10-14 new linux exploits which dont apply to 95% of linux users. I'm on the debian security mailing list and almost every notice they send out is regarding a package I dont use (on a package heavy box even).
Look at it this way, when you say "linux exploits" you are not only talking about kernel issues and quality packages but every half-baked bit of code to come out of a college dormatory. If you include all the windows shovelware in with those exploit numbers I venture to say that you would see a very different picture.
ATI likes to play the catchup game. They tend to release a comparable part some months after nvidia sets the new standard. On the rare occasion when they actually surpass nvidia (I'll take your word for it the 8500 is faster than the geforce) it's by some negligable amount. Shortly thereafter nvidia releases their next gen card and blows everyone else out of the water.
I used to stick up for ATI but those days are long gone. They have nice features but abysmal driver support. You get to make lovely decisions like "driver A - TV tuner + crashing" or "driver B - no TV and no crashing and gfx glitches in games"
The rage 128 was never at any point in time, the best you could get. ATI can't even remember the directions to the throne room anymore let alone be the reigning king of vid cards.
It would be nice if the debian crew came up with a release branch somwhere in between stable and unstable. Something that was a little more up to date than stable and a little less bleeding edge than unstable.
Oh wait, THEY ALREADY HAVE. It's called testing and if you had read any debian news within the past year you would know about it.
You don't seem to understand this concept of "industry standard". It means that when your monkey ass is gone, the next guy can step in and hit the ground running. While your custom perl script setup may be r33t, there is only one person on the planet who understands exactly how/where/why they were set up and that is you. No manager in their right mind would want their tech guy to have them by the balls like that.
Why do you think broadband is so cheap and pervasive now? Take a minute and get off your high horse to realize the only reason you HAVE your cheap broadband is because of things like napster.
Moreover you employ some pretty piss poor logic in your arguement. Let me draw a parallel:
"I frankly could not give a rats-ass if all 4 lane highways are changed to 1 lane. Do you REALLY want me to believe that most people don't speed when they drive on these highways? When I can't drive the speed I want because there are lots of other cares on the road it pisses me off... wah wah wah etc."
Like you said, in the right hands it could be an interesting concept. What I *don't* want to see is another hideous "j34h d00dz check out this phat new title... its off tha hook!" show targetted at the 12 yr old demographic.
The original gamers are all grown up now. We are not teenagers. We have money to spend. Can we please have some intelligent coverage of upcoming titles/issues etc without the cheesy plastic MTV wannabe veneer.
The legions of anal retentive grammar nazis rise to salute you! All hail the king and master of the English language. May the sun never set on your perfectly parsed and formatted kingdom! I pine for the day when one so masterful as you can have full editorial control over all of the content across this vast network.
Please accept my apologies in advance for the shoddiness of this post. Alas I am just a poor grammar serf. I don't have the same divine control over the English language as your Royal Grammar Highness.
What else do you expect the kids to do with their free time out there? Wasn't there a movie a couple years ago with kurt russell called "escape from saskatchewan"? Err wait I'm thinking of something else. =P
The popularity of consoles varied dramatically from region to region.
Just to give a few examples:
Turbografx-16 was more or less a flop in north america but in Japan it was *the* most popular system of its generation.
Genesis aka Mega Drive did quite well in NA, Europe, and Japan although it was definitely second fiddle to the pc engine.
SNES aka superfamicom had to play catchup as genesis had a huge head start on it but by the end of the 16-bit era this system was probably the most widely supported. My personal belief on how genesis managed to lose the crown was segas lack of a good 6-button controller when fighting games were at the peak of their popularity (yes I know one eventually came out but it was too late).
To sum it up I certainly agree with you that there is no way SNES should have been left out. As far as which systems were "successful" it all depends on what market you are talking about.
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Read what I said again you limp wristed simp. It *DOES* protect out of the box. You state yourself you "don't do debian". Well understand this: debian packages are put together with certain settings and config files you won't find in a plain old tarball. There is a default ruleset that works quite nicely right off the bat. But you already knew that since you are the fortune 500 "expert" right?
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Don't hold your breath:
$ apt-get setup snort
E: Invalid operation setup
It's "apt-get install snort". And if you had actually tried it before (which we all know you haven't due to your syntax slip) you would realize that it is in fact that easy. It asks you a few questions as far as when eth card/ip to listen in on and then you are up and running. The default rules are quite reasonable and of course you are free to tweak the thing till the cows come home.
Starrock attacks makes a sweeping comment regarding the fickleness of slashdot users making sweeping comments about some corporation and gets modded up for it. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Maybe you should put a patch over one eye or tape an old cardboard toilet paper tube to your forehead so you can look through that. Reality is obvisouly too overwhelming for you.
Well that pretty much sums up your knowledge os X in a nutshell. A really small nutshell.
Xfree itself has next to nothing to do with the "prettiness" of ones X environment. X is only as flashy as you make it to be. If you like a lean/speedy wm then go with something like icewm. If you want all the graphic bells and whistles and have some ram to spare, try enlightenment.
Don't just fire up twm and say "man Xfree is ugly". Try out a few different options first.
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...you would realize they releasing a verion with integrated video and a version without.
Yeah when I read your comment, I thought...
--Does he think he's funny?
--Is he really that stupid?
--Does he dress and feed himself?
Do you give your instructor back rubs by any chance?
You know you can keep changing your url as many times as you want but we can spot your low quality work a mile away.
10-14 new linux exploits which dont apply to 95% of linux users. I'm on the debian security mailing list and almost every notice they send out is regarding a package I dont use (on a package heavy box even).
