About number 4: I went to isketch.net, I got a top bar saying that I needed a plugin, I clicked, it said it needed showave 10 from Macromedia, I pressed continue, the license never loaded, I pressed Agree, it didn't work, I followed link and downloaded it myself.
I meant plugin in my post. Besides, what does "plugin" mean in your reply to #2?:P
I can't believe this. 1.0PR is a *down*-grade from 0.9.3. Because:
1) Switching tabs does not update the window title. WTF?! I don't want my window to have the wrong title! It isn't the first tab or anything like that. Just whichever one it likes. 2) I don't want a fucking top bar every time a popup is blocked. What was wrong with the icon at the bottom? Oh yeah, SP2 added their "Information Bar" crap, so Firefox has to have it! What if the popup comes up after a few seconds? Does all the page content move down to allow for their Information Bar thing? (I don't know, somebody tell) 3) When you stop loading a page, its favicon still stays instead of the other site's one. Now you can read the old page with a completely unrelated favicon. Ooh, great! 4) I don't know why, but the automated installing extensions thing doesn't work (for Shockwave at least). Looked cool though. 5) I stay focused in this text box, switch tabs, and I can keep typing into this box. Obviously I should be find-as-you-type-ing into the new tab.
The only cool new thing is the bottom Find-as-you-type bar.
...There's a reason we haven't [distributed boot disk games] since the 80s, you know.
I have a few examples that can debunk that statement. 2600, NES, SMS, TurboGrafx, Genesis, SNES, PSX, N64, DC, GC, PS2, XBox and the others that I've forgotten.
Well, guess what? There were very few releases of those consoles! The driver problem (which is massive) didn't exist!
You can't make the websites do that. It's just a standards-compliant web browser, for fucks sake. All you need is a standards-compliant site which works in Firefox but not in IE. But people use hacks to make complex CSS layout stuff work in IE, so such a site will not appear naturally.
It's pretty obvious that Dvorak chose #3 for one or more features that he uses frequently. He can remedy this by re-running the Office setup and choosing to actually install the feature (notice he never says what feature it actually is...)
He can never find out what feature it is. Seriously. I had the problem myself.
Besides, in this day when 40B drives aren't even really available, why have option #3?
Gentoo uses a very good package management system. "emerge abiword" will compile abiword after doing the dependencies. (this could take days; you should run "emerge -a abiword" to see a list of stuff first.) "emerge -u world" will update everything.
I also don't like OpenOffice very much, but apart from the loading time it's very functional.
I don't really mind with the games; I play almost only DOS games (on DOSBox)
It isn't quite like RPM because you almost always use the central repository to get your stuff. Only very occasionnally do you need to download an ebuild (a script for fetching and installing) for a program.
'It absolutely is incredibly hard to make an encryption algorithm more secure. Just "doing some math with the hashes" is the type of bit-twiddling at which cryptologists both wince and sneer. "Then I'll multiply the second one by three, then add them together! Then modulo it 17! Then oohoohooh, square root the whole thing and drop the first digit! No one will _ever_ figure this out!" Crap like this does not add any new cryptographic strength, just a dependency on a secret algorithm. And any method which relies on a secret algorithm is hopelessly flawed.'
Well... what if instead of MD5-ing passwords, I SHA1 them and then MD5 them? Let me explain.
Say I have (read-only) access to a database with the passwords stored as MD5. I just need to make up loads and loads of passwords and MD5 them, and when I have the correct one, I put it into the real login system and I'm in. Right? Right.
What if it was SHA1'ed before MD5'ing it? Firstly, most likely, I'll do the usual thing: Find a string which MD5s to give the correct hash. Then it doesn't work. So eventually I work out they've been SHA1'ed before being MD5'ed (maybe I cracked into the IIS server and got a peek at the source code;)).
Now I need to try every SHA1-size string (I think they're 40 hexadecimal digits?) against MD5. Say I found it.
Now I need to try loads of strings and SHA1 them. Once I find one, *then* I can login.
Then I find out there's a salt added to the password before it's SHA1'ed...;)
"a good friend of mine recently wiped Windows XP off his Dell Latitude laptop and replaced it with the latest Gentoo Linux distro."
