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"...you cannot install Firefox over another copy of Firefox without having two versions in "Add/Remove Programs" in Windows."
I hear this is fixed on the latest version; you can now use the autoupdate to update FF, without getting two entries on Add/Remove programs. However, i don't use windows, so i cannot verify that. But you could try it.
put a trojan out, mark in GPL and make the source available, and I'd bet a lot of the converted would immediately download and install blindly. There are countless OSS projects where no one but the author ever bothers looking at the code
This is highly unlikely, for the simple reason that most projects do something usefull and it takes alot of effort to code a program. I doubt that anyone would spend countless hours writing usefull code only to serve as a trojan carrier. There are easier ways to do that, like "hey, have a look at this funny clip".
Please do not install this update before uninstalling Q3245781. There have been reports of brakes malfunctioning, when installation of said patch was present in the system.
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The box you build yourself will only be cheaper if your time is of no value, pretty much the same TCO you get from using Linux
what a load of BS! Your time is so valuable? you work 24/7? I guess not, so get off your sofa and tv and actually do something.It doesn't take me more than 20mins to unpack the components and put them all together.
And linux is not about TCO. Thats corporate BS. Linux is about fun. Building your own box is also fun.
So if you got a prebuilt system with preinstalled windows...what the hell are you doing here anyway?
Ask anyone who is devoted to a given religion and they will tell you their religion is the true one. But is it? Is there such a thing as a "true" religion?
Different religions are so similar, one wonders whether they are different at all. Evidence shows, there must have been an evolution in religions as well. So, newer religions are based on older ones, or religions co-existing in time, interchanged ideas during their evolution. If you examine several different religions you'll recognize familiar elements from other religions.
There is always a creator(s), who created the world around us and ofcourse, us. Most religions portray humans and god(s) not so much alike. For example, christians portray god as a perfect being who also has human attributes via jesus(his son, who also is one and the same whith god). Ancient greeks portrayed their olympian gods as perfect all powerfull beings, whith, again, human attributes. Buddists, again, claim that gods are subject to karma as well as humans. This goes on for other religions as well.
All religions state that the human race originates from an ancestor couple, a man and a woman. christians call them Adam and Eve, ancient greeks called them Deukalion and Pyrrha, and so on.
All religions also refer to a major catastrophic event that was caused by god(s) when humans went astray from their chosen path.
I could go on and on pointing out identical patterns of thought between all religions. Religions are a product of society and culture, and in the past it was this that kept societies together. Nowdays, of course, the 10 commandments would be somewhat insufficient to keep our societies functioning properly. We have millions of laws, as our societies are more complex.
With the advancement of sciences, we also have less need for a creator(s). We can now understand and explain many things about our universe and about the origins of life.
But as science delves deeper into the unknown, it becomes harder and harder to get empirical evidence on a given solution to a problem. Sciences become more theoritical, where the most plausible theory persists. So, science is again a product of culture and society. That's not so different from religions, science -is- a modern evolved religion, that explains the world around us better than any other.
Science also carries the human fallacy of a beginning of everything. Just like all religions believe in a beginning of everything which attribute to a creator, science believes in a beginning of everything which attribute to a theory of everything(TOE). I personally believe there is no such thing. I think there is no absolute truth, no creator(s), no beginning of everything or a theory of everything. If there was and we found out, we'd have no more goals to reach, there wouldn't be any meaning to life, would there?
yes, but AVG also requires to install a module called Dazuko, on the kernel...
have a look in http://www.grisoft.com/doc/74/lng/us/tpl/tpl01
go to Documentation -> AVG 7.0 for linux workstation (user's manual), on 2.1 prerequisites:
The DAZUKO module is necessary for the proper function of the AVG for Linux E-mail Server on-access scanner. DAZUKO is available for free at http://www.dazuko.org/
I wasn't feeling that adventurous to install this in the kernel...
However, it's nice to see Grisoft's support for Linux. As far as commercial AVs go, i think AVG is the best, though i prefer open source alternatives like ClamAV. And really, an AV is not that much necessary in linux.
