Not quite... PCLinuxOS, altho slow in maintaining some packages, has fit my needs - specially my needs when I was a complete newbie.
I don't agree with you regarding the different competing projects (i.e. KDE vs GNOME). I like KDE, some people prefer GNOME. Competing projects isn't the real problem. It's pragmatism and an excess of pride in the programmers who don't listen to their userbase. Technically, the problem is also the lack of standards regarding setup directories (is it/etc/sysconfig/network or/etc/network-config or something else?). You barked at the wrong tree - the appropriate example wasn't GNOME vs. KDE, but Redhat vs. Debian based distros.
And you shouldn't be afraid of posting as yourself, either - I always post as myself regarding these controversial matters, precisely because I care. Who cares if I get modded flamebait? I've been modded troll, offtopic and flamebait more than once, but it's the minority of cases.
<DmncAtrny> I will write on a huge cement block "By accepting this brick through your window, you accept it as is and agree to my disclaimer of all warranties, express or implied, as well as disclaimers of all liability, direct, indirect, consequential or incidental, that may arise from the installation of this brick into your building." <DmncAtrny> And then hurl it through the window of a Sony officer <DmncAtrny> and run like hell
Guys, remember the MySQL debacle a few years ago? They did EXACTLY THE SAME THING.
There's a distinction between Free Software, and Open Source which can be used for commercial purposes. Unfortunately, greedy bastards are hiding behind the GPL to extort their customers into paying them a fee.
As a developer for commercial apps, I want to use Open Source because (generally) it's safer and better designed and tested. But suddenly the rules change: We have to make our whole product open source? Give me a ******ing break. No, thanks, I'll stay with Google Web Toolkit, thank you.
And I'm considering moving away from MySQL as well.
In related news, the Sheriff of Nottingham has announced that poverty has increased 600% since Robin Hood arrived. "The lack of money in the King's treasure vault is more than enough proof that poverty has invaded our glorious country", he said.
That was my first thought: tests subjects first dream where the wrestle a bear, upon waking discovers his robotic arms have torn his pillows to shreds!
And this is why our brain produces chemicals to actually inhibit our body's muscles during sleep.
-- no matter how you slice it it's not our "sister."
It's earth's twin sister alright, if it was created by an asteroid impacting Earth. Just imagine they were siamese sisters and the asteroid was the scalpel:)
I've experienced the same problem... some distros use an outdated kernel and don't have the means to compile the drivers. On the other hand, bleeding edge distros always have bugs. It's one of those things that need time to get better.
Quite frankly, I don't want to use the same operating system as someone who refuses to edit any configuration file... Leave Linux to the power users and the server market.
No. Leave *SOME* Linux distributions to power users and the server market. But Windows users have the right to an alternative.
The point isn't that a user refuses to edit any configuration file. The point is that the user SHOULDN'T HAVE to edit any configuration file in the first place! Not to mention recompiling packages, building your own rpm's, solve dependency problems, have to complain about drivers not working out of the box...
Since I moved to Linux half a year ago, I've had to do a lot of stuff that the ordinary user shouldn't have to. I would love to just click here and there, and WHILE STILL having options, not have to worry about messing around with the configuration.
Tell me, why the heck are you afraid of ordinary users? Musicians, artists, graphic designers, hardcore gamers... they want something that just works. What do you have against that, and what are you afraid of? If you don't want dumbed-down distributions, don't use them and keep your own distro! Linux uses the GPL license for a reason.
I don't mind using the same operating system than an elitist zealot uses - just not the same computer.
I refuse to accept a new name for the Gimp until they do 16-bit depth (check), CMYK (missing) and single-window interface (missing). Then, and only then I'll accept a fancy name with the word "shop" on it.
Until that day comes, the Gimp's name shall reflect its capability.
But what happens when a Linux distro has a security hole?
It has already happened, and not only with distros, but with Apache and the Linux Kernel as well. What happens? Simple. It's quickly discovered, and then patched within a day:)
Not all botnets are the fault of insecure operating systems.
