you are wrong... there are alternatives to the ICANN controlled DNS... check for opennic and opendns... they also have "root servers" (they arent exactly the same, but that is the idea)
ICANN controls the root servers for what you know as normal DNS, but you can have DNS and even use more TLD without even touch a ICANN root server
openoffice code is a mess because i is very old... remember that there was a staroffice in DOS time, the same code was update over and over and over before release to the opensource community... since then many people try to clean it, but its hard and risky to clean a such big app
most projects have a coding style that everyone should follow, and many force you to comply if they want their code to be accepted
the problem is that people will get ipv6 networks from the ISPs, not just IP address like now at very least you would buy a ipv6 address network and you can use it for whatever ISP you choose, no more IP lock like now. in ipv6 the ISP lose some of their major weapons to lock down their users... guess what, they will have to invest in quality instead of just sitting there.
if the problem is the protocols, then connect 4 users, all in 3 NATs, using the same protocol without using a server... NAT is a workaround but breaks things... lot of things, you can apply several hacks in the protocols to try to hide it, but you are just refusing to see were is the problem...
NAT mostly work, but is far from being the answer
forward isnt the solution, you cant forward in NAT the same port to several machines i'm using a big HACK to forward port 443 to both https AND SSH (with sslh for those that dont know), but this is only possible because (luckily) those protocols work in different way on most protocols you couldnt do that with NAT just with one IP
in NAT i'm forced to use forward and other hacks and pray for it to work in ipv6 i can choose to put a network firewall (and simulate a ipv4 NAT like function), but i can open the ports for whatever IPs i want... i can even choose to not install the network firewall and work only with each client firewall to choose what is accept or rejected. where you can do this in ipv4 with just one IP?
The fact that basically nobody has called him about IPv6 support shows that nobody wants it.
you are in the US, right? as i said, the more established the IPv4 is, the less demand for ipv6 exist, but that doesnt mean that isnt needed... people have learned to live with the ipv4 limitations that they cant even imagine doing this differently
as for the costs, most modern hardware is ipv6 capable, so with time the cost will lower more and more Bugs you have then also in ipv4 hardware, QoS, Voip, p2p protocols are ipv4 examples that had or found several hidden bugs
the problem is the fear for the evolution and the inertia to change, when the gain is limited and there is a risk of failure ( lack of knowledge or due the greener state of several solutions)
but again, IPV6 is needed, ipv4 kinda works, but ipv6 is the long term answer.
No, adoption is slower because IT SOLVES NO PROBLEM.
you talk as a ISP, that will have to stop charging money for a few IP address, that will have to replace routers and update all their software (and have to admit that dont know everything and learn about ipv6 )
it solves mostly problems for users, for the ISP its just the routing and the QoS, and as everything already works for then now, they (as you) dont see it solving any problem
i dont care about you or ISPs, i care about what i want to do in the internet, and if ipv4 makes this harder and ipv6 simpler, guess what i will use
for your own use, ipv6 dont solves anything, but you are not everyone and you are limiting your clients by refusing to support it its your job to give what the client want, if you dont do that, you fail in your job
what you have is inertia to change and that is a sign of mentally old age (even if you areas young as 15 years old)
kqemu with -kernel-kqemu is alot faster now, about the same speed as wmware if you dont use the compression nor the encryption the IO and with -kernel-kqemu, the IO is very decent, to me seens even better than wmware
the wrong timings you may need to pass the clock=pit to the guest linux OS, for windows i dont know... you can also change the linux c timing to a different value (the same that windows wants)
vmware is good, but qemu is getting better every day... i'm already using qemu instead of wmvware for running windows on my work workstation (for emergency exchange access and windows domain test)
i understand but he should have asked for ODF support in apps that are disabled friendly instead of pointing that ODF enable apps arent disabled friendly... there is a big difference, on the first he is supporting the new format (that he should as being open, more disabled friendly apps can be build using it), on the last he is indirectly saying that ODF is bad, so people should use it (i understand that this wasnt what he meant to say, but it was that the idea that prevail in the end)
but what i dont understand is HOW ODF isnt disable friendly?! its just a zip, inside there is a file with all the text with little or no formating, its very simple to ANY program to open that "zip", extract the text and screen read it, zoom it, sent it to a braile machine whatever they want... yes, probably there arent many programs now (KDE is probably the best for disabled in linux right now) but there is nothing that slow down the support, quite the oposite... in.doc, the apps have to guess or pay for extracting what they need, must relay on MsWord to build the document, have a close API, etc
between ODF and DOC, ODF is alot simpler to work with!!
