I remember that this individual caught a lot of flack for his OS in the past - he really does have a significant behavioral disorder, so if you provide feedback, do so in the gentlest of terms. He's a good guy with a difficult problem and a fun project.
Thanks for the hard work on the Linux Foundation. This is probably the first time that most of us have even hear of you. I would suggest that your role is probably to take a lot of the flak that people give you and turn it into shinola. A demanding job, I'm sure. With that being said...
In addition, feel free to blame me for high gas prices, most of the pot holes in San Francisco, and for the crappy wifi at every single Linux Conference.
Sarcasm is almost never a productive or endearing characteristic of a leader. An unflappable upbeat attitude, however... One of my favorite people in this regard has been Tom Higgins, now at Unity 3D. He was booted off of the Macromedia Director team as the product advocate and he never once made an unfavorable remark about it, to anyone, even though he knew that he was going to have to start all over and that Director development was being shipped off to India (and the original development team was simply wiped off of the map) where it has since met its demise, for all intents and purposes. Higgins remained upbeat throughout, and remains a heck of a nice guy, and a heck of an advocate: http://unity3d.com/blogs/tom/
Just my two cents, and remember that most of us Linux users are pretty nice people who enjoy the Linux community and what it stands for. Thanks for being our representative!
And that's the reason the Republican Media Machine put him as the frontrunner. After 8 years of hell, a Republican president still seems like a viable option.
Don't do the new Daylight Savings Time. It will cost more to implement than the "energy" it is supposed to save. It will probably cripple parts of our infrastructure when it is implemented.
I'm lucky enough to get inside information about how Gates runs his meetings to think that Gates is probably certifiable. Apparently, the guy gets in front of the room and bounces up and down on one of those mini-trampolines while everyone sits and talks at him. He says, "Yes," or "No," etc., all the while, bouncing, bouncing, bouncing. From a pretty good source, too.
From Webster.com: obviated: "Etymology: Late Latin obviatus, past participle of obviare to meet, withstand, from Latin obviam
: to anticipate and prevent (as a situation) or make unnecessary (as an action)"
Key: "...OIN has [made unnecessary] the need for offers of protection from others."
Last year Windows 2003 outpaced new sales of unix for the first time ever, while new linux market share was single digits. Windows 2003 is on pace to do it again this year too.
This is misleading because you are talking about the sales of Unix versus Windows. Proprietary Unix is dead, and it has been replaced by free (as in beer, and as in freedom) Linux and Unix (esp. FreeBSD) systems. Are sales comparisons going to truly reflect the number of Unix and Linux server installations?
This move by Microsoft was largely in response to Oracle's alignment with Red Hat. If Microsoft asserts its patents against OSF, Oracle, IBM, others, are very likely to pound the beejezus out of Microsoft for infringing on their own patents. It's very much like a nuclear deterrent: it's one that you don't want to ever have to use, because it means the demise of everyone. This article is just hyped banal trash.
Researchers at a publicly funded institution are using their research results for personal (financial gain). Pennsylvania's tax dollars at work? How is this legal?
The lack of content regulation in Internet media is Not Good (TM). Anyone can post disturbing images (animal mutilation, sick sex, you name it) for children to see... It just doesn't make any sense. There really should be common rules guiding content providers. There's a lot of psychopaths out there who need a leash. Some sort of oversight board is not necessarily a bad thing. At the very least, route everything through a content rating board (NR, PG, R, X, etc.). Then have the browsers filter set based on the content rating. Heck, we moderate comments here at Slashdot and apply filters in the same way, and I don't think anyone has died from it yet.
Nice how this follows on the heels of the previous story appropriately titled, "Any Prospect of Serenity Sequel Quashed." I'm _finally_ happy with the stability of Windows XP, and they want to go start the whole patch circus over again. I'm holding onto my copy of Windows XP until they pry it from my computer with a screwdriver.
