"A) Slashdot isn't coded for performance, never has been it seems like. It's an ad-hoc Perl/CGI implementation. This screams "bad performance" no matter what OS you put it on. Logically if they wanted a faster response time they'd code in mod_perl, php, or SOMETHING other than this archaic architecture." Umm... was that supposed to be an AFJ as well? HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 06:45:51 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) mod_perl/1.24
What kind of survey records a score of 1 when it also has a category of "Other" which had 32 respondents. I am sure that the people at http://WWW.PHATLINUX.COM/ are chuffed but I would hardly call it professional reporting. Then again, Phat just got some free promotion as I had never heard of it before.
I worked for DG who became resellers. We had a great launch, I ran around evangelising it's features and telling everyone it was the way of the future. Then NeXT sold its plant to Canon and then fizz...I guess the future has caught up now:-)
If you think the siege of Stalingrad was terrible, consider the siege of Leningrad was a tragedy, save the fact that the Russians held out. It lasted nearly 2 and a half years. The dogs were in big demand as were all other forms of flesh.
Ask him to spill the beans some time on Sega's reaction to Micros~1's XBox announcement, after Sega spent all that effort helping Micros~1
whip WinCE into shape for a console environment...
And Sega were surprised by this? They thought it was a mutually beneficial arrangement, right? How long ago did Micros~1 do over IBM?
ISP terms of service to connect to the Internet should include ingress filtering to stop IP spoofing and a patch management plan. Running vulnerable servers is not acceptable if you are a frontline ISP with oodles of bandwidth. There is a duty of care expected of them that is not being exercised.
Put Debian potato on another but my main box now was Slackware 7.0 then 7.1 with kernels 2.2.13, 2.2.16, 2.4.0-test7, test8, test9, test11, test12 and prerelease. I have enjoyed the DRI mga bits but never got enough tuits to get it compiled successfully for the Athlon specifically. At least I don't have to wait long for the kernel compile cf the Debian (P75).
Big thumbs up to Angband. It has spawned myriad variants including Zangband, Pernband, Cthangband and Oangband. Totally addictive and contains one feature I have never seen in recent PC games: If your character dies it is *D*E*A*D*. No saves, no respawn at the start. It certainly makes every move count, knowing the next move could lead inexoriably to your last.
Big thumbs up to Adventure, inspired a whole bunch of adventures from Infocom and Scott Adams (the other one).
All that talk of online interaction, PK problems wrt Ultima Online is old had for any Mud afficianado.
Even though the above started out on time sharing comupters, they are all available for PCs and are definitely influential.
Omigawd. When I was his age we were marking up APL cards using HB2 pencils and sending them off to the one computer for entire State Education Department.
The sooner this crazy Verisign monopoly is over the better. It is bizzare that we are beholden to an unknown company who signed a cosy deal with Netscape to say what certificates we accept. It is bizarre that Governments have to go to a private company to get a Verisign certificate. Soveriegnty? What's that?
The secret is.....
The majority of music, at any given time in history, sucks.
Go find a top 40 list in 1971 and 80 % of the music is shite, particularly so those in the Top 10 (with
notable exceptions)
Pop Charts have always been like septic tanks....
Support manufacturers who don't buy into this unholy mess. Support Free Hardware projects to develop replacement controller boards. My fear is the cartel will tie up patents for advanced capacity/functionality drives and only license development to manufacturers who use the copy prevention controllers. The choice between Free Software and Consumerist Slavery will never be more important than in the next 5 years.
I constantly talk to customers about their Internet requirements with respect to authentication and encryption. Many of them are in the Aust Federal Government where a new project, Fedlink, is being deployed. This plans to have IPSec deployed at the bounday routers of each agencies network connection to the Internet.
I point out that without end2end authentication and encryption, it is like having a bikini and only wearing the top. They have to understand that the identification/authentiation provided is for the agency router and nothing more (this is still necessary but not sufficient for secure communications). Of course you can run IPSec in authentication mode and then run HTTPS/SSL to support the application authentication and encrytion.
I have created a couple of slide presentations in LaTeX. From the one LaTeX file comes overhead foils, handouts and HTML. What does PPT look like when you generate HTML(I assume you can)? The space saving per slide is significant too methinks.
