From a quick look at the fdisk and fdisk manual, it was just the same OpenBSD unintelligent fdisk (where a calculator would be handy).
Sigh, OpenBSD install procedure is annoying, there's little or no documentation available throughout the installer. Hopefully MicroBSD will move on from this archaic and elitist installer used by OpenBSD.
Because some of us have grown up and realized that not everything related to MS is bad. I can only hope that one day you will shed your revolutionary, world domination, Linux zealot ways. I think they even have group therapy for your type. Good luck man, you're going to need it.
With GPL code its not really up to the developer. The choice of how they're going to license something has been made by someone else. I will never write GPL code, as will many many companies.
You're starting to see these now and they range from something like having the actors do something like their laundry and the show shrinks onscreen to display an advertisement for a particular brand of laundry detergent. This was recently tested and had great results. I'm sure you'll see more of this. We'll also probably see much more branding in the actual shows as well. Something like all the characters wearing one brand of clothing.
I think this may provide some hope, but I think without traditional commercials they'll be in a tough spot to make ends meet.
A release occurs when it is announced by the release engineering team. You should read the numerous fuckups Slashdot has had in relation to FreeBSD release process.
I really doubt 5.0 will come out before 4.7 makes it out. But from the looks of it the first few 5.0 release won't quite be ready for general consumption. There's a big push right now to go ahead and move to GCC 3.3 and skip 3.2 entirely. I'm rather happy with my 5-current box. Only problem I've found is that if it does shut down ungracefully background fsck sticks you into a reboot cycle. It looks as if it doesn't cope well with much of any activity while its checking in the background.
As far as I know transactions are semi supported as long as you use INNODB or whatever. As are a few other things I mentioned, but the support is still very very weak. Look into MySQL-MAX or whatever they call it for transactions.
Does most the things that everyone takes for granted with a decent db server
Now I know everyone's going to jump down my throat with "Hey, that's going to be in 4.x.y" blah blah... these things have been in use since the stone ages, too little too late and the support still isn't on par with Sybase, MsSQL, Oracle, etc..
How long have subselects been "aviliable soon". I've been told that for atleast a year now. I'll believe it when I see it. Stored procedures, when? I guess they're available soon as well. (read: need to wait another two years for things that have been the standard for a decade)
The reason the current MS JVM sucks is because they've stopped development for nearly three years now. For its time, as you mentioned, it was superior to SUN's offering for Windows. I don't think MS would have let this slip if they weren't forced to do so. Now, the only thing they're doing is maintaining it for security reasons. Of course this is due to the lawsuit.
I really don't see why they'd be forced to supply Java to their customers. If they build an alternate technology (C#) and start using that theres really no reason to have Java installed by default. Sure it would be benefitial to the user, I wonder if Sun is preventing this from happening? I don't think they'd like that, but I don't know. Worth looking into I suppose.
How much of the 28MB of Mozilla source have you read? Oh, none? Well you're not alone. Opensource doesn't translate to trusted or secure. Recently many widely used Opensource applications were backdoored due to an exploit on the website for these applications. Months passed before anyone noticed that the sites were cracked and the applications replaced with backdoored copies.
The only phone home event in IE which is widely accepted as actually existing is that by default it uses MS's searching service, of course then they have a log of everything you search for. So does google.
You swallow more 'FUD' from the opensource community than you do from MS, wise up. Just go with what makes sense.
This is complete nonsense. The claim that its due to Sun's lawsuit is well founded and factual. Sun has continously screwed themselves over when it comes to Java on Windows. They've forced MS to stop distributing Java with their operating system and force you to use their subpar, crap, Windows JRE.
I'd really appreciate if you got your facts straight.
You're a comedian right? Mozilla's e-mail interface was apparently written by a third grader. Its simply the worst e-mail package I've experienced in the past few years, I'd even argue its signifigantly worse than Netscape 4.x's e-mail package.
Popup advertising is a non issue as its easilly stopped with third party applications, though it would be nice if this were built in. But of course it costs content providers nothing to provide decent content so lets stop their only source of income.
The major thing IE is lacking is tabbed browsing. I'm sure this will be integrated into the next version, I hope.
No its a bad thing. Both MS and Apple spend considerable amounts on psychological testing and research to design an efficient interface, one that works with people. As far as usability of most Linux interfaces, well, lets just say it sucks or tries to duplicate that of Windows or OSX. Why the copycats? Because Windows and OSX work, they're well designed, people feel comfortable with the interface.
These same options for cookies and atleast some of the javascript functionality are available in IE6. I really don't see how either browser is signifigantly better than the other with regard to security. They have had their problems and will continue to have problems.
Bugs are continously found with Mozilla. There is no real edge on either of the browsers as far as security. Just keep yourself up to date and you'll be fine.
I think its a bad idea to give press to these sort of events. It only encourages people to do it more often. DDoS does nothing but harm the entire community. There are much better ways to get your message across.
Promoting open source isn't in the interest of the people. Promoting the mentality of letting the best man win is. Its not for us to decide what software they run in Peru, but allow them to have a choice of the whole spectrum.
PHP is easy. But that's not all there is to it. PHP is a real hack job thrown together with little thought. Sure its free, sure its fairly fast and available for most platforms. But it lacks structure and secure design.
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From a quick look at the fdisk and fdisk manual, it was just the same OpenBSD unintelligent fdisk (where a calculator would be handy).
Sigh, OpenBSD install procedure is annoying, there's little or no documentation available throughout the installer. Hopefully MicroBSD will move on from this archaic and elitist installer used by OpenBSD.
