Pirating such [picture, music, any media] does not pay money to the producer and so the producer will lose a lot of money (RIAA and MPAA both said that piracy hurts the industry).
If I never had any intention of purchasing that CD - ever - how does my downloading it prevent the producer from making any money? The producer can still sell 5,000,000 copies of his latest album. He just won't sell 5,000,001 copies, but he never would have anyway because I wouldn't have made the purchase with or without my downloading of the 'pirated' version.
Besides, why should we have to pay, repeatedly, for work that someone already performed, and got paid for?
The original article was itself a troll worthy of comp.os.linux.advocacy and not really terribly impressive.
Old kernel? What a tragedy! Did you not pay attention to the prompts during the upgrade?
One wonders how much of this stuff is self-inflicted in some fashion or another.
I've often seen error messages come up during upgrades of various distros. The problem is, often times those errors are on a text console and they scroll WAY off the screen faster than any human can read them. This is certainly the case with Gentoo. Ubuntu often seems to have these console messages, but sometimes hidden behind a "details" link that shows a small console window when clicked. Doesn't make for easy reading. Even if it did, the average user might not even understand the errors.
I've certainly seen some pop-up error messages occur during an Ubuntu (or Mandrake or Red Hat or... ) upgrade, but often times there is no error, or at least not one that is apparent to the user. I think it was when I was running Ubuntu 8.x, I had to put a 'pci=nomsi' into the kernel line in Grub so it would boot my SATA hard drive properly. I only did that because a forum suggested it. Several months later, a regular 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' (via the GUI, not sure what they actually call it) included an update to my grub.conf file. I didn't remember about the pci=nomsi thing. The update removed that, and the OS failed to reboot. An average or new user would be stumped with something like that.
Case in point, I am completely unfamiliar with OpenSolaris. I installed it at home a few days ago. Install went fine, except my network driver was not detected. It gave me a URL to download the driver. I downloaded it, followed the instructions to install it, and was able to ping various websites. I rebooted the system, and it dumped me to a text console (no GUI). When I tried to log in as a normal user, it told me I didn't have a home directory, and defaulted to use / as my home. There were no errors or anything before I rebooted to warn me of this. Why would a network driver installation cause this? So I reinstalled Kubuntu and everything works fine:)
The thing with complete reinstalls is that once you do a fresh install, you have to go out and install all of the additional apps you had on the old system, reconfigure various settings, things like that. Perhaps it's not too bad though if all that involves is 'sudo apt-get install program1 program2 program3... programN' after the clean OS install.
I dont think Im doing anything wrong, we just have different usage patterns. First off, the original poster claimed full ubuntu ran on 256megs of RAM. No, thats the minimum requirement for the standard installer. If you have a machine with less than that you need an alternate install disk. Or you do what I do: use xubuntu. I cant imagine running full ubuntu on less than 1gig.
On my old system, an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ with 512MB RAM and a 200GB hard drive, I used to run XP Pro. For a while I played an MMORPG called Silkroad Online. On that system, I always had to run Silkroad's graphics settings at the bare minimum with the detailed shadows feature turned off to be able to play the game without significant lag. It was well known among the community that detailed shadows really drag Silkroad down on most people's systems.
Then I decided to install Ubuntu on that system (I believe it was Ubuntu 8.x). I loaded the OS, installed wine, installed Silkroad and started it up. Silkroad ran quite nicely with the default settings. I turned all the graphic settings to max, detailed shadows on, and it still worked quite well. I had a minor amount of lag if I went into town when a lot of other players were there, but not much of a lag. I even had Compiz-fusion enabled on that system and it wasn't really that bad to have the game up and spin the 3D cube.
I think Ubuntu (at least about a year ago) is perfectly fine running on less than a gig of RAM. Today's Ubuntu can't be that much more of a RAM hog.
If it wasn't for us nerds and geeks designing military weapon systems with their fancy software to calculate ballistic solutions, enemy tracking devices, etc., the jocks out in the fields carrying their guns and driving those tanks would have a much harder time winning those wars.
I played sports in elementary school, little league baseball, and I still got bullied. Admittedly, I wasn't very good at baseball though, but the main person that bullied me admitted several years later he did it because of jealousy of my grades, not because I sucked at sports.
(Maybe people should be more well-rounded) Then you wouldn't be pegged with (and the associated stigmas) of a certain stereotype.
I was heavy into science in high school, as well as sports and other extra-curricular activities. I never had a problem with any group of people.
