Right? Nothing to worry about. At least that's what the Microsoft drones here always say when Microsoft patents some obvious technology. Who do they need protection from? Oh that's right. The people who actually invented this like 10 years ago.
Except Optimum Online is raising its rates every single year. They also have some of the worst email service available. I constantly read about problems people are having at the dslreports forum. They have a somewhat flaky dns and dhcp infrastructure and also don't give any free webspace. Lastly their news service flat out sucks.
Don't get me wrong I won't be switching from OOL. I love the speed and since I have my own dns and email I don't have the same problems that many subscribers do. But that's all OOL has. If they are going to keep raising rates they need to evolve from the bare bones provider they are and start getting competitive with Verizon DSL. Frankly unlesss you download a LOT Verizon DSL in the NJ/NY area is vastly superior solution.
I can't possibly see that company not being sued out of existence. Looking at their home page flybar.com shows someone like 6 feet in the air. No way you could use that toy and not break an bone every time you used it. I'm usually of the opinion to just let everyone do what they hell the want bodily harm or not, but I just do think something like this should be sold. At least with a gun once its pointed away from you at a non-human object chances are you'll be O.K.. With this thing its almost like injury for the operator was designed into the product. They should have Dan Aykroyd maketing this along with his "bag of glass".
" It's just not the same now that they ditched us desktop Linux users.
See subject title.
"Now their main business is selling overpriced licenses for their "enterprise" Linux distribution, which really isn't all that much more bulletproof than most Linux kernels/applications out there."
Overpriced as opposed to what? A free distro like debian with no real support?
"Sure, I love Linux, but I think the tides may turn away from Red Hat."
"and as someone who will go on record as disliking Trolltech and their business model,"
But why did you dislike their business model in the first place? I mean they've bent over backwards for the OSS community and they've also produced some dam fine software. Want to write free software? QT is Free. Want to write closed source software? Pay for QT just like you do with your software tools in the win-32 world. Should Trolltech have busted their ass for the last 7 years for for Free just out of the goodness of their hearts? Why do you begrudge someone who wants to support OSS but also wants to be able to make a living? Do you just dislike any company who wants to market a product and make money? Geez.
Sorry you can't just make up things and state them as fact. Since were talking about desktop users let me make a point that is at least somewhat based on fact. Since Windows desktop users outnumber Linux users by at least 25 to 1 factor I'd propose that because of the sheer number of Windows users even if a small percentage of them run web servers they dwarf the number of Linux desktop users who do such. The number of Windows users who really know Windows as opposed to the number of Linux users who really know Linux isn't even in the same ballpark. This isn't 1995 and Windows user aren't a bunch of computer neophytes anymore. As you stated linux users "are likely to know a few things about proper server security."
"Windows users are less likely to run a web server, simply because they're not as eager to play with their system as Linux users"
That's simply not true. Windows users are curious about their computers just like linux users. I assume your never been an admin then? Because if you had you'd realize that Windows users are more than capable of totally screwing up their systems and often run software which acts as a server without even knowing it. Remember most Windows users run as administrator.
"What I want to know is the percentage of professionally installed and maintained servers that was actually vulnerable."
It should be close to equal. A properly secured Windows box is just as secure as a properly secured Linux box. Security is in the process not the OS.
They are nothing but a money making mill. You get the occasional good teacher and the rest are total retard who read directly from a technical book. Even the decent teachers can't help if they are forced to teach the wrong way. It's basically a haven for burnt out IT people to go lounge and bullshit. I went there as well in the mid 1990's. What a joke. Their Network Engineer and Data Communications degree consisted of learning outdated OS's like Netware 3.12. These people were actually teaching how to fdisk and install Dos the first TWO weeks. This was pre Win2k mind you but still we barely got any NT 4.0. It was months and months of installing old Irrelevant OS's. I never studied once for a test and had like a 95% average. Even worse they'd let people into the course who couldn't operate a basic desktop PC. By the end of the course they were out of $10,000 and STILL didn't understand Fdisk and installing DOS. The teachers of course just pushed them right along. What you think they're going to refuse people and not take their money?
Your spot on about Job placement as well. Ie, your better off at monster.com. Also the required resume building classes are the kind of thing you learn in High School for Pete's sake.
To boot it costs like 10 grand like I mentioned. What a monumental waste of money that school was. Maybe its improved since then. Maybe they finally have qualified staff teaching things you'll actually need to know. In my first two weeks as real jr. network admin I learned more than I did in 4 months at that craphole.
