After reading your comment I watched the episode online, thanks for pointing it out to me. I don't live in the US so I can't watch CBS on tv. I recommend to everyone that hasn't seen it yet to check it out, it's been really educational.
Props to CBS for not filtering out non-US IPs like other some tv stations do.
Funny that the first person to mention Launchpad is someone that works for OpenHatch.
Not to steal your thunder, I think OpenHatch is wonderful, but it does remind me an awful lot about launchpad.
For those of you unfamiliar with LP, launchpad.net is another site like this, that tries to get people involved with F/OSS projects.
You can contribute bugreports, fixes, Q&A about software, provide translations... It used to be focussed around Ubuntu and Gnome (because the site is run by Canonical Inc.), but nowadays the site has really taken off (no pun intended) and hosts many kinds of FOSS projects.
I like how OpenHatch makes FOSS-involvement something you can boast about on forums/social networking sites using their HTML widget. It makes me want to get my hands dirty and get involved:)
It always amazes me that the websites for wonderful FOSS projects can be so damn ugly.
The Resynthesizer website is a great example. It's not so much the site itself I find ugly, but the logo. They make a Gimp plug-in for crying out loud, they should be able to whip up something more appealing.
I get that programmers just don't care about their website or logo, only about coding the actual software. But that kind of attitude is keeping some FOSS projects from becoming popular with the general population.
At first glance Resynthesizer wouldn't strike me as a serious competitor for anything that a behemoth like Adobe makes, although TFA shows me that it is. Maybe that makes me a narrow-sighted idiot, but I'm sure I'm not the only one.
This isn't the first time the German government shows respect to F/OSS: Matthias Ettrich, founder of KDE was knighted late 2009.
Some German cities announced in 2003 that they'd be moving away from Microsoft, towards Linux. (source)
Munich is one city that I know of that has actively been moving their infrastructure towards F/OSS. (source)
(Disclaimer: I'm not German, I'm just going by what I read on the internet.)
I get thousands of SSH log in attempts coming from China every day. I also get some from South-Korea, some from Brazil, but none from the US.
Spam is not the only factor to consider.
It certainly DOES make sense to blacklist China in its entirety unless you're doing business with them.
I wish I could mod you higher than +5, you just summed up some of the things that bother me most about the OS that is somehow still the most popular desktop OS in the world.
To anyone using Windows (XP, Vista or 7) right now, go ahead and open up an Explorer window, and type in ftp:// followed by any url. Even when it's a name that obviously won't resolve, or an ip of your very own local network of a machine that just doesn't exist, this'll hang your Explorer window for a couple of solid seconds. If you're a truly patient person, try doing that with a name that does resolve, like ftp://microsoft.com . Better yet, try stopping it.... say goodbye to your explorer.exe.
This is one of the worst user experiences possible, all for a mundane task like using ftp. And this has been present in Windows for what, a decade?
World of Warcraft. Don't know if it is being sold through steam though...
(Activision-)Blizzard has been trying to get their own piece of the legal game download market through the Blizzard Store.
I think it actually has a chance of taking off. Steam got big through Valve's big titles: Half-Life 2, CS:S and other source engine games.
Blizzard has even bigger games: World of Warcraft and soon Diablo III and Starcraft 2. Those three titles alone can turn the Blizzard Store into a well-known and credible platform. Once that has happened they can move in the newest Activision titles, instead of offering them on Steam.
Your sig actually stopped me from modding you down, thanks for showing me the error of my ways. But I do disagree.
Richard Dawkins has written some interesting views on what the definitions of atheism and agnosticism are (check out the paperback of The God Delusion), but that's ultimately just his opinion.
In atheism, just as in agnosticism, there is no canon, no dogmas, no defined set of rules.
In the end atheism and agnosticism are much alike. It all depends on how convinced you are that there is no God.
Since this is slashdot, I should probably mention that it's free as in beer, not as in speech.
It also only works on Windows and Mac (but most Linux distributions come with a VNC server anyway nowadays).
Mod parent up, Mikogo is great free software.
Its main purpose is to give a demonstration or conference to one or many viewers, but the server can give any client of choice control over keyboard and mouse input.
I wouldn't even care if RFID chips CURED cancer, whether or not one goes underneath my skin should be my decision.
The very idea of mandatory chipping for people is revolting.
I agree with parent, encouraging people to take thoroughly tested vaccines that could stop a pandemic in its tracks is a good thing, but making it mandatory, that's a dangerous precendent.
I'm a linux noob, but wouldn't using SELinux eliminate the entire problem?
Only give the files and folders you want Wine to access the corresponding SELinux context and nothing Wine does can hurt the rest of the system.
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Read the print version of the article in one page:
http://www.infoworld.com/print/161969
There is a video tutorial on cnet tv that shows you how to downgrade a 3G if you regret installing iOS4.
Do so at your own risk, YMMV, etc...
Ubuntu doesn't actually contribute much source code anyhow. It takes and takes, but returns very little.
I'd like to back up your statement with some facts, since you're not getting much love from the mods.
Around 22:30 in this video you see which companies give back to the Linux kernel
Spoiler: Canonical is not in the top 10. Not by a long shot.
The Funny moderation on /. doesn't increase karma, so many mods opt to give out Insightful to reward good jokes.
After reading your comment I watched the episode online, thanks for pointing it out to me.
I don't live in the US so I can't watch CBS on tv.
I recommend to everyone that hasn't seen it yet to check it out, it's been really educational.
