So to summarize, KDE 4 isn't done/ready/whatever. I agree, and it's no secret. I'm still using 3.5 on my mission critical and development workstations. I use KDE 4 on my laptop and I've run into most of the issues you have. Ark does sometimes work for me, though not always.
KDE 4 will be awesome when it's ready though. I was playing with 4.2 the other day. I'm a vi user as well as a Kate user, and I got to try the new VI mode in Kate... I LOVE it! KDE 4 will get better, and will bring a lot of cool new features with it.
KDE 4 unfortunately takes the GNOME approach, and removes flexibility. Worse still, all the developer time for KDE 4 is now going into polishing the interface (which while shiny is no better or more intuitive than KDE 3.5) while not bothering fixing apps people actually use.
No it doesn't. The GNOME approach is more like "Oh, you implemented this feature and provided a patch? No, we're not including it, they are too many checkboxes. BUG CLOSED: FUNCTIONALITY IS TOO CONFUSING." KDE 4 was essentially a clean slate. If features are "missing" it's because they aren't done yet, not because they were removed.
As for what the developers spend their own time on... who are you to criticize them? Besides, as you alluded to, it's the distros that really screwed up. No one forced them to package 4.0 and serve it up like a finished product. 4.0 was a milestone to help focus KDE development and move _towards_ a usable system, not arrive there. It wasn't claimed to be ready for end users.
KDE 4 will be ready for non-developers soon enough. Everybody just needs a little more patience. Even Linus said Gnome may be preparing to shake things up and he may well switch back to KDE 4 on his next fresh install when it's presumably more complete.
Linus says KDE 4.0 was a "half baked release". Yes it was. He complains he got the update pushed through Fedora and that it "was not as functional". I'm sure it wasn't. He also might want to reconsider his choice of Linux distribution if he isn't happy with their update policy.
Exactly. I am using KDE 4 on my laptop, and for the most part, I'm happy with it. However, I'm sticking with KDE 3.5 on my other computers until maybe KDE 4.2 or whenever I feel like I'm ready for 4 and 4 is ready for me. There are some features from KDE 3.5 missing in 4, and it's true that some things just don't work, but that's fine because no one is forcing me to upgrade yet.
What about PTK? NGE??
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I like what I've read so far, but you really can't have an intelligent discussion about SOA without getting into PTK, at which point you'd be completely negligent not to address NGE as well. The "Zen" focus of this book makes it ideal even to tie in PTK, because of the elegance and simplicity with which they relate to SOA. NGE clearly makes the application of PTK as it relates to SOA, an extremely valuable yet simple vector of the overall SOA realm. Despite the relative newness of NGE I think I can go out on a limb and say that SOA would not be where it is today if it weren't for the fusion of energies between PTK and NGE having propelled it there.
I had my first threesome at age 5. It was all because I played the shit out of Leisure Suit Larry and felt I needed to take it to the next level. My parents wanted to sue Sierra but back then they couldn't find a lawyer willing to take the case. What a shame Jack Thompson was too busy going after radio DJ's in those days.
An RIAA spokesman is quoted as saying that the litigation campaign has been "successful in raising the public's awareness that file-sharing is illegal."
Did the spokesman make this statement in front of a huge "Mission Accomplished" banner?
Some older friends of mine just ordered a new Dell, and they paid the extra $150 for XP. They did ask my opinion first, but I only told them that I too would pay extra to get XP over Vista if I had to run windows. They made the final decision themselves.
This wasn't some high end system either where $150 was a drop in the bucket. It total price was $900, including the XP fee.
I'll assume you are asking to be educated rather than just being a troll or a snarky bastard.
Preventing direct access to ssh by requiring a successful connection to a VPN first is in fact an additional layer of security. You cannot attempt to login via ssh unless/until you first make it through the VPN. You now have two authentication mechanisms to traverse in order to gain access to the system, instead of one.
If you were dumb enough to setup a VPN that uses the same authentication credentials as the ssh server, then I suppose you could call that obscurity. OpenVPN (which I linked to) doesn't support that kind of stupidity. I assumed that people would understand I was talking about a properly implemented VPN, not something setup by your cousin's goldfish.
Rate limiting? IP-based bans on failed logins? Elaborate username based bans? All reactive solutions.
Portknocking? A more complex obscurity tactic, but very weak as an extra authentication layer.
