as a reply to a reply stated doing this doesn't gain you much, if you run as a low privilage user you just end up with all your valuable data owned by that low privilage user and therefore vulnerable.
you could run the web browser as its own user which would limit damage if it was comprimised but this would still leave your cookies (which may contain valuable authentication information) browsing history etc vulnerable and would make downloading stuff a pain.
1: library developers who care more about infestimal performance improvements than compatibility. With many libraries (including big names like gtk) if you build on a system with a newer version you can't run on a system with an older version even if the app doesn't use any new features. (yes there are workarounds but they can be tricky to apply and are not well known)
2: nothing to really match VB and (especially) delphi for easy gui development. kylix is dead and hard to make run on recent linux, lazarus isn't really mature yet.
3: a very irregular learning curve, things are deceptively easy at first and total newbies may even find some linux desktops easier than windows but for experianced windows users coming over to linux there is a huge learning curve to get the kind of control they had in windows.
4: hardware support, some types of hardware are really well supported, others aren't. fixedwire nics drive controllers and 2D display always tend to work out of the box. Sound often does (though i have one system with intel onboard sound that crashes the sound subsystem if i try and play anything mono!) but other types (modems wlan adsl modems 3d graphics) can be a lot harder to make work.
leaded fuel is gone now from normal sale in the uk but your right it was quite late
iirc thier is an exception which allows a very small percentage of fuel sales to be leaded and thier are specilist garages that sell it for use in classic cars but its not availible from normal petrol stations.
the normal petrol stations sell this stuff called LRP which is meant to be a substitute for leaded petrol but it is reported to be pretty bad for your engine so afaict it only tends to get used in old bangers.
i don't know if its still true but i remember reading that if you ported your number to bt cellnet (yes this was before the 02 demerger) other bt cellnet customers would still be charged the other mobile networks rate (which wasn't cheap especailly on pay as you go) to call you.
afaict with the current us system your call gets routed first to the area code your mobile number is in and then rerouted back accross the us to where your phone actually is. doesn't sound any more efficiant than just having a few codes that are specifically for mobiles.
maybe up towards release and for a short time after the codename may remain used by some but i can't imagine the codename will get used much by anyone after that.
do you hear anyone calling 98 "memphis" or XP "whistler" nowadays?
reagrding mediawiki i belive it does now also work on postgresql.
afaict there are two main issues with porting php/mysql stuff to php/postgresql, one is the few propietry features of mysql and the other is that if you wan't to support both you have to wrap stuff yourself as php has totally seperate calls for postgresql and mysql
from reading the article it sounds like the safe mode is intended to prevent total loss of the probe in the event of a problem that sucks lots of power.
the main problem seems to be it takes a while to get it back to normal operation and they'd really like to take some photos of the bit of mars the probe is going over soon
therefore if your aim is to get to someone as quick as possible it makes sense to run round the pool before jumping in. also the initial entry is probablly the easiest way to gain depth and its easier to see whats going on with the added height of the poolside than when you are in the water.
there aren't as many worms as e-mail viruses but those that there are still produce a significant background noise that serves to infect any unpatched windows box that gets directly connected to the internet.
1: self replicating malware, obviously with this the less the density of viable targets among the targeted population the harder it is for it to spread.
2: malware distributed to a general through things like websites that are not themselves the targets of the malware. This won't be directly affected by a lower hit rate though it may have an affect on the actions of the humans behind it.
3: malware targeted at a particular person/company deliberately as part of a hack attempt. with this again the hacker is going to find out what to use against you particularlly. This is probablly the most dangerous type in many ways as if they have fixed on YOU you can't win just by being slightly tougher than others.
that tracks when security patches go into the linux kernel.so if i have a box thats running a kernel.org kernel i can see if that kernel has any known vulnerabilities.
if you are carefull and use the right tools (things like autopackages apbuild and relaytool for example) you can make binaries that will run on almost all reasonablly recent normal i386 distros and on freebsd too for that matter if linux binary compatibility support is installed.
