Re:It still looks like...
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Gnome 2 has a diferent API, or new version of several base libraries. You can still have the old versions of the libraries installed and you apps compiled to use GNOME 1.4 will work just fine, buit they will not use any of the new features. In that respect it is the same for win95 and win2K, the only diference is that some of the new dll in win2k has the same API so the old applications won't have to load an older version. This is works fine if your API will not change from one version to another (MS usualy changes APIs in a additive way, the new API has as a subset the old API). Linux apps usualy are open sourced so it tends to update the API more often, but allowing the old apps to compile to the new version.
It is my opinion that they will aim to a watch a few times and then stop playing due to media problems. This should be easy, just make disks with some form of biological active media so after a few months after the buy it will most certanly be dotted with bacteria or fungus. The user thinks that this was due to a miscare of his part and buy another copy. Simple and efective.
Since linux usualy comes with many more packages then windows all those packages are accounted for security bugs, but they are not used by many people. And since redhat has a policy of not starting servers by default, even if you actualy installed a package that has a bug, it will not affect you unless you have started it your self (witch mean that you at least have an idea of what you're doing).
Window in the other hand comes with very few servers bundled and they are all on by default (as far as I know, I not a win expert). And even worst the security bugs are usualy in packages that are vital to the work the machine supose to be doing. I can make, and I bet many people do, a server machine without a font server, but I can't take out (or firewall) the server it self from the machine.
The reason is simply that if you firewall the SQL server on a machine dedicated to serve SQL it will render the machine useless. The orinal post states that MS has inumerous vulnabiralities in "primary" server (http, sql and others). If you have a vulnerability in a server that is not started it does not affect your system, and redhat (I don't know about others) has been folloing the police of defaulting services to off state since vs. 7.0.
You can only secure yourself for known forms of atack. In the begging of the internet, as far as I know, were indeed very insecure, since no one never thougth of atacks coming from the network. The intenet began to be secured after the first worm were made that was realy a great-grand-father of the nimda that used a combination of shell scripts and compiled code to propagate and installing it self and it did propageted as fast as wild fire, the net was almost shuted down because of it. After that the net wasn't safe anymore.
Careless? No, I don't think so. You simply can't prevent something that yuo don't even know where it is coming from. No one would think to protect a city against a comercial airplane, now I bet people think about that, rather seriously.
That is the problem with the llinux game industry, the games are always released after, some times very after, the windows games. People that use linux commonly have a windows partition to play games. What happens people buy the game for windows, and then they simply would not buy the linux version and pay for the same thing twice. If the games were to be released at the same time this problem would be solved.
In fact, in my opinion this porters should work for the game company, and all the versions should come in one CD. The executable part of the game is almost zero if you compare with the rest of the data. And I do think people that use linux would prefer to buy a game that has a little seal with a penguim saing "works with linux".
You're absolutly correct, the security of this would be very dificult to maintain. The only solution I could think is to centralize the builds and sign the packages that would be installed to make shure they were built in the central server(s), but this would need a centralized build server witch is the problem with the fisrt idea.:-/
Well was just an idea that came on top of my mind.:-)
Too bad that this would not work, because compilation is one thing that requires much CPU and would benefit from a distributed service.
This seems like a good idea, but how about a P2P distribution? You want to install in your machine, you first run a little stub that checks witch arch/optimization/etc you need, then it goes to the net and asks who has package xxx with yyy compiler flags, if no one has you build it (bad luck) and make it available to every one else.
:-)
Re:Cutting off you nose to spite your face
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I never told that I don't dodocumentation, in fact I do write docs for my project, sometimes even before writing the software (just to make shure that the idea would work). Now if my documentation is adaquate or not? I don't think I can judge that, I know what I was tring to explain, the documentation is target to the people who dosen't know it yet.:-)
The main reason of my response was post just to point out that the fact that some people find it boring to write documentation does not implies that they don't respect the people that do it. In fact it should be the oposite, if I find somethiung boring and there are people who do this thing, loving it or not, I would respect that person for doing that job I would not want to do.
Re:Cutting off you nose to spite your face
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The LDP and Debian
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Every one respects documentation and the people who do it, this dosen't change the fact that most of the people don't like doing it. In fact this (at least in my case) increases the respect for those people who actually make the documentation.
And documentation do not scratchg personal itchs simply because docs are made to teach people things, and since the only way to write them is knowing about the stuff...
This technology if amazing and I am certainly that most of us will have something like this in the folloing 5-10 years. But it is very expensive now, and as someone here pointed out it can be replaced by a common no break for a fraction of the price.
