is that pretty much all operating systems are equally secure. The insecurities in the operating systems are not the same, but neither one is bulletproof. Windows seems more insecure, but that is because more people try to hack it, because more people use it. Linux seems more secure because it is hacked less, which is because less people use it. However UNIX is very old and very open and has just as many ways to get in as windows does.
From what I've experience operating system choice is not a major factor in security. The biggest factor in security is how well the operating system in question has been configured. You could run the newest linux with all the shiniest intrusion detection stuff, but if you let the guest account rm -f *.* you're in a bit of trouble. Nothing is more key for security than proper configuration. And of course, not downloading e-mail attachments in outlook.
As far as I'm concerned, from a purely technical standpoint, BeOS is the BEst Operating System ever. It has absolutely everythign I've ever wanted. The only reason I don't use it is the lack of software. Can I get photoshop for it? How about Winamp? Icq? Aim? Eudora? Most importantly Half-Life: Counterstrike? Some yes some no. Despite all of its outstanding technical greatness BeOS doesn't have all of the software I need. Windows has absolutely everything, and games. Linux has everythign I need, or a good equivalent of what I need, and it has tools for developing software. So I run windows and Mandrake. I would LOVE to run BeOS, it's got everything I've ever wanted. But no software. Sorrow!
I didn't even know that existed. That solves all of the problems with AOL. I remember way back when I used AOL. It was an ok service provider. I didn't get busy signals like everyone else. The only gripe I ever had with AOL as in ISP was that in order to connect you had to run the bloated memory eating AOL software. Whereas for another dial up ISP I could use the super lite built in windows dial up networking. I don't want to have to use up all my RAM just to establish a connection. I always ended up minimizing the AOL software and using netscape or other programs.
PENG, which I didn't know about until just now, appears to be the ultimate solution. It makes AOL exactly the same as every other dial-up ISP. No bloated software to load, and it works in linux!
I can see why aol is pissed though. Because of PENG there is at least one person out there who isn't seeing their ads and is probably getting better transfer rates because there isn't a crapload of software hogging the cpu and bandwith(with ads). So that's money lost for AOL. Admittedly it isn't much money lost. I mean how many people use linux and AOL? Two totally seperate groups of people.
Hopefully it will encourage AOL to not force its users to load a giant ad-laden piece of software to connect, or at least to re-compile that bloated piece of software for linux.
yeah put all the stuff in the Jon Katz category. So I'll never ever see it. You know I almost forgot about Katz until you mentioned him. I think I've had his articles blocked for almost a year now. Dang.
It could be a pr move more than anything else. But if it was a pr move wouldn't it be, well, more public? I mean if you do something only because you want it to make you look good you generally try to publicize it. This is just a form on a standard government web site. Nothing special. I think it probably isn't a pr move because the congresmmen want to limit the amount of spam and stupid submissions they recieve. Because the congresspeople didn't make a big deal otu of it shows that they hope they are only going to recieve a few good comments rather than thousands and thousands of
think that there's a warchalking symbol for a honeypot. I think that writing SANDERS in really poor backwards handwriting is good enough./me hopes people aren't lame, and they get the joke
is usually build PCs. And not as often as I'd like (the poorness!) but my favorite tool is the little grabby thing that gets loose screws out from motherboards. When doing any work with a pc and screws it is guaranteed you will drop a screw onto the board at least once. Radio Shack makes great computer tool kits.
But I think it's sort of pointless to look for earth-ish planets. I know that we're looking for existing life or possible places to live, but isn't it very possible there is some sort of life that lives in a drastically different environment than we do? There could very well be some crazy lifeform that lives on gas giants. Not only that, but all of the plaets outside our solar system are many light-years away. It takes way too long to get to them. I think time would be much better spent on figuring out how to live in unfavorable places, or change their climate to be favorable to our life. A moon colony seems a lot more likely, possible, and useful in the near future than some planet a google light years away.
I've seen that quote posted around a zillion times. But it kicks just as much as the last time I saw it. Why is it that congress can't understand this? I would assume they have to be reasonable intelligent people in order to become elected officials. And certaintly they aren't corrupt!;-)
just as he says, stealing software IS wrong. There's no way around it. However, I don't like how he calls the corporations innocent. While it's not good to steal ever. Many big software comapanies are far from innocent.
