All my friends here say I would be mad to compile from source. They seem to think it will take hours. I can't see that as a problem, I'll just run it overnight anyway.
So, can anyone who has compiled from source tell me roughly how long it took and their machine specs please? I have a P2 450 with 128MB RAM so it can't be that bad can it? Can it???:-)
At least two of those security breaches are nothing to do with the fact that Microsoft technology was involved. They were down to bad working practices.
I'm not an MS fan, but I would be wary of a company that tries to promote itself on the back of ill-researched half-facts that question the integrity of their main competitor.
I use Slackware as a desktop OS as well as a server OS (2 machines). Slack 7.0 has many of the latest Window Managers and Gnome and KDE should you want them. I only use WindowMaker so I can't comment on whether they have the latest versions of the above.
I tried Suse on the desktop machine for a while, but completely and utterly failed to get it to start any different services on boot despite following everything it said to the letter. I had only tried it for glibc which Slack 7 now has anyway.
I can't see myself running another dist ever again. Hmmmm, except for Debian perhaps...:-)
If a few IANAL types can spot the holes in the laws, surely the draftees could too. Much as we like to believe otherwise, the government (Civil Service) does employ some smart people.
So: a) the problems are intentional, the intended effect is to gain control over the innocent populous at large, by scaring them into handing over keys etc. - Most paranoid scenario, hope it's not the case.
b) the original draft gets totally fucked up by everyone involved adding their own agenda to it, without thought to the effect on the whole bill. - Most likely in my opinion.
c) they're all stupid. - Nah. Note, I'm not talking about MPs here, they are mostly quite thick. I'm talking about the people who dream up these proposals in the first place. Civil Servants and heads of Security Organisations etc.
Let's hope it's b, incompetence I can deal with , major stupidity or hidden agendas are far scarier.
-- "They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
A quick glance through the back of most UK Hi-Fi Magazines shows most suppliers offer all their players with a regionless option for about £50 more. I bought a Samsung 709 (now Matrix compatible:->) and paid £30 more to make it regionless. The shop then provides a guarantee for the same duration as the manufacturer would have.
No person I have spoken to was willing to buy a player unless it was region free, and I guess this is the UK market's response to this.
"I am sure that we have all heard about the classic debate between Tannenbaum and Linus Torvalds about Linux being "no good." "
Does anyone have a link to that or more info on it? I learned a lot of my OS theory based on Tannenbaum's work and would be fascinated by his views on Linux.
Apart from special deals run by local operators (which are very rare), ALL calls are per minute. A friend of mine pays £100 (about $160) a month just for calls to the Internet, he's not a particularly heavy user either. It seriously sucks, believe me. Costs are about a penny a minute off-peak, two pence a minute peak.
The problem I have with 'Free ISPs' is that they discourage telecom operators from allowing free calls (the real issue). As the call charges are exactly the thing that is funding the ISP side of the business there is plenty of interest (for the telecom operators) in maintaining the status quo.
I'm sure the majority of European Internet users would prefer to pay £10-£20 a month to an ISP and get free calls, rather than pay nothing to an ISP and pay for per minute access to a telecom operator.
I bought some Slashdot mugs and mouse mats from mymug. Whilst the mug is clearly just a mug with a sticker on it, the image quality was excellent. The overall look of it was quite impressive, though not as good as the vi-reference mug. The Slashdot mouse mat was very good quality though. My Mum was totally impressed with hers.:-)
Isn't there a legal issue with using gcc? I understand not all the code you link with is under the LGPL, so you can't sell your binaries without releasing source.
That is certainly why our shop won't use gcc, and shells out for lots of Sun compiler licences so more than one person can compile at a time.
Wonder if anyone has the facts on this, as we may just be being paranoid.
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Agreed. I was recently involved in a project where a group of C++ programmers had to do a project using ASP for the first time. It was quite easy to separate the people who had done a Computing degree who could apply fundamental programming principles to a new language from the people who had done a MS conversion to Computing who couldn't.
I have just a BS in Computer Science, and where I work most others have MSs. At first I felt under-qualified until I realised that they all had done MS conversion courses from non-computing BSs. Now I have been promoted over most of them despite joining after them, because my 3 years of study enabled me to program better than there 1 year of study. I do tend to rate someone with a BS as more likely to be a better programmer than someone with a MS conversion from a non-computing BS.
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More info on the origins of the phone phreaking and the 2600 hertz tone can be found at http://www.webcrunchers.com/crunch/Play/history/ho me.html .
It's an interesting read.
All my friends here say I would be mad to compile from source.
