um, the current approach is that the MD5 sums are stored on a separate server, many separate servers, in fact. I have nothing against PGP signatures, I'm just saying there's really no need to get hysterical - the current system is still pretty damn difficult to get around.
1. linux will never be anything but Linus' pet project.
2. ok, so it may be a nice server OS, but it will never get on the desktop
3. ok, it may be a desktop OS, but it will never ever enter the professional graphics and 3D animation market
4. ok, it may be used by many of the major animation houses, but it will never be a professional audio platform
see a pattern developing? This whole "there is no software" argument is great, but here's a little secret (I feel confident saying this, as I am a developer) - people actually write software! Software that does not currently exist, can come into being through the efforts of mere mortals. Of course a relatively large software company getting into the market has absolutely nothing to do with this...
I suppose that they could sell boxed copies, but I don't know anyone who actually buys those (I just DL the ISOs).
with this logic, the guy must be an engineer: "I - a dork on/. - do not buy boxed distributions, my friends - most likely also/. dorks - do not buy boxed distributions, ergo, nobody buys boxed distributions."
I am neither a director (who is the person against whom my "hate" is directed), nor am I a graphic artist, so I am not in a position to set an example of good CG. Then again, I do not try to charge people $10 to go see what I create.
My skills notwithstanding, what exactly is the problem? This very bad movie (not my fault, that Lucas blew $300 mil to make a very bad movie) contains some bad CG (again not my fault). There are movies that have some really good CG, and the bar for very high-budget, intensly hyped movies has been set much higher than what we saw in Episode II. I think I am understandibly upset that I've spent money (even if not all that much) and expended time to see people do their job badly.
for one, 100% of the world is not online (not even at 28.8) so they hardly represent the "real world" here. secondly, the overwhelming majority of/. readers are from the US, and while it is all nice and grand to consider the world as a whole, to most people reading this the "world" consists of those 280 million living in the US. Hell, I'm not even from the US myself, just happen to be living here for a while, and I'm sorry if I am mean to most of the world, but believe me, an overwhelming majority of them have much bigger problems than not having fucking DSL.
incidentally, seeing how I am privileged enough to be able to pay for all the bandwith I want, I'll download precisely what I please. (in this case it will be whatever emerge gets, but nonetheless)
um, yeah, having broadband (along with, what is it now, about half the US?) means I live in some sort of fantasy world.
out of curiosity - I keep seeing these 28.8 references, I can understand not being able to get DSL or cable, but why not at least buy a more or less modern modem? 56.6 came out a looong time ago
Your post smacks of one searching desperatly for a stick with which to beat the movie, and I have to wonder why.
Me too - awful writing, non-existent plot, atroceous acting, annoying characters, horrible looking CGI, worst dialogue anyone's seen in a long time, etc. You don't really have to search for things to bash the movie for.
aren't stable branch releases supposed to be just that - bug fixes? the "interesting" stuff goes into 2.5
but yeah, the "user friendly digest summary" idea is brought up every time, guess that kernel literate person who wants to take the time to do it ever time has not materialized yet.
(as a side note - shouldn't having karma of "fucking awesome" or whatever mine is, relieve you of the whole "you must wait two minutes between posts" thing? ok, maybe this wasn't the best post to attach this gripe to, but still...)
I just "buy" a donation, and then do a FTP install
CDs aren't quite what I meant - the portage tree is maintained by the Gentoo team, separately from any of the ftp mirrors you use for the package downloads (updated via rsync, incidentally). So for the attack to succeed, not only do the ftp mirrors have to be compromised, but also the Gentoo tree (and then the attacks would still be caught by the FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc, rather quickly) Certainly this system isn't impregnable, but there's enough redundancy here to make successful attacks rather difficult.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for PGP signatures, it's just that out of the 500+ posts in this thread, around 2/3 have mentioned it, it's probably enough advocacy for one day:)
It's a great idea, though will only work effectively if the checking is done automatically by systems like Portage; and I'm sure it will be implemented not that long from now, it's not like the guys who write this software know less about security than we do;)
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um, the current approach is that the MD5 sums are stored on a separate server, many separate servers, in fact. I have nothing against PGP signatures, I'm just saying there's really no need to get hysterical - the current system is still pretty damn difficult to get around.
better yet, they need freaking lasers attached to their heads
I don't have friends who use windows.
so you are saying that, in fact, size doesn't matter?
