It's not that it's more complicated than a standard go-to-website-and-install process, it's that it's different. While I feel they should have a slick way of performing the install process that doesn't require manipulating the command-line as such, it wouldn't really make a difference because you have already told the installation process to sod off. The problem is that it's not a Steam app, and you don't want to install software.
With a 300 watt power supply, I wouldn't put dedicated video into that machine unless it was stripped of the drives and booted from the network. That's just asking for trouble.
Being a web application written in PHP, the very process of compiling to a binary is rarely ever even brought to the table. The source code is equivalent to the executable code in almost every one of those cases.
This doesn't quite qualify. Because of the design of this system, he doesn't actually have any real control beyond the first few nodes and the very beginning of the network. It's a lot like the people who claim we can crash the BitCoin system by overpowering it with force - good luck doing that on an ever-expanding network of hashing nodes. Dude might land an awesome job somewhere that involves him continuing to maintain the codebase, but this is technologically incompatible with the concept of the bubble as it pertains to dotcoms.
I do hope you have sufficient understanding that the ideas you're espousing are directly at fault for how screwed up the technological climate is right now. Apple, Microsoft, Canonical, all changing up and breaking their products. GCC has issues, number one being this push to drop it off the wayside like the rest of the foundations of modern computing.
I'm thinking they need to get the pfSense guys some dev units. As a wireless router, way too expensive. As a pfSense box, I'd consider it as a go-to prebuild.
When it gets to the point of talking about stolen hardware there is one single thing that people seem to forget: the hardware is probably worth a lot more to the thief than your data. They're more likely to wipe it and resell it unless they were there for your identity to begin with, and for that there are plenty of more reasonable angles of attack.
I'm replying with my account because the slashdot beta doesn't seem to let me link to a post directly, so I can't just remember where I laid replies as an Anonymous Coward.
What exactly does it being "a brute-force search that wastes shitloads of energy" have to do with the idea of a fixed quantity currency that must be unlocked with verifiable work, the technology for which can be used to create competing currencies with relative ease, being an elegant long-term solution? Bitcoin might not be the answer, but it's covering some very important ground which the answer will need to have done.
What electronic systems are you talking about? Do you mean the various methods by which we have to *distribute currency*, which is a very separate problem from the creation and backing of currency? Your comment makes me feel like you're confusing the issue to the point that you think people on the internet are the idiots.
This is not a flaw in the design, rather, this is what allows the design to be viable long-term solution. The bitcoin protocol provides a method by which to allocate a block of currency units that must be extracted through verifiable work. It can and already has been used to create a number of competing currencies. It's actually a rather elegant long-term solution - especially considering that a gaggle of competing currencies is a perfectly cromulent way of describing the global economy
Middle-click to paste has been an integral piece of my workflow for over a decade now, and one of the major bits of discontinuity when I'm working on a more Windows-centric basis. If the GNOME guys want to kill such basic functionality, I'll just keep chugging along using XFCE... at least until they decide to start pulling this crap.
I've had Mint silently fail to load the desktop environment when booted Live countless times on machines where Ubuntu didn't have an issue. Generally happened more often on limited RAM environments, which is one of the reasons I lost faith - Ubuntu's flashy bullshit shouldn't be more fail-safe than Mint's classical environment.
Unfortunately not. Mint is broken, it's badly broken. They have a good idea and a slick theme, but they're still half-assing the distribution to a degree that makes it extremely uncomfortable for someone used to having Linux *actually work*.
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It's not that it's more complicated than a standard go-to-website-and-install process, it's that it's different. While I feel they should have a slick way of performing the install process that doesn't require manipulating the command-line as such, it wouldn't really make a difference because you have already told the installation process to sod off. The problem is that it's not a Steam app, and you don't want to install software.
With a 300 watt power supply, I wouldn't put dedicated video into that machine unless it was stripped of the drives and booted from the network. That's just asking for trouble.
