Ok, this is a stupid idea for all the legal and economic reasons that everyone else is ranting about, but what about a much smaller (in scope) version?
For example, let's say 15 of my closest friends and I each kick in a doller and buy a CD. Could we each exercise our "fair use" rights and rip the mp3s from it? How many owners can a CD legally have? I suppose this is basically the same idea Cringely had, only without the corporation around it.
If Time Warner or Intel wanted to do this, they could. if this imaginary company wanted to share it's assets with it's shareholders, it also could.
This idea is pretty outlandish, but what it it were toned down. Does a CD have to have only one owner? Could me and 17 of my closest friends each pitch in a doller for a CD, then each rip the mp3s from the CD we collectivly "own"?
I don't know how that would work, interesting thought though.
I think the joke was regarding how buymusic checks your browser and only lets you in if you are on IE under Windows. Pretty much forcing you to be vulnerable to all kinds of unpatched exploit goodness.
Actually if you just avoid anything Michael posts, it will be about news again. He is the one posting most of the archliberal stuff, and he tends to post the most innacurate news items to boot. I honestly have no idea why Slashdot keeps him, he is nothing more than an unprofessional joke.
Lots of meat? Well certainly it proposes that you eat meat since you are cutting out complex carbs and getting energy from protein. Personally since starting Atkins I don't eat any more meat than I used to, i just eat a ton more veggies. I also eat more fish too I guess but it is hard to argue that fish is unhealthy. For that matter fruits are ok, they have carbs true, but they have simple carbs, which are cool by the atkins diet. You should have them in moderation true, but that is the case with everything in my opinion. I guess in a day I eat more veggies than anything, followed by some form of meat and fruit. I also eat some complex carbs (bread, potatoes, pasta) but I try to really keep that in check. Atkins isn't about no carbs, it is about limited carbs, specifically complex carbs.
A lot of really uninformed rants have been written about how evil Atkins is, but it is not that bad if you actually look at it. It is no magic bullet and probably shouldn't be taken to an extreme, but it obviously works for a lot of people.
That would be a pretty good debunking of Atkins if it actually represented the Atkins diet in any way.
Too many people find it easy to debunk Atkins since everyone assumes it is a no carb diet. It isn't. it is a low "simple carb" diet. Complex carbs are ok too, just in moderation, like anything else. Frankly it is hard to argue that pasta and bread are more healthy than fruit, but most people's diets consist of much more of the former.
Look, I know too many people who have tried lowering their complex carbs and ended up losing weight, becoming more healthy, and even fixing some blood suger problems to take the diet industry's word that it is a scam. Heck it is working for me and I didn't really give up too many of my favorite foods, just cut back on them.
The problem with low-cal, high exercise is that it leaves most people really hungry all the time. Most people do not have the will power to be hungery all the time, let alone exercise during it. Lowering carbs (and hence, suger), while eating as much protine as you want leaves you losing weight while not being hungry all the time.
I've been running a couple miles every other day, and trying to stop eating unhealthy snacks for years. I stopped gaining weight but I also couldn't lose any. Unfortunatly I was also a carb junkie, eating crackers, bread, pasta, etc all the time. Going the atkins route for me started my weight loss AND gave me a ton more energy. Call him a quack all you want, it is working pretty well for me and a lot of other people. It is also MUCH easier to stay on.
In the Atkins diet you don't cut out carbs, you limit them. Ok, there is like the initial two weeks where you try to cut all carbs but then you gradually bring them back. The key is to only eat the good (complex: grains, fruit, etc) and avoid (or severly limit) the bad ones.
Completly cutting out all carbs would be stupid, and I don't know of any diet that encourages that.
I've heard CEI's cable TV service sucks, but the cable modem service is good. This was two years ago though. I don't know, I have Adelphia, and I'm (somewhat) happy with them.
This is playing right into the cable modem provider's hands. They have a more reliable, more widly available, (arguably) faster, and easier to set up service. In State College (PSU's college town) nearly everyone I know has either Adelphia's or CEI's cable modem service, almost nobody has Verizon's DSL. Even those that are lucky enough to now live in servicable areas still went with cable when it was the only thing around, and really have no reason to switch. By the time DSL actually IS an option for most people around here, they will have already gone with cable.
we're swimming in old people(tm). Not that the latter's bad, but retirees don't make for a good economy.
