I'd rather know Slashdot is run by humans than some corporate machine. I'd rather see lame posts and dupes than crap that was run through a legal department first.
One important note is that Mozilla offers more than security through diversity. Mozilla avoids IE's Zone and ActiveX problems that are the cause of most of its security problems. Security comes from a better security design rather than just diversity.
I know that's not really what you meant. You wanna talk about features. Run Firefox and head over to http://update.mozilla.org/extensions to see what a lot of the fuss is about. There are hundreds of extensions you can use. My personal favorite is the Web Developer one that gives me a toolbar for editing live CSS on any site, changing my browswer to different screen sizes (test sites on 800 x 600 for example), outline all tables, validate HTML, etc. I have 6 or 7 extensions installed now and they're all extremely useful.
I have yet to see a significant desktop application written in Java perform as well as a native application. DB2's control center and Websphere Site Developer are two good examples. Both are quite usable, but not as snappy as a native app.
I also find that Java apps perform poorly using VNC/TightVNC on Linux or Windows' Remote Desktop. There is often a long delay between clicking and seeing the result. This might be a problem with the remote control apps, but it still affects my desire to use Java apps on a remote system.
They don't force you to use a Xeon, they force you to use dual PCI-E slots, which happens to only be available for the Xeon right now. AMD is planning to release an Athlon 64 motherboard with dual PCI-E slots. I'm sure a P4 won't be far behind.
"Y2K was nothing but overblown crap reported on by the uninformed media"
Don't be so naive. Y2K was arguably the greatest success in our computing history. There were MAJOR Y2K bugs as late as 1999, but the hard work of a lot of programmers working a lot of hours paid off.
For instance, my brother is a bank executive and as late as December 1998 when they thought all the bugs were out they ran a whole-system test with the date set past 2000 and most of the system was inoperable. Had they not fixed the remaining bugs, 65% of Canadian businesses would not have been able to process credit or debit card transactions.
Where I will agree with you is that some media did report on idiotic problems like planes falling out of the sky. The results wouldn't have been cataclysmic over a short period of time. Many businesses would have resorted to a temporary paper system, but life would have gone on.
The reason why it's a mysterious "DNS issues" is because we don't know what the problem is. It'd be the same if it was a Windows DNS server (not that anybody uses those for major networks like Akamai). Seeing as Akamai uses more than one DNS server it's more likely a administrator error than a Linux crash. Nobody would be blaming Windows if an administrator screwed up.
You are also confusing their cache servers with their DNS servers. They're completely different.
As a sysadmin, I can tell you for certain that reading bugtraq and other vulnerability lists helps me. I can study trends in software, trends in company response and protect myself against problems. If I know a new worm or vulnerability has a prerequisite configuration then I can make sure to configure software in a way where I won't be vulnerable until a patch is release or until I can apply it.
Anyone who is subscribed to bugtraq can see the bad situation some software is in. Lately there was a lot of posts about Linksys that raised my eyebrow. Do I really want to deal with a company that doesn't properly address vulnerabilities it's made aware of? Good thing bugtraq posters had a workaround for the Linksys remote administration problem.
Both replies to you already got it right. This truck has a servo + wiper. You can go buy one and check it out. The reason why I can't post pictures is because I never took any. I never thought about posting it on the web and don't really regret it. I modded the truck for my own amusement, not to show off my 1337 modding skills to the world.
Everyone has probably tried to mod an R/C car at some point. You can hook up a 9.6V battery to a 6V car and get some extra speed (R/C overclocking!), for instance. I've replaced a ton of motors in my life, but nothing really satisfied my need for an ultra fast car, until I saw something in Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart sells huge R/C Hummer H2s. If you've seen them, you'll know what I mean. They're probably 2.5 feet long.
I bought one and ripped out the interior, then modded in a 1.5 hp gas motor from an old grass trimmer. 1.5 hp is plenty quick enough for a toy. Besides fitting the motor to turn the wheels (only the back... couldn't get 4WD working because the motor covered the cog that turns all 4 wheels) the hardest part was getting the R/C's throttle to work the gas motor's throttle, but after a little tweaking and super glue it worked pretty good. The gas tank from the trimmer went in the very back of the truck.
