Posts by Chemist 2677 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Mar 2010
"Um, sources or I call BS."
He's always banging on about vulns. or Munich, funnily enough he often gives links to documents that often show exactly the opposite of what he's claiming. What on Earth he get off on with all of this I don't know. - doesn't really matter he's just an AC and should be ignored.
"but if it can't boot the live disk"
If the computer can't boot the live disk, either the image is faulty ( try a checksum) or the drive is faulty. Have you tried either another distro or booting from a USB stick - that can be created in Windows (http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick"
(If your older machine has only 512MB then SUSE might be unwise, it usually warns on a 1GB machine but still installs OK), plenty of other lightweight distros but not all have live CDs/DVDs
"The only real source of 1080p is Bluray."
You'd have to explain that to my 1080p/50 video camera which is now a couple of years old. Or indeed my laptop using the TV as an external monitor
But yes I agree that there is confusion above about the content standards and what most new TV/monitors are capable of.
"Stray one pixel too far and the sub-menu collapses, leaving the user stranded."
As you've obviously not used it - let me explain that it doesn't. Once invoked the menus are there until clicked or until something else is clicked. Just moving the mouse has no effect on the open menu other than to select the options above or below the one the mouse is currently on - no collapse
This on KDE/OpenSUSE 12.3
"a menu that goes vertically and horizontally is a UI mistake - it's just too hard to navigate with a mouse"
What !
And yes it is and it's easy
Click on start button, vertical menu appears, slide up to required group, and sub-menu appears, slide across, then up/down and across to 3r'd level if necessary and left click. That really isn't hard, it all sits waiting until you left-click. the only groups that I imagine having difficulty are physically disabled in some way or poor eyesight. There are plenty of alternative (icons on desktop, or "run xxxxxx") plus the bulk of the start menu is available by right-clicking the desktop.
"But Olav Officedrohne and Larry Linux ......"
Strange then that I can find any one of dozens of programs in a few seconds on a KDE Start menu. It's just a case of being well-organised No hierarchy more than 3 layers deep, everything in logical groups, anything widely applicable in multiple places.
I'd certainly never remember what the name of every program I very occasionally use might be called but if I know what it's for then I can find it easily.
Now if you really want remote kernel vulns.
As reported in The Reg recently
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/09/patch_tuesday_double_ie_trouble/
"The critical MS13-081 update addresses seven vulnerabilities in the Windows kernel, including problems in font handling, and can be triggered remotely through malicious web pages and maliciously formatted Office documents"
"Doing chemistry on a computer?!! Where's the fun in that for Lavoisier's sake?"
Do you remember how he ended-up ? And he tried to get the execution delayed because he wanted to do one last experiment.
BTW. The classic Einstein quote in this area is " The trouble with Chemistry is that it is too hard for chemists" - I've tried to live my life by this mote
"Just look at predicted LogD; it's usually way off experimental results"
Calculating ( or rather estimating LogD is POTENTIALLY risky, but often is suprisingly good. HOWEVER the best method (short of measuring everything - which can be time-consuming & error-prone itself ) is a good measurement of a representative molecule and and then using that as a basis for prediction.
I've worked with the best in this area and there are definitely some huge pitfalls in BLINDLY estimating LogD by machine
"Personally I'd be inclined to use CO2"
Burning metal fires need special extinguishers, they often carry on quite well with CO2 using the oxygen from the carbon dioxide. CO2 also disperses unless it's in a confined space.
From several real personal experiences with burning potassium, sodium and lithium aluminium hydride the best way is with dry powder preferably the 'ternary' mix designed for such fires
"Free movement of EU nationals within the EU is a noble idea but how do you do resource planning if you can't even answer the question..."
Well how does everyone else manage ? Different countries have different processes and efficiencies but most seems to cope.
"How's it supposed to work anyway? "
I like the way you put this. Go to an enormous amount of time and money to generate two enormous lists ( no doubt with inaccuracies ) and then subtract to get a small list that has cost £????? and is still, no doubt, rather inaccurate
"Ferries from Dover to Calais "
By car there will normally be no-one bothered at the French check after which you can drive to the ferry company booth and the only check there uses number plate recognition and "Are you Mr xxxxxxx ?"
Additionally you might be stopped by security to check the vehicle ( for bombs or whatever) - this has never happened in dozens of car crossings but is fairly common in our motorhome
"this was a discussion for adults,"
Just reiterating the tired old stuff about "And we all know Linux is notorious for its many, many bugs that the kernel devs should classify as security vulnerabilities, but refuse to do so."
makes you sound VERY like an AC who posts here repeatedly just using the same words without giving any evidence as to the number of serious or important vulnerabilities.
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
So wrong again...."
NO as usual you have posted a ref. that is actually AGAINST your own argument. If you'd posted the whole of the wiki ref. you'd have shown the 13000 migrated by 2013
November 2008: 1200 out of 14,000 have migrated to the LiMux environment ........
.......November 23, 2012: Report shows that the savings brought in using LiMux environment are over 10 million euros[26]
January 2013: About 13,000 LiMux PC-workstations
"* AMD's Catalyst graphics drivers for Ubuntu are utter crap (Nvidia's are pretty rock solid IME though).
* WIFI never really works properly (especially RealTek). I just tether through my phone's WIFI nowadays.
* KDE is very buggy. Try running Kubuntu and see how many segmentation faults you encounter."
Sorry you've had such an experience - please try a few live CD distros. I've never had KDE show a seg. fault on either OpenSUSE or Kubuntu, WiFi works fine for me on the 3 machines I have that need it (OpenSUSE). I agree the NVidia drivers are rock solid but others may disagree. I find the graphics drivers install automatically without any involvement from me other than running the updater manager
"The fact that it may refuse to install is a clue that the PC you are installing it on needs a dos install first"
Nonsense. What on earth are you going on about ?.
Live CD first to check for any problems.
By the way none of my Linux machines have more than 2GB but they still perform (VMs, protein modeling, HD 50fps video editing etc, etc)
"I have never had a single one run to completion on its own"
I'm astonished, I agree you might well have some failures with some hardware and some distros but my experience for years installing to every years or so to 7-8 varied bits of kit ( desktop workstations, atom fileserver, lenovo laptop, asus netbook ) with OpenSUSE ( currently 12.3) and never had a problem, certainly not for ~~5 years.
"I just put mint on an older xp laptop,"
The advice I'd give is - don't rush, do a little research, download a few live CDs from the various distros and try one or more - this will show you any major problems with your hardware without committing to an install. If there aren't any problems, and I've not found any with (for example) OpenSUSE for years, then go ahead to a full install. If you don't have a bootable CD then a USB stick can be used (check with the distro) as long as your hardware supports booting from USB
"Linux doesn't really support NTFS. Only sort of. That may be caused by NTFS being proprietary closed source stuff."
Funny I thought this was at least do-able these days. I've no need having no WIndows systems but my OpenSUSE 12.3 has ntfs-3g and utilities.
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