Practically anything you can run on Linux (outside of network IP specific apps) can be compiled in MacOS X.
Except Gaim, and a native GUI version of GNU Emacs, XEmacs, or gvim (take your pick). Other than Mozilla, that pretty much covers about all the apps I use. The point is that there are really good desktop apps on Linux. Many of those apps don't run on Mac OS X (whithout installing a root-less X server; which I think is just a band-aid).
Of course, escrow doesn't do you a bit of good if the item is stolen property. Also, once you use eBay for purchases, most credit card companies will not refund your money. Read the eBay terms of service. You waive your right to put a stop on credit card purchases.
What this means then for electronic items is that when you escrow your purchase you should call the manufacturer up and verify the serial number. Of course, if they say it's on their stolen item list then refuse the shipment and call the FBI.
I've been keeping my potato server up to date. I just did the 'apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade' and only had 6 packages upgraded. I guess that would be expected. But yes, I've been waiting for security announcements on bugtraq.
These plugins could have been implemented in the next version of SuSE/Redhat/Debian/name your dist.
Save for debian, there's nothing that prevents SuSE/RedHat/Mandrake/etc. from bundling this with their "Official" distributions. I'm betting the guys over at Codeweaver would negotiate some kind of bundling price.
I think the biggest single factor in any Windows vs. Linux cost debate shouldn't be the simple fact that Linux is free. It should center around how competent an IT department you have, and whether or not they can pull off a Linux deployment that would save a particular company money.
If you don't have competent IT, you should fire them and hire competent ones. I hate this argument. If something is better/cheaper/whatever it is better/cheaper/whatever. Saying your people aren't smart enough to deal with it is a cop-out. The same goes for languages. If Lisp is really better than C++ than it's really better. Saying your developers aren't smart enough to learn Lisp says something about the developers not the language.
The discussion of the Honda Robot compared to this one is sort of the same thing. Just because someone else made a robot that doesn't do things like people do them, doesn't mean the robot is not as good. If the goals are to simulate people, then yes this robot is better. If however, the goals are different, then this may not be better (e.g., it can't carry as much weight).
You're right that your design criteria determines what is good and what isn't. However, I think almost all humanoid/bi-pedal robot designers would like to at least meet some minimum autonomous walking distance. The point of the Honda Robot comparison was the energy to weight consumption. Baps demostrates the success of the design; meaning that at least an order of maginitude of power consumption can be saved. I'm guessing that Baps could be scaled up to carry more weight. The point is that she has a method of walking that doesn't consume much power. It's the ratio that's important.
The biggest problem I had was dealing with MFC. We have several windows applications that only use MFC for the GUI interface. So, the first requirement is that you have a license for the MFC source code that allows you to compile it for other operating systems. Then you have to go through and edit the MFC source code so that winelib can compile it. One developer told me that he had over 5000 lines of edits to the MFC source code. The problem is that the license strictly forbids you from distributing your changes to the MFC source. So, every developer that wants to port an MFC application using winelib has to fix the MFC source code itself! Winelib is pretty interesting; but, this is a huge barrier to entry.
I guess the print version is different than the on-line version. This isn't the story at all. The only incident he mentions about "guerilla IT" is the one at RedHat. And it had nothing to do with Excel, it was Word she was using. Plus, all this was on the first page (which makes me thing you didn't read the whole article)
I agree that for a 0% bug rate, C and C++ are not the solution (and I am a professional C++ programmer, so I have no axe to grind here). The catch is that most (not quite all) real-world programs can tolerate a 0.01% bug rate instead, and that can be reasonably achieved by a competent programmer in non-functional languages as well.
If only this were true. We've all seen here on/. the complaints about crappy programs with high defect rates. Are we to assume that all of these programs were written by un-competent programmers? I would guess that the average bug rate for C/C++ programs is quite a bit higher than 0.01%. I would also suggest that this kind of "This bug rate is low enough" attitude is why we have such crappy software.
What is a 'browser' anyway? Does a program that connects to a socket and gets data using HTTP qualify?
That's certainly the way apt-get works. When was work on it started? Prior to '98? Looking at the cvs logs on the http method, the 1.1 revision is from Nov 1 1998. Not knowing much about apt's source code, is there a better way to find the project's start date?
Also, a lot depends on what you mean by ``spaceport.'' $Oz100M can buy a lot of bulldozer time for pushing industrial wastes into pristine
lagoons, plus a concrete jetty and a tin shed for the bloke who pushes the button.
When I went and read the website for the island, they said their reefs were some of the steepest in the world. Basically, the island is the pinacle of a submarine mountain. All the way around the island is a sheer drop-off. The moral to that story, I think, is that there will be no "enlarging" of the island.
Seriously though - I know of seniors who boot up their computer, connect to the internet via
AOL and don't even know that there's anything else on their computer.
