I'm aware that I.E. is closed-source, but that's not what most people focus on, most people tend to focus on its stability, without really knowing anything about its stability.
I'm talking about 4.*, they're all unstable, I can be scrolling down a webpage and it'll just die, or of course, not really die, in which case a killall -9 netscape is neccisary
I don't even bother talking about 6.x, as it's too slow to get to anything that would cause a stability problem.
There's a reason for that, Konqueror is one of the best browsers to pop up for Linux/Un*x in a long time, it just needs to work out some stability problems.
Personaly my complaint with linux browsers has always been, belive it or not, stability, not features.
This will of course improve with time, but as far as I can tell, IE5.5 is more stable than most or all web browsers avalible for linux
Netscape is unstable, I think everyone will agree, it's difficult to run it for more than a half hour or so without a segfault or other error.
Mozilla hasn't achived 1.0 yet, and Konq, though officialy 2.1, simply hasn't matured yet as far ast stability goes, though it is more stable than Netscape.
Opera I've generaly found to be very stable and very fast, though it's not under a GPL, GPL-compatible, or even Open Source compatible license (well, strictly speaking, neither is Netscape)
I haven't tried mozilla 0.9.2 yet, I've been hearing good things about stability, but I haven't gotten around to grabbing it yet, prehaps I should, but I doubt I'll be suprised, it'll probably be a lot more stable than earlier versions, but I doubt they've made it as stable as IE5.5 yet.
By now I can hear people yelling "Are you crazy?! IE crashes constantly!", well I'm here to tell you that contrary to popular opinion, it doesn't.
I've had it exhibit instability maybe a dozen times since version 5, which has been out for some time. It's outright crashed, *shrug*, maybe 6 or 7 times. This is in win98 and win2k, can't speak for win95, haven't used it since 98 was in beta.
IE simply is not the unstable peice of crap it was in 3.x and 4.x, it is a mature, stable product. Yes it's from Microsoft, and yes, it's responsible for a deluge of non-compliancy with standards, but it is STABLE.
(this'll probably get me modded down by the anti-microsoft zealots that refuse to accept that a microsoft product is superior to something else, I don't like Microsoft any more than you do, I'm simply informing the public that IE is not as unstable as people belive.)
I think he's saying that he first thought it'd be good for his low-end systems and for setting up thin clients, but then realized that it's not neccisarily that useful, since you could run Netscape or Konq or Mozilla or whatever else just as easily on those systems, because they could be handling just the display part, while a heavy-duty server could take care of the RAM and processor intensive work.
How is removing X from the equation a step backwards? all you need is FB support and QT embedded, it's designed for embedded systems, not a standard-issue desktop PC
oops that should be Konqueror/Embedded, not KDE/Embedded
It should also be noted that this is designed for EMBEDDED systems, not simply a 486.
We're talking about a low-resources system that either CAN'T run X, or it would be ABSURDLY slow.
such as it is anyway, taken from the README in the KDENOX CVS tree, also if you look at the main konq website, there's a KDE/embedded link at the top of the menu on the left
yes, however the people who handle it aren't even government employees, they just happen to work at a business authorized to issue fishing licenses (unless you actually walk into a government office to get the license, but most people don't)
A: If it's sensitive, it shouldn't be unclassified.
B: Unclassified material can easily be retrieved, even without an FOIA request, by anyone who really wants it, i.e. anyone who could actually make use of it in a manner that threatens security.
keep in mind these are supposedly unclassified machines, technicaly there should be no reason to go to all the trouble of wiping the data so completely that you include using a strong magnetic field to do it
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda 2 or 3 times should be fine, followed by one more dd from/dev/zero
if they're worried about whats on unclassified machines, then somebody's not doing their job
except they should be "state secrets"
they're desiged specificaly for FINANCIAL authentication
unfortunitely their use has gotten out of hand
it is actually against federal law for anyone to requier you provide them with your SSN if they're not your employeer or banker or the government, unfortunitely this is not enforced, and so it's used even for fishing licenses!
the problem is, if someone gets your SSN, they can steal your identity entirely
get a birth certificate, drivers license, credit cards, access to your bank accounts, etc.
you NEED to keep the number secret and not give it out
Iridium's best service will access the Internet at a pedestrian 10 kilobytes per second. Most home computer telephone modems connect five times faster.
