Explain to me how the ESA press release is playing this up as a ground breaking discovery?
Besides, the discovery of water on Mars is the single most important discovery in terms of what it will allow us to do in the future. Even if primitive life was discovered the presence of water is a greater discovery because of its engineering potential.
Most astronomists nowadays believe most water on mars has evaporated off planet - there might not be enough to go around for terraforming. Maybe if spirit's got its little wheels spinning in some kind of icy mud there might be enough, but so far NASA hasn't stuck its detectors into the ground as they perhaps should have done right away.
ITs totally valid in Denmark. You CANT use GPL software unless you specifically agree to share your modifications with the original copyright holders under the GPL.
The GPL really is about protecting the copyright of the original authors. If it's ever tested in court that will be the final argument. "They wrote it so they can distribute it however the hell they want".
Kiss apparently thinks mplayer is small fries and hopefully kiss will either come clean, be boycotted, or get sued by the FSF.
16 Simplify Web publishing Why can't we post files from our desktop to a Web site in one drag-and-drop move?
With KDE, you can! Whomever posted point 16 never used KDE, and not just insecure FTP but also sftp, webdav, you name it. I have a folder on my desktop called sftp://user@remotehost.com/var/www/user/html guess where files go when i drop em on that one. I bet when Apple does this itll be 'the app of the year' and when Ms does it its another 'innovation'....
Well the vulnerabilities have not been exploited to set up OPEN relays, theyve been set up to be closed email spam relays and web servers.
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,60747,00.ht ml...his group controls 450,000 "Trojaned" systems, most of them home computers running Windows with high-speed connections. The hacked systems contain special software developed by the Polish group that routes traffic between Internet users and customers' websites through thousands of the hijacked computers. The numerous intermediary systems confound tools such as traceroute, effectively laundering the true location of the website. To utilize the service, customers simply configure their sites to use any of several domain-name system servers controlled by the Polish group, Tubul said.
450,000 of hijacked windows boxes are being used as spam relays and webservers and this only by one group...
MS is like the guy who left his carkeys on the bar while taking a leak and now suing whomever stole their car. While exploiting the weakness may be illegal it's also the stupidity of microsoft (not writing secure software even though win95 already necessitated it) that causes the thieves to have such an easy time.
Your tax dollars are being used to dismantle russian nukes, to pay off russian NBC scientists. If these dollars weren't available less money would be on the russian budget of which the war in Chechnya is a serious item.
Check that he (article dude) lists:
# MS-DOS 3.x
# MS-DOS 4.x
# MS-DOS 5.x
# MS-DOS 6.x
As seperate OS entries.
So, just get all MAC OS major versions, all Linux (penguinppc, mandrake ppc, suse ppc, YellowDogLinux ppc, fedora ppc beta) *BSD-ppc (netbsd, openbsd, freebsd) major distribution versions, all IBM/Motorola PPC OS and stash em bootable on a powerbook's harddisk. You will probably get pretty close to if not more than 55 ppc-native operating systems...
Let's make sure we ban the use of OSS in all of Russia because the tens of thousands of people being killed in Chechnya.
I don't understand people who continue to moan about Israel when there are areas on this planet where people get killed by the bushel for what they believe in or what ethnicity they belong to, and nobody complains. We (in the west) don't care about the Muslem Chechnyans. Neither do the muslems in the mideast. No, it's all about how those Israelis kill poor defenseless Palestinians. It's because Israelis are mostly Jews, and it's fashionable to be a bigot again.
I remember this Palestinian Authority TV broadcast where they taught kids that blowing up Jews would get them to heaven. Arab propaganda teaches the older palestinians that blowing up Jews gets you laid in heaven (with virgins!). That's terrorist propaganda often paid for through oil revenue, paid for by our money!
Israel is the only place in the middle east where Arabs have the right to vote. It's often forgotten that Israel is the only democracy in the mideast, that there are Arabs in the Knesset, that Ariel Sharon is the elected prime minster of a people where everyone knows someone who has been killed or injured by terrorists.
I agree, I like mandrake and wish them all the best.
