Can we have this on the main page? This is just coool!
That said, i'm not sure why apple.slashdot.org exists. Unless bsd.slash, win.slash (ooh, flame target, bad example:-) ), or whatever are in the making, why the apple-centricity?
Hmm - I'd say you were American. Although one's country tends to seem like the world whatever your nationality (the US seems more susceptible to it than most), most countries in the world today seem to be retaining their common sense, or at least no using it. The US is the only country with a DMCA, and even there people are beginning to wake up. Dictatorships still exist, but few are being created (apart from the unfortunate events in Zimbabwe, but even that country was already a dictatorship; Zanu is just bringing it further into the open, which is good as they've presented themselves as targets now). There is no huge change for the worse going on at the moment in most countries outside the US as far as rights go. The action in Afghanistan, whatever you say about it, toppled a nasty regime, and the US (to its credit) seems to be worried about other such regimes, whatever their motives. What was that saying... "Citizens of the United States will cross the world to fight for other people's freedoms, but won't cross the street to vote for theirs in an election"
That's not the question to ask. The question is really: how cheap will they be? 90% of the cool stuff like this never gets to mass-market because he price is prohibitively high. Of course, if they come down, I'm getting one, but that if is a big one.
No, I shouldn't think it is. After all, you can just not compile in the stuff you don't want. By that method I keep my closetful of '486 servers running perfectly happily on recent kernels.
Nope. They used it as a reference, of course, as did everyonce else, but after tracking this down a while, I have come to the conclusion that this is a false rumor.
Well, they certainly use some BSD stuff, as they have the licence-mandated copyright notice in the MS Windows docs.
Mr. Cox, do you adhere to all the rules of the U.S. as a british citizen? I suppose you keep a library of U.S. lawbooks at your house so you won't violate any of our laws while in your home country.
This is most definitely not the point. Alan Cox is making a protest against the DMCA. He's chosen a public forum, but not big enough to actually inconvenience a lot of people too much (witness mirrors).
Dmitri Skylarov was arrested while breaking the DMCA on U.S. soil. Even if AC broke the DMCA in England and then came here, he'd have to break the DMCA here in order to get arrested.
Nope! He did it in Russia, came over to a convention to promote the product, got arrested by Adobe^H^H^H^H^Hthe FBI there.
Every way-kewl-radical Linux user throws up apache to show off to his friends.
Yes, but said lamer is unlikely to put it on a permanent, upstreamable connection - generally by the time you're big enough to reserve an IP, you are a small company, and are therefore less likely to be a lamer putting up Apache to show off.
The Netcraft survey crawls through all those little Melvin machines which each have an httpd running that nobody ever accesses.
Nobody cares about them. They are irrelevant.
Actually, it tends to go the other way - IIS installs as standard on a heck of a lot of WinNT boxen that do no hosting, and as (much as we hate to admit it here) most small businesses (big enough to have an always-on connection but not big enough for their own IT dept) use Windows. Most Apache installs are meant to be there.
The subject line says it all - it *rocks*. There's not a lot more to say...oh yeah, the Personal version's free from borland's website to try before you buy (there's a no-commercial-use clause). It's all written in Java, so lovely and cross-platform, and the interface just blows AnyJ and Forte out of the water.
This leads me to assume that you have never been through the UF archives - there is a definite progression from Illiad's early style to his current one, which IMHO is considerably less "rough" than the older ones. He settled on that for a reason, though - as Scott Adams himself says, simple drawings that just suggest surroundings are best. Anyway, disagree with the jokes if you wish, but I like 'em for a chucke in the morning:-)
I log right on, expecting either praise for the book or some founded criticism based on the genre/execution, but what do I find? About 50% of the posts at the moment are just criticising Illiad's drawing style.
This may seem obvious, but if you don't like it , don't read it.
This is also, come to think of it, very obvious, but a comic strip doe not rely on the quality of the drawing (I like the simplistic style anyway), but the jokes. If you don't like the jokes, you have a valid complaint, go someplace else.. but don't flame about Illiad's drawing.
