I'm not sure how you neccesarily arrive at that conclusion. Although I agree that the statistcs don't really seem to mean much. If you dig deeper into the "packages" translated, kde has WAAAY more applications to translate then what are considered part of gnome base and gnome desktop.
Why is Gnome being translated into Old English anyway?
just a correction, I sorta got stratum 0 confused in there, it should be lowered by a stratum, but honestly many recommend you connect to stratum 2 servers to lighten the load on the stratum 1 who's main purpose should be time distribution. (or high presision for those in need)
I mean why in the hell does cheap dlink crap need to connect to stratum-1 servers? Seriously these things should be running on stratum-3 or lower. I doubt the FBI will come into your home with national security at stake and the whole world ENDS because your $40 dlink router is off by half a second. Why doesn't dlink run their own damn ntp server off of the stratum-1 (making them stratum 2 - stratum 1 is sortof expensive). There is no need for these things to have this level of time precision - they just need ballpark correct time.
I, like you; switched from Redhat to FreeBSD, however I don't think I agree with them going "beyond bloated and sucky". Lets face it, Redhat has been doing whatever they want to for YEARS, doing stuff like sticking config files in bizarre locations. The bloat and suck you describe are more attributed to the packages installed being bloated than the hand of Redhat itself (gtk1 vs gtk2 for instance).
One vendor for a software system I work at stick to Redhat/fedora. Why they never went with debian I'll never know. So I installed fedora core 4 with no gui and it's pretty much the same as it ever was. Config files and stuff moved and many things are done differently (surprize surprize) but overall it's nothing drastic.
But yeah, once you get your hand in the FreeBSD ports collection you tend to cringe thinking about the RPM hell of yester-year. It really has gotten better...
f there are enough cores to compute both branches from the conditional
I don't see how that could really be useful. I mean if you were computing instructions on a one by one basis, then perhaps that would work, but you fill the pipe then find out it's the prediction is wrong so you go to the other cpu, however when you look at the bigger picture you realize that you are essencially crippling one CPU by dedicating it to doing something other than actually processing.
Intel's CPU branch prediction is already known to be better than AMD's. I think the bigger news is that the pipe will be cut down by half of the P4 to 14. If they can keep the processor fed (and perhaps move the memory controller on die like AMD has), then Intel may finally be able to end the spanking session they've been recieving by AMD.
I'd like to say that I don't like MS nor bill gates, however looking at what bill gates actually does is an interesting thing. I mean here's the guy who is more or less in charge of the software running on about 85% of the world's computers. How do you sort through information, organize yourself and get things done? Bill Gates uses outlook, and unlike the REST of the world, he runs the company that actually makes the software.
Aside from his three screens, his office looks REALLY unimpressive.
But the overall tone of what he talks about is what I already came to understand when I went to a few MS tech seminars years back. MS does eat its own dogfood, and that is something to take notice of. The company also forces its employees to actually use its software properly, and it is also properly maintained, and deployed. So in essance it's similar to what you say - some IT guy will fix it.
I mean out of all the smaller businesses I deal with I can't see ANY of them actually doing anything with sharepoint aside from wasting money. And that's assuming that it was installed properly - which often it's not. It's nice that the company (and bill gates) that understands the software and what it was intended to do uses it properly, but how well it works for everyone else... hard to say.
Re:What are the entry requirements?
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I was watching Alias with my wife and someone on the show was "deleting" files, and it would show each thing it was deleting. I pointed out that it was probably not efficent to open every thing before deleting it on the machine, but also noted that it was quite fast. My wife then responded that it was probably to keep people from saving porn on their machines. If your boss comes around and you try to delete all of the porn on your computer, it would be a bit hard to hid what you were doing as each porn movie/picture would show up on the screen before it was deleted.
It actually made sense, but then I worry about this computer porn association she seems to have now. Maybe she picked it up from me? I actually never saw Hackers until 4 months ago when my wife made me rent it. Ever time she sees me at a command prompt she asks "Are you in the kernel?"
Re:just like "ninja training camp"
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the purpose of the hacker is to flip out and kill processes
That's millions of dollars down the drain for MS..
Down the drain how exactly? Yes they put money into it and are now giving it away for free, but this is an investment in much the same way IE was. Who is going to use this? Home user? Doubtful. No this is targeted at the server area which is exactly where microsoft has been flailing around as of late. If you run this then they have to support it yes, but you're already running windows and that's another server they can claim.
