i see. i suppose i was misinformed. thanks! i guess that's what i'll be using next time, after reading what i have (just now) about various (non-working) floppy-based methods. knoppix + shred = no more data on your hard drive:)
no, shred overwrites the contents of a file and then removes that file (unlinks).
because/dev/hdX is just a file like any other (though it is a block device), the remove wouldn't work. you certainly could "overwrite"/dev/hdX first with whatever you wanted to fill the drive (which I'm sure shred would do)...
but when it came time to delete the file, you'd be "deleting" your hard drive... which simply isn't possible. at best you'll have deleted the (temporary) block device node. you'll delete the file/dev/hdX, but the hard drive that it points to is obviously still there...
with only one layer of data overwritten on it. so in short, no.
windows XP was a great OS until it trashed my hard drive. seems windows (every version up to and including XP) has issues with large hard drives (partitions/drives over 137 GB)... and i have a lot of data. i've never had a problem with linux in terms of my data being lost... in fact, the operating system has never died on me. go figure.
i run windows 2000 in vmware, now. if it takes down the HD, that's great... it's not a real hard drive.:)
for that matter, anyone not thinking 50 years down the road will lose in the end...
unless the "end" is less than 50 years from now (cash out your stock and/or options and get a condo on the beach, then let the company rot).
the people at the top looking for personal gain can ruin a company, and save themselves. will this happen to microsoft? it will if they continue to short-sightedly look at business models that will soon be very outdated.
The publishers of Linux Today have any freedom they want to publish anything, and advertise anything... but by the same token, we (as consumers) have the right to not use their product if we don't like it. That includes boycotting.
If their readership is 0, they haven't been censored--they're still saying whatever they want to, including with advertising. They just aren't popular anymore. This has nothing at all to do with their freedom to publish, which we as consumers can't affect at all.
If you don't feel they should be boycotted, don't boycott. Those who choose to boycott have as much right to not read the magazine as anyone who happened not to read the magazine in the first place.
I just saw one without java less than 5 hours ago. It was a windows XP desktop machine. The user plays games, uses it for research for work (he does phone tech support for a specialized application), and browses the web -a lot-. He's had this particular installation of Windows XP on the machine for years...
the license changed in XFree86, and it's now too restrictive for most distributions. (i think) slackware's fine with the new license, but since everyone else is switching (and there will be differences between the two in the future), they're switching for compatibility reasons.
this will have almost no impact on the end-user... it might just change the location of a few config files, or at worst, temporarily break compatibility with binary drivers from some manufacturer(s).
Hell yeah! A -real- professional is capable of doing professional graphics in the GIMP. Only sissies who rely on Photoshop's tools, tricks, and techniques think otherwise.
Any image editing that can be done in Photoshop can be done in the GIMP, period. You just might not know how, or it might not be as easy for -you-.
As a side note: who in their right mind needs 16 bits per channel for anything less than -extremely- professional graphics? Does anyone realize that's a 48-bit image in RGB, and a 64-bit image in CMKY? Seriously...
If the only issue is non-packaged software, well then we're definitely "almost there". Practically all the GNU/Linux software I use is packaged... I can't imagine new users having any use for the software I find that isn't (for instance, bleeding edge versions of some programs).
For software that isn't packaged, it's almost as easy. Type "./configure && make && su" followed by "make install; exit" after you type the root password. That's almost as easy as installing the package.
If you want the power and freedom of compiling from source (especially with non-packaged programs, the analogue of which you'd need Microsoft Visual Studio or cygwin to use in Windows), you should accept responsibility. If the easy compilation instructions I gave you don't work, either learn how to compile things, or give up. Personally I recommend giving up... if you can name three programs on Linux that you -need- to compile from source (don't have packages for) that a new user would even want to use, list them... and I'll be glad to admit that everything I just said was wrong.:)
I'll also volunteer to make you an RPM if I can get the source to compile on my system.
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RedHat Enterprise Linux runs on three architectures: x86, Itanium2, and AMD64.
Gentoo runs on x86 and AMD64, as well as alpha, hppa, mips, PPC, and sparc systems.
The only architecture they might be using that Gentoo doesn't support is Itanium2, and I'm fairly sure your average Gentoo developer has -heard- of that.
