I'd understand if people were upset about Microsoft blocking Expedia or something useful from other browsers. But I could care less if they block MSN.com from other browsers. The site is a useless ad-portal. Mostly its there for the homepage for IE. So does it really matter if its blocked? Yes I understand the openness of the web issue and I'm afraid of what MS plans with passport and other silly proprietary technologies and yes I use Mozilla and Linux, but I think people are jumping the gun on this one. Who cares about MSN? Microsoft.
There are a number of development tools that are free for instance that may write to the registry. Secondly, windows has some architectural flaws that require administrative access to do many common functions. Any developer running IIS on his box will require adminstrative level access.
Why ban linux? The liscense is that its free (basically as in beer and as in liberty) and secondly it cuts costs.
I think you should re-evaluate what you're really trying to do. If liscense compliance is your goal then I don't think this is your solution. This really will thwart your developers, especially VBers who are constantly registering and unregistering controls, etc and web developers who need to test on their box.
Perhaps you should go the other way and use linux for your developers and servers. If you standardize on free software, you can be virtually assured of liscense compliance. Obviously this will only work if you're commited to the web.
Hotmail, the largest free online email service - it's a pretty good deal, it's never down really and you get a lot of features..
HA!
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,3624 9, 00.html
http://www.info-sec.com/viruses/viruses_070298a_ j. html-ssi
http://www4.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/30/hotma il.06/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid _4 34000/434120.stm
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/21/hot ma il/print.html
http://technews.netscape.com/news/0-1003-200-458 32 18.html
And those are just some of the more major outages.
And I AM being forced to use hotmail. I signed up for it about a year before microsoft bought it. At the time it was great. Since then its always having glitches, problems, etc. Moreover, if I just stop using it, I'll miss emails that I may not want to miss. There is no way to issue a change of adress order like the post office, and its difficult to have everyone who might mail you mail you elsewhere. Loosing an email address is NOT easy.
What I think is interesting is if you look at the interests. This looks like it will come down to pragmatics. Disney is strictly a media producer, supporting this doesn't hurt their interests in any way. AOL/Time Warner is both a media producer and for lack of a better term equipment maker. So that means they would "get" to go replace millions of cable boxes. Furthermore, they could be made liable for inadequate/outdated copy protection in the future. They might figure that HBO would get less subscriptions if no one could record the movies. So when you look at it this makes sense, those who carry the burden (AOL-TW) versus those who think they have nothing but to gain from it (Disney, News Corp, et al). Divide it cleanly along the lines of those who sell just media and those who have infrastructure/equipment.
I'd like to have Ashcroft call marketing pervasively insecure operating systems and infrastructure support software industrial terrorism and have it controlled like encryption.
But thats just me.
Trolltech should be called on to make QT liscense
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Trolltech should be called on to make QT liscense open on a crossplatform basis. While KDE is not my bag, there are alot of great apps in it. So far the straddling the fence on liscensing on their part has done more for gnome then trolltech. I'd have to say it would be alot more compelling if they made these free. They could make money by selling services like everyone else in this field. The era of software product royalties is nearly over. Trolltech needs to innovate.
RedHat seems to have broken the addage "Only use the even numbers" with 7.0 (not a very good edition in most folks opinions). And 7.1 was solid, so 7.2 could be dangerous. I think I'll be waiting until a few people install it before upgrading.
Furthermore, RedHat does not support "upgrading" from a Ximian (bka HelixCode) gnome distribution, and with 7.1 at least this failed -- so if you use the much better Ximian distro of gnome as opposed to RedHat's you might want to wait till they have made it 7.2-ready.
If anyone's gone through the upgrade, please post and let us know what problems you have. I'm particularly interested in any with Java. Thanks!
I think you'd need to adapt this. If you create an iterative process where release dates dictate the last go for a given design release (which hence is implemented while other parties can continue working on the next phase of the design if they choose). The problem is that you cant just have sweeping philosophical discussions while no development goes on. You need objectives, milestones and goals. Not to say that you can't have a conversative process for developing even those but there needs to be a point where even if its not perfect, work starts, nail it more in the next iteration.
