And in 1890, van Gogh might not have qualified for inclusion in a general-interest encyclopedia such as Britannica. But decades later, he eventually came to qualify, as other sources began to report more on his works.
Normal folks do NOT pull the crap the weasel(s) do to me here OR on your site!
I apologize for how the other user on Pin Eight handled your unconventional posting style. I did put all your posts back into the talk page because I'm interested only in the facts.
Hosts will block any host-domain name placed into them as blocked
Not if something uses 4 billion subdomains. Your current hosts file blocks about one-thousandth of that figure.
I never intend to get to what's blocked
I was referring to the case when you access something you know isn't blocked but isn't one of your favorites either. Does the registry hack you mentioned elsewhere fix that?
Admins can centrally easy migrate hosts across a LAN via scripts (login or taskscheduled/chronjob work)
I was referring to multiple users of one computer. Say I have a roommate who uses Facebook on her user account, but I want to block all access to Facebook, including tracking through its Like button script, while I'm logged in to my user account. With browser extensions, I could have it block fbcdn.net and facebook.com only for browser processes run under my user account. Is that a job for login scripts?
advertisers rightfully don't trust webmasters on clickview counts
cite some sources
someone who posted IN FAVOR OF ADVERTISING ONLINE (Lauren Weinstein technologist who submits articles here a lot -> "majority of users are never going to change the ad blocker settings" (You'll Probably Hate this Posting about Ad Blockers and Ad Blocking))
That's a good source for the claim that advertisers and site operators fear a world where everybody blocks all ads. But it doesn't mention advertiser distrust of statistics provided by publishers that self-host ads. I was looking for something to cite specifically about that distrust.
I'm pointing out that there's an alternative to monopoly. Access to rights of way is a resource, and monopoly is not necessarily the best way for a city to allocate it.
What's the moral of that strip? Is it "a standard created with the intent to drive two or more other standards out of competition inevitably ends up failing"?
Steam is for GNU/Linux, not for Android. By "Linux" in the context of a post that also mentioned Steam, I was more likely referring to the kind of Linux-based system that runs Steam (namely GNU/Linux) than to the kind of Linux-based system that does not run Steam (namely Android). So let me rephrase my claim more rigorously:
There are a lot of x86-64 PCs sold in stores that do not run GNU/Linux well and therefore do not run Steam for Linux well.
...assuming you mean 'a bad configuration entry breaks the application', yes. It means you only have the application/service that relies on it going south. Just like borking a registry entry will bork the application/service that relies on the now-broken registry entry. Not seeing much difference there, unless you're referring to the registry's backup copy (which amazingly enough, you yourself can do before you edit a config file in *nix.)
At least in a database, you can change one entry in-place without rewriting everything. In a text file, if you rewrite a single line to be shorter or longer, you have to rewrite the whole rest of the file. And it's easier for an error early in the file to affect the interpretation of lines later in the file because even though '\n' is often a synchronization point, it isn't always.
Perhaps the boss thought Internet was directional, such that requests go one way and responses go the other. Asymmetric-rate connections might lead one to believe that, with the phone analog being payphones that don't take incoming calls. And in the era of IPv4 address exhaustion, so might carrier-grade NAT.
If you arent uploading to GitHub, you are an Alchemist, not a Scientist.
If by "alchemist" you mean "someone practicing obsolete practices worthy of derision", this sounds like you're trying to say GitHub ought to have a monopoly on hosting free software projects, as opposed to SourceForge which shares a parent company with Slashdot. Do you work for GitHub?
I'd think the only time this would work is if a programmer was a contributor to open source projects, then went bad and started writing software designed to commit crimes.
Say someone contributes to open-source projects and then contributes to the Android project. A U.S. appeals court found Android to infringe Oracle's copyright, pending a forthcoming phase of the trial to determine whether API interoperability is a valid rationale for fair use. Does Android count as "software designed to commit crimes" because copyright infringement is a crime?
My absolute #1 complaint about Linux on the desktop has always been the lack of Common Dialogs. [A library included with Windows] handles basic dialogs like File Open, File Save, and Printing.
Every major GUI toolkit on Linux has a file chooser. Tk has one. GTK+ has one. Qt has one. Winelib has one.
