Wow, what are you smoking? Think back; what program did the last worm you heard of exploit? That's right, Microsoft Outlook(TM)(C) or Microsoft Internet Explorer(TM)(C) or Microsoft MSN Messenger(TM)(C). Now, think reeeeally hard and tell me which worm has ever spread using an OSS program. Now think even harder and tell me what worm has *ever* spread using an IMAGE EDITOR. I certainly haven't heard of any such thing.
Getting back from your trip to la-la-land, the Gimp is an awesome editor and I prefer it to Photoshop, having used both in a professional setting. If I ever need CMYK or 48bit colour, I may need to use a different tool. But I certainly won't waste my time complaining about how the hammer is "doomed" because I've got a screwdriver.
Some people don't work well *in* the office, playing games or surfing the internet. This is what managers and performance reviews and the like are for. An inability to get things done means that whatever management is in place is insufficient, whether telecommuting or in a traditional office.
The irony is that I am posting this to slashdot while at work, and odds are you did the same.
I know Americans are routinely unaware that anything happens outside of their own country, but you'd think someone on the internet would. Professor Geist is Canadian, and is writing about copyright laws in Canada, and it's unlikely that the USA's Clean Air/Water Acts were foremost in his mind.
For your consideration, here is a quote I came across earlier:
"You might consider Vista an accomplishment to get such a huge project out the door, or you might consider it a failure to put it together in such a way that it has to go out the door in one piece." --Mike South
A vista build could be "amazing quality", but if it doesn't work with people's hardware, and if its security is easily defeated, then it is a failure as an OS. Microsoft has several bajillion times the resources of any competing company; why is it too much to expect they use some of their money to ship something that actually works? Why should anyone have to wait six months for a service pack to make Vista work as advertised?
mod parent up! The entire "Freedom of Action" section has nothing to do with US citizens, or those of anywhere else in the world; it is entirely about freedom of action for the warmongers in power.
Given the number of other treaties that Bush has decided to ignore (i.e. land mines, torture) in the name of "Freedom", I highly doubt that the space treaties will be honoured.
Ah, "think of the children" rings out once again. There is *far* less freely accessible porn on the net now than when I was 13; nowadays it's all behind credit card verification. This means that a child today, monitored or not, is less likely to find porn than I was, and I had a hell of a time of it.
Google has a very effective safesearch filter, as do other search sites. The most likely place for a child to *unintentionally* find porn is in a spam message or spam IM that no amount of parental wiretapping is going to prevent them seeing. All that will be accomplished is losing their trust, their respect, and any semblance of computer competence as they circumvent your clumsy attempts at controlling their lives.
"Innocence" is just culturally acceptable ignorance. Try educating your children yourself, rather than sheltering them from all sexuality and then freaking out when they try to learn about it on their own.
Don't forget recording all of their phone calls and hiring someone to follow them around after school, so you can make sure they're not doing anything you wouldn't do.
Seriously, didn't you have unrestricted and unmonitored internet access growing up? Why is it even conceivable to play CIA with your children? If you want to know what sites they are visiting, ASK THEM.
The terrorists will have won when you are living in fear, sacrificing your own liberties in order to feel "safe" (and, as you point out, paying for the privilege). No one wins when that happens.
I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume your problem is with the xfree86 server implementation, which is being replaced by the xorg implementation by pretty much everyone. You *have* heard of it, neh?
So, you're saying that if you have a large group of people having fun and interacting with each other, it is more enjoyable than seeing this movie? If only there was a name for such a thing! Maybe we could call it a "party", and skip the movie part...
I'm sorry, but Transgaming is under NO OBLIGATION to give code back to the WINE project.
"Wine is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version."
The LGPL (and the GPL), make no references to contributing patches to upstream, they only cover redistribution and the like. Nothing has been stolen, nothing has been wiped out. Your claims, in other words, are FUD. If you don't like it, go start your own project under a more restrictive license, don't waste your time complaining about a company that offers an excellent product while obeying the terms of the (L)GPL.
So, um, *what* better editor? jEdit doesn't seem to have features that vim or emacs lack, which is good, but it doesn't seem to have a console-only version, which makes it entirely useless to me and anyone else who programs on a remote machine over ssh. You're just insulting people without offering any reasonable alternative, and proving that you are nothing but a rabid fanboy. While you froth at the mouth, I'll be over here, doing some programming in an editor that will actually run on the machines I work with.
