Many of those rioters are simply criminals Do you have any insight to back your words ? We are just starting to get some information about this, and it really does not look like you can reduce riots to a handful of criminals...
Franckly, linking current problems with the fact many rioters have african origins is looking at the problem from a really bad point of view. France have had a few immigration waves in the past: Italians, Portugeses, Spanish. Many people consider that only African immigrants cause problems; that's forgetting how tough was other immigrants's living. Yes, Spanish suffered a lot from racism and were usually poor ! Same with Italians (My grand'pa was one of those), and same with Portugeses.
What makes the current situation specific and more explosive, I think, has more to do with the fact that the latest immigrants were grouped in really ugly and dense suburbs. That did happen because the government built sponsored low cost buildings in those "dedicated" area, rather than mixing them with the rest. This "mistake" is costing us a lot those days, and that's not terminated. If you look at Marseille, which has probably the largest share of African immigrants, you strangely discover that there were almost no riots there. What makes marseille really different is the fact that immigrants and decendants live inside the city, not 40km away.
RoundCube is really lightweight compared to Zimbra. The latest has a large feature set, but for those who need basic stuff, RoundCube looks extremely interesting and nice. I'm looking forward to reach their demo;)
It is an important matter because, to date, US is the only place where most countries have a voice, hence I don't think it should be something else than UN.
I don't find this news anyway exiting frankly. I manage to buy desktop computers without windows for a long time. What I find really frustrating is the near impossibility to buy a laptop (well, the one I want at least) without windows; I'll find DELL offers interesting once they move toward that direction.
Who is that guy who don't feel necessary to precise that "/bin directories" can't be written by non-root users... Jeez, "all about internet security", really ? Make your facts accurate !
Sure, OpenOffice is great, but commercial enterprises will stick with commercial solutions for which there is support.
Corporates probably bother a lot about support, but most user I'm working with (SMEs and such) don't give a shit about MS support simply because such thing does not exist for them. You buy office, you use it and get used to bugs and annoyances; there is no way to make them fixed.
That's why those guys are starting to consider OpenOffice seriously. They "simply" need to be told and teached about it.
Frankly, there is some truth in there. Back to 8bit machines ages, games were really inventives, even though they were extremely limitted by hardware. I'm looking forward to see more of those game concepts with actual implementations. Hords of designers and 3D modelers never gave me the same fun that I used to have with thsoe small clever games...
There are situations where documentation is just not enough and/or simply not apprioriate.
A while back, I wanted to write a filter driver on Windows, which is a very strategic piece of code for many businesses. There is no way you can do that without buying some very costy dev kit at MS or elsewhere (nothing that I'm aware of at least). And MS dev kit is made of source code of some existing drivers, instead of documentation. This is really all I need; the rest is already available in public press.
I find really unfair and frustrating to prevent my resource-limitted company to implement my own AV software just by an outrageous entry cost. I'm glad EU attemps to cleanup this problem.
"the result is that video clips embedded into Microsoft Word documents don't run properly, for example."
How about video clips embedded into microsoft word embedded into an excel document embedded into a web page ? I never thought I could see a movie from a word document, innovation runs so fast these days...
You seem to have triggered something with your post. Here is my own attempt;)
I have sent a few letters (not paper yet, just emails) to french MEP and minister. I got an automatic answer this morning from Mr Michel Rocard's office. I never got answer from Mr Devedjian, not even something useless such as "thanks for emailing".
When they feel like they need some internet presence, they could *at least* have people reading their mail and sending simple answers; that's the least I would expect really...
I'll keep writing them, more and more, until the situation get clarified. They need to make public their position.
There are going to be security holes in just about any operating system," said Silver
Sure. What matters is what can be done through those holes. This is where OSes differ greatly, and OS popularity has nothing to do with that.
"The honey pot test is a good indication that many small-business and home computers are still using older versions of Windows
No? Really? I mean, you really need a honey pot test to reach this conclusion?
I still have a bunch of unexperienced friends running w98. I spend a hell of time to bring them things they have no clue about (firewall? What the f**k is this for?). People using XPSP1 behind a dialup access are not much safer.
The problem starts by assuming most people have clues on computing. Automated updates is just a little part of the answer, and it takes connectivity not everyone have.
Leaving users out of admin privileges except in the rare occasions they need it is probably the key element, and none of those XP friends knew that because windows came preinstalled with a really dumb config. And guess what, they all call me when it's too late.
The result of a four year study by 5 researchers is probably much more dense than a few hazardous assumptions. The result of their work is supposed to come next week, let's see then.
I don't care much if my kernel boots from freshly compiled source code or from my last build, but this tcc thing is really incredible.
