Of course not! Rule #1: Never read the story/links on slashdot. Reading the caption alone is enough.
'cos while you're out reading a story all right thinking people are *already* posting their comments. And when you're back *your* posting will be in a third hundred or so and who reads slashdot that far? So - if you actually read stories your comments will be lost in void.
I've read this yesterday: There was a kangaroo in one zoo. And every day it somehow been managing escaping from its cell. Then the zoo has built higher fencing around it. But kangaroo escaped once again. Then the zoo has built a 20 feet high fence. Once again - kangaroo escaped. A neighbour hippo chatting with our hero: H: Well, how high you think they'll build it? K: Don't know, 100 feet maybe. But really - they should've start locking my cell door first.
Morale: No zillion bits encryption will help M$ as long as their "NT security guide" is dedicated to selecting proper chains to attach servers to the room walls.
You know - now we have quite a selection of hardware but still most of the browsers people use (MSIE and NN4) are crap. And others are unknown/don't have momentum/not fully featured. (With a possible exception of Opera on Wintel).
And secondly - what's SO important about WebBrowsers?
Oh, people, please... We're talking like suits (or even worse - politicians) here. Open source, closed source... Blah! Isn't it up to people and their skills and abilities to be able to fix (properly!) bugs?
What you think? If one puts a bunch of your average M$ "engineers" on open source project will it shine just because it's open source? And at the same time there're (still) a number of companies who can (among other things) make good S/W and quickly fix theire bugs.
It's up to induhviduals, not capitalism/communism/open source;-)
I mean - I can grab a copy of Interbase 5.6 (used to be a commercial product) from 'Net and use it for my devices. Now that Borland has let IB go, will it be legal?
I mean - can I install a server and, say, 100 clients for free with existing versions of IB (that were commercial)?
Really - you should have quite some skills (and commitment) to make *good* contribution to the case. Because, you know, developing DB engine is quite different to multiplying WMs or even writing drivers for some hardware. You have to be really tough to take on that. Are *YOU* ready for this? I'm definitely not.
But all for all it's good new (better than they could be). I hope it'll become standard - "if it's dead - let it be - at least publish it".
>Just so you know this comment was written by a white >male from a small town in Missouri and not a radical >minority group. Stop taking away our damn freedoms!!!!
Totally offtopic, but may I ask about US rules of "political correctness". I mean - try to write/say "black female" and you're doomed. You should say "afroamerican", I guess. Also "pale-faces" should say "natives" not "indians". Get me right - I think that to certain degree it's right. But it's pretty ok to say "white male". EG: On CNN - "murder is a white male". Yeah, I understand - the man is murder, so what? Male, huh!
PS: When you think homosexualism(gosh) will become lessons in school? Oh, dear.. and they call it "hate"
> C:\>uptime ntads1 > \\ntads1 has been up for: 19 day(s), 18 hour(s)....
Step II: Start using it..;)
My experience: Start of the day: 48MB RAM used (as reported by taskman) End of the *working* day: 72-80MB used Yes sir - it also slows down quite noticeably...
When I discussed this with some MSCI he said that I shouldn't run anything on it 'cos "it's A SERVER". When the "process set" is stable "it doesn't leak then" (he assumes that server doesn't launch/kill tasks). Cool, yeah?
So for me this was necessary: C:\> at 4:00/every:m,t,w.... shutdown/l/r/y
------------ 60's: Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll 9x's: Suxx, bugs and plug'n'play
Pick any relatively unimportant thing and blow it up. This should be a slogan of mass-media these days. What's up with some people? PIII serial number. So what? There's heaps and loads of stuff (in our area of interest) that's zillion times more important than this. Hmm.. must be some deep politics there, I guess.
Anyway. Bans such as this are ineffective. "Money talks" you know... EG: 500MHz+ cpu's were strictly speaking banned to export to here where I live. At least until recently. So what? They were selling on every conner.
------------- 60's: Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll 9x's: Suxx, bugs and plug'n'play
As a funny sidenote: Szulik (in slavic languages, and I think it's a czech name) means Swindler. Matthew Swindler that is... Hmm.. PRs at RH will have some cool work.
And I just were going to flame it. Well, your message stopped me;-)
Anyway, kernel recompilation is one of the best documented procedures. You just have to read (not so big) docs and try to understand what you do. It's a vital procedure after all.
I recall, that I had my own kernel version running the next day I installed Linux thingie a couple of years ago. And I had *zero* background in Linux and UNIX in general. It's not that hard at all - other problems will be trickier;-)
.. as all SW included is compiled with bad optimization (and feature-sets) to start with.
