... honed to run linux and with linux honed to run on it... use SE linux so it's nice and secure and safe from viruses (easy to make a policy where nothing runs without being verified against a checksum, protected stack, all that stuff) and make it easy for me and my mom to set up a public area and a private encrypted partition.
Now *THATS* "trusted computing".
Hmm you've got your choice of chips since Linux has been ported to it already:-) Heck put a chip IBM knows well in it... say PPC or something.
Let apple have the top end iBook aluminum 4000$ lappies... I want to buy 5 laptops for the price of one... and so do 200 of my friends in China.
ps: IBM could do this and achieve 25% of apple's volume on laptops in a few months
(note $HOME should not be your desktop - your ~/Desktop ~/Mesa ~/Bureau or whatever you call it should be *inside your $HOME* - like in the real world)....
After that anything goes:
I've tried namazuing everything; making the ~/ part of a Zope Data.fs located in/usr/local/var/$USERNAME but still end up using:
find ~/ ls -tal | grep grepmail
I keep all my Mail in ~/IMAP and can find anything in mere seconds. I do save e-mail as separate files sometimes in ~/Docs/en/Saved_Mail
... for one thing courses in Spanish and French and German verge on being **TOTALLY* useless for people who already speak English.
Ther rest of the *world* is learning English so the school system in English speaking countries could save vast amounts of money by simply halting language courses and firing the teachers as redundant: one world, one language... other languages are useless for Americans.
Since computers and spread sheets can do most mathematics and arithmetic we needed to do in thepast WHY TEACH MATHEMATICS??!! People should be left to fend for themselves (using the nwe PC's equipped with the latest most expensive versions of Excel) until university. In university one can learn about hte concepts behind mathematics without having *WASTED TIME* learning it for 10 years in school.
Clearly too much money is wasted in the US school system.
... Samba had difficulty navigating the way permissions were set up on the network, and was unable to authorise us to read or write files on the server, although we were able to browse the network. After much tinkering, it appeared that the solution would be to change the way the network's permissions were set up -- something many companies would find unacceptable.
Right, wow insightful, like that new happens on Windows networks. After your description I'm sure that bug will get fixed right away. Are you sure it wasn't a problem between screen and chair? Or maybe the network was designed to not let you have access unless... uhh... you logged in?? Did you do that? What exactly happened?
Sheesh. What utter crud. Expect more and expect it often.
Umm if you think business *doesn't* conspire in this way then you have some growing up to do yourself. You've obviously never had to compete for market share or exist in the real business world. From Mom and Pop corner stores to the Enrons of the world the business of business *is* conspiring to dominate in the market.
The problem is that Microsoft is a convicted monopolist but is being allowed to behave as if it never happened (very different with past monopolies). A related issue is that it is competing to *retain 95% market share* which is an **impossible task** so it must resort *frequently* to killing the competition by various non-market means. Such as buying the competition, or using "windows ain't done 'til lotus won't run" tactics. What was done to Netscape, BeOS is the tip of the iceberg (the boot sector of most machines manufactured is *owned* by Microsoft).
The real "canadiens" were french speaking until about 150 years ago.
The English residents of Canada considered themselves "British Colonial" subjects or English. - even until quite recently (witness the flag debate in the 1960s - very very heated and vitriolic exchanges). "Canadian" was a term almost exclusively synonymous with "french Canadian".
Once French was crushed and destroyed as a viable language outside of Quebec and English Dominion Subjects began to refer to themselves as Canadian - French Canadians in Quebec (in conjunction with the "Quiet Revolution" and growing nationalism) were driven to culturally disociated themselves from the term adopting instead the term "Québecois".
... to another province if they wish their children to be assimilated - err I mean learn English. You are free to leave Quebec as well.
Or they can send them to a private school.
If I demand of the government to establish and fund Chinese language schools (there's many important languages spokend in China) they would likely reply: "please attend a private Chinese school, or move to China, or attend school board meetings and plead you case to have Chinese added to the curriculum".
Which is a rational response. The majority of Quebec residents are French speaking, have access to English curricula in schools and are free to move. WHY should the government pay to send them to English schools?
