So if I put Linux on a Media Player and publish the source and comply with GPLv2, but then use DRM so that my media player only talks to my server encrypted and only takes my own firmware upgrades I wonder how exactly you want to "modify it so the decrypted data flows elsewhere". Get it?
i had to deal with many malware cleanups dialup and cable why is cable always on? never switch off computers? electricity? energy? aaahh, i get it -> iraq
I completely agree with Krafft on everything he says in the interview (at least the stuff I understand). I am not a developer nor great coder. I am only a Debian user, but my first install was Slink and I have been seriously into Debian since Potato.
Don't get me wrong, I hate Debian, but only because it is the only OS installed on my machines. I couldn't live with the rest, because they are far worse than Debian. IMHO Sarge went a little downhill, there were some rough edges during release. For example the security team in reality only existed of Joey (met that guy a couple month ago, he is smaller in real live), but that was just one of the obvious things. If you do a lot of administration for both Potato and Sarge (yes Potato still runs happily on many machines, not only on mine) you know what I mean.
I didn't know there was so much trouble with Ubuntu/Canonical, but as Debian and/or Ubuntu developers they ought to know better. For some reason many people want/ed to make Debian more "desktop/user friendly" (shudder), whatever they mean by it. I think the idea and philosophy of Debian is perfect for what it is and I really hope the people that were in Debian and thought so left for Ubuntu. Ubuntu is great in itself.
Before I go any further, I am from Germany and I don't like wars. And I still wonder why the US govt ever decided to go into Iraq (was a really, really bad idea IMHO)
The US has the only military capable of getting any significant military on the ground in crises regions within a reasonable timespan.
Little insert: At a middle eastern conference someone (French guy) pointed out that Europe will soon military capability enabeling them to put 2500 troups (fighting, not including logistics personel) on the ground in any part of the world within a week. So one of the Arabian guys said that this is nice, but they are in need of a protecting power able to do more than 10 times within 24 hours.
So if a crises would arise, like Iran being much closer to nuclear capability that Israel finall decides to put an end to it and sends in a couple of bombers. Situation escalates and Turkey (NATO power, EU and Israel friendly) gets attacked along the way. Who will step in? But the Iranians were smart and put Galileo receivers in their missle guidence systems. So you want American troops protecting Europe getting attacked by missles that are aided by European technology?
I am very suspicous of American motives in Iraq and other places, but there are some facts that cannot be ignored, like US troops guarding the line between North Korea and free democratic South Korea. If they get suddenly attacked, should they be forced to dial up Eurocrats in Brussel (there was a reason why many Europeans voted against the constitution, not because they are against Europe!) to kindly ask them to swith off Galileo in Korea only to find out that sundays are off in Europe?
Usually there are more supportive comments about US soldiers on Slashdot. At the moment I only see hothead European liberal types. The latter would usually be my kinda comments.
Please mod parent down, I am very critical of many policies of the US govt (past and present administration) but this comment uses foul language and is a troll!
Besides: Not the country made anything blantantly obvious, but the Bush administration. The Bush administration has not only made it blatantly obvious that they don't care about what other countries feel, but also what the rest in Washington is doing and so there is no political capital left to speak of. Don't expect much of anything for a while out of the White House.
This is slightly offtopic, but I just looked into buying one of those cool Mac Mini computers. I would use it as a server and would put Debian on it (not because I think it is better, but because I am more familiar with it) so I had to do what every Linux user has to do before buying hard ware, I checked if it is supported (nowdays with changing wlan chipsets without changing the name of the wlan product one has to dig really hard).
Anyways, there was information about the fact that the wlan module for the Mac Mini was not supported. That strikes me as odd. I thought Apple took a lot of work from the BSD project and used it for free in their OS. But they don't even bother to give something back by opening their hardware specs so the people that wrote/write BSD can use their OS on Apple hardware? I mean I wouldn't steal something. I would even have to buy a bundled version of their OS that I wouldn't use anyways. I would pay the Apple tax. I just would like to use a different OS.
