Please... I have only been using Gnome 3 shell for a few months after years and years and years of using Windows. There is no question, when I go back to Windows, it feels old, clunky and slow to me.
My dad is a programmer and my mom only uses a browser. But, no one that either of them talk to use Linux. Figuring out how to do stuff requires googling because no one they know (besides me) would have any ideas.
Really? My mom is a 70-year-old grandma and she picked up Fedora 15 on Gnome 3 with no hassle. She got about 20 minutes of training. The only support she has called me for was to help deal with the crappy Comcast webmail interface.
Its not fragmented because we have the option of [Windows PC] or [Mac].
Its fragemented because we have the option of a [few Mac Models] or hundreds of different [Windows PC Configurations].
I know what a new [Mac Computer] does. Pretty much every one on the planet does actually.
What are the tech specs on a 'new [Windows Computer]'... you can't tell me. Well you could, but then I could show you a device that is entirely different than what you describe and is still a 'new [Windows Computer]'.
[OS X] covers [A few dozen models], slight yearly upgrades have been made.
[Windows] covers... well, anything. Hundreds of completely different hardware models of [Computers], tens of completely different tablets, and hell, even some TVs!
Only on price though. Android runs terribly on low end smartphones
I don't know about that. I have a Samsung Dart, which is pretty low-end, and it works fine with Android 2.3. I like it because it is small, thin, and inexpensive ($130 with no contract). It does not run everything. Flash player, for example, is not available from the Android market for this phone, presumably because it is not powerful enough to run it. I don't mind, I have other toys for watching video.
My brother-in-law has a much more sophisticated Android phone that "does everything" including 3D video and 4G. It also has an enormous form-factor and price, both similar to the iPhone.
I guess you could say that this is fragmentation, but to me it feels like consumer choice.
should a music company have the right to have a news podcast removed on copyright grounds, when it's not even clear that said company has had any copyrights violated?
Should they? No. But the DMCA gives them the right (or at least the ability) to do so. It gives it to you, too. My understanding is that anyone can file a DMCA takedown notice.
I have often wondered what would happen if people started filing DMCA takedown notices by the millions on major websites against the big content producers. There doesn't seem to be any penalty for filing bogus notices.
My experience with python-based frameworks is that they tend to help at the beginning and get in the way when you want to do something that is outside what they do easily. Here's what I have learned:
1. If your developers have access to the file system, then stay away from anything that tries to be a content
management system (I'm looking at you, Zope). 2. Think hard about how user permissions will be handled, because if you screw it up it will make debugging and
security a nightmare. 3. Debugging is harder with web-based development than with desktop development. Make sure your framework
has great debugging tools which (for python development) means:
a. The stack traceback is readily available and
b. The framework doesn't try to catch and handle everything. If it does you will find that your error
messages are raised no where near where the actual problem lies and you will have a terrible time finding them. 4. Maybe skip the framework altogether and instead use individual tools. I use:
- webpy for the dispatcher
- Tryton (with Proteus) for handling the database (This allows me to quickly assemble the "administration"
portion of the application in Tryton instead of building a web front-end)
- genshi for templating
- formencode for validation/user error messages
- pyjamas plus YappyCat for AJAX.
Is it sad that everything I have learned about using frameworks can be boiled down to a short slashdot post?
But according to how this exploit works they are not "completely different". They, in fact, have a small overlap. Apparently the exploit works by using JavaScript to load a file from a website and see how fast it loads. It infers you have been to a website if the file loads quickly.
They seem to have a trick to stop the process just before the browser puts the loaded file into the cache which prevents it from poisoning the very cache it is "testing".
