SuSE 9 supports it pretty well. Try the LiveCD. Certainly my network card is supported fine with the LiveCD (Asus A7N8X-X), its just that not all distros do.
We're now arriving at a point where virus-infected users are booted off networks and told to clean their shit up, it's a logical extension that countries which can't police themselves suffer the same fate.
Like the virused home-user PC, its a matter of local responsibility, having better safeguards means the Web community won't ever need to act against you. I hope Macedonia actually takes action to regain the trust of the world rather than just looking for ways to get around the blacklists and relays through foreign proxies.
Umm. No. DSL often needs a kernel module to be set up to recognise a USB DSL modem, which are incredibly common as European ISPs usually supply a cheapo Alcatel Speedtouch instead of a network-connected DSL modem as commonly seen in the United States. These damn Speedtouches are not well supported in Linux and suffer either glitchy drivers or a need for a LOT of hacking to configure them. Oh, and remember than onboard LANs often don't work in Linux either necessitating a replacement net card or a lot of fiddling (for an example try DamnSmallLinux on an nVidia nForce 2 motherboard)
Which is fine since Microsoft don't provide a JVM by default in Windows XP. With F/Fox though Dell would be installing an app which competes with part of Microsoft's standard operating system (IE), so I suspect different rules would apply.
I also suspect no OEM will ship F/Fox until it hits a 1.x release due to it being currently in the equivalent of a public beta. OEMs probably will only supply "gold final" code.
Feels fractionally faster and it has more geek appeal. - personal preference, basically.
Also, I think that the best possible situation is where Gecko competes with KHTML on Windows as well as Mac and Linux as it will encourage both teams of code-writers to be the best they can be.
"Rendezvous technology is now available on Windows 2000 and XP. This preview release includes full link-local support, allowing Windows machines to discover advertised HTTP and FTP servers using Internet Explorer"
Given that Apple today joined the announcement with Mozilla and Opera of open-standards for web plugins it surprises me that their product even suggests the use of Internet Explorer.
I freely admit to hoping, someday, for Safari on Windows and using Firefox until that day (And pls don't reply saying Safari is on Windows in iTunes.. iTMS on Windows doesn't use Webcore, more's the pity.)
If this system does allow a single "Browser Plugins" location for every browser it would also enable emulation-based* products like Crossover Plugin from Codeweavers to be used to bring Windows plugins to *nix browsers, I imagine
W/R/T Quicktime it'll probably still ask you to pay a lot of money to buy the pro version every time its needed, when all you want it for is watching a video file, though...:-p
*Yes I know WINE is not an emulator, and *you* know that it still provides emulation services in this context.....
Fair comment. In my defence, I was the new trainee and dependent on the outgoing IT manager for training. Suffice it to say I've now got better training and better security!
Well, actually it was a UK course teaching the same curriculum, it seems.
Shortly afterward, the fucker got fired for gross misconduct, and hacked our company's servers using backdoors that he'd personally set up. So no, I'm not too impressed by people teaching this.....
Aargh, don't mention them to me. Just had to build half-a-dozen HP-Compaq Business Desktop DX2000s for my employers. The driver disks don't work when you put a clean copy of Windows XP Pro on them, you actually cant install the drivers from within windows, you have to do it using the system restore disk, which proceeded to nuke my custom partitioning in favour of a single enormous NTFS partition.
And the network driver for their implemention of the Intel Pro 100/ VM comes out at 67mb.. and the standard Microsoft driver won't work!
Bitter - me?
Just because its opensource doesn't mean you can download it for free. Under the GPL suppliers are only required to make the source code available to people who buy/legally obtain the product. It's perfectly possible that you still have to pay to get the binary, although of course once you have it you can compile your own version from the code and sell it or give it away.
Still needs to be said - Opensource means free as in speech
It's my understanding that weather-satellite transmissions aren't encrypted and can be picked up by anyone, this certainly used to be the case.
So, write a Distributed Computing Client which downloads weather-satellite data from a handful of sat-dish-connected servers and predicts the weather. You'd need a great many clients doing the basic data-processing and a lot of higher-level nodes which collate the information, but in theory you could use weather satellites from all over the globe instead of just the ones your domestic weather service relies on... and probably build a bigger picture of the weather-system.
We slashdotters always say Data should be free, how could it be more free than if we generate it ourselves?
