Absolutely correct about Boulder. I live in Boulder also and most people would choke if they saw the number of SUVs here. Walking along side the street makes you feel quesy from the fumes released from those horrible SUVs. At least there are still many biker and pedestrian routes away from all the cars areas. I think every city needs things like the creek path.
It is a path that follows the boulder creek with lots of trees and the creek. It really cools off the area near it a lot. The air there also smells cleaner. It is also faster to get some places by bike or walking then by car since this path goes under some roads. The environment gains and so do people and it is good exercise.
You can encrypt however you want but if it can be played it can be copied. Under a unix you just replace the/dev/dsp or whichever file it is being played to with another file. The play the audio through their player. It will decrypt it and you have a clean digital source with no encryption. If you are using windows there are virtual sound card drivers that do the same thing.
All this music encryption is worthless. Since soundcards can not decrypt it must be sent to the sound card unencrypted. Since that is so you can easily send the data somewhere else.
Yes one must not foget BOB. AFAIK the only original product microsoft ever made. If you don't know what I am talking about good please try and keep it that way. You really don't want to know what it is. It makes the paperclip look like a natural useful feature by comparison.
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They already thought of this. They use rpmdrake. It will automatically take care of the dependencies for you. If you remove a program others depends on it will tell you what will also be removed and you can decide. The converse is also true for adding components. It really is very easy to do. You start rpmdrake and it builds a complete list of all rpms you have and where they are. If you elect to install a package it tells you which cd to insert and fixed all deps.
That is a slogan it is not teaching users to think Most of the ads I see for imacs portray them as being idiot proof boxes. I had a user call up after she bought an ibook. She knew nothing about macs but bought the computer because it matched her dress! She didn't want to read any instructions. She saw the ads and they said the computer was idiot proof. That is also what they told her in the store.
She didn't want to think. She told me she did not want to think. She just wanted her problem fixed which she caused and didn't want to be told how not to do it again. She told me it if my job to fix it everytime she breaks it. Of course that is wrong but that is a seperate issue.
You forget on windows by default it hides known file extensions. So the file is no something.vbs it is just something.
The other problem is you, I and many others may know vbs files are dangerous but most regular users do not. Even after all the information with the ILOVEYOU problem people still clicked on vbs files at the university here no matter how many times they were told not to. That is why we now mangle file names of executable content when they are received here. That makes the person renamed the file to execute it and to get that info they have to read the instructions. These steps have radically cut down on the problems we have with this type of content.
Look around you. You can't realy on human intelligence because most people choose not to think. Most computer problems are very simple but users don't want to think. I have had to explain to the same person 20 times that when the comptuer says "Press enter to continue" that means press the enter button. That is not a hard concept but it requires at least reading skills and this person was working on her PhD in some humanities field. People are capable of thinking but they have bought into the Apple and Microsoft hype that computers don't require thought so they refuse to think.
In windows two buttons are very useful. Example right click on network neighborhood and click properties. The RMB is a lot more useful then most people think because they don't know the power of using it.
Linux(aggr) is misleading. If there is a root exploit in bind it would get reported and fixed in redhat, mandrake, suse, debian, slackware, etc. That is one root exploit but it gets counted 5 times.
As for the apps company developing for Linux or *BSD, I suggest you hand an average computer user a copy of Red Hat and ask him to install it. He'll be using it as a coaster within the hour.
I am not sure when they last time you looked at Redhat or Mandrake was but we seem to be using very different version. I have had mac users with almost zero experience get it all installed and running just fine. Same with windows users. The new ones are far easier to set up then windows and when they are installed they are ready to go and you don't have to play with them any more. Also the new mandrake comes with autoirpm you might want to look up what that thing can do. It is very impressive.
It is frustrating for one reason. People do not remain newbies forever. If you are used to a powerful, flexible system and have to give it up for a newbie friendly environment then you have lost something in the end. Those usability studies fail to take into account long term usage. Many programs are hard to learn but easy to use.
