If I buy a house with locks, and the locks don't work, as a non-locksmith am I responsible to go around and verify that the locks are safe and not vulnerable to picking? or should the lock maker be responsible to make sure that their lock is not made of paper and doesn't actually do anything other than annoy you to update your paper locks every two months?
I think a class-action by any of these 180k victims that have antivirus of any kind installed could be fun.
Yes, of course it's optional. IE7 is still optional even though they moved it to high-priority so most people who haven't lost update capacity to a worm or had updates turned off or something have already had it automatically installed. Why bunny-ear something that is actually true?
I have a E4500 2.20GHz with 4GB RAM and a 256MB GeForce 8600GT (do they make a 512 model??) and it FLIES on Ubuntu 8.10; did you install the restricted driver?
Which doesn't at all address what is included in the "ultimate editions" of either windows version.
I broke the/. oath and actually read the article, and I'm not sure what I just read. It seemed like something in between a fluffy comparison piece and an actual technical analysis. The only actual "benchmark" that was done was completely glossed over in significance, apparently because Ubuntu didn't do all that well: marginally better than vista on the 64 bit front, not as good as windows 7.
True to form, the/. headline completely mischaracterizes the "results" of the "testing"... the only wipe that occurred was with respect to IO speeds on win7, which is still a beta.
There's really no mythical OS that does everything perfect and right.
Well of course not, and I wouldn't claim that Linux is "there" in that sense. Since nothing is, it seems not to be a huge loss in that category.
It may not be that bad, but it still can be somewhat annoying.
I agree, and so can working on any other platform. I find that Linux works for me in almost all situations. Sure there are still a few places where it's weak, but it isn't even as bad as it was 2 years ago in the sense of having to configure things from the CLI, compile drivers, etc. It's getting a lot closer and if you don't expect it to be like windows, chances are it will work out fine.
there's nothing wrong with evince (ubuntu PDF reader) and the fact that he couldn't figure out to uncheck "View>Dual" in there shows how much time he spent on the problem.
Evince is tons faster than Adobe Reader and the rendering is spot-on.
1) search for special case repositories, they're out there for darn near everything.
2) if they're not there, use checkinstall (for debs based distros anyway) to build a package which will then correctly install dependencies for you. (this is almost never necessary)
3) proprietary apps with binary isntallers for linux work 99.9% of the time.
4) alien converts debs packages to rpms and vice-versa
5) you shouldn't bitch about 3D graphics support because any decent card will work on any modern linux distro.. heck Ubuntu prompts you to install the proprietary drivers and automatically reconfiures x for you. it doesn't get any easier.
I don't know what distro you're using or what crazy apps you're trying to install, but seriously it's nowhere near as bad as you make it sound.
Sun is still a power-player, there's no doubt about that, but looking the the business models of the two companies really makes me think.
Sun has largely focused their revenue streams around two things that seem counterintuitive to me: Profiting from licensing of a (albeit very successful) programming language, and selling deployments that include software that they've developed or purchased, open-sourced, and then re-proprietized on their own hardware. In other words, SUN sells products, and makes some money selling support contracts for these products.
Red Hat, on the other hand, primarily sells a service. Their products, including an extended open-source operating system that they didn't spend that much on development for (relatively), are really just vehicles to get support contracts.
Now I agree that this market-cap milestone is an investor's assessment, but bear in mind that investors in tech companies generally know what the companies they're investing in are up to. That said, I think it's obvious to most people that the service market has much more potential as a growth market than the products market does, especially in light of current economic conditions.
Andecdotally, I know of a company that is currently switching their file servers over to ZFS and samba because of how seriously it outperforms NTFS and windows on the same hardware. Their new array is a 100TB array, and they have single files that exceed 1TB.
It seems more likely that the performance issue you ran into has more to do with configuration than raw performance of samba.
agreed. CRT burn-in and plasma burn-in are two entirely different animals. Even if it were to be solved at some point in the future, it doesn't help the plasma TV you spend $4000 on today.
The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of the members present.
That is, they can call the president himself as a witness towards impeachment proceedings. Surely they can likewise call his advisors.
