RMS is going to shit a brick when he catches wind of this article's author repeatedly referring to FreeBSD as "Free Software". And even has a hyperlink, in one of these instances, pointing to GNU.org.
No really noticeable change in Firebird, that I've noticed yet. The new bookmark panel thingy is of no use to me, currently. But it's still the same great browser.
Thunderbird, which was unusable to me in v0.2 is much improved in.3. My IMAP stuff is a lot faster now... alot, and you're now properly notified when a folder other than the Inbox receives a message. Quite a speedy mail client. So far, so good.
Not really. Dell's server hardware is great, even better than Apple's workstation/server hardware. Plus those servers come with at least Gold support contracts.
But the Free Software Foundation doesn't want royalties--it wants you to burn down your house, or at the very least share it [GPL'd code and derivatives] with cloners.
Then don't fucking use GPL'd code. This couldn't get any more simpler. Why is it that people constantly bitch about this? If the author didn't want to write code under the GPL, he wouldn't have done so.
If you're going to stand on the shoulders of someone else, and use their code, respect their license. It's not "your" house, you just added a picket fence around it, and maybe a room or two.
Tracking down bad guys has become such a big [lucrative?] operation that the Free Software Foundation has created a so-called Compliance Lab to snoop out violators and bust them.
So? It's perfectly within their rights. Many companies have similar mechanisms.
This all seems simple to me. Cisco buys chips with the offending code from Broadcom. Go after Broadcom. And then shut the fuck up about the GPL, you're perfectly free not to use it.
I guess getting tutored in secret is better than just floundering in ignorance.
I take it you haven't had the "pleasure" of your PHB embarrassing you by yelling "I know it's your T1 because our network guy teleported into the Baywatch hub and checked it!" at a Qwest network admin during a heated conference call.
For the PHB's here: It's 'telnet' and 'Bay Networks'.
I'm a Microsoft user and I don't have any problems with floods of worms and viruses attacking my machine.
I use the built-in ICF or free Kerio Personal Firewall, and have Automatic Updates configured to automatically download patches.
The worst I have to do is come in in the morning, sit there for 3 minutes while the patches install, and do a quick reboot. It's a hell of a lot easier than finding out there's a new OpenSSL exploit and having to recompile (or download RPM's) for everything that I think might use OpenSSL.
Where's the problem? Sounds like a user education issue to me. Or just FUD spread around by MS-bashers. I'd like to see someone in the Linux realm develop and actually deploy their OS to a hundred million users and see where they get. I'd bet they'd do worse than Microsoft, personally.
- Windows 2000 was much faster (overall) than Windows NT 4
- Windows XP was much faster than Windows 2000
- Windows 2003 Server is faster than Windows XP (If you disable all the extra "server" services and set priority to foreground processes. And even if you don't network/file IO is still faster)
Before, pirating music was always a huge ethical issue with me. Now, the issue has been simpliefied for me. I can't purchase a CD and rip it for use on my iPod, so I'll just find it on Kazaa, and save the cost of the "backup media".
Enjoying new music has never been cheaper, thanks RIAA.
(Disclaimer: This post is satire. I don't really buy any CDs anymore.)
Where were you while your kids were playing these horrible games? Why weren't you monitoring them? Sounds like bad parenting is at fault. It's not the legal system's responsibility to raise your children.
Let's outlaw video games, let's outlaw violent movies, let's outlaw music and pornography, let's outlaw religion.
I think that video game manufacturers should modify the themes of their games to a more self-destructive approach. Maybe a "Die Man" game, where the winner racks up the most successful and inventive suicides. This would help ensure the appropriate children are removed from the gene pool before polluting it too much.
So when do you draw the line? What if your company was making dangerous chemicals and not disposing of them properly? What if they were making chemical weapons? What if they were selling chemical weapons to terrorists?
It's just software, SCO isn't poisoning people. By your argument, no one should work for the US government.
People can still work for SCO and maintain their ethics, because Linux isn't at the center of their universe, and they aren't zealous.
