The possible extra surface would be suid binaries, as the ability to install and run programs is rarely secured anyway, only the ability to do it 'the right way'
I'm not a Fedora user. Does Fedora not package daemons such that they are added to the appropriate runlevel automatically when installed?
All I know is that Ubuntu does, and Gentoo doesn't. Can somebody fill me in?
I will agree that open-source drivers for ATI cards are fantastic (and binary drivers are truly terrible). I'm using the new (using release candidates of kernel 2.6.32) r600 hardware acceleration support, and it's already working very well for me (mostly for Google Earth and Kwin desktop effects, both of which work flawlessly and very smoothly).
However, I would caution that support for the chip mentioned in this article (Radeon Evergreen) is marked as "TODO". Presumably, it should progress relatively fast, because AMD is basically being helpful.
Nvidia deserves some credit for updating their binary driver regularly, and making helpful changes very fast when alphas of KDE 4 started showing up performance issues in some previously rarely-used features, but AMD has done rather better by actually providing documentation to freedesktop people (even if ATI never maintained their own binary driver very well at all).
This is a disaster! Record labels will have to find some way of making people pay them for newer content!
Now, do you reckon they'll make the newer content worth hearing, or do you reckon they'll bribe lawmakers to force us to pay for it whether we listen to it or not (blank media taxation and the like)?
As mentioned above, based on the sample we have, it's more likely they wiped themselves out with weapons. We've been closer than most people realise, and it's possible that a full nuclear exchange would make the planet briefly uninhabitable.
A nicer theory is that civilisations are typically a lot quieter than we think. We're already making the transition from TV and radio towers broadcasting in all directions to geostationary satellites which beam their signals down onto the planet. Maybe nobody makes large amounts of EM noise for more than a century or so.
You just demonstrated that KDE was following de facto standards. That isn't the same thing as following POSIX standards.
I don't have an agenda here; I'm actually pretty much a KDE fanboy, but listing other people who made the same mistake (according to comments on a launchpad bug) doesn't make a spot of difference to what POSIX says.
Baby vs. Rhino And you picked a bad example. Dyslexics tend to be better with computers than the rest of the population. If you're practically illegible when using a pen like I am, you tend to develop fast typing (spellcheckers are pretty cool too).
And dyslexia doesn't stop one's family asking for tech support. Got all but one of them on Linux now though, which helps.
This is just a business man summing up to the obvious things that run this sort of business. If you don't control your product to maximize revenues, you are decreasing your wealth.
If I don't steal all your money at gunpoint, I'm just decreasing my own wealth, right?
This idea is kind of broken for Linux. On MacOS, with 2 architectures, it makes some sense, since the actual executable code is not huge compared to data. On Linux, withe a couple of dozen architectures, executable code *is* going to start to take relevant amounts of space, and the effort involved in preparing them will be nontrivial. If this system were adopted, virtually no binaries would be made to support all available architectures, meaning that anyone not on x86 (32 bit) would need to check what archs a binary supported before downloading it, which is about as difficult as choosing which one to download would've been.
Great, now when I need zest for a recipe, instead of just being able to give a fruit a good wash and scrub (which you are supposed to do before eating it anyway) I will have to use more fruit to get the same amount of zest because I will have to avoid the massive laser etched brand names that this will inevitably lead to.
So you'd need to find the brands that don't do this, like one already has to do (at least in the UK) to avoid the ones which are waxed to make them last longer.
See, this makes me think about this the other way 'round: ads etched on tablets. Spammers could provide free, ad-supported medication for dangerous off-label use.
What chemical change is caused in the skin to form the pattern? How deep does it go? The skin is a protective barrier, and if it's compromised by the process, this could have a negative effect on shelf-life.
...and would normally make me happy; except I'm a Mac user. Still good news, but could've been better for a certain sub-set of the population, darn it.
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I'm not a Fedora user. Does Fedora not package daemons such that they are added to the appropriate runlevel automatically when installed?
All I know is that Ubuntu does, and Gentoo doesn't. Can somebody fill me in?
