Actually, while many in the Free/Open Source community don't particularly like microsoft, contrary to popular belief, the point of Linux is not to "Destroy Windows".
Yeah, I hate that, although I suspect both windows and various linux distros may be doing it in the name of ease of use. Of course, most Linux distros will add windows to your boot menu, while windows makes no attempts to do so. Personally, I prefer the option to install into the partition boot record, and leave the MBR alone. Slackware allows this, but not many others do.
You know the world is in a sorry state when we can't make distinctions between visible, consise, short, plain-language dialog boxes and pages and pages of legalese...
is xine relevant? why not just use mplayer and be done with it? from what everyone knows as a fact (not just what i've seen), mplayer does everything that xine does, and more (like works properly on windows since forever, plays *everything*, comes with an awesome encoder), so why bother?
i really love these type of questions. nobody is forcing you to use mplayer. if you love xine that much then use it happily and stop belittling other players (especially the ones that exceed it in functionality, such as this case).
Today's lesson, children, is on the subject of Irony.
Read about Conservation of Energy. I remember learning about it in High School Science class.
What it means in this context, essentially, is that any system for conversion of energy (for example the incandescant light bulb, which converts electricity to light and heat) is 100% efficient, no more, no less. However, if you only want the light, and don't care for the heat, this is less than 100% efficient for your purposes. But no energy is disappearing.
The conversion of one form of energy to multiple other types is not necessarilly mandatory, however. The conversion of energy to undesirable heat in an incandescant light bulb is inherent in it's design, but this is not necessarilly true in all designs. It may be quite possible to create a device which converts electrical energy into only one, desirable form of energy.
(Although, in reality, even the copper wires leading to the device will lose a small amount of energy)
Not necessarilly
The main reason Linux/Unix requires this is culture. Everybody knows you shouldn't run as root. As for the less geeky users, a number of the less geeky distributions (Mac OS X, Ubuntu ) have ways of discouraging it. If a program can't limit itself to your ~ unless specifically asked to do so, it's unlikely to be very successful.
Most users probably have a reasonable understanding of what's in their files, and can back them up easilly (eg to a CD), and restore if necessary. Maybe a few minutes labour to delete a trashed account, create a new one, and pull out their backup CD/floppy, assuming they have the sense to make one. If you're running as root, even if your personal files are backed up, a trashed system (for most people) means paying a PC technician $$$ (of course I am a computer technician, so maybe you should run as root...) to get it restored, and you still have to restore your personal files from a backup.
1) Anime is not a good place to learn Japanese. A useful anecdote for this would be to imagine a Japanese person learning English from episodes of Simpsons and Family Guy. While such thoughts are no doubt filled with hillarity, they do prove just how silly Anime-bin Japanese would seem to native speakers...
Iraq's only Metal band learned english through listening to black market metallica albums... can you imaging that? "Hello there-arrh, how are you man. I'm going to the shop-hoohaaaaahh!!!!"
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Ok, maybe you're right, but what happens if that data gets lost? I suppose it's fine on a system where e-mail is taken off the server by a POP client, but for a webmail system (like gmail) where messages are stored remotely, it is important.
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Next they'll say their boyfriend/girlfriend is a firewall...
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gMail saves your emails after you delete them. Even if you use IMAP. Other ISP's do NOT.
Bullshit. Any ISP worth it's salt makes a backup of their e-mail system, usually to a tape. Tapes are sequential access media, and often stored away from the machine they were written in. This means in order to properly delete an e-mail message, the following steps would be required
Delete from the main server (easy)
Locate all backups. This would mean finding out which tapes the e-mail is actually stored on, and retrieving them (Some would likely be stored offsite, incase of fire or other catastrophic event
Extract all files from tapes, remove the particular file, and rewrite the entire tape
Return all tapes to their proper location
This could take well over an hour for a small ISP, and of course this puts the backups themselves at risk... Consider how many people delete messages in g-mail. The fact that google mentions this in their ToS is probably just covering their asses.
People nowadays seem to have a very limited concept of Democracy, literally "The common people rule". There is more to democracy than elections. In a democracy with an elected government, The common people as a whole don't rule, an elected few do. Therefore it is important to make sure that the elected represent the common people. In order for that to happen, it is important for all of the common people's viewpoints be equally represented.
Not necessarilly. Banner grabbing is still a good way to fingerprint OSes. Sure, it's not difficult to spoof, but a good many administrators don't. If they have then any good hacker would notice something out of place.
And it happens in a query that's likely to happen often too, meaning an IDS is not likely to notice.
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Actually, while many in the Free/Open Source community don't particularly like microsoft, contrary to popular belief, the point of Linux is not to "Destroy Windows".
Yeah, I hate that, although I suspect both windows and various linux distros may be doing it in the name of ease of use. Of course, most Linux distros will add windows to your boot menu, while windows makes no attempts to do so. Personally, I prefer the option to install into the partition boot record, and leave the MBR alone. Slackware allows this, but not many others do.
