Yeah, the download is available. But it hasn't been officially released yet. Come on people! Let's make the launch a nice event by downloading it then!
Let's make the launch an even nicer event by letting thousands of Slashdotters finish downloading it before the official launch, so there will be bandwidth available for everybody else!
If you're choosing to wait, please look for a torrent.
No, letting teh internets decide what code should be run on your machine is never a good idea.
Somebody has to decide what code should be run on my machine; I'm far too busy to worry about those details myself. No, not "teh internets", but most of the time I trust the vendor of the software I'm running not to break my computer. If I didn't, I wouldn't be running their software. If I trust them, why shouldn't I let them take care of updating for me?
I hate beta-testing or QA'ing software and not getting paid for it.
Welcome to open source. Very few other people are getting paid for it either. The Mozilla Foundation does have some employees, but the vast majority of the work is done by volunteers.
Try Simple-SSL. It's exactly the same certificate offered by RapidSSL, but significantly cheaper.
Works in most browsers (test it if you're not sure!), and it's single-root, not chained-root (chained-root is a bit more cumbersome to set up).
(No, I have no affiliation, I'm not even a customer - I have a client who bought a RapidSSL cert, so I know it works fine; I didn't find Simple-SSL until after I'd already bought mine from somebody else.)
No longer true. Verisign did purchase Network Solutions, and sort of mangled everything in an anti-competitive way, but then got then got their act together and sold off Network Solutions to somebody else. Currently, Network Solutions is just another registrar.
"Registrar" is the term you're looking for here, not "sub-registrar". GoDaddy, Dotster, Register.com, Network Solutions, Joker.com, etc. are registrars. Verisign operates the Registry for all.com and.net domains, and charges registrars about $6/yr per domain if I remember correctly.
I guess my webhost must also be paying the added $20/year to VeriSign for my domain registration. Oh, make that $30 for one of my domains since my host registers it for me for free.
Um, yeah, Verisign is getting paid. Your webhost (or you, if you registered the domain yourself) pays a registrar, and the registrar pays Verisign. As I recall, the wholesale price (what the registrar pays Verisign) is around $6/yr.
The State Board of Elections has told potential suppliers to provide code for all available software and explain why some is unavailable. That's not enough of an assurance for Diebold, which remains concerned about breaking a law...
The problem is, it looks like Diebold cannot follow the letter of the law, because they use Windows (and possibly other third-party proprietary code). The State Board of Elections is implying that this won't be a problem, but the law itself isn't entirely clear, and a judge could easily disagree with the Board of Elections.
Sounds to me like input from the state legislature is needed. Did they intend to ban any voting machines that use proprietary third-party software such as Windows, or did they intend to only require the source code and list of programmers for Diebold's own additions? If the law as written doesn't make this clear, then the law should be modified for clarity.
The law requires a list of programmers, as well as the source code. Can you come up with a list of everyone who has ever contributed code to a Linux distribution such as RHEL? Maybe, but it wouldn't be a lot of fun.
Of course, if they clarify that proprietary third-party code is OK, what's to stop Diebold from forming a subsidiary to create proprietary code and licensing it back to Diebold, so Diebold can claim the whole thing is licensed from third parties and therefore not subject to the requirements of this law? I'd be happy to see North Carolina require completely open source software on all electronic voting machines used in the state, and other states follow suit.
They are only browsers! A piece of software where you can check out websites with! They are not that important, you see. Dude.
What percentage of your time using a computer is spent using a browser? For most of us, it's a pretty significant percentage. That's what makes it important.
On the other hand, if your app is statically linked against an image rendering library that allows malicious images to execute arbitrary code, it's harder to patch.;-)
The animations aren't working for me in Safari - it looks like it's showing all the pixels spread out in a single horizontal line, which is then animated.
The latest version of Slackware is still compiled for i486; it runs fine. If you need a GUI, you'll need a bigger hard drive and more RAM, but I find Slackware a perfect distro for headless servers.
I imagine 486 support will be dropped from a future release (just as 386 support already has been), but people are talking about Pentiums as being too old to be usable; I'm sure Slackware will continue to support them for quite awhile.
The IIc didn't have a monitor attached; you had to connect it to a separate monitor. It also didn't run on batteries (or at least not as supplied by Apple - apparently third parties released very large battery packs for them).
A DSL ISP I used to work for would ask customers to enter their DSL phone number, and that was the first thing we'd ask for when answering the phone as well. Why? Because more often than not, the software to automatically pop up their account info didn't work. Why? Because the company spent bajillions of dollars contracting somebody the CEO played golf with (or something) to build the software, and it would have cost bajillions more to get them to fix it.
