As far as my servers go, FreeBSD is alive and well, and Linux is dying (being replaced with stuff that works according to the documentation, first time, every time:D
Something tells me the brains at sco left a long time ago, and the company is now flailing about like a headless chicken, with the legal dept in control.
Then again, since the BSDs have already been cleared of using proprietry code in court, I haven't been paying a great deal of attention:)
Look... I hate Windows' dominance as much as the next guy, however:
Its in use on the vast majority of PCs out there
Given that, if you were going to develop software that has to work, you would aim for that as a target, at least initially
Before we start on Java, web forms, etc, etc... I've seen enough issues with proxies, broken browser support, broken java/javascript support, etc to know that trying to do it cross platform in that manner to start with would be a nightmare.
Pick a standard platform (ie, windows) and guarantee it will work on that one platform, then worry about making things work elsewhere once that works.
Its not like you can say "can vote from any browser" and just have tech support worry about slight broken-ness in minor browsers as the issues crop up - it has to work first time every time...
If this single grad student can find out this information, do they think that a terrorist group, hell bent on wreaking havoc will be unable to discover it?
Mission critical infrastructure should have a properly protected communications link, and at least some form of redundancy (wireless or satellite with ipsec encryption as a backup, perhaps?) to cope with incidents like these...
Why should *I* pay for other users to download/burn mp3s, when I use none of these things for music piracy?
If their business model is that broken (or their content is so lame) that they cannot sell their content and turn a profit, then their industry has become irrelevant and should die.
You don't get typewriter manufacturers lobbying for a tax on PCs because they're making the typewriter irrelevant do you? No - the companies involved diversified and started putting out PCs.
Ditto for the manufacturers of rollerskates wanting a tax on rollerblades...
Either the RIAA adapt to new technology, or (and this is their fear) they become redundant and people make do without them.
I think the fact is that "they" have been ripping off artists with grossly inflated "promotional costs" for years, and now artists have an alternative for distribution (buy online for much cheaper, and put out some free content to get publicity) the lies are all unravelling and its sent them into a panic...
Hmm... if by "innovation" he means adding a myriad of incompatible and buggy features, then (thank god) there has been very little innovation in recent years.
We're still busy sorting out the mess and getting browsers to be as standards compliant as possible.
This is a good thing.
smash.
So, does it work properly with Apache 2.x yet?
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Last I heard, PHP 4.x still has broken session support with Apache 2.x.
I can think of MANY tasks you can't do well with a > 450mhz cpu
OK, what are they? And don't say games, I'm talking about professional uses for a desktop. For normal day-to-use, I still don't seen any compelling reason for upgrading. Even Lotus Notes running under WINE works fine.
When you've got a set of database queries that take 2 hours to run on a 2ghz machine, you need more speed.
C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxxx xxxx>dir \\cameron\music\*.mp3/w/s/p Volume in drive \\cameron\music is Data Volume Serial Number is 446E-12AA
Directory of \\cameron\music\MP3
2Hunters and Collectors - Throw your arms around Me.mp3 Aerosmith - I Dont Wanna Miss a Thing (Armagedon).mp3 Billy Connolly - The Crucifixion (Long).mp3 Catch22 - american pie(Punk Cover).mp3 Chris De Burgh - The Lady in Red.mp3 Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven.mp3 Guns and Roses - Sweet Child Of Mine.mp3 Hot Chocolate - It Started With A Kiss.mp3 Hunters and Collectors - Throw your arms around Me.mp3 JenniferLoveHewitt_Barenaked.mp3 Jimmy Barnes - Working Class Man.mp3 John Lennon - Imagine.mp3 Metalica - One.mp3 Metalica - The Unforgiven.mp3 Metalica - Until It Sleep.mp3 Metallica & Chris Isaak - Nothing Else Matters (acoustic and rare).mp3 metallica - Metalica, Enter Sandman.mp3 Metallica - Nothing Else Matters.mp3 Muppet Show - Manamana.mp3 Pearl Jam - Don't Call me Daughter.mp3 Queen feat. David Bowe - Under Pressure.mp3 Rage Against the Machine - star wars imperial march.mp3 Rogue Traders - Give In To Me.mp3 Rogue Traders Vs. INXS - One Of Mind Kind (Radio Edit).mp3 Stevie Wonder - You Are The Sunshine Of My Life.mp3 tenacious d - Tribute to the Best Song in the World.mp3 Tenacious D_Fuck Her Gently.mp3 27 File(s) 113,518,249 bytes
