Although FreeBSD ports contain all the major "Desktop" packages, I don't think it's a "Desktop OS". Mainly because the "base system" is purely text based, if you want to do something with the system, you do it on the command line, there's no GUI based procedure in the FreeBSD handbook. From what i've used, there's no GUI configuration tool specific to FreeBSD. I would even guess there's *nothing* FreeBSD specific which is a GUI. Compare this to RedHat or Ubuntu where every bit of graphic is themed and you have a bunch of custom graphic utilities.
When you install XFCE on FreeBSD, you get XFCE. When you install XFCE on Ubuntu, you get Xubuntu.
Don't get me wrong, I don't say it's not suited to Desktop, just that the Desktop experience is not part of the OS, it's in the ports....and that's why i've been using it since 4.x
2/3 years ago I bought a brand new, high performance desktop with windows XP. One morning I booted it for 3 minutes or so to check something before going to work. When I came back and tried to boot it again I had the dreaded registry hive error "SYSTEM.SAM b0rked"...long story short I finally had to do a full repair of the install (backup hive were useless)...which for some reason I can't remember (having to do with the disk controller ?) failed halfway, leaving me with a totally corrupted system. Anyhow I had to do a full re-install...
OT: 2 month ago, the NTFS filesystem of a 500GB drive on this computer just collapsed "corrupted master file table...windows can't repair it..."
Now I feel that booting this windows computer is like playing russian roulette...
As you said ironically "anecdotal evidence represents the pinnacle in accuracy and reliability"
LOL !! In France KFC is called KFC but that's 'cause no one knows what the acronym stands for (heck, no french knows what Kentucky is)
BTW, one acronym translation i "like" is 24-related "CTU = CAT". But the whole "byte->octet" thing is ridiculous as no french-only speaking guy can process the difference between bits and bytes.
Tell me again, why would I use a container or a codec that can only be processed by a Microsoft software installed on a Microsoft OS, when immensely better and totally free alternatives predates it ?
Oh well, I guess it's because writing a tool to work with it would earn me a C&D letter or something, awesome, let's get coding !!
It's relevance lies in it's use in teaching operating system design
used to be true, but not any more, from TFA:
"MINIX 1 and 2 were intended as teaching tools; MINIX 3 adds the new goal of being usable as a serious system on resource-limited and embedded computers and for applications requiring high reliability."
imho online music stores are just a rip off,
for the price of a CD:
- you get no physical copy (much lower cost to the producer)
- you get a lossy version of a CD
- you can't copy it as much as a CD
a fair music store would either provide something closer to a CD (HQ, no DRM) or sell it at a much lower price.
i tried the autoupdate under winnt (corp. take some time to upgrade and i'm forced to use cygwin...), it's a complete mess, it just downloads the installer and runs it, but fails to stop the process from where it was launched...you'd better re-install it manually
"dying buisiness model" i won't go as far but just say that their busieness model needs a real change in respect of real changes that hapened to real world constains. major studios use to assume they are needed because they have some monopolies:
* the first is that artits needs studios to produce content, or at least to record content they can produce for themselves.
it is not true anymore, as anyone can/could produce and record by their own means. the 'home studio' is now common, specially in the electronic music field where a simple computer with some music software is a good start.
* the second is that artits needs studios to distribute their content, because, even if artits can now burn a cd, they can't distribute it to resellers.
it is not true anymore, as anyone can share anything on the internet
* the third is that artits needs studios to market their content, because, even if the music is available, no one as heard of it.
it is not true anymore, as anyone can promote anything on the internet
so i'm not saying that major studios became useless, i'm just saying that they no longer have a monopoly and thus should change their business practices. if you followed me artits still need to produce,record,distribute and market their music, they potentially can do it on their own but it's far from trivial. for example many music genres requires more than a simple home studio, and true beginners can't start a 'home studio' with 10 bucks. it also not obvious to distribute your music on the internet, sure you can put it up and your site and give it away (using BT to avoid slashdoting), but how if you actually want to charge for it ? finaly being heard in the internet crowd is a tough job, not every 'garage band' can make it to slashdot's first page.
IMHO those are the main goals of music studios now, traditional majors can/will integrate these facts and new companies can/will embrace it and create/dominate a new market (itms?)
