I love mandrake too, but it is NOT perfect. The way it tries to update your fstab when inserting a flash disk pcmcia card, for example, sucked up all of the resources on my computer, forcing a reboot.
Another issue is the long list of file permissions that get changed in the/dev directories when a normal user logs in first on console. Probably not an issue with fast drives / cpu, but agonizing on hardware that isn't even all that old. I was able to fix this problem, but it took a lot of research to figure out exactly what the problem was in the first place.
Granted, this is an old Toshiba Libretto, but that kind of thing should not occur. After editing a few init scripts, everything worked fine, but out of the box, Mandrake was broken. A normal user would not have been able to fix these problems. Since I am not a member of the Mandrake club, I was not able to submit my feedback and script edits to them.
I will give credit to Mandrake for being the only distribution that I have tried that will actually install on the weird libretto (you lose your floppy drive after boot, b/c of the pcmcia drivers needed for it).
When it is the launching point for the 'sploit of the day against MSIE, and some numbskull has the MSIE-infected computer on the same network as systems monitoring patients in a hospital.
But microsoft will strongarm these companies out of licensing windoze if they do this. This is what brought on the entire anti-trust suit in the first place. And, of course, NOTHING was done to fix this problem.
This is the abuse of monopoly power that Judge Jackson was talking about in his findings of fact. Read it sometime.
Then why do they waste any time on coding IE at all? Everyone would be better off if they would allow standards-compliant browsers become the dominant. Hell, they could just ship moz/firebird/whatever with windoze instead of IE.
You are missing the point. I have to pay the phone company for phone service in order to get DSL service. Stupid to pay TWICE. Yes, I DO use a DSL provider that IS NOT my phone company. Planetcable.net. They USED to be a cable provider (hence the name), but were forced out of that business model by comcast when they took over the local cable company...so now they provide DSL, thanks to government regulation.
Now the only thing missing is layered effects, and I'd be a very happy grfx artist (wannabe):)
There was an OS/2 program (forget its name) which mixed vectors and layers, and also had the unique ability to layer EFFECTS...for example, I could do black text, put a blur effect layer over that, and then colored text over that to achieve a drop shadow with very little effort. Of course, you could then put an effect layer over the text for texturizing, etc. You could combine effects to your hearts content, and if you didn't like the way it worked, it was trivial to back out, or move the effect elsewhere.
Vector support seems like the necessary first step to this type of thing and I hope that the GIMP developers discover this cool and unique way to manipulate images.
So set up an IRC server internally instead. That's what we do, and windoze users with their trillian can still use it...or use xchat, or even mirc(barf).
the ONLY reason I bought quake 2 and quake 3 unreal tournament and RTCW was because there was a linux version. I cannot be bothered to reconfigure my home main system (let alone shell out the cash for an OS I would ONLY use to play games with!) just so that I can play a game. Screw that. They don't support my platform, I certainly can't reasonably buy their software.
While I'm sure abiword will get all of those features, I prefer that they aren't there. It's NICE having a WORD PROCESSOR that ACTS LIKE ONE rather than trying to be a document processor / layout engine.
Word processors should be used for letters and very short papers. Anything approaching a book, or anything needing any kind of consistency should be done using a document processing language like LaTEX.
Same goes for spreadsheet 'programming'. If you have to automate some data analysis, write a program. Spreadsheets should be used for quick analysis, or a place to keep your notes for anything not complex enough to warrant a database.
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Because of that big annoying distracting ad that was larger than the article itself! (btw, the lameness filter is LAME. It wouldn't let me type that in all caps for emphasis) I think I got through a couple of sentences before giving up.
He never mentioned bloat or overhead. What he was getting at is how terribly inefficient an unintuitive that stuff is. Maybe the initial learning curve is smaller (wow, God forbid somebody takes the, what, 1/2 hour it takes to read through something like the ROX manual), but the end result is an painfully inefficient, inconsistent, disorganized MESS of an interface.
Linux uses files for everything. The GUI should reflect that. ROX does a very nice job (application folders, for example). ROX does have bad points, too, however (mimicking the ghey 'send-to' windoze thing instead of doing the right thing with mime types).
I'd expect linux admins to be more willing to report their breaches than their windoze counterparts. Perhaps this is part of why the numbers are skewed towards linux?
..at least everything I have control over, being one of two of the guys in charge of netsec, my company is pretty good. If not, I guess it is my own fault:)
A couple of things we have pushed back on (projects that management thought were great ideas) include blocking specific senders of email (non-spam) from communicating with certain workers because it is 'causing a disruption', and another was to refuse to place mandatory filtering of content from the Internet on our networks. If we end up having to do it, it will be a warning/click-through solution, not a block.
I think you hit on the best solution above. Why not have the ISP include a NATing HARDWARE device as part of their standard broadband package? I think that is the route I would go if I were a small ISP. The SMC barricade, for example. These things only cost $60. It is stupid for home broadband users to NOT have one.
