Is it me or is all of this "United Linux" & "Unbreakable Linux" crap completely forgetting the point of Linux in the first place? I'm not saying its bad, or its good, but its definetly not GNU.
Hey, I'm a BSD user anyways, but I think that the last month has shaped the way that Linux will be seen to the business consumer.
They are not releasing binaries because 95% of the people out there do NOT know how to compile a clean system from source.
If they force people to buy binaries, then the people who would download the "Hackers Linux" are therefore forced to buy the CD. With your suggestion, you cut off 50% of their revenue. For me, I dont want to compile from source. I DO want to download an ISO. I get the ISO, and guess what didnt happen, THEY DIDNT MAKE ANY MONEY!
I mean more for servers actually... If i am looking to fill a 42" rack with shiny new 1U servers, it would be great to build a bunch of of transmeta boxes.
I know that the worlds full of better solutions, but this is still a way for Transmeta to get their stuff into the oem market. To get a rack full of transmeta CPU's, the only solution I know of is RLX System 324 (not to say there arent others -- pardon my negligance of the market).
I guess what I'm saying is that for a company developing a proprietary CPU, they really need to do a better job of making sure that there's technology to work around it (I can see a low power utilization cpu/mobo/powersupply for 1U being a decent seller). If they had a few partners developing mobo/powersupply stuff that was accessible through normal oem/distributor/retail channels, they might have better success in america + western europe.
EEK! When did I turn into a marketing head. I would used to be talking about the technology instead of how to sell it:/
BIND doesent run in OpenBSD by default, and when its done its CHROOTED.
If by moving changes upstream you mean to the base projects or other *NIX/Linux distributions, the source is there for anyone to adopt. Thats the beauty, and with no pita license such as the GPL restricting the source base.
Though I dont think Transmeta has had the kind of success that everyone expected they could have, its great to see that they are continuing to innovate.
It would be great if they came out with more mainstream ways to use their products, such as real viable ATX style boards. It would certainly let their products be used in more mainstream areas. Who wants to develop/search for a custom mainboard, which (due to lack of volume) costs more than anything comparable Intel/AMD. This may in fact be a large contributor to why Asia is such a huge market for Transmeta, they are more friendly to manufacturing custom boards/systems to use the chips efficiently.
One GREAT thing about Doom III, which really hasnt been done to this level yet, is that all of the scenes in the game (everything you see, period) is rendered in realtime. No more CGI videos, no more pre-recorded game scenes, its all done by your GPU. The hardware is finally getting to where games can do this and have astounding quality. I for one will NOT miss watching fuzzy videos that cut you away from the actual game, all while ruining the interactive feeling. To those complaining about having to buy a decent video card to play, thats how the world works my friend. Remember having to upgrade to a 486 to get in on the doom craze? As the media evolves, so must the equipment. This is a good thing for everyone, except bums. But hey, they're bums!:)
Now, (off topic, i'd say a 48 degree angle), I have to completely agree with Carmack about the ATI/NVidia comparison. ATI would be a viable choice if only their drivers didnt suck so badly.. I swear, their entire software development team should be shitcanned, the software is such crap for everything they make, where the hardware is typically very good. The software design, the implementation, and the integration with the system is all garbage. Anyone with an ATI TV tuner card, or that had to use the old Rage Pro cards knows what I'm talking about. Hey maybe we'll get lucky and after DOOM III John will do some consulting for ATI. I'd imagine it would be a nice change of pace, and it sure would help out the 3D gaming industry. I can smell some new technology around the corner.
If ATI has some executives reading slashdot (haha, yeah right!), I'd actually purchase your products if they had NVIDIA caliber software. I know plenty of others who are in the same boat.
And (eek, another topic -- let me rant) to those of you who say "But the linux drivers are open source and great, and Nvidia's are closed source" -- who cares. Windows is THE gaming platform (Apple distant second), like it or not. Lets hope that the Linux gaming companies (err, now company) can make it worthwile for game developers to port to *NIX. That may be yet another way for ATI to sell some cards;)
I can see it already, Score: -1, Off Topic on multiple tangents.
because they start quickly and come with the O/S. Oh, and cuz mozilla does not let them go forward/backward through history using mouse4 and mouse5 buttons!!!:)
or is the RIAA/MPAA winning these battles? They've knocked out everyone so far. Through hook, crook, or whatever, Napster, Kazza, etc. have fallen. How soon until they try to pursue Gnutella?
