hmm, interesting point. But if they displayed the exact name of the machine it looked for the cert on, www.h4x0r.com should raise some red flags. Anything besides xxx.verisign.com should raise some flags...
of course, we're talking about somewhat clueful people here. Idiots might have some problems...
ok, you're probably right. The installation could be automatic though -- the first time a web page comes up that's signed by CA X, the browser says "Here are the details for CA X. Do you wish to install this key permanently so that you will not be warned about certs signed by this CA in the future?"
When (not if) most browsers are open source, this problem will likely resolve itself. A CA will just have to convince the open source projects (possibly by donating money and/or servers and/or people contributing to the browser code) to get their cert in the default setup.
Of course that could also lead to problems, where some browsers will recognize CA X and some won't.
True, the keys themselves cost pretty much nothing to generate, but CAs do have to do an extensive check to prove that you are who you say you are, which is what gives them their value. The check probably does take a few hours of time. That doesn't necessarily justify $350 or whatever it is, but they can't sell them for $10.
In any case, it would be VERY nice to see more competition in this area, and get several more CAs authorized.
No arguments from me. I do think KDE was the best overall desktop for the people I was targetting with that particular box, but they probably wouldn't have *needed* a desktop, so skipping X entirely would have been nice.
Basically, I'm saying that GTK-FB is cool for turnkey apps on 486s. Any disagreements with that?:-)
In addition to the previous post, telemarketing has significant costs for those who do it, so there is an incentive for them to be judicious in who they call.
Spam has very little cost for those who do it, which means every single unscrupulous person and business out there can do it as much as they want, currently. Laws are really the only way to fix that. And as pointed out, telemarketing also has plenty of restrictive laws.
Personally, I think telemarketing should be banned as well, but overall it's not as big a problem as spam. For one thing, if you have caller ID, it's fairly easy to block telemarketers -- if the phone # dosn't show up, don't answer it!
I agree -- keeping nonviolent people in jail just needlessly costs the government money and takes jail space that would be better used for violent criminals.
The government should be GETTING money instead. I'd support a fine of, say, $500 per message no matter how many they send (above a reasonable minimum that would make it qualify as spam). That should make the baddies think twice before telling their "Mail Blaster" software to "Go".
I for one do believe that the work of artists should be protected by copyright, and enforced if the artist wishes it to be enforced.
I am a supporter of small government, probably halfway between Libertarian and conservative Republican. (and I'm feeling increasingly drawn to the Constitution Party.)
But anti-spam laws are necessary because mass unsolicited bulk e-mail is THEFT. It causes serious problems for internet infrastructure. If spam was legal and generally accepted, then pretty much every business would spam. EVERY BUSINESS! Can you immagine what your inbox would look like if EVERY BUSINESS had the right to send you e-mail whenever they wanted? YIKES!!!!!
It did run faster before I put KDE on it, but FVWM95 (the default in Red Hat 4.1, which the thing still has on it), is so hideous I never ever wanted to look at it again! And the video card is not accelerated anyway, so I do think this will be faster.
> Or you could just stop being a cheap bastard and get a real computer.
I have. My main one is an Athlon 700 w/256MB RAM and a couple 20GB HDs. I also have a PII 266 w/128MB RAM and a couple 9GB HDs.
But I used that cheap 486 once for a custom turnkey system and it was a bit slow. Immagine a cash strapped school or charity wanted to run some GUI apps but had little to no money for hardware. They could probably get several donations of computers of this caliber. And with GTK-FB, they could be worth something.
This could let me put a useful end user GUI app or two on the old 486/100 16MB RAM/800MB HD that's been sitting in my garage for a couple years. X is just plain glacial on it, especially with KDE.
Boxes like that will make great low end turnkey systems with all the benefits of Linux.
I'm gonna reinstall soon. Currently running 6.2 and have been running Red Hat since 4.1. But I've been contemplating trying other distros for a while. Perhaps now is the time....?
RH 7.1 should be pretty sweet if they don't let too many bugs through. And the fact that they've had two betas for this cycle should help things somewhat.
I'd *really* like to see a package list for Progeny. Any URLs for that? Thanks
And never forget accountability. If my database crashes, I WANT someone to point at and say, "FIX YOUR DAMN PRODUCT!" With open source, I don't have that.
Huh? With open source, YOU can fix it yourself, or hire any number of companies or persons that are familiar with the code to fix it. It could be done in a few hours (assuming a simple problem) or maybe a few weeks for a complex problem.
With closed source, you're STUCK with the DB vendor. Granted, folks like Oracle BETTER be responsive to urgent needs, but what if they're not? Then you're completely screwed.
