---..that people understand a User Interface is as much a science as it is an art. It is something that takes skill and talent.
Keep thinking that. Designing GUI's isnt that hard. YOu just got to listen to the yeah's and nay's of your user crowd. If somebody says "WTF am I supposed to do", you did something wrong.
Most Open Source developers take criticism personally. If you talk bad about their baby, you're non-existant.
---A good place ot start understanding about design huristics is www.humanfactors.com/home/default.asp
---With that said, after coding GUI's in Swing for 4 years (doing other non-code stuff now) focusing on productivity and usability for the end-user, I simply love Mas OSX's Aqua skin and the design of most Apple products. Very usable. A pleasure to look at. And a guide for any GUI developer to learn from. Search Apple's site for a design guide.
I've not seen your gui's but I know about Apple. Something's about Quicktime where they TOTALLY DISREGARDED THEIR OWN USABILITY DOCUMENTS.
Still, you remind me of a Macintrash fanboy. I take it all critically. Apple usually makes good stuff, but QT was shit. MS has made tons of shit in UI designing, and plenty of 3'rd party apps for windows are also shit. And there's Sourceforge. I'd be embarassed to have my name linked on most of the projects at that site.
---1) Go read a history of UNIX / M.I.T / Stephen Levy's "Hackers" book. Then you'll understand people were giving away software long before they had any ideas before making money out of it. Selling software is a newer idea...
What you talk about is the original Unix Way. If every program is a simple single minded program, and somebodt else would like to borrow a snippet of code, why not? And no, selling software is NOT a new idea. It's just another way to pay the programmers on code. And of course, if they open that code up, why buy their product (enter vicious circle)
---2) OSS/FSF/GPL exist purely to protect the rights of those who *choose* to distribute software freely to continue to do that, to allow them (and anyone else) the ability to use and modify that software and to ensure that nothing is hidden behind proprietary standards.
I think you misunderstand standards documents. Standards can be wrote in plain language that describe how something happens. Code is just an implementation of that standard.
---3) Microsoft *sell* software. They are not innovaters, just damn good at repackaging the ideas of others and marketing it - or just buying the company that innovated it in the first place. They can, and have, used Open Source software ideas in their own products but, then, that's what it's designed for. (Yes, when you Windows people venture to the command line on your Windows boxes, whenever you "ping" something, you're using software that originated from the dirty, disgusting free software movement.)
Oh fun. Yet another "I hate MS" person. Get this straight. They are a business. They are in the software business to make money. They arent in there to evangelize, bemoan, or any other religious war that MANY linux users get suckered into. Even the FreeBSD people are worse in that regard. Does "My shit does not smell" make sense to you?
---4) OSS does not give a damn about Microsoft "competition". OSS/Linux/FreeBSD users, who probably have experience with Windows, might hate Microsoft (yes, I'm one of them) because of their business methods, rubbish software or simply because it's "cool". But OSS was there long before Microsoft as a defence against predatory practices from UNIX vendors and will be there long after.
There's plenty of reasons why you would use Linux, rather than Microsoft stuff that would not be "I hate MS" topic.
First, Linux on the servers makes sense because MS has a bad tendancy to break stuff/leave servers unpatched.
Secondly, Linux is coming up to common recognition. I'm just riding the wave so I'll have an edge on the new Linux users.
Third, I cant afford a Legit copy of MS programming suite, so I use GCC. That pisses me off more than anything, cause I remember the days where MS gave away compiliers (Quick Basic) so you could do basic programming stuff. Now, you have to fork over 300$ to get a copy. With Linux, GCC is free, along with all the libs, and additional compilers. And I get multiple CPU compiles;-) The compiler is probably the biggest reason for me to 'switch'. If I could develop Windows stuff (and see basic windows programming like seeing the source for notepad and calc), I'd probably wouldnt have went to Linux.
---5) Microsoft reducing the cost of their products / turning Windows into an operating system / sticking Gates' head on a pole outside 1 Microsoft Way might slow down the migration from Windows to OSS but it probably won't do anything whatsoever to those already using / developing OSS software.