note that it specificaly says kiloBYTES
the question here is, is this a typo, or is it really kilobytes and the writer, Jim Wolf, just doesn't have a clue that "56k" is 56kilobits and not kilobytes...?
well, we're talking one of 13 root servers...
frankly if the others aren't somewhere that one can pick up the slack, then those root servers are in the wrong damn place
My next system will be a dual tbird, fastest I can get my hands on, with as much and as fast DDR RAM as I can aquire
I can no longer justify a single-processor solution, the disadvantages of UP far outweigh the disadvantages of SMP (of which there are few, cost and compatability are the biggest ones)
The fact that they can't afford to double everyone's salary is irrelivant, and does not give them the right to hold back an employee... if they can't afford to keep them, that's their problem, not the employee's or anyone elses.
an old Gateway 486 I got at the tail end of 1994 had 4 ISA slots (I think it was 4) and 2 PCI slots on a riser card
it was a pain in the ass to add or remove any cards, but it did work, and would probably work just fine for a rackmount server
try a search for "riser card"
tbirds run at 73 watts just fine with adequate cooling.... and if the GIANT BLOCK OF HEATSINK FAN that the P4 comes with isn't adequate, then Intel has bigger problems with the P4 than we ever thought
I see NO reason to throttle the speed of a pentium4 to HALF of its RATED speed simply because it's running at ~54 watts
Why should it be? the first PDA to ship with Linux installed was bound to have problems, how could we expect otherwise? I seriously doubt the first PDA to ship with PalmOS was problem-free...
the next one will be better, the one after that will probably be as good if not better than competing PDA's
take a breather, and then realize that this is the natural course of the computer industry, new products have problems, it's unavoidable
personaly if I had the money, I'd buy one of these because it's a handheld device that runs linux:)
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I hold it against both of them, sorry sir, I'll be absilutely sure to bash IE when I mention Opera is closed source.
I'm aware that I.E. is closed-source, but that's not what most people focus on, most people tend to focus on its stability, without really knowing anything about its stability.
I'm talking about 4.*, they're all unstable, I can be scrolling down a webpage and it'll just die, or of course, not really die, in which case a killall -9 netscape is neccisary
I don't even bother talking about 6.x, as it's too slow to get to anything that would cause a stability problem.
There's a reason for that, Konqueror is one of the best browsers to pop up for Linux/Un*x in a long time, it just needs to work out some stability problems.
Personaly my complaint with linux browsers has always been, belive it or not, stability, not features.
This will of course improve with time, but as far as I can tell, IE5.5 is more stable than most or all web browsers avalible for linux
Netscape is unstable, I think everyone will agree, it's difficult to run it for more than a half hour or so without a segfault or other error.
Mozilla hasn't achived 1.0 yet, and Konq, though officialy 2.1, simply hasn't matured yet as far ast stability goes, though it is more stable than Netscape.
Opera I've generaly found to be very stable and very fast, though it's not under a GPL, GPL-compatible, or even Open Source compatible license (well, strictly speaking, neither is Netscape)
I haven't tried mozilla 0.9.2 yet, I've been hearing good things about stability, but I haven't gotten around to grabbing it yet, prehaps I should, but I doubt I'll be suprised, it'll probably be a lot more stable than earlier versions, but I doubt they've made it as stable as IE5.5 yet.
By now I can hear people yelling "Are you crazy?! IE crashes constantly!", well I'm here to tell you that contrary to popular opinion, it doesn't.
I've had it exhibit instability maybe a dozen times since version 5, which has been out for some time. It's outright crashed, *shrug*, maybe 6 or 7 times. This is in win98 and win2k, can't speak for win95, haven't used it since 98 was in beta.
IE simply is not the unstable peice of crap it was in 3.x and 4.x, it is a mature, stable product. Yes it's from Microsoft, and yes, it's responsible for a deluge of non-compliancy with standards, but it is STABLE.
(this'll probably get me modded down by the anti-microsoft zealots that refuse to accept that a microsoft product is superior to something else, I don't like Microsoft any more than you do, I'm simply informing the public that IE is not as unstable as people belive.)
I think he's saying that he first thought it'd be good for his low-end systems and for setting up thin clients, but then realized that it's not neccisarily that useful, since you could run Netscape or Konq or Mozilla or whatever else just as easily on those systems, because they could be handling just the display part, while a heavy-duty server could take care of the RAM and processor intensive work.