What is happening is the Anglos, who are used to getting things their way on language policy are having to accept that they are a minority. That won't stop them from agitating in favour of the "rights of Francophones to be educated in English" etc. etc.
Well everyone in Canada already and has for years used the term "courriel" along with "logiciel" (software), and "didacticiel" (learnware/educational software) and other variants.
It's time to put up or shut up on OSS - let's contribute rather than complain. The O'Reilly books on XUL have been published and the solid featureful codebase (of 1.4) has been finally, truly freed. Phoenix from ashes anyone?...
We should also all say THANK YOU to AOL for supporting the development of Mozilla. It could have been killed years ago but AOL visionaries kept it alive until it was "ready" for the wild. The $2 foundation grant should keep the foundation in servers and bandwidth as long as it needs and with a skeleton crew of CVS, bugzilla maintainers, build engineer detritus cleaners and sysadmin staff time the burn rate will be low.
How about mozdev.org and mozilla.org teaming up to share bandwidth and hardware? How about cutting over to SVN and getting tigris.org to collaborate? Bugzilla should be a fabulously attractive project for collaboration.
Sourceforge has focused... its stock may have tanked but they are doing something useful and making money (barely) now. No reason Mozilla.org can't do the same.
Sun and Redhat will provide build environments for weekly builds (nightlies are overkill) and gecko will be honed to the point wher it takes 10 lines of code to embed.
and umm OS2 was closed source and you had to pay a lot of money to be able
And for consumer and office systems IBM ***DID NOT*** "march behind" OS/2. They've kept it alive... barely.
With Internet standards for things like web/http, email/rfc821 (?), xml, ogg, etc. etc. *AND* a free open OS the situation is very different. After all not just IBM is behind it try:
RedHat SuSE Sony Sharp Sun HP...
Etc.
Bill, try googling for Linux versus googling for OS/2 then do the math..
"I want to know why I should throw all this out and replace it with M$, RIAA and MPAA approved equipment???"
Because they will be coming to get you soon... the knowledge you have (to set up such a system) will be criminalized and new media content will be unplayable on your equipment.
"Since all current Digital Restrictions Management schemes do not guarantee my fair use rights, I will not subscribe to any of them. I would rather "go without" the media than put up with this...."
Use chess as an inspiration... it has knights, kings, war etc. as the motif. Adding more complexity and technique to the warfare isn't violating anyone's IPR And evil "we own everything" patents on general ideas like "networked gaming" will fail: prior art is over a 1000 years old.
And "saving" a game and playing it back is cool too... (in chess there's a notation that can be printed in newspapers etc.) then fans can watch 2 masters duke it out...
It's clear from all the monopolistic tendencies in world markets and the use of suasion and threat to influence policy that BSD as we know it is dying...
There's lots of X Window software running in military settings (multi-head monitors for radar, photo observation and other types of geographic information systems in aircraft).
Everyone (including Eric Raymond) keeps talking about IP that "existed at one time" and is no longer enforceable. But WHAT IP? Filesystem layout? The use of/etc for configuration settings? Shared memory?? NONE of these or any of the features of Unix as we no them were EVER defensible IP. Some of the code for implementing them maybe might have been... for a while...
But Unix as an OS is more of a general concept - not patentable - reimplemented in several guises. Where's the IP?
Which is a very good thing since it works on all the platforms KDE works on without having to have 5 or 6 different "kernel level" implementations of every filesystem out there.
A kernel should be small. Why pile everything into a kernel if it can be handled in user space?
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... honed to run linux and with linux honed to run on it ... use SE linux so it's nice and secure and safe from viruses (easy to make a policy where nothing runs without being verified against a checksum, protected stack, all that stuff) and make it easy for me and my mom to set up a public area and a private encrypted partition.
:-) Heck put a chip IBM knows well in it ... say PPC or something.
... I want to buy 5 laptops for the price of one ... and so do 200 of my friends in China.
Now *THATS* "trusted computing".