Thus, setting cache to 0, which the OP recommends, and which I have been doing for years, is exactly the fix needed. I admit that I do not know he also disables history, as that would not help with this exploit.
for key,msg in orig_mb.iteritems():
new_msg = mboxMessage()
payload = msg.get_payload()
if msg.is_mulltipart():
payload = payload[0].get_payload()
for header in msg.keys():
new_msg[header] = msg[header]
new_msg.set_payload(payload)
new_mb.add(new_msg) new_mb.flush()
I worked as a self-employed programmer, computer consultant, and network administrator from 1992 - 2008 when I sold the business. I wasn't even incorporated until 2000. I have never heard of this alleged law and I note that the article does not cite it by statute number and does not describe it except in the vaguest of terms.
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Every time you touch that search button on your Android phone it makes Google very happy.
Sun had no similar way to derive value directly from Java
So when someone gets around to inventing warp drive, their patent should be denied because Star Trek, along with every other sci-fi show, did it first?
Apple didn't patent the implementation of translating the gestures, they patented the gestures themselves! This is like patenting the idea of faster than light travel rather then the method of doing it.
It's hard to remember back to before the iPhone existed...
It's not hard for me to remember watching "Minority Report" in 2002 which demonstrated every gesture in this patent. And as part of a user interface, no less.
Sadly, you'd be just like you are now. Ignoring (or undervaluing) the fact that you've got access to explore strange words that people 500 years ago could only dream about.
It's a little bit more, they do apparently have some sort of proprietary Commodore OS that you can use. Not sure what they mean by that, if it's the old one or one that's been designed to be compatible with the original ones. Screen shot at the bottom of the page.
I don't see how this is bad for B&N. Unless the hack destroys the DRM of the books, anything that will increase sales of the nook will keep B&N one extra step from bankruptcy.
You can install the Kindle app on a rooted Nook Color.
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Please... I have only been using Gnome 3 shell for a few months after years and years and years of using Windows. There is no question, when I go back to Windows, it feels old, clunky and slow to me.
My dad is a programmer and my mom only uses a browser. But, no one that either of them talk to use Linux. Figuring out how to do stuff requires googling because no one they know (besides me) would have any ideas.
Really? My mom is a 70-year-old grandma and she picked up Fedora 15 on Gnome 3 with no hassle. She got about 20 minutes of training. The only support she has called me for was to help deal with the crappy Comcast webmail interface.
And this post is no way correct or insightful.
Its not fragmented because we have the option of [Windows PC] or [Mac].
Its fragemented because we have the option of a [few Mac Models] or hundreds of different [Windows PC Configurations].
I know what a new [Mac Computer] does. Pretty much every one on the planet does actually.
What are the tech specs on a 'new [Windows Computer]' ... you can't tell me. Well you could, but then I could show you a device that is entirely different than what you describe and is still a 'new [Windows Computer]'.
[OS X] covers [A few dozen models], slight yearly upgrades have been made.
[Windows] covers ... well, anything. Hundreds of completely different hardware models of [Computers], tens of completely different tablets, and hell, even some TVs!
Only on price though. Android runs terribly on low end smartphones
I don't know about that. I have a Samsung Dart, which is pretty low-end, and it works fine with Android 2.3. I like it because it is small, thin, and inexpensive ($130 with no contract). It does not run everything. Flash player, for example, is not available from the Android market for this phone, presumably because it is not powerful enough to run it. I don't mind, I have other toys for watching video.
My brother-in-law has a much more sophisticated Android phone that "does everything" including 3D video and 4G. It also has an enormous form-factor and price, both similar to the iPhone.
I guess you could say that this is fragmentation, but to me it feels like consumer choice.
should a music company have the right to have a news podcast removed on copyright grounds, when it's not even clear that said company has had any copyrights violated?
Should they? No. But the DMCA gives them the right (or at least the ability) to do so. It gives it to you, too. My understanding is that anyone can file a DMCA takedown notice.
I have often wondered what would happen if people started filing DMCA takedown notices by the millions on major websites against the big content producers. There doesn't seem to be any penalty for filing bogus notices.
Sorry, I meant GP.
My experience with python-based frameworks is that they tend to help at the beginning and get in the way when you want to do something that is outside what they do easily. Here's what I have learned:
1. If your developers have access to the file system, then stay away from anything that tries to be a content
management system (I'm looking at you, Zope).
