Re:No nagging on the install!
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Lindows Reviewed
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Um...why do we need another totally insecure OS? From the review, I got the impression that, thus far, Lindows is a dumbed down XWindows, with Wine and ungodly horrible security.
Linux users won't want it because they won't want to be root all the time. Windows users won't want it because Windows apps won't run as well.
Admiteddly, this is not a full release, but even so, what is the point of purchasing this? With Wine running, a tempermental app at best, you lose a lot of the stability of Linux. With X running as root, you lose the security of Linux, and gain all those nice outlook viruses. And if the primary target is current Windows users, well, I just cannot see a reason they would switch.
A dumbed down X with Wine just ain't gonna cut it in the market, I have to believe.
Call me confused, but what exactly would one DO in a Farscape action game? Slaughter Scorpy's evil minions? Kill Peacekeepers? The series was GOOD because of the kickass characters and (for the most part) excellent plotline. Combat was never a large part of the show. Moya herself has zero weapons.
I'm going to be quite scared if it's basically...Crighton (pardon spelling) just goes around and kills things. Quake/Diablo with some Farscape scenery/characters? Blegh.
I really don't think the Farscape series translates well to any genre of computer game, honestly. MAYBE, as I believe someone suggested, something along the lines of a Space Quest type game, but that'd be about it.
It's been proven before that AOL can take a perfectly good product (Netscape) and turn it into a nice pile of crap, mainly due to complete and utter failure in keeping up with IE. They dropped the ball, and now MS has their iron grip on the browser market, probably for good. Even Mozilla won't be able to penetrate now. Sure, the techys could switch, but the mass-market computer-illiterate folk (95% of the client base) have their IE and ain't changing.
Anyway, the thing with Red Hat is different. RH may be one of the more well-known (dare I say most used?) distros, but there are a whole buttload of others, many damn near exactly the same as RH.
So big deal. If AOL/TW buys Red Hate and drives it into the ground, as I suspect, another distro rises up and takes their place. There is no Linux equivalent of 'netscape vs IE', where you get one of the other. In the Linux distro world, you have a whole lot of choices.
Hey, this might even be a good thing. One less distro to pay attention to in a fun filled 'my distro is better than yours' war.:)
Re:News for nerds? Can a STORY be modded Offtopic?
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Review: Orange County
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Why is it that every movie review posted on/. receieves a flood of 'why the hell is this on/.?!??' posts?
If the article doesn't interest you, skip it. I'm sure a good amount of daily slashdot readers are interested in knowing whether or not they should spend the zillion bucks to go see a movie. And believe it or not, nerds don't go see only tech movies.
While you most certainly have a point, I must say that this is not a criminal act. This is an act of war. We should not be tracking down the culprit to prosecute them under our law, we should be retailiating as per the 'rules' of warfare. Declared or not, we are at war with those who planned this attack and with those who harbor them, and should respond appropriatly.
The following was a letter emailed to the President by a friend of mine, and I think you would all be interested in reading it.
I am writing you to express my thanks for your sincere and
thoughtful remarks on today's national tragedy. Like you, I offer my
condolences to the families and friends of the victims of this horrific
attack. I also write you on behalf of potential victims of a growing and
unreasoned response to this travesty.
Interspersed with the reports on today's national tragedy, I have
been hearing other news that is as disconcerting as the senseless loss of
life. Namely, that Federal Law Enforcement Agency spokespersons are
talking of limiting not only civil liberties of free passage, but veiled
references to endorsing the curtailing of privacy-enabling technologies,
all of which are cryptography-based.
It seems that those who truly care about freedom and all that it
entails are being afforded no time to mourn this day's losses. I believe
it no product of wild speculation to suggest that many policiticians and
media pundits will once again renew their calls for limitations on public
access to strong cryptography. These movements will be built on the
graves of the dead in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. The claim
will ultimately be made that if cryptography had not been so readily
available, our intelligence agencies would have been able to detect and
summarily thwart today's attack on the contintental United States.
Suffice it to say that I can no sooner embrace such notions than I
can embrace the terrorists who brought this tragedy to our nation's
shores. And anyone suggesting such a course of action should be met with
resistance equal to that which you call on us to muster against the forces
of terrorism.
The day we sacrifice our liberties in the name of "security" is
the day that the terrorists' goals will have been achieved. To reiterate
the wisdom of Benjamin Franklin, if we surrender our liberty in the name
of security, we shall have neither.
It is unfortunate that it seemed necessary to compose this note
less than twelve hours after this day's attack, but it is every citizen's
duty to take every possible action to avert national disaster; especially
one in the making.
