What does locking down your home directory have to do with running with administrator privelages verses non-admin privelages?
Most people use KDE in non-root mode most of the time, and occasionally enter a root password to do system-wide stuff.
"At least with this announcement, Microsoft might be able to push some of it's resources from trying to push this serviced to 3rd parties to fixing the services internally"....Just what we need, more salesmen becomming programmers...:)
a public/private key scheme where public registrars keep your key. You keep your list of credit cards and identities on YOUR own devices.
You then send encrypted information containing your credit card or identity in an industry standard packet of encyrpted information along with a link to the registrar.
Quantum computing will come to the rescue to many of the math problems of which you write. For many types of problems that are NP-Complete (i.e. are like the travelling-salesman problem) it will reduce the need for multi-core processors.
Of course the more processing power the better!
in the long run it will mean that users become more familiar with the types of applications available in open source. And more importantly they will become acquainted to the open source delivery channels.
This will mean that they will be more likely to try other open source apps and operating systems....especially Linux.
Sounds like a good idea - but putting peoples names on the ad sounds a bit silly. How much room would 2500+ names take up on a page if they are even a slightly legible?
Most viruses install themselves in a way that would be more difficult to achieve on Linux than Windows since most Linux users do not run as root.
I'm not suggesting that a Linux virus/trojan horse couldn't do any damage - but it should be a lot less than a Windows environment.
"All good things come to an end (preferably an honorable death)"
I love Star Trek and would love it to continue forever - but a hiatus might be a good idea for a while.
At all points in a digital communication the packets composing the message are stored in the memory of the devices involved in transmission (albeit for a short period of time). So does this mean that the wiretap law does not apply to any form of digital communication other than point-to-point where the end-points are owned by the communicating parties?
It's fun when non-technical people create laws about technology....
and was suprised at how good this non-commercial distribution is. I've used debian for servers for a while but not really played with the desktop (didn't even install the desktop).
But Gentoo is easily more functional than RH9 and FC1 (which I tested on vmware for a while. Now I understand why people complain that Red Hat "breaks" KDE.
A particular technology has a lifetime - and just because a piece of software uses it, and there's now something better, doesn't necessarily mean that it should be rewritten. If the piece of software is crap then it shoud be rewritten (so this is case 1).
Case 2 is when you have a good piece of software that is using a technology that is at end-of-life.
People should resist the temptation to rewrite in the case that the software is well written but is using slightly old technology (but one that isn't yet end-of-lifed).
Unless the quality of service that Telstra provides has gone down hill a lot since I last lived in Oz (mid-1998), I would say that the customer service in the US is no better.
There still is a lot of monopoly activity in the US anyway. Its just that, rather than being at a national level, it's at a regional level. And given the higher population in the US (about 15x), it means the monopolies here are probably not much bulkier than Telstra.
Maybe there's already groups doing this - but it would be interesting to set up a group of OSS people who are willing to be pulled into to perform security reviews of open source software. It would basically be a service to OSS projects.
After work I headed off to CompUSA to have a look at one of these. It looks great, and I will watch it's evolution for a while with the thought to buy one when a few firmware patches are released.
The UI is a little unintuitive, and it appeared to crash at least once while I was mucking around with the controls.
Hopefully, at some point they'll sell the 128Mb sleeve separately so that we have the best of both worlds:)
As much as I dislike microsoft, this is not how I would like to think of our community (of non-ms slaves).
At best this is a very unflattering translation from German, at worst it's just completely fabricated.
I'd prefer to beat MS with a bit of integrity.
and he said that they were within months of releasing an algorithm to factorize large numbers (into primes) in polynomial time...such grand claims.
I'm sure VME is difficult to break, but impossible to break is impossible to believe.
Jane Elliot made a wonderful documentary called "Blue Eyed" that showed similar results with groups of people who are victims of prejudice.
See http://www.horizonmag.com/4/jane-elliott.asp
I think that there is no doubt that being able to have multiple desktop environments is a good thing. What is good for one person, is not good for another. And the ability to provide an environment that appropriate for the user is an advantage that Linux has over windoze.
But perhaps we need a common platform (beneath both QT and GTK and whatever) that provides "desktop environment services" to the above environment(s). The services would include things that make the user experience a little bit more seamless if they are using apps from the two environments (which I *do* think happens a lot). So I mean things like clipboard services, themes (as according to rms), hotkeys, etc.
I am sure that it is possible to define such a layer in such a way that developers of the above environments can inovate to their hearts content.
Besides, I love layers!:)
We've used NetFlix for about 12 months and have found it to be perfect. You can either have 3 or 8 DVDs out at once (we just use 3).
In the twelve months we've had two incidents that were handled fine.
One DVD was lost in the mail when we returned it. We just marked it as lost and they sent the next one (I imagine they check for people who have an unusually high number of lost DVDs).
Also, a few months ago, I accidentally returned one of my music CDs instead of the movies. They noticed and returned my CD without a hitch.
The Netflix website attempts to guess what movies you like based on your feedback (if you provide it) and then recommend movies. That probably needs a little work - it seems like it generalizes into a fairly small number of groups.
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What does locking down your home directory have to do with running with administrator privelages verses non-admin privelages? Most people use KDE in non-root mode most of the time, and occasionally enter a root password to do system-wide stuff.
