True, in many cases. So what? Do what Wine does-- figure them out. And that only applies to Microsoft applications. There are a LOT of applications out there that use the standard ones.
OK, windows is an operating system, with many thousands of API's, figuring them out ain't that easy.
2) But RM101! They'll just change the APIs!!!!
No, they can't, or they break everyone's software out there. Microsoft was built on backward compatbility.
How many application broke between 2000 and XP?
3) But RM101! They'll just sue anyone who tries!!
First of all, Microsoft has ZERO history of suing companies in order to destroy them (See Apple for an example of a company that uses the lawsuit as a weapon). And even if they did, so what? Like I said, money and guts. They'll lose.
Well, the relationship of Microsoft and the law is a whole book in itself, I'll just point you to it's EULA and the efforts it made against samba.
PLEASE!! SOMEONE OUT THERE GET A CLUE!!
No comment.
I thought Lindows had one, but apparently not.
There are plenty of short coming in Lindow, most of the ones you have pointed out however seem bogus.
>Since when does people who can't spell count as a design flaw?
People not being able to spell is not a design floor, the ablitiy of a web page to open 64 seperate windows however is a design floor. The ability to open one or more windows when your window is closed is just stupid.
Tom Stoppard, the screenwriter also responsible for Shakespeare In Love, weaves these two threads together with car chases, kissing, train whistles, moonlit nights, illicit file swapping and a few other romantic chords.
Illicit file swapping? Better not tell the MPAA about this.
More seriously, you can't have 127.0.0.1 for example as an INTERNET ip address, as its reservered for private use (in this case localhost, but there are many other private addresses).
If you read the article you'll see the installer is broken in a quite fundamental way. It's very fragile, and not at all modular. For the debian install people, with the number of new platforms they are starting to support this is a major problem.
Also, as the article states, it does not handle problems very well.
All in all, the debian boot floppies handle installations admirally, but ther'ye past their sell by date, and the new debian-installer should make a wonderfully addition.
>...fusion bombs are always ignited with a fission primer
True, but I remember reading about the Russians trying to develop a "pure fusion" bomb with something called red mecury (I think).
It's a shame they didn't succeed (or a least didn't release the technology) as large construction projects utilizing H-bombs is an interesting idea, but it's not much use if you irradiate the area while doing so. I guess it's just too difficult to get enough power out of chemical explosives
>The other advantage is that hackers can't touch it...
>With a hardware solution, it's almost impossible to trojan and/or modify the hardware.
I disagree. The hardware would require kernel drivers to work, and if a person has root access to change programs then they could change the kernel. It may be technically hard for them to do so, but it is still possible.
Hardware solutions are much quicker, but make it harder to use different encryption algorithms (unless it uses firmware which is upgradable, but that introduces yet another possiblity for an attacker to place trojan code). All in all, I think software solution is a more useful solution for most people, and if you think you need a stronger solution you should talk to a security specialist who can secure your whole setup.
Perhaps you should read the article again. The whole point of the loopback device is to mount files as partitions.
Scramdisk is a very good program for windows (although it has one of the ugliest user interfaces I have seen), but it serves essentially the same purpose as using an encrypted loopback device.
Scramdisk will be a welcome addition to linux (though hopefully they will pretty it up a bit), especially if they make it easier for novices to use encrypted filesystems. It also has the ability to use steganography like StegFS, which is as added bonus.
The fact that an observable (e.g. position) is quantized does not in itself mean it cannot have an infinite number of states.
It's like the difference between integers and real numbers. Real numbers are continuous, whereas integers take discrete values (quantized if you like), however both has an infinite range of values (give me an integer, and I can alway add one to it.)
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Or try this script to do it automatically:
http://www.selenic.com/ketchup
You may want to keep an eye on the Kroupware Project with it's kolab server: http://kroupware.kde.org
It requires a commercial plugin from outlook and is currently beta, but it could be one for the future.
