Package management was being fixed before "the Oracle years". S11 was in progress when Oracle took over
Your other comments don't make any sense, so I shall do you a favour and ignore them until you can state them more clearly.
Is it likely that a German user would have got an email written in German, and that a French user would get an email written in French? Therefore, is it likely that a UK English (aka English!) speaking user would get an email written in English, not in American English?
SunOS is the kernel of the old and current Sun operating system. The Solaris Operating Environment includes the SunOS kernel.
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005
And corporate users, who have a WinXP desktop with IE6.
I'm working on a customer site at the moment, where IE6 is the only permitted browser, the web proxy blocks sites which may install other browsers, so the only way to access many websites is to use my laptop with a 3G dongle to get direct access to the internet.
Somehow, although PortableApps' Firefox worked once (loaded by USB stick, as the website was barred), it, too, is now somehow blocked.
When browsing, I'm not too bothered about IE6's lack of compliance, but the lack of tabbed browsing means that it's impossible to organise a few sets of web pages together into a coherent set. (What *did* we do before tabbed browsing?!!)
Drepper, and glibc is also a big part of the G in GNU/Linux.
The reason people fear upgrading glibc is that it is so central to the rest of the code they run on a GNU/Linux system.
I don't know Drepper, or Schilling, or others, personally, but I respect the fact that they do far more than I do, and that they know far more than I do about libc level issues.
I have been using GNU/Linux for 13 years or more, and in that time it has become perfectly clear to me how critical the work of people like Drepper are to the GNU/Linux ecosystem. Similarly, that is why the credit of GNU/Linux is so much more important that the "I heart Ubuntu" fanboy stuff.
Sorry to be an old fart, but some of us care about design and engineering. Other people want pretty wallpaper. That's fine, Linux has plenty of room to accomodate both, and more besides.
I'll set one up for $100, if you like. I'll do a 192.168.1.0/24 network, with a 192.168.2.0/24 network. It'll cost you, of course; after all it is an entire inter-network. And then there's the hardware; you'll need a router between the two, and then the cabling.
Oh sorry, were you just some USAian cheapskate moaning about the cost of broadband access?
It's been overdone, it's true, but it's still worth mentioning; THERE ARE PEOPLE WITHOUT FOOD AND WATER
There's hardly a need to set up a new internet just because you don't like what Verizon charge you for broadband.
Are you aware of the cost of laying intercontinental cables? Oh sorry, you're USAian, I'll have to backtrack... There are continents. America is one of them. The USA is part of that continent. You are part of the USA. The USA is a Country. Most (all?) Continents consist of many Countries. This all fits into a sphere we often call "Earth". We are a species known as Homo Sapiens, who inhabit this planet. Pretty much all of it, as it happens. And we're f*cking it up. Badly.
Yet the biggest thing you can find about the Internet, is that it costs you $2 more per month than you would like.
Actually, that's good for me. Save your "new internet" costs, by simply disconnecting yourself from the existing (so-called) "internet". You'll save a load of money, and the huge intercontinental distance means that I will never need to hear any of your whines again.
The symlinks were pretty nasty, but there was a certain logic behind the setup. It was disorienting if you're an expert on other UNIX systems and new to SCO OpenServer, but not actually bad, just different, IMHO.
The product itself was okay; I was the SCO "expert" for (ironically enough) an IBM reseller I worked for in '97, and - amongst the short list of UNIX-type systems you could run on x86 hardware, SCO was pretty good, with better driver support than just about anything else (though that would have been about the time that Linux caught up and started to overtake).
I even did some work on somebody's SCO OpenServer 5 box in January of this year!
Why wouldn't any DNS server measure its uptime in years? Hardware or OS issues wouldn't count towards actual DNS server downtime, if we are being fair to the DNS software itself. Why would it fail? Why would BIND need downtime, beyond external factors? You have nothing here to boast about.
Call me a pedant, but...
