"The Linux, NetBSD and Microsoft Windows operating systems are known to have vulnerable link layer implementations, and it is extremely likely that other operating systems are also affected."
Cross platform development is a joke. It's a hoax. It's hype.
Kylix was meant to be a Delphi for Linux, sure, and they sold it as a "cross-platform" development tool, but I tell you right now, if you develop your Windows applications using CLX (which you need to do if you ever want to achieve this so called cross-platformness), then you're using the Qt libraries, and your GUI just isn't the same.
There aren't that many cross-platform control libraries available either. The situation is improving though.
BTW, there already is a Delphi.NET compiler. It's currently in "preview" and it's included in Delphi 7. There isn't that much new language features necessary to make it.NET compatible. It's mostly library stuff.
I suspect if Microsoft were to buy Borland, they would invest in Delphi for.Net (to bring in all the Delphi developers) and sell Kylix to the MKS people or something. They wouldn't just let it die because they know it's a lot of developers they can either gain or lose.
All in all, I think it would be a good thing. Honestly.
You are neglecting to mention that they are OEM copies, and there is a difference because you are allowed to sell your full copy of Windows XP.
By failing to mention this, potential buyers will be tricked into believing that they are full versions. You could say "yeah but it'll run, won't it?" but then again, what if they want to move it to another computer afterwards?
I've been ripping my own CDs for years on end now, for my own convenience and without breaking any laws. (oh well i don't need to prove that fact, you won't believe me anyway.).
I'm not saying they HAVE to deliver uncrippled CDs. What I'm saying is that I won't be buying crippled CDs. Saying that I'm the one who brought it onto myself by stealing in the first place, I could take that as an insult, but seeing you're just as ignorant I won't be taking it personal.
I found some good music on mp3.com. Look up Ted Bjõrling. I'll be buying netCDs from him, thankyouverymuch!
I don't mean no disrespect to all the Slashdot crowd happy to share whatever comes into their/pub/incoming, but it's just not my bag, baby!
Since you will no longer be selling uncrippled CDs, you will have forced me to find other sources of Music. I will therefor no longer buy CDs that I cannot play in the manner that I want, even if that manner is in compliance with copyright laws.
Ron Rivest of RSA Security (NASDAQ: RSAS) announced that are releasing a new assymetric encryption algorithm based on Tetris. Since Tetris has been under the scrutiny of millions of people, experts say that it is much more secure than current outdated algorithms such as RSA and Elliptic Curve. This will bring a new era in computer security, Ron says.
SMB server browsing. It's not quite perfect yet; it should be integrated into Finder --> Network, and it doesn't show me admin shares (C$). But unlike Sharity, I can mount as many SMBs as I want.
It shouldn't show you admin shares, because the dollar ($) sign in the name implies that it's a hidden share! Well, maybe it shows on Linux (I don't even know if hidden shares are announced) but it shouldn't.
I used to drive a 90bhp VW Golf TDI model '97, when there was a 110bhp available as well. It wasn't just the electronics set lower, it was also some parts in the engine that had a higher quality, for example tubes that can sustain more pressure.
Take the latest S3 model from Audi, for example. At 210bhp, it has a 1.8T just as the Audi A3 @ 180bhp has. It's not only the electronics that have been finetuned, as I read somewhere in an advertisement for chiptuning that can bump up the 210bhp to about 235bhp.
And here's another reason:
Car manufacturers make cars for a wide market, especially European car manufacturers. Fuel is not the same quality in all countries as standards are set differently, and they just need to make sure that the car performs almost the same in all countries.
Dave
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More and more people, like myself, stopped using floppies and removed the drive from their computer. I don't buy a new one anymore, I have some spare ones laying around somewhere. I think it's been years since I bought a pack of floppies in a store.
In a time when my digital camera can store more than 100 floppies, who needs them? Almost everything that I download or exchange doesn't fit on one anymore. Oh and I never boot from a floppy, I use a bootable Debian CD or something.
People used Zip disks for a while, but that's fading too.
You see the sorry state of windows machines that you sometimes have to use, but they're not YOUR windows machines. I bet that if Linux was a mainstream desktop OS, you'd have the same problem, working on someone else's machine.
And I assume you're referring to The Gimp in your comparison to Adobe Photoshop. If it fitted your purpose better, you could have used the win32 port and saved you the money.
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From the article (in case you haven't read it):
"The Linux, NetBSD and Microsoft Windows operating systems are known to have vulnerable link layer implementations, and it is extremely likely that other operating systems are also affected."
Yeah well, you're forgetting this guy.
Dave
Cross platform development is a joke. It's a hoax. It's hype.
.NET compatible. It's mostly library stuff.
Kylix was meant to be a Delphi for Linux, sure, and they sold it as a "cross-platform" development tool, but I tell you right now, if you develop your Windows applications using CLX (which you need to do if you ever want to achieve this so called cross-platformness), then you're using the Qt libraries, and your GUI just isn't the same.
There aren't that many cross-platform control libraries available either. The situation is improving though.