Props to CBS for not filtering out non-US IPs like other some tv stations do.
Funny that the first person to mention Launchpad is someone that works for OpenHatch.
:)
Not to steal your thunder, I think OpenHatch is wonderful, but it does remind me an awful lot about launchpad.
For those of you unfamiliar with LP, launchpad.net is another site like this, that tries to get people involved with F/OSS projects.
You can contribute bugreports, fixes, Q&A about software, provide translations...
It used to be focussed around Ubuntu and Gnome (because the site is run by Canonical Inc.), but nowadays the site has really taken off (no pun intended) and hosts many kinds of FOSS projects.
I like how OpenHatch makes FOSS-involvement something you can boast about on forums/social networking sites using their HTML widget.
It makes me want to get my hands dirty and get involved
I've been meaning to buy a wireless dongle for playing around with Backtrack, but I heard not all of them support packet sniffing or packet injection.
Can anyone recommend me a commonly available dongle that would support this, with good Linux drivers?
It always amazes me that the websites for wonderful FOSS projects can be so damn ugly.
The Resynthesizer website is a great example. It's not so much the site itself I find ugly, but the logo.
They make a Gimp plug-in for crying out loud, they should be able to whip up something more appealing.
I get that programmers just don't care about their website or logo, only about coding the actual software.
But that kind of attitude is keeping some FOSS projects from becoming popular with the general population.
At first glance Resynthesizer wouldn't strike me as a serious competitor for anything that a behemoth like Adobe makes, although TFA shows me that it is.
Maybe that makes me a narrow-sighted idiot, but I'm sure I'm not the only one.
This isn't the first time the German government shows respect to F/OSS:
Matthias Ettrich, founder of KDE was knighted late 2009.
Some German cities announced in 2003 that they'd be moving away from Microsoft, towards Linux. (source)
Munich is one city that I know of that has actively been moving their infrastructure towards F/OSS. (source)
(Disclaimer: I'm not German, I'm just going by what I read on the internet.)
You're wrong! That's not amusing at all!
You're assuming that advertisers would be held to the same limit as users.
Why would they be? After all, they're paying for that ad space.
I get thousands of SSH log in attempts coming from China every day. I also get some from South-Korea, some from Brazil, but none from the US.
Spam is not the only factor to consider.
It certainly DOES make sense to blacklist China in its entirety unless you're doing business with them.
I wish I could mod you higher than +5, you just summed up some of the things that bother me most about the OS that is somehow still the most popular desktop OS in the world.
.
To anyone using Windows (XP, Vista or 7) right now, go ahead and open up an Explorer window, and type in ftp:// followed by any url.
Even when it's a name that obviously won't resolve, or an ip of your very own local network of a machine that just doesn't exist, this'll hang your Explorer window for a couple of solid seconds. If you're a truly patient person, try doing that with a name that does resolve, like ftp://microsoft.com . Better yet, try stopping it.... say goodbye to your explorer.exe
This is one of the worst user experiences possible, all for a mundane task like using ftp. And this has been present in Windows for what, a decade?
World of Warcraft. Don't know if it is being sold through steam though...
(Activision-)Blizzard has been trying to get their own piece of the legal game download market through the Blizzard Store.
I think it actually has a chance of taking off. Steam got big through Valve's big titles: Half-Life 2, CS:S and other source engine games.
Blizzard has even bigger games: World of Warcraft and soon Diablo III and Starcraft 2. Those three titles alone can turn the Blizzard Store into a well-known and credible platform.
Once that has happened they can move in the newest Activision titles, instead of offering them on Steam.
Hasn't tech like this already been used to put a younger looking Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator Salvation?
Video clip (may spoil the movie): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY57vJOQIlE
Your sig actually stopped me from modding you down, thanks for showing me the error of my ways. But I do disagree.
Richard Dawkins has written some interesting views on what the definitions of atheism and agnosticism are (check out the paperback of The God Delusion), but that's ultimately just his opinion.
In atheism, just as in agnosticism, there is no canon, no dogmas, no defined set of rules.
In the end atheism and agnosticism are much alike.
It all depends on how convinced you are that there is no God.
Drive a wooden stake through ..... oh wait...
This may come as a surprise to you, but slashdot has readers that don't live in the United States.
Since this is slashdot, I should probably mention that it's free as in beer, not as in speech. It also only works on Windows and Mac (but most Linux distributions come with a VNC server anyway nowadays).
Mod parent up, Mikogo is great free software. Its main purpose is to give a demonstration or conference to one or many viewers, but the server can give any client of choice control over keyboard and mouse input.
I wouldn't even care if RFID chips CURED cancer, whether or not one goes underneath my skin should be my decision.
The very idea of mandatory chipping for people is revolting.
I agree with parent, encouraging people to take thoroughly tested vaccines that could stop a pandemic in its tracks is a good thing, but making it mandatory, that's a dangerous precendent.
I'm a linux noob, but wouldn't using SELinux eliminate the entire problem?
Only give the files and folders you want Wine to access the corresponding SELinux context and nothing Wine does can hurt the rest of the system.
If this were Google, most of you'd be praising them, for being such a great employer.
How about we judge a software company by their software and business ethics, there's plenty of things to dislike Microsoft for in those departments...
You've shown that there are only two degrees of separation between Don Davis and Don Davis.
Now how many degrees is Don Davis from Kevin Bacon?
Well, I can tell you from experience that men who run Debian don't get any action at all.