The question is if its worth it. Stay with the older technology thats being replaced (with a better replacement as of 3.1 IMO), or take a half hour, an hour, or a half day to rewrite your rules and be done with it. Using "patched" software, especially OpenBSD, probably isnt the best idea.
Of course, thats just me. I like everything to be nice and clean:)
Although not a question that should be modded to +5 as its been answered before -- again and again, in this case its good so that people can learn why Sendmail is in OpenBSD.
First, Sendmail is a GREAT MTA when used properly. The way it is installed, and the way it interoperates with the system is very secure. You dont see OpenBSD machines being used as spam gateways or getting hacked due to sendmail. Its almost secure plug-and-play.
Why people think that sendmail is automatically insecure is beyond me. OpenBSD is NOT MEANT to be an "OS for dummies" (like many Linux distrobutions are trying to be). OpenBSD is meant for users who know what they are doing, and are experienced enough not to make the stupid mistakes that will get them hacked/exploited. As long as you dont do something incredibly stupid, 99% of the time the architecture OpenBSD will take care of the rest. This includes getting sendmail up and running.
$15M suit. $8M after lawyers fees. Maximum take per customer that files is $250 (DOLLARS). This seems like the kind of lawsuit that serves no purpose whatsoever. Software modifies your computer, thats all there is to it. From what I gather, there's nothing malicious going on by AOL, they just got users that complained that the aol software:
-made itself default on the system. netscape tries todo this, hell even mozilla does this.
-makes computers more instable. last i knew, AOL runs on windows. if you install ANYTHING, ittl make windows less stable. thats part of the game.
-didnt allow users to connect to remote ISP's. this sounds like a DUN/RAS problem. so, readd the other ISP.
I'm probably oversimplifying the small details, but all in all, this is plain stupid.
People arent going to be taken seriously when real problems occur if people sue for this kind of stuff.
First off, keep the desktops running Windows, except for those technically savvy individuals who are already comfortable with Linux as their primary desktop (not many, if at all). If I were in your situation, I'd migrate the servers that you can to Linux/BSD, and keep the desktops as-is. This will remove the need for connection licenses, and still give the friendly GUI that people are used to. You can do magical things with Samba for filesharing.
Dont upgrade your desktop software to the latest and greatest M$ product (XP?). If anything, put OpenOffice on the desktops and see if the users like it.
I do NOT want it controlled by open-source software. Using open-source software for such a mission critical application, where lives are on the line, and there's no accountability makes no sense at all. And your going to pretend like there arent bugs in open source software? Please...
I know the level of security that Lockheed Martin employs, and I'd rather have a delay once every 10 years than for the airplane to get hacked (if the open-source developers working on it are the same as Linux).
This NEEDS to be a big-business controlled industry, simply because of accountability.
Why dont people understand that open-source software does not belong everywhere?
If you want to keep patching your OS constantly, you should use Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, now with IIS 5.0 for secure, advanced HTTP and FTP serving!
So, a new topic for OS9 was created, number 178 in slashcode, and this is the only article under it. Why, may i ask, does this deserve its own topic, thinking that this will probably be the first AND last post for it (os9) as they are getting rid of it anyways.
Erm, long, cluttered sentence. I'm too lazy to rephrase. Sorry.
.. and this problem is directly related to any attempt by the government to use technology in something that all or must americans must take part in, is that it has to be secure.
Now, this isnt a HUGE topic due to it being a drivers license, because as we all know, drivers licenses are quite easily faked anyways.
The problem is that if this happens, you know that Microsoft (as well as many other large companies, though Microsoft scares me the most) is going to go up for the bid on the server systems that hold the biometrics data.
This creates a large security issue. There's NO WAY to spread this data throughout the field to the people who need it, without letting those who dont want it at it also. Again, not drivers license specific.
