Yes, I remember that one also. Made me read some documents on the ELF and ELF virus infection. Compared with EXE infection, (good) ELF infection is a really hard thing to do. So kudos to all cross-plattform (even ELF-only) virus writers, those are real hackers IMHO.
It's good to know that UNIX/Linux has proper access rights systems which normally prevents complete system infection (except if you have an uncareful sysadmin)
ACK... simply hiding IE and other things is not the same as removing them. Windoze XP does NOT get modular by tweaking some Registry entries about what program to use as default.
It's a very clever move by MS do release this SP as many people really will believe MS is moving in the right direction with this while they're in fact standing still.
I doubt we'll see any really modular Windows ever, and even if we do than surely not because of MS changing their mind but because they are forced by the DoJ... let's see how the trial turns out.
Then don't listen to and buy their product..They only have money/power from the people who buy products that are protected by them.
Since I'm a goth and the only "mainstream" music I listen to is Bjork they don't see a cent from me anyways;-) I got two DJ cases full of CDs, nearly all of them from small indie labels:-)
...that "organizations" (they act more like companies like MS, don't they ?) like RIAA and MPAA are able to force other companies out of business simply by filing lawsuits until the company in question is running out of money.
And it's a shame that no one stops those a******s at RIAA and MPAA. They both have far too much power at their hands and play us consumers for a sucker...
Their pricy hands even reach us here in Europe... scary thing.
Gradius III/IV were released for the PS2, as well as Silpheed.
R-Type Delta and Square's (!) Einhander were stellar PSX shooters that came out in the last few years.
Simply because there are great games avaible for the Neo-Geo, especially if you like fighting games:-) I've never owned one but a friend of mine has, and the Neo-Geo is a really cool console with really cool games.
That's why my girl-friend and me were playing SNES and Genesis games the last weeks:-) Toe Jam and Earl rules;-)
Besides, is it just me or are there really fewer types of games released today ? I mean, have you seen any scrolling shooters like R-Type lately, or adventures ? Even jump'n'runs seem to be rare today:-( Damn 3D-philia !
This would seperate the world into a propietary and an open source part, with neither being able to really communicate with the other. Bad Thing(tm). The beauty of open source is that you can use it with propietary systems, thus allowing slow transitions.
For example, running Apache on Windows is a Good Thing because often management requires you to use Windows, even as a server OS. And in this scenario it'd be good to at least run open source apps.
Crippling that option would seriously harm the open source movement.
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Not officially, but final release RPM packages for all the major distros on a public FTP server *IS* a release. No matter how you put it. Make use of user access rights and you're able to distribute these packages to the mirrors without the public beeing able to download it.
But if the public is able to download it from the source they expect (even in the correct directory), it *IS* a release. The fact that there was no announcement yet is another thing.
So when I click on "Help->About KDE..." and it displays "Release 3.0.0", how can you say it's not released yet ?
Then, why are you still reading Slashdot ? Go read some MSNBC or stuff. Maybe Slashdot posted this one because it got submitted a lot ?
And what is this Katz-bashing all the time ? If you don't like to read stories from him then just don't ! Go to your preferences and exclude him from the authors you'd like to read from.
Slashdot is not a news site like C|NUT or The Register or whatnot, it works totally different. Keep that in mind.
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They have found out sooner... on Heise Online Newsticker (German only) this got posted about six hours before Slashdot did. That's why I read this story with KDE/Konqueror 3.0.0;-)
Re:Is it me or is KDE3 slow?
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Actually, I find it way more responsive and faster than KDE2. I'm using SuSE 7.3 and downloaded the SuSE RPMs which were pretty painless to install with only two or three path-corrections to the/etc/profile and stuff.
Especially Konqueror is much faster and responsive now. Maybe the slowdown of the RC-version you installed was due to debugging features ?
Besides the faster Konqueror, I like the improved KMail most. I'm using the new KDE3 for half a day now, and it's really stable, no crashes yet, and I found no obvious bugs yet (as I did in 2.0). Congrats to the KDE folks, really good work IMHO.
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Well, I'm writing this with Konqueror/KDE 3.0.0 which I downloaded about six hours before this story got posted here. Ya know, there are some people who just can't wait;-)
And there won't be a mess, things *might* just slow down a bit. After all, the KDE FTP server is not a homebrewn dial-up server or shit.
