Interesting. My experience watching Up is precisely why I lost all interest in 3D movies and have yet to go see another one. I understand what the article is saying but, I think if I had some problem with my binocular vision, I would have figured it out by now.
I took my girlfriend to go see Up in 3D back when it came out and her friends warned us that it wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Sure enough, it was like watching it through some kind of telescope or something. The 3D seemed so weak, I kept asking myself, is it even working? Of course, I'm going off of a sample of one but, if that was what all this hype is about, count me singularly unimpressed.
Just because source code is available... Even ironing out x86-64 (which millions of people can use) has taken years for the linux distros.
Interesting. See, I was running 64 bit distros when Vista was still called Longhorn. I'm also quite sure it was a year or so before XP x64 edition was released. And everything ran great. The only problem I had was flash. Of course, I had the source for everything except for, you guessed it, flash. Imagine that.
Actually, I tend to agree with your opinion on editing
XML by hand. Not nearly as fun as just a plain flat file.
The XML files for each application in.gconf are organized
in directories, one for each application. So, if you go
into the totem directory for example, there will be one
XML file in there to fiddle with that surprisingly enough
is laid out well enough with carriage returns, etc. The
only real problem there is there don't seem to be any comments
to go off of so you have to know exactly what to do.
Poke around in ~/.gconf and you'll find that the configuration
files aren't binary at all as they're actually just simple
xml files that can easily be edited by hand if you want
to go that route.
There are several thousand accounts on the machine only one of which
will grant you the privileges you need. How large is your brute force
password cracking botnet and exactly how much time did you say you
had on your hands?
Of course not. Why would I enable the root account making it that much
easier for an attacker to own my box by brute forcing the password?
If you want my systems, you're going to have to at least show a little effort.
Thanks for your very polite and informative response. As soon as I get a little bit of time, I'm definitely going to take
a close look at your project.
Don't know if you've noticed, but if you type sudo su - and hit enter, you now have superuser access.
Actually, no. You can escalate your privileges to the superuser only if your account is configured to allow for that. You can easily configure every account on the machine to not be escalatable and just use one account for admin tasks. Secondly, you have to type in your password so, no, you don't just "hit enter".
Systems such as SELinux and AppArmor allow
precise policies to define the types of actions and resources which are made available
to each application. However, the finer the granularity of privilege assigned, the more
detailed and complex policies become.
I don't see how this is really a problem though, particularly with Apparmor. When you want to create a profile, you just start the app in profile mode, run it through its usual paces then hit save. The profile runs automatically when apparmor is restarted. That seems like an almost point and shoot level of ease to enabling very robust security that anybody that's comfortable with the command line can do. Suse even has a GUI for it. With Ubuntu, a simple apt-get install apparmor-profiles installs ready to go settings for several commonly used programs including Firefox.
Sorry for the tortured nature of this post. I banged it out on my phone.
Really? Really, motherfucker? It took you that long to come
shit out that pathetic response? You got schooled, bitch. Sometimes
the only thing to do is accept it.
Sure you have a playlist in mplayer. Just do $ls *.mp3 > playlist then $mplayer -playlist playlist -shuffle and off you go. As for the new Amarok you mentioned previously, just install version 1.4 from source or a ppa if you're using Ubuntu. Amarok 1.4 has even been updated to qt4 by some guy and renamed Clementine. Search for it.
Ubuntu is a good choice (I run it). But don't be afraid to check
some of the others out too. There are many experiences to be had with Linux.
For example:
Arch == often faster
Debian Lenny == potentially more stable (at the expense of newer hardware support)
Fedora == typically slightly fresher packages
Ubuntu is a great all-around distro though and the quantity and quality of the community surrounding it is phenomenal. That's why I use it.
I hear what you are saying and it does suck when your hardware doesn't
work out of the box with Linux. Here's the thing, if you're running
Linux just to fiddle around with some old hardware then more power to
you. Personally, I don't have the time nor the inclination to mess
around with hardware who's manufacturer doesn't care enough to contribute
not only a driver but even the specs with which developer's can even
make a free driver.
