The "problem" is people who's computers are left vulnerable, and subsequently given a little exercise by some bad people. If everyone either used a system with relatively few flaws, or just kept up-to-date with patches, the hackers would struggle to do what they currently do. Perhaps even blame it on the vendors who don't have good enough (read: on by default, simple to use, never goes wrong, and if it does, corrects itself) automatic update utilities.
While we're at it, Firefox could do with that option too. Burried deep within the settings dialog would be fine, since most people won't need to use it.
That would be ideal for me too, since I mainly use Firefox on Solaris at work, and sometimes on a Windows box where I can mount my Solaris home dir via Samba.
I have a Linksys WRT54G WiFi base station and when I used to stay in a flat in Edinburgh, it worked everywhere in the flat (old tenament style with thick walls) and all the way down the street. Now I've moved to a house out of the city, it works all over the house, the garden, and outside the front door. It all depends where you choose to place your base station. I've got mine in the attic.
I have a BT XD500 DECT/GAP phone and it doesn't appear to interfere with WiFi at all. I'm not sure what frequency the phone uses though - doesn't mention it on the box.
My landline has never died. Neither has my mobile phone since I started a contract with my current provider. The last time we had a powercut (everywhere for at least the surrounding 5 miles was out too), my mobile was my chosen way of keeping in touch with friends until the power came back.
With 75% of the population having mobile phones (at least in urban areas of the UK), do you think there are enough paramedics to answer allo those emergency calls? Calling probably just makes things worse by making hteir switchboard too busy.
If I needed to dial 911, I'd use my mobile phone rather than the POTS/VoIP one, because it's in my pocket all the time, I'd be able to get the call made faster. I don't see this being an issue for most people. Anyway, my POTS telephone system (BT XD500 DECT) requires mains power to operate. If my VoIP doesn't work, chances are my POTS phones isn't working either.
That's not a Linux issue, that's a desktop environment issue. Copy and paste works just fine in KDE and all other QT-based apps (and always has). I use KDE on Linux and Solaris, and clipboard functionality works fine on both of these.
If copy and paste doesn't work for you on Linux, it's not Linux that's broken, it's either the application on the system providing the clipboard that's broken (be that X or KDE or any other desktop environment that provides its own clipboard).
On Solaris 9, copying and pasting between KDE 3.2.2 applications and Gnome 2.x applications works fine, which suggests that both Gnome and KDE handle it properly. If that fails on Linux, then it could be something to do with the X server on your distro.
Copying and pasting between Mozilla and other apps doesn't work perfectly for me all the time, which I'd guess is something to do with Mozilla rather than the operating system.
If Gimp on Windows didn't allow full copy and paste functionality between itself and Adobe photoshop, would you say "Copy and paste doesn't work on Windows"?
I've not seen that problem at all recently. I know that Windows has problems with PS/2 keyboards if the keyboard gets plugged in while Windows is running, but other operating systems don't, so I don't think it's a BIOS problem.
the two operating systems will continue to narrow to a point where their underlying kernel becomes irrelevant.
I bet it's not so irrelevant that we'll see MS Office ported to Linux!
Surely to Microsoft, the underlying kernel is VERY important - they want it to be theirs otherwise they'll make less money. It's very important to me too, since I don't want to pay $299 for Microsoft's kernel/OS and never use any of it apart from the Kernel.
Sure, to a lot of end users, the underlying kernel means nothing as long as their software runs, but to software companies like Microsoft, and other developers, it will continue to mean a lot.
NTFS does support symbolic linking. I know NT/2000/XP don't come with a tool for creating symlinks, but since the filesystem supports it, I'd be surprised if someone hasn't written a tool that can do it. It's probably too difficult for the average user to use though.
Have you tried having 2 X consoles logged in as the same user, maybe one by VNC - notice that all gnome programs start on the original desktop, not the one that launched them - totally ignores $DISPLAY - how daft is that!
I've only ever tried that with Gnome 2 on Solaris (running on solaris, being displayed on a remote solaris box), and it worked perfectly. Also, I think it runs faster with 512mb RAM than KDE does. But I'll continue to run KDE 3.2.2 on my Sun:-)
At least if the deciding factor is the VM, then everyone can use their preferred VM, and the language the app was written in is still irrelevant, until someone else needs to debug/.fix it.
Isn't the problem in this case going to be different compilers producing varying quality byte-code?
Computer litarate means that you can criticise software and ideas regardless of what OS it was aimed at. If you want to think of things just in terms of Linux software, then you're being Linux literate at best.
Regarding the "runs faster"... in my experience, on a P4 1400MHZ, KDE is snappier than Windows XP, by anything between a few milliseconds and a few seconds depending on the task. That could have just been configuration issues, but I'm just as familiar with FC1 as I am with XP and both were pretty much default configs.
On slower machines, I've seen Win 2K being quicker than KDE of the same vintage.
I wasn't aware of that. The default installation didn't indicate that this was an option. In fact it provided various options for mouse settings and didn't show this option, so I originally accepted that it wasn't available. I would have thought that if it was possible with the architecture they use, that it would have been one of the options (since it's what all the competitors offer). Ah, what it's like to feel like 5% of the desktop user market:-(
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The "problem" is people who's computers are left vulnerable, and subsequently given a little exercise by some bad people. If everyone either used a system with relatively few flaws, or just kept up-to-date with patches, the hackers would struggle to do what they currently do. Perhaps even blame it on the vendors who don't have good enough (read: on by default, simple to use, never goes wrong, and if it does, corrects itself) automatic update utilities.
Name and shame! ;-)
While we're at it, Firefox could do with that option too. Burried deep within the settings dialog would be fine, since most people won't need to use it.