all this story is just like saying "lets not build a standard railroad, better keep the several incompatible track sizes because the more used train use that"... it doesnt matter that those trains would in time also be converted to the standard railroad size, nor that only AFTER the railroad is set will start to be build new trains for then... so of course BEFORE there are little trains
again, ODF is set to resolve compatibility problems, not disabled support, that is a application problem
if they want to complain about anything, they should ask for ODF support in Msoffice and in all other apps, they are one of the groups where a standard document format is most helpfull and the faster the.doc is irrelevant, the better for them
Dobelle institute is also in Portugal because its were its located one of the best neurosurgeon in the world, João Lobo Antunes(at least by Dobelle words).
both Dobelle, Lobo Antunes and John Girvin (also one of the best neurosurgeon in the world, again, Dobelle words) were the team that firt made this implante in 1978 in a Irish guy from Brooklyn. Later Lobo Antunes went back to Portugal and John Grivin went to Saudi Arabia, so Dobelle built the Debelle institute in Portugal because he wanted at least one of the best neurosurgeon allways near and Portugal was also close to USA than Saudi Arabia... and of course, ALOT cheaper too than USA and Saudi Arabia 8)
All of the surgical implants were performed at the CUF Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal by Joao Lobo Antunes, MD, who is chairman of the Neurosurgery Department at the University of Lisbon, along with John T. Girvin, MD, who is chief of neurosurgery at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Both Antunes and Girvin have worked on the project with Dobelle for more than 25 years.
so isnt just "legal" issues, there were also at least some technical factors for this happening in Portugal and not in USA or in any other country
..and Gnome and udev and millions of others I don't have time to list.
slackware dont even have gnome include right now, so how can be outdated?
i'm runnig the latest udev, but as slack wants to support 2.4 kernel, cant use the latest, because new udev cant work with kernels below 2.6.15
Which one? 2.6.0? Are you sure you want to compile from scratch? Wouldn't you like to leave it to someone more knowledgable, like your slackware masters? It will be more user friendly that way.
i'm runnig the 2.6.15.4...no problem whatsoever compiling... and anyone with a pair of eyes, capable of reading english and with a little of brain can compile the kernel... but wait... you want pre-compiled binaries? check this url:
kernels/*.?/*: Recompiled 2.4.32 kernels with gcc-3.4.6, upgraded
test26.s kernel to 2.6.15.6.
for someone pointing to gentoo, not wanting to compile the kernel in slackware is...err.. something very stupid and idiot
Given the glacial Slackware release process (isn't it one guy?)
what, 2 release a per year aren enough for you? how many gentoo releases? gentoo have more updated packages? great, i prefer stability and cpu time for my apps, not for compiling
and yes, its oficially one guy only, but he have many people that helps him, just check the changelog... even gentoo people that also run slackware at least the slackware original founder still works in its distro and never worked for MS (if you know what i mean 8)
I would think you would have learned more patience.
what a troll... you complain that slackware is outdated, now you ask us for patience for gentoo not being so updated as it should... decide your self please...
probably in december, as the 10.3 is almost ready to be released and there are usually about 6-10 months between releases... but remember:
- slackware is release when its ready, not sooner, not later. - you can already use 2.6, there are 2.6 kernel binaries in the CD, and you can always compile your own kernel
ok, first would be a shock, then you understand that you can still use your existent windows licences, only no new windows...
