.. had something to say about this.. nature will find a way..
I have heard about people introducing 'snakehead' fish into the population of the wild where they were not native and then the snakehead became the dominant fish species. In Florida there have been so many Oscars and Jack Dempsey fish let loose that they have started a 'native' population and are now on the fish species list ( last I checked ). This is not the first time that fish and other animals have become native and dominant in an area that they were not initially. Man himself was not native to america and when we came here we destroyed many species, although no one will admit that.
I don't think the 'male' only gene will work. Fish are especially prone to genitic mutation and also supposedly' known for 'gender conversion' ( male -> female or female -> male). In fact guppies have hundreds of 'varieties' and some people think they are different species ( fancy guppies vs common guppies ) but they are the same species. Koi and Goldfish are also this same way and BOTH of these specied are related to the common carp. Both throw many mutations. I could see a case where a mutation could be a male only breeder mutates and breeds females easily.
I'm bi-opic.. I use both FreeBSD and Linux.. and NetBSD and Sun and HP and.. yes even Windows.
I'm not sure why someone who is running Linux would want a FreeBSD upgrade path, but it does offer them an option. The questions they may have are 1) Will all their hardware run? 2) Will all their software run?
The answers are maybe and maybe. I have had better luck with getting my wifi card in my laptop to run with NetBSD than I had with FreeBSD OR Linux so it runs NetBSD. I have had better luck getting my sound card to work in my desktop with Linux then I did with NetBSD or FreeBSD, so it runs Linux. My router runs FreeBSD because it has good SMP support which NetBSD did not have till recently and while Linux has good SMP support, I wanted to try FreeBSD.
In the end weather it be Sun, BSD, Linux, Windows or even a Mac, the end user can make it be whatever they want it to be.
All platforms now have support for gtk+ and qt, so you can use gimp on all these platforms, with cygwin, you can have bash ( or other popular shells ) on your windows or mac or pick your UNIX / unix like flavor. You can run X on all of these platforms and at that point, it becomes what you prefer.
I think that the linksys has ipsec, which is about as secure as you are gonna get when doing wireless.
The real important thing is to change the ssid and add a password. That will force someone to be scanning for the wireless and also require them to spend 20 minutes craking the wpa / wep encryption. But if you get teh BEFW11P1 it has ipsec too. Not sure which ones of their products also have this. If you need wireless then try the WRV54G. Look for VPN capability as most vpn systems out are using ipsec.
Um not it seems still alive to me http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/
Problem is that you need to install a webdav web server and then setup the read / write access lists to it. This means that you need to have apache or some other web dav server and stuff. I have it running at home and using apache, webdav, mozilla and moz calendar, with phpcalendar I can provide a calendar system that allows for basic calendaring. It works for me at home, but I have not tried it in the work place.
... such as 3D modeling, DNA analysys, protiens analysys, or anything that has to do with biomedical engineering.
I know that the leasing package that I work on would gladly take advantage of this. Not just our end of period stuff, but also our interactive stuff. In fact this new hardware is making for great servers these days and replacing much of the old HP / Sun servers.
Until SCO actually wins a lawsuit they have no real claims on anything. They have yet to show that the 'tainting of Linux' was not done intentionally. IE since SCo's own employees did most of the 'tainting' then they need to prove that it was NOT a directive from management that they take the code from SCO to Linux. Also they have not proved that the code did not go into Linux first and SCO second.
So until we know that there is 'tainted code' in Linux my company has said, we are not going to worry about SCO's claims.
..rather interesting is that it is used in Japan. Basically people there do not all have computers, and many use GSM type / 3G cell phones as computer replacements ( think text mes, web surf, email, voice, etc). Another use is the 'sex hookup'. You can get on a service and look to meet people. Kinda like a dating service with pictures and descriptions of people and how to contact them directly. Along with this is the ability to be decide to meet someone and be notified of when they are in the same vicinity as you. Of course both parties are supposed to agree that they want to meet. Then you set a preference and you can be notified when you both go to the same mall or something. This allows for 'semi-random' dating encounters, where you know the person or have seen a picture of the person and know a little before you meet them, but are not necessarily meeting the person at the mall as a predetermined date. It is more random. Kinda cool, kinda freaky.
Next up, lasers that kill people from outer space;-)....
The company I work at was established in 1972, I think and we still have LOTS of legacy vax basic code. It really sucks to work on this stuff, but its a job.
This is basically Microsofts answer to Mozillas XUL. What a suprise that they have such an original idea. Of course what they probably haven't realized is that this means that creating GUI interface that are cross platform becomes easier and it then becomes easier to move away from thier OS. If they publish the dtd for the XML then an interpreter for other OS's that can render the XML is all that is needed. Then using.net framework or web services, your applicaiton could run anywhere and work anywhere.
