The new driver, introduced in 2.5.11, has some write code, but it's very limited. The driver can overwrite existing files, but it cannot change the length, add new or delete existing files.
Since this basically just uses wine to emulate the native windows drivers for ntfs, i don't find this a major brake-through. Allthough this will be extremely usefull for the people having to cope with ntfs, i'd rather wait until the kernel supports it fully (there's allready a "partial" driver in the kernel 2.6).
But personally, i just stick to FAT32. It's the most easy solution if you need a windoze just once in a whilep
In belgium we're not afraid of our national security institute. For example, they are allowed to tap mobile telephone connections, but they have no money to pay for the installation:)
First the Western coutries are compaining about all others doing unfair trade and not having an open market en promoting globalism so multinationals can flood their markets. And when they do, the start whining about outsourcement and the others being cheaper and successful
It allows you to learn things like this without finding out what the 'entire internet' is doing.
not only that, it allows compagnies to say whatever they want on a "scientific basis".
Saying "it is statistically proven that..." means as much as "i just took a shit in the bathroom". Doing good and reliable statistical research is very difficult, time consuming and costly. The average 'look i got some numbers too' statistics are most of the time very low quality and should be constidered very causiously. In the case of internet statistics (with packets wildly flowing around the globe) i think these rankings are worthless.
Acctually, i don't think this ultra-virulent form was created that 'accidentally'. It's a common practice in dna-modification research to simple fuck up a part of the dna of the bacterium and then look which one has the most peculiar change in its behaviour. Maybe the chance of creating a less virulent bacterium is even smaller than an ultra-virulent one. Nevertheless, in my opinion scientist will stumble on a lot more (and worse) of those freaking creatures of mankind.
well, maybe some sicko scientist somewhere down in a military basement accedently will create a non-virulent tuberculosis bacterium while trying to alter its genetic structure to make it hypervirulen.
The question is: will they publish it or just pile it up their large collection of other deadly virii?
This means that, here on Earth, they'll sometimes be working during daylight hours, and at other times they'll be working through the night.
Oh my! I 'm allready living in mars time!:)
The main difference between Microsoft and Open Source is that Microsoft needs its customers to buy their products. That is in Open Source hardly the case. As long as open source can count on a reliable group of supporters, development will still go on. In that way, open source doesn't need marketing the way Microsoft does. Marketing can only help open source to gain popularity, but their is no real profit attached to it.
Delivering a reliable, eye candy, popular desktop OS.
You can hardly call that the goal of linux. If you like such a os, well yeah, go ahead and buy MacOS. But to me MacOS is fucking bloated and expensive. I want an os to be configurable, stable and resource friendly. Linux has it's own goals and ideals and definately isn't a substitute for MacOS. It would be really stupid just to copy an existing OS.
first of all, they could have provided msn with a decent protocol.It needs 3 servers for god's sake.Part of their overload is their own fault.
second, as msn-messenger beeing part of winblows and thus used by virtually every nitwit user (like 90 % of their users), allmost everybody uses the msn-messenger. The third-party client have only a small share of the users. If there is an overload, you can't fully blame the third-party users, because they don't use a significant part of the broadband.
thirly, i guess that running zwindows servers causes an overload anyway:)
Wiehie!
Finally i got an excuse ignoring all those msn-bitches in my contact-list.
"Sorry, haven't got msn...., some other time maybe,"
Aah, internet will be so quit when msn has finally gone...
beer is healthy? Who the hell needs a reason like that? It's tasty and there's alcohol in it. All other arguments are redundant.
/me takes another drink of his fresh cold hoegaarden;)
Well yeah, if al lot of peole have to switch, isn't it normal dat the admins want to provide the best support for everybody. Converting every program and file to OO-alikes isn-t a simple thing and not everything program in windows has a OO-variant. Thing about how you struggled to switch to linux. If VMware makes there job easier. yeah, whatever.
Besides, what if VMware is just an option in the full installation? I think the admins really just want a good installation instead of trying to block MS-crap...
Well, even if they could manage the information, they still wouldn't be able to handle the power that comes with it. "Use te information to protect the citizens"? That sounds an awfully broad concept. Think about the binifits of silently eleminating political (or social) opponents. Were would democracy be? Think about the profit of selling private information about foreign compagnies to the american big bussiness. Or corrupt politicians stealing whatever information they can use. Where would humanity be? Where's the border between 'securing the country' and 'securing the regime'? Where's the border between 'defending people' and 'defending powerful people'? Where's the border between 'enforcing the country' and 'gaining power'?
Doesn't he realize that we are on the same side?
I do not agree.
Without Microsoft, Macintosh would have got the monopoly. And that won't be a better situation. Computers would cost more, and Macintosh would not only controll the softwaremarket, but the hardwaremarked too.
Well, Linux will certainly not push apple aside. Macintosh has a great product. But the price is what most people keep from buying one.
Linux (and opensource in particular) can become a true competitor to microsoft. Unlike Microsoft and Macintosh, it is less independent to the global economy. Large compagnies allready consider switching to linux, because of the cost of licences and support. If linux can be developed to a powerfull yet usefull OS, Microsoft can truely fear it's progress.
Same here...
I really hate handwriting. the problem is, after typing half a year in qwerty and dvorak, I really have a hard time filling-in my examinations:(
Power to the keyboard!
Well, i don't think obscurity can really improve security. Most hackers find the information they need anyway. This is just an attempt of the software companies to cover up their lousy code.
If they would implement secure code in the first place, none of this would be nessecary.
Way to go closed source!