It does compress, but it will get it's normal rates, witch is about 1/2, for video this is just like nothing. Just imagine a 640x480x32bbpx30fps you get in raw mode is about 36000 kb per second with gzip this will become 18000kb per second.
I don't seem to find anywhere how well this "nancy" compares in the compression rate arena. How much does it compress with the same amount of lossiness? This is very important for this, because if yu don't care about the rate I could simply use gzip to compress my movies and have no loss at all.
A few days agoi there were a post here about china closing internet bars, because they failed to censor the internet properly. Now would open-source be a bad thing for this goverment?
Since you can alter the way it work, I think it would be easy to create proxies that would make the international sites available to every one.
Well I not saying that the big screen per see is a bad thing. I realy think that big screen are cool .:-) But the way I use my PDA, carring with me where ever I go, they would hurt more than make any good.
Now if I had a laptop computer, that I would use in selected ocasions, like in work or in classes. Then I think that A4 screen is a must go. This device would not acompany me everywhere, only where it would probably be needed.
But there could be some solution for handhelds with big screens and protables also, a folding screen? How feasible is that?
This size is good for using the handheld, with plenty of screen space and etc.But when you are not using it it would be a nigthmare. Where would you put it? Shure you you could keep a special pupose bag, much like the ones for laptop computers. But then it would be a laptop computer, not a handheld.
I think that a true hand held have to fit your pocket, this way you could take it wherever you go.
I know for a fact that no one will read this, since I am replying to late.:-)
I think that the people on slashdot is very worried about national IDs but they are certanly forgetting about much more serious things that the bush goverment wants to push throught the throats of the americans and in some case the world citizens. Lost of privacy over phones and email, the allowance to accept confessions gotten with the use of torture (unless this torture was made in american soil). All of these were in the anti-terrorism act that bush proposed in the american congress.
The great advantage of slashdot is the fact that it don't need research. People comenting will give enougth information about the subject and usualy the moderator do a good job in promoting the best information and opinions. The great number of opinions and diferent backgrounds is what make slashdot much better then the "usual media sites".
Also is good to remember that almost every piece of news here is coments on news articles taken from "usual media sites" so, unless you don't read the original article, all the information here adds to the information on the "usual news sites".
Shure there are many places on the internet that serves misinformation, but many news medias, as state by others, follow a political point of view or don't want to upset the companies that places ads in it. So can you realy trust them?
The truth is that people will believe what they want to belive.
I would like to point out that the current africa situation is a direct result of years of colonization by the european contries. Shure America didn't done it, but remember that when this savage exploration began there was not america just england. So who did this to Africa were in fact America's forefathers.
The extractivist colonization of africa by the Europeans divided the country with new borders that would mix together diferent cultures. This would make the cultural pressure bigger making room for enouth hate to create the so called wars.
All the colonist just wanted the diamonds from Africa, so they came build the bigger infrastructure it could do to take the diamonds he could do and then he simply go back home with the money. This is very different from the kind of colones that came to the USA, they went to america because they need a place to stay where they would not suffer from persecution from the local rullers. So all the money american colones made weer invested in America it self, because this colones didn't want to go back home, they were home.
well just to round it up, even thought you're not to blame for what happen in Africa now. All the suffering that is happening there could be 'blamed' on the way the colonist explored africa. The same thing is happening right now in the middle east, and on this matter the US is an active player. The US is creating borders, fomenting war and collect the most it can from the petrol from the region. The events of september 11 are a consequence of this police. I don't think that this act was of extreme cowardice (is this a word?) and I don't think that no one deserved this kind of horror. But I also think that maybe the US should rethink it's police in the region.
And, by the way, throwing food and medicine along with bombs will not help.
If one fifth or less jump ship to use linux or mac os. You wuold have an incentive to others do. Many people stays with MS just because it is what everyone else is using.
Something that enhances on person life will not necessarily enhance other person life and vice versa.
A blood transfusion could save the life of a person, but if that person thinks that this would "polute" his soul (or whatever) and would live the rest of his life restless because he does not have a soul anymore, would this be good or evil??
I would hate to live in the country without any acces to phones and modern life, and yet there a plenty of people, that I know, who think that this would be a paradise.
