this article definately outlines the main problems with ui design and open source software. If you can avoid having to edit text files by hand and instead can do it in a gui that be great. On the part of turning off the auto-broadcast in cups, perhaps if the user specifies they want a print server or they go to share their printer then it should ask them that they need to enable that feature, choosing yes or no. Then the users who don't share their printers are just fine without having their printer exposed.
Let's see. Yesterday on Slashdot we had Microsoft adding anti-viral features into the next generation of Windows and today the anti-malware industry comes up with a lobbist group. Somehow, I think this has more to do of the security of their businesses from Microsoft's strengths than the security of any computers from Microsoft's weaknesses.
Actually that was a mistake in the story's title. MS isn't planning on adding an anti-virus program to windows, but merely a security tool that monitors 3rd party anti-virus programs and software firewalls alerting the user to things like the definitions need updating, that sort of thing.
And here's why. Say that you have your own domain and your e-mail is being hosted at who ever is hosting it for you. Now when you send e-mail out from that domain, you're going to have to use that same e-mail server no matter what. But lets say you have a dynamic ip address, so ur hosting provider can't then let all that ip addresses range through to send out e-mail. The normal course of action is for you to use ur isp's e-mail server to send out e-mail for your domain that you own. With this you won't be able to do that and will just make it more frustrating for users. We need a transparent solution.
Did you even read the article? Look at this point at the very beginning of it:
The tool, which checks for third-party anti-virus and firewall software and lets users know whether it is enabled or not.
Microsoft is NOT including its own AV software with sp2, but will include a program to monitor 3rd party AV software and 3rd party software firewalls for you, warning you if you have it or not and if its definitions are updated or not. Typical slashdot biasness.
Microsoft are not going into the AV business with this.
Secret arrests, supposed "terrorists" being held indefinitely without trial, widespead wiretap priviledges.. the list goes on. Is this what you call a "breeze rustling the trees?"
No, its what I call the beginning of communism. Remember these types of things were done in the USSR all the time back when it was in power.
Well maybe an idea here is to say 1000 dvd's at an average of 9 gb each that be 9 terabytes...ooh this is gonna take up alot of space. Well what you then do is make images of each dvd and just mount them manually with daemon tools. Of course they would have to be copied all over using dvd decryptor or something similiar like that. Then just select the drve that daemon tools uses to mount the images, make it the default in cyberlink's powerdvd. Now if you have some kind of remote that works with powerdvd you have a way to control the dvd image that is currently mounted. Now as for mounting the dvd images, Im sure daemon tools could help you out their using one of their third party plugins. I think one of them allows you to control it using a web browser. Well thats my idea anyways.
Screw all binary drivers, I insist on open source drivers for everything.
Despite your little fantasy there, you were the one that bought the nforce board. Im sure in time there will be drivers included with linux distributions that will work with the nforce chipset you have. Just like newer nic's don't have drivers included with windows and you need to install it from a cd, you'll just have to install it after you finish installing linux. Its nothing new.
I went to a private college during the dotcom boom. The boom ended just before I graduated so I missed out on it. As I was saying, the school I went to I found great. It was a different approach in that you were assigned readings and you'd practise that with your own installation of the OS you were on at the time. If you didnt understand something, then you would go ask your instructor about it. This required a certain amount of discipline of course but nonetheless it worked out for me. And my favourite thing about it is that you never took any BS courses. It cost me about the same then going to a public college but I spent less time in school then I needed to. The only reason why these public colleges and universities have lower tuition is because the government pays for some of it. The government wants you to get a well rounded education. fuck that. I dont need another year or more of high school. Reminds me of this saying. "I'm the jack of all trades, master of none." Having a degree in a field of study is a useful thing. But when you have to take courses that have nothing to do with that field of study just to get that degree, then you start to wonder why its set like this.
Well this is typical of Joe Barr anyways. I remember reading an article he wrote on the "difficulty" of getting windows 2000 to install compared to an installation of redhat linux which he claimed was easy to do. Nevermind the fact that he went through an oem's installation instead of a standard install. Also nevermind the fact that the linux version was less then a month old and windows 2000 was 3 years old which would acount for the small number of patches needed for the linux install compared to the windows 2000 install. A typical biased pro open source article by him. Most of it is his opinion anyways.
You said it. Some people are just technophobes when it comes to any kind of new technology. After all, now that those features which use to only be on the high end models are now becoming standard on all models they complain about it. As for the cell phones with all those extra features, they've been around for years. Get use to it. The ones that like it, the teens, the cell phone manufacturers caitor to them. But the basic features I find like calling someone and having an address book are great. The only people that really complain like its said in this article, just dont like any new technology that comes along if they have to use it.
Yeah well when ogg first was around, the mp3 players couldn't play it right because it needed a more powerful processor. It went down something like this. Cost of mp3 player plus licensing for mp3 codec was LESS then cost of mp3 player plus hardware needed for ogg support. So then the only reason for using ogg was that it was open source and stuff.
That might work. the DX's had the math co-processor so it should work. Don't know if it would play it at full quality though. When I tried it on mine SX 33 I had to emulate a math co-processor and even then it was extremely choppy lol.
