FreeNX is a bitch to set up, I agree. I've never got it to work properly.
However, NoMachine's free NX server (which allows up to two logged in users...) have mostly been extemely easy to set up (download packages, dpkg -i *.deb), and performance is in a completely different world than RDP, even win7's. Even on a 30-40 kbps connection I can sometimes forget I'm sitting remotely, because of the speed and response. Try that with RDP, every time you scroll or move something, things just stop. And god forbid you actually have some animation on the screen (constantly running flash ad anyone?)
What's more.. This have nothing to do with ubuntu, and a lot to do with the repository. Having user copy/pasting is OLD style. New style is that user downloads and install a deb package (which really is click click root pw click), and new repository is installed. You can even do apt://package/ links to then install packages from that new repository, from web pages.
This is how getdeb does it (but they have some server problems now, it seems - http://blog.getdeb.net/)
I did something similar for a period. Cute puppies, hamsters, kittens, ducks.. you know it. It was mostly a joke:)
I had to stop it. You know why? No, not some boss. Not the other coders. It was because people were complaining when I fixed the various bugs, and they didn't get to see their cute !:)
When I worked as tech support at an ISP, I had a routinely way of re-asking questions in a different way, and thus rather quickly build up an idea of the user's "truthfulness".
Let me give you a few examples:
-I ask the customer what the color of the power light is. He answers green.
-I do some other questions, remembering that the power light should be green.
-After a few more questions, I might ask the color of the first light to the left (power), or ask if any lights are blinking (only power light (sometimes) does that on that router).
-I ask customer to tell me the cables on the modem, and note that the one in Ethernet (2nd from left) is a blue cable.
-Again, continue check of other things
-Ask the customer what cable is at number 2 from left on the Speedtouch box (note, same box, different name. Also require the customer to know left from right). If he says the wrong cable, I ask second from right. If still wrong I know user read up wrong box either now or earlier, and you'd have to be careful about that.
I do this with several things several times in the conversation, and it quickly gives me an idea of how reliable the user is, and how well he/she follows my directions (and other things, like if they know left / right, box is upside down, how well they know the name of the equipment and so forth). I can then change my wordings and directions to suit the user's level (all the way to "Take the blue cable. Connect it to the box labelled Speedtouch *wait till user have managed to find both* put it in the yellow opening with the text "Ethernet" right below it. On the back, other side of the lights. Found it? Good.")
They call you because they don't know about this. Ask them what they see. Ask them what happens. Let them explain in their own words. They don't know what's important, and try to let them know its better if they tell way too much than skip one small important detail. Don't interrupt them when they're telling about the mundane parts of it, try to clarify after if it's unclear, or gently nudge them in the correct direction if they seem unsure. Try not to correct them, but remember what names they used on them, and use the same names. If ethernet cable and phone cable means nothing to them, use "thick" and "thin" or "flat" cable, or if they are different colors, use the colors of the cables.
Simply put, don't talk down to them, don't confuse them needlessly, don't make them feel foolish or stupid. Talk with them at their level, identify the problem they have, and fix it.
Just a simple FYI, Apple have been activelysabotaging 3rd party iPod/iPhone music managers (iTunes replacements).
There have been made several workarounds (from windows, linux and mac developers), and apple have firmware patched it several times to counter those workarounds.
When Apple is so set against 3rd party working with the ipod, it naturally becomes hard providing proper support for it from a 3rd party system.
This was just a friendly FYI as to WHY ipod's are so little supported in linux. It's not lazy developers, it's Apple's own policy.
On a more serious tone, iPhone currently seem to have the biggest mobile software ecosystem. And even if many apps are novelties, some of them are rather impressive and unique too.
I still vastly prefer my android phone, which let me play music from Spotify AND surf the web at the same time.
The stuff I really want on the web would work fine with Netscape Navigator 3.x and the correct plugins.
Do us all a favor and get rid of CSS, XHTML, and all the other alphabeet soup. Oh, and stop using target _blank. I've held out quite a while, but I think I'm finally going to install one of those script/tag-stripping proxies just so I can get rid of target _blank.
I wanna new window, I'll click right-click and chose "open in new window". That's what it's there for. Oh, and how's that back button compatability thing working out? No? Still not there? Wankers.
Oh, and "get off my lawn".
