Posts by eulampios

Re: Wireless

FRAND != FREE or SUPERCHEAP, whatever MS and Apple might think. That is the sword they live by, why to be so scare of it now?

Re: OO and LO - meh, not so much

any *actual* bugs/deficiencies you wanna cite here? As far as your MSOffice-can't-read-my-odf ordeal is concerned, please file a bug report to some MS website.

something actual besides "get the facts"?

Any specific examples/reasons for your conclusions? It also be nice to see what exactly was it so difficult for the users to get used to OO/LO?

As far as #2 is concerned, the mentioned folks that wrote the macros using proprietary dialect of Basic should have known better. Suggest them learning some better, more powerful, cross-platform, yet easier scripting languages like Perl or Python.

Re: wipe your glasses, Mr. iFanboy

The difference is of course apple doesn't have any frand patents meaning you don't need to do things the same way.

You don't, just make your galaxy phone trapezoidal, rhomboid, ellipsoidal or any 2-nd order or algebraic curve of your choice. Let conic sections and Algebraic Geometry help you!

Apple is known to patent the obvious. It's not only Apple that is doing wrong but the incompetent patent system allowing it + idiotic American justice that doesn't clean up that crap with plenty of prior art, unlike the saner British system . When a stupid jury can rule out this prior art consideration, since it cannot be put into the same processor Yet, Apple has the conscience to use it and ask $30 per device for this pos.

wipe your glasses, Mr. iFanboy

You must be having difficulty to see through those glasses of yours that the reason for Moto acting aggressively now against Apple is that Apple themselves behave ridiculously aggressive with resp. to Android manufacturers (but not Microsoft!!).

So you think, it is fucking unfair to pay more than a buck per idevice for some real technology, whilst, it is absolutely fine to make Samsung pay to them $30 per their (cheaper) device for a piece of joke like, "rounded rectangles", "rubber band" or other similar pos patents?

Re: @h4rm0ny

You got me wrong, I didn't question your experience. I just find it next to impossible to remain neutral towards Microsoft or even feel positive about them. I see it as paradox, myopia, amnesia or else.

The term "evil likeness" is not of course, what they discern in their own self. Well, I guess, Chikatilo must have had a good opinion of himself too.

Apple and Microsoft can't keep up with their competitors and resort to very similar dirty campaigns. Not only do they manage to spare each other, they even appear to be and are in unison.

Okay, secure boot is a nuisance and another *dirty* means against competitors. A number of machines with weird BIOS settings/features are already quite unfriendly to everything non-Windows. The whole controversy is just one more nail in the coffin, called "MS trust". I'd not waste my time in attempting to pull this nail out even if it was rusty.

Re: @h4rm0ny

Even taking your own word on your decade of using Debian (Ubuntu etc) and the Microsoft related naivety doesn't undo many many bad things Microsoft has(ve, as in British) been doing for (the very) same decades.

Support of SCO, anti-ODF campaign, "Get the f**ts", "GNU/Linux, Android infringe on may of our patents" FUDs and more. "Windows Tax" is another way to oppress free market (not necessarily Linux, as you put it). To say nothing about their corrupted ubiquity in the public institutions.

They side with Apple oftentimes, because they see that evil likeness, kinship of black souls, brotherhood of crooks, so to speak. No wonder, why would they have publicly jeered at their partner's (Samsung) case loss.

Even if, once upon a time Chikatilo decided to be normal (just for now, of course)....

@h4rm0ny

Unless you actively want MS to be oppressing Linux.

Unless you don't see it happening every single day. I'd use the abusing its monopoly against many competitors wording though.

You got my downvoting for this phrase and the zeal of whitewashing the charcoal.

Re: @John 104

was Probably Germany Attacking Russia that Saved UK

Yes, but more importantly, it was Russia having finally overcome Germany with great help of USA, Britain and other allies. Just think about the scale of the Stalingrad battle and compare German casualties on the Eastern front with those on the Western front.

Yet, Americans, who know about WII anything at all, think it was private Ryan and US forces to have saved everyone.

which court

is Google suing Alibaba or Acer in? How much in damages do they seek from both anyways?

10.04 should go straight to 12.04

Interesting, how did you go from LTS to non LTS? In my case I got an offer for 12.04 ( I won't and will embrace LMDE instead). However, dist-upgrade of LTS to non-LTS is not intended and might break.

@ your confusion

AC, the article you refer to cites some numbers (for which no sources are offered BTW) The author is not talking about exploits, he is talking about some vulnerabilities, where severity is taken into account. See the difference?

I'd like to see at least one exploited (severe) vulnerability in the wild to be found in both FF and Chrome(ium). Google can afford to pay cash for every (purely browser) exploitable vuln. A wise policy. They are pretty confident that such vulns are scarce. So, if one takes your and the authors' point of view, google must have been bankrupt a long time ago.

I myself prefer firefox on GNU/Linux. It is as secure as Chromium. However, it has a richer set of plug-ins, like noscript (making it more secure), adblock and flashkiller (making me so much less annoyed) and others. I also enable apparmor profiles for it.

anticompetitve?

