People hated windows 2000 before it came out. People hated windows xp before it came out. People will hate longhorn before it comes out. That's just how people are with microsoft, they're afraid of things they don't know yet.
Well the pressure wave is delayed, not instant. It will be less than the speed of sound under water (something around 800mph). Still a lot slower than electrons.
We have wireless Internet that uses breezecom/alvarion equipment (www.alvarion.com). One night ligtning stuk on or near our home. A surge came down the equipment. The radio was completely fried. The ethernet jack in the radio was melted. The ethernet cards in my server/router were toast. What's really weird is that the switch I used on the other side of my router was fried along with all the ethernet cards. But the server (which the surge went through) functioned fine.
I replaced the NICs in everything, the switch. And my router/server kept working. Well for a while, after about another year the PS/2 ports stopped working. But the box still sits in the corner of my room being a good little router.
When compared to other windowing systems, X is slow. Y has network transparency too.
The fundamental problem with X is that you essentially use two layers of widget sets. The application does the grunt of the work while the windowing system just does what its told. Now before you say "yeah, but that's a good thing." remember that this makes buffering/double buffering very horrible.
X is a standard, but who the hell programs in Xlib anymore? We're talking standards on a higher level, as in window management extensions and the such.
XFree86 is 10 getting old. There's a difference between people (how many different genetic revisions of YOU has their been?), computer science (theories), and actual code.
Actual code is complex. Computer science is a relatively new field compared to things like mathmatics. The problem with code is that you're almost bound to the techniques around the time when you started. As well as the archetecture designed for it. Theories and ideas can be changed or completely rewritten. They are ideas and ideas mold very easily, code doesn't change as easily as concepts.
The problem with X is that you really can't change its archetecture and that's why Y is being written from scratch, because new techniques, newer archetecture designs, etc. will make it much easier to work with.
X windows has served me well over the years, but I think a replacement needs to come along, I hope Y is that replacement.
And that's why... Most technicians do it by instinct and years of experience. If this peticular thing is happening, you know it could be one of x, y, or z.
That's always worked better for me than anything else. Although it would be nice to have something tell me what's wrong:)
It's true, people would rather write code than fix people's broken shit.
Rather than fixing borken code, why don't we teach some people how to write decent programs? Maybe put up some documentation of some common security flaws and how people could have avoided coming near them by structuring their code differently.
I know some code needs to be fixed, but lets face it, most people aren't willing to do it. There are a few unappreciated people out there who do this, and their job would be easier if people knew how to program better.
I'm not talking just about the kernel, for what I know the kernel is excellently structured. Most of the security holes stand in userland code and that's the area where most of the programmers who lack good programming skills are.
Wiretaps for that year cost taxpayers $69.5 million, and approximately 80 per cent were related to drug investigations.
Drug related everything costs taxpayers lots of money. Legalize drugs and you save a lot of money. That way law enforcement can focus on things that really do matter.
Honestly only about 10% of these ideas are realistic. A lot of them almost make me angry because they're just stupid.
Replace servers with P2P Too many network services - domain names, Web servers, email - rely on the old client-server model, which is vulnerable to attack.
C'mon, P2P is vulnerable to attack as well, mostly contamination of bad data/files. Yes P2P is good for some services, but not everything. File downloading it's great for. Even if we had some sort of automated server mirroring setup, where servers would mirror each other and a download client would get the file from multiple RELIABLE TRUSTWORTHY sources closest to that person. That's not exactly P2P, but it's along the middle road.
Point being this list is largely crap made up for news.
Although I agree that a purist distro is a good thing, the main reason why people don't use linux is because they don't want to mess around with command line.
That's one large thing preventing linux from completely destroying microsoft, it's not as easy to use. Although I agree for many people it's good to compile your own software, I do it, it's simply not logical to force everyone to do it because it can be a painful process.
The University of Nebraska at Omaha's dormatories use this technology for entry cards into buildings and the parking gates. You just wave these infront of these sensors and it lets you in the door.
Well what happens when you're in a crowd and someone is walking around with one of these sensors and waves it around at people's wallets and purses quietly picking up credit card numbers?
