..and glade for GTK+ into C/C++/Ada (sooner or later, perl as well)...
Me, I hope that delphi becomes one way of doing gtk and qt stuff in pascal, rather than a *rival*.
Would open source still be so cool if there were more that ran on windoze? (Eg qt, gtk, glib, things: I've used ports of the last two on windows before now...)
Me, I now use grip under debian linux for such things. It combines CD player, ripper, choice of encoders, choice of bit-rates, ID3 stuff and CDDB lookups all at once. As far as the encoder goes, I'd recommend something simple like either bladeenc or mp3encode (which is what I use, FWIW). If you grab the source for it and use pgcc to compile it for yourself, it'll be about 8% faster than using a normal gcc-compiled one. (Yes, I was sad enough to use mp3encode as a benchmark in checking pgcc;)
How much of the "pro-Delphi" feel is due to the current lack of popularity of developing in pascal at all on linux, and the relative lack of means to write in it? (Let alone any OO pascal derivatives...)
Why should KDE/gnome and Qt/GTK be regarded as incompatible? I think this poll hasn't helped the polarity there... given you can happily run Qt apps under gnome & gtk stuff under KDE...
Let's say you wanted to take down a warez group. Do you think they'll have a better chance at taking them down by attacking their computers, or breaking into their homes?
..or by legalising things, making everything worthwhile Open Source, etc? Consider: MyNetscape has a link to a 'best of the warez' sites; how's that for analogous to legalising certain drugs, in terms of asking "what's the problem?", making it less outrageous?
Yes, but you need a big server if you're going to get a few hits a day... more to the point, you're into mod_perl and mod_ssl instead of perl and apache-ssl, for starters, and probably some fine-tuning for performance. ...And some people to look after it all. Alternatively you could "out-source" some of the processing requirement by doing JDBC from client browsers.
I'm sure there's still something more to it though. Oh yes, *cookies*! Got it, now:8]
I've gone from redhat 4.2 via 5.0 and 5.1 and 5.2 etc, through suse 5.1, 5.2, 6, 6.1 and am now on debian (potato, dist-upgraded religiously every evening:)
Your problems with hostname could be solved with one blast of 'linuxconf', but I for one can't remember whether RH4.2 even had that...:) (And of course, debian has it nowadays, and it rocks being able to use it to set up samba and configure firewalls, etc:)
First things that come to mind when someone queries whether "the Internet is Y2K compliant" are a) they don't understand punctuation; b) they don't know WTF they're talking about.
If they meant the infrastructure behind the Internet, then they should say so.
To throw in a better idea: would IPv6 make it any more "Y2K-compliant"?
... but what part of Security Through Obscurity is any more mature than some "admin" chanting "I bet you don't know my password, ner ner"?
I knew there was a reason we were told to keep passwords "uncrackable" (in the brute-force-utility sense of Crack), or to use Kerberos or other means of keeping things secure...
As someone who's had a machine broken into by means of an ethernet sniffer on someone with a weak (crackable) password used in two places, who was saved from a root login by various ttys being insecure, I no longer even let my passwords out from my current domain in plaintext; sometimes they don't go that far either. Ssh is only one means of doing this, but it's a bloomin' nice means.
hackmeplease:vOyo1GrTWU6Ck:10001:10001::/tmp:/tm p/sh.root.sh to them too:)
Too right... I'm only wee, with a first computer being an amstrad cpc6128 (I got a taste for junk-food young, I guess;) but I gather there were things between the typewriters and such boxes... to think that at school I used 8086s and 8088s and 80286s and stuff... indeed, 486? Those are recent, on an evolutionary scale:)
I agree with the responsibility lying with the parents, entirely - and as far as I'm concerned this goes from such basic things as learning to look where they're going in a street (and maybe even learn to give way to others occasionally), table manners, and by school entry age, some elementary arithmetic. In certain parts of the country here I've seen / heard of / encountered deficiences with all the above. The question is, how do we go about getting parents to *look after* their kids rather than expecting "The State" or "The Community" (even worse!) to do it all for them?
