Ok, so you will take "An Almighty God", which one? The Christian one, the Catholic subset one, the muslim God, the Jewish God, the Hindu God, the Greek or Roman Gods, the....
Declaring "there is A god" seems silly. Fine, there is "A" god, but if you are too generic, then you are not 'covered' by any given religion... and if you think that by just saying to yourself 'there is a god' and not being formally a member of a religion is making up your own religion, which seems... imaginary.
It is all this random guessing game. There is no logical way, due to the nature of faith(in religion or lack thereof), to prove the existence of God(s). The opposite is also true. There is no way, once you have determined that there is a God, which religion best personifies his wishes such that he will grant acceptance into a afterlife that you will find pleansant.. which itself cannot be proven, etc, etc.
It is just a feeling. There is no accuracy to it, there is no legitamacy to it, there is no winner to it. You, I, We, pick whatever 'feels' right and rest assured in the fact that we have no fucking clue either way, or to what extent, if God exists.
Basically any USB mouse plugs in, without driver software, and starts working. Really, this is 2005, not 1995, plug'n'play is not a Windows-only idea, Macs are great at it, too.
You're a troll, but I will respond. Solaris 10 has Containers, DTrace and ZFS just to name a few. Containers are best-in-class, Dtrace is unparalleled, and ZFS has a lot of security and reliability enhancements.
Windows NTFS also has a much more mature security infrastructure than the Linux file systems in real world use.
Linux has a primitive "all or nothing" style security infrastructure. Fixed with the NSA's SELinux, which uses ACLs in place of Linux's former permission system.
Running as user rather than root keeps my important files safe, and prevents bad things like rm -rf from destroying everything. Running as non-admin/root in ANY enviroment is a good idea, because the scope of files that can theoretically be effected is smaller, period. Yes, the files effected are your personal files, rather than your system. However, restoring your ~ folder from a recent backup is much more simple then (reinstalling+reconfiguring your system) + (restoring your files from a recent backup)... Losing your home folder sucks, but losing your home folder PLUS your system sucks more.
The only reason Linux doesn't have thousands of viruses written for it is because nobody runs it. Same with macs. 1. I still don't buy this argument. Microsoft has services running on Personal AND Professional installs, by DEFAULT, that are often the source of exploits. Mac OS X(by default), has no network services running), Linux is often this way as well.
2. Windows has ActiveX, with little or no security settings by default, Mac and Linux do not, nor do they have a similar system for an equivalent.
3. Windows is absolutely tied to Internet Explorer, Media Player, MSN, etc. Linux and Mac are not( Safari can be deleted just like any other app, Linux not only able to uninstall all applications, but there are often various competing applications, meaning that no 1 exploit will effect them all(Konq, Mozilla, Firefox, Lynx, etc).
If Linux has 100x the users is does now(or Mac, for that instance), then yes, it would be more actively pursued by hackers. And because of that, there is much higher probability of successfully finding a hack on the system, HOWEVER, settings, services and configuration on a default system on Linux or Mac are more locked down and simplified than Windows, and thus, there are fewer points of entry.
"On the Mac, right now it appears that there's several options: Neo Office (a Mac specific flavor of OO, it appears), the MS Office Suite(s), Abiword, Appleworks, and now Pages."
MS Office is owned by MS. Apple doesn't control it (price, features, speed).
Neo Office is a start, but it is non-native, java, and has a ways to go to even be a complete OO.o system, let alone a Office replacement.
Appleworks is outdated, runs in carbon, not cocoa, and needs massive updating.
Pages needed to be a cocoa word processor to keep Apple in the game and give them a nice cheap word processor they can sell in-house.
They also bought (soundjam, or something?) iTunes' original code. I also think(?) that they offered to hire the Watson guy... Which they really should have done, it is badass software and Sherlock was a pretty obvious catchup to the functionality. So there is a history of at-least trying to buy/hire good talent, when needed and where it makes sense.
FYI: The Watson developer is now working at Sun on an unrelated, but cool(so he says) project.
I haven't been able to connect at all for the last couple hours, is Ubuntu's tracker down? I am trying both x86 and PowerPC.
"connecting to peers - 0 peers" just stares at me. In this time, I downloaded via BT another linux distro mentioned in this thread, so I know my conenction isn't the issue. It is either no peers, or the tracker is swamped/down.
It isn't that I see 'this doesn't fit my view, it must be wrong" it is that I see, "this guy is making claims that I, my friends, and the machines my friends work on, have never had, ever, so what is the deal?"
OS X isn't perfect. I have never, ever, ever had any 'configuration issue with it, though that is somewhat vague. Apps have crashed, normally third-party apps that were the release-early-and-often type... it happens, but not often...
