"The argument is over how severely he should be punished, given that he 1) didn't cause any damage, 2) wasn't acting out of malice, and"
And I am sure that will be taken into consideration.
"3) was at least accomplish what he did in large part due to the incompetence of those who are, in theory, supposed to be competent in protecting themselves from such attacks." Totally not relevant. Imagine if someone broke into your home and the judge let them off lightly because you had cheap locks on your doors. No that isn't any reason to decrease the sentence.
That is the the thing. He has not even been tried yet much less sentenced. The court will take in account the first two things if they are true. The should totally ignore the third except as to just how "dangerous" this guy is.
What is wrong is IMHO a segment of the UK public are trying to prevent him from even going to trial much less being sentenced. They have decided that the US will impose the harshest penalty on this man when they have not imposed any penalty at all yet.
Also there has been no trial at all yet. So you are also assuming that he is totally telling you the truth. The he didn't crack a single password and he didn't delete a single file.
So If I stand in Ireland and shoot someone across the boarder in Northern Ireland I should be tried in Ireland? I mean I was never in the UK after all? But wait I didn't commit any crime in Ireland at all so why even be arrested. Yes it is an extreme case but you could do the same thing with Telephone and or wire fraud.
Simple truth is this guy is going to get a slap on the wrist and maybe some time in a low security country club prison. Odds are he will get timed served and be sent back with probation.
Sure it will, because China is all about choice. It may be but odds are it will be a fork with a new name and some limitations added in. It will also probably not be seen in the west.
I do not know that a "large" percentage of their design work was done for them. This does not seem to be a fork. Yes they are using the same method of detection but that is like saying GIMP had a large amount of their design work done for them because it uses a lot of the same methods as Photoshop "and any number of other image processing programs". Just moving to a multi-threaded engine is a huge change.
As to jumping ship... Well that would be dumb IMHO Snort still does what you and it would seem most other people need it to do. If it isn't broke don't fix it. I am just sick of the venom and nastiness. Snort is a great system and no one should say otherwise. The delay in supporting multi-threading and in general the less than open development of version 3.0 is not the best plan.
Let's start off with the simple fact. Snort is a great piece of software. But frankly you seem really mad and full of venom. I have never heard anything negative about Snort from the producers of Suricata. I have not seen any news stories about Snort being dead. What I have heard is Snort 3.0 is no where to be seen. Not a terrible thing since Snort 2.x works just fine. Unlike a lot of people on Slashdot I think it is great that you took an FOSS tool that you created and made a living supporting it. But your post and the statements in the article sound shrill and full of venom. I will say that I disagree with your dismissal of the importance of multi-threaded support. It is only valid as long as current CPUs offer enough power to support your link speed. We are not seeing single core performance increasing at the rate we used to. The big thing now is more cores. Now the idea of CUDA support is also interesting in and IDS but am not sure that GPUs are an ideal solution for and IDS/IPS but then I have not worked with them much. Right now I have no doubt that a multi-threaded system would take a performance hit. I have never seen any program not take a hit when first being moved to a multi-threaded system. Well except those that are highly parallel by nature. But eventually you will have to go that way. But that is just my opinion. Finally, thanks for Snort it works really well.
But they went from zero to here in around one year. The have got multi-threaded support as well in one year. I have heard and read from some people that they are already moving to Suricata because they think it has a better future than Snort or because they like some feature that it has. Also it is now get some developer attention as well so it may become a good competitor. I just don't see what all the venom is about. My guess and it is just a guess is this. Sourcefire has made good money off IDS and other systems based on Snort. The also really seem to keep tight control over Snort. That is not a terrible thing at all but they see Suricata as a threat. Frankly all the venom seems to be coming from Sourcefire. I have not seen one negative thing about Snort on the Suricata website but maybe I missed it.
I guess I just don't get the anger I am seeing. It is almost like people are cheering for their favorite team. Hey in this case I vote for "the more the merrier".
Please stop the literal net. Yes I know that Gnome isn't a fork of KDE. But the picking sides in this case reminds me of the bad manners I see in Gnome vs KDE threads.
As to implicitly better or not we will have to see. What is so annoying is this circle the wagons and name calling mentality that is going on. Snort is a great program. This is a competitor and brings some interesting new tech to the table. Competition is a good thing Snort may improve because it now has some competition. I am sure not going to complain that the government spent money on trying to make a better IDS and that they made it open sourced! Not every open source program government or not works out and this one is still in the early stages.