I don't see them bagging Linux, moreso bagging Sun's hardware and software competitors (IBM et al), suggesting they are the ones that are going to screw GNU/Linux.
BTW, a fork of Linux means forking the kernel. He never described that.
Planes also attack ground positions and naval targets...
Allies are also in danger when they are around. There was a documentary on the weekend where an Aust seaman recounted being attacked by a USAF Phantom off the coast of Vietnam which only pulled away after killing quite a few men on the bridge. The hint that it wasn't a Viet freighter was the strength of the firepower when it opened up it's guns on on the plane.
It seems to me, that all GNU programs are optimized for flexibility.
All general statements are crap
Example
1) All the toolkits present in the average GNU system. Loads 'o bloat. However, very flexible FOR THE PROGRAMMER, NOT THE USER.
Toolkits are for programmers
2) GNOME. Tons 'o stuff there that nobody really needs. Especiall Sawmill, who gives a damn if you can alter the thing with Lisp.
Ummm. Sawmill's developers and the users really need it. It's a great idea from the programmers' point of view because
he doesn't have to invent a new conf file language and parser. It's great from a configurator's point of view because it provides a powerful expressive familiar language. Besides, there is also scwm if you want to configure it in Scheme instead:0
Isn't Lisp SLOW?
No.
3) GCC: Tons of flexibility, huge compiler.
And this is different to other compilers? A user doesn't have to install a compiler
4) The "GNU" in GNU/Linux. Lots of stuff nobody ever uses, but you have to have installed anyway because there is exactly one program you have to run that uses it. I
Contradictory
could totally ditch Lesstif, if it wasn't for my midi player.
Ditch your midi player, get one with Xt widgets or use a command-line one
I could get rid of TK if the kernel X config didn't use it,
make config or make menuconfig, you have a choice
I could get rid of GTK if GIMP didn't use it (I use KDE),
Who woulda thunk it, the GIMP uses the GIMP Toolkit!!
I could get rid of Perl if the system didn't use it (none of my programs do),
You can, just do whaever you want to do from the shell
I could get rid of gawk, bison, m4, groff, etc if there wasn't exactly one (like man and groff) program
that didn't use it.
Get your man pages in info or html then
Is there a reason that the minimal usable Linux install is about 400MB?
You are right there with respect to the later Linux distributions. The last time I booted a usable Linux system was off three Trinux floppies.
I have a customer that runs a Debian mail gateway on a 200MB drive with room for spool etc. I think you are talking about a particular config - GUI desktop. Drop the KDE stuff and run with Windowmaker or Sawmill or scwm or... as a Window Manager only and I'm sure you could get in under 200MB
A minimal usable NT install is about 250MB.
Looks like apples to oranges comparison re functionality
A full BeOS install is 200MB,
including media files and sample code.
Don't know about that one. I suspect the comment above applies.
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One disadvantage is that a digital signature is not part of you like a combination of your face and your signature (PhotoID) is.
Damned if anyone is going to implant a Digital Certificate in me anyway, especially if it has to be implanted in such a way that only I can produce it and it can't be extracted by surgical means. The "rubber hose key recovery method" may still be effective though.
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Of course, in BillC's case, all you have to do is access his personal computer and type "Buddy" when it asks for the password to his private key and bingo!! your BillC!
Physical security at the White House hopefully protects BillC from himself in this case.
However, it is funny to note that the manual processes they are replacing haven't the least bit of security at all. Often, the "process" involves one person rubber-stamping a piece of paper and placing it in an open bin on some other
person's desk. Yet they insist on impenetrable electronic security.
You make an excellent point and that has been my experience as well.
However, Schneier points out some important differences between a manual process and a computer system based one:-
Automation:- small repetitive illegalities ignored by manual systems can be magnified a very large number of times (eg transferring 0.2 cents per transaction to a swiss account);
Action at a Distance:- A bank in NY can be attacked from St Petersburg;
Technique Propagation:- a new exploit posted to bugtraq can be used by thousands of kiddies within hours of publication.
Slashdot Mirror
"A) Slashdot isn't coded for performance, never has been it seems like.