I had to download its source code, build it and use it to believe it. 100k for something that compile a C code about 5 times faster (my very rough measures) is something I would have consider a joke if I could not see it in action.
Obviously, it probably not do all the optimizations gcc implements, but still. Wow.
Well, my Win2k box is fully patched and behing a FreeBSD firewall, etc etc. I've not seen any virus, from the begining.
But, how about those numerous friends/relatives who still run win98 and can't update to something else without changing their hardware ? I find rather embarassing that none of those update packs can'be downloaded and installed *later* on other machines, it's pure nonsense to me.
When I open some page on IE6, it asks me "do you want to allow software such as activeX controls and plugins to run"... What am I supposed to think ?? and how should I respond ? Yes ? No ? (s/me/my parents/). Why on earth it does not tell me that this page contains something that require "macromedia flash" to render ? At least, I could somewhat distinguish between spyware and things that I need to see. And if they were even a little smarter, I could memorize this choice for later instead of bugging me every time.
This type of implementation of security related features is precisely why nobody use them and get their machine bloated of spyware, malware, viruses and such.
The inability to update a machine via a 56k modem is probably another reason why I know so many friends running unpatched OSes (any offline installable M$ update anyone ?). Grrrrrrr....
I must be over tolerant or lucky, but I don't suffer from such annoyance in theaters really; it may have occured once over the year (I see about a movie per week), and people usually get out promptly.
Also, imposing a complex and costy solution sounds somewhat strange to me (it must be an intelligent box that filter calls): who really need to place an emergency call that cannot be done from a few metters away, outside of the room ?
The reason why I love perl is its incredible concision and expressiveness. To me, Java and c# both suffer from beeing way too much verbose. This is not about laziness, nor about performances and/or compilation time; it's more about preventing the source code from beeing "polluted" uselessly. Better write comments than glue code;)
I'm glad to see that outrageous pricing this company inflicts me deserves such a really cool purpose. If this can bring more add and visible noise, that's just fantastic !
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Many of those rioters are simply criminals
Do you have any insight to back your words ? We are just starting to get some information about this, and it really does not look like you can reduce riots to a handful of criminals...
Franckly, linking current problems with the fact many rioters have african origins is looking at the problem from a really bad point of view. France have had a few immigration waves in the past: Italians, Portugeses, Spanish. Many people consider that only African immigrants cause problems; that's forgetting how tough was other immigrants's living. Yes, Spanish suffered a lot from racism and were usually poor ! Same with Italians (My grand'pa was one of those), and same with Portugeses.
What makes the current situation specific and more explosive, I think, has more to do with the fact that the latest immigrants were grouped in really ugly and dense suburbs. That did happen because the government built sponsored low cost buildings in those "dedicated" area, rather than mixing them with the rest. This "mistake" is costing us a lot those days, and that's not terminated. If you look at Marseille, which has probably the largest share of African immigrants, you strangely discover that there were almost no riots there. What makes marseille really different is the fact that immigrants and decendants live inside the city, not 40km away.
3) Typical Windows running as Administrator.
Yeah, like most people using preinstalled systems...
RoundCube is really lightweight compared to Zimbra. The latest has a large feature set, but for those who need basic stuff, RoundCube looks extremely interesting and nice. I'm looking forward to reach their demo ;)
Whether it's the UN or not is a null issue
It is an important matter because, to date, US is the only place where most countries have a voice, hence I don't think it should be something else than UN.
I don't find this news anyway exiting frankly. I manage to buy desktop computers without windows for a long time. What I find really frustrating is the near impossibility to buy a laptop (well, the one I want at least) without windows; I'll find DELL offers interesting once they move toward that direction.
Who is that guy who don't feel necessary to precise that "/bin directories" can't be written by non-root users... Jeez, "all about internet security", really ? Make your facts accurate !
The solution for us is Here
Sure, OpenOffice is great, but commercial enterprises will stick with commercial solutions for which there is support.
Corporates probably bother a lot about support, but most user I'm working with (SMEs and such) don't give a shit about MS support simply because such thing does not exist for them. You buy office, you use it and get used to bugs and annoyances; there is no way to make them fixed.
That's why those guys are starting to consider OpenOffice seriously. They "simply" need to be told and teached about it.
Frankly, there is some truth in there.
Back to 8bit machines ages, games were really inventives, even though they were extremely limitted by hardware. I'm looking forward to see more of those game concepts with actual implementations.
Hords of designers and 3D modelers never gave me the same fun that I used to have with thsoe small clever games...
There are situations where documentation is just not enough and/or simply not apprioriate.
A while back, I wanted to write a filter driver on Windows, which is a very strategic piece of code for many businesses. There is no way you can do that without buying some very costy dev kit at MS or elsewhere (nothing that I'm aware of at least). And MS dev kit is made of source code of some existing drivers, instead of documentation. This is really all I need; the rest is already available in public press.
