Yes, but the difference is ethereal requires root to get low level access to network devices. Why does Windows Media Player 10 need to be run as admin?
It just makes sense; on UNIX you wouldn't do non-administrative stuff as root, but I'm not big on gaming, so I'm not sure how gamers would get on as User. But for all the usual non-gaming tasks running in a user account doesn't get in the way at all.
One thing not many people mention; to get the best out of running as a user you should change the permissions on the drive Windows NT is installed on. On XP users can create folders outside of their home folder by default, but it'll keep things much cleaner and a throw a spanner in the works of most spyware if you turn this permission off (You have to turn off simple file sharing to do this, which unfortunately you can't do in XP Home).
Running as user, and with disk access limited to your home folder, you get some of the best of UNIX's security settings on Windows.
I've also had no troubles with my Dell Inspiron 2200 and Linux. Actually in XP opening and closing the lid sometimes blacks out the screen and I have to reboot, and in XP when I come out of standby the driver triggers an NX memory exception, but in Linux everything works.
What if the BSDs were GPL? All the Mac OS X users would be using a much less mature system because Apple would have had to write their own one from scratch. It may not provide that warm fuzzy 'open' feeling, but all the people out there who use OS X have BSD licensed code to thank.
In the business world you won't get people doing their spreadsheets, CAD schematics, word processing and web browsing on a phone or PDA, and with laptops you're paying extra for the mobility, and businesses want to keep costs low.
Who is PC-BSD for? Who specifically wants to use BSD, and not Linux, yet isn't comfortable installing BSD?
If you want a desktop unix there are plenty of Linux distros out there, which have support for more proprietary drivers and software than BSD, and have larger teams and communities behind them.
If you want to use BSD because you prefer BSD to System V then you'll be perfectly happy using the not-quite-so-friendly installers of the regular BSDs.
What would have been better is if they had created a friendlier installer for FreeBSD, and a better GUI for the ports system, and tried to get that into FreeBSD, rather than creating a whole new brand of BSD.
Firefox handles this problem with it's plugin installed by having a timer on the Install button, I think they should use a similar technique for everything important.
The reason cryptography may not be the best thing in this situation is that the Chinese Govt. won't care so much what you're doing privately, just that you're doing something privately will be enough to set off alarm bells. Maybe if you're doing something privately with bank.cn that'll be no problem, but large amounts of private data travelling beetween you and some American IP using strange port numbers?
It does depend on the distro.. Different distros come with different drivers (LKMs), so having one list of supported hardware for all distros would be inaccurate.
This means end users will use closed source software, and build momentum for it, which means more people assume everyone has it, which locks more people into it. This is something open source should slow down and reverse, not accelerate and spread.
It's things like this which governments should be keeping a close eye on, not bundled media players. Bundling a media player doesn't lock you in; keeping protocols changing and closed (in this case ActiveX) does.
Nanos were made to have smaller capacity because Apple weren't selling a good balance of Minis and normal iPods, if they increase the storage capacity it gives people less incentive to buy a more expensive regular iPod.
Perhaps if your SQL is trivial and/or you're writing with portability in mind then abstraction is a good idea. If you're doing anything with transactions, locking, indexing, anything which requires the use of SQL which isn't available or identical on all databases then you can't (fully) abstract. If you're not writing with portability in mind abstraction is a waste of cycles and, more importantly, development time.
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Yes, but the difference is ethereal requires root to get low level access to network devices. Why does Windows Media Player 10 need to be run as admin?
It just makes sense; on UNIX you wouldn't do non-administrative stuff as root, but I'm not big on gaming, so I'm not sure how gamers would get on as User. But for all the usual non-gaming tasks running in a user account doesn't get in the way at all.
One thing not many people mention; to get the best out of running as a user you should change the permissions on the drive Windows NT is installed on. On XP users can create folders outside of their home folder by default, but it'll keep things much cleaner and a throw a spanner in the works of most spyware if you turn this permission off (You have to turn off simple file sharing to do this, which unfortunately you can't do in XP Home).
