Exactly. I guess enough people don't know the difference between the XP and the MP. Yes, they both use the Palomino core, which is SMP enabled already. The MP is just tweaked to perform better in an SMP environment. People have been using XPs and Durons in MP motherboards for quite awhile now. No news here, and in most cases there is nothing to "mod".
And inversely, any bug report for a certain large vendor starts out being an "internet flaw" or an "web browser/email bug" and eventually is clarified to affect only a specific vendor's product.
Well, there might be a lot of these buffer overflow (or double free in this case) bugs these year in FS/OSS software, but you have to keep in mind that most of these bug postings are *theoretical* security flaws. Many of these don't even have an exploit coupled with them, it's just that since people can go through the code, it's easier to see that a flaw that creates a potential security breach has been discovered.
Compare that with most of the closed-source security flaws this year, which more had to do with actual exploited vulnerabilities than with potential theoretical vulnerabilities.
I guess the difference is that in a lot of these FS/OSS projects the potential problems are announced and stomped out quicker than they can become actual exploited vulnerabilities.
A double free that creates a potential remote hole (and more likely a potential DoS) isn't good, but if we weight security flaws, I would weight that far below something like Code Red or Sircam which is being actively exploited.
Hackers was accurate? So all those hackers could chat so graphically and browse 3d graphic high-end mainframes over their 14.4 (assumed, since they freaked out over a 28.8 modem on the notebook) modems?
I like Hackers, heck I have the DVD, but I like watching it *because* it's so inaccurate.
Google had this "moral high ground" from the beginning though. It was something that they built everything on top of.
I'm not saying they wouldn't "sell out"(however a business selling a product could sell out that is), but it seems that their text-based ads work well there, and that they also get a good amount of revenue selling their search tech.
That was pretty much how the quake3 install went under linux.
Most software I want under linux doesn't come on cds anyway... it's freely available on the net, and generally I just run apt-get to grab the program I want... which is pretty easy. There are even some GUIs for it. The end user can kind of look at it like they look at Napster or Morpheus... a list of all the files and programs they can install if they click the button, except in this case it is all legitimate.
Ease of installation isn't really what's holding Linux back... Linux won't really do much on the desktop until it's preinstalled by OEMs and the user just buys their computer. The majority of desktop users out there aren't going to install any new kind of OS on their system, much less an upgrade to Windows. They get the latest version when they get a new computer. Until Linux is an option in that arena (and given MS's tactics with OEMs, it will be slow going), it won't make too many grand strides. But again, the reason isn't that it's too hard to install a program, it's just that people don't get it by default.
But your comment seems to imply that IIS is more widely used than alternatives. It seems that a lot of people get confused between the market share Microsoft has in the desktop market, with the server market.
Now whether IIS admins don't patch their machines or not is a different matter, but a simple trip to netcraft will show you that Apache is deployed about twice as much. That seems pretty popular to me.
It seems that things like Code Red existed because of the severity of the security flaw, and the how easy it was to infect and spread. The recent security flaws in Apache, on the other hand, have been very minor.
So why exactly do you think that IIS is more popular?
Well, according to what he said in the article, there's no way he will be beating Microsoft to the punch:
We wondered if they could keep up with Microsoft?
"It's a little early to say. Right now we have 900 classes out of 3500 classes so we're not keeping up at this point. As Alan Cox likes to say, free software is always late!
"When Microsoft ships 1.0 we're not going to be shipping Mono1.0 for at least a year. So we're late. If they make changes to the API we'll try and track it down.
I have a picture of one of the billboards in downtown San Francisco, and I saw a few of the graffiti ads in Haight-Ashbury, but I didn't have a camera at the time, when I went back later on with a camera, the graffiti was gone.
I could be mistaken, but I didn't know that one could hot swap IDE devices. I thought they didn't really take kindly to you pulling them out of a running system. That means that you end up having to power down your system each time you want to take a backup home.
Just use the xlock program to lock your X session whenever you want to. It's included in basically every Linux distribution that includes X applications.
To set up a second X session, assuming you are using a graphical boot manager (like gdm, kdm, xdm, etc.), just run the following:
X:1 -query localhost
Then you can hit ctrl-alt-F7 and ctrl-alt-F8 to switch between the two X sessions.
Well, the unmounted archived stuff might be safe, but the mounted stuff would still be accessible. If you have your computer on 24/7 and have friends over, you can always lock your window and have a second instance of X running with a guest account setup, then they could do whatever they want and your files (and your system) would be safe.