I will always take a harsh learning curve easy to use program over the reverse. That is why I can't stand using a mac. Yeah it works great for a novice user but if you need to do something outside the design of the os you are screwed. That is why I like vi more then many other programs. Yes it is hard to learn but easy to use once you learn it.
I think what you are looking for is BeOS. That is a very fast and efficient os. Need to check the hardware compatibility list again to see if my hardware is supported. If only nvidia has opensource their driver then I could have great 3d under that. I would kill windows for that in a heartbeat.
Oh well someone will release a good 3d card for linux soon with open drivers or the nvidia card will get tossed for a g400.
That issue about only one thing opening/dev/dsp as a linux limitation is not correct. Just to test it I have opened 3 mp3s and am playing all of them under kde right now. All of them are told to use/dev/dsp so thereis no esd they are running through. The key is I have a sblive which has very nice linux drivers right now. They support 32 similatenous uses of/dev/dsp at a time. AFAIK this is only true of the sblive.
Linux is not the thing keeping more cards from doing this the drivers and the capability of the cards is.
That method does not work with W2K. It keeps a copy of all system files so if you delete those it puts them back immediately. You have to get rid of the dllcache folder also. Then you can delete the files and ignore the warnings windows gives.
The so called "feature" is called windows file protection. It keeps a backup of every system file in the dllcache directory and if you delete the file or overwrite it with a differnt one than is in that cache windows will replace it for you without prompting. On one of the machines I had to clean the virus off of this directory was about 300 megs.
This auto replace feature alone makes me feel real happy I use linux. Just have to support windows.:(
As a side note that is why every windows 2000 machine I have seen still has solitaire and minesweaper on them. They are considered to be system files.
Well it seems some distros have already thought of that. I installed mandrake 7.0 and it installed just openssh and for mail uses postfix. No telnetd, inetd, etc.
More new distros are doing that now. As I have said before usually by the time someone spots a problem with linux someone else has released a solution.
I use the remote features of x constantly. I run apps from my home machine at work. I run apps from on of my linux boxes with no monitor on my other box. The remote features of X are the most important features for what I do.
Just ssh to the machine and it forwards x automatically and compresses it. Then run any x program. I do this to lost of machines all the time. It is really useful. It would be very uncommon for me not to have things being remote displayed from several machines on my machine.
Yes, the United States does not have a clean history. However, come to think of it, name ONE country that does. The idea behind our right to bear arms is to provide a means to rise up against our government should the need ever arise. It has happened once in our history, and had our ancestors been denied the right to bear arms, the Revolutionary War would have been short lived indeed. I've talked about this with numerous friends and classmates. Some of our best debates were the results. However, what it came down to, 9 times out of 10, was WHY we needed this right. Most of the time, the argument was given that, as a "civilized" society, we would not need to ever rebel again. I'm sorry, but I have always found that to be a naive. Not even Alan Greenspan can predict the future. The foundation of American society is our Constitution, Bill of Rights and the Amendments that follow. When you start undermining those, you start taking away our rights and freedoms, and THAT is unacceptable.
Darn I could have sworn I just did that with RedHat 6.1. I popped in my cd of RPMs and the installer came up and I selected the packages I want. It works that way for CDs and other stuff also. If you have an autoplay file on the disk it can start a regular instaler also.
That is why you install xkill and give it an icon on the desktop. That is a very simple solution to that problem and I think most users can understand something called kill with a skull and crossbones.
I have converted a lot of people over to linux that are having no problems. They saw it on my computer and they decided they wanted it on theirs also. In every case not one has had a problem installing it. Mostly because a little common sense is done. You check the HCL for the distribtuion you are trying to install if all things are supported then you should have no problems installing it. I can install Linux far faster then I can install NT and I have installed NT many more times.
With the newest version of RedHat 6.1 you just select KDE for a desktop and all the programs are placed on the menus. It will autodetect all your hardware and you should be just fine. You don't have to go to the commandline for anything if you don't want to. I can drop in the staroffice CD and it opens the CD on the desktop and then you click on the setup icon in the linux folder. If you put in a redhat CD of RPMS it will scan the disk for packages and give you a menu to choose packages from. It even has an autoupdate program now to make things even easier.