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Gnome 2 has a diferent API, or new version of several base libraries. You can still have the old versions of the libraries installed and you apps compiled to use GNOME 1.4 will work just fine, buit they will not use any of the new features. In that respect it is the same for win95 and win2K, the only diference is that some of the new dll in win2k has the same API so the old applications won't have to load an older version. This is works fine if your API will not change from one version to another (MS usualy changes APIs in a additive way, the new API has as a subset the old API). Linux apps usualy are open sourced so it tends to update the API more often, but allowing the old apps to compile to the new version.
Well historacly vendors tend to ignore faults that are not public known (yes not just MS, other too)
It is my opinion that they will aim to a watch a few times and then stop playing due to media problems. This should be easy, just make disks with some form of biological active media so after a few months after the buy it will most certanly be dotted with bacteria or fungus. The user thinks that this was due to a miscare of his part and buy another copy. Simple and efective.
Since linux usualy comes with many more packages then windows all those packages are accounted for security bugs, but they are not used by many people. And since redhat has a policy of not starting servers by default, even if you actualy installed a package that has a bug, it will not affect you unless you have started it your self (witch mean that you at least have an idea of what you're doing).
Window in the other hand comes with very few servers bundled and they are all on by default (as far as I know, I not a win expert). And even worst the security bugs are usualy in packages that are vital to the work the machine supose to be doing. I can make, and I bet many people do, a server machine without a font server, but I can't take out (or firewall) the server it self from the machine.
The reason is simply that if you firewall the SQL server on a machine dedicated to serve SQL it will render the machine useless. The orinal post states that MS has inumerous vulnabiralities in "primary" server (http, sql and others). If you have a vulnerability in a server that is not started it does not affect your system, and redhat (I don't know about others) has been folloing the police of defaulting services to off state since vs. 7.0.
You can only secure yourself for known forms of atack. In the begging of the internet, as far as I know, were indeed very insecure, since no one never thougth of atacks coming from the network. The intenet began to be secured after the first worm were made that was realy a great-grand-father of the nimda that used a combination of shell scripts and compiled code to propagate and installing it self and it did propageted as fast as wild fire, the net was almost shuted down because of it. After that the net wasn't safe anymore.
Careless? No, I don't think so. You simply can't prevent something that yuo don't even know where it is coming from. No one would think to protect a city against a comercial airplane, now I bet people think about that, rather seriously.
That is the problem with the llinux game industry, the games are always released after, some times very after, the windows games. People that use linux commonly have a windows partition to play games. What happens people buy the game for windows, and then they simply would not buy the linux version and pay for the same thing twice. If the games were to be released at the same time this problem would be solved.
In fact, in my opinion this porters should work for the game company, and all the versions should come in one CD. The executable part of the game is almost zero if you compare with the rest of the data. And I do think people that use linux would prefer to buy a game that has a little seal with a penguim saing "works with linux".
If you keep the patch around you can apply it in reverse (-R or --reverse in the patch program) and revert the tree to the original one.
You're absolutly correct, the security of this would be very dificult to maintain. The only solution I could think is to centralize the builds and sign the packages that would be installed to make shure they were built in the central server(s), but this would need a centralized build server witch is the problem with the fisrt idea. :-/
:-)
Well was just an idea that came on top of my mind.
Too bad that this would not work, because compilation is one thing that requires much CPU and would benefit from a distributed service.
This seems like a good idea, but how about a P2P distribution? You want to install in your machine, you first run a little stub that checks witch arch/optimization/etc you need, then it goes to the net and asks who has package xxx with yyy compiler flags, if no one has you build it (bad luck) and make it available to every one else.
:-)
I never told that I don't dodocumentation, in fact I do write docs for my project, sometimes even before writing the software (just to make shure that the idea would work). Now if my documentation is adaquate or not? I don't think I can judge that, I know what I was tring to explain, the documentation is target to the people who dosen't know it yet. :-)
The main reason of my response was post just to point out that the fact that some people find it boring to write documentation does not implies that they don't respect the people that do it. In fact it should be the oposite, if I find somethiung boring and there are people who do this thing, loving it or not, I would respect that person for doing that job I would not want to do.
Every one respects documentation and the people who do it, this dosen't change the fact that most of the people don't like doing it. In fact this (at least in my case) increases the respect for those people who actually make the documentation.
And documentation do not scratchg personal itchs simply because docs are made to teach people things, and since the only way to write them is knowing about the stuff...
This technology if amazing and I am certainly that most of us will have something like this in the folloing 5-10 years. But it is very expensive now, and as someone here pointed out it can be replaced by a common no break for a fraction of the price.
It does compress, but it will get it's normal rates, witch is about 1/2, for video this is just like nothing. Just imagine a 640x480x32bbpx30fps you get in raw mode is about 36000 kb per second with gzip this will become 18000kb per second.
