Me too, proving once more that data is not the plural of anecdote. Personally I feel like it's a toss-up either way. I've had my share of horror stories in windows and linux.
I still don't feel the configuration mechanisms they've come up with so far in linux are up to scratch though. The original stuff such as the ifupdown-tools are really more suited to very static environments. Networkmanager can be nice but it really sucks at any kind of error reporting and is not yet (in the latest version of ubuntu) at what I would call production level in terms of quality.
As for windows, well, I don't actually use it much nowadays, but it occurs to me the things I hate about networkmanager (such as sometimes very crappy error reporting capability) is exactly the thing that annoys me in windows as well. While some stuff does get logged to syslog it seems you're forever guessing what is happening in the background. Not a problem if everything "just works" but I tend to like/dislike stuff based on how much of a crapshoot it is when things don't work.
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If heavy sustained rain does not fall on the Tennessee River Valley over the next 3 to 4 months an event which is historically unlikely[...] That seems to suggest to me he's saying it's historically unlikely to rain. He should really have used proper grammar and punctuation, but I think in this case you're the one making an idiot out of yourself.
Jesus Christ, the forums must be full of crap. ALL you need to do is install mplayer, or VLC, or if you want to watch DVDs in Totem, totem-xine and libdvdcss2. No config editing or any of that crap. That is unfortunately all too true. A lot of the problems many people seem to have in ubuntu are caused by the forums rather than solved by them. I myself have fixed many broken installs and fired off some irate messages on the forums. If you're not very knowledgeable about linux, don't start posting guides on the internet. It doesn't help much.
I also find that many problems would have been avoided if Ubuntu went through the trouble of providing a bit more documentation. Also, many people do not seem to even know about the files installed in/usr/share/doc.
I'm not an expert on US law but you'd think they'd have to know that these people are innocent before suing them for it to count as malicious prosecution. If you'd get slapped with that every time you sue the wrong person for a crime, then the government would be out of business pretty darn fast. Obviously the RIAA just blanket prosecute anyone whose name they can tie to a copyright infringement and aren't too concerned about checking of the validity of their data. That's neglect, but not malicious intent.
Libraries change all the time in Linux, every time I update a program in yast it wants to grab new libraries, are those programs all broken? I'm not suggesting it can be avoided....its just massive complexity for little gain since the program must be updated for the new library anyway, and it annoys the hell out of people who have no desire to put their programs in repositories. In general, when the interface of the library changes, the distros change the soname. This way you can keep an old library around for a long time, it doesn't even have to be in the current repository any more. That the crop of libraries changes constantly doesn't mean the old ones aren't usable anymore. There are often several versions of important libraries installed at the same time. (think libd4.2, libd4.3) This also means that updating a library does not mean you have to update the software that uses that library. Not unless, of course, the software was badly designed or the package maintainers made a mistake (it happens).
OTOH, playing devil's advocate, a missile shield would (theoretically) stop missiles coming from a terrorist group were they to acquire one. You're either being disingenuous or you don't know what you're talking about. The only type of missile this missile shield would stop would be an IBCM. Any other type, like the ones that terrorists would use, would not get out far enough and not take long enough to hit to be able to intercept it. Terrorists would simply be able to boat up to the country in question and launch their missile from international waters, which is definitely very frightening to think of, but it has nothing to do with the missile shield.
What a working missile shield will do is completely upset the power balance that has been in place since the cold war. It will cause all other nuclear capable countries to start working on their own missile shield and likely begin another arms race, as the only means of defeating a missile shield will probably be shear volume. It would therefore make us less secure and not more. Building one of them things is a sign of fatal short-sightedness.
The bundling of IE was only a problem in a time when everybody wasn't so well connected to the internet. Downloading netscape was a big hurdle for many people at the time MS started bundling IE, but it certainly isn't any more.
Who actually thinks that the things they have done are so bad that google will be able to blackmail them or whatever? YOU LOOKED AT PR0N A FEW TIMES, OH NOESS!!! I mean come on.. google could probably help identity thieves if they wanted to be really mean, but I doubt that would happen. Well, I hope that wouldn't happen. Oh crap:o
If you're a catholic priest, that might be sufficient blackmail material. The thing is, if you know everything a person does there's a good chance you'll find some dirt on them you could use, for the specific social environment they live in. Now you probably wouldn't want to blackmail a priest (what for?) but the average (american) politician would probably have to kiss his career goodbye if he was caught browsing manloverules.com on a daily basis. Adjust orientation/fetish for local politics.
