A smile crept across my face after reading this story and then noticing a microsoft ad underneath informing the reader that Windows Server cost of ownership is lower than Linux cost of ownership!
Perhaps you didn't notice that the worm doesn't affect Windows Server 2003.
Humm.... RHCE RHCT Exam prep... If you can't afford RH AS?!?!
Well, like I said... testing in preparation for doing something on a real RHEL system.:p The point being that I can't see someone running WBEL on a production server or desktop for any reason.
It didn't take long for someone to take redhat's enterprise linux source rpms and repackage them as a "free" distrubution...
I have no idea why someone would want to run it though, except as a secondary platform to test software that you're going to be rolling out to real RHEL boxes. RHEL is a pretty limited distribution; it doesn't even self-host. The only reason I can see that you'd want to run it is for the support contract behind it -- which you don't get with White Box.
A lot of people who think photoshop is great forget that they didn't pay for their copy BECAUSE IT IS EXPENSIVE.
First; if you need and use all the advanced features of Photoshop, it's not that expensive.
Second; if you don't need all the advanced features of Photoshop, you can get Photoshop Elements for under a hundred dollars, which is Photoshop minus the CMYK, Pantone, and other prepress functionality that Adobe has to license from third parties, which is a contributing factor in making the full version of Photoshop cost what it does.
Photoshop Elements is very reasonably priced software, and considering you get the wonderful Photoshop UI with it, it actually gets better bang-for-the-buck than The GIMP, and considering The GIMP is free, that's an impressive feat. I wouldn't use any current version of The GIMP even if you paid me what Photoshop Elements costs.
Um, the president didn't pass the PATRIOT act. The congress did. (Not to say that your question is totally without merit, but let's not forget who does what here.)
The president pushed for it originally, the president signed it into law, and the president is campaigning for its renewal.
The Congress is to blame as well, but don't try to make it seem like the PATRIOT Act isn't Bush's fault as well.
Excuse my ignorance, but this XAML beast sounds an awful lot like XUL. So in a sense, the OS world has had a XAML alternative for a few years now - just a damn shame the Moz platform isn't ubiquitous enough to promote proper takeup of XUL.
If the Mozilla project were to produce a reasonably sized installer for Windows that would allow you to double-click an.xul document in order to start a fully-capable XUL-based application, and provide easily accessible documentation on how to get started with it, they could get a huge jump up on Microsoft.
Unfortunately, distributing an XUL runtime is difficult since it's currently tied directly into Mozilla and/or Firebird. The documentation on making applications with XUL is extremely lacking, and getting into anything more simple than "show this form" requires digging into even more poorly documented arcana.
I tried, and found the Getting Started phase of using XUL was far too steep of a boundary for XUL to gain any traction.
This isn't about fanaticism. This is about the overworked lkml guys not supporting binary drivers for the companies.
You know, if they really don't want to support binary-only drivers for companies, all they need to do is the one thing Linus has already stated they're not going to do: provide a clean, well-described, frozen external API for drivers.
....then change the Linux build scripts to randomize all the values for appropriate #defines throughout the kernel (syscall numbers, internal function names, etc). It thereby becomes impossible to work with the kernel internals without your source being available since it will need to compile on each individual system to inherit that system's randomzed #define values -- so if you want to keep your source closed, you must work only with the frozen external API.
It's time for a new section. It's time for an SCO section, ala Games or YRO. A section devoted entirely to SCO stories, because I (and I imagine a lot of other people) simply do not care about them anymore.
Go to your preferences, choose not to show any stories with the "Caldera" icon.
I see a lot of people explaining 'features' of IE who don't seem to have used anything else.
On the contrary, I've used Mozilla, I've even submitted several patches for it. I still don't really like it, though. It's got far too many little "why the hell did they do that?" problems where it differs from standard OS functionality that it dies from the death of a thousand paper cuts every time I try to switch to it.
