If the yellow light is only 1.5 to 2 seconds, and you're on a 45 mph road, you'd have to be rather far away to stop safely (especially when you have some guy behind you tailgating you).
I'm at the intersection; I even stop at the intersection at the red light. I look to the left, no cars or pedestrians; I look to the right, no cars or pedestrians. The light is still red. I look again, not a soul on the road or walking: So I go through the red light. A month later I get a citation for $270. Not a soul was hurt in going through that red light, not a soul could have been hurt going through that red light. How was I impinging on the freedom of others in going through that red light?
Woody has over 9000 packages on 11 architectures. This is much more than any other Debian release, or any other distribution. Quite simply, I think the magnitude and stability of it is astounding.
Yes, they were planning a release for May 1, and he said so. Then, on April 30, he decided that there would not be a release on May 1, because the necessary infrastructure for successfully supporting security updates for 9000 (!) packages on 11 (!) architectures was not complete. What's wrong with this? Nothing.
I would not be surprised if some other distribution, such as possibly Red Hat, would release on May 1, no matter what regardless of any problems with such infrastructure, or even problems with the actual software. Rather than delaying the release (and making it seem like they're flying by the seat of their pants = bad PR), they would most likely it in some bad condition (and they have made many bad releases).
May 1 was set as a tentative date, and the stability and security of the Debian release was not compromised in order to meet it. This is commendable.
there seems to be a lack of accountability
Accountability for what? Anyone with such concern over the security of their system would not be so blithe as to use woody right away on May 1. They would test it thoroughly first, so there's no problem with people relying on that. Anyone who is not so concerned over security can still use woody anyway, right now, so there's no problem there. The fact is, Debian has consistently provided an extremely stable and extremely secure distribution, with many features not found in any other distribution.
The problem is, the release manager doesn't have magical powers to force people to do things, and he doesn't have the spectre of layoffs to hold over people's heads. He can't just remove libc6 either. These are volunteers, not employees.
That doesn't mean you should try to only sleep 6 hours a night, it just means that people who sleep only 6 hours a night (and thus might be more mentally and physically healthy anyway) live longer. It does not entail that a person who normally needs 9 hours of sleep should only sleep 6 hours a night.
You don't find it ludicrous that a person could accidentally type "apt-get install" and then the name of a valid package that would cause the downloading of a large number of dependencies, and then not be able to press Ctrl-C to cancel it?
You hit the wrong button and you're in for a 500MB download.
First of all, this has nothing to do with "learning apt." apt is dead simple to use to install and remove packages, which is what most people do anyway. Regardless, it's not like you hit one wrong button, you'd have to type in "apt-get install" and then the package name, that's pretty complex, and you'd have to be stupid to do it accidentally or something. Even if you start downloading 500MB, it's not like you can't--OH WOW--press Ctrl-C and get out of the download.
If all computers had a 100% chance of getting broken into when connected to a network, ALL computers would be broken into, no matter how long they were online. Simply, this is not true. It's not true for the time, and even ignoring the time, it's not true for many operating systems, or even many individual machines that are left on for a long time.
How is Debian too heavy, when you can do a basic install in 40MB of disk space? You want more stuff, you just install the (not bloated) packages with apt-get. Debian works great on a 486, so even better on a P133.
Unfortunately, this is completely irrelevent. The point of this bill is not to provide broadband content, it's to stop piracy.
Then why is it called the "Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act". Clearly, it is touted on the surface to promote broadband and digital television. Less overtly, the whole point of copyright protection is to encourage inventors, etc. to invent and promote their products without fear of being copied, and thus losing money on all their hard work. No matter how you look at it, the point of the bill is to promote broadband and digital television.
Except you can play with both Debian and Slackware to find out for yourself. Debian and Slackware are more stable because of the standards set by developers on themselves, etc. There's no real reason to explain "why" they're stable, that's not the point. They just/are/ stable.
The point is that many qualified people don't teach, for instance in computer science, because they could be making much more money somewhere. The people very qualified to teach might be able to make twice as much working somewhere else rather than teaching. That's the problem which could be remedied by increasing teacher salaries.
Originally, the second was defined to be 1/86,400 of the mean solar day. Because this is inaccurate due to irregularities in the Earth's rotation, that is the length of the second would change, finer standards were chosen. These finer standards are based on the original standard, but because they are defined in another way, they will not change unless the fundamental properties of the universe do.
A meter is defined by the General Conference on Weights and Measures to be the distance light travels in a vacuum in a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second. The 1889 definition of the meter was based on an international prototype of platinum-iridium.
He also changes "a + b" into "2b" on the 6th line and then divides by zero by dividing b out on 6 to 7. So really, he's making 3 mistakes. It's a stupid argument anyway.
The fix was available/immediately/. One can just use the rc4, which was available before "-final" was released, and it was well-publicized or somesuch less than 6 hours later. So this is much better than even 24 hours.
More like: no patch needed. One can download 2.2.18-rc4, which is identical to what the -final release was supposed to be. So, really, someone can just use that instead of the real -rc3/-final.
Anyway, not reuploading the release without a peep is a responsibility thing to do. He could have just reuploaded the release, with the possibility that a few people would get burned. Keep it all under wraps and no one would even know about it.
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Yes, that's very reasonable.
