Exactly which hacker championship are you referring to? Pwn2Own, the contest where they win the machine and $10,000? If so, you will want to look at the results again. Mac and Windows have consistently fallen, while Linux has remained the only OS standing.
Psychohistory (Asimov's Foundation series) suffers the same flaw. The key was to have a small group hold the answers, and guide/warn when appropriate.
The trouble then becomes selecting a group that we can trust with the wealth of nations, and the power to destroy by proclamation.
I don't trust any group with that much power not to grow corrupt. Best that this secret be out and become useless.
Microsoft would never bribe several countries to corrupt and invariably damage a well respected standards board just to get one of their formats certified as a standard. Microsoft is a large, wealthy, and well respected company known for integrity and trustworthiness. The users of Microsoft software trust Microsoft, even trusting them to install new updates to their computer monthly. With so many trusting Microsoft so implicitly, how could anyone even insinuate such outlandish accusations against the absolute cornerstone of the software field.
If such accusations were true, then what would follow? That their updates are untrustworthy or that Microsoft may update your system in a way that benefits only Microsoft and not their customer - you? To question Microsoft's intentions, trustworthiness and integrity would cast a foreboding shadow across the entire computer landscape. And placing their vast wealth and political power aside, Microsoft holds a massively dominate share of the market, and arguably has immense power on that basis alone.
No, I refuse to believe that Microsoft is anything but an example, a leader of exactly how a software company should succeed. All software firms looking to proser should look no further than Microsoft for a blueprint of success. We should encourage Microsoft by buying their products and debunking such baseless lies leveled against them in jealousy. Trust Microsoft. If you are running Windows, don't you already? Aren't you trusting them now? You use their software, you should trust them.
There is no reason to doubt Microsoft. They do not lie, they do not cheat. They got to where they are today by being the best, and selling the best, and treating their customers with respect, and earning their customers respect. The people, and governments, would not allow Microsoft to do the things it is accused of doing. No one would stand for it. If someone did not trust Microsoft, they would not use their software to bank, email, and hold some of their most valuable and private data secure. Don't hate Microsoft. Trust Microsoft. Microsoft has never done anything to deserve anything other than respect, admiration, trust, and the continued use and purchase of their products.
I thought I read a while back that NASA was planning a low-friction rails system akin to Final Fantasy 8's Ragnarok launch. Although I would guess the pitch of the climb would be a bit less dramatic.
The idea of which of course is building energy instead of a massive short blast. You build up speed over a long distance, and slowly climb to virtical, where the rails end.
You can have your flying car, I'll take the spaceship with giant claw hands.
Not only is Automatix not recomended, but it is almost completely irrelivant and unessary.
On a fresh 7.10 install:
Add/Remove, Show all packages, "restricted". Install restricted package. You now have installed: Java6, Flash9, video codecs, lame, dvd playback, ms fonts, and more. No command line, no downloading of a 3rd party unrecomended script. Just easy. Compare that to Windows.
Even going outside of the package manager, most people find there is a deb for their distro (eg. Google Earth).
I removed the "Made for Windows" sticker and replaced it with a "Powered by Ubuntu" sticker. Ubuntu 7.10 is the release that has replaced Windows for me.
The complexity is much more difficult than that. Encrypted p2p, encrypted files, encrypted VOIP (Skype), SSH, and so on.
And how can they tell a single large encrypted torrent from a dozen smaller encrypted torrents?
I would wager that Ma'Bell is more concerned about bandwidth usage and its cost to them rather than copyright. And I very much doubt they will care about the legitimate users torrenting Linux ISO's and Skyping each other that will be blocked or kicked.
TrackMeNot isn't designed to hide your searches from your ISP. It is designed to muddy the profiling Yahoo, MSN and Google are performing.
Recent versions of it seem to perform that job fantastically and address most of Bruce's concerns (word list, timing, etc).
So while it would hinder, to a degree, it is the fact that it really does not erase or otherwise really hide my legitimate searches from my ISP or work proxy, that I do not use it.
But most of Bruce's concerns are no longer valid.
"Windows already has a decent way of installing and uninstalling software"
Accepted does not mean decent.