Excuse me if this post is a little too pro-Microsoft, but you can't appreciate what Miguel is trying to say if your concepts of where Windows and.NET are going are flat out wrong:
But... but... but... Microsoft did this years ago (minus.net). Or am I really the only one who remembers the version of Outlook implemented entirely using DHTML/HTA (which produces native widgets). I can't remember the codename, but the project was scrapped. The benefits of running Outlook inside IE just were not compelling enough to overcome the performance and other problems.
The reason there was performance problems with DHTML Outlook was because they were trying to shoehorn an application on top of a system designed to do web browsing. This is clunky at best, but when it works it does give you the holy grail of a zero-install application. The problem is that the UI through the browser was never intended for application use, and that the scripting/code interfaces were weighted in the same way. XUL suffers largely from the same problems, which is why you're not seeing widespread adoption of Mozilla as an application platform.
Now, suppose they took the same zero-install goal, and built the UI and code engine from the ground up to support it. That's exactly what.NET/Avalon is. The Framework provides the fine-grained security needed for safe distributed applications, it comes will a very robust development environment, and Avalon is now fully part of the operating system, enabling it to do all the application-level things that DHTML from IE could never do.
Interestingly, that's also the same reason Microsoft decided to go with XAML instead of SVG, not just because Microsoft hates standards. SVG is designed with images in mind, not interactive applications. Rather than shoehorn in SVG as a non-optimal solution, they took what they needed from it and built their own schema -- much like how the Mozilla team created XUL rather than just use HTML. Read some Longhorn blogs and you'll find the developers go into detail as to exactly why SVG alone wouldn't have cut the mustard.
I don't know enough about.NET security to know how it compares, but SELinux policy is easily distributable in the form of text files and allows you use native code, which runs directly on the CPU without the overhead of a VM and huge set of managed APIs.
.NET code doesn't run under a VM, at least in the way you normally think of a VM. MSIL was designed to be never executed, and in fact, it never is;.NET code is all JITted directly to native code that simply calls into a runtime library for the rare times it needs to do something it can't JIT. Even the Framework APIs are all JITted. That's how.NET languages can achieve the same level of performance you'd have gotten by writing directly in native C. And it's security infrastructure is more flexible than SELinux, simply because of the fact that the native code came from the JIT, so that even the native code itself can be trusted in certain ways.
Exactly my pet peeves with MSIE. Why, oh why, must you reload the *exact same page* when I open a new window? Wouldn't the logical path be that I wanted *to look at a different web page*?!? The only explanation I can see is if you want to fork out in your browsing, say follow a link to the slashdot comments and read the article in a different window, but isn't that what right-click -> open-in-new-window is for?
The benefit of using Ctrl+N opening the same page in a new window in IE is that is not only opens the same page, but it carries your Back/Forward history along too. It's very useful when you want to save that history, yet branch down a different link path in another window.
This code just uses that key along with.NET's built-in cryptographic services to decrypt the data and write it back to the file. Seems like getting your hands on the key in the first place would be the hard part...
VLC will extract your user key and save it into your home directory when you use it to try to play a FairPlay-protected file from an authorized system.
The goal is to exploit a loop hole in patent law where validity of patent is counted from the date when it was granted, and not from date where it was applied for.
Patents haven't been like that in years. Now your exclusivity timer begins when you first submit the patent for consideration, not when it's finally granted.
it would make DirectX and Microsoft irrelevant Does anyone if the major game studios have plans on doing something similar, or if not, the reasons why they aren't?
Why would they? DirectX is a very powerful set of APIs that there's no real equal to on Linux yet (it's more than just Direct3D, you know), and by including the entire OS as part of the game, you're hurting your forward compatibility for everyone except people technically savvy enough to recompile a new kernel and burn a new bootable CD with drivers for newer hardware.
Yes, if you read my post carefully -- perhaps you missed a word or two when the garbage collector in your head did some clean-up -- I didn't say that pauses were inevitable. My complaint -- and not just mine, it's no revelation that garbage collection has may detractors -- is that the pauses are not predictable by writer of the program.
