this definitely is a stunning question... what is trademarked and where do the limits go.
if i invent a glass that can display computer graphics with a simple microchip besides it, make it work as a touchpad tablet pc and install it as a window on houses. can i call my product Windows ? cause they ARE windows, the real windows (not the crappy software of a company that's name suggestes that something is small and soft), but with a little extra.
nevermind the finger marks on the glass, mommy will wash these away...
and what happened to Mike Rowe ? the dude that owned mikerowesoft website ? that doesnt even apply to trademark rules because it his his freaking name (poor dude) and he can't use it ?
next thing you'll see is an indian claiming trademark on the Apache and his friend ripping off the army with Comanche...
WindowsCommander->TotalCommander, WindowsDefender -> TotalDefender ? (should be on the way:p)
i've been using debian for 4 years now... i admit i like the apt as it is and the dependancy issues can usually be resolved with some effort.
but the thing that bothers me is that debian is lately lagging far behind of the actual releases. for example, when slashdot was writing that 1.0.x version of firefox is invulnerable to something and all the previous versions too, then sitting on 1.0.(x-2) doesn't really feel good, and the waiting 2 months to get the upgrade smells funny.
tried out gentoo lately too... imho it rocks. yea people dont like building the stuff all the time, but that is the choice you have to take when it comes down to staying on the bleeding edge. sometimes you even want to choose stuff that isn't bleeding edge but is defacto standard, like x.org, but debian had enormous problems to break off from the xfree86 server (and i'm not even now sure that it has braken off from it, i use ubuntu packages right now...)
the thing that really annoys is that mplayer tends to break all the time if installed from packages, so i compile that one myself and only update it if really breaks down (not when the package manager decides that it shouldnt be here anymore). and marillat tends to change the directories from time to time:s
if debian breaks this lagging behind and gets some improvement to the dependancy problems it's probably one of the best distros out there.
commercial distros i just dislike and once i saw dpkg i never looked at rpm hell again ( and i hope never will have to look at it again:D ).
yeah, the screenshot looks nice... but without the 1-liners that i can create in bash in 5 seconds, cvs is sometimes pretty worthless. can you imagine how can i diff 100 versions of some code to find 1 exact change in only 1 of the diffs ? lots of clicking? thnx but no thnx... not even mentioning making huge repositionings in cvs which could be coded fast in shells or perl but will take inhuman hours to click around.
don't get me wrong here, i'm not saying that this cvs toy is bad, but without the power of a shell and quick command line tools, some stuff just cant be done in reasonable time, however fine it may look on the outside.
--- as for the macs... go grab the m$ by it's balls ans squeeze really hard, in it's current state, windows is more fragile than it ever has been, one cih virus now would that there will be no m$ customers anymore...
[anyone remembering the stuff that erased your harddrive and overwrote the flash rom ? now that was a nasty one... was fun to look at it from my sun machine tho:p]
ps. people dont switch your operating system because you like the ipod, this sounds like changing the car to get a better radio into it...
MS continues to beat up on linux cause they realize more and more what a threat OSS is.
Nah, not really. In the server marketshare ofcourse linux is having pretty ok numbers, but in the desktop world, linux is worthless in the percentage scale of users.
However you are a witness to the greatest marketing campaign, thats why microsoft hasnt bashed linux away already... they can do it, but they dont want to. Currently they can say that "hey, we cost a lot... but see redhat server version zxy with enormous amounts of administrators will cost you more... so buy us !" , you can pretty obviously see that they dont give a damn who is better, they want to sell stuff, with all means necessary.
I think that windows is actually lagging behind the linux world already (yeah sure linux gui-s are not so nice, but the core beneath has passed microsoft's monstrum) but the marketplace wont pick it up any time soon, and thats why microsoft keeps pushing it, to get the most out of it before it collapses.
Instead of wearing the tinfoil armour, i suggest you look into the mirror, understand that most of the world really doesn't give a lama's ass about where who and why you are. If people are capable of scanning/tracking your rfid chip, they probably are talented enough to do much more profitable stuff.
Dont let that ego cover you up in tinfoil, try to get in touch with reality for a second... (and they tell me that i with my 128 bit encryption am being paranoid... ha!)
the link points to a few rows that are very very very incompatible with the expression threading and multiple processes:)
however if you do some locking and synchronization, it can be used.... it would look a bit better if it could work in 1 transaction so no locking would really be needed like this :
>begin >allocate_id -> x >insert (x,'fishy') >commit
if commit won't come, the x value will be released again, if a another process between this processes allocate&insert comes by, it just gets the next value of the serial...
on the other hand ofcourse, you can raise the value of the allocated serial each time you ask for it, but sometimes you really dont want it to be raised, just check what it would be...
