I took the plunge... After working solely on Ubuntu for over a year, I decided to install the latest Kubuntu on my main laptop. I've never really worked with KDE much apart from trying it out briefly here and there but never ended up sticking with it as it was always installed on a secondary machine. So, why did I decide to swap? I've have had a few difficulties with KDE before and it seemed a little buggy, but I've become pretty comfortable with Linux, so I was confident that I can sort out anything thrown at me. Maybe I was just too comfortable with Gnome to bother swapping and readjusting to a new environment but I've always been envious of the visual look of KDE... It's probably a bit unfair to call KDE "buggy" - I've always run it in a VM or on an old laptop which hardly had enough power, so this time around, I'm doing it properly!
The one complaint that I've often heard about moving to another OS from Windows, is "If my games worked, I may change to xyz".
If games are one of the big barriers to change, then I wonder what the effect of many gamers moving to consoles will have on the PC OS market share. And with the netbooks/ iPads and Google Chrome OS, which can't really run
the hardcore games, maybe even more users will be moving to consoles.
This should surely have some sort of negative effect on the PC OS's that are "locking" users in based on games availability.
If games are one of the big barriers to change, then I wonder what the effect of many gamers moving to consoles will have on the PC OS market share. And with the netbooks/ iPads and Google Chrome OS, which can't really run
the hardcore games, maybe even more users will be moving to consoles.
This should surely have some sort of negative effect on the PC OS's that are "locking" users in based on games availability.
Important information on ASP.Net Forms Authentication:
http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2010/09/14/aspnet-security-hack.aspx
This basically allows a user to determine the Machine Key used to encrypt the cookie on any site. This is apparently 100% reliable and can be used for any site within 30 - 50 minutes. This would allow a user to create spoofed authentication cookies to assign administrator privileges.
The solution? Use one of the other Encryption mechanisms eg. Triple DES.
http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2010/09/14/aspnet-security-hack.aspx
This basically allows a user to determine the Machine Key used to encrypt the cookie on any site. This is apparently 100% reliable and can be used for any site within 30 - 50 minutes. This would allow a user to create spoofed authentication cookies to assign administrator privileges.
The solution? Use one of the other Encryption mechanisms eg. Triple DES.
Just an interesting observation:
Currently there are "normal" phones that can perform about 8 MFLOPS (Million Floating Point Operations per Second)
http://briefmobile.com/tag/cpu
To put this into perspective, Up till the time of the first moon landing in 1969, the fastest supercomputer in the world could run at 3 MFLOPS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer
So, you probably have more power in your pocket than was used in launching Apollo 11...
Currently there are "normal" phones that can perform about 8 MFLOPS (Million Floating Point Operations per Second)
http://briefmobile.com/tag/cpu
To put this into perspective, Up till the time of the first moon landing in 1969, the fastest supercomputer in the world could run at 3 MFLOPS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer
So, you probably have more power in your pocket than was used in launching Apollo 11...
The end is nigh! Just kidding... Windows 7 is to be released shortly and apparently it'll be the best release ever - only time will tell whether this release will "save" Windows mobile or whether Linux based phones take over the majority of the market as predicted. Either way - it'll probably be a bit of a shake-up in the mobile market.
"Today is the day that the Windows Phone team has been driving towards,
and we’re very excited to say that we’ve reached the biggest milestone
for our internal team – the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows
Phone 7! While the final integration of Windows Phone 7 with our
partners’ hardware, software, and networks is underway, the work of our
internal engineering team is largely complete."
link to source
"Today is the day that the Windows Phone team has been driving towards,
and we’re very excited to say that we’ve reached the biggest milestone
for our internal team – the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows
Phone 7! While the final integration of Windows Phone 7 with our
partners’ hardware, software, and networks is underway, the work of our
internal engineering team is largely complete."
link to source
Awesome - Hopefully it'll be launched in other part of the world outside the United States.