Doesn't make it fun to ride a motorcycle around either. I don't enjoy dodging Buicks that change lanes and pull out with no signal (or a constant one) where the driver cannot see over the dashboard and has zero reaction time.:(
Hey, why not stage a daring command raid on the company headquarters and cap the board of directors? Damn lazy bastards.
Perhaps the reason is that they only want to get on with their lives, and the "extortion" payment they made was easier and more convienent than hiring a lawyer and engaging in a long court battle where they very likely stand to lose more than the extortion payment.
My question is where the hell is the government that is supposed to protect it's citizens from these corporate mobsters?
Great! Where can I get an Open Source version of Diablo II? or even Diablo I?
Nowhere yet. Remember I said "time" was involved. There are open source replacements for warcraft and civII, it's been a while since I tried them but they were pretty playable when I last did. Is anyone going to try to write "freediablo?" Maybe, maybe not. If you want it badly enough why don't YOU start the project. It would be a great (albiet tedious) way to learn programming if you don't also ready. And assuming enough people want the same thing you so it should attract some more developers.
I also said "almost" nothing. Games seem to be an exception lately due to the amount of almost movie like "production" that goes into them. That, and they frankly are not not important in any sense of the word. Most coders do not feel a need to write games when there is actual work to be done:)
x86 *is* the majority of hardware, despite the fervent wishes of the dwindling band of Alpha users or the fanatical Apple-huggers.
Try leaving your little underpowered desktop world for a little bit and look at the rest of the computing world. There are giant Unix servers and Mainframes everywhere. McDonalds is probably the majority of restaurants as well, but that doesn't make it important to the culinary world.
Well, this search returned quite a few hits on some good Redhat configuration tips and a (oudated) Linuxcare certification for a few distributions. It looks like if nothing else, Redhat 7.x is reputed to work well on it. The problem you are describing (something getting messed up after a few weeks of running it) is something I have never seen in Linux on any hardware.
If nothing else, Linux is known for being pretty rock solid stable once it is configured and running. Have you ruled out some kind of hardware problem? I had X locking up on me all the time for a while (windows ran just fine) and it turned out to be a bad memory chip. It was under warranty and after getting a new one it has worked without a problem. You might want to run memtest86 on it and see if that is what is happening to you.
Exactly, which is why it takes forever to develop and so many OSS jobs fails - it doesn't make any money! That is the point of business now, isn't it? Or have we finally switched to a utopian society, because that's what it's going to take for most OSS companies (ex: linux vendors) to profit).
Remember, open source came about and was very successful long before it became a buzz word on wallstreet. Most of us could care less if anyone makes money on OSS, just like before. If the Johnny-come-lately corporations figure out how to make a buck on someone else's work, more power to them. If not, no skin off my back, I'll keep working on OSS and using it. So will, I suspect, many others.
Everyone tries to measure the success of OSS by corporate standards. OSS will live with or without corporate support. Sure the corporations have made it more "legit" in the eyes of some larger companies, and have certainly raisied awareness by bringing the concept into the open. But hey, if they all pack up and leave tomorrow you think OSS will go anywhere? Sure it will be smaller. It will also again be primarily comprised of folks who genuinly care about what they are doing and enjoy it, and well no longer have the wannabe coders and con men just trying to make a quick buck.
Besides, Redhat seems to be doing ok (considering the economy right now). Mandrake filed for Chapter 11 but appearently they are back on the right track and just signed a large deal with HP. IBM is...well IBM. What is changing is every yahoo that thinks they can write a general utility (or internet client, or database, or whatever) and make it rich off of that is getting a rude awakening.
OSS software in many cases is not quite up to par with commercial offerings. However the rate at which OSS software is improving is staggering. The commercial world seems stagnant. I don't see much improvement or innovation coming from there at all. Most just seem to be reinventing existing tech or adding useless eye candy. Microsoft Active Directory? I liked it back in the 90s when it was called DCE and Kerberos..Net? A common runtime library for multiple languages? OS/390 has had that for a good decade as well also. SOAP? gee we haven't seen RPC with discovery features before. And let's face it, there is almost nothing that commercial software can do that a determined OSS coder (or team) with enough free time cannot duplicate. Baring some kind of global ban on the concept of Open Source, I just don't see it going away or losing momentum.