When I was in elementary school, I was a smart student, always studied, got really good grades, but was shy, had very few friends, etc. etc. There was one guy named David who would always bully me, beat me up... He met up with me one time after we graduated high school and finally admitted the only reason he ever did any of that was because he was jealous of me. He was jealous that I got such good grades and apparently didn't have to try very hard while he struggled throughout our school years just to barely pass each class.
My guess is a lot of people probably had a similar experience, similar reasons for mistreating a geek or a nerd.
What's next? Are they going to make it illegal to cover your mouth if you sneeze or cough while driving? That requires you to take your hand off of the wheel.
you might want to think about nursing. My ex-wife was an RN and she made really good money right out of college.
You have to clean up poop sometimes, but it's decent money.
LK
Yeah, especially if it's my infant daughter creating the mess! That stuff hit the wall, the privacy curtain, floor... It took a team of 5 nurses to clean it all up! I wonder if someday my daughter will join Slashdot and read this...:-D
There will always be stupid users. There isn't really much we can do to stop stupid people from jumping through hoops to click on the dancing bunnies app, posting their IP address and root password on Facebook so their "computer friend" can help them with their problem, etc.
The best we can do is design the system to be "OS safe" and hope the user is at least smart enough to back up their data. If not, it's the user's fault. We can at least design the OS to make backups easy, hold the user's hand through the process. In the end, the user has to decide for himself to actually do that backup.
You can design a car to be as safe as possible, but there's still not much you can do to stop a stupid user from slamming that car into a tree if the user is hellbent on knocking the dancing bunny out of the tree with it.
Sure, but since we Linux users don't normally run as root, that happy_screensaver.sh will be met with various 'access denied' errors. The script will have to include various privilege elevation exploits in it to affect the system.
Then again, the data that most users care about is their own data, their pictures, videos, documents, not_pr0n folder, things like that. Malware on any system won't have to do anything 'special' to get to that data. So of course we just have to resort to telling users 'don't be stupid' so they don't lose their data.
"you know" can still be distracting in public speaking, especially if you say it a lot. Are you suggesting that I already know the things you are telling me in your speech? If so, then why are you telling me these things? Is your speech insignificant?:)
People tend to say 'umm' and the like a lot less in 1 on 1 conversations than they do when speaking to an audience. If you can pick different audience members to make eye contact with during different parts of your speech, like you are talking directly to that person, you may notice you use less of these verbal crutches.
Silence can also be a nice tool. Silence gives the audience a moment to let your message 'sink in' while you moving to the next point. It also gives you a moment to gather your thoughts if you lose your place while the audience thinks about what you've said... as long as you don't pause too often.
I don't remember what software I actually used to create levels, but I never figured out how to do multiple stories in a building. Didn't really try it much though...
It's just a nice way to make it so if an inexperienced hacker fails to break into your network, he can just pull up the web interface, open the port he's trying to use, and then continue hacking your internal systems. Think of the (children) hackers!:-P
I always liked using level editors to make my own levels in DOOM. I'm not quite sure how thrilled my parents were at the time when I was building a level that had my parents' house, my aunt's trailer, and my other aunt's house in it complete with a yard and driveway connecting the three together. The houses even had some furniture (raised floor sections) to kind of replicate the actual furniture in real life.:)
Silkroad Online is free-to-play and relies on microtransactions so players can pay real cash to buy items in their item mall if they choose. The international version of the game is overloaded with gold-farming bots and player-leveling bots. The 35+ servers are almost always filled to capacity, and it can take hours to log in. When you finally do log in, you can often find herds of gold-farming bots running around an area, often times in sync with each other, grinding on mobs. A lot of players even run multi-client software so they can have 10-30 gold bots online at the same time while their main character grinds via bot software to level up. It becomes a real problem for players who actually want to play the game.
Let's hope the DDO setup they have works better than this.
I see what you're saying now. I do wish sometimes in Windows XP/Vista that you could get a plain text console outside the gui similar to Linux's CTRL-ALT-F1 and then/etc/init.d/gdm stop if you want to actually kill the gui.
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Pirating such [picture, music, any media] does not pay money to the producer and so the producer will lose a lot of money (RIAA and MPAA both said that piracy hurts the industry).
If I never had any intention of purchasing that CD - ever - how does my downloading it prevent the producer from making any money? The producer can still sell 5,000,000 copies of his latest album. He just won't sell 5,000,001 copies, but he never would have anyway because I wouldn't have made the purchase with or without my downloading of the 'pirated' version.
Besides, why should we have to pay, repeatedly, for work that someone already performed, and got paid for?
The original article was itself a troll worthy of comp.os.linux.advocacy and not really terribly impressive.
