The biggest threat to my server's uptime is my girlfriend, mother or cleaner switching it off, and this would protect quite nicely against that. But to be really safe, it would have to be hard-wired into the wall, not plugged in with the standard IEC lead it is now.
Hebrew and Arabic are written right to left, except for numbers and snippets of other languages, which are written left to right within the right to left text. This requires Bi-Driectional (BIDI) text support, and is very hard to support correctly and efficiently for read-write programs where the user can just put their cursor anywhere and start typing. Most software either does BIDI correctly or does something resembling it efficiently, seldom both.
Congratulations, you came up with 1 commercial libc implementation for Linux.
Sure libc's are supposed to have a standard API to programs that use them, but taking a BSD library and running it on top of Linux is a non-trivial porting task which AFAIK has never been done. Old GNU libc5 for Linux was a seperate codebase from BSD libc5, though from memory some of the network functions were taken straight from BSD (as with a certain other popular operating system).
Stallman declined to be interviewed unless this article used his nomenclature throughout
It boggles my mind that he did this.
I doubt he did, the article is full of other inaccuracies, as others have pointed out. I rather suspect the exchange went something like this:
Writer: Hi, I'd like to interview you about this article I'm writing about Linux.
RMS: I don't have anything to do with Linux, perhaps you mean GNU. I will happily give an interview, provided you make it clear that the overall operating system is a combination of the two by calling it GNU/Linux.
Writer: [throws toys out of pram and goes off to write his anti-Stallman rant, and his fanboy article about "the benelovant dictator of Planet Linux".
Wired stopped being relevant in 1995, and this fanboy piece just reinforces the fact that even though its slimmed down to the size it used to be when it was good, it is still crap.
Finally, Firebird (Especially as of 0.7) is MUCH smaller & faster than SeaMonkey Mozilla builds.
Huh? The full install of Mozilla is 11Mb. Firebird is 7Mb, Thunderbird is 7.5Mb. That doesn't look MUCH smaller to me. And I haven't seen any speed problems with Mozilla since 1.1.
Except it wasn't $50 an hour the executives were paying, that was her income. The cost to the executive was $750 a month for two hours training, two hours phone and unlimited email support. Someone's getting rich, and it ain't this woman.
Now when CEOs are willing to spend that sort of money on REALLY basic computer training, but tighten the purse strings when the development group asks for a couple of grand a head for a one off genuine specialized three day course, you know where that company is headed.
I've lived there while the Japanese economy was bad, and believe me, when the Japanese say their economy is at its worst since the war, its still in better condition than most other economies.
Also, you don't pay per user for large scale web deployment, you pay per server license. Fuck SUN's sales multiple timesfor not reminding you of better license terms for your new deployment.
He specifically said it was a non-J2EE proprietary Java app server. My guess is ATG Dynamo (a pre-J2EE version). I doubt Sun's sales had anything to do with recommending it.
You switch between talking about proprietary code running on top of the Linux kernel (which is expressly allowed by the Linux license), and code for interacting with your hardware, which forms part of the toolset required to build and install Linux on your hardware (and thus is covered by the GPL).
If you are taking advantage of the work that many developers have put into the Linux kernel to avoid having to pay licensing fees, then quit complaining about the terms of the license. Of course you should release the information and code required for your users to interface with your product so they can upgrade the Linux kernel to one they've customized themselves. The whole point of the GPL is to ensure users have that freedom. If you want to keep your hardware interfaces secret, then use something else. There are plenty of vendors that would be happy to sell you their embedded OS on terms that would suit you.
Anyone using Windows 2003 for a server now has got to be the type of person that will try out anything as long as it is new. Probably next time there is a major kernel revision, or a new Linux or BSD based distribution, every one of those 5% will switch away from Windows 2003 again.
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I find it quite amusing myself. For all their talk about Free Speech, Americans sure like to suppress voices they don't approve of. OK, my post was a little flamebaity, especially given Americans well known lack of ability to laugh at themselves. I don't mind that it gets modded down, but something is seriously screwed with the modding of this post.
The post went in with a score of 2 originally, the Karma bonus disappeared within 5 minutes. The moderation summary was always dodgy, and consistently adds up to 80%. When I first checked back, it looked like this:
The Funny gets replaced by an Overrated, and the proportions are adjusted to levels that don't look like they'd happen naturally unless someone had been fiddling.
And now, after the editorial abuse is exposed, the percentages are exactly the same, but the score has gone back up a point.
I wish the editors could tell us WTF is going on here. Has someone been screwing with the moderation points behind the scene, or is this a bug?
And sadly, the Slashdot moderators regard opinions that non-Americans or Americans not on American soil might deserve the same treatment as Americans on American soil (RTFA, those exact words are used) to be Flamebait. Don't want to rock the Fox News boat now, do we.
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Just as George Bush wants Americans to be able to commit war crimes without fear of being prosecuted by an international court, he also wants "Americans on American soil" to be able to plan terrorist acts without fear of being spied on. Of course, these "rights" will never apply to non-Americans.
As far as I can recall, SCO only announced one Linux licensee, and Sun recently announced that they have licensed Linux (for desktop use only). So there are no "unknown" SCO Linux licensees anymore. Sun is the mystery fortune 500 company, despite what McBride or whoever it was said at the time of the press release.
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The biggest threat to my server's uptime is my girlfriend, mother or cleaner switching it off, and this would protect quite nicely against that. But to be really safe, it would have to be hard-wired into the wall, not plugged in with the standard IEC lead it is now.
