(NSFW - If your Boss has a fetish for watching consumer electronics getting busy!)
On a serious note - why would anyone with an iPod want porn on it? Just looking at the sleek, curvy lines of an iPod Nano seems to give most Nano owners an erection as it is....
A bullet-proof OS that NEVER gets viruses, spyware, etc. We could only dream that Microsoft would follow that lead!
Linux is no more resistant to spyware than Windows, and viruses are only significantly different in a multiuser context (which isn't what most desktop installs are). Calling it bulletproof is entirely untrue.
You're correct that calling Linux bulletproof is untrue - however Linux is far more resistant to spyware and viruses then Windows - as desktop PCs are multiuser (I guess you don't have kids or work in a large corporation).
A friend of mine uses Linux for precisesly this reason - his kids can hose their account - but his data will be safe.
I look forward to the day when we can say with some confidence that Linux is nearly completely Windows compatible.
heh - how many qualifications can you have in one sentence?
Seriously - thanks to the codeweavers guys (for contributing to wine) and especially to the wine/winelib projects for offering an upgrade path that doesn't mean cutting windows from your system in one step.
Why do you Mac shills have to tout a Mac product for every slashdot story not matter how tangentally related?
The Mini-ITX is vastly more flexible then a Mac mini - and hence targets a different market.
Want to run a Mac Mini off DC? Sure, buy an inverter and hope to god it doesn't max out its 240W PSU.
Want to run a mini-ITX off DC? Sure! No problem, buy a carkit and away you go. 60W. No inverter needed. Power consumption more controllable.
I'm not saying the mac-minis are worse then a mini-itx (they're great for their target market - and I reccommend them to anyone wanting a basic, hassle-free internet/music machine), but they are targetting a different market to mini-itx.
Here's a pic of the case I have at home btw (and am writing this post on)
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You are of course perfectly free to make sonamchauhanoffice, incorporating code from openoffice.org and linkgrammar.
However, because Sun bases its proprietary StarOffice on openoffice, code where the copyright can't be assigned to sun for relicensing is unlikely to make it into their repository.
You're right, the world doesn't remember fabulously successful and rich people.
For example, I have no idea who Louis the XIV or King Solomon were
Not that I particularly disagree with you - but the Louis 14th was remembered mostly for expanding French territory and Solomon mostly for his wisdom and building the Temple of Jerusalem.
Both were undoubtedly wealthy - but are remembered primarily for things other then wealth.
2) Anti-malware software needs to operate at higher level of privilege than the malware to avoid malware countermeasures. If the anti-virus is just another application, even if its at the admin level, its going to be vulnerable to being turned off by malware that explicitly tries to avoid detection and removal.
Why do you have to be the operating system vendor to do this?
substantially lower price just so people experienced the GUI?
I think you overestimate the importance of a GUI to businesses at the time.
Many tasks could be accomplished far easier without a GUI - text and number processing comes to mind (the mainstays of business desktop work)
GUIs have advanced tremendously since then - to the stage where a GUI/mouse combo does actually enhance productivity with word processing/spreadsheet applications - but there are still many areas where a GUI (particularly coupled with a mouse) will decrease productivity (think Point of Sale particularly)
just procuring enough to probably use for threat assessment of biological weapon dispersion.
I found this a little hard to believe - surely something more...inert then anthrax would be better to test dispersal with? Even if this particular strain is not harmful to humans, I can't imagine the USA wants to threaten its own cattle economy?
It's not going to be used for weaponry, and the US has enough nuclear firepower to not need biological weaponry, which are much more unpredictable in effect, and less reliable.
Comparing nuclear and biological weapons is like comparing a hammer and a shovel. They have completely different uses.
I have little doubt that all the major world powers have clandestine biological weapons programs. The US amongst them.
Hmmmmn, rereading my post - I realize it needs a little clarification.
Howard Stringer is the CEO of Sony. He stepped into this post recently. The 10k job cut is the first significant move Sony has made under his stewardship.
His successful background is in selling copyright, the fact the Sony has put him in charge has made it clear that Sony entertainment has won the turf war with Sony electronics.
