Actually, you could probably use GnuPG now. There are already GnuPG/Windows integration tools. For instance WinPT . A part of WinPT is
WinPTEE, which integrates WinPT into Explorer, so you can right click on files to encrypt and such. Also on this site is a plug-in that allows integration with Outlook Express, GPGOE.
I believe all these projects are still considered Beta, and I'll admit that I've not used them (Linux User myself), but I'd suggest looking at them if you're security concious and want to convert to GnuPG.
> What operating systems and platforms do you personally use and which ones do you also use (and why)?
>MT: I use Linux for work and sometimes I use Windows to play games.
>I can't that you can blame him, personally I don't run windows, but I also don't play many games... However, almost all of the really good games at the moment are either console or PC only.
All I want to know is when did PC become synonymous with Windows? Personally, I run Linux on my Personal Computer.
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I know people who work for the company that leads Fuel Cell research (Avista Labs), and I've heard them say that the technology is not yet feasable for normal use. Sure, they've come a long way over the past few years, but the units are simply too expensive to be worth trying to market.
From what I've been reading the people in Hollywood, actually making the movies haven't embraced MS, if anything they've rebuked it and embraced and extended(In a Good Way even) Linux and *BSD.
The problem we've really had has been the Movie Distribution houses, and their stupid CSS scheme. The real problem with CSS is that if you use a 'standard' system (a dedicated player, or DVD drive in Windows), you are completely unaware that every time you buy and use a DVD you are supporting an unfair, and IMO illegal by Copyright Law piece of software.
Oh, well, there is nothing we can do about the masses, but we should be lobbying the politicians to change this.
Anyway, it doesn't seem that the Hollywood has succumbed to MS, so much as the movie distributors have given in to idiocy.
As others have already notices Bin Laden did two things, avoid electronic communication, and when he did use crypto, he certainly wouldn't be using back-doored software. So essentially, himself and the other terrorists wouldn't be slowed down, our American civil rights would be violated however.
Alright, now to the non-reduntant part of my post. On Tuesday, Tom Clancy was on CNN in the afternoon. CNN had Tom, because Tom wrote a book about terrorists chrashing a plane into the Capitol building, and killing both houses of Congress, and the President. Well, Tom said that the real problem we had in not seeing this coming is that the CIA employs some 20,000 people, and only about 800 of them are spooks. The only way to fight terrorism effectively is with a large, well-trained intelligence corps. We need at least twice, if not three or four as many spooks out in the field, infiltraiting these terrorist groups, so that we are aware of these plans before they something like Tuesdays events happen.
Cryptography isn't our problem, an incredibly small spy system is.
I thought that this was what GNOME and KDE were working towards. I mean they've even been working together to an extent when it comes to certain things, like copy/paste operations.
dmachine, not to be rude or anything, but most of what Africa needs isn't computers. There was a really interesting article about this in Linux Journal a few months ago. It is called "Algorithms in Africa", and it makes some very good points about the ways our Society and Africa's differ, and why computers may not be the best thing for most African's at this time.
Unless they plan to release a linux version of the client (something Blizzard hasn't ever expressed interest in). I won't be playing this MMORPG. Same goes for the Star Wars RPG, which I am more interested in.
I don't completely disagree with you. A person should not be allowed to hide behind Open Source in an attempt to shirk legal responsibility. However, IMO, the DeCSS case (don't know specifics about the other one, so I won't mention it) is one the Movie houses should lose.
Bunner wrote and released the DeCSS code not to promote Movie piracy, but to allow people to use the movies they'd purchased legally to be viewed on Operating Systems other than WindowsTM. True, he did key the encryption keys out of another DVD player, and tnat may not have been right, but Bunner was in no way trying to get free stuff, he was just trying to use something he legally purchased in the mannner in which it was meant to be used.
Remember a gun is not necessarily illegal, but it can be used in such a fashion. Just like Bunner's DeCSS code is not illegal, and his intended use is not, but how can Bunner be held responsible for what other people do?
Foxxtrot713 -- Just my Opinion, don't like it, don't bug me
Taco, the things that are happening in California are happening in Michigan, they just aren't as noticeable. If you know someone at your local power authority ask them how much the company is paying for electricity, it's probably more than 500% higher, they just aren't allowed to pass that change on to you, the consumer, like California Power companies are.
