Yeah, no CMYK sucks, but there is still a great deal you can do without it. What the hell is wrong with you, guys?
Every color printer driver used with Gimp supports CMYK. There was a CMYK separation plugin for ages. No one who does any kind of graphics work actually touches CMYK before the last stages of print (and only print!) materials preparation, and those aren't supposed to be done in a graphics editor (or by a graphics artist) in the first place.
"GIMP DOES NOT SUPPORT CMYK!!!!11111ONE" being mentioned is one of the two certain signs of an ignorant Windows fanboy's anti-Linux rant (the second one is, of course, jwz quote).
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...pops up a GDM screen at the wrong resolution, immediately shuts it, shows the NVIDIA logo (which I've disabled in xorg.conf) and then starts X again with what seems to be the best resolution it can manage 91280x1024@75hz) but this is still not right it's and still not what I've asked it for...) 1. Your X server DOES NOT USE YOUR xorg.conf if you see nvidia logo after disabling it in that xorg.conf . 2. Considering that you wrote "91280x1024@75hz" instead of "1280x1024@75hz", you probably made some typos in your configuration as well. Possibly the same typo.
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1. multicore Irrelevant because processing-intensive tasks are in applications that use multicore already. Graphics cards' internal processing (3D acceleration, compositing) is already multithreaded with multiple rendering pipelines. X server is not a bottleneck.
2. smoother input processing All input goes through OS drivers in kernel and immediately used to update cursor and send events to applications. Delays in events handling and protocol overhead are negligible when passing tiny amounts of data generated from input, therefore all input latency is an application's problem. If it wasn't, you would see X cursor lagging behind mouse movement, something that never ever happens.
3. smoother screen redraws XDamage reduces the amount of redrawing, however it has little to do with the fact that X updates windows at the speed of your graphics card when it gets anything from an application. Applications that include massive amount of disk and network I/O in the same process/thread that handles X events are responsible for slow redrawing, not X. All other GUIs behave in exactly the same manner.
No, the first indication that it was a bas idea should have been that they crashed on Earth, in 40's or 50's. If you are an alien, what could be a worse place to crash?
Seriously, Shuttle was way too much an imitation of a sci-fi movie prop than a n example of good design and a part of well thought out space program.
You'd think so, wouldn't you? But if you run lilo from within a chroot (ext3 / ext2 file system), it doesn't seem to affect the boot block straightaway: if you reboot straight after running lilo without exiting the chroot, you still get LI. If you exit the chroot and then reboot, it works. All devices are global -- it does not matter if you are in chroot or not when you perform I/O on them. It is possible that some version of reboot procedure relies on syncing performed on unmounting the filesystems, and therefore misses the cached writes made to block devices directly, but then exiting chroot does nothing for it, at best it spends time so more likely the data will get automatically updated.
Unless they were already using lilo before grub became popular, and decided to stick with something that wasn't broken and didn't need fixing..... Except that lilo does need "fixing" -- every time a kernel gets updated. GRUB is much safer in this respect -- even if your configuration is completely wrong, you can still make it boot some kernel file with whatever options you need as long as it is installed at all.
As for the whole exploit, this is a very good case in point of seeing the source code isn't always helpful, as all you need is someone smarter than the person that wrote the original source code to read it and find a weakness, and there are lot of people capable of doing this. So instead of doing buffer overflows and tons of tricks to hack open source, just find someone that is smarter than 99% of the people out there and give them some code and have them start writing exploit software that compromises it. And sadly this is much simplier than the way Windows is hacked, and why some 'closed' source does help security. O RLY?
This only works if the project is done by idiots who make vulnerabilities by a dozen, so the only problem is to find them -- what seems to be the case with Windows. But how is your "smart" person going to find vulnerabilities in a code that does not have them? Even in a project as large as Linux things like that are extremely rare, so it does not matter how smart you are if you have to sift through tens of megabytes of source to find a single problem.
I can confirm that exploit caused 2.6.20.3 kernel on a server that I maintain to become unstable and eventually hang (and before that happened, exploit crashed with segmentation fault but did not run a shell). I have installed a 2.6.24 kernel with patches mentioned in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/190587 , and the problem disappeared, exploit harmlessly exits.
But Libertarians are anti-infrastructure! They believe in some magic kind of market that consists entirely of microscopic small businesses, and government of a two disease-ridden elders (because no one pays them a salary and all healthcare consists of private shamans) in a tent.
Was this a real threat? Yes, there was a very serious plot to blow up planes using liquid explosives in bombs that would have worked to bring down aircraft.