Coupled with the cuts (that have hit robotics research and high end product development) we can expect Dell-like from Sony electronics and the same old crap from Sony Entertainment.
That Sony electronics will have greater control over their products?
I doubt it - Stringer was (and still is) head of Sony US. Most Sony US profits came from content licensing - not eletronics.
Before Sony, he was president of CBS Broadcast Group (who make content and not electronics)
PBS has an interesting interview with Stringer, where his philosophies are pretty much stated:
If you take general copyright-based products, the United States pretty much dominates the world. It's the fastest growing aspect of our GDP, about 5 percent of the GDP, about $80 billion of overseas sales in simple copyright-based entertainment of one kind or another
I think its pretty obvious where this guy is coming from and what Sony are expecting from him.
We can expect worse from Sony in the future. Not better.
When Steve Ballmer yelled at a departing Microsoft employee that he would "kill Google" we had no idea just how direct a method he had in mind. Buying all or part of AOL may be the first part of the master plan, as Google relies heavily on the advertising pages that come from Yahoo, since it now syndicates its search to Google.
Copied verbatim from the first paragraph of the linked article.
The question is, will it automatically put in a selection of songs when i connect it to my PC?
I have never used itunes (I run linux and use gtkpod or rhythmbox for my ipod managment needs), but this sounds a little dangerous.
What if I just went to a friends house and he gave me mp3s of his latest recordings, when I get home, will itunes overwrite these automatically?
As far as i am concerned, the iTunes software is one of the key reasons Apple have done so well.
Again, I don't use itunes, so I may not be right - but I understood that itunes could be used with any mp3 player? The fact that it works as a standalone music player suggests you can.
You are incorrect in what I think is your major point:Source of the problem is OSS.
Nope. A comprimised server could be used to distribute a hacked IE.
I was going to make fun of your post - but upon further reading, you're obviously not a native English speaker (and can speak English far better then I can Danish)
Pledges to conform to the requirements of Version 3 are Red Hat, Novell's Suse Linux, Asianux and Debian.
Four down, only 458 to go.
I think you are well aware Mr Monkey, that if Debian, Suse and Red Hat commit, the rest will follow (for instance Ubuntu will pick it up naturally next time they snapshot debian unstable).
On a different note, when I last subsribed to the debian lists (some time ago now), I remember a bit of a flame war over an earlier incarnation of LSB.
Basically - the argument was over whether the Debian GNU/hurd and Debian GNU/*bsd projects should follow the Linux standard base or just Debian GNU/linux.
Funny? Yes. True? No - you see its not exactly a mozilla problem.
Whilst searching for more information about this, I stumbled across this pagelast time these servers were hacked in June).
Choice quote:
Unlike Mozilla Europe, Mozilla Japan and Mozilla China, the Korean Mozilla site is not officially affiliated with the Mozilla Foundation.
So, its not mozilla.org (the article states "on public servers. Mozilla.org is the latest example")
Its someone who's taken the mozilla source and made their own binaries. A problem yes, a serious problem even, but not to the scale that Kaspersky Labs would have us believe.
Who would have thought it? A security company overhyping an issue!
I'm not sure why they bother. Do they really think stories like this are going to make linux users go and buy their security 'solution'?
feel Office 2003 is just fine, and have no plans whatsoever for Office 12. Other offices I've seen have standardized on Offive XP, or even Office 2000, and steadfastly refuse to upgrade.
Indeed. I used to work for an extremely large company in Australia - they are still standardised on Office 97 on Windows NT.
They see no business motive to change - and frankly, I think they're taking the right approach. If they wait long enough, they will be able to "jump sideways" as it were to a completely open solution, with no loss in functionality and vastly improved management.
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to say... "yeah right".
Ipod porn actually prceeds the video ipod!
Here's some ipod porn
(NSFW - If your Boss has a fetish for watching consumer electronics getting busy!)
On a serious note - why would anyone with an iPod want porn on it? Just looking at the sleek, curvy lines of an iPod Nano seems to give most Nano owners an erection as it is....
A bullet-proof OS that NEVER gets viruses, spyware, etc. We could only dream that Microsoft would follow that lead!
