Uh yeah, most people would just think "WTF is this? I just want to read my email *clicks OK*" or "OMG help is my computer infected by a virus? is my computer hacked? HELP!"
SSH keys typically don't change for the life time of the OS. Not so with SSL certificates - they're usually valid for 1 or 2 years and then the website will have to renew their certificates.
Now if only there was a way for anybody to start a certificate authority and to issue certificates, and for the users to decide for themselves which certificate authorities they trust.
Food is as healthy as you choose it to be. Don't eat McDonalds so often. The US is especially bad with all the fast food but you *can* buy healthy food. Exercise is also a choice. Nobody forces you not to exercise.
Says who? I always pay now instead of later so that I can avoid any debts that I may not be able to pay off. Paying later is what got us into the whole economical crisis in the first place.
Is that so? I recently had to make a hardware budget for an SSL site, so I ran a few benchmarks on Apache and Nginx running on my MacBook Pro. Both of them handled only *50* requests/sec when serving static assets through SSL, as opposed to 3000+ when not serving through SSL. After some investigation it turns out that the SSL handshake is particularly expensive; once the handshake is done, the server can serve several thousand static assets per second. However not all browsers/routers/proxies support/allow HTTP keep-alive, and keep-alive is almost unused if most of your visitors only visit a few pages or if there's so much time between two requests that the browser disconnects the keep-alive connection. This makes SSL *a lot* more expensive than regular HTTP.
That said, if you have data to prove me wrong then that'd be good news for me.
Alright, next time your girlfriend/wife/whatever makes breakfast in bed for you, complain about that she didn't make the right food or that it's not hot enough or that there's not enough salt in it, etc. Then figure out for yourself why she gets mad.
Why does it hurt OSS? The alternative is for the developers to work like slaves, not getting a paycheck for it, and losing all of their enthusiasm and/or starve. How's that any better?
Oh, right, it's better for YOU, just not for them.
But if he insulted you because you told him "wtf, Metro? no I want *that* newspaper over there not this piece of shit" then you entirely deserves to be insulted.
Of course you can still criticize him for being an all-round jerk. But if you tell him "wtf, Pepsi? I want coca cola, of the most expensive kind" then that *is* douchy of you.
Then why are most of the complainers not using commercial software? Oh right, because of the price tag.
Most of these complainers want to have "commercial quality software" (between quotation marks because I know commercial software isn't always good) but they aren't willing to pay, donate or contribute. Yeah and I want a million dollars. Quid Pro Quo.
And I don't think anyone would disagree. (Score:5, Insightful)
Geez people, you're being too hard on him for making a common mistake. This isn't even a very bad mistake, English is sometimes totally illogical w.r.t. phrases like this. For example "all but" as in "the house is all but destroyed" actually meaning "the is totally destroyed" instead of "the house is not destroyed" is pretty stupid and can easily deceive those who are not familiar with the phrase. Using things like this to measure one's intelligence is stupid.
May I ask why marrying her was a mistake? The way I look at things right now, being sweet, (somewhat) attractive, caring and generally having a good personality, are more important in a woman than being intelligent. I'd really like to know why you now think that that's wrong.
But it's not just the package manager. Applications have to be modified to specifically support $HOME installation (or, to be more exact, installation to arbitrary locations), and most Unix apps right now don't support this without hardcoding paths during compilation time. This is something which Autopackage tries to take care of too, by providing documentation and code for developers for writing relocatable apps.
Your NIC disassociates from the current AP while scanning? Definitely sounds like a bug in your NIC or driver. On my Broadcom card I can scan all I want and not disconnect from the current AP.
Nonsense. As an example, take a look at wkhtmltopdf, an open source command line HTML to PDF converter. Extremely useful for automated PDF generation, but not many distributions package it. Compiling Webkit and QT4 and all dependencies is a huge pain so the wkhtmltopdf developers try to make peoples' lives easier by providing Linux binaries. And guess what? Cross-distro binary compatibility problems is a major issue.
Please, please people, get over this notion of binaries being only useful to non-free apps.
As a former Autopackage developer, no, it isn't what Autopackage is about.
Autopackage attempts to do more than just packaging: it also tries to fight the binary compatibility problem. Probably the most widely known example is this one: compile a binary on distro A, run it on distro B, and get "symbol foobar@GLIBC_2.8 not found" errors. (There are a lot more binary compatibility issues than that though.)
However, making cross-architecture binaries is not one of Autopackage's goals.
I'm using X to play H.264 videos all the time and it works fine. I'm talking about proper video players like mplayer and VLC mind you; not Flash, which is slow and has trouble playing Youtube "HD" videos in full screen. I've played OpenGL games in X with a frame rate of 60. I don't know whether it can go faster, I didn't configure it to do so, but everything felt smooth.
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Uh yeah, most people would just think "WTF is this? I just want to read my email *clicks OK*" or "OMG help is my computer infected by a virus? is my computer hacked? HELP!"
SSH keys typically don't change for the life time of the OS. Not so with SSL certificates - they're usually valid for 1 or 2 years and then the website will have to renew their certificates.