There are an awful lot of dashes at random places in this paragraph. Were you by chance running garbage collection?
Low-discrepancy sequences based on, e.g., date and/or genre. This provides a more uniform sampling of your music library for short duration listening, since in, say, four songs you are guaranteed four maximally different dates or genres, or whatever.
I would kill* for a good shuffler that would use the various bits of metadata tagged in the music files to "program" a nicely balanced playlist, much like a professional PD at a radio station would. Pure shuffling is too random for me and jars me out of enjoying the music too much.
I didn't agree to a license of any type when I bought my ticket.
Well, by buying the ticket, you've certainly consented to the movie theatre's rules for what you can and can't do in the theatre, and you'd be hard pressed to find a theatre today that doesn't have "no recording devices allowed" posted quite publically.
If I want to do a joe-job on an enemy small site, I can cause them a lot of pain by including their link.
Why? It doesn't hit the site, it does a lookup on it. And if the "enemy small site" isn't spamming themselves, why do they care if their URLs are being blocked from email?
Either split your file up into 2 meg chunks (like people already do with RAR files), or if it's two meg overall, simply encode your message as base64 data without making it an attachment. Either way, split it into as many seperate messages as necessary.
2.) Disallow accounts from being accessed by more than 10 ip addresses in a 24 hour period.
Also, disallow forwarding email between GMail users, since if the accounts are free, not everyone needs to log onto the same one.
What about the serial number required for online play? Will it be provided with the magazine/download?
One would assume that since it's not a FilePlanet Subscribers only download, keeping the serial number system would be pointless, and it will be removed.
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A smile crept across my face after reading this story and then noticing a microsoft ad underneath informing the reader that Windows Server cost of ownership is lower than Linux cost of ownership!
Perhaps you didn't notice that the worm doesn't affect Windows Server 2003.
Humm.... RHCE RHCT Exam prep... If you can't afford RH AS?!?!
:p The point being that I can't see someone running WBEL on a production server or desktop for any reason.
Well, like I said... testing in preparation for doing something on a real RHEL system.
It didn't take long for someone to take redhat's enterprise linux source rpms and repackage them as a "free" distrubution...
I have no idea why someone would want to run it though, except as a secondary platform to test software that you're going to be rolling out to real RHEL boxes. RHEL is a pretty limited distribution; it doesn't even self-host. The only reason I can see that you'd want to run it is for the support contract behind it -- which you don't get with White Box.
A lot of people who think photoshop is great forget that they didn't pay for their copy BECAUSE IT IS EXPENSIVE.
First; if you need and use all the advanced features of Photoshop, it's not that expensive.
Second; if you don't need all the advanced features of Photoshop, you can get Photoshop Elements for under a hundred dollars, which is Photoshop minus the CMYK, Pantone, and other prepress functionality that Adobe has to license from third parties, which is a contributing factor in making the full version of Photoshop cost what it does.
Photoshop Elements is very reasonably priced software, and considering you get the wonderful Photoshop UI with it, it actually gets better bang-for-the-buck than The GIMP, and considering The GIMP is free, that's an impressive feat. I wouldn't use any current version of The GIMP even if you paid me what Photoshop Elements costs.
Um, the president didn't pass the PATRIOT act. The congress did. (Not to say that your question is totally without merit, but let's not forget who does what here.)
The president pushed for it originally, the president signed it into law, and the president is campaigning for its renewal.
The Congress is to blame as well, but don't try to make it seem like the PATRIOT Act isn't Bush's fault as well.
Excuse my ignorance, but this XAML beast sounds an awful lot like XUL. So in a sense, the OS world has had a XAML alternative for a few years now - just a damn shame the Moz platform isn't ubiquitous enough to promote proper takeup of XUL.
.xul document in order to start a fully-capable XUL-based application, and provide easily accessible documentation on how to get started with it, they could get a huge jump up on Microsoft.