You're correct that calling Linux bulletproof is untrue - however Linux is far more resistant to spyware and viruses then Windows - as desktop PCs are multiuser (I guess you don't have kids or work in a large corporation).
A friend of mine uses Linux for precisesly this reason - his kids can hose their account - but his data will be safe.
From the linked article:
heh - how many qualifications can you have in one sentence?
Seriously - thanks to the codeweavers guys (for contributing to wine) and especially to the wine/winelib projects for offering an upgrade path that doesn't mean cutting windows from your system in one step.
advanced SQL standard-compliant features such as stored procedures, triggers, views & new pluggable storage engines.
All we need now is random crashes and the MS apologists will have nothing to complain about!
Good God.
Why do you Mac shills have to tout a Mac product for every slashdot story not matter how tangentally related?
The Mini-ITX is vastly more flexible then a Mac mini - and hence targets a different market.
Want to run a Mac Mini off DC? Sure, buy an inverter and hope to god it doesn't max out its 240W PSU.
Want to run a mini-ITX off DC? Sure! No problem, buy a carkit and away you go. 60W. No inverter needed. Power consumption more controllable.
I'm not saying the mac-minis are worse then a mini-itx (they're great for their target market - and I reccommend them to anyone wanting a basic, hassle-free internet/music machine), but they are targetting a different market to mini-itx.
Here's a pic of the case I have at home btw (and am writing this post on)
Indeed.
Pics of yesterday's event here, here and here
No programming, no modularity, no general problem solving, less space then an ipod. Lame.
How does Sun's license affect using LinkGrammer?
You are of course perfectly free to make sonamchauhanoffice, incorporating code from openoffice.org and linkgrammar.
However, because Sun bases its proprietary StarOffice on openoffice, code where the copyright can't be assigned to sun for relicensing is unlikely to make it into their repository.
You're right, the world doesn't remember fabulously successful and rich people.
For example, I have no idea who Louis the XIV or King Solomon were
Not that I particularly disagree with you - but the Louis 14th was remembered mostly for expanding French territory and Solomon mostly for his wisdom and building the Temple of Jerusalem.
Both were undoubtedly wealthy - but are remembered primarily for things other then wealth.
You mean it comes with vim included?
Great!
Its a review of a preview.
How dissapointing.
I expect it will be as slow and irritating to use as Outlook Web Access. (webmail plugin for exchange)
As much as I dislike MS, I can see four arguments that antivirus is an OS function.
;-)
I see that you have thought of a fourth reason since you last posted this comment
Glad to see you still dislike MS
2) Anti-malware software needs to operate at higher level of privilege than the malware to avoid malware countermeasures. If the anti-virus is just another application, even if its at the admin level, its going to be vulnerable to being turned off by malware that explicitly tries to avoid detection and removal.
Why do you have to be the operating system vendor to do this?
Meh. A damn lot of the POS terminals I see these days have buttons -- often touchscreen buttons -- and are GUI based.
True - but touchscreens (along with mice and all other pointing devices I've used) are a RSI disaster.
Also - even though they are initally easier, GUIs tend to make repetetive tasks more complicated - they are unsuitable for most POS applications.
A GUI doesn't have to be a windowing interface with a mouse, you know.
Indeed - and a text based interface can have alot of graphics - as long as it is text (keyboard, not pointer) input driven.
substantially lower price just so people experienced the GUI?
I think you overestimate the importance of a GUI to businesses at the time.
Many tasks could be accomplished far easier without a GUI - text and number processing comes to mind (the mainstays of business desktop work)
GUIs have advanced tremendously since then - to the stage where a GUI/mouse combo does actually enhance productivity with word processing/spreadsheet applications - but there are still many areas where a GUI (particularly coupled with a mouse) will decrease productivity (think Point of Sale particularly)
just procuring enough to probably use for threat assessment of biological weapon dispersion.
I found this a little hard to believe - surely something more...inert then anthrax would be better to test dispersal with? Even if this particular strain is not harmful to humans, I can't imagine the USA wants to threaten its own cattle economy?
It's not going to be used for weaponry, and the US has enough nuclear firepower to not need biological weaponry, which are much more unpredictable in effect, and less reliable.
