Yes, it would be nice to get the "Secret bits," like drivers, but this is actually better for the community in the long run. Why? Because Linksys will have released the GPL parts publically, without losing control of their "I.P." or the "I.P." of companies providing components for this product (if any).
"Viral" GPL gobbling "I.P." like pac-man with melanoma? Not really!
When I was growning up and we learned about those "sentance" things, they taught me that we need to capitalize the first word of each new "sentance".
I? We? The sentences taught you what? Perhaps the word "they" in your sentence refers something or someone not mentioned in your statement. When constructing a proper, unambiguous sentence, you might want to check for agreement between subject and verb, as well as consistent use of tense.
If you're going to bitch and moan, please use proper grammer when doing so.
Indeed. Might as well use proper spelling while you're at it, as well.
It would be nice if Mozilla Mail understood follow-up flags. They're just part of the mail headers. I send mail from a cron job, using a shell script (no perl or anything) every weekday, with a follow-up flag on it. For example:
X-Message-Flag: Follow up Subject: Timesheet Reminder Reply-By: Wed Jul 2 17:15:00 EDT 2003 ... I guess Mozilla would need a built-in calendar to use this well, but, OK! I'd like a built-in calendar.
I also wish there was a standard for transmitting and storing non-mail items as mail messages, so that Calendars, Contacts, Tasks, To-Do, Notes, etc. could be stored in IMAP. I furthermore wish that Mozilla would use this standard, should it exist. Evolution would do well to use it, too.
A Microsoftie ("thrall") at work says I'm a Zealot because I don't use I.E. I try to explain that Mozilla is quite simply, just better, and provide examples from tabs, to low numbers of security issues, to standard compliance, to pop-up blocking, cookie management, etc. He doesn't buy it.
When we see each other in the hallway, he says "Zealot!", and I say "fanboy!"
You've obviously never had an opportunity to recover one of Exchange's JET-based (that's right, MS-Access) message stores and manually clean the mail queues. And then explain to the CEO why his perfect MS solution ate his email.
I think it is trying to throw some shots at us. It threw Novell out in front of the bus a couple of weeks ago and Novell got run over.
It's a unique situation when a company as powerful as IBM has somebody coming at it with such strong claims as we have in a very public forum. So maybe its supercomputers haven't spat out an algorithm yet on how to respond to this kind of situation. I don't know.
I think IBM's only response to this kind of thing that Ol' Darl will understand is "I'm rubber and you're glue, bounces off me and sticks to you."
Yeah, we're all impressed with the size of your penis Darl. It looks nice with the necktie around it.
Why does the Army need MS Office? The U.S. government went to a lot of trouble to define and adopt standards like SGML and POSIX -- only now to get locked into proprietary solutions from a criminal software house?
Boy, that sounded like a press release for Microsoft. "Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional streamline enterprise activities." -- sheesh! I think this would be the opposite of the truth, as in general Linux desktops can do everything that Windows desktops can, for business needs. Linux doesn't run the $9 business card maker software, or the latest video games, but the Army doesn't need that stuff, and shouldn't be letting its people install random Best Buy software on Miltary computers in any case.
"futzing around for weeks on end trying to figure out how to get fonts to anti-alias"... what?!?
The HURD would actually help this. Because it's a microkernel, it would be easier to write higher-quality drivers for it, as well as have a stable API for drivers to write to. MacOSX and Windows NT have this advantage over Linux at the moment. Linux has loadable modules, but the API and ABI for them is a moving target.
This advantage of the other OSes could also be a liability, though -- look at the instability that bad drivers cause Windows. Being a true microkernel system, Hurd could mitigate this somewhat, much as QNX does.
And say what you will, but binary drivers are good for free OSes. Get the OS for free -- libre and gratis -- and hardware manufacturers can release drivers for their hardware and your OS, in a way that keeps them safe from legal issues (leaking other companies' trade secrets and the like). All-free would be better, of course. But fight the battle one step at a time. First step, a free OS that can actually operate your scanner, printer, sound card, etc.
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If that's an accurate quote, he's probably the only Democrat I'd ever vote for.
Yeah, why have a mere elected President, when you can have a King?
- Libertarian Candidate (100%)
- Sharpton, Reverend Al - Democrat (87%)
- Dean, Gov. Howard, VT - Democrat (82%)
- Kucinich, Cong. Dennis, OH - Democrat (81%)
- Kerry, Senator John, MA - Democrat (74%)
- Gephardt, Cong. Dick, MO - Democrat (71%)
- Lieberman Senator Joe CT - Democrat (70%)
- Edwards, Senator John, NC - Democrat (70%)
- Bush, George W. - US President (62%)
- Graham, Senator Bob, FL - Democrat (51%)
- Moseley-Braun, Former Senator Carol IL - Democrat (49%)
- Phillips, Howard - Constitution (30%)
- LaRouche, Lyndon H. Jr. - Democrat (0%)
#1 and #2 are *so* much alike!#6 is a dickhead.
