1. I have a job (full-time) 2. I live at home because it's too expensive to live in my own home 3. I don't have time, thats why I let it build when I sleep 4. Previous post by Anonymous Coward?
I use Gentoo as my distro of choice, for both my desktop and web server.
I have used Slackware in the past, and yes.. I found it easy to set-up. However, ever since switching to Gentoo I found that I actually prefer building my system sources! (proper geek!)
Slackware is just like any other Linux distro, they all have their good and bad points, weather it be performance, stability, usability, etc. Slackware is not a bad thing, and i've wondered into the Slack forums, newsgroups, irc chat rooms, etc.. and they all seem helpful enough.
Anyway, at the end of the day, it's not what distro you use, it's how you use it!;)
I hate to be picky but isn't Firefox designed for XP / 2k
Mozilla is a cross-platform web browser, it has not been specificly designed to run on one type of operaing system, such as Windows. There are also packages for most flavors of Linux/UNIX, including the source code.
so you'd think the devs might consider security flaws in them to be an important issue.
What Mozilla are doing is passing anything that the browser does not understand over to the OS, with a small hope that the OS will understand what it means. The bug aparantly affects Internet Explorer too, so it's more of a bug in the Windows OS more than anything.
First of all i'm a Linux user, so using the official client for me is next to impossible (I know there is a UNIX/Linux client, but who want's more then one IM application at once?)
I use Gaim as my IM of choice, it supports all protocols I use, MSN, ICQ, AIM, and Yahoo! Okay, I don't get all the features I would normally get from the official client, but I use it for simple IM messages and nothing more.
I don't want bells and whistles, I want a client that supports all protocols without the fluff and Gaim does just that.
Now if it does affect the Gaim client, I'm now gonna have to wait for a patch or update to come out *sigh*
...it's been/.ed, and there was me wanting to update my subscription details. *sigh*
I've been using Transgaming's WineX for a while now, and I can quite happly say what a wonderful achivement it really is!
I can play all my games under it, including Call of Duty, Farcry and more.
To get the official binarys, you need to be a subscribed member, and I'm quite pleased that I did. It works as it should and it does the job.. and the support for InstallShield is good.
Doing a fresh install of Gentoo 2004.1, I thought I would try out X.org's X11R6. After a short time compiling, the software was installed and ready to run. I found the xorgconfig program and ran it. After that I edited the xorg.conf in/etc/X11 and updated it to include my mouse settings.
Ran startx and there it was!.. Seemed to load a bit quicker than XFree.
I then emerged the nVidia GLX and Kernel drives, updated my xorg.conf and fired up X again, this time it reported "No screens found", due to the kernel module not being loaded, an lsmod later showed that it was there.
I copied the nVidia driver from/usr/portage/distfiles to/root and ran it myself, after doing this, another modprobe nvidia and a startx and up popped X, so this said to me there is something screwy with Gentoo's way of managing nVidia drivers.
Two days later, and it's working perfectly, already started another game of Farcry and Call of Duty! (Yes, they do run on Linux with a little bit of fiddling):)
Anyway, I can quite happly say that I am impressed with X.org's X11.
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I don't think the PHP engine is to blame, it's more of an issue with the PHP script developers to make sure they plug all the holes -- sure that's not always possible, however take PHPNuke as an example of poor PHP scripting, SQL injects are possible though a number of the modules. You have to add a high number of 3rd party patches to make the thing secure.
This Hardened PHP is just hand holding the developer into a false sence of security.
Another tool that compliments Ethereal, is EtherApe. It's a graphical network monitor that tells you what's talking to what. Useful to find out what's sucking up most of the bandwidth.
Sounds like this is starting to go a little off-topic, however...
The trouble today is that everyone compares our costs and pricing to the rest of the world. Each country is run differently.
It's going to take time for new technology in our country to reach the same standards and pricing as the rest of the world.
DSL is a relativly new technology to the UK, it's only been around for approx 5 years ( correct me if I'm wrong;) ) where as in some other countries it's been around for maybe 7 (I'm not sure of the facts).. so technically we're lagging behind, as this country always does.
Very true, but there are still a large number of areas that don't have cable, for example. my area does not have cable, therefore I can only get broadband internet via a DSL line.
