with the phrase "So Microsoft's... excuse me, the AdTI's..."peppering the Roaring Penguinrebuttal, how are we (Open Source community) expected to be taken seriously? Grow up. This is like spelling Microsoft "Micro$oft". The weaknesses of the original document stand out fine enough on their own.
I was looking at implementing NIS, but I ran into problems w/ the method I wanted to do it by...First of all NIS is a 'flat' database, which is the crux of my problems, I think (NIS+ hierarchical, but not widely available...not recommended for Linux). I wanted seperate maps for each campus server, for staff/students at that campus (smaller maps to distribute to all sites, publishing less information), but some services (email serving multiple campuses) required a 'super map' that was all the maps combined... not inherintly possible by the flat NIS model. To keep two copies is silly-ish, since the idea is to eliminate duplication and ease administration... I looked into having the email service try binding to multiple maps in turn until a hit (or exhaustion), and scripts to build a 'super' map from all the other maps, but was never satisfied. What to do?
Nobody can "make" another person feel a particular way. A feeling is simply what a person has.
That's stupid. Why don't you go fsck yourself?
Did that make you angry, or did you already 'simply have anger' before you read this. My point is that there are tactful ways to broach a subject, and some things are better left unsaid, whether you think a thought or not. Arguing the semantics of "making" a person feel something is best left for a psych course, not kernel development. That won't help advance Linux.
When I was looking up info on the nagle algorithm, I understood it to be used for high-latency lines (dialup), and that it wouldn't work on a LAN, for instance...
The other thing is that sure, you can log into a remote machine and originally authenticate by keys, but what happens when you 'su -' to do something?
I know the problem is theoretical, but when people were talking about breaking encryption (rsa for instance) originally, they said it would take quadrillions of computing years. Now in the era of fast(er) computers, and (distributed networking models), keys are easier to break. Were the original people who made the 'practically unbreakable' claims thinking of today? Obviously not, because it wasn't a quadrillion years ago that the original claims were made.
Offtopic, but still near-and-dear to the hearts of many readers: How does the licensing for Plan 9 work? I saw a copy of the GPL listed as Exhibit A at the very bottom of their own licensing page.
The licensing looks liberal enough (it's labelled "PLAN 9 OPEN SOURCE LICENSE AGREEMENT" license), but how is it related to the GPL?
The organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organization's PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families.
Certainly Time Warner can do better than $52K... or perhaps they should re-think taking on Microsoft.
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had 5 iso's the other day, but there's only 3 there now... What's missing ?
2 iso's... or is this a trick question?
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> Boy, I wish I had a nickel for every time duct tape prevented someone's violent death at terminal velocity.
Yeah...Duct Tape... It's like The Force; it's got a dark side, a light side, and it holds the universe together.
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2) it'll hurt US manufacturing by making it easier for those foreigners to sell their products here (without conversion to US measurements)
(job) security through obscurity?
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with the phrase "So Microsoft's... excuse me, the AdTI's..."peppering the Roaring Penguin rebuttal, how are we (Open Source community) expected to be taken seriously? Grow up. This is like spelling Microsoft "Micro$oft". The weaknesses of the original document stand out fine enough on their own.
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a paper on the Hurd, and saw: Part 2: A Look at Some of the Hurd's Beasts but read it as
Part 2: A Look at Some of the Hurd's Breasts
Nice mental image.
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Maybe companies should be forced to number their distros based on the average version number of the packages within
Maybe they support a few modern versions of EMACS... hell, maybe _every_ version.
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NIS is the obvious thing to do
I was looking at implementing NIS, but I ran into problems w/ the method I wanted to do it by...First of all NIS is a 'flat' database, which is the crux of my problems, I think (NIS+ hierarchical, but not widely available...not recommended for Linux). I wanted seperate maps for each campus server, for staff/students at that campus (smaller maps to distribute to all sites, publishing less information), but some services (email serving multiple campuses) required a 'super map' that was all the maps combined... not inherintly possible by the flat NIS model. To keep two copies is silly-ish, since the idea is to eliminate duplication and ease administration... I looked into having the email service try binding to multiple maps in turn until a hit (or exhaustion), and scripts to build a 'super' map from all the other maps, but was never satisfied. What to do?
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Ya... you'd need to be the richest corp on the planet to do that ... ermm...
I don't think that Microsoft is the 'richest' corporation there is. Certainly giants like GE are larger.
<joke>GE is who I was talking about...</joke>
you get the point, though...
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What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product...
... ermm...
Ya... you'd need to be the richest corp on the planet to do that
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Windows Compact Edition
WinCE
Boring fact, but WinCE actually stands for Windows Consumer Electronics, for it's intended hardware.
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I couldn't fit that where my computer is now. And I'm pretty sure my girlfriend wouldn't let me if I could
Just don't let one hand know what the other's doing...
;),
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I'd just put the spy code in the Bios. What else is distributed on every computer, and run every time they boot?
Ya, but it's never used after boot, so would it still be useful?
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Nobody can "make" another person feel a particular way. A feeling is simply what a person has.
:)
That's stupid. Why don't you go fsck yourself?
Did that make you angry, or did you already 'simply have anger' before you read this. My point is that there are tactful ways to broach a subject, and some things are better left unsaid, whether you think a thought or not. Arguing the semantics of "making" a person feel something is best left for a psych course, not kernel development. That won't help advance Linux.
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ps: I take back the 'fsck yourself'
How about Splat. Some people think the '*' looks like a bug splatted on the monitor. :)
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Doesn't emacs still fill this role?
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I had trouble singing your song. Of what tune should I sing it to?
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There's an article (one of two) on the Linux Journal website about GNU Privacy Guard for PGP functionality for us *NIX folks.
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When I was looking up info on the nagle algorithm, I understood it to be used for high-latency lines (dialup), and that it wouldn't work on a LAN, for instance ...
The other thing is that sure, you can log into a remote machine and originally authenticate by keys, but what happens when you 'su -' to do something?
-yb
I know the problem is theoretical, but when people were talking about breaking encryption (rsa for instance) originally, they said it would take quadrillions of computing years. Now in the era of fast(er) computers, and (distributed networking models), keys are easier to break. Were the original people who made the 'practically unbreakable' claims thinking of today? Obviously not, because it wasn't a quadrillion years ago that the original claims were made.
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Perhaps now that it's already at the 18 mo. level, it'll never get back to that.
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I thought the subject said "Help, I can't keep it up!!!", so I was gonna post a clever link.
Damn.
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Offtopic, but still near-and-dear to the hearts of many readers: How does the licensing for Plan 9 work? I saw a copy of the GPL listed as Exhibit A at the very bottom of their own licensing page.
The licensing looks liberal enough (it's labelled "PLAN 9 OPEN SOURCE LICENSE AGREEMENT" license), but how is it related to the GPL?
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That would depend on how the people who contributed the patches licensed their work.
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From your reference:
... or perhaps they should re-think taking on Microsoft.
The organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organization's PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families.
Certainly Time Warner can do better than $52K
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... you'll see that Linus is suggesting a change in policy ... ie: printk() isn't being disabled.
Let's make it policy that we _never_ print out annoying messages that have no useful purpose for debugging or running the system, ok?
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