Can you encrypt directories in Windows? Which version?
I know that if you plug in an unformatted hard drive in Ubuntu you get the option of formatted with an encrypted filesystem, all with GUI tools for locking/unlocking.
>Now that I'm on Linux boxes I'm saddled with vim.
That's funny, the first thing I say on a box without vim, and just barebones vi is WHERE IS TEH VIM? It's hard to live without the creature comforts provided by vim. To each his own.
A lot of people probably already know this, but fr those who don't:
vim also has a file manager built in! You don't have to specify full text paths in a little ":" line. You can choose files "visually".
Instead of doing vim blah.txt, give a directory as the argument:
vim/home/programs/blah/
The rest you'll have to Google.
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No, definitely not. vi is the one editor that is guaranteed to be installed on any random POSIX server you have to work on.
If the only thing you can work with is Joe's Editor or nano, you will be flailing around until you happen to hit "a" or "i" by chance. Then you'll wonder how to save.
That said, vim is a relief compared to barebones vi, but you can certainly get by with the latter in a pinch.
>If you don't realize how being able to access email 24/7 via an iPhone is going to increase productivity then you shouldn't be allowed near any decision ever.
Is it possible, just possible, that the guy realizes there's more to corporate IT than just "increasing productivity" (acquiescing to every luser request)?
Go ahead respond about the BOFH attitude about viewing users as lusers. But the fact is:
You know all those credit card information thefts you hear about? TJ Maxx, BoA, CitiBank, etc.? How do you think the break-in starts? It starts with a foot in the door. I.e., whatever method the iAmCoolPhone user is using to access the corporate network and email.
Once you have a guy's email account, you can do a lot of stuff, including asking other people to do stuff for you.
As a consumer, I hardly see the benefit in allowing some guy in a turtleneck to maintain his coolness quotient by not having to lug around an uncool Blackberry if it puts my data at risk.
Um, the car analogy would be: people, instead of using company approved and owned UPS delivery trucks, want to use their own cars with rich Corinthian leather, heated seats, and air conditioning.
Question for you: what is the program selection mechanism? Is it a drop-down menu like in Gnome2? Arranged by category (Accessories, Office, Games, Internet)?
Or do you have to right-click on the desktop to get a menu? Thereby implying you have to leave part of the desktop uncovered to work.
From my perspective, what's juvenile is: Desktop developers are paid by companies (Redhat, Novell, etc.) that get paid by companies that do actual work. Those developers then waste that money coming up with Fischer-Price interfaces that hinder people in doing real work as opposed to maybe opening up a single instance of Firefox for 30min, and then shutting down the computer. (Oops, you can't even shut down the computer in Gnome3 anymore, they took that option away.)
Java bad: That's not my personal opinion. I actually like Java. But there's a strong anti-Java contingent on Slashdot. They're basically continuing the hatred from the bad old days of Java applets.
Not that recent security problems have helped any.
I like polish and a good-looking desktop, but functionality comes first, and I basically just want to be able to work, not wonder what the flavor of the week desktop is now.
While we're on the subject, anybody have a problem with Bing/Bling's color choice for SERPs?
The Google green is nice. Bing green seems kind of dirty. The choice of blue for links also seems odd, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Sort of like Uncanny Valley.
It's the same sort of thing that nerds feel about Flash (Flash==bad).
HTML==open==good.
I'm not giving a argument for that feeling here, merely noting it.
Here's a list of other Slashdot prejudices: Java bad Oracle bad Google good Apple good(?) Android good (depending on your perspective) C good C++ bad Unity/Gnome3 bad M$ bad WIndows bad/Linux good JavaScript bad (unnecessary use of) Flash bad Facebook bad
The "programming" mentioned in the Telegraph is that these comment service providers base their systems on JavaScript, which didn't used to be executed by Googlebot for comments.
Now it will.
People have privacy fears because these commenting systems use one login for the entire Web vs. having one for/., one for nytimes.com, one for example.com. Used to be you could be nutty on Slashdot, serious on nytimes.com, etc., without anybody being the wiser. The more websites move to Facebook comments, the more problems of this sort. Combine that with "real name" policies, and it's a privacy mess. More about it here
>In other cases though, it has a benefit... so long as the project has long-term benefits worth the cost.
Yeah. That'd be investment.
The problem is you get people who are radical Keynesians (not people from Kenya!) who believe spending on something, anything will always be a net benefit.
That's why you get stuff like these scanners. And the Osprey.
The problem is the money you're spending is coming out of taxes, which is reducing the amount that would have been invested in other productivity-enhancing or job-producing activities in the economy.
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Can you encrypt directories in Windows? Which version?
I know that if you plug in an unformatted hard drive in Ubuntu you get the option of formatted with an encrypted filesystem, all with GUI tools for locking/unlocking.
>Now that I'm on Linux boxes I'm saddled with vim.
That's funny, the first thing I say on a box without vim, and just barebones vi is WHERE IS TEH VIM? It's hard to live without the creature comforts provided by vim. To each his own.
>Isn't vi the most popular vi-compatible editor??
I'm a regular daily vi user. This vim thing must be something new.
Your second line led me to believe you were joking.
But, no, I wouldn't say vi is the most popular vi-compatible editor, anymore than the original IBM PC is the most popular IBM-compatible computer.
Linux is the most popular brand of POSIX, and mostly, vim is used on it.