Even the Soviet Union and other so-called "communist" countries have democracy- it's just sham democracy.
please use the word had. the soviet union collapsed 15 years ago, it's time you people get over it:)
and actually communism and democracy aren't the oppositing fields here, democracy is opposed by dictatorship , communism is opposed by capitalism.
and wether you like it or not, from the financial/intellectical point of view, the gpl is really communism all they way through... and most of it's supporters come not from the former soviet union (actually russian programmers for example think mostyl about profit nowadays...)
dont be scared thou, communism and socialism as presented by gpl isnt really that bad (the only bad communism we had was the one of stalin's, where capitalists where shot or sent to siberia...)
however i still like bsd licence more... plain-clean-simple == enough for me.
you do realize that you just throw a hardware benchmark result at the efficiency statement ? i'm pretty sure that netbsd's networking overhead is smaller than the one of linux and therefore it will be faster on the same hardware
the comment 2 steps above said that netbsd is really portable to many plaforms, whereas linux can only boot in single mode on quite many of the "supported architectures". and as an answer to that you proudly show 4 most common platforms working (go try to compile your linux on an arm handheld:p)
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i have used both, linux and *bsd. i'm very fond of the innovative linux world and yet i was illuminated by the simplicity and secureness of the *bsd world. (in a way gentoo linux seems to be a nice hybride which brings them both together in some ways). recent releases of most linux distributions are overbloated and default installs are filled with software that can't be secure all the way through (for example, if in gaim a security hole would be discovered, most ubuntu and other gnome based distros would be affected right away...). i hope there will be a cleanup in the linux world some time soon so we have 2-3 major distributions (from which at least 1 should be non commercial), otherwise it will be very hard to track down what's really going on. the current my fedore is better than your mandrake and his slackware is better than her suse and gentoo will own da ubuntu rabbits (you can use your own imagination to continue from here), is really annyoing.
they are both great operating systems and their competition in the unix world just makes it a better result for us all. however your factless and non-thought-thru bashing attempts here are not improving anything. so please keep em to yourself.
i would choose *bsd for real servers and linux for desktops/lowend servers. just right tool for the right job. as people choose airplanes for flying and parachutes for jumpin down.
and i hope there will be some new milestone for standards some time too (like posix or sys v) which will unite the unix worlds again to some point of compatibility. in the recent years the unix distros have forked quite a lot, so a working code on one unix box can really take some time to be ported to another.
actually the german word for number of "boxe" items is boxen...
afaik, boxen doesnt doesnt only have 1 meaning in german, for example type this into the google's german-to-english translator :
ich habe viele boxen mit mir -- translates to -- I have many boxes with me
i have to admit i havent seen my german teacher for ages, so i might be wrong, but i'm about 75% sure that i'm correct (sometimes a banana aint just a banana...)
the world doesnt end at the border of united states and great britain, get over it.
nobody in germany writes ybergeek with an 'y' , it's actually supposed to be an u with dots, like this übergeek. but i dont see anyone complaining on that.
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and as an opposite to the thread author of this current thread, while some people may like to carry a bunch of stuff with them all the time, some others prefer to travel light carrying 1-2 items around. i still think i would prefer an hp/compaq ipaq to this thingy (with the gsm module and the camera), since it's far more comfortable to use and has more stuff to offer. so i would choose my wallet and a multifeatured phone.
not everybody carries a bag with him always, so if you have only 2 pockets, you pick 1-2 items and your keys along with you. and all your linux boxen and the rest of your equipment will just have to stay at home.
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ist cool man! [ you remember that milka chocolate commercial ]? i wonder where the whining language lawyers where then...
You can attempt a scan&sniff at first, plenty of stuff to choose from, but if your 100mbit network is being overhauled, it's quite difficult to isolate single responsible instances.
I guess that probably you will end up doing that :
1) get rid of cheap hubs(made in paiwan) and get some real network switches in place, like those from SMC. Having an old buggy hub talking to several cheap NICs in several machines ends up in massive packet collision, resulting a network that doesnt carry much but is totally jammed.
2) scan all those windows machines attached to the network, they are probably bloated with viruses and spyware. sniff on the windows machines for a 24h period, some viruses/spywares only work at certain hours and a midday scan doesnt show anything. if the windows machines cant be healed from their stuff, unplug them (yes as simple as that).
3) unless all above helps, isolate subnets and firewall them all creating according rules into inner house firewalls, so that the flooding would stop.
4) Most important, tell the windows users to scan their machines regulary, unless they do that, you will have to start all the above the day after tomorrow again.
I recently found a virus in a windows box in my own office sending me the "worm" emails... luckily thunderbird on my ubuntu laptop didnt quite figure out what to do with "report.pif" files... Anyway the biggest problem was how to draw the "big red picture" for the whole office that they *have* to scan their machines all the time. I found out that 66% of our machines were infected by worms, some of them even by multiple worms. After the cleanout the network performance increased dramatically and i could even do non lagging X sessions from my home to the office (which i couldnt do before).
Long story short: Replace old crap, scan & sniff, isolate subnets, unplug m$ powered machines.
