You can't protect all of the people all of the time - the only issue here is the collateral damage that will affect people who get all the spam these pre-rooted installations will be pumping out. However since the rest of us are already getting flooded with spam from XP machines I don't really see what difference it will make.
If people want Vista they can pay for it. The operating system market will be a whole lot less broken once it gets harder to pirate copies so freely.
All the pointy hair types I meet seem to know all about it. Was there a massive golf and martini day I wasn't told about somewhere in the UK? Has there been one day recently when *all* of your senior management - and everyone else's - went missing?
I'd call it brainwashing but that isn't very plausible considering the target audience;)
I accidentally washed and spin dried my new USB stick and it still works. You go try that with a 5 1/2" floppy and tell me how well that works out for you.
Given the 10+ year development and 20+ year use lifecycles of military equipment it's surprising to see consumer gear _behind_ military tech.
The main reasons for this, of course, are obvious. It's not often that your games console needs the same provable failsafes as a weapon of mass destruction and equally it doesn't cost £10m a unit (launch day eBayed PS3 excepted) so replacing it within a short timeframe isn't going to give you a massive budget deficit.
I have been doing cross platform development with wxWindows and I have to say it makes it easy. So far I have an application which crashes with exactly the same fault* on Windows, OSX and Linux! You just can't buy productivity like that with commercial development frameworks.
*Error 5: Developer is an idiot who hasn't programmed much since the BBC Master was cutting edge technology.
Nothing like proving a point the hard way eh... can't even do crippled HTML right first time.
I have been doing cross platform development with wxWindows and I have to say it makes it easy. So far I have an application which crashes with exactly the same fault* on Windows, OSX *and* Linux! You just can't buy productivity like that with commercial development frameworks.
*Error 5: Developer is an idiot who hasn't programmed much since the BBC Master was cutting edge technology.
The reason I have been feeling as sick as a dog all day today is because my immune system is stressed out about what it might have to face in the future.
Anyway, I believe that the next big thing will be an expansion of high speed communication to cover most of the human race. Sure, it's pretty obvious... but as I recall so was the idea that the internet would be a world changing phenomenon in 1994 and I have a file that was originally written on a BBC master in 1987 explaining how the computer would be widespread in business and the home.
Over the next 20 years? Same as the last 20. Continual progress towards more devices that communicate more freely.
1. Don't take any of the many simple steps I could take to lock down my network despite the fact that many devices are designed to automatically lock onto any open wireless network.
2. Rename wireless network free help yourself.
3. Insist that charges are pressed against my neighbours.
4. Buy their houses at low low prices and use the space for an indoor pool and a bowling alley.
These instructions may be easier. The good news is that you only have to do the part marked "hardware installation". Once that is done normal WEP and open networks will work with the wifi-radar GUI package to find and connect to them. No rebooting is required at any stage of getting WiFi to work or finding new networks (WPA or WEP or Open):)
If you post the particular problems you are having as comments to my article (this one) then I'll see if I can help.
A debian logo on your shirt powering a small bewulf cluster of wearable computers computing Pi to many, many decimal places. What a talking point! How will the girls resist!
Gentoo was an even bigger nightmare of manual updating of configuration scripts and bizarre breakages whenever I would do updates. Don't even get me started.
Oh, indeed. I have a
Powerbook, 100% up to date against Edgy Eft. Total time spend fixing upgrade bugs: 5 minutes.
Workstation, 100% up to date against Dapper Drake. Total time spent fixing upgrade bugs: 2 minutes.
Home server, 100% up to date against Gentoo. Total time spent fixing upgrade bugs: 966,352 subjective years.
Despite that there are many reasons to use Gentoo instead of Kubuntu - after all if you wanted the easy life you wouldn't be using Linux in the first place.
Going from 6.06 to 6.10 was pretty messy on PowerPC (not that I Was surprised - it's a small platform that doesn't get as much QA work) and it did require a complete reinstall. Qtparted seemed to be the source of about 90% of the problems.
On the other hand I was *really* pleased when it was installed. The fresh install was trivially easy and everything works - including wireless with WPA and 3D acceleration. It's about the first time my laptop has been 100% usable as a laptop since I dumped OS X.
So: Minus one point for not upgrading properly. Plus several hundred points for maturity of hardware support. I'm sure that for 7.04 upgrades will be running perfectly:)
No, the problem lies with the editor picking crappy questions, or not fixing questions that could have been better.
Well question 1 (could IE run on other browsers) was mine. I deliberatly asked it that way because it wasn't hostile but neatly brought up all the points about Microsoft (Application div) being constrained by Microsoft (Operating System Monopoly div).
There could have been a whole host of interesting answers - no for technical reasons, no for legal reasons, no for idelogical reasons. Instead we got a crappy answer from a manager not a human:(
There are an insane number of lawyers in New York. If 1% of them sent in a blog post check request every day for a week you probably wouldn't be able to stand in the bar associations hall and USPS would be profitable again. They might even be able to put some of those blue mailboxes back on the streets again.