What? So you wanna stick Gates' head to a pole which will speed up Open source?
--6) Microsoft cannot buy OSS because there's nothing tangible to own, they can't stamp on OSS because it's too widespread, they can just continue to spread FUD as they've always done. End of OSS lesson...
!THUMP! What was that? Oh, just the dead horse getting beat.
You're right, it's a form of a rant. Still, these things bug me. The way I write is the way I understand.
---Dismembering a person to remove, e.g., their eyeballs, will not work to fool biometrics systems. A dead eyeball is noticeably dissimilar from a live one.
It is to the person looking at the 'eyeball', but a computer is stupid. If the eye retinal pattern matches, which it should being either from a live person, or 'fresh'.
---And house thieves are much more likely to break a window than dismember you or even try stealing your keys. (But, then, you're much less likely to lose your eyeballs.)
I wouldnt put that against thives who do armed thieving. They wouldnt care less. 1 dead victin is one less that'll squeal.
---Anyway, a handful of what you've said is true, especially re the reliability of such complex systems. You shouldn't have broached the, "this isn't new," argument, however.
And why not? The integreation on that level is new, but the rest is mostly what we have now. All they seem to add is a lot of network glue along with tons of MS 'stuff'. I dont have any issues with the networking, but I have deep issues with the ideas of transaction loggings, GPS logging, and a bunch of other things.
---Almost every person that attacks from that angle is wrong or has missed the point. Or, as with you, both. What Microsoft proposes is an evolution of voice intercom systems, so this is entirely different from voice intercoms.
They just add some form of rudimentary AI along with voice recognition. My personaly opinion is neither will come along without a bit of investment in evolving firmware (via fgpa's) or emulation of vastly complicated neural nets (perhaps ASIC's on pci like slots on 'main computer).
---This means you're wrong. And, anyway, the point wasn't, "Oh my fucking god, nobody's ever thought of these ideas before, we're brilliant and innovative!" It was the execution of the ideas; how they were all tied together and met the user's (hypothetical) needs.
The way I see this 'integration is tons of sensors along with a database server . The HOME-OS creates order from the basic information along with basic inputs. All this is put inside a database, perhaps 1 table to 1 room. Once you do the hard part (data-handling within the database), the rest is Plug-n-Play. And knowing MS, they'll lock in most of the varibles so no normal users can handle them (in other words, NO custimisability).
---This is why it was setup as a HOME demo, and not a PRODUCT demo.
I know. But things like these give you an idea where THEY want to be in X years. Look at these kind of things as early-warning detecters.
Ugh. Microsoft house. Other than the obvious "Security comments" and pissNshit jokes, lets get down to some seriousness. And by the way, what's with ChrisD NOT allowing comments on creation??
---Visitors to the house can leave a message via the touch-screen monitor built into the exterior wall or record a message if no one's home.
What?? We already have voice intercomms, and some have a rudimentary X-10-like cam in there. Other than being a node on a network, what's soo special? Hell, I've even speced up a security network using Linux and such tools....demonstrates how a resident might enter using a retinal scanner instead of a key. Any such biometric screening device could be used...
Retinal, yeah, but what about "Any biometric device"? If it's a hand print, gelatin (thanks to the japanese guy who 'found' it out). And to beat ANY biometric crap, all you need is the following: Eyes : Spoons Hands : Saw, axe... Face shape: Axe and cutting block... (eww)
Point is that biometric doesnt matter. A key would probably stop that unnessary dismemberment.
---All of the home's basic functionality is available in a pocket PC-turned-light-switch...
Yeah, and we can trust the wireless protocols? We cant even trust the 802.11 encryption people, let alone MS for security. Who's to know that you could walk near and hijack a house computer system?
---It's like Web TV and a personal video recorder combined (add~~ read email wherever)
Why would you want a tether like a PDA to haul around the house to control basic stuff? The last thing is to be harassed by email for this and that when my girlfriends over. Hell, I WANT CONTROL OVER EMAIL only when I'm sitting at my computer. I could give a shit less. And if it's really important, they'll call.
