If "they" (whoever that might mean) do start "cracking down" on folks with links to warez, that *will* spell the end of MyNetscape!;)
Seriously - they have a channel called 'bestofwarez'... which I think is a *good* idea, in much the same way that some people think legalising cannibis is a good idea. It removes the "shock! horror!" interest factor, so people won't want to do it as it isn't revolutionary any more.
Let's have some real psychology in the legal process, for a change.
Re:Nice plan but wil it work?
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Yes, sort of.
The phrase that I hate is: "And now, faithful readers, I shall commit the ultimate heresy. Windows NT is way out in front of Linux in dealing with this problem--at least in theory". Just how much netbios traffic does one get due to silly windoze lusers enabling netbeui/netbios and/or IPX/SPX traffic over their dialup connections? That alone is reason why linux is inherently "better" - at least some distributions come with an/etc/hosts.deny that blocks non-local or "PARANOID" incoming IPs, and install nmbd to run out of inetd. (I have Debian 'Potato' in mind, just before you ask...)
NT is not hard to spot remotely, and not exactly hard either to crash or crack. nmap & search engines on "+NT +exploit"...
As far as linux Lite goes, folks here are right - who on earth would buy a "Lite" edition?
Well, it's the small part of the user base that constantly has to say "my OS is better than yours."
Agree entirely. Shoot all fundamentalists, I say, then re-use the bullets:8]
rpm -ivh ftp://site.org/path/to.rpm works fine.
Does it do dependencies? That, coupled with (AFAIK!) no equivalent of/etc/apt/sources.list, is RPM's main failing, not the supposed "lack" of remote URLs. Contrast 'apt-get install licq' which goes and gets the latest qt libs required *as well*. Never seen no rpm do dat...
That's what I find so scary. Why shouldn't music be free, or at least let's have record labels who understand the idea of giving out, say, 1 track per album, as a free "sampler"?
As with warez, to some extent, and cannibis to some (other) extent, the way to deal with the "problem" (if such there be) is not to clamp down on it, to use the piss-ignorant cops to stamp on everything (relevant or no), but to accept it, to make it less of a "shock! horror!" thing.
You can now put 'best of warez' on your MyNetscape portal. Where's the criminal excitement gone? Now let's do a similar thing for MP3s.
Smallness of size is just as cool as sending something big somewhere weird. The idea of nano-thingies trundling around one's arteries removing excessive fat/cholesterol and stuff is quite appealing, really!
Which, out of the packages/package areas listed on the announcement page, don't redhat, suse and (say) debian come with? All I could spot was BRU which seems to be caldera-specific (unless I'm mistaken) and KDE which doesn't come with Debian (good! I don't use it anyway!).
So it's just another fight amongst the package versions... <yawn>... ~Tim --
Quite so. Anyone who can quote Mindcraft without a paragraph of disclaimers is obviously braindead and unqualified to comment on the state of the industry:)
For me, it was
"And he says Linux is notoriously complex and hard to use, making it a poor choice for any but the most sophisticated users."
that marked the start of the FUD, and
And Microsoft's Edwards says that Linux lacks many advanced capabilities, such as the ability to run on computers with multiple processor chips.
5 exclamation marks are a sure sign of someone who wears their underpants on their heard, aren't they?
Good one CmdrTaco, keep folks like this above anoymous coward w**ker out!:)
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Re:SCO might be worse press in the short-run that
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'ear 'ear1
Whoever wrote all those bits in Sco needs their head examined, and deserves to lose badly when the revolution comes!;8]
Me, I first noticed it going down the spout when I read about '84%' unix-in-intel "market share", or whatever the (now forgetten) phrase was. How did anyone manage to forget all the *BSDs and BSDi, solaris x86 etc?
I thought that was how PGP was developed, wasn't it? I certainly remember seeing things on the pgp website about books of code having arrived and being OCRd in and stuff...
Why do these have to have such stupid export restrictions? Can't they just dump the lot and get a life like the rest of the world?
I've only bothered reading the line in the extract about the hack disproving self-regulation, and as far as I'm concerned, it goes to prove the point: we're not ALL braindead morons, and we shouldn't have to pander to those who are. (The rest of the article is going to remain unread in the light of that extract alone.)
I don't see why all the comments to this article have to be so "anti-'advocate'"; just because someone has done a better job of presenting facts doesn't make the facts any better.
In an open-source world (note I didn't say GPL is the only One True License), there should be *NO* restrictions, legal or financial, on the things you can do with software.
So unisys isn't into open source - do we really need to depend on gif/lzw that much? As far as I'm concerned, they deserve a good explanation why some of us are going to be taking our custom elsewhere - it doesn't have to be flamey, let alone flowery, but it can press the point that they're not doing the community (and probably themselves) any favours.