I guess a control with a mute button would suit most husbands to control their wives:)
Other than that, i think it's a bad idea even to consider remote control of humans. But ofcourse some countries are very interested in it, like china and russia the usa. My own country is luckily so small that here an attempt to control anyone will probably end up someone else controlling you and thats about it.
1) Not all my coworkers keep the lines short, and i dont like dynamic wrapping nor do i want to wrap the code for them. If some long lines would be wrapped for 80x25(just as an example) all the time, i would again see less lines of the code:(. I often read/recode code that isn't mine (all sorts of coworker creations and also a lot of open source software stuff) and i dont want to indent it all the time to read it humanly.
2) Sometimes you have to read overbloated specification pdf files with annoying but useful graphs left-right from the text.
3) Sometimes i like to have some applications overlapping, like editore on the right, chat window on the left, so i see right away when my chat mate types anything. Or just a debugger/output window running there to see right away when smth goes wrong.
4) it's also relaxing to watch a movie from time to time:)
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in a perfect world ofcourse, nobody would require a wide screen for programming. but as most coders probably know, the word perfect is just an illusion.
Dont know about you but i cant usually fit the code that i write on an 800x600 display. I like to see a few blocks back and forth, so i dont have to scroll around to see what my bozo coworkers added to cvs the last night and what might break my code. even 1024x768 is far too small for me:(
My laptop is a widescreen 15.4", quite a perfect fit for me. It fits fine on my lap and is small enough to carry around. I'm around 184cm/6feet myself, so i dont concider myself neither a small nor a big boy. But a 20" laptop on my lap would look pretty redicilous... (as a tabletop/desknote it would be pretty ok thou).
On the other hand, what would you think about having the screen in your glasses (or sunglasses if you dont wear regular glasses) ? They could have pretty enormous resolutions and still be portable... so your laptop can be as small as suits your fingers (I always have issues with these mega-mini laptops that require you to use a pencil for typing on its megamini qwerty keyboard, i use an attached normal keyboard everywhere i can and luckily my laptop keyboard is about as big as the normal one, without the numpad ofcourse). Or even more the future way, have some kind of screen beamed at your eye or a contact lens covering the eye ? Any more ideas anyone ? Beamable sound would be cool too, so i could hear stuff that i want to hear as loud as i need it without wearing funny earphones and without upsetting the coworkers.
actually the topnotch cpu doesnt really count that much i guess. it looks as it's based on opengl and thats where the hardware of your graphics card hits in... i for example own a laptop with a sluggish sis chipset, and i wont even try to download the stuff, since i know it cant work with reasonable speed... by the configuration you have, i assume you could have a proper graphics card... have a proper driver to it too ?
but an nv6800 equipped amd x2 might pretty well cut it, one core looking out for the 3d, the other operating the usual stuff....
still, i think the whole idea is pretty much "future talk". our hardware generally isnt built for it, neither are our input devices (if you would be wearing some kind of gloves that let you do all the stuff, it would be considerable... but a mouse and keyboard ?). quite many 2D applications render their stuff to a 2D backbuffer at first, and just after that release it to the graphics card, it is a good idea on a sluggish 2d environment but it is a seriously bad idea in an opengl environment, where all the stuff should be drawn directly into opengl buffers and therefore avoid this massive memory copying all the time. at first we need to pull out the graphics stuff from the regular memory, our video cards have lots of ram today, lets use that for all sort of buffering and leave the memory for real application needs. but this is going to take quite a while since pretty many apps have their own "very effective'n'unique" regular buffering algorithms.
i currently feel that i'm most effective with my 4 virtual desktops and the regular kde. i dont think that a hyper mega giga 3d environment can be faster nor more productive... can be fun thou... but not effective. grabing a 3d window from somewhere far might be fun, but alt-tab and and ctrl-alt-left/right are much much faster for me.
[imagine the 3d image being surround with browsers from each view, every browser displaying that hey, the link you just typed is being slashdotted, happy hunting.]
It's the only Linux system I'd run for more than a week without deleting.
It seems like you havent tried out gentoo yet:) It takes over a week to get it just running with all the bells and whistles:p (portage my love...)
Imho the biggest problem with "distro releases" is that they change stuff in incompatible ways. Thats why i fell love with gentoo. I dont have to upgrade to the next release to get the newest packages, they are always here with me (and they are newer than the ones that ubuntu/debian (and suse) offer), and i can always get software that is exactly optimized for my machine.
If you want to learn how your linux machine really works , try pure debian or better yet, try gentoo... after hassling around with a low level distro (low meaning closer to pure linux than these rpm puppets) you realize that configuring all the "hard stuff" is actually really easy. and it often helps a lot if you know what you are doing instead of clicking yes|accept|i-guess-so buttons.
I had serious doubts when i saw debian at first. I had even more serious doubts when i saw gentoo (but the similarity to freebsd made it luckily easier for me). But now i'm quite happy that i have hacked both. I suggest you try it too.