What information can someone gather about you when you're playing a game
Great question. Really depends on the game, doesn't it? Other than the obvious determination of how much time you spend playing games, which is an important piece of data to game developers, and your contact info, there's possible connections with other players through a friends list, ip can usually narrow you down to a zip code or at very least a city. A game that was designed with collecting data in mind could gather all sorts of interesting data on how you make your decisions in game... whether this has any bearing on real life is a separate question entirely I suppose. But say you have name, age, gender, email, zipcode, a score for how much time you spend playing, and, perhaps from location and time they can project your income bracket. what more would marketers really want?
Perhaps my links weren't 100% damning. However all it takes is one federal grant being issued to one discriminatory "private entity" for their freedom to discriminate becoming null and void. I don't think that anyone's being amoral or evil or any other such thing. I just think that your freedom to be a bigot goes away when you start taking public money. The moral high ground of the "as a private entity we are allowed to descriminate" argument evaporates. That's my only point.
I'm not suggesting that anyone agreed to anything, however the organization in whole or in part shouldn't be seeking or spending tax money while claiming to be free to discriminate. They need to pick a side to be on is all I am suggesting.
But to really answer your point, that article is just one of many.
There are also a number of legal cases predicated on this very issue that are in various states of pending at the moment. For example this one.
Is the mac such a weighty beast? Seriously, I have my PC dual booting XP and ubuntu, and it takes a grand total of about 2 minutes to switch between. Granted, Ubuntu is nice because when I log out it saves my open apps/window states, but still. If XP is taking that long, you may want to check your startup services and disable whatever you don't need to run your game, because on newer hardware it really shouldn't take more than about 60 seconds from POST to XP desktop.
[...]quite rightly, had their rights to discriminate as a private organization upheld.
Point of order on "quite rightly." See, that would be true if they were a private organization that did not accept federal grants. The government requires grant recipients not to discriminate.
Since when was "open source" just an excuse for releasing a half-finished product? Since about the same time "free" gave you the right to bitch about the quality of it.
Now, I agree with you so the rest of this post may shock you a little. The democrats are just as bad. They don't do anything good either, and if they do, it's so overpriced that it winds up being a net bad. Impeachment is off the table? No really, we support the troops too? FFS our government is stale and needs to be thrown out like moldy bread.
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This is the quote I came to this thread looking for. I can now rest easy, knowing /. is safe. ... for now.
victims should be punished
Genius.
If I buy a house with locks, and the locks don't work, as a non-locksmith am I responsible to go around and verify that the locks are safe and not vulnerable to picking? or should the lock maker be responsible to make sure that their lock is not made of paper and doesn't actually do anything other than annoy you to update your paper locks every two months?
I think a class-action by any of these 180k victims that have antivirus of any kind installed could be fun.
Yes, of course it's optional. IE7 is still optional even though they moved it to high-priority so most people who haven't lost update capacity to a worm or had updates turned off or something have already had it automatically installed. Why bunny-ear something that is actually true?
Hooray for the Application Database!
unacceptable slowness of the X-windows GUI
I have a E4500 2.20GHz with 4GB RAM and a 256MB GeForce 8600GT (do they make a 512 model??) and it FLIES on Ubuntu 8.10; did you install the restricted driver?
Which doesn't at all address what is included in the "ultimate editions" of either windows version. /. oath and actually read the article, and I'm not sure what I just read. It seemed like something in between a fluffy comparison piece and an actual technical analysis. The only actual "benchmark" that was done was completely glossed over in significance, apparently because Ubuntu didn't do all that well: marginally better than vista on the 64 bit front, not as good as windows 7.
/. headline completely mischaracterizes the "results" of the "testing"... the only wipe that occurred was with respect to IO speeds on win7, which is still a beta.
I broke the
True to form, the
There's really no mythical OS that does everything perfect and right.
Well of course not, and I wouldn't claim that Linux is "there" in that sense. Since nothing is, it seems not to be a huge loss in that category.
It may not be that bad, but it still can be somewhat annoying.
I agree, and so can working on any other platform. I find that Linux works for me in almost all situations. Sure there are still a few places where it's weak, but it isn't even as bad as it was 2 years ago in the sense of having to configure things from the CLI, compile drivers, etc. It's getting a lot closer and if you don't expect it to be like windows, chances are it will work out fine.
there's nothing wrong with evince (ubuntu PDF reader) and the fact that he couldn't figure out to uncheck "View>Dual" in there shows how much time he spent on the problem.
Evince is tons faster than Adobe Reader and the rendering is spot-on.
You're doing it wrong, son.
