Although some rabid KDE4 fanboi has modded you "troll" for expressing your opinion, I have to chime in and say that I agree with you. I'm far less interested in desktop eye candy than whether the software and features that I need (and have in KDE 3.5.9) are available. For me, it still looks like "not quite there yet".
Also, I totally agree with you about Dolphin. After I saw what the dolphin devs called "tree view", I've given up on them making it good enough to replace Konqueror.
After looking through the disassembled BIOS for the last several hours, rebooting it, and tweaking it more, I'd say this is very intentional, I've found redundant checks to make sure it's really running on Windows, regardless what the OS tells it it is, and then of course fatal errors that will kernel panic FreeBSD or Linux, scattered all over the place, even in the table path for Windows 9x, NT, 2000, XP, and Vista, and had to correct them (Well, at least divert them off into a segment of RAM I hope to god I'm sure about)
No, this looks extremely calculated, it's like they knew someone would probably go tearing it apart eventually and so tried to scatter landmines out so as to where you'd probably hit one eventually.
So if it is a mistake, or incompetence, then it's the most meticulous, targeted, and dare I say, anal retentive incompetence I've seen.
Geez, what moderator on crack rated Deangbo's comment Troll? He was absolutely correct and parent was completely inaccurate. (Posting since I don't have mod points.)
In Firefox, middle clicking the "Reply to this" link (to open it in a new tab) opens the old comment page in a new tab instead of the embedded one. It's what I usually do and I submitted this comment that way.
People who defend Wine have never had to make it work for anything that wasn't for their personal use.
That is complete and utter bullshit. I have a user that uses wine to run windows programs to interface with oceanographic instruments and so far, every one of them has worked with little to no hassle. These are niche programs that the developer provides with the instruments themselves and they likely sell only dozens of them a year.
Just because YOU can't get something to work under wine is a poor reason to be a whiny little bitch about the project.
Having a solid state drive would probably help out quite a bit with the vibration since the hard drive is the laptop part most susceptible to vibration damage. Not saying it's a toughbook, but it would probably outlast an ordinary laptop by a good margin.
The REASON that computer science enrollment has dropped is that students can see that wages and job security in that field have dropped precipitously. They choose another, more lucrative field to study. The depression of wages and job security is due to the glut of H1B holders who are willing to work below fair market value. H1B is the CAUSE of the problem, not the cure.
Gnome has a reputation for being more stable than KDE. On the downside it doesn't have as many features as KDE. (I'm on Gnome, I'm jealous of those sexy screenshots.)
Reputation for stability among whom? Gnome users?;-) Seriously, I've been using KDE for years and never had any serious stability problems.
"Just recently the Princeton Review released its newest survey on the state of America's higher education institutes, proving a point many working in education have been trying to make for years: which colleges rank in the top tiers depends solely on the methodology the survey uses."
It all boils down to "Don't believe everything you read".
I have no interest in the University in question-- I'm just tired of seeing US News rankings quoted as gospel by so many people.
I always translate DRM as Digital Restrictions Management whenever I talk to anyone about it. It's a more accurate expansion of the acronym. I would claim to have coined the term, but I've seen it a few different places.
Maybe enough of us kde3 lovers will remain to start a project to put the kd3 interface on the kde4 internals. I love kde and use it on all my computers, but kde4 seems the wrong way to go. And the developers don't seem to interested in the opinions of long-time users.
indeed it's a password reset, which is what i said, not a recovery. but do you trust a journalist to know the difference? i know i don't Good thing I wasn't replying to you:-)
The article says
It also eliminates the need to seize a computer itself, which typically involves disconnecting from a network, turning off the power and potentially losing data. Instead, the investigator can scan for evidence on site. Which implies that it can break in without cycling the power. That sounds more like password extraction rather than resetting. I can only go by what the article wrote, rather than speculating about what they might have meant.
If the article is correct, then the device can decrypt the password. This makes undetected intrusion possible. Joe user would probably notice if you used ntpasswd or any of the other methods to change his password and obtain access. If you have access with the original password, you could check periodically and see if anything incriminating/useful appears on the system without the user noticing.
What you are doing is NOT password recovery-- it is RESETTING the password. Resetting a password is trivial on Linux and Windows (if you have physical access), but the article says this device can decrypt passwords on the system. That is worth worrying a little.
Maybe you should have used an ACTUAL example instead of a made up one to "dramatize" your point. If you do have a valid criticism, make it. Without being "dramatic".