A lot of people probably already know this, but fr those who don't:
vim also has a file manager built in! You don't have to specify full text paths in a little ":" line. You can choose files "visually".
Instead of doing vim blah.txt, give a directory as the argument:
vim /home/programs/blah/
The rest you'll have to Google.
No, definitely not. vi is the one editor that is guaranteed to be installed on any random POSIX server you have to work on.
If the only thing you can work with is Joe's Editor or nano, you will be flailing around until you happen to hit "a" or "i" by chance. Then you'll wonder how to save.
That said, vim is a relief compared to barebones vi, but you can certainly get by with the latter in a pinch.
I apologize if Gnome has now added back the shutdown option to the normal user menu.
>If you don't realize how being able to access email 24/7 via an iPhone is going to increase productivity then you shouldn't be allowed near any decision ever.
Is it possible, just possible, that the guy realizes there's more to corporate IT than just "increasing productivity" (acquiescing to every luser request)?
Go ahead respond about the BOFH attitude about viewing users as lusers. But the fact is:
You know all those credit card information thefts you hear about? TJ Maxx, BoA, CitiBank, etc.? How do you think the break-in starts? It starts with a foot in the door. I.e., whatever method the iAmCoolPhone user is using to access the corporate network and email.
Once you have a guy's email account, you can do a lot of stuff, including asking other people to do stuff for you.
As a consumer, I hardly see the benefit in allowing some guy in a turtleneck to maintain his coolness quotient by not having to lug around an uncool Blackberry if it puts my data at risk.
Um, the car analogy would be: people, instead of using company approved and owned UPS delivery trucks, want to use their own cars with rich Corinthian leather, heated seats, and air conditioning.
/.'ers waiting for the return of CmdrTaco ...
>Just mount via the command line or via fstab.
And what then is the reason for the existence of virtual file systems?
Question for you: what is the program selection mechanism? Is it a drop-down menu like in Gnome2? Arranged by category (Accessories, Office, Games, Internet)?
Or do you have to right-click on the desktop to get a menu? Thereby implying you have to leave part of the desktop uncovered to work.
I'm glad Gnome3 is working for you.
From my perspective, what's juvenile is: Desktop developers are paid by companies (Redhat, Novell, etc.) that get paid by companies that do actual work. Those developers then waste that money coming up with Fischer-Price interfaces that hinder people in doing real work as opposed to maybe opening up a single instance of Firefox for 30min, and then shutting down the computer. (Oops, you can't even shut down the computer in Gnome3 anymore, they took that option away.)
Let's all take this opportunity to vote with our clicks.
Get in touch with your favorite distro and let them know you want to upgrade to old Gnome and old KDE.
If you were on Ubuntu, let Mint know the direction you want them to go in the future.
Java bad: That's not my personal opinion. I actually like Java. But there's a strong anti-Java contingent on Slashdot. They're basically continuing the hatred from the bad old days of Java applets.
Not that recent security problems have helped any.
Thanks for sharing. Here's the link for it I found:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MATE
I like polish and a good-looking desktop, but functionality comes first, and I basically just want to be able to work, not wonder what the flavor of the week desktop is now.
to make people forget how much system resources Unity and Gnome3 require by comparison.
While we're on the subject, anybody have a problem with Bing/Bling's color choice for SERPs?
The Google green is nice. Bing green seems kind of dirty. The choice of blue for links also seems odd, but I can't quite put my finger on it. Sort of like Uncanny Valley.
Great news about KDE3.5.
Now could we get a continuation of Gnome2?
We could call it Old Gnome Users of America.
From a general nerd perspective, JavaScript==bad.
It's the same sort of thing that nerds feel about Flash (Flash==bad).
HTML==open==good.
I'm not giving a argument for that feeling here, merely noting it.
Here's a list of other Slashdot prejudices:
Java bad
Oracle bad
Google good
Apple good(?)
Android good (depending on your perspective)
C good
C++ bad
Unity/Gnome3 bad
M$ bad
WIndows bad/Linux good
JavaScript bad (unnecessary use of)
Flash bad
Facebook bad
The "programming" mentioned in the Telegraph is that these comment service providers base their systems on JavaScript, which didn't used to be executed by Googlebot for comments.
Now it will.
People have privacy fears because these commenting systems use one login for the entire Web vs. having one for /., one for nytimes.com, one for example.com. Used to be you could be nutty on Slashdot, serious on nytimes.com, etc., without anybody being the wiser. The more websites move to Facebook comments, the more problems of this sort. Combine that with "real name" policies, and it's a privacy mess. More about it here
> Even Bling seems to be better than Google for technical queries these days.
Hehe, he said Bling.
>Keynesians are people from Milton Keynes.
For the people following along, that would be as opposed to the people from Milton Friedman.
How much does this resemble the Molten Salt Reactors everyone's talking about?
Will experience from this reactor be able to be applied to the new-style reactors?
>In other cases though, it has a benefit... so long as the project has long-term benefits worth the cost.
Yeah. That'd be investment.
The problem is you get people who are radical Keynesians (not people from Kenya!) who believe spending on something, anything will always be a net benefit.
That's why you get stuff like these scanners. And the Osprey.
The idea is that you create "make-work" for people to do, and then there'll be more jobs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
The problem is the money you're spending is coming out of taxes, which is reducing the amount that would have been invested in other productivity-enhancing or job-producing activities in the economy.