I agree completely with your suggestion. I don't actually know anything about what the Lindows tools do; I was just responding to the post that mentioned always running as root. If I were to consider recommending Lindows to someone, I'd certainly check it out first to discover things like this.
I use Gentoo and it doesn't bother me at all that there are no prompts to make user accounts and the like since it's expected that a user knows the issues. It's not like Gentoo has an installer anyway, so it's a moot point. However, Lindows is definitely targeted at GNU/Linux newbies and "computer novices," to quote their page, so it's in an entirely different category.
If Lindows expects users to run as root all the time, I consider that a serious problem. That's even worse than MS OSes, though they're not too good at emphasizing security either. On the other hand, I was extremely impressed when I saw that OSX gives ordinary user accounts no special privileges except the equivalent of being in sudoers.
You're absolutely right that choice is the strength of Free Software and in this case, Linux. I use Reiser3 for most of my filesystems, but tmpfs for/tmp. I figure that it's probably good for what it's named for.;) Well, really, it's that I never have very many or large files in/tmp and it doesn't need to persist over reboots.
"Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)"
Literature Lit"er*a*ture, n. F. litt'erature, L.
litteratura, literatura, learning, grammar, writing, fr.
littera, litera, letter. See Letter.
1. Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.
2. The collective body of literary productions, embracing the
entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in
writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or
writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a
particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given
country or period; as, the literature of Biblical
criticism; the literature of chemistry.
3. The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or
expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction
from scientific treatises and works which contain positive
knowledge; belles-lettres.
4. The occupation, profession, or business of doing literary
work. --Lamp.
You must be referring to definition three. I usually think of definition two. It just goes to show you that you learn something new every day.
You seem to be forgetting about the rights reserved to the states:
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
This is one of the things that makes this a federal system, rather than a monolithic republic.
Don't forget the attitude indicator (the instrument that indicates the pitch and roll angles); it's essential in low visibility. Also, flaps and spoilers are control surfaces, not indicators. If you want to talk about control surfaces, the most essential ones are elevator, ailerons, and rudder.
It did seem quite ironic to me as well. I guess we have a complete moral reversal: Disney says it's OK to hijack, murder and pillage on the high seas, but copyright infringement is no joking matter and don't you dare copy that mouse.
The primary, essential IPC (inter-process communication) mechanism X uses is the socket. If the client and server are on the same machine, they can use local (aka Unix domain) sockets, which are typically very efficient. Over an IP network, they use TCP sockets. Other encapsulations exist as well, such as DECnet. Since the socket is the basis for the X protocol, it is inherently less tied to a particular operating system or type of machine than most windowing systems.
Your first and second wishlist points are goals of Fresco, which is a very interesting project and will be useful if it ever gets any applications.
No, the opposite of "deep black" is "shallow black," genius. It's the kind of black one finds when wading, rather than diving to the profundities. Man, get with the program.
I think the word "octet" is used universally (definitely in English) to make it abundantly clear that one is talking about a chunk of eight bits. On most machines, a "byte" is an octet, but on some, it isn't.
You're absolutely right. It has nothing to do with the current political climate. He was a communist, though not a Marxist or Leninist (sp?) or Trotskyite (sp?). The early church was definitely a commune, one that worked. That is, it was a groups of like minded people sharing their possessions.
It seems that communism can work well in the small. It's when you try to apply it at the state or national level that it always screws things up.
Maybe the problem is really that any system on too large a scale becomes corrupt. A capalist system develops more naturally than a communist one, so it lasts longer on a large scale, but eventually, it falls apart as well.
Read the post again; I'm pretty sure dbretton meant Central America (CentroAmérica). Where in the Central US are the people "attempt[ing] to identify themselves with (South American/European) counterparts?"
So what about borrowing a music CD or movie DVD? What about showing a movie to ten of your friends or playing music from a CD at a party? These are situations where someone uses copyrighted material without an explicit license.
I rent movies on DVD and VHS. Do I have some sort of implicit license to the material on them? Is there an inherent difference between borrowing someone's music CD and getting an song through Gnutella?
This is not a troll; I don't think these issues have been sufficiently addressed.
I think you're exactly right. I have only tried Perl a couple of times and haven't very attracted to the language, but I'm finding myself more and more interested in the culture and its leader.
He lost you? He should have had you there. He was also saying that Gconf is needless complex. The article was about how it should be possible to edit Gconf stuff with vi.
So, how would Ext2 deal with this? AFAIK, it wouldn't, meaning there could be complete gibberish left in/etc/passwd. Is that a bug in Ext2?
I'm sure that complete data journalling gives somewhat better reliability than what ReiserFS currently does, but it's a lot better than traditional filesystems. I don't think it's fair to call something a bug when it's just a lack of functionality. ReiserFS claims to have reliable metadata, not contents.
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Indeed. Whenever I think about MAD, I reflect on how mad it really is and marvel that God hasn't let us vaporize ourselves yet.