What RFC(s) do these problematic Outlook / Outlook Express messages comply with?
Isn't it the case, that your problem is some people are using non-standard (ie, Outlook) email clients, and getting undesired results?
What standard have Microsoft used (and specified in the content), that Thunderbird has failed to deliver?
Actually, scrap that "call me a pedant" stuff. I don't think that I am being pedantic. I want a globally workable email system (actually, I've got one, and it's well documented, too). Microsoft choose not to comply with it. Microsoft's non-compliance has become an issue for me, personally, when I took up employment with a company which uses MS Exchange. Other than that, so fscking what? When Microsoft are in the wrong, you need to call Microsoft to fix it, not anybody else.
On paper, what Exchange/Outlook provides looks good; if it was an open standard, I would applaud Free Software implementations of clients (and - hey - servers too, why not?!).
Outlook is still seriously flawed. I work for a major MS partner, I should have the best possible MS WinXP/Outlook/Exchange setup possible. My personal email is on a resold co-located Linux box somewhere in Canada (I don't even know where!). To open a 10Mb file from Canada (Linux) takes about a minute; that's about the same time as it takes to open a 50Kb file from the UK (where I, and my mail server, both are). What happens in that downtime, is what really matters to me. Thunderbird is still responsive, whereas Outlook, once I have glanced in the direction of a large email, will hang, and not allow me to do anything else, until it has downloaded the entire contents of the email. Even if I know on sight (from the subject line, for example) that I don't want it, and only want to delete it, I can't even delete it without downloading it (at the expense of all other email/calendar/etc functionality)
It'd be good if Outlook/Exchange were robust, too.
I (have to) use Outlook/Exchange at work, but if the "appointment" specification was public, I would be able to get away from it.
In particular, I find that if I receive an appointment, start to reply (maybe giving a "Tentative" response), then cancel that message, it has already disappeared from my Inbox, into my Calendar. I have to find the date (I memorised that, just in case, right?!), find the appointment, and then continue from where I was, giving an "Accept" response, this time.
Now we also have IM (which I don't personally like to use in any form; if I wanted random people to interrupt me at a whim, I'd tie a cowbell to a string above my desk), also built in to the whole setup. Microsoft's Communicator seems to be a poor-man's Jabber, with no logging and a huge obtrusive GUI, and no chance to even edit the source.
You really think that there's anything in those vans?
Like what? Think about it. It's a propaganda tool.
I remember hearing how they'd got handheld versions, so they could walk through University accommodation to see which students were using TVs. How would that work? Does that assume that they have the right to enter private property in the first place?!
Nearly everyone has a TV, so you just go round to those addresses which don't have a TV license every now and again, for a "spot check".
I pay my TV license happily, because (a) it is not a huge amount - it's less than I pay for a few more channels of sh!t from Sky (but which provides some channels the children enjoy), and (b) I believe in the principle of public-service broadcasting. The BBC is a wonderful organisation... just look into its history some day (hehe - http://www.bbc.co.uk/heritage/story/index.shtml says "From Marconi to MP3"!) - the principles upon which it was founded are one of the things that makes me proud to be British.
Espousing closed-source, and - let's be frank about this - foreign, commercial - software is unacceptable. Not in some bigoted xenophobic way. but simply because the BBC have already done so much work on dirac (http://dirac.sf.net/)
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Package management was being fixed before "the Oracle years". S11 was in progress when Oracle took over Your other comments don't make any sense, so I shall do you a favour and ignore them until you can state them more clearly.
To store encrypted stuff he has no access to, your neighbour has to really trust you, too!
http://releases.ubuntu.com/11.04/ubuntu-11.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/torrents/Fedora-15-x86_64-Live-KDE.torrent ... I could go on...
Is it likely that a German user would have got an email written in German, and that a French user would get an email written in French? Therefore, is it likely that a UK English (aka English!) speaking user would get an email written in English, not in American English?
