Browsing at threshold +3, 37 comments into the discussion so far, and... I can't spot a single sympathetic comment. Most of us are all laughing at this guy's death in some kind of cynical Darwinistic smugness.
The games probably aren't killing anyone, but they've sure done a good job of de-sensitizing a few people...
77.2 percent of the developers surveyed chose Red Hat Linux as the distribution for use with a Web server or Web application server. This is more than three times the 21.8 percent who selected SuSE Linux or Mandrake. Caldera OpenLinux and FreeBSD followed, with 21.4 percent and 20.4 percent, respectively, the data showed.
This shows irrefutably that 140.8% of web servers today are running Apache. And we thought it was losing market share.
I checked out Sci-Fi's Dune site along with a friend who, besides being an avid Dune enthusiast like I am, is also a cinema major, and we both think the new minseries will be great.
By looking at the previews (which are available in quicktime on the aforementioned site), it seems that the series will be a visual masterpiece, nothing like the horrible David Lynch adaptation... The director of photography for the new series, Vittorio Storaro, is widely known as "the master of color" - and I think this is justified - so the film will probably be beyond eye candy (more like an eye feast with a spa session, and all other comforts). Don't believe me? Go look at the pretty pictures.:-)
Of course, there's always the possiility of massacring the plot, but since this is a miniseries rather than a film, there's a bit less time constraints, so I think there's less of a chance of that happening...
So yep, overall I have high hopes for this miniseries.
I think there may be a way around backdoors on a Windows-based system. I know, for example, that the free software firewall ZoneAlarm for Windows enables the user to selectively grant or deny any program, including Windows services, the permission to access TCP/IP.
As for other operating systems, there is probably a way to configure a standard firewall to let data exit the system only on a need-to-go basis, minimizing the chance of access through a back door.
Of course, this may not ensure rock-solid security, and if there are backdoors in firewalls themselves, then this is not a Good Thing (tm), but I guess it's at least one way of countering the problem. --
Re:UNIX as a programming environment
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Is UNIX An OS?
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Even without a windowing system (GUIs are irrelevant to majority of business computing tasks), UNIX is the most full-featured, flexible, and powerful OS available today.
Are you defending UNIX as a programming environment or as a business computing system? As a programming environment, your arguments are valid, but define business computing. If it's the use of computers in businesses... go ask your friendly neighbourhood administrative assistant whether the graphical interface is irrelevant to his/her work - because that's where the business gets done, after all.
pay extra for powerful text editors (a la vi)
Check your facts. Notepad / Wordpad come free with Windows and are a long sight more powerful than vi if not due to features then due to their sheer usability. (T.I.D. braces himself for the "-1 flamebaits")
I may come off as a zealot, but no other OS has succeeded so totally in almost every market it has ventured into. [...] UNIX is still relatively unchallenged where the money really is.
Actually, UNIX has not even ventured where the money really is. As far as I know, Microsoft made its money by OEM'ing Windows into the great majority of all PC desktops out there, and they're not exactly poor.
The point of this is - UNIX is good for what it does, but one needs to take a step back and look at The Big Picture(tm). After all, failing to recognize the end-user market, snobbing its members as mere "lusers", is not exactly the kind of mentality that will help the *nix/bsd/whatevers become the OS of choice for everyone.
So yes, it's great for programming, but that doesn't make UNIX the Godly Kewl System of Everything That Gets The Chicks And The Money. --
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Browsing at threshold +3, 37 comments into the discussion so far, and... I can't spot a single sympathetic comment. Most of us are all laughing at this guy's death in some kind of cynical Darwinistic smugness.
The games probably aren't killing anyone, but they've sure done a good job of de-sensitizing a few people...
I was in the kernel group hacking the guys of a sophisticated SMP UNIX ten years ago
Thank goodness I don't live in a sophisticated SMP UNIX.
1. $ apt-get install suse :-)
2. $ apt-get install redhat
3. go buy lunch
77.2 percent of the developers surveyed chose Red Hat Linux as the distribution for use with a Web server or Web application server. This is more than three times the 21.8 percent who selected SuSE Linux or Mandrake. Caldera OpenLinux and FreeBSD followed, with 21.4 percent and 20.4 percent, respectively, the data showed.
This shows irrefutably that 140.8% of web servers today are running Apache. And we thought it was losing market share.
...are drivers for the very popular nVidia GeForce2 chipset. Why the decision to support the Radeon natively and not the GeForce2?
By looking at the previews (which are available in quicktime on the aforementioned site), it seems that the series will be a visual masterpiece, nothing like the horrible David Lynch adaptation... The director of photography for the new series, Vittorio Storaro, is widely known as "the master of color" - and I think this is justified - so the film will probably be beyond eye candy (more like an eye feast with a spa session, and all other comforts). Don't believe me? Go look at the pretty pictures. :-)
Of course, there's always the possiility of massacring the plot, but since this is a miniseries rather than a film, there's a bit less time constraints, so I think there's less of a chance of that happening...
So yep, overall I have high hopes for this miniseries.
"Am thinkink we should be startink vodka distillery on space station, da?"
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As for other operating systems, there is probably a way to configure a standard firewall to let data exit the system only on a need-to-go basis, minimizing the chance of access through a back door.
Of course, this may not ensure rock-solid security, and if there are backdoors in firewalls themselves, then this is not a Good Thing (tm), but I guess it's at least one way of countering the problem.
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Even without a windowing system (GUIs are irrelevant to majority of business computing tasks), UNIX is the most full-featured, flexible, and powerful OS available today.
Are you defending UNIX as a programming environment or as a business computing system? As a programming environment, your arguments are valid, but define business computing. If it's the use of computers in businesses... go ask your friendly neighbourhood administrative assistant whether the graphical interface is irrelevant to his/her work - because that's where the business gets done, after all.
pay extra for powerful text editors (a la vi)
Check your facts. Notepad / Wordpad come free with Windows and are a long sight more powerful than vi if not due to features then due to their sheer usability. (T.I.D. braces himself for the "-1 flamebaits")
I may come off as a zealot, but no other OS has succeeded so totally in almost every market it has ventured into. [...] UNIX is still relatively unchallenged where the money really is.
Actually, UNIX has not even ventured where the money really is. As far as I know, Microsoft made its money by OEM'ing Windows into the great majority of all PC desktops out there, and they're not exactly poor.
The point of this is - UNIX is good for what it does, but one needs to take a step back and look at The Big Picture(tm). After all, failing to recognize the end-user market, snobbing its members as mere "lusers", is not exactly the kind of mentality that will help the *nix/bsd/whatevers become the OS of choice for everyone.
So yes, it's great for programming, but that doesn't make UNIX the Godly Kewl System of Everything That Gets The Chicks And The Money.
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