I know autopackage is nice and all, but what the fuck does it have to do with the price of tea in china? Yeesh, you autopackage guys are just as bad as the gentoo people sometimes.
Sometimes, it's the best course to use proven technology, rather than something new. The DC-9 is a proven airframe for this sort of work, and does its job quite well. Moving to a different sort of craft would require a lot of money and effort for frankly fairly little gains.
True, but there are apis for things like adding users, and programs that run on startup. hardening windows isn't as hard as people think, but at the same time, is a lot more difficult than it needs to be.
True, true. Which makes me wonder why smart computer makers like Dell haven't invested in ways to harden XP so that it's still easy to use, but makes installing software just enough of a pain in the ass as to not be worth it for silly spyware things like weatherbug. I'd say that's the big reason why windows is in the state it's in right now; installing should make you have to type in your password. Period. Sort of a "are you really sure you want to do this" sort of thing that's not bypassed with a "don't ask me this again" screen.
Uh, that's already possible with popups now. This is more about getting talk about making a standardized way of doing multilink/menu type things. It's not useful to the internet at large as-is, but there are already people posting who have good ideas as to how to do this well.
Y'know, it's funny, most of the most virulent "Linux Sucks" people seem to be a lot like you, using either Debian or Fedora, which are distributions with such an on crack sense of "social responsibility" that they preclude things that are actually useful for the desktop. In Debian's case, it's a decent installer, and lack certain very useful packages without jumping through a million hoops, with Fedora, it's lack of almost universal media codecs in some on crack sense of protection against liability. Maybe you need to use something more suitable for the desktop, like SuSE or Ubuntu.
They're both BSDs, yes, and they both intermingle code, but there are significant differences. Just like OpenBSD and NetBSD, they share common heritage, but calling one the other now is asking for trouble.
It's not a conspiracy. It's marketing, plain and simple. To the end user, by and large, things like register size don't really matter; things like large on-die caches and register renaming make the dearth of visible registers a real non-issue. And if you really cared about the number of registers your computer has, you could always go AMD, which has extended the x86 ISA with more registers, and other nice features like the NX bit to protect from smashing the stack.
Bullshit. The content would come, DRM or not. It would have to, else the big players would risk losing marketshare to smaller people willing to take a bit of a risk. It may have taken a few extra months for the beancounters to realize it, but it would have come. Simple as that. Cassette tapes didn't kill the music industry, undrmed digital video wouldn't have killed the movie industry.
Okay, you're talking about OpenLDAP, which is a pain, but what about the recently open sourced Fedora Directory, based on Netscape's very nice directory service code?
The liberal ideal does not include murder or mayhem? Last time I checked, the communist manifesto was all about murdering and committing acts of mayhem to overthrow the evil capitalists. Or are communists now not liberals?
Yes, but the common people were the ones who believed they were doing the good work for a communist utopia while they were doing the murders at their leaders' request. The liberal ideal was responsible for these attrocities.
Sorry, thanks for playing. I did not say that Ms. Clinton was a cold blooded killer, you mindless leftist fucktard. I said that extremist murderers exist on both sides of the political spectrum. If you fail to see this, maybe you should take another history class.
Let us not forget though, that the greatest attrocities in history, where tens of millions died, were committed by liberals in the Soviet Union and China for their goal of a communist empire.
Naw, we learned from y'all. You guys are all about terrorism. Just mention tax cuts and you will have a thousand socialists using terror tactics talking about how cutting taxes will lead to millions of people dying, cats and dogs living together, satan eating little babies, generally, the apocalypse.
Better to get some of the self-heating pads from army MREs. They're a lot smaller, they get hotter, and they're not designed to be idiot-proof. Much more fun, and better all the way around, plus easier to pack out.
I know you're being silly and looking for a rimshot, but forth is alive in those little areas where its compact code size is nice. FreeBSD 5's bootloader was written in forth, for example. Better luck next time.
That's not the bug that's being discussed in-thread. This is a different bug also related to the Content-length header. While the fix for that bug may also fix this bug is unclear. You're probably still best off modifying your httpd.conf to send the no cache header for all connections from a caching proxy/other webserver.
They disabled it; it's not active without direct effort and modifications by the player to put it back in. By your logic, should all the nudity mods out there for MMOs and the like mean that those games should be AO-rated as well?
Indeed. What they will fail to say, is just like 9/11, all a more stringent ID program would do is result in burnt bodies with the addition of burnt identification cards.
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I know autopackage is nice and all, but what the fuck does it have to do with the price of tea in china? Yeesh, you autopackage guys are just as bad as the gentoo people sometimes.
