A lot of posters claim that having the source does no good, since you cannot possibly inspect the source of every program you install.
However, they overlook one thing: If the source
is out, it CAN BE audited. Which means, that if
the rumour shows up that vendor XY somehow tries
to sneak in some spy-ware / trojan into your system, anyone can verify it (and it's easy to find
those worrysome socket/bind calls in a media
player's source)
That is, it won't protect you from trojans, but
once you suspect a program, you can easily verify
*exactly* how your system is compromised, and
the vendor who shipped it gets a BAD reputation from it.
Too bad they didn't include my GLtron in the list. but well, I didn't release anything new for the last 8 months.
But NOW, a new beta
is available (precompiled for win32/mac)
and I hope to get the new release done before christmas, of course the source is in CVS for everyone.
It might help a little to lower the learning curve of TeX/LaTeX. Imagine a friendly environment that let's you create TeX/LaTeX documents. It has templates / wizards, toolbars, buttons, and the preview is just one mouse click away. You can even decide to hide the TeX commands.
I think a lot of people would write better documents with greater ease than they could do with M$ Word.
That's a very valid point. I think more work should go into porting gtk and various libraries to win32 (I use SDL but that's more or less for games only).
Currently, troll has an evaluation version for qt on win32 (http://www.troll.no/evaluation.html) and someone got gimp (and gtk) running under win32 (http://user.sgic.fi/~tml/gimp/win32/).
You all want Linux to be evaluated based on the most current version of the code, not on the older, obsolete, more stable versions. But when you evaluate Windows, you only look at the older version, not the one that is being referred to.
That's not correct. We at least compare to the latest service back (or the newest service pack that doesn't break too much).
Besides, when Microsoft sais customers are switching (or have switched) to windows, they mean NT and not win2k, since that isn't even out yet.
Features: it uses random play but it displays the list of the next 20 songs it will play and allows you to remove them from the queue at any time, i.e. instead of "hitting skip on a crappy song, going back to work, getting another crappy song and needing to quit work (mentally) to skip it" you can just skip all the shit at once.
You can do that with XMMS too:
Misc Options->Sort List->Randomize List and then delete the songs you don't want...
> No, I think the likely first use of DeCSS will be for some electronics company that is not part > of the DVD consortium will make a player that ignores zone restrictions.
Actually, in Switzerland, almost every consumer electronics shop I know has a couple of 'code-free' DVD players (they cost about USD $60 more than the others) on their shelves.
> 1. A good, open source, 3d modeller. I love AC3D (http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/andy/ ac3d.html) but it isn't > open-source and I can't add stuff to output to formats I need or new features (script attachment, physics definitions etc)
There is a project called 'PrettyPoly' doing exactly that for the exact same reasons:
http://prettypoly.sourceforge.net/
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you mean, you really type
glEnable(gl_whatever)~bA
That's four different keystrokes instead of two times hitting caps lock. Btw. anyone knows how to do that with Emacs?
I don't understand the flaming of the poor CAPS LOCK key. This is useful. Or how do you type things like GL_FRONT_AND_BACK and all the other constants? With the shift keys, this is a nightmare.
In Switzerland (yes, that's where the cheese, chocolate and the iKnifes come from) all the banks I know use the following system:
https (128bit) A username A (user chosen) passwort A one-time-pad
The one-time-pad is basically a list of 100 numbers (4-6 digits). If you reach number 80 you get sent a new list by the bank. The one-time-pad is a minimum hassle for the user and makes the hole thing a lot more secure.
Even if you follow the stripped link, they will still know you come from slashdot, since browsers normally include the Referrer-URL in der HTTP-Request. Of course, some proxies (like junkbuster) remove these referrers. Since the amount of junkbuster users (you normally recognise them because junkbusters default browser id is Netscape 3.01Gold on 68k Macs) is almost null on my site (and I target mainly linux users), this url-modifying stuff is quite unnecessary.
- Andreas -- Probably the smallest 3D-Game (25kbyte) in the world http://www.ards.net/Andreas/gltron.html
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However, they overlook one thing: If the source is out, it CAN BE audited. Which means, that if the rumour shows up that vendor XY somehow tries to sneak in some spy-ware / trojan into your system, anyone can verify it (and it's easy to find those worrysome socket/bind calls in a media player's source)
That is, it won't protect you from trojans, but once you suspect a program, you can easily verify *exactly* how your system is compromised, and the vendor who shipped it gets a BAD reputation from it.
Just click on the 'print this page' link to get all on one page, without pesky banners or pictures.
- Andreas
But NOW, a new beta is available (precompiled for win32/mac) and I hope to get the new release done before christmas, of course the source is in CVS for everyone.
- Andreas
I think a lot of people would write better documents with greater ease than they could do with M$ Word.
Currently, troll has an evaluation version for qt on win32 (http://www.troll.no/evaluation.html) and someone got gimp (and gtk) running under win32 (http://user.sgic.fi/~tml/gimp/win32/).
That's not correct. We at least compare to the latest service back (or the newest service pack that doesn't break too much).
Besides, when Microsoft sais customers are switching (or have switched) to windows, they mean NT and not win2k, since that isn't even out yet.
y2k didn't do much damage, will win2k?
You can do that with XMMS too:
Misc Options->Sort List->Randomize List and then delete the songs you don't want...
> of the DVD consortium will make a player that ignores zone restrictions.
Actually, in Switzerland, almost every consumer electronics shop I know has a couple of 'code-free' DVD players (they cost about USD $60 more than the others) on their shelves.
> 1. A good, open source, 3d modeller. I love AC3D (http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/andy/ ac3d.html) but it isn't
> open-source and I can't add stuff to output to formats I need or new features (script attachment, physics definitions etc)
There is a project called 'PrettyPoly' doing exactly that for the exact same reasons:
http://prettypoly.sourceforge.net/
you mean, you really type
glEnable(gl_whatever)~bA
That's four different keystrokes instead of two times hitting caps lock. Btw. anyone knows how
to do that with Emacs?
I don't understand the flaming of the poor CAPS LOCK key. This is useful. Or how do you type things like GL_FRONT_AND_BACK and all the other
constants? With the shift keys, this is a nightmare.
In Switzerland (yes, that's where the cheese,
chocolate and the iKnifes come from) all the
banks I know use the following system:
https (128bit)
A username
A (user chosen) passwort
A one-time-pad
The one-time-pad is basically a list of 100
numbers (4-6 digits).
If you reach number 80 you get sent a new list by the bank.
The one-time-pad is a minimum hassle for the user
and makes the hole thing a lot more secure.
- Andreas
What will you use when BSP trees and calculating potentially visible sets doesn't do it anymore?
Even if you follow the stripped link, they will still know you come from slashdot, since browsers normally include the Referrer-URL in der HTTP-Request. Of course, some proxies (like junkbuster) remove these referrers.
Since the amount of junkbuster users (you normally recognise them because junkbusters default browser id is Netscape 3.01Gold on 68k Macs) is almost null on my site (and I target mainly linux users), this url-modifying stuff is quite unnecessary.
- Andreas
--
Probably the smallest 3D-Game (25kbyte) in the world
http://www.ards.net/Andreas/gltron.html