That's what the idea here is. The Ubuntu guys, and I'm sure people from other distributions, are currently working on getting boot time to gdm down to a much more reasonable value. Since Ubuntu is meant as a desktop, anything that is not absolutely necessary to use the system is loaded after gdm. Note, though, that this doesn't speed up TOTAL boot time, only time to load the login manager. The problem with this is that you get a false sense of completion (like in Windows), where the system is still very slow for the next 30 seconds or however long it takes to start the rest of the services.
Groklaw comes through in the clutch
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Groklaw clears this mess up. Turns out someone doesn't understand the word "fork."
Somehow I doubt anyone's going to be able to get any kind of "wireless transmitter" anywhere near the FleetCenter without being severely beaten, seeing as how security in the entire city of Boston is going to be tighter than ever.
But by far the best quote in the article is: But Garcia insisted the Democrats have the computer security situation well in hand, with the help of security specialists from Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp... Because I sure know that when I hear about Microsoft and Cisco, I immediately think security.
Tell that to nearly any psychologist and they'll promptly contradict you. There is really no proof that releasing anger and frustration on harmless objects makes someone any less likely to go out and actually do harm.
Nobody ever said virus writers were smart...
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Stay tuned for Tuesday when MyDoom.B hits Microsoft...
Umm yeah. One problem with that - Microsoft sucked it up and went to Akamai after the last virus killed their website (even though it caused their website to appear to be running Linux for a while), so now trying to DoS microsoft.com would just be a total waste of time.
AtomFilms/Shockwave.com already does this. Only it's way more more appropriate for full-motion advertisements on a site like that, seeing as they're providing full-motion video themselves.
I work at a computer science college in the systems group. As sysadmins, we give faculty the choice of either maintaining their own systems (under the requirement that they will keep up to date with security patches and such) or using significantly more restrictive (no admin access) systems-managed machines. And you know what? Everyone except for one or two people choose the latter. This pretty much proves to me that as much as programmers and end-users bitch and complain about how much sysadmins get in their way, they sure as hell don't want to do it themselves. Goog sysadmins understand that programmers and end-users have jobs to do, but the reverse also has to happen or else neither side is going to get anything done.
So in U.S. copyright law, if a copyrighted term, say, for a company name, becomes commonly used as a verb (Kleenex, Xerox, etc. maybe even Google), you generally have a pretty hard/impossible time defending the use of it.
Why the hell isn't patent law this intelligent? If you've held a patent on something and have let it be known as a free, commonly used standard for decades (like MS), you shouldn't be allowed to suddenly start charging people fees for it. Talk about monopolistic, unfair competitive practices. Companies aren't stupid. They generally only include patented technology in their products if the patent holder does not and shows no intention of suing/charging companies that use this patent.
It doesn't look like these FAT royalties are too bad yet. But this opens up a huge can of worms should they decide to expand who can't use the technology for free.
I like IBM. I think they make great servers and great laptops. I just bought one of their T-series laptops. Their laptops work a lot better with Linux than most other major manufacturers that I've seen, but that's not enough. Pretty much all of the hardware on their laptops work under Linux, but marginally. The Winmodems they include are a real bitch to set up and may not even work fully, and the wireless MiniPCI cards they include either do not have drivers out for Linux or require a lot of work and/or binary-only modules to be useful. I also haven't seen anything released regarding their hard drive protection system, which is based mostly in software. ACPI support, of course, is not totally there in the 2.6 kernel, but it's making a lot of progress.
IBM, put your money where your mouth is. Intel might not give much of a shit about Linux on the desktop, but you say you do. Use your power to get Intel to develop Linux/BSD drivers or even release specs to all of the hardware they release as soon as they release it (e.g. Centrino). Release all of the specs to the hardware you include, fund drivers, do whatever it takes to get everything you release fully supported in open-source operating systems.
SCO also won a license from Microsoft, which agreed to pay SCO to ensure that it would not violate intellectual property rights when developing software that works with Unix.
Wow, I'm really glad Microsoft paid appropriate royalties to a company to prevent themselves from *gasp* violating IP rights. God forbid they should do anything illegal!
"Microsoft - because we care about other businesses."
How do you feel about the increasing usage of utilities like SpamAssassin or DNS-based blockers using very liberal blanket blocklists such as SPEWS (which has had a tendency to block entire subnets even if some hosts are not spammers at all)? Do you think this is a good tactic in combatting spam or is it a bad method and is harmful to the Internet as a whole? SPEWS rarely unblocks innocent bystanders caught in the middle of a blocked subnet, with the excuse of "the ISP supports spam." Many mailservers use SPEWS to completely block incoming mail from blocked hosts outright, instead of using it as it was designed, as an early warning system.
Slashdot Mirror
Compete Blog has a different perspective on the trends using different data here.
I think it's pretty much agreed upon that at this point, E911 in cell phones don't work as well as they claim. Example: http://www.dailynewstribune.com/localRegional/view .bg?articleid=65293
Doesn't look like anyone has anything good to say about this "Balance" company. One example:8 51-1.html
http://www.webservertalk.com/message444
That's what the idea here is. The Ubuntu guys, and I'm sure people from other distributions, are currently working on getting boot time to gdm down to a much more reasonable value. Since Ubuntu is meant as a desktop, anything that is not absolutely necessary to use the system is loaded after gdm. Note, though, that this doesn't speed up TOTAL boot time, only time to load the login manager. The problem with this is that you get a false sense of completion (like in Windows), where the system is still very slow for the next 30 seconds or however long it takes to start the rest of the services.
