I have been helping a Norwegian magazine write a 100 page Vista Special, one of my articles was about UAC. In the beginning I was very excited about this feature, thinking that it would provide some safety. Then, after a while, two things happened: 1) I got tired of the constant nagging and the need to enable admin mode by default on several apps by default to avoid compatibility issues, and 2) I realized that I clicked 'Allow' on anything anyway, the only exception would be a UAC dialog popping up from nowhere. This approach would make me wide open for attacks by supposedly trusted installers anyway.
So I turned it off! I still havent had any malware or viruses (Symantec Corporate kills most of that anyway). My life got all jolly and happy again. I can only imagine that the same "always allow" mentality will be the same for less savvy users. You want to do your work, right?
.. since I am a journalist for a computer rag. Anyway, I would say it is a waste of money for most people at this time. Applications can barely use two cores properly, and games are still not as SMP aware as they should. On the other hand, if you run gentoo, THIS CPU IS KILLER:)
Shouldn't they implement something like SpeedStep, but for the GPU? It would be killer to have one of these if they only drew minimal power when not using them for anything other than XGL or AeroGlass.
I was just trying to illustrate that I do the same things on the social gatherings with online friends, as with my offline-only friends. Hence the pot and alcohol bit. To be honest, we do a lot of other stuff too, like going bowling, seeing a good movie, etc.
I live in Norway, and the vast majority of my really close friends, are people I first met on various internet communities. Since Norway is a small country, where many live within range of each other, social gatherings are common among us, in addition to the lan partys that are arranged every year where I meet even more people that I have talked online with. After a few meetings with pot and alchohol, you start meeting the same people one-to-one or in smaller and smaller groups, just to hang out, talk or do some project together. Probably different in bigger countries, where meeting would require a days travel, or for people who hang out at more international communities.
The article assumes that "n00b-haters" does not exist at all from other platforms. I just recently got told to go screw myself by a MCSE, because I nagged him ten thousand times about how to find the Active Directory wizard. There you go, more anecdotal evidence.
Why not make sure that these bundled apps are not a part of the vendor lock-in? A good media player included with the OS? Sure, but make the video/audio formats open.
I do not have a problem with the language undergoing natural evolution. The issue is that some ways of speaking / writing gets allowed, which makes the language less consistent and full of things that mean the same. Being Norwegian, I have seen my language getting raped by youngsters who appearantly do not care that their sloppy use of the language gives their sentence two or three different interpretations. It is the old "Hang him not, wait until I come" vs. "Hang him, not wait until I come" (Ok, this thing does not sound that good in English, as it is a common Norwegian expamle.)
Opera has been a worthy competitor for a long time, but what keeps amusing me is that they pack 10032894208492 features, and a pony, into the browser, and it still does not feel bloated (not compared to some apps, that have two features and a eye candy interface which makes your eyes fall out). Don't like using one program for browsing, mail, and bittorrent? Then don't. Just use the browsing capabilities, and the rest of the features will be sufficiently hid away.
No, the copyright holders can give permission to re-release it as GPLv3 or Carl and Jabbas Artistic Hut Licence. The 'problem' with the Linux kernel, is that there are an extreme amount of copyright holders, so even if RedHat gave permission to re-release their code as GPLv3, that would not be anywhere near the complete kernel source code.
Either, one entity holds the copyrights, and are free to change the license. Or, the copyright holders have agreed upon submitting their code, to allow the thing to be released as "GPL v2 or later".
I might have been living under a rock, but how is the state of Linux on these new Intel Macs? Just being curious here, because I havent seen any real talks about it here (maybe I haven't fine read threshold -1 yet).
Why would you be less secure with broadband? I mean, you typically get an external IP with dial up, and if you havent been infected yet, why would become infected if you get a broadband connection with NAT?
You seem to have your client security sorted out, I'd say go for it.
Not neccassarily that bad, but have you ever tought of us that do not neccassarily fly on a vacation or otherwise for pleasure? When I go on a business trip, on a business flight, I would love to stay productive by being able to use the internet and my cellphone. Please, think of us suits:)
My platform is mostly OS X and Linux, but I do have Windows available as well. I would like to start with something that works on at least two of these.
Sorry, but I forgot to add the obvious part: Why do I want to program/script? In the first place, I would like to just create some gadgets, like my own ncurses gentoo installer or something (not too fancy, just for my own systems), or some simple webapp, like a poll (can be done with python server pages, right?). Other than that, tools for automating system tasks, perhaps.
