This article is incorrect. That bug is an XFRee bug and not a Mozilla bug. It's not fixed, although it's possible that it's been worked around in Mozilla. Read the text itself, I think it says:
X-windows, with or without the font server (XFS) running can be crashed remotely via Mozilla when fonts are set to an unnaturally large size with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), Tom Vogt of Lemuira.org has reported.
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X bug allows all available memory to be consumed, which causes the system to freeze. The behavior can be duplicated with applications like the Gimp, we're told, but these aren't remotely exploitable. But with Mozilla, a pest can easily set up a malicious Web site which will crash unsuspecting Tuxers' boxen and cause any unsaved data in open apps to go away.
Judging from the screenshots, the engine is very capable, as it can even render Quake3 maps rather well. The problem is, does the open-source community have the artists needed to take this and make it into a playable and interesting game ?
My problem with Moz. is the way they handle bugs.
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One of the problems that *I* have with Mozilla is the way they handle bugs. I used to submit a lot of bugs to BugZilla, participate in testing, etc. I can no longer be arsed to. I know it's "their program to develop", but it's very depressing when you find a bug that you find serious and notice it getting pushed from M18 to 0.9.1 to 0.9.5 to 1.0 to post 1.1...
After similar things happened to about 20 of my bugs reports I just thought I had enough of it. I still submit bugs from time to time, but I am not that interested anymore. I would rather spend my time developing and testing ebuilds for the Gentoo Linux portage system.
There are just 3 factors that will decide whether the XBOX Live Network will fail or not:
1) The amount of playable games. 2) The quality of the service (reliability, speed, etc). 3) The price.
XBOX does indeed have a very good amount of games coming, theres no denial for that. Unreal Championship is one, MechWarrior is another and more and more are being announced. However, the 2nd factor is what I think will decide the fate of this Network. If it's avaible to a lot of people, is relatively fast and is reliable, then you can count on a lot of people shelling out quite a lot for it.
Yet somehow, I wouldn't count on the service actually being as reliable as they claim it to be.
Don't hurry to modify me as a troll, but listen up. The whole point of this law is to cause software developers to pay more attention to the software they develop their software and especially QA it. If there is a Hospital or a goverment database running on software that fails, the developers SHOULD be prosecuted by LAW for this.
The only little detail the law is missing is that people should be expecting what they pay for. If you pay hundreds of thouthands of dollars for lots of software licenses that is ment to be run doing mission-critical operations, the developer should be held liable for his work, because he's getting quite a sum of money. This shall not applicate to Free Software, since it's duh, FREE. You don't go around asking for support for a 10-year old TV set you got for free from a friend.
Does anyone even know for sure what exactly does this law look like ? How many revisions is it supposed to go through ?
I bet you REALLY don't want this to happen to you when you're expecting the arrival of THIS lady in it's full configuration. Hint, the full configuration will cost you $3,235,430.00, but damn it, this Sun Fire 15000 Server is a beauty.
"This all came from the Codeweavers-dominated recent licence change (to the LGPL) which was done in an attempt to steal TransGaming's Direct3D code and force them to open up all their work (thus have no means to make money)."
Wait a second...so if you open up your entire source, you can no longer make money ?
I can't really figure out how they can make 2 more movies. In the end of the first one, we learned that Neo is practially a GOD. He can stop bullets, he can fly, he can do anything he wants to The Matrix. Obviously, nothing can stop him now. So what's the whole deal with 2 more movies ? I can't seem to find any info on this. Is there something that will take Neo's powers away ? I guess we'll see, oh well.
Evolution is one of those pieces of OSS, that you can point at and say: "OSS can deliver, there, eat this". It belongs to the group of amazing projects like Apache, Samba and Mozilla if you ask me. Now if we had some great multimedia programs (MPlayer is getting close though).
Evolution is coming along very well. It has some small annoying bugs (at least when running under FreeBSD), but all in all, I find it to be a better solution then Outlook and Co. It'f faster and sure as hell looks much better too.
From what I understand, according to this bill/law/whatever, you're supposed to pay a fee o RIAA for the songs you're playing PER listener. Which makes up for a killer amount of money if you look at stations like DIGITALLY IMPORTED. What I don't understand is, are you supposed to pay a fee to RIAA, even though you're playing music from INDEPENDENT LABELS ONLY ?
I'm asking this because I've been vising the homepages of some internet radio stations that do not depend on RIAA as the "content provider" of their music, but rather play music created by indepandant artists. Yet, all of them seem to be worried about this law. Anyone cares to elaborate ?
