When I see Microsoft holes reported I think "Hah, more proof that MS is incompetent! And they won't be patching it for a while to come!"
Aren't most MS holes patches before they get exploited. I seem to remember the Code Red vulnerability being a couple of months old before the systems got hit.
Norwegian rules are that commercials can only be shown between programs (which has led to some channels' enterprising idea of interrupting a movie with a news segment, around which they can have ads!).
I think they are limited on what kind of commercials they can show, but it's not a complete ban. TVNorge has one commercial break during CSI (showing commercials for other TVNorge shows).
Additionlly, some channels are broadcast from the UK, with UK ad rules (allowing program breaks).
Well, I was thinking of TV3. 5 minutes breaks are annoying. I much prefer the 30 sec breaks in the US. Which is one of the reason I'm thinking of getting the new Tivo like Nokia system.
After moving back to Norway, I find the US advertising model far preferable to the Norwegian one. In the US, the ads are only 30 sec. Even without Tivo, it's not that annoying. Ads in Norway is 5 min.,which reach the annoying state pretty fast.
Plus we get most of our good programming outside the country (US, France, UK, Germany).
I realize it's probably easy, but as far as I knew, nobody had done it (the last message I found from the udev maintainer was requesting someone to write it. I was considering doing it as soon as I got around to installing a 2.6.x system with udev).
There are some indication from other people in this thread that it has already been done, so I don't know.
I still think the community would be better off standardizing on the devfs nameing scheme than the "old" lanana scheme.
Most notably (for me) is devfs not being actively supported anymore (being shifted in favor of udev).
Well, the reason devfs is not actively supported is because the maintainer disappeared, and nobody has stepped up to take over the code.
udev seems to solve the problem of only have/dev files that correspond to devices you have connected. But they are moving "back" to the old/dev/sg?1 etc. I much prefer the devfs nameing scheme (what do you do if you have more than 24 hds? The devfs had a solution for that).
There were 15,000 'military advisors' when JFK was assasinated. That was steadily cranked up under LBJ and of course when gulf of Tonkin was manufactured that was the signal for all out quagmire.
But they weren't frontline, combat troops, which the troops in Iraq are.
It's like comparing the number of American killed the first day of US entry into the WW2, and the number of French and British killed the first 5 months in their entry.
If the Administration is not bothered by the number of casualties in the gulf why has it stopped broadcast of arrivals of coffins?
Which has nothing to with comparing the number of troops killed in Iraq and Vietnam.
Since the start of the invasion more US soldiers have been killed in Iraq than were killed in the first three years of Vietnam.
And the reason for that, is that the three first years of Vietnam, the US only had a few advisors present. It's hard to get killed if you're not there. The US didn't really start getting heavily involved with combat troops until a couple of years into the conflict.
Last time I used one, phones used sound as a means of communication. You dial a number on the very position-standardized keypad (so even those with functional eyes can usually dial a phone without looking), and speak into the handset.
You don't even need to do that. Some of the newer phones have voicedial, and polyphonic ringing tone you can associate with people in your address book.
I'm not saying Debian is a reference distro now. But being old and stale is a good thing for a reference distro.
Because, during development of your program, the last thing you want is that your target changes twice before you finish your program.
Sure, base your busines on RedHat or SuSe, or Mandrake. But wouldn't it be nice if your program target at Debian 3.0, would work the same as if running RedHat 8, or SuSe 9, or Mandrake 7 (I have no idea of the version number they are using).
It's kinda like writing your code to C89 because you know all the platform you will port your program to will have a C89 compiler, even though there are new features in C99, but then you limit your portability.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Gentoo one of the first distributions to go to all gcc3? Isn't Gentoo supposed to be one of the most cutting-edge distros out ther?
Being a reference distribution, the last thing you want to do is making changes that fast.
Being conservative is a good thing when it comes to standards and references, because as a developer, you know what to target.
I said it before, and I'll say it again: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=69340& cid=6329 689
One of the main reasons why GNU/Debian is perfect for a reference system, is that stable doesn't change that often.
