Re:This is bound to fail...
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Pirate DNS?
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Actually, I just typed "Microsoft Windows 98" in location bar and got a list of sites, first being http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/default.asp. So it does exist, this system. Not that I ever used it, actually. But now that $company_which_makes_browser_which_I_am_forced_to_ use moved to Google, I might actually use it. If only they servers won't be so painfully slow...
Would be multiple inheritance allowed, as in C++, or inhibited, as in Java? Can I do virtual inheritance? What with abstract properties, that I'd want to implement in my children?
I'd not take everything Russian press says at face value. Most of Russian press serve interests of some polical and/or financial groups or individuals, and there's almost no "independent" press as such (well, almost the same is true for any other country, just in Russia the phenomena is more developed and accepted). This means the whole story can be invented by someone just to put a needle in the butt of some politician or political group. Gathering "kompromat" (compromising materials), both true and outright false, and publishing it on various media is very common, as well as concept of "informational war", such as launching on a controlled TV channel programs entirely dedicated to bashing owner's political enemies, and "profiling" news items to represent them in a way most harmful to one's political enemies.
So when you base your privacy efforts on some information from Russian press, beware. This could be just a move in someone's information war, and you'll be just a pawn in this game.
This mostly says that Debian release schedule is really slooow. Bi-annual releases is not exactly what most of the users need. And since Debian 2.2 is in freeze, AFAIK, X4.0 will probably be in official Debian release somewhere around 2002.
As for stability - no.0 release is fully 100% stable. That's a law. But last thing I'd judge stability by is willingness of some Debian (or any other distro) person to make a package.
Companies on the Internet are not alone in collecting data about customers or turning it over to new owners following bankruptcies or mergers. For example, it is routine for banks and hospitals to transfer intimate consumer or patient data following an acquisition.
And you thought they are screwing you just on Internet? Bah.
Yeah, yeah - as if they couldn't still identify you by IP - yes, many people do have static IPs and yet more have static IP ranges (like your provider's local modem pool). That's already good enough info.
Take nation like Tukmenia or Kyrgyzia or Belorusia or Lybia. Or China. Not hard to imagine worse society, isn't it? At least, some americans still fight for their right, and sometimes even succeed.
As well as US still sees the Russia as "old enemy". Or do you think all guys that were there at times of Cold War left? They are still over there. They think they can do anything they like on Balcans, but Russians can't do nothing in Chechnya without asking US first. That even while Chechnya is part of Russia, and Balcans weren't part of US last time I checked. US politicans and military need The Enemy not less than Russian ones. OK, Russia is less dangerous because it's in breakup - so US is using supplemental Lesser Enemies (like China, Serbia or whatever). Maybe some of them even are promoted to First Range Enemy (like China), and Russia is demoted to Lesser Enemy. But the "Enemies" concept stays.
Russians are dealing with lauching spacecrafts since early 40's at least (even earilier, but in 40's they had results). So they probably have couple of clues. I don't know how much spacecraft did you launch, but they did launch a couple successfully, didn't they?
They now have their own language and drop that Visual Basic crap from their applications. Windows needs system-wide standard scripting language, and needs replacement for WordBasic, AccessBasic and other crap like this. If it's C#, be it C#, at least hopefully it will have understandable syntax and usable libraries.
Sad fact is that until people won't die because some secretary doesn't know to use their tools, nobody will care neither for educating personal, nor for making tools do things right, not do things as easy as possible. And even after that not many would care too. Until all "Time"s won't realize they are playing with people's lives, these things will be more and more common.
1. Open Source and Bazaar development is not the same. Indeed, Cathedral development might be better for systems with rigid specifications and well-defined goals and functionality. Just most products out there aren't like this - you can never know what you'll have to support until users try first version and say what are they lacking. And I'd expect from university doctor to have research on differences between Open Source and Bazaar development before giving lecture on the subject. Or is it/. misreporting?
2. Most commercial companies are even more unfit for trusted development than the Bazaar. The reason is simple - they are driving by profits, and if release date and "doing things right" contradict - the latter will almost always lose, and marketing will push product out the door and say "we'll fix it later, it works good enough for 90% so 10% will be fixed afterweards". The only real way that I see trusted system can be developed is open academic environment - Open Source Cathedral style with lots of peer review. This puts chaotic component under control and allows to use it for moving into well-defined direction.