From now on if anyone finds a security hole in Windows (or in any other app for that matter) it is of high importance not to disclose this to the world, because you would help the terrorists and destroy a tool to fight them. First check back with the NSA, CIA, FBI, Secret Service, local police, Navy, Army, Marines and any other service you can think of that protects the homeland and ask them if it was their doing. If they deny it keep your mouth shut anyways, because they might not want to tell you.
That was the story about Yahoo making the switch to PHP. There might be a couple large scale apps out there that are bigger than Yahoo, like Google or Wallmart. So Your assumtion is right. But for most things I imagine PHP to work OK.
I don't go to shows that would really have consumer type products to give away.
Example CeBit. CeBit is one of the largest (if not the largest) computer shows around. My dad used to work there every year, since his company had a large booth. I used to get a lot of free stuff when I was little, because I was really little then (everyone was at least somewhat cute when they were 9 years old, I guess I was).
There used to be some cool stuff that they gave away (StarOffice 3.1 CDs when it was still a German company for example), but I can't imagine why Nokia would give away free phones and to my knowledge (and my dad worked there for decades and knew many people from rival and partner companies and they would trade good stuff) they never did. Maybe this works for consoles, since they also make money from the games. Creative Labs would be another company that would have stuff useful to the end user and often attended CeBit, but they wanted to sell the stuff, not give it away (that's how they make a living, doh).
If You were writing about it, then it is an altogether different story, but this is old and we are not talking about it (press), since you don't have to go to shows for that but just ring up the company and tell them to send you a sample (that you will have to return most of the time, and won't be using for yourself anyways most of the time).
IBM won't give you a free Server, neither will AMD give away some Athlons. So we are left with the toys, some of which are expensive and really cool that bear the company logo and are supposed to go to valuable customers, but are often traded (see above). But how many expensive pens and stuffed animals or blinking stuff do you need?
The breakup day used to be very good, but most booth managers with some experience know better than to give away the stuff. For a medium to large booth the bill can be six figures and you want to use that expensive time to do what you came for and not fend of the vultures that sit around the booth for the better part of the last day waiting for the free stuff.
Shows are for communication. People from different companies that only talk over email and phone can meet face to face. You can check what the rivals are up to, what the market is doing. You can meet the customer and have a nice chat, finalize a deal or show some new stuff.
So why would I go there? Because I can meet the company. Where else would it be possible to talk to the actual engineers, ask what they are working on, or why a certain feature wasn't implemented. Just learn to differentiate between the sales staff and the engineers. Also shows are great for career developement. It has become so big that many companies are bringing in high level human resource staff. Best is to tell the companies that you are interested in that you will be at the show and send a resume beforehand.
Almost all the Software is already freely available. Anyone who does some support work for Widows XP users (so anyone here except those that have enough time convincing and installiing free software for their people) should know AdAware, Firefox and Acrobat Reader, where to get them and maybe even have installed them a couple of times.
Some of the Google software products included are usefull to some people, some are not. So anyone should only install the ones that they use (screensaver anyone, or IE-Toolbar for those that installed Firefox?). Some of them even have direct competition that may also be free and sometimes do a better job. I don't use Windows XP so I don't know about desktop search products, but I heard that Google Desktop is just one of many, most of them free.
The only new/newly free software would be Norton Antivirus 2005 Special Edition. Why did Google choose Norton? Norton is not even one of the better anti virus programs out there. It is one of the worst.
So this is what Google starts with in 2006 which was slated to become the "Year of Google". My, my, what a start!
On a sidenote, for anti virus I recommend Nod32 for people that want/can afford it and Avast (free key for personal use) for the rest. This is from extensive repeated research and personal experience. It only applies to small networks and standalone machines.
Looks like a pretty good explanation of the GPL to me. Maybe MySQL put it in for people that don't understand the GPL. Though the make a nice exception for PHP. That sounds useful to me. I always thought that MySQL 3.x was also GPL'd.
LOL
To the moderators that modded parent up: Please reread the GPL. Thank You
c't (famous German computer mag) is doing exactly what you are describing. They call for a contest in which everyone can implement their favourite database in a setting with a dvd store and then mail their description on how they do it to the mag.