"At least with this announcement, Microsoft might be able to push some of it's resources from trying to push this serviced to 3rd parties to fixing the services internally" ....Just what we need, more salesmen becomming programmers... :)
a public/private key scheme where public registrars keep your key. You keep your list of credit cards and identities on YOUR own devices. You then send encrypted information containing your credit card or identity in an industry standard packet of encyrpted information along with a link to the registrar.
Quantum computing will come to the rescue to many of the math problems of which you write. For many types of problems that are NP-Complete (i.e. are like the travelling-salesman problem) it will reduce the need for multi-core processors. Of course the more processing power the better!
in the long run it will mean that users become more familiar with the types of applications available in open source. And more importantly they will become acquainted to the open source delivery channels.
This will mean that they will be more likely to try other open source apps and operating systems....especially Linux.
when you could just implement the windoze APIs on top of the OS of your....hey, what about WINE???!!!!
Sounds like a good idea - but putting peoples names on the ad sounds a bit silly. How much room would 2500+ names take up on a page if they are even a slightly legible?
Truth is good, repeat often.
Most viruses install themselves in a way that would be more difficult to achieve on Linux than Windows since most Linux users do not run as root. I'm not suggesting that a Linux virus/trojan horse couldn't do any damage - but it should be a lot less than a Windows environment.
"All good things come to an end (preferably an honorable death)" I love Star Trek and would love it to continue forever - but a hiatus might be a good idea for a while.
It was supposed to start at 5pm EST - it's now 5:16 and we're still waiting.
At all points in a digital communication the packets composing the message are stored in the memory of the devices involved in transmission (albeit for a short period of time). So does this mean that the wiretap law does not apply to any form of digital communication other than point-to-point where the end-points are owned by the communicating parties? It's fun when non-technical people create laws about technology....
My appologies - I couldn't resist
and was suprised at how good this non-commercial distribution is. I've used debian for servers for a while but not really played with the desktop (didn't even install the desktop). But Gentoo is easily more functional than RH9 and FC1 (which I tested on vmware for a while. Now I understand why people complain that Red Hat "breaks" KDE.
They've depended on it for years - why stop now?
A particular technology has a lifetime - and just because a piece of software uses it, and there's now something better, doesn't necessarily mean that it should be rewritten. If the piece of software is crap then it shoud be rewritten (so this is case 1). Case 2 is when you have a good piece of software that is using a technology that is at end-of-life. People should resist the temptation to rewrite in the case that the software is well written but is using slightly old technology (but one that isn't yet end-of-lifed).
Unless the quality of service that Telstra provides has gone down hill a lot since I last lived in Oz (mid-1998), I would say that the customer service in the US is no better. There still is a lot of monopoly activity in the US anyway. Its just that, rather than being at a national level, it's at a regional level. And given the higher population in the US (about 15x), it means the monopolies here are probably not much bulkier than Telstra.
Maybe there's already groups doing this - but it would be interesting to set up a group of OSS people who are willing to be pulled into to perform security reviews of open source software. It would basically be a service to OSS projects.
After work I headed off to CompUSA to have a look at one of these. It looks great, and I will watch it's evolution for a while with the thought to buy one when a few firmware patches are released. The UI is a little unintuitive, and it appeared to crash at least once while I was mucking around with the controls. Hopefully, at some point they'll sell the 128Mb sleeve separately so that we have the best of both worlds :)
As much as I dislike microsoft, this is not how I would like to think of our community (of non-ms slaves). At best this is a very unflattering translation from German, at worst it's just completely fabricated. I'd prefer to beat MS with a bit of integrity.
and he said that they were within months of releasing an algorithm to factorize large numbers (into primes) in polynomial time...such grand claims. I'm sure VME is difficult to break, but impossible to break is impossible to believe.
A Programming Language Runtime environment might be the equivalent of an operating system, but not a Programming Language itself.
Jane Elliot made a wonderful documentary called "Blue Eyed" that showed similar results with groups of people who are victims of prejudice. See http://www.horizonmag.com/4/jane-elliott.asp
I think that there is no doubt that being able to have multiple desktop environments is a good thing. What is good for one person, is not good for another. And the ability to provide an environment that appropriate for the user is an advantage that Linux has over windoze. But perhaps we need a common platform (beneath both QT and GTK and whatever) that provides "desktop environment services" to the above environment(s). The services would include things that make the user experience a little bit more seamless if they are using apps from the two environments (which I *do* think happens a lot). So I mean things like clipboard services, themes (as according to rms), hotkeys, etc. I am sure that it is possible to define such a layer in such a way that developers of the above environments can inovate to their hearts content. Besides, I love layers! :)
We've used NetFlix for about 12 months and have found it to be perfect. You can either have 3 or 8 DVDs out at once (we just use 3). In the twelve months we've had two incidents that were handled fine. One DVD was lost in the mail when we returned it. We just marked it as lost and they sent the next one (I imagine they check for people who have an unusually high number of lost DVDs). Also, a few months ago, I accidentally returned one of my music CDs instead of the movies. They noticed and returned my CD without a hitch. The Netflix website attempts to guess what movies you like based on your feedback (if you provide it) and then recommend movies. That probably needs a little work - it seems like it generalizes into a fairly small number of groups.