So instead of putting in "John Random, email johnrandom@free-webmail-of-the-day.com" on every registration form, you just make your browser do it automatically. Clever people would even make client that would invent random names on-the-fly for every ecommerce site (and then you get promotional spams from emcommerce sites titled 'Dear Sir Kissmy Backend'). What's too much problem in it?
That's no worse then putting in back into free pool and some cybersquatter taking it and auctioning it on eBay or alike. At least here you know that this domain *will* be registered for you after you pay the money. And if you can't pay your bill in time (paying online requires almost no time, just do it!) you deserve to loose the domain, and then netsol can do with it whatever it likes. I'd be very happy if auction money will be streamed into establishing new top-levels, but that just sweet dreams, I think...
Makes it perfect tool for DDOS attack. Just tell 20 of your Guntella neighbours "that guy overseas really wanted that 10G movie clip, so please help me delivering it" and your victim is roasted and served with fries.
Who needs it? C is by itself a portable macro-assembler language. No data structures and algotithms, no memory management, only basic types, no built-in fucntionality. It's assembler in disguise, and was made as such!
If Microsoft will package every product in a cubic-meter size box, few stores could find space to keep anything but Microsoft products inside. That's an innovative (TM) move in their monopoly game.
That's the best news about KDE/GNOME that I've heard for a long time. Common object sharing protocol would be a real hit. Even more, that's a must for any serious work done in this direction by external (commercial) developers.
Too bad if this move, which would be a huge leap ahead for Unix as a modern desktop and application platform, will be drown in ego wars. I do not believe it's not possible to sit for a week and make common object architecture. It needs not to be fastest, smallest, leanest one in the world. It just needs to work and be common, so that I could call Konqueror from gnumeric and vice versa. Microsoft has COM, and with all it problems, people use it, and do it a lot. Common component sharing arcitecture is a very important thing. That's like common binary file format - imagine two distributions have different binary file formats - at the end nobody is going to use any of them for serious work.
So, does this mean Minivend is going to have decent documentation and installation process at last? Or, they are going to charge money for it?
Re:Sorry, but I don't see that this is very useful
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Berlin 0.2.0 Released
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Hear, hear!
It's even not needed to have 1600x1200, just change your default GNOME/KDE font on Linux to something with non-standard measures and run applications. Dialogs broke, labels appear in wrong places, button sizes inconsistent with labels, all the zoo...
>> What other kinds of drivers are there besides hardware drivers?
You know, there are a lot of things besides hardware drivers. I use Linux for Real Work (TM) for years, and I never had to upgrade hardware driver. That's because I don't need it to play with latest nVidia card, I need it to do real work - write programs. For this, two years old ATI/Matrox/whatever is good enough, and Linux supposrt them like charm. If fact, I had much more problems with NT on drivers that with Linux. And definitley I'd give all latest 3D support for one good office app on Linux. Here is where we need real work to be done. 3D is for toys (or high-end CADing, which is another story) and office apps are for work.
So, if you want to use cutting-enge 3D-graphics toys, you'd have to compile. But if you are using computer as a tool for work, as opposed to playing with lastest-and-greatest gadgets, best chances are you'll never need to upgrade.
As for not knowing too to handle ipchains, I'll tell you about one for free - gfcc. There are at least five more I tried, this came out as a winner. Too bad linux.com people don't know about it, but that's not Linux's fault. That's their fault - they don't know their tools, shame on them.
>> Take something like installing an extension. Under MacOS, this is trivial. Under Windows, installing a driver is similarly simple. But under Linux it often requires a kernel recompile!
Man, what you are talking about??? I don't know what moderators were smoking when they marked it "Insightful", but only thing that requires kernel compile is a new hardware driver, and even then only if you don't have it in your distribution kernel.
I do not know what you mean by "extension", but I can remember no meaning of this word on Linux that should require kernel compile. Please, try using Linux instead of reading about it in PC Magazine.
>> In Linux, it requires learning ipchains and its complex syntax.
Or going to freshmeat and taking one of the hundred and one firewall configuration GUIs. Please, get about quarter a clue before you start bashing. If you just don't know you tools, and don't want even start looking for clue when it's lying before you and screaming "take me", that's not tool's problem, that's your problem. Just get it, and life will become easier.
