The last time I used linux it expected me to recompile my kernel so that I could have working sound and access my windows partition. Except it didn't work. So I was screwed over.
Wow! I didn't know that Windows made it easy to access my Linux partitions. Could you please post a step-by-step on how to re-compile the Windows kernel so that it supports ext2?
Microsoft is very standards driven. We are an active participant in many of the standards bodies and have been leading the charge in promoting the use of XML, SOAP and other standards for our.NET initiative. We have not only "embraced" many of the computing platform dejure standards but we have also built products to embrace defacto standards from other operating system platforms. For example, we fully support NFS and NIS in our Services for UNIX product to allow full file sharing and user directory interoperability between our platform and UNIX or Linux platforms.
Allowing Windows users the luxury of using NIS and NFS is great, but I don't see how this demonstrates Microsoft's adherence to standards or helps the Samba team at all. Allowing Windows users to access UNIX resources is the classic "Roach Motel" protocol that Microsoft is so fond of: You can use our product to access other resources, but you cannot use other products to access our resources. Take a look at Exchange, MSSQL, MSDNS, MSCHAP, MSKerberos, NTDOM and practically any other protocol that Microsoft touches. You can check in, but you can't check out.
Microsoft is talking about being standards compliant because they embraced SOAP. Big deal. They've been coopting protocols for decades, and now they play one major role in an open standard and we should forget everything they've done? I think not. Don't get me wrong: I'd love Microsoft to play by the rules the rest of us use, but I doubt their sincerity with the new MSNET proposals. If it turns out that NET is truely an open standard that is fully accessbile without having a Win32 client, then I'll print out this post and eat it. Until then, it's just so much hot air -- especially in light of Microsoft's past activites.
That's nothing. We have a charity organization related to Boy's Town that was taking old 486-class machines and fixing them up by scavanging parts from other machines. They would complete a system and then install Windows 3.1 on them (this was in 1999) and sell them at their thrift stores. Microsoft came in and did their worst, even though I'd imagine that all of those machines came with Windows 3.1 when they were purchased.
Give the BSD drum a break and just enjoy the article for once; I like BSD as much as the next guy, but you needn't belittle everyone else to promote your "OS of choice" (whatever that is). Heck, Windows is great for many things that neither Linux nor BSD is good at.
The next time someone comes trolling for BSD flames, just ignore them; especially an AC on/. ; Every OS is a hobbiest's system to someone else.
Bandai is a highly-respected entertainment name in that country.
In video games? They are mostly renown for their conventional *toys*, not video games. They have failed every time they try to enter the video game market.
Not that the X-Box won't be a success, I think it will; but it'll be one at Nintendo's expense and not Sony's.
Not only is Linux not user friendly, but the Linux user community is positively hostile towards new users.
If you ask a question in the right forum you will be treated with dignity by most linux users. If you hop onto under-ef-net #linux and expect to be treated nicely then you don't understand irc much. Try posting to comp.sys.linux.* (not advocacy!) and you will usually have a nice response in a few hours.
You will find those same "rights" (I prefer to look at them as restrictions, myself) on the detonator drivers for Windows, and yet somehow Microsoft is allowed to ship them with Windows 2000. I don't think Nvidia would complain in the slightest if any distribution wanted to include them on the installation CD. The phrasage "Customer" can have many meanings.
Nvidia has supported full-speed 3D Linux drivers for well over a year now. Politically, none of the distributions distribute the drivers -- but that should change as soon as one of them decides to provide functionality instead of rhetoric (ie, Debian will never ship them). Aside from that, installing the drivers yourself is pretty painless after you've been through it one time; the first time it'll take you a half hour or so.
I have a Radeon DDR/32. The 2D works just fine with DRI and XFree86-4, but don't expect to use any 3D acceleration just yet. The CVS code from dri.sourceforge.net goes from
not compiling to
segfaulting to
snow on the screen
and back again
In short: Don't get one unless you want to wait a bit more for 3D support. My TNT2 and GeForce2 both work flawlessly under XFree86-4 (I don't use Windows at all on these boxes -- just Linux). I want to like ATI, and I bought their card -- but they haven't provided just yet.