Add/Remove really doesn't have anything to actually Add. And the Remove aspect of Add/Remove doesn't actually remove. Some programs go so far as to only remove the shortcuts and say "Uninstall Complete!", while others leave behind large swaths of registry entries and several MB of unnecessary files at C:\, Windows, Program Files, AppData, Local Data, Local Data\AppData (the other AppData, ugh) and anywhere else they please.
But the real failure in Windows is a decent way to keep any number of applications up to date. This would be a fantastic reason to use FOSS in Windows, because for all there would (hopefully) be a central, trusted and easy update system for all FOSS on your Windows machines.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same..."
"I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people." - G. W. Bush
"There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country." - G. W. Bush
"Our first priority is the military. The highest calling to protect the people is to strengthen our military." - G. W. Bush
"When war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous. When war is continuous there is no such thing as military necessity. Technical progress can cease and the most palpable facts can be denied or disregarded." George Orwell, 1984.
With a continuous war, can we now disregard the most palpable fact that our country is first and foremost about freedom?
Microsoft announces Monad is insufficient for Vista.
Later this week they plan to unveil Gonad, the new MSShell.
A senior Microsoft developer leaked some details of the new Gonad shell "When you start the computer, it boots your Gonad and brings up a MShell". When pressed for further information, he said "Not now, I have a headache".
"Version 10 combines a compact interface with an innovative DRM technology for enabling music subscriptions that you can take with you on your MP3 player."
Better DRM features help Microsoft onto the list?
I wonder how many advertising spots MS buys through PC World?
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I sent several of the latest live CDs to a friend so he could test drive Linux. All of them gave him kernel panic errors. After an updated Bios, stil the errors. Many cheat codes later, we were no closer.
He then installed Mandriva LE DVD just fine, and has been running Linux for weeks now on his old laptop.
My point is that Live CDs can often give Grandma the wrong impression, including that Linux is buggy and slow among other things.
Sometimes buggy, time consuming and unessarily difficult, yes. Slow? No.
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Exactly which hacker championship are you referring to? Pwn2Own, the contest where they win the machine and $10,000? If so, you will want to look at the results again. Mac and Windows have consistently fallen, while Linux has remained the only OS standing.
Psychohistory (Asimov's Foundation series) suffers the same flaw. The key was to have a small group hold the answers, and guide/warn when appropriate. The trouble then becomes selecting a group that we can trust with the wealth of nations, and the power to destroy by proclamation. I don't trust any group with that much power not to grow corrupt. Best that this secret be out and become useless.
Lies. Offensive and outrageous lies.
Microsoft would never bribe several countries to corrupt and invariably damage a well respected standards board just to get one of their formats certified as a standard. Microsoft is a large, wealthy, and well respected company known for integrity and trustworthiness. The users of Microsoft software trust Microsoft, even trusting them to install new updates to their computer monthly. With so many trusting Microsoft so implicitly, how could anyone even insinuate such outlandish accusations against the absolute cornerstone of the software field.
If such accusations were true, then what would follow? That their updates are untrustworthy or that Microsoft may update your system in a way that benefits only Microsoft and not their customer - you? To question Microsoft's intentions, trustworthiness and integrity would cast a foreboding shadow across the entire computer landscape. And placing their vast wealth and political power aside, Microsoft holds a massively dominate share of the market, and arguably has immense power on that basis alone.
No, I refuse to believe that Microsoft is anything but an example, a leader of exactly how a software company should succeed. All software firms looking to proser should look no further than Microsoft for a blueprint of success. We should encourage Microsoft by buying their products and debunking such baseless lies leveled against them in jealousy. Trust Microsoft. If you are running Windows, don't you already? Aren't you trusting them now? You use their software, you should trust them.
There is no reason to doubt Microsoft. They do not lie, they do not cheat. They got to where they are today by being the best, and selling the best, and treating their customers with respect, and earning their customers respect. The people, and governments, would not allow Microsoft to do the things it is accused of doing. No one would stand for it. If someone did not trust Microsoft, they would not use their software to bank, email, and hold some of their most valuable and private data secure. Don't hate Microsoft. Trust Microsoft. Microsoft has never done anything to deserve anything other than respect, admiration, trust, and the continued use and purchase of their products.
Thank you.
