I never said I am. I am just saying that Dells are not the cream of stability when it comes to machines.
Besides, you would not have me hunt these machines down. You would have one of your engineers pick a set of configurations that suits your users, and then he, in 2-3 days time can select decent components, which a place like monarchcomputer would put together.
If the stability does indeed significantly improve, then you would save money by having people not waiting for reboots, which can be a lot. (I had a real crap of a Dell laptop over the summer to work on. Crashed 5-10 times a day).
I think I had a few more things to say, but I NEED SLEEP...and so will not continue thinking further.
I am (part-time) internal developer, a.k.a sysadmin's worst nightmare. I can tell you that the dell systems I work wiht have almost as many incompatibilities as any of the machines that I have built. Plug in a USB key, and they freeze. Update an SDK, and they freeze. Not often, but just as often as my own machines.
Incompatabilities exist, and they do not go away. The only thing one can do is to do research to minimize them. Dell does it for you -- great -- you do not spend your own people doing this. On my own machine, I will do my own research and not buy Dell.
If you are directly connected to the net, then this is a standalone machine, and does not need to have any sockets open, except that which is supposed to be used on the net. Turn off unnecessary services, or switch them to local mode only. AFAIK, there are no vulnerabilities for closed ports.
If you have a LAN, then there is something that separates the LAN from the internet. This should not be your desktop machine.
If you have two machines separately on the net, then you should use ssh tunnels between them. That is more secure than firewalls anyway.
Outgoing connections? May I ask why are you running spyware?
Filtering ICMP? Why would you want to break network standards again. It is because of you the net is a pain to use. I like getting messages that my connection failed instead of waiting for 60 seconds.
People firewall for a simple reason: to have open services inside the network, and not outside. At this point you should be capable enough to either do it yourself, or have a complete solution (although NAT is not a firewall, it behaves as one)
As far as I am concerned there should be no need to run any firewalls on the desktop. In fact it is a sign of poor management, or a patch to a bigger problem (not trusting your own computer).
More realistically, they should ask for the budget of the debate. With this they can simply run their own debate (possibly through paying off media for airtime).
That is what the propaganda is for. Even lemmings can be taught to repeat things. We must teach them to repeat the right things.
I think we are getting close to that effect with Firefox, and look at taking off. However, the problems with lemmings is that they can not change what they are told. I have seen some completely deny that firefox has vulnerabilities. Makes me a bit worried.
That's because free software is still catching up in a few areas: luser-friendliness, market share and commerical games.
Free software is never going to completely catch up in the arena of commercial games. Some games simply have no replay value. They are more like a joke. Even if it is free, it is just not as funny a second time. People will not improve something in which they will lose interest.
However, we could catch up in something like FPS, but that requires significant R&D, and since few companies would want to do paid support for games, people like ID will have a great advantage.
Other things such as puzzles we have already perfected, but it does not mean that OSS version is the best. A simple, original, fun new presentation of the same game will become more popular. (see PuzzlePirates)
I specifically went through the list to find if anything like your post is posted. If not I would have posted it myself. Good job, I wonder why more people are not realizing this.
Just to add to your comment, OSS does more than just innovate by ourselves. By being the cheapest competitor, one that is impossible to undercut, and one that will eventually be better, we "encourage" software companies to better themselves. If they fail to do so, they will lose, until yet another company appears and sparks some innovation.
This encroachment is and should be limited by patents, so that the companies that do the innovation will not be instantly destroyed by the part of OSS that is a copycat.
That said I will also mention that where the software patents (and some general patents) are going is absolutely insane. Government granted unlimited time monopolies with practicaly no oversight is a horrible idea.
There is sense in the madness. But not all the madness makes sense.
Besides, that is not the worst they do. I have seen a 5 year old being asked if he is carrying any drugs, weapons, and illicit materials. And the child responded: "What are drugs?"
Want to make life miserable for somebody, just answer: "No, I do not have any drugs, but that guy in a blue shirt does." Then you can watch as they will proceed to do a "random" inspection of that guy. Although this will probably cause you to have a random inspection as well.
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There is sense in the madness.
If you answer No, when the answer is Yes, you are guilty of perjury, and may be arrested/deported on that charge.
Simply having some communicable desease or being a drug addict is not enough for a deportation, since by themselves these things are not against the law. Perjury gives government greater leverage in these situations, for good or bad.
You are right. I have used OSX for a total of about 5-10 hours. And none of the applications that I have used did any of this.
Perhaps, this is because I was using the original version of X then, and they have added the features since then, or because I have not encountered them.