2. Think hard about how user permissions will be handled, because if you screw it up it will make debugging and
security a nightmare.
3. Debugging is harder with web-based development than with desktop development. Make sure your framework
has great debugging tools which (for python development) means:
a. The stack traceback is readily available and
b. The framework doesn't try to catch and handle everything. If it does you will find that your error
messages are raised no where near where the actual problem lies and you will have a terrible time finding them.
4. Maybe skip the framework altogether and instead use individual tools. I use:
- webpy for the dispatcher
- Tryton (with Proteus) for handling the database (This allows me to quickly assemble the "administration"
portion of the application in Tryton instead of building a web front-end)
- genshi for templating
- formencode for validation/user error messages
- pyjamas plus YappyCat for AJAX.
Is it sad that everything I have learned about using frameworks can be boiled down to a
short slashdot post?
But according to how this exploit works they are not "completely different". They, in fact, have a small overlap. Apparently the exploit works by using JavaScript to load a file from a website and see how fast it loads. It infers you have been to a website if the file loads quickly.
They seem to have a trick to stop the process just before the browser puts the loaded file into the cache which prevents it from poisoning the very cache it is "testing".
Thus, setting cache to 0, which the OP recommends, and which I have been doing for years, is exactly the fix needed. I admit that I do not know he also disables history, as that would not help with this exploit.
This script throws the attachments away which is what was requested. Saving them is a little more complicated.
We all think you're crazy, but here it is:
#!/bin/env python
from mailbox import mbox, mboxMessage
orig_mb = mbox(path/ot/orig/mbox)
new_mb = mbox(path/to/new/mbox)
for key,msg in orig_mb.iteritems():
new_msg = mboxMessage()
payload = msg.get_payload()
if msg.is_mulltipart():
payload = payload[0].get_payload()
for header in msg.keys():
new_msg[header] = msg[header]
new_msg.set_payload(payload)
new_mb.add(new_msg)
new_mb.flush()
It's almost like there are people reading the article before they post! That way lies madness!!
If they travel FTL the whole way, yes.
How did you find out about that movie?
This. I buy my phone lines for $2.50 a number per month and can add and drop them anytime.
I worked as a self-employed programmer, computer consultant, and network administrator from 1992 - 2008 when I sold the business. I wasn't even incorporated until 2000. I have never heard of this alleged law and I note that the article does not cite it by statute number and does not describe it except in the vaguest of terms.
Every time you touch that search button on your Android phone it makes Google very happy. Sun had no similar way to derive value directly from Java
Got it! Thanks!
I too would like an invite. My Google username is the same as my Slashdot username. Thanks in advance!
The interesting question is how did they get this virtuous cycle started and how could another company do something similar?
So when someone gets around to inventing warp drive, their patent should be denied because Star Trek, along with every other sci-fi show, did it first?
Apple didn't patent the implementation of translating the gestures, they patented the gestures themselves! This is like patenting the idea of faster than light travel rather then the method of doing it.
It's hard to remember back to before the iPhone existed...
It's not hard for me to remember watching "Minority Report" in 2002 which demonstrated every gesture in this patent. And as part of a user interface, no less.
Sadly, you'd be just like you are now. Ignoring (or undervaluing) the fact that you've got access to explore strange words that people 500 years ago could only dream about.
Like "blogging", "twitter" and "app"
It's a little bit more, they do apparently have some sort of proprietary Commodore OS that you can use. Not sure what they mean by that, if it's the old one or one that's been designed to be compatible with the original ones. Screen shot at the bottom of the page.
It's Linux. Read the description.
http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_OS.aspx
And for those of you pining for an Amiga look-alike, they have that too.
I don't see how this is bad for B&N. Unless the hack destroys the DRM of the books, anything that will increase sales of the nook will keep B&N one extra step from bankruptcy.
You can install the Kindle app on a rooted Nook Color.
It wasn't astonishing or an attempt to prove anything. It was an observation.