I show some freaking respect towards the developers. I like their stuff that much that I couldn't wait a minute to get my hands on their newest creations.
The only thing I dislike about this story getting posted is that there is no link to the mirrors page, which was were I looked first of course. Or a link to download.kde.org which shows there already ARE some FTP mirror sites having the 3.0 release.
You should've pointed towards theses URLs instead of flaming around, IMHO...
Yeah, I get this too... now, this is irony, isn't it ? A site that is intended to say "UNIX bad, MS good" and as soon as they switch from UNIX (FreeBSD) to Windows have problems they otherwise wouldn't have:-)
If you have the time/patience/skills, you could build yourself a suitcase PC like this one, which would be a cheap solution.
The advantage is that you can throw in whatever hardware you need. The disadvantage is the monitor, which you still would have to transport seperately but if you buy a cheap LCD monitor this could be a good soultion because you'd have an easy-to-transport PC that is cheaper than a laptop and provides the power you need.
Re:There is something like that in russia already.
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Yes, that also came to my mind... saw an article about this one in german television about one year ago or so. I guess the french "hacker school" isn't very good because they are definetly not up to date;-)
Having played with the NES, the SNES and the Nintendo64 I'm impatiently waiting for the GameCube to be released in Europe and get my hands on Luigi's Mansion !
Damn, Super Mario Bros. 1 is still one of my most favorite games and while I personally think that the PlayStation (1 and 2) has better games, the Mario and Zelda Series are reason enough to buy any Nintendo console:-) Those two game series just kick ass, and they kick ass for a long time now.
Because of that I can easily imagine that the GameCube is the fastest selling console ever, but I'm still sceptical... I'd like to see some independent numbers.
Your statements about current Nazis being poor and ignorant and jobless only applies to the skinheads, not to people in general who have sympathy for nazi ideology or who question certain aspects of received history about nazis or the "holocaust".
In fact, your rush to equate "nazis" with poor people is classic status anxiety: like most "anti-racists" your real motivation is fear that you, as a German (or a white person, or whatever) will be lumped in the same category as some poor, ignorant skinhead, lower class loser with no job, and that you will lose status - become declasse - thereby.
That's just my observation, unfortunately I know a few skinheads (if you prefer that term), and they are stupid and nearly all of them are job-less. Not my fault.
I don't think it's a coincidence that there are more skinheads in East Germany, where the unemployment rate is much higher than in the west.
I certainly agree with you that not all of them are stupid and unemployed but to me it seems like the majority of them is.
And yes, I fear being "lumped" in the same category because I hold a completely different view. As I said before, ever being blamed for things that happend even before your father was born ? It's not funny.
So I can't say nobody was ever killed in Aushwitz, because thats a big fat lie, but I CAN say that no Japanese POWs were ever tortured, because thats a big fat lie thats not about Nazis? You guys need to get over this whole Nazi obsession already.
I never thought about that, I think you're right about this. And yes, we have a Nazi "obsession": once is enough. More than enough.
I personally am left-winged and a member of the "Internet community" for years, I have contact to several foreigners, and because of that I simply hate Nazis for their stupidity. I made the experience that most Nazis here in Germany are stupid people, mostly job-less stupid people. They like to blame that on foreigners, simply because it's easy and avoids them from facing the truth: that they themselves are the problem.
We don't like to have a majority of such fools again, so we try all kind of things to prevent that.
You're right that we may go too far with this sometimes, but the fear that Nazis become strong again in Germany sits deep within us germans now, and it's not limited to germans: most other countries don't like to see them become strong again.
Because of that, in 1945, the Americans (along with others), have forbidden any German to promote Nazism. It seems the Germans want to keep this law.
Absolutely. It's not funny being blamed for things that happened when your father was so young he couldn't speek. I think we learned from our past.
BTW, this is why I personally am very happy that the US asked Germany for troops. It shows that the world is trusting us again, which is good for our self-confidence:-)
By "illegal content" they mean Nazi propaganda and violence glamorizing content.
Pr0n is legal in germany, with the only exception of child pornography, of course... banning pr0n would be like banning beer, people wouldn't accept that;-)
Actually, freedom of speech is also in the german law, but it has exceptions: you may not say things like "nobody was ever killed in Auschwitz" (because that would be a big fat lie) or similiar Nazi shit. It's like you said, it is important to say what you like, but there have to be limitations when it comes to hate speech, racist saying and simply false statements about our very sad history.