That would be ideal for me too, since I mainly use Firefox on Solaris at work, and sometimes on a Windows box where I can mount my Solaris home dir via Samba.
Nice one :-)
Although, in context, you could work out what he meant. It's just that one sentence by itself that didn't make sense.
I have a Linksys WRT54G WiFi base station and when I used to stay in a flat in Edinburgh, it worked everywhere in the flat (old tenament style with thick walls) and all the way down the street. Now I've moved to a house out of the city, it works all over the house, the garden, and outside the front door. It all depends where you choose to place your base station. I've got mine in the attic.
I have a BT XD500 DECT/GAP phone and it doesn't appear to interfere with WiFi at all. I'm not sure what frequency the phone uses though - doesn't mention it on the box.
Why would you "rent a movie from your local adult store then try to get excited watching Spice" ?
Especially if you think Spice sucks.
s/facts/spelling/
s/credability/credibility/
If you slid it back and pushed on the card, the ethernet card would show back up in Windows and the internet automagically worked again.
Can you push it back in again? I've been finding Google a bit unreliable in the last few days.
Some use Mac's keyboard?
Some use Mac's mouse?
Poor Mac, all those people using his gadgets.
My landline has never died. Neither has my mobile phone since I started a contract with my current provider. The last time we had a powercut (everywhere for at least the surrounding 5 miles was out too), my mobile was my chosen way of keeping in touch with friends until the power came back.
I wish schools would do their service to humanity and teach people proper grammar and punctuation.
With 75% of the population having mobile phones (at least in urban areas of the UK), do you think there are enough paramedics to answer allo those emergency calls? Calling probably just makes things worse by making hteir switchboard too busy.
If I needed to dial 911, I'd use my mobile phone rather than the POTS/VoIP one, because it's in my pocket all the time, I'd be able to get the call made faster. I don't see this being an issue for most people. Anyway, my POTS telephone system (BT XD500 DECT) requires mains power to operate. If my VoIP doesn't work, chances are my POTS phones isn't working either.
That's not a Linux issue, that's a desktop environment issue. Copy and paste works just fine in KDE and all other QT-based apps (and always has). I use KDE on Linux and Solaris, and clipboard functionality works fine on both of these.
If copy and paste doesn't work for you on Linux, it's not Linux that's broken, it's either the application on the system providing the clipboard that's broken (be that X or KDE or any other desktop environment that provides its own clipboard).
On Solaris 9, copying and pasting between KDE 3.2.2 applications and Gnome 2.x applications works fine, which suggests that both Gnome and KDE handle it properly. If that fails on Linux, then it could be something to do with the X server on your distro.
Copying and pasting between Mozilla and other apps doesn't work perfectly for me all the time, which I'd guess is something to do with Mozilla rather than the operating system.
If Gimp on Windows didn't allow full copy and paste functionality between itself and Adobe photoshop, would you say "Copy and paste doesn't work on Windows"?
I've not seen that problem at all recently. I know that Windows has problems with PS/2 keyboards if the keyboard gets plugged in while Windows is running, but other operating systems don't, so I don't think it's a BIOS problem.
Do you know when the UltraSPARC port will be available? I've been feeling pretty left out...
From the article:
the two operating systems will continue to narrow to a point where their underlying kernel becomes irrelevant.
I bet it's not so irrelevant that we'll see MS Office ported to Linux!
Surely to Microsoft, the underlying kernel is VERY important - they want it to be theirs otherwise they'll make less money. It's very important to me too, since I don't want to pay $299 for Microsoft's kernel/OS and never use any of it apart from the Kernel.
Sure, to a lot of end users, the underlying kernel means nothing as long as their software runs, but to software companies like Microsoft, and other developers, it will continue to mean a lot.
NTFS does support symbolic linking. I know NT/2000/XP don't come with a tool for creating symlinks, but since the filesystem supports it, I'd be surprised if someone hasn't written a tool that can do it. It's probably too difficult for the average user to use though.
Have you tried having 2 X consoles logged in as the same user, maybe one by VNC - notice that all gnome programs start on the original desktop, not the one that launched them - totally ignores $DISPLAY - how daft is that!
:-)
I've only ever tried that with Gnome 2 on Solaris (running on solaris, being displayed on a remote solaris box), and it worked perfectly. Also, I think it runs faster with 512mb RAM than KDE does. But I'll continue to run KDE 3.2.2 on my Sun
At least if the deciding factor is the VM, then everyone can use their preferred VM, and the language the app was written in is still irrelevant, until someone else needs to debug/.fix it.
Isn't the problem in this case going to be different compilers producing varying quality byte-code?
Computer litarate means that you can criticise software and ideas regardless of what OS it was aimed at. If you want to think of things just in terms of Linux software, then you're being Linux literate at best.
Regarding the "runs faster"... in my experience, on a P4 1400MHZ, KDE is snappier than Windows XP, by anything between a few milliseconds and a few seconds depending on the task. That could have just been configuration issues, but I'm just as familiar with FC1 as I am with XP and both were pretty much default configs.
On slower machines, I've seen Win 2K being quicker than KDE of the same vintage.
Your last sentence is pure class. I love it!
I wasn't aware of that. The default installation didn't indicate that this was an option. In fact it provided various options for mouse settings and didn't show this option, so I originally accepted that it wasn't available. I would have thought that if it was possible with the architecture they use, that it would have been one of the options (since it's what all the competitors offer). Ah, what it's like to feel like 5% of the desktop user market :-(
I can hit Print Screen to screenshot my desktop and get a preview of the screenshot before saving.
That's exactly as bad as dragging a floppy disk to the Trash Can to eject it. What a crap metaphor.