Actually I think that Fedora is pretty user-friendly. I've loved the Redhat distribution ever since 5.1 (I think). I still love the "user experience" of Fedora, meaning its GUI for preferences and system settings, and the programs menu.
It's unfortunate that some fundamental things about it suck to the point I'll sadly be forced to abandon it.
They've moved from simple config files to cryptic and often compressed XML files for no good reason that I can discern, making it a pain in the butt to edit certain configs from a terminal.
As far as I know, you still can't edit the Gnome menu from the GUI without doing a flakey hack.
The worst thing is that they cut off updates for each release when the new one comes out every six months. Upgrade installs are unreliable and leave out new features, meaning you have to do a fresh install every six months! This is unacceptable to me, and is what will, sadly, cause me to switch to something else.
I've used Suse before and liked it; I'm just too cheap to pay what they wanted for it each time a new version came out, and the FTP install never seemed to work for me (I kept losing my FTP connection during the long download).
I look at OpenSuse with great interest - it just might take Redhat's place as the "good" free Linux distro with business support.
The sentence you quoted describes how it used to be; if it's true that Kerry was so well suppoorted by the rich, then that goes right along with what he's saying.
Considering the fact that so many people are willing to "downgrade" their CD-quality music to MP3 (and I'm one of them), I don't see the extra quality of DVD Audio being much of a selling point to non-audiophiles.
About seven years ago I visited my girlfriend's family in Japan; while there, we visited the Sony building in Osaka, where they had a lot of new technology on display. One item of great interest to me was a set of glasses like these that attached to a portible DVD player, and make the screen appear as if it were a big screen tv across the room. I watched part of "Terminator" on it and thought it was way cool.
For a year of two after that I wondered why those glasses still hadn't shown up for sale anywhere, until I found out that a significantly large percentage of users developed splitting headaches after a while of using them, so much so that Sony pulled them from the market. I don't know if these will fare any better.
(Maybe I'll check ebay to see if any of those old Sony classes have shown up there; I'm willing to take the risk.)
OK, I think we're in agreement! As I stated, I didn't read the (sensationalized) article, but it did sound like this guy was advocating the elimination of firewalls altogether and forever, which would be stupid.
My own approach has been as you said, pretend you don't have a firewall when setting up your servers. Anyone who does otherwise (in a business environment at least) deserves what they get. I wouldn't take down my firewall either though, even for testing because bugs happen, in servers and in firewalls. Maybe I have a better imagination than most, but I have no problem pretending that the firewall isn't there and acting accordingly. Or maybe it's my paranoid nature.:)
This sounds like another one of those "nothing to see here, move along" articles.
OK, I haven't read the article (I'm on Slashdot, after all), so maybe I misunderstood the article post (they are often misleading). What the hell is wrong with having multiple layers of security? That's what's been preached for years now, and it makes sense,
Of course one should strive for having one's servers secure enough to stand on their own in case someone breaks through the firewall, and also because attacks can come from within. You don't need to remove your firewall to do that, however; use your imagination! What happenes if there's a flaw in the server's built in security? Bugs have been known to happen. Paranoia becomes a wonderful trait when you're dealing with network securiity.
Personally, while I consume my fair share, I'm still only primarily interested in them from an academic perspective, as resources of human sociability in online space
I bet you only watch TV for the PBS shows, and read Playboy for the articles.
Max OSX 10.4:
(I honestly don't remember whether it's already on by default, so assume it's off).
1. Launch System Preferences
2. Select "Sharing" (that's if you already know that it's there and not under "Networking", otherwide lots more clicks to find it).
3. Select "Firewall" tab.
4. Click "Start". (Many more clicks if you wish to allow some services).
So, four clicks at a minimum - looks like it has Windows and SuSE beat!:-)
I think it could still be better; maybe I'm different, but I always think "Network" first, and not "Sharing" for firewall config.
Please, please, please let's not resurrect the ancient "Atari vs. Amiga" flamewar!
Way, way back in the mid 80's, there was a big computer show in my town's mall (Mt. Shasta Mall in Redding, CA), where all of the local user groups participating had their computers on display.
I stopped by the Atari display, a large square-shaped area enclosed by tables with various Atari equipment on them. Some guy was demoing a hardware/software device for the Atari ST call the "Magic Sac" (God, I love that name: "I've got a Magic Sac, baby!").
