This is so typical of some Slashdot submitters. Any news about Microsoft is mangled into something bad about the company, regardless whether this really is the case or not.
In this case, only CURRENT versions of these programs are blocked, because they access Windows internals which causes instability on XP. They just need to be adjusted to work with XP correctly. Just like some/dev/ files changed between some version of Linux. Microsoft preventing this software from installing is like having different plugs for 220 V and 9 V devices so you won't plug your shaver directly into a high voltage outlet.
People who badmounth a company (whether it be Microsoft or another) using information like this as an argument should either shut up or be sued and punished for spreading mis-information.
It's a perfect example of double standards: when Windows crashes this is always the fault of Microsoft, not of bad drivers or programs which access Windows internals, while in fact they often are (especially video drivers). When Microsoft tries to do something about it, it's suddenly only done for promotion of their own firewall software.
Make up your mind. If you are against Microsoft for monopoly reasons or anything else, that's your right. But mangling any piece of information to something negative only hurts the credibility of the anti-Microsoft camp.
When I've worked for a couple of hours between my old CTX CRT, my eyes start to hurt. While by your reasoning the radiation isn't really a problem, even on older CRT's. Now, safe or not, this CRT strains my eyes. (Turning down brightness helps, btw.)
This, while an LCD does nothing to my eyes. It's much relaxter to them.
Just like you must not sit too close to a television.
So, me thinks there is a difference in the radiation from CRT's and LCD's, at least in eye strain.
I hope this technology makes it out into the consumer market and gives LCD panels a run for the money-- my main gripe with LCD panels is that they don't handle non-native resolutions gracefully.
That may be true, but in reality every screen size has an 'ideal' resolution. It's nice to be able to play around with resolutions, but when you want to work, there's is usually one ideal resolution that's best for the specific screen size.
Furthermore, LCD's have some pro's when compared to CRT's:
- no harmful radiation (CRT stands for Cathode Ray Tube, LCD just uses some backlighting with 'normal' light)
- lends itself perfectly for even better font smoothing (like the ClearType smoothing in, sorry I have to say, Windows XP)
On the other hand, CRT's are still better in color handling. Although the LCD on my sony picturebook gives WAY better image and color than my 6 year old 17" CTX monitor, in print shops CRT's still seem to only way (high end CRT's, that is, not the $250 crap 17" monitors you can get everywhere nowadays).
I'm a Chello subscriber in Amsterdam. Chello is the cable internet product of UPC, which has bought itself into Holland by taking over cable companies. I don't think UPC is a Dutch company itself.
Speeds are limited to 1.5 Mbps download (180 KB/s) / 128 Kbps (16 KB/s) upload, but in practice I rarely get the 180 KB/s download speeds. Download speeds have degraded over time, since I got the product over a year ago.
The worst thing, though, is the reliability. It just isn't there. I get disconnected for a couple of minutes every time, more than 10 times a day.
I do all my surfing at home through this connection, and top of that run my FreeBSD server with http/mail/etc services on it, so it's getting unbearable (actually it has been very annoying for months). That's why I'm getting adsl (1024/256) instead of this Chello connection. Download is slower through adsl, but I hope and expect the connection itself to be a lot more stable.
I work at an isp and I'm getting our own adsl product over lines of our national telecom company. If somethings goes wrong, it's usually the telco's fault, I know from experience..:)
First, let me say I'm delighted that I'm allowed to give teh keynote speech hear in Deutchland.
Ever sinse we started Chips & Dips we were followin the newest informations in the geek industry. Slashdot was a big step for us, say a milestone, in taht direction.
We hope to continue provinding the geek community with moer informations in teh future.
Following your example, should I go remove all the freebsd specific code from the net-snmp distribution because the proper place for it is in the ports tree since no one else but freebsd folk will need it?
Simply stated: yes.
Naturally FreeBSD specific code is good. But in that case you should recommend your FreeBSD users not to use the ports tree.
The ports system is an integral part of FreeBSD. You don't have to use it, but not using it would be silly. Analog: I like to use the door in my car to get into my car, and not going through the sunroof (which of course is also possible but beyond any person-comprehensible way of thinking. Unless of course you're a Duke of Hazard).
You don't have to compile the source. pkg_add is your friend if you want the binaries.
Compiling from source, however, gives you the best installation for your specific system, honouring any options you might have in/etc/make.conf (march=[pentium|pentiumpro|k6] for example for tuned compiled code for your system, and several make options to optimize the compiling process itself, like -j3 for example to spawn multiple processes to have a balanced cpu/io usage, etc etc etc).
