Given that 3 or 4 articles before this one is another article about Google's self-driving cars, I have to ask: has it occurred to anyone besides me that Google might want to use those cars to track you in the real world, as well as online?
Fedora has spins available for other desktop environments.
But the KDE spin of Fedora has never worked right. All of Fedora's system management stuff works through Gnome, and is flaky - or downright non-functional - in KDE.
Because if something is being presented as being strictly based on popular interest, but is actually based on private interests, then that is misleading consumers.
But is it news, and is it accurate? I've seen what passes for "news" at sites like Fox News, and I can understand why they don't show up very often, on Facebook.
I can buy cheap peripherals (scanners, printers, etc) in any store and there's a 90% or better chance that it'll work when I plug it into a Windows box. Depending on the peripheral, that rate is WAY lower on Linux.
Again? Really? You guys need to have a nice cup of STFU. Linux hasn't had trouble with peripherals for a long time. On the other hand, I sure wish the Windows partition on my new box would recognize my USB mouse, reliably.
top tier vendors are likely still restricted from producing Linux version in their contracts with Microsoft.
Do you have any evidence this is actually true? I'd love it, if it was, but it seems like this would be lawsuit-worthy, and that we would have heard about it, before.
Yes, I admit using these devices would have been easier on Windows. But I'm not throwing the baby out with the bathwater. 99+% of everything I've tried works with Linux without extra hassle.
I just put together a new system a few months ago, and set it up to dual boot. I have many more problems with Windows, than Linux. Heck, half the time Windows doesn't recognize my USB mouse. Seriously. (Rebooting usually fixes it, but why should I have to do that?)
Above, someone commented that Linux was never intended to be mainstream. I interpreted that as a criticism, but actually it isn't. Linux has a certain audience. I don't see anything wrong with that.
Holy crap, I'm really tired of hearing this. The only reason Linux enjoys the hardware support it currently does is because it has attained some popularity. If it backslides, at all, right now, that hardware support will end - guaranteed - and once it's gone, it'll be gone for good. Then what will we run Linux on? If Linux had 40% to 50% market share, it might be different, but that's not currently the case.
But my wife uses Linux and if she can, anyone can... with the caveat that someone else (me, in her case) sets it up and supports it.
Well, that's the rub, isn't it? I can go to Best Buy or Wal-Mart and get a machine with Windows pre-installed. It's much harder to do that with Linux.
For example, I tried to give this young woman at Panda Express 12 dollars and 12 cents, because the bill was 6 dollars and 87 cents, so that I could get a $5 bill and one quarter back from the transaction so I wouldn't have to carry around so many separate bills or extra coins, and she looked apoplectic.
Like it or not, some people are just stupid. I remember about 20 years ago, I went to a junkyard to get a couple of parts for my car. The guy looked flustered for a few seconds, as he tried to add up the cost, and then said he was trying to remember how to use a calculator. Automatically blaming that kind of stuff on Common Core is disingenuous, at best.
Thanks for jumping to conclusions, but I happen to have a BS in Civil Engineering, so I've done my share of math.
I guess I'd have to ask what's wrong with you, then. Ever since I started helping my kids on their homework, I've started doing math their way, since it's much easier to do in your head.
It would also be nice if the source article could tell us which operating systems it affects. Do I have to worry about my Linux machines and my parents' Macs, or does this just affect Windows?
Sorry, rsync has a number of issues that make it unacceptable (IMO) for backup. Among other reasons, it doesn't preserve metadata, and the rsync people think that's the correct behavior,
Don't get me wrong: I use rsync all the time, but never for backup.
Give it time, and they'll figure a way around that, too. Off the top of my head, I'd say ransomware writers could put a delay in their software, before it does anything - say 6 months after it finds a new system. By that time, the ransomware will be all over the backups. Then what?
Fedora is where you will find the best Gnome experience.
If that's true, Gnome is crap. I recently installed Fedora 23 on my system, hoping I could tolerate the latest version of Gnome. Alas, I could not, so I guess I'm going back to KDE.
I wish I could find something that was 1) usable, and 2) worked with Steam.
I'm not sure how any company or business that deals with information that requires security by law could be using Windows 10.
They pretty much don't care, unless it affects their bottom line, so why would they avoid Windows? As far as I know, HIPAA doesn't levy any fines for a breach; it only requires breaches be reported. Fix that, and you might fix the problem.
