In light of this anti-personal freedom act on the part of AOL, I would like to give a shameless plug to my project, the Free Secure Instant Messaging Protocol. Please, do not be sparse in criticisms, and if you have any, please help to fix them. The only way it can succeed is through the communities feedback and suggestions.
I don't know what's up with the kernel devs, but I for one just want a stable kernel without having to resort to specific distro kernel patches. They have not been able to provide that on the mainline since 2.6 has been released(in my opinion, from my observations). They should have forked 2.7 awhile ago if they were going to be pulling this and put the new code in there. Hopefully this new way of distinguishing between stable and unstable releases will help a bit, but I'm not keeping my hopes up. It may be time to switch to a BSD if they can't get their act together.
That would be pretty difficult, as bittorrent sends data to the downloader in whatever order it feels like, so it would be pretty inapporpriate for streaming.
May be a big deal...
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SHA-1 Broken
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This may be a big deal, because if I understand correctly, SHA-1 is a similiar algorithm to MD5, which is commonly used to uniquely identify files. If that could be cracked using a similiar technique, a better method of hashing files may have to be found.
While I agree that standardization is a good thing, it will only have an effect if distros follow. Right now, one of the most LSB compliant "distros" is Linux From Scratch, which is not exactly a mainstream distro. I know that others have been making strides towards compliance recently, but unless all distros follow it close enough so that one person can work effectivly on different distros without having to relearn its directory layout, it won't affect adoption as it is just another unfollowed standard (HTML, CSS 3 in IE anyone?).
I don't support you because I don't believe that the state should be funding scientific research, and beyond that, that embryonic stem cells are not the wave of the future for regenerative science but rather, adult stem cells and DNA manipulation. Don't take it personally, but thats just my belief.
While this may be technically feasable by removing some of the lesser-used functions of the libraries out and removing themeing functionality, in practice I would say that it is not practical because you have no idea of knowing if a certain app is going to use that one function that no other app uses but that one, and soon in order to have compatiability with all the apps you want you are basically including all functions. Some of those problems could possibly be worked around by implementing "dummy" functions in place of real funtions that have reduced functionality or none at all, but this could reduce the functionality of the program too or introduce new bugs.
Re:How lightweight, if it requires gtk+?
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You could try enlightenment, its not exactly "lightweight" but it could serve that purpose and doesn't have many external dependencies. But really, there is no point of running X without either Gtk or Qt as most apps use one of those.
Re:I dont think thats true
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Google Tidbits
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Parent was modded up funny, but this raises a serious question: what is stopping somebody with bomb-making skills from flying a plane like this loaded with explosives to a high-profile target such as the White House or other government buildings?
The problem most likely is that hardware Vorbis decoders are not as cheap because they are not as popular. I agree with your point, but the only route I see to get around this is to build a software decoder which could get messy in this small of a device.
Re:What about encryption?
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Carnivore No More
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Not if they don't know what key was used... A better way would be to encrypt the actual e-mail itself instead of relying on the way it is transmitted to keep your content secure. You can never trust the messenger.
I completely agree. Having a desktop that is not great on eye candy but usable is far preferable to an eye candy filled desktop that is even a bit less useable. I'd much rather see the desktop get more responsive and feel quicker as hardware speed increases rather than have the look improve but the "snappiness" stay the same or go down. It is always nice to be able to have an eye candy filled desktop, thats for sure, but there needs to be a way to get rid of it when not needed. Microsoft did it in XP, and I have heard people say they get a fairly big performace boost by turning of the lunar interface and going to classic, but I don't know if they will be smart enough for Longhorn. For me, Linux and BSD give me the best of all worlds: twm and blackbox for pure speed, fluxbox, icewm, enlightenment, xfce, etc.. for speed and usability, and GNOME/KDE for raw features and still being reasonably quick even on slightly underpowered hardware. And as soon as 3D acceleration drivers get better and stabler under linux, we have X extensions such as compositing for even more eye candy.
I know that Verizon allows any cell phone that is on its network to call 911, even if it is not on a service plan, so what I do is I just keep my dad's old cell phone around in case of an emergency. Its free and works.
Thats nice and all, but its not exactly smart to post videos w/o a bittorrent link or something. Not that I wouldn't do it anyway just to make slashdotters not able to see the video.
This is supposed to be a professional news site, can we just spell it as it is for once, and bash in the comments instead of the supposedly "objective" blurb?
Thats all fine and good, but from what I gathered, the article is saying that regular consumers who have no idea how to repair or maintain their computers will snatch the oppourtunity to have thier computer managed for them. They don't care if the software is not on their machine, so long as it works correctly. The same is true of most people's attitude toward government: as long as it works OK and it is semi-tolerable, they don't give a damn about improving the situation or worse, don't care about the government and how it runs at all when it is probably one of the strongest influences on their life.
Wait a second, you made a top ten list on things you hate at the end of the year. On that list, you put top ten lists?!?! Recursiveness.... Head... EXPLODING
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In light of this anti-personal freedom act on the part of AOL, I would like to give a shameless plug to my project, the Free Secure Instant Messaging Protocol. Please, do not be sparse in criticisms, and if you have any, please help to fix them. The only way it can succeed is through the communities feedback and suggestions.
