That's not true; Look at parallels for the Mac. This could be an important part of offering windows apps for the Mac. Additionally, I'm currently in the process of setting up Xen at home. I'm buying a new computer in the not-so-distant future that will replace both my Gentoo box and my Wife's Windows computer. The theory is that I can virtualize a few different environments so that my messing around doesn't interfere with her Windows environment. Plus I can get a stable desktop environment, a stable server environment, and test environments for both. Virtualization has a lot of potential in many areas outside the server farm. Ideally, I'd like to be able to run Vista/Aero on the VM, but that's still a ways off.
The problem with Hardware acceleration in VMS is fairly straightforward. The driver sends information such as 'use bitmap located at pos x in memory' The way memory mapping works, the VM might be given a chunk of memory (i.e. positions 100 to 200) and sees this as 000 to 100. for the VM, x = 010. When the card tries to access that memory, it's memory that might be assigned to a different VM, and thus garbage. Unfortunately, this generally requires the cooperation of the drivers.
fortunately, VirtualGL is working on a generic fix, although it's still immature.
That still isn't a browser check. The point here is that ideally, the browser's _name_ doesn't matter. just what the browser says it can handle (compression methods, MIME, etc._
Intuit's destruction of the ofx format is the reason I use KmyMoney today (and am trying to find time to get involved with development to add features I need). Their "qfx" bastardization forces banks to pay intuit in order to be listed in quicken so that their customers can access their account.
I have my Wife's computer set up with xming and putty just so she can use kmymoney for our finances. I wouldn't touch any of intuit's products with a 10 foot pole.
p.s. yes, I know, that it's fairly trivial to "convert" ofx files to qfx by adding a valid bank id, it was just too much of a hack to be worthwhile.
To keep this on-topic. I suppose the way they squeeze blood from stones gives them enough money to make a decent place to work.
OK, then it isn't too much to ask that a web browser *either* be skinnable or _at least follow the "look & feel" of the rest of the platform. I've checked out safari for windows (I love konq at home on linux, but use firefox at work on windows), and although I mostly like it, I can't stand the default color schemes. It's just too hard to read.
Regardless of whether he has insight, or any legal ability to actually prove the claim incorrect, he needs to address the side-affect of the claim, which, IMO, he did nicely, if bluntly.
If linux's hardware support is so amazing, why is almost everybody (excluding embedded) still using x86 and x86-64? Oh yeah, because that's where the good processors are.
What? ARM has been ubiquitous in handheld computing for years. holding over 75% of the embedded 32-bit market
What does the opportunity to use different architectures have to do with the fact that one is mass produced more?
My father tried Ubuntu, about a year ago, and had much of the same problem. On searching Google on particular problems, he'd find a half-dozen different solutions, all generic instructions for Linux distributions in general. There was no distinction between Linux (a kernel) and Linux (an operating system).
He did finally give up on Ubuntu, and Linux as well, which was disappointing to me.
Personally, I use Gentoo, which has an extremely good wiki. The articles can almost always be assumed up to date, and always applies to Gentoo.
If Ubuntu's wiki could be organized and kept up-to-date, and easily searchable and advertised from the users' help menu, It would go a long ways.
Also, as a power user, he had trouble with gnome, as everything he did assumed that he didn't know what he was doing, and hand-held him the whole way. This became quickly frustrating for him.
Ubuntu has done a lot of good for many different people, but it isn't everything to everyone.
Most uninsured air service packages go through the same handling as uninsured ground. I remember on more than one occasion coming across air packages mixed with ground that was supposed to go to air, and it already being after the truck had left for the airport. there are several measures to catch these packages, but they don't get "special treatment" as such.
As a former UPS employee, (I worked as a package handler, the guy that beats the shit out of your boxes as he loads them on the truck) I will never ship anything of value without paying extra for the insurance. when you do that, a couple of things happen:
the item goes into a big bag (by itself, not mixed with other items) with red/white stripes, so employess know not to mess with it)
it gets hand-carted to the destination truck, and is the last thing to be loaded, and first unloaded
only seasoned workers ever touch your package, and generally care about the state that it's in
finally, they are good about paying up if the item arrives damaged.
