Debian allready has packages. Install them by running: aptitude install -t experimental samba
But you'll need to add an entry for experimental to/etc/apt/sources.list first. If you don't know how to, you shouldn't be messing with experimental software anyway.
no GPL'd program is part of an effective technological protection measure, regardless of what the program does
Thanx guys, now my boss wants to know why the firewall is not "an effective technological protection"?
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I already don't mind advertisements on websites that I like (and if they have ads that seem interesting to me, I will always not only click the ads but try to make a purchase if I like the product/price.).
Either one of us has been smoking to much pot, and I've only had 10 grams this week...
Sorry to wake you up, but this is what really happened. And Europe just swallowed it.
When Europe announced plans for an independent positioning system it was told that the USA would not allow it unless they were given full control over the off-switch.
Europe is thankfull for being allowed to use the GPS network, but it's getting to important to be dependant on a foreign country.
[quote] For my money, I would rather accept that when the US gets all flustered about a possible terrorist attack (or G-d forbid, another happens), my GPS gets bad accuracy or is turned off for a little while. [/quote]
That may be acceptable for you car-computer, but not for my countries cruise-missiles. I do not want any other country (including the US) to control them, or their navigation-systems.
Unfortunatly Galileo can still be controled by the US. Europe more or less was told to hand over the controls, or the US would shoot the sattelites down. That kind of force is exactly why Europe should have an independant positioning-system.
After a night of smoking pot instead of sleeping I arrived at school to learn that I had to do a presentation. The presentation would start within the hour and had to be in english (I'm Dutch). To add to the misery they brought in a Real English Lady(tm) to evaluate our language skills. The only good news was that I had to talk about "The history of the Internet". I spent my last minutes with Google, looking up dates and names before I had to start, still as stoned as an elephant. I did talk, amazing myself about the number of odd little facts I knew about the Internet, and received perfect marks. I was complimented for my excellent preperation, the great structure of my presentation (chronological:), my near perfect english pronounciation (this one still amazes me the most) and for being so completly relaxed...
They can't leave Europe. Not selling Windows to Europe could lead to two possible scenario's, and both are bad for MS. The first scenario is that the EU decides that it's computers are so important that it will just use unauthorized copies. The second, even worse scenario is that Europe would adopt Linux as it's primary OS. Once the EU starts using Linux the market for third-party Linux software will explode. This in turn will lead to the removal of the last show-stopper problems for Linux (whatever they might be). Suddenly most of the reasons _not_ to use Linux in the USA would vaporize, and then MS would be in real trouble.
Thus, leaving the EU market would create just the kind of opportunity that Linux (and other OS'es) would need to become dominating.
No, ofcourse we can't force anything on a USA company, just like China can't do anything to stop their citizens from visting critical websites. When given the choice to either agree to the law, or leave the country, most company's will do anything. Even if they do not want to cooperate, their are some very effective ways to make them. For example arresting all their employees or forcing banks to freeze all payments to company X.
Don't expect anything from Google, if anybody is capable of working with, and searching in, such a huge amount of data, who'd you think that would be. Google ofcourse.
The win98 "Where do you want to go today?" I was forced to buy with my laptop is still firmly attached to my trashbin. It has outlived the software that came with it for over 5 years, and is still holding on tight.
Your IMAP suggestion is the way to go. Here's the recipe:
use fetchmail to get your mail from all the mail accounts you might have, use spamassassin to check your mail for spam, use clamav to check for virusses (if you are on Windows, like you are), use procmail to filter the mail to seperate folders, set up imap so you can read the mail from any mailclient without removing it from the server, install some kind of webmail so you can reach your mail from internet-kiosks and other places with browser-only access. Finally, BACK IT UP! Bacula is quite good.
This isn't really interesting without their definition of Linux. Probably it's just the Linux kernel, otherwise they would call it Open Source. If it's just about the kernel there is hardly anything new here.
Redhat and Novell are Linux companies. They will not use patents against the linux kernel, that would hurt themselves as much as anybody else. Sony, Philips and IBM don't care about operating system. Sure, all those companies sell operating software, but that's not there main bussiness. They make most of there money from hardware and services. An operating system is what helps them sell those. Besides, kernels are becoming a commodity. Most people wouldn't care less if it's the Linux, FreeBSD or Solaris kernel driving there desktop environment. They only see the applications.
