With over 31 pages of outstanding vulnerabilities for Ubuntu on SecurityFocus.com and 20 pages for Mac OS X, WHILST XP AND VISTA ONLY HAVE EIGHT PAGES COMBINED, non of the OS vendors have anything to shout about really.
Not to worry, Linux kernel has had a massive hole all of its own found this week as well.
If you're feeling left out, here's 31 pages of vulnerabilities for Ubuntu. Just select Ubuntu as the vendor and Ubuntu Linux as the title. You can do it for other distros if you're using them. Results will be similar for most distributions
When are they going to realize that the people paying $35 ~ $200 a month for services which today cost about 10% of the charge are the real shareholders, and are the only real reason they are in business.
When are you going to realise what the actual real cost of bandwidth is? Clue: It's a fucking lot more than what you're paying now which is why contention ratios exist.
I assume you're one of those people who thinks that if you pay for 10Mbit, you should be able to get that 24/7? Here's a simple task for you. Find out the monthly supply cost to an ISP of a typical 640MBit pipe. Divide that by the package you're paying for (so if you're on 10Mbit and it's a 640Mbit pipe, the answe is 64). Divide the monthly cost to the ISP of that pipe by your answer and you get the actual bandwidth cost to the ISP, excluding any costs for their infrastructure, to provide your bandwidth 24/7. I can guarantee that the cost is many many times what you're paying a month. If you want your bandwidth fully available 24/7 with no slow down, no problem but it'll be at least 10% higher than the end answer you came up with.
That is addressing the problem from an ISP's point of view, or perhaps the "**AA's talking points for ISPs" point of view.
If I pay for 10Mbps download speed, it should not matter to anyone how I use those bits. If you as my ISP cannot handle that traffic, you should NOT have sold it to me in the first place. Every time you throttle or shape my traffic, I want a rebate. It's that simple.
No problem. If you want a dedicated 10Mbps unrestricted service you can have it but you'll pay the full cost of that bandwidth supply which is $100's a month.
Has it not percolated into your tiny brain that we don't recognize the legitimacy of the bodies that make the laws?
...whilst hypocritically expecting the Police to enforce laws designed to protect you made by the bodies you don't recognise. You'd be really pissed off if no laws were enforced, someone decided they wanted your computer and either beat the living shit out of you or shot you in the process of relieving you of its ownership.
You know, rather than fussing around with all that bullshit, I have an idea: build from source. Your package manager downloads the source package, it builds it, it installs it, so it's definitely native for your infrastructure. You know, I think even some Linux distributions do this...
Ah yes, because we all have hours to sit around waiting for it to finish only to find that there's a missing dependency and it fails right at the last hurdle because it's expecting version 1.2.3 of a file and you have version 1.2.2-99. And if it does compile OK, find out that it's crap and gets uninstalled quickly. At least with a.deb or.rpm file, you download it, package manager executes it and it takes a couple of minutes tops.
He complains the distribution differences make life hard for people selling software. Well, tough, if they want money maybe they should work for it?
With the piddly desktop market share Linux has coupled with the fact that a very large percentage of Linux users will simply not pay for software if there's a FOSS equivalent, no matter how bad, they'll just decide it's commercially not worth bothering doing a Linux port and concentrate on Windows and Mac OSX instead. If 1% of the user base is causing 90% of the headaches trying to get it to work with their OS of choice, simply remove that OS from the list you make it available for. The $$ amount you'll lose in sales will be recouped in the savings you make in development and aftersales support.
USB barely works. It's OK for mass-storage devices, but sucks hugely for high-bandwidth devices, or anything that's removable - and gets removed.
I'm sorry but as someone who spends a lot of time countering the Linux is good, Windows is shit brigade, that you're wrong. USB works a treat and has done for many a year. I have however had issues with an iPod on Windows and the usbstor.sys bug.
Of course it's a mess. Configuration files all over the place. Different X servers, Qt new version or GTK new version breaks backwards compatibility with old stuff. That 5k application you've downloaded needs 128MB of dependencies because it's a KDE app and you use Gnome (and vice-versa). Different locations for the same file depending on whatever distro you use.
Compare this to Windows where the core OS is the same. One graphics server, one central place for configuration, Windows files in the same places across the board. Completely different to Linux. If you write a 32 bit app for Windows, it'll work across them all. You don't have to worry about Windows X having a different quirk to Windows Y etc etc.