The real danger by the way is not that google is going to use this data, because they probably won't. They don't want to get into the business of blackmailing politicians. But what if other people, who manage to infiltrate one of their datacenters, get to the data? These could be some very malicious people (i.e. the CIA) intent on doing a lot of damage. Now me, I'm not very paranoid about what gets out on the internet about my browsing habits, but if you are in a sensitive position and/or doing stuff you don't want the rest of the world to know about, you better take action accordingly.
Strigi is a fast and good search program, and it will be part of KDE 4 (it's still desktop-neutral, however). There's also Beagle which supports more file formats and whatnot, but it requires mono (C#) to run and is a bit of a resource hog.
I don't think that's a fair characterization. I run beagle on some quite old hardware and while there might be some slowdown while indexing (crappy IDE pretty much slows everything down when random disk access occurs) it is overall quite fast and not at all a resource hog. Unless if you count 28MB of memory as resource hogging.
I have on the other hand been bit by bugs in both beagle and meta tracker where they seem to get stuck in infinite loops indexing the same data over and over again, or decide for some unknown reason not to index a particular file. Beagle seems to have gotten better at this lately, still waiting for a new release of tracker to test and see if it's got some of these little bugs fixed.
You are sad. It's people like you that make me proud to be an American. You would never hear anyone talk like that here. Your country is lost. Get out while you still can. (emphasis mine)
That's kind of disingenuous after first trying to argue that macs are actually cheaper. Clearly they are not on all price points, definitely not on the low end. More or less on the high end.
I have no idea why this is modded troll because the parent is exactly correct. Portrait rights typically include an exception for pictures of celebrities where it is okay to photograph them. In several countries it also only applies if the work in question is a portrait (i.e. not just a random street which happened to have some pedestrians), so it's quite possible that there is no problem at all.
BS. You'd have to use the username/password for the person's account to use the ISP smtp server. So unless the person actually uses the crappy ISP email, I doubt they'll get that. I don't know of any ISP (in this country) that requires authentication on their SMTP servers, they just check if it's one of their IPs. Of course they can still use other tactics to determine if they have a spammer on their network. Checking user/pass is not very effective either, since all it takes to get around is an outlook worm that copies username/password or uses outlook to do the sending.
Audacity is a multi-track audio editor for Linux/Unix, MacOS and Windows. It is designed for easy recording, playing and editing of digital audio. Audacity features digital effects and spectrum analysis tools. Editing is very fast and provides unlimited undo/redo.
Sure it says playing in there, but something about it being a "multi-track audio editor" must have given away that this is not the type of application you use to play your mp3s with. Maybe you should teach your grandma to read the descriptions properly next time.
Perhaps they didn't find the fact that they'll mine their user data that newsworthy. Personally I was surprised they weren't doing so already. Some people seem to think they have some sort of inherent duty to make a big fuss about it, instead of just posting about it in their financial reports. Whether it goes into the financial reports, or on the website, they're still making it public knowledge, which does show a lot of integrity. Not to mention that they've stated that they might do this for years in their privacy policy, which is on the NYT site, available for all to see.
Either way, my statement is still valid. According to the review, the latest release of Pidgin/Gaim is comparable to a commercial equivalent that's 3 years old. With Trillian Astra supposedly nearing beta, I don't see that as the endorsement the author apparently meant it to be. My mistake. I personally feel most of the improvements came in the form of usability enhancements. Personally, I haven't even bothered to look at other clients since quite a couple of releases back. And even those that I have tried tended to score badly on some usability points (i.e. msn messenger). Personally I think features are much less important than solidly supporting the base IM usage...
Who writes the features is not the point. You can not seriously claim to be a full-featured chat client while you have huge holes in your feature set.
I'm sure many people would disagree, but for me voice/video support is not an integral part of the feature set. There's plenty of other ways out there to do voice/video. Integration is nice, yes, but to claim it is a "huge hole" in the feature set is a bit much for me. As far as I'm concerned, Pidgin's feature set is complete.
This, from the Ars Technica article, just blew me away...
. ..Pidgin 2.0 is capable of competing with commercial instant messaging applications like Trillian Pro.