Also, I should have specifically mentioned icon updates, as that does not fit the abilities of real swallowed applications. However someone mentioned quicktime playing on the dock. That is a definite counterexample.
So, I will claim that I was wrong, and will stand corrected. Funny that quicktime did not do that for me about 2 years ago. (I did minimize it, and all I got was an icon.) Minimized terminals would not refresh the dock icon, etc.
As for you complaining about the insightful modding. Perhaps it is the part about the no desktop has all the features of the other that is the insightful part.
Now, if the modding was "informative" I would start to take offense myself. I would not mind being modded a troll either, as this is going out of proportion for having a bogus example.
I am quite interested in the quicktime one. How long has that been around, and how is that implemented. Is it actually a swallowed app? If yes I stand corrected.
Others -- well they prbobably are exactly what windows has (minus the WMP thing), just a bunch of updated icons -- not swallowed applications.
Nice for them to actually expose this as a standard interface. It used to be a hack used by what I remember as WMP, but it may have been a plugin for winamp.
That would not be possible for a while. OSX uses an exported menu system, where the application hands the menu off to the window manager to handle. X does not do that; each application renders its own menu.
Personally I am all for WM managed menus and toolbars, but standardizing the interface would be a pain. This is the reason why menus in Windows can be a lot richer than those in OSX. I have seen widgets stuck in the menus. Simple example: Firefox can have all its commands in the single menu bar. If it were managed by WM, that would be hard to do.
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I never said I am. I am just saying that Dells are not the cream of stability when it comes to machines.
Besides, you would not have me hunt these machines down. You would have one of your engineers pick a set of configurations that suits your users, and then he, in 2-3 days time can select decent components, which a place like monarchcomputer would put together.
If the stability does indeed significantly improve, then you would save money by having people not waiting for reboots, which can be a lot. (I had a real crap of a Dell laptop over the summer to work on. Crashed 5-10 times a day).
I think I had a few more things to say, but I NEED SLEEP...and so will not continue thinking further.
I am (part-time) internal developer, a.k.a sysadmin's worst nightmare. I can tell you that the dell systems I work wiht have almost as many incompatibilities as any of the machines that I have built. Plug in a USB key, and they freeze. Update an SDK, and they freeze. Not often, but just as often as my own machines.
Incompatabilities exist, and they do not go away. The only thing one can do is to do research to minimize them. Dell does it for you -- great -- you do not spend your own people doing this. On my own machine, I will do my own research and not buy Dell.
As long as it is not Mike Rowe Soft.
I wanted a PPC system. But where do you get the motherboard? That is not apple, and in the under $300 level.
/went with socket 939 AMD64 3500+
I think you posted to the wrong website. You should be posting here.
Here, on slashdot we like news for nerds, without any hilarity ensuing. Thanks.
Why run a firewall at all?
If you are directly connected to the net, then this is a standalone machine, and does not need to have any sockets open, except that which is supposed to be used on the net. Turn off unnecessary services, or switch them to local mode only. AFAIK, there are no vulnerabilities for closed ports.
If you have a LAN, then there is something that separates the LAN from the internet. This should not be your desktop machine.
If you have two machines separately on the net, then you should use ssh tunnels between them. That is more secure than firewalls anyway.
Outgoing connections? May I ask why are you running spyware?
Filtering ICMP? Why would you want to break network standards again. It is because of you the net is a pain to use. I like getting messages that my connection failed instead of waiting for 60 seconds.
People firewall for a simple reason: to have open services inside the network, and not outside. At this point you should be capable enough to either do it yourself, or have a complete solution (although NAT is not a firewall, it behaves as one)
As far as I am concerned there should be no need to run any firewalls on the desktop. In fact it is a sign of poor management, or a patch to a bigger problem (not trusting your own computer).
Is there something I am missing?
Replace any pointer dereference with a code that checks it first.
Pay some penalty in speed, but complete overflow protection. Maybe that is why windows has slowed down so much....
More realistically, they should ask for the budget of the debate. With this they can simply run their own debate (possibly through paying off media for airtime).
Except that would be covered by fair use. Since the contract was broken by them, you never agreed to waive that right.
Are you getting paid per megabyte?
That is what the propaganda is for. Even lemmings can be taught to repeat things. We must teach them to repeat the right things.
I think we are getting close to that effect with Firefox, and look at taking off. However, the problems with lemmings is that they can not change what they are told. I have seen some completely deny that firefox has vulnerabilities. Makes me a bit worried.