Nonsense. They are not too stupid. The ones who built them were too stupid to make them work. You cannot blame the crabs for this. In Holland, in wildlife area's, road are closed and every small animal will get to the passageway, eventually. You just proof that no serious effort has been made to safe more than 1 million red crabs every year. Your concern is more with the damage to your car tires.
Will this mean the source shop will close after a couple of months of no real interest from the free software people (note: not 'shared source'), just like it happens at Sun (see previous article on Slashdot).
Can we take this serious? I don't believe MS is really interested in free software, not through GPL, not through BSD license, not through any licence. They just want to look cool in this momentum of free software interest by the press.
I agree completely. It's also noteworthy that only now, when Sun is closing up the source shop, interest from the Slashdot community seems to arise regarding the Solaris code.
Why don't we stick to the BSD and GPL licences and try to improve the 'real' free software OS's, instead of trying to tell a large commercial company that they should keep their source available. We have no business telling people what to do with their code.
A large project like this will likely have a big impact on the infrastructure of the island. There will be more people on the island (employees) to maintain the port. More people means more people per square kilometer, more garbage, more power needs, more food needs, more cars, more roads, etc etc etc.
This project will undoubtely have big impact on the island in many ways. That's why I think it cannot be that such a port is just being build without a good deep study to what the influence on the environment will be.
People have to know about the implications of this project to be able to choose fair if they really want it (through voting, for example, last time I heard Australia was a democracy). And I'm sure lots will reject this plan if it means the unique crab population and its yearly migration will be extinguished.
Personally I find such a nature wonder more important than humanity being able to have one more place in the world to put rockets in the sky to plant another satellite in a circle around the world, eventually reducing you mobile phone cost by about $ 0.000001 per minute or so on average (cost saving by launching on Cristmas Island divided by millions of people using this satellite), or making the CEO's of some communication companies a few 10's of thousands dollars per year richer.
What will this mean to the large red crab population on Christmas Island? Will this be its death stab?
Right now, people just drive over the crabs when they cross roads during there yearly crab migration. Apperantly, the inhabitants don't even think about a solution. In Holland we have special little viaducts for wildlife roadcrossing. On Chrismas Island the red crabs are killed by millions every year. What will this spaceport do the population? Is there even being thought of the consequences for the crabs?
I wonder why/., the champions of open source, aren't using a Linux box with a few NICs and some hacked-together code as a load balancer?
Because you use the right tool for the job. Linux can can very well be used for many purposes, including acting as a router for your home/small business network. That does not, however, qualify it as a full blowing routing device which is up to the job of handling router needs of something like slashdot.
Bwahahaha. You must be kiddin' me. Once upon a time MySql was better - but only in terms of performance. But - MySql has been plagued by the fact that they never implemented foreign key support into their DBMS. The MySql documentation speaks of foreign keys as if they are a bad thing. Which is of course a joke because everybody who has studied DBMS's seriously, knows that foreign keys are an integral part the relational database model as it exists.
Now, I ask you, why would the MySql designers occupy such a religious statement?
Is it because they would never be able to implement foreign key support afterwards into a static design, where you just could not possibly fit it in without a rewrite of the core DBMS logic?
Mysql is mostly a way of storing your data in some kind of simple hashed form, accessible with SQL queries. That's why mysql is so fast with queries.
But I think this was never the meaning of the relation model. I can store my data in my own hashed format, and my queries would be just as fast, or faster. Mysql is just a packaged piece of software representing this simple kind of storage, which answer to only the most simplest of SQL queries.
Take postgresql on the other hand: foreign key support, transaction roll-back support, ability to plug-in your favourite query language (be it based on tuple or domain calculus or relational algebra like sql), etc etc etc. With the added bonus that PostgreSQL *smokes* mysql on every available benchmark that you can find, it's clear which is the better option.
Slashdot Mirror
For the paranoid out there, here's the plain URL:
http://video.cnet.com/cgi-bin/visearch?user=cnet_n ews&template=playhiasf.html&query=*&squery=+ClipID :0++VideoAsset:t080901_1130&inputField=&ccstart=15 015&ccend=99533&videoID=t080901_1130&value=default &which=1&old=yes&override=http://video.cnet.com:80 /cnet_news/template/override_config.js&overrideChe ck=no
This is so typical of some Slashdot submitters. Any news about Microsoft is mangled into something bad about the company, regardless whether this really is the case or not.
