Unless you have some penchant for loading yet more useless libraries (nautilus: GTK) or use the command line, KDE does not work PROPERLY without konqueror.
After all, what the hell is the point in running KDE without Konqueror (or other core-kde apps)? Might as well run twm if you want a cutdown X environment.
Of course, you dodge my whole point... I dont have to install KDE at all. Windows has no choice installing the gui.
---- No copy protection ("DRM") facilities or support anywhere,
Support for base encryption and user-servicable encrption plugin system available for any service/program. Includes filters to install/remove DRM on any protected file in which you own the keys. Banning any technology is where we get into this mess, so we allow it for everyone and every program.
---- ext2 filesystem compatibility, so I can read all my Linux files,
Publish free specs on how to make file system drivers. Current specs to make Windows FS drivers are about 1000$. It's about 1000$ too high. I also see no reason why MS should put forth effort into making drivers to read a system that is continually changing. Let it so the hackers can make the FS drivers, but dont go out of your way. Reasons: JFS, XFS, EXT3, Reiser3, Reiser4, umsdos, ad absurdum.
---- The file's type becomes true metadata, and is not embedded in the filename,
SO you end up breaking every file pre-Vista. Nice.
---- Fix Kerberos implementation,
Fat chance. Kerberos is a competitor to their auth services. How about severing it completely and publishing security hooks. With the published security hooks, we can shim ANY auth system, including ones that will be out "tomorrow".
---- Make IE severable from the system,
Why? Does KDE work properly without Konqueror? Instead, I have a much more "radical" offer: Make the GUI severable from the system. I want a nice shell, virtualscreen2text mode for current programs without text only access, good scripting. How big will Windows be if it was running stripped down? How fast would it be then?,
We can even go from the "sever the desktop GUI with the system" paradigm further. How does Debian work? You have a service that reads a DB stored on the file system that categorizes every package. I'd like to see a system like this (with gui and commandline parts) in which I can see every component of Windows and drill-down to which parts I do not want. It'd be easy to add idiot-mode to prevent somebody from unloading stuff they shouldnt.
---- Add a "force uninstall" tool to purge botched device driver installations from my machine,
There should be a true Safe mode in which the kernel is executed and ONLY runs certain signed binaries. There should be a verified good GUI and text mode. A real configuration panel should easily allow you to unreference any failing VXDs along with a way to manually load each driver at a time, whilst keeping track of dependancies. Obviously, when loading one at a time, crashes at a certain driver indicate a bad driver/hardware problem.
Still, MS doesnt meet MY needs.
Why doesnt Windows have a simple Visual C++ compiler? Such an app wouldnt be questioned by any other OS maker, so why MS? Even making a "Visual Quickbasic" would fill that niche of amateur programming rather than finding somewhere to pirate.
Why hasnt Windows found a better paradigm of the "Registry"? Have they not learnt that the more keys you have, the slower the parser goes? If anything, the/etc directory for central configuration is one of the best. Let the FS handle keeping tabs and you can easily search for files and grep the text. Since MS owns Windows, they could make a nice tool and enforce proper use. Each user could have their own overrides for programs (wow, the way unixes do).
Why is it so hard on Windows to access a specific device? For example, I want to disallow this user from opening the 3D capability on the graphics card. In windows, I know of no such way. There's alwo no way to record any sort of data on devices. I can simply cat a device on Linux and out it comes (can tail a users terminal session and watch what they do, can cat/dev/dsp and I record, as such...).
After all, we KNOW what the muslim community stands for. Meh, what religious trash. Ooops, its that time of the day again, lets go kneel like a bitch towards Mecha for a few minutes.
Comments by people (like you) who post worthwile content is why I'm still here.
It really is neat-o when I read about personal stories about hell-desk or being that "luzer" (when we know you arent... luzers dont even know what ssh is).
Thanks. (no, this isnt satire, I really am pleased that slashdot can still generate what it originally did years ago.. real people commenting about their problems.)
I create a script that uses the OS based encryption provided (crypt or gpg or...) and encrypt all your USER data to some specified key. Perferrably use some sort of PKI so you mathematically cannot get the priv key.
