first there was letters people would send, and people would try to secretly read from eachother, and govts try to read from people. pro: quite easy to detect sniffing (letter would be opened) con: cumbersome
then telephony came, again people tied to spy on eachother and the govt tried to spy on its people. pro: less cumbersome con: harder to detect sniffing
now with the internet we are in control. people 'could' get proper end-to-end encryption schemes and signatures, but generally we're too lazy. so we leave the encryption up to the protocols and therefor merely use connection encryption. the govt is now easily denied its spying rights. pros and cons aside: it's a game changer.
large govts have tried to deny us state-of-the-art encryption (the US), now they are directly demanding access at the companies that facilitate the communication. but the reality is that a youngster with a bit of interest in encryption easily sets up communication channels that the govt will never be able to access: so who want to go private, can go private. additionally the volume of communication is so high the govts will have a really hard time to scan us all.
i think the govt will at some point understand that they cannot (very specific cases aside) effectily spy on us anymore, it is simply too expensive.
i should incorporate methods of direct democracy.. please let me remind you all that the representative democracies (vote for representative who then vote in the parliament) we have today, are the result of the ancient greeks not having an internet.
early democratic societies allowed everyone to vote (everyone was defined as: all rich men). but as societies grew and the notion of everyone changed, representative democracies emerged. i say thas was merely because we did not have a read+write medium that could connect everyone in a whole nation: the internet.
so with the internet we (the people) could, should and will reclaim control over our nations. and not allow multi-million dollar lobbies to set the agenda of highly corruptible small group of people that claim to "represent" us.
i get the feeling its not just microsoft being "clever" in always offering highly discounted versions as a last resort to prevent a free software takeover. it is also governments who cleverly threat to switch to free software (back up by some actual action), on which microsoft drastically cuts price.
i think the same about china for instance. they wanted to put the whole government and education system on their red flag linux. microsoft now gives them windows+office for a couple of euros (or even less i forgot) per machine.
so i suspect free software is used as a threat in order to make microsoft cut its prices. is that a problem? i think it contributes to free software's growth in the end -- but it is surely not as beneficent as the free software actually being used to run on computers.
im traveling in china for the last 6 weeks and the state of internet connections here is very random.
domestic sites, like the immensely popular QQ and baidu, are always _very_ responsive.
google sometimes gets a slow down to the extend that it is nearly unusable (that really help people here to move over to the super fast and slightly more chineese friendly baidu).
the main thing is the randomness, if it is connectivity/ congestion issues, or some conspiracy: no-one knows.
strange this hasn't been mentioned yet (over i overlooked it)..
when using a condom the foreskin cannot move freely. the foreskin is (in my opinion, and by just counting the nerve ends) more important than the head of the penis for sex. it also (in my opinion) helps keeping the vagina lubricated nicely, and naturally.
so when using a condom the foreskin doesn't move: missing that pleasure and have to use some artificial lube. no problem for me: i keeps some lube with my condoms and beeing a litte less sensitive can have its advantages (as the foreskin-less amoung us often advocate). i rather have the sexual freedom that condoms bring me.
so solution: sell each condom with a small package of lube (preferable high quality like durex sensilube), that, to me, would solve half of the problems associated with condoms.
good luck with the research!
(ohh.. just to mention: several girls have told me that the condoms+lube thing also made the sex better for them, especially in the end of a session)
this is what i like about slashdot, they also tell you how things end.
most news sources rant big on 'scandals', 'big changes', etc. but the news that it all ended with out much effect does usually not make it to a head line.
i remember debian compensated some people to get 4.0 out quickly... this complicated things; some unpaid contributers to the debian project protested by working very slow. the compensation policy had the opposite effect of what was intended.
i also think that a large part of the reason for FLOSS to be of high(er) quality (than proprietary software) is that it is written from for fun and from passion. people dont like to produce low quality stuff for fun and from passion. nope, that kind of stuff is produced for money, e.g. compensations!