Nope. Because if they let people look at the code, that will surely act as a "Gogogo!" sign for hackers to break in, steal your ID and end the world as we know it.
The only problem is that the vast majority of these 41 million users won't know/care that they're now using a different browser. Although it is indeed a very good thing that more and more people are switching. The internet has been made into a pop-up land of security issues for IE users. Other browsers need wider adoption.
I am suing Windows, there's no reason for me to use that weird browser that doesn't support tabs, themes/skins, is so non-complient with most trivial standarts and is wide-open with it's security holes. Yes, I am talking about MSIE.
When I use Windows, it's either Mozilla or Opera. Thank you.
Do you REALLY think this is the engine source ? HELLO ?! This is source for the "game" code, that enables mod makers to create the all-popular MODs for the game, like Team Fortress and Capture the Flag for the original Quake. ID Software's policy has always been to: "Make game1. Make game2. Start making game3 and release the source for game1. Finnish game 3. Start working on game4 and release source for game2".
That way the engine licensees can take their time to release their ID Software engine-based games without losing any profit due to all these custom engine modifications people do in their spare time with games like Doom, Quake and Quake2. You can expect Quake3 Arena (and NOT RtCW) engine source some time after ID starts working on a game AFTER Doom3 (their current project) is released.
What bothers me more, is the way the article is writted. OF COURSE Windows server software sales are higher then those of Linux server software. It's because 90% of Linux servers are being installed from CD's burnt by system administrators themselves, seeing as Linux is free, DUH! It's a waste of time to say that 41% of all server software sold in 2000 was done by MS, while only 27% is Linux. The "sold" part is indeed true, but if you look at this from the "amount of new servers installed" point of view, the whole thing turns upside down.
The article implies that RedHat tries to make money by selling RedHat software to large corporations. That's not entirely true, selling software has ALWAYS been only a fraction of things providing RedHat income. "Services" is mostly support. Corporations want support, support sells, thus, services makes money. Simple.
The only problem with selling support that I can see is the "ethical" side. GNU/Philosophy tells us we should be selling services and software support to people who use our software. The side issue is, if you really DO make great software, why would anyone buy your support ? Do you have to specifically make you software buggy so people can ask you for support and pay ?
I wouldn't count on that seeing as just a few days ago IBM reported that it isn't doing as good as they hoped it was. Their income came out much lower then expected.
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Err...no ? Trolltech has been dual-licensing QT since forever.
Judging from the screenshots, the engine is very capable, as it can even render Quake3 maps rather well. The problem is, does the open-source community have the artists needed to take this and make it into a playable and interesting game ?
One of the problems that *I* have with Mozilla is the way they handle bugs. I used to submit a lot of bugs to BugZilla, participate in testing, etc. I can no longer be arsed to. I know it's "their program to develop", but it's very depressing when you find a bug that you find serious and notice it getting pushed from M18 to 0.9.1 to 0.9.5 to 1.0 to post 1.1...
After similar things happened to about 20 of my bugs reports I just thought I had enough of it. I still submit bugs from time to time, but I am not that interested anymore. I would rather spend my time developing and testing ebuilds for the Gentoo Linux portage system.
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There are just 3 factors that will decide whether the XBOX Live Network will fail or not:
1) The amount of playable games.
2) The quality of the service (reliability, speed, etc).
3) The price.
XBOX does indeed have a very good amount of games coming, theres no denial for that. Unreal Championship is one, MechWarrior is another and more and more are being announced. However, the 2nd factor is what I think will decide the fate of this Network. If it's avaible to a lot of people, is relatively fast and is reliable, then you can count on a lot of people shelling out quite a lot for it.
Yet somehow, I wouldn't count on the service actually being as reliable as they claim it to be.
Sounds interesting...
I'm sorry, but I will only use the XBOX when it runs the Hurd.
Don't hurry to modify me as a troll, but listen up. The whole point of this law is to cause software developers to pay more attention to the software they develop their software and especially QA it. If there is a Hospital or a goverment database running on software that fails, the developers SHOULD be prosecuted by LAW for this.
The only little detail the law is missing is that people should be expecting what they pay for. If you pay hundreds of thouthands of dollars for lots of software licenses that is ment to be run doing mission-critical operations, the developer should be held liable for his work, because he's getting quite a sum of money. This shall not applicate to Free Software, since it's duh, FREE. You don't go around asking for support for a 10-year old TV set you got for free from a friend.
Does anyone even know for sure what exactly does this law look like ? How many revisions is it supposed to go through ?
