Objective C never caught on, period. I mean when Ada and Pascal are kicking your ass in terms of number of developers you know your language is in trouble.
What is the good of making a settlement like this that was suppose to protect everybody when the next troll comes along? Red Hat should have not just given in and settled the previous case, because now every other joker with a patent related to ORM will come after them.
Even if it was true that all research at public schools must be made available to the public, this school is not a public school at all, it is a private school. Which means that most of the funding for the schools operation comes from tuition and donations by the alumni, not state or federal aid. Some private schools reject all state and federal funding because they do not which to be bound by rules concerning things like how they administer the school, choice of curriculum or what criteria they use for admitting students. In other words private schools are allowed to operate much more like private corporations than public schools. Some technical institutes are corporate run entities that are run not just with the mission to educate people but also to make money doing it.
Actually you can still be sued if you just download a copy because you are not a Novell customer. The coverage does not extend to anyone outside of those paying Novell for a support, not even developers who contribute to the Novell code base.
Setting aside the legal and moral issues for a moment and just thinking about this from a technical point of view I don't think it makes sense. Spam increases the use of bandwidth and wastes resources. If anything the DDOS will just overload networks even more, and not just the spammers connection. If the DDOS is bad enough the effects can be felt by upstream providers, who may not yet have realized they have a spammer using their network. Also, consider that spammers tend to use rotate servers fairly frequently. If the box doesn't exist any more or is taken off the network, then the only one hurt by the DDOS is spammers internet provider. Yes, you can blame a provider for not kicking the spammer off quickly, and say they are part of the problem, but it is not fair to blame them if it just the normal amount of time for the abuse to be offically reported and confirmed before the account is suspended.
I prefer XMPlay. It is very small and fast. It also has great quality playback. Works with OGG and PLS and plays streams well and is very stable. My only minor complaint is that the default theme doesn't look that good but that was easily fixed.
Word offer save as many other formats that include open formats such as RTF, XML, HTML. Of course every time you use an RTF Word complains and wants to convert it, and HTML produced by Word is filled with proprietary MS-HTML. The RTF and XML options are pretty good though, and I have always stuck with RTF no matter what wordprocessor I use. It really is just about the most universally editable document format out there, next to plain text.
Actually some newer packages are in Ubuntu Hoary that are not even in Sid like X.org, GCC 3.4, Gnome 2.10 and several others. So it looks like Ubuntu is already developing and testing some packages separate from Debian. Compare
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I was wondering if there are any plans to change the way the "Mozilla Update" site is handled. Right now the new site looks good enough, but so far extension updates are very slow to appear, and many commonly used extensions do not appear at all. I was wondering if there were any plans underway to provide more frequent updates and a broader range of extensions to Mozilla Firefox users.
Here is an article at EWeek about some of the problems with FF 1.0.1 update and the need for a better update system and more servers. He also mentions the problems with reviewers, but the update problems are far worse in the near term. The fact that the update.mozilla.org is very slow to update extensions was a bad sign. Of course extensions are non-critical compared to the browser itself. Now it looks like browser updates are handled the same way. I had much the same experience on my laptop as the author of the article. First it took forever for the update to appear. When it finally did show up the update system pushed out a completely new installer file, and messed up the installed program list with two install enteries linking to the same program. When Firefox went from 1.0PR to 1.0 it was handled much better. Only some files needed updating, it was not a complete reinstall. I believe that much of the criticism is valid and not just anti-Firefox FUD. Encourging more external contribution and finding more reviewers, as well as defining the relationship between the Firefox and Mozilla suite developers are longer term issues that need to be addressed, but better managment of the update system is something that is more pressing and is having a negative impact on users today.
It is one thing to not be able to do a substring search on the file contents, but not even partial matches for the filename? Google Desktop is nowhere near as good a search tool as Yahoo Desktop. I have tried Google, Copernic and Yahoo Desktops and Yahoo has the best by far. Google is kinda nice because it runs in your browser, but it has such limited features compared with the others. I can't search using wildcards and substrings, so it is not a suitable replacement for the built in search in windows, which is kind of the point. Copernic wasn't bad as far as features go but it seems somewhat slow and unstable to me compared to Yahoo. Copernic 1.5 had trouble and crashed when trying to preview very large (several MB) text files. I guess I should be praising X1 beacuse that is who Yahoo licensed the search tech from. The really nice thing about Yahoo (X1) search is it finds files very quickly as you type. You can even specify on substring in a path, another in type and then a string in the general search field and it will use all of them as keywords in those areas to filter the search. Again all theses fields work as you type. Also you can tell it to index everything, all files everywhere, even binary. It will index any printable ASCII stored in those binaries. So no worries about will it index some strange extension. Sure, the GDS interface is elegant, but just not powerful enough to replace the windows search. After I installed Yahoo Desktop, I haven't had to open up that lame windows search with the dog at all.