so: sun, please dont pay us, but make some anonymous donations to some projects without letting know why you did it. this will keep us healthy.
this semantic web is not made for today or yesterday: it is made for the future. of course there are obstacles. but if the amount of available online content grows as rapidly as predicted we need a better way to find what we want: we need machine understandable annotations.
so the semantic web fails right now. but your google queries fail you in the future, then what? maybe then the semantic web will also make sense to to the guy who wrote this article.
the free software movement should thanks MS, afteral it was MS up-tight policies that cauzed so much pain that massively drove developers into volunteeringly developing an alternative in order to never suffer from the closed source.
revolutions need a motivation, thanks MS for beeing a large pain in the a... ehh.. motivation!
we needed a common enemy figure, a black sheep, a well known target for our jokes. you have served us well i guess...
now it is time to leave, you served your purpose in this world, and (in directly and unknowingly) you made this world a better place.
dear MS, we will remember you long after you go bankrupt of not beeing able to succeed in the software as a service market: it was nice having such a good (anti) example!
okay in theory one cannot link any binairy blob with the kernel and redistribute it, this is forbidden by the (strong copy-left of the) GPL. but if Linus wants to allow this why not put Linux under a license with a weaker copyleft, like the LGPL?
at the current situation i think the kernel devs are right when they feel the GPL is violated.
i thinks this must be mainly mac ans windows installs, linux user mostly use a package that is build by their distro and shipped from the distibutions package servers. for instance i just did a "sudo apt-get upgrade" on kubuntu 6.10-rcX.
i don't think the mozilla team can actually measure these amounts.
Linux (the 'L' in the acronym) is still cool isn't it? I don't see him argue against Linux, and he better not be. (okay it can easily be replace by another kernel like FreeBSD)
Apache is still hot i think, especially for feature richness and privillige systems it rocks. For a small webserver i'd prefer http://lighttpd.net/, http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/ or http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/. But yeah, the 'A' in LAMP is still okay (not that the author argues this, heay _he_ claims LAMP == BASIC).
MySQL has some very nice features (mainly clustering), that leaves other opensource dbs far behind. I personally prefer to use a db as 'fast yet dumb storage', that is my personal preference, and that makes MySQL a perfect candidate.
But the 'P' as in PHP, or according to some Perl aswell. Yeah i deffinitly think these to languages have been superceded by far. I concider Ruby, PHP, and Java superior choises in an opensource environment.
So its that 'P' in LAMP that, IMHO, is the BASIC of today... Hard to maintain, hard to write well. Yups, I'd say: DROP IT.
I agree with the parent (first without IDE than imo with Eclipse) for Java. But with Python I would teach without an IDE simply because an IDE does not have so much to offer for an dynamically typed language.
Dyn. typed languages are nice to teach in conjunction with other goodies like a the (in case of python) python-console (make shure to have readline in there for the [TAB] autocompletion funtionality).
how many times do people have to be told how the driver issue works on linux (and other free/open operating systems)...
this is not a WLAN issue, neither a linux issue! just an issue of closed consumer hardware (in your case WLAN) and 1 or 2 mainstream consumer operating systems (that are also closed).
personally i think this is a pretty lame slashdot cover story. it should, again IMO, have been in the 'Ask' section, or not posted at all.
so what do you do if you want hardware that works on linux: (my 15 y.o. sister already knows the answer) 1. first read on the internet if it has linux drivers/ succes stories 2. if so: then buy
this is how it works, has worked, and will continue to work for at least upcoming few years. you either get used to this prcedure, or buy hardware that might not work.
note: some people buy unsopported hardware and reverse engeneer a driver for it. these people make a differnece to the freesoftware movement.
