On Debian, setting up an encrypted root filesystem is not difficult at all. Install cryptsetup and have a look in/usr/share/doc/cryptsetup/CryptoRoot.HowTo -- with a Debian 2.6.12+ kernel and yaird it's practically automatic.
(...yeah, there was that nasty bug in yaird a couple of weeks ago but it's been marked 'done':-)
Keep in mind folks that even as closed as M$'s software is, there are a ton of security issues. Now force them to open things up and what do you think you will get? A global nightmare. An the, "well, guess you shouldn't use such a flawed system" excuse from other OS zelots isn't going to cut it. Like it or not, you will be affected. What do you think your banks use, the transit systems, governments and so on. Like it or not, the world mostly runs on M$. Untill that changes, no one is exempt.
I'd be happy to wait out a few months of Pure Computing Chaos if it means we finally get to take out the fucking trash.
What I'd like to ask slashdot readers is for a good way to measure drive quality other than throwing down chicken bones and looking at them or reading tea leaves?
I think the real question here is: did Seagate buy Maxtor for
$1,900,000,000 . . . or for $2,040,109,465??
This is where we all cheer, because the DMCA is being used appropriately.
No.
Selling 77 unauthorized copies of software was illegal before the DMCA.
The only time we cheer for the DMCA is when we actually come to believe that it should be illegal to break encryption that was specifically designed to deprive honest customers of their fair use rights.
It wasn't the plan; it was the execution. Set the new Battlestar Galactica series alongside Firefly: Ronald D. Moore and Joss Whedon each set out to make a gritty, modern sci-fi series, keeping a lot of things from the audience and revealing them over time. Hell, they even used the same effects shop (Zoic)...
The processor architecture has next to nothing to do with the decision to support OS X. It's the APIs that are different, and switching to Intel processors won't change those APIs. Once you've built support for Carbon or Cocoa (or whatever it's called), the change in CPU architecture is just a matter of telling GCC which target to use.
Most cities are already moving to LED-based traffic lights. Solar panels consume large amounts of energy to produce and have the downside of generating a lot of harmful industrial waste. This wouldn't waste burn any more fossil fuels than are already being burnt. If it does produce enough for traffic lights to become self-sufficient, then I think this is a great idea.
Actually, in command economies, organized crime tends to be the driving force behind the so-called "grey market" that operates a layer of competition and free exchange atop the withering state economy.
Hey man, your best buys are always at Fry's. I am thankful that I have an underpaid job putting out fires in an academic library's server room, though -- working at fry's would probably turn me into a jumper.
incidentally, i did buy a usb floppy drive and a pack of blanks (i got the fuji "cool colors" dual density, preformatted!;-), so i can make install images for my ancient dell laptop, which was previously running OS/2 Warp for DOS gaming.
I don't know. Honestly, I'm not too interested in Windows Tricks & Tips anymore. I didn't have that machine for too long. I gave it back to desktop support and pulled an old 700MHz P3 off the discard pile and stuck Debian on it. Smooth sailing ever since.
TV series on DVD have already shown us that pricing of shows on disc has nothing to do with the cost of making copies. Even assuming that they are encoded at the same bitrates we see today, making it possible to cram whole seasons onto 1 or 2 discs, pricing will not change and people will not be flocking to a new format that costs the same -- or, more realistically, costs even more.
The last time I let Windows XP SP2 find 20,000 MP3's and put them in that search results box, the system churned for 80 minutes and then locked up without so much as a blue screen. Since it was a dual-processor P4 with 2GB of memory, I assumed it had to be an OS problem. So, I re-imaged the machine and applied the latest patches again. Send the Windows file search tool on its merry way, and sure enough, it churned for 80 minutes and then died.
This time, I rebooted it, installed cygwin, used find(1) to move the files, and went to lunch. When I got back it was done.
This trumped-up format war is going to be dead on arrival -- because 90% of U.S. televisions won't be anywhere near an HDTV signal until 2015. It's going to be DVD right up to the holocubes.
Everyone, please stop pasting links to sketchy internet rags. We don't need to have a crap-for-sources fight over whether Bush said this sentence in order to form intelligent opinions about the two-party system.
