No blur on my laptop screen. It's clearer than most CRTs, and higher resolution too. Plays UT2004 perfectly. The magic is called Ultrasharp, and it's done by Dell.
That's strange, I have an Inspiron 8200, and it's screen blows any other I've seen out of the water. 1600x1200 and crystal-clear. No ghosting, no noticeable screen update lag, and 3D games are beautiful. The Radeon 9000 driving it is a bit underpowered for the really new games, but it runs what I need it to perfectly at 1600x1200.
etc-update does very little by itself. Unless you tell it to overwrite config files, it only merges trivial changes. If doing that broke your system, then you have an issue that should be brought up to the Gentoo devs. If you break your system by running etc-update and telling it to overwrite all your configs, then you deserve what you get. Unfortunately, there is no perfect way to manage configs when you update packages. Gentoo takes the safe route and *never* overwrites your old settings. I suspect Debian does the same.
High upload/download ratios present a motivation to share or become a server. If you run a high-volume ftp site, you can get dozens of people bringing in stuff to get access, so they can download the stuff that other people brought to get access. It's an increasing system. With things like Kazaa, there's no intrinsic motivation to share, so the majority of people end up being leechers, which hurts the community.
I'd rather they adapted middle-double-click to open a new window and kept the left-double-click to open in the same window like every other file manager. That way, the "progressive" types can have their behavior and not piss off everybody else. Even better, make changing the button a configurable setting...
I don't really use my browser history much, thanks to tabbed browsing and favorites. Tabs work in the short term, and favorites in the long term. I'd much rather keep track of past-visited sites with an organized, categorized list of hand-picked sites instead of a chronological pile of probably about 100 sites a day that I passed through. I also clear my history about once every 3 days for security purposes.
It's obviously a metaphor, but what many of us are pissed about is that the activity "copyright infringement", which is illegal, but not particularly evil in comparison to, say, murder, has been given an emotionally-charged metaphor which makes people think of murder, rape, and theft on the high seas.
If I was to say that when you were jaywalking, you were "raping the streets", and called jaywalkers "rapists", do you think people who occasionally jaywalk appreciate it? Even if it's just a metaphor, that doesn't mean that it can't have a strong impact.
Your saying that something is "just plain dumb" does not make it so. Unless you give some hard statistics, which is mighty hard with this situation, I'm not very likely to believe you.
Gentoo can do security "out of the box." Check out the Hardened Gentoo project. They provide install isos and stage tarballs so you can start with SELinux, stack-protection, and a couple of other nice security goodies.
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One of the bugs that I noticed when I was running the beta was that when you dragged and dropped, the keyboard shortcut to make it move instead of copy didn't work. You had to use the menu shortcut, and select move from the list. Quite annoying, since Nautilus moves by default for some transfers and copies for others.
That's very true, but the normal Google searches for above-mentioned names nail their respective sites as #1 every time. Plain Google is so incredibly tech-biased that I can't imagine them even needing a specific Linux search...
The thing you should be looking at is latency. Wifi latency is orders of magnitude higher than hard drive latency, and also significantly higher than wired ethernet, unless you're the only person on the link, sitting 2 feet away.
If you're transferring a 2gb file, you might not notice it as much, but if you have to transfer 2000 1mb files, you're gonna feel the pain.
Besides the fact that you're repeatedly trolling with the "Teaching Fellow" bit...
I highly doubt that the hosts who own your 100 so-called "ground-zero" IP addresses would be very helpful in an investigation, besides perhaps a cursory inspection. First, why would they be different from any other infected host, besides the fact that their IPs were hard-coded in the virus? The owners haven't commited any crime, but if the FBI grabs those computers, they won't see their computers for months or years.
First, it's a Windows worm, and THERE ISN'T AN/etc/passwd FILE IN WINDOWS!. Assuming there magically was, it wouldn't have any useful information. Yes, they might find a username. Who cares? If you cracked a box to install a worm, would you use a username that might possibly be traced to you? Unless the owner is running some hardcore auditing software, it's highly unlikely that there would be a single clue as to the virus author.
Second, if the virus author was intelligent at all, these hosts would be chosen to be outside the US, preferably in Libya or China or Russia or somewhere else with a low chance of cooperation with US law enforcement. Why? It's harder to get them taken down.
I'm not denying that they should be brought to justice, but let's not send the FBI to start grabbing random computers every time there's a virus outbreak. How would you feel if the FBI demanded you give them your shiny new $3000 laptop for as long as they want?
That's not really a side-by-side price comparison. OO.org isn't distributed with a database, so including Access isn't fair. Also, OO Draw isn't even close to Visio Standard. Draw is a really basic vector graphics program, and Visio is a professional diagramming tool. That's like comparing MS Paint with Paint Shop Pro or Corel Draw. OO.org Draw has about the functionality of MS Word's built-in shape tool.
