They also sell the $199 PCs with Lycoris Linux pre-installed. That is a legit Linux that has user accounts and free upgrades. Unfortunately unless you do a lot of tweaking Mandrake no workie on a CIII-equipped PC.Maybe they'll have the CIII prob sorted in 9.1.
I don't see the disk thrashing you speak of with Mandrake 9. However, I am running with 512MB of RAM, which is the maximum for the i815 chipset. Mandrake update is smooth as butter. Just got finished with it no more than 5 minutes ago...downloaded and installed the security updates for Galeon and Windowmaker. Was running KDE at the time.
Heh...amongst my geeky t-shirt collection, I have:
1.) A Microsoft "Spring Internet World 2000" specimen...hey, they were giving those puppies away, and that surfer graphic looked cool... 2.) A Mac Expo 1997 "Premiere" shirt...I actually volunteered that year. Hell, 1997 was just about the nadir for Apple...nobody expected the company to last the year. 3.) A Penguin Computing "Good Evening, Mr. Gates, I'll be your server today!" t-shirt.
So what do they all have in common? I got them FREE. I actually wear them all. Between bands we know and geek conferences/conventions, we have all the t-shirts we need to prevent indecent exposure arrests. As far as I'm concerned, t-shirts serve utilitarian purposes. The images on them are almost completely meaningless. Gimme a free t-shirt and 9 times out of ten, yes, I will wear it.
Heh, maybe I should take pix of my dead dot.bomb T-shirt collection...I've got some real doozies there and I prolly should get pix of them before they fade away...;-)
Running ssh in place of telenet is a good idea, but it is certainly not a transparent replacement. You have to go round disabling the telnet deamons, install ssh and tel the users you made the switch.
Actually that's a damn good idea. Unfortunately you can't do that on Windows 2000 or Windows XP or for that matter any version of Windows unless you pay for SSH daemons and clients. Or install Cygwin and then install OpenSSH...but darn it, that's got VIRAL GPL CODE! We can't have that! ^_^
Windows COMES with Telnet. It's a crap version of Telnet that is directly descended from BSD code. Run Strings against telnet.exe and see what you find.
Windows SHOULD come with an implementation of SSH. But does it? Nope.
People from India and Pakistan DO speak better English than us Ah-mur-i-cuns. Have you ever watched CNN's World Report? The Indian and Pakistani journalists all speak the Queen's English very melodiously and beautifully. Even though most of the time the news was pretty horrifying (Nuclear standoff between India and Pakistan, much sabre rattling...a Cold War in microcosm) they sure made it sound pleasant.
Unreal Tournament (1999) requires you to be admin to install it. However, it does not require you to be admin to play it, at least on Windows 2000. I suspect that since XP is Windows 2000 1.1 (actually NT 5.1) the same situation applies.
Yes, I've been there, done that, and got the nice little card in my wallet and certificate in my filing cabinet.
In terms of support for security features Windows is much more advanced. Windows has Kerberos deeply embedded into the O/S, in Unix Kerberos is an optional afterthought. Windows has full support for PKI built into the core of the O/S, no UNIX has to date. Windows has features like an encrypting file system built into the core file system, on UNIX you have various ad hoc schemes.
OK, you can get Kerberos v5 with any Linux distro and it works very well. Kerberos was designed for UNIX. The variant on Kerberos v5 that is used in Windows beginning in Windows 2000 is a bastardized version, so much so it can't even communicate with the open Kerberos standard. Ask the Samba Team sometime how much of a bitch of a time they had getting MIT Kerberos 5 to talk to Windows Kerberos 5.
Microsoft's implementation of PKI is so howlingly bad that they are still trying to fix the SSL Certificates problem that the KDE people got fixed within a week of announcement. Like ordering securely online? Don't do it with IE, folks.
EFS is a royal PITA. Everyone loved it in the beginning and you have to know how it works to pass MS certification tests. But it has a very big problem...you take a severe performance hit if you use it, and it's only good for the person who encrypts the data and for no-one else.
Agreed, Linux/BSD needs a better security model, but it's in the works. The NSA's Secure Linux has a fully working version that is even better than Windows permissions. And you can set up groups and do limited group policy in xNIX even now.