But the idillic view would be a common and public place on the internet to do so: - everyone could upload their music to be available online, with seamless drm and charging - a moderating system would promote best/new/worse? bands (something like the front page of former audiogalaxy?) - it would be perfect if successful artists could actually use real world ressources from that site, like a real studio with instruments and musicians. (this site would generate revenue and could sponsor promising artits)
it's something that would allow anyone to freelance while having the benefice of a real world company behind you.
just my 2c, but if the DRM is in the song and then you lose the song how can the DRM help you ? it was lost with the song...
what tells ITMS you own the song must be stored outside the song if you want to be able to re-download.
and anyway, from TFA As as added bonus, you can even re-download songs that were bought with PyMusique.
We recently had a very unusual update run on one of our monitored botnets: Everything went fine, the botnet master authenticated successfully and issued the command to download and execute the new file. Our client drone downloaded the file and it got analyzed, we set up a client with the special crafted nickname, ident, and user info. But then our client could not connect to the IRC server to join the new channel. The first character of the nickname was invalid to use on that IRCd software. This way, the (somehow dumb) attacker just lost about 3,000 bots which hammer their server with connect tries forever.
I'm not sure it's that guy, but there was a previous story about a french guy that the police caught with hundreds of burned CDs while they were searching his house for something else. remember, next time you deal drugs at home, lend all your downloaded stuff to your neighboor !
the substrate is used for several displays
from tfa:
"23-inch (24 per substrate), 26-inch (18 per substrate) and 32-inch (12 per substrate) to 40-inch (8 per substrate) and 46-inch (6 per substrate). "
and finally
"Samsung can produce two 82-inch panels from a single substrate"
that makes the actual 82" screen 220/2=110 cm high and 187 cm wide
187 cm / 1920pixels = 0,0973cm/pixel
110 cm / 1080pixels = 0,1015cm/pixel
pretty square as 1920/1080
=(16*120)/(9*120)
=(120/120)*(16/9)
=16/9
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Although FreeBSD ports contain all the major "Desktop" packages, I don't think it's a "Desktop OS".
Mainly because the "base system" is purely text based, if you want to do something with the system, you do it on the command line, there's no GUI based procedure in the FreeBSD handbook.
From what i've used, there's no GUI configuration tool specific to FreeBSD. I would even guess there's *nothing* FreeBSD specific which is a GUI.
Compare this to RedHat or Ubuntu where every bit of graphic is themed and you have a bunch of custom graphic utilities.
When you install XFCE on FreeBSD, you get XFCE.
When you install XFCE on Ubuntu, you get Xubuntu.
Don't get me wrong, I don't say it's not suited to Desktop, just that the Desktop experience is not part of the OS, it's in the ports....and that's why i've been using it since 4.x
My turn:
2/3 years ago I bought a brand new, high performance desktop with windows XP.
One morning I booted it for 3 minutes or so to check something before going to work.
When I came back and tried to boot it again I had the dreaded registry hive error "SYSTEM.SAM b0rked"...long story short I finally had to do a full repair of the install (backup hive were useless)...which for some reason I can't remember (having to do with the disk controller ?) failed halfway, leaving me with a totally corrupted system.
Anyhow I had to do a full re-install...
OT: 2 month ago, the NTFS filesystem of a 500GB drive on this computer just collapsed "corrupted master file table...windows can't repair it..."
Now I feel that booting this windows computer is like playing russian roulette...
As you said ironically "anecdotal evidence represents the pinnacle in accuracy and reliability"
LOL !!
In France KFC is called KFC but that's 'cause no one knows what the acronym stands for (heck, no french knows what Kentucky is)
BTW, one acronym translation i "like" is 24-related "CTU = CAT".
But the whole "byte->octet" thing is ridiculous as no french-only speaking guy can process the difference between bits and bytes.
Am I the only one who though about Afro Samurai in the first place ?
...Microsoft did install a whole *OS* on my computer without my permission !
And the worst part is, it was *before* i even purchased it !
All right Mr Bateman, please drop this axe you have here...
you mean DVDA like in Orgazmo ?
Tell me again, why would I use a container or a codec that can only be processed by a Microsoft software installed on a Microsoft OS, when immensely better and totally free alternatives predates it ?
Oh well, I guess it's because writing a tool to work with it would earn me a C&D letter or something, awesome, let's get coding !!
The data deluge from all the HD media wasn't enough...my pc's can't keep up with all this data !!!
lol, Minix 3 requirements:
To run MINIX 3, you need a PC driven by a 386, 486, or Pentium CPU or compatible...