Big multinacional could still use windows aqquired in other countries, but this would open a pandora box for MS...
so all companies would start to search for alternatives, many companies, including IBM, sun, SGI, novel, APPLE and many linux based companies would popup with soluctions...
in a year things would be alot different, as many (MS based) companies would have for sure trouble, alot more would born migrating, porting apps and systems to new soluctions
with time, all old windows would be removed, but that could still take many years, remember that windows 9x and even DOS are still use in many companies
also, with MS out of europe, piracy of windows would look just fine to the eyes of many companies, at least for a couple more years...
Deny tech support to companies/users in Europe.
that would be harder for EU companies, most dont use the support, but several big ones depend on it, specially if MS blocker updates from europe (dont belive in it, that would kill any chance of regain the market back)
but then, there are already several companies giving suporte for MS products, and EUA and asian (and extra-EU) would work as a bridge for support... again, more market opportunity
Buy advertising stating why they're pulling out of the market.
that would give a first impact of putting many people against the EU comission, but if the comission replied well (and for sure would do it), they would turn the table and saying that a US company is blackmailing europe, that EU companies must not be hostage from a company that is ignoring all its users and creating all sort of problems... and then say that they would create a fund to help new companies to solve the MS (or lack off) problem and open the doors for india and other countries tech guys to help solve the problem...
advertising would create many enemies for MS in the EU administration and make very hard for a good come back
MS could do it, but in the end they would lose more, if then open the pandora box, they will create a valid alternative to other OS and applicactions, the biggest winners would be apple and linux, and FS/OSS apps... this would make EU a birthplace of many new tecnological soluctions
after breaking the monopoly, MS would have a hard time to control the rest of the world (it already having trouble)
under attack from FS/OSS, linux, google, EU, brazil, australia, IBM, novell and inside USA, even MS could break apart and fall to only a few apps and soluctions
i can say that my system working at 64bits is ALOT faster in some cpu intensive runs than in 32bits... i cracked some passwords, performed openssl tests, compiled things and tar+gzip large files and in all the 64bits won
cracking passwords with john gave more than triple the speed from 32bits
as for running my desktop setup, i cant tell a huge diference, but i also use slackware (slamd64 in 64bits), that is fast, fluxbox, no desktop environment, so i dont have much that isnt waiting more time for my input
that benchmark is probably bogus, its testing more the weak GCC support on nom-(x86|x86_64) systems
i reacall some years ago where openssl in amd64 and ppc was slower than in 32bits, due big optimizations on the last, and lack of then in the former... after some months, with the latest gcc, the difference was huge
64bit eats more memory and hd, but have no reason to be slower than 32bit, taking out only the cache bounded tests, where the bigger size of the 64bits may hit a little the performance
also, some cpu intensive programs take alot of advantage, but most of then is just a small increase (5-10% IIRC)
well, in portuguese its 2005/12/11 is "onze de dezembro de 2005", and i think all latin languages use this format... so i think its better for you to speak a better language;)
No offence but i think that this US format is plain stupid... really...
Is that 12 of january or 1 of december? its a format that have several possible intepretations and without any logic (middle time scale/low/high !?!)
I can understand very well the 2005/12/01 and the 01/12/2005 (i prefer the first, specially in computers, but last is better for reading on paper) but the mixed US format is wierd and dangerous...
Most of the time looks like you must guess the correct date.
then why not use a more friendly format? like tar.gz, tar.bz (tgz, tbz)?
nvidia a many other also make universal packages, that are simple.run shell scripts with tar.gz inside
with the right fields, they could also list the dependencies and all things needed for rpm, deb, tgz, stp, etc packages build with alien
no, the rpm isnt a good universal package, it requires too much and its too much tied to rh and other rpm based distros
by posting a rpm, a company isnt stating that the package is for rh and friends, not that is for all distros. as oposite, a neutral.LPKG would say that it should work fine in all LSB distros, without favoring any one
the universal package should be distro independnt, simple and easy to use without requiring the distros to change how they work
but there are more, at least around here (portugal/europe) http://voip.necty.com/ its also testing a voip to phone and it use kaix as its oficial client (so both windows and linux works fine)
simple, how many years have passed when the kernel people couldnt add any encryptation support to the system? it wasnt a patent but show what could happend... still now very little people work in the encriptation support in the kernel because that area was evolved little, specially in the USA (there was a little encripted kernel version in europe but few people even knew it)
but "linux" isnt just the kernel, lets go to other projects...