Why, again, can't a distro like Gentoo or Debian become an Enterprise Linux distro?
Package "foo" has a nice installer for both RPM and APT, and it works over the internet! You don't even have to go to foo's website to download the installer.
For RPM, you just type in "urpmi foo".
For APT, you just type in "apt-get install foo".
That's a lot easier and faster than having to run an installation program that you had to download, then click through a bunch of boxes asking you where you want the files, which options you want installed, whether you want Japanese documentation, and if you don't mind if foo installs Gator and Alexa and the Google toolbar to "make your life easier"...
Wow!!! I think I'm having exactly the same experience as you! By any chance, do you go to the University of Arizona?
I wrote a rant in my livejournal about this issue, and I think it's damn good. Read it here.
This was all prompted by a failed English essay... my mother (a *cough* social worker) simply couldn't understand why, and thought I should talk to the teacher, but my Engineer father immediately thought it ludicrous that I was graded largely on my ideas (*cough* completely subjective). just for the record, my arguments were damn solid, if not the most backed-up in the world.
That's what makes me really appreciate Math and CS. In Math there are actually right and wrong answers... in English, there's the teacher's opinion, and yours.
People can sue Debian? I wasn't aware of that... I assumed they had a clause in their usage agreement (that you agree to -by using it- of course, as is with most software) that said they aren't liable for whatever they distribute. I can't remember which distribution it was, and I seem to recall it might have been Slackware (this was years ago), but it said when you logged in as the MOTD by default "Welcome to XYZ Linux. This software is distributed with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY". The emphasis in the form of caps is not mine, it was actually there.
Indemnification is standard practice in freely-distributed software. However, I don't see it as "passing the buck" because Debian is not any more suable (if that's a word) than Sun in this case, IIRC.
If your main source of caffeine is soda, then you really haven't dealt with serious caffeine withdrawal unless you were drinking a few litres a day. I was up to almost a gram a day at my worst last year... just for reference, soda is generally 35-45 mg per serving (55 for mt. dew). So that's maybe 20 servings of soda, assuming a good mix of mt. dew and coke products.
I of course used much more potent forms of caffeine... coffee, tea in large quantities, and of course candies, gums, mints (TONS of penguin mints... I bought them by the case every month or so), and I even showered with caffeinated soap from thinkgeek...
Yeah, we are... there really isn't any difference between the meat in any "animal" and human meat. Humans are animals as well.
Humans (of course!) can't digest human meat... not because it's not meat, but because it's cannibalism. Our stomachs can't process our own meat. However, other species of animal can eat human just fine, like we eat them. Shouldn't they?
Quite frankly those humans eating other species of animal without regard for the ethical considerations are just as bad as a pack of wolves killing and eating a man.
Somebody mod this up. It's the most insightful thing I've read on Slashdot... nay, the entire internet... in a very long time.
I'm a recently-on-my-own "new Adult". I'm 19, and I'm a freshman in college. My parents were of the more relaxed "he can make his own mistakes" variety, and I'm incredibly thankful for it. If you don't let them -learn- maturity, they'll never have it. Then they'll be 19 and a freshman in college... and they won't know why it's bad to drink in excess 4 or 5 days a week. Trust me, I see it all around me. Adults acting like children.
How exactly was Rodney Peairs acquitted? The article doesn't even begin to address that (or the utter immorality of it IMHO), and focuses instead on an entirely non-sequitur issue.
As far as I can tell, the issue of that case is -not- gun control. The issue is that a white American killed a Japanese man and got away with it.
Actually... Apple Records is the record company that the Beatles started. Remember that whole green-apple-looking thing associated with the Beatles? Yeah, that's their record company. I think they were the only very famous band it ever released. I think they signed at least one other British Invasion band, but I can't remember who.
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i see. i suppose i was misinformed. thanks! i guess that's what i'll be using next time, after reading what i have (just now) about various (non-working) floppy-based methods. knoppix + shred = no more data on your hard drive :)
no, shred overwrites the contents of a file and then removes that file (unlinks).
/dev/hdX is just a file like any other (though it is a block device), the remove wouldn't work. you certainly could "overwrite" /dev/hdX first with whatever you wanted to fill the drive (which I'm sure shred would do)...
