I'm listing the specs for Ubuntu, and I'm glad to read that many things I had complained about in Hoary seem to be fixed, like network availability for installation and upgrading.
Some example specs (copied / pasted) :
The current i386/amd64 CD boot loader (isolinux) and configuration are not very user-friendly. Prompts can only be displayed in one language, and responses must be typed in by the user.
We should evaluate available options for replacements, and ways to simplify the process for the user, including:
- Displaying a countdown and automatically continuing after a timeout
- Allowing language selection from the boot loader
- Localized help
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Upgrading from one Ubuntu release to the next is currently a power-user operation, involving editing of configuration files, careful attention to the decisions made by the packaging tools, and manual cleanup of obsolete or unwanted packages. This process should be wrapped in a tool (perhaps as extensions to update-manager), suitable for backporting to breezy-updates, which simplifies it for users, incorporating:
Automatic detection of the availability of a new release, offering an upgrade to the user
Preservation of user package selection (e.g., via metapackages)
Removal of obsolete packages (e.g., openoffice.org, python2.3)
Warnings about unsupported packages?
Do something sane with old kernel(s)
Upgrade packaging tools (including itself) first?
This is what all linux distros should do, start listening to the users instead of relying on the old "RTFM n00b" cliché.
I'm sure that if Ubuntu keeps doing all of these user-friendliness checks in a couple of years, Ubuntu will match the usability and installation-friendliness of WinXP, yay!:D
Today a mysterious object began appearing in our sky. The population panicked after they heard rumors saying that the object came from the evil blue planet. To calm the population, K'Breel, speaker for the council of Elders, said:
We are not to worry. Let us remember that our cloaking technology will keep us safe from being noticed by the inhabitants of the evil blue planet. Our scientists are studying the artificial satellite and have concluded that it is a very primitive technology. We are not to fear.
Besides, our plan to destroy the evil blue planet have not been hindered in any way.
When someone asked why this satellite couldn't be destroyed as the other two alien satellites that were sent by the blue planet inhabitants, K'Breel ordered the traitor's immediate execution. This was the first case of someone being executed for stripping the word "evil" from the phrase "evil blue planet", according to the new law.
That's like saying the development of a piece of software is less significant than the EULA it forces you to agree with.
The GPL is *NOT* an EULA! It's a DISTRIBUTION LICENSE!
If Linus had released his kernel under a proprietary non-free license, nobody would've ever heard of it. I'm not saying that linux is inferior to the GPL, but that the GPL contributed A LOT to its success.
You cannot install it on your hardware (laser-equipped shark or otherwise) without also making sure that others can install another version. And that's my gripe.
Call me a fanatic, but open source isn't worth crap if it can't be redistributed. This is _THE_ principle of open source, that anyone can make AND RUN their own version. There are business-ready licenses out there, but the GPL was made to perpetuate the programmers' and users' freedom.
I think Linus needs a reality check. Perhaps a few months of working for Microsoft will make him realize his mistakes. There ARE evil people, evil corporations trying to take over the world, just look at the patent business.
I'm kinda disappointed after reading this, I always had seen Linus as a hero, and thought he was as enthusiastic about open source as many of us were. Sad to see he's just yet another programmer who went corporate, like Steve Jobs. He just happened to cooperate with the open source movement.
Oh well. We should be thankful he's still cooperating, and consider him an ally rather than a leader.
Linus isn't an activist. He's just a programmer. Sure, he made a wonderful kernel, but it's the GPL that made his kernel popular and freely-downloadable.
In any case, does it really matter if he redistributes his kernel under GPL2 or 3? It's not like it's the end of the world or anything. I think this is plainly media hype.
Because there's nothing like watching an authentic horror film in a place where you practically can't move, and there's pure darkness surrounding you:)
And no, I don't care it's by Sony. I believe this movie will be worth paying the author, if we pay him well maybe we could see the sequel:D
If it's not Software Libre, I pretty much don't want to play it.
Yeah, but i'm still waiting for the Open Source equivalent to Silent Hill... or Castlevania... or Indiana Jones...
speaking of Indiana Jones, the Last Crusade game was awesome, to pass the game i didn't only have to figure out the clues, i had to study the authentic paperback edition of Henry Jones' diary that came with the game. I could admire the map of Alexandretta, or the mural paintings. I still remember myself looking for the cable Codirolli sent Indy's father, and searching for the grail's description in that.
Now THAT's copy protection done right. Instead of annoying the user, it makes the gameplay even more realistic.
* Spreads itself to at least 2 other computers (for survival) * Downloads and installs ad-aware * Activates your windows firewall * Downloads appropriate patches from Microsoft * Prepares ad-aware to run on the next boot * Deletes itself from the system
BTW, this Slashdot story is an announcement about an announcement about possible future announcements (which everyone was expecting anyway). I love it.
If the author had at least read the proposed draft of the GPLv3
How can you be so naive? He DID read it. He was just paid to attack Stallman, since the GPL doesn't benefit Microsoft at all. Please, portraying Stallman as some kind of fundamentalist warlock who loves to burn books of art and science? Sheesh, that's falling low.
At least CNET had the decency now to say who he works for at the bottom of the article.
Slashdot Mirror
that they're planning to conquest other worlds instead of fixing the one they live in :-/
I said:
I'm listing the specs for Ubuntu
I should've said:
I'm reading the specs for Ubuntu
Sorry.
Some example specs (copied / pasted) :
This is what all linux distros should do, start listening to the users instead of relying on the old "RTFM n00b" cliché.
I'm sure that if Ubuntu keeps doing all of these user-friendliness checks in a couple of years, Ubuntu will match the usability and installation-friendliness of WinXP, yay!
