... Chrome is able to use the KDE password wallet if present, which is protected under a master password. (I assume it can use the GNOME equivalent too). If so, Chrome won't save anything itself, so on that count at least, you're safe.
That said, I would recommend using a service like LastPass anyway, so the problem is taken entirely out of the hands of the browsers.
>Microsoft's spec is supposed to allow people to install their own keys
The Windows 8 certification requirement outright mandates that users are able to upload their own keys. (See here, "Windows 8 System Requirements", page 121, paragraph 17.)
This thankfully gives us a pretty solid standing to complain at hardware makers who don't do it right.
In the long run, I am not sure it will be necessary, though. I've been looking into those issues after getting a laptop with SecureBoot enabled, and sane options are in development. The interesting thing about UEFI is that it comes with an extensive API, and can be configured from inside the currently running OS (check out efibootmgr on Linux for instance). When the dust has settled, installing and launching Linux will probably not be so vastly different from right now. Time will tell.
Back when I was still at school, one year, my classroom was one overlooking a deep vale. One of our primary pastimes that year was chucking assorted stuff out the window and see how it'd fly. Mostly (but not limited to) paper planes.
The record winner for that year in terms of distance covered, and by far, was also the simplest model we ever came up with.
It was much like the Ring mentioned above, except even simpler. Where the Ring's profile makes an O, the Box's makes a square U. So you don't even need tape.
Just take a rectangular piece of paper, fold the front over several times to make a thicker leading edge, and fold two vertical wings so the thing will look somewhat like an elongated cube with three missing sides. That's it. Not only it flies, but it flies pretty well, so long as you balanced the 'wings' well enough.
And yet another article that's basically all about My Little Pony.
Six years ago, ponies on Slashdot were a joke. We were all grizzled men with grizzled beards. We made systems run through sweat and tears, we coded heroic late night fixes, congregating here to share war stories of pride in ourselves and defiance of users.
Now we're grizzled men with grizzled beards and a Fluttershy desktop.
Holy crap, PernMUSH. What a great place that was. I basically learned English on PernMUSH (and can't thank the people there enough for their kindness and patience with me).
Dear AC, might I ask who you were there? Just on the off chance we knew each other. (Me, I was just some random weird Bluerider. Hi.:))
Maybe it's time to be cautiously optimistic again.
When Unity came out, I gave it its 21 days[*]. After that time, I was still not very happy with it, so I figured that after using Gnome 2 for a while, it was time to give KDE another chance.
Well, I'm glad I did. There are still little niggles here and there if you look up close, but as a whole, things work pretty darn well. They've finally managed to return to that KDE sort of state from the 3.5 days, where multitudes of little features activate as needed to support your workflow and otherwise stay the fuck out of the way. Klipper is still so freaking convenient that I miss it sorely wherever I don't have it (the Gnome equivalent, Glipper, unfortunately didn't work very well for me). Also, Chromium now natively supports the KDE password storage thing. Quassel is like a smoother X-Chat with less bugs.
All in all I've been somewhat pleasantly surprised, and I think I may keep it after its 21 days. There are still things that annoy me -- their overthought Akonadi thing, for instance; seriously, guys, I shouldn't need an RDBMS to freaking read mails -- but much fewer so than I feared. Maybe it's time to be hopeful again for that Linux desktop thing we've been hearing about.
[*] When trying out a new tech, you've got to give it at least three weeks of real use, it is said; otherwise you can't necessarily tell if it sucks or if it's just different from what you're used to, and thus, uncomfortable at first.
Completely unrelated and altogether offtopic, but it's been bothering me for years. Literally.
So, what the heck is your sig supposed to mean? It looks like a bunch of Dune-related vocabulary lumped together with an intent that escapes me, and it's been driving me nuts. (For relatively low values thereof.)
> Yeah pretty scary that ordinary posters on forums can come up with an > "obvious" political move.
Actually, I was kinda fishing for second opinions there. Although/. is lots of noise and not much signal, quite often you get interesting bits of insight floating up to the surface by people who know more than you about the subject matter, and I was sort of hoping for something like that -- or maybe just a plausible reason why it'd make political sense to keep Gitmo open in the face of, well, every damn thing. For all I know it's just something as petty as Obama keeping it up his sleeve as a popularity chip to cash in come reelection time. Dick move, but that's politics.
"Politics are like tripe sausage. It's got to smell a little like shit, but not too much." -- Edouard Herriot
> I shall borrow your last line as my sig.
Uh. Be my guest, I guess? It's kinda weird, but whatever floats your boat, y'know.
No, I'm serious. I just can't make sense of that. At this point everybody hates Gitmo. Obama could score major points across the board by closing it with a flourish and be done with it. Judge and jail the guys and look tough on Terrism, or just ship them back to wherever they came from and close the joint with a few vibrant words about saving America's money. Mishun accumplisht. Easy reelection credit! A politician's dream.
So why the hell doesn't he?