If the Mozilla project were to produce a reasonably sized installer for Windows that would allow you to double-click an
Unfortunately, distributing an XUL runtime is difficult since it's currently tied directly into Mozilla and/or Firebird. The documentation on making applications with XUL is extremely lacking, and getting into anything more simple than "show this form" requires digging into even more poorly documented arcana.
I tried, and found the Getting Started phase of using XUL was far too steep of a boundary for XUL to gain any traction.
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This isn't about fanaticism. This is about the overworked lkml guys not supporting binary drivers for the companies.
....then change the Linux build scripts to randomize all the values for appropriate #defines throughout the kernel (syscall numbers, internal function names, etc). It thereby becomes impossible to work with the kernel internals without your source being available since it will need to compile on each individual system to inherit that system's randomzed #define values -- so if you want to keep your source closed, you must work only with the frozen external API.
You know, if they really don't want to support binary-only drivers for companies, all they need to do is the one thing Linus has already stated they're not going to do: provide a clean, well-described, frozen external API for drivers.
It's time for a new section. It's time for an SCO section, ala Games or YRO. A section devoted entirely to SCO stories, because I (and I imagine a lot of other people) simply do not care about them anymore.
Go to your preferences, choose not to show any stories with the "Caldera" icon.
I see a lot of people explaining 'features' of IE who don't seem to have used anything else.
On the contrary, I've used Mozilla, I've even submitted several patches for it. I still don't really like it, though. It's got far too many little "why the hell did they do that?" problems where it differs from standard OS functionality that it dies from the death of a thousand paper cuts every time I try to switch to it.
"David is currently 25% completed with the Systems Design Phase of development."
Systems Design Phase of Development: Write "Make it run Windows applications. See MSDN for details." down on a sheet of paper.
Systems Implementation Phase of Development: Actually write all the code needed to implement Windows.
So, as you can see, they've gotten about a quarter of the way through writing a sentence down on a piece of paper.
Excuse me if this post is a little too pro-Microsoft, but you can't appreciate what Miguel is trying to say if your concepts of where Windows and .NET are going are flat out wrong:
... but ... but ... Microsoft did this years ago (minus .net). Or am I really the only one who remembers the version of Outlook implemented entirely using DHTML/HTA (which produces native widgets). I can't remember the codename, but the project was scrapped. The benefits of running Outlook inside IE just were not compelling enough to overcome the performance and other problems.
.NET/Avalon is. The Framework provides the fine-grained security needed for safe distributed applications, it comes will a very robust development environment, and Avalon is now fully part of the operating system, enabling it to do all the application-level things that DHTML from IE could never do.
.NET security to know how it compares, but SELinux policy is easily distributable in the form of text files and allows you use native code, which runs directly on the CPU without the overhead of a VM and huge set of managed APIs.
.NET code doesn't run under a VM, at least in the way you normally think of a VM. MSIL was designed to be never executed, and in fact, it never is; .NET code is all JITted directly to native code that simply calls into a runtime library for the rare times it needs to do something it can't JIT. Even the Framework APIs are all JITted. That's how .NET languages can achieve the same level of performance you'd have gotten by writing directly in native C. And it's security infrastructure is more flexible than SELinux, simply because of the fact that the native code came from the JIT, so that even the native code itself can be trusted in certain ways.
But
The reason there was performance problems with DHTML Outlook was because they were trying to shoehorn an application on top of a system designed to do web browsing. This is clunky at best, but when it works it does give you the holy grail of a zero-install application. The problem is that the UI through the browser was never intended for application use, and that the scripting/code interfaces were weighted in the same way. XUL suffers largely from the same problems, which is why you're not seeing widespread adoption of Mozilla as an application platform.
Now, suppose they took the same zero-install goal, and built the UI and code engine from the ground up to support it. That's exactly what
Interestingly, that's also the same reason Microsoft decided to go with XAML instead of SVG, not just because Microsoft hates standards. SVG is designed with images in mind, not interactive applications. Rather than shoehorn in SVG as a non-optimal solution, they took what they needed from it and built their own schema -- much like how the Mozilla team created XUL rather than just use HTML. Read some Longhorn blogs and you'll find the developers go into detail as to exactly why SVG alone wouldn't have cut the mustard.