I don't know what's up with the kernel devs, but I for one just want a stable kernel without having to resort to specific distro kernel patches. They have not been able to provide that on the mainline since 2.6 has been released(in my opinion, from my observations). They should have forked 2.7 awhile ago if they were going to be pulling this and put the new code in there. Hopefully this new way of distinguishing between stable and unstable releases will help a bit, but I'm not keeping my hopes up. It may be time to switch to a BSD if they can't get their act together.
That would be pretty difficult, as bittorrent sends data to the downloader in whatever order it feels like, so it would be pretty inapporpriate for streaming.
This may be a big deal, because if I understand correctly, SHA-1 is a similiar algorithm to MD5, which is commonly used to uniquely identify files. If that could be cracked using a similiar technique, a better method of hashing files may have to be found.
I don't know, I kinda like the way its laid out, judging from the screenshots. In actual practice it could prove horrible.
While I agree that standardization is a good thing, it will only have an effect if distros follow. Right now, one of the most LSB compliant "distros" is Linux From Scratch, which is not exactly a mainstream distro. I know that others have been making strides towards compliance recently, but unless all distros follow it close enough so that one person can work effectivly on different distros without having to relearn its directory layout, it won't affect adoption as it is just another unfollowed standard (HTML, CSS 3 in IE anyone?).
I don't support you because I don't believe that the state should be funding scientific research, and beyond that, that embryonic stem cells are not the wave of the future for regenerative science but rather, adult stem cells and DNA manipulation. Don't take it personally, but thats just my belief.
Ok I guess I misunderstood you. That seems to be a pretty good idea actually, as long as it wouldn't detract from useability.
While this may be technically feasable by removing some of the lesser-used functions of the libraries out and removing themeing functionality, in practice I would say that it is not practical because you have no idea of knowing if a certain app is going to use that one function that no other app uses but that one, and soon in order to have compatiability with all the apps you want you are basically including all functions. Some of those problems could possibly be worked around by implementing "dummy" functions in place of real funtions that have reduced functionality or none at all, but this could reduce the functionality of the program too or introduce new bugs.
You could try enlightenment, its not exactly "lightweight" but it could serve that purpose and doesn't have many external dependencies. But really, there is no point of running X without either Gtk or Qt as most apps use one of those.
The blurb says a spelling error, not a typo.
Parent was modded up funny, but this raises a serious question: what is stopping somebody with bomb-making skills from flying a plane like this loaded with explosives to a high-profile target such as the White House or other government buildings?
The problem most likely is that hardware Vorbis decoders are not as cheap because they are not as popular. I agree with your point, but the only route I see to get around this is to build a software decoder which could get messy in this small of a device.
What about just integration with GPG and PGP?
Not if they don't know what key was used... A better way would be to encrypt the actual e-mail itself instead of relying on the way it is transmitted to keep your content secure. You can never trust the messenger.
Why is this being posted just now? Not that this isn't really interesting, but the link says it was released on December 7th...
Have people gotten so lazy that they cannot slice their own bread?
I completely agree. Having a desktop that is not great on eye candy but usable is far preferable to an eye candy filled desktop that is even a bit less useable. I'd much rather see the desktop get more responsive and feel quicker as hardware speed increases rather than have the look improve but the "snappiness" stay the same or go down. It is always nice to be able to have an eye candy filled desktop, thats for sure, but there needs to be a way to get rid of it when not needed. Microsoft did it in XP, and I have heard people say they get a fairly big performace boost by turning of the lunar interface and going to classic, but I don't know if they will be smart enough for Longhorn. For me, Linux and BSD give me the best of all worlds: twm and blackbox for pure speed, fluxbox, icewm, enlightenment, xfce, etc.. for speed and usability, and GNOME/KDE for raw features and still being reasonably quick even on slightly underpowered hardware. And as soon as 3D acceleration drivers get better and stabler under linux, we have X extensions such as compositing for even more eye candy.
I know that Verizon allows any cell phone that is on its network to call 911, even if it is not on a service plan, so what I do is I just keep my dad's old cell phone around in case of an emergency. Its free and works.
Thats nice and all, but its not exactly smart to post videos w/o a bittorrent link or something. Not that I wouldn't do it anyway just to make slashdotters not able to see the video.
This is supposed to be a professional news site, can we just spell it as it is for once, and bash in the comments instead of the supposedly "objective" blurb?
Thats all fine and good, but from what I gathered, the article is saying that regular consumers who have no idea how to repair or maintain their computers will snatch the oppourtunity to have thier computer managed for them. They don't care if the software is not on their machine, so long as it works correctly. The same is true of most people's attitude toward government: as long as it works OK and it is semi-tolerable, they don't give a damn about improving the situation or worse, don't care about the government and how it runs at all when it is probably one of the strongest influences on their life.
Wait a second, you made a top ten list on things you hate at the end of the year. On that list, you put top ten lists?!?! Recursiveness.... Head... EXPLODING
There can't be a beowulf cluster because it doesn't run on linux.
As others have said, it would be much easier to pipe that through grep or a perl script first instead.