Ads, ads, ads.... I don't think banner ads are all the obtrusive. For example the banner above is for thinkgeek.com and I like what I see so I'll click on it.
The article said: "Only one thing will solve our collective problem: full-screen ads"
If that's the solution... You can count me out!
Linuxrunner
Bullies are protected more often than not....
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It reminds me of a story an old english teacher told me. I graduated from college and went back to High School to visit my favorite teachers.. After inquiring how school was she proceeded to tell me that things were awful and that things had gone downhill. There was the usual, "kids have no respect for teachers anymore" retoric but what caught me was that she said there was a group / gang of goth type ladies that basically terrorized the kids in the halls, etc.
In short she said that when the school approached the girls to repremand them they got all emotional and the parents were brought in and they cried discrimination becuase of looks.... From then on the same girls could get away with anything.
Yes I know, a little off the subject but it just reminded me of it and also reminds me that when I was in school, I remember bullies always getting away with things that I would have been tossed out or sent home for....
Possibly its just expected for them to act that way, therefore it's tolerated.
Last night on TechTV the show The Screen Savers did a live install of Linux Mandrake 8.0
You can get all of that information and more off of their web site. They downloaded the ISO images (2 of them) and burned them onto CD's and did the expert install to show all of the new features.... Extremely simple install and partition... Give it up for Mandrake
I bought the original Palm Pilot when they first came out. It ran on a couple of bateries and that was it... You had to keep an eye on the battery power and then quickly change them. I believe you had a whole minute to change the batteries or else all data would be lost. Talk about being a slave to your PDA The new ones now recharge when they're in the cradle but sometimes I like to be on the go and don't need to sync up for a while. It would be nice to know that I wouldn't have to worry about my PDA's power supply!
If solar can work, it will be a cheap and easy way to replenish the batteries.. heck even those of you in the cubical farms will have enough light to recharge them!
At least don't be an anonymous coward when shouting and flaming others... We all might not agree but have some respect for ones opinion and be available (e-mail, etc.) for rebuttle...
Has the MPAA ever tried downloading a movie off of the internet? I have.. It takes forever. I downloaded the Matrix off of an opennap server... why... Because I wanted to for my computer. I already own The Matrix on DVD, so that's not why... I just wanted it on my computer. I'm to cheap to run out and buy a DVD drive for my Linux box since the MPAA makes it illegal to use DeCSS so now their forcing me to download it off of the internet to watch it. (not really the case but funny to think of it in those terms).
Now with MP3's, I love my MP3 Player. I use it for working out, listening to songs on my computer. 95% of my MP3's are songs on CD's I already own! I was just too lazy to burn every CD just to get one song. The other 5% are songs I downloaded off of the internet becuase I wanted to listen to them but were not CD's I ever would have bought in the first place! If there was no MP3's then I would never have noticed the difference. I certainly wouldn't have gone out and bought them. The RIAA never lost a dime on me.
But why go after me? Doesn't make much sense. You're just pushing the comsumer further away and pretty soon they'll hit someone who'll be a new age martyr....... Then they'll really feel the consumer pain.
Who ever comes up with the totally secure computer will probably make more than a ripple in the computing world.
We all know that any computer can be cracked... It's just a question of time. I like the idea of having a program that you must go through first. A password that only allows three incorrect entries. There's no way around this password mind you... After three entries the computer starts to erase itself (format if you would..). The program will shove a file in the registry at the same time. This will ensure that even if the computer is shut off the HD will resume erasing when turned back on..
Or take it a step further, have all of that plus a secret battery in the computer / laptop that is constantly being recharged by the bigger battery. This secondary battery has just enough charge to allow the computer to format itself. That way in the event of a force opening and format if the culprit tries to turn off the computer to prevent the formatting, he/she/they can't.
The press has it all wrong when they say a hacker made his way into a server and deleted it.... Hacker's distinguish themselves with Crackers.... You're thinking, and referring to, crackers. They're the ones who use a program designed and made for securing your own web server and use it to find holes and exploits... That's where the difference comes in. It's the hackers that made Linux, and almost all of the software programs that you use. They hacked code and learned how computers and software worked. They then found a way around a problem and solved it. You should be thanking them....
