I don't see "college dropout" on any of Apple's open job listings. It seems they want college diplomas for their programmers. Hmm, maybe he should drop in on an english class and look up the word "hypocrite". I wonder how many "college dropout" lawyers apple has on staff or how many of their programmers are really college dropouts. Like Larry Ellison's speech, the only thing this proves is that you don't have to be educated to run a successful company, meaning success is really the draw of the dice (which maglomaniacs confuse with their personal "different" views).
BSD usually ran IPFilter, which is an excellent firewall, and when OBSD dropped it, many people, like me for instance, dropped OBSD. PF was new, and still is, and isn't the same cozy IPFilter we've come to know and love.
Your question about port X than Y: I think OBSD community was absolutely right. You're asking for esoteric features, which are very rarely used. Why would you want such an architecture, that creates such complexity? If people can randomly connect to 113, then it should be open all the time. Openning it for a little bit doesn't work. What if there is a congestion on the network? I understand any feature can find use, but it's bad practice to do so. Either provide 113 or don't. But time share thingy is too confusing. Why not just keep it open? It's more script kiddie defense than any real defense at all.
Are there howto's on setting up BSD or Linux based firewall using some kind of a flash device (to eliminate hd)??? I realize you can use a CDROM drive, but that's still moving parts. You can get 128meg flash disks now, any way to use that like this pix card does?
1. Look, they call themselves RED HAT. And what did the show The Wire tell us? Isn't that how the cops identified the criminals? Weren't the criminals the ones with a red hat?
2. They're selling a product that's free. Now if that is not crooked, what is?
3. Most of us are addicted to linux, but they're pushing newer and newer distros, with more and more features, to get us even more addicted. That's not criminal? Isn't that a definiton of a drug?!
4. It uses RPM! For gods sake! Can't you see how criminal it is????? Can it be any more obvious???
It's clear they're crooked! they must be! So common...
The mob, drunk and angry at redhat, goes in and burns mandrake offices by mistake, with screams: "kill barney"
GUI objects have always been an issue for Unix, I think.
And this is not just about fonts. Icons too. With beginning of GNOME, some icons looked really good, but some other ones are horrible. Look at BE, when they started, they had a whole set of Icons for all common applications. We don't have that for linux or unix or bsd, or whatever.
GFX artists haven't really embraced OpenSource as much as coders do and I think this is just a wakeup call that code itself is part of the equation, but Good Looks have to be there too. But any time someone brings up good looks, that person is shut up with kde zealots screaming "it looks good to me". Well, how can you argue with that?
There was a time when artists were poor and drew for food and pennies... Oh what happened to that...:)
I think this is too early to tell. Since they already did say they could use DMCA, some damage is done. This obviously came through lawyers, so someone somewhere DID make that decision, regardless of who they blame. Now, even though they said they wouldn't, there is doubt in a researchers mind if anything might happen. You can not just release a program without "following standard procedures" any more (that's what I got from CNet's article). Following such procedures is a good thing, but it should NOT be a requirement to free speech.
Lets wait for actions from HP, who knows what they'll do a year from now on some other bug. This also opens the door for MS or Oracle or whoever to do this, without being first, and citing HP, regardless of what HP said today. Can you really open your toaster now and see what's inside? This threat, even though withdrawn, has done what it was supposed to do.
Listen guys, I think you take this too seriously. Put the sci fi books down. When is this going to happen? "Wonderful new technology" my ass. Those fuel cells have been around a while and I think the only thing that uses them are two prototypes. This will not come in the next 20 years, much less now. Save the drool, since by the time they do arrive, the only driving we will do is "walker forward, move legs; walker forward, move legs".
This is a 50's "one day" commercial. Nothing more. No prototype, not even a tangible deadline. This is scifi for the masses.
You said:
Do you know that the Debian distribution calls their Linux "GNU/Linux" ?
Hey, step off your high horse. Why DO they call it GNU/Linux? Why not GNU/BSD/MIT/FREEWARE/Restricted/Linux ???
Why don't you go in and count the number of packages in your beloved Debian that aren't GPL at all. Why should one license be assosiated with an OS that has MANY MANY different packages under MANY different licenses.
The problem is both GNOME and KDE are butt UGLY! Common, look how slick win2k looks and then look at gnome. Look at BeOS and then look at KDE. Common, when are these people going to realize that they need more than just programmers, they need some OpenSource-loving GUI Designers and Graphics Artists!!!!
Looks matter. Make KDE pretty and slick! Make GNOME the same and then we'll talk. I am tired of everyone showing off their new "skin" Please, you can dress poop any way you like, it's still poop. Toolbars are never alligned, there are weird spaces. Icons (except for a few) look ugly and are only pretty when they are big (don't scale well at all), Mouse pointers switch to ugly X pointers (that point in the wrong direction and were drawn in the 80's probably), what's up with that?
Am I the only one who notices these little things? Wake up, and make this thing decent-looking!!! Then we will see UNIX desktop take off.
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I don't see "college dropout" on any of Apple's open job listings. It seems they want college diplomas for their programmers. Hmm, maybe he should drop in on an english class and look up the word "hypocrite". I wonder how many "college dropout" lawyers apple has on staff or how many of their programmers are really college dropouts. Like Larry Ellison's speech, the only thing this proves is that you don't have to be educated to run a successful company, meaning success is really the draw of the dice (which maglomaniacs confuse with their personal "different" views).
