What makes you think the next release will be 8.0?;)
Given that Red Hat releases a major release pretty much every year, "Red Hat Linux 2002" would actually make some sense. Plus it removes and confusion from the disparity in version numbers between distros.
Just as long as it's not "Red Hat Linux XP". I'm moving to another distro if you go with "Red Hat Linux XP".
I do hope this fails to take off. Really, I do. In fact can't believe they think it can possibly succeed.
When DVD's first came out and they were the same form factor as CDs, then DVD audio was announced, and now these new 100GB+ transparent disks, I thought the media industry had finally found some common sense. Sure, if we want the latest in whizz-bang media players, we'll still need to go out and buy new hardware to play it, that goes without saying, but that same new player should be able to play all the old stuff as well.
Let's face it, there wasn't much incentive to replace your old vinyl with tapes or mini-discs, but I know lots of people who have replaced large quantities of perfectly good tapes with 5" disks, myself included. The size is fine; not too big, not too small - you want some blurb with your purchase, right? You don't need a huge stack of electronics to play it all; at a pinch a DVD player will do it all. Seriously, what's there not too like with the form factor?
I recall an episode of "Buck Rogers" where Buck uses what must have been an audio CD to "record" some data in his Starfighter. The only reason it stands out so much, is that I used the argument way back when to illustrate a point; that we probably will still have 5" disks in the 25th Century.
Of course, by then, the big question will probably be "which moron decided on a 127mm form factor?"...
What I found funnier was that Satanism is right next door to another Slashdot favororite; Scientology is right in there at 332. Personally I'd have put Satanism at 666, but we're talking pencil pushers here...
Well, here in the UK, we already have something called the TPS Register. Basically, you opt-in to this thing, at which point you are not supposed to get any telemarketing calls on your phone. It works, and they *DO* prosecute offenders. I would assume that this financial services UCE law will have a similar implementation, and eventually would hope that all UCE from the EU will be covered in the same way.
Of course, you don't get much international telemarketing, so there are going to be a few issues there that will need resolution. What this should do is clamp down on EU based spamhausen; provided that the recipients report the offenders and the legislature's follow up with stiff penalties. Unfortunately that's two big ifs; most users can't even see their mail headers, let alone understand them.
I thought the BSD license basically boiled down to "do with it as you please". Technically, that could include filing of the copyright information as has happened here. Or does it really boil down to "do with it as you please, but leave the copyright in the source"?
I don't see how the latter makes much difference, because if someone were to, say, rip off the TCP/IP stack for their own closed source operating system, that info doesn't make it into the final product, does it? Could one of the BSD license hawks out there clarify?
Actually I have these concerns about over-hype as well, especially since I read somewhere that the Tolkien family members are having nothing to do with it. On the other hand, this may to more to do with the fact the more fanatical fans of the books give them some serious grief, to the extent that Christopher always travels to the UK under an assumed name.
Let's face it, unless a film follows the book exactly as the specific fanatical fan viewer expected then they are going to be disappointed and whine. "Lord of the Rings" was written as a book, not a screenplay, so it'll have to be an adaptation, so a percentage of viewers are bound not to like the result.
Hmm. Maybe/. could rate some movies that way; work out the percentage of good vs bad film posts and grade accordingly...
You beat me to it on the butterfly effect, but what the article is unclear on is what they expect to predict for 1,000 years hence. I doubt they are expecting miracles like "It's going to rain in Spain on 20th Sept. 3001", but rather stuff like "average rainfall globallaly will be up by 3001".
Maybe. If that damn butterfly doesn't fart or something.
Hmm. That company name's getting a bit long, maybe they should rename it to, say, "Wayland Yutani", and be done with it. At least that way we would know where we all stand... These MegaCorps are just to damn big for the public good if you ask me, how do you keep something that big from becoming seriously corrupted?
It's the name of "The Company" from the "Aliens" series for those who missed the reference.
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But the HP deal could weaken Linux a little bit, because HP isn't as much of a Linux advocate as IBM, and is an Intel/Microsoft partner & advocate (unlike Sun).
True, but they do have Bruce Perens in their camp who seems to be slowly winning them over to the Open Source ideals. HP have open sourced printer drivers and other bits of previously closed sourced applications. Off-hand I can't think of anything that Compaq has produced and open sourced.
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Hewlett Paqard?
cHomPaq?
Seriously though, I expect it'll go the way go the Fujitsu - Siemens merger of yesteryear. Their products with start off branded as HP-Compaq and the Compaq will slowly get downplayed and eventually dropped.
