Don't do that, please.
Put the following line in/etc/sudoers:
username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
Obviously, replace 'username" with your username.
Voila, no more password prompts from sudo.
That would be "scores of users", assuming submitter meant to indicate a number equaling or greater than a multiple of twenty. Of course it's hard to say really, as the link provided (the "many message boards" link which links to a single message board) doesn't say anything remotely resembling the claims of the submitter -- it's people complaining about "freeze/lockup".
So are you saying that the real story here is that one Linux user decided to install it while the server was momentarily down, freaked out and wrote a panic-mode slashdot submission which was then published to the front page with zero fact checking?
Or you know, maybe Google just feels that there is no pressing need for them to provide their own client merely to use a service which employs an open protocol to which any *nix user already has easy access.
The crime took place on British soil. Why is he being extradited?
Or, if you want to take the view that the servers were on US soil, why have people posting to US servers been prosecuted in Britain for hate speech? You can't have it both ways.
But you just demonstrated that they do have it both ways. Do try to keep up, old horse...
Re:Why would a desktop user would run it?
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Why on earth would a desktop user run FreeBSD instead of Linux, when it doesn't add a single feature available on Linux?
FreeBSD is a very nice, clean system which is a pure joy to use as a server or desktop -- especially if you like to build your own software.
But to each her own.:)
What? You can emulate Linux binaries?
For quite a few years now we've had the ability to run linux binaries via a kernel module called the linuxulator. Handy for flash and a few other things.
I was intending to install RC3 on a new desktop machine a few days ago, but got the error message "this version not available on this server". So I went to the options screen and changed it to 8.0-RELEASE just on a hunch and happily it was there and installed without a hitch. Definitely several good performance improvements over 7.2, especially when copying large amounts of data from a USB disk.
So far this seems like a nice, solid release and I look forward to migrating my servers to it (after a month or so, just to be sure).
Crack cocaine's victims include the families of the suckers who join the cult, as well as critics. Paulette Cooper, Keith Henson, Graham Berry, and many, many others.
Neither does CoS without the subject's consent. AFAIK CoS isn't kidnapping unwilling people and forcing them to become members, so it's kind of Darwinian in principle. I personally believe the tax-exempt status for CoS should be revoked. Then they'd vanish overnight. But CoS exists because there is a demand for such perverse entities, and when they're gone there will be another. The problem isn't L.Ron's merry bunch of wackos, it's the cult member tendency (read mental illness) of so many people in our society.
God damn it, Chrome is NOT an OS and repeating that over and over won't make it so. It's a sophisticated browser. Linux is the underlying OS (maybe you've heard of it) and Chrome is a Web-centric user-level application.
Wrong. Chrome is an OS which (currently) runs on the Linux kernel. A kernel is not an OS -- pleae see Debian, which runs on Linux, FreeBSD, or even Hurd kernels.
Sure, improvement is always possible and desirable. And with Google, Nokia, IBM, and other corps throwing big bucks at the UI problem certainly there will be progress in terms of making GUIs more efficient and easy for casual users. But with X I'm happy with what I have -- I can launch many terminal emulators in which to work, view/hear/produce multimedia, and entertain myself with a smidge of eyecandy -- all while remaining responsive and easy on resources.:)
You misunderstand -- X is not the culprit.
Personally I really don't care if people want to use windows or mac, unless I'm the support person. And I really don't care much about the opinions of perpetual neophyte users (not saying you are one, just that most "end users" are) about FOSS "useability". I use xmonad on FreeBSD and I'm quite happy with it. For me FBSD and Debian really do Just Work. People who need a DE to dumb down their machine for them have problems with bloat and bugginess whether they choose windows, mac, linux, or even *bsd. That always has and aways will be true.
You're right about that.
I think what happens is they use a package manager to install every available bit of xorg when a given machine will need perhaps 10% of it. Also people who use GUIs for everything will tend to see a lot of bloat and unresponsiveness. But for those of us who know what we're doing, X is still pretty cool.
Exactly, I don't want my phone to go to break down into 2 (or more) pieces. Just another set of connectors to go bad, as well as another part to get lost. But it's gimmicky, so maybe it'll sell.
Agreed, use it or lose it. Having said that, I do compromise a little -- I memorize a new 30 character password quarterly, and create several easy to remember variations to replace the original first 4 and last four characters.
Then there is the one "easy" password used for everything non-critical. Of course, the idiots who run both banks I use hire coders stuck in the 90s who can only accomodate 8 character, alpha-numeric-only passwords, so I have to have unique passwords for those. I think it's crazy that one could brute force my bank account so much more easily than my root account, but that's the way it is.
If the above sounds too hard to you, you probably just need to exercise your brain more.
