But if it is a public network, and the owner of that public network places no restrictions on bandwidth usage then the bandwidth hog is doing nothing wrong.
Then corporations should also be tried and punished in the same way as a person too. If a corporation had all it's assets seized for a period of time as punishment for committing a crime, that would be a much better deterrent... You could also throw all the shareholders in jail for the term of the sentence. A corporation should also not get the opportunity to negotiate it's sentence, an individual doesn't, they merely get handed a sentence by a judge and that's it.
Many people buy the cheapest nastiest motherboards they can find... Then when they break, they're no longer being produced so they get replaced with a newer version.
But you can get all the functionality offered by redhat for free, legally. You only pay if you want support from redhat, and even then you can use redhat however you like, the only restriction is how many copies of it and what uses they will provide support for. If you never call the vendor support, and let's be honest, most people don't, they get support from friends etc... What's the point in paying at all?
I prefer X11 over SSH, or Nomachine NX (also over SSH, and can tunnel vnc/rdp/x11). RDP may be encrypted, but it performs no authentication of the target host, which makes it absoloutely trivial to man-in-the-middle, you'll get no warning that such an attack is taking place, unlike with SSH which will warn you about the host key having changed. There are even point and click tools available for man in the middle attacking RDP sessions, a program called "cain" is available from www.oxid.it and is capable of doing it.
Just look at all the wasted time and effort involved in trying to enforce licensing restrictions... The cheaper versions actually cost MORE to produce, because of all the effort that went in to restricting them. And you just know, a cracked version will be out very quickly and all the people who run pirate copies will just continue to do so.
You don't get all this wasted effort with open source... The time spent writing licensing enforcement can instead be spent improving the product, and similarly the time spent by third parties cracking these restrictions could also be spent improving the product itself.
I've had situations where i couldn't see new email, but they usually revolved around the sorting... I have mail sorted by date, but thunderbird sorts it by the date in the mail header (and thus controlled by the sender)... If the sender's clock is wrong, then mail will appear in the wrong place in thunderbird's list.
Other than that, it's been rock solid stable for several years for me...
And I too would like to see GPG there by default, encouraging users to use it.
And it is this freedom from binary blobs that allows linux to run on so many different hardware platforms too. take-up of 64bit machines would be even slower if linux was full of 32bit binary blobs!
I always found thinkpads hibernated very nicely under linux... And you can always use APM instead of ACPI, hibernation seems to work much better with APM because microsoft haven't screwed with the specs like they did with ACPI...
Out of curiosity, how does windows handle a 133dpi screen? are the fonts too small to be readable?
Well really, all drivers should be open source. They're selling the hardware, the drivers are useless without the hardware anyway, so what have they to lose by giving them out? Years ago, hardware used to come with full documentation and schematics...
With opensource drivers, the users can bugfix and improve the drivers, port them to other os's and make them available on newer platforms if they need to... Someone recently ported the opensource linux 3dfx voodoo drivers to 64bit windows...
I always found macs to be more upgradeable, not only can you get a faster processor of the same type, but some companies specialised in producing upgrade cards to upgrade your processor to a whole different class (g3 -> g4 etc)... Obviously an upgraded machine wouldn't be as fast as one that really had the faster cpu to start with, slower motherboard and memory etc...
The Amiga was always very good for upgrading, you could upgrade even the oldest/slowest Amigas to use the fastest available processors, amiga users had little choice tho, since there wasn't any new hardware being produced.
That's very weird... i switch desktops regularly and never encounter that problems, i`m constantly switching between up to 10 workspaces, as are many of my colleagues who are all using firefox. Unless your using some crude hack that tries to implement virtual desktops on a platform not designed for them... a lot of the virtual desktop add ons i saw for windows were such crude kludges that did various things to move other windows out the way. Alternatively the keystroke your using to switch workspaces might be misinterpreted by firefox, pageup for instance?
I've never had any problems accessing yahoo mail with firefox... Out of curiosity i logged in just now, using RC2 (on linux) and all seems fine. I also don't have issues with any of the banking sites i use, one of them detects firefox 2 as being an "unsupported browser" but works with 1.5. The other sites i use just seem to work with anything.
Most of the problems with current versions of windows, are due to legacy cruft being tacked on, just like your example... They should ditch it and start again, like apple did.
Changing the clock shouldn't affect the whole system... It should change the timezone settings for YOUR USER, not for the whole system, setting the global system clock should be a seperate setting available only to system admins.