That Vynil Industry lobby sure is sneaky, ain't it? BRILLIANT!
Now if they learned how to make people shut up, that would be worth something!!!
Actually, this will work great.
Admin misconfigures DNS
Network web sites stop working
Employee productivity skyrockets as eBay unavailable to them
CEO congradulates Admin on super performance
Admin gets a big fat raise and can move on to bigger and better things, like misconfiguring mail and stopping all that spam.
...it just went home.
BSD usually ran IPFilter, which is an excellent firewall, and when OBSD dropped it, many people, like me for instance, dropped OBSD. PF was new, and still is, and isn't the same cozy IPFilter we've come to know and love.
Your question about port X than Y: I think OBSD community was absolutely right. You're asking for esoteric features, which are very rarely used. Why would you want such an architecture, that creates such complexity? If people can randomly connect to 113, then it should be open all the time. Openning it for a little bit doesn't work. What if there is a congestion on the network? I understand any feature can find use, but it's bad practice to do so. Either provide 113 or don't. But time share thingy is too confusing. Why not just keep it open? It's more script kiddie defense than any real defense at all.
Are there howto's on setting up BSD or Linux based firewall using some kind of a flash device (to eliminate hd)??? I realize you can use a CDROM drive, but that's still moving parts. You can get 128meg flash disks now, any way to use that like this pix card does?
1. Look, they call themselves RED HAT. And what did the show The Wire tell us? Isn't that how the cops identified the criminals? Weren't the criminals the ones with a red hat?
2. They're selling a product that's free. Now if that is not crooked, what is?
3. Most of us are addicted to linux, but they're pushing newer and newer distros, with more and more features, to get us even more addicted. That's not criminal? Isn't that a definiton of a drug?!
4. It uses RPM! For gods sake! Can't you see how criminal it is????? Can it be any more obvious???
It's clear they're crooked! they must be! So common...
The mob, drunk and angry at redhat, goes in and burns mandrake offices by mistake, with screams: "kill barney"
GUI objects have always been an issue for Unix, I think.
:)
And this is not just about fonts. Icons too. With beginning of GNOME, some icons looked really good, but some other ones are horrible. Look at BE, when they started, they had a whole set of Icons for all common applications. We don't have that for linux or unix or bsd, or whatever.
GFX artists haven't really embraced OpenSource as much as coders do and I think this is just a wakeup call that code itself is part of the equation, but Good Looks have to be there too. But any time someone brings up good looks, that person is shut up with kde zealots screaming "it looks good to me". Well, how can you argue with that?
There was a time when artists were poor and drew for food and pennies... Oh what happened to that...
You confuse the winning of a battle with the winning of a war. Battles can be won and wars still lost.
I think this is too early to tell. Since they already did say they could use DMCA, some damage is done. This obviously came through lawyers, so someone somewhere DID make that decision, regardless of who they blame. Now, even though they said they wouldn't, there is doubt in a researchers mind if anything might happen. You can not just release a program without "following standard procedures" any more (that's what I got from CNet's article). Following such procedures is a good thing, but it should NOT be a requirement to free speech.
Lets wait for actions from HP, who knows what they'll do a year from now on some other bug. This also opens the door for MS or Oracle or whoever to do this, without being first, and citing HP, regardless of what HP said today. Can you really open your toaster now and see what's inside? This threat, even though withdrawn, has done what it was supposed to do.
It is what they call the slippery slope.
Listen guys, I think you take this too seriously. Put the sci fi books down. When is this going to happen? "Wonderful new technology" my ass. Those fuel cells have been around a while and I think the only thing that uses them are two prototypes. This will not come in the next 20 years, much less now. Save the drool, since by the time they do arrive, the only driving we will do is "walker forward, move legs; walker forward, move legs".
This is a 50's "one day" commercial. Nothing more. No prototype, not even a tangible deadline. This is scifi for the masses.
You said:
Do you know that the Debian distribution calls their Linux "GNU/Linux" ?
Hey, step off your high horse. Why DO they call it GNU/Linux? Why not GNU/BSD/MIT/FREEWARE/Restricted/Linux ???
Why don't you go in and count the number of packages in your beloved Debian that aren't GPL at all. Why should one license be assosiated with an OS that has MANY MANY different packages under MANY different licenses.
If those patents were filed around 1990,1992, shouldn't they expire by now???
Because the damn service disconnects so many times, it's impossible to hack a machine that phases in and out of connection ;)
Looks matter. Make KDE pretty and slick! Make GNOME the same and then we'll talk. I am tired of everyone showing off their new "skin" Please, you can dress poop any way you like, it's still poop. Toolbars are never alligned, there are weird spaces. Icons (except for a few) look ugly and are only pretty when they are big (don't scale well at all), Mouse pointers switch to ugly X pointers (that point in the wrong direction and were drawn in the 80's probably), what's up with that?
Am I the only one who notices these little things? Wake up, and make this thing decent-looking!!! Then we will see UNIX desktop take off.