Normally, I'd agree that we shouldn't panic, as it tends to create more of a mess of things... But the current US Administration has really dropped the ball here:
The U.S. finds itself at the very end of the world's order line for Tamiflu (Canada, France, Britain and Japan all laid in ample stocks well in advance). What an egregious act of negligence by a government so obsessed with the threat of terrorism and conquering Iraq that it averts its eyes from an oncoming disease tsunami.
Windows XP home edition, 40MB. I say not bad. Didn't mean to be rude in previous post, also. But I think that there is something else going on with your memory issues.
I'm using Debian Sarge, and I get 29MB on startup. The big numbers you're reporting are the same with any browser, and it has to do with memory leaks in javascript, from what I've heard. Now, 29MB is nothing to scoff at, but your systems sound FUBARed.
Reject any submission that ends with '?'. Makes the submission sound like a tabloid. Imagine an article in the NYT ending with a question mark. Doesn't make sense.
Amateur hour or not, the following should pique your interest:
In Figure 5, one can see that the Chairman of the Senator Judiciary Committee received funds for re-election from Microsoft. This is the same Microsoft that the same the committee questioned with regard to the last Federal anti-trust settlement.
And with regards to the paper, rather than digital, trail of campaign contributions:
One might consider this an ideal scenario for a monopolist whose compliance audits related to its settlement with the Department of Justice exist in secrecy.
With regards to the settlement, Ralph Nader had this to say:
It is astonishing that the agreement fails to provide any penalty for Microsoft's past misdeeds, creating both the sense that Microsoft is escaping punishment because of its extraordinary political and economic power, and undermining the value of antitrust penalties as a deterrent. Second, the agreement does not adequately address the concerns about Microsoft's failure to abide by the spirit or the letter of previous agreements, offering a weak oversight regime that suffers in several specific areas. Indeed, the proposed alternative dispute resolution for compliance with the agreement embraces many of the worst features of such systems, operating in secrecy, lacking independence, and open to undue influence from Microsoft.
Have a look at the people involved in the antitrust case against MS:
Phil Bond: Undersecretary of Commerce for Technology. Bond is the highest-ranking appointed official who deals with technology. He is the former top aide to U.S. Rep. Jennifer Dunn (R-Wash.), whose district includes Microsoft's hometown of Redmond. Bond's top policy aide at Commerce was Connie Correll Partoyan, the former executive vice president of TechNet (a Microsoft-funded trade association), who recently took a lobbying job for the law firm Preston, Gates, Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds.
William Kolasky: Appointed deputy assistant attorney general for international enforcement for the Justice Department's antitrust division in October 2001. Kolasky was a lawyer for the Association for Competitive Technology, a group whose largest contributor is Microsoft, and wrote a friend of the court brief supporting Microsoft in its antitrust lawsuit.
Ed Gillespie: Until recently, he headed the Republican National Committee. Gillespie helped build the Republican party and identified candidates for state and federal elections. He has returned to Quinn Gillespie & Associates. Prior to becoming the head of the RNC he was a Microsoft lobbyist. Microsoft paid his lobbying firm, Quinn Gillespie & Associates, $1.2 million between 2001 and 2003, according to the Center for Public Integrity.
Richard Wallis: Microsoft's associate general counsel chairs the American Bar Association's antitrust section. This group influences how much oversight federal judges have over antitrust settlements. In late June, a U.S. appeals court rejected claims that Microsoft's 2001 deal with the government was too lenient.
The first thing that I did was to look up my boyhood home in Louisiana. I haven't seen it in twenty years. Tears came from my eyes as I looked down on the lake where my friends and I used to swim and fish, and I fell in the love for the first time.
One of the major problematic features of Windows is it's inherent, integrated, pervasive notion of one's personal possessions, to the point of paranoid stinginess, which I think reflects directly at the heart of Redmond. It's not just "My Documents," as any new install of Windows XP will reveal. Because underneath the "My Documents" folder are the "My Pictures," "My Music," etc. folders. WTF? Of course their mine, they're in the "My" Documents folder. Long ago I deleted the "My Documents" folder and replaced with a much more friendly place for my personal files, namely "Home." Thanks, Linux.
