Really now? This should set off alarms in people's minds?
Yes. At least in combination with the other glaring flaws I and others have already mentioned.
People who subscribe to security update announcements (and thus would be the primary target for a fake security announcement) have actively chosen to do so, and know what they look like, where they're sent from, what domains that are usually referenced to and what that/those website(s) look like. People who have not subscribed to such announcements would likely be more suspicious to unsolicited messages of this kind.
There are always exceptions. Some people will be taken in by this, no doubt, despite them being sufficiently savvy to have chosen to install a community-supported Linux distribution in the first place.
It's social engineering all right. Just not at its finest.
Also, a simple thing such as that this time you're not recommended to simply start up2date or yum to get updates as usual really should set off some alarms in people's minds. And that fedora-redhat.com is not and has never been used by Fedora or Red Hat. And so on.
But OS4 is pricey and ultimately doomed to failure..
The OS is priced similarly to other OSes. US$75-100.
But me listing this price separately is rather pointless, unfortunately.
As you say, Amiga Inc in their infinite wisdom (or rather: incompetence, and disinterest in AmigaOS in favour of their PocketPC "strategy") decided that despite there not being any plans for new Amigas, you should have to buy a "new Amiga" anyway. I.e., AmigaOS will only ever be released for PPC hardware that the manufacturer or a dealer has acquired an AInc licence for to sell it bundled with AmigaOS! The only existing licensee is Eyetech, i.e. the same company that provided "consultation" when the scheme was invented, and so far they've only sold dysfunctional and outdated $500 Mai Logic Teron motherboards as $800 "Eyetech AmigaOnes".
Yup, Macs would be the friggin' obvious target hardware for a PPC consumer OS, when the OS compan(y|ies) don't have any hardware of their own nor influence over hardware. But it's not allowed to happen, unless someone buys a licence to sell Macs bundled with AmigaOS plus something deceitfully and incorrectly referred to as "anti-piracy" measures, i.e. a dongle or similar that tells AmigaOS that you're running it on a Mac that you've bought on this artificially monopolised and miniscule pseudo-market.
Same thing for the Pegasos 2, or whatever other current or future PPC hardware you could think of.
Totally insane, and guaranteed fatal for AmigaOS, but that's the way it is right now.
See my signature and homepage for more info and if you too would like to see things be reconsidered.
YDL 4.0 introduces official support for the Pegasos II motherboards. Unfortunately you can't run MacOS X (natively) on a Pegasos. That's one reason I haven't seen mentioned yet.
Other than that I generally agree with this comment.
Another thing speaking in advantage for Linux on Macs is that MacOS X just won't run with usable performance on older Macs, and MacOS pre-X is an abomination and not an option, IMO. Granted, YDL/Fedora Core are pretty hefty GNOME/KDE based distros, but they still get away with less hardware grunt than MacOS X, and as for Linux in general there are leaner PPC distros (here is a rather new example).
BTW...
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"OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review and analysis of the literature regarding human caffeine withdrawal to empirically validate specific symptoms and signs, and to appraise important features of the syndrome."
"CONCLUSIONS. The caffeine-withdrawal syndrome has been well characterized and there is sufficient empirical evidence to warrant inclusion of caffeine withdrawal as a disorder in the DSM and revision of diagnostic criteria in the ICD."
Thanks mainstream media (and Slashdot) for once again misrepresenting, misinterpreting and oversimplifying a scientific study or publication.
Some people would probably think it's boring to read the actual article (J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 1990 Mar;252(3):970-8) or the abstract, but a link could have been in order.
No, the news is not that "coffee is addictive". Duh.
From the abstract: "A novel drug discrimination procedure was used to study the discriminability and subjective effects of caffeine in seven human volunteers who abstained from dietary sources of caffeine. [...] The present study documents biological activity of caffeine at lower doses than heretofore recognized. The general approach to investigating the effects of low drug doses may have broad application in human psychopharmacology research for characterizing other subtle psychotropic effects."
Funny? Laugh?
I wonder why the Seattle Times and Slashdot found this worthy to mention, at the same time as it's apparently not worthy to understand.
Luckily those hideous lumps of plastic that you're flogging as "sunglasses" are so prohibitively expensive, that even if I would be subjected to severe neurological trauma and would lose all sense of style and proportion, I would probably still be able to avoid your products. Thank you, Oakley!;)
I first thought this was something else than what I've been reading about recently, and not just about using yet another trained animal.
I thought wrong.
The/. blurb forgot to mention that what's so special is that the rats have electrodes implanted in their brains, which send a signal to the rescuers when the rat has found what it's looking for.
