But parading a brand around is exactly what KDE should be doing. For one, it generates attention for KDE and Linux in general.
If I hear about a KMail update, I know it's KDE related. If I see a lot of K-this and K-that apps, I think about KDE more.
Also it's easier for your Joe Average to grasp the idea behind a brand. They see Windows and they think about everything that comes with Windows. They see Apple and they think about the Apple experience(whatever that is, but hip people say it's cool).
MS and Apple aren't dumb and KDE trying to brand itself like they did isn't a waste of effort.
That's right. Not all versions of Linux could meet CC EAL4. In other words, not all versions of Linux could meet the same minimum security requirements as Microsoft Windows 2000.
"Well," you ask, "exactly which versions of Linux can and cannot meet CC EAL4 requirements?" It stands to reason that the core Linux(TM) kernel, the version distributed by Linus at http://www.kernel.org, cannot meet these minimum requirements, because if it did, all versions of Linux(TM) would meet these minimum requirements.
Kernel.org does not release an operating system, they release a kernel.
His article is FUD because he blasts the core kernel in much the same way I could say:
"Windows sucks, Bill sucks, and the MS goons suck, because while Windows 2000 SP3 can meet the cert the Windows XP kernel.exe file can't."
He himself admits that many Linux distributions can meet this cert. But it's as if he doesn't understand that there's a different between a Linux distribution and a Linux kernel.
In fact, the follow quote refering to kernel.org
After all, other Linux distributions are not going to be made less secure. I also know for a fact that this is true.
Really shows his lack of knowledge, because
1> kernel.org isn't a distribution, it's a kernel. 2> A full distibution with services(ftp, nntp, http) is totally less secure than a kernel without a distribution(ie. you can't even log into the machine).
I think the writing in Firefly is really good, but the setting is crap. They put too many western elements in it. I guess they were going for an origional setting, something to set it apart from the other sci-fi shows.
But I grimace every time I see someone pull out an ancient six shooter. Funny thing though is that they do some things really right. I love how in space there is no sound.
A lot of apartment complexes used to run their own TV cable. They'd set up their own dishes and sell their own cable service. Of course it sucked because they had a limited number of channels. Digital cable kinda killed it off.
But the internet doesn't have that limitation. So what's stopping an apartment complex from running in a T1 or T3 and popping up a wireless network they can sell to residents?
- People are so afraid of lawsuits and lawyers that they're willing to hand over good money to avoid your countrys' legal system, regardless of whether they're wrong or right. Doesn't that say enough right there?
I think this is the only real thing wrong with our(America's) legal system. I mean, if you want to sue me for looking at you incorrectly, it really doesn't matter if it doesn't cost me a fortune to defend myself.
The only solution I can think if is to somehow ravamp how much people can be sued for. If you can sue me for a max of $2k for looking at you incorrectly(a really small offense), then it really doesn't make sense for me to spend 10k on a lawyer or think about settling out of court for 20k because you can try to sue me for 1 million.
If you can't get past the installer, the rest of the OS doens't matter. You'll never see it.
If you can't get past Debian's installer, then Debian isn't he OS for you. Use Mandrake or Red Hat.
I mean really, why does one distribution have to do it all?
dselect is insufficient. It may be powerful, but when I have to WADE through 8600+ packages manually, one at a time, something is wrong. It shouldn't take me a DAY to just pick my packages.
Then don't use dselect. I haven't used dselect in years. All you need it apt-get.
I love the concept behind Debian. I want to have control over my system and over the TYPE of software I install. Debian will let me, but it punishes me for trying. I expect I'll be installing another distro shortly. I need to use my computer, not spend type getting it ready to be used.
What concept behind Debian do you love? It's intelligent layout of config files. The way config files are all easily hand editable? The solid default setup for all the linux services? The strict policy control that keeps 8700 packages working together without conflicts? The ability to have a Debian box running for 3 years and trivially keep it up to date with the bleeding edge Linux scene without ever doing a reinstall? The use of/etc/alternatives? The X window menu system structure that allows packages to add/remove themselves from it cleanly?
