Clearly your considerations are sound. Anyway I just meant to question the solution from the architectural point of view, from which it doesn't look too different.
Moreover, installing a S/MIME certificate is not that difficult. Some enrolling procedures may indeed be complicated, but that has little to do with S/MIME itself.
I believe that the concept of software package is fundamentally flawed. As you correctly point out, even today's most polished implementations (which are IMO the overall best you can get) have endemic problems.
It may end up that package managers are workarounds, not solutions.
IMO, what's needed is:
Working, efficient versioning system for shared code;
Execution and Dynamic linking mechanism that is not bound to dumb file system hierarchy. May we add, in year 2005: a secure and network transparent one;
Organized, multiuser, network-aware management for software preferences
I think that is not too much to ask for today. But maybe Rob Pike is right.
back in 1995 I founded an ISP company. I left two years later. recently I got in touch with the guys running the company and I could get back my old e-mail address. I instantly started getting loads of spam.
this hardware-wrapping abstraction layer is a very good idea. not because i was thinking about it myself; the concept of a programming interface between the driver and the hardware should be taken for granted nowadays. makes you wonder why it's not being applied to this kind of hardware.
think about what e.g. SCSI or (E)IDE/ATAPI mean to storage devices, and the fact that when you go shopping for a new hard drive you don't think about compatibility issues (yeah I know, more or less, don't be picky now:-).
don't you think that maybe this is the right question that needs to be answered.
if it's in the Bundle... why are we all still messing with TARs and RPMs,/usrs and/libs... I don't understand
someone please put package managers where they belong. then we will have a friendly OS. OSX showed us all I think. someone tell me why we don't follow.
funny how (almost) former national communication company, now (mostly) gone private, just finished their ad campaign for fast flat-rate ASDL lines... that went like:
"and now you can download your music and movies at full speed!!!!"
to be precise, it's not just the size of the bubbles (they're called perlage, after the French word for "pearl"), but their number and shape to account for the overall quality.
In Italy (my own country), sparkling wine is called spumante (Asti is just a brand, named after a city in the northweastern side, although very popular).
Sparkling wines are classified by the vinification method. here is a sample. I am all but knowledgeable about white/sparkling wines, but I believe a broader nomenclature exists.
Sure, this is all true, but there are other, subtler one would say, ways for employers to force longer working times; and that is true even for the IT job market, which btw is still privileged in many ways.
LindowsOS [...] with the goal of allowing Linux to load and run Windows applications. The software has also been criticized for automatically logging users in as "root" [...]
Don't be angry at them, guys. How can you give a user the Full Windows experience when viruses, trojans and alike won't force you reinstall at least once a week???
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Compare this to windows's revenues and see if it does not match $750M.
Clearly your considerations are sound. Anyway I just meant to question the solution from the architectural point of view, from which it doesn't look too different.
Moreover, installing a S/MIME certificate is not that difficult. Some enrolling procedures may indeed be complicated, but that has little to do with S/MIME itself.
(Disclaimer: I admit I just gave a quick look)
Don't compare this solution to GPG/PGP since the key distribution and trust models are different.
But how is this different from working with S/MIME and a (supposedly free) CA?
I believe that the concept of software package is fundamentally flawed. As you correctly point out, even today's most polished implementations (which are IMO the overall best you can get) have endemic problems.
It may end up that package managers are workarounds, not solutions.
IMO, what's needed is:
I think that is not too much to ask for today. But maybe Rob Pike is right.
and here:
"Keyboard, mouse, megaphone and display sold separately."
my personal experience seems to confirm this.
back in 1995 I founded an ISP company. I left two years later. recently I got in touch with the guys running the company and I could get back my old e-mail address. I instantly started getting loads of spam.
relevant blog entry
this hardware-wrapping abstraction layer is a very good idea. not because i was thinking about it myself; the concept of a programming interface between the driver and the hardware should be taken for granted nowadays. makes you wonder why it's not being applied to this kind of hardware.
think about what e.g. SCSI or (E)IDE/ATAPI mean to storage devices, and the fact that when you go shopping for a new hard drive you don't think about compatibility issues (yeah I know, more or less, don't be picky now
don't you think that maybe this is the right question that needs to be answered.
and/or:
you sure heard about Bundles. What do you think of them?
if it's in the Bundle... why are we all still messing with TARs and RPMs,
someone please put package managers where they belong. then we will have a friendly OS. OSX showed us all I think. someone tell me why we don't follow.
...this?
HP, userful, they use Linux... which is GPL...
and where is the source?
do I miss something?
maybe 78 is hex for 84... do the math
got it. at first guess.
funny how (almost) former national communication company, now (mostly) gone private, just finished their ad campaign for fast flat-rate ASDL lines... that went like:
"and now you can download your music and movies at full speed!!!!"
this is Italy, my fellow slashdotters.
and now, mod this down, Mr. My President!!!
"fully paid, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide license".
That must be why the terms are only available in Microsoft Word format.
how much before someone comes up with something akin to VST instruments? would it belong here? I do think so...
VST 2.0 instruments ROCK (pun not intended)
hm. can anyone confirm this is the final release? just not to waste bandwidth (the d/l mirrors feature md5sums)
to be precise, it's not just the size of the bubbles (they're called perlage, after the French word for "pearl"), but their number and shape to account for the overall quality.
In Italy (my own country), sparkling wine is called spumante (Asti is just a brand, named after a city in the northweastern side, although very popular).
Sparkling wines are classified by the vinification method. here is a sample. I am all but knowledgeable about white/sparkling wines, but I believe a broader nomenclature exists.
and see what they call 15 litres of wine... props for a good Matrix pun.
hmm... padlock... VIA being one of these
is it me or something's rotten around here?
High time to disclose personal info in your Linux Counter entry! Let them know you care!
Come on, guys. I'm waiting...
April 1st is over...! Stop it now...!
Sure, this is all true, but there are other, subtler one would say, ways for employers to force longer working times; and that is true even for the IT job market, which btw is still privileged in many ways.
I've just been told by a quite knowledgeable fellow that:
- all Intel NICs are plain no longer supported from OS Version 6.1
- the guy thinks that the check is done in the software, checking the MAC address
but the example in the webpage clearly shows a file named bh61.bin which seems contraddictory...I heard that newer Intel NICs are no longer supported by Cisco.
Dunno if it's a hardware or software issue. If it's in the software, you'd have to check the NIC release for use with newer PIXOS releases.
LindowsOS [...] with the goal of allowing Linux to load and run Windows applications. The software has also been criticized for automatically logging users in as "root" [...]
Don't be angry at them, guys. How can you give a user the Full Windows experience when viruses, trojans and alike won't force you reinstall at least once a week???