Yup, I know it well. I have a LOT of the Berlin wall, due to living there when it came down:) Out in my garage atm, I have a 1 meter square portion of the wall with a rather spectacular peice of grafiti on it, cost nearly $300 to get back into the country.
Aside from that, I have bags and bags of the stuff. I really must spread it about sometime, give everyone a peice of history. A friend grabbed an ENTIRE guard tower the day after the movement restrictions were lifted. He jsut wandered down there with his platoon of engineers and took it down, I have no idea what happened to it tho.
Of course, the OSS folks can hop in here and point out that going with Linux would cost them 0 baht which converts to US$0... and that's what Microsoft's worried about. Better to get a little money than to risk getting none at all and letting Linux become the standard operating system in Thailand.
I follow your logic, but I do not agree with it. Yes, Linux off the shelf costs $0 (or the cost of a download, and a cd), but then that download needs to be installed, customised and configured correctly for the hardware and the class of user. Drivers need to be found or written for the hardware, and with the hardware manufacturers being hounded in thailand to reduce prices (to make systems affordable for an average consumer there), they arent going to react nicely to being told to spend more money producing new drivers. People need to be introduced to the system, and with the vast majority of people being the grandmother type with some knowledge of Windows, this isnt going to be as spectacularly easy as most people on here think it will be. Services need to be changed (how many 'pop this cd into the cd drive for cheap internet access' advertising larks is there for MS Windows? How successfull is it? Now how many do you see for a Mac or a Linux system?), and business interoperability needs to be conserved (what do you mean, I cant run the same software at home as I do at work?!).
Theres a shit load more that needs to be taken into consideration, above and beyond the off the shelf price for an OS. A few of those mentioned above are one off costs, but they are still costs which people have to decide to make, and they have little payback for the people making those decisions.
Since the public address was after his period on the stand, you can take it to be an extension:) He didnt perjure himself as he stuck to the definition that the judge gave.
I agree with you 100% on the points you make, only someone who doesnt like people in power would think to compare Clinton with Bush and others. When you think about it, Clinton was probably the cleanest politician the Whitehouse has seen for a while, and all he did was do what man does best!
How did him getting his end away have a detrimental affect on the country?! The judge had to basically sit back and think "Hey, we are here today trying to decide if this guy having his cock sucked by a subordinate and then seeking to cover it up, is a threat to the integrity of the country." It sounds ludicrous, and thats because at the end of the day, it is! Clinton was impeached for a fuck load less than 99% of politicians the western world over gets away with every day.
Stick it in a tgz then, the +x file permissions are preserved. Recent MS virii (viruses, virus`) have done similiar, and it hasnt really slowed them down.
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What he is saying is great is the ability to share functions between languages easily. Yes, you can do this today, to a certain fasion, but its a lot lot easier in.net.
I currently have fedora core 1 running in full graphical mode, both gnome and kde, on a compaq evo system. 1.2 cele, 128mb ram, 30 gb disk, 815 graphics. No issues at all.
Clinton did not lie when he stated that. If you investigated it instead of repeating the same old bull other people come out with, you would have found the following:
Clinton was asked "Did you have sexual relations with Monica Lewinski?" by the prosecutor
Clinton asked the Judge to clarify and define the term "Sexual Relations"
The definition given by the judge excluded oral sex, and concentrated on intercourse, consensual or otherwise
Clinton stated the famous line
So he did not lie. His reply was within the definition given by the Judge, and is perfectly acceptable.
Ports usually get the application that you have selected from the official servers themselves. For example, installing the JDK requires you to agree to the license from the Sun site before it grabs the binaries, just as if you visited it in a browser.
The legal benifits this provides is that noone is making a second source from which the distribution fetches from, whereas in apt, yum etc its coming off a distribution server because someone rolled the.deb or.rpm and put it there. In this games case, you have to agree to a click through license before the source is available for download, so you cant legally host it else where. Ports would overcome this, apt etc wouldnt.
I really really wish the slashdot "Do not show stories from the following: Caldera" tick box applied to real life. This thing isnt going to go away for 5 to 10 years, and I can see it ruining a lot of productive time and effort on the opensource side. Its going to haunt us for the forseeable future, regardless of who wins the first round, the second round, the third round and so on. Technicalities will be found, loopholes will be exploited, cases thrown out, new cases raised, you name it. This case isnt going anywhere.
