In Fedora 15, the big WTF was switching to a desktop environment that does not work well or consistently with remote viewing, which is a big issue for server use.
Really? I'm not in the habit of having any sort of GUI on Linux servers. When I encounter a GUI on a server I inherit, I judge the previous maintainer to be sloppy.
Perhaps it's a generational thing, perhaps I'm missing something. More than superfluous, I view GUIs as a waste of resource.
Thank you for expressing your 'doubt,' demonstrating exactly the point I wished to make, concerning insularity. You really do have no idea.
Pakistan is a Commonwealth country. It enjoys significant historical, social, political, economic, cultural, academic and sporting ties with other Commonwealth countries. Further, there are numerous expat Pakistani communities throughout the Commonwealth. As such, there is a great deal of familiarity with Pakistan in our societies.
Because they're people we know, not just "A-rabs that should be 'nuked into a great big Middle East glass parking lot." And, more to the point, Khan is not just some random Muslim that your society is quite happy to intern in a concentration camp in occupied Cuba, to us.
Here's an example: I've never met Imran, but a member of my immediate family has. I've never met Pervez Musharraf either but we did exchange a "hello" to one another when our gazes happened to meet in an Auckland hotel lobby. He was there to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. I was heading to the bar, wearing a tshirt, shorts and jandals.
You might like to put this to the test. Here's how: find the nearest Japie/Convict/Kiwi/Pom in your vicinty and say this:
"Imran..?" "Waqar..?" "Wasim..?" "Benazir..?"
You'll get back "Khan, Younis, Akram, Bhuto." Betcha.
Now try that on one of your compatriots. You're likely to get a visit from Fatherland Security.
As some of the above posters have noted, Imran Khan was a cricketer. A very good one.
Good enough to be a household name around the cricket-playing world. Australia, the U.K., South Africa, New Zealand, the West Indies, most of the sub-continent. Around two billion people I'd guess.
While to the American public he's just another 'sand nigger' or 'towel head' or whatever other pejorative is in vogue, to much of the rest of the English-speaking world he is a well-known and widely-respected personality.
We know this guy. He's more one of us than you lot are.
I went with Carman for Nokia's Maemo platform and a generic Bluetooth scantool. The advantage of this setup is that the Nokia webpad serves as an in-car media player, GPS unit and car computer, providing me with real-time diagnostics, positioning and entertainment.
For fault diagnostics, I gave up in the end. At least for my car, (an Audi S8) it seems there are error codes that are manufacturer specific. Without a translation table, the error codes aren't particularly useful and I couldn't find any software package that included them or, indeed, just the Audi S8 code table. Happy to be proved wrong here if someone else knows better than I do..
So by pushing other people to make releases we can go on our mission to make sure the web stays healthy.
This reminds me of a comment from Brian Behlendorf concerning the design of the Apache License to allow for modifications of the code for commercial release without accompanying source code, in contrast to the GPL. Behlendorf said that this was deliberate because the Apache Foundation believed that supporting the web protocols was more important than the keeping contributions to the Apache code open source.
Interesting to see this sentiment echoed from the client side a decade later.
I too, am tired of these Microsoft patents X headlines.
I'm also tired of the pointless indignation that such articles cause.
It's time to actually do something about it. These bastards know they can get away with their malevolence because the rest of us, calm as Hindu cows, let them.
It's time to burn these fuckers out. Literally, burn these fuckers out.
I am not very familiar with US legislation but here in Yurop courts can't create laws, they can decide only based on existing laws. So if the legislation (in this case: the European Comitee and the European Parliament, and later the national parliaments) don't create those laws, how could they decide anything?
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the manner in which the legal system evolves. The judicial system does in fact, create law. You should familiarise yourself with the concept of "case law" in contrast to "legislation."
Given that 'Straya, the Deputy Sheriff shares so many cultural, social and political similarities with the U.S., it's simply not a surprise to those of us in the region that they're implementing similar domestic policies.
The most surprising aspect is the sheer admiration that the 'Strayan people hold for the U.S. and their collective willingness to become a subservient client state to U.S. interests.
They truly are the Americans of the South Pacific and not just in terms of public policy. The 'Strayan people are almost indistinguisable from their American counterparts in terms of attitude and behaviour.
