Gnome 1.4 was released April 4th of this year. Ximian Gnome 1.4 was released April 24th. (Dates from Slashdot).
Since Ximian employes a lot of the main Gnome developers, they're probably working on their product as gnome is testing, so the release time shouldn't be that far off from the Gnome 2.0 release date.
I went the opposite route. I was working doing helpdesk style windows support while playing with Linux in my spare time. When I went to find a new job, I ended up starting at a company where I was working in a group supporting hundreds of linux boxes.
2 years later our group supports 5000+ linux boxes around the world. Luckily we have good tools for dealing with them:P
I'm not quite sure what you're against here. Are you saying Solaris is much better than Linux when it comes to stability, or that Sun hardware is much better than commodity intel hardware?
How would you rate Solaris on commodity hardware or Linux on Sun hardware?
If they buy from Redhat, they only need to buy one copy, not one for every machine. They don't even need to buy that one, they can just download the ISOs and burn their own CDs.
MandrakeSoft moved North American production to the United States because tariff laws for imported products effectively increased the manufacturing cost by a factor of two or three, said Jean Mar, business operations manager.
The overseas company could probably have handled the capacity fine, but importing the CDs to america is expensive.
The books used in their classes are publically available, but which books are they?
Most subjects taught there will have hundreds or thousands of books on the subject. I know I'd rather find out which books are deemed useful enough to be included in MIT's cirriculum rather than reading every book on the subject or pick one which may not be very good.
You're right, it won't get AOL'ers to switch Operating systems. Why would it? It works perfectly fine under windows.
What it will allow is for people who are using AOL to switch operating systems if they want to. There's a subtle distinction between allowing the change and causing it.
I am unaware of any application of computer usage that can lead to death.
Maybe not website defacement, but other things certainly can cause death.
Someone could break into the computer system used by air traffic controllers, and use them to cause a plane crash.
A lot of the world is run by computers. Changes to these protected systems can cause a lot of havoc. These systems are generally too protected for some teenager to get into, so there's not much chance of a false accusation.
This act is recognizing that hacking (cracking) could be an act of terrorism. It does not specify website defacement. Although there always is the possibility of some prosecutor trying to overreach their bounds using vaguely worded laws.
No, I actually agree that the double opt-in is much better. But that dosen't change the fact that the slashdot post says that the opt-in isn't required, when in fact it is (just not a double opt-in).
Also, an oil light in the car notifies you when oil is low (like CPU hot notification) but a car does not usually idle unattended whereas a computer does.
Most new motherboards have temperature monitoring. Many bioses also let you have the machine power off automatically if the temerature reaches a particular amount.
With OS support of the temperature monitoring and the ability to lower clock speed, you can also do fun things like reduce the speed of your processor to cool it down when it starts getting too hot.
Hey, why not impose a life sentence for ignoring the "Don't walk on the grass" sign. It's no problem because you're fine as long as you don't walk on the grass.
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You're forgetting that 2.5 is the development kernel. They're already discussing what it's going to encompass, and some of the projects have already begun, but no release date for the first test kernel have been announced.
Who is the President of Uzbekistan? Post now, don't check on google. What about Mozambique?
I have no idea who they are. I have no idea who the president of Pakistan is. I also have no idea how US relations are between the US and those countries.
But I do expect our president to know these things. He's trusted to make decisions for the country, so he better be well informed.
Most of the things that you've mentioned exsited because people weren't aware of the damage it could cause. No one was expecting this tragedy.
You are right though, these are issues (I disagree with the PGP argument though). These things should be fixed, but if you penalize the companies you're just going to set a tone that instead of trying to secure your creations, you just shouldn't create... because if you miss one possibility, you're going down.
What version of windows are you running though? From what I've heard (and experienced) win2k is a lot more stable than NT4 was, but in this article they state that they never made the switch to win2k due to the costs, and not wanting to use Active Directory.
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Gnome 1.4 was released April 4th of this year. Ximian Gnome 1.4 was released April 24th. (Dates from Slashdot).
Since Ximian employes a lot of the main Gnome developers, they're probably working on their product as gnome is testing, so the release time shouldn't be that far off from the Gnome 2.0 release date.
I went the opposite route. I was working doing helpdesk style windows support while playing with Linux in my spare time. When I went to find a new job, I ended up starting at a company where I was working in a group supporting hundreds of linux boxes.
:P
2 years later our group supports 5000+ linux boxes around the world. Luckily we have good tools for dealing with them
I'm not quite sure what you're against here. Are you saying Solaris is much better than Linux when it comes to stability, or that Sun hardware is much better than commodity intel hardware?
How would you rate Solaris on commodity hardware or Linux on Sun hardware?