IANAC, but what i understood about string/M-theory is that it requires all dimensions to be curved. Yes, the 3 macroscopic ones are very close to being flat cause of their large radious, but there is a difference between being close to flat but curved and actually being flat, isn't there?
Actually it doesn't matter whether the radious is too large and close to flat or too small, because there are two properties of a string defining the radious of a dimension. The "vibration" and the "winding". If either one of them increases to R, the other one decreases to 1/R so that the total energy remains the same. And we can only "feel" the large radious of one of these properties.
general relativity doesn't require this, but general relativity breaks down when you examine the beginning of the universe because of it.
First of note is that the study indicates that the universe is geometrically flat, not curved.
I had a hard time understanding and convincing myself that string theory and M-theory is (more?) correct and the universe is curved. As far as i understand it, all dimensions are curved; even the four expanded ones, the ones we live in. we just don't feel it, for the same reason we don't feel the earth as a sphere.
So, now the universe is flat? Could this be just a mathematical anomaly, because we perceive the beggining of the universe as a point, using classical physics?
And if the universe is flat, what happens to M-theory? I'm convinced it's the right way to go about it...it just makes sense...i think:)
time and space were not as they are today. space expanded after the big bang, and so did time.
if we look back at the big bang, alot of things happened in what we perceive today as a microsecond although if you were there it would feel like eons.
XAML is still vaporware, MS could change the XAML specs lots of times till 2006. Applications based on Xamlon would probably need lots of modifications to work on MS XAML. And still you are only targeting windows.
XUL on the other hand is multiplatform and you can code XUL apps right now. A problem with XUL atm is that you cann't write stand-alone apps. Your XUL apps need to run through a mozilla browser.
That is all to change though, with the release of XRE http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xul/xre.html and GRE http://www.mozilla.org/projects/embedding/GRE.html
I just hope these runtimes are released before MS releases XAML.
"No outage in 2 years" doesnt mean "2 year uptime", it means the applications were available to the end user seamlessly during that period.
doesn't matter. sosume was trying to say that if they were using win systems for 2 years, since 2002 that is, then win server 2003 didn't yet exist? or maybe it was still on beta?(unlikely they'd use beta on production enviroment)
Thats exactly the reason why most people play 1 or 2 mins games only. It's sad. I'd like to play 5, 10 or 15 mins but i'm quite sure i'll face fritz or crafty most of the times. Heh, I've even lost many 2 min games cause of cheaters. I don't know how they manage to do it on 2 mins. I suppose they use some modified client and the engine plays the moves without their intervention.
But what's the point in playing chess on autopilot?
I believe chess is a fair game. White has the initiative, black defends and tries to steal the initiative. With perfect play on both sides, it is believed that the game would end in a draw. But chess is too complicated (the number of mathematicaly possible positions that can appear on the board are estimated at 10^120 - that's alot of zeros), so the absolute "truth" hasn't been found yet.
So that tiny advantage that white has, isn't enough to give you a win. Infact there are certain grandmasters that prefer defending (eg. Karpov).
In chess things are not as black and white as they appear to be.:-)
i don't know what the BBC was on about. The signal SHGb02+14a is still in the top 25 candidates with a good score of 2.567e-09 so i assume they'll investigate further.
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It's flash. Shockwave is different from flash.
"...you cannot install Firefox over another copy of Firefox without having two versions in "Add/Remove Programs" in Windows." I hear this is fixed on the latest version; you can now use the autoupdate to update FF, without getting two entries on Add/Remove programs. However, i don't use windows, so i cannot verify that. But you could try it.
Laughing-Out-Loud !! Funniest thing i read today :-D
Did they actually publish this??!! Character defamation and such cheap shots are not what the linux community stands for.
LinuxWorld magazine should be ashamed!! They've lost all credibility in my eyes. I'm never going to visit their website or buy their magazine.
put a trojan out, mark in GPL and make the source available, and I'd bet a lot of the converted would immediately download and install blindly. There are countless OSS projects where no one but the author ever bothers looking at the code
This is highly unlikely, for the simple reason that most projects do something usefull and it takes alot of effort to code a program.
