According to spiegel.de there are no bikes in Berlin today. The Deutsche Bahn has collected them all for a winter break and will check if anybody has manipulated them.
Btw: The CCC will meet from December 26th to 29th for their annual congress. Motto: "The ususal suspects".
I want to outline some advantages of an installer:
You can configure the system first and the installer does the rest. No need to wait for the completion of step 1, step 2, step 3. You give just all information needed and the installer makes the rest. You can work something else until the installer is finished.
The learning effect is low when you have to type a long line of parameters from the manual. This does not mean, you have understood anything. With an installer you can give the lectures right on the right place. 'Learning by doing' instead of 'learning by typing'.
There is no real need to make the central configuration files by yourself. The normal user has only one set of devices, he will not change the/etc/fstab every week or once a year. Other distributions show that you don't need to know exactly the syntax of an file to know how the system works.
Well - the German computer magazine c't published three times a customized version called "Knoppicilin". You boot in text mode, get the new virus lists via net or disc and scan your windows disks for viruses. The CD includes the scanners of F-Secure, Kaspersky and Sophos. It also includes Paragon NTFS. Information are here (German).
I have seen a project like this once before, it failed as foreseen. Someone put on a website, but he did not take much time to consider how users should and could use this list, how could it be updated and so on.
Another project on the same website was to find the best(!) linux distrubution in a wiki - you can see the result here. Do I have to mention that the best distribution was not found?
When you put on a wiki, you need clear questions and rules, you need moderators, who pick the useful infomation out of the chaos and set an reasonable structure for wiki readers and contributors.
I missed painfully an option to import mails and settings from Mozilla Mail. But there was no such option. You have to copy the data manually and change the config file with an text editor.
I checked the MSN newsbot and was suprised to find there (German) articles, that news.google.com didn't find. In the other way, MSN didn't know most sources of Google news.
What is the deal for content publishers to give MSN and Google access to their databases? If it is readers attention, this way is the wrong way.
Could MSN adopt paid content for their newsbot? This would be another business modell.
Microsoft knows about the danger for its core business. Bill Gates invested his money in gold mines and huge content data bases. But what can MS do?
Microsoft has to find new markets. They brought into the PDA market, the TV market, the search business. They could attack comptetitors very successful with billions of dollars, but by that they destroyed the markets. After MS has destroyed a market they had to find new ways to generate profits again. But in most cases this was not successful yet.
I think you are mistaken - Dell did not ship compouters with preinstalled Linux for a long time. They have just begun to test shipping Linux. Take a look at this.
Have you ever seen Mozilla? I use the browser since version 0.9, but I never had to compile it myself or to configure anything on command line.
Mozilla is not a Linux product.
The use of existing dummy email adresses is not new. A German hacker received hundreds of mails because he registered a domain that was used for test purposes by several companies.
Read this article (German only) for details.
You can use anything@example.com and noone will have trouble with a full inbox.
3. Reserved Example Second Level Domain Names
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) also currently has the following second level domain names reserved which can be used as examples.
There are first malicious programmers that try to infiltrate mozilla users. An example ist http://xxxtoolbar.com/ (sexually explicit!) that tries to install an "toolbar" per XPI. Fortunately this needs an Win32 system and a users who clicks without thinking.
I started edonkey and searched for Fahrenheit 911 - one File (Hash A7F9819AD4889478ACD6C7BD7B4CA456) has 2800(!) visible sources from here. Have you ever seen anything like that?
Slashdot Mirror
Wonach sieht es aus?
According to spiegel.de there are no bikes in Berlin today. The Deutsche Bahn has collected them all for a winter break and will check if anybody has manipulated them.
Btw: The CCC will meet from December 26th to 29th for their annual congress. Motto: "The ususal suspects".
P.S.: I submitted this story on Saturday.
Well - the German computer magazine c't published three times a customized version called "Knoppicilin". You boot in text mode, get the new virus lists via net or disc and scan your windows disks for viruses. The CD includes the scanners of F-Secure, Kaspersky and Sophos. It also includes Paragon NTFS. Information are here (German).
Why should a spammer harvester mail addresses by himself? There are so many viruses, trojans etc out there: The Army Of Lamers can do it for him.
Have a look at this.
Boeing can now sell laser proved missiles.
Another project on the same website was to find the best(!) linux distrubution in a wiki - you can see the result here. Do I have to mention that the best distribution was not found?
When you put on a wiki, you need clear questions and rules, you need moderators, who pick the useful infomation out of the chaos and set an reasonable structure for wiki readers and contributors.
What do you do with an unprotexted Win98/2000/ME/XP and modem connection? Before you get the first servicepack you have to reinstall the system.
I missed painfully an option to import mails and settings from Mozilla Mail. But there was no such option. You have to copy the data manually and change the config file with an text editor.
I checked the MSN newsbot and was suprised to find there (German) articles, that news.google.com didn't find. In the other way, MSN didn't know most sources of Google news.
What is the deal for content publishers to give MSN and Google access to their databases? If it is readers attention, this way is the wrong way.
Could MSN adopt paid content for their newsbot? This would be another business modell.
Microsoft knows about the danger for its core business. Bill Gates invested his money in gold mines and huge content data bases. But what can MS do?
Microsoft has to find new markets. They brought into the PDA market, the TV market, the search business. They could attack comptetitors very successful with billions of dollars, but by that they destroyed the markets. After MS has destroyed a market they had to find new ways to generate profits again. But in most cases this was not successful yet.
I read Walmart is selling cheap computers with Linux preinstalled to customers. This could be an explanation for this.
I think you are mistaken - Dell did not ship compouters with preinstalled Linux for a long time. They have just begun to test shipping Linux. Take a look at this.
Could you give some example which were the problems with Windows?
Have you ever seen Mozilla? I use the browser since version 0.9, but I never had to compile it myself or to configure anything on command line. Mozilla is not a Linux product.
I believe the typical management type is not the typical public library type.
Load an IE theme and nearly no one will notice the difference. URL bar, bookmarks - you need nothing more in a public library.
When you use mozilla in office you will have to deal with a lot of extra functionality of mozilla.
You can use anything@example.com and noone will have trouble with a full inbox.
3. Reserved Example Second Level Domain Names The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) also currently has the following second level domain names reserved which can be used as examples.
example.com
example.net
example.org
Its 69 dollar for Turbolinux not for PowerDVD.
It is like Acrobat Reader or Realplayer for Linux.
Could it be like on Windows?
Windows Media Player or Real Player can not play DVDs by default. But when you installed WinDVD the players WMP and RealOne can do.
AFAIK a DVD player software becomes legal by paying royalties to the DVD forum. Could a DeCSS be part of an legal DVD player?
I would prefer a legal solution which can be used with mplayer, kaffeine or xine.
Is this a reason to resign or is this a reason to do it better?
The mozilla team implemented signatures but nobody uses them. Was the implementation the fault?
There are first malicious programmers that try to infiltrate mozilla users. An example ist http://xxxtoolbar.com/ (sexually explicit!) that tries to install an "toolbar" per XPI. Fortunately this needs an Win32 system and a users who clicks without thinking.
Have you ever seen an signed mozilla extension?
demanded to be paid in verified AOL email adresses. This currency is rock stable.
I started edonkey and searched for Fahrenheit 911 - one File (Hash A7F9819AD4889478ACD6C7BD7B4CA456) has 2800(!) visible sources from here. Have you ever seen anything like that?
Everybody knows chatbots and the Turing-Test.
But what happens, when a chatbot talks to another chatbot? Take a look.