mplayer... its legal in the US? font anti-aliases and hints in X? ssh and gpg had a legal axe over their heads for years... the gif compression problem, luckly they didnt manage to really sue anyone, imagine if it was MS!!
just check the debian nom-us repository and you will see that many of then are there because of patents and worst, many projects died because patents dangers would be too high
whats wrong in having just a few lines that everyone agrees... and then extend it and correct it with time? isnt like that in the USA?
-everyone is equal. -you are inocent until provem guilty -union laws will supercede national laws -no new laws will apply to things older than its aproval -no more veto power for many things, still veto power for others (things like war, new members, etc -etc, etc
this kind of things is what should exist in a constintution, not too specific things...
yes, some will be also a little compromise, but with so many diferent ideas, we need to have a solid commom base to start talking in some new compromise on hot issues (taxes, foreign politcs, agricuture and fishes control, etc,etc)
again, compromises are needed, but people have to understand then and need something that guarantees that their opinion is important (ie: a more open to the public EU than the actual "hidden agenda" and "too important" EU organization)
nothing will ever make 100% happy everyone, but right now, only 1% of the people really know something usefull about the EU and the constitution and how to fight for their rights, so how the hell can they have any opinion
1- there are several reasons for the french vote, and they go from distrust in their president to nacionalistic issues but one of the worst thing about the constitution is that no one understand it, no one can explain it, its everything but clear and simple, and this, specially in hard/hot times isnt the best way to go...
people right now already thing that the EU administrative organization too complicated, too independent, unmonitored, uncontroled, lobby infected, unrepresentative of what people think and with all this, also powerfull
this constituion would give even more powers to then, although it gives more powers to the EU parlament, this body still feels too distant from the ordinary people
people want a clear, transparent, open EU, not something that happends without even listen our opinion
its not just the french that are unhappy, lot of countries and people are, they were the first to public show it.
i'm not french, i'm portuguese, and i was a pro-europe guy... now i'm divided, i still want it, but i dont like how is being ruled and organized, it doesnt seen like a democracy, more a a "concilium" of powerfull politics and powerfull lobies
2 - voting no to the constitution doesnt mean that they want to abandon europe... yes, nacionalistic partys want you to think that, but that isnt true almost all people know that europe can only survive united, even if things look bad, none (except maybe the UK, but many of then still think they have some kind of empire ) want to exit the europe
3 - It was a compromise
this was why it was so obscure and useless... it tried to be all, do all...
what people want is a democraty and SIMPLE, EASY to understand EU politic organization and interact with it
i blame both the EU politics, but also each country governement and leaders, that were more interested in defending their diferent values instead of finding the common ones
people want first a simples constitution that everyone can agree (not something that everyone have doubt in some place) it must be simple and should not mess with the politic organization (at least, not yet, it will be the base for it, and this shouldnt be inside the constitution)
the constitution should be something that unites the people, not divides then, and it will the rock where all EU will be build, so its better that people understand it, not ignores it
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did you report this to mozilla bugzilla? if not, please do so ASAP
you are wrong... there are alternatives to the ICANN controlled DNS... check for opennic and opendns... they also have "root servers" (they arent exactly the same, but that is the idea)
ICANN controls the root servers for what you know as normal DNS, but you can have DNS and even use more TLD without even touch a ICANN root server
openoffice code is a mess because i is very old... remember that there was a staroffice in DOS time, the same code was update over and over and over before release to the opensource community...
since then many people try to clean it, but its hard and risky to clean a such big app
most projects have a coding style that everyone should follow, and many force you to comply if they want their code to be accepted
the problem is that people will get ipv6 networks from the ISPs, not just IP address like now
at very least you would buy a ipv6 address network and you can use it for whatever ISP you choose, no more IP lock like now.
in ipv6 the ISP lose some of their major weapons to lock down their users... guess what, they will have to invest in quality instead of just sitting there.
if the problem is the protocols, then connect 4 users, all in 3 NATs, using the same protocol without using a server...
