I think we need a law that forces companies to have a large checkbox in their sign-up forms saying "I don't mind having my personal information sold to other companies". This should be un-checked by default. I'm sure some countries probably have this already.
Also I object to the way this Passport is being forced upon everyone. In the UK it seems to be rather unreliable. Several times this month, I have seen MSN messenger say "The.Net passport service is unavailable". Problems like this have also affected access to hotmail, although they tend to happen at 3am when the majority of hotmail users are probably not awake.
I am not proud of having an account with them as it make me one of those statistics showing how popular they are. If it (hotmail) had been run by MS when I signed up I would never have done it.
I'm glad I gave completely bogus details since I really object to having my personal information being spread around the way MS (and other large companies) do.
I would say "oh, leave them alone" if their Passport/.NET service was reliable, since I don't care if they sell my fake information.
I think the mistake was trusting an incomplete NTFS driver. I was under the impression that Kerlnel NTFS support for Windows XP's NTFS was at the beta stage or something and had known problems. I use FAT32 for the things I need to share between Linux and Windows on my dekstop (XP and RedHat).
What most people will probably find surprising is that I have Mandrake running on a server. My choice was not due to the extremely simple install, but simply because they include the new things before other distros do. Yeah I know people have had experience of this causing instability, but I've had no problems. My main file/print/mail/dns server at home has been running Mandrake 8.0 and has never crashed or become unstable or needed rebooting since I installed it a couple of days after the ISO was available. It's behind a NAT router so I'm not too bothered about having the latest Kernel and its running on a Pentium 100 without many performance problems. Mandrake has served me well but on a machine in that situation I have no need to upgrade to the latest version of the OS.
As for my RedHat desktop, well I'll be putting Mandrake 8.2 on the second hard disk as soon as I get it downloaded. There are very few things that annoy me in RedHat 7.2 (and some nice things RH has that MDK doesn't), and I'd like to think that Mandrake will have a neat solution:-)
If your Linux box is stolen, the thief would have to be quite smart to figure out your password and user name before he had any chance of running an xterm.
Thanx. I have that command on my system but I didnt know about it. It's gonna be quite useful:-)
And being a GNU utility, QNX will probably have it too:-)
And as for the guy below, being able to copy & paste isn't that useful if you dont let people know how to do it. Right click to copy... That's not particularly intuitive.
I know people think that that is one of the least important things in QNX, but if I'm gonna be sitting in front of my PC for >14 hours a day I want at least two things out of it:
Reliability
Useability
Please note, I left "A Life" out of the list deliberately;-)
Correct me if I'm wrong here - I only started reading about this today - QNX's main plus point is reliability, right? This is what makes it such a good server OS. This article is talking about it as a Desktop OS (look, he mentions FAT32 and NTFS). Why not go the whole way to becoming a popular desktop OS and make eye candy too? there's no reason it can't be there but be kept to a minimum so that it's reliable.
As for the calculator...
I couldn't get it to work in KDE 2.2-x (i think x is 13) from the RedHat 7.2 distro. I know it used to work though. If not being "bleeding edge" means doing without the paste function in my calculator I think I'll install Mandrake.
I always feel though, that the OS's native browser (the built in one) should be good though. Sometimes I just want to get on and do work without having to get extra software. I know that's bad for the industry, etc, but c'est la vie. From experience, the later versions of Konqueror meet this requirement - being just as fast as Opera on the same system (Hmmm... Opera has definitely got an good thing going there), but I've yet to see another OS where this can be experienced. I've heard Mozilla is available for it also but don't see any mention of it on Mozilla's site (on a top of the range PC you don't tend to notice the speed differences and the UI/standards support is more of an issue)
As someone who's never used or seen QNX before but has seen many other OSs, I like the first impression this gives me (going by the eye candy).
Some questions I need to know the answer to:
Does the calculator have a paste feature? This is something really lacking in KDE's one. And it bugs me when I can't be bothered adding two file sizes together (or typing the sizes into the calculator)
Will the interface always be as consistent as it is in the screenshots? - the Macs at school always had consistent user interfaces. With the advent of Microsoft Domination we witnesed horrible UIs that were exremely inconsistent. They can't even make their own apps have the same UI as their OS.
These shots of QNX make is seem like they've missed out all the bad features of other OS's and included all the good ones. I like it.