Pidgin had been in development for 2 years and it's still merely "capable" of competing with Trillian, which experienced it's most recent major release 3 years ago? You misunderstood. The 2.0 branch has been in development for 2 years, but Gaim itself has existed for quite a few years more and was more or less feature complete compared to Trillian a couple of years ago. It's just that the newer versions have a better UI and probably quite a few improvements in core.
I'm also worried about honesty. I've seen this in an email, and also with some web research....about how supposedly Obama gave a speech concerning himself, his family history, Selma, AL, etc, in which he really seemed to lie about 'facts', that would easily be looked up, like birthdates, etc. Did you look them up? Did you verify that he actually said those things those sites say about him? They don't seem to be from the most reliable of sources... Then again, your post looks a lot like the smear campaign of a few months back, so maybe you did.:P
Remember when AOL users started getting on the internet? I hope thats not what the Ubuntu forums look like in six months time when the Dell users start logging on. Some would argue they already do.:-)
That's easier than this, which is straight from the Ubuntu website.
Now I don't agree with the GP post, but the above link basically consists of installing a bunch of packages (which you can also do from synaptic, a gui program) and running the configurator. (uh, anyone know a better word?) If push comes to shove, it requires you to edit one line in a text config file. Now, apart from the irrational fear many people seem to have from command lines and editing text files, how is that any harder than navigating to the nvidia site, getting an installer, and stepping through it a couple of times? I even believe that the new graphical installers from both nvidia and ATI automatically generate a package for you and install it. Granted, the guide might have changed since you posted the link.
Also the first part of "general notes":
1.This is an Unofficial Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Starter Guide. It is neither associated with Ubuntu nor with Canonical Ltd. So it's not accurate to say that it's "straight from the Ubuntu website" but that's a minor point since the guide is factually correct. In case it changes again, here's a link to the current id.
There's often several ways to skin a cat. Generally more so on linux than on windows, which is one of the reasons I like it better. But to try to establish superiority one way or the other is always going to be a flawed approach. Outside of critical mass I can't really think of a way one is much better than the other.
You haven't checked out the prices of Macs lately have you? Similarly configured Macs and PCs run head to head in prices. Of course there is a problem with Macs, there isn't the range of configurations that are available on PCs. A glariing hole is a mid range Mac that's expandable, something between the iMac and Mac Pro. I have. Right now most of the macbooks are more expensive than their PC equivalents. Unless you count their look as a feature.
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Except of course that the post you're replying to doesn't list any defects of Linux...
Me too, proving once more that data is not the plural of anecdote. Personally I feel like it's a toss-up either way. I've had my share of horror stories in windows and linux.
I still don't feel the configuration mechanisms they've come up with so far in linux are up to scratch though. The original stuff such as the ifupdown-tools are really more suited to very static environments. Networkmanager can be nice but it really sucks at any kind of error reporting and is not yet (in the latest version of ubuntu) at what I would call production level in terms of quality.
As for windows, well, I don't actually use it much nowadays, but it occurs to me the things I hate about networkmanager (such as sometimes very crappy error reporting capability) is exactly the thing that annoys me in windows as well. While some stuff does get logged to syslog it seems you're forever guessing what is happening in the background. Not a problem if everything "just works" but I tend to like/dislike stuff based on how much of a crapshoot it is when things don't work.
It's obviously meant to be funny, but personally I wouldn't rely on /. mods to mod me correctly either...
I also find that many problems would have been avoided if Ubuntu went through the trouble of providing a bit more documentation. Also, many people do not seem to even know about the files installed in
I'm not an expert on US law but you'd think they'd have to know that these people are innocent before suing them for it to count as malicious prosecution. If you'd get slapped with that every time you sue the wrong person for a crime, then the government would be out of business pretty darn fast. Obviously the RIAA just blanket prosecute anyone whose name they can tie to a copyright infringement and aren't too concerned about checking of the validity of their data. That's neglect, but not malicious intent.
What a working missile shield will do is completely upset the power balance that has been in place since the cold war. It will cause all other nuclear capable countries to start working on their own missile shield and likely begin another arms race, as the only means of defeating a missile shield will probably be shear volume. It would therefore make us less secure and not more. Building one of them things is a sign of fatal short-sightedness.
The bundling of IE was only a problem in a time when everybody wasn't so well connected to the internet. Downloading netscape was a big hurdle for many people at the time MS started bundling IE, but it certainly isn't any more.
