The biggest diffrence I've seen between distros is how stuff is configured. Red Hat has shiny gui tools to do its configuration and slackware lets you edit the config files by hand. Of couse there are many distos that are somewhere in between.
Its a shame you can't patent business processes - because you could patent getting an obvious patent. Sitting on it for a while until the practice had become widespread and then sueing everyone.
Its a good idea but it wouldn't work. There WAY too much prior art for even the patent office to miss it.... Unless they have replaced all the patent reviewers with monkeys!
The 'release now, patch later' doctrine is widely used in software... but I would not want to see it applied in something like currency
Hell, I don't even want to see it applied to software! Seriosly, they are trampling they rights of ordinary citizens in an effort that is not even effective.
If memory serves didn't Unisys pull the same trick with GIF. Create a de facto standard, wait until everyone is using it, and then start extor^H^H^H^H^H enforcing the patent. Not only is M$ being evil, they are also being unoriginal.
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The greatest threat to security in all fields always has been and always will be the human factor.
The wetware is always the weakest link because it is the hardest to patch.
The whole concept of bloated windows is laughable when compared to most distributions of linux.
I think you may be confusing bloat for scalablity. You can run a small linux distro that does something very specific, or you can get a large linux distro that can do just about anything. Comparing the install footprint of a large linux distro to windows is inaccurate because comes with far more software then windows. If you want an accurate comparison take a basic windows install and add Office, IIS, MsSql, MSVisualStudio, and Photoshop.
there's nothing that prevents Microsoft from integrating OpenSource solutions into their software
They can get away with doing that with software under a BSD style license. But in case you haven't noticed a good chunk of OSS software is GPL'd. And I know there are at least a few hackers out there who would love to sue M$.
I don't know about that. I have found that bays filtering can be very hard for spamers to get around. And personally I'd rather not have the gov't try to "fix" things we can fix on our own.
The one thing these spoilers can't outsmart is people.
I wouldn't be so sure of that. Somebody has to be resonding to the spam or the spamers would stop sending it. Of couse they may just like giving money away to random Nigerians.
Anyway, my idea for an open source number generator is to have people on slashdot post the first number that comes to mind in this thread. I don't know if it could get more random.... (patent pending)
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I prefer to get my news from some organization without an axe to grind.
You must be new here...
Ya, and talking to his tech support is like pulling teeth
Notice the foot icon at the top. You know the one with the "It's funny Laugh." alt text.
Why bother trying out distros, just do linux from scrach and build your own distro to taste.
The biggest diffrence I've seen between distros is how stuff is configured. Red Hat has shiny gui tools to do its configuration and slackware lets you edit the config files by hand. Of couse there are many distos that are somewhere in between.
btw, for the google impaired: tcpdump
Some of us really dont want to think of the butter<shudder>
Its a good idea but it wouldn't work. There WAY too much prior art for even the patent office to miss it.... Unless they have replaced all the patent reviewers with monkeys!
So much for my grand dreams of being a low level code monkey. I guess I'll have to settle for being a high level code monkey.
They tried to publicize it but for some reason their printer wouldn't work...
Hell, I don't even want to see it applied to software! Seriosly, they are trampling they rights of ordinary citizens in an effort that is not even effective.
Because a standard is just a design, the software cranked out by a monopoly is an implementation. Most security holes are in the implementation.
I thought that was what the polls were all about. Well, that and mourning the loss of the cowboy neil option.
If memory serves didn't Unisys pull the same trick with GIF. Create a de facto standard, wait until everyone is using it, and then start extor^H^H^H^H^H enforcing the patent. Not only is M$ being evil, they are also being unoriginal.
The wetware is always the weakest link because it is the hardest to patch.
I think you may be confusing bloat for scalablity. You can run a small linux distro that does something very specific, or you can get a large linux distro that can do just about anything. Comparing the install footprint of a large linux distro to windows is inaccurate because comes with far more software then windows. If you want an accurate comparison take a basic windows install and add Office, IIS, MsSql, MSVisualStudio, and Photoshop.
They can get away with doing that with software under a BSD style license. But in case you haven't noticed a good chunk of OSS software is GPL'd. And I know there are at least a few hackers out there who would love to sue M$.
Um, I'm not so sure about that. Its hard to lose credibility when you have no credibility left to lose.
I don't know about that. I have found that bays filtering can be very hard for spamers to get around. And personally I'd rather not have the gov't try to "fix" things we can fix on our own.
You want your backbone to block UDP traffic?!? While that might stop the dos's, I think I would rather have my DNS working.
But lots of people use some home version of windows at home. Which means that Windows is what they familiar with.
I wouldn't be so sure of that. Somebody has to be resonding to the spam or the spamers would stop sending it. Of couse they may just like giving money away to random Nigerians.
But the convenience of placing a Windows XP capable computer in your glove box will bring you out of the dark ages caveman.
Windows in the glove box?!? That gives a whole new meaning to system crash.
Real men just concatenate their files line by line, don't they?
Yeah, real real man use cat.
No, real men input files in octal with toggle switches
Anyway, my idea for an open source number generator is to have people on slashdot post the first number that comes to mind in this thread. I don't know if it could get more random.... (patent pending)
my answer is 42. What was the Question again?