One thing Sci-Fi writers have left out when talking about spending prolonged periods in space has been access to good pr0n. Of course, for that they need newsgroup access!
Obviously there's no way that database should have been connected to the internet. Someone failed to put the crack pipe down on that one. But at least they bothered to take full responsibility for the breach, and admit that they did in fact f*ck up. Should I be impressed, or should I wonder why someone admitting in a pupblic manner that they dropped the ball is refreshing?
Haven't we already discussed here some of the shortfalls of NASA? It seems that the trouble isn't so much a case of money, or the Shuttle program, but a lack of institutional innovation. The Space Shuttle was hot back in the late 70's/early 80's, but what has transpired since then? Not one other lick of innovation as far as getting people into space. It reminds me of when America was working on a version of the SST (think Concorde here), which was pretty hot, then it fizzled. The Space Shuttle is like the American SST, only it got built and then fizzled. NASA earned its street cred, but I'm thinking they've been sitting on it too long. Too many cute inexpensive robots that make the cover of USA Today, with no thought to real plans for replacing the Shuttle. Hell, they made TANG, can't they think of something new in the 30 years since they designed the Shuttle?
Why is this guy's rant considered "news that matters"? If I wanted to be exposed to that much bitching and cursing I'd just ask my wife. Personally I run mplayer on RH 7.2, I compiled it, and have no trouble resizing, moving, or using it. It plays everything. And for DVDs Ogle is hard to beat. Hell, can I write a review and get it posted?
Can someone please explain what "carrier grade" linux is? I work for a company that uses standard RH 6.2 for PBXs that can push 300,000 busy calls an hour, basically a mini ESS. The servers seem to be doing fine without any special modifications. Plus I finally get to spend my day working in a mainly Linux environment;-)
Already, people are finding unfamiliar constraints on how they can consume familiar media: listen to music on your PC, but do not try to copy it to your MP3 player; watch a movie in your home as often as you want for 24 hours -- because after that it will evaporate into the ether; marvel at your plasma-screen TV, but be prepared for your picture quality to be diminished if you do not have the latest model with anti-piracy equipment.
With crap like this I am glad GNU/Linux distros are still considered not ready for the desktop. Mr. Valenti might try to upgrade us (or outlaw us)!
Some new sysadmin decided to show how forward thinking (can I say that on/.?) he was and decided to sneak linux in through the back door. Hmmmm, now where could he get a server that doesn't seem to be doing anything?? The server wasn't stolen, it's by his desk running samba!
CUPS, as far as I'm concerned is the killer app for printing in the *nix world. And just like another poster mentioned, why on earth would someone not be firewalling their printer? So once again it comes down to the competency of the system administrator. As for the MS trolls out there who will use this as an excuse to pan OSS, I'd like to point out that at least with CUPS and projects like it we won't have to wait for the maintainers to admit there's a problem, and then wait a month or more for a fix. This is news only in that security vulnerabilities need to be dissemenated as widely as possible
Ok, you have my name, social security number, IP address, you want to decide how I use MY computer, you take pictures of me when I go to sporting events, you want to cache my surfing habits, sniff my e-mail, and NOW you want to know what my ass smells like??
If Norway is reasonable enough to find a "qualified" judge, why couldn't the same have been done for Microsoft's trial? I guess the bias in my post is obvious. Surely a qualified judge would have actually provided remedies in the MS case. So.. do any judges read/.? That's a qualification;-)
The learning curve that must be followed by a first-time Linux user can be very time consuming and frustrating. For many, especially in public education, this difficulty constitutes a roadblock to the deployment of open source solutions in their district.
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What I find interesting is that these respondents, who are dismissed as being emotionally motivated, also ranked Linux higher based on TOC. Where is the emotion in that? It seems like a case of seeing what you want to see, not what is really there.
Another leaked document:
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I submitted this as a story when Avaya first cut over to Linux. Currently only their small business server runs W2k. I promise that thing was/is an abortion (pardon my crudeness). As another poster said, Linux is the horse Avaya is betting on, and the new servers supposedly are selling like hotcakes.
