Right, my point wasn't whether or not his idea was going to work based on the simplicity of the service, it was the fact that he purposely made downloading songs for free sound very difficult to glamorize his service, which I thought was unnecessary. The service obviously is a success, and file sharing is obviously "easy enough."
His angle on people 'feeling right about paying for the songs' was a better approach, IMO.
The other thing we told the record companies was that if you go to Kazaa to download a song, the experience is not very good. You type in a song name, you don't get back a song -- you get a hundred, on a hundred different computers. You try to download one, and, you know, the person has a slow connection, and it craps out. And after two or three have crapped out, you finally download a song, and four seconds are cut off, because it was encoded by a ten-year-old. By the time you get your song, it's taken fifteen minutes. So that means you can download four an hour. Now some people are willing to do that. But a lot of people aren't.
Of course, stated like this, anyone would choose the simple, streamlined Apple downloads. But this is not really how people (with broadband... those that matter on P2P) do it. Most times they search for a song, get 100 hits. They double click on 3 or 4 that are 'likely' to be good, and then just check them as they hit the HD. The first one that satisfies them stops their other downloads. Many people can get a top 40 song in under a minute with today's sharing apps, and it doesn't require one to be particularly savvy. Hell, I remember showing my father how Napster worked back its infancy, and he seemed to have no problems getting his songs quickly and efficiently (little junk).
[shrug] I think that Steve Jobs could have posed this much better. He loses some credibility and comes off more like a salesman (which I know he is, save your flames).
That is true. Explore2fs can read ext[23] great. However, it doesn't assign it a drive letter or anything, its just a standalone app. (A nice, standalone app).:-D
Reason 1: It Can't do what MP3 player A can do Reason 2: It Can't do what MP3 player B can do Reason 3: It Can't do what MP3 player C and D can do Reason 4: It Can't do what MP3 player E can do Reason 5: It Can't do what MP3 player F can do
Obviously Player A cannot Do what B-F can do either. This is a wishlist, not a realistic review.
I mean this post in the utmost respect, but this type of logic about the rootkits never made any sense to me. Can someone explain it?
Sure, someone with root can really destroy a machine. However, the data that I -CANT- get back is in/home/myusername. All of that is available to be deleted or wrecked upon the crashing of an app running under my name. Wouldn't a program running under your name do as much damage to -things you care about- as a program running as "yourusername" ?
I agree... Did he even bother to right click on the toolbar? I don't use KDE at home (I run IceWM), but I'd imagine that whatever you use to place 'daily use' buttons on the KDE bar has to be done in a similar fashion.
The problem with this is the same problem that Windows Update has. People don't want to bother with it. I can't remember how many times I've seen that pop up on my friend's screen and seen them choose "Remind Me Later" because they don't want to restart. I don't even bother the say anything anymore... it's an inconvenience that people aren't willing to deal with.
Sure, most "apt-get upgrade"'s don't have to reboot (unless the kernel changes), but some might require leaving X at least (including all of the running X apps). If this is the case, many people will choose "later" over and over. It's all about the user, unfortunately.:-/
The premises of his entire argument are not very sound. He talks about how Linux is safer because it is difficult to run an attachment without knowing how to save it / set execute permissions, and how you can 'only screw up your/home directory' since you don't run as root.
_Really_ think about this one. In order for Linux to become as popular and intuitive [shiver] as Windows, things like "setting execute permissions" need to be automatic. Installing apps should be relatively simple as well. Look at Lindows! You run as root. Tie that in with a couple of "intuitive" features in a mail client, and you have a handful of rootkit'ed machines.
Plus, what if everyone magically rolled to Redhat 7.3 when it came out, ditching Windows all together? Since then, we've had two SSH vulnerabilities. Sure, those using Linux applied the necessary patches / updates and we're all safe again... probably within minutes.
But "Regular User Guy" won't apply that patch. Multiply that by a million users. Now you have millions of machines out there running a rootable linux box.
OSes will have vulnerabilities. They need to be patched. It ALWAYS comes down to the user. Will Linux be 'safer' than Windows (i.e. less vulnerabilities / worms)? Possibly. But it certainly has nothing to do with its difficulty to become root or inconveniences of a mail application.