At the end of the day, lzw is just an algorithm: how dare they restrict its use?!
Unfortunately there is no built in DB support anywhere -- it's a pure widget set, and you're on your own. You could always use direct SQL, or pick up one of several DB libraries I've never used (any recommendations?)
Use perl and the DBI:: and DBD::whatever modules? Use C/C++ and ODBC?
Me, I can't wait for glade to hook gtk+ into perl.
Unfortunately there is no built in DB support anywhere -- it's a pure widget set, and you're on your own. You could always use direct SQL, or pick up one of several DB libraries I've never used (any recommendations?)
Use perl and the DBI:: and DBD::whatever modules? Use C/C++ and ODBC? Me, I can't wait for glade to hook gtk+ into perl.
Just a couple of ideas:)
~Tim --
Re:Well atleast they got one thing right.. (ot)
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What crap. Trolls are moderated down and no AC can moderate, so I don't know where you get that from.
And what huge outcry? More to the point, if you even read as little as the article header posted you see "TCP/IP bug" as a reason to upgrade to 2.0.38.
Yeah. The only problem with that is that I would rather like to be online for more like 10 hours than the paltry 12 or so I manage at the moment...;)
I think I did manage the high-figure-no-addiction thing fairly well, including a sensible answer to question 21: "have you ever lied to anyone about...?" "Yes. Just NOW!".
Maybe it's just a touch of the looking-back blues or something, that they want to get rid of the prat who lead them down the NT path for a bit? New direction (linux), new ceo bod, oops must get rid of old one first?:)
'Tis a shame to see SGI looking like heading down the pan though...
You've totally missed the point. 'Abandon ship', at least as I see it, means "if Micro$haft are going to get their greedy evil paws on sun's Java, then we purists had better switch to using something else". Fine by me - it saves me bothering with learning the language properly. Back to C, C++, Perl and new things: gtk+ and Haskell (thought I'd go mad for a bit).
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If "they" (whoever that might mean) do start "cracking down" on folks with links to warez, that *will* spell the end of MyNetscape! ;)
Seriously - they have a channel called 'bestofwarez'... which I think is a *good* idea, in much the same way that some people think legalising cannibis is a good idea. It removes the "shock! horror!" interest factor, so people won't want to do it as it isn't revolutionary any more.
Let's have some real psychology in the legal process, for a change.
Yes, sort of.
/etc/hosts.deny that blocks non-local or "PARANOID" incoming IPs, and install nmbd to run out of inetd. (I have Debian 'Potato' in mind, just before you ask...)
The phrase that I hate is: "And now, faithful readers, I shall commit the ultimate heresy. Windows NT is way out in front of Linux in dealing with this problem--at least in theory".
Just how much netbios traffic does one get due to silly windoze lusers enabling netbeui/netbios and/or IPX/SPX traffic over their dialup connections?
That alone is reason why linux is inherently "better" - at least some distributions come with an
NT is not hard to spot remotely, and not exactly hard either to crash or crack. nmap & search engines on "+NT +exploit"...
As far as linux Lite goes, folks here are right - who on earth would buy a "Lite" edition?
Well, it's the small part of the user base that constantly has to say "my OS is better than yours."
:8]
/etc/apt/sources.list, is RPM's main failing, not the supposed "lack" of remote URLs.
Agree entirely. Shoot all fundamentalists, I say, then re-use the bullets
rpm -ivh ftp://site.org/path/to.rpm works fine.
Does it do dependencies? That, coupled with (AFAIK!) no equivalent of
Contrast 'apt-get install licq' which goes and gets the latest qt libs required *as well*. Never seen no rpm do dat...
That's what I find so scary. Why shouldn't music be free, or at least let's have record labels who understand the idea of giving out, say, 1 track per album, as a free "sampler"?
As with warez, to some extent, and cannibis to some (other) extent, the way to deal with the "problem" (if such there be) is not to clamp down on it, to use the piss-ignorant cops to stamp on everything (relevant or no), but to accept it, to make it less of a "shock! horror!" thing.
You can now put 'best of warez' on your MyNetscape portal. Where's the criminal excitement gone?
Now let's do a similar thing for MP3s.
Nor is a BSOD...
~Tim
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Smallness of size is just as cool as sending something big somewhere weird. The idea of nano-thingies trundling around one's arteries removing excessive fat/cholesterol and stuff is quite appealing, really!
~Tim
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Incidentally, whichever wanker of a moderator branded that a "troll" deserves a lobotomy.
~Tim
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Which, out of the packages/package areas listed on the announcement page, don't redhat, suse and (say) debian come with?
All I could spot was BRU which seems to be caldera-specific (unless I'm mistaken) and KDE which doesn't come with Debian (good! I don't use it anyway!).