I do not know if that is a fair conclusion. Snort is single threaded. Suricata supports multi-threading. So with Snort you are tied to a single core. Not an ideal situation today.
This is starting to look a lot like KDE vs GNOME security throw down. Snort has been stalled for a while. It is a great program but is not adding any new features. Suricata is a new FOSS security system. If nothing else competition will make both of them better. And as to the waste of money? Well maybe it was but I do not think so. If nothing else I feel it is GREAT that this is being done as a FOSS project.
As to the performance claims. What platform was running the tests? What was the load on the platforms? 8 to 10 Gbit/sec is going to do the trick for what Percentage of users? How many people have a single internet connection that matches that? And being multi threaded Suricata may very well scale better than Snort in the future as we are going for more and more cores vs faster cores. As I said sometime competition is a good thing.
Carter got elected in 76 and yes we messed up. We messed up when we stopped building reactors. Yea half a reactor will not make any power but when done it will make A LOT OF POWER. Emissions free? Nothing is including wind turbines. Think of all the Aluminum needed to build enough wind turbines to equal one reactor! Up grading wind turbines? Well you are not going to see any huge improvements in wind turbines. What you have is about as good as it is going to get. We know a lot about how propellers work. However have made massive improvements in reactors. But here is the final answer to your question. Nuclear power and wind will not replace any oil. As far as carbon is concerned oil isn't the big problem. Coal is. Now if we can get fusion working then maybe we can replace oil with 100% synth fuel made from water and air. The arguments that solar and wind are not the solution are still valid. Frankly as far as solar goes what I always thought was the most practical system was OTEC. We even had a working OTEC in Hawaii but shut it down. Yes develop solar and wind. More mass transit in cities and electric cars where they make sense. But build reactors NOW. And keep building them. Reprocess the spent fuel like the do in Japan and France. And do it now.
Yea nuclear fuel is only good for a century or two. Unless we use Thorium and breeder reactors then it will only be good for ten or so centuries.
It is a band-aid until we get fusion. But it will last a long enough to get us to Fusion. As to not being an mechanical/ civil engineer I have to ask. WHAT??? The surge issue would be one for an EE to handle not mechanical or civil.... Please it can be solved but can it be done economically? That is the issue. I can think of any number of ways to solve it from flywheel storage systems to batteries to Hydrogen production for fuel cell use. None are great solutions or very economical.
Actually I have been pushing for Nuclear power for years. So I am not a climate change nay sayer. I suggest you read up on compressed air storage. You do not build tanks for that! You use salt domes located under ground or other large "HUGE geological structures! I don't think you understand the scale that you need for power storage at all. Texas doesn't strike you as an experimental kind of place? Yea I guess a place that is the Home of NASA, TI, and Lockheed Martin wouldn't have any smart people at all.... As you have said time and time again in your post. You have no idea of the cost. Yea I am all for smart people solving problems. The thing is that the problems are today and we can not wait or depend on future solutions. As far as nay sayers stopping smart people from ettin' 'er done (sic). Every nuclear plant that was stopped in mid construction in the US and every one who's permit was pulled is a monument to power of nay sayers over smart people.
I am not anti-wind or anti solar. They should be developed but they can not solve our power problems today. And to just blow off real problems with some "well we can just do x" when you have no idea if x will work or what it will cost is dumb.
Yea develop wind and solar but while your doing that lets build many mega watts of Nuclear power plants that we know will work today!
You mean sea skimming antiship missiles? Okay I do not know if you are trying to be funny or not but anti-ship missiles has been flying at low levels since at least the 1960s. Cruise missiles for land attack at least in the US have been flying at low levels since the 1970s. Manned aircraft have been hedge hopping to avoid radar since, well since radar was invented.
Targeting radar is already limited to line-of-site. Unless you have some other platform doing your targeting for you. That is one of the new big advantages that the new Standard missile is going to have. it will use an active seeker based on the one on the Aim-120 and can get mid course updates and targeting data from the E-2 and probably the F-18 and the JSF if it ever goes into service. That will allow ships to target threats well past their own radar horizon.