To be honest, I dont think we are there yet. Biometrics is a big thing. Its not like a social security number, etc. As biometrics becomes more mainstream, we are talking about a GLOBAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM. Do you want the method, security, and 'secret key' to be the same for the government, your office network, your internet presence, and the one you use to start your car and enter your home? Remember, in this example its not like they authenticate against a centralized security system. The keys to the right answer has to be stored locally for a lot of these, and if one is crackable, there's your ID, running naked out in public, or even worse, private.
And do you want it stored on a computer system? Do you trust Microsoft systems with this? How about Sun? Oracle? (Hey, its Unbreakable:)
Hell, I wouldent want my biometrics information on a single machine inside a 9x9x9' room surrounded by three foot of solid concrete and a thousand military guards.
Before biometrics become mainstream, we must thoroughly review the why, as well as the consequences. Is it worth such a security risk to do whatever these congressman think needs to be done?
Call me crazy and paranoid, but this is NOT a good idea. It has far reaching implications i'm sure the folks in congress arent aware of yet.
Open Source software does not automatically "play better with friends". SMB is an extreme case where higher-level features of the protocol get constantly added/modified/removed by a proprietary vendor (MS). It's hard to manage (and the Samba team has done an excellent job with this).
SMB will not go away, much in the same way NFS wont. Its the cornerstone of Microsoft based file/print/resource sharing.
They already filter traffic from the outside, when should major backbone routers start filtering anything from China.
Chinese spam floods US and other countries networks, and DoS attacks (be them intentional, unintentional, or the result of a hacked use of a chinese server) costs money to ISP's, and that gets passed through to the consumer.
Whens the last time you've received actual, credible, useful mail from.cn? (Not to be arrogant or make a stupid statement -- it really is a question, I'm interested)
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# rm -f /bin/ls && echo broken
Is it me or is all of this "United Linux" & "Unbreakable Linux" crap completely forgetting the point of Linux in the first place? I'm not saying its bad, or its good, but its definetly not GNU.
Hey, I'm a BSD user anyways, but I think that the last month has shaped the way that Linux will be seen to the business consumer.
They are not releasing binaries because 95% of the people out there do NOT know how to compile a clean system from source.
If they force people to buy binaries, then the people who would download the "Hackers Linux" are therefore forced to buy the CD. With your suggestion, you cut off 50% of their revenue. For me, I dont want to compile from source. I DO want to download an ISO. I get the ISO, and guess what didnt happen, THEY DIDNT MAKE ANY MONEY!
They look interesting, but hellishly expensive.
I mean more for servers actually... If i am looking to fill a 42" rack with shiny new 1U servers, it would be great to build a bunch of of transmeta boxes.
:/
I know that the worlds full of better solutions, but this is still a way for Transmeta to get their stuff into the oem market. To get a rack full of transmeta CPU's, the only solution I know of is RLX System 324 (not to say there arent others -- pardon my negligance of the market).
I guess what I'm saying is that for a company developing a proprietary CPU, they really need to do a better job of making sure that there's technology to work around it (I can see a low power utilization cpu/mobo/powersupply for 1U being a decent seller). If they had a few partners developing mobo/powersupply stuff that was accessible through normal oem/distributor/retail channels, they might have better success in america + western europe.
EEK! When did I turn into a marketing head. I would used to be talking about the technology instead of how to sell it
BIND doesent run in OpenBSD by default, and when its done its CHROOTED.
If by moving changes upstream you mean to the base projects or other *NIX/Linux distributions, the source is there for anyone to adopt. Thats the beauty, and with no pita license such as the GPL restricting the source base.
Opera reminds me of IE 2.0
Thats a good enough reason for me why not to use it.
Though I dont think Transmeta has had the kind of success that everyone expected they could have, its great to see that they are continuing to innovate.
It would be great if they came out with more mainstream ways to use their products, such as real viable ATX style boards. It would certainly let their products be used in more mainstream areas. Who wants to develop/search for a custom mainboard, which (due to lack of volume) costs more than anything comparable Intel/AMD. This may in fact be a large contributor to why Asia is such a huge market for Transmeta, they are more friendly to manufacturing custom boards/systems to use the chips efficiently.
