Mod me down, whatever... I can't believe how many well worded and legitimate complaints about the lack of SSH support got modded troll. We're talking about lack of both an SSH client and server. These are basic tools for an admin using most servers. I'm really surprised that even on/. a person saying "Come on, no SSH?" would get modded troll. That's a legitimate complaint. SSH is essential to my operation. If I bought ANY server OS that didn't support it out of the box I would seriously question its credibility.
And let us not blame just MSFT for this attitude. It is the customers who should realize the value of reducing their switching costs and demand better support for ftp, ssh and other linux side expertise they have in house. Most Pointy Haired Bosses don't even know what an SSH is, muchless why they would want it so they could use a Linux with it. They are not to blame. I think Microsoft is to blame for capitalizing on their ignorance intentionally.
The problem isn't the bundling, it's bundling apps that cripple competition. By bundling apps like IE that are generally incompatible with the competition but failing to bundle apps like SSH that are necessary to communicate with the competition, MS uses its market share to unfairly introduce incompatibility.
The SSH client ships with Ubuntu. Only the server needs to be installed manually, and that's as it should be for a desktop OS. Win 2K8 server doesn't even ship with the client. That's kind of an issue since servers generally need to talk to servers, and every server OS except the Windows flavors ships with SSH as the primary remote interface.
SSH is not just command line. Check out SFTP, FreeNX (remote desktop over SSH), and SSHFS. Using just one open port, you can have full SSL encrypted remote desktop, remote file system mounting, ftp, and (if you so desire) command line access using ssh.
How this got modded insightful is beyond me, but luckily there is meta moderation. Enjoy having your mod privileges delayed, jackass mod. The parent post reeks of the arrogant assumption that free software is all about free price, not freedom nor functionality. Ignorant and presumptuous == +5 funny and -1 insightful to me.
It seems that by the "best solution" you mean the "best solution for the majority of people." That doesn't work for specialists. Now I'm not saying you should pander to every fringe case out there, but I must say there is something advantageous about systems like KDE. It may have more options than you or your boss appreciate, but those specializing in software engineering, security, you-name-the-specialty very much appreciate the checkbox for "show hidden files" that is nowhere to be found in Finder. Because of their flexibility, I would take Gnome or KDE over OSX's interface any day.
This is what I don't understand - since when were patents ever enforceable on the people using infringing devices? Until this whole Microsoft chest-beating, I had never heard of patents being used to prosecute anyone but the people manufacturing patented devices without license or employing patented technologies in their creations without license. The customers were never an issue at all until now. What changed?
Slashdot doesn't do paid articles. Call it what you want but it was selected to be on Slashdot because the editor thought it was good news. If you disagree that's fine, but don't accuse them of ulterior motives please.
How is having access to an open version of Flash going to kill the Windows platform? Because you are talking about Flash, that implies that you are talking about web development. The Windows Platform is an operating system. Therefore you are attempting to make the claim that open Flash will allow a third party company (which, by the way, will almost certainly have less manpower and money than Microsoft) to develop some sort of web OS that will render a mature, entrenched desktop OS like Windows obsolete. You got most of the way there, but missed it at the end. Who needs a web OS when you can run a flash-based app from any OS you want? Opening Flash gives platforms without Flash the opportunity to make their own ports, which assures widest user base. If it was open it'd also give the assurance that lock-in and corporate bullyism aren't a worry, and it would mean that people could, if they chose, write for Flash using 3rd party non-adobe tools. That would make it VERY attractive to developers.
As Microsoft knows, you get the developers to write their apps for you, you get the users. Open flash would mean much more widespread use of flash. Widespread use of flash means people can use any OS they want to use their Flash apps. I think you can figure out the rest.
Before last month, my first chance to try out Actionscript 3, I would have thought that big, feature rich, complex apps would be impossible (or rather, run like ass) due to speed limitations of Actionscript. This benchmark very accurately mirrors what I've seen with AS3: its overall performance whips the pants off of Javascript and previous versions of Actionscript, and in many cases hugs Java pretty closely or even beats it (by a small amount). This is after how many years of JVM optimizations and improvements? Not bad.
Think what all has been done with Javascript without getting too slow. Now make the language a lot faster, and add some pretty advanced bitmap and vector graphics support that runs native, and the use of "shared objects" (local storage of arbitrary data). I see possibilities.
I knew there was a way to do it, but I couldn't remember it (haven't used gimp in years) so I just replied with the closest thing I could find. As someone else replied, there's a "path from text" button in the text tool.