A fairly stable OS that will run on a majority of hardware
I'll give you fairily stable (2000 and XP are pretty good) but majority of hardware? Sure, you can have any processor you want as long as it is x86 (or StrongARM if you want winCE). I can't run Windows on Sparc, s/390, PPC, Alpha (well, NT 4 could), IBM's new 970, etc. Sure it supports the majority of consumer devices, but there is much, MUCH more to the computing world than Mom and Pop's PC. Windows is very small outside of this realm.
I have yet to find a distro of linux that won't mess up on my IBM laptop after about 2 weeks of running or will recognize all of my USB stuff on my desktop properly on install
Which laptop and which distros have you tried? I have run Redhat 7.3 and 9 on my T23 and have never had a problem (including using my USB devices). I might be to help you out or at least point you to some docs if you interested in getting it running.
why am I going to replace the item I bought and paid for last year with a freeware clone this year?
You wouldn't. That is why even if open source software was ready to take over the world tonight, it would still take time.
Many companies don't even see a compelling reason to replace the 1997 version of excel they have with Office XP.
Well, when Microsoft stops providing bug-fixes they might. Or perhaps it will be when the next version of Windows no longer supports Excel 97. Or perhaps they need to deal with external people who send them spreadsheets in MS Office XP format. I have never worked at a place that didn't keep current with software, in fact it is irresponsible to not do so, especially with internet software and operating systems.
It is in Microsoft's best interest to make sure they keep selling you Office over and over again. The primary "weapon" for this is intentional incompatible file formats, but I'm sure Palladium will play a role in forced upgrades as well. That is another advantage with open source software, they keep making new versions, but you don't have to keep paying for them. Unless the project is abandoned but that happens just as often (if not more) in the commercial world.
On the idea of having to catch up, I disagree - you can direct energy at innovation at any point.
Very true, but I would guess matching features with popular commercial apps is higher on the priority list for the developers.
if Linux and GNU stuff perfectly emulated existing commercial (and expensive) software, which do you think would be big?
It would be fiscally irresponsible for ANY company to choose commercial software over open source (free) software IF it emulated the commercial stuff perfectly. The problem of course is that right now, it does not. There are still headaches using OpenOffice in an MS Office world.
What will make people think about switching first is the money they will save. MS Office ain't cheap, neither is Windows. I know of a few Universities planning a mass exodus from Windows servers because of the CALS license issue. The writing is on the wall and we all know that MS will only ever charge more and more for everything they possibly can. Perhaps Palladium is the early stages of a "pay per use" scheme, would you put it past them?
To switch (purely for financial reasons) the replacements have to support everything the existing stuff does. Once this happens, THEN the arms race to see who can really innovate will begin. Right now OSS is still playing catch up.
Damn straight. This just shows the importance of application level security. I don't care if the wlan is secure or not, because I'm using secure IMAP to check mail, HTTPS when necessary, and SSH to log into my servers. Do I want ALL my traffic encrypted (with the overhead slowing it down)? Heck no. I don't care if someone is sniffing my slashdot http requests.
Forget trying to get encryption on all wireless traffic, that is a stupid idea to solve a problem that is better solved elsewhere. The real problem that needs solved is authentication to get on the wlan. Is 802.1x (without wep) the answer? I hope.
If Linux and GNU are going to get big, they have to innovate and write better software, not just emulate what the big guys are doing.
Interesting. So if Linux and GNU stuff perfectly emulated existing commercial (and expensive) software, which do you think would be big?
In many ways open source DOES innovate. Microsoft recently "discovered" Kerberos. IIS has been playing catchup with Apache forever (except in terms of conf wizards). Apple "discovered" BSD (well actually NEXT did, same diff). IE supposedly might finally have pop up ad blocking that the Mozilla has had for a loooong time.
I get your point, but I think you would agree that compatibility with existing popular applications is more important than new innovations. Once Gnumeric and Excel of equal feature-wise, then the race to innovate can begin.
Cisco's VPN is also Penn State's solution to the (limited) rollout of campus VPN. It is working fairly well in my building, now they just need to throw more access points up around campus.
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Ok, this is a stupid idea for all the legal and economic reasons that everyone else is ranting about, but what about a much smaller (in scope) version?
For example, let's say 15 of my closest friends and I each kick in a doller and buy a CD. Could we each exercise our "fair use" rights and rip the mp3s from it? How many owners can a CD legally have? I suppose this is basically the same idea Cringely had, only without the corporation around it.