What is a million dallars to MS? I can say I fully believe that MS would pay some magic fairy a billion dallars if it meant Apache would be crushed tomorrow. A few million is probably less money involved involved with those stupid commercials with people flying around because they use Windows XP.
I'm not sure if it matters if the MS format becomes an ISO first or at the same time. The lines are already drawn. Every software group that produces word processing documents seems to either be using or at least supporting ODF. Who supports Microsoft's format aside from Microsoft? No one right now, and those who do support it will follow microsoft no matter what the outcome of all of this is anyway.
If anything I'd say they put him there to observe the progression more than anything else.
The main difference is 'what is windows' and 'what is linux'? Windows comes in a standardized set of packages, home,pro,server,advanced server etc. They mostly include the same things, and even advanced server can be affected by windows media player security holes. In this case you get what Microsoft gives you, and it's fixed when MS fixes it for you.
Linux on the other hand is what you make of it. Every distro is quite different. Even two people using Gentoo can end up with completely different installations varying from a 'tight ship' to 'security nightmare'. It's the general assumption that if you know what you are doing you CAN secure linux quite well, but with MS you can sort of take many steps, but you still rely on MS to really fix many security problems.
And yes I do advocate dropping things when an exploit pops up. Sendmail and BIND have a proven history of being buggy and having swiss cheese secuirty, for which most people can use better alternatives. You also have to weight the difference between what often ends up a "denial of service attack" and "attacker obtains control of your machine". If you read MS security bulletins you find enough of the latter to make you paranoid when running windows.
Heh, I chucked about that myself. Graphics were always a selling point, but as a kid who rented TONS of nintendo games, I can tell you that MOST nes/sega games weren't as mind blowingly fun as the nastalgic stories seem to recount.
Most of the time there were tons of badly rendered graphics that made it hard to tell what you were doing, along with extremely repedative 2d action, coupled again with absolutely terrible controls. Now sure there are quite a few gems over the lifetime of the system but the system was out a LONG time.
I think you're kind of missing the big picture here, and that is cross platform capability. I use Kontact myself so I could care less about this but lets consider a company that is tired of MS Windows. Or better yet is stuck on legacy desktops that the newest version of MS Office won't support - that will be many of us soon. Well we could say, everyone stop - now we use Linux! Yay! But that shit doesn't happen because you're goiong to end up with a migration period, and that COULD be years!
By having something that lets people talk on OSX, Windows, BSD, Linux or whatever you, give a corperation an agnostic solution that lets them transition at their own pace. Personally I'm not convinced with the whole stuffing email/callandaring together, but some swear by it... which is why we have this in the first place.
Postgresql doesn't have some enterprise level features that Oracle has. I mean if you have a bazillion terabyte database and require clustering and other uber-features, then Postgresql isn't even in the same ballpark. And that's where the biggest margins are which is why Oracle does okay for itself.
Since 90% of database needs don't even approach that, Posgresql acts as a fine replacement, and 70% of installs could do fine with Mysql as well.
The thing I wonder most is the fact that between MySQL,Postgres, and MS SQL Server is how bad will Oracle be marginalized. This is the same situation Sun is finding itself in. You're one of the few who can play at the top end and do okay for yourself only to find the bottom end eroded and the middle ground a losing battle. As time wears on, your R&D becomes weaker and weaker and more applications don't even bother with supporting your stuff.
Where does that leave Oracle? Hard to say, but if Sun can't pull out and follows SGI - then I'd say the path to Oracle will be quite clear. Perhaps that's why Oracle is trying to cut off MySQL right now while it still can. Wouldn't surprise me if Oracle gains a compatability layer to emulate MySQL though.
The question is did you actually get all the tax deductions you could? Considering the quagmire of the modern U.S. tax system I highly doubt it. To some people trying to deduct everything they can means they "win", even though quite often the small time tax people that end up screwing up the taxes as often as regular people. Besides that some people live in fear of the IRS.
Personally I believe in just playing the strait and narrow. File your shit and deduct the standard crap and send it in. The IRS will never audit you in such a scenario because it's always the people trying to claim crazy deductions on everything that raise suspicion.
Besides which I have to file a W-7 this year. You think some kid who took a 3 hour crash course to do taxes for menial people like me is going to know to file a noterized copy of my wife's passport and a W-7? No they'll screw it up just as bad as I'm going to, so I'll just do them myself and save a couple bucks =p
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I'd say I'm an open source advocate, but the Linux kernel hasn't made me very happy with the quality of Linux. When someone says "So is Linux more stable than windows?" I have to answer with they're about the same.
