Yes they do! I know because I have used them. They make you log in as root and then recommend you to make a user account, just like Linspire does. At least Linspire gives you shiny buttons instead of having to run arcane programs such as useradd and passwd.
Try this Wikipedia article, lots of links about it. Also check some bookstores out, there are countless books on how X works and how to program for it.
Remember that Gentoo now supports binary packages for those giant software such as KDE and OpenOffice.org. Also check the Wikipedia article about Gentoo.
It allows you to run Windows Applications on Linux!. It is also a lot safer that way. So don't run Windows at all. Don't forget all the great Linux video editing tools such as Kdenlive, mencoder, Kino, Dinebolic etc. So enjoy the Windows free world, more and more people are discovering that you CAN live in a Windows Free World, I hope you will join them. I am one of them.
It used to take a lot of tech knowledge to even operate a personal computer so the people that used them were, by definition, tech savy.
But in order to sell more computers the hardware and software manufactureres have perpetuated the myth that "computers are easy." The truth: operating computers is very easy, but maintaining them is still very difficult. Now the average user is not tech savy, but they have a machine that only tech savy people can maintain.
1) Tux is cute 2) It's got an X in its name and in its GUI 3) I use it 4) KDE rocks 5) Tons of choice 6) cowsay 7) Its free 8) It gets me slashdot karma 9) Linux got me a job! 10) Which means money 11) Which means I can spend more on non software goodies 12) It isn't dying like BSD
Could cable and DSL face a new competitor in the broadband market in the near future?
Has there been any information released about the potential costs to the consumers for this service? I haven't heard anything other than Earthlink's $39.95/month (which isn't much cheaper than what I currently pay for cable). The only way cable and DSL will face any competition from BPL is if BPL is cheaper. Why pay for BPL if it's not cheaper or at least offers more bandwidth for the same price as cable or DSL?
I keep hearing about this, every few months on slashdot about how "Broadband over Powerlines" are "just around the corner" or trialing! But every time they get cancled due to intererance and practibillity concerns! I wish slashdot would stop posting about it until it is actually being sold in the mainstream!
And therein lies the problem. No vendor, no matter how well placed, should just run off and try to implement a solution. Why? Because odds are good it will not take off. Everyone involved needs to agree on a solution THEN implement it. With Micro$oft controlling it (Who will bet this won't work on linux), I don't think it'll work.
I posted an idea similar to this on slashdot which would essentially involve sendmail digitally signing messages that it sends and then having receiving mail servers verify it. I think most of the people who read the idea misinterpreted it as forcing us to get digital certs through verisign, which was NOT what I was implying.
See, now this is a much better idea than "email postage" and "computationally expensive" sending of email. This way, the accountability falls down to individual email addresses, and domains for sending UCE.
It's FAR easier to track emails and their likelyhood of sending spam than the actual messages themselves (after all, buyviagra@biggerpenis.org is most likely sending you spam).
This, combined with a spam filter could do the trick.
Congratulations Microsoft for actually partnering with somebody who matters is this whole affair. I'm hoping the other companies like Yahoo and AOL follow suit with this strategy, and a solution becomes standardized.
Other mini laptops have out ther on the market for years now, and with higher specifications! The only thing with this is that transmeta made it! Why so much affection for transmeta? Is it because Mr Torvolds used to work there? Slashdot is 90% Slashvertisements these days, All the insightful posts have movedelsewhere!
Yes, Garnome is really useful! I also like Konstruct, which is the KDE equivilent! I used to run Gentoo as well, but since I don't compile all my programs I just use a Konstruct/Debian hybrid! Release the packages in unstable for KDE 3.2 already!
LCD's do that already! They stay in their state until they get a signal to change their brightness. They arent scanned like CRTS are! Thats why they look more clear/are thinner etc/.
Opie/Qtopia are useful several different enviornments. Most notably for "rescue" systems. For example in Ark Linux, if you mess up your XServer and it cant start up again, runs a Qtopia app to help you recover. Also for its installer.