Redhat spawned fedora, fedora is "unsupported" and what remains are high priced RHELs. Fedora has a very strong community around it but its stated purpose is to be a labrat for RHEL.
Suse never had ISOs for download which is their right as a company but a linux distribution usually is more than the company doing the distributing. Now that suse is a Novell company we'll have to see how true to the OSS Suse remains.
Sun is a new linux distributor and we'll just have to see how true to the community they will be. After all they could have called it the Sun Gnome Desktop (which it is) instead of the Sun Java desktop (which it isn't as much)...
Mandrake is the one remaining big linux distribution (still the biggest in terms of desktop install base) that is tightly interwoven with its supporting community.
People who have a playstation2 now will want the playstation3 no matter if it's bundling a zillion other applications into the same hardware. It's like OS software, people want to browse the web & email and they get a computer pre loaded with an operating system that bundles an array of other applications as well.
The next consoles will simply try to capture the consumers with one central device, gaming, PVR, audio, tv. People might only buy it for the gaming or the PVR or a combination but the bet is that they will use it for different applications and buy content/extensions etc from sony. (or ms).
It's got very little to do with consumer interest in the combination its got everything to do with Sony learning from microsoft on how to lock people into their solutions..
Hello dear AC you will probably never read this so it's unfortunate that you will never google about ATX compatibility on motherboards so you will never understand that ATX compatible parts are not just random parts but that dell 'embraced and extended' (broke) the standard without telling anyone so that a totally valid act blew up the hardware.
I wonder why this is modded flamebait, it certainly deserves better moderation than that. Anyone with a clue who has ever helped (computer) clueless friends or family will often find self become indispensable. And asked/pleaded to fix stuff without reimbursement. People expect stuff to just work and don't understand the inability of x86 systems to just work. That systems failiure becomes your failiure because you once touched it and they as self admitted clueless users can't do anything wrong with it. So you didn't fix it right.
It's been the same pain ever since IBM started the modular approach and hardware manufacturers take creative license with the "standards". Naturally it doesn't help when most people run an operating system that is notoriously buggy and insecure.
If they (computer clueless friends & family) already have x86 buy or burn em a mandrake 9.2 set and tell them its either that or the highway. And if they don't have a computer or think of upgrading for gods sake get them to fork out the extra cash for a mac; you and they so won't regret it. Btw they can get a really sweet & speedy ibook G4 laptop for less than $1000.
Yes a native 64 bit osx running on a stripped down IBM POWER5. OSX might be not just a better OS by the time longhorn comes out, but also one that runs on much faster hardware. I haven't really seen anything from Intel or AMD that looks as promising as what IBM is doing.
It's hard to drag more than 4 really creative hours out of a creative mind each day
4 hours of creativity
additional 2 hours of code review
additional 2 hours reading work related stuff (hopefully not slashdot).
The working 14 hours a day on a programming project is unsustainable. Especially if you're working with people who have a life. It can work for small teams of young programmers for a "while". Especially if they are inspired.
Yes integration of components built by different authors and don't forget something maybe even more important: time to market pressure. Since it all has to be released "yesterday" they simply never seem to take the time it takes to nail it all together solidly. Not enough peer review of code, not enough understanding between teams of the nitty gritty of "what if" scenario's.
Apple seems to have done a really good job adopting the Unix development model (keep it simple, stupid) and the open source model for their OS base (keep it solid, stupid).
I don't see how microsoft can get that kind of solidity because they continue to increase the complexity and dependencies. Hopefully (for them) they'll someday open source their kernel and other low level stuff, maybe some geeks who arent pressured to deliver will then take a look at it.
A community of academics and idealistic computer programmers develop the open-source products online, collaborating to improve them.
I'm all for linux but describing open source as if its still 1997 is getting old quick. Huge corporate interests are involved and companies such as IBM, HP and many others have plugged boatloads of developers into coding open source software. You have to wonder where this "silliconvalley.com" lived over the last 5 years....
Well technically it isnt bsd but berkley unix - unix was developed by at&t and the university of berkley during the 1970s, darpa wrote/used tcp/ip in tandem with berkley also during the 70s out of which arpanet grew. BSD didn't start to exist as an OS by itself "independent" of unix until the at&t / berkley court battles in the 80s (which at&t lost and which is why BSD is available under such a free license).