When someone asked why this satellite couldn't be destroyed as the other two alien satellites that were sent by the blue planet inhabitants, K'Breel ordered the traitor's immediate execution. This was the first case of someone being executed for stripping the word "evil" from the phrase "evil blue planet", according to the new law.
(My apologies to TripMaster Monkey)
That was my first thought: why is MS researching this?
"Genuine Advantage for Vista" seems one possible application. So, what were we saying about the "Signs of the end times"?
MS could try playing the victim
Hmmm that reminds me of a famous quote.
"Bu-but your honor... I swear! He-man and those Masters of the Universe keep pushing me around! They take my freedom away! (pouts) "
- Skeletor
Sony needs to open up the development on the PSP.
:)
Sorry, but I think you mispelled a word. Here, let me fix it for you.
The cheap RIAA-member b*stards who won't give up a peny and hired some goons to make a rootkit need to open up the development on the PSP.
There!
Wait, something's not right... o.O
That's like saying the development of a piece of software is less significant than the EULA it forces you to agree with.
The GPL is *NOT* an EULA! It's a DISTRIBUTION LICENSE!
If Linus had released his kernel under a proprietary non-free license, nobody would've ever heard of it. I'm not saying that linux is inferior to the GPL, but that the GPL contributed A LOT to its success.
You cannot install it on your hardware (laser-equipped shark or otherwise) without also making sure that others can install another version. And that's my gripe.
Call me a fanatic, but open source isn't worth crap if it can't be redistributed. This is _THE_ principle of open source, that anyone can make AND RUN their own version. There are business-ready licenses out there, but the GPL was made to perpetuate the programmers' and users' freedom.
I think Linus needs a reality check. Perhaps a few months of working for Microsoft will make him realize his mistakes. There ARE evil people, evil corporations trying to take over the world, just look at the patent business.
I'm kinda disappointed after reading this, I always had seen Linus as a hero, and thought he was as enthusiastic about open source as many of us were. Sad to see he's just yet another programmer who went corporate, like Steve Jobs. He just happened to cooperate with the open source movement.
Oh well. We should be thankful he's still cooperating, and consider him an ally rather than a leader.
Linus isn't an activist. He's just a programmer. Sure, he made a wonderful kernel, but it's the GPL that made his kernel popular and freely-downloadable.
In any case, does it really matter if he redistributes his kernel under GPL2 or 3? It's not like it's the end of the world or anything. I think this is plainly media hype.
remember how many versions of OpenSSH we have? And why do you think new versions were released? And why should GPG be any different?
Silent Hill (MUAHAHAHAH!)
:)
:D
Because there's nothing like watching an authentic horror film in a place where you practically can't move, and there's pure darkness surrounding you
And no, I don't care it's by Sony. I believe this movie will be worth paying the author, if we pay him well maybe we could see the sequel
But I know if they don't, the games will be pirated like crazy.
Games _ARE_ being pirated like crazy, why do you think warez sites have the "the-game-v1.01-cracked.iso" and so on?
Copy protection doesn't work, all it takes is a game cracker to publish the cracked freely-playable version.
And why do cracks work? Because all it takes is changing a JEQ to a JMP. I say it because I've seen it, back in the good-ol' MS-DOS days.
If it's not Software Libre, I pretty much don't want to play it.
Yeah, but i'm still waiting for the Open Source equivalent to Silent Hill... or Castlevania... or Indiana Jones...
speaking of Indiana Jones, the Last Crusade game was awesome, to pass the game i didn't only have to figure out the clues, i had to study the authentic paperback edition of Henry Jones' diary that came with the game. I could admire the map of Alexandretta, or the mural paintings. I still remember myself looking for the cable Codirolli sent Indy's father, and searching for the grail's description in that.
Now THAT's copy protection done right. Instead of annoying the user, it makes the gameplay even more realistic.
"At least one machine that he showed me from his botnet was located inside of a major U.S. defense contractor."
Ah, the irony...
This kid is not a "hacker" or "cracker" anymore than I'm a professional wrestler.
D'OH, that's why the article title says "script kiddiez", not "hackers".
Spread a worm that:
:')
* Spreads itself to at least 2 other computers (for survival)
* Downloads and installs ad-aware
* Activates your windows firewall
* Downloads appropriate patches from Microsoft
* Prepares ad-aware to run on the next boot
* Deletes itself from the system
That'd be so beautiful *sniff*
BTW, this Slashdot story is an announcement about an announcement about possible future announcements (which everyone was expecting anyway). I love it.
:)
Thanks for announcing that
It's not FUD if the vulnerabilities are real.
Yeah, like that 30-minutes hack that REQUIRES to have a local account... *rolls eyes*
If the author had at least read the proposed draft of the GPLv3
How can you be so naive? He DID read it. He was just paid to attack Stallman, since the GPL doesn't benefit Microsoft at all. Please, portraying Stallman as some kind of fundamentalist warlock who loves to burn books of art and science? Sheesh, that's falling low.
At least CNET had the decency now to say who he works for at the bottom of the article.
http://www.translationdirectory.com/article853.htm
:P
if you could count them (people at a meeting) you used "fewer"; if you couldn't count it (sugar) you used "less."
Frankly, I think it'd be good to have fewer grammatical rules, and about this one, I could't care less
Here in Texas it usually starts with "Hey, hold my beer for a second"
:)
Yeah, but the greatest discoveries start with "Oops..."
Yes, the "Christian Science" is a known sect/church, it has nothing to do with Creationism.
Now the ONLY ONES who will publish exploits are the anonymous hackers who are ALREADY doing illegal stuff.
Nice move, smartasses.
I really hope more techniques like this one are applied in more games... I wonder how Prince of Persia would look with this stuff.