You've got far bigger network security issues if I can just start randomly accessing files simply because I'm on your network, regardless of how I got on it. Regards, Steve
Interesting, I run Fedora and think the complete opposite. Fonts under my linux box and Mac look great compared to Windows, I run at pretty high resolutions so that may have an effect. Maybe you should try a different distro. Regards, Steve
With all due respect, Red Hat has been the largest kernel contributor for just under a decade now. They've been taking it in a good direction so far, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Despite all the nonsense slashdotters will say about Red Hat, Red Hat is one of the few distros that actually develops the software it ships rather than just repackaging other people's software. Look at Apache, the Kernel, Gnome, libc, the GNU compiler collection, openoffice, evince, totem, dbus, and most of the drivers you use in your system. The list could literally go on for ages. They also are a major reason why linux has an amazing record for getting patches out quickly for security fixes, alot of those fixes are coded by Red Hat develoeprs. Not to mention they gave Linus 10 million dollars in stock as a showing of gratitude to him. They are a good company, and some of the best kernel hackers are paid by them (including Alan Cox). Regards, Steve
Its been a bit since I was in highschool and had to get around filters, but the most sure fire way is to run an ssh server at home on a port that your school's firewall lets through (most let 22, but to be less suspicious choose like 25 or 443 or something) and then carry putty around on a pen drive. Whenever you need unrestricted access, pop open putty, connect to your server and create a dynamic tunnel, on that pen drive you can also have firefox and have a socks proxy set up to use port like 1080 or whatever port you choose for a dynamic proxy. There you go, unlimited, encrypted surfing all bypassing your school's filters and beening tunneled through your house. This all assumes that your school's firewall doesn't block based on protocol, but rather ports. Regards, Steve
If Microsoft took as much pride in their software as Google, it'd be a different story. This is their public release, sure it is beta, but it is really Microsoft saying "Look, this is the best we've got, we want you to see this, this is what we are, this is what we are going to be, now lets work out those last few bugs". Regards, Steve
Have you seen what they've done lately? Do you have any idea how complex what they are doing is? Do you see how far behind all the other space agencies are? Honest to god, your comment was the most ignorant comment I've ever read on slashdot, go read a book (or NASA'a website) and learn a thing or two. Regards, Steve
Considering that AOL has a patent on the instant message, they could blow all their competitors out of the water. Instead they seem to jsut hold on to it for leverage against other companies. Regards, Steve
The second your life is seriously impacted by one of these changes, then you can bitch. The truth is, most people's lives haven't changed one bit since 9/11 and people are just being paranoid. Half the stuff you take as conspiracy theories are just screw ups by those in charge, it happens, just as in any large organizations. The TSA needed test data, they weren't out to do shit with it, regardless the only thing they did wrong was forget to notify the proper agency which is very feasible considering the requirments the government puts in place. Regards, Steve
Granted I agree with your post, but in all honsety, a minor part of me always disagrees. On the one hand its like "Oh wow! I can get free stuff, that is kick ass", on the other hand its like "Well they probably should enforce copyrights, afterall these companies do pay alot of skilled people alot of money to make these movies, songs, games, etc... They aren't a necessity in my life so if I feel they are charging too much I just won't buy it. Who am I to think I have a right to see or hear what they've done just because they've done it." The older I get the more resonable that second oppinion seems to be. Let them enforce anything they want with copyright, no one says you must watch some movie, and if you think they are charging too much oh well, don't pay to see it. You see, they are enforcing it, but the choice is still entirley yours as you whether or not you want to view it. The only reason people are fighting this is because people want free stuff, well stop being so damn selfish, you aren't entitled to any of it. Regards, Steve
Try installing mac software on a windows computer... damn near the same thing you are talking about. If you pay for software and they don't provide a.deb or an installer they built then your platform isn't supported and you're lucky if you get it working. Same thing with OSS software. Check the software before you decide to use it, anything free you'll probably be able to get out of apt, anything else you'll only be able to be 100% confident that you can use it if it was designed for your platform. People tend to group linux all together when in reality each distro is more or less an independant platform with enough in common that you can typically move between them, but its never certain. Regards, Steve