In the article (10oct) you read about the next RDT release 0.6, which is out since 29nov:
**** 0.6.0 Released (2005-09-29)
Release 0.6.0 is out: read the news, check the documentation, download and enjoy, feedback very much appreciated! ****
more:
**** The new features of 0.6.0 are [...]: Code Folding - Folding can be enabled for classes and methods Outline view - more detailed, e.g. support for local variables RI view - use Ruby's ri utility from an RDT view Task tags - creates tasks for configurable keywords (like TODO, FIXME) in ruby comments Editor improvements - Auto-complete of brackets, parens, and single/double quotes; better code-assist Inspection shortcuts - Configurable shortcuts for frequently used inspections during a debug session, like showing all methods of an object, global constants and so on. ****
okay, okay... we all still have to test it. but this has good potential to become _the_ distribution. It performs we on both the server side with (with standards, service, licencing, training, certifying, oracle, etc. etc.), and on the desktop side (with loads of UI improvements, YaST, quicker booting, suspend to disk, automatic network configuring).
And it seems that also the doing well on both the corporate (Novell Desktop, SuSE entreprise) and the freesoftware side with this glorious new release.
i really whish OpenSuse the best, yet im not installing right now since 9.3 still does all i need and i have a lack of spare time already. but i will be soon!
Jabber servers can have bridges (gateways [1]) to other IM networks. Currently all big IM networks can be reached this way. Not all without hassle, but it is possible.
iirc, iChat is also some sort of extention to the Jabber protocol.
I hope google will do this, based on a true OpenSource/Standard implementation. This will the hopefully take of big, like gmail did. And they will probably come up with a funky webinterface to it.
Still many are using hotmail/MSN in my country (holland) and i rather see these to things disappear.
Now finally the community might have a chance to make and totally apt based SuSE.
Currently it is possible http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ to have apt run on top of an existing SuSE but not as the default installation medium. I feel that apt is the one thing that stand in between of SuSE and perfection.
The current (YaST/RPM) based solution is not too bad, but it is just too slow. Seaches in the package database take ages. And, iirc, it cannot do multiple downloads at the same time.
Right now im installing SuSE 9.3 from the default http site. I thought it was released to the public more than a weak ago, but it still is not on the mirrors. It right now is about to take 6 hours to download 1.3 gig of packages. amazing.
but afterall i still feel suse is the best (most polished) desktop distro arround.
im looking forward to what this move will bring us.
Nokia is currently doing 2 WebKit (based on KHTML/KJS by the KDE project) related webbrowsers:
1) for 770/maemo this will be shipped with an opera-browser, but WebKit was ported to GTK+ (the toolkit used by maemo) as part of the feasability study. This port can be found under the name gtk-webkit and is used for the atlantis browser.
2) for the Series60 (Symbian based) For this series Nokia is porting WebKit to the Symbian OS and Symbian toolkit, and will thus create a new browser.
i see many opst here and i wonder if y'all know that HURD has a key feature, namely:
>>it should become possible to replace a running kernel
in other words NEVER REBOOT AGAIN!
in practise this is still hard to accomplish: but at least people are working on it. and yes, to implement this takes time.
tell that to this bitch: HeelToe (615905)
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Would the/. crow like this extra attribute (rel="nofollow") on all the links in comments.
This you you cannot gain some revenue anymore for your little website by putting a link in your sig.
I PROPOSE A POLL!
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1. WTF!? 2. Yes, of course. 3. No! that will kill the google rating for my homepage! 4. Yes, except links pointing to OSTG websites 5. Yes, except links pointing to cowboyneal.org
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first there was letters people would send, and people would try to secretly read from eachother, and govts try to read from people.
pro: quite easy to detect sniffing (letter would be opened)
con: cumbersome
then telephony came, again people tied to spy on eachother and the govt tried to spy on its people.
pro: less cumbersome
con: harder to detect sniffing
now with the internet we are in control. people 'could' get proper end-to-end encryption schemes and signatures, but generally we're too lazy. so we leave the encryption up to the protocols and therefor merely use connection encryption. the govt is now easily denied its spying rights.
pros and cons aside: it's a game changer.
large govts have tried to deny us state-of-the-art encryption (the US), now they are directly demanding access at the companies that facilitate the communication. but the reality is that a youngster with a bit of interest in encryption easily sets up communication channels that the govt will never be able to access: so who want to go private, can go private. additionally the volume of communication is so high the govts will have a really hard time to scan us all.
