Pico sure isn't a programmers' editor - with features like word wrapping, it tries to be smart but fails. I much prefer vim or gvim (Vim with a Gtk+ GUI) for pounding out code - syntax highlighting is your friend. (Don't say Emacs. I'll have to find you and hit you. Hard. Many times. In the head, even.) _____
As someone else mentioned (but I feel I must reiterate), making portscanning illegal isn't going to stop portscanning. Besides, it's still going to be a lot of work either manually sifting through logs and collecting lists of scanning addresses, or writing utilities to do the collection automatically. (Or costly money-wise, if you are an NT sysadmin and like to purchase everything you use in a box.)
Also, what about people who portscan from foreign countries? How exactly is a law here going to stop them? The systems I run see regular netblock scans from addresses in China, Korea and other far-Eastern as well as some European nations. (Italy is a common origin.)
Also, what about sysadmins portscanning their own systems? If portscans aren't legal, how can I externally analyze my own systems? Am I then a criminal if I scan my own boxen? Where do we draw the line? _____
effectively forced the manufacturers of DAT recorders to incorporate SCMS, thus killing DAT as a consumer format.
And MiniDisc is in basically the same boat, if I'm not too much mistaken. Ah, all the potentially excellent technology we've missed out on because of stupid legislation.:/ _____
Is it really not possible to make things uncopyable?
Well, if it can be read, it can be copied. It's that simple. Copying is just reading something and writing what you've read elsewhere (i.e., what the Unix 'cp' command does). That's where SDMI is going to lose - they're trying to make reading and copying out to be separate operations, but one is just an extension of the other. _____
I believe the Gnome base libraries are LGPL'd, actually, so that wouldn't affect commercial software (they'd only have to make public any changes to the library sources that they made, if any). _____
Going more mainstream is not going to result in better games.
No, probably not, but then it's the same sort of story with those who howl about how Linux must "become mainstream" to succeed. Except these people, in all their whining, forgot something - mainstream means lowest common denominator. And that's what some of us want to avoid. _____
Oh yes, and we all know that Hollywood provides only clean, intellectual, educational entertai...
*murmurs to nearby person*
Oh, I've just been informed that *surprise* they DON'T! Well, then MAYBE people should stop pointing at Hollywood as a good example of a business that produces the "grown-up" entertainment material you're preaching about here. _____
Is the only reason anyone makes a game today to make money?
If you take any stock at all in Microsoft's business model (or the words of head VP Craig Mundie), it would seem to be the only reason to make software - or any product, for that matter. _____
Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Re:better *hardware* not better wince
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The 9x or NT/2K kernels will not boot on a MIPS or SH3 processor
I call bullshit. NT 3.1, 3.5, 3.51 and 4.0 were ALL ported to the MIPS architecture. In fact, unless you weren't around for NT's early days (or just purged those times from your memory), one of NT's selling points was supposed to be its portability - it was supposedly written on MIPS initially, and then ported over to x86. (It was also ported to the AXP and PowerPC architectures.) _____
Just FYI: The Palm V/Vx uses a Li-Ion rechargable cell, not a NiMH. _____
Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
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Try preparing a budget without a spreadsheet, or writing any kind of document on a typewriter instead of a word processor
You're making the same exact point - the software in and of itself isn't providing you with any value, but the value is in what you do with it. The results of the work you're doing - it being faster, simpler, more efficient, whatever. But just having the program, even running the program, does nothing for you if you have no purpose for it, right? _____
He wasn't originally going to call it Linux - someone else picked that name (Linux being assumed to be short for "Linus's Unix" or similar), and it just kind of stuck. He had some (rather odd) name that he was going to call it, but since the name Linux stuck, he just went with that.
Why do some people think all Free Software/Open Source people have a self-fetish or something? _____
Next they will be fileing a patent on hashing based on track information
Actually, they already did. And got the patent too, if I'm not mistaken. Apparently the USPTO wouldn't know prior art if it came up and farted right in their collective face. _____
Yes, but then Fox didn't have the same wide viewer base it does now either. Back when the X-Files was still young, a lot of cities didn't have local Fox stations - about the only place to see it was on cable at the time. They have a lot more audience that must be satisfied now, and I'm sure if the numbers aren't turning up, and quick, they decide "We need something new here, stat!" _____
If you don't have cable or digital-sat service, check out late-night on your local channels - one of our local channels apparently has (current! believe it or not) episodes of The Invisible Man, Stargate SG1 and other shows that originate on cable, through a syndication arrangement. (Had digital-sat service, but we terminated it - god _damn_ it's a rip, but my parents thought it was a good deal for movies - too bad they didn't listen to me.)
If you're a poor bastard, or just don't want to pay the outrageous monthly fees, it may be a good alternative. (Yeah yeah, so you don't stay up till all hours - check schedules, and learn to set the clock on your VCR. Or just get a Tivo already.) _____
What i'm wondering about: Why is M$ putting so much effort into this? According to them Linux is a loosing OS anyway?
Definitely. For a company that claims not to be threatened by Linux, they sure do talk about it. A lot. If it's so obvious that Windows is (supposedly) an all-around better choice than Linux for everything, then why do they have to spend so much time pointing it out?
