I'm sorry, but I don't want to shop at my ATM. I want to do one thing - Deposit and withdraw money. I don't want a media center running on the latest and greatest OS - with the latest exploits included (free of charge)
Mind you, that would be the only thing banks provide free these days.
Yeah, all this is well and good, but don't forget the 2 P's, Patents and Profits. A company makes products for profit, whether they make clothing or life-saving drugs. If it is not profitable, they will not produce. This is linked with patents. IIRC, there was a major dispute with the big pharma companies a few years back, ended up with a drug taken off the market. And let's not forget the penicillin disputes (Chain, Merck-Sharp-Dome, Florey, Fleming etc.)
I know what we will do! We open-source the support! Free GPL'ed code, delivered straight to your door, ready and willing to support OOo.
Seriously, does it matter? Some things just won't gain huge, widespread acceptance, displacing a massive, well funded market monopolist. OOo is great (I use it now) but I can't see it getting supported. Christ, I just got off the phone to Tech Support at Bigpond (biggest broadband supplier in Australia), they don't support anything except Outlook Express and Outlook. If a simple email app can't get supported, what hope is there for a 100MB+ Office suite?
Are there any advantages to upgrading? On the down-side, I can see
1: Losing compatibility with extensions
2: Losing stability/higher memory usage (come to think of it, this isn't really a change)
3: Bugs galore - possible security issues?
So, is there any reason for anyone to use this until a release candidate comes out?
Repost from the other thread, but it's still valid
/ \ O O |||/ |\/| \__/
Hey there, partner! It looks like you're trying to change your color balance!
Would you like me to:
1. Overwrite all pixels with #000000
2. Overwrite all pixels with #FFFFFF
3. Corrupt your image
4. Save your image in our proprietary format that even we can't read
5. Take you to the Gimp homepage
Distributions responsibility
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Suspend2 Suspended
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· Score: 3, Interesting
This is an area where the major distro's - Ubuntu, Mandrake, Suse et al. need to pick up their game. Suspend2 is a great solution, but it is poorly integrated into the vanilla distro's. A few months ago, I tried Suspend2 with Hoary (Ubuntu 5.04) I had to:
1. Download Ubuntu kernel sources
2. Apply a patch-set
3. Recompile the kernel and install the kernel
4. And some other stuff I forgot - involving messing around in/etc and other areas - config files galore!
Now I havent tried it with Breezy, but I am pretty sure there is no.deb/script on UbuntuForums.
Why can't the disto's simply give the user Suspend2 fully integrated in their repective kernels?
Surely not stability issues, because it was bug-free for me. Even a simple choice would be miles better than what the current situation. The distro makers have dropped the ball, let's see them pick it up.
Oh wait - I just said that Ubuntu et al. is not perfect! Goodbye, karma.
Email das@doit.wisc.edu if you feel you have met the requirements, along with the mechanism used. The mechanism will then be reported to Apple and/or the entities responsible for the component(s).
With virus/spyware becoming a multimillion dollar business, do you really think that the real hackers (sorry for the use of the term) will stay away from this, due to the this very condition. Do you think that the dangerous exploits and cracks that are, for the moment, unknown by Apple, and are hence, very valuable. They will not be willingly sent to Apple for some minor publicity and no material, no, they will be auctioned off in some sleazy IRC channel in Russia.
I don't know if this is redundant, but it seems that Google is THE hot tech job, like IBM was a while back. Is this really neccessary? Anyone I know working in tech would drop their job right then and there if a job offer from Google came into their postbox!
...your head stuck so far up your front side bus...
Ironically, the AMD64 series CPU's have no front side bus. This includes the X2 series. They have a hypertransport bus, which is similar but different. This is one of the premier reasons that the X2/Opterons scale so much better than the Intel equivalents, they do not have a saturated FSB as they have direct HTT links CPU-CPU.
I think intel might be too late to the party. The dual-cores of this generation have been bought already, and the upgrade cycle won't start again until 2007-2008. And guess what? Intel lost this battle. My X2 3800+ performs better, OC's better, and is faster than a similar priced Pentium D. And I got it a good few months ago. So did many others.
Intel needs to accept that they lost this war, and focus on the 07-08 season, when the target market is upgrading again.
Also - faster, more efficient chips? Compared to what? The Netburst architecture chips? They put out more heat per watt than my heater, FFS!
This isn't unexpected. Howards government has been steadily eroding Australians powers ever since 9/11. The "Alert - But not alarmed" is the Aussie equivalent to the Orange/Red terror alerts in America. The Howard Government has been steadily increasing the fear levels in the population. They recently voted on a bill that would allow incarceration without charge for around 90 days IIRC. AFAIK it wasn't passed after human rights activists won a minor victory for freedom. But the bill was strongly supporded by the Government (Liberal Party) and they have got the majority by a long way after the Mark Latham experiment.