i think the govt will at some point understand that they cannot (very specific cases aside) effectily spy on us anymore, it is simply too expensive.
i should incorporate methods of direct democracy.. please let me remind you all that the representative democracies (vote for representative who then vote in the parliament) we have today, are the result of the ancient greeks not having an internet.
early democratic societies allowed everyone to vote (everyone was defined as: all rich men). but as societies grew and the notion of everyone changed, representative democracies emerged. i say thas was merely because we did not have a read+write medium that could connect everyone in a whole nation: the internet.
so with the internet we (the people) could, should and will reclaim control over our nations. and not allow multi-million dollar lobbies to set the agenda of highly corruptible small group of people that claim to "represent" us.
http://truetopiaproject.org
i get the feeling its not just microsoft being "clever" in always offering highly discounted versions as a last resort to prevent a free software takeover. it is also governments who cleverly threat to switch to free software (back up by some actual action), on which microsoft drastically cuts price.
i think the same about china for instance. they wanted to put the whole government and education system on their red flag linux. microsoft now gives them windows+office for a couple of euros (or even less i forgot) per machine.
so i suspect free software is used as a threat in order to make microsoft cut its prices. is that a problem? i think it contributes to free software's growth in the end -- but it is surely not as beneficent as the free software actually being used to run on computers.
im traveling in china for the last 6 weeks and the state of internet connections here is very random.
domestic sites, like the immensely popular QQ and baidu, are always _very_ responsive.
google sometimes gets a slow down to the extend that it is nearly unusable (that really help people here to move over to the super fast and slightly more chineese friendly baidu).
the main thing is the randomness, if it is connectivity/ congestion issues, or some conspiracy: no-one knows.
strange this hasn't been mentioned yet (over i overlooked it)..
when using a condom the foreskin cannot move freely. the foreskin is (in my opinion, and by just counting the nerve ends) more important than the head of the penis for sex. it also (in my opinion) helps keeping the vagina lubricated nicely, and naturally.
so when using a condom the foreskin doesn't move: missing that pleasure and have to use some artificial lube. no problem for me: i keeps some lube with my condoms and beeing a litte less sensitive can have its advantages (as the foreskin-less amoung us often advocate).
i rather have the sexual freedom that condoms bring me.
so solution: sell each condom with a small package of lube (preferable high quality like durex sensilube), that, to me, would solve half of the problems associated with condoms.
good luck with the research!
(ohh.. just to mention: several girls have told me that the condoms+lube thing also made the sex better for them, especially in the end of a session)
this is what i like about slashdot, they also tell you how things end.
most news sources rant big on 'scandals', 'big changes', etc. but the news that it all ended with out much effect does usually not make it to a head line.
thank you slashdot.
i remember debian compensated some people to get 4.0 out quickly... this complicated things; some unpaid contributers to the debian project protested by working very slow. the compensation policy had the opposite effect of what was intended.
i also think that a large part of the reason for FLOSS to be of high(er) quality (than proprietary software) is that it is written from for fun and from passion. people dont like to produce low quality stuff for fun and from passion. nope, that kind of stuff is produced for money, e.g. compensations!
so: sun, please dont pay us, but make some anonymous donations to some projects without letting know why you did it. this will keep us healthy.
this semantic web is not made for today or yesterday: it is made for the future. of course there are obstacles. but if the amount of available online content grows as rapidly as predicted we need a better way to find what we want: we need machine understandable annotations.
so the semantic web fails right now. but your google queries fail you in the future, then what? maybe then the semantic web will also make sense to to the guy who wrote this article.
clever move microsoft! (not)
asking bloggers not to blog about a secret deal...
the free software movement should thanks MS, afteral it was MS up-tight policies that cauzed so much pain that massively drove developers into volunteeringly developing an alternative in order to never suffer from the closed source.