I didn't even know caves had lawns. Oh well, learn something new every day I guess..
A bit off-topic, but do you load PHP in the same apache as you run your django project? I've had some problems with that (shared libraries), plus I don't need php, so I usually turn it off.
As a side effect, it would help against such an attack too.
You know, its funny that you never seem to wonder "maybe so many are bashing PHP becasue they are right", but just assume it must be an evil plot by some overlord corporation.
I've programmed in php, but have moved away from it in favor of other languages (my favorite ATM is python (plus django for web development)), and although I still program in PHP now and then (when I must), it is something I really dislike doing.
Fact is, the language is a mess and you have to go out of your way to make secure code.
There's a lot of things I could drag out (like some functions altering data directly, but others returning a modified copy, with no apparent logic in which does which. And lack of namespaces), but my personal favorite PHP mess is mysql_escape_string vs mysql_real_escape_string:)
"oh, you've escaped input, thats good. But it's still insecure, because you didn't use the REAL escape string function" - A star example of both the mess that is PHP, and the security problems with it. Sure, you can write airtight code in PHP, but you *really* need to know what you're doing, more than just about any other scripting language I've seen.
You might disagree, but that's my view and you need a lot of persuation and good explanations to sway me away. I'm not interested in a flamewar or pointless argument, which is why I didn't post in the main "lets all bash php" thread further up.
Cliff Harris of Positech Games said he didn't think his decision to stop using DRM significantly affected piracy of his games, accepting it as an unavoidable fact.
That was an argument FOR using DRM?
"I have a rock that keeps away shoplifters, it only cost me $ton_of_money annually, and I use it to knock customers on their head every time they buy something. Now, the rate of shoplifting is the same both with and without the rock, so I see no reason to stop using it."
On February 10, 2008, about 7,000 people protested in at least 100 cities worldwide.[8][53][54] Within 24 hours of the first protest, a search for "Scientology" and "protest" on Google Blog Search returned more than 4,000 results and more than 2,000 pictures on the image-sharing site Flickr.[54] Cities with turnouts of one hundred or more protesters included Adelaide,[55] Melbourne,[56] and Sydney,[57] Australia; Toronto,[58] Canada; London,[59][60]; Dublin[61]; Austin, Texas,[62] Dallas, Texas,[63] Boston, Massachusetts,[64] Clearwater, Florida,[65] and New York City, New York,[60] United States.
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned, A sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour, Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'. Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars. It's a hundred thousand light years side to side. It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick, But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide. We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point. We go 'round every two hundred million years, And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whizz As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know, Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is. So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth, And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Hah, thanks for the heads up! Googled him, and there's some brilliant entertainment there:D
Quote - a random comment from him:
Comment by HighGuy 2009-10-16 15:27:27 hey guys a update it seems console is visibule but I don't know the ps3 core commands or adresses....hahaha fuck well ya anyways I will let ya in on this much cod 4 ufo.......fuck lots of code....and I hate reading..........not saying how I get console or nuthin.g but I do crash my ps3 and hard lol so far it seems to boot my code and still leaves me in the ps3 iitself (xml) but the game ps its not cod4 crashes and drops me into my shell......I got basic basic damb basic commands aka dir and that's about it......im thinking of poring dos into this next but thers the issue I've bricked my outher ps3 and my wife wants to kill me..and I don't wana brick my 60 so I lost the best working copy need to go back and rewright what I lost and ya so stay high but I have had luck ps no game name is the same and some details may be alterd for the sake of us hackers
Either a very good troll (judging by the other comments), or he's a poser:)
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FreeNX is a bitch to set up, I agree. I've never got it to work properly.
However, NoMachine's free NX server (which allows up to two logged in users...) have mostly been extemely easy to set up (download packages, dpkg -i *.deb), and performance is in a completely different world than RDP, even win7's. Even on a 30-40 kbps connection I can sometimes forget I'm sitting remotely, because of the speed and response. Try that with RDP, every time you scroll or move something, things just stop. And god forbid you actually have some animation on the screen (constantly running flash ad anyone?)
We also have google's neatx - a rewrite of the open source server. URL : http://code.google.com/p/neatx/
Anyway, try nomachine's free server before you dismiss the technology, my friend.