:-)
They seem to think it will take hours. I can't see that as a problem, I'll just run it overnight anyway.
So, can anyone who has compiled from source tell me roughly how long it took and their machine specs please?
I have a P2 450 with 128MB RAM so it can't be that bad can it? Can it???
At least two of those security breaches are nothing to do with the fact that Microsoft technology was involved.
They were down to bad working practices.
I'm not an MS fan, but I would be wary of a company that tries to promote itself on the back of ill-researched half-facts that question the integrity of their main competitor.
I use Slackware as a desktop OS as well as a server OS (2 machines).
:-)
Slack 7.0 has many of the latest Window Managers and Gnome and KDE should you want them. I only use WindowMaker so I can't comment on whether they have the latest versions of the above.
I tried Suse on the desktop machine for a while, but completely and utterly failed to get it to start any different services on boot despite following everything it said to the letter.
I had only tried it for glibc which Slack 7 now has anyway.
I can't see myself running another dist ever again.
Hmmmm, except for Debian perhaps...
The following occured to me when reading this.
If a few IANAL types can spot the holes in the laws, surely the draftees could too. Much as we like to believe otherwise, the government (Civil Service) does employ some smart people.
So:
a) the problems are intentional, the intended effect is to gain control over the innocent populous at large, by scaring them into handing over keys etc.
- Most paranoid scenario, hope it's not the case.
b) the original draft gets totally fucked up by everyone involved adding their own agenda to it, without thought to the effect on the whole bill.
- Most likely in my opinion.
c) they're all stupid.
- Nah. Note, I'm not talking about MPs here, they are mostly quite thick. I'm talking about the people who dream up these proposals in the first place. Civil Servants and heads of Security Organisations etc.
Let's hope it's b, incompetence I can deal with , major stupidity or hidden agendas are far scarier.
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"They that can give up liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
I would expect using it to exchange certain 'types' of picture files could be potentially more popular than exchanging MP3s.
A quick glance through the back of most UK Hi-Fi Magazines shows most suppliers offer all their players with a regionless option for about £50 more. :->) and paid £30 more to make it regionless. The shop then provides a guarantee for the same duration as the manufacturer would have.
I bought a Samsung 709 (now Matrix compatible
No person I have spoken to was willing to buy a player unless it was region free, and I guess this is the UK market's response to this.
The story mentions the following:
"I am sure that we have all heard about the classic debate between Tannenbaum and Linus Torvalds about Linux being "no good." "
Does anyone have a link to that or more info on it?
I learned a lot of my OS theory based on Tannenbaum's work and would be fascinated by his views on Linux.
Thanks.
Apart from special deals run by local operators (which are very rare), ALL calls are per minute.
A friend of mine pays £100 (about $160) a month just for calls to the Internet, he's not a particularly heavy user either.
It seriously sucks, believe me.
Costs are about a penny a minute off-peak, two pence a minute peak.
The problem I have with 'Free ISPs' is that they discourage telecom operators from allowing free calls (the real issue).
As the call charges are exactly the thing that is funding the ISP side of the business there is plenty of interest (for the telecom operators) in maintaining the status quo.
I'm sure the majority of European Internet users would prefer to pay £10-£20 a month to an ISP and get free calls, rather than pay nothing to an ISP and pay for per minute access to a telecom operator.
See Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications for more info.
I bought some Slashdot mugs and mouse mats from mymug. :-)
Whilst the mug is clearly just a mug with a sticker on it, the image quality was excellent.
The overall look of it was quite impressive, though not as good as the vi-reference mug.
The Slashdot mouse mat was very good quality though.
My Mum was totally impressed with hers.
Isn't there a legal issue with using gcc?
I understand not all the code you link with is under the LGPL, so you can't sell your binaries without releasing source.
That is certainly why our shop won't use gcc, and shells out for lots of Sun compiler licences so more than one person can compile at a time.
Wonder if anyone has the facts on this, as we may just be being paranoid.
Agreed.
I was recently involved in a project where a group of C++ programmers had to do a project using ASP for the first time.
It was quite easy to separate the people who had done a Computing degree who could apply fundamental programming principles to a new language from the people who had done a MS conversion to Computing who couldn't.
I have just a BS in Computer Science, and where I work most others have MSs.
At first I felt under-qualified until I realised that they all had done MS conversion courses from non-computing BSs.
Now I have been promoted over most of them despite joining after them, because my 3 years of study enabled me to program better than there 1 year of study.
I do tend to rate someone with a BS as more likely to be a better programmer than someone with a MS conversion from a non-computing BS.