Before I go on, please aknowledge that I am from Germany and I think the UN is a great idea.
It is really bad as it is now. Every independent board member that has overseen ICAAN actions has said this. But putting it into the hands of the UN per se would just make matters much worse.
Also I have the strong feeling that many people don't have the slightest clue what the UN really is and what it does. The funny thing is everyone seems to have an opinion about it. Either they hate it or love it or like it or dislike it. Germans like it and left leaning Americans like it. French like it and conservative Americans dislike it. I don't know about Americans, but I know that Germans don't have a clue what it is they like.
Some basics: The UN is made up of different bodies to which countries are elected. Each world region (like Africa or Asia) has a certain quota for how many countries they can vote into a certain comitee. Then there are also organizations for specific purposes. Like UNAIDS or the UN high comissionare for refugees.
The UN is very good for diplmacy for example. All nations can go there and resolve conflicts instead of starting wars. Granted, it hasn't work very good and could be made better, but I don't see any alternative. Kofi Annan for example pushed through some very important reforms in his first two years of office.
Anyways, I could go on for hours, but maybe You can just check their webpage. It is quite informative.
Just reading the UN Charta would most likely be very invormative to many people here I suppose.
The UN is many, many things at the same time. Maybe if a sensible set of rules would be put together for some kind of organization under the UN umbrella it would appear international and at the same time remain efficient. But is not going to happen anyways. So keep cool and keep cursing Verisign and their control over ICANN.
The whole industry was preparing for the arrival of Intel on the 64 bit server processor market. Intel was so huge in the 90's (and if even bigger now) that everyone thought: "This is it!" HP, Compaq, Novell,... everyone. They thought it would have such a good price perfomance issue that they threw out all their own stuff and only sell Itaniums a couple years later.
Wasn't that part of the reason why they stopped developement on the Alpha? Could someone please comment?
Also Tru64, Unix for 64bit by a consortium of industry giants was to be developed only for the Itanium.
So the anticipation was huge. And compared to the anticipation it was such a huge failure. And it still is on many applications, because nothing got ported when it came out because of the failure to meet anticipation.
The Itanium now rocks on some supercomputing tasks, but everyone and their dog is currently switching to the x86 Unix called Linux, not because it is free (they tend to buy expensive service contracts) but because the cost/performance ratio is so good mainly because of competition. If there would be a really good, stable and fast port of some Unix variant to the Itanium and some big company would support it the Itanium could still come around.
But at the moment it is chicken and egg. No cheap Itanium means no port and no port means no mass sale that leads to expensive Itaniums.
Good point. This is exactly what I think is lacking about all the violence in the popular media today. They never show what happens afterward. The guy that got shot has maybe family, maybe doesn't die, but needs a wheelchair or worse, has to stay in bed.
When a hero gets shot they maybe stay in hospital for while if it is bad or they wear some kind of armrest. But in the real world you are much more likely to end up dead or in a wheelchair if you get shot then getting pregnant if you have sex. Remember that a woman is only fertile a couple days in a month and that sperm doesn't stay alive forever in her. I know about teenagers getting pregnant, but I suppose they had sex more often than once. Also considering the rate of HIV in the US it is highly unlikely to get AIDS compared to the possibilties to serious health issue after being shot a being in a bad fight with knives and so on.
So argueing that sex bears responsibilities and they need to show it in the media and at the same time violence there is a very frequent event where they never show the aftermath or show a highly unlike outcome (a little scar for example) makes me wonder what You have been smoking lately. I am sorry to be a little blunt here, but a why should a parent be concerned about some sex on TV when at kids hours they have serious fights, gun shootings and everyone remains unhurt. Think of the A-Team for example.
The cool thing about Skype (and the major reason for its success IHMO) is it's ease of use.
1.Download 2.Install 3.Works 4.... 5. Profit
No seriously. Skype has no problems with firewalls, can operate on very low bandwidth (both do NOT apply to SIP) and basically works everywhere. There are also clients for Mac, Win32, Linux and PocketPC. I don't know if the original poster has any real experience with VoIP, since Skype's protocol overcomes many serious issues at the price of no interaction with former standards like SIP, H323 and the bunch.