This is a problem with an IMPLEMENTATION of the IPv6 stack, so its not IPv6 thats at fault, but rather this code. There is still problems appearing today with regards to different peoples implementations of the IPv4 protocol, so I guess you cant really say theres a problem as such, since there will always be the possibility for a future implementation to fuck up badly. And suprisingly, the IPv6 implementation that MS provides for WinXP is actually a damn good one. Many people dont beleive MS can produce good code, and I dont know if they produced this one or if they bought it in, but its worthy of praise, so here it is:)
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yes, when I saw this and noticed people commenting on the "Securer than tho" stance taken, my immediate thought was
"Hmm, well if we have gotten to the point where people have to roll their own net stack or patch a kernel to bring an issue to the for, then hasnt hte OpenBSD project succeeded in its goal?"
What would you rather Theo say? "OMG OMG OMG!!! Its a CRASH!!! Oh dear god! Quick, run around like headless chickens!!!!! Someone better get this patched pronto!!" or "Its jsut a crash." and get on with the patching?
Seriously, its getting fixed. You think his reaction would change the pace with which the bug gets fixed?
Give it a little time. THey usually patch -current first to test it out, then backport the patches to -stable. Patching -current first saves time in the long run, in cases like this where its not really a MS level issue:) IF it was more serious, -stable would get the patch first, and then it would be ported into -current.
IPv6 is available in the base install, but you have to actually have an IPv6 address assigned that people can get to to exploit this issue. Its really a non issue for the 99% of people running OpenBSD out there, but for some, like myself, its time to upgrade.
The Buran flew once, 100% automated and unmanned from launch to landing, at the start of the 1990as iirc. After that, they decided that it was too costly and mothballed the 2 completed and 3 under construction. One is at the Russian National Space Museum, one is in Australia, and the 3 in construction were dismantled. The Energia booster flew a further 3 times, and hasnt been used since due to no need for it (It could have launched the ISS as it stands in 2 or 3 boosts, it could carry a lot.)
Uhm, read that RFC, and no where in there does it contradict the earlier RFC with regards to the username password conventions. THis is the passage that comes closest:
Some URL schemes use the format "user:password" in the userinfo
field. This practice is NOT RECOMMENDED, because the passing of
authentication information in clear text (such as URI) has proven to
be a security risk in almost every case where it has been used.
Note it says "Some URL schemes" but doesnt specificy ALL URL schemes, so i guess the earlier RFC stands.
The problem is this: If you allowed people to wander into the cafe off the street, with no identification or means to identify them later, then you have jsut created a magnificent safe haven for all sorts of criminals. This is basically the same as phone companies stopping incoming calls on payphones in some areas, as they were being used by drug dealers to run business.
If the gun manufacturers marketed their products based on the fact that the majority of its users would use them illegally, then I would agree with you. Napster, Kazaa and the rest ARE marketing their products this way, and only after the event saying "but your honor, my application has legal uses also, its just very very rare they are used for those purposes!" Note the 'premium' service Kazaa marketed which gave you access to top quality rips, which the copyright holders werent being recompensed for at all.
Have a look at this. There is also a lot of email on misc@ telling users whats been discovered, what is being changed, what is being removed and what has been audited and why.
Sorry, but this is just picking on MS, what about Yahoo, Cisco et al? The US as a whole does a LOT of trade with China, does this also mean the US is violating human rights? Yes, certain companies are carrying out business with a bad regime, but that business is also helping to *change* the regime as it becomes more and more reliant on external business, so in the end isnt it good?
Also this headline violates the "too many pointless capitals in a sentance" rule, me thinks.
Consider if these could be used in a better way, such as to invent a way to de-pollute the atmosphere, replenish the ozone layer, or figure out how to stop people from starving to death.
If there is one thing Science has shown us over the past 200 years, it is that more people working on a project does not necessarily get it done faster. Most of the scientific advances in that period were done by either single people, or very small groups of people. Throwing every clever person in the world at a problem isnt going to get it done any faster. Throwing the right person at a problem will. The people working on space missions have done so BECAUSE THATS THEIR CHOICE. They worked to get where they are, where the hell do you get off saying their resources "could be used in a better way"?
Depollute the atmosphere - Earth does a good enough job of that on its own. It has dealt with worse things than humans in the past, and the things which we can do to limit pollution are being done already.
Replenish the ozone layer - again, leave it to earth. Our limitation actions are helping with this regard - the ozone hole over the south pole has decreased in size recently.