Thank you for your valuable time. It is my hope that the
perpetrators of this crime against the United States will be swiftly
brought to justice. God bless America.
I heard about the first hit en route to work and thought little of it. When I got in and then found out about not only the second attack and the Pentagon strike, I just could not believe it. Every single person in our office that could get a connection had feeds from various websites.
I work in the only skyscraper in the Chicago suburbs, just 10 miles from downtown, and about the same distance from O'hare. There I was just thinking that 10 miles ain't that far away from another high profile target like the Sears Tower.
The elevators were jam packed with folks getting out of the building, and while the building did not officially evacuate, our company did decide for everyone to leave. I honestly think it was the wisest course of action.
We can only wonder right now where that plane that crashed in PA was headed, and while I feel for the loss of the lives of the people on that plane, I am glad in the sense that it did not hit its target.
I have my problems with the policies of the US government at times. But dammit, this is our country, and god help whoever is responsible for this. They best be on good terms with their God, for they are going to soon be meeting him, and us.
Looks like it is time to invest in the production of coffee IV's. After all, if its that first cup that is killing us, why not simply always imbibe coffee?
Keep the pots a-brewin', plug your little coffee IV in for bedtime, and we'll be a healthier society!
Followed by metallic showers and tidalwaves.
Followed by fault lines that cannot sit still.
Followed by millions of dumbfonded scientists.
2001-03-28 10:04:22
I worked with a 'mom & pop' ISP from its birth
till the end, when it was bought by the local phone company 3 years later. Our staff consisted of 5-8 people (it varied), and our customers absolutly loved us. Even when we had extended downtime, people wanted to sign up.
We sold at the right time, I like to think. Nowadays, there's at least 1 uber-ISP in damn near every town, and the mom & pop's just can't compete with the ultra cheap access the big boys can throw out. We knew the customers were going to hate this change from day 1, when the customers kept calling us instead of the phone company for tech support. Why, you ask? "I can never get through to them and/or they are incompetant." So we wound up doing tech support for a little while just because we were nice guys.
That's what you get with the uber-ISP's. Crap service for a nickel a month. And the small guys just can't compete.
There is actually a real, licensed sequal to the game in development right now. It's called Scorched Worlds, being developed by Magic Lantern.
Two of the people working on it are good friends of mine, which would be how I know.
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Um...why do we need another totally insecure OS? From the review, I got the impression that, thus far, Lindows is a dumbed down XWindows, with Wine and ungodly horrible security.
Linux users won't want it because they won't want to be root all the time. Windows users won't want it because Windows apps won't run as well.
Admiteddly, this is not a full release, but even so, what is the point of purchasing this? With Wine running, a tempermental app at best, you lose a lot of the stability of Linux. With X running as root, you lose the security of Linux, and gain all those nice outlook viruses. And if the primary target is current Windows users, well, I just cannot see a reason they would switch.
A dumbed down X with Wine just ain't gonna cut it in the market, I have to believe.
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Call me confused, but what exactly would one DO in a Farscape action game? Slaughter Scorpy's evil minions? Kill Peacekeepers? The series was GOOD because of the kickass characters and (for the most part) excellent plotline. Combat was never a large part of the show. Moya herself has zero weapons.
I'm going to be quite scared if it's basically...Crighton (pardon spelling) just goes around and kills things. Quake/Diablo with some Farscape scenery/characters? Blegh.
I really don't think the Farscape series translates well to any genre of computer game, honestly. MAYBE, as I believe someone suggested, something along the lines of a Space Quest type game, but that'd be about it.
It's been proven before that AOL can take a perfectly good product (Netscape) and turn it into a nice pile of crap, mainly due to complete and utter failure in keeping up with IE. They dropped the ball, and now MS has their iron grip on the browser market, probably for good. Even Mozilla won't be able to penetrate now. Sure, the techys could switch, but the mass-market computer-illiterate folk (95% of the client base) have their IE and ain't changing.
:)
Anyway, the thing with Red Hat is different. RH may be one of the more well-known (dare I say most used?) distros, but there are a whole buttload of others, many damn near exactly the same as RH.
So big deal. If AOL/TW buys Red Hate and drives it into the ground, as I suspect, another distro rises up and takes their place. There is no Linux equivalent of 'netscape vs IE', where you get one of the other. In the Linux distro world, you have a whole lot of choices.
Hey, this might even be a good thing. One less distro to pay attention to in a fun filled 'my distro is better than yours' war.