One big difference - MSN discriminated against valid browsers that were just people trying to view their website. The user agent IDs here (with a coupla exceptions - *cough* wget *cough*) are all things that are only ever used for spam purposes. There is a difference between blocking people because they don't use your software and blocking spam robots.
Well, since you're being pedantic, I will be too:-)
I belive "troll" and "trawl" share a root. "Trolling" is a method of fishing, too. Sprang out of "trolling for newbies" on Usenet. The ogre-like creature is an added benefit:-)
ust look at eastern Germany , they were just as German as the rest of the country yet somehow their "Germanic" status did not protect them from ending up just as bad as the rest of soviet block.
That's just because Lenin/Stalinism is, in practice, very inefficient, and they had humungous labour problems, as anyone who could escaped westward. Once reunited and under a democratic government - guess what? United Germany has bounced back as a cohesiv whole - and the time for them to do that is very short indeed.
This is very dangerous indeed - and it surprises me to think that so few people think about this.
The GPL is only as enforcable as the MS EULA! You don't sign anything, it's not a contract. If the EULA goes, the GPL goes with it. I find that far scarier tha the prospect of an irritating EULA...
But I am sceptical still, the bigger the organization, the less likely they are to adopt an open-standard for their system.
True, but if anyone can pull it off, the Gerans can. I mean, what kind of a country can go from the devastation of WW1 to damn nearly winning WW2, and then from the devastation originating there into its current dominating position in Europe? I think that they would make good trailblazers - they have the best chance of success with this, and then people would start seeing that it is in fact possible...
"Germany is establishing itself as a very technologically-conscious country"
Yeah, since about 1840 or so...
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OK, so that's what I get for not making myself clear. What i meant was computer-type technology. I know they've been doing it for a while, but the gap is really getting startlingly wide by now.
...and it it (predictably) Germany that got there first. German has always been the second language of the Internet as far as I can see (large quantities of KDE are commented in german - took me a lot of time with the dictionary, that did). Germany is establishing itself as a very technologically-conscious country.
Even relative technophobes are less inhibited about using an out-of-the-box Linux installation. Germany is where it's all happening in the computing world...
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It seems, you never looked at the code of virus programs. They are not self-maintaining or seld-tuning. Most of the time, they are even written very badly and tend to crash in unknown environments.
Actually, I have, and I know that many are very amateurish, but you come across the occasional gem - I once found a very cunning polymorphic macro virus lurking round. Funnily enough, those ones are the ones that tend to do the least damage - correlation?
Well, Proxim did a good set of (albeit binary-only) drivers for Linux, which work swell under 2.4 or later - I should know, I'm using one right now:-)
Seriously, I'd expect that Proxim will either release a driver for this soon, or it will be covered under existing ones.
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After all, Nimda follows an autonomic behavior.
There's a lot to that, actually. In all of computing so far, virii are the only programs that effectively self-maintain. This is of course due to their unique environment - not just indifferent but positively hostile humans and sentries to evade and destroy.
People make a lot of fuss about things like this, and doubtless IBM will make real advances here due to just their huge resources, but most of these concepts are not new. Ditto these new automated soldier-things the Army are developing. Yes, doing it in a more complex and mission-critical environment is far more prone to error (whereas when a virus fails to replicate, it's not the end of the world for it - there are another few million still going), but we are not looking at a paradigm shift here.
Virus writer have a lot to teach us about self-maintaining and -tuning programs - while despising the destruction they cause, I can't help but admire their design prowess.
...while cynical, this interpretation indicates that we do have a voice - we were listened to! This is a good thing, as long as we make sure not to let it slip in again via the back door while we're celebrating...
I think that what this really shows is that Linus is a brilliant developer, without desires to be anything more - I envy him! He can just sit back and deliberately ignore the framework, and continue his labour of love ad infinitum. Lucky guy.