And about that TV setup... Soo it's like MythTV?
---would monitor her activities to make sure everything's okay.
And how would we prevent that those same sensors wouldnt be in a non-invalid house? Any audio/video sensor (read nearly everything) is that kind of sensor. If I'd have that kind of hardware, it'd be on a NON-INTERNET'ED network, with no physical connections to any network, with exception to the phone line. And that would be only for emergency phone calls (like fire sensors in roof have been set off...).
Another thing is this auto-cooking shit. I wouldnt expect any computer can give reasonable instructions on how to cook. Cooking's an art, mastered by those with experience. How can some 2 bit computer deal with recipe substitutions cause you dont have that one good it demands? Or will it DEMAND KRAFT CHEESE when you bought that slab of american for 1.4$ per pound? Computers should follow MY rules, not the other way around.
---All of the computer displays in the future house will be hooked up to a central computer that coordinates their activities. This is critical for broad-based features such as homework lock-down, which parents can use to disable TV, music and other home entertainment until the schoolwork is done.
Uhhh, cant that already be done with X-Windows and cron jobs?
And of course, you gotta have that SoHo stuff for those never-off-the-clock business users. That's a slashdot article in all its own. Still, all this GPS here, Voice analysis there and add yet more buzzwords.
Point: There's tons of stuff in any house that you dont want ANYTHING taking control of, with the exception of the person there. I sure dont want some windows security system that goes in lock-down mode whenever the cat jumps around knocking some book down, or have it call the fire department on a bad computer cooking stint. And what about errors? There's tons of bugs in this kind, no, ANY kind of system on this magnitude. I wouldnt trust ANY OS, even Linux to take care and log every little transaction in and out of my house. And the last thing I want is a transaction log that some law enforcement agency can download if they have the certain e-signature allowing such search and seizure. The supreme court has shown that they dont care for our rights.
Oh well, this has turned from a objection by point to a obnoxious rant. This is just stuff that I worry about when "shit from the future" happens to be partially true. It makes me think that there's actually a way to stop it.
Yeah. and the second they do that, and I'll fire a harassment, blackmail, bla bla lawsuit to get THEM to put it back in.
The encryption, blackholing and everything else is to go against their very wrong views of "Open up so we can probe you whenever we want to". Second of all, I use GPG encryption at high key lengths normally. That's a standard with talking to me about 'certain' subjects.
---Except that my university does port sniffing, and so its not possible to use the campus broadband as you suggest.
Whoops, the school network has been routed to/dev/null with exception of the gateway.
---Likewise they routinely inspect windows file sharing directories.
What if you're not sharing, say by killing of smbd and nmbd?
---Don't *even* lock them out, or your off the net.
And how do they prove that you're "locking them off"? Would their 'hacking' be unauthorized entry?
---My running Norton Internet Security on my windows partition was a problem for them. I had to appeal being kicked off.
They're just fucking with you. If you were serious, I' do a class action suit under the terms of harassment, Hacking, and threats to my educational careear. Get a shitload of people too.
---(They also reserve the right to intercept email.)
But can they decrypt 4096 bit RSA keys? Methinks not.
Perhaps this is the start of having he "other" dns'es take off. We all know how bad Verisign is with DNS (like slamming, overcharging, and in general cheating).
Seems like they're pulling a Microsoft to me. But this time, the big guys are pulling a "WTF" on them.
Too true, but something I've noticed that FreeBSD has at install-time is the wheel group. ONLY MEMBERS OF THE WHEEL GROUP CAN USE SU. With that in place on all accounts (except root, and select admins) do you not allow su. In that case, if a bash script virus (?) does manage to run and 'procreate', it can only infect [HOME] and/tmp . Makes it easier to clean up too. Just kill all user's processes and remove files in/tmp and clean his [HOME].
The sad thing is that normal Linux distro's dont even have this set up. Pity.
All these consoles everybody's mentioning here are the consoles that I walked by thinking they're trash.
This the the sequence of consoles that I thought were quality...
