that someone out there finds a major hole in the binary and then on voting day, instead of adjusting the polls so that their candidate just wins, adjust it so that its unnaturally high, like three billion to 100. Then national attention will be brought to the insecurities, the code will have to be examined by a whole bunch of people, the election will be delayed and anger many politicians(things happen quick when politicians are angry), and in the best case scenario, open source will be looked at as a viable alternative (the only alternative when dealing with matters such as these). This could be a big win for OS. Just my two cents.
Shhh....everyone, stop saying bad things about FreeBSD before they hear us. Where else are we gonna run to after SCO owns linux?
-Steve
(For those who couldn't tell, this was sarcastic)
Ok, I don't agree with the first reply to this parent, however BSD isn't for hobbyists and it is commercial, ever here of this little company called Apple? Anyway I cant really say much more then that cause I use linux and I don't use a mac so anything I say is pretty much void from here on out.
-Steve
Wow now that is security through obscurity, you give me step by step instructions on how to access your machine and dont tell me where it is!!!!
-Steve
This isnt all that great of a security measure, however its good to see slashdot posting home project kind of things again. I dont know if its just me, but there haven't been many lately and I like to see what people are up to and building, its a lot better than all of this legal and corporate stuff thats been taking over my monitor. Not that I dont love my SCO fix, or yey some senator is in favor of open source, but hey even though our interests are getting lots of press now, we can't forget things like this. I don't know if anyone else agrees, but thats how I feel.
Cheers,
Steve
... Um not all of us use P2P for music only. I still need to download ISOs and other files so p2p networks still have legit uses. And what about the cd that I accidentally stepped on earlier (oops) that is now crushed so I can't make a back up of it because its too late. I'm certainly not going to pay again for those songs, I'll go back it up with Kazaa right now. And what about my city's local bands that aren't out for blood and money but rather dont mind giving away their music and the most cost effective way for them to do that is with kazaa? At their concerts they tell people to download it off Kazaa. Free P2P networks do have legitimate reasons. I find more and more reasons everyday, I just wish I had time to list them all right now. I don't think Napster will succeed, but the point I'm trying to get across is that I hope just because these services are coming out now that free services like Kazaa dont go away.
-Steve
P.S. Does anyone else find it ironic that the same company that we were rooting for a few years ago, we are hoping fails now? Kinda sounds like the opposite of the whole IBM situation. Just something I thought was worth mentioning.
Open office did expand on word. Open Office gives you crazy control over 3d effects that microsoft never even dreamed of and it also has that word completion feature which I ignored at first but now I find that it is great. I mean you just type and it starts completing your words that you already used for you. That's innovative, granted these features are probably available in Star Office, it is better then MS Word. Not to mention the GUIs are better and you can save files as PDF, try doing that in microsoft word, last time I checked it was impossible (at least without some third party plug in). Those are just some of the bonuses of using Open Office over Microsoft Word. Oh yea, and OOo doesn't consistenly annoy you to register and threaten to take away your ability to use the product that you payed for until you somehow contact Microsoft and they tell you that eventhough you may have payed for it weeks ago, only now is it ok to use it as much as you want because they told you it was ok and they gave you as special key, mind you, you payed damn good money for that product and they still dictate when you can use it.
-Steve
is it possible for a tracker to become flooded? I thought bit torrent was supposed to scale well and work better with more people, but it seems liek all these trackers are slashdotted cause I keep getting errors and i'ved tried like 9 different torrent files. I am always downloading things with bit torrent so I'm fairly certain that it is working fine. I love Mandrake and any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
-Steve
Well the fact that your posting as Anonymous Coward automatically takes away any credibility that you had. But lets pretend that you did post like a man...or a woman (i've never met a man so bitchy so i'm forced to wonder). I've successfully installed linux on the crapiest and oldest computers that i've ever had my hands on. Its always runs like a baby if you know what your doing. And dont knock the command line, its more powerul then a gui could ever imagine. Regardless, linux wasn't made for gui's and if u want, there are great patches that increase responsivness in the gui. Also linux is becoming more and more the choice for embeded applications because it isn't bloatware like windows. Linux is faster and made to do real work that requires power and detail, often times gui's hide most of the detail or make it hard to get to. Linux not only is faster, smaller, and more secure, but you can configure it however you want. And the best part is, if its still not small enough for you, you can go edit the source and take out whatever you want. Well i'm gonna stop wasting my time now and try to forget about your ignorant post while I sleep. You go have fun getting infected with your unbloated Internet explorer (ha) and get taken over by some script kiddie with some activex thing he wrote up while on the crapper, or go check your email with outlook and be sure to open up that one that says "I love you", or better yet, just keep your computer on long enough and the next RPC vulnerability will eventually come around and get you. As for me, I'm sticking with linux. Oh yea and one more thing, WinXP boots so fast because of you computer specs, go try and install WinXP on a computer from '97, and when you fail miserably, install linux so you have a good working computer that is compatible and capable of doing modern things.