Indeed. "sudo apt-get install vlc" is simple and predictable.
I hugely prefer to work in GNOME, but when forced to use MS Windows, PuTTY is the only thing that makes it bearable!
SunOS is the kernel of the old and current Sun operating system. The Solaris Operating Environment includes the SunOS kernel. Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005
Don't keep us waiting - what's the interesting story? ;-)
Only if they redistribute the binaries. Google take and modify Free Software, but under GPLv2 have no obligation to share their changes
Oh, the irony
> Electronic Arts vinyl-sized game sleeves Since when was vinyl used as a measure of size?
You might want to change "cat > /etc/hosts" to "cat >> /etc/hosts" :-)
The cited use of i.e. seems perfectly reasonable. When i.e. and e.g. are so often used incorrectly, nobody recognises the correct usage any longer!
And corporate users, who have a WinXP desktop with IE6. I'm working on a customer site at the moment, where IE6 is the only permitted browser, the web proxy blocks sites which may install other browsers, so the only way to access many websites is to use my laptop with a 3G dongle to get direct access to the internet. Somehow, although PortableApps' Firefox worked once (loaded by USB stick, as the website was barred), it, too, is now somehow blocked. When browsing, I'm not too bothered about IE6's lack of compliance, but the lack of tabbed browsing means that it's impossible to organise a few sets of web pages together into a coherent set. (What *did* we do before tabbed browsing?!!)
Drepper, and glibc is also a big part of the G in GNU/Linux. The reason people fear upgrading glibc is that it is so central to the rest of the code they run on a GNU/Linux system. I don't know Drepper, or Schilling, or others, personally, but I respect the fact that they do far more than I do, and that they know far more than I do about libc level issues. I have been using GNU/Linux for 13 years or more, and in that time it has become perfectly clear to me how critical the work of people like Drepper are to the GNU/Linux ecosystem. Similarly, that is why the credit of GNU/Linux is so much more important that the "I heart Ubuntu" fanboy stuff. Sorry to be an old fart, but some of us care about design and engineering. Other people want pretty wallpaper. That's fine, Linux has plenty of room to accomodate both, and more besides.
Is memory loss common in this community?
"A new internet"?
I'll set one up for $100, if you like. I'll do a 192.168.1.0/24 network, with a 192.168.2.0/24 network. It'll cost you, of course; after all it is an entire inter-network. And then there's the hardware; you'll need a router between the two, and then the cabling.
Oh sorry, were you just some USAian cheapskate moaning about the cost of broadband access?
It's been overdone, it's true, but it's still worth mentioning; THERE ARE PEOPLE WITHOUT FOOD AND WATER
There's hardly a need to set up a new internet just because you don't like what Verizon charge you for broadband.
Are you aware of the cost of laying intercontinental cables? Oh sorry, you're USAian, I'll have to backtrack... There are continents. America is one of them. The USA is part of that continent. You are part of the USA. The USA is a Country. Most (all?) Continents consist of many Countries. This all fits into a sphere we often call "Earth". We are a species known as Homo Sapiens, who inhabit this planet. Pretty much all of it, as it happens. And we're f*cking it up. Badly.
Yet the biggest thing you can find about the Internet, is that it costs you $2 more per month than you would like.
Actually, that's good for me. Save your "new internet" costs, by simply disconnecting yourself from the existing (so-called) "internet". You'll save a load of money, and the huge intercontinental distance means that I will never need to hear any of your whines again.
It seems that we have a plan; what do you think?
The symlinks were pretty nasty, but there was a certain logic behind the setup. It was disorienting if you're an expert on other UNIX systems and new to SCO OpenServer, but not actually bad, just different, IMHO. The product itself was okay; I was the SCO "expert" for (ironically enough) an IBM reseller I worked for in '97, and - amongst the short list of UNIX-type systems you could run on x86 hardware, SCO was pretty good, with better driver support than just about anything else (though that would have been about the time that Linux caught up and started to overtake). I even did some work on somebody's SCO OpenServer 5 box in January of this year!