Next: there are plenty of stuff included that almost noone (I would've say just "noone" but there's always a guy complaining;-)... noone gonna use. And at the same time some vital utilities/docs are missing.
EG: It could be tricky for newbie (and even not-so-absolute-newbie) to figure out *proper* hdparm parameters for given configuration. Not to say that default RH's doesn't understand UDMA things at all..
Say: on my old(er) PC without UDMA capable drives -u1 crashed filesystems on both of drives (on the same channel). At the same time -u1 is vital on my new(er) hardware. In fact -u1 saves me from seeing smth like:
... blah-blah error (sector not found).... ... disabling DMA mode....
on regular basis.
Who knew? Took me a lot of time and russian fido archives searching to figure this out.
I won't claim it 'bout all the other games, but HOMMIII runs almost _perfectly_ under WINE. In fact, I think that the only real use for WINE is playing DX games;-) At least for now.
PS: "Almost" here means "crashing X after exit in about 0.5 sec."... Just hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace as fast as you can:-( Probably XServer bug - screen goes way left and "that's all, folks"....
Slashdot Mirror
Not so bright difference indeed :-|
:-)
Well, all I can do is to highly recommend visitting this link for all people with (somewhat) critical minds:
http://www.instinct.org/fravia/realicra.htm
Oh! Please don't slashdot the server
Better bookmark it for later exploration instead...
When *all* the companies will merge into one Giant Monopoly how different will it be from centralized communistic system?
Of course not!
Rule #1: Never read the story/links on slashdot. Reading the caption alone is enough.
'cos while you're out reading a story all right thinking people are *already* posting their comments. And when you're back *your* posting will be in a third hundred or so and who reads slashdot that far?
So - if you actually read stories your comments will be lost in void.
Microsoft, security, commitment, 128-bit encryption....
I've read this yesterday:
There was a kangaroo in one zoo. And every day it somehow been managing escaping from its cell. Then the zoo has built higher fencing around it. But kangaroo escaped once again. Then the zoo has built a 20 feet high fence. Once again - kangaroo escaped. A neighbour hippo chatting with our hero:
H: Well, how high you think they'll build it?
K: Don't know, 100 feet maybe. But really - they should've start locking my cell door first.
Morale: No zillion bits encryption will help M$ as long as their "NT security guide" is dedicated to selecting proper chains to attach servers to the room walls.
Now that they "made it" I hope Linus will have a lighter schedule probably and linux (kernel) will resume its normal evolution...
:-)
.. do they use?
You know - now we have quite a selection of hardware but still most of the browsers people use (MSIE and NN4) are crap. And others are unknown/don't have momentum/not fully featured. (With a possible exception of Opera on Wintel).
And secondly - what's SO important about WebBrowsers?
Oh, people, please...
;-)
We're talking like suits (or even worse - politicians) here.
Open source, closed source... Blah!
Isn't it up to people and their skills and abilities to be able to fix (properly!) bugs?
What you think? If one puts a bunch of your average M$ "engineers" on open source project will it shine just because it's open source?
And at the same time there're (still) a number of companies who can (among other things) make good S/W and quickly fix theire bugs.
It's up to induhviduals, not capitalism/communism/open source
Uhmmm.. You're absolutely right!
Somebody, please moderate previous posting up...
I mean - I can grab a copy of Interbase 5.6 (used to be a commercial product) from 'Net and use it for my devices. Now that Borland has let IB go, will it be legal?
;-)
I mean - can I install a server and, say, 100 clients for free with existing versions of IB (that were commercial)?
If yes, then it's great news indeed
In my view SUBJ is the question now.
Really - you should have quite some skills (and commitment) to make *good* contribution to the case. Because, you know, developing DB engine is quite different to multiplying WMs or even writing drivers for some hardware. You have to be really tough to take on that. Are *YOU* ready for this? I'm definitely not.
But all for all it's good new (better than they could be). I hope it'll become standard - "if it's dead - let it be - at least publish it".
------------
PS: Now I just gonna wait for Kylix.
> What's the difference... you watch TV,
No. Really, no.
> why do you think it's free?
Who? Me?
AD supported != Free.
:-(
Not at all! It's rather antonyms than synonyms.
PS: Sorry, I just read the header, but I'm very strongly against all this "ad supported" bullshit
This just proves that Windows is a kid's toy, doesn't it?
Both are tricky?
I guess we have substantial difference between the two:
Linux: You can *learn* Linux. It takes a lot of time though.