/*Ofcourse if your hate configuring you machine to it's top level and you absolutely want to ignore the "spiffest" tuning stuff, stay with you Mac OS X, i dont mind:) */
hmmm , broadcom cards work with ndiswrapper... my laptop is running ubuntu at 32 bit mode and the broadcom card works just fine... have no idea if the ndiswrapper dudes at http://ndiswrapper.sf.net/ have found the clues to cut through the 64 bit hassle.
anyway, good luck.
and really, suse has no real fault in this item, except maybe they could suggest to the user that it should download ndiswrapper and attach a proper windows driver for it:D (since they are supposed to be user friendly n stuff like that)
how many piracy hoes does RIAA have to track down ? and ofcourse the answer is 42 !
In other news: The piracy world has some new books to read!
Websurfers guide to the massive amount of mp3-s.
MP3-s at the end of the internet.
MP3-s, pr0n and everything.
So long and thanks for all the mp3-s.
Mostly netless.
/* if anything above doesnt make sense, go to the library and grab yourself a douglas adams collection, you can later check my signature again and see if it rings a bell:) */
i think that almost anywhere in europe you still can get a new phone which isnt overbloated.
the nokia 1100 and 1101 are excellent examples. you can make calls with them. you can send sms-s with them and you can use them as an alarm clock if needed. afaik 1100 had a flashlight too incase you happen to wander in the dark:p. but thats it. no java apps. no mp3 players inside. no cameras. no crap. just the phone.
over here they cost around 60 Euros / 70-80 USD, which is also a lot cheaper than the regular overbloated phone.
ps. unlike pretty many ppl here, i like multi featured items. for example when i'm on the travel in a train or a bus or a plane, i can read the slashdot news on my phone, i can read my local countries news on the phone. and actually... i hardly ever use my phone for calling someone... i get a lot of calls thou, comes with the job:s.
anyway, what i would like to see would be a pda with huge flash-rom-like storage (i hdd-s noisy, slow, electricity consuming) like 40gb (so i could fit my movies or mp3-s in there for transportation), a simple browser support with wifi&bluetooth (crippled mozilla would be just fine), a human way to read my mail, receive/make calls, send/receive sms-s, an ssh client incase i have to access my servers from just about anywhere. and ofcourse it should be stable (unlike these pocket wind blowers)
i still prefer qemu to all of this... with the kernel module it's fast enough to use for normal purposes.
qemu is free and you dont need heuristic images, you just create a hdd dump (or just run a livecd for a known linux distro... and thats it....
the vmware player's installer is a bit bloated. and it should have an option to work without the kernel module (ofcourse being slow but still... )
anyway, i guess vmware felt that someone is breathing into their neck, so they had to lower the average price for their products... smart move... let's see if they one day give us smth as simple and as afree as qemu is:D
windows people are so fooled by the fast desktop picture, they dont realize that the system is dynamically still loading and just lagging behind, even if they get their windows picture up in 15 seconds, they still have to wait 20 seconds at least until they can really start to do just about anything.
windows doesnt start any faster than linux, the first image comes sooner and sadly most of the stuff is loaded under cover (bill's surprise), but if you have a sensible amount of stuff installed, linux boots way faster up to the moment when something can really be used by the user.
bittorrent's current network model is as secure as a bank with open doors and no guards.
actually, after investigating the software piece itself, i was pretty much disappointed. no magic ultra glitchy moves, lousy protocol based on lousy ideas. even no attempt to use the possibilites of udp. (unlike tcp, most firewalls allow udp outgoing connections to any port and later let incoming packages in (from the same socket) from anywhere in the network, thus efficiently enabling penetrating your firewall securely without any risks of other applications being affeected).
if he wants to use bittorrent for distributing official movies securely, he will have to rewrite the whole protocol part at least (at least some encryption to protect the content). and this would mean moving away from the current bittorrent applications and unless everybody is willing to upgrade to the new protocol, we'll have some half-way broken network all over the place. there are quite a lot of programs currently using the protocol.
if i was to buy it, i'd concider 5 cents to be the correct price for all of this.
if bittorrent should fall into hollywood's mean influence, i think other application developers will either fork from it all and stay where they are right now or create a new protocol at all. they aren't really that interested in supporting the californa billionaires who only make $100m from a movie that costed them $30m to make.
i agree, the current desktop pc-s take forever to start. even my 3000+ rated laptop takes a long time before kde shows up (stock kernel, about 30-40 seconds i guess). but back in 1990 my elektronika was ready within 1 second... so there's really no progress whasoever here:s
who ever figured out that booting should come from the ultra slow hard disks anyway, if the linux kernel would be in some kind of ROM memory on the motherboard, i could have linux running before even touching the ata/sata/scsi channels.
it's actually quite depressive, the cpu is about 1500 TIMES faster, most channels like ata and alike are also at least 3x faster than the stuff that was here 15 years ago. and everything that we use is alot slower than any software was 15 years ago (remember how fast the wordperfect showed up ? how quickly windows 3.1 came up ?).
