I'm currently using this on my Nokia N900, and it works for most things - the IPv6 support on the N900 is a bit of a hack, and some protocols embed IPv4 addresses (MSN IMs I think).
It's not widely implemented yet, but it really sounds as if Selinux would do what you want. For example, you can use it to make httpd only serve the files it should serve - if it suddenly tries to serve up your GPG private key, Selinux would stop it. Fedora and RHEL have implemented it, but it's fairly complex and hard to understand. The RH devs are working on that, and Core packaged apps have a good default policy. It's on the Ubuntu todo list as well.
Novell also has a technology called AppArmor that's apparently easier to use, but less secure.
Hardware availability of VT and AMD virtualization
Intel VT was officially launched at the Intel Developer Forum Spring 2005. It is available on all Pentium 4 6x2, Pentium D 9xx, Xeon 7xxx and Core Duo processors, though in the latter case it is sometimes disabled in the BIOS/EFI.
AMD processors using Socket AM2, Socket S1, and Socket F include AMD Virtualization support. In May 2006, AMD introduced such versions of the Athlon 64 and Turion 64 processors. It is expected that Opteron processors with AMD Virtualization support will be announced in August 2006.
Or you could install gstreamer mp3 plugins and all gstreamer-enabled progs will play and perhaps encode mp3s. Gstreamer has had some birthing problems, but it's pretty awesome when it works.
Wake up and get a clue - not everyone needs to be proficient with computers. This doesn't even begin to deal with the issue of just wanting things to be easier. Do you understand how to use, maintain and make everything that you deal with in your life? Every profession or group thinks they're the most important one. They aren't.
Re:using 2.9.13.9x for a week in Ubuntu 6.10 betas
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The iPod support for Rhythmbox is a joke. All it supports is playing mp3s (if you have the appropriate gstreamer plugins) off the iPod. It doesn't allow you to copy to the iPod. Amarok does. Banshee not only copies mp3s but even transcodes from Ogg or FLAC (I assume) to mp3 or AAC (again, assumption) so the iPod can use it. Novell showed this off at SCALE recently, and it worked flawlessly.
DAAP browsing works just fine - Rhythmbox picked up somebody's share at SCALE. The newish podcasting support is pretty nice as well. They just really need proper ipod support.
Those programs are for programmers or developers. The rules for naming are different for that group of users than for the much larger group of people who use graphics manipulation programs.
I'm not saying that the UI and features aren't a part of it, but the name really doesn't help. I went to a talk by the guy behind the forking of FilmGimp, and they're calling it CinePaint now - more descriptive, and it passes the giggle test.
I read recently about some group of criminals that would cut off hands from dead people and use them to put fake fingerprints on crime scenes. Can't find the link, sadly.
I've read that people have had problems with SATA drives where the same chipset and driver worked for other drives. NCQ capability is the likely culprit here.
Anyone who downloads this expecting stability is fooling themselves - this is basically the development tree or rawhide packaged up.
That said, here's some installation notes.
1) Mediacheck doesn't seem to work. At least I haven't seen anyone who can get a PASS for the DVD or CD isos. I've booted directly from a checked iso and still FAILed.
2) Despite what you tell it, the installer will install grub on your MBR, not on a partition.
3) Firstboot doesn't work on first boot. This is fixed in rawhide by installing gnome-python2-gnomevfs, which also fixes the system-config-* utils.
4) The packaged GDM eats CPU. "yum update gdm" before logging in through GDM or regret it.
Gnome 2.10 has some nice improvements, but nothing amazing. Unless you're willing to do a lot of testing, don't bother. That said, the only thing really stopping me from using this instead of FC3 is a lack of other repos - FreshRPMS, Extras for FC4 - and a sata_sil regression for my SATA drive always hanging.
Installing the nVidia drivers (because shock horror I wanted 3D) froze then system on boot because of the rhgb red hat graphical boot thingy. The switch to udev caught me out here. Luckily I figured out what was happening and sorted it.
Realize that this is partly Fedora's fault and partly Nvidia's fault. Their latest releases are a lot more udev friendly though - fc4t1 with all nvidia patches hasn't had any Nvidia problems yet, and it just worked.
I'm using FC3 and when I plug in an iPod it's automatically mounted. If I have gtkpod from the freshrpms.net site installed I can write mp3s and sync to it without a problem. In FC4 gtkpod won't come on the CDs but should be downloadable without changing a thing.
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Also you have complete control over every program installed at installation time.
Which install mode are you using? The recent FC releases don't give you this option during the X-based GUI installs, just a choice of package groups that have further options.
