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Does anyone know if this will allow files of greater than 2GB in size? According to Stephen Tweedie, ext2 is limited to 2GB due to limits in the kernel. Are these limits lifted in 2.4 or are we going to still be stuck with a 2GB maximum file size for the forseeable future?
You should re-read what it said. I don't know of any reason why iso9660 can't be used on a DVD, but I do at least know why you can't read a DVD on a standard CD-ROM
Could this be the end of the eternal (& damnable) kde vs gnome flamewar? Unlikely I think, though this could be a major step towards peace. At least it should reduce the amount of vitriol directed at TrollTech who are, by most accounts, nice guys. They tried what seemed to be a sensible open-source business model - make the code free for free software developers but charge people who used their toolkit for commerical (non-free) software. This seemed like a good idea to me and I still can't understand why this made them hate-figures.
Both KDE and Gnome are good. They both have cool features and annoyances. It's pretty childish to claim 'gnome r00lz, kde 5ux" and I'm sure that a lot of the abuse comes from people who are not developers. I'm a user not a (Linux) developer myself and at the moment I'm using Helix Gnome but am looking forward to KDE 2. Good luck to both of them.
Answer: They're talking about New Zealand dollars NOT US dollars. From memory, 1US$ ~= 2NZ$, 1GBP (british pound) ~= 3NZ$ and 1NZ$ ~= 1DM (german mark)
Or how about t-shirts that change colour according to body odour??? (I'm English, so I spell English words with English spellings). They could turn green if you've got BO, red if you've just farted etc.
Red Hat honestly is perceived as equalling Linux, and I don't see Red Hat doing anything to stop it
Of course you don't. That's part of Red Hat's marketing strategy. They want people to think of 'Red Hat' and 'Linux' synonymously (have I spelled that correctly?). Bob Young's metaphor is tomato ketchup. Think of tomato ketchup and you probably think of Heinz. That's the kind of connection they're after and they're doing well at achieving it. Of course, RH has been supporting Linux for a long time and has done a lot to promote and improve it.
Why not see if the average person can get past a Linux installation?
How about a Windows installation? The machine I'm posting this from will not install Windows. Even on a completely clean disk. Linux installs OK but Windows 98 doesn't want to play. Even though I previously had win98 running on this PC!
Some of the newer Linux distributions are just as simple (or hard) to install as Windows and some are much quicker and smoother. I do think that Linux still has some way to go before it's as good as Windows as a desktop OS. Printing and device/video driver installation are still way behind Windows IMHO. Still, things are improving and hopefully Linux will be able to overtake Windows completely.
Have you read the article? I really liked it and, despite it's length, read it though to the end. Definitely well-written and makes some really good points. The author has certainly done his research.
Wrong. Dell is only interested in selling beige boxes, black racks and lightweight laptops. If customers want boxes, racks and laptops that run Linux (and they do) then Dell either have to give them Linux or lose business. Therefore, Dell gives them Linux. If Linux cost $$$ and customers were demanding it, Dell would supply.
Yes, price and availability seem to be the major hurdles to be overcome. I finally bought Quake 3 for £40 at the PC Bookshop in Holborn, but AFAIK that's the only shop in London to stock it. You can download the demo to check compatibility with your video card. I upgraded to a GeForce 256 DDR (£100 from a Tottenham Ct. Rd. computer fair or £200 from PC World) and XFree86 4.0.1. It runs perfectly and is fast enough even on a K6-2 450 with full-screen anti-aliasing turned on.
Disclaimer: I work for Sky but not on the Tivo project and am speaking for myself, not for them.
I can't see this affecting the launch of Tivo by Sky. They're very unlikely to care about anyone hacking the box - it's very much a minority pursuit and will obviously invalidate the guarantee. If you modify the disks and the kernel on your Tivo, you're on your own. Sky is pretty excited about Tivo and isn't likely to let something like this delay the launch. I seriously doubt that Sky management have even heard about these Tivo hacks.
2: The question: Am I the only one who expects Kernel-2.4, Apache 2.0, TUX 1.0, GCC 3.0, KDE 2.0 in the next WhizBang Linux XX.00? What did _CHANGE_ between 6.4 and 7.0 to warrant a full version increase?
No you're not. I'm not going to fork out for a new distribution until I get them. Until then, I'm going to continue patching RedHat 6.1. I've been evaluating several of the major distrubutions recently and SuSE 6.4 is almost extremely good. I'd probably rate it above RedHat, Corel and Mandrake. Haven't tried Caldera yet. First distro to offer 2.4, KDE 2.0, XFree86 4.x and CONFORMANCE TO THE FILESYSTEM HIERARCHY STANDARD gets my money.
