Yes, of course they do. Red Hat Enterprise has Red Hat Network, SUSE has YOU, and Fedora Core has GPG signed distro channels.
When I set up a system for a "non-technical user", I set up the patches to be automatic (they go through a rigorous QA assessment -- I've never seen a "bad" patch in a final version of Fedora Core). I also don't give the NTU the root password, or install development utils -- so there's no way this phish/trojan could affect one of the systems I administer.
A consortium of Canadian banks (BMO, CIBC, RBC, ScotiaBank, and TD) offer "email money transfers" through CertaPay. My wife and I use it for almost everything we used to do through PayPal because -- unlike PayPal -- it's free for both the sender and receiver (as long as you have a banking plan that gives you a number of free transactions per month).
Eventually I'll be able to do stuff like close out a X server session on one computer, move to another computer and re-open it. Thanks to improvements in X.org.
I already do this every day, using a SunRay. Thanks to X, of course, not X.org.
It's not that they don't do enough testing... it's that they can't. Proprietary software, with limited beta releases (even public betas) can never be tested as thuroughly as OSS.
Centrino-based ThinkPads have great battery lives... six hours and upwards, depending on usage patterns. The Centrino chipset makes a big difference in power consumption!
Standard Apple fan behavior. We tend to go nuts over any minor change (and most changes to Apple products *are* very minor over the life of a particular model). And why not? Why mess with perfection? By definition, any change (minor or not), is an improvement on perfection... logically impossible, but always big news.
The intentional one: Mr. Open, Computer Case meets Mr. Iron Filings. Hilarity Ensues.
The unintentional one: did you know that old Sun Gear will blow a fuse if you plug in a keyboard while the machine's powered? I didn't either 'til one day when the corporate e-mail server's keyboard stopped working... then, after I found a replacement keyboard, the whole damn server stopped working. Whoops.
So I downloaded F9/11. Big deal. I was also at the front of the line to buy tickets to go see it on Friday. Further, when (if Disney allows) it comes out on DVD, I will buy a copy. I will buy two, actually, and send the second one to my right-wing pro-Bush in-laws just to piss them off.
Just because I downloaded the movie (for fear that it wouldn't be shown in my small town (which it very nearly wasn't)), doesn't mean I deprived anyone of anything.
The 4K stacks thing is coming down the pipeline to be in the mainline kernel (see the appropriate mailing lists). RedHat is just being proactive by moving it into their production kernels early. Sure, it caused a little pain, but if they *hadn't* done it, people wouldn't have pestered nVidia to fix it and then when it *was* put into the mainline kernel, people would have freaked out and it would have taken nVidia an additional 3 months to make the update.
It's been out more than 24 hours -- they were released on June 30th and I haven't seen anyone on the Fedora lists complaining about stability (except for one guy who was using xawtv (which isn't shipped with FC2), and the documented incompatibility with the Riva module.
So far, it's been very stable for me. Nice to be back to a Twinview display!
We have an IBM authorized repair shop at work and our techs groan when they get a ThinkPad in to work on. Even for what you'd think would be a simple repair they sometimes have to strip the machine completely, and there are a million little bits and pieces. IBM is typically really good about easy-to-maintain designs so if a ThinkPad is that complex, I can only assume other company's laptops are as bad or worse.
I wouldn't trust anyone but an expert to hack at my laptop... it's way to important to my self-image:-)
There's a problem with the idea of them selling the AV software separately from Windows... they always claimed that they had to bundle IE because browsing the web was an integral part of the OS experience... well... when you're talking about Windows, having AV software & keeping it up to date is even MORE of an integral part of the experience than web browsing!
I have two 80GB drives, with/boot (100MB) and/home (40GB) mirrored, but the rest is / on one drive and/data on the other.
Basically, I'm more worried about keeping what's in/home than I am about full failover redundancy in the case of single-disk failure. Rebuilding the OS is a reasonably painless process but some of my data is irreplaceable (and backup CDs/DVDs are too easy to lose/break/corrupt/tempting to re-use)./data holds information I don't care about so much or that I can get back (like my ripped-from-CDs-I-own music).
