The announcement says that they are no longer selling it as "BSD/OS". I'm fairly certain that they are using the core technology in their embedded systems now and not bothering with a full-fledged OS. It's called getting back to their core business.
I'm fairly certain that as part of WinFS it will attempt to auto-organize your "files" into "folders" based on common classifications. Your job will be to fix the mistakes!
I honestly don't think the undertaking is as "enormous" as Microsoft makes it out to be. Their main problem is probably because they are attempting to integrate an sql server into the kernel and all filesystem layers. Seems to me that it would be more efficient for something like Nautilus/Konqueror to interface with an existing SQL server to do it's own indexing of files and build your pseudo-VFS layer itself. Then it would be portable.
Whether or not the Linux crowd believes these allegations, someone within the community needs to take some serious time and legal effort to address these concerns. Ignoring or laughing at them won't make it go away, and I can easily imagine every corporate lawyer type calling up the CIO/CTO and saying "halt all linux deployments NOW!" As a BSD-ite I can sympathize and say that the sooner you get this over with the better.
Having read the entire report and reviewed the included code, many of the "bugs" are likely not bugs in apache but in their software.
Without a doubt, this kind of report is one that should NEVER be "published" widely. It is nothing more than what everyone is saying -- a list of suspicious code. Before calling these "defects", it would be absolutely necessary to hand review every single one. This whole report stinks of pure, insubstantiated FUD.
On a side note, they are including APACHE code but I do not see the Apache license included anywhere. By my readings of the ASL, they are in violation of the first clause by publishing this report!
29 possible "null dereferences" and 2 possible "uninitialized variables". Some of them are simple "fail to check return value of malloc() for null", and others are not bugs in the code but bugs in the logic of the scanner. This is, of course, a precursory review of their document. All in all, these are absolutely minor bugs if they are real at all.
Unfortunately, the new smp-aware/optimized scheduler does not play well with KSE yet. It seems to work just fine with libthr but there are signal delivery problems with KSE that result in unkillable processes spinning endlessly. That said, it works fantastic with the old scheduler.
FreeBSD has a number of projects that are nearing production-ready that will greatly enhance an already incredible OS!
Just be happy that people are using Linux. IMO this kind of public outcry over this -- especially with the comment that you could take advantage of the source to use for your own purposes, with no reimbursement for their development costs -- drives people to the open willing arms of the BSD folks (which includes myself). This kind of inflexibility in working with commercial entities while OSS is still in the infancy of corporate adoption just turns them away.
We beat the first host detection with "options RANDOM_IP_ID" and we will beat this one with "options IPSTEALTH". Quite simple!
Oh, and you don't really want to do that kind of thing outside the TCP stack since it is much much better at moving packets. Firewalls are for denying and allowing. NAT is for... NAT. TCP stacks are for packet processing.
I think that this is along the same lines as what the cable companies used to do. Before the "deregulation" or "reform" or whatever you want to call it, they charged per TV. Either some court or the FCC decided that this was not permissible, that they were only allowed to charge up to your home, and that what you do in your home is none of their business. Nothing you do in your home (that is LEGAL) can allow you to extract more from the service beyond pulling a little extra current (I suppose, but I'm no expert).
This exact decision/thinking should apply to ISP's. They provide a hookup and what you do with it is your business, and they have no right to know as long as what you are doing is legal.
These damn "Terms of Service" agreements and clickwrap licenses make consumers give away their rights before they know they have them. It's terrible.
Huh? What do you think Linux users are? You are a small group of users, compared to Windows users. You are just being asses by not wanting to use Windows.
Give me a break. What would you say if Microsoft released "Microsoft Linux", or "Microsoft BSD", or "Red Hat Windows"?
A small group of users picking on an even smaller group of users.
That's for very expensive units that do postprocessing of the (I believe) pseudorange data that most handhelds don't output, as well as other corrections. Some require a link to another station to apply corrections. This is only found in survey-grade consumer GPS equipment.
Sorry, that is not entirely true. It creates more wealth for the upper class, while draining wealth from the middle class. It widens the gap between classes. It creates serfdom.
No kidding. Someone mod up the parent. I read over a year ago that the US Military had the capaibility to selectively deny GPS signals by geographic areas and that this was one of the reasons they turned off SA. This kind of anti-US FUD should not be posted at will. The front page link should be updated with a story to the contrary.