Would you like to see a universal architecture so that all rendering engines* worked in all web browsers, and all plugins** worked with all rendering engines?
*Gecko, mshtml etc
**Free and non-free - flash, mplayer and the like
While obviously allowing relationships to suffer so you can surf eBay is a problem, where is the line between relying on the internet for news and information and addiction?
My grandfather attributes his 60 year long marriage to spending all evening when he got home from work (and in his retirement, all day) hiding behind a newspaper smoking a pipe.
At least these days your wife can IM you to grab your attention when it's time for dinner.... oh, hang on, it's time for dinner. Catch you all later!
Interesting poll from the bioware boards of NWN players - 54% of NWN1 players ran Linux compared to 44% Windows and 16% on OS X (multiple select was allowed).
Depending on when this poll was taken it's fairly believable. Later on in the lifecycle NWN was far more heavilly played by Linux users (well, it was newer for them by a year:P) and I suspect it was mostly Linux users who brought the expansion modules (competition? what competition?).
Vote early, vote often! Bioware (who are still involved at some level) have requested that all Linux interest is registered in this thread on the Atari forum - 1400 replies so far.
From the FAQ:
We have by no means made any decisions to abandon the Linux or Mac communities at this time. Nor is it such a black and white issue over whether Atari or Obsidian decides what happens. Atari has been very open and a fantastic partner.
While the plural of anecdote is not data I have seen some evidence here that Microsoft may have released the 360 too soon. It's viewed (particuarly after the fact that the original Xbox was almost a non-entity in the UK market) as a generation 2.5 console no matter how innacurate that label may be.
In fact the only real 'generation 3' console as far as the UK market is concerned seems to be the PS3, the Wii being a popular choice but more viewed as a toy than a games machine (which may not be a bad thing).
The news that MS is already plotting a replacement may manage to further pigeonhole the 360 as old tech.
(Contributing factor - in the UK costs are higher so the PS3 doesn't look as outrageous, since basic goods cost about 1.6 times more than in the US. Therefore the PS3 is, as a function of purchasing parity, 1.6 times less expensive than in the US. Certainly $500 for a games console isn't a big deal for most affluant UK households who will have two incomes of approx $40,000 each.)
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You can't protect all of the people all of the time - the only issue here is the collateral damage that will affect people who get all the spam these pre-rooted installations will be pumping out. However since the rest of us are already getting flooded with spam from XP machines I don't really see what difference it will make.
If people want Vista they can pay for it. The operating system market will be a whole lot less broken once it gets harder to pirate copies so freely.
All the pointy hair types I meet seem to know all about it. Was there a massive golf and martini day I wasn't told about somewhere in the UK? Has there been one day recently when *all* of your senior management - and everyone else's - went missing?
;)
I'd call it brainwashing but that isn't very plausible considering the target audience
I accidentally washed and spin dried my new USB stick and it still works. You go try that with a 5 1/2" floppy and tell me how well that works out for you.
Given the 10+ year development and 20+ year use lifecycles of military equipment it's surprising to see consumer gear _behind_ military tech.
The main reasons for this, of course, are obvious. It's not often that your games console needs the same provable failsafes as a weapon of mass destruction and equally it doesn't cost £10m a unit (launch day eBayed PS3 excepted) so replacing it within a short timeframe isn't going to give you a massive budget deficit.
I have been doing cross platform development with wxWindows and I have to say it makes it easy. So far I have an application which crashes with exactly the same fault* on Windows, OSX and Linux! You just can't buy productivity like that with commercial development frameworks.
Nothing like proving a point the hard way eh... can't even do crippled HTML right first time.
I have been doing cross platform development with wxWindows and I have to say it makes it easy. So far I have an application which crashes with exactly the same fault* on Windows, OSX *and* Linux! You just can't buy productivity like that with commercial development frameworks. *Error 5: Developer is an idiot who hasn't programmed much since the BBC Master was cutting edge technology.
When I first read this story I was inspired. I tried placing a microwave inside a larger microwave.
There was a bizzare blue flash and I ended up with a tiny member of the royal family. I was surprised, I can tell you.
The reason I have been feeling as sick as a dog all day today is because my immune system is stressed out about what it might have to face in the future.
Anyway, I believe that the next big thing will be an expansion of high speed communication to cover most of the human race. Sure, it's pretty obvious... but as I recall so was the idea that the internet would be a world changing phenomenon in 1994 and I have a file that was originally written on a BBC master in 1987 explaining how the computer would be widespread in business and the home.
Over the next 20 years? Same as the last 20. Continual progress towards more devices that communicate more freely.
IP geolocation and a shotgun.
Works for me.
1. Don't take any of the many simple steps I could take to lock down my network despite the fact that many devices are designed to automatically lock onto any open wireless network.
