Since almost everything is running Windows these days
Nope. *nix is still the most used *server* OS out there. So a world wide attack on MS's OSes, would not disrupt the *important* functionalities of most nations. The real work will continue to get done : )
Auto-running attachments for a user is a design choice.
That doesn't mean its used by the same volume of people and in the same way. A machine serving up HTML is a vastly different environment to a home-user desktop.
*nix does FAR more then serve up HTML. What do you think *runs* Wall Street? *nix. What do you think powers just about all of the top level domains?
Realistically, there wouldn't be anywhere near as many people using Unix machines as Windows ones. Downloading a file from a server somewhere isn't "using" in the same way sitting in front of the machine is for 8 hours a day and to try and say otherwise is just sheer stupidity.
What does that have to do with anything? Yes, everyone knows MS has a monopoly on the desktop. I stated *servers*. Unix and Unix-Like OSes are used more and do more work period. The majority of email is sent from Unix machines, the majority of all things on the net is done or served or routed through Unix machines. The Net is the largest network in the world and it has worked as well as it has and been as reliably as it is because of Unix and Unix-Like OSes. Sitting in front of a computer for 8 hours a day is no where near as hostile an environment as opening a machine to the world. Those home MS Windows machines get hit hardest because of MS design choices, excessive amounts of coding errors and non-technical home users. Combine those three and you have a nightmare.
I wouldn't put it past them. They could even "seed" the network with tons of good copyrighted music/movies to lure people in. I wonder if they did that would that make those copyrighted materials now public domain?
This just goes to show that you can not trust closed proprietary code. It is pretty weird that these ES5 guys would come out the way they did with big mouths. Either they work for the RIAA/MPAA or they *wanted* to be a target. I think it is the first one. If you are going to share files, make sure that you
1. Use open source applications only.
2. Share files that you have the legal right to share.
3. If you do share some illegal file, see 1.
There are 1,000's of songs out there that can be legally shared, and there are tens of thousands of files/applications out there that can be legally shared. Share those and dump the RIAA/MPAA all together.
There is a good Open Source P2P app out there called giFT. It can connect to OpenFT, Gnutella and Kazza (FastTrack).
giFT
Why do you think there are all those blinking lights at the tops of tall buildings around airports? They are there for pilots. And yes, a building *needs* to be designed to withstand the conditions for the area it is in. Down here in Florida, there are hurricane codes, in Kansas, I am a sure there are tornado codes just as earthquake codes in California and Japan and elsewhere. Who would think of a plane crashing into a building? The same person who thought to put blinking lights at the top of tall buildings for pilots.
While I do agree with your analogy somewhat, there are a few points left out. The archietcts that designed the Twin Towers are probably going to have a tuff time gettng a job, or their work in the future will be suspect to quality. They should have taken a plane crash into consideration since they are near a major airport, I guess the most they did was put those little blinking light on the top of both buildings. With MS, they are a convicted monopoly and they still use that monopoly to restrict choice and competition. Through their proprietary methods, they have made it *very* hard for other software to gain a mass market share. By preventing competition and thus possibly better products, MS is a target for much of the blame. They rush out shoddy work and then leave the industry to spend BILLIONS every year on the problems that their software has caused. I have *never* heard of Linux, Mac or Unix causing this much damage per year because of design flaws. Please don't try to say it is because MS Windows is used by more users, Unix is the number one server with more market share then MS and their server offerings. If the amount of usage had anything to do with the amount of flaws found, they one would expect Unix to have caused much more damage in the IT industry, and this is not the case. There is *no* reason for a virus, granted there will always be expliots in software since it is a human error that will happen on any OS. However, the severity of the flaws and the amount of financial damage that the flaws in MS software cause is what makes MS a bigger target for these types of backlash (being a convicted monopoly also doesn't help much). Also, if you look at the severity of expliots in other OSes, they are very minor compared to the expliots in MS. The exploits in MS can easily spread through Outlook, IE and other means, where as an exploit on say Linux is usually contained to just one box (have you ever heard of an exploit of *nix spreading through some email client?). What makes it even better for other OSes is that their is competition an thus choice. If you find sendmail too crappy (such as I do), then choose qmail or some other mailer. By having an illegal monopoly and explioting that monopoly, MS is their own worst enemy.
