This thread is exactly what I was expecting... the vast majority are people saying "read the man pages", "just work it out yourself and install it", or "read 'Linux for 1337s'".
These people are newbies. They don't know what man is. They don't know what bash is. Many of them don't know what a CLI is, and if they do, have no idea of the power of the Linux CLI. They probably don't even know what a distro is. They've probably never even installed Windows, much less any sort of *nix. They need their hand held, people. This is the exact attitude preventing main stream adoption of Linux.
I have a technology addiction (albeit, fortunately, not a really bad one). I bet a very large % of other/. readers do as well - and the posts on this subject seem to confirm this.
Does anyone have any advice, or know of any good support groups (which ironically will probably be online) which could help people like me get their addiction under control? Or any other tales of recovery?
These ads remind me a little of cleaning products ads, the ones that portray germs everywhere and you must buy new "PineOClean Deluxe Floor Cleaner" to get rid of them. I'm convinced these ads, while based on a small amount of truth, play a significant part in encouraging the germ paranoia in society.
These banners ads are the same - well, yes, strictly speaking you ARE sending your IP address, and yes, hackers can use that against you, but you and I know that in 99.9999999% of cases it's a non-issue. But your mum doesn't, nor does mine. So, they will become increasingly paranoid. And that's bad for all of us - like many of you, I make my living off the net. More paranoid = less willingess to try new things = less money spent on the net = less money for my family.
So let's sue the bastards. What the legal grounds are, I'll leave to the lawyers. That's just the reason I *want* to see them go down.
Microsoft sells most of their software through partners. MS only tends to get involved in the larger projects, via Microsoft consulting services. Of course MS has in most cases no idea what their partners are up to. And if a partner used MS software for the filtering without the involvement of MS, surely MS can't be held liable for that.
I don't get how people criticise Fox for cancelling "My Favourite Show". Fox is a business. It's there to make money. If you think you've got such in depth knowledge about what they should and shouldn't show, start up your own cable network - Geek TV. Fox doesn't tell you how to write your code or what OS to use cause that's not what they are good at, don't tell them how to run a profitable station.
The system isn't perfect, I don't think any one is pretending it is. But should we stop jailing all criminals on the basis that every now and again someone innocent gets put away?
How unlike/. to feature a proprietary tool like this. Have lego released their source code under the GPL? I thought not. You are tied into their closed source bricks. This is monopoly action at its extreme. Have you seen how much lego costs? It doesn't cost more than a few cents to make a brick.
Does anyone know of an open source/GPL lego-clones?
Isn't having phones as a commodity a GOOD thing for the consumer? Look at the PC, that is powerful because it's a commodity. Linux would have troubles existing without a commodity PC.
Actually, it's a good example of MS-bashing at work. Not your message - spam filtering.
I used the beta of IE5 with Outlook Express 5. That had a spam filter in it (this is... 3 years ago I think?). I'm not sure how good it was, but anything is better than nothing and it would have undoubtedly improved with time.
However, Blue Mountain greeting cards took Microsoft to court because the filter blocked their cards. Depends who you listen to (always a lot of FUD around these issues), but from what I've read of it, basically Blue Mountain has crappy mail headers which were intepreted as spam. Microsoft provided them with specific technical information on how to fix it, but Blue Mountain decided on the law courts instead. So, because someone (blue mountain) wanted to play the victim rather than get their act together, millions of people don't have spam filtering in their mail client.
So MSFT were several years ahead of Mozilla, but being the biggest worked against them.
The thing I don't get if Nissan Motors wins this case... what happens if another company with Nissan in the name then becomes more "famous" than Nissan Motors? For example, imagine the (admittedly unlikely) scenario that Uzi Nissan becomes the next Michael Dell. Does he then get nissan.com back? Many big companies don't stay big for more than a few decades, so assuming Nissan will wane sometime in the future, it's up for grabs.
So, do we need a government regulated "fame" index?
You see where I'm going - it opens a huge can of worms.
It's a "a test of the technology to select U.S. residents". It's a limited test, people, not a fully fledged launch. It supports the setup the majority (80+%) of Internet users have: Windows, IE and WMP/Real Player. Please, no more "it doesn't support linux" or whatever posts.
(and before you say "it's not a test without platform X", I'm sure if they can get it to work on Windows, they can get it working on your platform).
Macromedia seem to stand to suffer a lot from this. Flash will all but die (we can argue whether that's a good or bad thing!) and Director will take a fair hit, and although I don't know their revenue streams from these products I bet they are at least 25%.
