What Linspire does is during the install it has you first set up your Admin Password (root) and THEN takes you to a screen where you can add users, right during the install's install Wizard.
Why the hell are you doing this? Take a clue from Apple and lock up the root account, and give wheel privileges to new accounts by default. There's NO REASON to have the root account enabled on a desktop-oriented system.
Sadly the only Linux distro I know of that enforces this intelligent user methodology is Ubuntu. How about making Linspire the second?
I couldn't agree more. I'll never understand those "running as root is dangerous" people who are talking as if their system was more important than their personal files. I guess they don't do anything useful with their computers.
I do use a non-root account, but only because it's the standard way to work on a Unix system, which was designed from day one to be networked and multi-user capable. But whatever I do, my personal files are vulnerable, so... uh, why is it so dangerous to be running as root on a home desktop?
The real problem with the original XBOX was very simple - Japanese consumers preferred giving their money to Japanese companies (Sony & Nintendo). I think MS is gonna have a really hard time breaking that adoption barrier in Japan.
That argument is bullshit. In Japan buying something foreign is some kind of status symbol. It shows you're rich and cool, or something like that.
The real reason Microsoft constantly fails in Japan is because they don't even try to properly localize their product lineup, ie. they completely lack what Japanese gamers want.
I don't know, personally I think having two operating systems that can't write on each other's root filesystem is a good thing. Like on my computer, Windows XP can't write to any Linux partitions and Linux can't write on Windows' NTFS partition. Should one of the two systems were to completely fuck up due to a major bug and/or security breach, the other one's filesystem is safe.
Those fuckers at ATI really deserve a kick in the nuts anyway.
BTW am I the only one pissed that none of the x86 Macs have nVidia cards? I was planning to get an x86 Mac so I can enjoy OS X, but still have an "emergency escape route" back to good ol' x86 Linux in case I don't like OS X afterall. But those godforsaken X1600s from the ATI morons pretty much killed that idea.
Dualbooting Linux and windows has not killed linux has it?
No, but it sure as hell doesn't help it live the fullest. Countless companies don't consider porting their software to Linux because Linux users can dual-boot Windows. Anyway Linux is free (as in free speech), which makes it somewhat immortal, at least as long as people care about it. OS X, OTOH, is a commercial product that is just as killable as OS/2.
If Apple were to support wine rootless and natively, then it would be comparable with the OS/2 situation.
Bzzz! Wrong! This is actually WORSE than the OS/2 situation. Because people will have to exclusively run either 100% Windows, or 100% OS X, many people will eventually stop bothering about dual-booting back to OS X, and stay in Windows. At least with the OS/2 situation, you were running Windows apps but you were still inside OS/2. It was a win/lose. The OS X situation OTOH is a lose/lose.
Bah, I actually failed my parallel parking on my driving test and got my license nonetheless (and in two years of driving I've only had to parallel park twice, which I managed to pull off not too badly).
I recently tried GCJ and it's pretty sweet (my favorite feature so far is being able to use Java code from C++ code very elegantly and without implementing all sorts of hacks), but it only implements like what? Java 1.2? I'm sorry but that's really too old to do anything serious. Especially since 1.5 (aka 5.0), which implements generics. I can't imagine myself doing back to Java without generics anymore. Java without generics always felt very stupid and awkward to me.
At this stage GCJ is still a toy, and unless something serious is done it will stay that way.
Uh... GCC doesn't count. Free/Net/OpenBSD uses GCC, Apple uses GCC, etc. Pretty much everything C/C++/objC nowadays that's not compiled with Microsoft's compiler is compiled with GCC.
I'm not pro-MiniDisc (I hate them), but your argument just plain sucks. Not everyone wants to pay $300+ for a digital music player that can hold all of our music library. Some of us consider it a waste of money and are perfectly okay with a smaller, more affordable device with modest storage space.
Using a MiniDisc for recording is a bad idea anyway, since there is no way whatsoever to digitally extract them. The only thing you can do is re-record the disc's content from analog line-out.
Yet another proof that MiniDiscs could've been so much more if only Sony weren't such total dicks.
I think I understand now why Nintendo called it Revolution. They have predicted a new videogame crash due next year, and then the Revolution will come and save it all! Those clever bastards!
I don't see it like that. I think Nintendo is planning on still doing what they are doing right now, ie. filling a niche market while staying profitable by not wasting ressources on actively participating in the current console wars.
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Those only lock the station in software. For preventing laptop theft they are worthless.
Hear hear! I'm still wondering why the fuck are laptops still not equipped with GPS trackers in 2006. Isn't it just common sense?
What Linspire does is during the install it has you first set up your Admin Password (root) and THEN takes you to a screen where you can add users, right during the install's install Wizard.
Why the hell are you doing this? Take a clue from Apple and lock up the root account, and give wheel privileges to new accounts by default. There's NO REASON to have the root account enabled on a desktop-oriented system.
Sadly the only Linux distro I know of that enforces this intelligent user methodology is Ubuntu. How about making Linspire the second?