In my opinion its coming down to version-o-phobia. Everyone is so scared to incrament a version number that they pushed the problem farther down the number set. I've become really impressed with the quality of FreeBSD releases, which dropped the ball initally in the beginning of 5x, and now have gotten into a more steady release schedule - that also means increasing version numbers. On Linux we arbitrarily screw with the current version and dump the problem of stablizing them on the distros. What in the hell sort of solution is that? Linux needs to get back to developing far away from the stable tree. Linux needs to start with a real testing/release cycle on a regular basis. You don't need to break compatability when you increase version numbers. As Linux has developed into a stable non-hobbiest OS, it needs to step up to the plate and stablize itself. Using the stable version (2.6.x.x.x) or whatever isn't really fooling anyone. No distro is going to maintain ALL kernel versions, sooner or later you have to bite the bullet and upgrade and accept all the new garbage that has introduced bugs in THIS version of the kernel.
And it's sort of funny that everyone shuns the BSDs because they are some sort of "leet" club, yet the reason for the messed up situation is because the finall word must always come from Linus. And this time Linus is wrong. Get the hell out of the stable branch!
Yeah pretty much. If Apple decides to pull out this will probably hurt Apple slightly, it will probably hurt French merchants that sell iPods slightly, and it will be a pain in the ass for those of the french that decide to use itunes/ipod. It certainly isn't going to stop much of anything.
I wouldn't say that itunes works very well with ALL formats, but it DOES work with mp3 - which is the open "standard". The fact that the media cartel want their stuff in strange DRM formats is the problem. If you could download mp3s on all these other sites the ipod would have NO compatability problems.
I'm not sure what in the hell this is really supposed to accomplish. But then again maybe it's just the French nature of inventing problems and complaining comming to light here =)
You might want to read those articles and the quote you are trying to refute. The QWERTY keyboard was designed to decrease the frequency of mechanical failure.. assuming you referr to a head jam as a "failure".
If you've ever used a typewriter with hammers you can attest that even with the design as it is, it's pretty easy to end up with a jam.
I think the way some of us have come to feel is that after you've played a first person shooter there isn't a whole lot else too them. In such a scenario a great story is what can make a mediocre game awsome. My favorite game "tie fighter" comes to mind. I mean you run around in a starfighter shooting junk and that's about it. Random things happening with a running story line makes the game less repedative since you are sort of unfolding the story as well as playing through the game.
Actually that's one of my problems with the voting system right now: it's too fast. Hawaii and Alaska already know who won the presidential election by the time they vote. They shouldn't release any of the information until it's tablulated by EVERYONE. Did people in the 1800s run around in panic because they didn't know for _weeks_ who won? No. A pencil and paper is just fine and doesn't require any special setup... aside from a booth I guess. Maybe everyone is trying to save the enviornment from paper trash, but it seems like everyone wants a paper trail anyway so I doubt anyone is gaining anything.
Well there's more to a release then just being KDE or Gnome. I bought SuSE 9.0 and I'd say that was the stepping block from me to Linux, despite having been "exposed" to RedHat for years. I found SuSE to be reliable and rather attractive by default. A far cry from the drab, devoid of any cheer, "put me out of my misery" looking bluecurve theme RedHat came up with. Now I see that SuSE also has a theme that evokes images of lifelessness.
It's hard enough to get people to use computers; making the colors and themes look uninviting is NOT helping. I'm not saying you need to do gumbyland like Microsoft, but just use nicer colors at least (and I'm talking defaults here because a lot of people will never touch the configuration). Ever since KDE3 came out, the KDE team has been making a more appealing desktop. Too bad SuSE has gone over to the dark side =P
I agree with you there. I mean the biggest parts of the puzzle are already solved in a LAMP situation - these are typically proven stable software. Seriously, it's not rocket science to untaint a variable from CGI before you pass a query or do some operation. One good thing this does show however is that using a LAMP sort of solution is going to build on a pretty stable foundation. Personally I find one of the most fustrating things in programing stemms from code that is fine, but bigger problems in the underlying system causing issues.
For the record I use FreeBSD / Postgresql / Lighttpd / Perl .
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I'm not sure how you neccesarily arrive at that conclusion. Although I agree that the statistcs don't really seem to mean much. If you dig deeper into the "packages" translated, kde has WAAAY more applications to translate then what are considered part of gnome base and gnome desktop.