Nintendo (tons and tons of games, many greats) Super Nintendo (Still tons of games, some of the best are in here) (skip N64 to...) Playstation (The start of true 3d games. Many sucked, but it was new stuff) PS2/Gameqube/eXbox (Who knows. I do computer games and such these days)
That's why Apple went with BSD's. If anything happens to their OS, they just make world on thier new system. And they can port to any system that can compile gcc code. Essentilaay, its a moot point if G5 is never completed.
DOnt know about anybody else, but after playing any game on the virtual boy, I developed a nasty headache. And it happened about 20 minutes in every time.
I see people talking how this is not cost effective, but there's something everyone's missing. Where's all that money invested into? The graphics card. Wasnt there a slashdot story that pumped data into the gfx card as vector equasions and then read the output of the data? And for some reason, I remember a GF4200 putting out a theoritical 1 Tflop.
---He should just re-release his stuff under some other license (maybe a modified gzip that satisifies his problems with binary distribution) and just go on his way.
If they re-release MPlayer under a different license, dont they have to get permission from EVERY developer (from 1 line fix to 10000)?
1: Job security: Why the hell does a teacher get tenure? Oncce they get it, their teaching goes to shit. I want to encourage good teachers.
2: Groth: Whooptee shit. Doesnt it say something about colleges that you can do a lateral slide in what you do, in so much that you've never dealt with that problem before?
Yeah, lets hire an art major for the IT dept. Wonder how that would go down in the real world?
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---..that people understand a User Interface is as much a science as it is an art. It is something that takes skill and talent.
Keep thinking that. Designing GUI's isnt that hard. YOu just got to listen to the yeah's and nay's of your user crowd. If somebody says "WTF am I supposed to do", you did something wrong.
Most Open Source developers take criticism personally. If you talk bad about their baby, you're non-existant.
---A good place ot start understanding about design huristics is www.humanfactors.com/home/default.asp
---With that said, after coding GUI's in Swing for 4 years (doing other non-code stuff now) focusing on productivity and usability for the end-user, I simply love Mas OSX's Aqua skin and the design of most Apple products. Very usable. A pleasure to look at. And a guide for any GUI developer to learn from. Search Apple's site for a design guide.
I've not seen your gui's but I know about Apple. Something's about Quicktime where they TOTALLY DISREGARDED THEIR OWN USABILITY DOCUMENTS.
Still, you remind me of a Macintrash fanboy. I take it all critically. Apple usually makes good stuff, but QT was shit. MS has made tons of shit in UI designing, and plenty of 3'rd party apps for windows are also shit. And there's Sourceforge. I'd be embarassed to have my name linked on most of the projects at that site.
Do any spam filters work (as in NOT throwing out legit mails) other than ourselves?
---1) Go read a history of UNIX / M.I.T / Stephen Levy's "Hackers" book. Then you'll understand people were giving away software long before they had any ideas before making money out of it. Selling software is a newer idea...
;-) The compiler is probably the biggest reason for me to 'switch'. If I could develop Windows stuff (and see basic windows programming like seeing the source for notepad and calc), I'd probably wouldnt have went to Linux.
What you talk about is the original Unix Way. If every program is a simple single minded program, and somebodt else would like to borrow a snippet of code, why not? And no, selling software is NOT a new idea. It's just another way to pay the programmers on code. And of course, if they open that code up, why buy their product (enter vicious circle)
---2) OSS/FSF/GPL exist purely to protect the rights of those who *choose* to distribute software freely to continue to do that, to allow them (and anyone else) the ability to use and modify that software and to ensure that nothing is hidden behind proprietary standards.
I think you misunderstand standards documents. Standards can be wrote in plain language that describe how something happens. Code is just an implementation of that standard.
---3) Microsoft *sell* software. They are not innovaters, just damn good at repackaging the ideas of others and marketing it - or just buying the company that innovated it in the first place. They can, and have, used Open Source software ideas in their own products but, then, that's what it's designed for. (Yes, when you Windows people venture to the command line on your Windows boxes, whenever you "ping" something, you're using software that originated from the dirty, disgusting free software movement.)