Word has problems with Word documents, not OO with Word docs. I was in graduate school, trying to write my dissertation with Word 97. Graphics were needed (data analysis, charts, etc.), and I was on my knees as Word couldn't place the graphics correctly with text on the same page. Enter OO. Problem solved, and it has only gotten better since then (2000-1 era).
That being said, you might run into difficulties if you're using macros, especially with Excel. Another problem with OO is the lack of templates for some types of documents, but you can search for those at openoffice.org.
Satellite imagery is becoming ubiquitous. Forget Google and MSN, use a free solution: http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
I wonder if NASA's budget woes weren't imposed by our legislature because they give away their goodies for free, instead of trying to generate revenue with their technologies like good little capitalists. Ugh, what a thought for 8am...
Recompile your kernel with hyper-threading disabled. Simple question: Why do I have to wait until this guy does his conference presentation to find out what the exploit is, how it is implemented? I have to admit that this is one time when RTFA didn't work. Anyone have any more information?
The Sarge installer, and Debian installations in general, have gotten light years easier than Woody installations. For example, you can now set up RAID and LVM without even having to go to the command line; it's really quite a thing of beauty.
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I remember that this individual caught a lot of flack for his OS in the past - he really does have a significant behavioral disorder, so if you provide feedback, do so in the gentlest of terms. He's a good guy with a difficult problem and a fun project.
Fair enough, but wxWidgets will get the job done.
Jim,
Thanks for the hard work on the Linux Foundation. This is probably the first time that most of us have even hear of you. I would suggest that your role is probably to take a lot of the flak that people give you and turn it into shinola. A demanding job, I'm sure. With that being said...
In addition, feel free to blame me for high gas prices, most of the pot holes in San Francisco, and for the crappy wifi at every single Linux Conference.
Sarcasm is almost never a productive or endearing characteristic of a leader. An unflappable upbeat attitude, however... One of my favorite people in this regard has been Tom Higgins, now at Unity 3D. He was booted off of the Macromedia Director team as the product advocate and he never once made an unfavorable remark about it, to anyone, even though he knew that he was going to have to start all over and that Director development was being shipped off to India (and the original development team was simply wiped off of the map) where it has since met its demise, for all intents and purposes. Higgins remained upbeat throughout, and remains a heck of a nice guy, and a heck of an advocate:
http://unity3d.com/blogs/tom/
Just my two cents, and remember that most of us Linux users are pretty nice people who enjoy the Linux community and what it stands for. Thanks for being our representative!
And that's the reason the Republican Media Machine put him as the frontrunner. After 8 years of hell, a Republican president still seems like a viable option.
Don't do the new Daylight Savings Time. It will cost more to implement than the "energy" it is supposed to save. It will probably cripple parts of our infrastructure when it is implemented.
I'm lucky enough to get inside information about how Gates runs his meetings to think that Gates is probably certifiable. Apparently, the guy gets in front of the room and bounces up and down on one of those mini-trampolines while everyone sits and talks at him. He says, "Yes," or "No," etc., all the while, bouncing, bouncing, bouncing. From a pretty good source, too.
"...a request to cease and desist from all past, present and future development of the Gaia project."
I think they'll have trouble if they cease an desist from past development. It has my head spinning just thinking about it.
From Webster.com: obviated: "Etymology: Late Latin obviatus, past participle of obviare to meet, withstand, from Latin obviam : to anticipate and prevent (as a situation) or make unnecessary (as an action)"
Key: "...OIN has [made unnecessary] the need for offers of protection from others."
Last year Windows 2003 outpaced new sales of unix for the first time ever, while new linux market share was single digits. Windows 2003 is on pace to do it again this year too.