Sorry to rant so much but Chubb Institute was a real waste of my time and money. If your considering going there make sure and talk to people who graduated at least 6 months ago from Chubb. If you talk to someone who just finished Chubb or is still going there they might still be delusional enough to think that they actually learned something, are sure to find a job, and lastly and worst of all are actually now qualified for real work.
If you want to play the latest games your stuck with these proprietary drivers. This is only tolerated by many in the community because its either use the binaries are don't play the latest games under linux. btw yes I am aware of drivers for ati's older cards. When it comes to linux and gaming nvidia is the status quo.
Now my main point is this could lead to some problems for us linux users. Like he pointed out its possible in the future that we'll all be stuck with mobo's that don't work unless we load a dozen proprietary drivers. We did without in the 90's and we can do without now. The nvidia, now the Intel, next the VIA chipsets, its a dangerous trend. You tried to deflate his point at the end by saying just the free nv or vesa etc. What about when that's no longer possible?
The way I see it is this. You should be able to install your OS, have it support your mobo chipset, video card, mouse+keyboard, and ethernet card all with Free software. You should be able to surf the web, get email, use a calendar and contact list, play movies and music, and be able to create Office documents all with Free software. Those are the basics. Anything less is a failure. Right now all of the above is possible. Start throwing in a Nvidia card, a centrino chipset, and the truly Free desktop starts disappearing. Right now its the not the end of the world. But if in the future proprietary binary drivers become the standard a Truly Free Desktop won't exist and there will be no point in using Linux. After all if I need binary drivers for my hardware like in Windows and I continue to use all of my Windows apps via WINE, wtf is the point? Just stick with Windows and the closed source model. Throwing an opensource kernel on top of all that proprietary software is a lost cause.
Sorry if someone brought this up already, but man does Yahoo look exactly like Google for search results. Same tabs on the top. Big button for "yahoo search" instead of "google search". Same colors for links and domains. They have a cached option now. Pretty blantant Google rip-off.
Maybe its been this way for a while and I'm wrong here, but after doing a Yahoo search for the first time in years I can't believe how much it looks like Google.
"For those discontented few with little inclination to pay..."
What are you talking about? Discontented few? Try overwhelming vast majority. LiveCD's are a dime a dozen. There are plently around which do the same thing as MEPIS. They are easy to setup and easy to install to the hard drive.
I'd say he fits in category one. He looked at it, saw the same thing he's seen with other LiveCD's, and was put off by the Real Networks "hide the Free version" ploy.
I'm sure MEPHIS is a quality LiveCD. I'm sure that those who paid for it are happy. I'm also sure that it suffers from that fact that 50 other LiveCD's can do the same thing for Free.
Because of Microsoft Bill Gates is able to give lots of financial aid to charities. Should we therefore support Microsoft in everything it does?
Lindows helps support a few Open Source projects. I thank them. That doesn't mean we can't disagree with their vision of the future of desktop Linux. Lindows is a proprietary Linux whose goal is to get all of its users paying a monthly fee for its click-n-run program. If their model succeeds then the future of Linux is one more akin to what Microsoft offers than what backers of GNU have in mind. I'm not going to even say which one is right or wrong(although you could probably guess how I feel), but you can't blame someone for disagreeing with what Lindows represents.
That no servers will be allowed and your upload speed is going to be capped and monitored. Remember that since big business would have its greedy little fingers all over this, all that speed is really just so that they can push spam, spyware, and ads to you more quickly. No way big business would let this come to pass if the ultimate goal was to actually empower joe consumer.
The funny thing is the ratio of people who are installing that crack so that Photoshop CS runs faster to the ratio of people who are actually criminals is probably going to be like a million to one.
But OpenOffice won't ever be 100% compatible with MS Office. Your better off waiting for the Second Coming. In the end shouldn't we be rooting for Open Office since its truly free? I mean that is our goal right? Quality Free software for everyone. The only way that's going to happen is if someone big like IBM adopts and pimps OpenOffice. With someone that big real change can happen and migrating to OpenOffice stops looking like a hopeless cause in the business world.
If you start off wanting ever feature of MS Office you'll end up with MS Office. No free software is going to ever be able to match MS Office perfectly feature for feature. Does that mean you just give up and keeping laying down for Microsoft?
