from my local used computer shop. It wasnt fancy, and it wouldnt install because I was using Bill Gate's Crap FileSystem NTFS. I installed it onto an older machine (a K6 3DNow! box, chugging along at 900mhz) and got to know the shell pretty loosley, however i could never get to compiling the kernel. This lead me to get Mandrake 10 from the local bookshop, which had a few linux books and such. I installed it on my main machine and was building things from source in no time. All this has lead me to run Ubuntu on big fancy rack-mounted server machines with 64GiB of RAM and 3.4PiB total disk space, but to appreciate the simplicity and run Debian on 200Mhz Compaq servers with 64mb of ram.
If anything, What did Linux do with me? Linux taught me the zen of simplicity.