It is a good thing that they consider this, but can you see this happening?
If the Bundestag administration is not able to print.doc documents as they were shown in someone else's Word 2K (with correct table dimenstions, bullets, idents and images), it would make people laugh hard at them. If they give a Linux desktop solution a try, Bundestag staff will probably make Linux go away again because they will get many problems they didn't have before.
They won't do it, I say. They'll buy WinXP. Maybe they are just trying to get a good price for it.
What does "identify themselves" mean? Do anonymous calles have to talk to someone or to a machine? How does the person or the machine know if the call should be forwarded, even if the caller has identified herself?
This has really become useless, hasn't it. While many geeks would register some years ago, the big majority of Linux users wouldn't ever today.
In a way, everyone is a Linux user as soon as they surf the net, using apache installations. If the number of non-geek desktop Linux users grows, they certainly won't register there because they just won't care.
There are more reliable ways to get estimates for numbers of Linux users.
Indeed, the rules of ebay Germany do not say a word about OEM or pre-installed software, whereas the matching ebay.com page states explicitly that you "generally cannot sell the software to someone else unless you are also selling them the machine it came on."
Can you or somebody give a reference to more info about the legal situation in Germany? Is it completely legal to sell OEM licenses separately? Does Microsoft agree on that, or do they still hunt people who do so?
I'd assume "slow and expensive" refers to contract / business / condition rather than technical problems. After all, the iso images and all should be the same for France or the US...
Encryption is a need and is supposed to be a standard behaviour in the information age. The unawareness of this comes from the fact that education / public knowledge do not keep up with technology.
Somehow, everybody's feeling that privacy is important decreases as any information is accessible anyway. Some years ago, public phones had been in boxes - today, everybody has a mobil phone (without a box) anyway and people don't mind to inform the whole subway car about their business or heart affairs.
By the way, the old pgp readme files are really good - I still recommend them as a fast lesson on public key cryptography.
The point is, if you want a stable system, you use tested software. No matter if it's Windows, Linux or whatever, it must be some months old.
In my opinion something like this should not, but can happen. Improving quality is a reasonable goal for the Linux kernel, but really, we are not supposed to scream at the developers because it happens. (I don't mean the parent's author has screamed... some others have here.)
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This shows again that the Open Source community is not immune against the current economic situation. It is really sad to see more and more of the sponts in the net vanish. Although they weren't even trying to make money out of it, they suffer, too.
I really hope lwn will go on with their good work!
For example, it obviously does not prevent the US forces from bombing the wrong target, e.g. Chinese embassy in Belgrad or the pharmaceutical factory in Sudan.
Just a side note (from a European point of view).
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Pretty neat. War is fascinating, isn't it. Why not take the illustrations and print them on tshirts and wallpapers and so on. Make art out of them, sell the stuff and use the money to fight terrorists.
Hopefully you were already ironic - anyway, your comment is *tasteless*.
A customer staring at the gps box on his knees who politely asks why i didn't make that turn... that sounds like i take the next turn into the one way street where the jam is always really bad...
Those people with a look close to someone who is searched for will probably have to arrive at the airport half an hour sooner then... once they know it. Must be a funny thing to be picked out of the row, probably facing a gun, most of the times they pass such a camera.
More and more people, companies and web sites rely on Google's services as many comments on this article show and as my personal experience is, too. I also find everything using Google. Some other, smaller search engines just are no longer needed and might soon close. Infoseek.de, for example, will close at the end of October.
The danger is that if the whole web starts to rely more and more on one single central search engine, what happens if it fails some day? Are we getting dependent on it as we are on the dns? The dns has the concept of secondary servers, though - Google does not, so far.
There are many possibilities why Google could (partly) fail - technically, by intrest of its (future?!) owners, politically and so on. Again, a decentralized network of many smaller search engines and databases would be better in this regard for the web. It would probably not make as much money as Google.
One of Linuxcares' services, Linux Traffic http://kt.linuxcare.com/kernel-traffic/latest.epl, didn't get updated for 12 days now. Normally it comes every week... Hopefully they have time for that again now, it's the best thing they do. Hopefully Linuxcares' services are more reliable in other areas, otherwise Turbolinux has made a bad deal.
They aren't getting nuts - of course the new planets will explain even more specific aspects of our lives, making astrology an even more exact science. Once upon a time, when every single object travelling around the sun has been discovered, we will finally understand...
What about the infrared interface. I know Linux supports ir interfaces. The question is, do these toys talk to other PDA OSes to exchange addresses etc.? Do they talk to cell phone ir interfaces for internet connectivity well? Any compatibility issues, or is the Linux and application ir support already advanced and stable enough?
Kylix has been announced by Borland as one of their top new commercial products and they put quite a lot of their resources into it so it is pretty much impossible to release it all free (whatever free means).
However, in the past, Borland has prooved their will to focus on the needs of the Linux and also Open Source community by
using the answers to help develop Kylix project components
releasing parts of their work (C++ compiler) as free software
being the first company which is putting many resources into a Linux RAD tool - which is urgently needed but is also a business risk: Who knows if we, the free / Open Source / Linux people, will buy it?
It would be really unfair to trash Borland just because they try to make money out of software development or because they don't release it all as free. Instead we should be happy for every part they might possibly release as free.
(I'm not working for Borland nor do I have any releation to them or something - except for being their customer.)
Slashdot Mirror
probably he was surprised that his IT department staff suddely smiled at him knowingly when passing by since he started an email flirt.
