Not if you're not a developer and you want to work with machines, not work on them. If I wanted to work on my machine instead of actually using it, I'd still be running Windows.
How do you measure NIH? I'm not sure I see how you can put Microsoft is below GNOME and Ubuntu, although I'll be honest, they are all pretty bad about it...
Microsoft seems to be King of NIH to me, and GNOME is like Apple in their "our way or the highway" attitude about everything, but Ubuntu seems to be getting worse in several areas so it'd probably be too soon to judge them.
Bad idea. What if someone is in a library on a public computer and tries to log in, and just after they've entered their password, they wonder "Hmmm... what is that eye-looking thing?" Then they click it and--too late! A few people have already seen it. Oops! Add this "cloud computing" shit that all these companies are trying to force down our throats and you've got potential for problems.
But seriously though, it is a decent idea... just one that I'm sure is not infallible to situations similar to the above. Maybe once virtually everyone knows what it is it will be better, but until then maybe it should have the text [Show password] beside it.
Not as easy if you use a more optimized keyboard layout during installation that requires far less finger movement, since most of the keystrokes would end up on the home row... plus you'd have the added benefit that no key they see being pressed is actually what it appears.:P
Of course, while somewhat-serious, this doesn't really apply in the context of this thread because the original posts were talking about business installs. I guess it's still possible, you'd just have to change the default keyboard layout back to the standard, which would range as an annoyance on one installation to a pain in the ass on several.
Is double-typing the password blind not enough? Even then, showing the password in plain view should be purely an option.
If you still have to type their passwords twice even if they are in plain view, there will still be problems with people making typos and just copy-pasting them to the second field without noticing (especially with longer and more complex passwords). Even if not everyone uses the copy-paste method, people will still possibly make a typo in one or both password entry fields... again, using the other by sight to try to "correct" the one that looks wrong. What if both are wrong, only one looks more obvious? How will plain text passwords improve anything when it only increases the chances of entering the wrong password twice anyway, only now using different methods?
If you fuck up typing a password, it's best to just start over. The traditional way of masked passwords at least enforces this. This new retarded "default" is just going to cause even more trouble at the very least, if not reduced security.
If that would happen, that would be awesome. But you know, if such a thing was on the verge of happening, the scumbags in the advertising industry would throw so much money and lawyers out there that they would end up distorting everything and making it legal anyway, for reasons only worthless, crooked assholes like them could come up with.
But they're pretty useless without a kernel, and that's where Linux kicks in.
I have to say, Android might have its place on cell phones since there's not much better alternative, but I'd take a full Linux distribution with all the GNU tools over it any day. I was hoping ARM-based netbook/tablet computers would have taken off with the "real deal" and use something like KDE's mobile environment, but that never happened. We're stuck with Android and Apple crap. And it probably won't either, because of UEFI's "Secure Boot" garbage (thanks, Microsoft--fucking dickheads).
Yes it is, but do you expect DRM to be "equally accessible" on all platforms--from the major commercial operating systems (Windows, OS X) to the major open source distributions (Linux, BSD), to the potential up-and-coming hobby OSes (Haiku, ReactOS)? I don't; I still fully expect incompatible in the name of "security" (ie. to slow down cracking attempts) by making sure the DRM itself remains closed. Chances are, those companies with money to throw around who hide everything they release in binary blobs will win in the end, as usual. The corporations like Microsoft and Apple who have the "entertainment providers" in their pockets. In this case, you might as well stick with Flash as its use dwindles to nothing more than a DRMed-media playback sandbox program. Flash has already had a nice reduction in use over the years.
This crap is already being done with proprietary garbage like Flash and Silverlight as RMS mentioned. Let it stay that way, keep it out of web standards. If a company wants DRM bad enough, they'll find a way to shoehorn it into their site no matter what. It will still be easily broken to hell and back and effectively worthless--but at least that worthless crud won't be in the standard like (*gasp*) WEP. Not saying that WEP was bad-intentioned, but it's been found to be broken in ways that any HTML DRM will take only a fraction of the time to be broken. DRM practically exists only to be broken.
Add NoScript and the disabling of all third-party cookies and you've pretty much got my browser security setup. I never really used Ghostery (tried it; settled with Do Not Track Plus). After reading that article, I'm glad I didn't... I'd rather not fuel these filthy scumbags.
