Did the patent review turn up any possible violations of Microsoft patents in the Linux source code?We absolutely have made no admissions of any infringements, period, from our point of view. No admissions.
Slimy toad. The question should to follow this should have been. "Are you personally aware of any violations of Microsoft patents having been identified as present in Linux code." None of this wishy washy "I haven't admitted to anything" nonsense. Bloody admit to it or state for the record that you aren't sitting on something that you'll "admit" later.
Funnily enough, changing to plastic notes which behave different in many respects didn't kill us here in Australia. Think of it as a business opportunity for the manufacturers of replacement bill readers.
Sure it will cost a bit, but damn it's a good excuse for you sorry lot to update your currency from the least attractive and most counterfeited currency in the world to something with basic security and longevity built in.
Protection money not to indulge in a SCO style SLAPP is what it smells like. "Nice server... pity if it should get turned off by an injunction for 3 years while we hit you with a bunch of non-specific claims about it"...
It takes me under 10 minutes to set up a new Debian server from scratch, complete with all our custom software - just ready to start it up and run it.
That is:
a) boot under kvm to find out hardware addresses (or just boot and read the DHCP server logs) b) add the hardware addresses, hostname and "class" list for that machine to a file and commit to subversion c) "make install" from the dhcp config directory d) boot machine with netboot turned on e) log in via ssh and start services
this all on machines in New York while I'm in Australia.
We've been waiting on these things to replace our "old" dual-core hyperthreading Xeons. They are pretty powerful, but spam is getting insane these days and when you're scanning a million messages a day through each mx server, then lots of cores will get a good workout, believe me.
We don't like Spamcop and their "you had a spammer sign up with you and even though they've since been booted we'll leave you listed for $N hours" policy. It's a nightmare for any service trying to make signups not-impossible in this world of stolen credit cards.
Switching away from any outbound IP that's been listed seems a workable workaround, but it's still really easy to DOS someone by signing up an account with them and emailing spamcop spamtraps to get them listed.
And yeah, they're blocked in postfix well before the LMTP delivery stage where spamassassin gets a look at it.
Each of our inbound mxes processes twice that quantity per day, and we reject fully 3/4 based on XBL/SBL. Spamassassin chews up a lot of Xeon processing time, and we're hanging out for Quad-Core machines, I can tell you.
Hans Reiser really hasn't been supporting Reiserfs (v3) for a while now, most of the work has been coming out of SuSE anyway. At least, the patches we've been running (mostly merged into mainline now) have been coming from them, and we're not even a customer.
I guess we won't be bugging Hans about issues for a bit now. Hope he's innocent and it gets resolved quickly - must suck for everyone involved right now.
Description: Kubuntu desktop system
This package depends on all of the packages in the Kubuntu desktop system
It's really not that hard to pull in a complete kubuntu system on your gnome install, then it's just like the real thing[tm]. The only difference is which packages are on the livecd and installed by default.
If I was them I'd be hanging on to them for at least a week to be able to diagnose problems, but that's just me.
See also: google's "spelling correction" magic which is based on statistical analysis of past search queries - this data is useful for improving their service.
So remind me again, what makes Debian so special? Surely it can't be apt if apt is available elsewhere....
Um... that would be the fact that apt isn't a second class citizen on Debian and it really is well integrated, plus the repositories "just work"[tm]ed much more easily for a long time. Debian does some things stupidly, but a lot of things very sanely - it's a set of tradeoffs that some people really like.
(then again, I'm running Ubuntu these days on my desktop - Sarge on servers, so what does that say about me?)
Slashdot falls into the "good enough not to be totally worthless, and nothing else is so significantly better that it's worth switching" bracket. Plus, everyone else[tm] is here.
I think it's largely the "there's enough going on to keep me distracted for an entire workday" factor that makes slashdot so... um... slashdotty.
Or you could just walk up to the guy and say "Hi neighbor, is there a problem, and if so, lets work it out."
I'm replying to you out of many who said this, but...