One GREAT thing about Doom III, which really hasnt been done to this level yet, is that all of the scenes in the game (everything you see, period) is rendered in realtime. No more CGI videos, no more pre-recorded game scenes, its all done by your GPU. The hardware is finally getting to where games can do this and have astounding quality. I for one will NOT miss watching fuzzy videos that cut you away from the actual game, all while ruining the interactive feeling. To those complaining about having to buy a decent video card to play, thats how the world works my friend. Remember having to upgrade to a 486 to get in on the doom craze? As the media evolves, so must the equipment. This is a good thing for everyone, except bums. But hey, they're bums! :)
;)
Now, (off topic, i'd say a 48 degree angle), I have to completely agree with Carmack about the ATI/NVidia comparison. ATI would be a viable choice if only their drivers didnt suck so badly.. I swear, their entire software development team should be shitcanned, the software is such crap for everything they make, where the hardware is typically very good. The software design, the implementation, and the integration with the system is all garbage. Anyone with an ATI TV tuner card, or that had to use the old Rage Pro cards knows what I'm talking about. Hey maybe we'll get lucky and after DOOM III John will do some consulting for ATI. I'd imagine it would be a nice change of pace, and it sure would help out the 3D gaming industry. I can smell some new technology around the corner.
If ATI has some executives reading slashdot (haha, yeah right!), I'd actually purchase your products if they had NVIDIA caliber software. I know plenty of others who are in the same boat.
And (eek, another topic -- let me rant) to those of you who say "But the linux drivers are open source and great, and Nvidia's are closed source" -- who cares. Windows is THE gaming platform (Apple distant second), like it or not. Lets hope that the Linux gaming companies (err, now company) can make it worthwile for game developers to port to *NIX. That may be yet another way for ATI to sell some cards
I can see it already, Score: -1, Off Topic on multiple tangents.
because they start quickly and come with the O/S. Oh, and cuz mozilla does not let them go forward/backward through history using mouse4 and mouse5 buttons!!! :)
or is the RIAA/MPAA winning these battles? They've knocked out everyone so far. Through hook, crook, or whatever, Napster, Kazza, etc. have fallen. How soon until they try to pursue Gnutella?
The question is if its worth it. Stay with the older technology thats being replaced (with a better replacement as of 3.1 IMO), or take a half hour, an hour, or a half day to rewrite your rules and be done with it. Using "patched" software, especially OpenBSD, probably isnt the best idea.
:)
Of course, thats just me. I like everything to be nice and clean
Although not a question that should be modded to +5 as its been answered before -- again and again, in this case its good so that people can learn why Sendmail is in OpenBSD.
First, Sendmail is a GREAT MTA when used properly. The way it is installed, and the way it interoperates with the system is very secure. You dont see OpenBSD machines being used as spam gateways or getting hacked due to sendmail. Its almost secure plug-and-play.
Why people think that sendmail is automatically insecure is beyond me. OpenBSD is NOT MEANT to be an "OS for dummies" (like many Linux distrobutions are trying to be). OpenBSD is meant for users who know what they are doing, and are experienced enough not to make the stupid mistakes that will get them hacked/exploited. As long as you dont do something incredibly stupid, 99% of the time the architecture OpenBSD will take care of the rest. This includes getting sendmail up and running.
$15M suit. $8M after lawyers fees. Maximum take per customer that files is $250 (DOLLARS). This seems like the kind of lawsuit that serves no purpose whatsoever. Software modifies your computer, thats all there is to it. From what I gather, there's nothing malicious going on by AOL, they just got users that complained that the aol software:
-made itself default on the system. netscape tries todo this, hell even mozilla does this.
-makes computers more instable. last i knew, AOL runs on windows. if you install ANYTHING, ittl make windows less stable. thats part of the game.
-didnt allow users to connect to remote ISP's. this sounds like a DUN/RAS problem. so, readd the other ISP.
I'm probably oversimplifying the small details, but all in all, this is plain stupid.
People arent going to be taken seriously when real problems occur if people sue for this kind of stuff.
