Acoording to a friend working on the Galileo project they came up with a new encryption algorithm specification a week ago. Quite annoying with such changes this late in the project, they thought. I guess this news kind of explains it.
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And even worse... "/usr/local/bin" and "/usr/local/Bin" are two completely different places in linux. Everytime anyone points out the braindeadness of that they get the very same h4xX0R-response you describe.
You do however have a point, I think. Microsoft has been mocked about their inflated version numbering scheme. Linux is doing just the opposite. The convention for software X.Y.Z is:
X - major release Y - incremental release with additional features Z - release featuring only bugfixes
Had Linux adopted that system we would not have had the pointless 2.6 vs. 3.0 discussion on when changes are "big enough".
Major releases equals major numbers, simple. It is not like we will be running out of numbers by using up a new major one every two years or so.
I used to work for a company providing a service they called "spoken paper" to visually impaired. That was originally just news papers read and recorded on to cassettes. Today, however, it is the text content of papers distributed digitally to small devices with build-in speech synthesis. There is a knob on the box to adjust the speech rate. Well, work it out for yourselves. At least to me it is just noise a lot of them listen to.
The first time we had devices in for service it was assumed that someone had touched the speech rate knob while unpacking the thing - as no living thing possible could make any sense of what the synthesis produced at that rate. I guess that it may help that the voice is always the same, though.
Check out this page for an ICQ and IRC software for mobile phones. It has so far only been tested on the Nokia 7650, though, but why not give it a go? Most up-to-date info is in this paper, Mobile Instant Messaging. I have not tried it myself, but it sure looks pretty awesome.
It's got stuff all over - SCSI updates, ACPI, ia64, sparc, USB, net, device mapper, AGP, ALSA, you name it. Meanwhile I worked mostly on the sysenter support, we'll have to wait for glibc releases to test that out more.
Oh, and I will raise income taxes and start war on alt.fan.saddam.
I guess he is asking for a second opinion. It is not like Law is some kind of science where there is one capital generally accepted Answer to a given question... and also there are certainly idiot lawyers just as well as there are clever ones. Well, at least I assume there are clever ones somewhere...:)
Yeah. The Norwegian peace prize committee used it politically. That was probably not what Alfred Nobel had in mind. I am sure there are a lot of oppressed individuals that has sacrificed their entire lives for the sake of peace that all deserve the prize better.
Maybe we can look forward to Usama winning the peace prize next year, if he can be a great philanthropic guy and refrain from massacres and destruction of property for a year or so.
It seems like that excellent way to install is soon to be history (Quoted from Debian Weekly News, July 23rd). Too bad.
Future of the Debian Installer. Now that Woody is finally released, development on the debian-installer has to be improved. The goal is to stop the current installation system (boot-floppies) and finish development of the new debian installer, which has a cleaner and more flexible design.
"Rolig Liten Hattgubbe" and "Lagom". There is a lot of Swedish on Slashdot these days! "Rolig Liten Hattgubbe" means "Funny Little Hat Guy". Who is the Funny Little Hat Guy?
Just a thought: Might this compiler perhaps be different in a way that improves the situation regarding the C++ library relocation issues that bothers KDE?
If the Wine people got their hands on that source, in some mysterious way, it could parhaps help them a bit with the rather inadequately documented Windows API. How much of the standard Windows APIs can be found in CE? Any windows hacker (Ehumm) care to comment?
It's not like linux is too small to be an attractive target for virus hackers. Think of Atari and Amiga, their use base were probably smaller than the Linux/FreeBSD community is today.
Why has not Linux/FreeBSD been plagued by viruses in the same way as Dos/Windows or Amiga/Atari? Actually it should be even worse as Linux computers are usually networked and, again, has a larger amount of users than the latter two OSs. Another thing that should make it easier for virus makes is the source being availble.
The only reson I can think of why viruses are not a major problem is that it is much more difficult to write a "useful" virus for a linux enviroment.
In unix we have hackers (in a system intrusion sense) and in Dos/Windows and other more primitive non-networking OSs they have viruses. I takes more to penetrate unix security, obviously, as a stupid virus program won't do - it takes a rather highly skilled hacker to do that.
...there always are a few people ready to chime in helpful criticism: "Slashdot Really Sucks Now" or "This Story isn't Good Enough For Slashdot" or my personal favorite "Is this really News for Nerds?"