Look at it this way, when you say "linux exploits" you are not only talking about kernel issues and quality packages but every half-baked bit of code to come out of a college dormatory. If you include all the windows shovelware in with those exploit numbers I venture to say that you would see a very different picture.
The security of any OS lies in the skill of its admin. An idiot with a 2k box is no more secure than an idiot with a linux box and vice versa.
ATI likes to play the catchup game. They tend to release a comparable part some months after nvidia sets the new standard. On the rare occasion when they actually surpass nvidia (I'll take your word for it the 8500 is faster than the geforce) it's by some negligable amount. Shortly thereafter nvidia releases their next gen card and blows everyone else out of the water.
I used to stick up for ATI but those days are long gone. They have nice features but abysmal driver support. You get to make lovely decisions like "driver A - TV tuner + crashing" or "driver B - no TV and no crashing and gfx glitches in games"
The rage 128 was never at any point in time, the best you could get. ATI can't even remember the directions to the throne room anymore let alone be the reigning king of vid cards.
It would be nice if the debian crew came up with a release branch somwhere in between stable and unstable. Something that was a little more up to date than stable and a little less bleeding edge than unstable.
Oh wait, THEY ALREADY HAVE. It's called testing and if you had read any debian news within the past year you would know about it.
The funny thing is i'm not even asian. Too bad you are too stupid to recognize the reference.
You could always try reading the article.
You don't seem to understand this concept of "industry standard". It means that when your monkey ass is gone, the next guy can step in and hit the ground running. While your custom perl script setup may be r33t, there is only one person on the planet who understands exactly how/where/why they were set up and that is you. No manager in their right mind would want their tech guy to have them by the balls like that.
Why do you think broadband is so cheap and pervasive now? Take a minute and get off your high horse to realize the only reason you HAVE your cheap broadband is because of things like napster.
Moreover you employ some pretty piss poor logic in your arguement. Let me draw a parallel:
"I frankly could not give a rats-ass if all 4 lane highways are changed to 1 lane. Do you REALLY want me to believe that most people don't speed when they drive on these highways? When I can't drive the speed I want because there are lots of other cares on the road it pisses me off... wah wah wah etc."
Get stuffed.
Like you said, in the right hands it could be an interesting concept. What I *don't* want to see is another hideous "j34h d00dz check out this phat new title... its off tha hook!" show targetted at the 12 yr old demographic.
The original gamers are all grown up now. We are not teenagers. We have money to spend. Can we please have some intelligent coverage of upcoming titles/issues etc without the cheesy plastic MTV wannabe veneer.
The legions of anal retentive grammar nazis rise to salute you! All hail the king and master of the English language. May the sun never set on your perfectly parsed and formatted kingdom! I pine for the day when one so masterful as you can have full editorial control over all of the content across this vast network.
Please accept my apologies in advance for the shoddiness of this post. Alas I am just a poor grammar serf. I don't have the same divine control over the English language as your Royal Grammar Highness.
He was referring to big P punishment rather than the little p punishment we are used to seeing in the USA.
'p'unishment = locking a person in a room for a while.
'P'unishment = beating the poor sod with bamboo canes or cutting off his hand or something.
When you see someone type that way, the first thing that should come to mind is "old-school poser".
What else do you expect the kids to do with their free time out there? Wasn't there a movie a couple years ago with kurt russell called "escape from saskatchewan"? Err wait I'm thinking of something else. =P
The popularity of consoles varied dramatically from region to region.
Just to give a few examples:
Turbografx-16 was more or less a flop in north america but in Japan it was *the* most popular system of its generation.
Genesis aka Mega Drive did quite well in NA, Europe, and Japan although it was definitely second fiddle to the pc engine.
SNES aka superfamicom had to play catchup as genesis had a huge head start on it but by the end of the 16-bit era this system was probably the most widely supported. My personal belief on how genesis managed to lose the crown was segas lack of a good 6-button controller when fighting games were at the peak of their popularity (yes I know one eventually came out but it was too late).
To sum it up I certainly agree with you that there is no way SNES should have been left out. As far as which systems were "successful" it all depends on what market you are talking about.
Read what I said again you limp wristed simp. It *DOES* protect out of the box. You state yourself you "don't do debian". Well understand this: debian packages are put together with certain settings and config files you won't find in a plain old tarball. There is a default ruleset that works quite nicely right off the bat. But you already knew that since you are the fortune 500 "expert" right?
Don't hold your breath:
$ apt-get setup snort
E: Invalid operation setup
It's "apt-get install snort". And if you had actually tried it before (which we all know you haven't due to your syntax slip) you would realize that it is in fact that easy. It asks you a few questions as far as when eth card/ip to listen in on and then you are up and running. The default rules are quite reasonable and of course you are free to tweak the thing till the cows come home.
Well there are theories that gaming *is* a chemical addiction. Something along the lines of pleasure hormones released into your bloomstream.
Too funny,
Starrock attacks makes a sweeping comment regarding the fickleness of slashdot users making sweeping comments about some corporation and gets modded up for it. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
"makes you dizzy"??
Maybe you should put a patch over one eye or tape an old cardboard toilet paper tube to your forehead so you can look through that. Reality is obvisouly too overwhelming for you.
"the ugly graphics of Xfree"
Well that pretty much sums up your knowledge os X in a nutshell. A really small nutshell.
Xfree itself has next to nothing to do with the "prettiness" of ones X environment. X is only as flashy as you make it to be. If you like a lean/speedy wm then go with something like icewm. If you want all the graphic bells and whistles and have some ram to spare, try enlightenment.
Don't just fire up twm and say "man Xfree is ugly". Try out a few different options first.