leave your silly vanity projects for now and get behind the solid projects that are making a real difference
Yeah that Linus guy should quit reinventing the wheel, we already had a perfectly good free open source unix clone.
Seriously though, I agree with you except for that statement. We need people to persue whatever seemingly pointless Free Open source projects they want to. It's the shotgun approach to innovation, and it seems to work pretty well.
I'm a hard core linux user and I think Firefox is slower than IE.
I don't know how much of it is the bloat combined with the kernel's obsession with paging things out that you haven't used in the last 10 seconds or so.
That said, Firefox is "fast enough". It's faster than the old Bloatzilla used to be.
I used to use Opera, but recent versions of Opera for linux are really not very fast anymore, and a couple years ago, Opera just started crashing randomly, a LOT. I stuck with it for a couple more versions, but since it never got stable, I got sick of waiting for them to release a version that didn't go poof twice a day.
IE, being tied much closer to the core of the OS in Windows, should damn well be faster, it's a huge tradeoff you are making for that speed, in terms of security and proper separations between OS and applications.
My wife was infected by spyware by simply visiting a site that was an etrade affilliate site (they were offering a free PDA if you opened an etrade account).
She told me at the time the only difference between her computer and her friend that sent it to her was that she had Sun Java installed and he didn't. He didn't get infected and she did.
This was several months ago, she searched and didn't find any exploit info about it.
A couple days ago she found the exact exploit she had encountered on a vulnerability list, a combination of Sun Java and an IE bug cause a certain vulnerability.
So you might think you are safe, but how many "zero day" or unknown exploits, such as the one my wife got infected by spyware via are out there?
People running Windows would have a hard time arguing they need to see source code to be able to trust their software. They blindly trust software that is known to be faulty, that's why there even this discussion in the first place.
But yeah I agree, so called white-hat worms are illegal and stupid.
That's a cleanroom implementation, and is usually used when you want to copy the functionality of someone's work and not run afoul of copyright laws.
The key in the cleanroom approach is that you already know how the copyrighted work... works. That would be after any reverse engineering, or if you happened to somehow have copyrighted sourcecode or schematics, etc.
That's not quite correct. It only needs to bypass a copy control measure, and not fall under the interoperability clause.
Also from chilling effects:
The resulting program must only interoperate with the reverse engineered software, however, and cannot interoperate with the technologically protected content (movie, book, video game, etc.) itself.
Seems that Real must have run afoul of this at some point in their quest to work with Apple's DRM.
One of my coworkers had one, it sorta works, but it's more of a toy than anything you'd want to use for serious speakers, unless you happen to have huge plate glass windows to stick it to, and even then I'm not sure how good it would sound.
From the pilots I've talked to, flying any plane is cake during VFR.
It's the take off and landing that's somewhat challenging.
Since the previous terrorists didn't worry about taking off, and the landing didn't have to be perfect, I don't think it really required much special skill.
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Static IPs aren't about a shortage of numbers, it's about ISPs trying to control the actions of their users, so they can claim to sell 10Mbit service for $50 a month, when in reality they sell you only a fraction of that.
We just have to be ready to toss aside those theories whenever anything that even appears to conflict shows up. That's not so easy.
The mythological thories of gods to explain nature comes to mind. Look at what that turned into, with millions of people still believing in mythological gods, far after we should know better.
I know all the servers we run here are not bought with Linux on them. We generally either buy servers or parts, and put Linux on it ourselves.
It's not surprising that MS appears to be gaining when you look at something like preloaded servers. It's not an accurate reflection of the real world though.
With SSH, "screen", VNC, and X-forwarding, whenever I approach a linux box, I feel right at home, knowing I can connect to my apps, files, and data with little trouble.
I saw one Millionare show here in the US.. I swear the guy was cheating.
Regis kept asking him why he was fiddling with his ear.
The guy worked for some secret government agency, and wouldn't talk about his job.
When he did a phone a friend, there was feedback on the line, something that could only happen if his phone friend was listening to the show be recorded live.
The guy was on twice, and quit both times at the half million dollar level. The second time, half the money was for charity.
I never saw any news story about this guy, so I guess he got away with it. Nice way to pull down $750,000 leveraging high tech survelliance gear.
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leave your silly vanity projects for now and get behind the solid projects that are making a real difference
Yeah that Linus guy should quit reinventing the wheel, we already had a perfectly good free open source unix clone.
Seriously though, I agree with you except for that statement. We need people to persue whatever seemingly pointless Free Open source projects they want to. It's the shotgun approach to innovation, and it seems to work pretty well.
This leads to prohibitively long simulation times
I think the parent was hinting at some distributed computation effort. Would this be a problem that could be massively distributed?
I'm a hard core linux user and I think Firefox is slower than IE.
I don't know how much of it is the bloat combined with the kernel's obsession with paging things out that you haven't used in the last 10 seconds or so.
That said, Firefox is "fast enough". It's faster than the old Bloatzilla used to be.