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If that is your choice, fine, but you're on a shaky moral ground if you want the rest of the community to think the same way ("report IE releases!").
Actually, I think it's a win-win situation if/. does post non-open source software annoucements with a similar proficiency as open sourced applications like KOffice. For those of us that want to know and discuss it because they use it (either because they choose to or their PHB says they have to) it's a win. While for those of us who disagree with the ethos get a chance to get all outspoken and try and win some converts for the open source movement, so it's a win there too.
The "typical Slashdotter" that I see would rather preach than stick his head in the sand, although the same does not appear to be true about those that choose what gets submitted. Especially since recent statistics on a Slashdotting show that the vast majority of us use IE, and by implication other Microsoft apps, at some point during the day. It's certainly relevent, so why isn't it here?
I'll give it an hour. Max. USian's will all be in work soon...
I like the idea behind the chart though. Choosing a license is a personal thing, and after all, it's the developer's right to do what (s)he will with their own code isn't it? A simple chart like this should help people make a more informed choice.
It would be nice if it included a few more licenses though; there are what? Maybe 30 or more? Anyone have a list to send this guy?
Actually Windows is getting a lot better now; install, reboot. Run Update Wizard. Reboot. Done. Compare that with a typical Linux distro; install, reboot. Install latest packages and kernel. Reboot. Done.
I make that two reboots apiece, although admittedly there is often a single reboot (which can be unattended) in the "install" phase of Windows. Of course, now you can install Linux off a network, with all patches, in just one reboot, so it looks like Microsoft is playing catch-up again.
You need to start by asking yourself the question "Why do I want to look at Linux?". I have been asked for recommendations several times and generally pick one of the following:
If it's because of a moral/open source issue, then realistically you have to go with Debian, but you can expect to encounter an almost vertical learning curve at the start - it's not reknown as an "easy to install" distro. So much so in-fact that I would *never* recommend a user with no *nix experience install it until they had played with another distro for a while - that's the beauty of Linux of course, you can play around until you find what suits you best.
If you are getting into Linux because you are going to be using it in a corporate environment, then you probably want Red Hat; it (or a derivative) is used on perhaps 90% of systems with "Linux Inside" and corporates seem to like Red Hat best, but check your intended first... Red Hat's installer has leapt forward recently and it's a very nice distro for support because it has the largest user base abd has generally given me the least grief.
Finally, if you are coming from Windows and are just curious to see what the fuss is about, then checkout S.u.S.E. and/or Mandrake. The former has an "everything including several kitchen sinks" approach and the latter is perhaps the best at making Windows users feel at home and has a very nice installer.
Finally. Play. There are lots of distros; the above are just the ones I know enough of the current specifics to support a new user on. Once you know your way around; install another distro. Play. Install another distro. Play...
As far as I and appendix C of "DNS & Bind" are aware SeaLand does not have a ccTLD yet. I can't see that it really needs one and they don't seem to think so either since their official website is at http://www.sealandgov.com and HavenCo. has their own seperate.COM website. That aside,.ccTLD != server in whatever "cc" represents, but WHOIS should give the correct info. If is wasn't so easy to lie on WHOIS anyway...
So we've established that ccTLDs are useless in this respect and that WHOIS is unreliable, which rules out the Internet regulating itself as it stands. So the Econmist has hit the nail right on the head; because the global legislative bodies can't agree on anything we are going to end up with a patch work of laws and ugly France/Nazi memorabilia type law suits.
In that light, countries like China and Afghanistan that take on the responsibility of policing their own laws at their borders suddenly seem more friendly to the Internet's way of doing things. It's just highly unfortunate that their populace didn't get a say in the matter, which more than cancels that out.
Maybe with the recent facelift upgrade they did, they changed the backend as well...
Most, if not all, of HotMail should have been migrated from BSD to NT/IIS by now. It looks like they have not gone with SMS (System Management Server) as well though, because isn't that supposed to make managing patching large numbers of NT boxen easy?
Oh, wait, maybe Microsoft is exaggerating that products' abilities in large installs as well...;)
That would explain why I couldn't get to one of my hotmail accounts
I doubt it, since only some of the W2K HotMail servers are infected (according to Microsoft, anyway). I suppose they missed a few or just ran out of time to patch them all - how many boxen do you think they have to patch? Lots?
