I've always built my own forum software by hand because that way I can build it as a completely integral part of the website, including features that I need and omitting features I don't need. That said, in general I still agree that it's better to go with a pre-built forum software like e.g. vBulletin -- they most likely know a lot better what they're doing than you do. There is, however, one thing I really feel like pointing out here: always disable all the features you do not need. The more features there are the more likely one or another attack point is available. If you don't need e.g. remote administration then disable it, don't just leave it hanging around.
I actually have tried that. A lot of the malware that runs fine on Windows crashed or just didn't work properly under Wine. Does that mean Wine is broken, or that the devs haven't broken it enough yet? I can't decide!
Run those same tests/malware against Linux/Mac. 0% gets through.
Oh, you so smart! OF COURSE malware designed for Windows won't run on non-Windows! That's like copying bash from your Linux-installation to your Windows-installation and complaining how F/OSS software sucks because it doesn't run.
I bought a new 1TB 3.5" drive just before the floods at 49€ (~$62) and now the cheapest 1TB drive I can get is 68€ (~$86), so yeah, I concur. I've been beating myself up for not buying more of those drives back when they were so cheap.
Hmm, considering that metrosexual men are people who use make-up to look better and non-metrosexual men are people who don't use make-up... what are metrosexual-wannabes? Men who kind-of and so-so apply face lotion, hoping to look good while not looking obviously metrosexual?
You paid MS to license Windows8. You didn't buy a copy.
That is true in the U.S., but not e.g here in Finland. The law says you buy a shelf product it IS a shelf product, or to use a common metaphora: "It walks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, therefore it is a duck."
It's that they're missing ethernet ports and are low on storage, but a modern phone is more than powerful enough to serve as a simple server.
My old Nokia N900, with its 650Mhz single-core CPU, was doing quite fine as a small Samba+SSH+Transmission+Mumble - server with spare CPU-resources left over, too, so yeah, I agree with this. I just installed DD-WRT on my Buffalo - router the day before yesterday and the proceeded to install uMurmurd (a simplified Mumble-server) on it, and it still handles routing 1Gbit/s Ethernet and 802.11n WIFI on top of it perfectly fine with only a 333Mhz ARM CPU. I love how DD-WRT made the box so much more useful and stable than it was before!
That said, I don't know how this is related to the topic at hand in any way or form. We're talking about "real" servers with hundreds or thousands of users here, not home use.
Very true, but marketing will probably prefer 64bit chips over 32bit chips with LPAE as it just sounds more powerful to have the 64bit.
It's not that simple. 64bit instructions can handle more data per cycle than 32bit ones, so there is an increase in performance whenever you handle large amounts of data and/or large numbers. I don't know how much of an overhead LPAE adds to execution, but no matter how small the overhead is no overhead at all is still better. Also, I am not sure if I have misunderstood something or not, but I've gotten the impression that even with LPAE the OS can access up to 1TB of memory, but the 32bit applications are still confined to 4GB.
No, I don't. I don't give a flying f*ck about how much an iPad costs. I'd say the same thing about them if iOS used half of all the storage space on the device.
Yeah but you can just pop in an SDXC mini-SD card for $50 have have another 64GB for music/movies which is what fills a device.
That's the thing I do not agree with. It's like saying "Hey, we know you bought a 32GB tablet, but we decided to use half of all the space on the tablet so you should go out and buy MORE stuff to make up for the space we use!"
Well, it kind of is when you take into account that it's almost half of all the space on the whole device on a 32GB Surface. In practice you're being sold a 16GB tablet when you think you're buying a 32GB one. In comparison my 32GB Android-tablet leaves 28GB free for use and my 16GB phone leaves 13GB free after the OS.