... Powerhouse are the ones I've tried in the past week or two that have Mozilla problems.
"Welcome to Powerhouse Online
You may be experiencing difficulty in accessing our site because your Internet Browser needs to meet the following criteria:
* IE 5 +
If you wish to use our site you will need to update your browser accordingly."
That's not a Mozilla problem. It's a powerhouse.co.uk problem.
I will not "need to update" iBrowse/Voyager/Galeon/Firefox/Safari/whatever to IE5, thankyouverymuch. It's Mr Mongoloid Webmaster at Powerhouse who needs to get a clue.
And yes, I was just kidding in the post you replied to. I hope it's just one person (who at the time happened to have moderator points to abuse) who was unable to detect that.
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For me it's not "random", in contrast to what drmancini describes.
After having done a su, stopped any daemon with "service SERVICENAME stop", and ctrl-D'd back to my account, then the desktop will mysteriously freeze if I choose Log Off (or whatever it is in the English locale) from the GNOME menu.
It works when I first choose Log Off from the menu, but hit Cancel instead, and then stop the daemon and choose Log Off again.
This doesn't seem to be dependent on what daemon I'm stopping, nor on how long time it's been between me stopping a service and trying to log off.
... that ATI's drivers won't even install on a modern and widely used distro, such as Fedora Core 2 - no matter if you follow ATI's instructions.
You'll have to find a community support forum or two, download patches, and apply them. Then, if you have an SMP machine, you'll also have to create a symlink in your kernel source directory. If you've got an x86-64 machine, you're apparently SOL. (And if you've got another CPU or OS, you're also SOL, due to the closed source, but that's another topic. OK, one recent ATI release actually wouldn't load on Athlons, but that's not what I'm talking about.)
If it only were a matter of RTFM, no big deal.
Then there's the horrid performance (far worse than ATI's Win Catalyst's already "less than ideal" OpenGL performance), the apps/games that are unusable due to artifacting, the unsupported features (no FSAA on DX9-class hardware in 2004??), the misidentified gfx boards,...
Some Canadian might want to shed some light on this, but my guess is that they've done something similar to what we've done in Sweden:
During the worst IT hype, all taxpayers (no matter where we lived nor whether we were going to utilise the services) payed ridiculous amounts of money (politicians are idiots, and government contracts are always attractive) for laying thick fibres everywhere, including nearly unpopulated areas. We're only 9 million people on a land mass the size of, well, western Germany I'd guess. Then the country ends up high on top-ten lists like the one mentioned in TFA, and the government can pat itself on its back and introduce the prefix "e-" everywhere in its propaganda vocabulary.
Why would it be a problem per se than an entire nation isn't equally connected to broadband services? If you need broadband, move to where it's cheap, or be prepared to pay more for it. Supply and demand.
Kraftwerk began as "1960's experimental stuff" (as "Organisation"). Kraftwerk, Can, Tangerine Dream et c. are those who brought those electronic thingamajigs to the mainstream (new wave, Depeche Mode,..., to the industrially produced garbage we have today).
YMO wasn't formed until 1978 (and thus not a source of inspiration to any European pioneers, but the other way round), one decade after Kraftwerk.
Out of curiosity, what would prevent someone from being able to switch to kernal 2.6?
Well, if you type "kernal.org" in your browser, you won't get very far. So the inability to spell might be a stumbling block when switching to kernel 2.6.;)
"Background: The Sea Shadow program was begun in the mid-1980s."
The Swedish stealth ship program (which includes previous results such as HMS Smyge and this latest YS2000 Series 1 (Visby corvette)) was launched in 1986.
Modding is (usually, I'm sad to say) not about getting "better", but about getting "flashier" (at least in some 1337 g4m3r teenagers' eyes).
Make the RF-shielding case useless, it looks so much flashier with a frigging HOLE in the side. Fans with LEDs inside aren't more quiet nor do they push more air, they're flashier. UV-lighting inside your case doesn't push more data across the buses, it's there to be flashy. A fan grille in the shape of a biohazard sign doesn't obstruct airflow any less than a normal grille, but it's flashier. The graphics card with a stupid dragon / monster / anime babe printed on its fan casing is more expensive than a more normal looking computer component, but it's flashy (if you lie on the floor looking up, so you can see it when it's installed and turned upside down).
Though personally I think it all looks more ridiculous and stereotypical than "flashy".
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Really now? This should set off alarms in people's minds?
Yes. At least in combination with the other glaring flaws I and others have already mentioned.