Old kernel? What a tragedy! Did you not pay attention to the prompts during the upgrade?
One wonders how much of this stuff is self-inflicted in some fashion or another.
I've often seen error messages come up during upgrades of various distros. The problem is, often times those errors are on a text console and they scroll WAY off the screen faster than any human can read them. This is certainly the case with Gentoo. Ubuntu often seems to have these console messages, but sometimes hidden behind a "details" link that shows a small console window when clicked. Doesn't make for easy reading. Even if it did, the average user might not even understand the errors.
I've certainly seen some pop-up error messages occur during an Ubuntu (or Mandrake or Red Hat or... ) upgrade, but often times there is no error, or at least not one that is apparent to the user. I think it was when I was running Ubuntu 8.x, I had to put a 'pci=nomsi' into the kernel line in Grub so it would boot my SATA hard drive properly. I only did that because a forum suggested it. Several months later, a regular 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' (via the GUI, not sure what they actually call it) included an update to my grub.conf file. I didn't remember about the pci=nomsi thing. The update removed that, and the OS failed to reboot. An average or new user would be stumped with something like that.
Case in point, I am completely unfamiliar with OpenSolaris. I installed it at home a few days ago. Install went fine, except my network driver was not detected. It gave me a URL to download the driver. I downloaded it, followed the instructions to install it, and was able to ping various websites. I rebooted the system, and it dumped me to a text console (no GUI). When I tried to log in as a normal user, it told me I didn't have a home directory, and defaulted to use / as my home. There were no errors or anything before I rebooted to warn me of this. Why would a network driver installation cause this? So I reinstalled Kubuntu and everything works fine :)
There is no problem that can't be solved with Military explosives. ;)
I am just not much into games myself.
I don't understand...
The thing with complete reinstalls is that once you do a fresh install, you have to go out and install all of the additional apps you had on the old system, reconfigure various settings, things like that. Perhaps it's not too bad though if all that involves is 'sudo apt-get install program1 program2 program3... programN' after the clean OS install.
Let me introduce you to Slackware. Slackware requires:
* 486 processor
* 64MB RAM (1GB+ suggested)
* About 5GB+ of hard disk space for a full install
* CD or DVD drive (if not bootable, then a bootable USB flash stick or PXE server/network card)
Let me introduce you to Damn Small Linux. Damn Small Linux requires:
* i486
* 24MB RAM
* 50MB of hard disk space for install with X-Window environment
* CD or DVD drive, or USB flash stick, etc to install.
I dont think Im doing anything wrong, we just have different usage patterns. First off, the original poster claimed full ubuntu ran on 256megs of RAM. No, thats the minimum requirement for the standard installer. If you have a machine with less than that you need an alternate install disk. Or you do what I do: use xubuntu. I cant imagine running full ubuntu on less than 1gig.
On my old system, an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ with 512MB RAM and a 200GB hard drive, I used to run XP Pro. For a while I played an MMORPG called Silkroad Online. On that system, I always had to run Silkroad's graphics settings at the bare minimum with the detailed shadows feature turned off to be able to play the game without significant lag. It was well known among the community that detailed shadows really drag Silkroad down on most people's systems.
Then I decided to install Ubuntu on that system (I believe it was Ubuntu 8.x). I loaded the OS, installed wine, installed Silkroad and started it up. Silkroad ran quite nicely with the default settings. I turned all the graphic settings to max, detailed shadows on, and it still worked quite well. I had a minor amount of lag if I went into town when a lot of other players were there, but not much of a lag. I even had Compiz-fusion enabled on that system and it wasn't really that bad to have the game up and spin the 3D cube.
I think Ubuntu (at least about a year ago) is perfectly fine running on less than a gig of RAM. Today's Ubuntu can't be that much more of a RAM hog.
Why even try to achieve equality in the culture when you can just change the culture?
If it wasn't for us nerds and geeks designing military weapon systems with their fancy software to calculate ballistic solutions, enemy tracking devices, etc., the jocks out in the fields carrying their guns and driving those tanks would have a much harder time winning those wars.
I played sports in elementary school, little league baseball, and I still got bullied. Admittedly, I wasn't very good at baseball though, but the main person that bullied me admitted several years later he did it because of jealousy of my grades, not because I sucked at sports.
(Maybe people should be more well-rounded) Then you wouldn't be pegged with (and the associated stigmas) of a certain stereotype.
I was heavy into science in high school, as well as sports and other extra-curricular activities. I never had a problem with any group of people.