How is removing X from the equation a step backwards? all you need is FB support and QT embedded, it's designed for embedded systems, not a standard-issue desktop PC
oops that should be Konqueror/Embedded, not KDE/Embedded
It should also be noted that this is designed for EMBEDDED systems, not simply a 486.
We're talking about a low-resources system that either CAN'T run X, or it would be ABSURDLY slow.
such as it is anyway, taken from the README in the KDENOX CVS tree, also if you look at the main konq website, there's a KDE/embedded link at the top of the menu on the left
http://www.konqueror.org/embedded.html
yes, however the people who handle it aren't even government employees, they just happen to work at a business authorized to issue fishing licenses (unless you actually walk into a government office to get the license, but most people don't)
the RC5-* challenges are designed to show their weakness, and show that anyone determined enough to crack them, would be able to
if you actually read up a little, you'd see it's not futile at all.
A: If it's sensitive, it shouldn't be unclassified.
B: Unclassified material can easily be retrieved, even without an FOIA request, by anyone who really wants it, i.e. anyone who could actually make use of it in a manner that threatens security.
keep in mind these are supposedly unclassified machines, technicaly there should be no reason to go to all the trouble of wiping the data so completely that you include using a strong magnetic field to do it
/dev/zero
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda 2 or 3 times should be fine, followed by one more dd from
if they're worried about whats on unclassified machines, then somebody's not doing their job
except they should be "state secrets"
they're desiged specificaly for FINANCIAL authentication
unfortunitely their use has gotten out of hand
it is actually against federal law for anyone to requier you provide them with your SSN if they're not your employeer or banker or the government, unfortunitely this is not enforced, and so it's used even for fishing licenses!
the problem is, if someone gets your SSN, they can steal your identity entirely
get a birth certificate, drivers license, credit cards, access to your bank accounts, etc.
you NEED to keep the number secret and not give it out
since VA OWNS sourceforge, it disqualifies sourceforge from being a charity/non-profit organization AFAIK
with 99.9% certainty I can say he's talking about the Mormon church (aka the "Church of Latter Day Saints")
Iridium's best service will access the Internet at a pedestrian 10 kilobytes per second. Most home computer telephone modems connect five times faster.
note that it specificaly says kiloBYTES
the question here is, is this a typo, or is it really kilobytes and the writer, Jim Wolf, just doesn't have a clue that "56k" is 56kilobits and not kilobytes...?
Personaly I'm completely and fully unaffected by this, I have full, redundant connectivity to both psi and c&w's networks...
:)
I guess there is an advantage to being on @Home despite what a pain in the ass it can be
well, we're talking one of 13 root servers...
frankly if the others aren't somewhere that one can pick up the slack, then those root servers are in the wrong damn place
My next system will be a dual tbird, fastest I can get my hands on, with as much and as fast DDR RAM as I can aquire
I can no longer justify a single-processor solution, the disadvantages of UP far outweigh the disadvantages of SMP (of which there are few, cost and compatability are the biggest ones)
Can I have a SO WHAT?
The fact that they can't afford to double everyone's salary is irrelivant, and does not give them the right to hold back an employee... if they can't afford to keep them, that's their problem, not the employee's or anyone elses.
an old Gateway 486 I got at the tail end of 1994 had 4 ISA slots (I think it was 4) and 2 PCI slots on a riser card
it was a pain in the ass to add or remove any cards, but it did work, and would probably work just fine for a rackmount server
try a search for "riser card"
tbirds run at 73 watts just fine with adequate cooling.... and if the GIANT BLOCK OF HEATSINK FAN that the P4 comes with isn't adequate, then Intel has bigger problems with the P4 than we ever thought
I see NO reason to throttle the speed of a pentium4 to HALF of its RATED speed simply because it's running at ~54 watts
um, pardon? that's not at all what I said
go back and read it again, without reading into it that which I did not put there...
Why should it be? the first PDA to ship with Linux installed was bound to have problems, how could we expect otherwise? I seriously doubt the first PDA to ship with PalmOS was problem-free...
:)
the next one will be better, the one after that will probably be as good if not better than competing PDA's
take a breather, and then realize that this is the natural course of the computer industry, new products have problems, it's unavoidable
personaly if I had the money, I'd buy one of these because it's a handheld device that runs linux