Of course you can if you chose simply stick your head in the sand the way that Lotus, Apple and Wordperfect did. Of course your system is perrfect and will never be challenged no matter how much time and effort Redmond put into overtaking you. Go ahead Mr Hare take a nice long nap, the armoured tank is way off in the distance and only moving at 50 mph or so.
Haw haw haw laughing boy...what a fsckn joke. Truth is, MS is now running scared of Free/Open Source operating systems. All you have to do to get Redmond to cut you a deal on licensing is show them all the lovely ways you will use Linux and/or FreeBSD in your network and retire all those Windows servers with the client access licenses and their hassle. However, that tank out of Helsinki is coming right for Redmond and they can't stop it. Like they showed the world with IE, you can't compete with something that's free as in beer. The fact that it's also free as in speech is a very good thing indeed, but it's secondary for the PHBs and the Bean Counters if it's ever considered at all.
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Konqueror is to KDE what IE is to Windows. Konqui is not just the web browser, it's what pops up when you want to look through your files. It's everywhere in KDE. However, its tendrils only extend throughout KDE...it does not dig deep into the rest of Linux or the other xNIX variants it runs on. And Konqui can run in other window managers too...I run Mandrake 9 and can get to Konqui from IceWM and GNOME if I want to.
Heh, I like Konqui. It's what IE should have been. And unlike IE it seems to get faster and sleeker and more standards-compliant with each iteration.
The crazy reason why the Aeon Flux video game was cancelled was the demise of Viacom Interactive. However, the game was a piece of crap. Bad controls! Bad, bad!;-)
Also, around that time, a game called "Tomb Raider" came out. TR basically was what the AF video game should have been, without the kink factor.
Simon And Schuster/MTV Networks should have bought the Tomb Raider engine and redid the AF game as a TR mod. However, since the AF series was cancelled after only one season (just like MTV did to Downtown, alas...) I'm sure it was commercially moot by then.
Infocom put out a semi-relational database called "Cornerstone" which was based on their text adventure engine. It ran on DOS. It was actually a fairly workable proggie that didn't require the user to be a 'leet DBaseII programmer. I used it to keep track of invitees to my wedding and send thank-you cards for the gifts said invitees gave. This was back in 1987...I don't think Cornerstone lasted long after that.
Actually if someone is such a mIRC junkie that they want to get it running under WINE, they should take a look at XChat. XChat is a fairly faithful Open Source replica of mIRC.
What I want to see is a IRC client for Linux/FreeBSD that behaves just like IRCle, a client for Classic Macintosh. I just like it...it's the IRC client I've used for years and it's as comfy as a broken-in pair of jeans for me.
One thing I object to after reading the article. During development, they used the character Daria Morgendorffer to represent the people who enjoy torturing their Sims. I would think that Daria, if she even played The Sims, wouldn't torture her characters. That's what "Black And White" is for.:-) Although every indication of Daria's taste in games in the 5 years of the show's run suggest she's more a First-Person Shooter fan.
I think "The Sims" and "The Sims Online" are more the province of her sister Quinn, though. Manipulation of people's lives is definitely something she'd dig on. I suspect that the entire Fashion Club (except Tiffany, she's too slow to use a computer) might develop a "TSO" addiction.
Interestingly enough, there are lots of "Daria"-related skins for "The Sims" floating around the Internet. You can basically replicate Daria's Lawndale house, complete with her family and the plastic replicas of brains, bones and cheese that are in Daria's padded room.
No, you have to choose between Windows 2000 SP3 and Windows XP. That's the only choice they want you to make. Remember, 98 is being phased out...if memory serves, it will be officially non-supported as of New Year's Eve.
Too little, too late though. Have you actually read these new pricing terms? I have. All this is is a credit plan to delay some of the pain. The actual price cuts are minimal.
What MS SHOULD do is what the record companies need to do in response to piracy: LOWER YOUR DAMN PRICES. Don't just give people longer terms to pay off. $100 for XP Professional and $50 for XP Home should be about right.
Bzzt! Sorry dude, thanks for playing. If you don't remember the Clinton era, he was 0wn3d by corporate types too. DRM? Remember the Clipper Chip? That began when Clinton came into the White House. The Democrats and the Republicans are both equally manipulated by big business. You are kidding yourself if you think otherwise.
