This is true, but now I don't receive any phone calls at all asking for help - once you've invested the time in setting up a custom desktop for them, it "just works". I got Windows support calls all the bloody time before because it kept grinding, crashing, getting infected with malware/viruses, shit stopped working, etc.
It's also surprising when people complain that "It all looks alien" just how quickly they can get used to something else (nothing in desktop land is *that* different), and more importantly, how little they use what they had. I switched my mother to Abiword (based on docs I've seen of hers) and she didn't even notice. She's actually using WindowMaker and "really likes the big simple icons"
Since I got rid of Windows on my parents and friends computers, my phone has never been so quiet!
I stipulate now if you want me to support your computer, I'm not doing it if you're running Windows - you can take it to PCWorld and pay the monkeys with scripts every 3 months to clean off your spyware. Makes my life much more pleasant.
I can definitely vouch for this, I personally witnessed some 20 odd pieces of malware duking it out on my brothers 2Mbit broadband to see who could relay the most spam.
Since then, I've converted the majority of my friends and family to Debian and they haven't looked back.
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Why has nobody come up with disc compression software for the Ipod?
Because the majority of files you would want on there (JPG photos, MP3s, AACs, etc.) are already pretty much as compressed as they're going to get so you don't really gain anything by compressing the disk - just crappier load times since you have to do two decompressions instead of one.
they'd have the same access as a regular desktop java-app?
No. Java Applets have always been sandboxed and run with a security manager that disallows reading/writing to the hard disk and connecting to any network domain but the one that the applet came from.
So yes, you could run it, but the applet can't actually see or do anything outside of itself.
Ah, but most folks get their software from their distro's package management system. Which distro is going to include crapware with software?
Assuming these crapware tools are free (to get in the distro in the first place), then surely there's no problem "neutering" them to get rid of the crapware prior to inclusion...
I'm optimistic the crapware revolution will never hit free platforms...
I was working at Sun this time last year and I was STILL stuck on Netscape 4.7/Solaris along with the other 1,000 or so staff at Guillemont Park in the UK
Even worse, the setup was Sunray/terminal services with no admin access so we couldn't even change it. Ugh.
Cedega (WineX as it used to be) forked an older version of Wine that was under a BSD-style license.
They were quite within their rights to fork this version and work on it. Newer versions of Wine are LGPL (IIRC), however even though they are not obliged to, Transgaming do contribute back to the Wine community.
So you not only didn't read the article, you didn't even read the header of the discussion!
...New features include Saved Search Folders (aka Virtual Folders) which allow you to display messages based on previously set search criteria across multiple folders. Message Grouping allows you to organize e-mail in a folder by grouping them based on various attributes like Date, Sender, Label, etc...
What do you think "Saved Search Folders" are?
What's even worse is that someone moderated this "Interesting".
Yes, I slipped up, I meant to say that "PearPC running MacOSX" is so slow on my laptop. Thank you to everyone who felt the need to correct and insult me rather contribute to the discussion.
Whilst PearPC is an excellent and worthwhile project, MacOSX is so slow as to be unusuable on my 2Ghz laptop (took about 2 hours to install) so I can't see how it could be upto much on the much slower CPU in the Xbox.
IMHO completely dropping email as we have it now is the only way against spam. No matter what's been done so far has kept existing email infrastructure as legacy. A new extension on top of email might get some play, but it's all irrelevant while the same system is still able to be used for spam.
This comes up every time someone mentions spam. You simply cannot have a decentralised, free, messaging system without a small minority of people abusing it.
Think of it as the price you pay for having a decentralised, free line of communication. This is a social rather than technological problem and I'd rather have spam than a tightly controlled mail solution that could be taken away from me or cost me more money.
Why would anyone assume that a bunch of assholes in an online chat speak for and represent Linux-type operating systems as a whole?
More importantly, why do you care so much about the conversion of folks from other OSes? People who want to use Linux and *nix-type OSes will use it and learn.
Mainstreaming will involve big companies with big money offering support. Assholes in chat rooms will still be assholes in chat rooms.
A great speech - If you watch the making of on the DVD edition, they mention that the speech wasn't scripted and Rutger Hauer ad-libbed it on the spot.
The Spanish version of Windows used the word Hembra - meaning "woman" in Spain - for choosing gender. But in some Central American republics, notably Nicaragua, the word is an insult meaning "bitch". The programme was changed.
Is this the kind of image that is presented in the media in the rest of the world, or are they still running with the 'big brother is your friend' party line?"
