This puzzle makes no sense. Either you didn't word it correctly, or it's just plainly wrong. Imagine the case where k is larger than the number n, the times each prisoner needs to be called eventually. All the king needs to do is pick a random prisoner, say "Jack", call him in n times, and undo the cup whenever Jack flips it. After n times, just forget about Jack and call others any way he wants. As far as Jack is concerned, he will never have a chance to answer questions again; for others, Jack never left any information at all, so there's no way any of them can be certain whether Jack has been called at any given point of time. Other prisoners may answer "yes" out of boredom eventually, and that's about the best they could do, always with a chance to lose their collective heads.
Fedora could have solved their package management problem easily: just include apt and synaptic, and put freshrpms' repositories as default, and you are all set. My non-commandline friends are throughly happy with this setup, and if one doesn't want to type commands, he should not be forced to deal with rpm files directly anyway (IMO).
When something untoward happens, like a porn popup, we explain to the kids what it is, whats its meant to do, and why its inacceptable/illegal/inappropriate for them to access such content.
Not trolling, honestly curious here: just how exactly do you explain that?
It's not that I trust you or don't trust you. I'm sure that I can trust you a lot more than I need to trust you. If I have to ask why I should trust you then I probably should not trust you. Either way, I don't ask. If I did ask, I no idea of any answer you could give that would cause me to trust you. It's more like I'd trust you because the binaries are there than that I'd trust the binaries because I trust you.
Geez. I was able to follow what you said until this part. Now I'm feeling dizzy.
I find it amazing that out of your ten item list, I disagree with nine. That's really rare. Anyhow, here goes my opinion, with disclaimer: All sentences, other than uotates, should be read with an implied "IMO" in the front.
1. Good DVD player & CD-RW that just work...
DVD player: mplayer, xine, videolan, just name a few.
CD writer: xcdroast, gtoaster, k3b, not counting commandline apps.
They either come with your distro, or are really easy to get. Apt-get, rpmfind.net, emerge, you name it.
2. Friends who are familiar with the OS/Distro...
This is more of a result than a cause. Not like linux users are snubbish and unfriendly, but you can't buy linux savvy friends from venders, so how can we help?
3. Better wine,...
This one is a no no, for two reasons: (a) If a windows software is useful, we better have a native version, for the sake of reliability/performance/freedom. Write a clone or have the vender port it, just don't count on running an emulator as a long term solution. (b) If you have to use Wine to get something done, what would a new/non-export/prospect user--which seems to be your major concern--think? "Look, linux must suck, because it doesn't even have that!"
4. Better default settings for Desktop/Window managers...
Not sure what you refer to. Maybe you should have named some Gnome/KDE default setting that's wacky? On a side note, "usability" is overrated. Gnome's default wm, metacity, is a prime "usability" example, made by "usability" export Havoc Pennington after consulting "usability" surveys, and it ends up being one of the most unusable piece of software in the Gnome packages. If this happens to be what you meant "improvements and surveys will help", future looks quite dark to me.
5. Use easier "language"...doesn't HAVE TO use the CLI.
This totally depends on what you do with you desktop. Try come up with a GUI that can do things such as putting ".virus" suffix on all.eml files scattered all over you directory tree. CLI does it easy.
6. Better Grub/Lilo/equivalent that is less intimidating...multi-boot...
If you are a really new user who wants to dual boot, you should install windows first, then linux, otherwise windows would overwrite MBR and point the boot partition to itself, thus making the linux install unbootable from HD. If you install linux after windows, most installers recognize win partitions and will add them to bootloader list anyway, what to worry? Not to mention grub.conf really doesn't take much effort to understand.
7. Some packaging system with less dependency problems...
Ideally I am with you on this one, but the strength of linux is the varity and constan improvements, which so happened often break dependencies. I just don't see a solution to this problem, but OTOH, say you are using RedHat, and install only RPMs from them, there really shouldn't be any problem at all.
8. The equivalent of a "tray" where one can see the status of the...
There is a "tray" in both Gnome and KDE, but they can't possibly show every thing. An average linux box is doing way more stuff then an average windows box. Imagine a tray filled with icons for httpd, sshd, smbd, sendmail, procmail, syslog, lm_sensors, ntpd, iptables, privoxy, spamassassin... Heck, you don't need a tray, you need a new monitor.
9. Few, well chosen default applications...
This is one reason why I left windows. IE for browsing, outlook express for mail, notepad for text and minesweeper for entertainment. You know what, they all suck, but you got no choice unless you pay big money. Choice is good, it's even better when it's free, and nobody would be too stupid to pick a favorite.
10. Other stuff that's been talked about in other places:)
I can't disagree with this point, as there is no point to disagree with.
I didn't carefully look at your numbers, but could believe the final result. Just think about it, what force helped the carbon core to form a giant crystal?