Could a separate/boot not solve this as well? After all, at least in the past, XFS did have some trouble working as a the / partition for certain boot loaders if I remember right...
Humans are lazy. we like the simplest way of doing things. Things like using fear to control mobs, and having some fairy sky being responsible for your actions makes things much easier to understand.
Religions generally use fear to control. If you don't follow us something bad will happen to you. However Fear while simple is actually the worst way to get someone to follow you. One day they will stop being afraid and if your lucky they will let you live while they leave.
Which is why I always thought that Christianity is a crock of shit as well as any similar religions (Islam, anyone? Muslim terrorists?) and have decided to just settle on Satanism for the most part. It doesn't try to force me to believe that there is some mythological supreme being in the sky that I must for whatever reason obey, nor does it try to transfer the the responsibilities of anything I do to said entity. What it says, ironically, just reaffirms my own natural, non-religious, anti-Christianity views. The Satanic Bible might have been more accurately named "The Book of Common Sense," except that title probably wouldn't make it a big seller.
Linux, ext4, Transmission. I have found no compatible BitTorrent clients that I would want to use, and I wasn't aware that Transmission was "shitty" compared to its competition. I also was unaware that the ext4 file system "sucked."
Last I checked, it still produces ~100 fragments per file, though maybe this has been fixed since I last used it. It has been a while though. (Hey, if something else seems to work adequately or even better for my needs and preferences, why bother using it?)
Supposedly there is a mysterious "preallocation option 2" for the program that fully pre-allocates the space before writing anything according to a forum topic I just found, but I have no idea how to activate it: https://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10013
That would at least solve the fragmentation problem (probably the biggest one), but the others would still remain. Lack of original timestamp would still be an annoyance, but the big problem would be network hogging--which, to be fair, can be somewhat alleviated with a lot of tweaking. But then, the lack of necessary tweaking is the entire reason I still use wget to download all files over FTP/HTTP in the first place.
[Pre-post discovery: The file ~/.config/transmission/settings.json houses that option. Nice way to hide it from view... without Google I would've never known it even existed. Pretty much everything else you might need is in the program's GUI/options screen. It looks like they pulled a GNOME here.]
While you're all saying "you know you can do this" and "you can do that too" to optimize your BitTorrent usage and make your network and Internet connection run decently , I can sit here downloading files at the maximum speed my connection will allow, with just one connection per download. Limit the rate of individual downloads, or better yet just queue them and they'll get done just fine. The problem with BitTorrent is NOT that clients come with sub-optimal settings (although they do) or that they need to be optimized for the local area network and Internet connection speed available (which is, again, true), but that they typically *require* you to do a decent amount to get good performance. Not just the seeding/downloading balance, but number of peers/connections (per torrent, total), speed limits (per file, total), etc.
What are they gonna do? Fire a machine gun by your ears a few minutes until you can't hear any more as a sentence? Yeah, that would have the potential to make you go deaf...
It's a good idea for sharing, but I'm not a fan of the way it loves to hog the Internet connection, it starts connections out the ass, flooding the network and just slows everything down. I tend to use wget for pretty much everything; with a decent server, it gets by just fine with only one connection. I also like the idea of maintaining at least somewhat-accurate timestamp data whenever possible, and BitTorrent doesn't seem to have a concept of that. And also, I like to maintain my own checksum files, so BitTorrent doing that itself is extra functionality that I don't need. Not too crazy about the serious fragmentation it can cause, and many clients just do not pre-allocate disk space or even have an option. The bigger the file, the better BitTorrent works--but unfortunately that little fact kind of stops it in its tracks; a file of many gigabytes, downloaded in thousands of random pieces, is bound to end up fragmented to hell and back if its space is not pre-allocated.
However, if there is no FTP/HTTP link, I won't hesitate to use BitTorrent. I just have a tendency to download everything I get from that protocol to a different drive than its intended destination, so the final move will "defragment" it.
Not everyone boots their systems "maybe twice a year." Hell, I leave my system running 24/7 and even I reboot a fair number of times more than that. Even if someone reboots for nothing more than kernel updates and otherwise never shuts down, they'll probably still reboot more than twice.