If all you need is a workstation OS to play games or write a report on, then definately choose Mandrake. It was built for that.
The best evidence for a global warming factor I've seen has been for sun spot activity. It explains our current warming trend as well as the warming trend in the 1200 and the mini ice age we had in the 1700's.
But I still think we should clean up the polution. I doubt it affects the weather all that much, but less polution sure does make it easier to breath.
it would do us well to remember that when it's done this in the past, such mild effects took place as species extinctions... but even a series of famines will be bad enough.
Okay, what species went extinct during the medieval warm period? Or how about 4000 BC?
Going out to a movie isn't just about watching a movie, it's about going out.
People with access to swimming pools still go to the beach. People can cook at home and yet they still go out to eat. People listen to CDs and yet they still go to concerts. You can get drunk at home, but amazingly bars are still in business.
It's pathetic that this guy is in the movie business but he doesn't grasp what movies are all about.
Actually there already is an electric train from LA to San Diego and one in the NE. Florida is looking at one from Tampa to Orlando as well.
But because everything's so sparse in the US we've come to use cars a lot more than other countries. So any people-moving rail system has to compete with automobiles, which everyone in the US over the age of 16 owns.
The US is a lot different than Japan or Europe. You can't directly compare infrastructures.
There's a lot of surface area in the US so there's a lot of open space to cover for any rail system.
One reason Japan's rail system is so much better than the United State's is because Japan is just that much smaller of a country. And as for Europe, Texas alone probably equals the space covered by several European countries.
I looked into train travel a couple months, Florida to St Louis and it was more expensive than airfair.
The trip would've taken longer than a bus too.
So, no cheaper than airplanes and it takes longer than a bus... any wonder hardly anyone travels via trains anymore?
We want fast or cheap. Trains are neither right now.
The article is the worst form of drek
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Next, I wanted to check the availability of said macro program, to see if in fact a person COULD as easily acquire "free PP" as the poster made it sound. I went to Yahoo and started fishing around, and came up to a lot of sites that offered the "free" macro program along with their guide at the low cost of 20 bucks. I'm sure that, if I was willing to be a bit more in depth, I would find the program itself. But how many are willing to do that?
What I did find was this site, and I am going to use it as a reference for the remainder of my article: http://www.eqtotalsecrets.com/. Not to act as a pusher, but I found this in 5 seconds. For 20 dollars I could buy this, make the money, and sell PP at half the normal cost. I would make my money back in maybe 2 hours. So yes, the program, for 20 dollars, is easily found.
So now we have checked our facts and found out that the EQ macro program IS in fact possible. We have found out that it is entirely possible that 3 million PP per day is being made per server. Now that we have our information, lets look at the effects of said facts.
The EQ Total Secrets guide is a joke, a huge scam that's been around for well over a year. I love how the article author uses it as a "fact" that you can easily make plat in Everquest.
The reason there's so much plat in EQ is really pretty simple, it comes into the economy and never really leaves it. So over 3 years a big ole piles of it built up.
But if you really do believe EQ Total Secrets can tell you some hidden secrets of earning more EQ plat than you can ever imagine, I can do one better.
Send me 20 dollars and I'll tell you how to MAKE MONEY FAST! You'll be a millionare within a year, easy. I'll let you in on the secrets those MILLIONARES have used to BUILD THEIR FORTUNES!
And you know since the above was written on the Internet, it's just gotta be true.
I've skydived and looked into other air sports, hanggliding, paragliding and so on. They're all dangerous sports simply because they involve flight.
25-35% of all skydiving fatalities are landing errors. When you have an accident in a land vehicle you're horizontal to the ground and you generally "bleed off" speed unless you slam into an immovable object. Wipe out on a motorcycle and you skid along the ground and get road rash.
With air vehicles accidents involve slamming vertically into the ground, you have nowhere to bleed off the energy of the accident so the injuries are often leathal.
Flying is sort of like driving a car or riding a motorcycle, except every accident involves hitting a concrete wall.