I don't get this idea. How is this knocking fundamentally different from, say, a password? It's a sequence of signals you make which only you and the server are supposed to know, thus to verify your identity. But compared with password or RSA/DSA keys, it's slower, consuming more resources, and cannot be solely relied on -- too easy to sniff. If you want your security to be tighter, you might as well make your passwd harder to guess.
Actually I don't have a problem with Dell not shipping with Linux installed... For one thing, which distro would it be? And think that even when we (a research lab) purchased their computers with Windows, first thing we do is wipe it out and do a clean, Dell stuff free reinstall anyway, since their pre-installed OS is always full of junk, and the partitioning did never really suit out needs.
As long as I can buy a PC without microsoft crap on it, and without paying microsoft anything (I doubt it), it's good enough for me.
but the Knoppix install is basically the CD image sitting on the hard drive as read-only, which for this application had its virtues.
I fail to see said virtues. If you are going to write to the harddrive, it might as well be a full featured Linux distro, such as SuSE or RedHat. Why the hell not?
i18n support would be a great help to many of them to be sure. I could have actually gotten interested in working on this aspect of Linux... (I don't know a foreign language.)
With all due respect, you probably should know some foreign language to do i18n--doing stuff in English hardly qualifies as internationalization.
GNOME has standardised on Epiphany for the browser and Evolution
I really don't think these two are enough to replace Mozilla yet. Epiphany, as it stands, is just like any other UI designed by Gnome team: simple interface, no functionality. For one thing, you don't have an option to set http proxy, which to me is totally unacceptable. It just sucks.
Evolution on the other hand is a fine, powerful email client (since it's done by Ximian, not Havac Pennington et al), but I wouldn't be using it had I had fewer than 4 IMAP email accounts: it's quite complex. For people with only one email box, Mozilla Mail or Thunderbird would have been a much better choice, IMO.
Hmm, I am not too sure. Intel is not the problem, Microsoft is. If they give AMD an choice between complete compliance or no Windows support for their hardwares, what would AMD choose?
I am kind of sick of these SCO jokes (pardon me for the beer I had in the past two hours), honestly it's too cheap, at least to me, to make jokes abour SCO regardless of the context. If SCO lied (I believe they did) it's ok to laugh at them DIRECTLY, but this kind of sniping does not contribute to the effort of battling evilness. It only smears the image of OSS community. Wanna fight them? Write some editorial or something like on groklaw, say it out straight. What you do on slashdot is no better than mere rumors and gossips.
Regard, and again please pardon my beer. European beers are evil, you know.
Yours,
Negative Response
If she bought this ATM and had rigged it to not accept his PIN, why not just rig it to store his PIN and not eject the card? I mean is the secret service really that stupid to use such a dirty method?
Valid question, but you have to realize that not all con artists buy their own ATMs. You could go to an existing, clean and legal ATM and tamper with it so that it will jam the next card, then use the mentioned method to get card and PIN. Maybe she bought the ATM in the show simply because it's more trouble to have a bank to agree on breaking one of their ATMS.
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This really should be expected, them dolphins being the second most intelligent on the Earth and all, you know, next only to mice.
My bad, should have used letter "m" I guess. Still, in my reply, n is your "ten times, or twenty times, or any number..." figure.
This puzzle makes no sense. Either you didn't word it correctly, or it's just plainly wrong. Imagine the case where k is larger than the number n, the times each prisoner needs to be called eventually. All the king needs to do is pick a random prisoner, say "Jack", call him in n times, and undo the cup whenever Jack flips it. After n times, just forget about Jack and call others any way he wants. As far as Jack is concerned, he will never have a chance to answer questions again; for others, Jack never left any information at all, so there's no way any of them can be certain whether Jack has been called at any given point of time. Other prisoners may answer "yes" out of boredom eventually, and that's about the best they could do, always with a chance to lose their collective heads.
Compare that C code with this C file. I'd guess it's a small rpm installer, just in case you are not using a rpm based system.
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Wouldn't that break Mozilla Foundation's not-for-profit status?
Fedora could have solved their package management problem easily: just include apt and synaptic, and put freshrpms' repositories as default, and you are all set. My non-commandline friends are throughly happy with this setup, and if one doesn't want to type commands, he should not be forced to deal with rpm files directly anyway (IMO).
Not trolling, honestly curious here: just how exactly do you explain that?
Geez. I was able to follow what you said until this part. Now I'm feeling dizzy.
1. Good DVD player & CD-RW that just work...
DVD player: mplayer, xine, videolan, just name a few.
CD writer: xcdroast, gtoaster, k3b, not counting commandline apps.
They either come with your distro, or are really easy to get. Apt-get, rpmfind.net, emerge, you name it.
2. Friends who are familiar with the OS/Distro...
This is more of a result than a cause. Not like linux users are snubbish and unfriendly, but you can't buy linux savvy friends from venders, so how can we help?
