Someone who burgles is a burglar. It's that simple, just like someone who warbles is a warbler. Distorting the verb form to "burglarize" is silly: you wouldn't say someone who's a warbler warblerizes, would you?
Spoken like someone just makin' stuff up. In fact, it's a totally different situation, as you'd find if you'd consult a dictionary. While "warbler" is indeed formed in the way you guess, "burgle" is actually a back-formation from burglar.
Fine, construct new words from old however you want, but actually, "burglarize" is the logical, standard, and normal way to turn nouns into verbs in English.
Here's how I solve the problem: replace Graffiti with TealScript. Unfortunately, it's ridiculously expensive for a Palm app, but I love it because I can actually use my own writing, which is actually very minimalist and original-graffiti like anyway -- but different enough that it was driving me crazy. And slowly, Graffiti was destroying my own handwriting. TealScript let me get it back. It's shareware, so you can try it out first (indefinitely, if you're into that).
If someone can push a hacked file up to some site for download, couldn't they just hack the advertised MD5 too? What sort of precautions are in-place to defeat this?
Well, for example, the Fedora Linux iso MD5SUM files are GPG signed.
XUL could be the answer to all this. It's a cross-platform UI language. If someone wanted to make their own XUL implementation, they'd be free to do so and the K/Gnome folks could finally get along.
This system is the best of both worlds. The voting machine itself does not count anything. [....]
Yeah, except, one of the big appeals of electronic voting machines is the ability to get results instantly without tedious and error-prone manual counting. How *are* the votes going to get counted in your proposed system? Optical scan machines later on?
Fluorescent lights have drawbacks of their own. If they're turned on and off frequently, they're _less_ effecient than incandescents (and their lifetime is significantly decreased). And unless you're using an expensive digital ballast, they flicker and an annoying 60Hz. (I assume an even more annoying 50Hz in Europe/Africa/Asia.) And the cold-zombie color of the light they produce is less-than-pleasing. (Not that the LEDs I've seen are much better.)
a. F. seconde, ad. med.L. secunda, fem. of L. secundus SECOND a., used ellipt. for secunda minuta, lit. 'second minute', i.e. the result of the second operation of sexagesimal division; the result of the first such operation (now called 'minute' simply) being the 'first' or 'prime minute' or 'prime' (see PRIME n.2 2)
Thing is, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is such an amazing album, that even if the album hadn't been released online, I still think it would have been succesful.
That's the point exactly -- you're right, but the A&R reps sure didn't think so and demanded that Wilco re-record the album and make it more demographic-friendly. The band said no, bought out the rights to their own stuff, and released it online. And then, surprise, not to long later, record labels are beating on their doors wanting to sell the album.
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I wonder if netscape could sue microsoft for trademark infringement.
I think they *coulda*, but it's probably too late now.
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Actually, they don't really say that they're "Mozilla compatible" -- they say that they *are* Mozilla, and then in the section where they're supposed to give the version number, they say "oh, wait, we're a different but compatible thing".
It's too bad Netscape didn't try to make them stop this using trademark law. Or maybe they did try and failed -- still, a shame.
Its really no better then the techniques used now, especially because a large amount of spam isn't using spoofed addresses, but completely valid ones.
Whatdya mean that's no better? That's a *huge* step forward. Suddenly, you can implement simple domain-based whitelists and blacklists. And you've got a lead for tracking down con artists and other illegal schemers.
Yeah, except the right wing is trying to torpedo Specter's chairmanship because he's a moderate on abortion. As quoted in the linked-to article Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) says a chairman is responsible to "the feelings, the beliefs, the values, the procedures that are held by the majority of that committee", which I find telling -- screw the feelings, beliefs, and values of the American people.
There just aren't enough packages in it. It's just too damn small.
Check out FedoraTracker. This will let you search for add-on packages from well-known third-party repositories, including the semi-official Fedora Extras (which is, by the way, the maybe-not-obvious-but-definitely-workable way to submit RPMs.)
Although I wish RH lots of luck with Fedora I can't say that I'm interested in what they offer.
Their commercial offerings are a pain in the butt, the kernel they use is patched all over the place and they don't even offer support for normal Linux kernels. For all intents and purposes they are *not* a Linux distribution but a clever new way to achieve another vendor lock-in scenario.