The trouble is that BT dominates the Telecommunications market in the UK, until ISPs and other telephone companies/ISPs can unbundle the local loop, of course prices will be high.
although compared to the USA, the UK is a sick and twisted joke of pricing and speed, 2MBs for $120 anyone?
It's not a "sick and twisted" joke; it's just the way it is. If you were living in the UK, you would think our prices as being normal.
As for the US & Canada, the country is bigger, which equals more customers, more revenue, lower prices. It's simple math!
Prices are coming down on UK DSL (very slowly) and eventually they will be in line with the rest of the world. The main problem here is that there is very little competition in the Broadband market. Although the uptake on broadband has improved there is still more work to be done.
> I said the functionality of those IMs. What good is it when you are talking to someone and they want to send a file or open a web cam (MSN) and you can't do it?
Okay, they are not perfect, but what is in Linux? or even in Windows for that matter? -- And as a matter of fact, it is now possible to send files using Gaim over a few of the IM protocols.
> Thats great that you can do it, but how is the performance running on top of an emulator
Performance is just fine! No lag, just pure game play! Transgaming have done a VERY good job on WineX (http://www.transgaming.com)
> Was it as easy as if I did it in Windows? Would the company have supported you on Linux? Could the average home user have done the same thing?
With the 2.6 kernel, and the latest Gnome desktop, it is now possible to use Supermount. The kernel will automatically mount a device, such as a USB Digital Camera, and Gnome would pop-up "Would you like to download your photos now?" -- So it's starting to get easier, we just need a few more kernel developers to take more interest of the Desktop.
> Its not that you've optimised your system, its that you are willing to spend the time and effort to get things running or have accepted its limitations. I don't see this as beeing acceptable for the home desktop.
I can sit there for hours optimising a Windows XP machine for a few hours, no longer than I do with Linux.
I run a small unix shell provider running on BSD, and while I was running though this how-to, I came accross a number of things not set-up for a secure system.
Congrats to the wonderful person who wrote this document, I found it increadably useful!
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1. I have a job (full-time)
2. I live at home because it's too expensive to live in my own home
3. I don't have time, thats why I let it build when I sleep
4. Previous post by Anonymous Coward?
Do the drivers of these cars need to be digitally signed by Microsoft?
I use Gentoo as my distro of choice, for both my desktop and web server.
;)
I have used Slackware in the past, and yes.. I found it easy to set-up. However, ever since switching to Gentoo I found that I actually prefer building my system sources! (proper geek!)
Slackware is just like any other Linux distro, they all have their good and bad points, weather it be performance, stability, usability, etc. Slackware is not a bad thing, and i've wondered into the Slack forums, newsgroups, irc chat rooms, etc.. and they all seem helpful enough.
Anyway, at the end of the day, it's not what distro you use, it's how you use it!
I hate to be picky but isn't Firefox designed for XP / 2k
Mozilla is a cross-platform web browser, it has not been specificly designed to run on one type of operaing system, such as Windows. There are also packages for most flavors of Linux/UNIX, including the source code.
so you'd think the devs might consider security flaws in them to be an important issue.
What Mozilla are doing is passing anything that the browser does not understand over to the OS, with a small hope that the OS will understand what it means. The bug aparantly affects Internet Explorer too, so it's more of a bug in the Windows OS more than anything.
If ThinkGeek had these in stock, I would go buy myself one! :D
First of all i'm a Linux user, so using the official client for me is next to impossible (I know there is a UNIX/Linux client, but who want's more then one IM application at once?)
I use Gaim as my IM of choice, it supports all protocols I use, MSN, ICQ, AIM, and Yahoo! Okay, I don't get all the features I would normally get from the official client, but I use it for simple IM messages and nothing more.
I don't want bells and whistles, I want a client that supports all protocols without the fluff and Gaim does just that.
Now if it does affect the Gaim client, I'm now gonna have to wait for a patch or update to come out *sigh*
...it's been /.ed, and there was me wanting to update my subscription details. *sigh*
I've been using Transgaming's WineX for a while now, and I can quite happly say what a wonderful achivement it really is!
I can play all my games under it, including Call of Duty, Farcry and more.
To get the official binarys, you need to be a subscribed member, and I'm quite pleased that I did. It works as it should and it does the job.. and the support for InstallShield is good.
Of course nothing would have happened to him.. he ordered a HAMburger, not a BEEFburger.
