Watch as the security community suddenly stops notifying the French of holes. I predict they will have to go back on this pretty soon. I just hope mandrake doesn't suffer too much.
It's because of the first-run wizard. Really. Firstly, it offers the choice of setting things up to be windows-like, which I think many new users do. And it really works, being just different enough to be interesting but not so much that it's confusing. Gnome can do the same but you have to configure it to do so yourself, and new users won't have a clue how to do that. And secondly, it gives them a hint of the "linux is all about choice" that everyone has been telling them. It works, quite simply. Has anyone ever suggested having the same thing for gnome?
I'll say that in a KDE thread, and it's just as true as what I wrote above. But this is time to moan about gnome. Also, KDE has already taken steps in adopting things from gnome (DBUS, probably gstreamer), showing it's willing to co-operate, wheras gnome hasn't to the best of my knowledge.
If only. I don't care about underlying architechture, but just shipping with a kde-like theme would make the linux desktop so much less confusing for new users. Power users will retheme it anyway, so it shouldn't matter to them. Even if they're not willing to look keramik-like, something a bit cleaner like the xfce theme would be so much nicer.
I used to buy a very few CDs and download most. With the rise of iTMS I buy more. At £.05 (dollar prices are almost always translated directly to pounds for things like music, grr) I'd probably buy most of my songs. But not all. Some just aren't worth that much. I don't think they're ever going to eliminate "piracy" completely, except by cutting prices to zero.
It's not a question of threat, they are an evil empire *right now*. So far they've been doing only minorly evil things, and slashdot has ignored them. But they are now obliged to put profits before all else, and make no mistake, they will.
Nah, should be easy because Qt is so nice to program for. The kde devs ported normal mozilla to kde in 48 hours at a conference as a demo, and that includes things like making gecko available as a kpart. Want to try and start doing it?
No, read section C again. You must print an "appropriate copyright notice", which will include the names of whoever holds the copyright, almost always the original authors, unless the program doesn't do so. So if the authors want to be credited like this (and haven't sold/given away their copyrights) you have to keep crediting them.
OT but am I the only one thinking this makes no sense? They can reject you for any reason they like - but if it's because you're black, they can't? How is rejecting you based on your red socks any less discriminatory?
How is it trespass? They used their own login to access a page on the internet. It's perfectly reasonable to assume that anything placed on the internet where you can see it is public information. If the hacker had posted an admin password or something you would be right, but that's not what happened.
I've already done that. I've got a CD with knoppix-std and a bunch of MP3s. Everything but the MP3s is hidden under rockridge and joliet, so unless you look at it in DOS you won't see anything else on there. And it plays fine in my mp3 walkman. But boot from it and you have practically every cracking tool under the sun. Or at least every one that was released when it was made, it's getting pretty old now. Anyone know when knoppix-std 0.2 will be out?
Because there are some fools who don't like Qt and can't see (the poor, benighted infidels) why they should use it for all the apps they write, and rewrite any apps they have that don't use it.
This isn't really their insecurity, it's the ages-old "dumb user opens executables from random stranges" problem. There's not much you can do at the OS level to stop that, at least without impeding functionality (people want to be able to send games to each other)
Suse professional still ships with kde, and they have publicly stated that they remain committed to supporting it.
I don't know about crazed zealots, but how do you suggest I sample other than looking at online registrations and polls? They may be a bit biased against business users, but I'm pretty sure most distros suggest people register and not very many home users do either. If you go for big publicised migrations like Munich you're going to be far more heavily biased in favour of the "business" distros. To the best of my knowledge there haven't been any large-scale "which OS do you use" surveys other than on the web.
It is for what I'm using it for. I only need one app at a time (and more do run, especially if they're small, it's just other people tend not to like the performance), and can leave it for a few mins if it's churning.
Only when people are using alternative toolkits like SWT, unfortunately. But something like Wx - api the same, uses native interface to implement it - would be far better.
Well, that's easy, openbsd. They've had remote access exploits, and local root exploits, but iirc never both on the same install. I admit I wouldn't have an answer if it weren't for them though.
Yes, but they're mostly home users with only one computer behind the firewall. OK, shooting is a bit harsh, maybe we could move them all to a different ISP where the whole ISP has just one IP. That'd be good, easy to block them accessing things too. Anyway, while you can host elsewhere, why can't you host at home too? The internet was meant as a collaboration between equals, not a few big colos serving everything and a bunch of clients all over the place. If you're not serving something, you don't deserve to be on the internet. OK, being too harsh again there. What I'd like is some form of distributed hosting, like bittorrent but for the web. Big companies wouldn't need it, but something like wikipedia - everyone carries a bunch of articles, the people with the same article somehow contact each other so that when one of them quits they find someone else to also host it. Some clever routing allows links to end up at the right server. But I doubt many people would run it.
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Watch as the security community suddenly stops notifying the French of holes. I predict they will have to go back on this pretty soon. I just hope mandrake doesn't suffer too much.