Actually, the Fedora Core Linux kernel is relatively minimally patched. Check out the source, or look at this thread for analysis. I haven't looked at the RHEL beta kernels, but it's my understanding that they're fairly similar. (That's the whole point of Fedora Core, after all.)
There's legitimate things to criticize about Fedora Core, but this is just unsubstantiated mudslinging -- probably more out of laziness than malice, but either way, it's not helping anyone.
Your other objections ("*proffessional* experience") seem like complaints about RHEL, since you talk about "their commercial server products", but the actual things you mention, like lack of API compatibility within major releases, don't apply (such compatibility is in fact guaranteed (with a reasonable exception for security problems) in RHEL). It's not in Fedora Core, but your complaints don't really apply very well there.
I'm critizing Redhat for dropping support on 2 very widely used products and not providing support for its freely downloadable product. (Fedora)
You've lost me. Why would you expect anyone to provide official support for a freely downloadable product? Red Hat developers produce updates and security fixes, they participate on open development mailing lists -- but, okay, they won't guarantee that they're going to fix your problems for free.
I won't guarantee that either, although if you ask me about something I know something about, I may try to help. Do you criticize me for that? (Go ahead, if you want.)
They've *got* to have some sort of working business model so their employees can eat. Giving away support for a product they also give away isn't a reasonable expectation.
They were actually making money on RHL which means they dropped it for focus, not profit.
Do you have a basis for this claim? From what I've heard from Red Hat folks, they were barely breaking even, if that.
Red Hat really has no interest in you and me until we code something, put it back into the community, and they incorperate it into their workstation distro.
And that's why all the stuff they write is released under the GPL. Those bastards.
Although, it's probably a GPL violation for them to do this, unless the kernel and system libraries are GPL'd, because the system library clause of the GPL explicitly doesn't apply to bundled software.
Network Solutions is terrible. I admit, they do have customer support, and when I call, I rarely wait more than a minute to talk to someone. That's good.
Is there a secret phone number? I have a friend who has a problem with them (hijacked domain, actually!) and he's literally been trying to get something done for _months_. Network Solutions ignores his e-mails and faxes, and the only phone numbers we can find only play recordings telling you to submit requests by e-mail. Please, let me know what number you're calling!
Apt for RPM supports everything RPM and Fedora need, so yum is just different for the sake of being different.
Well, except apt doesn't support multiarch. This makes x86_64 a pain (if you want the ability to run any 32-bit code at all). That's the main hangup, and it doesn't look like it's going to be fixed any time soon.
There's always at least one important package with a major update due just after a planned distro release. It's the nature of Linux distributions, which are aggregations of development done at different paces all over the world.
The dissapointing thing is how often Fedora major releases come out. Makes the lives of those of us who have to keep up with it quite difficult. We just got used to FC2 and now FC3's out!:-)
Although all Fedora releases are given whole numbers, they're clearly not all going to be huge changes. I think of them like this (and I don't work at Red Hat, so I can, without getting in trouble):
Red Hat Linux 9: Red Hat Linux 9.0 Fedora Core 1: Red Hat Linux 9.1 (or 9.5) Fedora Core 2: Red Hat Linux 10.0 Fedora Core 3: Red Hat Linux 10.1
Really, the changes don't look all that dramatic this time around.
Remmber, Red Hat has always put out new releases about every six months. You probably shouldn't set your watch by it exactly, but you might be able to by the averages. The new "Fedora" scheme lets them be more loose with making radical changes without waiting a year and a half (.0,.1,.2) if they want towillhave this time.
However, after I installed Ubuntu, I couldn't boot into Windows. Not having the time to fix it, I don't know why that is. YMMV, of course, mine could've been an isolated case.
If fedora is the base for which RHEL gets developed, why do they keep releasing new versions? When do they decide which fedora release gets frozen to develop RHEL 4?
What do you mean "why do they keep releasing new versions"? They keep releasing new versions because that's the point of having a distribution. Fedora Core partly exists to support RHEL, but it has its own life as well -- think Mozilla and Netscape, OpenOffice.org and StarOffice.
And "when do they decide"? Well, market realities mean they need a new RHEL release every certain amount of time -- probably every year and a half or so. So when that "when" approaches, I imagine they look to see what the most solid current Fedora base, and develop along with this.