I personally think this is a Good Thing (tm), because normally you never have a problem with this, unless you're a Nazi. And we don't like to have Nazis any more (unfortunately there are still some left, especially in East Germany, but those are just a very stupid very small minority).
I also totally agree with you that there are simply different ways of doing things: our freedom of speech is limited because of our history, and as long as only hate speech and Nazi propaganda are banned, things are fine. You may still say "I think Gerhard Schroeder is an asshole" (which I don't think, but it's a fine example;-) without getting any trouble.
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Yes, I remember that one also. Made me read some documents on the ELF and ELF virus infection. Compared with EXE infection, (good) ELF infection is a really hard thing to do. So kudos to all cross-plattform (even ELF-only) virus writers, those are real hackers IMHO.
It's good to know that UNIX/Linux has proper access rights systems which normally prevents complete system infection (except if you have an uncareful sysadmin)
ACK... simply hiding IE and other things is not the same as removing them. Windoze XP does NOT get modular by tweaking some Registry entries about what program to use as default.
It's a very clever move by MS do release this SP as many people really will believe MS is moving in the right direction with this while they're in fact standing still.
I doubt we'll see any really modular Windows ever, and even if we do than surely not because of MS changing their mind but because they are forced by the DoJ... let's see how the trial turns out.
Since I'm a goth and the only "mainstream" music I listen to is Bjork they don't see a cent from me anyways ;-) I got two DJ cases full of CDs, nearly all of them from small indie labels :-)
...that "organizations" (they act more like companies like MS, don't they ?) like RIAA and MPAA are able to force other companies out of business simply by filing lawsuits until the company in question is running out of money.
And it's a shame that no one stops those a******s at RIAA and MPAA. They both have far too much power at their hands and play us consumers for a sucker...
Their pricy hands even reach us here in Europe... scary thing.
I didn't know that, thnx a lot :-)
Simply because there are great games avaible for the Neo-Geo, especially if you like fighting games :-) I've never owned one but a friend of mine has, and the Neo-Geo is a really cool console with really cool games.
That's why my girl-friend and me were playing SNES and Genesis games the last weeks :-) Toe Jam and Earl rules ;-)
Besides, is it just me or are there really fewer types of games released today ? I mean, have you seen any scrolling shooters like R-Type lately, or adventures ? Even jump'n'runs seem to be rare today :-( Damn 3D-philia !
This would seperate the world into a propietary and an open source part, with neither being able to really communicate with the other. Bad Thing(tm). The beauty of open source is that you can use it with propietary systems, thus allowing slow transitions.
For example, running Apache on Windows is a Good Thing because often management requires you to use Windows, even as a server OS. And in this scenario it'd be good to at least run open source apps.
Crippling that option would seriously harm the open source movement.
Not officially, but final release RPM packages for all the major distros on a public FTP server *IS* a release. No matter how you put it. Make use of user access rights and you're able to distribute these packages to the mirrors without the public beeing able to download it.
But if the public is able to download it from the source they expect (even in the correct directory), it *IS* a release. The fact that there was no announcement yet is another thing. So when I click on "Help->About KDE..." and it displays "Release 3.0.0", how can you say it's not released yet ?
Then, why are you still reading Slashdot ? Go read some MSNBC or stuff. Maybe Slashdot posted this one because it got submitted a lot ?
And what is this Katz-bashing all the time ? If you don't like to read stories from him then just don't ! Go to your preferences and exclude him from the authors you'd like to read from.
Slashdot is not a news site like C|NUT or The Register or whatnot, it works totally different. Keep that in mind.
They have found out sooner... on Heise Online Newsticker (German only) this got posted about six hours before Slashdot did. That's why I read this story with KDE/Konqueror 3.0.0 ;-)
Actually, I find it way more responsive and faster than KDE2. I'm using SuSE 7.3 and downloaded the SuSE RPMs which were pretty painless to install with only two or three path-corrections to the /etc/profile and stuff.
Especially Konqueror is much faster and responsive now. Maybe the slowdown of the RC-version you installed was due to debugging features ?
Besides the faster Konqueror, I like the improved KMail most. I'm using the new KDE3 for half a day now, and it's really stable, no crashes yet, and I found no obvious bugs yet (as I did in 2.0). Congrats to the KDE folks, really good work IMHO.
