I chuckled the other night when we had our "date night", and we both ended up staying in and playing around on the Internet in separate rooms on our separate computers for the night.
We even had a little 15-minute IM conversation about something.
Compiz is the software that enables a machine with nothing more than a 2gz P4 with 512mb ram and a crappy onboard Intel video card (my office workstation) to have the same visual effects that Vista can create when it has a dual-core 5000+ with 2gb RAM and a GeForce 7800GT.
So yes, Vista's version is just crappy bloatware. Understand now?
"Of course, on the system *I* administrate, vi is symlinked to ed. Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K; and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!"
err:module:import_dll Library WINHTTP.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\kwabbles\\Desktop\\WLinstaller.exe") not found err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"Z:\\home\\kwabbles\\Desktop\\WLinstaller.exe" failed, status c0000135
That's what I always used to call Ubuntu. Being a die-hard linux user/sysadmin for going on 10 years now, and a rabid Debian and Slackware fan - I always scoffed at Ubuntu. I felt like it was "dumbed down".
Seeing the positive effect Ubuntu has had in spreading more mainstream use of linux, I've changed my ways. This is just another step further in helping more people to step away from Windows and discover something better. I agree that X11 problems account for the majority of failed end-user attempts at trying linux out.
Since Feisty came out, I've been able to quickly install a GNU/Linux distro on several machines (family members, friends) and have them up and running, and the users happily working on a friendly OS. All of them have stayed with Ubuntu. No Ubuntu/XP dual booting, just straight up scrapping Windows and going full ahead with Ubuntu. Most of them (my wife included) have said "I will never go back to Windows again".
Every time a user says "I will never go back to Windows again", an angel gets its wings.
True, there must be upwards of a billion unsubstantiated facts and vague assertions about Linux on Slashdot. Some of them were probably typed by me.:) Slashdot is simply a mass of nerds chatting on a forum about the latest "geek scoop" - hardly a mainstream marketing/news outlet. You usually don't see your friendly neighborhood MBA getting on Slashdot to find out whether to use Microsoft or Linux for their new business.
No, they're usually not. But one thing I'll say for OSS proponents - you usually don't see them using a bunch of vague assertions, flashy buzzwords, unsubstantiated "facts", biased/self-sponsored technological reviews, and snotty PR campaigns.
The Linux community has nothing to prove. Microsoft does.
The guy at the Ford dealership told me that Fords are more reliable, safe, and powerful than Chevys. He showed me a bunch of charts he made, and that made me feel better. He also had a nice suit and really nice white teeth, and smiled alot. Nice guy. What reason did I have to check out the Chevy dealership?
Problem #1 is that people are comfortable with their operating system, and haven't experienced anything different, and don't care to.
Linux has typically only gained ground where Microsoft has lost it. When corps do chose to run foss - they do it primarily because:
1. They are staffed with IT that hates Microsoft products, or consult with staff that hates Microsoft products. (Because most conultants/techs will say "we like both Microsoft and foss, and they cooperate well" on the public side, but inside the IT dept after work is over - the techs are sitting around bashing Gates and Crew. Come on - you all know it, those of you in that group.) 2. They realize how insecure Microsoft products are. 3. They realize how hardware inefficient Microsoft products are. 4. They are fed up with licensing. 5. They are non-profit or educational and try to support coding research / other non-profit causes. 6. They realize they have no true control and customization of their system.
These big headlines lately, however, are being read by the MBA's as we chat about this.
And suddenly, somewhere someone realizes why RMS wants it to be called "Free Software" instead of "Open Source", and an angel gets its wings.
(not saying you don't realize)
The "open source" ideal is just the halfway point to the better ideal.
Since the submitter is also the author...
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Hardening Linux
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· Score: 4, Funny
Can you tell us the story about how you came to write this article?
Here's how I'm picturing it:
(editor) Mr. Williams, we need a techie article on Linux. (mr. williams) Okay... I haven't touched linux since I played around with my RedHat 7.2 box 3 years ago. (editor) Do you still have it? (mr. williams) Yes, what would you like me to write about it? (editor) Write something up on securing its "holes and vulnerabilities", and we'll sensationalize it a bit by making it look like Linux is insecure out of the box. (mr. williams) I don't know how to do that. (editor) Find something on google. Try it on your RedHat machine. (mr. williams) I'm going to look really stupid. (editor) You're a journalist.
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"What would you have me do with Washington, Destro? Pepper it with spitballs?"
I want to be able to change my voice when I call people.
Options must include:
Barry White
Liz Hurley
Megatron
Gary Coleman
Jerry Lewis
R2D2
Bobcat Goldthwait
Herve Villavechaize
Smeagol (post-ring)
I'd switch to AT&T for that.
I chuckled the other night when we had our "date night", and we both ended up staying in and playing around on the Internet in separate rooms on our separate computers for the night.
:)
We even had a little 15-minute IM conversation about something.
But then hey, we met online.