I used to use Opera, but recent versions of Opera for linux are really not very fast anymore, and a couple years ago, Opera just started crashing randomly, a LOT. I stuck with it for a couple more versions, but since it never got stable, I got sick of waiting for them to release a version that didn't go poof twice a day.
IE, being tied much closer to the core of the OS in Windows, should damn well be faster, it's a huge tradeoff you are making for that speed, in terms of security and proper separations between OS and applications.
My wife is a senior computer tech, she deals with cleaning up spyware all day. I don't think she would click "OK" on a security warning.
My wife was infected by spyware by simply visiting a site that was an etrade affilliate site (they were offering a free PDA if you opened an etrade account).
She told me at the time the only difference between her computer and her friend that sent it to her was that she had Sun Java installed and he didn't. He didn't get infected and she did.
This was several months ago, she searched and didn't find any exploit info about it.
A couple days ago she found the exact exploit she had encountered on a vulnerability list, a combination of Sun Java and an IE bug cause a certain vulnerability.
So you might think you are safe, but how many "zero day" or unknown exploits, such as the one my wife got infected by spyware via are out there?
Your link is broken because the people running the site doesn't understand what the whole "Internet" thing is about.
People running Windows would have a hard time arguing they need to see source code to be able to trust their software. They blindly trust software that is known to be faulty, that's why there even this discussion in the first place.
But yeah I agree, so called white-hat worms are illegal and stupid.
Rounding?
Do you think it's shady when people "round" a kilometer "down" to 1000 meters?
Or do SI prefixes mean something different to you?
That's a cleanroom implementation, and is usually used when you want to copy the functionality of someone's work and not run afoul of copyright laws.
The key in the cleanroom approach is that you already know how the copyrighted work... works. That would be after any reverse engineering, or if you happened to somehow have copyrighted sourcecode or schematics, etc.
That's not quite correct. It only needs to bypass a copy control measure, and not fall under the interoperability clause.
Also from chilling effects:
The resulting program must only interoperate with the reverse engineered software, however, and cannot interoperate with the technologically protected content (movie, book, video game, etc.) itself.
Seems that Real must have run afoul of this at some point in their quest to work with Apple's DRM.
Why do we care about some teenager who was scamming tokens from an arcade he worked at and playing DDR?
What's next, "When Valets Attack! (the change in your ashtray)".
Or maybe "Dressing Myself - On clothing shoplifting culture".
planning on NOT offering a usuable stable product
Why not? It works for Debian!
What do you think the cone of the speaker does?
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Or an enclosure about a piezo element?
I'd pretty much call that amplification... without those they make a small sound, with them they make a big sound.
No offense, but the sound bug pretty much sucks.
One of my coworkers had one, it sorta works, but it's more of a toy than anything you'd want to use for serious speakers, unless you happen to have huge plate glass windows to stick it to, and even then I'm not sure how good it would sound.
From the pilots I've talked to, flying any plane is cake during VFR.
It's the take off and landing that's somewhat challenging.
Since the previous terrorists didn't worry about taking off, and the landing didn't have to be perfect, I don't think it really required much special skill.
Static IPs aren't about a shortage of numbers, it's about ISPs trying to control the actions of their users, so they can claim to sell 10Mbit service for $50 a month, when in reality they sell you only a fraction of that.
everyone knows that pot just makes you stupid
Yeah, the several Nobel Laureates that were pot smokers were pretty stupid.
We just have to be ready to toss aside those theories whenever anything that even appears to conflict shows up. That's not so easy.
The mythological thories of gods to explain nature comes to mind. Look at what that turned into, with millions of people still believing in mythological gods, far after we should know better.
New server shipments??
I know all the servers we run here are not bought with Linux on them. We generally either buy servers or parts, and put Linux on it ourselves.
It's not surprising that MS appears to be gaining when you look at something like preloaded servers. It's not an accurate reflection of the real world though.
What's wrong with being a good server OS, with 1% desktop share?
1% is still a hell of a lot of people, more than enough to keep linux a viable platform worth supporting.
With SSH, "screen", VNC, and X-forwarding, whenever I approach a linux box, I feel right at home, knowing I can connect to my apps, files, and data with little trouble.
I saw one Millionare show here in the US.. I swear the guy was cheating.
Regis kept asking him why he was fiddling with his ear.
The guy worked for some secret government agency, and wouldn't talk about his job.
When he did a phone a friend, there was feedback on the line, something that could only happen if his phone friend was listening to the show be recorded live.
The guy was on twice, and quit both times at the half million dollar level. The second time, half the money was for charity.
I never saw any news story about this guy, so I guess he got away with it. Nice way to pull down $750,000 leveraging high tech survelliance gear.
Compressed TIF uses LZW. It's the same as GIF as far as that goes.
Very true. It's time to stop trying to control readily available physical objects, it's a completely backward way to approach antisocial behavior.
From the article:
"You cannot control anything that is made by the millions and which you can put in your pocket."
-Seymore Goodman, professor of International Affairs and Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology
It's too bad more people don't realize this, we could end this silly "war on drugs".