Running as user, and with disk access limited to your home folder, you get some of the best of UNIX's security settings on Windows.
So.. always walk perpendicular to herd?
I've also had no troubles with my Dell Inspiron 2200 and Linux. Actually in XP opening and closing the lid sometimes blacks out the screen and I have to reboot, and in XP when I come out of standby the driver triggers an NX memory exception, but in Linux everything works.
What if the BSDs were GPL? All the Mac OS X users would be using a much less mature system because Apple would have had to write their own one from scratch. It may not provide that warm fuzzy 'open' feeling, but all the people out there who use OS X have BSD licensed code to thank.
In the business world you won't get people doing their spreadsheets, CAD schematics, word processing and web browsing on a phone or PDA, and with laptops you're paying extra for the mobility, and businesses want to keep costs low.
Doesn't look good; http://www.google.com/trends?q=slashdot%2Cdigg&cta b=1&date=all&geo=all :P
The easiest way to get cheap karma is to act like you think you're going to get modded down; the sad part is this really will get modded redundant.
Also as more cores and processors get added fewer context switches are needed, and the gap beetween micro and monolithic gets smaller.
Who is PC-BSD for? Who specifically wants to use BSD, and not Linux, yet isn't comfortable installing BSD?
If you want a desktop unix there are plenty of Linux distros out there, which have support for more proprietary drivers and software than BSD, and have larger teams and communities behind them.
If you want to use BSD because you prefer BSD to System V then you'll be perfectly happy using the not-quite-so-friendly installers of the regular BSDs.
What would have been better is if they had created a friendlier installer for FreeBSD, and a better GUI for the ports system, and tried to get that into FreeBSD, rather than creating a whole new brand of BSD.
Firefox handles this problem with it's plugin installed by having a timer on the Install button, I think they should use a similar technique for everything important.
The reason cryptography may not be the best thing in this situation is that the Chinese Govt. won't care so much what you're doing privately, just that you're doing something privately will be enough to set off alarm bells. Maybe if you're doing something privately with bank.cn that'll be no problem, but large amounts of private data travelling beetween you and some American IP using strange port numbers?
It does depend on the distro.. Different distros come with different drivers (LKMs), so having one list of supported hardware for all distros would be inaccurate.
That would be a karma whore's dream; make tonnes of posts, then claim the ones which get karma.
Agreed; if the editors are reading this please don't post Dvorak's garbage, I for one don't want to read so much as the summary.
PC is an acronym for Personal Computer. A Mac is a brand of PC; it was when it used PowerPC, just like it is now that is uses x86.
This means end users will use closed source software, and build momentum for it, which means more people assume everyone has it, which locks more people into it. This is something open source should slow down and reverse, not accelerate and spread.
Apparently the next gen console will be the Nintendo Puu
We all know there are other scripting languages already out there, but PSH integrates into Windows, that's why it's been created.
It's things like this which governments should be keeping a close eye on, not bundled media players. Bundling a media player doesn't lock you in; keeping protocols changing and closed (in this case ActiveX) does.
How can I put this in a way politicians will understand?
Misinformed articles fund terrorism!
Nanos were made to have smaller capacity because Apple weren't selling a good balance of Minis and normal iPods, if they increase the storage capacity it gives people less incentive to buy a more expensive regular iPod.
And does this really qualify as news?
Exactly, this is the Ubuntu 5.10 CD case, the sort of thing business people might see, and 'Breezy Badger' is nowhere to be seen anywhere on or inside the case or CDs. http://img143.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc242&im age=06461_untitled.JPG
Ubuntu 5.10 is a good sounding name, I prefer it to Fedora Core 5, Red Hat Enterprise Edition 10, Debian Woody, etc.
.. and a zealot is born.
Perhaps if your SQL is trivial and/or you're writing with portability in mind then abstraction is a good idea. If you're doing anything with transactions, locking, indexing, anything which requires the use of SQL which isn't available or identical on all databases then you can't (fully) abstract. If you're not writing with portability in mind abstraction is a waste of cycles and, more importantly, development time.