It could still be usable, it is called PORTING. You keep the good stuff and port the DirectX specific code to OpenGL. Now you can compile two versions, one for MS only DirectX and one For OpenGL to run on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD. Though I do agree with you on DirectX, MS should have put their efferts into the established standard of OpenGL and made that better, instead as usual, they make a proprietary software and keep it to themselves to monopolize the game industry.
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I just used prelink on OpenOffice 1.1 and get a 4 second startup time the first time I start it and 2 second startup times after that. I don't think you can get much better then that. This is on a P4 1.7GHz, 512MB laptop, so it is not the fastest box around. To prelink OOo-1.1 try this:
#cd to where you installed OOo prelink -vm --ld-library-path=/opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program soffice.bin
Replace the --ld-library-path= part with the directory where
soffice.bin is installed. You need to do this as root unless you installed OOo as a normal user.
Did you go into the "Deleted Items" folder and then click "Actions -> Empty Trash"? Works for me. Also, Ximian puts out Ximian Connector that lets you connect to an MS Exchange server and get all of it's features. This is what I use at work and it works great. I have full access to the calander and corporate contacts for meeting requests, etc. With the contacts, when you go to send an email, you click the To button and there you will see a find box. Type in the first few letters of the frist, last name and hit enter, it will return a list of all the corporate contacts. So if you want to find John Doe, you could type in "Jo Do" and hit enter to find all matches, or you could just type Do or Jo, etc. I have been talking with the admins here about using a REAL IMAP server and it is something they plan to do in a year or two. Exchange is proprietary crap, that is why only MS Software can work with it so well. Maybe talk to someone at your company about using a REAL IMAP server that is standards compliant, then you can use any mailer you like.
As far as comming up with a connector that works perfectly with MS Exchange, you will need to talk to MS and ask them to open up the protocol, good luck : )
I hate MS more then the average/.er. However this snip from the article doesn't sound that bad.
The forum is developing a next-generation TRON system called T-Kernel to speed up the development time for new electronics products. The group will make the source code for T-Kernel available in November, Mr Yamada said.
The agreement will allow the Windows CE.NET platform for digital devices to work on top of T-Kernel.
So it will still be free and the code will still be open and NOT controlled by MS. However, MS is happy to just get their nasty claws in on this one way or another. Now, I wonder what the situation will be in a few years as MS tries to take this over and create another monopoly.
I hate MS as much as the next guy. However, this looks like it will STILL be TRON and it will STILL be a free RTOS. They are just going to allow MS and their.Not crap to run on it. I guess this is how MS wants to try to get a monopoly on the embeded world.
I do have a problem when it is done by a government that has not proven it can be trusted with another's IP... or worse, one with nearly no respect for another's IP.
This crap was modded Informative? MS has been fined heavily many times for stealing "IP" of other companies, I guess it is OK because they are a US company?
This is not very different from certain South American and African countries that demanded and received the formulae to certain drugs and then turned around and started making their own.
Your kidding right? It is not like they did this to MAKE MONEY. They did it to SAVE thousands of lives you bone-head. These nasty drug companines were charging too much and did not care about the thousands of people. Though I guess the only things that matters in the world are corporate profit and what you are doing for your share holders.
MS said that "some" code is removed for "security" reason. So any govt. that looks at the code and gives it the OK, does not really know what that missing code is doing when they use the commercial OS. Now if the govt. was allowed to build their own version of MS Windows based on the code the were given, then I think more govts would be a little more at ease over the deal. I personally think China will look at the code to try to make their Red Flag Linux more compatible with proprietary MS protocols.