Why are they jumping from 6.2 to 7.0 now? I would have thought that the logical move from 6.x to 7.x would be when the 2.4 kernel is released. Unless just beta testing 7.0 with the 2.2.17 kernel and will release 7.0 once 2.4 (& kde2) becomes available.
This assumes that the snooping software is installed on the mail servers. AFAIK Government have NOT said how the snooping software/hardware will be implemented, so this is a big assumption. I strongly suspect that this will not be the case and they'll use some kind of packet sniffers. I would advise you to take this article with a pinch of salt.
From stand.org.uk: ISPs, do not as a rule, monitor their own users. Section 12. (1) will oblige them to invent the technology to do so, and build it into their equipment. For this act, the Home Secretary has gracefully agreed to reimburse them via a government grant.
The current Bill makes no specification as to the what this equipment will consist of.
Additionally, the Home Secretary has reserved the right to demand the placing of specific devices to monitor ISP traffic with little deliberation, and no guarantee that the nature of this monitoring will ever be publicised. We'd like to see such impositions made public.
So we don't (and maybe won't) know how the monitoring will be implemented. Some people have made guesses, but I suspect that they're inaccurate.
I wouldn't count on this bypassing the monitoring equipment. Even if you're using your own mail server the traffic still has to pass though your ISP. It really ain't hard to monitor packets for smtp connections. I'd guess that they'd also monitor web traffic, since a lot of people use hotmail et al. If they have even half a clue they'll monitor ftp too.
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Does anyone know if this will allow files of greater than 2GB in size? According to Stephen Tweedie, ext2 is limited to 2GB due to limits in the kernel. Are these limits lifted in 2.4 or are we going to still be stuck with a 2GB maximum file size for the forseeable future?
HH
How would a bootable disk with no Linux distributions and no binaries be the 'ultimate rescue disk'?
HH
You should re-read what it said. I don't know of any reason why iso9660 can't be used on a DVD, but I do at least know why you can't read a DVD on a standard CD-ROM
HH
I don't understand your post. Please explain!
Thanks
HH
Could this be the end of the eternal (& damnable) kde vs gnome flamewar? Unlikely I think, though this could be a major step towards peace. At least it should reduce the amount of vitriol directed at TrollTech who are, by most accounts, nice guys. They tried what seemed to be a sensible open-source business model - make the code free for free software developers but charge people who used their toolkit for commerical (non-free) software. This seemed like a good idea to me and I still can't understand why this made them hate-figures.
Both KDE and Gnome are good. They both have cool features and annoyances. It's pretty childish to claim 'gnome r00lz, kde 5ux" and I'm sure that a lot of the abuse comes from people who are not developers. I'm a user not a (Linux) developer myself and at the moment I'm using Helix Gnome but am looking forward to KDE 2. Good luck to both of them.
HH
Answer: They're talking about New Zealand dollars NOT US dollars. From memory, 1US$ ~= 2NZ$, 1GBP (british pound) ~= 3NZ$ and 1NZ$ ~= 1DM (german mark)
HH
I'm quote the fan of Dummie's books myself... And soon, the lead author on one.
Well, I hope they've got a good proofreader.
HH
Guyz (& girlz), check this one out!
Yes, it seems to be for real.
HH
Everytime I'm in a bookstore and see "Microsoft Windows for Dummies", I always think "how true!"
HH
Or how about t-shirts that change colour according to body odour??? (I'm English, so I spell English words with English spellings). They could turn green if you've got BO, red if you've just farted etc.
HH
Is it me or are these camera grossly over powered?
;-)
No it's you who are grossly underpowered
HH
Red Hat honestly is perceived as equalling Linux, and I don't see Red Hat doing anything to stop it
Of course you don't. That's part of Red Hat's marketing strategy. They want people to think of 'Red Hat' and 'Linux' synonymously (have I spelled that correctly?). Bob Young's metaphor is tomato ketchup. Think of tomato ketchup and you probably think of Heinz. That's the kind of connection they're after and they're doing well at achieving it. Of course, RH has been supporting Linux for a long time and has done a lot to promote and improve it.
HH
Why not see if the average person can get past a Linux installation?
How about a Windows installation? The machine I'm posting this from will not install Windows. Even on a completely clean disk. Linux installs OK but Windows 98 doesn't want to play. Even though I previously had win98 running on this PC!
