I hope this isn't the same. Those shields would also cause atomic-level explosions if energy weapons hit them. I assume when thay talk about that in the article, that is not what they mean by "shielding."
Someone with my username just has to comment on this...
they used a free compression format. I hate it when some company creates ZIPs of everything, which have to be unzipped, but they don't get created in their own directory then Oh No!! my directory has 50 new files in it!!
What's even worse is that Corel's WordPerfect 8 for Linux used DOS print drivers; the drivers you downloaded off their site were self-extracting EXE's. Morons. I should've used wine.
In reality, there's not much you can do to configure NT. i.e. you can't rename Administrator, can't disable guest (both suggestions for securing win2k by ars tech., where you can finally do those)
If there's a problem in a Linux distribution, it can quickly be fixed by disabling a service, or upgrading the kernel. M$ makes you wait like a sitting duck for a service pack.
Also Linux distributions aimed for different markets will have different security. RedHat I imagine is less secure since it comes with named, sendmail, telnet, etc. all enabled by default (I judge the security here by the statistical likelihood that one of these packages has a hole)
The release schedules are not ridiculously slow, only relative to Linux distributions. Other OS's wish they could compete like that; Windows gets releases of its consumer version every three years or so.
And besides, what do release schedules have to do with security? Do they make D&S better? Worse? Unfair? Why? I know people who would argue both ways.
MYTH: slow releases mean security bugs stay in longer FACT: Debian (probably slackware too) releases package updates as quickly as any other distro when it comes to newly discovered vulnerabilities. Check http://security.debian.org (by the way those exploits on the page now are global, not debian-specific)
I know people (not me) who also feel that your system is more stable when you don't upgrade with every new version that comes out. This is the same thing, and I partially agree, to various extents depending on the circumstances.
What I don't understand is why this insigniicant difference in market strategy invalidates these two distributions, and why the author chose to disclude them. I also think the "ridiculous" needs some explaining... can we moderate articles "Flamebait"?
They are not bought by the Mac crowd. Just because SGI likes pretty blue colors doesn't mean it's the mac crowd. These machines are used by anyone who has a whole lot of budget and some serious number crunching to do (lower budget goes for beowulf cluster).
This is a MIPS-based processor architecture. And MIPS machines have extremely sketchy support in Linux right now; that's what irix is for.
And the efficiency of the system depends on the efficiency of the processes running on it; if your program knows how to use stuff like MPI and forks itself off lots of times, then yes, you will get extremely good performance. But one process of SETI@Home won't do very well...
I'm not trolling, I truly believe this is a legitimate question.
I keep hearing about how people buy lots of DVD players and movies to watch instead of VHS, which is obviously true since VHS is declining. And the biggest market that is probably attracted to this technology is us. If we don't like what the MPAA is doing, why are we buying DVD stuff?
Analogy: I don't like the fact that NT crashes all the time and I don't like the license agreement for it. What do I do? I don't buy it! It may have better support for this and that, but I still don't buy it. If the MPAA doesn't want to release specs on what it does, fine, boycott and let their technology suffer until they clean up their act. You won't shrivel before the sound quality on the video tapes (which isn't that bad), I assure you.
A better analogy: I hate softmodems. They don't work as quickly and they don't work in Linux, and the companies refuse to disclose specs. I don't make a little device to put on the PCI bus that records all traffic, then make a backend to minicom and pppd to make the modem understand AT commands. Instead I buy a real modem! If I made one of these little backends I would probably get sued, albeit unjustly, then the big company would win because they have a tiny point that it's licensed material (very tiny, and not even true) and they have all the money.
The way democracy works in the US is the public filters out bad products. If the toaster you bought a week ago ate your pet rock, you tell your neighbor (or with email, a few thousand people) and no one buys it. But by buying the products you're endorsing the licensing on the product. You don't like it? Use VHS, I see nothing wrong with it. Don't expect to run to the government every time and sue when you don't get your way. The government upholds the law, which says anyone can be as stupid as anyone wants. So the MPAA wants to do something dumb? Fine, don't support them, which includes not buying their offending products and giving them profit.
Someone's definately going to call this a troll, but like the guy who risks his 'net connection to relay his message, I will do the same.
This reminds me of the Fountains of Paradise, a book about using large bundles of extremely strong, thin wire to connect Earth to orbiting stations, and eventually to natural satellites and the plants and stars.
So when do the two-dimensional metal grappling hooks/tape measures come out on the market?
One popular example of why I hate the Mac interface is dealing with locked files.