/dev/ files changed between some version of Linux. Microsoft preventing this software from installing is like having different plugs for 220 V and 9 V devices so you won't plug your shaver directly into a high voltage outlet.
In this case, only CURRENT versions of these programs are blocked, because they access Windows internals which causes instability on XP. They just need to be adjusted to work with XP correctly. Just like some
People who badmounth a company (whether it be Microsoft or another) using information like this as an argument should either shut up or be sued and punished for spreading mis-information.
It's a perfect example of double standards: when Windows crashes this is always the fault of Microsoft, not of bad drivers or programs which access Windows internals, while in fact they often are (especially video drivers). When Microsoft tries to do something about it, it's suddenly only done for promotion of their own firewall software.
Make up your mind. If you are against Microsoft for monopoly reasons or anything else, that's your right. But mangling any piece of information to something negative only hurts the credibility of the anti-Microsoft camp.
Can you imagine that? :-)
I don't know what the sub pixel aliasing with Xft is. I do know ClearType is more than simple font smoothing.
:)
Perhaps these systems are the same. Marketing didn't get me, I just only knew the XP implementation of this technology.
dot pitch .26
refresh rate 85 Hz (runs on a Matrox Mystique 220)
Not that bad, although it isn't a high quality monitor (not very nice colors, etc).
I'm not sure if that is completely true.
When I've worked for a couple of hours between my old CTX CRT, my eyes start to hurt. While by your reasoning the radiation isn't really a problem, even on older CRT's. Now, safe or not, this CRT strains my eyes. (Turning down brightness helps, btw.)
This, while an LCD does nothing to my eyes. It's much relaxter to them.
Just like you must not sit too close to a television.
So, me thinks there is a difference in the radiation from CRT's and LCD's, at least in eye strain.
That may be true, but in reality every screen size has an 'ideal' resolution. It's nice to be able to play around with resolutions, but when you want to work, there's is usually one ideal resolution that's best for the specific screen size.
Furthermore, LCD's have some pro's when compared to CRT's:
- no harmful radiation (CRT stands for Cathode Ray Tube, LCD just uses some backlighting with 'normal' light)
- lends itself perfectly for even better font smoothing (like the ClearType smoothing in, sorry I have to say, Windows XP)
On the other hand, CRT's are still better in color handling. Although the LCD on my sony picturebook gives WAY better image and color than my 6 year old 17" CTX monitor, in print shops CRT's still seem to only way (high end CRT's, that is, not the $250 crap 17" monitors you can get everywhere nowadays).
You mean: Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these? :-)
I'm a Chello subscriber in Amsterdam. Chello is the cable internet product of UPC, which has bought itself into Holland by taking over cable companies. I don't think UPC is a Dutch company itself.
:)
Speeds are limited to 1.5 Mbps download (180 KB/s) / 128 Kbps (16 KB/s) upload, but in practice I rarely get the 180 KB/s download speeds. Download speeds have degraded over time, since I got the product over a year ago.
The worst thing, though, is the reliability. It just isn't there. I get disconnected for a couple of minutes every time, more than 10 times a day.
I do all my surfing at home through this connection, and top of that run my FreeBSD server with http/mail/etc services on it, so it's getting unbearable (actually it has been very annoying for months). That's why I'm getting adsl (1024/256) instead of this Chello connection. Download is slower through adsl, but I hope and expect the connection itself to be a lot more stable.
I work at an isp and I'm getting our own adsl product over lines of our national telecom company. If somethings goes wrong, it's usually the telco's fault, I know from experience..
First, let me say I'm delighted that I'm allowed to give teh keynote speech hear in Deutchland.
Ever sinse we started Chips & Dips we were followin the newest informations in the geek industry. Slashdot was a big step for us, say a milestone, in taht direction.
We hope to continue provinding the geek community with moer informations in teh future.
etc etc ect
Simply stated: yes.
Naturally FreeBSD specific code is good. But in that case you should recommend your FreeBSD users not to use the ports tree.
The ports system is an integral part of FreeBSD. You don't have to use it, but not using it would be silly. Analog: I like to use the door in my car to get into my car, and not going through the sunroof (which of course is also possible but beyond any person-comprehensible way of thinking. Unless of course you're a Duke of Hazard).
Compiling from source, however, gives you the best installation for your specific system, honouring any options you might have in /etc/make.conf (march=[pentium|pentiumpro|k6] for example for tuned compiled code for your system, and several make options to optimize the compiling process itself, like -j3 for example to spawn multiple processes to have a balanced cpu/io usage, etc etc etc).