Hmm you've got your choice of chips since Linux has been ported to it already
Let apple have the top end iBook aluminum 4000$ lappies
ps: IBM could do this and achieve 25% of apple's volume on laptops in a few months
In MS-Word??
about as radical as Mozilla, Gnus, Evolution ...
(note $HOME should not be your desktop - your ~/Desktop ~/Mesa ~/Bureau or whatever you call it should be *inside your $HOME* - like in the real world) ....
/usr/local/var/$USERNAME but still end up using:
After that anything goes:
I've tried namazuing everything; making the ~/ part of a Zope Data.fs located in
find ~/
ls -tal | grep
grepmail
I keep all my Mail in ~/IMAP and can find anything in mere seconds. I do save e-mail as separate files sometimes in ~/Docs/en/Saved_Mail
My Docs directory:
Docs/
|-- en
| |-- Dissertation
| |-- Images
| | |-- Backgrounds
| | |-- Icons
| | `-- Photos
| |-- Papers
| | |-- Mine
| | `-- OtherPeoples
| |-- Reference
| | |-- BSD
| | |-- Economics
| | | `-- IT_and_New_Economy
| | |-- Environment
| | |-- Links
| | | `-- Slashdot
| | |-- Linux
| | `-- Unix
| `-- Saved_Email
|-- es
| `-- mensajes
`-- fr
`-- Courriel_sauvegarde
... for one thing courses in Spanish and French and German verge on being **TOTALLY* useless for people who already speak English.
... other languages are useless for Americans.
Ther rest of the *world* is learning English so the school system in English speaking countries could save vast amounts of money by simply halting language courses and firing the teachers as redundant: one world, one language
Since computers and spread sheets can do most mathematics and arithmetic we needed to do in thepast WHY TEACH MATHEMATICS??!! People should be left to fend for themselves (using the nwe PC's equipped with the latest most expensive versions of Excel) until university. In university one can learn about hte concepts behind mathematics without having *WASTED TIME* learning it for 10 years in school.
Clearly too much money is wasted in the US school system.
Right, wow insightful, like that new happens on Windows networks. After your description I'm sure that bug will get fixed right away. Are you sure it wasn't a problem between screen and chair? Or maybe the network was designed to not let you have access unless
Sheesh. What utter crud. Expect more and expect it often.
Umm if you think business *doesn't* conspire in this way then you have some growing up to do yourself. You've obviously never had to compete for market share or exist in the real business world. From Mom and Pop corner stores to the Enrons of the world the business of business *is* conspiring to dominate in the market.
The problem is that Microsoft is a convicted monopolist but is being allowed to behave as if it never happened (very different with past monopolies). A related issue is that it is competing to *retain 95% market share* which is an **impossible task** so it must resort *frequently* to killing the competition by various non-market means.
Such as buying the competition, or using "windows ain't done 'til lotus won't run" tactics. What was done to Netscape, BeOS is the tip of the iceberg (the boot sector of most machines manufactured is *owned* by Microsoft).
Examples - under oath at trial - abound, sonny.
So I say:
Grow up. Pay attention.
The real "canadiens" were french speaking until about 150 years ago.
The English residents of Canada considered themselves "British Colonial" subjects or English. - even until quite recently (witness the flag debate in the 1960s - very very heated and vitriolic exchanges). "Canadian" was a term almost exclusively synonymous with "french Canadian".
Once French was crushed and destroyed as a viable language outside of Quebec and English Dominion Subjects began to refer to themselves as Canadian - French Canadians in Quebec (in conjunction with the "Quiet Revolution" and growing nationalism) were driven to culturally disociated themselves from the term adopting instead the term "Québecois".
Vive le Québec.
... to another province if they wish their children to be assimilated - err I mean learn English. You are free to leave Quebec as well.
Or they can send them to a private school.
If I demand of the government to establish and fund Chinese language schools (there's many important languages spokend in China) they would likely reply: "please attend a private Chinese school, or move to China, or attend school board meetings and plead you case to have Chinese added to the curriculum".
Which is a rational response. The majority of Quebec residents are French speaking, have access to English curricula in schools and are free to move. WHY should the government pay to send them to English schools?
