IF anything I would feel that with regard to possible use to terrorism and such like Open Source is better than closed source. With closed source if an exploit that could be used is found then its down to the company to supply the fix.
With open source you at least have multiple people looking at the srouce code and reviewing it. Now I'm not saying that the "bad people" might tell the authors but I would think there would be more chance of the exploit being picked up.
I really see gaming as the last area where Linux is seriously behind Windows. We have things like WineX which allows some games to be run and of course people like ID activly support Linux. However I have a number of games that I like to play that force me to reboot into Windows just to play them.
Ask anyone and they will say that the availability of games, and even decent graphics drivers on Linux is really behind that of Windows. So if you have the ocassional home user who want to play a games, even a demo off a cover disk they aren't going to be going for Linux are they? Mind you they could just as easy go for a PS2:)
This is cool. Now there isn't any real reason Windows can't be moved off desktops. KDE/Gnome are far enough advanced to handel most users GUI's need and now they can exchange files with the reset of the world everone should be happy.
However I don't see this happening. Coporates want to be be able to pay for support. They want SLA's. telephone hotlines. Mind you for us home users this is nice:)
When I went to have a look at the site I had a list of things I would want to see. These were
Diary Sharing of Calenders Phone book
Now this has all of them as well as a few other cools things like inbuilt IM. Good luck to them I say. However I'm not sure but does the system has a centeral server it good log into rather than just peer to peer as it says?
In a similar vain does anyone know if there is a website where I can find new artists depending on the type of music I like. i.e. something taken from other peoples playlists. Just that I'm bored of what I've got and want something new
I'm trying to get into anime and I've watched things like Akira and TBH thats about it. Whats a good series I should try to get to help into another spending habit?:)
If I wanted high speed and relability then I would just setup a 0+1 Raid system using 120GB for next to no money. However my questions is why do we need this much bandwidth off disk. Sure in things like video editing I can see the need and in that case I can invest in a Fibre Channel Array, or any modern HDD on SCSI can sustain 50Mb/s.
However for the average desktop why do I need speed? It won't get MP3's off my hard disk any faster and my OS might take 5 seconds less to boot. Overall I can't see the need for 99.9% of users to have really really fast storage. If we do need it then setup some sort of Ram Disk
Going from what I'm reading here it looks like they are using the default password that are shipped with systems. A quick search of google will chuck up the default for loads of systems. So bascically the adminstrators of the system aren't doing the job correctly or am I just misreading this?
I've tried a 3650. Buttons sucked as they aren't in the normal layout. However other phones to try. If you want big screen + Symbian + PDA then go for either Nokia 7650 or Sony Ericcson P800. If you want something small with a camera Nokia 7250 is quite cool. If you want something small with bluetooth. T68i. Just my opinion but they are all good phones.
If the NT side is using NTFS then it might actually be possible to store in NTFS streams which I believe are simliar to the way Apple in HFS used to implement a data and text part of their files. TBH I'm not 100% sure about that
Its intresting to think that Sun developed NFS which is now a standard UNIX method of sharing files. Now we have them going for Samba as well to tap into the Microsoft Dominated areas, i.e. the desktop. It looks like a good move by sun to target new areas. Just the way I see it
Yeah NFS is a better system. However in defense of MS they have document SMB (aka CIFS) so people can understand it. However virtually every other recent OS has support for NFS so it would be nice if MS included native support rather than just in their UNIX Tools which are cost extras
They way I'm reading this support for things like XFS/ext3 etc is that samba will implment things such as native ACL's and such like. However I can help but wonder how these will be preserved if say the server is XFS and the Client FAT. The only think I can think of is some sort of file which stores it as Metadata. Of course if it was XFS -> ext3 then you might be able to convert to the native setup but it might be buggy and subject to the filesystem formats changing
This is the reasons why I always ask people if they are sending me something either to do it in plain text, RTF or PDF. With this I'm almost guarenteed to get someting I can read. If they really really want to use something else I say bung up a webpage and I might look at if it renders correctly.
SGI are still actually supporting all the NT boxes on a hardware level. Going from what I've heard from friend I have in the UK office is that they are a pain to maintain now. one reason sited for them getting out of the market was the ongoing support costs, and the actual prices charged for the support contracts didn't actually cover the costs of repairs
I've tried WineX a few months ago and looking over their online database I found that most modern games will about install and thats about it. I would really like to be able to play Starfleet Command + Homeworld well and nativly but I'm afraid hat I still keep my machine dual boot.