...Television companies are not in the business of delivering television programmes to their audiences, they're in the business of delivering audiences to their advertisers. (This is why the BBC has such a schizophrenic time - it's actually in a different business from all its competitors)...
just because a computer can crack a 32 char password in 10 seconds
And will all software in the future not have any kind of delay to prevent this sort of attack? Even now, we have login/ssh services that delay a couple of seconds between failed attempts.
I had to do this recently - my girlfriend bought the latest Ash single online from their site and was very confused when she received a WMA she couldn't do anything with rather than an mp3 or ogg (we have a houseful of Debian/FreeBSD boxes).
I ended up playing it with Windows Media Player inside VMWare and using Sox to capture the stream and re-encode it to an MP3.
It stinks that I have to do this for something that I have legitimately paid for. And no, they took the money before letting you know what you were getting.
Thats a great attitude. "Its not confusing, you just don't understand it."
No. It's attitudes like yours that piss me off - I am sick of hearing people witter on about business models and making Linux attractive to users.
The fact is, I DON'T CARE. I'm happy that *I* have a decent desktop environment and operating system - I couldn't give a flying fuck about Joe User, because you know what? Joe User is a freeloading scumbag.
Joe User doesn't give anything back. Free software is about an exchange - you get other people's work in return for your own - people who just consume are along for the ride and I frankly couldn't give a toss about whether what I (and others) produce is attractive to those people or not (and before anyone starts, I'm not just talking about coding - anyone can help through testing, docs, etc.)
The people who bang on about "Linux isn't ready for the desktop" are generally Windows users and should stick to using Windows.
People who are ready for X/WM/KDE/GNOME/etc. will take the initiative and go for it. Windows users who will use it when it's just like Windows, aren't willing to invest any time until they can leech thousands of other people's hard work should go spin.
Flame away and call me a zealot. I'm just slightly drunk and bad tempered at the moment.
Swing would be hard work, and pointless. There's a reason that eclipse doesn't use Swing... IBM isn't interested in it - it sucks.
Ah, but one of my open source projects is a completely free implementation of AWT and Swing that uses SWT as a renderer - so it has all the delicious APIness of Swing, the platform looks of SWT and IBM could throw it in a free Java implementation tomorrow:-)
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This is true, but now I don't receive any phone calls at all asking for help - once you've invested the time in setting up a custom desktop for them, it "just works". I got Windows support calls all the bloody time before because it kept grinding, crashing, getting infected with malware/viruses, shit stopped working, etc.
It's also surprising when people complain that "It all looks alien" just how quickly they can get used to something else (nothing in desktop land is *that* different), and more importantly, how little they use what they had. I switched my mother to Abiword (based on docs I've seen of hers) and she didn't even notice. She's actually using WindowMaker and "really likes the big simple icons"
Since I got rid of Windows on my parents and friends computers, my phone has never been so quiet!
I stipulate now if you want me to support your computer, I'm not doing it if you're running Windows - you can take it to PCWorld and pay the monkeys with scripts every 3 months to clean off your spyware. Makes my life much more pleasant.
I can definitely vouch for this, I personally witnessed some 20 odd pieces of malware duking it out on my brothers 2Mbit broadband to see who could relay the most spam.
Since then, I've converted the majority of my friends and family to Debian and they haven't looked back.
MirrorDot as usual.
Why has nobody come up with disc compression software for the Ipod?
Because the majority of files you would want on there (JPG photos, MP3s, AACs, etc.) are already pretty much as compressed as they're going to get so you don't really gain anything by compressing the disk - just crappier load times since you have to do two decompressions instead of one.
they'd have the same access as a regular desktop java-app?
No. Java Applets have always been sandboxed and run with a security manager that disallows reading/writing to the hard disk and connecting to any network domain but the one that the applet came from.
So yes, you could run it, but the applet can't actually see or do anything outside of itself.
Ah, but most folks get their software from their distro's package management system. Which distro is going to include crapware with software?
Assuming these crapware tools are free (to get in the distro in the first place), then surely there's no problem "neutering" them to get rid of the crapware prior to inclusion...
I'm optimistic the crapware revolution will never hit free platforms...
I was working at Sun this time last year and I was STILL stuck on Netscape 4.7/Solaris along with the other 1,000 or so staff at Guillemont Park in the UK
Even worse, the setup was Sunray/terminal services with no admin access so we couldn't even change it. Ugh.
Cedega (WineX as it used to be) forked an older version of Wine that was under a BSD-style license.
