Surely, Al Gore's original design included instructions for dealing with this eventuality.
It is probably that Gore, still smarting from the recent lost election, is feeling spiteful and will not release the information that will save us from Internet meltdown.
I suggest that we send an ambassador of good will, an individual of the highest merit and integrity (CmdrTaco?) to meet with the now secluded Gore, and plead for our salvation.
Ok, consider the resources that the NSA might expend on a hypothetical backdoor into Windows. It would probably take significant lobbying of top MS execs. Or they could "buy" one or two important people on the MS build team.
Now, consider the resources that the NSA would expend on getting backdoor (highly obscured buffer overflow) access into a few of the most popular Linux distros. All they would have to do is get maintenance control of a couple key packages. This can rather easily be done.
Just because Linux is open source doesn't mean its impregnable. In fact the Linux distributed packaging and maintenance system would seem to make it trivial for spying agencies to attack it.
I just took a quick look at the phpGroupWare source. It seems to use its own cookie mechanism for session tracking. IMO, the session tracking that PHPLIB provides is much slicker; it saves session user and user state in a database.
Has anyone integrated PHPLIB and phpGroupWare?
On a different note, I've looked at the technology that MS is developing with digital dashboard. Does anyone know of a similar open source approach to this? In MS Digital Dashboard, every functional piece of a web page is exportable as an XML object. The DD itself is one large piece of XML that gets tranformed through XSL.
(hmm, not sure is Slashdot is actually a worthwhile place to ask such questions anymore)
It is a giant Myth that.NET (CLRT) is language independent. So I think your post is pretty much BS. The CLRT is a language neutering wreck of an idea. Yeah, you can achieve independence if you use about 30% of what is offered from each language. To do any real work you have to use MS common library classes.
I've looked at the Python.NET implementation. It is about 10% completed. At best it is an admirably academic achievement, at worst an very ugly hack.
Some of you might be interested in the MathML and SVG of Mozilla. That build requires NO PLUG-INS to do simple SVG and decent MathML.
The future of the web should be: built in SVG (and for math stuff: built in MathML). Most of the little graphics and font hacks that are currently necessary to build a web page would go away if we can get built in SVG in the major browsers.
When people think SVG and they hear that it is a replacement for Flash, they don't realize that the advanced features of Flash are not could be put to immediate use on most web pages. Scaleable fonts of a guaranteed size and simple graphics are must more valuable. Take the page that you are reading right now for example. There should be no reason that you have to download the title bar text "Slashdot News for Nerds..." as a pixmap graphic.
Plug-ins are not the best solution for MathML and SVG/Flash.
Your comments completely ignore the interaction between distros and many dynamics of the environment that Linux is developed in.
You think Debian develops in some pristine void without input from faster releasing distros like Redhat and Mandrake? You need to think again. The faster releasing distros push features that people want. People want those features released on a timely basis (2 year Debian ain't doing it) so that they can use them. They want official technical organizations and support staff that stand behind those releases (mostly so they can tell someone in the front office that the software that runs their company is supported).
I started writing a Tradewars clone called Merchant Empires about 6 months ago. I can fairly saturate my 768K DSL line now with all of the game traffic during peak times. I do this from two server running Mandrake that are installed in a friend's closet.
Cheap bandwidth, which will probably only increase in pipe size and reduce in price, is now creating a completely new and incredible environment for writing and playing large scale, multiplayer games. This is a phenomena that will only increase as projects like WorldForge reach maturity.
Browser plug-ins will never provide a consistent and reliable browsing experience. Especially proprietary plug-ins like Flash. The only openness that Flash has achieved at this point is due to Macromedia's fright over having seen SVG.
I urge everyone to support the prospect of built in SVG support in browsers. Mozilla currently has a MathML-SVG build that does very limited SVG with NO PLUG-INS.
If we could just get limited built in SVG support in both the official version of Netscape and IE, then most of the ugly graphics and font hacks that are necessary for website design would disappear.
I currently use KDevelop to do my Python and PHP. When I open my source files in other editors, what had appeared as a nicely aligned section of code, will be unaligned. In other editors, such as Interdev, the text always appears as in KDevelop (which is using its own version of KWrite?).
There seems to be differing standards in editors for displaying tabs and spaces. This is particularly bad when working with Python, because what you thought was a nicely tabbed line of code, is actually a space over line, which results in an error.
Could someone explain this problem to me?
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Implementing a half-working version of Python for.NET and an actual production ready version of Python for.NET are two very different things.
The code for Python under.NET is at best an admirable academic attempt. Its so far from actually being useful for anything that it is quite laughable that you are applauding all of the cross language support for.NET.
IMO,.NET is a language neutering wreck of a platform. The real meat and potatoes of these languages under.NET have been stripped away. You are left with a few looping constructs and the MS's common language runtime classes which do EVERYTHING.
I have read that Corel derives 10% of its income from its Linux operations.
They are selling a branch of their operations that went from 0% to 10% in a very short period for little or no gain.
The people that should be questioning this move seriously are Corel's shareholders. A move like this is clearly politically motivated by the recent influx of MS capital and is not in Corel best short term or long term interests. If I was a Corel stockholder I would be loudly complaining and possibly seeking the involvement of the FTC.
Slashdot Mirror
Really funny post.
You get the: I know all there is to know about Linux because I visit Slashdot and I once installed RedHat 5.2 Dum Ass Award.
Surely, Al Gore's original design included instructions for dealing with this eventuality.
It is probably that Gore, still smarting from the recent lost election, is feeling spiteful and will not release the information that will save us from Internet meltdown.