What a stab in the back. Maybe it is time to send HP a few thousand emails of complaint to let them know that this kind of behaviour is not supported in the Linux community. What bone-head at HP thought this was a good idea? Talk about the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing.
when Dell put out some good quality stuff. Over the last few years they have change considerably. Now all they do is assemble parts made some where else, mostly outside of the USA. I also remember hearing Dell say that they support Linux. Where is that support? Will this device be supported or usably under Linux? Will it be a standard mass storage device that can mount under Linux, MS Windows and Mac without dirvers? Or did they make it proprietary? I think they are nothing more then MS's lap dog now, and would not purchase anything from them. Why won't they let me purchase a PC without an OS? They let you choose between different version of MS Windows, so why not let me choose not to have it at all and not have to pay the "MS Tax"? Oh, and I think their prices are too high. Go to their site and configure a PC or laptop, then add an extra 256MB of memory. They want $100 bucks! You can get it over the net for $25 - $45 bucks. Stay away from Dell.
Sorry, but I think that you really have some problems with your logic.
Yes, the code you write. But when someone copies your idea and writes his own code, you're lost as copyright won't help you. Period.
If I write code to perform a certain task, and someone else comes along and writes something similar, I HAVE LOST NOTHING. I still have my implementation and my idea. Who am I to tell someone else what they can or cannot think? Who am I to tell someone what ideas they are allowed to have? Patents and sofware DO NOT mix well. Just because I had an idea 1 minute before you does NOT give me the right to "own" that idea. You are free to implement your ideas just as I am free to implement mine. Copyright will stop you from stealing my implemenation, but not stop you from innovating and creating your OWN. That is why:
The problem is that the big media studios are NOT working on protecting Fair Use. They are only working on protecting their "content". They want the abitily to prevent you from copying ANYTHING which is WRONG IMO. We have a right to Fair Use and the legal right to backup. If I make a purchase of a DVD, I have the right to back it up and protect my investment so I don't need to repurchase it a year or two from now when the "content" on it is not usable any more. The media studios have every right to stop me from giving away their content, they DO NOT howver have a right to strip away my right to Fair Use. If they would build a system that allowed people to listen to music or watch movies while still allowing the people to make at least ONE backup, not many people would be outraged by their actions. As it stands now, the media company wants you to "pay-per-view/listen" for every piece of content. This is not fair. If they sell a product to me, then that product is mine and I have a right to back it up, sell it, give it away, throw it out, etc.
Are you a psychic? Seriously? I was one of those people who thought "Sun is not that bad", until I read this article. I didn't see this one coming. Anymore predictions for Sun : )
I think you pick a bad example. I just got 3 2-way Xeon 3.06GHz boxes from HP. They have hyperthreading so it looks to Linux like a 4-way. The cost of these boxes are FAR cheaper then a quad V880 and they OUT PERFORM them. They only had 2Gb of memory so that needed to be bumped up to 4Gb. After that there was no comparison. These 2 to 4 way boxes from HP are great. They have hotswap/redundant everything. I can throw two of these 2-way HP boxes with Linux behind a load balancer for less then ONE Sun V880 and get far better speed and scalability. Adding processors is a bad way to scale IMO. Once you get over a 4-way box, you don't get the full potential of the processors. The best way to scale is to use smaller boxes behind a load balancer or a cluster. Sun just cannot compete on price on 2-way or 4-way boxes. Also, IMO Sparcs are DOG slow. I get far better performance from J2EE and Orcale on a 4-way Lintel Xeon server then I get from a 4-way Ultra Sparc III and at considerable cost savings. IMO, the best thing Sun can do for their future is to put their skilled developers behind Linux or considerably lower the cost of the Sparc platform.
I was talking about drivers you crack smoker.