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this definitely is a stunning question ... what is trademarked and where do the limits go.
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if i invent a glass that can display computer graphics with a simple microchip besides it, make it work as a touchpad tablet pc and install it as a window on houses. can i call my product Windows ? cause they ARE windows, the real windows (not the crappy software of a company that's name suggestes that something is small and soft), but with a little extra.
nevermind the finger marks on the glass, mommy will wash these away
and what happened to Mike Rowe ? the dude that owned mikerowesoft website ? that doesnt even apply to trademark rules because it his his freaking name (poor dude) and he can't use it ?
next thing you'll see is an indian claiming trademark on the Apache and his friend ripping off the army with Comanche
WindowsCommander->TotalCommander, WindowsDefender -> TotalDefender ? (should be on the way
i've been using debian for 4 years now ... i admit i like the apt as it is and the dependancy issues can usually be resolved with some effort.
... imho it rocks. yea people dont like building the stuff all the time, but that is the choice you have to take when it comes down to staying on the bleeding edge. sometimes you even want to choose stuff that isn't bleeding edge but is defacto standard, like x.org, but debian had enormous problems to break off from the xfree86 server (and i'm not even now sure that it has braken off from it, i use ubuntu packages right now...)
:s
:D ).
but the thing that bothers me is that debian is lately lagging far behind of the actual releases. for example, when slashdot was writing that 1.0.x version of firefox is invulnerable to something and all the previous versions too, then sitting on 1.0.(x-2) doesn't really feel good, and the waiting 2 months to get the upgrade smells funny.
tried out gentoo lately too
the thing that really annoys is that mplayer tends to break all the time if installed from packages, so i compile that one myself and only update it if really breaks down (not when the package manager decides that it shouldnt be here anymore). and marillat tends to change the directories from time to time
if debian breaks this lagging behind and gets some improvement to the dependancy problems it's probably one of the best distros out there.
commercial distros i just dislike and once i saw dpkg i never looked at rpm hell again ( and i hope never will have to look at it again
yeah, the screenshot looks nice ... but without the 1-liners that i can create in bash in 5 seconds, cvs is sometimes pretty worthless. can you imagine how can i diff 100 versions of some code to find 1 exact change in only 1 of the diffs ? lots of clicking? thnx but no thnx ... not even mentioning making huge repositionings in cvs which could be coded fast in shells or perl but will take inhuman hours to click around.
... go grab the m$ by it's balls ans squeeze really hard, in it's current state, windows is more fragile than it ever has been, one cih virus now would that there will be no m$ customers anymore ...
... was fun to look at it from my sun machine tho :p]
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don't get me wrong here, i'm not saying that this cvs toy is bad, but without the power of a shell and quick command line tools, some stuff just cant be done in reasonable time, however fine it may look on the outside.
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as for the macs
[anyone remembering the stuff that erased your harddrive and overwrote the flash rom ? now that was a nasty one
ps. people dont switch your operating system because you like the ipod, this sounds like changing the car to get a better radio into it
MS continues to beat up on linux cause they realize more and more what a threat OSS is.
Nah, not really. In the server marketshare ofcourse linux is having pretty ok numbers, but in the desktop world, linux is worthless in the percentage scale of users.
However you are a witness to the greatest marketing campaign, thats why microsoft hasnt bashed linux away already
I think that windows is actually lagging behind the linux world already (yeah sure linux gui-s are not so nice, but the core beneath has passed microsoft's monstrum) but the marketplace wont pick it up any time soon, and thats why microsoft keeps pushing it, to get the most out of it before it collapses.
A true geek would by a brand new laptop and a bunch of dvd discs,
:)
attach his machine to bittorrent and start fetching & burning.
At least i would
Instead of wearing the tinfoil armour, i suggest you look into the mirror, understand that most of the world really doesn't give a lama's ass about where who and why you are. If people are capable of scanning/tracking your rfid chip, they probably are talented enough to do much more profitable stuff.
... (and they tell me that i with my 128 bit encryption am being paranoid ... ha!)
Dont let that ego cover you up in tinfoil, try to get in touch with reality for a second
the link points to a few rows that are very very very incompatible with the expression threading and multiple processes :)
.... it would look a bit better if it could work in 1 transaction so no locking would really be needed like this :
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however if you do some locking and synchronization, it can be used
>begin
>allocate_id -> x
>insert (x,'fishy')
>commit
if commit won't come, the x value will be released again, if a another process between this processes allocate&insert comes by, it just gets the next value of the serial
on the other hand ofcourse, you can raise the value of the allocated serial each time you ask for it, but sometimes you really dont want it to be raised, just check what it would be
Even the Soviet Union and other so-called "communist" countries have democracy- it's just sham democracy.
please use the word had. the soviet union collapsed 15 years ago, it's time you people get over it
and actually communism and democracy aren't the oppositing fields here, democracy is opposed by dictatorship , communism is opposed by capitalism.
and wether you like it or not, from the financial/intellectical point of view, the gpl is really communism all they way through
dont be scared thou, communism and socialism as presented by gpl isnt really that bad (the only bad communism we had was the one of stalin's, where capitalists where shot or sent to siberia
however i still like bsd licence more
do you read what you write ?
