Installing for Windows is a nightmare compared to apt.
With apt you just tell it to install a given package. If it has been included in the apt pool then it downloads it and away it goes. Should it need new libraries it'll get them as well.
If you knew as much about apt as you claim, then you'd know all this.
Do you have good ideas about what the interface should look like? Well then get in touch with the apt development team and get working. Help, don't complain and wish.
Fortunately I haven't had DLL hell on Windows, yet. But then most of the software I use doesn't require IE's DLLs. ("Not part of the OS", my big toe!)
Oooh! The 5 Minute Hate is coming on the telescreen in a few minutes. Excuse me, but I have to go hate Osma Bin Goldstein. He's currently holded up in a lair in Oceaniastan.
Apart from the amusing captilisation of PERL and the painstaking explanation of its acronym, there are some seemingly odd comments in there.
First off, the rewritten files were coded in PHP. But then they mention the files had the extension.inc and.asp. What? ASP = Active Server Pages. PHP = PHP! If he really was writing it in ASP, he certaintly does deserve to plead guilty!
First of all, Apple have always used Akamai. (For the benefit of readers: Akamai have servers here, there and everywhere, and you are directed to the most local mirror.)
When I heard the call for mirrors, I thought someone had to be kidding. Apple always use Akamai!
And it is true. If you stream the movie then you are using Akamai. On the other hand if you go to download the compressed file you aren't. Silly.
Anyway, the magic of wget isn't hard to master. With a simple squid proxy and half a second you can figure it out. (Remember to hit STOP after clicking on the "Click here to play" Quicktime movie referer.)
P.S. - The Quicktime 5 Netscape plugin keeps crashing Mozilla 0.9.4. Any clues?
Have you checked availabilitY? It is listed as "Constrained" which means:
Demand for this product is so strong that it exceeds availability and is subject to shipment delay. If you proceed with your order, Sun will send you an e-mail with the scheduled shipment date as soon as possible.
Tell me now Tim, have you used PGP before? I'd say that you haven't judging by your response.
Sit down and let me tell you a tale. It's a story about a little boy by the name of Kimihia (hey! that's me!) and a friend of his.
As this story begins Kimihia's friend (lets call him "Bob") has been warned by his employer not to speak to Kimihia. Bob and Kimihia are still good friends and they wish to communicate. So they turn to encryption.
Kimihia already had GPG and a GPG key (he followed a dozen commands another friend had told him to run). His key was uploaded to the PGP keyserver.
Bob found the most recent free version of PGP for his Mac. He installed it, followed it through and soon had a key. Bob retrieved Kimihia's key from the keyserver (not to difficult - searching for Kimihia's name yielded a match) and sent Kimihia an encrypted message.
When Kimihia recieved the message, mutt asked Kimihia for his PGP passphrase so it could unencrypt the message. Kimihia supplied the passphrase, and the message was unencrypted.
Kimihia replied to the message. mutt automatically offered to encrypt and sign his message (press "p" and then "b" when you are about to send your message). He accepted that. mutt encrypted then signed the message and it was on its way to Bob.
It wasn't at all hard. mutt had automatically spotted the encrypted message, it downloaded and imported the public key, then unencrypted and verified the message. All it required was the simple action of selecting the message and entering Kimihia's passphrase.
Encryption isn't hard. Stop trying to make it difficult for yourself.
On another note... I checked out the paper. Bah, what nonsense. Half of them are red herrings. And I also notice that the only mention of what mail software they use is a single word attached to a diagram. Eudora's PGP integration causes the majority of the problems they mention.
Can you remember the quote about how the world only needs five computers? This seems to be a relapse to those days, where all the computers work together to form one great big computer.
But someone had dang well better not swipe my processing power for Seti@Home when I'm playing Team Fortress, or I'll be hopping mad!
The other thing I note is they have considered the Slashdot effect and designed a way around it. Have a read of the paper, it describes the/. effect in great detail, and a method of evading it.
Encourage users to use blank passwords for desktop use, and then make it possible to login in only from the console when your password is blank. This applies to root, too. Since it's convenient, people will do it - and if it's impossible to log in remotely when a user has a blank password, it's secure, too.
Can you expand on this anymore? I don't understand your logic at all.
If someone wants a remote root shell on my machine they'll need to have root's private SSH key. Even if they know the password is "hottomatosoup".
CNet and ZDNet aren't exactly what I would call cross-referencing. After CNet bought ZDNet, CNet's reporting turned into the trash ZDNet always spewed. Then Gamecenter was given the chop in favour of boring (and ugly) Gamespot.
Software glitches leave Navy Smart Ship dead in the water
By Gregory Slabodkin
GCN Staff
The Navy?s Smart Ship technology may not be as smart as the service contends.
You may think Windows is easy because that's what you were brought up on. I was brought up on Windows, but it is a pain in the bum!
Today I was editing a text file, and I went to move down a line, but my j key (from vi in case you didn't know) didn't do a thing! I had to move my hand waaaay over to the arrow keys, press the dang key, then move my hands waaaay back to where I was typing.