You also have other random factors like turbulance and wind conditions you don't have to deal with on the ground.
It takes lots of training and a constant use of safety procedures to fly safely(and even then it's more dangerous than driving a car).
Until we have computers that can totally automate the flight, I don't see it happening for the average driver. It's too intolerant to errors.
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A book doesn't have to be bad to be rejected, there are plenty of poorly written novels published every year. You just have to appear poorly marketable.
Publishers aren't looking for "good" they're looking for "marketable". They're often the same, but not always.
Frankly that doesn't suprise me. From his email to Ben Collins he doesn't strike me as the most mature person in the world.
If you want to survive in business you do it through value-adding, giving the customer more than the competitor. Changing EULA's and keeping your prices "confidential"(because they're rediculously high?) doesn't cut the mustard.
The rights of the individual are more valuable than the rights of business. As a society we give up some of our rights(copyright being the best example of this) for the good of businesses, but we only do this in so far as it's a greater benefit to society(copyright inspires more creative works).
Also in many cases you can't legally give up your individual rights so agreeing to a EULA means nothing.
You can purchase all sorts of levels of support contracts from Linux vendors who often employ the Linux developers who are directly responsible for creating the operating system.
Frankly, professionally supporting an open operating system like Linux is easier than a closed one. As a Linux guru, when push comes to shove I can get my hands dirty and dig into the source myself to solve the problem. That simply isn't an option for 99% of the Microsoft support firms.
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"Have you used Gnome or KDE recently?"
Yes I have.
When was the last time you ran KDE? It's come a long ways in the last year or so.
Cat ear? Um, can anyone explain this one to me.
But parading a brand around is exactly what KDE should be doing. For one, it generates attention for KDE and Linux in general.
If I hear about a KMail update, I know it's KDE related. If I see a lot of K-this and K-that apps, I think about KDE more.
Also it's easier for your Joe Average to grasp the idea behind a brand. They see Windows and they think about everything that comes with Windows. They see Apple and they think about the Apple experience(whatever that is, but hip people say it's cool).
MS and Apple aren't dumb and KDE trying to brand itself like they did isn't a waste of effort.
From the article:
That's right. Not all versions of Linux could meet CC EAL4. In other words, not all versions of Linux could meet the same minimum security requirements as Microsoft Windows 2000.
"Well," you ask, "exactly which versions of Linux can and cannot meet CC EAL4 requirements?" It stands to reason that the core Linux(TM) kernel, the version distributed by Linus at http://www.kernel.org, cannot meet these minimum requirements, because if it did, all versions of Linux(TM) would meet these minimum requirements.
Kernel.org does not release an operating system, they release a kernel.
His article is FUD because he blasts the core kernel in much the same way I could say:
"Windows sucks, Bill sucks, and the MS goons suck, because while Windows 2000 SP3 can meet the cert the Windows XP kernel.exe file can't."
He himself admits that many Linux distributions can meet this cert. But it's as if he doesn't understand that there's a different between a Linux distribution and a Linux kernel.
In fact, the follow quote refering to kernel.org
After all, other Linux distributions are not going to be made less secure. I also know for a fact that this is true.
Really shows his lack of knowledge, because
1> kernel.org isn't a distribution, it's a kernel.
2> A full distibution with services(ftp, nntp, http) is totally less secure than a kernel without a distribution(ie. you can't even log into the machine).
Seriously, migrate to Debian. It's rock solid stable, you can choose exactly how it runs and it won't cost you a dime.
You could download it over the net and start playing with it on a beta machine today if you wanted.
I think the writing in Firefly is really good, but the setting is crap. They put too many western elements in it. I guess they were going for an origional setting, something to set it apart from the other sci-fi shows.
But I grimace every time I see someone pull out an ancient six shooter. Funny thing though is that they do some things really right. I love how in space there is no sound.
A lot of apartment complexes used to run their own TV cable. They'd set up their own dishes and sell their own cable service. Of course it sucked because they had a limited number of channels. Digital cable kinda killed it off.