BTW, there already is a Delphi.NET compiler. It's currently in "preview" and it's included in Delphi 7. There isn't that much new language features necessary to make it
Dave
I suspect if Microsoft were to buy Borland, they would invest in Delphi for .Net (to bring in all the Delphi developers) and sell Kylix to the MKS people or something. They wouldn't just let it die because they know it's a lot of developers they can either gain or lose.
All in all, I think it would be a good thing. Honestly.
That's fraud.
You are neglecting to mention that they are OEM copies, and there is a difference because you are allowed to sell your full copy of Windows XP.
By failing to mention this, potential buyers will be tricked into believing that they are full versions. You could say "yeah but it'll run, won't it?" but then again, what if they want to move it to another computer afterwards?
Dave
Oh, sorry, I didn't make myself clear.
/pub/incoming, but it's just not my bag, baby!
I've been ripping my own CDs for years on end now, for my own convenience and without breaking any laws. (oh well i don't need to prove that fact, you won't believe me anyway.).
I'm not saying they HAVE to deliver uncrippled CDs. What I'm saying is that I won't be buying crippled CDs. Saying that I'm the one who brought it onto myself by stealing in the first place, I could take that as an insult, but seeing you're just as ignorant I won't be taking it personal.
I found some good music on mp3.com. Look up Ted Bjõrling. I'll be buying netCDs from him, thankyouverymuch!
I don't mean no disrespect to all the Slashdot crowd happy to share whatever comes into their
Dave
And that goes especially for you, BMG!.
Since you will no longer be selling uncrippled CDs, you will have forced me to find other sources of Music. I will therefor no longer buy CDs that I cannot play in the manner that I want, even if that manner is in compliance with copyright laws.
Thank you.
Dave
Ron Rivest of RSA Security (NASDAQ: RSAS) announced that are releasing a new assymetric encryption algorithm based on Tetris. Since Tetris has been under the scrutiny of millions of people, experts say that it is much more secure than current outdated algorithms such as RSA and Elliptic Curve. This will bring a new era in computer security, Ron says.
My girlfriend has been telling me for years that I'm a pig with human genes!
Dave
You forgot to include payment details.
Dave
Don't get me wrong, but if you don't use it, why is it installed? Just to keep the /. folks happy?
Dave
Check out this and this.
I like JPGVideo a lot, since I can choose any encoder I have.
Dave
It shouldn't show you admin shares, because the dollar ($) sign in the name implies that it's a hidden share! Well, maybe it shows on Linux (I don't even know if hidden shares are announced) but it shouldn't.
Dave
No,
By definition, 50% of the everyone is more intelligent than the median of the population.
It could be that more than 50% is dumber than the average. In that case you have a bunch of very very smart people making up for all the dumb ones.
Dave
I guess you miss the point. The parent poster is not talking about CSS, but about region coding, which are two different things.
Dave
Yeah that one is funny. Wonder why it's modded down...
Dave
Expect businesses to pick on this.
.war ...
A few examples:
- WarBusiness
- WarMac
- WarMail
- W2W: war-to-war
- WarML
- FreeWar
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I'm sure you can come up with yours...
Dave
pilot@airoplane:~$ su -c "apt-get install ejection-seat"
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package ejection-seat
Damn!
Yeah, and 32-bit is more than we'll ever need. Who can imagine 4GB of memory in a machine! We'll never need more than 32-bit in our processors!
or...
640KB is enough for everyone!
see a pattern already?
dave
Uhm,
I think you better check your Windows Update. I think you'll have 20 or so security fixes to install.
Better luck bashing next time!
Dave
Well, it's not that simple.
I used to drive a 90bhp VW Golf TDI model '97, when there was a 110bhp available as well. It wasn't just the electronics set lower, it was also some parts in the engine that had a higher quality, for example tubes that can sustain more pressure.
Take the latest S3 model from Audi, for example. At 210bhp, it has a 1.8T just as the Audi A3 @ 180bhp has. It's not only the electronics that have been finetuned, as I read somewhere in an advertisement for chiptuning that can bump up the 210bhp to about 235bhp.
And here's another reason:
Car manufacturers make cars for a wide market, especially European car manufacturers. Fuel is not the same quality in all countries as standards are set differently, and they just need to make sure that the car performs almost the same in all countries.
Dave
More and more people, like myself, stopped using floppies and removed the drive from their computer. I don't buy a new one anymore, I have some spare ones laying around somewhere. I think it's been years since I bought a pack of floppies in a store.
In a time when my digital camera can store more than 100 floppies, who needs them? Almost everything that I download or exchange doesn't fit on one anymore. Oh and I never boot from a floppy, I use a bootable Debian CD or something.
People used Zip disks for a while, but that's fading too.
Dave
It's pretty normal behavior for a geek to be ashamed about it as well...
It's how we are made.
Once a thieve, always a thieve, right?
Dave
I don't agree with your backing.
You see the sorry state of windows machines that you sometimes have to use, but they're not YOUR windows machines. I bet that if Linux was a mainstream desktop OS, you'd have the same problem, working on someone else's machine.
And I assume you're referring to The Gimp in your comparison to Adobe Photoshop. If it fitted your purpose better, you could have used the win32 port and saved you the money.
Dave