Does the web browser perform as fast as the other ones that are currently in use? (IE, Konqueror, Mozilla, Opera) and can it render the majority of pages that Konqueror can?
but I can get it replaced if it has a bona-fide bug
...but you can't take you'r motherboard back to shop x and say "Um... my processor didn't fit" when you bought it specially for the certain processor that had to be returned. Having just bought two Athlon MP chips and an Athlon MP specific motherboard, I would hate to have to return Any of it.
I think it is more important that we help with the fix rather than spend time arguing about who's fault it is and why nothing was done sooner.
Would we be complaining if it caused problems with QNX? (hehe well some people might). It's not the hardware manufacturer's place to test their product with all software that's on the market. It is their place to release accurate specs for their product so that software producers can work from these.
This particular problem just goes to demonstrate the problems caused by trying to make everything backwards compatible. It's my guess that if AMD had made a new 64-bit chip from scratch instead of making a faster 32-bit one, then this wouldn't have happened (but sure enough some other bugs would creep up).
Taking this... Besides, as with the many alternative mp3 players, there are other linux distrobutions out there. ...into account and your dislike of AOL as a company, why choose to use AOL's ICQ software? There are plenty of alternativeICQclients out there.
It looks a bit like the PC processor industry - they're pushing the technology to its limits just so that they can claim they're the fastest. What happens when the bandwidth requirements have also scaled 1000 times? There are no overclocking options here folks! On a lighter side - If I had one of thouse routers I might be able to load all those images and flash a bit faster:-)
Lucasfilm's spokeswoman said "This is a pornographic cartoon utilizing Star Wars intellectual property. We feel strongly that the law does not allow for parody to be a defense to a pornographic use of someone else's intellectual property, especially when that use is directed to children."
But regardless of being pornographic or now, people are allowed to use intellectual property for parody purposes, which is clearly what Star Ballz is doing. Well done to the Judge for not taking sides with the big corporation, but instead choosing what is right for people's freedom.
If it's got ethernet like the rest of the machines on an office network, and it can send e-mail, I fail to see how a floppy drive can be considered "useful", as it would probably never get used. I have an LS120 instead of a floppy drive because I made the mistake of thinking it might be useful. I've used it once in the last 2 years, when I was too lazy to find a blank CD to back something up onto. I've not used it as a standard floppy drive since shortly after I got it. It's faster and simpler to sending something through a network than it is to copy it onto a disk, then copy it onto another computer. And software comes on CDs, DVDs, RPMs and ISOs these days. I really can't imagine what i'd use a floppy disk for. Am I missing something?
I don't use windows apart from playing games and occasionally at work, but I was under the impression that it (Windows NT based systems) had file persmissions similar to those of UNIX based systems, so theoretically under a correctly configured Windows system, the damage is still limited to the user who downloaded the virus and viewed it.
Anyone who looses their entire system because of such a virus would apparently have missed out important stages of setting up their system, like checking file permissions. Sure, Windows probably sets them wrong in the first place, but people setting up Windows NT based systems who don't check these things obviously don't care - I didn't check because I don't care... I don't use it for anything important.
In short, users of NT based systems have no excuse for loosing their system due to such a virus.
As for those who think this is "cross platform", even if you didn't read the article, the Slashdot story says it uses a.COM file... does your Mac or Linux system know what this is or what to do with it? I didn't think so. It's most definitely limited to x86 NT machines - although with the requirements of modern Windows software I wouldn't be surprised if it only worked on Pentium 4's and Athlons:-P
I know what it means - which is not exactly what it says. OK, let's take it in context: South Korean internet users average about 1600 pieces of spam annually, summing to around 39 billion pieces of spam per year.
Taking South Korean Internet users as a group. They recieve 1600 annually. Therefore they receive 1600 in a year. No?
Perhaps it meant "The average South Korean Internet user..."
1. It's 24 million, not 2.4. (39 million divided by 1.6) 39 Billion (39,000,000,000) divided by 1600 is 24 million. So you were right and I was wrong.
Actually, if these other people using wireless networking are sending their packets into his network card, then they're the ones who are intruding - which, you will find, is the illegal thing. If someone stood in the street and shouted things out, could he bring a lawsuit against you for invasion of privacy just because you listened to what he said?
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Is it just me, or did anyone else think this was gonna be EPIC games vs MS, in an AOL-TW style?
I think we need a law that forces companies to have a large checkbox in their sign-up forms saying "I don't mind having my personal information sold to other companies". This should be un-checked by default. I'm sure some countries probably have this already.
