I find it interesting that Miguel is throwing his full support behind this, and says a few things about using it's Bonobo components. I wonder what will become of the GNOME Office suite as a result of this. Gnumeric is one of the best spreadsheets I have ever used, and I sincerly hope that the effort behind it is not undermined by this.
You could do what I did....although I can't format the hard drive and install Linux because of networking needs (I can't find a Linux client for Exchange and Outlook's shared calenders), I did install WordPerfect Office 2000. Personally, at home I use WordPerfect 8 (the free one) and Gnumeric for productivity on Linux. However, this is the next best thing. Now the only Microsoft Office application I need is Outlook. WordPerfect and QuattroPro can both import and export MS Word and Excel files.
Yeah, the Python 1.6 download page says that Python 1.6 beta1 will be done on July 1, and beta 2 on July 14. It's July 17 now, and the only available download is alpha 2....
Actually, to nit-pick for a minute here, VBA is an interpreted scripting language that is embedded in nearly every Microsoft application, and a bunch of others. VB itself is a seperate product, that is not a scripting language. You can write full-out applications in it. In addition, you can compile it to native code if you would like.
It is a library of objects for use in Python scripts that are interpreted through a Python interpreter that is embedded in a regular application. The visual part comes in, because the GUI widgets are GNOME/KDE independant. So if you run your script under GNOME you get GTK+ widgets, but the same script will give you QT widgets if run with KDE.
From reading the web page, it doesn't seem as though this is a product to do the same thing as VB. VB is a rapid application development tool, with strengths in database integration. The web page for Visual Python indicates that that it is meant for embedding in your application as a scripting language. (Now, you can already do that in Python itself....for more information look at http://www.python.org/doc/current/ex t/ext.html. What appears to make Visual Python unique is that it provides a uniform interface to the underlying desktop environment. So, if I interpret their web page correctly, a script would have QT widgets if the user had KDE. However, that same script would have GTK+ widgets if the user was on GNOME.
I suppose you could do application development using the Visual Python environment, however, if I may quote an answer to the question "What's the relationship between Visual Python and PyQt/PyKDE?" from the Visual Python FAQ: They are intended to serve different purposes. PyQt/PyKDE (and I guess the same applies to GNOME-Python) are intended to be used by developers to create full-blown applications in Python rather than C++. Developing the GUI is an important part of this development. Visual Python is intended to be used by end-users who just want to get a job done quickly and the last thing they want is to spend lots of time having to write GUI code.
Speaking of Python, does anyone know what's up with Python 1.6^H^H2.0? A while back, python.org had said that version 1.6 would be out on June 1. Then there was an announcement, mid-June that it would be delayed. Then at the end of June, this link was placed on python.org, and it was stated that the Python interpreter, version 1.6, was renamed to 2.0, and the first beta would be available on July 1. Now, on July 17, that link has been removed from python.org (although the webpage still exists), and the release schedule is gone!
Instead of commenting on what you should log, or as is mentioned in many of the other posts her, how long you should keep your logs, I'd like to pose another question. Who should have access to these logs. Obviously this is going to have something to do with the law in the area that the ISP is located. However, should the RIAA have access to logs in order to prosecute people who have downloaded MP3's? Should individual artists have the right to examine ISP logs to determine who downloaded their songs? Should these parties, in fact, be able to demand that an ISP keep logs of this information?
While most Slashdotters will answer a resounding no to those questions, what happens when child pornography comes into play? Should a police officer, or the FBI even, be able to demand an ISP hand over their logs, and examine them for people who have downloaded child porn? (Not exactly the easiest search, but I suppose doable none the less).
I think that determining who has access to the logs is perhaps even more important than determining what to log in the first place.
Anyone who wants their data to be secure will be using https or ssh anyway.
I don't necessarially agree with this. Just for an example, I'm going to point out e-mail. I don't think that either POP3 or SMTP are encrypted protocols. A lot of people who would rather not have an ISP keep a log of all their private e-mails use these protocols to transfer mail. In addition, AOL web-mail is not over a secure connection. When entering your password, you are directed to a secure connection, then back to an insecure connection when you actually read your mail.
However, I suppose, that if these logs are for the purpose of tracking down criminals, for example, the child pornographers mentioned in an above post, than keeping logs of people's e-mails might be desirable. Mind you, I would not approve of this policy, but then again, I'm not running an ISP.
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Perhaps explaining that reading DRAM is destructive would help understanding as well.
Yes, that would be helpful. However, this is another case of the article simplifying something down to the point of being wrong. A direct quote from the article is:
Reading from or writing to a DRAM cell refreshes its charge, so the most common way of refreshing a DRAM is to read periodically from each cell
Just periodically reading from each DRAM cell will wipe your memory to all 0's. He meant to say that memory cells should be periodically read from and then written back to.