I suspect he automated the process of posting from different ip's.
Nonsense. They are not too stupid. The ones who built them were too stupid to make them work. You cannot blame the crabs for this. In Holland, in wildlife area's, road are closed and every small animal will get to the passageway, eventually. You just proof that no serious effort has been made to safe more than 1 million red crabs every year. Your concern is more with the damage to your car tires.
It will not be good! I'm afraid this 'shared source' initiative will spread itself like a cancer through our community!
Can we take this serious? I don't believe MS is really interested in free software, not through GPL, not through BSD license, not through any licence. They just want to look cool in this momentum of free software interest by the press.
I agree completely. It's also noteworthy that only now, when Sun is closing up the source shop, interest from the Slashdot community seems to arise regarding the Solaris code.
Why don't we stick to the BSD and GPL licences and try to improve the 'real' free software OS's, instead of trying to tell a large commercial company that they should keep their source available. We have no business telling people what to do with their code.
In fact, I have a sony picturebook with a Crusoe cpu (usage: 1 Watt on average). But thanks for the concern.
It's not only the noise pollution.
A large project like this will likely have a big impact on the infrastructure of the island. There will be more people on the island (employees) to maintain the port. More people means more people per square kilometer, more garbage, more power needs, more food needs, more cars, more roads, etc etc etc.
This project will undoubtely have big impact on the island in many ways. That's why I think it cannot be that such a port is just being build without a good deep study to what the influence on the environment will be.
People have to know about the implications of this project to be able to choose fair if they really want it (through voting, for example, last time I heard Australia was a democracy). And I'm sure lots will reject this plan if it means the unique crab population and its yearly migration will be extinguished.
Personally I find such a nature wonder more important than humanity being able to have one more place in the world to put rockets in the sky to plant another satellite in a circle around the world, eventually reducing you mobile phone cost by about $ 0.000001 per minute or so on average (cost saving by launching on Cristmas Island divided by millions of people using this satellite), or making the CEO's of some communication companies a few 10's of thousands dollars per year richer.
Right now, people just drive over the crabs when they cross roads during there yearly crab migration. Apperantly, the inhabitants don't even think about a solution. In Holland we have special little viaducts for wildlife roadcrossing. On Chrismas Island the red crabs are killed by millions every year. What will this spaceport do the population? Is there even being thought of the consequences for the crabs?
More on Christmas Island crabs:
http://www.kidzworld.com/Frameset/reloadframe.asp? s=102&p=http://www.kidzworld.com/site/p820.htm
http://www.markuskappeler.ch/fot/fots/ch_crabs.htm l
Probably because they put a temporary system with webserver in place of the ip, serving only that error page.
.com address yourself after clicking them).
Because of the round robin dns slashdot uses, some dns servers return an address that works, and some return an address that doesn't.
slashdot.com just works (but you have the adjust the links to articles to the
www.slashdot.org probably returns a working address too, just like slashdot.com
Two times "not the right tool for the job" does not make "right tool for the job".
Looks like the contest succeeded. They managed to Dos-attack Slashdot almost contineously for the last 48 hours. :)
Because you use the right tool for the job. Linux can can very well be used for many purposes, including acting as a router for your home/small business network. That does not, however, qualify it as a full blowing routing device which is up to the job of handling router needs of something like slashdot.
Bwahahaha. You must be kiddin' me. Once upon a time MySql was better - but only in terms of performance. But - MySql has been plagued by the fact that they never implemented foreign key support into their DBMS. The MySql documentation speaks of foreign keys as if they are a bad thing. Which is of course a joke because everybody who has studied DBMS's seriously, knows that foreign keys are an integral part the relational database model as it exists.
Now, I ask you, why would the MySql designers occupy such a religious statement?
Is it because they would never be able to implement foreign key support afterwards into a static design, where you just could not possibly fit it in without a rewrite of the core DBMS logic?
Mysql is mostly a way of storing your data in some kind of simple hashed form, accessible with SQL queries. That's why mysql is so fast with queries.
But I think this was never the meaning of the relation model. I can store my data in my own hashed format, and my queries would be just as fast, or faster. Mysql is just a packaged piece of software representing this simple kind of storage, which answer to only the most simplest of SQL queries.
Take postgresql on the other hand: foreign key support, transaction roll-back support, ability to plug-in your favourite query language (be it based on tuple or domain calculus or relational algebra like sql), etc etc etc. With the added bonus that PostgreSQL *smokes* mysql on every available benchmark that you can find, it's clear which is the better option.