For the rest of us in the know,there is FreeSWAN and IPTables:)
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so, if linux zealots are terrorists, what are m$ zealots (like the author of the article)?
It's bluetooth, not 802.11.
I'll stick with mod_perl and HTML::Embperl, thanks.
Another issue is the long list of file permissions that get changed in the /dev directories when a normal user logs in first on console. Probably not an issue with fast drives / cpu, but agonizing on hardware that isn't even all that old. I was able to fix this problem, but it took a lot of research to figure out exactly what the problem was in the first place.
Granted, this is an old Toshiba Libretto, but that kind of thing should not occur. After editing a few init scripts, everything worked fine, but out of the box, Mandrake was broken. A normal user would not have been able to fix these problems. Since I am not a member of the Mandrake club, I was not able to submit my feedback and script edits to them.
I will give credit to Mandrake for being the only distribution that I have tried that will actually install on the weird libretto (you lose your floppy drive after boot, b/c of the pcmcia drivers needed for it).
When it is the launching point for the 'sploit of the day against MSIE, and some numbskull has the MSIE-infected computer on the same network as systems monitoring patients in a hospital.
Even more hilarious is that the address sent to was 'nospam@moago.org'
This is the abuse of monopoly power that Judge Jackson was talking about in his findings of fact. Read it sometime.
Then why do they waste any time on coding IE at all? Everyone would be better off if they would allow standards-compliant browsers become the dominant. Hell, they could just ship moz/firebird/whatever with windoze instead of IE.
You are missing the point. I have to pay the phone company for phone service in order to get DSL service. Stupid to pay TWICE. Yes, I DO use a DSL provider that IS NOT my phone company. Planetcable.net. They USED to be a cable provider (hence the name), but were forced out of that business model by comcast when they took over the local cable company...so now they provide DSL, thanks to government regulation.
...if I didn't have to depend on my local phone company for a DSL line in the first place :(
There was an OS/2 program (forget its name) which mixed vectors and layers, and also had the unique ability to layer EFFECTS...for example, I could do black text, put a blur effect layer over that, and then colored text over that to achieve a drop shadow with very little effort. Of course, you could then put an effect layer over the text for texturizing, etc. You could combine effects to your hearts content, and if you didn't like the way it worked, it was trivial to back out, or move the effect elsewhere.
Vector support seems like the necessary first step to this type of thing and I hope that the GIMP developers discover this cool and unique way to manipulate images.
A leak is what gave OS/2 users a kickass version of quake. Maybe with the source out there, we will have a linux verion of HL2 after all :)
was naming microsoft specifically. That entire paper could have been written without stating the name of our favorite monopoly. People would infer it.
So set up an IRC server internally instead. That's what we do, and windoze users with their trillian can still use it...or use xchat, or even mirc(barf).
So what does he have to say about the freeswan IPSec implementation, especially when combined with iptables?
So, what type of pr0n do you prefer? Blonde, brunette, redhead, asian?
Actually, this seems like yet another thing they stole from IBM. IBM, years ago, had a technology that could retrieve images based on description.
Indeed, I'd rather use abiword and gnumeric for those tasks, although star draw and impress are awesome programs for those tasks and I do use them.
But the thing that would get me to using SO exclusively would definitely be a good project management program.
It was the Quake I port that was leaked, not doom. And the OS/2 version kicked the shit out of the windows version, loading in only a second or two.
the ONLY reason I bought quake 2 and quake 3 unreal tournament and RTCW was because there was a linux version. I cannot be bothered to reconfigure my home main system (let alone shell out the cash for an OS I would ONLY use to play games with!) just so that I can play a game. Screw that. They don't support my platform, I certainly can't reasonably buy their software.
Word processors should be used for letters and very short papers. Anything approaching a book, or anything needing any kind of consistency should be done using a document processing language like LaTEX.
Same goes for spreadsheet 'programming'. If you have to automate some data analysis, write a program. Spreadsheets should be used for quick analysis, or a place to keep your notes for anything not complex enough to warrant a database.
Because of that big annoying distracting ad that was larger than the article itself! (btw, the lameness filter is LAME. It wouldn't let me type that in all caps for emphasis) I think I got through a couple of sentences before giving up.
Linux uses files for everything. The GUI should reflect that. ROX does a very nice job (application folders, for example). ROX does have bad points, too, however (mimicking the ghey 'send-to' windoze thing instead of doing the right thing with mime types).
Just a thought.
A couple of things we have pushed back on (projects that management thought were great ideas) include blocking specific senders of email (non-spam) from communicating with certain workers because it is 'causing a disruption', and another was to refuse to place mandatory filtering of content from the Internet on our networks. If we end up having to do it, it will be a warning/click-through solution, not a block.
I think you hit on the best solution above. Why not have the ISP include a NATing HARDWARE device as part of their standard broadband package? I think that is the route I would go if I were a small ISP. The SMC barricade, for example. These things only cost $60. It is stupid for home broadband users to NOT have one.
For the rest of us in the know,there is FreeSWAN and IPTables :)