Is it the same PC manufacturer that would not reimburse you an imposed anticompetitive Microsoft bundled license, unless you ship the machine to their facility at your own expense?

Google told Acer that they would not get support for *any* devices if they released phones running Aliyun. Not a big deal? Acer gets the Android code free, right? Why not getting the source and develop it on their own?

There might be a possible problem of Aliyun that uses Linux kernel to not comply with GPL though, since no one has heard of them publishing the code.

on the Windows forums

I get my own permission to copy-paste a story I told on zdnet.com about both my friends' and my own experience of Windows forums and the peculiar user-friendliness à la Rougemont:

"What if a Windows box starts to malfunction? Like it happened in a few months after a friend bought a Toshiba lappy for her daughter? It shuts down with Win7 would spit out some enigmatic message "Windows has encountered a system error f3-f100-0010 and will have to shut down" Her dad was not able to decipher the message and could only find out in some forums that it could be a malware related issue. The offered solution was a harsh 3 hour exercise of running AV, deleting and countless rebooting. Well, it did not help. I tried to help too. I wen to the same forums and MS websites, where people politely kicked off, since "it was a Toshiba related" prob. Toshiba never offered any solution either. Some "knowledgeable" Windoze users warned that it was a faulty hdd. I booted off out of Linux Mint and tried hdd health test with smart-tools --- all went well.

Guess what? Her dad installed Ubuntu 12.04 and it has NO PROBLEM now. She can be safe, thanks to 30k+ of freely available packages form the canonical repos and if a similar problem happens it would provide more informative, easier to troubleshoot errors for a more competent community to understand than that lame one around MS Windows. Were there no Linux, what would you do if you get your Windows desktop frequently shutdown with an error f3-f100-0010 with neither MS, nor the manufacturer, nor forums being of any help?"

Disclaimer: That very dad, a 2 year-without-Windows-that-broke Linux user, who installed Ubuntu on the kids laptop had successfully installed it on many other machines. He knows no shell cli whatsoever. I should teach him some day...

Re: ...the forest through the trees

On Linux I have to find all new recompiles of every fscking program

Recompiling the Windows mentality and fscking internet connection might be an option too. Only once I remember installing something from a cd. It was my first Linux distro Fedora Core 4 in 2004. Fire up your favorite front-end to the package manager, search for the app, tick-mark it, commit to install. You're done! Also install a printer, you most probably need no driver to find and install. It is there with all other drivers supplied with CUPS. Likewise, most hardware divers are loaded on demand by the kernel and hence are not sought out for either by you, or by the system.

PS. Ever tried installing old 32-bit Windows apps on 64-bit Windows? The same app that installed in all of my 64-bit Debians and FreeBSDs ... with WINE

Re: Win 98/EEEbuntu

I've still got some Win98 and Win2K machines

Got any slide-rules around as well? There is nothing to brag about. Actually, slide-rules are the ones to be respected.

EEEbuntu machines are now out of support

Get Linux Mint 13 (LTS) *buntu 12.04 . Installs in 10-15 minutes. Problem's solved.

@Dredd

>>"$ sudo apt-get install xfce4"

isn't it rather "sudo apt-get install xubintu-desktop"?

Re: sudo != su

sudo su -

Why not just "sudo -i"?

If you can su to root only using your own password, or even without a password it's game over for the security of your system.

Why without a password? What is the problem?

no office 2013 for Linux

You can launch an Office App in less than a minute while it carries on installing in the background. Good luck reproducing that on Linux.....

Wow, this is very awesome!

Noway you can reproduce it on Linux, 'cause MS doesn't make... yeah, and even if it did, noone would allow thi sh#t on his/her Linux.

However, I boot into Ubuntu or LMDE in about 25-30 seconds off my flashdrive and LibreOffice will start in another 5-10 seconds if launched right away. The full installation (with LibreOffice) of LMDE (Linux Mint Debian) took 12 minutes on a low-end 4 year old laptop.

RTFM?

To be honest, was not sure what that abbr. meant until googled it!

1) I have never seen RTFM on any of Linux forums. There are tons of linux forums where things are explained for dumbies

2) GNU/Linux and *BSD systems are still more secure for those who do not how to secure his/her computer properly. More precisely, there is no absolutely no rocket science here to follow : update your system whenever the update is available (just press that button!) and do not install anything outside of the repositories. Both of these thinks, although very clear to us, should be crammed into users' heads when they come from the Windows (95%) and Mac OS X world. User unfriendliness (reboot after most updates on M$ systems) and lack of repos on both is the ultimate reason for such behavior.

As far as the Java or javascript vulns are concerned, just

a) don't use Java (easy)

b) use noscript, flash-killer, adblock across all platforms (easy)

c) use AppArmor enabling firefox profile (fairly easy)

this won't even run with this shabang

Should have typed it in Emcas with shell-mode enabled:

#!/bin/bash