Then people would see Linux differently. It would be just one of the options which suits some people and doesn't other. Imagine the OS market like linux distro "market".
I had a crazy thought. What if MS didn't have monopoly in OSes and there were a lot of different OSes holding similar pieces of the marketshare? I'm not talking free only of course. At some point in time, the companies behind those OSes would have to work out a common standard, an API/ABI compatibility layer and stuff so they wouldn't lose their marketshare in favor of OneTrueOS(tm). I think this is perfectly doable. Then we would buy PC and then go to a store and chose from 5-10 ten OS products. Most of the applications would run natively and flawlessy on all of them. I know that this is a distant dream, but It's not something strange, It happens in all markets in some degree, except the software one.
When I read the summary I thought that lamebook has a very similar layout to fb. I visited lb and even the shade of blue is wrong. It's just a freakin blog...
Yep, the example was meant to be of more stable features, which despite being great and being there for so long still haven't been adopted. My bad that it sounds a bit like it's not.
And KDE is way more powerful, customizable than vista. It also has a lot of new, cutting-edge, semi-experimental features which won't be introducted to windows soon.
For example kio_slaves or gnome's vfs which are great features (for sftp, ftp, etc...) They have been introduced years ago and windows didn't even try to catch up.
Maybe we don't need 60fps, but certainly the more the better, especially that no game runs at x fps flat - there are always more graphics-intensive scenes when the framerate drops significantly.
But IMHO he's just bragging, he showed only some very low poly scenes there.
Don't they have more important things to investigate? I mean millions (billions?) of people use this measure everyday and it's fine. US government is the last body to have any say in this matter. I mean don't you people use imperial units? Just stick to it and leave our measures alone...
They patented a job description of a secretary!
And how all that is new? How on earth this could be patentable? Going further with this, someone should charge royalty fees for every pen and piece of paper, especially if they are bundled together.
I'm not talking about this specific story but in general. Of course that if you put your hard work into inventing something then you should be compensated. But it is true as long as the idea is useful, valuable and there was no prior art at the time you made your invention. Otherwise it is just trolling.
What's more, I think that it should be necessary for you to create and try to sell stuff based on your patent before it becomes completely valid. Now, people just write some general techno-babble, submit it, put the patent in a drawer and later sue everyone who earns enough money for it to be profitable.
I am, personally, outraged by all that is going on in the multi-billion-dollar company world. It makes me fear that if I started my software company I could be someday demanded patent royalties for something that was common knowledge or just plain free at time I used it. How this is not stopping development and competition.
That wasn't my question. When in monitor (promiscous) mode, adapter can capture but cannot associate and give you internet connection. So, when you capture packets you need another wlan adapter or ethernet nic for your internet conncetion to actually use this stolen cookies. There's no mention of it on the site. So I wondered that maybe the plugin does some magic and captures packets while the same adapter is associated with an ap.
It is wifi sniffing. The data is in the air. All you need is to be in the range of client's radio transmissions. If the network is encrypted then you need WEP/WPA(2) key.
The article is extremely light on details. The plugin's page doesn't tell much either. I'm curious how does it capture the WIFI packets. Is it possible to capture them when not in monitor mode?
I didn't check now, but last time I checked (around the time when CK mentioned in an interview that he gives up kernel hacking) he was quite a few releases behind. Maybe I was checking in the wrong place or something. Nevertheless, my bad.
I usually use midnight commander for copying multiple files and directories. So you say that mc has a very ineffective copy routine? As far as I remember 'cp' behaves the same way...
Last time I checked (a few months) ago, he was quite a few releases behind. I haven't checked now, my bad. The thing is that I'm using Arch Linux and compiling custom kernel is a bit of pain in the ass on this platform. Nevertheless, this just should be upstream along with the pluggable io scheduling architecture.
I doesn't swap, in fact I don't even have a swap partition. The issue was present on all of the boxes I've had in the past few years so it isn't hardware specific I think.
Exactly, my GF is not technical. She uses linux when she's at my place cause that is my only os. She has win on her laptop. I haven't ever try to convince her to use linux. But you see, she asked me to install linux on her box. At first she wanted to play with it, but now she says that it's actually faster and more friendly than win vista.
BTW I use kde so installed opensuse for her, because it's the best kde-centered, mainstream distro out there.
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Then people would see Linux differently. It would be just one of the options which suits some people and doesn't other. Imagine the OS market like linux distro "market".