You can indeed run out of wind, slowing it down to nearly nothing with enough windmills. Ditto for "a mill wheel". Each one removes energy from the water, changes the environment up and downstream. With enough of them, the water will practically come to a stop and never reach its destination.
I'm trying to picture how this would look in the headlines: "Too many watermills: water dissappears from rivers!"
Microsoft's strength has always been sellign to people who buy technology for other people to use. The only success they've had seling to consumers is the XBox. I'm not a gamer, so I wouldn't know why that would be, but I'd guess it has something to do with the importance of developers to game consoles. In a sense, it's just another platform to sell. If that is true, then consumers aren't buying the XBox for an XBox experience, but to experience games written by third parties.
Interestingly, the 360 is the first console I've seen that isn't just a "platform on witch to sell software". Instead, the Media Center Extender is pretty neat, my father has a 360, and runs picture slideshows at family gatherings. Additionally, the whole profile concept is fairly new to the console world, and it makes having a family that shares one console very convenient. Additionally, the xbox firmware (there's a fancy name for it, can't remember) interacts with the game more than others that I've seen. As much as I hate to say it, especially here, the 360 is an interesting and well-designed console.
hmm, probably should change my sig to avoid seeming to be a Microsoft shill:)
I personnally don't have an xbox, my father has one, and we will get on it together when I'm over there. also, I use Gentoo at home; and have mostly gotten rid of all things microsoft in my life:)
There is one important reason why compromising a user account versus compromising a machine makes a difference and that is, just compromising a user account does not necessarily give a worm author sufficient access to add a machine to a useful and profitable botnet.
If you can execute arbitrary code* at the user's permission level, you have access to everything the user can do; set up a user cron job, for example, to get instructions from a botnet. or even just launch your great ad popup campaign every 30 seconds while the user is logged in.
* this is really the problem with all security models, and why I beleive that application level permissions is the future of computer security.
Sorry, that looks a little trollish: I should point out that I am a happy user of Gentoo Linux. My personal opinion on linux is more that it is infinitely customizable than infinitely secure.
To the *NIX crowd: Please, please, please stop trivializing the destruction of a user's home folder. For home use, there is rarely more than 1 user, and loosing all documents/etc is marginally better than reinstalling the whole OS. There is no reason that an application should have this kind of permission, IMO, we need to look past user level permissions to application level permissions, as this is where real security exists.
As a lock, the summoning stones made me feel a little worthless:(
However, I haven't played since right after the 2.0 release, so I wouldn't be able to say much about it now.
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That's not true; Look at parallels for the Mac. This could be an important part of offering windows apps for the Mac. Additionally, I'm currently in the process of setting up Xen at home. I'm buying a new computer in the not-so-distant future that will replace both my Gentoo box and my Wife's Windows computer. The theory is that I can virtualize a few different environments so that my messing around doesn't interfere with her Windows environment. Plus I can get a stable desktop environment, a stable server environment, and test environments for both. Virtualization has a lot of potential in many areas outside the server farm. Ideally, I'd like to be able to run Vista/Aero on the VM, but that's still a ways off.
The problem with Hardware acceleration in VMS is fairly straightforward. The driver sends information such as 'use bitmap located at pos x in memory' The way memory mapping works, the VM might be given a chunk of memory (i.e. positions 100 to 200) and sees this as 000 to 100. for the VM, x = 010. When the card tries to access that memory, it's memory that might be assigned to a different VM, and thus garbage. Unfortunately, this generally requires the cooperation of the drivers.
fortunately, VirtualGL is working on a generic fix, although it's still immature.
That still isn't a browser check. The point here is that ideally, the browser's _name_ doesn't matter. just what the browser says it can handle (compression methods, MIME, etc._
or, in my case, I'm in the command line looking for the hack I need in xorg.cfg to bring x back up :)
Yeah, but that's what is happening now, in Vista. If you are looking to complain about requiring MS signed drivers, you've missed the boat.
because businesses don't have users?
Intuit's destruction of the ofx format is the reason I use KmyMoney today (and am trying to find time to get involved with development to add features I need).
Their "qfx" bastardization forces banks to pay intuit in order to be listed in quicken so that their customers can access their account.