I can then leave a blackmail text file demanding XYZ dollars in some way (paypal, travellers checks, wire xfer, offshore bank, you name it...).
---Then here we get a bunch of armchair scientists hypothesising about the terahertz fast, petabyte large, unhackable computer everyone will have next year.
We COULD have unhackable computers... If the OS'es werent soo unstable and built to be hacked.
If it really mattered, MS could have offered a stable system. Not just "stable", but as in mathematically proven. NASA does this for mission critical (i believe this is where the origin of this phrase came from) applications. The US Military does this for critical devices (detonation systems, guidance, and such).
And Linux was'nt built for security. It was built as a cheap substitute for Minix (unix that ran on x86 hardware). If Linux security really mattered, we'd have seen kernel setups that would provide verified untouched binaries of commonly used programs, sane setups for permissions (with ACL included, not as a bolt-on like now). Pretty much you're looking at a capability system...
And to talk about hardware... We use shoddy hardware for use with our software. And to mention, many parts and pieces of hardware have these great hardware bugs (2+2=3.999875378.., F00FC7C8, and many others) in which the drivers compensate for. Many hardware developers are too embarrased about that, so they dont release specs.
Bad science? How about just "Plain Bad Engineering"
...The way you wrote your comment, you'd think that the Free Software gestapo were going to go kicking down people's doors and forcing them to install Debian at home.
You suddenly hear loud goose-steeping footsteps and your door breaking in..
AND suddenly, the lead penguin has a RAIL GUN!!!!!
"DEBIAN OR DIE, MS weenie!"
(you survey that many are wearing white sheets with RMS's face masks)
I use quite a lot of Linux, but Im no Opensource fanatic.
I use quite a lot of Windows, but Im no MS fanatic.
I like free time. Windows is good once you set it up and clone it to an image on the network. Put g4u and a small partition for linux bootstrap and you have 100 Mbit image copying service. Windows fucks up (yet again) and its back up in 40 minutes.
Windows saves time for the people who make content (of whatever it is, CAD, music, accounting, whatever) and Linux saves time for infrastructure. I can be a "lazy" admin and have it all under control. Combining them all together "Just Works" and saves me time.
WHat I am a fanatic about is doing the same damned repetitive actions again and again.
Thats exactly NOT true. In terms of data (pictures, audio, books ---information) we have everything from 1927 and older legitly free. In terms of physical space, libraries are free. Most libraries these days have movies in DVD and VHS format. Many carry music CD's and some even carry games.
---Look around you, everything is "property" that is owned by someone.
Yes, but what about parks? What about libraries? What about roads?
---You can argue that ideas are still free but in order to be of any practical use, that idea has to be manifest into some kind of physical representation. That object is guarded, protected, and the owner will assert their "rights" to control their property as they see fit.
Yeah, cause in terms of land, someone who has lived on a certain block of land, even without owning it, by law owns it after some time has passed (I think 15 or so years).
---I may produce a painting, song, book, whatever and decide to share my artistic creation with the world either by selling copies of it or offering it for free download on the net. But, I fully expect that it is still "my" song or story or painting or whatever; and I expect that others recognize and respect this fact.
And by that, people who want more out of you will show the want (by giving money for artistic value). But guess what? Many of us like samples (yes, of even whole CD's) and only then will we decide.
Have you bought a car without test driving it?
---Just because you have purchased a copy of it doesn't mean you can take it and redistribute without my permission. Hence the term "copyright".
Fine. Ill give it 20 years before I start wholesale copying it (read what LIMITED IS). ALso, if a friend(s) want to see/listen, ill give it to em. Actually, you should shut up about copying, as it's advertisement. I do admit fully, that warez cd sellers should be got rid of (difference between amateur collecters).
---And to those who say "I share my stuff freely to everyone" - I say you're a hypocrit. Your house has a fence around it, you lock your car doors, and you'll defend your "property" with force if you have to.
There's a difference between need (like helping in disaster) and "you have a cool watch. gimmee". In terms of physical stuff, things I give are usually what I also do without. Data and information now do not have the same criterion. I can have, as you can have. The cost of copying is soo miniscule that it does not matter.