What can be done when you get "Mail System Error" mail messages that you did not send? Someone has STOLEN my email address and is using it as the reply to and from. Also lots of mail that says Hi in the subject. Of course it gets filtered out by my spam filter and I just look at the subject and delete.
I HATE SPAM! It's not freedom of speach, its almost DOS'ing mail servers.
I have been looking at idot computers ( http://www.idotpc.com/ ) this past few weeks. They have SBC's which is basically what this is. Basically if you wanted to build something like this ( probalby a little larger than a play station ) the following motherboard would get you started -> http://www.idotpc.com/TheStore/Desktop/859Spec.asp ?Product.id=859&Cate.id=5&Product.status=orang e
(It has built in sound, dual lan, 600mhz, video card and CPU ) Then if you add 256Megs memory and a case and wifi card your at about $400. Then you add flash card and HD and OS of choice ( this can run Linux if you want ) and you have built a system for about 1/2 the price they are selling their systems for. Of course you have to do the work.
If however, you are looking for an 'out of the box solution', then the extra 600 or so is well worth it. I didn't see where it said what OS this little device is running. Does anyone know? Is it possible to install another OS on this little thing? I'd imagine that it is possible, since it is a flash card. This will be real nice when they sell for $400 a pop. Then everyone can have one at home even.
"The concept of downloading software from a website could become obsolete, instead the web site would have a simple "type this: apt-get install " written in the 'how to install' page.
Who knows, perhaps it might go so far that users need only click a button, and provide a root password to install software, and they'll never see a prompt, let alone know what a "RPM" is."
Fedora has in its extras or something 'synaptic', I think that is how you spell it. Where it truely is a click this or click that. It is really sweet. It uses apt-get and basically allows you to brows the files and click install on a software package and figures out the dependancies. I use it alot now.
It seems to me that the differences between debian and redhat are startig to merge. Redhat's new fedora project has the ability to use apt-get for rpm, which is basically the rpm version adaptation to apt-get for debian, and now debian is possibly going to start using anaconda for installs and cd.
So how long before the redhat-config-** are ported to debian is the next question.
The differences between these two may soon lie in just deb or rpm. Which is really better may be just a matter of preference, but it seems that there are more distros using rpm than deb, so will debian ever move deb to rpm or are they tied to deb?
If you read my post, the problem I have had with eclipse is setting up the classpath and getting dot complete to work and compiling.
See eclipse is trying to bring togeather technoligies that were not built togeather. VB which I probably should have said MS IDE's like their Visual Basic IDE are all integrated really well. Eclipses integration is kind of scattered. At this point I don't think it is all there and I am not taking about the GUI window editor. JEdit is easier to use IMHO, than eclipse.
They are both complicated IDE that fail in comparison to the ease of creating a VB project in VB.
Yes they both are going in the rightdirection, but I have had constant problems getting code completion to work, getting the project to build using ant (Netbeans was actually easier than Eclipse IMHO).
Maybe someday they will get it, but then it will be to late.
Like why are there more than 10 different window managers for X? E, metacity, sawfish/sawimill, kde, windowmaker, blackbox, openbox, fvwm, twm, fluxbox, afterstep, etc, etc, etc, as there are more. Yes they are slighly different, but they all do the same thing: manage windows. There really should be only one that is really super configurable.
Why are there so many BSD's? Yes they each have different project goals, but couldn't one project have had ALL those goals? Linux runs on many platforms like NetBSD, and Linux focuses on security ( not as well as openbsd, but it could), and FreeBSD.. well why is there a FreeBSD, cause both openbsd and netbsd are both free. Oh yeah, FreeBSD has SMP support and something else.
Anyway, the arguing is not the problem in open source. The problem is that there is a lack of comprimising and lack of willingness to work togeather on projects. So and so gets upset cause he / she does not get their way and they start a whole new project. What a waste it has become of software as there are now several hunderd text editors that all do the same thing. Edit/etc config files.
I'll admit I have contributed to some of this, but lately I just maintain what I have and am thinking of contributing code to some of these projects.
wouldn't ms.net, if they ever implemented word or excel as web apps, break the 5-9 rule?
Also, in the applicaiton I work on if we were to port more of our reports to the web, we'd break these rules as we have 200 reports, that fall under about 1 main menu option and 15 submenu options, and then teh 200 reports. We'd then have to present the user with the report selection criteria, which would then have to be submitted to get to the report. Eeep! I can't see these rules being useful in large applications, but in small ones or in web news sites.