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Actually, I just typed "Microsoft Windows 98" in location bar and got a list of sites, first being http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/default.asp. So it does exist, this system. Not that I ever used it, actually. But now that $company_which_makes_browser_which_I_am_forced_to_ use moved to Google, I might actually use it. If only they servers won't be so painfully slow...
Would be multiple inheritance allowed, as in C++, or inhibited, as in Java? Can I do virtual inheritance? What with abstract properties, that I'd want to implement in my children?
Oh, where is that UML book again?
I'd not take everything Russian press says at face value. Most of Russian press serve interests of some polical and/or financial groups or individuals, and there's almost no "independent" press as such (well, almost the same is true for any other country, just in Russia the phenomena is more developed and accepted). This means the whole story can be invented by someone just to put a needle in the butt of some politician or political group. Gathering "kompromat" (compromising materials), both true and outright false, and publishing it on various media is very common, as well as concept of "informational war", such as launching on a controlled TV channel programs entirely dedicated to bashing owner's political enemies, and "profiling" news items to represent them in a way most harmful to one's political enemies.
So when you base your privacy efforts on some information from Russian press, beware. This could be just a move in someone's information war, and you'll be just a pawn in this game.
The stupidity of the American People has never been in doubt, sadly.
"American" is redundant here.
This mostly says that Debian release schedule is really slooow. Bi-annual releases is not exactly what most of the users need. And since Debian 2.2 is in freeze, AFAIK, X4.0 will probably be in official Debian release somewhere around 2002.
.0 release is fully 100% stable. That's a law. But last thing I'd judge stability by is willingness of some Debian (or any other distro) person to make a package.
As for stability - no
C|Net writes:
Companies on the Internet are not alone in collecting data about customers or turning it over to new owners following bankruptcies or mergers. For example, it is routine for banks and hospitals to transfer intimate consumer or patient data following an acquisition.
And you thought they are screwing you just on Internet? Bah.
Yeah, yeah - as if they couldn't still identify you by IP - yes, many people do have static IPs and yet more have static IP ranges (like your provider's local modem pool). That's already good enough info.
Take nation like Tukmenia or Kyrgyzia or Belorusia or Lybia. Or China. Not hard to imagine worse society, isn't it? At least, some americans still fight for their right, and sometimes even succeed.
Latest version has transactions. Check www.mysql.com.
>> they still see the USA as the "old enemy".
As well as US still sees the Russia as "old enemy". Or do you think all guys that were there at times of Cold War left? They are still over there. They think they can do anything they like on Balcans, but Russians can't do nothing in Chechnya without asking US first. That even while Chechnya is part of Russia, and Balcans weren't part of US last time I checked. US politicans and military need The Enemy not less than Russian ones. OK, Russia is less dangerous because it's in breakup - so US is using supplemental Lesser Enemies (like China, Serbia or whatever). Maybe some of them even are promoted to First Range Enemy (like China), and Russia is demoted to Lesser Enemy. But the "Enemies" concept stays.
Russians are dealing with lauching spacecrafts since early 40's at least (even earilier, but in 40's they had results). So they probably have couple of clues. I don't know how much spacecraft did you launch, but they did launch a couple successfully, didn't they?
They now have their own language and drop that Visual Basic crap from their applications.
Windows needs system-wide standard scripting language, and needs replacement for WordBasic, AccessBasic and other crap like this. If it's C#, be it C#, at least hopefully it will have understandable syntax and usable libraries.
Sad fact is that until people won't die because some secretary doesn't know to use their tools, nobody will care neither for educating personal, nor for making tools do things right, not do things as easy as possible. And even after that not many would care too. Until all "Time"s won't realize they are playing with people's lives, these things will be more and more common.
1. Open Source and Bazaar development is not the same. Indeed, Cathedral development might be better for systems with rigid specifications and well-defined goals and functionality. Just most products out there aren't like this - you can never know what you'll have to support until users try first version and say what are they lacking. /. misreporting?
And I'd expect from university doctor to have research on differences between Open Source and Bazaar development before giving lecture on the subject. Or is it
2. Most commercial companies are even more unfit for trusted development than the Bazaar. The reason is simple - they are driving by profits, and if release date and "doing things right" contradict - the latter will almost always lose, and marketing will push product out the door and say "we'll fix it later, it works good enough for 90% so 10% will be fixed afterweards". The only real way that I see trusted system can be developed is open academic environment - Open Source Cathedral style with lots of peer review. This puts chaotic component under control and allows to use it for moving into well-defined direction.
