Why should any Linux distro do that, when Microsoft never has ?
Any body who has "upgraded" from say win98 to XP, has sooner or later had to wipe the disk and start from scratch. Any don't talk to me about preserving settings. I had to wipe and reinstall my XP laptop. Unfortunately, all the setup files are on a hidden partition, so what actually happened was both my accessable partions got wiped, not just C: Bye bye all my saved data on D: Ok it was backed up on disks, but to say you can upgrade to another M$ OS and it will do everything for you is disingenuous. It can't even keep dial up settings from an old install. Why do you think that people say that it is better to wipe and start again with windows ? Do you think we like doing that ? Where is the windows that copies across any programs I have installed ?
I can't see why people who give their time for free should do so much more than a company who have made so much profit by not providing that service.
Where is the install that dual boots between Linux and Win98 from the same disk?
At a guess, ALL OF THEM !
Where is the Linux install that works on FAT32 and preserves the existing disk contents?
At a guess, ALL OF THEM ! except that Linux won't be running on FAT32, but it can read and write to it fine. Where is the microsoft install that keeps the existing disk contents ?
Where is the install that replicates their existing printer.
Apart from windows not doing that anyway, all I had to do with Fedora, was (after installation was finished) turn on the printer, and check for new hardware. You seem to think that windows is easy to install. Well the OS is, but then you have to deal with all the unknown hardware popups until you install the proprietary drivers for each device not recognised. Then you have to (re)install all your software, office, games, graphics design, web authoring, anti-virus. A fresh linux install usually includes all those types of software, and doesn't usually have any "hardware not recognised" issues, (excepting WiFi cards, which is not really the fault of GNU/Linux, as the drivers are not open source, and you would need to install the manufacturers drivers on windows anyway).
You just want everything done for you it seems, and from your attitude, you have never installed windows in your life.
I forgot to mention : If they had thought to require a photo for the front of the card then it would be a 3 stage process, and pretty hard to circumvent in a store situation. Even ATMs have CCTV these days, so they could use some image recognition software to match your image against the registered image before giving you cash. Personally I prefer cash....
Yeah, or they could stand behind you at the ATM and then lift your wallet, or, maybe just beat you over the head right there and get some quick cash. How is a 2 stage authentication worse than a single stage ?
In Oz and New Zealand, people buy beer in the pub and pay like that (EFTPOS IIRC) and I don't think they are having a huge problem. They started a good while before us too.
Also, having your PIN doesn't give them your account. They would be limited to whatever your bank has set for the cash limit for the day. Unless they went shopping, and then they would be on all the CCTV cameras in the shops. Lesson 1a: Don't keep all your eggs in one basket.
At a bare minimum, you will become a Botnet Zombie -- if you're really lucky, you might be Trojaned, have a Rootkit installed on your PC, and be used for spam, file storage, and DOS attacks.
What if you don't run DOS (or any derivatives)?
Ha ha, it's a joke. I set up a linux box for my sisters kids to use, and kept an eye on the logs. One of the first things they tried to install was AIM. Ooops, too bad. Some kind ***soul was even trying to help them to do it while chatting though GAIM. Which is kind of funny as there is a plugin for AIM in GAIM.
but as long as your applications just slay their performance in cold blood and cause them to run at nearly nuclear explosion temperatures (renicing the process will help against the first issue sometimes, but not the latter), you are just losing possible helpers.
Hmmm, nuclear temparatures, eh.
My home server is on 24/7/365 and runs F@H. Gkrelm reports my temps. at 52.0, 27.0, and 51.5
It's reniced to 10 so that means it is actually running at a nice value of 19....
And I took that top reading while posting to/. in Firefox 1.5.0.7 and downloading a torrent of *some_linux_iso* via Azureus (java) while logged in on a Gnome 2.10.1 desktop on that machine. I use only this machine for the internet. My XP box never goes near the WWW at all. Maybe you are running a Microsoft OS ?
BTW, I've been running this since Dec. 5 2004 and it has never caused an issue with performance, as far as I'm concerned. My stats. (the machine concerned is a Sempron 1.5 ghz with 1GB RAM running FC4, 3504.08 bogomips)
Why anyone would run F@H on a laptop is beyond me anyway, it needs to run constantly to get the best results for the project. As another poster mentioned, there is a time limit for results, so you're wasting your time and energy if you keep interrupting it. Those results that are late will be disregarded.