I wouldn't call Dotcom's plan altruistic, on that I agree with you, but his plan is clearly much less "evil" than the scenario you proposed. The plan is simple: he wants more bandwidth for his new Mega-solution, and he wants to bitch-slap back the U.S. government and all the related parties while doing so. Handing out free bandwidth to all the Joe Blows of NZ is just a means of increasing the profitability of his new venture via indirect marketing effect while also improving his own, personal reputation in their eyes. So yes, there is an ulterior motive, but luckily there are only benefits to be reaped by the common folk on this plan.
Android runs ON Linux. end of story... Including all the utilities unix/linux provides. It is a Linux distribution that relies on Java for the desktop.
Incorrect. Taken from the Wikipedia - page for Android:
Android's linux kernel has further architecture changes by Google outside the typical Linux kernel development cycle.[43] Android does not have a native X Window System by default nor does it support the full set of standard GNU libraries, and this makes it difficult to port existing Linux applications or libraries to Android.[44] But the support of simple C and SDL applications is possible by injection of a small Java shim and usage of the JNI[45] like e.g. in the Jagged Alliance 2 port for Android.[46]
Isn't Android itself a Linux-derived OS? I thought Torvalds said that Android will be converging back to Linux in the future.
Yes, Android runs on a slightly modified Linux-kernel. Most of the modifications have now made their way into the mainline kernel, so in the future it may well be possible that there is no need for modifying the kernel at all. The userland on Android and any Linux-distro is entirely different, but I s'spose you knew that already.
I guess it depends on what you mean with "running well": I have a Pandaboard and, well, it has been a major clusterfuck all the way from the beginning, what with constant breakage of features, on some releases of the software the features disappear completely, and then there's the constant crashes in the kernel. Imagine my surprise when I installed the latest stable Texas Instruments - release of the kernel only to find that networking is completely broken and the kernel goes to a hard lock-up after being on for 5-10 minutes, whether or not it just sits idle this whole time.
If all I want out of it is unaccelerated X or just console applications then yes, it runs very well, and it works great as a low-foothold server for all kinds of things. I'm just saying that I sure have no high expectations for these guys and their efforts.
The sentence would be approximately "But he said: 'No, out of fear that while you root the weeds you also root up the wheat with them.'" Ie. "lest" is used to denote the fear or danger of something happening.
I've seen this guy several times here on Slashdot and each time I wonder what does he actually get out of this? Writing incoherent rambles that no one is interested in, making himself look like a total, utter lunatic, not to mention the waste of his time..Does he really have nothing better to do? How many screws has he lost? Or more precisely, are there any screws left in the first place?
I've been lucky on that; the USB-connector on my N900 is still perfectly solid and works peachy.
and your preferred solution involves soldering wires to the battery terminals and installing a separate charging circuit (I used a Palm Pre inductive receiver + a USB Li-ion charging board, all crammed in a Mugen extended battery cover) rather than just replacing the USB connector, you don't need the onboard charging anyway. I never thought of it, but that does basically make booting other distros practical. I really should dig it out and try it sometime...
With your setup, yes, running other distros natively should be perfectly feasible. I've been thinking of going the same route, but my hands shake so much that I probably would mess the soldering up -- it's hard for me to keep my hands/fingers stable and make small, delicate movements.
If there is a driver for the GPU then it should perform just fine. Unity does not support GL/ES AFAIK, so it'd be really slow due to software emulation, and I don't know whether or not GNOME Shell does support GL/ES, either. But well, any WM/compositor that does utilize GL/ES or that just does 2D should work just peachy. Compiz does support GL/ES 2.0 these days, apparently, so using that for "graphics bling" would certainly be feasible if your GPU does GL/ES 2.0.
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I've always built my own forum software by hand because that way I can build it as a completely integral part of the website, including features that I need and omitting features I don't need. That said, in general I still agree that it's better to go with a pre-built forum software like e.g. vBulletin -- they most likely know a lot better what they're doing than you do. There is, however, one thing I really feel like pointing out here: always disable all the features you do not need. The more features there are the more likely one or another attack point is available. If you don't need e.g. remote administration then disable it, don't just leave it hanging around.
The malware will work if you run Wine.