That means one is limited to the PC. They have made progress and market some hardware now and there is always the posibility of clever hacks involving for example a Linux box and Asterix, but that can't be compared to the SIP standard with so many different hardware and network providers already on the market.
Parent post is a flamebait and I wonder what moderators are smoking today. Debian is much more than a distribution. And there is unfortunately nothing better than Debian (as in the distro) to move on to. There is a reason why many distributions are build on Debian. Please point me to a distro that can manage version upgrades even half as gracefully as Debian. There was a discussion about Ubuntu on Slashdot and it was argued that if Ubuntu continues to be diverge further from sid and stay incompatible it will eventually dissolve, because the team will never be able to support the huge package base.
I am a desktop Linux user that started out with Debian 2.1 Slink and I also have the feeling that Debian has had some major issues lately.
For those that can't read German the article says that of the five members that should make up the security team four are not active at the moment if they ever were. The only remain one is Martin Schulze aka Joey. He has been pretty busy with the organisation of the Linuxtag. So he was cut off from the action. Debian people are working on the problem.
Everyone that is not satiesfied with the current state of affairs should get their hand dirty helping instead of complaining. After all Debian forms the bases of "plenty of well-managed, technically sweet linux distributions out there".
Could any real admin answer this, please? What has Slashdot come to? I would know where to look, who to ask and what to do, but I don't have much experience in this field.
This question is like asking hey, I don't know which browser to take, IE came for free, but it the new versions don't run on our Windows 95 Computers. Could Slashdot please help me? Though the answers suggest the Slashdot really has changed and that those questions should be asked here.
For starters: Firewalls are just one part of network security including, but not limited to update policy, safe passwords, proper encyption, DMZs, educating users,... Could someone that works in this field please take it from here or point this person to some document?
How about the Linux Howto Collection. IMHO they are a great read and a good place to start.
USB2 is fast and everywhere. As soon as SATA drives get cheaper switch to those.
Also look for drives enclosures with fans. They might be noisy, but not as noisy as the fan you might start putting next to it to keep it cool if you buy the ones without fans.
Look what Microsoft's monopoly on the desktop OS has done to Windows. If there would have been any competition on the OS market my grandma could have installed and be running a PC 4 years ago. And Security would be much, much better.
Same to Ebay. But Ebay has a natural monopoly that comes with the size.
Many people state that Japan was rightly punished for their hprrible crimes in China.
The truth is that many bombings were/are not only immoral, but also senseless. Why punish a small Japanese child living in Nagasaki for somthing that a Japanese soldier did in China? This is called collective punishment. Want to talk about 1-2 million Vietnamese killed in the 60s and 70s? (Again many through carpet bombing with B52s just to pressure the North into some agreement in Paris in order to be able to withdraw).
Anyways, droppping one atomic bomb to demonstrate its power? OK! But two? On cities?
The fire bombings over Germany needed to be over the inner cities, because those had old houses that burned better. So the USAF and the RAF mainly bombed old inner cities in Germany instead of factories, because at that time aiming was really hard. It not only destroyed a large part of the Germany cultural heritage and a lot of German civillians. The flying personel of the bombers didn't have a very good chance of returning.
I am not shitting You. Factories were not the target! The whole thing with the bombing went very, very wrong.
And I am still very glad that the Americans and the British fought the Nazis (I am German) and freed this continent. This was very important. But the fact remains that the bombings did almost nothing to help that cause. The ground troops did it.
Even if a war is justified, it is not justified to do anything You like.
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So if I put Linux on a Media Player and publish the source and comply with GPLv2, but then use DRM so that my media player only talks to my server encrypted and only takes my own firmware upgrades I wonder how exactly you want to "modify it so the decrypted data flows elsewhere". Get it?
i had to deal with many malware cleanups
dialup and cable
why is cable always on? never switch off computers? electricity? energy? aaahh, i get it -> iraq
So for backup we should all get some wlan mash networks going. In the near future we might just get WiMax, or even better: WiMax mash networks.
