they can hardly tell their users to secure their boxes, that's like telling a car-buying to make the checkup himself.
However, of course, the distributors of PCs could, even should, secure what ever they sell.
But this is not as easy as it sounds, most linux distributions are sold with 'more secure' defaults than windows (which could be 'optimised' much the same way) but the users really don't understand why they can't write files to everywhere (for example), they think they bought an incomplete or restricted product. -> They won't buy it a second time. (if they don't take the time to evaluate what they have got)
I'm no scientist and I have no idea what's the opinion of one sinlge scientist about it either but I find the idea that rice fields (CH4) by chinese people some 5000 years ago already were responsible for some warming quite interesting. (this was taken by another post here on slashdot by I don't know who, so all credit goes to him/her)
obviously it will still take some time for this all to be implemented properly and with a real difference for the user. considering that right now on ebay in germany an athlon xp 2000+ with mainboard, etc. coasts around 250 the hardware that's neccessary for all this should be able to get around 50 (for those who then still don't have it, which is quite unlikely) so I don't understand what the fuzz about super computer etc. is
well I didn't measure it but it's -well- under 1s here so I don't know what's the trouble about...and while I'm at it, cairo does -not- slow down your system, if you would have read the article you would know that it does exactly the opposite (given you have an opengl-graphics card which works)
gee, why do I do this anyways?..
I ordered 20, they came about 2 months after I ordered them but, hey, they're free! and for me they worked quite well, on my geforce 2 system I had some problems with the screen resolution at first, however changing the standart resolution (on the boot promt through the menu) from 1280x960 to 1024x768 solved the problem.
good point of the parent (as anyone already noticed), however, I think that abiword (together with gnumeric) is far better suited for most users needs than openoffice.org. The interface fits right into the gnome desktop and it really works like a charm. Gnumerics support for openoffice.org files is at the moment not as good as it should be but I'm sure this will get better very soon. Of course this is only a real solution for gnome desktops. (as featured in the great ubuntu, ubuntulinux.org) KOffice, koffice.org, is not my taste so I would recommend openoffice.org for kde users (especially the version featuring native widgets). But as always the user is free in his choice, the only thing I want to do is get the alternatives to be known, because some of them really kick ass.
for gamers a view at happypenguin.org is worth it, the site brings many great linux and linux compatible games to the public. for example frozen bubble, planeshift, wesnoth, neverwinter nights, quake3, ut2004 and of course the popular mods like truecombat for quake3. Gaming on linux is not as bad as most users tend to believe. with emulators like wine or cedega most linux games (kotor, baldurs gate series, jedi knight, etc.) work well at a constant and good frame rate (hardly 2 frames less than native on windows)
and of course there are those sites like gnome-apps.org gnome-look.org or kde-apps and kde-look that feature brandnew apps for the DEs in an organized way without any unwanted ads or clutter that I've never seen on any site for windows apps.
Well, actually no. I installed the real player gold to be able to watch tagesschau.de streams and it works like a charm. Installation is a breeze and aside from the obligatory trouble with sound servers it works good aswell, it features a nice gtk+2 interface which is perfectly responsible in any means. If I would figure out how to play avi files etc. (it says that this is possible via plugins, however I didn't find any) it would be my favorite player. Of course there are some features missing, for example choosing between different audio channels (multiple languages) in one file but for most users it would be perfectly suited.
I don't think that any human brain could cope with that much organization, the raw space may be there but for most humans it's hard to keep clear with just 20 years of information.
>Gmail kills them all in spam blocking and space...
>Plus, now... they have free pop as well.
gmx.net offers 1 GB free web space + some sort of 'file sharing', never had any problems with spam and pop was available for years
considering third world contries, if (and I'm sure they are or will) they are using linux more than windows I think microsoft will lose marketshare, they already did, they didn't lose any customers but I'm sure they did lose a lot of users. They are just not counted in the statistics because they never buyed it. And in 10 years or so computers will for sure get more affordable for third-world countries and there linux already has a foothold so I think for the statistic it isn't really important that people in the USA or EU will switch, microsoft will lose either way
I think there should be a unifed installation process (I know there are some projects heading for this), a program that would just take any RPM, deb or whatever and install it on the system (every distro should include a file that tells that program where the files should be, so every installation package could simply be converted to fit the distro.)
And to sort out library dependencies (some of those could still be included in the distro-specific file, if the library just has another name, just create a link and it works fine) there could be a compatibility layer, a library that links against the newer version while providing the old functions (so programs linked against old libc version will still work on new ones)
Well probably that's troll, but I can have dreams too, can't I?
Re:Firefox 1.0? (Score:2)
by Lehk228 (705449) on Tuesday November 09, @12:50AM (#10761048)
no it's november 8th, you probably have the same crappy watch i have that doesn't do months correctly.
absolutely...
1. the distro is fully free in all regards, only the online update is limited to 30 days
2. The limit is logical, novell wants to -sell- a product, they are not selling linux, the only thing they are selling is their support. And they -have- to sell it because bandwith and support staff both cost money.
I guess I just fell for a bad joke
Sadly this isn't all that funny (at least to me) a friend of mine would change to linux immediately if there was t-online banking (german online-banking app) available, but afaik it isn't
Slashdot Mirror
wtf?
wtf are you on?