DRM usually relies on Encryption. Encryption itself has always depended on evolution. The idea that algorythms that need a system at least several orders more powerful than the one required to encrypt the data to break the data (without the key). DRM is a logistical nightmere, as it requires being able to run on last years hardware and next years regardless of the system invented next year.
Secondly, effective DRM requires a central authority and encryption method which the media available locally will nearly always exceed the bandwidth. (HDTV today, UHDTV tomarrow...all on 1 ghz? probably not)
then they could just deny the bugs existed saying there were "no known examples of ways to exploit this oversight"...they could delay fixing them until someone exploited them.
I have an idea! Secure your computer by not using windows.
Ahh I misunderstood. Thank you for the correction.
The point remains that Proxim is really somewhat negligent in supporting Linux. They'd be much better advised to support it more agressively or more properly other platforms other than windows!
The next big thing in this area will probably be high band wireless "smart" routers operating on something aken to local cellular networks, somehow I doubt they'll be running windows. I'd say proxim would be wise to make its equipment available to the more likely platforms.
I've been using a proxim wireless lan for quite some time albiet the 1.5mbps. I've been reasonably happy with the range and okay with the performance (who cares if you get >1.5 if you're just sharing cable internet). However, I must say the driver support is a weakness. The drivers are maintained by a third party whose site is not always up. Apparantly the guy had to pay for the privilege. (http://www.komacke.com/distribution.html). So while I'm happy with it for the cost and what it does (especially considering its > 2 years old), I think I'll be looking for more standard stuff when I upgrade.
As for range on this: I can go upstairs but it only works on half of the upstairs. I can generally travel downstairs anywhere I want. The laptop version has a shorter range unless you replace the silly nub antenna.
I still thing wireless has a bit of a ways to go (especially the cheap stuff) mostly in the area of range and price before it replaces good ol wire.
On another note I finally got to the website the previous poster was wrong this things is a one time $50. Thats a little steep for me. I'd have to say I'd try it for $19.95, but not $50. No only that but I'd rather the phone not ring if its a telemarketer.
Is there a box somewhere that you can simply have it prevent the phone from ringing if the call is "Out Of Area"? I've never had a solicitation that was brave enough to identify themselves. I don't know that I'd want to pay a subsciption but a box that did that would be well worth my $19.95.
I have to say, I'm quite pleased with AMD's processors. For the price to performance ratio, you usually get about 10-20% more performance for about 1/2 the cost of a comparable Intel processor.
I do think they should provide a more accurate "instructions per second" rating rather than relying on Intel as the benchmark for their rating.
I've had more problems with intel chips burning up. I've had wonderful experiences with AMD chips. AMD chips are typically faster and for the money simply can't be beat.
RedHat's only majorly successful project that rolls into a business model is RedHat Linux. Its completely opensource. RedHat has had problems becoming profitable and are trying to become a services company. (They misreported profitability not to long ago by accounting trickery).
RedHat is actually a good example of the point I was making.
I have to say OpenOffice despite all its greatness has introduced a very annoying new behavior that can't be turned off. It uses extended windows style quotes/etc even when authoring on linux in html. I use Open/Star office, but there is a lack of attention to detail in certain areas that kind of annoys me. That being said, I never am tempted to go back to M$.
This is the truth. Lutris has already lost. This isn't the first opensource product they've closed. Their model is to capture the talent of the opensource community then close the source once the product matures. Hopefully developers have wised up for the future.
Alternatives:
www.jboss.org (also hosted on sourceforge) - insted of enhydra
hsql (hypersql on sourceforge) instead of instant db (also distributed with jboss)
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I'd understand if people were upset about Microsoft blocking Expedia or something useful from other browsers. But I could care less if they block MSN.com from other browsers. The site is a useless ad-portal. Mostly its there for the homepage for IE. So does it really matter if its blocked? Yes I understand the openness of the web issue and I'm afraid of what MS plans with passport and other silly proprietary technologies and yes I use Mozilla and Linux, but I think people are jumping the gun on this one. Who cares about MSN? Microsoft.
