idiots isn't too harsh, it's not even close to being harsh enough.
you need a license to drive you car, don't you? not servicing it, just driving it. your computer is a lot more complicated, and potentially a lot more dangerous than a car. why is it that surprising that you should at LEAST have a basic knowledge of wtf it is you're doing?
people usually reply with "but i don't have a choice! everything is on the computer!". yes you do have a choice, you CAN type your papers on a typewritter, you CAN get the newspaper for your news, you CAN go to the library for your information. you CHOOSE not to because it's more convenient to just look it up on the internet.
a computer is a tool. if you don't understand your tool, don't fuck with it or don't use it.
iBrowse seems to be a relatively recent addition, or it might be up to the newspaper to chose if they allow it or not. last time i checked you HAD to download their windows-only reader.
first thing they do? cripple it no support other than windows. newspaper expires after 30 days. can't search article. in fact it's just the scanned version of the newspaper, and they charge nearly as much as the paper one
the only gripe i have found against KDE is its insane memory usage, but for the most part it's well behaved.
i've had the same experience as you with gnome, taking over the desktop and never giving it back, leaving crap laying around in memory after you close your app, and a botched reimplementation of microsoft's worst idea: the registry. that just makes gnome a big no no.
To qualify for an initial allocation of IPv6 address space, an organization must: a) be an LIR; --- most ISP aren't b) not be an end site; --- large hosting company ? i'm sure they'll appreciate having to renumber c) plan to provide IPv6 connectivity to organizations to which it will assign/48s, by advertising that connectivity through its single aggregated address allocation; and d) be an existing, known ISP in the ARIN region or have a plan for making at least 200/48 assignments to other organizations within five years. ---- yeah right, 200/48 ? so that's what, 50-100k customers? depending on your business model
routers with beefier CPUs and ASICS, with load ands loads of ram. consider that some routers come with 1 and 2 gigs of ram already, using the crude-and-wholly-underestimated number of 4x as much (128 bits vs 32 bits), without even accounting for the exponential increase in the possible number of routes (last week route count was 177k)... you get the idea.
and hundred thousands of man-hours to implement and test it all
in all practicality, ipv6 is flawed as it is, due to policies (thanks IANA!). you're basicly forced to renumber your network everytime you switch ISP for whatever reason. unless your name is MCI (which means you're the isp in the first place and won't ever have to renumber). anything under that gets screwed, from the small isp with 150-200 customers to the big one with 100k.
linux can do that too, remove the CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE and CAP_NET_ADMIN and even root will not be able to modify the firewall rules (nor its file). do that in an init script for greater annoyance.
you can also remove the CAP_SYS_MODULE capability to prevent kernel module insertion. make the init script that removes them immutable, and you have a foolproof protection against kernel rootkits, to change you need to go into single user mode, remove the lines, and reboot
indeed, that's a nice system, although not always a workable one. but a good one if it work for you. that's why i said "mostly snake oil". i didn't mean that there's no way to do it, just that the ways people usually do it, or are sold stuff by vendors to do it, doesn't work
working for a software company, i'd say most developper see encryption as a panacea.
as a real world example. we developped an application which i was asked to beta test (im the sysadmin, i dont do software devel). within 5 minutes i had hacked the application, had full access to the database and every users' passwords.
when i pointed out the app was flawed, their answer was "that's ok, we'll add encryption to the database before releasing it". in this case the whole design was flawed, encryption in the database would have stopped me for 10 minutes instead of 5. to this day they still haven't fixed it (thankfully, they haven't sold it yet either)
moral of the story: design your apps properly. don't rely on the buzzword du jour. encryption is a tool, not a panacea. and good security is HARD to design.
and more importantly, database encryption is mostly snake oil. usually if a hacker get to your database, he found your application first, and he has the key to decrypt your super-secure-2048bit-encrypted-database. it will slow him down for a few more minutes, that's all
the dhcp server supply the ourdomain.com suffix to everyone that asks. the dns resolver is bright enough to look up something.ourdomain.com before asking for "something" alone if you type it as such.
i said it when it was first posted to technocrat, i'll say it again.
accessibility doesn't have ANYTHING to do in a STORAGE FORMAT. this is purely a software issue, with lots of money involved.
how much do you wanna bet these so called "accessibility experts" are getting paid to say they don't want an open document format? who do you think is paying them?
and a sun accessibility expert? come on, this is the company that brought us JAVA, an accessibility nightmare in its own right.