So instead of putting in "John Random, email johnrandom@free-webmail-of-the-day.com" on every registration form, you just make your browser do it automatically. Clever people would even make client that would invent random names on-the-fly for every ecommerce site (and then you get promotional spams from emcommerce sites titled 'Dear Sir Kissmy Backend'). What's too much problem in it?
That's no worse then putting in back into free pool and some cybersquatter taking it and auctioning it on eBay or alike. At least here you know that this domain *will* be registered for you after you pay the money. And if you can't pay your bill in time (paying online requires almost no time, just do it!) you deserve to loose the domain, and then netsol can do with it whatever it likes.
I'd be very happy if auction money will be streamed into establishing new top-levels, but that just sweet dreams, I think...
Makes it perfect tool for DDOS attack. Just tell 20 of your Guntella neighbours "that guy overseas really wanted that 10G movie clip, so please help me delivering it" and your victim is roasted and served with fries.
Who needs it? C is by itself a portable macro-assembler language. No data structures and algotithms, no memory management, only basic types, no built-in fucntionality. It's assembler in disguise, and was made as such!
If Microsoft will package every product in a cubic-meter size box, few stores could find space to keep anything but Microsoft products inside. That's an innovative (TM) move in their monopoly game.
That's the best news about KDE/GNOME that I've heard for a long time. Common object sharing protocol would be a real hit. Even more, that's a must for any serious work done in this direction by external (commercial) developers.
Too bad if this move, which would be a huge leap ahead for Unix as a modern desktop and application platform, will be drown in ego wars.
I do not believe it's not possible to sit for a week and make common object architecture. It needs not to be fastest, smallest, leanest one in the world. It just needs to work and be common, so that I could call Konqueror from gnumeric and vice versa. Microsoft has COM, and with all it problems, people use it, and do it a lot. Common component sharing arcitecture is a very important thing. That's like common binary file format - imagine two distributions have different binary file formats - at the end nobody is going to use any of them for serious work.
So, does this mean Minivend is going to have decent documentation and installation process at last? Or, they are going to charge money for it?
Hear, hear!
It's even not needed to have 1600x1200, just change your default GNOME/KDE font on Linux to something with non-standard measures and run applications. Dialogs broke, labels appear in wrong places, button sizes inconsistent with labels, all the zoo...
>> What other kinds of drivers are there besides hardware drivers?
You know, there are a lot of things besides hardware drivers. I use Linux for Real Work (TM) for years, and I never had to upgrade hardware driver. That's because I don't need it to play with latest nVidia card, I need it to do real work - write programs. For this, two years old ATI/Matrox/whatever is good enough, and Linux supposrt them like charm. If fact, I had much more problems with NT on drivers that with Linux. And definitley I'd give all latest 3D support for one good office app on Linux. Here is where we need real work to be done. 3D is for toys (or high-end CADing, which is another story) and office apps are for work.
So, if you want to use cutting-enge 3D-graphics toys, you'd have to compile. But if you are using computer as a tool for work, as opposed to playing with lastest-and-greatest gadgets, best chances are you'll never need to upgrade.
As for not knowing too to handle ipchains, I'll tell you about one for free - gfcc. There are at least five more I tried, this came out as a winner. Too bad linux.com people don't know about it, but that's not Linux's fault. That's their fault - they don't know their tools, shame on them.
>> Take something like installing an extension. Under MacOS, this is trivial. Under Windows, installing a driver is similarly simple. But under Linux it often requires a kernel recompile!
Man, what you are talking about??? I don't know what moderators were smoking when they marked it "Insightful", but only thing that requires kernel compile is a new hardware driver, and even then only if you don't have it in your distribution kernel.
I do not know what you mean by "extension", but I can remember no meaning of this word on Linux that should require kernel compile. Please, try using Linux instead of reading about it in PC Magazine.
>> In Linux, it requires learning ipchains and its complex syntax.
Or going to freshmeat and taking one of the hundred and one firewall configuration GUIs. Please, get about quarter a clue before you start bashing. If you just don't know you tools, and don't want even start looking for clue when it's lying before you and screaming "take me", that's not tool's problem, that's your problem. Just get it, and life will become easier.