To recap - This is just another assault on privacy by the Liberal Party. It may not pass now, but it will someday, and when that day comes - I'm moving across the ditch to New Zealand
In case you can't tell - I'm an Australian resident
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Mind you, that would be the only thing banks provide free these days.
Yes, I failed Introductory Calculus, I couldn't intergrate with the class.
It's a Windows security alert! I call dupe! After all the WMF flaws, this latest IE exploit and Vista delays, what else is there on /.?
I know I'll get modded down for this, but if Pages is for your mom, who is sendmail for? People with PhD's in computer science and maths?
Yeah, all this is well and good, but don't forget the 2 P's, Patents and Profits. A company makes products for profit, whether they make clothing or life-saving drugs. If it is not profitable, they will not produce. This is linked with patents. IIRC, there was a major dispute with the big pharma companies a few years back, ended up with a drug taken off the market. And let's not forget the penicillin disputes (Chain, Merck-Sharp-Dome, Florey, Fleming etc.)
Wiki Article on the Breakthrough
"I've done it before and I'll do it again," he said. "Anonymity has no place at Microsoft."
Seriously, does it matter? Some things just won't gain huge, widespread acceptance, displacing a massive, well funded market monopolist. OOo is great (I use it now) but I can't see it getting supported. Christ, I just got off the phone to Tech Support at Bigpond (biggest broadband supplier in Australia), they don't support anything except Outlook Express and Outlook. If a simple email app can't get supported, what hope is there for a 100MB+ Office suite?
1: Losing compatibility with extensions
2: Losing stability/higher memory usage (come to think of it, this isn't really a change)
3: Bugs galore - possible security issues?
So, is there any reason for anyone to use this until a release candidate comes out?
The Wiki Article about CPS, for those who were blindsided by the TLA.
It will save a lot of viewing time for those readers who actually want to find out about how SCAMP measures up to LAMP, LAPP, WAMP etc.
Would you like me to:
1. Overwrite all pixels with #000000
2. Overwrite all pixels with #FFFFFF
3. Corrupt your image
4. Save your image in our proprietary format that even we can't read
5. Take you to the Gimp homepage
1. Download Ubuntu kernel sources /etc and other areas - config files galore!
2. Apply a patch-set
3. Recompile the kernel and install the kernel
4. And some other stuff I forgot - involving messing around in
Now I havent tried it with Breezy, but I am pretty sure there is no .deb/script on UbuntuForums.
Why can't the disto's simply give the user Suspend2 fully integrated in their repective kernels?
Surely not stability issues, because it was bug-free for me. Even a simple choice would be miles better than what the current situation. The distro makers have dropped the ball, let's see them pick it up.
Oh wait - I just said that Ubuntu et al. is not perfect! Goodbye, karma.
No, the lack of malware makes the first malware package, and the associated virus/trojan etc. even MORE valuable.
128.104.16.150
With virus/spyware becoming a multimillion dollar business, do you really think that the real hackers (sorry for the use of the term) will stay away from this, due to the this very condition. Do you think that the dangerous exploits and cracks that are, for the moment, unknown by Apple, and are hence, very valuable. They will not be willingly sent to Apple for some minor publicity and no material, no, they will be auctioned off in some sleazy IRC channel in Russia.
I don't know if this is redundant, but it seems that Google is THE hot tech job, like IBM was a while back. Is this really neccessary? Anyone I know working in tech would drop their job right then and there if a job offer from Google came into their postbox!
Ironically, the AMD64 series CPU's have no front side bus. This includes the X2 series. They have a hypertransport bus, which is similar but different. This is one of the premier reasons that the X2/Opterons scale so much better than the Intel equivalents, they do not have a saturated FSB as they have direct HTT links CPU-CPU.
Intel needs to accept that they lost this war, and focus on the 07-08 season, when the target market is upgrading again.
Also - faster, more efficient chips? Compared to what? The Netburst architecture chips? They put out more heat per watt than my heater, FFS!
5 hours later, Redmond, Ballmer's Office
CRASH!
When I drop bombshells, CHAIRS BREAK! THAT WAS NOT A FUCKING BOMBSHELL!
Sounds of chairs being thrown
To recap - This is just another assault on privacy by the Liberal Party. It may not pass now, but it will someday, and when that day comes - I'm moving across the ditch to New Zealand
In case you can't tell - I'm an Australian resident
A: Takes away your freedom.
And without sulphur, the list is halved?
Does it run on a toaster?