Really dumb things Gates has said(from the article):
That's something that for a few percent of the price of the PC you can buy a commercial operating system, where all the work of testing it, supporting it, delivering it, is included for a few percent of that price of the PC.
So, $200 for WinXP is 4% the price of a $500 PC. Great math there Bill.
No, what Bill *meant* was that you could install a GNU/Linux distribution. Don't be silly, he wasn't talking about Windows - he meant a "supported" operating system.
I hate using rpm(1) directly but I haven't found anything better. Although you *say* that tools such as redcarpet are meant to be the user tools, I used redcarpet once and had to reinstall everything from scratch - it just messed up the dependancies and everything started segfaulting. Not good.
This may seem a bit insensitive, but would the A root server be secure if a 747 crashed into it?
The "security through obscurity" doesn't seem so brilliant either, with the admission that a few hundered network admins know where it is. It's protected against "casual criminals?" We ain't caring about casual criminals.
On the other hand, it must be remembered that the verisign root server is getting a lot of publicity basically because verisign are proud of it. As the article said (but in more boring language), it could drop into a black hole now and the internet would just keep going. Woohoo.
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The energy itself I believe is lost
Cool! Breaking the first law of thermodynamics at the same time, I believe;-)
I read the books when they came out, though I lost interest really after the first one. But in the UK, the first book is called Northern Lights, not the Golden Compass.
I assume this is like Harry Potter, where the publishers renamed the books for the USA.
Petition your senators/MPs/country-specific-name-here NOW to make this law. We need to know where everybody is at any moment in time; it is the ONLY way to combat crime, paedophilia, starvation and world debt. Only by implementing a law to make it illegal to attempt to hide your location from the state can we improve society in this day and age.
Now get the idea why kids may, just maybe, resent this?
Actually this is misleading. _All_ GPS satellites know their position (rather time) exactly - that's how they work. GPS is made more accurate using ground-based transmitters as well as the satellites.
Stallman doesn't have a problem with people making money. He's not out to make programmers starve;-)
What he doesn't like is the way that someone can patent an idea for software, and prevent software designers from being truly innovative. This is not something that microsoft worry about due to no innovation;-P
Linux/unstable and potato are just Debian's package names; please make sure you know what you are talking about before talking about it. Linux is stable, the version is 2.4.18 (or thereabouts) and can make use of a hell of a lot of hardware.
<i>who do you trust more, some people who programmed an OS in their spare time, or Bill Gates</i>
I've used both. Definitely the spare time people. The day you trust Bill Gates with anything is the day you lose whatever you trusted him with. (what?)
Something people seem to have decided after 11/9;-) is that it's important to keep communication - aka the internet - going if a country has a national disaster.
The thing is, when the internet was _designed_ it was designed to be small, closed and trusting, more or less the opposite of what it is now. So the underlying protocols trust everyone.
We have learned a lot. If the internet was designed today, we wouldn't make the same mistakes. An example is that the protocols (or routers) should not allow DoS attacks using packets with fake headers. They do because DoS was not considered when the protocols were first implemented, and now we can't change them.
All packets should be tunnelled. E-mails are the worst - the headers (From: in particular) are completely unreliable, thus "signing" using an assymetric key. But people often don't sign their emails:-) making it really easy to forge them.
In a server environment such as GNU/Linux, we *should* be crippling M$'s servers. After that, they can't specify/randomly change protocols; they will use the same open protocols that other operating systems use.
At the moment, free software is hampered by the random and proprietary changes that company's make to protocols. This is Microsoft's *solution* to free software. If the servers are free, the clients have to implement free protocols in order to talk to the servers and at least half of the anti-trust case is gone.
The problem with cryptography 40 years ago, as I understand it, is that when you wanted to talk to someone else you had to send them your key. This key had to be kept absolutely secure because anyone who had access to it could read your messages.
The wonder of asymmetric encryption meant that (public) keys could be sent by normal mail, email, or even posted on a big billboard on your house just so long as it got distributed.
"Noise" encryption means that both sender and receiver have to have the same type of noise, otherwise they can't subtract it. So this noise (the key) has to be given by the sender to the receiver. Bang! Asymmetric encryption. And once you've used it once, you may as well carry on using it because if it's weak, you've broken the security, and if it's strong, it's.... strong.
There's the additional problem that the noise has to be as long as the cypher (lengthy keys) or repeated (insecure).
I've been using the beta for a while; it's nice to know it's stable.
The Gnome 2 release is something like the 28th of march, so presumably GTK+ is revving up for this
Remember, GTK+-2.0 does not replace GTK+-1.2. They can both coexist peacefully.
Because the whole point of the GPL is in order to allow people to share software development instead of keeping it proprietary and secret. A GPL relaxation? In your dreams.
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Really dumb things Gates has said(from the article):
That's something that for a few percent of the price of the PC you can buy a commercial operating system, where all the work of testing it, supporting it, delivering it, is included for a few percent of that price of the PC.
So, $200 for WinXP is 4% the price of a $500 PC. Great math there Bill. No, what Bill *meant* was that you could install a GNU/Linux distribution. Don't be silly, he wasn't talking about Windows - he meant a "supported" operating system.
