I have a Dell with 1280x800 and can't move the window upside the screen border with your method (but indeed does downside.) I don't remember what application was, but I ended avoiding it because I never could read the corresponding buttons in the inferior zone.
I'm not sure if this is because compiz or any other addition to X, but it is a real annoyance. Of course, those annoyances are microscopic compared with the windows' ones, like the malware and the corresponding antivirus extortion.
Most people (except maybe slashdotters) expect an OS that "just works" without dealing with modules nor their parameters. Yes, the drivers are part of the kernel, but distros differ a lot in the way or the capabilities for automatic hardware discovery and automatic module configuration. I think that's what the GP is referring to.
Agreed. I think the https as currently implemented is a dead end.
Maybe what's needed is some sort of httpss:// (double s) and do a new agreement with browser developers that for that case the valid and trusted certs are really mandatory and can't be bypassed by whatever browser configuration. At the same time, promote on banks and every security-concerned institution for only allowing such httpss. It would be reasonable to have a "Secure IE", "Secure Firefox", etc. that only use that SSL enabled version.
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> What is the hard-on Slashdot has for Joomla, seriously?
The simpler explanation is that a lot of./ readers are using or administrating Joomla. Count me too.
Instead of complaining, please write some review on another (interesting) topic.
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> I will give you the car, but not Word. Want it or not, they ARE operating a computer directly when using MS Word.
Just because they're using a keyboard (instead of a steering wheel) and looking a simple monitor (instead of a digital panel with nice LCD screens/GPS/etc)?
Think about the average secretary... most can't even plug the cable, but anyway manage to write letters.
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Most people don't need to operate computers directly. But a lot of people uses them more or less indirectly, for example, when driving a modern car, or when redacting a letter in MS Word. The idea is that people should never have to be ready for (nor aware of) any OS at all.
> It was hard to let go of MS because I thought I needed it.
Most are not brave enough to probe such a total "divorce"... That totally will change when (by some way) people finally could find their most loved titles (starting from 3d games, passing by Autocad and Photoshop) with Linux versions in Best Buy.
Thanks for the response. As you point Google is a perfect user for this, but I couldn't find a big overlapping to the RDBMS niche.
From your link: 'MapReduce is useful in a wide range of applications, including: "distributed grep, distributed sort, web link-graph reversal, term-vector per host, web access log stats, inverted index construction, document clustering, machine learning, statistical machine translation..." '
To me it looks more like an useful extension to RDBMS, for example, for optimizing big sorts on certain heavy offline processes.
Sorry for the ignorance, but could you elaborate more about those map/reduce systems? some product name? Why hashing is not enough for those big querys?
Yes, and this is one of the silliest things in/. The most informed and insightful teachers I had at school and university were also funny most of the time when delivering lectures, and of course this applies for comments too.
The units you cited are almost exclusively prescribed in order to help suffering companies. Regarding services for common people, the older ones still apply: thousands, hundreds, dimes, etc.
The CIA is a worldwide agency, and collects information from most (or all) the countries. Getting information from non too friendly countries is obviously more interesting (for example, emails sent from Venezuela, Russia, etc.) And locally, what about preventing another of nuke-crisis, or some action over Guantanamo?
> They can't be "handled" -- they must be eliminated from the source code.
Apparently, there is never enough expertise nor allowed time (specially at Microsoft) for this kind of debugging, so why not use some tools (albeit less optimal) that avoid creating those errors from the start? That's one of the original purpose of these higher level languages (or managed environments if you want.)
> this is usually the symptom of buffer overflow error in the server code.
I really don't understand much about MS technologies, but why their Exchange server is not rewritten in C# so at least buffer overflows can be avoided?
I really don't understand the logic of this comparison; my "supported machines" can be some AS/400 for example, and this doesn't contributes toward open source.
Sadly I think it is pretty impossible to get just some hard statistic. How people defines or qualifies a vulnerability as "critical"? For using the number of affected machines, to be fair, all the "interesting" operating systems must have the same proportional participation; and of course, hackers try more (how much more?) to crack Window$, so the successful attack counter is totally biased.
Despite all the love the original poster demonstrates to open source, I think that (like many posters already said) 1) Open Source does not makes better security just because it is open source (albeit on several circumstances does promote an improvement); 2) Microsoft, open or close or whatever, just don't care enough about security; 3) Other "close source" companies apparently (because we don't have numbers nor full lists) are doing good on security as well.
> diagrams stay where I put them rather than being randomly scattered around the document when I go back to change a line or two
The problem is that putting that diagram in the place you really want is a PITA (similar to positioning an image in a Rich-Text-HTML-Editor.)
