This solution would only solve problems in the API side. But an module has his on code, and who knows if this code is thread safe? If the code compiles directly into apache 2, and bacome unstable, due to thread unsafeness of the module code, who do you think the user will blame?
"this worked just fine with 1.3, this 2.0 apache is a piece of S***".
This solution would swipe the problems under the carpet, it would not make them go away. Instead would hide them, so they would not be as obvious. I don't like it.
No you first download a MD5 for the MD5 list (this wiil be the id of a file), then the MD5 list (this file could be potentialy big for CD images for instance), if this does not match the id blacklist the node. Now you will download a random block from the list, from one of the nodes that has the files with the same ID. If this block does not check with the MD5 black list the node. Try again from other node, and so on.
A separed web of trust could apply to what IDs are from valid list of MD5 from a valid file and witch are not.
one could keep a trusted block signature for each file. Say you have signature file that has one MD5 for each x bytes of the file. This file and it's MD5 hash is the identity of the file. On would then choose to download this file before the file itself and then download the blocks of x bytes from the file in a rendomised order, and possibly from diferent nodes. I guess this would add some otherwise uneeded downloads, but would help to restart the stoped downloads and would detect poison nodes easily.
This could be done easily, but I do think turbo-C goes a little further then this and actualy start compile as you type.
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I don't know if I should answer that, since it is off-topic, but...
I do belive that turbo-C and pascal, and many other IDEs for that matter, do something before you compile the program while you edit. Somethings are quite easy, like tokenization, pre compile header files. The integration could gain a second or two also by not compiling the same header 3 or 4 times for diferent files in the same project. Gcc is a stand-alone compiler and cannot have this type of integration (could?).
Maybe gcc team could create a gcclib to make it possible to access some lower level structures and doing things ahead in ides.
I don't understand this embarecement to be seen as a baby. Don't we all were babys once? Everyone loves to se babies but get embareced when people see themselves as a baby. I used to have a picture of my self as a baby in my wallet, it was a funny one cause I was doing some "dirt" gestures. Actualy my hands were caugth in a random position that casualy looks like an "ok" for american, but in Brasil it stands for "asshole".
For the simple reason that the driver could improve, while instructions in the hardware it self would harder to upgrade, and some what more dangerous (what happen if you fail to upgrade ypur bios?).
The driver in the software can be upgraded/fixed easily, also gives you a choice. Would you think that the printer would have a driver for linux embeded? Epson, who does have linux drivers for their printers, dosen't even bother to put them in the CD that comes with the printer.
Yes, yes, I guess you are right, and I am doing exactly what I was acusing others of.:-) All my rant is based in the stereotype I see in movies, TV and news. I don't realy know to many americans to be shure of anything. My comment was more of an "moment" unthought thingy. And I would like to apologise, to you and all the other I may have offended.
Well, tell me when humanity matures to the point where weapons and defense are no longer necessary.
As I said before, it is a utopia, and like all utopia it is in my opinion unreachable. But I do believe that people should not have fire arms in their houses. Shure police force and military, must have them (unfortunaly in my opinion, mainly when you live in a country with a badly trained and corrupt police force, like Brasil).
Was the Holocaust evil?
I didn't say that there is no evil in the world, all I said it is relative. I do think, for instance, that all wars are evil, it dosen't mean that for other peoples some wars could be justified. I don't believe that smoking maryhuanea is evil, some people do.
I find very amusing that revolting against a dictatorship ruled by an "evil" master is ok (SW reference) and revolting against an "evil" nation that is funding dictatorships or civil wars, so that the oil can be explored easily, is the most evil that you can get.
The problem with the american people is that they don't even realize what the west-world is doing to that part of the globe. Shure I do belive that we should bane all guns, from the one in your drawer to the ones in the military personal. It is an utopia, and I know it, but I will suport every step in this direction. This don't mean that I will quickly jump into comclusions and say that all alfaganistan person with a gun is an "evil" person.
And to finish my rant, why do every thing has be "evil" or "good"? The world is not a dungeons and dragons game, what is evil to one person is not evil to others. The wolrd is not black and white, it isn't even a gray scale, the world is colored.
I find it appalling that people think Linux can replace Windows, but one has to memorize a bunch of text based commands to maintain it.
This is a very common FUD about linux. the problem is that most of people using linux are expert, and because of that they have the option of using the command line interface, witch is realy faster, in many aspects (as longas you have learned hos to use it). Many (all?) linux distributions provide tools so that a user may never ever open a terminal window. The reviwer it self didn't mention any command at all (well he mentioned fdisk, put he opted for that, beginner user would have a point and click choice).
What do I consider to be easier to install? I would say depends, if I get a clean HD with no OS or partitions defined, linux would be much much easier (DOS^H^H^Hwindow's fdisk sucks badly). But if you get a HD with an older version of windows and a huge C: partition, windows can be installed very easily. Of course you have all the inconvenients reboot and click thrught licences....
