The GPL is not viral. It does not infect software of its own accord. You make a choice whether or not to include other people's code in your software, and if you do so, you must abide by the conditions under which the author of said code released it. If you don't like that, don't include the other person's code. It's really as simple as that.
To quote you: "dont bash it or those that choose to use it."
Tony Vivaldi: What is this, Benedict?! First you're my friend; now you turn a... 360 on me! Benedict: 180, you stupid, spaghetti-slurping cretin -- *180*! If I did a 360, I'd go completely around and end up back where I started! Tony Vivaldi: What? Benedict: Trust me! [shoots him]
Active Directory is great until it goes wrong. Then it can be an absolute SOB to fix. And heck, I've only had to deal with it in a small organisation - I'd hate to think what would happen in large complicated networks.
Cryptic error messages? Try actually using the Windows Event Log to find out why something is broken. Sure, sometimes it helps, but more often than not it contains a whole bunch of errors like "the service msvcdc returned code 0x0aa10101". I know there are places you can look up the errors, google is your friend, etc. but still, the point is Windows isn't as easy to administer as some might have you believe.
I think you are exaggerating regarding Windows game startup speeds. None of my games start that fast under XP (especially not Counter-Strike), and I have a fairly high-spec machine (Athlon64 3400+, 1GB RAM, SATA hard drive, Radeon 9800XT).
Yes, they are most certainly horrors. Not only have Microsoft's viewers not been updated for some time (thus no support for the newer Office formats), but the Excel viewer often seems to take up to 100% CPU time even with no file loaded. Not to mention that neither the Excel nor Word viewers provide any way to lock them down appropriately for use in a terminal server environment. Admittedly the latter only affects people wishing to run them in TS environments, but it is a problem for some.
The Word/Excel viewers provided by Microsoft are sadly lacking. I hope someone else can step forward and provide capable alternatives. With the OOo source out there, you wouldn't think it would be too difficult.
Interest in OpenOffice seems to be quite good. At least much better than other community efforts like Koffice.
But OpenOffice is truly open, we don't know exactly how "Open Solaris" will be licenced.
OpenOffice has the benefit over KOffice of a much larger user base, because it runs on Windows and MacOS X as well as Linux. I might point out however that KOffice is popular amongst KDE users because it is integrated much more closely with KDE (naturally).
This is sure to draw a lot of moral responsibility nuts out of the woodwork. Political and ideological dogma compels them to ridicule even the most reasonable doubts or concerns about the restriction of freedoms of expression. Because to them, principle is everything, regardless of whether it actually affects them personally or not.
Even if we are disgusted with, or just plain tired of, people who leap to blame violent criminal behaviour on computer games containing violence with no evidence to back up their claims, at the end of the day we should just put those feelings aside and join the crowd denouncing the society that keeps churning these games out by the dozen. Because such is opinion, baby.
does the Steam version of Half-Life and its various mods (e.g., The Specialists) work under Cedega currently?
Yes. With earlier versions I found it to be slower than in Windows, although you have to take into account that I am using an ATI graphics card and ATI's Linux drivers have lower performance than their Windows counterparts.
Ah yes, but can a piece of paper: * Beep at you to remind you of an appointment? * Keep the same contact list as your desktop email/organiser without you having to copy out the details manually? * Allow you to play games and access the net away from your PC if you need/want to?
Sure, paper might be OK for some people. But I find a PDA much more versatile, despite the downsides you highlight.
- seamless Active Directory integration (no thanks, nss_ldap and the like are not Enterprise class, winbind is better but not enough) - Kerberos support in cifs, cifs tools, support for Windows2003 shares (Enterprise support, not pathces or digging into obscure mailing list threads)
The Samba people are going as fast as they can, and they're doing a great job. These issues are being addressed.
- desktop lockdown (Sun JDS is getting there)
KDE now has Kiosk for this purpose. Reportedly it is already quite good, and no doubt it will improve rapidly as Novell develops their desktop Linux offerings further.
I think you're overstating things a little when you say that viable "Enterprise Linux" is still "far away". Enterprise Desktop Linux, maybe.
just because Bush or his administration says something, doesn't automatically make it rhetoric.
You are putting words into my mouth. I believe the statement in question is rhetoric because it is designed to be taken at face value and not debated or discussed. It's one of those "slippery slope" reasons that could be used to justify all sorts of things, and arguably already has. It is not right that country A can simply decide unilaterally that country B on the other side of the world is a threat, when country B has never threatened country A, and go off and attack them. Why didn't they hunt down al Qaeda first?
but if we leave Iraq better than we found it
Yes, if. Except right now the average Iraqi is arguably worse off than before the invasion. Generally, if you kept your head down, minded your own business and kept to the rules (however draconian they might have been) then you stayed alive. Now the average Iraqi civilian out on the street risks being killed in a bomb blast, being kidnapped or robbed due to inadequate policing, or caught in the crossfire between coalition forces and terrorists. This is forgetting all of the indiscriminate aerial bombing, the looting and other crimes that occurred as an indirect result of the invasion, etc. If you lived there, perhaps you might not think the way you do now.