If you're a catholic priest, that might be sufficient blackmail material. The thing is, if you know everything a person does there's a good chance you'll find some dirt on them you could use, for the specific social environment they live in. Now you probably wouldn't want to blackmail a priest (what for?) but the average (american) politician would probably have to kiss his career goodbye if he was caught browsing manloverules.com on a daily basis. Adjust orientation/fetish for local politics.
The real danger by the way is not that google is going to use this data, because they probably won't. They don't want to get into the business of blackmailing politicians. But what if other people, who manage to infiltrate one of their datacenters, get to the data? These could be some very malicious people (i.e. the CIA) intent on doing a lot of damage. Now me, I'm not very paranoid about what gets out on the internet about my browsing habits, but if you are in a sensitive position and/or doing stuff you don't want the rest of the world to know about, you better take action accordingly.
I don't think that's a fair characterization. I run beagle on some quite old hardware and while there might be some slowdown while indexing (crappy IDE pretty much slows everything down when random disk access occurs) it is overall quite fast and not at all a resource hog. Unless if you count 28MB of memory as resource hogging.
I have on the other hand been bit by bugs in both beagle and meta tracker where they seem to get stuck in infinite loops indexing the same data over and over again, or decide for some unknown reason not to index a particular file. Beagle seems to have gotten better at this lately, still waiting for a new release of tracker to test and see if it's got some of these little bugs fixed.
And you, my friend, are simply delusional.
That's kind of disingenuous after first trying to argue that macs are actually cheaper. Clearly they are not on all price points, definitely not on the low end. More or less on the high end.
I have no idea why this is modded troll because the parent is exactly correct. Portrait rights typically include an exception for pictures of celebrities where it is okay to photograph them. In several countries it also only applies if the work in question is a portrait (i.e. not just a random street which happened to have some pedestrians), so it's quite possible that there is no problem at all.
That would be /etc/modprobe.d/aliases on a newer distribution.
So unless the person actually uses the crappy ISP email, I doubt they'll get that. I don't know of any ISP (in this country) that requires authentication on their SMTP servers, they just check if it's one of their IPs. Of course they can still use other tactics to determine if they have a spammer on their network. Checking user/pass is not very effective either, since all it takes to get around is an outlook worm that copies username/password or uses outlook to do the sending.
Audacity:
Audacity is a multi-track audio editor for Linux/Unix, MacOS and Windows. It is designed for easy recording, playing and editing of digital audio. Audacity features digital effects and spectrum analysis tools. Editing is very fast and provides unlimited undo/redo.Sure it says playing in there, but something about it being a "multi-track audio editor" must have given away that this is not the type of application you use to play your mp3s with. Maybe you should teach your grandma to read the descriptions properly next time.
Perhaps they didn't find the fact that they'll mine their user data that newsworthy. Personally I was surprised they weren't doing so already. Some people seem to think they have some sort of inherent duty to make a big fuss about it, instead of just posting about it in their financial reports. Whether it goes into the financial reports, or on the website, they're still making it public knowledge, which does show a lot of integrity. Not to mention that they've stated that they might do this for years in their privacy policy, which is on the NYT site, available for all to see.
I'm sure many people would disagree, but for me voice/video support is not an integral part of the feature set. There's plenty of other ways out there to do voice/video. Integration is nice, yes, but to claim it is a "huge hole" in the feature set is a bit much for me. As far as I'm concerned, Pidgin's feature set is complete.
Now I don't agree with the GP post, but the above link basically consists of installing a bunch of packages (which you can also do from synaptic, a gui program) and running the configurator. (uh, anyone know a better word?) If push comes to shove, it requires you to edit one line in a text config file. Now, apart from the irrational fear many people seem to have from command lines and editing text files, how is that any harder than navigating to the nvidia site, getting an installer, and stepping through it a couple of times? I even believe that the new graphical installers from both nvidia and ATI automatically generate a package for you and install it. Granted, the guide might have changed since you posted the link.
Also the first part of "general notes":
1.This is an Unofficial Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Starter Guide. It is neither associated with Ubuntu nor with Canonical Ltd. So it's not accurate to say that it's "straight from the Ubuntu website" but that's a minor point since the guide is factually correct. In case it changes again, here's a link to the current id.There's often several ways to skin a cat. Generally more so on linux than on windows, which is one of the reasons I like it better. But to try to establish superiority one way or the other is always going to be a flawed approach. Outside of critical mass I can't really think of a way one is much better than the other.