I don't think this means that they added a SSH back door, just that they have enough compute resources to try hundreds of combinations of likely names and passwords in the hope they get lucky. Or they think they do:-) It's possible they don't realize just how low the success rate for that kind of probing is. Please do waste your time on this method, botnets. Please.
I agree with you it's likely not an OpenSSH backdoor - I routinely see tons of login attempts by "mike" and "chris" and the like in my snort logs.
Having the ability to use it and having the ability to make it are two totally different things. Can't tell you how many of my CS classmates in college were gamers that figured since they were "good with computers" they should go into CS. They all either dropped out or switched to Psychology or the like.
The idea of standalone executable installers is for engineers/geeks, if you ask me. I'd rather just select my program from a package list, hit "apply", and let it install on its own.
Unfortunately, this seem to be a more common occurence than even in Vista, from my experiences anyway. That could be because 99% of Vista machines shipped with Vista and all necessary drivers pre-installed, while very few Linux machines shipped with pre-installed Linux.
It's during installation of the OS that 90% of driver issues are encountered.
This could be construed as OT, but I find the timing of this little event to be very suspicious.
Not only with the long term Microsoft execs heading there this month, but more importantly in relation to the SCO case. These guys sued almost directly after the SCO issue fell through. It's the sort of timing you would expect if an entity behind the scenes were switching to "plan b".
Not everyone realizes there is a choice. Mom'n'Pop buying at Best Buy will be told you can't get a computer with XP anymore, and they'll accept that because they're not "technical people" and thus defer to the judgment of anyone that seems to be. I have friends that are flashdevelopers and they're required to run Vista on their workstations because "That's what all the customers will be on soon." They despise it and routinely run into issues, but being their own 2 person satellite office they don't have an IT guy to help them out.
Yes, there will be corporate environments that mandate Vista but I'd say that's the minority of people out there running it 'not by choice' at the moment.
I don't remember if I signed a nondisclosure or not, but I recently interviewed at a company that makes a big ticket product (a few hundred K/unit) that used to be BSD based that's now Linux based. Their competition was thrilled that they'd have to hand out the mods they made to the kernel, and were pretty disappointed when those mods were pretty much *cut out huge chunk of kernel, make a call to userspace (insert big poofy cloud here), return to kernel*.
Companies must redistribute the mods they make to the kernel, but that doesn't mean their mods are helpful...
Richard Stallman wants everything to be free because he's a shoeless, shirtless, tieless bum. What a neanderthal. Shoeless? Points to need of finance. Shirtless? Same. Tieless? points to lack of understanding on your part but also lack of finance. When given that you claimed these particular needs are his reason for wanting things to be "free", the only logical conclusion is that you mean "free as in cost" or "free as in beer".
Nobody wants things to be "free as in speech" because they don't have shoes. Nobody wants things to be "free as in speech" because they don't have shirts. Certainly the same holds for ties.
If you didn't realize that your comment was inflammatory and indicated that RMS wanted things free because he was a penniless bum then it's your writing skills that lack, not the GP's reading comprehension skills.
What you wrote was slanted and intentionally so. Don't blame him for that.
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Mod me down, whatever... I can't believe how many well worded and legitimate complaints about the lack of SSH support got modded troll. We're talking about lack of both an SSH client and server. These are basic tools for an admin using most servers. I'm really surprised that even on /. a person saying "Come on, no SSH?" would get modded troll. That's a legitimate complaint. SSH is essential to my operation. If I bought ANY server OS that didn't support it out of the box I would seriously question its credibility.
The problem isn't the bundling, it's bundling apps that cripple competition. By bundling apps like IE that are generally incompatible with the competition but failing to bundle apps like SSH that are necessary to communicate with the competition, MS uses its market share to unfairly introduce incompatibility.
The SSH client ships with Ubuntu. Only the server needs to be installed manually, and that's as it should be for a desktop OS. Win 2K8 server doesn't even ship with the client. That's kind of an issue since servers generally need to talk to servers, and every server OS except the Windows flavors ships with SSH as the primary remote interface.
The unix way isn't SSH+VNC. It's SSH + compressed X forwarding like FreeNX. I've had much faster response times with FreeNX than with RDP.
This is assuming the delays are cpu bound. If they're IO bound it wouldn't matter how fast your CPU is.
SSH is not just command line. Check out SFTP, FreeNX (remote desktop over SSH), and SSHFS. Using just one open port, you can have full SSL encrypted remote desktop, remote file system mounting, ftp, and (if you so desire) command line access using ssh.
