I notice Lycoris has made a decision that I really wish more distros would make:
DON'T SHOVEL LOADS OF IDENTICAL SOFTWARE ON!
The K menu on Lycoris is sanely organised and there's one of everything. If you look at your average dist, when a user fires up the brand new desktop they're greeted with a load of disordered crap in the menus, half of which sticks out like a sore thumb (GTK+/Qt mismatch... sigh I really wish we could standardise on one of these. Preferably Qt but then of course it's put out by an Evil Company (TM) nevermind the fact that it's GPL.) and the other half just doesn't work. That's not a great first impression to make. Just by sorting out the defaults on installation Lycoris has taken a huge step forward.
The one thing imho that Linux needs on the desktop is a more homogeneous feel. One desktop environment and one widget set. One administration package. I want to boot into a KDE only desktop, start up KControl and schedule some backups every weekend and select "Automatically install security updates every week", maybe set up some email and web accounts for the kids, set up my firewall to "Allow web server and email traffic", and set up a home LAN and share some files around. If I were an end user doing that I'd think "Holy shit I can't do THIS under Windows!"
Come on fellas, this can be done. I can write an/etc/init.d/ script to set up iptables, I can configure/etc/smb.conf, I can apt-get update from security.debian.org, I can enter some lines into/etc/fstab and/etc/crontab... need I go on, this can all be done... by an experienced sysadmin! Pull some of this stuff together into a system that functions as a unit and you've got something pretty damn amazing that will knock the pants off expee any day of the week. I just wish I had some more spare time and could code better, a handful of people could probably do what I've suggested (not that I think that's all of what Linux needs to be desktop complete, but it's certainly impressive and not hard to do.)
Quote from the GPL: "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it". This is not the preferred form, as your engineers didnt work with the obfuscated version, they worked with the original one. This is no different from distributing a binary or asm dump. And I sure hope that Konq didnt just post an empty comment with that title...
CSS? Balls. How many browsers do you know that support CSS to a sufficient level to truly allow style/content separation. XSLT seems to do a much better job, although I'm no fan of its downright baroque syntax. Still, CSS has nothing on an XPath based language... well, at least from my experience, of which I have incredibly little, however I'd be interested to see how CSS can separate c/s as well as XSLT can.
LTSP seems to work nicely from what I've seen, though I don't run a lab, I just played about with it. Seems good though, even supports Debian, Xf86v4 and Linux 2.4.x. The current thin-client poster child of Linux seems to be the City of Largo... google around for that a bit, but that story basically details some stuff about their implementation. Hope that helped.
Uhm... I use it for apt-get. Seriously =P That and shoutcast. OK I do download MP3's but I think I've downloaded about... three or so since I got my DSL.
I dunno how legal shoutcast is but for pissing out loud, I certainly don't lose any sleep over the fact that I listen to the radio across IP as opposed to AM/FM, and they'd probably have been shut down long ago given the amount of bandwidth needed to run such an operation in the long run. Though I'm sure they're pushing through legistlation to make you pay per second per kilobit per watt per attention length per suspected rate of piracy of the user, plus about 75% ads.
OK I suppose it's fairly similar, but, though I might add that since you asked.
Software piracy? Why not have a separate CD check server that the client contacts to check for validity, then go on to connect to a bnet(d) server afterwards? The game server doesnt mean jack if the binary refuses to connect due to an invalid cd key.
They're probably trying to corall everybody into battlenet, then say "oh but you owe us a Small Fee now" if they can't sustain the servers or just want to cash in further. At least that's the only rational explanation I can see.
...some of this stuff's a complete crock of crap. "Phasers issued to police (laser/tazer hybrid)"? eh? how the heck do you integrate a light beam generating device (which still havent seen any significant improvement this decade, at least that I'm aware of) with a device that shoots a physical projectile carrying a current in an at all useful manner?
"Cassini reaches Saturn, 2004". No, really? good golly I could make a dozen such 'predictions' based on NASA's space programmes schedule. Maybe I ought to be employed as a futurist. And the priorities for AI are messed up: a natural language interface coming after natural language translation? surely an understanding of context and meaning is required for translation, one well above what is needed for a natural language interface (which only really needs to understand computer-based concepts in any level of detail)
There's some interesting stuff here, yeah, but if even a skim read of it indicates a few glaring oddities such as these then excuse me for taking this doc wih a cubic metre of NaCl;)
If the entire population of slashdot accessing that site to point and laugh at the exploit code and how it doesnt affect them doesnt constitute a slashdotting, I dunno what does =) I already cant access it.