Unless Code Red II on the infected servers is having a field day with all those other NT boxen on the same subnet and they are suffering from congestion of course. Either way, it might explain why I haven't received any SirCam emails recently...
Devices have been using the serial/parallel ports since time began, what's so special about Palms?
The obvious one is that they are routinely hot-plugged into a port that probably doesn't have the necessary surge protection on it. Of course this would apply to anything that syncs data via serial or parallel ports, not just Pilots, or PDAs for that matter.
I can see it would be a problem in theory, but not in regular practice. It sounds much more likely a few people just got unlucky with electrical tolerances than a design flaw IMHO.
I have a brand new Dell I8K with all the bells and whistles, which is very nice given the weight is not a problem (7.5KG is HEAVY after a few hundred meters) so it's just as well I only need to get from car to office and back...
However, the one thing I would like to see, but have never had much luck finding, is a reasonable sub-notebook that can dualboot Windows and Linux, and maybe play DVDs via an external drive if required (for hotels) that will let be grab it, run downstairs and plug into a network or device and open a console/telnet/ssh session.
No problem? Vaio?
Bzzzt! Wrong! No serial port. Who remembers those stupid adapters when you just lost remote access to a router? Any suggestions?
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Given that Red Hat releases a major release pretty much every year, "Red Hat Linux 2002" would actually make some sense. Plus it removes and confusion from the disparity in version numbers between distros.
Just as long as it's not "Red Hat Linux XP". I'm moving to another distro if you go with "Red Hat Linux XP".
When DVD's first came out and they were the same form factor as CDs, then DVD audio was announced, and now these new 100GB+ transparent disks, I thought the media industry had finally found some common sense. Sure, if we want the latest in whizz-bang media players, we'll still need to go out and buy new hardware to play it, that goes without saying, but that same new player should be able to play all the old stuff as well.
Let's face it, there wasn't much incentive to replace your old vinyl with tapes or mini-discs, but I know lots of people who have replaced large quantities of perfectly good tapes with 5" disks, myself included. The size is fine; not too big, not too small - you want some blurb with your purchase, right? You don't need a huge stack of electronics to play it all; at a pinch a DVD player will do it all. Seriously, what's there not too like with the form factor?
I recall an episode of "Buck Rogers" where Buck uses what must have been an audio CD to "record" some data in his Starfighter. The only reason it stands out so much, is that I used the argument way back when to illustrate a point; that we probably will still have 5" disks in the 25th Century.
Of course, by then, the big question will probably be "which moron decided on a 127mm form factor?"...
And a Bazaar too, I think...
What I found funnier was that Satanism is right next door to another Slashdot favororite; Scientology is right in there at 332. Personally I'd have put Satanism at 666, but we're talking pencil pushers here...
Of course, you don't get much international telemarketing, so there are going to be a few issues there that will need resolution. What this should do is clamp down on EU based spamhausen; provided that the recipients report the offenders and the legislature's follow up with stiff penalties. Unfortunately that's two big ifs; most users can't even see their mail headers, let alone understand them.
I don't see how the latter makes much difference, because if someone were to, say, rip off the TCP/IP stack for their own closed source operating system, that info doesn't make it into the final product, does it? Could one of the BSD license hawks out there clarify?
Let's face it, unless a film follows the book exactly as the specific fanatical fan viewer expected then they are going to be disappointed and whine. "Lord of the Rings" was written as a book, not a screenplay, so it'll have to be an adaptation, so a percentage of viewers are bound not to like the result.
Hmm. Maybe /. could rate some movies that way; work out the percentage of good vs bad film posts and grade accordingly...
Maybe an ICMP redirect if your firewall / server supports it? You want "default.ida"? Maybe you should try 207.46.230.219 ... ;-)
Maybe. If that damn butterfly doesn't fart or something.
Oh, wait, these have been fixed before shipping the "final product", haven't they?
Kudos to Bugzilla for coping with it though, I can see the ad slogan now; "Can cope with projects buggier than Windows NT!"
It's the name of "The Company" from the "Aliens" series for those who missed the reference.
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Be advised though; that latter one is bad.
True, but they do have Bruce Perens in their camp who seems to be slowly winning them over to the Open Source ideals. HP have open sourced printer drivers and other bits of previously closed sourced applications. Off-hand I can't think of anything that Compaq has produced and open sourced.
cHomPaq?
Seriously though, I expect it'll go the way go the Fujitsu - Siemens merger of yesteryear. Their products with start off branded as HP-Compaq and the Compaq will slowly get downplayed and eventually dropped.