Yea but what temp is the cabin? I just happened to have had to work on my A/C 2 days ago and got the cabin to a chilly 46.3 F . A/C systems tend to move at least 4 watts of heat for every 1 watt of energy put in, Peltier systems, even high end ones, would have trouble moving 1 watt of heat for every 3 watts of energy. The efficiency difference is ridiculous, your moving 4 times the heat at 1/3 the energy with modern A/C systems. No way is their system more efficient unless they are barely cooling or some other number fudging. Regards, Steve
The Deer Park Alphas currently start up about 7 times faster then current firefox builds for me, that in addition to the new update system only updating what needs to be updated, and then on top of that the new SVG support, 1.1 is goign to be kick ass. Of course there are many other enhancements as well, but these oens stick out to me. Regards, Steve
Red Hat does a lot of usability studies with Gnome. Geeks only share about 5% of the same needs ina gui as regular users do. KDE might be better suited for geeks, but Gnome is by far more usable on a much larger scale. Regards, Steve
I really didnt want to get into this, but what country are you from? Also, how many people from Iraq have you talked to, how do you know what they want, or did the media tell you what they wanted? You see, before this noone knew what the Iraqi people wanted because they weren't allowed to say what they wanted. Didn't the Europeans learn from the World Wars that if you sit around and wait for countries to get strong then it ends in a big mess. N. Korea, etc..., would all still be doing the same thing they are now, except now they have an excuse. If you think they started this within the past 5 years you're nuts, this stuff has been planned by N. Korea for nearly two decades. These countries want world domination, they think they are elite, they are the next Germany as it was under Hitler, but this time they seem to be willing to go even further. The other major governments of the world and their inability to act before things get out of hand continuously astounds me and shows their lack of foresight. You convince yourselves that if you just ignore the problem then it'll go away or that it'll stay contained within its country of origin. Then one day you have armies invading your neighboring countries. America is not starting senseless wars, there is a longterm strategy behind this. Appreciate it and get some perspective. Regards, Steve
The kill ratio is still estimated to be a lower minimum of 1 to 10,000 and an upper maximum much higher. The U.S. has also improved the life of the citizens despite what your local media venue would like to distort and tell you (anger, failure and depression sell, happiness and success does not, what you're being fed is distorted) Please state your country so I can be sure to try and avoid it all costs when they come running to America to be protected. I can't stand the penis envy some countries have. So friggin what, somebody needed to do something and no body had the balls to do it so America stood up and took care of business, get over it. The world is safer now, stop feeding into the media and stop being a tool (all the sudden its cool to hate America, when most of the countries bitching about us are only capable of bitching because we've bailed them out of some dumb ass situation they got themselves into). Regards, Steve Note: I work for a defense contractor and deal with officials from Iraq on a daily basis.
I hope when you said draw, you didn't mean draw with a pen or pencil kinda draw:) Anyway, I recommend he just grabs a gps receiver for laptops, a laptop with a car adapter, and the Pro version of Google Earth. Hook up your GPS receiver and just walk around the village, Google Earth will make the map for him and it has pretty high-def satellite images. If the village is so small that satellite images are not close enough, just use the software that came with the unit or one of the many open source GIS programs to automatically map it for you as you walk. I'd recommend using Google Earth though, as the map will read much better with terrain and semi-recent details of the village roads and trails. You'll also be able to tell if you've missed any big landmarks or anything. Regards, Steve
The U.N. is more or less a bunch of incompetent politicians, sure you can cite several successes of theirs, I can think of about 20. That totally disregards the many failures of the U.N. though, and their many inadequacies. Besides, the U.S. has not screwed up with the internet yet, don't fix it if it isn't broken. The last thing we need is the U.N. imposing all kinds of ridiculous taxes and regulations on it, while making things mandatory like monitoring what people do and don't do.