Something's missing from the picture, and I can't tell what. Can't be anything good, though.:/
I tried out the new settings, and when checking out the password encryption, it automatically loaded KWallet, the default password store in KDE. That's it, as of right now Chromium is my default browser.
No, it popped up MAGICALLY in us apes at some point; someone throw on a switch and BAM, consciousness overnight. MAGIC, I tell you.
Or, you know, maybe consciousness is not a binary variable, but, like most everything about the real world, a continuum, and like most things about the real world, various species have achieved various levels of it? You know? Just sayin'.
1. Vodafone starts charging per MB for Facebook use. 2. Facebook threatens to shut off all access to Vodafone users. 3. Vodafone splits profits with Facebook. 4. Vodafone and Facebook BFF again.
> Even though I'm struggling to understand why you went this route (I'm leaning towards you're a hopeless romantic, or worse)
I think you would be surprised.
The thing about writing is, it's hard. You get this brief bright spark of a plot idea that you've got to write, and then it's hour upon hour upon hour of churning word after word after fuck it I'll go check out Slashdot. The initial excitation lasts perhaps all of 10 minutes before you start asking yourself what the hell you're doing. And at this point anything -- anything -- becomes a tempting distraction. A simple, no-nonsense editor is a boon. You set it full screen and keep trudging along. I like vim; dark color schemes are easier on the eye, you can jump between sentences at the press of a key, and if you're at all the nerdy type a plug-in like ScmFrontEnd or Fugitive lets you version your work on the fly.
There's a reason why George R. R. Martin notoriously uses Wordstar on MS-DOS to this day, you know.:)
As far as I remember, having the software installed was supposed to exonerate you from charges in case you were accused of piracy. Apparently someone since told them about 'kill -9' because last I heard they'd given up on the client-side software as proof of innocence idea. I have no idea were those specs come from, if they discreetly revived the project or if that's an old set of specs that has since been abandoned.
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... Chrome is able to use the KDE password wallet if present, which is protected under a master password. (I assume it can use the GNOME equivalent too). If so, Chrome won't save anything itself, so on that count at least, you're safe.
That said, I would recommend using a service like LastPass anyway, so the problem is taken entirely out of the hands of the browsers.
>Microsoft's spec is supposed to allow people to install their own keys
The Windows 8 certification requirement outright mandates that users are able to upload their own keys. (See here, "Windows 8 System Requirements", page 121, paragraph 17.)
This thankfully gives us a pretty solid standing to complain at hardware makers who don't do it right.
In the long run, I am not sure it will be necessary, though. I've been looking into those issues after getting a laptop with SecureBoot enabled, and sane options are in development. The interesting thing about UEFI is that it comes with an extensive API, and can be configured from inside the currently running OS (check out efibootmgr on Linux for instance). When the dust has settled, installing and launching Linux will probably not be so vastly different from right now. Time will tell.
Interesting. WDDM is one of those thing I REALLY wish we Linux people took a much closer interest into.
What's new in WDDM 1.3 that prevents forward compatibility, then?
What I would like to know is how often we mistakenly take foreign news at face value.
It can be so hard to read the cues from a different culture.I wonder if that has been studied?
Err... What's wrong with the X11 protocol as a remote access scheme?
Just because we're taking it out of the rendering loop in Wayland doesn't mean we can't still use it outside.
Yeah, like, for every honest guy you get 40 thieves!
Yeah, but your version has the unfortunate side-effect of not making a Boeing competitor look bad. Can't have that, you know.
(Seriously, WTF is this summary? Fox News Scare Quotes around 'brilliant'? Really, Slashdot?)
Back when I was still at school, one year, my classroom was one overlooking a deep vale. One of our primary pastimes that year was chucking assorted stuff out the window and see how it'd fly. Mostly (but not limited to) paper planes.
The record winner for that year in terms of distance covered, and by far, was also the simplest model we ever came up with.
It was much like the Ring mentioned above, except even simpler. Where the Ring's profile makes an O, the Box's makes a square U. So you don't even need tape.
Just take a rectangular piece of paper, fold the front over several times to make a thicker leading edge, and fold two vertical wings so the thing will look somewhat like an elongated cube with three missing sides. That's it. Not only it flies, but it flies pretty well, so long as you balanced the 'wings' well enough.
I'm surprised rdiff-backup hasn't been mentioned yet. It's a very nice piece of software, does incremental backups, and is easy to automate.
And yet another article that's basically all about My Little Pony.
Six years ago, ponies on Slashdot were a joke. We were all grizzled men with grizzled beards. We made systems run through sweat and tears, we coded heroic late night fixes, congregating here to share war stories of pride in ourselves and defiance of users.
Now we're grizzled men with grizzled beards and a Fluttershy desktop.
How the times have changed.
I seriously, seriously hope that someone out there isn't taking Jennifer Government for an instruction manual.
Holy crap, PernMUSH. What a great place that was. I basically learned English on PernMUSH (and can't thank the people there enough for their kindness and patience with me).
Dear AC, might I ask who you were there? Just on the off chance we knew each other. (Me, I was just some random weird Bluerider. Hi. :))
The musicians here may want to check out LMMS. I can't believe it took me so long to take heed of it.