This upgrading of the DLL has been another huge advantage too. It has seen several major iterations. The ability to resize the window. The ability to have multiple navigation methods. The ability to drag-n-drop. The ability to copy-paste. Can't remember where you saved that last document? Just open the save dialog again and it'll default to that folder, and you can just copy-paste that folder path into other applications as needed.
Since when does the GTK+ file chooser lack these features?
If "Configurable via GUI" in Windows means you "add some arcane registry key via the registry editor", then *maybe*.
From a Windows fan's point of view, one key difference between the Windows Registry on the one hand and text configuration files (/etc and dotfiles) on the other hand is that the Registry is a database. This means it's more likely to be resilient to data entry errors. With text files, a syntax error usually invalidates the entire file, and there's nothing preventing the user from typing in a string where an integer is expected. Sure, the Registry's implementation is technically dubious, but switching to a more robust back-end like SQLite might fix that.
editorial authority: guise linux its...its just not ready for the desktop. its got graphics driver issues... community: the ones preventing nearly 200 steam games from running on it?
Editor: Yes. Here's a list of PCs sold in stores today that won't run said 200 Steam games in Linux. Fix Steam on these PCs.
For one thing, that's a hole GRUB, not Linux. For another, it requires already having physical access to a machine during its boot process. And if you have physical access to a booting machine, its owner may already be f#cked.
And as one of the users, why should it? It already does what users want. Why would doing what non-users want make it better?
There are non-users who became or remained non-users because Linux didn't do what they wanted, specifically interoperate with a particular application or piece of hardware.
As open source, how would it benefit existing users to have additional non-technical users?
A larger user base means developers and publishers of applications and hardware are more likely to consider making their products compatible in order to reach that user base.
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Yet GWX refuses to upgrade a PC with an nForce chipset to Windows 10, putting blame on NVIDIA for not making it compatible.
The featured article mentions the "BOLD, revert, discuss" process to get the reverting editor to explain the revert. Have you tried that?
Wikipedia's mission is not to reflect truth as much as the consensus narrative of reliable sources.
And in 1890, van Gogh might not have qualified for inclusion in a general-interest encyclopedia such as Britannica. But decades later, he eventually came to qualify, as other sources began to report more on his works.
A bug is a bug. You have a trivial to exploit root hole in a common configuration of an OS. Deal with it at that level.
And it has been dealt with. Yet other attacks on common configurations requiring physical access are just as trivial for an evil maid to exploit.
Normal folks do NOT pull the crap the weasel(s) do to me here OR on your site!
I apologize for how the other user on Pin Eight handled your unconventional posting style. I did put all your posts back into the talk page because I'm interested only in the facts.
Hosts will block any host-domain name placed into them as blocked
Not if something uses 4 billion subdomains. Your current hosts file blocks about one-thousandth of that figure.
I never intend to get to what's blocked
I was referring to the case when you access something you know isn't blocked but isn't one of your favorites either. Does the registry hack you mentioned elsewhere fix that?
Admins can centrally easy migrate hosts across a LAN via scripts (login or taskscheduled/chronjob work)
I was referring to multiple users of one computer. Say I have a roommate who uses Facebook on her user account, but I want to block all access to Facebook, including tracking through its Like button script, while I'm logged in to my user account. With browser extensions, I could have it block fbcdn.net and facebook.com only for browser processes run under my user account. Is that a job for login scripts?
advertisers rightfully don't trust webmasters on clickview counts
cite some sources
someone who posted IN FAVOR OF ADVERTISING ONLINE (Lauren Weinstein technologist who submits articles here a lot -> "majority of users are never going to change the ad blocker settings" (You'll Probably Hate this Posting about Ad Blockers and Ad Blocking))
That's a good source for the claim that advertisers and site operators fear a world where everybody blocks all ads. But it doesn't mention advertiser distrust of statistics provided by publishers that self-host ads. I was looking for something to cite specifically about that distrust.
I'm pointing out that there's an alternative to monopoly. Access to rights of way is a resource, and monopoly is not necessarily the best way for a city to allocate it.
There aren't any clouds to speak of in the desert. Oracle can't build its campus in an Internet desert.
Since when? Apple's iPhone killed proprietary Adobe Flash Player in favor of what led to the free* HTML5 standard.
* With the exception of patented audio and video codecs that were not only unchanged from Flash but also existing industry standards.
What's the moral of that strip? Is it "a standard created with the intent to drive two or more other standards out of competition inevitably ends up failing"?