I suggest that we send an ambassador of good will, an individual of the highest merit and integrity (CmdrTaco?) to meet with the now secluded Gore, and plead for our salvation.
Ok, consider the resources that the NSA might expend on a hypothetical backdoor into Windows. It would probably take significant lobbying of top MS execs. Or they could "buy" one or two important people on the MS build team.
Now, consider the resources that the NSA would expend on getting backdoor (highly obscured buffer overflow) access into a few of the most popular Linux distros. All they would have to do is get maintenance control of a couple key packages. This can rather easily be done.
Just because Linux is open source doesn't mean its impregnable. In fact the Linux distributed packaging and maintenance system would seem to make it trivial for spying agencies to attack it.
With all due respect to other web-based Tradewars attempts like BlackNova, the most advanced and playable Tradewars on the web is:
Merchant Empires.
Merchant Empires is Open Source software.
Here is the SourceForge Merchant Empires site.
Here is an article that appeared in the latest Linux Gazette on Merchant Empires.
I just took a quick look at the phpGroupWare source. It seems to use its own cookie mechanism for session tracking. IMO, the session tracking that PHPLIB provides is much slicker; it saves session user and user state in a database.
Has anyone integrated PHPLIB and phpGroupWare?
On a different note, I've looked at the technology that MS is developing with digital dashboard. Does anyone know of a similar open source approach to this? In MS Digital Dashboard, every functional piece of a web page is exportable as an XML object. The DD itself is one large piece of XML that gets tranformed through XSL.
(hmm, not sure is Slashdot is actually a worthwhile place to ask such questions anymore)
You seem to have almost zero understanding of the Linux/Open Source phenomena©
The longevity of the Linux movement is based purely on: ¥1 existence of the Internet ¥2 existence of people who want to code©
Now, if MS can only dispose either of these two elements, they can ensure that the Linux movement will die©
Also, the simple fact that you used a term like "product line" in relation to the Linux movement exposes you as a probable MS brainless marketing-droid©
It is a giant Myth that
I've looked at the Python
Some of you might be interested in the MathML and SVG of Mozilla. That build requires NO PLUG-INS to do simple SVG and decent MathML.
The future of the web should be: built in SVG (and for math stuff: built in MathML). Most of the little graphics and font hacks that are currently necessary to build a web page would go away if we can get built in SVG in the major browsers.
When people think SVG and they hear that it is a replacement for Flash, they don't realize that the advanced features of Flash are not could be put to immediate use on most web pages. Scaleable fonts of a guaranteed size and simple graphics are must more valuable. Take the page that you are reading right now for example. There should be no reason that you have to download the title bar text "Slashdot News for Nerds..." as a pixmap graphic.
Plug-ins are not the best solution for MathML and SVG/Flash.
Your comments completely ignore the interaction between distros and many dynamics of the environment that Linux is developed in.
You think Debian develops in some pristine void without input from faster releasing distros like Redhat and Mandrake? You need to think again. The faster releasing distros push features that people want. People want those features released on a timely basis (2 year Debian ain't doing it) so that they can use them. They want official technical organizations and support staff that stand behind those releases (mostly so they can tell someone in the front office that the software that runs their company is supported).
I started writing a Tradewars clone called Merchant Empires about 6 months ago. I can fairly saturate my 768K DSL line now with all of the game traffic during peak times. I do this from two server running Mandrake that are installed in a friend's closet.
Cheap bandwidth, which will probably only increase in pipe size and reduce in price, is now creating a completely new and incredible environment for writing and playing large scale, multiplayer games. This is a phenomena that will only increase as projects like WorldForge reach maturity.
Browser plug-ins will never provide a consistent and reliable browsing experience. Especially proprietary plug-ins like Flash. The only openness that Flash has achieved at this point is due to Macromedia's fright over having seen SVG.
I urge everyone to support the prospect of built in SVG support in browsers. Mozilla currently has a MathML-SVG build that does very limited SVG with NO PLUG-INS.
If we could just get limited built in SVG support in both the official version of Netscape and IE, then most of the ugly graphics and font hacks that are necessary for website design would disappear.
I currently use KDevelop to do my Python and PHP. When I open my source files in other editors, what had appeared as a nicely aligned section of code, will be unaligned. In other editors, such as Interdev, the text always appears as in KDevelop (which is using its own version of KWrite?).
There seems to be differing standards in editors for displaying tabs and spaces. This is particularly bad when working with Python, because what you thought was a nicely tabbed line of code, is actually a space over line, which results in an error.
Could someone explain this problem to me?
Implementing a half-working version of Python for .NET and an actual production ready version of Python for .NET are two very different things.
.NET is at best an admirable academic attempt. Its so far from actually being useful for anything that it is quite laughable that you are applauding all of the cross language support for .NET.
.NET is a language neutering wreck of a platform. The real meat and potatoes of these languages under .NET have been stripped away. You are left with a few looping constructs and the MS's common language runtime classes which do EVERYTHING.
The code for Python under
IMO,
I have read that Corel derives 10% of its income from its Linux operations.
They are selling a branch of their operations that went from 0% to 10% in a very short period for little or no gain.
The people that should be questioning this move seriously are Corel's shareholders. A move like this is clearly politically motivated by the recent influx of MS capital and is not in Corel best short term or long term interests. If I was a Corel stockholder I would be loudly complaining and possibly seeking the involvement of the FTC.
As a completely unbiased party ¥I am the developer of ME, I would also recommend Merchant Empires©
The level of development of ME is far and ahead of BlackNova© See my post below ¥as AC for some of the technology behind ME© Also, Merchant Empires has no banner ads©