The Magic Sac contained a Mac Plus ROM and allowed you to run System 6 (newest at the time) on your ST in 640x480 mode. I thought that was pretty cool, and asked the guy a lot of questions about it, which he was happy to answer. Then, at some point in the conversation, he asked me what kind of computer I had; when I answered "an Amiga 500", without another word, he turned his back on me and walked away.
I hope this new trend toward AMD processors, Linux/OpenSolaris and cheaper prices works out for them. I've liked Sun hardware for years until the Sparc line fell so far behind the curve. I'd hate to see them go away, just for nostolgia's sake. This may be their last "chance to survive".
Remember when Apple's stock was at rock bottom, pre-Steve, and Sun made a lowball offer to buy them out (which they thankfully refused)?
It'd be really funny and ironic if Apple bought out Sun now. Yeah, sure it probably won't happen, but it'd be funny.
You can get decent, thick speaker cable fairly cheap if you look around; that way you benefit from the shielding. When I bought some cheap, thick speaker cable to replace the lousy thin wire I had, there was a very noticable improvement. The stuff I got is as good or better than Monster cable and it was a fraction of the price.
I don't know if I'd be able to detect any noise present due to the lack of shielding in lamp cord; I've never tried it, but I think it would bug me just knowing that it's there! Audio is full of silly psychological things like this.:)
Your post, given the context, made it sound (to me) as if you were. My mistake then.
B)All medicine, indeed all of life, is a question of probabilities and trying to stack them in your favor. We do not have, and thus cannot rely on, foreknowledge.
Duh. I'm well aware of this.
Get used to this idea.
No need to be snide.
No one can be sure, ever, that they'll actually benefit more from a trial procedure (or any other) than from a traditional approach
And that's why trauma patients shouldn't be used as guinea pigs if there's a known, effective treatment. The ethic "First, do no harm" is taken pretty seriously.
Well, you obviously survived without the use of this new procedure; therefore you did have something to lose after all, even though the doctors thought you didn't.
That's why I don't think that using trauma patients for a new procedure trial is a good idea; they can't always be sure that they'll actually benefit more from this than a traditional approach; that's why it's a trial.
This is a great development for amputees. It's a very clever "cheat", as someone in the article said.
What I'd love to see would be a prosthesis with a direct neural link to the control computer; no need for electomechanical contrivances for sensation, and high dexterity.
Still sounds like Sci-Fi, but a little less so now.
I wonder what the issues are with that kind of technology that's keeping it back?
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It's unfortunate that some fundamental things about it suck to the point I'll sadly be forced to abandon it.
They've moved from simple config files to cryptic and often compressed XML files for no good reason that I can discern, making it a pain in the butt to edit certain configs from a terminal.
As far as I know, you still can't edit the Gnome menu from the GUI without doing a flakey hack.
The worst thing is that they cut off updates for each release when the new one comes out every six months. Upgrade installs are unreliable and leave out new features, meaning you have to do a fresh install every six months! This is unacceptable to me, and is what will, sadly, cause me to switch to something else.
I've used Suse before and liked it; I'm just too cheap to pay what they wanted for it each time a new version came out, and the FTP install never seemed to work for me (I kept losing my FTP connection during the long download). I look at OpenSuse with great interest - it just might take Redhat's place as the "good" free Linux distro with business support.
Why the heck was that joke modded "Flaimbait"??? Did someone who didn't see the movie and who never read Bloom County think that was a spoiler?
I wish I had mod points to give you for working in a Family Guy reference.
It may be off-topic, but it was very well said; I'd mod you up if only I had points right now.
The sentence you quoted describes how it used to be; if it's true that Kerry was so well suppoorted by the rich, then that goes right along with what he's saying.
Knowing where to put the nut: 499.50
Having exclusive knowledge: Priceless.
Sorry, I just couldn't help myself; kinda like hearing the first 5 notes of "Shave and a Haircut".
This may allow you to run Tiger on that old Mac.
Considering the fact that so many people are willing to "downgrade" their CD-quality music to MP3 (and I'm one of them), I don't see the extra quality of DVD Audio being much of a selling point to non-audiophiles.
Something like this might help you.
Yeah, that was my point - it gave too many users splitting headaches, so Sony pulled them.
Thanks for the link - they're still way more than I'd be willing to pay though.