How about making many of those "features" of the new "spyware" mandatory for all spyware?
I completely agree with Krafft on everything he says in the interview (at least the stuff I understand). I am not a developer nor great coder. I am only a Debian user, but my first install was Slink and I have been seriously into Debian since Potato.
Don't get me wrong, I hate Debian, but only because it is the only OS installed on my machines. I couldn't live with the rest, because they are far worse than Debian. IMHO Sarge went a little downhill, there were some rough edges during release. For example the security team in reality only existed of Joey (met that guy a couple month ago, he is smaller in real live), but that was just one of the obvious things. If you do a lot of administration for both Potato and Sarge (yes Potato still runs happily on many machines, not only on mine) you know what I mean.
I didn't know there was so much trouble with Ubuntu/Canonical, but as Debian and/or Ubuntu developers they ought to know better. For some reason many people want/ed to make Debian more "desktop/user friendly" (shudder), whatever they mean by it. I think the idea and philosophy of Debian is perfect for what it is and I really hope the people that were in Debian and thought so left for Ubuntu. Ubuntu is great in itself.
RTFM!!! it is great
Before I go any further, I am from Germany and I don't like wars. And I still wonder why the US govt ever decided to go into Iraq (was a really, really bad idea IMHO)
The US has the only military capable of getting any significant military on the ground in crises regions within a reasonable timespan.
Little insert:
At a middle eastern conference someone (French guy) pointed out that Europe will soon military capability enabeling them to put 2500 troups (fighting, not including logistics personel) on the ground in any part of the world within a week. So one of the Arabian guys said that this is nice, but they are in need of a protecting power able to do more than 10 times within 24 hours.
So if a crises would arise, like Iran being much closer to nuclear capability that Israel finall decides to put an end to it and sends in a couple of bombers. Situation escalates and Turkey (NATO power, EU and Israel friendly) gets attacked along the way. Who will step in? But the Iranians were smart and put Galileo receivers in their missle guidence systems. So you want American troops protecting Europe getting attacked by missles that are aided by European technology?
I am very suspicous of American motives in Iraq and other places, but there are some facts that cannot be ignored, like US troops guarding the line between North Korea and free democratic South Korea. If they get suddenly attacked, should they be forced to dial up Eurocrats in Brussel (there was a reason why many Europeans voted against the constitution, not because they are against Europe!) to kindly ask them to swith off Galileo in Korea only to find out that sundays are off in Europe?
Usually there are more supportive comments about US soldiers on Slashdot. At the moment I only see hothead European liberal types. The latter would usually be my kinda comments.
Please mod parent down, I am very critical of many policies of the US govt (past and present administration) but this comment uses foul language and is a troll!
Besides: Not the country made anything blantantly obvious, but the Bush administration. The Bush administration has not only made it blatantly obvious that they don't care about what other countries feel, but also what the rest in Washington is doing and so there is no political capital left to speak of. Don't expect much of anything for a while out of the White House.
This is slightly offtopic, but I just looked into buying one of those cool Mac Mini computers. I would use it as a server and would put Debian on it (not because I think it is better, but because I am more familiar with it) so I had to do what every Linux user has to do before buying hard ware, I checked if it is supported (nowdays with changing wlan chipsets without changing the name of the wlan product one has to dig really hard).
Anyways, there was information about the fact that the wlan module for the Mac Mini was not supported. That strikes me as odd. I thought Apple took a lot of work from the BSD project and used it for free in their OS. But they don't even bother to give something back by opening their hardware specs so the people that wrote/write BSD can use their OS on Apple hardware? I mean I wouldn't steal something. I would even have to buy a bundled version of their OS that I wouldn't use anyways. I would pay the Apple tax. I just would like to use a different OS.
Anyone care to comment?
So we all know what this means, right?
From now on if anyone finds a security hole in Windows (or in any other app for that matter) it is of high importance not to disclose this to the world, because you would help the terrorists and destroy a tool to fight them. First check back with the NSA, CIA, FBI, Secret Service, local police, Navy, Army, Marines and any other service you can think of that protects the homeland and ask them if it was their doing. If they deny it keep your mouth shut anyways, because they might not want to tell you.
