If I remember Passport was the authentification scheme used for Hotmail during the Hotmail everyone-read-your-email fiasco. That's not very encouraging.
For the ISDN, everything depends on ISDN4Linux group (partially funded by SuSE if I remember).
For the printer, if using a RedHat look-alike, there is a printtool that let you specify that your printer is "Epson Stylus 600" or "ESC/P2" (you may need to upgrade printtool and ghostscript).
For the scanner and CD-R you need to enable SCSI Generic in kernel (if not done already). For the scanner there is a package called SANE. For the CD-R you should check cdrecord or cdwrite. See freshmeat.net to find them.
There is Sheepshaver that can run MacOS on top of Linux (if it's been released. Note, I don't have a PPC box).
IBM is very good for support, you can expect them to still release patches to OS/2 client for a while. If I'm not wrong the support cycle is 5 years or so for IBM, that's why you can still see some patches for OS/2 2.1. Sure they don't want to sell the client anymore, but they don't abandon the current users immediately (Remember an OS that was from 16bit to 32bit that stop to maintain the 16 bit quite fast?).
Sure Worplace Shell was nice (even great for some things). However OS/2 itself had some annoying bugs (or behaviours). Hardware support was not very good, almost all recent sound cards don't work with it, many video cards don't either.
We're interested in featuring Slashdot in one programme and are looking for a wide range of interesting characters from this community that we could potentially feature.
They should interview Alan Cox, ESR and RMS at the same time, they would have interresting characters...
Not that Linux scale badly on SMP systems, but it could do much better.Linux 2.3.xx is much better, but we're far from the 128 processors some SGI machine could do. In most cases load could be balanced to many servers (Beowulf) rather than one with 128 processors. To scale to more processors design decisions must be made that may have negative impact on uniprocessors machines (you need to choose between supporting high end servers and average Joe user).
It seem from the patches in 2.3.17 that PCMCIA support will get partially integrated in the Linux kernel. That mean that would probably solve the problem with the ones using PCMCIA floopy to install Linux. A great news.
See http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/release- notes/m9.html
They explain that Mozilla is unstable with glibc 2.0x due to a bug in these releases of glibc. (glibc 2.1 fixed a couple of bugs in some of my heavily threaded programs)
I'm sorry, but this law assume that people buying these CD and music tape are criminals.
I was a criminal when a friend copied me on a CD the music that him and his band did. I was a criminal when I did copy a Linux (RedHat) CD-ROM image. I was a criminal to backup some important files on CD-ROM. I was a criminal when I kept a copy of my music CDs for myself in MP3 format (on CD-R).
I'm sure plenty small companies that need to give software to clients (by burning a CD-R) will love being considered criminals too...
Will probably need to add a upper domain to everything... Let's say, http://slashdot.org.earth.solarsystem.milkyway/ (or maybe http://slashdot.org.earth.ss.mw/)
Then after finding other intelligence, we would need to set some bridge to convert their protocol to Interplanetary Protocol to TCP/IP... Of course address translation and the rest; possibilities are endless and fascinating.
32bit support due to a trick, NT use only 32bit of the adress space (the first and last 2gb of the 64bit using sign extension). That is due to the number of DWORD in Win32 API that are used to pass pointers (HWND (windows structures) are DWORD, as well as many others things).
Lack of application for NT/Alpha, there is FX!32 (run NT/Intel binaries), but even if it's fast it's still emulation.
If you'd have to run a big server would you use WinNT/Alpha or Tru64? (Note: I have an Linux#Alpha machine) Intel processor are still best price/performance and adequate for most servers.
If the feds can "crack" your machine to check it, they are probably not the only one that can do it (how many HD reformatted and others things when script kiddies will get hands on this?)
Do you seriously think a real criminal will let this happen to his computer? He probably know how to get strong crypto anyway. It's the normal citizen that get screwed once again.
I'd have nothing against a search warrant delivered to me, but being spyed that way (the secret search warrant) doesn't seem good, remind me of Enemy of the State (good movie).
I'm happy not to be in USA and the more things like this the less likely I'd want to go, Canada is a much better place to live for privacy and crypto related issues.
anti-sniff won't detect computers/devices on the network that don't emit any packet, but if someone has physical access to your network you have bigger problems than just sniffing.
Anti-sniff was made mainly to try to detect sniffing on machines that are known to exist and must still listen on the network (like servers).
It will send bogus IP and others weird things to check if it slow down the machine, as well as a few others tricks.
Depending of the bandwidth to the machine, the speed of the machine and the intelligence of the sniffer that may not work.
However it is a little extra in a sysadmin toolbox, it's not perfect but may help.
What open source is about is exposing the methods, how the software works. It doesn't expose the password of other secrets. Many cryptographic algorithms are open to see if there's a flaw in the process, nobody would (or should) give their secret passphrase. For the certificate system to work you must trust certification authority.
Currently the way you can register a certificate there is no trust between the certificate holder and certification authority, in short certificate this way are bogus, they are just repository of dubious information.