And they also flow in a weird way when I change a line or two in any other part of the document.
To be fair, I have to accept that never liked to be playing w/those "image flow/mode/alignment/margins" options; I just don't understand why it must be a PITA to put images automatically in a decent way.
And talking about diagrams, I always have to ask friends to convert their Visio ones to a something less useful like PNG. I know OO is not the culprit, but this is another point to consider for this story (BTW I don't know if this was already covered in OO 3.)
Maybe this is correct: a scheme that passes that "antispam-form", implies the end of spam.
But nobody has demonstrated that the end of the spam does require passing such form.
What protocol/scheme/solution is so perfect in that way? look at the imperfect (but working) TCP/IP. Maybe some people is precluding deployment of acceptable solutions because of that dogma-form.
That form looks like a wise and economical approach, but what in the earth could pass clean that form? phone calls? SSL channels with certs? SMTP-Ajax(?)?
Actually most countries do take the percentages you wrote (or even more); IMHO the main difference is that none of them throws that money in "wars of terror" nor contributions for a dubious selection of big banks.
First, I want to buy it with Ubuntu pre-installed just because I don't want to be looking for drivers or doing some weird module configurations (It was a PITA when got my Vostro 1500 with the audio, and the modem never worked at all). I know that a lot of people here loves to waste some days on that, but it not for me, sorry.
Every time I do an upgrade in my current laptop, I fear that some driver, specially the proprietary ones, ends in non functional state (yes, there are the handy Ubuntu forums; but again, I don't have the laptop for playing with the OS but to do my real work).
A mayor upgrade simply breaks things up, despite appearances. For example, I had a very bad time trying to get my appointments history with lightning when upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 in my laptop... Of course, Ubuntu can not be the culprit for every application and configuration, but the result is the same: time lost.
Why it is so difficult for people to understand that most users just want a nice up-to-date computer that "just work"(tm)?
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mmmmmm, the alt+mouse let's me move the window but not upside off the screen. I don't have (or didn't understand) about the shortcut in the menu.
I have a Dell with 1280x800 and can't move the window upside the screen border with your method (but indeed does downside.) I don't remember what application was, but I ended avoiding it because I never could read the corresponding buttons in the inferior zone.
I'm not sure if this is because compiz or any other addition to X, but it is a real annoyance. Of course, those annoyances are microscopic compared with the windows' ones, like the malware and the corresponding antivirus extortion.
Most people (except maybe slashdotters) expect an OS that "just works" without dealing with modules nor their parameters. Yes, the drivers are part of the kernel, but distros differ a lot in the way or the capabilities for automatic hardware discovery and automatic module configuration. I think that's what the GP is referring to.
The language used by most software in those situations is a big culprit:
> The document may not behave correctly if they're disabled.
Should say:
"the document may not have the author's expected appearance, but your computer will be safe from viruses"
Agreed. I think the https as currently implemented is a dead end.
Maybe what's needed is some sort of httpss:// (double s) and do a new agreement with browser developers that for that case the valid and trusted certs are really mandatory and can't be bypassed by whatever browser configuration. At the same time, promote on banks and every security-concerned institution for only allowing such httpss. It would be reasonable to have a "Secure IE", "Secure Firefox", etc. that only use that SSL enabled version.
> What is the hard-on Slashdot has for Joomla, seriously?
The simpler explanation is that a lot of ./ readers are using or administrating Joomla. Count me too.
Instead of complaining, please write some review on another (interesting) topic.
> I will give you the car, but not Word. Want it or not, they ARE operating a computer directly when using MS Word.
Just because they're using a keyboard (instead of a steering wheel) and looking a simple monitor (instead of a digital panel with nice LCD screens/GPS/etc)?
Think about the average secretary... most can't even plug the cable, but anyway manage to write letters.
Most people don't need to operate computers directly. But a lot of people uses them more or less indirectly, for example, when driving a modern car, or when redacting a letter in MS Word. The idea is that people should never have to be ready for (nor aware of) any OS at all.
> It was hard to let go of MS because I thought I needed it.
Most are not brave enough to probe such a total "divorce"... That totally will change when (by some way) people finally could find their most loved titles (starting from 3d games, passing by Autocad and Photoshop) with Linux versions in Best Buy.
Sadly, apparently this is not in the OSS agenda.
Thanks for the response. As you point Google is a perfect user for this, but I couldn't find a big overlapping to the RDBMS niche.
From your link: 'MapReduce is useful in a wide range of applications, including: "distributed grep, distributed sort, web link-graph reversal, term-vector per host, web access log stats, inverted index construction, document clustering, machine learning, statistical machine translation..." '
To me it looks more like an useful extension to RDBMS, for example, for optimizing big sorts on certain heavy offline processes.
