"People seem to be focusing so much on video now that information on installing support for such things as WMA audio (c'mon, do you really expect people to rerip everything that they most certainly own?:P )."
Are you talking about DRM encubered WMA? Linux plays plain WMA pretty well, but don't expect it to play any DRMed file. Don't expect those files to play after you format you computer and install Windows again either.
Well, I'd tell you to wait a day or two, but other people already said a week. I guess you are not in such a rush that can't wait a week, so, follow their advice;)
I'd also change those steps a bit:
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apt-get update && apt-get upgrade #In case a previous bug recurs.
apt-get install apt-listbugs #If you don't have it already.
apt-get -s dist-upgrade #Sometimes it is usefull, but not aways. Remember to check if ssh server will stay there.
for((i=0; i < 5; i++)); do apt-get dist-upgrade; done #Do it
Manualy run lilo or grub-install, check for errors. You'll be getting a new kernel at the upgrade.
nohup reboot& #As soon as you can, to check if it will come back ok.
Funny, I never tought about rolling-back my changes before an upgrade. I have even tried to make the boot procedure asynchronous, but never something that simple.
I know of nobody that refused to upgrade from 95, 98 or ME.
Now, 3.11 was on some aspects better than 95 (at least it was DOS, some people liked that), and there is no compeling reason to migrate from 2k into anything else. But MS was never (ME doesn't count, since it was replaced quite fast) in a situation that most of their users have reasons not to upgrade.
"You can't determine who voted for whom, except yourself."
That is not good enough. You shouldn't be able to determine who you voted for (voting should be completely anonymous), but you should be able to confirm that your vote was correctly entered on the database.
There are some means of getting that, but those require some thinking from the population and we clearly can't expect that.
"And an interesting reality is that it's quite likely that programmers are cheaper than software licenses."
If programmers were more expensive than licenses, the software companies would alredy be bankrupt. That is the nice thing about FOSS, it does also spread the cost, just like boxed software.
Yep. That is because academics are working, while business "leaders" are waiting the software to fall into their hands.
Do you know how does one get industry specific free software? By organizing a consortium and getting a small investiment from several players. It is much cheaper than the closed software alternative, and works at the real world, not just at the marketing one.
No, I am familiar with the process, just didn't pay atention to the terminology (up until now). You say step 2 contains no priviledged information, you are tangentialy right, it contains authenticated information. Access to an email isn't enought to authenticate a person* since email is vunerable to men-in-the-middle attacs, and you can rewrite the information during transmission.
Authenticating a company is still harder, since it has no physical form. But that is a problem that we've being unsucefuly trying to solve for ages.
"I'm not saying that Debian necessarily boots faster, as it will let you add all manner of services if you tell it to install the kitchen sink, but, well, you get the picture..."
I don't know how, being just an palm synchroniztion tool can kitchensync make your computer boot slower:p
But now seriously, do you optimize the boot procedure of your Debian machines? How do you make your changes survive an apt-get upgrade? Do they generate a lot of "this file was changed by you or a script" messages?
No, it doesn't screw carbon dating. All carbon sinks absorb carbon by the same proportions that it exists at the atmosphere, so no sink will impact it.
Now we just have to convince them that blocking incoming ports at the ISP damages the RIAA rights to whatch for themselver how any computer is acting, and that NATs and the small address space of IPv4 help anonymizing users from RIAA investigations.
They'd need a bit more than 50% of the users, in fact, they'd need to convert 100% of the users, otherwise the old system would stay alive, and play catch-up or haunt them until the desired feature stops making sense.
That is Microsoft's problem, FOSS doesn't react to bad monetary incentives (just god ones), is quite immune from blackmail, buying initiatives, bribery, FUD and every other tatic they tried up to now. FOSS also doesn't completely die until everybody stop using it and delete every piece of free code they have.
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Well, if their Linux support is anything like their Windows support, they won't stay on the market for long.
But if that is really their intent, I applaud them for using legitimate business tactic too.
Because he copied the sh array declaration.