"When [sic] I'm president, we'll do executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day."
- Dick Gephardt
Apparently Ol' Dick doesn't want to be President, he wants to be El Presidente.
The code is just brilliant. A lot of care was taken in the construction of this hack. No script kiddie is he.
It looks like it retrives the private key. That's interesting.
Mooooooo
That was fast... IIS is complaining of too many users.
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Take a taser, er, Tesla Brand Privacy Regulator, into the store with you, and apply it to the tags.
Reminds me of the blockbuster scene in Fight Club...
He can join Hilary Rosen! See my previous comment on the subject of U.S. "I.P." people in Iraq for one desirable outcome...
Why?
Seriously.
Yes, it would be nice to get the "Secret bits," like drivers, but this is actually better for the community in the long run. Why? Because Linksys will have released the GPL parts publically, without losing control of their "I.P." or the "I.P." of companies providing components for this product (if any).
"Viral" GPL gobbling "I.P." like pac-man with melanoma? Not really!
Yeah, yeah. Three levels deep. :)
"Growning?"
"Tard?"
When I was growning up and we learned about those "sentance" things, they taught me that we need to capitalize the first word of each new "sentance".
I? We? The sentences taught you what? Perhaps the word "they" in your sentence refers something or someone not mentioned in your statement. When constructing a proper, unambiguous sentence, you might want to check for agreement between subject and verb, as well as consistent use of tense.
If you're going to bitch and moan, please use proper grammer when doing so.
Indeed. Might as well use proper spelling while you're at it, as well.
Alma Gates! The Beast!
It would be nice if Mozilla Mail understood follow-up flags. They're just part of the mail headers. I send mail from a cron job, using a shell script (no perl or anything) every weekday, with a follow-up flag on it. For example:
... I guess Mozilla would need a built-in calendar to use this well, but, OK! I'd like a built-in calendar.
X-Message-Flag: Follow up
Subject: Timesheet Reminder
Reply-By: Wed Jul 2 17:15:00 EDT 2003
I also wish there was a standard for transmitting and storing non-mail items as mail messages, so that Calendars, Contacts, Tasks, To-Do, Notes, etc. could be stored in IMAP. I furthermore wish that Mozilla would use this standard, should it exist. Evolution would do well to use it, too.
except for standards conformance.
And security holes.
I consider that to be a bug, and a user interface disaster, personally.
A Microsoftie ("thrall") at work says I'm a Zealot because I don't use I.E. I try to explain that Mozilla is quite simply, just better, and provide examples from tabs, to low numbers of security issues, to standard compliance, to pop-up blocking, cookie management, etc. He doesn't buy it.
When we see each other in the hallway, he says "Zealot!", and I say "fanboy!"
You've obviously never had an opportunity to recover one of Exchange's JET-based (that's right, MS-Access) message stores and manually clean the mail queues. And then explain to the CEO why his perfect MS solution ate his email.
I think IBM's only response to this kind of thing that Ol' Darl will understand is "I'm rubber and you're glue, bounces off me and sticks to you."
Yeah, we're all impressed with the size of your penis Darl. It looks nice with the necktie around it.
You can, on the other hand, diff foo.c against its previous version and get MUCH more information than a MSFT bug report will give you about an issue.
You'll probably never know if there's a bug in the Win32 API unless you're a programmer.
And then you *definitely* know.
The obvious solution is, of course, to ditch open standards altogether and use expensive proprietary formats.
Why does the Army need MS Office? The U.S. government went to a lot of trouble to define and adopt standards like SGML and POSIX -- only now to get locked into proprietary solutions from a criminal software house?
Mmm. Yes. And Windows doesn't have any backdoors or exploits. Couldn't possibly. I'm sure the Amry reviewed the code.
Boy, that sounded like a press release for Microsoft. "Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional streamline enterprise activities." -- sheesh! I think this would be the opposite of the truth, as in general Linux desktops can do everything that Windows desktops can, for business needs. Linux doesn't run the $9 business card maker software, or the latest video games, but the Army doesn't need that stuff, and shouldn't be letting its people install random Best Buy software on Miltary computers in any case.
"futzing around for weeks on end trying to figure out how to get fonts to anti-alias"
The HURD would actually help this. Because it's a microkernel, it would be easier to write higher-quality drivers for it, as well as have a stable API for drivers to write to. MacOSX and Windows NT have this advantage over Linux at the moment. Linux has loadable modules, but the API and ABI for them is a moving target.
This advantage of the other OSes could also be a liability, though -- look at the instability that bad drivers cause Windows. Being a true microkernel system, Hurd could mitigate this somewhat, much as QNX does.
And say what you will, but binary drivers are good for free OSes. Get the OS for free -- libre and gratis -- and hardware manufacturers can release drivers for their hardware and your OS, in a way that keeps them safe from legal issues (leaking other companies' trade secrets and the like). All-free would be better, of course. But fight the battle one step at a time. First step, a free OS that can actually operate your scanner, printer, sound card, etc.