Try deleting cookies associated with slashdot.org and all its subdomains to see if that clears it up.
Steam is for GNU/Linux, not for Android. By "Linux" in the context of a post that also mentioned Steam, I was more likely referring to the kind of Linux-based system that runs Steam (namely GNU/Linux) than to the kind of Linux-based system that does not run Steam (namely Android). So let me rephrase my claim more rigorously:
There are a lot of x86-64 PCs sold in stores that do not run GNU/Linux well and therefore do not run Steam for Linux well.
...assuming you mean 'a bad configuration entry breaks the application', yes. It means you only have the application/service that relies on it going south. Just like borking a registry entry will bork the application/service that relies on the now-broken registry entry. Not seeing much difference there, unless you're referring to the registry's backup copy (which amazingly enough, you yourself can do before you edit a config file in *nix.)
At least in a database, you can change one entry in-place without rewriting everything. In a text file, if you rewrite a single line to be shorter or longer, you have to rewrite the whole rest of the file. And it's easier for an error early in the file to affect the interpretation of lines later in the file because even though '\n' is often a synchronization point, it isn't always.
AC's post said "Linux". Had it said "Desktop Linux", "GNU/Linux", or "X11/Linux", I would have read it as the whole thing.
Perhaps the boss thought Internet was directional, such that requests go one way and responses go the other. Asymmetric-rate connections might lead one to believe that, with the phone analog being payphones that don't take incoming calls. And in the era of IPv4 address exhaustion, so might carrier-grade NAT.
If you arent uploading to GitHub, you are an Alchemist, not a Scientist.
If by "alchemist" you mean "someone practicing obsolete practices worthy of derision", this sounds like you're trying to say GitHub ought to have a monopoly on hosting free software projects, as opposed to SourceForge which shares a parent company with Slashdot. Do you work for GitHub?
I'd think the only time this would work is if a programmer was a contributor to open source projects, then went bad and started writing software designed to commit crimes.
Say someone contributes to open-source projects and then contributes to the Android project. A U.S. appeals court found Android to infringe Oracle's copyright, pending a forthcoming phase of the trial to determine whether API interoperability is a valid rationale for fair use. Does Android count as "software designed to commit crimes" because copyright infringement is a crime?
My absolute #1 complaint about Linux on the desktop has always been the lack of Common Dialogs. [A library included with Windows] handles basic dialogs like File Open, File Save, and Printing.
Every major GUI toolkit on Linux has a file chooser. Tk has one. GTK+ has one. Qt has one. Winelib has one.
This upgrading of the DLL has been another huge advantage too. It has seen several major iterations. The ability to resize the window. The ability to have multiple navigation methods. The ability to drag-n-drop. The ability to copy-paste. Can't remember where you saved that last document? Just open the save dialog again and it'll default to that folder, and you can just copy-paste that folder path into other applications as needed.
Since when does the GTK+ file chooser lack these features?
If "Configurable via GUI" in Windows means you "add some arcane registry key via the registry editor", then *maybe*.
From a Windows fan's point of view, one key difference between the Windows Registry on the one hand and text configuration files (/etc and dotfiles) on the other hand is that the Registry is a database. This means it's more likely to be resilient to data entry errors. With text files, a syntax error usually invalidates the entire file, and there's nothing preventing the user from typing in a string where an integer is expected. Sure, the Registry's implementation is technically dubious, but switching to a more robust back-end like SQLite might fix that.
editorial authority: guise linux its...its just not ready for the desktop. its got graphics driver issues...
community: the ones preventing nearly 200 steam games from running on it?
Editor: Yes. Here's a list of PCs sold in stores today that won't run said 200 Steam games in Linux. Fix Steam on these PCs.
For one thing, that's a hole GRUB, not Linux. For another, it requires already having physical access to a machine during its boot process. And if you have physical access to a booting machine, its owner may already be f#cked.
Canonical has deals with Amazon
Ubuntu Unity is no longer defaulting to Amazon integration. Furthermore, Xubuntu avoids all this and is only a sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop away.
And as one of the users, why should it? It already does what users want. Why would doing what non-users want make it better?
There are non-users who became or remained non-users because Linux didn't do what they wanted, specifically interoperate with a particular application or piece of hardware.
As open source, how would it benefit existing users to have additional non-technical users?
A larger user base means developers and publishers of applications and hardware are more likely to consider making their products compatible in order to reach that user base.