"... Solaris adsorbs Linux's strengths (drivers, file systems, etc.) while leveraging Solaris's robust, tested, industry strength core."
industry strength core == braindead scheduler
So much of the cool stuff in Linux is (currently) intrinsic to the kernel. That's not going to be wedged into the Solaris kernel any time soon, especially if they use a licence that means Sun retain ultimate ownership of any contributions (a dis-incentive to port bits and pieces). Yes, Solaris has many cool features, but not enough to prompt a movement in the direction you suggest.
We had an IBM Thinkpad 486 where the back of the screen came off, and you could use an array of velrco straps to lash the sucker down to an overhead projector. We also had one of those LCD panels, and they were a bit underwhelming. I found ours when we moved last year, and didn't think much of turffing it in with all the other space-junk headed for disposal.
You do not have to be in a wheelchair to collect the disability pension here. It's quite likely he has something like arthritis that makes it difficult for him to work full time. Unless it's a really obvious disability, they usually keep at you to prove you really are disabled.
A friend of mine was on a disability pension because he is photo-sensitive. They dumped him off said pension the moment he landed a job, and wouldn't let him back on when he found that he could do the work (because he was photo sensitive).
And even if he is in a wheelchair, I'm sure the judge would have taken that into consideration in his decision (I don't know how well our gaols are set up for sheelchair access).
An interesting distinction to make is that.NET code itself isn't vulnerable to buffer overflows. GDI+ is an unmanaged component (likely written in C++), and is vulnerable. The problem is that.NET exposes GDI+ functionality through its graphics classes, and since those classes are part of the.NET framework,.NET itself essentially becomes vulnerable to buffer overflows.
By the same token, the amount of new C++ is being reduced, and things like GDI+ are (hopefully) in a single library rather than being statically included into who knows how many compiled projects.
Okay, that does it! Now, listen! Why is it that everything today has involved things either going in or coming out of my ass?! -Eric Cartman, South Park, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"
The point of a content management system is that it allows non technical users to maintain the site after initial setup.
A friend is doing lots of stuff with Zope and Plone. Besides the CMS, it is damn cool to watch reams of Python being generated directly from the UML model of the site (he's working towards round-trip). It looks like a great way to build complex sites and impose sanity controls on other people playing in your pond.
My feeling is that this is a carpet bombing approach to cover any aspects of any protocols their customers might want to use. Aka, "Use TCP/IP and we promise we won't sue you if any of our patents turn up".
The Samba comments elsewhere in here are inetersting. More likely, such a licence could be used not to claim ownership, but to screw around anyone trying to do open source after signing up to this licence. Aka, what are the risks of being sued over breaking the licence by contributing to incompatible licences, or OSS developers taking similar precautions to the Samba developrs?
Perhaps they are trying to (eventually) build the perception that anyone entering into protocol development without a swag of corporate licences is some kind of pirate...
The Oxford English Dictionary Shared Source Programme, OEDSource.
We have invested huge amounts of Intellectual Property developing language as a tool that has greatly enabled the progress of science, literature, engineering and more. It is absurd that there aren't stronger safeguards to protect this investment and ensure that the rightful owners of this work are properly compensated for the benefits spoken language has brought to society.
As a Commonwealth nation with clear links to the United Kingdom, who originally developed English, we plan on vigorously enforcing our IP in this matter. We will give all US citizens a one-off opportunity to acquire English language licences, and thereby protect themselvs against future litigation. Conversational licences will cost $699 USD per node, whilst professional vocabulary and group discussion licences will start at $1399 per node.
Developers of slang or jargon will need to purchase our development tools, as will developers engaged in porting of forgeign language words into our core infrastructure.
We will be subpoena Webster's dictionary, and demonstrate that it contains millions of practically identical entries to the Oxford English Dictionary dictionary that we acquired when we bought our constitution from the United Kingdom.
I think someone should write a plugin for the various free browsers that punishes bad cookie lifetime params- maybe it inversely sets the actual expiration date in an inverse fashion if the requested date is too far off. For example, over a year, start actually going back down for each year they add. So a cookie marked good until 2040 will actually be good for about a few hours- or less.