Apparently, though, if you wish to run GNOME 1.4 you need to use an older version of Cygwin (1.3) and XFree86 4.2. The Cy-GNOME project team are working on porting GNOME 2 and are unlikely to make the necessary changes to the 1.4 tree to support it on current Cygwin releases.
Whether this means currently the available binaries won't run, I'm not sure. It may be necessary to do a manual compile from the Gnumeric source code using Cygwin-GCC. This has caught my attention now.....
GnuMeric, as with the rest of GNOME 1.4 or KDE 3.1.4, runs just fine on Windows when compiled in the Cygwin Linux API implementation. You can also use Cygwin as a host for XFree86, this is the only way to get a free, fully featured X-server on Windows.
I mean.. the standard image they come with from the manufacturer is always a bit buggy due to things like multimedia keyboards, java plugin updaters, windows messenger, etc autorunning... and FAT32 disk drives if its a Dell.
Repartition, 8gb for system, rest as a single NTFS partition. Move swapfile into 2nd partition. Disable Messenger service, uninstall Windows Messenger if XP. Update Windows.
Defragment, install apps, defragment again. Lock down user accounts so they can change clock, date, screen res and background but nothing else. Disable Luna theme if XP. Set AV to autoupdate, turn on ICF if XP.. and send to its end user.
Or just set up the domain login and send out a machine with a crappy manufacturers image.. and enjoy supporting it.
I specifically said this could be a reference project for getting internet connections into repressive regimes. Nowhere did I state or suggest that Morocco was such a state
You assume bandwidth and willingness to install.
XP needs about 25mb of patches on top of SP1A. And the patches need to be accepted by the user, they won't autoinstall by default. I have seen SO many computers where the little icon for "patches are ready for download/install" is a permanent feature on the systray as the user never clicks it. And by the way thats a great many hours downloading at 56k. Broadband makes us lazy perhaps.
In the tradition of the subject matter... its obviously necessary to make it compulsory or deprive the user of service, in the name of the greater good.
A lot of people's hijacked systems could have been kept clean were they fully patched:
I've been saying for a while now, if an ISPs sign-up disk had all current Windows service packs and critical patches loaded into it and installed them as part of the setup procedure -"You consent to Windows update patches being applied to your system during install"- then I'm sure a lot of network and support load could be lifted off the ISP and the net as a whole. If they could broker a deal to install Zonealarm or Sygate Personal firewall at the same time even better.
It isn't an unreasonable expectation that a machine connecting to a public network shouldn't have gaping security gaps. In fact, IMO, it is a public duty that it should not.
At least one UK ISP (NTL Cable) started doing this at the time of the Blaster worm to reduce the rate of infection among their subscribers. Machines which were infected and transmitting infected packets were booted off the network and not allowed to reconnect until they were clean. Owners had to contact NTL to get theirconnections unblocked.
As a techy, I ended up cleaning up several machines so their internet-porn deprived owners could feed their fixations. That said, I can't blame NTL for doing this, it was the responsible action and was done at the right time.
I believe that the duty of ISPs to prevent their customers destroying the internet by inadvertent DDOS should be at least as important as the contractual duty to the consumer.
Forget all the predictable comments about satellite links being cheaper, the bandwidth being a bit low for a trans-continental link, etc, this proves one thing:
No matter how repressive a government becomes in its monitoring or control of internet technology, geeks the world over can use this project as a reference work: Don't like your internet strained by official censors? Just beam a link over the border to an open proxy.
People like us can use this technology to open repressed populations up to communication.
However at 25mb per month and 1.50 per additional Megabyte you'd end up spending three times as much on bandwidth charges as you did on buying the song!
The Data card is a great idea but it is far too expensive, and Windows-only at this time. When they do a USB one for my iBook, and slash the call costs, I'll think about it...
Quote from your link:
First, other nations continuously improve their aerial warfare capability by fielding newer, faster, more maneuverable aircraft, such as the MiG-29, Su-35, Rafale, Gripen, and Eurofighter........ The F-22 has the stealth, speed, and maneuverability to overcome these challenges and ensure air dominance over any battlefield.
Damn. It really IS us Europeans that they're worried about!.
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SuSE 9 supports it pretty well. Try the LiveCD. Certainly my network card is supported fine with the LiveCD (Asus A7N8X-X), its just that not all distros do.
We're now arriving at a point where virus-infected users are booted off networks and told to clean their shit up, it's a logical extension that countries which can't police themselves suffer the same fate.