Even though this is a repeat story (that never happens!) It is good to know that not everyone in D.C. is a corrupt pawn of a corporation out to make money and nothing more. So voting isn't meaningless. Find out which people aren't corrupt and get them in office.
I don't know about you, but I've been able to do this with my Sound Blaster Live! Value, always. Even with the newest version of the the Creative AudioHQ. All you do is set the recording device to Wav/Direct Sound and record with your favorite recording software. You can use the EAX or the Advanced EQ if you want. There is also "What U Hear". Which allows you to record everything that comes out of your speakers. So I can record my Line in, a playing mp3, and my friend on the microphone simultaneously. The ability to do this on the mac may be a new thing. And it's obviously a nice way around some DRM. But it's been around for a long time. At least 3 years.
Totally agreement. The difference you get in audio or video quality by using different cables is very very small. Surely the crappiest of cables will have lots of interference and noise. But if you get a decent shielded cable from radio shack the difference between that and the most expensive fancy cable is so small that it's not worth the dough. As for the S-Video, yes using S-Video does make a huge difference. Using component cables, however, makes just as big a difference. Especially on the gamecube. FYI the cube has two A/V outs on the back. One is analog and one is digital. the analog one can be fitted with anything from a coax to an s-video cable, the digital one can be fitted with component video out. I don't have a tv with s-video in, let alone component in, but we went over to the auditorium on campus with the component digital out and hooked it up to a 1024x768 resolution LCD projector. HOLY CRAP! Holy crap! It was every bit as good as if we had a huge gas plasma. Can't wait for Godzilla destroy all monsters melee. Use that projector and get us some 20 foot long mothras!
if ye mods me down! nyar! avast me mateys! There be gold dubloons ahoy on the seven seas! nyar! Prepare to walk the plank ye scurvy swab! ahoy pirates nyar.
Pirates r00l.
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I think a recycling bin in more necessary in linux than in windows. In windows you graphically see exactly which files are being deleted, because everything is graphical. In linux you might do something like rm *a*b*c*.* That command can delete anywhere from 0 to all of your files depending on how they are named. And if you accidentally type *a*f*c*.* you might delete the wrong thing. Doesn't happen in windows, unless you are using cygwin.
on what you are going to do on your year off. If you are going to get a job in the field you are itnerested in and get a year of experience, then it's not really a year off. If you are going to take a trip around the world or do some research project, or code a large piece of software, or something like that then a year off is fine. If you are going to sit on your couch playing all the Gamecube games that come out and forget everythign you learned in high school then a year off is bad. It's ok to wait a year before going to college as long as you do something productive.
I reformatted my hard drive and re-installed my OSes. Mandrake 9 is cool, but it doesn't come with pine! Anyway I went to re-download my apps and found that a new version of VNC came out days ago. I don't know if they formed a new company called realvnc because the web site is still at bell labs. I think they just changed the name of the program. The most welcome new feature is that you don't lose your wallpaper if you don't want to. Not to mention it is faster and better in every way. If you use VNC, get the new one. I must say that the icons for VNC are now uglier than they used to be, anyone got the old one?
when I call for civil disobedience in posts on slashdot I get modded down to all crap. Yet when some other guy writes an article about it, he gets a news post.
Is this video codec any good? Does it provide any advantage over DivX;-) ? Besides being an open video codec from the makers of ogg, what technical advantages are there to using it? If I make a video with it that is equivalent in quality to a 30 minutes 200MB divx will the quality be higher or file size be smaller without losing quality? If not it seems just another case of open source re-inventing the wheel. I mean, that's what ogg is, an open source re-invention of the wheel.
What is it about these scientologists that they can get away with this? The same bill of rights that allows their crazy cult to exist is the same one that allows me to make fun of them. If I had the money I would make the mother of all anti-scientologist websites. If you are a scientologist and are reading this, I invite you to my house. It's one thign to believe in an all powerful deity that created the universe. It's another thing to believe in a book that some guy wrote, because some other guy bet that he couldn't create a religeon.