When you change your clock on windows, your changing the system wide clock... On unix, the system clock runs in UTC, and each user can have their own time zone, which is worked out as an offset from UTC.
This is very usefull, for instance I regularly log in to systems in other countries, and it's usefull to see the correct time possibly as well as the local time... If i send an email from a server located in the US, it's usefull for them to know what time it is *HERE* when i sent it, rather than the local time of the server. Also if i travel and move timezones, the system can keep track of my local time and the time back home properly, adding the offsets for me as/when needed.
What guarantee do you have that a proprietary application won't go unsupported next week?
You have no guarantees either way, but at least with opensource you have: a: A chance of someone else picking it up if the original authors drop it b: If it's really that important to you, and you can afford it, you can pick it up yourself c: You can still run the last version you have, and install additional copies on more machines if you need to
ESP works fine, providing your cheap router recognises the protocol and routes it... A lot of cheaper consumer level routing devices will only route tcp/udp/icmp. Also, some of those cheap wireless routers actually run linux, so it's not unrealistic to modify them to support openvpn encryption in hardware instead.
Here's a thought tho, many wireless cards support hardware encryption acceleration, how easy would it be to make OpenSSL support these cards?
I second that, i've been using OpenVPN at home for nearly 2 years now without a hitch, and within the last 6 months i've introduced it at work, it's gone down very well and it's universally preferred over the old proprietary vpn it replaced.
Another issue with ipsec btw, is that because of the strange protocols it uses for setting up the connection, it often fails to work on some cheaper consumer grade DSL routers.
>> Let's face it, windowsXP UI was designed for a right handed world, so it won't ever be perfect for left handed people.
Yes, that's true, people are incredibly diverse, which is what makes it absolutely ridiculous to try and make the huge diverse range of people in the world use the same interface on a computer. People often complain about the diversity in things like window managers on unix, but really that's a side effect of the human condition - everyone is different! By trying to make everyone conform, you are taking away what makes us human.
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Considered using a mac? The apps you mention are both available for OSX, and you can also run most linux software natively on OSX...
But if it is a public network, and the owner of that public network places no restrictions on bandwidth usage then the bandwidth hog is doing nothing wrong.
Then corporations should also be tried and punished in the same way as a person too.
If a corporation had all it's assets seized for a period of time as punishment for committing a crime, that would be a much better deterrent... You could also throw all the shareholders in jail for the term of the sentence.
A corporation should also not get the opportunity to negotiate it's sentence, an individual doesn't, they merely get handed a sentence by a judge and that's it.
They screwed you over and were generally bastards to you, and you decided to punish them for this poor treatment by....
PAYING THEM MORE MONEY?
They effectively blackmailed you, behaviour like this really needs to be punished severely.
Many people buy the cheapest nastiest motherboards they can find...
Then when they break, they're no longer being produced so they get replaced with a newer version.
But you can get all the functionality offered by redhat for free, legally. You only pay if you want support from redhat, and even then you can use redhat however you like, the only restriction is how many copies of it and what uses they will provide support for.
If you never call the vendor support, and let's be honest, most people don't, they get support from friends etc... What's the point in paying at all?
I would be interested in seeing the exact part of the license which says this...
I prefer X11 over SSH, or Nomachine NX (also over SSH, and can tunnel vnc/rdp/x11).
RDP may be encrypted, but it performs no authentication of the target host, which makes it absoloutely trivial to man-in-the-middle, you'll get no warning that such an attack is taking place, unlike with SSH which will warn you about the host key having changed.
There are even point and click tools available for man in the middle attacking RDP sessions, a program called "cain" is available from www.oxid.it and is capable of doing it.
Just look at all the wasted time and effort involved in trying to enforce licensing restrictions...
The cheaper versions actually cost MORE to produce, because of all the effort that went in to restricting them.
And you just know, a cracked version will be out very quickly and all the people who run pirate copies will just continue to do so.
You don't get all this wasted effort with open source... The time spent writing licensing enforcement can instead be spent improving the product, and similarly the time spent by third parties cracking these restrictions could also be spent improving the product itself.
I've had situations where i couldn't see new email, but they usually revolved around the sorting... I have mail sorted by date, but thunderbird sorts it by the date in the mail header (and thus controlled by the sender)... If the sender's clock is wrong, then mail will appear in the wrong place in thunderbird's list.
Other than that, it's been rock solid stable for several years for me...
And I too would like to see GPG there by default, encouraging users to use it.