I have never been convinced by that. Uploading only benefits you while you are downloading, yet BitTorrent relies significantly on uploaders who have finised downloading, for which there is no tit-for-tat incentive.
Actually, many of the pirate forums track how much one downloads and uploads, and ban users who drop below a certain ratio of sharing, which is good incentive to share. There is also social pressure to do so, but accountability is no doubt more effective.
Yes, there's a problem. Although I'll point out, the situation which he complains about only exists because of government regulation of copyright and copyright infringement. If it was a civil matter, I feel the ISP who took it down sight unseen would have been slower on the trigger.
Tattoo artists do a lot of business covering up name tattoos with other designs. Go find a good one and they should be able to come up with something you like that hides it completely.
Well, their cards seem okay, but there were a LOT of problems with the G access point. MS refunds for frequent complainers level of problems. Certainly the crappiest piece of MS hardware I've run into so far.
You do realize that any rocket capable of reaching outer space is basically an ICBM? Nuclear proliferation is failing, and now you're saying that any radical group or even comitted individual is going to be able to launch a missile at any point in the world?
All these hobbyist rocketeers will no likely be doing this as to get off-planet before the missiles start flying. Bush's pipedream missile defense suddenly doesn't sound so bad.
I've been in a few fancy parking lots where each level has a sign advertising how many remaining parking spots it has. It's very handy.
However, I'm not convinced that it'd work that well on a city-wide scale. I also expect that once a system like that exists, the fee for parking will become dynamically assigned according to supply-and-demand, similar to the proposed Coke dispensers that charged more when it's hot.
Yeah, this is a common phenomenon. Compare to the way cellphones took off in Europe as opposed to the US. Yes, part of it was geography and population density, but another big part was that the well-etablished US phone infrastructure was a lot cheaper to consumers than the comparative European networks. No per minute charges for local calls and all that.
An even better example is the way most developing nations are largely jumping straight to cell phones and avoiding setting up all those expensive copper wires. There's likely others, but I can't think of them right now.
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Actually, T-Mobile is testing this for those of us with Nokia phones that support IPv6, and they're using NAT64 to give access to IPv4 content.
See http://groups.google.com/group/tmoipv6beta
I'm currently using this on my Nokia N900, and it works for most things - the IPv6 support on the N900 is a bit of a hack, and some protocols embed IPv4 addresses (MSN IMs I think).
Bull.
Intel wireless chipsets will work out of the box, yes, but they have issues crashing due to heavy performance and after resuming from sleep/hibernate.
I would not call them flawless.
Read the comment again - they defined *ketchup* as a vegetable, not tomatoes. Ketchup.
It's not widely implemented yet, but it really sounds as if Selinux would do what you want. For example, you can use it to make httpd only serve the files it should serve - if it suddenly tries to serve up your GPG private key, Selinux would stop it. Fedora and RHEL have implemented it, but it's fairly complex and hard to understand. The RH devs are working on that, and Core packaged apps have a good default policy. It's on the Ubuntu todo list as well.
Novell also has a technology called AppArmor that's apparently easier to use, but less secure.
Nope. From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization
Hardware availability of VT and AMD virtualization
Intel VT was officially launched at the Intel Developer Forum Spring 2005. It is available on all Pentium 4 6x2, Pentium D 9xx, Xeon 7xxx and Core Duo processors, though in the latter case it is sometimes disabled in the BIOS/EFI.
AMD processors using Socket AM2, Socket S1, and Socket F include AMD Virtualization support. In May 2006, AMD introduced such versions of the Athlon 64 and Turion 64 processors. It is expected that Opteron processors with AMD Virtualization support will be announced in August 2006.
Or you could install gstreamer mp3 plugins and all gstreamer-enabled progs will play and perhaps encode mp3s. Gstreamer has had some birthing problems, but it's pretty awesome when it works.
Wake up and get a clue - not everyone needs to be proficient with computers. This doesn't even begin to deal with the issue of just wanting things to be easier. Do you understand how to use, maintain and make everything that you deal with in your life? Every profession or group thinks they're the most important one. They aren't.
The iPod support for Rhythmbox is a joke. All it supports is playing mp3s (if you have the appropriate gstreamer plugins) off the iPod. It doesn't allow you to copy to the iPod. Amarok does. Banshee not only copies mp3s but even transcodes from Ogg or FLAC (I assume) to mp3 or AAC (again, assumption) so the iPod can use it. Novell showed this off at SCALE recently, and it worked flawlessly.
DAAP browsing works just fine - Rhythmbox picked up somebody's share at SCALE. The newish podcasting support is pretty nice as well. They just really need proper ipod support.