I am probably not the smartest person in the world, and I have no programming experience what so ever. What I am looking for, is some easy language to either script or program. Would python provide a good starting environment? Have any of you been at my level, then learned python?
I have tried to do as much research as possible myself, but it seems that everyone I ask just woke up one morning, and found themselves to be able to program three or more languages (in other words, they do not remember how they started out). I have also tried to learn several languages by reading some O'Reilly books and similar, but I have been put off by the seemingly academic english that is used (my native language is norwegian, by the way).
If anyone have any recommendation, as tho where to start, I would be more than happy.
Just because you don't understand it, does not mean it is pointless. I think it fits nicely on the Raptors, because they are the 'premium' of S-ATA drives. As long as the window part does not make it cost 100$ more, though. Raptors are about the fastest you get without going SCSI.
Parent poster has a point. It is nice to have your own stuff on a usb drive. Pretty handy for school systems where you are not allowed to touch the local file system, but executables on usb drives can be run.
I have taken this a step further, though. I have installed gentoo on my usb drive. It is very simple, just have all the usb support in the kernel, then make an initrd which makes the machine wait for a little while for usb mass storage devices to settle, before it tries to mount them as root ( "sleep 5" in/linuxrc in the initrd worked out for me, but there are probably better ways of doing it too ). Grub installs just fine on the usb drive.
This is ideal for me, as "all" the machines I use that are not mine, can boot from usb.
.. if only some of the big unix vendors back then had thought: Gee, lets push our operating system as a general purpose desktop system. Instead, we had a whole range of proprietary unixes that ran on their own proprietary platforms.
Seeing that many people have been harassed by the FBI and similar entitys just because they belong in a certain group (peace protestor, black, etc.), I really do not want the government to find out that I from time to time engage in peaceful marches agianst the man. As noted, the record industry wants to have a look at the data, and that is just another pen stroke to accomplish after the money has passed under the table.
Sadly, people have to bend more and more over for their EU governments. Storing all tele/datacommunications from everyone the last two years? I would buy stocks in the storage companies now:)
This deal about cybercafes show that the governments really fear anonymity.. I guess I will have to use Tor whenever I go to such places from now on.
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I have been helping a Norwegian magazine write a 100 page Vista Special, one of my articles was about UAC. In the beginning I was very excited about this feature, thinking that it would provide some safety. Then, after a while, two things happened:
1) I got tired of the constant nagging and the need to enable admin mode by default on several apps by default to avoid compatibility issues, and
2) I realized that I clicked 'Allow' on anything anyway, the only exception would be a UAC dialog popping up from nowhere. This approach would make me wide open for attacks by supposedly trusted installers anyway.
So I turned it off! I still havent had any malware or viruses (Symantec Corporate kills most of that anyway). My life got all jolly and happy again. I can only imagine that the same "always allow" mentality will be the same for less savvy users. You want to do your work, right?
If I become the Lord of this castle, will Simon Belmont come and whack me with that nasty whip thingie he is carrying around?
.. since I am a journalist for a computer rag. Anyway, I would say it is a waste of money for most people at this time. Applications can barely use two cores properly, and games are still not as SMP aware as they should. On the other hand, if you run gentoo, THIS CPU IS KILLER :)
Shouldn't they implement something like SpeedStep, but for the GPU? It would be killer to have one of these if they only drew minimal power when not using them for anything other than XGL or AeroGlass.
I was just trying to illustrate that I do the same things on the social gatherings with online friends, as with my offline-only friends. Hence the pot and alcohol bit. To be honest, we do a lot of other stuff too, like going bowling, seeing a good movie, etc.
I live in Norway, and the vast majority of my really close friends, are people I first met on various internet communities. Since Norway is a small country, where many live within range of each other, social gatherings are common among us, in addition to the lan partys that are arranged every year where I meet even more people that I have talked online with. After a few meetings with pot and alchohol, you start meeting the same people one-to-one or in smaller and smaller groups, just to hang out, talk or do some project together.
Probably different in bigger countries, where meeting would require a days travel, or for people who hang out at more international communities.
The article assumes that "n00b-haters" does not exist at all from other platforms. I just recently got told to go screw myself by a MCSE, because I nagged him ten thousand times about how to find the Active Directory wizard. There you go, more anecdotal evidence.
Why not make sure that these bundled apps are not a part of the vendor lock-in? A good media player included with the OS? Sure, but make the video/audio formats open.