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/1 0/29/2052239
That was the story about Yahoo making the switch to PHP. There might be a couple large scale apps out there that are bigger than Yahoo, like Google or Wallmart. So Your assumtion is right. But for most things I imagine PHP to work OK.
Btw. I heard that Google does a lot in Python.
If they prohibit vfat maybe xfs or reiser4 should be ported to Windows for better access on a dual boot setup.
I don't go to shows that would really have consumer type products to give away.
Example CeBit. CeBit is one of the largest (if not the largest) computer shows around. My dad used to work there every year, since his company had a large booth. I used to get a lot of free stuff when I was little, because I was really little then (everyone was at least somewhat cute when they were 9 years old, I guess I was).
There used to be some cool stuff that they gave away (StarOffice 3.1 CDs when it was still a German company for example), but I can't imagine why Nokia would give away free phones and to my knowledge (and my dad worked there for decades and knew many people from rival and partner companies and they would trade good stuff) they never did. Maybe this works for consoles, since they also make money from the games. Creative Labs would be another company that would have stuff useful to the end user and often attended CeBit, but they wanted to sell the stuff, not give it away (that's how they make a living, doh).
If You were writing about it, then it is an altogether different story, but this is old and we are not talking about it (press), since you don't have to go to shows for that but just ring up the company and tell them to send you a sample (that you will have to return most of the time, and won't be using for yourself anyways most of the time).
IBM won't give you a free Server, neither will AMD give away some Athlons. So we are left with the toys, some of which are expensive and really cool that bear the company logo and are supposed to go to valuable customers, but are often traded (see above). But how many expensive pens and stuffed animals or blinking stuff do you need?
The breakup day used to be very good, but most booth managers with some experience know better than to give away the stuff. For a medium to large booth the bill can be six figures and you want to use that expensive time to do what you came for and not fend of the vultures that sit around the booth for the better part of the last day waiting for the free stuff.
Shows are for communication. People from different companies that only talk over email and phone can meet face to face. You can check what the rivals are up to, what the market is doing. You can meet the customer and have a nice chat, finalize a deal or show some new stuff.
So why would I go there? Because I can meet the company. Where else would it be possible to talk to the actual engineers, ask what they are working on, or why a certain feature wasn't implemented. Just learn to differentiate between the sales staff and the engineers. Also shows are great for career developement. It has become so big that many companies are bringing in high level human resource staff. Best is to tell the companies that you are interested in that you will be at the show and send a resume beforehand.
"Someone is hiding in there. Let's kill it, just to be save."
Almost all the Software is already freely available. Anyone who does some support work for Widows XP users (so anyone here except those that have enough time convincing and installiing free software for their people) should know AdAware, Firefox and Acrobat Reader, where to get them and maybe even have installed them a couple of times.
Some of the Google software products included are usefull to some people, some are not. So anyone should only install the ones that they use (screensaver anyone, or IE-Toolbar for those that installed Firefox?). Some of them even have direct competition that may also be free and sometimes do a better job. I don't use Windows XP so I don't know about desktop search products, but I heard that Google Desktop is just one of many, most of them free.
The only new/newly free software would be Norton Antivirus 2005 Special Edition. Why did Google choose Norton? Norton is not even one of the better anti virus programs out there. It is one of the worst.
So this is what Google starts with in 2006 which was slated to become the "Year of Google". My, my, what a start!
On a sidenote, for anti virus I recommend Nod32 for people that want/can afford it and Avast (free key for personal use) for the rest. This is from extensive repeated research and personal experience. It only applies to small networks and standalone machines.
Looks like a pretty good explanation of the GPL to me. Maybe MySQL put it in for people that don't understand the GPL. Though the make a nice exception for PHP. That sounds useful to me. I always thought that MySQL 3.x was also GPL'd.
LOL
To the moderators that modded parent up: Please reread the GPL. Thank You
c't (famous German computer mag) is doing exactly what you are describing. They call for a contest in which everyone can implement their favourite database in a setting with a dvd store and then mail their description on how they do it to the mag.
