It's not funny. I had a similar experience. GRUB just did not work when I installed RedHat 9, I had to boot off CD in restore mode, copy sample lilo config to a normal lilo file, run lilo manually... and it worked fine.
I built Mozilla from source on RedHat (because I wanted to add some features to the browser) and fonts were just horrible (wrong size, illegible, etc.) I gave up on tweaking them since nothing worked right (huge font size changes while making small font size changes in various font-setting places). I deleted the Linux partition and repartitioned the drive to give it all back to Windows. It's not a great OS, but at least fonts work well.
I used Linux for many years and RedHat, Mandrake and Debian all had font problems that I spent countless hours working around. I don't remember whether SuSE had these problems because I didn't use it much. Maybe I should check.
I went to 1 school for a year, aced it, transferred to an Ivy League school and went there for 4 more years. At my first school I lived on campus for the first semester. It was terrible. My roommate was a druggy smoking pot, taking LSD, etc. right in my room. There were drunken girls getting into my room in the middle of the night because I forgot to lock the door. Sometimes I think I could hear people having sex right in the hallway. I went through the second semester and subsequent 4 years at an Ivy League school (most of my classes didn't count for transfer credit, but I didn't regret taking classes over) without living on campus or joining a frat: the former would have been unaffordable (my family was poor and I lived with them) and the latter dangerous to my health (alcoholism, bizarre initiation rituals). I am glad I lived off campus. One way to tolerate people you don't like is to deal them on a professional basis only. Living with them makes it personal and shows your ability to handle personal, not professional, situations.
Their answer is not quite correct. Some programs (try "pause" in Command Prompt) that ask for "any key" will not accept keys like Shift, Ctrl, Alt, etc. I think Compaq should develop their own keyboards with the Any key built in. That will make things much simpler.
Actually there is an HTML IE5+ exploit that lets you embed a command to execute right into HTML. It doesn't require ActiveX, JavaScript or Java. It works even in highest security setting. It has no known patches. There is only one known workaround that involves changing a registry value that's not configurable through any dialog box. I will not present the exploit here for fear that someone would actually try what I am about to describe.
I verified that the exploit works even on a system with all patches on, provided that you turn off antivirus software such as Norton Antivirus. So it would actually be possible to modify the virus to have it execute automatically as soon as users view the HTML email that it sends in IE-based mail viewers such as Outlook.
I am a programmer on flex time and I actually have maximum weekly hours (40). I can work less. I don't get paid for more than 40 hours, so it's a good way of stopping me from overworking myself which I tended to do in my past jobs because I love my work so much.
By removing whitespace you collapsed a number of distinct substrings, i.e. what used to be different substrings of the form A\s+B are now represented as just one substring AB. A smaller set of distinct substrings leads to better compression.
One could write a driver running on top on NTFS that does just that. We don't need to wait for Microsoft to do it. That would rock.
Your procedure is very similar to what I do in my own system I wrote for work that actually intercepts file requests and provides transparent security. The difference is that my system lives in userspace.
It's really a problem with bad applications. If they wrote their settings (or changes to settings) only to C:\Documents and Settings\Some current user and its subdirectories, it would not be a problem. But I agree, it is very frustrating. What I tended to do is find out which files they need to write and change security attributes on them to be writable by the limited user. Sometimes it's hard to find all such files, so I ended up making the whole directory they use writable by the limited user... The whole process was such a huge hassle that I now just have Administrative privileges and have an XP firewall running.
I've seen many comments from people on how to secure Windows that sound like "Don't run with admin privileges. Duh!" I wish they tried it and saw how hard it is to get things working properly under non-admin. Bad, bad apps with no source code to fix them!
I've been trying to design a system where multiple users can log into the same machine and receive their own desktop. On Linux it's trivial: start multiple X servers and each user gets their own GUI. On Windows the GUI is tightly coupled into the system and you just can't start multiple instances of it. (If you can, please prove me wrong). I'll probably have to do some trick where each user only receives their own window, but they will be really hard to manage. So Windows GUI does impose some serious limitations on what can be done.
