Dianora is a first class bitch. Anyone who's been an eggie hack or on EF for a while knows her and knows the awful power trip she's been on for the past 3 or 4 years. It probably goes back further than that just before most of Europe left EF one could bypass her mood swings.
Yes, instead they send out memos telling managers not to approve any more paper, paper-clip, staple, toner, coffee, keyboard, pen, telephone, tape, floppy disk, etc... purchases until the end of the quarter because well, "Our department has gone over-budget."
I'm sure the 1.2 million in software licenses didn't help.
Believe me, this does happen and happens often even at large companies.
Personally I don't see this as a bad thing. The reason we boot troublemakers isn't because we disagree with what they're doing, its because we get so many complaints. If we are common carriers, this becomes our defense, "I'm sorry but we are not responsible for the conduct of our users. Please contact this user directly if you wish to pursue action against them."
This would lighten the administrative burden significantly.
Actually in IBM's Q4 2000 conference call they credited Linux and specifically RedHat with a big portion of their 390/z series and midrange server sales. If you recall were it not for the huge (100%) increase in midrange and 390 sales, IBM's earnings would have been much worse.
Overall it seems IBM really is commited to Linux and seeing tangible benefit from it.
Amusingly enough, this isn't the case in the Linux community. RedHat, for example (since it's also sharing the slashdot front page at the moment), is currently maintaining its distributions all the way back to 5.2.
And I'm still upset that I have to update my 4.2 and 3.0.3 boxen by hand. 5.2 wasn't that long ago. As the saying goes, "If it aint broke..."
Up until 7.0 I didn't see a compelling reason to upgrade the 4.2 machines I have around here, now the configuration has become so customized, it will be quite difficult to duplicate their functionality from 7.0.
You need to copy the registry entries and maps from a windows install over to wine. Without windows, theres no IE on wine.
Even when you do get it running, there are serious bugs. Go do some research or better yet try it yourself.
The WINE developers have done an excellent job but there is still no substitute for 100% native applications, especially in something as heavily used as your web browser.
Trust me, if an IE/Linux port would be anything like the Solaris port you don't want it.
They could, but if its of the same quality as the SPARC/SunOS port it'd be a wasted effort.
After two days of truss'ing I finally figured out It didn't like NFS mounted home directories. Once I actually got it to run, I found it didn't like NIS either. Forget trying to use a proxy, half of the pages come up unavailable the first try.
Once I managed to get it running and bringing up pages directly, I experienced frequent un-repeatable crashes and many repeatable. It even crashed trying to bring up Microsoft's home page.
Another big concern is the lack of updates. Not one security or bug fix has been issued for the UNIX ports, not because the problems don't exist, but because they apparently didn't feel like it.
As far as I know, its also IE4 not 5 that is available for UNIX. You are probably better off running Communicator 4.76 or Mozilla, I know I am.
Bottom line is IE/UNIX appears to be just a marketing tool. It's not really usable from a application standpoint. Buggy and Unsupported are not two words you want decribing your web browser.
It appears that the internet / applications division will still be able to bastardize internet standards. Why wasn't the proposal altered as Jackson recommended to split MS into 3 companies?
I really prefer Athena scroll bars. Depending on where and which button you click you scroll back (or forward) some amount.
You don't have to reposition your pointer when the slider slides past your pointer, just keep clicking the same button and continue. If you only want to scroll a little, click near the middle. Want to scroll a lot? Click near the end.
Want to move instantly to a position in the scroll back? Middle click there. No more having to hit the slider and drag it.
IMO, Mac/Windows scroll bars are crude compared to Athena bars. Just because they look better doesn't mean they're more useful.
I guess this is why X, like the kernel, doesn't try to enforce policy. I like my scrollbars different!
For those who want to know what might have been changed, Alan Cox posted the announcement for 2.2.13pre18 with a changelog. His diary says he sent it to Linus for the official ok.
I don't know if you could have picked a more perfect example of the GPL at work. A number of compiler projects have forked off of GNU GCC. The most successful of these being EGCS. So successful in fact EGCS is now the official GNU GCC.
IIRC the reason for the fork was that a few developers were dissatisfied with the slow rate at which GNU GCC was progressing and formed the EGCS project.
In my eyes this is a prime example of how the GPL is supposed to work. Feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken.
ok. so youre working on a medium-large software project. you've got over 100 source files, some of which you wrote, some of which you didn't.
