I once talked to a USRobotics sales rep and he thought exactly the same way you do. "personally I don't have anything on my network that people would want to break into". He was completely missing the point. The issue is that someone else can come visit the neighborhood someone not so nice and doesn't belong there who can now send spam or attempt to break in to other people's servers. All those nice things that if done from their own isp connection would get them kicked off by their ISP or have the police visit. Guess who gets the blame? All traces stop with the person who owns the internet connection.
Canadian financial sites I have used lately:
Bank Of Montreal renders perfectly fine in firefox and they don't charge extra for the service.
CertaPay.com (email interac) works fine in firefox (my roomie pays me his rent this way)
Canada's Employment insurance website now works fine now that they removed the silly OS check from their website. (it worked with firefox on windows but locked out Linux)
More accurately Linux and Minix follow the unix standard. Derivitive implies they were started from the Unix codebase. Neither were, and that won't change no matter how many of SCO's blatherings to the press and court scream the opposite.
The whole point of a microkernel is that each module exists in it's own address space so it can't stomp on other module's memory if it crashes. Linux exits all on one address space and it's inter module communication most often consits of passing around memory pointers.
Sure there is FUSE but it's not used for anything that needs to be fast.
How sad...
If they only dropped their long distance rates people wouldn't care about "digital phone". I don't see what difference the underlying medium makes to their costs at all.
Meanwhile primus has introduced a new long distance package that's as cheap as vonage. I can have primus phone service and unlimited North american long distance for $53 CDN so why exactly do I need a VOIP service on top of that? $53 - $27 for the phone service makes the long distance portion of that $26. Vonage charges $39.99 for something of lower quality. I'm seriously considering it.
They may get big but as long as everything they have runs on open standards how are they going to be evil about it?
There is no room for lock in here so if they start to suck everyone will simply jump ship and use whoever has the new improved version of whatever it is they want.
It's more complex for the package manager but that doesn't matter anymore since more modern package managers handle those cases without problem.
It's also more maintainable that way since now you can have two maintainers for it instead of just one.
Actually he had typed it on his home computer but used a disk he took from church. Since they raided the church first I'm guessing they did a raw dump of the data on the disk and found deleted church files on it.
I just installed an amd64 with that exact video card and debian correctly handled and setup my X300SE on X.org without any trouble.
Just to throw a monkey wrench into your statement: The only trouble I had with my install was the Nvidia Gig-E network card that I had to work around by dropping in another network card for the install and then fixing it with a kernel compile later (a debian issue but still).
It's because it's really a barebones machine. There is no way Dell wants to offer tech support for Liunux, *bsd, etc because that training would cost them a fortune and the margins just aren't there. Unfortunatly they aren't allowed to sell "naked systems" because Microsoft says that encourages piracy(not true.. they just don't want you to install a competing OS). They don't really expect you to install it since it's only there so they can tell MS they aren't violating their OEM agreements.
It's all just an end run around MS being anticompeditive since MS can't object to that without ending up back in court for Antitrust violations.
MS pulling strings? yep.. but don't fault Dell for it
Linux does it on a per application basis.. this is made easier by the fact that GCC has flagged binaries that don't need to have executable stacks (the vast majority of them) and has done that for longer than x86 has had NX so it's all pretty much automatic.
Your kidding right? The Xeon suffers from a slow FSB meaning the opteron kills it on most performance benchmarks. You need a much higher clocked Xeon to keep up with an Opteron and even then it depends on the benchmark.
Were the uniprocessor benchmarks done on the same hardware? If youve discovered some problems under load then I'd suggest posing them to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
For servers? Better kernel handling of multiprocessor systems. I actually don't have a single CPU server left. There is also better driver support for some of the more strange devices. I also prefer the GNU tools to BSD but that's just a preference.
I've had rock solid systems with 1.5 year uptimes running on Debian that only go out for power outages(hosting facillity had generator problems).
No. Actually you can't. Some bugs only show up on some hardware or some strange combination. For example: board A doesn't like timing B etc.
This isn't the same as application programming since many kernel bugs are not API related.
It's certainly true that employees are not entitled to a share of the profits. The downside to that policy is that the employees can now go elsewhere to get a better deal and that's part of the current problem since that's exactly what they are doing.
MS is losing top engineers and managers to compeditors.
How about Gertrude's Castle? I used to play a game where you had a certain number of gates (and, or, not, flip flop) a source (on, off, flip) and you had to plug the pieces you were given into the room's source to clear the way to the door.
It was loads of fun when I was in grade 4. Used to play it on my apple II.