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These explorers will reveal once and for all that the B arc crashed on this planet and we are all ancestors of the Golgafinchan.
euhm, you forgot ASCII :)
The new driver, introduced in 2.5.11, has some write code, but it's very limited. The driver can overwrite existing files, but it cannot change the length, add new or delete existing files.
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#3 .2
But personally, i just stick to FAT32. It's the most easy solution if you need a windoze just once in a whilep
In belgium we're not afraid of our national security institute. For example, they are allowed to tap mobile telephone connections, but they have no money to pay for the installation :)
Where's the common sense in that?
not only that, it allows compagnies to say whatever they want on a "scientific basis".
Saying "it is statistically proven that..." means as much as "i just took a shit in the bathroom". Doing good and reliable statistical research is very difficult, time consuming and costly. The average 'look i got some numbers too' statistics are most of the time very low quality and should be constidered very causiously. In the case of internet statistics (with packets wildly flowing around the globe) i think these rankings are worthless.
Acctually, i don't think this ultra-virulent form was created that 'accidentally'. It's a common practice in dna-modification research to simple fuck up a part of the dna of the bacterium and then look which one has the most peculiar change in its behaviour. Maybe the chance of creating a less virulent bacterium is even smaller than an ultra-virulent one. Nevertheless, in my opinion scientist will stumble on a lot more (and worse) of those freaking creatures of mankind.
well, maybe some sicko scientist somewhere down in a military basement accedently will create a non-virulent tuberculosis bacterium while trying to alter its genetic structure to make it hypervirulen.
The question is: will they publish it or just pile it up their large collection of other deadly virii?
This means that, here on Earth, they'll sometimes be working during daylight hours, and at other times they'll be working through the night. :)
Oh my! I 'm allready living in mars time!
Robotwars get a whole new dimension here! :)
The main difference between Microsoft and Open Source is that Microsoft needs its customers to buy their products. That is in Open Source hardly the case. As long as open source can count on a reliable group of supporters, development will still go on. In that way, open source doesn't need marketing the way Microsoft does. Marketing can only help open source to gain popularity, but their is no real profit attached to it.
Delivering a reliable, eye candy, popular desktop OS.
You can hardly call that the goal of linux. If you like such a os, well yeah, go ahead and buy MacOS. But to me MacOS is fucking bloated and expensive. I want an os to be configurable, stable and resource friendly. Linux has it's own goals and ideals and definately isn't a substitute for MacOS. It would be really stupid just to copy an existing OS.
first of all, they could have provided msn with a decent protocol.It needs 3 servers for god's sake.Part of their overload is their own fault. second, as msn-messenger beeing part of winblows and thus used by virtually every nitwit user (like 90 % of their users), allmost everybody uses the msn-messenger. The third-party client have only a small share of the users. If there is an overload, you can't fully blame the third-party users, because they don't use a significant part of the broadband. thirly, i guess that running zwindows servers causes an overload anyway :)
Yeah, next they will be testing if an african swallow has the same echo as an european swallow ...
Wiehie! ...
Finally i got an excuse ignoring all those msn-bitches in my contact-list.
"Sorry, haven't got msn...., some other time maybe,"
Aah, internet will be so quit when msn has finally gone
Yeah, let's release language-dependent kernels! And while we're at it, why not release some useless service-packs?
beer is healthy? Who the hell needs a reason like that? It's tasty and there's alcohol in it. All other arguments are redundant.
/me takes another drink of his fresh cold hoegaarden ;)
Well yeah, if al lot of peole have to switch, isn't it normal dat the admins want to provide the best support for everybody. Converting every program and file to OO-alikes isn-t a simple thing and not everything program in windows has a OO-variant. Thing about how you struggled to switch to linux. If VMware makes there job easier. yeah, whatever.
Besides, what if VMware is just an option in the full installation? I think the admins really just want a good installation instead of trying to block MS-crap...
Well, even if they could manage the information, they still wouldn't be able to handle the power that comes with it. "Use te information to protect the citizens"? That sounds an awfully broad concept. Think about the binifits of silently eleminating political (or social) opponents. Were would democracy be? Think about the profit of selling private information about foreign compagnies to the american big bussiness. Or corrupt politicians stealing whatever information they can use. Where would humanity be? Where's the border between 'securing the country' and 'securing the regime'? Where's the border between 'defending people' and 'defending powerful people'? Where's the border between 'enforcing the country' and 'gaining power'?
It's a thin red line believe me!
Doesn't he realize that we are on the same side?
I do not agree.
Without Microsoft, Macintosh would have got the monopoly. And that won't be a better situation. Computers would cost more, and Macintosh would not only controll the softwaremarket, but the hardwaremarked too.
Well, Linux will certainly not push apple aside. Macintosh has a great product. But the price is what most people keep from buying one.
Linux (and opensource in particular) can become a true competitor to microsoft. Unlike Microsoft and Macintosh, it is less independent to the global economy. Large compagnies allready consider switching to linux, because of the cost of licences and support.
If linux can be developed to a powerfull yet usefull OS, Microsoft can truely fear it's progress.
Same here... I really hate handwriting. the problem is, after typing half a year in qwerty and dvorak, I really have a hard time filling-in my examinations :(
Power to the keyboard!
I don't quite call a 20 percent error area an accurate prediction... That's just luck :)
Well, i don't think obscurity can really improve security. Most hackers find the information they need anyway. This is just an attempt of the software companies to cover up their lousy code. If they would implement secure code in the first place, none of this would be nessecary. Way to go closed source!