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Warp Pipe is over thinking. A simple network-to-network VPN works.

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Slashdot goes nuts over yet another Linux thing. Unlike some of the other some-what cool things that have been posted (Linux-based piano for example), this is just another distro... Big deal, who cares?

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I think you're wrong. Solaris isn't the fastest OS around, Linux and BSD beat it most of the time. However, it's much more stable, more robust, and scales far better, as you said.

What I am saying is Linux is a nice car for daily commute, but Solaris is a better investment.

Sun and Solaris have more on Linux and BSD then just an OS. Sun provides great support, hardware, compatibilty with past versions of it's software, Java, and more.

It's apples to oranges.

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I always chuckle when I read any comment on Slashdot. Always some dope commenting about something he doesn't know about. Sun worked with the military to develop Trusted Solaris which the military does use. With Solaris 10, these features will be built in.

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Are the Windows XP drivers up to snuff with this release?

Previous All in Wonder drivers have sucked and have been unreliable for programattic access.

I had to switch last year to another capture card manufacturer.

Clif

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Are the Windows XP drivers up to snuff with this release? Previous All in Wonder drivers have sucked and have been unreliable for programattic access. I had to switch last year to another capture card manufacturer. Clif Blogzine.net Fortress of Insanity

I was hoping it was an article on certain effects and how they were accomplished.

Not a tiny list of vital stats. (that didn't seem to impress me somehow) :(

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My mom wouldn't let me have one because they take up so much space!

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There are Linux distros that work to create unified menus. The problem is that the menu trees become overly complex because they include every package. This creates a usability problem because menu structures deeper than one level quickly become less usuable. If a common menu file was used, it is likely that the various window managers and desktop environments would simply parse the file to create their own menus. I.e., each desktop would still have slightly different menus. The fundamental problem in all of this is that there are several views of what menus structures are most usable, and what programs are the best for certain tasks.

The Debian distro, with its update-menu package, does a decent job of placing packages into a menu tree during package configuration. The problem is that it becomes overly complex. The Gnome menu tree is very usable and uncluttered, but many packages are missing. (Personally, I have found the minimalistic approach to work best. After two years of KDE, I rarely used the cluttered app. menu; with Gnome, I am able to use the app. menu for most things and bypass the Alt-F2 combo and keyboard shortcuts to which I had become accustomed in KDE.)

A single tree used by all window managers and desktop environments would have to include much more than is needed. The menus for the desktop environments can be more minimalistic because, when needed, the Gnome menu can exclude KDE apps, and the KDE menus can exclude Gnome apps.

Here is an example of an exclusionary, simple menu versus an all-encompassing system-wide menu.

Your present may need some assembly.

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I'm going to shove coal so far up your stocking you'll be coughing up diamonds!

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Santa, I want a smell-a-scope, and a bending unit, and a virtual Internet, and a pony, and a death clock, and... Oh wait, you want REAL geek gifts :-(

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This interface would become mandatory?

This sounds to me like a possibly feature...not something that will change the world as we know it.

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I had it once and it isn't something you want to have more than once. Where do I sign? Blogzine.net Fortress of Insanity: Unix Dude

I think the guy who found this out has been laden awhile.

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Now the people who comment on Slashdot can do it faster. They don't even have to not-read the article, all they have to do is not-look at the image.

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I've been watching this show for awhile now and I think it's great. It's funny, it's some-what factional, and it's fun. I hope this won't turn into a short-lived series on Discovery, like most of the other primetime shows they air.

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... where people are slave to machine. The machines are using the humans as batteries and a group of people are looking for some One. Then they realize it's just an endless loop.

I'm sure someone will turn it into a dream sooner or later.

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Sun has the Java Desktop System, which will be both Linux and Solaris. How come they aren't there?

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Shortly after receiving and playing with the Qubes, I named them Pamela.Anderson & Keanu.Reeves because they looked pretty

That's doubtful since iTunes makes nearly 0 profit. Most of your 99 cents goes back to the copyright holders and pays for hosting the services. You really can't drop the price below 99 cents.

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Do we really need another online music store? iTunes and Napster are great, they work well and have a rather large album of songs. Why add another store which will have the same set of songs?

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I hate it when a site thinks they are so big and cool and make you upgrade to the latest player.