-Steve
When is IBM going to pledge to develop initiatives that will promote the use of Linux in the US? No this isn't a troll or anything, I just hope that IBM has a good plan (which i'm sure they do considering that their IBM), its just I currently don't see the U.S. government (as a whole) showing any interest in switching over to Open Source. Is IBM just trying to get the rest of the world to change so that the US is forced to change? It sounds great in theory, but whose the only country that still measures in feet and miles, whereas the rest of the world uses the metric system? And who went to war with like 90% of the world against us? I would love to see the US switch over, but when it comes to certain things, the US is very very stubborn. Just my 2 cents.
Cheers,
Steve
What theme did they have in those screenshots, or is that how the new KDE is gonna look? I think it was awesome and I want to have mine look like that, I just need to know whether or not I have to upgrade or just go to themes.kde.org.
Cheers,
Steve
The only people who would buy this would be collectors, so instead of profitting off of this and making like $50-$75 bucks, why don't you donate it to a museum of some sort. I know I've seen various articles on slashdot about computer museums trying to collect as much equipment as they can. If your upset about the loss of money, maybe you could write it off on your taxes to get some benefit out of it.
Hey we are competing with a monopoly that releases broken and insecure operating systems and programs as a regular business practice, they tell you to patch them once they realize its broken or something needs to be changed or added. Linux is just trying to follow in the footsteps of a successful monopoly, that way we can be successful too. I mean, release something that we don't know works, and patch it when we find out its broken, or be forced to upgrade to the newest kernel. Worked for microsoft, it will work for us. Only one thing that might hold us back, its open source so those problems tend to found faster and fixed easier, without breaking other essentials of the OS. Just my 2 cents.
ya kow what? if your gonna come up in here saying all that stuff in support of microsoft, you can just click your little alt+F4 and get outta here. "Slashdot is too subjective" my ass
Let me first say IANAL and am rather ignorant of copyright law, but is it possible to essentially say, "Hey heres this free operating system, but we added a function that we have copyrighted. You'll have to pay us in order to use that version with our copyrighted function, otherwise you'll just have to have the version that has everything but our function." I mean technically you'd be paying for the ability to use some function, you wouldnt be paying for an Operating System, right?
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that someone out there finds a major hole in the binary and then on voting day, instead of adjusting the polls so that their candidate just wins, adjust it so that its unnaturally high, like three billion to 100. Then national attention will be brought to the insecurities, the code will have to be examined by a whole bunch of people, the election will be delayed and anger many politicians(things happen quick when politicians are angry), and in the best case scenario, open source will be looked at as a viable alternative (the only alternative when dealing with matters such as these). This could be a big win for OS. Just my two cents.
No sir, I assure you that you are the idiot.
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"i'd love to have a tiny 1 megapixel camera that I could carry around in my pants pocket to capture spontaneous moments"
Woah! What kind of spontaneous moments are happening in your pants?
Shhh....everyone, stop saying bad things about FreeBSD before they hear us. Where else are we gonna run to after SCO owns linux?
-Steve
(For those who couldn't tell, this was sarcastic)
Ok, I don't agree with the first reply to this parent, however BSD isn't for hobbyists and it is commercial, ever here of this little company called Apple? Anyway I cant really say much more then that cause I use linux and I don't use a mac so anything I say is pretty much void from here on out. -Steve
Wow now that is security through obscurity, you give me step by step instructions on how to access your machine and dont tell me where it is!!!!
-Steve
This isnt all that great of a security measure, however its good to see slashdot posting home project kind of things again. I dont know if its just me, but there haven't been many lately and I like to see what people are up to and building, its a lot better than all of this legal and corporate stuff thats been taking over my monitor. Not that I dont love my SCO fix, or yey some senator is in favor of open source, but hey even though our interests are getting lots of press now, we can't forget things like this. I don't know if anyone else agrees, but thats how I feel.
Cheers,
Steve
... Um not all of us use P2P for music only. I still need to download ISOs and other files so p2p networks still have legit uses. And what about the cd that I accidentally stepped on earlier (oops) that is now crushed so I can't make a back up of it because its too late. I'm certainly not going to pay again for those songs, I'll go back it up with Kazaa right now. And what about my city's local bands that aren't out for blood and money but rather dont mind giving away their music and the most cost effective way for them to do that is with kazaa? At their concerts they tell people to download it off Kazaa. Free P2P networks do have legitimate reasons. I find more and more reasons everyday, I just wish I had time to list them all right now. I don't think Napster will succeed, but the point I'm trying to get across is that I hope just because these services are coming out now that free services like Kazaa dont go away.
-Steve
P.S. Does anyone else find it ironic that the same company that we were rooting for a few years ago, we are hoping fails now? Kinda sounds like the opposite of the whole IBM situation. Just something I thought was worth mentioning.