Read their pricing scheme; sellers get free transactions if they use adwords, and the more they spend on adwords, the more free transactions they get. So, while this is definitely a new revenue stream, it is *also* a way to further bolster their main revenue stream.
hmm, I seem to have the same problem. it's not really a *dead* machine, just a very, very slow machine... I suspect that something is polling to find my PCMCIA devices, which I don't freaking have. Sigh. That's what you get for upgrading on release day, I suppose.
Ubuntu Breezy Badger (released Oct 2005) includes firefox 1.0.8 out-of-the-box, no setup required.
Ubuntu Dapper Drake (release date: June 2006) will include firefox 1.5 out-of-the-box, no setup required.
The *reason* that a distro doesn't include the latest and greatest versions of everything is because sometimes the latest and greatest depends on unstable libraries, or is unstable itself. In the case of firefox 1.5 on ubuntu, there are several other packages which depend on firefox 1.0.8's gecko rendering engine, and which would *also* need to be updated to use 1.5. See, when the OS manages package dependencies instead of leaving them to the user, you occassionally have to wait for them to resolve that stuff. To claim that they are "not there yet" is ignorance; linux distros do a huge amount of work behind the scenes to ensure compatibility; windows leaves vendors to statically link everything.
Alternately, you could have scrolled down to the part of the firefox-1.5 on ubuntu 5.10 HOWTO page, to the section entitled "Installing Firefox as a debian package", which would have automated most of the steps you are complaining about.
Let me guess; neither you nor the gp have ever used Kubuntu or read the docs.
From TF FAQ: ------------ * What is Kubuntu?
Kubuntu is the first Ubuntu derived distribution. Our Kubuntu CDs are made up of Ubuntu's base plus KDE. You can get exactly the same effect by installing Ubuntu and adding the KDE packages (and removing the Gnome packages) from the Ubuntu archives.
* Is this a fork of Ubuntu?
No, it is an official part of Ubuntu. All our packages are in the same archives.
----------
So of *course* most commits will be in ubuntu, as the *only* difference between kubuntu and ubuntu is the existence of the kubuntu-desktop package. Of *course* there are fewer kubuntu commits; the vast majority of the distro doesn't care what desktop you are using.
Again, missing the point. infecting/etc/init.d/ affects *all users* of the computer, even administrator/root. Let's assume the rogue spyware installs a script saying "halt -n" to be run on startup, before a login. That means that the computer is suddenly a brick.
Now let's let that same spyware infect a.bashrc or a kde/gnome session file. This is at most an annoyance, which can be dealt with by loggin in as root, or sshing in remotely, or any number of things. It's bad, but it is not catastrophic. Even if there is only one user on the system, privilege separation means that J Random Browser can't cause a catastrophe. That's why a fully userspace IE is important; would Microsoft be making this move if they *didn't* know it would improve security?
See where you used the word "embedded"? That's the problem. It's embedded in outlook. It's embedded in word. It's embedded in Help. It's embedded in *the desktop*. That is what people mean when they say "integrated"; IE is embedded so far into windows that it actually runs certain things with admin permissions. IE is a buggy piece of shit, *and* it can royally fuck up your machine.
Even *if* Konqueror were every bit as buggy, the worst it would do is fuck over your particular userspace. It can't ruin/etc; it can't wreak havoc in/usr/lib. This is what is meant by "userspace"; it means encapsulation, it means *not* embedded in everything. IE most certainly doesn't meet that requirement.
You are correct in noting that Konq is entirely userspace, which is why they can make it browse whatever they want it to. If you don't like it, you can use Nautilus or firefox or midnight commander or any number of other things. This is only a big deal for IE/Explorer because it is tied to the OS, and because it is really your only choice for many things.
As for how tightly tied konqueror is to itself, that's pretty much moot. Much of Konqueror's capabilities are provided by kioslaves, which are another layer entirely, and could theoretically be used by other apps. *Shrug*
Jade is damned good; it's a bit slow in parts, but similar in a lot of ways to KOTOR. It's a departure from the standard swords-and-armour environment too, and has some very cool backstory. It's worth checking out if you play xbox games, and someday it might make it to PC...
bookmarks don't sort themselves because that violates the rule of least surprise. Bookmarks should never re-sort themselves, just as menus should not hide "infrequently used entries", and just as files should not automatically move themselves to other folders.
A much better solution would be to have "sort alphabetically" as an option under "Manage bookmarks", where the user is the one who decides when and if they get sorted.