If they buy from Redhat, they only need to buy one copy, not one for every machine. They don't even need to buy that one, they can just download the ISOs and burn their own CDs.
From the article:
MandrakeSoft moved North American production to the United States because tariff laws for imported products effectively increased the manufacturing cost by a factor of two or three, said Jean Mar, business operations manager.
The overseas company could probably have handled the capacity fine, but importing the CDs to america is expensive.
All software has bugs. The turnaround time on this one was pretty amazing though. 2.4.11 was released tuesday, and the fix was provided today.
The books used in their classes are publically available, but which books are they?
Most subjects taught there will have hundreds or thousands of books on the subject. I know I'd rather find out which books are deemed useful enough to be included in MIT's cirriculum rather than reading every book on the subject or pick one which may not be very good.
> > Most of the work is already done by professors
>So, uh, who do you think pays the professors?
MIT does of course, but if the work is already done for the classes, it dosen't cost extra to make it available to another medium.
I doubt the professors time tie into this cost much. The web publishing costs make more sense as the other poster mentioned.
You're right, it won't get AOL'ers to switch Operating systems. Why would it? It works perfectly fine under windows.
What it will allow is for people who are using AOL to switch operating systems if they want to. There's a subtle distinction between allowing the change and causing it.
They already force updates all the time. Just not for things this big. When you sign off, they automaticallly start updating.
All they'd have to do is support the old protocol, but restrict people on the old protocol to performing updates to the newer patched version.
I am unaware of any application of computer usage that can lead to death.
Maybe not website defacement, but other things certainly can cause death.
Someone could break into the computer system used by air traffic controllers, and use them to cause a plane crash.
A lot of the world is run by computers. Changes to these protected systems can cause a lot of havoc. These systems are generally too protected for some teenager to get into, so there's not much chance of a false accusation.
This act is recognizing that hacking (cracking) could be an act of terrorism. It does not specify website defacement. Although there always is the possibility of some prosecutor trying to overreach their bounds using vaguely worded laws.
No, I actually agree that the double opt-in is much better. But that dosen't change the fact that the slashdot post says that the opt-in isn't required, when in fact it is (just not a double opt-in).
Mel Gibson is American, not Australian. He was born in America, then moved to Australia at a young age, and has moved back to America again.
They said that they don't have to use a double opt-in. In other words, no confirmation step of the opt-in.
Rather than implementing all of X in hardware,
why not just run X on a seperate, dedicated box?
You can run X applications on a seperate server, but the machine you're running needs to run X as well in order to do the hardware interaction.
Of course, certain parts of X can be moved to the other box, including the Font server, the window manager, etc.
This was the federal trade commission, not the Federal Communication Commission.
I was curious when they became involved with net traffic.
Also, an oil light in the car notifies you when oil is low (like CPU hot notification) but a car does not usually idle unattended whereas a computer does.
Most new motherboards have temperature monitoring. Many bioses also let you have the machine power off automatically if the temerature reaches a particular amount.
With OS support of the temperature monitoring and the ability to lower clock speed, you can also do fun things like reduce the speed of your processor to cool it down when it starts getting too hot.
Hey, why not impose a life sentence for ignoring the "Don't walk on the grass" sign. It's no problem because you're fine as long as you don't walk on the grass.
You're forgetting that 2.5 is the development kernel. They're already discussing what it's going to encompass, and some of the projects have already begun, but no release date for the first test kernel have been announced.
Actually, it makes perfect sense to me.
This allows them to judge consumer reaction to the protected CDs without having to reimburse any cash to people who complain.
Who is the President of Uzbekistan? Post now, don't check on google. What about Mozambique?
I have no idea who they are. I have no idea who the president of Pakistan is. I also have no idea how US relations are between the US and those countries.
But I do expect our president to know these things. He's trusted to make decisions for the country, so he better be well informed.
Most of the things that you've mentioned exsited because people weren't aware of the damage it could cause. No one was expecting this tragedy.
You are right though, these are issues (I disagree with the PGP argument though). These things should be fixed, but if you penalize the companies you're just going to set a tone that instead of trying to secure your creations, you just shouldn't create... because if you miss one possibility, you're going down.
The program crashing is a mozilla problem, but I'd consider the ability of the program to take out the OS a win2k problem
What version of windows are you running though? From what I've heard (and experienced) win2k is a lot more stable than NT4 was, but in this article they state that they never made the switch to win2k due to the costs, and not wanting to use Active Directory.
I could easily see NT4 having problems like this.
the Linux kernel already runs on IA64. In the article it mentions that several distributions have been ported to the Itanium processor already.
If you look on Redhat's FTP sites, you can see the IA64 subdirectories right next to the i386 ones.