But you can! Applying your brain.
NT: By concept you should not learn it (and MS does it's best to make sure you can't learn!). *Instincts* play major role here.
>Just so you know this comment was written by a white
;)
>male from a small town in Missouri and not a radical
>minority group. Stop taking away our damn freedoms!!!!
Totally offtopic, but may I ask about US rules of "political correctness".
I mean - try to write/say "black female" and you're doomed. You should say "afroamerican", I guess. Also "pale-faces" should say "natives" not "indians". Get me right - I think that to certain degree it's right.
But it's pretty ok to say "white male". EG: On CNN - "murder is a white male". Yeah, I understand - the man is murder, so what? Male, huh!
PS: When you think homosexualism(gosh) will become lessons in school? Oh, dear.. and they call it "hate"
(Automoderator: Score: -3, Flamebate, troll, offtopic
> C:\>uptime ntads1
;)
/every:m,t,w.... shutdown /l /r /y
> \\ntads1 has been up for: 19 day(s), 18 hour(s)....
Step II: Start using it..
My experience:
Start of the day: 48MB RAM used (as reported by taskman)
End of the *working* day: 72-80MB used
Yes sir - it also slows down quite noticeably...
When I discussed this with some MSCI he said that I shouldn't run anything on it 'cos "it's A SERVER". When the "process set" is stable "it doesn't leak then" (he assumes that server doesn't launch/kill tasks).
Cool, yeah?
So for me this was necessary:
C:\> at 4:00
------------
60's: Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll
9x's: Suxx, bugs and plug'n'play
Pick any relatively unimportant thing and blow it up.
This should be a slogan of mass-media these days. What's up with some people? PIII serial number. So what? There's heaps and loads of stuff (in our area of interest) that's zillion times more important than this.
Hmm.. must be some deep politics there, I guess.
Anyway. Bans such as this are ineffective. "Money talks" you know...
EG: 500MHz+ cpu's were strictly speaking banned to export to here where I live. At least until recently. So what? They were selling on every conner.
-------------
60's: Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll
9x's: Suxx, bugs and plug'n'play
"genna"?!
Oh, my!
Even "gonna" is not a normal word. In fact (you'll be shocked) THE right form is "going to"
Who is this guy anyway?
As a funny sidenote: Szulik (in slavic languages, and I think it's a czech name) means Swindler. Matthew Swindler that is... Hmm.. PRs at RH will have some cool work.
Originally there were HTML 5.0 Standard and tags in previous posting, but Slashdot's Preview->Submit sequence happily ate them.
BTW: Be warned...
Here we go again!
17 years (or so) cycle?
But really, shouldn't we read this news as:
"RedHat buys GCC?"
Hmm... I think GCC is (primarily) what made GNU project so important. Now GCC drifts away. What's next? GPL?
Hmmm...
;-)
;-)
And I just were going to flame it. Well, your message stopped me
Anyway, kernel recompilation is one of the best documented procedures. You just have to read (not so big) docs and try to understand what you do. It's a vital procedure after all.
I recall, that I had my own kernel version running the next day I installed Linux thingie a couple of years ago. And I had *zero* background in Linux and UNIX in general. It's not that hard at all - other problems will be trickier
.. as all SW included is compiled with bad optimization (and feature-sets) to start with.
;-) ... noone gonna use. And at the same time some vital utilities/docs are missing.
Next: there are plenty of stuff included that almost noone (I would've say just "noone" but there's always a guy complaining
EG: It could be tricky for newbie (and even not-so-absolute-newbie) to figure out *proper* hdparm parameters for given configuration. Not to say that default RH's doesn't understand UDMA things at all..
Say: on my old(er) PC without UDMA capable drives -u1 crashed filesystems on both of drives (on the same channel).
At the same time -u1 is vital on my new(er) hardware.
In fact -u1 saves me from seeing smth like:
... blah-blah error (sector not found)....
... disabling DMA mode....
on regular basis.
Who knew? Took me a lot of time and russian fido archives searching to figure this out.
> Network Solutions's policy is first come, first serve.
:-(
It used to be so...
Now it is not, if I understand this year news right.
Money talks
I won't claim it 'bout all the other games, but HOMMIII runs almost _perfectly_ under WINE. In fact, I think that the only real use for WINE is playing DX games ;-) At least for now.
:-(
PS: "Almost" here means "crashing X after exit in about 0.5 sec."... Just hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace as fast as you can
Probably XServer bug - screen goes way left and "that's all, folks"....