Come on -- you can't expect that much education from an American... BTW, it's also worth noting that ESA is not recently "getting involved". They actually build space rockets since the sixties.
We're not speculating here. This has been done before. Years ago, there was a MS-DOS virus which messed with dBase database files, which were common at the time. IIRC it changed some random bytes in the file.
Now the evil part was that the virus hid these modifications from the rest of the system. The users didn't notice. Only when they erased the virus (or moved the database to another, clean computer), they found out that their data was corrupted.
Luckily, this virus didn't spread far AFAIK. But a good infection routine and the payload can be combined...
So what? Who needs flashing buttons for doing eCommcerce? Simple HTML forms make the best webshops as they actually work in any browser. I don't care if the d**n shop has animation and funny menus.
I'm no fan of overly generic patents, but if this one kills Flash, I'm all for it!
It's a relic of the past. In the old days, there was IBM - which made the PC (with DOS) - and there was Apple which made the Macintosh.
Game publishers have never overcome that distinction. DOS has become WinDOS, but other than that, the world hasn't changed. OK, maybe there's nVidia now, but that's about it:-)
Still, the dinstinction is at least technically correct. Even if Apple is using more and more PC components, the architecture remains different.
What makes a PC running Linux a non-PC is of course beyond me:-)
AFAIK, if Loki hadn't done Q3/Linux, there would be no Q3/Linux at all. id wasn't doing a Linux port initially. Q3/Linux was simply late because development wasn't started at the same time as Q3/Windows. Besides that, Loki was a really capable company. The Loki Linux games that I played surpassed their competition by a great amount.
Whatever - on the short run, bundled Windows+Linux versions are better than no native Linux version at all. The alternative is Wine[X] and stinks. At the current market penetration of Linux in the gamer segment, sales won't convince the managers anyway. Unbundling makes sense (for the Linux community) when we've overtaken the Mac and reached about 10%. I really hope Linux will make it... we're close now, very close. ATI and nVidia in the boat (though with less than perfect drivers), Linux 2.6 just around the corner.
"point" is a resolution-independant unit, which should appear identical regardless of 1600x1200, 800x600 or 320x120. You're fixing the wrong side of the problem. Set up your dpi correctly instead.
And you're done. This functionality has been in Windows for, I don't know, a decade or more. Generally, commercial OSs, whether Windows or Solaris or MacOS, leave free ones standing when it comes to accessibility. The reason is that they want to sell to corporates, and corporates have to comply with legislation like ADA. Free software authors generally don't have that incentive.
Yes. The feature has been there for ages. Unused. At least 70% of the Windows desktop software (that I used) ignore it. Either they required manually choosing a different font, or didn't allow changing of font sizes at all. The strange thing is, all GTK+ apps support this fine -- out of the box, because it was designed into the toolkit itself. Windows development software OTOH assumed (does still assume?) that every f**king dialog has to be displayed in MS Sans Serif, 8 pixels. Yeah, commercial software is wonderful, isn't it?
Really, this is not a big problem.. I would be surprised if you can't quite easily overcome the problem of your high resolution display. I dare say, easier than you can in linux.
Yeah, Bill Windows Luser again tries to use his brain. Next time, check the facts...
XF86 detects display dpi automatically. (Though you can still override the dpi value if something goes wrong...)
_ALL_ GTK+ apps scale their fonts properly _by default_. This is a major design feature of the GTK+ toolkit. Not like in Windows, where every second app stays at a 8-pixel bitmap font and ignores user preferences happily. I imagine the situation is similar on the Qt side.
What makes you so sure that the 3D driver is the reason? In my personal (limited) experience, the motherboard and its darn AGP driver is far more likely to be the cause. At least if it's a VIA board;-)
This _might_ prevent spammers from finding an open relay. I doubt it. At least as long as there are any IPv4 hosts around, they'll just scan and abuse IPv4 hosts. And Internet4 won't go away within a few months.
Do you want to split Internet6 mail from Internet4? Might be a good idea. We coult get rid of Sendmail that way.;-) Make encrypted transmissions the default. Demand a real return address. Unfortunately, it won't happen. IPv6 has acceptance problems as it is (chicken-egg-wise). Introducing a new MX system won't ameliorate that.