/dev/hdX, but the hard drive that it points to is obviously still there...
because
but when it came time to delete the file, you'd be "deleting" your hard drive... which simply isn't possible. at best you'll have deleted the (temporary) block device node. you'll delete the file
with only one layer of data overwritten on it. so in short, no.
windows XP was a great OS until it trashed my hard drive. seems windows (every version up to and including XP) has issues with large hard drives (partitions/drives over 137 GB)... and i have a lot of data. i've never had a problem with linux in terms of my data being lost... in fact, the operating system has never died on me. go figure.
:)
i run windows 2000 in vmware, now. if it takes down the HD, that's great... it's not a real hard drive.
for that matter, anyone not thinking 50 years down the road will lose in the end...
unless the "end" is less than 50 years from now (cash out your stock and/or options and get a condo on the beach, then let the company rot).
the people at the top looking for personal gain can ruin a company, and save themselves. will this happen to microsoft? it will if they continue to short-sightedly look at business models that will soon be very outdated.
The publishers of Linux Today have any freedom they want to publish anything, and advertise anything... but by the same token, we (as consumers) have the right to not use their product if we don't like it. That includes boycotting.
If their readership is 0, they haven't been censored--they're still saying whatever they want to, including with advertising. They just aren't popular anymore. This has nothing at all to do with their freedom to publish, which we as consumers can't affect at all.
If you don't feel they should be boycotted, don't boycott. Those who choose to boycott have as much right to not read the magazine as anyone who happened not to read the magazine in the first place.
I just saw one without java less than 5 hours ago. It was a windows XP desktop machine. The user plays games, uses it for research for work (he does phone tech support for a specialized application), and browses the web -a lot-. He's had this particular installation of Windows XP on the machine for years...
and he has NEVER had java.
you might want to ask microsoft about that.
the license changed in XFree86, and it's now too restrictive for most distributions. (i think) slackware's fine with the new license, but since everyone else is switching (and there will be differences between the two in the future), they're switching for compatibility reasons.
this will have almost no impact on the end-user... it might just change the location of a few config files, or at worst, temporarily break compatibility with binary drivers from some manufacturer(s).
He's being paid to publicly bend the truth to the very border of deceit. If that doesn't make him a "greedy bastard", I don't know what does.
No, more like people should only be investigated after some crime has been committed.
http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/modules.php?op=mo dload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=viewdownload&c id=2
Nevermind. there's a statically linked binary there. Download it and run it... no compiling necessary.
Want an RPM of that package if I can get it to compile? I'll post the compiled source here as well...
Hell yeah! A -real- professional is capable of doing professional graphics in the GIMP. Only sissies who rely on Photoshop's tools, tricks, and techniques think otherwise.
Any image editing that can be done in Photoshop can be done in the GIMP, period. You just might not know how, or it might not be as easy for -you-.
As a side note: who in their right mind needs 16 bits per channel for anything less than -extremely- professional graphics? Does anyone realize that's a 48-bit image in RGB, and a 64-bit image in CMKY? Seriously...
If the only issue is non-packaged software, well then we're definitely "almost there". Practically all the GNU/Linux software I use is packaged... I can't imagine new users having any use for the software I find that isn't (for instance, bleeding edge versions of some programs).
:)
For software that isn't packaged, it's almost as easy. Type "./configure && make && su" followed by "make install; exit" after you type the root password. That's almost as easy as installing the package.
If you want the power and freedom of compiling from source (especially with non-packaged programs, the analogue of which you'd need Microsoft Visual Studio or cygwin to use in Windows), you should accept responsibility. If the easy compilation instructions I gave you don't work, either learn how to compile things, or give up. Personally I recommend giving up... if you can name three programs on Linux that you -need- to compile from source (don't have packages for) that a new user would even want to use, list them... and I'll be glad to admit that everything I just said was wrong.
I'll also volunteer to make you an RPM if I can get the source to compile on my system.
RedHat Enterprise Linux runs on three architectures: x86, Itanium2, and AMD64.
Gentoo runs on x86 and AMD64, as well as alpha, hppa, mips, PPC, and sparc systems.
