Funny, I always thought that Trusted Computing was a means of Microsoft (or, in fact, any of the software/hardware vendors) being able to say, "Oh, they're running something we don't want them running" and disable it. Trusted Computing is WGA at the hardware level. Except *worse*.
VMware is free now, so if you have 512MB of memory or more with around a gig of swap and a fairly good CPU, you can use those few applications with ease (I recently ran Photoshop CS2 on a 25MB image with the VMware image only having 256MB of RAM. Was pretty responsive).
Plus VMware is free as in beer:P See also: www.winehq.org
They also have very shoddy runway maintainence. The Concorde crash was caused by a large piece of debris that wasn't cleaned up after the previous plane took off. Part of the engine housing from a DC-10, if memory serves.
You're exactly the kind of person I love to hate. "Oh, I can't use that, so I'll use this, which is just as bad if not worse."
First, Flash is as closed as closed can be. Second, it's completely proprietary. Third, Macrodobe only really support Mac and Windows for the Flash Player. Still no version 8 for Linux (and they themselves have announced that there never will be an 8 for Linux), while 9 is betaing for OSX and Windows.
I'd rather use the standards which have been "piecemealed together by a bunch of wacky nerds" rather than using something which limits people to using X with Y on Z running P which Q made you pay for because R told them to.
I may like some of the things done with Flash, but I really don't think it's well suited for doing full websites. Intros, sections of navigation, maybe. But it's too much of a resource hog, too bloated, and I hate not being able to navigate using the keyboard.
Linux starts IPv6 implementation on verswion 2.1.8. Current 2.2.x and 2.4.x series supports IPv6 in a stable manner. In addition to the kernel maintainers, the USAGI project is working on someextension for production quality.
From the kernel.org FTP: linux-2.1.8.tar.gz 6032 KB 11/09/1996 12:00:00 AM
I have Slackware installed on a system with only 128MB of RAM. It's a PIII 650MHz Coppermine with sod all cache, runs an SSH'd VNC to my desktop just fine. It can handle KDE - just. I run fluxbox mainly, though, since it's basically just a remote terminal to my desktop. But I've run OpenOffice.org and Firefox on it at the same time (with only 256MB of swapspace).
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My god, that's the other part of the target audience for the Shuffle! Dumb, retarded, "fasion conscious" people and the blind! Why else would they not put a screen on the thing, yet have a worse battery life and charge more for it?
1GB Shuffle is like £10-£20 more expensive than a Creative Zen of the same capacity (the Zen that used to be the MuVo N200).
Not relevant. In. The. Slightest. Debian wouldn't be locking you in to using only that free media player and web browser, like MS are.
You have to have IE loaded on your Windows box for it to work. Media Player cannot be removed entirely from the system. MS' protocols are undocumented heaps of proprietary shit.
Hell, it took the Samba team months/years to reverse engineer the protocols Windows uses for networking. How much less time would it have taken if it had been documented? How much closer to 100% compatibility would Wine be if it had full documentation for the Windows APIs?
Why bother [keeping IE]? I'd rather everyone (yes, web devs, this means you) boycotted IE. It'll be in everyone's best interest - no more broken HTML, no more IE-spread viruses/trojans. Just stop dumbing your site down to meet IE and write code that's standards compliant. When people complain, link them to Firefox and explain WHY you your site won't display. If they still complain, so what? Tell them not to use your site if they want to stay insecure and out-of-date.
PS: everyone who says that IE6 renders CSS correctly in standards mode; tried it. Didn't work. Doesn't work. Never will. Stop maiming your code and write it as the W3C intended - the RIGHT way.
My brother nicknamed this "the magical beer scooter", mainly because he lived on the third floor of dorms, and there was a huge spiral staircase to get there.
Fedora requires you to install the MP3 libs separately because they're patent infringing. Which is fair enough. Slackware comes with, probably because Pat doesn't care particularly much (don't hurt me if you're reading this, Pat!) and would happily remove them from the default distribution, if only to require a separate download.
To be perfectly honest, a lot of the "linux is difficult" nonsense comes from people who are too scared of something new to just sit down and play around on the system.