Anyway, what has this to do with security? Public servers have static, well-known (say "DNS") IPs anyway. Private hosts used to have dynamic IPs in the IPv4 world. This *might* shift a bit with IPv6, making your host easier to track by malicious crackers (once it has been located at a given IP address).
So in what way does the address room of IPv6 buy us security? (Yeah, theres IPSec and whatnot part of IPv6, but we're pondering the addresses here.) If anything, IPv6 addresses decrease security (but not by much).
Google blew them away. All of them. Google's page ranking just made the difference. Google also had a very clean, nonintrusive interface from day one. I don't know how the other engines perform today, but when Google first struck the net, there was simply zero competition. Should make an up-to-date comparison... OTOH I'm too lazy:-)
While we're lingering in the past, does anybody know a good FTP search engine? Seems that genre has died out since. I was very satisfied with Lycos' FTP search, but they no longer offer it (well, another reason not to visit them...)
Hmm. Maybe we could trick RMS into doing that and leaving the Kernel guys alone. That way he does something good for the world and we get Linux 2.6 earlier.
Freedom fries are way more stupid than courriel. Especially since the word "courriel" seems to be the Canadian French word for email, as another poster pointed out.
So Valve does it, too. BTW, Blizzard does the same. Does that justify it? I don't know.
It's certainly a violation of privacy, but also the only anti-piracy measure which works. You can't expect companies to stop using it. Maybe they could at least open the underlying protocols (which doesn't necessarily decrease their safety if the key-checking was implemented correctly). That way, the gamers would at least know what data is transmitted.
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Good point. What about Word, Office and Access?
Erm... where did you find those "Unix worms" that you're talking about? Obviously, there aren't that many...
Come on -- you can't expect that much education from an American... BTW, it's also worth noting that ESA is not recently "getting involved". They actually build space rockets since the sixties.
You guessed it!
We're not speculating here. This has been done before. Years ago, there was a MS-DOS virus which messed with dBase database files, which were common at the time. IIRC it changed some random bytes in the file.
Now the evil part was that the virus hid these modifications from the rest of the system. The users didn't notice. Only when they erased the virus (or moved the database to another, clean computer), they found out that their data was corrupted.
Luckily, this virus didn't spread far AFAIK. But a good infection routine and the payload can be combined...
Xt? Athena? Anyway, GTK2 is much better in pretty much every aspect.
So what? Who needs flashing buttons for doing eCommcerce? Simple HTML forms make the best webshops as they actually work in any browser. I don't care if the d**n shop has animation and funny menus. I'm no fan of overly generic patents, but if this one kills Flash, I'm all for it!
It's a relic of the past. In the old days, there was IBM - which made the PC (with DOS) - and there was Apple which made the Macintosh.
:-)
:-)
Game publishers have never overcome that distinction. DOS has become WinDOS, but other than that, the world hasn't changed. OK, maybe there's nVidia now, but that's about it
Still, the dinstinction is at least technically correct. Even if Apple is using more and more PC components, the architecture remains different.
What makes a PC running Linux a non-PC is of course beyond me
so it wound up in the hands of less-capable Loki
AFAIK, if Loki hadn't done Q3/Linux, there would be no Q3/Linux at all. id wasn't doing a Linux port initially. Q3/Linux was simply late because development wasn't started at the same time as Q3/Windows. Besides that, Loki was a really capable company. The Loki Linux games that I played surpassed their competition by a great amount.
Whatever - on the short run, bundled Windows+Linux versions are better than no native Linux version at all. The alternative is Wine[X] and stinks. At the current market penetration of Linux in the gamer segment, sales won't convince the managers anyway. Unbundling makes sense (for the Linux community) when we've overtaken the Mac and reached about 10%. I really hope Linux will make it... we're close now, very close. ATI and nVidia in the boat (though with less than perfect drivers), Linux 2.6 just around the corner.
Well, I can only repeat: it does not work.
