So, all the various PCI scanners tell you to use RC4-based crypto due to BEAST, which is pretty hard to pull off, now suddently we won't be able to able to use RC4 anymore, but TLS v1.2 and up aren't available in IE8 (XP) or older version of Firefox and I believe. So, now what?
They sell 3 laptops. All three have only a 1366x768 rez. For a "high-end" boutique dealer that's a joke. 1600x1050 minimum and 1920x1080 preferred or no deal. I don't care if everything else is perfect.
Personally, got a 17" HP 1920x1080 with i3 SandyBridge about 1 year ago and everything works. ArchLinux is rock solid and the Intel drivers have been stable. LAN / Wifi worked out of the box as well as the webcam which suprised me. It was about $600 give or take. My $.02
If you don't need a gaming rig or 3d video editing, stear away from anything with a nvidia optimus setup as it's not supported and personally, the ATI stuff isn't all that much better then Intel and the Intel drivers are top notch from a open source perspective.
I just bought a Nokia C3-00 unlocked and for what I want to do with a phone (phone calls and texting) it works perfectly, plus I get a good week+ of battery life. It isn't glitzy, the UI isn't the flashiest, but the hardware is solid, the keyboard feels good and it just works.
Far, far too many of the android and Apple products are going for glitz and glamour and eschewing the basics of what a phone should be. That is to say, a phone. In addition, they get crap battery life.
MS Excel? If it wasn't part of the vernacular I would consider that a very poor name as well. MS Powerpoint? Sounds like a game or new hand gesture interface.
The names only sound weird because the software is obscure. In the past KDE went a little overboard with the K naming convention, but I think they've pulled back from that.
So, does it now work with multiple independent X screens? I have 2 monitors and find Xinerama and Twinview to be annoying, but as much as I love KDE I just can't use it without having the 2nd monitor work.
Sorry, if you want to be picky about it then I would say the internet was built on a combination of the BSD, MIT and Apache licenses. The GPL is just the cream that floats to the top.
I second this choice. For some zealots it's hard to admit but the performance is really good, you have commercial backing of the biggest software company on the planet.
You only have commercial backing if the OS you're running it on starts with Windows and doesn't include Linux, Solaris, BSD, AIX, Haiku, Amiga OS, etc... in the name.
Any of the open source file systems are "universal". The problem is adoption and the MS marketing machine would hang them out to dry. Personally, ext2 works fine for the most part. However, I had issues getting Windows to work with it. FreeBSD can read from it, but write can be problematic. The "best" is FAT32, but this has issues with larger disks. NTFS is probably 2nd "best", but it's overly complicated to implement for just some external storage. By implementation I mean the actual writing of the fs driver, not the use of NTFS-3g or whatever. NTFS is a complicated file system with a lot of layers for security, etc... which are superfluous for a basic USB disc.
Personally, ext2 or UFS would be my choice. USB external storage doesn't require performance. If performance is required you're running SATA or eSATA and shared via NFS, SMB, WebDAV or FTP and the filesystem doesn't really matter as it's permanently connected to an OS.
For me, VirtualBox wins purely out of the fact that it's mostly open source and supports the largest amount of host OSs and runs on a few more that aren't "supported" officially. Finally, a virtual machine that works with FreeBSD as a host.
However, from a performance standpoint I can't tell the difference between VMware and VirtualBox, except perhaps that VirtualBox doesn't seem to hammer the host OS quite as hard.
So, currently there is an issue with xorg 7.5 being imported into FreeBSD due very Linux specific driver "hacks", specifically in the latest Intel drivers and the ATI radeon drivers. Is this the same issue? Will this Nouveau driver work on anything else or is "open source" becoming synonymous with "if it runs on Linux, that's good enough". Linux has achieved great strides, but far too many "open source" developers target Linux only and have blinders on to any other open source OS or UNIX'esque OS where this stuff should really be able to run.
Yes, but I've never seen a sugar beet mate with a frog before, for example. Some of these genetic modifications are not just crossing species or even phyla boundaries, but whole kingdom's of animal / plant classification.
