Why is it that Microsoft has to change the API every time a new version of winblows is released. I mean many APIs surrive for over a decade without going through as many rewrites as MS APIs go through. Take X11 and the NeXT Step APIs, they've evolved and grown but surrived. I'll never understand Microsoft....
There are plenty of sources of information on the LFS on howto install X, Gnome, KDE etc. I agree you learn something, but certainly not enough to be an 'expert'.
That decimal-point increase (from version 10.2 to 10.3) doesn't give the upgrade's 150 new features enough credit. Then again, Apple's not the only company to have trouble with naming schemes. What's the logic in the sequence of Windows versions - 95, 98, Me, XP?
I think we should be thanking Apple that they use coherent numbering schemes. If it was a move to OS 11 then you would expect a whole new operating system, not just an improvement on the old set of features. Linux has been at 2.x for how many years now? Microsoft is the one who needs help, 95 98 ME STOP NT 4 2000 XP Longhorn... They're more worried about clever marketing then making sense.
Linux distributions vary so much that is hard to say that anyone is an expert on every distribution. The LPI is good well rounded cert and the RHCE are somewhat well rounded but focus primarily on RedHat. The best thing to do would be to come up with your own Novell cert that had varying levels based on the configuration of the Novell distro. A good starting point is the Linux Administration Handbook. This has a solid base of knowledge that most linux admins should know.
Just because you can copy commands off of a web site does not not make a difference. Putting together a LFS system is very easy given the instructions provided.
Negligble? Umm, when you can unpack a kernel in a third of the time and see a 6 and a half minute difference in large reads these performance gains are not negligble. If this was a hairline race that was a matter of a few seconds I could understand, but anyone who does work that is disk intensive will benifit from scsi.
With computer prices as low as they are today you could spend 400 bucks on building a new Athlon based PC, slap your favorite *nix variety on it and you can do much more than serv a file or two.
Privacy in one hand, up holding the laws on the other hand. How do we balance both. The RIAA may want to collect your information for bad purposes, but also use it for good. Illegal file sharing is still illegal so how do we monitor content and enforce the laws on p2p networks, while still allowing legitimate users there privacy? Here on slashdot I hear a whole lot of bashing on every time the RIAA does something, but I never hear a good example of another solution that solves the problem. Prove your smarts, and lets come up with a solution that everyone can live with.
They're protecting they're rights. People have been VIOLATING THE LAW, where it's a law you like or not, it's still a law. How else are they going to stop music piracy? Maybe if Ms. Doe didn't violate the law she wouldn't be getting subpoenaed.
Microsoft's new feature Automatic Update, which downloads and installs software onto a computer running Windows XP^2 has been hacked. It appears there is a security flaw that has been exposed by a virus writer know as Zero Cool. The new virus dubbed haha.gates.sucks.w32 installs a trojan cloaked as an update to the Windows system software. The trojan displays a message saying "Ha Ha, Bill Gates You SUCK! Why on earth did you put this feature into your already shitty software?" and then proceeds to clear random bits on your harddrive.
In other news, Linux is closing in on World domination. All your boxen belong to us
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* License. See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive
* for more details.
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Copyright SGI.... hrrmm, I wonder what their contract says about derrivitive(i cant spell) works.
My prediction is that in 10 years we wont have a desktop pc any more. Instead we'll have a central server in each home that controls everything from the blinds to the recipe book on the kitchen counter. It would obviously be net connected and have a huge cache of media (music, movies whatever else you can think of). The user will access these via a smart terminal of some kind that executes many programs on its cpu but a lot of the hard work is pushed off to the server. Most of the devices on the network will have a plan9 style cpu sharing scheme where the load can be distributed onto numerous devices. For the software I hope to see open source software really take off and put out a decent gui, I'm sorry but gnome and kde just plain stink. Granted there light years ahead of fvwm, but usability just isn't there yet. Most likely there will be a lot more interoperable objects, and we'll be able to connect em all together in some nifty 3d program. That's on the desktop front, now on the super computing front I hope to see QUANTUM BABY! It may happen if the theorists get it right, but there is still an extremely large chance that in 10 years it still wont work. Anywho, thats just my 2 cents.
2 years ago? I think you're being slightly generous. Remember Win 3.11, NT 3.51, Win 95... Those all sucked worse than todays M$ offerings. Alas, when will the suits get it? Oh well, I'm also reading this from OS X.
You know, end users would really know how we felt about them if they just read User Friendly a couple times a week. I think it would really enlighten the users;)
It's interesting to see that tech support for open source products is not mentioned. I for one have noticed that the free avenues of tech support (forums, newsgroups, lists) provide a much better level tech support for open source products than ever going to a comercial vendors support. Further, the companies that do provide pay based services for open source software seem to have a faster turnaround, and more intelligent techs working "tech" support. This is just another way that open source will change the computing world we live in.
Bruce,
As I am sure you are well aware that the United States government has chosen Microsoft as the platform of choice for our Homeland Security. First, do you think this was choice will bad consequences ranging from financial to top secret data being stolen? Second, do you feel that open source software would have been a more responsible choice by our government?
I'm not going to be using any digitial music service until they offer my a lossless version of the song. On any high-end audio system the loss through any compression is noticeable. Don't get me wrong, I use mp3s on my laptop and my palm, but on my stereo... that's another story. Audiophiles unite, we need a lossless digital music service!