I thought I read a while back that NASA was planning a low-friction rails system akin to Final Fantasy 8's Ragnarok launch. Although I would guess the pitch of the climb would be a bit less dramatic.
The idea of which of course is building energy instead of a massive short blast. You build up speed over a long distance, and slowly climb to virtical, where the rails end.
You can have your flying car, I'll take the spaceship with giant claw hands.
Not only is Automatix not recomended, but it is almost completely irrelivant and unessary.
On a fresh 7.10 install:
Add/Remove, Show all packages, "restricted". Install restricted package.
You now have installed: Java6, Flash9, video codecs, lame, dvd playback, ms fonts, and more.
No command line, no downloading of a 3rd party unrecomended script. Just easy. Compare that to Windows.
Even going outside of the package manager, most people find there is a deb for their distro (eg. Google Earth).
I removed the "Made for Windows" sticker and replaced it with a "Powered by Ubuntu" sticker. Ubuntu 7.10 is the release that has replaced Windows for me.
And how can they tell a single large encrypted torrent from a dozen smaller encrypted torrents?
I would wager that Ma'Bell is more concerned about bandwidth usage and its cost to them rather than copyright. And I very much doubt they will care about the legitimate users torrenting Linux ISO's and Skyping each other that will be blocked or kicked.
TrackMeNot isn't designed to hide your searches from your ISP. It is designed to muddy the profiling Yahoo, MSN and Google are performing. Recent versions of it seem to perform that job fantastically and address most of Bruce's concerns (word list, timing, etc). So while it would hinder, to a degree, it is the fact that it really does not erase or otherwise really hide my legitimate searches from my ISP or work proxy, that I do not use it. But most of Bruce's concerns are no longer valid.
Accepted does not mean decent.
Add/Remove really doesn't have anything to actually Add. And the Remove aspect of Add/Remove doesn't actually remove. Some programs go so far as to only remove the shortcuts and say "Uninstall Complete!", while others leave behind large swaths of registry entries and several MB of unnecessary files at C:\, Windows, Program Files, AppData, Local Data, Local Data\AppData (the other AppData, ugh) and anywhere else they please.
But the real failure in Windows is a decent way to keep any number of applications up to date. This would be a fantastic reason to use FOSS in Windows, because for all there would (hopefully) be a central, trusted and easy update system for all FOSS on your Windows machines.
Siriusly, my name is not Surely!
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same..."
More important than life itself: "Give me liberty or give me death."
See alternate view:
"I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people." - G. W. Bush
"There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country." - G. W. Bush
"Our first priority is the military. The highest calling to protect the people is to strengthen our military." - G. W. Bush
"When war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous. When war is continuous there is no such thing as military necessity. Technical progress can cease and the most palpable facts can be denied or disregarded." George Orwell, 1984.
With a continuous war, can we now disregard the most palpable fact that our country is first and foremost about freedom?
man man man "Man, I give up."
JAVA is much slower than MS Office. Here is how to fix this problem.
Open Open Office (heh, funny).
Tools / Options / Open Office.org (main options) / Java / DE-Select "Use Java Runtime Environment".
BAM. Now Open Office opens two to three times as fast.
Microsoft announces Monad is insufficient for Vista.
Later this week they plan to unveil Gonad, the new MSShell.
A senior Microsoft developer leaked some details of the new Gonad shell "When you start the computer, it boots your Gonad and brings up a MShell". When pressed for further information, he said "Not now, I have a headache".
"Version 10 combines a compact interface with an innovative DRM technology for enabling music subscriptions that you can take with you on your MP3 player."
Better DRM features help Microsoft onto the list?
I wonder how many advertising spots MS buys through PC World?
I sent several of the latest live CDs to a friend so he could test drive Linux. All of them gave him kernel panic errors. After an updated Bios, stil the errors. Many cheat codes later, we were no closer.
He then installed Mandriva LE DVD just fine, and has been running Linux for weeks now on his old laptop.
My point is that Live CDs can often give Grandma the wrong impression, including that Linux is buggy and slow among other things.
Sometimes buggy, time consuming and unessarily difficult, yes. Slow? No.
Now it can finally be put to rest!
Batman and Robin are straight.
Some of us could finally get lucky.