Well, I'm writing this with Konqueror/KDE 3.0.0 which I downloaded about six hours before this story got posted here. Ya know, there are some people who just can't wait ;-)
And there won't be a mess, things *might* just slow down a bit. After all, the KDE FTP server is not a homebrewn dial-up server or shit.
I show some freaking respect towards the developers. I like their stuff that much that I couldn't wait a minute to get my hands on their newest creations.
The only thing I dislike about this story getting posted is that there is no link to the mirrors page, which was were I looked first of course. Or a link to download.kde.org which shows there already ARE some FTP mirror sites having the 3.0 release.
You should've pointed towards theses URLs instead of flaming around, IMHO...
Yeah, I get this too... now, this is irony, isn't it ? A site that is intended to say "UNIX bad, MS good" and as soon as they switch from UNIX (FreeBSD) to Windows have problems they otherwise wouldn't have :-)
to post her answer ! And we want a photo of the marriage as well ! :-)
The advantage is that you can throw in whatever hardware you need. The disadvantage is the monitor, which you still would have to transport seperately but if you buy a cheap LCD monitor this could be a good soultion because you'd have an easy-to-transport PC that is cheaper than a laptop and provides the power you need.
Yes, that also came to my mind... saw an article about this one in german television about one year ago or so. I guess the french "hacker school" isn't very good because they are definetly not up to date ;-)
Damn, Super Mario Bros. 1 is still one of my most favorite games and while I personally think that the PlayStation (1 and 2) has better games, the Mario and Zelda Series are reason enough to buy any Nintendo console :-) Those two game series just kick ass, and they kick ass for a long time now.
Because of that I can easily imagine that the GameCube is the fastest selling console ever, but I'm still sceptical... I'd like to see some independent numbers.
In fact, your rush to equate "nazis" with poor people is classic status anxiety: like most "anti-racists" your real motivation is fear that you, as a German (or a white person, or whatever) will be lumped in the same category as some poor, ignorant skinhead, lower class loser with no job, and that you will lose status - become declasse - thereby.
That's just my observation, unfortunately I know a few skinheads (if you prefer that term), and they are stupid and nearly all of them are job-less. Not my fault.
I don't think it's a coincidence that there are more skinheads in East Germany, where the unemployment rate is much higher than in the west.
I certainly agree with you that not all of them are stupid and unemployed but to me it seems like the majority of them is.
And yes, I fear being "lumped" in the same category because I hold a completely different view. As I said before, ever being blamed for things that happend even before your father was born ? It's not funny.
I never thought about that, I think you're right about this. And yes, we have a Nazi "obsession": once is enough. More than enough.
I personally am left-winged and a member of the "Internet community" for years, I have contact to several foreigners, and because of that I simply hate Nazis for their stupidity. I made the experience that most Nazis here in Germany are stupid people, mostly job-less stupid people. They like to blame that on foreigners, simply because it's easy and avoids them from facing the truth: that they themselves are the problem.
We don't like to have a majority of such fools again, so we try all kind of things to prevent that.
You're right that we may go too far with this sometimes, but the fear that Nazis become strong again in Germany sits deep within us germans now, and it's not limited to germans: most other countries don't like to see them become strong again.
There is the exception that you may not express hate speech, deny the Nazi cruelties or use racist expressions.
Absolutely. It's not funny being blamed for things that happened when your father was so young he couldn't speek. I think we learned from our past.
BTW, this is why I personally am very happy that the US asked Germany for troops. It shows that the world is trusting us again, which is good for our self-confidence :-)
Pr0n is legal in germany, with the only exception of child pornography, of course... banning pr0n would be like banning beer, people wouldn't accept that ;-)
Only a few (four or six) well-known Nazi pages are banned, AFAIK.
I personally think this is a Good Thing (tm), because normally you never have a problem with this, unless you're a Nazi. And we don't like to have Nazis any more (unfortunately there are still some left, especially in East Germany, but those are just a very stupid very small minority).
I also totally agree with you that there are simply different ways of doing things: our freedom of speech is limited because of our history, and as long as only hate speech and Nazi propaganda are banned, things are fine. You may still say "I think Gerhard Schroeder is an asshole" (which I don't think, but it's a fine example ;-) without getting any trouble.