As for our government, it's ironic that we sacrifice our troops for democracy
It never ceases to amaze me that the American people are deluded enough to believe that their government actually contributes to freedom and democracy worldwide. You sacrifice your troops for democracy like the Germans liberated the Sudentenland.
Up until Solaris 10, the first stop when commissioning a new sun box was always Sun Freeware. Sun Freeware has a collection of popular binaries in Sun's package format, things like SSH, SSL, BASH, gcc, top, gzip, etc.
Many of these utilities are covered by the GPL and Sun didn't ship them, yet most admins consider them to be vital or at least very useful. Around Solaris 10 however, Sun got with the programme and included GNU stuff with their distribution media.
So to answer your question, GNU/Solaris (meaning "a Sun system running a whole bunch of GNU stuff") has been extremely common for a long time.
The world's foremost rouge state had a setback in their programme to militarise space, the aim of which is to establish another avenue to exert their tyranny over the rest of the planet. The spectacular failure in this instance is an international success, not an international disaster.
Consumers will rebel hard against movie studios trying to force them into HD-DVD and Blu-ray..
I admire your idealistic appraisal of consumers, I wish that I shared your optimism. Sadly the evidence provided by the massive success of crap products that are pervasively marketed (such as Microsoft software) leads me to a more pessimistic view;
The sheeple out in consumer land will purchase whatever the marketers tell them to purchase.
I'd never heard of Greg Egan until now. As your taste includes the sensational Ken MacLeod, I'll definitely make a point of reading Egan's stuff.
MacLeod's early work, The Fall Revolution is simply the best Sci Fi I've ever read. Near future (at least in the beginning) dystopian sci-fi that extrapolates current social, technological and geo-political trends in an incisive manner. Want Unix shell commands in the fiction you read? Dreading the breakdown of the social fabric due to the inevitable result of rampant capitalism? Ready to take up arms to resist American hegemony? MacLeod is the author for you.
Have you noticed how major corporations like Sun, IBM and Novell contribute to F/OSS projects, because it's in their commercial interests to do so?
Is it too much to ask that Apple, after taking so much from the F/OSS community, contributes something back? Apple is a parasite on the F/OSS community and Apple users are in no position to make demands until they and their vendor are contributing along with the rest of us.
Right now Apple is amongst the worst of F/OSS pariahs, in the same category as GPL violators. Contribute or fuck off.
I don't care if it is Ubuntu, or Suze, or Red Hat, or whatever. Just have one damn version and make the damn thing work for the latest technology, make it fast, and make it easy to understand for even the dumbest american.
George Bush won't shift until the golf video game he plays is ported. Could we go with the second dumbest?
Is he seriously suggesting that 10 years ago no one had ever heard of a buffer overrun?
You're right, his suggestion that everyone else was as disinterested in security as Micro-Soft is ridiculous. However, he is correct that ten years ago we weren't generally concerned with buffer overruns.
My memory of it is that Aleph One, who used to administer BugTraq, introduced us to the concept in
this paper from 1996.
Redhat lost a fair amount of goodwill from the community with that decision and that announcement, as long term paying (and non-paying) customers were left high and dry without an upgrade path and with the clock ticking on support.
From the commercial perspective it was also a miscalcuation on Redhat's part. Leaving the desktop Linux space left the field open for their competitors, Novell's Suse notably benefitted, as did other commercial distributions that ex-Redhat users migrated to.
Redhat's realisation of their mistake is the reason the Fedora project exists. That they were quite willing to drop their long term customer and community base when they thought we were no longer an asset should be noted by those chosing to use their products.
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The word is arse. In New Zealand we speak proper English, no true Kiwi uses zionAmerican pidgin.
Fuck off, fraud.
The astronauts took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre
Chinese space travelers are Taikonauts, much as Russian space travelers are Cosmonauts.
Don't use the term "Israeli" when you mean "Zionist."
There is no "Israel" and using the term bestows an illegitimate legitimacy to the Zionist entity occupying Palestine.
Telstra was only ever a minor player in the NZ telecommunications market.
And last year, they sold the entirety of their operation to Vodafone New Zealand.
In Fedora 15, the big WTF was switching to a desktop environment that does not work well or consistently with remote viewing, which is a big issue for server use.
