The first netbooks; the ones so successful they started the entire trend; were based on Linux.
I remember. Funny how it wasn't really that long ago. Asus EEE was running Linux and then many other OEMs started pushing out Linux based netbooks until Microsoft panicked. Then we start hearing reports that OEMs were making half-assed attempts with Linux on netbooks by shipping netbooks with driver issues, not optimizing the OS for netbooks, or just completely "fumbling the ball" in other ways. Then articles began spreading regarding the number of returns of Linux netbooks. In a short period of time there are almost no Linux netbooks that can be purchased while Microsoft Windows has quickly went from a market share of 0% to just about completely dominating the netbook market. Now any OEM that shows off their new Android based netbook at these trade shows, and receive positive reviews, suddenly pull the plug on their projects a short-time after? Of course the U.S. DoJ doesn't appear to be in any rush to investigate Microsoft in regards to this situation, even with a new administration at the helm. Guess those "campaign contributions" from Microsoft are reaping dividends as I type this. This whole situation is just disgusting.
It will take a polished corporate effort such as Moblin or Android to get a non-Windows OS on netbooks.
Unless of course the companies that want to sell a Moblin or Andriod netbook continue to mysteriously ax these products before they hit stores selves.
FTA:
On Monday, Qualcomm showed an Asus Eee PC using its new ARM Snapdragon chips to run Google's Android Linux. From all reports, the skinny, little Android-powered netbook looked great.
So, this was a good day for Asus right? A new ARM-powered Asus netbook with Android, the Linux everyone has been talking about, and at a price-point that will given Intel's Moblin 2.0 some real competition. Wrong.
The very next day, Asus' chairman, Jonney Shih, after sharing a news conference stage with Microsoft corporate VP, OEM Division, Steven Guggenheimer, apologized for the Android Eee PC being shown.
Shih said, "Frankly speaking... I would like to apologize that, if you look at Asus booth, we've decided not to display this product. I think you may have seen the devices on Qualcomm's booth but actually, I think this is a company decision so far we would not like to show this device. That's what I can tell you so far. I would like to apologize for that."
It appears to me it is going to take more than a "polished" effort to beat back the anti-competitive behemoth that is Microsoft.
Jeb Bush will be coming along soon to take his place in line, he'll love these extended powers.
I'm more worried (and you should too) about our current president that could have these "extended powers" very soon than some crazy left-wing fear/theory of another member of the Bush family becoming president four years from now. Democrats and Republicans will both fuck you over and continue to steer this country into irrelevancy. Wake up dammit!
They audit every line of code they ship, including the external stuff they don't write.
I keep seeing this, but it is not entirely correct. According to their own FAQ they do not audit ports or packages to the same degree as the base system. One must assume that the "external stuff" has not been through an audit at all when installing a port/package.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#Intro
Kevin Mitnick was recently on TWIT 163 this past weekend discussing a recent incident he had at an airport in Atlanta, GA coming from Columbia where he was detained and ICE/Customs officials were attempting search through his property and a laptop of his. He offers some tips on what one should do before taking your laptop with you when leaving the United States.
If your laptop gets seized and searched, and they discover it's encrypted, couldn't they just order you to give them access to the files?
No, they cannot order you to provide the keys to decrypt or force you to decrypt the hard drive/files yourself. There was a recent case (I think it was United States v. Boucher) regarding this issue, but here in the U.S. (for the time being) you are not required to aid law enforcement officials in essentially self-incriminate yourself. In the U.K. you are required to hand over your encryption keys if law enforcement demands it, I think--someone correct me if I am wrong there.
Mexicans are now the largest racial group in California.
Citation needed, my friend. According to the wikipedia, which is using stats from American Community Survey, Hispanics/Latinos only make up 35.9% of the population of California. Not sure if "illegals" are counted in that total, but there are still alot of areas in California that are majority White still.
Yea that is the block accounts which I mentioned. Same thing I guess. Megabitz also has a nice non-expiring block account deal, 100GB 20 connections, at $23.95.
Yeah, you are paying for a glorified warez ftp server with a subpar user interface and gosh darn, that's just dandy for USENET seeing how warez ftp servers are a lucrative business.
You forgot Astranews astraweb.com , which probably belongs in the middle there somewhere. I like it anyway .
