wait, i got marked as a troll because i had the audacity to suggest that this person should use his vendor for tech support?
here's the deal, ms is actively trying to squash free software development and deployment. i fail to see why the majority of/. readers should do anything to enable ms users. people should be helpful and all, but that seems overly masochistic.
all i did was raise what i thought was a valid point. ms and ms-users are quick to tar free s/w users as grubby commies always wanting stuff for free. i don't see this ms user offering money.
and i honestly questioned why they wouldn't ask their vendor for help. they must have a lot of licenses from ms - surely they could net some support? is it really a good idea for free s/w users - already painted in a bad light by ms - to enable someone to violate ms licenses?
prior to windows 95, i always heard dos heads saying that windows was better because it had a cli.
with linux, the complaint is that it is too hard to use for newbies because of the cli.
now that linux is closer to windows (needs to catch up to the mac still - that's the real bar to shoot for) for end user friendliness, the windows sheep need something else to criticise linux on.
first they fight on licenses, but now with lindows we see the height of hypocricy: these linux people are marketing in an unfair way.
oh really? obviously lindows is not the entire linux community - not even close - but it's a joy to see ms being tripped up by their own tactics. someone is playing against them on the marketing front - good. it's the only area ms has outplayed the competition they've trampled/bought/stolen. and now someone is trying to fight back on that front so the dosheads start whining.
oh boo hoo.
now, stfu, i want to enjoy this ass-kicking in peace.
oh come on. it's like he's asking for a lighting solution with an even output over the visible spectrum for his clear glass fountain that uses water with a high concentration of bleach "for color reasons."
could you honestly call a system secure that contains wireless network nodes running windows? and you have to answer that question without hallucinagenic drugs or resorting to philosophic ponderings on what words/time/reality mean.
you want to boot off a wireless card on a windows portable computer for security reasons?
well, i suppose you didn't say you wanted good/high security. "security reasons" could mean "we want crap, swiss cheese-like insecurity."
not sure of an answer there, but good luck with that.
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i agree with your hypothetical example all the way up to the part where they say you should sell your us version. as far as i can see, they want to try to stop people from selling old cd's, dvd's and other such things.
except for the insane insurance here in ireland, i nearly did bring my car over when i emigrated. and thank god i did it before i got into dvd's. i would have been majorly pissed if my entire collection would need to be repurchased (even if i didn't lose money; just the hassle of buying it all again). obviously i have a region free player so it wouldn't really have been an issue, but how much longer will region free players exist?
well, it certainly challenges what we think of as art and what we think machines are capable of. the fact is that hundreds of people wrote the code to make this "computer created" art so is it truly even "computer created?"
it's also a great way to test ogg streaming clients. for 600 days we'll have a url we can always connect to and test.
i take it that it's your opinion that german chemists in the 30's should have focused on making poinsonous gasses that killed quickly and painlessly?
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yer so k3wl, trolling on/. . can i be you? i'm getting a medical degree by mail so the lobotomy will be easy.
for morons modding him up, you can disable adult content in your prefs. god, when with the gov't start protecting adults and the internet FROM kids?!?!?!
oh, forgot the main point. the plus side to better components is that it would allow others - those with more interest in the usability side instead of the crypto/math side - to experiment with ways of making security more usable. if gpg were available as a well documented library, other developers could use it more easily - just as they already use gtk, glib, libc, and even openssl.
actually openssl is a good example, think of how many places that has been added (my redhat system has 37 packages requiring libssl.so.2 - 48 require libcrypto.so.2). a large number of things use gpg already on my box - mutt and rpm spring to mind. but it could be used for lots of other things... nautilus; link it into qt/gtk for use in file load/save dialogs. anything that loads executable files from the net (plugins for xchat, mozilla, the gimp).
given a libgpg, i'm sure many projects could do cool shit(tm).
one thing that needs to be done is better components. i have a gpg key pair and an ssh key pair. i should really have just one. or at least have them on the same keyring. wouldn't it be nice if you could set up sshd to only allow key verified connections and only keys that had been signed by one of the admins?
gpg really needs to be made into a library, with the commandline as one user of that library. it would be easier to integrate gpg into mail/irc/web clients if you could make well defined api calls. something akin to ssh-agent might be nice for gpg. it would be nice if you could easily encrypt/sign irc or email traffic with your gpg keys. mutt does a pretty good job, but there are usability holes. it would also be nice if you could do things like sign/. posts.
we use (or advocate the use of) gpg to encrypt and auth sensitive data for our servers. this is not to protect the files from the gov't, it's to stop data with a high monetary value from being stolen. most of us at work at least have gpg configured.
we usually recommend pgp for less technical users - of which there are far more then on the server side. so pgp would get more sales from us due to gpg. i hope they sell lots of their s/w and make it even easier to use - it would really help us if less technical people were more exposed to pgp.
nearly a month on this gets marked as flamebait? and why - because it's telling the uncomfortable truth?