This is all correct, except that MySQL has added transaction support in the latter part of their 3.23.x series of releases. (Including all releases under the GPL).
As a hobby-operating system tinkerer, I must say that Bochs is probably my most valuable tool. I first started out with only one development computer. Rebooting, finding a bug, booting back to Linux, fix the code, compile and repeat was very tedious. Although adding a second computer helped, now I had one to test on and one to compile on, it was still a very time-consuming process. (Not that os-tinkering isn't time consuming to start with:) ) When I first discovered Bochs, it was like a godsend. Keep up the good work guys!
I think this is a great idea, does anybody know if it would be possible to re-work the GTK+ backend to also let it use the Linux Framebuffer device without X? I personally prefer programming in GTK+ over QT, and would be interested in any developments along this line.
I am now in the process of converting a database from M$ Access to a client/server database with MySQL as a back end (running off of a Slackware Linux box). From my experience this far, it is a high quality product, and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a Linux based database.
Not only is MySQL a good product, but their business design is wonderful! I think that other open sourced software companies should also consider the model of selling support (much like Eazel is planning to do). Selling the server licenses to M$ Operating systems is also a wonderful idea. After all, who wouldn't pay the MySQL license fee (about $200), when their other alternative is SQL Server (wich runs about $3,000 for a server and 5 client licenses)?
Finally, all the investor hype over the ".com" stocks has worn off. Now internet related companies will have to actually show that they can make money in order to succeed. Imagine that;-)
After reading this article, I find myself wondering exactly how far away we are from a "globo", universal currency. The idea seems to work at least decently in Europe, right? My first reaction is that a globo would be a wonderful thing, until I really sat down to think about it.
Having a universal economic currency would almost certainly require a universal government. Otherwise, what would prevent some poor country from printing up 2 or 3 extra billion globos, to bail them out of economic crisis? If this were to happen, then the obvious inflation that would occur would in fact be horrible, and could lead to a horrible economic collapse as is portraid in the article.
However, if we just adopt a global government, could that work at all? I know that the world is smaller with today's fast computers and quick internet connections, in addition to telephones and televison, but it still reminds me too much of a modern Roman Empire. Rome was a wonderful empire while it lasted, but the area it covered was just too vast to manage.
So after reading the article, and thinking for a few minutes, I think that the safest possible economic course for the future is to avoid things like the "globo".
It's good to hear that drawing is faster, and scrolling too. What about load time? I use Mozilla as my main browser, but when I need to get a piece of information quick, I still find myself running to Netscape. I can't wait until the day that this changes and Mozilla runs as quickly as Netscape (With fewer crashes:-) -Shawn
When I first heard about KDevelop, I was excited, and downloaded and ran 1.0 immediately. I am quite pleased with it, except for one, seemingly obvious, feature that was missing, and is still missing from 1.1. KDevelop needs to allow the editing of more than 1 document at a time! I know that you can edit a source file and a header file, but sometimes I need to have several source files open at the same time. I wonder if 2.0 will have this feature?
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I find it interesting that Miguel is throwing his full support behind this, and says a few things about using it's Bonobo components. I wonder what will become of the GNOME Office suite as a result of this. Gnumeric is one of the best spreadsheets I have ever used, and I sincerly hope that the effort behind it is not undermined by this.
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You could do what I did....although I can't format the hard drive and install Linux because of networking needs (I can't find a Linux client for Exchange and Outlook's shared calenders), I did install WordPerfect Office 2000. Personally, at home I use WordPerfect 8 (the free one) and Gnumeric for productivity on Linux. However, this is the next best thing. Now the only Microsoft Office application I need is Outlook. WordPerfect and QuattroPro can both import and export MS Word and Excel files.
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Yeah, the Python 1.6 download page says that Python 1.6 beta1 will be done on July 1, and beta 2 on July 14. It's July 17 now, and the only available download is alpha 2....
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Actually, to nit-pick for a minute here, VBA is an interpreted scripting language that is embedded in nearly every Microsoft application, and a bunch of others. VB itself is a seperate product, that is not a scripting language. You can write full-out applications in it. In addition, you can compile it to native code if you would like.
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It is a library of objects for use in Python scripts that are interpreted through a Python interpreter that is embedded in a regular application. The visual part comes in, because the GUI widgets are GNOME/KDE independant. So if you run your script under GNOME you get GTK+ widgets, but the same script will give you QT widgets if run with KDE.