They figured out it works pretty well to put a disclaimer on the door about cell phones and then have a guy walk around with a knife and put on his shirt "cell phone enforcer"
I agree with you on how things often turns into an "us" versus "them". I don't think people need to understand how the OS works for home computers though.
The main thing holding linux (and *nix) back is an API that acts as a layer between the kernel and the user level.
There needs to be an api where an process can tell the "system" that it is a service/daemon and not just a user process. When I say system I mean some central process like init.
This system would also take care of certain common pieces of hardware like video cards, ethernet adapters, monitors, mice, keyboards. If an application wanted to use a mouse there would be a common API to do that through.
GPM is nice, but if you unplug your usb mouse and plug in a new one, gpm will have no idea what's happening.
There are tools that do each little individual part, but the thing is they are not coupled together.
Some may say many small tools is better for software darwinism. This is true, however software darwinism can work more efficiently if you organize two different "species" of software. Rather than having 1000s of small small species each wanting to do it their own way, you'd have less than 5 or so attempting it to do things in a somewhat related fassion so they can replace each other easily.
So microsoft gets google. What's to stop them from removing all linux links, or even all apple links. Google was great because they never sold out; They always kept their search engine honest. Once a corporation like microsoft gets ahold of something this popular, you can be sure that they'll exploit it as advertising.
I too hope this is a parody for haloween.
I admit the fact that it does need some work and some feature changes which I beleive they adressed with the SL-5600.
The distro they use on those is rather out of date. I installed openzaurus on it, works about 10x better. There's a few bugs, overall I like it and wouldn't trade it for a windows based handheld.
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In the case of WWII, if no one had opposed Hitler, then we still would have had concentration camps and the Holocaust.
WWII was Japan, WWI was Hitler...
People hated windows 2000 before it came out. People hated windows xp before it came out. People will hate longhorn before it comes out. That's just how people are with microsoft, they're afraid of things they don't know yet.
Well the pressure wave is delayed, not instant. It will be less than the speed of sound under water (something around 800mph). Still a lot slower than electrons.
We have wireless Internet that uses breezecom/alvarion equipment (www.alvarion.com). One night ligtning stuk on or near our home. A surge came down the equipment. The radio was completely fried. The ethernet jack in the radio was melted. The ethernet cards in my server/router were toast. What's really weird is that the switch I used on the other side of my router was fried along with all the ethernet cards. But the server (which the surge went through) functioned fine.
I replaced the NICs in everything, the switch. And my router/server kept working. Well for a while, after about another year the PS/2 ports stopped working. But the box still sits in the corner of my room being a good little router.
FireGL drivers are optimized for cad or 3d modeling applications which primarily push polygons.
Add textures and FireGL sucks. I beleive there's win32 firegl drivers too.
ATI needs to make Catalyst drivers for linux. Until then, the high end ATI cards will never perform well.
When compared to other windowing systems, X is slow. Y has network transparency too.
The fundamental problem with X is that you essentially use two layers of widget sets. The application does the grunt of the work while the windowing system just does what its told. Now before you say "yeah, but that's a good thing." remember that this makes buffering/double buffering very horrible.
X is a standard, but who the hell programs in Xlib anymore? We're talking standards on a higher level, as in window management extensions and the such.
XFree86 is 10 getting old. There's a difference between people (how many different genetic revisions of YOU has their been?), computer science (theories), and actual code.
Actual code is complex. Computer science is a relatively new field compared to things like mathmatics. The problem with code is that you're almost bound to the techniques around the time when you started. As well as the archetecture designed for it. Theories and ideas can be changed or completely rewritten. They are ideas and ideas mold very easily, code doesn't change as easily as concepts.
The problem with X is that you really can't change its archetecture and that's why Y is being written from scratch, because new techniques, newer archetecture designs, etc. will make it much easier to work with.
X windows has served me well over the years, but I think a replacement needs to come along, I hope Y is that replacement.
And that's why... Most technicians do it by instinct and years of experience. If this peticular thing is happening, you know it could be one of x, y, or z.