You replied
USB support in Windows has nothing to do with Windows? WTF
And then I clarified my statement by saying that the DRIVERS, which make USB useful, has NOTHING to do with MS. It is the manufactuers that are making all those drivers for their hardware and thus give MS a nice USB experience. Linux has great USB, however, without DRIVERS, it doesn't matter. Though in the last 1-2 years, many products work great through USB under Linux. For example, my HP PSC 2110 printer/scanner/copier, my Archos MP3 player/record, my HP CD Writer, my Olympus Digital camera, my USB hard drive, and many other devices which you can find some of them here
As I stated before. I don't use MS Windows at all in my home network. However, at work, it was a nightmare to try to run 1,000 of desktops with restricted access. The vast majority of applications just WOULD NOT run. MS has always had the environment where user have total control and the vast majority of software out there takes that as a given. It has been far easier for the admins where I work to segment the network well, use plenty of firewalls, give each user their own network share for personal files, and to use ghost to fix any machie that gets too hosed then to try to configure 100's of applications to run in a locked down MS Windows 2000/XP desktop environment. Now, the Linux desktops run great in a locked down environment since that is how it has been under Linux since day one. Any user specific data is just handled in the users $HOME direcotry and no root access is needed.
I agree 100%. It really is an idustry problem. Though I feel that MS was the root cause of this problem by making things this way in the first place. However, now the industry expects things to be this way and when you do try to lock down an MS windows desktop, the user friednly experience is gone. This is why Linux gets complaints that it is not as user friendly as MS Windows. I personally think this is a good thing because it forces all Linux users to at least know some BASIC computing skills. No one is saying you need to be a uber computer geek to use Linux. Just some basic skills like you need to su - to the root user to install software or change system wide config files. This is why at the fortune 500 company I work for the 1,000 of MS desktop users are given local admin to their PC's. It was a nightmare for the admins to constantly run around to install/unistall and configure stuff for a restricted desktop. It is much easier to give the 1,000 of users a network share for personal files and just ghost a PC that gets too hosed. With the network segmented enough and plenty of firewalls, the internal network stays pretty clean.
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I wouldn't put it past them. They could even "seed" the network with tons of good copyrighted music/movies to lure people in. I wonder if they did that would that make those copyrighted materials now public domain?
This just goes to show that you can not trust closed proprietary code. It is pretty weird that these ES5 guys would come out the way they did with big mouths. Either they work for the RIAA/MPAA or they *wanted* to be a target. I think it is the first one. If you are going to share files, make sure that you
1. Use open source applications only.
2. Share files that you have the legal right to share.
3. If you do share some illegal file, see 1.
There are 1,000's of songs out there that can be legally shared, and there are tens of thousands of files/applications out there that can be legally shared. Share those and dump the RIAA/MPAA all together. There is a good Open Source P2P app out there called giFT. It can connect to OpenFT, Gnutella and Kazza (FastTrack). giFT
Why do you think there are all those blinking lights at the tops of tall buildings around airports? They are there for pilots. And yes, a building *needs* to be designed to withstand the conditions for the area it is in. Down here in Florida, there are hurricane codes, in Kansas, I am a sure there are tornado codes just as earthquake codes in California and Japan and elsewhere. Who would think of a plane crashing into a building? The same person who thought to put blinking lights at the top of tall buildings for pilots.
While I do agree with your analogy somewhat, there are a few points left out. The archietcts that designed the Twin Towers are probably going to have a tuff time gettng a job, or their work in the future will be suspect to quality. They should have taken a plane crash into consideration since they are near a major airport, I guess the most they did was put those little blinking light on the top of both buildings. With MS, they are a convicted monopoly and they still use that monopoly to restrict choice and competition. Through their proprietary methods, they have made it *very* hard for other software to gain a mass market share. By preventing competition and thus possibly better products, MS is a target for much of the blame. They rush out shoddy work and then leave the industry to spend BILLIONS every year on the problems that their software has caused. I have *never* heard of Linux, Mac or Unix causing this much damage per year because of design flaws. Please don't try to say it is because MS Windows is used by more users, Unix is the number one server with more market share then MS and their server offerings. If the amount of usage had anything to do with the amount of flaws found, they one would expect Unix to have caused much more damage in the IT industry, and this is not the case. There is *no* reason for a virus, granted there will always be expliots in software since it is a human error that will happen on any OS. However, the severity of the flaws and the amount of financial damage that the flaws in MS software cause is what makes MS a bigger target for these types of backlash (being a convicted monopoly also doesn't help much). Also, if you look at the severity of expliots in other OSes, they are very minor compared to the expliots in MS. The exploits in MS can easily spread through Outlook, IE and other means, where as an exploit on say Linux is usually contained to just one box (have you ever heard of an exploit of *nix spreading through some email client?). What makes it even better for other OSes is that their is competition an thus choice. If you find sendmail too crappy (such as I do), then choose qmail or some other mailer. By having an illegal monopoly and explioting that monopoly, MS is their own worst enemy.
