There are three big problems I've noticed two stated by the original poster:
1. Fragmentation. Do you release a tar.gz? Do you release an RPM? Do you Release a.deb?
And how do you support them all? What really should happen is one of two things. 1 Package manager for all distros.(Not going to happen any time soon). The other is a 2nd compatable package management system which is compatible/an add-on to the existing Package Management systems. This way as a corparate developer I can just make and maintain one package instead of three. List the library requirements and if your distro can't go up to the proper version you can try to force it (like if your distro back ports a feature/fix).
2.
Rabid hatred of DRM. You know what though I would love to be able to watch Netflix on my Linux desktop so I don't have to fight with my roommates/watch the Jersey Shore marathon while waiting for the PS3.
3. GAMES GAMES GAMES:
Being able to play games native/ minimal emulation would be amazing. I know there is Wine and Cedega and CrossOffice, but they are just band aids to the real problem.
Actually I think this number not completely honest. 6 Days ago Microsoft because a sponsor of Reddit and asked the Reddit community to test it out and give feed back.
"See, Microsoft is getting ready to release Internet Explorer 9, and they reached out to us because they genuinely want to start a dialog with the reddit community. In fact, they've taken the unprecedented step of putting the reddit team in charge of this entire campaign. This is a great deal of trust for an advertiser to offer, and we should both take it as a huge compliment."
My opinion is this: (Granted it has its wholes but I feel that an outside country should monitor this because they are unbias)
Store with each vote on the machine an encyrpted file with the photo and and an another encyrpted file which holds the voters name inside the first file.
So what you can do is unencrypt the photo and run it through a program looking for similarities such as the curtian is there, flagging all the ones that seem to similart (possible same photo), and also flagging the ones which seem to different(not a real photo). The encryption keys should be kept secert and a court order should release each seperately. This way the There is an electronic receict which is difficult to forge, trackable, and verifible numbers wise aslong as a paper copy of who went to voted is kept.
The point of them installing the service packs is not be vunerable to virus or worms. The problem is there are thousands of machines and most of them suck because the user can't maintain the machine.
With Linux all they have to do is follow normal procedures and are allowed on the network relatively quickly. same with macinstosh. And if any people are found with virus traffic they are shut off, informed, and offered an appointment with one of the staff to help clean the machine. So any computer inclinded person could figure out how to run knoppix if they REALLY didn't want to install sp1.
"Microsoft warns that installing SP2 on a spyware-infested PC is a bad idea."
One word. DUH. If you even install sP1 on a spyware infested computer it can render it unbootable. I've run into atleast 10 machines this week that have had this same problem. I work at a university which is forcing students to install service pack 1. there are a lot of machines that can't even take the service pack because of the spyware the installs just hang or destroy the install on the computer. I feel bad for the students because they have to either format or pay to get thier comptuer fixed. It not thier fault or the universities fault. who would have thought forcing college students to update thier microsoft patches would be a bad idea.
They aren't running code in individual computers. They are merely putting code up which may run on your computer if you have this virus and uninstalls it. I know it sounds bad the way you say it and in general it usually is bad but the URL is out there if you want to disassemble it make sure its just uninstalling. Go ahead. I'm sure other people are interested and doing so. If someone finds out that it is more than just the uninstaller, then we can hang someone.
you should tell your friend at MTU that he should call the net admins and let them know they just vialoated the common carrier laws and if the RIAA loses the law suit and sees students sharing anything else they are gonna go after the school. its a historic repeat of the napster cases
ahh schools panicing, RIAA is playing them for fools. its already to late, they have dug themselves into a hole that they have no idea how to get out of expect with money out the yin yang
to bad its the RIAA thats being unamerican. They are abusing thier power to try to change the capilitalist system. the music market is changing and the RIAA can't accepet it and is pulling dirty tricks to try to stop the market from changing. so whats unamerican? pulling dirty tricks to get what you want. or standing up for what you belive??
if you say the latter then you do not deserve to live in the united states.
I hope that people are reading thier complaints. for example at http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/riaa/arcopeng40 303njcmp.pdf
which is one of the 4 complaints point 33 which states that the lan sharing or files is a problem for the universities because of bandwidth. hmm last time I checked a lan means 10mb or a 100mb songs would only take up a 10mb connection for about 4 seconds and 700,000 thoudand seconds is about a week straight , and thats only between 2 computers that would be a problem. I hope the eff jumps in and puts a lot of these rediculous claims to the shame they deserve.
