The reconstruction of Iraq has largely been contracted out to anybody who cared to bid as long as they were American and Halliburton. Where does open source anything fit into that picture?
Not quite true. I use OpenLDAP for authentication for a network of OS X Macs so I've done a little thinking about this one.
I don't use DHCP to resolve the LDAP server, I specify the hostname. I also manually set the authentication path to use LDAP, then Netinfo for a local admin account.
As far as I can see if I had left the default settings and somebody had setup a rogue DHCP server and LDAP server inside my network they might then be able to remotely login to one of my OS X boxes using a bogus account in the LDAP database. If the account was setup as a member of the 'admin' group then they'd be able to 'sudo' and hence gain root access to the box.
Now this remote login would also have to come from within my network because our firewall prevents any of these boxes being seen from outside our network.
So it pretty much has to be an inside job. Not a problem here. Potentially a problem in a big corporate cubicle farm.
True, but the LEGO model she's leaning against is supposed to be 5ft high and it's clearly taller than her. She's a hot midget. I don't think I could go that way.
Absolutely no configuration possible That would be except for all the Redhat config tools and the standard config files for everything. Have you ever used Linux before?
$ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030217 (Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 3.2.2-2a) Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
So gcc is copyright FSF. Distributed under the GPL. FSF do not cease to be the copyright holder by using the GPL, they simply define the terms of use and distribution of the software they provide.
You could have the best product in the world, but if nobody knows about it, then your product will be a failure
What is the criteria for success/failure with a non-commercial product? Certainly not number of units sold. The Gnome developers set about creating a desktop environment which presumably was intended to satisfy certain design criteria. If those criteria are met then the project is a success. If people don't use it it may be disappointing but it's hardly a failure.
And I use it everyday and it's the best desktop environment in the universe and KDE is stupid and Window Maker is stupider and don't get me started on the alternatives because there aren't any and if you're not using Gnome right now you should be poked with a sharp pointy stick.
You can reduce the Window Maker icon size from the default 64x64 all the way down to 24x24. (You have to restart Window Maker to see the changes.) It looks craptacular but it'll buy you a lot of screen real estate.
I use Gnome on a 1024x768 iBook2. I selected a theme with minimal decorations, small window borders, etc. and I use the menu style top panel which is about the same size as the OSX Menu bar. It's not quite as spacious as the 1280x1024 Studio Display I use on the G4 at work but it's pretty neat.
And how much screen real estate do you need when you have multiple virtual desktops anyway?
This one time me and my buddies set fire to this old shed and it burnt to the ground and it was like the most ultimate shed mod and then this other time we had a whole case of beer and we drank every can and it was the most ultimate case of beer mod and then this other time I got hit by a bus and killed and I never modded anything again. Fuck.
Our belief is that SCO has great opportunity in the future to let Linux keep going, not to put it on its back but for us to get a transaction fee every time it's sold. That's really our goal.
I can see that happening in a hurry. Hell I bet nobody would be interested in reverting to an older kernel and then working back to where we are today with new source. And nobody would look at alternative kernels (eg. the BSDs). And nobody would just throw in the towel and run Windows. No way, we'll just pony up a butt load of money to McBride and Co. to use the kernel they're trying to steal from us. Cock smoking bitches.
OSX does use Netinfo by default for local login but the previous poster is quite correct in saying the Netinfo should not be selected in the Directory Access utility. This checkbox is for enabling authentication using a remote Netinfo server and can cause authentication problems including fantastically long timeouts with no on-screen error message when logging in.
I use LDAP authentication through OpenLDAP on a Linux box with local Netinfo as a fall back for a local admin account. It's been pretty flakey with previous versions of OSX, mainly authentication failures first thing in the morning on machines that have been left asleep at the login prompt over night. Directory Access used to have a lot of trouble working out what to do with itself when the machine woke up. Authentication failed but the Linux server logs tended to suggest that the LDAP requests weren't being made. Anyway, it all seems to work reliably as of 10.3
I'm curious to know what hardware you're talking about? These days anything I'd buy to plug into my PC I seem to be able to plug into my Mac as well and the Mac generally does a better job of recognising and talking to the crap I plug into it.
I'm talking about stuff like printers, cameras, scanners, etc.
Because Aqua is slow, proprietary and, to date, only runs on expensive Apple hardware, though I hear you can use MacOnLinux to get OSX up and running on some other PPC based hardware though it's a violation of the EULA which clearly stipulates you're only allowed to run the OS on Apple hardware.
I'm posting from Mozilla running in GNU/Linux (YDL3.0) on an older G3 iMac and I can't say I miss Aqua at all. I'm very much at home with Gnome.
Aqua's great if you have powerful recent hardware , are willing to live without virtual desktops and don't mind that each signifcant OSX upgrade breaks all sorts of third party apps many of which are also closed source so you can't recompile anything to get it going again each time they upgrade the fscking compiler/libraries.