Really? I'm not in the habit of having any sort of GUI on Linux servers. When I encounter a GUI on a server I inherit, I judge the previous maintainer to be sloppy.
Perhaps it's a generational thing, perhaps I'm missing something. More than superfluous, I view GUIs as a waste of resource.
Perhaps it's
Thank you for expressing your 'doubt,' demonstrating exactly the point I wished to make, concerning insularity. You really do have no idea.
Pakistan is a Commonwealth country. It enjoys significant historical, social, political, economic, cultural, academic and sporting ties with other Commonwealth countries. Further, there are numerous expat Pakistani communities throughout the Commonwealth. As such, there is a great deal of familiarity with Pakistan in our societies.
Because they're people we know, not just "A-rabs that should be 'nuked into a great big Middle East glass parking lot." And, more to the point, Khan is not just some random Muslim that your society is quite happy to intern in a concentration camp in occupied Cuba, to us.
Here's an example: I've never met Imran, but a member of my immediate family has. I've never met Pervez Musharraf either but we did exchange a "hello" to one another when our gazes happened to meet in an Auckland hotel lobby. He was there to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. I was heading to the bar, wearing a tshirt, shorts and jandals.
You might like to put this to the test. Here's how: find the nearest Japie/Convict/Kiwi/Pom in your vicinty and say this:
"Imran ..?" ..?" ..?" ..?"
"Waqar
"Wasim
"Benazir
You'll get back "Khan, Younis, Akram, Bhuto." Betcha.
Now try that on one of your compatriots. You're likely to get a visit from Fatherland Security.
American insularity is an issue here.
As some of the above posters have noted, Imran Khan was a cricketer. A very good one.
Good enough to be a household name around the cricket-playing world. Australia, the U.K., South Africa, New Zealand, the West Indies, most of the sub-continent. Around two billion people I'd guess.
While to the American public he's just another 'sand nigger' or 'towel head' or whatever other pejorative is in vogue, to much of the rest of the English-speaking world he is a well-known and widely-respected personality.
We know this guy. He's more one of us than you lot are.
I went with Carman for Nokia's Maemo platform and a generic Bluetooth scantool. The advantage of this setup is that the Nokia webpad serves as an in-car media player, GPS unit and car computer, providing me with real-time diagnostics, positioning and entertainment.
For fault diagnostics, I gave up in the end. At least for my car, (an Audi S8) it seems there are error codes that are manufacturer specific. Without a translation table, the error codes aren't particularly useful and I couldn't find any software package that included them or, indeed, just the Audi S8 code table. Happy to be proved wrong here if someone else knows better than I do..
This reminds me of a comment from Brian Behlendorf concerning the design of the Apache License to allow for modifications of the code for commercial release without accompanying source code, in contrast to the GPL. Behlendorf said that this was deliberate because the Apache Foundation believed that supporting the web protocols was more important than the keeping contributions to the Apache code open source.
Interesting to see this sentiment echoed from the client side a decade later.
I too, am tired of these Microsoft patents X headlines.
I'm also tired of the pointless indignation that such articles cause.
It's time to actually do something about it. These bastards know they can get away with their malevolence because the rest of us, calm as Hindu cows, let them.
It's time to burn these fuckers out. Literally, burn these fuckers out.
I am not very familiar with US legislation but here in Yurop courts can't create laws, they can decide only based on existing laws. So if the legislation (in this case: the European Comitee and the European Parliament, and later the national parliaments) don't create those laws, how could they decide anything?
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the manner in which the legal system evolves. The judicial system does in fact, create law. You should familiarise yourself with the concept of "case law" in contrast to "legislation."
Given that 'Straya, the Deputy Sheriff shares so many cultural, social and political similarities with the U.S., it's simply not a surprise to those of us in the region that they're implementing similar domestic policies.
The most surprising aspect is the sheer admiration that the 'Strayan people hold for the U.S. and their collective willingness to become a subservient client state to U.S. interests.
They truly are the Americans of the South Pacific and not just in terms of public policy. The 'Strayan people are almost indistinguisable from their American counterparts in terms of attitude and behaviour.
..US must create a 'more effective, 24-hour propaganda machine' or risk losing the battle for the minds of Muslims.