From my understanding (I am not an economist) inflation comes from the fact that there is more money circulating. be it because the goverment created new bills and didn't destroy old ones (usualy to pay internal debts). The more money on the street, the less it value. Inflation is usualy a bad sign for economy.
Some DVDs have a question (usualy what language you want the menus) to avoid that behavior.
I usualy do something like this, I put the DVD in the player, go get somethink to dring or adjust my "viewing environment" and at last I turn the TV on, sometimes it work like a charm, but some times I end up in a menu (english or portuguese) or the DVD shows the warnings before the movie.
Google can not, and will not "guess" an URL of a site that has no one pointing at him. If you publish and do not advertise or link to your page it is as good as not published (as long as it is not the top page). Now if someone links to your page, then it could get there.
In your letter you urge us to keep using open source codecs. While I couldn't agree more with you, I would like to remember that many of the codecs used by linux are not yet open-source, both xine and mplayer use codecs from windows in the form of win32 dlls. Maybe if realnetworks give us a choice of having those codecs natively it would be a prgress, woudn't?
I think the idea is to separete the viewer from the embeded device. You could control your air conditioning from your computer, using a flash interface.
I do believe flash is a good "language" to describe such UI interactions. There are lot's of designers that are quite familiar with creating flash animations. Remember that the flash is just the "skin" the inner working will be activated by the web server and would probably be writen in C or assembler just like it always have been.
Actualy you didn't understood what I meant, my house have my rules. If you wrote something I don't like I could, by my rules clean it. If you did from your house where I would have no way to procecute you. The example is just the reverse, the Italian made something ilegal in his country, since he is there, he can be procecuted for his "crime" (it is quoted, because in my opiinion this is not a crime at all). But the Italian police has no rigth to erase the web site that is outside italy.
I agree 100% with your opinion. But I would like to add that Microsoft, with their "user friendness", contribute to this situation. If their server have all but the html serving (and maybe a cgi dir) turned off by default, letting the one who need the extra features to turn them on this would never had happen.
If you buy one you will raise the sells witch will make more game-houses to buy the development-kit and sign contracts to sell games in this plataform. So MS gains more then your $200,00
RPM does this, and most rpm managers do exactly this (red-carpet for instance). I bet debian has the same type of protection. If you only install software from trusted distributors, you should be fine.
But he is not doing marketing for linux, he is marketing his product. This is not giving to the comunity, is giving to him self. When he is say that he is doing marketing for linux, what he is saying is "Be happy I'm here you little fools". All the distros, and even some companies that don't even have distos (like IBM) that work with linux market linux. After all is their business. That don't stop them to contribute.
I guess that you should have been the one who had posted the article. If I were a moderator I would certanly mod you up. your points are correct, and what seems to be details serve very well to reinforce a point of view. This little details hidden in the text can do more harm that if the post were in fact as bad as the original poster said it was.
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"this worked just fine with 1.3, this 2.0 apache is a piece of S***".
This solution would swipe the problems under the carpet, it would not make them go away. Instead would hide them, so they would not be as obvious. I don't like it.
A separed web of trust could apply to what IDs are from valid list of MD5 from a valid file and witch are not.
one could keep a trusted block signature for each file. Say you have signature file that has one MD5 for each x bytes of the file. This file and it's MD5 hash is the identity of the file. On would then choose to download this file before the file itself and then download the blocks of x bytes from the file in a rendomised order, and possibly from diferent nodes. I guess this would add some otherwise uneeded downloads, but would help to restart the stoped downloads and would detect poison nodes easily.
To bad I am so late in posting this...
This could be done easily, but I do think turbo-C goes a little further then this and actualy start compile as you type.
I do belive that turbo-C and pascal, and many other IDEs for that matter, do something before you compile the program while you edit. Somethings are quite easy, like tokenization, pre compile header files. The integration could gain a second or two also by not compiling the same header 3 or 4 times for diferent files in the same project. Gcc is a stand-alone compiler and cannot have this type of integration (could?).
Maybe gcc team could create a gcclib to make it possible to access some lower level structures and doing things ahead in ides.
I don't understand this embarecement to be seen as a baby. Don't we all were babys once? Everyone loves to se babies but get embareced when people see themselves as a baby. I used to have a picture of my self as a baby in my wallet, it was a funny one cause I was doing some "dirt" gestures. Actualy my hands were caugth in a random position that casualy looks like an "ok" for american, but in Brasil it stands for "asshole".
For the simple reason that the driver could improve, while instructions in the hardware it self would harder to upgrade, and some what more dangerous (what happen if you fail to upgrade ypur bios?).
The driver in the software can be upgraded/fixed easily, also gives you a choice. Would you think that the printer would have a driver for linux embeded? Epson, who does have linux drivers for their printers, dosen't even bother to put them in the CD that comes with the printer.