Oh fun. Yet another "I hate MS" person. Get this straight. They are a business. They are in the software business to make money. They arent in there to evangelize, bemoan, or any other religious war that MANY linux users get suckered into. Even the FreeBSD people are worse in that regard. Does "My shit does not smell" make sense to you?
---4) OSS does not give a damn about Microsoft "competition". OSS/Linux/FreeBSD users, who probably have experience with Windows, might hate Microsoft (yes, I'm one of them) because of their business methods, rubbish software or simply because it's "cool". But OSS was there long before Microsoft as a defence against predatory practices from UNIX vendors and will be there long after.
There's plenty of reasons why you would use Linux, rather than Microsoft stuff that would not be "I hate MS" topic.
First, Linux on the servers makes sense because MS has a bad tendancy to break stuff/leave servers unpatched.
Secondly, Linux is coming up to common recognition. I'm just riding the wave so I'll have an edge on the new Linux users.
Third, I cant afford a Legit copy of MS programming suite, so I use GCC. That pisses me off more than anything, cause I remember the days where MS gave away compiliers (Quick Basic) so you could do basic programming stuff. Now, you have to fork over 300$ to get a copy. With Linux, GCC is free, along with all the libs, and additional compilers. And I get multiple CPU compiles
---5) Microsoft reducing the cost of their products / turning Windows into an operating system / sticking Gates' head on a pole outside 1 Microsoft Way might slow down the migration from Windows to OSS but it probably won't do anything whatsoever to those already using / developing OSS software.
What? So you wanna stick Gates' head to a pole which will speed up Open source?
--6) Microsoft cannot buy OSS because there's nothing tangible to own, they can't stamp on OSS because it's too widespread, they can just continue to spread FUD as they've always done. End of OSS lesson...
!THUMP! What was that? Oh, just the dead horse getting beat.
You're right, it's a form of a rant. Still, these things bug me. The way I write is the way I understand.
---Dismembering a person to remove, e.g., their eyeballs, will not work to fool biometrics systems. A dead eyeball is noticeably dissimilar from a live one.
It is to the person looking at the 'eyeball', but a computer is stupid. If the eye retinal pattern matches, which it should being either from a live person, or 'fresh'.
---And house thieves are much more likely to break a window than dismember you or even try stealing your keys. (But, then, you're much less likely to lose your eyeballs.)
I wouldnt put that against thives who do armed thieving. They wouldnt care less. 1 dead victin is one less that'll squeal.
---Anyway, a handful of what you've said is true, especially re the reliability of such complex systems. You shouldn't have broached the, "this isn't new," argument, however.
And why not? The integreation on that level is new, but the rest is mostly what we have now. All they seem to add is a lot of network glue along with tons of MS 'stuff'. I dont have any issues with the networking, but I have deep issues with the ideas of transaction loggings, GPS logging, and a bunch of other things.
---Almost every person that attacks from that angle is wrong or has missed the point. Or, as with you, both. What Microsoft proposes is an evolution of voice intercom systems, so this is entirely different from voice intercoms.
They just add some form of rudimentary AI along with voice recognition. My personaly opinion is neither will come along without a bit of investment in evolving firmware (via fgpa's) or emulation of vastly complicated neural nets (perhaps ASIC's on pci like slots on 'main computer).
---This means you're wrong. And, anyway, the point wasn't, "Oh my fucking god, nobody's ever thought of these ideas before, we're brilliant and innovative!" It was the execution of the ideas; how they were all tied together and met the user's (hypothetical) needs.
The way I see this 'integration is tons of sensors along with a database server . The HOME-OS creates order from the basic information along with basic inputs. All this is put inside a database, perhaps 1 table to 1 room. Once you do the hard part (data-handling within the database), the rest is Plug-n-Play. And knowing MS, they'll lock in most of the varibles so no normal users can handle them (in other words, NO custimisability).
---This is why it was setup as a HOME demo, and not a PRODUCT demo.
I know. But things like these give you an idea where THEY want to be in X years. Look at these kind of things as early-warning detecters.