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True. Like many people I rarely buy movies. I just check netflix, then Hulu, then TPB.
Uh -- because movies have pictures?
Don't do that, please. Put the following line in /etc/sudoers:
username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
Obviously, replace 'username" with your username. Voila, no more password prompts from sudo.
That would be "scores of users", assuming submitter meant to indicate a number equaling or greater than a multiple of twenty. Of course it's hard to say really, as the link provided (the "many message boards" link which links to a single message board) doesn't say anything remotely resembling the claims of the submitter -- it's people complaining about "freeze/lockup".
So are you saying that the real story here is that one Linux user decided to install it while the server was momentarily down, freaked out and wrote a panic-mode slashdot submission which was then published to the front page with zero fact checking?
:D
Why, that's just shocking!
Or you know, maybe Google just feels that there is no pressing need for them to provide their own client merely to use a service which employs an open protocol to which any *nix user already has easy access.
But you just demonstrated that they do have it both ways. Do try to keep up, old horse...
FreeBSD is a very nice, clean system which is a pure joy to use as a server or desktop -- especially if you like to build your own software. But to each her own. :)
For quite a few years now we've had the ability to run linux binaries via a kernel module called the linuxulator. Handy for flash and a few other things.
I was intending to install RC3 on a new desktop machine a few days ago, but got the error message "this version not available on this server". So I went to the options screen and changed it to 8.0-RELEASE just on a hunch and happily it was there and installed without a hitch. Definitely several good performance improvements over 7.2, especially when copying large amounts of data from a USB disk. So far this seems like a nice, solid release and I look forward to migrating my servers to it (after a month or so, just to be sure).
Maybe this is the FOSS implementation of the Mohave trick.
Hmmm.
What about this? Are we just supposed to pretend it never happened?
Neither does CoS without the subject's consent. AFAIK CoS isn't kidnapping unwilling people and forcing them to become members, so it's kind of Darwinian in principle. I personally believe the tax-exempt status for CoS should be revoked. Then they'd vanish overnight. But CoS exists because there is a demand for such perverse entities, and when they're gone there will be another. The problem isn't L.Ron's merry bunch of wackos, it's the cult member tendency (read mental illness) of so many people in our society.
Wrong. Chrome is an OS which (currently) runs on the Linux kernel. A kernel is not an OS -- pleae see Debian, which runs on Linux, FreeBSD, or even Hurd kernels.
FTFY.
OSS FTW.
:)
Sure, improvement is always possible and desirable. And with Google, Nokia, IBM, and other corps throwing big bucks at the UI problem certainly there will be progress in terms of making GUIs more efficient and easy for casual users. But with X I'm happy with what I have -- I can launch many terminal emulators in which to work, view/hear/produce multimedia, and entertain myself with a smidge of eyecandy -- all while remaining responsive and easy on resources. :)
You misunderstand -- X is not the culprit. Personally I really don't care if people want to use windows or mac, unless I'm the support person. And I really don't care much about the opinions of perpetual neophyte users (not saying you are one, just that most "end users" are) about FOSS "useability". I use xmonad on FreeBSD and I'm quite happy with it. For me FBSD and Debian really do Just Work. People who need a DE to dumb down their machine for them have problems with bloat and bugginess whether they choose windows, mac, linux, or even *bsd. That always has and aways will be true.
You're right about that.
I think what happens is they use a package manager to install every available bit of xorg when a given machine will need perhaps 10% of it. Also people who use GUIs for everything will tend to see a lot of bloat and unresponsiveness. But for those of us who know what we're doing, X is still pretty cool.
Haven't used it in years now, but was quite fond of it back in the day. Congrats, Rasterman!
***sigh***
Some "hackers, or more accurately some script kiddies . The diggification of slashdot is not at all a good thing.
Exactly, I don't want my phone to go to break down into 2 (or more) pieces. Just another set of connectors to go bad, as well as another part to get lost. But it's gimmicky, so maybe it'll sell.
Wonder how well that would work for people using a computer with a TV tuner for watching?
Agreed, use it or lose it. Having said that, I do compromise a little -- I memorize a new 30 character password quarterly, and create several easy to remember variations to replace the original first 4 and last four characters. Then there is the one "easy" password used for everything non-critical. Of course, the idiots who run both banks I use hire coders stuck in the 90s who can only accomodate 8 character, alpha-numeric-only passwords, so I have to have unique passwords for those. I think it's crazy that one could brute force my bank account so much more easily than my root account, but that's the way it is. If the above sounds too hard to you, you probably just need to exercise your brain more.
That's pretty much what I have -- an integrated keyboard/trackball. Love it, never going back.
But the device in TFS sounds like a nightmare!