Sounds like many free software projects.
where is foo() defined? where is it declared? where's the next place it's used? what are the different signatures of functions named foo()?
For vim: !man ctags :help tags
All the tools are there, the hard part is to figure out how you like to chain them together. I've yet to find a better IDE than what stringing together standard/free UNIX tools provide once you've taken the time to figure that out. Perhaps the lack of an IDE comperable to those found in DOS/Windows is due to the do one thing and do it well philosophy in UNIX..
In IL and probably other states, refusal to submit to a brethalizer, urine, or blood test carries a mandatory six month suspension effective 45 days after the refusal.
First, it keeps the ability to su restricted to a few trusted people, no matter who has the password. (root:wheel 4510)
Second, it provides some sort of accountability, especially if your logging to a secure loghost or your logs are immutable. su will log who su'd and you know who's account was compromised / who screwed up.
A third reason which may be less valid in most circumstances is it requires an attacker to compromise two passwords rather than just the root password.
Just a few reasons off the top of my head.
Re:There's a little more info in the Bugtraq post.
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It was actually about 4 hours from the time Aleph1 approved the bugtraq post to the time Alan sent the fix. Pretty good if you ask me.
I have read the article. I have also done a little research on the parties involved. The article was written by Steven Brody of SunWorld. SunWorld is an IDG publication. IDC is IDG's research division. The full text of the report is available for $750.00 US. Since I'm not about to shell out that kind of cash for a report that apparently claims something I already know, I can and did only comment on the article which clearly comes from a biased source. The report may actually say something completely different although its unlikely. It's my impression that other reports headed by Dan Kuznetsky are similarly anti-windows. I agree with the report as presented in the article. Just because it says somthing you agree with doesn't mean it doesn't deserve the same scrutiny as one that you don't.
Although I wholeheartedly agree with most of the conclusions in the article, remember where it came from. Its straight from Sun World. The only difference between this and ZD's pro-NT stuff is this might be true;)
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Dianora is a first class bitch. Anyone who's been an eggie hack or on EF for a while knows her and knows the awful power trip she's been on for the past 3 or 4 years. It probably goes back further than that just before most of Europe left EF one could bypass her mood swings.
Yes, instead they send out memos telling managers not to approve any more paper, paper-clip, staple, toner, coffee, keyboard, pen, telephone, tape, floppy disk, etc... purchases until the end of the quarter because well, "Our department has gone over-budget."
I'm sure the 1.2 million in software licenses didn't help.
Believe me, this does happen and happens often even at large companies.
It seems to be working out well for Rambus and Apple.
Personally I don't see this as a bad thing. The reason we boot troublemakers isn't because we disagree with what they're doing, its because we get so many complaints.
If we are common carriers, this becomes our defense, "I'm sorry but we are not responsible for the conduct of our users. Please contact this user directly if you wish to pursue action against them."
This would lighten the administrative burden significantly.
Actually in IBM's Q4 2000 conference call they credited Linux and specifically RedHat with a big portion of their 390/z series and midrange server sales. If you recall were it not for the huge (100%) increase in midrange and 390 sales, IBM's earnings would have been much worse.
Overall it seems IBM really is commited to Linux and seeing tangible benefit from it.
And I'm still upset that I have to update my 4.2 and 3.0.3 boxen by hand. 5.2 wasn't that long ago. As the saying goes, "If it aint broke..."
Up until 7.0 I didn't see a compelling reason to upgrade the 4.2 machines I have around here, now the configuration has become so customized, it will be quite difficult to duplicate their functionality from 7.0.
Perhaps his/her dad, but have you ever seen a user cringe upon seeing:
user@thissystem$
-cp == -classpath
"The only true Christian I know of is Christ... Everyone else just wants to tell you what to do." -- R. O. Quivers..
- 386dx25
- 8 1mb 80ns simms
- 3 ne2k clones
- 1 floppy controler card
- 2 1.44mb floppy drives
- 1 2port 16550A card
Just because somethings old and slow doesn't mean its useless. Before it was my firewall, it ran a 2 node RBBS for almost 6 years.You need to copy the registry entries and maps from a windows install over to wine. Without windows, theres no IE on wine.
Even when you do get it running, there are serious bugs. Go do some research or better yet try it yourself.
The WINE developers have done an excellent job but there is still no substitute for 100% native applications, especially in something as heavily used as your web browser.
Trust me, if an IE/Linux port would be anything like the Solaris port you don't want it.
