"If you want a computer to run Linux or one of the BSDs on, get a real computer and don't support Microsoft."
Thats assmuning, of course, that you build it yourself. Otherwise your sitll paying or a windows lsicence. Oftentimes dealers charge the same wiht or wihtout windows, meanign your paying the liscence fee even if you dont get windows pre-installed.
"A remote exploitable vulnerability was found in wu_ftp, which is distributed in all major distros."
Interesting. On my computer proftpd is the ftp deamon of choice. Granted, this is slackware, which is arguably not a major distro, but Mandrake 8.1 uses it as well, and surely Mandrake is a major distro? They are the most popular, after all!
An interesting idea, but I wonder about implementtion: Dear revenge moustraps, a lot of people come to my site by pure accident. They are not looking for my site. They are not looking for you product. They are looking for your competitor's product by name. This is a great advertising oportunity.
Or for those looking for People looking for Hannibal: Dear Canibals society, I hear you are haveing a member drive . . .
Or, bet yet, for "stalking onthe internet" : dear
equal rights for perverts society . . . .
I have a 9:30 AM class on Saturdays. So I usualy watcht he first half of MST3K and tape ther est. This means that I show up in theis boring and pointless class in fuul comment mode. I keep yelling funny comments out in the middle of the lecture and its getting me in trouble.
At one point hte prof was comparing ancient Samuri armour with European stuff and put up to diagrams side by side. They were obviously from differnet books as the european one was about twice as big. I couldn't help but shout out "The Japanese were a lot shorter!" when the prof says "You can see how differnet these warriors are."
There are only 15 peopel in the class, so I can't exactly hide either. Damn that Tom Servo!!!
I LOVE this episodes. I constantly find mysself repeating "Manos, Hands of Fate" to mysself whenver things start getting boring. I really want to get one of those poncho things wiht the hands on it too.
Anyway, Id be all over buying this, if I had a dvd player.
I've rented this about 5 times from Blockbuster and will again. Oh well.
If you havent seen MST3K watch this. Just keep a bucket handy.
I see a lot of you are jsut plain missing hte point on this article. Some of you are getting, so I may be re-iterating what you said a little.
There is of course nothing in this article that is particularly scandaous of itself. So M$ is using agressive sales tactics and doing their damned best to sell their product. That is as it should be.
The point is that this is a _far_ cry from calling linux a toy, like balmer did not too long back.
The point is that M$ is taking linux seriously as a competitor. Is this news? No. Is it important? Yes. M$ seeing Linux as the primary threat and competitor is, in many ways, a ringing endorsement of the OS. So the next time someone says to me that Lionux is nice and all, but not ready for prime time, well, M$ doesnt seem to agree. And thats nice to know.
What safeguards are put in to insure liability? I mean, a private ocmpany is looing at the bottom line. NASA exists not to make a profit, but to explore. Ergo, I wonder if a private company will be as liable to insure safety. Even NASA has had some diasasters and near disasters.
(Aside, as if shooting Tom Hanks into space wasn't enough, what the HELL was up with "Space Cowboys" in which we got to see old geezers naked _and_ shot into space._
If provate ocmpany cuts corners and a disaster results, can we hold them liable? Can we sue them? Some how giving somehting of the magnitude and ocmplexity of a shuttle to the lowest bidder unerves me.
I mean, should the G4 and P4 be equivalent? And ods this make them both inferior to the Athlon which is well past the "k7" stage and onto naming itself after Microsoft.
(begin cheapt shot) in related news, im working on a distro I sahll call Linux XP+ to indicate its better than windows XP:)
Maybe I am conpletely erroneous here, but I dont think so.:)
But, is this really soemthign that cna be defined as "settling." As I understand it (correct me if I'm wrong) Linus put the new VM into his kernel. Its been there ever since. And its not going away. Rather Cox is giving in the Linux, as he should, since Linus is in charge. This isnt settlement, its the natural course of development. A change is proposed, Linus oks it and impelments it. Everyone else follows suit sooner or later.
I understnad the potential horror of a kernel split, but does anyoner eally ebelieve that was going to happen? Im betting Cox would rather use a far inferior VM than allow a total split, simply because of the magnitude of suhc an action.
This is EXACTLY why I disable checksumming on all my serevrs. I work for an R&D company, I sure as hell wouldnt want another R&D using our servers to solve their problems.
Poepele used to think Iw sa paranoid, but now I have the proof.
I started out on windows. I coudl get it to run fairly well. But, heres the kicker, I didnt liek it much. And then I found out I could get linux to run faster, longer and more stably with less effort.
Guess why im running slackware now?:)
In fact, I wanted it to not boot the gui cause the gui was so damned bad.
I diss windows with the rest of them, and i hvae good reason.:)
"Doze machines have had to start up the GUI ever since 95. You can't tell it not to run in w2k"
Not true. I have set up win95 machines to boot without gui. In fact, tis jsut a simple setting in a human readable text file.
