Where on earth did this come from? Canadians pronounce "about" the same way Americans do (that is, if the American media is any indicator of how you people pronounce words).
It depends on where in Canada you're talking about.
Without a doubt, OpenBSD is giving us a less safe piece of software (because they don't want to include GPL code).
I don't know about "less safe", but in 3.7 they will have a privelege separated version of ftpd. It's in -current now, and has been since November 2004.
Even OpenBSD's servers use vsftpd (in preferance to BSD ftpd) because of security and performance reasons.
ftp.openbsd.org also runs on Solaris. It's not under the control of the OpenBSD project, as it's a sunsite at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton. They donate disk space and bandwidth to the project, and beggars can't be choosers.
ftp.usa.openbsd.org runs OpenBSD 3.6 apparently, but it runs ftpd 6.6 (The one with privsep, 6.5 is in 3.6). It seems to be doing fine.
It would be interesting to see a distribution that insisted on secure code, without fretting about licensing.
Why? Both license and security are very important. I'd think that license is just as important as security. The BSD philosophy is that there should be good code out there for commerical companies to use, so we don't get crappy reimplementations, which the GPL would require if one wants to make a closed source product.
2003 was made as the server companion for XP. Now, maybe i missed something because a lot of what has been said in this thread has gone way over my head but I was always under the impression that Server 2003 and XP were akin to Windows 2000 and 2000 Advanced Server?
Yes and no. Windows XP is version 5.1, Server 2003 is version 5.2.
Anyway, 2003 feels a lot like XP, but with a lot of crap removed. No themes by default, no processes you don't explicitly start, etc. The only thing I didn't like was that I needed to manually turn on DirectX to get some games to play.
If you can read them, and they follow a regular form, then perl, awk, and sed are your best friends. That's pretty much what I did, split the messages up in a perl script and tarred them.
Funny, my wife's iBook, purchased in December, came with a compiler. It wasn't installed by default; I had to install it from one of the CDs that came in the box, but that only took a few minutes.
My iBook, purchased Nov 2001 did not come with the dev tools CD. I downloaded it for free. It came with everything else, and when I upgraded to Jaguar, the OS box came with the dev tools cd. So I believe the grandparent.
Meanwhile, Mac OS X has no theming support, and is a better GUI than any of those. Kind of makes you wonder how important crap like themes really are.
Well, yes and no. Mac OS X has two different styles, and they're selected by the developer of the application. You have brushed metal look, and the other, aqua look.
This would never be done as a formal process in the US, as it violates the independence of the legislature. Even if their advice was only, well, advisory, it would still violate it in spirit.
Well, the courts ruling is not binding, and the governor-general can still veto it (though that rarely happens). Parliament still votes on a bill after the court's looked at it.
I'm not sure having a prime minister (or whatever we'd call it) would help the situation so much, as it seems too much a concentration of power in the other direction.
Not likely, as in Canada the executive branch comes from the legislature. The Prime Minister isn't elected, he's appointed by the governor-general based on how many seats he has in Parliament. The leader of the party in Parliament with the most seats is the Prime Minister.
FreeBSD 5.3 and 4.10 didn't like my computer, either. 5.2 and 4.9 worked fine. The problem is IEEE1394. There is a bug in its disk code, and it pauses looking for hard drives on the 1394 bus. Disable it, and it worked fine for me. YMMV
and strangely, you'll start enjoying their company while you work. In time...
In time? I've loved the time I spend with my son from the moment he was born. Anyway, I know what you mean about using all the wrong child rearing techniques. His mother is a little loopy and it shows in him sometimes, but I love him non the less for it.
You can chalk this one up to careless admins - something I'm sure PostgreSQL is not immune to either.
You're right, nothing's immune. However, some things are better than others. PostgreSQL won't run as root by default, or an account with admin privs on a windows box. It also doesn't accept network connections by default.
On the other hand, its default local authentication method is "trust", which means it believes you are who you say you are, regardless of password. I believe the rationale behind this is that development boxes will be single user, on a trusted setup. You can easily change it to "md5" which is the same one it uses by default over the wire.
No. The G4's limited FSB limits its power significantly.
Old news. According to this, the dual-core processors have moved the memory controller to the CPU, so there is no longer artificial restrictions on FSB speed. These things have a FSB speed of 667mhz.
They also use 15W of power, and have a clock speed of 1.5ghz. Not too shabby, no?
The old ones that are used, have a 200mhz memory bus, but both the new single-core and dual-core support 667mhz buses.
