putting the centos stuff aside. Redhat are doing a great job and contributing great code to the open source community. They uphold open source ideals by keeping fedora free of closed source code. I have been using Redhat/Fedora for years through my undergraduate degree, PhD and now in my job want to say what a great big thanks to you guys and wish you the best for the future!
Why are these guys surprised that a project backed by a company rejected there hacking tool. Firstly the name 'sqlninja', I mean come on, it's got to be a hacking tool, can you imagine that on the front page of a news paper 'evil open source firm ok's sqlninja'. Then when I googled it, the website declares it is a 'sqlninja - a SQL Server injection & takeover tool'. In no way do they pretend it is for testing or whatnot. They had to reject the tool. And what business is red hat in, oh year selling a server os, would it really be a good idea for them to bundle a 'takeover tool'?
The coalition is unpopular with a lot of Liberal Democrat voters (not sure what they'd prefer - probably for the LibDems to continue to be completely ineffectual, rather than to get at least some of their policies passed) and is in danger of a back-bench rebellion by the LibDem MPs who'd rather pander to popular opinion than get on with running the country.
Yes, correct. but I don't see the MPs doing anything about it because they all did vote to join the coalition.
They need to do some things about civil liberties to keep these people on side, and cancelling existing programs is one of the few things that won't alienate Conservative back benchers, who are typically against government spending of any kind.
Yes the conservatives by nature do want to cut spending. However, they are also the most 'liberal' (small l) party in parliament By this I mean they are against an Orwellian state. This is fundamentally different to the stance taken by Labour. Hence, scrapping ID cards, the introduction of the great repeals bill where they are asking the public which legislation they want scrapped, and scrapping crazy data bases.
So far, the coalition seems to be the best government the UK has had while I've been alive (although, to be fair, that's not exactly hard). Unfortunately, it's not clear how long it will manage to stay together.
Yes defiantly, they seem to be making sensible decisions most of the time. I think it will stay together for the full term, firstly because they are going to change the rules so that 55% of the MPs need to vote to for a dissolution. However no party can muster 55% of the votes in this parliament and secondly because Nick and Dave _believe_ they are doing the best thing for the country.
Also is it me or since the last government left office, have the stories on slashdot about the UK been positive. With the last government the stories were all about ID cards, locking people up for 90 days with no reason, random crazy terror legislation etc.. and now it is all about our freedoms and how the goverment is going to cut up this state from 1984.
I still don't get it. 15 years ago when computers which did maths were not practical to carry around a complicated calculator made sense. Today if you want to do real maths for a reason you use a PC. But school and university exam question can be made so they can be solved by hand there is no need to set questions requiring the integral of a Gaussian function. It might do kids some good not to be able to press plot and get a function plotted. May be it would be good for them to think about the roots and where it crosses the axes, then do a bit of differentiation to find the stationary points.
last time i used a graphics calculator (before I migrated to octave/matlab/maple), the whole point of the thing was that you could program it? And why would anybody spend 100$ on a calculator when you can almost get a laptop for that price today?
If it is true that the price has gone up by 400% I can see why they are doing it but fom my point of view as a researcher not at UC, it means that there will be (slightly) less competition to get in to Nature. It also means when I go for a job interview and I am up against a UC candidate I will have the nature paper and he wont. Which will mean I will get the job. Having a paper in Nature is the gold standard in research and I don't think this stance will do their researchers any good.
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even though fedora is my desktop of choice,
it just fails to boot on my brand new mac book. grown...
All correct except your use of the word 'elected'. Lord Mandelson who is heading this bill is not elected at all. He is a Lord and that apparently means it is ok for him impose rules on us. Secondly, Brown our prime minister was never elected as prime minister, he just 'took over' after Blair stood down. So in short this is a c**p bill imposed my unelected morons. However, on the up side there will be a general election with in three months, so it will probably never reach the statute books.
clearly your post was a joke, but a serious answer to your question would be
Linux Device Drivers:
http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
Understanding the linux kernel:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596000028
I found both books fantastic and well worth a read, they will take you from knowing C to developing drivers for the linux kernel.
I wish Thunderbird of evolution had some type of automated system for encryption, where you tagged your public key to the bottom of every e-mail. When an in coming e-mail was detected with a key at the bottom all replys were automatically encrypted. I think the problem with encryption at the moment is that people have to think about it so it does not happen.