The latest Gentoo Linux distro? This shows that you know nothing at all about Gentoo. If he'de read a bit more, I'm sure he would have realised that he could look at packages.gentoo.org and find his office apps (abiword, gnumeric, koffice, openoffice.org), his multimedia (xmms, rhythmbox, mplayer), his file manager (Gnome or KDE, he picks), etc, etc, etc. What on earth did he need?
If he was using professional stuff like Photoshop (people don't want to use GIMP because it has no tutorials) and Cubase (music editing), that's another matter. But was he?
OK, if you're willing to leave all the other (much smaller) stuff on your OS partition, that would work.
Hell, I never thought of going to the Properties on one of these "virtual folder" thingies. I suppose that cutting My Documents and pasting it elsewhere will have the same effect?
"The secret is to keep a data drive and a OS drive"
This is *so* easy in Linux: Keep a/home partition seperate from everything else. You can do this during the install, in expert mode, or some distros might automatically do this. Granted, it is a true pain when one of the partitions fills up and you have some resizing to do, but it's do-able, and with today's 80GB+ drives you shouldn't get that problem.
With Windows (even XP) you can't do that. NTFS partitions cannot be resized in the Logical Disk Manager (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management).
Besides which, XP loves its "Documents and Settings" folder. Never mind that it always goes on the same drive as the Windows folder. This folder holds caches, e-mail (with a "Windows-standard-compliant" program like OE or Thunderbird), the My Documents folder and its offsprings, bookmarks, and history.
OK, so you can mount partitions in an NTFS folder, like mounting in Linux. But you need to:
1) During the install, create two partitions, or leave unpartitioned space 2) As soon as you get into using Windows, copy all of Documents and Settings into your new partition (formatted, obviously) and delete everything currently in Documents and Settings. 3) Remount the partition as Documents and Settings.
If you don't do this, my bet is that just running Windows will mean that some files in Documents and Settings are always being used and therefore cannot be deleted. And remember, even if you use the CD to get into Recovery Mode (which is basically DOS with NTFS support), you can't resize those NTFS drives.
Surely this is a ploy to have XPSE sold through OEM (machines pre-installed with this).
Just think about it. A computer manufacturer/packager will want to sell with Crippleware Edition: firstly, it's going to be really really cheap through OEM, and secondly, they can justify selling crappy monitors with it, because Starter Edition will not allow a resolution higher than 800x600.
Then, people who buy this (being suckers) find that the text on their screen is too small (or fuzzy) (or doesn't show enough text) and they need a bigger monitor. Then they realise that the text now looks really fuzzy. Then they have to buy the full version of XP, at about 250% the price of the OEM version.
Result: computer packagers have opportunity to make really good-*sounding* deals, Microsoft gets loads more money from those people who really want to "go legit", and the consumers are screwed.
Of course, this will increase piracy. I think.
Uh, XP is an OS. 2000 is an OS.
On the CD you got two OSes, two copies of a web browser (assuming this wasn't a very clever CD), two copies of Outlook Express, and a few other stuff besides. You probably had to use other CDs to even get above 800x600.
On the linux CDs you got an OS, two Desktop Environments, lots of Window Managers, at least two advanced text editors, perhaps three office suites (OpenOffice.org, KOffice and gnome-office), quite a few web browsers, *and* internationalization for loads of languages.
It's not comparable.
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About number 4: I went to isketch.net, I got a top bar saying that I needed a plugin, I clicked, it said it needed showave 10 from Macromedia, I pressed continue, the license never loaded, I pressed Agree, it didn't work, I followed link and downloaded it myself.
:P
I meant plugin in my post. Besides, what does "plugin" mean in your reply to #2?
I'm using Windows XP.
I can't believe this. 1.0PR is a *down*-grade from 0.9.3. Because:
1) Switching tabs does not update the window title. WTF?! I don't want my window to have the wrong title! It isn't the first tab or anything like that. Just whichever one it likes.