I used to lock lots of various files to ensure they didn't get changed, like icon holding files since the icon handling system is somehwhat primitive and easy to mess up (select cut instead of copy and your icon is gone). But when I wanted to delete these it refused to delete them because they were locked, so I had to go through and individually unlock each one.
This seems to be similar to the repetitiveness section of the anti-mac paper, but also the total user control section. So in the true Anti-Mac interface, what should happen?
Truthfully I prefer what unix has: chmod -R; xor rm -rf; xor chattr -R -i (or -u)
Interesting how only the title of the article actually says Red Hat Linux specifically (and a few other insignificant places) but the rest of the time it's generalized. It's not like that PC magazine article that kept calling Red Hat on their server test Linux 6.2. So it's not that bad.
This is one of those commercial products that would probably do well on Linux, since it's not geared toward the normal desktop users (how many of you are going to make Matrix shots in your spare time?) and instead towards fancy heavy computing industry where they're used to paying tons of license fees etc. So it may outdo Corel's WordPerfect in success and profit since the target audience are not all open-source purists (some may be). Then again they may not charge enough; there are some companies that openly admit they will keep a product free (or cheap) unitl linux gets XX% market share on the desktop.
I disagree with the last statement made, that Netscape's problems were brought on by itself. Microsoft released its browser for free, both for download and with Windows, which is what I call competing unfairly. So Netscape had to do the same to keep its user base and then lost all its money in bad attempts at selling shareware. The Mozilla project has been continued despite little funding (because it all dried up) so one cannot expect perfect timing, just like you can't expect the Linux kernel to make a major version change whenever RedHat releases a new version of its distro.
Back in the days of Pentium I's and II's many hardware vendors would overclock CPUs and sell them as the speed they overclocked them to, like a Pentium 150 becoming a Pentium 200 or 233. How was the consumer to know it was overclocked? I'm not even sure my Pentium 233 I got from Compaq a few years ago really is a 233, because there's no sticker or multiplier jumper pin location on the motherboard. How quickly we forget.
AMD put the clock multiplier lock on their CPUs to prevent this; if you bought a Thunderbird that was supposed to be 866MHz overclocked from 800, for example, then used it in a benchmark between it and a Pentium III 866, the Pentium would win and AMD would look bad, even thoguh a genuine 866 may have beat the Intel chip (MAYBE)
The same thing happens with modems now. A 56K modem is actually a "Mo", in that it modulates but receives data digitally over the phone line. THat's why the send speeds are less than the receive speeds. and most cheap computers come with a 56K/14.4 modem, i.e. 14.4 modem without analog converter for downstream. It's a ripoff and people don't understand that. If the CPU had the same problem, there would be chaos.
By the way, I'm not entirely sure how a 56K modem works in terms of downstream/upstream and every detail of how it's different, but that's the basic idea.
So maybe you could get a little more juice out of your processor, it should be your choice. But many hardware vendors are not trustworthy enough (since it yielded soooo much profit) so the clock multiplier locks should be obeyed, IMHO.
The coders don't want to have to be expected to keep a dress code at home:-)
"It's amost ready, we're bug testing" Actually it sounds like a few Dilbert cartoons. Or these User Friendly's: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=1998082 9&mode= http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=1998090 8&mode=
Actually, probably the best thing to do would be to modify copyright law since software gets obsoleted so fast.
I realize that software is a never-ending project, and that code written several years ago may still be critical to a company's well-being.
Anyway, suppose a new law was put in place that put software into the public domain some time after it was copyrighted, I suggest 10 years. This would help a little to increase market competition, would allow for more efficient programming (it's still marginally useful) and would entice companies to innovate, otherwise their ideas they repeatedly use would just get into the hands of other companies (take MacOS 9 as an example, it's ESSENTIALLY the same as 10 years ago except for the colors textures and bugs, don't flame me, it's an example)
What would Caldera do with SCO? Keep it UnixWare separate product like Sun did with StarOffice? Or merge it completely with varying success, like Apple/NeXT?
Another question: if it was kept separate, you think Caldera would open-source it? IMHO Caldera is not the biggest open-source advocate (using the famous iso-image redistribution method; NOT EVERYONE HAS A CDR! and yes, I know losetup) but would UnixWare end up being open-sourced? (I doubt free)
This would also be a good chance, if it was open-sourced, to see how the sales did as a result; would the consumers flee from the release of technology, or not care? A good test to see how the public reacts to open-source, I think.
I enjoy perl at times when bash gets too long or slow, and when C segfaults because I'm playing with strings too much. Perl can handle both arithmetic (which bash has to do special, and annoyingly) and powerful string manipuilation, and I like the opportunities the builtin data types allow, especially the hashes.