Having said that, i agree that Oracle is probably a better solution if you NEED the highest of the high end. But for 95% of projects, I'd feel quite comfortable implementing PostgreSQL. It has a great feature set and a knowledgeable set of developers who seem committed to supporting it commercially as well as in their free time.
Huh? If you wrote the code in your spare time, it's yours (unless you have a signed agreement of course). For that work, you should aim to maximize the benefit to yourself.
Just learn Python, and perhaps wxPython for the GUI.
I'm a diehard Perl geek, and I've also worked with C++. A couple weeks ago I was finally convinced to learn Python. I knew it was inevitable.
And how long did it take? A few hours tops. Python is EASY!!! I'm already well under way converting a big monster perl program to Python. No problems at all. And the design is a whole lot better.
This is basically Yet Another Scripting Language With A GUI Extension Module. Kinda like Perl and Python with their respective GTK modules. To be a VB-workalike for Linux, you need a RAD development tool and data driven controls. Delphi/Kylix provides that, a few free projects are thinking about it.
> As a smoker, I make a conscious effort to keep my smoke away from those who choose not to smoke.
And I too thank you. I wish people like you would join my tours. It seems like every time I travel to Central and South America and join a tour, I'm surrounded by smokers that don't bother to ask me if I mind, but they light up while talking to me or while sitting by me at the table, inside or out.
Frankly, I'd prefer they put their butt right up to my face and let out a big long ripe fart! It wouldn't smell as bad and the stench goes away quicker.....
A few hours after the first story "Mir Splashes Down" (which will contain 800 comments, most of which say 'Hey, Mir didn't really crash yet, you guys are lame', and most of the rest containing 'can you immagine a beowulf cluster of the pieces?'), another story will appear - "Mir REALLY Splashes Down".
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hmm, interesting point. But if they displayed the exact name of the machine it looked for the cert on, www.h4x0r.com should raise some red flags. Anything besides xxx.verisign.com should raise some flags...
of course, we're talking about somewhat clueful people here. Idiots might have some problems...
ok, you're probably right. The installation could be automatic though -- the first time a web page comes up that's signed by CA X, the browser says "Here are the details for CA X. Do you wish to install this key permanently so that you will not be warned about certs signed by this CA in the future?"
When (not if) most browsers are open source, this problem will likely resolve itself. A CA will just have to convince the open source projects (possibly by donating money and/or servers and/or people contributing to the browser code) to get their cert in the default setup.
Of course that could also lead to problems, where some browsers will recognize CA X and some won't.
True, the keys themselves cost pretty much nothing to generate, but CAs do have to do an extensive check to prove that you are who you say you are, which is what gives them their value. The check probably does take a few hours of time. That doesn't necessarily justify $350 or whatever it is, but they can't sell them for $10.
In any case, it would be VERY nice to see more competition in this area, and get several more CAs authorized.
No arguments from me. I do think KDE was the best overall desktop for the people I was targetting with that particular box, but they probably wouldn't have *needed* a desktop, so skipping X entirely would have been nice.
:-)
Basically, I'm saying that GTK-FB is cool for turnkey apps on 486s. Any disagreements with that?
In addition to the previous post, telemarketing has significant costs for those who do it, so there is an incentive for them to be judicious in who they call.
Spam has very little cost for those who do it, which means every single unscrupulous person and business out there can do it as much as they want, currently. Laws are really the only way to fix that. And as pointed out, telemarketing also has plenty of restrictive laws.
Personally, I think telemarketing should be banned as well, but overall it's not as big a problem as spam. For one thing, if you have caller ID, it's fairly easy to block telemarketers -- if the phone # dosn't show up, don't answer it!
I agree -- keeping nonviolent people in jail just needlessly costs the government money and takes jail space that would be better used for violent criminals.
The government should be GETTING money instead. I'd support a fine of, say, $500 per message no matter how many they send (above a reasonable minimum that would make it qualify as spam). That should make the baddies think twice before telling their "Mail Blaster" software to "Go".
I for one do believe that the work of artists should be protected by copyright, and enforced if the artist wishes it to be enforced.
I am a supporter of small government, probably halfway between Libertarian and conservative Republican. (and I'm feeling increasingly drawn to the Constitution Party.)
But anti-spam laws are necessary because mass unsolicited bulk e-mail is THEFT. It causes serious problems for internet infrastructure. If spam was legal and generally accepted, then pretty much every business would spam. EVERY BUSINESS! Can you immagine what your inbox would look like if EVERY BUSINESS had the right to send you e-mail whenever they wanted? YIKES!!!!!