This is misleading because you are talking about the sales of Unix versus Windows. Proprietary Unix is dead, and it has been replaced by free (as in beer, and as in freedom) Linux and Unix (esp. FreeBSD) systems. Are sales comparisons going to truly reflect the number of Unix and Linux server installations?
Good
This move by Microsoft was largely in response to Oracle's alignment with Red Hat. If Microsoft asserts its patents against OSF, Oracle, IBM, others, are very likely to pound the beejezus out of Microsoft for infringing on their own patents. It's very much like a nuclear deterrent: it's one that you don't want to ever have to use, because it means the demise of everyone. This article is just hyped banal trash.
Researchers at a publicly funded institution are using their research results for personal (financial gain). Pennsylvania's tax dollars at work? How is this legal?
The lack of content regulation in Internet media is Not Good (TM). Anyone can post disturbing images (animal mutilation, sick sex, you name it) for children to see... It just doesn't make any sense. There really should be common rules guiding content providers. There's a lot of psychopaths out there who need a leash. Some sort of oversight board is not necessarily a bad thing. At the very least, route everything through a content rating board (NR, PG, R, X, etc.). Then have the browsers filter set based on the content rating. Heck, we moderate comments here at Slashdot and apply filters in the same way, and I don't think anyone has died from it yet.
Nice how this follows on the heels of the previous story appropriately titled, "Any Prospect of Serenity Sequel Quashed." I'm _finally_ happy with the stability of Windows XP, and they want to go start the whole patch circus over again. I'm holding onto my copy of Windows XP until they pry it from my computer with a screwdriver.
Windows XP home edition, 40MB. I say not bad. Didn't mean to be rude in previous post, also. But I think that there is something else going on with your memory issues.
I'm using Debian Sarge, and I get 29MB on startup. The big numbers you're reporting are the same with any browser, and it has to do with memory leaks in javascript, from what I've heard. Now, 29MB is nothing to scoff at, but your systems sound FUBARed.
Reject any submission that ends with '?'. Makes the submission sound like a tabloid. Imagine an article in the NYT ending with a question mark. Doesn't make sense.
The first thing that I did was to look up my boyhood home in Louisiana. I haven't seen it in twenty years. Tears came from my eyes as I looked down on the lake where my friends and I used to swim and fish, and I fell in the love for the first time.
One of the major problematic features of Windows is it's inherent, integrated, pervasive notion of one's personal possessions, to the point of paranoid stinginess, which I think reflects directly at the heart of Redmond. It's not just "My Documents," as any new install of Windows XP will reveal. Because underneath the "My Documents" folder are the "My Pictures," "My Music," etc. folders. WTF? Of course their mine, they're in the "My" Documents folder. Long ago I deleted the "My Documents" folder and replaced with a much more friendly place for my personal files, namely "Home." Thanks, Linux.
Word has problems with Word documents, not OO with Word docs. I was in graduate school, trying to write my dissertation with Word 97. Graphics were needed (data analysis, charts, etc.), and I was on my knees as Word couldn't place the graphics correctly with text on the same page. Enter OO. Problem solved, and it has only gotten better since then (2000-1 era).
That being said, you might run into difficulties if you're using macros, especially with Excel. Another problem with OO is the lack of templates for some types of documents, but you can search for those at openoffice.org.
Satellite imagery is becoming ubiquitous. Forget Google and MSN, use a free solution:
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
I wonder if NASA's budget woes weren't imposed by our legislature because they give away their goodies for free, instead of trying to generate revenue with their technologies like good little capitalists. Ugh, what a thought for 8am...
Recompile your kernel with hyper-threading disabled. Simple question: Why do I have to wait until this guy does his conference presentation to find out what the exploit is, how it is implemented? I have to admit that this is one time when RTFA didn't work. Anyone have any more information?
The Sarge installer, and Debian installations in general, have gotten light years easier than Woody installations. For example, you can now set up RAID and LVM without even having to go to the command line; it's really quite a thing of beauty.
:)
This freeze is GREAT news