Here it is in black and white...
-rwxrwxrwx 1 mycomp user 24064 Nov 18 12:31 mkhresume-longform.doc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mycomp user 8842 Nov 18 19:14 mkhresume-longform.sxw
Same document, the latter converted to Open Office format. Adapt or be left behind, Microsoft.
I don't know about CounterStrike or Starcraft, but there is an Unreal Tournament installer which will install the Windows UT "Game Of The Year" edition onto Linux. Loki Software wrote it. And UT2003 comes as a hybrid disk with both the Linux and the Windows installs. So that crosses a couple of games off your list. BTW this also works with FreeBSD using the Linux compatibility layer.
I'm lacking a gall bladder (removed 11 years ago due to stones) and find this to happen on a fairly regular basis. Greasy food tends to...uhh...slide on out the back door, if you know what I mean. I have to be very careful of what I eat.
You'll see it. It's in the works. http://www.kawaiiproject.org/ . It won't be huge and more-than-complete like Mandrake, but it will be desktop-oriented and friendly. Think Lycoris or Xandros. Also think Knoppix...you can slip it into your CD-ROM and boot off that, or you can take the installer and install onto a hard drive, or even a suitably large CF for diskless operations.
FreeBSD is too good to keep away from the desktop. Heck, the MacPPC folks have OS X...why deny x86 computers this BSD-driven goodness? A FreeBSD-based graphical desktop will run acceptably on older machines (think walk, not crawl) and is a true speed daemon on fast machines. This has been a long time coming, but it is going to happen.
Here's a reason you might not hear from anyone else. FreeBSD is fast. It can make an old 486 seem like a Pentium 233MMX and a 733MHz PIII seem like a 3GHz P4. I'm serious, man. This has been my personal experience. Stop griping and try it. The installer isn't half as bad as the Debian installer and just about anything that can run on Linux can be recompiled for FreeBSD. Give it a shot.
Nobody makes pro-quality apps for audio production that run on Linux!!!
Sonic Foundry make some bad-ass apps, man...Sound Forge, ACID Pro, Vegas Audio, Vegas Video.
There is NOTHING like them on Linux yet. Write me something that works like ACID and I will happily remove one more machine of mine from the Redmond Collective.
They give out static IP addresses and allow those who know how to do it and can keep their boxen patched the ability to run servers. They even have their own game server too! How cool is that?
Sorry about those in the other 49 states...PPPoE sucks.
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They also sell the $199 PCs with Lycoris Linux pre-installed. That is a legit Linux that has user accounts and free upgrades. Unfortunately unless you do a lot of tweaking Mandrake no workie on a CIII-equipped PC.Maybe they'll have the CIII prob sorted in 9.1.
And XP is NT5.1.
I don't see the disk thrashing you speak of with Mandrake 9. However, I am running with 512MB of RAM, which is the maximum for the i815 chipset. Mandrake update is smooth as butter. Just got finished with it no more than 5 minutes ago...downloaded and installed the security updates for Galeon and Windowmaker. Was running KDE at the time.
Tasty, tasty mandrakes! Eat 'em with catsup!
I live in LA. We have earthquakes on a regular basis. Stone tablets won't stand a chance here.
Heh...amongst my geeky t-shirt collection, I have:
1.) A Microsoft "Spring Internet World 2000" specimen...hey, they were giving those puppies away, and that surfer graphic looked cool...
2.) A Mac Expo 1997 "Premiere" shirt...I actually volunteered that year. Hell, 1997 was just about the nadir for Apple...nobody expected the company to last the year.
3.) A Penguin Computing "Good Evening, Mr. Gates, I'll be your server today!" t-shirt.
So what do they all have in common? I got them FREE. I actually wear them all. Between bands we know and geek conferences/conventions, we have all the t-shirts we need to prevent indecent exposure arrests. As far as I'm concerned, t-shirts serve utilitarian purposes. The images on them are almost completely meaningless. Gimme a free t-shirt and 9 times out of ten, yes, I will wear it.