They could, but if its of the same quality as the SPARC/SunOS port it'd be a wasted effort.
After two days of truss'ing I finally figured out It didn't like NFS mounted home directories. Once I actually got it to run, I found it didn't like NIS either. Forget trying to use a proxy, half of the pages come up unavailable the first try.
Once I managed to get it running and bringing up pages directly, I experienced frequent un-repeatable crashes and many repeatable. It even crashed trying to bring up Microsoft's home page.
Another big concern is the lack of updates. Not one security or bug fix has been issued for the UNIX ports, not because the problems don't exist, but because they apparently didn't feel like it.
As far as I know, its also IE4 not 5 that is available for UNIX. You are probably better off running Communicator 4.76 or Mozilla, I know I am.
Bottom line is IE/UNIX appears to be just a marketing tool. It's not really usable from a application standpoint. Buggy and Unsupported are not two words you want decribing your web browser.
I now understand why all my girlfriend's assumptions are fact, and mine are wrong.
To get the ultimate bike
You would of course
Want a two (2) wheel drive
bicicle.
What good is
A GPS
If you're
on your ass?
Or worse your wrist.
It appears that the internet / applications division will still be able to bastardize internet standards. Why wasn't the proposal altered as Jackson recommended to split MS into 3 companies?
I really prefer Athena scroll bars. Depending on where and which button you click you scroll back (or forward) some amount.
You don't have to reposition your pointer when the slider slides past your pointer, just keep clicking the same button and continue. If you only want to scroll a little, click near the middle. Want to scroll a lot? Click near the end.
Want to move instantly to a position in the scroll back? Middle click there. No more having to hit the slider and drag it.
IMO, Mac/Windows scroll bars are crude compared to Athena bars. Just because they look better doesn't mean they're more useful.
I guess this is why X, like the kernel, doesn't try to enforce policy. I like my scrollbars different!
For those who want to know what might have been changed, Alan Cox posted the announcement for 2.2.13pre18 with a changelog.
His diary says he sent it to Linus for the official ok.
I don't know if you could have picked a more perfect example of the GPL at work. A number of compiler projects have forked off of GNU GCC. The most successful of these being EGCS. So successful in fact EGCS is now the official GNU GCC.
IIRC the reason for the fork was that a few developers were dissatisfied with the slow rate at which GNU GCC was progressing and formed the EGCS project.
In my eyes this is a prime example of how the GPL is supposed to work. Feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken.
Sounds like many free software projects.
where is foo() defined? where is it declared? where's the next place it's used? what are the different signatures of functions named foo()?For vim:
:help tags
!man ctags
All the tools are there, the hard part is to figure out how you like to chain them together. I've yet to find a better IDE than what stringing together standard/free UNIX tools provide once you've taken the time to figure that out. Perhaps the lack of an IDE comperable to those found in DOS/Windows is due to the do one thing and do it well philosophy in UNIX..
No, thats already required.
In IL and probably other states, refusal to submit to a brethalizer, urine, or blood test carries a mandatory six month suspension effective 45 days after the refusal.
I meant append-only, not immutable :P
There are a few reasons.
First, it keeps the ability to su restricted to a few trusted people, no matter who has the password. (root:wheel 4510)
Second, it provides some sort of accountability, especially if your logging to a secure loghost or your logs are immutable. su will log who su'd and you know who's account was compromised / who screwed up.
A third reason which may be less valid in most circumstances is it requires an attacker to compromise two passwords rather than just the root password.
Just a few reasons off the top of my head.
It was actually about 4 hours from the time Aleph1 approved the bugtraq post to the time Alan sent the fix. Pretty good if you ask me.
I have read the article. I have also done a little research on the parties involved.
The article was written by Steven Brody of SunWorld. SunWorld is an IDG publication. IDC is IDG's research division. The full text of the report is available for $750.00 US. Since I'm not about to shell out that kind of cash for a report that apparently claims something I already know, I can and did only comment on the article which clearly comes from a biased source.
The report may actually say something completely different although its unlikely. It's my impression that other reports headed by Dan Kuznetsky are similarly anti-windows.
I agree with the report as presented in the article. Just because it says somthing you agree with doesn't mean it doesn't deserve the same scrutiny as one that you don't.
Although I wholeheartedly agree with most of the conclusions in the article, remember where it came from. Its straight from Sun World. The only difference between this and ZD's pro-NT stuff is this might be true ;)