And really, when it comes down to it. I think most fathers would resort to male-on-male prostitution if it meant keeping their wife and children fed and taken care of. THAT'S strong ethics.
I'm assuming you must be a teenager, or someone who is oblivious to reality. So I'll give you some hypothetical reasons why someone wouldn't just up and quit their job the minute they don't like it:
- They have kids - They have a wife - They have car payments - They have house payments - They have many bills to pay - The economy sucks, and working at Domino's Pizza does not present a viable alternative
Microsoft crushes Linux in terms of remote administration:
- Remote Desktop/Terminal Services (you don't even need a RD client, just a browser, which nearly every modern machine has, unlike ssh [yes, i know putty is just a quick download away, assuming you have rights to do that on a machine]) - VBScript (horrid, but gets the job done most of the time) - WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation, do damn near anything remotely, but be sure to properly secure your network) - The MMC tools (ADUC, etc etc), which fully operate remotely, as well. - The.NET development tools, to quickly code up anything you need that can't be covered by the above.
Hypocracy isn't a word, despite it seemingly meaning "rule by hippos" or "rule by hypodermic needles". I think you mean hypocrisy, and you shouldn't use big words you can't even spell correctly.
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We should all be lucky that ESR has been gracious enough to appoint himself as the official spokesperson for the hacker community.
Now, where do we build the bikeshed clubhouse?
RMS is going to shit a brick when he catches wind of this article's author repeatedly referring to FreeBSD as "Free Software". And even has a hyperlink, in one of these instances, pointing to GNU.org.
Purposeful trolling by the author?
if, say, BIND has a problem or exploit, it's highly unlikely that a patch it will break Postfix or Apache
*cough* OpenSSL *cough*
Has anyone successfully gotten two Windows boxes with iTunes sharing running, to work?
We can see each other in the playlist panel, but when I click on the item, it just spins, and eventually times out.
(Yes, the boxes are on the same subnet and not crossing a router)
No really noticeable change in Firebird, that I've noticed yet. The new bookmark panel thingy is of no use to me, currently. But it's still the same great browser.
.3. My IMAP stuff is a lot faster now... alot, and you're now properly notified when a folder other than the Inbox receives a message. Quite a speedy mail client. So far, so good.
Thunderbird, which was unusable to me in v0.2 is much improved in
Now looks less competitve, doesn't it ?
Not really. Dell's server hardware is great, even better than Apple's workstation/server hardware. Plus those servers come with at least Gold support contracts.
I'm hardly one of the Slashdot Linux drones, but:
But the Free Software Foundation doesn't want royalties--it wants you to burn down your house, or at the very least share it [GPL'd code and derivatives] with cloners.
Then don't fucking use GPL'd code. This couldn't get any more simpler. Why is it that people constantly bitch about this? If the author didn't want to write code under the GPL, he wouldn't have done so.
If you're going to stand on the shoulders of someone else, and use their code, respect their license. It's not "your" house, you just added a picket fence around it, and maybe a room or two.
Tracking down bad guys has become such a big [lucrative?] operation that the Free Software Foundation has created a so-called Compliance Lab to snoop out violators and bust them.
So? It's perfectly within their rights. Many companies have similar mechanisms.
This all seems simple to me. Cisco buys chips with the offending code from Broadcom. Go after Broadcom. And then shut the fuck up about the GPL, you're perfectly free not to use it.
I guess getting tutored in secret is better than just floundering in ignorance.
I take it you haven't had the "pleasure" of your PHB embarrassing you by yelling "I know it's your T1 because our network guy teleported into the Baywatch hub and checked it!" at a Qwest network admin during a heated conference call.
For the PHB's here: It's 'telnet' and 'Bay Networks'.
I'm a Microsoft user and I don't have any problems with floods of worms and viruses attacking my machine.
I use the built-in ICF or free Kerio Personal Firewall, and have Automatic Updates configured to automatically download patches.