However, there is very little evidence that McDonnalds burgers contain any soft meat at all, so after all, your story could be accurate.
Doing a fresh install of Gentoo 2004.1, I thought I would try out X.org's X11R6. After a short time compiling, the software was installed and ready to run. I found the xorgconfig program and ran it. After that I edited the xorg.conf in /etc/X11 and updated it to include my mouse settings.
.. Seemed to load a bit quicker than XFree.
/usr/portage/distfiles to /root and ran it myself, after doing this, another modprobe nvidia and a startx and up popped X, so this said to me there is something screwy with Gentoo's way of managing nVidia drivers.
:)
Ran startx and there it was!
I then emerged the nVidia GLX and Kernel drives, updated my xorg.conf and fired up X again, this time it reported "No screens found", due to the kernel module not being loaded, an lsmod later showed that it was there.
I copied the nVidia driver from
Two days later, and it's working perfectly, already started another game of Farcry and Call of Duty! (Yes, they do run on Linux with a little bit of fiddling)
Anyway, I can quite happly say that I am impressed with X.org's X11.
I don't think the PHP engine is to blame, it's more of an issue with the PHP script developers to make sure they plug all the holes -- sure that's not always possible, however take PHPNuke as an example of poor PHP scripting, SQL injects are possible though a number of the modules. You have to add a high number of 3rd party patches to make the thing secure.
This Hardened PHP is just hand holding the developer into a false sence of security.
Another tool that compliments Ethereal, is EtherApe. It's a graphical network monitor that tells you what's talking to what. Useful to find out what's sucking up most of the bandwidth.
Sounds like this is starting to go a little off-topic, however...
;) ) where as in some other countries it's been around for maybe 7 (I'm not sure of the facts).. so technically we're lagging behind, as this country always does.
The trouble today is that everyone compares our costs and pricing to the rest of the world. Each country is run differently.
It's going to take time for new technology in our country to reach the same standards and pricing as the rest of the world.
DSL is a relativly new technology to the UK, it's only been around for approx 5 years ( correct me if I'm wrong
Very true, but there are still a large number of areas that don't have cable, for example. my area does not have cable, therefore I can only get broadband internet via a DSL line.
The trouble is that BT dominates the Telecommunications market in the UK, until ISPs and other telephone companies/ISPs can unbundle the local loop, of course prices will be high.
although compared to the USA, the UK is a sick and twisted joke of pricing and speed, 2MBs for $120 anyone?
It's not a "sick and twisted" joke; it's just the way it is. If you were living in the UK, you would think our prices as being normal.
As for the US & Canada, the country is bigger, which equals more customers, more revenue, lower prices. It's simple math!
Prices are coming down on UK DSL (very slowly) and eventually they will be in line with the rest of the world. The main problem here is that there is very little competition in the Broadband market. Although the uptake on broadband has improved there is still more work to be done.
> I said the functionality of those IMs. What good is it when you are talking to someone and they want to send a file or open a web cam (MSN) and you can't do it? Okay, they are not perfect, but what is in Linux? or even in Windows for that matter? -- And as a matter of fact, it is now possible to send files using Gaim over a few of the IM protocols. > Thats great that you can do it, but how is the performance running on top of an emulator Performance is just fine! No lag, just pure game play! Transgaming have done a VERY good job on WineX (http://www.transgaming.com) > Was it as easy as if I did it in Windows? Would the company have supported you on Linux? Could the average home user have done the same thing? With the 2.6 kernel, and the latest Gnome desktop, it is now possible to use Supermount. The kernel will automatically mount a device, such as a USB Digital Camera, and Gnome would pop-up "Would you like to download your photos now?" -- So it's starting to get easier, we just need a few more kernel developers to take more interest of the Desktop. > Its not that you've optimised your system, its that you are willing to spend the time and effort to get things running or have accepted its limitations. I don't see this as beeing acceptable for the home desktop. I can sit there for hours optimising a Windows XP machine for a few hours, no longer than I do with Linux.
I run a small unix shell provider running on BSD, and while I was running though this how-to, I came accross a number of things not set-up for a secure system.
Congrats to the wonderful person who wrote this document, I found it increadably useful!
Are you allowed to carry them holstered when you're cycling to work? It's unlikely.