And how hard is it for the installer to set a cron job to run 'apt-get update;apt-get upgrade' at every logon or 24 hour increments thereafter? This requires _no_ user interraction - less so than Windows Update or whatever magical solution they were using on their last box. And if they really want a graphical solution then Synaptic is great for that purpose.
Also, what's the point of letting people use what they know? If F/OSS inherits familiar characteristics from proprietary software then it's going to bring some bad ones with it too - why have to wean them off it later when you can start immediately?
I guess they'd get round dependancies the same way apt does - go to the repository, if it asks for dependancies that you don't currently have, then queue them for download too.
Also, I think a newbie wouldn't be impressed about having to copy the file in the command prompt - especially if permissions started getting in the way. Maybe just have a shell script called "Install" on the distribution media and give it a nice icon?;)
Sounds like the kind of thing that'll encourage similar behaviour to Windows whereby things get installed without the user "knowing" or "noticing". How long before Gator had something out via this? Although, that said, it does look very nice and I will be trying it out with a view to adding it to my "Convert to Linux" arsenal on the friends and family front:)
A slashdotting is an honour, not a disgrace;) The sistes of many commercial adventures have gone down after a couple of comments - hell, some have even gone down while the story is still in "The Distant Future" waiting for the front page. A slashdotting is nothing to be ashamed of.
Using XML makes it far easier to write the code that reads the format. If you use an XML format you can't be acc#used of lock-in because if a developer wishes for his app to read your format then all he has to do is hook an xml parser and interpret it. Now take that in comparison with an encrypted binary format...
First problem: Spammers abuse the system and find the compromised targets and set out to abuse them before the well meaning sysadmin has so much as raised a finger.
IIRC it's possible to write OpenOffice macros in Perl (Though it probably takes some nasty hacked API to do it). And of course, given how easy it is to embed a Perl interpretter into C apps (possibly moreso with Parrot) then there's really no reason why it can't be used for game scripts.
a)The jpeg virus "hoax" was down to IE interpretting a jpeg as a VBS file. That's perfectly normal - if you name a shell script "harmless_image.jpeg", provided the shell sees the #!/usr/bin/shell line, then it's going to see a script and execute it as such.
b)You wouldn't think that an overly long PASS string sent to an ftp server would be able to execute commands - but it can. If you can overflow a buffer and force it to work it's way back up the stack then you could convince mouse gestures to execute commands.
Am I the only one to ask "What's the point?"? It's very pretty 'n' all, but why bother when you can put your money towards the laptop itself rather than an industrial strength coat of paint. Not to mention the fact that you're paying for the brand too. Maybe it's nice to have it as a status symbol, but that's all it is. And yes, I did RTFA.
But do we really want the book to only scratch the surface in many languages rather than give it thoroughly indepth with a single language? I often find it frustrating when chapter upon chapter is dedicated to a language I'll never use. If however you want lots of other languages covered, the MySQL Cookbook by O'Reilly has good scenario based discussions of using MySQL with PHP, JSP (as you wanted) as well as Python and Perl.
*Bill finds his son reading a pr0n mag* Bill: "Son, I'm so ashamed!" Son: "I'm sorry Dad." Bill: "You should have been using my new program, Microsoft Porn for Windows!" *Opens up the application* Bill: "Wow, nice hooters ^_^!"
Or maybe they actually gave the evidence - you don't normally see the huge (or otherwise) dossiers of collected for a trial in media until maybe after the trial as ended. Just because somebody is interested doesn't mean it will change. In fact, it would probably do SCO better to keep it closed so that we can't go grepping through the source tree to find these alleged infringements.
It shouldn't do. Personally if I wouldn't wish to rely on somebody else possibly less competent than my less than competent self to keep a WiFi service up and running. After all, if you want something doing right, do it yourself. Besides, those willing to pay for it wouldn't be able to serve whole cities, would they? It would be quite possible that this could generate an increase in demand from those who want the free equipment and cant get a signal where they live - there is afterall only a certain range over which this tech works, right?
The same way a cell phone does I suppose. Keep the card scanning for a signal and give us a little indicator in the corner of the screen telling us the strength/availability of a signal.
This is just asking for the next major worm. If Joe Public can't configure his win box through a nice comfy GUI or update it now and again, he's going to have a hell of a time securing shared WiFi hardware. Sure, it would be nice to be able to say browse the web while waiting for a train or check your e-mail on the bus going into work. What however isn't so nice is the prospect of having your entire local area being compromised and being used as zombies in DDOS attacks and God knows what else. Maybe we should wait until they can protect their own boxes before trusting them as a gateway for someone elses?
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We invented it, give us the name back. If anything, the parent is insightful as to the American attitude to the rest of the world. Flamebait it isn't.