Not to back up Windows or anything (I'm a vim nut), but Wordpad automatically handles \n-\r\n problems. It also replaces text way faster than Notepad... it's good to remember if you need a text editor really quick but are stuck on a Windows box.
so microsoft clamps down. then a whole shit load of people have to shell out $300 for their operating system.
Umm, no.
People took a key generator, found one that was compatible with the XP Install CD, and then put Service Pack 1 on top. Do you really think that those using the Devil's Own key gave up that quick? Get a clue.
I gave wxWindows a hefty chance, and came up pretty short. I wrote a medium sized utility for Linux, Win32, and OSX, and although it ran in all three versions decently, every crash I had always traced back to the wx libraries, in all three cases.
Mind you, I usually blame it on me (perhaps I was sending the libraries bad inputs), but 90% of the time it was something that'd be from an wx example (straight off Wiki even), and while it'd run great in [oneplatform] or [anotherplatform], it wouldn't work in the third. I gave up trying to balance it and just made a few wrappers of my own.
wxWindows is a decent design (I like their classes quite a bit), but I had too many problems with it.
Don't get me wrong... I agree with you that bash is superior to cmd. However, Cygwin makes bash fully available in Windows. I have it set up at work (need Win32 for my work programming), and have my HOME set to "c:\documents and settings\myloginname". When I run bash, I get ~/Desktop, ~/My\ Documents, etc.
While I am not knocking your idea of the computer with VNC, I can't see how this is a better choice than Win4Lin if you are just running an application. If you need to debug specifically against Win2K or need to write an NT Service, then definitely, but if it's just an application, why bother to have two machines sucking up your electricity?
You'd be considerably further than any "filthy Windows box" if you didn't have one in your house, and instead allowed Win4Lin to house your Windows apps. I mean, you -are- running Windows-in-a-window as it is (with VNC). At least this way you have local access to the files (no SMB needed), one machine to backup, less need for room in the office, less electricity, not to mention that Win4Lin is cheaper than the windows box (no matter how cheap it was).
Like I said already, your setup sounds like it works great, but I can't see how it wouldn't suit you based on your explanation of what you do.
I was a huge fan of Win4Lin 3.0, and I thought it was well worth the money. Over the course of time, I got frustrated with it because of a few problems I had with the printer port (probably my error, not W4L3), and Winsock2 based apps (like Kazaa Lite, etc). I didn't want to use Vnet and have a second IP in use.
Netraverse sent me an email with the $29.99 upgrade price, and I jumped on it once I saw the Winsock2 upgrade stuff. I wanted to note that for some reason, I had to uninstall Win4Lin 3.0 because it kept complaining that the code (Netraverse GAVE me) wasn't an "upgrade code", but a "full install" code.
I installed it fresh, and 'lo and behold, my printer worked flawlessly, and Kazaa Lite no longer hangs for indefinite amounts of time. It's just really fast and stable, and a nice thing to have in a time of need.
Nowadays though, I don't really run it that often. Its there in case I need to print something a boss sends in Office (that must LOOK IDENTICAL on the printed page, something OO can't mimic right), or for Kazaa or Photoshop (its what I am used to from school).
Bottom Line: Win4Lin 5.0 is the best route for perfect compatibility and speed of Win32 applications. I use WineX for the games (Diablo II in incredible with it!)
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Am I missing the point? Why not just use:
btdownloadcurses.py --max_upload_rate N
Secunia rated the vulnerability as "moderately critical."
How the &#$& is something "moderately critical"? That's like "somewhat hideous" or "vaguely humongous."
Right, my point wasn't whether or not his idea was going to work based on the simplicity of the service, it was the fact that he purposely made downloading songs for free sound very difficult to glamorize his service, which I thought was unnecessary. The service obviously is a success, and file sharing is obviously "easy enough."
His angle on people 'feeling right about paying for the songs' was a better approach, IMO.
Out of curiosity, does Apple carry the songs you are looking for?