.Net passport service is unavailable". Problems like this have also affected access to hotmail, although they tend to happen at 3am when the majority of hotmail users are probably not awake.
Also I object to the way this Passport is being forced upon everyone. In the UK it seems to be rather unreliable. Several times this month, I have seen MSN messenger say "The
I am not proud of having an account with them as it make me one of those statistics showing how popular they are. If it (hotmail) had been run by MS when I signed up I would never have done it.
I'm glad I gave completely bogus details since I really object to having my personal information being spread around the way MS (and other large companies) do.
I would say "oh, leave them alone" if their Passport/.NET service was reliable, since I don't care if they sell my fake information.
I think the mistake was trusting an incomplete NTFS driver. I was under the impression that Kerlnel NTFS support for Windows XP's NTFS was at the beta stage or something and had known problems. I use FAT32 for the things I need to share between Linux and Windows on my dekstop (XP and RedHat).
:-)
What most people will probably find surprising is that I have Mandrake running on a server. My choice was not due to the extremely simple install, but simply because they include the new things before other distros do. Yeah I know people have had experience of this causing instability, but I've had no problems. My main file/print/mail/dns server at home has been running Mandrake 8.0 and has never crashed or become unstable or needed rebooting since I installed it a couple of days after the ISO was available. It's behind a NAT router so I'm not too bothered about having the latest Kernel and its running on a Pentium 100 without many performance problems. Mandrake has served me well but on a machine in that situation I have no need to upgrade to the latest version of the OS.
As for my RedHat desktop, well I'll be putting Mandrake 8.2 on the second hard disk as soon as I get it downloaded. There are very few things that annoy me in RedHat 7.2 (and some nice things RH has that MDK doesn't), and I'd like to think that Mandrake will have a neat solution
We could follow the three letter filetype tradition and shorten "vorbis" to "vbs". My computer seems to be doing this for me with all my MP3s anyway.
If your Linux box is stolen, the thief would have to be quite smart to figure out your password and user name before he had any chance of running an xterm.
Thanx. I have that command on my system but I didnt know about it. It's gonna be quite useful :-)
:-)
And being a GNU utility, QNX will probably have it too
And as for the guy below, being able to copy & paste isn't that useful if you dont let people know how to do it. Right click to copy... That's not particularly intuitive.
I know people think that that is one of the least important things in QNX, but if I'm gonna be sitting in front of my PC for >14 hours a day I want at least two things out of it:
- Reliability
- Useability
Please note, I left "A Life" out of the list deliberatelyCorrect me if I'm wrong here - I only started reading about this today - QNX's main plus point is reliability, right? This is what makes it such a good server OS. This article is talking about it as a Desktop OS (look, he mentions FAT32 and NTFS). Why not go the whole way to becoming a popular desktop OS and make eye candy too? there's no reason it can't be there but be kept to a minimum so that it's reliable.
As for the calculator...
I couldn't get it to work in KDE 2.2-x (i think x is 13) from the RedHat 7.2 distro. I know it used to work though. If not being "bleeding edge" means doing without the paste function in my calculator I think I'll install Mandrake.
You're right! :-)
I always feel though, that the OS's native browser (the built in one) should be good though. Sometimes I just want to get on and do work without having to get extra software. I know that's bad for the industry, etc, but c'est la vie. From experience, the later versions of Konqueror meet this requirement - being just as fast as Opera on the same system (Hmmm... Opera has definitely got an good thing going there), but I've yet to see another OS where this can be experienced. I've heard Mozilla is available for it also but don't see any mention of it on Mozilla's site (on a top of the range PC you don't tend to notice the speed differences and the UI/standards support is more of an issue)
- Does the calculator have a paste feature? This is something really lacking in KDE's one. And it bugs me when I can't be bothered adding two file sizes together (or typing the sizes into the calculator)
- Will the interface always be as consistent as it is in the screenshots? - the Macs at school always had consistent user interfaces. With the advent of Microsoft Domination we witnesed horrible UIs that were exremely inconsistent. They can't even make their own apps have the same UI as their OS.
- Does the web browser perform as fast as the other ones that are currently in use? (IE, Konqueror, Mozilla, Opera) and can it render the majority of pages that Konqueror can?
These are just some things that people notice.These shots of QNX make is seem like they've missed out all the bad features of other OS's and included all the good ones. I like it.
but I can get it replaced if it has a bona-fide bug
...but you can't take you'r motherboard back to shop x and say "Um... my processor didn't fit" when you bought it specially for the certain processor that had to be returned. Having just bought two Athlon MP chips and an Athlon MP specific motherboard, I would hate to have to return Any of it.