Now if only there was a way for anybody to start a certificate authority and to issue certificates, and for the users to decide for themselves which certificate authorities they trust.
Food is as healthy as you choose it to be. Don't eat McDonalds so often. The US is especially bad with all the fast food but you *can* buy healthy food.
Exercise is also a choice. Nobody forces you not to exercise.
"Not only do consumers prefer to pay later"
Says who? I always pay now instead of later so that I can avoid any debts that I may not be able to pay off. Paying later is what got us into the whole economical crisis in the first place.
Is that so? I recently had to make a hardware budget for an SSL site, so I ran a few benchmarks on Apache and Nginx running on my MacBook Pro. Both of them handled only *50* requests/sec when serving static assets through SSL, as opposed to 3000+ when not serving through SSL. After some investigation it turns out that the SSL handshake is particularly expensive; once the handshake is done, the server can serve several thousand static assets per second. However not all browsers/routers/proxies support/allow HTTP keep-alive, and keep-alive is almost unused if most of your visitors only visit a few pages or if there's so much time between two requests that the browser disconnects the keep-alive connection. This makes SSL *a lot* more expensive than regular HTTP.
That said, if you have data to prove me wrong then that'd be good news for me.
And push the license fees down to the users? Is that what you really want?
Alright, next time your girlfriend/wife/whatever makes breakfast in bed for you, complain about that she didn't make the right food or that it's not hot enough or that there's not enough salt in it, etc. Then figure out for yourself why she gets mad.
Why does it hurt OSS? The alternative is for the developers to work like slaves, not getting a paycheck for it, and losing all of their enthusiasm and/or starve. How's that any better?
Oh, right, it's better for YOU, just not for them.
But if he insulted you because you told him "wtf, Metro? no I want *that* newspaper over there not this piece of shit" then you entirely deserves to be insulted.
Of course you can still criticize him for being an all-round jerk. But if you tell him "wtf, Pepsi? I want coca cola, of the most expensive kind" then that *is* douchy of you.
Then why are most of the complainers not using commercial software? Oh right, because of the price tag.
Most of these complainers want to have "commercial quality software" (between quotation marks because I know commercial software isn't always good) but they aren't willing to pay, donate or contribute. Yeah and I want a million dollars. Quid Pro Quo.
Maybe because there are only so many ways to design a file manager? They've only been around for, what, 40 years?
How does it mean "one step away from"? "All" is all and "but" is like "except". So the house is everything, except destroyed, i.e. not destroyed.
Geez people, you're being too hard on him for making a common mistake. This isn't even a very bad mistake, English is sometimes totally illogical w.r.t. phrases like this. For example "all but" as in "the house is all but destroyed" actually meaning "the is totally destroyed" instead of "the house is not destroyed" is pretty stupid and can easily deceive those who are not familiar with the phrase. Using things like this to measure one's intelligence is stupid.
May I ask why marrying her was a mistake? The way I look at things right now, being sweet, (somewhat) attractive, caring and generally having a good personality, are more important in a woman than being intelligent. I'd really like to know why you now think that that's wrong.
Why does that kind of self-protection require fire arms? A kitchen knife will do the trick too.
Autopackage.
But it's not just the package manager. Applications have to be modified to specifically support $HOME installation (or, to be more exact, installation to arbitrary locations), and most Unix apps right now don't support this without hardcoding paths during compilation time. This is something which Autopackage tries to take care of too, by providing documentation and code for developers for writing relocatable apps.
Maybe bloated by your standards, but I use almost all of Firefox's features on a daily basis.
I think you need to distinguish between true FOSS zealots and leeches who just want stuff for free. Hint: the grandparent is the latter.
Your NIC disassociates from the current AP while scanning? Definitely sounds like a bug in your NIC or driver. On my Broadcom card I can scan all I want and not disconnect from the current AP.
"Only useful for non-free applications"
Nonsense. As an example, take a look at wkhtmltopdf, an open source command line HTML to PDF converter. Extremely useful for automated PDF generation, but not many distributions package it. Compiling Webkit and QT4 and all dependencies is a huge pain so the wkhtmltopdf developers try to make peoples' lives easier by providing Linux binaries. And guess what? Cross-distro binary compatibility problems is a major issue.
Please, please people, get over this notion of binaries being only useful to non-free apps.
As a former Autopackage developer, no, it isn't what Autopackage is about.
Autopackage attempts to do more than just packaging: it also tries to fight the binary compatibility problem. Probably the most widely known example is this one: compile a binary on distro A, run it on distro B, and get "symbol foobar@GLIBC_2.8 not found" errors. (There are a lot more binary compatibility issues than that though.)
However, making cross-architecture binaries is not one of Autopackage's goals.
Dude, it's just a research project, not a product sold by the marketing department. Just friggin look at the website!
I'm using X to play H.264 videos all the time and it works fine. I'm talking about proper video players like mplayer and VLC mind you; not Flash, which is slow and has trouble playing Youtube "HD" videos in full screen. I've played OpenGL games in X with a frame rate of 60. I don't know whether it can go faster, I didn't configure it to do so, but everything felt smooth.