The only architecture they might be using that Gentoo doesn't support is Itanium2, and I'm fairly sure your average Gentoo developer has -heard- of that.
Why, again, can't a distro like Gentoo or Debian become an Enterprise Linux distro?
Package "foo" has a nice installer for both RPM and APT, and it works over the internet! You don't even have to go to foo's website to download the installer.
For RPM, you just type in "urpmi foo".
For APT, you just type in "apt-get install foo".
That's a lot easier and faster than having to run an installation program that you had to download, then click through a bunch of boxes asking you where you want the files, which options you want installed, whether you want Japanese documentation, and if you don't mind if foo installs Gator and Alexa and the Google toolbar to "make your life easier"...
Wow!!! I think I'm having exactly the same experience as you! By any chance, do you go to the University of Arizona?
I wrote a rant in my livejournal about this issue, and I think it's damn good. Read it here.
This was all prompted by a failed English essay... my mother (a *cough* social worker) simply couldn't understand why, and thought I should talk to the teacher, but my Engineer father immediately thought it ludicrous that I was graded largely on my ideas (*cough* completely subjective). just for the record, my arguments were damn solid, if not the most backed-up in the world.
That's what makes me really appreciate Math and CS. In Math there are actually right and wrong answers... in English, there's the teacher's opinion, and yours.
People can sue Debian? I wasn't aware of that... I assumed they had a clause in their usage agreement (that you agree to -by using it- of course, as is with most software) that said they aren't liable for whatever they distribute. I can't remember which distribution it was, and I seem to recall it might have been Slackware (this was years ago), but it said when you logged in as the MOTD by default "Welcome to XYZ Linux. This software is distributed with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY". The emphasis in the form of caps is not mine, it was actually there.
Indemnification is standard practice in freely-distributed software. However, I don't see it as "passing the buck" because Debian is not any more suable (if that's a word) than Sun in this case, IIRC.
Have you tried Fedora Core 1?
If your main source of caffeine is soda, then you really haven't dealt with serious caffeine withdrawal unless you were drinking a few litres a day. I was up to almost a gram a day at my worst last year... just for reference, soda is generally 35-45 mg per serving (55 for mt. dew). So that's maybe 20 servings of soda, assuming a good mix of mt. dew and coke products.
I of course used much more potent forms of caffeine... coffee, tea in large quantities, and of course candies, gums, mints (TONS of penguin mints... I bought them by the case every month or so), and I even showered with caffeinated soap from thinkgeek...
Yeah, we are... there really isn't any difference between the meat in any "animal" and human meat. Humans are animals as well.
Humans (of course!) can't digest human meat... not because it's not meat, but because it's cannibalism. Our stomachs can't process our own meat. However, other species of animal can eat human just fine, like we eat them. Shouldn't they?
Quite frankly those humans eating other species of animal without regard for the ethical considerations are just as bad as a pack of wolves killing and eating a man.
Somebody mod this up. It's the most insightful thing I've read on Slashdot... nay, the entire internet... in a very long time.
I'm a recently-on-my-own "new Adult". I'm 19, and I'm a freshman in college. My parents were of the more relaxed "he can make his own mistakes" variety, and I'm incredibly thankful for it. If you don't let them -learn- maturity, they'll never have it. Then they'll be 19 and a freshman in college... and they won't know why it's bad to drink in excess 4 or 5 days a week. Trust me, I see it all around me. Adults acting like children.
I read that article. It made me sick.
How exactly was Rodney Peairs acquitted? The article doesn't even begin to address that (or the utter immorality of it IMHO), and focuses instead on an entirely non-sequitur issue.
As far as I can tell, the issue of that case is -not- gun control. The issue is that a white American killed a Japanese man and got away with it.
I thought the MPAA -was- a terrorist outfit.
Actually... Apple Records is the record company that the Beatles started. Remember that whole green-apple-looking thing associated with the Beatles? Yeah, that's their record company. I think they were the only very famous band it ever released. I think they signed at least one other British Invasion band, but I can't remember who.
I wonder if anyone else realized this.
OMG, LOL, I just realized my sig is a Styx quote. ROTFL. Thanks, you just made my day through my own stupidity. ;)