I started off hacking, probably like everyone else. I learned how to get into other computers and try and secure my own server. This is how I leared about Telnet and FTP. Everything I know about Telnet is because I learned it by hacking into my own companies network server.
This made me want to take it a step further.... I wanted to know how the software and packets worked... I then wanted to know how to write that software. First in C / C++ and then I moved on to another language. If it wasn't for the hacking, I never would have peaked my curiosity enough to go as far as I have. I probably wouldn't even be running Linux!
I now love to hack code in my spare time and learn all I can about computers and their software. I owe it all to my earlier days of cracking and script kiddish behaviour.... I guess I was just mature enough to take another step and look further into what was more important.
Hackers (not crackers) are who make new ideas work, who push the envelope of computers as we know it. If it wasn't for hackers, my server just might be running windows NT.... But it's not.
A lot of internet companies based themselves on the "We're-free-because-advertising-will-pay-for-it-al l model "
Everyone just assumed that since it worked for T.V. that it would work on the internet also...
No one ever stopped to think that we all hate commercials on T.V. (except for Super Bowl Night!) and are basically forced to sit through them. Thankfully, we're not forced to click on anything on the internet and can avoid being force-fed all together. If a site does force you, well we turn off our javascripting or just plain don't go there.
I think that in the end, sure some sites with excellent content will survive.... thinkgeek.com comes to mind. They have stuff I want, so I go there and buy it!
All these companies we see as free will have to start charging for services one way or another. The information will always be free, the services won't. Just my $.02
I'm currently still running RedHat 6.2 on my laptop with a partitioned drive... Still need windows for some of my programming....
But I've decided that I'll format my Laptop, Load on Red Hat 7.1, and get a new computer just for Windows Programming! It's about time I cut the Windows Cord and take it on my own!
I figure that if Red Hat 6.2 was a snap to configure on my laptop then 7.1 should be a cake walk!
So anyone who was afraid to load up Linux, Red Hat is pretty easy to configure! I was a Linux Newbie when I loaded 6.2 and I was able to do it without a problem... I typed in xf86config and got the graphics going in a snap and then typed ipconfig and RedHat automatically configured my internet connection using a xircom ethernet connection perfectly! If you've been waiting for the right time to try, now is it!
Though there was nothing new to the open-source community... It should be insightful to other designers when they try and decide which route to take: Linux, or M$ ?
The article even stated:
The first advantage open-source software gives to developers is access to the so-called kernel--those lines of code at the heart of the operating system. This access is extremely important in the world of embedded computing, where making the hardware and software work together as efficiently as possible is vital.
This should be the key salient point that any developer should latch onto! People talk about Microsoft and it's great because of the GUI.... Great but when you embed the OS into a small product there is no longer a great GUI... It's gone and changed entirely. At least with Linux you can take it, shrink it, mangle it into what you want and make it do what you want in the smallest place possible --> be it a PDA or a watch, or ABS brakes in a car.
It's not going to all end untill the internet is officially bland and tasteless... We now have the technology to keep any kind of information on the web. I get upload a book, music, picture, anything! I can then place them on my web page where I can then turn around and retrieve it from anywhere in the world! This technology is amazing and it just keeps getting better.
Why are so many people just out for an easy buck?
I guess the internet was promised to be a gold mine.... People are out still looking for it.
I thought that the beauty of the internet was the idea that it could be the New melting pot for ideas, religions, beliefs, etc... I don't have to agree with what you do or believe, but just becuase I don't agree with it, doesn't mean you have to take it down! If it's the children we're worried about then create a.kids or.cool and have someone actively police who and what can be posted there. Heck, there's a lot of groups to do that for free. But when you start policing the internet as a whole, that is wrong.
An example: One country doesn't like what is being said about it --> for whatever reasons be it political, or just joking.... The server is held in another country where there is no law against this.... Now what? Should the second country take the site down so their neighbors don't have hard feelings? If so, where do we stop?!
The web is being cencored and in the worst way! Are people that afraid of different ideas?