The biggest problem comes from the way libraries and headers are normally dealt with on linux. e.g. if i build a gtk app normally on a system with gtk 2.4 then it won't run on a system with gtk 2.2 even if i don't use any of the new functionality from 2.4.
yes but would you rejoice if it had a totally new set of quirks annoyances etc that were very different from those you were familiar with.
its like moving from win to linux sure they can be made to look the same on the surface but as soon as you actually try to do stuff you will still run into and get annoyed by the underlying differences
1. GNU was there first, some GNU were indeed there before linux but i don't think they had a runnable totally free system before linux existed due to thier screwing about with microkernels.
2. GNU is a prerequisite for the linux kernel to exist probabbly true, the fsf site makes the claim that the bsds only moved towards freeness because of gnu (i dunno how solid this claim is) and anyway the bsds came with thier own kernels.
3. Linux without GNU is worthless, as there are a large number of necessary utilities for linux that can ONLY be compiled with GCC, so even if you decide to replace it with ICC you can't compile firefox,etc true but only because GCC happened to be one of the best C compilers arround when they were developed.
4. Every 'Linux' system uses GNU software, but there are a lot of GNU systems that don't use Linux. Thus 'Linux' is just one of many GNU systems.
sure there are unix systems of other descents that have been enhanced with a few gnu tools.
sure there have been expermental systems with gnu and other kernels.
however i've never heared of a system that uses the gnu userland as its main userland, doesn't use the linux kernel, and that actually has reached the point of stable releases that are usable. would you like to name one?
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as a reply to a reply stated doing this doesn't gain you much, if you run as a low privilage user you just end up with all your valuable data owned by that low privilage user and therefore vulnerable.
you could run the web browser as its own user which would limit damage if it was comprimised but this would still leave your cookies (which may contain valuable authentication information) browsing history etc vulnerable and would make downloading stuff a pain.
1: library developers who care more about infestimal performance improvements than compatibility. With many libraries (including big names like gtk) if you build on a system with a newer version you can't run on a system with an older version even if the app doesn't use any new features. (yes there are workarounds but they can be tricky to apply and are not well known)
2: nothing to really match VB and (especially) delphi for easy gui development. kylix is dead and hard to make run on recent linux, lazarus isn't really mature yet.
3: a very irregular learning curve, things are deceptively easy at first and total newbies may even find some linux desktops easier than windows but for experianced windows users coming over to linux there is a huge learning curve to get the kind of control they had in windows.
4: hardware support, some types of hardware are really well supported, others aren't. fixedwire nics drive controllers and 2D display always tend to work out of the box. Sound often does (though i have one system with intel onboard sound that crashes the sound subsystem if i try and play anything mono!) but other types (modems wlan adsl modems 3d graphics) can be a lot harder to make work.
leaded fuel is gone now from normal sale in the uk but your right it was quite late
iirc thier is an exception which allows a very small percentage of fuel sales to be leaded and thier are specilist garages that sell it for use in classic cars but its not availible from normal petrol stations.
the normal petrol stations sell this stuff called LRP which is meant to be a substitute for leaded petrol but it is reported to be pretty bad for your engine so afaict it only tends to get used in old bangers.
fyi i'm a brit not an american though i wouldn't say geography is my strong point.
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p.s. seems i lost karma on my original post due to the combination of funny and overrated
i don't know if its still true but i remember reading that if you ported your number to bt cellnet (yes this was before the 02 demerger) other bt cellnet customers would still be charged the other mobile networks rate (which wasn't cheap especailly on pay as you go) to call you.
is this north korea south korea or both?
afaict with the current us system your call gets routed first to the area code your mobile number is in and then rerouted back accross the us to where your phone actually is. doesn't sound any more efficiant than just having a few codes that are specifically for mobiles.
hmm do you know if it will work with standard vhs tapes or if it needs a higher quality tape in the cassette to work?
maybe up towards release and for a short time after the codename may remain used by some but i can't imagine the codename will get used much by anyone after that.
do you hear anyone calling 98 "memphis" or XP "whistler" nowadays?