I'm sure plenty of you are into R/C cars. I'm actually not and have never built one before, so I don't know how powerful those motors are. They can't possibly be 1.5 hp or be anywhere near as powerful as this trimmer motor because the truck was completely undrivable. Full throttle from a standing start would turn the back wheels so fast the truck would flip onto its back. Easing it up to full speed would send the truck going well past the 60km/h speed limit on the main street near me. The truck couldn't turn at that speed because it would immediately flip about three dozen times. The truck stopped working after my first high speed turn after the jarring flips broke the body and knocked some of the mechanical parts loose. It broke forever on my second day playing with it after the cogs connecting the motor to the wheels broke. I could replace them with parts from a hobby store, but it's almost more fun to look at the broken truck knowing I modded it into destruction.
I just got my latest eWeek mag and it had an enterprise case study for upgrading from MS Office 97/2000 to OpenOffice.org vs. upgrading to MS Office 2003. OOo held its own with most users.
OSS isn't always harder to use than commercial software. The Gimp has ALWAYS had its UI as a major complaint. KDE isn't harder to use than Explorer. Kopete isn't harder to use than ICQ. VNC isn't harder to use than PCAnywhere.
It's not all FUD. I've seen XP run stable and I've seen it crash several times per day in other situations. I've seen 2K run for almost a year with no downtime and I've also seen it page fault 130,000 times per second with tons of free RAM.
Windows still has massive stability flaws, but they aren't happening for very many people. Specific uses of their OS will cause problems.
It's hard to form a valid opinion unless you've dealth with Windows on a massive scale on servers and workstations doing many different tasks.
Where we co-locate our servers in Markham, ON, IBM has these same (look the same, anyway) parking meters. It's the IBM location at 245 Consumers Rd, if anybody else can maybe confirm that they're the same ones.
I've found that my three year old son has learned spelling, phonics, fine motor control and problem solving at a far greater pace than his same-age cousin due to using a computer.
I bought my son a used computer when he was two as a present for potty training. He generally runs Windows because of all the educational games, but does use my Linux computer for some games.
My best tip is that your kid should learn to login themselves... it's a great way for them to learn to spell words. Change up the password every week or so and tell them which word it is. My kid learns to spell five or six letter words in a day or two.
Anyway, despite possible problems with creating a computer nerd with no social life, I think two and three year olds should always have a computer available to them. Just limit the time they spend on it.
It's fair given administrators who only patch based on official distribution releases. It seems to not care that they are making Linux companies responsible for a lot of 3rd party software such as Apache. It stands to reason that their average patch release would be slower if they're maintaining thousands of applications. It's more important that they release OS updates and core software updates quickly. Their customers have to take some responsibility for updating 3rd party software even if it does come on the same CD as the distro.
Perhaps of more concern to administrators should be the nondisclosed vulnerabilities found by researchers such as eEye that are not patched. I can't find the link now, but eEye alone has dozens of vulnerabilities they've let MS know about, but haven't been patched for sometimes hundreds of days. eEye is just being courteous by non disclosing the bugs until MS fixes them. By using the disclosure time as a 'start time', Forrester is ignoring lead time developers get. It's my experience following Bugtraq and Full Disclosure mailing lists as well as many OSS projects that most major OSS developers respond quicker to their lead time before disclosure.
Forrester is completely ignoring vulnerabilities that are not public knowledge, which is misrepresenting the problem.
Froogle hasn't been put on the front page for google.ca and.com forwards me to.ca. What I wonder is why Froogle is limited to the US site. The Internet is worldwide and I've ordered from US online merchants before. What's stopping them from including Froogle on all their localized home pages and simply adding a note saying it only searches US merchants?
I guess they don't believe in the global Internet economy.
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I'd rather know Slashdot is run by humans than some corporate machine. I'd rather see lame posts and dupes than crap that was run through a legal department first.
Welcome home.
One important note is that Mozilla offers more than security through diversity. Mozilla avoids IE's Zone and ActiveX problems that are the cause of most of its security problems. Security comes from a better security design rather than just diversity.
I know that's not really what you meant. You wanna talk about features. Run Firefox and head over to http://update.mozilla.org/extensions to see what a lot of the fuss is about. There are hundreds of extensions you can use. My personal favorite is the Web Developer one that gives me a toolbar for editing live CSS on any site, changing my browswer to different screen sizes (test sites on 800 x 600 for example), outline all tables, validate HTML, etc. I have 6 or 7 extensions installed now and they're all extremely useful.
