And the funny thing is that, to do some of the stuff in that list with one of the most user friendly Linux distributions is not possible without breaking the law (in the USA) and messing around.
In Windows, I had to reboot on almost a weekly basis at least,
Hah!, you must be using Win2000 or older. In Windows XP I NEVER have to reboot myself....
Thats cause the darn fucking thing keeps restarting automatically without asking me. Just yesterday I was video-talking over skype when suddnely all the windows started closing and the darn shit restarted... I would be talking in Ubuntu but that shit (-1 troll i know) has no video support for skype (or is it the other way around? skype has no video support for that shit in Linux, there, dont mod me down haha).
? Butt nasty, clashing, animated pages with no substance followed by a sudden realization of some useless but novel functionality and then everybody wants to mimmick
Geocities called from 1995, they wanted their web sites back
Too Late To Be A Win? Yeah, I guess time has always counted, like with IBM and the personal computers, or MS Windows and the graphical operating systems, or iPod and the portable media players, or Google and search engines (yes, there was altavista, excite and yahoo before google) or Xbox and video game consoles or...
Uh, if you read parent post, I was replying to his assertion that Microsoft sites have not been defaced. Also, if you read my post carefully I also stated that, there are certain types of hackers who hack pages for profit which ultilmate goal is not to deface web sites. Of those, there might been hacked servers in the control of Microsoft but which are in some way hacked by these more clever hackers, however it is not easy to know for sure by the same nature of those hacks.
Yup, I am going to get one of those that Mr. Slim will be distributing in Mexico. I am sure they will end in one of several Mexico's grey (or black...) markets like Tepito.
Why don't I buy one for $400, well firstly I am in the UK, secondly I am not a rich American or European guy, I am instead, a poor Mexican student who is surviving with a scholarship.
I think you have this leet hacking process backwards (at least for interwebs def4c1ng), the way it works is that hackers look for web servers which have known vulnerabilities and then apply such hacks to them in order to deface the web site. Generally they do not go to a specific page and try to deface it (unless they have an ulterior motive like cash).
Allow incoming connection on port 80? Confirm/deny
Mmm... it would be worthwhile for someone to audit the code from Microsoft to see if by any chance they have implemented the code of the yes program in their servers...
Heck, I am going to create a WinYes! to automatically respond to those annoying (but security increasing) questions!
I wish you could select multiple languages for a text, for example when I'm writing a norwegian manual for an english system. Sentences like "Velg menyen [Incidents] og trykk [New]" will 110% certain create red lines no matter what the auto-detection thinks, despite being exactly what I intended to write.
That is quite easy in Open Office Writer. You just select the text that you want to set in say, Norwegian, then select the menu Format/Character and in the Font tab you select the language you want (there is a dropbox list with all the available languages). You must have the dictionary of the language installed in order to be able to check the spelling.
This reminds me of a very insightful signature I read from one slashdot guy [who are you?] which read:
Those who can, do. Those who can't sue It seems the guys at Opera are tired of not being able win against Microsoft on a pure feature-wise match, hence they will apply the typical corporative tactics. Not that I am against or [antonym of against? sorry English not my first language] this. It seems to me that fighting fire with fire is the only way to make some damage to Microsoft monopoly
They might be peanuts, but yet there tend to stack together pretty quickly. Just some months ago, I went to a talk about Open Source Course Management Systems where UKs MP Mr. John Pugh gave a very interesting talk. In one part of that talk he addressed the issue of the NHS (UK health system) upgrades to the doctors' machines. It seems, he argued, they were upgraded to new Microsoft Office software. But, when people tried to convince the NHS to use open source to reduce costs, they said that it was not possible because Microsoft was giving a "special edition" of Microsoft Office which was specifically created for Doctors. Pugh's comments were really funny and insightful, paraphrasing a lot, he said something like:
"So, what kind of 'special version' of word should a doctor need? do they come with special medical symbols? "
Oh well... I can not do sarcasm as well as a real Briton would do it... sorry.
Mod me offtopic and flamebait but seriously WTF is going on in your country people? in the last week, everytime I look at google news there is one crazy shooting case, first the mall teen, then the church crazy and today the school bus. I was just offered a job in the USA after finishing my PhD (they would pay me all the expenses in moving from the UK to there) but seriously, with such kind of insecurity no way!
p.s. Do NOT mod me up, and this is not intended to be one of those "reverse logic" thing, this post is offtopic and mabye a flamebait and troll.