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Equip your law enforcement officers with the latest in thru-the-wall mind reading technology. Never proven wrong! (At least not in court)
I can't stop laughing. Oh hoh... my stomach. LOL
Compiz is the software that enables a machine with nothing more than a 2gz P4 with 512mb ram and a crappy onboard Intel video card (my office workstation) to have the same visual effects that Vista can create when it has a dual-core 5000+ with 2gb RAM and a GeForce 7800GT.
So yes, Vista's version is just crappy bloatware. Understand now?
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000088
I don't have any Windows machines to test it out on.
:)
Will this work in Wine?
Seriously though - nice work, guys.
I don't think ANYTHING can accomodate inflation.
Hell yes.
Or, we could modify the main deflector array to bombard it with tetrion particles - it wouldn't take much.
"Of course, on the system *I* administrate, vi is symlinked to ed.
Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog
message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K;
and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!"
"It looks like you ran into a dependency hell. Try to uncomment these in your repo config:
g "
http://download.microsoft.com/apt/os/unstable
http://download.microsoft.com/apt/patience/testin
Yeah - but "unstable" and "testing" are the only repositories Microsoft has. What now?
wget http://download.microsoft.com/WLinstaller.exe ./WLinstaller.exe
err:module:import_dll Library WINHTTP.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\\home\\kwabbles\\Desktop\\WLinstaller.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"Z:\\home\\kwabbles\\Desktop\\WLinstaller.exe" failed, status c0000135
No worky. Oh well. Back to reading slashdot.
That's what I always used to call Ubuntu. Being a die-hard linux user/sysadmin for going on 10 years now, and a rabid Debian and Slackware fan - I always scoffed at Ubuntu. I felt like it was "dumbed down".
Seeing the positive effect Ubuntu has had in spreading more mainstream use of linux, I've changed my ways. This is just another step further in helping more people to step away from Windows and discover something better. I agree that X11 problems account for the majority of failed end-user attempts at trying linux out.
Since Feisty came out, I've been able to quickly install a GNU/Linux distro on several machines (family members, friends) and have them up and running, and the users happily working on a friendly OS. All of them have stayed with Ubuntu. No Ubuntu/XP dual booting, just straight up scrapping Windows and going full ahead with Ubuntu. Most of them (my wife included) have said "I will never go back to Windows again".
Every time a user says "I will never go back to Windows again", an angel gets its wings.
You can recompile your kernel with a different scheduler if you wish.
All of the boards also have an additional 1g NIC installed, for additional throughput.
True, there must be upwards of a billion unsubstantiated facts and vague assertions about Linux on Slashdot. Some of them were probably typed by me. :) Slashdot is simply a mass of nerds chatting on a forum about the latest "geek scoop" - hardly a mainstream marketing/news outlet. You usually don't see your friendly neighborhood MBA getting on Slashdot to find out whether to use Microsoft or Linux for their new business.
No, they're usually not. But one thing I'll say for OSS proponents - you usually don't see them using a bunch of vague assertions, flashy buzzwords, unsubstantiated "facts", biased/self-sponsored technological reviews, and snotty PR campaigns.
The Linux community has nothing to prove. Microsoft does.
The guy at the Ford dealership told me that Fords are more reliable, safe, and powerful than Chevys. He showed me a bunch of charts he made, and that made me feel better. He also had a nice suit and really nice white teeth, and smiled alot. Nice guy. What reason did I have to check out the Chevy dealership?
Looks pretty.
Just RSS the Linux Kernel Mailing List. Instant kernel flame war notification.
There's somewhat of a flame war going on right now about filesystems.
Good entertainment.
True.
Problem #1 is that people are comfortable with their operating system, and haven't experienced anything different, and don't care to.
Linux has typically only gained ground where Microsoft has lost it. When corps do chose to run foss - they do it primarily because:
1. They are staffed with IT that hates Microsoft products, or consult with staff that hates Microsoft products. (Because most conultants/techs will say "we like both Microsoft and foss, and they cooperate well" on the public side, but inside the IT dept after work is over - the techs are sitting around bashing Gates and Crew. Come on - you all know it, those of you in that group.)
2. They realize how insecure Microsoft products are.
3. They realize how hardware inefficient Microsoft products are.
4. They are fed up with licensing.
5. They are non-profit or educational and try to support coding research / other non-profit causes.
6. They realize they have no true control and customization of their system.
These big headlines lately, however, are being read by the MBA's as we chat about this.
And suddenly, somewhere someone realizes why RMS wants it to be called "Free Software" instead of "Open Source", and an angel gets its wings.
(not saying you don't realize)
The "open source" ideal is just the halfway point to the better ideal.
Can you tell us the story about how you came to write this article?
Here's how I'm picturing it:
(editor) Mr. Williams, we need a techie article on Linux.
(mr. williams) Okay... I haven't touched linux since I played around with my RedHat 7.2 box 3 years ago.
(editor) Do you still have it?
(mr. williams) Yes, what would you like me to write about it?
(editor) Write something up on securing its "holes and vulnerabilities", and we'll sensationalize it a bit by making it look like Linux is insecure out of the box.
(mr. williams) I don't know how to do that.
(editor) Find something on google. Try it on your RedHat machine.
(mr. williams) I'm going to look really stupid.
(editor) You're a journalist.