I'm sorry, but I must say that much of this article seems to be whining that Apple went with KHTML instead of Gecko.
Opera has become my browser of choice. It's interface is not weighted down by the complex XUL. It creates new windows lightning quick, and loads the content much faster. I have a native FreeBSD version that supports nice AA fonts, and looks fabulous. For some reason, it's tabbed layout seems absolutely natural, whereas all the other browsers' tabs seem forced.
I personally think that the current model for bandwidth needs to be changed. Right now the bandwidth providers are eating from both ends of the stick and laughing all the way to the bank. But the fact remains that many sites are not able to pay their bandwidth bills. If content on the net is disppearing, so will users.
I would propose that content providers be given free bandwidth provided by the telcos since, after all, they are the reasons people like me pay for broadband. In effect, the consumers will subsidize the cost of the content providers. After all, that's what you really pay that $20-50/mo for... The content!
Using Opera on MS's Technet seems to show the same kind of behavior... If you have it present it self as opera you get a list of links. Change it to ANYTHING but opera and you get the real page (although the IE5 page is still the "best" page).
Typical MS...
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Yeah, right. Just because some game reviewer calls it "highly anticipated" does not make it so. Just because it gets 300 reviews from hard-core gamers proclaiming it the Best Thing Since Sliced Bread (tm) doesn't make it fabulous. It's just talking heads, so no one should be surprised. No one wants monthly fees.
I'll tell you why it tanked. Because the plot sucked and THEY KILLED DATA. OH MY FUCKING GOD THEY KILLED DATA!@!#$!@#
How many times has Data saved their assses! In the series finale, when Picard tells Data "Mr. Data you are a clever man, in any time period." it just makes me grin every time. Data in many ways the heart and soul of the crew, but in this movie he was practically falling over himself to get killed!@#$!@
No way in hell I would pay again to see a movie that they killed off my favorite character in. NO...WAY!!
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The announcement says that they are no longer selling it as "BSD/OS". I'm fairly certain that they are using the core technology in their embedded systems now and not bothering with a full-fledged OS. It's called getting back to their core business.
Now that's one I would like to see!
I'm fairly certain that as part of WinFS it will attempt to auto-organize your "files" into "folders" based on common classifications. Your job will be to fix the mistakes!
I honestly don't think the undertaking is as "enormous" as Microsoft makes it out to be. Their main problem is probably because they are attempting to integrate an sql server into the kernel and all filesystem layers. Seems to me that it would be more efficient for something like Nautilus/Konqueror to interface with an existing SQL server to do it's own indexing of files and build your pseudo-VFS layer itself. Then it would be portable.
Don't you mean the billenium? Y5B?
Whether or not the Linux crowd believes these allegations, someone within the community needs to take some serious time and legal effort to address these concerns. Ignoring or laughing at them won't make it go away, and I can easily imagine every corporate lawyer type calling up the CIO/CTO and saying "halt all linux deployments NOW!" As a BSD-ite I can sympathize and say that the sooner you get this over with the better.
Isn't e-mail nothing more than a very primitive peer-peer network? So attaching files would becoem illegal!
Replying to my own post...
Having read the entire report and reviewed the included code, many of the "bugs" are likely not bugs in apache but in their software.
Without a doubt, this kind of report is one that should NEVER be "published" widely. It is nothing more than what everyone is saying -- a list of suspicious code. Before calling these "defects", it would be absolutely necessary to hand review every single one. This whole report stinks of pure, insubstantiated FUD.
On a side note, they are including APACHE code but I do not see the Apache license included anywhere. By my readings of the ASL, they are in violation of the first clause by publishing this report!
29 possible "null dereferences" and 2 possible "uninitialized variables". Some of them are simple "fail to check return value of malloc() for null", and others are not bugs in the code but bugs in the logic of the scanner. This is, of course, a precursory review of their document. All in all, these are absolutely minor bugs if they are real at all.
Unfortunately, the new smp-aware/optimized scheduler does not play well with KSE yet. It seems to work just fine with libthr but there are signal delivery problems with KSE that result in unkillable processes spinning endlessly. That said, it works fantastic with the old scheduler.
FreeBSD has a number of projects that are nearing production-ready that will greatly enhance an already incredible OS!
Just be happy that people are using Linux. IMO this kind of public outcry over this -- especially with the comment that you could take advantage of the source to use for your own purposes, with no reimbursement for their development costs -- drives people to the open willing arms of the BSD folks (which includes myself). This kind of inflexibility in working with commercial entities while OSS is still in the infancy of corporate adoption just turns them away.