You couldn't play quake2 on linux? I played all 4 versions of quake on linux...
And it is this freedom from binary blobs that allows linux to run on so many different hardware platforms too.
take-up of 64bit machines would be even slower if linux was full of 32bit binary blobs!
I always found thinkpads hibernated very nicely under linux...
And you can always use APM instead of ACPI, hibernation seems to work much better with APM because microsoft haven't screwed with the specs like they did with ACPI...
Out of curiosity, how does windows handle a 133dpi screen? are the fonts too small to be readable?
Well really, all drivers should be open source.
They're selling the hardware, the drivers are useless without the hardware anyway, so what have they to lose by giving them out? Years ago, hardware used to come with full documentation and schematics...
With opensource drivers, the users can bugfix and improve the drivers, port them to other os's and make them available on newer platforms if they need to... Someone recently ported the opensource linux 3dfx voodoo drivers to 64bit windows...
I have quite a few colleagues who use KDE and firefox, none of them have this problem...
I always found macs to be more upgradeable, not only can you get a faster processor of the same type, but some companies specialised in producing upgrade cards to upgrade your processor to a whole different class (g3 -> g4 etc)...
Obviously an upgraded machine wouldn't be as fast as one that really had the faster cpu to start with, slower motherboard and memory etc...
The Amiga was always very good for upgrading, you could upgrade even the oldest/slowest Amigas to use the fastest available processors, amiga users had little choice tho, since there wasn't any new hardware being produced.
That's very weird... i switch desktops regularly and never encounter that problems, i`m constantly switching between up to 10 workspaces, as are many of my colleagues who are all using firefox.
Unless your using some crude hack that tries to implement virtual desktops on a platform not designed for them... a lot of the virtual desktop add ons i saw for windows were such crude kludges that did various things to move other windows out the way.
Alternatively the keystroke your using to switch workspaces might be misinterpreted by firefox, pageup for instance?
I've never had any problems accessing yahoo mail with firefox...
Out of curiosity i logged in just now, using RC2 (on linux) and all seems fine.
I also don't have issues with any of the banking sites i use, one of them detects firefox 2 as being an "unsupported browser" but works with 1.5. The other sites i use just seem to work with anything.
Most of the problems with current versions of windows, are due to legacy cruft being tacked on, just like your example...
They should ditch it and start again, like apple did.
Changing the clock shouldn't affect the whole system...
It should change the timezone settings for YOUR USER, not for the whole system, setting the global system clock should be a seperate setting available only to system admins.
When you change your clock on windows, your changing the system wide clock...
On unix, the system clock runs in UTC, and each user can have their own time zone, which is worked out as an offset from UTC.
This is very usefull, for instance I regularly log in to systems in other countries, and it's usefull to see the correct time possibly as well as the local time... If i send an email from a server located in the US, it's usefull for them to know what time it is *HERE* when i sent it, rather than the local time of the server.
Also if i travel and move timezones, the system can keep track of my local time and the time back home properly, adding the offsets for me as/when needed.
What guarantee do you have that a proprietary application won't go unsupported next week?
You have no guarantees either way, but at least with opensource you have:
a: A chance of someone else picking it up if the original authors drop it
b: If it's really that important to you, and you can afford it, you can pick it up yourself
c: You can still run the last version you have, and install additional copies on more machines if you need to
ESP works fine, providing your cheap router recognises the protocol and routes it... A lot of cheaper consumer level routing devices will only route tcp/udp/icmp.
Also, some of those cheap wireless routers actually run linux, so it's not unrealistic to modify them to support openvpn encryption in hardware instead.
Here's a thought tho, many wireless cards support hardware encryption acceleration, how easy would it be to make OpenSSL support these cards?
I second that, i've been using OpenVPN at home for nearly 2 years now without a hitch, and within the last 6 months i've introduced it at work, it's gone down very well and it's universally preferred over the old proprietary vpn it replaced.
Another issue with ipsec btw, is that because of the strange protocols it uses for setting up the connection, it often fails to work on some cheaper consumer grade DSL routers.
>> Let's face it, windowsXP UI was designed for a right handed world, so it won't ever be perfect for left handed people.
Yes, that's true, people are incredibly diverse, which is what makes it absolutely ridiculous to try and make the huge diverse range of people in the world use the same interface on a computer.
People often complain about the diversity in things like window managers on unix, but really that's a side effect of the human condition - everyone is different! By trying to make everyone conform, you are taking away what makes us human.