There is absolutely nothing special about *.deb or apt-get, it is all about the packagers and the commutiny surrounding them.
1) But RM101! They APIS are undocumented!!!
True, in many cases. So what? Do what Wine does-- figure them out. And that only applies to Microsoft applications. There are a LOT of applications out there that use the standard ones.
OK, windows is an operating system, with many thousands of API's, figuring them out ain't that easy.
2) But RM101! They'll just change the APIs!!!!
No, they can't, or they break everyone's software out there. Microsoft was built on backward compatbility.
How many application broke between 2000 and XP?
3) But RM101! They'll just sue anyone who tries!!
First of all, Microsoft has ZERO history of suing companies in order to destroy them (See Apple for an example of a company that uses the lawsuit as a weapon). And even if they did, so what? Like I said, money and guts. They'll lose.
Well, the relationship of Microsoft and the law is a whole book in itself, I'll just point you to it's EULA and the efforts it made against samba.
PLEASE!! SOMEONE OUT THERE GET A CLUE!!
No comment.
I thought Lindows had one, but apparently not.
There are plenty of short coming in Lindow, most of the ones you have pointed out however seem bogus.
>Since when does people who can't spell count as a design flaw?
People not being able to spell is not a design floor, the ablitiy of a web page to open 64 seperate windows however is a design floor. The ability to open one or more windows when your window is closed is just stupid.
>Wine is not an operating system, it is an emulator.
Wine is NOT an emulator, christ this fact is in the bloody name!
Illicit file swapping? Better not tell the MPAA about this.
1, there is an invalid ip address :)
More seriously, you can't have 127.0.0.1 for example as an INTERNET ip address, as its reservered for private use (in this case localhost, but there are many other private addresses).
Only if they get good shit
If you read the article you'll see the installer is broken in a quite fundamental way. It's very fragile, and not at all modular. For the debian install people, with the number of new platforms they are starting to support this is a major problem.
Also, as the article states, it does not handle problems very well.
All in all, the debian boot floppies handle installations admirally, but ther'ye past their sell by date, and the new debian-installer should make a wonderfully addition.
Another interesting one:
ReiserFS are being paid to incorporate encryption into the next version of their file system. I wonder what will happen to that now?
I'll file a bug report with the Vatican.
>...fusion bombs are always ignited with a fission primer
True, but I remember reading about the Russians trying to develop a "pure fusion" bomb with something called red mecury (I think).
It's a shame they didn't succeed (or a least didn't release the technology) as large construction projects utilizing H-bombs is an interesting idea, but it's not much use if you irradiate the area while doing so. I guess it's just too difficult to get enough power out of chemical explosives
>The other advantage is that hackers can't touch it...
>With a hardware solution, it's almost impossible to trojan and/or modify the hardware.
I disagree. The hardware would require kernel drivers to work, and if a person has root access to change programs then they could change the kernel. It may be technically hard for them to do so, but it is still possible.
Hardware solutions are much quicker, but make it harder to use different encryption algorithms (unless it uses firmware which is upgradable, but that introduces yet another possiblity for an attacker to place trojan code). All in all, I think software solution is a more useful solution for most people, and if you think you need a stronger solution you should talk to a security specialist who can secure your whole setup.
Full sorce code is available on the website
Perhaps you should read the article again. The whole point of the loopback device is to mount files as partitions.
Scramdisk is a very good program for windows (although it has one of the ugliest user interfaces I have seen), but it serves essentially the same purpose as using an encrypted loopback device.
Scramdisk will be a welcome addition to linux (though hopefully they will pretty it up a bit), especially if they make it easier for novices to use encrypted filesystems. It also has the ability to use steganography like StegFS, which is as added bonus.
The fact that an observable (e.g. position) is quantized does not in itself mean it cannot have an infinite number of states. It's like the difference between integers and real numbers. Real numbers are continuous, whereas integers take discrete values (quantized if you like), however both has an infinite range of values (give me an integer, and I can alway add one to it.)