But it still doesn't fix Microsoft's broken OS, as the article implies. Sure, I can run VMware and have fun with Windows running as a virtual machine instead of giving up my ability to use my prefered OS, at the same time. But it really doesn't repair BSODs, security flaws, and other plan nonsense in the MS OS. However, snapshots do give me a bit better protection, because if something blows up in MS Windows, I can just roll back to a safe state.
Nope, you'll need one of those cracks that make OS X run on non-Apple hardware (even if you're using VMware via Windows or Linux on the Intel Macs, the virtual hardware the operating system sees is a regular PC) which is, *gasp*, illegal. So unless Apple stops being overly-dramatic about what OS X can and cannot run on, or VMware signs some sort of deal with Apple, it's not going to happen without going into an illegal/grey-area route.
Well not quite, but quoting The Right To Read under fair use terms: "This put Dan in a dilemma. He had to help her--but if he lent her his computer, she might read his books. Aside from the fact that you could go to prison for many years for letting someone else read your books, the very idea shocked him at first. Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong--something that only pirates would do."
This is exactly what society is moving towards. We need to stop it before it's too late.
Even though the main bulk of the browser window is eaten awaying by an expected Flash plugin, you still have the option to download a real video. This is the most fustrating thing about YouTube and Yahoo; they _require_ Flash to view the content. I'm not installing Flash for a variety of reasons. I never really understood why some people cling onto Flash as if its the savior, the only thing that it seemed to be good for was annoying people and advertisement.
Apparently only when they charge you a monthly fee so as to not get a BSOD every time you boot. However, I'm afraid that suckers might still fall into that.
But my/home partition is only filled with 7.6GiB of data! That's the part I care about, I can reinstall OpenBSD any day; the rest of the filesystems have only about 2.6GiB of data on them (just the operating system, installed programs).
Oh yeah, I'm not just wiggling around on a small hard disk, I've got a 250GB (roughly 232GiB, I think) disk here. So much space unused, I just decided to partition only 120GiB to OpenBSD (/home being the largest filesystem) then screw around with other OSes with the rest of the space.
It's not called the bleeding edge because it's safe and there's no dangers whatsoever. If you dance on the edge, you will get hurt. That's why Debian, RHEL, etc stay with older software for the _stable_ versions and fix bugs and security issues. Newer software might be nice in the home, but it is far from suitable in the enterprise without months or years of testing in advance.
Well, at least until somebody makes a GCC port and (usually) breaks the console's lockout mechanisms to run code. (Game Boy Advance is probably the last system where running homebrew code is easy and cheap)
Perhaps it's for the tech-oriented, but I don't like the iTunesDB crap that iPods love so much. I don't want extra software to copy music onto my iPod. Installed Rockbox for iPod, haven't looked at the official firmware since. Spent a few hours re-encoding CDs into Ogg Vorbis, but the quality improvement over MP3s is worth it. At a friends' house and I want to copy songs to/from the iPod? Simple, plug it in, and use the local operating system file management tools to copy songs.
First off, get rid of the DRM with your AAC files: http://www.hymn-project.org/jhymndoc/ It'll help a _lot_, because you'd also be able to play the files without iTunes
Secondly, what software? I don't have enough fingers to count. GNUpod, amaroK, JuK, Rythmbox, GTKPod, etc
If users have to fear opening a word processing document, something is terribly wrong with the word processor.
Okay, I'll give you a break that you can't stop all buffer overflows and the such, but when the software is on the level of Microsoft Word (in terms of exploits, bugs) there needs to be some serious rethinking done inside the developers' minds.
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But it still doesn't fix Microsoft's broken OS, as the article implies. Sure, I can run VMware and have fun with Windows running as a virtual machine instead of giving up my ability to use my prefered OS, at the same time. But it really doesn't repair BSODs, security flaws, and other plan nonsense in the MS OS. However, snapshots do give me a bit better protection, because if something blows up in MS Windows, I can just roll back to a safe state.