As for your other posting that was linked to... That is a lame ass bug and it should be fixed, furthermore, Font Manager should be made 'non-sucky'... I fully agree.
I also agree that Safari is not the place for the Default Browser setting, it should be in System Preferences.
Expose I do find useful, not just as eye candy. And I am in an interesting mix of liking the dock, and disliking that its scale-out setting makes motor memory harder to build, and that its snapshots of windows(minimized) are hard to differentiate.
I am not a fanboy, I see your complaints and, in my case, I have experienced and agree with you. I hope you take another look at OS X when Tiger comes out, because, overall, I do see it as the best system out there... Then again, I am also looking to learn more (Ubuntu) Linux and Solaris better, so, what can I say... Open minds never hurt anybody.
That is just silly. Google has no infrastructure for that, no support system, they have no vested interest in themselves supplying the OS, they would want to piggyback on Novell, Redhat or Apple's products and supply services/applications that compliment them.
The Plan 9 guy is probably just an OS developer to improve their linux server's configuration and be a high level sys admin for the Google computer network.
They wouldn't have to be browser in browser... XUL and the Mozilla development framework could be leveraged to create essentially, native looking-ish, web-based applications...
Then you can run your gmail, Goffic, Gcalender, Gcontacts, Gchat, etc. All from what may look like seperate, dedicated programs but are rich client web apps.
The biggest advantage, in my opinion, for a "g5" laptop is FSB. The Frontside Bus on G4's is around 133MHz, while a G5's FSB is 1/2 the processor's clock-speed. Yes, a G5 will lead to high GHz ratings, and it will be a heat problem, etc, but the Bus speed increasing 5x or more is going to be a killer feature.
PS: 64-bit, blah, blah. Larger RAM ceiling, blah, blah. G5's use low power(but high heat, if memory serves, correct me if I am wrong) blah, blah.
True. He is 'seeking' but has not gotten yet. I do give Bush some credit for that, but it hasn't gotten to the engineers yet.
And your second quote, Bush is proposing cutting 11 billion dollars from NASA's other projects... NASA is doing many cool things on many fronts. Cutting costs in other departments or projects is harmful. It needs to be a $12 billion increase in the budget, for several consecutive years, not a $1 billion dollar increase(they get something like 15-20 billion annualy as-is) and pulling 1/2 theird budget from other projects to meet Bush's goal.
What was the phrase: "Faster, Strong, Cheaper: Pick any TWO that you want."
NASA needs all 3, and it needs the resources (money+time) to get there. It needs the funding to build and design a more modular and reliable/reusable space craft. It needs funding for new space suits, satelites, probes, robotics, infrastructure upgrades, IT upgrades, planning/testing phases, etc.
Just because he announced a plan doesn't mean anything. NASA isn't getting the funding(it needs massive increasesm not cutbacks) to actually DO any of the things talked about.
Along those lines, I read an article where IBM was consolidating its entire computer line (mainframe, all servers, etc) to a single processor line based on the Power5. This makes it easy to admin, I assume, and lets IBM consolidate on a single line/design for processor so their engineers aren't competing against each other.
Ubuntu Linux is coming out with their next release soon. Worth reading up on the features that are in it and that are going to be in it. It is my personal choice for 'desktop' system.
They are a very straightforward and logical desktop layout for maintaining (installing apps, etc) things.
Basicly, I think of it as the Ultimate Packet Sniffer command line tool, being applied to processes and your system as a whole, along with a scripting language for your pleasure.
It lets you track/compare/analyze users and processes in real-time to basicly tell you what your computer is really doing and lets you pinpoint who/why it is doing it, system wide, without configuration changes or restarts..
Look forward to a lot of REALLY powerful scripts coming from this(there is an experimental rootkit coming out even, that used dtrace to sniff out passwords in system memory, etc). Very powerful, very dangerous.
Hot-swapping live components is a hardware capability first, OS must support it as well though. Mainframes have this, hot-swap processors, etc. x86 just does not support it. That isn't Linux's fault.
Read point #2 on that site. The technology that makes 'Trusted Solaris' Trusted, is being incorporated into Solaris 10's standard version for a single codebase. "Trusted Solaris 10" will be certified(NSA's Trusted OS cert), and have Sun's support contracts, etc.
All the major OSs, Mac OS 10,4 Tiger is getting ACLs, with SELinux, Linux will get ACLs, Sun's free version will have ACLs.
"My OS is binary compatible with Linux, and can run your Linux software without a porblem. My OS also happens to be highly scalable, secure, Trusted and reliable. Why the FUCK are you deliberatly not recognizing My OS as being able to run your software?"
