Eventually, something strange and surprising will come out of the kludge that is screwball desktop OSs and people trying to connect everything in the universe to the net, and it will change everything. Such is that nature of the chaotic beast that is the transistor.
some would argue that open source software and linux (though not exclusively) is this scewball.
why not construct a webbased front end to your databases? then it wouldnt matter what platform your clients who accessed the db were running. just wondering.
i dont understand the lameness filter is requiring me to type more crap here.
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I like nano the enhanced pico. It is small lightwieght and has search and replace. Perfect for editing config files...
vi (not vim) is pretty small, search and replace is pretty simple %s/oldstuff/newstuff/g. plus once you know vim, using vi for small stuff is fairly painless.
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I oppose anything that would distance us from the blood on our hands, including roboticization of war. You can read many science fiction novels that address these issues.
so do you oppose planes, missles, bullets? all of these things distance us from the blood on our hands. are you suggesting that we drop our soldiers off naked, in the middle of a battle, with only a rock to use to defend themselves? hell accourding to what you said they shouldn't even get a rock. they should be forced to tear the enemy apart with their bare hands.... while the enemy is shooting, stabbing, running them over, etc. i personally think we should use any advantage we have over the enemy. they will surely do the same when engaging us.
surprised they wouldnt use our own stingers..
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against us. we supplied afghanistan with a number of these when they were fighting russia.
not to mention that unix operates on a different paradigim than windows. this paradigm operates on all levels from program design (automatic execution of arbitrary code sent to you from an arbitrary source) to genreal security within unix (the concepts of a single user with administrative rights which the user does not always operate as).
If someone doesn't patch their Windows systems why would they patch their Linux systems? Doesn't matter if the patch is out 2 seconds after the bug is revealed if the admin doesn't take notice and act.
if they are too lazy to patch their windows systems then they are probably too lazy to install linux. currently *nix attracts a different kind of user. this might change in the future, but right now i think your average linux user is a bit more informed and competent.
exactly. alot of the problem here is with the users. they got what they paid for. from my discussions with a friend who works on alot of ms boxes, it seems that iis can be as secure as apache as long as you know what you are doing. people who say "*nix" doesnt have the sort of problems are living on borrowed time.
alot of the boxen that are being infected are doing so because they are running default installs with no patches. if you told me you were running a default redhat install i would laugh my ass off.
my main problems with windows is the security paradigm they use, and how the market ease of use. because of this a normal user can execute programs that infect system files. sort of like browsing the web as root. by marketing their product as "point and click"ish they attract the lowest common denominator in users.
it basically comes down to being an informed user. by the time you get to admining a unix box you are normally already a bit more informed, and you probably arent making the decision because it's _easy_ to use.
I guess these are the chances we take in binary upgrades, but I'm not sure that source would be much more safe, at least for those of us who don't personaly audit every single source update we do (I know I don't have the time).
you and i would fall into the catagory of people who have to trust someone.
so really anytime you use your eyes you are using a visual tool. i guess only blind people can say they are true hackers. really though, i believe the visual tools the original poster was refering to were ide's like kdevelop, visual studio, code warrior, etc.
i have a friend who works for an ibm company called tivoli. they have alot of products but one of the cool things they do is push applications to workstations. so if you have 7k workstations and a couple servers. you install the client on the workstations and your server can push software to them. this is expensive but possible in windows.
btw tivoli also works under linux. i've never used it but my friend says they do alot of their development under linux.
he wont even take postscript? i would think that most publishers would be happy to get a.tex document.
that really sucks though. i used to write my reports in word. after they got to about 40-50 pages with graphs and other images word would start to crash and stuff. i really cannot imagine writing a book with it.
have you tried LaTeX? the output is quite beautiful, and it has alot of functionality that makes the writing of books very easy. if you have any questions let me know if i can help.
for those of you who are not aware, there is a company working on
directX support for linux. this is an extension of wine, and it is coming along nicely.
while you might not like it mandrake is really good for those unfortunate souls who want to move from windows over to linux. dont worry though. there are always other alternatives for those of us who dont particularly like the microsoft look.
see most people coming from windows are not ready for 'linux from scratch'. not everyone can be as elite as you and i:). the point: there are alot of alternatives. if you dont like this one, dont use it.
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dont you know he would have to look at freshmeat every fucking day to find out that they will email you when new stuff is released?
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Eventually, something strange and surprising will come out of the kludge that is screwball desktop OSs and people trying to connect everything in the universe to the net, and it will change everything. Such is that nature of the chaotic beast that is the transistor.
some would argue that open source software and linux (though not exclusively) is this scewball.
some education. you dont even need 100 inches. you could fit it on a smaller wall if you made it concave :)
why not construct a webbased front end to your databases? then it wouldnt matter what platform your clients who accessed the db were running. just wondering.
was it microsoft or intel? i just dont understand what micrsofts motivation would be to register a tradmark on a model number for an intel chip.
mirror for linux
i dont understand the lameness filter is requiring me to type more crap here.
