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On The State of Wireless
There's a short piece on Mindjack about the state of wireless. Actually, the piece is a minireview of a piece that Nicholas Carroll produced at Hastings Research. Yes, it's a PDF, and yes, it costs money. Having read through it, it's also totally worth it, especially if you are an organization that does basically anything with wireless.
Linus and Ximian's Miguel came to an agreement to include Gnome inside the 2.5.x series, so once you boot the 45MB kernel you'll be ready to use your desktop, no more waits, everything runs at kernel level with the use of DirectFB.
Alas, with tihs kind of kernels security will go down the drain, making it possible for every 13 year old script kiddie to enter your system with a 5 line perl script that has already been written.
This script takes advantage of a very serious security flaw in Gnome's CORBA implementantion, where any user can execure arbitrary code on a remote machine. When asked about it, Linus just said : I don't care.
RMS on the other hand told tihs reporter that HURD doesn't have this problem since it runs all servers at user level. Of course, no one except HURD developers use it.
When told about this statement Linus said : Read my previous answer, I don't care about RMS, as I didn't care about AST back in time when I ripped off Minix (formerly known as BoumOS, Mike Bouma's OS) to build Linux (formerly known as Freax)
Sincerely, Mike Bouma
How are we supposed to comment on it, if it costs money to read?
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Programming is like sex... Make one mistake and support it the rest of your life.
Amongst the intellectual inadequates at those two well known mental masturbation sites, it certainly does.
Oh yes, that's my whole fucking argument. Everything should be free or else boycotted.
/.ers are just so fucking stupid.
I can't believe that you're the only one that realized it. These
Ya know what, you should just retire from posting while you're at your highest point. Go ahead, you're too smart to be hanging around here.