Just signed up recently myself due to that special deal they have. Cheap, fast and multiple (20) connections, good retention, nice completion percentage, SSL connections thrown in, and they have block accounts also. Great USENET service provider. Also finally signed up to newzbin; yes, I am aware of binsearch.info, but its cheap to pay for a subscription to newzbin. That combined with hellanzb makes grabbing binaries a breeze. Several of the big premium newsgroup providers, like giganews, are offering discount deals to AT&T, TimeWarner, Verizon, and Sprint users. Anyways the Astraweb deal is right here if anyone in interested: http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html/
True. I mean I am right now as I type downloading "stuff" from the alt.binaries.* which is still carried by premium newsgroup service providers. Yea I have to pay, but if you wanted quality USENET service in the past couple of years you usually have to fork over some money instead of relying on the subpar service (caps, low retention, and bad completions rates) your isp provided. I still have access to the Big 8 hierarchies with Verizon and if they drop that I still can read those discussions at google groups and there are plenty of free USENET providers too. USENET as a discussion medium has been declining somewhat in the past decade due to web forums and message boards, but it is not dead and will continue to survive.
"Attack is the best defense" did not work for Germany in the 2nd world war. It didn't work in Vietnam or Korea. It's certainly not working for the US at the moment.
It worked for Russia though. Russian generals preferred to go on the offensive and take the battle to the Germany army. As for the US, I recall the speed of the collapse of the Iraqi military and government during the initial ground invasion proves you wrong. Same for Afghanistan. What's not working right now is sitting around waiting for opposing forces to attack you as they have the initiative; hence why the US and current Iraqi military have had to initiate offensive operations several times for the past couple of years.
Because I can just see the numerous lawsuits that will appear when their stupid worm-composed of that "innovative" buggy Microsoft code we here so much about-is hijacked by malicious people or the worm itself screws up end-users computers.
First off this wouldn't be some whitehat's haphazard cure worm like the Welchia worm. This worm would proabably be signed by microsoft, made by microsoft.
And this is supposed to make me feel better? With regards to Microsoft's past and current history of buggy software: ME NO WANT!
Given the abject disasters that Jackson's "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King" were
Box office sales, the Oscars (ROTK garned a Best Film award of 2003), numerous film critics, the countless fans that enjoyed the trilogy, and many other film awards disagree with you there. Those two films may have strayed of the Tolkien path somewhat, but to call them an "abject disaster" is hilarious. Fortunately, your opinion is only shared by a small minority.
Technically speaking, it derives from BSD code (actual Unix code).
Modern day BSDs including Darwin, which OSX is built on top of, do not contain any of the original AT&T code. 4.4BSD-Lite, which the big three BSDs are descendants from, contains no actual Unix code as all that was removed back as terms of the settlement.
This is contrary to any Open Source license I know of. The whole point of Open Source is that you can use the software in any way you want. You have to agree to the license only when you distribute. Microsoft is attempting to subvert OSI, just like it has already subverted ISO.
You may be confusing Open Source with Free Software. Free Software guarantees the freedom for the user to use the software in any way they feel--Open Source does not. At least Open Source in the sense that I know it, does not guarantee that particular freedom and is the reason Microsoft can push supposed open source licensees that restrict user freedom.
However Flash doesn't work in my browser because I'm running a 4 year old architecture - AMD64, and the creators of Flash haven't deigned to recompile the Linux version for 64-bits. Maybe if Linux had Mac OS X-like Fat Binaries people would be encouraged to create cross-platform binaries, rather than just create a simple IA32 version.
Adobe has not released a 64-bit version of the Flash plugin for any platform, yet. Nor have I heard of any beta ones either. So how is this a PITA with Linux? As for the rest of your post, you seem to be obsessed with OSX (you may want to seek help) so why don't you just continue to use it as a [Ff]ree OS that works just fine for millions of users obviously is not up your alley.
However, costing more than many DSLR cameras, for non-professionals it can be a very hard purchase to justify
Which is probably why Adobe Photoshop is one of the most pirated pieces of commercial software. Cost certainly has not harmed Photoshops popularity and the fact that it is perceived to be a "standard" by many means that most people without the funds to purchase it would rather choose to pirate the software instead of relying on a [Ff]ree alternative such as the GIMP.
