Actually, you'll have to buy a new system in order to get it: x64 Windows releases will not be sold on retail shelves - only as an option from manufacturers selling PCs...
They'd have to at least glance at the article, since the post didn't have any other text to it. And then the Funny moderation should be something of a clue.
It's less secure because as a normal user, the scripts in your home directory should not be able to over-write system files or do other root-only tasks. Running as root, the Linspire system does not enforce such a policy. The Linspire user could do something silly like removing critical system files in order to make more room for mp3s.
>World of Warcraft is planned to be ported to linux as well.
Do you mean something more by this than simply "Some people have put up a petition"? Do you have a link?
export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cv sroot/humane cvs login cvs co reducks cd reducks python -u convertFromHPY.py python -u pygame_run.py
and it runs (as long as you already have pygame and what-not)
The fonts are a bit screwed up and I've no idea how to launch that zooming thing that the flash demo had.
Odd space shows up in the cvsroot upon preview of this post, shouldn't be there though.
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I disagree with your first statement. I think you're regurgitating an overly used complaint that is no longer true. An installed Linux system is just as easy to use as Windows or Mac OS X. If people bought systems that already had Linux installed and a pre-configured window manager, then they'd have no problem using it. They'd never have to see the command line, and they could use graphical programs for installing new software and keeping their system up to date. At this point, even the Linux installer is as friendly to use (if not friendlier) for most distributions than any version of the Windows Installer. I can't say for Mac OS X because I haven't had to install it yet.
However, I do agree with you about there not being many games for Linux. There is a large selection of games available for linux, but they're not exclusive to Linux because they're either open source and run on several platforms, or they're ports of existing games for other platforms. I say a large selection because it isn't trivial in size, but compared to the amount of games that exist for Windows, it pales in comparison.
It isn't Linux that needs to make progress in the area of games. It is the game producers that need to start making headway in Linux. It's a chicken-or-the-egg predicament; Game producers need to distribute more games for Linux so that Linux gains popularity with gamers, but Linux needs to gain populartiy with gamers before the game producers will distribute more games for Linux.
I think we've finally reached the point where it's just a matter of time.
The subscription fee is a bit high, but the content is excellent. They say that they'll lower the subscription fees after they get more customers, so I hope they get enough people soon enough that they can lower the price and draw in even more people. It would be great for a magazine like this to succeed.
Here's an idea: For all of you that work IT jobs for companies that are willing to subscribe to various periodicals for you, why not get your employer to buy a subscription to this magazine?
I have to disagree on the comment about "no packages that you have to deinstall because you'll never use" I had to remove nano the last time I installed gentoo:)
I'm not sure if you're being genuine or not, so I'll take the time to reply.
Virtual machines are typically required to run multiple operating systems at the same time, unless you have multiple systems on which you can run your operating systems and then just switch between the two with a kvm switch. The problem with virtual machines is that they need a place to run, which means they still need a host operating sytem. The ones I've seen that either use Linux or Windows just don't implement the child operating system fast enough for it to be viable with newer games.
Why not dual boot? I don't own a copy of windows. I'm not going to pay ~$200 for a copy of XP Pro (and I'm not going to break the law and pirate a copy.) Why? Because I don't want to have to take the extra time to secure the system, keep it up to date with patches that introduce more problems than they solve, and then still have random problems due to either my own lack of understanding of the internals of the OS or the inability of the OS to just do what I need it to.
Now that all those typical religious reasons out of the way, I never use my system *just* to play a game. I'm always doing other things at the same time. Even with fullscreen games I still run a messenger in the background, have a browser open for e-mail and a few forums, and some xterms where I'm idly modifying code or making notes as ideas occur to me. Not to mention downloads that might be running. I play more games, more often, when I'm waiting for something to download. Rebooting means I have to close everything I'm doing to restart. And it sure as hell doesn't take as few as 20-40 seconds to boot XP. If I wanted to download something reliably in windows I have to install cygwin (for wget) or use some third party app, otherwise when my downloads randomly die (as they often did when I was still using windows) I'd have to start all over again.
And what do you mean Linux will never be mass market? It already is. Just not as much in the end-user space. More game companies are slowly starting to produce Linux version of their applications and it's only a matter of time before the rest of the industry follows suit. Yeah, it's a pain in the ass to maintain multiple versions of software, but it's typically easier to develop under Linux (wider availability of tools, better tech/forum support). Wouldn't it be funny if industries started dropping support for windows and windows games due to the hassles of maintenance?
On second thought, mod the parent down. His/her post is no more insightful or interesting than my own reiteration of reasons that others have also used in the past.