Figure out how to stop people from starving to death - Every year, more than a $Billion is spent sending aid to countrys that need it (world wide spendature here). Much more is sent in physical aid such as food. Show me the demonstratable permanent good this has achieved? None. Hunger still exists, droughts still happen, famines still occur and people still die. 9 times out of 10, these occur in countries that are war torn, have armed conflicts occuring, or are open to natural disasters. None of these are solvable by science, so throwing the resources that would otherwise be used on space is pointless.
there are cheaper ways to reduce crime than send people to Mars. One such way is to teach them properly in school so that they are motivated to better themselves. - maybe so, but have you looked around and seen how often fraud or other crimes are commited by people with millions in the bank, its a lot often than you think. People bettering themselves does not by far fix the underlying social issues.
We seem to be doing a pretty good job with unmanned probes. If we can visit all the planets in the solar system multiple times for the cost of one manned mission to Mars, I think we would learn more with the probes. - Oh yes. Now imagine if this had been the case when the Americas were discovered? Imagine hard. Yup, I think you have it - no USA, no Canada, no Mexico, no Argentina, no Brazil, no Peru (and any others I forget:) ). The established western world would have been all there was. Saying its stupid to send manned missions to places that have no immediate financial reward is basically capitalism boiling to the surface.
It would reduce the number of people supporting or becoming terrorists, since less people would be angry at the smug westerners who wouldn't help them out. - This is probably the worst statement ive seen in a long time. Terrorists have never stated that there are financial reasons for the acts they carried out. Infact a lot of terrorism occurs BECAUSE the western world helped them out. Look at any terrorism going on atm, its either "freedom fighting" or "religious" based. You are never going to solve any of these issues, its just human nature (religion is possibly the worst thing that has ever occurred to humanity, its caused more strife than anything else, and it does it all in the name of "God", and entity we can never confer with to find out if he really does agree with these actions)
Ever heard the term "Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he will eat for the rest of his life."? THats what we should be doing, not throwing our resources to eliminate the symptoms. Why are people fighting, which causes famine? Why are people trying to survive on land which has p
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Yup, I know it well. I have a LOT of the Berlin wall, due to living there when it came down :) Out in my garage atm, I have a 1 meter square portion of the wall with a rather spectacular peice of grafiti on it, cost nearly $300 to get back into the country.
Aside from that, I have bags and bags of the stuff. I really must spread it about sometime, give everyone a peice of history. A friend grabbed an ENTIRE guard tower the day after the movement restrictions were lifted. He jsut wandered down there with his platoon of engineers and took it down, I have no idea what happened to it tho.
If they beach and kill a few hundred countries then im worried. I really hope you meant Whales :)
Of course, the OSS folks can hop in here and point out that going with Linux would cost them 0 baht which converts to US$0... and that's what Microsoft's worried about. Better to get a little money than to risk getting none at all and letting Linux become the standard operating system in Thailand.
I follow your logic, but I do not agree with it. Yes, Linux off the shelf costs $0 (or the cost of a download, and a cd), but then that download needs to be installed, customised and configured correctly for the hardware and the class of user. Drivers need to be found or written for the hardware, and with the hardware manufacturers being hounded in thailand to reduce prices (to make systems affordable for an average consumer there), they arent going to react nicely to being told to spend more money producing new drivers. People need to be introduced to the system, and with the vast majority of people being the grandmother type with some knowledge of Windows, this isnt going to be as spectacularly easy as most people on here think it will be. Services need to be changed (how many 'pop this cd into the cd drive for cheap internet access' advertising larks is there for MS Windows? How successfull is it? Now how many do you see for a Mac or a Linux system?), and business interoperability needs to be conserved (what do you mean, I cant run the same software at home as I do at work?!).
Theres a shit load more that needs to be taken into consideration, above and beyond the off the shelf price for an OS. A few of those mentioned above are one off costs, but they are still costs which people have to decide to make, and they have little payback for the people making those decisions.
Since the public address was after his period on the stand, you can take it to be an extension :) He didnt perjure himself as he stuck to the definition that the judge gave.
I agree with you 100% on the points you make, only someone who doesnt like people in power would think to compare Clinton with Bush and others. When you think about it, Clinton was probably the cleanest politician the Whitehouse has seen for a while, and all he did was do what man does best!