I like nano the enhanced pico. It is small lightwieght and has search and replace. Perfect for editing config files...
vi (not vim) is pretty small, search and replace is pretty simple %s/oldstuff/newstuff/g. plus once you know vim, using vi for small stuff is fairly painless.
I oppose anything that would distance us from the blood on our hands, including roboticization of war. You can read many science fiction novels that address these issues.
so do you oppose planes, missles, bullets? all of these things distance us from the blood on our hands. are you suggesting that we drop our soldiers off naked, in the middle of a battle, with only a rock to use to defend themselves? hell accourding to what you said they shouldn't even get a rock. they should be forced to tear the enemy apart with their bare hands.... while the enemy is shooting, stabbing, running them over, etc. i personally think we should use any advantage we have over the enemy. they will surely do the same when engaging us.
against us. we supplied afghanistan with a number of these when they were fighting russia.
if you happen to work with er0ck i would suggest using a real gun. noone here would blame you.
not to mention that unix operates on a different paradigim than windows. this paradigm operates on all levels from program design (automatic execution of arbitrary code sent to you from an arbitrary source) to genreal security within unix (the concepts of a single user with administrative rights which the user does not always operate as).
If someone doesn't patch their Windows systems why would they patch their Linux systems? Doesn't matter if the patch is out 2 seconds after the bug is revealed if the admin doesn't take notice and act.
if they are too lazy to patch their windows systems then they are probably too lazy to install linux. currently *nix attracts a different kind of user. this might change in the future, but right now i think your average linux user is a bit more informed and competent.
exactly. alot of the problem here is with the users. they got what they paid for. from my discussions with a friend who works on alot of ms boxes, it seems that iis can be as secure as apache as long as you know what you are doing. people who say "*nix" doesnt have the sort of problems are living on borrowed time.
alot of the boxen that are being infected are doing so because they are running default installs with no patches. if you told me you were running a default redhat install i would laugh my ass off.
my main problems with windows is the security paradigm they use, and how the market ease of use. because of this a normal user can execute programs that infect system files. sort of like browsing the web as root. by marketing their product as "point and click"ish they attract the lowest common denominator in users.
it basically comes down to being an informed user. by the time you get to admining a unix box you are normally already a bit more informed, and you probably arent making the decision because it's _easy_ to use.
(I'm losing it mostly by having posts mod'ed up to 4 or 5, then as "overrated" back down to 2 or 3...)
dont you just hate that? i really wish they would apply the karma over a rolling horizon.
more likely the xbox will be full of winmodem like hardware. this will make it very diffacult to put linux on it in any usable form.
I guess these are the chances we take in binary upgrades, but I'm not sure that source would be much more safe, at least for those of us who don't personaly audit every single source update we do (I know I don't have the time).
you and i would fall into the catagory of people who have to trust someone.
so really anytime you use your eyes you are using a visual tool. i guess only blind people can say they are true hackers. really though, i believe the visual tools the original poster was refering to were ide's like kdevelop, visual studio, code warrior, etc.
that would imply that the debian servers were some how compromised. this is not impossible, but fairly unlikely.
that would be like installing a patch from microsoft that was infected with a virus.
most people have to trust someone and for those who dont there is always the sourcecode.
don't forget that astrophysics isn't the only way he makes money. there is also mc hawking the gangsta' wrapper. i really like the entropy song.
hey.
i have a friend who works for an ibm company called tivoli. they have alot of products but one of the cool things they do is push applications to workstations. so if you have 7k workstations and a couple servers. you install the client on the workstations and your server can push software to them. this is expensive but possible in windows.
btw tivoli also works under linux. i've never used it but my friend says they do alot of their development under linux.
he wont even take postscript? i would think that most publishers would be happy to get a .tex document.
that really sucks though. i used to write my reports in word. after they got to about 40-50 pages with graphs and other images word would start to crash and stuff. i really cannot imagine writing a book with it.
have you tried LaTeX? the output is quite beautiful, and it has alot of functionality that makes the writing of books very easy. if you have any questions let me know if i can help.
i think he was trying to determine rms's position on things. i think the question would make more sense to you if he said:
hypothetically speaking; if it were possible to outlaw proprietary software licences would you?
the 'you' here being rms. this would establish rms's position on "free as in flerbage" software.
for those of you who are not aware, there is a company working on
directX support for linux. this is an extension of wine, and it is coming along nicely.
while you might not like it mandrake is really good for those unfortunate souls who want to move from windows over to linux. dont worry though. there are always other alternatives for those of us who dont particularly like the microsoft look.
:). the point: there are alot of alternatives. if you dont like this one, dont use it.
see most people coming from windows are not ready for 'linux from scratch'. not everyone can be as elite as you and i
dont you know he would have to look at freshmeat every fucking day to find out that they will email you when new stuff is released?