Re:Use DJBDNS instead of BIND.
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You do realize that you are wrong, right? You can too patch djbdns and change it any way you like. You just can't redistribute modified copies. If DJB allowed this, then everyone would send out shitty copies to try and get the $500 reward.
Remember, the 'all bugs are shallow with enough eyeballs' only apply if the bugs are under GPL.
You can download the source and look for yourself here.
Nope, I think most reasonable people who reads this site will agree that it better to be rooted than to run a free secure alternative.
Thank God you don't work for my company. You, sir, are a twit.
I *have* a social life. I didn't "grow up in my basement." I speny MANY MANY years in a corporate environment with a very active social and social/business life. I am not a geek. You do not have to be a geek to have the desire to sit down and spend some time to learn something. If anything, Linux has made me more friends than simply going out and looking for them.
I agree that computers are supposed to make life easier, but there's a line between obfuscating knowledge and simply denying access to it. I understand that not everyone wants to go into the level of detail that you or I do, but whereas MS simply says "you don't need to know", Linux says "Come on in. Just watch where you step."
The biggest problem I have with Linux advocacy is that eveyrone sits around and tries to compare Windows to Linux. You simply can't do it. So why waste time? Use what you're happy with, but for those firebrand pro-Linux types, let's drop the anti-MS rhetoric and judge Linux based simply on it's merits and suitability to purpose. That's where the truth will come out. For those that do nothing but gripe about how "unfriendly" Linux is, use MacOS or Windows. Shut up, and let the people who USE Linux USE it and let's quit dumbing it down to appease those who insist that an operating system has to be a mind-numbing point-and-click experience.
I will never use Windows again. I don't need to. Linux does everything *I* need it to do. I don't care if Linux puts Microsoft into the bread line. I don't care if Linux obviates the need for MacOS, BeOS, or any other OS. The point is that Linux does what *I* need it to do.
Fortunately, my job provides me with the privelige of using Linux on a regular basis. Since I have *faith* in what Linux can do, my employer lets me put Linux into a production environment. I *know* the limitations of Linux vs. Windows NT/2000. I've shown my employer. And I've proved OVER AND OVER again that Linux really is the better server platform for what our company does. And our ROI is amazing. The accountants just love me.
Who cares about Microsoft. If more people spent less time worrying about what Microsoft is doing and spent time learning about what Linux can already do, then the solution will present itself.
The sad thing about a lot of people's arguments is that Linux isn't "user-friendly". This from people who use AOL. Those of us who use Linux had to learn the hard way - why can't everyone else just sit down and learn. Unfortunately, society nowadays expects user-friendliness to be defined as a set of "wizards" that accomplish mundane tasks with a series of pretty dialog boxes. They expect their hands to be held. The cynics will prevail until they are left behind by the practitioners of due diligence.
Six hours is OK, but in cases when I've been six hours from an outlet, I've not been able to use a notebook at all, and resorted to handwriting notes. However, the Crusoe will enable people like me to get out into the sticks and work:
I don't think it's a matter of heat production, but more an issue of power consumption. You can effectively dissipate a fair amount of heat with an efficient heat sink that has a large surface area in a small footprint. What mobile users need is battery life. Your iBook may run cool, but how often do you have to plug it in? Can you really stay off the grid for a long period of time?
If this company succeeds in this latest venture, other companies are going to start buying up patents that offer even a glimmer of a payout in the millions of dollars and start flooding the court systems with infringement cases. The USPO needs to start carefully analyzing patent applications and needs to have either a public review or a panel-based review to determine whether a patent applicant is simply follwing an evolutionary path or actually a technological innovation.
The only people that are going to win in this deal are the attorneys.
-- The actual development of a "true" patent is up to big corporations or the extremely lucky.
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Wind-OS?
Rolix?
Whatever...
You do realize that you are wrong, right? You can too patch djbdns and change it any way you like. You just can't redistribute modified copies. If DJB allowed this, then everyone would send out shitty copies to try and get the $500 reward.