Batteries are expensive and not all that reliable. Also they will not handle the types of surges they are talking about very well. Compressed air storage requires certain geological formations to be practical as well. Not only that they are not all that green. Every one in service uses natural gas. They used the compressed air and burn natural gas in it to power a gas turbine. Sulfur Sodium batteries are still in early development. They may work out but they are not here yet. And when they go wrong it will be pretty dang bad to be near. Plus the cost will really have to come down. I am glad you feel this is a none issue because just about every expert on the planet disagrees with you. Plus think about it. If Sulfur Sodium battery where practical right now why wouldn't they be used for off peak storage at conventional plants? Like Compressed air storage and pumped water storage already are? Because it is too expensive. Of course they are building a big one in Texas as a UPS for a town so we will have to see how that goes.
The biggest problem with Calc for me is that it is very slow. GNUmeric is much faster as is Excel.
To be honest I am an OO.org user. And honestly I do agree that Write is good enough for about 90% of all the people that need a word processor. However I feel Abiword also fits that description and is faster and a much smaller download. It really should get more love.
OO.org Calc is probably good enough for about 70% of the users but it has some real performance issues! OO.org really needs to work on CALC to get it past "you can use it" to "you will want to use it". The database part and have not used and I have not used Access in a long time so I have no real opinion. The presentation and drawing programs are also not anything I use.
As I said for the price it really is great and I use it all the time but Calc is weak.
Really? Exactly which one will sync my iPad and allow me to download from the iTunes? And where can I get Fallout 3? Or Sims 3? Quickbooks? And not I do not want to use the online version. Oh and sufficiently similar for the end user means EXACTLY the same. And how do I install Silverlight so I can get Netflix streaming? And what about Video editing? Last time none of the Linux Video editing tools could match what you get for free on Windows. Hey I am a Linux fan and user but your full of it. Yes if you only want to surf the web and do email Linux is good enough. But it is the little bit's and pieces that are missing that is a real pain. For the average user it is easier to get Windows and then install all the great FOSS programs and have access to all the Windows Apps. If we could get Intuit and Adobe to support Linux it would help a lot. Then we need game makers. Finally we need a project like Open Office but for Video Editing.
Of course because porn isn't harmful and any study that says it is must be wrong.
I am sure that their are a lot of "disturbing images" but many studies have also shown that porn also has negative effects. The thing is that most people on Slashdot do not want to believe it.
Once that is done then they will not need data from Telanav. Maybe we could then actually have some complete Open street data. What bothers me is that I know that the states, local towns, and federal government have this data in GIS systems. Shouldn't that be open and freely available to the public? I know that it isn't but we have paid for it with our tax dollars.
I agree. There needs to be a balance in all things. Let's talk about just the simple things that have improved. When I was a kid and went to the local convenience store the parking lot was covered with pop tops! After going to the beach you checked your feet for tar every day. There was lead in the gas and no real emission controls on cars. looking back I am amazed just how much better things are now than back in the "good old days". Oh and my father worked for a paper mill. They had a car wash at the plant so the fumes wouldn't eat the paint off your car too quickly. Not to mention that in the 40s and 50s that people actually thought it was okay to play with nukes above ground! Thankfully that was before my time. I am not an extreme green person but regulation is just like any other from of law. A little bit now and then really helps.
Now back to this wind issue. I just don't think that wind will work large scale because of these issues. It is not reliable enough. Yes you could use water pumping to store excess but you then have the problem that in the US most wind fields are not gong to be in the mountains. The great plains are very flat. The other issue is the impact of doing that water storage. Damming up valley's is not environmentally clean. You destroy one ecosystem and replace it with a different one. I still think nuclear is the best solution for now. That I an am really hoping the Polywell reactor will work.
Actually I believe that this test didn't contribute to that. It sounds as if the intercept was at sub orbital speeds. IE it was a missile interception test. Frankly this was miss titled big time. Not that it is a good thing but it may not be as bad as you think.
Good point. I was talking about none Mac PCs. So in that context it is. iTunes doesn't run under Linux. And you missed Office. Office runs on OSX as well but again I was thinking about programs that do not run under Linux.
makes sense. Why reinvent the wheel. I know that the US military also uses Iridium for some communications as well. Does immarsat work in the polar regions? I figure that would be or will be important for the Canadian Navy.
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"The argument is over how severely he should be punished, given that he
1) didn't cause any damage,
2) wasn't acting out of malice, and"
And I am sure that will be taken into consideration.
"3) was at least accomplish what he did in large part due to the incompetence of those who are, in theory, supposed to be competent in protecting themselves from such attacks."
Totally not relevant.
