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This looks like a good idea for a lib (or more) that covers those issues. It might be already exists, but it's not very well known. (To beginners)

The other problem is that security issues usually aren't mentioned in general programming tutorials (and books).
If beginners would be pointed to techniques like this (with explanations why) lots of typical mistakes would not happens.

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It's good if they make their management cheaper & more efficient.
Does they use it only for server, or also at desktop too?

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that's a weird thing.
The other way would be more scary: to place the commercial directly into the brain O_o ...

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I'm mainly a KDE user, and first experienced GNOME 2 beta on Solaris.
I don't know what's SUN's fault & what's GNOME behavior. (I've never tested GNOME 2 on Linux)

- Lot's of GNOME-apps doesn't work (either don't start or crash very often)
- removable disks cannot managed (no Icon or something to access them - need to use old CDE programs)
- Localisation mostly undone (Even in a beta version Localisation should be mainly done)
- limited ways to configure window behavior (I really miss my stay-where-they-are-even-if-I-click-in-windows)
a nd lots of other minor and annoying things

With that experience I would say GNOME on Solaris is still in alpha state.

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405 km/h was just testing speed.
Travel speed will be about 430 km/h.

515 km/h is a record, not the travel speed!

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There are signs on the chip
which make me shut it down
there's OEM to enslave all chips
to detect them all in time
and drive them into darkness
forever they'll be bound
Three for the Kings
of UNIX high in light
nine to the users
which cry

Richmond, dark land under Ballmer's spell
threatened a long time
Seven chips to the other OS's
in their halls made of stone
into the system
I feel down
One ring for Ballmer's hand
sitting on his throne
in the land so dark
where I've to go.

Sorry, couldn't resist ;)

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GL Quake always had shadows, dynamic lights, and transparent water. (For the latter, you needed to patch your .pak files to add VIS data... head here to get VIS stuff.)

Though I haven't tried it out, Tenebrae appears to be less remarkable than what I've been playing recently, TeleJano. This one adds all sorts of neat effects - shaders for explosions and lightning, more advanced particle effects, rocket trails and smoke, new textures, rippling water, and volumetric fog (currently seems buggy). Some of the visuals approach Quake III quality!

OTOH, if you have a look at other surveys (WIDI -
final report), you'll see that Debian is among developers the preferred distribution. WIDI was announced in Slashdot (main page), Heise.de and several other news sites that aren't related to the Debian project.

Pardon me for the shameless plug, but as you see it has some relevance to the comment. I am the author of Freecell Solver, which is a library and a stand-alone command line program that solves games of Freecell and similar solitaire variants. Now, since its first public version, I posted announcements for its subsequent releases on Freshmeat, each time announcing new features.

As a side-effect of this publicity, the Google search for "freecell solver" yields almost exclusively hits that has something to do with it. However, the query itself is generic enough that a user would just want to find a solver for Freecell, not necessarily my own.

I call this phenomenon the "Freshmeat Effect", albeit it is by no means restricted to Freshmeat. Is there anything Googlers plan to do to restrict such clogging of searches by constant publicity of a package with a mis-chosen title?

(Refer here for a slightly earlier record of this effect, and a call for developers to use original names to avoid it.)

Pardon me for the shameless plug, but as you see it has some relevance to the comment. I am the author of Freecell Solver, which is a library and a stand-alone command line program that solves games of Freecell and similar solitaire variants. Now, since its first public version, I posted announcements for its subsequent releases on Freshmeat, each time announcing new features.

As a side-effect of this publicity, the Google search for "freecell solver" yields almost exclusively hits that has something to do with it. However, the query itself is generic enough that a user would just want to find a solver for Freecell, not necessarily my own.

I call this phenomenon the "Freshmeat Effect", albeit it is by no means restricted to Freshmeat. Is there anything Googlers plan to do to restrict such clogging of searches by constant publicity of a package with a mis-chosen title?