Whether or not you agree with what I've said thus far, the U.N. is corrupted as hell and by even suggesting actions such as this shows how far away from their original charter they've come. They are extending themselves too far and sticking their hands in places it doesn't belong and was never intended. They suffer many of the same problems NATO does, except worse because the UN is over 190 countries. Even today it is well known that UN peacekeepers tend to rape girls in Congo and that most of the U.N. decisions are decided solely by Arab states simply because they have so many members.
The internet is currently fine, sure there is a slight chance the U.N. might handle it okay, there is no chance that they'll handle it better then it is now (there is nothign wrong with it as it is), and there is quite a risk that they might ruin the whole thing, so why switch? Getting 190 countries to agree on something is not easy, its slow, the internet is not slow. How many countries do you think would want to start banning "XXX" and anything with sex in it? The risk of getting the U.N. involved is too high and until the U.S. shows otherwise there is no reason to take it away from them other then other countries being power hungry. Regards, Steve
With 3.6 Ghz, 2mb of cache , and a gig of ram? Damn it better run anything fast, even windows. (Note: as you can tell by my username, I pretty much solely run linux) Please let me know if specs like that wouldn't make Windows fast, I could go for a good laugh. Regards, Steve
Exactly! Why change what is best about linux simply because average users take longer to wrap their minds around it. Don't lower your standards for someone else, I think Linux is fine the way it is. It is desktop ready, but its also got a lot of power. If my girlfriend can use it than anyone can, they just have to be willing to try. If we dumb it down anymore we might as well wipe their asses too. But back to your orignal point, who the hell cares what Linux's market share is. Its not like Linus stays up at night thinking about mass appeal. This Asa person is comparing the installation of a single removable application to the addition of an operating system and an entire pardigm shift not just for one thing, but for everything. Web Broswers are fairly simple from a learning curve point of view, you enter url, click links, done. There is no comparison here. Regards, Steve
Moron, read. It was a window cover, to cover the window until the window no longer needed to be covered. It protected the glass from any possible scratches. It was plastic and foam and fell while the shuttle was stationary, not moving like Discovery. This was intended to come off. I've heard mixed reports, but it seems workers were around the area at the time (or recently beforehand) working on the area (possibly loosening the window covers in preparation for taking them off in the near future). The whole situation was realized and fixed within 3 hours. This is absolutely not a big deal, if something this size had hit the shuttle a few minutes after lift off and the shuttle had some velocity then itd be a different story. There were reports that they probably didn't have to do anything, but after discovery they aren't taking chances and noone wants the finger pointed at them if something does go wrong. As a result, any minor detail that might be slightly askew is to be fully replaced and tested. This isn't happening because of shoddy engineering, its happening because people are sick of playing th blame game at NASA. Regards, Steve
Well I guess I can forgive you because you don't live here, but Bush just set aside 1.5 billion to subsidise alternative fuels with a focus on hydrogen. Hydrogen stations aren't everywhere here but I've seen two, which is more then I've seen in any other country. Also, I live on the east coast and I know quite a few people I've talked to recently are interested in alternatives to energy sources(it seems the west coast is even more interested). Solar panels are getting cheap enough that people can start plopping one or two on their roofs, lowering their energy bills a bit and be profitable in a shorter period of time. Americans may be energy hogs, and alot of people drive SUVs that don't need to. But we are also a very energy aware nation and the fact that we use so much energy keeps a lot of money and research going into it. Yes, we use way more energy then is needed to survive, but why limit ourselves becuase of current technology when we can research and innovate into more efficient sources. Our very "greed" of energy is what is leading alternative fuel research. I see why alot of people complain about Americans and their SUVs, but its just a temporary problem with lots of people working to fix it, lots of people who wouldnt be working on it if it wasnt a problem to begin with. I guess what I'm saying is, it is our faults that are leading innovation in this area, so changing our habits would just leave less incentive to make it better. Regards, Steve
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It is severly limited in functionality, including all that windows integration they boast about.
Regards,
Steve
You've got far bigger network security issues if I can just start randomly accessing files simply because I'm on your network, regardless of how I got on it.