Python, Smalltalk & Objective-C are three OOP languages that I use that are not statically typed. It's one of the enourmous strengths of the languages that you're not constantly type casting to get around the ludicrous restrictions imposed by a statically typed language.
Dynamic resolution at runtime does present performance problems, but we are talking about Java here so performance is obviously not an issue.
I'd say the real problem with PHP is that, to the best of my knowledge, it doesn't support exceptions so the user is occassionally confronted by baffling error messages in place of the page they requested. Shabby.
I know what you mean, but I don't completely agree with the example.
Fire up Perl, Python, etc. on your OS of choice and 'Hello World' is just a couple of lines of code away, no compilation necessary.
eg.
while (1):
print 'Hello World !'
Adding a GUI can be pretty awful but there's no shortage of GUI building tools available these days. I'm a big fan of Glade for Gtk/Gnome and the Project Builder/Interface Builder combination on OSX is awesome.
I vaguely recall using VB on Win98 years ago and even that was pretty darn cool for knocking up a quick and dirty GUI app.
Buy the second cheapest bike in the shop. Ride it to the station. Chain it to the fence. Go to work.
Once in awhile you'll return to find your bike stolen or vandalised. With your increased fitness from regular cycling the walk home will not be a challenge. In the morning buy the second cheapest bike in the shop.....
How many times do I have to read this stupid trolling post? I must have read this at least ahhhh.... once before and it was bloody annoying then too.
1. Your keyboard complaint is stupid. I'm using an iBook running Linux to type this and the last time I found myself inconvenienced by the keyboard was never.
2. Buy a fucking 3 button mouse you goddam sissy girl bitch.
3. Apple market their cool stuff to cool people, not sulking, single button mouse lamenting, keyboard intolerant turds like you. I bet they're sticking with the current design specifically to discourage you from buying a Mac. I bet they wouldn't sell you one anyway.
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The reconstruction of Iraq has largely been contracted out to anybody who cared to bid as long as they were American and Halliburton. Where does open source anything fit into that picture?
Me too. I'm downloading the update now and posting this from Safari 1.1.1
'Boxen' is plural. You're only talking about one box.
Perhaps if the US hadn't sold him W of MD in the first place they wouldn't be so certain he had them.
Not quite true. I use OpenLDAP for authentication for a network of OS X Macs so I've done a little thinking about this one.
I don't use DHCP to resolve the LDAP server, I specify the hostname. I also manually set the authentication path to use LDAP, then Netinfo for a local admin account.
As far as I can see if I had left the default settings and somebody had setup a rogue DHCP server and LDAP server inside my network they might then be able to remotely login to one of my OS X boxes using a bogus account in the LDAP database. If the account was setup as a member of the 'admin' group then they'd be able to 'sudo' and hence gain root access to the box.
Now this remote login would also have to come from within my network because our firewall prevents any of these boxes being seen from outside our network.
So it pretty much has to be an inside job. Not a problem here. Potentially a problem in a big corporate cubicle farm.
From the very definition you cited,
'.....it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead. '
Identical as in twins or identical as in genetically engineered midget love slaves? It makes all the difference.
True, but the LEGO model she's leaning against is supposed to be 5ft high and it's clearly taller than her. She's a hot midget. I don't think I could go that way.
Absolutely no configuration possible
That would be except for all the Redhat config tools and the standard config files for everything. Have you ever used Linux before?
No easy software updating.
apt and yum.
I've just upgraded Mozilla on my YDL box using:
$ sudo yum update mozilla
Not very difficult at all.
Darl, you are a dangerous idiot.
You could have the best product in the world, but if nobody knows about it, then your product will be a failure
What is the criteria for success/failure with a non-commercial product? Certainly not number of units sold. The Gnome developers set about creating a desktop environment which presumably was intended to satisfy certain design criteria. If those criteria are met then the project is a success. If people don't use it it may be disappointing but it's hardly a failure.
And I use it everyday and it's the best desktop environment in the universe and KDE is stupid and Window Maker is stupider and don't get me started on the alternatives because there aren't any and if you're not using Gnome right now you should be poked with a sharp pointy stick.
You can reduce the Window Maker icon size from the default 64x64 all the way down to 24x24. (You have to restart Window Maker to see the changes.) It looks craptacular but it'll buy you a lot of screen real estate.
I use Gnome on a 1024x768 iBook2. I selected a theme with minimal decorations, small window borders, etc. and I use the menu style top panel which is about the same size as the OSX Menu bar. It's not quite as spacious as the 1280x1024 Studio Display I use on the G4 at work but it's pretty neat.
And how much screen real estate do you need when you have multiple virtual desktops anyway?