Linux does have a learning curve but for those I have helped it has not been a problem. If you go into it expecting to have to read something and do a little thinking it is remarkably easy to use. 9 times out of 10 the most logical way for something to be done is the way it has been done. Even setting up PPP now is simple. You can just use KPPP.
I feel really sorry for many of you that can not figure this out but such is life. I have met too many that give up without trying or without even thinking. Linux is an OS and that means it requires thought. A computer is the most complex device man has even managed to create there is no reason it should be simple and none of them are. I have more people have problems with windows and mac machines becauase they look simple but in reality they are not and require lots of fixing. A little bit of time inveestments now and you can have an OS that doesn't need to be fixed all the time or even at all.
Well there is a solution for you. The newest version of pine can read HTML email by using Lynx. I know version 4.10 at least can do it. I have that version running on my computer and we upgraded the machines at work here also and it really helps. Finally I can read that annoying html email people send me and still use pine.
Actually I find Netscape is very stable it is IE that causes the problems. Now before you write back to this read the rest of what I have to say. IE is integrated in the OS and as such when you upgrade IE it modifies many other system components. Compenents other programs use. I have found that upgrading IE often causes IE to run better but just about kills netscape. The IE 5 upgrade and many of the bug fixes that MS keeps putting out for Windows seems to cause Netscape to become more unstable.
For the Linux platform they don't have that excuse and someone should beat them with a rubber hose over how unstable that browser is. I have never had another apped that crashed as often as Netscape on Linux.
In closing on the windows platform I think some of Netscape problems are caused by microsoft. On Linux and the other OSs I just think they don't know how to make a stable browser.
Loki does help OSS projects. They work on the SDL library which is something other projects are using. We use SDL for our clients for worldforge. http://www.worldforge.org
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Absolutely correct about Boulder. I live in Boulder also and most people would choke if they saw the number of SUVs here. Walking along side the street makes you feel quesy from the fumes released from those horrible SUVs. At least there are still many biker and pedestrian routes away from all the cars areas. I think every city needs things like the creek path.
It is a path that follows the boulder creek with lots of trees and the creek. It really cools off the area near it a lot. The air there also smells cleaner. It is also faster to get some places by bike or walking then by car since this path goes under some roads. The environment gains and so do people and it is good exercise.
You can encrypt however you want but if it can be played it can be copied. Under a unix you just replace the /dev/dsp or whichever file it is being played to with another file. The play the audio through their player. It will decrypt it and you have a clean digital source with no encryption. If you are using windows there are virtual sound card drivers that do the same thing.
All this music encryption is worthless. Since soundcards can not decrypt it must be sent to the sound card unencrypted. Since that is so you can easily send the data somewhere else.
They did innovate on one thing. They made microsoft BOB. I shudder to think of what the next product they really innovate on.
Yes one must not foget BOB. AFAIK the only original product microsoft ever made. If you don't know what I am talking about good please try and keep it that way. You really don't want to know what it is. It makes the paperclip look like a natural useful feature by comparison.
They already thought of this. They use rpmdrake. It will automatically take care of the dependencies for you. If you remove a program others depends on it will tell you what will also be removed and you can decide. The converse is also true for adding components. It really is very easy to do. You start rpmdrake and it builds a complete list of all rpms you have and where they are. If you elect to install a package it tells you which cd to insert and fixed all deps.
That is a slogan it is not teaching users to think Most of the ads I see for imacs portray them as being idiot proof boxes. I had a user call up after she bought an ibook. She knew nothing about macs but bought the computer because it matched her dress! She didn't want to read any instructions. She saw the ads and they said the computer was idiot proof. That is also what they told her in the store.
She didn't want to think. She told me she did not want to think. She just wanted her problem fixed which she caused and didn't want to be told how not to do it again. She told me it if my job to fix it everytime she breaks it. Of course that is wrong but that is a seperate issue.