Regards,
Steve
Interesting, I run Fedora and think the complete opposite. Fonts under my linux box and Mac look great compared to Windows, I run at pretty high resolutions so that may have an effect. Maybe you should try a different distro.
Regards,
Steve
With all due respect, Red Hat has been the largest kernel contributor for just under a decade now. They've been taking it in a good direction so far, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Despite all the nonsense slashdotters will say about Red Hat, Red Hat is one of the few distros that actually develops the software it ships rather than just repackaging other people's software. Look at Apache, the Kernel, Gnome, libc, the GNU compiler collection, openoffice, evince, totem, dbus, and most of the drivers you use in your system. The list could literally go on for ages. They also are a major reason why linux has an amazing record for getting patches out quickly for security fixes, alot of those fixes are coded by Red Hat develoeprs. Not to mention they gave Linus 10 million dollars in stock as a showing of gratitude to him. They are a good company, and some of the best kernel hackers are paid by them (including Alan Cox).
Regards,
Steve
Its been a bit since I was in highschool and had to get around filters, but the most sure fire way is to run an ssh server at home on a port that your school's firewall lets through (most let 22, but to be less suspicious choose like 25 or 443 or something) and then carry putty around on a pen drive. Whenever you need unrestricted access, pop open putty, connect to your server and create a dynamic tunnel, on that pen drive you can also have firefox and have a socks proxy set up to use port like 1080 or whatever port you choose for a dynamic proxy. There you go, unlimited, encrypted surfing all bypassing your school's filters and beening tunneled through your house. This all assumes that your school's firewall doesn't block based on protocol, but rather ports.
Regards,
Steve
If Microsoft took as much pride in their software as Google, it'd be a different story. This is their public release, sure it is beta, but it is really Microsoft saying "Look, this is the best we've got, we want you to see this, this is what we are, this is what we are going to be, now lets work out those last few bugs".
Regards,
Steve
Have you seen what they've done lately? Do you have any idea how complex what they are doing is? Do you see how far behind all the other space agencies are? Honest to god, your comment was the most ignorant comment I've ever read on slashdot, go read a book (or NASA'a website) and learn a thing or two.
Regards,
Steve
Its in deerpark and its really nice, I use it daily.
Regards,
Steve
But Google did it right.
Considering that AOL has a patent on the instant message, they could blow all their competitors out of the water. Instead they seem to jsut hold on to it for leverage against other companies.
Regards,
Steve
The second your life is seriously impacted by one of these changes, then you can bitch. The truth is, most people's lives haven't changed one bit since 9/11 and people are just being paranoid. Half the stuff you take as conspiracy theories are just screw ups by those in charge, it happens, just as in any large organizations. The TSA needed test data, they weren't out to do shit with it, regardless the only thing they did wrong was forget to notify the proper agency which is very feasible considering the requirments the government puts in place.
Regards,
Steve
Granted I agree with your post, but in all honsety, a minor part of me always disagrees. On the one hand its like "Oh wow! I can get free stuff, that is kick ass", on the other hand its like "Well they probably should enforce copyrights, afterall these companies do pay alot of skilled people alot of money to make these movies, songs, games, etc... They aren't a necessity in my life so if I feel they are charging too much I just won't buy it. Who am I to think I have a right to see or hear what they've done just because they've done it." The older I get the more resonable that second oppinion seems to be. Let them enforce anything they want with copyright, no one says you must watch some movie, and if you think they are charging too much oh well, don't pay to see it. You see, they are enforcing it, but the choice is still entirley yours as you whether or not you want to view it. The only reason people are fighting this is because people want free stuff, well stop being so damn selfish, you aren't entitled to any of it.
Regards,
Steve
Try installing mac software on a windows computer... damn near the same thing you are talking about. If you pay for software and they don't provide a .deb or an installer they built then your platform isn't supported and you're lucky if you get it working. Same thing with OSS software. Check the software before you decide to use it, anything free you'll probably be able to get out of apt, anything else you'll only be able to be 100% confident that you can use it if it was designed for your platform. People tend to group linux all together when in reality each distro is more or less an independant platform with enough in common that you can typically move between them, but its never certain.
