I just got myself my first laptop in 5 years. I need to compute on the rode again. Since I am a longtime Debian user the choice was easy. I got the current beta installer for Lenny: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
And lo and behold: encrypting every partition was very easy to set up using it.
I imagine every current distro should have that feature build into the installer. Just look for it next time you install a laptop.
And if you have to use Windows there is always Truecrypt. So I don't see any reason why the data should not be encrypted.
We need people start start with the best intentions. We need more of them. And he even appeals for more to do so. That is "the right thing". He will have to compromise. But that's just how politics works.
I do know some conservatives over here in Germany. And I am libertarian myself. Used to be liberal. So I can understand conservatives. I have no problem with Republicans. I mean what is the difference between the big US parties anyways? But G. W. Bush? I know Kerry was a douche and Gore invented the Internets, but Bush??? I mean McCain is smart. You might disagree with him or not, that is politics. But Bush? I saw a documentary (filmed on the campaing trail) and thought, gee, I would probabely like to have a beer with him, but not ever run a little city, much less a whole country.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't get why anyone would ever seriously consider voting for W.
I use Debian. And with Java to be able to go into main it makes for even less hassle with Debian. Even if you don't use Java there are many programs written for it.
Competition is good. Now other people can take a look at how Sun did it. This is especially useful if some stuff in your own impelmentation didn't work. Or you could even take code out of Sun's Java, or even make a fork. Forks don't have to be a bad thing for Java. The embrace, extend and extinguish fork from MS was bad for Java. But I fail to see how an OSS fork (without the leverage of a desktop monopoly) could ever be bad for Java. Worst case for Sun: Many different vms that are all strong would force them to define clear standards and would force everyone to be compliant to those. How is that bad for us?
Remember: In OSS they don't have a monopoly like MS has.
Where I come from the maximum for those charges would be up to two or maybe three years. And he wouldn't be in jail awaiting his trial. There are some parts about American culture that I like and some parts that I don't like. This part is one that keeps me thinking if it is even save to visit the US of A (again).
You said you find bugs and report them so they get integrated back into the kernel. Is that a specialty of OSS, or do you also get this with other proprietary products?
as in
-as easy to identify bugs -no problem contacting the right people (developers) -bugs getting fixed on a reasonable timescale
Why didn't they? No danger of ever running MS on one. And much less power consumption. Well, maybe next generation will feature something like this SOC from Nvidia.
But for nerds (especially the ones on/.) speaking up against the crowd is considered to be cool.
Vista sucks. Maybe they added a few improvements here and there, but overall, it is not as good as XP. In no way does it justify seven years of development. Look at what Ubuntu was seven years ago (oh wait, there was no Ubuntu seven years ago, well, then look at Debian). But this is no surprise. Monopolies do that. They churn out crappy products. No surprise here.
You know why Ubuntu has much better security than Windows?
Simply because the seperation between user and root actually works. In Windows the user often need privilige escalation. In Ubuntu (and many other distros) they only need it for specific operations where the user expects that. I don't know if that is still the case in Vista, but in XP many programs needed root level access for some reason and didn't even run in normal user accounts.
And, apart from that: Ubuntu DOES NOT train the user to always sudo and enter password all the time simply because it is needed much less. The big problem with Vista is that it asks way too often. That is meant by "Train users to always click yes".
I agree with you that we shouldn't buy low quality stuff. Why should we? In 2008 the things we use everyday should be refined to the max. All thought out. Buying low quality stuff and throwing it away makes for a throwaway-culture that I don't like at all.
But the problem is that often times neither brands nor price guarentee you quality.
I never thought of Macs to be very good quality products. I thought the people paid the price for the design. All the Apple input devices I have ever had to work with (mice and keyboards) had horrible ergonomics just to look a little better. There were horrible round little things they called mice with just one button. And just this month I tried to troubleshoot an eMac and it turned out it must be a hardware problem (whiped drive, repartitioned, reformated, still crashes). But I couldn't get the thing open. So I gave up. I never thought of Macs as quality computers. More like expensive toys.