We gave my mother-in-law a computer for Christmas of 1999. I originally planned on installing AOL for her to use the internet, but it turns out that they have no local number for Vernal, Utah so I investigated local ISPs and found one called Basin Net. We signed up, and they gave us the prerequisite CD and detailed instrucitons on how to hook up. Everything worked just fine and we went home after Christmas. A few months later her system got a nasty virus and she installed Norton's Anti-Virus to combat it, but this totally screwed up her mail settings so that she couldn't get her e-mail anymore. She called up her local ISP and they sent somebody over to fix the problem for her for free.
You just don't get that kind of service from the big providers.
It's one thing to emulate the *idea* of MaxOS X. A pretty flushing effect when the program is minimized. See-through dialog boxes. A
program that will search through your folders one-by-one, from left to right on the screen.
That is bullshit. Does this mean that Rasterman should be suing Apple because they use translucent windows (ETerm had that *years* ago). Apple has already lost the look-and-feel legal battle with Atari, Franklin and ahem Microsoft. Now Steve is at it again, and Apple loyalists come to their defense every time.
I love Apple products. My first computer was an Apple//e. I also owned the//c, a Mac Classic, A PowerMac 6100 and 2 iMacs (rev B and C). I also love my Aqua theme for Sawmill/GTK. What is Apple's goal here? To piss me off? It worked. Apple has to be Apple's own worst enemy.
30 and a grad student : 8 to serve on the lumenecense committee which finds, based on the research done by another dozen and cited by another ten in a peer-review of tenured faculty that the grad student should do it.
This stuff about Windows needing service packs often is bull. Linux has far more service packs, because Microsft updates things all at once whereas with Linux you have to update individually.
I see you've never heard of Microsoft's hotfixes.
We used to have to install SP3 (for NT3), the intel adminpack up to a certain level and then 4 individual hotfixes in order to have our NT Workstations function properly (ie, Java that works). Microsoft has more hotfixes than any Linux distribution I've ever seen; that you haven't heard about them/don't use them says a lot about your Windows experience...
I don't know about other times (I've seen this before), but yesterday afternoon the US routing went to hell at least twice. I was able to reach from my cable modem to work, but unable to get to/. or gamespot. I started downloading some fairly large files, and they failed twice (damn Netscape's lack of Resume/FTP); each time I was unable to reconnect for like 15 minutes to these sites, but others seemed just fine. Perhaps the Gnutella effect is catching up with IP in general?
And the tired "We can put a man on the moon, but cannot give free crap to everyone" argument is of the democratic party persuasion. They would rather cut NASA to divert the money to welfare programs. Republicans are more apt to do the reverse. Neither is the "correct" thing to do, but a balance must be struck; and right now I feel that NASA is getting the short end of the deal.
Still easy enough to break -- write a program that acts as a debugger and captures the data from RAM itself. Even if you have to capture a
byte at a time, it's virtually impossible to protect the decryption process that you cannot break it.
I fail to see how a debugger in RAM is going to capture anything interesting if the decryption is done inside the monitor. Yes, this hard drive encryption is silly, but it can be done easily enough if someone has the determination.
Remote machine asks for Hardware (in this case, it's a hard disk) ID number
Remote site checks uniqueness/validity of number
Remote site sends back a key to unlock that media with specific hardware.
User proceeds to download encrypted media.
User can now view media from that hardware, but not from any other hardware.
Of course, this doesn't stop anyone from intercepting the decrypted data leaving the hard disk -- but that is akin to recording your favorite DVD onto VHS (or mpeg-4, or whatever). Plug Intel's new encrypted monitor spec in, and the data won't be decrypted until it gets to the monitor...
Yes, I am afraid you can securely encrypt data. They know how, and they will do it eventually. Until then, we need to educate. Just like dongles of yesteryear, but without the hassle of plugging anything in.
And that's just a partial list of what comes installed with XEmacs. You can easily triple that list by downloading your own elisp packages and installing them.
Like S/390 perhaps? Or how about Alpha? What
about ia64? Didn't think so. Windows is behind
the times.
A decent, stable office suite.
StarOffice works fine for me.
Fonts that don't look like complete ass.
Freetype has been out for years now.
Professional-quality graphics programs (Photoshop and Illustrator).
