What's even better is that this method is completely OS and browser independent. I actually switched my accounts to a different bank to be able to do home banking on linux using firefox and haven't been looking back ever since.
There's a sticky post in the gentoo forums dealing with this. So far Daniel got a pretty positive response and frankly... as a user that has seen gentoo slowly falling apart over the past few years, I'm glad he's motivated to bring it back on track:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-644321.html
Say Windows consists of the kernel, the graphical user interface, printer support, file sharing, user/rights management and a few other things build in.
If you'd translate that to a gnu/linux distribution like Red Hat, it would be the linux kernel, X, cups, samba, pam and a few other packages. Now did they even think about that or are they just comparing thousands of free software packages with the small number of components that come with windows? Even if they did take it into account, I think the high nr of severe flaws in windows makes it a looser, not red hat or os x.
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Because first, many of those applications already existed and had their names before becoming part of the gnome project. And second, because often, an application is replaced by a another one. For example, in the 2.16 release, Gnopernicus has been replaced by Orca. If you would have named Gnopernicus "Gnome Screen Reader", then "Gnome Screen Reader" would have been replaced by "Gnome Screen Reader" - but the other "Gnome Screen Reader", if you see what I mean. Also why not having some unique names, it makes the desktop more interesting and colourful.
I'd say Ubuntu is the best distro for new users because of it's ease of installation, ease of use and impressive handware support (or automatic hw recognition...). Gentoo, on the other hand is more for experienced users who want to have control over every aspect of their OS. Debian is ideal for servers. Gentoo is by far my favourite, but every distribution has it's target audience. So it's not about which distribution is the leading one, what's important is that the user has the freedom to choose.
Agreed. This should be modded insightful, not funny. Flash is a pest that's spreading way too fast on way too many websites. Heck, it's come to the point where one can virtually forget accessing any official musicians website when using a 64bit system. A closed, proprietary internet "standard" is just not acceptable and never will be.
in talking about what os/office suite/browser/... has the most bugs. Just report them to the programmers so they can fix them. I mean, this is an open source project. I'm sure they care about critical security bugs...
If a company/project takes 2 years average to fix a bug, that's a problem, but hey - stop spreading blame and start spreading bug reports. That's far more productive.
You're mostly right, but there are exceptions. Take musical instruments for example. You can get really really attached to instruments and it's different that a computer or xbox. You can buy another xbox, but you'll never find that special guitar again. Sure, you'll get over it, but it's gonna be hard.
Another example is photos. A friend of mine lost almost all her childhood photos when her parents house burned down. It's about the only thing from that house she really misses - even today.
I'm using gnu/linux on amd64. There is no flash for that platform and even if there was, I don't want that proprietary wannabe-internet-standard thing. Nothing is more annoying than not being able to download a video that I can't even stream because Macro... ehrm Adobe doesn't see enough market opportunity in gnu/linux/amd64. I mean - at least offer both - the flash streaming thing AND the download.
Of course, in a ideal world, there'd be no flash at all.
Yeah I have to agree. "Consumers" have no idea what they are buying. Don't know about what's going on elsewhere but in germany, they actually sell mp3-players with "DRM-compatibility" as a feature. And the people are buying it out of fear that if they don't have that feature, they won't be able to play their music on it. The salesperson will really advise you to buy a DRM-cabaple player.
I find that scary...
Same thing here. I really like the new layout except the very disturbing fact that I have to look at the far right corner of the browser window to see the (for me) most important thing about the comment: it's score.
Please please change this.
Come on, shutting down NASA to let private companies take over will probably bring benefits in terms of human space flight, commercial science in weightlessness to produce, say, new synthetics,... and space tourism.
But it would kill the thing that - for me - is the biggest archivement of NASA: space science. Forget probes to the solar system, cosmology using satellites or the origins program, because that doesn't produce money. If comanies would exist for the benefit of all, you'd be right. But they aren't, they exist primarily for making money. That's why we need NASA.
ou could never recover a compromised system reliably anyway. Once someone's got through your security to a certain level, you can't trust anything - including security tools and diagnostic information - that runs at that level or above.
Just boot from a recovery live CD and clean your system from there. There are plenty of Linux based recovery CDs. Not much to it really.