What? Flash 3 couldn't cut it. ARE THEY TOO GOOD FOR FLASH 3?! Geez.

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I agree but does it help anyone?

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Doesn't have to be used for a wireless backbone. How about wireless cross-state backups? Dedicated cross-town wireless connections? Possibilities for low-frequency wireless are limitless.

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How about adding some wireless support in the 15-meter band and upping the watts? Around the world wirless, could create a pure-wireless network.

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Their fault for running IIS. If anything, not patching software should be a crime.

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I guess if you take time to turn off WU-FTPD, patch Windows RPC, and remove Kazaa, you won't have to worry about it being owned, now would you?

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Are nearly always guilty in part.

So that's that.

And you can ask anyone and they will tell you I'm right.

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is the reality of the product they have created?

Is it all the innovative compared to other solutions?

Flash in the pan if you ask me.

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Indeed, and for me, just running Linux doesn't go far enough. My webserver is running a relatively obscure (but secure) httpd on a relatively obscure (but secure) OS on a relatively obscure hardware platform. Further, the httpd is running as nobody in a chroot jail, and is behind a DMZ with no access to the outside Internet, let alone my LAN.

I'm so belt-and-suspenders that I don't trust ssh to sit on a port by itself, and I wrote a separate authorization program that only enables ssh temporarily, for a single IP address at a time.

I won't say it's unhackable, but it's about as close as I can get without cutting off the electricity...

ROFLMFAO!

Why do I post on Slashdot? To plug myself:
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This will be up for only a day or so. Be nice to the DSL line.

We can, and have, come to definite conclusions about infinite things before. See, e.g., Cantor's Diagonal Proof. Heck, we've come to some pretty definite and pretty reliable conclusions about systems vastly more complex than any individual human, or even all humans put together. Just how much do we know, as certainly as we know anything, about the Earth, of which humankind is necessarily a subset?

Moreover, I'm pretty much convinced that an omni-* deity would not create a universe with evil in it. I think it's a logical contradiction, which allows me to make pretty definite conclusions about its possibility.

God wants people to believe him solely on faith (dunno why, that's just the way it is)

So, there's two possibilities in your view.

1. God exists, but refuses to give any proof thereof, and actively arranges that there will be no such proof.
2. God does not exist.

Heh... mine is.

That many people could probably be kept alive, I suppose. But there would be no parks, stadiums, roads, etc. You'd need every scrap of land not actively used for housing to be farmland. BTW, you wouldn't be able to afford to support grazing animals - way too inefficient. The grain could feed ten people or one cow...

Anybody who says we are going to run out of room in the US needs to leave the city for a weekend and go for a long drive.

People use way more land than they stand on. I work through some of the math here.

You might try of these scripts. They download the source for winex and compile it to play nicly on your system right along with regular wine. It won't have all the features of the offcial winex release, but close enough for a lot of games.

Are they referring to the core OS? Regarding kernel vulnerabilities? Regarding Apache vs. IIS? I noticed one of the tables on the SecurityFocus site, show "Top Vulnerable Packages 2001" - what exactly does that mean? , installed packages and running daemons? or the kernel each OS is packaging?

Look at those tables. How can you refer to Windows NT 4.0 versus Internet Explorer versus IIS versus RedHat Linux 5.2!!!

Those are really huge apples and massive oranges... This is marketing fluff, vague and doesn't do anyone any good! Doesn't matter if you are referring to Windows, Linux, Solaris, QNX, or whatever. These are raw stats, without enough detail to make an informed decision regarding their meaning.

Look deeper into statistics, et al. before flaming one way of the other!

OK , so let's narrow it down Microsoft IIS servers are more secure than Linux/*NIX/Apache servers? How about the immesnse propogation of crap that unpatched IIS servers are propogating on the 'net?

I am running a little hobby server at home, running FreeBSD and I have been getting a HUGE number of NIMDA requests, so , is NIMDA resolved? ummm I think not...

Here's the proof, it's a quick and dirty generation of the requests my apache is getting from the clueless IIS dorks on Rogers@Home (an informal traceroute has shown most of the requests coming from within the @Home network).

I like SF , I read SF, but those tables and statistics are completely ridiculous and I'm not even slamming MSFT one way or the other....