Sod that, how about a cookie filter that instantly nukes any cookies set for 2040, and warns you about cookies with unreasonable dates (as defined by the user). Or even better, stuff them with bogus data designed to compromise the value of data collected, for example, by mutating the DoubleClick cookie ID to oher, random cookie IDs.
I don't care how good your RAID is, or if it's hardware or software. I have seen lightning fry every single component in a box. RAID makes it easy to recover from individual disk failures (which probaably account for most, but not all disk failures), but I'd still be doing some form of backup. Put some of the disks elsewhere and mirror your data to completely different site (if possible).
From that perspsective (that RAID lets you treaat most hardware failures as a nuisance rather than a catastrophe), hardware RAID might be attractive.
I saw this on LJ last night, and if it isn't a hoax, it should get some kind of coverage beyond a thread. I note that one of the threads attached to this LJ post suggested as much, although the person concerned seems to be (sensibly) not intersted in being a centre of attention "martyr".
Scene A run down hotel room, Merkpheus sits in a ratty leather arm chair. Darl sits nearby.
Merkpheus: I imagine that right now you're feeling a bit like Don Quixote. Tilting the windmill? Darl: You could say that. Merkpheus: I can see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he's expecting to rake in a billion dollar settement. Ironically, this is not far from the truth. Do you believe in Linux, Darl? Darl: No. Merkpheus: Why not? Darl: 'Cause I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of everyone else's life. Merkpheus: I know exactly what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know they used Xenix. What you know, you can't explain. But you feel it. You felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with Linux. You don't know what it is, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind -- driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about? Darl: Xenix? Merkpheus: Do you want to know where it is? (Neo nods his head.) Merkpheus: The Xenix is everywhere, it is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, or when go to church or when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. Darl: What truth? Merkpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison for your mind. (long pause, sighs) Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Xenix is. You have to see it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. (In his left hand, Morpheus shows a blue peyote.) Merkpheus: You take the blue peyote and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. (a red crack pipe is shown in his other hand) You take the red crack pipe and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. (Long pause; Neo begins to reach for the red pipe) Remember -- all I am offering is the truth, nothing more. (Neo takes the red pipe and lights up)
... unless it's on of those "studies" conducted by an interested party to show trends they would like to project as "real" Considering this is on MSN...
What they find is probably tecnically correct, however they are reading too much into it. My guess is that people may not inetersted in having millions of mp3s for bands they never listen to anyway when it's a hassle to backup, and could get them arrested, etc. etc. To draw a trend line from this culling of surplus mp3's to world dominance is (more than) a bit optimistic, but probably good propaganda.
It depends. It could be as intuitive as an iPod, or someone can re-implement traditional UI design flaws for an entirely new audience. Imagine if using a cross-fader became as easy as programming a 1980's vintage VCR!
Also, the *nice* thing about physical pots and buttons is that I can see that they are there and will eventually see what they do. Similarly, you can see *all* of the console and its settings at a glance, handy when something goes wrong and you're not quite sure where it's gone wrong.
Hell, if you just printed out a pile of $23 dollar bills, just buy a new one and trash the old one. And they're not going to use it for home correspondance.
However, it *is* useful. If they get busted, the Feds can use such features to demonstrate that the notes probably came from the printer they found on premises.
Interestingly, ever since the 1980's I have *never* used my own printers for anonymous correspondance for exactly this reason. I thought it was an obvious thing to look for.
*anything* is a big word that includes all absurd measures as well as the sensible ones. The current approach where the content is criminal (regardless of format) seems to be a much more sensible approach than reactive, media specific laws with huge gaps in between.
It would seem that it doesn' matter where the server is provided you can argue that it has *possible* links to terrorism, kidnapping or money laundering. Of course a civil case isn't going to count (maybe that's another reasn why RIAA are so keen on criminalising IP transgressions).
In which case the RIAA and MPAA should also get into the face of the NRA et al. and demand that all guns are fitted with GRM (Gun Recreation Management) so that legitimate sports-persons can bear them in peace, but the authorities can disable them in the event of unlawful acts.