If zero-downtime is a critical factor for you, you probably want to RAID-1 the whole disk (just remember to copy the MBR, too!)
Market research consistently shows that people who by cell phones want cell phones, not PDAs, and the fact that a phone may have PDA-like features isn't a consideration for them. Ditto digital music players. But people who buy PDAs now want those other features incorporated. They may still be primarily PDAs, but the added features (even if seldom used), are a draw for potential PDA buyers.
The problem lies in the essential contradiction between what makes a good phone (small, easy and fast to use, traditional key layout), what makes a good digital mustic player (small, dead-simple interface), and what makes a good PDA (light, good screen, touch-screen interface) -- there's no viable way to make a really satisfying device that covers all those things (the Treo 600 is slightly too large to be a good phone, and slightly too small to be a good PDA, and has poor battery life for a music player).
Most PDA users are sick of carrying three devices to cover those three basic needs... I know that I already dislike carrying a cell-phone and PDA, and refuse to get an iPod on the grounds that I already have enough to carry around (that and the fact they can't play Ogg/Vorbis...yet...). But the perfect device hasn't arrived... and when it does, it will be more PDA than phone or music player (at least for me).
And really, at some point, digital music players that can handle your contacts, or phones that you can read e-books on, become PDAs in the end.
"You are not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fuckin' khakis. You are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."...as you grow older, you'll realize you're not special, you're just smart, like a lot of other people. And you'll meet people a heck of a lot smarter than you. Smarts is not as important as wisdom, and neither is as important as a sense of perspective.
When my ISP (Aliant) started blocking port 25, it really screwed me up for a day or so (before I realized what was going on), but luckily my DNS registrar (EasyDNS) allowed me to be flexible and set my MX record to send mail to a different (unblocked) port.
As long as your registrar has a similar ability, you should be OK. They have a handy tutorial, which might prove helpful.
I've only recently used Firefox in OpenBSD and Solaris, and the profile manager was there, and annoying. It's good that it's being downplayed in recent builds 'tho.
I like Firefox just fine but it has one gigantic mis-feature that keeps me using Epiphany: profiles. I hate 'em. They really don't make much sense on a mutli-user OS anyway (individual user preferences are handled at that level, where they belong). Most of the time when you open up another instance of Mozilla/Firefox, all you *really* want is another window. It's high time they killed profiles!
I really hope GNOME sticks with Epiphany, or fixes Firefox's wart(s).
Well really, just about all browsers are "almost the exact same thing" when you consider what they're meant to do (browse the web, manage bookmarks). Like cars, the devil's in the details.
From a user's perspective, Firefox has a lot more menu items and options by default. This might seem like a minor thing (or a major thing if you're a control freak), but I find that those extra layers of menus get in the way of the effective use of the browser for browsing. Epiphany also has a very clean all-GTK+ interface that picks up the GNOME theme quite well. It feels very well integrated into the desktop environment whereas Firefox doesn't. Epiphany also has a speed and stability edge, at least in my experience.
As for the bookmarks, the approach is quite elegant. It has it's warts, but it's fast and easy to use, and the multiple-category concept makes a lot of sense to me. I'm not one for complex hierarchies.
On the Epiphany list, they're talking about various plugins for managing bookmarks, so eventually you'll be able to pick your favorite approach.
Firefox is almost too much browser. My personal favorite browser right now is Epiphany... clean and simple. Sure there's the occasional pet feature I'd like to see implemented, but that's where plugins come in. Keeping the core lean and trim is a good philosophy, IMHO.
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Yes, of course they do. Red Hat Enterprise has Red Hat Network, SUSE has YOU, and Fedora Core has GPG signed distro channels.
