> If CVS works for you, and you have no complaints or
> issues, then don't switch.
I really hate this kind of attitude. Along with "Use what you are most comfortable with". It kills any desire to learn and use new stuff and to impove.
I say try it out and see if it worth switching to new CM.
First they monopolized OS market. From this point on they proved that they could do whatever they want, go into any market and win it (using monopoly power). First it was browsers (IE) when PDA (Win CE) than console (XBox) and now home entertaiment. It would not take long for them to start making everything from cars to pet food.
With such power no company can stop then via fair competition. It is government responsobility to take care of that.
P.S. If you still in doubt, go to the nearest computer hardware store and try to buy standard keyboard without stupid windows key.
I am maintaining free software package with several dependencies (most from RedHat and Ximian GNOME distributions). Many users complain about not being able to install it. Publishing it as channel as Ximian would be perfect. Unfortunately Ximian does not allow 3rd parties to create and maintain software channels using thier technology.
Now then they started to charge money it is just matter of time until somebody will write free open source service analogous to Ximain which will allow developers to publish their own channels via WWW interface. Bandwidth would be moderate, because such server only needs to distribute XML files with pointers to packages on other sites.
My Sony Clie have proggie called MS Import (MS=Memory Stick) which when running makes it
behave like USB storage device. I just put my Memory Stick card into it, run this program, plug it via
USB cable to Linux and I can mount it as SCSI drive,
having access to all my files on it. Best thing about it, is that you can have several cards.
Yes, it is bigger than keychain, but what the heck,
I carry my PDA with me all the time anyway!
Once they planted trojan to your computer they could
do pretty much everything, not just keylogging. For instance they could encrypt your text in the manner it would be possible to decrypt it later.
So they are reconnecting roughly 500K subscribers, while originally they had around 800K. Looks like they lost 300K subscribers to other providers (mostly DSL I guess).
We could not permit your so-called "operating system" to use GNU license because you do not have proven experience in the operating system design and your background is not sufficient. In order to satisfy our customers,
and maintain high project code quiality, we accept contributions only from candidates who have experience in the particular area and passed interview with some of our managers.
Seriously, people should be more careful advertizing such toy scripting languages. Some managers take their words for real and then force us, developers write serious systems using them. What about concurrency/synchronization? memory management? OO constructs? how efficient are byte manipulations? Does tail recusion eats up stack? It is nice to have 'ftp' as language construct but that does not make it 'Internet' developement language.
I have some news for you: most open source programmers are closed source programmers as well (during their day jobs). Except few lucky ones who are working for open-source companies.
So error handling level is about the same, thoug
vary for programmer to programmer.
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now we are talking! Usenet feed is first thing mentioned
for which I would pay to slashdot.
I think that porting open source project to closed source OS like
Windows is bad idea. Let me explain why.
In current world, success of operating system is defined not only by
its technical merits, but also in big part by selection on software
running on it. It is clear that user will not be using system, no
matter how good it is if it does not have application software he
needs. In this way, each time you port Unix product to Windows you
extend Windows software selection on Windows.
One may ask, so what? Extending windows selection does not hurt Lunux
users - it's different users, different market. Unfortunately it is
not true. Each company producing popular software title decides which
platform to support. The more widespread (some call it "standard")
Windows become - it is less interesting for the company to spend
resources porting it to Linux.
So if you have your popular open source software title running on
Linux or BSD, think twice before porting it to windows.
I've emailed Starbucks about availability of this service and they
responded that they do not advertise it until all stuff is trained,
but I am welcome to go to the store and try. I went, and it actually
works very nice, thought little expensive.
Taking into account all expenses of running T1 into each of 500
stores, delaying service roll out could cost a lot. I guess it cost
enough to run Mobile Star into financial problems.
My DSL ISP just filtered all incoming HTTP traffic to all their customers. My personal WWW server become unaccessible. My Linux box is NOT infected and I do not see why I have to suffer because they are trying to protect some stupid windows users. And this is "business" DSL account!
I have several tiny open source projects for which
I receive patches from time to time. I do not accept
all of them.
Some of patches are not satisfy my quality requirements to the code. Being professional developer, sometimes when I see code written by some 1st year CS student I would rather rewrite it.
Some of patches are platform specific, and integrating it into real project
requres gread deal portability tweaking (#ifdefs, configure.in changes, etc.). I am not always have time to finish patch for contributor and they are not interested in making in works besides their platform.
Some patches are solving small local problem without taking bigger picture into the consideration. I would
later implement more generic solution.
My words to contributors: when you submit the patch, this is not end of your involevement. Good contributor
supposed to work with project maintainer to refine the patch. Also project migth need your help fixing bugs
if they are found later in your code.
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> If CVS works for you, and you have no complaints or
> issues, then don't switch.
I really hate this kind of attitude. Along with "Use what you are most comfortable with". It kills any desire to learn and use new stuff and to impove.
I say try it out and see if it worth switching to new CM.
I guess next time they will announce same bug
in apache server.
First they monopolized OS market. From this point on they proved that they could do whatever they want, go into any market and win it (using monopoly power). First it was browsers (IE) when PDA (Win CE) than console (XBox) and now home entertaiment. It would not take long for them to start making everything from cars to pet food.
With such power no company can stop then via fair competition. It is government responsobility to take care of that.
P.S. If you still in doubt, go to the nearest computer hardware store and try to buy standard keyboard without stupid windows key.
