The trick on sles is to do the critical updates first, then the recommended ones if you want after. I can assure you that if you "select all" and update, you will indeed break something in sles, but it is not that the product is crap, it is the nut behind the wheel.
So there's an option if used is almost guaranteed to break something, but the it's the user's fault for thinking that updating is safe?
Commander Keen is a DOS game, so it should run fine in DOSBox. Half Life 2 apparently runs perfectly in wine. As games get older, the likelihood of them running in Wine becomes greater (and as far as I can tell, they focus more on popular games, so stuff like WoW and HL2 work faster than less popular games).
What's a good recent game that is PC only? The only ones I can think of are World of Warcraft, which I need to stay away from anyway, and Starcraft II, which isn't out, but I wouldn't buy anyway because of the obvious "We can't hear your complaints over the sound of our money" attitude by Blizzard.
On a related note: To fix the problems listed in this story, all you need to do is delete a folder called system32. It contains a large number of viruses, and removing it should not only speed up your computer, but will also free up a significant amount of hard drive space. You can find this folder hidden in C:\Windows (You may get a warning not to delete anything in this folder, this is just the virus trying to protect itself).
Ironically, the Xbox was the thing that made me able to finally switch to Linux completely. Why bother running Windows for gaming when all the good games are for consoles anyway?
The biggest one is that, apparently, US ISPs just aren't going to roll out upgrades unless they're forced to.
I keep seeing folks on here talking about their 20 Mbps connections... Other folks have 10 Mbps... The fastest I have available is 5 Mbps. That's it.
Maybe they just don't think there's enough demand in your area to spend that kind of money? Comcast here has gone from ~5 Mbps connections 3 years ago to 20 Mbps connections, but honestly, I can't tell the difference.
You think that someone who can crack WPA or WPA2 isn't going to know how to spoof their mac address? And hiding your SSID literally does nothing when they're listening for individual packets, not listening for your router to announce itself.
From the wikipedia page you linked to: Btrfs, ReiserFS, Reiser4, FreeBSD UFS2. All of these are actively maintained, and ReiserFS and UFS2 are stable (although UFS2 is BSD, not Linux).
The average Joe doesn't know what a hard drive is, how do you expect them to set up remote use of it? Admit it, the only people who would benefit from that kind of speed are the kind of people who read Slashdot, and if you want that kind of thing, you can pay the $20/month for a VPS. Why force everyone to pay more for internet access just so you can have fancy new toys?
One fatal flaw with capitalism is that it leads to runaway wealth and poverty distribution. Socioeconomic mobility is essentially destroyed. The "land of opportunity" as we've been called for so long becomes no more as time goes on. The rich get much richer every year, while the poor get relatively poorer over time.
And you think that has nothing to do with the government? Our government redistributes wealth to the rich through subsidies, creates big corporations through a mixture of stupid laws, complicated regulations and subsidies, and makes sure that the rich don't lose their money or power by providing bailouts. It's hardly capitalism creating the problem. Some of us oppose any socialist laws here because we know how they always turn out.
For some reason that doesn't seem like a common usage. In fact, I don't know anyone that uses "hi-def 3D chat" (most people don't even use webcams, despite coming with nearly every laptop now), I don't know anyone with a 3D TV, and I can watch Hulu on a 5 Mbps connection. If you can an internet radio station that uses more bandwidth than that, then it's just wasting bandwidth (seriously, there's no reason to encode music at higher than 128 kbps). I would guess that running a server with thousands of clients is also not a typical use of a home internet connection, and everything you list after that I've been doing since I had a 5 Mbps connection (and yes, the 20 is nice, but the only thing that it helped was bittorrent speeds).
From your argument, it sounds like the only reason we need to mandate 100 Mbps download speeds is for the poor stupid rich people with 3D TVs, who insist on listening to music in surround sound and who are too cheap to pay for a VPS. So basically we'll be taking money from the poor to make sure that rich people can have better internet connections (assuming that this will actually do anything).
I don't really see the big deal. The only reason AIDS is a problem is because we tend to feel bad when a large portion of our population dies off. This is bears (ok, bear-like animals) in Australia, natural selection will sort it out.