Someone post more links to the other vector pages, if we can't get them down any other way we'll bum-rush em;)
And the great masses of slashdotters arose and took the first step upon the great march to their congressmen, then sat down again panting from exertion.
I've heard "Write to your congressman!" too many times on here. Firstly I'm not even a USian so what congressman over there is going to give a damn for hat I've got to say? there's some, I dunno, 50,000 users on slashdot? even if every single one wrote to their congressman... well, they might notice the issue only to have their local RIAA "Public Funding Officer" hand them a wad of fifties and tell em to piss off.
If the great masses don't even know or care about this you don't have a hope. A better strategy would be to launch a mass campaign against every person in power who you dislike. Dig up all the records of who's funding who, and crosscheck it against what libery-violating statutes those people voted for. Boil it down to a level that can incense and anger the common voter; going after IP law is like trying to take the Reichstag when you're retreating from Normandy. Pull out the corruption and corporate puppeteering of the political process and make the people in power damn sure that this sort of thing is not going to be good for them, then worry about IP law, for now be content with the hope that some landmark ruling may overturn the DMCA.
But then, there's hardly any hope of that happening, so why even bother telling people to write to their congressman? *sigh* and I can't exactly talk as if I'm on high ground either; I live in the UK and no doubt we're the next in line to be bent over and rammed until we look like the goatse.cx guy =/
... Ethernet's just a method for sending packets between two nodes, given that you know their MAC addresses. That's all the protocol provides you with, everything else has to be layered on top
On the other hand, Firewire has some USB-like features like device identification, device power supply, and is also better than USB because you dont need a computer in there to drive the system (you could hook a printer directly to a camera without any proprietary interfaces) and the actual protocol is different... for instance there's an isochronous transfer mode which guarantees a/constant/ data rate between two points. Ethernet and even TCP/IP just doesnt have that. I'm no great expert on firewire but firewire's firewire and ethernet's ethernet. Both have relative merits.
Whats so difficult about it. I havent watched much TV (read: bout 4 hours in total) since April (because suddenly I turned it on and realized what a godawful pile of crap it is) and I'd like to think it's made me a better person because of it.
...how a lot of kernel developers seem to talk mainly about how well their patches help a server withstand slashdotting?;)
I mean... look at that bloke who posted a scheduler patch in Kernel Traffic, and now Rik... both mention a certain website. I dunno if this is a good or bad thing
Well, what's this mean then. Even if this guy succeeds in shaking things up, will he only effect change insofar as rack CD burners will be able to copy these discs?
May be a sliver off topic but this just came to me as I finished posting my other reply to this thread. The thing is, sure everyone hates MSFT's XBox but oddly enough no-one seems to have an opinion on the PS2, except maybe that they'll get one because they hate MS so much that they'll make sure they'll buy something other than MS (ok, time for me to directly contradict what I just posted)
The point is, how's Sony any better? Well, in one way, they know that they need to be careful who they make enemies of; MS went and alienated way too many people for its own good but Sony's still one of those Evil Large Multinationals we're all supposed to be the sworn enemies of, right? Come on, these guys pride themselves on their proprietary standards, they want us all subjugated by the DMCA and SSSCA every bit as much as MS does, take their handling of the Bleem! project for instance. If you're going to boycott MS, it would make sense to boycott the PS2 and Gamecube too. Or am I talking a load of crap? dunno. I think one thing's for sure, I need more sleep =)
Why shouldnt the administration ignore it? A happy Microsoft means more bribes^H^H^H^H^H^Hcampaign contributions all round. Seriously though the DoJ looks like they're going to give them carte blanche, so unless there's public outcry (which there never seems to be wrt technology) then they're gonna continue doing what they please. Sorry.
Well, there's one hope - PR. Ie Microsoft's horrible lack of it. Just about anyone who uses computers at all seriously hates Microsoft and would buy a PS2 over an Xbox for no other reason that to screw MS - I know I will (but then again Final Fantasy X doesnt hurt either;))
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I notice Lycoris has made a decision that I really wish more distros would make:
/etc/init.d/ script to set up iptables, I can configure /etc/smb.conf, I can apt-get update from security.debian.org, I can enter some lines into /etc/fstab and /etc/crontab... need I go on, this can all be done... by an experienced sysadmin! Pull some of this stuff together into a system that functions as a unit and you've got something pretty damn amazing that will knock the pants off expee any day of the week. I just wish I had some more spare time and could code better, a handful of people could probably do what I've suggested (not that I think that's all of what Linux needs to be desktop complete, but it's certainly impressive and not hard to do.)