I find really unfair and frustrating to prevent my resource-limitted company to implement my own AV software just by an outrageous entry cost. I'm glad EU attemps to cleanup this problem.
"the result is that video clips embedded into Microsoft Word documents don't run properly, for example."
How about video clips embedded into microsoft word embedded into an excel document embedded into a web page ? I never thought I could see a movie from a word document, innovation runs so fast these days...
You seem to have triggered something with your post. Here is my own attempt ;)
;)
I have sent a few letters (not paper yet, just emails) to french MEP and minister. I got an automatic answer this morning from Mr Michel Rocard's office. I never got answer from Mr Devedjian, not even something useless such as "thanks for emailing".
When they feel like they need some internet presence, they could *at least* have people reading their mail and sending simple answers; that's the least I would expect really...
I'll keep writing them, more and more, until the situation get clarified. They need to make public their position.
Maybe one of his colleague read slashdot
not me.
There are going to be security holes in just about any operating system," said Silver
Sure. What matters is what can be done through those holes. This is where OSes differ greatly, and OS popularity has nothing to do with that.
"The honey pot test is a good indication that many small-business and home computers are still using older versions of Windows
No? Really? I mean, you really need a honey pot test to reach this conclusion?
I still have a bunch of unexperienced friends running w98. I spend a hell of time to bring them things they have no clue about (firewall? What the f**k is this for?). People using XPSP1 behind a dialup access are not much safer.
The problem starts by assuming most people have clues on computing. Automated updates is just a little part of the answer, and it takes connectivity not everyone have.
Leaving users out of admin privileges except in the rare occasions they need it is probably the key element, and none of those XP friends knew that because windows came preinstalled with a really dumb config. And guess what, they all call me when it's too late.
Guess what happens when your support finishes or the company bankrupts? I know a few people with scanners that don't work in XP
You don't even have the company to bankrupts; I know people with AGFA scanner which will never get support on anything but win9x.
... for having opposed the EU software patent bill at the right time.
> The report, set to be released on Tuesday,
The result of a four year study by 5 researchers is probably much more dense than a few hazardous assumptions. The result of their work is supposed to come next week, let's see then.
Please someone tells me where to buy those fantastic tablecloth ! So much potential for screen backgrounds !
I don't care much if my kernel boots from freshly compiled source code or from my last build, but this tcc thing is really incredible.
I had to download its source code, build it and use it to believe it. 100k for something that compile a C code about 5 times faster (my very rough measures) is something I would have consider a joke if I could not see it in action.
Obviously, it probably not do all the optimizations gcc implements, but still. Wow.
Well, my Win2k box is fully patched and behing a FreeBSD firewall, etc etc. I've not seen any virus, from the begining.
But, how about those numerous friends/relatives who still run win98 and can't update to something else without changing their hardware ? I find rather embarassing that none of those update packs can'be downloaded and installed *later* on other machines, it's pure nonsense to me.
When I open some page on IE6, it asks me "do you want to allow software such as activeX controls and plugins to run"... What am I supposed to think ?? and how should I respond ? Yes ? No ? (s/me/my parents/). Why on earth it does not tell me that this page contains something that require "macromedia flash" to render ? At least, I could somewhat distinguish between spyware and things that I need to see. And if they were even a little smarter, I could memorize this choice for later instead of bugging me every time.
This type of implementation of security related features is precisely why nobody use them and get their machine bloated of spyware, malware, viruses and such.
The inability to update a machine via a 56k modem is probably another reason why I know so many friends running unpatched OSes (any offline installable M$ update anyone ?). Grrrrrrr....
I must be over tolerant or lucky, but I don't suffer from such annoyance in theaters really; it may have occured once over the year (I see about a movie per week), and people usually get out promptly.
Also, imposing a complex and costy solution sounds somewhat strange to me (it must be an intelligent box that filter calls): who really need to place an emergency call that cannot be done from a few metters away, outside of the room ?
Anyway, it must be good for someone...
The reason why I love perl is its incredible concision and expressiveness. To me, Java and c# both suffer from beeing way too much verbose. This is not about laziness, nor about performances and/or compilation time; it's more about preventing the source code from beeing "polluted" uselessly. Better write comments than glue code ;)
I'm glad to see that outrageous pricing this company inflicts me deserves such a really cool purpose. If this can bring more add and visible noise, that's just fantastic !
Few more links: www.zeropollution.com , www.globalstewards.org/aircar.htm
As far as I know (I have read article on that subject 2 years ago), they was supposed to use that technology in Mexico to replace most of gas powered taxi. More information can be gathered searching "cqfd air solution", the name of the company which develop the technology.