SHAME ON YOU RIAA SHAME ON YOU FOR YOUR GREEDY WAYS. NO ONE WILL STAND FOR THIS QUIETLY
if they block the p2p then they are 100000x more likely to get sued because of the ease of the RIAA winning the case. what the univeristy should do is move to Private IP space so the RIAA can't see the servers and if they do it'll be illegal for them to do. Either hack the network. or hire a college spy who will get expelled because he'll be making money off his connection in the dorm. so private ips are the easiest way to save the universities and the net ops.
and also if you think that university students should use the 4 years they have in school for JUST EDUCATIONAL LEARNING then you are in need of a reality check.
some things corporate are bad, some are good, some are just ok. The hard part about good and bad is it depends on who it is relative to. relative to them who want Linux to be on all the PC's instead of Windows. its bad for them when a corporation does something that promotes windows, but I agree its not really an excuse but as long as you understand why its ok. but if you don't like them right some yourself, right them good, and be unbias when you write your articles. its hard.
Well if you happen to have 4 Xbox's for 16 player halo you could always cluster 3 of them together to do setiathome because you probably aren't gonna use all 4 for most other things..
I have to say this. Any government that fully inforces this will the harsh reality when they realize how much trouble they are really up against. For starters they'll put over half of a major North East University into jail. Thats just one school. The educational systems would collapse all of a sudden from 25 thousand students to 12 thousands. The state would have to fund so much money to keep the school afloat that its just not possible.
It just won't happen. The uproar would be enormous. It is only Corp. lobbying to try to scare people into trying it for the first time. or those who are afraid to back off and not get envoled.
well if you want I could ask some people I know in college who have some how gotten the on the leaked longhorn and have them send you screen shots of what ever you like on it.... its hard to fake a leaked alpha when it really exists... even though you have a good point I know it exists so I must disagree with you
I wonder how hard it would be to get these working with the Gentoo UT2K3 live cd.... I mean in a lot of computer labs they have dells which have ATI cards and it would be a huge lan party for the price of a cdr and you wouldn't even have to bring much at all.... hmm I wonder....
Slashdot Mirror
I just wish on the new one you could toggle Traffic on / off without entering in Traffic: and messing up whatever it was you were searching.
There are three big problems I've noticed two stated by the original poster:
1. Fragmentation. Do you release a tar.gz? Do you release an RPM? Do you Release a .deb?
And how do you support them all? What really should happen is one of two things. 1 Package manager for all distros.(Not going to happen any time soon). The other is a 2nd compatable package management system which is compatible/an add-on to the existing Package Management systems. This way as a corparate developer I can just make and maintain one package instead of three. List the library requirements and if your distro can't go up to the proper version you can try to force it (like if your distro back ports a feature/fix).
2.
Rabid hatred of DRM. You know what though I would love to be able to watch Netflix on my Linux desktop so I don't have to fight with my roommates/watch the Jersey Shore marathon while waiting for the PS3.
3. GAMES GAMES GAMES:
Being able to play games native/ minimal emulation would be amazing. I know there is Wine and Cedega and CrossOffice, but they are just band aids to the real problem.
Actually I think this number not completely honest. 6 Days ago Microsoft because a sponsor of Reddit and asked the Reddit community to test it out and give feed back.
"See, Microsoft is getting ready to release Internet Explorer 9, and they reached out to us because they genuinely want to start a dialog with the reddit community. In fact, they've taken the unprecedented step of putting the reddit team in charge of this entire campaign. This is a great deal of trust for an advertiser to offer, and we should both take it as a huge compliment."
http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/depct/and_now_for_a_word_from_our_sponsor_because_for/
Great another thing my Vegan friend can brag about FOREVER even though he doesn't know what dioxins are.
I feel like this would be closer to digital janitors then fast food.
My opinion is this: (Granted it has its wholes but I feel that an outside country should monitor this because they are unbias)
Store with each vote on the machine an encyrpted file with the photo and and an another encyrpted file which holds the voters name inside the first file.
So what you can do is unencrypt the photo and run it through a program looking for similarities such as the curtian is there, flagging all the ones that seem to similart (possible same photo), and also flagging the ones which seem to different(not a real photo). The encryption keys should be kept secert and a court order should release each seperately. This way the There is an electronic receict which is difficult to forge, trackable, and verifible numbers wise aslong as a paper copy of who went to voted is kept.
The point of them installing the service packs is not be vunerable to virus or worms. The problem is there are thousands of machines and most of them suck because the user can't maintain the machine.
With Linux all they have to do is follow normal procedures and are allowed on the network relatively quickly. same with macinstosh. And if any people are found with virus traffic they are shut off, informed, and offered an appointment with one of the staff to help clean the machine. So any computer inclinded person could figure out how to run knoppix if they REALLY didn't want to install sp1.