NAT is a workaround but breaks things... lot of things, you can apply several hacks in the protocols to try to hide it, but you are just refusing to see were is the problem...
NAT mostly work, but is far from being the answer
forward isnt the solution, you cant forward in NAT the same port to several machines
i'm using a big HACK to forward port 443 to both https AND SSH (with sslh for those that dont know), but this is only possible because (luckily) those protocols work in different way
on most protocols you couldnt do that with NAT just with one IP
in NAT i'm forced to use forward and other hacks and pray for it to work
in ipv6 i can choose to put a network firewall (and simulate a ipv4 NAT like function), but i can open the ports for whatever IPs i want... i can even choose to not install the network firewall and work only with each client firewall to choose what is accept or rejected. where you can do this in ipv4 with just one IP?
The fact that basically nobody has called him about IPv6 support shows that nobody wants it.
you are in the US, right?
as i said, the more established the IPv4 is, the less demand for ipv6 exist, but that doesnt mean that isnt needed... people have learned to live with the ipv4 limitations that they cant even imagine doing this differently
as for the costs, most modern hardware is ipv6 capable, so with time the cost will lower more and more
Bugs you have then also in ipv4 hardware, QoS, Voip, p2p protocols are ipv4 examples that had or found several hidden bugs
the problem is the fear for the evolution and the inertia to change, when the gain is limited and there is a risk of failure ( lack of knowledge or due the greener state of several solutions)
but again, IPV6 is needed, ipv4 kinda works, but ipv6 is the long term answer.
No, adoption is slower because IT SOLVES NO PROBLEM.
you talk as a ISP, that will have to stop charging money for a few IP address, that will have to replace routers and update all their software (and have to admit that dont know everything and learn about ipv6 )
it solves mostly problems for users, for the ISP its just the routing and the QoS, and as everything already works for then now, they (as you) dont see it solving any problem
i dont care about you or ISPs, i care about what i want to do in the internet, and if ipv4 makes this harder and ipv6 simpler, guess what i will use
for your own use, ipv6 dont solves anything, but you are not everyone and you are limiting your clients by refusing to support it
its your job to give what the client want, if you dont do that, you fail in your job
what you have is inertia to change and that is a sign of mentally old age (even if you areas young as 15 years old)
... strange, the burglar entered the house by the door and forced the windows with a crow bar to exited the house... on the 14 floor?!?
note to you: check where is possible to enter and if is the right direction!!
you havent test the cvs/latest qemu+kqemu, right?
kqemu with -kernel-kqemu is alot faster now, about the same speed as wmware
if you dont use the compression nor the encryption the IO and with -kernel-kqemu, the IO is very decent, to me seens even better than wmware
the wrong timings you may need to pass the clock=pit to the guest linux OS, for windows i dont know... you can also change the linux c timing to a different value (the same that windows wants)
vmware is good, but qemu is getting better every day... i'm already using qemu instead of wmvware for running windows on my work workstation (for emergency exchange access and windows domain test)
you already can add *.domain
check http://www.crossedconnections.org/w/?p=89
i understand but he should have asked for ODF support in apps that are disabled friendly instead of pointing that ODF enable apps arent disabled friendly... there is a big difference, on the first he is supporting the new format (that he should as being open, more disabled friendly apps can be build using it), on the last he is indirectly saying that ODF is bad, so people should use it (i understand that this wasnt what he meant to say, but it was that the idea that prevail in the end)
but what i dont understand is HOW ODF isnt disable friendly?! its just a zip, inside there is a file with all the text with little or no formating, its very simple to ANY program to open that "zip", extract the text and screen read it, zoom it, sent it to a braile machine whatever they want... yes, probably there arent many programs now (KDE is probably the best for disabled in linux right now) but there is nothing that slow down the support, quite the oposite... in .doc, the apps have to guess or pay for extracting what they need, must relay on MsWord to build the document, have a close API, etc
.doc is irrelevant, the better for them
between ODF and DOC, ODF is alot simpler to work with!!
