Yes, 9/11 was horrific. But the only reason that it is special to the US is because it was on home soil and that just brings home the point that -anyone- is susceptible to terrorist attacks if their foreign or internal policies make them targets.
Look to the future, get your warmongering President out of office or it will happen again, be sure of it. Consider the stupid Irish/UK policies and how much grief they have brought.
Making Gnome and KDE/initially/ look the same is a GOOD THING out of the box. Users who care will just fire up the configurator and set their WM up how they want it and new users won't be confused by two completely different window managers.
Others have commented on your misinterpretation of the LSB, I won't repeat it.
Open Source does not have to accept community patches. Many open source projects have a set of developers and never see any code from anywhere else. But think: Redhat is a Distribution not a Development company primarily. They distribute others' code. So they accept everyone's patches when they chose what projects to include in their distribution.
Use Mozilla with its popup disabling preference. Apart from tabbed browsing, standards compliance, yadda yadda yadda, this is a huge huge benefit that IE doesn't have.
From the SAP db install documentation on the website:
Both the DBM server and the Replication Manager server must run as user root. The files instdbmsrv and instlserver set the appropriate permissions every time these programs are built.
Seems like as good a reason as any not to use it. What daemons run as root any more? Especially ones that move large amounts of data around like RDBMS's.
And why couldn't they do a wireless network? It didn't seem like the houses were too far apart that they couldn't have a directional antenna to beam from one place to the next. Sounds a lot cheaper than the trouble they had to go through.
Not that anyone will read this, but yes I use XML and SGML every day. How else do you think I could bring this up at all?
HTML is an application of SGML and hence is a subset of SGML, following all of its rules. XML is derived from SGML, and is a subset thereof in most respects apart from namespaces. There are 10 main differences, which I won't repeat, but all are restrictions on the more flexible SGML spec. Namespaces are the one difference that break the SGML spec. XML namespaces are an example of the 'Not Created Here' syndrome that destroys standards in all walks of IT life.
> It almost sounds like, "I would like to have the > advantadges of a centralized database while > keeping it distributed across random machines"
This is what Z39.50 is good for (or for more politically correct buzzword compliance, web services). Send a query to your main server and have it fan out the query to all of the distributed points and then collect the data back in and present to the user.
We do this with archival finding aids -- http://www.o-r-g.org/~cheshire/DistAH/ is the test site -- in what will be a UK wide distributed collection.
XML namespaces are touted as a wonderful new invention. Unfortunately they're just a non backwards compatible copy of what SGML could already do with the CONCUR declaration.
SGML already had: <(p.anthology)page> long before XML was even dreamed of.
Who gets to develop which parts of real estate on the moon? Considering its hostile environment, it may end up like Antarctica with arbritrary slices given to different nations.
There's an awful lot of people in China to benefit from this however, so 'benefit of mankind' isn't such a bad summary. Also as others have said, if the other super powers of the world take back up the space race, it will certainly be a benefit to the world.
To take an example (and yes I know that the MPL is not the GPL) but if Mozilla had taken GPL software and extended it and not yet released their source code because they're not yet to version 1.0, then obviously the FSF would have already jumped up and down on AOL/TW/Netscape/Nullsoft/etc.
Lindows could define all of their releases as beta, whatever that means in practice, and then would never have to comply with the GPL. The FSF know what they're doing here folks.
Is that 'developers fixed' or 'developers fixed or reviewers retargeted'?
For example the IPC bug (68702), which has had a patch ready and submitted is continually getting shuffled further and further back. The patch and bug were submitted more than a year ago now (2001-02-13 11:34).
On line voting in UK... 2007
Internet achieves 75% penetration in UK... 2015
This makes no sense. If Online voting is introduced 8 years before 75%, let alone 100%, of the UK's population is online, How are the other 25+% going to vote?
Scary that this is done by BT, the telco that effectively controls who gets internet access at what price. We see that it's not a priority to them.
Err, What's a Nanotech plant? Obviously not a factory, so one assumes a very very small technological green thing that lives?
And how do you play with Nanotech toys? Forget vacuuming up the legos! "Have you tidied up your nanotoys yet Johnny?" "One second Mom, I'm still looking for the microscope to find them!"
There are three reasons we use Solaris on our E450:
SUNWSPCi support -- this is a card that behaves like a 64 meg Ix86 machine in a window under X. Like VMware, but has its own hardware.
Adept Editor -- an expensive but good SGML/XML editor suite.
SunRay support -- Sunrays are thin clients that net boot off of the E450.
If Sun worked with the Linux people to get full hardware support for things like the Sunrays and the SPCi card, and for (cough) Solaris/Linux binary compatability (Heh, the WINE folk have done a harder ask...) this would make a lot of smaller servers switch to Linux, which is more suited to the hardware.
Equally, get IBM/RHAT/other sponsor to donate a whole load of different hardware. Write a autobuilding process that runs lots of little tests -- puts up ethernet connections, pings the framebuffer, etcetc. If the machine is down, then the most recent patches broke it.
Mozilla development does this, but is obviously easier as it's not the Operating System they're testing, just a single application.
How do you intend to decide which new patches should be added to 2.4, the stable tree, and which are not to be included as being more appropriate to just 2.5, the unstable development tree?
For example, do new or updated device drivers rank more highly than VM updates?
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Tell me again why we're worried about Palladium and DRM 'secure' code from Microsoft? ;)
--Azaroth
Yes, 9/11 was horrific. But the only reason that it is special to the US is because it was on home soil and that just brings home the point that -anyone- is susceptible to terrorist attacks if their foreign or internal policies make them targets.