Its a very interesting history and a bit of a google will give you more info on it than you'll ever need:)
To me it sounded like the decision to run with win2k was a typical pointy haired boss decision. No shortage of those in the mil even tho they usually dont have pointy hair:) Soldiers need a pretty GUI and back in the days X wasn't pretty:)
My understanding of DARPA is that they have some very high level geeks who naturally gravitate towards UNIX/Linux because of its open nature - they can start hacking right away. DARPA developed arpanet, the precursor of the internet, and was heavily inspired by Unix and BSD (choosing TCP/IP as the protocol). Historically windows is not a mature OS compared to unix/linux/bsd's so it really should be frowned upon as a mission critical os because of its immaturity and its lack of transparency (closed source).
Slashdot Mirror
The face was one of the first targets for Mars Global Surveyor. Too bad it just looked like a face.
Besides, the discovery of water on Mars is the single most important discovery in terms of what it will allow us to do in the future. Even if primitive life was discovered the presence of water is a greater discovery because of its engineering potential.
Most astronomists nowadays believe most water on mars has evaporated off planet - there might not be enough to go around for terraforming. Maybe if spirit's got its little wheels spinning in some kind of icy mud there might be enough, but so far NASA hasn't stuck its detectors into the ground as they perhaps should have done right away.
old firewire ( 400Mbps) is usually faster than USB2 ( 480Mbps) becaus usb2 is often botched up with cheap components. firewire is more reliable.
maybe it was ironic but that link IMO should have been the above one listing the alternatives.
Did you try them all?
I meant using as in "using it in your own software product" instead of using it like you use a downloaded binary openoffice.
well, at least the link is right :)
The GPL really is about protecting the copyright of the original authors. If it's ever tested in court that will be the final argument. "They wrote it so they can distribute it however the hell they want".
Kiss apparently thinks mplayer is small fries and hopefully kiss will either come clean, be boycotted, or get sued by the FSF.
With KDE, you can! Whomever posted point 16 never used KDE, and not just insecure FTP but also sftp, webdav, you name it. I have a folder on my desktop called sftp://user@remotehost.com/var/www/user/html guess where files go when i drop em on that one. I bet when Apple does this itll be 'the app of the year' and when Ms does it its another 'innovation'....
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,60747,00.ht ml ...his group controls 450,000 "Trojaned" systems, most of them home computers running Windows with high-speed connections. The hacked systems contain special software developed by the Polish group that routes traffic between Internet users and customers' websites through thousands of the hijacked computers. The numerous intermediary systems confound tools such as traceroute, effectively laundering the true location of the website. To utilize the service, customers simply configure their sites to use any of several domain-name system servers controlled by the Polish group, Tubul said.
450,000 of hijacked windows boxes are being used as spam relays and webservers and this only by one group...
MS is like the guy who left his carkeys on the bar while taking a leak and now suing whomever stole their car. While exploiting the weakness may be illegal it's also the stupidity of microsoft (not writing secure software even though win95 already necessitated it) that causes the thieves to have such an easy time.
How is that any different?
# MS-DOS 4.x
# MS-DOS 5.x
# MS-DOS 6.x
As seperate OS entries.
So, just get all MAC OS major versions, all Linux (penguinppc, mandrake ppc, suse ppc, YellowDogLinux ppc, fedora ppc beta) *BSD-ppc (netbsd, openbsd, freebsd) major distribution versions, all IBM/Motorola PPC OS and stash em bootable on a powerbook's harddisk. You will probably get pretty close to if not more than 55 ppc-native operating systems...
I don't understand people who continue to moan about Israel when there are areas on this planet where people get killed by the bushel for what they believe in or what ethnicity they belong to, and nobody complains. We (in the west) don't care about the Muslem Chechnyans. Neither do the muslems in the mideast. No, it's all about how those Israelis kill poor defenseless Palestinians. It's because Israelis are mostly Jews, and it's fashionable to be a bigot again.