The problem with this theory is that said neighbour has already invested approx £700 in a device with which to fight this war. A device which, if the war is terminated early will be useless.
Sounds to me like this investment will make resolution harder. The best time to fix this would have been before lots of money was invested in war-making machines.
Certainly not. Real geeks find the best base set of tools that they can do cool things on top of rather than mucking around inventing the same old wheels over and over again - preferably fixing the tools as needed rather than starting from scratch.
The problem with You can get a hundred stand-alone FTP clients. The one in the browser doesn't even handle browsing directories or uploading! is that the hundreds of other clients missed one feature that the one in the browser had - pass them a URL and have them download directly (curl and wget need not apply, they're web browsers without a display)
When I click on a torrent link in Konqueror, it loads KTorrent which is a "standalone" client in some respects, but also is happy to take a URL and start downloading.
If download managers/external FTP clients had been as reliable and easy to use as the built in download tools, then we wouldn't be having this debate - but my experience of download managers was that they sucked and caused more trouble than they were worth most of the time - they just didn't integrate well enough.
I can imagine how the shredding is done, but how does the station wagon encrypt the tapes?
Obviously with a transubstantiation cipher[1]. Sheesh, kids these days.
[1] you don't put labels on, and you just throw the tapes sort of haphazard into the back of the wagon - then at the far end you rely on pulling some sort of miracle out of your backside to get the data off in order.
Slashdot Mirror
not to mention new young women are brought in everyday
See, there's your problem.
(now, to make that work in real life...)
Only because Word can't save that document somewhere safe with all the meta data to restore that state when you next start up and ask you then.
It's a symptom of deeper problems.
Did the patent review turn up any possible violations of Microsoft patents in the Linux source code? We absolutely have made no admissions of any infringements, period, from our point of view. No admissions.
Slimy toad. The question should to follow this should have been. "Are you personally aware of any violations of Microsoft patents having been identified as present in Linux code." None of this wishy washy "I haven't admitted to anything" nonsense. Bloody admit to it or state for the record that you aren't sitting on something that you'll "admit" later.
Funnily enough, changing to plastic notes which behave different in many respects didn't kill us here in Australia. Think of it as a business opportunity for the manufacturers of replacement bill readers.
Sure it will cost a bit, but damn it's a good excuse for you sorry lot to update your currency from the least attractive and most counterfeited currency in the world to something with basic security and longevity built in.
Protection money not to indulge in a SCO style SLAPP is what it smells like. "Nice server... pity if it should get turned off by an injunction for 3 years while we hit you with a bunch of non-specific claims about it"...
It takes me under 10 minutes to set up a new Debian server from scratch, complete with all our custom software - just ready to start it up and run it.
That is:
a) boot under kvm to find out hardware addresses (or just boot and read the DHCP server logs)
b) add the hardware addresses, hostname and "class" list for that machine to a file and commit to subversion
c) "make install" from the dhcp config directory
d) boot machine with netboot turned on
e) log in via ssh and start services
this all on machines in New York while I'm in Australia.
We've been waiting on these things to replace our "old" dual-core hyperthreading Xeons. They are pretty powerful, but spam is getting insane these days and when you're scanning a million messages a day through each mx server, then lots of cores will get a good workout, believe me.
'Yes, firefox is indeed greater than women. Can women block pops up for you? No. Can Firefox show you naked women? Yes.'
Your signature is just so... um... I won't use that I word that Alanis poisoned. No, no, I won't.
We don't like Spamcop and their "you had a spammer sign up with you and even though they've since been booted we'll leave you listed for $N hours" policy. It's a nightmare for any service trying to make signups not-impossible in this world of stolen credit cards.
Switching away from any outbound IP that's been listed seems a workable workaround, but it's still really easy to DOS someone by signing up an account with them and emailing spamcop spamtraps to get them listed.
And yeah, they're blocked in postfix well before the LMTP delivery stage where spamassassin gets a look at it.
Each of our inbound mxes processes twice that quantity per day, and we reject fully 3/4 based on XBL/SBL. Spamassassin chews up a lot of Xeon processing time, and we're hanging out for Quad-Core machines, I can tell you.