1) search for special case repositories, they're out there for darn near everything.
2) if they're not there, use checkinstall (for debs based distros anyway) to build a package which will then correctly install dependencies for you. (this is almost never necessary)
3) proprietary apps with binary isntallers for linux work 99.9% of the time.
4) alien converts debs packages to rpms and vice-versa
5) you shouldn't bitch about 3D graphics support because any decent card will work on any modern linux distro.. heck Ubuntu prompts you to install the proprietary drivers and automatically reconfiures x for you. it doesn't get any easier.
I don't know what distro you're using or what crazy apps you're trying to install, but seriously it's nowhere near as bad as you make it sound.
Sun is still a power-player, there's no doubt about that, but looking the the business models of the two companies really makes me think.
Sun has largely focused their revenue streams around two things that seem counterintuitive to me: Profiting from licensing of a (albeit very successful) programming language, and selling deployments that include software that they've developed or purchased, open-sourced, and then re-proprietized on their own hardware. In other words, SUN sells products, and makes some money selling support contracts for these products.
Red Hat, on the other hand, primarily sells a service. Their products, including an extended open-source operating system that they didn't spend that much on development for (relatively), are really just vehicles to get support contracts.
Now I agree that this market-cap milestone is an investor's assessment, but bear in mind that investors in tech companies generally know what the companies they're investing in are up to. That said, I think it's obvious to most people that the service market has much more potential as a growth market than the products market does, especially in light of current economic conditions.
Andecdotally, I know of a company that is currently switching their file servers over to ZFS and samba because of how seriously it outperforms NTFS and windows on the same hardware. Their new array is a 100TB array, and they have single files that exceed 1TB. It seems more likely that the performance issue you ran into has more to do with configuration than raw performance of samba.
agreed. CRT burn-in and plasma burn-in are two entirely different animals. Even if it were to be solved at some point in the future, it doesn't help the plasma TV you spend $4000 on today.
But my "Slashdot User's Handbook" says I'm not supposed to!
Ha! Nobody's read the handbook!
Naw, we'll just play american nanofootball on 100-nanoyard fields.
That is, they can call the president himself as a witness towards impeachment proceedings. Surely they can likewise call his advisors.
What information can someone gather about you when you're playing a game
Great question. Really depends on the game, doesn't it? Other than the obvious determination of how much time you spend playing games, which is an important piece of data to game developers, and your contact info, there's possible connections with other players through a friends list, ip can usually narrow you down to a zip code or at very least a city. A game that was designed with collecting data in mind could gather all sorts of interesting data on how you make your decisions in game... whether this has any bearing on real life is a separate question entirely I suppose. But say you have name, age, gender, email, zipcode, a score for how much time you spend playing, and, perhaps from location and time they can project your income bracket. what more would marketers really want?
EPROM costs more than software bits. Besides, EPROMs are easily hacked too.
Perhaps my links weren't 100% damning. However all it takes is one federal grant being issued to one discriminatory "private entity" for their freedom to discriminate becoming null and void. I don't think that anyone's being amoral or evil or any other such thing. I just think that your freedom to be a bigot goes away when you start taking public money. The moral high ground of the "as a private entity we are allowed to descriminate" argument evaporates. That's my only point.
I'm not suggesting that anyone agreed to anything, however the organization in whole or in part shouldn't be seeking or spending tax money while claiming to be free to discriminate. They need to pick a side to be on is all I am suggesting.
But to really answer your point, that article is just one of many.
There are also a number of legal cases predicated on this very issue that are in various states of pending at the moment. For example this one.
Is the mac such a weighty beast? Seriously, I have my PC dual booting XP and ubuntu, and it takes a grand total of about 2 minutes to switch between. Granted, Ubuntu is nice because when I log out it saves my open apps/window states, but still. If XP is taking that long, you may want to check your startup services and disable whatever you don't need to run your game, because on newer hardware it really shouldn't take more than about 60 seconds from POST to XP desktop.
Point of order on "quite rightly." See, that would be true if they were a private organization that did not accept federal grants. The government requires grant recipients not to discriminate.
Now, I agree with you so the rest of this post may shock you a little. The democrats are just as bad. They don't do anything good either, and if they do, it's so overpriced that it winds up being a net bad. Impeachment is off the table? No really, we support the troops too? FFS our government is stale and needs to be thrown out like moldy bread.