I personally have written an mplayer front end for my own home made settop box because I didn't want all the burden of X for just one app! So try them today, it may just be the "X replacement" that people are looking for!
Since Mac OS X only offically supports one button mice, Any problems using unoffical mice is your own fault. So stop using mice not designed for Mac OS X!
For those who dont want to set up a Linux kernel, I have written a small Windows application for it. Since the BSD Zealots didnt like the fact that windows 2000 cant be remotley crash and modded my parent down, I thought I'd write a program to shock them. It only took about 15 minutes to write because the exploit was so glaring silly. You willl need Windows NT/2000/XP, Services For UNIX and the.net framework to run this program.
Instructions Download Double click the icon Enter the IP address of the BSD box you want to crash
It is known for a Long time that the www.openbsd.org web server runs on solaris. I have always doubted their excuse for the bandwidth from sunsite. Surley they could co-located a OpenBSD server at sunsite, Now I know the real reason. OpenBSD's Security features are mostly academic and NOT READY for primtime in mission critical use, even the OpenBSD developers themselves wont use it as their main OS!
OpenBSD is still concidered a hobby security OS in the Security Industry by many. Most Military grade security systems run on Windows 2000, and is the most secure certified operating system. Sure the Applications such as IIS can be exploitable, the the Windows 2000 kernel has never been comprimised remotley. Microsoft has even challenaged hackers 10 million dollars to exploit Windows 2000 Military Security Edition!
So for now, as a Security Specialst who Specializes Windows security, I will keep using Windows, and I will use this toy security system on my isolated testing network.
Would you *reallY* like users installing MySql on their machines with the easiest to use options (read:insecure options) by default? GUIs are much worse. Best to stick with raw SQL and text files, that way you *have* to learn to secure the system.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes they do! I know because I have used them. They make you log in as root and then recommend you to make a user account, just like Linspire does. At least Linspire gives you shiny buttons instead of having to run arcane programs such as useradd and passwd.
Stop picking on Linspire!
Enough said.
Try this Wikipedia article, lots of links about it. Also check some bookstores out, there are countless books on how X works and how to program for it.
Remember that Gentoo now supports binary packages for those giant software such as KDE and OpenOffice.org. Also check the Wikipedia article about Gentoo.
It allows you to run Windows Applications on Linux!. It is also a lot safer that way. So don't run Windows at all. Don't forget all the great Linux video editing tools such as Kdenlive, mencoder, Kino, Dinebolic etc. So enjoy the Windows free world, more and more people are discovering that you CAN live in a Windows Free World, I hope you will join them. I am one of them.
The following three levels of security are good enough for most cases:
1. Never broadcast SSID
2. Use a 64 bit encryption
3. and use MAC filters
Most of the routers have a web-based interface for setting these things up.
It used to take a lot of tech knowledge to even operate a personal computer so the people that used them were, by definition, tech savy.
But in order to sell more computers the hardware and software manufactureres have perpetuated the myth that "computers are easy." The truth: operating computers is very easy, but maintaining them is still very difficult. Now the average user is not tech savy, but they have a machine that only tech savy people can maintain.
This gets insightful, while This gets -1! The moderators are smoking fucking crack again, no wait, they are using Debian!
1) Tux is cute
2) It's got an X in its name and in its GUI
3) I use it
4) KDE rocks
5) Tons of choice
6) cowsay
7) Its free
8) It gets me slashdot karma
9) Linux got me a job!
10) Which means money
11) Which means I can spend more on non software goodies
12) It isn't dying like BSD
Thats like 54 words, including these
Could cable and DSL face a new competitor in the broadband market in the near future?
Has there been any information released about the potential costs to the consumers for this service? I haven't heard anything other than Earthlink's $39.95/month (which isn't much cheaper than what I currently pay for cable). The only way cable and DSL will face any competition from BPL is if BPL is cheaper. Why pay for BPL if it's not cheaper or at least offers more bandwidth for the same price as cable or DSL?
I keep hearing about this, every few months on slashdot about how "Broadband over Powerlines" are "just around the corner" or trialing! But every time they get cancled due to intererance and practibillity concerns! I wish slashdot would stop posting about it until it is actually being sold in the mainstream!