In fact, RHEL 4 is being developed in parallel with FC3. See this LWN.net article for more details.
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Someone who burgles is a burglar. It's that simple, just like someone who warbles is a warbler. Distorting the verb form to "burglarize" is silly: you wouldn't say someone who's a warbler warblerizes, would you?
Spoken like someone just makin' stuff up. In fact, it's a totally different situation, as you'd find if you'd consult a dictionary. While "warbler" is indeed formed in the way you guess, "burgle" is actually a back-formation from burglar.
Fine, construct new words from old however you want, but actually, "burglarize" is the logical, standard, and normal way to turn nouns into verbs in English.
The "New Games Journalism" is ... blogs?
Here's how I solve the problem: replace Graffiti with TealScript. Unfortunately, it's ridiculously expensive for a Palm app, but I love it because I can actually use my own writing, which is actually very minimalist and original-graffiti like anyway -- but different enough that it was driving me crazy. And slowly, Graffiti was destroying my own handwriting. TealScript let me get it back. It's shareware, so you can try it out first (indefinitely, if you're into that).
If someone can push a hacked file up to some site for download, couldn't they just hack the advertised MD5 too? What sort of precautions are in-place to defeat this?
Well, for example, the Fedora Linux iso MD5SUM files are GPG signed.
XUL could be the answer to all this. It's a cross-platform UI language. If someone wanted to make their own XUL implementation, they'd be free to do so and the K/Gnome folks could finally get along.
Hmmm -- a XULWM? (Or MozWM?)
This system is the best of both worlds. The voting machine itself does not count anything. [....]
Yeah, except, one of the big appeals of electronic voting machines is the ability to get results instantly without tedious and error-prone manual counting. How *are* the votes going to get counted in your proposed system? Optical scan machines later on?
You know -- predict stuff every week, and eventually some of it will come true.
Fluorescent lights have drawbacks of their own. If they're turned on and off frequently, they're _less_ effecient than incandescents (and their lifetime is significantly decreased). And unless you're using an expensive digital ballast, they flicker and an annoying 60Hz. (I assume an even more annoying 50Hz in Europe/Africa/Asia.) And the cold-zombie color of the light they produce is less-than-pleasing. (Not that the LEDs I've seen are much better.)
OED backs this up:
a. F. seconde, ad. med.L. secunda, fem. of L. secundus SECOND a., used ellipt. for secunda minuta, lit. 'second minute', i.e. the result of the second operation of sexagesimal division; the result of the first such operation (now called 'minute' simply) being the 'first' or 'prime minute' or 'prime' (see PRIME n.2 2)
Thing is, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is such an amazing album, that even if the album hadn't been released online, I still think it would have been succesful.
That's the point exactly -- you're right, but the A&R reps sure didn't think so and demanded that Wilco re-record the album and make it more demographic-friendly. The band said no, bought out the rights to their own stuff, and released it online. And then, surprise, not to long later, record labels are beating on their doors wanting to sell the album.
I wonder if netscape could sue microsoft for trademark infringement.
I think they *coulda*, but it's probably too late now.
Actually, they don't really say that they're "Mozilla compatible" -- they say that they *are* Mozilla, and then in the section where they're supposed to give the version number, they say "oh, wait, we're a different but compatible thing".
It's too bad Netscape didn't try to make them stop this using trademark law. Or maybe they did try and failed -- still, a shame.
Its really no better then the techniques used now, especially because a large amount of spam isn't using spoofed addresses, but completely valid ones.
Whatdya mean that's no better? That's a *huge* step forward. Suddenly, you can implement simple domain-based whitelists and blacklists. And you've got a lead for tracking down con artists and other illegal schemers.
Yeah, except the right wing is trying to torpedo Specter's chairmanship because he's a moderate on abortion. As quoted in the linked-to article Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) says a chairman is responsible to "the feelings, the beliefs, the values, the procedures that are held by the majority of that committee", which I find telling -- screw the feelings, beliefs, and values of the American people.
There just aren't enough packages in it. It's just too damn small.
Check out FedoraTracker. This will let you search for add-on packages from well-known third-party repositories, including the semi-official Fedora Extras (which is, by the way, the maybe-not-obvious-but-definitely-workable way to submit RPMs.)
Although I wish RH lots of luck with Fedora I can't say that I'm interested in what they offer.