Hi, it was an overall interesting reading with some entertaining bits. I realized that you settled for a closed source sollution for this one. I am sure there must be some Open Source software which you could use to solve your problem (one of the many along Open Bibliographic and cataloging list.
In your article you state that you thought about developing your own application. I think that a better approach would be to look for the Open Source applications that satisfy you AND after choosing one, add the tools that you need.
Of course, if you do have the money and the product satisfies your needs, go ahead!
But of course, it is not only Iran. You should also be aware that since This Monster became the president of Cuba, the USA has put lots of sanctions too, like exporting and commerce. And then they blame the government for the lack of resources...
Ok, I know you're trolling, but here goes anyway. I don't know of any OS projects that act that way about defects in their products. I'm sure you can site some obscure examples, but I guarantee you that any OS project that acts that way doesn't live very long. Competition exists in the OS world.
Yup, I am surely trolling, thats why I will cite this as you say, obscure example of web browser (after all, nobody uses that software anymore uh?). That specific software is known as IceWeasel or more commonly as FireFox. A simple search can enlighten you about such denial.
Ah! and although I do not have any link[could some fellow slashdotter help me?], just some days ago someone posted a link to a really funny discussion that emerged from a bug (yup another) in Firefox (which of course, developers didn't thought it was a bug at first) which prevents firefox form showing complete tooltips with new line characters. The comments section of the Bugzilla entry were a complete flame fest. At first the developers said it was not a bug but intended behaviour but then, after 6 years, yes you read well 6 YEARS AFTER THE BUG WAS SUBMITTED (and we are talking about one MAJOR usability bug which prevented information from be shown, very relevant to places like online comic strips as you can see from the comments section of the bugzilla entry) it was finally solved.
So, there you go. Of course, you could suffer from a double denyal sindrome in which you deny that you deny:) of course, I can't help you with that.
Yeah... at least they should have pointed to the Wikipedia page which gives plenty of more insight than an urban legends debunking web page. It is not news, but if they want to add this sort of trivia well, better do it the right way.
Or consider the Linux kernel. Back in the 2.0 days, everyone was telling me about how great Linux was. Now that we've got kernel 2.6, everyone's just dropping support for 2.0 and telling me it sucks compared to the latest version.
Haha, those ones are great in the Open Source world, specially when talking about bugs. Open source developers usually are like "there are no bugs! no no noallaalalalla no bugs in my program no, the bug does not exsist, no memory leak no you are dreaming"... and suddenly, after someone *fixes* the bug they say "Oh yeah, remember that memory bug you disliked a lot?, well I have fixed it in this new version". Funny.
However, this article could be used to sell Linux as well, shit, the only thing that they emphazise in the article (yep IRTFA) is security and the supposedly better security in Windows Vista. I propose you do this exercise (I know it is too much to ask but WTH), read the article once and then read it a second time but replacing all the "Windows Vista" with, say "Fedora Core" or "Canonical Ubuntu" or "Novell Suse". I think this kind of crap that comes from Microsoft could be used very much against them. Imagine if some Y linux distro vending company were to publish some kind of anti Microsoft FUD (which we all know, it wont account as food here in/.) and they *referenced* to once of those Microsoft articles to show that even Microsoft acknowledges that Windows XP is crap, and dangerous and you should not use it! But of course, as you wont pay thousands of dollars to migrate to Vista, you should migrate to Y-linux platform.
I also settled for a 2GB Samsung YP-Z5 which was quite chaeap on eBay. It does support OGG and the interface is like USB storage (works really fine on any Linux distro I have tried so far).
Just a warning from what another said already, I bought it in the UK, hence, it might be possible that a difference in firmware migh allow it to play OGG and use USB connection instead of MTP.
Sage provides much more functionality than existing FLOSS projects. One of the ways it does this is by making use of those project. For example, Sage comes with Maxima and uses it as an engine to do symbolic calculus type computations. Axiom can be used from within Sage if it is installed as well. Sage also includes GAP, which is the open-source package for doing abstract algebra computations. One of the main reasons for starting a new project was to take advantage of existing projects and tie them together.
So, is there something that Sage does that can not be achieved by a BASH shell?
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Yeah, that and the each day more common 13 year old comments that are appearing in slashdot.
And the funny thing is that, to do some of the stuff in that list with one of the most user friendly Linux distributions is not possible without breaking the law (in the USA) and messing around.