The reason pcs are losing out is because of the lack of revolutionary games. As just about every post here has stated the obvious. Different game genres play better on pc and others play better on console. Because of the new generation of console there have been recent revolutionary or almost revolutionary games in the genres that play well on consoles. Games like Kingdom Hears, which might as well be Secret of Mana 3D. Eternal Darkness, which is totally Lovecraft. Smash Brothers Meleee, which is a genre in and of itself. PC games have been stuck in a rut as of late. The games released for them aren't revolutionary in any way. WarCraft 3 IMO is just another RTS with improved graphics and gameplay. It didn't change the game. WC3 is still build stuff fast while balancing attack and defense. Neverwinter Nights is just Baldur's Gate, only newer and shinier. I'm not saying these are bad games. I'm just saying they don't bring anything new to the genre. They are more of an upgrade than a new game. The new console games are bringing in all sorts of new stuff. Pikmin (sorry for all the GC examples, it happens to be the system I own) is a brand new type of puzzle game, there's nothign else like it. Animal Crossing has more to do in it than any other game I've ever seen. You could play it for years and never do everything. New PC games like UT2003 (the demo) are just new games. THe UT2003 demo didn't amaze me in any way. There were lots of death animations and new levels, and pretty graphics. But it was the same as all the other first person shooters. It didn't change the game. Hopefully Doom 3 will be the revolutionary game we are waiting for. Quake 1 was revolutionary by bringing in true 3D. Quake 2 was also, it perfected the 3D fps. Quake 3 was not, it simply improved the graphics, tweaked some things, and added features. When more "must play" games come out for PC PC gaming will get better. Interest in PC gaming has not dwindled. It is simply that the genres that are played on PCs are in a rut, one that should hopefully end soon.
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I've always used KDevelop for linux C and C++ development. Looks like I'll be using it for Java soon as well. Hooray!
is that pretty much all operating systems are equally secure. The insecurities in the operating systems are not the same, but neither one is bulletproof. Windows seems more insecure, but that is because more people try to hack it, because more people use it. Linux seems more secure because it is hacked less, which is because less people use it. However UNIX is very old and very open and has just as many ways to get in as windows does.
From what I've experience operating system choice is not a major factor in security. The biggest factor in security is how well the operating system in question has been configured. You could run the newest linux with all the shiniest intrusion detection stuff, but if you let the guest account rm -f *.* you're in a bit of trouble. Nothing is more key for security than proper configuration. And of course, not downloading e-mail attachments in outlook.
As far as I'm concerned, from a purely technical standpoint, BeOS is the BEst Operating System ever. It has absolutely everythign I've ever wanted. The only reason I don't use it is the lack of software. Can I get photoshop for it? How about Winamp? Icq? Aim? Eudora? Most importantly Half-Life: Counterstrike? Some yes some no. Despite all of its outstanding technical greatness BeOS doesn't have all of the software I need.
Windows has absolutely everything, and games.
Linux has everythign I need, or a good equivalent of what I need, and it has tools for developing software.
So I run windows and Mandrake. I would LOVE to run BeOS, it's got everything I've ever wanted. But no software. Sorrow!
I didn't even know that existed. That solves all of the problems with AOL. I remember way back when I used AOL. It was an ok service provider. I didn't get busy signals like everyone else. The only gripe I ever had with AOL as in ISP was that in order to connect you had to run the bloated memory eating AOL software. Whereas for another dial up ISP I could use the super lite built in windows dial up networking. I don't want to have to use up all my RAM just to establish a connection. I always ended up minimizing the AOL software and using netscape or other programs.
PENG, which I didn't know about until just now, appears to be the ultimate solution. It makes AOL exactly the same as every other dial-up ISP. No bloated software to load, and it works in linux!
I can see why aol is pissed though. Because of PENG there is at least one person out there who isn't seeing their ads and is probably getting better transfer rates because there isn't a crapload of software hogging the cpu and bandwith(with ads). So that's money lost for AOL. Admittedly it isn't much money lost. I mean how many people use linux and AOL? Two totally seperate groups of people.
Hopefully it will encourage AOL to not force its users to load a giant ad-laden piece of software to connect, or at least to re-compile that bloated piece of software for linux.