Why is Gnome being translated into Old English anyway?
just a correction, I sorta got stratum 0 confused in there, it should be lowered by a stratum, but honestly many recommend you connect to stratum 2 servers to lighten the load on the stratum 1 who's main purpose should be time distribution. (or high presision for those in need)
I mean why in the hell does cheap dlink crap need to connect to stratum-1 servers? Seriously these things should be running on stratum-3 or lower. I doubt the FBI will come into your home with national security at stake and the whole world ENDS because your $40 dlink router is off by half a second. Why doesn't dlink run their own damn ntp server off of the stratum-1 (making them stratum 2 - stratum 1 is sortof expensive). There is no need for these things to have this level of time precision - they just need ballpark correct time.
This was posted under the category of science, not fiction =)
I, like you; switched from Redhat to FreeBSD, however I don't think I agree with them going "beyond bloated and sucky". Lets face it, Redhat has been doing whatever they want to for YEARS, doing stuff like sticking config files in bizarre locations. The bloat and suck you describe are more attributed to the packages installed being bloated than the hand of Redhat itself (gtk1 vs gtk2 for instance).
One vendor for a software system I work at stick to Redhat/fedora. Why they never went with debian I'll never know. So I installed fedora core 4 with no gui and it's pretty much the same as it ever was. Config files and stuff moved and many things are done differently (surprize surprize) but overall it's nothing drastic.
But yeah, once you get your hand in the FreeBSD ports collection you tend to cringe thinking about the RPM hell of yester-year. It really has gotten better...
f there are enough cores to compute both branches from the conditional
I don't see how that could really be useful. I mean if you were computing instructions on a one by one basis, then perhaps that would work, but you fill the pipe then find out it's the prediction is wrong so you go to the other cpu, however when you look at the bigger picture you realize that you are essencially crippling one CPU by dedicating it to doing something other than actually processing.
Intel's CPU branch prediction is already known to be better than AMD's. I think the bigger news is that the pipe will be cut down by half of the P4 to 14. If they can keep the processor fed (and perhaps move the memory controller on die like AMD has), then Intel may finally be able to end the spanking session they've been recieving by AMD.
I'd like to say that I don't like MS nor bill gates, however looking at what bill gates actually does is an interesting thing. I mean here's the guy who is more or less in charge of the software running on about 85% of the world's computers. How do you sort through information, organize yourself and get things done? Bill Gates uses outlook, and unlike the REST of the world, he runs the company that actually makes the software.
Aside from his three screens, his office looks REALLY unimpressive.
But the overall tone of what he talks about is what I already came to understand when I went to a few MS tech seminars years back. MS does eat its own dogfood, and that is something to take notice of. The company also forces its employees to actually use its software properly, and it is also properly maintained, and deployed. So in essance it's similar to what you say - some IT guy will fix it.
I mean out of all the smaller businesses I deal with I can't see ANY of them actually doing anything with sharepoint aside from wasting money. And that's assuming that it was installed properly - which often it's not. It's nice that the company (and bill gates) that understands the software and what it was intended to do uses it properly, but how well it works for everyone else... hard to say.
I was watching Alias with my wife and someone on the show was "deleting" files, and it would show each thing it was deleting. I pointed out that it was probably not efficent to open every thing before deleting it on the machine, but also noted that it was quite fast. My wife then responded that it was probably to keep people from saving porn on their machines. If your boss comes around and you try to delete all of the porn on your computer, it would be a bit hard to hid what you were doing as each porn movie/picture would show up on the screen before it was deleted.
It actually made sense, but then I worry about this computer porn association she seems to have now. Maybe she picked it up from me? I actually never saw Hackers until 4 months ago when my wife made me rent it. Ever time she sees me at a command prompt she asks "Are you in the kernel?"
the purpose of the hacker is to flip out and kill processes
That's millions of dollars down the drain for MS ..
Down the drain how exactly? Yes they put money into it and are now giving it away for free, but this is an investment in much the same way IE was. Who is going to use this? Home user? Doubtful. No this is targeted at the server area which is exactly where microsoft has been flailing around as of late. If you run this then they have to support it yes, but you're already running windows and that's another server they can claim.
What is a million dallars to MS? I can say I fully believe that MS would pay some magic fairy a billion dallars if it meant Apache would be crushed tomorrow. A few million is probably less money involved involved with those stupid commercials with people flying around because they use Windows XP.