If this alliance adhers to the definition linux=kernel they might sue over the rest of the software on your system. For example, sue KDE for copying ("stealing") a Gnome idea, thus forcing all KDE based distributions out of the market.
I've got to second this one. apt-cache search is very usefull. And if apt knows about it, I can install the software in seconds, and most of the time it has a sane default configuration. Enough to give me a good picture of it's features and quality. Ofcourse this doesn't work for all software, but it's always my first step when looking for software. The next steps are freshmeat and google, but usually those take a lot more time, because of searching, compiling and integrating it with my system. BTW, I use the date of last release, and the amount of documentation as important metrics in my search. If there is a lot of good documentation, the software is probably good as well. As you probably know, programmers don't like writing documentation. So if they, or someonelse cares enough to produce docs, the software shoud have received a lot of care as well. The number and date of releases tells you something about the dedication of the authors to their product. It will tell you if the programm is just an experiment by a rabid programmer, or if their is dedicated team doing regular releases behind it.
You shouldn't read stable as in "doesn't crash" but as in "doesn't change". A newer upstream version may be very different from the older version, eg by having a different format for the configuration file. This is a pure nightmare for system administrators. Debian's way of doing stable is one of the reasons why the corporate world likes it so much.
That's all great if you have a BIOS image. My mobo builder only offers executables that create a bootable floppy for you. All great and dandy if you are capable of running that executable, but if you're not running DOS/Windows you'll have a hard time doing so. Eventually I solved it by running the executable from VMware and redirecting the floppy to an image file. From that image I created my bootable CD.
The KDE "Run Command" box can do basic math. Hit ALT+F2 and type your calculations. Not as advanced as a scientific calculator, but it covers 95% of my needs.
I'm afraid this statement is rather useless. Allthough the Linux kernel (the tree of Linus) is protected, derivatives are not. IMHO this means that anyone customizing the kernel (eg to run on a telephone) is not safe from them.
However, there is one very nice paragraph:
Nokia also believes that a party should not enjoy use of Nokia's patents and at the same time threaten the development of the Linux Kernel by assertion of its own patents. Therefore, Nokia's commitment shall not apply with regard to any party asserting its patents against any Linux Kernel.
In other words, if anyone starts threatening Linux with patents, they might find Nokia lawyers on their doorstep.
That's exactly how it works. The best disks are used for SCSI, those of less quality are used for IDE. Combined with (genereally) higher quality of the other parts leads to a higher reliability of SCSI disks.
I think this is one big misunderstanding. In the police & news world "Open Source" has a different meaning. It is used for information from publicly available sources like newspapers or the internet.
This is a programm to search Open Sources (websites) for information regarding kiddyporn, and links it together.
Deep inside my brain keeps yelling that this is just a Microsoft trick to create an association between "Open Source" and "Child Pornograpy".
I'm doing something much like this. For my employer I'm remastering Knoppix for our homeworkers. The idea is that we hand out CD's to anyone who wants to remotly connect to our netwerk, eg for a citrix session. The user boots the CD, and is automatically directed towards the correct login screen. Because it's knoppix we know Java works, and there are no keyloggers or other malware installed. We also plan to use those cd's in our laptops instead of harddisks. If a laptop gets stolen there will be no secret documents or passwords on the harddisk, because their is none. We don't have to protect our users from virii and spyware. If they klik on a "wrong" link, nothing happens that can't be solved by a reboot.
Somebody's forgetting that television shows were developed not to entertain, but to keep people around for the ads. That has not changed for half a century, except in its sophistication.
One of the problems I see is that their is a high overlap between ST-fans and computer nerds. The nerds know how to avoid advertisements, either by using Tivo-like devices, or by downloading a copy from the internet.
Anyone who has used bittorrent to download the latest Enterprise episode knows that only hours after the episode aired it is being shared by thousands upon thousands of users. I'm pretty sure more people watch the show then ever before, but there just not watching the ads, and that's what counts.