Although the initial date is (perhaps unfortunately) April Fool's, the BBC article is genuine. That said, it would have been quite funny if it were an April Fool - quite elaborate, and very convincing. Oh, well - it's real, how boring.
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Can we have this on the main page? This is just coool!
:-) ), or whatever are in the making, why the apple-centricity?
That said, i'm not sure why apple.slashdot.org exists. Unless bsd.slash, win.slash (ooh, flame target, bad example
Hmm - I'd say you were American. Although one's country tends to seem like the world whatever your nationality (the US seems more susceptible to it than most), most countries in the world today seem to be retaining their common sense, or at least no using it. The US is the only country with a DMCA, and even there people are beginning to wake up. Dictatorships still exist, but few are being created (apart from the unfortunate events in Zimbabwe, but even that country was already a dictatorship; Zanu is just bringing it further into the open, which is good as they've presented themselves as targets now). There is no huge change for the worse going on at the moment in most countries outside the US as far as rights go. The action in Afghanistan, whatever you say about it, toppled a nasty regime, and the US (to its credit) seems to be worried about other such regimes, whatever their motives. What was that saying... "Citizens of the United States will cross the world to fight for other people's freedoms, but won't cross the street to vote for theirs in an election"
How small will these be in 5 years?
That's not the question to ask. The question is really: how cheap will they be? 90% of the cool stuff like this never gets to mass-market because he price is prohibitively high. Of course, if they come down, I'm getting one, but that if is a big one.
No, I shouldn't think it is. After all, you can just not compile in the stuff you don't want. By that method I keep my closetful of '486 servers running perfectly happily on recent kernels.
Nope. They used it as a reference, of course, as did everyonce else, but after tracking this down a while, I have come to the conclusion that this is a false rumor.
Well, they certainly use some BSD stuff, as they have the licence-mandated copyright notice in the MS Windows docs.
Mr. Cox, do you adhere to all the rules of the U.S. as a british citizen? I suppose you keep a library of U.S. lawbooks at your house so you won't violate any of our laws while in your home country.
This is most definitely not the point. Alan Cox is making a protest against the DMCA. He's chosen a public forum, but not big enough to actually inconvenience a lot of people too much (witness mirrors).
Dmitri Skylarov was arrested while breaking the DMCA on U.S. soil. Even if AC broke the DMCA in England and then came here, he'd have to break the DMCA here in order to get arrested.
Nope! He did it in Russia, came over to a convention to promote the product, got arrested by Adobe^H^H^H^H^Hthe FBI there.
Every way-kewl-radical Linux user throws up apache to show off to his friends.
Yes, but said lamer is unlikely to put it on a permanent, upstreamable connection - generally by the time you're big enough to reserve an IP, you are a small company, and are therefore less likely to be a lamer putting up Apache to show off.
Nope. It's not.
The Netcraft survey crawls through all those little Melvin machines which each have an httpd running that nobody ever accesses.
Nobody cares about them. They are irrelevant.
Actually, it tends to go the other way - IIS installs as standard on a heck of a lot of WinNT boxen that do no hosting, and as (much as we hate to admit it here) most small businesses (big enough to have an always-on connection but not big enough for their own IT dept) use Windows. Most Apache installs are meant to be there.
The subject line says it all - it *rocks*. There's not a lot more to say...oh yeah, the Personal version's free from borland's website to try before you buy (there's a no-commercial-use clause). It's all written in Java, so lovely and cross-platform, and the interface just blows AnyJ and Forte out of the water.
This leads me to assume that you have never been through the UF archives - there is a definite progression from Illiad's early style to his current one, which IMHO is considerably less "rough" than the older ones. He settled on that for a reason, though - as Scott Adams himself says, simple drawings that just suggest surroundings are best. Anyway, disagree with the jokes if you wish, but I like 'em for a chucke in the morning :-)
One big difference - MSN discriminated against valid browsers that were just people trying to view their website. The user agent IDs here (with a coupla exceptions - *cough* wget *cough*) are all things that are only ever used for spam purposes. There is a difference between blocking people because they don't use your software and blocking spam robots.