Seriously though - I know of senior developers that boot up their computer, start emacs and don't know that there's anything else on their computer.
I've seen all the posts about how this really isn't anything new; but, I found something in it that's my personal pet peeve. Section 2.3 "Body" states that the message MUST be limited to 998 characters plus the CRLF and SHOULD be 78 plus the CRLF. I know it's a SHOULD and not a MUST, but it's better than a MAY. My hope is that all the clients will start forcing CRLF at the 78th character now instead of making paragraphs one really long line.
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No, I periodically use galeon (like every time there's a new mozilla release). It crashes regularly too. Granted, I'm trying to use it as my daily browser (requires javascript and ssl). And there are some crashes that are galeon's fault.
Galeon is cool. I say a prayer to the 'net gods regularly that I can replace my stupid netscape navigator with galeon. The point is that mozilla is still not ready for primetime.
If you read Adam's insights, you would have seen that he specifically addresses this. His opinion is that no IP agreement is defendable. The point is that they have more money than you do to win the case (or at least out last you) -- even if you are in the right.
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Having received email from "Jennifer Mahlmann" Manager, Learning Services; I can say they there are people within RedHat that run MS-Windows:
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There are times when I need a phone and I don't want to use the pay phones at hand. One, it may be in an unsafe location. It could be poorly lit at night in a rough part of town. Two, the pay phone may have questionable cleanliness. How many times have you talked on a pay phone with a tissue in your hand and the phone away from your ear?
Would YOU pay a certain amount a month to view geocities pages? I know I sure wouldn't. 99.99% of them are utter
crap. There are a few gems out there, and I'd hate to miss them because I didn't pay my geocities fee.
No, I certainly wouldn't pay any money to geocities. In fact, if they dried up and blew away I don't think anyone would miss it.
I know there are good homes for that 1% of good content on geocities. In fact, if they are really good then they could easily move to a subscription based model.
Perhaps if web sites generated revenue from subscriptions instead of banner-ad sales we could be rid of these
ridiculous three column layouts that impede understanding of the core content they contain.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates three column layout.
Please consider that if Linux is indeed ready for prime time, it will have to host non-open source software. It is a
fact of life.
I hope it is not a fact of life that I have to use non-free software. Maybe today I need non-free software on my desktop. But think where we would be today if RMS had said in 1980, "It's just a fact of life that I'm going to use non-free software."
So what is "prime time"? And why should I personally care if Linux is ready for it? What I care about is if Linux is ready for me. This may be a miopic view; but I'm tired of this debate of "what Linux needs to take over the world". I don't care if Linux takes over the world or not. The only thing I care about is if I have the freedom to choose my software. To that extent I encourage Dan and his Open Groupware Project. His work only increases our freedom.
SSH software has been a great gift for the Internet community, and OpenSSH might not exist without it. We should
all be very thankful to Tatu for creating SSH (to a reasonable degree!). If OpenSSH people find it easy to change their
name, and want to respect Tatu's wishes, just change it.
How many times during the Bush/Gore election contention did we wish for one of them to be gracious and just conceed? I think Tatu's contrubution to the Internet is great. Monumental enough that the Internet wouldn't be the same without it. That having been said, how many of us would describe Theo de Raadt as gracious? I guess the moral is that not everything has to be a fight to the death. Tatu is not doing anything here that takes away my freedom to choose free software.
I don't know if Tatu has complained to OpenSSH about its name before, but he definitely should have done so as
soon as possible, when OpenSSH project was started in 1999. It's hard to believe that he wouldn't have heard about
it then. Denying the use of the name later can't be interpreted as much else but unfair bashing. Over a year is a long
time in "Internet time".
This is an interesting point too. I would be impressed if OpenSSH just changed their name; but they might have a case if they don't want to. When did Tatu first contact them about changing their name? Has he contacted FreSSH? How rigorous has he been defending his trademark? If Tatu wants to keep a positive public image and still press this he should produce the history of his ignored request to the OpenSSH team.
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If it tames three minutes for a response I doubt you would have many users.
Can you post screen-shots of GNU Emacs 21 running in graphical mode under Mac OS X?
Except Gaim, and a native GUI version of GNU Emacs, XEmacs, or gvim (take your pick). Other than Mozilla, that pretty much covers about all the apps I use. The point is that there are really good desktop apps on Linux. Many of those apps don't run on Mac OS X (whithout installing a root-less X server; which I think is just a band-aid).
Of course, escrow doesn't do you a bit of good if the item is stolen property. Also, once you use eBay for purchases, most credit card companies will not refund your money. Read the eBay terms of service. You waive your right to put a stop on credit card purchases.
What this means then for electronic items is that when you escrow your purchase you should call the manufacturer up and verify the serial number. Of course, if they say it's on their stolen item list then refuse the shipment and call the FBI.
