It's a good question because it asks for specifics. Bush's policy has always been vague in my mind - he seems to both give Israel a carte blanche yet at the same time push an internationally-backed effective-seeming road map. (Compare his internationalist-sounding approach of a year ago with the current ineptitude surrounding Israel's against-road-map new settlement building.)
I like the question. I wish the public knew more about each candidate's policies to ask harder questions, but truthfully I don't know either's take on what to do in the conflict. The only danger is that Kerry says, "I'll find out when I get to office," and that Bush says, "Kerry has no position" and then lies about his own position.
What's more interesting than a "Linux" incompatibility is a Free Software incompatibility list. When users trade their freedom for convenience in using the non-free NVIDIA drivers, they fall into the same trap as a Windows user: they're trading their ability to share and comment on others' work. In the case of NVIDIA, we've seen the problems the lack of freedom have caused - there are technical users who would be happy to fix bugs or add features, but they are simply not allowed to.
What matters is a list of hardware compatible with the freedom so fundamental to the development of Linux and other Free Software packages. Hardware developers should take note and distribute specifications to encourage free software drivers - and it's great for the bottom line because it all happens at no cost to them.
(I would have checked what the site had to say about these issues if only their database server was working. I do plan to contact them as well, because I recognize that a comment on Slashdot is not enough to change the world.;-)
While Apple's track record on security isn't perfect, I hope she'll realize that she has these problems because she chooses to use Microsoft products. That it's a choice is debateable, given MSFT's documented predatory practices. However, it's ultimately up to her to stand up to the monopoly, since the government refused to.
If she buys an Apple Mac computer next time, she will have a computer that functions better, works better, and breaks much more rarely than her current Windows computer. It's simple, really.
(Me, I use Debian GNU/Linux because I value the freedom that is in Debian's goals. I recognize that Apple shares to some degree these goals, looking at its KHTML-based Safari goals.)
Flame me, since many of you will, but consider that whether you blame the creators of Gator, Microsoft, or worm writers, she would have a better experience on a Mac.
<flame>I've always held that Gentoo users are like Debian users, but with less ingenuity;-).</flame> Should Gentoo choose to use it, I'd love an email saying thanks, but I formally reserve no rights.
It's still running, though I'm not sure there's a good reason why. It probably has some applications some people use, or they (understandably) don't want to deal with (l)users complaining about their web pages disappearing.
It no longer serves as the mail server; that's what they turned off. They moved to a Sun iPlanet server; this was part of the transition to JHED, the central LDAP server for login.
There's another service for web hosting these days called FESTER, and there's a reason I'm not using that. (No, the reason isn't that FESTER doesn't provide subdirectories. It has more to do with my strategy of offending some of the people some of the time....)
The parent is exactly right. Having read through this paper now, I realize what it misses: the economic impact of the information.
Much work has been done in economics regarding the affect that inadequate information flow has on a market; a Nobel Prize was wone in it lately. The paper assumes that there are a constant number of vulnerable machines, as you can see on page 2, for any given vulnerability. First of all, it ignores the fact that someone has to choose to use these vulnerable products. Second, it ignores the choice that comes to sysadmins when they learn that a particular company's products are more likely to have bugs, as the parent describes.
The moral of the story is, the paper tries to be more broad than it can - by assuming that software acquisition decisions never happen, it fails to see the effect of vulnerability disclosure on these decisions. And these decisions, made well, do in fact make us more secure. The "software defect rate" in total might not decrease, but the defect rate in *used* software may well decrease.
I agree with the FCC's ruling today that Clear Channel Communications has long ignored the standard in indecency. Hopefully the FCC ruling with give Clear Channel the strength to be indecent in the future.
(Or did the writer of the submission mean "decency standards"?)
In Windows, Mozilla Mail will import it (through the OLE interface), and Mozilla Mail's mailboxes are in standard MBOX format. Everyone in UNIX, and many many Windows programs, can import MBOX.