You are right, and Verizon will assume something like 4 billion in MCI debt that they are still trying to pay off. Doesn't seem like a smart deal for Verizon.
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I really thing there need to be a fifth branch that even goes way beyond experimental. A tree where just about anything will show up literally a day or two after its release. It could be called the god branch or something.
You have got it exactly right. The longer the case drags on the more publicity is generated for Linux, and SCO will become more and more an establishment joke within the industry. Actually I hope the case drags on for 10 more years if possible. It will certainly keep any other company from trying to file any copyright claims against Linux, since they would be told they must wait for resolution of the SCO case. Even a patent infringment lawsuit could be placed on hold. If the copyright to Linux is in question, then the copyright ownership issue must be settled first before a patent claim can be made because after all, if SCO owns Linux, they should be the ones who are sued for patent infringment.
"and we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mind set, if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts, and that we're not really at WAR. I think that would be a terrible mistake for us."
No, some people do use stable packages only. Who cares how old the software is or was? That is what it means to be conservative. Sticking with old tested ways in the face of hype for the new and different. You mention the software that "they want to work." It sounds like you or your users wants new software just to have the new. When it comes to production servers in particular the older servers are almost always the better wat to go. Look at how popular Apache 1.3 continues to be vs 2.0 as an example. Now on workstations I have to admit, Debian can be a bit more difficult. Users may have a legitamte reason to use a newer package with new features. Trying to just run one testing package on a system that runs everything else a stable may not be possible. Usually it results in upgrading some other libraries. On servers, Debian is a very good choice, but perhaps not as development workstations.
They test new packages and software to death before including it into the official version. The current official version of Debian is Woody, and it uses version 2.2 the Linux kernel. I mean really, you don't get more conservative than that. There is something to be said for using older well tested software. Debian is such a solid founation, it is the basis for many other distributions such as Knoppix, Libranet, Xandros etc.
Comparing Debian to Mandrake, Suse, Slackware or even RHEL I think you will find that Debian it the most cautious about adopting new versions of core libraries, graphics system or the kernel.
I like Java as much as anybody but I agree with the previous poster and admit it is not really very cross platform compared to many other languages.
I notice you did not put any of the BSDs in your list. You can't just write off BSD as dead either. Yahoo and many hosting companies run it as their primary OS. Yes, I know there is a JDK for FreeBSD which you can build yourself, but how many big companies are going to go for such a solution. Also, JVM speed is still a major issue on BSD. Languages like Python, Perl and PHP are far better supported on BSD as well as many other UNIX platforms that may be considered too obscure by Sun.
As for C# I believe Mono and Portable.NET work on many platforms including BSD and I remember MS even released a more official implementation for BSD called Rotor. Like I said I am a big fan Java and would love to see Sun change the attitude and help make Java a truely cross platform system.
Click here to read about a patent case involving Rockwell and a lawsuit generating company called Solaia. They decided to go after Rockwell's costomers and not just Rockwell. The customers sued Rockwell and Rockewell is now going after the Solaia's lawfirm for making the suit. This thing makes the SCO case look like a picnic, but in this case only proprietary software and technology and licensing is involved. Now of course these end-users are actually big corporations like Clorox and Shell which is probably one reason the suits were filed. I have not heard of patent suits where customers at a department store or mall get sued for their purchase, but do not rule out that possibility. It could happen. The point is using proprietary systems and licenses with big corporations does not put you in the clear of liabilities.
I think doing some dot releases for FC would be great as well, but they probably just won't have the time. It would almost have to be a seperate project. In fact I have found a very interesting project called Up2dateISO
It looks like a nice way to create an iso with all the updates in place. I just wish someone would make premade images available using this. It would make things far easier.
The thing is that they were FORMER customers who no longer had any SCO contracts. In the case of DaimlerChrysler they hadn't been using SCO products for seven years. I believe AutoZone completely phased out SCO operating systems a couple of years ago. In these cases SCO really didn't have much to lose. It would be far more suicidal of SCO to go after a current customer who provides them with a very large portion of there OS revenue. A threat of a lawsuit against McDonalds might scare them back to SCO or more likely McDonalds would terminate all future contracts and begin switching over to something other than SCO.
Is there some reason why his theme is listed on the Texturizer site? Is there a licensing problem or has he not allowed it to be listed there? I am just curious because it would make it far simpler to have it listed. I think it was pulled from FireFox because the author did not want duel licensing or something. Anyway Qute is free so why not list it on the main theme site?
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Objective C never caught on, period. I mean when Ada and Pascal are kicking your ass in terms of number of developers you know your language is in trouble.