Why wouldn't any DNS server measure its uptime in years? Hardware or OS issues wouldn't count towards actual DNS server downtime, if we are being fair to the DNS software itself. Why would it fail? Why would BIND need downtime, beyond external factors? You have nothing here to boast about.
Call me a pedant, but... What RFC(s) do these problematic Outlook / Outlook Express messages comply with? Isn't it the case, that your problem is some people are using non-standard (ie, Outlook) email clients, and getting undesired results? What standard have Microsoft used (and specified in the content), that Thunderbird has failed to deliver? Actually, scrap that "call me a pedant" stuff. I don't think that I am being pedantic. I want a globally workable email system (actually, I've got one, and it's well documented, too). Microsoft choose not to comply with it. Microsoft's non-compliance has become an issue for me, personally, when I took up employment with a company which uses MS Exchange. Other than that, so fscking what? When Microsoft are in the wrong, you need to call Microsoft to fix it, not anybody else.
Same here. Thunderbird isn't perfect, but it's far more pleasant to use than Outlook. Having said that, I am considering reverting to pine...
On paper, what Exchange/Outlook provides looks good; if it was an open standard, I would applaud Free Software implementations of clients (and - hey - servers too, why not?!). Outlook is still seriously flawed. I work for a major MS partner, I should have the best possible MS WinXP/Outlook/Exchange setup possible. My personal email is on a resold co-located Linux box somewhere in Canada (I don't even know where!). To open a 10Mb file from Canada (Linux) takes about a minute; that's about the same time as it takes to open a 50Kb file from the UK (where I, and my mail server, both are). What happens in that downtime, is what really matters to me. Thunderbird is still responsive, whereas Outlook, once I have glanced in the direction of a large email, will hang, and not allow me to do anything else, until it has downloaded the entire contents of the email. Even if I know on sight (from the subject line, for example) that I don't want it, and only want to delete it, I can't even delete it without downloading it (at the expense of all other email/calendar/etc functionality)
It'd be good if Outlook/Exchange were robust, too.
I (have to) use Outlook/Exchange at work, but if the "appointment" specification was public, I would be able to get away from it.
In particular, I find that if I receive an appointment, start to reply (maybe giving a "Tentative" response), then cancel that message, it has already disappeared from my Inbox, into my Calendar. I have to find the date (I memorised that, just in case, right?!), find the appointment, and then continue from where I was, giving an "Accept" response, this time.
Now we also have IM (which I don't personally like to use in any form; if I wanted random people to interrupt me at a whim, I'd tie a cowbell to a string above my desk), also built in to the whole setup. Microsoft's Communicator seems to be a poor-man's Jabber, with no logging and a huge obtrusive GUI, and no chance to even edit the source.
You really think that there's anything in those vans?
Like what? Think about it. It's a propaganda tool.
I remember hearing how they'd got handheld versions, so they could walk through University accommodation to see which students were using TVs. How would that work? Does that assume that they have the right to enter private property in the first place?!
Nearly everyone has a TV, so you just go round to those addresses which don't have a TV license every now and again, for a "spot check".
I pay my TV license happily, because (a) it is not a huge amount - it's less than I pay for a few more channels of sh!t from Sky (but which provides some channels the children enjoy), and (b) I believe in the principle of public-service broadcasting. The BBC is a wonderful organisation... just look into its history some day (hehe - http://www.bbc.co.uk/heritage/story/index.shtml says "From Marconi to MP3"!) - the principles upon which it was founded are one of the things that makes me proud to be British.
Espousing closed-source, and - let's be frank about this - foreign, commercial - software is unacceptable. Not in some bigoted xenophobic way. but simply because the BBC have already done so much work on dirac (http://dirac.sf.net/)
As PoV is off the air til Autumn, try Radio 4's Feedback: feedback@bbc.co.uk
I just did!