It's cheap (1 cent per megabyte), great quality (offers me lossless FLAC files), and legal (royalties paid to ROMS, the relevant group in Russia). And the files are unencumbered
All the problems of iTunes (summarized excellently at Downhill Battle) still apply. Why go for something restricted, too expensive, and too controlled by the media monopoly, when you can get cheap legal music from Allofmp3 or similar services?
In all fairness, you should probably focus on Free Software for Windows, at least to get the project off the ground.
You should check out the GNUWin CD, a CD of lots of Free software for Win32, at least for inspiration on what to give users.
If you can make pop-in-the-drive-double-click-and-run CDs of things like OpenOffice or Mozilla Firefox (i.e., without installing), those would be great for demos. Perhaps an OpenOffice.org 2-CD set: One demo disc, one install CD. That way people could try it and realize how much they want it.:-)
Also, consider pointing them to a good online support forum. It makes a lot of sense to have your own user-support service for your little project, or for others like it. That way, you can say, "Let me just drive over." A PhpBB setup would do fine for that.
Slashdot Mirror
"vote = GW_BUSH" isn't a test in C/C++, it's an assignment. So it reads, in English:
"Assign the value GW_BUSH to the variable vote. Then do the code in the curly braces no matter what the old value of vote was."
Heh.
It's a good question because it asks for specifics. Bush's policy has always been vague in my mind - he seems to both give Israel a carte blanche yet at the same time push an internationally-backed effective-seeming road map. (Compare his internationalist-sounding approach of a year ago with the current ineptitude surrounding Israel's against-road-map new settlement building.)
I like the question. I wish the public knew more about each candidate's policies to ask harder questions, but truthfully I don't know either's take on what to do in the conflict. The only danger is that Kerry says, "I'll find out when I get to office," and that Bush says, "Kerry has no position" and then lies about his own position.
Just because he published that exploit doesn't mean he's not using it illegally. ;-)
Why is this not called the "Go OS"?
Here, all you freeloaders ;-). I'll take it down later today.
:-).
I just spoke with him on the phone, too; cool guy. I don't think he was expecting anyone to actually call him
What's more interesting than a "Linux" incompatibility is a Free Software incompatibility list. When users trade their freedom for convenience in using the non-free NVIDIA drivers, they fall into the same trap as a Windows user: they're trading their ability to share and comment on others' work. In the case of NVIDIA, we've seen the problems the lack of freedom have caused - there are technical users who would be happy to fix bugs or add features, but they are simply not allowed to.
;-)
What matters is a list of hardware compatible with the freedom so fundamental to the development of Linux and other Free Software packages. Hardware developers should take note and distribute specifications to encourage free software drivers - and it's great for the bottom line because it all happens at no cost to them.
(I would have checked what the site had to say about these issues if only their database server was working. I do plan to contact them as well, because I recognize that a comment on Slashdot is not enough to change the world.
While Apple's track record on security isn't perfect, I hope she'll realize that she has these problems because she chooses to use Microsoft products. That it's a choice is debateable, given MSFT's documented predatory practices. However, it's ultimately up to her to stand up to the monopoly, since the government refused to.
If she buys an Apple Mac computer next time, she will have a computer that functions better, works better, and breaks much more rarely than her current Windows computer. It's simple, really.
(Me, I use Debian GNU/Linux because I value the freedom that is in Debian's goals. I recognize that Apple shares to some degree these goals, looking at its KHTML-based Safari goals.)
Flame me, since many of you will, but consider that whether you blame the creators of Gator, Microsoft, or worm writers, she would have a better experience on a Mac.
"choice"
- Step 1: download the file.
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Step 2: Blank out the watermark, saving it elsewhere.
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Step 3: MD5sum the watermark-free file.
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Step 4: Restore the watermark.
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Step 5: Act like nothing's wrong.