You think that's funny but I once had a co worker who did the computer equivalent of exactly that.
One of our products needed an ftp site to auto update but my co worker had heard that anon ftp was a security problem so he demanded(and got) an ftp account on the server despite my objections.
When he was finally let go I was ordered to clean up his accounts and make sure he had no access to anything when I discovered that he had embedded the ftp username and password into the client and that that username and password had *write* access to the files in the ftp.
He had traded a possible security problem for a guarunteed one.
So they broke a law.. I've seen much more serious laws broken at school and all those got were detention. Why don't schools refer assult to the police? Because it doesn't make some moron teacher look bad. Nevermind that getting beat up is a lot more serious.
This is about someone losing face to a bunch of kids and trying to get back at them for it. Detention would have been appropriate.. possibly even a supention or having the laptops taken away. But refering this to the police?? Give me a break.
The issue isn't just the age. There is also the issue of consent. Children aren't really capable of knowing what they are agreeing to. Similairly if the adult porn happened to be rape footage I would find myself very worried about the person who enjoys watching it.
I once worked for someone who had a site listing system that was invaded by child porn sites. Most of the listed sites were hosted in Russia so there was no one to turn them in to and nothing to do but clean out the offending content.
Children sucking off fully grown adults.. penetration of children.. And that's just the banner ads. Three years later I still feel physically ill when I remember it(doesn't help that my memory can be photographic).
Trust me: it's real. It's not an urban legend. It's NASTY. And the human filth that gets off on that stuff know all the keywords they use to search for it online.
I for one support pictures and videos of children being raped being listed as a crime and those who view it should be branded dangerous to society. Getting turned on by a sex year old is NOT normal, healthy or acceptable.
Bind9 has been out for years now so there should have been plenty of time to make the few changes needed to the configs to make them compatable with bind9.
This is just a shot in the dark but I'm guessing any isp dumb enough to be still running bind 4 has much more serious problems than DNS cache poisoning.
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I once talked to a USRobotics sales rep and he thought exactly the same way you do. "personally I don't have anything on my network that people would want to break into". He was completely missing the point. The issue is that someone else can come visit the neighborhood someone not so nice and doesn't belong there who can now send spam or attempt to break in to other people's servers. All those nice things that if done from their own isp connection would get them kicked off by their ISP or have the police visit. Guess who gets the blame? All traces stop with the person who owns the internet connection.
Canadian financial sites I have used lately: Bank Of Montreal renders perfectly fine in firefox and they don't charge extra for the service. CertaPay.com (email interac) works fine in firefox (my roomie pays me his rent this way) Canada's Employment insurance website now works fine now that they removed the silly OS check from their website. (it worked with firefox on windows but locked out Linux)
More accurately Linux and Minix follow the unix standard. Derivitive implies they were started from the Unix codebase. Neither were, and that won't change no matter how many of SCO's blatherings to the press and court scream the opposite.
Your kidding right? Modules != micokernel.
The whole point of a microkernel is that each module exists in it's own address space so it can't stomp on other module's memory if it crashes. Linux exits all on one address space and it's inter module communication most often consits of passing around memory pointers.
Sure there is FUSE but it's not used for anything that needs to be fast.
How sad... If they only dropped their long distance rates people wouldn't care about "digital phone". I don't see what difference the underlying medium makes to their costs at all. Meanwhile primus has introduced a new long distance package that's as cheap as vonage. I can have primus phone service and unlimited North american long distance for $53 CDN so why exactly do I need a VOIP service on top of that? $53 - $27 for the phone service makes the long distance portion of that $26. Vonage charges $39.99 for something of lower quality. I'm seriously considering it.
They may get big but as long as everything they have runs on open standards how are they going to be evil about it?
There is no room for lock in here so if they start to suck everyone will simply jump ship and use whoever has the new improved version of whatever it is they want.
It's more complex for the package manager but that doesn't matter anymore since more modern package managers handle those cases without problem. It's also more maintainable that way since now you can have two maintainers for it instead of just one.
If you do that you end up with larger packages where smaller ones would have been better.
Suddenly you can't upgrade one without downloading both.
Actually he had typed it on his home computer but used a disk he took from church. Since they raided the church first I'm guessing they did a raw dump of the data on the disk and found deleted church files on it.
I just installed an amd64 with that exact video card and debian correctly handled and setup my X300SE on X.org without any trouble.
Just to throw a monkey wrench into your statement: The only trouble I had with my install was the Nvidia Gig-E network card that I had to work around by dropping in another network card for the install and then fixing it with a kernel compile later (a debian issue but still).