What's more.. This have nothing to do with ubuntu, and a lot to do with the repository. Having user copy/pasting is OLD style. New style is that user downloads and install a deb package (which really is click click root pw click), and new repository is installed. You can even do apt://package/ links to then install packages from that new repository, from web pages.
This is how getdeb does it (but they have some server problems now, it seems - http://blog.getdeb.net/)
I did something similar for a period. Cute puppies, hamsters, kittens, ducks.. you know it. It was mostly a joke :)
I had to stop it. You know why? No, not some boss. Not the other coders. It was because people were complaining when I fixed the various bugs, and they didn't get to see their cute ! :)
When I worked as tech support at an ISP, I had a routinely way of re-asking questions in a different way, and thus rather quickly build up an idea of the user's "truthfulness".
Let me give you a few examples:
-I ask the customer what the color of the power light is. He answers green.
-I do some other questions, remembering that the power light should be green.
-After a few more questions, I might ask the color of the first light to the left (power), or ask if any lights are blinking (only power light (sometimes) does that on that router).
-I ask customer to tell me the cables on the modem, and note that the one in Ethernet (2nd from left) is a blue cable.
-Again, continue check of other things
-Ask the customer what cable is at number 2 from left on the Speedtouch box (note, same box, different name. Also require the customer to know left from right). If he says the wrong cable, I ask second from right. If still wrong I know user read up wrong box either now or earlier, and you'd have to be careful about that.
I do this with several things several times in the conversation, and it quickly gives me an idea of how reliable the user is, and how well he/she follows my directions (and other things, like if they know left / right, box is upside down, how well they know the name of the equipment and so forth). I can then change my wordings and directions to suit the user's level (all the way to "Take the blue cable. Connect it to the box labelled Speedtouch *wait till user have managed to find both* put it in the yellow opening with the text "Ethernet" right below it. On the back, other side of the lights. Found it? Good.")
They call you because they don't know about this. Ask them what they see. Ask them what happens. Let them explain in their own words. They don't know what's important, and try to let them know its better if they tell way too much than skip one small important detail. Don't interrupt them when they're telling about the mundane parts of it, try to clarify after if it's unclear, or gently nudge them in the correct direction if they seem unsure. Try not to correct them, but remember what names they used on them, and use the same names. If ethernet cable and phone cable means nothing to them, use "thick" and "thin" or "flat" cable, or if they are different colors, use the colors of the cables.
Simply put, don't talk down to them, don't confuse them needlessly, don't make them feel foolish or stupid. Talk with them at their level, identify the problem they have, and fix it.
If you can't count to 9, you shouldn't be in university.
Implement that rule and you'll have to close liberal arts departments everywhere.
You say that as if it was a bad thing..
Just a simple FYI, Apple have been actively sabotaging 3rd party iPod/iPhone music managers (iTunes replacements).
There have been made several workarounds (from windows, linux and mac developers), and apple have firmware patched it several times to counter those workarounds.
When Apple is so set against 3rd party working with the ipod, it naturally becomes hard providing proper support for it from a 3rd party system.
This was just a friendly FYI as to WHY ipod's are so little supported in linux. It's not lazy developers, it's Apple's own policy.
does the iPhone even have any exclusive features?
55 million different fart apps.
On a more serious tone, iPhone currently seem to have the biggest mobile software ecosystem. And even if many apps are novelties, some of them are rather impressive and unique too.
I still vastly prefer my android phone, which let me play music from Spotify AND surf the web at the same time.
from a different source I read earlier (norwegian, interviewing a norwegian person from opera), it's not submitted yet, because it's still in beta.
The stuff I really want on the web would work fine with Netscape Navigator 3.x and the correct plugins.
Do us all a favor and get rid of CSS, XHTML, and all the other alphabeet soup. Oh, and stop using target _blank. I've held out quite a while, but I think I'm finally going to install one of those script/tag-stripping proxies just so I can get rid of target _blank.
I wanna new window, I'll click right-click and chose "open in new window". That's what it's there for. Oh, and how's that back button compatability thing working out? No? Still not there? Wankers.
Oh, and "get off my lawn".
I didn't even know caves had lawns. Oh well, learn something new every day I guess..
It just means that some people will believe everything they read on the internet ;)
Only if it is correct.
oooh, good idea. I vote for using SSD's to store the data, so we can access it quickly if the need ever arise.