Oh well, I just won't bother reading it then. I will read
www.bbc.co.uk
or www.telegraph.co.uk
or theregister.co.uk
or www.zeit.de
or cnn.com
or slashdot.org
or www.dailymail.co.uk
or and the list goes on.
that is odd, I was starting to think it was a British site. I keep on seeing a disproportionately number of stories about the UK government doing crazy oppressive fascist shit. Or may be there is another reason for that......
sorry can somebody pleas explain why you are not allowed a fully functioning fighter jet. I thought you guys were had a right to bare arms, what is the difference between a shot gun and a jet?
This 'review' is complete rubbish alpha and beta builds are allays much slower than the production versions. They have all types of debug options turned on. I don' see how you can compare them. If one os has more debug options turned on than the other it would be slower. Surely....
Although I you are searching for English words in a Chinese search engine. I wonder what happens when you search for "tiananmen square tank" in google.com but _using Chinese characters_
I would agree with the above post, in my field (academia) one does see the world boycotting the US to a degree. The example I have is that it is _much_ harder to get people to attend conformance in the US than in Asia or Europe. One conformance I attended is usually over subscribed when it is not in the US, and when it is in the US numbers are very close to the break even point. I think this is at the subliminal level more than anything else. The general consensus is that it is a lot of grief to get in to the US, it is a long way away and why bother. I don't think it is political it is just slightly too much effort.
The other point is that science is a truly international community. Therefore, to get all the top people in field together in one room means that they _all_ have to be able to get in to the US easily, not just the people from the visa waver countries.
Sure, I would acknowledge that may be a few lessons on religion would be fine. Much the way sex education is taught. But I think any more than that and it risks turning in to indoctrination. There are so many wonderful and useful things our kids should be learning about, that there is no way to justify spending more time on it. I find the growth in state sponsored religious schools (in the UK) a very worrying trend.
This is one of occasions where the French have it about right, they have separation of church and state. They do not even allow religion in schools in any form. I don't understand why people think it is ok to force their beliefs on me.
exactly, the spokesperson making these comments clearly has no concept of security. The worrying thing is though, that this is exactly the sort of short sighted rubbish that our government laps up and puts into law.
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no they are right, I just tested it out with the aid of my bath. My wi-fi router does not work under water.
putting the centos stuff aside. Redhat are doing a great job and contributing great code to the open source community. They uphold open source ideals by keeping fedora free of closed source code. I have been using Redhat/Fedora for years through my undergraduate degree, PhD and now in my job want to say what a great big thanks to you guys and wish you the best for the future!
pirated software also hurts open source take up too.
Has Linux not been able to do this for years using Intel's PXE (Preboot eXecution Environment)?
810.777 Kelvin .... nuff said.
Why are these guys surprised that a project backed by a company rejected there hacking tool. Firstly the name 'sqlninja', I mean come on, it's got to be a hacking tool, can you imagine that on the front page of a news paper 'evil open source firm ok's sqlninja'. Then when I googled it, the website declares it is a 'sqlninja - a SQL Server injection & takeover tool'. In no way do they pretend it is for testing or whatnot. They had to reject the tool. And what business is red hat in, oh year selling a server os, would it really be a good idea for them to bundle a 'takeover tool'?
The coalition is unpopular with a lot of Liberal Democrat voters (not sure what they'd prefer - probably for the LibDems to continue to be completely ineffectual, rather than to get at least some of their policies passed) and is in danger of a back-bench rebellion by the LibDem MPs who'd rather pander to popular opinion than get on with running the country.
Yes, correct. but I don't see the MPs doing anything about it because they all did vote to join the coalition.
They need to do some things about civil liberties to keep these people on side, and cancelling existing programs is one of the few things that won't alienate Conservative back benchers, who are typically against government spending of any kind.
Yes the conservatives by nature do want to cut spending. However, they are also the most 'liberal' (small l) party in parliament By this I mean they are against an Orwellian state. This is fundamentally different to the stance taken by Labour. Hence, scrapping ID cards, the introduction of the great repeals bill where they are asking the public which legislation they want scrapped, and scrapping crazy data bases.
So far, the coalition seems to be the best government the UK has had while I've been alive (although, to be fair, that's not exactly hard). Unfortunately, it's not clear how long it will manage to stay together.
Yes defiantly, they seem to be making sensible decisions most of the time. I think it will stay together for the full term, firstly because they are going to change the rules so that 55% of the MPs need to vote to for a dissolution. However no party can muster 55% of the votes in this parliament and secondly because Nick and Dave _believe_ they are doing the best thing for the country.