Why is it that every movie review posted on /. receieves a flood of 'why the hell is this on /.?!??' posts?
If the article doesn't interest you, skip it. I'm sure a good amount of daily slashdot readers are interested in knowing whether or not they should spend the zillion bucks to go see a movie. And believe it or not, nerds don't go see only tech movies.
End mini-rant.
While you most certainly have a point, I must say that this is not a criminal act. This is an act of war. We should not be tracking down the culprit to prosecute them under our law, we should be retailiating as per the 'rules' of warfare. Declared or not, we are at war with those who planned this attack and with those who harbor them, and should respond appropriatly.
The following was a letter emailed to the President by a friend of mine, and I think you would all be interested in reading it.
I am writing you to express my thanks for your sincere and thoughtful remarks on today's national tragedy. Like you, I offer my condolences to the families and friends of the victims of this horrific attack. I also write you on behalf of potential victims of a growing and unreasoned response to this travesty.
Interspersed with the reports on today's national tragedy, I have been hearing other news that is as disconcerting as the senseless loss of life. Namely, that Federal Law Enforcement Agency spokespersons are talking of limiting not only civil liberties of free passage, but veiled references to endorsing the curtailing of privacy-enabling technologies, all of which are cryptography-based.
It seems that those who truly care about freedom and all that it entails are being afforded no time to mourn this day's losses. I believe it no product of wild speculation to suggest that many policiticians and media pundits will once again renew their calls for limitations on public access to strong cryptography. These movements will be built on the graves of the dead in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. The claim will ultimately be made that if cryptography had not been so readily available, our intelligence agencies would have been able to detect and summarily thwart today's attack on the contintental United States.
Suffice it to say that I can no sooner embrace such notions than I can embrace the terrorists who brought this tragedy to our nation's shores. And anyone suggesting such a course of action should be met with resistance equal to that which you call on us to muster against the forces of terrorism.
The day we sacrifice our liberties in the name of "security" is the day that the terrorists' goals will have been achieved. To reiterate the wisdom of Benjamin Franklin, if we surrender our liberty in the name of security, we shall have neither.
It is unfortunate that it seemed necessary to compose this note less than twelve hours after this day's attack, but it is every citizen's duty to take every possible action to avert national disaster; especially one in the making.
Thank you for your valuable time. It is my hope that the perpetrators of this crime against the United States will be swiftly brought to justice. God bless America.
I heard about the first hit en route to work and thought little of it. When I got in and then found out about not only the second attack and the Pentagon strike, I just could not believe it. Every single person in our office that could get a connection had feeds from various websites.
I work in the only skyscraper in the Chicago suburbs, just 10 miles from downtown, and about the same distance from O'hare. There I was just thinking that 10 miles ain't that far away from another high profile target like the Sears Tower.
The elevators were jam packed with folks getting out of the building, and while the building did not officially evacuate, our company did decide for everyone to leave. I honestly think it was the wisest course of action.
We can only wonder right now where that plane that crashed in PA was headed, and while I feel for the loss of the lives of the people on that plane, I am glad in the sense that it did not hit its target.
I have my problems with the policies of the US government at times. But dammit, this is our country, and god help whoever is responsible for this. They best be on good terms with their God, for they are going to soon be meeting him, and us.
Looks like it is time to invest in the production of coffee IV's. After all, if its that first cup that is killing us, why not simply always imbibe coffee?
Keep the pots a-brewin', plug your little coffee IV in for bedtime, and we'll be a healthier society!
Followed by metallic showers and tidalwaves. Followed by fault lines that cannot sit still. Followed by millions of dumbfonded scientists. 2001-03-28 10:04:22
I worked with a 'mom & pop' ISP from its birth till the end, when it was bought by the local phone company 3 years later. Our staff consisted of 5-8 people (it varied), and our customers absolutly loved us. Even when we had extended downtime, people wanted to sign up.
We sold at the right time, I like to think. Nowadays, there's at least 1 uber-ISP in damn near every town, and the mom & pop's just can't compete with the ultra cheap access the big boys can throw out. We knew the customers were going to hate this change from day 1, when the customers kept calling us instead of the phone company for tech support. Why, you ask? "I can never get through to them and/or they are incompetant." So we wound up doing tech support for a little while just because we were nice guys.
That's what you get with the uber-ISP's. Crap service for a nickel a month. And the small guys just can't compete.
There is actually a real, licensed sequal to the game in development right now. It's called Scorched Worlds, being developed by Magic Lantern. Two of the people working on it are good friends of mine, which would be how I know.