You are really setting yourself up there. Asking for polite comments on Slashdot. I will resist the temptation huge to make fun of you for being new to the Internet AND a flaming Apple fanboy and just refer you to this: http://sc.tri-bit.com/John_Gabriel's_Greater_Internet_Fuckwad_Theory
1. I have never heard of Mint, even though I do use different distros a lot. 2. Getting out of X has always been pressing Alt+Strg+F1 3. Why do you need to get out of X to set up you video card? Common desktop distros have comfortable config tools 4. Nvidia is one of the most common cards. I don't believe that X came without the nv driver. You don't get 3d, but very good 2d support. 5. You actually do need a computer expert to install Microsoft Windows. Common desktop distros are so easy to install that you don't need an expert anymore. 6. I have never heard of a distro that "flooded the network" (what does that mean anyways? renegade DHCP server?)
For the reasons stated above I am sure your comment is a troll. Nice one, especially since you fooled the moderators./. isn't what it used to be.
Common desktop distros would be: OpenSuse, Mandrive, Fedora, Ubuntu, Xandros
For Websurfing you need a real machine. A subnotebook like the Thinkpad X40 or X41 would be sufficiant (I just got a cheap x41 and I am a very happy customer).
For Email, SSH, and Websurfing using a text browser you could consider something like the Psion Netbook.
The thing that bugs me is that noone seems to have come out with a "new" Psion Netbook. Same configuration, but up to date. With Windows CE (aka Windows Mobile) or Linux, or some other proprietary os. A notebook with very low power and a bad screen that lasts more than 10 hours, but has a full keyboard. But you couldn't play Doom II on that one anyways. Though I wouldn't want to. SSH, email, word processing and organizer with a large screen and a full keyboard would be plenty for me.
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I just got myself my first laptop in 5 years. I need to compute on the rode again. Since I am a longtime Debian user the choice was easy. I got the current beta installer for Lenny:
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
And lo and behold: encrypting every partition was very easy to set up using it.
I imagine every current distro should have that feature build into the installer. Just look for it next time you install a laptop.
And if you have to use Windows there is always Truecrypt. So I don't see any reason why the data should not be encrypted.
Wrong on so many levels.
We need people start start with the best intentions. We need more of them. And he even appeals for more to do so. That is "the right thing". He will have to compromise. But that's just how politics works.
I do know some conservatives over here in Germany. And I am libertarian myself. Used to be liberal. So I can understand conservatives. I have no problem with Republicans. I mean what is the difference between the big US parties anyways? But G. W. Bush? I know Kerry was a douche and Gore invented the Internets, but Bush??? I mean McCain is smart. You might disagree with him or not, that is politics. But Bush? I saw a documentary (filmed on the campaing trail) and thought, gee, I would probabely like to have a beer with him, but not ever run a little city, much less a whole country.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't get why anyone would ever seriously consider voting for W.
I think is covered in the docs. That does the trick. I should have mentioned it. Thanks
http://openwrt.org/ (extend yourself, open, maybe takes longer to set up)
http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv3/index.php (web interface like normal, just tons more options)
both should do the trick and maybe even run on your router
check:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices
I use Debian. And with Java to be able to go into main it makes for even less hassle with Debian. Even if you don't use Java there are many programs written for it.
Competition is good. Now other people can take a look at how Sun did it. This is especially useful if some stuff in your own impelmentation didn't work. Or you could even take code out of Sun's Java, or even make a fork. Forks don't have to be a bad thing for Java. The embrace, extend and extinguish fork from MS was bad for Java. But I fail to see how an OSS fork (without the leverage of a desktop monopoly) could ever be bad for Java. Worst case for Sun: Many different vms that are all strong would force them to define clear standards and would force everyone to be compliant to those. How is that bad for us?
Remember: In OSS they don't have a monopoly like MS has.
38 years is maximum prison time. That means most likely he won't get the full sentence.
That said, I am not American and I really don't get that at all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisons_in_the_United_States#Incarceration_rate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisons_in_the_United_States#Comparison_with_other_countries
Where I come from the maximum for those charges would be up to two or maybe three years. And he wouldn't be in jail awaiting his trial. There are some parts about American culture that I like and some parts that I don't like. This part is one that keeps me thinking if it is even save to visit the US of A (again).
I wanna see you play boxing with a 3 fps webcam.
You said you find bugs and report them so they get integrated back into the kernel. Is that a specialty of OSS, or do you also get this with other proprietary products?
as in
-as easy to identify bugs
-no problem contacting the right people (developers)
-bugs getting fixed on a reasonable timescale
So he lied about a blowjob to safe face/marriage.
To me that sounds even more ridiculously than the first one.
There is a lengthy article on GPLv3 vs Patents written by a law scholar in last years Open Source Jahrbuch 2007:
http://www.opensourcejahrbuch.de/download/jb2007
Article would be here:
http://www.opensourcejahrbuch.de/portal/article_show?article=osjb2007-07-05-boecker.pdf
Why didn't they?