I couldn't agree more. I'll never understand those "running as root is dangerous" people who are talking as if their system was more important than their personal files. I guess they don't do anything useful with their computers.
I do use a non-root account, but only because it's the standard way to work on a Unix system, which was designed from day one to be networked and multi-user capable. But whatever I do, my personal files are vulnerable, so... uh, why is it so dangerous to be running as root on a home desktop?
In Soviet Russia, files compress YOU at 1/25th of original size.
In Korea, only old people use 1/25th of original size compression.
The real problem with the original XBOX was very simple - Japanese consumers preferred giving their money to Japanese companies (Sony & Nintendo). I think MS is gonna have a really hard time breaking that adoption barrier in Japan.
That argument is bullshit. In Japan buying something foreign is some kind of status symbol. It shows you're rich and cool, or something like that.
The real reason Microsoft constantly fails in Japan is because they don't even try to properly localize their product lineup, ie. they completely lack what Japanese gamers want.
I don't know, personally I think having two operating systems that can't write on each other's root filesystem is a good thing. Like on my computer, Windows XP can't write to any Linux partitions and Linux can't write on Windows' NTFS partition. Should one of the two systems were to completely fuck up due to a major bug and/or security breach, the other one's filesystem is safe.
Those fuckers at ATI really deserve a kick in the nuts anyway.
BTW am I the only one pissed that none of the x86 Macs have nVidia cards? I was planning to get an x86 Mac so I can enjoy OS X, but still have an "emergency escape route" back to good ol' x86 Linux in case I don't like OS X afterall. But those godforsaken X1600s from the ATI morons pretty much killed that idea.
Dualbooting Linux and windows has not killed linux has it?
No, but it sure as hell doesn't help it live the fullest. Countless companies don't consider porting their software to Linux because Linux users can dual-boot Windows. Anyway Linux is free (as in free speech), which makes it somewhat immortal, at least as long as people care about it. OS X, OTOH, is a commercial product that is just as killable as OS/2.
If Apple were to support wine rootless and natively, then it would be comparable with the OS/2 situation.
Bzzz! Wrong! This is actually WORSE than the OS/2 situation. Because people will have to exclusively run either 100% Windows, or 100% OS X, many people will eventually stop bothering about dual-booting back to OS X, and stay in Windows. At least with the OS/2 situation, you were running Windows apps but you were still inside OS/2. It was a win/lose. The OS X situation OTOH is a lose/lose.
He also invented that spiffy 'hacker logo' that nobody cares about. .x. ..x
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Well... he did wrote fetchmail... oh never mind...
Bah, I actually failed my parallel parking on my driving test and got my license nonetheless (and in two years of driving I've only had to parallel park twice, which I managed to pull off not too badly).
I recently tried GCJ and it's pretty sweet (my favorite feature so far is being able to use Java code from C++ code very elegantly and without implementing all sorts of hacks), but it only implements like what? Java 1.2? I'm sorry but that's really too old to do anything serious. Especially since 1.5 (aka 5.0), which implements generics. I can't imagine myself doing back to Java without generics anymore. Java without generics always felt very stupid and awkward to me.
At this stage GCJ is still a toy, and unless something serious is done it will stay that way.
Uh... GCC doesn't count. Free/Net/OpenBSD uses GCC, Apple uses GCC, etc. Pretty much everything C/C++/objC nowadays that's not compiled with Microsoft's compiler is compiled with GCC.
But what about Theo?
We should put RMS, ESR and TdR in a ring and make them fight each other. I'd pay good money for that. Oh, and the judge would be Linus.
I'm not pro-MiniDisc (I hate them), but your argument just plain sucks. Not everyone wants to pay $300+ for a digital music player that can hold all of our music library. Some of us consider it a waste of money and are perfectly okay with a smaller, more affordable device with modest storage space.
Using a MiniDisc for recording is a bad idea anyway, since there is no way whatsoever to digitally extract them. The only thing you can do is re-record the disc's content from analog line-out.
Yet another proof that MiniDiscs could've been so much more if only Sony weren't such total dicks.
It's not even about MiniDiscs. Do you feel the need to post a Penny Arcade strip on every fucking slashdot story, even when it's not really related?
Why strap yourself to the pole when you can get the
/. account was banned before you could end that post. Hey, I told you running SLASHglider was a bad idea...
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Well done Captain Obvious!
No, it's an OpenBSD wannabe without Theo. zing!
I think I understand now why Nintendo called it Revolution. They have predicted a new videogame crash due next year, and then the Revolution will come and save it all! Those clever bastards!
Maybe so, but I still don't see how FPSes are any different from other genres in terms of aging.
I don't see any proof that the higher prices (are they really that much higher anyway?) are due to localization costs of the packaging and manual.
Anyway, if you're that unhappy about sales tax and localization, may I direct you to that certain country past the southern border...
I don't see it like that. I think Nintendo is planning on still doing what they are doing right now, ie. filling a niche market while staying profitable by not wasting ressources on actively participating in the current console wars.