Sometimes, it's the best course to use proven technology, rather than something new. The DC-9 is a proven airframe for this sort of work, and does its job quite well. Moving to a different sort of craft would require a lot of money and effort for frankly fairly little gains.
Or maybe you can get a real computer, or a real PDF reader. It's not too much to ask, I hope.
It's a faster data entry method. One could still do morse code, only have it be translated into a more understandable format for the reader.
True, but there are apis for things like adding users, and programs that run on startup. hardening windows isn't as hard as people think, but at the same time, is a lot more difficult than it needs to be.
True, true. Which makes me wonder why smart computer makers like Dell haven't invested in ways to harden XP so that it's still easy to use, but makes installing software just enough of a pain in the ass as to not be worth it for silly spyware things like weatherbug. I'd say that's the big reason why windows is in the state it's in right now; installing should make you have to type in your password. Period. Sort of a "are you really sure you want to do this" sort of thing that's not bypassed with a "don't ask me this again" screen.
They can't ship an OEM copy of XP; if they ship a CD, which most makers do, they have to ship a recovery disc locked to that model of computer.
Uh, that's already possible with popups now. This is more about getting talk about making a standardized way of doing multilink/menu type things. It's not useful to the internet at large as-is, but there are already people posting who have good ideas as to how to do this well.
Y'know, it's funny, most of the most virulent "Linux Sucks" people seem to be a lot like you, using either Debian or Fedora, which are distributions with such an on crack sense of "social responsibility" that they preclude things that are actually useful for the desktop. In Debian's case, it's a decent installer, and lack certain very useful packages without jumping through a million hoops, with Fedora, it's lack of almost universal media codecs in some on crack sense of protection against liability. Maybe you need to use something more suitable for the desktop, like SuSE or Ubuntu.
OS X != FreeBSD
OS X != FreeBSD
They're both BSDs, yes, and they both intermingle code, but there are significant differences. Just like OpenBSD and NetBSD, they share common heritage, but calling one the other now is asking for trouble.
It's not a conspiracy. It's marketing, plain and simple. To the end user, by and large, things like register size don't really matter; things like large on-die caches and register renaming make the dearth of visible registers a real non-issue. And if you really cared about the number of registers your computer has, you could always go AMD, which has extended the x86 ISA with more registers, and other nice features like the NX bit to protect from smashing the stack.
Bullshit. The content would come, DRM or not. It would have to, else the big players would risk losing marketshare to smaller people willing to take a bit of a risk. It may have taken a few extra months for the beancounters to realize it, but it would have come. Simple as that. Cassette tapes didn't kill the music industry, undrmed digital video wouldn't have killed the movie industry.
Okay, you're talking about OpenLDAP, which is a pain, but what about the recently open sourced Fedora Directory, based on Netscape's very nice directory service code?
The liberal ideal does not include murder or mayhem? Last time I checked, the communist manifesto was all about murdering and committing acts of mayhem to overthrow the evil capitalists. Or are communists now not liberals?
Yes, but the common people were the ones who believed they were doing the good work for a communist utopia while they were doing the murders at their leaders' request. The liberal ideal was responsible for these attrocities.
Sorry, thanks for playing. I did not say that Ms. Clinton was a cold blooded killer, you mindless leftist fucktard. I said that extremist murderers exist on both sides of the political spectrum. If you fail to see this, maybe you should take another history class.
Hitler killed about 10 million. Stalin killed about 20 million. Fuck off.
Let us not forget though, that the greatest attrocities in history, where tens of millions died, were committed by liberals in the Soviet Union and China for their goal of a communist empire.
Naw, we learned from y'all. You guys are all about terrorism. Just mention tax cuts and you will have a thousand socialists using terror tactics talking about how cutting taxes will lead to millions of people dying, cats and dogs living together, satan eating little babies, generally, the apocalypse.
That's the much more fun part. Anything that outgasses hydrogen is fun.
Better to get some of the self-heating pads from army MREs. They're a lot smaller, they get hotter, and they're not designed to be idiot-proof. Much more fun, and better all the way around, plus easier to pack out.
I know you're being silly and looking for a rimshot, but forth is alive in those little areas where its compact code size is nice. FreeBSD 5's bootloader was written in forth, for example. Better luck next time.
That's not the bug that's being discussed in-thread. This is a different bug also related to the Content-length header. While the fix for that bug may also fix this bug is unclear. You're probably still best off modifying your httpd.conf to send the no cache header for all connections from a caching proxy/other webserver.
They disabled it; it's not active without direct effort and modifications by the player to put it back in. By your logic, should all the nudity mods out there for MMOs and the like mean that those games should be AO-rated as well?
Indeed. What they will fail to say, is just like 9/11, all a more stringent ID program would do is result in burnt bodies with the addition of burnt identification cards.