I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.3 on Linux 2.6.9-34 and I get the same result as the parent. Clearly, it's not a problem of being out of date.
Also the adCenter site is pretty bad at certificates. I get a warning on every freakin' page. Sure glad I don't use MS products. If they can't even build a secure webpage properly, I'm sure as hell not trusting them to build my OS.
I don't know about anyone else, but my IP address at any one location (home, for example) very rarely changes. Occaisionally, perhaps, if my internet goes out for a long period of time and DHCP gives me a new one, but not very often.
However, many of us visit the same site (/. for example) from many different places, even in one day. Today, I've already visited/. from two different machines with different IP's, and I'll visit it from one or two more by the end of the day.
So, I'm not sure which is the bigger cause of repeat visitors with different IPs each time: changing dynamic IP addresses or visits from different machines entirely.
This is exactly what I was going to say. Mozilla/Firefox doesn't gain from making Google the default in the same manner that MS does by making MSN the default, but they do make money off it.
This sounds like a great thing, since it would make BitTorrent more available for non-techie users and add another vote to the legitimacy of BT.
However, if there's a crediting system, does that mean that Apple is watching your BT usage? If I'm not mistaken, Apple has some interest as a content producer and may not like what they see BT being used for. Is this going to be yet another organization watching what people transfer and ratting them out to the RIAA/MPAA/CIA, or will they be Not Evil (tm) and keep their noses out of people's business?
If I require the new book, then I get students like you who claim that the only reason I do this is because I'm in bed with the text book representative. If I allow the old book, then students will complain that I don't follow the textbook and that there is no point in buying it at all because it is too confusing. I'm damned if I do, and damned if I don't.
If that's your situation, then I say you have a bunch of whiny complainers you have for students and you should start ignoring them more.
I'm a CS student. In my favorite CS classes, the prof has done one of two things:
1) Made it explicitly clear that the course does not and is not intended to follow any textbook, and recommend some textbooks that would be good to use as references. 2) Put together a course pack that draws from various sources and had the course follow that to some extent. The university bookstore here will do this for profs - photocopy what the prof requests out of various books and then charge students the cost of production and royalties plus a few dollars profit.
Students studying at the university level shouldn't need their course to match up exactly with a textbook all the time. They should be capable of synthesizing information from various sources - lectures, textbooks and other resources. As long as there are good resources out there about what you're teaching (and if there aren't, you probably shouldn't be teaching it to undergrads - I've been in classes where this happens), the students should have no problem learning the matrial by taking information from your lectures and various other sources.
You speak as though this is something that's unheard of. Companies already do this. Challenging the community to come up with ways of doing it can only help with detection of it in the future.
True, there are more factors than just the C involved in this challenge. However, I think it's a very interesting problem none the less, since degrading performance on competitors' platforms is something that companies actually do. With the recent open-sourcing of Solaris and so many companies getting into open-source, tricks to make certain hardware/software platforms look good or bad will probably become something to watch for in patch submissions and the like.
a) I'm sorry, but I'd like some better means of archiving and backing up my email than accessing it via pop3 client. especially as admin- I'd need some means of doing this in bulk.
Are we forgetting about fetchmail? I mean, it's only been around for 10 years, so you may not have heard of it yet.
I think a much bigger issue for most companies will be the fact that it's hosted on a third-party server. If you're a company that deals with sensitive information in email (which is a bad idea, I know, but it happens in the real world), then you want all your email to be kept on a server you control, preferably in a location you control. Personally, I'm waiting for the gmail appliance. If Google releases one, I will lobby hard for my company to buy one. It's the ultimate email solution in my mind.
Somebody needs to set up a site where we can donate money to the OpenBSD project through PayPal or some other convenient method. This is an important project, and I think that a lot of people in the community realize that, but take for granted that development happens "for free."
Seems to me that the gist of the article is that FC5:
- Has hardware compatibility problems - Has a pretty new installer that may or may not work properly - Has the same new versions of programs as the new versions of every other distro - Isn't setup to be n00b-friendly by default, with the lack of a regular user account and a graphical package manager
Sounds like it's still the same shitty, undertested distro it's always been. I'll be sticking with Ubuntu as my distro of choice and recommendation to new Linux users.
The patch fixes the installer so that this vulnerability won't be in any new installs (well, any new installs done from new installation media).
If you already have an install and want to fix the vulnerability, just delete the file the password is in, or delete the password from that file. I did an install on my girlfriend's laptop yesterday, so I'll be interested to see if her system has this problem. I installed mine shortly before the final release of Breezy came out (September 23 according to the date on that file), and it's not affected.