Yes, yes, I guess you are right, and I am doing exactly what I was acusing others of.
Well, tell me when humanity matures to the point where weapons and defense are no longer necessary.
As I said before, it is a utopia, and like all utopia it is in my opinion unreachable. But I do believe that people should not have fire arms in their houses. Shure police force and military, must have them (unfortunaly in my opinion, mainly when you live in a country with a badly trained and corrupt police force, like Brasil).
Was the Holocaust evil?
I didn't say that there is no evil in the world, all I said it is relative. I do think, for instance, that all wars are evil, it dosen't mean that for other peoples some wars could be justified. I don't believe that smoking maryhuanea is evil, some people do.
I find very amusing that revolting against a dictatorship ruled by an "evil" master is ok (SW reference) and revolting against an "evil" nation that is funding dictatorships or civil wars, so that the oil can be explored easily, is the most evil that you can get.
The problem with the american people is that they don't even realize what the west-world is doing to that part of the globe. Shure I do belive that we should bane all guns, from the one in your drawer to the ones in the military personal. It is an utopia, and I know it, but I will suport every step in this direction. This don't mean that I will quickly jump into comclusions and say that all alfaganistan person with a gun is an "evil" person.
And to finish my rant, why do every thing has be "evil" or "good"? The world is not a dungeons and dragons game, what is evil to one person is not evil to others. The wolrd is not black and white, it isn't even a gray scale, the world is colored.
This is a very common FUD about linux. the problem is that most of people using linux are expert, and because of that they have the option of using the command line interface, witch is realy faster, in many aspects (as longas you have learned hos to use it). Many (all?) linux distributions provide tools so that a user may never ever open a terminal window. The reviwer it self didn't mention any command at all (well he mentioned fdisk, put he opted for that, beginner user would have a point and click choice).
What do I consider to be easier to install? I would say depends, if I get a clean HD with no OS or partitions defined, linux would be much much easier (DOS^H^H^Hwindow's fdisk sucks badly). But if you get a HD with an older version of windows and a huge C: partition, windows can be installed very easily. Of course you have all the inconvenients reboot and click thrught licences....
What about that big '+' key int your numeric keypad?
From my understanding (I am not an economist) inflation comes from the fact that there is more money circulating. be it because the goverment created new bills and didn't destroy old ones (usualy to pay internal debts). The more money on the street, the less it value. Inflation is usualy a bad sign for economy.
Some DVDs have a question (usualy what language you want the menus) to avoid that behavior.
I usualy do something like this, I put the DVD in the player, go get somethink to dring or adjust my "viewing environment" and at last I turn the TV on, sometimes it work like a charm, but some times I end up in a menu (english or portuguese) or the DVD shows the warnings before the movie.
Google can not, and will not "guess" an URL of a site that has no one pointing at him. If you publish and do not advertise or link to your page it is as good as not published (as long as it is not the top page). Now if someone links to your page, then it could get there.
In your letter you urge us to keep using open source codecs. While I couldn't agree more with you, I would like to remember that many of the codecs used by linux are not yet open-source, both xine and mplayer use codecs from windows in the form of win32 dlls. Maybe if realnetworks give us a choice of having those codecs natively it would be a prgress, woudn't?
I think the idea is to separete the viewer from the embeded device. You could control your air conditioning from your computer, using a flash interface.
I do believe flash is a good "language" to describe such UI interactions. There are lot's of designers that are quite familiar with creating flash animations. Remember that the flash is just the "skin" the inner working will be activated by the web server and would probably be writen in C or assembler just like it always have been.
Actualy you didn't understood what I meant, my house have my rules. If you wrote something I don't like I could, by my rules clean it. If you did from your house where I would have no way to procecute you. The example is just the reverse, the Italian made something ilegal in his country, since he is there, he can be procecuted for his "crime" (it is quoted, because in my opiinion this is not a crime at all). But the Italian police has no rigth to erase the web site that is outside italy.
The individual who created the site could be procecuted, but the italian police have no right to change the site. This is my opinion.
If you buy one you will raise the sells witch will make more game-houses to buy the development-kit and sign contracts to sell games in this plataform. So MS gains more then your $200,00
RPM does this, and most rpm managers do exactly this (red-carpet for instance). I bet debian has the same type of protection. If you only install software from trusted distributors, you should be fine.
But he is not doing marketing for linux, he is marketing his product. This is not giving to the comunity, is giving to him self. When he is say that he is doing marketing for linux, what he is saying is "Be happy I'm here you little fools". All the distros, and even some companies that don't even have distos (like IBM) that work with linux market linux. After all is their business. That don't stop them to contribute.
In my opinion this is BS.
I guess that you should have been the one who had posted the article. If I were a moderator I would certanly mod you up. your points are correct, and what seems to be details serve very well to reinforce a point of view. This little details hidden in the text can do more harm that if the post were in fact as bad as the original poster said it was.