I doubt that anyone would spend countless hours writing usefull code only to serve as a trojan carrier. There are easier ways to do that, like "hey, have a look at this funny clip".
There is actually a port to windows, I don't know if it's ready yet.
;-)
Here's some info on evolution and some screenshots.
But why not switch to linux altogether?
LOL mod parent funny!
If you prefer outlook, why don't you try evolution? It's got all the bells and whistles of outlook and loads alot faster!
Fixes issues with sluggish control.
Please do not install this update before uninstalling Q3245781. There have been reports of brakes malfunctioning, when installation of said patch was present in the system.
For more information, ask Clippy, your trusted co-driver.
Recommended: Please turn your Autoupdate on.
MS Autoupdate will automatically download and install updates while you are on the road!
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The box you build yourself will only be cheaper if your time is of no value, pretty much the same TCO you get from using Linux
what a load of BS! Your time is so valuable? you work 24/7? I guess not, so get off your sofa and tv and actually do something.It doesn't take me more than 20mins to unpack the components and put them all together.
And linux is not about TCO. Thats corporate BS. Linux is about fun. Building your own box is also fun.
So if you got a prebuilt system with preinstalled windows...what the hell are you doing here anyway?
Ask anyone who is devoted to a given religion and they will tell you their religion is the true one. But is it? Is there such a thing as a "true" religion?
Different religions are so similar, one wonders whether they are different at all. Evidence shows, there must have been an evolution in religions as well. So, newer religions are based on older ones, or religions co-existing in time, interchanged ideas during their evolution. If you examine several different religions you'll recognize familiar elements from other religions.
There is always a creator(s), who created the world around us and ofcourse, us. Most religions portray humans and god(s) not so much alike. For example, christians portray god as a perfect being who also has human attributes via jesus(his son, who also is one and the same whith god). Ancient greeks portrayed their olympian gods as perfect all powerfull beings, whith, again, human attributes. Buddists, again, claim that gods are subject to karma as well as humans. This goes on for other religions as well.
All religions state that the human race originates from an ancestor couple, a man and a woman. christians call them Adam and Eve, ancient greeks called them Deukalion and Pyrrha, and so on.
All religions also refer to a major catastrophic event that was caused by god(s) when humans went astray from their chosen path.
I could go on and on pointing out identical patterns of thought between all religions. Religions are a product of society and culture, and in the past it was this that kept societies together. Nowdays, of course, the 10 commandments would be somewhat insufficient to keep our societies functioning properly. We have millions of laws, as our societies are more complex.
With the advancement of sciences, we also have less need for a creator(s). We can now understand and explain many things about our universe and about the origins of life.
But as science delves deeper into the unknown, it becomes harder and harder to get empirical evidence on a given solution to a problem. Sciences become more theoritical, where the most plausible theory persists. So, science is again a product of culture and society. That's not so different from religions, science -is- a modern evolved religion, that explains the world around us better than any other.
Science also carries the human fallacy of a beginning of everything. Just like all religions believe in a beginning of everything which attribute to a creator, science believes in a beginning of everything which attribute to a theory of everything(TOE). I personally believe there is no such thing. I think there is no absolute truth, no creator(s), no beginning of everything or a theory of everything. If there was and we found out, we'd have no more goals to reach, there wouldn't be any meaning to life, would there?
yes, but AVG also requires to install a module called Dazuko, on the kernel...
have a look in http://www.grisoft.com/doc/74/lng/us/tpl/tpl01 go to Documentation -> AVG 7.0 for linux workstation (user's manual), on 2.1 prerequisites:
The DAZUKO module is necessary for the proper function of the AVG for Linux E-mail Server on-access scanner. DAZUKO is available for free at http://www.dazuko.org/
I wasn't feeling that adventurous to install this in the kernel...
However, it's nice to see Grisoft's support for Linux. As far as commercial AVs go, i think AVG is the best, though i prefer open source alternatives like ClamAV. And really, an AV is not that much necessary in linux.
