I have no idea what the article writer was saying... whether he is just stupid or just another anti-MS troll. Increasing font sizes (and icon sizes) under Windows is incredibly easy, a thousand-thousand fold easier than a comparing Linux window manager.... even the "easy" ones... ever seen the configuration page for Sawfish? Christ!
"I'm suing John Ashcroft, two airlines, and various other agencies over making people show IDs to fly -- an intrusive measure that provides no security."
leads me to believe that this guy's a little bit deranged.
PS: For those who know I don't fly in the US because of the ID demand: I'm willing to show a passport to travel to another country. I'm not willing to show ID -- an "internal passport" -- to fly within my own country.
Freedoms at the door. Flying isn't a God-given right, it's a damn privelege. When you board a plane, you play by their rules. The public transportation in my city has cameras on all the busses... it's meant to aid in finding those the vandalize or otherwise break the law.
Whining about this is almost as bad as the tool that got kicked off a British Airways flight for wearing a button that said "Suspected Terrorist." When you board a plane, you no longer follow the Constitution to the letter --- it's not the open public. It's either their way, or the Long Island Expressway.
Learn to play by others' rules or until then, STFU.
RMS hates Linux... it's a fact. He's just pissy that his P.O.S. HURD just didn't make the cut, sees the Linux camp as jacking his "GNU OS" and trolling is his way of letting off steam.
He may be intelligent but he's a tool from what I can see.
su actually stands for "Switch User" I believe, and you can in fact switch to any user:
SU(1) OpenBSD Reference Manual SU(1)
NAME
su - substitute user identity
SYNOPSIS
su [-fKLlm] [-a auth-type] [-c login-class] [login [shell arguments]]
DESCRIPTION
su requests the Kerberos password for login (or for ``login.root'', if no
login is provided), and switches to that user and group ID after obtain-
ing a Kerberos ticket granting access. A shell is then executed, and any
additional shell arguments after the login name are passed to the shell.
su will resort to the local password file to find the password for login
if there is a Kerberos error or if Kerberos is not installed. If su is
executed by root, no password is requested and a shell with the appropri-
ate user ID is executed; no additional Kerberos tickets are obtained.
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Do you know offhand if this can run straight-away on Debian-stable without upgrading any other dependencies (like for instance, GNU libc)?
I have no idea what the article writer was saying... whether he is just stupid or just another anti-MS troll. Increasing font sizes (and icon sizes) under Windows is incredibly easy, a thousand-thousand fold easier than a comparing Linux window manager.... even the "easy" ones... ever seen the configuration page for Sawfish? Christ!
That's funny, when I run apt-get I've seen "MD5 sum mismatch, try downloading the package again"
You'd also probably have a more intellectually stimulating conversation with the robot than with a high school-aged girl, these days.
Oh dear. <shudder>
So when you board a plane you lose your constitutional rights? As far as "its not the open public" I'm not sure wtf your talking about...
Yes. You aren't guaranteed freedom of speech on private property. An aircraft is private property.
Just looking at his second sentence...
"I'm suing John Ashcroft, two airlines, and various other agencies over making people show IDs to fly -- an intrusive measure that provides no security."
leads me to believe that this guy's a little bit deranged.
PS: For those who know I don't fly in the US because of the ID demand: I'm willing to show a passport to travel to another country. I'm not
willing to show ID -- an "internal passport" -- to fly within my own country.
This guy's just an asshole, plain and simple.
Freedoms at the door. Flying isn't a God-given right, it's a damn privelege. When you board a plane, you play by their rules. The public transportation in my city has cameras on all the busses... it's meant to aid in finding those the vandalize or otherwise break the law.
Whining about this is almost as bad as the tool that got kicked off a British Airways flight for wearing a button that said "Suspected Terrorist." When you board a plane, you no longer follow the Constitution to the letter --- it's not the open public. It's either their way, or the Long Island Expressway.
Learn to play by others' rules or until then, STFU.
That is all.
The cool part about Dell install CDs are that they are keyed to Dell BIOSes so no CD key or activation is necessary.
Yes I know, but I think that RMS still has lingering feelings of jealousy... for example how the word "Linux" has stolen the spotlight over GNU.
RMS hates Linux... it's a fact. He's just pissy that his P.O.S. HURD just didn't make the cut, sees the Linux camp as jacking his "GNU OS" and trolling is his way of letting off steam.
He may be intelligent but he's a tool from what I can see.
What do you want, a personal response from the Prez? Jeez, I think he's just a bit too busy for YOU.
Yeah you would think more people would be using Juniper routers; however, I think they creepy-looking lady on their homepage is a deterrent.
Automatic update downloaded the patches when I was at work, and they were waiting for me when I got home. ;)
I think this explains things fairly well
I got the following unexpected response when trying to retrieve <http://slashdot.org>:
:)
403 Forbidden
Is this what one would call... uh... "site design by obscurity?"
Here's Sun's take:and here it is on Linux:
I think you're wrong... there is Windows XP for 64bit already out.
Well I suppose "SuperSuperDrive" would be a bit redundant...
Apparently he hasn't discovered beer yet.
I've actually downloaded that and tried it... it's pretty impressive, especially for version 0.3.
I'm keeping an eye out on that project.
Reminds me of that old local root exploit in SunOS where you could just hold down the enter key at the login: prompt and get root.
To add fuel to the fire, couldn't you likewise replace /bin/sh on a Unix machine with a trojaned shell and achieve the same results?
If you had write access to \WINNT\System32 (where logon.scr resides) you were probably logged in with admin privileges already, so what's the point?
And by "getting tsclient.exe working" I meant, more specifically, through WINE on Linux... forgot to mention that.