Screwing up a system is not about load or requests per minute. It's about installing shit on your computer. Windows is barely less secure than Linux in that regard.
You are so proud of your 6 month uptime on your desktop. But I've had almost 2.5 years uptime on my server, in my garage, running Win2k. I'll have to cut that cause i'm moving in a couple of weeks. But still, it's there. And I am running crap - P2P, unnamed codecs installed, all the stuff that I want to test.
It looks to me like you're comparing Win95 with Linux. Win2k and WinXP are *much* different, and I'd suggest you'd give them a try before you continue posting in this story.
Linux crashes? Can't say I've noticed any. I checked the uptime on our DNS server and it was 253 days.
So you are going to tell me that you can compare uptime on a box that you use as your desktop, install zillions of apps, with a box that stand somewhere and receive DNS queries for all activity.
Well, interesting objectivity. If I start my webserver and let my Win2k box in the shadow, my uptime could potentially be infinite. Same as for Linux.
Let's try to compare comparable things over here, will we?
Well, so far, in more than 20 press releases in the last year, SCO has been always lying and spreading FUD. Every single time. Not one exception. So this time I will need rock-solid proof before I even read the article.
Why I am spending my time replying to some naive people thinking that SCO may say the truth, I don't know.
This wouldn't be an 'open source' license. What you are describing is just what MS is doing right now with the Windows source code. Except they don't make it public or anything, but they still disclose it to third parties. The code remain theirs, but others can look at it.
This is applicable to ANY closed-source license. Anyone (owner of the source) can decide to publish it, it doesn't mean it's not theirs anymore.
It's just that certain (a lot of?) women, while they're enjoying making love, don't enjoy sex all that much. This stuff is somewhat mixed somewhere in their brain that if they didn't have a nice and romantic evening, they consider sex as some kind of abusive thing.
DVDs are not the same as DVI. DVI is the compression codec on most digital camcorder. IIRC, it is around 24MB/s, hence a little too high for a 100Mb/s network. Of course if you have gigabit network, you don't have these problems.
Well, even from the story you can get some clues. This is aggregating 4 projectors. So I'd say that a hi-end projector being approx 1920x1024, the final resolution must be around 3840x2048, which is more than enough to watch a video - since that's what you're referring to.
Think that the first digital theater projector that TI demoed in france was running at 1280x960 (not sure about the vert. reso.) pixels.
So I guess there's no need to rant over there after all.
You still have a right for some privacy, whether you are in the office or not. I don't know about the US, but I know in Europe email/network and other forms of monitoring are prohibited, regardless of what the company policy states.
Nothing prevent any constructor from building a "UC" as a PDA/cellphone, with crappy screen and keyboard. When you're home, you plug your DVI and USB keyboard/mouse in and you're done.
That's just what I'm looking for for so long now. I think it's still a little early, but I'm sure we'll get to it pretty soon.
Imagine: Everything in one box the size of an iPod: Phone, PDA, desktop, laptop, etc... You just plug it into it's station at home and... bang! Keyboard, screen and all the rest are as big as you want them to be. You can even have additional storage (CD/DVD/HDD,...)
You can even have a "portable station", the size of an actual laptop which will add some of these features as well as some more battery power.
Well, I think that's yet another illusion. Think disgruntled employees being paid by Bad Guys to insert a bit of code.... You may trust the company that made your software, but how can you possibly trust every one of their employees? And once it's in, since it's trusted it could be there for years.
It's even worse with all the offshoring going on. I mean, people from halfway around the globe write your code. There is no way in hell you can trust them with national security!
Forget about HDTV dude! It's already taking so much freaking time when I try to save my 600 dpi US letter image that I just scanned.
Animated movie! That is a hog! Even with today's DVI codecs, I can't even play a video over the network. Save high resolution (Well, it's still 720x576, but still that's not that high)
Bull999999 wrote: "But many of us here on slashdot (...)?" I wrote: " Yeah, but we represent fraction of percents in regard to the "global market"" You responded: "how do you know we are only a small percentage ?" I responded something about slashdot.
And now you're asking me "how the fuck does slashdot have a damn thing to do with this ?"
One of the best algorithm I have found is to compress the image in a low-quality JPEG. The JPEG scheme of compression will detect stuff that are just invisible (or barely visible) with a human eye. Most of the time, the artifacts will choke on the part of the picture that was artificially touched, making them extremely visible.
Oh and by the way, I read and post on slashdot. I am what a lot of people I know qualify as a 'nerd'. And no, I have no linux at home, my parent's home or anyone else. Well, I have a Knoppix that I boot every now and then, but this probably doesn't qualify.
So even if we were that numerous, you just can't assume we're all using Linux for ourselves and our entire family.
Basically, you can't assume that anyone is like you. The fact is that everyone is unique. And that's why proper polls are necessary to come up with any figure.
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Screwing up a system is not about load or requests per minute. It's about installing shit on your computer. Windows is barely less secure than Linux in that regard.
You are so proud of your 6 month uptime on your desktop. But I've had almost 2.5 years uptime on my server, in my garage, running Win2k. I'll have to cut that cause i'm moving in a couple of weeks. But still, it's there. And I am running crap - P2P, unnamed codecs installed, all the stuff that I want to test.
It looks to me like you're comparing Win95 with Linux. Win2k and WinXP are *much* different, and I'd suggest you'd give them a try before you continue posting in this story.
So if I read you correctly, you are questionning the fact that IE has 97% of the market and Firefox (And all Gecko based browsers) around 1% ?
Geez, get a clue. Or google it. Or something, but just don't question facts.