You forget on windows by default it hides known file extensions. So the file is no something.vbs it is just something.
The other problem is you, I and many others may know vbs files are dangerous but most regular users do not. Even after all the information with the ILOVEYOU problem people still clicked on vbs files at the university here no matter how many times they were told not to. That is why we now mangle file names of executable content when they are received here. That makes the person renamed the file to execute it and to get that info they have to read the instructions. These steps have radically cut down on the problems we have with this type of content.
Look around you. You can't realy on human intelligence because most people choose not to think. Most computer problems are very simple but users don't want to think. I have had to explain to the same person 20 times that when the comptuer says "Press enter to continue" that means press the enter button. That is not a hard concept but it requires at least reading skills and this person was working on her PhD in some humanities field. People are capable of thinking but they have bought into the Apple and Microsoft hype that computers don't require thought so they refuse to think.
In windows two buttons are very useful. Example right click on network neighborhood and click properties. The RMB is a lot more useful then most people think because they don't know the power of using it.
Linux(aggr) is misleading. If there is a root exploit in bind it would get reported and fixed in redhat, mandrake, suse, debian, slackware, etc. That is one root exploit but it gets counted 5 times.
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
As for the apps company developing for Linux or *BSD, I suggest you hand an average computer user a copy of Red Hat and ask him to
install it. He'll be using it as a coaster within the hour.
I am not sure when they last time you looked at Redhat or Mandrake was but we seem to be using very different version. I have had mac users with almost zero experience get it all installed and running just fine. Same with windows users. The new ones are far easier to set up then windows and when they are installed they are ready to go and you don't have to play with them any more. Also the new mandrake comes with autoirpm you might want to look up what that thing can do. It is very impressive.
It is frustrating for one reason. People do not remain newbies forever. If you are used to a powerful, flexible system and have to give it up for a newbie friendly environment then you have lost something in the end. Those usability studies fail to take into account long term usage. Many programs are hard to learn but easy to use.
I will always take a harsh learning curve easy to use program over the reverse. That is why I can't stand using a mac. Yeah it works great for a novice user but if you need to do something outside the design of the os you are screwed. That is why I like vi more then many other programs. Yes it is hard to learn but easy to use once you learn it.
I think what you are looking for is BeOS. That is a very fast and efficient os. Need to check the hardware compatibility list again to see if my hardware is supported. If only nvidia has opensource their driver then I could have great 3d under that. I would kill windows for that in a heartbeat.
Oh well someone will release a good 3d card for linux soon with open drivers or the nvidia card will get tossed for a g400.
That issue about only one thing opening /dev/dsp as a linux limitation is not correct. Just to test it I have opened 3 mp3s and am playing all of them under kde right now. All of them are told to use /dev/dsp so thereis no esd they are running through. The key is I have a sblive which has very nice linux drivers right now. They support 32 similatenous uses of /dev/dsp at a time. AFAIK this is only true of the sblive.
Linux is not the thing keeping more cards from doing this the drivers and the capability of the cards is.
That method does not work with W2K. It keeps a copy of all system files so if you delete those it puts them back immediately. You have to get rid of the dllcache folder also. Then you can delete the files and ignore the warnings windows gives.
:(
The so called "feature" is called windows file protection. It keeps a backup of every system file in the dllcache directory and if you delete the file or overwrite it with a differnt one than is in that cache windows will replace it for you without prompting. On one of the machines I had to clean the virus off of this directory was about 300 megs.
This auto replace feature alone makes me feel real happy I use linux. Just have to support windows.
As a side note that is why every windows 2000 machine I have seen still has solitaire and minesweaper on them. They are considered to be system files.
Well it seems some distros have already thought of that. I installed mandrake 7.0 and it installed just openssh and for mail uses postfix. No telnetd, inetd, etc.
More new distros are doing that now. As I have said before usually by the time someone spots a problem with linux someone else has released a solution.
I use the remote features of x constantly. I run apps from my home machine at work. I run apps from on of my linux boxes with no monitor on my other box. The remote features of X are the most important features for what I do.