Nah, I don't think they're that intelligent.
Some quality security at the cost of anonymity. Depends which way you swing.
yeah put all the stuff in the Jon Katz category. So I'll never ever see it. You know I almost forgot about Katz until you mentioned him. I think I've had his articles blocked for almost a year now. Dang.
It could be a pr move more than anything else. But if it was a pr move wouldn't it be, well, more public? I mean if you do something only because you want it to make you look good you generally try to publicize it. This is just a form on a standard government web site. Nothing special. I think it probably isn't a pr move because the congresmmen want to limit the amount of spam and stupid submissions they recieve.
Because the congresspeople didn't make a big deal otu of it shows that they hope they are only going to recieve a few good comments rather than thousands and thousands of
DRM 5|_|x0rz!!!!111
Could be pr, but it doesn't look like it to me.
think that there's a warchalking symbol for a honeypot. I think that writing SANDERS in really poor backwards handwriting is good enough. /me hopes people aren't lame, and they get the joke
is usually build PCs. And not as often as I'd like (the poorness!) but my favorite tool is the little grabby thing that gets loose screws out from motherboards. When doing any work with a pc and screws it is guaranteed you will drop a screw onto the board at least once. Radio Shack makes great computer tool kits.
But I think it's sort of pointless to look for earth-ish planets. I know that we're looking for existing life or possible places to live, but isn't it very possible there is some sort of life that lives in a drastically different environment than we do? There could very well be some crazy lifeform that lives on gas giants.
Not only that, but all of the plaets outside our solar system are many light-years away. It takes way too long to get to them. I think time would be much better spent on figuring out how to live in unfavorable places, or change their climate to be favorable to our life. A moon colony seems a lot more likely, possible, and useful in the near future than some planet a google light years away.
My friend is taking Biology/Computer Science and they call it Bioinformatics.
By that standard you would be taking
Botanophysicalinformatics
I wonder if that's a word or not! It's 25 characters long!
I've seen that quote posted around a zillion times. But it kicks just as much as the last time I saw it. Why is it that congress can't understand this? I would assume they have to be reasonable intelligent people in order to become elected officials. And certaintly they aren't corrupt! ;-)
just as he says, stealing software IS wrong. There's no way around it. However, I don't like how he calls the corporations innocent. While it's not good to steal ever. Many big software comapanies are far from innocent.
Make the obvious joke about a turd or a dingleberrry revolving around uranus.
d'oh!
Even though this is a repeat story (that never happens!) It is good to know that not everyone in D.C. is a corrupt pawn of a corporation out to make money and nothing more. So voting isn't meaningless. Find out which people aren't corrupt and get them in office.
I don't know about you, but I've been able to do this with my Sound Blaster Live! Value, always. Even with the newest version of the the Creative AudioHQ. All you do is set the recording device to Wav/Direct Sound and record with your favorite recording software. You can use the EAX or the Advanced EQ if you want.
There is also "What U Hear". Which allows you to record everything that comes out of your speakers. So I can record my Line in, a playing mp3, and my friend on the microphone simultaneously.
The ability to do this on the mac may be a new thing. And it's obviously a nice way around some DRM. But it's been around for a long time. At least 3 years.
Totally agreement. The difference you get in audio or video quality by using different cables is very very small. Surely the crappiest of cables will have lots of interference and noise. But if you get a decent shielded cable from radio shack the difference between that and the most expensive fancy cable is so small that it's not worth the dough.
As for the S-Video, yes using S-Video does make a huge difference. Using component cables, however, makes just as big a difference. Especially on the gamecube. FYI the cube has two A/V outs on the back. One is analog and one is digital. the analog one can be fitted with anything from a coax to an s-video cable, the digital one can be fitted with component video out. I don't have a tv with s-video in, let alone component in, but we went over to the auditorium on campus with the component digital out and hooked it up to a 1024x768 resolution LCD projector. HOLY CRAP!
Holy crap! It was every bit as good as if we had a huge gas plasma. Can't wait for Godzilla destroy all monsters melee. Use that projector and get us some 20 foot long mothras!
if ye mods me down! nyar! avast me mateys! There be gold dubloons ahoy on the seven seas! nyar! Prepare to walk the plank ye scurvy swab! ahoy pirates nyar.
