Yes, most countries make it hard and expensive to get a license. It gets expensive quick if you flunk a few times, and since there is a theoretical part and a practical part you can flunk on both... Most people I know have flunked either one at least once. I know, I did...
I didn't say we're superior. I said "in Europe every one can drive stick". That is fact, not superiority or anything. You interpret it that way. That says more about you than about me.
Only in the Northern America and apparently Australia. In Europe, you can bet that everyone can drive sticks. Technically, you can do your driving license on a automatic, but it usually reserved for the physically disabled and you only are allowed to drive automatics with such a license.
Look to play it, you must run Windows, to run Windows means that you almost certainly have malware already. To me that makes it a non issue. Want to game? Have a Windows partition for that specifically and consider it "nukable-from-orbit". Do important stuff on sane platforms. That's how I see it, and as such, SecuROM is no big deal, even with the rather overblown claims of it being malware. It might be, and if it is, it's still no big deal as you isolate it from important things. At least slashdotters should, and normal people have malware regardless.
Yes, I don't get this. They give a game away for free and instead of saying "Fun! Thank you EA" many people are complaining about the DRM. Yes, there is DRM, but you're running Windows to play it, so that really is the least of your problems. I grabbed it. I don't even have Windows in active use, but should I ever have tons of free spare time and want to play a game, I can now install it on a Games-Dedicated-Windows partition.
Why would you think that? I use it here for internal web apps, I don't care about their youporn visits and I don't want that on my network. So, if they're at home, let them connect to the VPN, access the internal apps and do their work and wank on the side using their own Internet connection.
Yeah, as long as you ignore "NVidia Optimus". I have a AMD-A6 based desktop, it works fine with the occasional glitches, but the only thing that is truly stable and works for everything is called "Intel". There simply is no contest.
Others, because it still works and they have no reason to waste money on a new machine. I know at least two such people. Me? I have WinXP Pro in a Xen DomU, just in case I need something windowsy. It's always on, and I connect to it using RDP over an SSH tunnel. Sure, I rarely use it, but it's there should I need it and it's a better solution than having a XP VM on each of my Linux machines.
At work I have a Win7 VM in VirtualBox, it is horribly, horribly slow. The XP VM on the same VirtualBox host, is snappy and quick.
XP might be dead, but it's makes a rather well preserved zombie.
You can have all the laws of physics explain how things move etc, but how will they ever explain this consciousness?
May I introduce you to the concept of "argument from ignorance". It might be well that it can be perfectly explained by natural laws, just you and me are not (yet) able to.
I can't even prove beyond all doubt that others experience this phenomenon and are conscious. And I can't prove my consciousness to others. I just have to take it by faith that these "imaginary friends" called "you" and "I" exist.
If you go the solipsism route, nothing is certain any more. Even those physical laws you say explain how things move (etc), become totally uncertain in a solipsistic worldview. After all, it could all be just your mind and nothing truly exists.
I had done all of the above in AVG Firewall on Windows, and it was very easy to do.
That's the part I actually doubt. All firewalls configured by normal users I've seen in my lifetime were so much of a mess, that they had more holes than a swiss cheese on were so strict they became unusable
I'm also quite surprised about "ranges known to be used by malware, marketers, etc...". If those were really even halfway public knowledge, there would be no malware of "marketing" problem on the Internet.
This one should get his medication, and think his strategy over.
How is that going to work in a house that has abysmal cell reception? I build a new house and due to the higher grade isolation (I think, it's a guess. May be the floor heating too, that's a lot of water), cell reception is extremely bad. Outside, it's fine. Of course, I didn't know this and my alarm system is GSM based. They had to install the system under the roof, because it the basement it simply wouldn't work.
Yes, only if I want to access *.shark on the internet. That kinda sucks no? Blacking out a whole subsection of the internet because they now suddenly have gTLD that are words which you could freely use before. You're not missing anything. It's just that is someone buys that, I'll have to give up using it locally, or I blackout a part of the Internet. My users (well, okay, in this case only my wife.... but you get the point) won't like that.
These generic TLDs were not a good idea, not now, not never...
Why? Because it's only authoritative for the local domain of course. I do also have public authoritative DNS servers, but I don't want them to serve private IP addresses. So, at home my domain is called simply "sharks" (buying that goes like, what? 50k€). It is not public, but authoritative locally. Now, of course, I could take one of the domains I own, and use that. I don't really like that idea. My hosts are named after shark species, so you have mako.sharks, hammerhead.sharks, etc... mako.jawtheshark.com really isn't the same.
Perhaps it makes it slightly clearer. Contrary to popular belief, an authoritative server does not need to be authoritative for the public internet. Locally is just fine. Just don't use stuff that clashes with the public DNS system.
if the other LAN members communicate with "linux.home" an entry is supposed to be already present in "hosts" (like) files
Host files? Are you serious? Nobody outside the tech world uses those and even the techs don't use it except for very very specific cases. For the normal users there is DNS-SD (Zeroconf) and anybody more technical is better off simply setting up a DNS server with authoritative zone for the local network (Which is why I hate these new TLDs... My domain of choice might be sold someday and I'll have to give it up using locally... having to use the boring.local or.home), with the added benefit of having a real DNS server on site becoming totally independent of the ISP DNS (well, unless you want to make a forwarding one).