As an example, I work for a health insurance company, and we're currently restructuring our network. As far as I can tell (having been a security guy, in the past), they're not doing anything to actually prevent a breach. It only gives them the ability to point fingers and track down the culprit, after the fact. I'm pretty sure many of the changes will actually make a breach more likely, so Windows 10's telemetry is the least of their concerns.
Because pretty much everyone uses gmail, yahoo, Office365 or some other mail service which already does spam filtering.
I can assure you, this isn't true. Gmail/Office365 may be okay for some companies, but others (like mine) are pretty much required to keep their email in-house. I work for a health insurance company, and the risk of having PHI in the cloud is just too great.
The only person in recent history that I know of running a private e-mail server was Hillary Clinton and see how much good it did her
She wouldn't be allowed to use cloud-based email services, either, if she's sending emails containing sensitive national security information.
I have to wonder if they really know what they're talking about, considering that, on their "HDMI to DVI cables" page, they say "the DVI standard does not support embedded audio, so whenever you're interconnecting DVI and HDMI equipment, you'll need to make sure that you've provided a separate path for the flow of the audio," yet that works perfectly fine, on a PC that I have connected to my television. Maybe the official standard doesn't support it, but enough manufacturers have apparently agreed on a "standard" for embedded audio-over-DVI that it's no longer a problem.
... in college, at the time. Another student came into the room and asked, "Did you hear the Challenger exploded?" He was a well-known practical joker, so I figured this was just another one of his jokes. The fact that he was an engineering student and delivered the news in a completely deadpan voice didn't help, any. When he turned on the TV to show me, I couldn't believe it. I'm pretty sure it took about an hour to really sink in, and I couldn't do anything for the rest of the day but sit there and watch in horror.
Wow, that's a steaming pile of crap. Many of the problems on that list were fixed a long time ago (printer drivers), can't be solved, because vendors won't document their products, or exist in Windows, too (out-of-the-box nVidia support).
our industry leading (won't say what industry, but we're a 1BN corporation in the US) company (we're almost 60% of our industry)'s web interface is IE-only.
With any luck, this will hurt your company enough, financially, that your management will think twice, before they code a web application to a specific browser, again.
I use a program that is very specific to my industry and the multi billion dollar company that runs it REQUIRES Internet Explorer to use it.
Maybe if you and your industry complained to your vendors more about allowing you to use any browser, stuff like this wouldn't happen. Honestly, any company that codes to a specific browser, these days, should be run out of business.
Agreed. I scanned a bunch books that way, using a commercial-grade Fujitsu scanner, capable of scanning about 60ppm - both sides. I got a little over 20,000 pages in, and I had to quit, because the work was so intense. That was more than 10 years ago, and I still haven't been able to get back to it.
There's more to scanning a book than just scanning. Between preparing the book for scanning and making sure it scanned correctly, there's a lot of work involved.
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Given that 3 or 4 articles before this one is another article about Google's self-driving cars, I have to ask: has it occurred to anyone besides me that Google might want to use those cars to track you in the real world, as well as online?
Man, I'm good: https://slashdot.org/comments....
But the KDE spin of Fedora has never worked right. All of Fedora's system management stuff works through Gnome, and is flaky - or downright non-functional - in KDE.
But is it news, and is it accurate? I've seen what passes for "news" at sites like Fox News, and I can understand why they don't show up very often, on Facebook.
Completely irrelevant, if you're an advertiser. The only thing that matters is where the eyeballs are.
Again? Really? You guys need to have a nice cup of STFU. Linux hasn't had trouble with peripherals for a long time. On the other hand, I sure wish the Windows partition on my new box would recognize my USB mouse, reliably.
Do you have any evidence this is actually true? I'd love it, if it was, but it seems like this would be lawsuit-worthy, and that we would have heard about it, before.
I just put together a new system a few months ago, and set it up to dual boot. I have many more problems with Windows, than Linux. Heck, half the time Windows doesn't recognize my USB mouse. Seriously. (Rebooting usually fixes it, but why should I have to do that?)
Holy crap, I'm really tired of hearing this. The only reason Linux enjoys the hardware support it currently does is because it has attained some popularity. If it backslides, at all, right now, that hardware support will end - guaranteed - and once it's gone, it'll be gone for good. Then what will we run Linux on? If Linux had 40% to 50% market share, it might be different, but that's not currently the case.