Slashdot Mirror
Why is it that Microsoft has to change the API every time a new version of winblows is released. I mean many APIs surrive for over a decade without going through as many rewrites as MS APIs go through. Take X11 and the NeXT Step APIs, they've evolved and grown but surrived. I'll never understand Microsoft....
You could market these in High Times and make a fortune!
Did any of you guys see this? Why on earth is the leather bound version seven times as much? I wouldn't even want to open the thing at that price.
Site seems to be slashdotted already.
There are plenty of sources of information on the LFS on howto install X, Gnome, KDE etc. I agree you learn something, but certainly not enough to be an 'expert'.
Linux distributions vary so much that is hard to say that anyone is an expert on every distribution. The LPI is good well rounded cert and the RHCE are somewhat well rounded but focus primarily on RedHat. The best thing to do would be to come up with your own Novell cert that had varying levels based on the configuration of the Novell distro. A good starting point is the Linux Administration Handbook. This has a solid base of knowledge that most linux admins should know.
Just because you can copy commands off of a web site does not not make a difference. Putting together a LFS system is very easy given the instructions provided.
Negligble? Umm, when you can unpack a kernel in a third of the time and see a 6 and a half minute difference in large reads these performance gains are not negligble. If this was a hairline race that was a matter of a few seconds I could understand, but anyone who does work that is disk intensive will benifit from scsi.
With computer prices as low as they are today you could spend 400 bucks on building a new Athlon based PC, slap your favorite *nix variety on it and you can do much more than serv a file or two.
why doesn't slashdot just mirror these files on their own site?
Privacy in one hand, up holding the laws on the other hand. How do we balance both. The RIAA may want to collect your information for bad purposes, but also use it for good. Illegal file sharing is still illegal so how do we monitor content and enforce the laws on p2p networks, while still allowing legitimate users there privacy? Here on slashdot I hear a whole lot of bashing on every time the RIAA does something, but I never hear a good example of another solution that solves the problem. Prove your smarts, and lets come up with a solution that everyone can live with.
They're protecting they're rights. People have been VIOLATING THE LAW, where it's a law you like or not, it's still a law. How else are they going to stop music piracy? Maybe if Ms. Doe didn't violate the law she wouldn't be getting subpoenaed.
Microsoft's new feature Automatic Update, which downloads and installs software onto a computer running Windows XP^2 has been hacked. It appears there is a security flaw that has been exposed by a virus writer know as Zero Cool. The new virus dubbed haha.gates.sucks.w32 installs a trojan cloaked as an update to the Windows system software. The trojan displays a message saying "Ha Ha, Bill Gates You SUCK! Why on earth did you put this feature into your already shitty software?" and then proceeds to clear random bits on your harddrive.
In other news, Linux is closing in on World domination.
All your boxen belong to us
/* $Id: ate_utils.c,v 1.1 2002/02/28 17:31:25 marcelo Exp $ * * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public * License. See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive * for more details. * * Copyright (C) 1992 - 1997, 2000-2002 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All rights reserved. */ Copyright SGI.... hrrmm, I wonder what their contract says about derrivitive(i cant spell) works.
My prediction is that in 10 years we wont have a desktop pc any more. Instead we'll have a central server in each home that controls everything from the blinds to the recipe book on the kitchen counter. It would obviously be net connected and have a huge cache of media (music, movies whatever else you can think of). The user will access these via a smart terminal of some kind that executes many programs on its cpu but a lot of the hard work is pushed off to the server. Most of the devices on the network will have a plan9 style cpu sharing scheme where the load can be distributed onto numerous devices. For the software I hope to see open source software really take off and put out a decent gui, I'm sorry but gnome and kde just plain stink. Granted there light years ahead of fvwm, but usability just isn't there yet. Most likely there will be a lot more interoperable objects, and we'll be able to connect em all together in some nifty 3d program. That's on the desktop front, now on the super computing front I hope to see QUANTUM BABY! It may happen if the theorists get it right, but there is still an extremely large chance that in 10 years it still wont work. Anywho, thats just my 2 cents.
2 years ago? I think you're being slightly generous. Remember Win 3.11, NT 3.51, Win 95... Those all sucked worse than todays M$ offerings. Alas, when will the suits get it? Oh well, I'm also reading this from OS X.
You know, end users would really know how we felt about them if they just read User Friendly a couple times a week. I think it would really enlighten the users ;)
It's interesting to see that tech support for open source products is not mentioned. I for one have noticed that the free avenues of tech support (forums, newsgroups, lists) provide a much better level tech support for open source products than ever going to a comercial vendors support. Further, the companies that do provide pay based services for open source software seem to have a faster turnaround, and more intelligent techs working "tech" support. This is just another way that open source will change the computing world we live in.
Don't forget to donate to Pink Fairies it's about 30 dollars short of 300 in two days! Keep em coming.
that's all industries buddy. unfortunatlly lawyers tend to be one of the only people to profit out of any kind of frivilous lawsuit.
Bruce, As I am sure you are well aware that the United States government has chosen Microsoft as the platform of choice for our Homeland Security. First, do you think this was choice will bad consequences ranging from financial to top secret data being stolen? Second, do you feel that open source software would have been a more responsible choice by our government?
personally i don't want my laptop, or much of anything I can think of to be directly connected to the internet. that's just poor security.
I'm not going to be using any digitial music service until they offer my a lossless version of the song. On any high-end audio system the loss through any compression is noticeable. Don't get me wrong, I use mp3s on my laptop and my palm, but on my stereo... that's another story. Audiophiles unite, we need a lossless digital music service!