Their commercial offerings are a pain in the butt, the kernel they use is patched all over the place and they don't even offer support for normal Linux kernels. For all intents and purposes they are *not* a Linux distribution but a clever new way to achieve another vendor lock-in scenario.
Actually, the Fedora Core Linux kernel is relatively minimally patched. Check out the source, or look at this thread for analysis. I haven't looked at the RHEL beta kernels, but it's my understanding that they're fairly similar. (That's the whole point of Fedora Core, after all.)
There's legitimate things to criticize about Fedora Core, but this is just unsubstantiated mudslinging -- probably more out of laziness than malice, but either way, it's not helping anyone.
Your other objections ("*proffessional* experience") seem like complaints about RHEL, since you talk about "their commercial server products", but the actual things you mention, like lack of API compatibility within major releases, don't apply (such compatibility is in fact guaranteed (with a reasonable exception for security problems) in RHEL). It's not in Fedora Core, but your complaints don't really apply very well there.
I'm critizing Redhat for dropping support on 2 very widely used products and not providing support for its freely downloadable product. (Fedora)
You've lost me. Why would you expect anyone to provide official support for a freely downloadable product? Red Hat developers produce updates and security fixes, they participate on open development mailing lists -- but, okay, they won't guarantee that they're going to fix your problems for free.
I won't guarantee that either, although if you ask me about something I know something about, I may try to help. Do you criticize me for that? (Go ahead, if you want.)
They've *got* to have some sort of working business model so their employees can eat. Giving away support for a product they also give away isn't a reasonable expectation.
They were actually making money on RHL which means they dropped it for focus, not profit.
Do you have a basis for this claim? From what I've heard from Red Hat folks, they were barely breaking even, if that.
Red Hat really has no interest in you and me until we code something, put it back into the community, and they incorperate it into their workstation distro.
And that's why all the stuff they write is released under the GPL. Those bastards.
Although, it's probably a GPL violation for them to do this, unless the kernel and system libraries are GPL'd, because the system library clause of the GPL explicitly doesn't apply to bundled software.
I'm just sayin'.
Network Solutions is terrible. I admit, they do have customer support, and when I call, I rarely wait more than a minute to talk to someone. That's good.
Is there a secret phone number? I have a friend who has a problem with them (hijacked domain, actually!) and he's literally been trying to get something done for _months_. Network Solutions ignores his e-mails and faxes, and the only phone numbers we can find only play recordings telling you to submit requests by e-mail. Please, let me know what number you're calling!
Apt for RPM supports everything RPM and Fedora need, so yum is just different for the sake of being different.
Well, except apt doesn't support multiarch. This makes x86_64 a pain (if you want the ability to run any 32-bit code at all). That's the main hangup, and it doesn't look like it's going to be fixed any time soon.
There's always at least one important package with a major update due just after a planned distro release. It's the nature of Linux distributions, which are aggregations of development done at different paces all over the world.
Although all Fedora releases are given whole numbers, they're clearly not all going to be huge changes. I think of them like this (and I don't work at Red Hat, so I can, without getting in trouble):Really, the changes don't look all that dramatic this time around.
Remmber, Red Hat has always put out new releases about every six months. You probably shouldn't set your watch by it exactly, but you might be able to by the averages. The new "Fedora" scheme lets them be more loose with making radical changes without waiting a year and a half (.0,
However, after I installed Ubuntu, I couldn't boot into Windows. Not having the time to fix it, I don't know why that is. YMMV, of course, mine could've been an isolated case.
Probably the same problem you can run into on Fedora Core. To my knowledge, this isn't fixed in the new release -- someone please correct me if it is.
If fedora is the base for which RHEL gets developed, why do they keep releasing new versions? When do they decide which fedora release gets frozen to develop RHEL 4?
What do you mean "why do they keep releasing new versions"? They keep releasing new versions because that's the point of having a distribution. Fedora Core partly exists to support RHEL, but it has its own life as well -- think Mozilla and Netscape, OpenOffice.org and StarOffice.
And "when do they decide"? Well, market realities mean they need a new RHEL release every certain amount of time -- probably every year and a half or so. So when that "when" approaches, I imagine they look to see what the most solid current Fedora base, and develop along with this.
In fact, RHEL 4 is being developed in parallel with FC3. See this LWN.net article for more details.