Is IBM stabbing us the in back? No. Are you wrong to say stick with MS Office until a perfect feature for feature equivalent arrives? Big Yes. I don't know what this article means since its too vague on details. But if IBM is really interested in fundamental change and stepping away from closed source where possible they should be pushing OpenOffice with all their might.
Wow are you out of touch. First off this isn't 1997. Users of rpm based distros like Fedora and Mandrake and Suse use automated tools for installation. Second, Debian/Gentoo? Even among nerds they rank low. In general desktop linux use Debian is probably 4th or 5th in line at best. Gentoo is somewhere at the bottom. And FreeBSD? Well let's just say after the top 50 linux distros its somewhere below that. These aren't statements about software quality these are just the realities of home desktop *nix users. Your wrong in general about who is using Linux at home. I'd say based on the facts of what actual Linux distros are being used we are not all a bunch of nerd and cad engineers. We also certainly aren't flocking to Debian and Gentoo.
I do agree with your question though, where is photoshop etc? One last thing to remember is if Photoshop etc ever do come to Linux its going to work on those rpm distros first, not Debian, Gentoo or FreeBSD.
MS has said for years that Linux is more vulnerable because the source is out there yet now a chunck of 2k(aka XP) is out there and its "no big deal". Sorry but XP is 2k with eye candy and an improved kernel. XP wasn't a new OS from the ground up and knowing how poor a job MS does with finding security problems I don't see how logically you can say this is anything but devastating. 15% of the source code for Microsoft's newest OS is floating around the Net. That is a big deal.
I don't know why I expected Microsoft to finally act like an honest company and tell the truth here, but they are in even worse denial then we oringally thought if they think we are buying the no big deal line.
Distributing illegal software is moral? That's the dumbiest thing I've read here in ages. You must still be in school or something because no rational adult would think that taking property you don't own is the right thing to do. I could see not caring that warez exists, but thinking its a moral practice shows you have a lot of growing up to do.
Like what? So your saying a whole paradigm of unknown problems are just sitting waiting to be discovered with OSS? Please. What level headed OSS advocate ever said that OSS is immune from the same security issues that are common to all software? The only argument I've seen is that security through obscurity isn't a better model and the OSS tends to react faster once flaws are found. I see no flaws in this logic or proof otherwise. But I guess if you want to hint that OSS has some deep seeded problems as un-yet found that's your prerogative. You speak of discomfort that the FSF hasn't put out some PR campaign claiming that "they've renewed their focus on security practices". I know a little company in Redmond whose done just that, and look at how effective that's been.
I'd argue that the more popular OSS gets( is that what you meant by "cool"?) the more we see the advantages over traditional closed source development. Do you think we being seeing such a monumental shift in Enterprise computing if the backers hadn't spent millions trying to decide if OSS is better than the current in place model? Don't get me wrong, a bad OSS development team will produce crappy software. But as opposed to close source where the bugs are hidden and not disclosed at least we have a chance to do something about it. That alone trumps any of the "future" issues that you say will come out.
Try Lorma Linux. According to their site its Fedora Core 1 with mp3, Realplayer, Wine, Divx etc all built in. Personally I think your better off apting that stuff, but maybe you want to give it a shot.
"include most of the stuff that the repositories are currently building to "fix" fedora?"
btw that should be "enhance" fedora. Right now its not broken its just a strict interpretation of what constitutes truly Free software. Yea I agree the whole mp3 thing is annoying and dumb, but as long as it easy to re-add I can live with it. Because of patents etc you'll never see an official Fedora version that great multimedia wise out of the box. But obviously you knew that.
I am so sick of these Trollish "Dear Red Hat" letters that get modded up. Red Hat owes you NOTHING. The whole sense of entitlement among users that Red Hat HAS to provide a Free distro that's updated for years for Free is bullshit.
Red Hat still does make a quality Free distro that's updated for Free, its called Fedora. Don't like the fact that its only supported for like 9-12 months which is shorter than it used to be? Too freaking bad.
Enjoy your Debian but realize is no magic bullet either. Unless you hop on stable the day it comes out you face the same problem of having to upgrade you whole OS in a short timeframe. If you installed Woody today your going to be dropped or "burned" as you put it because the next Stable will be out soon and then the clock ticks till Woody isn't supported anymore.
Get over you angst against Red Hat. Want a good Free as in beer and Free as in GPl distro from Red Hat? Use Fedora. Want something else? Pay for it or build it yourself.