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If Time Warner or Intel wanted to do this, they could. if this imaginary company wanted to share it's assets with it's shareholders, it also could.
This idea is pretty outlandish, but what it it were toned down. Does a CD have to have only one owner? Could me and 17 of my closest friends each pitch in a doller for a CD, then each rip the mp3s from the CD we collectivly "own"?
I don't know how that would work, interesting thought though.
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I think the joke was regarding how buymusic checks your browser and only lets you in if you are on IE under Windows. Pretty much forcing you to be vulnerable to all kinds of unpatched exploit goodness.
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Actually if you just avoid anything Michael posts, it will be about news again. He is the one posting most of the archliberal stuff, and he tends to post the most innacurate news items to boot. I honestly have no idea why Slashdot keeps him, he is nothing more than an unprofessional joke.
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which is basically LOTS OF MEAT and NO CARBS!
Sort of wrong, and wrong.
Lots of meat? Well certainly it proposes that you eat meat since you are cutting out complex carbs and getting energy from protein. Personally since starting Atkins I don't eat any more meat than I used to, i just eat a ton more veggies. I also eat more fish too I guess but it is hard to argue that fish is unhealthy. For that matter fruits are ok, they have carbs true, but they have simple carbs, which are cool by the atkins diet. You should have them in moderation true, but that is the case with everything in my opinion. I guess in a day I eat more veggies than anything, followed by some form of meat and fruit. I also eat some complex carbs (bread, potatoes, pasta) but I try to really keep that in check. Atkins isn't about no carbs, it is about limited carbs, specifically complex carbs.
A lot of really uninformed rants have been written about how evil Atkins is, but it is not that bad if you actually look at it. It is no magic bullet and probably shouldn't be taken to an extreme, but it obviously works for a lot of people.
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That would be a pretty good debunking of Atkins if it actually represented the Atkins diet in any way.
Too many people find it easy to debunk Atkins since everyone assumes it is a no carb diet. It isn't. it is a low "simple carb" diet. Complex carbs are ok too, just in moderation, like anything else. Frankly it is hard to argue that pasta and bread are more healthy than fruit, but most people's diets consist of much more of the former.
Look, I know too many people who have tried lowering their complex carbs and ended up losing weight, becoming more healthy, and even fixing some blood suger problems to take the diet industry's word that it is a scam. Heck it is working for me and I didn't really give up too many of my favorite foods, just cut back on them.
The problem with low-cal, high exercise is that it leaves most people really hungry all the time. Most people do not have the will power to be hungery all the time, let alone exercise during it. Lowering carbs (and hence, suger), while eating as much protine as you want leaves you losing weight while not being hungry all the time.
I've been running a couple miles every other day, and trying to stop eating unhealthy snacks for years. I stopped gaining weight but I also couldn't lose any. Unfortunatly I was also a carb junkie, eating crackers, bread, pasta, etc all the time. Going the atkins route for me started my weight loss AND gave me a ton more energy. Call him a quack all you want, it is working pretty well for me and a lot of other people. It is also MUCH easier to stay on.
Finkployd
In the Atkins diet you don't cut out carbs, you limit them. Ok, there is like the initial two weeks where you try to cut all carbs but then you gradually bring them back. The key is to only eat the good (complex: grains, fruit, etc) and avoid (or severly limit) the bad ones.
Completly cutting out all carbs would be stupid, and I don't know of any diet that encourages that.
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I've heard CEI's cable TV service sucks, but the cable modem service is good. This was two years ago though.
I don't know, I have Adelphia, and I'm (somewhat) happy with them.
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This is playing right into the cable modem provider's hands. They have a more reliable, more widly available, (arguably) faster, and easier to set up service. In State College (PSU's college town) nearly everyone I know has either Adelphia's or CEI's cable modem service, almost nobody has Verizon's DSL. Even those that are lucky enough to now live in servicable areas still went with cable when it was the only thing around, and really have no reason to switch. By the time DSL actually IS an option for most people around here, they will have already gone with cable.
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we're swimming in old people(tm). Not that the latter's bad, but retirees don't make for a good economy.
:(
Doesn't make it fun to ride a motorcycle around either. I don't enjoy dodging Buicks that change lanes and pull out with no signal (or a constant one) where the driver cannot see over the dashboard and has zero reaction time.