How did him getting his end away have a detrimental affect on the country?! The judge had to basically sit back and think "Hey, we are here today trying to decide if this guy having his cock sucked by a subordinate and then seeking to cover it up, is a threat to the integrity of the country." It sounds ludicrous, and thats because at the end of the day, it is! Clinton was impeached for a fuck load less than 99% of politicians the western world over gets away with every day.
Stick it in a tgz then, the +x file permissions are preserved. Recent MS virii (viruses, virus`) have done similiar, and it hasnt really slowed them down.
What he is saying is great is the ability to share functions between languages easily. Yes, you can do this today, to a certain fasion, but its a lot lot easier in .net.
I currently have fedora core 1 running in full graphical mode, both gnome and kde, on a compaq evo system. 1.2 cele, 128mb ram, 30 gb disk, 815 graphics. No issues at all.
- Clinton was asked "Did you have sexual relations with Monica Lewinski?" by the prosecutor
- Clinton asked the Judge to clarify and define the term "Sexual Relations"
- The definition given by the judge excluded oral sex, and concentrated on intercourse, consensual or otherwise
- Clinton stated the famous line
So he did not lie. His reply was within the definition given by the Judge, and is perfectly acceptable.Ports usually get the application that you have selected from the official servers themselves. For example, installing the JDK requires you to agree to the license from the Sun site before it grabs the binaries, just as if you visited it in a browser.
.deb or .rpm and put it there. In this games case, you have to agree to a click through license before the source is available for download, so you cant legally host it else where. Ports would overcome this, apt etc wouldnt.
The legal benifits this provides is that noone is making a second source from which the distribution fetches from, whereas in apt, yum etc its coming off a distribution server because someone rolled the
I really really wish the slashdot "Do not show stories from the following: Caldera" tick box applied to real life. This thing isnt going to go away for 5 to 10 years, and I can see it ruining a lot of productive time and effort on the opensource side. Its going to haunt us for the forseeable future, regardless of who wins the first round, the second round, the third round and so on. Technicalities will be found, loopholes will be exploited, cases thrown out, new cases raised, you name it. This case isnt going anywhere.
This is a problem with an IMPLEMENTATION of the IPv6 stack, so its not IPv6 thats at fault, but rather this code. There is still problems appearing today with regards to different peoples implementations of the IPv4 protocol, so I guess you cant really say theres a problem as such, since there will always be the possibility for a future implementation to fuck up badly. And suprisingly, the IPv6 implementation that MS provides for WinXP is actually a damn good one. Many people dont beleive MS can produce good code, and I dont know if they produced this one or if they bought it in, but its worthy of praise, so here it is :)
yes, when I saw this and noticed people commenting on the "Securer than tho" stance taken, my immediate thought was
"Hmm, well if we have gotten to the point where people have to roll their own net stack or patch a kernel to bring an issue to the for, then hasnt hte OpenBSD project succeeded in its goal?"
What would you rather Theo say? "OMG OMG OMG!!! Its a CRASH!!! Oh dear god! Quick, run around like headless chickens!!!!! Someone better get this patched pronto!!" or "Its jsut a crash." and get on with the patching?
Seriously, its getting fixed. You think his reaction would change the pace with which the bug gets fixed?
Give it a little time. THey usually patch -current first to test it out, then backport the patches to -stable. Patching -current first saves time in the long run, in cases like this where its not really a MS level issue :) IF it was more serious, -stable would get the patch first, and then it would be ported into -current.
IPv6 is available in the base install, but you have to actually have an IPv6 address assigned that people can get to to exploit this issue. Its really a non issue for the 99% of people running OpenBSD out there, but for some, like myself, its time to upgrade.
The Buran flew once, 100% automated and unmanned from launch to landing, at the start of the 1990as iirc. After that, they decided that it was too costly and mothballed the 2 completed and 3 under construction. One is at the Russian National Space Museum, one is in Australia, and the 3 in construction were dismantled. The Energia booster flew a further 3 times, and hasnt been used since due to no need for it (It could have launched the ISS as it stands in 2 or 3 boosts, it could carry a lot.)
Some URL schemes use the format "user:password" in the userinfo field. This practice is NOT RECOMMENDED, because the passing of authentication information in clear text (such as URI) has proven to be a security risk in almost every case where it has been used.
Note it says "Some URL schemes" but doesnt specificy ALL URL schemes, so i guess the earlier RFC stands.
