Heh, that's what I was thinking. Too bad they couldn't throw some of us a bone and at least just give us a crap NSIS install. Course many open source projects tend to be exactly the same way, so I suppose it shouldn't be too surprising.
Actually I don't think that would be much of a problem. If he's hitting the left pedal to accelerate, he's either hitting the clutch, emergency brake, or the brake. In any event he's not going anywhere fast.
When someone comes into your server farm with a gun and says "Let me access info I want or I'll blow your fucking heads off"! Then you will understand that security is security.
Bad guy: "Let me access all your info, or I'll blow your fucking heads off"
Admin: Uh.. whatever. Root password is 'god'
Admin #2: talk about shit security... I thought you were going to change that.
Wait until MegaBSD. The daemon mascot will blot out the sun, and people will become very afraid, as Evil Dr. S Jobs cackles in his laboritory. It's alive, It's alive!
If I were to guess, I would say that the only reason Linux would displace Windows before Unix, is because there are a lot more windows boxes to replace. A buisness that has money to blow on a really expensive mission critical computer probably doesn't really care about the costs as long as it works. Windows on the other hand tends to end up in certain places in the medium end where Linux does very well also.
My only experience is where I work now. We've always had one central Unix server, that was just recently migrated to Linux (that's one). In the meantime if replaced a few Windows machines with Linux just because I found Linux easier to admin in those instances. I mean why in the hell would I pay all that money to MS for something like a backup server?
Note the lack of pointless animations to drive home the point that there is a lack of content. Note the lack of gradiant/textured background to "enhance" the slide in some way as to somehow looking "professionally done with Power Point" (cute font is a good start though). Notice the lack of bullets to point out that you didn't have much to say in the first place, and just have a few points with bullets.
Most importantly (from the slide), "Recently improved":
It's the way the media works (this includes Slashdot). If it happens to someone famous, then people suddenly care once the media sensationalized it. Otherwise it's just another part of a sad statistic. We will hear about one famous person dieing for weeks on end, but how many people even know the horrors of what happened in Sierra Leone? I guess many people take me as being sort of cold hearted when I act indifferent when someone famous dies... but did you know them? Are they more important than anyone else? Being insensitive has nothing to do with it, it's more about misplaced priorities. Is the world worse off because Mother Teresa died? certainly, but most famous people are only different in that one respect: they're famous.
Not to say that this slashdot article is bad; many such as myself will be exposed to what this guy has done for the Linux community, and perhaps that's a good way to remember him buy now that he's gone. But I don't think that he's more important than the rest of us or the man who died with him, nor does this article imply that. It's more about the loss to the community.
DVRs, which are sold as companion products for TVs by TiVo and Sonicblue's ReplayTV, are expected to become standard equipment on PCs over the next few years, say analysts.
Right, and these are the same "analysts" who don't know that at this very moment 80%-90% of American VCR's are blinking 12:00 on their digital displays. Now you're going to have them add a COMPUTER to that mess? Am I the only one that has so many wires behind the TV that I don't even know what they do or if I need them? How many people have a computer anywhere NEAR their PC?
Frasch sells advertising on his site, http://www.bronx-bombers.com, but said it's not even enough to cover costs. And Hoch said he sold all of $16 worth of merchandise at his site -- including $12 spent by his girlfriend.
Remember that when you go and some stupid person brings their two year old who screams through half the movie. That's what I tend to remember LOTR by. Pirated movie, or cinema theater with 2 year old screaming over-dub. Hmmm...
The program will go away, but as a concept of what Napster was; I think we'll have to deal with that for eternity. Every time a p2p program comes out and is described by the media, it's always described as being "like Napster but able to share other files". Aside from that, every time the media giants get their panties in a bind over "pirating music", Napster is ALWAYS mentioned.
You can sell GPL software (I guess). I imagine most of what a government would want to do would be custom software around their needs anyhow. Usually proprietary software tends to work the other way, where you take a cookie cutter program, and try to get it to do what you need - "square peg in round hole" sort of deal. I'm still not totally sold on GPL for commercial software packages, but when was the last time you saw a government exporting software? With GPL, they give their people the tools, and empower them to use them. This doesn't mean that they'll become a national software powerhouse, but at least they'll be able to fix their own problems as they see fit. In any event case microsoft certainly isn't going to help them. (Besides which, just because workers work on/with GPL stuff now, doesn't mean that they can't make proprietary stuff with the skills they learned later on)
"According to Pérez-Martí, the government and the people of Venezeula were increasingly concerned that over 75 percent of the funds for software licenses went to foreign nations, 20 percent to foreign support agencies, and only 5 percent to Venezuelan programmers. "
I hope other countries take note of this. While I'm a skittish about requiring GPL, GPL certainly seems like it would be perfect for not-so-wealthy nations. And isn't any other nation concerned that the vast majority of their IT infrastructure is controlled by a power hungry corporation in the United States? If I were in a country like say Germany, I'm not sure I'd be happy having my government using Microsoft products that report who knows what, and gives them total privileges to all the computers in the name of "fixing bugs".