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Wow, what are you smoking? Think back; what program did the last worm you heard of exploit? That's right, Microsoft Outlook(TM)(C) or Microsoft Internet Explorer(TM)(C) or Microsoft MSN Messenger(TM)(C). Now, think reeeeally hard and tell me which worm has ever spread using an OSS program. Now think even harder and tell me what worm has *ever* spread using an IMAGE EDITOR. I certainly haven't heard of any such thing.
Getting back from your trip to la-la-land, the Gimp is an awesome editor and I prefer it to Photoshop, having used both in a professional setting. If I ever need CMYK or 48bit colour, I may need to use a different tool. But I certainly won't waste my time complaining about how the hammer is "doomed" because I've got a screwdriver.
Some people don't work well *in* the office, playing games or surfing the internet. This is what managers and performance reviews and the like are for. An inability to get things done means that whatever management is in place is insufficient, whether telecommuting or in a traditional office.
The irony is that I am posting this to slashdot while at work, and odds are you did the same.
I know Americans are routinely unaware that anything happens outside of their own country, but you'd think someone on the internet would. Professor Geist is Canadian, and is writing about copyright laws in Canada, and it's unlikely that the USA's Clean Air/Water Acts were foremost in his mind.
And let's not forget OpenOffice, which *also* runs on a Mac. and it's free.
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http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/index.
For your consideration, here is a quote I came across earlier:
"You might consider Vista an accomplishment to get such a huge project out the door, or you might consider it a failure to put it together in such a way that it has to go out the door in one piece." --Mike South
A vista build could be "amazing quality", but if it doesn't work with people's hardware, and if its security is easily defeated, then it is a failure as an OS. Microsoft has several bajillion times the resources of any competing company; why is it too much to expect they use some of their money to ship something that actually works? Why should anyone have to wait six months for a service pack to make Vista work as advertised?
mod parent up! The entire "Freedom of Action" section has nothing to do with US citizens, or those of anywhere else in the world; it is entirely about freedom of action for the warmongers in power.
Given the number of other treaties that Bush has decided to ignore (i.e. land mines, torture) in the name of "Freedom", I highly doubt that the space treaties will be honoured.
They can't afford better hardware because the budget was spent on Windows licenses.
Ah, "think of the children" rings out once again. There is *far* less freely accessible porn on the net now than when I was 13; nowadays it's all behind credit card verification. This means that a child today, monitored or not, is less likely to find porn than I was, and I had a hell of a time of it.
Google has a very effective safesearch filter, as do other search sites. The most likely place for a child to *unintentionally* find porn is in a spam message or spam IM that no amount of parental wiretapping is going to prevent them seeing. All that will be accomplished is losing their trust, their respect, and any semblance of computer competence as they circumvent your clumsy attempts at controlling their lives.
"Innocence" is just culturally acceptable ignorance. Try educating your children yourself, rather than sheltering them from all sexuality and then freaking out when they try to learn about it on their own.
Don't forget recording all of their phone calls and hiring someone to follow them around after school, so you can make sure they're not doing anything you wouldn't do.
Seriously, didn't you have unrestricted and unmonitored internet access growing up? Why is it even conceivable to play CIA with your children? If you want to know what sites they are visiting, ASK THEM.
The terrorists will have won when you are living in fear, sacrificing your own liberties in order to feel "safe" (and, as you point out, paying for the privilege). No one wins when that happens.
I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume your problem is with the xfree86 server implementation, which is being replaced by the xorg implementation by pretty much everyone. You *have* heard of it, neh?
So, you're saying that if you have a large group of people having fun and interacting with each other, it is more enjoyable than seeing this movie? If only there was a name for such a thing! Maybe we could call it a "party", and skip the movie part...
I'm sorry, but Transgaming is under NO OBLIGATION to give code back to the WINE project.
"Wine is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version."
The LGPL (and the GPL), make no references to contributing patches to upstream, they only cover redistribution and the like. Nothing has been stolen, nothing has been wiped out. Your claims, in other words, are FUD. If you don't like it, go start your own project under a more restrictive license, don't waste your time complaining about a company that offers an excellent product while obeying the terms of the (L)GPL.
So, um, *what* better editor? jEdit doesn't seem to have features that vim or emacs lack, which is good, but it doesn't seem to have a console-only version, which makes it entirely useless to me and anyone else who programs on a remote machine over ssh. You're just insulting people without offering any reasonable alternative, and proving that you are nothing but a rabid fanboy. While you froth at the mouth, I'll be over here, doing some programming in an editor that will actually run on the machines I work with.