I had a crazy thought. What if MS didn't have monopoly in OSes and there were a lot of different OSes holding similar pieces of the marketshare? I'm not talking free only of course. At some point in time, the companies behind those OSes would have to work out a common standard, an API/ABI compatibility layer and stuff so they wouldn't lose their marketshare in favor of OneTrueOS(tm). I think this is perfectly doable. Then we would buy PC and then go to a store and chose from 5-10 ten OS products. Most of the applications would run natively and flawlessy on all of them. I know that this is a distant dream, but It's not something strange, It happens in all markets in some degree, except the software one.
But cerainly not the best one - a quick search on youtube yielded great results - check out the liquavista display.
When I read the summary I thought that lamebook has a very similar layout to fb. I visited lb and even the shade of blue is wrong. It's just a freakin blog...
Yep, the example was meant to be of more stable features, which despite being great and being there for so long still haven't been adopted. My bad that it sounds a bit like it's not.
Amarok is nothing like Winamp.
And KDE is way more powerful, customizable than vista. It also has a lot of new, cutting-edge, semi-experimental features which won't be introducted to windows soon.
For example kio_slaves or gnome's vfs which are great features (for sftp, ftp, etc...) They have been introduced years ago and windows didn't even try to catch up.
Maybe we don't need 60fps, but certainly the more the better, especially that no game runs at x fps flat - there are always more graphics-intensive scenes when the framerate drops significantly.
But IMHO he's just bragging, he showed only some very low poly scenes there.
Don't they have more important things to investigate? I mean millions (billions?) of people use this measure everyday and it's fine. US government is the last body to have any say in this matter. I mean don't you people use imperial units? Just stick to it and leave our measures alone...
They patented a job description of a secretary!
And how all that is new? How on earth this could be patentable? Going further with this, someone should charge royalty fees for every pen and piece of paper, especially if they are bundled together.
I'm not talking about this specific story but in general. Of course that if you put your hard work into inventing something then you should be compensated. But it is true as long as the idea is useful, valuable and there was no prior art at the time you made your invention. Otherwise it is just trolling.
What's more, I think that it should be necessary for you to create and try to sell stuff based on your patent before it becomes completely valid. Now, people just write some general techno-babble, submit it, put the patent in a drawer and later sue everyone who earns enough money for it to be profitable.
I am, personally, outraged by all that is going on in the multi-billion-dollar company world. It makes me fear that if I started my software company I could be someday demanded patent royalties for something that was common knowledge or just plain free at time I used it. How this is not stopping development and competition.
I googled for cronjob and logarithm. The only relevant entry found is your comment (and the first that pops out).
If a botnet is small doesn't it contradict the very idea of a botnet? I mean it seriously limits its uses.
From other story: I wonder how many unidentified large botnets remain out there.
Your users have to solve logarithms in order to access their files? No surprise that no botnet isn't interested in them either.
That wasn't my question. When in monitor (promiscous) mode, adapter can capture but cannot associate and give you internet connection. So, when you capture packets you need another wlan adapter or ethernet nic for your internet conncetion to actually use this stolen cookies. There's no mention of it on the site. So I wondered that maybe the plugin does some magic and captures packets while the same adapter is associated with an ap.
It is wifi sniffing. The data is in the air. All you need is to be in the range of client's radio transmissions. If the network is encrypted then you need WEP/WPA(2) key.
Aircrack sells anything? I thought it was a toolset...
The article is extremely light on details. The plugin's page doesn't tell much either. I'm curious how does it capture the WIFI packets. Is it possible to capture them when not in monitor mode?
I dont remember what it was about, maybe it took a long time or something. It just should work out of the box, meaning good IO schduler.
I didn't check now, but last time I checked (around the time when CK mentioned in an interview that he gives up kernel hacking) he was quite a few releases behind. Maybe I was checking in the wrong place or something. Nevertheless, my bad.
I usually use midnight commander for copying multiple files and directories. So you say that mc has a very ineffective copy routine? As far as I remember 'cp' behaves the same way...
I've already tried it. Just a minor improvement, but maybe it's my setup to blame in some way.
Last time I checked (a few months) ago, he was quite a few releases behind. I haven't checked now, my bad. The thing is that I'm using Arch Linux and compiling custom kernel is a bit of pain in the ass on this platform. Nevertheless, this just should be upstream along with the pluggable io scheduling architecture.
I doesn't swap, in fact I don't even have a swap partition. The issue was present on all of the boxes I've had in the past few years so it isn't hardware specific I think.
"Things degrade and break over time, especially if you use them."
How this is news ? WTF?
Exactly, my GF is not technical. She uses linux when she's at my place cause that is my only os. She has win on her laptop. I haven't ever try to convince her to use linux. But you see, she asked me to install linux on her box. At first she wanted to play with it, but now she says that it's actually faster and more friendly than win vista. BTW I use kde so installed opensuse for her, because it's the best kde-centered, mainstream distro out there.