I actually have tried that. A lot of the malware that runs fine on Windows crashed or just didn't work properly under Wine. Does that mean Wine is broken, or that the devs haven't broken it enough yet? I can't decide!
Run those same tests/malware against Linux/Mac. 0% gets through.
Oh, you so smart! OF COURSE malware designed for Windows won't run on non-Windows! That's like copying bash from your Linux-installation to your Windows-installation and complaining how F/OSS software sucks because it doesn't run.
My SCSI 160 drives deliver a 2ms access time.
I'd love to see a mechanical HDD with such speeds. You are confusing something there, mate.
I bought a new 1TB 3.5" drive just before the floods at 49€ (~$62) and now the cheapest 1TB drive I can get is 68€ (~$86), so yeah, I concur. I've been beating myself up for not buying more of those drives back when they were so cheap.
metrosexual-wannabes"
Hmm, considering that metrosexual men are people who use make-up to look better and non-metrosexual men are people who don't use make-up... what are metrosexual-wannabes? Men who kind-of and so-so apply face lotion, hoping to look good while not looking obviously metrosexual?
Well, faster boot times seems a useable advantage.
You paid MS to license Windows8. You didn't buy a copy.
That is true in the U.S., but not e.g here in Finland. The law says you buy a shelf product it IS a shelf product, or to use a common metaphora: "It walks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, therefore it is a duck."
It's that they're missing ethernet ports and are low on storage, but a modern phone is more than powerful enough to serve as a simple server.
My old Nokia N900, with its 650Mhz single-core CPU, was doing quite fine as a small Samba+SSH+Transmission+Mumble - server with spare CPU-resources left over, too, so yeah, I agree with this. I just installed DD-WRT on my Buffalo - router the day before yesterday and the proceeded to install uMurmurd (a simplified Mumble-server) on it, and it still handles routing 1Gbit/s Ethernet and 802.11n WIFI on top of it perfectly fine with only a 333Mhz ARM CPU. I love how DD-WRT made the box so much more useful and stable than it was before!
That said, I don't know how this is related to the topic at hand in any way or form. We're talking about "real" servers with hundreds or thousands of users here, not home use.
Very true, but marketing will probably prefer 64bit chips over 32bit chips with LPAE as it just sounds more powerful to have the 64bit.
It's not that simple. 64bit instructions can handle more data per cycle than 32bit ones, so there is an increase in performance whenever you handle large amounts of data and/or large numbers. I don't know how much of an overhead LPAE adds to execution, but no matter how small the overhead is no overhead at all is still better. Also, I am not sure if I have misunderstood something or not, but I've gotten the impression that even with LPAE the OS can access up to 1TB of memory, but the 32bit applications are still confined to 4GB.
Maybe you think that's a big deal because a 16 GB iPad costs $100 more than a 32GB one, versus $9.99 to add 16GB to the Surface
No, I don't. I don't give a flying f*ck about how much an iPad costs. I'd say the same thing about them if iOS used half of all the storage space on the device.
Yeah but you can just pop in an SDXC mini-SD card for $50 have have another 64GB for music/movies which is what fills a device.
That's the thing I do not agree with. It's like saying "Hey, we know you bought a 32GB tablet, but we decided to use half of all the space on the tablet so you should go out and buy MORE stuff to make up for the space we use!"
13GB is not bad.
Well, it kind of is when you take into account that it's almost half of all the space on the whole device on a 32GB Surface. In practice you're being sold a 16GB tablet when you think you're buying a 32GB one. In comparison my 32GB Android-tablet leaves 28GB free for use and my 16GB phone leaves 13GB free after the OS.
I don't get your point? You're just saying the same thing as I said?
So, you're saying the exact same thing I said?
