Some of it mildly proprietary. For that I use SpiderOak.com. Its client side encryption and They. Don't. Have. The. KEY.
Can you be fully sure you are protected? It seems they use their own proprietary client to transfer the data. At that point, well, they can do pretty much anything. Maybe there is another "NSAKEY" which works as an alternative universal key to decrypt any backup. Or maybe a three-letter-organization forces them to deliver a secret patch which contains an exception for your user account and suddenly makes it send everything unencrypted.
Yep, there's the catch. They don't pre-emptively give encryption keys or direct access to their servers. But when specifically requested, they will deliver anything requested in a pretty package.
I'm gonna shuffle things up and get educated in France, grab a lady from USA and, work in Japan!
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Correct. Here's the full background story of the CD incident for anyone who's interested:
Debian 1.0 was never released: InfoMagic, a CD vendor, accidentally shipped a development release of Debian and entitled it 1.0. On December 11th 1995, Debian and InfoMagic jointly announced that this release was screwed. Bruce Perens explains that the data placed on the "InfoMagic Linux Developer's Resource 5-CD Set November 1995" as "Debian 1.0" is not the Debian 1.0 release, but an early development version which is only partially in the ELF format, will probably not boot or run correctly, and does not represent the quality of a released Debian system. To prevent confusion between the premature CD version and the actual Debian release, the Debian Project has renamed its next release to "Debian 1.1". The premature Debian 1.0 on CD is deprecated and should not be used.[1]
Maybe we can have a contest for the most creative 451 pages. Who knows, maybe they can display personal information about you derived from your IP address, your cookies and even turn on your computer's camera. Ahhh, good times when you know the government isn;t just blocking the site, it's spying on those who tried to access it.
The sad thing is that a closed platform (say, an iPad) could actually have some of that functionality secretly baked in. As SW and HW gets even more complicated, it's increasingly easy to put it there without anyone noticing.
Maybe I'm a bit exaggerating here but, man... Anyone can measure how long the battery of a laptop lasts, but this guy actually put some effort to patiently capture the values long-term and, making the graphs of the battery decay and his computer use times. Good stuff, interesting report!
I don't know... In Linux if you turn on ACPI debugging, you can see that ACPI spouts constantly (maybe twice a minute or something like that) an event from the battery (CMB1 or other name). Maybe when you "poll" the battery, you simply get the most recent values that the ACPI driver stored from the latest report?
But that's exactly what I was talking about: you have to switch off stuff to make it work. Windows works out of the box with all effects (with the Aero blurry glass effect and all) and file indexing turned on, on an Atom machine.
This is another example why in my opinion Linux desktops should cool down reinventing themselves and focus more on quality assurance. Actually Unity and KDE 4.11 are right now quite stable platforms -- keep it so and fix the bugs.:)
GNOME is all right. GNOME 3 might be weird, but at least it's trying to do something other than emulate Windows or Mac OS X. It's just too buggy for my tastes.
GNOME3 with the program "Maximus" (maximizes each window and hides the title bar) is brilliant for a simplistic one-window-at-time desktop. The Ubuntu GNOME Remix works great for this purpose. Also Mutter seems to be slightly faster than Compiz.
I installed Kubuntu on an old windows XP computer for a friend, the thing was visibly slower than XP. It took my friend 10 minutes to give up and reboot the computer on XP partition, never to come back.
This has started to become the problem lately: the biggest flagship desktops (KDE, Unity and GNOME3) are slower than Windows. To compete in the same ballpark, in Linux you have to downshift for example to XFCE (which is actually an excellent DE). But you have to trade off all of the 3D desktop eye candy. Not all people need those candies, but Windows can run them smoothly even on an Atom netbook or a crusty Pentium 4 box. On low-performance machines the graphics stack of Windows is just a winner. I don't know if Wayland or Mir makes an improvement to this, but I hope so.
For anyone who's interested, the other day I noticed that Trinity Desktop, the KDE 3.5 spinoff, is also still alive. Just got a new release this summer.:)
That has always been a little PITA.:) I never got the combination of Windows + Qt Creator + SDL to make the entry point to work. Linux + Qt Creator + SDL worked, and Windows + Visual Studio + SDL worked.
Yeah but probably many people think that "literally" means "word-for-word". It's logical to think so. Wiktionary's page for literally suggests that "figuratively" could be used instead.
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That embarrassing photo is out there forever, though.
Yes, the distribution of that photo is embarrassingly parallel. :)
Some of it mildly proprietary. For that I use SpiderOak.com. Its client side encryption and They. Don't. Have. The. KEY.
Can you be fully sure you are protected? It seems they use their own proprietary client to transfer the data. At that point, well, they can do pretty much anything. Maybe there is another "NSAKEY" which works as an alternative universal key to decrypt any backup. Or maybe a three-letter-organization forces them to deliver a secret patch which contains an exception for your user account and suddenly makes it send everything unencrypted.
Yep, there's the catch. They don't pre-emptively give encryption keys or direct access to their servers. But when specifically requested, they will deliver anything requested in a pretty package.