(Refer here for a slightly earlier record of this effect, and a call for developers to use original names to avoid it.)

One of my friends is doing a project called humanity which is an open-source project for creating a movie script (and then filming it).

German govt. is also supporting Opensource in other ways. I.e. by providing Berlios.

The focus on P2P networks in the past has been solely on filesharing. But you can also exchange other data using a P2P network. There's an open source project with a P2P network for exchanging recommendations for web resources. Help us test the scalability of our network, just grab the tar.gz and run the software!

I do not host/offer my source code at SourceForge, because my project uses strong encryption, and I prefer to host it in a country (Germany) with less nebulous laws in that respect. However, the compile farm is an invaluable resource for testing compatibility with other platforms.

Actually, I can understand that the FreeBSD project may not have the resources to offer a test box, but I fail to understand why huge companies like Sun can't be bothered to provide access to some box to test open source code on their OS. It is a pity that a third party (i.e. SourceForge) has to step in to provide this service to the open source community.

If you're looking for alternatives, have a look at BerliOS. It uses the software of SF so you won't have to change much.

Let's look at this a little more objectively. Hosting kernel.org costs about $80,000 a year (Larry McVoy posted this number to lkml about a month ago) at the least. It's an ftp site. That's bandwidth, not any warm bodies doing admin, not any fancy database stuff, nothing fancy just an ftp server and a minimal web site. Sourceforge has to cost 20 times more, probably more, to run. I have no idea what the numbers are but it has a staff and a huge amount of resources to manage and keep running. Personally, I'd assume that it's in the neighborhood of $5million+ a year, that's just my half-assed guess though. That's some substantial output for most companies, at IBM you can't spend that kind of money without producing something, people notice chunks that big. At most places, that kind of funding simply isn't available for something like that. At some point the free ride has to end, or something has to come out of it, or something has to change. Even a company like MS would see $5mill on the books in red ink and not black and there would have to be some reason to justify it and goodwill towards the community might not be enough.

Then with subjects like these, things rise up. Well they should trim dead stuff out of the tree, trimming the "dead" stuff is silly becuase it might be useful to people, that's the whole premise, if it's in use anywhere then it's not really dead. It might be dead to you and me, but that guy who is using it might want it. They should do x, y, or z to better support projects like q. They could do this or that. I think the most alarming propect is that there will be code in SF and it could be lost because of a policy change. I can get over most things, the changes to the mailing lists, and various other things they've done, it's free and you get what you pay for but a big part of the justification has been to promote interaction with developers to give VA a community they have close ties with and to promote open source software development. The idea of losing code is appauling, SF no longer serves a big part of its purpose at that point. That's what brings credibility in to question, what are they doing to prevent that from happening? Can I buy a set of DVDs that have SF backed-up on to them? Or is this it, the policy change is that there won't be any warning of future policy changes and those might cost you your code. I understand that they might have to sell stuff, or charge for services or do lot's of different things. I also understand that services like SF are prime for pirates and porn hustlers and others to use to propagate data and they need to protect themselves. It's time to look to tigris, Savannah, and Berlio more seriously.

I wonder if there is something we could add to licenses that would prevent a place like SF from shutting down and taking your code with them.

Opensource is really popular over here. Even the gov is trying to catch up by establishing an Opensource site called Berlios.

If anybody is interested, here is an article which explains how the KDE component model works. I'm not familiar with the topic so you've got to see yourself if the article is worth reading.

http://widi.berlios.de/links.php3.

There you will find other tools and surveys we have found.

I want you also to notice, that Widi (the survey) is only part of our research. We have several other sources that will converge in our final results.

I've to answer you, that Widi (the software under which this survey runs) itself is released under the GPL... so we're also Open Source developers.

You can download it from http://developer.berlios.de/projects/widi/

The problem was just a bad configuration of MySQL as I've already told in a comment. We apologizes for it... it has been our first Slashdot efect and you know you can't ensure your software runs well untill you test it :-). Thanx for your comprehension.