Those programs are for programmers or developers. The rules for naming are different for that group of users than for the much larger group of people who use graphics manipulation programs.
I'm not saying that the UI and features aren't a part of it, but the name really doesn't help. I went to a talk by the guy behind the forking of FilmGimp, and they're calling it CinePaint now - more descriptive, and it passes the giggle test.
I read recently about some group of criminals that would cut off hands from dead people and use them to put fake fingerprints on crime scenes. Can't find the link, sadly.
FC related or not, it's something someone trying to use SATA drives on Linux might want to know.
I've read that people have had problems with SATA drives where the same chipset and driver worked for other drives. NCQ capability is the likely culprit here.
I don't think Fedora has ever included Mono. That said, the Mono group has made a Fedora repo so it's fairly easy to install.
They're not going to include Mono until the patent issues are completely clear.
Anyone who downloads this expecting stability is fooling themselves - this is basically the development tree or rawhide packaged up.
That said, here's some installation notes.
1) Mediacheck doesn't seem to work. At least I haven't seen anyone who can get a PASS for the DVD or CD isos. I've booted directly from a checked iso and still FAILed.
2) Despite what you tell it, the installer will install grub on your MBR, not on a partition.
3) Firstboot doesn't work on first boot. This is fixed in rawhide by installing gnome-python2-gnomevfs, which also fixes the system-config-* utils.
4) The packaged GDM eats CPU. "yum update gdm" before logging in through GDM or regret it.
Gnome 2.10 has some nice improvements, but nothing amazing. Unless you're willing to do a lot of testing, don't bother. That said, the only thing really stopping me from using this instead of FC3 is a lack of other repos - FreshRPMS, Extras for FC4 - and a sata_sil regression for my SATA drive always hanging.
Installing the nVidia drivers (because shock horror I wanted 3D) froze then system on boot because of the rhgb red hat graphical boot thingy. The switch to udev caught me out here. Luckily I figured out what was happening and sorted it.
Realize that this is partly Fedora's fault and partly Nvidia's fault. Their latest releases are a lot more udev friendly though - fc4t1 with all nvidia patches hasn't had any Nvidia problems yet, and it just worked.
I'm using FC3 and when I plug in an iPod it's automatically mounted. If I have gtkpod from the freshrpms.net site installed I can write mp3s and sync to it without a problem. In FC4 gtkpod won't come on the CDs but should be downloadable without changing a thing.
Also you have complete control over every program installed at installation time.
Which install mode are you using? The recent FC releases don't give you this option during the X-based GUI installs, just a choice of package groups that have further options.
I have never been convinced by that. Uploading only benefits you while you are downloading, yet BitTorrent relies significantly on uploaders who have finised downloading, for which there is no tit-for-tat incentive.
Actually, many of the pirate forums track how much one downloads and uploads, and ban users who drop below a certain ratio of sharing, which is good incentive to share. There is also social pressure to do so, but accountability is no doubt more effective.
Yes, there's a problem. Although I'll point out, the situation which he complains about only exists because of government regulation of copyright and copyright infringement. If it was a civil matter, I feel the ISP who took it down sight unseen would have been slower on the trigger.
Tattoo artists do a lot of business covering up name tattoos with other designs. Go find a good one and they should be able to come up with something you like that hides it completely.
So that's sad, yes, but how much sadder than if she truly had failed and committed suicide?
Well, their cards seem okay, but there were a LOT of problems with the G access point. MS refunds for frequent complainers level of problems. Certainly the crappiest piece of MS hardware I've run into so far.
You do realize that any rocket capable of reaching outer space is basically an ICBM? Nuclear proliferation is failing, and now you're saying that any radical group or even comitted individual is going to be able to launch a missile at any point in the world?
All these hobbyist rocketeers will no likely be doing this as to get off-planet before the missiles start flying. Bush's pipedream missile defense suddenly doesn't sound so bad.
I've been in a few fancy parking lots where each level has a sign advertising how many remaining parking spots it has. It's very handy.
However, I'm not convinced that it'd work that well on a city-wide scale. I also expect that once a system like that exists, the fee for parking will become dynamically assigned according to supply-and-demand, similar to the proposed Coke dispensers that charged more when it's hot.
Yeah, this is a common phenomenon. Compare to the way cellphones took off in Europe as opposed to the US. Yes, part of it was geography and population density, but another big part was that the well-etablished US phone infrastructure was a lot cheaper to consumers than the comparative European networks. No per minute charges for local calls and all that.
An even better example is the way most developing nations are largely jumping straight to cell phones and avoiding setting up all those expensive copper wires. There's likely others, but I can't think of them right now.