Didn't Red Hat put this behind them with this settlement? http://www.press.redhat.com/2008/07/15/a-readers-guide-to-the-firestar-settlement/
What is the good of making a settlement like this that was suppose to protect everybody when the next troll comes along? Red Hat should have not just given in and settled the previous case, because now every other joker with a patent related to ORM will come after them.
Even if it was true that all research at public schools must be made available to the public, this school is not a public school at all, it is a private school. Which means that most of the funding for the schools operation comes from tuition and donations by the alumni, not state or federal aid. Some private schools reject all state and federal funding because they do not which to be bound by rules concerning things like how they administer the school, choice of curriculum or what criteria they use for admitting students. In other words private schools are allowed to operate much more like private corporations than public schools. Some technical institutes are corporate run entities that are run not just with the mission to educate people but also to make money doing it.
Actually you can still be sued if you just download a copy because you are not a Novell customer. The coverage does not extend to anyone outside of those paying Novell for a support, not even developers who contribute to the Novell code base.
Setting aside the legal and moral issues for a moment and just thinking about this from a technical point of view I don't think it makes sense. Spam increases the use of bandwidth and wastes resources. If anything the DDOS will just overload networks even more, and not just the spammers connection. If the DDOS is bad enough the effects can be felt by upstream providers, who may not yet have realized they have a spammer using their network. Also, consider that spammers tend to use rotate servers fairly frequently. If the box doesn't exist any more or is taken off the network, then the only one hurt by the DDOS is spammers internet provider. Yes, you can blame a provider for not kicking the spammer off quickly, and say they are part of the problem, but it is not fair to blame them if it just the normal amount of time for the abuse to be offically reported and confirmed before the account is suspended.
I prefer XMPlay. It is very small and fast. It also has great quality playback. Works with OGG and PLS and plays streams well and is very stable. My only minor complaint is that the default theme doesn't look that good but that was easily fixed.
Word offer save as many other formats that include open formats such as RTF, XML, HTML. Of course every time you use an RTF Word complains and wants to convert it, and HTML produced by Word is filled with proprietary MS-HTML. The RTF and XML options are pretty good though, and I have always stuck with RTF no matter what wordprocessor I use. It really is just about the most universally editable document format out there, next to plain text.
Actually some newer packages are in Ubuntu Hoary that are not even in Sid like X.org, GCC 3.4, Gnome 2.10 and several others. So it looks like Ubuntu is already developing and testing some packages separate from Debian. Compare Ubuntu Hoary to Debian Sid
Will sarge evere be released.
Ah, who cares just run Debian ultrasid (God edition)
I was wondering if there are any plans to change the way the "Mozilla Update" site is handled. Right now the new site looks good enough, but so far extension updates are very slow to appear, and many commonly used extensions do not appear at all. I was wondering if there were any plans underway to provide more frequent updates and a broader range of extensions to Mozilla Firefox users.
Here is an article at EWeek about some of the problems with FF 1.0.1 update and the need for a better update system and more servers. He also mentions the problems with reviewers, but the update problems are far worse in the near term. The fact that the update.mozilla.org is very slow to update extensions was a bad sign. Of course extensions are non-critical compared to the browser itself. Now it looks like browser updates are handled the same way. I had much the same experience on my laptop as the author of the article. First it took forever for the update to appear. When it finally did show up the update system pushed out a completely new installer file, and messed up the installed program list with two install enteries linking to the same program. When Firefox went from 1.0PR to 1.0 it was handled much better. Only some files needed updating, it was not a complete reinstall. I believe that much of the criticism is valid and not just anti-Firefox FUD. Encourging more external contribution and finding more reviewers, as well as defining the relationship between the Firefox and Mozilla suite developers are longer term issues that need to be addressed, but better managment of the update system is something that is more pressing and is having a negative impact on users today.
It is one thing to not be able to do a substring search on the file contents, but not even partial matches for the filename? Google Desktop is nowhere near as good a search tool as Yahoo Desktop. I have tried Google, Copernic and Yahoo Desktops and Yahoo has the best by far. Google is kinda nice because it runs in your browser, but it has such limited features compared with the others. I can't search using wildcards and substrings, so it is not a suitable replacement for the built in search in windows, which is kind of the point. Copernic wasn't bad as far as features go but it seems somewhat slow and unstable to me compared to Yahoo. Copernic 1.5 had trouble and crashed when trying to preview very large (several MB) text files. I guess I should be praising X1 beacuse that is who Yahoo licensed the search tech from. The really nice thing about Yahoo (X1) search is it finds files very quickly as you type. You can even specify on substring in a path, another in type and then a string in the general search field and it will use all of them as keywords in those areas to filter the search. Again all theses fields work as you type. Also you can tell it to index everything, all files everywhere, even binary. It will index any printable ASCII stored in those binaries. So no worries about will it index some strange extension. Sure, the GDS interface is elegant, but just not powerful enough to replace the windows search. After I installed Yahoo Desktop, I haven't had to open up that lame windows search with the dog at all.