Yeah, losing spamhaus would suck.
Hans Reiser really hasn't been supporting Reiserfs (v3) for a while now, most of the work has been coming out of SuSE anyway. At least, the patches we've been running (mostly merged into mainline now) have been coming from them, and we're not even a customer.
I guess we won't be bugging Hans about issues for a bit now. Hope he's innocent and it gets resolved quickly - must suck for everyone involved right now.
aptitude install kubuntu-desktop
Description: Kubuntu desktop system
This package depends on all of the packages in the Kubuntu desktop system
It's really not that hard to pull in a complete kubuntu system on your gnome install, then it's just like the real thing[tm]. The only difference is which packages are on the livecd and installed by default.
md5sum /boot/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz
/boot/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
Haha, I have cracked your worthless hash and I can tell you that the sha1sum of your very short kernel also begins with a 'd', see:
sha1sum
da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709
If I was them I'd be hanging on to them for at least a week to be able to diagnose problems, but that's just me.
See also: google's "spelling correction" magic which is based on statistical analysis of past search queries - this data is useful for improving their service.
So remind me again, what makes Debian so special? Surely it can't be apt if apt is available elsewhere....
Um... that would be the fact that apt isn't a second class citizen on Debian and it really is well integrated, plus the repositories "just work"[tm]ed much more easily for a long time. Debian does some things stupidly, but a lot of things very sanely - it's a set of tradeoffs that some people really like.
(then again, I'm running Ubuntu these days on my desktop - Sarge on servers, so what does that say about me?)
Slashdot falls into the "good enough not to be totally worthless, and nothing else is so significantly better that it's worth switching" bracket. Plus, everyone else[tm] is here.
I think it's largely the "there's enough going on to keep me distracted for an entire workday" factor that makes slashdot so... um... slashdotty.
Yeah, something like that.
See also: slashdot (but I didn't need to point out the obvious now, did I)
I'm inclined to agree with you that the original poster is a Chav (or see other threads, a novel form of slashvertisement)
If the device can be heard within the homes of the "kids" above, then it's not defensive, it's attacking. Quite nastily in fact.
Or you could just walk up to the guy and say "Hi neighbor, is there a problem, and if so, lets work it out."
I'm replying to you out of many who said this, but...
The problem with this theory is that said neighbour has already invested approx £700 in a device with which to fight this war. A device which, if the war is terminated early will be useless.
Sounds to me like this investment will make resolution harder. The best time to fix this would have been before lots of money was invested in war-making machines.
See also: international relations.
Certainly not. Real geeks find the best base set of tools that they can do cool things on top of rather than mucking around inventing the same old wheels over and over again - preferably fixing the tools as needed rather than starting from scratch.
The problem with You can get a hundred stand-alone FTP clients. The one in the browser doesn't even handle browsing directories or uploading! is that the hundreds of other clients missed one feature that the one in the browser had - pass them a URL and have them download directly (curl and wget need not apply, they're web browsers without a display)
When I click on a torrent link in Konqueror, it loads KTorrent which is a "standalone" client in some respects, but also is happy to take a URL and start downloading.
If download managers/external FTP clients had been as reliable and easy to use as the built in download tools, then we wouldn't be having this debate - but my experience of download managers was that they sucked and caused more trouble than they were worth most of the time - they just didn't integrate well enough.
By your logic, I could really afford to lose another 10kg.
I sense the multinational unicode fu is strong in this one.
I can imagine how the shredding is done, but how does the station wagon encrypt the tapes?
Obviously with a transubstantiation cipher[1]. Sheesh, kids these days.
[1] you don't put labels on, and you just throw the tapes sort of haphazard into the back of the wagon - then at the far end you rely on pulling some sort of miracle out of your backside to get the data off in order.
Let me provide a translation of the grandparent.
"Wouldn't it be great if everything worked in a way which is most convenient for me"
a sentiment I strongly agree with by the way, with the obvious substitution of me for "me".