It's an ad-hoc Perl/CGI implementation. This screams "bad performance"
no matter what OS you put it on. Logically if they wanted a faster
response time they'd code in mod_perl, php, or SOMETHING other than
this archaic architecture."
Umm... was that supposed to be an AFJ as well?
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 06:45:51 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) mod_perl/1.24
What kind of survey records a score of 1 when it also has a category of "Other" which had 32 respondents. I am sure that the people at http://WWW.PHATLINUX.COM/ are chuffed but I would hardly call it professional reporting. Then again, Phat just got some free promotion as I had never heard of it before.
I worked for DG who became resellers. We had a great launch, I ran around evangelising it's features and telling everyone it was the way of the future. Then NeXT sold its plant to Canon and then fizz...I guess the future has caught up now :-)
Who needs a speel/gramma checker when you have 1000s of Usenet/Slashdot users who will do it for free.
If you think the siege of Stalingrad was terrible, consider the siege of Leningrad was a tragedy, save the fact that the Russians held out. It lasted nearly 2 and a half years. The dogs were in big demand as were all other forms of flesh.
Ask him to spill the beans some time on Sega's reaction to Micros~1's XBox announcement, after Sega spent all that effort helping Micros~1 whip WinCE into shape for a console environment...
And Sega were surprised by this? They thought it was a mutually beneficial arrangement, right? How long ago did Micros~1 do over IBM?
ISP terms of service to connect to the Internet should include ingress filtering to stop IP spoofing and a patch management plan. Running vulnerable servers is not acceptable if you are a frontline ISP with oodles of bandwidth. There is a duty of care expected of them that is not being exercised.
Call me weird.
I went RH 4.2, 5.0, 5.1,5.2 on my first machine.
Put Debian potato on another but my main box now was Slackware 7.0 then 7.1 with kernels 2.2.13, 2.2.16, 2.4.0-test7, test8, test9, test11, test12 and prerelease. I have enjoyed the DRI mga bits but never got enough tuits to get it compiled successfully for the Athlon specifically. At least I don't have to wait long for the kernel compile cf the Debian (P75).
And was you char a *WINNER* in the end?
Big thumbs up to Angband. It has spawned myriad variants including Zangband, Pernband, Cthangband and Oangband. Totally addictive and contains one feature I have never seen in recent PC games: If your character dies it is *D*E*A*D*. No saves, no respawn at the start. It certainly makes every move count, knowing the next move could lead inexoriably to your last.
Big thumbs up to Adventure, inspired a whole bunch of adventures from Infocom and Scott Adams (the other one).
All that talk of online interaction, PK problems wrt Ultima Online is old had for any Mud afficianado.
Even though the above started out on time sharing comupters, they are all available for PCs and are definitely influential.
Omigawd. When I was his age we were marking up APL cards using HB2 pencils and sending them off to the one computer for entire State Education Department.
The sooner this crazy Verisign monopoly is over the better. It is bizzare that we are beholden to an unknown company who signed a cosy deal with Netscape to say what certificates we accept. It is bizarre that Governments have to go to a private company to get a Verisign certificate. Soveriegnty? What's that?
The secret is.....
The majority of music, at any given time in history, sucks.
Go find a top 40 list in 1971 and 80 % of the music is shite, particularly so those in the Top 10 (with
notable exceptions)
Pop Charts have always been like septic tanks....
Support manufacturers who don't buy into this unholy mess. Support Free Hardware projects to develop replacement controller boards.
My fear is the cartel will tie up patents for advanced capacity/functionality drives and only license development to manufacturers who use the copy prevention controllers.
The choice between Free Software and Consumerist Slavery will never be more important than in the next 5 years.
2. An IDE that uses both syntax highlighting and that will jump to errors by clicking on them.
What's GNU/Emacs do? I suggest you review the tools more closely.
I constantly talk to customers about their Internet requirements with respect to authentication and encryption. Many of them are in the Aust Federal Government where a new project, Fedlink, is being deployed. This plans to have IPSec deployed at the bounday routers of each agencies network connection to the Internet.