I think it is more important that we help with the fix rather than spend time arguing about who's fault it is and why nothing was done sooner.
Would we be complaining if it caused problems with QNX? (hehe well some people might). It's not the hardware manufacturer's place to test their product with all software that's on the market. It is their place to release accurate specs for their product so that software producers can work from these.
This particular problem just goes to demonstrate the problems caused by trying to make everything backwards compatible. It's my guess that if AMD had made a new 64-bit chip from scratch instead of making a faster 32-bit one, then this wouldn't have happened (but sure enough some other bugs would creep up).
Taking this...
...into account and your dislike of AOL as a company, why choose to use AOL's ICQ software? There are plenty of alternative ICQ clients out there.
Besides, as with the many alternative mp3 players, there are other linux distrobutions out there.
It looks a bit like the PC processor industry - they're pushing the technology to its limits just so that they can claim they're the fastest. What happens when the bandwidth requirements have also scaled 1000 times? There are no overclocking options here folks! On a lighter side - If I had one of thouse routers I might be able to load all those images and flash a bit faster :-)
Lucasfilm's spokeswoman said "This is a pornographic cartoon utilizing Star Wars intellectual property. We feel strongly that the law does not allow for parody to be a defense to a pornographic use of someone else's intellectual property, especially when that use is directed to children."
But regardless of being pornographic or now, people are allowed to use intellectual property for parody purposes, which is clearly what Star Ballz is doing. Well done to the Judge for not taking sides with the big corporation, but instead choosing what is right for people's freedom.
I know this is OT, but there's nowhere else to discuss it.
The guy I'm replying to started this thread and got "-1 Troll" for the original post. Then he gets Score:2 for this post, which is identical.
One of these was modded incorrectly. I believe the 1st one should have been +2 Funny, thus making the second one unnecessary.
on my wifes machine
.Net on it :-)
Kinda like saying "my friend really fanices you"...
C'mon, we all know you're just hiding the fact that it's your PC that's got
Pope to support Atheism.
Or that .NET is... um.... like a net?
If it's got ethernet like the rest of the machines on an office network, and it can send e-mail, I fail to see how a floppy drive can be considered "useful", as it would probably never get used. I have an LS120 instead of a floppy drive because I made the mistake of thinking it might be useful. I've used it once in the last 2 years, when I was too lazy to find a blank CD to back something up onto. I've not used it as a standard floppy drive since shortly after I got it. It's faster and simpler to sending something through a network than it is to copy it onto a disk, then copy it onto another computer. And software comes on CDs, DVDs, RPMs and ISOs these days. I really can't imagine what i'd use a floppy disk for. Am I missing something?
Anyone who looses their entire system because of such a virus would apparently have missed out important stages of setting up their system, like checking file permissions. Sure, Windows probably sets them wrong in the first place, but people setting up Windows NT based systems who don't check these things obviously don't care - I didn't check because I don't care... I don't use it for anything important.
In short, users of NT based systems have no excuse for loosing their system due to such a virus.
As for those who think this is "cross platform", even if you didn't read the article, the Slashdot story says it uses a .COM file... does your Mac or Linux system know what this is or what to do with it? I didn't think so. It's most definitely limited to x86 NT machines - although with the requirements of modern Windows software I wouldn't be surprised if it only worked on Pentium 4's and Athlons :-P
And use vi to edit it ;-)
Maybe Renault was wrong. Who says size matters ;-P
I know what it means - which is not exactly what it says. OK, let's take it in context: South Korean internet users average about 1600 pieces of spam annually, summing to around 39 billion pieces of spam per year.
Taking South Korean Internet users as a group. They recieve 1600 annually. Therefore they receive 1600 in a year. No?
Perhaps it meant "The average South Korean Internet user..."
1. It's 24 million, not 2.4. (39 million divided by 1.6)
39 Billion (39,000,000,000) divided by 1600 is 24 million. So you were right and I was wrong.
So a year is now split into 2.4 million annual parts?
So what? look where the spice girls came from ;-)
Actually, if these other people using wireless networking are sending their packets into his network card, then they're the ones who are intruding - which, you will find, is the illegal thing. If someone stood in the street and shouted things out, could he bring a lawsuit against you for invasion of privacy just because you listened to what he said?