Soundblaster 5.2 (5 something or another at least). I had the same problem when I used the onboard sound also. The _real_ problem is that Mozilla would just suck up the resources. Usually I'd have to wait around 4 seconds just to change between windows or apps. (as I said before, thankfully Moz 1.1 seems to have fixed whatever was happening)
make sure you look at the difference between ie and mozilla. While I'm usually happy with now Mozilla sticks to the standards and renders things about how you would expect just by reading the standard, IE definitely beats Mozilla hands down in this instance.
Maybe I'll be modded as flamebait or whatever, but have you ever tried to control a file input box in a form with CSS on Mozilla? You're LUCKY if it just lookes like a really fucked up button sticking out where it's not supposed to. IE on the otherhand handles this about the way you would expect when trying to control the look with CSS. That would be my one instance that I can think of.
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Heh, that's what I was thinking. Too bad they couldn't throw some of us a bone and at least just give us a crap NSIS install. Course many open source projects tend to be exactly the same way, so I suppose it shouldn't be too surprising.
better than spanking it when she's not there in any case.
Strange that I get those calls too. I don't know how far they think someone would get with my card anyway, since I only have a $500 limit.
Actually I don't think that would be much of a problem. If he's hitting the left pedal to accelerate, he's either hitting the clutch, emergency brake, or the brake. In any event he's not going anywhere fast.
When someone comes into your server farm with a gun and says "Let me access info I want or I'll blow your fucking heads off"! Then you will understand that security is security.
Bad guy: "Let me access all your info, or I'll blow your fucking heads off"
Admin: Uh.. whatever. Root password is 'god'
Admin #2: talk about shit security... I thought you were going to change that.
Bad guy: Hey? Where's the start button?
Admin: You did know this was a Linux farm right?
"Microsoft wants the Chinese to pay for software,"
Makes you wonder if the Chinese didn't see all this brewing and decided to get a head start early on the Linux push.
Wait until MegaBSD. The daemon mascot will blot out the sun, and people will become very afraid, as Evil Dr. S Jobs cackles in his laboritory. It's alive, It's alive!
Think he's missing the 'i' between 'p' and 's'. I imagine it has something to do with piss poor security.
If I were to guess, I would say that the only reason Linux would displace Windows before Unix, is because there are a lot more windows boxes to replace. A buisness that has money to blow on a really expensive mission critical computer probably doesn't really care about the costs as long as it works. Windows on the other hand tends to end up in certain places in the medium end where Linux does very well also.
My only experience is where I work now. We've always had one central Unix server, that was just recently migrated to Linux (that's one). In the meantime if replaced a few Windows machines with Linux just because I found Linux easier to admin in those instances. I mean why in the hell would I pay all that money to MS for something like a backup server?
So here is a good example of why open source is having a hard time:
"An OpenBSD presentation slide"
Note the lack of pointless animations to drive home the point that there is a lack of content. Note the lack of gradiant/textured background to "enhance" the slide in some way as to somehow looking "professionally done with Power Point" (cute font is a good start though). Notice the lack of bullets to point out that you didn't have much to say in the first place, and just have a few points with bullets.
Most importantly (from the slide), "Recently improved":
tcron/popen.c; md5(1); altqd parser; hash/rmd160.c, etc..
Any chance of a mortal person understanding even remotely what that means? That looks suspicously like content.
It's the way the media works (this includes Slashdot). If it happens to someone famous, then people suddenly care once the media sensationalized it. Otherwise it's just another part of a sad statistic. We will hear about one famous person dieing for weeks on end, but how many people even know the horrors of what happened in Sierra Leone? I guess many people take me as being sort of cold hearted when I act indifferent when someone famous dies... but did you know them? Are they more important than anyone else? Being insensitive has nothing to do with it, it's more about misplaced priorities. Is the world worse off because Mother Teresa died? certainly, but most famous people are only different in that one respect: they're famous.