I'd love to see the MPAA go toe-to-toe with the NRA, if only to see what Charleton Heston says.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, they hgave been offering money for RPGs.
xix.
industry strength core == braindead scheduler
So much of the cool stuff in Linux is (currently) intrinsic to the kernel. That's not going to be wedged into the Solaris kernel any time soon, especially if they use a licence that means Sun retain ultimate ownership of any contributions (a dis-incentive to port bits and pieces). Yes, Solaris has many cool features, but not enough to prompt a movement in the direction you suggest.
Xix.
More like "it's finally matured into something else". It's all rather like the new Amiga, with pretty much only the name in common with the original.
Xix.
We had an IBM Thinkpad 486 where the back of the screen came off, and you could use an array of velrco straps to lash the sucker down to an overhead projector. We also had one of those LCD panels, and they were a bit underwhelming. I found ours when we moved last year, and didn't think much of turffing it in with all the other space-junk headed for disposal.
Xix.
when he found that he could do the work
couldn't! Doh! Murphy strikes.
You do not have to be in a wheelchair to collect the disability pension here. It's quite likely he has something like arthritis that makes it difficult for him to work full time. Unless it's a really obvious disability, they usually keep at you to prove you really are disabled.
A friend of mine was on a disability pension because he is photo-sensitive. They dumped him off said pension the moment he landed a job, and wouldn't let him back on when he found that he could do the work (because he was photo sensitive).
And even if he is in a wheelchair, I'm sure the judge would have taken that into consideration in his decision (I don't know how well our gaols are set up for sheelchair access).
Xix.
An interesting distinction to make is that .NET code itself isn't vulnerable to buffer overflows. GDI+ is an unmanaged component (likely written in C++), and is vulnerable. The problem is that .NET exposes GDI+ functionality through its graphics classes, and since those classes are part of the .NET framework, .NET itself essentially becomes vulnerable to buffer overflows.
By the same token, the amount of new C++ is being reduced, and things like GDI+ are (hopefully) in a single library rather than being statically included into who knows how many compiled projects.
Xix.
Okay, that does it! Now, listen! Why is it that everything today has involved things either going in or coming out of my ass?!
-Eric Cartman, South Park, "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"
A friend is doing lots of stuff with Zope and Plone. Besides the CMS, it is damn cool to watch reams of Python being generated directly from the UML model of the site (he's working towards round-trip). It looks like a great way to build complex sites and impose sanity controls on other people playing in your pond.
Xix.
My feeling is that this is a carpet bombing approach to cover any aspects of any protocols their customers might want to use. Aka, "Use TCP/IP and we promise we won't sue you if any of our patents turn up".
The Samba comments elsewhere in here are inetersting. More likely, such a licence could be used not to claim ownership, but to screw around anyone trying to do open source after signing up to this licence. Aka, what are the risks of being sued over breaking the licence by contributing to incompatible licences, or OSS developers taking similar precautions to the Samba developrs?
Perhaps they are trying to (eventually) build the perception that anyone entering into protocol development without a swag of corporate licences is some kind of pirate...
Xix.
The Oxford English Dictionary Shared Source Programme, OEDSource.
We have invested huge amounts of Intellectual Property developing language as a tool that has greatly enabled the progress of science, literature, engineering and more. It is absurd that there aren't stronger safeguards to protect this investment and ensure that the rightful owners of this work are properly compensated for the benefits spoken language has brought to society.
As a Commonwealth nation with clear links to the United Kingdom, who originally developed English, we plan on vigorously enforcing our IP in this matter. We will give all US citizens a one-off opportunity to acquire English language licences, and thereby protect themselvs against future litigation. Conversational licences will cost $699 USD per node, whilst professional vocabulary and group discussion licences will start at $1399 per node.
Developers of slang or jargon will need to purchase our development tools, as will developers engaged in porting of forgeign language words into our core infrastructure.
We will be subpoena Webster's dictionary, and demonstrate that it contains millions of practically identical entries to the Oxford English Dictionary dictionary that we acquired when we bought our constitution from the United Kingdom.
Xix.
Now's your chance. Come up with some weird prediction method, the more looney the better.
If you are wrong, no-one will care.
If you are right, you can get a spot on a talk show and be feted as the next market statistics guru!
Xix.
I don't care how good your RAID is, or if it's hardware or software. I have seen lightning fry every single component in a box. RAID makes it easy to recover from individual disk failures (which probaably account for most, but not all disk failures), but I'd still be doing some form of backup. Put some of the disks elsewhere and mirror your data to completely different site (if possible).