"Microsoft warns that installing SP2 on a spyware-infested PC is a bad idea."
One word. DUH. If you even install sP1 on a spyware infested computer it can render it unbootable. I've run into atleast 10 machines this week that have had this same problem. I work at a university which is forcing students to install service pack 1. there are a lot of machines that can't even take the service pack because of the spyware the installs just hang or destroy the install on the computer. I feel bad for the students because they have to either format or pay to get thier comptuer fixed. It not thier fault or the universities fault. who would have thought forcing college students to update thier microsoft patches would be a bad idea.
Taking all bets on how long it is before this preview shows up online for download
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blasphemey
The devil has taken television's saving grace. (minus adult swim)
They aren't running code in individual computers. They are merely putting code up which may run on your computer if you have this virus and uninstalls it. I know it sounds bad the way you say it and in general it usually is bad but the URL is out there if you want to disassemble it make sure its just uninstalling. Go ahead. I'm sure other people are interested and doing so. If someone finds out that it is more than just the uninstaller, then we can hang someone.
This still doesn't mean that destroying the ozone layer is a good thing. At least the envirmentalist have one thing right
you should tell your friend at MTU that he should call the net admins and let them know they just vialoated the common carrier laws and if the RIAA loses the law suit and sees students sharing anything else they are gonna go after the school. its a historic repeat of the napster cases
ahh schools panicing, RIAA is playing them for fools. its already to late, they have dug themselves into a hole that they have no idea how to get out of expect with money out the yin yang
to bad its the RIAA thats being unamerican. They are abusing thier power to try to change the capilitalist system. the music market is changing and the RIAA can't accepet it and is pulling dirty tricks to try to stop the market from changing. so whats unamerican? pulling dirty tricks to get what you want. or standing up for what you belive??
if you say the latter then you do not deserve to live in the united states.
or private ip space
I hope that people are reading thier complaints. for example at http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/riaa/arcopeng40 303njcmp.pdf
which is one of the 4 complaints point 33 which states that the lan sharing or files is a problem for the universities because of bandwidth. hmm last time I checked a lan means 10mb or a 100mb songs would only take up a 10mb connection for about 4 seconds and 700,000 thoudand seconds is about a week straight , and thats only between 2 computers that would be a problem. I hope the eff jumps in and puts a lot of these rediculous claims to the shame they deserve.
SHAME ON YOU RIAA SHAME ON YOU FOR YOUR GREEDY WAYS. NO ONE WILL STAND FOR THIS QUIETLY
if they block the p2p then they are 100000x more likely to get sued because of the ease of the RIAA winning the case. what the univeristy should do is move to Private IP space so the RIAA can't see the servers and if they do it'll be illegal for them to do. Either hack the network. or hire a college spy who will get expelled because he'll be making money off his connection in the dorm. so private ips are the easiest way to save the universities and the net ops.
and also if you think that university students should use the 4 years they have in school for JUST EDUCATIONAL LEARNING then you are in need of a reality check.
you probably don't have switches you probably have managed hubs which suck
From my cold dead hands...
hey it worked for Charlton Heston...
some things corporate are bad, some are good, some are just ok. The hard part about good and bad is it depends on who it is relative to. relative to them who want Linux to be on all the PC's instead of Windows. its bad for them when a corporation does something that promotes windows, but I agree its not really an excuse but as long as you understand why its ok. but if you don't like them right some yourself, right them good, and be unbias when you write your articles. its hard.
many linux mirrors, a tucows mirror, netscape mirror and probably a few other things
Well if you happen to have 4 Xbox's for 16 player halo you could always cluster 3 of them together to do setiathome because you probably aren't gonna use all 4 for most other things..
I have to say this. Any government that fully inforces this will the harsh reality when they realize how much trouble they are really up against. For starters they'll put over half of a major North East University into jail. Thats just one school. The educational systems would collapse all of a sudden from 25 thousand students to 12 thousands. The state would have to fund so much money to keep the school afloat that its just not possible.
It just won't happen. The uproar would be enormous. It is only Corp. lobbying to try to scare people into trying it for the first time. or those who are afraid to back off and not get envoled.
and I know I suck at spelling
well if you want I could ask some people I know in college who have some how gotten the on the leaked longhorn and have them send you screen shots of what ever you like on it.... its hard to fake a leaked alpha when it really exists... even though you have a good point I know it exists so I must disagree with you
I wonder how hard it would be to get these working with the Gentoo UT2K3 live cd.... I mean in a lot of computer labs they have dells which have ATI cards and it would be a huge lan party for the price of a cdr and you wouldn't even have to bring much at all.... hmm I wonder....