Have they fixed that problem with the screensaver menu yet?
I have never seen that problem. Maybe it is related to your specific video card. I enjoy the screen savers. I have been using Breezy Badger and loving it. I think it's nice the screen saver uses the logon password instead of using a seprate screen saver password. Nice.
...I just wonder if this one will finally auto-detect the POS onboard video card in the old Gateway tower that now acts as the in house file server. Still stuck in 640 x 480 when I actually have to plug around on it directly.
Instead of Ask Slashdot, download the live CD and try it risk free.
Most of my past Linux experiance has been silent because it had a hard time finding the various embeded on the motherboard sound cards. I tried the Live CD on several old machines I had and it found everything except the win-modem. I was impressed. It even runs on some of my old laptops and set the LCD for the proper resolution. I was on the net with no troble at all.
Even the fn key worked for switching monitors, hibernating, and setting contrast & brightness.
They must be joking. I can run a LIVE Ubuntu, Red Hat, SUSE or other live disrto off CD which includes a full office suite and includes drivers for most any sound card, printer, NIC, etc. Try that with XP anything and MS Office.. They are way out of line claiming it's got bloat like XP.
I think the compaint is it comes bundled with KDE or Gnome and more than 4 games.
Anybody have a bootable LIVE XP distro I can try to compare?
Personally, I'd love to migrate us to Linux, but until I can replace CAD/CAM systems, accounting packages, design software, drawing packages, etc... that's simply not going to happen, and until it does happen I'm faced with the job of keeping our MS systems secure.
I solved that problem. I have job specific machines. The days of a general purpose computer used for everything under the sun is over. Sure I have a machine for Turbo Tax, and other Windows specific applications.
My web browsing machine is a Ubuntu machine, not the Windows sitting duck. I use a NAS drive that is common to all machines. All shares are password protected. Some shares are read only (MP3's etc.).
The Windows machine is not used for general internet browsing. The Internet machine does not have permissions to install malware.
from grnadparent they will seek other, safer ways to share
from parent Sure, they will download them when they're available, hey, if it's free, why not?
Even if the Internet is shut down, people have social circles. My kids are on dial-up (so am I). That only slows them down just a little. Sneaker net is very big in the schools. They bring home lots of stuff that has a parental advisory that I would never let them buy. The social net bypasses all web filters and parental controls. If parents can't control it, an external orginisation such as the RIAA hasn't got a chance. They can't see and be everywhere. P-P is infiltrated online only. They can't touch the offline P-P sneakernet.
The only thing the **AA has done is managed to get some taxes on some media, which breaks their claims. If I pay a royalty on a music CDR, you bet I'm going to put music on it and not feel guilty. They have set a price and I found it acceptable. Don't charge me a media royalty tax and then try to tell me I can't record music on it.
My new Minidisc from Sony is more open than their previous models. Works great - musicians, HiMd with Mic Input ! Great sound, on the cheap. Lk4
I use an already owned laptop and a free copy of CDex. It supports line in recording at all your favorite bitrates. No need to buy a new piece of hardware (unless you need a RCA or 1/4 inch to 1/8th inch adaptor).
Browse/. with a live CD distro. The links and nasties don't have a chance to write anything anyplace. A reboot takes care of any drive by attack.
I use ebuntu. It even finds the wireless NIC and sound in my laptop just fine.
The hard drive is reserved for the other OS that won't run off a live CD and the banking and other tied in things that keep me from dumping the other OS.
One cavot, since that format is not a DRM format, you will be presented with opt-in-listening. You will need to confirm you want to listen to the possibly pirated music for each song. You can avoid this by converting your files to the DRM format native to the player.
As an added bonus, the player software will not repeat your popular songs too often. See the site for details on this feature.
The live Edubuntu CD is out. By default the network connections are disabled. After booting, select the interface you want to use, on my laptop I have the choice of eter0 wireless, ether1 wired, or ether2 modem. Nice. After choosing static or or another setup, choose Activate. Boom, online with no problems.
Everything works, including sound.
The best part is the live CD has an install icon. If they like it, the live CD is also the install CD. Nice touch to help the migration.
The Edubuntu distro has lots of kid friendly games and stuff in addition to the regular full ubuntu.
On a side note. I like the program Kstars. I just found out it can connect and drive my telescope motor drive. This is great if you want to track something other than the limited planets & sun & moon list in most telescope mounts. Even many of the satelties are listed if you want to watch and track one.
In the US, we missed the last eclipse. Even though the event was below our horizon, I could still watch it real time..
I haven't found a free Windows program with the same features.
The site could use more bandwidth. I'm sitting on an enterprise broadband connection, but could only manage dial-up speeds of 14.2KB/second from them. We must have slashdoted them.