Groklaw clears this mess up. Turns out someone doesn't understand the word "fork."
misleading slashdot titles strike again.
Somehow I doubt anyone's going to be able to get any kind of "wireless transmitter" anywhere near the FleetCenter without being severely beaten, seeing as how security in the entire city of Boston is going to be tighter than ever.
.. Because I sure know that when I hear about Microsoft and Cisco, I immediately think security.
But by far the best quote in the article is:
But Garcia insisted the Democrats have the computer security situation well in hand, with the help of security specialists from Cisco Systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
Tell that to nearly any psychologist and they'll promptly contradict you. There is really no proof that releasing anger and frustration on harmless objects makes someone any less likely to go out and actually do harm.
heh, someone has been reading too much dieselsweeties...
Does it do Linux?
Stay tuned for Tuesday when MyDoom.B hits Microsoft...
t CNAME www2.microsoft.akadns.net ...
Umm yeah. One problem with that - Microsoft sucked it up and went to Akamai after the last virus killed their website (even though it caused their website to appear to be running Linux for a while), so now trying to DoS microsoft.com would just be a total waste of time.
www.microsoft.com CNAME www.microsoft.akadns.net
www.microsoft.akadns.ne
AtomFilms/Shockwave.com already does this. Only it's way more more appropriate for full-motion advertisements on a site like that, seeing as they're providing full-motion video themselves.
Mirror of the pertinent files are up here.
I threw my 100 Mbit server into the pool, so hopefully i should help speeds a bit.
Mirror up here for those of you who just can't wait.
Wow, a professor who represents an organization for Market Studies says open source software is bad? I never would have guessed.
I work at a computer science college in the systems group. As sysadmins, we give faculty the choice of either maintaining their own systems (under the requirement that they will keep up to date with security patches and such) or using significantly more restrictive (no admin access) systems-managed machines. And you know what? Everyone except for one or two people choose the latter.
This pretty much proves to me that as much as programmers and end-users bitch and complain about how much sysadmins get in their way, they sure as hell don't want to do it themselves. Goog sysadmins understand that programmers and end-users have jobs to do, but the reverse also has to happen or else neither side is going to get anything done.
So in U.S. copyright law, if a copyrighted term, say, for a company name, becomes commonly used as a verb (Kleenex, Xerox, etc. maybe even Google), you generally have a pretty hard/impossible time defending the use of it.
Why the hell isn't patent law this intelligent? If you've held a patent on something and have let it be known as a free, commonly used standard for decades (like MS), you shouldn't be allowed to suddenly start charging people fees for it. Talk about monopolistic, unfair competitive practices. Companies aren't stupid. They generally only include patented technology in their products if the patent holder does not and shows no intention of suing/charging companies that use this patent.
It doesn't look like these FAT royalties are too bad yet. But this opens up a huge can of worms should they decide to expand who can't use the technology for free.
I like IBM. I think they make great servers and great laptops. I just bought one of their T-series laptops. Their laptops work a lot better with Linux than most other major manufacturers that I've seen, but that's not enough. Pretty much all of the hardware on their laptops work under Linux, but marginally. The Winmodems they include are a real bitch to set up and may not even work fully, and the wireless MiniPCI cards they include either do not have drivers out for Linux or require a lot of work and/or binary-only modules to be useful. I also haven't seen anything released regarding their hard drive protection system, which is based mostly in software. ACPI support, of course, is not totally there in the 2.6 kernel, but it's making a lot of progress.
IBM, put your money where your mouth is. Intel might not give much of a shit about Linux on the desktop, but you say you do. Use your power to get Intel to develop Linux/BSD drivers or even release specs to all of the hardware they release as soon as they release it (e.g. Centrino). Release all of the specs to the hardware you include, fund drivers, do whatever it takes to get everything you release fully supported in open-source operating systems.
SCO also won a license from Microsoft, which agreed to pay SCO to ensure that it would not violate intellectual property rights when developing software that works with Unix.
Wow, I'm really glad Microsoft paid appropriate royalties to a company to prevent themselves from *gasp* violating IP rights. God forbid they should do anything illegal!
"Microsoft - because we care about other businesses."
How do you feel about the increasing usage of utilities like SpamAssassin or DNS-based blockers using very liberal blanket blocklists such as SPEWS (which has had a tendency to block entire subnets even if some hosts are not spammers at all)? Do you think this is a good tactic in combatting spam or is it a bad method and is harmful to the Internet as a whole? SPEWS rarely unblocks innocent bystanders caught in the middle of a blocked subnet, with the excuse of "the ISP supports spam." Many mailservers use SPEWS to completely block incoming mail from blocked hosts outright, instead of using it as it was designed, as an early warning system.
Ximian Desktop is not a window manager, it just happens to include one.
They don't have to, they already own the rights to a UNIX.
there must have been more than one memory leak then (not surprising), since the one I reported was only fixed in CVS.
I love the first item on the Features list:
= 352
ISI Certified Open Source Software - Therefore, of high quality and freely distributable.
Because you KNOW software is of high quality if it says Open Source.
Then it goes on even further..
Dynamic URLs for easier marketing. This keeps the URL short rather than being terribly long:
Theirs: mycompany.com/garden/tools/showproduct.asp?prodID
WebGUI*: mycompany.com/product352
Because nothing says "click me!" like product352.