When I was in elementary school, I was a smart student, always studied, got really good grades, but was shy, had very few friends, etc. etc. There was one guy named David who would always bully me, beat me up... He met up with me one time after we graduated high school and finally admitted the only reason he ever did any of that was because he was jealous of me. He was jealous that I got such good grades and apparently didn't have to try very hard while he struggled throughout our school years just to barely pass each class.
My guess is a lot of people probably had a similar experience, similar reasons for mistreating a geek or a nerd.
What's next? Are they going to make it illegal to cover your mouth if you sneeze or cough while driving? That requires you to take your hand off of the wheel.
you might want to think about nursing. My ex-wife was an RN and she made really good money right out of college.
You have to clean up poop sometimes, but it's decent money.
LK
Yeah, especially if it's my infant daughter creating the mess! That stuff hit the wall, the privacy curtain, floor... It took a team of 5 nurses to clean it all up! I wonder if someday my daughter will join Slashdot and read this... :-D
There will always be stupid users. There isn't really much we can do to stop stupid people from jumping through hoops to click on the dancing bunnies app, posting their IP address and root password on Facebook so their "computer friend" can help them with their problem, etc.
The best we can do is design the system to be "OS safe" and hope the user is at least smart enough to back up their data. If not, it's the user's fault. We can at least design the OS to make backups easy, hold the user's hand through the process. In the end, the user has to decide for himself to actually do that backup.
You can design a car to be as safe as possible, but there's still not much you can do to stop a stupid user from slamming that car into a tree if the user is hellbent on knocking the dancing bunny out of the tree with it.
Sure, but since we Linux users don't normally run as root, that happy_screensaver.sh will be met with various 'access denied' errors. The script will have to include various privilege elevation exploits in it to affect the system.
Then again, the data that most users care about is their own data, their pictures, videos, documents, not_pr0n folder, things like that. Malware on any system won't have to do anything 'special' to get to that data. So of course we just have to resort to telling users 'don't be stupid' so they don't lose their data.
At least the OS would be relatively safe.
"you know" can still be distracting in public speaking, especially if you say it a lot. Are you suggesting that I already know the things you are telling me in your speech? If so, then why are you telling me these things? Is your speech insignificant? :)
People tend to say 'umm' and the like a lot less in 1 on 1 conversations than they do when speaking to an audience. If you can pick different audience members to make eye contact with during different parts of your speech, like you are talking directly to that person, you may notice you use less of these verbal crutches.
Silence can also be a nice tool. Silence gives the audience a moment to let your message 'sink in' while you moving to the next point. It also gives you a moment to gather your thoughts if you lose your place while the audience thinks about what you've said... as long as you don't pause too often.
and she has about as much teeth as a jack-o-lantern?
Which is why the next Blackhat and DEFCON should have diamonds as free gifts for events such as 'Spot the Fed'.
That's one of the things I like about Linux. When I find out there is a new version of Gentoo, I can just...
ssh user@ 'sudo nohup emerge -uD world &'
from anywhere I allow SSH to enter from and when I get home my system is freshly updated. :-D
I don't remember what software I actually used to create levels, but I never figured out how to do multiple stories in a building. Didn't really try it much though...
It's just a nice way to make it so if an inexperienced hacker fails to break into your network, he can just pull up the web interface, open the port he's trying to use, and then continue hacking your internal systems. Think of the (children) hackers! :-P
King's Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest to name a few more.
I always liked using level editors to make my own levels in DOOM. I'm not quite sure how thrilled my parents were at the time when I was building a level that had my parents' house, my aunt's trailer, and my other aunt's house in it complete with a yard and driveway connecting the three together. The houses even had some furniture (raised floor sections) to kind of replicate the actual furniture in real life. :)
Silkroad Online is free-to-play and relies on microtransactions so players can pay real cash to buy items in their item mall if they choose. The international version of the game is overloaded with gold-farming bots and player-leveling bots. The 35+ servers are almost always filled to capacity, and it can take hours to log in. When you finally do log in, you can often find herds of gold-farming bots running around an area, often times in sync with each other, grinding on mobs. A lot of players even run multi-client software so they can have 10-30 gold bots online at the same time while their main character grinds via bot software to level up. It becomes a real problem for players who actually want to play the game.
Let's hope the DDO setup they have works better than this.
I see what you're saying now. I do wish sometimes in Windows XP/Vista that you could get a plain text console outside the gui similar to Linux's CTRL-ALT-F1 and then /etc/init.d/gdm stop if you want to actually kill the gui.
Sometimes the GUI just gets in the way. ;)