From the Reuters article: ...sparking strong debate over which market [servers or desktops] Linux will hurt most.
Ouch... I don't think Linux will or has hurt either market. In fact, I think Linux has been good for the server market definately, and probably for the desktop market.
Someone should tell Reuters to watch their language, news services aren't supposed to be so biased.
That's what I'm doing right now... Talk about balancing work and school!
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I've said this before. The Debian installation just isn't that hard. I'd like to hear some specific points about what makes it difficult other than that it isn't X based, but rather console based.
What I don't think is stressed often enough is that you only need to install Debian ONCE. I'm running it on several machines (home/business) and I haven't even had to reboot to upgrade.
If you had read the article, the program isn't really flawed either. This is a case in which a human can be fooled into sending decrypted garbage back to the villian, who can then do his decryption to get the original text of the message.
I'm not sure the software should be able to prevent this. Of course, it would be nice if it did, but this is just one of those common sense things that hopefully users of PGP will be smart enough to understand.
I could always reply to the sender of an encrypted message and say "could you send that to me unencrypted, I can get it to work." If they fell for it and sent it to me unencrypted, you could say the software failed, I suppose, but really it's the human's fault.
Overall they say that mozilla would make a good substitute for IE 6 but there is no major reason to switch over.
No reason to switch over? I've been using Mozilla 1.0 in Windows constantly since 1.0 was released. IE 6 just feels so DUMB compared to it. I shouldn't even have to mention tabbed browsing or the sidebar tabs and the great reference content that you can put there. As a web developer I find it indispensible. I can't speak for the average user, but I think that when this thing gets released as Netscape 7 with seamless support for all of the plugins Microsoft will be in for run for its money.
Bottom line, there are major reasons to switch over -- tabbed browsing, control of javascript (no popups), searching Google from the url bar. I can't say enough.
Seems like they got it in the wrong order though:-)
I'm not sure the puppy and cancer examples are very important. Your quotation of Ghandi is very appropriate. They did at first ignore Linux -- then they laughed at it (Free operating system -- bah!). Now they are fighting it.
What most people don't realize is that Linux isn't the little guy from many points of view. As previous posters pointed out -- IBM, Sony, HP -- BIG players in the market.
Nick Adams, as you may or may not know, is a frequent character in many Ernest Hemingway short stories. In one of these stories, this sandwich is well described. I now make it frequently -- it definately falls under the category of "comfort food."
1 or 2 eggs (depends on you)
2 slices of bread
Shredded cheddar cheese
1 slice of ham (thick)
2 pats of butter
First I fry the ham in the frying pan, letting it get pretty dry with slight signs of being cooked. Do not use oil for this.
After the ham is done put it aside. Put 1 pat of butter in the pan and let it melt. Over medium-high heat fry the egg(s) over hard. That is usually done by breaking the yolks after cooking the first side and flipping the egg.
When the egg is nearly done sprinkle shredded cheese on top and put the ham on the cheese. Place a slice of buttered, toasted bread on top of that.
After the cheese has melted, place the whole thing on the other piece of bread.
Voila! A Nick Adams Sandwich. Watch your waistline!
Take a single hair, wet it in your mouth, and place it across the crack between the removable side panel and the rest of the case. Anyone trying to break in will not see a single hair - or think anything of it if they do - and you'll know whether someone has cracked it open.
Point My Documents to their home directory on a file server. Don't have a file server? Get one. It doesn't have to be fancy. Configure apps to save to My Documents by default (most do). Send out emails regularly about how great it is to save to My Documents. Give horror stories about people who didn't. Give happy stories about people who did.
Users will learn. They don't need to know what a server is either. My Documents is "on the Desktop" and makes total sense.
Anyone wanna start betting when the dev kernel will surpass the stable kernel?
3 versions to go....
It's really not that fantastic. 2.5 will probably go pretty high. The 2.3 kernel went to 2.3.51 before it jumped to 2.3.99 (look here).
It will be interesting how much work goes into 2.5 before 2.6.0 is released. Then we'll be able to start comparing what's new to 2.4.x. It is interesting that we're at 2.4.19 when the 2.2. kernel is at 2.2.20, IMHO.
I think your teachers might also want you to get an education.
If you can go to college, go to college. Get a job working at a lab or with the CSci department. Major in what you find interesting.
The sysadmin sitting a few chairs away from me has a B.S. in Applied Mathematics. I just tried to get more information out of him and he told me "none of your f***in business." Now that's job security!
Find out if your town or county has any kind of acceptable use policy. They probably do. Or, if your school receives state funding, perhaps there is an acceptable use policy at the state level. In short, follow the money and then check for policies.
I'm sure you'll find that what these teachers are doing is not acceptable. Put up a firewall, do what you need to do so that P2P software doesn't work, and when they come and complain point to the policy that defines acceptable use.
