There also another view. In windows you have to options: either you allow people to do everything or you allow them to do nothing. The policy editor just stops working once you allow someone to run an.exe from his desktop since he can break the system (with one of the numerous exploit that for example the GUI gives you).
In Linux (and unix in general) you can allow people to do almost anything with their own account. If they mess their homedir (and it's quite unlikely to get your personal stuff to the point you can't login at all by accident), just clean it by resetting the configfile that breaks the thing.
You can have people run custom window managers, code their own software (even that damn window manager), whatever, if they happen to know how, while at the same time making sure they don't mess the system up if they don't.
Now, imagine that user has to do some task, and they have messed up their configs. Now on Windows you either repair their profile (which can take quite a time if you can't login as them, if possible at all) or take backup of files, create new profile and copy the files over, on linux you just throw the default configs to their homedir and all you lose are few hacks in some files (say.bash_profile/.bashrc or may.Xsession)
About the config thing.. if you setup linux in ~40 hours (for shared use) you are pretty fast. If you can do the same (in ~40 hours) for Windows you are superman. Start counting from when you get few hundred PCs with blank harddrives, with no images ready, etc..
And once you get new systems with different hardware you have to do it again:) With linux you dump the same image and switch either kernel or module config.
Windows has it's strong points, but administration isn't one of them. At least if you are trying to do it well. In a Uni even "we are not mission critical, we don't need the best security" isn't argument, since what would better target for a hacker than a Uni with a lots of computers and students doing all kind of things with irregular patterns.
Btw, the Windows 9x/ME policy system is a joke:)
If you can't get past it whily you can still do something with the system, you probably shouldn't be securing anything;-)
Q: "Where can I find program called x"
A: "Freshmeat"
If a project has a freshmeat page (which all software should have) it's more likely place for people to go than Sourceforge.
Another thing is that even if I happen to be developer myself, I often find it hard to understand what a project is about by looking at those SF project summaries. I can only imagine how a less skilled end-user feels:)
GPL says you can't sell rights to use a GPL'd piece of software. You can sell the software itself, but anyone can make copies of it and sell/give them away on his own. Also, when sold in binary, the source has to be either part of the package or available for free (beer).
So if it's a small package and easy to download, expect about 10 sold copies (assuming that it's good anyway)
Looking at the screenshots it seems that id has once more went for "everything is brown" of Quake1. Only that this time there shouldn't be limitation to 256 colors. Who knows..
Not that it's bad. One of the reasons I liked Quake1, was because the athmosphere that the palette created. Just a bit funny =)
I usually only buy staff that is already outdated by the time I buy it. Say I'm buing a new computer, I could usually get TWO good computers for the price of a best one. That's because they have already got that critical drop of prices before finally phasing out of market.
If you need computing power, get a cluster. Prices/value is much higher:)
Want to strike a blow for freedom and democracy? Stop wasting your time bitching about the MPAA and instead organize a boycott of Cisco, a company whose actions imperil the freedom of four times as many people as are affected by the DMCA.
Excuse me, HOW are we going to boycott Cisco in modern society ? First of all better stop using Internet, too likely your traffic goes through a Cisco-router.
But when you think of it, you can't even use a bank. Why ? It's too likely that your banking transactions go through a router, switch, local director or some other gray or black box manufactored by Cisco before they reach the banks database server that finally processes the transaction, because Cisco's products happen to be good, they happen to be good enough for banks AND for chinese government (if that was the point?).
So yeah, let's boycott Cisco, but we'll pretty much boycott MPAA at the same time by accident =)
even if there are minor differences in the hardware, you could still have only one image. Just have support of anything in room in the kernel and use some scripts to select config files based on MAC address (or IP which you can get from DHCP with MAC address)..
when I was a child I played a lot with computers like I do these days.. I also happened to play computer and video games, and the result is that I have trouble finding time writing slashdot 'cause I have too much social activity to care about both in IRC and IRL.. don't know about short temper though.. lamers can piss me off quite fast.. IRL is better.. maybe because I can always think of some neat algorithm and ignore the annoying people..
just wanted to tell you that I've personally played two different ports of DOOM with a Nokia 9110.
Both support shareware and registered.wad's, one of them can even do DOOM2, and I've heard there are other versions as well...:)
I don't want to say that owning a gun is bad.
I know people that own guns (legally) and there is nothing wrong with it. Guns are fun for sports, I agree.
My feeling was basicly that Google is doing wrong thing by limiting free speech, but because I oppose guns for self defence I just didn't feel to bother myself.
Now, I don't say that using guns as self defence means you have to shoot anybody. I just oppose the idea of even owning a gun with the idea to be able to defend oneself.
I think I'd rather die than defend myself or anybody else with guns. I certain situations I could shoot someone for fun, but if I knew there was considerable risk that can be reduced by carrying a gun, I'd move to anoher part of world.
Also, this doesn't mean I was afraid to defend someone, it just means that I find doing it with the threat of violence a sign of weakness.
Everybody has the right to do what they feel, but Google banning gunsites isn't something I can opppose if I'm to keep my sanity, even if it was wrong..
