Free software like NoMachine and VNC exists today and handles the Remote Desktop Use-Case much better (faster!) than the native X protocol. Moreover they are cross-platform, they don't even care whether your client/server are a unix, Windows or Mac.
VNC is far slower for me (plus I can't even get 3d acceleration on the client platform with it!). And X pretty much works fine for me everywhere. I've used it on high latency GPRS connections over SSH and didn't really have any issue using it (VNC would be murder on that).
And yet for many users they must manually edit and configure xorg.conf to get anything to work, and sometimes they never get it to work.
The chronometer on your time machine is malfunctioning -- it's 2008.
Xorg is painfully slow
It's so slow that my Windows games running under Crossover games/Wine which actively translate DXSL to GLSL in real time for a graphics server that isn't even running on ring-0 (like Windows and OS X are) is able to beat both OS X and Windows XP/Vista in performance and quality (I can boot the quality settings right up without performance issues) on the same hardware.
Now try Gentoo which doesn't autoconfigure X and see how X performs with your hardware.
I'd rather be gaming with my already good enough, better FPS than Windows/OS X setup. I'm not that much of a tweaker.
. For example, if you own a free wifi hotspot, and that someone used it to do piracy, you will be able to identify him with... his IP (the one your DHCP gave him).
In France, service providers (including free hotspot providers) have to obtain information on each user logging on (address, phone number, name, date of birth) or you will be held accountable for their actions.
This is why all the ISPs in France require the information, including free ones like free.fr.
Does the calculation happen on the card itself or in the reader?
Calcuation occurs on the reader (which has a full numpad) using some unique values that are stored on the smartcard of the card you receive (can't be just generated from knowing the card number).
This is, IMO, particularly important if you want to use your card anywhere but your home and the bank's branch offices.
Last I heard they were calling the iPhone a "smartphone" but they were using an entirely different definition from the rest of the industry. The iPhone is functionally distinct from, say, the Nokia 9xxx series, the Blackberry, the Treo, et al.
I don't think I've seen a non-smartphone in UK mobile shops. They all do MMS messaging (well, except for the iPhone...), web browsing, custom applications (usually provided through j2me) and plenty of other things. Push mail however is not quite a standard yet between all phones.
Personally -- I'm happy with my 3SkypePhone S2, it does everything the iPhone (except for touchscreens, which I don't want anyway) can do and more (costs 70GBP for the pay as you go plan or free if you go for 12/18 month contract). Before someone mentions it, I get voicemail as MMS messages, so it's just as 'visual' as on the iPhone.
What benchmarks are those? For javascript at least the Safari/Webkit nightlies seem to be beating the Firefox nightlies by a significant margin, or were last few times I ran them.
Jesus, you really need to try the current Firefox minefields, they're insanely fast.
Any bank with an online solution worth using will have token based authentication per transaction. And those would be impervious to this attack.
Royal Bank of Scotland uses a challenge/response calculator. You insert your credit card/debit card into it, tell it you want to do a challenge, enter your card pin, enter the challenge code on the screen, get the response code and type that in manually.
Neat thing is that you don't need to carry multiple dongles for each separate account you have with them.
But once it's booted up it can actually play the games I want to play. Fast boot times are meaningless if you can't do what you're wanting to once it's started up.
Thank goodness I can have a fast booting system, games running faster than Windows (thanks to Crossover games) all under Linux.
want to say that I feel miserable to have to admit that Vista's GUI is prettier than both Gnome and (of course) KDE. Needless to say though, whoever sacrifices usability for beauty deserves neither.
I can get KDE to look exactly like Vista if I wanted (I personally find Vista's ugly) - Many KDE themes are available out there that mimic the Vista interface.
Three of those can be done natively in either Linux or Windows - the other two require jumping through several, arguably complicated hoops. What's the point?
I pretty much stick to using Crossover over Wine for my games and everything. It uses a brain dead UI (my games work well with it - some of which have more FPS than under Windows natively).
...He just kept talking in one long increidbly unbroken sentence, moving from topic to topic so that no one had the chance to interrupt, it was really quite hypnotic...
Just letting you know that I didn't bother reading your post due to the lack of paragraphs.
Provides drivers for Lexmark X1200 series or any other printer other than HP and THEN I'll be impressed.
Since hplip already provides this functionality on Linux and is provided the majority of desktop distributions, I have to ask, why reinvent the wheel when it's already there??