I don't think you understand. Something is very wrong with the keyboard focus code. Particularly now that it's clear that F8 and ctrl+L are handled by different segments of the spaghetti.
set google as your homepage.
exit and then load opera.
press ctrl+L (nothing happens)
press tab, and then press ctrl+L again (cursor moves)
Of course, this is just an example. Practically every common browser operation under Opera has some kind of "cheap feel" idiosyncrisy that undermines what little confidence I had in a closed-source web browser.
Not to mention its default behavior is to violate the HTTP protocol's specified caching behavior. and so on...
But like I said, hey, if it works for you... whatever.
As soon as I can set Google as my homepage, and then hit ctrl+L to go to the location bar without first tabbing out of the input field, I'll start giving more credence to these clean code claims. To me, it feels like the keyboard focus code is in the same league as MSIE's mimetype handling. But hey, if it works for you...
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I'm curious. How can you know whether the code is clean, if it's closed source?
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I'd call it a square deal.
Are you insane?
sure they do.
(...yeah, there was that nasty bug in yaird a couple of weeks ago but it's been marked 'done' :-)
If Mac OS X is a BSD, then it's the only one without a /proc filesystem.
I'd be happy to wait out a few months of Pure Computing Chaos if it means we finally get to take out the fucking trash.
I think the real question here is: did Seagate buy Maxtor for $1,900,000,000 . . . or for $2,040,109,465??
No.
Selling 77 unauthorized copies of software was illegal before the DMCA.
The only time we cheer for the DMCA is when we actually come to believe that it should be illegal to break encryption that was specifically designed to deprive honest customers of their fair use rights.
Huh? What the hell are you on? I think it's time I introduced you to a sci-fi classic known as "Homeboys in Outer Space".
Moore's just a lot better at it.
The processor architecture has next to nothing to do with the decision to support OS X. It's the APIs that are different, and switching to Intel processors won't change those APIs. Once you've built support for Carbon or Cocoa (or whatever it's called), the change in CPU architecture is just a matter of telling GCC which target to use.
or, perhaps more appropriately for GAIM, the GNOME Keyring.
Most cities are already moving to LED-based traffic lights. Solar panels consume large amounts of energy to produce and have the downside of generating a lot of harmful industrial waste. This wouldn't waste burn any more fossil fuels than are already being burnt. If it does produce enough for traffic lights to become self-sufficient, then I think this is a great idea.
Actually, in command economies, organized crime tends to be the driving force behind the so-called "grey market" that operates a layer of competition and free exchange atop the withering state economy.
incidentally, i did buy a usb floppy drive and a pack of blanks (i got the fuji "cool colors" dual density, preformatted! ;-), so i can make install images for my ancient dell laptop, which was previously running OS/2 Warp for DOS gaming.
I don't know. Honestly, I'm not too interested in Windows Tricks & Tips anymore. I didn't have that machine for too long. I gave it back to desktop support and pulled an old 700MHz P3 off the discard pile and stuck Debian on it. Smooth sailing ever since.
TV series on DVD have already shown us that pricing of shows on disc has nothing to do with the cost of making copies. Even assuming that they are encoded at the same bitrates we see today, making it possible to cram whole seasons onto 1 or 2 discs, pricing will not change and people will not be flocking to a new format that costs the same -- or, more realistically, costs even more.
I saw floppy drives at Fry's yesterday.
This time, I rebooted it, installed cygwin, used find(1) to move the files, and went to lunch. When I got back it was done.
This trumped-up format war is going to be dead on arrival -- because 90% of U.S. televisions won't be anywhere near an HDTV signal until 2015. It's going to be DVD right up to the holocubes.
I'd be pretty amazed if Republicans or Democrats had concerns of conscience about anything.
Everyone, please stop pasting links to sketchy internet rags. We don't need to have a crap-for-sources fight over whether Bush said this sentence in order to form intelligent opinions about the two-party system.
Of course, this is just an example. Practically every common browser operation under Opera has some kind of "cheap feel" idiosyncrisy that undermines what little confidence I had in a closed-source web browser.
Not to mention its default behavior is to violate the HTTP protocol's specified caching behavior. and so on...
But like I said, hey, if it works for you... whatever.
As soon as I can set Google as my homepage, and then hit ctrl+L to go to the location bar without first tabbing out of the input field, I'll start giving more credence to these clean code claims. To me, it feels like the keyboard focus code is in the same league as MSIE's mimetype handling. But hey, if it works for you...
I'm curious. How can you know whether the code is clean, if it's closed source?