Any video codec get you much higher rates.
I don't seem to find anywhere how well this "nancy" compares in the compression rate arena. How much does it compress with the same amount of lossiness? This is very important for this, because if yu don't care about the rate I could simply use gzip to compress my movies and have no loss at all.
A few days agoi there were a post here about china closing internet bars, because they failed to censor the internet properly. Now would open-source be a bad thing for this goverment?
Since you can alter the way it work, I think it would be easy to create proxies that would make the international sites available to every one.
Well I not saying that the big screen per see is a bad thing. I realy think that big screen are cool .
Now if I had a laptop computer, that I would use in selected ocasions, like in work or in classes. Then I think that A4 screen is a must go. This device would not acompany me everywhere, only where it would probably be needed.
But there could be some solution for handhelds with big screens and protables also, a folding screen? How feasible is that?
This size is good for using the handheld, with plenty of screen space and etc.But when you are not using it it would be a nigthmare. Where would you put it? Shure you you could keep a special pupose bag, much like the ones for laptop computers. But then it would be a laptop computer, not a handheld.
I think that a true hand held have to fit your pocket, this way you could take it wherever you go.
In the open source fields that are almost no monopoly, witch is good. Think about it, there's two or more for everything :
OS : BSD, LINUX, HURD?
DESKTOP: Gnome, KDE, Enlightenment
Browser: mozila, konqueror, lynkx?
Text Editor: vi, emacs
Office suite: Star Office, Koffice, gnome-office
If everyone turned into open source tomorrow we wouldn't end up in a monopoly, people would have choices.
I know for a fact that no one will read this, since I am replying to late. :-)
I think that the people on slashdot is very worried about national IDs but they are certanly forgetting about much more serious things that the bush goverment wants to push throught the throats of the americans and in some case the world citizens. Lost of privacy over phones and email, the allowance to accept confessions gotten with the use of torture (unless this torture was made in american soil). All of these were in the anti-terrorism act that bush proposed in the american congress.
The great advantage of slashdot is the fact that it don't need research. People comenting will give enougth information about the subject and usualy the moderator do a good job in promoting the best information and opinions. The great number of opinions and diferent backgrounds is what make slashdot much better then the "usual media sites".
Also is good to remember that almost every piece of news here is coments on news articles taken from "usual media sites" so, unless you don't read the original article, all the information here adds to the information on the "usual news sites".
Shure there are many places on the internet that serves misinformation, but many news medias, as state by others, follow a political point of view or don't want to upset the companies that places ads in it. So can you realy trust them?
The truth is that people will believe what they want to belive.
I would like to point out that the current africa situation is a direct result of years of colonization by the european contries. Shure America didn't done it, but remember that when this savage exploration began there was not america just england. So who did this to Africa were in fact America's forefathers.
The extractivist colonization of africa by the Europeans divided the country with new borders that would mix together diferent cultures. This would make the cultural pressure bigger making room for enouth hate to create the so called wars.
All the colonist just wanted the diamonds from Africa, so they came build the bigger infrastructure it could do to take the diamonds he could do and then he simply go back home with the money. This is very different from the kind of colones that came to the USA, they went to america because they need a place to stay where they would not suffer from persecution from the local rullers. So all the money american colones made weer invested in America it self, because this colones didn't want to go back home, they were home.
well just to round it up, even thought you're not to blame for what happen in Africa now. All the suffering that is happening there could be 'blamed' on the way the colonist explored africa. The same thing is happening right now in the middle east, and on this matter the US is an active player. The US is creating borders, fomenting war and collect the most it can from the petrol from the region. The events of september 11 are a consequence of this police. I don't think that this act was of extreme cowardice (is this a word?) and I don't think that no one deserved this kind of horror. But I also think that maybe the US should rethink it's police in the region.
And, by the way, throwing food and medicine along with bombs will not help.
Shouldn't it be rm -rf /bin/ladden? This way you wuold erase his subordinates also. :-)
If one fifth or less jump ship to use linux or mac os. You wuold have an incentive to others do. Many people stays with MS just because it is what everyone else is using.
Something that enhances on person life will not necessarily enhance other person life and vice versa.
A blood transfusion could save the life of a person, but if that person thinks that this would "polute" his soul (or whatever) and would live the rest of his life restless because he does not have a soul anymore, would this be good or evil??
I would hate to live in the country without any acces to phones and modern life, and yet there a plenty of people, that I know, who think that this would be a paradise.