What bug? Can you find it still in the bug tracker? Have you tested 2.8 to see if it's fixed?
The name still sucks. :)
I'm gonna shuffle things up and get educated in France, grab a lady from USA and, work in Japan!
Correct. Here's the full background story of the CD incident for anyone who's interested:
Debian 1.0 was never released: InfoMagic, a CD vendor, accidentally shipped a development release of Debian and entitled it 1.0. On December 11th 1995, Debian and InfoMagic jointly announced that this release was screwed. Bruce Perens explains that the data placed on the "InfoMagic Linux Developer's Resource 5-CD Set November 1995" as "Debian 1.0" is not the Debian 1.0 release, but an early development version which is only partially in the ELF format, will probably not boot or run correctly, and does not represent the quality of a released Debian system. To prevent confusion between the premature CD version and the actual Debian release, the Debian Project has renamed its next release to "Debian 1.1". The premature Debian 1.0 on CD is deprecated and should not be used. [1]
Maybe we can have a contest for the most creative 451 pages. Who knows, maybe they can display personal information about you derived from your IP address, your cookies and even turn on your computer's camera. Ahhh, good times when you know the government isn;t just blocking the site, it's spying on those who tried to access it.
The sad thing is that a closed platform (say, an iPad) could actually have some of that functionality secretly baked in. As SW and HW gets even more complicated, it's increasingly easy to put it there without anyone noticing.
Maybe I'm a bit exaggerating here but, man... Anyone can measure how long the battery of a laptop lasts, but this guy actually put some effort to patiently capture the values long-term and, making the graphs of the battery decay and his computer use times. Good stuff, interesting report!
I don't know... In Linux if you turn on ACPI debugging, you can see that ACPI spouts constantly (maybe twice a minute or something like that) an event from the battery (CMB1 or other name). Maybe when you "poll" the battery, you simply get the most recent values that the ACPI driver stored from the latest report?
But that's exactly what I was talking about: you have to switch off stuff to make it work. Windows works out of the box with all effects (with the Aero blurry glass effect and all) and file indexing turned on, on an Atom machine.
I agree with that. Windows hits the HDD much more than a Linux desktop.
This is another example why in my opinion Linux desktops should cool down reinventing themselves and focus more on quality assurance. Actually Unity and KDE 4.11 are right now quite stable platforms -- keep it so and fix the bugs. :)
GNOME is all right. GNOME 3 might be weird, but at least it's trying to do something other than emulate Windows or Mac OS X. It's just too buggy for my tastes.
GNOME3 with the program "Maximus" (maximizes each window and hides the title bar) is brilliant for a simplistic one-window-at-time desktop. The Ubuntu GNOME Remix works great for this purpose. Also Mutter seems to be slightly faster than Compiz.
I have trouble understanding how Dolphin is taking 5 seconds to open anything on your machine.
I don't see his comment that unbelievable. Maybe there really are some machines on which a performance issue shows up in Dolphin.
MATE is slower than Windows too.
I installed Kubuntu on an old windows XP computer for a friend, the thing was visibly slower than XP. It took my friend 10 minutes to give up and reboot the computer on XP partition, never to come back.
This has started to become the problem lately: the biggest flagship desktops (KDE, Unity and GNOME3) are slower than Windows. To compete in the same ballpark, in Linux you have to downshift for example to XFCE (which is actually an excellent DE). But you have to trade off all of the 3D desktop eye candy. Not all people need those candies, but Windows can run them smoothly even on an Atom netbook or a crusty Pentium 4 box. On low-performance machines the graphics stack of Windows is just a winner. I don't know if Wayland or Mir makes an improvement to this, but I hope so.
For anyone who's interested, the other day I noticed that Trinity Desktop , the KDE 3.5 spinoff, is also still alive. Just got a new release this summer. :)
30 minutes max... 400 pounds....
A Pentium 4 laptop on battery?
That has always been a little PITA. :) I never got the combination of Windows + Qt Creator + SDL to make the entry point to work. Linux + Qt Creator + SDL worked, and Windows + Visual Studio + SDL worked.
I never got this command to enable OpenGL vsync properly under Windows:
SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_SWAP_CONTROL, 1);
However this works:
typedef bool (APIENTRY *PFNWGLSWAPINTERVALFARPROC)(int);
PFNWGLSWAPINTERVALFARPROC wglSwapIntervalEXT = 0;
wglSwapIntervalEXT = (PFNWGLSWAPINTERVALFARPROC)wglGetProcAddress("wglSwapIntervalEXT");
if (wglSwapIntervalEXT) {
wglSwapIntervalEXT(1);
}
Why did the SDL-specific method not work with any GPU? Does it work in 2.0?
What software?
I used to rant about malicious modding on /. but then noticed that the same thing is happening in much worse amounts at Reddit. :)
Mod parent up.
Yeah but probably many people think that "literally" means "word-for-word". It's logical to think so. Wiktionary's page for literally suggests that "figuratively" could be used instead.