How many people run Fedora? How many people run Debian Sid, Debian Sarge? Just because its a "beta" doesnt mean it wont attract a crowd.
The problem is this: If you allowed people to wander into the cafe off the street, with no identification or means to identify them later, then you have jsut created a magnificent safe haven for all sorts of criminals. This is basically the same as phone companies stopping incoming calls on payphones in some areas, as they were being used by drug dealers to run business.
If the gun manufacturers marketed their products based on the fact that the majority of its users would use them illegally, then I would agree with you. Napster, Kazaa and the rest ARE marketing their products this way, and only after the event saying "but your honor, my application has legal uses also, its just very very rare they are used for those purposes!" Note the 'premium' service Kazaa marketed which gave you access to top quality rips, which the copyright holders werent being recompensed for at all.
Have a look at this. There is also a lot of email on misc@ telling users whats been discovered, what is being changed, what is being removed and what has been audited and why.
I think you *really* believe what you say. It's just amazing how naive a Northamerican can manage to be!
Im British thankyou very much. I know what Im talking about.
Sorry, but this is just picking on MS, what about Yahoo, Cisco et al? The US as a whole does a LOT of trade with China, does this also mean the US is violating human rights? Yes, certain companies are carrying out business with a bad regime, but that business is also helping to *change* the regime as it becomes more and more reliant on external business, so in the end isnt it good?
Also this headline violates the "too many pointless capitals in a sentance" rule, me thinks.
Consider if these could be used in a better way, such as to invent a way to de-pollute the atmosphere, replenish the ozone layer, or figure out how to stop people from starving to death.
If there is one thing Science has shown us over the past 200 years, it is that more people working on a project does not necessarily get it done faster. Most of the scientific advances in that period were done by either single people, or very small groups of people. Throwing every clever person in the world at a problem isnt going to get it done any faster. Throwing the right person at a problem will. The people working on space missions have done so BECAUSE THATS THEIR CHOICE. They worked to get where they are, where the hell do you get off saying their resources "could be used in a better way"?
Depollute the atmosphere - Earth does a good enough job of that on its own. It has dealt with worse things than humans in the past, and the things which we can do to limit pollution are being done already.
Replenish the ozone layer - again, leave it to earth. Our limitation actions are helping with this regard - the ozone hole over the south pole has decreased in size recently.
Figure out how to stop people from starving to death - Every year, more than a $Billion is spent sending aid to countrys that need it (world wide spendature here). Much more is sent in physical aid such as food. Show me the demonstratable permanent good this has achieved? None. Hunger still exists, droughts still happen, famines still occur and people still die. 9 times out of 10, these occur in countries that are war torn, have armed conflicts occuring, or are open to natural disasters. None of these are solvable by science, so throwing the resources that would otherwise be used on space is pointless.
there are cheaper ways to reduce crime than send people to Mars. One such way is to teach them properly in school so that they are motivated to better themselves. - maybe so, but have you looked around and seen how often fraud or other crimes are commited by people with millions in the bank, its a lot often than you think. People bettering themselves does not by far fix the underlying social issues.
We seem to be doing a pretty good job with unmanned probes. If we can visit all the planets in the solar system multiple times for the cost of one manned mission to Mars, I think we would learn more with the probes. - Oh yes. Now imagine if this had been the case when the Americas were discovered? Imagine hard. Yup, I think you have it - no USA, no Canada, no Mexico, no Argentina, no Brazil, no Peru (and any others I forget :) ). The established western world would have been all there was. Saying its stupid to send manned missions to places that have no immediate financial reward is basically capitalism boiling to the surface.
It would reduce the number of people supporting or becoming terrorists, since less people would be angry at the smug westerners who wouldn't help them out. - This is probably the worst statement ive seen in a long time. Terrorists have never stated that there are financial reasons for the acts they carried out. Infact a lot of terrorism occurs BECAUSE the western world helped them out. Look at any terrorism going on atm, its either "freedom fighting" or "religious" based. You are never going to solve any of these issues, its just human nature (religion is possibly the worst thing that has ever occurred to humanity, its caused more strife than anything else, and it does it all in the name of "God", and entity we can never confer with to find out if he really does agree with these actions)
Ever heard the term "Give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he will eat for the rest of his life."? THats what we should be doing, not throwing our resources to eliminate the symptoms. Why are people fighting, which causes famine? Why are people trying to survive on land which has p