Originally produced for the US Army during WW2, it was designed to reveal methods of cheating so a soldier could tell when he was being cheated, just like the Linux Format article.
Understanding bad people is not the same as being a bad person; ignorance is neither power nor protection.
This thug mentality on the part a few bad police officers reflects poorly on the many honest men and women who serve their community, yet those same good people turn a blind eye to this behavior. Is it no wonder that public confidence and support for law enforcement officers continues to erode?
but their page to create an account will not work with FF 9.01 or the current Chrome, both on Linux. I finally had to install Opera, which worked just fine, but why is all that fancy B.S. and browser incompatibility necessary for a government site?
Mandrake has a tradition of problems, basically since they were Mandrake. Back then, they used to be the more desktop friendly redhat. Being French, they had good i18n support before redhat did, switched to utf early one, provided international packages, and also multimedia. But at that time their community was registered users only, if you didn't have the current version purchased: no soup for you.
Mandrake was always reluctant to share documentation. As a result, they cut themselves off from the larger community. Good innovations like a metapackager, that got users out of rpm-dependency hell long before redhat moved in that direction, or also mandrakes system of setting security level never made it back to a wider audience.
I worked on the docs until the 8.x releases, IIRC. They wanted everything done in DocBook or your could not participate.
The problems with wider adoption of urpmi, mcc and msec and other Mandriva utilities (including their installer) were that they were written in perl and the RedHat world used python. They would also get great ideas for some things and then never maintain them.
And they had a leader who was more interested in computer aided "learning centers" and squandered a good deal of their cash.
I still use Mandriva (stopped at 2010.2). I don't care for some of the folks at Mageia, so I'll be sad to see Mandriva go if it does (used it since 5.2).
Jobs took him outside, and showed how every rectangular road sign was a rounded rectangle.
Which shows that all things old are new again. It's worth noting that nobody ever patented rounded rectangles on road signs - it was just a useful design, not a 'world-shaking invention' in the world view of that time.
Anybody ever ask sign designers why they did that?
I've never bought any Apple gear either, but have recommended it to many MS-Windows using friends who are techno-clueless and want to get away from Microsoft. These people don't care about tech ideology and Apple offers a better "just works" product than Microsoft.
All the big uproar over Apple's behavior is the realization that Apple/Jobs are the same kind of evil corporate overlords that Microsoft is with the same distasteful and evil business practices.
My impression is that while the public understands "running a red light" to be a car speeding straight through an intersection, most tickets at red-light cameras are issued for rolling-right-on-red.
The first act is very dangerous, the latter not so much.
Are there any statistics on the numbers of rolling-right-on-red tickets issued vs. straight through? How about fatality comparisons?
I only use GNU/Linux on my servers, for which I don't even care to install the GUI packages. I SSH into them and am all set. And most of them run Ubuntu Server. Installation was breeze and they've been rock solid ever since.
I also don't have problems with video and sound card drivers, audio subsystems or any of the most common annoyances of GNU/Linux users.
For desktop use, I still swear by Mac OS X. I don't care about it not being "free as is freedom", as it's not "free as in beer" either. It works great for me.
Same experience here except I use Mandriva on my servers and my desktops (and any mainstream distro I was familiar with would be OK). I also don't have problems with video and sound card drivers, audio subsystems or any of the most common annoyances of GNU/Linux users because I -- and here's the key -- select my hardware intelligently.
While I like OS X ( for a clueless casual computer user, it is The Best Choice), I can enjoy the large amount of money I save by not choosing it.
No, people are abandoning the distro because it's become painfully obvious that the people running it are batshit insane. It wasn't that they moved to unity, it's that they released an alpha quality Unity with a release.
I believe it's because they force you to accept their choices while restricting your choices, i.e "We want it, so you should like it and accept it."
So why is Ubuntu more popular than Fedora? Is there some specific reason I don't see?
I've never understood why RedHat/Fedora was more popular than Mandriva. People complain about RPM-hell, but Mandivas' urpmi dealt with dependencies well and compares favorably with anything apt offers. Mandriva has a powerful installer and excellent user and admin tools (more functional than fedora) and offers a wide range of applications through the contribs and PLF repositories. They have sane default config choices and offered excellent implementations of GNOME, KDE, XFCE and LXDE. And a sane approach to sudo.
All there really was to object to about Mandriva was the cartoonish artwork and icons they insisted on using and the associated stodgy desktop graphics. After changing those, there was little need to tweak Mandriva after an install. And all you needed to do was avoid the x.0 releases. 8)
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Finally, a big enough drive for my Tivo!
"Punished By Rewards" by Alfie Kohn
Executive summary: Such programs are generally detrimental and stifle creativity
I, for one, welcome our new lab-rat overlords.
Any idea what OS he used?
Scarne on Cards
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/scarne-on-cards-john-scarn/1104279175?ean=9780451167651
Teaches you how to cheat at card games.
Originally produced for the US Army during WW2, it was designed to reveal methods of cheating so a soldier could tell when he was being cheated, just like the Linux Format article.
Understanding bad people is not the same as being a bad person; ignorance is neither power nor protection.
when you look up at it, but lay it on its side and it doesn't look so big.
be T-shirts pre-stained with Cheetos?