Other than that outperforming Vista is a no brainer
Indeed, show me something that doesn't outperform Vista.
Psi and a Jabber server of your choosing would do.
Psi is fully multi platform, supports various encryption options. It isn't any harder to setup and install than any other corporate instant messaging system.
Ironically, the DRM schemes designed to protect against piracy are more and more likely to make honest customers turn to piracy. The whole thing lends credence to the idea that what the game makers REALLY want out of DRM is to remove first sale rights, not combat piracy.
Then why does Egosoft remove the DRM on their games a year after release?
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VNC is far slower for me (plus I can't even get 3d acceleration on the client platform with it!). And X pretty much works fine for me everywhere. I've used it on high latency GPRS connections over SSH and didn't really have any issue using it (VNC would be murder on that).
Jesus christ, you were bored!
The chronometer on your time machine is malfunctioning -- it's 2008.
It's so slow that my Windows games running under Crossover games/Wine which actively translate DXSL to GLSL in real time for a graphics server that isn't even running on ring-0 (like Windows and OS X are) is able to beat both OS X and Windows XP/Vista in performance and quality (I can boot the quality settings right up without performance issues) on the same hardware.
I'd rather be gaming with my already good enough, better FPS than Windows/OS X setup. I'm not that much of a tweaker.
I didn't need to know you were on your period >.
Just use "EUR".
In France, service providers (including free hotspot providers) have to obtain information on each user logging on (address, phone number, name, date of birth) or you will be held accountable for their actions.
This is why all the ISPs in France require the information, including free ones like free.fr.
Calcuation occurs on the reader (which has a full numpad) using some unique values that are stored on the smartcard of the card you receive (can't be just generated from knowing the card number).
It's a handheld device. Offical information on the card, what it looks like.
Isn't a smart phone PDA-like device?
I don't think I've seen a non-smartphone in UK mobile shops. They all do MMS messaging (well, except for the iPhone...), web browsing, custom applications (usually provided through j2me) and plenty of other things. Push mail however is not quite a standard yet between all phones.
Personally -- I'm happy with my 3SkypePhone S2, it does everything the iPhone (except for touchscreens, which I don't want anyway) can do and more (costs 70GBP for the pay as you go plan or free if you go for 12/18 month contract). Before someone mentions it, I get voicemail as MMS messages, so it's just as 'visual' as on the iPhone.
Jesus, you really need to try the current Firefox minefields, they're insanely fast.
Royal Bank of Scotland uses a challenge/response calculator. You insert your credit card/debit card into it, tell it you want to do a challenge, enter your card pin, enter the challenge code on the screen, get the response code and type that in manually.
Neat thing is that you don't need to carry multiple dongles for each separate account you have with them.
I don't live in Australia.
I was actually referring to the 3G (mobile phone network) broadband deals.
In the UK you can get a free full-sized laptop with a 12 or 18 month contract for broadband Internet.
Thank goodness I can have a fast booting system, games running faster than Windows (thanks to Crossover games) all under Linux.
I've seen more Linux users than Mac users in Europe, although I suspect this is different in the States.
I can get KDE to look exactly like Vista if I wanted (I personally find Vista's ugly) - Many KDE themes are available out there that mimic the Vista interface.
the available effects are also superior.
Quicken, Quicken 2007 - 2008 works decently in Codeweavers.
According to, http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=2514 apparently runs very well.
Also apparently runs very well.
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=870
I'm assuming you know of k3b.
I pretty much stick to using Crossover over Wine for my games and everything. It uses a brain dead UI (my games work well with it - some of which have more FPS than under Windows natively).
Just letting you know that I didn't bother reading your post due to the lack of paragraphs.
Not as well, but it still runs fine.
Since hplip already provides this functionality on Linux and is provided the majority of desktop distributions, I have to ask, why reinvent the wheel when it's already there??
Indeed, show me something that doesn't outperform Vista.
Psi and a Jabber server of your choosing would do.
Psi is fully multi platform, supports various encryption options. It isn't any harder to setup and install than any other corporate instant messaging system.
Additionally, there is no cost involved.
A games company. They're quite well known in the open ended game play sci-fi genre for games (Wiki link).
Stardock also removed the DRM/copyright protection on their games actually.
Then why does Egosoft remove the DRM on their games a year after release?
I have one.
Mostly much older people (I'm 23) from my experience. Many of which are into electronics more than anything else.
... Why?
How is this related to "Twitter Squatting"?
What security?