Read their pricing scheme; sellers get free transactions if they use adwords, and the more they spend on adwords, the more free transactions they get. So, while this is definitely a new revenue stream, it is *also* a way to further bolster their main revenue stream.
"Monster Island" was already taken...
hmm, I seem to have the same problem. it's not really a *dead* machine, just a very, very slow machine... I suspect that something is polling to find my PCMCIA devices, which I don't freaking have. Sigh. That's what you get for upgrading on release day, I suppose.
Ubuntu Breezy Badger (released Oct 2005) includes firefox 1.0.8 out-of-the-box, no setup required.
Ubuntu Dapper Drake (release date: June 2006) will include firefox 1.5 out-of-the-box, no setup required.
The *reason* that a distro doesn't include the latest and greatest versions of everything is because sometimes the latest and greatest depends on unstable libraries, or is unstable itself. In the case of firefox 1.5 on ubuntu, there are several other packages which depend on firefox 1.0.8's gecko rendering engine, and which would *also* need to be updated to use 1.5. See, when the OS manages package dependencies instead of leaving them to the user, you occassionally have to wait for them to resolve that stuff. To claim that they are "not there yet" is ignorance; linux distros do a huge amount of work behind the scenes to ensure compatibility; windows leaves vendors to statically link everything.
Alternately, you could have scrolled down to the part of the firefox-1.5 on ubuntu 5.10 HOWTO page, to the section entitled "Installing Firefox as a debian package", which would have automated most of the steps you are complaining about.
Let me guess; neither you nor the gp have ever used Kubuntu or read the docs.
From TF FAQ:
------------
* What is Kubuntu?
Kubuntu is the first Ubuntu derived distribution. Our Kubuntu CDs are made up of Ubuntu's base plus KDE. You can get exactly the same effect by installing Ubuntu and adding the KDE packages (and removing the Gnome packages) from the Ubuntu archives.
* Is this a fork of Ubuntu?
No, it is an official part of Ubuntu. All our packages are in the same archives.
----------
So of *course* most commits will be in ubuntu, as the *only* difference between kubuntu and ubuntu is the existence of the kubuntu-desktop package. Of *course* there are fewer kubuntu commits; the vast majority of the distro doesn't care what desktop you are using.
Again, missing the point. infecting /etc/init.d/ affects *all users* of the computer, even administrator/root. Let's assume the rogue spyware installs a script saying "halt -n" to be run on startup, before a login. That means that the computer is suddenly a brick.
.bashrc or a kde/gnome session file. This is at most an annoyance, which can be dealt with by loggin in as root, or sshing in remotely, or any number of things. It's bad, but it is not catastrophic. Even if there is only one user on the system, privilege separation means that J Random Browser can't cause a catastrophe. That's why a fully userspace IE is important; would Microsoft be making this move if they *didn't* know it would improve security?
Now let's let that same spyware infect a
See where you used the word "embedded"? That's the problem. It's embedded in outlook. It's embedded in word. It's embedded in Help. It's embedded in *the desktop*. That is what people mean when they say "integrated"; IE is embedded so far into windows that it actually runs certain things with admin permissions. IE is a buggy piece of shit, *and* it can royally fuck up your machine.
/etc; it can't wreak havoc in /usr/lib. This is what is meant by "userspace"; it means encapsulation, it means *not* embedded in everything. IE most certainly doesn't meet that requirement.
Even *if* Konqueror were every bit as buggy, the worst it would do is fuck over your particular userspace. It can't ruin
You are correct in noting that Konq is entirely userspace, which is why they can make it browse whatever they want it to. If you don't like it, you can use Nautilus or firefox or midnight commander or any number of other things. This is only a big deal for IE/Explorer because it is tied to the OS, and because it is really your only choice for many things.
As for how tightly tied konqueror is to itself, that's pretty much moot. Much of Konqueror's capabilities are provided by kioslaves, which are another layer entirely, and could theoretically be used by other apps. *Shrug*
Jade is damned good; it's a bit slow in parts, but similar in a lot of ways to KOTOR. It's a departure from the standard swords-and-armour environment too, and has some very cool backstory. It's worth checking out if you play xbox games, and someday it might make it to PC...
bookmarks don't sort themselves because that violates the rule of least surprise. Bookmarks should never re-sort themselves, just as menus should not hide "infrequently used entries", and just as files should not automatically move themselves to other folders.
A much better solution would be to have "sort alphabetically" as an option under "Manage bookmarks", where the user is the one who decides when and if they get sorted.