3. Better wine,...
This one is a no no, for two reasons: (a) If a windows software is useful, we better have a native version, for the sake of reliability/performance/freedom. Write a clone or have the vender port it, just don't count on running an emulator as a long term solution. (b) If you have to use Wine to get something done, what would a new/non-export/prospect user--which seems to be your major concern--think? "Look, linux must suck, because it doesn't even have that!"
4. Better default settings for Desktop/Window managers...
Not sure what you refer to. Maybe you should have named some Gnome/KDE default setting that's wacky? On a side note, "usability" is overrated. Gnome's default wm, metacity, is a prime "usability" example, made by "usability" export Havoc Pennington after consulting "usability" surveys, and it ends up being one of the most unusable piece of software in the Gnome packages. If this happens to be what you meant "improvements and surveys will help", future looks quite dark to me.
5. Use easier "language"...doesn't HAVE TO use the CLI.
This totally depends on what you do with you desktop. Try come up with a GUI that can do things such as putting ".virus" suffix on all .eml files scattered all over you directory tree. CLI does it easy.
6. Better Grub/Lilo/equivalent that is less intimidating...multi-boot...
If you are a really new user who wants to dual boot, you should install windows first, then linux, otherwise windows would overwrite MBR and point the boot partition to itself, thus making the linux install unbootable from HD. If you install linux after windows, most installers recognize win partitions and will add them to bootloader list anyway, what to worry? Not to mention grub.conf really doesn't take much effort to understand.
7. Some packaging system with less dependency problems...
Ideally I am with you on this one, but the strength of linux is the varity and constan improvements, which so happened often break dependencies. I just don't see a solution to this problem, but OTOH, say you are using RedHat, and install only RPMs from them, there really shouldn't be any problem at all.
8. The equivalent of a "tray" where one can see the status of the...
There is a "tray" in both Gnome and KDE, but they can't possibly show every thing. An average linux box is doing way more stuff then an average windows box. Imagine a tray filled with icons for httpd, sshd, smbd, sendmail, procmail, syslog, lm_sensors, ntpd, iptables, privoxy, spamassassin... Heck, you don't need a tray, you need a new monitor.
9. Few, well chosen default applications...
This is one reason why I left windows. IE for browsing, outlook express for mail, notepad for text and minesweeper for entertainment. You know what, they all suck, but you got no choice unless you pay big money. Choice is good, it's even better when it's free, and nobody would be too stupid to pick a favorite.
10. Other stuff that's been talked about in other places :)
I can't disagree with this point, as there is no point to disagree with.
I didn't carefully look at your numbers, but could believe the final result. Just think about it, what force helped the carbon core to form a giant crystal?
I don't get this idea. How is this knocking fundamentally different from, say, a password? It's a sequence of signals you make which only you and the server are supposed to know, thus to verify your identity. But compared with password or RSA/DSA keys, it's slower, consuming more resources, and cannot be solely relied on -- too easy to sniff. If you want your security to be tighter, you might as well make your passwd harder to guess.
Site is terribly slow, it is running python all right.
As long as I can buy a PC without microsoft crap on it, and without paying microsoft anything (I doubt it), it's good enough for me.
I fail to see said virtues. If you are going to write to the harddrive, it might as well be a full featured Linux distro, such as SuSE or RedHat. Why the hell not?
With all due respect, you probably should know some foreign language to do i18n--doing stuff in English hardly qualifies as internationalization.
Oh I got it, you forgot to copy his sig, you silly troll.
I really don't think these two are enough to replace Mozilla yet. Epiphany, as it stands, is just like any other UI designed by Gnome team: simple interface, no functionality. For one thing, you don't have an option to set http proxy, which to me is totally unacceptable. It just sucks.
Evolution on the other hand is a fine, powerful email client (since it's done by Ximian, not Havac Pennington et al), but I wouldn't be using it had I had fewer than 4 IMAP email accounts: it's quite complex. For people with only one email box, Mozilla Mail or Thunderbird would have been a much better choice, IMO.
Hmm, I am not too sure. Intel is not the problem, Microsoft is. If they give AMD an choice between complete compliance or no Windows support for their hardwares, what would AMD choose?
I am kind of sick of these SCO jokes (pardon me for the beer I had in the past two hours), honestly it's too cheap, at least to me, to make jokes abour SCO regardless of the context. If SCO lied (I believe they did) it's ok to laugh at them DIRECTLY, but this kind of sniping does not contribute to the effort of battling evilness. It only smears the image of OSS community. Wanna fight them? Write some editorial or something like on groklaw, say it out straight. What you do on slashdot is no better than mere rumors and gossips. Regard, and again please pardon my beer. European beers are evil, you know. Yours, Negative Response
Valid question, but you have to realize that not all con artists buy their own ATMs. You could go to an existing, clean and legal ATM and tamper with it so that it will jam the next card, then use the mentioned method to get card and PIN. Maybe she bought the ATM in the show simply because it's more trouble to have a bank to agree on breaking one of their ATMS.
Not mean to be picky, but that is one screwed up command...
Does 95% of that go to Novell?