It was bound to come up eventually. The Freetype page explaining the issue that was already mentioned was last updated in March 2000. Which is to say, this has been a known issue for quite some time.
And to clarify your confusion, I wasn't referring to BSD at any point in my post.
Most security exploits are in userland daemons, not the kernel itself.
...in Linux.
Which is a response to the comment by Oz:
normaly when an exploit is found in *BSD it is typicaly fixed faster than in linux just because how they have 'there system of makeing the system' setup. They have a core team that can say 'yeah we need this' or 'no' and in linux its just linus.
I was pointing out that "its just linus" is usually not the case, because such exploits tend to be in userland, not the kernel.
Most security exploits are in userland daemons, not the kernel itself. As such, it's up to the package maintainers to handle fixes, and this is generally done quite fast.
Now, I'm only going to argue semantics on this one. "Easy" is subjective. You're right, it's easy to look into the document and edit it, but that doesn't make editing easy. I can easily look into a MS Word document and edit it. That doesn't mean I'll do anything useful, nor does it mean it'll be fast.
Granted. I imagine things will get easier as editors become more widespread that are geared towards editing XML documents. The editor could make sure you stay within the DTD, speed up the writing time involved.. Until then it's all being done by hand.
Well, you obviously know what you're talking about:) The reason why I replied to that post was that while it might be implied to you and me, it might not be implied to everything. The tone of that post struck me as, "Use XML - it's easy and simple," whereas using XML is not necessarily so simple nor easy. Lots of work to be done if you'll be writing your own DTD, and lots of learning to do if you don't.
Yeah, looking over the original post again, he probably should've been more clear. It sounds like he's been using XML for awhile, and forgot about the issues involved in actually learning it.:) Fortunately most of the work is initial stuff.
No, if you want to think about using XML for this, you need to talk about the DTD, not XML itself.
I think it's safe to assume that defining a DTD was implied. It's simply easier to say "Use XML" than to say "Write a good DTD to use with XML".
So, the question becomes, which DTD? In order to compete with the competition(LaTeX, HTML, PostScript)
That's just the point. It doesn't need to compete with other formats. The process goes something like this: Write a good DTD that fulfills all your needs, and allows for easy extension and specialization later on. Then, write XSL for exporting the format to whatever other formats are useful. HTML obviously for web display, PostScript for printing, maybe one for PDF, even. (Though encouraging the use of PDF probably isn't any better than encouraging the use of Word's DOC)
it has to be: device-independant, easily rendered, easily edited, and extremely comprehensive.
How could it possibly be device-dependent? This is just text, we're talking about.
Easy rendering has nothing to do with the XML DTD or document, that's the responsibility of the XSL that would accompany it, or the application that parses the document.
Easy editing is pretty straightforward. Just edit it. This goes along with comprehensive. A good DTD can be comprehensive, but it can also leave room for extension without breaking that document. It is, after all, the extensible markup language.
Don't shout "XML!!". XML, without a DTD, is almost useless, especially for this application. The DTD has to be all those things I mentioned, plus(for this application), it needs to be standard.
I wouldn't say XML without a DTD is useless, but I will say XML without a DTD is silly. It's a simple, logical assumption that if you're writing XML documents, they should have a DTD, so you know what's allowed. Like I said before, it seems like this would be implied.
If public schools that receive federal money have to censor their net access, it only seems fair that Congressional offices themselves should censor their net access as well. After all, aren't they federally funded too? And if we want to protect our nation's youth, surely we should also protect our nation's leaders.
Doing the "bare minimum" (Visions of Office Space flashing by) may work for now, but if this strategy began being used in many institutions, it'd only be a matter of time before Congress adjusts the requirements to say something like "effectively blocks most objectionable content" or whatever. Requirements can change.
Wandering off muttering to myself...
I can't believe people actually wanted McCain to be President. Imagine what kind of world we'd live in if he had won.
Since Gaim is GPL'd, MSN incorporating Gaim simply isn't an option. But that's just a nitpick.
