On the other hand, while I've got a desktop and a laptop running Ubuntu 8.10 here, I'm pretty sure it'd take me at least two hours to set them up this way. Probably a lot more than that, with no guarantee of sucess. Because I don't think it's mainstream enough to be set up effortless or work out of the box, like X itself now mostly does. If I still had two Windows devices, it'd probably take me 10 minutes, with a reasonable chance of sucess and less time wasted if it doesn't work.
Finding a buyer is no question. You just need to price it 5 bucks below what Valve asks. Since it's only a license anyway, he hasn't anything to gain from paying Valve those additional 5 dollars -- and that's exactly why Valve is unlikely to ever allow it.
A nice compromise would be to create a sort of used Steam games market, where HL2 (to stick with the example) would be offered for $15, $5 of which go to Valve and the rest to the seller. Or just offer a buy-back system where you can sell back licenses for half their current price. That'd be really nice for the consumer. But they're never going to install a system like that unless somebody forces them to -- maybe a competing service could start doing it, for instance.
The fact that it's an old definition doesn't make it a proper definition. It's nice that you use it that way and as long as you always provide the link to that whackjob website people will understand you; but without the link you're bound to have a lot of meaningless discussions where no one understands what you're saying.
Business apps work fine in a VM -- in fact, they work more reliably than under Wine. Games, unless they are really old, don't work in a VM, since most of them require DirectX and access to a accelerated graphics card -- not something the VMs are able to deliver just yet -- not to mention the CPU overhead of emulation. And a Wine-related instability or other problem is more easily looked over when you're just dealing with a game with no chance of ruining your work.
That said, it's often a huge pain to get Wine running with modern games. I played Civ4 with it -- which isn't all that new (it still had some graphic corruptions, but otherwise it was great) -- but I never got Audiosurf to work properly, and I haven't even tried any of the really recent games like the new Call of Duty, or, heaven forbid, GTA4.
Wikipedia: "The project and software are informally referred to as OpenOffice, but this term is a trademark held by a company in the Netherlands co-founded by Wouter Hanegraaff and is also in use by Orange UK. [2], requiring the project to adopt OpenOffice.org as its formal name."
[M]ost of the really useful technology we use today has come out of Space and Military research
Lets assume for a second that this is true. So fucking what. How much money and effort was spent since WW2 on space and military research? Defies imagination! Obviously some of that science and technology will be applied for civil purposes. I'm sure that if you put a huge amount of money into advanced ways of digging a ditch, you'd get out some useful technology, too (as well as lots of not so useful insights into digging ditches).
Or maybe you could invest it into a project that at the same time tackles one of the real, actual problems looking for a technological solution -- plenty come to mind. It's a reasonable assumption that this will still generate lots of positive side-benefits like technology, keeping us scientists and engineers off the street, enhancing "national pride" since that seems to be important to you. Plus it'd have the added benefit of not coming up with more ways to kill people in a more efficient fashion! Win-win.
Stop spreading nonsense! Everybody knows that a kernel maintainer updated his git repository with an experimental patch for the current release. It was all over this obscure mailing list last night -- try to keep up! After recompiling, all you have to do is figure out the right kernel boot parameters and compile and install a user mode daemon. After that, you can choose either answering or dialing mode at will by echo'ing ANSWER or DIAL to/sys/devices/system/phone_mode. Nothing could be easier!
I mean, what if the USN is operating off of Iran or Venezuala for some reason and they fire off a torpedo and sink a carrier because the Navy could never find the sub as they had no practice?
What if space aliens use their mental powers to sink a carrier? What if Indian super undercover operatives attack US military outposts around the world? OMG time to increase your military budget! It could happen any minute... Now... Or now!
That won't do any good. If attackers can install a keylogger, they have the ability to take screenshot, or some other means of determining the numbers. Of course, as you say, the security comes from being a OTP. After a transaction code has been used, its security is irrelevant. In fact, here's one of my previous TANs, no keylogger required: W8PBB2.
Winamp's default interface looks a lot like a themed interface itself. Foobar2000's UI is the cleanest of any audio player I know. It's library management isn't full fledged, though, it's meant to leave the management to you and your favorite file manager. These days, I'm pretty happy with the user interface of both Banshee and Rhythmbox -- both have a number of annoying UI faults, but for the most part they work fine and they're both very clean. Much more so than both iTunes and Amarok.
I use both dozens of hours a week. They're pretty much eye to eye whilst slouching towards some common goal. Both really good IDEs, too, wouldn't want to work without them.
It worked the same way in 8.04. I guess it's more stable these days or something. If Flash crashed, reloading a page brings it back, which is nice. On Windows I had to restart the browser.
I don't think it'll shrink drives by itself. At least I did it manually when I installed 8.10 alpha 5. I was fairly certain it'd work, but it was still scary.
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On the other hand, while I've got a desktop and a laptop running Ubuntu 8.10 here, I'm pretty sure it'd take me at least two hours to set them up this way. Probably a lot more than that, with no guarantee of sucess. Because I don't think it's mainstream enough to be set up effortless or work out of the box, like X itself now mostly does. If I still had two Windows devices, it'd probably take me 10 minutes, with a reasonable chance of sucess and less time wasted if it doesn't work.
Finding a buyer is no question. You just need to price it 5 bucks below what Valve asks. Since it's only a license anyway, he hasn't anything to gain from paying Valve those additional 5 dollars -- and that's exactly why Valve is unlikely to ever allow it.