I don't use an online calendar right now, I use the calendar on my Zaurus instead. However, I also have to put my calendar into iCal at the office so we can figure out meeting times that work for everyone, and I back my schedule up to my computer in case my Zaurus goes nuts. So, if there was a nice calendar that integrated with my gmail account and allowed everyone at the office to share events and figure out meeting times, I'd definitely use it. Also, knowing Google, it'll work better than my Zaurus calendar.
Exactly. If you start with something like VB, you may never learn what's actually happening when you execute your code. That's fine when you're building your little four-function graphical calculator, but when you start building serious things, it's a huge problem.
If you want examples of why people should start programming in a real language, just read the Daily WTF. I guarantee the guy in this story didn't start with C.
Of course, the smart thing to do is just to use modrewrite to make all those hotlinks show up as goatse. Of course, it doesn't exactly help with the problem of exposing children to inappropriate content, but one for two ain't bad.
You could always setup a caching proxy server in front of your internal network. This wouldn't make the process any fewer clicks, but it would save a lot of time downloading fixes and things. The first time you download a fix, it would be cached on the server, and all the remaining machines that need the fix would grab it from the local network. This would speed things up, if nothing else.
As a potential taker of robotics courses in the future, I commend Sony on their decision. Everyone I know who has worked with the Aibos became homocidal (or dogocidal) very quickly.
If there is a driver for your wireless card, Ubuntu will detect it and list it just like a normal net interface.
If there's no driver for it, you just do an apt-get install ndiswrapper, ndiswrapper -i.inf (from the driver CD), then add ndiswrapper to modules and you're ready to go.
Either way, once Linux can see the interface, you can set it up and select your AP using Gnome's net configuration tool. The only thing that's missing is a graphical way to setup WPA encryption, but it's quite easily done using wpasupplicant.
I, for one, find it a lot easier than the Windows method. I can never figure out how the bloody hell to get Windows to connect to a network of my choosing. It always wants to go and detect every fucking signal that's flying through the air and try to connect to it, then not let me connect to any SSID that it doesn't detect. It's one of the most irritating and aggravating things on Windows IMO.
Programs like Trillian and GAIM are handy and work fairly well, but if you want to have your IM set up in more than one place (say at home, at work and at school), you have to set up every account you have in each location.
A much better solution is Jabber with transports. My AIM and MSN settings and buddylists are saved on the Jabber server, and all I have to do is login to my Jabber account. Considering the multitude of Jabber clients available (open protocol for the win!), this is a much easier system for those of us who regularly use computers in more than one location.
Actually, to a true geek, booting any more than one OS is a sign of shame. A true geek just boots Linux (or BSD) and uses emulators to use the two or three Windows programs he needs.
Then they now know how someone who only has a linux machine feels when he tries to play the dvd he just bought.
I'm going to say what the rest of/. is thinking: what the bloody hell are you talking about? I've never had trouble playing a DVD on my Linux box. I've never had a problem ripping, re-encoding and burning DVDs on my Linux box. In fact, my Linux box doesn't give a shit about regions or anything, so I never have to worry about such things.
If you have trouble playing DVDs on Linux, you're probably doing something very very wrong. Just get libdvdcss and libdvdread, plus a player like Xine, MPlayer, VLC or OGLE and away you go.
Agreed. I just can't understand how or why anyone uses POP at all. It's an absolutely stupid idea, and completely defeats the purpose of email in my opinion.
Now if only I could convince the higher-ups at work that IMAP is the way to go. I think with the viruses floating around this week I might have some leverage.
Don't be fooled, Linux has a long way to go before being a drop-in replacement for Windows on the desktop.
No, it has a long way to go before being a drop-in replacement for Windows on the desktop IN A WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT.
Linux on the desktop is just fine. It is no harder to setup or use than Windows is, provided that a Linux-friendly infrastructure is present. Connecting to an Exchange server is something that Microsoft has made purposely difficult for OSes other than Windows, so it's no coincidence that it's hard to connect to under Ubuntu.
If your company is already using things like IMAP mail (or, God forbid, POP mail), a transition to Linux should be no harder than the transition to a new version of Windows.
Considering that you can also run Linux on a variety of inexpensive PocketPC's (I got my Zaurus SL5500 for ~$130US), I agree: there's no reason to buy this. Get yourself a PocketPC of your choice (for $130 to $400, depending what you need/want), throw OpenZaurus/Familiar/whatever on there, and you're set. Way more choice, way more hackability, cheaper, more fun.
