The reason for guest accounts in the first place is to not have people logging into other people's accounts or using them.
Example: a customer, a vendor, salesman, whatever says "can I use your computer to check my gmail?" Probably 90% of the people out there aren't going to say no.
So you let him use your computer. And then while he uses it, you have to babysit him. And stand over him. Otherwise, you just gave him full access to the network.
Is Windows still doing the "copy the entire profile over the network" thing when you log in at someone else's computer? And then copy it again when you log in at yet another?
When I first read the phrase "Harvard-trained blah", it struck me as a little strange.
I mean, isn't the point of college education, not training? Supposedly education is for free men ("liberal education"), and training is for chimps.
So what does it mean to "train" a college student? Think of a Harvard-"trained" political scientist or sociologist. Does that mean they train you in what to think?
That's not the way I work. I use 1 term window with multiple tabs, but that's just the point: the interface should be flexible enough to accommodate everyone's work style.
And it used to be.
It's not a user interface, it's user interference.
The problem is that Gno/buntu don't think that people actually to productive stuff with their computers.
I think Mark Shuttleworth and the Ubuntu devs might actually believe that Ubuntu users, instead of doing stuff with their computers, will sit around, look at the menu system and think "Hey, I'm as good as my Mac-using neighbor. I have global menus, too!"
A concept Gno/buntu haven't considered is that people actually use computers to get stuff done.
They make presentations, write letters & reports, create spreadsheets & charts, do research, make drawings, etc.
They do it in the way they've already been doing it. OK, that's a truism. Should be obvious. But's it's not to Gno/buntu.
If people are already doing productive work using the existing paradigms, why change it for the sake of it?
Gno/buntu are vain in thinking that people have nothing to do other than learn the latest changes that have been decreed from "on high". This is the same arrogance that M$ has (viz. Office ribbon).
Buttons on the left, global menubar, what's "innovative" about slavishly copied Mac?
The funny thing is, they even copied the ugly purple wallpaper, starting in Lucid Lynx (10.04).
The global menu is starting to seem a really bad idea on huge monitors; Jobs can't change it now because it's become ingrained, it would be admitting defeat, and the fact is, a lot of people have become used to it. Yet this is exactly the time that Mark Shuttleworth picked to have a global menu.
But it gets even better: It's autohidden! Great for those newbs he wants to think Ubuntu is easy.
Distrowatch has Mint and Debian right behind Ubuntu at #2 and #3.
The disaster that is Natty Narwhal may just be the the straw that'll push Ubuntu users out looking for an alternative.
While an Ubuntu user would have to make a big cultural shift going towards Gentoo or Arch (not to mention Slackware), Mint is basically just Ubuntu, only more configured.
You can only dictate to your userbase (a la Office 2007/ribbons) if you have a monopoly.
What I would love is a media player that remembers
1. The last 100 things that you were playing (make it 10000, that's what computers are for).
2. Where I was in a given media file before I was interrupted/had to close it out/whatever. Like the way that evince brings you to the point that you were reading a PDF. vim's been bringing you to the last edit point forever, how come no one's thought of that for media players?
>One's session cookie itself is sensitive data, as any Firesheep user can snoop it and use it.
It doesn't matter if it's only a demo site.
Of course, it should be fully functional, but that doesn't mean you have to promote it. And you can just set robots.txt to shoo away any search engines.
And you can just ask a really easy computer science question with the password being the answer as HTTP Basic Auth protection to "test the tester", too, and stop access for normal people.
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That's reverse psychology: you make the site ugly as in the days of HTML 3 or something.
It purposely doesn't look corporate or marketing-y.
Thereby gaining the trust of users. "This guy's for real."
The reason for guest accounts in the first place is to not have people logging into other people's accounts or using them.
Example: a customer, a vendor, salesman, whatever says "can I use your computer to check my gmail?" Probably 90% of the people out there aren't going to say no.
So you let him use your computer. And then while he uses it, you have to babysit him. And stand over him. Otherwise, you just gave him full access to the network.
The alternative is to enable guest accounts.
I lose a bit of accuracy on every post, but make it up in volume.
Is Windows still doing the "copy the entire profile over the network" thing when you log in at someone else's computer? And then copy it again when you log in at yet another?
Umm, yeah, "dust", a fine, floating component of TRW (the real world). I'm just wondering how people with huge libraries deal with dust.
1-way: so that also means the receiver can't really verify who sent the message, right?
lol, Harvard-drained, I'll be waiting for an opportunity to use that.