SCO apparently never understood the rights they were granted in the first place from the sale. God, did they think this wouldn't come out? Did they think that Novell "lost" their copy of the sale contract? I know its been a long road, but at this point I honestly do think we are near the end. I give it three months before we get to wrap this whole thing up. Within that time a judge will rule that SCO never really had a leg to stand on.
Play more. The vechiles turn fine, you just need more practice. The tank and the big truck both drive and turn slow but rest assured they do turn. IMO the tank drives like it should. It has a very powerful gun and if they made it any faster you'd just kick everyone's ass with no skill. Also once you get used to the hoover thing and the small baja car you'll be flying around. There are limits as to what you can do on a keyboard though. The vehicles are not ineffective, like I said you just need more practice.
This game also runs well and looks great, it performs better than Halo ever did on the PC. UT2K3 did get old and boring because well that's what happens after a while when you have a FPS with not much depth. With the vehicles they've added they have made playing UT fun again. I can't wait to see what the mod community comes up with. Think Wild West with a Horse Drawn Stage coach and a gatlin gun hanging out the back, etc.
To each his own, but I suggest others play for themselves and form their own opinions.
Short answer, Opera is closed source and payware. Nobody wants to see some small company in Norway get control over the browser market. We've been down that path and the result is a browser that is bug ridden and hasn't been updated in years. In case you don't know what I'm talking about its Internet Explorer. Who wants to see yet another commercial entity force its ever whim upon us just because they have a majority. With Mozilla if we don't like where the project is heading we just fork it. With Opera there is no out.
To borrow a phrase "The Future is Open". Nobody wants to root for something like Opera when a better Open Source alternative is out there. Opera is exactly what the IT world is heading away from where possible. Also you won't see a closed source browser like Opera riding on the coat tails of the Linux Desktop revolution, however slow that may be.
Lastly and to go back to my first statement Opera costs money. Its been ingrained in consumers heads since the 90's that browsers are Free. If Mozilla costs money you could bet that it never would have stood a chance and IT Press would not be rooting for it.
Frankly Opera just don't have much of a future for general Internet browsing.
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Right? Nothing to worry about. At least that's what the Microsoft drones here always say when Microsoft patents some obvious technology. Who do they need protection from? Oh that's right. The people who actually invented this like 10 years ago.
Except Optimum Online is raising its rates every single year. They also have some of the worst email service available. I constantly read about problems people are having at the dslreports forum. They have a somewhat flaky dns and dhcp infrastructure and also don't give any free webspace. Lastly their news service flat out sucks.
Don't get me wrong I won't be switching from OOL. I love the speed and since I have my own dns and email I don't have the same problems that many subscribers do. But that's all OOL has. If they are going to keep raising rates they need to evolve from the bare bones provider they are and start getting competitive with Verizon DSL. Frankly unlesss you download a LOT Verizon DSL in the NJ/NY area is vastly superior solution.
RHEL Workstation = $25
RHEL Advanced Server = $50
And as everyone knows by now they also offer Fedora for Free. Another interesting alternative is Whitebox linux which is based on the RHEL source.
I can't possibly see that company not being sued out of existence. Looking at their home page flybar.com shows someone like 6 feet in the air. No way you could use that toy and not break an bone every time you used it. I'm usually of the opinion to just let everyone do what they hell the want bodily harm or not, but I just do think something like this should be sold. At least with a gun once its pointed away from you at a non-human object chances are you'll be O.K.. With this thing its almost like injury for the operator was designed into the product. They should have Dan Aykroyd maketing this along with his "bag of glass".
" It's just not the same now that they ditched us desktop Linux users.
See subject title.
"Now their main business is selling overpriced licenses for their "enterprise" Linux distribution, which really isn't all that much more bulletproof than most Linux kernels/applications out there."
Overpriced as opposed to what? A free distro like debian with no real support?
"Sure, I love Linux, but I think the tides may turn away from Red Hat."
Who knows. But it isn't yet.
"Gentoo anyone?"
God no.
"and as someone who will go on record as disliking Trolltech and their business model,"
But why did you dislike their business model in the first place? I mean they've bent over backwards for the OSS community and they've also produced some dam fine software. Want to write free software? QT is Free. Want to write closed source software? Pay for QT just like you do with your software tools in the win-32 world. Should Trolltech have busted their ass for the last 7 years for for Free just out of the goodness of their hearts? Why do you begrudge someone who wants to support OSS but also wants to be able to make a living? Do you just dislike any company who wants to market a product and make money? Geez.