I love it that I don't have friends, am in nobody's address book and don't get virus emails. I don't get more than 5 spams a day either, which get filtered by Mozilla completely reliably. A coworker is getting about 20 virus emails every 5 minutes... I get 0. I get so few emails I actually read spam sometimes out of boredom. I would miss spam if I didn't get any. So my advice to you: lose your friends. I used to have friends, but they are not worth all the hassle.
Suppose that a new vulnerability is found and there is *no* patch yet by Microsoft. If you are running an open-source system, you can hire someone to write you a patch. With Windows you don't have that luxury. Also, some services in Windows (e.g. RPC) cannot be shut down. So if there is a new vulnerability in it and simultaneously in the closed-source firewall blocking the port, you are screwed.
I think you are interpreting "superset" too literally. The author clearly meant a superset of features, not a mere "let's copy everything they did" with some pretty gimmicks thrown in. This is not "Embrace and Extend", it's simply doing the same job much better. OpenOffice is not an "embrace and extend" path that starts with Microsoft Office, and GNU is not an "embrace and extend" path for Unix. In reality it's just a healthy alternative and competition.
For a few months I have been feeling that a good revision control system is really needed for the open source community. CVS has numerous problems that I may describe later in some article. I've started looking at other systems out there and designing things. Thankfully, I've never used BitKeeper so I am not violating their license. I had no idea that they had that terrible clause in it. If Microsoft had it in Windows, no Linux kernel developers could use Windows! A "similar system" is a broader definition than "a clone".
In many cases you can control what you read out of what's sent to you. I can see addresses from which connections to me are attempted. I can deny various UDP and TCP connections. It would be nice if ISPs provided custom versions of ZoneAlarm Pro (along with some Linux version of it;-)), modified to do "approved" bandwidth tracking right at the client side. Then customers would be happy because they get good firewall features, and ISPs would be happy because they could see precise bandwidth intentionally consumed by the client. One would hope that such software will not be hackable.
I think the main problem with broadband is the method ISPs charge for Internet access. I propose that, since broadband ISPs are virtually a monopoly, they should all just get switch away from flat rates and charge per bytes transferred. RIAA will be happy too since the cost of bandwidth will then effectively eliminate many P2P swappers. ISPs will then have more money and will be able to provide service to more areas.
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It's not funny. I had a similar experience. GRUB just did not work when I installed RedHat 9, I had to boot off CD in restore mode, copy sample lilo config to a normal lilo file, run lilo manually... and it worked fine.
I built Mozilla from source on RedHat (because I wanted to add some features to the browser) and fonts were just horrible (wrong size, illegible, etc.) I gave up on tweaking them since nothing worked right (huge font size changes while making small font size changes in various font-setting places). I deleted the Linux partition and repartitioned the drive to give it all back to Windows. It's not a great OS, but at least fonts work well.
I used Linux for many years and RedHat, Mandrake and Debian all had font problems that I spent countless hours working around. I don't remember whether SuSE had these problems because I didn't use it much. Maybe I should check.
I went to 1 school for a year, aced it, transferred to an Ivy League school and went there for 4 more years. At my first school I lived on campus for the first semester. It was terrible. My roommate was a druggy smoking pot, taking LSD, etc. right in my room. There were drunken girls getting into my room in the middle of the night because I forgot to lock the door. Sometimes I think I could hear people having sex right in the hallway. I went through the second semester and subsequent 4 years at an Ivy League school (most of my classes didn't count for transfer credit, but I didn't regret taking classes over) without living on campus or joining a frat: the former would have been unaffordable (my family was poor and I lived with them) and the latter dangerous to my health (alcoholism, bizarre initiation rituals). I am glad I lived off campus. One way to tolerate people you don't like is to deal them on a professional basis only. Living with them makes it personal and shows your ability to handle personal, not professional, situations.
I used a Synactics Touchpad on a Dell laptop even back with 2.4 kernels without any problems.
Their answer is not quite correct. Some programs (try "pause" in Command Prompt) that ask for "any key" will not accept keys like Shift, Ctrl, Alt, etc. I think Compaq should develop their own keyboards with the Any key built in. That will make things much simpler.