Solaris 10 is BINARY compatible with Linux, it doesn't need a massive port to run, minor, if any, modifications. The real problem hear is the IBM just doesn't want "Solaris 10" as being a supported platform, even if it works fine on there.
"One of the nice things about SMIT is that you can see the actual command line incantation do do whatever it was you asked SMIT to do via the menus & filling out fields. This allows one to actually learn the command line, and save time later."
Is there an equivalent for FreeBSD, Linux or Mac OS X(darwin)? Apple's A/UX had a 'commando' or something program that did a similar job by makeing each command have a gui alternative that built the cli arguments with the proper options, I haven't seen anything since.
Solaris 10 has the feature set from Trusted Solaris integrated into it. Trusted Solaris is on par with the world's most secure systems on the planet, there is no reason to question that.
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Ok, so you will take "An Almighty God", which one? The Christian one, the Catholic subset one, the muslim God, the Jewish God, the Hindu God, the Greek or Roman Gods, the....
Declaring "there is A god" seems silly. Fine, there is "A" god, but if you are too generic, then you are not 'covered' by any given religion... and if you think that by just saying to yourself 'there is a god' and not being formally a member of a religion is making up your own religion, which seems... imaginary.
It is all this random guessing game. There is no logical way, due to the nature of faith(in religion or lack thereof), to prove the existence of God(s). The opposite is also true. There is no way, once you have determined that there is a God, which religion best personifies his wishes such that he will grant acceptance into a afterlife that you will find pleansant.. which itself cannot be proven, etc, etc.
It is just a feeling. There is no accuracy to it, there is no legitamacy to it, there is no winner to it. You, I, We, pick whatever 'feels' right and rest assured in the fact that we have no fucking clue either way, or to what extent, if God exists.
So you picked a platform based on marketing? No, you should pick a platform on what fits the project best, wether it be linux, unix, windows or other.
Just because dumb clients can be swooned by a BS ad about Windows doesn't mean you need to pander and encourage it.
well, no, it has 5 buttons and a scroll wheel.
Basically any USB mouse plugs in, without driver software, and starts working. Really, this is 2005, not 1995, plug'n'play is not a Windows-only idea, Macs are great at it, too.
You're a troll, but I will respond. Solaris 10 has Containers, DTrace and ZFS just to name a few. Containers are best-in-class, Dtrace is unparalleled, and ZFS has a lot of security and reliability enhancements.
Linux has a primitive "all or nothing" style security infrastructure.
Fixed with the NSA's SELinux, which uses ACLs in place of Linux's former permission system.
Running as user rather than root keeps my important files safe, and prevents bad things like rm -rf from destroying everything.
Running as non-admin/root in ANY enviroment is a good idea, because the scope of files that can theoretically be effected is smaller, period. Yes, the files effected are your personal files, rather than your system. However, restoring your ~ folder from a recent backup is much more simple then (reinstalling+reconfiguring your system) + (restoring your files from a recent backup)... Losing your home folder sucks, but losing your home folder PLUS your system sucks more.
The only reason Linux doesn't have thousands of viruses written for it is because nobody runs it. Same with macs.
1. I still don't buy this argument. Microsoft has services running on Personal AND Professional installs, by DEFAULT, that are often the source of exploits. Mac OS X(by default), has no network services running), Linux is often this way as well.
2. Windows has ActiveX, with little or no security settings by default, Mac and Linux do not, nor do they have a similar system for an equivalent.
3. Windows is absolutely tied to Internet Explorer, Media Player, MSN, etc. Linux and Mac are not( Safari can be deleted just like any other app, Linux not only able to uninstall all applications, but there are often various competing applications, meaning that no 1 exploit will effect them all(Konq, Mozilla, Firefox, Lynx, etc).
If Linux has 100x the users is does now(or Mac, for that instance), then yes, it would be more actively pursued by hackers. And because of that, there is much higher probability of successfully finding a hack on the system, HOWEVER, settings, services and configuration on a default system on Linux or Mac are more locked down and simplified than Windows, and thus, there are fewer points of entry.
A lot of software(including games) REQUIRE Admin level accounts to be run.
"On the Mac, right now it appears that there's several options: Neo Office (a Mac specific flavor of OO, it appears), the MS Office Suite(s), Abiword, Appleworks, and now Pages."
MS Office is owned by MS. Apple doesn't control it (price, features, speed).
Neo Office is a start, but it is non-native, java, and has a ways to go to even be a complete OO.o system, let alone a Office replacement.
Appleworks is outdated, runs in carbon, not cocoa, and needs massive updating.
Pages needed to be a cocoa word processor to keep Apple in the game and give them a nice cheap word processor they can sell in-house.