I'm not sure if it matters if the MS format becomes an ISO first or at the same time. The lines are already drawn. Every software group that produces word processing documents seems to either be using or at least supporting ODF. Who supports Microsoft's format aside from Microsoft? No one right now, and those who do support it will follow microsoft no matter what the outcome of all of this is anyway.
If anything I'd say they put him there to observe the progression more than anything else.
Or maybe I forgot my tinfoil hat today.
The main difference is 'what is windows' and 'what is linux'? Windows comes in a standardized set of packages, home,pro,server,advanced server etc. They mostly include the same things, and even advanced server can be affected by windows media player security holes. In this case you get what Microsoft gives you, and it's fixed when MS fixes it for you.
Linux on the other hand is what you make of it. Every distro is quite different. Even two people using Gentoo can end up with completely different installations varying from a 'tight ship' to 'security nightmare'. It's the general assumption that if you know what you are doing you CAN secure linux quite well, but with MS you can sort of take many steps, but you still rely on MS to really fix many security problems.
And yes I do advocate dropping things when an exploit pops up. Sendmail and BIND have a proven history of being buggy and having swiss cheese secuirty, for which most people can use better alternatives. You also have to weight the difference between what often ends up a "denial of service attack" and "attacker obtains control of your machine". If you read MS security bulletins you find enough of the latter to make you paranoid when running windows.
Heh, I chucked about that myself. Graphics were always a selling point, but as a kid who rented TONS of nintendo games, I can tell you that MOST nes/sega games weren't as mind blowingly fun as the nastalgic stories seem to recount.
Most of the time there were tons of badly rendered graphics that made it hard to tell what you were doing, along with extremely repedative 2d action, coupled again with absolutely terrible controls. Now sure there are quite a few gems over the lifetime of the system but the system was out a LONG time.
I think you're kind of missing the big picture here, and that is cross platform capability. I use Kontact myself so I could care less about this but lets consider a company that is tired of MS Windows. Or better yet is stuck on legacy desktops that the newest version of MS Office won't support - that will be many of us soon. Well we could say, everyone stop - now we use Linux! Yay! But that shit doesn't happen because you're goiong to end up with a migration period, and that COULD be years!
By having something that lets people talk on OSX, Windows, BSD, Linux or whatever you, give a corperation an agnostic solution that lets them transition at their own pace. Personally I'm not convinced with the whole stuffing email/callandaring together, but some swear by it... which is why we have this in the first place.
Postgresql doesn't have some enterprise level features that Oracle has. I mean if you have a bazillion terabyte database and require clustering and other uber-features, then Postgresql isn't even in the same ballpark. And that's where the biggest margins are which is why Oracle does okay for itself.
Since 90% of database needs don't even approach that, Posgresql acts as a fine replacement, and 70% of installs could do fine with Mysql as well.
The thing I wonder most is the fact that between MySQL,Postgres, and MS SQL Server is how bad will Oracle be marginalized. This is the same situation Sun is finding itself in. You're one of the few who can play at the top end and do okay for yourself only to find the bottom end eroded and the middle ground a losing battle. As time wears on, your R&D becomes weaker and weaker and more applications don't even bother with supporting your stuff.
Where does that leave Oracle? Hard to say, but if Sun can't pull out and follows SGI - then I'd say the path to Oracle will be quite clear. Perhaps that's why Oracle is trying to cut off MySQL right now while it still can. Wouldn't surprise me if Oracle gains a compatability layer to emulate MySQL though.
The question is did you actually get all the tax deductions you could? Considering the quagmire of the modern U.S. tax system I highly doubt it. To some people trying to deduct everything they can means they "win", even though quite often the small time tax people that end up screwing up the taxes as often as regular people. Besides that some people live in fear of the IRS.
Personally I believe in just playing the strait and narrow. File your shit and deduct the standard crap and send it in. The IRS will never audit you in such a scenario because it's always the people trying to claim crazy deductions on everything that raise suspicion.
Besides which I have to file a W-7 this year. You think some kid who took a 3 hour crash course to do taxes for menial people like me is going to know to file a noterized copy of my wife's passport and a W-7? No they'll screw it up just as bad as I'm going to, so I'll just do them myself and save a couple bucks =p
I'd say I'm an open source advocate, but the Linux kernel hasn't made me very happy with the quality of Linux. When someone says "So is Linux more stable than windows?" I have to answer with they're about the same.
