The problem with automatic dependency checking is that because the computer is doing that checking for you, you are less likely to personally know what, exactly, what all those dependencies are for packages that you've installed, unless you've installed them very recently... which means that if you want to uninstall a package, and you don't want to keep around any other packages whose only purpose for being installed was to support the package that you no longer want, if you had to manually install those dependencies in the first place, you are in a good position to be able to know which packages you should be removing as well.
Under Ubuntu/Debian those supporting packages are marked "automatically installed" and can be removed with "apt-get autoremove".
Frankly, I thought Slackware already had a package dependency system in place. If not, I have better things to do than manually track dependencies. It's not productive work for me.
Looks like that's what's happened to Slashdot. Microsoft seems to own the front page now.
Does anyone know where we can go to discuss real tech?
I am but glad that Microsoft stuff is occasionally featured on the Slashdot front page too. It is as important company as Apple, Samsung, Red Hat, Intel or whatever. I want to hear about MS too: both their successes and embarrassing mistakes.
However in addition to Slashdot I also read a site called InfoQ, they have pretty good stuff too.
I used to rant a lot about the Start Screen and the Modern UI in general, but now I have to admit that the 8.1 upgrade has fixed enough things that I can swallow the new UI. After that, there's quite a lot of performance and usability improvements which make me prefer the OS over Windows 7.
No, those are part of normal title stylization in Slashdot. However as an exception some conjunction words are written with a lowercase initial letter.
I should also add that no Java or ActiveX is required to do online banking in Finland. If you want to see how a nice, clean and secure bank website is created, Finns are not a bad choice to consult.
In my experience most of the home-drooled kids get only a very basic bit of science because it's likely to interfere with the wacky creationist/survivalist ideas of their parents.
I think a much bigger problem is that if you are a kid interested in science you might be labeled as a loser nerd by other kids.
It indeed begs for the question: if measured with extremely accurate scale, would the helium-filled drive actually show a weight difference versus being filled with air? Also, a couple of guys above claim that it would actually be heavier than lighter. I dunno.
Waah waah. I submitted the article exactly to balance out the FOSS-heavy stream on news on Slashdot. I like and use OSS too but it's healthy to see all the sides of the world and what's happening in IT world in general. News for nerds, stuff that matters -- isn't that the baseline?
A good thing to start doing right now would be to educate people to use end-to-end encryption for all their communications (or as much as they can). HTTPS, IMAPS, etc. It's not the ultimate solution but will make a good portion of MiTM attacks conducted by spying agencies useless.
Reading the comments above and reading some material, my impression now is that it is more robust than Linux, but requires more effort to set things up.
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The hardware support for PS2 and PS3 is also incomplete. You cannot tap to the deeper parts of the GPU for example.
The problem with automatic dependency checking is that because the computer is doing that checking for you, you are less likely to personally know what, exactly, what all those dependencies are for packages that you've installed, unless you've installed them very recently... which means that if you want to uninstall a package, and you don't want to keep around any other packages whose only purpose for being installed was to support the package that you no longer want, if you had to manually install those dependencies in the first place, you are in a good position to be able to know which packages you should be removing as well.
Under Ubuntu/Debian those supporting packages are marked "automatically installed" and can be removed with "apt-get autoremove".
Frankly, I thought Slackware already had a package dependency system in place. If not, I have better things to do than manually track dependencies. It's not productive work for me.
Looks like that's what's happened to Slashdot. Microsoft seems to own the front page now.
Does anyone know where we can go to discuss real tech?
I am but glad that Microsoft stuff is occasionally featured on the Slashdot front page too. It is as important company as Apple, Samsung, Red Hat, Intel or whatever. I want to hear about MS too: both their successes and embarrassing mistakes.
However in addition to Slashdot I also read a site called InfoQ, they have pretty good stuff too.
I can't even find a students version.
Try DreamSpark...
You are a moron. :P
I used to rant a lot about the Start Screen and the Modern UI in general, but now I have to admit that the 8.1 upgrade has fixed enough things that I can swallow the new UI. After that, there's quite a lot of performance and usability improvements which make me prefer the OS over Windows 7.
No, those are part of normal title stylization in Slashdot. However as an exception some conjunction words are written with a lowercase initial letter.
I should also add that no Java or ActiveX is required to do online banking in Finland. If you want to see how a nice, clean and secure bank website is created, Finns are not a bad choice to consult.
Also, the title unnecessarily contains a period.
Published on Tue Jan 04 2011
Cool story. Not exactly recent, though.
That is because before publishing, all Slashdot news go through a rigorous fact-checking and quality assurance review, which can take months or years.
In my experience most of the home-drooled kids get only a very basic bit of science because it's likely to interfere with the wacky creationist/survivalist ideas of their parents.
I think a much bigger problem is that if you are a kid interested in science you might be labeled as a loser nerd by other kids.
It indeed begs for the question: if measured with extremely accurate scale, would the helium-filled drive actually show a weight difference versus being filled with air? Also, a couple of guys above claim that it would actually be heavier than lighter. I dunno.
Helium has a way of diffusing right through an air tight seal.
Duh, then use a helium tight seal. Deceptively simple. Another win for armchair technology designers.
Welcome to Slashdot... where every advance is obvious and every technology is attempted to be debunked by high school level science knowledge.
Additionally, if some technology is not 100% perfect, it's automatically completely useless. :P
If someone's facts are wrong, I don't see how that is trolling.
Intel used to licence the PowerVR stuff for the pathetic onboard video before they rolled their own.
That is not true. Some (not all) Atom platforms use PowerVR stuff, that's all. Intel has rolled plenty of in-house GPUs before and after those.
But multiple small steps in one direction is often a sign that a great leap will eventually be made.
Waah waah. I submitted the article exactly to balance out the FOSS-heavy stream on news on Slashdot. I like and use OSS too but it's healthy to see all the sides of the world and what's happening in IT world in general. News for nerds, stuff that matters -- isn't that the baseline?
There's also the old saying that "a picture can tell more than a thousand words". :)
Well, it's not perfect solution, but that doesn't mean that it can't make things a bit better.
A good thing to start doing right now would be to educate people to use end-to-end encryption for all their communications (or as much as they can). HTTPS, IMAPS, etc. It's not the ultimate solution but will make a good portion of MiTM attacks conducted by spying agencies useless.
AFAIK a spying agency can just negotiate an extra wire from a router to which a copy of the data is being sent, thus no extra latency.
Reading the comments above and reading some material, my impression now is that it is more robust than Linux, but requires more effort to set things up.
What are the benefits over using Linux?
:D