This Shut the Fuck Up technology sounds interesting. Can I use it on an airplane or bus when people around me too loud?
I have yet to see a significant desktop application written in Java perform as well as a native application. DB2's control center and Websphere Site Developer are two good examples. Both are quite usable, but not as snappy as a native app.
I also find that Java apps perform poorly using VNC/TightVNC on Linux or Windows' Remote Desktop. There is often a long delay between clicking and seeing the result. This might be a problem with the remote control apps, but it still affects my desire to use Java apps on a remote system.
They don't force you to use a Xeon, they force you to use dual PCI-E slots, which happens to only be available for the Xeon right now. AMD is planning to release an Athlon 64 motherboard with dual PCI-E slots. I'm sure a P4 won't be far behind.
"Y2K was nothing but overblown crap reported on by the uninformed media"
Don't be so naive. Y2K was arguably the greatest success in our computing history. There were MAJOR Y2K bugs as late as 1999, but the hard work of a lot of programmers working a lot of hours paid off.
For instance, my brother is a bank executive and as late as December 1998 when they thought all the bugs were out they ran a whole-system test with the date set past 2000 and most of the system was inoperable. Had they not fixed the remaining bugs, 65% of Canadian businesses would not have been able to process credit or debit card transactions.
Where I will agree with you is that some media did report on idiotic problems like planes falling out of the sky. The results wouldn't have been cataclysmic over a short period of time. Many businesses would have resorted to a temporary paper system, but life would have gone on.
The comet has towering protrusions and steep-walled craters that seem to defy gravity
Really? On an object flying in space? Whodathunkit?
"I love the crazy steering wheel - anyone know what all those buttons and knobs do?" "
I'm pretty sure I saw buttons for Ctrl-Alt-Delete on there.
The reason why it's a mysterious "DNS issues" is because we don't know what the problem is. It'd be the same if it was a Windows DNS server (not that anybody uses those for major networks like Akamai). Seeing as Akamai uses more than one DNS server it's more likely a administrator error than a Linux crash. Nobody would be blaming Windows if an administrator screwed up.
You are also confusing their cache servers with their DNS servers. They're completely different.
Running a 900Mhz dual Xeon Windows file server is cheaper than running a z900 mainframe Linux file server. You can't argue with facts, people.
(For those who haven't seen the ads, this is not a joke. MS is actually running an ad that states cost per megabit for each of those servers).
As a sysadmin, I can tell you for certain that reading bugtraq and other vulnerability lists helps me. I can study trends in software, trends in company response and protect myself against problems. If I know a new worm or vulnerability has a prerequisite configuration then I can make sure to configure software in a way where I won't be vulnerable until a patch is release or until I can apply it.
Anyone who is subscribed to bugtraq can see the bad situation some software is in. Lately there was a lot of posts about Linksys that raised my eyebrow. Do I really want to deal with a company that doesn't properly address vulnerabilities it's made aware of? Good thing bugtraq posters had a workaround for the Linksys remote administration problem.
Both replies to you already got it right. This truck has a servo + wiper. You can go buy one and check it out. The reason why I can't post pictures is because I never took any. I never thought about posting it on the web and don't really regret it. I modded the truck for my own amusement, not to show off my 1337 modding skills to the world.
Everyone has probably tried to mod an R/C car at some point. You can hook up a 9.6V battery to a 6V car and get some extra speed (R/C overclocking!), for instance. I've replaced a ton of motors in my life, but nothing really satisfied my need for an ultra fast car, until I saw something in Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart sells huge R/C Hummer H2s. If you've seen them, you'll know what I mean. They're probably 2.5 feet long.
I bought one and ripped out the interior, then modded in a 1.5 hp gas motor from an old grass trimmer. 1.5 hp is plenty quick enough for a toy. Besides fitting the motor to turn the wheels (only the back... couldn't get 4WD working because the motor covered the cog that turns all 4 wheels) the hardest part was getting the R/C's throttle to work the gas motor's throttle, but after a little tweaking and super glue it worked pretty good. The gas tank from the trimmer went in the very back of the truck.