One day though I hope to just be able format c:\ and never look back. Its just games now that are keeping me having a dual boot system. Most of my time is spent in Linux just waiting for a 2.5 that boots on my system
I believe there is room for people who proves themselves to be trustworth. These are the sort of folks who have a private contained network in which they do their hacking. There aren;t hurt anyone and theuy are still learning.
If they find something they then take the appropiate route of contacting the appropiate company and working with them to fix the problem As for the people who find an exploit then use it. No definitly not
I thinked you've picked up on the key point here of who brunts the cost of spam. If I receive a bit of snail-mail junk mail I know the cost has been taken on by the company. They've had to pay for the printing, packaging and delivery. Now I don't mind these and I can easily look at an envolope and decide if I want to open it
Spam mail on the other hand. Its costs me to receive it in that I pay, in a small part, for my ISP server's. They need new servers to handle the load they are going to get the money from my subscription. How much does it cost a spammer? Well I would guess not much more than the cost of their internet connection, in both sences of the word.
As a pointless statistic since Jan 14th I've recieved 3,500 spam which accounts for about 1% of the email I recieve
This remind me of an episode of the Twilight Zone where someone was injected with clever nanobots and they actually started improving the person by putting eyes in the back of his head etc. They ended up advancing him so far that he was shunned by society and try to kill himself but found out that the nanobots would fix whatever he did
i.e. cut his writes they would heal it straight away
As he become good as immortal it was implied that he lived forever. Now that can't be good. Having to watch daytime TV for the next 1000 years:)
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IF anything I would feel that with regard to possible use to terrorism and such like Open Source is better than closed source. With closed source if an exploit that could be used is found then its down to the company to supply the fix.
With open source you at least have multiple people looking at the srouce code and reviewing it. Now I'm not saying that the "bad people" might tell the authors but I would think there would be more chance of the exploit being picked up.
Just my $0.02
Rus
Its nice to see groups binding together like this to bring a message to the general populus or at least other geeks :)
Rus
I really see gaming as the last area where Linux is seriously behind Windows. We have things like WineX which allows some games to be run and of course people like ID activly support Linux. However I have a number of games that I like to play that force me to reboot into Windows just to play them.
:)
Ask anyone and they will say that the availability of games, and even decent graphics drivers on Linux is really behind that of Windows. So if you have the ocassional home user who want to play a games, even a demo off a cover disk they aren't going to be going for Linux are they? Mind you they could just as easy go for a PS2
rus
This is cool. Now there isn't any real reason Windows can't be moved off desktops. KDE/Gnome are far enough advanced to handel most users GUI's need and now they can exchange files with the reset of the world everone should be happy.
:)
However I don't see this happening. Coporates want to be be able to pay for support. They want SLA's. telephone hotlines. Mind you for us home users this is nice
Rus
When I went to have a look at the site I had a list of things I would want to see. These were
Diary
Sharing of Calenders
Phone book
Now this has all of them as well as a few other cools things like inbuilt IM. Good luck to them I say. However I'm not sure but does the system has a centeral server it good log into rather than just peer to peer as it says?
Rus
In a similar vain does anyone know if there is a website where I can find new artists depending on the type of music I like. i.e. something taken from other peoples playlists. Just that I'm bored of what I've got and want something new
Rus
I'm trying to get into anime and I've watched things like Akira and TBH thats about it. Whats a good series I should try to get to help into another spending habit? :)
rus
If I wanted high speed and relability then I would just setup a 0+1 Raid system using 120GB for next to no money. However my questions is why do we need this much bandwidth off disk. Sure in things like video editing I can see the need and in that case I can invest in a Fibre Channel Array, or any modern HDD on SCSI can sustain 50Mb/s.
.02p
However for the average desktop why do I need speed? It won't get MP3's off my hard disk any faster and my OS might take 5 seconds less to boot. Overall I can't see the need for 99.9% of users to have really really fast storage. If we do need it then setup some sort of Ram Disk
Just my
Rus
I wonder if they can use the memory to cache any say incoming streams rather than having swap space
Rus
Going from what I'm reading here it looks like they are using the default password that are shipped with systems. A quick search of google will chuck up the default for loads of systems. So bascically the adminstrators of the system aren't doing the job correctly or am I just misreading this?