Take Gnome Password Protected Windows Network Share Browsing. Worked fine in Gnome 2.22, completely fucking broken in 2.24. Why? Because they changed to gvfs, decided to take out/omit authentication and now don't know how the fuck to fix it. And then you have CIFS which can't resolve Windows Computer Names on a network. What fucking idiot decided that in a world with a 90% Windows desktop market share that removing the ability to browse windows networks was a good idea?
Fedora has no non-free software (binary firmware blobs that are distributed with the kernel excepted) to begin with. Moreover Fedora has no 'non-free' repositories.
And that's why when I installed Fedora 10 instead of Ubuntu and realised I would have to go back to hours of fucking around to get my wifi working instead of having a simple 2 click process that pops off to get the proprietry firmware as Ubuntu does, I shoved in the Ubuntu CD and snapped the Fedora 10 one in two, never to darken a computer I own again.
Does it work? Yes. Therefore I don't give a flying fuck whether it's closed source or not. Being prevented from being able to do something even though there's a freely available solution there simply on the grounds that you can't look at the source code where you wouldn't know what the fuck you were looking at or what to do with it in the first place is utter madness.
What the article fails to mention is that there is hardly anyone in the UK who cannot get broadband. My parents live in a small 10 house hamlet 5 miles from the nearest town and get 2MBit. You have to be basically living in a solitary house half way up a mountain in the middle of Scotland not to get broadband in the UK.
Compare this to a country like the USA where even a town with a population of 30,000+ is deemed unworthy of getting broadband by the telcos.
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Will the IE delay and Google's tactics help to steer users in Chrome's direction
I doubt it. Although IE has it's issues, Chrome has some real show stoppers and then there's the fact it phones home with shedloads of data about your browsing.
You understand jack and shit about how monopolies are abused and why that abuse is illegal. Bundling products is not illegal. Bundling a monopolized product with a product from a different market is illegal.
But it's not a different market, is it? Microsoft are a software company. Antivirus products are software. It's a different sector of the same market.
I'm sorry but I fail to see the problem. You have Avast, AntiVir, AVG,Bitdefender, Clamwin, Comodo, F-Prot etc etc etc so it's not as if a free antivirus product is something new.
In the light of all the above being available, plenty of people still pay for anti-virus software. I do. I use Esets NOD32 and will continue to.
Microsoft offer Windows Defender yet people still prefer to use Spybot S&D et al in their droves thus proving that just because MS offer something for free in a sector, it doesn't automatically follow that people will go for it.
Really, the setup in MythTV is ridiculous easy if you have a standalone.
..once you've edited the channels.conf file for DVB-T (because there's only a handful of transmitters included in the package) which requires you to know a lot of not easy to find information on MUX frequencies, what mode each MUX is transmitting in, channel spacing, offsets, error correction rates, channel bitrates etc for the particular transmitter you're using.
If you think Windows MCE is any easier, good luck. Maybe they've made it easier but the only people I know to get it work (and not crash all the time) have been Windows admins.
It's really simple, fire it up, follow the prompts to set up your TV. DVB-T is really simple. You put in your postcode, it gives you a list of possible transmitters in your region, you select the one you receive and then it goes off and scans the channels. Once it's done that, it connects to the internet and downloads a full EPG that spans 14 days AFAIR. Job done.
MythTV needs a lot more than an interface makeover. For a start, DVB-T channel searching and setting up an EPG is a joke. WTF do you need to run a server just to get a sodding programme guide?
The whole thing is such a PITA to set up and keep going without something or other packing up (usually the programme guide) that it makes it worthwhile paying £60 for Windows MCE just to save your sanity.
TBH, I for one am getting sick of the whole patch, upgrade hardware, upgrade drivers cycle of PC gaming just to play a game at a decent framerate without it crashing.
The minute they add mouse and keyboard support to 360 and PS3 games, PC gaming is stone dead.
Currently, I just make what I need for my own purposes, and make it generally available to others. The community support we hope for is almost non-existent on most of the open source projects.
I don't actually think that a lot of people using OSS actually realise this. I get the impression that the recent comers to Ubuntu for example, have an image in their mind of teams of people working on the software and that if you told them it was one bloke doing a bit of coding on something he fancied having a go at every now and again after work, they'd call you a liar.
