I wonder if RAR is so vulnerable? I store a bit of my own personal (sensitive) data in.rar archives, password protected and encrypted (Well, at least the filenames are, I dunno if the data is). I know there are programs that brute-force a password for RAR but I don't know of any that crack the encryption and such.:)
Just because you dislike something for one or more qualities doesn't mean you dislike something for all it's qualities. In this case the "overly critical" part of your name is quite literal.
Why not suggest improvements or things to make them "inspiring", then? Your post is the equivalent of saying I don't wanna be rude but I didn't really like what you had to say, then not going into any detail.
Well then a logical step would seem to be, if you insist on utilizing the developmental installer, to try and install the program in it's own directory.
The problem seems to be largely, if not entirely, with people installing the app directly into C:\Program Files (A folder named "Mozilla Firebird" would be a much more suitable location), which is bad practice for any Windows applications. The installer should borrow from the Seamonkey (Mozilla) installer and warns users if they're going to be deleting any files during the installation process, but users should also excercise common sense in system management.
While I am sorry to anyone who has lost their entire Program Files directory (Or other folders they've installed to) due to this issue (I do not consider it a bug and indeed it is a very, very good idea to wipe all current data in the installation directory so that you do not run into other problems), I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for people who dive head first into waters they do not know. They should've known that it's in development, and they should also know how to properly manage their system if they're dabbling in developmental software.
And your post is attention grabbing because you're simply trying to gain karma by playing the "Has anyone heard of THIS?!" game, without giving jack shit's worth of an explaination. Dumb comment my ass.
The mere fact that there's anything from 50 Cent on that list, esp. not on the bottom of the list, prompted this reaction in the IRC channel I regular:
[11:01] * @oddfox suddenly hurls all over his computer desk with no warning
Beware, those who would normally not read the article anyways: Your mental and physical well-being could very well depend on your not viewing the list.
I think he may be referring to this bug with the Firebird Windows installer which deletes non-Firebird files in the Firebird directory.
The bug seems rather harmless to me, but that's probably just because I don't understand why you'd put anything but Firebird in the Firebird directory. Everytime I upgrade to a new nightly (I've never used any of the installers, I don't trust them as much as I trust WinRAR and cut-paste) I just throw the files into the directory on top of what was in there before, overwriting any existing files. I don't see why you'd be doing upgrades with an installer.
Either way, whether or not he was referring to this bug, his post's got the stink of attention-grabbing.
Ah, sorry to hear you're having those problems.
I've never had a problem using/. in any browser I've used. Opera, Mozilla, IE, Konqueror, Lynx, Links, Elinks, Firebird, Galeon, Epiphany...
Well, actually, the little Dillo browser doesn't like to render/., but that's alright, because I only use it on incredibly rare occasions.
Well I can say with complete confidence that no, unlike yourself, I don't know of any plots being foiled that are ignored by the mass media while they love throwing around failure. A large amount of current terrorist suspects such as Jose Padilla are being held unconstitutionally for long periods of time w/out any charges being filed and access to a lawyer refused. Jose Padilla himself has been in a navy brig in South Carolina under military control since June 9, 2002.
Does anyone honestly think there's any sanity to holding people as terrorist suspects for indefinite amounts of time w/out any charges filed? It's a ludicrous abuse of power and, thankfully, the courts have ruled that any President of the United States of America cannot make such tyrannical decisions. I'm not calling Bush a tryrant here, I'm just observing the obvious, that this is wrong.
P.S. -- The PATRIOT Act didn't allow evedropping and wiretaps to take place, it simply made it so that law enforcement doesn't need warrants a lot of the time anymore. How do you think intelligence was gathered before the PATRIOT Act came storming through congress with little to no consideration and debate? There's a whole host of concerns regarding the PATRIOT Act, and for an in-depth overview, check the EFF's analysis page.
And it's not like everyone hasn't heard about the USA being warned ahead of time and something fishy was going on, even countries like Saudi Arabia were suspicious. Lot of good intelligence does when nobody pays attention.