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The Peace prize is awarded by Norwegians, by some request in Alfred Nobel's will. The rest of the awards are decided by Swedish committees.
They take every chance they get to get foreign A-list celebrities to come to Norway.
1) They can get top notch music artists to perform for free at the ceremony.
2) They get Hollywood superstars (e.g. Scarlet Johansson) to host the event.
3) Third and final sell-out is giving the price to someone famous.
This kind of takes some of the prestige away from the proper scientific Nobel prizes.
Acoording to a friend working on the Galileo project they came up with a new encryption algorithm specification a week ago. Quite annoying with such changes this late in the project, they thought. I guess this news kind of explains it.
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Very useful, thank you.
And even worse... "/usr/local/bin" and "/usr/local/Bin" are two completely different places in linux. Everytime anyone points out the braindeadness of that they get the very same h4xX0R-response you describe.
You do however have a point, I think. Microsoft has been mocked about their inflated version numbering scheme. Linux is doing just the opposite. The convention for software X.Y.Z is:
X - major release
Y - incremental release with additional features
Z - release featuring only bugfixes
Had Linux adopted that system we would not have had the pointless 2.6 vs. 3.0 discussion on when changes are "big enough".
Major releases equals major numbers, simple. It is not like we will be running out of numbers by using up a new major one every two years or so.
The first time we had devices in for service it was assumed that someone had touched the speech rate knob while unpacking the thing - as no living thing possible could make any sense of what the synthesis produced at that rate. I guess that it may help that the voice is always the same, though.
http://marki.host.sk/MLS/
Check out this page for an ICQ and IRC software for mobile phones. It has so far only been tested on the Nokia 7650, though, but why not give it a go? Most up-to-date info is in this paper,
Mobile Instant Messaging. I have not tried it myself, but it sure looks pretty awesome.
It's got stuff all over - SCSI updates, ACPI, ia64, sparc, USB, net, device mapper, AGP, ALSA, you name it. Meanwhile I worked mostly on the sysenter support, we'll have to wait for glibc releases to test that out more.
Oh, and I will raise income taxes and start war on alt.fan.saddam.
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This is news for nerds. Sing these and get stigmatized as nerd forever.
You have clearly not been to some of the news groups I have.
Yeah, keep postning this story every and then as a reminder so the junk mail pressure on this guy does not ease off...
But honestly what I really am looking for requires only very little development work. It spells "GPL". Please?
I guess he is asking for a second opinion. It is not like Law is some kind of science where there is one capital generally accepted Answer to a given question... and also there are certainly idiot lawyers just as well as there are clever ones. Well, at least I assume there are clever ones somewhere... :)
Maybe we can look forward to Usama winning the peace prize next year, if he can be a great philanthropic guy and refrain from massacres and destruction of property for a year or so.
lynx -dump "http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/
"Rolig Liten Hattgubbe" and "Lagom". There is a lot of Swedish on Slashdot these days! "Rolig Liten Hattgubbe" means "Funny Little Hat Guy". Who is the Funny Little Hat Guy?
Nope. Check out dot.kde.org/989353453/.
Just a thought: Might this compiler perhaps be different in a way that improves the situation regarding the C++ library relocation issues that bothers KDE?
Right. Have you ever been to the southern states?
If the Wine people got their hands on that source, in some mysterious way, it could parhaps help them a bit with the rather inadequately documented Windows API. How much of the standard Windows APIs can be found in CE? Any windows hacker (Ehumm) care to comment?
Why has not Linux/FreeBSD been plagued by viruses in the same way as Dos/Windows or Amiga/Atari? Actually it should be even worse as Linux computers are usually networked and, again, has a larger amount of users than the latter two OSs. Another thing that should make it easier for virus makes is the source being availble.
The only reson I can think of why viruses are not a major problem is that it is much more difficult to write a "useful" virus for a linux enviroment.
In unix we have hackers (in a system intrusion sense) and in Dos/Windows and other more primitive non-networking OSs they have viruses. I takes more to penetrate unix security, obviously, as a stupid virus program won't do - it takes a rather highly skilled hacker to do that.
Read the whole thing here:m l
http://slashdot.org/features/99/03/31/0137221.sht