Look to the future, get your warmongering President out of office or it will happen again, be sure of it. Consider the stupid Irish/UK policies and how much grief they have brought.
Goodbye Karma!
-- Azaroth
Could be that it was patent pending since before Nov 7th, 1995 though?
--Azaroth
Making Gnome and KDE
Others have commented on your misinterpretation of the LSB, I won't repeat it.
Open Source does not have to accept community patches. Many open source projects have a set of developers and never see any code from anywhere else. But think: Redhat is a Distribution not a Development company primarily. They distribute others' code. So they accept everyone's patches when they chose what projects to include in their distribution.
-- Azaroth
Use Mozilla with its popup disabling preference. Apart from tabbed browsing, standards compliance, yadda yadda yadda, this is a huge huge benefit that IE doesn't have.
-- Azaroth
Both the DBM server and the Replication Manager server must run as user root. The files instdbmsrv and instlserver set the appropriate permissions every time these programs are built.
Seems like as good a reason as any not to use it. What daemons run as root any more? Especially ones that move large amounts of data around like RDBMS's.
We use Postgres or BerkeleyDB.
-- Azaroth
I faxed my MP (Wirral West) and got a response by mail this morning in writing.
Writing to your MP does work. Or at least enough to make it worth the 5 minutes of your time to write a polite message to them.
--Azaroth
--Azaroth
Not that anyone will read this, but yes I use XML and SGML every day. How else do you think I could bring this up at all?
HTML is an application of SGML and hence is a subset of SGML, following all of its rules. XML is derived from SGML, and is a subset thereof in most respects apart from namespaces. There are 10 main differences, which I won't repeat, but all are restrictions on the more flexible SGML spec. Namespaces are the one difference that break the SGML spec. XML namespaces are an example of the 'Not Created Here' syndrome that destroys standards in all walks of IT life.
Do your homework.
-- Azaroth
Oh, it's a thread about PDAs. Heh.
-- Azaroth
Day 29, Still Not King.
> advantadges of a centralized database while
> keeping it distributed across random machines"
This is what Z39.50 is good for (or for more politically correct buzzword compliance, web services). Send a query to your main server and have it fan out the query to all of the distributed points and then collect the data back in and present to the user.
We do this with archival finding aids -- http://www.o-r-g.org/~cheshire/DistAH/ is the test site -- in what will be a UK wide distributed collection.
Mail if interested.
-- Azaroth
XML namespaces are touted as a wonderful new invention. Unfortunately they're just a non backwards compatible copy of what SGML could already do with the CONCUR declaration.
SGML already had: <(p.anthology)page> long before XML was even dreamed of.
*yawn*
--Azaroth
There's an awful lot of people in China to benefit from this however, so 'benefit of mankind' isn't such a bad summary. Also as others have said, if the other super powers of the world take back up the space race, it will certainly be a benefit to the world.
-- Azaroth
To take an example (and yes I know that the MPL is not the GPL) but if Mozilla had taken GPL software and extended it and not yet released their source code because they're not yet to version 1.0, then obviously the FSF would have already jumped up and down on AOL/TW/Netscape/Nullsoft/etc.
Lindows could define all of their releases as beta, whatever that means in practice, and then would never have to comply with the GPL. The FSF know what they're doing here folks.
-- Azaroth
http://gondolin.hist.liv.ac.uk/~cheshire/tclgoogle . tml
Enjoy!
-- Azaroth
What we really need is the Grey Spy as she always wins. Now, who is that Grey Spy?
-- Azaroth
For example the IPC bug (68702), which has had a patch ready and submitted is continually getting shuffled further and further back. The patch and bug were submitted more than a year ago now (2001-02-13 11:34).
(This is a serious question, not FUD)
--Azaroth
The Real URL for this story is:
http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name= News&file=article&sid=149
--Azaroth (KW)
This makes no sense. If Online voting is introduced 8 years before 75%, let alone 100%, of the UK's population is online, How are the other 25+% going to vote?
Scary that this is done by BT, the telco that effectively controls who gets internet access at what price. We see that it's not a priority to them.
--Azaroth
Nanotechnology toys
Nanotechnology plants
Err, What's a Nanotech plant? Obviously not a factory, so one assumes a very very small technological green thing that lives?
And how do you play with Nanotech toys? Forget vacuuming up the legos! "Have you tidied up your nanotoys yet Johnny?" "One second Mom, I'm still looking for the microscope to find them!"
--Azaroth
So, Kathleen, how does it feel to be closing on the levels of discussion of that fateful day? :)
Congratulations and Felicitations. May your life together be happy and prosperous.
-- Azaroth
If Sun worked with the Linux people to get full hardware support for things like the Sunrays and the SPCi card, and for (cough) Solaris/Linux binary compatability (Heh, the WINE folk have done a harder ask...) this would make a lot of smaller servers switch to Linux, which is more suited to the hardware.
--Azaroth
Equally, get IBM/RHAT/other sponsor to donate a whole load of different hardware. Write a autobuilding process that runs lots of little tests -- puts up ethernet connections, pings the framebuffer, etcetc. If the machine is down, then the most recent patches broke it.
Mozilla development does this, but is obviously easier as it's not the Operating System they're testing, just a single application.
-- Azaroth
filetype:htpasswd htpasswd
Scary how many
-- Azaroth
For example, do new or updated device drivers rank more highly than VM updates?
-- Azaroth