True, cell phones are good for calling your friends, making appointments, receiving important calls, and checking your stock quotes if it's web enabled. But to have streaming video??? What exactly is the point of that? Cell phones have been increasingly becoming smaller - Now you need to make them bigger to fit everything. Take the resolution on your computer right now and shrink it so as small as it will go. Tell me, is that what you actually want to see on your phone? I mean if you want to have all the bells and whistles of a laptop computer then get a laptop computer and give us 2.4 wireless access to the internet at a reasonable price. That's where the real future is.
A lot of internet companies based themselves on the "We're-free-because-advertising-will-pay-for-it-al l model " Everyone just assumed that since it worked for T.V. that it would work on the internet also...
No one ever stopped to think that we all hate commercials on T.V. and are basically forced to sit through them. Thankfully, we're not forced to click on anything on the internet and can avoid being force-fed all together. If a site does force you, well we turn off our javascripting or just plain don't go there. I think that in the end, sure some sites with excellent content will survive.... thinkgeek.com comes to mind. They have stuff I want, so I go there and buy it! Otherwise, the web was meant to be free! Just my $.02
For protecting big businesses. I mean we all know that Microsoft has the largest share of the OS and software community and that's becuase well.... Most people have to use them. The average person doesn't have much of a choice in what they use as an OS. They need to use software that is geared towards Microsoft so therefore they HAVE to buy it. Since this is the case, why o' why would Microsoft even care about the individual any more? They don't. They're only out for big business and big profits! Linux will one day rule and it will all be thanks to the hard working Linux programmers and Microsoft shooting themselves in the foot time and time again, just like this.
Linuxrunner Reading my last few posts over again, I must not be in a good mood today.... Hey, It's almost Friday!
What is up with some of these posts????
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Vote in 5K Contest
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I'm reading a lot of people saying that 5k is not enough or 5k is not realistic....! Sure understandably, hey it's a challenge, not a walk in the park. You actually have to work at creating a page that's either entertaining, useful, and under 5k.
My next comment is, "Have you actully gone to the site and seen the 5k submissions?" Some are unbelievable! You've got to check out the flash dolphin submission near the bottom of the page. Or the chess game, or the useful yearly calander!
With out people trying to make java and/or scripts as small as possible we would have nothing left but bloated / slow web pages. Give these guys a break, they worked their butts off and deserve tons of credit.
to get your passphrase and/or other passwords, prior posts spoke of the Government breaking into your home and downloading your key and then placing a keylogger to steal your passphrase. Obviously we could hide our passphrase and use other sotware.... Why hasn't someone invented a computer that needs a password to boot up. No if's, and's, but's.... And then only allows three wrong passwords, if more than three and inputed then the computer starts to wipe and format the drive. Set it up so that even if the computer is shut off, when it is rebooted it will start to reformat. So my info is killed, but if it's so important I'd rather have it that way, keep a back-up on the freenet, and re-install my software.
Encryption is only good as the security of your computer. So, I need a key... Fine. I also need a master password, fine. I personally use a few different encryption scheme's and a long password.
My concern isn't someone breaking the encryption, it's that someone put a key logger on while I was away from my computer. Or that there is a sniffer, possibly something that my alarms aren't catching. Wouldn't that be the absolute easiest way to catch passwords? I do nothing special so I have no real concerns, yet, I have never felt totally safe.
Instead of a password someone needs to come up with a small device that can be plugged into a USB port. This will be your key/password. To activite it you'll need a thumb print. I think that then, and only then, you'll be secure.
Class action, fine. But really, these suits will not hold water. Personally, I don't have a warm place in my heart for MS, but the reality is that MS isn't truly at fault. Since 1994, as far as I can remember, you still had a choice on what computer to purchase. You could have either bought an Apple (with their own proprietery OS) or you could have bought an IBM clone with MS installed. To me, that's still a choice. I chose to use Apple's OS and bought a Machintosh.
Looking into the problem deeper. Microsoft didn't become popular becuase they were so good.... Apple wouldn't outsource their OS. Software companies started making much of their programs for MS, because they could. A lack of choices push more people and businesses to an IBM Clone computer with the MS OS.