2) I don't want a fucking top bar every time a popup is blocked. What was wrong with the icon at the bottom? Oh yeah, SP2 added their "Information Bar" crap, so Firefox has to have it! What if the popup comes up after a few seconds? Does all the page content move down to allow for their Information Bar thing? (I don't know, somebody tell)
3) When you stop loading a page, its favicon still stays instead of the other site's one. Now you can read the old page with a completely unrelated favicon. Ooh, great!
4) I don't know why, but the automated installing extensions thing doesn't work (for Shockwave at least). Looked cool though.
5) I stay focused in this text box, switch tabs, and I can keep typing into this box. Obviously I should be find-as-you-type-ing into the new tab.
The only cool new thing is the bottom Find-as-you-type bar.
Maybe my installation is messed up?
I have a few examples that can debunk that statement. 2600, NES, SMS, TurboGrafx, Genesis, SNES, PSX, N64, DC, GC, PS2, XBox and the others that I've forgotten.
Well, guess what? There were very few releases of those consoles! The driver problem (which is massive) didn't exist!
I'll bite again, shall I? That report which Newham used was funded by Microsoft. Um...
You need a CVS account to use it. I just tried to put Camino aboove Bugzilla.
Utilises every feature in Firefox?
You can't make the websites do that. It's just a standards-compliant web browser, for fucks sake. All you need is a standards-compliant site which works in Firefox but not in IE. But people use hacks to make complex CSS layout stuff work in IE, so such a site will not appear naturally.
After cancelling WinFS, I hope they at least get time to redo the Search interface again. It was beginning to look old.
(Remember how many times that thing was changed?)
Microsoft also listens to its users.
In Longhorn, the login screen now includes a clock.
Hahaha... 40GB.
He can never find out what feature it is. Seriously. I had the problem myself.
Besides, in this day when 40B drives aren't even really available, why have option #3?
"the overzealous microsoft representative" ...in disguise!
Gentoo uses a very good package management system. "emerge abiword" will compile abiword after doing the dependencies. (this could take days; you should run "emerge -a abiword" to see a list of stuff first.) "emerge -u world" will update everything.
I also don't like OpenOffice very much, but apart from the loading time it's very functional.
I don't really mind with the games; I play almost only DOS games (on DOSBox)
It isn't quite like RPM because you almost always use the central repository to get your stuff. Only very occasionnally do you need to download an ebuild (a script for fetching and installing) for a program.
Clarification: When I said "the correct one" in the third paragraph, I meant any password which hashes nicely.
'It absolutely is incredibly hard to make an encryption algorithm more secure. Just "doing some math with the hashes" is the type of bit-twiddling at which cryptologists both wince and sneer. "Then I'll multiply the second one by three, then add them together! Then modulo it 17! Then oohoohooh, square root the whole thing and drop the first digit! No one will _ever_ figure this out!" Crap like this does not add any new cryptographic strength, just a dependency on a secret algorithm. And any method which relies on a secret algorithm is hopelessly flawed.'
;)).
;)
Well... what if instead of MD5-ing passwords, I SHA1 them and then MD5 them? Let me explain.
Say I have (read-only) access to a database with the passwords stored as MD5. I just need to make up loads and loads of passwords and MD5 them, and when I have the correct one, I put it into the real login system and I'm in. Right? Right.
What if it was SHA1'ed before MD5'ing it? Firstly, most likely, I'll do the usual thing: Find a string which MD5s to give the correct hash. Then it doesn't work. So eventually I work out they've been SHA1'ed before being MD5'ed (maybe I cracked into the IIS server and got a peek at the source code
Now I need to try every SHA1-size string (I think they're 40 hexadecimal digits?) against MD5. Say I found it.
Now I need to try loads of strings and SHA1 them. Once I find one, *then* I can login.
Then I find out there's a salt added to the password before it's SHA1'ed...
"a good friend of mine recently wiped Windows XP off his Dell Latitude laptop and replaced it with the latest Gentoo Linux distro."
The latest Gentoo Linux distro? This shows that you know nothing at all about Gentoo. If he'de read a bit more, I'm sure he would have realised that he could look at packages.gentoo.org and find his office apps (abiword, gnumeric, koffice, openoffice.org), his multimedia (xmms, rhythmbox, mplayer), his file manager (Gnome or KDE, he picks), etc, etc, etc. What on earth did he need?