Also is it me or since the last government left office, have the stories on slashdot about the UK been positive. With the last government the stories were all about ID cards, locking people up for 90 days with no reason, random crazy terror legislation etc.. and now it is all about our freedoms and how the goverment is going to cut up this state from 1984.
I still don't get it. 15 years ago when computers which did maths were not practical to carry around a complicated calculator made sense. Today if you want to do real maths for a reason you use a PC. But school and university exam question can be made so they can be solved by hand there is no need to set questions requiring the integral of a Gaussian function. It might do kids some good not to be able to press plot and get a function plotted. May be it would be good for them to think about the roots and where it crosses the axes, then do a bit of differentiation to find the stationary points.
last time i used a graphics calculator (before I migrated to octave/matlab/maple), the whole point of the thing was that you could program it? And why would anybody spend 100$ on a calculator when you can almost get a laptop for that price today?
If it is true that the price has gone up by 400% I can see why they are doing it but fom my point of view as a researcher not at UC, it means that there will be (slightly) less competition to get in to Nature. It also means when I go for a job interview and I am up against a UC candidate I will have the nature paper and he wont. Which will mean I will get the job. Having a paper in Nature is the gold standard in research and I don't think this stance will do their researchers any good.
even though fedora is my desktop of choice, it just fails to boot on my brand new mac book. grown...
All correct except your use of the word 'elected'. Lord Mandelson who is heading this bill is not elected at all. He is a Lord and that apparently means it is ok for him impose rules on us. Secondly, Brown our prime minister was never elected as prime minister, he just 'took over' after Blair stood down. So in short this is a c**p bill imposed my unelected morons. However, on the up side there will be a general election with in three months, so it will probably never reach the statute books.
clearly your post was a joke, but a serious answer to your question would be Linux Device Drivers: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ Understanding the linux kernel: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596000028 I found both books fantastic and well worth a read, they will take you from knowing C to developing drivers for the linux kernel.
I wish Thunderbird of evolution had some type of automated system for encryption, where you tagged your public key to the bottom of every e-mail. When an in coming e-mail was detected with a key at the bottom all replys were automatically encrypted. I think the problem with encryption at the moment is that people have to think about it so it does not happen.
Oh well, I just won't bother reading it then. I will read www.bbc.co.uk or www.telegraph.co.uk or theregister.co.uk or www.zeit.de or cnn.com or slashdot.org or www.dailymail.co.uk or and the list goes on.
two tin cans and a piece of string?
that is odd, I was starting to think it was a British site. I keep on seeing a disproportionately number of stories about the UK government doing crazy oppressive fascist shit. Or may be there is another reason for that......
sorry can somebody pleas explain why you are not allowed a fully functioning fighter jet. I thought you guys were had a right to bare arms, what is the difference between a shot gun and a jet?
you forgot "execute mentally ill person" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/debates/6905283/China-executes-Akmal-Shaikh-was-the-execution-justified.html I find China deeply worrying on so many levels, I just wish when I go out to buy a new laptop of mp3 player I had a choice not to buy stuff from china. But I don't even more worrying.
This 'review' is complete rubbish alpha and beta builds are allays much slower than the production versions. They have all types of debug options turned on. I don' see how you can compare them. If one os has more debug options turned on than the other it would be slower. Surely....
Although I you are searching for English words in a Chinese search engine. I wonder what happens when you search for "tiananmen square tank" in google.com but _using Chinese characters_
I would agree with the above post, in my field (academia) one does see the world boycotting the US to a degree. The example I have is that it is _much_ harder to get people to attend conformance in the US than in Asia or Europe. One conformance I attended is usually over subscribed when it is not in the US, and when it is in the US numbers are very close to the break even point. I think this is at the subliminal level more than anything else. The general consensus is that it is a lot of grief to get in to the US, it is a long way away and why bother. I don't think it is political it is just slightly too much effort. The other point is that science is a truly international community. Therefore, to get all the top people in field together in one room means that they _all_ have to be able to get in to the US easily, not just the people from the visa waver countries.
Sure, I would acknowledge that may be a few lessons on religion would be fine. Much the way sex education is taught. But I think any more than that and it risks turning in to indoctrination. There are so many wonderful and useful things our kids should be learning about, that there is no way to justify spending more time on it. I find the growth in state sponsored religious schools (in the UK) a very worrying trend.
This is one of occasions where the French have it about right, they have separation of church and state. They do not even allow religion in schools in any form. I don't understand why people think it is ok to force their beliefs on me.
exactly, the spokesperson making these comments clearly has no concept of security. The worrying thing is though, that this is exactly the sort of short sighted rubbish that our government laps up and puts into law.