I wouldn't call Dotcom's plan altruistic, on that I agree with you, but his plan is clearly much less "evil" than the scenario you proposed. The plan is simple: he wants more bandwidth for his new Mega-solution, and he wants to bitch-slap back the U.S. government and all the related parties while doing so. Handing out free bandwidth to all the Joe Blows of NZ is just a means of increasing the profitability of his new venture via indirect marketing effect while also improving his own, personal reputation in their eyes. So yes, there is an ulterior motive, but luckily there are only benefits to be reaped by the common folk on this plan.
Android runs ON Linux. end of story... Including all the utilities unix/linux provides. It is a Linux distribution that relies on Java for the desktop.
Incorrect. Taken from the Wikipedia - page for Android:
Android's linux kernel has further architecture changes by Google outside the typical Linux kernel development cycle.[43] Android does not have a native X Window System by default nor does it support the full set of standard GNU libraries, and this makes it difficult to port existing Linux applications or libraries to Android.[44] But the support of simple C and SDL applications is possible by injection of a small Java shim and usage of the JNI[45] like e.g. in the Jagged Alliance 2 port for Android.[46]
Isn't Android itself a Linux-derived OS? I thought Torvalds said that Android will be converging back to Linux in the future.
Yes, Android runs on a slightly modified Linux-kernel. Most of the modifications have now made their way into the mainline kernel, so in the future it may well be possible that there is no need for modifying the kernel at all. The userland on Android and any Linux-distro is entirely different, but I s'spose you knew that already.
I guess it depends on what you mean with "running well": I have a Pandaboard and, well, it has been a major clusterfuck all the way from the beginning, what with constant breakage of features, on some releases of the software the features disappear completely, and then there's the constant crashes in the kernel. Imagine my surprise when I installed the latest stable Texas Instruments - release of the kernel only to find that networking is completely broken and the kernel goes to a hard lock-up after being on for 5-10 minutes, whether or not it just sits idle this whole time.
If all I want out of it is unaccelerated X or just console applications then yes, it runs very well, and it works great as a low-foothold server for all kinds of things. I'm just saying that I sure have no high expectations for these guys and their efforts.
"How to spend $800,000 in one day"
Challenge accepted! Now to seek someone to finance the challenge!
What are tares
"Any of several weedy plants that grow in grain fields." -- http://www.thefreedictionary.com/tare
and what does "lest while ye" mean?
The sentence would be approximately "But he said: 'No, out of fear that while you root the weeds you also root up the wheat with them.'" Ie. "lest" is used to denote the fear or danger of something happening.
It's from the Time Cube website. Ancient trolling.
Oh, that explains quite a lot. I still don't get the point, though, but alas, maybe I'm just not mentally unstable enough! :)
I've seen this guy several times here on Slashdot and each time I wonder what does he actually get out of this? Writing incoherent rambles that no one is interested in, making himself look like a total, utter lunatic, not to mention the waste of his time..Does he really have nothing better to do? How many screws has he lost? Or more precisely, are there any screws left in the first place?
Anyway, if your USB connector dies (as mine did)
I've been lucky on that; the USB-connector on my N900 is still perfectly solid and works peachy.
and your preferred solution involves soldering wires to the battery terminals and installing a separate charging circuit (I used a Palm Pre inductive receiver + a USB Li-ion charging board, all crammed in a Mugen extended battery cover) rather than just replacing the USB connector, you don't need the onboard charging anyway. I never thought of it, but that does basically make booting other distros practical. I really should dig it out and try it sometime...
With your setup, yes, running other distros natively should be perfectly feasible. I've been thinking of going the same route, but my hands shake so much that I probably would mess the soldering up -- it's hard for me to keep my hands/fingers stable and make small, delicate movements.
If there is a driver for the GPU then it should perform just fine. Unity does not support GL/ES AFAIK, so it'd be really slow due to software emulation, and I don't know whether or not GNOME Shell does support GL/ES, either. But well, any WM/compositor that does utilize GL/ES or that just does 2D should work just peachy. Compiz does support GL/ES 2.0 these days, apparently, so using that for "graphics bling" would certainly be feasible if your GPU does GL/ES 2.0.