Nothing. It's sole benefit is being a client to a Unix console.
Once it gets rootless mode, it will be useful for integrating X and Windows apps on the desktop, which is a great transitional state between people running all-Windows, and people running all-Unix on the desktop.
In other words, it's one more step toward world domination!:-)
The reason I liked this idea was because applications could allocate keys much like they allocate other system resources, which would be a drastic user interface improvement. Instead of clicking awkwardward "button" screen abstractions, common operations could be placed directly on the keyboard.
I was thinking of something along the same lines. It would be very useful, especially for function keys (i.e. have a 'Help' key, rather than "Press F1 for help").
Don't know if it would cost too much, but let me know if you go forward with that. I want to buy one. 8-)
I'll rephrase: How do you know that there was even one single person who was moral? What is your basis for claiming that there was any such person?
As a side note, your demand that I "show you one", is akin to a person in 967 CE saying "Human flight is impossible... Show me a human that can fly if you disagree!" Or, if you prefer a more technical example, it's akin to saying "this cryptographic algorithm is unbreakable because nobody has ever broken it!"
"What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make software 'releases'.
Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality
assurance people in its wake."
What credit should I give when I quote you on this? I've been trying to put that into words for a few years now, and you just handed them to me on a silver platter. Thanks!
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Once it gets rootless mode, it will be useful for integrating X and Windows apps on the desktop, which is a great transitional state between people running all-Windows, and people running all-Unix on the desktop.
In other words, it's one more step toward world domination! :-)
The reason I liked this idea was because applications could allocate keys much like they allocate other system resources, which would be a drastic user interface improvement. Instead of clicking awkwardward "button" screen abstractions, common operations could be placed directly on the keyboard.
Can someone explain to me why other OSes take so long to do process context switches? I mean, what are they doing?
Don't know if it would cost too much, but let me know if you go forward with that. I want to buy one. 8-)
At work, we use Automachron on our Windows boxes to sync up to a local time server.
Dan Bernstein bet $500 that qmail is, and he seems to have won. Or do you have some other definition of "secure" of which we're not aware?
Yes, for the short term. For a longer-term solution, we need real security: application sandboxing.
Internally, yes, but users can't verify packages...yet. AFAIK, the plan is to go forward with integrating debsig-verify after woody's release.
Not really. All you need is some regular C code and a JMP instruction somewhere.
open("silence.pcm", "w").write("\x00\x00\x00\x00" * (60 * 44100))
The file is closed after writing since the handle's reference count hits 0 (or something like that).
Hah! And moderated up! Welcome to Slashdot, I guess. :-)
Aw crap. I just made the same reply as I did earlier today...
Yeah! Just like BSD...
Lol. Yeah, and OSX is dying too, since it's based on BSD, which is clearly dead. ;-)
Hear hear!
As a side note, your demand that I "show you one", is akin to a person in 967 CE saying "Human flight is impossible ... Show me a human that can fly if you disagree!" Or, if you prefer a more technical example, it's akin to saying "this cryptographic algorithm is unbreakable because nobody has ever broken it!"
That's "onymous"
Doesn't the UK still have "common law" that would cover stuff like this?
The real question is: when is Linux coming to StarCon?
"What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make software 'releases'. Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake."
Just re-read your post. It turns out I have nothing against what you said. Sorry.
How do you know this? ("Because I read in a book somewhere that Peter said so" is not a valid answer.)
No , there aren't.
Not directly, but whenever I discuss religion with theists (especially Christians), we get the impression that that's what they think.
What credit should I give when I quote you on this? I've been trying to put that into words for a few years now, and you just handed them to me on a silver platter. Thanks!