the current us administration is shredding the bill of rights so quickly i swear they've drafted in fawn hall as a shredding consultant. and as for american foreign policy it has in the past (and quite definitely now) leaves a lot to be desired.
i grew up in kansas, and america has an impressive progressive history. blemishes along the way for sure, but its a history of progress overall. that achievement is not well represented externally and i find that disappointing.
so whoever you are, you can take your politically motivated, uncritical and dare i say unpatriotic "-1 flamebait" and shove it down your ass.
one of the nice things about a redhat system is that they've tested it. they've stressed the kernel in every which way they can. now they might not test everything in every fashion, but they get a lot done.
compiling your own kernel kind of tosses all that work out the window, doesn't it?
now don't go confusing people bashing redhat's use of the fs with pesky things like facts and standards. that's just not fair. you're not supposed to bring "reason" into this debate, that's off limits man.
i've used junkbuster in the past. i block popups. i've done/etc/host hacks to block ads. i use google's block images from site x. when they can block flash ads, i'll block them too. ads still get through, and i go through phases where i'll do more to block them.
however i also subscribe to sites. i think the first site i ever subscribed to was an espn site back in 1996 or 1997. i currently subscribe to/., lwn, the irish times and salon. i order stuff from certain web sites to support them, and put money into a sponsorship box if they have it. openbsd and bruno do this for instance.
i have no problem paying for content. i do have a problem with wasting bandwidth. i've used the web since, i dunno, 1993? it was mosaic on the mac. in that time i've probably clicked on a few dozen ads.
actually, no, i've clicked on a fair number of google's text ads. they do geo targeting as well as based on what you search on which is really handy.
so barring google's ads, a few dozen ads in nearly 10 years. that's a pretty awful rate of return on the several gigs of ads i've probably received. besideswich, ads annoy me. they're completely useless in my opinion and i don't want to see them.
so, i'm willing to pay and i block ads as much as possible. i suspect i'm not as uncommon a person as you try to make out.
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then maybe the person requesting help should look into another vendor?
wait, i got marked as a troll because i had the audacity to suggest that this person should use his vendor for tech support?
/. readers should do anything to enable ms users. people should be helpful and all, but that seems overly masochistic.
here's the deal, ms is actively trying to squash free software development and deployment. i fail to see why the majority of
all i did was raise what i thought was a valid point. ms and ms-users are quick to tar free s/w users as grubby commies always wanting stuff for free. i don't see this ms user offering money.
and i honestly questioned why they wouldn't ask their vendor for help. they must have a lot of licenses from ms - surely they could net some support? is it really a good idea for free s/w users - already painted in a bad light by ms - to enable someone to violate ms licenses?
if you're using microsoft software, shouldn't you be asking them? surely you have some support contract from them.
or do you have so many illegal copies of microsoft applications that you're afraid to talk to them?
why should we help you violate microsoft's licenses?
...mosaic 1.0 and before?
prior to windows 95, i always heard dos heads saying that windows was better because it had a cli.
with linux, the complaint is that it is too hard to use for newbies because of the cli.
now that linux is closer to windows (needs to catch up to the mac still - that's the real bar to shoot for) for end user friendliness, the windows sheep need something else to criticise linux on.
first they fight on licenses, but now with lindows we see the height of hypocricy: these linux people are marketing in an unfair way.
oh really? obviously lindows is not the entire linux community - not even close - but it's a joy to see ms being tripped up by their own tactics. someone is playing against them on the marketing front - good. it's the only area ms has outplayed the competition they've trampled/bought/stolen. and now someone is trying to fight back on that front so the dosheads start whining.
oh boo hoo.
now, stfu, i want to enjoy this ass-kicking in peace.
i think you need to pay more attention to current events in the uk. some days i'd say blair is the most bush-friendly governor out of all 51 of them.
i do try to hope that blair is trying to lead bush away from some of his more frightening policies but it can be hard to maintain that faith.
heh. sorry, i'm afraid to say that when i saw this comment title i thought they were going to say the uk was us territory.
oh come on. it's like he's asking for a lighting solution with an even output over the visible spectrum for his clear glass fountain that uses water with a high concentration of bleach "for color reasons."
could you honestly call a system secure that contains wireless network nodes running windows? and you have to answer that question without hallucinagenic drugs or resorting to philosophic ponderings on what words/time/reality mean.
you want to boot off a wireless card on a windows portable computer for security reasons?
well, i suppose you didn't say you wanted good/high security. "security reasons" could mean "we want crap, swiss cheese-like insecurity."
not sure of an answer there, but good luck with that.
i agree with your hypothetical example all the way up to the part where they say you should sell your us version. as far as i can see, they want to try to stop people from selling old cd's, dvd's and other such things.
except for the insane insurance here in ireland, i nearly did bring my car over when i emigrated. and thank god i did it before i got into dvd's. i would have been majorly pissed if my entire collection would need to be repurchased (even if i didn't lose money; just the hassle of buying it all again). obviously i have a region free player so it wouldn't really have been an issue, but how much longer will region free players exist?