revolutions need a motivation, thanks MS for beeing a large pain in the a... ehh.. motivation!
we needed a common enemy figure, a black sheep, a well known target for our jokes.
you have served us well i guess...
now it is time to leave, you served your purpose in this world, and (in directly and unknowingly) you made this world a better place.
dear MS, we will remember you long after you go bankrupt of not beeing able to succeed in the software as a service market: it was nice having such a good (anti) example!
okay in theory one cannot link any binairy blob with the kernel and redistribute it, this is forbidden by the (strong copy-left of the) GPL.
but if Linus wants to allow this why not put Linux under a license with a weaker copyleft, like the LGPL?
at the current situation i think the kernel devs are right when they feel the GPL is violated.
cies breijs.
i thinks this must be mainly mac ans windows installs, linux user mostly use a package that is build by their distro and shipped from the distibutions package servers. for instance i just did a "sudo apt-get upgrade" on kubuntu 6.10-rcX.
i don't think the mozilla team can actually measure these amounts.
Linux (the 'L' in the acronym) is still cool isn't it? I don't see him argue against Linux, and he better not be. (okay it can easily be replace by another kernel like FreeBSD)
Apache is still hot i think, especially for feature richness and privillige systems it rocks. For a small webserver i'd prefer http://lighttpd.net/, http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/ or http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/. But yeah, the 'A' in LAMP is still okay (not that the author argues this, heay _he_ claims LAMP == BASIC).
MySQL has some very nice features (mainly clustering), that leaves other opensource dbs far behind. I personally prefer to use a db as 'fast yet dumb storage', that is my personal preference, and that makes MySQL a perfect candidate.
But the 'P' as in PHP, or according to some Perl aswell. Yeah i deffinitly think these to languages have been superceded by far. I concider Ruby, PHP, and Java superior choises in an opensource environment.
So its that 'P' in LAMP that, IMHO, is the BASIC of today... Hard to maintain, hard to write well. Yups, I'd say: DROP IT.
Cies Breijs.
Please Mozilla, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, et al,
Please you with your hard earned 20-35% of share in the browser market,
Please BOYCOTT this format to make shure it will not be another way to for M$ to control the internet,
Please.
Cies Breijs.
I agree with the parent (first without IDE than imo with Eclipse) for Java. But with Python I would teach without an IDE simply because an IDE does not have so much to offer for an dynamically typed language.
Dyn. typed languages are nice to teach in conjunction with other goodies like a the (in case of python) python-console (make shure to have readline in there for the [TAB] autocompletion funtionality).
Cies Breijs.
how many times do people have to be told how the driver issue works on linux (and other free/open operating systems)...
this is not a WLAN issue, neither a linux issue!
just an issue of closed consumer hardware (in your case WLAN) and 1 or 2 mainstream consumer operating systems (that are also closed).
personally i think this is a pretty lame slashdot cover story. it should, again IMO, have been in the 'Ask' section, or not posted at all.
so what do you do if you want hardware that works on linux:
(my 15 y.o. sister already knows the answer)
1. first read on the internet if it has linux drivers/ succes stories
2. if so: then buy
this is how it works, has worked, and will continue to work for at least upcoming few years. you either get used to this prcedure, or buy hardware that might not work.
note: some people buy unsopported hardware and reverse engeneer a driver for it. these people make a differnece to the freesoftware movement.
Ruby indeed needs a good IDE to really shine!
h angelog.txt
In the article (10oct) you read about the next RDT release 0.6, which is out since 29nov:
****
0.6.0 Released (2005-09-29)
Release 0.6.0 is out: read the news, check the documentation, download and enjoy, feedback very much appreciated!
****
more:
****
The new features of 0.6.0 are [...]:
Code Folding - Folding can be enabled for classes and methods
Outline view - more detailed, e.g. support for local variables
RI view - use Ruby's ri utility from an RDT view
Task tags - creates tasks for configurable keywords (like TODO, FIXME) in ruby comments
Editor improvements - Auto-complete of brackets, parens, and single/double quotes; better code-assist
Inspection shortcuts - Configurable shortcuts for frequently used inspections during a debug session, like showing all methods of an object, global constants and so on.