---Would you allow your house to fall into the public domain after you pay off the mortgage? Ironically, the goverment does have the power to take your house via eminent domain if they need it to build a new stadium, but, they still have to pay you fair market value for it.
Fair market value IS NOT a "fair price". Hint for you... Local govt sets 'fair market value' and then ransoms your house. That aint "fair".
---(Enter retarded banter about some idiotic movie)
Sheesh dude. I was trolling. If you post early, and post often , and most of all, post negative, you rake in the luzer comments at you. I actually laugh at em sometimes.
---Actually, the revision tracking and collaborative editing features of Word 2000 are significantly better than in Word XP. This is a area where Microsoft took a downgrade, labeled it an upgrade, and rammed it down our throats. I spent months trying to find workarounds. I'm quite convinced there aren't any. I think Microsoft's real plan is to reintroduce those features of Word 2000 as "new" in the next version.
Collaboration?? Maybe this is just out of place, but if there's requrements on revision control and collab, why not just make a Wiki out of it, and restrict who can even see it. SSL works wonders... If you even care, you can make a export => "fancy markup language which OO understands".
I thought we learnt before NOT to put every lil widget in one application. Then again, guess (who was that again....?) Sturgeons Law comes into effect: every program will eventually get email.
Slashdot Mirror
Lay down with the swine,
And the swine run away.
Unless you have some penchant for loading yet more useless libraries (nautilus: GTK) or use the command line, KDE does not work PROPERLY without konqueror.
After all, what the hell is the point in running KDE without Konqueror (or other core-kde apps)? Might as well run twm if you want a cutdown X environment.
Of course, you dodge my whole point... I dont have to install KDE at all. Windows has no choice installing the gui.
---- No copy protection ("DRM") facilities or support anywhere,
/etc directory for central configuration is one of the best. Let the FS handle keeping tabs and you can easily search for files and grep the text. Since MS owns Windows, they could make a nice tool and enforce proper use. Each user could have their own overrides for programs (wow, the way unixes do).
/dev/dsp and I record, as such...).
Support for base encryption and user-servicable encrption plugin system available for any service/program. Includes filters to install/remove DRM on any protected file in which you own the keys. Banning any technology is where we get into this mess, so we allow it for everyone and every program.
---- ext2 filesystem compatibility, so I can read all my Linux files,
Publish free specs on how to make file system drivers. Current specs to make Windows FS drivers are about 1000$. It's about 1000$ too high. I also see no reason why MS should put forth effort into making drivers to read a system that is continually changing. Let it so the hackers can make the FS drivers, but dont go out of your way. Reasons: JFS, XFS, EXT3, Reiser3, Reiser4, umsdos, ad absurdum.
---- The file's type becomes true metadata, and is not embedded in the filename,
SO you end up breaking every file pre-Vista. Nice.
---- Fix Kerberos implementation,
Fat chance. Kerberos is a competitor to their auth services. How about severing it completely and publishing security hooks. With the published security hooks, we can shim ANY auth system, including ones that will be out "tomorrow".
---- Make IE severable from the system,
Why? Does KDE work properly without Konqueror? Instead, I have a much more "radical" offer: Make the GUI severable from the system. I want a nice shell, virtualscreen2text mode for current programs without text only access, good scripting. How big will Windows be if it was running stripped down? How fast would it be then?,
We can even go from the "sever the desktop GUI with the system" paradigm further. How does Debian work? You have a service that reads a DB stored on the file system that categorizes every package. I'd like to see a system like this (with gui and commandline parts) in which I can see every component of Windows and drill-down to which parts I do not want. It'd be easy to add idiot-mode to prevent somebody from unloading stuff they shouldnt.
---- Add a "force uninstall" tool to purge botched device driver installations from my machine,
There should be a true Safe mode in which the kernel is executed and ONLY runs certain signed binaries. There should be a verified good GUI and text mode. A real configuration panel should easily allow you to unreference any failing VXDs along with a way to manually load each driver at a time, whilst keeping track of dependancies. Obviously, when loading one at a time, crashes at a certain driver indicate a bad driver/hardware problem.