Rus
I've tried a 3650. Buttons sucked as they aren't in the normal layout. However other phones to try. If you want big screen + Symbian + PDA then go for either Nokia 7650 or Sony Ericcson P800. If you want something small with a camera Nokia 7250 is quite cool. If you want something small with bluetooth. T68i. Just my opinion but they are all good phones.
Rus
Good summary :) One to make a note of I think
Rus
If the NT side is using NTFS then it might actually be possible to store in NTFS streams which I believe are simliar to the way Apple in HFS used to implement a data and text part of their files. TBH I'm not 100% sure about that
Rus
Its intresting to think that Sun developed NFS which is now a standard UNIX method of sharing files. Now we have them going for Samba as well to tap into the Microsoft Dominated areas, i.e. the desktop. It looks like a good move by sun to target new areas. Just the way I see it
Rus
Yeah NFS is a better system. However in defense of MS they have document SMB (aka CIFS) so people can understand it. However virtually every other recent OS has support for NFS so it would be nice if MS included native support rather than just in their UNIX Tools which are cost extras
Rus
As I mentioned elsewhere I think they are talking about thing that might be unique to the filesystem. Say ACL's or simialr
Rus
They way I'm reading this support for things like XFS/ext3 etc is that samba will implment things such as native ACL's and such like. However I can help but wonder how these will be preserved if say the server is XFS and the Client FAT. The only think I can think of is some sort of file which stores it as Metadata. Of course if it was XFS -> ext3 then you might be able to convert to the native setup but it might be buggy and subject to the filesystem formats changing
Rus
This is the reasons why I always ask people if they are sending me something either to do it in plain text, RTF or PDF. With this I'm almost guarenteed to get someting I can read. If they really really want to use something else I say bung up a webpage and I might look at if it renders correctly.
Rus
SGI are still actually supporting all the NT boxes on a hardware level. Going from what I've heard from friend I have in the UK office is that they are a pain to maintain now. one reason sited for them getting out of the market was the ongoing support costs, and the actual prices charged for the support contracts didn't actually cover the costs of repairs
Rus
Well least it gets round the problem of any pirated software. No one can run anything now :)
rus
I've tried WineX a few months ago and looking over their online database I found that most modern games will about install and thats about it. I would really like to be able to play Starfleet Command + Homeworld well and nativly but I'm afraid hat I still keep my machine dual boot.
One day though I hope to just be able format c:\ and never look back. Its just games now that are keeping me having a dual boot system. Most of my time is spent in Linux just waiting for a 2.5 that boots on my system
Rus
There is an old saying. Once can be understood. Twice is stupid. Five times? Well thats just plain idiotic
Rus
I believe there is room for people who proves themselves to be trustworth. These are the sort of folks who have a private contained network in which they do their hacking. There aren;t hurt anyone and theuy are still learning.
If they find something they then take the appropiate route of contacting the appropiate company and working with them to fix the problem As for the people who find an exploit then use it. No definitly not
Rus
I thinked you've picked up on the key point here of who brunts the cost of spam. If I receive a bit of snail-mail junk mail I know the cost has been taken on by the company. They've had to pay for the printing, packaging and delivery. Now I don't mind these and I can easily look at an envolope and decide if I want to open it
Spam mail on the other hand. Its costs me to receive it in that I pay, in a small part, for my ISP server's. They need new servers to handle the load they are going to get the money from my subscription. How much does it cost a spammer? Well I would guess not much more than the cost of their internet connection, in both sences of the word.
As a pointless statistic since Jan 14th I've recieved 3,500 spam which accounts for about 1% of the email I recieve
Rus
This remind me of an episode of the Twilight Zone where someone was injected with clever nanobots and they actually started improving the person by putting eyes in the back of his head etc. They ended up advancing him so far that he was shunned by society and try to kill himself but found out that the nanobots would fix whatever he did
:)
i.e. cut his writes they would heal it straight away
As he become good as immortal it was implied that he lived forever. Now that can't be good. Having to watch daytime TV for the next 1000 years
Rus