Yeah! And from what I've heard, all Christians must believe that the earth is 6000 years old and that only 144000 people get to go to heaven! Hell, I don't remember the last time I saw a woman getting stoned for adultery. So, from what I've heard, most of the people out there who say they're Christian really aren't!
I don't really know what your point is about Christians. The debate was whether Kerry could be considered a good Catholic. You seem to be exclusively associating Catholicism with Christianity. They aren't the same thing. Christianity includes Catholicism. That being said, about adultery, read Johm 8:3-11, you know, the part of the Bible where Jesus sais "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." (John 8:7, KJV)
Also, about belief: Christianity itself (Ie the most basic level) requires you to believe nothing more than believing that Jesus is God, God raised him from the dead, and not be afraid to say it out loud. This is all in the epistle to the Romans.
Apparently the guys over at Mac-On-Linux have been working on porting their code to Mac OS X, so you'll be able to run Linux on Mac OS the same way you can run Mac OS on Linux. Check their mailing lists and such for development information.
I apologise if this question has been asked a hojillion times already, but what's the advantage of Linux over MacOS X (not trolling here, honestly curious)?
Apple doesn't make the only PowerPC hardware. There are many others that don't run Mac OS X. For those there is a limited number of operating systems that will run on them.
To be fair, you did mention fingerprinting and iris scanning when coming to North America. That doesn't happen in Canada, and that's why it looked like you were the ignorant one. All you have to do to avoid it while on a trip to Canada is fly to Toronto, Montreal, or some other big international airport in Canada.
That may be, but if I recall correctly, the surgury is more expensive than the patient pays. I think it's subsidised by the Canadian goverenment, or maybe the provincial government.
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Where on earth did this come from? Canadians pronounce "about" the same way Americans do (that is, if the American media is any indicator of how you people pronounce words).
It depends on where in Canada you're talking about.
As far as plausible defense explanations, it's those that let OJ Simpson walk free, and probably Baretta as well. The sword cuts both ways.
It's better to let a guilty man walk than to hang an innocent man.
Apple's remote desktop 2 package uses PostgreSQL for its data store.
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Without a doubt, OpenBSD is giving us a less safe piece of software (because they don't want to include GPL code).
I don't know about "less safe", but in 3.7 they will have a privelege separated version of ftpd. It's in -current now, and has been since November 2004.
Even OpenBSD's servers use vsftpd (in preferance to BSD ftpd) because of security and performance reasons.
ftp.openbsd.org also runs on Solaris. It's not under the control of the OpenBSD project, as it's a sunsite at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton. They donate disk space and bandwidth to the project, and beggars can't be choosers.
ftp.usa.openbsd.org runs OpenBSD 3.6 apparently, but it runs ftpd 6.6 (The one with privsep, 6.5 is in 3.6). It seems to be doing fine.
It would be interesting to see a distribution that insisted on secure code, without fretting about licensing.
Why? Both license and security are very important. I'd think that license is just as important as security. The BSD philosophy is that there should be good code out there for commerical companies to use, so we don't get crappy reimplementations, which the GPL would require if one wants to make a closed source product.
2003 was made as the server companion for XP. Now, maybe i missed something because a lot of what has been said in this thread has gone way over my head but I was always under the impression that Server 2003 and XP were akin to Windows 2000 and 2000 Advanced Server?
Yes and no. Windows XP is version 5.1, Server 2003 is version 5.2.
Anyway, 2003 feels a lot like XP, but with a lot of crap removed. No themes by default, no processes you don't explicitly start, etc. The only thing I didn't like was that I needed to manually turn on DirectX to get some games to play.
SOAP seems particularly vile in this respect.
Probably. Last time I checked, SOAP ran over HTTP exclusivly.
You can set up an AMD-64 with RAID under LINUX for $500 or less.
We're talking quality here. None of this SATA shit, which is great for the desktop, but not for much else.
And this is the OpenBSD project, it'll be running OpenBSD, not Linux.
If you can read them, and they follow a regular form, then perl, awk, and sed are your best friends. That's pretty much what I did, split the messages up in a perl script and tarred them.
Funny, my wife's iBook, purchased in December, came with a compiler. It wasn't installed by default; I had to install it from one of the CDs that came in the box, but that only took a few minutes.
My iBook, purchased Nov 2001 did not come with the dev tools CD. I downloaded it for free. It came with everything else, and when I upgraded to Jaguar, the OS box came with the dev tools cd. So I believe the grandparent.