I point out that without end2end authentication and encryption, it is like having a bikini and only wearing the top. They have to understand that the identification/authentiation provided is for the agency router and nothing more (this is still necessary but not sufficient for secure communications). Of course you can run IPSec in authentication mode and then run HTTPS/SSL to support the application authentication and encrytion.
I have created a couple of slide presentations in LaTeX. From the one LaTeX file comes overhead foils, handouts and HTML. What does PPT look like when you generate HTML(I assume you can)? The space saving per slide is significant too methinks.
Bag the opposition.
I don't see them bagging Linux, moreso bagging Sun's hardware and software competitors (IBM et al), suggesting they are the ones that are going to screw GNU/Linux.
BTW, a fork of Linux means forking the kernel. He never described that.
Planes also attack ground positions and naval targets...
Allies are also in danger when they are around. There was a documentary on the weekend where an Aust seaman recounted being attacked by a USAF Phantom off the coast of Vietnam which only pulled away after killing quite a few men on the bridge. The hint that it wasn't a Viet freighter was the strength of the firepower when it opened up it's guns on on the plane.
Ploughing through yachts on SF harbour due to GPS errors.
Who needs pilots eh? I have spoken to people at Aus's CAA who prefer that planes be controlled from the ground rather than by those pilot thingies.
All general statements are crap
Example 1) All the toolkits present in the average GNU system. Loads 'o bloat. However, very flexible FOR THE PROGRAMMER, NOT THE USER.
Toolkits are for programmers
2) GNOME. Tons 'o stuff there that nobody really needs. Especiall Sawmill, who gives a damn if you can alter the thing with Lisp.
Ummm. Sawmill's developers and the users really need it. It's a great idea from the programmers' point of view because he doesn't have to invent a new conf file language and parser. It's great from a configurator's point of view because it provides a powerful expressive familiar language. Besides, there is also scwm if you want to configure it in Scheme instead :0
Isn't Lisp SLOW?
No.
3) GCC: Tons of flexibility, huge compiler.
And this is different to other compilers? A user doesn't have to install a compiler
4) The "GNU" in GNU/Linux. Lots of stuff nobody ever uses, but you have to have installed anyway because there is exactly one program you have to run that uses it. I
Contradictory
could totally ditch Lesstif, if it wasn't for my midi player.
Ditch your midi player, get one with Xt widgets or use a command-line one
I could get rid of TK if the kernel X config didn't use it,
make config or make menuconfig, you have a choice
I could get rid of GTK if GIMP didn't use it (I use KDE),
Who woulda thunk it, the GIMP uses the GIMP Toolkit!!
I could get rid of Perl if the system didn't use it (none of my programs do),
You can, just do whaever you want to do from the shell
I could get rid of gawk, bison, m4, groff, etc if there wasn't exactly one (like man and groff) program that didn't use it.
Get your man pages in info or html then
Is there a reason that the minimal usable Linux install is about 400MB?
You are right there with respect to the later Linux distributions. The last time I booted a usable Linux system was off three Trinux floppies.
I have a customer that runs a Debian mail gateway on a 200MB drive with room for spool etc. I think you are talking about a particular config - GUI desktop. Drop the KDE stuff and run with Windowmaker or Sawmill or scwm or ... as a Window Manager only and I'm sure you could get in under 200MB
A minimal usable NT install is about 250MB.
Looks like apples to oranges comparison re functionality
A full BeOS install is 200MB, including media files and sample code.
Don't know about that one. I suspect the comment above applies.
One disadvantage is that a digital signature is not part of you like a combination of your face and your signature (PhotoID) is.
Damned if anyone is going to implant a Digital Certificate in me anyway, especially if it has to be implanted in such a way that only I can produce it and it can't be extracted by surgical means. The "rubber hose key recovery method" may still be effective though.
Of course, in BillC's case, all you have to do is access his personal computer and type "Buddy" when it asks for the password to his private key and bingo!! your BillC!
Physical security at the White House hopefully protects BillC from himself in this case.
You make an excellent point and that has been my experience as well.
However, Schneier points out some important differences between a manual process and a computer system based one:-
Yeah. That Alan Turing guy was wasting his time on Pure Mathematical flights of fancy...hang on, what's this keyboard connected to...