Basically Avaya ported their software to Linux and it just runs as another application. My question though, is how come I can't download the source to the GPL'ed parts of the server (none of Avaya's SW is GPL'ed)?
When I think of those poor lost souls using Cisco's AVVID:-(
Re:No downloads? Get over it!-Ditto poster.
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Microsoft gives copies of Windows out at colleges. Does that mean you or I can try Windows for free whenever we choose? Now, what was your pithy comment?
No downloads? Get over it!
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Reading over the posts, it seems many are miffed about Xandros not having a downloadable version for people to try. Apparently, the prevailing view is why buy it if you can't try it. Folks, this is so hypocritical. You see, I feel the same way about MacOS X. The only reason I would be interested in it is for the GUI, but if I can't even try that, I'm not shelling out the money so I can lock myself into their hardware. At least with Linux I can configure KDE 3 to approximate the look of OS X, and I've found I like it. But what I like best of all is that my desktop can look like Aqua, but I don't have to pay for the privilege to restrict myself to Aqua.
As for using KDE 2.2, do you think maybe the emphasis is on stability, not having the newest stuff? Doesn't Debian do the same thing too? And if you don't like the version Debian stable uses, you can upgrade. Guess what, you can upgrade Xandros too.
I await -1 troll (called posters hypocrites, mentioned Apple in non reverential tone), but I just can't get over the whining!
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I for one am totally psyched about re-writing the console sublayer. It's so aesthetically annoying to be running a multi-headed system, yet be reserved to only one head when on a tty. I think this has a high geek factor
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One thing Sci-Fi writers have left out when talking about spending prolonged periods in space has been access to good pr0n. Of course, for that they need newsgroup access!
My question is, if this was the fourth or fifth generation, what were they eating??
Obviously there's no way that database should have been connected to the internet. Someone failed to put the crack pipe down on that one. But at least they bothered to take full responsibility for the breach, and admit that they did in fact f*ck up. Should I be impressed, or should I wonder why someone admitting in a pupblic manner that they dropped the ball is refreshing?
You can't cheat an honest person. They weren't gullible, they were willing to lie for money.
Haven't we already discussed here some of the shortfalls of NASA? It seems that the trouble isn't so much a case of money, or the Shuttle program, but a lack of institutional innovation. The Space Shuttle was hot back in the late 70's/early 80's, but what has transpired since then? Not one other lick of innovation as far as getting people into space. It reminds me of when America was working on a version of the SST (think Concorde here), which was pretty hot, then it fizzled. The Space Shuttle is like the American SST, only it got built and then fizzled. NASA earned its street cred, but I'm thinking they've been sitting on it too long. Too many cute inexpensive robots that make the cover of USA Today, with no thought to real plans for replacing the Shuttle. Hell, they made TANG, can't they think of something new in the 30 years since they designed the Shuttle?
From the "I-should've-thought-of-that-first" department:
Why is this guy's rant considered "news that matters"? If I wanted to be exposed to that much bitching and cursing I'd just ask my wife. Personally I run mplayer on RH 7.2, I compiled it, and have no trouble resizing, moving, or using it. It plays everything. And for DVDs Ogle is hard to beat. Hell, can I write a review and get it posted?
Worst. Review. Ever.
Can someone please explain what "carrier grade" linux is? I work for a company that uses standard RH 6.2 for PBXs that can push 300,000 busy calls an hour, basically a mini ESS. The servers seem to be doing fine without any special modifications. Plus I finally get to spend my day working in a mainly Linux environment ;-)
May be OT:
From the article
Already, people are finding unfamiliar constraints on how they can consume familiar media: listen to music on your PC, but do not try to copy it to your MP3 player; watch a movie in your home as often as you want for 24 hours -- because after that it will evaporate into the ether; marvel at your plasma-screen TV, but be prepared for your picture quality to be diminished if you do not have the latest model with anti-piracy equipment.