Sure, some things might have improved, and I'm not arguing that something didn't need to happen in Iraq. But you aren't looking at the entire picture yourself.
So do you live in that country now, or do you live in the U.S.?
I currently live in New Zealand.
It seems strange that someone living in another country is so concerned about so much the U.S. is doing.
Let me tell you why I and others care about what is happening in the US and particularly in Iraq. The US is a powerful symbol in the west - it is the source of most of our "pop culture", but more importantly it used to be the beacon of freedom and democracy in the world. So these things are being done in our name, and it dismays me to see some of the things that have been going on lately.
The US is supposed to be one of the "good guys" - so why are so many bad things being allowed to happen? How can you believe that these are the right things to do when they are done on false pretences (ie, the reasons for war, which it turns out were greatly exaggerated if not lied about) and cause so much harm to occur? How is it that you can even accept these things, let alone defend them?
balancing between that and invading privacy is difficult.
But what you _don't_ do is go and put a whole bunch of laws and procedures in place that have less to do with terrorism than generally expanding powers. You don't use terrorism as an excuse to pass laws the country doesn't need, and you also don't exaggerate the threat of terrorism in order to convince people that such laws are necessary.
Terrorism by its very nature is as much about instilling fear as it is inflicting damage, and since 9/11 the Bush administration seems to have done a lot to keep the level of fear raised unnecessarily.
Besides that, the majority of the people in those prisons were not in there for traffic tickets, or j-walking, they were in there for fighting against the U.S. stealing and killing
OK, picture this (as an example). You're an Iraqi, walking down the street, minding your own business when a car pulls up next to you and a whole bunch of armed men jump out and start attacking a nearby US Army checkpoint. In the confusion, you are grabbed by a soldier and marched to the local jail. Then, because things are so disorganised, a mistake happens and you are put together with the actual terrorists. Because there is no "due process" in place you are harassed and tortured, and no amount of protestations of innocence on your part do you any good. Finally, after they figure out you aren't who they are after, you are released.
That's fine if you don't consider it sufficient, that's your perrogative, and it's your right to think that way. I disagree, and I think that when 9/11 was still fresh in our memories, many of us did agree, but since then, that memory has faded, and we have forgotten, though many of us said 'we would never forget.
You seem to be making the unfounded assumption that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. To date, no proof has been shown that this was the case.
But getting a marriage certificate from the state means that the marriage is sanctioned by the people of the state, and if the majority of people don't sanction gay marriage, then you can't force them to.
But you see, that's the key problem here: Bush wants to rewrite the US Constitution to ban it throughout the US. He's not interested in whether individual states can consider that they want to allow it. He's not even interested in asking the people if they think it's right full stop.
That's what the news wants you to believe, but have you been to other countries to verify this?
I am from another country, and trust me when I say that a lot of people where I live have much lowered opinions of the US (actually, more of the US's administration and recent behaviour) since Bush has been in power. I am not French, either, if that makes any difference.
As far as the parallels between Bush, and Hitler. I don't even know where to start.
Then perhaps you shouldn't yourself be making any parallels with anyone and Hitler. Clearly you don't understand how the parent poster made the parallels between Bush and Hitler, and more importantly that making parallels does not mean equating - he was not trying to say that Bush _is_ Hitler, just that some of his administrative decisions have been rather frighteningly similar.
And he is fighting the war on terrorists now so we don't have to fight it later on our own soil.
Unfortunately it's a bit deeper than this Bush administration rhetoric which you are repeating. In fact, it's possible that the Bush administration has made things much more dangerous for the US. Now the terrorists will be able to bring in more recruits. "Look how the US bombs, invades and occupies other countries just to get oil! Look how they torture and demean Iraqi prisoners of war!" they will say. Now they have an even greater reason to hate the US than ever before. Surely more terrorists with even greater hatred equals more danger.
The button you are referring to actually has "Start" written on it.
Seriously though, I had to re-read your comment several times before I realised you weren't referring to IBM at all. It should be a "big red" button, not a "big blue" one.:)
Besides which, if you hadn't signed anything the landlord would just claim you were tresspassing, as without the agreement you have no right to live there.
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The GPL is not viral. It does not infect software of its own accord. You make a choice whether or not to include other people's code in your software, and if you do so, you must abide by the conditions under which the author of said code released it. If you don't like that, don't include the other person's code. It's really as simple as that.
To quote you: "dont bash it or those that choose to use it."