a friend in the computer repair business once told me that the vaios are so fragile they literally get hundreds of them to repair. that was about 2 years ago when i was shopping for a laptop.
in the end i went for an eurocom. it's somewhat heavy, but does a damn good job
i disagree with that statement. the clickwheel's main advantage is not so much that it's intuitive, even if it is: it has a button to play/pause, it's even labeled! as you suggest.
anyway, the ipod's main advantage over other players, is that you don't have to hurt your thumb holding down or clicking on a tiny button, which in the end isn't really anymore precise than a scrollwheel because you go into mindless mode and just zap it up and down until you're where you are. a scrollwheel allows you to control the scrolling with barely a touch... but then maybe i'm the only one that played too much SNES when i was younger and now can't stand the pain of small buttons
i had a problem installing windows recently, where it installed the "wrong" IDE controller driver (wtf? why is there even different drivers for that?) and the box would simply crash, before even getting to a gui. mind you it did this without asking, without telling me and without confirmation of anything. worst of all, there is no way to fix it short of a complete reinstall (thankfully, this was already a clean disk, so no lost data)
that's wrong, there's 4 wires in a POTS wire, but only 2 are used. you can leave the other 2 completly unplugged and it doesn't make any difference. the two used differs depending on where you live, red/green for canada/us and yellow/back (i think) for europe
of course you can fit more on the screen, that's the whole point. and yes it's a bit smaller, but on this laptop 1600x1200 is surprisingly comfortable, with the default font size
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idiots isn't too harsh, it's not even close to being harsh enough.
you need a license to drive you car, don't you? not servicing it, just driving it. your computer is a lot more complicated, and potentially a lot more dangerous than a car. why is it that surprising that you should at LEAST have a basic knowledge of wtf it is you're doing?
people usually reply with "but i don't have a choice! everything is on the computer!". yes you do have a choice, you CAN type your papers on a typewritter, you CAN get the newspaper for your news, you CAN go to the library for your information. you CHOOSE not to because it's more convenient to just look it up on the internet.
a computer is a tool. if you don't understand your tool, don't fuck with it or don't use it.
iBrowse seems to be a relatively recent addition, or it might be up to the newspaper to chose if they allow it or not. last time i checked you HAD to download their windows-only reader.
in any case, it's still crippled
My only "solutions" I've come up with is to dump the browser entirely and offer "newspaper skins" for another type of Internet program
bad idea, very bad one. in fact, it's already being done that way:
http://www.newsstand.com/
first thing they do? cripple it
no support other than windows. newspaper expires after 30 days. can't search article. in fact it's just the scanned version of the newspaper, and they charge nearly as much as the paper one
probably,
the only gripe i have found against KDE is its insane memory usage, but for the most part it's well behaved.
i've had the same experience as you with gnome, taking over the desktop and never giving it back, leaving crap laying around in memory after you close your app, and a botched reimplementation of microsoft's worst idea: the registry. that just makes gnome a big no no.
yeah, the robotic voice of slashdot is a dead giveaway...
this is a TTY you're talking about, ie, TEXT terminal. there's no voice
everytime there's a discussion about ipv6 i bring up this point, and i get people like you that didn't read the policy giving the exact same answer.
/48s, by advertising that connectivity through its single aggregated address allocation; and /48 assignments to other organizations within five years. ---- yeah right, 200 /48 ? so that's what, 50-100k customers? depending on your business model
see http://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html section ipv6 6.5.1.1
To qualify for an initial allocation of IPv6 address space, an organization must:
a) be an LIR; --- most ISP aren't
b) not be an end site; --- large hosting company ? i'm sure they'll appreciate having to renumber
c) plan to provide IPv6 connectivity to organizations to which it will assign
d) be an existing, known ISP in the ARIN region or have a plan for making at least 200
routers with beefier CPUs and ASICS, with load ands loads of ram.
consider that some routers come with 1 and 2 gigs of ram already, using the crude-and-wholly-underestimated number of 4x as much (128 bits vs 32 bits), without even accounting for the exponential increase in the possible number of routes (last week route count was 177k)... you get the idea.
and hundred thousands of man-hours to implement and test it all
in all practicality, ipv6 is flawed as it is, due to policies (thanks IANA!). you're basicly forced to renumber your network everytime you switch ISP for whatever reason. unless your name is MCI (which means you're the isp in the first place and won't ever have to renumber). anything under that gets screwed, from the small isp with 150-200 customers to the big one with 100k.