With crap like this I am glad GNU/Linux distros are still considered not ready for the desktop. Mr. Valenti might try to upgrade us (or outlaw us)!
I thought Solitaire only duplicated wasted work hours!
Some new sysadmin decided to show how forward thinking (can I say that on /.?) he was and decided to sneak linux in through the back door. Hmmmm, now where could he get a server that doesn't seem to be doing anything?? The server wasn't stolen, it's by his desk running samba!
and VJs flip live video with network visualization software -- animations like in the movie 'Hackers.'
The movie 'Hackers' had nothing to do with computers or reality for that matter. Please don't feed the trolls.
CUPS, as far as I'm concerned is the killer app for printing in the *nix world. And just like another poster mentioned, why on earth would someone not be firewalling their printer? So once again it comes down to the competency of the system administrator. As for the MS trolls out there who will use this as an excuse to pan OSS, I'd like to point out that at least with CUPS and projects like it we won't have to wait for the maintainers to admit there's a problem, and then wait a month or more for a fix. This is news only in that security vulnerabilities need to be dissemenated as widely as possible
Ok, you have my name, social security number, IP address, you want to decide how I use MY computer, you take pictures of me when I go to sporting events, you want to cache my surfing habits, sniff my e-mail, and NOW you want to know what my ass smells like??
Two Letters: FO!
Oh, and by the way, All your funk belong to us!
If Norway is reasonable enough to find a "qualified" judge, why couldn't the same have been done for Microsoft's trial? I guess the bias in my post is obvious. Surely a qualified judge would have actually provided remedies in the MS case. So.. do any judges read /.? That's a qualification ;-)
How freaking sad
The learning curve that must be followed by a first-time Linux user can be very time consuming and frustrating. For many, especially in public education, this difficulty constitutes a roadblock to the deployment of open source solutions in their district.
What I find interesting is that these respondents, who are dismissed as being emotionally motivated, also ranked Linux higher based on TOC. Where is the emotion in that? It seems like a case of seeing what you want to see, not what is really there.
BillG: memo to self, "Linux sux!"
the record companies' utility has expired
Mod her up + Insightful
I almost forgot, for voicemail, Avaya dumped SCO for Linux.
Imagine, your whole network, voice AND data, running Linux... mmmmmmm...
I submitted this as a story when Avaya first cut over to Linux. Currently only their small business server runs W2k. I promise that thing was/is an abortion (pardon my crudeness). As another poster said, Linux is the horse Avaya is betting on, and the new servers supposedly are selling like hotcakes.
:-(
Basically Avaya ported their software to Linux and it just runs as another application. My question though, is how come I can't download the source to the GPL'ed parts of the server (none of Avaya's SW is GPL'ed)?
When I think of those poor lost souls using Cisco's AVVID
Microsoft gives copies of Windows out at colleges. Does that mean you or I can try Windows for free whenever we choose? Now, what was your pithy comment?
Reading over the posts, it seems many are miffed about Xandros not having a downloadable version for people to try. Apparently, the prevailing view is why buy it if you can't try it. Folks, this is so hypocritical. You see, I feel the same way about MacOS X. The only reason I would be interested in it is for the GUI, but if I can't even try that, I'm not shelling out the money so I can lock myself into their hardware. At least with Linux I can configure KDE 3 to approximate the look of OS X, and I've found I like it. But what I like best of all is that my desktop can look like Aqua, but I don't have to pay for the privilege to restrict myself to Aqua.
As for using KDE 2.2, do you think maybe the emphasis is on stability, not having the newest stuff? Doesn't Debian do the same thing too? And if you don't like the version Debian stable uses, you can upgrade. Guess what, you can upgrade Xandros too.
I await -1 troll (called posters hypocrites, mentioned Apple in non reverential tone), but I just can't get over the whining!
I for one am totally psyched about re-writing the console sublayer. It's so aesthetically annoying to be running a multi-headed system, yet be reserved to only one head when on a tty. I think this has a high geek factor
Obviously, you're not a snipe :-)
Snipe: A poor hapless soul locked in the bowels of the ship