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Hey, why not stage a daring command raid on the company headquarters and cap the board of directors? Damn lazy bastards.
Perhaps the reason is that they only want to get on with their lives, and the "extortion" payment they made was easier and more convienent than hiring a lawyer and engaging in a long court battle where they very likely stand to lose more than the extortion payment.
My question is where the hell is the government that is supposed to protect it's citizens from these corporate mobsters?
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So, even as a liberal, I'm proud to be an American.
:)
I wouldn't spread that around, you might lose your Liberal membership card.
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Children are dying and you are sitting on your ass posting on slashdot??! Honestly what the hell is wrong with you, where are your priorities?
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Great! Where can I get an Open Source version of Diablo II? or even Diablo I?
:)
Nowhere yet. Remember I said "time" was involved. There are open source replacements for warcraft and civII, it's been a while since I tried them but they were pretty playable when I last did. Is anyone going to try to write "freediablo?" Maybe, maybe not. If you want it badly enough why don't YOU start the project. It would be a great (albiet tedious) way to learn programming if you don't also ready. And assuming enough people want the same thing you so it should attract some more developers.
I also said "almost" nothing. Games seem to be an exception lately due to the amount of almost movie like "production" that goes into them. That, and they frankly are not not important in any sense of the word. Most coders do not feel a need to write games when there is actual work to be done
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x86 *is* the majority of hardware, despite the fervent wishes of the dwindling band of Alpha users or the fanatical Apple-huggers.
Try leaving your little underpowered desktop world for a little bit and look at the rest of the computing world. There are giant Unix servers and Mainframes everywhere. McDonalds is probably the majority of restaurants as well, but that doesn't make it important to the culinary world.
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Well, this search returned quite a few hits on some good Redhat configuration tips and a (oudated) Linuxcare certification for a few distributions. It looks like if nothing else, Redhat 7.x is reputed to work well on it. The problem you are describing (something getting messed up after a few weeks of running it) is something I have never seen in Linux on any hardware.
If nothing else, Linux is known for being pretty rock solid stable once it is configured and running. Have you ruled out some kind of hardware problem? I had X locking up on me all the time for a while (windows ran just fine) and it turned out to be a bad memory chip. It was under warranty and after getting a new one it has worked without a problem. You might want to run memtest86 on it and see if that is what is happening to you.
Finkployd
Exactly, which is why it takes forever to develop and so many OSS jobs fails - it doesn't make any money! That is the point of business now, isn't it? Or have we finally switched to a utopian society, because that's what it's going to take for most OSS companies (ex: linux vendors) to profit).
.Net? A common runtime library for multiple languages? OS/390 has had that for a good decade as well also. SOAP? gee we haven't seen RPC with discovery features before. And let's face it, there is almost nothing that commercial software can do that a determined OSS coder (or team) with enough free time cannot duplicate. Baring some kind of global ban on the concept of Open Source, I just don't see it going away or losing momentum.
Remember, open source came about and was very successful long before it became a buzz word on wallstreet. Most of us could care less if anyone makes money on OSS, just like before. If the Johnny-come-lately corporations figure out how to make a buck on someone else's work, more power to them. If not, no skin off my back, I'll keep working on OSS and using it. So will, I suspect, many others.
Everyone tries to measure the success of OSS by corporate standards. OSS will live with or without corporate support. Sure the corporations have made it more "legit" in the eyes of some larger companies, and have certainly raisied awareness by bringing the concept into the open. But hey, if they all pack up and leave tomorrow you think OSS will go anywhere? Sure it will be smaller. It will also again be primarily comprised of folks who genuinly care about what they are doing and enjoy it, and well no longer have the wannabe coders and con men just trying to make a quick buck.
Besides, Redhat seems to be doing ok (considering the economy right now). Mandrake filed for Chapter 11 but appearently they are back on the right track and just signed a large deal with HP. IBM is...well IBM. What is changing is every yahoo that thinks they can write a general utility (or internet client, or database, or whatever) and make it rich off of that is getting a rude awakening.
OSS software in many cases is not quite up to par with commercial offerings. However the rate at which OSS software is improving is staggering. The commercial world seems stagnant. I don't see much improvement or innovation coming from there at all. Most just seem to be reinventing existing tech or adding useless eye candy.
Microsoft Active Directory? I liked it back in the 90s when it was called DCE and Kerberos.