Meanwhile, Mac OS X has no theming support, and is a better GUI than any of those. Kind of makes you wonder how important crap like themes really are.
Well, yes and no. Mac OS X has two different styles, and they're selected by the developer of the application. You have brushed metal look, and the other, aqua look.
This would never be done as a formal process in the US, as it violates the independence of the legislature. Even if their advice was only, well, advisory, it would still violate it in spirit.
Well, the courts ruling is not binding, and the governor-general can still veto it (though that rarely happens). Parliament still votes on a bill after the court's looked at it.
I'm not sure having a prime minister (or whatever we'd call it) would help the situation so much, as it seems too much a concentration of power in the other direction.
Not likely, as in Canada the executive branch comes from the legislature. The Prime Minister isn't elected, he's appointed by the governor-general based on how many seats he has in Parliament. The leader of the party in Parliament with the most seats is the Prime Minister.
From time to time in Canada Parliament sends a proposed bill to the Supreme Court to rule if it's constitutional before they vote on it.
FreeBSD 5.3 and 4.10 didn't like my computer, either. 5.2 and 4.9 worked fine. The problem is IEEE1394. There is a bug in its disk code, and it pauses looking for hard drives on the 1394 bus. Disable it, and it worked fine for me.
YMMV
and strangely, you'll start enjoying their company while you work. In time...
In time? I've loved the time I spend with my son from the moment he was born. Anyway, I know what you mean about using all the wrong child rearing techniques. His mother is a little loopy and it shows in him sometimes, but I love him non the less for it.
What compiler are you using that doesn't issue a warning for the '=' used in an if statement?
...;
IIRC, gcc doesn't if you do something like this:
if((ptr = malloc(x))==NULL)
And here I was thinking that Canada ceases to exist east of Winnepeg. ;)
You can chalk this one up to careless admins - something I'm sure PostgreSQL is not immune to either.
You're right, nothing's immune. However, some things are better than others. PostgreSQL won't run as root by default, or an account with admin privs on a windows box. It also doesn't accept network connections by default.
On the other hand, its default local authentication method is "trust", which means it believes you are who you say you are, regardless of password. I believe the rationale behind this is that development boxes will be single user, on a trusted setup. You can easily change it to "md5" which is the same one it uses by default over the wire.
No. The G4's limited FSB limits its power significantly.
Old news. According to this, the dual-core processors have moved the memory controller to the CPU, so there is no longer artificial restrictions on FSB speed. These things have a FSB speed of 667mhz.
They also use 15W of power, and have a clock speed of 1.5ghz. Not too shabby, no?
The old ones that are used, have a 200mhz memory bus, but both the new single-core and dual-core support 667mhz buses.
Yeah! And from what I've heard, all Christians must believe that the earth is 6000 years old and that only 144000 people get to go to heaven! Hell, I don't remember the last time I saw a woman getting stoned for adultery. So, from what I've heard, most of the people out there who say they're Christian really aren't!
I don't really know what your point is about Christians. The debate was whether Kerry could be considered a good Catholic. You seem to be exclusively associating Catholicism with Christianity. They aren't the same thing. Christianity includes Catholicism. That being said, about adultery, read Johm 8:3-11, you know, the part of the Bible where Jesus sais "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." (John 8:7, KJV)
Also, about belief: Christianity itself (Ie the most basic level) requires you to believe nothing more than believing that Jesus is God, God raised him from the dead, and not be afraid to say it out loud. This is all in the epistle to the Romans.
I can't be certain, but sex comes to mind.
Where is the rest of the documentation for Open Directory?
<cynic>In the source code?</cynic>
Apparently the guys over at Mac-On-Linux have been working on porting their code to Mac OS X, so you'll be able to run Linux on Mac OS the same way you can run Mac OS on Linux. Check their mailing lists and such for development information.
I apologise if this question has been asked a hojillion times already, but what's the advantage of Linux over MacOS X (not trolling here, honestly curious)?
Apple doesn't make the only PowerPC hardware. There are many others that don't run Mac OS X. For those there is a limited number of operating systems that will run on them.
To be fair, you did mention fingerprinting and iris scanning when coming to North America. That doesn't happen in Canada, and that's why it looked like you were the ignorant one. All you have to do to avoid it while on a trip to Canada is fly to Toronto, Montreal, or some other big international airport in Canada.
That may be, but if I recall correctly, the surgury is more expensive than the patient pays. I think it's subsidised by the Canadian goverenment, or maybe the provincial government.