Methinks they doth protest a bit too much, eh? _____
C2 is not any of the above - it is a certification of the whole enchilada - the machine, the software installed on it, the installed hardware/peripherals, and the physical environment (i.e., characteristics of the facility where it's installed). One particular install of NT 3.51 was certified - with (as others have mentioned) no removable media and no network - therefore, completely isolated from the outside world. _____
Since when do you get someone to blame with Microsoft's products? Their license agreements pretty much disavow suitability of their products for any purpose whatsoever! The only reason they care so much with big companies is due to the visibility - a story like "Dell web site hacked via new vulnerability - software giant Microsoft unwakened" just wouldn't go over well on the ol' home front, nam'sayin? _____
Seconded, esp. in the case of McAfee. What's the point in having virus protection if your virus protection makes an already stability-challenged OS that much worse? (And why does it need a kernel component anyway? Riddle me that.) _____
Given the OS-installed burner software option (assuming reliability), I would have probably gone with it instead of trying my own installs.
I still say, regardless of what the MS believers who've now begun occupying/. will say, that that's an awfully big assumption when you're dealing with Windows. Give me a PPC Linux box, cdrecord and mkisofs, and one (or more - I've been able to burn 3 at a time off one PPC running Linux) CD burner, and then you can get serious about CD creation. _____
IE wasn't embedded in the kernel - just in every nook and cranny of userspace. The day someone embeds a web browser into kernelspace... well, I don't know what I'll do then, but it's gonna be something drastic, lemme tell ya. _____
My beef with Linux is that the packages that come with the distros can only use their package installers to load them.
Ok, what the hell is this supposed to mean? Have you never heard of alien? I can easily convert packages among RPM, DEB, TGZ and SLP formats with one command using it. And *gasp* the packages, like, INSTALL and WORK. (Imagine it.)
Also, your argument about Microsoft's bundled apps is kind of silly - "so what if it's installed, install what you want and ignore Microsoft's stuff"? Why? Why should I have a bunch of crap from Microsoft installed on my hard drive that I have no intention of using? I have no problem with Microsoft producing competing products - even bundling them with their OS, if they want, I suppose, is OK. My beef is that if it's something they REALLY want you to use, it gets installed - and you don't get a chance to question it, or choose to not install it (or remove it later if you try it and find it unsatisfying). _____
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Pico sure isn't a programmers' editor - with features like word wrapping, it tries to be smart but fails. I much prefer vim or gvim (Vim with a Gtk+ GUI) for pounding out code - syntax highlighting is your friend. (Don't say Emacs. I'll have to find you and hit you. Hard. Many times. In the head, even.)
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
I guess you'd have to call it a relative term. :)
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
As someone else mentioned (but I feel I must reiterate), making portscanning illegal isn't going to stop portscanning. Besides, it's still going to be a lot of work either manually sifting through logs and collecting lists of scanning addresses, or writing utilities to do the collection automatically. (Or costly money-wise, if you are an NT sysadmin and like to purchase everything you use in a box.)
Also, what about people who portscan from foreign countries? How exactly is a law here going to stop them? The systems I run see regular netblock scans from addresses in China, Korea and other far-Eastern as well as some European nations. (Italy is a common origin.)
Also, what about sysadmins portscanning their own systems? If portscans aren't legal, how can I externally analyze my own systems? Am I then a criminal if I scan my own boxen? Where do we draw the line?
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
I thought that's what customer meant anyway?
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
effectively forced the manufacturers of DAT recorders to incorporate SCMS, thus killing DAT as a consumer format.
:/
And MiniDisc is in basically the same boat, if I'm not too much mistaken. Ah, all the potentially excellent technology we've missed out on because of stupid legislation.
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Is it really not possible to make things uncopyable?
Well, if it can be read, it can be copied. It's that simple. Copying is just reading something and writing what you've read elsewhere (i.e., what the Unix 'cp' command does). That's where SDMI is going to lose - they're trying to make reading and copying out to be separate operations, but one is just an extension of the other.
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Maybe the fact that Microsoft didn't write it? They just ported its networking code to their research IPv6 stack?
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
I believe the Gnome base libraries are LGPL'd, actually, so that wouldn't affect commercial software (they'd only have to make public any changes to the library sources that they made, if any).
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Going more mainstream is not going to result in better games.
No, probably not, but then it's the same sort of story with those who howl about how Linux must "become mainstream" to succeed. Except these people, in all their whining, forgot something - mainstream means lowest common denominator. And that's what some of us want to avoid.
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Oh yes, and we all know that Hollywood provides only clean, intellectual, educational entertai...
*murmurs to nearby person*
Oh, I've just been informed that *surprise* they DON'T! Well, then MAYBE people should stop pointing at Hollywood as a good example of a business that produces the "grown-up" entertainment material you're preaching about here.
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Is the only reason anyone makes a game today to make money?
If you take any stock at all in Microsoft's business model (or the words of head VP Craig Mundie), it would seem to be the only reason to make software - or any product, for that matter.