I have my Wife's computer set up with xming and putty just so she can use kmymoney for our finances. I wouldn't touch any of intuit's products with a 10 foot pole.
p.s. yes, I know, that it's fairly trivial to "convert" ofx files to qfx by adding a valid bank id, it was just too much of a hack to be worthwhile.
To keep this on-topic. I suppose the way they squeeze blood from stones gives them enough money to make a decent place to work.
OK, then it isn't too much to ask that a web browser *either* be skinnable or _at least follow the "look & feel" of the rest of the platform.
I've checked out safari for windows (I love konq at home on linux, but use firefox at work on windows), and although I mostly like it, I can't stand the default color schemes. It's just too hard to read.
Regardless of whether he has insight, or any legal ability to actually prove the claim incorrect, he needs to address the side-affect of the claim, which, IMO, he did nicely, if bluntly.
What does the opportunity to use different architectures have to do with the fact that one is mass produced more?
Perhaps keeping their liquor license is more valuable than one sale.
Or, True, False, FileNotFound
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/05
My father tried Ubuntu, about a year ago, and had much of the same problem. On searching Google on particular problems, he'd find a half-dozen different solutions, all generic instructions for Linux distributions in general. There was no distinction between Linux (a kernel) and Linux (an operating system). He did finally give up on Ubuntu, and Linux as well, which was disappointing to me.
Personally, I use Gentoo, which has an extremely good wiki. The articles can almost always be assumed up to date, and always applies to Gentoo.
If Ubuntu's wiki could be organized and kept up-to-date, and easily searchable and advertised from the users' help menu, It would go a long ways.
Also, as a power user, he had trouble with gnome, as everything he did assumed that he didn't know what he was doing, and hand-held him the whole way. This became quickly frustrating for him.
Ubuntu has done a lot of good for many different people, but it isn't everything to everyone.
The preceding post will shortly be deleted, as it contains incorrect allegations about our country
Most uninsured air service packages go through the same handling as uninsured ground. I remember on more than one occasion coming across air packages mixed with ground that was supposed to go to air, and it already being after the truck had left for the airport. there are several measures to catch these packages, but they don't get "special treatment" as such.
Not that I'm aware of. you just had to have more than the default.
- the item goes into a big bag (by itself, not mixed with other items) with red/white stripes, so employess know not to mess with it)
- it gets hand-carted to the destination truck, and is the last thing to be loaded, and first unloaded
- only seasoned workers ever touch your package, and generally care about the state that it's in
- finally, they are good about paying up if the item arrives damaged.
did I forget to include ???? and Profit!Interestingly, the 360 is the first console I've seen that isn't just a "platform on witch to sell software". Instead, the Media Center Extender is pretty neat, my father has a 360, and runs picture slideshows at family gatherings. Additionally, the whole profile concept is fairly new to the console world, and it makes having a family that shares one console very convenient. Additionally, the xbox firmware (there's a fancy name for it, can't remember) interacts with the game more than others that I've seen. As much as I hate to say it, especially here, the 360 is an interesting and well-designed console.
hmm, probably should change my sig to avoid seeming to be a Microsoft shill :) :)
I personnally don't have an xbox, my father has one, and we will get on it together when I'm over there. also, I use Gentoo at home; and have mostly gotten rid of all things microsoft in my life
If you can execute arbitrary code* at the user's permission level, you have access to everything the user can do; set up a user cron job, for example, to get instructions from a botnet. or even just launch your great ad popup campaign every 30 seconds while the user is logged in.
* this is really the problem with all security models, and why I beleive that application level permissions is the future of computer security.
Sorry, that looks a little trollish: I should point out that I am a happy user of Gentoo Linux. My personal opinion on linux is more that it is infinitely customizable than infinitely secure.
To the *NIX crowd: Please, please, please stop trivializing the destruction of a user's home folder. For home use, there is rarely more than 1 user, and loosing all documents/etc is marginally better than reinstalling the whole OS. There is no reason that an application should have this kind of permission, IMO, we need to look past user level permissions to application level permissions, as this is where real security exists.
As a lock, the summoning stones made me feel a little worthless :(
However, I haven't played since right after the 2.0 release, so I wouldn't be able to say much about it now.