Regards,
Steve
Yea but what temp is the cabin? I just happened to have had to work on my A/C 2 days ago and got the cabin to a chilly 46.3 F . A/C systems tend to move at least 4 watts of heat for every 1 watt of energy put in, Peltier systems, even high end ones, would have trouble moving 1 watt of heat for every 3 watts of energy. The efficiency difference is ridiculous, your moving 4 times the heat at 1/3 the energy with modern A/C systems. No way is their system more efficient unless they are barely cooling or some other number fudging.
Regards,
Steve
The Deer Park Alphas currently start up about 7 times faster then current firefox builds for me, that in addition to the new update system only updating what needs to be updated, and then on top of that the new SVG support, 1.1 is goign to be kick ass. Of course there are many other enhancements as well, but these oens stick out to me.
Regards,
Steve
Red Hat does a lot of usability studies with Gnome. Geeks only share about 5% of the same needs ina gui as regular users do. KDE might be better suited for geeks, but Gnome is by far more usable on a much larger scale.
Regards,
Steve
I really didnt want to get into this, but what country are you from? Also, how many people from Iraq have you talked to, how do you know what they want, or did the media tell you what they wanted? You see, before this noone knew what the Iraqi people wanted because they weren't allowed to say what they wanted. Didn't the Europeans learn from the World Wars that if you sit around and wait for countries to get strong then it ends in a big mess. N. Korea, etc..., would all still be doing the same thing they are now, except now they have an excuse. If you think they started this within the past 5 years you're nuts, this stuff has been planned by N. Korea for nearly two decades. These countries want world domination, they think they are elite, they are the next Germany as it was under Hitler, but this time they seem to be willing to go even further. The other major governments of the world and their inability to act before things get out of hand continuously astounds me and shows their lack of foresight. You convince yourselves that if you just ignore the problem then it'll go away or that it'll stay contained within its country of origin. Then one day you have armies invading your neighboring countries. America is not starting senseless wars, there is a longterm strategy behind this. Appreciate it and get some perspective.
Regards,
Steve
The kill ratio is still estimated to be a lower minimum of 1 to 10,000 and an upper maximum much higher. The U.S. has also improved the life of the citizens despite what your local media venue would like to distort and tell you (anger, failure and depression sell, happiness and success does not, what you're being fed is distorted) Please state your country so I can be sure to try and avoid it all costs when they come running to America to be protected. I can't stand the penis envy some countries have. So friggin what, somebody needed to do something and no body had the balls to do it so America stood up and took care of business, get over it. The world is safer now, stop feeding into the media and stop being a tool (all the sudden its cool to hate America, when most of the countries bitching about us are only capable of bitching because we've bailed them out of some dumb ass situation they got themselves into).
Regards,
Steve
Note: I work for a defense contractor and deal with officials from Iraq on a daily basis.
not sure why i'm replying, but that is a prime number.
-Steve
I hope when you said draw, you didn't mean draw with a pen or pencil kinda draw :) Anyway, I recommend he just grabs a gps receiver for laptops, a laptop with a car adapter, and the Pro version of Google Earth. Hook up your GPS receiver and just walk around the village, Google Earth will make the map for him and it has pretty high-def satellite images. If the village is so small that satellite images are not close enough, just use the software that came with the unit or one of the many open source GIS programs to automatically map it for you as you walk. I'd recommend using Google Earth though, as the map will read much better with terrain and semi-recent details of the village roads and trails. You'll also be able to tell if you've missed any big landmarks or anything.
Regards,
Steve
The U.N. is more or less a bunch of incompetent politicians, sure you can cite several successes of theirs, I can think of about 20. That totally disregards the many failures of the U.N. though, and their many inadequacies. Besides, the U.S. has not screwed up with the internet yet, don't fix it if it isn't broken. The last thing we need is the U.N. imposing all kinds of ridiculous taxes and regulations on it, while making things mandatory like monitoring what people do and don't do.