Debian Woody (3.0) was released July 2002, with an update December 2002. How many version of Mandrake, SuSe, Gentoo or RedHat has come out since then?
If you are a developer, you really don't want a moving target like the other distributions. You really want to have stable target over some period of time.
Note that, even if Debian becomes the reference system, it doesn't mean that RedHat or SuSe, Gentoo can't have never libraries or KDE, or GNOME on their system. It just means that at the very least, they need compatible libraries installed by default.
And no, LSB is not enough. That is just a voluntary paper, and with no reference system, you still would have to test the major distributions to make sure your program is working.
With a working reference system, like Debian, you would only need to test against one distribution.
For thousands of years there were many many people who believed that the Earth was round. The fact that such people continue to exist, must necessarily constitute a historical proof that such beliefs are indeed worthy and rational.
For people in Europe, it's pretty much irrelevant which region it's encoded for, since the majority of people get their DVD player fixed when they buy the machine.
Doesn't network management software like NNM and whatever CA's stuff is called, work by doing ping sweeps and other stuff to detect new systems on the network?
Hmmm, how many languages have a local version of email? In Norway, we call it epost and have for some time. I'm surprised that the French took this long to come up with a French word for email.
Like the catholic priest at Santa Clara University said in the Biology class, when I asked him why they weren't teaching creationism in Biology, creationism is not science. And he was teaching science. If anyone wanted to discuss creationism, they should go to the religious studies dept.
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When I see Microsoft holes reported I think "Hah, more proof that MS is incompetent! And they won't be patching it for a while to come!"
Aren't most MS holes patches before they get exploited. I seem to remember the Code Red vulnerability being a couple of months old before the systems got hit.
Norwegian rules are that commercials can only be shown between programs (which has led to some channels' enterprising idea of interrupting a movie with a news segment, around which they can have ads!).
I think they are limited on what kind of commercials they can show, but it's not a complete ban. TVNorge has one commercial break during CSI (showing commercials for other TVNorge shows).
Additionlly, some channels are broadcast from the UK, with UK ad rules (allowing program breaks).
Well, I was thinking of TV3. 5 minutes breaks are annoying. I much prefer the 30 sec breaks in the US. Which is one of the reason I'm thinking of getting the new Tivo like Nokia system.
After moving back to Norway, I find the US advertising model far preferable to the Norwegian one. In the US, the ads are only 30 sec. Even without Tivo, it's not that annoying. Ads in Norway is 5 min.,which reach the annoying state pretty fast.
Plus we get most of our good programming outside the country (US, France, UK, Germany).
I realize it's probably easy, but as far as I knew, nobody had done it (the last message I found from the udev maintainer was requesting someone to write it. I was considering doing it as soon as I got around to installing a 2.6.x system with udev).
There are some indication from other people in this thread that it has already been done, so I don't know.
I still think the community would be better off standardizing on the devfs nameing scheme than the "old" lanana scheme.
Most notably (for me) is devfs not being actively supported anymore (being shifted in favor of udev).
/dev files that correspond to devices you have connected. But they are moving "back" to the old /dev/sg?1 etc. I much prefer the devfs nameing scheme (what do you do if you have more than 24 hds? The devfs had a solution for that).
Well, the reason devfs is not actively supported is because the maintainer disappeared, and nobody has stepped up to take over the code.
udev seems to solve the problem of only have
There were 15,000 'military advisors' when JFK was assasinated. That was steadily cranked up under LBJ and of course when gulf of Tonkin was manufactured that was the signal for all out quagmire.
But they weren't frontline, combat troops, which the troops in Iraq are.
It's like comparing the number of American killed the first day of US entry into the WW2, and the number of French and British killed the first 5 months in their entry.
If the Administration is not bothered by the number of casualties in the gulf why has it stopped broadcast of arrivals of coffins?
Which has nothing to with comparing the number of troops killed in Iraq and Vietnam.