Nope, not this one.
I verified that the exploit works even on a system with all patches on, provided that you turn off antivirus software such as Norton Antivirus. So it would actually be possible to modify the virus to have it execute automatically as soon as users view the HTML email that it sends in IE-based mail viewers such as Outlook.
I am a programmer on flex time and I actually have maximum weekly hours (40). I can work less. I don't get paid for more than 40 hours, so it's a good way of stopping me from overworking myself which I tended to do in my past jobs because I love my work so much.
By removing whitespace you collapsed a number of distinct substrings, i.e. what used to be different substrings of the form A\s+B are now represented as just one substring AB. A smaller set of distinct substrings leads to better compression.
One could write a driver running on top on NTFS that does just that. We don't need to wait for Microsoft to do it. That would rock. Your procedure is very similar to what I do in my own system I wrote for work that actually intercepts file requests and provides transparent security. The difference is that my system lives in userspace.
It's really a problem with bad applications. If they wrote their settings (or changes to settings) only to C:\Documents and Settings\Some current user and its subdirectories, it would not be a problem. But I agree, it is very frustrating. What I tended to do is find out which files they need to write and change security attributes on them to be writable by the limited user. Sometimes it's hard to find all such files, so I ended up making the whole directory they use writable by the limited user... The whole process was such a huge hassle that I now just have Administrative privileges and have an XP firewall running.
I've seen many comments from people on how to secure Windows that sound like "Don't run with admin privileges. Duh!" I wish they tried it and saw how hard it is to get things working properly under non-admin. Bad, bad apps with no source code to fix them!
I've been trying to design a system where multiple users can log into the same machine and receive their own desktop. On Linux it's trivial: start multiple X servers and each user gets their own GUI. On Windows the GUI is tightly coupled into the system and you just can't start multiple instances of it. (If you can, please prove me wrong). I'll probably have to do some trick where each user only receives their own window, but they will be really hard to manage. So Windows GUI does impose some serious limitations on what can be done.
I love it that I don't have friends, am in nobody's address book and don't get virus emails. I don't get more than 5 spams a day either, which get filtered by Mozilla completely reliably. A coworker is getting about 20 virus emails every 5 minutes... I get 0. I get so few emails I actually read spam sometimes out of boredom. I would miss spam if I didn't get any. So my advice to you: lose your friends. I used to have friends, but they are not worth all the hassle.
I didn't see hard drives on their parts list. Why is that? How do they boot them up?!
That's not a mod, they just got this case.
Suppose that a new vulnerability is found and there is *no* patch yet by Microsoft. If you are running an open-source system, you can hire someone to write you a patch. With Windows you don't have that luxury. Also, some services in Windows (e.g. RPC) cannot be shut down. So if there is a new vulnerability in it and simultaneously in the closed-source firewall blocking the port, you are screwed.
For a few months I have been feeling that a good revision control system is really needed for the open source community. CVS has numerous problems that I may describe later in some article. I've started looking at other systems out there and designing things. Thankfully, I've never used BitKeeper so I am not violating their license. I had no idea that they had that terrible clause in it. If Microsoft had it in Windows, no Linux kernel developers could use Windows! A "similar system" is a broader definition than "a clone".
In many cases you can control what you read out of what's sent to you. I can see addresses from which connections to me are attempted. I can deny various UDP and TCP connections. It would be nice if ISPs provided custom versions of ZoneAlarm Pro (along with some Linux version of it ;-)), modified to do "approved" bandwidth tracking right at the client side. Then customers would be happy because they get good firewall features, and ISPs would be happy because they could see precise bandwidth intentionally consumed by the client. One would hope that such software will not be hackable.
I think the main problem with broadband is the method ISPs charge for Internet access. I propose that, since broadband ISPs are virtually a monopoly, they should all just get switch away from flat rates and charge per bytes transferred. RIAA will be happy too since the cost of bandwidth will then effectively eliminate many P2P swappers. ISPs will then have more money and will be able to provide service to more areas.