Again I disdain MS as much as the next/. viewer, but, you still had a choice. I chose not to give to the Bill G. Foundation... What did you do?
I am your average new Linux user and personally bought Red Hat 6.2 sometime last year. Being new to Linux I did not know many commands. I was dissappointed with the lack of support (in the form of a brochure, commands, etc.) that came with the software I purchased. I'll be honest, it took me two days of searching the web and newsgroups to learn that I needed to type "startx" to get to the xwindows. My skills were further tested when I had to learn commands to decompress files nevermind having to compile them.
My question would be: What are you doing to bring Red Hat to the masses of average computer users?
I can see the pro's and con's for new domains. Obviously the con's have been spoken for by the previous posts so I won't bother posting them again. (waste of time). The Pro's on the other hand is that whenever there is a.com.net.org domain, their easy to find. The average american and others in the world knows those three. You start adding into the mix too many others, you'll never be able to find what you're looking for.
A prime example: a kid in grade school wants to look up the whitehouse for a school project. There's all ready too many domain names, he doesn't know..... he types in http://www.whitehouse.com and WHOA... What do we have here? Little did he/she know that you were supposed to type in http://www.whitehouse.gov. To me, I think that this is wrong. Domains should remain easy and simple to remember.
If they plan on having 118 new domains, then someone out there better find a better way to search then yahoo and google... The web is getting to big to cataloge. By creating a better searching method, new domains are possible. Until then, keep.com's for commercial,.org's for organizations,.net's for personal, and make one especially for the porn sites... maybe.ooooooh And then police them. Just because McDonalds is a business and has the rights to a.com name shouldn't mean they should automatically have the rights to a.org name too....
Slashdot Mirror
Ads, ads, ads.... I don't think banner ads are all the obtrusive. For example the banner above is for thinkgeek.com and I like what I see so I'll click on it.
The article said: "Only one thing will solve our collective problem: full-screen ads"
If that's the solution... You can count me out!
Linuxrunner
It reminds me of a story an old english teacher told me.
I graduated from college and went back to High School to visit my favorite teachers..
After inquiring how school was she proceeded to tell me that things were awful and that things had gone downhill. There was the usual, "kids have no respect for teachers anymore" retoric but what caught me was that she said there was a group / gang of goth type ladies that basically terrorized the kids in the halls, etc.
In short she said that when the school approached the girls to repremand them they got all emotional and the parents were brought in and they cried discrimination becuase of looks....
From then on the same girls could get away with anything.
Yes I know, a little off the subject but it just reminded me of it and also reminds me that when I was in school, I remember bullies always getting away with things that I would have been tossed out or sent home for....
Possibly its just expected for them to act that way, therefore it's tolerated.
Linuxrunner
Last night on TechTV the show The Screen Savers did a live install of Linux Mandrake 8.0
You can get all of that information and more off of their web site.
They downloaded the ISO images (2 of them) and burned them onto CD's and did the expert install to show all of the new features.... Extremely simple install and partition...
Give it up for Mandrake
Linuxrunner
I bought the original Palm Pilot when they first came out. It ran on a couple of bateries and that was it...
You had to keep an eye on the battery power and then quickly change them. I believe you had a whole minute to change the batteries or else all data would be lost.
Talk about being a slave to your PDA
The new ones now recharge when they're in the cradle but sometimes I like to be on the go and don't need to sync up for a while. It would be nice to know that I wouldn't have to worry about my PDA's power supply!
If solar can work, it will be a cheap and easy way to replenish the batteries.. heck even those of you in the cubical farms will have enough light to recharge them!
Linuxrunner
Nope no karma involved.... Just wanted it for my own information and thought I'd let everyone know...
You're just jealous anyhow....
Linuxrunner
I figured this site might get slashdotted so I quickly created a mirror. Click on the URL to my site and it's right there on top.
Or Click Here
Granted my site is nothing fancy but then again I never proposed that it was....
Linuxrunner
At least don't be an anonymous coward when shouting and flaming others... We all might not agree but have some respect for ones opinion and be available (e-mail, etc.) for rebuttle...