Egh, Active Directory is just LDAP with Kerberos and some proprietary crap thrown on top to make in hard to interoperate with other OS's. The group policy tree is just a centralized registry management system. So, no you're wrong. It isn't as plug and play, but a LDAP setup with single sign on via kerberos and a puppet system to manage the config files (Linux does not use a registry) thrown together with a custom package repository (the SUS equivalent) and you're good to go.
However, where Microsoft wins out is that that isn't easy to roll out. MS has the marketing and the 5 clicks that lets a "manager / phb" install MS server and call themselves admins. The bottom 2/3rds of the Microsoft install base, at the server level, mostly don't know what they're doing and really don't understand the underlying tech of what AD is. Once you start rolling out large Fortune 500 style install bases you really do need to know your stuff and most admins at this level probably could do a Linux / UNIX / OS X setup of the same scale with a little work and reading. However, the end users / managers don't want this since they've been rather well indoctrinated by the MS marketing team.
Personally, I like to sum this up by stating that with MS it's very easy to turn the key and go from 0-40MPH, but to make it all the way to 60MPH it gets difficult and the hood of your car is welded shut. The Linux's and BSD's of the world make you learn how the engine works first, but once you've got it figured out you still make it to 60MPH before MS does.
No, don't make a game based on "Otherland". Create "Otherland".
Outside of the neural interfaces I think we have the computing power or cloud power to create an environment that is like Otherland. Personally, I would say Second Life is already there, but it's too focused on just being a better chat room IMHO.
They need to create a place where anything goes within a certain constraint of game physics / tools with a couple of core rules.
Take something like the old world MOOs where there are central places created by the main "company" and then allow players to build their own worlds attached somehow.
Sure you will have quality issues of some worlds / rooms being basic, but some will be awesome.
I'd even go so far as suggesting that you allow external servers to exist, etc...
You would of course have some issues with: -violence, some people don't like it -sex, including child versions there off -age based access control to areas for the above -plenty of other issues
Honestly, I don't think the people of this world, especially the US, are ready for such an open ended game. Far, far to many puritans and close minded people who want to push their nose into other peoples business. The Koreans or Japanese will probably come out with something like this first.
(or, before resorting to conspiracy theories, we should probably ask ourselves first, "can this possibly be explained by simple stupidity?" Very easily. Some coder who didn't understand what he was doing and couldn't figure out the code decided to just remove it.
I'm sure the problem will be fixed if the developers acknowledge that the problem exists. Not a big worry. No, but it shouldn't have been changed in the first place. Debian needs to stick their ego up their ass sometimes and just let the people who wrote the software do the coding vs. sticking their own code in in places they don't fully understand. This and their attitude of licensing and not reporting changes back upstream is a stupidly annoying habit.
note: When I have to run Linux instead of a BSD it's Debian and/or Kubuntu all the way since the benefits outweigh the negatives, but it's still an annoying habit of theirs.
For web browsing, it must be a real pain in the ass though: I switched to broadband around 2000 and it was already a big relief back then and now the average web page size has tripled since 2003!
Nagh, once the initial page load starts coming down the pipe it loads very quickly since web browsing is for the most part a couple of very small requests handled at one time by the remote server and that data comes back quickly once it starts.
Satellite does suck for online gaming, ssh type interactive sessions and VPN stuff since they are dependent on 2-way traffic with low latency.
Let's look 'objectively' at this: 1. Handcoding takes a lot more effort and needs more 'actual' writers than before. So more techies keep their jobs in a recession. Score: Hancoding 1: Dreamweaver: 0 No, given a good IDE with some basics it takes less effort. Every time I want to use Dreamweaver I end up losing some hair. It's a frustrating piece of software if you know what you're doing or want to do and it won't let you.
2. Hancoding requires extensive knowledge of all CSS and DHTML codes plus javascript/JScript. So only the really good techies get the job, and not some script monkey. Survival of fittest. Score: Hancoding 2: Dreamweaver: 0 This is a good thing. Your designers SHOULD know the ins and outs of 80-90% of their code and tags.
