"So the developer could include all the necessary libraries etc. Now a second problem arises. If there is a security fix to any of those libraries, then just running an update from your distribution vendor won't fix everything."
But this is exactly what happens on Windows as well.
The reason that Gaim package works on all versions of Windows is because it includes GTK, Glib, libxml, probably even MSVCRT, etc.
Isn't this what the LSB is for? Provide an LSB-compliant RPM, and everyone can use your program.
By all means, provide the source as well, so that Debian and others can do a better job at packaging it and integrating it into their systems, but make the LSB-complant RPM available and everyone will be able to run it.
"Binaries are bad because this is where all the spyware/virii comes from."
So you audit every line of code you run on your machines? I don't think so.
Spyware comes from people running random crap from untrusted sources, without spending 3 seconds wondering exactly why a random company wants them to have 10,000 smileys for FREE!!!?!
As long as a sufficient level of users make use of a distribution channel, there will be spyware there. Whether the spyware comes in the form of paris_fucks_a_dog.exe, or paris-fucks-a-dog-3.4.0.tar.gz, is immaterial.
"Why on earth would I put my music in a folder called "My music" in a hidden folder called "My Documents" when I obviously want it in a common, shared folder?"
Now now, the My Documents folder isn't hidden--it just magically renames itself It appears as "My Documents" if it's actually _your_ documents folder. If not, then it appears as "$owner's documents".*
Unless you are typing a path into a, Open dialog box, or working on the command line. Then it's "My Documents" all the way. Even if it's not 'your' documents folder. Oh, except when it's "MYDOCU~1".
This brilliant piece of software "engineering" is brought to you by Microsoft!
* I might not be 100% correct here. I just fired up my Windows machine to check, but it seems that today I am out of luck: when I try browse to 'my computer' to have a look, explorer crashes.
Now I'm getting one of those Windows migranes. Time to lie down.
A monitor has two magic number ranges associated with it: Horizontal Synnc and Vertical Refresh. Basically, they determine the set of resolutions that your monitor is capable of displaying.
These numbers can be set in XFree86/Xorg's config file or, if omitted, the X server will attempt to query the monitor for the correct values.
Most of the time, this works fine. However, PC hardware is and forever will be PC hardware: it sounds like your monitor is reporting the wrong values to the X server, or your video card is munging them somehow.
Examine Xorg's log file. It should contain something like the following:
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Generic Monitor: Using default hsync range of 31.00-96.00kHz (WW) NVIDIA(0): Generic Monitor: using default vrefresh range of 55.00-160.00Hz
This tells you the hsync/vrefresh values that Xorg is using. Consult your monitor's documentation; if the values in there differ from the values Xorg is using, place them in Xorg's config file, so that Xorg's detected values are overridden.
You can now scroll down a bit in the config file. You should see lines similar to the following:
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (hsync out of range) (WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "1024x768" (height 1536 is larger than EDID-specified maximum 1200) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (width too large for virtual size)
The X server is considering a whole bunch of resolutions, and discarding the ones that can't be used. In my case, the first two aren't used because my monitor says it can't display them; the third is discarded because it is larger than the maximum resolution I specified in the X config file (section Screen, Subsection Display, option Modes).
Once you know why the X server is discarding your desired resolution, you should be able to get it working.
To the inevitable "Linux isn't ready for the desktop" trolls: please tell me where I can find Windows equivalents of the above log files, and how I can override Windows' own detected hsync/vrefresh values: I have several machines upon which I cannot install Windows XP, because it mistakenly believes that the monitor can display 1024x768.
And yet it seems to be Linux's fault (yes, the kernel itself) when an application screws up and makes it more difficult for a user to install it than it should be. Strange, that...
Don't forget how Nvidia's driver installer doesn't actually install the driver; it only installs the installer for the driver. Once you have installed the driver installer you must go to the directory where you installed the installer for the driver and run the actual driver installer, this will actually install the driver.
"The High Court has held that the makers of computer chips that allow games console users to play imported or pirated games breaches UK copyright law."
"The defendants in the case designed and marketed a mod-chip"
"The decision is significant because it clearly established liability under the new law - in the UK, the dealing in and manufacturer of 'mod-chips' is illegal."