The scope is significantly larger than the Muslim and Arabic countries. Poll.
As for our government, it's ironic that we sacrifice our troops for democracy
It never ceases to amaze me that the American people are deluded enough to believe that their government actually contributes to freedom and democracy worldwide. You sacrifice your troops for democracy like the Germans liberated the Sudentenland.
A wise man once told me; "If you enjoy your job, you'll never work a day in your life."
Life is too short to do something that you don't enjoy. "I had an awesome time" is a better death bed confession than "I made stacks of cash."
Up until Solaris 10, the first stop when commissioning a new sun box was always Sun Freeware. Sun Freeware has a collection of popular binaries in Sun's package format, things like SSH, SSL, BASH, gcc, top, gzip, etc.
Many of these utilities are covered by the GPL and Sun didn't ship them, yet most admins consider them to be vital or at least very useful. Around Solaris 10 however, Sun got with the programme and included GNU stuff with their distribution media.
So to answer your question, GNU/Solaris (meaning "a Sun system running a whole bunch of GNU stuff") has been extremely common for a long time.
"..this international disaster."
The world's foremost rouge state had a setback in their programme to militarise space, the aim of which is to establish another avenue to exert their tyranny over the rest of the planet. The spectacular failure in this instance is an international success, not an international disaster.
Consumers will rebel hard against movie studios trying to force them into HD-DVD and Blu-ray..
I admire your idealistic appraisal of consumers, I wish that I shared your optimism. Sadly the evidence provided by the massive success of crap products that are pervasively marketed (such as Microsoft software) leads me to a more pessimistic view;
The sheeple out in consumer land will purchase whatever the marketers tell them to purchase.
I'd never heard of Greg Egan until now. As your taste includes the sensational Ken MacLeod, I'll definitely make a point of reading Egan's stuff.
MacLeod's early work, The Fall Revolution is simply the best Sci Fi I've ever read. Near future (at least in the beginning) dystopian sci-fi that extrapolates current social, technological and geo-political trends in an incisive manner. Want Unix shell commands in the fiction you read? Dreading the breakdown of the social fabric due to the inevitable result of rampant capitalism? Ready to take up arms to resist American hegemony? MacLeod is the author for you.
Talk to your vendor.
Have you noticed how major corporations like Sun, IBM and Novell contribute to F/OSS projects, because it's in their commercial interests to do so?
Is it too much to ask that Apple, after taking so much from the F/OSS community, contributes something back? Apple is a parasite on the F/OSS community and Apple users are in no position to make demands until they and their vendor are contributing along with the rest of us.
Right now Apple is amongst the worst of F/OSS pariahs, in the same category as GPL violators. Contribute or fuck off.
It's mentioned in Naomi Klein's much over-rated No Logo
I don't care if it is Ubuntu, or Suze, or Red Hat, or whatever. Just have one damn version and make the damn thing work for the latest technology, make it fast, and make it easy to understand for even the dumbest american.
George Bush won't shift until the golf video game he plays is ported. Could we go with the second dumbest?
The terrorists have had a web presence for quite some time.
Is he seriously suggesting that 10 years ago no one had ever heard of a buffer overrun?
You're right, his suggestion that everyone else was as disinterested in security as Micro-Soft is ridiculous. However, he is correct that ten years ago we weren't generally concerned with buffer overruns.
My memory of it is that Aleph One, who used to administer BugTraq, introduced us to the concept in this paper from 1996.
Don't forget that Redhat's CEO Matthew Szulik Also recommended that desktop users use Windows instead of Linux around the time that they dropped their desktop distributions in order to focus on enterprise Linux.
Redhat lost a fair amount of goodwill from the community with that decision and that announcement, as long term paying (and non-paying) customers were left high and dry without an upgrade path and with the clock ticking on support.
From the commercial perspective it was also a miscalcuation on Redhat's part. Leaving the desktop Linux space left the field open for their competitors, Novell's Suse notably benefitted, as did other commercial distributions that ex-Redhat users migrated to.
Redhat's realisation of their mistake is the reason the Fedora project exists. That they were quite willing to drop their long term customer and community base when they thought we were no longer an asset should be noted by those chosing to use their products.