This might have been mentioned before since I read this at +5 but how about just adding a standard header to every email if you support pub key enc - like this:
PublicKey: http://somewhere.com/my.key
That goes on every email you send - if a recipient supports that encryption then it uses the key to send any replies back encrypted. If mail clients supported this then pretty soon most email would be encrypted - eg imagine if the next version of outlook included it by default (and a purdy wizard to setup your keys and store the public one online in hailstorm or whatever to provide the url).
Seems simple enough - I guess the hard bit is getting clients to support it.
I used to work at a webdev company that required production staff to account for their entire day in 15 minute intervals so it could be billed to clients. Also morale wasn't very good and they've been haemorraging staff for over a year now.
Now I'm at a company that produces a single product instead of bespoke systems, so none of my time is "client billable". I find myself working longer hours (and being more productive during those hours) now that I don't have to account for every frickin minute.
Officially 40hrs a week but I probably do 45, fwiw. It's salaried so I don't get paid extra for extra hours.
I haven't looked closely at schema yet but as it seem's the key differences are that schema lets you specify constraints on the content in much more detail that DTD could (eg you can specify that the content must be numeric) and a schema is itself an xml document which makes parsing and validating eaiser.
Of course. A few months back Toms Hardware posted a step by step guide to ripping a DVD to divx, explaining exactly what software is required and how to use it.
decss was not used.
This case is no longer (or never was) about piracy or even the dmca - it's about destroying the defendant.
oops. strangely that page is the one that i hadn't read - it says that it's pretty major to include this code in the kernel so they're waiting for 2.5 devel to begin.
Damnit, they finally add Mandrake 7.2 support just as Mandrake 8.0 is released. And what's with supporting Redhat 7.1 but not Mandrake 8.0? Comparable distros from what I've seen - at least the site says mdk8 support coming soon.
I'm not knocking Ximian - I used Helix on my old work PC that had Mandrake 7.1 - it's very nice.
One more thing: anyone got a url for info and download for EFM? Is it dead? Freshmeat leads to a 404 and I couldn't find it on enlightenment.org.
Unfortunately I'd say most gamers are bigtime pirates. I was at a lan this weekend and someone was sharing the ISO for Black & White and Serious Sam. Everyone leeched it, installed and thought nothing of it.
At the next lan in a month's time, the same thing will happen with Tribes 2 and anything else due for imminent release. Let alone the thousands who just download ISOs from warez ftp..
So for many windows games are effectively free.
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It's not just networking.
I drag my PC around town a fair bit to LANs and whatnot and I would love it if i could just plug the box into power and switch on without having to connect cables for monitor, sound, mouse, keyboard, network, etc., worry about someone kicking them out then go to the same trouble packing it all up.
There's gotta be open standards though - it's no good if my new Bluetooth-enabled Viewsonic monitor won't talk to my 3com Bluetooth station.
I thought GarageGames' announcement that you can get the sourcecode for the Tribes 2 engine for just $100 was pretty newsworthy, but the editors obviously didn't.
heh I've settled on mandrake as my distro of choice. However I recently setup a router box that had a tiny hard drive so i thought I'd give debian a spin. What a mistake, apt-get breaks almost immediately no matter what I do, 3 reinstalls later I was no better off. apt is a joke.
Finally I compiled up LFS, and quickly replaced debian with it - I'll take Linux From Scratch over apt-hell any day.
And if I hear one more debian user bitching and moaning because he can't apt-get some fscking perl module or other obscure software component there will be hell to pay..
For the most part, I agree. Windows users will not move to linux in a big way in the forseeable future.
There's something you didn't mention though. Of all that software you use, all the familiar apps, how many have you paid for and not pirated?
This is an issue, i guess it's fine to use windows as long as you simply use warez, crackz and serialz to keep it all running. This is not an issue for linux.
It's not that there's not enough linux apps, it's that there's not enough good apps.
And I agree with the general sentiment of the article. Linux does need to become simpler and easy to use.
This doesn't mean that they should take away the CLI and all the power and flexibility that that provides, but that the average user should not have to deal with it. ever.
The only reason big companies support linux is because they think it is growing and will get better. If it doesn't then the support will cease and linux will die with it.
The Ctrl-?? hotkey bug killed it for me. I read something on the nedit site about changing something in the X config to fix it but I never could cure this problem.
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This might have been mentioned before since I read this at +5 but how about just adding a standard header to every email if you support pub key enc - like this:
PublicKey: http://somewhere.com/my.key
That goes on every email you send - if a recipient supports that encryption then it uses the key to send any replies back encrypted. If mail clients supported this then pretty soon most email would be encrypted - eg imagine if the next version of outlook included it by default (and a purdy wizard to setup your keys and store the public one online in hailstorm or whatever to provide the url).
Seems simple enough - I guess the hard bit is getting clients to support it.
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I used to work at a webdev company that required production staff to account for their entire day in 15 minute intervals so it could be billed to clients. Also morale wasn't very good and they've been haemorraging staff for over a year now.
Now I'm at a company that produces a single product instead of bespoke systems, so none of my time is "client billable". I find myself working longer hours (and being more productive during those hours) now that I don't have to account for every frickin minute.
Officially 40hrs a week but I probably do 45, fwiw. It's salaried so I don't get paid extra for extra hours.