In my opinion its coming down to version-o-phobia. Everyone is so scared to incrament a version number that they pushed the problem farther down the number set. I've become really impressed with the quality of FreeBSD releases, which dropped the ball initally in the beginning of 5x, and now have gotten into a more steady release schedule - that also means increasing version numbers. On Linux we arbitrarily screw with the current version and dump the problem of stablizing them on the distros. What in the hell sort of solution is that? Linux needs to get back to developing far away from the stable tree. Linux needs to start with a real testing/release cycle on a regular basis. You don't need to break compatability when you increase version numbers. As Linux has developed into a stable non-hobbiest OS, it needs to step up to the plate and stablize itself. Using the stable version (2.6.x.x.x) or whatever isn't really fooling anyone. No distro is going to maintain ALL kernel versions, sooner or later you have to bite the bullet and upgrade and accept all the new garbage that has introduced bugs in THIS version of the kernel.
And it's sort of funny that everyone shuns the BSDs because they are some sort of "leet" club, yet the reason for the messed up situation is because the finall word must always come from Linus. And this time Linus is wrong. Get the hell out of the stable branch!
Actually I used to have a dog with two legs. I named him cigarette. Ever day I'd take him out for a drag.
heh, sorry.. had to make the joke...
Yeah pretty much. If Apple decides to pull out this will probably hurt Apple slightly, it will probably hurt French merchants that sell iPods slightly, and it will be a pain in the ass for those of the french that decide to use itunes/ipod. It certainly isn't going to stop much of anything.
I wouldn't say that itunes works very well with ALL formats, but it DOES work with mp3 - which is the open "standard". The fact that the media cartel want their stuff in strange DRM formats is the problem. If you could download mp3s on all these other sites the ipod would have NO compatability problems.
I'm not sure what in the hell this is really supposed to accomplish. But then again maybe it's just the French nature of inventing problems and complaining comming to light here =)
You might want to read those articles and the quote you are trying to refute. The QWERTY keyboard was designed to decrease the frequency of mechanical failure .. assuming you referr to a head jam as a "failure".
If you've ever used a typewriter with hammers you can attest that even with the design as it is, it's pretty easy to end up with a jam.
With Lighttpd that's FLiPP... which actually sounds reasonable. (What I run)
I think the way some of us have come to feel is that after you've played a first person shooter there isn't a whole lot else too them. In such a scenario a great story is what can make a mediocre game awsome. My favorite game "tie fighter" comes to mind. I mean you run around in a starfighter shooting junk and that's about it. Random things happening with a running story line makes the game less repedative since you are sort of unfolding the story as well as playing through the game.
Fast enough?
Actually that's one of my problems with the voting system right now: it's too fast. Hawaii and Alaska already know who won the presidential election by the time they vote. They shouldn't release any of the information until it's tablulated by EVERYONE. Did people in the 1800s run around in panic because they didn't know for _weeks_ who won? No. A pencil and paper is just fine and doesn't require any special setup... aside from a booth I guess. Maybe everyone is trying to save the enviornment from paper trash, but it seems like everyone wants a paper trail anyway so I doubt anyone is gaining anything.
Well there's more to a release then just being KDE or Gnome. I bought SuSE 9.0 and I'd say that was the stepping block from me to Linux, despite having been "exposed" to RedHat for years. I found SuSE to be reliable and rather attractive by default. A far cry from the drab, devoid of any cheer, "put me out of my misery" looking bluecurve theme RedHat came up with. Now I see that SuSE also has a theme that evokes images of lifelessness.
It's hard enough to get people to use computers; making the colors and themes look uninviting is NOT helping. I'm not saying you need to do gumbyland like Microsoft, but just use nicer colors at least (and I'm talking defaults here because a lot of people will never touch the configuration). Ever since KDE3 came out, the KDE team has been making a more appealing desktop. Too bad SuSE has gone over to the dark side =P
I agree with you there. I mean the biggest parts of the puzzle are already solved in a LAMP situation - these are typically proven stable software. Seriously, it's not rocket science to untaint a variable from CGI before you pass a query or do some operation. One good thing this does show however is that using a LAMP sort of solution is going to build on a pretty stable foundation. Personally I find one of the most fustrating things in programing stemms from code that is fine, but bigger problems in the underlying system causing issues.
For the record I use FreeBSD / Postgresql / Lighttpd / Perl .
Guess that would be FLiPP or something