Imagine if someone broke into your home and the judge let them off lightly because you had cheap locks on your doors. No that isn't any reason to decrease the sentence.
That is the the thing. He has not even been tried yet much less sentenced.
The court will take in account the first two things if they are true. The should totally ignore the third except as to just how "dangerous" this guy is.
What is wrong is IMHO a segment of the UK public are trying to prevent him from even going to trial much less being sentenced.
They have decided that the US will impose the harshest penalty on this man when they have not imposed any penalty at all yet.
Also there has been no trial at all yet. So you are also assuming that he is totally telling you the truth. The he didn't crack a single password and he didn't delete a single file.
All very trusting of an admitted criminal.
So If I stand in Ireland and shoot someone across the boarder in Northern Ireland I should be tried in Ireland?
I mean I was never in the UK after all?
But wait I didn't commit any crime in Ireland at all so why even be arrested.
Yes it is an extreme case but you could do the same thing with Telephone and or wire fraud.
Simple truth is this guy is going to get a slap on the wrist and maybe some time in a low security country club prison.
Odds are he will get timed served and be sent back with probation.
Sure it will, because China is all about choice.
It may be but odds are it will be a fork with a new name and some limitations added in.
It will also probably not be seen in the west.
I do not know that a "large" percentage of their design work was done for them.
This does not seem to be a fork. Yes they are using the same method of detection but that is like saying GIMP had a large amount of their design work done for them because it uses a lot of the same methods as Photoshop "and any number of other image processing programs".
Just moving to a multi-threaded engine is a huge change.
As to jumping ship... Well that would be dumb IMHO
Snort still does what you and it would seem most other people need it to do.
If it isn't broke don't fix it.
I am just sick of the venom and nastiness. Snort is a great system and no one should say otherwise.
The delay in supporting multi-threading and in general the less than open development of version 3.0 is not the best plan.
Let's start off with the simple fact.
Snort is a great piece of software.
But frankly you seem really mad and full of venom.
I have never heard anything negative about Snort from the producers of Suricata. I have not seen any news stories about Snort being dead.
What I have heard is Snort 3.0 is no where to be seen. Not a terrible thing since Snort 2.x works just fine.
Unlike a lot of people on Slashdot I think it is great that you took an FOSS tool that you created and made a living supporting it.
But your post and the statements in the article sound shrill and full of venom.
I will say that I disagree with your dismissal of the importance of multi-threaded support. It is only valid as long as current CPUs offer enough power to support your link speed. We are not seeing single core performance increasing at the rate we used to. The big thing now is more cores. Now the idea of CUDA support is also interesting in and IDS but am not sure that GPUs are an ideal solution for and IDS/IPS but then I have not worked with them much.
Right now I have no doubt that a multi-threaded system would take a performance hit. I have never seen any program not take a hit when first being moved to a multi-threaded system. Well except those that are highly parallel by nature.
But eventually you will have to go that way.
But that is just my opinion.
Finally, thanks for Snort it works really well.
But they went from zero to here in around one year. The have got multi-threaded support as well in one year.
I have heard and read from some people that they are already moving to Suricata because they think it has a better future than Snort or because they like some feature that it has.
Also it is now get some developer attention as well so it may become a good competitor.
I just don't see what all the venom is about. My guess and it is just a guess is this.
Sourcefire has made good money off IDS and other systems based on Snort. The also really seem to keep tight control over Snort.
That is not a terrible thing at all but they see Suricata as a threat. Frankly all the venom seems to be coming from Sourcefire. I have not seen one negative thing about Snort on the Suricata website but maybe I missed it.
I guess I just don't get the anger I am seeing. It is almost like people are cheering for their favorite team.
Hey in this case I vote for "the more the merrier".
Please stop the literal net. Yes I know that Gnome isn't a fork of KDE. But the picking sides in this case reminds me of the bad manners I see in Gnome vs KDE threads.
As to implicitly better or not we will have to see. What is so annoying is this circle the wagons and name calling mentality that is going on.
Snort is a great program. This is a competitor and brings some interesting new tech to the table.
Competition is a good thing Snort may improve because it now has some competition.
I am sure not going to complain that the government spent money on trying to make a better IDS and that they made it open sourced!
Not every open source program government or not works out and this one is still in the early stages.
But isn't it nice to have options?
And if nothing else it may encourage Snort to be even better.
I do not know if that is a fair conclusion.
Snort is single threaded.
Suricata supports multi-threading.
