Except that you an put a password on grub to prevent people doing this.
From the GRUB info page:
password --md5 PASSWORD If this is specified, GRUB disallows any interactive control, until you press the key
and enter a correct password. The option `--md5' tells GRUB that `PASSWORD' is in MD5 format. If it is omitted, GRUB assumes the `PASSWORD' is in clear text.
"Net surfers use the back button more than any other key."
Not I. Since the advent of tabs in most real browsers, most links are followed by opening in a new tab. Only for highly serial pages would one open a subsequent page in the same tab. I use the back button for, maybe, 2% of sites I visit.
The issue was that many people felt that they had been misled by Sunspire. The tuxracer development community, rather than individually working on their own little branch, collaborated with Sunspire, and provided much advice and tips throughout the game's development, not just code. People who would have put their efforts elsewhere had they known the final game would not be Free. Sunspire then said the equivalent of: "so long and thanks for all the ideas".
Yes, they were legally within their rights, but it still doesn't seem very nice.
I hope this doesn't go the way of Tux Racer, which was initially GPL and had a large community providing support and ideas to the lead developers. Then Sunspire Studios turned around and took on a closed license.
I'm not saying we should celebrate every 'unbreakable' claim made (champagne is too expensive for that).
However what I am saying is that we should not casually write it off as a "this is definitely a phoney". If we are influential enough it may cause investors to lose interest and pull funding.
I look on this as an "Interesting, but I'll believe it when I see it". Subtle difference.
No you don't, honest. You only use the codecs, not the application itself. It is possible that, one day, someone will incorporate spyware or DRM into a codec, but I haven't seen it yet.
I can happily play 95% of my Real and Quicktime media in windowed or proper full-screen mode no problems. The other 5% are in very old formats. Haven't once seen any of them send a TCP or UDP packet or prevent converting to another format.
1. I think someone else was behind pushing the group to target Jim's site. Some groups of people would love nothing more than to hurt the open source community. Insert name of your favourite illegal monopoly here.
2. I think Jim over-reacted. Perhaps he didn't realise quite how much not only the PCI group, but free sotware developers depended on his list. In computing, there really is no room for wounded pride.
Slashdot Mirror
...but I couldn't get 3DMark 2003 to run on my system.
Not much of a benchmark program if the thing won't even run properly.
Then again perhaps I just need to update my version of winex
...except I think you'll find that most people with unnecessarily big fast computers and video cards are compensating for something.
If you mean being able to select several portions of text while holding down the key, then this comes as standard in OpenOffice.
And already slashdotted. Guess they don't have enough bandwidth for the popups...
:)
popups? what popups?
Oh, you must be using one of those legacy browsers
1. Password-protecting the BIOS and setting it to boot only off hda
2. Disabling/removing the floppy/CD drive altogether.
"FYI: You can use GRUB with Windows too!"
:)
True
But locking down the boot process won't help you if you can run the recovery console from CD after the Windows OS has booted.
"Anything optimized for writing english text is going to be horrible for any other symbol system."
You make it sound as if qwerty is optimized for such symbols. I highly doubt that to be the case.
I struggle with dvorak layouts too, but for one reason and one reason only: I was brought up on qwerty.
I think the measure here is how efficiently someone without prior exposure to other keyboard layouts can use such characters.
The symbol placement on dvoraks is actually quite good, so long as you go for a 'proper' layout and ignore the ANSI layout
From the GRUB info page:
password --md5 PASSWORD
If this is specified, GRUB disallows any interactive control, until
you press the key
and enter a correct password. The option `--md5'
tells GRUB that `PASSWORD' is in MD5 format. If it is omitted, GRUB
assumes the `PASSWORD' is in clear text.
I wonder how much energy is required to produce one of these units.
Traditionally, to produce a photovoltaic cell you need several times more energy than the cell could ever hope to generate in its useful life.
FWIW, the browser in OS/2 Warp had this capability.
That's good.
I used it for over a year.
That's good.
For the life of me I can't remember what the browser was called.
That's bad.
"Net surfers use the back button more than any other key."
Not I. Since the advent of tabs in most real browsers, most links are followed by opening in a new tab. Only for highly serial pages would one open a subsequent page in the same tab.
I use the back button for, maybe, 2% of sites I visit.
The issue was that many people felt that they had been misled by Sunspire. The tuxracer development community, rather than individually working on their own little branch, collaborated with Sunspire, and provided much advice and tips throughout the game's development, not just code. People who would have put their efforts elsewhere had they known the final game would not be Free.
Sunspire then said the equivalent of: "so long and thanks for all the ideas".
Yes, they were legally within their rights, but it still doesn't seem very nice.
mars.exe?
I hope this doesn't go the way of Tux Racer, which was initially GPL and had a large community providing support and ideas to the lead developers. Then Sunspire Studios turned around and took on a closed license.
Any investors influenced by Slashdot have already blown all their money on Beowulf clusters of shiny things.
*lol*
I nominate this the soup du jour.
I'm not saying we should celebrate every 'unbreakable' claim made (champagne is too expensive for that).
However what I am saying is that we should not casually write it off as a "this is definitely a phoney". If we are influential enough it may cause investors to lose interest and pull funding.
I look on this as an "Interesting, but I'll believe it when I see it". Subtle difference.
Because some experts have been burned by fakes in the past does not necessarily make everything snake oil.
Because they dismissed this product as more of the same before actually evaluating it does not make it snake oil.
Probably snake oil, yes. But on the other hand it could be something quite revolutionary.
There's nothing quite like apathy to retard progress.
Or maybe he uses kleenex for the same purpose as the rest of us:
To blow his nose.
It should be noted that Kino is only good for capturing/editing pure digital video streams.
Analog sources such as those supported by Video4Linux are not supported.
There is a V4L tab in Kino, but it is highly experimental.
One of the reasons why I say bring on SVG :)
Works fine in Mozilla here.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021202
"walk over to HR, pull all senior management's credit ratings, post them to f'dcompany or similar"
And that, sir, is the reason companies have every right to do thorough background checks.
To avoid inadvertantly hiring people with these scruples.
No you don't, honest. You only use the codecs, not the application itself.
It is possible that, one day, someone will incorporate spyware or DRM into a codec, but I haven't seen it yet.
I can happily play 95% of my Real and Quicktime media in windowed or proper full-screen mode no problems. The other 5% are in very old formats. Haven't once seen any of them send a TCP or UDP packet or prevent converting to another format.
1. I think someone else was behind pushing the group to target Jim's site. Some groups of people would love nothing more than to hurt the open source community. Insert name of your favourite illegal monopoly here.
2. I think Jim over-reacted. Perhaps he didn't realise quite how much not only the PCI group, but free sotware developers depended on his list. In computing, there really is no room for wounded pride.
Just as well we don't need to use realplayer any more for "realmedia" content.