Comparing nuclear and biological weapons is like comparing a hammer and a shovel. They have completely different uses.
I have little doubt that all the major world powers have clandestine biological weapons programs. The US amongst them.
After all - the army lost a lot of anthrax four years ago.
Gotta replace it - never know when it'll come in handy!
Hmmmmn, rereading my post - I realize it needs a little clarification.
Howard Stringer is the CEO of Sony. He stepped into this post recently. The 10k job cut is the first significant move Sony has made under his stewardship.
His successful background is in selling copyright, the fact the Sony has put him in charge has made it clear that Sony entertainment has won the turf war with Sony electronics.
Coupled with the cuts (that have hit robotics research and high end product development) we can expect Dell-like from Sony electronics and the same old crap from Sony Entertainment.
Such a pity.
Apologies for two posts.
I doubt it - Stringer was (and still is) head of Sony US. Most Sony US profits came from content licensing - not eletronics.
Before Sony, he was president of CBS Broadcast Group (who make content and not electronics)
PBS has an interesting interview with Stringer, where his philosophies are pretty much stated:
I think its pretty obvious where this guy is coming from and what Sony are expecting from him.
We can expect worse from Sony in the future. Not better.
When Steve Ballmer yelled at a departing Microsoft employee that he would "kill Google" we had no idea just how direct a method he had in mind. Buying all or part of AOL may be the first part of the master plan, as Google relies heavily on the advertising pages that come from Yahoo, since it now syndicates its search to Google.
Copied verbatim from the first paragraph of the linked article.
Just a little originality would be nice...
The question is, will it automatically put in a selection of songs when i connect it to my PC?
I have never used itunes (I run linux and use gtkpod or rhythmbox for my ipod managment needs), but this sounds a little dangerous.
What if I just went to a friends house and he gave me mp3s of his latest recordings, when I get home, will itunes overwrite these automatically?
As far as i am concerned, the iTunes software is one of the key reasons Apple have done so well.
Again, I don't use itunes, so I may not be right - but I understood that itunes could be used with any mp3 player? The fact that it works as a standalone music player suggests you can.
GP: that if Debian, Suse and Red Hat....
P: RTFA. Debian is not in.
You may find this link interesting:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=if
You are incorrect in what I think is your major point:Source of the problem is OSS.
Nope. A comprimised server could be used to distribute a hacked IE.
I was going to make fun of your post - but upon further reading, you're obviously not a native English speaker (and can speak English far better then I can Danish)
I think you are well aware Mr Monkey, that if Debian, Suse and Red Hat commit, the rest will follow (for instance Ubuntu will pick it up naturally next time they snapshot debian unstable).
On a different note, when I last subsribed to the debian lists (some time ago now), I remember a bit of a flame war over an earlier incarnation of LSB.
Basically - the argument was over whether the Debian GNU/hurd and Debian GNU/*bsd projects should follow the Linux standard base or just Debian GNU/linux.
Here's a good (mid thread) post about it.
Does anyone know if Debian GNU/hurd and Debian GNU/*bsd will follow the LSB3? Or just Debiam GNU/Linux.
Funny? Yes. True? No - you see its not exactly a mozilla problem.
Whilst searching for more information about this, I stumbled across this pagelast time these servers were hacked in June).
Choice quote:
So, its not mozilla.org (the article states "on public servers. Mozilla.org is the latest example")
Its someone who's taken the mozilla source and made their own binaries. A problem yes, a serious problem even, but not to the scale that Kaspersky Labs would have us believe.
Who would have thought it? A security company overhyping an issue!
I'm not sure why they bother. Do they really think stories like this are going to make linux users go and buy their security 'solution'?
feel Office 2003 is just fine, and have no plans whatsoever for Office 12. Other offices I've seen have standardized on Offive XP, or even Office 2000, and steadfastly refuse to upgrade.
Indeed. I used to work for an extremely large company in Australia - they are still standardised on Office 97 on Windows NT.
They see no business motive to change - and frankly, I think they're taking the right approach. If they wait long enough, they will be able to "jump sideways" as it were to a completely open solution, with no loss in functionality and vastly improved management.