I do not have a problem with the language undergoing natural evolution. The issue is that some ways of speaking / writing gets allowed, which makes the language less consistent and full of things that mean the same. Being Norwegian, I have seen my language getting raped by youngsters who appearantly do not care that their sloppy use of the language gives their sentence two or three different interpretations. It is the old "Hang him not, wait until I come" vs. "Hang him, not wait until I come" (Ok, this thing does not sound that good in English, as it is a common Norwegian expamle.)
Opera has been a worthy competitor for a long time, but what keeps amusing me is that they pack 10032894208492 features, and a pony, into the browser, and it still does not feel bloated (not compared to some apps, that have two features and a eye candy interface which makes your eyes fall out).
Don't like using one program for browsing, mail, and bittorrent? Then don't. Just use the browsing capabilities, and the rest of the features will be sufficiently hid away.
No, the copyright holders can give permission to re-release it as GPLv3 or Carl and Jabbas Artistic Hut Licence. The 'problem' with the Linux kernel, is that there are an extreme amount of copyright holders, so even if RedHat gave permission to re-release their code as GPLv3, that would not be anywhere near the complete kernel source code.
Either, one entity holds the copyrights, and are free to change the license. Or, the copyright holders have agreed upon submitting their code, to allow the thing to be released as "GPL v2 or later".
I might have been living under a rock, but how is the state of Linux on these new Intel Macs? Just being curious here, because I havent seen any real talks about it here (maybe I haven't fine read threshold -1 yet).
Why would you be less secure with broadband? I mean, you typically get an external IP with dial up, and if you havent been infected yet, why would become infected if you get a broadband connection with NAT? You seem to have your client security sorted out, I'd say go for it.
Not neccassarily that bad, but have you ever tought of us that do not neccassarily fly on a vacation or otherwise for pleasure? When I go on a business trip, on a business flight, I would love to stay productive by being able to use the internet and my cellphone. Please, think of us suits :)
My platform is mostly OS X and Linux, but I do have Windows available as well. I would like to start with something that works on at least two of these.
Sorry, but I forgot to add the obvious part: Why do I want to program/script? In the first place, I would like to just create some gadgets, like my own ncurses gentoo installer or something (not too fancy, just for my own systems), or some simple webapp, like a poll (can be done with python server pages, right?). Other than that, tools for automating system tasks, perhaps.
I hope this is not modded off topic. Here goes:
I am probably not the smartest person in the world, and I have no programming experience what so ever. What I am looking for, is some easy language to either script or program. Would python provide a good starting environment? Have any of you been at my level, then learned python?
I have tried to do as much research as possible myself, but it seems that everyone I ask just woke up one morning, and found themselves to be able to program three or more languages (in other words, they do not remember how they started out). I have also tried to learn several languages by reading some O'Reilly books and similar, but I have been put off by the seemingly academic english that is used (my native language is norwegian, by the way).
If anyone have any recommendation, as tho where to start, I would be more than happy.
Just because you don't understand it, does not mean it is pointless. I think it fits nicely on the Raptors, because they are the 'premium' of S-ATA drives. As long as the window part does not make it cost 100$ more, though.
Raptors are about the fastest you get without going SCSI.
Parent poster has a point. It is nice to have your own stuff on a usb drive. Pretty handy for school systems where you are not allowed to touch the local file system, but executables on usb drives can be run. /linuxrc in the initrd worked out for me, but there are probably better ways of doing it too ). Grub installs just fine on the usb drive.
I have taken this a step further, though. I have installed gentoo on my usb drive. It is very simple, just have all the usb support in the kernel, then make an initrd which makes the machine wait for a little while for usb mass storage devices to settle, before it tries to mount them as root ( "sleep 5" in
This is ideal for me, as "all" the machines I use that are not mine, can boot from usb.
Today, it is actually illegal to circumvent "effective" drm measures. But, what is effective when it can be broken? Bah I say.
.. if only some of the big unix vendors back then had thought: Gee, lets push our operating system as a general purpose desktop system. Instead, we had a whole range of proprietary unixes that ran on their own proprietary platforms.
Seeing that many people have been harassed by the FBI and similar entitys just because they belong in a certain group (peace protestor, black, etc.), I really do not want the government to find out that I from time to time engage in peaceful marches agianst the man. As noted, the record industry wants to have a look at the data, and that is just another pen stroke to accomplish after the money has passed under the table.
Heh, I guess buying stocks in storage related companies would be a good idea now :)
Sadly, people have to bend more and more over for their EU governments. Storing all tele/datacommunications from everyone the last two years? I would buy stocks in the storage companies now :)
This deal about cybercafes show that the governments really fear anonymity.. I guess I will have to use Tor whenever I go to such places from now on.