Nope, you'll need one of those cracks that make OS X run on non-Apple hardware (even if you're using VMware via Windows or Linux on the Intel Macs, the virtual hardware the operating system sees is a regular PC) which is, *gasp*, illegal. So unless Apple stops being overly-dramatic about what OS X can and cannot run on, or VMware signs some sort of deal with Apple, it's not going to happen without going into an illegal/grey-area route.
What are you using the create the PDF? Unless a "few words of small print" = 500KB of text, that's not right.
Great idea. http://gnu.org/ is a good resource, but having one oriented towards kids is better, we could target all ages!
Well not quite, but quoting The Right To Read under fair use terms: "This put Dan in a dilemma. He had to help her--but if he lent her his computer, she might read his books. Aside from the fact that you could go to prison for many years for letting someone else read your books, the very idea shocked him at first. Like everyone, he had been taught since elementary school that sharing books was nasty and wrong--something that only pirates would do."
This is exactly what society is moving towards. We need to stop it before it's too late.
Even though the main bulk of the browser window is eaten awaying by an expected Flash plugin, you still have the option to download a real video. This is the most fustrating thing about YouTube and Yahoo; they _require_ Flash to view the content. I'm not installing Flash for a variety of reasons. I never really understood why some people cling onto Flash as if its the savior, the only thing that it seemed to be good for was annoying people and advertisement.
Apparently only when they charge you a monthly fee so as to not get a BSOD every time you boot. However, I'm afraid that suckers might still fall into that.
I never said cutting off professional support, I just object to my tax money making Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, et al richer.
Try fixing your operating system first.
Where does the tax-payers' money go? Well, I certainly don't want to see it supporting proprietary software while I'm 100% Free Software at home.
But my /home partition is only filled with 7.6GiB of data! That's the part I care about, I can reinstall OpenBSD any day; the rest of the filesystems have only about 2.6GiB of data on them (just the operating system, installed programs).
Oh yeah, I'm not just wiggling around on a small hard disk, I've got a 250GB (roughly 232GiB, I think) disk here. So much space unused, I just decided to partition only 120GiB to OpenBSD (/home being the largest filesystem) then screw around with other OSes with the rest of the space.
It's not called the bleeding edge because it's safe and there's no dangers whatsoever. If you dance on the edge, you will get hurt. That's why Debian, RHEL, etc stay with older software for the _stable_ versions and fix bugs and security issues. Newer software might be nice in the home, but it is far from suitable in the enterprise without months or years of testing in advance.
Well, at least until somebody makes a GCC port and (usually) breaks the console's lockout mechanisms to run code. (Game Boy Advance is probably the last system where running homebrew code is easy and cheap)
Perhaps it's for the tech-oriented, but I don't like the iTunesDB crap that iPods love so much. I don't want extra software to copy music onto my iPod. Installed Rockbox for iPod, haven't looked at the official firmware since. Spent a few hours re-encoding CDs into Ogg Vorbis, but the quality improvement over MP3s is worth it. At a friends' house and I want to copy songs to/from the iPod? Simple, plug it in, and use the local operating system file management tools to copy songs.
First off, get rid of the DRM with your AAC files: http://www.hymn-project.org/jhymndoc/
It'll help a _lot_, because you'd also be able to play the files without iTunes
Secondly, what software? I don't have enough fingers to count. GNUpod, amaroK, JuK, Rythmbox, GTKPod, etc
Hopefully Yoshi's Island 2 ends up as frustratingly difficult as the first game.... I must've took 100 lives to get through all the extras.
Why? You have the ability to download the video already.
If users have to fear opening a word processing document, something is terribly wrong with the word processor. Okay, I'll give you a break that you can't stop all buffer overflows and the such, but when the software is on the level of Microsoft Word (in terms of exploits, bugs) there needs to be some serious rethinking done inside the developers' minds.
Windows Media Player, anyone?