Like the virused home-user PC, its a matter of local responsibility, having better safeguards means the Web community won't ever need to act against you. I hope Macedonia actually takes action to regain the trust of the world rather than just looking for ways to get around the blacklists and relays through foreign proxies.
"DSL just needs a network card and a connection."
Umm. No. DSL often needs a kernel module to be set up to recognise a USB DSL modem, which are incredibly common as European ISPs usually supply a cheapo Alcatel Speedtouch instead of a network-connected DSL modem as commonly seen in the United States. These damn Speedtouches are not well supported in Linux and suffer either glitchy drivers or a need for a LOT of hacking to configure them.
Oh, and remember than onboard LANs often don't work in Linux either necessitating a replacement net card or a lot of fiddling (for an example try DamnSmallLinux on an nVidia nForce 2 motherboard)
Which is fine since Microsoft don't provide a JVM by default in Windows XP. With F/Fox though Dell would be installing an app which competes with part of Microsoft's standard operating system (IE), so I suspect different rules would apply.
I also suspect no OEM will ship F/Fox until it hits a 1.x release due to it being currently in the equivalent of a public beta. OEMs probably will only supply "gold final" code.
I doubt the WMA-playing Dell DJ works with a Mac anyway
Feels fractionally faster and it has more geek appeal. - personal preference, basically.
Also, I think that the best possible situation is where Gecko competes with KHTML on Windows as well as Mac and Linux as it will encourage both teams of code-writers to be the best they can be.
"Rendezvous technology is now available on Windows 2000 and XP. This preview release includes full link-local support, allowing Windows machines to discover advertised HTTP and FTP servers using Internet Explorer"
Given that Apple today joined the announcement with Mozilla and Opera of open-standards for web plugins it surprises me that their product even suggests the use of Internet Explorer.
I freely admit to hoping, someday, for Safari on Windows and using Firefox until that day (And pls don't reply saying Safari is on Windows in iTunes.. iTMS on Windows doesn't use Webcore, more's the pity.)
If this system does allow a single "Browser Plugins" location for every browser it would also enable emulation-based* products like Crossover Plugin from Codeweavers to be used to bring Windows plugins to *nix browsers, I imagine W/R/T Quicktime it'll probably still ask you to pay a lot of money to buy the pro version every time its needed, when all you want it for is watching a video file, though... :-p
*Yes I know WINE is not an emulator, and *you* know that it still provides emulation services in this context.....
That's not a bug, it's a feature.
Fair comment. In my defence, I was the new trainee and dependent on the outgoing IT manager for training. Suffice it to say I've now got better training and better security!
Well, actually it was a UK course teaching the same curriculum, it seems.
Shortly afterward, the fucker got fired for gross misconduct, and hacked our company's servers using backdoors that he'd personally set up. So no, I'm not too impressed by people teaching this.....
Aargh, don't mention them to me. Just had to build half-a-dozen HP-Compaq Business Desktop DX2000s for my employers. The driver disks don't work when you put a clean copy of Windows XP Pro on them, you actually cant install the drivers from within windows, you have to do it using the system restore disk, which proceeded to nuke my custom partitioning in favour of a single enormous NTFS partition.
And the network driver for their implemention of the Intel Pro 100/ VM comes out at 67mb.. and the standard Microsoft driver won't work!
Bitter - me?
Just because its opensource doesn't mean you can download it for free. Under the GPL suppliers are only required to make the source code available to people who buy/legally obtain the product. It's perfectly possible that you still have to pay to get the binary, although of course once you have it you can compile your own version from the code and sell it or give it away.
Still needs to be said - Opensource means free as in speech
It's my understanding that weather-satellite transmissions aren't encrypted and can be picked up by anyone, this certainly used to be the case.
So, write a Distributed Computing Client which downloads weather-satellite data from a handful of sat-dish-connected servers and predicts the weather. You'd need a great many clients doing the basic data-processing and a lot of higher-level nodes which collate the information, but in theory you could use weather satellites from all over the globe instead of just the ones your domestic weather service relies on... and probably build a bigger picture of the weather-system.
We slashdotters always say Data should be free, how could it be more free than if we generate it ourselves?
Apparently, though, if you wish to run GNOME 1.4 you need to use an older version of Cygwin (1.3) and XFree86 4.2. The Cy-GNOME project team are working on porting GNOME 2 and are unlikely to make the necessary changes to the 1.4 tree to support it on current Cygwin releases.