lots of people questioning, "why?"
well, it certainly challenges what we think of as art and what we think machines are capable of. the fact is that hundreds of people wrote the code to make this "computer created" art so is it truly even "computer created?"
it's also a great way to test ogg streaming clients. for 600 days we'll have a url we can always connect to and test.
i take it that it's your opinion that german chemists in the 30's should have focused on making poinsonous gasses that killed quickly and painlessly?
yer so k3wl, trolling on /. . can i be you? i'm getting a medical degree by mail so the lobotomy will be easy.
for morons modding him up, you can disable adult content in your prefs. god, when with the gov't start protecting adults and the internet FROM kids?!?!?!
google webquotes is awesome. it is just so useful in what i do from time to time: research companies or commercial technology.
but it's like a lawsuit magnet. argh. i fear it will cause more problems then it will solve.
in the meantime, why does the irish linux user's group show up in hotwired japan? (found via: this search)
woo-hoo! new mad max film. it would be a good idea to study it to learn how to live after bush starts a nuclear holocaust...
oh, forgot the main point. the plus side to better components is that it would allow others - those with more interest in the usability side instead of the crypto/math side - to experiment with ways of making security more usable. if gpg were available as a well documented library, other developers could use it more easily - just as they already use gtk, glib, libc, and even openssl.
actually openssl is a good example, think of how many places that has been added (my redhat system has 37 packages requiring libssl.so.2 - 48 require libcrypto.so.2). a large number of things use gpg already on my box - mutt and rpm spring to mind. but it could be used for lots of other things... nautilus; link it into qt/gtk for use in file load/save dialogs. anything that loads executable files from the net (plugins for xchat, mozilla, the gimp).
given a libgpg, i'm sure many projects could do cool shit(tm).
one thing that needs to be done is better components. i have a gpg key pair and an ssh key pair. i should really have just one. or at least have them on the same keyring. wouldn't it be nice if you could set up sshd to only allow key verified connections and only keys that had been signed by one of the admins?
/. posts.
gpg really needs to be made into a library, with the commandline as one user of that library. it would be easier to integrate gpg into mail/irc/web clients if you could make well defined api calls. something akin to ssh-agent might be nice for gpg. it would be nice if you could easily encrypt/sign irc or email traffic with your gpg keys. mutt does a pretty good job, but there are usability holes. it would also be nice if you could do things like sign
we use (or advocate the use of) gpg to encrypt and auth sensitive data for our servers. this is not to protect the files from the gov't, it's to stop data with a high monetary value from being stolen. most of us at work at least have gpg configured.
we usually recommend pgp for less technical users - of which there are far more then on the server side. so pgp would get more sales from us due to gpg. i hope they sell lots of their s/w and make it even easier to use - it would really help us if less technical people were more exposed to pgp.
nearly a month on this gets marked as flamebait? and why - because it's telling the uncomfortable truth?
the current us administration is shredding the bill of rights so quickly i swear they've drafted in fawn hall as a shredding consultant. and as for american foreign policy it has in the past (and quite definitely now) leaves a lot to be desired.
i grew up in kansas, and america has an impressive progressive history. blemishes along the way for sure, but its a history of progress overall. that achievement is not well represented externally and i find that disappointing.
so whoever you are, you can take your politically motivated, uncritical and dare i say unpatriotic "-1 flamebait" and shove it down your ass.
i thought it was on february 6th? 6/02.
one of the nice things about a redhat system is that they've tested it. they've stressed the kernel in every which way they can. now they might not test everything in every fashion, but they get a lot done.
compiling your own kernel kind of tosses all that work out the window, doesn't it?
now don't go confusing people bashing redhat's use of the fs with pesky things like facts and standards. that's just not fair. you're not supposed to bring "reason" into this debate, that's off limits man.
i've used junkbuster in the past. i block popups. i've done /etc/host hacks to block ads. i use google's block images from site x. when they can block flash ads, i'll block them too. ads still get through, and i go through phases where i'll do more to block them.
/., lwn, the irish times and salon. i order stuff from certain web sites to support them, and put money into a sponsorship box if they have it. openbsd and bruno do this for instance.
however i also subscribe to sites. i think the first site i ever subscribed to was an espn site back in 1996 or 1997. i currently subscribe to
i have no problem paying for content. i do have a problem with wasting bandwidth. i've used the web since, i dunno, 1993? it was mosaic on the mac. in that time i've probably clicked on a few dozen ads.
actually, no, i've clicked on a fair number of google's text ads. they do geo targeting as well as based on what you search on which is really handy.
so barring google's ads, a few dozen ads in nearly 10 years. that's a pretty awful rate of return on the several gigs of ads i've probably received. besideswich, ads annoy me. they're completely useless in my opinion and i don't want to see them.
so, i'm willing to pay and i block ads as much as possible. i suspect i'm not as uncommon a person as you try to make out.
i think the guy who started it graduated from grammar school...
what makes you think future generations will be smarter? it seems to me that stupid people are breeding far quicker then smart ones.