I haven't looked closely at schema yet but as it seem's the key differences are that schema lets you specify constraints on the content in much more detail that DTD could (eg you can specify that the content must be numeric) and a schema is itself an xml document which makes parsing and validating eaiser.
It's a good thing.
Of course. A few months back Toms Hardware posted a step by step guide to ripping a DVD to divx, explaining exactly what software is required and how to use it. decss was not used.
This case is no longer (or never was) about piracy or even the dmca - it's about destroying the defendant.
This was posted just last month: http://www4.tomshardware.com/video/01q2/010424/ind ex.html.
oops. strangely that page is the one that i hadn't read - it says that it's pretty major to include this code in the kernel so they're waiting for 2.5 devel to begin.
Does this include the newest joystick routines (version 2.1 I think)?
Mainly this stuff: http://www.suse.cz/development/input/
If not it'd be good to see them appear in a kernel some time soon :)
Actually the website says that Mandrake 7.2 is supported. And Mandrake 8.0 (x86) is coming soon.
Damnit, they finally add Mandrake 7.2 support just as Mandrake 8.0 is released. And what's with supporting Redhat 7.1 but not Mandrake 8.0? Comparable distros from what I've seen - at least the site says mdk8 support coming soon.
I'm not knocking Ximian - I used Helix on my old work PC that had Mandrake 7.1 - it's very nice.
One more thing: anyone got a url for info and download for EFM? Is it dead? Freshmeat leads to a 404 and I couldn't find it on enlightenment.org.
http://www.compaq.co.nz/u2u/
:)
Well I thought it was funny. They took out a full page full colour ad in a national newspaper advertising the product
Unfortunately I'd say most gamers are bigtime pirates. I was at a lan this weekend and someone was sharing the ISO for Black & White and Serious Sam. Everyone leeched it, installed and thought nothing of it.
At the next lan in a month's time, the same thing will happen with Tribes 2 and anything else due for imminent release. Let alone the thousands who just download ISOs from warez ftp..
So for many windows games are effectively free.
It's not just networking.
I drag my PC around town a fair bit to LANs and whatnot and I would love it if i could just plug the box into power and switch on without having to connect cables for monitor, sound, mouse, keyboard, network, etc., worry about someone kicking them out then go to the same trouble packing it all up.
There's gotta be open standards though - it's no good if my new Bluetooth-enabled Viewsonic monitor won't talk to my 3com Bluetooth station.
bleh, who knows. it happens sometimes.
I thought GarageGames' announcement that you can get the sourcecode for the Tribes 2 engine for just $100 was pretty newsworthy, but the editors obviously didn't.
/me shrugs
Ok so this thing will help detect the presense of planets around suns. Here's a question:
How long do you think it will be before we can actually see big "high" quality pictures where you could make out features on the surface etc?
Is such a thing possible without actually visiting the system?
heh I've settled on mandrake as my distro of choice. However I recently setup a router box that had a tiny hard drive so i thought I'd give debian a spin. What a mistake, apt-get breaks almost immediately no matter what I do, 3 reinstalls later I was no better off. apt is a joke.
Finally I compiled up LFS, and quickly replaced debian with it - I'll take Linux From Scratch over apt-hell any day.
And if I hear one more debian user bitching and moaning because he can't apt-get some fscking perl module or other obscure software component there will be hell to pay..
debian is vastly overrated imho.
Last time I checked, Rose was several thousand dollars. Not exactly dirt cheap.
At least gamecenter.com had a black on white colour scheme. It was a hell of a lot easier to read than gamespot is.
Sorry to see it go.
For the most part, I agree. Windows users will not move to linux in a big way in the forseeable future.
There's something you didn't mention though. Of all that software you use, all the familiar apps, how many have you paid for and not pirated?
This is an issue, i guess it's fine to use windows as long as you simply use warez, crackz and serialz to keep it all running. This is not an issue for linux.
Is this whole CPRM effected by the filesystem (fat,e2fs,etc) or OS used to store the data?
What if I use an encrypted filesystem?
How might this work with non-ms software?
Win2k had a kinda lobster creature. My old boss even got a win2k teeshirt with it printed on.
Who the hell is Bob anyway?
It's not that there's not enough linux apps, it's that there's not enough good apps.
And I agree with the general sentiment of the article. Linux does need to become simpler and easy to use.
This doesn't mean that they should take away the CLI and all the power and flexibility that that provides, but that the average user should not have to deal with it. ever.
The only reason big companies support linux is because they think it is growing and will get better. If it doesn't then the support will cease and linux will die with it.
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YES! I've spent more time in Tribes than any other game ever.
Bring on Tribes 2!
Check out the ClassicCTF mod for Quake 3. It implements the grapple quite nicely as well as the other weapons in the lovely q3a engine.
www.captured.com/cctf I think, otherwise search planetquake.com
Me too! (just upgraded to new mb/cpu/gpu just for linux T2) hehe..
:)
maybe i should get a drug habit.. it'd be cheaper..
Perl 6 is a loong way off. Check this page
for more info an listen to the mp3. it's cool:
http://dev.perl.org/~ask/als/
The Ctrl-?? hotkey bug killed it for me. I read something on the nedit site about changing something in the X config to fix it but I never could cure this problem.
I use xemacs now.
I hope this problem can be resolved because Nedit really is a very nice editor