This seems like "arm-chair" programming to me.
I've been keeping my potato server up to date. I just did the 'apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade' and only had 6 packages upgraded. I guess that would be expected. But yes, I've been waiting for security announcements on bugtraq.
Save for debian, there's nothing that prevents SuSE/RedHat/Mandrake/etc. from bundling this with their "Official" distributions. I'm betting the guys over at Codeweaver would negotiate some kind of bundling price.
If you don't have competent IT, you should fire them and hire competent ones. I hate this argument. If something is better/cheaper/whatever it is better/cheaper/whatever. Saying your people aren't smart enough to deal with it is a cop-out. The same goes for languages. If Lisp is really better than C++ than it's really better. Saying your developers aren't smart enough to learn Lisp says something about the developers not the language.
You're right that your design criteria determines what is good and what isn't. However, I think almost all humanoid/bi-pedal robot designers would like to at least meet some minimum autonomous walking distance. The point of the Honda Robot comparison was the energy to weight consumption. Baps demostrates the success of the design; meaning that at least an order of maginitude of power consumption can be saved. I'm guessing that Baps could be scaled up to carry more weight. The point is that she has a method of walking that doesn't consume much power. It's the ratio that's important.
The biggest problem I had was dealing with MFC. We have several windows applications that only use MFC for the GUI interface. So, the first requirement is that you have a license for the MFC source code that allows you to compile it for other operating systems. Then you have to go through and edit the MFC source code so that winelib can compile it. One developer told me that he had over 5000 lines of edits to the MFC source code. The problem is that the license strictly forbids you from distributing your changes to the MFC source. So, every developer that wants to port an MFC application using winelib has to fix the MFC source code itself! Winelib is pretty interesting; but, this is a huge barrier to entry.
I guess the print version is different than the on-line version. This isn't the story at all. The only incident he mentions about "guerilla IT" is the one at RedHat. And it had nothing to do with Excel, it was Word she was using. Plus, all this was on the first page (which makes me thing you didn't read the whole article)
If only this were true. We've all seen here on
I've seen all the posts about how this really isn't anything new; but, I found something in it that's my personal pet peeve. Section 2.3 "Body" states that the message MUST be limited to 998 characters plus the CRLF and SHOULD be 78 plus the CRLF. I know it's a SHOULD and not a MUST, but it's better than a MAY. My hope is that all the clients will start forcing CRLF at the 78th character now instead of making paragraphs one really long line.
No, I periodically use galeon (like every time there's a new mozilla release). It crashes regularly too. Granted, I'm trying to use it as my daily browser (requires javascript and ssl). And there are some crashes that are galeon's fault. Galeon is cool. I say a prayer to the 'net gods regularly that I can replace my stupid netscape navigator with galeon. The point is that mozilla is still not ready for primetime.
If you read Adam's insights, you would have seen that he specifically addresses this. His opinion is that no IP agreement is defendable. The point is that they have more money than you do to win the case (or at least out last you) -- even if you are in the right.
Somebody mod this up!
Having received email from "Jennifer Mahlmann" Manager, Learning Services; I can say they there are people within RedHat that run MS-Windows:
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0)
There are times when I need a phone and I don't want to use the pay phones at hand. One, it may be in an unsafe location. It could be poorly lit at night in a rough part of town. Two, the pay phone may have questionable cleanliness. How many times have you talked on a pay phone with a tissue in your hand and the phone away from your ear?
I know there are good homes for that 1% of good content on geocities. In fact, if they are really good then they could easily move to a subscription based model.
I hope it is not a fact of life that I have to use non-free software. Maybe today I need non-free software on my desktop. But think where we would be today if RMS had said in 1980, "It's just a fact of life that I'm going to use non-free software." So what is "prime time"? And why should I personally care if Linux is ready for it? What I care about is if Linux is ready for me. This may be a miopic view; but I'm tired of this debate of "what Linux needs to take over the world". I don't care if Linux takes over the world or not. The only thing I care about is if I have the freedom to choose my software. To that extent I encourage Dan and his Open Groupware Project. His work only increases our freedom.
How many times during the Bush/Gore election contention did we wish for one of them to be gracious and just conceed? I think Tatu's contrubution to the Internet is great. Monumental enough that the Internet wouldn't be the same without it. That having been said, how many of us would describe Theo de Raadt as gracious? I guess the moral is that not everything has to be a fight to the death. Tatu is not doing anything here that takes away my freedom to choose free software. This is an interesting point too. I would be impressed if OpenSSH just changed their name; but they might have a case if they don't want to. When did Tatu first contact them about changing their name? Has he contacted FreSSH? How rigorous has he been defending his trademark? If Tatu wants to keep a positive public image and still press this he should produce the history of his ignored request to the OpenSSH team.