Think of it a different way: instead of thinking about seeing a random ad and wanting to call them, think about wanting to call a particular company for some reason, and instead of doing a Google search to find the company, then going to the company's web site, then hunting around for their contact page, then finding the number on that page and quickly punching it into your phone, then apologizing to some random stranger because you misdialed the number... all you have to do now is do a Google search for the company, and click the phone icon in the ad sidebar right there on the search results page. Confirm your callback number (it'll be saved by a cookie or your browser's autocomplete so you don't have to type it every time), and pick up the phone when it rings.
Not only did the shop that I previously worked at implement AJAX before it had an acronym, a lot of other people that I have talked to have done so, as well. And these projects predate Google Maps and GMail by a fair shake, too.
Of course I didn't mean to imply that Microsoft called it AJAX; that's a recent buzzword applied by somebody else. Nor did I mean that Google Maps and GMail were the first webapps to use it. Microsoft created it so they could get Outlook Web Access (OWA) to work without sucking ass, and of course what others have done with it since then has been really cool.
FRANCIS: Why are you always on about women, Stan? STAN: I want to be one. REG: What? STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me 'Loretta'. REG: What?! LORETTA: It's my right as a man. JUDITH: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan? LORETTA: I want to have babies. REG: You want to have babies?! LORETTA: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them. REG: But... you can't have babies. LORETTA: Don't you oppress me. REG: I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb! Where's the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?! LORETTA: [crying] JUDITH: Here! I-- I've got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans', but that he can have the right to have babies. FRANCIS: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry. REG: What's the point? FRANCIS: What? REG: What's the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can't have babies?! FRANCIS: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression. REG: Symbolic of his struggle against reality.
Please keep in mind that Microsoft invented AJAX, without which things like Google Maps and GMail wouldn't be possible.
Personally, I'm glad Microsoft is proposing a standard extension to RSS, instead of using their own proprietary format or protocol for this sort of thing. If you were trying to make a piece of third-party software interoperate with Exchange or Outlook, wouldn't you be glad too? Instead of trying to reverse-engineer some weird proprietary format, somebody will just extend the RSS libraries already available for your language of choice and you'll be able to use those (I expect XML::RSS::MSExtThingie will show up on CPAN within about 15 minutes of this new standard being published, and you'll be able to compile it into the next version of PHP).
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Yeah, the download is available. But it hasn't been officially released yet. Come on people! Let's make the launch a nice event by downloading it then!
Let's make the launch an even nicer event by letting thousands of Slashdotters finish downloading it before the official launch, so there will be bandwidth available for everybody else!
If you're choosing to wait, please look for a torrent.
No, letting teh internets decide what code should be run on your machine is never a good idea.
Somebody has to decide what code should be run on my machine; I'm far too busy to worry about those details myself. No, not "teh internets", but most of the time I trust the vendor of the software I'm running not to break my computer. If I didn't, I wouldn't be running their software. If I trust them, why shouldn't I let them take care of updating for me?
Yes, automatic updates are a good thing.
I hate beta-testing or QA'ing software and not getting paid for it.
Welcome to open source. Very few other people are getting paid for it either. The Mozilla Foundation does have some employees, but the vast majority of the work is done by volunteers.
Try Simple-SSL. It's exactly the same certificate offered by RapidSSL, but significantly cheaper.
Works in most browsers (test it if you're not sure!), and it's single-root, not chained-root (chained-root is a bit more cumbersome to set up).
(No, I have no affiliation, I'm not even a customer - I have a client who bought a RapidSSL cert, so I know it works fine; I didn't find Simple-SSL until after I'd already bought mine from somebody else.)
Verisign _is_ network solutions.
No longer true. Verisign did purchase Network Solutions, and sort of mangled everything in an anti-competitive way, but then got then got their act together and sold off Network Solutions to somebody else. Currently, Network Solutions is just another registrar.
"Registrar" is the term you're looking for here, not "sub-registrar". GoDaddy, Dotster, Register.com, Network Solutions, Joker.com, etc. are registrars. Verisign operates the Registry for all .com and .net domains, and charges registrars about $6/yr per domain if I remember correctly.
I guess my webhost must also be paying the added $20/year to VeriSign for my domain registration. Oh, make that $30 for one of my domains since my host registers it for me for free.
Um, yeah, Verisign is getting paid. Your webhost (or you, if you registered the domain yourself) pays a registrar, and the registrar pays Verisign. As I recall, the wholesale price (what the registrar pays Verisign) is around $6/yr.
The State Board of Elections has told potential suppliers to provide code for all available software and explain why some is unavailable. That's not enough of an assurance for Diebold, which remains concerned about breaking a law...
The problem is, it looks like Diebold cannot follow the letter of the law, because they use Windows (and possibly other third-party proprietary code). The State Board of Elections is implying that this won't be a problem, but the law itself isn't entirely clear, and a judge could easily disagree with the Board of Elections.