No, there wasn't. Ridiculous claims about validity of your idiotic policy don't make you any less of pwn3d losers.
I can just as well proclaim that this offer is unusual because Microsoft is more evil than all Silicon Valley companies combined. Who cares? We already know that Microsoft can't create anything new and can't sell anything unless it is a prerequisite of running the latest version of MS Office or occasionally Visual Studio. We know that its "online business" never was designed to stand on its own but was supposed to be a vehicle of pushing services that require Windows. If they suddenly want to compete with Google they have to buy their closest competitor.
Of course, if they will do that, their pride won't allow them to keep it running on their current Microsoft-products-free infrastructure, so they will try to pull Hotmail on it. The difference is, of course, that Yahoo is much more complex than Hotmail ever was.
No desktop environment that runs now on Linux (or any Unixlike OS other than OSX) requires you to use each and every crappy library that comes with that environment. Both popular toolkits are successfully used by open and proprietary applications alike, and even Qt commercial license has a pretty reasonable price for functionality that Qt provides. Also I can't imagine either KDE or GNOME adopting anything tied to Microsoft as a mandatory part of their environment regardless of what Miguel or Nokia people may want -- this would instantly cause a fork, just like XFree86/Xorg.
In any case this trollish article has nothing to do with the purpose of "Ask Slashdot" category and everything with the fact that no one bothers rejecting crap when it is submitted as "Ask Slashdot".
I hereby declare all religions to be dumb superstitions and ban them from being believed and practiced by all self-respecting human beings.
After all, I have better knowledge and credibility in the areas of philosophy, psychology and history than Pope has in science.
Seriously, can we get rid of this mental virus already? We managed to destroy smallpox! The freaking smallpox! Yet minds of people remain infested with religions, even though just keeping people from contracting it until the late teenage years (when they switch from "learn from authority figures" to "apply your own critical thinking" mode) reliably cuts off its propagation to all future generations. Geez!
While most of articles on Snopes are at least somewhat correct, it contains some amount of opinions and apologism that have nothing to do with dispelling urban myths. Ex:
...given that it will actually accomplish anything. What is not likely to happen considering how little it can carry while still being perfectly visible and vulnerable.
...no one had a problem with me building a radiation meter and using it to check levels of radiation around Gomel, Belarus after Chernobyl disaster. And that was in 1986.
that had been reformatted (full format, not quick) and re-installed. The particular sequence of apps and methods I used enabled me to recover almost all the important docs on the machine minus a handful of unrecoverable files in the physically failed sectors.
What does this thing do that satellites and full-sized planes don't do better? Take into account that resolution of the camera is limited by size, weight and vibration. It may make sense to build a remotely controlled plane that is too small to carry people but large enough to be stable and useful for carrying equipment, or to make something so small, it can enter buildings and other structures, but this is literally a toy you can buy in a store now.
It's Estonian government. They spent last twenty years doing nothing but blaming Russia for everything from sky's blue color to water being wet, passing nationalistic laws, celebrating Nazi, telling their sob stories to EU and trying to become better US sycophants than Poland.
Who are "we" and what the Hell are you talking about? The article doesn't even mention a particular vulnerability, and you already identified it on four boxes (I assume under your control, because seeing a random server on the internet with malware on it is hardly a notable occurrence)?
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Every color printer driver used with Gimp supports CMYK.
There was a CMYK separation plugin for ages.
No one who does any kind of graphics work actually touches CMYK before the last stages of print (and only print!) materials preparation, and those aren't supposed to be done in a graphics editor (or by a graphics artist) in the first place.
"GIMP DOES NOT SUPPORT CMYK!!!!11111ONE" being mentioned is one of the two certain signs of an ignorant Windows fanboy's anti-Linux rant (the second one is, of course, jwz quote).
...pops up a GDM screen at the wrong resolution, immediately shuts it, shows the NVIDIA logo (which I've disabled in xorg.conf) and then starts X again with what seems to be the best resolution it can manage 91280x1024@75hz) but this is still not right it's and still not what I've asked it for...) 1. Your X server DOES NOT USE YOUR xorg.conf if you see nvidia logo after disabling it in that xorg.conf .2. Considering that you wrote "91280x1024@75hz" instead of "1280x1024@75hz", you probably made some typos in your configuration as well. Possibly the same typo.
More like free as in nuts.
Zeno, is that you?
No, the first indication that it was a bas idea should have been that they crashed on Earth, in 40's or 50's. If you are an alien, what could be a worse place to crash?