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Debian allready has packages.
/etc/apt/sources.list first.
Install them by running:
aptitude install -t experimental samba
But you'll need to add an entry for experimental to
If you don't know how to, you shouldn't be messing with experimental software anyway.
Thanx guys, now my boss wants to know why the firewall is not "an effective technological protection"?
Either one of us has been smoking to much pot, and I've only had 10 grams this week...
Sorry to wake you up, but this is what really happened.
And Europe just swallowed it.
When Europe announced plans for an independent positioning system it was told that the USA would not allow it unless they were given full control over the off-switch.
Europe is thankfull for being allowed to use the GPS network, but it's getting to important to be dependant on a foreign country.
[quote]
For my money, I would rather accept that when the US gets all flustered about a possible terrorist attack (or G-d forbid, another happens), my GPS gets bad accuracy or is turned off for a little while.
[/quote]
That may be acceptable for you car-computer, but not for my countries cruise-missiles. I do not want any other country (including the US) to control them, or their navigation-systems.
Unfortunatly Galileo can still be controled by the US. Europe more or less was told to hand over the controls, or the US would shoot the sattelites down.
That kind of force is exactly why Europe should have an independant positioning-system.
After a night of smoking pot instead of sleeping I arrived at school to learn that I had to do a presentation. :), my near perfect english pronounciation (this one still amazes me the most) and for being so completly relaxed...
The presentation would start within the hour and had to be in english (I'm Dutch). To add to the misery they brought in a Real English Lady(tm) to evaluate our language skills.
The only good news was that I had to talk about "The history of the Internet".
I spent my last minutes with Google, looking up dates and names before I had to start, still as stoned as an elephant.
I did talk, amazing myself about the number of odd little facts I knew about the Internet, and received perfect marks. I was complimented for my excellent preperation, the great structure of my presentation (chronological
They can't leave Europe. Not selling Windows to Europe could lead to two possible scenario's, and both are bad for MS.
The first scenario is that the EU decides that it's computers are so important that it will just use unauthorized copies.
The second, even worse scenario is that Europe would adopt Linux as it's primary OS. Once the EU starts using Linux the market for third-party Linux software will explode. This in turn will lead to the removal of the last show-stopper problems for Linux (whatever they might be).
Suddenly most of the reasons _not_ to use Linux in the USA would vaporize, and then MS would be in real trouble.
Thus, leaving the EU market would create just the kind of opportunity that Linux (and other OS'es) would need to become dominating.
It's time for cyborgs. I'd like to have a camera attached to my eye nerves. As soon as I'm unable to watch any movie I'll sue them for discrimination.
No, ofcourse we can't force anything on a USA company, just like China can't do anything to stop their citizens from visting critical websites.
When given the choice to either agree to the law, or leave the country, most company's will do anything.
Even if they do not want to cooperate, their are some very effective ways to make them. For example arresting all their employees or forcing banks to freeze all payments to company X.
Don't expect anything from Google, if anybody is capable of working with, and searching in, such a huge amount of data, who'd you think that would be. Google ofcourse.
The win98 "Where do you want to go today?" I was forced to buy with my laptop is still firmly attached to my trashbin. It has outlived the software that came with it for over 5 years, and is still holding on tight.
Your IMAP suggestion is the way to go.
Here's the recipe:
use fetchmail to get your mail from all the mail accounts you might have,
use spamassassin to check your mail for spam,
use clamav to check for virusses (if you are on Windows, like you are),
use procmail to filter the mail to seperate folders,
set up imap so you can read the mail from any mailclient without removing it from the server,
install some kind of webmail so you can reach your mail from internet-kiosks and other places with browser-only access.
Finally, BACK IT UP! Bacula is quite good.
GNU/Linux if that's what makes you happy.
I'm trying to differentiate between the _GNU_/Linux kernel, and Open Source software in general.
This isn't really interesting without their definition of Linux. Probably it's just the Linux kernel, otherwise they would call it Open Source. If it's just about the kernel there is hardly anything new here.
Redhat and Novell are Linux companies. They will not use patents against the linux kernel, that would hurt themselves as much as anybody else.