I just hope they'd find the fine line between "guns as sports"-sites vs. "guns as self defence"-sites if they want to ban the latter one.
I never understood what's the use for printing things on cd's really..
I mean, when you put it in a drive you can't even see it, and if you could, it would be spinning too fast anyway. When you remove it from your drive, you better put it to the case if you are going to use it again, so you can't watch it then either.
Ok, this direct quote or whatever made me feel better. I had already though Moby is supporting DRM or something but.. this quote tell me he's just too short minded to be allowed to speak. Sorry:)
Well, seriously, seems like somebody is not concerned with just money, but also the other reasons (??) for why TOP20 lists just have shit on them..
Only that KDE has other issues like bloat, being impossible to install, looking ugly, and working slow.. sorry.. maybe I'm just not a KDE person.
And yes, I know you can bind it to ANY key you like if you bother, but for some reason I cannot explain, I still find the windows way of having it always on the screen easier..
And guess what, I have my taskbar in the left side of my screen to save some screenspace in the up-down axis.. KDE is very good in wasting that.
How many of you agree that most of the new music is crap ?
How many of you might be buying more CDs if there was more interesting music to be bought ?
How many of you find it easier to find interesting music in internet than in stores ?
Maybe the problem isn't the format after all, maybe it's the content.
When I still was using Linux as primary OS (I did so for 6 years before XP came out) I was constantly trying to find a window manager that would be faster, easier to use, and have less preferences to fool around with.
I did change some colors, and even added some patches to get better gnome-apps support and something, but all in all it's just that, maximum usability with minimum configuration.
I did switch over to XP however, and why ? Because I found the Windows Explorer superior to anything I've ever seen on Linux side. Those little features Microsoft added to XP after W2k raised it above anything I've seen on the OSS side. Sorry kids.
I would suggest, that when adding a new feature, before starting to actually code it, it should be carefully though out how much time you can save by
having the feature. IMHO having a address bar in my taskbar to open up a new browser to a specific address saves me more time than the ability to read latest slashdot headlines in a nautilus window.
Think about it. I have a link for slashdot in my taskbar (again) so it takes about the same time to open a browser there that it would take time to open nautilus, only that I get the whole page.
I can save a occasional half a second there if I
happen to have a window open when I decide to read check slashdot.
OTOH, by not having to start a browser for some misc URL and then type the url in, but being able to type the URL in to a box and open it up a browser automatically saves me about half a second per address. If I was slower with mouse I would save more.
Now count if I open 20 misc URL's a day, and read slashdot once a day..?? It's not much, but it counts.
About your Lain98 comment... this peveed me. Ok, how many Linux spinoffs are there?
There is a difference between an OS and a distribution. There is GNU/Linux operating system and several distributions. Now, FreeBSD is FreeBSD whether you repack it or not.. to be a real OS, there would have to be something like a new, or modified, kernel, that would (hopefully) add some value.
Ok, I admit that these days OS can also mean a new GUI+API framework or something, but still there is a difference between an OS and OS distribution.
The funniest thing, in Finland (at least used to be so that) you have to pay a copyright office (called Teosto) a fee for each casette and CD-R. The amout of the fee depends on the content. Now, if I sell a blank cd with "Audio CDR" printed on it, i must be Teosto double the fee that I would pay for "Data CDR".
Wonder why empty "Audio" CDRs are not available in most stores..
Slashdot Mirror
In Linux (and unix in general) you can allow people to do almost anything with their own account. If they mess their homedir (and it's quite unlikely to get your personal stuff to the point you can't login at all by accident), just clean it by resetting the configfile that breaks the thing.
You can have people run custom window managers, code their own software (even that damn window manager), whatever, if they happen to know how, while at the same time making sure they don't mess the system up if they don't.
Now, imagine that user has to do some task, and they have messed up their configs. Now on Windows you either repair their profile (which can take quite a time if you can't login as them, if possible at all) or take backup of files, create new profile and copy the files over, on linux you just throw the default configs to their homedir and all you lose are few hacks in some files (say .bash_profile/.bashrc or may .Xsession)
About the config thing.. if you setup linux in ~40 hours (for shared use) you are pretty fast. If you can do the same (in ~40 hours) for Windows you are superman. Start counting from when you get few hundred PCs with blank harddrives, with no images ready, etc..
And once you get new systems with different hardware you have to do it again :) With linux you dump the same image and switch either kernel or module config.
Windows has it's strong points, but administration isn't one of them. At least if you are trying to do it well. In a Uni even "we are not mission critical, we don't need the best security" isn't argument, since what would better target for a hacker than a Uni with a lots of computers and students doing all kind of things with irregular patterns.
Btw, the Windows 9x/ME policy system is a joke :)
If you can't get past it whily you can still do something with the system, you probably shouldn't be securing anything ;-)
A: "Freshmeat"
If a project has a freshmeat page (which all software should have) it's more likely place for people to go than Sourceforge.
Another thing is that even if I happen to be developer myself, I often find it hard to understand what a project is about by looking at those SF project summaries. I can only imagine how a less skilled end-user feels :)
So if it's a small package and easy to download, expect about 10 sold copies (assuming that it's good anyway)
Not that it's bad. One of the reasons I liked Quake1, was because the athmosphere that the palette created. Just a bit funny =)
Whatta heck is snort anyway ?
