I don't know of any similar to "microsoft access" that runs on linux. This is something missing that has real uses. It's hard to imagine that it's easier to develop on a Windows platform, but there are definitely a couple things that are better.
I am yet to come across any other unices which provide "microsoft access" type applications as part of the operating system. This isn't really relevent in a debate about what linux lacks compared to other [commercial] unices.
That fits more in a discussion about what types of applications are lacking from a standard linux distribution.
Stability means two things. First it means robustness. An OS should not crash or panic. Period. I've never seen Solaris crash. But Linux has crashed twice on me in one year. The kernel needs to be rock solid, and not a playground for hackers with new ideas. Your core libraries and utilities need to be the same.
I've seen Linux, Solaris, Irix and Compaq Tru64 all crash/panic in unexplicable ways. Often these things are due to momentary hardware glitches and not the operating system.
Debian tends to only keep rock solid packages in its distribution. If you want to run a stable rock solid and slightly dated system, Debian is the distribution for you. The other major vendors/distributors are aiming more at the desktop market, so this is not as important.
How did anyone else other than the ISP get the IP addresses? For this company to get this information, they have to be doing some sort of spying. Obviously this is only taking place in AUS because these people could not get away with it here.
Every packet in the stream contains both the source and destination IP addresses. All they need to do is position themselves somewhere on the KaZaa (or other similiar network), what for the location of searches for files. I doubt that they actually check that files are being downloaded. They probably have problems telling exactly what is downloaded.
This is just bullying tactics. Piracy of all media has been around for so long and has been impossible to police. What makes RIAA and Time Warner etc believe that they can control it now. Shut down another file sharing network - that'll stop them - it worked when they shut down Napster. right?
Surely the funds they are pumping into this type of policing/checking (especially for the RIAA) would be much better of pushed towards the Artists.
Looking through the comments here it seems that one important factor has been missed. Every Internet user at some point in time is using Open Source software, probably without knowing it.
I would be very surprised if anyone could surf the net for more than 5 minutes without pulling a page from a web server running apache, after looking up the IP of the server to connect to from a DNS server running bind.
From my experience in ISP's it would be likely they were authenticated when connecting to their ISP by OSS software, and probably pick up their mail from an OSS pop server.
The point i am trying to make is that there is a hell of a lot of infrastructure out there on the net that provides so many basic services to so many users that it should be considered mainstream, but just not in the 'everybody stares at it every day' way.
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Spam blocking has been around for ages. Blocking broken mail servers has been around for ages. Apparently, it's not working as my mail box still contains a lot of spam.
I dont know what your doing, but i've been using the relays.osirusoft.com RBL for a while, along with SpamAssassin to grab the few that get past - and I haven't seen a single SPAM in around 3 months. I haven't noticed any legit email going missing either.
While RBL's do seem a little harsh, if a majority of mail servers do start using them, then ISP's and SysAdm's would be making a huge effort not to get themselves listed, and therefore not supporting spammers.
I dont believe spam will be around for ever, as more and more people get sick of it and more ISP's start blacklisting and filtering it will become increasingly more difficult to effectivly spam.
The license does state that you are not allowed to link to the site...
American Airlines specifically denies you permission to hyperlink or provide references to the Site, unless you are allowed to do so under a separate written agreement with American Airlines.
I hope timothy didn't accept the license before posting the story.
It does appear that most of it has been stolen from any other terms and conditions page and hacked around to fit American Airlines... Especially all those bits about using their website to distribute files that shouldn't be distributed (who's going to use AA to distribute mp3's?!?!?)
What this article really demonstrates - and it's something that has been demonstrated before on countless occasions - and that is that most governments of the world believe the internet is something tangible and easilly controllable.
This has been demonstrated here in Australia with the federal goverments push to sensor content and make ISP's liable for content that is served up from their service.
It's been demonstrated by the Chineese government with their sensorship and blocking of sites like google.
It has been shown by the USA's government in their restriction of encryption technology export.
All of these things are easilly worked around by even the most non techsavvy user.
Those of us who understand what the internet is and how it works understand that this sort of filtering will not work. These type sof things just show that until governments actually gain an understanding of the things they are trying to control they will continue to make fools of themselves. (btw: I'm surprised they dont want to block tcp ports 25, 110 & 143 (smtp,pop,imap) as people might send electronic mail rather than using the snail mail service).
This is a really significant development, and it means that, as of right now, the Linux version of Opera is now at a higher release number than for Windows (which is at 6.05 right now). The Opera folks are really moving on Linux development.
It was only in the last couple of days I went to download Opera - however there was no shared lib version to work with the Mandrake 9 QT libs, however the new v6.10 does have rpms for mdk9!
What I think Opera are trying to do here is to sell a browser to the niche (but fast growing market) of *nix desktop users - which most other software companies do completely ignore.
Much thanks to Opera for thier continued support of these platforms and for producing a great, damn fast and stable browser... The speed of Opera getting a version out for new versions of distro's is a definate sign (IMHO) of their comittment to both these platforms and users.