Well, since you're being pedantic, I will be too :-)
:-)
I belive "troll" and "trawl" share a root. "Trolling" is a method of fishing, too. Sprang out of "trolling for newbies" on Usenet. The ogre-like creature is an added benefit
ust look at eastern Germany , they were just as German as the rest of the country yet somehow their "Germanic" status did not protect them from ending up just as bad as the rest of soviet block.
That's just because Lenin/Stalinism is, in practice, very inefficient, and they had humungous labour problems, as anyone who could escaped westward. Once reunited and under a democratic government - guess what? United Germany has bounced back as a cohesiv whole - and the time for them to do that is very short indeed.
This is very dangerous indeed - and it surprises me to think that so few people think about this.
The GPL is only as enforcable as the MS EULA! You don't sign anything, it's not a contract. If the EULA goes, the GPL goes with it. I find that far scarier tha the prospect of an irritating EULA...
But I am sceptical still, the bigger the organization, the less likely they are to adopt an open-standard for their system.
True, but if anyone can pull it off, the Gerans can. I mean, what kind of a country can go from the devastation of WW1 to damn nearly winning WW2, and then from the devastation originating there into its current dominating position in Europe? I think that they would make good trailblazers - they have the best chance of success with this, and then people would start seeing that it is in fact possible...
"Germany is establishing itself as a very technologically-conscious country"
Yeah, since about 1840 or so...
sPh
OK, so that's what I get for not making myself clear. What i meant was computer-type technology. I know they've been doing it for a while, but the gap is really getting startlingly wide by now.
...and it it (predictably) Germany that got there first. German has always been the second language of the Internet as far as I can see (large quantities of KDE are commented in german - took me a lot of time with the dictionary, that did). Germany is establishing itself as a very technologically-conscious country.
Even relative technophobes are less inhibited about using an out-of-the-box Linux installation. Germany is where it's all happening in the computing world...
It seems, you never looked at the code of virus programs. They are not self-maintaining or seld-tuning. Most of the time, they are even written very badly and tend to crash in unknown environments.
Actually, I have, and I know that many are very amateurish, but you come across the occasional gem - I once found a very cunning polymorphic macro virus lurking round. Funnily enough, those ones are the ones that tend to do the least damage - correlation?
Dunno about Linux drivers
:-)
Well, Proxim did a good set of (albeit binary-only) drivers for Linux, which work swell under 2.4 or later - I should know, I'm using one right now
Seriously, I'd expect that Proxim will either release a driver for this soon, or it will be covered under existing ones.
After all, Nimda follows an autonomic behavior.
There's a lot to that, actually. In all of computing so far, virii are the only programs that effectively self-maintain. This is of course due to their unique environment - not just indifferent but positively hostile humans and sentries to evade and destroy.
People make a lot of fuss about things like this, and doubtless IBM will make real advances here due to just their huge resources, but most of these concepts are not new. Ditto these new automated soldier-things the Army are developing. Yes, doing it in a more complex and mission-critical environment is far more prone to error (whereas when a virus fails to replicate, it's not the end of the world for it - there are another few million still going), but we are not looking at a paradigm shift here.
Virus writer have a lot to teach us about self-maintaining and -tuning programs - while despising the destruction they cause, I can't help but admire their design prowess.
...while cynical, this interpretation indicates that we do have a voice - we were listened to! This is a good thing, as long as we make sure not to let it slip in again via the back door while we're celebrating...
I think that what this really shows is that Linus is a brilliant developer, without desires to be anything more - I envy him! He can just sit back and deliberately ignore the framework, and continue his labour of love ad infinitum. Lucky guy.
Although the initial date is (perhaps unfortunately) April Fool's, the BBC article is genuine. That said, it would have been quite funny if it were an April Fool - quite elaborate, and very convincing. Oh, well - it's real, how boring.
The initial press release is dated 1st of April, but there is enough else on different days to convince me...