So it's just another fight amongst the package versions... <yawn>...
~Tim
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For me, it was
that marked the start of the FUD, and
which merely continued it.
Die, evil micro%loth scum, and all that
~Tim
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5 exclamation marks are a sure sign of someone who wears their underpants on their heard, aren't they?
:)
Good one CmdrTaco, keep folks like this above anoymous coward w**ker out!
~Tim
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'ear 'ear1
;8]
Whoever wrote all those bits in Sco needs their head examined, and deserves to lose badly when the revolution comes!
Me, I first noticed it going down the spout when I read about '84%' unix-in-intel "market share", or whatever the (now forgetten) phrase was. How did anyone manage to forget all the *BSDs and BSDi, solaris x86 etc?
Green is for go
~Tim
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Short answer: I've never said that.
:)
Admittedly I don't exactly read all the source that goes on my machine at all, either though
~Tim
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I thought that was how PGP was developed, wasn't it?
I certainly remember seeing things on the pgp website about books of code having arrived and being OCRd in and stuff...
Why do these have to have such stupid export restrictions? Can't they just dump the lot and get a life like the rest of the world?
~Tim
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Hear hear!
:)
I've only bothered reading the line in the extract about the hack disproving self-regulation, and as far as I'm concerned, it goes to prove the point: we're not ALL braindead morons, and we shouldn't have to pander to those who are.
(The rest of the article is going to remain unread in the light of that extract alone.)
Agree entirely about risk assessment, etc...
Anyone got an uzi for these journalists?
~Tim
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I don't see why all the comments to this article have to be so "anti-'advocate'"; just because someone has done a better job of presenting facts doesn't make the facts any better.
In an open-source world (note I didn't say GPL is the only One True License), there should be *NO* restrictions, legal or financial, on the things you can do with software.
So unisys isn't into open source - do we really need to depend on gif/lzw that much?
As far as I'm concerned, they deserve a good explanation why some of us are going to be taking our custom elsewhere - it doesn't have to be flamey, let alone flowery, but it can press the point that they're not doing the community (and probably themselves) any favours.
At the end of the day, lzw is just an algorithm: how dare they restrict its use?!
~Tim
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Unfortunately there is no built in DB support anywhere -- it's a pure widget set, and you're on your own. You could always use direct SQL, or pick up one of several DB libraries I've never used (any recommendations?)
:)
Use perl and the DBI:: and DBD::whatever modules? Use C/C++ and ODBC?
Me, I can't wait for glade to hook gtk+ into perl.
Just a couple of ideas
~Tim
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Unfortunately there is no built in DB support anywhere -- it's a pure widget set, and you're on your own. You could always use direct SQL, or pick up one of several DB libraries I've never used (any recommendations?)
:)
Use perl and the DBI:: and DBD::whatever modules? Use C/C++ and ODBC?
Me, I can't wait for glade to hook gtk+ into perl.
Just a couple of ideas
~Tim
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What crap. Trolls are moderated down and no AC can moderate, so I don't know where you get that from.
And what huge outcry?
More to the point, if you even read as little as the article header posted you see "TCP/IP bug" as a reason to upgrade to 2.0.38.
Me, I think anyone still using 2.0.x is a moron.
~Tim
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Your comment subject is possibly truer than you think. If you can't spell "resent", you resemble the original article's author :)
~Tim
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So what are the chances that he'll steer microsoft into the gutter and tell them to start using linux instead of NT? ;)
~Tim
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Yeah. The only problem with that is that I would rather like to be online for more like 10 hours than the paltry 12 or so I manage at the moment... ;)
I think I did manage the high-figure-no-addiction thing fairly well, including a sensible answer to question 21: "have you ever lied to anyone about...?" "Yes. Just NOW!".
~Tim
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Companies & corporations have "clients", slashdot has users & visitors and things. :)
More to the point, slashdot *is* its userbase.
S'there
~Tim
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Maybe it's just a touch of the looking-back blues or something, that they want to get rid of the prat who lead them down the NT path for a bit? :)
New direction (linux), new ceo bod, oops must get rid of old one first?
'Tis a shame to see SGI looking like heading down the pan though...
~Tim
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You've totally missed the point. 'Abandon ship', at least as I see it, means "if Micro$haft are going to get their greedy evil paws on sun's Java, then we purists had better switch to using something else".
Fine by me - it saves me bothering with learning the language properly. Back to C, C++, Perl and new things: gtk+ and Haskell (thought I'd go mad for a bit).
~Tim
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Quite possibly...
.sig is an electron", "quantum spods do it with fuzzy bits", "I computed but I didn't inhale", and similar things :)
I can see it now: "my other
~Tim
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