Remember, the 'all bugs are shallow with enough eyeballs' only apply if the bugs are under GPL.
You can download the source and look for yourself here.
Nope, I think most reasonable people who reads this site will agree that it better to be rooted than to run a free secure alternative.
Thank God you don't work for my company. You, sir, are a twit.
To ISC: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. To the Rest of the World: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html
New slogan: Who do you want to rule today?
No offense taken. But...
I *have* a social life. I didn't "grow up in my basement." I speny MANY MANY years in a corporate environment with a very active social and social/business life. I am not a geek. You do not have to be a geek to have the desire to sit down and spend some time to learn something. If anything, Linux has made me more friends than simply going out and looking for them.
I agree that computers are supposed to make life easier, but there's a line between obfuscating knowledge and simply denying access to it. I understand that not everyone wants to go into the level of detail that you or I do, but whereas MS simply says "you don't need to know", Linux says "Come on in. Just watch where you step."
The biggest problem I have with Linux advocacy is that eveyrone sits around and tries to compare Windows to Linux. You simply can't do it. So why waste time? Use what you're happy with, but for those firebrand pro-Linux types, let's drop the anti-MS rhetoric and judge Linux based simply on it's merits and suitability to purpose. That's where the truth will come out. For those that do nothing but gripe about how "unfriendly" Linux is, use MacOS or Windows. Shut up, and let the people who USE Linux USE it and let's quit dumbing it down to appease those who insist that an operating system has to be a mind-numbing point-and-click experience.
Bah. You made me ramble.
I will never use Windows again. I don't need to. Linux does everything *I* need it to do. I don't care if Linux puts Microsoft into the bread line. I don't care if Linux obviates the need for MacOS, BeOS, or any other OS. The point is that Linux does what *I* need it to do.
Fortunately, my job provides me with the privelige of using Linux on a regular basis. Since I have *faith* in what Linux can do, my employer lets me put Linux into a production environment. I *know* the limitations of Linux vs. Windows NT/2000. I've shown my employer. And I've proved OVER AND OVER again that Linux really is the better server platform for what our company does. And our ROI is amazing. The accountants just love me.
Who cares about Microsoft. If more people spent less time worrying about what Microsoft is doing and spent time learning about what Linux can already do, then the solution will present itself.
The sad thing about a lot of people's arguments is that Linux isn't "user-friendly". This from people who use AOL. Those of us who use Linux had to learn the hard way - why can't everyone else just sit down and learn. Unfortunately, society nowadays expects user-friendliness to be defined as a set of "wizards" that accomplish mundane tasks with a series of pretty dialog boxes. They expect their hands to be held. The cynics will prevail until they are left behind by the practitioners of due diligence.
Ever heard of Darwin?
Six hours is OK, but in cases when I've been six hours from an outlet, I've not been able to use a notebook at all, and resorted to handwriting notes. However, the Crusoe will enable people like me to get out into the sticks and work:
http://www.transmeta.com/crusoe/lowpower/
Using the same battery-saving measures, I'd get another two hours over your iBook, enabling me to work in very remote locations.
I don't think it's a matter of heat production, but more an issue of power consumption. You can effectively dissipate a fair amount of heat with an efficient heat sink that has a large surface area in a small footprint. What mobile users need is battery life. Your iBook may run cool, but how often do you have to plug it in? Can you really stay off the grid for a long period of time?
Yeah, but aspell will compile really really fast, though.
Patent entangled photons.
If this company succeeds in this latest venture, other companies are going to start buying up patents that offer even a glimmer of a payout in the millions of dollars and start flooding the court systems with infringement cases. The USPO needs to start carefully analyzing patent applications and needs to have either a public review or a panel-based review to determine whether a patent applicant is simply follwing an evolutionary path or actually a technological innovation.
The only people that are going to win in this deal are the attorneys.
-- The actual development of a "true" patent is up to big corporations or the extremely lucky.
Really.
Someone BETTER be manning SOMETHING. Otherwise, I'm going to re-evaluate my homeowner's insurance...
-- Chicken Little MIGHT be right...