It's unreadable shite. Why add useless crap to a variable name when your compiler and editor are perfectly capable of preventing type errors.
Chinese and Japanese are left to right, and I beleive that the Mac version of MS Word does not support Arabic either.
Why? He doesn't threaten anyone if they don't call it what he wants. Just declines their invitation to interviews and conferences.
Hebrew and Arabic are written right to left, except for numbers and snippets of other languages, which are written left to right within the right to left text. This requires Bi-Driectional (BIDI) text support, and is very hard to support correctly and efficiently for read-write programs where the user can just put their cursor anywhere and start typing. Most software either does BIDI correctly or does something resembling it efficiently, seldom both.
Sure libc's are supposed to have a standard API to programs that use them, but taking a BSD library and running it on top of Linux is a non-trivial porting task which AFAIK has never been done. Old GNU libc5 for Linux was a seperate codebase from BSD libc5, though from memory some of the network functions were taken straight from BSD (as with a certain other popular operating system).
About the same time they stopped writing for geeks and started writing for CEOs. Or didn't you notice the transformation when they sold out in 1998.
Writer: Hi, I'd like to interview you about this article I'm writing about Linux.
RMS: I don't have anything to do with Linux, perhaps you mean GNU. I will happily give an interview, provided you make it clear that the overall operating system is a combination of the two by calling it GNU/Linux. Writer: [throws toys out of pram and goes off to write his anti-Stallman rant, and his fanboy article about "the benelovant dictator of Planet Linux".
Wired stopped being relevant in 1995, and this fanboy piece just reinforces the fact that even though its slimmed down to the size it used to be when it was good, it is still crap.
They do not. There are other libc's that can be used.
I'm intrigued. Which other libc's are these?
Huh? The full install of Mozilla is 11Mb. Firebird is 7Mb, Thunderbird is 7.5Mb. That doesn't look MUCH smaller to me. And I haven't seen any speed problems with Mozilla since 1.1.
Now when CEOs are willing to spend that sort of money on REALLY basic computer training, but tighten the purse strings when the development group asks for a couple of grand a head for a one off genuine specialized three day course, you know where that company is headed.
If you needed more more convincing that it's just silly and wrong, that should do it.
P: The same patternwas followed by AT&T, though, with BSD.
Darl(6:17): Yeah,but during that same period of time, there was still a lot ofeconomic value to the System V code base.
So according to Darl, the System V code base does not have a lot of economic value anymore. Where does the $3 billion in damages come from then?
I've lived there while the Japanese economy was bad, and believe me, when the Japanese say their economy is at its worst since the war, its still in better condition than most other economies.
Does anyone know exactly what WTO trage reg it is that compels foreign governments to buy Microsoft?
Don't you mean Pixellating out the nudity as if they were names of products and stores is annoying?
He specifically said it was a non-J2EE proprietary Java app server. My guess is ATG Dynamo (a pre-J2EE version). I doubt Sun's sales had anything to do with recommending it.
Does that mean the FBI are taking the unprecedented step of paying the journalists for expenses incurred in doing their investigative work for them?
If you are taking advantage of the work that many developers have put into the Linux kernel to avoid having to pay licensing fees, then quit complaining about the terms of the license. Of course you should release the information and code required for your users to interface with your product so they can upgrade the Linux kernel to one they've customized themselves. The whole point of the GPL is to ensure users have that freedom. If you want to keep your hardware interfaces secret, then use something else. There are plenty of vendors that would be happy to sell you their embedded OS on terms that would suit you.
Anyone using Windows 2003 for a server now has got to be the type of person that will try out anything as long as it is new. Probably next time there is a major kernel revision, or a new Linux or BSD based distribution, every one of those 5% will switch away from Windows 2003 again.
The post went in with a score of 2 originally, the Karma bonus disappeared within 5 minutes. The moderation summary was always dodgy, and consistently adds up to 80%. When I first checked back, it looked like this:
Moderation: -1
40% Flamebait
20% Funny
20% Insightful
Hmmm, shouldn't they cancel each other out and add up to 0? Next time I looked it was:
Moderation: -2
30% Flamebait
30% Overrated
20% Insightful
The Funny gets replaced by an Overrated, and the proportions are adjusted to levels that don't look like they'd happen naturally unless someone had been fiddling.
And now, after the editorial abuse is exposed, the percentages are exactly the same, but the score has gone back up a point.
I wish the editors could tell us WTF is going on here. Has someone been screwing with the moderation points behind the scene, or is this a bug?
And sadly, the Slashdot moderators regard opinions that non-Americans or Americans not on American soil might deserve the same treatment as Americans on American soil (RTFA, those exact words are used) to be Flamebait. Don't want to rock the Fox News boat now, do we.
Just as George Bush wants Americans to be able to commit war crimes without fear of being prosecuted by an international court, he also wants "Americans on American soil" to be able to plan terrorist acts without fear of being spied on. Of course, these "rights" will never apply to non-Americans.
As far as I can recall, SCO only announced one Linux licensee, and Sun recently announced that they have licensed Linux (for desktop use only). So there are no "unknown" SCO Linux licensees anymore. Sun is the mystery fortune 500 company, despite what McBride or whoever it was said at the time of the press release.
Why does slashcode filter out pound and euro signs, but leave the far more dangerous environment variable tag intact?