Have you ever noticed how many people are still running Windows 2000 Professional? There really are a slew of them
What's funny is my new (purchased used) laptop came with Win 2K pro installed. It's my first copy of Win 2K. I bought the laptop because I wanted to use a PC based light console using the Open DMX USB interface. The software desk uses Windows and the driver for the interface is Windows.
There is no reason to change the OS for the intended application. Win 2K crashes less than Win 98SE which is important for a live event.
When shopping for a PC I use the rule of thumb of buy the hardware and software nessary to do the job.
For E-mail, IM, Web Browsing, letters, & such, a Linux PC works fine. I have one. For special apps and hardware, then find what will run it, and use it. Win 2K Pro will run the desk just fine. The laptop is portable and fits on the desk in the sound booth. There are reasons to run older versions of Windows. I have no reason to upgrade the OS. There is no reason to spend the bucks on a OS upgrade or the latest hardware. This is not a net attached machine.
A used $295.00 laptop does the job just fine with the original OS.
What is so important that you Linux hippies feel the need to encrypt? Do you have something to hide?
Yes I do have something to hide.
For starters to prevent banking identity theft, I use various passwords instead of a publicly searchable mother's maiden name.
First thing to hide is the list of all my CC's, expiration dates, phone numbers to call in case of theft, and the password used for each instead of mother's maiden name.
Second is past years Turbo Tax tax returns. Those are a gold mine for identity thieves including SSN DOB Dependants Property address etc. You bet that goes into encrypted storage.
3rd is Website log-ins. I visit Slashdot often enough to remember my password. The same is not true for my UBS account.
4th is a central repository of registered software including ID number and keys.
5th is a property inventory list including make model serial number date of purchase etc. You many not be interested in my laptop serial number, but I don't need anyone with an axe to grind listing it with the local police as stolen. Can you prove you own your laptop if someone else lists it as stolen? If it is stolen, can you provide a list including model, serial number for both police and insurance?
This is not a complete list.
Just what do you have on your computer that you don't mind me looking into?
I'm sure there is something you'd rather not have public.
I'll second this. I've had a number of prospective employers read my blog, find my CV and only then contact me to ask if I would be interested in a full-time job. Having a good online presence can be invaluble when finding a job and puts you into a far better negotiating position (they admit they need you, instead of you admitting you need them).
That is how I got my last job in the Cayman Islands. They got my ISCET exam results. Sent me an offer. I didn't even send in an application.
Unfortunately, I should have Googled them. They needed lots more techs. It turned out to be a 6 day a week job on call 24 X 7. After 3 years I tossed in the towell and moved on. Life on the island was OK, but there was too much work to notice.
My current employer is great. Family friendly and flexible. It works out much better if you have a life outside work.
Just a note. The drive is simply an off the shelf AT IDE drive. Nothing special. I don't think drive locking is used at all. I think this because if you make a second partition (pool in SimpleShare speak) and encrypt it, after a reboot the unencrypted share shows right up. The shares in the encrypted partition do not mount until you visit the admin page and enter the encryption key. Then they also mount.
Read the Toms Networking review. It has a lot more details.
ATA drives use a locking mechanism that is not actually on the disk,
So what. I could care less they could unlock the drive. What I care about is the filesystem is still encrypted and remains that way even if they take the platters out later. This is not a drive lock. It is an encrypted file system. You make a partition and encrypt the entire partition. SimpleShare uses the name pool for partition. Folders in the partition (pool) can not be mounted until the encryption key is entered. Entering the key does not decrypt the partition. It just allows mounting the encrypted partition and shares then appear on the lan as normal smb or NFS shares. Power failure = lost key. Partition is encrypted.
The biggest thing that would get *me* off the Internet is the monthly $50 cost. Cable is the only option where I live, and Adelphia won't give us a break.
Ya got a phone? Got a modem? I can't get broadband for under $60.00/month. My router feeds right into an Actiontech Dual PC modem. That's right. I don't have a cable or DSL modem. I am using a dial up modem. I leach ISO's at work on a thumb drive. It's much faster than any residential broadband solution. I downloaded ubuntu ISO in 3 minutes flat.
Slashdot Mirror
Have they fixed that problem with the screensaver menu yet?
I have never seen that problem. Maybe it is related to your specific video card. I enjoy the screen savers. I have been using Breezy Badger and loving it. I think it's nice the screen saver uses the logon password instead of using a seprate screen saver password. Nice.
...I just wonder if this one will finally auto-detect the POS onboard video card in the old Gateway tower that now acts as the in house file server.
Still stuck in 640 x 480 when I actually have to plug around on it directly.
Instead of Ask Slashdot, download the live CD and try it risk free.
Most of my past Linux experiance has been silent because it had a hard time finding the various embeded on the motherboard sound cards. I tried the Live CD on several old machines I had and it found everything except the win-modem. I was impressed. It even runs on some of my old laptops and set the LCD for the proper resolution. I was on the net with no troble at all.