This is "journalistic integrity"? So what does a lack of integrity look like? Seriously... a publication where every single article is seriously slanted does not have integrity. And please don't start the obvious argument that results in me saying "two wrongs don't make a right"
The fundamental concept of a tablet pc isn't new, but this is a significant break through. There are a number of software changes, but they aren't as significant. The key hardware changes are around the sampling methods. "Traditional" pen technologies (including the Microsoft Pocket PCs) sample the handwriting around 20 - 30 times/second (typically). This leads to a loss of accurary and other weird side effects. The Tablet samples around 200 times/second.
Also (and I don't know the correct terms so bear with me), most pen devices use a "film" coating over the top of the screen to detect pen movements. This significantly reduces screen readability. The Tablet has the measurement stuff *behind* the screen, so the screen is significantly clearer than an equivalent device.
Seems a bit strange that when you have 612 developers (!) you would rule out ASP simply because of the cost of buying Windows - plus, I'm sure MS would give them a sweet deal. Surely developer productivity and turnaround time is the most important thing?
I'm not saying they should have used ASP, just saying it's a strange basis for a decision. And they didn't even look at ASP.NET which solves the separation of code from layout better than anything I have seen.
I'm doing a migration of a large site to a new cluster. I was wondering what do you think is a better approach for testing the new cluster:
1. Ask all my users to visit and just hope that's indicitive of my usage patterns
2. Get some people with testing experience and use some load testing software?
What do you think? Has anyone ever load tested a server before? I'm sure we must be the first in the world to do it.
Mary Smith is suing Fred Jones for invasion of privacy. Smith's house is in the middle of a large forest, and she has taken the habit of walking around her house naked with the curtains up. Jones saw her naked while he happened upon her house while out hunting.
Smith said "This is an outrage, no one has ever seen me before, my house is almost impossible to find, I just don't see the need for curtains or locks."
I wonder if there is a vulnerability in here somewhere... people are displaying raw referrers on their sites, typically via a server script of some sort. Potential breeding ground for a new worm of some sort?
On the other hand, perhaps this is the first valuable use of spam: making people aware of the problem, and the smarter people shutting it down, before someone writes a worm to exploit it.
Just about every major worm, linux or windows, has used an exploit that's been patched for a few months or more. The admin is a far weaker link than the OS.
Stating the obvious, I know, but whoever posted this flamebait article didn't think so.
On another topic, the moves MS are making with their auto-update tools should put an interesting light on the security landscape. The previews of.NET server look pretty good in this area.
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These people are newbies. They don't know what man is. They don't know what bash is. Many of them don't know what a CLI is, and if they do, have no idea of the power of the Linux CLI. They probably don't even know what a distro is. They've probably never even installed Windows, much less any sort of *nix. They need their hand held, people . This is the exact attitude preventing main stream adoption of Linux.
I have a technology addiction (albeit, fortunately, not a really bad one). I bet a very large % of other /. readers do as well - and the posts on this subject seem to confirm this.
Does anyone have any advice, or know of any good support groups (which ironically will probably be online) which could help people like me get their addiction under control? Or any other tales of recovery?
These ads remind me a little of cleaning products ads, the ones that portray germs everywhere and you must buy new "PineOClean Deluxe Floor Cleaner" to get rid of them. I'm convinced these ads, while based on a small amount of truth, play a significant part in encouraging the germ paranoia in society.
These banners ads are the same - well, yes, strictly speaking you ARE sending your IP address, and yes, hackers can use that against you, but you and I know that in 99.9999999% of cases it's a non-issue. But your mum doesn't, nor does mine. So, they will become increasingly paranoid. And that's bad for all of us - like many of you, I make my living off the net. More paranoid = less willingess to try new things = less money spent on the net = less money for my family.
So let's sue the bastards. What the legal grounds are, I'll leave to the lawyers. That's just the reason I *want* to see them go down.
Where can I download the windows version?
Microsoft sells most of their software through partners. MS only tends to get involved in the larger projects, via Microsoft consulting services. Of course MS has in most cases no idea what their partners are up to. And if a partner used MS software for the filtering without the involvement of MS, surely MS can't be held liable for that.
(this is not intended as flamebait)
I don't get how people criticise Fox for cancelling "My Favourite Show". Fox is a business. It's there to make money. If you think you've got such in depth knowledge about what they should and shouldn't show, start up your own cable network - Geek TV. Fox doesn't tell you how to write your code or what OS to use cause that's not what they are good at, don't tell them how to run a profitable station.
The system isn't perfect, I don't think any one is pretending it is. But should we stop jailing all criminals on the basis that every now and again someone innocent gets put away?
[yawn] only if your time is free.
If it's female, sounds like the best chance many slashdotters have of getting laid.