Linuxrunner
Has the MPAA ever tried downloading a movie off of the internet? I have.. It takes forever. I downloaded the Matrix off of an opennap server... why... Because I wanted to for my computer. I already own The Matrix on DVD, so that's not why... I just wanted it on my computer. I'm to cheap to run out and buy a DVD drive for my Linux box since the MPAA makes it illegal to use DeCSS so now their forcing me to download it off of the internet to watch it. (not really the case but funny to think of it in those terms).
Now with MP3's, I love my MP3 Player. I use it for working out, listening to songs on my computer. 95% of my MP3's are songs on CD's I already own! I was just too lazy to burn every CD just to get one song.
The other 5% are songs I downloaded off of the internet becuase I wanted to listen to them but were not CD's I ever would have bought in the first place! If there was no MP3's then I would never have noticed the difference. I certainly wouldn't have gone out and bought them. The RIAA never lost a dime on me.
But why go after me? Doesn't make much sense. You're just pushing the comsumer further away and pretty soon they'll hit someone who'll be a new age martyr....... Then they'll really feel the consumer pain.
Linuxrunner
Who ever comes up with the totally secure computer will probably make more than a ripple in the computing world.
We all know that any computer can be cracked... It's just a question of time.
I like the idea of having a program that you must go through first. A password that only allows three incorrect entries. There's no way around this password mind you...
After three entries the computer starts to erase itself (format if you would..). The program will shove a file in the registry at the same time. This will ensure that even if the computer is shut off the HD will resume erasing when turned back on..
Or take it a step further, have all of that plus a secret battery in the computer / laptop that is constantly being recharged by the bigger battery. This secondary battery has just enough charge to allow the computer to format itself. That way in the event of a force opening and format if the culprit tries to turn off the computer to prevent the formatting, he/she/they can't.
Ba da bing ba da boom bye bye box.
Linuxrunner
The press has it all wrong when they say a hacker made his way into a server and deleted it....
Hacker's distinguish themselves with Crackers.... You're thinking, and referring to, crackers. They're the ones who use a program designed and made for securing your own web server and use it to find holes and exploits...
That's where the difference comes in. It's the hackers that made Linux, and almost all of the software programs that you use. They hacked code and learned how computers and software worked. They then found a way around a problem and solved it. You should be thanking them....
Linuxrunner
I started off hacking, probably like everyone else. I learned how to get into other computers and try and secure my own server.
This is how I leared about Telnet and FTP. Everything I know about Telnet is because I learned it by hacking into my own companies network server.
This made me want to take it a step further.... I wanted to know how the software and packets worked... I then wanted to know how to write that software. First in C / C++ and then I moved on to another language.
If it wasn't for the hacking, I never would have peaked my curiosity enough to go as far as I have. I probably wouldn't even be running Linux!
I now love to hack code in my spare time and learn all I can about computers and their software. I owe it all to my earlier days of cracking and script kiddish behaviour.... I guess I was just mature enough to take another step and look further into what was more important.
Hackers (not crackers) are who make new ideas work, who push the envelope of computers as we know it. If it wasn't for hackers, my server just might be running windows NT.... But it's not.
Linuxrunner
A lot of internet companies based themselves on the "We're-free-because-advertising-will-pay-for-it-al l model "
Everyone just assumed that since it worked for T.V. that it would work on the internet also...
No one ever stopped to think that we all hate commercials on T.V. (except for Super Bowl Night!) and are basically forced to sit through them. Thankfully, we're not forced to click on anything on the internet and can avoid being force-fed all together. If a site does force you, well we turn off our javascripting or just plain don't go there.
I think that in the end, sure some sites with excellent content will survive.... thinkgeek.com comes to mind. They have stuff I want, so I go there and buy it!
All these companies we see as free will have to start charging for services one way or another. The information will always be free, the services won't. Just my $.02
Linuxrunner
I'm currently still running RedHat 6.2 on my laptop with a partitioned drive... Still need windows for some of my programming....
But I've decided that I'll format my Laptop, Load on Red Hat 7.1, and get a new computer just for Windows Programming!
It's about time I cut the Windows Cord and take it on my own!