Also, more software needs to use AutoPackage. It's a brilliant system, and if it was more commonly used we'd all only have to download a.package and run that, rather than having the gnu-bees not know if they need to download an RPM, a TGZ, a DEB or a plain source file because their distro doesn't have package management. Even if we don't use AutoPackage, we just need to decide on standards for EVERYTHING. Once that's done, everything starts playing nicely with everything else, and a package will install to all the right places on Fedora, SuSE, Slackware, Gentoo, MEPIS, ArchLinux, DamnSmallLinux, YouNameItLinux.
But if this bullshit with Microsoft doesn't stop, we're all going to be turned into slaves by the EULA Enforcement Division.
While I have an AMD64, I don't run it in 64bit mode (admittedly, it'd add another bragging point, but it'd be a nightmare getting 64bit libraries onto this system, and I don't feel like installing Slamd64 over the top of this). However, I do use Flash on some websites (read: albinoblacksheep. Gotta love Weebl'n'bob).
My most wanted for Flash on Linux? 1. Native ALSA support. It took me freaking ages to get it playing nice with dmix. 2. VERSION 8. No, not 9. 8. You know, the one which a bunch of sites *REQUIRE* for you to view them? 3. Less bloat. The same animation on Linux plays at half the speed at the same quality setting on Windows (same machine).
I'll be happy when they have those. Then they can leave Flash alone. (Although, quite honestly, I'd like to see Macrodobe burn and die. They suck.)
The 2.8GHz CPUs at college are absolutely shit, and are well under half as powerful as my Athlon64 2800+ (running at 2.2GHz; up 400MHz from standard). And this is a S754 Clawhammer '64; serious improvements have been made to the AMD line since I bought this CPU.
Then again, it may just be down to me using Linux and the college using Win2K with McAffee >.>
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Funny, I always thought that Trusted Computing was a means of Microsoft (or, in fact, any of the software/hardware vendors) being able to say, "Oh, they're running something we don't want them running" and disable it. Trusted Computing is WGA at the hardware level. Except *worse*.
http://www.gravitation3d.com/magiccube5d/
Five dimensional rubix cube. That has actually been completed.
At this rate, we'll all have memory chips embedded in our arms. Or HVD, whichever is further away.
VMware is free now, so if you have 512MB of memory or more with around a gig of swap and a fairly good CPU, you can use those few applications with ease (I recently ran Photoshop CS2 on a 25MB image with the VMware image only having 256MB of RAM. Was pretty responsive).
:P
Plus VMware is free as in beer
See also: www.winehq.org
They also have very shoddy runway maintainence. The Concorde crash was caused by a large piece of debris that wasn't cleaned up after the previous plane took off. Part of the engine housing from a DC-10, if memory serves.
You're exactly the kind of person I love to hate. "Oh, I can't use that, so I'll use this, which is just as bad if not worse."
First, Flash is as closed as closed can be. Second, it's completely proprietary. Third, Macrodobe only really support Mac and Windows for the Flash Player. Still no version 8 for Linux (and they themselves have announced that there never will be an 8 for Linux), while 9 is betaing for OSX and Windows.
I'd rather use the standards which have been "piecemealed together by a bunch of wacky nerds" rather than using something which limits people to using X with Y on Z running P which Q made you pay for because R told them to.
I may like some of the things done with Flash, but I really don't think it's well suited for doing full websites. Intros, sections of navigation, maybe. But it's too much of a resource hog, too bloated, and I hate not being able to navigate using the keyboard.
From the kernel.org FTP:
linux-2.1.8.tar.gz 6032 KB 11/09/1996 12:00:00 AM
Slackware! The thinking man's Linux. :P
I have Slackware installed on a system with only 128MB of RAM. It's a PIII 650MHz Coppermine with sod all cache, runs an SSH'd VNC to my desktop just fine. It can handle KDE - just. I run fluxbox mainly, though, since it's basically just a remote terminal to my desktop. But I've run OpenOffice.org and Firefox on it at the same time (with only 256MB of swapspace).
My god, that's the other part of the target audience for the Shuffle! Dumb, retarded, "fasion conscious" people and the blind! Why else would they not put a screen on the thing, yet have a worse battery life and charge more for it?
1GB Shuffle is like £10-£20 more expensive than a Creative Zen of the same capacity (the Zen that used to be the MuVo N200).