You just ran a significant percentage of the people this law is already
aimed at straight out of business. Many people that sell online do it in
their spare time often because they just enjoy it. Not a whole lot of
money is made. Certainly not enough to pay rent even in the dinkiest
hole in the wall and actually pay somebody to stand around in it all day.
Put yourself in the same situation. What would you consider a more present threat to your safety -- a set of organizations who is opposing you politically (the biker gangs are putting forward their own candidate to run against him), or a set of individuals, one of which has made a threat, in writing, at your home?
Hmmm... Probably the person that actually left the threatening note.
The fact that they have source code (if they downloaded it at all) doesn't help.
Straw man. All it takes is one other person that runs the same program, has the same problem and does know what to do with the source code to then submit a patch upstream for the developers to incorporate the bugfix in the next version of the software that joe sixpack can then update to and be on his merry way. This happens all of the time often silently so you don't even know you benefited, you just see a little icon in your tray urging you to click on the update button. It has happened for me. Very often, in just a matter of a few days.
Hi troll. Your classically simple-minded FUD tactic of intentionally conflating physical objects and copyrighted software code is as pathetic as it is transparent. They are completely different things. It would be like trying to draw conclusions about trademarks by looking at patent law. It just makes you look stupid when you say it out loud. You should apply for a job at the RIAA. They love people like you.
Yeah, well, Linux also takes longer to start up after it's been shut down.:)
Bullshit. The computer in my home office is at the desktop in under 10 seconds after it posts. Windows cannot do that. Me and my girlfriend went shopping for a laptop the other day for her dad and picked up a Toshiba with an i5, 4 GB of RAM and a 500 GB hard drive (nice box) the other day and of course I'm tasked with "setting it up". My Core2Duo with 2 GB of RAM office computer running Ubuntu feels and is miles faster than that laptop. The laptop takes at least a full minute to get to a usable desktop. And that's after running pcdecrapifier. Strangely when you actually see the desktop, you can't even click on anything and expect it to work. Not even the start menu. It just doesn't do anything at all for at least a full 30 seconds. Contrast this with Ubuntu where when you see the desktop, it's ready to go immediately. On the laptop, programs start up slowly. I've sat side by side with the laptop and my desktop and clicked on the exact same programs and time after time, my desktop is always faster. Openoffice, Firefox, cmd/xterm, gimp, mediaplayerclassic/mplayer, so on and so forth. The only thing I can say for the Windows7 laptop is that the second time you click on a program, it is pretty fast. Even the eye candy isn't as good as what Linux offers. Aero can barely do anything at all. When I need high contrast, I hold down a 2 key combination and Compiz reverses the colors for me. Can Aero do that? Aero can tile windows when you drag them to the edge. Big woop. Compiz will tile the windows on any edge you want, even diagonally. Compiz is miles ahead of Aero in productivity enhancement. It's really not even a fair comparison. The only advantage I can see with Window7 is it runs windows programs the way they were originally intended. Well, I can run them too. My girlfriend "needs" Quicken. It runs great in Crossover. I "need" Half-Life2, and Morrowind. Runs great in Wine. Starts up a hell of a lot faster on an ext4 partition than it ever did on NTFS also, btw.
At any rate, I'm going to do the best I can with it. You know the drill: wipe Works off and install openoffice, hide IE and install Firefox, get rid of WMP and install MediaPlayer Classic.
Well, that's cool. Here's my anecdote. This Dell Inspiron 5100 running Ubuntu that I'm typing on right now, comes out of standby faster than I open the lid and the wireless is ready long before I can type a url in the address bar of firefox. I've never seen a Windows laptop that could do it faster or smoother. Oh, and the developers of the software I use respect my freedom.
For my definition of "superior," I'd rather be using Linux.
Install Linux and code any applications yourself that are not commercially available? Brilliant.
No, personally, I just virtualize the legacy-ware like Windows until
a viable alternative for the software I need becomes available. I'm
down to one last application. Anybody know of any turn by turn based
navigation solutions available for Linux?