MSN Messenger -was- compatible with AIM, but AOL tweaked the protocol to break that compatibility (Learning from the masters, as it were) If they had left MSN and AIM compatible, this wouldn't even be an issue and we'd be one happy United States of Corporate America.
Insert obligatory "Oregon doesn't like California" remark here.
Look, up here in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon and Washington have built record numbers of wind generation systems, and natural gas turbines are being put in place.
Out of curiousity, where are these record numbers of wind turbines located?
the California legislature has to take action yesterday and build environmentally-friendly power plants yesterday.
This is California we're talking about. Environmental concerns aren't exactly a high priority.
I noticed this post on dot.kde.org some time last week, and I still haven't come up with a reason to have my icons overlapping. It's cluttered, even if they can blend.
However, an icon that blends with the background would be cool. AFAIK, this isn't really possible as long as you're using the X root window for the background, though.
It's not exactly a new thing in the whois database. Rather than post information about Bob Woodward, the Account Rep who pays the NSI bill, assign your billing contact to "Internet Accounting".
Technical contact should almost always be a role anyway, to save great amounts of trouble when your IT guy with his name on all your domains leaves. Any self-respecting ISP that registers domain names frequently will have a generic internic@isp.com or something similar for interfacing with domain registration.
As much as I appriciate Mozilla's efforts to make a better browser...
I don't want to surf the web from inside a complete application development environment!
I don't care if the entire interface can be customized with XUL! I don't care if you can write a pacman game that runs inside my web browser. And I definitely don't care if you can write a Unix shell that runs in my web browser. I just want the rendering widget itself to be powerful and, if possible, fairly efficient.
All these gtkmozembed browsers are a nice step, but gecko still makes any application pretty hungry for resources.
Okay, I wouldn't call it uninteresting. Even now I'm watching the CNN popular vote totals. When Florida went to Bush, the national popular vote spread was 600k. As I write this, it's 300k with 10% of the national vote still to be counted. It's entirely possible that Gore could take the popular vote.
What I mean by 'more interesting', is that each state could be represented more accurately. For example, voters would feel more free to vote for a third party because it wouldn't directly hurt their favorite of the lesser of two evils. That is, people could vote for Nader without their vote essentially going to Bush. I think that distinction would've shifted more votes to the third party, but I'm probably just being too optimistic.
My childhood before age 4 or 5 (When school started) was dominated by vast tupperware tubs of legos, at home with my sister and my mother.
Sadly, I think kids today are, instead, innundated with poor cartoon programming and cheesy action figure toys. Nothing that fires the imagination and inspires creativity more than a big pile of building blocks. How can you become an engineer if you don't build a bridge from the couch to the coffee table at age 3?!
Remember, the person you are going to be is pretty much defined by the age of 6 (I cannot give a specific footnote here, sorry), and this interaction is very important.
...And as such, I don't want who my children become to be influenced by a day care employee more than myself or my wife. No thanks.
Is it just me, or was the student punished academically (His student record will reflect the suspension) for an action that had nothing to do with his academic abilities?
I mean sure, colleges look at extracirricular activites when they consider students. But how does suspension for disrupting a football game even begin to make sense?
That may be true, but as a condition of being a citizen of a country, you can be obligated to help protect that country. It's not an unreasonable expectation, imho. After all, either that or your taxes will just go up to pay professionals to defend your country. Well, or you can be neutral and just pray nobody attacks you.
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It was bound to come up eventually. The Freetype page explaining the issue that was already mentioned was last updated in March 2000. Which is to say, this has been a known issue for quite some time.
And to clarify your confusion, I wasn't referring to BSD at any point in my post.
Most security exploits are in userland daemons, not the kernel itself.
...in Linux.
Which is a response to the comment by Oz:
normaly when an exploit is found in *BSD it is typicaly fixed faster than in linux just because how they have 'there system of makeing the system' setup. They have a core team that can say 'yeah we need this' or 'no' and in linux its just linus.