"point" is a resolution-independant unit, which should appear identical regardless of 1600x1200, 800x600 or 320x120. You're fixing the wrong side of the problem. Set up your dpi correctly instead.
And you're done. This functionality has been in Windows for, I don't know, a decade or more. Generally, commercial OSs, whether Windows or Solaris or MacOS, leave free ones standing when it comes to accessibility. The reason is that they want to sell to corporates, and corporates have to comply with legislation like ADA. Free software authors generally don't have that incentive.
Yes. The feature has been there for ages. Unused. At least 70% of the Windows desktop software (that I used) ignore it. Either they required manually choosing a different font, or didn't allow changing of font sizes at all. The strange thing is, all GTK+ apps support this fine -- out of the box, because it was designed into the toolkit itself. Windows development software OTOH assumed (does still assume?) that every f**king dialog has to be displayed in MS Sans Serif, 8 pixels. Yeah, commercial software is wonderful, isn't it?
Really, this is not a big problem.. I would be surprised if you can't quite easily overcome the problem of your high resolution display. I dare say, easier than you can in linux.
Yeah, Bill Windows Luser again tries to use his brain. Next time, check the facts...
XF86 detects display dpi automatically. (Though you can still override the dpi value if something goes wrong...)
_ALL_ GTK+ apps scale their fonts properly _by default_. This is a major design feature of the GTK+ toolkit. Not like in Windows, where every second app stays at a 8-pixel bitmap font and ignores user preferences happily. I imagine the situation is similar on the Qt side.
I frequently experience the blue screen of death
What makes you so sure that the 3D driver is the reason? In my personal (limited) experience, the motherboard and its darn AGP driver is far more likely to be the cause. At least if it's a VIA board ;-)
This _might_ prevent spammers from finding an open relay. I doubt it. At least as long as there are any IPv4 hosts around, they'll just scan and abuse IPv4 hosts. And Internet4 won't go away within a few months.
;-) Make encrypted transmissions the default. Demand a real return address. Unfortunately, it won't happen. IPv6 has acceptance problems as it is (chicken-egg-wise). Introducing a new MX system won't ameliorate that.
Do you want to split Internet6 mail from Internet4? Might be a good idea. We coult get rid of Sendmail that way.
Anyway, what has this to do with security? Public servers have static, well-known (say "DNS") IPs anyway. Private hosts used to have dynamic IPs in the IPv4 world. This *might* shift a bit with IPv6, making your host easier to track by malicious crackers (once it has been located at a given IP address).
So in what way does the address room of IPv6 buy us security? (Yeah, theres IPSec and whatnot part of IPv6, but we're pondering the addresses here.) If anything, IPv6 addresses decrease security (but not by much).
Yes, those were the days....
:-)
Google blew them away. All of them. Google's page ranking just made the difference. Google also had a very clean, nonintrusive interface from day one. I don't know how the other engines perform today, but when Google first struck the net, there was simply zero competition. Should make an up-to-date comparison... OTOH I'm too lazy
While we're lingering in the past, does anybody know a good FTP search engine? Seems that genre has died out since. I was very satisfied with Lycos' FTP search, but they no longer offer it (well, another reason not to visit them...)
And no, I'm not looking for Warez and Pr0n!
Hmm. Maybe we could trick RMS into doing that and leaving the Kernel guys alone. That way he does something good for the world and we get Linux 2.6 earlier.
Especially since noone uses cassettes in Europe anymore.
Well I do. :-D
Freedom fries are way more stupid than courriel. Especially since the word "courriel" seems to be the Canadian French word for email, as another poster pointed out.
Why?
s/own/0wnz0r/
Hey I said there was no text...!
What for? Are there still people using Windows?
Let me guess - you forgot the http:// ?
So Valve does it, too. BTW, Blizzard does the same. Does that justify it? I don't know.
It's certainly a violation of privacy, but also the only anti-piracy measure which works. You can't expect companies to stop using it. Maybe they could at least open the underlying protocols (which doesn't necessarily decrease their safety if the key-checking was implemented correctly). That way, the gamers would at least know what data is transmitted.