Still, MS doesnt meet MY needs.
Why doesnt Windows have a simple Visual C++ compiler? Such an app wouldnt be questioned by any other OS maker, so why MS? Even making a "Visual Quickbasic" would fill that niche of amateur programming rather than finding somewhere to pirate.
Why hasnt Windows found a better paradigm of the "Registry"? Have they not learnt that the more keys you have, the slower the parser goes? If anything, the
Why is it so hard on Windows to access a specific device? For example, I want to disallow this user from opening the 3D capability on the graphics card. In windows, I know of no such way. There's alwo no way to record any sort of data on devices. I can simply cat a device on Linux and out it comes (can tail a users terminal session and watch what they do, can cat
Well, I guess THEY dont wanna be suicide-bombed.
After all, we KNOW what the muslim community stands for. Meh, what religious trash. Ooops, its that time of the day again, lets go kneel like a bitch towards Mecha for a few minutes.
Go say you wanna kill "the president" (with exception of Hugo Chavez, you can threaten him any day of the week).
That'll get those doors 'a knockin.
Just ask that K5 guy about what he said to get 2 SS agents at his doorstep. He did say they were friendly, though.
Comments by people (like you) who post worthwile content is why I'm still here.
It really is neat-o when I read about personal stories about hell-desk or being that "luzer" (when we know you arent... luzers dont even know what ssh is).
Thanks. (no, this isnt satire, I really am pleased that slashdot can still generate what it originally did years ago.. real people commenting about their problems.)
OK. Simple.
...) and encrypt all your USER data to some specified key. Perferrably use some sort of PKI so you mathematically cannot get the priv key.
I create a script that uses the OS based encryption provided (crypt or gpg or
I can then leave a blackmail text file demanding XYZ dollars in some way (paypal, travellers checks, wire xfer, offshore bank, you name it...).
What matters: OS files or the USER files?
yes
Are you THAT incompetitant of an admin to even LET the user write where you dont want him to write?
---Then here we get a bunch of armchair scientists hypothesising about the terahertz fast, petabyte large, unhackable computer everyone will have next year.
We COULD have unhackable computers... If the OS'es werent soo unstable and built to be hacked.
If it really mattered, MS could have offered a stable system. Not just "stable", but as in mathematically proven. NASA does this for mission critical (i believe this is where the origin of this phrase came from) applications. The US Military does this for critical devices (detonation systems, guidance, and such).
And Linux was'nt built for security. It was built as a cheap substitute for Minix (unix that ran on x86 hardware). If Linux security really mattered, we'd have seen kernel setups that would provide verified untouched binaries of commonly used programs, sane setups for permissions (with ACL included, not as a bolt-on like now). Pretty much you're looking at a capability system...
And to talk about hardware... We use shoddy hardware for use with our software. And to mention, many parts and pieces of hardware have these great hardware bugs (2+2=3.999875378.., F00FC7C8, and many others) in which the drivers compensate for. Many hardware developers are too embarrased about that, so they dont release specs.
Bad science? How about just "Plain Bad Engineering"
--and a nifty app that brings up a texas hold'em game when I press f-12.
;P
I didnt know that MS Word came with the OS
Go Mencia!
He wins a Dee, Dee, Dee award.
Err, since it's RAID 0, cant you store all the 1's on one of the disks and all the 0's on the other disk?
Those DAMNED hackers!!!!
...The way you wrote your comment, you'd think that the Free Software gestapo were going to go kicking down people's doors and forcing them to install Debian at home.
You suddenly hear loud goose-steeping footsteps and your door breaking in..
AND suddenly, the lead penguin has a RAIL GUN!!!!!
"DEBIAN OR DIE, MS weenie!"
(you survey that many are wearing white sheets with RMS's face masks)
You begin to realize that you really are in Hell.
Good luck.
If you dont understand, you probably have never read the license. SO you're stupid.
And I didnt there was anybody that naive to believe those scam mails.
Wow.
Have that and an auto-open script for the first 30 min's of a slashdotting, then go back down to manual-click.
Fat chance.