What good is grub going to do you if your sytem has locked up, I wonder? A crashed framebuffer is bad mojo, and in case you didn't realize, it means your consoles will stop working until a reboot.
Sure you can configure grub to boot w/out utilizing the framebuffer, it's quite easy to do, but Linus and others obviously aren't complaining about a framebuffer taking the system down when there's no framebuffer in use in the first place.
Well, you instantly isolate yourself from Texstar's target audience when you mention "server", lol.
I myself don't usually pay much attention to a packager's name most of the time (Although you have to admit, it's very comforting to know it's a trusted source), but in the short time that I used Mandrake (I started out w/Linux when 8.2 was hot stuff), I installed Texstar's packages quite often to upgrade software, and also get new programs.
"Society" doesn't need to be any safer, and the crux of the matter is that my privacy is my own and is not up for trade. America needs to rediscover it's roots, badly, because people fought and died in the very revolution that birthed this nation for sovereignty and to a large degree, privacy.
To paraphrase the well-known Ben Franklin, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Live free or don't, I prefer not to see my country's ideals torn down for the sake of fear-mongering.
P.S. -- In case it hasn't been made clear, what we're afraid of is our nation becoming a police state managed through fear of some invisible enemy around the corner of every street whose going to run a plane into us. Personally, I can't believe you'd ever offer up your privacy for such an insignificant return. When was the last time you heard the Justice Department showing actual proof that the PATRIOT Act was a boon to the general public? When was the last time you heard about a terrorist plot being foiled thanks to what's been done recently? That's what I though, you havn't.
Hold on, many people here habitually abuse MS for making the "browser the OS" and certainly can spot feature-creep a mile away, but when it comes to KDE's browser its suddenly okay? I like having a whole seperate browser for web and use Nautilus for file browsing. Keeping WAN and Local/LAN seperate is a big plus in mine, and many other's books.
I agree with everything else in your post (Esp. about Moz/Firebird and it's excellent performance regarding tabbed browsing) except for this snippet. The reason people complain about Microsoft shoving Internet Explorer down their throat is because, quite frankly, it's impossible to remove it. Konqueror is not a required part of any KDE desktop. Konqueror also is quite transparent, you can use it for practically any network protocol (I enjoy using it as my FTP client, myself) just as easily as you can use it for local file management. Your Linux system won't barf all over itself if you don't have Konqueror, and there's nothing that requires you use Konqueror. You could just as easily use Nautilus in KDE (Although as far as I know, Nautilus will assimilate your desktop. I think you can disable this in the Nautilus preferences, tho), or Rox Filer. Ditto for separate web browsers as well as FTP clients (And other misc. softwares).
I think you may have been a little too quick to think that they Free/OSS communities are being hypocritical towards Microsoft when it comes to the whole IE integration thing relating to the KDE and Konqueror stuff. It may be a little bit of a feature creep, but there is no software shipped with the base KDE distribution that can handle the tasks that Konqueror handles. Besides, KDE doesn't have a monopoly to abuse, and Konqueror doesn't break standards like crazy, either, hehe.
We're talking about privacy issues, and if we're going to be specific, we're talking about OnStar privacy issues. However, you are apparently one of those people that enjoys playing the "You're off-topic" card whenever it's convenient for yourself. If you care about being on-topic on a "thread" you started, how about you nip it at the bud and say "Hey, I don't want to get into this shit because it's off-topic" but that's not what you did, you taunted.
Excuse me for answering your taunt.
By the way, anything is related to anything else. The OnStar (And similar systems in deployment) have serious privacy concerns, and you seem to have missed the part about the FBI court order in this whole thing. The government has already tried to take advantage of this privacy slip and don't think they won't try again anyways. It's ignorance like your own that allows governments to get away with ignoring the constitution. People say oh, boohoo, not only do I have nothing to hide, but I also don't care, so long as I'm "safe" for a bit longer!
Not only is OnStar and similar systems on the road to becoming a required component of any automobile, it's also run, mostly, by people that care about money. The government is run, mostly, by people that care about power. Money and power go hand in hand, and it doesn't take much to figure out that backdoor deals as well as exploits of flaws in the sytem will go ignored.