But the internet doesn't have that limitation. So what's stopping an apartment complex from running in a T1 or T3 and popping up a wireless network they can sell to residents?
- People are so afraid of lawsuits and lawyers that they're willing to hand over good money to avoid your countrys' legal system, regardless of whether they're wrong or right. Doesn't that say enough right there?
I think this is the only real thing wrong with our(America's) legal system. I mean, if you want to sue me for looking at you incorrectly, it really doesn't matter if it doesn't cost me a fortune to defend myself.
The only solution I can think if is to somehow ravamp how much people can be sued for. If you can sue me for a max of $2k for looking at you incorrectly(a really small offense), then it really doesn't make sense for me to spend 10k on a lawyer or think about settling out of court for 20k because you can try to sue me for 1 million.
If you can't get past the installer, the rest of the OS doens't matter. You'll never see it.
/etc/alternatives? The X window menu system structure that allows packages to add/remove themselves from it cleanly?
If you can't get past Debian's installer, then Debian isn't he OS for you. Use Mandrake or Red Hat.
I mean really, why does one distribution have to do it all?
dselect is insufficient. It may be powerful, but when I have to WADE through 8600+ packages manually, one at a time, something is wrong. It shouldn't take me a DAY to just pick my packages.
Then don't use dselect. I haven't used dselect in years. All you need it apt-get.
I love the concept behind Debian. I want to have control over my system and over the TYPE of software I install. Debian will let me, but it punishes me for trying. I expect I'll be installing another distro shortly. I need to use my computer, not spend type getting it ready to be used.
What concept behind Debian do you love? It's intelligent layout of config files. The way config files are all easily hand editable? The solid default setup for all the linux services? The strict policy control that keeps 8700 packages working together without conflicts? The ability to have a Debian box running for 3 years and trivially keep it up to date with the bleeding edge Linux scene without ever doing a reinstall? The use of
If all you need is a workstation OS to play games or write a report on, then definately choose Mandrake. It was built for that.
Debian was built around other concerns.
That's kind of the point. How well does RH handle going from RH 7.2 to RH 8.0? What's involved?
With Debian you install it once then routine apt-get keeps you up to date against the latest versions. It's a very clean system.
Debian hasn't focused on the install because the installer is a very small part of a Linux distribution on machines that see years of service.
The best evidence for a global warming factor I've seen has been for sun spot activity. It explains our current warming trend as well as the warming trend in the 1200 and the mini ice age we had in the 1700's.
But I still think we should clean up the polution. I doubt it affects the weather all that much, but less polution sure does make it easier to breath.
it would do us well to remember that when it's done this in the past, such mild effects took place as species extinctions... but even a series of famines will be bad enough.
Okay, what species went extinct during the medieval warm period? Or how about 4000 BC?
Both periods saw warmer periods than today.
Going out to a movie isn't just about watching a movie, it's about going out.
People with access to swimming pools still go to the beach.
People can cook at home and yet they still go out to eat.
People listen to CDs and yet they still go to concerts.
You can get drunk at home, but amazingly bars are still in business.
It's pathetic that this guy is in the movie business but he doesn't grasp what movies are all about.
Actually there already is an electric train from LA to San Diego and one in the NE. Florida is looking at one from Tampa to Orlando as well.
But because everything's so sparse in the US we've come to use cars a lot more than other countries. So any people-moving rail system has to compete with automobiles, which everyone in the US over the age of 16 owns.
The US is a lot different than Japan or Europe. You can't directly compare infrastructures.
There's a lot of surface area in the US so there's a lot of open space to cover for any rail system.
One reason Japan's rail system is so much better than the United State's is because Japan is just that much smaller of a country. And as for Europe, Texas alone probably equals the space covered by several European countries.
I looked into train travel a couple months, Florida to St Louis and it was more expensive than airfair.
The trip would've taken longer than a bus too.
So, no cheaper than airplanes and it takes longer than a bus... any wonder hardly anyone travels via trains anymore?
We want fast or cheap. Trains are neither right now.