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A fairly stable OS that will run on a majority of hardware
I'll give you fairily stable (2000 and XP are pretty good) but majority of hardware? Sure, you can have any processor you want as long as it is x86 (or StrongARM if you want winCE). I can't run Windows on Sparc, s/390, PPC, Alpha (well, NT 4 could), IBM's new 970, etc. Sure it supports the majority of consumer devices, but there is much, MUCH more to the computing world than Mom and Pop's PC. Windows is very small outside of this realm.
I have yet to find a distro of linux that won't mess up on my IBM laptop after about 2 weeks of running or will recognize all of my USB stuff on my desktop properly on install
Which laptop and which distros have you tried? I have run Redhat 7.3 and 9 on my T23 and have never had a problem (including using my USB devices). I might be to help you out or at least point you to some docs if you interested in getting it running.
Finkployd
why am I going to replace the item I bought and paid for last year with a freeware clone this year?
You wouldn't. That is why even if open source software was ready to take over the world tonight, it would still take time.
Many companies don't even see a compelling reason to replace the 1997 version of excel they have with Office XP.
Well, when Microsoft stops providing bug-fixes they might. Or perhaps it will be when the next version of Windows no longer supports Excel 97. Or perhaps they need to deal with external people who send them spreadsheets in MS Office XP format. I have never worked at a place that didn't keep current with software, in fact it is irresponsible to not do so, especially with internet software and operating systems.
It is in Microsoft's best interest to make sure they keep selling you Office over and over again. The primary "weapon" for this is intentional incompatible file formats, but I'm sure Palladium will play a role in forced upgrades as well. That is another advantage with open source software, they keep making new versions, but you don't have to keep paying for them. Unless the project is abandoned but that happens just as often (if not more) in the commercial world.
On the idea of having to catch up, I disagree - you can direct energy at innovation at any point.
Very true, but I would guess matching features with popular commercial apps is higher on the priority list for the developers.
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Umm, you are not listening.
if Linux and GNU stuff perfectly emulated existing commercial (and expensive) software, which do you think would be big?
It would be fiscally irresponsible for ANY company to choose commercial software over open source (free) software IF it emulated the commercial stuff perfectly. The problem of course is that right now, it does not. There are still headaches using OpenOffice in an MS Office world.
What will make people think about switching first is the money they will save. MS Office ain't cheap, neither is Windows. I know of a few Universities planning a mass exodus from Windows servers because of the CALS license issue. The writing is on the wall and we all know that MS will only ever charge more and more for everything they possibly can. Perhaps Palladium is the early stages of a "pay per use" scheme, would you put it past them?
To switch (purely for financial reasons) the replacements have to support everything the existing stuff does. Once this happens, THEN the arms race to see who can really innovate will begin. Right now OSS is still playing catch up.
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Damn straight. This just shows the importance of application level security. I don't care if the wlan is secure or not, because I'm using secure IMAP to check mail, HTTPS when necessary, and SSH to log into my servers. Do I want ALL my traffic encrypted (with the overhead slowing it down)? Heck no. I don't care if someone is sniffing my slashdot http requests.
Forget trying to get encryption on all wireless traffic, that is a stupid idea to solve a problem that is better solved elsewhere. The real problem that needs solved is authentication to get on the wlan. Is 802.1x (without wep) the answer? I hope.
Finkployd
If Linux and GNU are going to get big, they have to innovate and write better software, not just emulate what the big guys are doing.
Interesting. So if Linux and GNU stuff perfectly emulated existing commercial (and expensive) software, which do you think would be big?
In many ways open source DOES innovate. Microsoft recently "discovered" Kerberos. IIS has been playing catchup with Apache forever (except in terms of conf wizards). Apple "discovered" BSD (well actually NEXT did, same diff). IE supposedly might finally have pop up ad blocking that the Mozilla has had for a loooong time.
I get your point, but I think you would agree that compatibility with existing popular applications is more important than new innovations. Once Gnumeric and Excel of equal feature-wise, then the race to innovate can begin.
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more. what more could you want?
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Cisco's VPN is also Penn State's solution to the (limited) rollout of campus VPN. It is working fairly well in my building, now they just need to throw more access points up around campus.
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Channel 54: The Linux channel! Kernel hacker Alan Cox takes you line-by-line through the Linux source code!
:)
Hot Damn! I would LOVE to see that
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