I use quite a lot of Linux, but Im no Opensource fanatic.
I use quite a lot of Windows, but Im no MS fanatic.
I like free time. Windows is good once you set it up and clone it to an image on the network. Put g4u and a small partition for linux bootstrap and you have 100 Mbit image copying service. Windows fucks up (yet again) and its back up in 40 minutes.
Windows saves time for the people who make content (of whatever it is, CAD, music, accounting, whatever) and Linux saves time for infrastructure. I can be a "lazy" admin and have it all under control. Combining them all together "Just Works" and saves me time.
WHat I am a fanatic about is doing the same damned repetitive actions again and again.
---Public Domain? There's no such thing.
Thats exactly NOT true. In terms of data (pictures, audio, books ---information) we have everything from 1927 and older legitly free. In terms of physical space, libraries are free. Most libraries these days have movies in DVD and VHS format. Many carry music CD's and some even carry games.
---Look around you, everything is "property" that is owned by someone.
Yes, but what about parks? What about libraries? What about roads?
---You can argue that ideas are still free but in order to be of any practical use, that idea has to be manifest into some kind of physical representation. That object is guarded, protected, and the owner will assert their "rights" to control their property as they see fit.
Yeah, cause in terms of land, someone who has lived on a certain block of land, even without owning it, by law owns it after some time has passed (I think 15 or so years).
---I may produce a painting, song, book, whatever and decide to share my artistic creation with the world either by selling copies of it or offering it for free download on the net. But, I fully expect that it is still "my" song or story or painting or whatever; and I expect that others recognize and respect this fact.
And by that, people who want more out of you will show the want (by giving money for artistic value). But guess what? Many of us like samples (yes, of even whole CD's) and only then will we decide.
Have you bought a car without test driving it?
---Just because you have purchased a copy of it doesn't mean you can take it and redistribute without my permission. Hence the term "copyright".
Fine. Ill give it 20 years before I start wholesale copying it (read what LIMITED IS). ALso, if a friend(s) want to see/listen, ill give it to em. Actually, you should shut up about copying, as it's advertisement. I do admit fully, that warez cd sellers should be got rid of (difference between amateur collecters).
---And to those who say "I share my stuff freely to everyone" - I say you're a hypocrit. Your house has a fence around it, you lock your car doors, and you'll defend your "property" with force if you have to.
There's a difference between need (like helping in disaster) and "you have a cool watch. gimmee". In terms of physical stuff, things I give are usually what I also do without. Data and information now do not have the same criterion. I can have, as you can have. The cost of copying is soo miniscule that it does not matter.
---Would you allow your house to fall into the public domain after you pay off the mortgage? Ironically, the goverment does have the power to take your house via eminent domain if they need it to build a new stadium, but, they still have to pay you fair market value for it.
Fair market value IS NOT a "fair price". Hint for you... Local govt sets 'fair market value' and then ransoms your house. That aint "fair".
---(Enter retarded banter about some idiotic movie)
If you're soooo scared, go get a therapist.
I hate these iggly-wiggly open sourcers that ARE afraid of Windows and MS apps. God damn man, get a life.
Thats right :P 90% of everything is crap. Maybey that was a freudian slip (thinking of MSOffice OR OO... take your pick).
Sheesh dude. I was trolling. If you post early, and post often , and most of all, post negative, you rake in the luzer comments at you. I actually laugh at em sometimes.
---Actually, the revision tracking and collaborative editing features of Word 2000 are significantly better than in Word XP. This is a area where Microsoft took a downgrade, labeled it an upgrade, and rammed it down our throats. I spent months trying to find workarounds. I'm quite convinced there aren't any. I think Microsoft's real plan is to reintroduce those features of Word 2000 as "new" in the next version.
Collaboration?? Maybe this is just out of place, but if there's requrements on revision control and collab, why not just make a Wiki out of it, and restrict who can even see it. SSL works wonders... If you even care, you can make a export => "fancy markup language which OO understands".
I thought we learnt before NOT to put every lil widget in one application. Then again, guess (who was that again....?) Sturgeons Law comes into effect: every program will eventually get email.
You must be from New Orleans.