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I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.3 on Linux 2.6.9-34 and I get the same result as the parent. Clearly, it's not a problem of being out of date.
Also the adCenter site is pretty bad at certificates. I get a warning on every freakin' page. Sure glad I don't use MS products. If they can't even build a secure webpage properly, I'm sure as hell not trusting them to build my OS.
Google search link to get around WSJ's freakin Flash thingy
/karmawhoring
I don't know about anyone else, but my IP address at any one location (home, for example) very rarely changes. Occaisionally, perhaps, if my internet goes out for a long period of time and DHCP gives me a new one, but not very often.
/. from two different machines with different IP's, and I'll visit it from one or two more by the end of the day.
However, many of us visit the same site (/. for example) from many different places, even in one day. Today, I've already visited
So, I'm not sure which is the bigger cause of repeat visitors with different IPs each time: changing dynamic IP addresses or visits from different machines entirely.
Mod parent UP!
This is exactly what I was going to say. Mozilla/Firefox doesn't gain from making Google the default in the same manner that MS does by making MSN the default, but they do make money off it.
This sounds like a great thing, since it would make BitTorrent more available for non-techie users and add another vote to the legitimacy of BT.
However, if there's a crediting system, does that mean that Apple is watching your BT usage? If I'm not mistaken, Apple has some interest as a content producer and may not like what they see BT being used for. Is this going to be yet another organization watching what people transfer and ratting them out to the RIAA/MPAA/CIA, or will they be Not Evil (tm) and keep their noses out of people's business?
If that's your situation, then I say you have a bunch of whiny complainers you have for students and you should start ignoring them more.
I'm a CS student. In my favorite CS classes, the prof has done one of two things:
1) Made it explicitly clear that the course does not and is not intended to follow any textbook, and recommend some textbooks that would be good to use as references.
2) Put together a course pack that draws from various sources and had the course follow that to some extent. The university bookstore here will do this for profs - photocopy what the prof requests out of various books and then charge students the cost of production and royalties plus a few dollars profit.
Students studying at the university level shouldn't need their course to match up exactly with a textbook all the time. They should be capable of synthesizing information from various sources - lectures, textbooks and other resources. As long as there are good resources out there about what you're teaching (and if there aren't, you probably shouldn't be teaching it to undergrads - I've been in classes where this happens), the students should have no problem learning the matrial by taking information from your lectures and various other sources.
You speak as though this is something that's unheard of. Companies already do this. Challenging the community to come up with ways of doing it can only help with detection of it in the future.
True, there are more factors than just the C involved in this challenge. However, I think it's a very interesting problem none the less, since degrading performance on competitors' platforms is something that companies actually do. With the recent open-sourcing of Solaris and so many companies getting into open-source, tricks to make certain hardware/software platforms look good or bad will probably become something to watch for in patch submissions and the like.
Are we forgetting about fetchmail? I mean, it's only been around for 10 years, so you may not have heard of it yet.
I think a much bigger issue for most companies will be the fact that it's hosted on a third-party server. If you're a company that deals with sensitive information in email (which is a bad idea, I know, but it happens in the real world), then you want all your email to be kept on a server you control, preferably in a location you control. Personally, I'm waiting for the gmail appliance. If Google releases one, I will lobby hard for my company to buy one. It's the ultimate email solution in my mind.
They have a paypal link on their website. http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html
Seems to me that the gist of the article is that FC5:
- Has hardware compatibility problems
- Has a pretty new installer that may or may not work properly
- Has the same new versions of programs as the new versions of every other distro
- Isn't setup to be n00b-friendly by default, with the lack of a regular user account and a graphical package manager
Sounds like it's still the same shitty, undertested distro it's always been. I'll be sticking with Ubuntu as my distro of choice and recommendation to new Linux users.
The patch fixes the installer so that this vulnerability won't be in any new installs (well, any new installs done from new installation media).
If you already have an install and want to fix the vulnerability, just delete the file the password is in, or delete the password from that file. I did an install on my girlfriend's laptop yesterday, so I'll be interested to see if her system has this problem. I installed mine shortly before the final release of Breezy came out (September 23 according to the date on that file), and it's not affected.