Directory of \\cameron\music\MP3\28 Days
28 Days - Whats the deal-.mp3 1 File(s) 3,196,638 bytes
Directory of \\cameron\music\MP3\28 Days\28 Days
'28 Days'_28 Days.mp3 Rise Above_28 Days.mp3 She's Wating_28 Days.mp3 This Song's About You_28 Days.mp3 4 File(s) 7,790,592 bytes
Directory of \\cameron\music\MP3\28 Days\here we go
28 Days-sucker.mp3 Goodbye_28 Days.mp3 The Right Place (The Frank Stoner Mix)_28 Days.mp3 Press any key to continue . .. 3 File(s) 12,236,800 bytes
C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxxx xxxx>
Yeah... time to sue microsoft for writing Windows....
fishermonger writes "Trying to imoprove relations, the french KDE team invited RMS to tea at Linux Solutions 2003. From the piece: 'He asked whether KDE people were saying "Gnu/Linux" or just "Linux", and Open Source or Free Software. I told him some of us are using KDE/Gnu/Linux which pleased him as an answer.'
What the open source movement NEEDS is less in-fighting over stupid shit like whether you use nicknames for software or not, and more focus on those side projects such as usability.
Don't get me wrong, I've been running various Free *NIXes for 7 years or so, and had a ball, but when you can't call "GNU/XFree/BSD/MPL/Linux" just "linux" for short, and the political correctness of it all is a noteworthy discussion topic, there is something hideously wrong.
People call "Microsoft Windows XP" "XP" for short.
I (along with several million other users) call "GNU/XFree/BSD/MPL/Linux" "Linux" for short.
I think RMS needs to get over it.
The GNU and GPL is only mentioned in just about every manpage, in the C compiler, etc... its pretty hard to miss.
Hmm... I disagree - I think it IS slashdot material.
News for nerds... that doesn't necessarily restrict you to PC nerds, but also engineers, etc.... this article was about a bunch of car-geeks who thought they'd take the principle of weight reduction to the extreme and see what happened.
Well, whooptee-doo. Ever heard of a little thing called the AMD Sledgehammer? It's a BB-sized capsule of silicon that not only emits neutrons but also kicks fucking ass at floating-point calculations!
Nuclear- This is an answer. 6-7000 nuclear plants of the current most powerfull models would provide enough power. Its doable. but we don't know what to do with the waste of about 50 public plants and a couple hundred military plants. Until we solve that problem fission is risky. perhaps its more controlable and we can at least concentrate our damage in one area instead of the wide spread distribution system we have currently.
The only issue with this is that you're dealing with substances more likely to cause wars and stuff than oil.
Uranium and plutonium are both highly valuable as weapons material, and limited in terms of availability - hence the political situation will be no better than it is with oil.
People like you have been declaring the "death of America" for the past hundred or so years. Our slide into "cultural and moral decay" is the reason why Japan thought we wouldn't fight back after Pearl Harbor, the reason why the USSR thought we needed to be forced into Communism, the reason why everybody thought Japan was going to whip our butts in the 70s and 80s and why on September 11th a bunch of terrorists thought that they could blow up the Twin Towers without any retribution.
Wrong, wrong and wrong.
Japan was fully aware they'd be waking the US up when they attacked Pearl Harbor, however their options were not very good at the time. Either a) get a surprise attack off, and enter the war on their terms, with the hope of gaining the upper hand due to surprise, or b) wait for the US to step in and declare war/attack when they were fully ready to.