When I set up a system for a "non-technical user", I set up the patches to be automatic (they go through a rigorous QA assessment -- I've never seen a "bad" patch in a final version of Fedora Core). I also don't give the NTU the root password, or install development utils -- so there's no way this phish/trojan could affect one of the systems I administer.
A consortium of Canadian banks (BMO, CIBC, RBC, ScotiaBank, and TD) offer "email money transfers" through CertaPay. My wife and I use it for almost everything we used to do through PayPal because -- unlike PayPal -- it's free for both the sender and receiver (as long as you have a banking plan that gives you a number of free transactions per month).
Eventually I'll be able to do stuff like close out a X server session on one computer, move to another computer and re-open it. Thanks to improvements in X.org.
I already do this every day, using a SunRay. Thanks to X, of course, not X.org.
It's not that they don't do enough testing... it's that they can't. Proprietary software, with limited beta releases (even public betas) can never be tested as thuroughly as OSS.
Yeah... it's called "ThoughtCrime", though I suppose in this case it's "ThoughtCopyrightInfringement".
In the future, there will be a meter in your shower to detect singing, and you'll have to pay royalites when you get out.
Centrino-based ThinkPads have great battery lives... six hours and upwards, depending on usage patterns. The Centrino chipset makes a big difference in power consumption!
Standard Apple fan behavior. We tend to go nuts over any minor change (and most changes to Apple products *are* very minor over the life of a particular model). And why not? Why mess with perfection? By definition, any change (minor or not), is an improvement on perfection... logically impossible, but always big news.
The intentional one: Mr. Open, Computer Case meets Mr. Iron Filings. Hilarity Ensues.
The unintentional one: did you know that old Sun Gear will blow a fuse if you plug in a keyboard while the machine's powered? I didn't either 'til one day when the corporate e-mail server's keyboard stopped working... then, after I found a replacement keyboard, the whole damn server stopped working. Whoops.
So I downloaded F9/11. Big deal. I was also at the front of the line to buy tickets to go see it on Friday. Further, when (if Disney allows) it comes out on DVD, I will buy a copy. I will buy two, actually, and send the second one to my right-wing pro-Bush in-laws just to piss them off.
Just because I downloaded the movie (for fear that it wouldn't be shown in my small town (which it very nearly wasn't)), doesn't mean I deprived anyone of anything.
I use Java for Eclipse, so I can develop Perl in a nice IDE. That's just about it.
Jeez, get your facts straight.
The 4K stacks thing is coming down the pipeline to be in the mainline kernel (see the appropriate mailing lists). RedHat is just being proactive by moving it into their production kernels early. Sure, it caused a little pain, but if they *hadn't* done it, people wouldn't have pestered nVidia to fix it and then when it *was* put into the mainline kernel, people would have freaked out and it would have taken nVidia an additional 3 months to make the update.
It's been out more than 24 hours -- they were released on June 30th and I haven't seen anyone on the Fedora lists complaining about stability (except for one guy who was using xawtv (which isn't shipped with FC2), and the documented incompatibility with the Riva module.
So far, it's been very stable for me. Nice to be back to a Twinview display!
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We have an IBM authorized repair shop at work and our techs groan when they get a ThinkPad in to work on. Even for what you'd think would be a simple repair they sometimes have to strip the machine completely, and there are a million little bits and pieces. IBM is typically really good about easy-to-maintain designs so if a ThinkPad is that complex, I can only assume other company's laptops are as bad or worse.
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I wouldn't trust anyone but an expert to hack at my laptop... it's way to important to my self-image
There's a problem with the idea of them selling the AV software separately from Windows... they always claimed that they had to bundle IE because browsing the web was an integral part of the OS experience... well... when you're talking about Windows, having AV software & keeping it up to date is even MORE of an integral part of the experience than web browsing!
I have two 80GB drives, with /boot (100MB) and /home (40GB) mirrored, but the rest is / on one drive and /data on the other.