Even the fn key worked for switching monitors, hibernating, and setting contrast & brightness.
What percentage of open source code is rootkits?
What percentage of rootkits are open source? The last few I got did not come with source code or a GPL EULA.
Teh proof that Linux is bad for everybody. :P
Maybe I'm mistaken, but aren't most rootkits for another operating system?
Seldom does the MAC address get past the router. Dynamic IP's take care of the rest. Your best bet is the Windows GUID.
Then their IP is captured in my server's web log.
Great, now you know the other Starbucks they went to.
It's not fat. The architecture is just big-boned.
....Ducks...
It's not FAT, but it can mount a FAT32 filesystem.
They must be joking. I can run a LIVE Ubuntu, Red Hat, SUSE or other live disrto off CD which includes a full office suite and includes drivers for most any sound card, printer, NIC, etc. Try that with XP anything and MS Office.. They are way out of line claiming it's got bloat like XP.
I think the compaint is it comes bundled with KDE or Gnome and more than 4 games.
Anybody have a bootable LIVE XP distro I can try to compare?
If you have Cruise Control active, and you hit someone, can you claim against that?
Is this a joke or troll?
You can't set the cruise control at slow speeds. If you enguage auto park while on cruise control (above 20 MPH) then you have other problems.
The boot sector isn't overwritten first of all unless you specify /s
/MBR"
For windows.. Boot on recovery floppy. On the command line enter "FDISK
Then reboot and recover.
Personally, I'd love to migrate us to Linux, but until I can replace CAD/CAM systems, accounting packages, design software, drawing packages, etc... that's simply not going to happen, and until it does happen I'm faced with the job of keeping our MS systems secure.
I solved that problem. I have job specific machines. The days of a general purpose computer used for everything under the sun is over. Sure I have a machine for Turbo Tax, and other Windows specific applications.
My web browsing machine is a Ubuntu machine, not the Windows sitting duck. I use a NAS drive that is common to all machines. All shares are password protected. Some shares are read only (MP3's etc.).
The Windows machine is not used for general internet browsing. The Internet machine does not have permissions to install malware.
a lot of the ms strategy involves people not being exposed to linux and being able to make a comparison.
So to retaliate against all the free Linux ISO's out there, when is MS going to come out with a Live VISTA CD for users of Linux to try?
Oh, Vista would never fit on a CD.. Nevermind.
from grnadparent they will seek other, safer ways to share
from parent Sure, they will download them when they're available, hey, if it's free, why not?
Even if the Internet is shut down, people have social circles. My kids are on dial-up (so am I). That only slows them down just a little. Sneaker net is very big in the schools. They bring home lots of stuff that has a parental advisory that I would never let them buy. The social net bypasses all web filters and parental controls. If parents can't control it, an external orginisation such as the RIAA hasn't got a chance. They can't see and be everywhere. P-P is infiltrated online only. They can't touch the offline P-P sneakernet.
The only thing the **AA has done is managed to get some taxes on some media, which breaks their claims. If I pay a royalty on a music CDR, you bet I'm going to put music on it and not feel guilty. They have set a price and I found it acceptable. Don't charge me a media royalty tax and then try to tell me I can't record music on it.
My new Minidisc from Sony is more open than their previous models.
Works great - musicians, HiMd with Mic Input ! Great sound, on the cheap.
Lk4
I use an already owned laptop and a free copy of CDex. It supports line in recording at all your favorite bitrates. No need to buy a new piece of hardware (unless you need a RCA or 1/4 inch to 1/8th inch adaptor).
Capture to Wave or encode to MP3.
Browse /. with a live CD distro. The links and nasties don't have a chance to write anything anyplace. A reboot takes care of any drive by attack.
I use ebuntu. It even finds the wireless NIC and sound in my laptop just fine.
The hard drive is reserved for the other OS that won't run off a live CD and the banking and other tied in things that keep me from dumping the other OS.
Yes
One cavot, since that format is not a DRM format, you will be presented with opt-in-listening. You will need to confirm you want to listen to the possibly pirated music for each song. You can avoid this by converting your files to the DRM format native to the player.
As an added bonus, the player software will not repeat your popular songs too often. See the site for details on this feature.
The live Edubuntu CD is out. By default the network connections are disabled.
After booting, select the interface you want to use, on my laptop I have the choice of eter0 wireless, ether1 wired, or ether2 modem. Nice. After choosing static or or another setup, choose Activate. Boom, online with no problems.
Everything works, including sound.
The best part is the live CD has an install icon. If they like it, the live CD is also the install CD. Nice touch to help the migration.
The Edubuntu distro has lots of kid friendly games and stuff in addition to the regular full ubuntu.