TFA mentions ssh public key auth, and disabling password authentication. That would be much better/more effective than anything mentioned here.
If you're serious about security, then you aught to actually add another layer. Firewall off ssh completely and require a VPN connection first. eg: http://openvpn.net/
Think it will get dismissed before we even hit the door? How about any lawyer laughing you out of his office?
Wanna bet? Amongst the good ones, there are plenty of dumb/greedy/starving lawyers that will take almost any ridiculous case. Hopefully an absurd case will get dismissed by a competent judge, but you can't count on it, especially when talking technology since the really techno-literate judges are few and far between. Plenty of judges have been hoodwinked on technical matters they clearly failed to grasp.
Kind of like how my brother's Honda died when his bitchy neighbor walked outside. If Honda's are that susceptible to PMS, then I'd rather not ride in their cars. The last thing I need is to be left stopped in the middle of the freeway at rush hour because some woman with a hormone imbalance got too close to the car.
I've never heard anyone use "dark fiber" to mean anything but fiber that isn't in use. To say that you want to "run dark fiber" to get hooked up at a colo sounds nonsensical.
Obviously Verizon, AT&T, and municipalities all own various amounts of dark fiber. I don't know why you say "there is also dark fiber that's owned by the local munis".
This is a big problem for me. I don't have a widescreen monitor, so the system tray is taking over the panel, squeezing my task bar to a frustratingly small size.
KDE3 has an excellent system tray icon hiding mechanism. Why does KDE4 make me look at them all, all the time?
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So to summarize, KDE 4 isn't done/ready/whatever. I agree, and it's no secret. I'm still using 3.5 on my mission critical and development workstations. I use KDE 4 on my laptop and I've run into most of the issues you have. Ark does sometimes work for me, though not always.
KDE 4 will be awesome when it's ready though. I was playing with 4.2 the other day. I'm a vi user as well as a Kate user, and I got to try the new VI mode in Kate... I LOVE it! KDE 4 will get better, and will bring a lot of cool new features with it.
KDE 4 unfortunately takes the GNOME approach, and removes flexibility. Worse still, all the developer time for KDE 4 is now going into polishing the interface (which while shiny is no better or more intuitive than KDE 3.5) while not bothering fixing apps people actually use.
No it doesn't. The GNOME approach is more like "Oh, you implemented this feature and provided a patch? No, we're not including it, they are too many checkboxes. BUG CLOSED: FUNCTIONALITY IS TOO CONFUSING." KDE 4 was essentially a clean slate. If features are "missing" it's because they aren't done yet, not because they were removed.
As for what the developers spend their own time on... who are you to criticize them? Besides, as you alluded to, it's the distros that really screwed up. No one forced them to package 4.0 and serve it up like a finished product. 4.0 was a milestone to help focus KDE development and move _towards_ a usable system, not arrive there. It wasn't claimed to be ready for end users.
KDE 4 will be ready for non-developers soon enough. Everybody just needs a little more patience. Even Linus said Gnome may be preparing to shake things up and he may well switch back to KDE 4 on his next fresh install when it's presumably more complete.
Linus says KDE 4.0 was a "half baked release". Yes it was. He complains he got the update pushed through Fedora and that it "was not as functional". I'm sure it wasn't. He also might want to reconsider his choice of Linux distribution if he isn't happy with their update policy.
Exactly. I am using KDE 4 on my laptop, and for the most part, I'm happy with it. However, I'm sticking with KDE 3.5 on my other computers until maybe KDE 4.2 or whenever I feel like I'm ready for 4 and 4 is ready for me. There are some features from KDE 3.5 missing in 4, and it's true that some things just don't work, but that's fine because no one is forcing me to upgrade yet.
I like what I've read so far, but you really can't have an intelligent discussion about SOA without getting into PTK, at which point you'd be completely negligent not to address NGE as well. The "Zen" focus of this book makes it ideal even to tie in PTK, because of the elegance and simplicity with which they relate to SOA. NGE clearly makes the application of PTK as it relates to SOA, an extremely valuable yet simple vector of the overall SOA realm. Despite the relative newness of NGE I think I can go out on a limb and say that SOA would not be where it is today if it weren't for the fusion of energies between PTK and NGE having propelled it there.
Close... it will appear in the routers as an unlockable feature for an additional, annual license fee.
sonicwall blows.
You only needed your passport.