I figure that if Red Hat 6.2 was a snap to configure on my laptop then 7.1 should be a cake walk!
So anyone who was afraid to load up Linux, Red Hat is pretty easy to configure! I was a Linux Newbie when I loaded 6.2 and I was able to do it without a problem... I typed in xf86config and got the graphics going in a snap and then typed ipconfig and RedHat automatically configured my internet connection using a xircom ethernet connection perfectly! If you've been waiting for the right time to try, now is it!
Linuxrunner
Though there was nothing new to the open-source community... It should be insightful to other designers when they try and decide which route to take: Linux, or M$ ?
The article even stated:
The first advantage open-source software gives to developers is access to the so-called kernel--those lines of code at the heart of the operating system. This access is extremely important in the world of embedded computing, where making the hardware and software work together as efficiently as possible is vital.
This should be the key salient point that any developer should latch onto!
People talk about Microsoft and it's great because of the GUI.... Great but when you embed the OS into a small product there is no longer a great GUI... It's gone and changed entirely. At least with Linux you can take it, shrink it, mangle it into what you want and make it do what you want in the smallest place possible --> be it a PDA or a watch, or ABS brakes in a car.
Linuxrunner
It's not going to all end untill the internet is officially bland and tasteless...
We now have the technology to keep any kind of information on the web. I get upload a book, music, picture, anything! I can then place them on my web page where I can then turn around and retrieve it from anywhere in the world! This technology is amazing and it just keeps getting better.
Why are so many people just out for an easy buck?
I guess the internet was promised to be a gold mine.... People are out still looking for it.
Linuxrunner
I thought that the beauty of the internet was the idea that it could be the New melting pot for ideas, religions, beliefs, etc... I don't have to agree with what you do or believe, but just becuase I don't agree with it, doesn't mean you have to take it down! .kids or .cool and have someone actively police who and what can be posted there. Heck, there's a lot of groups to do that for free.
If it's the children we're worried about then create a
But when you start policing the internet as a whole, that is wrong.
An example: One country doesn't like what is being said about it --> for whatever reasons be it political, or just joking.... The server is held in another country where there is no law against this.... Now what? Should the second country take the site down so their neighbors don't have hard feelings? If so, where do we stop?!
The web is being cencored and in the worst way!
Are people that afraid of different ideas?
Linuxrunner
True, cell phones are good for calling your friends, making appointments, receiving important calls, and checking your stock quotes if it's web enabled.
But to have streaming video???
What exactly is the point of that? Cell phones have been increasingly becoming smaller - Now you need to make them bigger to fit everything. Take the resolution on your computer right now and shrink it so as small as it will go. Tell me, is that what you actually want to see on your phone?
I mean if you want to have all the bells and whistles of a laptop computer then get a laptop computer and give us 2.4 wireless access to the internet at a reasonable price.
That's where the real future is.
Linuxrunner
A lot of internet companies based themselves on the "We're-free-because-advertising-will-pay-for-it-al l model "
Everyone just assumed that since it worked for T.V. that it would work on the internet also...
No one ever stopped to think that we all hate commercials on T.V. and are basically forced to sit through them. Thankfully, we're not forced to click on anything on the internet and can avoid being force-fed all together. If a site does force you, well we turn off our javascripting or just plain don't go there.
I think that in the end, sure some sites with excellent content will survive.... thinkgeek.com comes to mind. They have stuff I want, so I go there and buy it!
Otherwise, the web was meant to be free! Just my $.02
Linuxrunner
For protecting big businesses. I mean we all know that Microsoft has the largest share of the OS and software community and that's becuase well.... Most people have to use them. The average person doesn't have much of a choice in what they use as an OS. They need to use software that is geared towards Microsoft so therefore they HAVE to buy it.
Since this is the case, why o' why would Microsoft even care about the individual any more? They don't. They're only out for big business and big profits!
Linux will one day rule and it will all be thanks to the hard working Linux programmers and Microsoft shooting themselves in the foot time and time again, just like this.
Linuxrunner
Reading my last few posts over again, I must not be in a good mood today.... Hey, It's almost Friday!