3. Handcoding takes far more time than is necessary in a changing scenario of today's news. Effort not proportional to returns. As a shareholder, i would sue them for wasting money. Score: Hancoding 2: Dreamweaver: 1 I doubt they hand code every story into the page. They have a template / publishing system for all articles / layouts. It's probably far, far faster to do it by hand then trying to wrap Dreamweaver into it.
4. Dreamweaver allows preview easily and pretty much automates repeatable tasks. Handcoding requires a Mechanical Turk. Score: Hancoding 2: Dreamweaver: 2 dual monitors, sshfs mounted file system and vim will do it far faster then Dreamweaver.. alt-tab works okay if you're stuck with one monitor.
So its a tie. Nope, I would say hand-coding: 3.5 and Dreamweaver.5
I appreciate NYTimes sticking to manual tasks for an electronic page as an end user and a techie. I hate them for wasting my money as a shareholder. I would applaud them for not wasting your money on software licenses and doing the job correctly.
So, will Intel finally release a dual-DVI setup then? I love nVidia, but their lack of FreeBSD x64 support and the fact that I really have no need for a nVidia card outside of dual-monitor support has me searching high and low for a decent dual-DVI setup that works with xorg drivers and has 3D/DRI out of the box that lets me use some 3D affects and do basic 3D programming without stuttering like a mofo or switching to "soft-ware rendering" mode:(
FYI: ATI lost me as a customer with their many years of zero Linux support and not to mention they still don't support FreeBSD. I won't use them except for some integrated server boards where it doesn't matter.
Actually, if you didn't know what the URL was going to contain prior to clicking on it I would say clicking on publicly available links is perfectly fine. If you click the link, notice it's child pr0n and then spank off to it you've probably crossed the line. However, if you click on a random link and get an image, be it goats.ex or whatever, I would say it's up to you close the link and not visit it again. So, in this case I would say if a person gets a list of links and clicks on them to find streamable video with ads and the content itself isn't illegal then go for it. It's trivial to setup authentication systems for streams, so if you find one that's open one could assume it's meant to be free.
Why stop there. Just use FreeBSD and PF filter and just add them to a ban table after more then 5 connections in 1 minute or whatever number you want. Once a week dump the ban table.
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I'm just dreaming, but I hope they get Google Play support with this.
stable and installer supported ZFS boot support for the / volume.
So, all the various PCI scanners tell you to use RC4-based crypto due to BEAST, which is pretty hard to pull off, now suddently we won't be able to able to use RC4 anymore, but TLS v1.2 and up aren't available in IE8 (XP) or older version of Firefox and I believe. So, now what?
They sell 3 laptops. All three have only a 1366x768 rez. For a "high-end" boutique dealer that's a joke. 1600x1050 minimum and 1920x1080 preferred or no deal. I don't care if everything else is perfect.
Personally, got a 17" HP 1920x1080 with i3 SandyBridge about 1 year ago and everything works. ArchLinux is rock solid and the Intel drivers have been stable. LAN / Wifi worked out of the box as well as the webcam which suprised me. It was about $600 give or take. My $.02
If you don't need a gaming rig or 3d video editing, stear away from anything with a nvidia optimus setup as it's not supported and personally, the ATI stuff isn't all that much better then Intel and the Intel drivers are top notch from a open source perspective.
I just bought a Nokia C3-00 unlocked and for what I want to do with a phone (phone calls and texting) it works perfectly, plus I get a good week+ of battery life. It isn't glitzy, the UI isn't the flashiest, but the hardware is solid, the keyboard feels good and it just works.
Far, far too many of the android and Apple products are going for glitz and glamour and eschewing the basics of what a phone should be. That is to say, a phone. In addition, they get crap battery life.
Read a book. It can wait, barring business emergencies and your workplace should be paying for it if you're in the car.
MS Excel? If it wasn't part of the vernacular I would consider that a very poor name as well.
MS Powerpoint? Sounds like a game or new hand gesture interface.
The names only sound weird because the software is obscure. In the past KDE went a little overboard with the K naming convention, but I think they've pulled back from that.