"Under the pre-amended Act this fell within sec. 296 which restricts devices that allow copying of copyrighted computer programmes."
(1) This section applies where (a) a technical device has been applied to a computer program; and (b) a person (A) knowing or having reason to believe that it will be used to make infringing copies -
(i) manufactures for sale or hire, imports, distributes, sells or lets for hire, offers or exposes for sale or hire, advertises for sale or hire or has in his possession for commercial purposes any means the sole intended purpose of which is to facilitate the unauthorised removal or circumvention of the technical device.
Dreadful grammar in your press release^W^Warticle aside (from a solicitor, no less!), no one has prevented any one I know from modding their consoles. If I get a PS3, I intend to modify it, and no one is going to stop me! Buahah!
Not correct. It is illegal to deal with mod chips for commercial purposes (ie, selling and advertising them). It is not illegal to buy and install them for your own use.
ELSPA and co. don't like this, and won't admit it in public, but at worst, the EUCD illegalises the sale of mod chips, but it cannot affect their use.
No one is allowed to dictate to me what I can do with my own property, and any attempt to do so will end up before the EU Court of Human Rights.
Because the copyright infringement is already illegal. ELSPA want modding your console to become illegal as well, and to that end they claim that it is illegal at every turn.
Remember that if you repeat a big lie loud and often enough, people eventually start to believe it.
In the future, sources will quote press releases such as this one while arguing that modding should be/is illegal. Similar to the process we have now whereby American copyright terms are increased to match European terms, and then European terms are increased to match America terms, rinse, repeat.
I wonder about this: given enough time, does every stable system eventually become tidally locked like the Earth/Moon? Eventually, could we end up with only one face of the Earth ever seeing the sun? Ignore the fact that the sun might die before this could ever happen.:)
Or do you mean across multiple files? Use grep for that. Admittedly a pain in the arse since you have to deal with that dreadful excuse for a terminal emulator that Windows has.
Clarisworks/Appleworks changes menus and menuitems according to the type of the document that was focused. If no documents were open then the menu bar just had File/Edit/Help IIRC.
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The reason that Gaim package works on all versions of Windows is because it includes GTK, Glib, libxml, probably even MSVCRT, etc.
Isn't this what the LSB is for? Provide an LSB-compliant RPM, and everyone can use your program.
By all means, provide the source as well, so that Debian and others can do a better job at packaging it and integrating it into their systems, but make the LSB-complant RPM available and everyone will be able to run it.
So you audit every line of code you run on your machines? I don't think so.
Spyware comes from people running random crap from untrusted sources, without spending 3 seconds wondering exactly why a random company wants them to have 10,000 smileys for FREE!!!?!
As long as a sufficient level of users make use of a distribution channel, there will be spyware there. Whether the spyware comes in the form of paris_fucks_a_dog.exe, or paris-fucks-a-dog-3.4.0.tar.gz, is immaterial.
Now now, the My Documents folder isn't hidden--it just magically renames itself It appears as "My Documents" if it's actually _your_ documents folder. If not, then it appears as "$owner's documents".*
Unless you are typing a path into a, Open dialog box, or working on the command line. Then it's "My Documents" all the way. Even if it's not 'your' documents folder. Oh, except when it's "MYDOCU~1".
This brilliant piece of software "engineering" is brought to you by Microsoft!
* I might not be 100% correct here. I just fired up my Windows machine to check, but it seems that today I am out of luck: when I try browse to 'my computer' to have a look, explorer crashes.
Now I'm getting one of those Windows migranes. Time to lie down.
Depends on the driver. I get 640x480 at 60 Hz. Coping with dynamically changing hardware configurations is an area in which Xorg needs to improve.
A monitor has two magic number ranges associated with it: Horizontal Synnc and Vertical Refresh. Basically, they determine the set of resolutions that your monitor is capable of displaying.
These numbers can be set in XFree86/Xorg's config file or, if omitted, the X server will attempt to query the monitor for the correct values.
Most of the time, this works fine. However, PC hardware is and forever will be PC hardware: it sounds like your monitor is reporting the wrong values to the X server, or your video card is munging them somehow.