Sure you may put traps in a system to find intruders, but the rest of the system should be secure. Obscurity will gain some time, but it's not the solution, remember it's the way things work that should be open, not the sensitive data itself.
It was my impression that a G3 at the same clock speed beat a Pentium III, so that could be the point to have a PPC. Plus Linux commercial games are also ported to PPC (for Loki titles).
Altough, I'd say most people I know get (or had got) some, there are a few exceptions (one friend and myself).
I may be single, but I go out to parties, bar and movies with friends (lately I go out about 4-5 times per week) and have fun.
When most of your life you knew no single girl or the one that are single are not interrested in you or superficial (must be tall, handsome, wear Tommy Hillfiger), it's no surprise I'm still single at 22.
Dressing well (depending of the occasion dressing well may vary greatly), having a job, a car, travelling, having friends and a social life, being independent, bright and knowing where you want to go doesn't garantee you to have a gf. It's more being at the right time at the right place.
Good luck! And remember you're not alone. You may also want to check this link
I remember in 1994 reading the 40Hex and NuKE Info Journal that had source code to virus, sometimes only the binary or disassembled and commented source (from binaries). Having virus and trojan source code is nothing new (40Hex and NIJ did exist a while before I had a net access)
I still wonder what hapenned to them.
Interrestingly, the viruses where very often using undocumented functions in MS-DOS (and not only the InDos flag), some where really incredible.
They say 100mg per 1kg if I remember, if I'm right coffee as about 150mg/cup. That mean a lot of it (I don't have numbers with me right now, so please correct me).
As someone with allergy to caffeine, I don't want to know how badly I would be after this quantity (if still alive, since more than 1 cup of coffee per day is really bad for me). Maybe it would be pretty bad for the heart. Any doctor reading slashdot could tell effects of cafeine in this quantity?
I used the Windoze version and I can say it's the best Java IDE I've seen. However a little bit confusing at first. If I have to do Java programming again in the future, I'll buy it.
From An RT-Linux Manifesto (in Proceedings of the 5th Annual Linux Expo), page 195: 6. What next and acknowledgements: [...] Linus Torvalds once said the the RTLinux core would become integrated with the standard kernel in 2.3, but the availability of pre-patched kernels makes this a less pressing issue.
I'm not surprised that China and many countries in the East do lots of pirating, consider the price of MS Office Professional and what someone earn in a year. When a piece of software cost as much as many months of salary it's really hard for a company to survive. (They should use free software instead of piracy tough...)
Maybe that NT will win (if the test component are chosen to be better with NT than Linux is another question), but personally I don't really care...
What most people want is something that works (doesn't crash), give decent performance for the lowest cost... In real life if you want a server to run with Linux you probably won't use exactly the same hardware, than with NT (and maybe a completly different setup)... Most people are happy if something run with a minimum of maintenance, no crashes (reliability is much more important than speed) and is not too slow...
Linux does have many weakness, but so does NT... What a particular benchmark show is how a particular setup with particular result perform, it's not for all cases.
Benchmark could prove anything, but like someone said 90% of statistics are useless...
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If I remember Passport was the authentification scheme used for Hotmail during the Hotmail everyone-read-your-email fiasco. That's not very encouraging.
For the printer, if using a RedHat look-alike, there is a printtool that let you specify that your printer is "Epson Stylus 600" or "ESC/P2" (you may need to upgrade printtool and ghostscript).
For the scanner and CD-R you need to enable SCSI Generic in kernel (if not done already). For the scanner there is a package called SANE. For the CD-R you should check cdrecord or cdwrite. See freshmeat.net to find them.
There is Sheepshaver that can run MacOS on top of Linux (if it's been released. Note, I don't have a PPC box).
Sure Worplace Shell was nice (even great for some things). However OS/2 itself had some annoying bugs (or behaviours). Hardware support was not very good, almost all recent sound cards don't work with it, many video cards don't either.
They should interview Alan Cox, ESR and RMS at the same time, they would have interresting characters...
The 574 drivers in pcmcia-cs included with RedHat 6.0 is flaky, however updating to the latest version seem to fix the bugs.
Not that Linux scale badly on SMP systems, but it could do much better.Linux 2.3.xx is much better, but we're far from the 128 processors some SGI machine could do. In most cases load could be balanced to many servers (Beowulf) rather than one with 128 processors. To scale to more processors design decisions must be made that may have negative impact on uniprocessors machines (you need to choose between supporting high end servers and average Joe user).
It seem from the patches in 2.3.17 that PCMCIA support will get partially integrated in the Linux kernel. That mean that would probably solve the problem with the ones using PCMCIA floopy to install Linux. A great news.
The good time when we where discussing if mounting a PC with Windows was S&M or necrophilia... 8-)
They explain that Mozilla is unstable with glibc 2.0x due to a bug in these releases of glibc. (glibc 2.1 fixed a couple of bugs in some of my heavily threaded programs)
I was a criminal when a friend copied me on a CD the music that him and his band did.