There are a number of development tools that are free for instance that may write to the registry. Secondly, windows has some architectural flaws that require administrative access to do many common functions. Any developer running IIS on his box will require adminstrative level access.
Why ban linux? The liscense is that its free (basically as in beer and as in liberty) and secondly it cuts costs.
I think you should re-evaluate what you're really trying to do. If liscense compliance is your goal then I don't think this is your solution. This really will thwart your developers, especially VBers who are constantly registering and unregistering controls, etc and web developers who need to test on their box.
Perhaps you should go the other way and use linux for your developers and servers. If you standardize on free software, you can be virtually assured of liscense compliance. Obviously this will only work if you're commited to the web.
Hotmail, the largest free online email service - it's a pretty good deal, it's never down really and you get a lot of features..
4 9, 00.html
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d _4 34000/434120.stm
t ma il/print.html
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HA!
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,362
http://www.info-sec.com/viruses/viruses_070298a
http://www4.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9908/30/hotm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsi
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/21/ho
http://technews.netscape.com/news/0-1003-200-45
And those are just some of the more major outages.
And I AM being forced to use hotmail. I signed up for it about a year before microsoft bought it. At the time it was great. Since then its always having glitches, problems, etc. Moreover, if I just stop using it, I'll miss emails that I may not want to miss. There is no way to issue a change of adress order like the post office, and its difficult to have everyone who might mail you mail you elsewhere. Loosing an email address is NOT easy.
The dog poo and fish could be construed as biological agents.
What I think is interesting is if you look at the interests. This looks like it will come down to pragmatics. Disney is strictly a media producer, supporting this doesn't hurt their interests in any way. AOL/Time Warner is both a media producer and for lack of a better term equipment maker. So that means they would "get" to go replace millions of cable boxes. Furthermore, they could be made liable for inadequate/outdated copy protection in the future. They might figure that HBO would get less subscriptions if no one could record the movies. So when you look at it this makes sense, those who carry the burden (AOL-TW) versus those who think they have nothing but to gain from it (Disney, News Corp, et al). Divide it cleanly along the lines of those who sell just media and those who have infrastructure/equipment.
I'd like to have Ashcroft call marketing pervasively insecure operating systems and infrastructure support software industrial terrorism and have it controlled like encryption.
But thats just me.
Trolltech should be called on to make QT liscense open on a crossplatform basis. While KDE is not my bag, there are alot of great apps in it. So far the straddling the fence on liscensing on their part has done more for gnome then trolltech. I'd have to say it would be alot more compelling if they made these free. They could make money by selling services like everyone else in this field. The era of software product royalties is nearly over. Trolltech needs to innovate.
http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/rhl_compare.h tml
Once again this one's got a special version of gcc
gcc 2.96-RH
I'm worried....(remember 7.0's fiasco)
-Andy
I know they're dying but I'd love to not have to install windows for this! It'd be great to have it on Linux. Anyone have any word?
RedHat seems to have broken the addage "Only use the even numbers" with 7.0 (not a very good edition in most folks opinions). And 7.1 was solid, so 7.2 could be dangerous. I think I'll be waiting until a few people install it before upgrading.
Furthermore, RedHat does not support "upgrading" from a Ximian (bka HelixCode) gnome distribution, and with 7.1 at least this failed -- so if you use the much better Ximian distro of gnome as opposed to RedHat's you might want to wait till they have made it 7.2-ready.
If anyone's gone through the upgrade, please post and let us know what problems you have. I'm particularly interested in any with Java. Thanks!
I think you'd need to adapt this. If you create an iterative process where release dates dictate the last go for a given design release (which hence is implemented while other parties can continue working on the next phase of the design if they choose). The problem is that you cant just have sweeping philosophical discussions while no development goes on. You need objectives, milestones and goals. Not to say that you can't have a conversative process for developing even those but there needs to be a point where even if its not perfect, work starts, nail it more in the next iteration.