People who subscribe to security update announcements (and thus would be the primary target for a fake security announcement) have actively chosen to do so, and know what they look like, where they're sent from, what domains that are usually referenced to and what that/those website(s) look like. People who have not subscribed to such announcements would likely be more suspicious to unsolicited messages of this kind.
There are always exceptions. Some people will be taken in by this, no doubt, despite them being sufficiently savvy to have chosen to install a community-supported Linux distribution in the first place.
It's social engineering all right. Just not at its finest.
Also, a simple thing such as that this time you're not recommended to simply start up2date or yum to get updates as usual really should set off some alarms in people's minds. And that fedora-redhat.com is not and has never been used by Fedora or Red Hat. And so on.
I doubt that many fell for this.
But OS4 is pricey and ultimately doomed to failure..
The OS is priced similarly to other OSes. US$75-100.
But me listing this price separately is rather pointless, unfortunately.
As you say, Amiga Inc in their infinite wisdom (or rather: incompetence, and disinterest in AmigaOS in favour of their PocketPC "strategy") decided that despite there not being any plans for new Amigas, you should have to buy a "new Amiga" anyway. I.e., AmigaOS will only ever be released for PPC hardware that the manufacturer or a dealer has acquired an AInc licence for to sell it bundled with AmigaOS! The only existing licensee is Eyetech, i.e. the same company that provided "consultation" when the scheme was invented, and so far they've only sold dysfunctional and outdated $500 Mai Logic Teron motherboards as $800 "Eyetech AmigaOnes".
Yup, Macs would be the friggin' obvious target hardware for a PPC consumer OS, when the OS compan(y|ies) don't have any hardware of their own nor influence over hardware. But it's not allowed to happen, unless someone buys a licence to sell Macs bundled with AmigaOS plus something deceitfully and incorrectly referred to as "anti-piracy" measures, i.e. a dongle or similar that tells AmigaOS that you're running it on a Mac that you've bought on this artificially monopolised and miniscule pseudo-market.
Same thing for the Pegasos 2, or whatever other current or future PPC hardware you could think of.
Totally insane, and guaranteed fatal for AmigaOS, but that's the way it is right now.
See my signature and homepage for more info and if you too would like to see things be reconsidered.
Yes, pocket lint is an amazing substance.
Oh...
Epistula prima?
Slashdot discovers biological nomenclature. "News" for nerds. Film at 11.
Other than that I generally agree with this comment.
Another thing speaking in advantage for Linux on Macs is that MacOS X just won't run with usable performance on older Macs, and MacOS pre-X is an abomination and not an option, IMO. Granted, YDL/Fedora Core are pretty hefty GNOME/KDE based distros, but they still get away with less hardware grunt than MacOS X, and as for Linux in general there are leaner PPC distros (here is a rather new example).
BTW...
Bother!
This could be the right article.
"OBJECTIVES. The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review and analysis of the literature regarding human caffeine withdrawal to empirically validate specific symptoms and signs, and to appraise important features of the syndrome."
"CONCLUSIONS. The caffeine-withdrawal syndrome has been well characterized and there is sufficient empirical evidence to warrant inclusion of caffeine withdrawal as a disorder in the DSM and revision of diagnostic criteria in the ICD."
DOH!
:)
Please excuse my brainfart! 1990. Oops.
Yeah, maybe they discovered that coffee is addictive after all.
Thanks mainstream media (and Slashdot) for once again misrepresenting, misinterpreting and oversimplifying a scientific study or publication.
Some people would probably think it's boring to read the actual article (J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 1990 Mar;252(3):970-8) or the abstract, but a link could have been in order.
No, the news is not that "coffee is addictive". Duh.
From the abstract:
"A novel drug discrimination procedure was used to study the discriminability and subjective effects of caffeine in seven human volunteers who abstained from dietary sources of caffeine. [...] The present study documents biological activity of caffeine at lower doses than heretofore recognized. The general approach to investigating the effects of low drug doses may have broad application in human psychopharmacology research for characterizing other subtle psychotropic effects."
Funny? Laugh?
I wonder why the Seattle Times and Slashdot found this worthy to mention, at the same time as it's apparently not worthy to understand.
"Krita" is also the Swedish name for the Cretaceous period. It's also Swedish slang for "credit" (debt).
;)
Obsolete software for people with debts?
Oakley is for people with some sense of style.
;)
Welcome to Slashdot, Mr Jannard!
Luckily those hideous lumps of plastic that you're flogging as "sunglasses" are so prohibitively expensive, that even if I would be subjected to severe neurological trauma and would lose all sense of style and proportion, I would probably still be able to avoid your products. Thank you, Oakley!
I first thought this was something else than what I've been reading about recently, and not just about using yet another trained animal.