Rules and everything else is here:
http://www.heise.de/ct/05/20/156/
(but only in German)
Before I go on, please aknowledge that I am from Germany and I think the UN is a great idea.
It is really bad as it is now. Every independent board member that has overseen ICAAN actions has said this. But putting it into the hands of the UN per se would just make matters much worse.
Also I have the strong feeling that many people don't have the slightest clue what the UN really is and what it does. The funny thing is everyone seems to have an opinion about it. Either they hate it or love it or like it or dislike it. Germans like it and left leaning Americans like it. French like it and conservative Americans dislike it. I don't know about Americans, but I know that Germans don't have a clue what it is they like.
Some basics:
The UN is made up of different bodies to which countries are elected. Each world region (like Africa or Asia) has a certain quota for how many countries they can vote into a certain comitee. Then there are also organizations for specific purposes. Like UNAIDS or the UN high comissionare for refugees.
The UN is very good for diplmacy for example. All nations can go there and resolve conflicts instead of starting wars. Granted, it hasn't work very good and could be made better, but I don't see any alternative. Kofi Annan for example pushed through some very important reforms in his first two years of office.
Anyways, I could go on for hours, but maybe You can just check their webpage. It is quite informative.
Just reading the UN Charta would most likely be very invormative to many people here I suppose.
The UN is many, many things at the same time. Maybe if a sensible set of rules would be put together for some kind of organization under the UN umbrella it would appear international and at the same time remain efficient. But is not going to happen anyways. So keep cool and keep cursing Verisign and their control over ICANN.
The whole industry was preparing for the arrival of Intel on the 64 bit server processor market. Intel was so huge in the 90's (and if even bigger now) that everyone thought: "This is it!" HP, Compaq, Novell, ... everyone. They thought it would have such a good price perfomance issue that they threw out all their own stuff and only sell Itaniums a couple years later.
Wasn't that part of the reason why they stopped developement on the Alpha? Could someone please comment?
Also Tru64, Unix for 64bit by a consortium of industry giants was to be developed only for the Itanium.
So the anticipation was huge. And compared to the anticipation it was such a huge failure. And it still is on many applications, because nothing got ported when it came out because of the failure to meet anticipation.
The Itanium now rocks on some supercomputing tasks, but everyone and their dog is currently switching to the x86 Unix called Linux, not because it is free (they tend to buy expensive service contracts) but because the cost/performance ratio is so good mainly because of competition. If there would be a really good, stable and fast port of some Unix variant to the Itanium and some big company would support it the Itanium could still come around.
But at the moment it is chicken and egg. No cheap Itanium means no port and no port means no mass sale that leads to expensive Itaniums.
Good point. This is exactly what I think is lacking about all the violence in the popular media today. They never show what happens afterward. The guy that got shot has maybe family, maybe doesn't die, but needs a wheelchair or worse, has to stay in bed.
When a hero gets shot they maybe stay in hospital for while if it is bad or they wear some kind of armrest. But in the real world you are much more likely to end up dead or in a wheelchair if you get shot then getting pregnant if you have sex. Remember that a woman is only fertile a couple days in a month and that sperm doesn't stay alive forever in her. I know about teenagers getting pregnant, but I suppose they had sex more often than once. Also considering the rate of HIV in the US it is highly unlikely to get AIDS compared to the possibilties to serious health issue after being shot a being in a bad fight with knives and so on.
So argueing that sex bears responsibilities and they need to show it in the media and at the same time violence there is a very frequent event where they never show the aftermath or show a highly unlike outcome (a little scar for example) makes me wonder what You have been smoking lately. I am sorry to be a little blunt here, but a why should a parent be concerned about some sex on TV when at kids hours they have serious fights, gun shootings and everyone remains unhurt. Think of the A-Team for example.
The cool thing about Skype (and the major reason for its success IHMO) is it's ease of use.
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1.Download
2.Install
3.Works
4.