I will agree that open-source drivers for ATI cards are fantastic (and binary drivers are truly terrible). I'm using the new (using release candidates of kernel 2.6.32) r600 hardware acceleration support, and it's already working very well for me (mostly for Google Earth and Kwin desktop effects, both of which work flawlessly and very smoothly).
However, I would caution that support for the chip mentioned in this article (Radeon Evergreen) is marked as "TODO". Presumably, it should progress relatively fast, because AMD is basically being helpful.
Nvidia deserves some credit for updating their binary driver regularly, and making helpful changes very fast when alphas of KDE 4 started showing up performance issues in some previously rarely-used features, but AMD has done rather better by actually providing documentation to freedesktop people (even if ATI never maintained their own binary driver very well at all).
Jesus Christ didn't found any churches.
I'm still waiting for the damn site to load, so lets all just read the KDE 4.4 Feature Plan instead.
This is a disaster! Record labels will have to find some way of making people pay them for newer content!
Now, do you reckon they'll make the newer content worth hearing, or do you reckon they'll bribe lawmakers to force us to pay for it whether we listen to it or not (blank media taxation and the like)?
As mentioned above, based on the sample we have, it's more likely they wiped themselves out with weapons. We've been closer than most people realise, and it's possible that a full nuclear exchange would make the planet briefly uninhabitable.
A nicer theory is that civilisations are typically a lot quieter than we think. We're already making the transition from TV and radio towers broadcasting in all directions to geostationary satellites which beam their signals down onto the planet. Maybe nobody makes large amounts of EM noise for more than a century or so.
Prove they died due to a cause other than eating too much cake.
This isn't how logic works.
You just demonstrated that KDE was following de facto standards. That isn't the same thing as following POSIX standards.
I don't have an agenda here; I'm actually pretty much a KDE fanboy, but listing other people who made the same mistake (according to comments on a launchpad bug) doesn't make a spot of difference to what POSIX says.
Have you considered religion?
Baby vs. Rhino
And you picked a bad example. Dyslexics tend to be better with computers than the rest of the population. If you're practically illegible when using a pen like I am, you tend to develop fast typing (spellcheckers are pretty cool too).
And dyslexia doesn't stop one's family asking for tech support. Got all but one of them on Linux now though, which helps.
"Jesus Christ, it's a lion."
If I don't steal all your money at gunpoint, I'm just decreasing my own wealth, right?
Were you trying to say "Now, I might be native, but why can't these memory aligning tricks be done in the kernel naively?
Whoosh!
Anybody else think something is integrated with something else in a deeply, deeply wrong way here?
I'm probably getting trolled here, but here is a list of stuff based on the Quake III Engine.
Also remember that Source was originally based on Quake II.
They may mean the most prestigious award in Germany is also the only one awarded by the Federal Government.
This idea is kind of broken for Linux. On MacOS, with 2 architectures, it makes some sense, since the actual executable code is not huge compared to data. On Linux, withe a couple of dozen architectures, executable code *is* going to start to take relevant amounts of space, and the effort involved in preparing them will be nontrivial. If this system were adopted, virtually no binaries would be made to support all available architectures, meaning that anyone not on x86 (32 bit) would need to check what archs a binary supported before downloading it, which is about as difficult as choosing which one to download would've been.
I know it's just burning, but how deep? The skin will inevitably be thinner where it's been burned, and that could allow it to rot sooner.
So you'd need to find the brands that don't do this, like one already has to do (at least in the UK) to avoid the ones which are waxed to make them last longer.
See, this makes me think about this the other way 'round: ads etched on tablets. Spammers could provide free, ad-supported medication for dangerous off-label use.
Did anybody read my post? I didn't question whether it would be safe, and I did ask whether it would rot faster...
What chemical change is caused in the skin to form the pattern? How deep does it go? The skin is a protective barrier, and if it's compromised by the process, this could have a negative effect on shelf-life.
Use open source, get cutting edge things.
Yeah, pretty much, for all practical purposes, but not quite, because sooner or later the fucking sun will in fact burn out.
You didn't need to read TFA. It's in the summary. Second sentence.