Active Directory is great until it goes wrong. Then it can be an absolute SOB to fix. And heck, I've only had to deal with it in a small organisation - I'd hate to think what would happen in large complicated networks.
Cryptic error messages? Try actually using the Windows Event Log to find out why something is broken. Sure, sometimes it helps, but more often than not it contains a whole bunch of errors like "the service msvcdc returned code 0x0aa10101". I know there are places you can look up the errors, google is your friend, etc. but still, the point is Windows isn't as easy to administer as some might have you believe.
Good thing Linux has a monopoly on having to use cryptic commands to fix stuff, huh.
No.
He clearly said "ootside". Therefore he must be Canadian, not Californian.
I think you are exaggerating regarding Windows game startup speeds. None of my games start that fast under XP (especially not Counter-Strike), and I have a fairly high-spec machine (Athlon64 3400+, 1GB RAM, SATA hard drive, Radeon 9800XT).
"What they really fear is machine-gunning politicians becoming a popular sport, like skate-boarding." - Nicolas Freeling
Passed away in May this year, according to IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0081863/
At least he won't be forgotten.
Yes, they are most certainly horrors. Not only have Microsoft's viewers not been updated for some time (thus no support for the newer Office formats), but the Excel viewer often seems to take up to 100% CPU time even with no file loaded. Not to mention that neither the Excel nor Word viewers provide any way to lock them down appropriately for use in a terminal server environment. Admittedly the latter only affects people wishing to run them in TS environments, but it is a problem for some.
The Word/Excel viewers provided by Microsoft are sadly lacking. I hope someone else can step forward and provide capable alternatives. With the OOo source out there, you wouldn't think it would be too difficult.
So when do I get my Intrusion Countermeasure Electronics?
Interest in OpenOffice seems to be quite good. At least much better than other community efforts like Koffice.
But OpenOffice is truly open, we don't know exactly how "Open Solaris" will be licenced.
OpenOffice has the benefit over KOffice of a much larger user base, because it runs on Windows and MacOS X as well as Linux. I might point out however that KOffice is popular amongst KDE users because it is integrated much more closely with KDE (naturally).
and work on both Gnome/KDE/whatever
KDE apps run fine under Gnome, and vice versa. In fact, both KDE and Gnome apps should run just fine under any (X) window manager/environment.
This is sure to draw a lot of moral responsibility nuts out of the woodwork. Political and ideological dogma compels them to ridicule even the most reasonable doubts or concerns about the restriction of freedoms of expression. Because to them, principle is everything, regardless of whether it actually affects them personally or not.
Even if we are disgusted with, or just plain tired of, people who leap to blame violent criminal behaviour on computer games containing violence with no evidence to back up their claims, at the end of the day we should just put those feelings aside and join the crowd denouncing the society that keeps churning these games out by the dozen. Because such is opinion, baby.
Technically it was "Debt of Honor" in which the crash occurred, and to correct the parent poster it was the Capitol, not the White House.
does the Steam version of Half-Life and its various mods (e.g., The Specialists) work under Cedega currently?
Yes. With earlier versions I found it to be slower than in Windows, although you have to take into account that I am using an ATI graphics card and ATI's Linux drivers have lower performance than their Windows counterparts.
Ah yes, but can a piece of paper:
* Beep at you to remind you of an appointment?
* Keep the same contact list as your desktop email/organiser without you having to copy out the details manually?
* Allow you to play games and access the net away from your PC if you need/want to?
Sure, paper might be OK for some people. But I find a PDA much more versatile, despite the downsides you highlight.
- seamless Active Directory integration (no thanks, nss_ldap and the like are not Enterprise class, winbind is better but not enough)
- Kerberos support in cifs, cifs tools, support for Windows2003 shares (Enterprise support, not pathces or digging into obscure mailing list threads)
The Samba people are going as fast as they can, and they're doing a great job. These issues are being addressed.
- desktop lockdown (Sun JDS is getting there)
KDE now has Kiosk for this purpose. Reportedly it is already quite good, and no doubt it will improve rapidly as Novell develops their desktop Linux offerings further.
I think you're overstating things a little when you say that viable "Enterprise Linux" is still "far away". Enterprise Desktop Linux, maybe.
just because Bush or his administration says something, doesn't automatically make it rhetoric.