I don't know enough about
Exactly my pet peeves with MSIE. Why, oh why, must you reload the *exact same page* when I open a new window? Wouldn't the logical path be that I wanted *to look at a different web page*?!? The only explanation I can see is if you want to fork out in your browsing, say follow a link to the slashdot comments and read the article in a different window, but isn't that what right-click -> open-in-new-window is for?
The benefit of using Ctrl+N opening the same page in a new window in IE is that is not only opens the same page, but it carries your Back/Forward history along too. It's very useful when you want to save that history, yet branch down a different link path in another window.
This code just uses that key along with .NET's built-in cryptographic services to decrypt the data and write it back to the file. Seems like getting your hands on the key in the first place would be the hard part...
VLC will extract your user key and save it into your home directory when you use it to try to play a FairPlay-protected file from an authorized system.
The goal is to exploit a loop hole in patent law where validity of patent is counted from the date when it was granted, and not from date where it was applied for.
Patents haven't been like that in years. Now your exclusivity timer begins when you first submit the patent for consideration, not when it's finally granted.
it would make DirectX and Microsoft irrelevant
Does anyone if the major game studios have plans on doing something similar, or if not, the reasons why they aren't?
Why would they? DirectX is a very powerful set of APIs that there's no real equal to on Linux yet (it's more than just Direct3D, you know), and by including the entire OS as part of the game, you're hurting your forward compatibility for everyone except people technically savvy enough to recompile a new kernel and burn a new bootable CD with drivers for newer hardware.
Someone considers The Today Show to be a news show?
He's a conservative. He doesn't know any better.
Yes, if you read my post carefully -- perhaps you missed a word or two when the garbage collector in your head did some clean-up -- I didn't say that pauses were inevitable. My complaint -- and not just mine, it's no revelation that garbage collection has may detractors -- is that the pauses are not predictable by writer of the program.
There are an awful lot of dashes at random places in this paragraph. Were you by chance running garbage collection?
Low-discrepancy sequences based on, e.g., date and/or genre. This provides a more uniform sampling of your music library for short duration listening, since in, say, four songs you are guaranteed four maximally different dates or genres, or whatever.
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I would kill* for a good shuffler that would use the various bits of metadata tagged in the music files to "program" a nicely balanced playlist, much like a professional PD at a radio station would. Pure shuffling is too random for me and jars me out of enjoying the music too much.
* - SCO Officers only.
Unless they're going to develop it under a bridge somewhere, it's not going to get done.
I didn't agree to a license of any type when I bought my ticket.
Well, by buying the ticket, you've certainly consented to the movie theatre's rules for what you can and can't do in the theatre, and you'd be hard pressed to find a theatre today that doesn't have "no recording devices allowed" posted quite publically.
If I want to do a joe-job on an enemy small site, I can cause them a lot of pain by including their link.
Why? It doesn't hit the site, it does a lookup on it. And if the "enemy small site" isn't spamming themselves, why do they care if their URLs are being blocked from email?
1.) Only allow attachments up to say 2 megs.
Either split your file up into 2 meg chunks (like people already do with RAR files), or if it's two meg overall, simply encode your message as base64 data without making it an attachment. Either way, split it into as many seperate messages as necessary.
2.) Disallow accounts from being accessed by more than 10 ip addresses in a 24 hour period.
Also, disallow forwarding email between GMail users, since if the accounts are free, not everyone needs to log onto the same one.
What about the serial number required for online play? Will it be provided with the magazine/download?
One would assume that since it's not a FilePlanet Subscribers only download, keeping the serial number system would be pointless, and it will be removed.
the Daily Show appearso to have a habit of making deceptive cuts
In their comedy segments. They're taking themselves too seriously as a real news source lately to fundamentally alter real content like that.