I wonder why it is a good idea to standardize systems with respect to security.
If we have a look at the virus and worm problems that we were encountering during the last months, it should be pretty obvious that homogeneuous systems are more vulnerable in some way than heterogeneuous ones. This is a fact which can be learned from biology.
Considering this, it is questionable if the crucial parts of an operating system should behave in a standardized way.
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Most Americans I talked to could say words like "Oktoberfest", things like "Guten Tag" and some insults. But until now I only saw one American (who has been living in Germany for years) you really could talk to in German.
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I live in Germany near the French and Luxembourg borders. Over the last years I saw many Germans working in Luxembourg and many Frenchmen buying stuff in German (and vice versa). It's no real problem.
I think it is substantial for a technician to understand how things work.
I remember a dialogue between me and a colleague some weeks ago:
Me: "Now I've got something strange: everything works the way it should, but I don't know why."
He: "So be happy, this is everything you want."
Me: "I don't think so."
As a technician, you should not be satisfied if things work - you have to know why they are and, in the case that they don't, how you get them working.
This movie sounds great to me. Does anybody know if and when it will be presented in Germany? What will it's title be?
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At the moment, I think that most of my colleagues only try to learn Unix from the surface: instead of learning how the system is built up and WHY it is built up that way, they just keep memorizing commands and their parameters.
This book could be helpful to them, I think. I'll propose that it will be bought next time:)
There are, I think two examples of open source extremes:
First, look at Mozilla: everyone knows that a browser is really one of those tools which are very important in today's desktop environment. But instead of planning and developing a fast, stable, usable one, Mozilla just implements funny, but useless things like a terminal emulator. Don't get me wrong: everybody should do whatever he wants to, but sometimes I think it would be better if we had a browser at first and then think about which nice applets could enhance it.
Another related aspect is the fact that there are so many new immature browsers (look at "Express", "Gzilla", "Mnemonic"). The developers working on these project should work together, and together with the Konqueror/KDE developers and, of course with the Mozilla people in my opinion.
Second, look at the various BSD projects: they are organized tightly, with people doing lot of work, people who make decisions and people that implement and test new features. I don't think that any of the other large open source projects is organized as good as the BSD projects.
If your keyboard has an "Alt Gr" key, maybe you bought one with European (e.g. German or French) layout.
Personally, they are perfectly usable, but for programming they are quite useless compared to a usual English/American style keyboard, because the braces ({[]}) are only reachable at an unconvenient way.
We are a German ISP and we try to use FreeBSD/OpenBSD instead of Linux, mainly because it provides a much cleaner solution - but in fact, there is no Cobalt-like thing which is BSD-based. Personally, I don't like Cobalts, but they have many advantages for people who aren't familiar with the Unix way of doing.
I don't think the ecomomic model is the cause for many people being hostile towards their government - even here in Germany there are many who don't like theirs.
And, I think the question is not whether or not the state should support its people, but to what extent it should do.
But to come back to the topic: Linux is quite widely used in Germany. A main cause for that may be the distributor SuSE who develops one of the major Linux distributions.
And, unlike e.g. FreeBSD (and most other operating systems), Linux is a European product (from Findland), that is also a cause to choose it.
As my mother tongue is German, I find it very interesting to imagine how e.g. the C language would look like if it would be based on the German language.
Some constructs, such as while() would have equivalents that sounded kind of ridiculous, I think - just because there is no literal translation of certain circumstances.
Just my $0.02, don't waste too many thoughts on them.
Whenever there is talk about the education of citizens of a certain country, someone comes with the example of showing country on the map. I don't think that such knowledge is really important. In these times it is really easy to look up such things if you have to know about them.
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I wonder why it is a good idea to standardize systems with respect to security.
If we have a look at the virus and worm problems that we were encountering during the last months, it should be pretty obvious that homogeneuous systems are more vulnerable in some way than heterogeneuous ones. This is a fact which can be learned from biology.
Considering this, it is questionable if the crucial parts of an operating system should behave in a standardized way.