Hey, a fellow django'er :)
A bit off-topic, but do you load PHP in the same apache as you run your django project?
I've had some problems with that (shared libraries), plus I don't need php, so I usually turn it off.
As a side effect, it would help against such an attack too.
You know, its funny that you never seem to wonder "maybe so many are bashing PHP becasue they are right", but just assume it must be an evil plot by some overlord corporation.
I've programmed in php, but have moved away from it in favor of other languages (my favorite ATM is python (plus django for web development)), and although I still program in PHP now and then (when I must), it is something I really dislike doing.
Fact is, the language is a mess and you have to go out of your way to make secure code.
There's a lot of things I could drag out (like some functions altering data directly, but others returning a modified copy, with no apparent logic in which does which. And lack of namespaces), but my personal favorite PHP mess is mysql_escape_string vs mysql_real_escape_string :)
"oh, you've escaped input, thats good. But it's still insecure, because you didn't use the REAL escape string function" - A star example of both the mess that is PHP, and the security problems with it. Sure, you can write airtight code in PHP, but you *really* need to know what you're doing, more than just about any other scripting language I've seen.
You might disagree, but that's my view and you need a lot of persuation and good explanations to sway me away. I'm not interested in a flamewar or pointless argument, which is why I didn't post in the main "lets all bash php" thread further up.
From summary:
Cliff Harris of Positech Games said he didn't think his decision to stop using DRM significantly affected piracy of his games, accepting it as an unavoidable fact.
That was an argument FOR using DRM?
"I have a rock that keeps away shoplifters, it only cost me $ton_of_money annually, and I use it to knock customers on their head every time they buy something. Now, the rate of shoplifting is the same both with and without the rock, so I see no reason to stop using it."
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/London_Anonymous_Scientology_protest_March_2008.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Anon_London_Feb10_Protesters.jpg
And that was just London.
From wikipedia:
On February 10, 2008, about 7,000 people protested in at least 100 cities worldwide.[8][53][54] Within 24 hours of the first protest, a search for "Scientology" and "protest" on Google Blog Search returned more than 4,000 results and more than 2,000 pictures on the image-sharing site Flickr.[54] Cities with turnouts of one hundred or more protesters included Adelaide,[55] Melbourne,[56] and Sydney,[57] Australia; Toronto,[58] Canada; London,[59][60]; Dublin[61]; Austin, Texas,[62] Dallas, Texas,[63] Boston, Massachusetts,[64] Clearwater, Florida,[65] and New York City, New York,[60] United States.
Two youtube videos about the material:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI5ZzfOlbKA - earlier video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfFcs25KmMc - one week old video
Shows among other things compression tests of the material.
The US?
Ba-da-bing! Thank you all, try the waitress.
Maybe something like this instead?
iMoby - and I'm half serious about that suggestion..
http://www.computer-dictionary-online.org/moby.htm?q=moby
Would probably be too hard to grok for the plebs, though
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Perl.
Incidentally, so is line noise.
Oblig XKCD:
http://xkcd.com/505/
Incidentally, it's my favorite xkcd strip
Sing along if you want to :)
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
-Monty Python's galaxy song.
Hah, thanks for the heads up! Googled him, and there's some brilliant entertainment there :D
Quote - a random comment from him:
Comment by HighGuy ....hahaha fuck well ya anyways I will let ya in on this much cod 4 ufo .......fuck lots of code ....and I hate reading ..........not saying how I get console or nuthin.g but I do crash my ps3 and hard lol so far it seems to boot my code and still leaves me in the ps3 iitself (xml) but the game ps its not cod4 crashes and drops me into my shell ......I got basic basic damb basic commands aka dir and that's about it ......im thinking of poring dos into this next but thers the issue I've bricked my outher ps3 and my wife wants to kill me..and I don't wana brick my 60 so I lost the best working copy need to go back and rewright what I lost and ya so stay high but I have had luck ps no game name is the same and some details may be alterd for the sake of us hackers
2009-10-16 15:27:27
hey guys a update it seems console is visibule but I don't know the ps3 core commands or adresses
Either a very good troll (judging by the other comments), or he's a poser :)
More entertainment at http://www.ps3-hacks.com/2009/10/15/homebrewed-ps3-system-file-editor-v0-80-released/