:p)
...). i hope there will be a cleanup in the linux world some time soon so we have 2-3 major distributions (from which at least 1 should be non commercial), otherwise it will be very hard to track down what's really going on. the current my fedore is better than your mandrake and his slackware is better than her suse and gentoo will own da ubuntu rabbits (you can use your own imagination to continue from here), is really annyoing.
you do realize that you just throw a hardware benchmark result at the efficiency statement ? i'm pretty sure that netbsd's networking overhead is smaller than the one of linux and therefore it will be faster on the same hardware
the comment 2 steps above said that netbsd is really portable to many plaforms, whereas linux can only boot in single mode on quite many of the "supported architectures". and as an answer to that you proudly show 4 most common platforms working (go try to compile your linux on an arm handheld
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i have used both, linux and *bsd. i'm very fond of the innovative linux world and yet i was illuminated by the simplicity and secureness of the *bsd world. (in a way gentoo linux seems to be a nice hybride which brings them both together in some ways). recent releases of most linux distributions are overbloated and default installs are filled with software that can't be secure all the way through (for example, if in gaim a security hole would be discovered, most ubuntu and other gnome based distros would be affected right away
they are both great operating systems and their competition in the unix world just makes it a better result for us all. however your factless and non-thought-thru bashing attempts here are not improving anything. so please keep em to yourself.
i would choose *bsd for real servers and linux for desktops/lowend servers. just right tool for the right job. as people choose airplanes for flying and parachutes for jumpin down.
and i hope there will be some new milestone for standards some time too (like posix or sys v) which will unite the unix worlds again to some point of compatibility. in the recent years the unix distros have forked quite a lot, so a working code on one unix box can really take some time to be ported to another.
actually the german word for number of "boxe" items is boxen ...
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afaik, boxen doesnt doesnt only have 1 meaning in german, for example type this into the google's german-to-english translator :
ich habe viele boxen mit mir
-- translates to --
I have many boxes with me
i have to admit i havent seen my german teacher for ages, so i might be wrong, but i'm about 75% sure that i'm correct (sometimes a banana aint just a banana
the world doesnt end at the border of united states and great britain, get over it.
nobody in germany writes ybergeek with an 'y' , it's actually supposed to be an u with dots, like this übergeek. but i dont see anyone complaining on that.
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and as an opposite to the thread author of this current thread, while some people may like to carry a bunch of stuff with them all the time, some others prefer to travel light carrying 1-2 items around. i still think i would prefer an hp/compaq ipaq to this thingy (with the gsm module and the camera), since it's far more comfortable to use and has more stuff to offer. so i would choose my wallet and a multifeatured phone.
not everybody carries a bag with him always, so if you have only 2 pockets, you pick 1-2 items and your keys along with you. and all your linux boxen and the rest of your equipment will just have to stay at home.
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ist cool man! [ you remember that milka chocolate commercial ]? i wonder where the whining language lawyers where then
You can attempt a scan&sniff at first, plenty of stuff to choose from,
... luckily thunderbird on my ubuntu laptop didnt quite figure out what to do with "report.pif" files ... Anyway the biggest problem was how to draw the "big red picture" for the whole office that they *have* to scan their machines all the time. I found out that 66% of our machines were infected by worms, some of them even by multiple worms. After the cleanout the network performance increased dramatically and i could even do non lagging X sessions from my home to the office (which i couldnt do before).
but if your 100mbit network is being overhauled, it's quite difficult
to isolate single responsible instances.
I guess that probably you will end up doing that :
1) get rid of cheap hubs(made in paiwan) and get some real network switches in place, like those from SMC. Having an old buggy hub talking to several cheap NICs in several machines ends up in massive packet collision, resulting a network that doesnt carry much but is totally jammed.
2) scan all those windows machines attached to the network, they are probably bloated with viruses and spyware. sniff on the windows machines for a 24h period, some viruses/spywares only work at certain hours and a midday scan doesnt show anything. if the windows machines cant be healed from their stuff, unplug them (yes as simple as that).
3) unless all above helps, isolate subnets and firewall them all creating according rules into inner house firewalls, so that the flooding would stop.
4) Most important, tell the windows users to scan their machines regulary, unless they do that, you will have to start all the above the day after tomorrow again.
I recently found a virus in a windows box in my own office sending me the "worm" emails
Long story short: Replace old crap, scan & sniff, isolate subnets, unplug m$ powered machines.
I guess a control with a mute button would suit most husbands to control their wives :)
Other than that, i think it's a bad idea even to consider remote control of humans. But ofcourse some countries are very interested in it, like china and russia the usa. My own country is luckily so small that here an attempt to control anyone will probably end up someone else controlling you and thats about it.