That said... while I see why they might want to "polish" the boot process and speed it up, I'm still not really sure it's worth it. Whenever I hear about "improving" the boot screen, I fear removing all the information displayed with a pretty picture. Many distributions have already done that... the next step is disabling F2/ESC. But hey, who cares as long as it looks pretty and its animation is smooth as liquid? And Fedora is just the kind of distro that I would expect do something like that, due to their attempts to be "user friendly" as a top priority.
Of course they don't want to kill him. It is criminals who feed the justice and prison systems in the U.S. If he's dead, then the government can't blow even more of our taxes keeping him in prison for years or even decades. That's bad for the federal government.
Come on, people! It's in the Christian bible, that their god looks down upon gay people, and that they are sinners. Why is no one re-writing the "bad" parts of the bible? Is it such a holy truth that it must never be touched?
This religious group, just maybe more extreme yet still as nutty as all the rest, appears to just want to a law to be put in place to do their god's work for them. Because, you know, their god must be so impotent that he can't even do the job himself. And billions of people pray to that deity for forgiveness every week? Come on!
I'm sure Charles Mansion wasn't the only nutjob who took some ideas from the bible and executed some his plans based on his own views. All in the name of some generically-named "god." How many of the most infamous serial killers aside from him were religious--and I'm not just talking about Christianity either? I bet a decent number of them, if not all of them. Nice way to take my words at face value and automatically assume that just because I am talking about a religious figure being nailed to a cross, that the same exact kind of crime/torture/killing is what I'm talking about. Hint: I'm not talking about imitation murders, and that was just an example. Mansion "believes" in the bible, yet I don't think he pinned anyone to a cross.
There is literally not a single part of Christianity that is violent.
Well, what about that Jew nailed to a stick that Christians just love to dwell on? That entire religion is pretty damn morbid... their bible brimming with fucked up shit, just waiting for someone with mental problems to take in such a way that they do something vile. It's a fucking morbid fairy tale meant to control primitive people.
Fuck religion, period. Christianity over time has had similar consequences. It's not a surprise that they are literally in the same family is nutty belief systems...
I would mod you up if I could. Well said. And people wonder why the economy here is so fucked up and jobs are so god damn hard to come by. They all went to fucking China.
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Not if you're not a developer and you want to work with machines, not work on them. If I wanted to work on my machine instead of actually using it, I'd still be running Windows.
How do you measure NIH? I'm not sure I see how you can put Microsoft is below GNOME and Ubuntu, although I'll be honest, they are all pretty bad about it...
Microsoft seems to be King of NIH to me, and GNOME is like Apple in their "our way or the highway" attitude about everything, but Ubuntu seems to be getting worse in several areas so it'd probably be too soon to judge them.
Bad idea. What if someone is in a library on a public computer and tries to log in, and just after they've entered their password, they wonder "Hmmm... what is that eye-looking thing?" Then they click it and--too late! A few people have already seen it. Oops! Add this "cloud computing" shit that all these companies are trying to force down our throats and you've got potential for problems.
But seriously though, it is a decent idea... just one that I'm sure is not infallible to situations similar to the above. Maybe once virtually everyone knows what it is it will be better, but until then maybe it should have the text [Show password] beside it.
If you are seriously worried about security, not only do you have to make sure no one is in vision range, you have to make sure they are not within microphone range as well. You can crack a password with just the sound of the keyboard.
But... does it work on Dvorak? Or Colemak?
Not as easy if you use a more optimized keyboard layout during installation that requires far less finger movement, since most of the keystrokes would end up on the home row... plus you'd have the added benefit that no key they see being pressed is actually what it appears. :P
Of course, while somewhat-serious, this doesn't really apply in the context of this thread because the original posts were talking about business installs. I guess it's still possible, you'd just have to change the default keyboard layout back to the standard, which would range as an annoyance on one installation to a pain in the ass on several.
Is double-typing the password blind not enough? Even then, showing the password in plain view should be purely an option.
If you still have to type their passwords twice even if they are in plain view, there will still be problems with people making typos and just copy-pasting them to the second field without noticing (especially with longer and more complex passwords). Even if not everyone uses the copy-paste method, people will still possibly make a typo in one or both password entry fields... again, using the other by sight to try to "correct" the one that looks wrong. What if both are wrong, only one looks more obvious? How will plain text passwords improve anything when it only increases the chances of entering the wrong password twice anyway, only now using different methods?
If you fuck up typing a password, it's best to just start over. The traditional way of masked passwords at least enforces this. This new retarded "default" is just going to cause even more trouble at the very least, if not reduced security.