5. Profit
No seriously. Skype has no problems with firewalls, can operate on very low bandwidth (both do NOT apply to SIP) and basically works everywhere. There are also clients for Mac, Win32, Linux and PocketPC. I don't know if the original poster has any real experience with VoIP, since Skype's protocol overcomes many serious issues at the price of no interaction with former standards like SIP, H323 and the bunch.
That means one is limited to the PC. They have made progress and market some hardware now and there is always the posibility of clever hacks involving for example a Linux box and Asterix, but that can't be compared to the SIP standard with so many different hardware and network providers already on the market.
So I don't really get the point of this story.
Parent post is a flamebait and I wonder what moderators are smoking today.
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Debian is much more than a distribution. And there is unfortunately nothing better than Debian (as in the distro) to move on to. There is a reason why many distributions are build on Debian.
Please point me to a distro that can manage version upgrades even half as gracefully as Debian.
There was a discussion about Ubuntu on Slashdot and it was argued that if Ubuntu continues to be diverge further from sid and stay incompatible it will eventually dissolve, because the team will never be able to support the huge package base.
I am a desktop Linux user that started out with Debian 2.1 Slink and I also have the feeling that Debian has had some major issues lately.
About the security issue:
Heise security published it first 10 days ago:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/61076
As a result of this a discussion on the Debian security mailing list ensued:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2005/06/m
Heise Online then reported on that as a result of that discussion:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/61125
For those that can't read German the article says that of the five members that should make up the security team four are not active at the moment if they ever were. The only remain one is Martin Schulze aka Joey. He has been pretty busy with the organisation of the Linuxtag. So he was cut off from the action. Debian people are working on the problem.
Everyone that is not satiesfied with the current state of affairs should get their hand dirty helping instead of complaining. After all Debian forms the bases of "plenty of well-managed, technically sweet linux distributions out there".
Like Knoppis, Ubuntu or Xandros. Full list here:
http://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros
Could any real admin answer this, please? What has Slashdot come to? I would know where to look, who to ask and what to do, but I don't have much experience in this field.
... Could someone that works in this field please take it from here or point this person to some document?
This question is like asking hey, I don't know which browser to take, IE came for free, but it the new versions don't run on our Windows 95 Computers. Could Slashdot please help me?
Though the answers suggest the Slashdot really has changed and that those questions should be asked here.
For starters:
Firewalls are just one part of network security including, but not limited to update policy, safe passwords, proper encyption, DMZs, educating users,
How about the Linux Howto Collection. IMHO they are a great read and a good place to start.
USB enclosed hard drives.
USB2 is fast and everywhere. As soon as SATA drives get cheaper switch to those.
Also look for drives enclosures with fans. They might be noisy, but not as noisy as the fan you might start putting next to it to keep it cool if you buy the ones without fans.
Ebay has a monopoly. A natural one.
Look what Microsoft's monopoly on the desktop OS has done to Windows. If there would have been any competition on the OS market my grandma could have installed and be running a PC 4 years ago. And Security would be much, much better.
Same to Ebay. But Ebay has a natural monopoly that comes with the size.
Many people state that Japan was rightly punished for their hprrible crimes in China.
The truth is that many bombings were/are not only immoral, but also senseless. Why punish a small Japanese child living in Nagasaki for somthing that a Japanese soldier did in China? This is called collective punishment. Want to talk about 1-2 million Vietnamese killed in the 60s and 70s? (Again many through carpet bombing with B52s just to pressure the North into some agreement in Paris in order to be able to withdraw).
Anyways, droppping one atomic bomb to demonstrate its power? OK! But two? On cities?
The fire bombings over Germany needed to be over the inner cities, because those had old houses that burned better. So the USAF and the RAF mainly bombed old inner cities in Germany instead of factories, because at that time aiming was really hard. It not only destroyed a large part of the Germany cultural heritage and a lot of German civillians. The flying personel of the bombers didn't have a very good chance of returning.
I am not shitting You. Factories were not the target! The whole thing with the bombing went very, very wrong.
And I am still very glad that the Americans and the British fought the Nazis (I am German) and freed this continent. This was very important. But the fact remains that the bombings did almost nothing to help that cause. The ground troops did it.
Even if a war is justified, it is not justified to do anything You like.