1) Not all my coworkers keep the lines short, and i dont like dynamic wrapping nor do i want to wrap the code for them. If some long lines would be wrapped for 80x25(just as an example) all the time, i would again see less lines of the code :(. I often read/recode code that isn't mine (all sorts of coworker creations and also a lot of open source software stuff) and i dont want to indent it all the time to read it humanly.
:)
2) Sometimes you have to read overbloated specification pdf files with annoying but useful graphs left-right from the text.
3) Sometimes i like to have some applications overlapping, like editore on the right, chat window on the left, so i see right away when my chat mate types anything. Or just a debugger/output window running there to see right away when smth goes wrong.
4) it's also relaxing to watch a movie from time to time
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in a perfect world ofcourse, nobody would require a wide screen for programming. but as most coders probably know, the word perfect is just an illusion.
Dont know about you but i cant usually fit the code that i write on an 800x600 display. I like to see a few blocks back and forth, so i dont have to scroll around to see what my bozo coworkers added to cvs the last night and what might break my code. even 1024x768 is far too small for me :(
... (as a tabletop/desknote it would be pretty ok thou).
... so your laptop can be as small as suits your fingers (I always have issues with these mega-mini laptops that require you to use a pencil for typing on its megamini qwerty keyboard, i use an attached normal keyboard everywhere i can and luckily my laptop keyboard is about as big as the normal one, without the numpad ofcourse). Or even more the future way, have some kind of screen beamed at your eye or a contact lens covering the eye ? Any more ideas anyone ? Beamable sound would be cool too, so i could hear stuff that i want to hear as loud as i need it without wearing funny earphones and without upsetting the coworkers.
My laptop is a widescreen 15.4", quite a perfect fit for me. It fits fine on my lap and is small enough to carry around. I'm around 184cm/6feet myself, so i dont concider myself neither a small nor a big boy. But a 20" laptop on my lap would look pretty redicilous
On the other hand, what would you think about having the screen in your glasses (or sunglasses if you dont wear regular glasses) ? They could have pretty enormous resolutions and still be portable
actually the topnotch cpu doesnt really count that much i guess. it looks as it's based on opengl and thats where the hardware of your graphics card hits in ... i for example own a laptop with a sluggish sis chipset, and i wont even try to download the stuff, since i know it cant work with reasonable speed ... by the configuration you have, i assume you could have a proper graphics card ... have a proper driver to it too ?
... but a mouse and keyboard ?). quite many 2D applications render their stuff to a 2D backbuffer at first, and just after that release it to the graphics card, it is a good idea on a sluggish 2d environment but it is a seriously bad idea in an opengl environment, where all the stuff should be drawn directly into opengl buffers and therefore avoid this massive memory copying all the time. at first we need to pull out the graphics stuff from the regular memory, our video cards have lots of ram today, lets use that for all sort of buffering and leave the memory for real application needs. but this is going to take quite a while since pretty many apps have their own "very effective'n'unique" regular buffering algorithms.
... can be fun thou ... but not effective. grabing a 3d window from somewhere far might be fun, but alt-tab and and ctrl-alt-left/right are much much faster for me.
but an nv6800 equipped amd x2 might pretty well cut it, one core looking out for the 3d, the other operating the usual stuff....
still, i think the whole idea is pretty much "future talk". our hardware generally isnt built for it, neither are our input devices (if you would be wearing some kind of gloves that let you do all the stuff, it would be considerable
i currently feel that i'm most effective with my 4 virtual desktops and the regular kde. i dont think that a hyper mega giga 3d environment can be faster nor more productive
[imagine the 3d image being surround with browsers from each view, every browser displaying that hey, the link you just typed is being slashdotted, happy hunting.]
It seems like you havent tried out gentoo yet
It takes over a week to get it just running with all the bells and whistles
Imho the biggest problem with "distro releases" is that they change stuff in incompatible ways. Thats why i fell love with gentoo. I dont have to upgrade to the next release to get the newest packages, they are always here with me (and they are newer than the ones that ubuntu/debian (and suse) offer), and i can always get software that is exactly optimized for my machine.
If you want to learn how your linux machine really works , try pure debian or better yet, try gentoo
I had serious doubts when i saw debian at first. I had even more serious doubts when i saw gentoo (but the similarity to freebsd made it luckily easier for me). But now i'm quite happy that i have hacked both. I suggest you try it too.
hmmm , broadcom cards work with ndiswrapper ... my laptop is running ubuntu at 32 bit mode and the broadcom card works just fine ... have no idea if the ndiswrapper dudes at http://ndiswrapper.sf.net/ have found the clues to cut through the 64 bit hassle.
:D (since they are supposed to be user friendly n stuff like that)
anyway, good luck.
and really, suse has no real fault in this item, except maybe they could suggest to the user that it should download ndiswrapper and attach a proper windows driver for it
how many piracy hoes does RIAA have to track down ? and ofcourse the answer is 42 !
i think that almost anywhere in europe you still can get a new phone which isnt overbloated.