<flame>I've always held that Gentoo users are like Debian users, but with less ingenuityIt's still running, though I'm not sure there's a good reason why. It probably has some applications some people use, or they (understandably) don't want to deal with (l)users complaining about their web pages disappearing.
It no longer serves as the mail server; that's what they turned off. They moved to a Sun iPlanet server; this was part of the transition to JHED, the central LDAP server for login.
There's another service for web hosting these days called FESTER, and there's a reason I'm not using that. (No, the reason isn't that FESTER doesn't provide subdirectories. It has more to do with my strategy of offending some of the people some of the time....)
Because I know that's the first thing I clicked on, and it was slow then. Here's the mirror.
- Diabolical
- Diablo
Are you trying to draw a parallel?The parent is exactly right. Having read through this paper now, I realize what it misses: the economic impact of the information.
Much work has been done in economics regarding the affect that inadequate information flow has on a market; a Nobel Prize was wone in it lately. The paper assumes that there are a constant number of vulnerable machines, as you can see on page 2, for any given vulnerability. First of all, it ignores the fact that someone has to choose to use these vulnerable products. Second, it ignores the choice that comes to sysadmins when they learn that a particular company's products are more likely to have bugs, as the parent describes.
The moral of the story is, the paper tries to be more broad than it can - by assuming that software acquisition decisions never happen, it fails to see the effect of vulnerability disclosure on these decisions. And these decisions, made well, do in fact make us more secure. The "software defect rate" in total might not decrease, but the defect rate in *used* software may well decrease.
I agree with the FCC's ruling today that Clear Channel Communications has long ignored the standard in indecency. Hopefully the FCC ruling with give Clear Channel the strength to be indecent in the future.
(Or did the writer of the submission mean "decency standards"?)
The parent of this comment is a mirror of the files. It seems informative.
Libpst's website is actually http://sourceforge.net/projects/ol2mbox . My mistake.
Outlook:
In Linux, you can use the program "readpst" provided by libpst, libpst.sourceforge.net
In Windows, Mozilla Mail will import it (through the OLE interface), and Mozilla Mail's mailboxes are in standard MBOX format. Everyone in UNIX, and many many Windows programs, can import MBOX.
I've been buying music lately from Allofmp3.com, covered lately in Slashdot. A review of it can be found here.
It's cheap (1 cent per megabyte), great quality (offers me lossless FLAC files), and legal (royalties paid to ROMS, the relevant group in Russia). And the files are unencumbered
All the problems of iTunes (summarized excellently at Downhill Battle) still apply. Why go for something restricted, too expensive, and too controlled by the media monopoly, when you can get cheap legal music from Allofmp3 or similar services?
Mirrored on an Internet2 site here: ta-da.
I have made a mirror of the movie so you can spare Tom's the bandwidth.
In all fairness, you should probably focus on Free Software for Windows, at least to get the project off the ground.
:-)
You should check out the GNUWin CD, a CD of lots of Free software for Win32, at least for inspiration on what to give users.
If you can make pop-in-the-drive-double-click-and-run CDs of things like OpenOffice or Mozilla Firefox (i.e., without installing), those would be great for demos. Perhaps an OpenOffice.org 2-CD set: One demo disc, one install CD. That way people could try it and realize how much they want it.
Also, consider pointing them to a good online support forum. It makes a lot of sense to have your own user-support service for your little project, or for others like it. That way, you can say, "Let me just drive over." A PhpBB setup would do fine for that.
Slashdotting in progress.
Use my mirror. Some files aren't fully downloaded, but will be in about ten minutes. I'm posting this now because Slashdotting is in progress.
I'm mirroring:
I made this mirror based on the Google cache. It has the full source code, as well as the docs he wrote.
This is temporary, of course.
If the author would like to email me at mirror@asheesh.org, I'd be happy to mirror this site. I have more than enough bandwidth to cover it.
-- Asheesh.
Here's a mirror, folks.
People, when you mirror things for Slashdot, your home cable modem probably won't work very well....