Stats from your personal blog or whatever don't report an accurate display of browser dispersion. Since mostlikely your site is a geek related site, sure there will be more firefox and mozilla users, geeks are more likely to use them. We need to see stats from non-technical sites cnn.com, expedia.com, etc... to see the real trend.
While the spyware makers may initially try to target Firefox... the fact is, Firefox is written to prevent just these sort of things. Is it possible there will be bugs that allow unauthorized code to run? Yeah... but they will be patched, and patche quickly.
But getting users to actually run the patch is a problem, wether it be IE, Windows, Firefox, Fedora, or Solaris. The problem is most users dont patch unless they have a specific problem that warrents a patch. I think that more things need to nag when patches are needed. A little icon in firefox is not going to make my grandma install the latest patch for x-expolit. How this can be accomplished is proably against the views of the OSS community, but software needs to check it self(call home), and report vividly to the user that it needs updating.
Are you sure you werent just having a non-IT person describe a RSA secureid keyfob token to you? I could see where someone who wasn't in the know could explain a secureid like that.
Last I heard the new FS api was a feature of Solaris itself, not a publicly purchasable seperate product like websphere, db2, tivoli etc... Now if you mentioned Java, thats another story.
So out of context your comment makes perfect sense, but when you put it in context of what Sun is asking, you sir, look like a bafoon.
You aren't going to convert anyone, except maybe a compulsive flash gamer with crappy linux games. However to me this looks like a great deal for kids, theres plenty of hours of fun in there for a young'n.
You need to buy watcom for the libs for QNX4. My post had nothing to do with libs it was about gcc. Linux is free isnt it? yet you still have to purchase/borrow/steal hardware to run it no? Same situation. So if what your saying is true, linux isn't even free.
you forgot to mention. "The fact the web site says it can be launched from any file-system would tend to support that" This is not true for QNX4.x, It is a stand alone system. It requires its own partions(i forgot the types and numbers) but there are 3 to choose from. One being qnx.4x only the the other 2 being legacy partitons from previous versions. I have not used Neutrino so I'm not sure wether it will boot off of any partation type, or wether thats limited to this free version.
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My last quote on qnx4.x (not Neutrino) was arround $2k that encluded core os, tcp runtime, photon runtime, and watcom10. (my figures may be off its been about 1year since this qoute.)
Why would you wanna use a RTOS for a desktop anyways. There will be a lack of applications and support for common desktop hardware. After all this is ment for embedded applications, not for playing quake3(although I do look forward to that feature) and chatting with your buddies(BitchX was a bitch to compile under 4.25). Now maybe if there was a remedy client and Xserver that ran with photon(for xterms), I could see it being used on a few workstations.
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Stats from your personal blog or whatever don't report an accurate display of browser dispersion.
Since mostlikely your site is a geek related site, sure there will be more firefox and mozilla users, geeks are more likely to use them. We need to see stats from non-technical sites cnn.com, expedia.com, etc... to see the real trend.
While the spyware makers may initially try to target Firefox... the fact is, Firefox is written to prevent just these sort of things. Is it possible there will be bugs that allow unauthorized code to run? Yeah... but they will be patched, and patche quickly.
But getting users to actually run the patch is a problem, wether it be IE, Windows, Firefox, Fedora, or Solaris.
The problem is most users dont patch unless they have a specific problem that warrents a patch. I think that more things need to nag when patches are needed. A little icon in firefox is not going to make my grandma install the latest patch for x-expolit. How this can be accomplished is proably against the views of the OSS community, but software needs to check it self(call home), and report vividly to the user that it needs updating.
Are you sure you werent just having a non-IT person describe a RSA secureid keyfob token to you?
I could see where someone who wasn't in the know could explain a secureid like that.
http://www.rsasecurity.com/node.asp?id=1158
Who cares?
I could really give a rats ass who owns the comments typed by a giggling school girl onto some webpage.
It's about time.
I commend your honesty Sir.
you use dhcp to assign ip addresses on servers?
hmm I've always considered that a "bad idea".
Does this nelson guy look as retarded as ESR does?
they all pretty much suck, so just choose on that you personally thinks sucks the least.
Cringely is an annoying, diseased gadfly, and everything he says should be taken with a grain of salt.
I dunno I have had his articles filtered out since 1998ish.
If you buy the base mac mini its $499
So 5*$499=$2495
How is that cheaper than $2300.
Idiot
Last I heard the new FS api was a feature of Solaris itself, not a publicly purchasable seperate product like websphere, db2, tivoli etc... Now if you mentioned Java, thats another story.
So out of context your comment makes perfect sense, but when you put it in context of what Sun is asking, you sir, look like a bafoon.
He's refering to TrustedSolaris being merged into the main Solaris distribution. So go ahead and readup on Trusted Solaris. then try commenting.
It is a commonly known fact that cisco autoneg sucks ass.
You aren't going to convert anyone, except maybe a compulsive flash gamer with crappy linux games.
However to me this looks like a great deal for kids, theres plenty of hours of fun in there for a young'n.
My understanding is they bypass the BES server, I'll ask our bes admin later today. Our company is planing on disabling pin-pin for this very reason.
I wish I would "reward" your ignorance with the score worthy of a troll, but I don't have any mod points sorry.
So RTFA its PIN TO PIN.
"Super, Thanks for asking!"
(410) and I have no clue what your talking about
Imagine if all the root servers died/lost connection. What happens? How do we know what to populate our hints file with?
Just a thought...
My coworker makes fun of my bsd usage, I make fun of his "redcrap".
He says "you've just got kernel envy cuz linux has a bigger kernel"
Welp its not that size that matters, its how you boot it:)
You need to buy watcom for the libs for QNX4.
My post had nothing to do with libs it was about gcc. Linux is free isnt it? yet you still have to purchase/borrow/steal hardware to run it no?
Same situation.
So if what your saying is true, linux isn't even free.
I'm just in a mood to argue today for somereason.
you forgot to mention.
"The fact the web site says it can be launched from any file-system would tend to support that"
This is not true for QNX4.x, It is a stand alone system. It requires its own partions(i forgot the types and numbers) but there are 3 to choose from.
One being qnx.4x only the the other 2 being legacy partitons from previous versions.
I have not used Neutrino so I'm not sure wether it will boot off of any partation type, or wether thats limited to this free version.
My last quote on qnx4.x (not Neutrino) was arround $2k that encluded core os, tcp runtime, photon runtime, and watcom10. (my figures may be off its been about 1year since this qoute.)
Why would you wanna use a RTOS for a desktop anyways. There will be a lack of applications and support for common desktop hardware. After all this is ment for embedded applications, not for playing quake3(although I do look forward to that feature) and chatting with your buddies(BitchX was a bitch to compile under 4.25). Now maybe if there was a remedy client and Xserver that ran with photon(for xterms), I could see it being used on a few workstations.