I hate using rpm(1) directly but I haven't found anything better. Although you *say* that tools such as redcarpet are meant to be the user tools, I used redcarpet once and had to reinstall everything from scratch - it just messed up the dependancies and everything started segfaulting. Not good.
Only use free software, where we know what it's doing!
This may seem a bit insensitive, but would the A root server be secure if a 747 crashed into it?
The "security through obscurity" doesn't seem so brilliant either, with the admission that a few hundered network admins know where it is. It's protected against "casual criminals?" We ain't caring about casual criminals.
On the other hand, it must be remembered that the verisign root server is getting a lot of publicity basically because verisign are proud of it. As the article said (but in more boring language), it could drop into a black hole now and the internet would just keep going. Woohoo.
The energy itself I believe is lost
;-)
Cool! Breaking the first law of thermodynamics at the same time, I believe
I read the books when they came out, though I lost interest really after the first one. But in the UK, the first book is called Northern Lights, not the Golden Compass.
I assume this is like Harry Potter, where the publishers renamed the books for the USA.
But it's lying ;-)
Seriously, I'm using Mozilla 0.99 now and it is SLOW.
A good way of seeing if the pace has "quickened" for AOL could be to look at the version numbers.
0.98 -> 0.99 -> 1.00 - hmm, seems normal
Petition your senators/MPs/country-specific-name-here NOW to make this law. We need to know where everybody is at any moment in time; it is the ONLY way to combat crime, paedophilia, starvation and world debt. Only by implementing a law to make it illegal to attempt to hide your location from the state can we improve society in this day and age.
Now get the idea why kids may, just maybe, resent this?
Actually this is misleading. _All_ GPS satellites know their position (rather time) exactly - that's how they work. GPS is made more accurate using ground-based transmitters as well as the satellites.
Stallman doesn't have a problem with people making money. He's not out to make programmers starve ;-)
;-P
What he doesn't like is the way that someone can patent an idea for software, and prevent software designers from being truly innovative. This is not something that microsoft worry about due to no innovation
Linux/unstable and potato are just Debian's package names; please make sure you know what you are talking about before talking about it. Linux is stable, the version is 2.4.18 (or thereabouts) and can make use of a hell of a lot of hardware.
<i>who do you trust more, some people who programmed an OS in their spare time, or Bill Gates</i>
I've used both. Definitely the spare time people. The day you trust Bill Gates with anything is the day you lose whatever you trusted him with. (what?)
Something people seem to have decided after 11/9 ;-) is that it's important to keep communication - aka the internet - going if a country has a national disaster.
:-) making it really easy to forge them.
;P
The thing is, when the internet was _designed_ it was designed to be small, closed and trusting, more or less the opposite of what it is now. So the underlying protocols trust everyone.
We have learned a lot. If the internet was designed today, we wouldn't make the same mistakes. An example is that the protocols (or routers) should not allow DoS attacks using packets with fake headers. They do because DoS was not considered when the protocols were first implemented, and now we can't change them.
All packets should be tunnelled. E-mails are the worst - the headers (From: in particular) are completely unreliable, thus "signing" using an assymetric key. But people often don't sign their emails
So. Let's roll out The Internet ][
:P No...
I mean cocoa on OS X is based on NeXT, is coded in Objective C (argh!) and yet kicks all other toolkits out of the ballpark.
What's up with these moderators?
In a server environment such as GNU/Linux, we *should* be crippling M$'s servers. After that, they can't specify/randomly change protocols; they will use the same open protocols that other operating systems use.
At the moment, free software is hampered by the random and proprietary changes that company's make to protocols. This is Microsoft's *solution* to free software. If the servers are free, the clients have to implement free protocols in order to talk to the servers and at least half of the anti-trust case is gone.
Then OS X.
If you look up hint (http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/HINT/) you'll find that the 1GHz machines have a measurable difference between them.
Computers are now an important part in human mating rituals
;-)
Hmmm. Trust me, they're not
They're suggesting people have used thumbs so often that they are more skilled with using thumbs than index fingers. Not a mutation.
The problem with cryptography 40 years ago, as I understand it, is that when you wanted to talk to someone else you had to send them your key. This key had to be kept absolutely secure because anyone who had access to it could read your messages.
The wonder of asymmetric encryption meant that (public) keys could be sent by normal mail, email, or even posted on a big billboard on your house just so long as it got distributed.
"Noise" encryption means that both sender and receiver have to have the same type of noise, otherwise they can't subtract it. So this noise (the key) has to be given by the sender to the receiver. Bang! Asymmetric encryption. And once you've used it once, you may as well carry on using it because if it's weak, you've broken the security, and if it's strong, it's.... strong.
There's the additional problem that the noise has to be as long as the cypher (lengthy keys) or repeated (insecure).
But anyway. IANASE.
I've been using the beta for a while; it's nice to know it's stable. The Gnome 2 release is something like the 28th of march, so presumably GTK+ is revving up for this Remember, GTK+-2.0 does not replace GTK+-1.2. They can both coexist peacefully.
That's quite funny, actually
Because the whole point of the GPL is in order to allow people to share software development instead of keeping it proprietary and secret. A GPL relaxation? In your dreams.