The worst I have to do is come in in the morning, sit there for 3 minutes while the patches install, and do a quick reboot. It's a hell of a lot easier than finding out there's a new OpenSSL exploit and having to recompile (or download RPM's) for everything that I think might use OpenSSL.
Where's the problem? Sounds like a user education issue to me. Or just FUD spread around by MS-bashers. I'd like to see someone in the Linux realm develop and actually deploy their OS to a hundred million users and see where they get. I'd bet they'd do worse than Microsoft, personally.
You're ignorant.
- Windows 2000 was much faster (overall) than Windows NT 4
- Windows XP was much faster than Windows 2000
- Windows 2003 Server is faster than Windows XP (If you disable all the extra "server" services and set priority to foreground processes. And even if you don't network/file IO is still faster)
Whiner.
Like X11... Gnome... the GNOME apps, no wait, that's Linux...
"Wow, imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!"
What's a "Europe"?
Do all the Segway owners with atrophied leg muscles and rotund asses get a loaner unit while their unit is in for repair?
It would be simply cruel to expect them to transport themselves under their own muscle power due to a defect in the Segway.
Before, pirating music was always a huge ethical issue with me. Now, the issue has been simpliefied for me. I can't purchase a CD and rip it for use on my iPod, so I'll just find it on Kazaa, and save the cost of the "backup media".
Enjoying new music has never been cheaper, thanks RIAA.
(Disclaimer: This post is satire. I don't really buy any CDs anymore.)
Where were you while your kids were playing these horrible games? Why weren't you monitoring them? Sounds like bad parenting is at fault. It's not the legal system's responsibility to raise your children.
Let's outlaw video games, let's outlaw violent movies, let's outlaw music and pornography, let's outlaw religion.
I think that video game manufacturers should modify the themes of their games to a more self-destructive approach. Maybe a "Die Man" game, where the winner racks up the most successful and inventive suicides. This would help ensure the appropriate children are removed from the gene pool before polluting it too much.
Stupid children deserve to die.
Thank the lord patching my FreeBSD servers is as easy as patching Windows servers with Windows Update!
'make world' is so quick and easy my grandmother can do it, and I don't have to spend all night waiting for the entire system to recompile.
Oh wait.
Jesus Christ, like I haven't seen this enough times already in chain emails and probably every "blog" on the face of this planet.
Thanks for this highly informative and unique piece of information!
How do you feel about spammers?
They should die.
So when do you draw the line? What if your company was making dangerous chemicals and not disposing of them properly? What if they were making chemical weapons? What if they were selling chemical weapons to terrorists?
It's just software, SCO isn't poisoning people. By your argument, no one should work for the US government.
People can still work for SCO and maintain their ethics, because Linux isn't at the center of their universe, and they aren't zealous.
And really, when it comes down to it. I think most fathers would resort to male-on-male prostitution if it meant keeping their wife and children fed and taken care of. THAT'S strong ethics.
I'm assuming you must be a teenager, or someone who is oblivious to reality. So I'll give you some hypothetical reasons why someone wouldn't just up and quit their job the minute they don't like it:
- They have kids
- They have a wife
- They have car payments
- They have house payments
- They have many bills to pay
- The economy sucks, and working at Domino's Pizza does not present a viable alternative
Any other questions?
What rubbish! Complete fucking rubbish.
.NET development tools, to quickly code up anything you need that can't be covered by the above.
Microsoft crushes Linux in terms of remote administration:
- Remote Desktop/Terminal Services (you don't even need a RD client, just a browser, which nearly every modern machine has, unlike ssh [yes, i know putty is just a quick download away, assuming you have rights to do that on a machine])
- VBScript (horrid, but gets the job done most of the time)
- WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation, do damn near anything remotely, but be sure to properly secure your network)
- The MMC tools (ADUC, etc etc), which fully operate remotely, as well.
- The
Fuck all this talk about privatizing space exploration, you people HAVE seen the Aliens films, right?
Hypocracy isn't a word, despite it seemingly meaning "rule by hippos" or "rule by hypodermic needles". I think you mean hypocrisy, and you shouldn't use big words you can't even spell correctly.