No, an upgrade is very straight-forward, if you don't use the GUI stuff, and only takes maybe an hour of actual work. Just replace the name of the release in apt/sources.list do an
aptitude update; aptitude upgrade
then get rid of the bloat that comes with it, and your good to go. Unless there's a major change in DE version, after which you may have to look around for a new theme that you like. The Ubuntu people usually warn you against this way of upgrading, but in 3 years of using Ubuntu I have yet to experience an install breaking on me after an upgrade.
I'd say it was rather Microsoft with its ever more RAM-demanding OSs that forced intel to move to 64bit architectures. AMD just happened to come up with a solution that allowed for backwards compatibility.
I guess, hadn't it been for AMD something similar to the transition from PPC to x86 in the Mac world would have happened in the windows/x86-*NIX world, but the transition would have been x86->ia64. Considering that the IA32 ISA is quite much of a hackjob, I'm not so sure that AMD came along with the x86_64 architecture was a good thing..
Windows NT used to support the DEC alpha, which is certainly a RISC architecture. But I'm pretty sure the Itanium is not a classic RISC architecture, since it's based on the explicit instruction-level parallelism paradigm.
I don't understand the fuss about this button relocation and color-scheme changing, you really don't need a CS degree to customize the look of your desktop. Besides, if you're upgrading, the desktop look & feel ought not change, since all the settings are stored in your home directory which won't be affected by the upgrade.
I have to admit that I run Kubuntu, but assume gnome is no different in this regard.
As others in other articles on this topic have noted before me, it's extremely unlikely that some young R&D engineer just happens to leave the lab with a not fully functional prototype of Apple's next gen phone, and then by some weird coincidence loses it at a bar....
Actually, it's quite much more likely that this was an intended leak and Apple was hoping for the kind of coverage they got from Gizmodo, so wouldn't charges of misleading the course of justice against Apple be more appropriate, if they don't come forth with the truth soon?
Some New Zealand guy found his account on a list that was published earlier by the hacker, sure he may be complicit in the fraud, but then that wouldn't explain why the Russian hacker magazine didn't notice anything special about those accounts, such as a lack of messages. Also I would assume that FB has some mechanisms in place for preventing one IP to be used for signing up several hundred times, so he would have to use stuff like a bot net, and a captcha breaker anyway. So creating 1.5M fake accounts wouldn't turn out much easier than just phishing, brute-forcing, or whatever.
Not exactly. According to TFA their plan is to send people links to malware hosting websites from "trusted" sources, and by means of malware get access to facebook users' bank accounts.
Seeing that them hijacking your host OS would give them access to your VMs, using a VM for general surfing purposes seems to be better choice, especially if it runs an obscure OS, like opensolaris.
I wouldn't be so concerned about the gubment, they don't have the staff to track random people just for the hell of it. Since this can apparently be exploited by anyone, I'd be much more worried about that PI your wife hired, and the like.
The result, of course, is that the idiot Chineses government censors will try to censor the entire Internet outside of China, which will not be tolerated for long by the Chinese people....
I seriously doubt it, the majority of the Chinese primarily cares about the Chinese parts of the intertubes and little else, and criticizing the Chinese government from inside China is bad for your health.
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"Kiss the sky" doesn't even make any sense unless you're on some kind of mind-altering substance
Umh, the song's called purple haze.
No, an upgrade is very straight-forward, if you don't use the GUI stuff, and only takes maybe an hour of actual work. Just replace the name of the release in apt/sources.list do an aptitude update; aptitude upgrade then get rid of the bloat that comes with it, and your good to go. Unless there's a major change in DE version, after which you may have to look around for a new theme that you like.
The Ubuntu people usually warn you against this way of upgrading, but in 3 years of using Ubuntu I have yet to experience an install breaking on me after an upgrade.
I'd say it was rather Microsoft with its ever more RAM-demanding OSs that forced intel to move to 64bit architectures. AMD just happened to come up with a solution that allowed for backwards compatibility. I guess, hadn't it been for AMD something similar to the transition from PPC to x86 in the Mac world would have happened in the windows/x86-*NIX world, but the transition would have been x86->ia64. Considering that the IA32 ISA is quite much of a hackjob, I'm not so sure that AMD came along with the x86_64 architecture was a good thing..
Windows NT used to support the DEC alpha, which is certainly a RISC architecture. But I'm pretty sure the Itanium is not a classic RISC architecture, since it's based on the explicit instruction-level parallelism paradigm.
I don't understand the fuss about this button relocation and color-scheme changing, you really don't need a CS degree to customize the look of your desktop. Besides, if you're upgrading, the desktop look & feel ought not change, since all the settings are stored in your home directory which won't be affected by the upgrade.
I have to admit that I run Kubuntu, but assume gnome is no different in this regard.
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Nah, she got fired.
As others in other articles on this topic have noted before me, it's extremely unlikely that some young R&D engineer just happens to leave the lab with a not fully functional prototype of Apple's next gen phone, and then by some weird coincidence loses it at a bar.... Actually, it's quite much more likely that this was an intended leak and Apple was hoping for the kind of coverage they got from Gizmodo, so wouldn't charges of misleading the course of justice against Apple be more appropriate, if they don't come forth with the truth soon?
And that's when you realize that Morpheus made you an offer you can't refuse, when he offered you the red pill.
Some New Zealand guy found his account on a list that was published earlier by the hacker, sure he may be complicit in the fraud, but then that wouldn't explain why the Russian hacker magazine didn't notice anything special about those accounts, such as a lack of messages. Also I would assume that FB has some mechanisms in place for preventing one IP to be used for signing up several hundred times, so he would have to use stuff like a bot net, and a captcha breaker anyway. So creating 1.5M fake accounts wouldn't turn out much easier than just phishing, brute-forcing, or whatever.
Not exactly. According to TFA their plan is to send people links to malware hosting websites from "trusted" sources, and by means of malware get access to facebook users' bank accounts.
Seeing that them hijacking your host OS would give them access to your VMs, using a VM for general surfing purposes seems to be better choice, especially if it runs an obscure OS, like opensolaris.
I wouldn't be so concerned about the gubment, they don't have the staff to track random people just for the hell of it. Since this can apparently be exploited by anyone, I'd be much more worried about that PI your wife hired, and the like.
The result, of course, is that the idiot Chineses government censors will try to censor the entire Internet outside of China, which will not be tolerated for long by the Chinese people....
I seriously doubt it, the majority of the Chinese primarily cares about the Chinese parts of the intertubes and little else, and criticizing the Chinese government from inside China is bad for your health.