Well, that's the rub, isn't it? I can go to Best Buy or Wal-Mart and get a machine with Windows pre-installed. It's much harder to do that with Linux.
Like it or not, some people are just stupid. I remember about 20 years ago, I went to a junkyard to get a couple of parts for my car. The guy looked flustered for a few seconds, as he tried to add up the cost, and then said he was trying to remember how to use a calculator. Automatically blaming that kind of stuff on Common Core is disingenuous, at best.
I guess I'd have to ask what's wrong with you, then. Ever since I started helping my kids on their homework, I've started doing math their way, since it's much easier to do in your head.
Actual climate scientists disagree with those people: http://www.scientificamerican....
It would also be nice if the source article could tell us which operating systems it affects. Do I have to worry about my Linux machines and my parents' Macs, or does this just affect Windows?
Sorry, rsync has a number of issues that make it unacceptable (IMO) for backup. Among other reasons, it doesn't preserve metadata, and the rsync people think that's the correct behavior,
Don't get me wrong: I use rsync all the time, but never for backup.
Give it time, and they'll figure a way around that, too. Off the top of my head, I'd say ransomware writers could put a delay in their software, before it does anything - say 6 months after it finds a new system. By that time, the ransomware will be all over the backups. Then what?
If that's true, Gnome is crap. I recently installed Fedora 23 on my system, hoping I could tolerate the latest version of Gnome. Alas, I could not, so I guess I'm going back to KDE.
I wish I could find something that was 1) usable, and 2) worked with Steam.
They pretty much don't care, unless it affects their bottom line, so why would they avoid Windows? As far as I know, HIPAA doesn't levy any fines for a breach; it only requires breaches be reported. Fix that, and you might fix the problem.
As an example, I work for a health insurance company, and we're currently restructuring our network. As far as I can tell (having been a security guy, in the past), they're not doing anything to actually prevent a breach. It only gives them the ability to point fingers and track down the culprit, after the fact. I'm pretty sure many of the changes will actually make a breach more likely, so Windows 10's telemetry is the least of their concerns.
I can assure you, this isn't true. Gmail/Office365 may be okay for some companies, but others (like mine) are pretty much required to keep their email in-house. I work for a health insurance company, and the risk of having PHI in the cloud is just too great.
She wouldn't be allowed to use cloud-based email services, either, if she's sending emails containing sensitive national security information.
I have to wonder if they really know what they're talking about, considering that, on their "HDMI to DVI cables" page, they say "the DVI standard does not support embedded audio, so whenever you're interconnecting DVI and HDMI equipment, you'll need to make sure that you've provided a separate path for the flow of the audio," yet that works perfectly fine, on a PC that I have connected to my television. Maybe the official standard doesn't support it, but enough manufacturers have apparently agreed on a "standard" for embedded audio-over-DVI that it's no longer a problem.
... in college, at the time. Another student came into the room and asked, "Did you hear the Challenger exploded?" He was a well-known practical joker, so I figured this was just another one of his jokes. The fact that he was an engineering student and delivered the news in a completely deadpan voice didn't help, any. When he turned on the TV to show me, I couldn't believe it. I'm pretty sure it took about an hour to really sink in, and I couldn't do anything for the rest of the day but sit there and watch in horror.
Wow, that's a steaming pile of crap. Many of the problems on that list were fixed a long time ago (printer drivers), can't be solved, because vendors won't document their products, or exist in Windows, too (out-of-the-box nVidia support).
With any luck, this will hurt your company enough, financially, that your management will think twice, before they code a web application to a specific browser, again.
Maybe if you and your industry complained to your vendors more about allowing you to use any browser, stuff like this wouldn't happen. Honestly, any company that codes to a specific browser, these days, should be run out of business.
Agreed. I scanned a bunch books that way, using a commercial-grade Fujitsu scanner, capable of scanning about 60ppm - both sides. I got a little over 20,000 pages in, and I had to quit, because the work was so intense. That was more than 10 years ago, and I still haven't been able to get back to it.
There's more to scanning a book than just scanning. Between preparing the book for scanning and making sure it scanned correctly, there's a lot of work involved.
I'd love to ask my kids, but I can tell you right now, the answer will be "both".
You know how I know you've never actually tried to write Posix-compatible software for Windows?