They were quite within their rights to fork this version and work on it. Newer versions of Wine are LGPL (IIRC), however even though they are not obliged to, Transgaming do contribute back to the Wine community.
So you not only didn't read the article, you didn't even read the header of the discussion!
What do you think "Saved Search Folders" are?
What's even worse is that someone moderated this "Interesting".
*sigh*
Yes, I slipped up, I meant to say that "PearPC running MacOSX" is so slow on my laptop. Thank you to everyone who felt the need to correct and insult me rather contribute to the discussion.
Whilst PearPC is an excellent and worthwhile project, MacOSX is so slow as to be unusuable on my 2Ghz laptop (took about 2 hours to install) so I can't see how it could be upto much on the much slower CPU in the Xbox.
Kudos for the effort though.
IMHO completely dropping email as we have it now is the only way against spam. No matter what's been done so far has kept existing email infrastructure as legacy. A new extension on top of email might get some play, but it's all irrelevant while the same system is still able to be used for spam.
This comes up every time someone mentions spam. You simply cannot have a decentralised, free, messaging system without a small minority of people abusing it.
Think of it as the price you pay for having a decentralised, free line of communication. This is a social rather than technological problem and I'd rather have spam than a tightly controlled mail solution that could be taken away from me or cost me more money.
Why would he want to try Linux again after that?
Why would anyone assume that a bunch of assholes in an online chat speak for and represent Linux-type operating systems as a whole?
More importantly, why do you care so much about the conversion of folks from other OSes? People who want to use Linux and *nix-type OSes will use it and learn.
Mainstreaming will involve big companies with big money offering support. Assholes in chat rooms will still be assholes in chat rooms.
A great speech - If you watch the making of on the DVD edition, they mention that the speech wasn't scripted and Rutger Hauer ad-libbed it on the spot.
Probably just a slip - we're all MS' bitch :-)
Why do you do it? Do you think that servers and bandwidth pay for themselves?
Exactly! It's my fucking bandwidth and I'm not paying to see their advert!
Is this the kind of image that is presented in the media in the rest of the world, or are they still running with the 'big brother is your friend' party line?"
Quote from Douglas Adams in Wired.just because a computer can crack a 32 char password in 10 seconds
And will all software in the future not have any kind of delay to prevent this sort of attack? Even now, we have login/ssh services that delay a couple of seconds between failed attempts.
How long before nonvolatile memory becomes the solution to crash-prone software rather than better programming?
What? A crash-prone program is a crash-prone program, regardless of whether it vanishes or not when you turn the power off.
I had to do this recently - my girlfriend bought the latest Ash single online from their site and was very confused when she received a WMA she couldn't do anything with rather than an mp3 or ogg (we have a houseful of Debian/FreeBSD boxes).
I ended up playing it with Windows Media Player inside VMWare and using Sox to capture the stream and re-encode it to an MP3.
It stinks that I have to do this for something that I have legitimately paid for. And no, they took the money before letting you know what you were getting.
If you want to hear music advertisements, listen to the radio.
This is an amusing distraction that Apple will (and should) shut down. Fast.
Thats a great attitude. "Its not confusing, you just don't understand it."
No. It's attitudes like yours that piss me off - I am sick of hearing people witter on about business models and making Linux attractive to users.
The fact is, I DON'T CARE. I'm happy that *I* have a decent desktop environment and operating system - I couldn't give a flying fuck about Joe User, because you know what? Joe User is a freeloading scumbag.
Joe User doesn't give anything back. Free software is about an exchange - you get other people's work in return for your own - people who just consume are along for the ride and I frankly couldn't give a toss about whether what I (and others) produce is attractive to those people or not (and before anyone starts, I'm not just talking about coding - anyone can help through testing, docs, etc.)
The people who bang on about "Linux isn't ready for the desktop" are generally Windows users and should stick to using Windows.
People who are ready for X/WM/KDE/GNOME/etc. will take the initiative and go for it. Windows users who will use it when it's just like Windows, aren't willing to invest any time until they can leech thousands of other people's hard work should go spin.
Flame away and call me a zealot. I'm just slightly drunk and bad tempered at the moment.
But how do you know? You didn't see the ones that got modded down!
Oh, the irony!
Swing would be hard work, and pointless. There's a reason that eclipse doesn't use Swing... IBM isn't interested in it - it sucks.
Ah, but one of my open source projects is a completely free implementation of AWT and Swing that uses SWT as a renderer - so it has all the delicious APIness of Swing, the platform looks of SWT and IBM could throw it in a free Java implementation tomorrow :-)