Sorry you can't just make up things and state them as fact. Since were talking about desktop users let me make a point that is at least somewhat based on fact. Since Windows desktop users outnumber Linux users by at least 25 to 1 factor I'd propose that because of the sheer number of Windows users even if a small percentage of them run web servers they dwarf the number of Linux desktop users who do such. The number of Windows users who really know Windows as opposed to the number of Linux users who really know Linux isn't even in the same ballpark. This isn't 1995 and Windows user aren't a bunch of computer neophytes anymore. As you stated linux users "are likely to know a few things about proper server security."
"Windows users are less likely to run a web server, simply because they're not as eager to play with their system as Linux users"
That's simply not true. Windows users are curious about their computers just like linux users. I assume your never been an admin then? Because if you had you'd realize that Windows users are more than capable of totally screwing up their systems and often run software which acts as a server without even knowing it. Remember most Windows users run as administrator.
"What I want to know is the percentage of professionally installed and maintained servers that was actually vulnerable."
It should be close to equal. A properly secured Windows box is just as secure as a properly secured Linux box. Security is in the process not the OS.
They are nothing but a money making mill. You get the occasional good teacher and the rest are total retard who read directly from a technical book. Even the decent teachers can't help if they are forced to teach the wrong way. It's basically a haven for burnt out IT people to go lounge and bullshit. I went there as well in the mid 1990's. What a joke. Their Network Engineer and Data Communications degree consisted of learning outdated OS's like Netware 3.12. These people were actually teaching how to fdisk and install Dos the first TWO weeks. This was pre Win2k mind you but still we barely got any NT 4.0. It was months and months of installing old Irrelevant OS's. I never studied once for a test and had like a 95% average. Even worse they'd let people into the course who couldn't operate a basic desktop PC. By the end of the course they were out of $10,000 and STILL didn't understand Fdisk and installing DOS. The teachers of course just pushed them right along. What you think they're going to refuse people and not take their money?
Your spot on about Job placement as well. Ie, your better off at monster.com. Also the required resume building classes are the kind of thing you learn in High School for Pete's sake.
To boot it costs like 10 grand like I mentioned. What a monumental waste of money that school was. Maybe its improved since then. Maybe they finally have qualified staff teaching things you'll actually need to know. In my first two weeks as real jr. network admin I learned more than I did in 4 months at that craphole.
Sorry to rant so much but Chubb Institute was a real waste of my time and money. If your considering going there make sure and talk to people who graduated at least 6 months ago from Chubb. If you talk to someone who just finished Chubb or is still going there they might still be delusional enough to think that they actually learned something, are sure to find a job, and lastly and worst of all are actually now qualified for real work.
If you want to play the latest games your stuck with these proprietary drivers. This is only tolerated by many in the community because its either use the binaries are don't play the latest games under linux. btw yes I am aware of drivers for ati's older cards. When it comes to linux and gaming nvidia is the status quo.
Now my main point is this could lead to some problems for us linux users. Like he pointed out its possible in the future that we'll all be stuck with mobo's that don't work unless we load a dozen proprietary drivers. We did without in the 90's and we can do without now. The nvidia, now the Intel, next the VIA chipsets, its a dangerous trend. You tried to deflate his point at the end by saying just the free nv or vesa etc. What about when that's no longer possible?
The way I see it is this. You should be able to install your OS, have it support your mobo chipset, video card, mouse+keyboard, and ethernet card all with Free software. You should be able to surf the web, get email, use a calendar and contact list, play movies and music, and be able to create Office documents all with Free software. Those are the basics. Anything less is a failure. Right now all of the above is possible. Start throwing in a Nvidia card, a centrino chipset, and the truly Free desktop starts disappearing. Right now its the not the end of the world. But if in the future proprietary binary drivers become the standard a Truly Free Desktop won't exist and there will be no point in using Linux. After all if I need binary drivers for my hardware like in Windows and I continue to use all of my Windows apps via WINE, wtf is the point? Just stick with Windows and the closed source model. Throwing an opensource kernel on top of all that proprietary software is a lost cause.
Did you tell them that you downloaded it from Edonkey? Did MS respond back to you?
Sorry if someone brought this up already, but man does Yahoo look exactly like Google for search results. Same tabs on the top. Big button for "yahoo search" instead of "google search". Same colors for links and domains. They have a cached option now. Pretty blantant Google rip-off.