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I remember. Funny how it wasn't really that long ago. Asus EEE was running Linux and then many other OEMs started pushing out Linux based netbooks until Microsoft panicked. Then we start hearing reports that OEMs were making half-assed attempts with Linux on netbooks by shipping netbooks with driver issues, not optimizing the OS for netbooks, or just completely "fumbling the ball" in other ways. Then articles began spreading regarding the number of returns of Linux netbooks. In a short period of time there are almost no Linux netbooks that can be purchased while Microsoft Windows has quickly went from a market share of 0% to just about completely dominating the netbook market. Now any OEM that shows off their new Android based netbook at these trade shows, and receive positive reviews, suddenly pull the plug on their projects a short-time after? Of course the U.S. DoJ doesn't appear to be in any rush to investigate Microsoft in regards to this situation, even with a new administration at the helm. Guess those "campaign contributions" from Microsoft are reaping dividends as I type this. This whole situation is just disgusting.
Unless of course the companies that want to sell a Moblin or Andriod netbook continue to mysteriously ax these products before they hit stores selves.
FTA:
It appears to me it is going to take more than a "polished" effort to beat back the anti-competitive behemoth that is Microsoft.
I'm more worried (and you should too) about our current president that could have these "extended powers" very soon than some crazy left-wing fear/theory of another member of the Bush family becoming president four years from now. Democrats and Republicans will both fuck you over and continue to steer this country into irrelevancy. Wake up dammit!
I keep seeing this, but it is not entirely correct. According to their own FAQ they do not audit ports or packages to the same degree as the base system. One must assume that the "external stuff" has not been through an audit at all when installing a port/package.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#Intro
Kevin Mitnick was recently on TWIT 163 this past weekend discussing a recent incident he had at an airport in Atlanta, GA coming from Columbia where he was detained and ICE/Customs officials were attempting search through his property and a laptop of his. He offers some tips on what one should do before taking your laptop with you when leaving the United States.
http://twit.tv/163/
No, they cannot order you to provide the keys to decrypt or force you to decrypt the hard drive/files yourself. There was a recent case (I think it was United States v. Boucher) regarding this issue, but here in the U.S. (for the time being) you are not required to aid law enforcement officials in essentially self-incriminate yourself. In the U.K. you are required to hand over your encryption keys if law enforcement demands it, I think--someone correct me if I am wrong there.
Citation needed, my friend. According to the wikipedia, which is using stats from American Community Survey, Hispanics/Latinos only make up 35.9% of the population of California. Not sure if "illegals" are counted in that total, but there are still alot of areas in California that are majority White still.
The PS3 has several usb ports so you can use a USB keyboard and mouse if you want. You have to buy them seperately of course though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS3#Graphical_user_interface/
In what way? Please explain in further detail as I am genuinely curious to hear arguments against it.
Yea that is the block accounts which I mentioned. Same thing I guess. Megabitz also has a nice non-expiring block account deal, 100GB 20 connections, at $23.95.
It works for me. ;)
Just signed up recently myself due to that special deal they have. Cheap, fast and multiple (20) connections, good retention, nice completion percentage, SSL connections thrown in, and they have block accounts also. Great USENET service provider. Also finally signed up to newzbin; yes, I am aware of binsearch.info, but its cheap to pay for a subscription to newzbin. That combined with hellanzb makes grabbing binaries a breeze. Several of the big premium newsgroup providers, like giganews, are offering discount deals to AT&T, TimeWarner, Verizon, and Sprint users. Anyways the Astraweb deal is right here if anyone in interested: http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html/
True. I mean I am right now as I type downloading "stuff" from the alt.binaries.* which is still carried by premium newsgroup service providers. Yea I have to pay, but if you wanted quality USENET service in the past couple of years you usually have to fork over some money instead of relying on the subpar service (caps, low retention, and bad completions rates) your isp provided. I still have access to the Big 8 hierarchies with Verizon and if they drop that I still can read those discussions at google groups and there are plenty of free USENET providers too. USENET as a discussion medium has been declining somewhat in the past decade due to web forums and message boards, but it is not dead and will continue to survive.
Because I can just see the numerous lawsuits that will appear when their stupid worm-composed of that "innovative" buggy Microsoft code we here so much about-is hijacked by malicious people or the worm itself screws up end-users computers.
It's a battle station!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USL_v._BSDi#Terms_of_the_settlement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4.4BSD#4.4BSD_and_descendants
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/productinfo/systemreqs/
According to Mark Rein, posting at the Epic Forums, they still are aiming for a release date of the PS3 version sometime before the end of this year.
http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?p=25003889#post25003889
Hush you! Lets not ruin what is left of his childhood that Lucas hasn't already destroyed. ;)