DON'T SHOVEL LOADS OF IDENTICAL SOFTWARE ON!
The K menu on Lycoris is sanely organised and there's one of everything. If you look at your average dist, when a user fires up the brand new desktop they're greeted with a load of disordered crap in the menus, half of which sticks out like a sore thumb (GTK+/Qt mismatch... sigh I really wish we could standardise on one of these. Preferably Qt but then of course it's put out by an Evil Company (TM) nevermind the fact that it's GPL.) and the other half just doesn't work. That's not a great first impression to make. Just by sorting out the defaults on installation Lycoris has taken a huge step forward.
The one thing imho that Linux needs on the desktop is a more homogeneous feel. One desktop environment and one widget set. One administration package. I want to boot into a KDE only desktop, start up KControl and schedule some backups every weekend and select "Automatically install security updates every week", maybe set up some email and web accounts for the kids, set up my firewall to "Allow web server and email traffic", and set up a home LAN and share some files around. If I were an end user doing that I'd think "Holy shit I can't do THIS under Windows!"
Come on fellas, this can be done. I can write an
# ifconfig eth0 hw ether 13:de:ad:be:ef:37
(OK admittedly this doesn't always work)
Quote from the GPL: "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it". This is not the preferred form, as your engineers didnt work with the obfuscated version, they worked with the original one. This is no different from distributing a binary or asm dump. And I sure hope that Konq didnt just post an empty comment with that title...
CSS? Balls. How many browsers do you know that support CSS to a sufficient level to truly allow style/content separation. XSLT seems to do a much better job, although I'm no fan of its downright baroque syntax. Still, CSS has nothing on an XPath based language... well, at least from my experience, of which I have incredibly little, however I'd be interested to see how CSS can separate c/s as well as XSLT can.
LTSP seems to work nicely from what I've seen, though I don't run a lab, I just played about with it. Seems good though, even supports Debian, Xf86v4 and Linux 2.4.x. The current thin-client poster child of Linux seems to be the City of Largo ... google around for that a bit, but that story basically details some stuff about their implementation. Hope that helped.
Oh yeah, that's reliable ;)
(And this damn Slow Down page has come up four times and every damn time I have to retype this.)
A consistent layout and a good colour scheme's all I look for.
That and I feel like rallying a lynch mob every time I see a site that uses Flash.
This is a nasty bait-and-switch tactic if I've ever seen one, especially after all that beta testing they had everyone put in.
Uhm... I use it for apt-get. Seriously =P That and shoutcast. OK I do download MP3's but I think I've downloaded about... three or so since I got my DSL.
I dunno how legal shoutcast is but for pissing out loud, I certainly don't lose any sleep over the fact that I listen to the radio across IP as opposed to AM/FM, and they'd probably have been shut down long ago given the amount of bandwidth needed to run such an operation in the long run. Though I'm sure they're pushing through legistlation to make you pay per second per kilobit per watt per attention length per suspected rate of piracy of the user, plus about 75% ads.
OK I suppose it's fairly similar, but, though I might add that since you asked.
Software piracy? Why not have a separate CD check server that the client contacts to check for validity, then go on to connect to a bnet(d) server afterwards? The game server doesnt mean jack if the binary refuses to connect due to an invalid cd key.
They're probably trying to corall everybody into battlenet, then say "oh but you owe us a Small Fee now" if they can't sustain the servers or just want to cash in further. At least that's the only rational explanation I can see.
...some of this stuff's a complete crock of crap. "Phasers issued to police (laser/tazer hybrid)"? eh? how the heck do you integrate a light beam generating device (which still havent seen any significant improvement this decade, at least that I'm aware of) with a device that shoots a physical projectile carrying a current in an at all useful manner?
;)
"Cassini reaches Saturn, 2004". No, really? good golly I could make a dozen such 'predictions' based on NASA's space programmes schedule. Maybe I ought to be employed as a futurist. And the priorities for AI are messed up: a natural language interface coming after natural language translation? surely an understanding of context and meaning is required for translation, one well above what is needed for a natural language interface (which only really needs to understand computer-based concepts in any level of detail)
There's some interesting stuff here, yeah, but if even a skim read of it indicates a few glaring oddities such as these then excuse me for taking this doc wih a cubic metre of NaCl
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This must be some sort of record. Taco my boy, that was a Really Bad Idea (TM)
If the entire population of slashdot accessing that site to point and laugh at the exploit code and how it doesnt affect them doesnt constitute a slashdotting, I dunno what does =) I already cant access it.
