Funny, how apple is justifying the fast that people aren't buying new Imacs due to the same shape for 3 years.....c'mon guys, the pc has had a box shape for the past 20 years! even the sales of pcs have been dropping! I think its more or less the fac tthat we now have computers that aren't out of date within a year or two, what was that old saying? "A computer is out of date the second you walk out of the store" ? I don't think this is true anymore, I'm running a PIII 500 and IMHO it can keep up with the best of them.
This raises the question of ethics, is it more ethical to keep quiet about a hole in software that people run / store important data until its fixed, or is it ethical to tell the public in which case the people affected become "more" vulnerable?
Personally, i would rather be told of the hole, and advised to turn off the daemon, as opposed to running the daemon and not knowing about the hole.....some people think ignorance is bliss.....not me. =)
actually GNU/linux does not have protection against fork bombs. The respawning message msut be a subsystem message, but not within the kernel itself. There is no protection against something like:
OKay, back in the day there was a lack of office suites.... then programmers said 'let there be office applications'., not the linux world is plagued with different types of office suites... none of which are 100% ms-word compatible. will this one be different? lets hope, following past trends this one will prolly get its 15 minutes of fame and die off..... so lets count the list:
1) abiword
2) staroffice
3) corel word perfect
4) kde office suite
5) Gobe
6)...whats next? (er what else am i missing? isnt there an Offix suite or something like that)
Didn't adobe threaten the KIllustrator guy for the name of the app? Well, wouldnt the 'K' break some kde copyright/naming convention they adopted? also isnt there an app out called 'Klyx' ?
here is a different press release on the redhat site, I love how they list as one of the features: Loki Demo CD....WHEN DID DEMO's BECOME A FEATURE OF THE OS??!?!
pardon the rant. =)
There already IS gtk Emacs....
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seems like many of the speed improvments lie in the fact that they are now caching everything or removing certain abilities (like checking for a smaller set of extentions) is this the correct way to make speed improvments? I mean really, reducing functionality can hardly be though of as a speed improvment... so now If i want to search for an icon that happens to be an unpre-defined extinsion ill prolly have to find it myself...bah, do it the right way (code corretly) second, caching everything is a quick fix, but wait for people to shout "it doesnt run with 64 meg ram!!"
who cares if microsoft has won the desktop? I know ill keep running linux, and I wont see any bsods, as long as linux keeps evolving ill be as happy as a hindu cow. =)
this s a bit off topic, but does anyone know when redhat 7.2 is supposed to be out??? Seems like i've been waiting forever to try ext3.. (and I dont want to run beta.
hmm....i wonder if we could find information by recursivly searching images.google.com with every word in the ditionary, and scanning each image that comes back... =)
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Funny, I actually put that in my browser (galeon) and it took me to a screwd up page on thier server... heh =)
Funny, how apple is justifying the fast that people aren't buying new Imacs due to the same shape for 3 years.....c'mon guys, the pc has had a box shape for the past 20 years! even the sales of pcs have been dropping! I think its more or less the fac tthat we now have computers that aren't out of date within a year or two, what was that old saying? "A computer is out of date the second you walk out of the store" ? I don't think this is true anymore, I'm running a PIII 500 and IMHO it can keep up with the best of them.
This raises the question of ethics, is it more ethical to keep quiet about a hole in software that people run / store important data until its fixed, or is it ethical to tell the public in which case the people affected become "more" vulnerable?
Personally, i would rather be told of the hole, and advised to turn off the daemon, as opposed to running the daemon and not knowing about the hole.....some people think ignorance is bliss.....not me. =)
funny how in this day and age being "nickel and dimed" == $4.95 ....
if anyone is interested kde 2.2.2 (bugfix) should be out soon , it was supposed to be out 11/12 but looks like they didnt meet that deadline.
They should enter it into battle bots. =)
funny, I did the same thing too.. *shakes fist at slashdot too*
oh how nice it would be to underclock my fan to ten rpms... *sigh* =)
actually GNU/linux does not have protection against fork bombs. The respawning message msut be a subsystem message, but not within the kernel itself. There is no protection against something like:
forker.pl:
#!/usr/bin/perl
print("forking\n");
system("./forker.pl");
system("./forker.pl");
what would happen if you ran a fork bomb on one of the virtual servers? would it bring the whole physical machine down or just the virtual machine?
OKay, back in the day there was a lack of office suites.... then programmers said 'let there be office applications' ., not the linux world is plagued with different types of office suites... none of which are 100% ms-word compatible. will this one be different? lets hope, following past trends this one will prolly get its 15 minutes of fame and die off..... so lets count the list:
...whats next? (er what else am i missing? isnt there an Offix suite or something like that)
1) abiword
2) staroffice
3) corel word perfect
4) kde office suite
5) Gobe
6)
Didn't adobe threaten the KIllustrator guy for the name of the app? Well, wouldnt the 'K' break some kde copyright/naming convention they adopted? also isnt there an app out called 'Klyx' ?
sorry, I know the writer thinks it looks sweet, but i can't get past the fact that it looks like a toaster with controller ports.....
Konqueror allows you to define the browser type (I forget the variable name) so essentially you can fake an IE browser type. =)
so if we tell them thier webpage sucks, or if we deface thier pages...do we get shot?
http://www.redhat.com/about/presscenter/2001/press _7-2.html
....WHEN DID DEMO's BECOME A FEATURE OF THE OS??!?!
here is a different press release on the redhat site, I love how they list as one of the features: Loki Demo CD
pardon the rant. =)
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/elisp/gui-xemacs/
=)
seems like many of the speed improvments lie in the fact that they are now caching everything or removing certain abilities (like checking for a smaller set of extentions) is this the correct way to make speed improvments? I mean really, reducing functionality can hardly be though of as a speed improvment... so now If i want to search for an icon that happens to be an unpre-defined extinsion ill prolly have to find it myself...bah, do it the right way (code corretly) second, caching everything is a quick fix, but wait for people to shout "it doesnt run with 64 meg ram!!"
it doesnt say where to get one.....
who cares if microsoft has won the desktop? I know ill keep running linux, and I wont see any bsods, as long as linux keeps evolving ill be as happy as a hindu cow. =)
http://www.psrc.usm.edu/macrog/nonlin.htm
do "Find" for bowling, it says so on there. =) (And yes, its a valid site)
Isnt a bowling ball one molecule? I think i heard that somewhere.
this s a bit off topic, but does anyone know when redhat 7.2 is supposed to be out??? Seems like i've been waiting forever to try ext3.. (and I dont want to run beta.
anyone got a copyright on copyrighting yet?.....hmmm...
hmm....i wonder if we could find information by recursivly searching images.google.com with every word in the ditionary, and scanning each image that comes back... =)