It does, and has since at least Mozilla M18 (I didn't use Mozilla before that). It's pretty easy to use, if the configuration doesn't go a tad slow (Mozilla is still being optimized).
QWERTY keyboards were designed because the keyboard and the typewriter are the same basic idea. The QWERTY setup was designed for typewriters to separate the most used keys so that the typing heads wouldn't jam.
The QWERTY design was used for keyboards because that was the standard for typewriters, and typists were the going to be the natural audience for keyboards. The QWERTY design may take some getting used to, but it is by no means 'inferior'
All right, that makes sense. Like I had said, I am fairly new to Debian, mostly because 99% of the linux books out there focus on Red Hat. So this is the first time I've watched this cycle
Why aren't they just calling it Frozen like before? Any members of the Debian Project care to comment?
Actually I am glad to see it coming out so quickly. I think that was a shorter period than Potato spent in unstable, but than again why I switched over to Debian Potato was already frozen, so I can't really comment on that.
Yeah, except gnutella is working really hard at not collapsing under it's own weight. Gnutella was not a very well designed network, and it won't ever catch on because it's slow and difficult to use.
The goverments of the world really need to learn to keep their grubby hands out of this kind of stuff. The governments especially need to stop trying to regulate the internet, I mean, how can any one organization regulate something the spans the entire globe?
There are a few things we need to do to stop this kind of garbage, petition your governments, try to get as many people to disobey the law as you can so the government has no choice but to do what is right.
Remeber, in the words of Thomas Jefferson "The government that rules best, rules least."
Just from what I've seen being a long time user of ICQ, and having used AIM, I think the best IM/Chat program on the 'net now has to be Jabber. It works similiarly to the other programs, plus it allows you to chat with people on ICQ, AIM, Yahoo!, MSN Messenger. But, you have to have UserNames/Passwords for all those services.
I try to think Microsoft isn't horrible. I may prefer Linux to Windows, but Windows has been good for a lot of people I guess, plus I need Windows for games.
But, then Microsoft goes and pulls this kind of garbage and they appear to be nothing less of Pure Evil.
Ummm, CmdrTaco didn't link it. In the stories all of the italicized parts are submitted by users like you or I, the non-italicized stuff is Taco's or whoever actually posts it.
I will strongly admit that yes, Internet Explorer is a superior Web Browser, Netscape and Mozilla have not been able to do enough.
However, Mozilla will still have a stronghold inside the Linux community up until the day that Microsoft releases Internet Explorer for Linux. Something not likely to happen for some time. Mozilla still has a chance, but it's going to take a lot of work on their part.
The DARE program was never terribly effective when you think about it. Let's face it people, if your going to use drugs, schooling on it isn't going to help. The moral decline of this country is still growing.
In fact, the DARE program has such a poor track record that at my school Distrct in Spokane, WA (a HUGE Methamphetamine town), has completely scrapped the DARE program. It has been replaced by something whose name I can't remember, and seems to focus more on Tabacco than anything.
DARE has a really poor track record, but it isn't because of the content it presents really. The people who use drugs have parents who either are one of two things:
Too Protective. This prompts the child to want to rebel and try new things.
Simply don't care. If the parent doesn't really pay enough attention to the child when they are young, and let the television raise the kid, then they won't be able to be a parent later in life, when the child can be, and needs to be molded so they can realize that those activities are really just a dead end.
As young adults, we strive to find our place in the world away from our parents, but too often the parents give too much control to the child over their life, and other times not enough. Both these choices cause the child to experiment with drugs and alcohol (not a bad thing). Unfortunately, society has made this behavior acceptable. In the US the Welfare system considers a Chemical Addiction a disablity that allows people ot collect welfare. Nice to know the government will fund a drug habit, isn't it?
Anyway, I've ranted enough. In short, DARE doesn't work simply because our Society has made those alternative behaviors more acceptable, and until that society creates good Parents, things won't get better.
It may not work all the time, but at least it would stop something stupid like this from happening (most of the time). The thing is, that these same problems do exist within this country. In fact we do have similiar legislation, the police will raid an illegal Gambling facility, however, the government could pass such a law based on their history of writing laws that are open to monstrous amounts of interpretation. If they ever do pass such a law though, they'd never be able to enforce it, the citizens of this country would disregard that law.