Whether this means currently the available binaries won't run, I'm not sure. It may be necessary to do a manual compile from the Gnumeric source code using Cygwin-GCC. This has caught my attention now.....
GnuMeric, as with the rest of GNOME 1.4 or KDE 3.1.4, runs just fine on Windows when compiled in the Cygwin Linux API implementation. You can also use Cygwin as a host for XFree86, this is the only way to get a free, fully featured X-server on Windows.
References.
Cygwin homepage
Gnome 1.4 apps for Cygwin
Cygwin Gnome homepage
KDE on Cygwin homepage
Cygwin is a brilliant tool to help manage a migration from Windows to Linux. I don't know why we dont hear of it more.
..to set up an office PC properly:
I mean.. the standard image they come with from the manufacturer is always a bit buggy due to things like multimedia keyboards, java plugin updaters, windows messenger, etc autorunning... and FAT32 disk drives if its a Dell.
Repartition, 8gb for system, rest as a single NTFS partition. Move swapfile into 2nd partition. Disable Messenger service, uninstall Windows Messenger if XP. Update Windows.
Defragment, install apps, defragment again. Lock down user accounts so they can change clock, date, screen res and background but nothing else. Disable Luna theme if XP. Set AV to autoupdate, turn on ICF if XP.. and send to its end user.
Or just set up the domain login and send out a machine with a crappy manufacturers image.. and enjoy supporting it.
I specifically said this could be a reference project for getting internet connections into repressive regimes. Nowhere did I state or suggest that Morocco was such a state
You assume bandwidth and willingness to install. XP needs about 25mb of patches on top of SP1A. And the patches need to be accepted by the user, they won't autoinstall by default. I have seen SO many computers where the little icon for "patches are ready for download/install" is a permanent feature on the systray as the user never clicks it. And by the way thats a great many hours downloading at 56k. Broadband makes us lazy perhaps.
In the tradition of the subject matter... its obviously necessary to make it compulsory or deprive the user of service, in the name of the greater good.
A lot of people's hijacked systems could have been kept clean were they fully patched:
I've been saying for a while now, if an ISPs sign-up disk had all current Windows service packs and critical patches loaded into it and installed them as part of the setup procedure -"You consent to Windows update patches being applied to your system during install"- then I'm sure a lot of network and support load could be lifted off the ISP and the net as a whole. If they could broker a deal to install Zonealarm or Sygate Personal firewall at the same time even better.
It isn't an unreasonable expectation that a machine connecting to a public network shouldn't have gaping security gaps. In fact, IMO, it is a public duty that it should not.
At least one UK ISP (NTL Cable) started doing this at the time of the Blaster worm to reduce the rate of infection among their subscribers. Machines which were infected and transmitting infected packets were booted off the network and not allowed to reconnect until they were clean. Owners had to contact NTL to get theirconnections unblocked.
As a techy, I ended up cleaning up several machines so their internet-porn deprived owners could feed their fixations. That said, I can't blame NTL for doing this, it was the responsible action and was done at the right time.
I believe that the duty of ISPs to prevent their customers destroying the internet by inadvertent DDOS should be at least as important as the contractual duty to the consumer.
Forget all the predictable comments about satellite links being cheaper, the bandwidth being a bit low for a trans-continental link, etc, this proves one thing:
No matter how repressive a government becomes in its monitoring or control of internet technology, geeks the world over can use this project as a reference work: Don't like your internet strained by official censors? Just beam a link over the border to an open proxy.
People like us can use this technology to open repressed populations up to communication.
However at 25mb per month and 1.50 per additional Megabyte you'd end up spending three times as much on bandwidth charges as you did on buying the song!
The Data card is a great idea but it is far too expensive, and Windows-only at this time. When they do a USB one for my iBook, and slash the call costs, I'll think about it...
The comfort and happiness benefits of being able to sit down when you visit a colleague's working-space are great and few offices cater for it.
If you have an impromptu meeting, do you want to be standing or sitting on the edge of a desk?
Quote from your link: .. ... The F-22 has the stealth, speed, and maneuverability to overcome these challenges and ensure air dominance over any battlefield.
First, other nations continuously improve their aerial warfare capability by fielding newer, faster, more maneuverable aircraft, such as the MiG-29, Su-35, Rafale, Gripen, and Eurofighter...
Damn. It really IS us Europeans that they're worried about!.