The other thing we told the record companies was that if you go to Kazaa to download a song, the experience is not very good. You type in a song name, you don't get back a song -- you get a hundred, on a hundred different computers. You try to download one, and, you know, the person has a slow connection, and it craps out. And after two or three have crapped out, you finally download a song, and four seconds are cut off, because it was encoded by a ten-year-old. By the time you get your song, it's taken fifteen minutes. So that means you can download four an hour. Now some people are willing to do that. But a lot of people aren't.
... those that matter on P2P) do it. Most times they search for a song, get 100 hits. They double click on 3 or 4 that are 'likely' to be good, and then just check them as they hit the HD. The first one that satisfies them stops their other downloads. Many people can get a top 40 song in under a minute with today's sharing apps, and it doesn't require one to be particularly savvy. Hell, I remember showing my father how Napster worked back its infancy, and he seemed to have no problems getting his songs quickly and efficiently (little junk).
Of course, stated like this, anyone would choose the simple, streamlined Apple downloads. But this is not really how people (with broadband
[shrug] I think that Steve Jobs could have posed this much better. He loses some credibility and comes off more like a salesman (which I know he is, save your flames).
That is true. Explore2fs can read ext[23] great. However, it doesn't assign it a drive letter or anything, its just a standalone app. (A nice, standalone app). :-D
This is a ridiculous article.
Reason 1: It Can't do what MP3 player A can do
Reason 2: It Can't do what MP3 player B can do
Reason 3: It Can't do what MP3 player C and D can do
Reason 4: It Can't do what MP3 player E can do
Reason 5: It Can't do what MP3 player F can do
Obviously Player A cannot Do what B-F can do either. This is a wishlist, not a realistic review.
I mean this post in the utmost respect, but this type of logic about the rootkits never made any sense to me. Can someone explain it?
/home/myusername. All of that is available to be deleted or wrecked upon the crashing of an app running under my name. Wouldn't a program running under your name do as much damage to -things you care about- as a program running as "yourusername" ?
Sure, someone with root can really destroy a machine. However, the data that I -CANT- get back is in
Then he'd be stuck with the menubar taking the upper portion of his screen, instead.
The Media Library was backported to the 2.9x series of WinAmp. Give it a shot.
I agree ... Did he even bother to right click on the toolbar? I don't use KDE at home (I run IceWM), but I'd imagine that whatever you use to place 'daily use' buttons on the KDE bar has to be done in a similar fashion.
The problem with this is the same problem that Windows Update has. People don't want to bother with it. I can't remember how many times I've seen that pop up on my friend's screen and seen them choose "Remind Me Later" because they don't want to restart. I don't even bother the say anything anymore ... it's an inconvenience that people aren't willing to deal with.
:-/
Sure, most "apt-get upgrade"'s don't have to reboot (unless the kernel changes), but some might require leaving X at least (including all of the running X apps). If this is the case, many people will choose "later" over and over. It's all about the user, unfortunately.
The premises of his entire argument are not very sound. He talks about how Linux is safer because it is difficult to run an attachment without knowing how to save it / set execute permissions, and how you can 'only screw up your /home directory' since you don't run as root.
_Really_ think about this one. In order for Linux to become as popular and intuitive [shiver] as Windows, things like "setting execute permissions" need to be automatic. Installing apps should be relatively simple as well. Look at Lindows! You run as root. Tie that in with a couple of "intuitive" features in a mail client, and you have a handful of rootkit'ed machines.
Plus, what if everyone magically rolled to Redhat 7.3 when it came out, ditching Windows all together? Since then, we've had two SSH vulnerabilities. Sure, those using Linux applied the necessary patches / updates and we're all safe again... probably within minutes.
But "Regular User Guy" won't apply that patch. Multiply that by a million users. Now you have millions of machines out there running a rootable linux box.
OSes will have vulnerabilities. They need to be patched. It ALWAYS comes down to the user. Will Linux be 'safer' than Windows (i.e. less vulnerabilities / worms)? Possibly. But it certainly has nothing to do with its difficulty to become root or inconveniences of a mail application.