If the yellow light is only 1.5 to 2 seconds, and you're on a 45 mph road, you'd have to be rather far away to stop safely (especially when you have some guy behind you tailgating you).
If only red meant "stop, unless the way is clear"...
I'm at the intersection; I even stop at the intersection at the red light. I look to the left, no cars or pedestrians; I look to the right, no cars or pedestrians. The light is still red. I look again, not a soul on the road or walking: So I go through the red light. A month later I get a citation for $270. Not a soul was hurt in going through that red light, not a soul could have been hurt going through that red light. How was I impinging on the freedom of others in going through that red light?
You could make the argument that this is legitimate because it is based on axioms of ethics and philosophy, rather than disputing facts of science.
Woody has over 9000 packages on 11 architectures. This is much more than any other Debian release, or any other distribution. Quite simply, I think the magnitude and stability of it is astounding.
Yes, they were planning a release for May 1, and he said so. Then, on April 30, he decided that there would not be a release on May 1, because the necessary infrastructure for successfully supporting security updates for 9000 (!) packages on 11 (!) architectures was not complete. What's wrong with this? Nothing.
I would not be surprised if some other distribution, such as possibly Red Hat, would release on May 1, no matter what regardless of any problems with such infrastructure, or even problems with the actual software. Rather than delaying the release (and making it seem like they're flying by the seat of their pants = bad PR), they would most likely it in some bad condition (and they have made many bad releases).
May 1 was set as a tentative date, and the stability and security of the Debian release was not compromised in order to meet it. This is commendable.
there seems to be a lack of accountability
Accountability for what? Anyone with such concern over the security of their system would not be so blithe as to use woody right away on May 1. They would test it thoroughly first, so there's no problem with people relying on that. Anyone who is not so concerned over security can still use woody anyway, right now, so there's no problem there. The fact is, Debian has consistently provided an extremely stable and extremely secure distribution, with many features not found in any other distribution.
The problem is, the release manager doesn't have magical powers to force people to do things, and he doesn't have the spectre of layoffs to hold over people's heads. He can't just remove libc6 either. These are volunteers, not employees.
That doesn't mean you should try to only sleep 6 hours a night, it just means that people who sleep only 6 hours a night (and thus might be more mentally and physically healthy anyway) live longer. It does not entail that a person who normally needs 9 hours of sleep should only sleep 6 hours a night.
apt-get -b source
You don't find it ludicrous that a person could accidentally type "apt-get install" and then the name of a valid package that would cause the downloading of a large number of dependencies, and then not be able to press Ctrl-C to cancel it?
First of all, this has nothing to do with "learning apt." apt is dead simple to use to install and remove packages, which is what most people do anyway. Regardless, it's not like you hit one wrong button, you'd have to type in "apt-get install" and then the package name, that's pretty complex, and you'd have to be stupid to do it accidentally or something. Even if you start downloading 500MB, it's not like you can't--OH WOW--press Ctrl-C and get out of the download.
If all computers had a 100% chance of getting broken into when connected to a network, ALL computers would be broken into, no matter how long they were online. Simply, this is not true. It's not true for the time, and even ignoring the time, it's not true for many operating systems, or even many individual machines that are left on for a long time.
Same thing for apt-get, although apt-get doesn't require any "account" with Red Hat.
How is Debian too heavy, when you can do a basic install in 40MB of disk space? You want more stuff, you just install the (not bloated) packages with apt-get. Debian works great on a 486, so even better on a P133.
Then why is it called the "Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act". Clearly, it is touted on the surface to promote broadband and digital television. Less overtly, the whole point of copyright protection is to encourage inventors, etc. to invent and promote their products without fear of being copied, and thus losing money on all their hard work. No matter how you look at it, the point of the bill is to promote broadband and digital television.
Only 3 million out of 6 is going to the law firm. That's still 3 million dollars that's being "used" for doing other stuff.
Except you can play with both Debian and Slackware to find out for yourself. Debian and Slackware are more stable because of the standards set by developers on themselves, etc. There's no real reason to explain "why" they're stable, that's not the point. They just /are/ stable.
The point is that many qualified people don't teach, for instance in computer science, because they could be making much more money somewhere. The people very qualified to teach might be able to make twice as much working somewhere else rather than teaching. That's the problem which could be remedied by increasing teacher salaries.
Originally, the second was defined to be 1/86,400 of the mean solar day. Because this is inaccurate due to irregularities in the Earth's rotation, that is the length of the second would change, finer standards were chosen. These finer standards are based on the original standard, but because they are defined in another way, they will not change unless the fundamental properties of the universe do.
A meter is defined by the General Conference on Weights and Measures to be the distance light travels in a vacuum in a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second. The 1889 definition of the meter was based on an international prototype of platinum-iridium.
He also changes "a + b" into "2b" on the 6th line and then divides by zero by dividing b out on 6 to 7. So really, he's making 3 mistakes. It's a stupid argument anyway.
The fix was available /immediately/. One can just use the rc4, which was available before "-final" was released, and it was well-publicized or somesuch less than 6 hours later. So this is much better than even 24 hours.
No one's "keeping it all under wraps", it says right in the changelog that the patch is missing.
Anyway, not reuploading the release without a peep is a responsibility thing to do. He could have just reuploaded the release, with the possibility that a few people would get burned. Keep it all under wraps and no one would even know about it.