<Directory "/home/website_name/www/html"> Options FollowSymLinks # # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in.htaccess files. # It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords: # Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit # AllowOverride All # # Controls who can get stuff from this server. # Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>
so someone must have edited httpd.conf to specifically allow access to that directory, or placed a.htaccess file in that directory to allow a listing. Which implies that allowing access was intentional, which further implies that it wasn't hacking. QED
Furthermore, if they are running an old version of Apache, and haven't restricted the ServerSignature directive to ProductOnly or turned it off completely, I would suggest they get with the times. They could even have a custom 404 message giving the ETA of the feds.
I have 3 accounts, all linked, so I can keep the bare minimum in the main account and all the rest in a savings account. If I want to buy something online, I just transfer the right amount over from the savings and then go buy the item.
Another useful aspect is when you're travelling. they don't have HiTW machines outside the UK that can deal with Link, so when I was in australia and new zealand and the us, it was trivial to keep a check on things and move money, pay bills, whatever I needed to do.
I expect your HiTW machine is right opposite the pub (mine is !).
As one friend told me, "I really messed up and read Tolkien first, now I can't stand those other books."
I don't know about that.
My father used to read The Hobbit to me at bedtime when I was a small child, so my dreams were often filled with visions and nightmares. He went on to read the LOTR to me after the Hobbit. I don't feel deprived in any sense by that experience.
I think there is a wealth of material still available that could be made into screenplays. I would like to see The Many Coloured Land on the big screen, as well as The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.
I realise that both of those stories are massive subjects, and it would take a great deal of skill not to completely ruin them, but I refused to watch the LOTR movies initailly too. Eventually I succumbed, and was pleasantly surprised by the good job Peter Jackson had made out of them.
Unfortunately, Not every director has his skill, and so other epic stories are in danger of being wrecked by incompetents.
Maybe somebody could take a crack at Asimovs Foundation Trilogy too ? Not really fantasy, but a very good yarn all the same. It could even be done as a TV series, much like Star Trek, as there is so much there to be explored.
There is such a baby boom in India that they will shortly see the problem in Britian currently where the OAP's outnumber the youth...... It's not going to happen for a while.
-5 Incomprehensible
So your first statement is true for values of shortly ~40 years.
BTW OAPs do not currently outnumber the youth either.
Believe me, 6 or 7 years ago, before this was done, internet in the UK was slow and crap.
6 or 7 years ago, internet access was slow and crap pretty much everywhere. 6 years ago I had ISDN which gave 256kbps over 2 lines. Meanwhile in Florida, my friend had a 56k connection.
Say what you like about BT, but once they caught on to the potential, they have moved mountains to get us to the standard we now enjoy. I have a 6 meg line now for the same price I was paying for 512k 3 years ago. And they didn't even ask if I wanted it !
Beats the old 33.6k USR modem I put in my Pentium 75. And I have still got a working 9600 somewhere... Sadly I have had a web site since '96, and have been running web servers since '97 - youngsters today eh !
Then who would pay the $1 billion for the FIRST car?
The government ?
Given how much money they extort from car owners already, it would pay itself off very quickly. Insurance (+tax), petrol (+tax), yearly test fees (+tax), Licence plates/car tax (+tax), plus all the raw materials to build it (+tax).
Maybe a car wasn't such a good analogy, huh ? Or maybe, as we are now supplying the raw materials, the damn cds should be slightly cheaper perhaps ?
Apropos nothing, I remember the days when you could go into an off licence (liquor store to you) and fill my own container with wine or cider. AND it was cheaper that way. Now when we really need to be "green", such a practice has died out.
Except no one has provided any evidence whatsoever that genetically modified foods are less healthy. All you have is Greenpeace's paranoid ravings about frankenfood, and how it's "not natural".
My issue with GM is not that it is GM per se. Rather that Monsanto seeks to sell seed that will not produce any seed of its own.
That is evil.
Quite apart from them getting the farmers by the balls, they also get us by the balls. If due to some unforseen catastrophe we have to go back to survival basics, then sterile seeds will most likely finish off the human race.
Yes I know it's unlikely, but I don't like putting my head in a noose, especially for their profit.
Ever heard of the Titanic ? "We don't need a full compliment of lifeboats, this ship is unsinkable !"
I run a media server for all my saved tv and ripped movies. I initially set it up to be wireless, as it would be nice to have it out of the way somewhere. But as it does not run the tv card and software, nor the ripping software, all the saved media had to be transferred over the network. When you are talking a couple of gig a pop, it starts to get tedious, especially when watching a stored movie at the same time, so I went back to wired (for the time being).