Not all, but most definitely are:
- Unpatched Windows XP (and below) PC's - patched but already infected Windows PC's - patched but rootkitted Windows PC's - patched Windows PC's just infected this week with a zero-day exploit.
So the rest of the botnets would be shared webservers running insecure PHP bulletin boards, and servers running unpatched MS SQL, but these are a tiny fraction.
As you can see, Microsoft's greed is largely responsible for most of the world's botnets. This has to stop. The US government could as well take these steps:
a) Force Microsoft to release a new version of XP but with Vista's security features (but please replace the cancel/allow with administrator password dialogue), so that all processes run in userspace and no changes can be done to the registry/configuration without user authorization.
b) Force Microsoft to release the patches and upgrades *FOR FREE*, even for pirate copies
c) Make a "Disinfect your PC" campaign, making a census of all computers, and running antivirus/antirootkit software (or possibly formatting, with previous backup of course) on such machines, at the same time upgrading the PC's to the newest Windows version (FOR FREE). When the campaign is over, we could as well declare the US virus-free (for now:-/ ) Unfortunately, for the measure to be effective, this should have to be done in all countries (so here comes international politics), so i'm afraid we'd have to stick with a) and b). But what use is upgrading a PC which has a rootkit on it?
- Dungeons of Algebra Dragons. When you encountered a dragon it gave you an equation to solve. If you failed, you lost health.
- Playful professor. You had to solve math problems to make a little guy move in a haunted mansion and allow him to capture a cute little ghost. When you captured the ghost, you won!
- 9 to 5. The boss was chasing a secretary across an office hall while you had to type a sentence. If you typed faster, the secretary gained speed, while on every typo she went slower. While I didn't understand the sexual implications of that chase, it was a lot of fun.
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Not quite... PCLinuxOS, altho slow in maintaining some packages, has fit my needs - specially my needs when I was a complete newbie.
/etc/sysconfig/network or /etc/network-config or something else?). You barked at the wrong tree - the appropriate example wasn't GNOME vs. KDE, but Redhat vs. Debian based distros.
I don't agree with you regarding the different competing projects (i.e. KDE vs GNOME). I like KDE, some people prefer GNOME. Competing projects isn't the real problem. It's pragmatism and an excess of pride in the programmers who don't listen to their userbase. Technically, the problem is also the lack of standards regarding setup directories (is it
And you shouldn't be afraid of posting as yourself, either - I always post as myself regarding these controversial matters, precisely because I care. Who cares if I get modded flamebait? I've been modded troll, offtopic and flamebait more than once, but it's the minority of cases.
Now here's a twist.
:D
Yahoo offers to buy Microsoft!
Probably they're linux entuhsiasts too, buy some t-shirts with Tux on 'em. My faves are "born to frag" and "I am root"
You just *invented* that, right?
I guess the time for the encrypted, anonymized overlay networks is now.
Guys, remember the MySQL debacle a few years ago? They did EXACTLY THE SAME THING.
There's a distinction between Free Software, and Open Source which can be used for commercial purposes. Unfortunately, greedy bastards are hiding behind the GPL to extort their customers into paying them a fee.
As a developer for commercial apps, I want to use Open Source because (generally) it's safer and better designed and tested. But suddenly the rules change: We have to make our whole product open source? Give me a ******ing break. No, thanks, I'll stay with Google Web Toolkit, thank you.
And I'm considering moving away from MySQL as well.
In related news, the Sheriff of Nottingham has announced that poverty has increased 600% since Robin Hood arrived. "The lack of money in the King's treasure vault is more than enough proof that poverty has invaded our glorious country", he said.
For those of you who don't read other social news sites, there's a video reply made by Thunderf00t, where he debunks Ben Stein's allegations.
Stein's fallacy is exposed this way: "I don't understand how evolution works, therefore evolution can't be true".
And this is why our brain produces chemicals to actually inhibit our body's muscles during sleep.
Oh, stay away from me Dr. Octavius, I know what happened the last time you tried that!