Not to say that this slashdot article is bad; many such as myself will be exposed to what this guy has done for the Linux community, and perhaps that's a good way to remember him buy now that he's gone. But I don't think that he's more important than the rest of us or the man who died with him, nor does this article imply that. It's more about the loss to the community.
DVRs, which are sold as companion products for TVs by TiVo and Sonicblue's ReplayTV, are expected to become standard equipment on PCs over the next few years, say analysts.
Right, and these are the same "analysts" who don't know that at this very moment 80%-90% of American VCR's are blinking 12:00 on their digital displays. Now you're going to have them add a COMPUTER to that mess? Am I the only one that has so many wires behind the TV that I don't even know what they do or if I need them? How many people have a computer anywhere NEAR their PC?
So if I use my computer for making... music or some sort of movie I have to pay microsoft to see it... Hmm... the future is really going to suck.
Frasch sells advertising on his site, http://www.bronx-bombers.com, but said it's not even enough to cover costs. And Hoch said he sold all of $16 worth of merchandise at his site -- including $12 spent by his girlfriend.
Both miss the point, Orlinsky said.
Remember that when you go and some stupid person brings their two year old who screams through half the movie. That's what I tend to remember LOTR by. Pirated movie, or cinema theater with 2 year old screaming over-dub. Hmmm...
The program will go away, but as a concept of what Napster was; I think we'll have to deal with that for eternity. Every time a p2p program comes out and is described by the media, it's always described as being "like Napster but able to share other files". Aside from that, every time the media giants get their panties in a bind over "pirating music", Napster is ALWAYS mentioned.
... Am I the only person that never used Napster?
From their web site.
Are batteries are guaranteed to meet or exceed OEM specifications...
Are batteries? Either these guys are pirates or slashdot editors. Thanks for the link though. This could actually save a P166 laptop I have.
I imagine it would look something like this but with flames shooting out.
Maybe because not everyone likes Akira?
Really? The whole country is really going into the crapper. Who thought politicians were so cheap!?
You can sell GPL software (I guess). I imagine most of what a government would want to do would be custom software around their needs anyhow. Usually proprietary software tends to work the other way, where you take a cookie cutter program, and try to get it to do what you need - "square peg in round hole" sort of deal. I'm still not totally sold on GPL for commercial software packages, but when was the last time you saw a government exporting software? With GPL, they give their people the tools, and empower them to use them. This doesn't mean that they'll become a national software powerhouse, but at least they'll be able to fix their own problems as they see fit. In any event case microsoft certainly isn't going to help them. (Besides which, just because workers work on/with GPL stuff now, doesn't mean that they can't make proprietary stuff with the skills they learned later on)
"According to Pérez-Martí, the government and the people of Venezeula were increasingly concerned that over 75 percent of the funds for software licenses went to foreign nations, 20 percent to foreign support agencies, and only 5 percent to Venezuelan programmers. "
I hope other countries take note of this. While I'm a skittish about requiring GPL, GPL certainly seems like it would be perfect for not-so-wealthy nations. And isn't any other nation concerned that the vast majority of their IT infrastructure is controlled by a power hungry corporation in the United States? If I were in a country like say Germany, I'm not sure I'd be happy having my government using Microsoft products that report who knows what, and gives them total privileges to all the computers in the name of "fixing bugs".
Soundblaster 5.2 (5 something or another at least). I had the same problem when I used the onboard sound also. The _real_ problem is that Mozilla would just suck up the resources. Usually I'd have to wait around 4 seconds just to change between windows or apps. (as I said before, thankfully Moz 1.1 seems to have fixed whatever was happening)
<style type="text/css"><!--
.x { border: solid 1px #0000AA; background-color: #CCC7DB;
width: 150px; height: 20px; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;
}
--></style>
<input type="file" class="x">
make sure you look at the difference between ie and mozilla. While I'm usually happy with now Mozilla sticks to the standards and renders things about how you would expect just by reading the standard, IE definitely beats Mozilla hands down in this instance.
Maybe I'll be modded as flamebait or whatever, but have you ever tried to control a file input box in a form with CSS on Mozilla? You're LUCKY if it just lookes like a really fucked up button sticking out where it's not supposed to. IE on the otherhand handles this about the way you would expect when trying to control the look with CSS. That would be my one instance that I can think of.