There's a difference between giving it as an option, and making it the default and making it difficult to switch back.
Difficult to switch back? huh? File management -> behaviour -> and tick "always open in browser windows". What's so difficult about it?
CUPS autodetects your printer, but then asks you how your printer is connected? (locally,cups,jetdirect etc.).
It *knows* i have no jetdirect or network printer, that the printer is connected on lp0 and it correctly detects the model.
Why it needs to ask me how the printer is connected is beyond me. This can only confuse new users.
it means you can run windows under wine under linux under windows...errr...
IANAC, but what i understood about string/M-theory is that it requires all dimensions to be curved. Yes, the 3 macroscopic ones are very close to being flat cause of their large radious, but there is a difference between being close to flat but curved and actually being flat, isn't there?
Actually it doesn't matter whether the radious is too large and close to flat or too small, because there are two properties of a string defining the radious of a dimension. The "vibration" and the "winding". If either one of them increases to R, the other one decreases to 1/R so that the total energy remains the same. And we can only "feel" the large radious of one of these properties.
general relativity doesn't require this, but general relativity breaks down when you examine the beginning of the universe because of it.
First of note is that the study indicates that the universe is geometrically flat, not curved. I had a hard time understanding and convincing myself that string theory and M-theory is (more?) correct and the universe is curved. As far as i understand it, all dimensions are curved; even the four expanded ones, the ones we live in. we just don't feel it, for the same reason we don't feel the earth as a sphere. So, now the universe is flat? Could this be just a mathematical anomaly, because we perceive the beggining of the universe as a point, using classical physics? And if the universe is flat, what happens to M-theory? I'm convinced it's the right way to go about it...it just makes sense...i think :)
time and space were not as they are today. space expanded after the big bang, and so did time. if we look back at the big bang, alot of things happened in what we perceive today as a microsecond although if you were there it would feel like eons.
yep, LXIV = 64 for the uninitiated, I=1, V=5, L=50, C=100, D=500, M=1000
XAML is still vaporware, MS could change the XAML specs lots of times till 2006. Applications based on Xamlon would probably need lots of modifications to work on MS XAML. And still you are only targeting windows.
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XUL on the other hand is multiplatform and you can code XUL apps right now. A problem with XUL atm is that you cann't write stand-alone apps. Your XUL apps need to run through a mozilla browser.
That is all to change though, with the release of XRE http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xul/xre.html and GRE http://www.mozilla.org/projects/embedding/GRE.htm
I just hope these runtimes are released before MS releases XAML.
"No outage in 2 years" doesnt mean "2 year uptime", it means the applications were available to the end user seamlessly during that period.
doesn't matter. sosume was trying to say that if they were using win systems for 2 years, since 2002 that is, then win server 2003 didn't yet exist? or maybe it was still on beta?(unlikely they'd use beta on production enviroment)
I've seen some pretty wacky compile "messages". I don't remember the exact wording, but one was something like "checking for signs of life..."
lol what kind of drugs were you on?
Thats exactly the reason why most people play 1 or 2 mins games only. It's sad. I'd like to play 5, 10 or 15 mins but i'm quite sure i'll face fritz or crafty most of the times. Heh, I've even lost many 2 min games cause of cheaters. I don't know how they manage to do it on 2 mins. I suppose they use some modified client and the engine plays the moves without their intervention.
But what's the point in playing chess on autopilot?
I believe chess is a fair game. White has the initiative, black defends and tries to steal the initiative. With perfect play on both sides, it is believed that the game would end in a draw. But chess is too complicated (the number of mathematicaly possible positions that can appear on the board are estimated at 10^120 - that's alot of zeros), so the absolute "truth" hasn't been found yet.
:-)
So that tiny advantage that white has, isn't enough to give you a win. Infact there are certain grandmasters that prefer defending (eg. Karpov).
In chess things are not as black and white as they appear to be.
i don't know what the BBC was on about. The signal SHGb02+14a is still in the top 25 candidates with a good score of 2.567e-09 so i assume they'll investigate further.