That's because free software is still catching up in a few areas: luser-friendliness, market share and commerical games.
Free software is never going to completely catch up in the arena of commercial games. Some games simply have no replay value. They are more like a joke. Even if it is free, it is just not as funny a second time. People will not improve something in which they will lose interest.
However, we could catch up in something like FPS, but that requires significant R&D, and since few companies would want to do paid support for games, people like ID will have a great advantage.
Other things such as puzzles we have already perfected, but it does not mean that OSS version is the best. A simple, original, fun new presentation of the same game will become more popular. (see PuzzlePirates)
I specifically went through the list to find if anything like your post is posted. If not I would have posted it myself. Good job, I wonder why more people are not realizing this.
Just to add to your comment, OSS does more than just innovate by ourselves. By being the cheapest competitor, one that is impossible to undercut, and one that will eventually be better, we "encourage" software companies to better themselves. If they fail to do so, they will lose, until yet another company appears and sparks some innovation.
This encroachment is and should be limited by patents, so that the companies that do the innovation will not be instantly destroyed by the part of OSS that is a copycat.
That said I will also mention that where the software patents (and some general patents) are going is absolutely insane. Government granted unlimited time monopolies with practicaly no oversight is a horrible idea.
There is sense in the madness. But not all the madness makes sense.
Besides, that is not the worst they do. I have seen a 5 year old being asked if he is carrying any drugs, weapons, and illicit materials.
And the child responded: "What are drugs?"
Want to make life miserable for somebody, just answer: "No, I do not have any drugs, but that guy in a blue shirt does." Then you can watch as they will proceed to do a "random" inspection of that guy. Although this will probably cause you to have a random inspection as well.
There is sense in the madness.
If you answer No, when the answer is Yes, you are guilty of perjury, and may be arrested/deported on that charge.
Simply having some communicable desease or being a drug addict is not enough for a deportation, since by themselves these things are not against the law. Perjury gives government greater leverage in these situations, for good or bad.
This is very similar to Slashdot premium users, who have a better chance at a fp.
(e years full coverage)
Sweet. Irrational term of warranty. But then again, no one will ever be annoyed that something failed in the last possible moment.
However, e years is not the best warranty, as I am certain I have seen 3 years at least.
They used to have a resource meter. That kinda counted....
It had 4 icons to show you how many HWND outlook managed to leak.
Does that count?
On a more serious note: Has anyone tried swallowing gkrellm. I wonder if it is possible to stick it into the toolbars.
note that my example is full of crap, since WMP and OSX now have the features.
Please mod on the final conclusions:
Maybe it is because no application is truly superior in everything.
Others...please post a better example. My hands are getting tired trying to stop a flamewar.
Thanks.
You are right. I have used OSX for a total of about 5-10 hours. And none of the applications that I have used did any of this.
Perhaps, this is because I was using the original version of X then, and they have added the features since then, or because I have not encountered them.
Also, I should have specifically mentioned icon updates, as that does not fit the abilities of real swallowed applications. However someone mentioned quicktime playing on the dock. That is a definite counterexample.
So, I will claim that I was wrong, and will stand corrected. Funny that quicktime did not do that for me about 2 years ago. (I did minimize it, and all I got was an icon.) Minimized terminals would not refresh the dock icon, etc.
As for you complaining about the insightful modding. Perhaps it is the part about the no desktop has all the features of the other that is the insightful part.
Now, if the modding was "informative" I would start to take offense myself. I would not mind being modded a troll either, as this is going out of proportion for having a bogus example.
Yep, and it needs to be standardized.
I am quite interested in the quicktime one. How long has that been around, and how is that implemented. Is it actually a swallowed app? If yes I stand corrected.
Others -- well they prbobably are exactly what windows has (minus the WMP thing), just a bunch of updated icons -- not swallowed applications.
Nice for them to actually expose this as a standard interface. It used to be a hack used by what I remember as WMP, but it may have been a plugin for winamp.
Good for them....
Hmm. Gentoo seems to have introduced those legal uncertainties, as they add the feature back in in their default install.
Perhaps I should just keep my mouth shut...
(how much is that license, anyway?)
That would not be possible for a while. OSX uses an exported menu system, where the application hands the menu off to the window manager to handle. X does not do that; each application renders its own menu.
Personally I am all for WM managed menus and toolbars, but standardizing the interface would be a pain. This is the reason why menus in Windows can be a lot richer than those in OSX. I have seen widgets stuck in the menus. Simple example: Firefox can have all its commands in the single menu bar. If it were managed by WM, that would be hard to do.