Simple: Slashdot is "news for nerds, stuff that matters". If someone posts saying "linux can install in 4mins" someone is bound to make a *comparison* between that and another OS - given M$loth are a bit big, they're the obvious comparison.
I wonder what the proposed IPv6 namespaces would be like? And whether this "selling domain names" crap could be brought to an end - let them buy their own with no marketing conflicts?
~Tim --
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fsck this for a new look! http://e.themes.org/ is 195K of crap to download, of which the dodgy background took longest, and then they go and obliterate it with foreground crap.
Don't entirely agree about the disappearance of all-but-18 themes though. My main worries are that the site has fixed-width frames (the horizontal scroll-bar is EVIL - and 669x864 is a perfectly reasonable size for netscape, IMO), and the DOWNLOAD links are damned obscure, just like before (when they were way off to the right).
At least the gtk themes site loads a bit faster - although this is the second time round so it's probably cached. It has taken me 3 attempts to find any such thing as a downloads page though. Grrrr!
Yeah, it doesn't work here. I found on strace-ing the binary that it was having problems when the logfile didn't exist, so I touched a 0-byte log file and it still exited PDQ. As far as I'm concerned it's a crock of crap and an excuse for a ranting article about "security"... pretty useless.
Interesting! Does it beat teraterm + ttssh? (Not as though I use that these days. I'm almost totally linuxed now, just the occasional box out there that it helps to have slightly secure access from, eg at home...) ~Tim --
Standards for html, xml et al already exist, and Micromsoft's strategy of claiming to support the standards (and generally speaking, they do, to within the limit of bugs), BUT then adding "extensions" (spit) adn using marketplace clout to push those NON-standard extensions, si what sucks. Why can't they just go through the proper channels liek the rest of us?
Out of interest, it occurs to me that the real question is, if microsoft were to produce an open-source version of MS IE 5 (or 6, standards-compliant), whether the OSS community would accept it? (Would show how rationalised the anti-microsoft bias really is and delimit justice, I guess).
Also, WHY is mozilla (which I'm pretty sure is meant to be standards-compliant from day 1) taking so long to get off the ground? It is still *far* from stable, and it's unusable as it is - I know I'm not the best qualified to talk as someone who doesn't code that much, but I don't see why it takes over a year to string together a few parsers and bits of GUI etc.
ISTM that there are plenty of geeks out there who *need* to think this supposed "Creatisnism versus Science" thing through, especially before posting here (that answers the folks who've asked why "religion" is on slashdot). It also occurs to me that Creation-*ism* is a fundamentally wrong idea - being stuck on Creation for being-stuck's sake (the bandwagon effect) is plain idiotic, but some people do it. And Biblical literalism (again, an "-ism" for its own sake) to the extent that the fact a lot of it is *poetry* is also daft.
Quite right, neither has the answers. Neither is the answer, nor has either all the facts to its disposal. *Both* Creation and Evolution are *theories*, subject (if done properly) to continual reform. Thus to adhere ("religiously"!) to one *or* the other is backward.
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..and glade for GTK+ into C/C++/Ada (sooner or later, perl as well)...
Me, I hope that delphi becomes one way of doing gtk and qt stuff in pascal, rather than a *rival*.
Would open source still be so cool if there were more that ran on windoze?
(Eg qt, gtk, glib, things: I've used ports of the last two on windows before now...)
~Tim
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Hey! I thought that's what the 'invisible' mode on icq was for... ;)
~Tim
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Me, I now use grip under debian linux for such things. It combines CD player, ripper, choice of encoders, choice of bit-rates, ID3 stuff and CDDB lookups all at once. ;)
As far as the encoder goes, I'd recommend something simple like either bladeenc or mp3encode (which is what I use, FWIW). If you grab the source for it and use pgcc to compile it for yourself, it'll be about 8% faster than using a normal gcc-compiled one. (Yes, I was sad enough to use mp3encode as a benchmark in checking pgcc
~Tim
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How much of the "pro-Delphi" feel is due to the current lack of popularity of developing in pascal at all on linux, and the relative lack of means to write in it? (Let alone any OO pascal derivatives...)