With regards to Russia, the cold war was just as much about the USA doing retarded shit (eg, Korea, Vietnam) in the efforts to "stop the spread of communism" for the sake of it, as it was about the USSR expanding their influence.
As to bin Laden's cronies - I'm *quite* sure they expected a reaction. That was the whole point of the exercise.
So far, 3000 deaths, for the cost of a handful of terrorists and a few of AlQuaeda's leaders... pretty good trade from their perspective if you ask me.
The fact that the USA decided to bomb the shit out of Afghanistan hasn't earned them any brownie points with the international community at all, and this retarded "war on terror" is just furthering the ridicule that most civilized nations have for the current US administration.
Given that the US has not managed to kill or capture one outlaw in the last 12 months, the chances of removing Saddam from power using the same sort of "tactics" is about the same as me sitting in a spa with Laetitia Casta, Milla Jovovich and Marilyn Monroe.
It's useful ONLY for boot-up on PC's, and then as soon as a real OS comes up, it's turned off and forgotten about. It's a pointless anoyance, and I'll be elated to see it go away.
Such as one of the BSDs or Linux?
A "real" OS doesn't necessarily need to run in graphics mode.
I'm also sure there are thousands of business owners out there with old DOS based software they use from time to time that would disagree with you.
Bill isn't an idiot when it comes to marketing, and if any customers read the first 5 of his comments listed here, they'd never buy any of his stuff again.
An encryption method that relies on the secrecy of its algorithm doesn't sound very secure to me. I don't think NASA are the types to use simplistic stuff like that.
I'm guessing its the keys.
I mean, sure, you can just change your private keys on everything now, after the even, but if someone had been recording traffic, and was to discover the keys, they could then decode it.
Pure speculation, but maybe there is stuff in there that NASA doesn't want us to know?
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As far as my servers go, FreeBSD is alive and well, and Linux is dying (being replaced with stuff that works according to the documentation, first time, every time :D
smash :)
Something tells me the brains at sco left a long time ago, and the company is now flailing about like a headless chicken, with the legal dept in control.
Then again, since the BSDs have already been cleared of using proprietry code in court, I haven't been paying a great deal of attention :)
smash.
- Its in use on the vast majority of PCs out there
- Given that, if you were going to develop software that has to work, you would aim for that as a target, at least initially
Before we start on Java, web forms, etc, etc... I've seen enough issues with proxies, broken browser support, broken java/javascript support, etc to know that trying to do it cross platform in that manner to start with would be a nightmare.Pick a standard platform (ie, windows) and guarantee it will work on that one platform, then worry about making things work elsewhere once that works.
Its not like you can say "can vote from any browser" and just have tech support worry about slight broken-ness in minor browsers as the issues crop up - it has to work first time every time...
smash.
Take that, fools :D
smash.
Mission critical infrastructure should have a properly protected communications link, and at least some form of redundancy (wireless or satellite with ipsec encryption as a backup, perhaps?) to cope with incidents like these...
smash.
Why should *I* pay for other users to download/burn mp3s, when I use none of these things for music piracy?
If their business model is that broken (or their content is so lame) that they cannot sell their content and turn a profit, then their industry has become irrelevant and should die.
You don't get typewriter manufacturers lobbying for a tax on PCs because they're making the typewriter irrelevant do you? No - the companies involved diversified and started putting out PCs.
Ditto for the manufacturers of rollerskates wanting a tax on rollerblades...
Either the RIAA adapt to new technology, or (and this is their fear) they become redundant and people make do without them.
I think the fact is that "they" have been ripping off artists with grossly inflated "promotional costs" for years, and now artists have an alternative for distribution (buy online for much cheaper, and put out some free content to get publicity) the lies are all unravelling and its sent them into a panic...
smash.
We're still busy sorting out the mess and getting browsers to be as standards compliant as possible.
This is a good thing.
smash.
Any ideas if this has been fixed?
smash.