Hmm, you keep on defining these software packages as "necessary" -- but then you attach brand-names to them, which precludes any such product that isn't released for Linux. That's a self-fulfilling profecy, because by your definition Linux cannot have said products. Letting that aside, Linux has numerous commercial and free applications that perform the same functions. (Corel Draw and the Gimp, for example).
DVD players.
It's illegal to make an open-source DVD player; not much we can do when the law is against us... but if you want to claim that Windows is better because Microsoft has better lawyers (who are in bed with the MPAA), then go ahead and take the dubious prize.
Dams are not very clean. They can cause HUGE amounts of environmental damage.
Strange; up here in Idaho we get all of our energy from dams. They create lovely reservoirs that create habitats for many animals and the percentage of land now underwater is miniscule when compared to the mountains that are still here.
They not only provide all of our electric power (we sell the leftover power to other states, and we have the lowest rate in the country) but they also control the flow of water for irrigation which provides for more plants, which supplements the air to offset humans in the region. It's a win-win situation for everyone.
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Wow! I didn't know that Windows made it easy to access my Linux partitions. Could you please post a step-by-step on how to re-compile the Windows kernel so that it supports ext2?
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Allowing Windows users the luxury of using NIS and NFS is great, but I don't see how this demonstrates Microsoft's adherence to standards or helps the Samba team at all. Allowing Windows users to access UNIX resources is the classic "Roach Motel" protocol that Microsoft is so fond of: You can use our product to access other resources, but you cannot use other products to access our resources. Take a look at Exchange, MSSQL, MSDNS, MSCHAP, MSKerberos, NTDOM and practically any other protocol that Microsoft touches. You can check in, but you can't check out.
Microsoft is talking about being standards compliant because they embraced SOAP. Big deal. They've been coopting protocols for decades, and now they play one major role in an open standard and we should forget everything they've done? I think not. Don't get me wrong: I'd love Microsoft to play by the rules the rest of us use, but I doubt their sincerity with the new MSNET proposals. If it turns out that NET is truely an open standard that is fully accessbile without having a Win32 client, then I'll print out this post and eat it. Until then, it's just so much hot air -- especially in light of Microsoft's past activites.
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Unless it's an SMP system, that is... :)
Give the BSD drum a break and just enjoy the article for once; I like BSD as much as the next guy, but you needn't belittle everyone else to promote your "OS of choice" (whatever that is). Heck, Windows is great for many things that neither Linux nor BSD is good at.
The next time someone comes trolling for BSD flames, just ignore them; especially an AC on /. ; Every OS is a hobbiest's system to someone else.
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
In video games? They are mostly renown for their conventional *toys*, not video games. They have failed every time they try to enter the video game market.
Not that the X-Box won't be a success, I think it will; but it'll be one at Nintendo's expense and not Sony's.
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
If you ask a question in the right forum you will be treated with dignity by most linux users. If you hop onto under-ef-net #linux and expect to be treated nicely then you don't understand irc much. Try posting to comp.sys.linux.* (not advocacy!) and you will usually have a nice response in a few hours.
I may even be the one responding.
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
testing/unstable
desconocido:~# apt-get install nvidia
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package nvidia
desconocido:~#
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
- not compiling to
- segfaulting to
- snow on the screen
- and back again
In short: Don't get one unless you want to wait a bit more for 3D support. My TNT2 and GeForce2 both work flawlessly under XFree86-4 (I don't use Windows at all on these boxes -- just Linux). I want to like ATI, and I bought their card -- but they haven't provided just yet.The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
You just don't get that kind of service from the big providers.
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
That is bullshit. Does this mean that Rasterman should be suing Apple because they use translucent windows (ETerm had that *years* ago). Apple has already lost the look-and-feel legal battle with Atari, Franklin and ahem Microsoft. Now Steve is at it again, and Apple loyalists come to their defense every time.
I love Apple products. My first computer was an Apple //e. I also owned the //c, a Mac Classic, A PowerMac 6100 and 2 iMacs (rev B and C). I also love my Aqua theme for Sawmill/GTK. What is Apple's goal here? To piss me off? It worked. Apple has to be Apple's own worst enemy.