How unlike /. to feature a proprietary tool like this. Have lego released their source code under the GPL? I thought not. You are tied into their closed source bricks. This is monopoly action at its extreme. Have you seen how much lego costs? It doesn't cost more than a few cents to make a brick.
Does anyone know of an open source/GPL lego-clones?
Isn't having phones as a commodity a GOOD thing for the consumer? Look at the PC, that is powerful because it's a commodity. Linux would have troubles existing without a commodity PC.
Actually, it's a good example of MS-bashing at work. Not your message - spam filtering.
I used the beta of IE5 with Outlook Express 5. That had a spam filter in it (this is... 3 years ago I think?). I'm not sure how good it was, but anything is better than nothing and it would have undoubtedly improved with time.
However, Blue Mountain greeting cards took Microsoft to court because the filter blocked their cards. Depends who you listen to (always a lot of FUD around these issues), but from what I've read of it, basically Blue Mountain has crappy mail headers which were intepreted as spam. Microsoft provided them with specific technical information on how to fix it, but Blue Mountain decided on the law courts instead. So, because someone (blue mountain) wanted to play the victim rather than get their act together, millions of people don't have spam filtering in their mail client.
So MSFT were several years ahead of Mozilla, but being the biggest worked against them.
The thing I don't get if Nissan Motors wins this case... what happens if another company with Nissan in the name then becomes more "famous" than Nissan Motors? For example, imagine the (admittedly unlikely) scenario that Uzi Nissan becomes the next Michael Dell. Does he then get nissan.com back? Many big companies don't stay big for more than a few decades, so assuming Nissan will wane sometime in the future, it's up for grabs.
So, do we need a government regulated "fame" index?
You see where I'm going - it opens a huge can of worms.
(and before you say "it's not a test without platform X", I'm sure if they can get it to work on Windows, they can get it working on your platform).
Macromedia seem to stand to suffer a lot from this. Flash will all but die (we can argue whether that's a good or bad thing!) and Director will take a fair hit, and although I don't know their revenue streams from these products I bet they are at least 25%.
This is "journalistic integrity"? So what does a lack of integrity look like? Seriously... a publication where every single article is seriously slanted does not have integrity. And please don't start the obvious argument that results in me saying "two wrongs don't make a right"
The fundamental concept of a tablet pc isn't new, but this is a significant break through. There are a number of software changes, but they aren't as significant. The key hardware changes are around the sampling methods. "Traditional" pen technologies (including the Microsoft Pocket PCs) sample the handwriting around 20 - 30 times/second (typically). This leads to a loss of accurary and other weird side effects. The Tablet samples around 200 times/second.
Also (and I don't know the correct terms so bear with me), most pen devices use a "film" coating over the top of the screen to detect pen movements. This significantly reduces screen readability. The Tablet has the measurement stuff *behind* the screen, so the screen is significantly clearer than an equivalent device.
It's really clever, quite innovative stuff.
As long as you are also the person who doesn't have enough time to whine everytime the government misrepresents you.
No one ever said democracy was easy.
How long will it take for the "innovative" Linux users to ripoff the Longhorn UI?
[preparing to get modded to -20]
Seems a bit strange that when you have 612 developers (!) you would rule out ASP simply because of the cost of buying Windows - plus, I'm sure MS would give them a sweet deal. Surely developer productivity and turnaround time is the most important thing?
I'm not saying they should have used ASP, just saying it's a strange basis for a decision. And they didn't even look at ASP.NET which solves the separation of code from layout better than anything I have seen.
1. Ask all my users to visit and just hope that's indicitive of my usage patterns
2. Get some people with testing experience and use some load testing software?
What do you think? Has anyone ever load tested a server before? I'm sure we must be the first in the world to do it.
Smith said "This is an outrage, no one has ever seen me before, my house is almost impossible to find, I just don't see the need for curtains or locks."
I wonder if there is a vulnerability in here somewhere... people are displaying raw referrers on their sites, typically via a server script of some sort. Potential breeding ground for a new worm of some sort?
On the other hand, perhaps this is the first valuable use of spam: making people aware of the problem, and the smarter people shutting it down, before someone writes a worm to exploit it.
Yeah, soon, the music on music CDs will cost more than it does to make the CD. Oh, wait..
The point: who says there is some magic relationship between the value of the hardware and the software?
Just about every major worm, linux or windows, has used an exploit that's been patched for a few months or more. The admin is a far weaker link than the OS.
.NET server look pretty good in this area.
Stating the obvious, I know, but whoever posted this flamebait article didn't think so.
On another topic, the moves MS are making with their auto-update tools should put an interesting light on the security landscape. The previews of