If he was using professional stuff like Photoshop (people don't want to use GIMP because it has no tutorials) and Cubase (music editing), that's another matter. But was he?
Note, everybody: This is including SP1 as well as SP2. It says so on the page.
If anybody can find a similar page for SP1, and then remove items on the SP1 list from the SP2 list, *then* we'll see what new fixes SP2 has.
As though we care!
Ruin your computer? Yes / No
"Haha, look, somebody's put a prank program on my computer!" *click* *boom*
I assume the system partition is the one with the stuff on? I mean, with the Windows directory on?
In which case, if you've already set your system up with the One Massive Partition method, you're screwed.
Unless you can resize it from a Recovery Disk thing...
OK, if you're willing to leave all the other (much smaller) stuff on your OS partition, that would work.
Hell, I never thought of going to the Properties on one of these "virtual folder" thingies. I suppose that cutting My Documents and pasting it elsewhere will have the same effect?
"The secret is to keep a data drive and a OS drive"
/home partition seperate from everything else. You can do this during the install, in expert mode, or some distros might automatically do this. Granted, it is a true pain when one of the partitions fills up and you have some resizing to do, but it's do-able, and with today's 80GB+ drives you shouldn't get that problem.
This is *so* easy in Linux: Keep a
With Windows (even XP) you can't do that. NTFS partitions cannot be resized in the Logical Disk Manager (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management).
Besides which, XP loves its "Documents and Settings" folder. Never mind that it always goes on the same drive as the Windows folder. This folder holds caches, e-mail (with a "Windows-standard-compliant" program like OE or Thunderbird), the My Documents folder and its offsprings, bookmarks, and history.
OK, so you can mount partitions in an NTFS folder, like mounting in Linux. But you need to:
1) During the install, create two partitions, or leave unpartitioned space
2) As soon as you get into using Windows, copy all of Documents and Settings into your new partition (formatted, obviously) and delete everything currently in Documents and Settings.
3) Remount the partition as Documents and Settings.
If you don't do this, my bet is that just running Windows will mean that some files in Documents and Settings are always being used and therefore cannot be deleted. And remember, even if you use the CD to get into Recovery Mode (which is basically DOS with NTFS support), you can't resize those NTFS drives.
Surely this is a ploy to have XPSE sold through OEM (machines pre-installed with this). Just think about it. A computer manufacturer/packager will want to sell with Crippleware Edition: firstly, it's going to be really really cheap through OEM, and secondly, they can justify selling crappy monitors with it, because Starter Edition will not allow a resolution higher than 800x600. Then, people who buy this (being suckers) find that the text on their screen is too small (or fuzzy) (or doesn't show enough text) and they need a bigger monitor. Then they realise that the text now looks really fuzzy. Then they have to buy the full version of XP, at about 250% the price of the OEM version. Result: computer packagers have opportunity to make really good-*sounding* deals, Microsoft gets loads more money from those people who really want to "go legit", and the consumers are screwed. Of course, this will increase piracy. I think.
I'm willing to fork the kernel. And I'll call it... sys-kernel/kamikaze-dev-kernel !
I meant a single photo, my bad.
This is massively different. How large is a photo collection, straight from the camera with 4 megapixels, saved as lossless .png?
Very little. Probably a few megabytes.
How about a proper high-resolution video, 120 minutes, not nicely compressed? A few gigabytes?
Maybe one day we'll have 3D videos to go with our 3D monitors, which are actually stored as 3D and not as two 2D layers as with the current 3D movies.
Then, and only then, come back to me and tell me you need a second disk.
Uh, XP is an OS. 2000 is an OS. On the CD you got two OSes, two copies of a web browser (assuming this wasn't a very clever CD), two copies of Outlook Express, and a few other stuff besides. You probably had to use other CDs to even get above 800x600. On the linux CDs you got an OS, two Desktop Environments, lots of Window Managers, at least two advanced text editors, perhaps three office suites (OpenOffice.org, KOffice and gnome-office), quite a few web browsers, *and* internationalization for loads of languages. It's not comparable.