Ugh. Microsoft house. Other than the obvious "Security comments" and pissNshit
...demonstrates how a resident might enter using a retinal scanner instead of a
jokes, lets get down to some seriousness. And by the way, what's with ChrisD NOT allowing comments on creation??
---Visitors to the house can leave a message via the touch-screen monitor built
into the exterior wall or record a message if no one's home.
What?? We already have voice intercomms, and some have a rudimentary X-10-like
cam in there. Other than being a node on a network, what's soo special? Hell,
I've even speced up a security network using Linux and such tools.
key. Any such biometric screening device could be used...
Retinal, yeah, but what about "Any biometric device"? If it's a hand print,
gelatin (thanks to the japanese guy who 'found' it out). And to beat ANY
biometric crap, all you need is the following:
Eyes : Spoons
Hands : Saw, axe...
Face shape: Axe and cutting block... (eww)
Point is that biometric doesnt matter. A key would probably stop that unnessary
dismemberment.
---All of the home's basic functionality is available in a pocket
PC-turned-light-switch...
Yeah, and we can trust the wireless protocols? We cant even trust the 802.11
encryption people, let alone MS for security. Who's to know that you could walk
near and hijack a house computer system?
---It's like Web TV and a personal video recorder combined (add~~ read email
wherever)
Why would you want a tether like a PDA to haul around the house to control basic stuff? The last thing is to be harassed by email for this and that when my girlfriends over. Hell, I WANT CONTROL OVER EMAIL only when I'm sitting at my computer. I could give a shit less. And if it's really important, they'll call.
And about that TV setup... Soo it's like MythTV?
---would monitor her activities to make sure everything's okay.
And how would we prevent that those same sensors wouldnt be in a non-invalid
house? Any audio/video sensor (read nearly everything) is that kind of sensor.
If I'd have that kind of hardware, it'd be on a NON-INTERNET'ED network, with no physical connections to any network, with exception to the phone line. And that would be only for emergency phone calls (like fire sensors in roof have been set off...).
Another thing is this auto-cooking shit. I wouldnt expect any computer can give
reasonable instructions on how to cook. Cooking's an art, mastered by those with
experience. How can some 2 bit computer deal with recipe substitutions cause you dont have that one good it demands? Or will it DEMAND KRAFT CHEESE when you
bought that slab of american for 1.4$ per pound? Computers should follow MY
rules, not the other way around.
---All of the computer displays in the future house will be hooked up to a
central computer that coordinates their activities. This is critical for
broad-based features such as homework lock-down, which parents can use to
disable TV, music and other home entertainment until the schoolwork is done.
Uhhh, cant that already be done with X-Windows and cron jobs?
And of course, you gotta have that SoHo stuff for those never-off-the-clock
business users. That's a slashdot article in all its own. Still, all this GPS
here, Voice analysis there and add yet more buzzwords.
Point: There's tons of stuff in any house that you dont want ANYTHING taking
control of, with the exception of the person there. I sure dont want some
windows security system that goes in lock-down mode whenever the cat jumps
around knocking some book down, or have it call the fire department on a bad
computer cooking stint. And what about errors? There's tons of bugs in this
kind, no, ANY kind of system on this magnitude. I wouldnt trust ANY OS, even
Linux to take care and log every little transaction in and out of my house. And
the last thing I want is a transaction log that some law enforcement agency can
download if they have the certain e-signature allowing such search and seizure.
The supreme court has shown that they dont care for our rights.
Oh well, this has turned from a objection by point to a obnoxious rant. This is
just stuff that I worry about when "shit from the future" happens to be
partially true. It makes me think that there's actually a way to stop it.
Think that's funny? Get a load of this.
http://www.microsoftlinux.com/
And the guy's serious. Makes a good point too.
And PLEASE, tell me how you pronounce YOUR NAME, gwerwol?
I pronounce it like X-ming win. like ex-Penguin (with the p soundling like M)
Yeah. and the second they do that, and I'll fire a harassment, blackmail, bla bla lawsuit to get THEM to put it back in.