Actually, I think it's a win-win situation if
The "typical Slashdotter" that I see would rather preach than stick his head in the sand, although the same does not appear to be true about those that choose what gets submitted. Especially since recent statistics on a Slashdotting show that the vast majority of us use IE, and by implication other Microsoft apps, at some point during the day. It's certainly relevent, so why isn't it here?
It's a bit brief too. There are a lot more licenses out there, most of which are described on the following three pages. (I've emailed this too).
- http://www.softpanorama.org/Copyright/catalog_o
f _s oftware_licenses.shtml
- http://www.eroj.org/linux/theory.htm
- http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
Good idea, BTW.I like the idea behind the chart though. Choosing a license is a personal thing, and after all, it's the developer's right to do what (s)he will with their own code isn't it? A simple chart like this should help people make a more informed choice.
It would be nice if it included a few more licenses though; there are what? Maybe 30 or more? Anyone have a list to send this guy?
I make that two reboots apiece, although admittedly there is often a single reboot (which can be unattended) in the "install" phase of Windows. Of course, now you can install Linux off a network, with all patches, in just one reboot, so it looks like Microsoft is playing catch-up again.
Or chess players on speed...
If it's because of a moral/open source issue, then realistically you have to go with Debian, but you can expect to encounter an almost vertical learning curve at the start - it's not reknown as an "easy to install" distro. So much so in-fact that I would *never* recommend a user with no *nix experience install it until they had played with another distro for a while - that's the beauty of Linux of course, you can play around until you find what suits you best.
If you are getting into Linux because you are going to be using it in a corporate environment, then you probably want Red Hat; it (or a derivative) is used on perhaps 90% of systems with "Linux Inside" and corporates seem to like Red Hat best, but check your intended first... Red Hat's installer has leapt forward recently and it's a very nice distro for support because it has the largest user base abd has generally given me the least grief.
Finally, if you are coming from Windows and are just curious to see what the fuss is about, then checkout S.u.S.E. and/or Mandrake. The former has an "everything including several kitchen sinks" approach and the latter is perhaps the best at making Windows users feel at home and has a very nice installer.
Finally. Play. There are lots of distros; the above are just the ones I know enough of the current specifics to support a new user on. Once you know your way around; install another distro. Play. Install another distro. Play...
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As far as I and appendix C of "DNS & Bind" are aware SeaLand does not have a ccTLD yet. I can't see that it really needs one and they don't seem to think so either since their official website is at http://www.sealandgov.com and HavenCo. has their own seperate .COM website. That aside, .ccTLD != server in whatever "cc" represents, but WHOIS should give the correct info. If is wasn't so easy to lie on WHOIS anyway...
So we've established that ccTLDs are useless in this respect and that WHOIS is unreliable, which rules out the Internet regulating itself as it stands. So the Econmist has hit the nail right on the head; because the global legislative bodies can't agree on anything we are going to end up with a patch work of laws and ugly France/Nazi memorabilia type law suits.
In that light, countries like China and Afghanistan that take on the responsibility of policing their own laws at their borders suddenly seem more friendly to the Internet's way of doing things. It's just highly unfortunate that their populace didn't get a say in the matter, which more than cancels that out.
Oh, wait, maybe Microsoft is exaggerating that products' abilities in large installs as well... ;)
I doubt it, since only some of the W2K HotMail servers are infected (according to Microsoft, anyway). I suppose they missed a few or just ran out of time to patch them all - how many boxen do you think they have to patch? Lots?
Unless Code Red II on the infected servers is having a field day with all those other NT boxen on the same subnet and they are suffering from congestion of course. Either way, it might explain why I haven't received any SirCam emails recently...
The obvious one is that they are routinely hot-plugged into a port that probably doesn't have the necessary surge protection on it. Of course this would apply to anything that syncs data via serial or parallel ports, not just Pilots, or PDAs for that matter.
I can see it would be a problem in theory, but not in regular practice. It sounds much more likely a few people just got unlucky with electrical tolerances than a design flaw IMHO.
However, the one thing I would like to see, but have never had much luck finding, is a reasonable sub-notebook that can dualboot Windows and Linux, and maybe play DVDs via an external drive if required (for hotels) that will let be grab it, run downstairs and plug into a network or device and open a console/telnet/ssh session.
No problem? Vaio?
Bzzzt! Wrong! No serial port. Who remembers those stupid adapters when you just lost remote access to a router? Any suggestions?