So, does it now work with multiple independent X screens? I have 2 monitors and find Xinerama and Twinview to be annoying, but as much as I love KDE I just can't use it without having the 2nd monitor work.
Sorry, if you want to be picky about it then I would say the internet was built on a combination of the BSD, MIT and Apache licenses. The GPL is just the cream that floats to the top.
I second this choice.
For some zealots it's hard to admit but the performance is really good, you have commercial backing of the biggest software company on the planet.
You only have commercial backing if the OS you're running it on starts with Windows and doesn't include Linux, Solaris, BSD, AIX, Haiku, Amiga OS, etc... in the name.
Any of the open source file systems are "universal". The problem is adoption and the MS marketing machine would hang them out to dry. Personally, ext2 works fine for the most part. However, I had issues getting Windows to work with it. FreeBSD can read from it, but write can be problematic. The "best" is FAT32, but this has issues with larger disks. NTFS is probably 2nd "best", but it's overly complicated to implement for just some external storage. By implementation I mean the actual writing of the fs driver, not the use of NTFS-3g or whatever. NTFS is a complicated file system with a lot of layers for security, etc... which are superfluous for a basic USB disc.
Personally, ext2 or UFS would be my choice. USB external storage doesn't require performance. If performance is required you're running SATA or eSATA and shared via NFS, SMB, WebDAV or FTP and the filesystem doesn't really matter as it's permanently connected to an OS.
For me, VirtualBox wins purely out of the fact that it's mostly open source and supports the largest amount of host OSs and runs on a few more that aren't "supported" officially. Finally, a virtual machine that works with FreeBSD as a host.
However, from a performance standpoint I can't tell the difference between VMware and VirtualBox, except perhaps that VirtualBox doesn't seem to hammer the host OS quite as hard.
So, currently there is an issue with xorg 7.5 being imported into FreeBSD due very Linux specific driver "hacks", specifically in the latest Intel drivers and the ATI radeon drivers. Is this the same issue? Will this Nouveau driver work on anything else or is "open source" becoming synonymous with "if it runs on Linux, that's good enough". Linux has achieved great strides, but far too many "open source" developers target Linux only and have blinders on to any other open source OS or UNIX'esque OS where this stuff should really be able to run.
Yes, but I've never seen a sugar beet mate with a frog before, for example. Some of these genetic modifications are not just crossing species or even phyla boundaries, but whole kingdom's of animal / plant classification.
Egh, Active Directory is just LDAP with Kerberos and some proprietary crap thrown on top to make in hard to interoperate with other OS's. The group policy tree is just a centralized registry management system. So, no you're wrong. It isn't as plug and play, but a LDAP setup with single sign on via kerberos and a puppet system to manage the config files (Linux does not use a registry) thrown together with a custom package repository (the SUS equivalent) and you're good to go.
However, where Microsoft wins out is that that isn't easy to roll out. MS has the marketing and the 5 clicks that lets a "manager / phb" install MS server and call themselves admins. The bottom 2/3rds of the Microsoft install base, at the server level, mostly don't know what they're doing and really don't understand the underlying tech of what AD is. Once you start rolling out large Fortune 500 style install bases you really do need to know your stuff and most admins at this level probably could do a Linux / UNIX / OS X setup of the same scale with a little work and reading. However, the end users / managers don't want this since they've been rather well indoctrinated by the MS marketing team.
Personally, I like to sum this up by stating that with MS it's very easy to turn the key and go from 0-40MPH, but to make it all the way to 60MPH it gets difficult and the hood of your car is welded shut. The Linux's and BSD's of the world make you learn how the engine works first, but once you've got it figured out you still make it to 60MPH before MS does.
Yeah, now lets hope they listen to us FreeBSD users as well. 32-bit or 64-bit, I don't care, just give us something native.
No, don't make a game based on "Otherland". Create "Otherland".
Outside of the neural interfaces I think we have the computing power or cloud power to create an environment that is like Otherland. Personally, I would say Second Life is already there, but it's too focused on just being a better chat room IMHO.