I was pointing out that "its just linus" is usually not the case, because such exploits tend to be in userland, not the kernel.
I sighed a miserable sigh at Borders a few days ago when I spotted two books on the shelves:
Gnome for Linux for Dummies
and
KDE for Linux for Dummies
Whether or not they're any good is for someone else to determine, I find the whole idea very disconcerting.
Most security exploits are in userland daemons, not the kernel itself. As such, it's up to the package maintainers to handle fixes, and this is generally done quite fast.
Now, I'm only going to argue semantics on this one. "Easy" is subjective. You're right, it's easy to look into the document and edit it, but that doesn't make editing easy. I can easily look into a MS Word document and edit it. That doesn't mean I'll do anything useful, nor does it mean it'll be fast.
:) The reason why I replied to that post was that while it might be implied to you and me, it might not be implied to everything. The tone of that post struck me as, "Use XML - it's easy and simple," whereas using XML is not necessarily so simple nor easy. Lots of work to be done if you'll be writing your own DTD, and lots of learning to do if you don't.
:) Fortunately most of the work is initial stuff.
:)
Granted. I imagine things will get easier as editors become more widespread that are geared towards editing XML documents. The editor could make sure you stay within the DTD, speed up the writing time involved.. Until then it's all being done by hand.
Well, you obviously know what you're talking about
Yeah, looking over the original post again, he probably should've been more clear. It sounds like he's been using XML for awhile, and forgot about the issues involved in actually learning it.
Been fun.
Did XML kidnap your cat?
No, if you want to think about using XML for this, you need to talk about the DTD, not XML itself.
I think it's safe to assume that defining a DTD was implied. It's simply easier to say "Use XML" than to say "Write a good DTD to use with XML".
So, the question becomes, which DTD? In order to compete with the competition(LaTeX, HTML, PostScript)
That's just the point. It doesn't need to compete with other formats. The process goes something like this: Write a good DTD that fulfills all your needs, and allows for easy extension and specialization later on. Then, write XSL for exporting the format to whatever other formats are useful. HTML obviously for web display, PostScript for printing, maybe one for PDF, even. (Though encouraging the use of PDF probably isn't any better than encouraging the use of Word's DOC)
it has to be: device-independant, easily rendered, easily edited, and extremely comprehensive.
How could it possibly be device-dependent? This is just text, we're talking about.
Easy rendering has nothing to do with the XML DTD or document, that's the responsibility of the XSL that would accompany it, or the application that parses the document.
Easy editing is pretty straightforward. Just edit it. This goes along with comprehensive. A good DTD can be comprehensive, but it can also leave room for extension without breaking that document. It is, after all, the extensible markup language.
Don't shout "XML!!". XML, without a DTD, is almost useless, especially for this application. The DTD has to be all those things I mentioned, plus(for this application), it needs to be standard.
I wouldn't say XML without a DTD is useless, but I will say XML without a DTD is silly. It's a simple, logical assumption that if you're writing XML documents, they should have a DTD, so you know what's allowed. Like I said before, it seems like this would be implied.
Time to stop trusting what your teachers say, kids. Next time a challenge like that comes up, get it in writing.
If public schools that receive federal money have to censor their net access, it only seems fair that Congressional offices themselves should censor their net access as well. After all, aren't they federally funded too? And if we want to protect our nation's youth, surely we should also protect our nation's leaders.
Doing the "bare minimum" (Visions of Office Space flashing by) may work for now, but if this strategy began being used in many institutions, it'd only be a matter of time before Congress adjusts the requirements to say something like "effectively blocks most objectionable content" or whatever. Requirements can change.
Wandering off muttering to myself...
I can't believe people actually wanted McCain to be President. Imagine what kind of world we'd live in if he had won.
Right?
Since Gaim is GPL'd, MSN incorporating Gaim simply isn't an option. But that's just a nitpick.
MSN Messenger -was- compatible with AIM, but AOL tweaked the protocol to break that compatibility (Learning from the masters, as it were) If they had left MSN and AIM compatible, this wouldn't even be an issue and we'd be one happy United States of Corporate America.