Well, if MS hadn't decided to use \ as a directory separator, you could just backslash it. But no. MS had to be retarded.
Will Install Needless Data On Whole System.
Not relevant. In. The. Slightest. Debian wouldn't be locking you in to using only that free media player and web browser, like MS are.
You have to have IE loaded on your Windows box for it to work. Media Player cannot be removed entirely from the system. MS' protocols are undocumented heaps of proprietary shit.
Hell, it took the Samba team months/years to reverse engineer the protocols Windows uses for networking. How much less time would it have taken if it had been documented? How much closer to 100% compatibility would Wine be if it had full documentation for the Windows APIs?
What's that in real money?
Answer: £449.53
Why bother [keeping IE]? I'd rather everyone (yes, web devs, this means you) boycotted IE. It'll be in everyone's best interest - no more broken HTML, no more IE-spread viruses/trojans. Just stop dumbing your site down to meet IE and write code that's standards compliant. When people complain, link them to Firefox and explain WHY you your site won't display. If they still complain, so what? Tell them not to use your site if they want to stay insecure and out-of-date.
PS: everyone who says that IE6 renders CSS correctly in standards mode; tried it. Didn't work. Doesn't work. Never will. Stop maiming your code and write it as the W3C intended - the RIGHT way.
Do you *NEED* .NET? Can you learn something else? Something cross platform, maybe? Surely there's something out there that will do the job?
My brother nicknamed this "the magical beer scooter", mainly because he lived on the third floor of dorms, and there was a huge spiral staircase to get there.
Fedora requires you to install the MP3 libs separately because they're patent infringing. Which is fair enough. Slackware comes with, probably because Pat doesn't care particularly much (don't hurt me if you're reading this, Pat!) and would happily remove them from the default distribution, if only to require a separate download.
.package and run that, rather than having the gnu-bees not know if they need to download an RPM, a TGZ, a DEB or a plain source file because their distro doesn't have package management. Even if we don't use AutoPackage, we just need to decide on standards for EVERYTHING. Once that's done, everything starts playing nicely with everything else, and a package will install to all the right places on Fedora, SuSE, Slackware, Gentoo, MEPIS, ArchLinux, DamnSmallLinux, YouNameItLinux.
To be perfectly honest, a lot of the "linux is difficult" nonsense comes from people who are too scared of something new to just sit down and play around on the system.
Also, more software needs to use AutoPackage. It's a brilliant system, and if it was more commonly used we'd all only have to download a
But if this bullshit with Microsoft doesn't stop, we're all going to be turned into slaves by the EULA Enforcement Division.
dd if=/dev/ of=/mnt/veterans/veteransdata.diskimage /mnt/veteransdata /mnt/veterans/veteransdata.diskimage /mnt/veteransdata
mkdir
mount -o loop -t
Voila. No access or modification times changed.
Maybe if you were using a non-MS OS you'd be complaining... cause it doesn't work here.
And people (read: me) complain about Macrodobe and their shitty software...
She's going down!
I wish. MS will be here for another year or so before their funds run out.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Hindenburg crashed. In a large cloud of boom. Not really "soaring", that, is it? :P
While I have an AMD64, I don't run it in 64bit mode (admittedly, it'd add another bragging point, but it'd be a nightmare getting 64bit libraries onto this system, and I don't feel like installing Slamd64 over the top of this). However, I do use Flash on some websites (read: albinoblacksheep. Gotta love Weebl'n'bob).
My most wanted for Flash on Linux?
1. Native ALSA support. It took me freaking ages to get it playing nice with dmix.
2. VERSION 8. No, not 9. 8. You know, the one which a bunch of sites *REQUIRE* for you to view them?
3. Less bloat. The same animation on Linux plays at half the speed at the same quality setting on Windows (same machine).
I'll be happy when they have those. Then they can leave Flash alone. (Although, quite honestly, I'd like to see Macrodobe burn and die. They suck.)
Good points, but you missed the biggest one.
Intel.
The 2.8GHz CPUs at college are absolutely shit, and are well under half as powerful as my Athlon64 2800+ (running at 2.2GHz; up 400MHz from standard). And this is a S754 Clawhammer '64; serious improvements have been made to the AMD line since I bought this CPU.
Then again, it may just be down to me using Linux and the college using Win2K with McAffee >.>