Not all wireless apps are for use in the mobile market. The intended final incarnation of my media server will see remote wireless nano-PCs attached to tvs all around the house, to access all content through the server. When 2 or more devices are running concurrently, 22 Mbps gets saturated and you get the *buffering* that we all hate.
Computerworld tested that claim by repeatedly driving an employee's car over the ruggedized thumb drive. While the drive's body came away with a few scratches, there were no dents, and we didn't lose a single file.
TFA fails to mention that the employees thumb is now the size of a dinner plate, meaning he can no longer log in to his optically secured workstation even if he could get through gate security in the first place.
The bright side is that he has become an exceptional table tennis player.
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Any body who has "upgraded" from say win98 to XP, has sooner or later had to wipe the disk and start from scratch. Any don't talk to me about preserving settings.
I had to wipe and reinstall my XP laptop. Unfortunately, all the setup files are on a hidden partition, so what actually happened was both my accessable partions got wiped, not just C:
Bye bye all my saved data on D:
Ok it was backed up on disks, but to say you can upgrade to another M$ OS and it will do everything for you is disingenuous. It can't even keep dial up settings from an old install. Why do you think that people say that it is better to wipe and start again with windows ? Do you think we like doing that ?
Where is the windows that copies across any programs I have installed ?
I can't see why people who give their time for free should do so much more than a company who have made so much profit by not providing that service.
At a guess, ALL OF THEM !At a guess, ALL OF THEM ! except that Linux won't be running on FAT32, but it can read and write to it fine. Where is the microsoft install that keeps the existing disk contents ?Apart from windows not doing that anyway, all I had to do with Fedora, was (after installation was finished) turn on the printer, and check for new hardware. You seem to think that windows is easy to install. Well the OS is, but then you have to deal with all the unknown hardware popups until you install the proprietary drivers for each device not recognised. Then you have to (re)install all your software, office, games, graphics design, web authoring, anti-virus.A fresh linux install usually includes all those types of software, and doesn't usually have any "hardware not recognised" issues, (excepting WiFi cards, which is not really the fault of GNU/Linux, as the drivers are not open source, and you would need to install the manufacturers drivers on windows anyway).
You just want everything done for you it seems, and from your attitude, you have never installed windows in your life.
There, fixed that for ya !
Pc WorldCurrys
Dixons (ok same as currys)
Debenhams
tesco
Comet
I could go on and on. In fact I would be surprised if anybody in the UK hadn't heard of Toshiba.
And your comment is currently at +4 Interesting.Bollox.
I forgot to mention : If they had thought to require a photo for the front of the card then it would be a 3 stage process, and pretty hard to circumvent in a store situation. Even ATMs have CCTV these days, so they could use some image recognition software to match your image against the registered image before giving you cash. Personally I prefer cash....
In Oz and New Zealand, people buy beer in the pub and pay like that (EFTPOS IIRC) and I don't think they are having a huge problem. They started a good while before us too.
Also, having your PIN doesn't give them your account. They would be limited to whatever your bank has set for the cash limit for the day. Unless they went shopping, and then they would be on all the CCTV cameras in the shops. Lesson 1a: Don't keep all your eggs in one basket.
Ha ha, it's a joke. I set up a linux box for my sisters kids to use, and kept an eye on the logs. One of the first things they tried to install was AIM. Ooops, too bad. Some kind ***soul was even trying to help them to do it while chatting though GAIM. Which is kind of funny as there is a plugin for AIM in GAIM.
My home server is on 24/7/365 and runs F@H. Gkrelm reports my temps. at 52.0, 27.0, and 51.5
It's reniced to 10 so that means it is actually running at a nice value of 19 ....
25848 smoker 39 19 89192 48m 1152 R 96.4 4.8 79:37.24 FahCore_7a.exeAnd I took that top reading while posting to /. in Firefox 1.5.0.7 and downloading a torrent of *some_linux_iso* via Azureus (java) while logged in on a Gnome 2.10.1 desktop on that machine. I use only this machine for the internet. My XP box never goes near the WWW at all.
BTW, I've been running this since Dec. 5 2004 and it has never caused an issue with performance, as far as I'm concerned.Maybe you are running a Microsoft OS ?
My stats.
(the machine concerned is a Sempron 1.5 ghz with 1GB RAM running FC4, 3504.08 bogomips)
Why anyone would run F@H on a laptop is beyond me anyway, it needs to run constantly to get the best results for the project. As another poster mentioned, there is a time limit for results, so you're wasting your time and energy if you keep interrupting it. Those results that are late will be disregarded.