This is a problem of their making. The generic TLDs shouldn't ever have been introduced.
I have several.lu domains... Nobody ever flinches when I use them. Well some are quite surpised if I dictate my email as firstname@surname.lu but they're never surprised about the.lu part, just that it's actually possible to have such an email.
Country TLDs are quite popular outside of the US.
I occasionally use the Linux client to support (very) remote laptop users at our company. I run Linux, they either run Windows or OS X. Works fine. It feels a bit like a wine recompile, but it does the job just fine.
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Yes, most countries make it hard and expensive to get a license. It gets expensive quick if you flunk a few times, and since there is a theoretical part and a practical part you can flunk on both... Most people I know have flunked either one at least once. I know, I did...
I didn't say we're superior. I said "in Europe every one can drive stick". That is fact, not superiority or anything. You interpret it that way. That says more about you than about me.
Only in the Northern America and apparently Australia. In Europe, you can bet that everyone can drive sticks. Technically, you can do your driving license on a automatic, but it usually reserved for the physically disabled and you only are allowed to drive automatics with such a license.
Why? It's a temporary promotion that expires 31th July. After that they're most likely going to ask money for it again. Their game, their rules.
The promotion also ends 31st July, from what I read. After that they'll charge money again, I must presume.
Look to play it, you must run Windows, to run Windows means that you almost certainly have malware already. To me that makes it a non issue. Want to game? Have a Windows partition for that specifically and consider it "nukable-from-orbit". Do important stuff on sane platforms. That's how I see it, and as such, SecuROM is no big deal, even with the rather overblown claims of it being malware. It might be, and if it is, it's still no big deal as you isolate it from important things. At least slashdotters should, and normal people have malware regardless.
I say "Thank you EA".
Why would you think that? I use it here for internal web apps, I don't care about their youporn visits and I don't want that on my network. So, if they're at home, let them connect to the VPN, access the internal apps and do their work and wank on the side using their own Internet connection.
Yeah, as long as you ignore "NVidia Optimus". I have a AMD-A6 based desktop, it works fine with the occasional glitches, but the only thing that is truly stable and works for everything is called "Intel". There simply is no contest.
Have you checked out VueScan? Works with an amazing range of scanners.
At work I have a Win7 VM in VirtualBox, it is horribly, horribly slow. The XP VM on the same VirtualBox host, is snappy and quick.
XP might be dead, but it's makes a rather well preserved zombie.
May I introduce you to the concept of "argument from ignorance". It might be well that it can be perfectly explained by natural laws, just you and me are not (yet) able to.
If you go the solipsism route, nothing is certain any more. Even those physical laws you say explain how things move (etc), become totally uncertain in a solipsistic worldview. After all, it could all be just your mind and nothing truly exists.
PuTTY has an installer. Has had it for ages.
That's the part I actually doubt. All firewalls configured by normal users I've seen in my lifetime were so much of a mess, that they had more holes than a swiss cheese on were so strict they became unusable
I'm also quite surprised about "ranges known to be used by malware, marketers, etc...". If those were really even halfway public knowledge, there would be no malware of "marketing" problem on the Internet.
This one should get his medication, and think his strategy over.
How is that going to work in a house that has abysmal cell reception? I build a new house and due to the higher grade isolation (I think, it's a guess. May be the floor heating too, that's a lot of water), cell reception is extremely bad. Outside, it's fine. Of course, I didn't know this and my alarm system is GSM based. They had to install the system under the roof, because it the basement it simply wouldn't work.
So, I assume something like the Ferrari Mondial was not a sports car when you were a kid?
These generic TLDs were not a good idea, not now, not never...
I need to read better. You understood fully what I meant... The possibility of a clash is real and very very annoying.
Perhaps it makes it slightly clearer. Contrary to popular belief, an authoritative server does not need to be authoritative for the public internet. Locally is just fine. Just don't use stuff that clashes with the public DNS system.
Host files? Are you serious? Nobody outside the tech world uses those and even the techs don't use it except for very very specific cases. For the normal users there is DNS-SD (Zeroconf) and anybody more technical is better off simply setting up a DNS server with authoritative zone for the local network (Which is why I hate these new TLDs... My domain of choice might be sold someday and I'll have to give it up using locally... having to use the boring .local or .home), with the added benefit of having a real DNS server on site becoming totally independent of the ISP DNS (well, unless you want to make a forwarding one).
This is a problem of their making. The generic TLDs shouldn't ever have been introduced.
Perhaps we are indeed witnessing the downfall of the PC era.
I host my own... Same difference ;-)
I have several .lu domains... Nobody ever flinches when I use them. Well some are quite surpised if I dictate my email as firstname@surname.lu but they're never surprised about the .lu part, just that it's actually possible to have such an email.
Country TLDs are quite popular outside of the US.
Un "merdeux" is pretty much a shithead.
I occasionally use the Linux client to support (very) remote laptop users at our company. I run Linux, they either run Windows or OS X. Works fine. It feels a bit like a wine recompile, but it does the job just fine.