From that perspsective (that RAID lets you treaat most hardware failures as a nuisance rather than a catastrophe), hardware RAID might be attractive.
Xix.
I saw this on LJ last night, and if it isn't a hoax, it should get some kind of coverage beyond a thread. I note that one of the threads attached to this LJ post suggested as much, although the person concerned seems to be (sensibly) not intersted in being a centre of attention "martyr".
All very "Jose Chong's Outer Space".
Xix.
Scene
A run down hotel room, Merkpheus sits in a ratty leather arm chair. Darl sits nearby.
Merkpheus: I imagine that right now you're feeling a bit like Don Quixote. Tilting the windmill?
Darl: You could say that.
Merkpheus: I can see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he's expecting to rake in a billion dollar settement. Ironically, this is not far from the truth. Do you believe in Linux, Darl?
Darl: No.
Merkpheus: Why not?
Darl: 'Cause I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of everyone else's life.
Merkpheus: I know exactly what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know they used Xenix. What you know, you can't explain. But you feel it. You felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with Linux. You don't know what it is, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind -- driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Darl: Xenix?
Merkpheus: Do you want to know where it is?
(Neo nods his head.)
Merkpheus: The Xenix is everywhere, it is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, or when go to church or when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Darl: What truth?
Merkpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison for your mind. (long pause, sighs) Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Xenix is. You have to see it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.
(In his left hand, Morpheus shows a blue peyote.)
Merkpheus: You take the blue peyote and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. (a red crack pipe is shown in his other hand) You take the red crack pipe and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. (Long pause; Neo begins to reach for the red pipe) Remember -- all I am offering is the truth, nothing more.
(Neo takes the red pipe and lights up)
What they find is probably tecnically correct, however they are reading too much into it. My guess is that people may not inetersted in having millions of mp3s for bands they never listen to anyway when it's a hassle to backup, and could get them arrested, etc. etc. To draw a trend line from this culling of surplus mp3's to world dominance is (more than) a bit optimistic, but probably good propaganda.
Xix.
I thought Negativland was incompatible, something about a namepace collision that lead to a runaway zombie process in the U2 legal module.
It depends. It could be as intuitive as an iPod, or someone can re-implement traditional UI design flaws for an entirely new audience. Imagine if using a cross-fader became as easy as programming a 1980's vintage VCR!
Also, the *nice* thing about physical pots and buttons is that I can see that they are there and will eventually see what they do. Similarly, you can see *all* of the console and its settings at a glance, handy when something goes wrong and you're not quite sure where it's gone wrong.
Xix.
All that would be required would be to change the default home page to Goatse. Or how about Pr0nZilla as a Mozilla project?
Xix.
And you thought the MPAA broadcast flag was just going to stop honest devices from recording!
This could be the start of a whole line of consumer electronics that call the Feds whenever you try tamper with their DMCA components.
Xix.
Hell, if you just printed out a pile of $23 dollar bills, just buy a new one and trash the old one. And they're not going to use it for home correspondance.
However, it *is* useful. If they get busted, the Feds can use such features to demonstrate that the notes probably came from the printer they found on premises.
Interestingly, ever since the 1980's I have *never* used my own printers for anonymous correspondance for exactly this reason. I thought it was an obvious thing to look for.
*anything* is a big word that includes all absurd measures as well as the sensible ones. The current approach where the content is criminal (regardless of format) seems to be a much more sensible approach than reactive, media specific laws with huge gaps in between.
Xix.
It would seem that it doesn' matter where the server is provided you can argue that it has *possible* links to terrorism, kidnapping or money laundering. Of course a civil case isn't going to count (maybe that's another reasn why RIAA are so keen on criminalising IP transgressions).
Xix.
In which case the RIAA and MPAA should also get into the face of the NRA et al. and demand that all guns are fitted with GRM (Gun Recreation Management) so that legitimate sports-persons can bear them in peace, but the authorities can disable them in the event of unlawful acts.
I'd love to see the MPAA go toe-to-toe with the NRA, if only to see what Charleton Heston says.
"If P2P is outlawed, only outlaws will have P2P."
Xix. (with tongue in cheek)