****
full changelog:
http://rubyeclipse.sourceforge.net/nightlyBuild/C
cheers!
Cies Breijs
okay, okay... we all still have to test it. but this has good potential to become _the_ distribution. It performs we on both the server side with (with standards, service, licencing, training, certifying, oracle, etc. etc.), and on the desktop side (with loads of UI improvements, YaST, quicker booting, suspend to disk, automatic network configuring).
And it seems that also the doing well on both the corporate (Novell Desktop, SuSE entreprise) and the freesoftware side with this glorious new release.
i really whish OpenSuse the best, yet im not installing right now since 9.3 still does all i need and i have a lack of spare time already. but i will be soon!
if you are installing make shure to check out:
http://www.suseforums.net/ -- all things suse inlcuding community support, and
http://packman.links2linux.org/ -- the missing (some times not fully legal) mulitmedia packages.
g'luck,
Cies Breijs.
Jabber servers can have bridges (gateways [1]) to other IM networks. Currently all big IM networks can be reached this way. Not all without hassle, but it is possible.
iirc, iChat is also some sort of extention to the Jabber protocol.
I hope google will do this, based on a true OpenSource/Standard implementation. This will the hopefully take of big, like gmail did. And they will probably come up with a funky webinterface to it.
Still many are using hotmail/MSN in my country (holland) and i rather see these to things disappear.
[1] http://www.jabber.org/user/userguide/#usegateways
Now finally the community might have a chance to make and totally apt based SuSE.
Currently it is possible http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ to have apt run on top of an existing SuSE but not as the default installation medium. I feel that apt is the one thing that stand in between of SuSE and perfection.
The current (YaST/RPM) based solution is not too bad, but it is just too slow. Seaches in the package database take ages. And, iirc, it cannot do multiple downloads at the same time.
Right now im installing SuSE 9.3 from the default http site. I thought it was released to the public more than a weak ago, but it still is not on the mirrors. It right now is about to take 6 hours to download 1.3 gig of packages. amazing.
but afterall i still feel suse is the best (most polished) desktop distro arround.
im looking forward to what this move will bring us.
cies breijs.
Nokia is currently doing 2 WebKit (based on KHTML/KJS by the KDE project) related webbrowsers:
7 70
1) for 770/maemo
this will be shipped with an opera-browser, but WebKit was ported to GTK+ (the toolkit used by maemo) as part of the feasability study. This port can be found under the name gtk-webkit and is used for the atlantis browser.
2) for the Series60 (Symbian based)
For this series Nokia is porting WebKit to the Symbian OS and Symbian toolkit, and will thus create a new browser.
links:
http://khtml.info/
http://kde.org/
http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/
http://www.akcaagac.com/index_atlantis.html
http://www.series60.com/
http://www.symbian.com/
http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,1522,,00.html?orig=/
http://www.maemo.org/
g'luck...
Cies Breijs
yep, kexec is nice, yet the hurd 'should' -in theory- be able to do this while the whole system keeps running.
i see many opst here and i wonder if y'all know that HURD has a key feature, namely:
>>it should become possible to replace a running kernel
in other words NEVER REBOOT AGAIN!
in practise this is still hard to accomplish: but at least people are working on it. and yes, to implement this takes time.
tell that to this bitch:6 &cid=118 02232
HeelToe (615905)
who just -- one minute before you Krypto420 -- wrote:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=14086
Would the /. crow like this extra attribute (rel="nofollow") on all the links in comments.
./
This you you cannot gain some revenue anymore for your little website by putting a link in your sig.
I PROPOSE A POLL!
should we add rel="nofollow" to comment links on
1. WTF!?
2. Yes, of course.
3. No! that will kill the google rating for my homepage!
4. Yes, except links pointing to OSTG websites
5. Yes, except links pointing to cowboyneal.org
cheers,
_cies.