I'm sure plenty of you are into R/C cars. I'm actually not and have never built one before, so I don't know how powerful those motors are. They can't possibly be 1.5 hp or be anywhere near as powerful as this trimmer motor because the truck was completely undrivable. Full throttle from a standing start would turn the back wheels so fast the truck would flip onto its back. Easing it up to full speed would send the truck going well past the 60km/h speed limit on the main street near me. The truck couldn't turn at that speed because it would immediately flip about three dozen times. The truck stopped working after my first high speed turn after the jarring flips broke the body and knocked some of the mechanical parts loose. It broke forever on my second day playing with it after the cogs connecting the motor to the wheels broke. I could replace them with parts from a hobby store, but it's almost more fun to look at the broken truck knowing I modded it into destruction.
A VW Jetta TDI can get 50 MPG. Diesel burns cleaner than gasoline and the price isn't as crazy as it is for the hybrids.
I just got my latest eWeek mag and it had an enterprise case study for upgrading from MS Office 97/2000 to OpenOffice.org vs. upgrading to MS Office 2003. OOo held its own with most users.
OSS isn't always harder to use than commercial software. The Gimp has ALWAYS had its UI as a major complaint. KDE isn't harder to use than Explorer. Kopete isn't harder to use than ICQ. VNC isn't harder to use than PCAnywhere.
The Gimp is damn hard to learn and use.
It's not all FUD. I've seen XP run stable and I've seen it crash several times per day in other situations. I've seen 2K run for almost a year with no downtime and I've also seen it page fault 130,000 times per second with tons of free RAM.
Windows still has massive stability flaws, but they aren't happening for very many people. Specific uses of their OS will cause problems.
It's hard to form a valid opinion unless you've dealth with Windows on a massive scale on servers and workstations doing many different tasks.
Where we co-locate our servers in Markham, ON, IBM has these same (look the same, anyway) parking meters. It's the IBM location at 245 Consumers Rd, if anybody else can maybe confirm that they're the same ones.
I didn't realize he was part of Greek mythology. Now it all makes sense... the name, the suicide and the gay love. Maybe not the gay love.
1. I was thinking closer to Penny Lane. Who names their male child 'Paris' anyway?
2. The same place lower-class people get money for drugs if they want them.
3. I imagine privacy is a sort of property and would go to his estate. Next of kin could arguably put the tape online.
4. Fetish? Sure beats a fake snuff video if you're into that sort of thing.
I've found that my three year old son has learned spelling, phonics, fine motor control and problem solving at a far greater pace than his same-age cousin due to using a computer.
I bought my son a used computer when he was two as a present for potty training. He generally runs Windows because of all the educational games, but does use my Linux computer for some games.
My best tip is that your kid should learn to login themselves... it's a great way for them to learn to spell words. Change up the password every week or so and tell them which word it is. My kid learns to spell five or six letter words in a day or two.
Anyway, despite possible problems with creating a computer nerd with no social life, I think two and three year olds should always have a computer available to them. Just limit the time they spend on it.
It's fair given administrators who only patch based on official distribution releases. It seems to not care that they are making Linux companies responsible for a lot of 3rd party software such as Apache. It stands to reason that their average patch release would be slower if they're maintaining thousands of applications. It's more important that they release OS updates and core software updates quickly. Their customers have to take some responsibility for updating 3rd party software even if it does come on the same CD as the distro.
Perhaps of more concern to administrators should be the nondisclosed vulnerabilities found by researchers such as eEye that are not patched. I can't find the link now, but eEye alone has dozens of vulnerabilities they've let MS know about, but haven't been patched for sometimes hundreds of days. eEye is just being courteous by non disclosing the bugs until MS fixes them. By using the disclosure time as a 'start time', Forrester is ignoring lead time developers get. It's my experience following Bugtraq and Full Disclosure mailing lists as well as many OSS projects that most major OSS developers respond quicker to their lead time before disclosure.
Forrester is completely ignoring vulnerabilities that are not public knowledge, which is misrepresenting the problem.
Froogle hasn't been put on the front page for google.ca and .com forwards me to .ca. What I wonder is why Froogle is limited to the US site. The Internet is worldwide and I've ordered from US online merchants before. What's stopping them from including Froogle on all their localized home pages and simply adding a note saying it only searches US merchants?
I guess they don't believe in the global Internet economy.
They key word there was "brand". They decided not to re-build the NetWare brand.
Interestingly, NASA uses Open Source Plone to run some of their sites, including the Mars rover site.
Maybe we can get those notices sent to the RIAA. They know all about sending legal letters to people who didn't do anything.