;)
Someone post more links to the other vector pages, if we can't get them down any other way we'll bum-rush em
And the great masses of slashdotters arose and took the first step upon the great march to their congressmen, then sat down again panting from exertion.
I've heard "Write to your congressman!" too many times on here. Firstly I'm not even a USian so what congressman over there is going to give a damn for hat I've got to say? there's some, I dunno, 50,000 users on slashdot? even if every single one wrote to their congressman... well, they might notice the issue only to have their local RIAA "Public Funding Officer" hand them a wad of fifties and tell em to piss off.
If the great masses don't even know or care about this you don't have a hope. A better strategy would be to launch a mass campaign against every person in power who you dislike. Dig up all the records of who's funding who, and crosscheck it against what libery-violating statutes those people voted for. Boil it down to a level that can incense and anger the common voter; going after IP law is like trying to take the Reichstag when you're retreating from Normandy. Pull out the corruption and corporate puppeteering of the political process and make the people in power damn sure that this sort of thing is not going to be good for them, then worry about IP law, for now be content with the hope that some landmark ruling may overturn the DMCA.
But then, there's hardly any hope of that happening, so why even bother telling people to write to their congressman? *sigh* and I can't exactly talk as if I'm on high ground either; I live in the UK and no doubt we're the next in line to be bent over and rammed until we look like the goatse.cx guy =/
I hope they're using SSH. Or switches. Imagine all this stuff about insecure 802.11 blown up tenfold
I dont think I'm a peer with Microsoft considering they've got finances larger than many countries' GDP
So what kind of DRM-shackled kernel-integrated, msn.com centric peer to peer might that be? ;)
... Ethernet's just a method for sending packets between two nodes, given that you know their MAC addresses. That's all the protocol provides you with, everything else has to be layered on top
/constant/ data rate between two points. Ethernet and even TCP/IP just doesnt have that. I'm no great expert on firewire but firewire's firewire and ethernet's ethernet. Both have relative merits.
On the other hand, Firewire has some USB-like features like device identification, device power supply, and is also better than USB because you dont need a computer in there to drive the system (you could hook a printer directly to a camera without any proprietary interfaces) and the actual protocol is different... for instance there's an isochronous transfer mode which guarantees a
Whats so difficult about it. I havent watched much TV (read: bout 4 hours in total) since April (because suddenly I turned it on and realized what a godawful pile of crap it is) and I'd like to think it's made me a better person because of it.
Offtopic my ass. Mod this back up dammit =P
...how a lot of kernel developers seem to talk mainly about how well their patches help a server withstand slashdotting? ;)
I mean... look at that bloke who posted a scheduler patch in Kernel Traffic, and now Rik... both mention a certain website. I dunno if this is a good or bad thing
why did I think "What, are PDP's still in vogue?"..?
Well, what's this mean then. Even if this guy succeeds in shaking things up, will he only effect change insofar as rack CD burners will be able to copy these discs?
May be a sliver off topic but this just came to me as I finished posting my other reply to this thread. The thing is, sure everyone hates MSFT's XBox but oddly enough no-one seems to have an opinion on the PS2, except maybe that they'll get one because they hate MS so much that they'll make sure they'll buy something other than MS (ok, time for me to directly contradict what I just posted)
The point is, how's Sony any better? Well, in one way, they know that they need to be careful who they make enemies of; MS went and alienated way too many people for its own good but Sony's still one of those Evil Large Multinationals we're all supposed to be the sworn enemies of, right? Come on, these guys pride themselves on their proprietary standards, they want us all subjugated by the DMCA and SSSCA every bit as much as MS does, take their handling of the Bleem! project for instance. If you're going to boycott MS, it would make sense to boycott the PS2 and Gamecube too. Or am I talking a load of crap? dunno. I think one thing's for sure, I need more sleep =)
Why shouldnt the administration ignore it? A happy Microsoft means more bribes^H^H^H^H^H^Hcampaign contributions all round. Seriously though the DoJ looks like they're going to give them carte blanche, so unless there's public outcry (which there never seems to be wrt technology) then they're gonna continue doing what they please. Sorry.
;))
Well, there's one hope - PR. Ie Microsoft's horrible lack of it. Just about anyone who uses computers at all seriously hates Microsoft and would buy a PS2 over an Xbox for no other reason that to screw MS - I know I will (but then again Final Fantasy X doesnt hurt either