It could still be usable, it is called PORTING. You keep the good stuff and port the DirectX specific code to OpenGL. Now you can compile two versions, one for MS only DirectX and one For OpenGL to run on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD. Though I do agree with you on DirectX, MS should have put their efferts into the established standard of OpenGL and made that better, instead as usual, they make a proprietary software and keep it to themselves to monopolize the game industry.
Replace the --ld-library-path= part with the directory where soffice.bin is installed. You need to do this as root unless you installed OOo as a normal user.
Did you go into the "Deleted Items" folder and then click "Actions -> Empty Trash"? Works for me. Also, Ximian puts out Ximian Connector that lets you connect to an MS Exchange server and get all of it's features. This is what I use at work and it works great. I have full access to the calander and corporate contacts for meeting requests, etc. With the contacts, when you go to send an email, you click the To button and there you will see a find box. Type in the first few letters of the frist, last name and hit enter, it will return a list of all the corporate contacts. So if you want to find John Doe, you could type in "Jo Do" and hit enter to find all matches, or you could just type Do or Jo, etc. I have been talking with the admins here about using a REAL IMAP server and it is something they plan to do in a year or two. Exchange is proprietary crap, that is why only MS Software can work with it so well. Maybe talk to someone at your company about using a REAL IMAP server that is standards compliant, then you can use any mailer you like.
As far as comming up with a connector that works perfectly with MS Exchange, you will need to talk to MS and ask them to open up the protocol, good luck : )
I hate MS more then the average /.er. However this snip from the article doesn't sound that bad.
.NET platform for digital devices to work on top of T-Kernel.
The forum is developing a next-generation TRON system called T-Kernel to speed up the development time for new electronics products. The group will make the source code for T-Kernel available in November, Mr Yamada said.
The agreement will allow the Windows CE
So it will still be free and the code will still be open and NOT controlled by MS. However, MS is happy to just get their nasty claws in on this one way or another. Now, I wonder what the situation will be in a few years as MS tries to take this over and create another monopoly.
I hate MS as much as the next guy. However, this looks like it will STILL be TRON and it will STILL be a free RTOS. They are just going to allow MS and their .Not crap to run on it. I guess this is how MS wants to try to get a monopoly on the embeded world.
TRON + Linux = "T-Linux"
I tried to email these bone-heads, however I get weird errors trying to send email to office@www.t-engine.org
Ah yes, what was I thinking : )
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Does any country REALLY think they are getting the full source code? Hmm, lets look at some of the steps of the MS OS govt. release procedures
...
1. Remove nsa.c
2. Remove sendMSInfo.c
3. Remove
MS said that "some" code is removed for "security" reason. So any govt. that looks at the code and gives it the OK, does not really know what that missing code is doing when they use the commercial OS. Now if the govt. was allowed to build their own version of MS Windows based on the code the were given, then I think more govts would be a little more at ease over the deal. I personally think China will look at the code to try to make their Red Flag Linux more compatible with proprietary MS protocols.
What a stab in the back. Maybe it is time to send HP a few thousand emails of complaint to let them know that this kind of behaviour is not supported in the Linux community. What bone-head at HP thought this was a good idea? Talk about the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing.
when Dell put out some good quality stuff. Over the last few years they have change considerably. Now all they do is assemble parts made some where else, mostly outside of the USA. I also remember hearing Dell say that they support Linux. Where is that support? Will this device be supported or usably under Linux? Will it be a standard mass storage device that can mount under Linux, MS Windows and Mac without dirvers? Or did they make it proprietary? I think they are nothing more then MS's lap dog now, and would not purchase anything from them. Why won't they let me purchase a PC without an OS? They let you choose between different version of MS Windows, so why not let me choose not to have it at all and not have to pay the "MS Tax"? Oh, and I think their prices are too high. Go to their site and configure a PC or laptop, then add an extra 256MB of memory. They want $100 bucks! You can get it over the net for $25 - $45 bucks. Stay away from Dell.