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
The 9x or NT/2K kernels will not boot on a MIPS or SH3 processor
I call bullshit. NT 3.1, 3.5, 3.51 and 4.0 were ALL ported to the MIPS architecture. In fact, unless you weren't around for NT's early days (or just purged those times from your memory), one of NT's selling points was supposed to be its portability - it was supposedly written on MIPS initially, and then ported over to x86. (It was also ported to the AXP and PowerPC architectures.)
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Just FYI: The Palm V/Vx uses a Li-Ion rechargable cell, not a NiMH.
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Try preparing a budget without a spreadsheet, or writing any kind of document on a typewriter instead of a word processor
You're making the same exact point - the software in and of itself isn't providing you with any value, but the value is in what you do with it. The results of the work you're doing - it being faster, simpler, more efficient, whatever. But just having the program, even running the program, does nothing for you if you have no purpose for it, right?
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Why did Linus name a UNIX ripoff after himself?
He wasn't originally going to call it Linux - someone else picked that name (Linux being assumed to be short for "Linus's Unix" or similar), and it just kind of stuck. He had some (rather odd) name that he was going to call it, but since the name Linux stuck, he just went with that.
Why do some people think all Free Software/Open Source people have a self-fetish or something?
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Next they will be fileing a patent on hashing based on track information
Actually, they already did. And got the patent too, if I'm not mistaken. Apparently the USPTO wouldn't know prior art if it came up and farted right in their collective face.
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Yes, but then Fox didn't have the same wide viewer base it does now either. Back when the X-Files was still young, a lot of cities didn't have local Fox stations - about the only place to see it was on cable at the time. They have a lot more audience that must be satisfied now, and I'm sure if the numbers aren't turning up, and quick, they decide "We need something new here, stat!"
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
If you don't have cable or digital-sat service, check out late-night on your local channels - one of our local channels apparently has (current! believe it or not) episodes of The Invisible Man, Stargate SG1 and other shows that originate on cable, through a syndication arrangement. (Had digital-sat service, but we terminated it - god _damn_ it's a rip, but my parents thought it was a good deal for movies - too bad they didn't listen to me.)
If you're a poor bastard, or just don't want to pay the outrageous monthly fees, it may be a good alternative. (Yeah yeah, so you don't stay up till all hours - check schedules, and learn to set the clock on your VCR. Or just get a Tivo already.)
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
What i'm wondering about: Why is M$ putting so much effort into this? According to them Linux is a loosing OS anyway?
Definitely. For a company that claims not to be threatened by Linux, they sure do talk about it. A lot. If it's so obvious that Windows is (supposedly) an all-around better choice than Linux for everything, then why do they have to spend so much time pointing it out?
Methinks they doth protest a bit too much, eh?
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
C2 is not any of the above - it is a certification of the whole enchilada - the machine, the software installed on it, the installed hardware/peripherals, and the physical environment (i.e., characteristics of the facility where it's installed). One particular install of NT 3.51 was certified - with (as others have mentioned) no removable media and no network - therefore, completely isolated from the outside world.
_____
Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Since when do you get someone to blame with Microsoft's products? Their license agreements pretty much disavow suitability of their products for any purpose whatsoever! The only reason they care so much with big companies is due to the visibility - a story like "Dell web site hacked via new vulnerability - software giant Microsoft unwakened" just wouldn't go over well on the ol' home front, nam'sayin?
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Hopefully. Norton and McAfee are shite.
Seconded, esp. in the case of McAfee. What's the point in having virus protection if your virus protection makes an already stability-challenged OS that much worse? (And why does it need a kernel component anyway? Riddle me that.)
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
Given the OS-installed burner software option (assuming reliability), I would have probably gone with it instead of trying my own installs.
/. will say, that that's an awfully big assumption when you're dealing with Windows. Give me a PPC Linux box, cdrecord and mkisofs, and one (or more - I've been able to burn 3 at a time off one PPC running Linux) CD burner, and then you can get serious about CD creation.
I still say, regardless of what the MS believers who've now begun occupying
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
IE wasn't embedded in the kernel - just in every nook and cranny of userspace. The day someone embeds a web browser into kernelspace... well, I don't know what I'll do then, but it's gonna be something drastic, lemme tell ya.
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."
My beef with Linux is that the packages that come with the distros can only use their package installers to load them.
Ok, what the hell is this supposed to mean? Have you never heard of alien? I can easily convert packages among RPM, DEB, TGZ and SLP formats with one command using it. And *gasp* the packages, like, INSTALL and WORK. (Imagine it.)
Also, your argument about Microsoft's bundled apps is kind of silly - "so what if it's installed, install what you want and ignore Microsoft's stuff"? Why? Why should I have a bunch of crap from Microsoft installed on my hard drive that I have no intention of using? I have no problem with Microsoft producing competing products - even bundling them with their OS, if they want, I suppose, is OK. My beef is that if it's something they REALLY want you to use, it gets installed - and you don't get a chance to question it, or choose to not install it (or remove it later if you try it and find it unsatisfying).
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Sam: "That was needlessly cryptic."