If that would happen, that would be awesome. But you know, if such a thing was on the verge of happening, the scumbags in the advertising industry would throw so much money and lawyers out there that they would end up distorting everything and making it legal anyway, for reasons only worthless, crooked assholes like them could come up with.
But they're pretty useless without a kernel, and that's where Linux kicks in.
I have to say, Android might have its place on cell phones since there's not much better alternative, but I'd take a full Linux distribution with all the GNU tools over it any day. I was hoping ARM-based netbook/tablet computers would have taken off with the "real deal" and use something like KDE's mobile environment, but that never happened. We're stuck with Android and Apple crap. And it probably won't either, because of UEFI's "Secure Boot" garbage (thanks, Microsoft--fucking dickheads).
Yes it is, but do you expect DRM to be "equally accessible" on all platforms--from the major commercial operating systems (Windows, OS X) to the major open source distributions (Linux, BSD), to the potential up-and-coming hobby OSes (Haiku, ReactOS)? I don't; I still fully expect incompatible in the name of "security" (ie. to slow down cracking attempts) by making sure the DRM itself remains closed. Chances are, those companies with money to throw around who hide everything they release in binary blobs will win in the end, as usual. The corporations like Microsoft and Apple who have the "entertainment providers" in their pockets. In this case, you might as well stick with Flash as its use dwindles to nothing more than a DRMed-media playback sandbox program. Flash has already had a nice reduction in use over the years.
This crap is already being done with proprietary garbage like Flash and Silverlight as RMS mentioned. Let it stay that way, keep it out of web standards. If a company wants DRM bad enough, they'll find a way to shoehorn it into their site no matter what. It will still be easily broken to hell and back and effectively worthless--but at least that worthless crud won't be in the standard like (*gasp*) WEP. Not saying that WEP was bad-intentioned, but it's been found to be broken in ways that any HTML DRM will take only a fraction of the time to be broken. DRM practically exists only to be broken.
Add NoScript and the disabling of all third-party cookies and you've pretty much got my browser security setup. I never really used Ghostery (tried it; settled with Do Not Track Plus). After reading that article, I'm glad I didn't... I'd rather not fuel these filthy scumbags.
Could a separate /boot not solve this as well? After all, at least in the past, XFS did have some trouble working as a the / partition for certain boot loaders if I remember right...
Humans are lazy. we like the simplest way of doing things. Things like using fear to control mobs, and having some fairy sky being responsible for your actions makes things much easier to understand.
Religions generally use fear to control. If you don't follow us something bad will happen to you. However Fear while simple is actually the worst way to get someone to follow you. One day they will stop being afraid and if your lucky they will let you live while they leave.
Which is why I always thought that Christianity is a crock of shit as well as any similar religions (Islam, anyone? Muslim terrorists?) and have decided to just settle on Satanism for the most part. It doesn't try to force me to believe that there is some mythological supreme being in the sky that I must for whatever reason obey, nor does it try to transfer the the responsibilities of anything I do to said entity. What it says, ironically, just reaffirms my own natural, non-religious, anti-Christianity views. The Satanic Bible might have been more accurately named "The Book of Common Sense," except that title probably wouldn't make it a big seller.
Linux, ext4, Transmission. I have found no compatible BitTorrent clients that I would want to use, and I wasn't aware that Transmission was "shitty" compared to its competition. I also was unaware that the ext4 file system "sucked."
Last I checked, it still produces ~100 fragments per file, though maybe this has been fixed since I last used it. It has been a while though. (Hey, if something else seems to work adequately or even better for my needs and preferences, why bother using it?)
Supposedly there is a mysterious "preallocation option 2" for the program that fully pre-allocates the space before writing anything according to a forum topic I just found, but I have no idea how to activate it: https://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10013
That would at least solve the fragmentation problem (probably the biggest one), but the others would still remain. Lack of original timestamp would still be an annoyance, but the big problem would be network hogging--which, to be fair, can be somewhat alleviated with a lot of tweaking. But then, the lack of necessary tweaking is the entire reason I still use wget to download all files over FTP/HTTP in the first place.
[Pre-post discovery: The file ~/.config/transmission/settings.json houses that option. Nice way to hide it from view... without Google I would've never known it even existed. Pretty much everything else you might need is in the program's GUI/options screen. It looks like they pulled a GNOME here.]