You may call us paranoid, but I, sir, call you blissfully ignorant in your own little world. Your naivete contributes more than you know to the maintenance of the status quo. Do some research on history and realize that things aren't all peachy below the surface.
P.S. -- Before you even attempt to claim that the court order is proof the gov't won't be allowed to get away with attempts at the same stunts, realize that it's the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals we're talking about here, and they're overturned quite often.
Hey, dumbass, get a clue and actually research what this guy's telling you. Is it so hard to listen to someone and check Google to see if they're full of it or not, instead of assuming they are?
Oh, but wait, you know everything and liberals are stupid. As if privacy knows party lines and liberal/conservative is relevant in this discussion.
Well most anyone's that used Mandrake Linux and third-party packages will have heard of Texstar sometime during their package-seeking. Texstar is one of the biggest names in the Mandrake community, and his packages are usually of pretty high caliber. I think he may have even done packages for some other popular distros, as well.
I'm pretty glad, myself, that if anyone was going to be making a Mandrake-based distro, it's Texstar. He seems to know his way around a Mandrake system or two.
Tipover point? XP ranks first at 42%! Yes, Microsoft's latest O/S (which the article seems to think is a dismal failure) accounts for almost half of all web access!
Uhhh, slow down there buddy, you're taking Google's stats and saying that because 42% of the people using Google are on Windows XP, 42% of web users are using Windows XP? That logic's kinda faulty, even though I would tend to agree that Windows XP users account for at least 40% of the web's userbase.
I may be wrong, though... Hope I am overestimating, myself.
Whoa, you mean the reason I'm a bit heavier than most other people, and have a tendency to generally be in a bad mood and shout curses everytime my computer gets a little slow might be related to how much light I get?
I think I'll keep the lights in the basement turned on from now on, then.;)
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Interesting, thanks for the info!
I wonder if RAR is so vulnerable? I store a bit of my own personal (sensitive) data in .rar archives, password protected and encrypted (Well, at least the filenames are, I dunno if the data is). I know there are programs that brute-force a password for RAR but I don't know of any that crack the encryption and such. :)
Just because you dislike something for one or more qualities doesn't mean you dislike something for all it's qualities. In this case the "overly critical" part of your name is quite literal.
Why not suggest improvements or things to make them "inspiring", then? Your post is the equivalent of saying I don't wanna be rude but I didn't really like what you had to say, then not going into any detail.
Well then a logical step would seem to be, if you insist on utilizing the developmental installer, to try and install the program in it's own directory.
The problem seems to be largely, if not entirely, with people installing the app directly into C:\Program Files (A folder named "Mozilla Firebird" would be a much more suitable location), which is bad practice for any Windows applications. The installer should borrow from the Seamonkey (Mozilla) installer and warns users if they're going to be deleting any files during the installation process, but users should also excercise common sense in system management.
While I am sorry to anyone who has lost their entire Program Files directory (Or other folders they've installed to) due to this issue (I do not consider it a bug and indeed it is a very, very good idea to wipe all current data in the installation directory so that you do not run into other problems), I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for people who dive head first into waters they do not know. They should've known that it's in development, and they should also know how to properly manage their system if they're dabbling in developmental software.
And your post is attention grabbing because you're simply trying to gain karma by playing the "Has anyone heard of THIS?!" game, without giving jack shit's worth of an explaination. Dumb comment my ass.
The mere fact that there's anything from 50 Cent on that list, esp. not on the bottom of the list, prompted this reaction in the IRC channel I regular:
Beware, those who would normally not read the article anyways: Your mental and physical well-being could very well depend on your not viewing the list.
I think he may be referring to this bug with the Firebird Windows installer which deletes non-Firebird files in the Firebird directory.
The bug seems rather harmless to me, but that's probably just because I don't understand why you'd put anything but Firebird in the Firebird directory. Everytime I upgrade to a new nightly (I've never used any of the installers, I don't trust them as much as I trust WinRAR and cut-paste) I just throw the files into the directory on top of what was in there before, overwriting any existing files. I don't see why you'd be doing upgrades with an installer.