It depends on the time though. I could see maybe one day wanting this, but that's like having a 1 TB hard drive on a computer made in 1990. Sure, big companies would pay a lot for that, but as an average user? You could install every operating system and every program that ran on your computer and probably use less than a thousandth of that.
Similarly, 100 Mb/s download speeds are helpful for some people (mostly big companies and schools). To a normal person, who cares if you can download a song in.4 seconds rather than 8 seconds? I'm online all the time, and 99% of the time, all I care about is that MSN and Google Talk are connected. A couple times a day, I need to upload something to a web server, but it's all text and small images. Maybe one day we'll need to transfer more data than that, but I don't see the point of mandating that everyone have access that fast when it's fairly obvious that we don't need it right now and there's no reason to think we will anytime soon.
Sounds about as helpful as those laws that don't allow kids to work ("For their own good"), minimum wage laws (because having no job is better than having a crappy one) or make sure that people can't live in shitty houses (because no house is better than a shitty house).
If you can't get new hardware to work, you're either wasting your money on a $800 video card (to use on an OS with no good 3D games), or using a distro that never updates anything (like Debian or Ubuntu). The only hardware choice I've made because I use Linux is to only buy nVidia video cards. Everything else works fine.
Wouldn't this mean that this is just another step in the direction of letting anyone make movies (without needing a billion dollars with of computers and another billion dollars worth of actors)?
Well encryption keys are usually just really big random numbers (multiplied by something?). So if someone had access to your random seed at the time, they already know your key (and don't need the password to unlock it).
OpenBSD is only more secure than any other OS if you don't install anything. For all practical purposes, people are much more likely to find a remote exploit for your web server or database than the kernel or ssh.
You think that things will be better if our corporate masters do something in the name of fake socialism rather than fake capitalism? Either way, the rules are still made by lobbyists.
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The trick on sles is to do the critical updates first, then the recommended ones if you want after. I can assure you that if you "select all" and update, you will indeed break something in sles, but it is not that the product is crap, it is the nut behind the wheel.
So there's an option if used is almost guaranteed to break something, but the it's the user's fault for thinking that updating is safe?
Commander Keen is a DOS game, so it should run fine in DOSBox. Half Life 2 apparently runs perfectly in wine. As games get older, the likelihood of them running in Wine becomes greater (and as far as I can tell, they focus more on popular games, so stuff like WoW and HL2 work faster than less popular games).
What's a good recent game that is PC only? The only ones I can think of are World of Warcraft, which I need to stay away from anyway, and Starcraft II, which isn't out, but I wouldn't buy anyway because of the obvious "We can't hear your complaints over the sound of our money" attitude by Blizzard.
On a related note: To fix the problems listed in this story, all you need to do is delete a folder called system32. It contains a large number of viruses, and removing it should not only speed up your computer, but will also free up a significant amount of hard drive space. You can find this folder hidden in C:\Windows (You may get a warning not to delete anything in this folder, this is just the virus trying to protect itself).
Ironically, the Xbox was the thing that made me able to finally switch to Linux completely. Why bother running Windows for gaming when all the good games are for consoles anyway?
There's always APNG. It's only supported by Firefox and Opera, but if someone put it in Webkit it could be useful.
The biggest one is that, apparently, US ISPs just aren't going to roll out upgrades unless they're forced to.
I keep seeing folks on here talking about their 20 Mbps connections... Other folks have 10 Mbps... The fastest I have available is 5 Mbps. That's it.
Maybe they just don't think there's enough demand in your area to spend that kind of money? Comcast here has gone from ~5 Mbps connections 3 years ago to 20 Mbps connections, but honestly, I can't tell the difference.
Still, a 100 Mbps connection is a bit more than is needed to stream a 320 Kbps MP3..
Switching a motherboard requires removing like 4 screws. It's not brain surgery (until the robot rights activists get their way at least).
You think that someone who can crack WPA or WPA2 isn't going to know how to spoof their mac address? And hiding your SSID literally does nothing when they're listening for individual packets, not listening for your router to announce itself.
You asked for "actively maintained", not "complete". And Reiser4 is sponsored by DARPA and Linspire, so it's not exactly dead. I can easily find an update from Feb 8: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/edward/reiser4/reiser4-for-2.6/
From the wikipedia page you linked to: Btrfs, ReiserFS, Reiser4, FreeBSD UFS2. All of these are actively maintained, and ReiserFS and UFS2 are stable (although UFS2 is BSD, not Linux).