Whatever you do, enforce across the board! Don't just block the few teachers that are the problem, block the whole network. That's the best way to stay out of trouble.
There's more than one way to find a song on P2P. For example, maybe I hear a song in a movie by Elliot Smith. I like the song. I go to Limewire, I search for Elliot Smith. I probably find lots of the song I heard in the movie, and I download that one. Then I see a song that wasn't in the movie. I download it. Then I see Elliot Smith did a duo with someone else, I search for their songs. Suddenly I'm listening to music by some artist that I had never heard of because I was looking for a song I heard in a movie by Elliot Smith.
Do you ever hear Elliot Smith songs on the radio? I don't.
So maybe I buy an Elliot Smith CD to get the music that's not in the movie, and maybe I buy the other artist's CD because I heard his/her music while searching for stuff on Elliot Smith. I wouldn't have just bought a random Elliot Smith CD because I heard one of his songs in a movie, and without P2P I wouldn't have ever heard of the other artist.
they'd just fire you and hire someone else. If you are unwilling especialy now there will be 10 other people willing to do it and take your job if you aren't.
You're missing the point. First of all, I don't think there's 91% unemployment among software developers. Secondly, if there was any kind of organization among programmers independent of the employer then the employer would have a hard time bringing down this type of action.
I don't think a "union" would occur, but I wouldn't be surprised if a professional organization of ethical programmers would arise. I would imagine members could fetch a better salary, especially if there was some competency requirement, as doctors have the Medical Board exams.
It would hurt the self made programmer, but I would certainly rather see that type of accreditation than what we have today: MCSE, MCSA, etc...
Not neccessarily. I have Road Runner with DHCP, and I've had the same IP address for more than a month. Check it out, it's my url below. I'm just wondering how long it will take before I'll need to update my DNS with a new address.
I have a D-Link DL-713P router/firewall thingy. It has a 'renew IP forever' option, which renews my lease on my IP address. I've even unplugged my D-Link, just as an experiment, and I've gotten the same IP. I think RR keeps their subnets pretty small, so I'm choosing from a small set of IPs.
Whatever it is, I'm enjoying the benifits of a static IP without paying for it. I just know that something will happen though at the worst possible time. We'll see.
Instead, to stem the tide, GeekPAC, or some other similar organization, needs to make an example out of someone in Congress, and do it quick. When the National Rifle Association, or the Christian Coalition or Emily's List, for that matter, want action on an issue, the strategists behind those well-run groups usually pick a smart fight with one or more of their key opponents. They target their resources to just those specific races, sometimes to just one race. Rather than give 200 politicians $1,000 each, the savviest PACs instead will spend $200,000 or more kicking the bejesus out of just one single office holder.
I say Diane Feinstein. She'd be a great one to be made an example because she's thought of as such a leader in Congress on this stuff.
SLIGHTLY hurt by this fact, because their REAL PRODUCTS - windows and office - are still the best on the desktop for me and probably 85% of the rest of the world's PC's.
This is true today, but I think tomorrow, with the possible emergence of.NET and more pervasive web services, that people will be using their browser as a gateway to using office like applications. This is, in fact, the direction Microsoft would like to go. They'd rather get people into a subscription-like system that can be delivered from a central server, instead of having the application installed on the desktop.
Whether it will ever happen remains to be seen, but I think the reason browsers are so hotly contended is because they determine the protocols that will be bringing these services to consumers in the future.
If IE dominates, Microsoft gets to choose the standards. If IE does not dominate, perhaps the W3C will, or another more democratic organization. I think that would be better.
I live in Minnesota, and the difference between the House and the Senate on this one is not surprising. The House is Republican controlled, and the Senate is controlled by the Democrats. What gets passed on the floor of the House and on the floor of the Senate means nothing, all of that is just posturing for campaigning. The Republicans don't want to seem anti-business or pro big-government. What really counts is the conference committees that are happening right now. It is there where the bills' differences are ironed out to be passed on to the Governor for his body slam, er signature.
I shouldn't say the full sessions are worthless. Basically, if something isn't in the House or Senate of a bill, it's not going to appear in conference committee. Usually though, the two sides, behind close doors, make decisions that are much more moderate than their respective party caucuses would like to think. In this case, I would think the opt-in strategy will win. It will be interesting to see though, and I'm glad I live in Minnesota on this one, because I know my Governor is going to sign this one!
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From the Reuters article:
...sparking strong debate over which market [servers or desktops] Linux will hurt most.
Ouch... I don't think Linux will or has hurt either market. In fact, I think Linux has been good for the server market definately, and probably for the desktop market.
Someone should tell Reuters to watch their language, news services aren't supposed to be so biased.
They're right about nobody knowing how this revolution will come about.
Read page 2: Female initiating sex, now that's revolutionary!