Yeah, i know, ill get back to my corner now.
In Windows, I had to reboot on almost a weekly basis at least,
Hah!, you must be using Win2000 or older. In Windows XP I NEVER have to reboot myself....
Thats cause the darn fucking thing keeps restarting automatically without asking me. Just yesterday I was video-talking over skype when suddnely all the windows started closing and the darn shit restarted... I would be talking in Ubuntu but that shit (-1 troll i know) has no video support for skype (or is it the other way around? skype has no video support for that shit in Linux, there, dont mod me down haha).
? Butt nasty, clashing, animated pages with no substance followed by a sudden realization of some useless but novel functionality and then everybody wants to mimmick
Geocities called from 1995, they wanted their web sites back
Too Late To Be A Win?
Yeah, I guess time has always counted, like with IBM and the personal computers, or MS Windows and the graphical operating systems, or iPod and the portable media players, or Google and search engines (yes, there was altavista, excite and yahoo before google) or Xbox and video game consoles or...
geez, you get the idea.
I wasn't asleep, but I was in bed. If you remember the SCO lawsuit then you need to get laid too.
So, what were you doing in that bed? were you jacking off?.. eeew I guess your blankets smell like Clorox uh?
Uh, if you read parent post, I was replying to his assertion that Microsoft sites have not been defaced. Also, if you read my post carefully I also stated that, there are certain types of hackers who hack pages for profit which ultilmate goal is not to deface web sites. Of those, there might been hacked servers in the control of Microsoft but which are in some way hacked by these more clever hackers, however it is not easy to know for sure by the same nature of those hacks.
Yup, I am going to get one of those that Mr. Slim will be distributing in Mexico. I am sure they will end in one of several Mexico's grey (or black...) markets like Tepito.
Why don't I buy one for $400, well firstly I am in the UK, secondly I am not a rich American or European guy, I am instead, a poor Mexican student who is surviving with a scholarship.
But those OLPC computers are really cool.
I think you have this leet hacking process backwards (at least for interwebs def4c1ng), the way it works is that hackers look for web servers which have known vulnerabilities and then apply such hacks to them in order to deface the web site. Generally they do not go to a specific page and try to deface it (unless they have an ulterior motive like cash).
Allow incoming connection on port 80? Confirm/deny
Mmm... it would be worthwhile for someone to audit the code from Microsoft to see if by any chance they have implemented the code of the yes program in their servers...
Heck, I am going to create a WinYes! to automatically respond to those annoying (but security increasing) questions!
I wish you could select multiple languages for a text, for example when I'm writing a norwegian manual for an english system. Sentences like "Velg menyen [Incidents] og trykk [New]" will 110% certain create red lines no matter what the auto-detection thinks, despite being exactly what I intended to write.
That is quite easy in Open Office Writer. You just select the text that you want to set in say, Norwegian, then select the menu Format/Character and in the Font tab you select the language you want (there is a dropbox list with all the available languages). You must have the dictionary of the language installed in order to be able to check the spelling.
They might be peanuts, but yet there tend to stack together pretty quickly. Just some months ago, I went to a talk about Open Source Course Management Systems where UKs MP Mr. John Pugh gave a very interesting talk. In one part of that talk he addressed the issue of the NHS (UK health system) upgrades to the doctors' machines. It seems, he argued, they were upgraded to new Microsoft Office software. But, when people tried to convince the NHS to use open source to reduce costs, they said that it was not possible because Microsoft was giving a "special edition" of Microsoft Office which was specifically created for Doctors. Pugh's comments were really funny and insightful, paraphrasing a lot, he said something like:
"So, what kind of 'special version' of word should a doctor need? do they come with special medical symbols? "
Oh well... I can not do sarcasm as well as a real Briton would do it... sorry.
Mod me offtopic and flamebait but seriously WTF is going on in your country people? in the last week, everytime I look at google news there is one crazy shooting case, first the mall teen, then the church crazy and today the school bus. I was just offered a job in the USA after finishing my PhD (they would pay me all the expenses in moving from the UK to there) but seriously, with such kind of insecurity no way!
p.s.
Do NOT mod me up, and this is not intended to be one of those "reverse logic" thing, this post is offtopic and mabye a flamebait and troll.
Yeah, similarly to the question of:
Why are the Nintendo VC games so overpriced, or the Wii points.
Seriously, with great things as Emulators and torrents I do not understand why do they sell games at £7 each!