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Interesting. My experience watching Up is precisely why I lost all interest in 3D movies and have yet to go see another one. I understand what the article is saying but, I think if I had some problem with my binocular vision, I would have figured it out by now.
I took my girlfriend to go see Up in 3D back when it came out and her friends warned us that it wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Sure enough, it was like watching it through some kind of telescope or something. The 3D seemed so weak, I kept asking myself, is it even working? Of course, I'm going off of a sample of one but, if that was what all this hype is about, count me singularly unimpressed.
Just because source code is available... Even ironing out x86-64 (which millions of people can use) has taken years for the linux distros.
Interesting. See, I was running 64 bit distros when Vista was still called Longhorn. I'm also quite sure it was a year or so before XP x64 edition was released. And everything ran great. The only problem I had was flash. Of course, I had the source for everything except for, you guessed it, flash. Imagine that.
Actually, I tend to agree with your opinion on editing XML by hand. Not nearly as fun as just a plain flat file. The XML files for each application in .gconf are organized
in directories, one for each application. So, if you go
into the totem directory for example, there will be one
XML file in there to fiddle with that surprisingly enough
is laid out well enough with carriage returns, etc. The
only real problem there is there don't seem to be any comments
to go off of so you have to know exactly what to do.
Poke around in ~/.gconf and you'll find that the configuration files aren't binary at all as they're actually just simple xml files that can easily be edited by hand if you want to go that route.
There are several thousand accounts on the machine only one of which will grant you the privileges you need. How large is your brute force password cracking botnet and exactly how much time did you say you had on your hands?
Of course not. Why would I enable the root account making it that much easier for an attacker to own my box by brute forcing the password? If you want my systems, you're going to have to at least show a little effort.
Thanks for your very polite and informative response. As soon as I get a little bit of time, I'm definitely going to take a close look at your project.
Don't know if you've noticed, but if you type sudo su - and hit enter, you now have superuser access.
Actually, no. You can escalate your privileges to the superuser only if your account is configured to allow for that. You can easily configure every account on the machine to not be escalatable and just use one account for admin tasks. Secondly, you have to type in your password so, no, you don't just "hit enter".
Systems such as SELinux and AppArmor allow precise policies to define the types of actions and resources which are made available to each application. However, the finer the granularity of privilege assigned, the more detailed and complex policies become.
I don't see how this is really a problem though, particularly with Apparmor. When you want to create a profile, you just start the app in profile mode, run it through its usual paces then hit save. The profile runs automatically when apparmor is restarted. That seems like an almost point and shoot level of ease to enabling very robust security that anybody that's comfortable with the command line can do. Suse even has a GUI for it. With Ubuntu, a simple apt-get install apparmor-profiles installs ready to go settings for several commonly used programs including Firefox.
Sorry for the tortured nature of this post. I banged it out on my phone.
Really? Really, motherfucker? It took you that long to come shit out that pathetic response? You got schooled, bitch. Sometimes the only thing to do is accept it.
Sure you have a playlist in mplayer. Just do $ls *.mp3 > playlist then $mplayer -playlist playlist -shuffle and off you go. As for the new Amarok you mentioned previously, just install version 1.4 from source or a ppa if you're using Ubuntu. Amarok 1.4 has even been updated to qt4 by some guy and renamed Clementine. Search for it.
How do you know the community has reviewed it?
This wouldn't exist if the code hadn't been reviewed. Next stupid ass questiion?
I use compcache on my modded G1 to great effect. It has yet to cause any problems and does help with the low memory the HTC Dreams ship with.
Excellent. Glad I could help.
Ubuntu is a good choice (I run it). But don't be afraid to check some of the others out too. There are many experiences to be had with Linux. For example:
Arch == often faster
Debian Lenny == potentially more stable (at the expense of newer hardware support)
Fedora == typically slightly fresher packages
Ubuntu is a great all-around distro though and the quantity and quality of the community surrounding it is phenomenal. That's why I use it.
Here's the solution. It's up to you if Linux is worth 11 bucks or not.
I've never been able to make kde really look like Windows.
Gnome on the other hand...