It's because of the first-run wizard. Really. Firstly, it offers the choice of setting things up to be windows-like, which I think many new users do. And it really works, being just different enough to be interesting but not so much that it's confusing. Gnome can do the same but you have to configure it to do so yourself, and new users won't have a clue how to do that. And secondly, it gives them a hint of the "linux is all about choice" that everyone has been telling them. It works, quite simply. Has anyone ever suggested having the same thing for gnome?
I'll say that in a KDE thread, and it's just as true as what I wrote above. But this is time to moan about gnome. Also, KDE has already taken steps in adopting things from gnome (DBUS, probably gstreamer), showing it's willing to co-operate, wheras gnome hasn't to the best of my knowledge.
If only. I don't care about underlying architechture, but just shipping with a kde-like theme would make the linux desktop so much less confusing for new users. Power users will retheme it anyway, so it shouldn't matter to them. Even if they're not willing to look keramik-like, something a bit cleaner like the xfce theme would be so much nicer.
Yes, there is a choice, but most developers are going to just use the default.
I used to buy a very few CDs and download most. With the rise of iTMS I buy more. At £.05 (dollar prices are almost always translated directly to pounds for things like music, grr) I'd probably buy most of my songs. But not all. Some just aren't worth that much. I don't think they're ever going to eliminate "piracy" completely, except by cutting prices to zero.
It's not a question of threat, they are an evil empire *right now*. So far they've been doing only minorly evil things, and slashdot has ignored them. But they are now obliged to put profits before all else, and make no mistake, they will.
Yes, it's exactly like that. However, would you *want* to read about another company doing it?
Nah, should be easy because Qt is so nice to program for. The kde devs ported normal mozilla to kde in 48 hours at a conference as a demo, and that includes things like making gecko available as a kpart. Want to try and start doing it?
I don't think it's a troll, just a misunderstanding of the concepts. I had exactly the same thought when reading the great-grandparent.
No, read section C again. You must print an "appropriate copyright notice", which will include the names of whoever holds the copyright, almost always the original authors, unless the program doesn't do so. So if the authors want to be credited like this (and haven't sold/given away their copyrights) you have to keep crediting them.
And it absolutely serves them right. If they see curiosity as unethical, they don't deserve to be getting good applicants.
OT but am I the only one thinking this makes no sense? They can reject you for any reason they like - but if it's because you're black, they can't? How is rejecting you based on your red socks any less discriminatory?
How is it trespass? They used their own login to access a page on the internet. It's perfectly reasonable to assume that anything placed on the internet where you can see it is public information. If the hacker had posted an admin password or something you would be right, but that's not what happened.
Why the license change? Is there a need for it? Do we still see his ugly mug begging for money every time you use the windows client?
There are a couple of distros that do that already, for example MEPIS.
I've already done that. I've got a CD with knoppix-std and a bunch of MP3s. Everything but the MP3s is hidden under rockridge and joliet, so unless you look at it in DOS you won't see anything else on there. And it plays fine in my mp3 walkman. But boot from it and you have practically every cracking tool under the sun. Or at least every one that was released when it was made, it's getting pretty old now. Anyone know when knoppix-std 0.2 will be out?
We're being attacked by zombies?
Because there are some fools who don't like Qt and can't see (the poor, benighted infidels) why they should use it for all the apps they write, and rewrite any apps they have that don't use it.
This isn't really their insecurity, it's the ages-old "dumb user opens executables from random stranges" problem. There's not much you can do at the OS level to stop that, at least without impeding functionality (people want to be able to send games to each other)
I don't know about crazed zealots, but how do you suggest I sample other than looking at online registrations and polls? They may be a bit biased against business users, but I'm pretty sure most distros suggest people register and not very many home users do either. If you go for big publicised migrations like Munich you're going to be far more heavily biased in favour of the "business" distros. To the best of my knowledge there haven't been any large-scale "which OS do you use" surveys other than on the web.
It is for what I'm using it for. I only need one app at a time (and more do run, especially if they're small, it's just other people tend not to like the performance), and can leave it for a few mins if it's churning.
Only when people are using alternative toolkits like SWT, unfortunately. But something like Wx - api the same, uses native interface to implement it - would be far better.
Well, that's easy, openbsd. They've had remote access exploits, and local root exploits, but iirc never both on the same install. I admit I wouldn't have an answer if it weren't for them though.
Yes, but they're mostly home users with only one computer behind the firewall. OK, shooting is a bit harsh, maybe we could move them all to a different ISP where the whole ISP has just one IP. That'd be good, easy to block them accessing things too. Anyway, while you can host elsewhere, why can't you host at home too? The internet was meant as a collaboration between equals, not a few big colos serving everything and a bunch of clients all over the place. If you're not serving something, you don't deserve to be on the internet. OK, being too harsh again there. What I'd like is some form of distributed hosting, like bittorrent but for the web. Big companies wouldn't need it, but something like wikipedia - everyone carries a bunch of articles, the people with the same article somehow contact each other so that when one of them quits they find someone else to also host it. Some clever routing allows links to end up at the right server. But I doubt many people would run it.