Being a web application written in PHP, the very process of compiling to a binary is rarely ever even brought to the table. The source code is equivalent to the executable code in almost every one of those cases.
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
That's kind of the point.
Why are major linux distributions relying on proprietary software after the whole BitKeeper fiasco anyway?
This doesn't quite qualify. Because of the design of this system, he doesn't actually have any real control beyond the first few nodes and the very beginning of the network. It's a lot like the people who claim we can crash the BitCoin system by overpowering it with force - good luck doing that on an ever-expanding network of hashing nodes. Dude might land an awesome job somewhere that involves him continuing to maintain the codebase, but this is technologically incompatible with the concept of the bubble as it pertains to dotcoms.
I do hope you have sufficient understanding that the ideas you're espousing are directly at fault for how screwed up the technological climate is right now. Apple, Microsoft, Canonical, all changing up and breaking their products. GCC has issues, number one being this push to drop it off the wayside like the rest of the foundations of modern computing.
I'm thinking they need to get the pfSense guys some dev units. As a wireless router, way too expensive. As a pfSense box, I'd consider it as a go-to prebuild.
Isn't that what they're already doing?
When it gets to the point of talking about stolen hardware there is one single thing that people seem to forget: the hardware is probably worth a lot more to the thief than your data. They're more likely to wipe it and resell it unless they were there for your identity to begin with, and for that there are plenty of more reasonable angles of attack.
Full disk encryption does one thing: adds another password layer.
The whole idea of it being a solution to the problem is bullshit.
I'm replying with my account because the slashdot beta doesn't seem to let me link to a post directly, so I can't just remember where I laid replies as an Anonymous Coward.
Every time I see this comment I have to wonder if the person has actually used both Debian and Ubuntu.
If you go into Linux considering Debian and Ubuntu to be that similar, you're gonna have a bad time.
What exactly does it being "a brute-force search that wastes shitloads of energy" have to do with the idea of a fixed quantity currency that must be unlocked with verifiable work, the technology for which can be used to create competing currencies with relative ease, being an elegant long-term solution? Bitcoin might not be the answer, but it's covering some very important ground which the answer will need to have done.
What electronic systems are you talking about? Do you mean the various methods by which we have to *distribute currency*, which is a very separate problem from the creation and backing of currency? Your comment makes me feel like you're confusing the issue to the point that you think people on the internet are the idiots.
This is not a flaw in the design, rather, this is what allows the design to be viable long-term solution. The bitcoin protocol provides a method by which to allocate a block of currency units that must be extracted through verifiable work. It can and already has been used to create a number of competing currencies. It's actually a rather elegant long-term solution - especially considering that a gaggle of competing currencies is a perfectly cromulent way of describing the global economy
The Western characters in anime tend to have a very different cut than the Asian characters that you say look non-Asian.
What portion of those are due to faulty software?
You're not going to hear those complaints because they don't have WiFi.
Because "Linux-only" implies cross-platform. Have you SEEN the number of platforms that Linux supports?
the United States does not hold copyright over private conversations, but they're copying them all anyway. This is extremely relevant.
Each and every one of them, another "I told you so, idiot." ... we already knew this.
Still not seeing the part where it needs to be.
Middle-click to paste has been an integral piece of my workflow for over a decade now, and one of the major bits of discontinuity when I'm working on a more Windows-centric basis. If the GNOME guys want to kill such basic functionality, I'll just keep chugging along using XFCE ... at least until they decide to start pulling this crap.
I've had Mint silently fail to load the desktop environment when booted Live countless times on machines where Ubuntu didn't have an issue. Generally happened more often on limited RAM environments, which is one of the reasons I lost faith - Ubuntu's flashy bullshit shouldn't be more fail-safe than Mint's classical environment.
Unfortunately not. Mint is broken, it's badly broken. They have a good idea and a slick theme, but they're still half-assing the distribution to a degree that makes it extremely uncomfortable for someone used to having Linux *actually work*.