This one time me and my buddies set fire to this old shed and it burnt to the ground and it was like the most ultimate shed mod and then this other time we had a whole case of beer and we drank every can and it was the most ultimate case of beer mod and then this other time I got hit by a bus and killed and I never modded anything again. Fuck.
Our belief is that SCO has great opportunity in the future to let Linux keep going, not to put it on its back but for us to get a transaction fee every time it's sold. That's really our goal.
I can see that happening in a hurry. Hell I bet nobody would be interested in reverting to an older kernel and then working back to where we are today with new source. And nobody would look at alternative kernels (eg. the BSDs). And nobody would just throw in the towel and run Windows. No way, we'll just pony up a butt load of money to McBride and Co. to use the kernel they're trying to steal from us. Cock smoking bitches.
2a. profit
Linux is not an operating system. It's a kernel looking for an operating system.
Without the GNU tools it would be absolutely useless.
It's about time somebody gave the bearded loony some credit. He's a dead set fucking legend. And a nut. But a legend nonethless.
OSX does use Netinfo by default for local login but the previous poster is quite correct in saying the Netinfo should not be selected in the Directory Access utility. This checkbox is for enabling authentication using a remote Netinfo server and can cause authentication problems including fantastically long timeouts with no on-screen error message when logging in.
I use LDAP authentication through OpenLDAP on a Linux box with local Netinfo as a fall back for a local admin account. It's been pretty flakey with previous versions of OSX, mainly authentication failures first thing in the morning on machines that have been left asleep at the login prompt over night. Directory Access used to have a lot of trouble working out what to do with itself when the machine woke up. Authentication failed but the Linux server logs tended to suggest that the LDAP requests weren't being made. Anyway, it all seems to work reliably as of 10.3
No, what makes Linux so great is that it's a free (beer and speech) *nix.
Would VHS have lost to Betamax?
Would Windows be more popular than Linux?
Personally I always got most of my information by talking to people who knew more shit than me.
Lack of 3rd party hardware?
I'm curious to know what hardware you're talking about? These days anything I'd buy to plug into my PC I seem to be able to plug into my Mac as well and the Mac generally does a better job of recognising and talking to the crap I plug into it.
I'm talking about stuff like printers, cameras, scanners, etc.
Because Aqua is slow, proprietary and, to date, only runs on expensive Apple hardware, though I hear you can use MacOnLinux to get OSX up and running on some other PPC based hardware though it's a violation of the EULA which clearly stipulates you're only allowed to run the OS on Apple hardware.
I'm posting from Mozilla running in GNU/Linux (YDL3.0) on an older G3 iMac and I can't say I miss Aqua at all. I'm very much at home with Gnome.
Aqua's great if you have powerful recent hardware , are willing to live without virtual desktops and don't mind that each signifcant OSX upgrade breaks all sorts of third party apps many of which are also closed source so you can't recompile anything to get it going again each time they upgrade the fscking compiler/libraries.
Python, Smalltalk & Objective-C are three OOP languages that I use that are not statically typed. It's one of the enourmous strengths of the languages that you're not constantly type casting to get around the ludicrous restrictions imposed by a statically typed language.
Dynamic resolution at runtime does present performance problems, but we are talking about Java here so performance is obviously not an issue.
I'd say the real problem with PHP is that, to the best of my knowledge, it doesn't support exceptions so the user is occassionally confronted by baffling error messages in place of the page they requested. Shabby.
Fire up Perl, Python, etc. on your OS of choice and 'Hello World' is just a couple of lines of code away, no compilation necessary.
eg.Adding a GUI can be pretty awful but there's no shortage of GUI building tools available these days. I'm a big fan of Glade for Gtk/Gnome and the Project Builder/Interface Builder combination on OSX is awesome.
I vaguely recall using VB on Win98 years ago and even that was pretty darn cool for knocking up a quick and dirty GUI app.
Buy the second cheapest bike in the shop. Ride it to the station. Chain it to the fence. Go to work.
Once in awhile you'll return to find your bike stolen or vandalised. With your increased fitness from regular cycling the walk home will not be a challenge. In the morning buy the second cheapest bike in the shop.....
Another option might be to move.
How many times do I have to read this stupid trolling post? I must have read this at least ahhhh.... once before and it was bloody annoying then too.
1. Your keyboard complaint is stupid. I'm using an iBook running Linux to type this and the last time I found myself inconvenienced by the keyboard was never.
2. Buy a fucking 3 button mouse you goddam sissy girl bitch.
3. Apple market their cool stuff to cool people, not sulking, single button mouse lamenting, keyboard intolerant turds like you. I bet they're sticking with the current design specifically to discourage you from buying a Mac. I bet they wouldn't sell you one anyway.
4. Fuck off and die.
5. Bitch.