There's a program called AbanQ, formerly known as FacturaLUX, which works quite well in a POS. However, it is oriented mainly to the Spanish market and has little U.S. support, I'm afraid:-(
I, too, would like to see some success rate figures for these attacks. I'm not sure, however, that this constant SSH knocking comes from bots rather than programs run on purpose... Do you have some info on that?
Sure, at that point you can still do the retarded thing and go "ha ha, so the full install didn't fit and they had to strip it down", but may I point out that the average Linux distro is even bigger than the full XP? SuSE Linux for example (to use an example from everyone's favourite, Novell) comes on a DVD or more than half a dozen CDs. Compressed. So that wouldn't fit there either.
May I point out that the average Linux distro you mention comes with one or more of each of these: word processor, presentation manager, spreadsheet, graphics manipulation software, HTTP and FTP server, development tools, CD&DVD burning software, IRC client, P2P,... Please tell me where can you find a Windows XP DVD that includes all of these on the base install and for the same price, because the OS on its own doesn't have much use for me.
That should suit Apple just fine, for they have never cared to sell consumer computers at affordable prices (don't they always say that it's the features and design that matter?:-)
Yea, Microsoft's crap may sometimes be buggy and have security issues but at the same time I'll chalk that up to user error. Turn on your firewall, turn on autoupdate, get a virusscanner, stop downloading stupid shit, etc.
So you mean the average user has to do *all of this* to get Microsoft software running fine? God, and I though configuring sendmail was tough!
Apache 1.3 is a well established product, with over 65% of the market share. It is important that security flaws are quickly found, fixed and patched everywhere, to avoid possible exploits (esp. worms) from spreading and choking the net. I'm sure you can think of good examples of why this is good practice;-)
I've never had that kind of problem with my G400. I use a similar machine with an NVIDIA card and they start X in about the same time. The Matrox card also plays movies more smoothly with MPlayer using the built-in mga_vid driver, both in X and the framebuffer.
BTW, if any of you think closed source drivers are not that bad, try Linux in a non-x86 platform...:(
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The FreeBSD realation with Apple is technically one-sided, Apple benefits, FreeBSD doesn't.
Well, I thought that was what the BSD license's for. You write code, a company comes in, takes it, does whatever suits them without any need of giving back. If you want a reciprocal relationship, license the code under the GPL.
Whether it will be of much use like the France - Britain connection is maybe less than obvious. I Like going to the UK via the tunnel (I live in Denmark), but only a very limited amount of people outside Spain and Morocco will choose to travel through the tunnel as air travel is much cheaper these days.
You should see the traffic jams we have in Spain every summer when all African people who live in Europe (mainly Spain and France) return to their homelands by car.
I think you can go up to about 60GB that way, any more and you'll need a tool like Partition Magic.
... or mkdosfs -F 32, which is what I had to use to format my new 60GB drive when Windows 2000 refused to do so with a "Could not finish format" message.
with the correct video capture device loaded (e.g. bttv), video cable plugged to the video input, sound cable to the soundcard, and you obtain a 640x480 DivX with MP3 stereo audio, on the fly, using a 600MHz+ machine:-)
"Most" = Kylix, and sorry but it totally sucks. I really expected Borland to do better than a patched-up version of the Windows tools so it can run under Linux. FYI, I've tried to run the Personal version on a variety of systems (except for the "official" Mandrake 9, under which it is certified to run, but it shouldn't make such a big difference, should it?) and it ALWAYS crashes.
And yes, I know man, and its HTML-ized version (executing "#topic" under KDE) is just fine for looking up specific functions whose name you already know. Now tell me... how do I find out the procedure for accomplishing some task if I don't know the functions involved? In Windows you have categories under which to look.
Developing in a windows environment, even with something like cygwin or Visual Studio.NET just plain sucks compared to actually being in linux.
How is this? Sorry but having coded for many years using Borland's tools in Windows I found it very very difficult to adapt to Linux development: no context-sensitive help, no organized documentation (yes, lots of documentation, but no "central" organized index which means a research job for a fucking function declaration), no intellisense, no autocompletion, and having to resort to home-brewed makefiles is just a pain in the ass.
Could you please explain which tools are you using for development, so I can use them too and make my life easier?:-)
I think that by current spam technology, having a reply is proof that the address is active. So, instead of getting less spam, you would be getting *more* (yes, as a user you might never read it but it may collapse the mail server, especially since it will bounce back spam).
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There's a program called AbanQ, formerly known as FacturaLUX, which works quite well in a POS. However, it is oriented mainly to the Spanish market and has little U.S. support, I'm afraid :-(
Getting that to run on Linux would be great. Being able to support the OpenDocument standard as well... priceless!
I know a couple of people who'd save hours a day if they didn't have spider solitaire a click away
But... KDE includes an app named Patience which lets you play many kinds of solitaires, including Spider :-)
I, too, would like to see some success rate figures for these attacks. I'm not sure, however, that this constant SSH knocking comes from bots rather than programs run on purpose... Do you have some info on that?