It's because it's really a barebones machine. There is no way Dell wants to offer tech support for Liunux, *bsd, etc because that training would cost them a fortune and the margins just aren't there. Unfortunatly they aren't allowed to sell "naked systems" because Microsoft says that encourages piracy(not true.. they just don't want you to install a competing OS). They don't really expect you to install it since it's only there so they can tell MS they aren't violating their OEM agreements.
It's all just an end run around MS being anticompeditive since MS can't object to that without ending up back in court for Antitrust violations.
MS pulling strings? yep.. but don't fault Dell for it
Linux does it on a per application basis.. this is made easier by the fact that GCC has flagged binaries that don't need to have executable stacks (the vast majority of them) and has done that for longer than x86 has had NX so it's all pretty much automatic.
Your kidding right? The Xeon suffers from a slow FSB meaning the opteron kills it on most performance benchmarks. You need a much higher clocked Xeon to keep up with an Opteron and even then it depends on the benchmark.
Were the uniprocessor benchmarks done on the same hardware? If youve discovered some problems under load then I'd suggest posing them to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
And hes quoting an article by Citizens Against Government Waste who are also a lobby group with close ties to Microsoft.
They are recyciling each other's crap.
For servers? Better kernel handling of multiprocessor systems. I actually don't have a single CPU server left. There is also better driver support for some of the more strange devices. I also prefer the GNU tools to BSD but that's just a preference. I've had rock solid systems with 1.5 year uptimes running on Debian that only go out for power outages(hosting facillity had generator problems).
No. Actually you can't. Some bugs only show up on some hardware or some strange combination. For example: board A doesn't like timing B etc. This isn't the same as application programming since many kernel bugs are not API related.
Your falling into the classic "I need to know everything to be interesting" trap.
.. how was it?"
Watercooler chitchat does not requre shared experiances as much as you think. It can actually be about sharing experiances as well.
"Hey did you see the new movie?"
"no
And *blam*, you have a conversation. It's that easy.
It's certainly true that employees are not entitled to a share of the profits. The downside to that policy is that the employees can now go elsewhere to get a better deal and that's part of the current problem since that's exactly what they are doing.
MS is losing top engineers and managers to compeditors.
How about Gertrude's Castle? I used to play a game where you had a certain number of gates (and, or, not, flip flop) a source (on, off, flip) and you had to plug the pieces you were given into the room's source to clear the way to the door. It was loads of fun when I was in grade 4. Used to play it on my apple II.
It's LART time. Get a high pitched wistle and send that into the mouthpiece.. The louder the better.
You think that's funny but I once had a co worker who did the computer equivalent of exactly that.
One of our products needed an ftp site to auto update but my co worker had heard that anon ftp was a security problem so he demanded(and got) an ftp account on the server despite my objections.
When he was finally let go I was ordered to clean up his accounts and make sure he had no access to anything when I discovered that he had embedded the ftp username and password into the client and that that username and password had *write* access to the files in the ftp.
He had traded a possible security problem for a guarunteed one.
So they broke a law.. I've seen much more serious laws broken at school and all those got were detention. Why don't schools refer assult to the police? Because it doesn't make some moron teacher look bad. Nevermind that getting beat up is a lot more serious.
This is about someone losing face to a bunch of kids and trying to get back at them for it. Detention would have been appropriate.. possibly even a supention or having the laptops taken away. But refering this to the police?? Give me a break.
This is revenge, nothing more.
The issue isn't just the age. There is also the issue of consent. Children aren't really capable of knowing what they are agreeing to. Similairly if the adult porn happened to be rape footage I would find myself very worried about the person who enjoys watching it.
You are talking out of the wrong oriface.
I once worked for someone who had a site listing system that was invaded by child porn sites. Most of the listed sites were hosted in Russia so there was no one to turn them in to and nothing to do but clean out the offending content.
Children sucking off fully grown adults.. penetration of children.. And that's just the banner ads. Three years later I still feel physically ill when I remember it(doesn't help that my memory can be photographic).
Trust me: it's real. It's not an urban legend. It's NASTY. And the human filth that gets off on that stuff know all the keywords they use to search for it online.
I for one support pictures and videos of children being raped being listed as a crime and those who view it should be branded dangerous to society. Getting turned on by a sex year old is NOT normal, healthy or acceptable.
This is worse than the Cisco debacle.
Bind9 has been out for years now so there should have been plenty of time to make the few changes needed to the configs to make them compatable with bind9.
This is just a shot in the dark but I'm guessing any isp dumb enough to be still running bind 4 has much more serious problems than DNS cache poisoning.