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/questions/topic.asp?id=180
I had my first threesome at age 5. It was all because I played the shit out of Leisure Suit Larry and felt I needed to take it to the next level. My parents wanted to sue Sierra but back then they couldn't find a lawyer willing to take the case. What a shame Jack Thompson was too busy going after radio DJ's in those days.
And the second time is the long-term service distribution, which is about as exciting as growing grass!
I think you mean about exciting as watching grass grow .
Growing grass on the other hand, is quite exciting to a lot of people; eg. drug dealers, pot heads, the DEA.
Did the spokesman make this statement in front of a huge "Mission Accomplished" banner?
Yes, it does have problems, sometimes it even burps while copying files, which is bizarre to me, since it's such a basic function.
That's totally a feature.
It won't work everywhere.
Some older friends of mine just ordered a new Dell, and they paid the extra $150 for XP. They did ask my opinion first, but I only told them that I too would pay extra to get XP over Vista if I had to run windows. They made the final decision themselves.
This wasn't some high end system either where $150 was a drop in the bucket. It total price was $900, including the XP fee.
No, I didn't say PPTP VPN. :P
I'll assume you are asking to be educated rather than just being a troll or a snarky bastard.
Preventing direct access to ssh by requiring a successful connection to a VPN first is in fact an additional layer of security. You cannot attempt to login via ssh unless/until you first make it through the VPN. You now have two authentication mechanisms to traverse in order to gain access to the system, instead of one.
If you were dumb enough to setup a VPN that uses the same authentication credentials as the ssh server, then I suppose you could call that obscurity. OpenVPN (which I linked to) doesn't support that kind of stupidity. I assumed that people would understand I was talking about a properly implemented VPN, not something setup by your cousin's goldfish.
Pretty lame, people.
Move sshd to another port?
Obscurity.
Rate limiting?
IP-based bans on failed logins?
Elaborate username based bans?
All reactive solutions.
Portknocking?
A more complex obscurity tactic, but very weak as an extra authentication layer.
TFA mentions ssh public key auth, and disabling password authentication. That would be much better/more effective than anything mentioned here.
If you're serious about security, then you aught to actually add another layer. Firewall off ssh completely and require a VPN connection first. eg: http://openvpn.net/
Think it will get dismissed before we even hit the door? How about any lawyer laughing you out of his office?
Wanna bet? Amongst the good ones, there are plenty of dumb/greedy/starving lawyers that will take almost any ridiculous case. Hopefully an absurd case will get dismissed by a competent judge, but you can't count on it, especially when talking technology since the really techno-literate judges are few and far between. Plenty of judges have been hoodwinked on technical matters they clearly failed to grasp.
If you do get sued, just print and cut this out and give it to the judge and you can go home.
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I shall not purchase any Novell Protesters which were Manhandled in India!
We demand unspoiled protesters, dammit! (or at the very least, domestically manhandled ones-- it's better for our economy)
"Please may I just be placing you on hold for a moment while I research this problem..."
I typed :Sex and it opened up a HUGE list of folders choc full of porn!
Bah... cat5 is already broken, and cat5e is next.
Got to think cat6 at least, if not cat7. They're much thicker; harder to break.
I don't think colonizing other galaxies with frozen mice is such a great idea. Live mice aren't too bright, let alone frozen ones.
Well, that's logical.
Kind of like how my brother's Honda died when his bitchy neighbor walked outside. If Honda's are that susceptible to PMS, then I'd rather not ride in their cars. The last thing I need is to be left stopped in the middle of the freeway at rush hour because some woman with a hormone imbalance got too close to the car.
Buy Ford instead of Honda.
You have a spare shield. You put it on...
I've never heard anyone use "dark fiber" to mean anything but fiber that isn't in use. To say that you want to "run dark fiber" to get hooked up at a colo sounds nonsensical.
Obviously Verizon, AT&T, and municipalities all own various amounts of dark fiber. I don't know why you say "there is also dark fiber that's owned by the local munis".
Because we might've thought you wanted to run publicly-owned in-use fiber to a colo?
STILL can't hide system tray icons?
This is a big problem for me. I don't have a widescreen monitor, so the system tray is taking over the panel, squeezing my task bar to a frustratingly small size.
KDE3 has an excellent system tray icon hiding mechanism. Why does KDE4 make me look at them all, all the time?