May I recommend OpenBSD... developed in Canada (which is not in the US in case you didn't realise).
It has integrated cryptography. Buy an OpenBSD CD and give it a whirl.
Person who wrote this article: can you be a bit more derogatory with your one line summation?
from the fast-as-a-speeding-snail dept.
Have you even used the thing? What sort of XT system with 64K of RAM do you run it on?
It works. I've used Mozilla solidly for nearly a year now.
(Plus regarding disabling popups, that was around since 0.8, although I hear it now has an interface other than a text editor. I'll install the latest milestone once I post this comment and close Mozilla.)
I believe there is a law describing this. Is it the Uncertainty Law?
We haven't a clue what is on this planet/moon, but until we visit, we won't know.
Once we do visit, we have the possibility of dragging along some [foo] and breaking the results. But we do have some results.
(Planck's Law? Where the more observations are made of a particle the better its motion can be describing, but the act of observing by bouncing a photon off it will influence the particle's motion.)
Just wait for your freedoms to disappear. The thin edge of the wedge is nonsense. Just wait for the next Columbine / Oklahoma / Twin Towers, and PACHOW! You lose freedoms in the sake of stopping a repeat.
Well, here's another one. Prepare to lose freedoms.
I don't know what freedoms you had to give up last time, but they sure didn't stop this tragedy.
Nothing but sensational trash. It is nothing like Code Red. I'm not an expert, but from the shabby detail in the article I can see several reasons:
Market share - vulnerable installs of Linux are not widespread enough to reach a critical mass. CR became huge because every second host practically was running a vulnerable install. (So I exaggerate the number - but evangelism aside, there aren't THAT many vulnerable hosts out there.)
No scanning attack - it stays on the local system
No privilege elevation - its only a user level root shell. Someone could potentially upgrade that via another buggy daemon or a ptraceable kernel, but otherwise you are limited to Jim Bob's shell. Still a concern, but not as bad as r00ting.
They shouldn't compare it to Code Red. CR was a disaster because a company called Microsoft encouraged people to install trash software that shouldn't have passed QA.
They should instead compare it to, say, an Outlook virus because it spreads via email:
The replication process of the Remote Shell Program can only effect binary files within the access privileges of the user who launched the originally infected program.
Slashdot Mirror
Installing for Windows is a nightmare compared to apt.
With apt you just tell it to install a given package. If it has been included in the apt pool then it downloads it and away it goes. Should it need new libraries it'll get them as well.
If you knew as much about apt as you claim, then you'd know all this.
Do you have good ideas about what the interface should look like? Well then get in touch with the apt development team and get working. Help, don't complain and wish.
Fortunately I haven't had DLL hell on Windows, yet. But then most of the software I use doesn't require IE's DLLs. ("Not part of the OS", my big toe!)
Oooh! The 5 Minute Hate is coming on the telescreen in a few minutes. Excuse me, but I have to go hate Osma Bin Goldstein. He's currently holded up in a lair in Oceaniastan.
He's converting it from perl already, so making sure the links are right isn't a problem.
Also good to use would be MultiViews which allows you to skip extensions entirely.
Did you say the Apache Software Foundation?
Media company ... bah!
Apart from the amusing captilisation of PERL and the painstaking explanation of its acronym, there are some seemingly odd comments in there.
First off, the rewritten files were coded in PHP. But then they mention the files had the extension .inc and .asp. What? ASP = Active Server Pages. PHP = PHP! If he really was writing it in ASP, he certaintly does deserve to plead guilty!
First of all, Apple have always used Akamai. (For the benefit of readers: Akamai have servers here, there and everywhere, and you are directed to the most local mirror.)
When I heard the call for mirrors, I thought someone had to be kidding. Apple always use Akamai!
And it is true. If you stream the movie then you are using Akamai. On the other hand if you go to download the compressed file you aren't. Silly.
Anyway, the magic of wget isn't hard to master. With a simple squid proxy and half a second you can figure it out. (Remember to hit STOP after clicking on the "Click here to play" Quicktime movie referer.)
P.S. - The Quicktime 5 Netscape plugin keeps crashing Mozilla 0.9.4. Any clues?
It's spring in New Zealand. We always get everything first. :-) [Include link to first XP-including computer sold.]
Have you checked availabilitY? It is listed as "Constrained" which means:
And what's the moral of the story? Don't squeeze the ketchup bottle!
Tell me now Tim, have you used PGP before? I'd say that you haven't judging by your response.
Sit down and let me tell you a tale. It's a story about a little boy by the name of Kimihia (hey! that's me!) and a friend of his.
As this story begins Kimihia's friend (lets call him "Bob") has been warned by his employer not to speak to Kimihia. Bob and Kimihia are still good friends and they wish to communicate. So they turn to encryption.
Kimihia already had GPG and a GPG key (he followed a dozen commands another friend had told him to run). His key was uploaded to the PGP keyserver.
Bob found the most recent free version of PGP for his Mac. He installed it, followed it through and soon had a key. Bob retrieved Kimihia's key from the keyserver (not to difficult - searching for Kimihia's name yielded a match) and sent Kimihia an encrypted message.
