Posts by Stan 119 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jul 2007
Kturtle for KDE should satisfy anyones logo needs :) Only played around with it a bit but its impressive what a few short lines can do.
As for booting into a minimal version of linux, is this related in any way to openbios ? I seem to remember they where getting boot times (not resume, full boot into a gui. xfce I think) of around 5 seconds using some clever tricks.
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How about a stripped out linux kernel running on top of vista to sniff out devices, load its modules and plug the output back into vista as a fully functioned but generic device of the same type?
Then it would be easier to install this one penguin based and gpl'd 'universal driver' than go hunting for the poxy things. Half the MS systems out there would have to run it....and then...and then the world would be ours.....all your base are belong to us....mwahahahaha.....
See what happens when a man from mars starts to make sense ??
Intersting comments, though most are saying the same thing (sticking with XP) and most are voicing an opinion (like myself) without ever having tried vista.
One point I would like to make though, I'm 100% linux and my experiences with windows have been about equal between XP and 2000. In my opinion 2000 is by far the better windows OS. It runs much better on older hardware and seems far more finished than any up to date XP installs I have seen.
I have very little experience with mac but the foundations for OSX are 100% rock solid and definitely a 'real' OS where stability and security are first and formost, and system resources are not wasted.
As for vista, aside from all the 'my mate said...' and mac/linux fanboyism, the hard facts suggest MS don't expect anyone to take vista seriously and are going to milk it (and the boosted XP sales) for all they can get.
The hardware makers are (kinda) happy, the music/video dinosaurs are happy but unless SP1 is the all singing, all dancing miracle fix everyone is hoping for then then they have collectively shot themselves in the feet as MS will be on a slippery slope. I seriously expect to see a new OS from MS within 3 years and vista to be written of as ME2.
Also, did anyone else notice the well written posts praising vista all happend to arrive at the same time? ;)
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Have to argue with all the posters saying he should re-install windows and bring it back in.
1: PCWorld have already admitted a mistake was made, and made it in writing.
2: Acer, much as I dislike there laptops, provide a good warranty that has no conditions on what OS is being used.
3: This is a known fault
4: Anyone higher up the evolution tree than the manager could see the OS has nothing to do with the fault.
If it were to go as far as a court of law PCWorld would, without a doubt, be found at fault. Personally I think he should push it as far as it takes and get as much media attention as possible while doing it.
The used car dealer reference further up is a good one and companies that operate this way do not deserve to be seen as market leaders.
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Someone must have done this for a laugh and poke a few digs at 'the most secure windows ever'. And nearly pi$$ed myself at the 'backward compatibility' post :)
As to bitlocker, or selinux for that matter, it wouldn't make any difference. The MBR is still needed to 'see' what to do with the disk. Not sure about the on board encryption some motherboards use though.
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Had to laugh at that one. As the poster above mentioned about the unix thin client, this type of thing has been around for (at least) 30 years and so have secure means of remote administration, ssh for instance.
The majority of the internet runs on more or less the same type of platform, no telnet or internet explorer here :) If they can keep the projected prices for the units and support then they its a damn good deal.
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Sounds about right to me. MS need to offer silverlight as a viable replacement for flash but thats not going to work unless they can offer the same platform support as flash. If they cant do that then they cant ram this DRM crap down our throats. I for one will be blocking it
Good point about the windows versions, 'Zemmiphobic Zebra' is the best I could come up with.
With updates on Ubuntu, its not something that needs to be done religiously. Its not as though the thing is a heap of buggy bloated crap with stability and security a running joke, so updates are only really needed for packages where vulnerabilities have been found.
As for upgrading between versions, don't. After a few folks have done it and put detailed steps of how to get round any problems on the forums then it may be worth trying but as a rule it is better to have /home on a separate partition and do a re-installation. Apt can give you a list of every package on the system so you can pass the list back to apt after a re-install and have all your software back.
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1. Download MBSA (Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer) from MS.
2. Download the latest wsusscan.cab from MS.
Run the MBSA tool against their CAB, specifying XML output. Parse that XML output for a list of patches needed including their HTTP locations at MS, and get your little app to download them to a cache. Install if necessary. (Or, copy cache to a dvd/cd, and run same app at friends, just doing the scan/install part).
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And I keep hearing linux administration is complicated :) I keep hearing drivers are a problem to though...and vista?
As for the firefox updates, please please lets see some of them using version 3 of the GPL :)
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Sounds like the UK is paying quite a bit more for roaming than most of Europe. On the other hand, last time I checked the prices for an account for a GSM modem Vodafone UK was the cheapest I could find with a WORLDWIDE rate of something like £45 for 'unlimited' use, in reality it was limited to around 1GB a month but connected 24/7 was OK. Couldnt find anything in the small print to suggest the worldwide rate was anything other than genuine.
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The comments so far sum up the situation well for me.
CD quality is crap, the only CD's I have bought in the last 8 years have been at concerts directly from the bands. If I really like a band I'll buy vinyl.
Strange how CD's from the early 90's where almost indestructible while now merely cleaning the things will send them to hell, that's if the new disk has been made properly to begin with. So the first thing I do is rip them to .ogg so the original disk wont suffer. Then the folder gets moved to my Audio directory, take a guess what other software reads from the audio directory....
The music industry as a whole is crap, there will never be another Beatles or Led Zep because a hundred Brittneys and Robbies makes a lot more money, hence no more TVs out of hotel windows and Rolls Royce in swimming pools :(
Quite a few bands endorse file sharing, if it wasn't for p2p no one would have heard of them. (Punish Yourself is one of the top of the head but there are plenty more). Hopefully as connections get faster there will be more mixes or compilations to be found as p2p has expanded my listening at least 10x, the radio wasn't going to do that (John Peel, may you rest in peace) when its mostly owned by an industry that wants us paying to dollar for mass produced crap.
As for DRM, what a load of crap. I can see it and I can hear it but there is no way I can record it ? Here is a rolling doughnut, guess what you can do with it.
BTW, on linux you can skip the "Video pirates eat dead babies" part As far as I know there is a version of mplayer compiled for win32, it could be worth trying.
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Don't know about Iran/Iraq being to close to the bone for games companies, it seems half the games on the shelves have Arabs as the bad guys, along with films, tv series even shows for kids.
Hope its good, yet another 'ooh its pretty...and crap' game is all we need... not. And if its released for a certain Finnish OS then I'll be getting a copy on the day of release :)
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