As a general rule, anyone in the OSS community who is referred to by their 3 initials is likely to be nuts.
Sounds like Ballmer and their lead kernel developers don't agree on what Linux's strengths and weaknesses are.
We beat the first host detection with "options RANDOM_IP_ID" and we will beat this one with "options IPSTEALTH". Quite simple!
... NAT. TCP stacks are for packet processing.
Oh, and you don't really want to do that kind of thing outside the TCP stack since it is much much better at moving packets. Firewalls are for denying and allowing. NAT is for
I think that this is along the same lines as what the cable companies used to do. Before the "deregulation" or "reform" or whatever you want to call it, they charged per TV. Either some court or the FCC decided that this was not permissible, that they were only allowed to charge up to your home, and that what you do in your home is none of their business. Nothing you do in your home (that is LEGAL) can allow you to extract more from the service beyond pulling a little extra current (I suppose, but I'm no expert).
This exact decision/thinking should apply to ISP's. They provide a hookup and what you do with it is your business, and they have no right to know as long as what you are doing is legal.
These damn "Terms of Service" agreements and clickwrap licenses make consumers give away their rights before they know they have them. It's terrible.
Huh? What do you think Linux users are? You are a small group of users, compared to Windows users. You are just being asses by not wanting to use Windows.
Give me a break. What would you say if Microsoft released "Microsoft Linux", or "Microsoft BSD", or "Red Hat Windows"?
A small group of users picking on an even smaller group of users.
That's for very expensive units that do postprocessing of the (I believe) pseudorange data that most handhelds don't output, as well as other corrections. Some require a link to another station to apply corrections. This is only found in survey-grade consumer GPS equipment.
Mod this guy up, he actually posted the details that I was too irritated to bother with.
Do ANY of you slashdotters actually know anything about the technology you harp about? Or maybe check the URL's...
EGNOS is the European answer to WAAS, folks, not GPS.
Sorry, that is not entirely true. It creates more wealth for the upper class, while draining wealth from the middle class. It widens the gap between classes. It creates serfdom.
No kidding. Someone mod up the parent. I read over a year ago that the US Military had the capaibility to selectively deny GPS signals by geographic areas and that this was one of the reasons they turned off SA. This kind of anti-US FUD should not be posted at will. The front page link should be updated with a story to the contrary.
I'm sorry, but I must say that much of this article seems to be whining that Apple went with KHTML instead of Gecko.
Opera has become my browser of choice. It's interface is not weighted down by the complex XUL. It creates new windows lightning quick, and loads the content much faster. I have a native FreeBSD version that supports nice AA fonts, and looks fabulous. For some reason, it's tabbed layout seems absolutely natural, whereas all the other browsers' tabs seem forced.
I personally think that the current model for bandwidth needs to be changed. Right now the bandwidth providers are eating from both ends of the stick and laughing all the way to the bank. But the fact remains that many sites are not able to pay their bandwidth bills. If content on the net is disppearing, so will users.
I would propose that content providers be given free bandwidth provided by the telcos since, after all, they are the reasons people like me pay for broadband. In effect, the consumers will subsidize the cost of the content providers. After all, that's what you really pay that $20-50/mo for... The content!
Using Opera on MS's Technet seems to show the same kind of behavior... If you have it present it self as opera you get a list of links. Change it to ANYTHING but opera and you get the real page (although the IE5 page is still the "best" page).
Typical MS...
Yeah, right. Just because some game reviewer calls it "highly anticipated" does not make it so. Just because it gets 300 reviews from hard-core gamers proclaiming it the Best Thing Since Sliced Bread (tm) doesn't make it fabulous. It's just talking heads, so no one should be surprised. No one wants monthly fees.
I'll tell you why it tanked. Because the plot sucked and THEY KILLED DATA. OH MY FUCKING GOD THEY KILLED DATA!@!#$!@#
:(
How many times has Data saved their assses! In the series finale, when Picard tells Data "Mr. Data you are a clever man, in any time period." it just makes me grin every time. Data in many ways the heart and soul of the crew, but in this movie he was practically falling over himself to get killed!@#$!@
No way in hell I would pay again to see a movie that they killed off my favorite character in. NO...WAY!!
RIP DATA!