Why should KDE/gnome and Qt/GTK be regarded as incompatible? I think this poll hasn't helped the polarity there... given you can happily run Qt apps under gnome & gtk stuff under KDE...
~Tim
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Let's say you wanted to take down a warez group. Do you think they'll have a better chance at taking them down by attacking their computers, or breaking into their homes?
..or by legalising things, making everything worthwhile Open Source, etc?
Consider: MyNetscape has a link to a 'best of the warez' sites; how's that for analogous to legalising certain drugs, in terms of asking "what's the problem?", making it less outrageous?
Roll on IPv6 with end-to-encryption!
~Tim
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Yes, but you need a big server if you're going to get a few hits a day... more to the point, you're into mod_perl and mod_ssl instead of perl and apache-ssl, for starters, and probably some fine-tuning for performance.
:8]
...And some people to look after it all.
Alternatively you could "out-source" some of the processing requirement by doing JDBC from client browsers.
I'm sure there's still something more to it though.
Oh yes, *cookies*! Got it, now
~Tim
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Care to expand your argument away from the blasted fish?
After all, we've had xfishtank for years now... and xsnow...
There's no obvious *reason* why it should be "stability first, then fish applet" at all. You need something to test the underlying whatsits with.
Doesn't KDE use corba too, anyway?
~Tim
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Yes, sort of :)
:)
:) :)
I've gone from redhat 4.2 via 5.0 and 5.1 and 5.2 etc, through suse 5.1, 5.2, 6, 6.1 and am now on debian (potato, dist-upgraded religiously every evening
Your problems with hostname could be solved with one blast of 'linuxconf', but I for one can't remember whether RH4.2 even had that...
(And of course, debian has it nowadays, and it rocks being able to use it to set up samba and configure firewalls, etc
~Tim
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No, it's you not reading the publicity. I've known that 6.2 was to be coming out "soon" for about a week now.
:)
OTOH you should be able to upgrade over the 'net anyway!
holy-war starter: Me, I like SuSE, but not necessarily as much as Debian...
~Tim
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The worst danger from this was if it somehow lost control, plunged into the atmosphere, and
:)
clonked you on the head.
ROTFL! Thanks for brightening up my day
~Tim
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Your reply is just techno-phobe insanity.
;)
:)
Well said!
Frankly I think it must be a troll, it does that "thing" to my blood pressure, y'know, where I just wanna SCREAAAM and hit the roof...
It's also over-emotionalist claptrap
~Tim
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First things that come to mind when someone queries whether "the Internet is Y2K compliant" are
a) they don't understand punctuation;
b) they don't know WTF they're talking about.
If they meant the infrastructure behind the Internet, then they should say so.
To throw in a better idea: would IPv6 make it any more "Y2K-compliant"?
~Tim
--
... but what part of Security Through Obscurity is any more mature than some "admin" chanting "I bet you don't know my password, ner ner"?
m p/sh.root.sh :)
I knew there was a reason we were told to keep passwords "uncrackable" (in the brute-force-utility sense of Crack), or to use Kerberos or other means of keeping things secure...
As someone who's had a machine broken into by means of an ethernet sniffer on someone with a weak (crackable) password used in two places, who was saved from a root login by various ttys being insecure, I no longer even let my passwords out from my current domain in plaintext; sometimes they don't go that far either. Ssh is only one means of doing this, but it's a bloomin' nice means.
hackmeplease:vOyo1GrTWU6Ck:10001:10001::/tmp:/t
to them too
~Tim
--
Too right... I'm only wee, with a first computer being an amstrad cpc6128 (I got a taste for junk-food young, I guess ;) but I gather there were things between the typewriters and such boxes... to think that at school I used 8086s and 8088s and 80286s and stuff... indeed, 486? Those are recent, on an evolutionary scale :)
~Tim
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I agree with the responsibility lying with the parents, entirely - and as far as I'm concerned this goes from such basic things as learning to look where they're going in a street (and maybe even learn to give way to others occasionally), table manners, and by school entry age, some elementary arithmetic.