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
The Golden Rule
The one with the gold makes the rules.
This thug mentality on the part a few bad police officers reflects poorly on the many honest men and women who serve their community, yet those same good people turn a blind eye to this behavior. Is it no wonder that public confidence and support for law enforcement officers continues to erode?
It would be cheaper for IBM just to buy SCO. Since they are in bankruptcy protection they can't turn down a responsible offer.
If so, then they could disclose all the 'infringing Linux code' and release any SCO IP they purchased as public domain.
This being Slashdot, congrats on actually having had sex with a woman.
Everything else is of minor importance.
but their page to create an account will not work with FF 9.01 or the current Chrome, both on Linux. I finally had to install Opera, which worked just fine, but why is all that fancy B.S. and browser incompatibility necessary for a government site?
Oh, and their artwork was always (and continues to be) childish and amateurish looking. Their user icons look like they belong in children's software.
Mandrake has a tradition of problems, basically since they were Mandrake. Back then, they used to be the more desktop friendly redhat. Being French, they had good i18n support before redhat did, switched to utf early one, provided international packages, and also multimedia. But at that time their community was registered users only, if you didn't have the current version purchased: no soup for you.
Mandrake was always reluctant to share documentation. As a result, they cut themselves off from the larger community. Good innovations like a metapackager, that got users out of rpm-dependency hell long before redhat moved in that direction, or also mandrakes system of setting security level never made it back to a wider audience.
I worked on the docs until the 8.x releases, IIRC. They wanted everything done in DocBook or your could not participate.
The problems with wider adoption of urpmi, mcc and msec and other Mandriva utilities (including their installer) were that they were written in perl and the RedHat world used python. They would also get great ideas for some things and then never maintain them.
And they had a leader who was more interested in computer aided "learning centers" and squandered a good deal of their cash.
I still use Mandriva (stopped at 2010.2). I don't care for some of the folks at Mageia, so I'll be sad to see Mandriva go if it does (used it since 5.2).
Jobs took him outside, and showed how every rectangular road sign was a rounded rectangle.
Which shows that all things old are new again. It's worth noting that nobody ever patented rounded rectangles on road signs - it was just a useful design, not a 'world-shaking invention' in the world view of that time.
Anybody ever ask sign designers why they did that?
I've never bought any Apple gear either, but have recommended it to many MS-Windows using friends who are techno-clueless and want to get away from Microsoft. These people don't care about tech ideology and Apple offers a better "just works" product than Microsoft.
All the big uproar over Apple's behavior is the realization that Apple/Jobs are the same kind of evil corporate overlords that Microsoft is with the same distasteful and evil business practices.
There's not even a need for fancy technology to get a solid non-traditional education.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_school
http://www.sudval.org/07_othe_01.html
My impression is that while the public understands "running a red light" to be a car speeding straight through an intersection, most tickets at red-light cameras are issued for rolling-right-on-red.
The first act is very dangerous, the latter not so much.
Are there any statistics on the numbers of rolling-right-on-red tickets issued vs. straight through? How about fatality comparisons?
Go old school and immerse the entire machine in a tub of mineral oil?
Sorry. As a former NetFlix customer who left because of their policies, I had to gloat.
... about Unity.
I only use GNU/Linux on my servers, for which I don't even care to install the GUI packages. I SSH into them and am all set. And most of them run Ubuntu Server. Installation was breeze and they've been rock solid ever since.
I also don't have problems with video and sound card drivers, audio subsystems or any of the most common annoyances of GNU/Linux users.
For desktop use, I still swear by Mac OS X. I don't care about it not being "free as is freedom", as it's not "free as in beer" either. It works great for me.
Same experience here except I use Mandriva on my servers and my desktops (and any mainstream distro I was familiar with would be OK). I also don't have problems with video and sound card drivers, audio subsystems or any of the most common annoyances of GNU/Linux users because I -- and here's the key -- select my hardware intelligently.
While I like OS X ( for a clueless casual computer user, it is The Best Choice), I can enjoy the large amount of money I save by not choosing it.
No, people are abandoning the distro because it's become painfully obvious that the people running it are batshit insane. It wasn't that they moved to unity, it's that they released an alpha quality Unity with a release.
I believe it's because they force you to accept their choices while restricting your choices, i.e "We want it, so you should like it and accept it."
For me it was RPM Hell. Before YUM, installing software using RPM's was a nightmare.
Mandiva's URPMI solved those problems very well and early on.
So why is Ubuntu more popular than Fedora? Is there some specific reason I don't see?
I've never understood why RedHat/Fedora was more popular than Mandriva. People complain about RPM-hell, but Mandivas' urpmi dealt with dependencies well and compares favorably with anything apt offers. Mandriva has a powerful installer and excellent user and admin tools (more functional than fedora) and offers a wide range of applications through the contribs and PLF repositories. They have sane default config choices and offered excellent implementations of GNOME, KDE, XFCE and LXDE. And a sane approach to sudo.
All there really was to object to about Mandriva was the cartoonish artwork and icons they insisted on using and the associated stodgy desktop graphics. After changing those, there was little need to tweak Mandriva after an install. And all you needed to do was avoid the x.0 releases. 8)
... I thought laptops could fly!