Sounds to me like input from the state legislature is needed. Did they intend to ban any voting machines that use proprietary third-party software such as Windows, or did they intend to only require the source code and list of programmers for Diebold's own additions? If the law as written doesn't make this clear, then the law should be modified for clarity.
The law requires a list of programmers, as well as the source code. Can you come up with a list of everyone who has ever contributed code to a Linux distribution such as RHEL? Maybe, but it wouldn't be a lot of fun.
Of course, if they clarify that proprietary third-party code is OK, what's to stop Diebold from forming a subsidiary to create proprietary code and licensing it back to Diebold, so Diebold can claim the whole thing is licensed from third parties and therefore not subject to the requirements of this law? I'd be happy to see North Carolina require completely open source software on all electronic voting machines used in the state, and other states follow suit.
HEAD SHOT!
They are only browsers! A piece of software where you can check out websites with! They are not that important, you see. Dude.
What percentage of your time using a computer is spent using a browser? For most of us, it's a pretty significant percentage. That's what makes it important.
On the other hand, if your app is statically linked against an image rendering library that allows malicious images to execute arbitrary code, it's harder to patch. ;-)
The animations aren't working for me in Safari - it looks like it's showing all the pixels spread out in a single horizontal line, which is then animated.
The latest version of Slackware is still compiled for i486; it runs fine. If you need a GUI, you'll need a bigger hard drive and more RAM, but I find Slackware a perfect distro for headless servers.
I imagine 486 support will be dropped from a future release (just as 386 support already has been), but people are talking about Pentiums as being too old to be usable; I'm sure Slackware will continue to support them for quite awhile.
The IIc didn't have a monitor attached; you had to connect it to a separate monitor. It also didn't run on batteries (or at least not as supplied by Apple - apparently third parties released very large battery packs for them).
We're not especially thrilled about it.
A DSL ISP I used to work for would ask customers to enter their DSL phone number, and that was the first thing we'd ask for when answering the phone as well. Why? Because more often than not, the software to automatically pop up their account info didn't work. Why? Because the company spent bajillions of dollars contracting somebody the CEO played golf with (or something) to build the software, and it would have cost bajillions more to get them to fix it.
I hope the editors are paying attention to what you are saying.
About as much attention as they're paying to which articles have been posted already, I'm sure.
Think of it a different way: instead of thinking about seeing a random ad and wanting to call them, think about wanting to call a particular company for some reason, and instead of doing a Google search to find the company, then going to the company's web site, then hunting around for their contact page, then finding the number on that page and quickly punching it into your phone, then apologizing to some random stranger because you misdialed the number... all you have to do now is do a Google search for the company, and click the phone icon in the ad sidebar right there on the search results page. Confirm your callback number (it'll be saved by a cookie or your browser's autocomplete so you don't have to type it every time), and pick up the phone when it rings.
Not only did the shop that I previously worked at implement AJAX before it had an acronym, a lot of other people that I have talked to have done so, as well. And these projects predate Google Maps and GMail by a fair shake, too.
Of course I didn't mean to imply that Microsoft called it AJAX; that's a recent buzzword applied by somebody else. Nor did I mean that Google Maps and GMail were the first webapps to use it. Microsoft created it so they could get Outlook Web Access (OWA) to work without sucking ass, and of course what others have done with it since then has been really cool.
"Top" can also be construed as a verb; random example.
Obligatory:
FRANCIS: Why are you always on about women, Stan?
STAN: I want to be one.
REG: What?
STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me 'Loretta'.
REG: What?!
LORETTA: It's my right as a man.
JUDITH: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
LORETTA: I want to have babies.
REG: You want to have babies?!
LORETTA: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.
REG: But... you can't have babies.
LORETTA: Don't you oppress me.
REG: I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb! Where's the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!
LORETTA: [crying]
JUDITH: Here! I-- I've got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans', but that he can have the right to have babies.
FRANCIS: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry.
REG: What's the point?
FRANCIS: What?
REG: What's the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can't have babies?!
FRANCIS: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
REG: Symbolic of his struggle against reality.
Overrated. I, for one, we're better without them.
:-)
Just to be pedantic, I have to point out that "we're" is a contraction of "we are", and of course "are" is a verb.
Damn funny comment though.
To be fair, they also spoofed Babylon 5.
Please keep in mind that Microsoft invented AJAX, without which things like Google Maps and GMail wouldn't be possible.
Personally, I'm glad Microsoft is proposing a standard extension to RSS, instead of using their own proprietary format or protocol for this sort of thing. If you were trying to make a piece of third-party software interoperate with Exchange or Outlook, wouldn't you be glad too? Instead of trying to reverse-engineer some weird proprietary format, somebody will just extend the RSS libraries already available for your language of choice and you'll be able to use those (I expect XML::RSS::MSExtThingie will show up on CPAN within about 15 minutes of this new standard being published, and you'll be able to compile it into the next version of PHP).
What is THAT supposed to mean?