I'm reading a lot of people saying that 5k is not enough or 5k is not realistic....! Sure understandably, hey it's a challenge, not a walk in the park. You actually have to work at creating a page that's either entertaining, useful, and under 5k.
My next comment is, "Have you actully gone to the site and seen the 5k submissions?" Some are unbelievable! You've got to check out the flash dolphin submission near the bottom of the page. Or the chess game, or the useful yearly calander!
With out people trying to make java and/or scripts as small as possible we would have nothing left but bloated / slow web pages.
Give these guys a break, they worked their butts off and deserve tons of credit.
Linuxrunner
to get your passphrase and/or other passwords, prior posts spoke of the Government breaking into your home and downloading your key and then placing a keylogger to steal your passphrase. Obviously we could hide our passphrase and use other sotware.... Why hasn't someone invented a computer that needs a password to boot up. No if's, and's, but's.... And then only allows three wrong passwords, if more than three and inputed then the computer starts to wipe and format the drive. Set it up so that even if the computer is shut off, when it is rebooted it will start to reformat. So my info is killed, but if it's so important I'd rather have it that way, keep a back-up on the freenet, and re-install my software.
Just a Thought
LinuxRunner
Encryption is only good as the security of your computer. So, I need a key... Fine. I also need a master password, fine. I personally use a few different encryption scheme's and a long password.
My concern isn't someone breaking the encryption, it's that someone put a key logger on while I was away from my computer. Or that there is a sniffer, possibly something that my alarms aren't catching.
Wouldn't that be the absolute easiest way to catch passwords?
I do nothing special so I have no real concerns, yet, I have never felt totally safe.
Instead of a password someone needs to come up with a small device that can be plugged into a USB port. This will be your key/password. To activite it you'll need a thumb print. I think that then, and only then, you'll be secure.
Linuxrunner
Class action, fine. But really, these suits will not hold water. Personally, I don't have a warm place in my heart for MS, but the reality is that MS isn't truly at fault. Since 1994, as far as I can remember, you still had a choice on what computer to purchase. You could have either bought an Apple (with their own proprietery OS) or you could have bought an IBM clone with MS installed.
/. viewer, but, you still had a choice. I chose not to give to the Bill G. Foundation... What did you do?
To me, that's still a choice. I chose to use Apple's OS and bought a Machintosh.
Looking into the problem deeper. Microsoft didn't become popular becuase they were so good.... Apple wouldn't outsource their OS. Software companies started making much of their programs for MS, because they could. A lack of choices push more people and businesses to an IBM Clone computer with the MS OS.
Again I disdain MS as much as the next
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I am your average new Linux user and personally bought Red Hat 6.2 sometime last year. Being new to Linux I did not know many commands. I was dissappointed with the lack of support (in the form of a brochure, commands, etc.) that came with the software I purchased. I'll be honest, it took me two days of searching the web and newsgroups to learn that I needed to type "startx" to get to the xwindows. My skills were further tested when I had to learn commands to decompress files nevermind having to compile them.
My question would be: What are you doing to bring Red Hat to the masses of average computer users?
I can see the pro's and con's for new domains. Obviously the con's have been spoken for by the previous posts so I won't bother posting them again. (waste of time). The Pro's on the other hand is that whenever there is a .com .net .org domain, their easy to find. The average american and others in the world knows those three. You start adding into the mix too many others, you'll never be able to find what you're looking for.
.com's for commercial, .org's for organizations, .net's for personal, and make one especially for the porn sites... maybe .ooooooh .com name shouldn't mean they should automatically have the rights to a .org name too....
A prime example: a kid in grade school wants to look up the whitehouse for a school project. There's all ready too many domain names, he doesn't know..... he types in http://www.whitehouse.com and WHOA... What do we have here? Little did he/she know that you were supposed to type in http://www.whitehouse.gov. To me, I think that this is wrong. Domains should remain easy and simple to remember.
If they plan on having 118 new domains, then someone out there better find a better way to search then yahoo and google... The web is getting to big to cataloge.
By creating a better searching method, new domains are possible. Until then, keep
And then police them. Just because McDonalds is a business and has the rights to a
My $.02