Linux crashes? Can't say I've noticed any. I checked the uptime on our DNS server and it was 253 days.
So you are going to tell me that you can compare uptime on a box that you use as your desktop, install zillions of apps, with a box that stand somewhere and receive DNS queries for all activity.
Well, interesting objectivity. If I start my webserver and let my Win2k box in the shadow, my uptime could potentially be infinite. Same as for Linux.
Let's try to compare comparable things over here, will we?
Well, so far, in more than 20 press releases in the last year, SCO has been always lying and spreading FUD. Every single time. Not one exception. So this time I will need rock-solid proof before I even read the article.
Why I am spending my time replying to some naive people thinking that SCO may say the truth, I don't know.
They change their case every other week, because they don't have one. This week, they attack AIX.
There's nothing to understand. Unfortunately.
This wouldn't be an 'open source' license. What you are describing is just what MS is doing right now with the Windows source code. Except they don't make it public or anything, but they still disclose it to third parties. The code remain theirs, but others can look at it.
This is applicable to ANY closed-source license. Anyone (owner of the source) can decide to publish it, it doesn't mean it's not theirs anymore.
It's just that certain (a lot of?) women, while they're enjoying making love, don't enjoy sex all that much. This stuff is somewhat mixed somewhere in their brain that if they didn't have a nice and romantic evening, they consider sex as some kind of abusive thing.
Don't ask me, I'm not a woman.
DVDs are not the same as DVI. DVI is the compression codec on most digital camcorder. IIRC, it is around 24MB/s, hence a little too high for a 100Mb/s network. Of course if you have gigabit network, you don't have these problems.
DVDs are much lower, around ~8MB/s.
You need to turn off seti@home. That'll help your battery time.
Well, even from the story you can get some clues. This is aggregating 4 projectors. So I'd say that a hi-end projector being approx 1920x1024, the final resolution must be around 3840x2048, which is more than enough to watch a video - since that's what you're referring to.
Think that the first digital theater projector that TI demoed in france was running at 1280x960 (not sure about the vert. reso.) pixels.
So I guess there's no need to rant over there after all.
You still have a right for some privacy, whether you are in the office or not. I don't know about the US, but I know in Europe email/network and other forms of monitoring are prohibited, regardless of what the company policy states.
Of course, the fact that your firefox doesn't fall for it probably makes it not a real threat. Viva Mozilla!
At least, yours is more secure than IE.
Nothing prevent any constructor from building a "UC" as a PDA/cellphone, with crappy screen and keyboard. When you're home, you plug your DVI and USB keyboard/mouse in and you're done.
That's just what I'm looking for for so long now. I think it's still a little early, but I'm sure we'll get to it pretty soon.
Imagine: Everything in one box the size of an iPod: Phone, PDA, desktop, laptop, etc...
You just plug it into it's station at home and... bang! Keyboard, screen and all the rest are as big as you want them to be. You can even have additional storage (CD/DVD/HDD,...)
You can even have a "portable station", the size of an actual laptop which will add some of these features as well as some more battery power.
Well, I think that's yet another illusion. Think disgruntled employees being paid by Bad Guys to insert a bit of code.... You may trust the company that made your software, but how can you possibly trust every one of their employees? And once it's in, since it's trusted it could be there for years.
It's even worse with all the offshoring going on. I mean, people from halfway around the globe write your code. There is no way in hell you can trust them with national security!
Microsoft, who has the most to lose from open source
It seems to me that Sun already lost (almost) all of its assets to Linux.
Microsoft isn't the only player, even if it's a big one.
I hope gmail scales better that that... Anyone has a link?
Fry's electronics carry those. If you're not in CA, you can buy them online at www.outpost.com
All the SCO's executives are millionnaires now. That was the point of the operation. So why exactly should they care about SCO now that it's all done?
Your Sig: Hey Taco, your lameness filter is broken, /. is still up and running
/. is so lame, what are you doing here?
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Yet you fail to respond to the fact that there is no fucking way to come up with accurate numbers regarding this shit
Who said I was trying?
Forget about HDTV dude! It's already taking so much freaking time when I try to save my 600 dpi US letter image that I just scanned.
Animated movie! That is a hog! Even with today's DVI codecs, I can't even play a video over the network. Save high resolution (Well, it's still 720x576, but still that's not that high)
Actually, not quite true. One sperm contains only half your DNA. Combined with half the DNA of your sexual partner, that's what makes everyone unique.
Two sperms (although unlikely) could contain your entire DNA. But not one.
Bull999999 wrote: "But many of us here on slashdot (...)?"
I wrote: " Yeah, but we represent fraction of percents in regard to the "global market""
You responded: "how do you know we are only a small percentage ?"
I responded something about slashdot.
And now you're asking me "how the fuck does slashdot have a damn thing to do with this ?"
That was the original question dude!
One of the best algorithm I have found is to compress the image in a low-quality JPEG. The JPEG scheme of compression will detect stuff that are just invisible (or barely visible) with a human eye. Most of the time, the artifacts will choke on the part of the picture that was artificially touched, making them extremely visible.
Oh and by the way, I read and post on slashdot. I am what a lot of people I know qualify as a 'nerd'. And no, I have no linux at home, my parent's home or anyone else. Well, I have a Knoppix that I boot every now and then, but this probably doesn't qualify.
So even if we were that numerous, you just can't assume we're all using Linux for ourselves and our entire family.
Basically, you can't assume that anyone is like you. The fact is that everyone is unique. And that's why proper polls are necessary to come up with any figure.