No danger of ever running MS on one. And much less power consumption. Well, maybe next generation will feature something like this SOC from Nvidia.
Because that paragraph didn't make sense to me at all. Now I understand a little better.
Plus 500 years is a very, very long time. That would be at least twenty generations.
Please take a look at the market share of the different desktop operating systems. Then come back and we talk again.
Quality does not equal market share. ESPECIALLY if there is one company that does have the monopoly and has had it for so long.
Except the ones that cost more than four figures. So don't try affordable SSDs just yet. You would be very disappointed.
But for nerds (especially the ones on /.) speaking up against the crowd is considered to be cool.
Vista sucks. Maybe they added a few improvements here and there, but overall, it is not as good as XP. In no way does it justify seven years of development. Look at what Ubuntu was seven years ago (oh wait, there was no Ubuntu seven years ago, well, then look at Debian). But this is no surprise. Monopolies do that. They churn out crappy products. No surprise here.
Linux sucks, because it doesn't support hardware device X or software app Y.
But Vista doesn't suck when it doesn't support hardware device Z, because it is all about Samsung wanting to sell more printers?
They realized which police to bribe and infiltrate in order to get those results. And they did. That shift is no accident.
You know why Ubuntu has much better security than Windows?
Simply because the seperation between user and root actually works. In Windows the user often need privilige escalation. In Ubuntu (and many other distros) they only need it for specific operations where the user expects that.
I don't know if that is still the case in Vista, but in XP many programs needed root level access for some reason and didn't even run in normal user accounts.
And, apart from that: Ubuntu DOES NOT train the user to always sudo and enter password all the time simply because it is needed much less. The big problem with Vista is that it asks way too often. That is meant by "Train users to always click yes".
I agree with you that we shouldn't buy low quality stuff. Why should we? In 2008 the things we use everyday should be refined to the max. All thought out. Buying low quality stuff and throwing it away makes for a throwaway-culture that I don't like at all.
But the problem is that often times neither brands nor price guarentee you quality.
I never thought of Macs to be very good quality products. I thought the people paid the price for the design. All the Apple input devices I have ever had to work with (mice and keyboards) had horrible ergonomics just to look a little better. There were horrible round little things they called mice with just one button. And just this month I tried to troubleshoot an eMac and it turned out it must be a hardware problem (whiped drive, repartitioned, reformated, still crashes). But I couldn't get the thing open. So I gave up. I never thought of Macs as quality computers. More like expensive toys.
You are really setting yourself up there. Asking for polite comments on Slashdot. I will resist the temptation huge to make fun of you for being new to the Internet AND a flaming Apple fanboy and just refer you to this:
http://sc.tri-bit.com/John_Gabriel's_Greater_Internet_Fuckwad_Theory
1. I have never heard of Mint, even though I do use different distros a lot.
/. isn't what it used to be.
2. Getting out of X has always been pressing Alt+Strg+F1
3. Why do you need to get out of X to set up you video card? Common desktop distros have comfortable config tools
4. Nvidia is one of the most common cards. I don't believe that X came without the nv driver. You don't get 3d, but very good 2d support.
5. You actually do need a computer expert to install Microsoft Windows. Common desktop distros are so easy to install that you don't need an expert anymore.
6. I have never heard of a distro that "flooded the network" (what does that mean anyways? renegade DHCP server?)
For the reasons stated above I am sure your comment is a troll. Nice one, especially since you fooled the moderators.
Common desktop distros would be: OpenSuse, Mandrive, Fedora, Ubuntu, Xandros
For Websurfing you need a real machine. A subnotebook like the Thinkpad X40 or X41 would be sufficiant (I just got a cheap x41 and I am a very happy customer).
For Email, SSH, and Websurfing using a text browser you could consider something like the Psion Netbook.
The thing that bugs me is that noone seems to have come out with a "new" Psion Netbook. Same configuration, but up to date. With Windows CE (aka Windows Mobile) or Linux, or some other proprietary os. A notebook with very low power and a bad screen that lasts more than 10 hours, but has a full keyboard. But you couldn't play Doom II on that one anyways. Though I wouldn't want to. SSH, email, word processing and organizer with a large screen and a full keyboard would be plenty for me.
Actually in China (and many other places) people are pretty comfy with the government dictating the actions of the people.
And we have been telling them that this is wrong for ages.