When Kimihia recieved the message, mutt asked Kimihia for his PGP passphrase so it could unencrypt the message. Kimihia supplied the passphrase, and the message was unencrypted.
Kimihia replied to the message. mutt automatically offered to encrypt and sign his message (press "p" and then "b" when you are about to send your message). He accepted that. mutt encrypted then signed the message and it was on its way to Bob.
It wasn't at all hard. mutt had automatically spotted the encrypted message, it downloaded and imported the public key, then unencrypted and verified the message. All it required was the simple action of selecting the message and entering Kimihia's passphrase.
Encryption isn't hard. Stop trying to make it difficult for yourself.
On another note ... I checked out the paper. Bah, what nonsense. Half of them are red herrings. And I also notice that the only mention of what mail software they use is a single word attached to a diagram. Eudora's PGP integration causes the majority of the problems they mention.
After installing 2.4.9 at a maximum my uptime would be about a month, except for an unfortunate hardware failure.
18:49:30 up 17 days, 1:31, 3 users, load average: 2.00, 2.02, 2.00
What kernel was the most recent a year ago? Would that be one of the ptraceable 2.2 series?
Can you remember the quote about how the world only needs five computers? This seems to be a relapse to those days, where all the computers work together to form one great big computer.
But someone had dang well better not swipe my processing power for Seti@Home when I'm playing Team Fortress, or I'll be hopping mad!
The other thing I note is they have considered the Slashdot effect and designed a way around it. Have a read of the paper, it describes the /. effect in great detail, and a method of evading it.
Can you expand on this anymore? I don't understand your logic at all.
If someone wants a remote root shell on my machine they'll need to have root's private SSH key. Even if they know the password is "hottomatosoup".
CNet and ZDNet aren't exactly what I would call cross-referencing. After CNet bought ZDNet, CNet's reporting turned into the trash ZDNet always spewed. Then Gamecenter was given the chop in favour of boring (and ugly) Gamespot.
Have a little read at the list of companies CNet owns, and weep to think that all news is manipulated by monopolies.
Here are a few references ...
http://www.ultraviolet.org/mail-archives/kplug.199 8/9794.html Quotes an article, starting:
There were some other juicy pieces from people in the navy, but URLs have changed. Try attacking the archives with Google.
Ease of use? Well, don't give 'em Windows then.
You may think Windows is easy because that's what you were brought up on. I was brought up on Windows, but it is a pain in the bum!
Today I was editing a text file, and I went to move down a line, but my j key (from vi in case you didn't know) didn't do a thing! I had to move my hand waaaay over to the arrow keys, press the dang key, then move my hands waaaay back to where I was typing.
Text areas are difficult to use.:wq
Sorry, false alert. It is just a new user_pref value that can be set from prefs.js.
May I recommend OpenBSD ... developed in Canada (which is not in the US in case you didn't realise).
It has integrated cryptography. Buy an OpenBSD CD and give it a whirl.
Person who wrote this article: can you be a bit more derogatory with your one line summation?
Have you even used the thing? What sort of XT system with 64K of RAM do you run it on?
It works. I've used Mozilla solidly for nearly a year now.
(Plus regarding disabling popups, that was around since 0.8, although I hear it now has an interface other than a text editor. I'll install the latest milestone once I post this comment and close Mozilla.)
And HTML != CSS.
HTML is also a data markup language. If you want to make it look pretty, then CSS is the thing to use.
A comparison along the lines of "XML is to HTML, what XSL is to CSS".
Sign on a wall: All content to the left. All layout to the right."
I believe there is a law describing this. Is it the Uncertainty Law?
We haven't a clue what is on this planet/moon, but until we visit, we won't know.
Once we do visit, we have the possibility of dragging along some [foo] and breaking the results. But we do have some results.
(Planck's Law? Where the more observations are made of a particle the better its motion can be describing, but the act of observing by bouncing a photon off it will influence the particle's motion.)
Oh yeah? And you're telling me that no innocent people died today?
Just wait for your freedoms to disappear. The thin edge of the wedge is nonsense. Just wait for the next Columbine / Oklahoma / Twin Towers, and PACHOW! You lose freedoms in the sake of stopping a repeat.
Well, here's another one. Prepare to lose freedoms.
I don't know what freedoms you had to give up last time, but they sure didn't stop this tragedy.
All aside, this is a terrible tragedy.
I've got a favourite quote. I've probably munched it a bit, but it goes: Never attribute to maliciousness what can be attributed to stupidity.
He didn't pass that statement through his PR guy, plus he is overlooking the fame and glory of mp3.com.
Nothing but sensational trash. It is nothing like Code Red. I'm not an expert, but from the shabby detail in the article I can see several reasons:
They shouldn't compare it to Code Red. CR was a disaster because a company called Microsoft encouraged people to install trash software that shouldn't have passed QA.
They should instead compare it to, say, an Outlook virus because it spreads via email:
Have a read of Michael Parenti's Monopoly Media Manipulation and see how many of the points you can spot in press release.
A lot of sensational bollocks.