I don't use an online calendar right now, I use the calendar on my Zaurus instead. However, I also have to put my calendar into iCal at the office so we can figure out meeting times that work for everyone, and I back my schedule up to my computer in case my Zaurus goes nuts. So, if there was a nice calendar that integrated with my gmail account and allowed everyone at the office to share events and figure out meeting times, I'd definitely use it. Also, knowing Google, it'll work better than my Zaurus calendar.
Exactly. If you start with something like VB, you may never learn what's actually happening when you execute your code. That's fine when you're building your little four-function graphical calculator, but when you start building serious things, it's a huge problem.
If you want examples of why people should start programming in a real language, just read the Daily WTF. I guarantee the guy in this story didn't start with C.
Of course, the smart thing to do is just to use modrewrite to make all those hotlinks show up as goatse. Of course, it doesn't exactly help with the problem of exposing children to inappropriate content, but one for two ain't bad.
what does one do with ten 60GB iPods?
One builds a tiny Beowulf cluster, of course!
You could always setup a caching proxy server in front of your internal network. This wouldn't make the process any fewer clicks, but it would save a lot of time downloading fixes and things. The first time you download a fix, it would be cached on the server, and all the remaining machines that need the fix would grab it from the local network. This would speed things up, if nothing else.
As a potential taker of robotics courses in the future, I commend Sony on their decision. Everyone I know who has worked with the Aibos became homocidal (or dogocidal) very quickly.
Yep, Ubuntu handles it all very well.
.inf (from the driver CD), then add ndiswrapper to modules and you're ready to go.
If there is a driver for your wireless card, Ubuntu will detect it and list it just like a normal net interface.
If there's no driver for it, you just do an apt-get install ndiswrapper, ndiswrapper -i
Either way, once Linux can see the interface, you can set it up and select your AP using Gnome's net configuration tool. The only thing that's missing is a graphical way to setup WPA encryption, but it's quite easily done using wpasupplicant.
I, for one, find it a lot easier than the Windows method. I can never figure out how the bloody hell to get Windows to connect to a network of my choosing. It always wants to go and detect every fucking signal that's flying through the air and try to connect to it, then not let me connect to any SSID that it doesn't detect. It's one of the most irritating and aggravating things on Windows IMO.
Programs like Trillian and GAIM are handy and work fairly well, but if you want to have your IM set up in more than one place (say at home, at work and at school), you have to set up every account you have in each location.
A much better solution is Jabber with transports. My AIM and MSN settings and buddylists are saved on the Jabber server, and all I have to do is login to my Jabber account. Considering the multitude of Jabber clients available (open protocol for the win!), this is a much easier system for those of us who regularly use computers in more than one location.
Actually, to a true geek, booting any more than one OS is a sign of shame. A true geek just boots Linux (or BSD) and uses emulators to use the two or three Windows programs he needs.
Then they now know how someone who only has a linux machine feels when he tries to play the dvd he just bought.
/. is thinking: what the bloody hell are you talking about? I've never had trouble playing a DVD on my Linux box. I've never had a problem ripping, re-encoding and burning DVDs on my Linux box. In fact, my Linux box doesn't give a shit about regions or anything, so I never have to worry about such things.
I'm going to say what the rest of
If you have trouble playing DVDs on Linux, you're probably doing something very very wrong. Just get libdvdcss and libdvdread, plus a player like Xine, MPlayer, VLC or OGLE and away you go.
Agreed. I just can't understand how or why anyone uses POP at all. It's an absolutely stupid idea, and completely defeats the purpose of email in my opinion.
Now if only I could convince the higher-ups at work that IMAP is the way to go. I think with the viruses floating around this week I might have some leverage.
Don't be fooled, Linux has a long way to go before being a drop-in replacement for Windows on the desktop.
No, it has a long way to go before being a drop-in replacement for Windows on the desktop IN A WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT.
Linux on the desktop is just fine. It is no harder to setup or use than Windows is, provided that a Linux-friendly infrastructure is present. Connecting to an Exchange server is something that Microsoft has made purposely difficult for OSes other than Windows, so it's no coincidence that it's hard to connect to under Ubuntu.
If your company is already using things like IMAP mail (or, God forbid, POP mail), a transition to Linux should be no harder than the transition to a new version of Windows.
Considering that you can also run Linux on a variety of inexpensive PocketPC's (I got my Zaurus SL5500 for ~$130US), I agree: there's no reason to buy this. Get yourself a PocketPC of your choice (for $130 to $400, depending what you need/want), throw OpenZaurus/Familiar/whatever on there, and you're set. Way more choice, way more hackability, cheaper, more fun.