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Grip is a nice front end to Linux command line ripping and encoding utilities. You can choose which encoder you use and I believe it already has a preset configuration for ogg encoders.
Hmm... I thought it was because the Duron's speed in Mhz was equal or better than Celerons, so for marketing reasons they would rather keep their numbers to show that they are higher.
I'm sure if Celerons were running at 2Ghz now that AMD would do the same XP nonsense with their Durons.
I personally prefer Debian for my systems, but quite a few people use Redhat in a corporate environment because there's a company behind it supporting it. If you need support, there is someone to call, and more business like that sort of thing. Not to mention the fact that someone can get "Redhat Certified" and the fact that Redhat is being marketed to this area.
I agree that one can get along nicely with an oldish desktop system. I still use my Libretto 50CT for a laptop, and it works nicely. But I wouldn't think of seriously running KDE or Gnome fulltime on it's 100Mhz processor and 32Megs of RAM. E runs on it, but not as quickly as I'd like, so I use Windowmaker. But when you start doing things like playing MP3s, you can forget about doing much else if you don't like skipping.
While these aren't things that many people are doing yet, there are some reasons why getting a top-of-the-line system like that would be nice, such as up and coming games and video encoding.
But for basic stuff, you are right, you can get by on very humble system specs.
When rats get cancer they get it big time. As in, they get a huge mass that sticks out from their body. It's pretty easy to notice, and it grows bigger and bigger. Some vets will surgically remove it, of course there is no guarantee that it won't just grow back (and it costs quite a bit for a pet you probably paid a few bucks for at most).
I don't know about mice, but the leading cause of cancer in rats is... EVERYTHING! Out of everyone that I've heard of owning rats as pets, around 50% die of cancer, and the rest die of some other strange illness, and all of these from people who take good care of their pets (sometimes to the point of absurdity). I just think that rats get cancer no matter what.
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Exactly. I guess enough people don't know the difference between the XP and the MP. Yes, they both use the Palomino core, which is SMP enabled already. The MP is just tweaked to perform better in an SMP environment. People have been using XPs and Durons in MP motherboards for quite awhile now. No news here, and in most cases there is nothing to "mod".
And inversely, any bug report for a certain large vendor starts out being an "internet flaw" or an "web browser/email bug" and eventually is clarified to affect only a specific vendor's product.
Well, there might be a lot of these buffer overflow (or double free in this case) bugs these year in FS/OSS software, but you have to keep in mind that most of these bug postings are *theoretical* security flaws. Many of these don't even have an exploit coupled with them, it's just that since people can go through the code, it's easier to see that a flaw that creates a potential security breach has been discovered.
Compare that with most of the closed-source security flaws this year, which more had to do with actual exploited vulnerabilities than with potential theoretical vulnerabilities.
I guess the difference is that in a lot of these FS/OSS projects the potential problems are announced and stomped out quicker than they can become actual exploited vulnerabilities.
A double free that creates a potential remote hole (and more likely a potential DoS) isn't good, but if we weight security flaws, I would weight that far below something like Code Red or Sircam which is being actively exploited.
Hackers was accurate? So all those hackers could chat so graphically and browse 3d graphic high-end mainframes over their 14.4 (assumed, since they freaked out over a 28.8 modem on the notebook) modems?
I like Hackers, heck I have the DVD, but I like watching it *because* it's so inaccurate.
Google had this "moral high ground" from the beginning though. It was something that they built everything on top of.
I'm not saying they wouldn't "sell out"(however a business selling a product could sell out that is), but it seems that their text-based ads work well there, and that they also get a good amount of revenue selling their search tech.
What you are looking for is called Enlightenment :)
It's basically the only window manager I've seen that does fine-grained window memory right.
That was pretty much how the quake3 install went under linux.
Most software I want under linux doesn't come on cds anyway... it's freely available on the net, and generally I just run apt-get to grab the program I want... which is pretty easy. There are even some GUIs for it. The end user can kind of look at it like they look at Napster or Morpheus... a list of all the files and programs they can install if they click the button, except in this case it is all legitimate.