Heh, maybe I should take pix of my dead dot.bomb T-shirt collection...I've got some real doozies there and I prolly should get pix of them before they fade away...;-)
Actually that's a damn good idea. Unfortunately you can't do that on Windows 2000 or Windows XP or for that matter any version of Windows unless you pay for SSH daemons and clients. Or install Cygwin and then install OpenSSH...but darn it, that's got VIRAL GPL CODE! We can't have that! ^_^
Windows COMES with Telnet. It's a crap version of Telnet that is directly descended from BSD code. Run Strings against telnet.exe and see what you find.
Windows SHOULD come with an implementation of SSH. But does it? Nope.
People from India and Pakistan DO speak better English than us Ah-mur-i-cuns. Have you ever watched CNN's World Report? The Indian and Pakistani journalists all speak the Queen's English very melodiously and beautifully. Even though most of the time the news was pretty horrifying (Nuclear standoff between India and Pakistan, much sabre rattling...a Cold War in microcosm) they sure made it sound pleasant.
Unreal Tournament (1999) requires you to be admin to install it. However, it does not require you to be admin to play it, at least on Windows 2000. I suspect that since XP is Windows 2000 1.1 (actually NT 5.1) the same situation applies.
OK, you can get Kerberos v5 with any Linux distro and it works very well. Kerberos was designed for UNIX. The variant on Kerberos v5 that is used in Windows beginning in Windows 2000 is a bastardized version, so much so it can't even communicate with the open Kerberos standard. Ask the Samba Team sometime how much of a bitch of a time they had getting MIT Kerberos 5 to talk to Windows Kerberos 5.
Microsoft's implementation of PKI is so howlingly bad that they are still trying to fix the SSL Certificates problem that the KDE people got fixed within a week of announcement. Like ordering securely online? Don't do it with IE, folks.
EFS is a royal PITA. Everyone loved it in the beginning and you have to know how it works to pass MS certification tests. But it has a very big problem...you take a severe performance hit if you use it, and it's only good for the person who encrypts the data and for no-one else.
Agreed, Linux/BSD needs a better security model, but it's in the works. The NSA's Secure Linux has a fully working version that is even better than Windows permissions. And you can set up groups and do limited group policy in xNIX even now.
Haw haw haw laughing boy...what a fsckn joke. Truth is, MS is now running scared of Free/Open Source operating systems. All you have to do to get Redmond to cut you a deal on licensing is show them all the lovely ways you will use Linux and/or FreeBSD in your network and retire all those Windows servers with the client access licenses and their hassle. However, that tank out of Helsinki is coming right for Redmond and they can't stop it. Like they showed the world with IE, you can't compete with something that's free as in beer. The fact that it's also free as in speech is a very good thing indeed, but it's secondary for the PHBs and the Bean Counters if it's ever considered at all.
Konqueror is to KDE what IE is to Windows. Konqui is not just the web browser, it's what pops up when you want to look through your files. It's everywhere in KDE. However, its tendrils only extend throughout KDE...it does not dig deep into the rest of Linux or the other xNIX variants it runs on. And Konqui can run in other window managers too...I run Mandrake 9 and can get to Konqui from IceWM and GNOME if I want to.
Heh, I like Konqui. It's what IE should have been. And unlike IE it seems to get faster and sleeker and more standards-compliant with each iteration.
The crazy reason why the Aeon Flux video game was cancelled was the demise of Viacom Interactive. However, the game was a piece of crap. Bad controls! Bad, bad! ;-)
Also, around that time, a game called "Tomb Raider" came out. TR basically was what the AF video game should have been, without the kink factor.
Simon And Schuster/MTV Networks should have bought the Tomb Raider engine and redid the AF game as a TR mod. However, since the AF series was cancelled after only one season (just like MTV did to Downtown, alas...) I'm sure it was commercially moot by then.
Infocom put out a semi-relational database called "Cornerstone" which was based on their text adventure engine. It ran on DOS. It was actually a fairly workable proggie that didn't require the user to be a 'leet DBaseII programmer. I used it to keep track of invitees to my wedding and send thank-you cards for the gifts said invitees gave. This was back in 1987...I don't think Cornerstone lasted long after that.