Just ssh to the machine and it forwards x automatically and compresses it. Then run any x program. I do this to lost of machines all the time. It is really useful. It would be very uncommon for me not to have things being remote displayed from several machines on my machine.
Yes, the United States does not have a clean history. However, come to think of it, name ONE country that does. The idea behind our right to bear arms is to provide a means to rise up against our government should the need ever arise. It has happened once in our history, and had our ancestors been denied the right to bear arms, the Revolutionary War would have been short lived indeed. I've talked about this with numerous friends and classmates. Some of our best debates were the results. However, what it came down to, 9 times out of 10, was WHY we needed this right. Most of the time, the argument was given that, as a "civilized" society, we would not need to ever rebel again. I'm sorry, but I have always found that to be a naive. Not even Alan Greenspan can predict the future. The foundation of American society is our Constitution, Bill of Rights and the Amendments that follow. When you start undermining those, you start taking away our rights and freedoms, and THAT is unacceptable.
Darn I could have sworn I just did that with RedHat 6.1. I popped in my cd of RPMs and the installer came up and I selected the packages I want. It works that way for CDs and other stuff also. If you have an autoplay file on the disk it can start a regular instaler also.
That is why you install xkill and give it an icon on the desktop. That is a very simple solution to that problem and I think most users can understand something called kill with a skull and crossbones.
I disagree.
I have converted a lot of people over to linux that are having no problems. They saw it on my computer and they decided they wanted it on theirs also. In every case not one has had a problem installing it. Mostly because a little common sense is done. You check the HCL for the distribtuion you are trying to install if all things are supported then you should have no problems installing it. I can install Linux far faster then I can install NT and I have installed NT many more times.
With the newest version of RedHat 6.1 you just select KDE for a desktop and all the programs are placed on the menus. It will autodetect all your hardware and you should be just fine. You don't have to go to the commandline for anything if you don't want to. I can drop in the staroffice CD and it opens the CD on the desktop and then you click on the setup icon in the linux folder. If you put in a redhat CD of RPMS it will scan the disk for packages and give you a menu to choose packages from. It even has an autoupdate program now to make things even easier.
Linux does have a learning curve but for those I have helped it has not been a problem. If you go into it expecting to have to read something and do a little thinking it is remarkably easy to use. 9 times out of 10 the most logical way for something to be done is the way it has been done. Even setting up PPP now is simple. You can just use KPPP.
I feel really sorry for many of you that can not figure this out but such is life. I have met too many that give up without trying or without even thinking. Linux is an OS and that means it requires thought. A computer is the most complex device man has even managed to create there is no reason it should be simple and none of them are. I have more people have problems with windows and mac machines becauase they look simple but in reality they are not and require lots of fixing. A little bit of time inveestments now and you can have an OS that doesn't need to be fixed all the time or even at all.
Well there is a solution for you. The newest version of pine can read HTML email by using Lynx. I know version 4.10 at least can do it. I have that version running on my computer and we upgraded the machines at work here also and it really helps. Finally I can read that annoying html email people send me and still use pine.
Actually I find Netscape is very stable it is IE that causes the problems. Now before you write back to this read the rest of what I have to say. IE is integrated in the OS and as such when you upgrade IE it modifies many other system components. Compenents other programs use. I have found that upgrading IE often causes IE to run better but just about kills netscape. The IE 5 upgrade and many of the bug fixes that MS keeps putting out for Windows seems to cause Netscape to become more unstable.
For the Linux platform they don't have that excuse and someone should beat them with a rubber hose over how unstable that browser is. I have never had another apped that crashed as often as Netscape on Linux.
In closing on the windows platform I think some of Netscape problems are caused by microsoft. On Linux and the other OSs I just think they don't know how to make a stable browser.
And I hope it never does have a Microsoft BOB equivalent. Not all mistakes have to be repeated. :)
Loki does help OSS projects. They work on the SDL library which is something other projects are using. We use SDL for our clients for worldforge. http://www.worldforge.org
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