Ut will need widespread acceptance to really work
And therein lies the problem. No vendor, no matter how well placed, should just run off and try to implement a solution. Why? Because odds are good it will not take off. Everyone involved needs to agree on a solution THEN implement it. With Micro$oft controlling it (Who will bet this won't work on linux), I don't think it'll work.
I posted an idea similar to this on slashdot which would essentially involve sendmail digitally signing messages that it sends and then having receiving mail servers verify it. I think most of the people who read the idea misinterpreted it as forcing us to get digital certs through verisign, which was NOT what I was implying.
See, now this is a much better idea than "email postage" and "computationally expensive" sending of email. This way, the accountability falls down to individual email addresses, and domains for sending UCE.
It's FAR easier to track emails and their likelyhood of sending spam than the actual messages themselves (after all, buyviagra@biggerpenis.org is most likely sending you spam).
This, combined with a spam filter could do the trick.
Congratulations Microsoft for actually partnering with somebody who matters is this whole affair. I'm hoping the other companies like Yahoo and AOL follow suit with this strategy, and a solution becomes standardized.
Other mini laptops have out ther on the market for years now, and with higher specifications! The only thing with this is that transmeta made it! Why so much affection for transmeta? Is it because Mr Torvolds used to work there? Slashdot is 90% Slashvertisements these days, All the insightful posts have moved elsewhere!
Yes, Garnome is really useful! I also like Konstruct, which is the KDE equivilent! I used to run Gentoo as well, but since I don't compile all my programs I just use a Konstruct/Debian hybrid! Release the packages in unstable for KDE 3.2 already!
LCD's do that already! They stay in their state until they get a signal to change their brightness. They arent scanned like CRTS are! Thats why they look more clear/are thinner etc/.
Opie/Qtopia are useful several different enviornments. Most notably for "rescue" systems. For example in Ark Linux, if you mess up your XServer and it cant start up again, runs a Qtopia app to help you recover. Also for its installer.
I personally have written an mplayer front end for my own home made settop box because I didn't want all the burden of X for just one app! So try them today, it may just be the "X replacement" that people are looking for!
Since Mac OS X only offically supports one button mice, Any problems using unoffical mice is your own fault. So stop using mice not designed for Mac OS X!
Offical Mozilla Mirror list can be found here.
For those who dont want to set up a Linux kernel, I have written a small Windows application for it. Since the BSD Zealots didnt like the fact that windows 2000 cant be remotley crash and modded my parent down, I thought I'd write a program to shock them. It only took about 15 minutes to write because the exploit was so glaring silly. You willl need Windows NT/2000/XP, Services For UNIX and the .net framework to run this program.
Instructions
Download
Double click the icon
Enter the IP address of the BSD box you want to crash
Download by Clicking here
It is known for a Long time that the www.openbsd.org web server runs on solaris. I have always doubted their excuse for the bandwidth from sunsite. Surley they could co-located a OpenBSD server at sunsite, Now I know the real reason. OpenBSD's Security features are mostly academic and NOT READY for primtime in mission critical use, even the OpenBSD developers themselves wont use it as their main OS!
OpenBSD is still concidered a hobby security OS in the Security Industry by many. Most Military grade security systems run on Windows 2000, and is the most secure certified operating system. Sure the Applications such as IIS can be exploitable, the the Windows 2000 kernel has never been comprimised remotley. Microsoft has even challenaged hackers 10 million dollars to exploit Windows 2000 Military Security Edition!
So for now, as a Security Specialst who Specializes Windows security, I will keep using Windows, and I will use this toy security system on my isolated testing network.
If this was on fark, the title would be
BSD Exploit discovred, Linux users laugh, Flamewar ensures!
Look at your own gotchas before laughing at others!
Would you *reallY* like users installing MySql on their machines with the easiest to use options (read:insecure options) by default? GUIs are much worse. Best to stick with raw SQL and text files, that way you *have* to learn to secure the system.