Posts by eulampios

Re: So...

Can you do the same to Microsoft Windows, just for a start?

@RedneckMBA: "get the facts"

Why not addressing this directly at Microsoft? Suggesting them to shut the f***ck up would also be nice.

..fanbois arguing is simply a colossal waste of time

It's particularly disgusting when a colossal waste is conducted by a psychopathic colossus with plenty of extorted money still enough to squander on some moronic PR campaigns.

Re: Emacs

Why would you need that? You can always fire up that good ol' MS Notepade on your system. This is the decency you're after, I guess.

Re: Emacs

but makes little sense from the terminal

Imho, it does, I've been running it predominantly this way until pretty recently. AMOF, on Debian, vim-runtime (a dependency for vim) takes more space (about 23mb) than emacs23-nox with its dependencies (about 13mb). It still comes with the lisp interpreter and quite a few very useful modes and things.

A lot of people run their CAS software inside of emacs because it makes a lot of sense. GNU Emacs got it's own very powerful yet simple reverse polish calculator Calc, often used as embedded while editing various stuff. This one plays so nicely with other cool modes like org-mode. Emacs Calc, unlike so many other calculators, can not only operate on dates, units, it supports various formats, does symbolic calculus and so on.

No other editor can do it.

Re: Emacs

Try it out to see how wrong you are. Thanks to Lisp it actually has grown into a super editor. This very design and and its modular architecture still ensures adherence to the KISS principle. I can barely remember any annoying bugs within Emacs despite some heavy usage of it for the last ... 8 years, I think.

Perhaps it's farther away from the Unix ideas than vi is, yet vi or even vim are not as extensible as GNU Emacs is.

Re: How does this help?

Older cards/drivers seem to be pretty capricious at probing possible resolutions. I was able to set up mine to 1360x768 successfully. Very well explained in here, post #3 nothing of that sort portrayed by a silver-badged Microsoft expert Khaptain.

Re: NTFS

Never experienced that, however, have seen so many oopsies of the native windows system trashing itself (like mbr) and not being able to restore itself thereafter.

Re: I bet a lot more people would switch if...

Sometimes you find Linux supporting ntfs much better than the native WinXP system.

Re: How does this help?

Spreading FUD about Linux forums? I'd tell you the difference between asking questions on Linux and Windows forums. The difference that the latter will bring you mutually contradictory answers: it's a malware, clean your PC, it;s your harddrive dying, MS will send them to the OEM, OEM will point at Microsoft.

ElReg. Something wrong is going on with the rating system, wanted to downvote this FUD and can't after mistakenly having upvoted it.

Re: How does this help?

Did you know that Ubuntu is much better supported than any of the Microsoft Windows iterations?

forgot to add

errata:

s/grad/grand

s/ensuing/the ensuing/

Forgot also to tell that my only cheapo 7'' Android tablet has been turned into a Bodhi Debian Linux tablet.

Re: first linux distro to need anti virus?

Nope. Don't trust Kaspersky and whoever establishes their business on the grad flaw of the Microsoft design to OS. MS approach to security was always an afterthought. So ensuing strategy for it is "contract the disease and then start thinking about swallowing a lot of (sometimes totally innocuous for this disease) medication".

This alleged super-pooper trojan still has to be installed by the user!

No need for AV to prevent it, just don't brainlessly approve everything, do not try to install outside of Google play, and more importantly, look into the permissions first, before installing anything.

get it once and for all

Google leaves updates entirely up to the hardware manufacturers

Google leaves <caps>everything</caps> up to the manufacturers. Just like Debian project leaves everything up to whatever-progeny distro uses Debian system as a base. Blame not Google , but the "distros" here.

Re: Poor guy

And what a poor country?

What a contrast with the fate of the USS Vincennes' captain who ordered to down the civilian Iranian aircraft full of people in 1988? While he was going against the Martial Code of Conduct ( not the first time), being disloyal to his higher commanders that day, in particular, having his crew make a few blunders to disregard important protocol of communication, got awarded instead.

get back your IQ points

determining what for does this FRAND system exist in the first place? If you can't put an injunction on the infringed products, the infringed products are not infringing anything FRAND by definition. Because you will just play a football game with every FRAND patent holder ad infinitum. No deep knowledge of Game Theory is necessary to realize this.

@ RogerThat

Samsung DID NOT negotiate in good faith.

No, Samsung DID negotiate in good faith. This WAS the finding of ITC.

The dissenting judge pointed out that Samsung made one offer and one only.

What did the reamaing five judges say?

You see the whole FRAND saga is being circulated for a long time now. We have the main fat cats like MS and Apple to abuse the fucked up patent system the most of all. They have almost no real tech patents that often are FRAND. So they usually advise others to put the FRAND stuff in their own arse, whilst, have a lot of "rounded corner" patents they are allowed to abuse the way they want.

@AJ MacLeod

Please tell us about your knowledge of paleontology. As far as I am informed, even before Cambrian explosion we do have some other things, like microfossils and numerous remains of stromatolites (going back up to 3.7 billion years). There is also a huge body of indirect evidence for organic life, say rock with oxidized iron etc.

@JDX

It's probably the best indicator that Android is far more popular than Linux.

It seems to be even more popular than MS Windows, however, please remind us when did any of the following infection with malware ever happen to an Android user:

-- by inserting a media

-- by clicking on a web link, visiting a webpage

-- when opening a document or email attachment

-- through the (MS) Remote Procedure Call

@Michael C.

Anyone know of an Outlook.com alternative.

Well, if you really wan set up pop3 for your outlook.com, use some free client, like thunderbird, alpine, mutt and encrypt all or some of your mail...

Re: the usual snarky tone that there is something amiss.

targets is being borne out by the increasing pressure on Android devices.

Not true, it was heard long before Android, a pretty controversial theory. And BTW, for Android it's only trojans to talk about, illegitimate apps. One installs those on his/her own risk when not examining permissions and perhaps outside of G. Play (MS Windows lacks even that). It's still unheard of to get a trojan through an RCE.

Compare Windows servers versus Windows workstations in an enterprise setting and you should find that the workstations get hit at a far higher rate. both need AV according Microsoft.

@eg0r

considering the size of their offerings

if one is considering the size of Debian's offerings... things become more clear.

@El Andy

Microsoft owns a patent for "Remote code execution", so others are afraid to infringe on it.

@EL Andy

It's why allowing apps to basically do whatever the heck they like as long as they can persuade a user to click-through some boring permissions screen is a fundamentally poor design for a Smartphone OS

Wow, how then you'd characterize the design of Windows OS, where

1) an app is not put in any sandbox, i.e., in the isolated environment, unless the developer wants it

2) noway to see what an app can do before installing the binary

3) no secure repos, like in the Linux and *BSD world.

Let's forget the multiuser implementation of XP, where you had to be an admin to run many userland apps.

@Mending

I would not recommend Android to anybody without a decent understanding of how computers and viruses work, ever.

Come on, one doesn't need a very high IQ nor a PhD to make sure

1) not to install outside of official Google Play

and, more importantly, use Android's own wall of defense by checking every time before installation that

2) app cannot place phone calls, nor send text messages, nor may cost you money.