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> Seriously? This person could have purchased something else. She could have bought a computer with Linux.
It's very probable that this person wants to run Autocad, Photoshop, or some 3D games for her childs, etc, etc, etc...
Sorry for the ignorance, but could you elaborate more about those map/reduce systems? some product name? Why hashing is not enough for those big querys?
> Slashdot does not reward karma for "funny" mods
Yes, and this is one of the silliest things in /. The most informed and insightful teachers I had at school and university were also funny most of the time when delivering lectures, and of course this applies for comments too.
The units you cited are almost exclusively prescribed in order to help suffering companies. Regarding services for common people, the older ones still apply: thousands, hundreds, dimes, etc.
The CIA is a worldwide agency, and collects information from most (or all) the countries. Getting information from non too friendly countries is obviously more interesting (for example, emails sent from Venezuela, Russia, etc.) And locally, what about preventing another of nuke-crisis, or some action over Guantanamo?
> They can't be "handled" -- they must be eliminated from the source code.
Apparently, there is never enough expertise nor allowed time (specially at Microsoft) for this kind of debugging, so why not use some tools (albeit less optimal) that avoid creating those errors from the start? That's one of the original purpose of these higher level languages (or managed environments if you want.)
> this is usually the symptom of buffer overflow error in the server code.
I really don't understand much about MS technologies, but why their Exchange server is not rewritten in C# so at least buffer overflows can be avoided?
I really don't understand the logic of this comparison; my "supported machines" can be some AS/400 for example, and this doesn't contributes toward open source.
Sadly I think it is pretty impossible to get just some hard statistic. How people defines or qualifies a vulnerability as "critical"? For using the number of affected machines, to be fair, all the "interesting" operating systems must have the same proportional participation; and of course, hackers try more (how much more?) to crack Window$, so the successful attack counter is totally biased.
Despite all the love the original poster demonstrates to open source, I think that (like many posters already said) 1) Open Source does not makes better security just because it is open source (albeit on several circumstances does promote an improvement); 2) Microsoft, open or close or whatever, just don't care enough about security; 3) Other "close source" companies apparently (because we don't have numbers nor full lists) are doing good on security as well.
> and the quality of pop music spiraling downward. Truly a nadir in modern history.
I'd call that an inflection point. The nadir is TODAY.
> diagrams stay where I put them rather than being randomly scattered around the document when I go back to change a line or two
The problem is that putting that diagram in the place you really want is a PITA (similar to positioning an image in a Rich-Text-HTML-Editor.)
And they also flow in a weird way when I change a line or two in any other part of the document.
To be fair, I have to accept that never liked to be playing w/those "image flow/mode/alignment/margins" options; I just don't understand why it must be a PITA to put images automatically in a decent way.
And talking about diagrams, I always have to ask friends to convert their Visio ones to a something less useful like PNG. I know OO is not the culprit, but this is another point to consider for this story (BTW I don't know if this was already covered in OO 3.)
Maybe this is correct: a scheme that passes that "antispam-form", implies the end of spam.
But nobody has demonstrated that the end of the spam does require passing such form.
What protocol/scheme/solution is so perfect in that way? look at the imperfect (but working) TCP/IP. Maybe some people is precluding deployment of acceptable solutions because of that dogma-form.
That form looks like a wise and economical approach, but what in the earth could pass clean that form? phone calls? SSL channels with certs? SMTP-Ajax(?)?
Actually most countries do take the percentages you wrote (or even more); IMHO the main difference is that none of them throws that money in "wars of terror" nor contributions for a dubious selection of big banks.
Netbook != server, so please give me...
Eye-candy, Eye-candy, Eye-candy, Eye-candy ...
and
Latest drivers, Latest drivers, Latest drivers ...
ok...
First, I want to buy it with Ubuntu pre-installed just because I don't want to be looking for drivers or doing some weird module configurations (It was a PITA when got my Vostro 1500 with the audio, and the modem never worked at all). I know that a lot of people here loves to waste some days on that, but it not for me, sorry.
Every time I do an upgrade in my current laptop, I fear that some driver, specially the proprietary ones, ends in non functional state (yes, there are the handy Ubuntu forums; but again, I don't have the laptop for playing with the OS but to do my real work).
A mayor upgrade simply breaks things up, despite appearances. For example, I had a very bad time trying to get my appointments history with lightning when upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 in my laptop... Of course, Ubuntu can not be the culprit for every application and configuration, but the result is the same: time lost.
Why it is so difficult for people to understand that most users just want a nice up-to-date computer that "just work"(tm)?