Next, I wanted to check the availability of said macro program, to see if in fact a person COULD as easily acquire "free PP" as the poster made it sound. I went to Yahoo and started fishing around, and came up to a lot of sites that offered the "free" macro program along with their guide at the low cost of 20 bucks. I'm sure that, if I was willing to be a bit more in depth, I would find the program itself. But how many are willing to do that?
What I did find was this site, and I am going to use it as a reference for the remainder of my article: http://www.eqtotalsecrets.com/. Not to act as a pusher, but I found this in 5 seconds. For 20 dollars I could buy this, make the money, and sell PP at half the normal cost. I would make my money back in maybe 2 hours. So yes, the program, for 20 dollars, is easily found.
So now we have checked our facts and found out that the EQ macro program IS in fact possible. We have found out that it is entirely possible that 3 million PP per day is being made per server. Now that we have our information, lets look at the effects of said facts.
The EQ Total Secrets guide is a joke, a huge scam that's been around for well over a year. I love how the article author uses it as a "fact" that you can easily make plat in Everquest.
The reason there's so much plat in EQ is really pretty simple, it comes into the economy and never really leaves it. So over 3 years a big ole piles of it built up.
But if you really do believe EQ Total Secrets can tell you some hidden secrets of earning more EQ plat than you can ever imagine, I can do one better.
Send me 20 dollars and I'll tell you how to MAKE MONEY FAST! You'll be a millionare within a year, easy. I'll let you in on the secrets those MILLIONARES have used to BUILD THEIR FORTUNES!
And you know since the above was written on the Internet, it's just gotta be true.
I've skydived and looked into other air sports, hanggliding, paragliding and so on. They're all dangerous sports simply because they involve flight.
25-35% of all skydiving fatalities are landing errors. When you have an accident in a land vehicle you're horizontal to the ground and you generally "bleed off" speed unless you slam into an immovable object. Wipe out on a motorcycle and you skid along the ground and get road rash.
With air vehicles accidents involve slamming vertically into the ground, you have nowhere to bleed off the energy of the accident so the injuries are often leathal.
Flying is sort of like driving a car or riding a motorcycle, except every accident involves hitting a concrete wall.
You also have other random factors like turbulance and wind conditions you don't have to deal with on the ground.
It takes lots of training and a constant use of safety procedures to fly safely(and even then it's more dangerous than driving a car).
Until we have computers that can totally automate the flight, I don't see it happening for the average driver. It's too intolerant to errors.
A book doesn't have to be bad to be rejected, there are plenty of poorly written novels published every year. You just have to appear poorly marketable.
Publishers aren't looking for "good" they're looking for "marketable". They're often the same, but not always.
Jeesh. Your country massacres a few native tribes and shoves the rest onto reservations and they never let you forget about it...
5-6K is still extremely high. MS Sourcesafe is only 600 bucks. Hell I can get .NET enterprise architect for a measly 2.5k.
Frankly that doesn't suprise me. From his email to Ben Collins he doesn't strike me as the most mature person in the world.
If you want to survive in business you do it through value-adding, giving the customer more than the competitor. Changing EULA's and keeping your prices "confidential"(because they're rediculously high?) doesn't cut the mustard.
The rights of the individual are more valuable than the rights of business. As a society we give up some of our rights(copyright being the best example of this) for the good of businesses, but we only do this in so far as it's a greater benefit to society(copyright inspires more creative works).
Also in many cases you can't legally give up your individual rights so agreeing to a EULA means nothing.
Won't it be great to open an email in your office that says,
"HARD TEEN ANAL SEX WITH ANIMALS!
CUM GET YOUR HARD TEEN ANAL SEX WITH ANIMALS!"
Won't spam be fun then.
You can purchase all sorts of levels of support contracts from Linux vendors who often employ the Linux developers who are directly responsible for creating the operating system.
Frankly, professionally supporting an open operating system like Linux is easier than a closed one. As a Linux guru, when push comes to shove I can get my hands dirty and dig into the source myself to solve the problem. That simply isn't an option for 99% of the Microsoft support firms.