You are right, and Verizon will assume something like 4 billion in MCI debt that they are still trying to pay off. Doesn't seem like a smart deal for Verizon.
I really thing there need to be a fifth branch that even goes way beyond experimental. A tree where just about anything will show up literally a day or two after its release. It could be called the god branch or something.
You have got it exactly right. The longer the case drags on the more publicity is generated for Linux, and SCO will become more and more an establishment joke within the industry. Actually I hope the case drags on for 10 more years if possible. It will certainly keep any other company from trying to file any copyright claims against Linux, since they would be told they must wait for resolution of the SCO case. Even a patent infringment lawsuit could be placed on hold. If the copyright to Linux is in question, then the copyright ownership issue must be settled first before a patent claim can be made because after all, if SCO owns Linux, they should be the ones who are sued for patent infringment.
I meant Sirius.
And someone really ought to tell Cheney as well.
"and we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mind set, if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts, and that we're not really at WAR. I think that would be a terrible mistake for us."
a recent quote from Dick Cheney
Are we at war with everybody except Iraq?
No, some people do use stable packages only. Who cares how old the software is or was? That is what it means to be conservative. Sticking with old tested ways in the face of hype for the new and different. You mention the software that "they want to work." It sounds like you or your users wants new software just to have the new. When it comes to production servers in particular the older servers are almost always the better wat to go. Look at how popular Apache 1.3 continues to be vs 2.0 as an example. Now on workstations I have to admit, Debian can be a bit more difficult. Users may have a legitamte reason to use a newer package with new features. Trying to just run one testing package on a system that runs everything else a stable may not be possible. Usually it results in upgrading some other libraries. On servers, Debian is a very good choice, but perhaps not as development workstations.
They test new packages and software to death before including it into the official version. The current official version of Debian is Woody, and it uses version 2.2 the Linux kernel. I mean really, you don't get more conservative than that. There is something to be said for using older well tested software. Debian is such a solid founation, it is the basis for many other distributions such as Knoppix, Libranet, Xandros etc.
Comparing Debian to Mandrake, Suse, Slackware or even RHEL I think you will find that Debian it the most cautious about adopting new versions of core libraries, graphics system or the kernel.
I like Java as much as anybody but I agree with the previous poster and admit it is not really very cross platform compared to many other languages.
.NET work on many platforms including BSD and I remember MS even released a more official implementation for BSD called Rotor. Like I said I am a big fan Java and would love to see Sun change the attitude and help make Java a truely cross platform system.
I notice you did not put any of the BSDs in your list. You can't just write off BSD as dead either. Yahoo and many hosting companies run it as their primary OS. Yes, I know there is a JDK for FreeBSD which you can build yourself, but how many big companies are going to go for such a solution. Also, JVM speed is still a major issue on BSD. Languages like Python, Perl and PHP are far better supported on BSD as well as many other UNIX platforms that may be considered too obscure by Sun.
As for C# I believe Mono and Portable
Click here to read about a patent case involving Rockwell and a lawsuit generating company called Solaia. They decided to go after Rockwell's costomers and not just Rockwell. The customers sued Rockwell and Rockewell is now going after the Solaia's lawfirm for making the suit. This thing makes the SCO case look like a picnic, but in this case only proprietary software and technology and licensing is involved. Now of course these end-users are actually big corporations like Clorox and Shell which is probably one reason the suits were filed. I have not heard of patent suits where customers at a department store or mall get sued for their purchase, but do not rule out that possibility. It could happen. The point is using proprietary systems and licenses with big corporations does not put you in the clear of liabilities.
I think doing some dot releases for FC would be great as well, but they probably just won't have the time. It would almost have to be a seperate project. In fact I have found a very interesting project called Up2dateISO
It looks like a nice way to create an iso with all the updates in place. I just wish someone would make premade images available using this. It would make things far easier.
I would like Gmail please.
kjjaeger@yahoo.com
The thing is that they were FORMER customers who no longer had any SCO contracts. In the case of DaimlerChrysler they hadn't been using SCO products for seven years. I believe AutoZone completely phased out SCO operating systems a couple of years ago. In these cases SCO really didn't have much to lose. It would be far more suicidal of SCO to go after a current customer who provides them with a very large portion of there OS revenue. A threat of a lawsuit against McDonalds might scare them back to SCO or more likely McDonalds would terminate all future contracts and begin switching over to something other than SCO.
Is there some reason why his theme is listed on the Texturizer site? Is there a licensing problem or has he not allowed it to be listed there? I am just curious because it would make it far simpler to have it listed. I think it was pulled from FireFox because the author did not want duel licensing or something. Anyway Qute is free so why not list it on the main theme site?