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What is this guarantee that you speak of so italicly?
You'd better not update mplayer, then! :-)
Although some rabid KDE4 fanboi has modded you "troll" for expressing your opinion, I have to chime in and say that I agree with you. I'm far less interested in desktop eye candy than whether the software and features that I need (and have in KDE 3.5.9) are available. For me, it still looks like "not quite there yet".
Also, I totally agree with you about Dolphin. After I saw what the dolphin devs called "tree view", I've given up on them making it good enough to replace Konqueror.
From the hacker who discovered the error:
On the KDE website, there was no mention of KDE 4.0 being a developer release. It hinted strongly, in fact, that KDE 4.0 was a general release.
It was only after all the problems and complaints that the KDE devs said that the release wasn't for mainstream users.
Geez, what moderator on crack rated Deangbo's comment Troll? He was absolutely correct and parent was completely inaccurate. (Posting since I don't have mod points.)
I had exactly the same experience as you in regards to Cedega and Wine. I cancelled my Cedega subscription about 5 months ago and haven't missed it.
In Firefox, middle clicking the "Reply to this" link (to open it in a new tab) opens the old comment page in a new tab instead of the embedded one. It's what I usually do and I submitted this comment that way.
I can't mod you up, but I will post to say "well done!" I am glad someone understands what the word hypocrite actually means.
I have no mod points, so you will have to settle for my thanking you for making me laugh out loud at work.
Ah yes, the Media Research Center whose front page proclaims "The Leader in Documenting, Exposing, and Neutralizing Liberal Media Bias."
A thoughtful person might question whether that organization's report is free from bias itself.
What's wrong with the location bar? (not a snark, I'm curious. It seems to work fine for me unless there is something I'm missing.)
Just because YOU can't get something to work under wine is a poor reason to be a whiny little bitch about the project.
Having a solid state drive would probably help out quite a bit with the vibration since the hard drive is the laptop part most susceptible to vibration damage. Not saying it's a toughbook, but it would probably outlast an ordinary laptop by a good margin.
The REASON that computer science enrollment has dropped is that students can see that wages and job security in that field have dropped precipitously. They choose another, more lucrative field to study. The depression of wages and job security is due to the glut of H1B holders who are willing to work below fair market value. H1B is the CAUSE of the problem, not the cure.
Gnome has a reputation for being more stable than KDE. On the downside it doesn't have as many features as KDE. (I'm on Gnome, I'm jealous of those sexy screenshots.)
Reputation for stability among whom? Gnome users?What does Monica Lewinski have to do with that?
I believe you are mistaken. Lack of enforcement applies to trademarks only.
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/pres-provost/president/speeches/961206gcfallow.html
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/rankoversy.htm
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/06/20/usnews
http://www.uas7.org/content/news/september_2007/uni_rankings_provoke_criticism/index_en.html
In the first paragraph of the UAS7 article,
It all boils down to "Don't believe everything you read".
I have no interest in the University in question-- I'm just tired of seeing US News rankings quoted as gospel by so many people.
I always translate DRM as Digital Restrictions Management whenever I talk to anyone about it. It's a more accurate expansion of the acronym. I would claim to have coined the term, but I've seen it a few different places.
Maybe enough of us kde3 lovers will remain to start a project to put the kd3 interface on the kde4 internals. I love kde and use it on all my computers, but kde4 seems the wrong way to go. And the developers don't seem to interested in the opinions of long-time users.
The article says It also eliminates the need to seize a computer itself, which typically involves disconnecting from a network, turning off the power and potentially losing data. Instead, the investigator can scan for evidence on site. Which implies that it can break in without cycling the power. That sounds more like password extraction rather than resetting. I can only go by what the article wrote, rather than speculating about what they might have meant.
If the article is correct, then the device can decrypt the password. This makes undetected intrusion possible. Joe user would probably notice if you used ntpasswd or any of the other methods to change his password and obtain access. If you have access with the original password, you could check periodically and see if anything incriminating/useful appears on the system without the user noticing.
What you are doing is NOT password recovery-- it is RESETTING the password. Resetting a password is trivial on Linux and Windows (if you have physical access), but the article says this device can decrypt passwords on the system. That is worth worrying a little.
Maybe you should have used an ACTUAL example instead of a made up one to "dramatize" your point. If you do have a valid criticism, make it. Without being "dramatic".