They need to create a place where anything goes within a certain constraint of game physics / tools with a couple of core rules.
Take something like the old world MOOs where there are central places created by the main "company" and then allow players to build their own worlds attached somehow.
Sure you will have quality issues of some worlds / rooms being basic, but some will be awesome.
I'd even go so far as suggesting that you allow external servers to exist, etc...
You would of course have some issues with:
-violence, some people don't like it
-sex, including child versions there off
-age based access control to areas for the above
-plenty of other issues
Honestly, I don't think the people of this world, especially the US, are ready for such an open ended game. Far, far to many puritans and close minded people who want to push their nose into other peoples business. The Koreans or Japanese will probably come out with something like this first.
My .02$
You can also just disable them? I run KDE3 and have zero icons on my desktop.
note: When I have to run Linux instead of a BSD it's Debian and/or Kubuntu all the way since the benefits outweigh the negatives, but it's still an annoying habit of theirs.
Nagh, once the initial page load starts coming down the pipe it loads very quickly since web browsing is for the most part a couple of very small requests handled at one time by the remote server and that data comes back quickly once it starts.Satellite does suck for online gaming, ssh type interactive sessions and VPN stuff since they are dependent on 2-way traffic with low latency.
1. Handcoding takes a lot more effort and needs more 'actual' writers than before. So more techies keep their jobs in a recession.
Score: Hancoding 1: Dreamweaver: 0 No, given a good IDE with some basics it takes less effort. Every time I want to use Dreamweaver I end up losing some hair. It's a frustrating piece of software if you know what you're doing or want to do and it won't let you. 2. Hancoding requires extensive knowledge of all CSS and DHTML codes plus javascript/JScript. So only the really good techies get the job, and not some script monkey. Survival of fittest.
Score: Hancoding 2: Dreamweaver: 0 This is a good thing. Your designers SHOULD know the ins and outs of 80-90% of their code and tags. 3. Handcoding takes far more time than is necessary in a changing scenario of today's news. Effort not proportional to returns. As a shareholder, i would sue them for wasting money.
Score: Hancoding 2: Dreamweaver: 1 I doubt they hand code every story into the page. They have a template / publishing system for all articles / layouts. It's probably far, far faster to do it by hand then trying to wrap Dreamweaver into it. 4. Dreamweaver allows preview easily and pretty much automates repeatable tasks. Handcoding requires a Mechanical Turk.
Score: Hancoding 2: Dreamweaver: 2 dual monitors, sshfs mounted file system and vim will do it far faster then Dreamweaver.. alt-tab works okay if you're stuck with one monitor. So its a tie. Nope, I would say hand-coding: 3.5 and Dreamweaver
I hate them for wasting my money as a shareholder. I would applaud them for not wasting your money on software licenses and doing the job correctly.
So, will Intel finally release a dual-DVI setup then? I love nVidia, but their lack of FreeBSD x64 support and the fact that I really have no need for a nVidia card outside of dual-monitor support has me searching high and low for a decent dual-DVI setup that works with xorg drivers and has 3D/DRI out of the box that lets me use some 3D affects and do basic 3D programming without stuttering like a mofo or switching to "soft-ware rendering" mode :(
FYI: ATI lost me as a customer with their many years of zero Linux support and not to mention they still don't support FreeBSD. I won't use them except for some integrated server boards where it doesn't matter.
Actually, if you didn't know what the URL was going to contain prior to clicking on it I would say clicking on publicly available links is perfectly fine. If you click the link, notice it's child pr0n and then spank off to it you've probably crossed the line. However, if you click on a random link and get an image, be it goats.ex or whatever, I would say it's up to you close the link and not visit it again. So, in this case I would say if a person gets a list of links and clicks on them to find streamable video with ads and the content itself isn't illegal then go for it. It's trivial to setup authentication systems for streams, so if you find one that's open one could assume it's meant to be free.
Why stop there. Just use FreeBSD and PF filter and just add them to a ban table after more then 5 connections in 1 minute or whatever number you want. Once a week dump the ban table.