reagrding mediawiki i belive it does now also work on postgresql.
afaict there are two main issues with porting php/mysql stuff to php/postgresql, one is the few propietry features of mysql and the other is that if you wan't to support both you have to wrap stuff yourself as php has totally seperate calls for postgresql and mysql
no i mean that in my original post i typed "mean" when i should have typed "meant"
p.s. karma bonus disabled on this post as i am responding to a slightly offtopic +1
from reading the article it sounds like the safe mode is intended to prevent total loss of the probe in the event of a problem that sucks lots of power.
the main problem seems to be it takes a while to get it back to normal operation and they'd really like to take some photos of the bit of mars the probe is going over soon
mean should have been meant
which are mean to reduce use of cars. They also make it seem much less of a shock when the price of oil goes up.
but afaict most of the high fuel prices at the moment are due to catrina knocking out refining capacity not oil prices.
swimming is much slower than running.
therefore if your aim is to get to someone as quick as possible it makes sense to run round the pool before jumping in. also the initial entry is probablly the easiest way to gain depth and its easier to see whats going on with the added height of the poolside than when you are in the water.
there aren't as many worms as e-mail viruses but those that there are still produce a significant background noise that serves to infect any unpatched windows box that gets directly connected to the internet.
is its posix on win32 rather than posix on NT
This makes certain things (most notablly select) rather difficult to implement and slow.
afaict there are 3 main types of malware.
1: self replicating malware, obviously with this the less the density of viable targets among the targeted population the harder it is for it to spread.
2: malware distributed to a general through things like websites that are not themselves the targets of the malware. This won't be directly affected by a lower hit rate though it may have an affect on the actions of the humans behind it.
3: malware targeted at a particular person/company deliberately as part of a hack attempt. with this again the hacker is going to find out what to use against you particularlly. This is probablly the most dangerous type in many ways as if they have fixed on YOU you can't win just by being slightly tougher than others.
or they just point a gun at the drivers head and tell them to hand over the keys.
Exactly when did hell freeze over?! /. headline it happened when debian sarge was released.
according to the
that tracks when security patches go into the linux kernel.so if i have a box thats running a kernel.org kernel i can see if that kernel has any known vulnerabilities.
the debian installer (sarge etch and sid not woody) uses devfs, iirc due to diskspace issues on the root floppy or something like that.
if you are carefull and use the right tools (things like autopackages apbuild and relaytool for example) you can make binaries that will run on almost all reasonablly recent normal i386 distros and on freebsd too for that matter if linux binary compatibility support is installed.
The biggest problem comes from the way libraries and headers are normally dealt with on linux. e.g. if i build a gtk app normally on a system with gtk 2.4 then it won't run on a system with gtk 2.2 even if i don't use any of the new functionality from 2.4.
yes but would you rejoice if it had a totally new set of quirks annoyances etc that were very different from those you were familiar with.
its like moving from win to linux sure they can be made to look the same on the surface but as soon as you actually try to do stuff you will still run into and get annoyed by the underlying differences
lets clarify
1. GNU was there first,
some GNU were indeed there before linux but i don't think they had a runnable totally free system before linux existed due to thier screwing about with microkernels.
2. GNU is a prerequisite for the linux kernel to exist
probabbly true, the fsf site makes the claim that the bsds only moved towards freeness because of gnu (i dunno how solid this claim is) and anyway the bsds came with thier own kernels.
3. Linux without GNU is worthless, as there are a large number of necessary utilities for linux that can ONLY be compiled with GCC, so even if you decide to replace it with ICC you can't compile firefox,etc
true but only because GCC happened to be one of the best C compilers arround when they were developed.
4. Every 'Linux' system uses GNU software, but there are a lot of GNU systems that don't use Linux. Thus 'Linux' is just one of many GNU systems.
sure there are unix systems of other descents that have been enhanced with a few gnu tools.
sure there have been expermental systems with gnu and other kernels.
however i've never heared of a system that uses the gnu userland as its main userland, doesn't use the linux kernel, and that actually has reached the point of stable releases that are usable. would you like to name one?