I prefer to call it security through unavailability. The unavailability of IE that is.
Go Galeon!
Security and a fast browser: Great stuff
Built on top of a free OS: Priceless.
I've read that some poster tried to update the Kernel with this tool from the GUI. I can only say "you moron!".
As the guy said, he was new to this. The point he was making and he is correct in this is as follows;
If you are not supposed to use MandrakeUpdate for a kernel upgrade, then it should not have appeared there in the first place. I use Mandrake as well and almost made the same mistake myself. Luckily a small alarm bell rang in my head and I went and read the website.
Now, while I applaud Mandrake for this tool and I concede that it works wonderfully, these kinds of situations still need to be resolved.
I fully agree with you. That way at least you know what is happening on your drive.
Now I can already feel the heat building up as people are slamming those P, A, T, and H keys, but really guys. Surely there must be a way to get past that? There are a lot of clever people out there and somebody must have come up with a viable alternative to the path.
How about this for an idea?
The "path" is/bin for example.
If the program you are looking for is not in/bin, then it automatically looks in all directories below/bin. Thus I can still have/bin/myapp and/bin/yourapp and we are both happy?
The point is not that most people want all the ads to go away. Most of us with a brain realize that the ads are required. If the ads are there in a nonintrusive way, then people will be more likely to click on them if they are relevant.
Take weather.com for example. Massive ads for some or other casino every time I visit. Big waste of bandwidth for me - big waste of resources for them. Big waste all round, because I am not interested in gambling at all.
Now, after I have not clicked on an ad for the 700th time, the advertiser should slowly start getting a message. "Hmmm, maybe this guy does not like gambling. How about we try some car adverts on him?" As they have a cookie to track me already, how difficult can this be!?
Amen to that.
I recently started using the GIMP and came across an article entitled "Grokking the GIMP" (http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/)
This has to be one of the best pieces of documentation I have ever seen - period.
The trick here is that a knowledgable user wrote the documentation. (Not the programmer.)
Sad to say, but most of us programming types simply suck when it comes to documentation. To remedy this we need to encourage other people with the necessary presentation skills to write the documentation as they use the products.
This should produce a much better product in the long run.
I think the point he was trying to make with the filtering software is when others filter on your behalf. When you control the filter (like the/. comments filter) then you decide and this is ok. When we get to the point where CmdrTaco decides what we see and what we don't, then filtering will not longer be useful and will become a hindrance instead.
Wow, we need to get together in the office tomorrow! Surely there cannot be 2 companies running such identically idiotic schemes out there. Could there?
My 6 foot long drill-bit has a hole in the tip so I can drill down, wander downstairs, tie the wire on and pull it back.
How the heck do you start drilling with a 6ft long drill bit? Do you work on an oil rig when you are not busy networking your house, because I sure cannot imagine using a 6ft drill bit comfortably.
Your cube has walls!?
Over here the "walls" only go waist high, so the question is why even bother?
But then again, these days kids have it easy. In my days we got up 3 hours before we went to bed and hammered away at dos-prompts to get the work done.
I worked as a Civil engineer for 7 years before switching over to IT fulltime 5 years ago. I am afraid that all these analogies are wrong. A *LOT* of engineering projects run over budget and *MOST* of them run over time.
The only real difference is that most clients don't come to you halfway through building the bridge and tell you to use a suspension system instead of plain old columns. (If they do, the engineer politely tells them to go away as they should have come up with those ideas during the design phase)Therein lies the biggest problem facing software engineering. The client always, repeat always wants to add or change features as you go along. This is OK if it comes during the design phase and not the build phase which is unfortunately when most clients first really realise what they want.
Exactly how does it benefit them by adding more strain to their bandwith (with resulting increased costs) with adverts? Will the income from the ads really offset the additional costs of the extra bandwidth requirements?
Simply go to Doubleclick's website and click on optout. This means that you can safely allow their cookie on your machine as they cannot track you anymore. Simple really!
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I prefer to call it security through unavailability. The unavailability of IE that is.
Go Galeon!
Security and a fast browser: Great stuff
Built on top of a free OS: Priceless.
No, really it is priceless...
Once things are wonderfully automated, what do the people that used their braun instead of their brains...