A nice compromise would be to create a sort of used Steam games market, where HL2 (to stick with the example) would be offered for $15, $5 of which go to Valve and the rest to the seller. Or just offer a buy-back system where you can sell back licenses for half their current price. That'd be really nice for the consumer. But they're never going to install a system like that unless somebody forces them to -- maybe a competing service could start doing it, for instance.
The fact that it's an old definition doesn't make it a proper definition. It's nice that you use it that way and as long as you always provide the link to that whackjob website people will understand you; but without the link you're bound to have a lot of meaningless discussions where no one understands what you're saying.
Business apps work fine in a VM -- in fact, they work more reliably than under Wine. Games, unless they are really old, don't work in a VM, since most of them require DirectX and access to a accelerated graphics card -- not something the VMs are able to deliver just yet -- not to mention the CPU overhead of emulation. And a Wine-related instability or other problem is more easily looked over when you're just dealing with a game with no chance of ruining your work.
That said, it's often a huge pain to get Wine running with modern games. I played Civ4 with it -- which isn't all that new (it still had some graphic corruptions, but otherwise it was great) -- but I never got Audiosurf to work properly, and I haven't even tried any of the really recent games like the new Call of Duty, or, heaven forbid, GTA4.
Wikipedia: "The project and software are informally referred to as OpenOffice, but this term is a trademark held by a company in the Netherlands co-founded by Wouter Hanegraaff and is also in use by Orange UK. [2], requiring the project to adopt OpenOffice.org as its formal name."
(Man, I'm gonna get modded into oblivion for this!)
Riight... No libertarians on Slashdot after all, no siree.
[M]ost of the really useful technology we use today has come out of Space and Military research
Lets assume for a second that this is true. So fucking what. How much money and effort was spent since WW2 on space and military research? Defies imagination! Obviously some of that science and technology will be applied for civil purposes. I'm sure that if you put a huge amount of money into advanced ways of digging a ditch, you'd get out some useful technology, too (as well as lots of not so useful insights into digging ditches).
Or maybe you could invest it into a project that at the same time tackles one of the real, actual problems looking for a technological solution -- plenty come to mind. It's a reasonable assumption that this will still generate lots of positive side-benefits like technology, keeping us scientists and engineers off the street, enhancing "national pride" since that seems to be important to you. Plus it'd have the added benefit of not coming up with more ways to kill people in a more efficient fashion! Win-win.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter!
Stop spreading nonsense! Everybody knows that a kernel maintainer updated his git repository with an experimental patch for the current release. It was all over this obscure mailing list last night -- try to keep up! After recompiling, all you have to do is figure out the right kernel boot parameters and compile and install a user mode daemon. After that, you can choose either answering or dialing mode at will by echo'ing ANSWER or DIAL to /sys/devices/system/phone_mode. Nothing could be easier!
I guess we ought to probe the sun for traces of life, then. I bet they wear shades, like, all the time.
Corollary: drink lots of tea when you travel. Coffee is probably ok, too; more expensive, though.
It does, but rather than narrowing it down to a particular model, it narrows it down to any digital SLR (and maybe other types) camera made by Sigma.
Given how few Sigma cameras are sold compared to any popular model by the big manufacturers, that isn't say much, right? At the moment, anyway.
Cosmic rays? I always figure it's sun spots.
I mean, what if the USN is operating off of Iran or Venezuala for some reason and they fire off a torpedo and sink a carrier because the Navy could never find the sub as they had no practice?
What if space aliens use their mental powers to sink a carrier? What if Indian super undercover operatives attack US military outposts around the world? OMG time to increase your military budget! It could happen any minute... Now... Or now!
You dwindling in power and relevance, but Americans are not quite yet an endangered species.
SMS has delivery confirmation. At least in Europe it does.
That won't do any good. If attackers can install a keylogger, they have the ability to take screenshot, or some other means of determining the numbers. Of course, as you say, the security comes from being a OTP. After a transaction code has been used, its security is irrelevant. In fact, here's one of my previous TANs, no keylogger required: W8PBB2.
No, it is a good solution. It's true two-factor security. It's just not a good solution for you.
Winamp's default interface looks a lot like a themed interface itself. Foobar2000's UI is the cleanest of any audio player I know. It's library management isn't full fledged, though, it's meant to leave the management to you and your favorite file manager. These days, I'm pretty happy with the user interface of both Banshee and Rhythmbox -- both have a number of annoying UI faults, but for the most part they work fine and they're both very clean. Much more so than both iTunes and Amarok.
I use both dozens of hours a week. They're pretty much eye to eye whilst slouching towards some common goal. Both really good IDEs, too, wouldn't want to work without them.
It worked the same way in 8.04. I guess it's more stable these days or something. If Flash crashed, reloading a page brings it back, which is nice. On Windows I had to restart the browser.
Yep, I thought it looked a bit like a skull, too. And with a look of dried (coffee? blood?) stains on a floor. Really creepy wallpaper.
I don't think it'll shrink drives by itself. At least I did it manually when I installed 8.10 alpha 5. I was fairly certain it'd work, but it was still scary.
Ubuntu actually ships with a VNC server. System - Preferences - Remote Desktop. Obviously, it's disabled by default.
At least he didn't leave a blank before a punctuation symbol.