It's relevance lies in it's use in teaching operating system design
used to be true, but not any more, from TFA:
"MINIX 1 and 2 were intended as teaching tools; MINIX 3 adds the new goal of being usable as a serious system on resource-limited and embedded computers and for applications requiring high reliability."
imho online music stores are just a rip off, for the price of a CD: - you get no physical copy (much lower cost to the producer) - you get a lossy version of a CD - you can't copy it as much as a CD a fair music store would either provide something closer to a CD (HQ, no DRM) or sell it at a much lower price.
recent file system niceties like the My Documents folder in Windows
i tried the autoupdate under winnt (corp. take some time to upgrade and i'm forced to use cygwin...), it's a complete mess, it just downloads the installer and runs it, but fails to stop the process from where it was launched...you'd better re-install it manually
"dying buisiness model"
i won't go as far but just say that their busieness model needs a real change in respect of real changes that hapened to real world constains.
major studios use to assume they are needed because they have some monopolies:
* the first is that artits needs studios to produce content, or at least to record content they can produce for themselves.
it is not true anymore, as anyone can/could produce and record by their own means. the 'home studio' is now common, specially in the electronic music field where a simple computer with some music software is a good start.
* the second is that artits needs studios to distribute their content, because, even if artits can now burn a cd, they can't distribute it to resellers.
it is not true anymore, as anyone can share anything on the internet
* the third is that artits needs studios to market their content, because, even if the music is available, no one as heard of it.
it is not true anymore, as anyone can promote anything on the internet
so i'm not saying that major studios became useless, i'm just saying that they no longer have a monopoly and thus should change their business practices.
if you followed me artits still need to produce,record,distribute and market their music, they potentially can do it on their own but it's far from trivial.
for example many music genres requires more than a simple home studio, and true beginners can't start a 'home studio' with 10 bucks.
it also not obvious to distribute your music on the internet, sure you can put it up and your site and give it away (using BT to avoid slashdoting), but how if you actually want to charge for it ?
finaly being heard in the internet crowd is a tough job, not every 'garage band' can make it to slashdot's first page.
IMHO those are the main goals of music studios now, traditional majors can/will integrate these facts and new companies can/will embrace it and create/dominate a new market (itms?)
But the idillic view would be a common and public place on the internet to do so:
- everyone could upload their music to be available online, with seamless drm and charging
- a moderating system would promote best/new/worse? bands
(something like the front page of former audiogalaxy?)
- it would be perfect if successful artists could actually use real world ressources from that site, like a real studio with instruments and musicians. (this site would generate revenue and could sponsor promising artits)
it's something that would allow anyone to freelance while having the benefice of a real world company behind you.
just my 2c, but if the DRM is in the song and then you lose the song how can the DRM help you ? it was lost with the song...
what tells ITMS you own the song must be stored outside the song if you want to be able to re-download.
and anyway, from TFA
As as added bonus, you can even re-download songs that were bought with PyMusique.
screener = marketing video not supposed to have gone in the wild
(and by screener i mean vhs/dvd screener, not TS or TC)
We recently had a very unusual update run on one of our monitored botnets: Everything went fine, the botnet master authenticated successfully and issued the command to download and execute the new file. Our client drone downloaded the file and it got analyzed, we set up a client with the special crafted nickname, ident, and user info. But then our client could not connect to the IRC server to join the new channel. The first character of the nickname was invalid to use on that IRCd software. This way, the (somehow dumb) attacker just lost about 3,000 bots which hammer their server with connect tries forever.
I'm not sure it's that guy, but there was a previous story about a french guy that the police caught with hundreds of burned CDs while they were searching his house for something else.
remember, next time you deal drugs at home, lend all your downloaded stuff to your neighboor !
the substrate is used for several displays from tfa: "23-inch (24 per substrate), 26-inch (18 per substrate) and 32-inch (12 per substrate) to 40-inch (8 per substrate) and 46-inch (6 per substrate). " and finally "Samsung can produce two 82-inch panels from a single substrate" that makes the actual 82" screen 220/2=110 cm high and 187 cm wide 187 cm / 1920pixels = 0,0973cm/pixel 110 cm / 1080pixels = 0,1015cm/pixel pretty square as 1920/1080 =(16*120)/(9*120) =(120/120)*(16/9) =16/9
what about the poor billionaires who bought this high-end dvd ripper ???