That said, let me point out that MY machiens dont urn windoze anything.:)
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Yes, I know how to spell it. That I choose not to should tell you something. I geuss subtelty is lost on your peolpe
your an idiot
Thats assmuning, of course, that you build it yourself. Otherwise your sitll paying or a windows lsicence. Oftentimes dealers charge the same wiht or wihtout windows, meanign your paying the liscence fee even if you dont get windows pre-installed.
Interesting. On my computer proftpd is the ftp deamon of choice. Granted, this is slackware, which is arguably not a major distro, but Mandrake 8.1 uses it as well, and surely Mandrake is a major distro? They are the most popular, after all!
Or for those looking for People looking for Hannibal: Dear Canibals society, I hear you are haveing a member drive . . .
Or, bet yet, for "stalking onthe internet" : dear
equal rights for perverts society . . . .
At one point hte prof was comparing ancient Samuri armour with European stuff and put up to diagrams side by side. They were obviously from differnet books as the european one was about twice as big. I couldn't help but shout out "The Japanese were a lot shorter!" when the prof says "You can see how differnet these warriors are."
There are only 15 peopel in the class, so I can't exactly hide either. Damn that Tom Servo!!!
But the all time best candidate? ISHATAR!!
Couldnt have taken you too long, your in the first ten posts. :)
I LOVE this episodes. I constantly find mysself repeating "Manos, Hands of Fate" to mysself whenver things start getting boring. I really want to get one of those poncho things wiht the hands on it too.
Anyway, Id be all over buying this, if I had a dvd player.
I've rented this about 5 times from Blockbuster and will again. Oh well.
If you havent seen MST3K watch this. Just keep a bucket handy.
There is of course nothing in this article that is particularly scandaous of itself. So M$ is using agressive sales tactics and doing their damned best to sell their product. That is as it should be.
The point is that this is a _far_ cry from calling linux a toy, like balmer did not too long back.
The point is that M$ is taking linux seriously as a competitor. Is this news? No. Is it important? Yes. M$ seeing Linux as the primary threat and competitor is, in many ways, a ringing endorsement of the OS. So the next time someone says to me that Lionux is nice and all, but not ready for prime time, well, M$ doesnt seem to agree. And thats nice to know.
What safeguards are put in to insure liability? I mean, a private ocmpany is looing at the bottom line. NASA exists not to make a profit, but to explore. Ergo, I wonder if a private company will be as liable to insure safety. Even NASA has had some diasasters and near disasters.
(Aside, as if shooting Tom Hanks into space wasn't enough, what the HELL was up with "Space Cowboys" in which we got to see old geezers naked _and_ shot into space._
If provate ocmpany cuts corners and a disaster results, can we hold them liable? Can we sue them? Some how giving somehting of the magnitude and ocmplexity of a shuttle to the lowest bidder unerves me.
FYI, the whole thing is meant as a joke :)
:)
After all, a Pnetium "4" is way less than a 286. 4 286 !!
(begin cheapt shot) in related news, im working on a distro I sahll call Linux XP+ to indicate its better than windows XP
But, is this really soemthign that cna be defined as "settling." As I understand it (correct me if I'm wrong) Linus put the new VM into his kernel. Its been there ever since. And its not going away. Rather Cox is giving in the Linux, as he should, since Linus is in charge. This isnt settlement, its the natural course of development. A change is proposed, Linus oks it and impelments it. Everyone else follows suit sooner or later.
I understnad the potential horror of a kernel split, but does anyoner eally ebelieve that was going to happen? Im betting Cox would rather use a far inferior VM than allow a total split, simply because of the magnitude of suhc an action.
Thats possibly the most cogent post ever on slashdot!
Cookie monster will be SO disapointed!!!
.. .
And I hate to disapoint a monster. It's dangerous
You tell him .
This is EXACTLY why I disable checksumming on all my serevrs. I work for an R&D company, I sure as hell wouldnt want another R&D using our servers to solve their problems.
Poepele used to think Iw sa paranoid, but now I have the proof.
But why the hell was my story abotu the new Code Red Mountain Dew slurpies at 7-11 rejected?? they rule!!
Guess why im running slackware now?
In fact, I wanted it to not boot the gui cause the gui was so damned bad.
I diss windows with the rest of them, and i hvae good reason.
"Doze machines have had to start up the GUI ever since 95. You can't tell it not to run in w2k"
:)
Not true. I have set up win95 machines to boot without gui. In fact, tis jsut a simple setting in a human readable text file.
That said, let me point out that MY machiens dont urn windoze anything.
gimme a mailing address .. .
Damn you!
Where do you live?
They can appeal to WIPO :)
This move makes me happy.
This is as high as they can apeal.
Hopefully, this means the end is in sight.