Seriously, Shuttle was way too much an imitation of a sci-fi movie prop than a n example of good design and a part of well thought out space program.
You can shit null pointers, too.
This only works if the project is done by idiots who make vulnerabilities by a dozen, so the only problem is to find them -- what seems to be the case with Windows. But how is your "smart" person going to find vulnerabilities in a code that does not have them? Even in a project as large as Linux things like that are extremely rare, so it does not matter how smart you are if you have to sift through tens of megabytes of source to find a single problem.
1. Reboot syncs all devices.
2. No one uses lilo for at least five years now.
I can confirm that exploit caused 2.6.20.3 kernel on a server that I maintain to become unstable and eventually hang (and before that happened, exploit crashed with segmentation fault but did not run a shell). I have installed a 2.6.24 kernel with patches mentioned in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/190587 , and the problem disappeared, exploit harmlessly exits.
But Libertarians are anti-infrastructure! They believe in some magic kind of market that consists entirely of microscopic small businesses, and government of a two disease-ridden elders (because no one pays them a salary and all healthcare consists of private shamans) in a tent.
No, there wasn't. Ridiculous claims about validity of your idiotic policy don't make you any less of pwn3d losers.
I can just as well proclaim that this offer is unusual because Microsoft is more evil than all Silicon Valley companies combined. Who cares? We already know that Microsoft can't create anything new and can't sell anything unless it is a prerequisite of running the latest version of MS Office or occasionally Visual Studio. We know that its "online business" never was designed to stand on its own but was supposed to be a vehicle of pushing services that require Windows. If they suddenly want to compete with Google they have to buy their closest competitor.
Of course, if they will do that, their pride won't allow them to keep it running on their current Microsoft-products-free infrastructure, so they will try to pull Hotmail on it. The difference is, of course, that Yahoo is much more complex than Hotmail ever was.
No desktop environment that runs now on Linux (or any Unixlike OS other than OSX) requires you to use each and every crappy library that comes with that environment. Both popular toolkits are successfully used by open and proprietary applications alike, and even Qt commercial license has a pretty reasonable price for functionality that Qt provides. Also I can't imagine either KDE or GNOME adopting anything tied to Microsoft as a mandatory part of their environment regardless of what Miguel or Nokia people may want -- this would instantly cause a fork, just like XFree86/Xorg.
In any case this trollish article has nothing to do with the purpose of "Ask Slashdot" category and everything with the fact that no one bothers rejecting crap when it is submitted as "Ask Slashdot".
I hereby declare all religions to be dumb superstitions and ban them from being believed and practiced by all self-respecting human beings.
After all, I have better knowledge and credibility in the areas of philosophy, psychology and history than Pope has in science.
Seriously, can we get rid of this mental virus already? We managed to destroy smallpox! The freaking smallpox! Yet minds of people remain infested with religions, even though just keeping people from contracting it until the late teenage years (when they switch from "learn from authority figures" to "apply your own critical thinking" mode) reliably cuts off its propagation to all future generations. Geez!
While most of articles on Snopes are at least somewhat correct, it contains some amount of opinions and apologism that have nothing to do with dispelling urban myths. Ex:
http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/coors.asp
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/1895exam.asp
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
...given that it will actually accomplish anything. What is not likely to happen considering how little it can carry while still being perfectly visible and vulnerable.
...no one had a problem with me building a radiation meter and using it to check levels of radiation around Gomel, Belarus after Chernobyl disaster. And that was in 1986.
Good job, NYC!
O RLY?
Even if that thing was five meters long, it would be in a completely different class without becoming a large, expensive monstrosity.
What does this thing do that satellites and full-sized planes don't do better? Take into account that resolution of the camera is limited by size, weight and vibration. It may make sense to build a remotely controlled plane that is too small to carry people but large enough to be stable and useful for carrying equipment, or to make something so small, it can enter buildings and other structures, but this is literally a toy you can buy in a store now.
It's Estonian government. They spent last twenty years doing nothing but blaming Russia for everything from sky's blue color to water being wet, passing nationalistic laws, celebrating Nazi, telling their sob stories to EU and trying to become better US sycophants than Poland.
Who are "we" and what the Hell are you talking about? The article doesn't even mention a particular vulnerability, and you already identified it on four boxes (I assume under your control, because seeing a random server on the internet with malware on it is hardly a notable occurrence)?
Real privilege escalation vulnerability bypasses UAC, just like it would on any other system.