2. Rename wireless network free help yourself.
3. Insist that charges are pressed against my neighbours.
4. Buy their houses at low low prices and use the space for an indoor pool and a bowling alley.
If Microsoft were to GPL Internet Explorer (warning: suspension of disbelif required) why would you carry on developing Firefox/Gecko?
These instructions may be easier. The good news is that you only have to do the part marked "hardware installation". Once that is done normal WEP and open networks will work with the wifi-radar GUI package to find and connect to them. No rebooting is required at any stage of getting WiFi to work or finding new networks (WPA or WEP or Open) :)
If you post the particular problems you are having as comments to my article (this one) then I'll see if I can help.
Here you go: Setting up an Airport Extreme Card with Kubuntu Edgy and WPA.
A debian logo on your shirt powering a small bewulf cluster of wearable computers computing Pi to many, many decimal places. What a talking point! How will the girls resist!
Gentoo was an even bigger nightmare of manual updating of configuration scripts and bizarre breakages whenever I would do updates. Don't even get me started.
Oh, indeed. I have a
Powerbook, 100% up to date against Edgy Eft. Total time spend fixing upgrade bugs: 5 minutes.
Workstation, 100% up to date against Dapper Drake. Total time spent fixing upgrade bugs: 2 minutes.
Home server, 100% up to date against Gentoo. Total time spent fixing upgrade bugs: 966,352 subjective years.
Despite that there are many reasons to use Gentoo instead of Kubuntu - after all if you wanted the easy life you wouldn't be using Linux in the first place.
Going from 6.06 to 6.10 was pretty messy on PowerPC (not that I Was surprised - it's a small platform that doesn't get as much QA work) and it did require a complete reinstall. Qtparted seemed to be the source of about 90% of the problems.
:)
On the other hand I was *really* pleased when it was installed. The fresh install was trivially easy and everything works - including wireless with WPA and 3D acceleration. It's about the first time my laptop has been 100% usable as a laptop since I dumped OS X.
So: Minus one point for not upgrading properly. Plus several hundred points for maturity of hardware support. I'm sure that for 7.04 upgrades will be running perfectly
No, the problem lies with the editor picking crappy questions, or not fixing questions that could have been better.
:(
Well question 1 (could IE run on other browsers) was mine. I deliberatly asked it that way because it wasn't hostile but neatly brought up all the points about Microsoft (Application div) being constrained by Microsoft (Operating System Monopoly div).
There could have been a whole host of interesting answers - no for technical reasons, no for legal reasons, no for idelogical reasons. Instead we got a crappy answer from a manager not a human
There are an insane number of lawyers in New York. If 1% of them sent in a blog post check request every day for a week you probably wouldn't be able to stand in the bar associations hall and USPS would be profitable again. They might even be able to put some of those blue mailboxes back on the streets again.
Would you like to see a universal architecture so that all rendering engines* worked in all web browsers, and all plugins** worked with all rendering engines? *Gecko, mshtml etc **Free and non-free - flash, mplayer and the like
Would you like to make available IE on other operating systems?
While obviously allowing relationships to suffer so you can surf eBay is a problem, where is the line between relying on the internet for news and information and addiction?
My grandfather attributes his 60 year long marriage to spending all evening when he got home from work (and in his retirement, all day) hiding behind a newspaper smoking a pipe.
At least these days your wife can IM you to grab your attention when it's time for dinner.... oh, hang on, it's time for dinner. Catch you all later!
Interesting poll from the bioware boards of NWN players - 54% of NWN1 players ran Linux compared to 44% Windows and 16% on OS X (multiple select was allowed).
:P) and I suspect it was mostly Linux users who brought the expansion modules (competition? what competition?).
Depending on when this poll was taken it's fairly believable. Later on in the lifecycle NWN was far more heavilly played by Linux users (well, it was newer for them by a year
Vote early, vote often! Bioware (who are still involved at some level) have requested that all Linux interest is registered in this thread on the Atari forum - 1400 replies so far.
From the FAQ:
We have by no means made any decisions to abandon the Linux or Mac communities at this time. Nor is it such a black and white issue over whether Atari or Obsidian decides what happens. Atari has been very open and a fantastic partner.
9457637863458736457843 admissions to go!
While the plural of anecdote is not data I have seen some evidence here that Microsoft may have released the 360 too soon. It's viewed (particuarly after the fact that the original Xbox was almost a non-entity in the UK market) as a generation 2.5 console no matter how innacurate that label may be.
In fact the only real 'generation 3' console as far as the UK market is concerned seems to be the PS3, the Wii being a popular choice but more viewed as a toy than a games machine (which may not be a bad thing).
The news that MS is already plotting a replacement may manage to further pigeonhole the 360 as old tech.
(Contributing factor - in the UK costs are higher so the PS3 doesn't look as outrageous, since basic goods cost about 1.6 times more than in the US. Therefore the PS3 is, as a function of purchasing parity, 1.6 times less expensive than in the US. Certainly $500 for a games console isn't a big deal for most affluant UK households who will have two incomes of approx $40,000 each.)