I have used most of the national Free Internet providers available, and all of them are pretty much the same. All require java, and internet explorer (So no Linux support:( ) All of them have serious problems. Most of them will, in fact, cause Explorer to crash on shutdown, especially if you close your DUN connection and not the applet.
I am absolutely horrified to see that colleges are beginning to sell out and submit their students to this kind of punishment. Corporations (and most colleges can be classified under that category any more) need to realize that users will not put up with sub-quality products. And users need to stop using those services in order to speak to these corporations the only way they'll listen.
I have just one more rant. All those "Free" Internet providers that force you to have an ad-bar open are not "free" in any sense of the word. I may not be paying cash, but I am paying in Screen Real Estate, Nag messages, poor (no) service, and being forced to use the Windows OS to use them.
Let me just say that I do use GNOME, but with iceWM. For months I used KDE simply because I found it to be much faster and more intuitive that Enlightment is. Let's face it people, Enlightment is suffering from some major bloat, I almost think Windows Explorer is more stable than the latest Enlightenment is. Maybe someday Enlightenment will be able to find that happy medium between functionality and customizability, but I doubt it.
In short, until GNOME drops Enlightenment as it's default, it won't be able to compete with anything.
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Actually, you could probably use GnuPG now. There are already GnuPG/Windows integration tools. For instance WinPT . A part of WinPT is WinPTEE, which integrates WinPT into Explorer, so you can right click on files to encrypt and such. Also on this site is a plug-in that allows integration with Outlook Express, GPGOE. I believe all these projects are still considered Beta, and I'll admit that I've not used them (Linux User myself), but I'd suggest looking at them if you're security concious and want to convert to GnuPG.
> What operating systems and platforms do you personally use and which ones do you also use (and why)?
>MT: I use Linux for work and sometimes I use Windows to play games.
>I can't that you can blame him, personally I don't run windows, but I also don't play many games... However, almost all of the really good games at the moment are either console or PC only.
All I want to know is when did PC become synonymous with Windows? Personally, I run Linux on my Personal Computer. foxxtrot
I know people who work for the company that leads Fuel Cell research (Avista Labs), and I've heard them say that the technology is not yet feasable for normal use. Sure, they've come a long way over the past few years, but the units are simply too expensive to be worth trying to market.
The problem we've really had has been the Movie Distribution houses, and their stupid CSS scheme. The real problem with CSS is that if you use a 'standard' system (a dedicated player, or DVD drive in Windows), you are completely unaware that every time you buy and use a DVD you are supporting an unfair, and IMO illegal by Copyright Law piece of software.
Oh, well, there is nothing we can do about the masses, but we should be lobbying the politicians to change this.
Anyway, it doesn't seem that the Hollywood has succumbed to MS, so much as the movie distributors have given in to idiocy.
foxxtrot
As others have already notices Bin Laden did two things, avoid electronic communication, and when he did use crypto, he certainly wouldn't be using back-doored software. So essentially, himself and the other terrorists wouldn't be slowed down, our American civil rights would be violated however.
Alright, now to the non-reduntant part of my post. On Tuesday, Tom Clancy was on CNN in the afternoon. CNN had Tom, because Tom wrote a book about terrorists chrashing a plane into the Capitol building, and killing both houses of Congress, and the President. Well, Tom said that the real problem we had in not seeing this coming is that the CIA employs some 20,000 people, and only about 800 of them are spooks. The only way to fight terrorism effectively is with a large, well-trained intelligence corps. We need at least twice, if not three or four as many spooks out in the field, infiltraiting these terrorist groups, so that we are aware of these plans before they something like Tuesdays events happen.
Cryptography isn't our problem, an incredibly small spy system is.
foxxtrot
I thought that this was what GNOME and KDE were working towards. I mean they've even been working together to an extent when it comes to certain things, like copy/paste operations.
foxxtrot
The article can be found online here
It's a good read, and highly recommended.
Maybe Sam can change this, how about it?
Bunner wrote and released the DeCSS code not to promote Movie piracy, but to allow people to use the movies they'd purchased legally to be viewed on Operating Systems other than WindowsTM. True, he did key the encryption keys out of another DVD player, and tnat may not have been right, but Bunner was in no way trying to get free stuff, he was just trying to use something he legally purchased in the mannner in which it was meant to be used.