Examine Xorg's log file. It should contain something like the following:
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Generic Monitor: Using default hsync range of 31.00-96.00kHz
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Generic Monitor: using default vrefresh range of 55.00-160.00Hz
This tells you the hsync/vrefresh values that Xorg is using. Consult your monitor's documentation; if the values in there differ from the values Xorg is using, place them in Xorg's config file, so that Xorg's detected values are overridden.
You can now scroll down a bit in the config file. You should see lines similar to the following:
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (hsync out of range)
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "1024x768" (height 1536 is larger than EDID-specified maximum 1200)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (width too large for virtual size)
The X server is considering a whole bunch of resolutions, and discarding the ones that can't be used. In my case, the first two aren't used because my monitor says it can't display them; the third is discarded because it is larger than the maximum resolution I specified in the X config file (section Screen, Subsection Display, option Modes).
Once you know why the X server is discarding your desired resolution, you should be able to get it working.
To the inevitable "Linux isn't ready for the desktop" trolls: please tell me where I can find Windows equivalents of the above log files, and how I can override Windows' own detected hsync/vrefresh values: I have several machines upon which I cannot install Windows XP, because it mistakenly believes that the monitor can display 1024x768.
s/X/XFree86/
And yet it seems to be Linux's fault (yes, the kernel itself) when an application screws up and makes it more difficult for a user to install it than it should be. Strange, that...
Don't forget how Nvidia's driver installer doesn't actually install the driver; it only installs the installer for the driver. Once you have installed the driver installer you must go to the directory where you installed the installer for the driver and run the actual driver installer, this will actually install the driver.
After you reboot. Zing!
I suggest you read that article more clearly:
Please consult the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act. Section 296 can be found on page 151 of the pdf (numbered as page 132 on the page itself):
Dreadful grammar in your press release^W^Warticle aside (from a solicitor, no less!), no one has prevented any one I know from modding their consoles. If I get a PS3, I intend to modify it, and no one is going to stop me! Buahah!
Not correct. It is illegal to deal with mod chips for commercial purposes (ie, selling and advertising them). It is not illegal to buy and install them for your own use.
ELSPA and co. don't like this, and won't admit it in public, but at worst, the EUCD illegalises the sale of mod chips, but it cannot affect their use.
No one is allowed to dictate to me what I can do with my own property, and any attempt to do so will end up before the EU Court of Human Rights.
Because the copyright infringement is already illegal. ELSPA want modding your console to become illegal as well, and to that end they claim that it is illegal at every turn.
Remember that if you repeat a big lie loud and often enough, people eventually start to believe it.
In the future, sources will quote press releases such as this one while arguing that modding should be/is illegal. Similar to the process we have now whereby American copyright terms are increased to match European terms, and then European terms are increased to match America terms, rinse, repeat.
Apache2 does that with the Perchild MPM. Unfortunatly this can't be used with PHP without running into insoluble threading issues. :(
Upgrade your distribution.
Oh wait, Debian's security support is still broken. Never mind.
I wonder about this: given enough time, does every stable system eventually become tidally locked like the Earth/Moon? Eventually, could we end up with only one face of the Earth ever seeing the sun? Ignore the fact that the sun might die before this could ever happen. :)
I wish the Lameness Filter would filter out all posts that contain numbered lists, '???' and 'profit'.
Perhaps this is a job for Greasemonkey.
Here is what would happen if someone infringing upon the GPL ever refused to settle:
(Paraphrased from a talk given by Ebden Moglen. I don't remember which it was, but I think it was one of the ones linked from that article.)
It's actually the most accurate headline, too. :)
/type_regexp_here
Or do you mean across multiple files? Use grep for that. Admittedly a pain in the arse since you have to deal with that dreadful excuse for a terminal emulator that Windows has.
s/Linux/Gentoo/
Of course, you were just trolling.
Presumably he plonked a copy of known_hosts on his data DVD.
s/THEIR/THERE/
That's not actually true. Part 3 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 has not yet entered into force.
Good god, rational and reasoned debate about the merits of Gnome and KDE, on Slashdot! I neve thought I'd see the day!
Clarisworks/Appleworks changes menus and menuitems according to the type of the document that was focused. If no documents were open then the menu bar just had File/Edit/Help IIRC.