/home than I am about full failover redundancy in the case of single-disk failure. Rebuilding the OS is a reasonably painless process but some of my data is irreplaceable (and backup CDs/DVDs are too easy to lose/break/corrupt/tempting to re-use). /data holds information I don't care about so much or that I can get back (like my ripped-from-CDs-I-own music).
Basically, I'm more worried about keeping what's in
If zero-downtime is a critical factor for you, you probably want to RAID-1 the whole disk (just remember to copy the MBR, too!)
Yay! Another service my ISP can charge through the nose for! Pure profit, baby!
Market research consistently shows that people who by cell phones want cell phones, not PDAs, and the fact that a phone may have PDA-like features isn't a consideration for them. Ditto digital music players. But people who buy PDAs now want those other features incorporated. They may still be primarily PDAs, but the added features (even if seldom used), are a draw for potential PDA buyers.
The problem lies in the essential contradiction between what makes a good phone (small, easy and fast to use, traditional key layout), what makes a good digital mustic player (small, dead-simple interface), and what makes a good PDA (light, good screen, touch-screen interface) -- there's no viable way to make a really satisfying device that covers all those things (the Treo 600 is slightly too large to be a good phone, and slightly too small to be a good PDA, and has poor battery life for a music player).
Most PDA users are sick of carrying three devices to cover those three basic needs... I know that I already dislike carrying a cell-phone and PDA, and refuse to get an iPod on the grounds that I already have enough to carry around (that and the fact they can't play Ogg/Vorbis...yet...). But the perfect device hasn't arrived... and when it does, it will be more PDA than phone or music player (at least for me).
And really, at some point, digital music players that can handle your contacts, or phones that you can read e-books on, become PDAs in the end.
"You are not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fuckin' khakis. You are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world." ...as you grow older, you'll realize you're not special, you're just smart, like a lot of other people. And you'll meet people a heck of a lot smarter than you. Smarts is not as important as wisdom, and neither is as important as a sense of perspective.
When my ISP (Aliant) started blocking port 25, it really screwed me up for a day or so (before I realized what was going on), but luckily my DNS registrar (EasyDNS) allowed me to be flexible and set my MX record to send mail to a different (unblocked) port.
As long as your registrar has a similar ability, you should be OK. They have a handy tutorial, which might prove helpful.
...that even on a sunny Saturday afternoon, there are still tons of code jockeys stuck in front of their workstations.
I've only recently used Firefox in OpenBSD and Solaris, and the profile manager was there, and annoying. It's good that it's being downplayed in recent builds 'tho.
I like Firefox just fine but it has one gigantic mis-feature that keeps me using Epiphany: profiles. I hate 'em. They really don't make much sense on a mutli-user OS anyway (individual user preferences are handled at that level, where they belong). Most of the time when you open up another instance of Mozilla/Firefox, all you *really* want is another window. It's high time they killed profiles!
I really hope GNOME sticks with Epiphany, or fixes Firefox's wart(s).
Well really, just about all browsers are "almost the exact same thing" when you consider what they're meant to do (browse the web, manage bookmarks). Like cars, the devil's in the details.
From a user's perspective, Firefox has a lot more menu items and options by default. This might seem like a minor thing (or a major thing if you're a control freak), but I find that those extra layers of menus get in the way of the effective use of the browser for browsing. Epiphany also has a very clean all-GTK+ interface that picks up the GNOME theme quite well. It feels very well integrated into the desktop environment whereas Firefox doesn't. Epiphany also has a speed and stability edge, at least in my experience.
As for the bookmarks, the approach is quite elegant. It has it's warts, but it's fast and easy to use, and the multiple-category concept makes a lot of sense to me. I'm not one for complex hierarchies.
On the Epiphany list, they're talking about various plugins for managing bookmarks, so eventually you'll be able to pick your favorite approach.
Firefox is almost too much browser. My personal favorite browser right now is Epiphany... clean and simple. Sure there's the occasional pet feature I'd like to see implemented, but that's where plugins come in. Keeping the core lean and trim is a good philosophy, IMHO.