So with Snort you are tied to a single core. Not an ideal situation today.
This is starting to look a lot like KDE vs GNOME security throw down.
Snort has been stalled for a while. It is a great program but is not adding any new features.
Suricata is a new FOSS security system. If nothing else competition will make both of them better.
And as to the waste of money? Well maybe it was but I do not think so. If nothing else I feel it is GREAT that this is being done as a FOSS project.
As to the performance claims. What platform was running the tests? What was the load on the platforms? 8 to 10 Gbit/sec is going to do the trick for what Percentage of users? How many people have a single internet connection that matches that?
And being multi threaded Suricata may very well scale better than Snort in the future as we are going for more and more cores vs faster cores.
As I said sometime competition is a good thing.
Carter got elected in 76 and yes we messed up. We messed up when we stopped building reactors. Yea half a reactor will not make any power but when done it will make A LOT OF POWER.
Emissions free? Nothing is including wind turbines. Think of all the Aluminum needed to build enough wind turbines to equal one reactor!
Up grading wind turbines? Well you are not going to see any huge improvements in wind turbines. What you have is about as good as it is going to get. We know a lot about how propellers work.
However have made massive improvements in reactors.
But here is the final answer to your question. Nuclear power and wind will not replace any oil.
As far as carbon is concerned oil isn't the big problem. Coal is.
Now if we can get fusion working then maybe we can replace oil with 100% synth fuel made from water and air.
The arguments that solar and wind are not the solution are still valid. Frankly as far as solar goes what I always thought was the most practical system was OTEC. We even had a working OTEC in Hawaii but shut it down.
Yes develop solar and wind. More mass transit in cities and electric cars where they make sense. But build reactors NOW. And keep building them.
Reprocess the spent fuel like the do in Japan and France.
And do it now.
Yea nuclear fuel is only good for a century or two. Unless we use Thorium and breeder reactors then it will only be good for ten or so centuries.
It is a band-aid until we get fusion. But it will last a long enough to get us to Fusion.
As to not being an mechanical/ civil engineer I have to ask. WHAT???
The surge issue would be one for an EE to handle not mechanical or civil....
Please it can be solved but can it be done economically? That is the issue.
I can think of any number of ways to solve it from flywheel storage systems to batteries to Hydrogen production for fuel cell use.
None are great solutions or very economical.
Actually I have been pushing for Nuclear power for years. So I am not a climate change nay sayer.
I suggest you read up on compressed air storage. You do not build tanks for that! You use salt domes located under ground or other large "HUGE geological structures! I don't think you understand the scale that you need for power storage at all.
Texas doesn't strike you as an experimental kind of place?
Yea I guess a place that is the Home of NASA, TI, and Lockheed Martin wouldn't have any smart people at all....
As you have said time and time again in your post.
You have no idea of the cost.
Yea I am all for smart people solving problems. The thing is that the problems are today and we can not wait or depend on future solutions.
As far as nay sayers stopping smart people from ettin' 'er done (sic). Every nuclear plant that was stopped in mid construction in the US and every one who's permit was pulled is a monument to power of nay sayers over smart people.
I am not anti-wind or anti solar. They should be developed but they can not solve our power problems today. And to just blow off real problems with some "well we can just do x" when you have no idea if x will work or what it will cost is dumb.
Yea develop wind and solar but while your doing that lets build many mega watts of Nuclear power plants that we know will work today!
You mean sea skimming antiship missiles? Okay I do not know if you are trying to be funny or not but anti-ship missiles has been flying at low levels since at least the 1960s. Cruise missiles for land attack at least in the US have been flying at low levels since the 1970s.
Manned aircraft have been hedge hopping to avoid radar since, well since radar was invented.
Targeting radar is already limited to line-of-site. Unless you have some other platform doing your targeting for you.
That is one of the new big advantages that the new Standard missile is going to have. it will use an active seeker based on the one on the Aim-120 and can get mid course updates and targeting data from the E-2 and probably the F-18 and the JSF if it ever goes into service.
That will allow ships to target threats well past their own radar horizon.
Batteries are expensive and not all that reliable. Also they will not handle the types of surges they are talking about very well. Compressed air storage requires certain geological formations to be practical as well. Not only that they are not all that green. Every one in service uses natural gas. They used the compressed air and burn natural gas in it to power a gas turbine.
Sulfur Sodium batteries are still in early development. They may work out but they are not here yet. And when they go wrong it will be pretty dang bad to be near.