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I don't think it's vaporware, because you can download it off their website. Also, it being a library, it would be hard to get a screenshot of it ;-)
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I suppose you could do application development using the Visual Python environment, however, if I may quote an answer to the question "What's the relationship between Visual Python and PyQt/PyKDE?" from the Visual Python FAQ: They are intended to serve different purposes. PyQt/PyKDE (and I guess the same applies to GNOME-Python) are intended to be used by developers to create full-blown applications in Python rather than C++. Developing the GUI is an important part of this development. Visual Python is intended to be used by end-users who just want to get a job done quickly and the last thing they want is to spend lots of time having to write GUI code.
Speaking of Python, does anyone know what's up with Python 1.6^H^H2.0? A while back, python.org had said that version 1.6 would be out on June 1. Then there was an announcement, mid-June that it would be delayed. Then at the end of June, this link was placed on python.org, and it was stated that the Python interpreter, version 1.6, was renamed to 2.0, and the first beta would be available on July 1. Now, on July 17, that link has been removed from python.org (although the webpage still exists), and the release schedule is gone!
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While most Slashdotters will answer a resounding no to those questions, what happens when child pornography comes into play? Should a police officer, or the FBI even, be able to demand an ISP hand over their logs, and examine them for people who have downloaded child porn? (Not exactly the easiest search, but I suppose doable none the less).
I think that determining who has access to the logs is perhaps even more important than determining what to log in the first place.
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I don't necessarially agree with this. Just for an example, I'm going to point out e-mail. I don't think that either POP3 or SMTP are encrypted protocols. A lot of people who would rather not have an ISP keep a log of all their private e-mails use these protocols to transfer mail. In addition, AOL web-mail is not over a secure connection. When entering your password, you are directed to a secure connection, then back to an insecure connection when you actually read your mail.
However, I suppose, that if these logs are for the purpose of tracking down criminals, for example, the child pornographers mentioned in an above post, than keeping logs of people's e-mails might be desirable. Mind you, I would not approve of this policy, but then again, I'm not running an ISP.
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Yes, that would be helpful. However, this is another case of the article simplifying something down to the point of being wrong. A direct quote from the article is:
Reading from or writing to a DRAM cell refreshes its charge, so the most common way of refreshing a DRAM is to read periodically from each cell
Just periodically reading from each DRAM cell will wipe your memory to all 0's. He meant to say that memory cells should be periodically read from and then written back to.
./configure
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make post
This is all correct, except that MySQL has added transaction support in the latter part of their 3.23.x series of releases. (Including all releases under the GPL).
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I am now in the process of converting a database from M$ Access to a client/server database with MySQL as a back end (running off of a Slackware Linux box). From my experience this far, it is a high quality product, and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a Linux based database.
Not only is MySQL a good product, but their business design is wonderful! I think that other open sourced software companies should also consider the model of selling support (much like Eazel is planning to do). Selling the server licenses to M$ Operating systems is also a wonderful idea. After all, who wouldn't pay the MySQL license fee (about $200), when their other alternative is SQL Server (wich runs about $3,000 for a server and 5 client licenses)?
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Finally, all the investor hype over the ".com" stocks has worn off. Now internet related companies will have to actually show that they can make money in order to succeed. Imagine that ;-)
After reading this article, I find myself wondering exactly how far away we are from a "globo", universal currency. The idea seems to work at least decently in Europe, right? My first reaction is that a globo would be a wonderful thing, until I really sat down to think about it.
Having a universal economic currency would almost certainly require a universal government. Otherwise, what would prevent some poor country from printing up 2 or 3 extra billion globos, to bail them out of economic crisis? If this were to happen, then the obvious inflation that would occur would in fact be horrible, and could lead to a horrible economic collapse as is portraid in the article.
However, if we just adopt a global government, could that work at all? I know that the world is smaller with today's fast computers and quick internet connections, in addition to telephones and televison, but it still reminds me too much of a modern Roman Empire. Rome was a wonderful empire while it lasted, but the area it covered was just too vast to manage.
So after reading the article, and thinking for a few minutes, I think that the safest possible economic course for the future is to avoid things like the "globo".
It's good to hear that drawing is faster, and scrolling too. What about load time? I use Mozilla as my main browser, but when I need to get a piece of information quick, I still find myself running to Netscape. I can't wait until the day that this changes and Mozilla runs as quickly as Netscape (With fewer crashes :-) -Shawn
When I first heard about KDevelop, I was excited, and downloaded and ran 1.0 immediately. I am quite pleased with it, except for one, seemingly obvious, feature that was missing, and is still missing from 1.1. KDevelop needs to allow the editing of more than 1 document at a time! I know that you can edit a source file and a header file, but sometimes I need to have several source files open at the same time. I wonder if 2.0 will have this feature?