While you're all saying "you know you can do this" and "you can do that too" to optimize your BitTorrent usage and make your network and Internet connection run decently , I can sit here downloading files at the maximum speed my connection will allow, with just one connection per download. Limit the rate of individual downloads, or better yet just queue them and they'll get done just fine. The problem with BitTorrent is NOT that clients come with sub-optimal settings (although they do) or that they need to be optimized for the local area network and Internet connection speed available (which is, again, true), but that they typically *require* you to do a decent amount to get good performance. Not just the seeding/downloading balance, but number of peers/connections (per torrent, total), speed limits (per file, total), etc.
What are they gonna do? Fire a machine gun by your ears a few minutes until you can't hear any more as a sentence? Yeah, that would have the potential to make you go deaf...
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It's a good idea for sharing, but I'm not a fan of the way it loves to hog the Internet connection, it starts connections out the ass, flooding the network and just slows everything down. I tend to use wget for pretty much everything; with a decent server, it gets by just fine with only one connection. I also like the idea of maintaining at least somewhat-accurate timestamp data whenever possible, and BitTorrent doesn't seem to have a concept of that. And also, I like to maintain my own checksum files, so BitTorrent doing that itself is extra functionality that I don't need. Not too crazy about the serious fragmentation it can cause, and many clients just do not pre-allocate disk space or even have an option. The bigger the file, the better BitTorrent works--but unfortunately that little fact kind of stops it in its tracks; a file of many gigabytes, downloaded in thousands of random pieces, is bound to end up fragmented to hell and back if its space is not pre-allocated.
However, if there is no FTP/HTTP link, I won't hesitate to use BitTorrent. I just have a tendency to download everything I get from that protocol to a different drive than its intended destination, so the final move will "defragment" it.
Not everyone boots their systems "maybe twice a year." Hell, I leave my system running 24/7 and even I reboot a fair number of times more than that. Even if someone reboots for nothing more than kernel updates and otherwise never shuts down, they'll probably still reboot more than twice.
That said... while I see why they might want to "polish" the boot process and speed it up, I'm still not really sure it's worth it. Whenever I hear about "improving" the boot screen, I fear removing all the information displayed with a pretty picture. Many distributions have already done that... the next step is disabling F2/ESC. But hey, who cares as long as it looks pretty and its animation is smooth as liquid? And Fedora is just the kind of distro that I would expect do something like that, due to their attempts to be "user friendly" as a top priority.
Of course they don't want to kill him. It is criminals who feed the justice and prison systems in the U.S. If he's dead, then the government can't blow even more of our taxes keeping him in prison for years or even decades. That's bad for the federal government.
Aww, you mean these guys are an extremist group for wanting the death penalty to be bestowed upon gays?
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Come on, people! It's in the Christian bible, that their god looks down upon gay people, and that they are sinners. Why is no one re-writing the "bad" parts of the bible? Is it such a holy truth that it must never be touched?
This religious group, just maybe more extreme yet still as nutty as all the rest, appears to just want to a law to be put in place to do their god's work for them. Because, you know, their god must be so impotent that he can't even do the job himself. And billions of people pray to that deity for forgiveness every week? Come on!
I'm sure Charles Mansion wasn't the only nutjob who took some ideas from the bible and executed some his plans based on his own views. All in the name of some generically-named "god." How many of the most infamous serial killers aside from him were religious--and I'm not just talking about Christianity either? I bet a decent number of them, if not all of them. Nice way to take my words at face value and automatically assume that just because I am talking about a religious figure being nailed to a cross, that the same exact kind of crime/torture/killing is what I'm talking about. Hint: I'm not talking about imitation murders, and that was just an example. Mansion "believes" in the bible, yet I don't think he pinned anyone to a cross.
There is literally not a single part of Christianity that is violent.
Well, what about that Jew nailed to a stick that Christians just love to dwell on? That entire religion is pretty damn morbid... their bible brimming with fucked up shit, just waiting for someone with mental problems to take in such a way that they do something vile. It's a fucking morbid fairy tale meant to control primitive people.
Fuck religion, period. Christianity over time has had similar consequences. It's not a surprise that they are literally in the same family is nutty belief systems...
I would mod you up if I could. Well said. And people wonder why the economy here is so fucked up and jobs are so god damn hard to come by. They all went to fucking China.