Since the start of the invasion more US soldiers have been killed in Iraq than were killed in the first three years of Vietnam.
And the reason for that, is that the three first years of Vietnam, the US only had a few advisors present. It's hard to get killed if you're not there. The US didn't really start getting heavily involved with combat troops until a couple of years into the conflict.
Last time I used one, phones used sound as a means of communication. You dial a number on the very position-standardized keypad (so even those with functional eyes can usually dial a phone without looking), and speak into the handset.
You don't even need to do that. Some of the newer phones have voicedial, and polyphonic ringing tone you can associate with people in your address book.
If by ancient history, you mean September 2003, yeah sure, Sendmail holes are ancient history.
I'm not saying Debian is a reference distro now.
But being old and stale is a good thing for a reference distro.
Because, during development of your program, the last thing you want is that your target changes twice before you finish your program.
Sure, base your busines on RedHat or SuSe, or Mandrake. But wouldn't it be nice if your program target at Debian 3.0, would work the same as if running RedHat 8, or SuSe 9, or Mandrake 7 (I have no idea of the version number they are using).
It's kinda like writing your code to C89 because you know all the platform you will port your program to will have a C89 compiler, even though there are new features in C99, but then you limit your portability.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Gentoo one of the first distributions to go to all gcc3? Isn't Gentoo supposed to be one of the most cutting-edge distros out ther?
Being a reference distribution, the last thing you want to do is making changes that fast.
Being conservative is a good thing when it comes to standards and references, because as a developer, you know what to target.
I said it before, and I'll say it again:& cid=6329 689
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=69340
One of the main reasons why GNU/Debian is perfect for a reference system, is that stable doesn't change that often.
Debian Woody (3.0) was released July 2002, with an update December 2002. How many version of Mandrake, SuSe, Gentoo or RedHat has come out since then?
If you are a developer, you really don't want a moving target like the other distributions. You really want to have stable target over some period of time.
Note that, even if Debian becomes the reference system, it doesn't mean that RedHat or SuSe, Gentoo can't have never libraries or KDE, or GNOME on their system. It just means that at the very least, they need compatible libraries installed by default.
And no, LSB is not enough. That is just a voluntary paper, and with no reference system, you still would have to test the major distributions to make sure your program is working.
With a working reference system, like Debian, you would only need to test against one distribution.
Fall of the Berlin Wall, Fall of the Soviet Union, the foundation of EU, creation of the common European currency
It has a monopoly on Windows web servers.
What a bizarre statement. Isn't that like saying RedHat has a monopoly on RedHat Linux servers? Or Debian has monopoly on Debian GNU/Linux servers?
I meant flat, of course sigh...
For thousands of years there were many many people who believed that the Earth was round. The fact that such people continue to exist, must necessarily constitute a historical proof that such beliefs are indeed worthy and rational.
Check Windows function that takes DWORD, but because the original function had WORD in the function variables, the variable itself has the wrong name.
Something like
VOID Foo( DWORD wbar );
Lots examples like this if you look around. I just think it's really bad idea to encode the tpye into the variable name.
For people in Europe, it's pretty much irrelevant which region it's encoded for, since the majority of people get their DVD player fixed when they buy the machine.
This guy has a filter for viruses. Pretty good, took out the Swen virus with some modifications (added bat and com extensions)
Doesn't network management software like NNM and whatever CA's stuff is called, work by doing ping sweeps and other stuff to detect new systems on the network?
Won't it break those systems?
If you don't like the QPL, you can always use the GPL. I'm amazed people still don't know this.
That's nothing. How much did SGI pay to come up with the name sgi?
Does this mean we will be seeing Homer's dream car on American roads in the future?
Hmmm, how many languages have a local version of email? In Norway, we call it epost and have for some time. I'm surprised that the French took this long to come up with a French word for email.
Like the catholic priest at Santa Clara University said in the Biology class, when I asked him why they weren't teaching creationism in Biology, creationism is not science. And he was teaching science. If anyone wanted to discuss creationism, they should go to the religious studies dept.