Open office did expand on word. Open Office gives you crazy control over 3d effects that microsoft never even dreamed of and it also has that word completion feature which I ignored at first but now I find that it is great. I mean you just type and it starts completing your words that you already used for you. That's innovative, granted these features are probably available in Star Office, it is better then MS Word. Not to mention the GUIs are better and you can save files as PDF, try doing that in microsoft word, last time I checked it was impossible (at least without some third party plug in). Those are just some of the bonuses of using Open Office over Microsoft Word. Oh yea, and OOo doesn't consistenly annoy you to register and threaten to take away your ability to use the product that you payed for until you somehow contact Microsoft and they tell you that eventhough you may have payed for it weeks ago, only now is it ok to use it as much as you want because they told you it was ok and they gave you as special key, mind you, you payed damn good money for that product and they still dictate when you can use it. -Steve
is it possible for a tracker to become flooded? I thought bit torrent was supposed to scale well and work better with more people, but it seems liek all these trackers are slashdotted cause I keep getting errors and i'ved tried like 9 different torrent files. I am always downloading things with bit torrent so I'm fairly certain that it is working fine. I love Mandrake and any help in this regard would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. -Steve
That is the hottest thing I've seen all day!(My girlfriend is out of town)
Well the fact that your posting as Anonymous Coward automatically takes away any credibility that you had. But lets pretend that you did post like a man...or a woman (i've never met a man so bitchy so i'm forced to wonder). I've successfully installed linux on the crapiest and oldest computers that i've ever had my hands on. Its always runs like a baby if you know what your doing. And dont knock the command line, its more powerul then a gui could ever imagine. Regardless, linux wasn't made for gui's and if u want, there are great patches that increase responsivness in the gui. Also linux is becoming more and more the choice for embeded applications because it isn't bloatware like windows. Linux is faster and made to do real work that requires power and detail, often times gui's hide most of the detail or make it hard to get to. Linux not only is faster, smaller, and more secure, but you can configure it however you want. And the best part is, if its still not small enough for you, you can go edit the source and take out whatever you want. Well i'm gonna stop wasting my time now and try to forget about your ignorant post while I sleep. You go have fun getting infected with your unbloated Internet explorer (ha) and get taken over by some script kiddie with some activex thing he wrote up while on the crapper, or go check your email with outlook and be sure to open up that one that says "I love you", or better yet, just keep your computer on long enough and the next RPC vulnerability will eventually come around and get you. As for me, I'm sticking with linux. Oh yea and one more thing, WinXP boots so fast because of you computer specs, go try and install WinXP on a computer from '97, and when you fail miserably, install linux so you have a good working computer that is compatible and capable of doing modern things. -Steve
it was sarcastic in case you didnt notice
When is IBM going to pledge to develop initiatives that will promote the use of Linux in the US? No this isn't a troll or anything, I just hope that IBM has a good plan (which i'm sure they do considering that their IBM), its just I currently don't see the U.S. government (as a whole) showing any interest in switching over to Open Source. Is IBM just trying to get the rest of the world to change so that the US is forced to change? It sounds great in theory, but whose the only country that still measures in feet and miles, whereas the rest of the world uses the metric system? And who went to war with like 90% of the world against us? I would love to see the US switch over, but when it comes to certain things, the US is very very stubborn. Just my 2 cents. Cheers, Steve
does it run windows?
What theme did they have in those screenshots, or is that how the new KDE is gonna look? I think it was awesome and I want to have mine look like that, I just need to know whether or not I have to upgrade or just go to themes.kde.org. Cheers, Steve
The only people who would buy this would be collectors, so instead of profitting off of this and making like $50-$75 bucks, why don't you donate it to a museum of some sort. I know I've seen various articles on slashdot about computer museums trying to collect as much equipment as they can. If your upset about the loss of money, maybe you could write it off on your taxes to get some benefit out of it.
Hey we are competing with a monopoly that releases broken and insecure operating systems and programs as a regular business practice, they tell you to patch them once they realize its broken or something needs to be changed or added. Linux is just trying to follow in the footsteps of a successful monopoly, that way we can be successful too. I mean, release something that we don't know works, and patch it when we find out its broken, or be forced to upgrade to the newest kernel. Worked for microsoft, it will work for us. Only one thing that might hold us back, its open source so those problems tend to found faster and fixed easier, without breaking other essentials of the OS. Just my 2 cents.
Your new to Slashdot aren't you? This is news for nerds! And its stuff that matters, what matters more to nerds then how to hack a new DVR?
ya kow what? if your gonna come up in here saying all that stuff in support of microsoft, you can just click your little alt+F4 and get outta here. "Slashdot is too subjective" my ass
Who says microsoft products aren't secure? I've got a perfectly secure microsoft product in my basement! Ok, so its an Xbox and its running linux.
Thanks for clearing that up, I was hoping there was more to it then what I said
Let me first say IANAL and am rather ignorant of copyright law, but is it possible to essentially say, "Hey heres this free operating system, but we added a function that we have copyrighted. You'll have to pay us in order to use that version with our copyrighted function, otherwise you'll just have to have the version that has everything but our function." I mean technically you'd be paying for the ability to use some function, you wouldnt be paying for an Operating System, right?