They will not only learn how to use the open source apps, they will also then get on a Windows computer and realize how much it crashes and does quirky things.
One problem with Windows users is they dont consciously realize when something has gone wrong. They just think 'Oh its crashed' and re-open the app. They think its just how computers are.
Yeah they are harmless in most cases. There was a concern about cookies years ago and everyone was encouraged to turn them off which caused all kinds of problems.
The biggest problem is that ad networks can see that you loaded a ad from them on site a and site b and can form patterns from that.
The problem is that both sides are equally bad. No matter who they vote for, they are screwed.
Oh well. Doesnt affect Australia *too* much.:D
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Yeah ok not a good idea to talk about things that you dont know about.
On Gentoo it uses the kernel in/usr/src/linux, since your expected to roll your own kernel anyway. It is exactly that simple to install the driver - one command - even though its a power user's distro.
On the user friendly distros like Ubuntu it will install the binary blob version for your kernel just like Windows but without the cd. They only have a couple of kernel versions just as Windows only has XP, Vista, etc... drivers.
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Yeah its incredibly difficult.
falcon ~ # emerge linux-uvc -pv
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] media-video/linux-uvc-0.1.0_pre250 39 kB
Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 39 kB
Australia is *far* more down to earth than the US government.
It would be quite a powerful crime fighting tool being able to get a bank robber's licence plate number and being able to track them within minutes of the robbery.
Used the system for the first time a few weeks ago. Go online, choose what seat you want, hit print. You get a page with all your info along with a couple of 2d barcodes. Works fine even with crinkles in the page.
It replaces the boarding pass. You just walk right on to the plane.
Big target. Lots of powerful servers with big net connections out there. If a successful virus could be made for Linux then it would spread rapidly and make a stupidly powerful botnet.
Lots of pressure to hack it, but no one can manage to do it reliably and quickly enough to have any effect.
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Either that or they had a queue of spam that needed to be sent and its still flushing it out.
How the hell does water get *under* a BGA? The surface tension should keep it out.
The gap is tiny. Fractions of a millimeter.
...you've never played Zork? Oh dear.
Tried a laser mouse?
Falling snowflakes arent white. They are transparent. :)
Err public key security is good enough for your credit cards and bank details and has been for the last two decades.
The airlines dont ban those items.
They will not only learn how to use the open source apps, they will also then get on a Windows computer and realize how much it crashes and does quirky things.
One problem with Windows users is they dont consciously realize when something has gone wrong.
They just think 'Oh its crashed' and re-open the app.
They think its just how computers are.
Yeah I'll be sticking to Vegemite.
Hi guys, from down under. :)
Public library if your that paranoid about your single vote.
Public key signing makes it trickier to rig the election.
Check the keys before and after the election.
Very difficult to rig it.
You have to go on to security flaws or more difficult ways of doing it.
Yeah they are harmless in most cases.
There was a concern about cookies years ago and everyone was encouraged to turn them off which caused all kinds of problems.
The biggest problem is that ad networks can see that you loaded a ad from them on site a and site b and can form patterns from that.
The problem is that both sides are equally bad.
No matter who they vote for, they are screwed.
Oh well. Doesnt affect Australia *too* much. :D
Yeah ok not a good idea to talk about things that you dont know about.
On Gentoo it uses the kernel in /usr/src/linux, since your expected to roll your own kernel anyway.
It is exactly that simple to install the driver - one command - even though its a power user's distro.
On the user friendly distros like Ubuntu it will install the binary blob version for your kernel just like Windows but without the cd.
They only have a couple of kernel versions just as Windows only has XP, Vista, etc... drivers.
Yeah its incredibly difficult.
falcon ~ # emerge linux-uvc -pv
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] media-video/linux-uvc-0.1.0_pre250 39 kB
Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 39 kB
Hang on a sec.....
Erm if they stole plates, the system would still work because the camera would still see those numbers driving around.
What those numbers mean are irrelevant - If someone gets the licence plate of the robbers, then the cameras can follow them.
Australia is *far* more down to earth than the US government.
It would be quite a powerful crime fighting tool being able to get a bank robber's licence plate number and being able to track them within minutes of the robbery.
They are all taken from planes no matter what service you use.
I heard that the White House's roof is photoshopped to obscure the sniper positions and stuff like that.
Uhhh works great for planes here in Australia.
Used the system for the first time a few weeks ago.
Go online, choose what seat you want, hit print.
You get a page with all your info along with a couple of 2d barcodes.
Works fine even with crinkles in the page.
It replaces the boarding pass. You just walk right on to the plane.
Qtopia comes to mind actually.
It would do the job extremely well.
Question: Even if Obama was a muslim, why on earth would it matter at all?
Oh right this is the US we are talking about. Nvm.
What about Linux?
Big target. Lots of powerful servers with big net connections out there.
If a successful virus could be made for Linux then it would spread rapidly and make a stupidly powerful botnet.
Lots of pressure to hack it, but no one can manage to do it reliably and quickly enough to have any effect.
Maybe so, but there are far easier ways to infect Windows.
So many exploits to choose from.
No, the point is Windows is still swiss cheese no matter how much their marketing department is saying its secure.
A OS shouldnt need anti-virus.