Christ, thats even slower than the rate that paperwork gets past *MY* desk...
smash.
Thankyou, move along...
smash.
smash.
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Don't get me wrong, I've been running various Free *NIXes for 7 years or so, and had a ball, but when you can't call "GNU/XFree/BSD/MPL/Linux" just "linux" for short, and the political correctness of it all is a noteworthy discussion topic, there is something hideously wrong.
People call "Microsoft Windows XP" "XP" for short.
I (along with several million other users) call "GNU/XFree/BSD/MPL/Linux" "Linux" for short.
I think RMS needs to get over it.
The GNU and GPL is only mentioned in just about every manpage, in the C compiler, etc ... its pretty hard to miss.
smash.
News for nerds... that doesn't necessarily restrict you to PC nerds, but also engineers, etc.... this article was about a bunch of car-geeks who thought they'd take the principle of weight reduction to the extreme and see what happened.
*shrug*
Just a different class of Nerd/Geek thats all :)
smash(Nissan SR20DET 180sx Driver :).
Hardware support? Never had an issue with it under FreeBSD myself, and if you're planning on running it, you can always pick your hardware properly.
Now as to WHY you'd run it?
Its reliable, quick, sensibly laid out, and works very much like commercial unix.
Just because you're too shortsighted to see a use for it, doesn't mean that no one else has uses for it.
smash.
smash.
Uranium and plutonium are both highly valuable as weapons material, and limited in terms of availability - hence the political situation will be no better than it is with oil.
smash.
Japan was fully aware they'd be waking the US up when they attacked Pearl Harbor, however their options were not very good at the time. Either a) get a surprise attack off, and enter the war on their terms, with the hope of gaining the upper hand due to surprise, or b) wait for the US to step in and declare war/attack when they were fully ready to.
With regards to Russia, the cold war was just as much about the USA doing retarded shit (eg, Korea, Vietnam) in the efforts to "stop the spread of communism" for the sake of it, as it was about the USSR expanding their influence.
As to bin Laden's cronies - I'm *quite* sure they expected a reaction. That was the whole point of the exercise.
So far, 3000 deaths, for the cost of a handful of terrorists and a few of AlQuaeda's leaders ... pretty good trade from their perspective if you ask me.
The fact that the USA decided to bomb the shit out of Afghanistan hasn't earned them any brownie points with the international community at all, and this retarded "war on terror" is just furthering the ridicule that most civilized nations have for the current US administration.
Given that the US has not managed to kill or capture one outlaw in the last 12 months, the chances of removing Saddam from power using the same sort of "tactics" is about the same as me sitting in a spa with Laetitia Casta, Milla Jovovich and Marilyn Monroe.
smash.
A "real" OS doesn't necessarily need to run in graphics mode.
I'm also sure there are thousands of business owners out there with old DOS based software they use from time to time that would disagree with you.
smash.
Bill isn't an idiot when it comes to marketing, and if any customers read the first 5 of his comments listed here, they'd never buy any of his stuff again.
nutter.
smash.
More devices, Ultra160/Ultra320, more than one command on the bus at a time, longer cables, etc, etc...
Yes, it is a shitload more expensive, and not IMHO worth the extra cost for 99% of cases, but claiming IDE to be superior is retarded.
smash.
An encryption method that relies on the secrecy of its algorithm doesn't sound very secure to me. I don't think NASA are the types to use simplistic stuff like that.
I'm guessing its the keys.
I mean, sure, you can just change your private keys on everything now, after the even, but if someone had been recording traffic, and was to discover the keys, they could then decode it.
Pure speculation, but maybe there is stuff in there that NASA doesn't want us to know?
smash.
I sincerely doubt they'd be using it in any sort of conifdential environment... :P
smash.
Seriously, yes, the bandwidth costs more, but there's nothing stopping anyone from going back to 56K if they think thats a better deal now is there?
If you're going to complain "but 56K is too slow!" ... well, thats what you're paying the extra for.
smash.