I guess the question I have is, if all these tech companies move all their operations over seas, who in the US will be left working, and want their technology? Really rich people don't need it and poor people can't afford it, and the middle class wont exist if we outsource all of our stuff overseas. This 'stuff' consists of programming jobs, call centers, medical transcription, hardware manufacturing, car manufacturing, etc. In the end we wont have a middle class in the US so who will need this crap anyway?
lets hear it for people passing laws when they have NO idea about what they are talking about.
ISP's cannot stop spam, so how is a bill going to? They don't! Most spam has a false return address and a fake user account and is going through a relay server that probably does not reside in the state or even country that the spam is going to. I get more spam from asian countries and my filters are getting better at trashing that stuff out.
The problem with some of this legislation is that it is going to end up costing the end user money to send and recieve email. Deal with your own spam your way and get over it.
... sues NASA and all SCO executives miraculously disapear off the face of the earth and are last seen hurdling towards the sun in a firey death ball.....
(LOL)
I didn't say it was hard. The old system was hard. I don't know about this system. It will be interesting to see this when there are GUI installers for debian. Not required GUI's but optional GUI install.
If redhat was into the end or free software they wouldn't be hosting fedora.redhat.com and trading code between this project and their enterprise stuff.
"If the client-side whitelist works so well, then why should the ISPs go to the expense of implementing server-side per-user ones?"
ISP's traditionally supply users with software to do PPPOE and such, they should also have the users install email applications that do good client side filtering like mozilla. So maybe ISP's should ship mozilla as part of their install pack and instructions on how to setup mail filters.
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I have heard about people introducing 'snakehead' fish into the population of the wild where they were not native and then the snakehead became the dominant fish species. In Florida there have been so many Oscars and Jack Dempsey fish let loose that they have started a 'native' population and are now on the fish species list ( last I checked ). This is not the first time that fish and other animals have become native and dominant in an area that they were not initially. Man himself was not native to america and when we came here we destroyed many species, although no one will admit that.
I don't think the 'male' only gene will work. Fish are especially prone to genitic mutation and also supposedly' known for 'gender conversion' ( male -> female or female -> male). In fact guppies have hundreds of 'varieties' and some people think they are different species ( fancy guppies vs common guppies ) but they are the same species. Koi and Goldfish are also this same way and BOTH of these specied are related to the common carp. Both throw many mutations. I could see a case where a mutation could be a male only breeder mutates and breeds females easily.
I'm not sure why someone who is running Linux would want a FreeBSD upgrade path, but it does offer them an option. The questions they may have are 1) Will all their hardware run? 2) Will all their software run?
The answers are maybe and maybe. I have had better luck with getting my wifi card in my laptop to run with NetBSD than I had with FreeBSD OR Linux so it runs NetBSD. I have had better luck getting my sound card to work in my desktop with Linux then I did with NetBSD or FreeBSD, so it runs Linux. My router runs FreeBSD because it has good SMP support which NetBSD did not have till recently and while Linux has good SMP support, I wanted to try FreeBSD.
In the end weather it be Sun, BSD, Linux, Windows or even a Mac, the end user can make it be whatever they want it to be.
All platforms now have support for gtk+ and qt, so you can use gimp on all these platforms, with cygwin, you can have bash ( or other popular shells ) on your windows or mac or pick your UNIX / unix like flavor. You can run X on all of these platforms and at that point, it becomes what you prefer.
The real important thing is to change the ssid and add a password. That will force someone to be scanning for the wireless and also require them to spend 20 minutes craking the wpa / wep encryption. But if you get teh BEFW11P1 it has ipsec too. Not sure which ones of their products also have this. If you need wireless then try the WRV54G. Look for VPN capability as most vpn systems out are using ipsec.
Problem is that you need to install a webdav web server and then setup the read / write access lists to it. This means that you need to have apache or some other web dav server and stuff. I have it running at home and using apache, webdav, mozilla and moz calendar, with phpcalendar I can provide a calendar system that allows for basic calendaring. It works for me at home, but I have not tried it in the work place.
I know that the leasing package that I work on would gladly take advantage of this. Not just our end of period stuff, but also our interactive stuff. In fact this new hardware is making for great servers these days and replacing much of the old HP / Sun servers.
Until SCO actually wins a lawsuit they have no real claims on anything. They have yet to show that the 'tainting of Linux' was not done intentionally. IE since SCo's own employees did most of the 'tainting' then they need to prove that it was NOT a directive from management that they take the code from SCO to Linux. Also they have not proved that the code did not go into Linux first and SCO second.
So until we know that there is 'tainted code' in Linux my company has said, we are not going to worry about SCO's claims.
Next up, lasers that kill people from outer space ;-)....