You are putting words into my mouth. I believe the statement in question is rhetoric because it is designed to be taken at face value and not debated or discussed. It's one of those "slippery slope" reasons that could be used to justify all sorts of things, and arguably already has. It is not right that country A can simply decide unilaterally that country B on the other side of the world is a threat, when country B has never threatened country A, and go off and attack them. Why didn't they hunt down al Qaeda first?
but if we leave Iraq better than we found it
Yes, if. Except right now the average Iraqi is arguably worse off than before the invasion. Generally, if you kept your head down, minded your own business and kept to the rules (however draconian they might have been) then you stayed alive. Now the average Iraqi civilian out on the street risks being killed in a bomb blast, being kidnapped or robbed due to inadequate policing, or caught in the crossfire between coalition forces and terrorists. This is forgetting all of the indiscriminate aerial bombing, the looting and other crimes that occurred as an indirect result of the invasion, etc. If you lived there, perhaps you might not think the way you do now.
Sure, some things might have improved, and I'm not arguing that something didn't need to happen in Iraq. But you aren't looking at the entire picture yourself.
So do you live in that country now, or do you live in the U.S.?
I currently live in New Zealand.
It seems strange that someone living in another country is so concerned about so much the U.S. is doing.
Let me tell you why I and others care about what is happening in the US and particularly in Iraq. The US is a powerful symbol in the west - it is the source of most of our "pop culture", but more importantly it used to be the beacon of freedom and democracy in the world. So these things are being done in our name, and it dismays me to see some of the things that have been going on lately.
The US is supposed to be one of the "good guys" - so why are so many bad things being allowed to happen? How can you believe that these are the right things to do when they are done on false pretences (ie, the reasons for war, which it turns out were greatly exaggerated if not lied about) and cause so much harm to occur? How is it that you can even accept these things, let alone defend them?
balancing between that and invading privacy is difficult.
But what you _don't_ do is go and put a whole bunch of laws and procedures in place that have less to do with terrorism than generally expanding powers. You don't use terrorism as an excuse to pass laws the country doesn't need, and you also don't exaggerate the threat of terrorism in order to convince people that such laws are necessary.
Terrorism by its very nature is as much about instilling fear as it is inflicting damage, and since 9/11 the Bush administration seems to have done a lot to keep the level of fear raised unnecessarily.
Besides that, the majority of the people in those prisons were not in there for traffic tickets, or j-walking, they were in there for fighting against the U.S. stealing and killing
OK, picture this (as an example). You're an Iraqi, walking down the street, minding your own business when a car pulls up next to you and a whole bunch of armed men jump out and start attacking a nearby US Army checkpoint. In the confusion, you are grabbed by a soldier and marched to the local jail. Then, because things are so disorganised, a mistake happens and you are put together with the actual terrorists. Because there is no "due process" in place you are harassed and tortured, and no amount of protestations of innocence on your part do you any good. Finally, after they figure out you aren't who they are after, you are released.
Granted, it's a hypoth
That's fine if you don't consider it sufficient, that's your perrogative, and it's your right to think that way. I disagree, and I think that when 9/11 was still fresh in our memories, many of us did agree, but since then, that memory has faded, and we have forgotten, though many of us said 'we would never forget.
You seem to be making the unfounded assumption that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. To date, no proof has been shown that this was the case.
But getting a marriage certificate from the state means that the marriage is sanctioned by the people of the state, and if the majority of people don't sanction gay marriage, then you can't force them to.
But you see, that's the key problem here: Bush wants to rewrite the US Constitution to ban it throughout the US. He's not interested in whether individual states can consider that they want to allow it. He's not even interested in asking the people if they think it's right full stop.
That's what the news wants you to believe, but have you been to other countries to verify this?
I am from another country, and trust me when I say that a lot of people where I live have much lowered opinions of the US (actually, more of the US's administration and recent behaviour) since Bush has been in power. I am not French, either, if that makes any difference.
As far as the parallels between Bush, and Hitler. I don't even know where to start.
Then perhaps you shouldn't yourself be making any parallels with anyone and Hitler. Clearly you don't understand how the parent poster made the parallels between Bush and Hitler, and more importantly that making parallels does not mean equating - he was not trying to say that Bush _is_ Hitler, just that some of his administrative decisions have been rather frighteningly similar.
And he is fighting the war on terrorists now so we don't have to fight it later on our own soil.
Unfortunately it's a bit deeper than this Bush administration rhetoric which you are repeating. In fact, it's possible that the Bush administration has made things much more dangerous for the US. Now the terrorists will be able to bring in more recruits. "Look how the US bombs, invades and occupies other countries just to get oil! Look how they torture and demean Iraqi prisoners of war!" they will say. Now they have an even greater reason to hate the US than ever before. Surely more terrorists with even greater hatred equals more danger.
The button you are referring to actually has "Start" written on it.
:)
Seriously though, I had to re-read your comment several times before I realised you weren't referring to IBM at all. It should be a "big red" button, not a "big blue" one.
Besides which, if you hadn't signed anything the landlord would just claim you were tresspassing, as without the agreement you have no right to live there.
"Hacked by chimpanzees"
It's "nit-pick", damnit.
That doesn't sound like a security bug to me...