:p. but thats it. no java apps. no mp3 players inside. no cameras. no crap. just the phone.
. html
... i hardly ever use my phone for calling someone ... i get a lot of calls thou, comes with the job :s.
the nokia 1100 and 1101 are excellent examples. you can make calls with them. you can send sms-s with them and you can use them as an alarm clock if needed. afaik 1100 had a flashlight too incase you happen to wander in the dark
http://www.europe.nokia.com/nokia/0,8764,76209,00
over here they cost around 60 Euros / 70-80 USD, which is also a lot cheaper than the regular overbloated phone.
ps. unlike pretty many ppl here, i like multi featured items. for example when i'm on the travel in a train or a bus or a plane, i can read the slashdot news on my phone, i can read my local countries news on the phone. and actually
anyway, what i would like to see would be a pda with huge flash-rom-like storage (i hdd-s noisy, slow, electricity consuming) like 40gb (so i could fit my movies or mp3-s in there for transportation), a simple browser support with wifi&bluetooth (crippled mozilla would be just fine), a human way to read my mail, receive/make calls, send/receive sms-s, an ssh client incase i have to access my servers from just about anywhere. and ofcourse it should be stable (unlike these pocket wind blowers)
i still prefer qemu to all of this ... with the kernel module it's fast enough to use for normal purposes.
... and thats it ....
... )
... let's see if they one day give us smth as simple and as afree as qemu is :D
qemu is free and you dont need heuristic images, you just create a hdd dump (or just run a livecd for a known linux distro
the vmware player's installer is a bit bloated. and it should have an option to work without the kernel module (ofcourse being slow but still
anyway, i guess vmware felt that someone is breathing into their neck, so they had to lower the average price for their products... smart move
at first you are offtopic my friend
/bin/bash /// not the root password here, YOUR PASSWORD
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but still i wont leave you in the struggle
#shell$ sudo
Password:
#root@yourhost$ passwd
Enter new UNIX password: xxx
Retype new UNIX password: xxx
there you go
smack baby smack
### smth for the the topic too
vmware is being slashdotted, and being slashdotted hard
can anyone provide cached links for some web cached page and can somebody please put out a gentoo image for vmware please ?
thnx a lot in advance
yeah, your notice is sad but true.
windows people are so fooled by the fast desktop picture, they dont realize that the system is dynamically still loading and just lagging behind, even if they get their windows picture up in 15 seconds, they still have to wait 20 seconds at least until they can really start to do just about anything.
windows doesnt start any faster than linux, the first image comes sooner and sadly most of the stuff is loaded under cover (bill's surprise), but if you have a sensible amount of stuff installed, linux boots way faster up to the moment when something can really be used by the user.
a) cost of a sandwich :
:p)
about 1$
b) cost of a research to invent invisible aluminium :
about 1 zillion $
c) the face of your boss when he takes a bite of
his lunch and appears to have mouth full of cutting metal :
priceless
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it would be cool to "see" a pc case made out of it thou (obviously you cant see it but you can pretend it's there
bittorrent's current network model is as secure as a bank with open doors and no guards.
actually, after investigating the software piece itself, i was pretty much disappointed. no magic ultra glitchy moves, lousy protocol based on lousy ideas. even no attempt to use the possibilites of udp. (unlike tcp, most firewalls allow udp outgoing connections to any port and later let incoming packages in (from the same socket) from anywhere in the network, thus efficiently enabling penetrating your firewall securely without any risks of other applications being affeected).
if he wants to use bittorrent for distributing official movies securely, he will have to rewrite the whole protocol part at least (at least some encryption to protect the content). and this would mean moving away from the current bittorrent applications and unless everybody is willing to upgrade to the new protocol, we'll have some half-way broken network all over the place. there are quite a lot of programs currently using the protocol.
if i was to buy it, i'd concider 5 cents to be the correct price for all of this.
if bittorrent should fall into hollywood's mean influence, i think other application developers will either fork from it all and stay where they are right now or create a new protocol at all. they aren't really that interested in supporting the californa billionaires who only make $100m from a movie that costed them $30m to make.
you could as well try to sell a gnutella client.
i agree, the current desktop pc-s take forever to start. even my 3000+ rated laptop takes a long time before kde shows up (stock kernel, about 30-40 seconds i guess). but back in 1990 my elektronika was ready within 1 second ... so there's really no progress whasoever here :s
who ever figured out that booting should come from the ultra slow hard disks anyway, if the linux kernel would be in some kind of ROM memory on the motherboard, i could have linux running before even touching the ata/sata/scsi channels.
it's actually quite depressive, the cpu is about 1500 TIMES faster, most channels like ata and alike are also at least 3x faster than the stuff that was here 15 years ago. and everything that we use is alot slower than any software was 15 years ago (remember how fast the wordperfect showed up ? how quickly windows 3.1 came up ?).