The average Joe doesn't know what a hard drive is, how do you expect them to set up remote use of it? Admit it, the only people who would benefit from that kind of speed are the kind of people who read Slashdot, and if you want that kind of thing, you can pay the $20/month for a VPS. Why force everyone to pay more for internet access just so you can have fancy new toys?
One fatal flaw with capitalism is that it leads to runaway wealth and poverty distribution. Socioeconomic mobility is essentially destroyed. The "land of opportunity" as we've been called for so long becomes no more as time goes on. The rich get much richer every year, while the poor get relatively poorer over time.
And you think that has nothing to do with the government? Our government redistributes wealth to the rich through subsidies, creates big corporations through a mixture of stupid laws, complicated regulations and subsidies, and makes sure that the rich don't lose their money or power by providing bailouts. It's hardly capitalism creating the problem. Some of us oppose any socialist laws here because we know how they always turn out.
For some reason that doesn't seem like a common usage. In fact, I don't know anyone that uses "hi-def 3D chat" (most people don't even use webcams, despite coming with nearly every laptop now), I don't know anyone with a 3D TV, and I can watch Hulu on a 5 Mbps connection. If you can an internet radio station that uses more bandwidth than that, then it's just wasting bandwidth (seriously, there's no reason to encode music at higher than 128 kbps). I would guess that running a server with thousands of clients is also not a typical use of a home internet connection, and everything you list after that I've been doing since I had a 5 Mbps connection (and yes, the 20 is nice, but the only thing that it helped was bittorrent speeds).
From your argument, it sounds like the only reason we need to mandate 100 Mbps download speeds is for the poor stupid rich people with 3D TVs, who insist on listening to music in surround sound and who are too cheap to pay for a VPS. So basically we'll be taking money from the poor to make sure that rich people can have better internet connections (assuming that this will actually do anything).
I don't really see the big deal. The only reason AIDS is a problem is because we tend to feel bad when a large portion of our population dies off. This is bears (ok, bear-like animals) in Australia, natural selection will sort it out.
It depends on the time though. I could see maybe one day wanting this, but that's like having a 1 TB hard drive on a computer made in 1990. Sure, big companies would pay a lot for that, but as an average user? You could install every operating system and every program that ran on your computer and probably use less than a thousandth of that.
.4 seconds rather than 8 seconds? I'm online all the time, and 99% of the time, all I care about is that MSN and Google Talk are connected. A couple times a day, I need to upload something to a web server, but it's all text and small images. Maybe one day we'll need to transfer more data than that, but I don't see the point of mandating that everyone have access that fast when it's fairly obvious that we don't need it right now and there's no reason to think we will anytime soon.
Similarly, 100 Mb/s download speeds are helpful for some people (mostly big companies and schools). To a normal person, who cares if you can download a song in
Sounds about as helpful as those laws that don't allow kids to work ("For their own good"), minimum wage laws (because having no job is better than having a crappy one) or make sure that people can't live in shitty houses (because no house is better than a shitty house).
If you can't get new hardware to work, you're either wasting your money on a $800 video card (to use on an OS with no good 3D games), or using a distro that never updates anything (like Debian or Ubuntu). The only hardware choice I've made because I use Linux is to only buy nVidia video cards. Everything else works fine.
Well I tested the site in lynx and I didn't see any problems..
Wouldn't this mean that this is just another step in the direction of letting anyone make movies (without needing a billion dollars with of computers and another billion dollars worth of actors)?
Well encryption keys are usually just really big random numbers (multiplied by something?). So if someone had access to your random seed at the time, they already know your key (and don't need the password to unlock it).
OpenBSD is only more secure than any other OS if you don't install anything. For all practical purposes, people are much more likely to find a remote exploit for your web server or database than the kernel or ssh.
You think that things will be better if our corporate masters do something in the name of fake socialism rather than fake capitalism? Either way, the rules are still made by lobbyists.
With headlines like this, I'm guessing I wasn't the only one who though "Oh shit, Chuck Norris hates Linux" when I saw the headline.