Why stop at outlawing p2p software? The obvious solution here is to just make the internet illegal because you couldn't possibly be able to use either the internet or p2p software for anything legal.
Maybe I can get a +1 informative for pointing out that you can pass multiple names to find, but if you want them ORed with the existing parameters then you have to pass the -o option. (Note that the names passed in are actually patterns and to prevent the shell from interpretting your patterns you'll need to do proper escaping unless you surround them with quotes [guess this should get me a +1 pedantic/ar].)
Not, bad, Dunno the dos/windows way (glanced at some of the other replies, I'm about to test a way or two) but in linux I use this instead of what you have:
They wont mention the names of the sites in the article to prevent further abuse of the exploit or some such, but what are we to do to avoid the exploit if we don't know which sites are infected already?
What good is publicly acknowledging that there are some major sites that are infected if they wont tell us which? Are they worried about the large sites' reputations? What about all the users that are going to be infected because they weren't made aware of which sites to avoid with IE?
I'm on a company system and don't have priveleges to install Firefox, and I doubt I'm the only one.
I have a solution that loads fast and works with my system's dictionary. It's linux only unless you have cygwin, but I bound the F5 key to a function in vim that spell-checks the current document. Then it generates a syntax definition file for the list of misspelled words and it sources that. I end up with all the errors highlighted red.
I wonder if there's a spell check plugin for vim... I forget if it's using aspell or ispell...
I wonder if there is even a slight chance that this "tour" could bring to light some real weaknesses of linux (like that other posting yesterday about linux getting more bloated) so that they can be addressed, fixed, and dismissed.
It would be interesting to see how quickly the open source community could fix the problems and use the entire situation as a positive point for linux in the future.
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That's a good idea. While we're at it, let's get rid of all those unnecessary Linux distributions, too.
The kernel only begins to get bloated when you decide to compile in support for features/hardware that you don't use or have no intention of using.
Don't feel too bad, my grandmother has amassed more wealth in Ultima Online in under 6 months than I did in 4 years (on and off) of playing...
Actually he doesn't seem to like the idea of a non-fre BIOS. fsf article
Linux BIOS Project (unfortunately can't find a link to the linux bios project itself, the site linuxbios.org had a blank page up)
Intel Open BIOS site doesn't seem to want to resolve either.
Actually, you'll have to buy a new system in order to get it: x64 Windows releases will not be sold on retail shelves - only as an option from manufacturers selling PCs...
I dare you to mod this redundant...
It's only redundant if people are actually listening the first time around.
They'd have to at least glance at the article, since the post didn't have any other text to it. And then the Funny moderation should be something of a clue.
It's less secure because as a normal user, the scripts in your home directory should not be able to over-write system files or do other root-only tasks. Running as root, the Linspire system does not enforce such a policy. The Linspire user could do something silly like removing critical system files in order to make more room for mp3s.
Good idea, but how do you propose we get the user to read the dialog?
That's only if you invoke strings or grep directly on /dev/ram (or /dev/ramN)... since it's a cat followed by a pipe through strings, it will work.
It just wouldn't do anything useful.
Well this is an interesting turn-about. Instead of blogs getting spam comments, it's a spam blog getting comments.
Keeping in the spirit of slashdot, I haven't actually read the article yet. It's just what it made me think when I read the description.
>World of Warcraft is planned to be ported to linux as well.
Do you mean something more by this than simply "Some people have put up a petition"? Do you have a link?
Flexibility and the same responses you would get to "What is the appeal of running Linux on your Dell/IBM/HP/Sony/Whatever?".
I used OS X for about a week before I repartitioned my iBook and put gentoo on it. I haven't put OS X back on there since, and I probably wont.
export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cv sroot/humane
cvs login
cvs co reducks
cd reducks
python -u convertFromHPY.py
python -u pygame_run.py
and it runs (as long as you already have pygame and what-not)
The fonts are a bit screwed up and I've no idea how to launch that zooming thing that the flash demo had.
Odd space shows up in the cvsroot upon preview of this post, shouldn't be there though.
I disagree with your first statement. I think you're regurgitating an overly used complaint that is no longer true. An installed Linux system is just as easy to use as Windows or Mac OS X. If people bought systems that already had Linux installed and a pre-configured window manager, then they'd have no problem using it. They'd never have to see the command line, and they could use graphical programs for installing new software and keeping their system up to date. At this point, even the Linux installer is as friendly to use (if not friendlier) for most distributions than any version of the Windows Installer. I can't say for Mac OS X because I haven't had to install it yet.
However, I do agree with you about there not being many games for Linux. There is a large selection of games available for linux, but they're not exclusive to Linux because they're either open source and run on several platforms, or they're ports of existing games for other platforms. I say a large selection because it isn't trivial in size, but compared to the amount of games that exist for Windows, it pales in comparison.