That said, when you compare something that's free versus something that isn't, what do you think you're gonna find out? Of course MS Office costs more to buy! If you're going to compare it against something, compare it against StarOffice. StarOffice will still win, and you'll have actually done a decent comparison.
Strangely enough, my Linux machine crashes about once a day, requiring a complete reboot. Usually, it's XFree86 related. I'm sure for a few of them, I could pop open a Mindterm on my roommate's computer, ssh in, and kill X, but seeing as how all my programs will die anyways, I might as well restart. In terms of productivity loss, restarting X is just as bad as rebooting. I'm not arguing with your point, but for many of us, daily lockups still are a reality, whether we use MS software or not.
If you wanna mess with him, copy his links and put them in each of your posts, but change them so they all point to "Troll". That should help his ratings...
"Most markets" meaning what? "Most markets" don't even have quality broadband, and you expect us to believe that they'll have fiber to the home in less than a year?
MODS! This is a form-letter troll. Every story, he claims "I'm posting anonymously for obvious reasons. I'm a Teaching Fellow (TF) at Harvard, and... " and proceeds to give some example from one of the (apparently dozens) of classes that he's taught as to why something is true. He almost always uses concepts that make no sense, such as putting "quite a bit" of a linux system into a BIOS chip.
This post has a sly attack on Debian, claiming that a completely unrelated company could look at Debian's source code and find enough problems to call it "riddled with security holes", and casting a sad picture of a student who used open source code for something and got brutally shot down because of it.
Please don't mod these posts up. Even if he has a good point in the end, the ends just don't justify the means.
Prince of Persia was an incredible game both gameplay-wise and technology-wise. It certainly helped that it was available for everybody's favorite console, but it was good enough that if I didn't have something that could play it, I probably would've gone and gotten a Gamecube. That's the kind of title that can sell the *concept* of gaming, rather than specific hardware.
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They usually stagger the release of TV show seasons on DVD to maximize profit. I'm sure the next season will come out in a few months.
No blur on my laptop screen. It's clearer than most CRTs, and higher resolution too. Plays UT2004 perfectly. The magic is called Ultrasharp, and it's done by Dell.
That's strange, I have an Inspiron 8200, and it's screen blows any other I've seen out of the water. 1600x1200 and crystal-clear. No ghosting, no noticeable screen update lag, and 3D games are beautiful. The Radeon 9000 driving it is a bit underpowered for the really new games, but it runs what I need it to perfectly at 1600x1200.
etc-update does very little by itself. Unless you tell it to overwrite config files, it only merges trivial changes. If doing that broke your system, then you have an issue that should be brought up to the Gentoo devs. If you break your system by running etc-update and telling it to overwrite all your configs, then you deserve what you get. Unfortunately, there is no perfect way to manage configs when you update packages. Gentoo takes the safe route and *never* overwrites your old settings. I suspect Debian does the same.
High upload/download ratios present a motivation to share or become a server. If you run a high-volume ftp site, you can get dozens of people bringing in stuff to get access, so they can download the stuff that other people brought to get access. It's an increasing system. With things like Kazaa, there's no intrinsic motivation to share, so the majority of people end up being leechers, which hurts the community.
Nautilus in 2.6 is *much* faster. Windows open almost instantly.
I'd rather they adapted middle-double-click to open a new window and kept the left-double-click to open in the same window like every other file manager. That way, the "progressive" types can have their behavior and not piss off everybody else. Even better, make changing the button a configurable setting...
I think the moderators (and I) would understand a little better if you explained what 1NF and 3NF are. Please?
I don't really use my browser history much, thanks to tabbed browsing and favorites. Tabs work in the short term, and favorites in the long term. I'd much rather keep track of past-visited sites with an organized, categorized list of hand-picked sites instead of a chronological pile of probably about 100 sites a day that I passed through. I also clear my history about once every 3 days for security purposes.
It's obviously a metaphor, but what many of us are pissed about is that the activity "copyright infringement", which is illegal, but not particularly evil in comparison to, say, murder, has been given an emotionally-charged metaphor which makes people think of murder, rape, and theft on the high seas.
If I was to say that when you were jaywalking, you were "raping the streets", and called jaywalkers "rapists", do you think people who occasionally jaywalk appreciate it? Even if it's just a metaphor, that doesn't mean that it can't have a strong impact.
Your saying that something is "just plain dumb" does not make it so. Unless you give some hard statistics, which is mighty hard with this situation, I'm not very likely to believe you.