How this got modded insightful is beyond me, but luckily there is meta moderation. Enjoy having your mod privileges delayed, jackass mod. The parent post reeks of the arrogant assumption that free software is all about free price, not freedom nor functionality. Ignorant and presumptuous == +5 funny and -1 insightful to me.
It seems that by the "best solution" you mean the "best solution for the majority of people." That doesn't work for specialists. Now I'm not saying you should pander to every fringe case out there, but I must say there is something advantageous about systems like KDE. It may have more options than you or your boss appreciate, but those specializing in software engineering, security, you-name-the-specialty very much appreciate the checkbox for "show hidden files" that is nowhere to be found in Finder. Because of their flexibility, I would take Gnome or KDE over OSX's interface any day.
This is what I don't understand - since when were patents ever enforceable on the people using infringing devices? Until this whole Microsoft chest-beating, I had never heard of patents being used to prosecute anyone but the people manufacturing patented devices without license or employing patented technologies in their creations without license. The customers were never an issue at all until now. What changed?
It won't happen to me. Just like car accidents and robberies.
Slashdot doesn't do paid articles. Call it what you want but it was selected to be on Slashdot because the editor thought it was good news. If you disagree that's fine, but don't accuse them of ulterior motives please.
As Microsoft knows, you get the developers to write their apps for you, you get the users. Open flash would mean much more widespread use of flash. Widespread use of flash means people can use any OS they want to use their Flash apps. I think you can figure out the rest.
Before last month, my first chance to try out Actionscript 3, I would have thought that big, feature rich, complex apps would be impossible (or rather, run like ass) due to speed limitations of Actionscript. This benchmark very accurately mirrors what I've seen with AS3: its overall performance whips the pants off of Javascript and previous versions of Actionscript, and in many cases hugs Java pretty closely or even beats it (by a small amount). This is after how many years of JVM optimizations and improvements? Not bad.
Think what all has been done with Javascript without getting too slow. Now make the language a lot faster, and add some pretty advanced bitmap and vector graphics support that runs native, and the use of "shared objects" (local storage of arbitrary data). I see possibilities.
THANK YOU. I knew there was a way to do it but last night I could not for the life of me remember how. I feel dumb now :-)
I knew there was a way to do it, but I couldn't remember it (haven't used gimp in years) so I just replied with the closest thing I could find. As someone else replied, there's a "path from text" button in the text tool.
You can export text to a path in Gimp. It's a bit tedious - make the text, select it with the magic wand, and "selection to path".
I agree with you it's likely not an OpenSSH backdoor - I routinely see tons of login attempts by "mike" and "chris" and the like in my snort logs.
The idea of standalone executable installers is for engineers/geeks, if you ask me. I'd rather just select my program from a package list, hit "apply", and let it install on its own.
It's during installation of the OS that 90% of driver issues are encountered.
This could be construed as OT, but I find the timing of this little event to be very suspicious.
Not only with the long term Microsoft execs heading there this month, but more importantly in relation to the SCO case. These guys sued almost directly after the SCO issue fell through. It's the sort of timing you would expect if an entity behind the scenes were switching to "plan b".
Not everyone realizes there is a choice. Mom'n'Pop buying at Best Buy will be told you can't get a computer with XP anymore, and they'll accept that because they're not "technical people" and thus defer to the judgment of anyone that seems to be. I have friends that are flashdevelopers and they're required to run Vista on their workstations because "That's what all the customers will be on soon." They despise it and routinely run into issues, but being their own 2 person satellite office they don't have an IT guy to help them out.
Yes, there will be corporate environments that mandate Vista but I'd say that's the minority of people out there running it 'not by choice' at the moment.
I don't remember if I signed a nondisclosure or not, but I recently interviewed at a company that makes a big ticket product (a few hundred K/unit) that used to be BSD based that's now Linux based. Their competition was thrilled that they'd have to hand out the mods they made to the kernel, and were pretty disappointed when those mods were pretty much *cut out huge chunk of kernel, make a call to userspace (insert big poofy cloud here), return to kernel*.
Companies must redistribute the mods they make to the kernel, but that doesn't mean their mods are helpful...
Nobody wants things to be "free as in speech" because they don't have shoes. Nobody wants things to be "free as in speech" because they don't have shirts. Certainly the same holds for ties.
If you didn't realize that your comment was inflammatory and indicated that RMS wanted things free because he was a penniless bum then it's your writing skills that lack, not the GP's reading comprehension skills.
What you wrote was slanted and intentionally so. Don't blame him for that.