The encryption, blackholing and everything else is to go against their very wrong views of "Open up so we can probe you whenever we want to". Second of all, I use GPG encryption at high key lengths normally. That's a standard with talking to me about 'certain' subjects.
---Except that my university does port sniffing, and so its not possible to use the campus broadband as you suggest.
/dev/null with exception of the gateway.
Whoops, the school network has been routed to
---Likewise they routinely inspect windows file sharing directories.
What if you're not sharing, say by killing of smbd and nmbd?
---Don't *even* lock them out, or your off the net.
And how do they prove that you're "locking them off"? Would their 'hacking' be unauthorized entry?
---My running Norton Internet Security on my windows partition was a problem for them. I had to appeal being kicked off.
They're just fucking with you. If you were serious, I' do a class action suit under the terms of harassment, Hacking, and threats to my educational careear. Get a shitload of people too.
---(They also reserve the right to intercept email.)
But can they decrypt 4096 bit RSA keys? Methinks not.
Perhaps this is the start of having he "other" dns'es take off. We all know how bad Verisign is with DNS (like slamming, overcharging, and in general cheating).
Seems like they're pulling a Microsoft to me. But this time, the big guys are pulling a "WTF" on them.
Too true, but something I've noticed that FreeBSD has at install-time is the wheel group. /tmp . Makes it easier to clean up too. Just kill all user's processes and remove files in /tmp and clean his [HOME].
ONLY MEMBERS OF THE WHEEL GROUP CAN USE SU. With that in place on all accounts (except root, and select admins) do you not allow su. In that case, if a bash script virus (?) does manage to run and 'procreate', it can only infect [HOME] and
The sad thing is that normal Linux distro's dont even have this set up. Pity.
All these consoles everybody's mentioning here are the consoles that I walked by thinking they're trash.
This the the sequence of consoles that I thought were quality...
Nintendo (tons and tons of games, many greats)
Super Nintendo (Still tons of games, some of the best are in here)
(skip N64 to...)
Playstation (The start of true 3d games. Many sucked, but it was new stuff)
PS2/Gameqube/eXbox (Who knows. I do computer games and such these days)
If what you say is true, only Ambidex'es could use this console without ills..
The sad thing is the games were fun. I just couldnt play them.
This comes up under the category of NO SHIT.
That's why Apple went with BSD's. If anything happens to their OS, they just make world on thier new system. And they can port to any system that can compile gcc code. Essentilaay, its a moot point if G5 is never completed.
DOnt know about anybody else, but after playing any game on the virtual boy, I developed a nasty headache. And it happened about 20 minutes in every time.
I see people talking how this is not cost effective, but there's something everyone's missing. Where's all that money invested into? The graphics card. Wasnt there a slashdot story that pumped data into the gfx card as vector equasions and then read the output of the data? And for some reason, I remember a GF4200 putting out a theoritical 1 Tflop.
Perhaps this isnt soo cost uneffective?
---He should just re-release his stuff under some other license (maybe a modified gzip that satisifies his problems with binary distribution) and just go on his way.
If they re-release MPlayer under a different license, dont they have to get permission from EVERY developer (from 1 line fix to 10000)?
So when's it going to be used against US?
If you're going to "hack it in", dont get any penis burns.
---Really, my knowledge of the human body is limited to the parts that give me pain.
Wouldnt that make you a sado-masochist?
Masochist: HURT ME! Please!
Sadist: Hmmm. NO.
Perhaps we should have an article to "ASK SLASHDOT" about if we could improve Slashdot.com ?
and yet, here you are.
And as a student, I see a few things against me.
1: Job security: Why the hell does a teacher get tenure? Oncce they get it, their teaching goes to shit. I want to encourage good teachers.
2: Groth: Whooptee shit. Doesnt it say something about colleges that you can do a lateral slide in what you do, in so much that you've never dealt with that problem before?
Yeah, lets hire an art major for the IT dept. Wonder how that would go down in the real world?
Does (DEFUNCT) mean anything to you? It's hard to kill the undead.