Are you talking about DRM encubered WMA? Linux plays plain WMA pretty well, but don't expect it to play any DRMed file. Don't expect those files to play after you format you computer and install Windows again either.
Also, KPatience should make it more clear that you can play some other kind of solitaire on it. The default one is too boring :)
Well, I'd tell you to wait a day or two, but other people already said a week. I guess you are not in such a rush that can't wait a week, so, follow their advice ;)
I'd also change those steps a bit:
Somebody, please, mod this up. The parent just solved the problem, now he can know if someone else is dropping his spam.
And Apache doesn't exist. At least not in real life.
Yeah, but writting that kind of software pays.
Funny, I never tought about rolling-back my changes before an upgrade. I have even tried to make the boot procedure asynchronous, but never something that simple.
Nice hint, thanks.
I know of nobody that refused to upgrade from 95, 98 or ME.
Now, 3.11 was on some aspects better than 95 (at least it was DOS, some people liked that), and there is no compeling reason to migrate from 2k into anything else. But MS was never (ME doesn't count, since it was replaced quite fast) in a situation that most of their users have reasons not to upgrade.
The way you say it, you make it looks like those mistakes are a new thing.
That is not good enough. You shouldn't be able to determine who you voted for (voting should be completely anonymous), but you should be able to confirm that your vote was correctly entered on the database.
There are some means of getting that, but those require some thinking from the population and we clearly can't expect that.
If programmers were more expensive than licenses, the software companies would alredy be bankrupt. That is the nice thing about FOSS, it does also spread the cost, just like boxed software.
Yep. That is because academics are working, while business "leaders" are waiting the software to fall into their hands.
Do you know how does one get industry specific free software? By organizing a consortium and getting a small investiment from several players. It is much cheaper than the closed software alternative, and works at the real world, not just at the marketing one.
Because in the end, they'll get COBOL translated to C++.
That is not useful at all.
No, I am familiar with the process, just didn't pay atention to the terminology (up until now). You say step 2 contains no priviledged information, you are tangentialy right, it contains authenticated information. Access to an email isn't enought to authenticate a person* since email is vunerable to men-in-the-middle attacs, and you can rewrite the information during transmission.
Authenticating a company is still harder, since it has no physical form. But that is a problem that we've being unsucefuly trying to solve for ages.
I don't know how, being just an palm synchroniztion tool can kitchensync make your computer boot slower :p
But now seriously, do you optimize the boot procedure of your Debian machines? How do you make your changes survive an apt-get upgrade? Do they generate a lot of "this file was changed by you or a script" messages?
No, it doesn't screw carbon dating. All carbon sinks absorb carbon by the same proportions that it exists at the atmosphere, so no sink will impact it.
Ok, that is the same problem, on a different transmission. How can the CA be sure that the certificate is authentic if it is delivered by email?
One communication step is not safe, that one must be done in person if you want to claim you know who you talking to. Even with PKI.
Now we just have to convince them that blocking incoming ports at the ISP damages the RIAA rights to whatch for themselver how any computer is acting, and that NATs and the small address space of IPv4 help anonymizing users from RIAA investigations.
Maybe that is why laws define the meaning of 'car' and 'residence'.
It would be very foolish from a hardware vendor to not backstab MS once they have the chance of not paying MS's tax.
They'd need a bit more than 50% of the users, in fact, they'd need to convert 100% of the users, otherwise the old system would stay alive, and play catch-up or haunt them until the desired feature stops making sense.
That is Microsoft's problem, FOSS doesn't react to bad monetary incentives (just god ones), is quite immune from blackmail, buying initiatives, bribery, FUD and every other tatic they tried up to now. FOSS also doesn't completely die until everybody stop using it and delete every piece of free code they have.
So don't show the yellow/green bar and lock when accessing sites that use a non-trusted certificate.
Why does it need to show a scary screen instead of the site contents again?
How else can the CA deliver them and not having a third party eveasdroping/rewriting them? By cifering it with the certificate they are delivering?