First off, keep the desktops running Windows, except for those technically savvy individuals who are already comfortable with Linux as their primary desktop (not many, if at all). If I were in your situation, I'd migrate the servers that you can to Linux/BSD, and keep the desktops as-is. This will remove the need for connection licenses, and still give the friendly GUI that people are used to. You can do magical things with Samba for filesharing.
Dont upgrade your desktop software to the latest and greatest M$ product (XP?). If anything, put OpenOffice on the desktops and see if the users like it.
I do NOT want it controlled by open-source software. Using open-source software for such a mission critical application, where lives are on the line, and there's no accountability makes no sense at all. And your going to pretend like there arent bugs in open source software? Please...
I know the level of security that Lockheed Martin employs, and I'd rather have a delay once every 10 years than for the airplane to get hacked (if the open-source developers working on it are the same as Linux).
This NEEDS to be a big-business controlled industry, simply because of accountability.
Why dont people understand that open-source software does not belong everywhere?
If you want to keep patching your OS constantly, you should use Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, now with IIS 5.0 for secure, advanced HTTP and FTP serving!
Yes, but its also the "Xerox way", "Lexmark way", "Canon way", "Epson way", and now the "HPQ way".
If you dont want to pay for ink, I suggest you hire foriegn slaves to do your printing with crayon. Thats the "American way".
So, a new topic for OS9 was created, number 178 in slashcode, and this is the only article under it. Why, may i ask, does this deserve its own topic, thinking that this will probably be the first AND last post for it (os9) as they are getting rid of it anyways.
Erm, long, cluttered sentence. I'm too lazy to rephrase. Sorry.
.. and this problem is directly related to any attempt by the government to use technology in something that all or must americans must take part in, is that it has to be secure.
:)
Now, this isnt a HUGE topic due to it being a drivers license, because as we all know, drivers licenses are quite easily faked anyways.
The problem is that if this happens, you know that Microsoft (as well as many other large companies, though Microsoft scares me the most) is going to go up for the bid on the server systems that hold the biometrics data.
This creates a large security issue. There's NO WAY to spread this data throughout the field to the people who need it, without letting those who dont want it at it also. Again, not drivers license specific.
To be honest, I dont think we are there yet. Biometrics is a big thing. Its not like a social security number, etc. As biometrics becomes more mainstream, we are talking about a GLOBAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM. Do you want the method, security, and 'secret key' to be the same for the government, your office network, your internet presence, and the one you use to start your car and enter your home? Remember, in this example its not like they authenticate against a centralized security system. The keys to the right answer has to be stored locally for a lot of these, and if one is crackable, there's your ID, running naked out in public, or even worse, private.
And do you want it stored on a computer system? Do you trust Microsoft systems with this? How about Sun? Oracle? (Hey, its Unbreakable
Hell, I wouldent want my biometrics information on a single machine inside a 9x9x9' room surrounded by three foot of solid concrete and a thousand military guards.
Before biometrics become mainstream, we must thoroughly review the why, as well as the consequences. Is it worth such a security risk to do whatever these congressman think needs to be done?
Call me crazy and paranoid, but this is NOT a good idea. It has far reaching implications i'm sure the folks in congress arent aware of yet.
Open Source software does not automatically "play better with friends". SMB is an extreme case where higher-level features of the protocol get constantly added/modified/removed by a proprietary vendor (MS). It's hard to manage (and the Samba team has done an excellent job with this).
SMB will not go away, much in the same way NFS wont. Its the cornerstone of Microsoft based file/print/resource sharing.
Market share trumph's evolution.
Market share trumph's innovation.
sam raimi > george lucas
Everyone knows the best part about the lego fortress is the lego men to habitat it. Do I smell a IBM/Lego partnership?
That makes DOS (Dead and.. still dead) biggie?
They already filter traffic from the outside, when should major backbone routers start filtering anything from China.
.cn? (Not to be arrogant or make a stupid statement -- it really is a question, I'm interested)
Chinese spam floods US and other countries networks, and DoS attacks (be them intentional, unintentional, or the result of a hacked use of a chinese server) costs money to ISP's, and that gets passed through to the consumer.
Whens the last time you've received actual, credible, useful mail from