...about "land of the free"
they can hardly tell their users to secure their boxes, that's like telling a car-buying to make the checkup himself. However, of course, the distributors of PCs could, even should, secure what ever they sell. But this is not as easy as it sounds, most linux distributions are sold with 'more secure' defaults than windows (which could be 'optimised' much the same way) but the users really don't understand why they can't write files to everywhere (for example), they think they bought an incomplete or restricted product. -> They won't buy it a second time. (if they don't take the time to evaluate what they have got)
I'm no scientist and I have no idea what's the opinion of one sinlge scientist about it either but I find the idea that rice fields (CH4) by chinese people some 5000 years ago already were responsible for some warming quite interesting. (this was taken by another post here on slashdot by I don't know who, so all credit goes to him/her)
actually there are both a ncurses based and a qt based viewer available, they show a map of the population and stats.
you are so funny...
obviously it will still take some time for this all to be implemented properly and with a real difference for the user. considering that right now on ebay in germany an athlon xp 2000+ with mainboard, etc. coasts around 250 the hardware that's neccessary for all this should be able to get around 50 (for those who then still don't have it, which is quite unlikely) so I don't understand what the fuzz about super computer etc. is
well I didn't measure it but it's -well- under 1s here so I don't know what's the trouble about...and while I'm at it, cairo does -not- slow down your system, if you would have read the article you would know that it does exactly the opposite (given you have an opengl-graphics card which works) gee, why do I do this anyways?..
I ordered 20, they came about 2 months after I ordered them but, hey, they're free!
and for me they worked quite well, on my geforce 2 system I had some problems with the screen resolution at first, however changing the standart resolution (on the boot promt through the menu) from 1280x960 to 1024x768 solved the problem.
good point of the parent (as anyone already noticed), however, I think that abiword (together with gnumeric) is far better suited for most users needs than openoffice.org. The interface fits right into the gnome desktop and it really works like a charm. Gnumerics support for openoffice.org files is at the moment not as good as it should be but I'm sure this will get better very soon. Of course this is only a real solution for gnome desktops. (as featured in the great ubuntu, ubuntulinux.org)
KOffice, koffice.org, is not my taste so I would recommend openoffice.org for kde users (especially the version featuring native widgets).
But as always the user is free in his choice, the only thing I want to do is get the alternatives to be known, because some of them really kick ass.
for gamers a view at happypenguin.org is worth it, the site brings many great linux and linux compatible games to the public. for example frozen bubble, planeshift, wesnoth, neverwinter nights, quake3, ut2004 and of course the popular mods like truecombat for quake3. Gaming on linux is not as bad as most users tend to believe. with emulators like wine or cedega most linux games (kotor, baldurs gate series, jedi knight, etc.) work well at a constant and good frame rate (hardly 2 frames less than native on windows)
and of course there are those sites like gnome-apps.org gnome-look.org or kde-apps and kde-look that feature brandnew apps for the DEs in an organized way without any unwanted ads or clutter that I've never seen on any site for windows apps.
Well, actually no. I installed the real player gold to be able to watch tagesschau.de streams and it works like a charm. Installation is a breeze and aside from the obligatory trouble with sound servers it works good aswell, it features a nice gtk+2 interface which is perfectly responsible in any means. If I would figure out how to play avi files etc. (it says that this is possible via plugins, however I didn't find any) it would be my favorite player.
Of course there are some features missing, for example choosing between different audio channels (multiple languages) in one file but for most users it would be perfectly suited.
I don't think that any human brain could cope with that much organization, the raw space may be there but for most humans it's hard to keep clear with just 20 years of information.
> If movie trailers were largely in divx instead of QT, QT would be worthless!
lol, nice one
I don't think ogg vorbis support would hurt the usability at all
>Gmail kills them all in spam blocking and space... >Plus, now... they have free pop as well. gmx.net offers 1 GB free web space + some sort of 'file sharing', never had any problems with spam and pop was available for years
considering third world contries, if (and I'm sure they are or will) they are using linux more than windows I think microsoft will lose marketshare, they already did, they didn't lose any customers but I'm sure they did lose a lot of users. They are just not counted in the statistics because they never buyed it. And in 10 years or so computers will for sure get more affordable for third-world countries and there linux already has a foothold so I think for the statistic it isn't really important that people in the USA or EU will switch, microsoft will lose either way
I think there should be a unifed installation process (I know there are some projects heading for this), a program that would just take any RPM, deb or whatever and install it on the system (every distro should include a file that tells that program where the files should be, so every installation package could simply be converted to fit the distro.) And to sort out library dependencies (some of those could still be included in the distro-specific file, if the library just has another name, just create a link and it works fine) there could be a compatibility layer, a library that links against the newer version while providing the old functions (so programs linked against old libc version will still work on new ones) Well probably that's troll, but I can have dreams too, can't I?
Re:Firefox 1.0? (Score:2) by Lehk228 (705449) on Tuesday November 09, @12:50AM (#10761048) no it's november 8th, you probably have the same crappy watch i have that doesn't do months correctly. absolutely...
1. the distro is fully free in all regards, only the online update is limited to 30 days 2. The limit is logical, novell wants to -sell- a product, they are not selling linux, the only thing they are selling is their support. And they -have- to sell it because bandwith and support staff both cost money. I guess I just fell for a bad joke
Sadly this isn't all that funny (at least to me) a friend of mine would change to linux immediately if there was t-online banking (german online-banking app) available, but afaik it isn't
why would they have to freeze fedora? they could just make a new branch out of it and stablize (and enhance) it in there for RHEL
the scratch-resistant shouldn't be related to the corn, it's the thin layer of resin that should provide scratch resistance
I'd mod it insightful (I just wrote I will...)
Why does this whole thing about terrorism remind me so much of this game?