Remember a gun is not necessarily illegal, but it can be used in such a fashion. Just like Bunner's DeCSS code is not illegal, and his intended use is not, but how can Bunner be held responsible for what other people do? Foxxtrot713 -- Just my Opinion, don't like it, don't bug me
Taco, the things that are happening in California are happening in Michigan, they just aren't as noticeable. If you know someone at your local power authority ask them how much the company is paying for electricity, it's probably more than 500% higher, they just aren't allowed to pass that change on to you, the consumer, like California Power companies are.
It does, and has since at least Mozilla M18 (I didn't use Mozilla before that). It's pretty easy to use, if the configuration doesn't go a tad slow (Mozilla is still being optimized).
The QWERTY design was used for keyboards because that was the standard for typewriters, and typists were the going to be the natural audience for keyboards. The QWERTY design may take some getting used to, but it is by no means 'inferior'
All right, that makes sense. Like I had said, I am fairly new to Debian, mostly because 99% of the linux books out there focus on Red Hat. So this is the first time I've watched this cycle
Actually I am glad to see it coming out so quickly. I think that was a shorter period than Potato spent in unstable, but than again why I switched over to Debian Potato was already frozen, so I can't really comment on that.
Yeah, except gnutella is working really hard at not collapsing under it's own weight. Gnutella was not a very well designed network, and it won't ever catch on because it's slow and difficult to use.
There are a few things we need to do to stop this kind of garbage, petition your governments, try to get as many people to disobey the law as you can so the government has no choice but to do what is right.
Remeber, in the words of Thomas Jefferson "The government that rules best, rules least."
Just from what I've seen being a long time user of ICQ, and having used AIM, I think the best IM/Chat program on the 'net now has to be Jabber. It works similiarly to the other programs, plus it allows you to chat with people on ICQ, AIM, Yahoo!, MSN Messenger. But, you have to have UserNames/Passwords for all those services.
'Course Debian still is better because it has by far the best quality control assurance of any of the other Linux flavors.
But, then Microsoft goes and pulls this kind of garbage and they appear to be nothing less of Pure Evil.
It hurts Mommy, make them stop.
Ummm, CmdrTaco didn't link it. In the stories all of the italicized parts are submitted by users like you or I, the non-italicized stuff is Taco's or whoever actually posts it.
However, Mozilla will still have a stronghold inside the Linux community up until the day that Microsoft releases Internet Explorer for Linux. Something not likely to happen for some time. Mozilla still has a chance, but it's going to take a lot of work on their part.
In fact, the DARE program has such a poor track record that at my school Distrct in Spokane, WA (a HUGE Methamphetamine town), has completely scrapped the DARE program. It has been replaced by something whose name I can't remember, and seems to focus more on Tabacco than anything.
DARE has a really poor track record, but it isn't because of the content it presents really. The people who use drugs have parents who either are one of two things:
- Too Protective. This prompts the child to want to rebel and try new things.
- Simply don't care. If the parent doesn't really pay enough attention to the child when they are young, and let the television raise the kid, then they won't be able to be a parent later in life, when the child can be, and needs to be molded so they can realize that those activities are really just a dead end.
As young adults, we strive to find our place in the world away from our parents, but too often the parents give too much control to the child over their life, and other times not enough. Both these choices cause the child to experiment with drugs and alcohol (not a bad thing). Unfortunately, society has made this behavior acceptable. In the US the Welfare system considers a Chemical Addiction a disablity that allows people ot collect welfare. Nice to know the government will fund a drug habit, isn't it?Anyway, I've ranted enough. In short, DARE doesn't work simply because our Society has made those alternative behaviors more acceptable, and until that society creates good Parents, things won't get better.
foxxtrot
foxxtrot
End Big Government, Vote Republican
I am absolutely horrified to see that colleges are beginning to sell out and submit their students to this kind of punishment. Corporations (and most colleges can be classified under that category any more) need to realize that users will not put up with sub-quality products. And users need to stop using those services in order to speak to these corporations the only way they'll listen.
I have just one more rant. All those "Free" Internet providers that force you to have an ad-bar open are not "free" in any sense of the word. I may not be paying cash, but I am paying in Screen Real Estate, Nag messages, poor (no) service, and being forced to use the Windows OS to use them.
FoxxTrot713
In short, until GNOME drops Enlightenment as it's default, it won't be able to compete with anything.
FoxxTrot -- Just my Opinion, you don't have to like it.