May I point out that the average Linux distro you mention comes with one or more of each of these: word processor, presentation manager, spreadsheet, graphics manipulation software, HTTP and FTP server, development tools, CD&DVD burning software, IRC client, P2P,... Please tell me where can you find a Windows XP DVD that includes all of these on the base install and for the same price, because the OS on its own doesn't have much use for me.
Or they will just provide a 'java-all' metapackage so that users can keep just the functionality they desire ;-)
That should suit Apple just fine, for they have never cared to sell consumer computers at affordable prices (don't they always say that it's the features and design that matter? :-)
Yea, Microsoft's crap may sometimes be buggy and have security issues but at the same time I'll chalk that up to user error. Turn on your firewall, turn on autoupdate, get a virusscanner, stop downloading stupid shit, etc.
So you mean the average user has to do *all of this* to get Microsoft software running fine? God, and I though configuring sendmail was tough!
Apache 1.3 is a well established product, with over 65% of the market share. It is important that security flaws are quickly found, fixed and patched everywhere, to avoid possible exploits (esp. worms) from spreading and choking the net. I'm sure you can think of good examples of why this is good practice ;-)
i dont know if wine will ever be "popular", but it is very useful for my needs, and i thank the developers for that
Remember that, with OSS Projects, the best way to thank them is to contribute (either with bug reports, code, documentation or money).
nice to see it's growing, zeitgeist [google.com] still shows a pitiful 1% though
On the other hand, the Netcraft Web Server Survey shows 67% of the machines running Apache, and most of them run Linux or FreeBSD
Has anybody tried Kurumin games (in Portuguese)? AFAIK, it is a game-oriented distro, based on Knoppix.
I've never had that kind of problem with my G400. I use a similar machine with an NVIDIA card and they start X in about the same time. The Matrox card also plays movies more smoothly with MPlayer using the built-in mga_vid driver, both in X and the framebuffer.
BTW, if any of you think closed source drivers are not that bad, try Linux in a non-x86 platform... :(
The FreeBSD realation with Apple is technically one-sided, Apple benefits, FreeBSD doesn't.
Well, I thought that was what the BSD license's for. You write code, a company comes in, takes it, does whatever suits them without any need of giving back. If you want a reciprocal relationship, license the code under the GPL.
Are the free lawyers actually any good in Norway?
Well, maybe they got this silly notion from their Finnish neighbours that some things (like sex or software) are better free :-)
Whether it will be of much use like the France - Britain connection is maybe less than obvious. I Like going to the UK via the tunnel (I live in Denmark), but only a very limited amount of people outside Spain and Morocco will choose to travel through the tunnel as air travel is much cheaper these days.
You should see the traffic jams we have in Spain every summer when all African people who live in Europe (mainly Spain and France) return to their homelands by car.
I think you can go up to about 60GB that way, any more and you'll need a tool like Partition Magic.
... or mkdosfs -F 32, which is what I had to use to format my new 60GB drive when Windows 2000 refused to do so with a "Could not finish format" message.
This User Friendly strip :-)
Yes, like Schrödinger's cat, Windows won't be dead until you get near your computer and check by yourself :-)
Nice. FYI, since you posted your comment on /. price has risen to $19.95.
I don't know any good guide on how to do this, but using MPlayer under Linux you "just" issue the following command:
mencoder -tv on:driver=v4l:input=1:width=640:height=480:adevice =/dev/dsp:amode=0 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=128 -o myvideo.avi
with the correct video capture device loaded (e.g. bttv), video cable plugged to the video input, sound cable to the soundcard, and you obtain a 640x480 DivX with MP3 stereo audio, on the fly, using a 600MHz+ machine :-)
"Most" = Kylix, and sorry but it totally sucks. I really expected Borland to do better than a patched-up version of the Windows tools so it can run under Linux. FYI, I've tried to run the Personal version on a variety of systems (except for the "official" Mandrake 9, under which it is certified to run, but it shouldn't make such a big difference, should it?) and it ALWAYS crashes.
And yes, I know man, and its HTML-ized version (executing "#topic" under KDE) is just fine for looking up specific functions whose name you already know. Now tell me... how do I find out the procedure for accomplishing some task if I don't know the functions involved? In Windows you have categories under which to look.
Developing in a windows environment, even with something like cygwin or Visual Studio.NET just plain sucks compared to actually being in linux.
How is this? Sorry but having coded for many years using Borland's tools in Windows I found it very very difficult to adapt to Linux development: no context-sensitive help, no organized documentation (yes, lots of documentation, but no "central" organized index which means a research job for a fucking function declaration), no intellisense, no autocompletion, and having to resort to home-brewed makefiles is just a pain in the ass.
Could you please explain which tools are you using for development, so I can use them too and make my life easier? :-)
I think that by current spam technology, having a reply is proof that the address is active. So, instead of getting less spam, you would be getting *more* (yes, as a user you might never read it but it may collapse the mail server, especially since it will bounce back spam).
The article carefully explains the choices made. However, we find the following line at the end of it:
Special thanks to AMD, NVIDIA, TYAN, and Ryan Ku at Rage3D.com for helping me with this project.
Well, maybe they had no influence at all, but then how come that most of the chosen products match this 'special thanks' line?