Most Americans I talked to could say words like "Oktoberfest", things like "Guten Tag" and some insults. But until now I only saw one American (who has been living in Germany for years) you really could talk to in German.
I live in Germany near the French and Luxembourg borders. Over the last years I saw many Germans working in Luxembourg and many Frenchmen buying stuff in German (and vice versa). It's no real problem.
>The Brits are distrustful of anything which is
>forced upon them by those who are not elected?
So why don't they abolish monarchy?
I think it is substantial for a technician to understand how things work.
I remember a dialogue between me and a colleague some weeks ago:
Me: "Now I've got something strange: everything works the way it should, but I don't know why."
He: "So be happy, this is everything you want."
Me: "I don't think so."
As a technician, you should not be satisfied if things work - you have to know why they are and, in the case that they don't, how you get them working.
Just my $0.02.
With this acquisition, Google also obtained DejaNews' privacy problems. Remember: they don't ask anyone for the news postings to be archived.
Something to think about...
This movie sounds great to me. Does anybody know if and when it will be presented in Germany? What will it's title be?
At the moment, I think that most of my colleagues only try to learn Unix from the surface: instead of learning how the system is built up and WHY it is built up that way, they just keep memorizing commands and their parameters. :)
This book could be helpful to them, I think. I'll propose that it will be bought next time
There are, I think two examples of open source extremes:
First, look at Mozilla: everyone knows that a browser is really one of those tools which are very important in today's desktop environment. But instead of planning and developing a fast, stable, usable one, Mozilla just implements funny, but useless things like a terminal emulator. Don't get me wrong: everybody should do whatever he wants to, but sometimes I think it would be better if we had a browser at first and then think about which nice applets could enhance it.
Another related aspect is the fact that there are so many new immature browsers (look at "Express", "Gzilla", "Mnemonic"). The developers working on these project should work together, and together with the Konqueror/KDE developers and, of course with the Mozilla people in my opinion.
Second, look at the various BSD projects: they are organized tightly, with people doing lot of work, people who make decisions and people that implement and test new features. I don't think that any of the other large open source projects is organized as good as the BSD projects.
If your keyboard has an "Alt Gr" key, maybe you bought one with European (e.g. German or French) layout.
Personally, they are perfectly usable, but for programming they are quite useless compared to a usual English/American style keyboard, because the braces ({[]}) are only reachable at an unconvenient way.
We are a German ISP and we try to use FreeBSD/OpenBSD instead of Linux, mainly because it provides a much cleaner solution - but in fact, there is no Cobalt-like thing which is BSD-based. Personally, I don't like Cobalts, but they have many advantages for people who aren't familiar with the Unix way of doing.
I don't think the ecomomic model is the cause for many people being hostile towards their government - even here in Germany there are many who don't like theirs.
And, I think the question is not whether or not the state should support its people, but to what extent it should do.
But to come back to the topic: Linux is quite widely used in Germany. A main cause for that may be the distributor SuSE who develops one of the major Linux distributions.
And, unlike e.g. FreeBSD (and most other operating systems), Linux is a European product (from Findland), that is also a cause to choose it.
Just my 0.02 Euro.
To what extent does our "German flavour" in the programming style differ from an "English-only" style?
> c++ was constructed by some danish guy called stroustrup!
Yes, but the keywords that C++ uses are based on the English language, aren't they?
As my mother tongue is German, I find it very interesting to imagine how e.g. the C language would look like if it would be based on the German language.
Some constructs, such as while() would have equivalents that sounded kind of ridiculous, I think - just because there is no literal translation of certain circumstances.
Just my $0.02, don't waste too many thoughts on them.
yes, mpg123 on a 486 works, but only if you skip frames.
Whenever there is talk about the education of citizens of a certain country, someone comes with the example of showing country on the map. I don't think that such knowledge is really important. In these times it is really easy to look up such things if you have to know about them.
I think these notices have got nothing to do with root name servers.
What would I do when I am not a citizen of the US?
Who does recycle my spam then?