Please god, don't say you teach English !
Actually, the "H" and "W" are on either side .....
Not Found /dir/ was not found on this server.
And the default is ALWAYS to deny access,followed by so someone must have edited httpd.conf to specifically allow access to that directory, or placed aThe requested URL
Apache/1.3.33 Server at 134.186.178.82 Port 80
QED
Furthermore, if they are running an old version of Apache, and haven't restricted the ServerSignature directive to ProductOnly or turned it off completely, I would suggest they get with the times. They could even have a custom 404 message giving the ETA of the feds.
MIL/.
I have 3 accounts, all linked, so I can keep the bare minimum in the main account and all the rest in a savings account. If I want to buy something online, I just transfer the right amount over from the savings and then go buy the item.
Another useful aspect is when you're travelling. they don't have HiTW machines outside the UK that can deal with Link, so when I was in australia and new zealand and the us, it was trivial to keep a check on things and move money, pay bills, whatever I needed to do.
I expect your HiTW machine is right opposite the pub (mine is !).
My father used to read The Hobbit to me at bedtime when I was a small child, so my dreams were often filled with visions and nightmares. He went on to read the LOTR to me after the Hobbit. I don't feel deprived in any sense by that experience.
I think there is a wealth of material still available that could be made into screenplays. I would like to see The Many Coloured Land on the big screen, as well as The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.I realise that both of those stories are massive subjects, and it would take a great deal of skill not to completely ruin them, but I refused to watch the LOTR movies initailly too. Eventually I succumbed, and was pleasantly surprised by the good job Peter Jackson had made out of them.
Unfortunately, Not every director has his skill, and so other epic stories are in danger of being wrecked by incompetents.Maybe somebody could take a crack at Asimovs Foundation Trilogy too ?
Not really fantasy, but a very good yarn all the same. It could even be done as a TV series, much like Star Trek, as there is so much there to be explored.
See subject.
So your first statement is true for values of shortly ~40 years.
BTW OAPs do not currently outnumber the youth either.
Actually, I could do with a blow right now ...
Just imagine :
The definitive proof of Govt. involvement in the JFK assassination,
the contract with MGM to fake the moon landings,
the proof about WMDs.
Maybe it's true, and it's just your copy that fades !
Single layer only though ...but 25 GB is enough for now I guess. (Not that I'll be investing at those prices !)
Say what you like about BT, but once they caught on to the potential, they have moved mountains to get us to the standard we now enjoy. I have a 6 meg line now for the same price I was paying for 512k 3 years ago. And they didn't even ask if I wanted it !
Beats the old 33.6k USR modem I put in my Pentium 75. And I have still got a working 9600 somewhere ...
Sadly I have had a web site since '96, and have been running web servers since '97 - youngsters today eh !
Given how much money they extort from car owners already, it would pay itself off very quickly. Insurance (+tax), petrol (+tax), yearly test fees (+tax), Licence plates/car tax (+tax), plus all the raw materials to build it (+tax).
Maybe a car wasn't such a good analogy, huh ?Or maybe, as we are now supplying the raw materials, the damn cds should be slightly cheaper perhaps ?
Apropos nothing, I remember the days when you could go into an off licence (liquor store to you) and fill my own container with wine or cider. AND it was cheaper that way. Now when we really need to be "green", such a practice has died out.
That is evil.
Quite apart from them getting the farmers by the balls, they also get us by the balls. If due to some unforseen catastrophe we have to go back to survival basics, then sterile seeds will most likely finish off the human race.Yes I know it's unlikely, but I don't like putting my head in a noose, especially for their profit.
Ever heard of the Titanic ?
"We don't need a full compliment of lifeboats, this ship is unsinkable !"
No wonder the average consumer gets confused.
Not all wireless apps are for use in the mobile market. The intended final incarnation of my media server will see remote wireless nano-PCs attached to tvs all around the house, to access all content through the server. When 2 or more devices are running concurrently, 22 Mbps gets saturated and you get the *buffering* that we all hate.
Roll on 1 Gbps wireless !
The bright side is that he has become an exceptional table tennis player.
I'm waiting....
Or perhaps you're confusing it with the posessive, ie. "The Americans wallet", or "The Americans Daughter".
Either way, you won't get an s on the end of BOTH words, when one is a verb.
He says, she says, they SAY, we SAY, Americans SAY !