Hi, it was an overall interesting reading with some entertaining bits. I realized that you settled for a closed source sollution for this one. I am sure there must be some Open Source software which you could use to solve your problem (one of the many along Open Bibliographic and cataloging list.
In your article you state that you thought about developing your own application. I think that a better approach would be to look for the Open Source applications that satisfy you AND after choosing one, add the tools that you need.
Of course, if you do have the money and the product satisfies your needs, go ahead!
But of course, it is not only Iran. You should also be aware that since This Monster became the president of Cuba, the USA has put lots of sanctions too, like exporting and commerce. And then they blame the government for the lack of resources...
Ok, I know you're trolling, but here goes anyway. I don't know of any OS projects that act that way about defects in their products. I'm sure you can site some obscure examples, but I guarantee you that any OS project that acts that way doesn't live very long. Competition exists in the OS world.
:) of course, I can't help you with that.
Yup, I am surely trolling, thats why I will cite this as you say, obscure example of web browser (after all, nobody uses that software anymore uh?). That specific software is known as IceWeasel or more commonly as FireFox. A simple search can enlighten you about such denial.
Ah! and although I do not have any link[could some fellow slashdotter help me?], just some days ago someone posted a link to a really funny discussion that emerged from a bug (yup another) in Firefox (which of course, developers didn't thought it was a bug at first) which prevents firefox form showing complete tooltips with new line characters. The comments section of the Bugzilla entry were a complete flame fest. At first the developers said it was not a bug but intended behaviour but then, after 6 years, yes you read well 6 YEARS AFTER THE BUG WAS SUBMITTED (and we are talking about one MAJOR usability bug which prevented information from be shown, very relevant to places like online comic strips as you can see from the comments section of the bugzilla entry) it was finally solved.
So, there you go. Of course, you could suffer from a double denyal sindrome in which you deny that you deny
have a nice day!
Yeah... at least they should have pointed to the Wikipedia page which gives plenty of more insight than an urban legends debunking web page. It is not news, but if they want to add this sort of trivia well, better do it the right way.
Or consider the Linux kernel. Back in the 2.0 days, everyone was telling me about how great Linux was. Now that we've got kernel 2.6, everyone's just dropping support for 2.0 and telling me it sucks compared to the latest version.
/.) and they *referenced* to once of those Microsoft articles to show that even Microsoft acknowledges that Windows XP is crap, and dangerous and you should not use it! But of course, as you wont pay thousands of dollars to migrate to Vista, you should migrate to Y-linux platform.
Haha, those ones are great in the Open Source world, specially when talking about bugs. Open source developers usually are like "there are no bugs! no no noallaalalalla no bugs in my program no, the bug does not exsist, no memory leak no you are dreaming"... and suddenly, after someone *fixes* the bug they say "Oh yeah, remember that memory bug you disliked a lot?, well I have fixed it in this new version". Funny.
However, this article could be used to sell Linux as well, shit, the only thing that they emphazise in the article (yep IRTFA) is security and the supposedly better security in Windows Vista. I propose you do this exercise (I know it is too much to ask but WTH), read the article once and then read it a second time but replacing all the "Windows Vista" with, say "Fedora Core" or "Canonical Ubuntu" or "Novell Suse". I think this kind of crap that comes from Microsoft could be used very much against them. Imagine if some Y linux distro vending company were to publish some kind of anti Microsoft FUD (which we all know, it wont account as food here in
Sweet!
I also settled for a 2GB Samsung YP-Z5 which was quite chaeap on eBay. It does support OGG and the interface is like USB storage (works really fine on any Linux distro I have tried so far).
Just a warning from what another said already, I bought it in the UK, hence, it might be possible that a difference in firmware migh allow it to play OGG and use USB connection instead of MTP.
Now they're just piss poor and bored.
Pissed, poor, bored, depressed and worried because they are just wating to be sued for some songs they downloaded in 2000.
Lolz troll uh?
It seems slashdot community does not understand the concept of critical thinking.
Good job moderators.
Sage provides much more functionality than existing FLOSS projects. One of the ways it does this is by making use of those project. For example, Sage comes with Maxima and uses it as an engine to do symbolic calculus type computations. Axiom can be used from within Sage if it is installed as well. Sage also includes GAP, which is the open-source package for doing abstract algebra computations. One of the main reasons for starting a new project was to take advantage of existing projects and tie them together.
So, is there something that Sage does that can not be achieved by a BASH shell?
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