Because some of us have grown up and realized that not everything related to MS is bad. I can only hope that one day you will shed your revolutionary, world domination, Linux zealot ways. I think they even have group therapy for your type. Good luck man, you're going to need it.
With GPL code its not really up to the developer. The choice of how they're going to license something has been made by someone else. I will never write GPL code, as will many many companies.
blah blah
Stop assuming that solutions from MS end up costing the most in the long run.
You're starting to see these now and they range from something like having the actors do something like their laundry and the show shrinks onscreen to display an advertisement for a particular brand of laundry detergent. This was recently tested and had great results. I'm sure you'll see more of this. We'll also probably see much more branding in the actual shows as well. Something like all the characters wearing one brand of clothing.
I think this may provide some hope, but I think without traditional commercials they'll be in a tough spot to make ends meet.
A release occurs when it is announced by the release engineering team. You should read the numerous fuckups Slashdot has had in relation to FreeBSD release process.
4.6.1 was _never_ released. A CVS tag does not indicate a release.
I really doubt 5.0 will come out before 4.7 makes it out. But from the looks of it the first few 5.0 release won't quite be ready for general consumption. There's a big push right now to go ahead and move to GCC 3.3 and skip 3.2 entirely. I'm rather happy with my 5-current box. Only problem I've found is that if it does shut down ungracefully background fsck sticks you into a reboot cycle. It looks as if it doesn't cope well with much of any activity while its checking in the background.
As far as I know transactions are semi supported as long as you use INNODB or whatever. As are a few other things I mentioned, but the support is still very very weak. Look into MySQL-MAX or whatever they call it for transactions.
Now I know everyone's going to jump down my throat with "Hey, that's going to be in 4.x.y" blah blah... these things have been in use since the stone ages, too little too late and the support still isn't on par with Sybase, MsSQL, Oracle, etc..
How long have subselects been "aviliable soon". I've been told that for atleast a year now. I'll believe it when I see it. Stored procedures, when? I guess they're available soon as well. (read: need to wait another two years for things that have been the standard for a decade)
The reason the current MS JVM sucks is because they've stopped development for nearly three years now. For its time, as you mentioned, it was superior to SUN's offering for Windows. I don't think MS would have let this slip if they weren't forced to do so. Now, the only thing they're doing is maintaining it for security reasons. Of course this is due to the lawsuit.
I really don't see why they'd be forced to supply Java to their customers. If they build an alternate technology (C#) and start using that theres really no reason to have Java installed by default. Sure it would be benefitial to the user, I wonder if Sun is preventing this from happening? I don't think they'd like that, but I don't know. Worth looking into I suppose.
How much of the 28MB of Mozilla source have you read? Oh, none? Well you're not alone. Opensource doesn't translate to trusted or secure. Recently many widely used Opensource applications were backdoored due to an exploit on the website for these applications. Months passed before anyone noticed that the sites were cracked and the applications replaced with backdoored copies.
The only phone home event in IE which is widely accepted as actually existing is that by default it uses MS's searching service, of course then they have a log of everything you search for. So does google.
You swallow more 'FUD' from the opensource community than you do from MS, wise up. Just go with what makes sense.
This is complete nonsense. The claim that its due to Sun's lawsuit is well founded and factual. Sun has continously screwed themselves over when it comes to Java on Windows. They've forced MS to stop distributing Java with their operating system and force you to use their subpar, crap, Windows JRE.
I'd really appreciate if you got your facts straight.
Reasons to still use IE on occasion:
1.) Poor support for common technologies (like the JRE: it runs but it don't run for long (2-3 hours and it goes down hard)).
Thank you Sun Micrososystems! Sun is the reason that Java sucks on Windows now, this really isn't MS's fault.
You're a comedian right? Mozilla's e-mail interface was apparently written by a third grader. Its simply the worst e-mail package I've experienced in the past few years, I'd even argue its signifigantly worse than Netscape 4.x's e-mail package.
Popup advertising is a non issue as its easilly stopped with third party applications, though it would be nice if this were built in. But of course it costs content providers nothing to provide decent content so lets stop their only source of income.
The major thing IE is lacking is tabbed browsing. I'm sure this will be integrated into the next version, I hope.
No its a bad thing. Both MS and Apple spend considerable amounts on psychological testing and research to design an efficient interface, one that works with people. As far as usability of most Linux interfaces, well, lets just say it sucks or tries to duplicate that of Windows or OSX. Why the copycats? Because Windows and OSX work, they're well designed, people feel comfortable with the interface.
These same options for cookies and atleast some of the javascript functionality are available in IE6. I really don't see how either browser is signifigantly better than the other with regard to security. They have had their problems and will continue to have problems.
Bugs are continously found with Mozilla. There is no real edge on either of the browsers as far as security. Just keep yourself up to date and you'll be fine.
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At 2400 you'd get 3 lines/second possibly 6 if you were using 40 column display, you'd certainly not see one or two characters being replaced.
I think its a bad idea to give press to these sort of events. It only encourages people to do it more often. DDoS does nothing but harm the entire community. There are much better ways to get your message across.
Promoting open source isn't in the interest of the people. Promoting the mentality of letting the best man win is. Its not for us to decide what software they run in Peru, but allow them to have a choice of the whole spectrum.
PHP is easy. But that's not all there is to it. PHP is a real hack job thrown together with little thought. Sure its free, sure its fairly fast and available for most platforms. But it lacks structure and secure design.
There was a recent ruling against Verisign for this activity. Because of their deceptive mailings I will _NEVER_ consider using them as my registrar.