1. over-priced due to various reasons, maybe too popular, or just corporate greed & marketing...
2. fear of vendor lock-in & DRM mostly though...
3. AM/FM radio is still FREE!, (yeah, i am a cheapskate)...
running firefox when i find a wierd page like that in the top menu i click "View" > "Page Style" > "No Style" and it pretty much makes it all plain text...
personally i use Slackware for my KDE desktop and Debian Testing (etch) for my Gnome desktop, but i am glad for Ubuntu becoming popular and winning over windows users over to the Linux side of computing...
my only fear is about the way ubuntu implements sudo and that first user account having so much privileges and what is confusing is the password for that first user is used for administration/root access, i noticed ubuntu will remember the password for convenience, i know to disable these things but a new user wont, and i fear someday a clever evil clown genius will figure out a way to exploit this to mount an attack on ubuntu and it gets in the press that Linux is as vulnerable as windows.
1. no name on my mailbox.
2. all envelopes, magazines, and junk mail is checked for my name & address before disposal in the trash.
3. salesmen and solisitors that come to my door are shooed away as potentional social engineers
4. when making purchases at local stores i use cash as often as possible and plastic is prefered over a personal check and used when only neccessary...
5. Firefox does not have a spell checker:)
lately i seen a few flash videos lock up firefox on Linux and cause the CPU to run @ 100%. i dont know if it is just a bug or if somebody is trying to intentionally cause a buffer overflow in order to do something else - insert arbitrary code?, gain root access? who knows, anyhow, flash-7 (the current one) should be disabled by default with NoScript unless you are at a known and trusted site.
bad idea, i see forking the kernel under gpl-3 will never happen then, stallman better get hurd going if it wants to give the linux kernel any competition...
i actually like multiple virtual desktops, 4 to 6 is plenty, i have fvwm2 fixed up pretty nice with full paging & edge wrap. once you get the hang of it then going back to icons on a taskbar is klumsy and slow...
keyboard designers need to get the caps lock key moved away from the "A", Tab & shift keys, move it up by the escape key would be better, i sometimes hit the caps lock key with my little finger on my left hand when going for the tab or shift key...
Chocolate chip please:)
i dont care if google stores my search entries on a text file in some harddisk BFD!
google also manages my gmail, and google knows my name:)
hi google:)
i tried it, PCBSD makes a decent KDE desktop, i noticed KDE's kooka was broken - i am guessing it was broken because sane was not installed, i did a little google search and noticed FBSD considers sane/xsane a vulnerability because the temp files it creates while running can be exployted, and when i tried to compile sane-backends it complained about no USB , so i get libusb and compiled it and still sane-backends complained about nousb, i did not bother with libgphoto2 since sane was not wanting to work, other than this minor annoyence PCBSD is a decent KDE desktop, it just needs to shed some of the FreeBSD strict access control (server security?) to make better headway in the desktop/workstation arena. as a faithful Linux user i am glad to see PCBSD as an alternative, and i see MidnightBSD is a BSD desktop too...
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why dont they test them on themselves?
subsidized by Microsoft...
1. over-priced due to various reasons, maybe too popular, or just corporate greed & marketing... 2. fear of vendor lock-in & DRM mostly though... 3. AM/FM radio is still FREE!, (yeah, i am a cheapskate)...
running firefox when i find a wierd page like that in the top menu i click "View" > "Page Style" > "No Style" and it pretty much makes it all plain text...
http://www.kernel.org/
NEdet and Firefox & opera
http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm/
you are probably right, it is most likely bullshit, but just incase i will keep my tinfoil hat pulled down tightly over my ears :^)
that does put sudo in a better perspective, thanks :)
personally i use Slackware for my KDE desktop and Debian Testing (etch) for my Gnome desktop, but i am glad for Ubuntu becoming popular and winning over windows users over to the Linux side of computing...
my only fear is about the way ubuntu implements sudo and that first user account having so much privileges and what is confusing is the password for that first user is used for administration/root access, i noticed ubuntu will remember the password for convenience, i know to disable these things but a new user wont, and i fear someday a clever evil clown genius will figure out a way to exploit this to mount an attack on ubuntu and it gets in the press that Linux is as vulnerable as windows.
1. no name on my mailbox. :)
2. all envelopes, magazines, and junk mail is checked for my name & address before disposal in the trash.
3. salesmen and solisitors that come to my door are shooed away as potentional social engineers
4. when making purchases at local stores i use cash as often as possible and plastic is prefered over a personal check and used when only neccessary...
5. Firefox does not have a spell checker
http://www.zombo.com/
1 gig of PC3200 DDR RAM and a 1 gig swap partition is pleny for my purposes...
lately i seen a few flash videos lock up firefox on Linux and cause the CPU to run @ 100%. i dont know if it is just a bug or if somebody is trying to intentionally cause a buffer overflow in order to do something else - insert arbitrary code?, gain root access? who knows, anyhow, flash-7 (the current one) should be disabled by default with NoScript unless you are at a known and trusted site.
KISS = Keep It Simple Steve (ballmer) and leave the chairs alone
bad idea, i see forking the kernel under gpl-3 will never happen then, stallman better get hurd going if it wants to give the linux kernel any competition...
one fork stays gpl-2 for Linus' camp and the other fork goes gpl-3 for Stallman's camp
and let users decide what one they want, sounds like the most democratic way of dealing with this...
i actually like multiple virtual desktops, 4 to 6 is plenty, i have fvwm2 fixed up pretty nice with full paging & edge wrap. once you get the hang of it then going back to icons on a taskbar is klumsy and slow...
keyboard designers need to get the caps lock key moved away from the "A", Tab & shift keys, move it up by the escape key would be better, i sometimes hit the caps lock key with my little finger on my left hand when going for the tab or shift key...
RE:["Like we need to see EVERY screen during the install."]
i guess you can install slackware with your eyes closed... get a life troll, some people rather use slackware than any other distro...
OpenOffice suite is a friggin office suite, if you want a editor that is light and fast stick with notepad
seems like such as waste of resources, why not just port the software over to the other OS/platform so it can run natively...
Chocolate chip please :)
i dont care if google stores my search entries on a text file in some harddisk BFD!
google also manages my gmail, and google knows my name :)
hi google :)
i tried it, PCBSD makes a decent KDE desktop, i noticed KDE's kooka was broken - i am guessing it was broken because sane was not installed, i did a little google search and noticed FBSD considers sane/xsane a vulnerability because the temp files it creates while running can be exployted, and when i tried to compile sane-backends it complained about no USB , so i get libusb and compiled it and still sane-backends complained about nousb, i did not bother with libgphoto2 since sane was not wanting to work, other than this minor annoyence PCBSD is a decent KDE desktop, it just needs to shed some of the FreeBSD strict access control (server security?) to make better headway in the desktop/workstation arena. as a faithful Linux user i am glad to see PCBSD as an alternative, and i see MidnightBSD is a BSD desktop too...
:)
BSD = i am not dead