Pirates r00l.
I think a recycling bin in more necessary in linux than in windows. In windows you graphically see exactly which files are being deleted, because everything is graphical.
In linux you might do something like rm *a*b*c*.*
That command can delete anywhere from 0 to all of your files depending on how they are named. And if you accidentally type *a*f*c*.* you might delete the wrong thing. Doesn't happen in windows, unless you are using cygwin.
on what you are going to do on your year off. If you are going to get a job in the field you are itnerested in and get a year of experience, then it's not really a year off. If you are going to take a trip around the world or do some research project, or code a large piece of software, or something like that then a year off is fine.
If you are going to sit on your couch playing all the Gamecube games that come out and forget everythign you learned in high school then a year off is bad.
It's ok to wait a year before going to college as long as you do something productive.
I reformatted my hard drive and re-installed my OSes. Mandrake 9 is cool, but it doesn't come with pine! Anyway I went to re-download my apps and found that a new version of VNC came out days ago. I don't know if they formed a new company called realvnc because the web site is still at bell labs. I think they just changed the name of the program. The most welcome new feature is that you don't lose your wallpaper if you don't want to. Not to mention it is faster and better in every way. If you use VNC, get the new one. I must say that the icons for VNC are now uglier than they used to be, anyone got the old one?
when I call for civil disobedience in posts on slashdot I get modded down to all crap. Yet when some other guy writes an article about it, he gets a news post.
Is this video codec any good? Does it provide any advantage over DivX ;-) ? Besides being an open video codec from the makers of ogg, what technical advantages are there to using it? If I make a video with it that is equivalent in quality to a 30 minutes 200MB divx will the quality be higher or file size be smaller without losing quality? If not it seems just another case of open source re-inventing the wheel. I mean, that's what ogg is, an open source re-invention of the wheel.
What is it about these scientologists that they can get away with this? The same bill of rights that allows their crazy cult to exist is the same one that allows me to make fun of them. If I had the money I would make the mother of all anti-scientologist websites. If you are a scientologist and are reading this, I invite you to my house.
It's one thign to believe in an all powerful deity that created the universe.
It's another thing to believe in a book that some guy wrote, because some other guy bet that he couldn't create a religeon.
Doesn't anyone have balls anymore?
The reason pcs are losing out is because of the lack of revolutionary games. As just about every post here has stated the obvious. Different game genres play better on pc and others play better on console.
Because of the new generation of console there have been recent revolutionary or almost revolutionary games in the genres that play well on consoles. Games like Kingdom Hears, which might as well be Secret of Mana 3D. Eternal Darkness, which is totally Lovecraft. Smash Brothers Meleee, which is a genre in and of itself.
PC games have been stuck in a rut as of late. The games released for them aren't revolutionary in any way. WarCraft 3 IMO is just another RTS with improved graphics and gameplay. It didn't change the game. WC3 is still build stuff fast while balancing attack and defense. Neverwinter Nights is just Baldur's Gate, only newer and shinier. I'm not saying these are bad games. I'm just saying they don't bring anything new to the genre. They are more of an upgrade than a new game.
The new console games are bringing in all sorts of new stuff. Pikmin (sorry for all the GC examples, it happens to be the system I own) is a brand new type of puzzle game, there's nothign else like it. Animal Crossing has more to do in it than any other game I've ever seen. You could play it for years and never do everything.
New PC games like UT2003 (the demo) are just new games. THe UT2003 demo didn't amaze me in any way. There were lots of death animations and new levels, and pretty graphics. But it was the same as all the other first person shooters. It didn't change the game.
Hopefully Doom 3 will be the revolutionary game we are waiting for. Quake 1 was revolutionary by bringing in true 3D. Quake 2 was also, it perfected the 3D fps. Quake 3 was not, it simply improved the graphics, tweaked some things, and added features. When more "must play" games come out for PC PC gaming will get better. Interest in PC gaming has not dwindled. It is simply that the genres that are played on PCs are in a rut, one that should hopefully end soon.