Either way, whether or not he was referring to this bug, his post's got the stink of attention-grabbing.
Ah, sorry to hear you're having those problems. I've never had a problem using /. in any browser I've used. Opera, Mozilla, IE, Konqueror, Lynx, Links, Elinks, Firebird, Galeon, Epiphany...
Well, actually, the little Dillo browser doesn't like to render /., but that's alright, because I only use it on incredibly rare occasions.
Well I can say with complete confidence that no, unlike yourself, I don't know of any plots being foiled that are ignored by the mass media while they love throwing around failure. A large amount of current terrorist suspects such as Jose Padilla are being held unconstitutionally for long periods of time w/out any charges being filed and access to a lawyer refused. Jose Padilla himself has been in a navy brig in South Carolina under military control since June 9, 2002.
Does anyone honestly think there's any sanity to holding people as terrorist suspects for indefinite amounts of time w/out any charges filed? It's a ludicrous abuse of power and, thankfully, the courts have ruled that any President of the United States of America cannot make such tyrannical decisions. I'm not calling Bush a tryrant here, I'm just observing the obvious, that this is wrong.
P.S. -- The PATRIOT Act didn't allow evedropping and wiretaps to take place, it simply made it so that law enforcement doesn't need warrants a lot of the time anymore. How do you think intelligence was gathered before the PATRIOT Act came storming through congress with little to no consideration and debate? There's a whole host of concerns regarding the PATRIOT Act, and for an in-depth overview, check the EFF's analysis page.
And it's not like everyone hasn't heard about the USA being warned ahead of time and something fishy was going on, even countries like Saudi Arabia were suspicious. Lot of good intelligence does when nobody pays attention.
What good is grub going to do you if your sytem has locked up, I wonder? A crashed framebuffer is bad mojo, and in case you didn't realize, it means your consoles will stop working until a reboot.
Sure you can configure grub to boot w/out utilizing the framebuffer, it's quite easy to do, but Linus and others obviously aren't complaining about a framebuffer taking the system down when there's no framebuffer in use in the first place.
Heh, I hate to nitpick, but I think you mean the 21st century. ;)
Well, you instantly isolate yourself from Texstar's target audience when you mention "server", lol.
I myself don't usually pay much attention to a packager's name most of the time (Although you have to admit, it's very comforting to know it's a trusted source), but in the short time that I used Mandrake (I started out w/Linux when 8.2 was hot stuff), I installed Texstar's packages quite often to upgrade software, and also get new programs.
Sorry for the late reply, heh.
"Society" doesn't need to be any safer, and the crux of the matter is that my privacy is my own and is not up for trade. America needs to rediscover it's roots, badly, because people fought and died in the very revolution that birthed this nation for sovereignty and to a large degree, privacy .
To paraphrase the well-known Ben Franklin, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Live free or don't, I prefer not to see my country's ideals torn down for the sake of fear-mongering.
P.S. -- In case it hasn't been made clear, what we're afraid of is our nation becoming a police state managed through fear of some invisible enemy around the corner of every street whose going to run a plane into us. Personally, I can't believe you'd ever offer up your privacy for such an insignificant return. When was the last time you heard the Justice Department showing actual proof that the PATRIOT Act was a boon to the general public? When was the last time you heard about a terrorist plot being foiled thanks to what's been done recently? That's what I though, you havn't.
They Might Be Giants
Always a good way of thinkin' about these things. Get the work done and have fun later.
They're just small. I have to wonder why he didn't bother to make them readable. Maybe he resized the screenshot or something? Whatever...
P.S. -- Linux has had great fonts ever since freetype2 2.1.5 was released. You should try it sometime. Or take a peek of one of my old desktops.
Safari runs perfectly well, but so does Konqueror, and it does a lot more (Biggest: File management). It's a matter of choice, as usual.