As you said, many projects are basically things people are writing for themselves and have put out in the wild as a "Well it's useful for me, I'll stick it up on the interweb in case anyone else finds it useful for them"
Microsoft have been releasing parts of SP1 over Windows Update for months. Most people are going to find the SP1 installation very small as they have a lot of it already. It's only going to be large for those who aren't online or haven't updated.
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With over 31 pages of outstanding vulnerabilities for Ubuntu on SecurityFocus.com and 20 pages for Mac OS X, WHILST XP AND VISTA ONLY HAVE EIGHT PAGES COMBINED, non of the OS vendors have anything to shout about really.
If you're feeling left out, here's 31 pages of vulnerabilities for Ubuntu . Just select Ubuntu as the vendor and Ubuntu Linux as the title. You can do it for other distros if you're using them. Results will be similar for most distributions
because I have a dedicated help desk for my home PC.. idiot.
So you're admitting you're an incompetent fuckwit. No way do you not have permission to do this on your home computer.
When are they going to realize that the people paying $35 ~ $200 a month for services which today cost about 10% of the charge are the real shareholders, and are the only real reason they are in business.
When are you going to realise what the actual real cost of bandwidth is? Clue: It's a fucking lot more than what you're paying now which is why contention ratios exist.
I assume you're one of those people who thinks that if you pay for 10Mbit, you should be able to get that 24/7? Here's a simple task for you. Find out the monthly supply cost to an ISP of a typical 640MBit pipe. Divide that by the package you're paying for (so if you're on 10Mbit and it's a 640Mbit pipe, the answe is 64). Divide the monthly cost to the ISP of that pipe by your answer and you get the actual bandwidth cost to the ISP, excluding any costs for their infrastructure, to provide your bandwidth 24/7. I can guarantee that the cost is many many times what you're paying a month. If you want your bandwidth fully available 24/7 with no slow down, no problem but it'll be at least 10% higher than the end answer you came up with.
That is addressing the problem from an ISP's point of view, or perhaps the "**AA's talking points for ISPs" point of view.
If I pay for 10Mbps download speed, it should not matter to anyone how I use those bits. If you as my ISP cannot handle that traffic, you should NOT have sold it to me in the first place. Every time you throttle or shape my traffic, I want a rebate. It's that simple.
No problem. If you want a dedicated 10Mbps unrestricted service you can have it but you'll pay the full cost of that bandwidth supply which is $100's a month.
Has it not percolated into your tiny brain that we don't recognize the legitimacy of the bodies that make the laws?
You voted them in. Stupid fuck.
You know, rather than fussing around with all that bullshit, I have an idea: build from source. Your package manager downloads the source package, it builds it, it installs it, so it's definitely native for your infrastructure. You know, I think even some Linux distributions do this...
Ah yes, because we all have hours to sit around waiting for it to finish only to find that there's a missing dependency and it fails right at the last hurdle because it's expecting version 1.2.3 of a file and you have version 1.2.2-99. And if it does compile OK, find out that it's crap and gets uninstalled quickly. At least with a .deb or .rpm file, you download it, package manager executes it and it takes a couple of minutes tops.
He complains the distribution differences make life hard for people selling software. Well, tough, if they want money maybe they should work for it?
With the piddly desktop market share Linux has coupled with the fact that a very large percentage of Linux users will simply not pay for software if there's a FOSS equivalent, no matter how bad, they'll just decide it's commercially not worth bothering doing a Linux port and concentrate on Windows and Mac OSX instead. If 1% of the user base is causing 90% of the headaches trying to get it to work with their OS of choice, simply remove that OS from the list you make it available for. The $$ amount you'll lose in sales will be recouped in the savings you make in development and aftersales support.
USB barely works. It's OK for mass-storage devices, but sucks hugely for high-bandwidth devices, or anything that's removable - and gets removed.
I'm sorry but as someone who spends a lot of time countering the Linux is good, Windows is shit brigade, that you're wrong. USB works a treat and has done for many a year. I have however had issues with an iPod on Windows and the usbstor.sys bug.
Compare this to Windows where the core OS is the same. One graphics server, one central place for configuration, Windows files in the same places across the board. Completely different to Linux. If you write a 32 bit app for Windows, it'll work across them all. You don't have to worry about Windows X having a different quirk to Windows Y etc etc.