Where did you hear this? I doubt that, as reducing the CPU's instruction set will break backward compatibility
What they say about global variables: "I was 15 years old at the time"
You know the world is in a sorry state when we can't make distinctions between visible, consise, short, plain-language dialog boxes and pages and pages of legalese...
Well, after seeing shows like Supernanny, is advocacy of mandatory abortions really suprising? =P
On my work PC (Pentium 4 3.0Ghz, 512MB of RAM, Gefore4 MX440 (with nividia binary driver), Slackware linux 10.2), it runs fine...
is xine relevant? why not just use mplayer and be done with it? from what everyone knows as a fact (not just what i've seen), mplayer does everything that xine does, and more (like works properly on windows since forever, plays *everything*, comes with an awesome encoder), so why bother?
i really love these type of questions. nobody is forcing you to use mplayer. if you love xine that much then use it happily and stop belittling other players (especially the ones that exceed it in functionality, such as this case).
Today's lesson, children, is on the subject of Irony.
yes, we need to design a system where greed, a very common and strong human trait is actually satisfied by providing the service well...
Nvidia drivers windows only??? I suppose it was the magical elves that live in the walls of nvidia's offices that wrote these.
Then it would be more than out of the ordinary for slashdot to post a decent article... It would be illegal.
Read about Conservation of Energy. I remember learning about it in High School Science class. What it means in this context, essentially, is that any system for conversion of energy (for example the incandescant light bulb, which converts electricity to light and heat) is 100% efficient, no more, no less. However, if you only want the light, and don't care for the heat, this is less than 100% efficient for your purposes. But no energy is disappearing. The conversion of one form of energy to multiple other types is not necessarilly mandatory, however. The conversion of energy to undesirable heat in an incandescant light bulb is inherent in it's design, but this is not necessarilly true in all designs. It may be quite possible to create a device which converts electrical energy into only one, desirable form of energy. (Although, in reality, even the copper wires leading to the device will lose a small amount of energy)
Not necessarilly The main reason Linux/Unix requires this is culture. Everybody knows you shouldn't run as root. As for the less geeky users, a number of the less geeky distributions (Mac OS X, Ubuntu ) have ways of discouraging it. If a program can't limit itself to your ~ unless specifically asked to do so, it's unlikely to be very successful.
Best comment those out then...
Most users probably have a reasonable understanding of what's in their files, and can back them up easilly (eg to a CD), and restore if necessary. Maybe a few minutes labour to delete a trashed account, create a new one, and pull out their backup CD/floppy, assuming they have the sense to make one. If you're running as root, even if your personal files are backed up, a trashed system (for most people) means paying a PC technician $$$ (of course I am a computer technician, so maybe you should run as root...) to get it restored, and you still have to restore your personal files from a backup.
1) Anime is not a good place to learn Japanese. A useful anecdote for this would be to imagine a Japanese person learning English from episodes of Simpsons and Family Guy. While such thoughts are no doubt filled with hillarity, they do prove just how silly Anime-bin Japanese would seem to native speakers...
Iraq's only Metal band learned english through listening to black market metallica albums... can you imaging that? "Hello there-arrh, how are you man. I'm going to the shop-hoohaaaaahh!!!!"
Ok, maybe you're right, but what happens if that data gets lost? I suppose it's fine on a system where e-mail is taken off the server by a POP client, but for a webmail system (like gmail) where messages are stored remotely, it is important.
Next they'll say their boyfriend/girlfriend is a firewall...
- Delete from the main server (easy)
- Locate all backups. This would mean finding out which tapes the e-mail is actually stored on, and retrieving them (Some would likely be stored offsite, incase of fire or other catastrophic event
- Extract all files from tapes, remove the particular file, and rewrite the entire tape
- Return all tapes to their proper location
This could take well over an hour for a small ISP, and of course this puts the backups themselves at risk... Consider how many people delete messages in g-mail. The fact that google mentions this in their ToS is probably just covering their asses.People nowadays seem to have a very limited concept of Democracy, literally "The common people rule". There is more to democracy than elections. In a democracy with an elected government, The common people as a whole don't rule, an elected few do. Therefore it is important to make sure that the elected represent the common people. In order for that to happen, it is important for all of the common people's viewpoints be equally represented.
Not necessarilly. Banner grabbing is still a good way to fingerprint OSes. Sure, it's not difficult to spoof, but a good many administrators don't. If they have then any good hacker would notice something out of place. And it happens in a query that's likely to happen often too, meaning an IDS is not likely to notice.
And those rational arguments still apply, because all nuclear reactors are poorly designed soviet reactors.
Monitoring e-mail might be feasible. Barely. But postal mail? How much mail do you think several billion people would send?