But what it comes down to really is why are they using a commercial product at all to develop one of the most sophisticated open source products.
While (most|some) of us dont always agree with what RMS says - he almost always does have very valid points - and this is something that I personally agree with him on.
Maybe its time for someone to start developing a OSS competitor to BitKeeper (without using BitKeeper of course!)
Anyway rh 8 sucked for web development and I had to downgrade back to w2k to run perl, mysql and apache. (rh 8 used perl 5.8, apache 2, a crippled mysql, and no cgi support for perl!).
You went back to w2k to run three applications that are most commonly ran on linux? (I haven't played with rh8 yet, but i find it hard to believe that these are broken - or atleast not easillly fixable).
At one desk, users can move a wireless mouse's pointer from the screen of one computer to the screen of a laptop, with no wire or wireless connection between the computers themselves. That allows copying or moving material between the computers, a task that would otherwise be more difficult.
Does anybody else have difficulties with this particular idea? Since when did the ability to move a mouse pointer mean you could copy and paste?
> Who manages the management system?
The management?
Sun recently presented us (team of unix admins) with thier sales pitch and five year stategy for this stuff.
When we asked how N1 was managed, they told us about thier management console - a friendly gui where everything can be conviently dragged and dropped to build new systems/reassign resources/fire sysadms. It is designed to be managed by management.
Some figures were given on some of the slides, including a before/after N1 comparision of staff requirements/system benifits. The before slide indicated that a single admin can manage ~20-50 systems, while under N1 a single admin will be managing upwards of 500 systems.
So, what they should do is LET THE FANS DO WHAT THEY LIKE and charge a REASONABLE fee, like the "blank media" fee on VHS cassettes or home audio music CD-R's, to compensate music companies and artists for their use.
Why should everyone have to pay a fee which would ultimatly go to record companies for buying blank media?
Very few of the CD-R's I buy get used for commercial music, infact most of my blank media gets used for distributing demos of a couple of unsigned artists. I would really have a problem if I knew that part of the money it was costing us to distribute demos was going to record companys who are not doing very much at all to support us or any other new alternative music in anyway.
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The Scientific name mentioned in one of the Maryland Marine Notes links articles "Namalycastis abiuma" according to another source (Manual for Watershed Health and Water Quality) is:
Scientific Name: Namalycastis abiuma Description: Segmented white thread-like worm with pad-like legs on every segment; living in vegetation and leaf litter in streams and ponds. Can reach up to 2 cm.
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- I don't know of any similar to "microsoft access" that runs on linux. This is something missing that has real uses. It's hard to imagine that it's easier to develop on a Windows platform, but there are definitely a couple things that are better.
I am yet to come across any other unices which provide "microsoft access" type applications as part of the operating system. This isn't really relevent in a debate about what linux lacks compared to other [commercial] unices.That fits more in a discussion about what types of applications are lacking from a standard linux distribution.
- Stability means two things. First it means robustness. An OS should not crash or panic. Period. I've never seen Solaris crash. But Linux has crashed twice on me in one year. The kernel needs to be rock solid, and not a playground for hackers with new ideas. Your core libraries and utilities need to be the same.
I've seen Linux, Solaris, Irix and Compaq Tru64 all crash/panic in unexplicable ways. Often these things are due to momentary hardware glitches and not the operating system.Debian tends to only keep rock solid packages in its distribution. If you want to run a stable rock solid and slightly dated system, Debian is the distribution for you. The other major vendors/distributors are aiming more at the desktop market, so this is not as important.
Every packet in the stream contains both the source and destination IP addresses. All they need to do is position themselves somewhere on the KaZaa (or other similiar network), what for the location of searches for files. I doubt that they actually check that files are being downloaded. They probably have problems telling exactly what is downloaded.
This is just bullying tactics. Piracy of all media has been around for so long and has been impossible to police. What makes RIAA and Time Warner etc believe that they can control it now. Shut down another file sharing network - that'll stop them - it worked when they shut down Napster. right?
Surely the funds they are pumping into this type of policing/checking (especially for the RIAA) would be much better of pushed towards the Artists.
Looking through the comments here it seems that one important factor has been missed. Every Internet user at some point in time is using Open Source software, probably without knowing it.
I would be very surprised if anyone could surf the net for more than 5 minutes without pulling a page from a web server running apache, after looking up the IP of the server to connect to from a DNS server running bind.
From my experience in ISP's it would be likely they were authenticated when connecting to their ISP by OSS software, and probably pick up their mail from an OSS pop server.
The point i am trying to make is that there is a hell of a lot of infrastructure out there on the net that provides so many basic services to so many users that it should be considered mainstream, but just not in the 'everybody stares at it every day' way.
- Spam blocking has been around for ages. Blocking broken mail servers has been around for ages. Apparently, it's not working as my mail box still contains a lot of spam.