2. ok, so it may be a nice server OS, but it will never get on the desktop
3. ok, it may be a desktop OS, but it will never ever enter the professional graphics and 3D animation market
4. ok, it may be used by many of the major animation houses, but it will never be a professional audio platform
see a pattern developing? This whole "there is no software" argument is great, but here's a little secret (I feel confident saying this, as I am a developer) - people actually write software! Software that does not currently exist, can come into being through the efforts of mere mortals. Of course a relatively large software company getting into the market has absolutely nothing to do with this...
with this logic, the guy must be an engineer: "I - a dork on /. - do not buy boxed distributions, my friends - most likely also /. dorks - do not buy boxed distributions, ergo, nobody buys boxed distributions."
RedHat sells software. They are, in fact, profitable. It's amazing the sort of thing you have to explain to people.
My skills notwithstanding, what exactly is the problem? This very bad movie (not my fault, that Lucas blew $300 mil to make a very bad movie) contains some bad CG (again not my fault). There are movies that have some really good CG, and the bar for very high-budget, intensly hyped movies has been set much higher than what we saw in Episode II. I think I am understandibly upset that I've spent money (even if not all that much) and expended time to see people do their job badly.
incidentally, seeing how I am privileged enough to be able to pay for all the bandwith I want, I'll download precisely what I please. (in this case it will be whatever emerge gets, but nonetheless)
(it is just inexcusable shit, though, that's true)
oh come on - there are great real world uses for web services. for one, UDDI, WSDL and SOAP are three more acronyms that make any resume look cooler!
out of curiosity - I keep seeing these 28.8 references, I can understand not being able to get DSL or cable, but why not at least buy a more or less modern modem? 56.6 came out a looong time ago
I love that :)
I don't believe that OS software is called free at all; free software is free, open source is open source, quite simple really.
oh! cars!!!
Me too - awful writing, non-existent plot, atroceous acting, annoying characters, horrible looking CGI, worst dialogue anyone's seen in a long time, etc. You don't really have to search for things to bash the movie for.
bash$ emerge --update media-video/star-wars
nope, didn't work
but yeah, the "user friendly digest summary" idea is brought up every time, guess that kernel literate person who wants to take the time to do it ever time has not materialized yet.
(as a side note - shouldn't having karma of "fucking awesome" or whatever mine is, relieve you of the whole "you must wait two minutes between posts" thing? ok, maybe this wasn't the best post to attach this gripe to, but still...)
finished downloading? geez, it's only about 25 megs, it's not like you wait for it...
From: Ron Natalie (ron@brl-tgr.ARPA)
Subject: Re: Computer bugs in the year 2000
Date: 1985-01-27 15:19:06 PST
Of course, UNIX time (seconds past midnight GMT 1 Jan 1970 in 32 bits) falls apart around 2042.
pah! how many native windows games can you give a 5 out of 5 reliability rating running under Windows?
I hope there's somebody there to slap you...
CDs aren't quite what I meant - the portage tree is maintained by the Gentoo team, separately from any of the ftp mirrors you use for the package downloads (updated via rsync, incidentally). So for the attack to succeed, not only do the ftp mirrors have to be compromised, but also the Gentoo tree (and then the attacks would still be caught by the FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc, rather quickly) Certainly this system isn't impregnable, but there's enough redundancy here to make successful attacks rather difficult.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for PGP signatures, it's just that out of the 500+ posts in this thread, around 2/3 have mentioned it, it's probably enough advocacy for one day :)
It's a great idea, though will only work effectively if the checking is done automatically by systems like Portage; and I'm sure it will be implemented not that long from now, it's not like the guys who write this software know less about security than we do ;)
cute.