That's what I'm doing right now... Talk about balancing work and school!
I've said this before. The Debian installation just isn't that hard. I'd like to hear some specific points about what makes it difficult other than that it isn't X based, but rather console based.
What I don't think is stressed often enough is that you only need to install Debian ONCE. I'm running it on several machines (home/business) and I haven't even had to reboot to upgrade.
apt-get dist-upgrade
Love it, love it, love it.
If you had read the article, the program isn't really flawed either. This is a case in which a human can be fooled into sending decrypted garbage back to the villian, who can then do his decryption to get the original text of the message.
I'm not sure the software should be able to prevent this. Of course, it would be nice if it did, but this is just one of those common sense things that hopefully users of PGP will be smart enough to understand.
I could always reply to the sender of an encrypted message and say "could you send that to me unencrypted, I can get it to work." If they fell for it and sent it to me unencrypted, you could say the software failed, I suppose, but really it's the human's fault.
Overall they say that mozilla would make a good substitute for IE 6 but there is no major reason to switch over.
No reason to switch over? I've been using Mozilla 1.0 in Windows constantly since 1.0 was released. IE 6 just feels so DUMB compared to it. I shouldn't even have to mention tabbed browsing or the sidebar tabs and the great reference content that you can put there. As a web developer I find it indispensible. I can't speak for the average user, but I think that when this thing gets released as Netscape 7 with seamless support for all of the plugins Microsoft will be in for run for its money.
Bottom line, there are major reasons to switch over -- tabbed browsing, control of javascript (no popups), searching Google from the url bar. I can't say enough.
Seems like they got it in the wrong order though :-)
I'm not sure the puppy and cancer examples are very important. Your quotation of Ghandi is very appropriate. They did at first ignore Linux -- then they laughed at it (Free operating system -- bah!). Now they are fighting it.
What most people don't realize is that Linux isn't the little guy from many points of view. As previous posters pointed out -- IBM, Sony, HP -- BIG players in the market.
Nick Adams, as you may or may not know, is a frequent character in many Ernest Hemingway short stories. In one of these stories, this sandwich is well described. I now make it frequently -- it definately falls under the category of "comfort food."
First I fry the ham in the frying pan, letting it get pretty dry with slight signs of being cooked. Do not use oil for this.
After the ham is done put it aside. Put 1 pat of butter in the pan and let it melt. Over medium-high heat fry the egg(s) over hard. That is usually done by breaking the yolks after cooking the first side and flipping the egg.
When the egg is nearly done sprinkle shredded cheese on top and put the ham on the cheese. Place a slice of buttered, toasted bread on top of that.
After the cheese has melted, place the whole thing on the other piece of bread.
Voila! A Nick Adams Sandwich. Watch your waistline!
Take a single hair, wet it in your mouth, and place it across the crack between the removable side panel and the rest of the case. Anyone trying to break in will not see a single hair - or think anything of it if they do - and you'll know whether someone has cracked it open.
And it costs nothing.
Today the New York Times claimed that it had published "All the News That's Fit to Print."
One question remains unanswered: Will they be able to do it again tomorrow?
Note to moderators: This is sarcasm. It isn't off-topic. I'm implying that some marketing ploy by alltheweb.com isn't exactly newsworthy. Thank you.
Point My Documents to their home directory on a file server. Don't have a file server? Get one. It doesn't have to be fancy. Configure apps to save to My Documents by default (most do). Send out emails regularly about how great it is to save to My Documents. Give horror stories about people who didn't. Give happy stories about people who did.
Users will learn. They don't need to know what a server is either. My Documents is "on the Desktop" and makes total sense.
Yuk!
Does anyone ever check the spelling on the story submissions?
You know, the one with the educational film in it.
The Moon belongs to America...
Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but this is what got me introduced to OpenBSD and ipf.
Beyond that I'd check out the documentation for IPFilter and PF. Both are very good.
Anyone wanna start betting when the dev kernel will surpass the stable kernel? 3 versions to go....
It's really not that fantastic. 2.5 will probably go pretty high. The 2.3 kernel went to 2.3.51 before it jumped to 2.3.99 (look here).
It will be interesting how much work goes into 2.5 before 2.6.0 is released. Then we'll be able to start comparing what's new to 2.4.x. It is interesting that we're at 2.4.19 when the 2.2. kernel is at 2.2.20, IMHO.
I think your teachers might also want you to get an education.
If you can go to college, go to college. Get a job working at a lab or with the CSci department. Major in what you find interesting.
The sysadmin sitting a few chairs away from me has a B.S. in Applied Mathematics. I just tried to get more information out of him and he told me "none of your f***in business." Now that's job security!
At least you have sites like /.
Intolerance and extremism may run rampant no the rest of the internet but not here!
Oh, wait...