I dont know what your doing, but i've been using the relays.osirusoft.com RBL for a while, along with SpamAssassin to grab the few that get past - and I haven't seen a single SPAM in around 3 months. I haven't noticed any legit email going missing either.While RBL's do seem a little harsh, if a majority of mail servers do start using them, then ISP's and SysAdm's would be making a huge effort not to get themselves listed, and therefore not supporting spammers.
I dont believe spam will be around for ever, as more and more people get sick of it and more ISP's start blacklisting and filtering it will become increasingly more difficult to effectivly spam.
- American Airlines specifically denies you permission to hyperlink or provide references to the Site, unless you are allowed to do so under a separate written agreement with American Airlines.
I hope timothy didn't accept the license before posting the story.It does appear that most of it has been stolen from any other terms and conditions page and hacked around to fit American Airlines... Especially all those bits about using their website to distribute files that shouldn't be distributed (who's going to use AA to distribute mp3's?!?!?)
What this article really demonstrates - and it's something that has been demonstrated before on countless occasions - and that is that most governments of the world believe the internet is something tangible and easilly controllable.
This has been demonstrated here in Australia with the federal goverments push to sensor content and make ISP's liable for content that is served up from their service.
It's been demonstrated by the Chineese government with their sensorship and blocking of sites like google.
It has been shown by the USA's government in their restriction of encryption technology export.
All of these things are easilly worked around by even the most non techsavvy user.
Those of us who understand what the internet is and how it works understand that this sort of filtering will not work. These type sof things just show that until governments actually gain an understanding of the things they are trying to control they will continue to make fools of themselves. (btw: I'm surprised they dont want to block tcp ports 25, 110 & 143 (smtp,pop,imap) as people might send electronic mail rather than using the snail mail service).
- This is a really significant development, and it means that, as of right now, the Linux version of Opera is now at a higher release number than for Windows (which is at 6.05 right now). The Opera folks are really moving on Linux development.
It was only in the last couple of days I went to download Opera - however there was no shared lib version to work with the Mandrake 9 QT libs, however the new v6.10 does have rpms for mdk9!What I think Opera are trying to do here is to sell a browser to the niche (but fast growing market) of *nix desktop users - which most other software companies do completely ignore.
Much thanks to Opera for thier continued support of these platforms and for producing a great, damn fast and stable browser... The speed of Opera getting a version out for new versions of distro's is a definate sign (IMHO) of their comittment to both these platforms and users.
There should have at least been a link to the Alliance's web site in the News Article which can be found here
But again - there isn't much info there either unless you're a 'member'...
But what it comes down to really is why are they using a commercial product at all to develop one of the most sophisticated open source products.
While (most|some) of us dont always agree with what RMS says - he almost always does have very valid points - and this is something that I personally agree with him on.
Maybe its time for someone to start developing a OSS competitor to BitKeeper (without using BitKeeper of course!)
- Anyway rh 8 sucked for web development and I had to downgrade back to w2k to run perl, mysql and apache. (rh 8 used perl 5.8, apache 2, a crippled mysql, and no cgi support for perl!).
You went back to w2k to run three applications that are most commonly ran on linux? (I haven't played with rh8 yet, but i find it hard to believe that these are broken - or atleast not easillly fixable).- At one desk, users can move a wireless mouse's pointer from the screen of one computer to the screen of a laptop, with no wire or wireless connection between the computers themselves. That allows copying or moving material between the computers, a task that would otherwise be more difficult.
Does anybody else have difficulties with this particular idea? Since when did the ability to move a mouse pointer mean you could copy and paste?I have visions of a Gnu/Hurd
- > Who manages the management system?
Sun recently presented us (team of unix admins) with thier sales pitch and five year stategy for this stuff.The management?
When we asked how N1 was managed, they told us about thier management console - a friendly gui where everything can be conviently dragged and dropped to build new systems/reassign resources/fire sysadms. It is designed to be managed by management.
Some figures were given on some of the slides, including a before/after N1 comparision of staff requirements/system benifits. The before slide indicated that a single admin can manage ~20-50 systems, while under N1 a single admin will be managing upwards of 500 systems.
- So, what they should do is LET THE FANS DO WHAT THEY LIKE and charge a REASONABLE fee, like the "blank media" fee on VHS cassettes or home audio music CD-R's, to compensate music companies and artists for their use.
Why should everyone have to pay a fee which would ultimatly go to record companies for buying blank media?Very few of the CD-R's I buy get used for commercial music, infact most of my blank media gets used for distributing demos of a couple of unsigned artists. I would really have a problem if I knew that part of the money it was costing us to distribute demos was going to record companys who are not doing very much at all to support us or any other new alternative music in anyway.
The Scientific name mentioned in one of the Maryland Marine Notes links articles "Namalycastis abiuma" according to another source (Manual for Watershed Health and Water Quality) is:
Scientific Name: Namalycastis abiuma
Description: Segmented white thread-like worm with pad-like legs on every segment; living in vegetation and leaf litter in streams and ponds. Can reach up to 2 cm.