The company I work at was established in 1972, I think and we still have LOTS of legacy vax basic code. It really sucks to work on this stuff, but its a job.
This is basically Microsofts answer to Mozillas XUL. What a suprise that they have such an original idea. Of course what they probably haven't realized is that this means that creating GUI interface that are cross platform becomes easier and it then becomes easier to move away from thier OS. If they publish the dtd for the XML then an interpreter for other OS's that can render the XML is all that is needed. Then using .net framework or web services, your applicaiton could run anywhere and work anywhere.
I HATE SPAM! It's not freedom of speach, its almost DOS'ing mail servers.
It's all fun and games until someone gets their company bought out.
If however, you are looking for an 'out of the box solution', then the extra 600 or so is well worth it. I didn't see where it said what OS this little device is running. Does anyone know? Is it possible to install another OS on this little thing? I'd imagine that it is possible, since it is a flash card. This will be real nice when they sell for $400 a pop. Then everyone can have one at home even.
Who knows, perhaps it might go so far that users need only click a button, and provide a root password to install software, and they'll never see a prompt, let alone know what a "RPM" is."
Fedora has in its extras or something 'synaptic', I think that is how you spell it. Where it truely is a click this or click that. It is really sweet. It uses apt-get and basically allows you to brows the files and click install on a software package and figures out the dependancies. I use it alot now.
So how long before the redhat-config-** are ported to debian is the next question.
The differences between these two may soon lie in just deb or rpm. Which is really better may be just a matter of preference, but it seems that there are more distros using rpm than deb, so will debian ever move deb to rpm or are they tied to deb?
See eclipse is trying to bring togeather technoligies that were not built togeather. VB which I probably should have said MS IDE's like their Visual Basic IDE are all integrated really well. Eclipses integration is kind of scattered. At this point I don't think it is all there and I am not taking about the GUI window editor. JEdit is easier to use IMHO, than eclipse.
Yes they both are going in the rightdirection, but I have had constant problems getting code completion to work, getting the project to build using ant (Netbeans was actually easier than Eclipse IMHO).
Maybe someday they will get it, but then it will be to late.
Why are there so many BSD's? Yes they each have different project goals, but couldn't one project have had ALL those goals? Linux runs on many platforms like NetBSD, and Linux focuses on security ( not as well as openbsd, but it could), and FreeBSD.. well why is there a FreeBSD, cause both openbsd and netbsd are both free. Oh yeah, FreeBSD has SMP support and something else.
Anyway, the arguing is not the problem in open source. The problem is that there is a lack of comprimising and lack of willingness to work togeather on projects. So and so gets upset cause he / she does not get their way and they start a whole new project. What a waste it has become of software as there are now several hunderd text editors that all do the same thing. Edit /etc config files.
I'll admit I have contributed to some of this, but lately I just maintain what I have and am thinking of contributing code to some of these projects.
Also, in the applicaiton I work on if we were to port more of our reports to the web, we'd break these rules as we have 200 reports, that fall under about 1 main menu option and 15 submenu options, and then teh 200 reports. We'd then have to present the user with the report selection criteria, which would then have to be submitted to get to the report. Eeep! I can't see these rules being useful in large applications, but in small ones or in web news sites.
I guess the question I have is, if all these tech companies move all their operations over seas, who in the US will be left working, and want their technology? Really rich people don't need it and poor people can't afford it, and the middle class wont exist if we outsource all of our stuff overseas. This 'stuff' consists of programming jobs, call centers, medical transcription, hardware manufacturing, car manufacturing, etc. In the end we wont have a middle class in the US so who will need this crap anyway?
ISP's cannot stop spam, so how is a bill going to? They don't! Most spam has a false return address and a fake user account and is going through a relay server that probably does not reside in the state or even country that the spam is going to. I get more spam from asian countries and my filters are getting better at trashing that stuff out.
The problem with some of this legislation is that it is going to end up costing the end user money to send and recieve email. Deal with your own spam your way and get over it.
... sues NASA and all SCO executives miraculously disapear off the face of the earth and are last seen hurdling towards the sun in a firey death ball..... (LOL)
I didn't say it was hard. The old system was hard. I don't know about this system. It will be interesting to see this when there are GUI installers for debian. Not required GUI's but optional GUI install.
All the others have GUI's which, believe it or not alot of people really really like. Easy that a monkey could do it. This doesn't look that easy.
If redhat was into the end or free software they wouldn't be hosting fedora.redhat.com and trading code between this project and their enterprise stuff.
ISP's traditionally supply users with software to do PPPOE and such, they should also have the users install email applications that do good client side filtering like mozilla. So maybe ISP's should ship mozilla as part of their install pack and instructions on how to setup mail filters.