And how hard is it for the installer to set a cron job to run 'apt-get update;apt-get upgrade' at every logon or 24 hour increments thereafter? This requires _no_ user interraction - less so than Windows Update or whatever magical solution they were using on their last box. And if they really want a graphical solution then Synaptic is great for that purpose.
Also, what's the point of letting people use what they know? If F/OSS inherits familiar characteristics from proprietary software then it's going to bring some bad ones with it too - why have to wean them off it later when you can start immediately?
I wasn't actually focussing on that aspect. More the point and click install and run :-\
I guess they'd get round dependancies the same way apt does - go to the repository, if it asks for dependancies that you don't currently have, then queue them for download too. Also, I think a newbie wouldn't be impressed about having to copy the file in the command prompt - especially if permissions started getting in the way. Maybe just have a shell script called "Install" on the distribution media and give it a nice icon? ;)
And it doesn't remind you of Windows's "Program Files" too?
Sounds like the kind of thing that'll encourage similar behaviour to Windows whereby things get installed without the user "knowing" or "noticing". How long before Gator had something out via this? Although, that said, it does look very nice and I will be trying it out with a view to adding it to my "Convert to Linux" arsenal on the friends and family front :)
It's duplo you insensitive clod!
A slashdotting is an honour, not a disgrace ;) The sistes of many commercial adventures have gone down after a couple of comments - hell, some have even gone down while the story is still in "The Distant Future" waiting for the front page. A slashdotting is nothing to be ashamed of.
Using XML makes it far easier to write the code that reads the format. If you use an XML format you can't be acc#used of lock-in because if a developer wishes for his app to read your format then all he has to do is hook an xml parser and interpret it. Now take that in comparison with an encrypted binary format...
And you say this on a community that lives off downloads of large files? Think linux iso for a second...
Maybe he is the admin? o.0
First problem: Spammers abuse the system and find the compromised targets and set out to abuse them before the well meaning sysadmin has so much as raised a finger.
IIRC it's possible to write OpenOffice macros in Perl (Though it probably takes some nasty hacked API to do it). And of course, given how easy it is to embed a Perl interpretter into C apps (possibly moreso with Parrot) then there's really no reason why it can't be used for game scripts.
a)The jpeg virus "hoax" was down to IE interpretting a jpeg as a VBS file. That's perfectly normal - if you name a shell script "harmless_image.jpeg", provided the shell sees the #!/usr/bin/shell line, then it's going to see a script and execute it as such.
b)You wouldn't think that an overly long PASS string sent to an ftp server would be able to execute commands - but it can. If you can overflow a buffer and force it to work it's way back up the stack then you could convince mouse gestures to execute commands.
Am I the only one to ask "What's the point?"? It's very pretty 'n' all, but why bother when you can put your money towards the laptop itself rather than an industrial strength coat of paint. Not to mention the fact that you're paying for the brand too. Maybe it's nice to have it as a status symbol, but that's all it is. And yes, I did RTFA.
But do we really want the book to only scratch the surface in many languages rather than give it thoroughly indepth with a single language? I often find it frustrating when chapter upon chapter is dedicated to a language I'll never use. If however you want lots of other languages covered, the MySQL Cookbook by O'Reilly has good scenario based discussions of using MySQL with PHP, JSP (as you wanted) as well as Python and Perl.
It's going to give the rich kids yet another spec increase to show off about ;)
Are you so sure? We have slashdotted some pretty nasty people in the past ;-)
Or maybe they actually gave the evidence - you don't normally see the huge (or otherwise) dossiers of collected for a trial in media until maybe after the trial as ended. Just because somebody is interested doesn't mean it will change. In fact, it would probably do SCO better to keep it closed so that we can't go grepping through the source tree to find these alleged infringements.
It's alright, the story's been up two minutes - we aren't able to read them either way ;-)
It shouldn't do. Personally if I wouldn't wish to rely on somebody else possibly less competent than my less than competent self to keep a WiFi service up and running. After all, if you want something doing right, do it yourself. Besides, those willing to pay for it wouldn't be able to serve whole cities, would they? It would be quite possible that this could generate an increase in demand from those who want the free equipment and cant get a signal where they live - there is afterall only a certain range over which this tech works, right?
The same way a cell phone does I suppose. Keep the card scanning for a signal and give us a little indicator in the corner of the screen telling us the strength/availability of a signal.
This is just asking for the next major worm. If Joe Public can't configure his win box through a nice comfy GUI or update it now and again, he's going to have a hell of a time securing shared WiFi hardware. Sure, it would be nice to be able to say browse the web while waiting for a train or check your e-mail on the bus going into work. What however isn't so nice is the prospect of having your entire local area being compromised and being used as zombies in DDOS attacks and God knows what else. Maybe we should wait until they can protect their own boxes before trusting them as a gateway for someone elses?