Some of the newer Linux distributions are just as simple (or hard) to install as Windows and some are much quicker and smoother. I do think that Linux still has some way to go before it's as good as Windows as a desktop OS. Printing and device/video driver installation are still way behind Windows IMHO. Still, things are improving and hopefully Linux will be able to overtake Windows completely.
HH
Do you think Atlantic would take Katz in exhange for the author???
HH
Have you read the article? I really liked it and, despite it's length, read it though to the end. Definitely well-written and makes some really good points. The author has certainly done his research.
HH
Wrong. Dell is only interested in selling beige boxes, black racks and lightweight laptops. If customers want boxes, racks and laptops that run Linux (and they do) then Dell either have to give them Linux or lose business. Therefore, Dell gives them Linux. If Linux cost $$$ and customers were demanding it, Dell would supply.
HH
Yes, price and availability seem to be the major hurdles to be overcome. I finally bought Quake 3 for £40 at the PC Bookshop in Holborn, but AFAIK that's the only shop in London to stock it. You can download the demo to check compatibility with your video card. I upgraded to a GeForce 256 DDR (£100 from a Tottenham Ct. Rd. computer fair or £200 from PC World) and XFree86 4.0.1. It runs perfectly and is fast enough even on a K6-2 450 with full-screen anti-aliasing turned on.
HH
Disclaimer: I work for Sky but not on the Tivo project and am speaking for myself, not for them.
I can't see this affecting the launch of Tivo by Sky. They're very unlikely to care about anyone hacking the box - it's very much a minority pursuit and will obviously invalidate the guarantee. If you modify the disks and the kernel on your Tivo, you're on your own. Sky is pretty excited about Tivo and isn't likely to let something like this delay the launch. I seriously doubt that Sky management have even heard about these Tivo hacks.
HH
2: The question: Am I the only one who expects Kernel-2.4, Apache 2.0, TUX 1.0, GCC 3.0, KDE 2.0 in the next WhizBang Linux XX.00? What did _CHANGE_ between 6.4 and 7.0 to warrant a full version increase?
No you're not. I'm not going to fork out for a new distribution until I get them. Until then, I'm going to continue patching RedHat 6.1. I've been evaluating several of the major distrubutions recently and SuSE 6.4 is almost extremely good. I'd probably rate it above RedHat, Corel and Mandrake. Haven't tried Caldera yet. First distro to offer 2.4, KDE 2.0, XFree86 4.x and CONFORMANCE TO THE FILESYSTEM HIERARCHY STANDARD gets my money.
HH
Why are they jumping from 6.2 to 7.0 now? I would have thought that the logical move from 6.x to 7.x would be when the 2.4 kernel is released. Unless just beta testing 7.0 with the 2.2.17 kernel and will release 7.0 once 2.4 (& kde2) becomes available.
HH
Anyone fancy writing KBSOD?
HH
This assumes that the snooping software is installed on the mail servers. AFAIK Government have NOT said how the snooping software/hardware will be implemented, so this is a big assumption. I strongly suspect that this will not be the case and they'll use some kind of packet sniffers. I would advise you to take this article with a pinch of salt.
HH
From stand.org.uk:
ISPs, do not as a rule, monitor their own users. Section 12. (1) will oblige them to invent the technology to do so, and build it into their equipment. For this act, the Home Secretary has gracefully agreed to reimburse them via a government grant.
The current Bill makes no specification as to the what this equipment will consist of.
Additionally, the Home Secretary has reserved the right to demand the placing of specific devices to monitor ISP traffic with little deliberation, and no guarantee that the nature of this monitoring will ever be publicised. We'd like to see such impositions made public.
So we don't (and maybe won't) know how the monitoring will be implemented. Some people have made guesses, but I suspect that they're inaccurate.
HH
I wouldn't count on this bypassing the monitoring equipment. Even if you're using your own mail server the traffic still has to pass though your ISP. It really ain't hard to monitor packets for smtp connections. I'd guess that they'd also monitor web traffic, since a lot of people use hotmail et al. If they have even half a clue they'll monitor ftp too.
HH
It's nothing to do with script kiddies. They want to monitor:
Irish terrorist groups
Far right (neo-nazi) organisations
Paedophile rings
Drugs gangs
Organised soccer violence
and probably a few other forms of organised crime. It may help to track virus writers, DOS attackers etc. but that's not the main intention.
HH