/. blurb forgot to mention that what's so special is that the rats have electrodes implanted in their brains, which send a signal to the rescuers when the rat has found what it's looking for.
I thought wrong.
The
That's not a Mozilla problem.
It's a powerhouse.co.uk problem.
I will not "need to update" iBrowse/Voyager/Galeon/Firefox/Safari/whatever to IE5, thankyouverymuch. It's Mr Mongoloid Webmaster at Powerhouse who needs to get a clue.
I suspected something like that.
And yes, I was just kidding in the post you replied to. I hope it's just one person (who at the time happened to have moderator points to abuse) who was unable to detect that.
For me it's not "random", in contrast to what drmancini describes.
After having done a su, stopped any daemon with "service SERVICENAME stop", and ctrl-D'd back to my account, then the desktop will mysteriously freeze if I choose Log Off (or whatever it is in the English locale) from the GNOME menu.
It works when I first choose Log Off from the menu, but hit Cancel instead, and then stop the daemon and choose Log Off again.
This doesn't seem to be dependent on what daemon I'm stopping, nor on how long time it's been between me stopping a service and trying to log off.
Let me guess; the story submitter is on the KDE side in the zealot wars, and he thinks Netcraft has something to confirm about GNOME's future?
;)
Do like 14.5 k others, and try here:
http://www.petitiononline.com/atipet/
(No, I have nothing to do with the creation of that petition.)
You'll have to find a community support forum or two, download patches, and apply them. Then, if you have an SMP machine, you'll also have to create a symlink in your kernel source directory. If you've got an x86-64 machine, you're apparently SOL.
(And if you've got another CPU or OS, you're also SOL, due to the closed source, but that's another topic. OK, one recent ATI release actually wouldn't load on Athlons, but that's not what I'm talking about.)
If it only were a matter of RTFM, no big deal.
Then there's the horrid performance (far worse than ATI's Win Catalyst's already "less than ideal" OpenGL performance), the apps/games that are unusable due to artifacting, the unsupported features (no FSAA on DX9-class hardware in 2004??), the misidentified gfx boards,
Some Canadian might want to shed some light on this, but my guess is that they've done something similar to what we've done in Sweden:
During the worst IT hype, all taxpayers (no matter where we lived nor whether we were going to utilise the services) payed ridiculous amounts of money (politicians are idiots, and government contracts are always attractive) for laying thick fibres everywhere, including nearly unpopulated areas. We're only 9 million people on a land mass the size of, well, western Germany I'd guess. Then the country ends up high on top-ten lists like the one mentioned in TFA, and the government can pat itself on its back and introduce the prefix "e-" everywhere in its propaganda vocabulary.
Why would it be a problem per se than an entire nation isn't equally connected to broadband services? If you need broadband, move to where it's cheap, or be prepared to pay more for it. Supply and demand.
Kraftwerk began as "1960's experimental stuff" (as "Organisation"). Kraftwerk, Can, Tangerine Dream et c. are those who brought those electronic thingamajigs to the mainstream (new wave, Depeche Mode, ..., to the industrially produced garbage we have today).
YMO wasn't formed until 1978 (and thus not a source of inspiration to any European pioneers, but the other way round), one decade after Kraftwerk.
Out of curiosity, what would prevent someone from being able to switch to kernal 2.6?
;)
Well, if you type "kernal.org" in your browser, you won't get very far. So the inability to spell might be a stumbling block when switching to kernel 2.6.
"Background: The Sea Shadow program was begun in the mid-1980s."
The Swedish stealth ship program (which includes previous results such as HMS Smyge and this latest YS2000 Series 1 (Visby corvette)) was launched in 1986.
Modding is (usually, I'm sad to say) not about getting "better", but about getting "flashier" (at least in some 1337 g4m3r teenagers' eyes).
Make the RF-shielding case useless, it looks so much flashier with a frigging HOLE in the side. Fans with LEDs inside aren't more quiet nor do they push more air, they're flashier. UV-lighting inside your case doesn't push more data across the buses, it's there to be flashy. A fan grille in the shape of a biohazard sign doesn't obstruct airflow any less than a normal grille, but it's flashier. The graphics card with a stupid dragon / monster / anime babe printed on its fan casing is more expensive than a more normal looking computer component, but it's flashy (if you lie on the floor looking up, so you can see it when it's installed and turned upside down).
Though personally I think it all looks more ridiculous and stereotypical than "flashy".
The reviewer mentioned the new file requester. That is retarded.
:)
Um, the file requester is retarded. The reviewer mentioning it is not necessarily a symptom of retardation.
Try opening a "hidden" file.