STOP BREAKING THINGS THAT WORK FINE
Take Gnome Password Protected Windows Network Share Browsing. Worked fine in Gnome 2.22, completely fucking broken in 2.24. Why? Because they changed to gvfs, decided to take out/omit authentication and now don't know how the fuck to fix it. And then you have CIFS which can't resolve Windows Computer Names on a network. What fucking idiot decided that in a world with a 90% Windows desktop market share that removing the ability to browse windows networks was a good idea?
Fedora has no non-free software (binary firmware blobs that are distributed with the kernel excepted) to begin with. Moreover Fedora has no 'non-free' repositories.
And that's why when I installed Fedora 10 instead of Ubuntu and realised I would have to go back to hours of fucking around to get my wifi working instead of having a simple 2 click process that pops off to get the proprietry firmware as Ubuntu does, I shoved in the Ubuntu CD and snapped the Fedora 10 one in two, never to darken a computer I own again.
Does it work? Yes. Therefore I don't give a flying fuck whether it's closed source or not. Being prevented from being able to do something even though there's a freely available solution there simply on the grounds that you can't look at the source code where you wouldn't know what the fuck you were looking at or what to do with it in the first place is utter madness.
Compare this to a country like the USA where even a town with a population of 30,000+ is deemed unworthy of getting broadband by the telcos.
...2002
Will the IE delay and Google's tactics help to steer users in Chrome's direction
I doubt it. Although IE has it's issues, Chrome has some real show stoppers and then there's the fact it phones home with shedloads of data about your browsing.
You understand jack and shit about how monopolies are abused and why that abuse is illegal. Bundling products is not illegal. Bundling a monopolized product with a product from a different market is illegal.
But it's not a different market, is it? Microsoft are a software company. Antivirus products are software. It's a different sector of the same market.
In the light of all the above being available, plenty of people still pay for anti-virus software. I do. I use Esets NOD32 and will continue to.
Microsoft offer Windows Defender yet people still prefer to use Spybot S&D et al in their droves thus proving that just because MS offer something for free in a sector, it doesn't automatically follow that people will go for it.
Really, the setup in MythTV is ridiculous easy if you have a standalone.
..once you've edited the channels.conf file for DVB-T (because there's only a handful of transmitters included in the package) which requires you to know a lot of not easy to find information on MUX frequencies, what mode each MUX is transmitting in, channel spacing, offsets, error correction rates, channel bitrates etc for the particular transmitter you're using.
If you think Windows MCE is any easier, good luck. Maybe they've made it easier but the only people I know to get it work (and not crash all the time) have been Windows admins.
It's really simple, fire it up, follow the prompts to set up your TV. DVB-T is really simple. You put in your postcode, it gives you a list of possible transmitters in your region, you select the one you receive and then it goes off and scans the channels. Once it's done that, it connects to the internet and downloads a full EPG that spans 14 days AFAIR. Job done.
The whole thing is such a PITA to set up and keep going without something or other packing up (usually the programme guide) that it makes it worthwhile paying £60 for Windows MCE just to save your sanity.
TBH, I for one am getting sick of the whole patch, upgrade hardware, upgrade drivers cycle of PC gaming just to play a game at a decent framerate without it crashing.
The minute they add mouse and keyboard support to 360 and PS3 games, PC gaming is stone dead.
Currently, I just make what I need for my own purposes, and make it generally available to others. The community support we hope for is almost non-existent on most of the open source projects.
I don't actually think that a lot of people using OSS actually realise this. I get the impression that the recent comers to Ubuntu for example, have an image in their mind of teams of people working on the software and that if you told them it was one bloke doing a bit of coding on something he fancied having a go at every now and again after work, they'd call you a liar.
As you said, many projects are basically things people are writing for themselves and have put out in the wild as a "Well it's useful for me, I'll stick it up on the interweb in case anyone else finds it useful for them"
Google Apps is right there in my browser and doesn't take a minute to start.
How well does it start when your internet access isn't available?
Microsoft have been releasing parts of SP1 over Windows Update for months. Most people are going to find the SP1 installation very small as they have a lot of it already. It's only going to be large for those who aren't online or haven't updated.