It is a good thing that they consider this, but can you see this happening?
.doc documents as they were shown in someone else's Word 2K (with correct table dimenstions, bullets, idents and images), it would make people laugh hard at them. If they give a Linux desktop solution a try, Bundestag staff will probably make Linux go away again because they will get many problems they didn't have before.
If the Bundestag administration is not able to print
They won't do it, I say. They'll buy WinXP. Maybe they are just trying to get a good price for it.
What *is* Gemini anyway? The url didn't give me a clue.
"has had them for a long time" - wrong:
I once tried postgresql as a replacement for a mysql based application.
I had to learn that at that point in time, mysql had had proper BLOB support for a long time and postgresql had not. (I know it now has.)
Btw, meanwhile I use them both. Whichever seems to be better for a given application.
What does "identify themselves" mean? Do anonymous calles have to talk to someone or to a machine? How does the person or the machine know if the call should be forwarded, even if the caller has identified herself?
How does it work anyway??
I have never heared of such a service...
This has really become useless, hasn't it. While many geeks would register some years ago, the big majority of Linux users wouldn't ever today.
In a way, everyone is a Linux user as soon as they surf the net, using apache installations. If the number of non-geek desktop Linux users grows, they certainly won't register there because they just won't care.
There are more reliable ways to get estimates for numbers of Linux users.
Finally, the counter is currently slashdotted.
Can you or somebody give a reference to more info about the legal situation in Germany? Is it completely legal to sell OEM licenses separately? Does Microsoft agree on that, or do they still hunt people who do so?
I'd assume "slow and expensive" refers to contract / business / condition rather than technical problems. After all, the iso images and all should be the same for France or the US...
Excellent comment!
Encryption is a need and is supposed to be a standard behaviour in the information age. The unawareness of this comes from the fact that education / public knowledge do not keep up with technology.
Somehow, everybody's feeling that privacy is important decreases as any information is accessible anyway. Some years ago, public phones had been in boxes - today, everybody has a mobil phone (without a box) anyway and people don't mind to inform the whole subway car about their business or heart affairs.
By the way, the old pgp readme files are really good - I still recommend them as a fast lesson on public key cryptography.
In my opinion something like this should not, but can happen. Improving quality is a reasonable goal for the Linux kernel, but really, we are not supposed to scream at the developers because it happens. (I don't mean the parent's author has screamed... some others have here.)
This shows again that the Open Source community is not immune against the current economic situation. It is really sad to see more and more of the sponts in the net vanish. Although they weren't even trying to make money out of it, they suffer, too.
I really hope lwn will go on with their good work!
/. was /.ed after goatse.cx linked to slashdot.org
...who develop and use it.
For example, it obviously does not prevent the US forces from bombing the wrong target, e.g. Chinese embassy in Belgrad or the pharmaceutical factory in Sudan.
Just a side note (from a European point of view).
Pretty neat. War is fascinating, isn't it. Why not take the illustrations and print them on tshirts and wallpapers and so on. Make art out of them, sell the stuff and use the money to fight terrorists.
Hopefully you were already ironic - anyway, your comment is *tasteless*.
A customer staring at the gps box on his knees who politely asks why i didn't make that turn... that sounds like i take the next turn into the one way street where the jam is always really bad...
ex taxi driver
Those people with a look close to someone who is searched for will probably have to arrive at the airport half an hour sooner then... once they know it. Must be a funny thing to be picked out of the row, probably facing a gun, most of the times they pass such a camera.
So please post a link to pictures of him, it will definitively get a +5 score, informative, too...
No you aren't. While /. readers and moderators are ~90% male, it's probably ~100% in this discussion thread.
Sorry for being offtopic.
The danger is that if the whole web starts to rely more and more on one single central search engine, what happens if it fails some day? Are we getting dependent on it as we are on the dns? The dns has the concept of secondary servers, though - Google does not, so far.
There are many possibilities why Google could (partly) fail - technically, by intrest of its (future?!) owners, politically and so on. Again, a decentralized network of many smaller search engines and databases would be better in this regard for the web. It would probably not make as much money as Google.
German index DAX dropped immediately by ~10%.
One of Linuxcares' services, Linux Traffic http://kt.linuxcare.com/kernel-traffic/latest.epl, didn't get updated for 12 days now. Normally it comes every week... Hopefully they have time for that again now, it's the best thing they do. Hopefully Linuxcares' services are more reliable in other areas, otherwise Turbolinux has made a bad deal.
They aren't getting nuts - of course the new planets will explain even more specific aspects of our lives, making astrology an even more exact science. Once upon a time, when every single object travelling around the sun has been discovered, we will finally understand...
What about the infrared interface. I know Linux supports ir interfaces. The question is, do these toys talk to other PDA OSes to exchange addresses etc.? Do they talk to cell phone ir interfaces for internet connectivity well? Any compatibility issues, or is the Linux and application ir support already advanced and stable enough?
Kylix has been announced by Borland as one of their top new commercial products and they put quite a lot of their resources into it so it is pretty much impossible to release it all free (whatever free means).
However, in the past, Borland has prooved their will to focus on the needs of the Linux and also Open Source community by
It would be really unfair to trash Borland just because they try to make money out of software development or because they don't release it all as free. Instead we should be happy for every part they might possibly release as free.
(I'm not working for Borland nor do I have any releation to them or something - except for being their customer.)