Haha, nice job slipping the TMBG reference in.
gad_zuki! said:
I agree with everything else in your post (Esp. about Moz/Firebird and it's excellent performance regarding tabbed browsing) except for this snippet. The reason people complain about Microsoft shoving Internet Explorer down their throat is because, quite frankly, it's impossible to remove it. Konqueror is not a required part of any KDE desktop. Konqueror also is quite transparent, you can use it for practically any network protocol (I enjoy using it as my FTP client, myself) just as easily as you can use it for local file management. Your Linux system won't barf all over itself if you don't have Konqueror, and there's nothing that requires you use Konqueror. You could just as easily use Nautilus in KDE (Although as far as I know, Nautilus will assimilate your desktop. I think you can disable this in the Nautilus preferences, tho), or Rox Filer. Ditto for separate web browsers as well as FTP clients (And other misc. softwares).I think you may have been a little too quick to think that they Free/OSS communities are being hypocritical towards Microsoft when it comes to the whole IE integration thing relating to the KDE and Konqueror stuff. It may be a little bit of a feature creep, but there is no software shipped with the base KDE distribution that can handle the tasks that Konqueror handles. Besides, KDE doesn't have a monopoly to abuse, and Konqueror doesn't break standards like crazy, either, hehe.
We're talking about privacy issues, and if we're going to be specific, we're talking about OnStar privacy issues. However, you are apparently one of those people that enjoys playing the "You're off-topic" card whenever it's convenient for yourself. If you care about being on-topic on a "thread" you started, how about you nip it at the bud and say "Hey, I don't want to get into this shit because it's off-topic" but that's not what you did, you taunted.
Excuse me for answering your taunt.
By the way, anything is related to anything else. The OnStar (And similar systems in deployment) have serious privacy concerns, and you seem to have missed the part about the FBI court order in this whole thing. The government has already tried to take advantage of this privacy slip and don't think they won't try again anyways. It's ignorance like your own that allows governments to get away with ignoring the constitution. People say oh, boohoo, not only do I have nothing to hide, but I also don't care, so long as I'm "safe" for a bit longer!
Not only is OnStar and similar systems on the road to becoming a required component of any automobile, it's also run, mostly, by people that care about money. The government is run, mostly, by people that care about power. Money and power go hand in hand, and it doesn't take much to figure out that backdoor deals as well as exploits of flaws in the sytem will go ignored.
You may call us paranoid, but I, sir, call you blissfully ignorant in your own little world. Your naivete contributes more than you know to the maintenance of the status quo. Do some research on history and realize that things aren't all peachy below the surface.
P.S. -- Before you even attempt to claim that the court order is proof the gov't won't be allowed to get away with attempts at the same stunts, realize that it's the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals we're talking about here, and they're overturned quite often.
Hey, dumbass, get a clue and actually research what this guy's telling you. Is it so hard to listen to someone and check Google to see if they're full of it or not, instead of assuming they are?
Oh, but wait, you know everything and liberals are stupid. As if privacy knows party lines and liberal/conservative is relevant in this discussion.
Lol, thanks for the laugh, it's been pretty boring today.
P.S. -- For the record, Slackware and Gentoo are the only Linux distros I run anymore.
Whoa, if you aren't a flaming fanboy I don't know what you are.
Well most anyone's that used Mandrake Linux and third-party packages will have heard of Texstar sometime during their package-seeking. Texstar is one of the biggest names in the Mandrake community, and his packages are usually of pretty high caliber. I think he may have even done packages for some other popular distros, as well.
I'm pretty glad, myself, that if anyone was going to be making a Mandrake-based distro, it's Texstar. He seems to know his way around a Mandrake system or two.
Uhhh, slow down there buddy, you're taking Google's stats and saying that because 42% of the people using Google are on Windows XP, 42% of web users are using Windows XP? That logic's kinda faulty, even though I would tend to agree that Windows XP users account for at least 40% of the web's userbase.
I may be wrong, though... Hope I am overestimating, myself.
Whoa, you mean the reason I'm a bit heavier than most other people, and have a tendency to generally be in a bad mood and shout curses everytime my computer gets a little slow might be related to how much light I get?
I think I'll keep the lights in the basement turned on from now on, then. ;)