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What's even better is that this method is completely OS and browser independent. I actually switched my accounts to a different bank to be able to do home banking on linux using firefox and haven't been looking back ever since.
There's a sticky post in the gentoo forums dealing with this. So far Daniel got a pretty positive response and frankly... as a user that has seen gentoo slowly falling apart over the past few years, I'm glad he's motivated to bring it back on track: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-644321.html
Well, I wish I still had some mod points left for you.
Say Windows consists of the kernel, the graphical user interface, printer support, file sharing, user/rights management and a few other things build in. If you'd translate that to a gnu/linux distribution like Red Hat, it would be the linux kernel, X, cups, samba, pam and a few other packages. Now did they even think about that or are they just comparing thousands of free software packages with the small number of components that come with windows? Even if they did take it into account, I think the high nr of severe flaws in windows makes it a looser, not red hat or os x.
Because first, many of those applications already existed and had their names before becoming part of the gnome project. And second, because often, an application is replaced by a another one. For example, in the 2.16 release, Gnopernicus has been replaced by Orca. If you would have named Gnopernicus "Gnome Screen Reader", then "Gnome Screen Reader" would have been replaced by "Gnome Screen Reader" - but the other "Gnome Screen Reader", if you see what I mean. Also why not having some unique names, it makes the desktop more interesting and colourful.
I'd say Ubuntu is the best distro for new users because of it's ease of installation, ease of use and impressive handware support (or automatic hw recognition...). Gentoo, on the other hand is more for experienced users who want to have control over every aspect of their OS. Debian is ideal for servers. Gentoo is by far my favourite, but every distribution has it's target audience. So it's not about which distribution is the leading one, what's important is that the user has the freedom to choose.
Agreed. This should be modded insightful, not funny. Flash is a pest that's spreading way too fast on way too many websites. Heck, it's come to the point where one can virtually forget accessing any official musicians website when using a 64bit system. A closed, proprietary internet "standard" is just not acceptable and never will be.
You just struck the morning coffee in my mouth.
patience my friend, patience.
you deserve some mod points, that was fucking funny
in talking about what os/office suite/browser/... has the most bugs. Just report them to the programmers so they can fix them. I mean, this is an open source project. I'm sure they care about critical security bugs...
If a company/project takes 2 years average to fix a bug, that's a problem, but hey - stop spreading blame and start spreading bug reports. That's far more productive.
You're mostly right, but there are exceptions. Take musical instruments for example. You can get really really attached to instruments and it's different that a computer or xbox. You can buy another xbox, but you'll never find that special guitar again. Sure, you'll get over it, but it's gonna be hard.
Another example is photos. A friend of mine lost almost all her childhood photos when her parents house burned down. It's about the only thing from that house she really misses - even today.
Some _things_ do matter.
I'm using gnu/linux on amd64. There is no flash for that platform and even if there was, I don't want that proprietary wannabe-internet-standard thing. Nothing is more annoying than not being able to download a video that I can't even stream because Macro... ehrm Adobe doesn't see enough market opportunity in gnu/linux/amd64. I mean - at least offer both - the flash streaming thing AND the download.
Of course, in a ideal world, there'd be no flash at all.
Yeah I have to agree. "Consumers" have no idea what they are buying. Don't know about what's going on elsewhere but in germany, they actually sell mp3-players with "DRM-compatibility" as a feature. And the people are buying it out of fear that if they don't have that feature, they won't be able to play their music on it. The salesperson will really advise you to buy a DRM-cabaple player. I find that scary...
In other news, another roflcopter takes off...
Same thing here. I really like the new layout except the very disturbing fact that I have to look at the far right corner of the browser window to see the (for me) most important thing about the comment: it's score. Please please change this.
Come on, shutting down NASA to let private companies take over will probably bring benefits in terms of human space flight, commercial science in weightlessness to produce, say, new synthetics,... and space tourism.
But it would kill the thing that - for me - is the biggest archivement of NASA: space science. Forget probes to the solar system, cosmology using satellites or the origins program, because that doesn't produce money. If comanies would exist for the benefit of all, you'd be right. But they aren't, they exist primarily for making money. That's why we need NASA.
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