In certain parts of the country here I've seen / heard of / encountered deficiences with all the above. The question is, how do we go about getting parents to *look after* their kids rather than expecting "The State" or "The Community" (even worse!) to do it all for them?
~Tim
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So we have ~40 comments on how quick you can install something in. How about the longest install time of a remotely modern setup?
(I'll kick the game off: 3hrs for a Debian installation, including byte-compiling emacs19 and emacs20 modules!)
~Tim
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Simple: Slashdot is "news for nerds, stuff that matters". If someone posts saying "linux can install in 4mins" someone is bound to make a *comparison* between that and another OS - given M$loth are a bit big, they're the obvious comparison.
~Tim
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Thus speaks an arrogant literalist with his eyes closed. Sad, isn't it?
~Tim
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I wonder what the proposed IPv6 namespaces would be like? And whether this "selling domain names" crap could be brought to an end - let them buy their own with no marketing conflicts?
~Tim
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fsck this for a new look!
http://e.themes.org/ is 195K of crap to download, of which the dodgy background took longest, and then they go and obliterate it with foreground crap.
Don't entirely agree about the disappearance of all-but-18 themes though.
My main worries are that the site has fixed-width frames (the horizontal scroll-bar is EVIL - and 669x864 is a perfectly reasonable size for netscape, IMO), and the DOWNLOAD links are damned obscure, just like before (when they were way off to the right).
At least the gtk themes site loads a bit faster - although this is the second time round so it's probably cached. It has taken me 3 attempts to find any such thing as a downloads page though.
Grrrr!
~Tim
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yeah... unalias rm;rm -rf / and install a real operating system.
Never was the name 'anonymous coward' more applicable; the only more applicable one is 'pillock', I think.
~Tim
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Yeah, it doesn't work here. I found on strace-ing the binary that it was having problems when the logfile didn't exist, so I touched a 0-byte log file and it still exited PDQ. As far as I'm concerned it's a crock of crap and an excuse for a ranting article about "security"... pretty useless.
~Tim
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Interesting!
Does it beat teraterm + ttssh?
(Not as though I use that these days. I'm almost totally linuxed now, just the occasional box out there that it helps to have slightly secure access from, eg at home...)
~Tim
--
Pretty well said, I think :)
Standards for html, xml et al already exist, and Micromsoft's strategy of claiming to support the standards (and generally speaking, they do, to within the limit of bugs), BUT then adding "extensions" (spit) adn using marketplace clout to push those NON-standard extensions, si what sucks. Why can't they just go through the proper channels liek the rest of us?
Out of interest, it occurs to me that the real question is, if microsoft were to produce an open-source version of MS IE 5 (or 6, standards-compliant), whether the OSS community would accept it? (Would show how rationalised the anti-microsoft bias really is and delimit justice, I guess).
Also, WHY is mozilla (which I'm pretty sure is meant to be standards-compliant from day 1) taking so long to get off the ground? It is still *far* from stable, and it's unusable as it is - I know I'm not the best qualified to talk as someone who doesn't code that much, but I don't see why it takes over a year to string together a few parsers and bits of GUI etc.
Ho hum...
~Tim
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Oh, well said that chap!!
:)
ISTM that there are plenty of geeks out there who *need* to think this supposed "Creatisnism versus Science" thing through, especially before posting here (that answers the folks who've asked why "religion" is on slashdot).
It also occurs to me that Creation-*ism* is a fundamentally wrong idea - being stuck on Creation for being-stuck's sake (the bandwagon effect) is plain idiotic, but some people do it.
And Biblical literalism (again, an "-ism" for its own sake) to the extent that the fact a lot of it is *poetry* is also daft.
Quite right, neither has the answers. Neither is the answer, nor has either all the facts to its disposal. *Both* Creation and Evolution are *theories*, subject (if done properly) to continual reform. Thus to adhere ("religiously"!) to one *or* the other is backward.
There, that's my $0.003s' worth (as a Christian
~Tim
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