Sony, Philips and IBM don't care about operating system. Sure, all those companies sell operating software, but that's not there main bussiness. They make most of there money from hardware and services. An operating system is what helps them sell those. Besides, kernels are becoming a commodity. Most people wouldn't care less if it's the Linux, FreeBSD or Solaris kernel driving there desktop environment. They only see the applications.
If this alliance adhers to the definition linux=kernel they might sue over the rest of the software on your system. For example, sue KDE for copying ("stealing") a Gnome idea, thus forcing all KDE based distributions out of the market.
nah, I want the scale model, let them try to scale down the latest NVidia processors :)
With covers, they are called "Internal physical storage", without their cover they are called "Space reserved for ventilation purposes".
In reality mine contain tapes, CD's, screwdrivers & whatever else should be very close to the computer without getting lost.
I've got to second this one. apt-cache search is very usefull. And if apt knows about it, I can install the software in seconds, and most of the time it has a sane default configuration. Enough to give me a good picture of it's features and quality.
Ofcourse this doesn't work for all software, but it's always my first step when looking for software.
The next steps are freshmeat and google, but usually those take a lot more time, because of searching, compiling and integrating it with my system.
BTW, I use the date of last release, and the amount of documentation as important metrics in my search. If there is a lot of good documentation, the software is probably good as well. As you probably know, programmers don't like writing documentation. So if they, or someonelse cares enough to produce docs, the software shoud have received a lot of care as well.
The number and date of releases tells you something about the dedication of the authors to their product. It will tell you if the programm is just an experiment by a rabid programmer, or if their is dedicated team doing regular releases behind it.
You shouldn't read stable as in "doesn't crash" but as in "doesn't change".
A newer upstream version may be very different from the older version, eg by having a different format for the configuration file. This is a pure nightmare for system administrators.
Debian's way of doing stable is one of the reasons why the corporate world likes it so much.
That's all great if you have a BIOS image.
My mobo builder only offers executables that create a bootable floppy for you. All great and dandy if you are capable of running that executable, but if you're not running DOS/Windows you'll have a hard time doing so.
Eventually I solved it by running the executable from VMware and redirecting the floppy to an image file. From that image I created my bootable CD.
Would anyone care to point out the systems running Linux? Feel free to name the other OS'es as well, but hey, this is Slashdot.
The KDE "Run Command" box can do basic math.
Hit ALT+F2 and type your calculations. Not as advanced as a scientific calculator, but it covers 95% of my needs.
However, there is one very nice paragraph:
In other words, if anyone starts threatening Linux with patents, they might find Nokia lawyers on their doorstep.
That's exactly how it works. The best disks are used for SCSI, those of less quality are used for IDE.
Combined with (genereally) higher quality of the other parts leads to a higher reliability of SCSI disks.
I think this is one big misunderstanding. In the police & news world "Open Source" has a different meaning. It is used for information from publicly available sources like newspapers or the internet.
This is a programm to search Open Sources (websites) for information regarding kiddyporn, and links it together.
Deep inside my brain keeps yelling that this is just a Microsoft trick to create an association between "Open Source" and "Child Pornograpy".
I'm doing something much like this. For my employer I'm remastering Knoppix for our homeworkers.
The idea is that we hand out CD's to anyone who wants to remotly connect to our netwerk, eg for a citrix session. The user boots the CD, and is automatically directed towards the correct login screen. Because it's knoppix we know Java works, and there are no keyloggers or other malware installed.
We also plan to use those cd's in our laptops instead of harddisks. If a laptop gets stolen there will be no secret documents or passwords on the harddisk, because their is none.
We don't have to protect our users from virii and spyware. If they klik on a "wrong" link, nothing happens that can't be solved by a reboot.
One of the problems I see is that their is a high overlap between ST-fans and computer nerds. The nerds know how to avoid advertisements, either by using Tivo-like devices, or by downloading a copy from the internet.
Anyone who has used bittorrent to download the latest Enterprise episode knows that only hours after the episode aired it is being shared by thousands upon thousands of users. I'm pretty sure more people watch the show then ever before, but there just not watching the ads, and that's what counts.