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this article definately outlines the main problems with ui design and open source software. If you can avoid having to edit text files by hand and instead can do it in a gui that be great. On the part of turning off the auto-broadcast in cups, perhaps if the user specifies they want a print server or they go to share their printer then it should ask them that they need to enable that feature, choosing yes or no. Then the users who don't share their printers are just fine without having their printer exposed.
Let's see. Yesterday on Slashdot we had Microsoft adding anti-viral features into the next generation of Windows and today the anti-malware industry comes up with a lobbist group. Somehow, I think this has more to do of the security of their businesses from Microsoft's strengths than the security of any computers from Microsoft's weaknesses.
Actually that was a mistake in the story's title. MS isn't planning on adding an anti-virus program to windows, but merely a security tool that monitors 3rd party anti-virus programs and software firewalls alerting the user to things like the definitions need updating, that sort of thing.
And here's why. Say that you have your own domain and your e-mail is being hosted at who ever is hosting it for you. Now when you send e-mail out from that domain, you're going to have to use that same e-mail server no matter what. But lets say you have a dynamic ip address, so ur hosting provider can't then let all that ip addresses range through to send out e-mail. The normal course of action is for you to use ur isp's e-mail server to send out e-mail for your domain that you own. With this you won't be able to do that and will just make it more frustrating for users. We need a transparent solution.
Well if I'm building something that I took apart, I always seem to have a part or 2 left over and have no idea where its supposed to go...
Did you even read the article? Look at this point at the very beginning of it:
The tool, which checks for third-party anti-virus and firewall software and lets users know whether it is enabled or not.
Microsoft is NOT including its own AV software with sp2, but will include a program to monitor 3rd party AV software and 3rd party software firewalls for you, warning you if you have it or not and if its definitions are updated or not. Typical slashdot biasness.
Microsoft are not going into the AV business with this.
Secret arrests, supposed "terrorists" being held indefinitely without trial, widespead wiretap priviledges.. the list goes on. Is this what you call a "breeze rustling the trees?" No, its what I call the beginning of communism. Remember these types of things were done in the USSR all the time back when it was in power.
Well maybe an idea here is to say 1000 dvd's at an average of 9 gb each that be 9 terabytes...ooh this is gonna take up alot of space. Well what you then do is make images of each dvd and just mount them manually with daemon tools. Of course they would have to be copied all over using dvd decryptor or something similiar like that. Then just select the drve that daemon tools uses to mount the images, make it the default in cyberlink's powerdvd. Now if you have some kind of remote that works with powerdvd you have a way to control the dvd image that is currently mounted. Now as for mounting the dvd images, Im sure daemon tools could help you out their using one of their third party plugins. I think one of them allows you to control it using a web browser. Well thats my idea anyways.
Screw all binary drivers, I insist on open source drivers for everything. Despite your little fantasy there, you were the one that bought the nforce board. Im sure in time there will be drivers included with linux distributions that will work with the nforce chipset you have. Just like newer nic's don't have drivers included with windows and you need to install it from a cd, you'll just have to install it after you finish installing linux. Its nothing new.
I went to a private college during the dotcom boom. The boom ended just before I graduated so I missed out on it. As I was saying, the school I went to I found great. It was a different approach in that you were assigned readings and you'd practise that with your own installation of the OS you were on at the time. If you didnt understand something, then you would go ask your instructor about it. This required a certain amount of discipline of course but nonetheless it worked out for me. And my favourite thing about it is that you never took any BS courses. It cost me about the same then going to a public college but I spent less time in school then I needed to. The only reason why these public colleges and universities have lower tuition is because the government pays for some of it. The government wants you to get a well rounded education. fuck that. I dont need another year or more of high school. Reminds me of this saying. "I'm the jack of all trades, master of none." Having a degree in a field of study is a useful thing. But when you have to take courses that have nothing to do with that field of study just to get that degree, then you start to wonder why its set like this.
Well this is typical of Joe Barr anyways. I remember reading an article he wrote on the "difficulty" of getting windows 2000 to install compared to an installation of redhat linux which he claimed was easy to do. Nevermind the fact that he went through an oem's installation instead of a standard install. Also nevermind the fact that the linux version was less then a month old and windows 2000 was 3 years old which would acount for the small number of patches needed for the linux install compared to the windows 2000 install. A typical biased pro open source article by him. Most of it is his opinion anyways.
4) Copying of the media is very difficult
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Well now we all know where our next format for music is gonna come from
You said it. Some people are just technophobes when it comes to any kind of new technology. After all, now that those features which use to only be on the high end models are now becoming standard on all models they complain about it. As for the cell phones with all those extra features, they've been around for years. Get use to it. The ones that like it, the teens, the cell phone manufacturers caitor to them. But the basic features I find like calling someone and having an address book are great. The only people that really complain like its said in this article, just dont like any new technology that comes along if they have to use it.
Did anyone else think of debian when they saw the word apt in the story title? :)
Yeah well when ogg first was around, the mp3 players couldn't play it right because it needed a more powerful processor. It went down something like this. Cost of mp3 player plus licensing for mp3 codec was LESS then cost of mp3 player plus hardware needed for ogg support. So then the only reason for using ogg was that it was open source and stuff.
That might work. the DX's had the math co-processor so it should work. Don't know if it would play it at full quality though. When I tried it on mine SX 33 I had to emulate a math co-processor and even then it was extremely choppy lol.