Maybe it's time to be cautiously optimistic again.
When Unity came out, I gave it its 21 days[*]. After that time, I was still not very happy with it, so I figured that after using Gnome 2 for a while, it was time to give KDE another chance.
Well, I'm glad I did. There are still little niggles here and there if you look up close, but as a whole, things work pretty darn well. They've finally managed to return to that KDE sort of state from the 3.5 days, where multitudes of little features activate as needed to support your workflow and otherwise stay the fuck out of the way. Klipper is still so freaking convenient that I miss it sorely wherever I don't have it (the Gnome equivalent, Glipper, unfortunately didn't work very well for me). Also, Chromium now natively supports the KDE password storage thing. Quassel is like a smoother X-Chat with less bugs.
All in all I've been somewhat pleasantly surprised, and I think I may keep it after its 21 days. There are still things that annoy me -- their overthought Akonadi thing, for instance; seriously, guys, I shouldn't need an RDBMS to freaking read mails -- but much fewer so than I feared. Maybe it's time to be hopeful again for that Linux desktop thing we've been hearing about.
[*] When trying out a new tech, you've got to give it at least three weeks of real use, it is said; otherwise you can't necessarily tell if it sucks or if it's just different from what you're used to, and thus, uncomfortable at first.
Oh. Right. Thanks. :)
Completely unrelated and altogether offtopic, but it's been bothering me for years. Literally.
So, what the heck is your sig supposed to mean? It looks like a bunch of Dune-related vocabulary lumped together with an intent that escapes me, and it's been driving me nuts. (For relatively low values thereof.)
> Yeah pretty scary that ordinary posters on forums can come up with an
> "obvious" political move.
Actually, I was kinda fishing for second opinions there. Although /. is lots of noise and not much signal, quite often you get interesting bits of insight floating up to the surface by people who know more than you about the subject matter, and I was sort of hoping for something like that -- or maybe just a plausible reason why it'd make political sense to keep Gitmo open in the face of, well, every damn thing. For all I know it's just something as petty as Obama keeping it up his sleeve as a popularity chip to cash in come reelection time. Dick move, but that's politics.
"Politics are like tripe sausage. It's got to smell a little like shit, but not too much." -- Edouard Herriot
> I shall borrow your last line as my sig.
Uh. Be my guest, I guess? It's kinda weird, but whatever floats your boat, y'know.
No, I'm serious. I just can't make sense of that. At this point everybody hates Gitmo. Obama could score major points across the board by closing it with a flourish and be done with it. Judge and jail the guys and look tough on Terrism, or just ship them back to wherever they came from and close the joint with a few vibrant words about saving America's money. Mishun accumplisht. Easy reelection credit! A politician's dream.
So why the hell doesn't he?
Something's missing from the picture, and I can't tell what. Can't be anything good, though. :/
> The older I'm getting the more I want to play with engines and build
> things with wood and metal.
It's okay. We're all addicted to Minecraft too.
I tried out the new settings, and when checking out the password encryption, it automatically loaded KWallet, the default password store in KDE. That's it, as of right now Chromium is my default browser.
> States of WHAT? Animals have consciousness now?
No, it popped up MAGICALLY in us apes at some point; someone throw on a switch and BAM, consciousness overnight. MAGIC, I tell you.
Or, you know, maybe consciousness is not a binary variable, but, like most everything about the real world, a continuum, and like most things about the real world, various species have achieved various levels of it? You know? Just sayin'.
Funny. I've got another scenario for you.
1. Vodafone starts charging per MB for Facebook use.
2. Facebook threatens to shut off all access to Vodafone users.
3. Vodafone splits profits with Facebook.
4. Vodafone and Facebook BFF again.
Which do you think is likeliest?
> Even though I'm struggling to understand why you went this route (I'm leaning towards you're a hopeless romantic, or worse)
I think you would be surprised.
The thing about writing is, it's hard. You get this brief bright spark of a plot idea that you've got to write, and then it's hour upon hour upon hour of churning word after word after fuck it I'll go check out Slashdot. The initial excitation lasts perhaps all of 10 minutes before you start asking yourself what the hell you're doing. And at this point anything -- anything -- becomes a tempting distraction. A simple, no-nonsense editor is a boon. You set it full screen and keep trudging along. I like vim; dark color schemes are easier on the eye, you can jump between sentences at the press of a key, and if you're at all the nerdy type a plug-in like ScmFrontEnd or Fugitive lets you version your work on the fly.
There's a reason why George R. R. Martin notoriously uses Wordstar on MS-DOS to this day, you know. :)
Page 15, under "key objectives": "integration in any environment, including free software".
I'm curious to see how they intend to make that work out. :P
As far as I remember, having the software installed was supposed to exonerate you from charges in case you were accused of piracy. Apparently someone since told them about 'kill -9' because last I heard they'd given up on the client-side software as proof of innocence idea. I have no idea were those specs come from, if they discreetly revived the project or if that's an old set of specs that has since been abandoned.