I bet you REALLY don't want this to happen to you when you're expecting the arrival of THIS lady in it's full configuration. Hint, the full configuration will cost you $3,235,430.00, but damn it, this Sun Fire 15000 Server is a beauty.
"This all came from the Codeweavers-dominated recent licence change (to the LGPL) which was done in an attempt to steal TransGaming's Direct3D code and force them to open up all their work (thus have no means to make money)."
Wait a second...so if you open up your entire source, you can no longer make money ?
I can't really figure out how they can make 2 more movies. In the end of the first one, we learned that Neo is practially a GOD. He can stop bullets, he can fly, he can do anything he wants to The Matrix. Obviously, nothing can stop him now. So what's the whole deal with 2 more movies ? I can't seem to find any info on this. Is there something that will take Neo's powers away ? I guess we'll see, oh well.
Jammer ? Are you nuts ?
Evolution is one of those pieces of OSS, that you can point at and say: "OSS can deliver, there, eat this". It belongs to the group of amazing projects like Apache, Samba and Mozilla if you ask me. Now if we had some great multimedia programs (MPlayer is getting close though).
Evolution is coming along very well. It has some small annoying bugs (at least when running under FreeBSD), but all in all, I find it to be a better solution then Outlook and Co. It'f faster and sure as hell looks much better too.
From what I understand, according to this bill/law/whatever, you're supposed to pay a fee o RIAA for the songs you're playing PER listener. Which makes up for a killer amount of money if you look at stations like DIGITALLY IMPORTED. What I don't understand is, are you supposed to pay a fee to RIAA, even though you're playing music from INDEPENDENT LABELS ONLY ?
I'm asking this because I've been vising the homepages of some internet radio stations that do not depend on RIAA as the "content provider" of their music, but rather play music created by indepandant artists. Yet, all of them seem to be worried about this law. Anyone cares to elaborate ?
I'm saving this on my harddrive. RIGHT NOW.
Nope. Because if they let people look at the code, that will surely act as a "Gogogo!" sign for hackers to break in, steal your ID and end the world as we know it.
Yes, I am kidding. No, it still won't happen.
The only problem is that the vast majority of these 41 million users won't know/care that they're now using a different browser. Although it is indeed a very good thing that more and more people are switching. The internet has been made into a pop-up land of security issues for IE users. Other browsers need wider adoption.
I am suing Windows, there's no reason for me to use that weird browser that doesn't support tabs, themes/skins, is so non-complient with most trivial standarts and is wide-open with it's security holes. Yes, I am talking about MSIE.
When I use Windows, it's either Mozilla or Opera. Thank you.
Do you REALLY think this is the engine source ? HELLO ?! This is source for the "game" code, that enables mod makers to create the all-popular MODs for the game, like Team Fortress and Capture the Flag for the original Quake. ID Software's policy has always been to: "Make game1. Make game2. Start making game3 and release the source for game1. Finnish game 3. Start working on game4 and release source for game2".
That way the engine licensees can take their time to release their ID Software engine-based games without losing any profit due to all these custom engine modifications people do in their spare time with games like Doom, Quake and Quake2. You can expect Quake3 Arena (and NOT RtCW) engine source some time after ID starts working on a game AFTER Doom3 (their current project) is released.
You're talking about Java APPLETS. No matter how much you tinker with your browser, you're not going to stop the webserver from using SERVLETS.
What bothers me more, is the way the article is writted. OF COURSE Windows server software sales are higher then those of Linux server software. It's because 90% of Linux servers are being installed from CD's burnt by system administrators themselves, seeing as Linux is free, DUH! It's a waste of time to say that 41% of all server software sold in 2000 was done by MS, while only 27% is Linux. The "sold" part is indeed true, but if you look at this from the "amount of new servers installed" point of view, the whole thing turns upside down.
The article implies that RedHat tries to make money by selling RedHat software to large corporations. That's not entirely true, selling software has ALWAYS been only a fraction of things providing RedHat income. "Services" is mostly support. Corporations want support, support sells, thus, services makes money. Simple.
The only problem with selling support that I can see is the "ethical" side. GNU/Philosophy tells us we should be selling services and software support to people who use our software. The side issue is, if you really DO make great software, why would anyone buy your support ? Do you have to specifically make you software buggy so people can ask you for support and pay ?
I wouldn't count on that seeing as just a few days ago IBM reported that it isn't doing as good as they hoped it was. Their income came out much lower then expected.
CmdrTaco gets a sense of humor. No, this time it's for real !