A white paper is supposed to cover all the technical inner workings and specifications of something.
This article was more of a reveiw than a white paper. It *was* interesting though.
It did run faster before I put KDE on it, but FVWM95 (the default in Red Hat 4.1, which the thing still has on it), is so hideous I never ever wanted to look at it again! And the video card is not accelerated anyway, so I do think this will be faster.
> Or you could just stop being a cheap bastard and get a real computer.
I have. My main one is an Athlon 700 w/256MB RAM and a couple 20GB HDs. I also have a PII 266 w/128MB RAM and a couple 9GB HDs.
But I used that cheap 486 once for a custom turnkey system and it was a bit slow. Immagine a cash strapped school or charity wanted to run some GUI apps but had little to no money for hardware. They could probably get several donations of computers of this caliber. And with GTK-FB, they could be worth something.
This could let me put a useful end user GUI app or two on the old 486/100 16MB RAM/800MB HD that's been sitting in my garage for a couple years. X is just plain glacial on it, especially with KDE.
Boxes like that will make great low end turnkey systems with all the benefits of Linux.
I'm gonna reinstall soon. Currently running 6.2 and have been running Red Hat since 4.1. But I've been contemplating trying other distros for a while. Perhaps now is the time....?
RH 7.1 should be pretty sweet if they don't let too many bugs through. And the fact that they've had two betas for this cycle should help things somewhat.
I'd *really* like to see a package list for Progeny. Any URLs for that? Thanks
The Washington Metro system is what, 25 years old? One would think that a new system wouldn't have those kinds of problems...
(is it running automatically again? I was there last October and it was running manually then. Hadn't heard if they fixed it.)
Huh? With open source, YOU can fix it yourself, or hire any number of companies or persons that are familiar with the code to fix it. It could be done in a few hours (assuming a simple problem) or maybe a few weeks for a complex problem.
With closed source, you're STUCK with the DB vendor. Granted, folks like Oracle BETTER be responsive to urgent needs, but what if they're not? Then you're completely screwed.
Having said that, i agree that Oracle is probably a better solution if you NEED the highest of the high end. But for 95% of projects, I'd feel quite comfortable implementing PostgreSQL. It has a great feature set and a knowledgeable set of developers who seem committed to supporting it commercially as well as in their free time.
Well, one would like to believe that IBM is not *that* stupid....
Huh? If you wrote the code in your spare time, it's yours (unless you have a signed agreement of course). For that work, you should aim to maximize the benefit to yourself.
What in the world IS happening with the Alpha Centauri port? I was planning on buying it at some point. Loki? Hello???
/me will also buy SimCity 3K at some point. Really. Sorry it hasn't happened yet, guys. Hope it's selling well...
Just learn Python, and perhaps wxPython for the GUI.
I'm a diehard Perl geek, and I've also worked with C++. A couple weeks ago I was finally convinced to learn Python. I knew it was inevitable.
And how long did it take? A few hours tops. Python is EASY!!! I'm already well under way converting a big monster perl program to Python. No problems at all. And the design is a whole lot better.
This is basically Yet Another Scripting Language With A GUI Extension Module. Kinda like Perl and Python with their respective GTK modules. To be a VB-workalike for Linux, you need a RAD development tool and data driven controls. Delphi/Kylix provides that, a few free projects are thinking about it.
> As a smoker, I make a conscious effort to keep my smoke away from those who choose not to smoke.
And I too thank you. I wish people like you would join my tours. It seems like every time I travel to Central and South America and join a tour, I'm surrounded by smokers that don't bother to ask me if I mind, but they light up while talking to me or while sitting by me at the table, inside or out.
Frankly, I'd prefer they put their butt right up to my face and let out a big long ripe fart! It wouldn't smell as bad and the stench goes away quicker.....
...now I'm wondering if I was mistaken and it was released on 2/22 -- I think that might be the case. It was one of those two. Anyone remember?
:-)
If so, that would be even cooler, with 2.2.2 on 2/22 and 2.4.2 on 2/22.
Anyone remember how 2.2.2 was released on 2/2 (99)? That was insanely cool. Too bad they couldn't have waited until 4/2...
... /me wants an Emporer. Obsidian was a cooler name though. Now if only VA Linux stock would go back up so I could afford to blow $3K...
A few hours after the first story "Mir Splashes Down" (which will contain 800 comments, most of which say 'Hey, Mir didn't really crash yet, you guys are lame', and most of the rest containing 'can you immagine a beowulf cluster of the pieces?'), another story will appear - "Mir REALLY Splashes Down".