Apt has been ported to RPM for a while now. It makes installing RPM's a snap. Apt for Red Hat How-To
The problem is that the big media studios are NOT working on protecting Fair Use. They are only working on protecting their "content". They want the abitily to prevent you from copying ANYTHING which is WRONG IMO. We have a right to Fair Use and the legal right to backup. If I make a purchase of a DVD, I have the right to back it up and protect my investment so I don't need to repurchase it a year or two from now when the "content" on it is not usable any more. The media studios have every right to stop me from giving away their content, they DO NOT howver have a right to strip away my right to Fair Use. If they would build a system that allowed people to listen to music or watch movies while still allowing the people to make at least ONE backup, not many people would be outraged by their actions. As it stands now, the media company wants you to "pay-per-view/listen" for every piece of content. This is not fair. If they sell a product to me, then that product is mine and I have a right to back it up, sell it, give it away, throw it out, etc.
Are you a psychic? Seriously? I was one of those people who thought "Sun is not that bad", until I read this article. I didn't see this one coming. Anymore predictions for Sun : )
I think you pick a bad example. I just got 3 2-way Xeon 3.06GHz boxes from HP. They have hyperthreading so it looks to Linux like a 4-way. The cost of these boxes are FAR cheaper then a quad V880 and they OUT PERFORM them. They only had 2Gb of memory so that needed to be bumped up to 4Gb. After that there was no comparison. These 2 to 4 way boxes from HP are great. They have hotswap/redundant everything. I can throw two of these 2-way HP boxes with Linux behind a load balancer for less then ONE Sun V880 and get far better speed and scalability. Adding processors is a bad way to scale IMO. Once you get over a 4-way box, you don't get the full potential of the processors. The best way to scale is to use smaller boxes behind a load balancer or a cluster. Sun just cannot compete on price on 2-way or 4-way boxes. Also, IMO Sparcs are DOG slow. I get far better performance from J2EE and Orcale on a 4-way Lintel Xeon server then I get from a 4-way Ultra Sparc III and at considerable cost savings. IMO, the best thing Sun can do for their future is to put their skilled developers behind Linux or considerably lower the cost of the Sparc platform.
As I stated before. I don't use MS Windows at all in my home network. However, at work, it was a nightmare to try to run 1,000 of desktops with restricted access. The vast majority of applications just WOULD NOT run. MS has always had the environment where user have total control and the vast majority of software out there takes that as a given. It has been far easier for the admins where I work to segment the network well, use plenty of firewalls, give each user their own network share for personal files, and to use ghost to fix any machie that gets too hosed then to try to configure 100's of applications to run in a locked down MS Windows 2000/XP desktop environment. Now, the Linux desktops run great in a locked down environment since that is how it has been under Linux since day one. Any user specific data is just handled in the users $HOME direcotry and no root access is needed.
I agree 100%. It really is an idustry problem. Though I feel that MS was the root cause of this problem by making things this way in the first place. However, now the industry expects things to be this way and when you do try to lock down an MS windows desktop, the user friednly experience is gone. This is why Linux gets complaints that it is not as user friendly as MS Windows. I personally think this is a good thing because it forces all Linux users to at least know some BASIC computing skills. No one is saying you need to be a uber computer geek to use Linux. Just some basic skills like you need to su - to the root user to install software or change system wide config files. This is why at the fortune 500 company I work for the 1,000 of MS desktop users are given local admin to their PC's. It was a nightmare for the admins to constantly run around to install/unistall and configure stuff for a restricted desktop. It is much easier to give the 1,000 of users a network share for personal files and just ghost a PC that gets too hosed. With the network segmented enough and plenty of firewalls, the internal network stays pretty clean.