all this story is just like saying "lets not build a standard railroad, better keep the several incompatible track sizes because the more used train use that"... it doesnt matter that those trains would in time also be converted to the standard railroad size, nor that only AFTER the railroad is set will start to be build new trains for then... so of course BEFORE there are little trains
again, ODF is set to resolve compatibility problems, not disabled support, that is a application problem
if they want to complain about anything, they should ask for ODF support in Msoffice and in all other apps, they are one of the groups where a standard document format is most helpfull and the faster the
Dobelle institute is also in Portugal because its were its located one of the best neurosurgeon in the world, João Lobo Antunes(at least by Dobelle words).
= 366:
both Dobelle, Lobo Antunes and John Girvin (also one of the best neurosurgeon in the world, again, Dobelle words) were the team that firt made this implante in 1978 in a Irish guy from Brooklyn. Later Lobo Antunes went back to Portugal and John Grivin went to Saudi Arabia, so Dobelle built the Debelle institute in Portugal because he wanted at least one of the best neurosurgeon allways near and Portugal was also close to USA than Saudi Arabia... and of course, ALOT cheaper too than USA and Saudi Arabia 8)
from http://geoffandwen.com/Blind/newsarticle.asp?u_id
All of the surgical implants were performed at the CUF Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal by Joao Lobo Antunes, MD, who is chairman of the Neurosurgery Department at the University of Lisbon, along with John T. Girvin, MD, who is chief of neurosurgery at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Both Antunes and Girvin have worked on the project with Dobelle for more than 25 years.
so isnt just "legal" issues, there were also at least some technical factors for this happening in Portugal and not in USA or in any other country
..and Gnome and udev and millions of others I don't have time to list.
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...err.. something very stupid and idiot
slackware dont even have gnome include right now, so how can be outdated?
i'm runnig the latest udev, but as slack wants to support 2.4 kernel, cant use the latest, because new udev cant work with kernels below 2.6.15
Which one? 2.6.0? Are you sure you want to compile from scratch? Wouldn't you like to leave it to someone more knowledgable, like your slackware masters? It will be more user friendly that way.
i'm runnig the 2.6.15.4...no problem whatsoever compiling... and anyone with a pair of eyes, capable of reading english and with a little of brain can compile the kernel...
but wait... you want pre-compiled binaries? check this url:
http://slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=i3
search for 2.6 and you will find this:
kernels/*.?/*: Recompiled 2.4.32 kernels with gcc-3.4.6, upgraded
test26.s kernel to 2.6.15.6.
for someone pointing to gentoo, not wanting to compile the kernel in slackware is
Given the glacial Slackware release process (isn't it one guy?)
what, 2 release a per year aren enough for you? how many gentoo releases?
gentoo have more updated packages? great, i prefer stability and cpu time for my apps, not for compiling
and yes, its oficially one guy only, but he have many people that helps him, just check the changelog... even gentoo people that also run slackware
at least the slackware original founder still works in its distro and never worked for MS (if you know what i mean 8)
I would think you would have learned more patience.
what a troll... you complain that slackware is outdated, now you ask us for patience for gentoo not being so updated as it should... decide your self please...
probably in december, as the 10.3 is almost ready to be released and there are usually about 6-10 months between releases... but remember:
- slackware is release when its ready, not sooner, not later.
- you can already use 2.6, there are 2.6 kernel binaries in the CD, and you can always compile your own kernel
Stop selling products in Europe.
ok, first would be a shock, then you understand that you can still use your existent windows licences, only no new windows...