It's earth's twin sister alright, if it was created by an asteroid impacting Earth. Just imagine they were siamese sisters and the asteroid was the scalpel
You forgot to include multimedia editing, btw...
I've experienced the same problem... some distros use an outdated kernel and don't have the means to compile the drivers. On the other hand, bleeding edge distros always have bugs. It's one of those things that need time to get better.
No. Leave *SOME* Linux distributions to power users and the server market. But Windows users have the right to an alternative.
The point isn't that a user refuses to edit any configuration file. The point is that the user SHOULDN'T HAVE to edit any configuration file in the first place! Not to mention recompiling packages, building your own rpm's, solve dependency problems, have to complain about drivers not working out of the box...
Since I moved to Linux half a year ago, I've had to do a lot of stuff that the ordinary user shouldn't have to. I would love to just click here and there, and WHILE STILL having options, not have to worry about messing around with the configuration.
Tell me, why the heck are you afraid of ordinary users? Musicians, artists, graphic designers, hardcore gamers... they want something that just works. What do you have against that, and what are you afraid of? If you don't want dumbed-down distributions, don't use them and keep your own distro! Linux uses the GPL license for a reason.
I don't mind using the same operating system than an elitist zealot uses - just not the same computer.
Whoops, modded you up before time.
I refuse to accept a new name for the Gimp until they do 16-bit depth (check), CMYK (missing) and single-window interface (missing). Then, and only then I'll accept a fancy name with the word "shop" on it.
Until that day comes, the Gimp's name shall reflect its capability.
That reminds me of the usability differences between XP Home and XP Pro. Ahh, capitalism...
..aaaaaand British Medical Journal article is debunked by a single +5 modded Slashdot comment... If only it were that easy for patentsYou got the wrong story. This is the one you're looking for
(Disclaimer: It's a joke, OK? Don't take it so seriously)
Hello... clippy?
But what happens when a Linux distro has a security hole?
:)
It has already happened, and not only with distros, but with Apache and the Linux Kernel as well. What happens? Simple. It's quickly discovered, and then patched within a day
Not all, but most definitely are:
- Unpatched Windows XP (and below) PC's
- patched but already infected Windows PC's
- patched but rootkitted Windows PC's
- patched Windows PC's just infected this week with a zero-day exploit.
So the rest of the botnets would be shared webservers running insecure PHP bulletin boards, and servers running unpatched MS SQL, but these are a tiny fraction.
As you can see, Microsoft's greed is largely responsible for most of the world's botnets. This has to stop. The US government could as well take these steps:
a) Force Microsoft to release a new version of XP but with Vista's security features (but please replace the cancel/allow with administrator password dialogue), so that all processes run in userspace and no changes can be done to the registry/configuration without user authorization.
b) Force Microsoft to release the patches and upgrades *FOR FREE*, even for pirate copies
c) Make a "Disinfect your PC" campaign, making a census of all computers, and running antivirus/antirootkit software (or possibly formatting, with previous backup of course) on such machines, at the same time upgrading the PC's to the newest Windows version (FOR FREE). When the campaign is over, we could as well declare the US virus-free (for now
They took my Nobel just because I used my newly discovered intelligence enhancing drug!? That's NO excuse! Science sometimes requires sacrifices!
Those damn underevolved monkeys... they laughed at me, scolded me, but I will be the one who laughs last... they will see!
Igor! PREPARE THE ANTI-INTELLIGENCE BEAM!!!
HA HA HA HA!!!
Some C64 games I loved when I was a kid:
- Dungeons of Algebra Dragons. When you encountered a dragon it gave you an equation to solve. If you failed, you lost health.
- Playful professor. You had to solve math problems to make a little guy move in a haunted mansion and allow him to capture a cute little ghost. When you captured the ghost, you won!
- 9 to 5. The boss was chasing a secretary across an office hall while you had to type a sentence. If you typed faster, the secretary gained speed, while on every typo she went slower. While I didn't understand the sexual implications of that chase, it was a lot of fun.