Maybe its been this way for a while and I'm wrong here, but after doing a Yahoo search for the first time in years I can't believe how much it looks like Google.
"For those discontented few with little inclination to pay..."
What are you talking about? Discontented few? Try overwhelming vast majority. LiveCD's are a dime a dozen. There are plently around which do the same thing as MEPIS. They are easy to setup and easy to install to the hard drive.
I'd say he fits in category one. He looked at it, saw the same thing he's seen with other LiveCD's, and was put off by the Real Networks "hide the Free version" ploy.
I'm sure MEPHIS is a quality LiveCD. I'm sure that those who paid for it are happy. I'm also sure that it suffers from that fact that 50 other LiveCD's can do the same thing for Free.
Because of Microsoft Bill Gates is able to give lots of financial aid to charities. Should we therefore support Microsoft in everything it does?
Lindows helps support a few Open Source projects. I thank them. That doesn't mean we can't disagree with their vision of the future of desktop Linux. Lindows is a proprietary Linux whose goal is to get all of its users paying a monthly fee for its click-n-run program. If their model succeeds then the future of Linux is one more akin to what Microsoft offers than what backers of GNU have in mind. I'm not going to even say which one is right or wrong(although you could probably guess how I feel), but you can't blame someone for disagreeing with what Lindows represents.
That no servers will be allowed and your upload speed is going to be capped and monitored. Remember that since big business would have its greedy little fingers all over this, all that speed is really just so that they can push spam, spyware, and ads to you more quickly. No way big business would let this come to pass if the ultimate goal was to actually empower joe consumer.
The funny thing is the ratio of people who are installing that crack so that Photoshop CS runs faster to the ratio of people who are actually criminals is probably going to be like a million to one.
But OpenOffice won't ever be 100% compatible with MS Office. Your better off waiting for the Second Coming. In the end shouldn't we be rooting for Open Office since its truly free? I mean that is our goal right? Quality Free software for everyone. The only way that's going to happen is if someone big like IBM adopts and pimps OpenOffice. With someone that big real change can happen and migrating to OpenOffice stops looking like a hopeless cause in the business world.
If you start off wanting ever feature of MS Office you'll end up with MS Office. No free software is going to ever be able to match MS Office perfectly feature for feature. Does that mean you just give up and keeping laying down for Microsoft?
Is IBM stabbing us the in back? No. Are you wrong to say stick with MS Office until a perfect feature for feature equivalent arrives? Big Yes. I don't know what this article means since its too vague on details. But if IBM is really interested in fundamental change and stepping away from closed source where possible they should be pushing OpenOffice with all their might.
Wow are you out of touch. First off this isn't 1997. Users of rpm based distros like Fedora and Mandrake and Suse use automated tools for installation. Second, Debian/Gentoo? Even among nerds they rank low. In general desktop linux use Debian is probably 4th or 5th in line at best. Gentoo is somewhere at the bottom. And FreeBSD? Well let's just say after the top 50 linux distros its somewhere below that. These aren't statements about software quality these are just the realities of home desktop *nix users. Your wrong in general about who is using Linux at home. I'd say based on the facts of what actual Linux distros are being used we are not all a bunch of nerd and cad engineers. We also certainly aren't flocking to Debian and Gentoo.
I do agree with your question though, where is photoshop etc? One last thing to remember is if Photoshop etc ever do come to Linux its going to work on those rpm distros first, not Debian, Gentoo or FreeBSD.
MS has said for years that Linux is more vulnerable because the source is out there yet now a chunck of 2k(aka XP) is out there and its "no big deal". Sorry but XP is 2k with eye candy and an improved kernel. XP wasn't a new OS from the ground up and knowing how poor a job MS does with finding security problems I don't see how logically you can say this is anything but devastating. 15% of the source code for Microsoft's newest OS is floating around the Net. That is a big deal.
I don't know why I expected Microsoft to finally act like an honest company and tell the truth here, but they are in even worse denial then we oringally thought if they think we are buying the no big deal line.
Distributing illegal software is moral? That's the dumbiest thing I've read here in ages. You must still be in school or something because no rational adult would think that taking property you don't own is the right thing to do. I could see not caring that warez exists, but thinking its a moral practice shows you have a lot of growing up to do.
", the more issues come out with it..."