Whether or not you agree with what I've said thus far, the U.N. is corrupted as hell and by even suggesting actions such as this shows how far away from their original charter they've come. They are extending themselves too far and sticking their hands in places it doesn't belong and was never intended. They suffer many of the same problems NATO does, except worse because the UN is over 190 countries. Even today it is well known that UN peacekeepers tend to rape girls in Congo and that most of the U.N. decisions are decided solely by Arab states simply because they have so many members.
The internet is currently fine, sure there is a slight chance the U.N. might handle it okay, there is no chance that they'll handle it better then it is now (there is nothign wrong with it as it is), and there is quite a risk that they might ruin the whole thing, so why switch? Getting 190 countries to agree on something is not easy, its slow, the internet is not slow. How many countries do you think would want to start banning "XXX" and anything with sex in it? The risk of getting the U.N. involved is too high and until the U.S. shows otherwise there is no reason to take it away from them other then other countries being power hungry.
Regards,
Steve
With 3.6 Ghz, 2mb of cache , and a gig of ram? Damn it better run anything fast, even windows. (Note: as you can tell by my username, I pretty much solely run linux) Please let me know if specs like that wouldn't make Windows fast, I could go for a good laugh.
Regards,
Steve
Exactly! Why change what is best about linux simply because average users take longer to wrap their minds around it. Don't lower your standards for someone else, I think Linux is fine the way it is. It is desktop ready, but its also got a lot of power. If my girlfriend can use it than anyone can, they just have to be willing to try. If we dumb it down anymore we might as well wipe their asses too. But back to your orignal point, who the hell cares what Linux's market share is. Its not like Linus stays up at night thinking about mass appeal. This Asa person is comparing the installation of a single removable application to the addition of an operating system and an entire pardigm shift not just for one thing, but for everything. Web Broswers are fairly simple from a learning curve point of view, you enter url, click links, done. There is no comparison here.
Regards,
Steve
Moron, read. It was a window cover, to cover the window until the window no longer needed to be covered. It protected the glass from any possible scratches. It was plastic and foam and fell while the shuttle was stationary, not moving like Discovery. This was intended to come off. I've heard mixed reports, but it seems workers were around the area at the time (or recently beforehand) working on the area (possibly loosening the window covers in preparation for taking them off in the near future). The whole situation was realized and fixed within 3 hours. This is absolutely not a big deal, if something this size had hit the shuttle a few minutes after lift off and the shuttle had some velocity then itd be a different story. There were reports that they probably didn't have to do anything, but after discovery they aren't taking chances and noone wants the finger pointed at them if something does go wrong. As a result, any minor detail that might be slightly askew is to be fully replaced and tested. This isn't happening because of shoddy engineering, its happening because people are sick of playing th blame game at NASA.
Regards,
Steve
Well I guess I can forgive you because you don't live here, but Bush just set aside 1.5 billion to subsidise alternative fuels with a focus on hydrogen. Hydrogen stations aren't everywhere here but I've seen two, which is more then I've seen in any other country. Also, I live on the east coast and I know quite a few people I've talked to recently are interested in alternatives to energy sources(it seems the west coast is even more interested). Solar panels are getting cheap enough that people can start plopping one or two on their roofs, lowering their energy bills a bit and be profitable in a shorter period of time. Americans may be energy hogs, and alot of people drive SUVs that don't need to. But we are also a very energy aware nation and the fact that we use so much energy keeps a lot of money and research going into it. Yes, we use way more energy then is needed to survive, but why limit ourselves becuase of current technology when we can research and innovate into more efficient sources. Our very "greed" of energy is what is leading alternative fuel research. I see why alot of people complain about Americans and their SUVs, but its just a temporary problem with lots of people working to fix it, lots of people who wouldnt be working on it if it wasnt a problem to begin with. I guess what I'm saying is, it is our faults that are leading innovation in this area, so changing our habits would just leave less incentive to make it better.
Regards,
Steve