This one is great, though some clause about providing source would be great too.
If you need computing power, get a cluster. Prices/value is much higher :)
Excuse me, HOW are we going to boycott Cisco in modern society ? First of all better stop using Internet, too likely your traffic goes through a Cisco-router.
But when you think of it, you can't even use a bank. Why ? It's too likely that your banking transactions go through a router, switch, local director or some other gray or black box manufactored by Cisco before they reach the banks database server that finally processes the transaction, because Cisco's products happen to be good, they happen to be good enough for banks AND for chinese government (if that was the point?).
So yeah, let's boycott Cisco, but we'll pretty much boycott MPAA at the same time by accident =)
even if there are minor differences in the hardware, you could still have only one image. Just have support of anything in room in the kernel and use some scripts to select config files based on MAC address (or IP which you can get from DHCP with MAC address)..
This is not to say that I didn't enjoy playing Doom on a Nokia 9210 .. though the arrow pad is worst I've seen :)
true. I apologize..
infected mushrooms
takes a while to dig stuff from there but you can find really good stuff.. (and really bad too ;)
-grin-
something pretty good for a while. But then again there are laws specifically for autos also. Hard to say really which is better view.
just wanted to tell you that I've personally played two different ports of DOOM with a Nokia 9110. Both support shareware and registered .wad's, one of them can even do DOOM2, and I've heard there are other versions as well... :)
I don't want to say that owning a gun is bad. I know people that own guns (legally) and there is nothing wrong with it. Guns are fun for sports, I agree.
My feeling was basicly that Google is doing wrong thing by limiting free speech, but because I oppose guns for self defence I just didn't feel to bother myself.
Now, I don't say that using guns as self defence means you have to shoot anybody. I just oppose the idea of even owning a gun with the idea to be able to defend oneself.
I think I'd rather die than defend myself or anybody else with guns. I certain situations I could shoot someone for fun, but if I knew there was considerable risk that can be reduced by carrying a gun, I'd move to anoher part of world. Also, this doesn't mean I was afraid to defend someone, it just means that I find doing it with the threat of violence a sign of weakness.
Everybody has the right to do what they feel, but Google banning gunsites isn't something I can opppose if I'm to keep my sanity, even if it was wrong..
I just hope they'd find the fine line between "guns as sports"-sites vs. "guns as self defence"-sites if they want to ban the latter one.
Still, in this particular case I can't find any good reasons to stand against google.
Gun's are good for exactly one thing, that being hunting, which is for the most part deprecated activity.
Self Defense ? What a sick society...
I mean, when you put it in a drive you can't even see it, and if you could, it would be spinning too fast anyway. When you remove it from your drive, you better put it to the case if you are going to use it again, so you can't watch it then either.
neat, but totally useless..
Well, seriously, seems like somebody is not concerned with just money, but also the other reasons (??) for why TOP20 lists just have shit on them..
And yes, I know you can bind it to ANY key you like if you bother, but for some reason I cannot explain, I still find the windows way of having it always on the screen easier..
And guess what, I have my taskbar in the left side of my screen to save some screenspace in the up-down axis.. KDE is very good in wasting that.
How many of you agree that most of the new music is crap ?
How many of you might be buying more CDs if there was more interesting music to be bought ?
How many of you find it easier to find interesting music in internet than in stores ?
Maybe the problem isn't the format after all, maybe it's the content.
I found one. It's called wmx and can be found at http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/wmx.
I did change some colors, and even added some patches to get better gnome-apps support and something, but all in all it's just that, maximum usability with minimum configuration.
I did switch over to XP however, and why ? Because I found the Windows Explorer superior to anything I've ever seen on Linux side. Those little features Microsoft added to XP after W2k raised it above anything I've seen on the OSS side. Sorry kids.
I would suggest, that when adding a new feature, before starting to actually code it, it should be carefully though out how much time you can save by having the feature. IMHO having a address bar in my taskbar to open up a new browser to a specific address saves me more time than the ability to read latest slashdot headlines in a nautilus window.
Think about it. I have a link for slashdot in my taskbar (again) so it takes about the same time to open a browser there that it would take time to open nautilus, only that I get the whole page. I can save a occasional half a second there if I happen to have a window open when I decide to read check slashdot.
OTOH, by not having to start a browser for some misc URL and then type the url in, but being able to type the URL in to a box and open it up a browser automatically saves me about half a second per address. If I was slower with mouse I would save more.
Now count if I open 20 misc URL's a day, and read slashdot once a day..?? It's not much, but it counts.
There is a difference between an OS and a distribution. There is GNU/Linux operating system and several distributions. Now, FreeBSD is FreeBSD whether you repack it or not.. to be a real OS, there would have to be something like a new, or modified, kernel, that would (hopefully) add some value.
Ok, I admit that these days OS can also mean a new GUI+API framework or something, but still there is a difference between an OS and OS distribution.
Wonder why empty "Audio" CDRs are not available in most stores..