Maybe the people that used their automated braun can start using their manual Philips with their newfound brawn
Sorry, couldn't resist that one.
P.S. Braun + Philips make razors in cause anybody unfamiliar with these brand names is wondering what this is all about.
Look here, it is being implemented as we speak.
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I've read that some poster tried to update the Kernel with this tool from the GUI. I can only say "you moron!".
As the guy said, he was new to this. The point he was making and he is correct in this is as follows;
If you are not supposed to use MandrakeUpdate for a kernel upgrade, then it should not have appeared there in the first place. I use Mandrake as well and almost made the same mistake myself. Luckily a small alarm bell rang in my head and I went and read the website.
Now, while I applaud Mandrake for this tool and I concede that it works wonderfully, these kinds of situations still need to be resolved.
I fully agree with you. That way at least you know what is happening on your drive.
/bin for example.
/bin, then it automatically looks in all directories below /bin. Thus I can still have /bin/myapp and /bin/yourapp and we are both happy?
Now I can already feel the heat building up as people are slamming those P, A, T, and H keys, but really guys. Surely there must be a way to get past that? There are a lot of clever people out there and somebody must have come up with a viable alternative to the path.
How about this for an idea?
The "path" is
If the program you are looking for is not in
hmmm?
The point is not that most people want all the ads to go away. Most of us with a brain realize that the ads are required. If the ads are there in a nonintrusive way, then people will be more likely to click on them if they are relevant.
Take weather.com for example. Massive ads for some or other casino every time I visit. Big waste of bandwidth for me - big waste of resources for them. Big waste all round, because I am not interested in gambling at all.
Now, after I have not clicked on an ad for the 700th time, the advertiser should slowly start getting a message. "Hmmm, maybe this guy does not like gambling. How about we try some car adverts on him?" As they have a cookie to track me already, how difficult can this be!?
Amen to that.
I recently started using the GIMP and came across an article entitled "Grokking the GIMP" (http://gimp-savvy.com/BOOK/)
This has to be one of the best pieces of documentation I have ever seen - period.
The trick here is that a knowledgable user wrote the documentation. (Not the programmer.)
Sad to say, but most of us programming types simply suck when it comes to documentation. To remedy this we need to encourage other people with the necessary presentation skills to write the documentation as they use the products.
This should produce a much better product in the long run.
No, you are confusing ratings with filters here. The posting might be rated -1, but I still get the right to decide if I filter it out of my news.
I think the point he was trying to make with the filtering software is when others filter on your behalf. When you control the filter (like the /. comments filter) then you decide and this is ok. When we get to the point where CmdrTaco decides what we see and what we don't, then filtering will not longer be useful and will become a hindrance instead.
Wow, we need to get together in the office tomorrow! Surely there cannot be 2 companies running such identically idiotic schemes out there. Could there?
My 6 foot long drill-bit has a hole in the tip so I can drill down, wander downstairs, tie the wire on and pull it back.
How the heck do you start drilling with a 6ft long drill bit? Do you work on an oil rig when you are not busy networking your house, because I sure cannot imagine using a 6ft drill bit comfortably.
Your cube has walls!?
Over here the "walls" only go waist high, so the question is why even bother?
But then again, these days kids have it easy. In my days we got up 3 hours before we went to bed and hammered away at dos-prompts to get the work done.
I worked as a Civil engineer for 7 years before switching over to IT fulltime 5 years ago. I am afraid that all these analogies are wrong. A *LOT* of engineering projects run over budget and *MOST* of them run over time. The only real difference is that most clients don't come to you halfway through building the bridge and tell you to use a suspension system instead of plain old columns. (If they do, the engineer politely tells them to go away as they should have come up with those ideas during the design phase)Therein lies the biggest problem facing software engineering. The client always, repeat always wants to add or change features as you go along. This is OK if it comes during the design phase and not the build phase which is unfortunately when most clients first really realise what they want.
Exactly how does it benefit them by adding more strain to their bandwith (with resulting increased costs) with adverts? Will the income from the ads really offset the additional costs of the extra bandwidth requirements?
Simply go to Doubleclick's website and click on optout. This means that you can safely allow their cookie on your machine as they cannot track you anymore. Simple really!