Plus the cost will really have to come down.
I am glad you feel this is a none issue because just about every expert on the planet disagrees with you.
Plus think about it. If Sulfur Sodium battery where practical right now why wouldn't they be used for off peak storage at conventional plants? Like Compressed air storage and pumped water storage already are?
Because it is too expensive.
Of course they are building a big one in Texas as a UPS for a town so we will have to see how that goes.
The biggest problem with Calc for me is that it is very slow. GNUmeric is much faster as is Excel.
To be honest I am an OO.org user. And honestly I do agree that Write is good enough for about 90% of all the people that need a word processor.
However I feel Abiword also fits that description and is faster and a much smaller download. It really should get more love.
OO.org Calc is probably good enough for about 70% of the users but it has some real performance issues! OO.org really needs to work on CALC to get it past "you can use it" to "you will want to use it".
The database part and have not used and I have not used Access in a long time so I have no real opinion.
The presentation and drawing programs are also not anything I use.
As I said for the price it really is great and I use it all the time but Calc is weak.
Really?
Exactly which one will sync my iPad and allow me to download from the iTunes?
And where can I get Fallout 3?
Or Sims 3?
Quickbooks? And not I do not want to use the online version.
Oh and sufficiently similar for the end user means EXACTLY the same.
And how do I install Silverlight so I can get Netflix streaming?
And what about Video editing? Last time none of the Linux Video editing tools could match what you get for free on Windows.
Hey I am a Linux fan and user but your full of it.
Yes if you only want to surf the web and do email Linux is good enough. But it is the little bit's and pieces that are missing that is a real pain.
For the average user it is easier to get Windows and then install all the great FOSS programs and have access to all the Windows Apps.
If we could get Intuit and Adobe to support Linux it would help a lot. Then we need game makers. Finally we need a project like Open Office but for Video Editing.
Of course because porn isn't harmful and any study that says it is must be wrong.
I am sure that their are a lot of "disturbing images" but many studies have also shown that porn also has negative effects.
The thing is that most people on Slashdot do not want to believe it.
Once that is done then they will not need data from Telanav. Maybe we could then actually have some complete Open street data.
What bothers me is that I know that the states, local towns, and federal government have this data in GIS systems. Shouldn't that be open and freely available to the public?
I know that it isn't but we have paid for it with our tax dollars.
I agree. There needs to be a balance in all things. Let's talk about just the simple things that have improved. When I was a kid and went to the local convenience store the parking lot was covered with pop tops! After going to the beach you checked your feet for tar every day.
There was lead in the gas and no real emission controls on cars.
looking back I am amazed just how much better things are now than back in the "good old days".
Oh and my father worked for a paper mill. They had a car wash at the plant so the fumes wouldn't eat the paint off your car too quickly.
Not to mention that in the 40s and 50s that people actually thought it was okay to play with nukes above ground! Thankfully that was before my time.
I am not an extreme green person but regulation is just like any other from of law. A little bit now and then really helps.
Now back to this wind issue.
I just don't think that wind will work large scale because of these issues. It is not reliable enough. Yes you could use water pumping to store excess but you then have the problem that in the US most wind fields are not gong to be in the mountains. The great plains are very flat.
The other issue is the impact of doing that water storage. Damming up valley's is not environmentally clean. You destroy one ecosystem and replace it with a different one. I still think nuclear is the best solution for now. That I an am really hoping the Polywell reactor will work.
Which makes one wonder if the Street view cars are building a new set of street maps?
Actually I believe that this test didn't contribute to that.
It sounds as if the intercept was at sub orbital speeds. IE it was a missile interception test.
Frankly this was miss titled big time.
Not that it is a good thing but it may not be as bad as you think.
I find calc painfully slow. so slow that I installed gnumeric to do some of the small stuff on my system.
You are right about what I like to call the abuse of spreadsheets. Way to many spreadsheets are really databases or what is worse lists!
Good point. I was talking about none Mac PCs. So in that context it is.
iTunes doesn't run under Linux.
And you missed Office. Office runs on OSX as well but again I was thinking about programs that do not run under Linux.
How can pictures harm you? I mean really it is just Porn....
Maybe it isn't all that harmless?
makes sense. Why reinvent the wheel. I know that the US military also uses Iridium for some communications as well.
Does immarsat work in the polar regions? I figure that would be or will be important for the Canadian Navy.