Insert obligatory "Oregon doesn't like California" remark here.
Look, up here in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon and Washington have built record numbers of wind generation systems, and natural gas turbines are being put in place.
Out of curiousity, where are these record numbers of wind turbines located?
the California legislature has to take action yesterday and build environmentally-friendly power plants yesterday.
This is California we're talking about. Environmental concerns aren't exactly a high priority.
I noticed this post on dot.kde.org some time last week, and I still haven't come up with a reason to have my icons overlapping. It's cluttered, even if they can blend.
However, an icon that blends with the background would be cool. AFAIK, this isn't really possible as long as you're using the X root window for the background, though.
How many ISP's can you name who Earthlink has bought up?
A couple years ago, the dominant (and first) ISP in the Portland, Oregon area was purchased by OneMain, which was recently purchased by Earthlink.
Earthlink makes such a business out of acquiring other ISP's that they have a contact page for ISP's interested in being purchased.
It's not exactly a new thing in the whois database. Rather than post information about Bob Woodward, the Account Rep who pays the NSI bill, assign your billing contact to "Internet Accounting".
Technical contact should almost always be a role anyway, to save great amounts of trouble when your IT guy with his name on all your domains leaves. Any self-respecting ISP that registers domain names frequently will have a generic internic@isp.com or something similar for interfacing with domain registration.
Now, let's be reasonable. Even if Mr. Aol and Ms. First Post decided to run, do you really expect the majority of Internet users to elect them?
Sadly, it's not much more efficient than Mozilla. I do prefer it, yes. Been using it for months.
As much as I appriciate Mozilla's efforts to make a better browser...
I don't want to surf the web from inside a complete application development environment!
I don't care if the entire interface can be customized with XUL! I don't care if you can write a pacman game that runs inside my web browser. And I definitely don't care if you can write a Unix shell that runs in my web browser. I just want the rendering widget itself to be powerful and, if possible, fairly efficient.
All these gtkmozembed browsers are a nice step, but gecko still makes any application pretty hungry for resources.
Okay, I wouldn't call it uninteresting. Even now I'm watching the CNN popular vote totals. When Florida went to Bush, the national popular vote spread was 600k. As I write this, it's 300k with 10% of the national vote still to be counted. It's entirely possible that Gore could take the popular vote.
What I mean by 'more interesting', is that each state could be represented more accurately. For example, voters would feel more free to vote for a third party because it wouldn't directly hurt their favorite of the lesser of two evils. That is, people could vote for Nader without their vote essentially going to Bush. I think that distinction would've shifted more votes to the third party, but I'm probably just being too optimistic.
Maine and Nebraska have the right idea. If all the states weren't winner-take-all, this would've been a much more interesting race.
My childhood before age 4 or 5 (When school started) was dominated by vast tupperware tubs of legos, at home with my sister and my mother.
Sadly, I think kids today are, instead, innundated with poor cartoon programming and cheesy action figure toys. Nothing that fires the imagination and inspires creativity more than a big pile of building blocks. How can you become an engineer if you don't build a bridge from the couch to the coffee table at age 3?!
Remember, the person you are going to be is pretty much defined by the age of 6 (I cannot give a specific footnote here, sorry), and this interaction is very important.
...And as such, I don't want who my children become to be influenced by a day care employee more than myself or my wife. No thanks.
Is it just me, or was the student punished academically (His student record will reflect the suspension) for an action that had nothing to do with his academic abilities?
I mean sure, colleges look at extracirricular activites when they consider students. But how does suspension for disrupting a football game even begin to make sense?
Be realistic, people. This is a well-crafted letter, written to make a point to the Linux community. But it's not Gates. Put your pants back on.
That may be true, but as a condition of being a citizen of a country, you can be obligated to help protect that country. It's not an unreasonable expectation, imho. After all, either that or your taxes will just go up to pay professionals to defend your country. Well, or you can be neutral and just pray nobody attacks you.