What is happening is the Anglos, who are used to getting things their way on language policy are having to accept that they are a minority. That won't stop them from agitating in favour of the "rights of Francophones to be educated in English" etc. etc.
When was the last time you went into a restaurant and asked for "hamburger"? How far would that get you ??
...
Commercial firms spend **billions** "inventing" language like "Big Mac", "Kleenex" and "WindowsXP" and you make fun of governments??
BTW it is - l'Office de langue française
Well everyone in Canada already and has for years used the term "courriel" along with "logiciel" (software), and "didacticiel" (learnware/educational software) and other variants.
Who cares about competing ... I want a 90% solution since 90% or more of the documents I receive don't use any of those features.
Couldn't this be done 90% accurately with a plugin wrapper around a Abiword/KWord/OOffice.org importer ??
It's time to put up or shut up on OSS - let's contribute rather than complain. The O'Reilly books on XUL have been published and the solid featureful codebase (of 1.4) has been finally, truly freed. Phoenix from ashes anyone? ...
... its stock may have tanked but they are doing something useful and making money (barely) now. No reason Mozilla.org can't do the same.
We should also all say THANK YOU to AOL for supporting the development of Mozilla. It could have been killed years ago but AOL visionaries kept it alive until it was "ready" for the wild. The $2 foundation grant should keep the foundation in servers and bandwidth as long as it needs and with a skeleton crew of CVS, bugzilla maintainers, build engineer detritus cleaners and sysadmin staff time the burn rate will be low.
How about mozdev.org and mozilla.org teaming up to share bandwidth and hardware? How about cutting over to SVN and getting tigris.org to collaborate? Bugzilla should be a fabulously attractive project for collaboration.
Sourceforge has focused
Sun and Redhat will provide build environments for weekly builds (nightlies are overkill) and gecko will be honed to the point wher it takes 10 lines of code to embed.
But who the heck will do the windows builds?!!
and umm OS2 was closed source and you had to pay a lot of money to be able
... barely.
...
..
And for consumer and office systems IBM ***DID NOT*** "march behind" OS/2. They've kept it alive
With Internet standards for things like web/http, email/rfc821 (?), xml, ogg, etc. etc. *AND* a free open OS the situation is very different. After all not just IBM is behind it try:
RedHat
SuSE
Sony
Sharp
Sun
HP
Etc.
Bill, try googling for Linux versus googling for OS/2 then do the math
"I want to know why I should throw all this out and replace it with M$, RIAA and MPAA approved equipment???"
... the knowledge you have (to set up such a system) will be criminalized and new media content will be unplayable on your equipment.
Because they will be coming to get you soon
... when will someone take the movie/media industry to court and crush and destroy it?
The only way to move forward is to crush and destroy the current industry and replace it with something nimble and lower cost and more entertaining.
"Since all current Digital Restrictions Management schemes do not guarantee my fair use rights, I will not subscribe to any of them. I would rather "go without" the media than put up with this ...."
...
Amen!! This is a good T-shirt slogan
tnx.
Use chess as an inspiration
And "saving" a game and playing it back is cool too
It's clear from all the monopolistic tendencies in world markets and the use of suasion and threat to influence policy that BSD as we know it is dying ...
...
Err wait
There's lots of X Window software running in military settings (multi-head monitors for radar, photo observation and other types of geographic information systems in aircraft).
... usually these things end up collapsing in on themselves.
Everyone (including Eric Raymond) keeps talking about IP that "existed at one time" and is no longer enforceable. But WHAT IP? Filesystem layout? The use of /etc for configuration settings? Shared memory?? NONE of these or any of the features of Unix as we no them were EVER defensible IP. Some of the code for implementing them maybe might have been ... for a while ...
But Unix as an OS is more of a general concept - not patentable - reimplemented in several guises. Where's the IP?
You forgot: "more easily portable"
Those slashes should be forwards
camera://
ftp://
http://
fish://
Which is a very good thing since it works on all the platforms KDE works on without having to have 5 or 6 different "kernel level" implementations of every filesystem out there.
A kernel should be small. Why pile everything into a kernel if it can be handled in user space?