Actually if someone is such a mIRC junkie that they want to get it running under WINE, they should take a look at XChat. XChat is a fairly faithful Open Source replica of mIRC.
What I want to see is a IRC client for Linux/FreeBSD that behaves just like IRCle, a client for Classic Macintosh. I just like it...it's the IRC client I've used for years and it's as comfy as a broken-in pair of jeans for me.
One thing I object to after reading the article. During development, they used the character Daria Morgendorffer to represent the people who enjoy torturing their Sims. I would think that Daria, if she even played The Sims, wouldn't torture her characters. That's what "Black And White" is for. :-) Although every indication of Daria's taste in games in the 5 years of the show's run suggest she's more a First-Person Shooter fan.
I think "The Sims" and "The Sims Online" are more the province of her sister Quinn, though. Manipulation of people's lives is definitely something she'd dig on. I suspect that the entire Fashion Club (except Tiffany, she's too slow to use a computer) might develop a "TSO" addiction.
Interestingly enough, there are lots of "Daria"-related skins for "The Sims" floating around the Internet. You can basically replicate Daria's Lawndale house, complete with her family and the plastic replicas of brains, bones and cheese that are in Daria's padded room.
No, you have to choose between Windows 2000 SP3 and Windows XP. That's the only choice they want you to make. Remember, 98 is being phased out...if memory serves, it will be officially non-supported as of New Year's Eve.
Some choice, neh?
Too little, too late though. Have you actually read these new pricing terms? I have. All this is is a credit plan to delay some of the pain. The actual price cuts are minimal.
What MS SHOULD do is what the record companies need to do in response to piracy: LOWER YOUR DAMN PRICES. Don't just give people longer terms to pay off. $100 for XP Professional and $50 for XP Home should be about right.
Bzzt! Sorry dude, thanks for playing. If you don't remember the Clinton era, he was 0wn3d by corporate types too. DRM? Remember the Clipper Chip? That began when Clinton came into the White House. The Democrats and the Republicans are both equally manipulated by big business. You are kidding yourself if you think otherwise.
-rwxrwxrwx 1 mycomp user 24064 Nov 18 12:31 mkhresume-longform.doc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mycomp user 8842 Nov 18 19:14 mkhresume-longform.sxw
Same document, the latter converted to Open Office format. Adapt or be left behind, Microsoft.
I don't know about CounterStrike or Starcraft, but there is an Unreal Tournament installer which will install the Windows UT "Game Of The Year" edition onto Linux. Loki Software wrote it. And UT2003 comes as a hybrid disk with both the Linux and the Windows installs. So that crosses a couple of games off your list. BTW this also works with FreeBSD using the Linux compatibility layer.
I'm lacking a gall bladder (removed 11 years ago due to stones) and find this to happen on a fairly regular basis. Greasy food tends to...uhh...slide on out the back door, if you know what I mean. I have to be very careful of what I eat.
FreeBSD is too good to keep away from the desktop. Heck, the MacPPC folks have OS X...why deny x86 computers this BSD-driven goodness? A FreeBSD-based graphical desktop will run acceptably on older machines (think walk, not crawl) and is a true speed daemon on fast machines. This has been a long time coming, but it is going to happen.
Here's a reason you might not hear from anyone else. FreeBSD is fast. It can make an old 486 seem like a Pentium 233MMX and a 733MHz PIII seem like a 3GHz P4. I'm serious, man. This has been my personal experience. Stop griping and try it. The installer isn't half as bad as the Debian installer and just about anything that can run on Linux can be recompiled for FreeBSD. Give it a shot.
No, just a visit from Flik and his buddies. Pure Pixar. Katzenberg had nothing to do with it.
Yes! This is a BIG problem.
Nobody makes pro-quality apps for audio production that run on Linux!!!
Sonic Foundry make some bad-ass apps, man...Sound Forge, ACID Pro, Vegas Audio, Vegas Video.
There is NOTHING like them on Linux yet. Write me something that works like ACID and I will happily remove one more machine of mine from the Redmond Collective.
They give out static IP addresses and allow those who know how to do it and can keep their boxen patched the ability to run servers. They even have their own game server too! How cool is that?
Sorry about those in the other 49 states...PPPoE sucks.