For a year of two after that I wondered why those glasses still hadn't shown up for sale anywhere, until I found out that a significantly large percentage of users developed splitting headaches after a while of using them, so much so that Sony pulled them from the market. I don't know if these will fare any better.
(Maybe I'll check ebay to see if any of those old Sony classes have shown up there; I'm willing to take the risk.)
My own approach has been as you said, pretend you don't have a firewall when setting up your servers. Anyone who does otherwise (in a business environment at least) deserves what they get. I wouldn't take down my firewall either though, even for testing because bugs happen, in servers and in firewalls. Maybe I have a better imagination than most, but I have no problem pretending that the firewall isn't there and acting accordingly. Or maybe it's my paranoid nature. :)
This sounds like another one of those "nothing to see here, move along" articles.
OK, I haven't read the article (I'm on Slashdot, after all), so maybe I misunderstood the article post (they are often misleading). What the hell is wrong with having multiple layers of security? That's what's been preached for years now, and it makes sense,
Of course one should strive for having one's servers secure enough to stand on their own in case someone breaks through the firewall, and also because attacks can come from within. You don't need to remove your firewall to do that, however; use your imagination! What happenes if there's a flaw in the server's built in security? Bugs have been known to happen. Paranoia becomes a wonderful trait when you're dealing with network securiity.
So a firewall is that much extra work; boo hoo!
Why? NetBSD already runs on it (Droid port).
Well that's just plain wrong.
I bet you only watch TV for the PBS shows, and read Playboy for the articles.
Max OSX 10.4:
(I honestly don't remember whether it's already on by default, so assume it's off).
1. Launch System Preferences
2. Select "Sharing" (that's if you already know that it's there and not under "Networking", otherwide lots more clicks to find it).
3. Select "Firewall" tab.
4. Click "Start". (Many more clicks if you wish to allow some services).
So, four clicks at a minimum - looks like it has Windows and SuSE beat! :-)
I think it could still be better; maybe I'm different, but I always think "Network" first, and not "Sharing" for firewall config.
Way, way back in the mid 80's, there was a big computer show in my town's mall (Mt. Shasta Mall in Redding, CA), where all of the local user groups participating had their computers on display.
I stopped by the Atari display, a large square-shaped area enclosed by tables with various Atari equipment on them. Some guy was demoing a hardware/software device for the Atari ST call the "Magic Sac" (God, I love that name: "I've got a Magic Sac, baby!").
The Magic Sac contained a Mac Plus ROM and allowed you to run System 6 (newest at the time) on your ST in 640x480 mode. I thought that was pretty cool, and asked the guy a lot of questions about it, which he was happy to answer. Then, at some point in the conversation, he asked me what kind of computer I had; when I answered "an Amiga 500", without another word, he turned his back on me and walked away.
WTF? The thing is, I actually liked the Atari!
Remember when Apple's stock was at rock bottom, pre-Steve, and Sun made a lowball offer to buy them out (which they thankfully refused)?
It'd be really funny and ironic if Apple bought out Sun now. Yeah, sure it probably won't happen, but it'd be funny.
I don't know if I'd be able to detect any noise present due to the lack of shielding in lamp cord; I've never tried it, but I think it would bug me just knowing that it's there! Audio is full of silly psychological things like this. :)
Your post, given the context, made it sound (to me) as if you were. My mistake then.
B)All medicine, indeed all of life, is a question of probabilities and trying to stack them in your favor. We do not have, and thus cannot rely on, foreknowledge.
Duh. I'm well aware of this.
Get used to this idea.
No need to be snide.
No one can be sure, ever, that they'll actually benefit more from a trial procedure (or any other) than from a traditional approach
And that's why trauma patients shouldn't be used as guinea pigs if there's a known, effective treatment. The ethic "First, do no harm" is taken pretty seriously.
That's why I don't think that using trauma patients for a new procedure trial is a good idea; they can't always be sure that they'll actually benefit more from this than a traditional approach; that's why it's a trial.
P.S. Glad you're OK now.
Not everyone wants to have an extra computer taking up precious space.
What I'd love to see would be a prosthesis with a direct neural link to the control computer; no need for electomechanical contrivances for sensation, and high dexterity.
Still sounds like Sci-Fi, but a little less so now. I wonder what the issues are with that kind of technology that's keeping it back?
NetBSD was ported to it about an hour ago.