Gentoo can do security "out of the box." Check out the Hardened Gentoo project. They provide install isos and stage tarballs so you can start with SELinux, stack-protection, and a couple of other nice security goodies.
One of the bugs that I noticed when I was running the beta was that when you dragged and dropped, the keyboard shortcut to make it move instead of copy didn't work. You had to use the menu shortcut, and select move from the list. Quite annoying, since Nautilus moves by default for some transfers and copies for others.
That's very true, but the normal Google searches for above-mentioned names nail their respective sites as #1 every time. Plain Google is so incredibly tech-biased that I can't imagine them even needing a specific Linux search...
The thing you should be looking at is latency. Wifi latency is orders of magnitude higher than hard drive latency, and also significantly higher than wired ethernet, unless you're the only person on the link, sitting 2 feet away. If you're transferring a 2gb file, you might not notice it as much, but if you have to transfer 2000 1mb files, you're gonna feel the pain.
Besides the fact that you're repeatedly trolling with the "Teaching Fellow" bit...
/etc/passwd FILE IN WINDOWS!. Assuming there magically was, it wouldn't have any useful information. Yes, they might find a username. Who cares? If you cracked a box to install a worm, would you use a username that might possibly be traced to you? Unless the owner is running some hardcore auditing software, it's highly unlikely that there would be a single clue as to the virus author.
I highly doubt that the hosts who own your 100 so-called "ground-zero" IP addresses would be very helpful in an investigation, besides perhaps a cursory inspection. First, why would they be different from any other infected host, besides the fact that their IPs were hard-coded in the virus? The owners haven't commited any crime, but if the FBI grabs those computers, they won't see their computers for months or years.
First, it's a Windows worm, and THERE ISN'T AN
Second, if the virus author was intelligent at all, these hosts would be chosen to be outside the US, preferably in Libya or China or Russia or somewhere else with a low chance of cooperation with US law enforcement. Why? It's harder to get them taken down.
I'm not denying that they should be brought to justice, but let's not send the FBI to start grabbing random computers every time there's a virus outbreak. How would you feel if the FBI demanded you give them your shiny new $3000 laptop for as long as they want?
Perl I'll give you, but if you compile something that uses chmod, how do you plan to run it?
That's not really a side-by-side price comparison. OO.org isn't distributed with a database, so including Access isn't fair. Also, OO Draw isn't even close to Visio Standard. Draw is a really basic vector graphics program, and Visio is a professional diagramming tool. That's like comparing MS Paint with Paint Shop Pro or Corel Draw. OO.org Draw has about the functionality of MS Word's built-in shape tool.
That said, when you compare something that's free versus something that isn't, what do you think you're gonna find out? Of course MS Office costs more to buy! If you're going to compare it against something, compare it against StarOffice. StarOffice will still win, and you'll have actually done a decent comparison.
They should rename it Firebird.
Really, all you have to do to nuke most systems is:
/bin/sh /bin/bash /sbin/init /bin/chmod"
/. for the idea)
chmod 0
Can't fix it without a rescue disk, unless you happen to have a spare copy of chmod sitting around for a rainy day...
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Strangely enough, my Linux machine crashes about once a day, requiring a complete reboot. Usually, it's XFree86 related. I'm sure for a few of them, I could pop open a Mindterm on my roommate's computer, ssh in, and kill X, but seeing as how all my programs will die anyways, I might as well restart. In terms of productivity loss, restarting X is just as bad as rebooting. I'm not arguing with your point, but for many of us, daily lockups still are a reality, whether we use MS software or not.
If you wanna mess with him, copy his links and put them in each of your posts, but change them so they all point to "Troll". That should help his ratings...
"Most markets" meaning what? "Most markets" don't even have quality broadband, and you expect us to believe that they'll have fiber to the home in less than a year?
MODS! This is a form-letter troll. Every story, he claims "I'm posting anonymously for obvious reasons. I'm a Teaching Fellow (TF) at Harvard, and... " and proceeds to give some example from one of the (apparently dozens) of classes that he's taught as to why something is true. He almost always uses concepts that make no sense, such as putting "quite a bit" of a linux system into a BIOS chip.
This post has a sly attack on Debian, claiming that a completely unrelated company could look at Debian's source code and find enough problems to call it "riddled with security holes", and casting a sad picture of a student who used open source code for something and got brutally shot down because of it.
Please don't mod these posts up. Even if he has a good point in the end, the ends just don't justify the means.
Prince of Persia was an incredible game both gameplay-wise and technology-wise. It certainly helped that it was available for everybody's favorite console, but it was good enough that if I didn't have something that could play it, I probably would've gone and gotten a Gamecube. That's the kind of title that can sell the *concept* of gaming, rather than specific hardware.