I remember this Palestinian Authority TV broadcast where they taught kids that blowing up Jews would get them to heaven. Arab propaganda teaches the older palestinians that blowing up Jews gets you laid in heaven (with virgins!). That's terrorist propaganda often paid for through oil revenue, paid for by our money!
Israel is the only place in the middle east where Arabs have the right to vote. It's often forgotten that Israel is the only democracy in the mideast, that there are Arabs in the Knesset, that Ariel Sharon is the elected prime minster of a people where everyone knows someone who has been killed or injured by terrorists.
Redhat spawned fedora, fedora is "unsupported" and what remains are high priced RHELs. Fedora has a very strong community around it but its stated purpose is to be a labrat for RHEL.
Suse never had ISOs for download which is their right as a company but a linux distribution usually is more than the company doing the distributing. Now that suse is a Novell company we'll have to see how true to the OSS Suse remains.
Sun is a new linux distributor and we'll just have to see how true to the community they will be. After all they could have called it the Sun Gnome Desktop (which it is) instead of the Sun Java desktop (which it isn't as much)...
Mandrake is the one remaining big linux distribution (still the biggest in terms of desktop install base) that is tightly interwoven with its supporting community.
The next consoles will simply try to capture the consumers with one central device, gaming, PVR, audio, tv. People might only buy it for the gaming or the PVR or a combination but the bet is that they will use it for different applications and buy content/extensions etc from sony. (or ms).
It's got very little to do with consumer interest in the combination its got everything to do with Sony learning from microsoft on how to lock people into their solutions..
Pity most AC's are so anonymous.
It's been the same pain ever since IBM started the modular approach and hardware manufacturers take creative license with the "standards". Naturally it doesn't help when most people run an operating system that is notoriously buggy and insecure.
If they (computer clueless friends & family) already have x86 buy or burn em a mandrake 9.2 set and tell them its either that or the highway. And if they don't have a computer or think of upgrading for gods sake get them to fork out the extra cash for a mac; you and they so won't regret it. Btw they can get a really sweet & speedy ibook G4 laptop for less than $1000.
Yes a native 64 bit osx running on a stripped down IBM POWER5. OSX might be not just a better OS by the time longhorn comes out, but also one that runs on much faster hardware. I haven't really seen anything from Intel or AMD that looks as promising as what IBM is doing.
4 hours of creativity
additional 2 hours of code review
additional 2 hours reading work related stuff (hopefully not slashdot).
The working 14 hours a day on a programming project is unsustainable. Especially if you're working with people who have a life. It can work for small teams of young programmers for a "while". Especially if they are inspired.
Apple seems to have done a really good job adopting the Unix development model (keep it simple, stupid) and the open source model for their OS base (keep it solid, stupid).
I don't see how microsoft can get that kind of solidity because they continue to increase the complexity and dependencies. Hopefully (for them) they'll someday open source their kernel and other low level stuff, maybe some geeks who arent pressured to deliver will then take a look at it.
Really! And I thought Austin Powers worked for some English secret service!
I'm all for linux but describing open source as if its still 1997 is getting old quick. Huge corporate interests are involved and companies such as IBM, HP and many others have plugged boatloads of developers into coding open source software. You have to wonder where this "silliconvalley.com" lived over the last 5 years....
Well technically it isnt bsd but berkley unix - unix was developed by at&t and the university of berkley during the 1970s, darpa wrote/used tcp/ip in tandem with berkley also during the 70s out of which arpanet grew. BSD didn't start to exist as an OS by itself "independent" of unix until the at&t / berkley court battles in the 80s (which at&t lost and which is why BSD is available under such a free license).
Its a very interesting history and a bit of a google will give you more info on it than you'll ever need :)
http://www.svbug.com/historybsd.html
My understanding of DARPA is that they have some very high level geeks who naturally gravitate towards UNIX/Linux because of its open nature - they can start hacking right away. DARPA developed arpanet, the precursor of the internet, and was heavily inspired by Unix and BSD (choosing TCP/IP as the protocol). Historically windows is not a mature OS compared to unix/linux/bsd's so it really should be frowned upon as a mission critical os because of its immaturity and its lack of transparency (closed source).