:)
That's always worked better for me than anything else. Although it would be nice to have something tell me what's wrong
It's true, people would rather write code than fix people's broken shit.
Rather than fixing borken code, why don't we teach some people how to write decent programs? Maybe put up some documentation of some common security flaws and how people could have avoided coming near them by structuring their code differently.
I know some code needs to be fixed, but lets face it, most people aren't willing to do it. There are a few unappreciated people out there who do this, and their job would be easier if people knew how to program better.
I'm not talking just about the kernel, for what I know the kernel is excellently structured. Most of the security holes stand in userland code and that's the area where most of the programmers who lack good programming skills are.
Don't you know anything?
MyDoom is written by MySQL AB.
Duh
Drug related everything costs taxpayers lots of money. Legalize drugs and you save a lot of money. That way law enforcement can focus on things that really do matter.
Honestly only about 10% of these ideas are realistic. A lot of them almost make me angry because they're just stupid.
Replace servers with P2P Too many network services - domain names, Web servers, email - rely on the old client-server model, which is vulnerable to attack.
C'mon, P2P is vulnerable to attack as well, mostly contamination of bad data/files. Yes P2P is good for some services, but not everything. File downloading it's great for. Even if we had some sort of automated server mirroring setup, where servers would mirror each other and a download client would get the file from multiple RELIABLE TRUSTWORTHY sources closest to that person. That's not exactly P2P, but it's along the middle road.
Point being this list is largely crap made up for news.
Although I agree that a purist distro is a good thing, the main reason why people don't use linux is because they don't want to mess around with command line.
That's one large thing preventing linux from completely destroying microsoft, it's not as easy to use. Although I agree for many people it's good to compile your own software, I do it, it's simply not logical to force everyone to do it because it can be a painful process.
Is it powerpoint or the people making powerpoint presentations?
The University of Nebraska at Omaha's dormatories use this technology for entry cards into buildings and the parking gates. You just wave these infront of these sensors and it lets you in the door.
:)
Well what happens when you're in a crowd and someone is walking around with one of these sensors and waves it around at people's wallets and purses quietly picking up credit card numbers?
Surely they've thought of that though
you sure got the smack-down on that one :)
They figured out it works pretty well to put a disclaimer on the door about cell phones and then have a guy walk around with a knife and put on his shirt "cell phone enforcer"
I agree with you on how things often turns into an "us" versus "them". I don't think people need to understand how the OS works for home computers though.
The main thing holding linux (and *nix) back is an API that acts as a layer between the kernel and the user level.
There needs to be an api where an process can tell the "system" that it is a service/daemon and not just a user process. When I say system I mean some central process like init.
This system would also take care of certain common pieces of hardware like video cards, ethernet adapters, monitors, mice, keyboards. If an application wanted to use a mouse there would be a common API to do that through.
GPM is nice, but if you unplug your usb mouse and plug in a new one, gpm will have no idea what's happening.
There are tools that do each little individual part, but the thing is they are not coupled together.
Some may say many small tools is better for software darwinism. This is true, however software darwinism can work more efficiently if you organize two different "species" of software. Rather than having 1000s of small small species each wanting to do it their own way, you'd have less than 5 or so attempting it to do things in a somewhat related fassion so they can replace each other easily.
RedHat's stock goes down 25% just minutes after a comment from RedHat's CEO
Why not give Y a shot?
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mbt99/Y/
So don't look at the ads in the software, same thing
So microsoft gets google. What's to stop them from removing all linux links, or even all apple links. Google was great because they never sold out; They always kept their search engine honest. Once a corporation like microsoft gets ahold of something this popular, you can be sure that they'll exploit it as advertising. I too hope this is a parody for haloween.
see the body of my original reply :D
At least he proves that people can run around beeing flaming idiots, thus upholding the bill of rights.
I have an SL-5500, I use it all the time.
I admit the fact that it does need some work and some feature changes which I beleive they adressed with the SL-5600.
The distro they use on those is rather out of date. I installed openzaurus on it, works about 10x better. There's a few bugs, overall I like it and wouldn't trade it for a windows based handheld.
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