I learned perl after writing a huge iterative perl script that colorizes finger based on graduating class of a user. The home directories on my school's machine are sorted by class, so I used that information. The script was incredibly slow, bottlenecking from tons of cuts, ifs and inaccurate greps, but was good for diagnosing periods of high system load, then it wouldn't even run:-) So I learned perl and rewrote it, and it works as fast as finger does, even though I'm probably not doing things very efficiently (I know I should use some pipes and fewer system() calls).
I'm always paranoid that when someone prunes a language they'll take out something I always use. I hope those guys are careful. How about a slashdot poll, What's your least-favorite perl function?
Joke responses: * making it into jewelry * CmdrTaco can't type! haha! * (number of choices) + 1
"Can you imagine the damage if this thing wormed?" "...one individual could probably bring down the entire internet and then some."
Now that's what I call natural selection.
Of course since most of the Web Servers run Apache I doubt it would do much damage to the internet itself, just increase bamdwidth on bad email servers, killing them (I imagine that would happen to those running sendmail especially, since it forks itself), and killing people's Windows boxes if they're actually using Outlook. One more reason to use mutt.:-)
I've been trying to find the best way to learn GTK and despite playing with it a little and buying a book, programming is easiest with experience. Perhaps this is an opportunity to learn two toolkits at once... hopefully there's ample documentation. Perhaps what's needed is a porting library, like one that uses StarView's function calls but translates them to GTK+? It wouldn't be perfect, but would save a lot of time. I'm out of school, I should work on that...
I'd also like to see StarOffice get recompiled for Linux/SPARC, and I'm sure many others would like to see that too. One more thing on my wish list: split up the apps like StarOffice did in the old days, and stop reimplementing everything like the desktop, WM, etc. and then it would be hard to call bloated. Otherwise I really enjoyed using 5.1 until my affair with AbiWord, then WordPerfect Office 2000 came out.
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I hope this isn't the same. Those shields would also cause atomic-level explosions if energy weapons hit them. I assume when thay talk about that in the article, that is not what they mean by "shielding."
Someone with my username just has to comment on this...
they used a free compression format. I hate it when some company creates ZIPs of everything, which have to be unzipped, but they don't get created in their own directory then Oh No!! my directory has 50 new files in it!!
What's even worse is that Corel's WordPerfect 8 for Linux used DOS print drivers; the drivers you downloaded off their site were self-extracting EXE's. Morons. I should've used wine.
Why are percenteages graphed alongside counts? THEY'RE DIFFERENT SCALES!!! "Well, you might have 140% of the packages be security fixes..."
In reality, there's not much you can do to configure NT. i.e. you can't rename Administrator, can't disable guest (both suggestions for securing win2k by ars tech., where you can finally do those)
If there's a problem in a Linux distribution, it can quickly be fixed by disabling a service, or upgrading the kernel. M$ makes you wait like a sitting duck for a service pack.
Also Linux distributions aimed for different markets will have different security. RedHat I imagine is less secure since it comes with named, sendmail, telnet, etc. all enabled by default (I judge the security here by the statistical likelihood that one of these packages has a hole)
Ridiculously slow release schedules??
The release schedules are not ridiculously slow, only relative to Linux distributions. Other OS's wish they could compete like that; Windows gets releases of its consumer version every three years or so.
And besides, what do release schedules have to do with security? Do they make D&S better? Worse? Unfair? Why?
I know people who would argue both ways.
MYTH: slow releases mean security bugs stay in longer
FACT: Debian (probably slackware too) releases package updates as quickly as any other distro when it comes to newly discovered vulnerabilities. Check http://security.debian.org (by the way those exploits on the page now are global, not debian-specific)
I know people (not me) who also feel that your system is more stable when you don't upgrade with every new version that comes out. This is the same thing, and I partially agree, to various extents depending on the circumstances.
What I don't understand is why this insigniicant difference in market strategy invalidates these two distributions, and why the author chose to disclude them. I also think the "ridiculous" needs some explaining... can we moderate articles "Flamebait"?
How can they do this to those poor little bacteria? What about their families? As an animal rights activist, I must protest!
wait, never mind, wrong kingdom. The less bacteria the better. Well, not really.
I imagine the shared memory is much better than a cluster.
They are not bought by the Mac crowd. Just because SGI likes pretty blue colors doesn't mean it's the mac crowd. These machines are used by anyone who has a whole lot of budget and some serious number crunching to do (lower budget goes for beowulf cluster).