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
30 and a grad student : 8 to serve on the lumenecense committee which finds, based on the research done by another dozen and cited by another ten in a peer-review of tenured faculty that the grad student should do it.
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Sorry, should have read NT _4_
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
I see you've never heard of Microsoft's hotfixes. We used to have to install SP3 (for NT3), the intel adminpack up to a certain level and then 4 individual hotfixes in order to have our NT Workstations function properly (ie, Java that works). Microsoft has more hotfixes than any Linux distribution I've ever seen; that you haven't heard about them/don't use them says a lot about your Windows experience...
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
I don't know about other times (I've seen this before), but yesterday afternoon the US routing went to hell at least twice. I was able to reach from my cable modem to work, but unable to get to /. or gamespot. I started downloading some fairly large files, and they failed twice (damn Netscape's lack of Resume/FTP); each time I was unable to reconnect for like 15 minutes to these sites, but others seemed just fine. Perhaps the Gnutella effect is catching up with IP in general?
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
I fail to see how a debugger in RAM is going to capture anything interesting if the decryption is done inside the monitor. Yes, this hard drive encryption is silly, but it can be done easily enough if someone has the determination.
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
- User requests secure file from a remote site
- Remote machine asks for Hardware (in this case, it's a hard disk) ID number
- Remote site checks uniqueness/validity of number
- Remote site sends back a key to unlock that media with specific hardware.
- User proceeds to download encrypted media.
- User can now view media from that hardware, but not from any other hardware.
Of course, this doesn't stop anyone from intercepting the decrypted data leaving the hard disk -- but that is akin to recording your favorite DVD onto VHS (or mpeg-4, or whatever). Plug Intel's new encrypted monitor spec in, and the data won't be decrypted until it gets to the monitor...Yes, I am afraid you can securely encrypt data. They know how, and they will do it eventually. Until then, we need to educate. Just like dongles of yesteryear, but without the hassle of plugging anything in.
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
No thanks, we'd rather have a full standards- compliant stack, thankyouverymuch.
Again, we'd rather pass -- we enjoy taking full advantage of multiple processors.
What? You can't choose one of the 27 that we already have? :)
FreeBSD is, indeed, cool -- but so is Linux! (And even more so, if you ask me)
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Here's what XEmacs supports (with colour syntax highlighting, compilation, debugging, code indentation, etc.):
- ada-mode
- asm-mode
- auto-autoloads
- autoconf-mode
- awk-mode
- cl-indent
- cperl-mode
- custom-load
- cvs
- eiffel3
- f90
- fortran-misc
- fortran
- icon
- java
- ksh-mode
- m4-mode
- make-mode
- modula2
- pascal
- perl-mode
- postscript
- prolog
- python-mode
- rexx-mode
- sh
- simula
- sql
- tcl
- teco
- verilog-mode
- vrml-mode
And that's just a partial list of what comes installed with XEmacs. You can easily triple that list by downloading your own elisp packages and installing them.The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
That's what my PlayStation 2 is for.
A large number of pieces of hardware.
Like S/390 perhaps? Or how about Alpha? What about ia64? Didn't think so. Windows is behind the times.
A decent, stable office suite.
StarOffice works fine for me.
Fonts that don't look like complete ass.
Freetype has been out for years now.
Professional-quality graphics programs (Photoshop and Illustrator).
Hmm, you keep on defining these software packages as "necessary" -- but then you attach brand-names to them, which precludes any such product that isn't released for Linux. That's a self-fulfilling profecy, because by your definition Linux cannot have said products. Letting that aside, Linux has numerous commercial and free applications that perform the same functions. (Corel Draw and the Gimp, for example).
DVD players.
It's illegal to make an open-source DVD player; not much we can do when the law is against us... but if you want to claim that Windows is better because Microsoft has better lawyers (who are in bed with the MPAA), then go ahead and take the dubious prize.
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Strange; up here in Idaho we get all of our energy from dams. They create lovely reservoirs that create habitats for many animals and the percentage of land now underwater is miniscule when compared to the mountains that are still here.
They not only provide all of our electric power (we sell the leftover power to other states, and we have the lowest rate in the country) but they also control the flow of water for irrigation which provides for more plants, which supplements the air to offset humans in the region. It's a win-win situation for everyone.
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.