You just ran a significant percentage of the people this law is already aimed at straight out of business. Many people that sell online do it in their spare time often because they just enjoy it. Not a whole lot of money is made. Certainly not enough to pay rent even in the dinkiest hole in the wall and actually pay somebody to stand around in it all day.
Put yourself in the same situation. What would you consider a more present threat to your safety -- a set of organizations who is opposing you politically (the biker gangs are putting forward their own candidate to run against him), or a set of individuals, one of which has made a threat, in writing, at your home?
Hmmm... Probably the person that actually left the threatening note.
The fact that they have source code (if they downloaded it at all) doesn't help.
Straw man. All it takes is one other person that runs the same program, has the same problem and does know what to do with the source code to then submit a patch upstream for the developers to incorporate the bugfix in the next version of the software that joe sixpack can then update to and be on his merry way. This happens all of the time often silently so you don't even know you benefited, you just see a little icon in your tray urging you to click on the update button. It has happened for me. Very often, in just a matter of a few days.
Hi troll. Your classically simple-minded FUD tactic of intentionally conflating physical objects and copyrighted software code is as pathetic as it is transparent. They are completely different things. It would be like trying to draw conclusions about trademarks by looking at patent law. It just makes you look stupid when you say it out loud. You should apply for a job at the RIAA. They love people like you.
Yeah, well, Linux also takes longer to start up after it's been shut down. :)
Bullshit. The computer in my home office is at the desktop in under 10 seconds after it posts. Windows cannot do that. Me and my girlfriend went shopping for a laptop the other day for her dad and picked up a Toshiba with an i5, 4 GB of RAM and a 500 GB hard drive (nice box) the other day and of course I'm tasked with "setting it up". My Core2Duo with 2 GB of RAM office computer running Ubuntu feels and is miles faster than that laptop. The laptop takes at least a full minute to get to a usable desktop. And that's after running pcdecrapifier. Strangely when you actually see the desktop, you can't even click on anything and expect it to work. Not even the start menu. It just doesn't do anything at all for at least a full 30 seconds. Contrast this with Ubuntu where when you see the desktop, it's ready to go immediately. On the laptop, programs start up slowly. I've sat side by side with the laptop and my desktop and clicked on the exact same programs and time after time, my desktop is always faster. Openoffice, Firefox, cmd/xterm, gimp, mediaplayerclassic/mplayer, so on and so forth. The only thing I can say for the Windows7 laptop is that the second time you click on a program, it is pretty fast. Even the eye candy isn't as good as what Linux offers. Aero can barely do anything at all. When I need high contrast, I hold down a 2 key combination and Compiz reverses the colors for me. Can Aero do that? Aero can tile windows when you drag them to the edge. Big woop. Compiz will tile the windows on any edge you want, even diagonally. Compiz is miles ahead of Aero in productivity enhancement. It's really not even a fair comparison. The only advantage I can see with Window7 is it runs windows programs the way they were originally intended. Well, I can run them too. My girlfriend "needs" Quicken. It runs great in Crossover. I "need" Half-Life2, and Morrowind. Runs great in Wine. Starts up a hell of a lot faster on an ext4 partition than it ever did on NTFS also, btw.
At any rate, I'm going to do the best I can with it. You know the drill: wipe Works off and install openoffice, hide IE and install Firefox, get rid of WMP and install MediaPlayer Classic.
Well, that's cool. Here's my anecdote. This Dell Inspiron 5100 running Ubuntu that I'm typing on right now, comes out of standby faster than I open the lid and the wireless is ready long before I can type a url in the address bar of firefox. I've never seen a Windows laptop that could do it faster or smoother. Oh, and the developers of the software I use respect my freedom.
For my definition of "superior," I'd rather be using Linux.
No, but the cheapest Mac is something like 999 dollars. That's quite a deterrent to many people despite any advantages OSX may have.
Install Linux and code any applications yourself that are not commercially available? Brilliant.
No, personally, I just virtualize the legacy-ware like Windows until a viable alternative for the software I need becomes available. I'm down to one last application. Anybody know of any turn by turn based navigation solutions available for Linux?