Ease of installation isn't really what's holding Linux back... Linux won't really do much on the desktop until it's preinstalled by OEMs and the user just buys their computer. The majority of desktop users out there aren't going to install any new kind of OS on their system, much less an upgrade to Windows. They get the latest version when they get a new computer. Until Linux is an option in that arena (and given MS's tactics with OEMs, it will be slow going), it won't make too many grand strides. But again, the reason isn't that it's too hard to install a program, it's just that people don't get it by default.
Most people keep the defaults.
But your comment seems to imply that IIS is more widely used than alternatives. It seems that a lot of people get confused between the market share Microsoft has in the desktop market, with the server market.
Now whether IIS admins don't patch their machines or not is a different matter, but a simple trip to netcraft will show you that Apache is deployed about twice as much. That seems pretty popular to me.
It seems that things like Code Red existed because of the severity of the security flaw, and the how easy it was to infect and spread. The recent security flaws in Apache, on the other hand, have been very minor.
So why exactly do you think that IIS is more popular?
I have a picture of one of the billboards in downtown San Francisco, and I saw a few of the graffiti ads in Haight-Ashbury, but I didn't have a camera at the time, when I went back later on with a camera, the graffiti was gone.
Oh well
I could be mistaken, but I didn't know that one could hot swap IDE devices. I thought they didn't really take kindly to you pulling them out of a running system. That means that you end up having to power down your system each time you want to take a backup home.
Just use the xlock program to lock your X session whenever you want to. It's included in basically every Linux distribution that includes X applications.
:1 -query localhost
To set up a second X session, assuming you are using a graphical boot manager (like gdm, kdm, xdm, etc.), just run the following:
X
Then you can hit ctrl-alt-F7 and ctrl-alt-F8 to switch between the two X sessions.
Well, the unmounted archived stuff might be safe, but the mounted stuff would still be accessible. If you have your computer on 24/7 and have friends over, you can always lock your window and have a second instance of X running with a guest account setup, then they could do whatever they want and your files (and your system) would be safe.
Grip is a nice front end to Linux command line ripping and encoding utilities. You can choose which encoder you use and I believe it already has a preset configuration for ogg encoders.
Hmm... I thought it was because the Duron's speed in Mhz was equal or better than Celerons, so for marketing reasons they would rather keep their numbers to show that they are higher.
I'm sure if Celerons were running at 2Ghz now that AMD would do the same XP nonsense with their Durons.
I personally prefer Debian for my systems, but quite a few people use Redhat in a corporate environment because there's a company behind it supporting it. If you need support, there is someone to call, and more business like that sort of thing. Not to mention the fact that someone can get "Redhat Certified" and the fact that Redhat is being marketed to this area.
And 2 posts from the fairly new phenomena of posts where people attempt a +1 Funny by saying how they misread a word or phrase in the story. Like:
"Heh, when I first read that, I thought it said 'save Yah some time', and I was about to say, Yahweh has all the time he needs..."
or something like that.
Psss, what you can do to ease that burden of suspense is actually *read* the article! Yup, the answers are right there.
Okay, fine I'll ruin the suspense for you, he doesn't review any Apple products.
it's getting better all the time.
There were three seasons, and you can find all the episodes on your favorite fileshare app in divx form.
I agree that one can get along nicely with an oldish desktop system. I still use my Libretto 50CT for a laptop, and it works nicely. But I wouldn't think of seriously running KDE or Gnome fulltime on it's 100Mhz processor and 32Megs of RAM. E runs on it, but not as quickly as I'd like, so I use Windowmaker. But when you start doing things like playing MP3s, you can forget about doing much else if you don't like skipping.
While these aren't things that many people are doing yet, there are some reasons why getting a top-of-the-line system like that would be nice, such as up and coming games and video encoding.
But for basic stuff, you are right, you can get by on very humble system specs.
The Fuji FinePix 3600 is a nice camera. They can be had for around $300 now and offer 3X optical zoom and 2 Megapixel resolution.
When rats get cancer they get it big time. As in, they get a huge mass that sticks out from their body. It's pretty easy to notice, and it grows bigger and bigger. Some vets will surgically remove it, of course there is no guarantee that it won't just grow back (and it costs quite a bit for a pet you probably paid a few bucks for at most).
And his partner is named "Phil McCracken"...
I don't know about mice, but the leading cause of cancer in rats is... EVERYTHING! Out of everyone that I've heard of owning rats as pets, around 50% die of cancer, and the rest die of some other strange illness, and all of these from people who take good care of their pets (sometimes to the point of absurdity). I just think that rats get cancer no matter what.