Now all we need is hell freezing over and pigs to start flying... damnit, i might start to believê 2012 is really end of the world

WHAAAAT? public retard collection is dying?

damn you lazy kids and your novelty toys.

we real hardocre surfers browse like this
bash$ exec 5<>/dev/tcp/www.slashdot.org/80
bash$ echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.0\n" >&5
bash$ cat <&5 | od -h
page is then subconsciously translated into visual representation (including animations) from hexcodes

and yes, we real hardcores also don't use keyboard to type comments, this was typed by producing morse code on my mouse, dammit

by surfing this way, you're bound not to be without some decent news, although when you read news about war starting, that war is usually over by the time you decode it

there already were meego and maemo. both mobile desktops are much more friendly with other linux implementations and both can run on any distro (i know for meego 100%). so yes, you can use RHL or Ubuntu. both are also much more open than android. couldn't care less about iOS, wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.

as it is currently, android, while running on linux... how the fuck linux as desktop os is the least compatible with that platform of all closed ones if it is such holly grail for it like you say? face it, android just fragment linux once again for no reason.

proclaiming one as stupid, while you actually have no clue about other options just bounces your statement back to you.

p.s. while saying all this i still have android phone, at least until i can find some decent phone on which i can put custom brew meego os

android didn't do anything good for linux, if anything it just made another incompatible implementation of the same platform. wake me up when i can run android app on my linux desktop without needing to run it in some virtual machine.

adobe i don't even wanna comment about. i avoid them more carefully than entrance to hell.

nah, topic is just titled wrong. should be "Worlds unemployment in critical levels. People going mad from running out of all useless things to do in their spare unemployed time"

fallacy indeed

even chaos theory is too uniform to describe my consciousness.

heh, if this is not customizable then i don't know what is;) i can only imagine what everything people will think of for extensions.

http://www.webupd8.org/search/label/gnome%20shell?max-results=10
http://blog.fpmurphy.com/

ok, that has to be either worst joke ever or lame attempt at trying to post serious troll comment.

if anything... shell is abso-fucking-most configurable desktop ever. you can extend/change abso-fucking-lutely everything with simple javascript. granted, since g3 was just released, not many extensions are present yet and gnome-shell by it self is not really feature rich environment and neither was any other desktop when they switched release. moving from gnome 1 to 2 was especially terrible. old and new gtk worked and looked differently, one had utf8, other didn't... same troubles at kde camp from 3 to 4. c'mon developers need to sleep too and if they wait to release full featured version without period of change they'd need to support 2 versions.

if anything, work like that really deserves benefit of a doubt until 3.2 or 3.4. people making extensions might surprise you. just google on how to make extensions and see how brilliant it is. and yes, i do love shell... after i installed places extension and made 3 extensions for my self i can really say i was never so productive

As for calling XP's firewall a firewall..

based on lack of features and being inbound only, this car analogy kinda fits it

"BEST CAR IN UNIVERSE!!!!! only missing 3 tires and there is no engine, but do not fear... space where you can put your own engine is intact and perfectly cleaned. also, sits and wheel can be be included with additional purchase, as special feature mirrors were cleaned daily"

and yes, you can from early iptables start, which predates any firewall presence in windows.

you can set rulesets in specific tables, you can add/remove them dynamically, save/restore from the very first time of iptables replacing ipchains, which already had that feature too.

the only way you could get same feature was using zonealarm (except zonealarm didn't close port after application stopped). and before answering, read right documentation, not the blurb this author wrote

no need to get upset. author just worded it really badly. as most already said, iptables already had add/remove/save/restore, although i can see you get bonner every time you mention openbsd

here is how this works
- service/program starts and sends d-bus message "hey, i need xxx port to work (yes, i really meant classic pr0n port;)
- user gets prompted and needs to validate decision trough authentication.
- port is open
- when software stops, it sends another d-bus message "close pr0n port"
- port is closed

this is not scenario which would be usable in any server environment. but for n00b user running something... might just be life saver not to get confused with bunch of for him too advanced howtos.

Can please someone explain me what's wrong with appending and deleting a firewall rule:

sorry, couldn't resist ;)

$ iptables-restre /root/ipt.state

should be

$ iptables-restore /root/ipt.state

if they eat hamburgers to be americans... what does this say about vegetarians? are they cow wannabies?