This is a MIPS-based processor architecture. And MIPS machines have extremely sketchy support in Linux right now; that's what irix is for.
And the efficiency of the system depends on the efficiency of the processes running on it; if your program knows how to use stuff like MPI and forks itself off lots of times, then yes, you will get extremely good performance. But one process of SETI@Home won't do very well...
I'm not trolling, I truly believe this is a legitimate question.
I keep hearing about how people buy lots of DVD players and movies to watch instead of VHS, which is obviously true since VHS is declining. And the biggest market that is probably attracted to this technology is us. If we don't like what the MPAA is doing, why are we buying DVD stuff?
Analogy: I don't like the fact that NT crashes all the time and I don't like the license agreement for it. What do I do? I don't buy it! It may have better support for this and that, but I still don't buy it. If the MPAA doesn't want to release specs on what it does, fine, boycott and let their technology suffer until they clean up their act. You won't shrivel before the sound quality on the video tapes (which isn't that bad), I assure you.
A better analogy: I hate softmodems. They don't work as quickly and they don't work in Linux, and the companies refuse to disclose specs. I don't make a little device to put on the PCI bus that records all traffic, then make a backend to minicom and pppd to make the modem understand AT commands. Instead I buy a real modem! If I made one of these little backends I would probably get sued, albeit unjustly, then the big company would win because they have a tiny point that it's licensed material (very tiny, and not even true) and they have all the money.
The way democracy works in the US is the public filters out bad products. If the toaster you bought a week ago ate your pet rock, you tell your neighbor (or with email, a few thousand people) and no one buys it. But by buying the products you're endorsing the licensing on the product. You don't like it? Use VHS, I see nothing wrong with it. Don't expect to run to the government every time and sue when you don't get your way. The government upholds the law, which says anyone can be as stupid as anyone wants. So the MPAA wants to do something dumb? Fine, don't support them, which includes not buying their offending products and giving them profit.
Someone's definately going to call this a troll, but like the guy who risks his 'net connection to relay his message, I will do the same.
This reminds me of the Fountains of Paradise, a book about using large bundles of extremely strong, thin wire to connect Earth to orbiting stations, and eventually to natural satellites and the plants and stars.
So when do the two-dimensional metal grappling hooks/tape measures come out on the market?
One popular example of why I hate the Mac interface is dealing with locked files.
I used to lock lots of various files to ensure they didn't get changed, like icon holding files since the icon handling system is somehwhat primitive and easy to mess up (select cut instead of copy and your icon is gone). But when I wanted to delete these it refused to delete them because they were locked, so I had to go through and individually unlock each one.
This seems to be similar to the repetitiveness section of the anti-mac paper, but also the total user control section. So in the true Anti-Mac interface, what should happen?
Truthfully I prefer what unix has: chmod -R; xor rm -rf; xor chattr -R -i (or -u)
Interesting how only the title of the article actually says Red Hat Linux specifically (and a few other insignificant places) but the rest of the time it's generalized. It's not like that PC magazine article that kept calling Red Hat on their server test Linux 6.2. So it's not that bad.
This is one of those commercial products that would probably do well on Linux, since it's not geared toward the normal desktop users (how many of you are going to make Matrix shots in your spare time?) and instead towards fancy heavy computing industry where they're used to paying tons of license fees etc. So it may outdo Corel's WordPerfect in success and profit since the target audience are not all open-source purists (some may be). Then again they may not charge enough; there are some companies that openly admit they will keep a product free (or cheap) unitl linux gets XX% market share on the desktop.
I disagree with the last statement made, that Netscape's problems were brought on by itself. Microsoft released its browser for free, both for download and with Windows, which is what I call competing unfairly. So Netscape had to do the same to keep its user base and then lost all its money in bad attempts at selling shareware. The Mozilla project has been continued despite little funding (because it all dried up) so one cannot expect perfect timing, just like you can't expect the Linux kernel to make a major version change whenever RedHat releases a new version of its distro.
Back in the days of Pentium I's and II's many hardware vendors would overclock CPUs and sell them as the speed they overclocked them to, like a Pentium 150 becoming a Pentium 200 or 233. How was the consumer to know it was overclocked? I'm not even sure my Pentium 233 I got from Compaq a few years ago really is a 233, because there's no sticker or multiplier jumper pin location on the motherboard. How quickly we forget.