What do you do about dust? (Serious question)
When I first read the phrase "Harvard-trained blah", it struck me as a little strange.
I mean, isn't the point of college education, not training? Supposedly education is for free men ("liberal education"), and training is for chimps.
So what does it mean to "train" a college student? Think of a Harvard-"trained" political scientist or sociologist. Does that mean they train you in what to think?
First the Nokia assimilation, now this. A disastrous start to 2011 for geeks.
Sounds good.
Except that people also used "trained" for so-called professions.
A Google query:
http://www.google.com/search?q=harvard-trained
reveals Harvard-trained doctors, lawyers, engineers, neurologists, etc.
I don't know whether that's a good usage or not, but newspapers use it, too.
No problem, I realize what you were saying (that he hadn't used the final release of Natty). I was just dissing Ubuntu, not you.
He just said they throw the same experimental stuff into "LTS" releases as normal ones.
Why do people keep bringing up Class mode? It'll be gone in a flash (6 months).
And all those people in the 3rd world? They're running pirated copies of Windows XP.
They know how to use a normal desktop interface. The old Ubuntu gave them that. Why would they want to change to something totally different?
That's not the way I work. I use 1 term window with multiple tabs, but that's just the point: the interface should be flexible enough to accommodate everyone's work style.
And it used to be.
It's not a user interface, it's user interference.
The problem is that Gno/buntu don't think that people actually to productive stuff with their computers.
I think Mark Shuttleworth and the Ubuntu devs might actually believe that Ubuntu users, instead of doing stuff with their computers, will sit around, look at the menu system and think "Hey, I'm as good as my Mac-using neighbor. I have global menus, too!"
A concept Gno/buntu haven't considered is that people actually use computers to get stuff done.
They make presentations, write letters & reports, create spreadsheets & charts, do research, make drawings, etc.
They do it in the way they've already been doing it. OK, that's a truism. Should be obvious. But's it's not to Gno/buntu.
If people are already doing productive work using the existing paradigms, why change it for the sake of it?
Gno/buntu are vain in thinking that people have nothing to do other than learn the latest changes that have been decreed from "on high". This is the same arrogance that M$ has (viz. Office ribbon).
Buttons on the left, global menubar, what's "innovative" about slavishly copied Mac?
The funny thing is, they even copied the ugly purple wallpaper, starting in Lucid Lynx (10.04).
The global menu is starting to seem a really bad idea on huge monitors; Jobs can't change it now because it's become ingrained, it would be admitting defeat, and the fact is, a lot of people have become used to it. Yet this is exactly the time that Mark Shuttleworth picked to have a global menu.
But it gets even better: It's autohidden! Great for those newbs he wants to think Ubuntu is easy.
This.
Distrowatch has Mint and Debian right behind Ubuntu at #2 and #3.
The disaster that is Natty Narwhal may just be the the straw that'll push Ubuntu users out looking for an alternative.
While an Ubuntu user would have to make a big cultural shift going towards Gentoo or Arch (not to mention Slackware), Mint is basically just Ubuntu, only more configured.
You can only dictate to your userbase (a la Office 2007/ribbons) if you have a monopoly.
Try Debian, Mint Debian, or Mint Ubuntu.
http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-mint-over-ubuntu.html
What I would love is a media player that remembers
1. The last 100 things that you were playing (make it 10000, that's what computers are for).
2. Where I was in a given media file before I was interrupted/had to close it out/whatever. Like the way that evince brings you to the point that you were reading a PDF. vim's been bringing you to the last edit point forever, how come no one's thought of that for media players?
Wow, it does that?
I didn't even know, and I've been using it for at least 8 years. Thanks for pointing that out.
By the way, there's a neat little program called "mousepath" that shows a line drawing of your mouse movements.
Is there any way that this can be used against us?
As in trusted computing? Or any other downsides?
Just asking.
>One's session cookie itself is sensitive data, as any Firesheep user can snoop it and use it.
It doesn't matter if it's only a demo site.
Of course, it should be fully functional, but that doesn't mean you have to promote it. And you can just set robots.txt to shoo away any search engines.
And you can just ask a really easy computer science question with the password being the answer as HTTP Basic Auth protection to "test the tester", too, and stop access for normal people.
Directspace offers a $4 VPS with 512MB RAM, 20GB disk, 2 IPs + backup.
It's worked quite well for me, no need to contact support. The disk is fast (going by dd's stats).
You can choose from Ubuntu, Debian, Centos, and a couple others (32 and 64 bit).
Downside: they only have one NOC (Portland).