Not to back up Windows or anything (I'm a vim nut), but Wordpad automatically handles \n-\r\n problems. It also replaces text way faster than Notepad... it's good to remember if you need a text editor really quick but are stuck on a Windows box.
wxWindows uses GTK+ bindings... it's going to look like a GTK+ app.
Perhaps the reason you couldn't connect to the SMTP port of your problematic mail server was not telnet's fault, but the problematic mail server's?
postfix stop; postfix start
kthxbi
Active Directory in your home network? Why would you ever want/need that? I'm not flaming you, I'm genuinely curious.
A binary linked to xlib, of course!
[stands there in complete silence with a cheesy smile on his face then leaves the room]
so microsoft clamps down. then a whole shit load of people have to shell out $300 for their operating system.
Umm, no.
People took a key generator, found one that was compatible with the XP Install CD, and then put Service Pack 1 on top. Do you really think that those using the Devil's Own key gave up that quick? Get a clue.
"trying to get a browser to do the same job is like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut."
... a sledgehammer would crack a nut quite efficiently.
That analogy seems backwards to me
More like "using a fork to break up a cinderblock."
I gave wxWindows a hefty chance, and came up pretty short. I wrote a medium sized utility for Linux, Win32, and OSX, and although it ran in all three versions decently, every crash I had always traced back to the wx libraries, in all three cases.
Mind you, I usually blame it on me (perhaps I was sending the libraries bad inputs), but 90% of the time it was something that'd be from an wx example (straight off Wiki even), and while it'd run great in [oneplatform] or [anotherplatform], it wouldn't work in the third. I gave up trying to balance it and just made a few wrappers of my own.
wxWindows is a decent design (I like their classes quite a bit), but I had too many problems with it.
Don't get me wrong ... I agree with you that bash is superior to cmd. However, Cygwin makes bash fully available in Windows. I have it set up at work (need Win32 for my work programming), and have my HOME set to "c:\documents and settings\myloginname". When I run bash, I get ~/Desktop, ~/My\ Documents, etc.
The 150 dollar part still applies.
So your point is that your company -needs- both Windows and Linux. This applies to the article, how?
While I am not knocking your idea of the computer with VNC, I can't see how this is a better choice than Win4Lin if you are just running an application. If you need to debug specifically against Win2K or need to write an NT Service, then definitely, but if it's just an application, why bother to have two machines sucking up your electricity?
You'd be considerably further than any "filthy Windows box" if you didn't have one in your house, and instead allowed Win4Lin to house your Windows apps. I mean, you -are- running Windows-in-a-window as it is (with VNC). At least this way you have local access to the files (no SMB needed), one machine to backup, less need for room in the office, less electricity, not to mention that Win4Lin is cheaper than the windows box (no matter how cheap it was).
Like I said already, your setup sounds like it works great, but I can't see how it wouldn't suit you based on your explanation of what you do.
I was a huge fan of Win4Lin 3.0, and I thought it was well worth the money. Over the course of time, I got frustrated with it because of a few problems I had with the printer port (probably my error, not W4L3), and Winsock2 based apps (like Kazaa Lite, etc). I didn't want to use Vnet and have a second IP in use.
Netraverse sent me an email with the $29.99 upgrade price, and I jumped on it once I saw the Winsock2 upgrade stuff. I wanted to note that for some reason, I had to uninstall Win4Lin 3.0 because it kept complaining that the code (Netraverse GAVE me) wasn't an "upgrade code", but a "full install" code.
I installed it fresh, and 'lo and behold, my printer worked flawlessly, and Kazaa Lite no longer hangs for indefinite amounts of time. It's just really fast and stable, and a nice thing to have in a time of need.
Nowadays though, I don't really run it that often. Its there in case I need to print something a boss sends in Office (that must LOOK IDENTICAL on the printed page, something OO can't mimic right), or for Kazaa or Photoshop (its what I am used to from school).
Bottom Line: Win4Lin 5.0 is the best route for perfect compatibility and speed of Win32 applications. I use WineX for the games (Diablo II in incredible with it!)