Like what? So your saying a whole paradigm of unknown problems are just sitting waiting to be discovered with OSS? Please. What level headed OSS advocate ever said that OSS is immune from the same security issues that are common to all software? The only argument I've seen is that security through obscurity isn't a better model and the OSS tends to react faster once flaws are found. I see no flaws in this logic or proof otherwise. But I guess if you want to hint that OSS has some deep seeded problems as un-yet found that's your prerogative. You speak of discomfort that the FSF hasn't put out some PR campaign claiming that "they've renewed their focus on security practices". I know a little company in Redmond whose done just that, and look at how effective that's been.
I'd argue that the more popular OSS gets( is that what you meant by "cool"?) the more we see the advantages over traditional closed source development. Do you think we being seeing such a monumental shift in Enterprise computing if the backers hadn't spent millions trying to decide if OSS is better than the current in place model? Don't get me wrong, a bad OSS development team will produce crappy software. But as opposed to close source where the bugs are hidden and not disclosed at least we have a chance to do something about it. That alone trumps any of the "future" issues that you say will come out.
Try Lorma Linux. According to their site its Fedora Core 1 with mp3, Realplayer, Wine, Divx etc all built in. Personally I think your better off apting that stuff, but maybe you want to give it a shot.
"include most of the stuff that the repositories are currently building to "fix" fedora?"
btw that should be "enhance" fedora. Right now its not broken its just a strict interpretation of what constitutes truly Free software. Yea I agree the whole mp3 thing is annoying and dumb, but as long as it easy to re-add I can live with it. Because of patents etc you'll never see an official Fedora version that great multimedia wise out of the box. But obviously you knew that.
I am so sick of these Trollish "Dear Red Hat" letters that get modded up. Red Hat owes you NOTHING. The whole sense of entitlement among users that Red Hat HAS to provide a Free distro that's updated for years for Free is bullshit.
Red Hat still does make a quality Free distro that's updated for Free, its called Fedora. Don't like the fact that its only supported for like 9-12 months which is shorter than it used to be? Too freaking bad.
Enjoy your Debian but realize is no magic bullet either. Unless you hop on stable the day it comes out you face the same problem of having to upgrade you whole OS in a short timeframe. If you installed Woody today your going to be dropped or "burned" as you put it because the next Stable will be out soon and then the clock ticks till Woody isn't supported anymore.
Get over you angst against Red Hat. Want a good Free as in beer and Free as in GPl distro from Red Hat? Use Fedora. Want something else? Pay for it or build it yourself.
SCO apparently never understood the rights they were granted in the first place from the sale. God, did they think this wouldn't come out? Did they think that Novell "lost" their copy of the sale contract? I know its been a long road, but at this point I honestly do think we are near the end. I give it three months before we get to wrap this whole thing up. Within that time a judge will rule that SCO never really had a leg to stand on.
Rot in hell lying scum!
Play more. The vechiles turn fine, you just need more practice. The tank and the big truck both drive and turn slow but rest assured they do turn. IMO the tank drives like it should. It has a very powerful gun and if they made it any faster you'd just kick everyone's ass with no skill. Also once you get used to the hoover thing and the small baja car you'll be flying around. There are limits as to what you can do on a keyboard though. The vehicles are not ineffective, like I said you just need more practice.
This game also runs well and looks great, it performs better than Halo ever did on the PC. UT2K3 did get old and boring because well that's what happens after a while when you have a FPS with not much depth. With the vehicles they've added they have made playing UT fun again. I can't wait to see what the mod community comes up with. Think Wild West with a Horse Drawn Stage coach and a gatlin gun hanging out the back, etc.
To each his own, but I suggest others play for themselves and form their own opinions.
Short answer, Opera is closed source and payware. Nobody wants to see some small company in Norway get control over the browser market. We've been down that path and the result is a browser that is bug ridden and hasn't been updated in years. In case you don't know what I'm talking about its Internet Explorer. Who wants to see yet another commercial entity force its ever whim upon us just because they have a majority. With Mozilla if we don't like where the project is heading we just fork it. With Opera there is no out.
To borrow a phrase "The Future is Open". Nobody wants to root for something like Opera when a better Open Source alternative is out there. Opera is exactly what the IT world is heading away from where possible. Also you won't see a closed source browser like Opera riding on the coat tails of the Linux Desktop revolution, however slow that may be.
Lastly and to go back to my first statement Opera costs money. Its been ingrained in consumers heads since the 90's that browsers are Free. If Mozilla costs money you could bet that it never would have stood a chance and IT Press would not be rooting for it.
Frankly Opera just don't have much of a future for general Internet browsing.