I agree completely with your suggestion. I don't actually know anything about what the Lindows tools do; I was just responding to the post that mentioned always running as root. If I were to consider recommending Lindows to someone, I'd certainly check it out first to discover things like this.
I use Gentoo and it doesn't bother me at all that there are no prompts to make user accounts and the like since it's expected that a user knows the issues. It's not like Gentoo has an installer anyway, so it's a moot point. However, Lindows is definitely targeted at GNU/Linux newbies and "computer novices," to quote their page, so it's in an entirely different category.
If Lindows expects users to run as root all the time, I consider that a serious problem. That's even worse than MS OSes, though they're not too good at emphasizing security either. On the other hand, I was extremely impressed when I saw that OSX gives ordinary user accounts no special privileges except the equivalent of being in sudoers.
What does that have to do with Debian?
You're absolutely right that choice is the strength of Free Software and in this case, Linux. I use Reiser3 for most of my filesystems, but tmpfs for /tmp. I figure that it's probably good for what it's named for. ;) Well, really, it's that I never have very many or large files in /tmp and it doesn't need to persist over reboots.
That may well be true (I don't know, since I haven't read them), but that doesn't make them any less obscure.
You must be referring to definition three. I usually think of definition two. It just goes to show you that you learn something new every day.
This is one of the things that makes this a federal system, rather than a monolithic republic.
Don't forget the attitude indicator (the instrument that indicates the pitch and roll angles); it's essential in low visibility. Also, flaps and spoilers are control surfaces, not indicators. If you want to talk about control surfaces, the most essential ones are elevator, ailerons, and rudder.
A book is just one medium for literature. Is that what you mean? Other media for literature are magazines, ebooks, and the web.
It did seem quite ironic to me as well. I guess we have a complete moral reversal: Disney says it's OK to hijack, murder and pillage on the high seas, but copyright infringement is no joking matter and don't you dare copy that mouse.
The primary, essential IPC (inter-process communication) mechanism X uses is the socket. If the client and server are on the same machine, they can use local (aka Unix domain) sockets, which are typically very efficient. Over an IP network, they use TCP sockets. Other encapsulations exist as well, such as DECnet. Since the socket is the basis for the X protocol, it is inherently less tied to a particular operating system or type of machine than most windowing systems.
Your first and second wishlist points are goals of Fresco, which is a very interesting project and will be useful if it ever gets any applications.
No, the opposite of "deep black" is "shallow black," genius. It's the kind of black one finds when wading, rather than diving to the profundities. Man, get with the program.
I think the word "octet" is used universally (definitely in English) to make it abundantly clear that one is talking about a chunk of eight bits. On most machines, a "byte" is an octet, but on some, it isn't.
You're absolutely right. It has nothing to do with the current political climate. He was a communist, though not a Marxist or Leninist (sp?) or Trotskyite (sp?). The early church was definitely a commune, one that worked. That is, it was a groups of like minded people sharing their possessions.
It seems that communism can work well in the small. It's when you try to apply it at the state or national level that it always screws things up.
Maybe the problem is really that any system on too large a scale becomes corrupt. A capalist system develops more naturally than a communist one, so it lasts longer on a large scale, but eventually, it falls apart as well.
Read the post again; I'm pretty sure dbretton meant Central America (CentroAmérica). Where in the Central US are the people "attempt[ing] to identify themselves with (South American/European) counterparts?"
Are you sure you don't mean these twins? I'm pretty sure they're the origin of the name of the singing duo.
Sure you can have extra cool points if that's what you're going for. Extra cool points all around!
Now that's an obscure sig. It's not every day that one sees a quote from Ralph Wiggum translated into another language.
So what about borrowing a music CD or movie DVD? What about showing a movie to ten of your friends or playing music from a CD at a party? These are situations where someone uses copyrighted material without an explicit license.
I rent movies on DVD and VHS. Do I have some sort of implicit license to the material on them? Is there an inherent difference between borrowing someone's music CD and getting an song through Gnutella?
This is not a troll; I don't think these issues have been sufficiently addressed.
I think you're exactly right. I have only tried Perl a couple of times and haven't very attracted to the language, but I'm finding myself more and more interested in the culture and its leader.
It sounds to me like Larry cleverly combined the two and made it less tiresome.
Keywords are a bad idea? Do you want to use inodes directly?
He lost you? He should have had you there. He was also saying that Gconf is needless complex. The article was about how it should be possible to edit Gconf stuff with vi.
So, how would Ext2 deal with this? AFAIK, it wouldn't, meaning there could be complete gibberish left in /etc/passwd. Is that a bug in Ext2?
I'm sure that complete data journalling gives somewhat better reliability than what ReiserFS currently does, but it's a lot better than traditional filesystems. I don't think it's fair to call something a bug when it's just a lack of functionality. ReiserFS claims to have reliable metadata, not contents.