Big multinacional could still use windows aqquired in other countries, but this would open a pandora box for MS...
so all companies would start to search for alternatives, many companies, including IBM, sun, SGI, novel, APPLE and many linux based companies would popup with soluctions...
in a year things would be alot different, as many (MS based) companies would have for sure trouble, alot more would born migrating, porting apps and systems to new soluctions
with time, all old windows would be removed, but that could still take many years, remember that windows 9x and even DOS are still use in many companies
also, with MS out of europe, piracy of windows would look just fine to the eyes of many companies, at least for a couple more years...
Deny tech support to companies/users in Europe.
that would be harder for EU companies, most dont use the support, but several big ones depend on it, specially if MS blocker updates from europe (dont belive in it, that would kill any chance of regain the market back)
but then, there are already several companies giving suporte for MS products, and EUA and asian (and extra-EU) would work as a bridge for support... again, more market opportunity
Buy advertising stating why they're pulling out of the market.
that would give a first impact of putting many people against the EU comission, but if the comission replied well (and for sure would do it), they would turn the table and saying that a US company is blackmailing europe, that EU companies must not be hostage from a company that is ignoring all its users and creating all sort of problems... and then say that they would create a fund to help new companies to solve the MS (or lack off) problem and open the doors for india and other countries tech guys to help solve the problem...
advertising would create many enemies for MS in the EU administration and make very hard for a good come back
MS could do it, but in the end they would lose more, if then open the pandora box, they will create a valid alternative to other OS and applicactions, the biggest winners would be apple and linux, and FS/OSS apps... this would make EU a birthplace of many new tecnological soluctions
after breaking the monopoly, MS would have a hard time to control the rest of the world (it already having trouble)
under attack from FS/OSS, linux, google, EU, brazil, australia, IBM, novell and inside USA, even MS could break apart and fall to only a few apps and soluctions
i woulnd mind that MS would leave europe...
i can say that my system working at 64bits is ALOT faster in some cpu intensive runs than in 32bits...
i cracked some passwords, performed openssl tests, compiled things and tar+gzip large files and in all the 64bits won
cracking passwords with john gave more than triple the speed from 32bits
as for running my desktop setup, i cant tell a huge diference, but i also use slackware (slamd64 in 64bits), that is fast, fluxbox, no desktop environment, so i dont have much that isnt waiting more time for my input
that benchmark is probably bogus, its testing more the weak GCC support on nom-(x86|x86_64) systems
i reacall some years ago where openssl in amd64 and ppc was slower than in 32bits, due big optimizations on the last, and lack of then in the former... after some months, with the latest gcc, the difference was huge
64bit eats more memory and hd, but have no reason to be slower than 32bit, taking out only the cache bounded tests, where the bigger size of the 64bits may hit a little the performance
also, some cpu intensive programs take alot of advantage, but most of then is just a small increase (5-10% IIRC)
well, in portuguese its 2005/12/11 is "onze de dezembro de 2005", and i think all latin languages use this format... so i think its better for you to speak a better language ;)
please post this in the OO mailling list and feature request/bug track...
even if some guys know about this, most people didnt, if its documented, at least new developers cam read it and change work on it
12/01/2005
No offence but i think that this US format is plain stupid... really...
Is that 12 of january or 1 of december? its a format that have several possible intepretations and without any logic (middle time scale/low/high !?!)
I can understand very well the 2005/12/01 and the 01/12/2005 (i prefer the first, specially in computers, but last is better for reading on paper) but the mixed US format is wierd and dangerous...
Most of the time looks like you must guess the correct date.
so why dont the US kill this stupid format?
in one word:
RSYNC
in several words:
i'm still waiting for a better backup too..., fast, flexible, multiplatform, incremental, network capable, etc
the only problem is when isnt on the HD yet (ie: windows), but is solved by a copy in the network
yep, windows worked in the alpha before they kill it...
now you have also amd64 and itanium (if it really works)
then why not use a more friendly format? like tar.gz, tar.bz (tgz, tbz)?