AMD put the clock multiplier lock on their CPUs to prevent this; if you bought a Thunderbird that was supposed to be 866MHz overclocked from 800, for example, then used it in a benchmark between it and a Pentium III 866, the Pentium would win and AMD would look bad, even thoguh a genuine 866 may have beat the Intel chip (MAYBE)
The same thing happens with modems now. A 56K modem is actually a "Mo", in that it modulates but receives data digitally over the phone line. THat's why the send speeds are less than the receive speeds. and most cheap computers come with a 56K/14.4 modem, i.e. 14.4 modem without analog converter for downstream. It's a ripoff and people don't understand that. If the CPU had the same problem, there would be chaos.
By the way, I'm not entirely sure how a 56K modem works in terms of downstream/upstream and every detail of how it's different, but that's the basic idea.
So maybe you could get a little more juice out of your processor, it should be your choice. But many hardware vendors are not trustworthy enough (since it yielded soooo much profit) so the clock multiplier locks should be obeyed, IMHO.
The coders don't want to have to be expected to keep a dress code at home :-)
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"It's amost ready, we're bug testing"
Actually it sounds like a few Dilbert cartoons.
Or these User Friendly's:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=199808
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=199809
Actually, probably the best thing to do would be to modify copyright law since software gets obsoleted so fast.
I realize that software is a never-ending project, and that code written several years ago may still be critical to a company's well-being.
Anyway, suppose a new law was put in place that put software into the public domain some time after it was copyrighted, I suggest 10 years. This would help a little to increase market competition, would allow for more efficient programming (it's still marginally useful) and would entice companies to innovate, otherwise their ideas they repeatedly use would just get into the hands of other companies (take MacOS 9 as an example, it's ESSENTIALLY the same as 10 years ago except for the colors textures and bugs, don't flame me, it's an example)
What would Caldera do with SCO? Keep it UnixWare separate product like Sun did with StarOffice? Or merge it completely with varying success, like Apple/NeXT?
Another question: if it was kept separate, you think Caldera would open-source it? IMHO Caldera is not the biggest open-source advocate (using the famous iso-image redistribution method; NOT EVERYONE HAS A CDR! and yes, I know losetup) but would UnixWare end up being open-sourced? (I doubt free)
This would also be a good chance, if it was open-sourced, to see how the sales did as a result; would the consumers flee from the release of technology, or not care? A good test to see how the public reacts to open-source, I think.
gaahhh!!! I meant shell script at the beginning of the second paragraph!!
And yes, I did preview.
I enjoy perl at times when bash gets too long or slow, and when C segfaults because I'm playing with strings too much. Perl can handle both arithmetic (which bash has to do special, and annoyingly) and powerful string manipuilation, and I like the opportunities the builtin data types allow, especially the hashes.
:-) So I learned perl and rewrote it, and it works as fast as finger does, even though I'm probably not doing things very efficiently (I know I should use some pipes and fewer system() calls).
I learned perl after writing a huge iterative perl script that colorizes finger based on graduating class of a user. The home directories on my school's machine are sorted by class, so I used that information. The script was incredibly slow, bottlenecking from tons of cuts, ifs and inaccurate greps, but was good for diagnosing periods of high system load, then it wouldn't even run
I'm always paranoid that when someone prunes a language they'll take out something I always use. I hope those guys are careful. How about a slashdot poll, What's your least-favorite perl function?
Joke responses:
* making it into jewelry
* CmdrTaco can't type! haha!
* (number of choices) + 1
"Can you imagine the damage if this thing wormed?"
:-)
"...one individual could probably bring down the entire internet and then some."
Now that's what I call natural selection.
Of course since most of the Web Servers run Apache I doubt it would do much damage to the internet itself, just increase bamdwidth on bad email servers, killing them (I imagine that would happen to those running sendmail especially, since it forks itself), and killing people's Windows boxes if they're actually using Outlook. One more reason to use mutt.
Maps and Orbs? Cold war? Shooting?
Sounds like an RPG to me...
did we just slasshdot apple?? Wow, what a prize!! Although I suspect it's us with a few million fanatics.
I've been trying to find the best way to learn GTK and despite playing with it a little and buying a book, programming is easiest with experience. Perhaps this is an opportunity to learn two toolkits at once... hopefully there's ample documentation. Perhaps what's needed is a porting library, like one that uses StarView's function calls but translates them to GTK+? It wouldn't be perfect, but would save a lot of time. I'm out of school, I should work on that...
I'd also like to see StarOffice get recompiled for Linux/SPARC, and I'm sure many others would like to see that too.
One more thing on my wish list: split up the apps like StarOffice did in the old days, and stop reimplementing everything like the desktop, WM, etc. and then it would be hard to call bloated. Otherwise I really enjoyed using 5.1 until my affair with AbiWord, then WordPerfect Office 2000 came out.