It isn't Linux that needs to make progress in the area of games. It is the game producers that need to start making headway in Linux. It's a chicken-or-the-egg predicament; Game producers need to distribute more games for Linux so that Linux gains popularity with gamers, but Linux needs to gain populartiy with gamers before the game producers will distribute more games for Linux.
I think we've finally reached the point where it's just a matter of time.
The subscription fee is a bit high, but the content is excellent. They say that they'll lower the subscription fees after they get more customers, so I hope they get enough people soon enough that they can lower the price and draw in even more people. It would be great for a magazine like this to succeed.
Here's an idea: For all of you that work IT jobs for companies that are willing to subscribe to various periodicals for you, why not get your employer to buy a subscription to this magazine?
I like to use AntiVir when fixing windows boxes.
The personal edition is free (http://www.free-av.com/)
I have to disagree on the comment about "no packages that you have to deinstall because you'll never use" I had to remove nano the last time I installed gentoo :)
I'm not sure if you're being genuine or not, so I'll take the time to reply.
Virtual machines are typically required to run multiple operating systems at the same time, unless you have multiple systems on which you can run your operating systems and then just switch between the two with a kvm switch. The problem with virtual machines is that they need a place to run, which means they still need a host operating sytem. The ones I've seen that either use Linux or Windows just don't implement the child operating system fast enough for it to be viable with newer games.
Why not dual boot? I don't own a copy of windows. I'm not going to pay ~$200 for a copy of XP Pro (and I'm not going to break the law and pirate a copy.) Why? Because I don't want to have to take the extra time to secure the system, keep it up to date with patches that introduce more problems than they solve, and then still have random problems due to either my own lack of understanding of the internals of the OS or the inability of the OS to just do what I need it to.
Now that all those typical religious reasons out of the way, I never use my system *just* to play a game. I'm always doing other things at the same time. Even with fullscreen games I still run a messenger in the background, have a browser open for e-mail and a few forums, and some xterms where I'm idly modifying code or making notes as ideas occur to me. Not to mention downloads that might be running. I play more games, more often, when I'm waiting for something to download. Rebooting means I have to close everything I'm doing to restart. And it sure as hell doesn't take as few as 20-40 seconds to boot XP. If I wanted to download something reliably in windows I have to install cygwin (for wget) or use some third party app, otherwise when my downloads randomly die (as they often did when I was still using windows) I'd have to start all over again.
And what do you mean Linux will never be mass market? It already is. Just not as much in the end-user space. More game companies are slowly starting to produce Linux version of their applications and it's only a matter of time before the rest of the industry follows suit. Yeah, it's a pain in the ass to maintain multiple versions of software, but it's typically easier to develop under Linux (wider availability of tools, better tech/forum support). Wouldn't it be funny if industries started dropping support for windows and windows games due to the hassles of maintenance?
On second thought, mod the parent down. His/her post is no more insightful or interesting than my own reiteration of reasons that others have also used in the past.
Why stop at outlawing p2p software? The obvious solution here is to just make the internet illegal because you couldn't possibly be able to use either the internet or p2p software for anything legal.
In unix under tcsh I use this:
(if the directory is a sym link you may need -follow depending on the version of unix you are using)
And now that I've tried it, under windows in cmd.exe I use this:
Oh, and in all the cases above, jars is the folder that contains my jar files.
For multiple directory locations, I tried this:Except I keep seeing File Not Found at the end of it, even though it appears to work.
They wont mention the names of the sites in the article to prevent further abuse of the exploit or some such, but what are we to do to avoid the exploit if we don't know which sites are infected already?
What good is publicly acknowledging that there are some major sites that are infected if they wont tell us which? Are they worried about the large sites' reputations? What about all the users that are going to be infected because they weren't made aware of which sites to avoid with IE?
I'm on a company system and don't have priveleges to install Firefox, and I doubt I'm the only one.
I have a solution that loads fast and works with my system's dictionary. It's linux only unless you have cygwin, but I bound the F5 key to a function in vim that spell-checks the current document. Then it generates a syntax definition file for the list of misspelled words and it sources that. I end up with all the errors highlighted red.
I wonder if there's a spell check plugin for vim...
I forget if it's using aspell or ispell...
I wonder if there is even a slight chance that this "tour" could bring to light some real weaknesses of linux (like that other posting yesterday about linux getting more bloated) so that they can be addressed, fixed, and dismissed.
It would be interesting to see how quickly the open source community could fix the problems and use the entire situation as a positive point for linux in the future.