I was a criminal when I did copy a Linux (RedHat) CD-ROM image.
I was a criminal to backup some important files on CD-ROM. I was a criminal when I kept a copy of my music CDs for myself in MP3 format (on CD-R).
I'm sure plenty small companies that need to give software to clients (by burning a CD-R) will love being considered criminals too...
Then after finding other intelligence, we would need to set some bridge to convert their protocol to Interplanetary Protocol to TCP/IP... Of course address translation and the rest; possibilities are endless and fascinating.
you answered the questionaire... 8-)
Why kill NT/Alpha?
32bit support due to a trick, NT use only 32bit of the adress space (the first and last 2gb of the 64bit using sign extension). That is due to the number of DWORD in Win32 API that are used to pass pointers (HWND (windows structures) are DWORD, as well as many others things).
Lack of application for NT/Alpha, there is FX!32 (run NT/Intel binaries), but even if it's fast it's still emulation.
If you'd have to run a big server would you use WinNT/Alpha or Tru64? (Note: I have an Linux#Alpha machine) Intel processor are still best price/performance and adequate for most servers.
There are a few issues that I don't like...
If the feds can "crack" your machine to check it, they are probably not the only one that can do it (how many HD reformatted and others things when script kiddies will get hands on this?)
Do you seriously think a real criminal will let this happen to his computer? He probably know how to get strong crypto anyway. It's the normal citizen that get screwed once again.
I'd have nothing against a search warrant delivered to me, but being spyed that way (the secret search warrant) doesn't seem good, remind me of Enemy of the State (good movie).
I'm happy not to be in USA and the more things like this the less likely I'd want to go, Canada is a much better place to live for privacy and crypto related issues.
Big Brother is watching you.
They also have some pretty good video cards...
For 3dfx they seem to head for the way down, the inovation that they once had seem to be gone now...
And let's not forget the laptop computers that need a video card too (mainly NeoMagic, C&T, there where some Cirrus Logic too)...
Anti-sniff was made mainly to try to detect sniffing on machines that are known to exist and must still listen on the network (like servers).
It will send bogus IP and others weird things to check if it slow down the machine, as well as a few others tricks.
Depending of the bandwidth to the machine, the speed of the machine and the intelligence of the sniffer that may not work.
However it is a little extra in a sysadmin toolbox, it's not perfect but may help.
Currently the way you can register a certificate there is no trust between the certificate holder and certification authority, in short certificate this way are bogus, they are just repository of dubious information.
Sure you may put traps in a system to find intruders, but the rest of the system should be secure. Obscurity will gain some time, but it's not the solution, remember it's the way things work that should be open, not the sensitive data itself.
It was my impression that a G3 at the same clock speed beat a Pentium III, so that could be the point to have a PPC. Plus Linux commercial games are also ported to PPC (for Loki titles).
I may be single, but I go out to parties, bar and movies with friends (lately I go out about 4-5 times per week) and have fun.
When most of your life you knew no single girl or the one that are single are not interrested in you or superficial (must be tall, handsome, wear Tommy Hillfiger), it's no surprise I'm still single at 22.
Dressing well (depending of the occasion dressing well may vary greatly), having a job, a car, travelling, having friends and a social life, being independent, bright and knowing where you want to go doesn't garantee you to have a gf. It's more being at the right time at the right place.
Good luck!
And remember you're not alone.
You may also want to check this link
I still wonder what hapenned to them.
Interrestingly, the viruses where very often using undocumented functions in MS-DOS (and not only the InDos flag), some where really incredible.
As someone with allergy to caffeine, I don't want to know how badly I would be after this quantity (if still alive, since more than 1 cup of coffee per day is really bad for me). Maybe it would be pretty bad for the heart. Any doctor reading slashdot could tell effects of cafeine in this quantity?
I used the Windoze version and I can say it's the best Java IDE I've seen. However a little bit confusing at first. If I have to do Java programming again in the future, I'll buy it.
From An RT-Linux Manifesto (in Proceedings of the 5th Annual Linux Expo), page 195:
6. What next and acknowledgements:
[...]
Linus Torvalds once said the the RTLinux core would become integrated with the standard kernel in 2.3, but the availability of pre-patched kernels makes this a less pressing issue.
I'm not surprised that China and many countries in the East do lots of pirating, consider the price of MS Office Professional and what someone earn in a year. When a piece of software cost as much as many months of salary it's really hard for a company to survive. (They should use free software instead of piracy tough...)
What most people want is something that works (doesn't crash), give decent performance for the lowest cost... In real life if you want a server to run with Linux you probably won't use exactly the same hardware, than with NT (and maybe a completly different setup)... Most people are happy if something run with a minimum of maintenance, no crashes (reliability is much more important than speed) and is not too slow...
Linux does have many weakness, but so does NT... What a particular benchmark show is how a particular setup with particular result perform, it's not for all cases.
Benchmark could prove anything, but like someone said 90% of statistics are useless...