Find out if your town or county has any kind of acceptable use policy. They probably do. Or, if your school receives state funding, perhaps there is an acceptable use policy at the state level. In short, follow the money and then check for policies.
I'm sure you'll find that what these teachers are doing is not acceptable. Put up a firewall, do what you need to do so that P2P software doesn't work, and when they come and complain point to the policy that defines acceptable use.
Whatever you do, enforce across the board! Don't just block the few teachers that are the problem, block the whole network. That's the best way to stay out of trouble.
There's more than one way to find a song on P2P. For example, maybe I hear a song in a movie by Elliot Smith. I like the song. I go to Limewire, I search for Elliot Smith. I probably find lots of the song I heard in the movie, and I download that one. Then I see a song that wasn't in the movie. I download it. Then I see Elliot Smith did a duo with someone else, I search for their songs. Suddenly I'm listening to music by some artist that I had never heard of because I was looking for a song I heard in a movie by Elliot Smith.
Do you ever hear Elliot Smith songs on the radio? I don't.
So maybe I buy an Elliot Smith CD to get the music that's not in the movie, and maybe I buy the other artist's CD because I heard his/her music while searching for stuff on Elliot Smith. I wouldn't have just bought a random Elliot Smith CD because I heard one of his songs in a movie, and without P2P I wouldn't have ever heard of the other artist.
they'd just fire you and hire someone else. If you are unwilling especialy now there will be 10 other people willing to do it and take your job if you aren't.
You're missing the point. First of all, I don't think there's 91% unemployment among software developers. Secondly, if there was any kind of organization among programmers independent of the employer then the employer would have a hard time bringing down this type of action.
I don't think a "union" would occur, but I wouldn't be surprised if a professional organization of ethical programmers would arise. I would imagine members could fetch a better salary, especially if there was some competency requirement, as doctors have the Medical Board exams.
It would hurt the self made programmer, but I would certainly rather see that type of accreditation than what we have today: MCSE, MCSA, etc...
Now it's DHCP so no DNS possible.
Not neccessarily. I have Road Runner with DHCP, and I've had the same IP address for more than a month. Check it out, it's my url below. I'm just wondering how long it will take before I'll need to update my DNS with a new address.
I have a D-Link DL-713P router/firewall thingy. It has a 'renew IP forever' option, which renews my lease on my IP address. I've even unplugged my D-Link, just as an experiment, and I've gotten the same IP. I think RR keeps their subnets pretty small, so I'm choosing from a small set of IPs.
Whatever it is, I'm enjoying the benifits of a static IP without paying for it. I just know that something will happen though at the worst possible time. We'll see.
Instead, to stem the tide, GeekPAC, or some other similar organization, needs to make an example out of someone in Congress, and do it quick. When the National Rifle Association, or the Christian Coalition or Emily's List, for that matter, want action on an issue, the strategists behind those well-run groups usually pick a smart fight with one or more of their key opponents. They target their resources to just those specific races, sometimes to just one race. Rather than give 200 politicians $1,000 each, the savviest PACs instead will spend $200,000 or more kicking the bejesus out of just one single office holder.
I say Diane Feinstein. She'd be a great one to be made an example because she's thought of as such a leader in Congress on this stuff.
SLIGHTLY hurt by this fact, because their REAL PRODUCTS - windows and office - are still the best on the desktop for me and probably 85% of the rest of the world's PC's.
This is true today, but I think tomorrow, with the possible emergence of .NET and more pervasive web services, that people will be using their browser as a gateway to using office like applications. This is, in fact, the direction Microsoft would like to go. They'd rather get people into a subscription-like system that can be delivered from a central server, instead of having the application installed on the desktop.
Whether it will ever happen remains to be seen, but I think the reason browsers are so hotly contended is because they determine the protocols that will be bringing these services to consumers in the future.
If IE dominates, Microsoft gets to choose the standards. If IE does not dominate, perhaps the W3C will, or another more democratic organization. I think that would be better.
I live in Minnesota, and the difference between the House and the Senate on this one is not surprising. The House is Republican controlled, and the Senate is controlled by the Democrats. What gets passed on the floor of the House and on the floor of the Senate means nothing, all of that is just posturing for campaigning. The Republicans don't want to seem anti-business or pro big-government. What really counts is the conference committees that are happening right now. It is there where the bills' differences are ironed out to be passed on to the Governor for his body slam, er signature.
I shouldn't say the full sessions are worthless. Basically, if something isn't in the House or Senate of a bill, it's not going to appear in conference committee. Usually though, the two sides, behind close doors, make decisions that are much more moderate than their respective party caucuses would like to think. In this case, I would think the opt-in strategy will win. It will be interesting to see though, and I'm glad I live in Minnesota on this one, because I know my Governor is going to sign this one!
Have you ever seen Windows code?
Exactly.