DRM usually relies on Encryption. Encryption itself has always depended on evolution. The idea that algorythms that need a system at least several orders more powerful than the one required to encrypt the data to break the data (without the key). DRM is a logistical nightmere, as it requires being able to run on last years hardware and next years regardless of the system invented next year.
Secondly, effective DRM requires a central authority and encryption method which the media available locally will nearly always exceed the bandwidth. (HDTV today, UHDTV tomarrow...all on 1 ghz? probably not)
then they could just deny the bugs existed saying there were "no known examples of ways to exploit this oversight"...they could delay fixing them until someone exploited them.
I have an idea! Secure your computer by not using windows.
Ahh I misunderstood. Thank you for the correction.
The point remains that Proxim is really somewhat negligent in supporting Linux. They'd be much better advised to support it more agressively or more properly other platforms other than windows!
The next big thing in this area will probably be high band wireless "smart" routers operating on something aken to local cellular networks, somehow I doubt they'll be running windows. I'd say proxim would be wise to make its equipment available to the more likely platforms.
I'd actually rather send to voicemail. Some friends/family are still in areas with old switches that don't identify the caller.
I've been using a proxim wireless lan for quite some time albiet the 1.5mbps. I've been reasonably happy with the range and okay with the performance (who cares if you get >1.5 if you're just sharing cable internet). However, I must say the driver support is a weakness. The drivers are maintained by a third party whose site is not always up. Apparantly the guy had to pay for the privilege. (http://www.komacke.com/distribution.html). So while I'm happy with it for the cost and what it does (especially considering its > 2 years old), I think I'll be looking for more standard stuff when I upgrade.
As for range on this: I can go upstairs but it only works on half of the upstairs. I can generally travel downstairs anywhere I want. The laptop version has a shorter range unless you replace the silly nub antenna.
I still thing wireless has a bit of a ways to go (especially the cheap stuff) mostly in the area of range and price before it replaces good ol wire.
On another note I finally got to the website the previous poster was wrong this things is a one time $50. Thats a little steep for me. I'd have to say I'd try it for $19.95, but not $50. No only that but I'd rather the phone not ring if its a telemarketer.
Is there a box somewhere that you can simply have it prevent the phone from ringing if the call is "Out Of Area"? I've never had a solicitation that was brave enough to identify themselves. I don't know that I'd want to pay a subsciption but a box that did that would be well worth my $19.95.
I have to say, I'm quite pleased with AMD's processors. For the price to performance ratio, you usually get about 10-20% more performance for about 1/2 the cost of a comparable Intel processor.
I do think they should provide a more accurate "instructions per second" rating rather than relying on Intel as the benchmark for their rating.
I've had more problems with intel chips burning up. I've had wonderful experiences with AMD chips. AMD chips are typically faster and for the money simply can't be beat.
I'm pretty sure I did that.
I'd love to hear some of your counter research.
RedHat's only majorly successful project that rolls into a business model is RedHat Linux. Its completely opensource. RedHat has had problems becoming profitable and are trying to become a services company. (They misreported profitability not to long ago by accounting trickery).
RedHat is actually a good example of the point I was making.
I have to say OpenOffice despite all its greatness has introduced a very annoying new behavior that can't be turned off. It uses extended windows style quotes/etc even when authoring on linux in html. I use Open/Star office, but there is a lack of attention to detail in certain areas that kind of annoys me. That being said, I never am tempted to go back to M$.
I don't really think StarOffice is your answer for email. Try Xiaian (formerly Helixcode)'s Evolution. Its still a beta but it works just fine.
I'm not sure if its available on windows yet. (I don't generally use that "operating system")
www.ximian.com
This is the truth. Lutris has already lost. This isn't the first opensource product they've closed. Their model is to capture the talent of the opensource community then close the source once the product matures. Hopefully developers have wised up for the future.
Alternatives:
www.jboss.org (also hosted on sourceforge) - insted of enhydra
hsql (hypersql on sourceforge) instead of instant db (also distributed with jboss)