.run shell scripts with tar.gz inside
.LPKG would say that it should work fine in all LSB distros, without favoring any one
nvidia a many other also make universal packages, that are simple
with the right fields, they could also list the dependencies and all things needed for rpm, deb, tgz, stp, etc packages build with alien
no, the rpm isnt a good universal package, it requires too much and its too much tied to rh and other rpm based distros
by posting a rpm, a company isnt stating that the package is for rh and friends, not that is for all distros. as oposite, a neutral
the universal package should be distro independnt, simple and easy to use without requiring the distros to change how they work
skype isnt the only one, at least one more major program can do it also:
voipbuster also allow net2phone connections (and even free for some european countries!!)
there is also a manual to work with linux
but there are more, at least around here (portugal/europe) http://voip.necty.com/ its also testing a voip to phone and it use kaix as its oficial client (so both windows and linux works fine)
simple, how many years have passed when the kernel people couldnt add any encryptation support to the system? it wasnt a patent but show what could happend... still now very little people work in the encriptation support in the kernel because that area was evolved little, specially in the USA (there was a little encripted kernel version in europe but few people even knew it)
but "linux" isnt just the kernel, lets go to other projects...
mplayer... its legal in the US?
font anti-aliases and hints in X?
ssh and gpg had a legal axe over their heads for years...
the gif compression problem, luckly they didnt manage to really sue anyone, imagine if it was MS!!
just check the debian nom-us repository and you will see that many of then are there because of patents
and worst, many projects died because patents dangers would be too high
whats wrong in having just a few lines that everyone agrees... and then extend it and correct it with time? isnt like that in the USA?
-everyone is equal.
-you are inocent until provem guilty
-union laws will supercede national laws
-no new laws will apply to things older than its aproval
-no more veto power for many things, still veto power for others (things like war, new members, etc
-etc, etc
this kind of things is what should exist in a constintution, not too specific things...
yes, some will be also a little compromise, but with so many diferent ideas, we need to have a solid commom base to start talking in some new compromise on hot issues (taxes, foreign politcs, agricuture and fishes control, etc,etc)
again, compromises are needed, but people have to understand then and need something that guarantees that their opinion is important (ie: a more open to the public EU than the actual "hidden agenda" and "too important" EU organization)
nothing will ever make 100% happy everyone, but right now, only 1% of the people really know something usefull about the EU and the constitution and how to fight for their rights, so how the hell can they have any opinion
1- there are several reasons for the french vote, and they go from distrust in their president to nacionalistic issues
but one of the worst thing about the constitution is that no one understand it, no one can explain it, its everything but clear and simple, and this, specially in hard/hot times isnt the best way to go...
people right now already thing that the EU administrative organization too complicated, too independent, unmonitored, uncontroled, lobby infected, unrepresentative of what people think and with all this, also powerfull
this constituion would give even more powers to then, although it gives more powers to the EU parlament, this body still feels too distant from the ordinary people
people want a clear, transparent, open EU, not something that happends without even listen our opinion
its not just the french that are unhappy, lot of countries and people are, they were the first to public show it.
i'm not french, i'm portuguese, and i was a pro-europe guy... now i'm divided, i still want it, but i dont like how is being ruled and organized, it doesnt seen like a democracy, more a a "concilium" of powerfull politics and powerfull lobies
2 - voting no to the constitution doesnt mean that they want to abandon europe... yes, nacionalistic partys want you to think that, but that isnt true
almost all people know that europe can only survive united, even if things look bad, none (except maybe the UK, but many of then still think they have some kind of empire ) want to exit the europe
3 - It was a compromise
this was why it was so obscure and useless... it tried to be all, do all...
what people want is a democraty and SIMPLE, EASY to understand EU politic organization and interact with it
i blame both the EU politics, but also each country governement and leaders, that were more interested in defending their diferent values instead of finding the common ones
people want first a simples constitution that everyone can agree (not something that everyone have doubt in some place)
it must be simple and should not mess with the politic organization (at least, not yet, it will be the base for it, and this shouldnt be inside the constitution)
the constitution should be something that unites the people, not divides then, and it will the rock where all EU will be build, so its better that people understand it, not ignores it