I am maintaining free software package with several dependencies (most from RedHat and Ximian GNOME distributions). Many users complain about not being able to install it. Publishing it as channel as Ximian would be perfect. Unfortunately Ximian does not allow 3rd parties to create and maintain software channels using thier technology.
Now then they started to charge money it is just matter of time until somebody will write free open source service analogous to Ximain which will allow developers to publish their own channels via WWW interface. Bandwidth would be moderate, because such server only needs to distribute XML files with pointers to packages on other sites.
coldsync should do it.
But I have not used it - I am using infrared.
My Sony Clie have proggie called MS Import (MS=Memory Stick) which when running makes it
behave like USB storage device. I just put my Memory Stick card into it, run this program, plug it via
USB cable to Linux and I can mount it as SCSI drive,
having access to all my files on it. Best thing about it, is that you can have several cards.
Yes, it is bigger than keychain, but what the heck,
I carry my PDA with me all the time anyway!
One is that OSS focusses much more on technical prowess than on anything resembling a workable UI.
http://www.fwbuilder.org/ is GUI which should work
with this product nicely.
Once they planted trojan to your computer they could
do pretty much everything, not just keylogging. For instance they could encrypt your text in the manner it would be possible to decrypt it later.
So they are reconnecting roughly 500K subscribers, while originally they had around 800K. Looks like they lost 300K subscribers to other providers (mostly DSL I guess).
This is first time I am sorry I have a laptop!
You MUST have background in signal processing
Dear Mr. Torvalds,
We could not permit your so-called "operating system" to use GNU license because you do not have proven experience in the operating system design and your background is not sufficient. In order to satisfy our customers,
and maintain high project code quiality, we accept contributions only from candidates who have experience in the particular area and passed interview with some of our managers.
(signed)
Free Software Foundaiton
So if somebody WITHOUT background in signal processing will write the working code he will be not eligible for the award?
Why people keep inventing new pet laguages?
Whe he could not use GUILE, which is designed for things like this, adding domain-specific functions.
oh no! not another Perl!
Seriously, people should be more careful advertizing such toy scripting languages. Some managers take their words for real and then force us, developers write serious systems using them. What about concurrency/synchronization? memory management? OO constructs? how efficient are byte manipulations? Does tail recusion eats up stack? It is nice to have 'ftp' as language construct but that does not make it 'Internet' developement language.
I have some news for you: most open source programmers are closed source programmers as well (during their day jobs). Except few lucky ones who are working for open-source companies.
So error handling level is about the same, thoug
vary for programmer to programmer.
now we are talking! Usenet feed is first thing mentioned
for which I would pay to slashdot.
I think that porting open source project to closed source OS like
Windows is bad idea. Let me explain why.
In current world, success of operating system is defined not only by
its technical merits, but also in big part by selection on software
running on it. It is clear that user will not be using system, no
matter how good it is if it does not have application software he
needs. In this way, each time you port Unix product to Windows you
extend Windows software selection on Windows.
One may ask, so what? Extending windows selection does not hurt Lunux
users - it's different users, different market. Unfortunately it is
not true. Each company producing popular software title decides which
platform to support. The more widespread (some call it "standard")
Windows become - it is less interesting for the company to spend
resources porting it to Linux.
So if you have your popular open source software title running on
Linux or BSD, think twice before porting it to windows.
I've emailed Starbucks about availability of this service and they responded that they do not advertise it until all stuff is trained, but I am welcome to go to the store and try. I went, and it actually works very nice, thought little expensive.
Taking into account all expenses of running T1 into each of 500 stores, delaying service roll out could cost a lot. I guess it cost enough to run Mobile Star into financial problems.
And how exacty are you "redirecting port 80 via DNS"? 8-)
My DSL ISP just filtered all incoming HTTP traffic to all their customers. My personal WWW server become unaccessible. My Linux box is NOT infected and I do not see why I have to suffer because they are trying to protect some stupid windows users. And this is "business" DSL account!
I have several tiny open source projects for which
I receive patches from time to time. I do not accept
all of them.
Some of patches are not satisfy my quality requirements to the code. Being professional developer, sometimes when I see code written by some 1st year CS student I would rather rewrite it.
Some of patches are platform specific, and integrating it into real project
requres gread deal portability tweaking (#ifdefs, configure.in changes, etc.). I am not always have time to finish patch for contributor and they are not interested in making in works besides their platform.
Some patches are solving small local problem without taking bigger picture into the consideration. I would
later implement more generic solution.
My words to contributors: when you submit the patch, this is not end of your involevement. Good contributor
supposed to work with project maintainer to refine the patch. Also project migth need your help fixing bugs
if they are found later in your code.
Make sure you are running most recent
firmware.
> I can go and tweak out my iptables stuff but too
> many admins would prefer not to. Is there any
> good solution?
Try Firewall Builder: http://www.fwbuilder.org/
Linksys are OK but quite limited in their functionality. I am usuing it and quite happy.
SOHOWARE sucks big time - buggy and unreliable. Do not beleive words about "Stateful Packet Inspection" - even if it does it you could not use it.
What I really want to see is SNMP management for
such devices. Unfortunalty, best they could do
is read-only SNMP access.
"it fits to a single floppy"
What is this floppy thing they keep mentioning?
Is is like CDROM or DVD disk from eighties? Have not seen much of them around.