honest, i'm not deploying ipv6 anywhere just yet
linux can do that too, remove the CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE and CAP_NET_ADMIN and even root will not be able to modify the firewall rules (nor its file). do that in an init script for greater annoyance.
s .7.html
you can also remove the CAP_SYS_MODULE capability to prevent kernel module insertion. make the init script that removes them immutable, and you have a foolproof protection against kernel rootkits, to change you need to go into single user mode, remove the lines, and reboot
there's a lot more capabilities, see:
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man7/capabilitie
indeed, that's a nice system, although not always a workable one. but a good one if it work for you. that's why i said "mostly snake oil". i didn't mean that there's no way to do it, just that the ways people usually do it, or are sold stuff by vendors to do it, doesn't work
working for a software company, i'd say most developper see encryption as a panacea.
as a real world example. we developped an application which i was asked to beta test (im the sysadmin, i dont do software devel). within 5 minutes i had hacked the application, had full access to the database and every users' passwords.
when i pointed out the app was flawed, their answer was "that's ok, we'll add encryption to the database before releasing it". in this case the whole design was flawed, encryption in the database would have stopped me for 10 minutes instead of 5. to this day they still haven't fixed it (thankfully, they haven't sold it yet either)
moral of the story: design your apps properly. don't rely on the buzzword du jour. encryption is a tool, not a panacea. and good security is HARD to design.
and more importantly, database encryption is mostly snake oil. usually if a hacker get to your database, he found your application first, and he has the key to decrypt your super-secure-2048bit-encrypted-database. it will slow him down for a few more minutes, that's all
not really,
at my company we use something.ourdomain.com
the dhcp server supply the ourdomain.com suffix to everyone that asks. the dns resolver is bright enough to look up something.ourdomain.com before asking for "something" alone if you type it as such.
the fact he was a minister 40 years ago just shows how age can affect judgment. not that politicians are bright to start with.
this guy is a loony, someone put him in a bin (that's a hell of a better use of my money than spending it on alien stuff)
movie? what movie? i always think of it as refering to a game (Uplink, by introversion software)
i said it when it was first posted to technocrat, i'll say it again.
accessibility doesn't have ANYTHING to do in a STORAGE FORMAT. this is purely a software issue, with lots of money involved.
how much do you wanna bet these so called "accessibility experts" are getting paid to say they don't want an open document format? who do you think is paying them?
and a sun accessibility expert? come on, this is the company that brought us JAVA, an accessibility nightmare in its own right.
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html
a friend in the computer repair business once told me that the vaios are so fragile they literally get hundreds of them to repair. that was about 2 years ago when i was shopping for a laptop.
in the end i went for an eurocom. it's somewhat heavy, but does a damn good job
i disagree with that statement. the clickwheel's main advantage is not so much that it's intuitive, even if it is: it has a button to play/pause, it's even labeled! as you suggest.
anyway, the ipod's main advantage over other players, is that you don't have to hurt your thumb holding down or clicking on a tiny button, which in the end isn't really anymore precise than a scrollwheel because you go into mindless mode and just zap it up and down until you're where you are. a scrollwheel allows you to control the scrolling with barely a touch... but then maybe i'm the only one that played too much SNES when i was younger and now can't stand the pain of small buttons
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i disagree that it's new, it's been used for AGES in the porn industry!
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yes, it is easy, until it fails.
i had a problem installing windows recently, where it installed the "wrong" IDE controller driver (wtf? why is there even different drivers for that?) and the box would simply crash, before even getting to a gui. mind you it did this without asking, without telling me and without confirmation of anything. worst of all, there is no way to fix it short of a complete reinstall (thankfully, this was already a clean disk, so no lost data)
that's wrong, there's 4 wires in a POTS wire, but only 2 are used. you can leave the other 2 completly unplugged and it doesn't make any difference. the two used differs depending on where you live, red/green for canada/us and yellow/back (i think) for europe
you, sir, are scaring me.
10% failure on powerdown? lets just hope you don't have to do that too often, and that the ups and generators are REALLY good!
of course you can fit more on the screen, that's the whole point. and yes it's a bit smaller, but on this laptop 1600x1200 is surprisingly comfortable, with the default font size
my laptop has a 15" 1600x1200 (native!) display, you don't need the large screen for better resolutions