On a side note. I like the program Kstars. I just found out it can connect and drive my telescope motor drive. This is great if you want to track something other than the limited planets & sun & moon list in most telescope mounts. Even many of the satelties are listed if you want to watch and track one.
In the US, we missed the last eclipse. Even though the event was below our horizon, I could still watch it real time..
I haven't found a free Windows program with the same features.
for when you get this at your place :
http://www.onzin.nl/internetdownload/ [onzin.nl]
The site could use more bandwidth. I'm sitting on an enterprise broadband connection, but could only manage dial-up speeds of 14.2KB/second from them. We must have slashdoted them.
Have you ever noticed how many people are still running Windows 2000 Professional? There really are a slew of them
What's funny is my new (purchased used) laptop came with Win 2K pro installed. It's my first copy of Win 2K. I bought the laptop because I wanted to use a PC based light console using the Open DMX USB interface. The software desk uses Windows and the driver for the interface is Windows.
There is no reason to change the OS for the intended application. Win 2K crashes less than Win 98SE which is important for a live event.
When shopping for a PC I use the rule of thumb of buy the hardware and software nessary to do the job.
For E-mail, IM, Web Browsing, letters, & such, a Linux PC works fine. I have one. For special apps and hardware, then find what will run it, and use it. Win 2K Pro will run the desk just fine. The laptop is portable and fits on the desk in the sound booth. There are reasons to run older versions of Windows. I have no reason to upgrade the OS. There is no reason to spend the bucks on a OS upgrade or the latest hardware. This is not a net attached machine.
A used $295.00 laptop does the job just fine with the original OS.
What is so important that you Linux hippies feel the need to encrypt? Do you have something to hide?
Yes I do have something to hide.
For starters to prevent banking identity theft, I use various passwords instead of a publicly searchable mother's maiden name.
First thing to hide is the list of all my CC's, expiration dates, phone numbers to call in case of theft, and the password used for each instead of mother's maiden name.
Second is past years Turbo Tax tax returns. Those are a gold mine for identity thieves including SSN DOB Dependants Property address etc. You bet that goes into encrypted storage.
3rd is Website log-ins. I visit Slashdot often enough to remember my password. The same is not true for my UBS account.
4th is a central repository of registered software including ID number and keys.
5th is a property inventory list including make model serial number date of purchase etc. You many not be interested in my laptop serial number, but I don't need anyone with an axe to grind listing it with the local police as stolen. Can you prove you own your laptop if someone else lists it as stolen? If it is stolen, can you provide a list including model, serial number for both police and insurance?
This is not a complete list.
Just what do you have on your computer that you don't mind me looking into?
I'm sure there is something you'd rather not have public.
I'll second this. I've had a number of prospective employers read my blog, find my CV and only then contact me to ask if I would be interested in a full-time job. Having a good online presence can be invaluble when finding a job and puts you into a far better negotiating position (they admit they need you, instead of you admitting you need them).
That is how I got my last job in the Cayman Islands. They got my ISCET exam results. Sent me an offer. I didn't even send in an application.
Unfortunately, I should have Googled them. They needed lots more techs. It turned out to be a 6 day a week job on call 24 X 7. After 3 years I tossed in the towell and moved on. Life on the island was OK, but there was too much work to notice.
My current employer is great. Family friendly and flexible.
It works out much better if you have a life outside work.
Just a note. The drive is simply an off the shelf AT IDE drive. Nothing special. I don't think drive locking is used at all. I think this because if you make a second partition (pool in SimpleShare speak) and encrypt it, after a reboot the unencrypted share shows right up.
The shares in the encrypted partition do not mount until you visit the admin page and enter the encryption key. Then they also mount.
Read the Toms Networking review. It has a lot more details.
ATA drives use a locking mechanism that is not actually on the disk,
So what. I could care less they could unlock the drive. What I care about is the filesystem is still encrypted and remains that way even if they take the platters out later. This is not a drive lock. It is an encrypted file system.
You make a partition and encrypt the entire partition. SimpleShare uses the name pool for partition. Folders in the partition (pool) can not be mounted until the encryption key is entered. Entering the key does not decrypt the partition. It just allows mounting the encrypted partition and shares then appear on the lan as normal smb or NFS shares. Power failure = lost key. Partition is encrypted.
I think you left some things out:
;-)
yup! What i'm not telling.
The biggest thing that would get *me* off the Internet is the monthly $50 cost. Cable is the only option where I live, and Adelphia won't give us a break.
Ya got a phone? Got a modem? I can't get broadband for under $60.00/month.
My router feeds right into an Actiontech Dual PC modem. That's right. I don't have a cable or DSL modem. I am using a dial up modem. I leach ISO's at work on a thumb drive. It's much faster than any residential broadband solution. I downloaded ubuntu ISO in 3 minutes flat.