They also bought (soundjam, or something?) iTunes' original code. I also think(?) that they offered to hire the Watson guy... Which they really should have done, it is badass software and Sherlock was a pretty obvious catchup to the functionality. So there is a history of at-least trying to buy/hire good talent, when needed and where it makes sense.
FYI: The Watson developer is now working at Sun on an unrelated, but cool(so he says) project.
I haven't been able to connect at all for the last couple hours, is Ubuntu's tracker down? I am trying both x86 and PowerPC.
"connecting to peers - 0 peers" just stares at me. In this time, I downloaded via BT another linux distro mentioned in this thread, so I know my conenction isn't the issue. It is either no peers, or the tracker is swamped/down.
It isn't that I see 'this doesn't fit my view, it must be wrong" it is that I see, "this guy is making claims that I, my friends, and the machines my friends work on, have never had, ever, so what is the deal?"
OS X isn't perfect. I have never, ever, ever had any 'configuration issue with it, though that is somewhat vague. Apps have crashed, normally third-party apps that were the release-early-and-often type... it happens, but not often...
As for your other posting that was linked to... That is a lame ass bug and it should be fixed, furthermore, Font Manager should be made 'non-sucky'... I fully agree.
I also agree that Safari is not the place for the Default Browser setting, it should be in System Preferences.
Expose I do find useful, not just as eye candy. And I am in an interesting mix of liking the dock, and disliking that its scale-out setting makes motor memory harder to build, and that its snapshots of windows(minimized) are hard to differentiate.
I am not a fanboy, I see your complaints and, in my case, I have experienced and agree with you. I hope you take another look at OS X when Tiger comes out, because, overall, I do see it as the best system out there... Then again, I am also looking to learn more (Ubuntu) Linux and Solaris better, so, what can I say... Open minds never hurt anybody.
You, or anyone, gets Asterisk or whatever else to install and work as easy as Skype, then great. Until then, no thank you.
That is just silly. Google has no infrastructure for that, no support system, they have no vested interest in themselves supplying the OS, they would want to piggyback on Novell, Redhat or Apple's products and supply services/applications that compliment them.
The Plan 9 guy is probably just an OS developer to improve their linux server's configuration and be a high level sys admin for the Google computer network.
They wouldn't have to be browser in browser... XUL and the Mozilla development framework could be leveraged to create essentially, native looking-ish, web-based applications...
Then you can run your gmail, Goffic, Gcalender, Gcontacts, Gchat, etc. All from what may look like seperate, dedicated programs but are rich client web apps.
The biggest advantage, in my opinion, for a "g5" laptop is FSB. The Frontside Bus on G4's is around 133MHz, while a G5's FSB is 1/2 the processor's clock-speed. Yes, a G5 will lead to high GHz ratings, and it will be a heat problem, etc, but the Bus speed increasing 5x or more is going to be a killer feature.
PS: 64-bit, blah, blah. Larger RAM ceiling, blah, blah. G5's use low power(but high heat, if memory serves, correct me if I am wrong) blah, blah.
True. He is 'seeking' but has not gotten yet. I do give Bush some credit for that, but it hasn't gotten to the engineers yet.
And your second quote, Bush is proposing cutting 11 billion dollars from NASA's other projects... NASA is doing many cool things on many fronts. Cutting costs in other departments or projects is harmful. It needs to be a $12 billion increase in the budget, for several consecutive years, not a $1 billion dollar increase(they get something like 15-20 billion annualy as-is) and pulling 1/2 theird budget from other projects to meet Bush's goal.
What was the phrase: "Faster, Strong, Cheaper: Pick any TWO that you want."
NASA needs all 3, and it needs the resources (money+time) to get there. It needs the funding to build and design a more modular and reliable/reusable space craft. It needs funding for new space suits, satelites, probes, robotics, infrastructure upgrades, IT upgrades, planning/testing phases, etc.
Just because he announced a plan doesn't mean anything. NASA isn't getting the funding(it needs massive increasesm not cutbacks) to actually DO any of the things talked about.
Along those lines, I read an article where IBM was consolidating its entire computer line (mainframe, all servers, etc) to a single processor line based on the Power5. This makes it easy to admin, I assume, and lets IBM consolidate on a single line/design for processor so their engineers aren't competing against each other.
They are a very straightforward and logical desktop layout for maintaining (installing apps, etc) things.
Basicly, I think of it as the Ultimate Packet Sniffer command line tool, being applied to processes and your system as a whole, along with a scripting language for your pleasure.
It lets you track/compare/analyze users and processes in real-time to basicly tell you what your computer is really doing and lets you pinpoint who/why it is doing it, system wide, without configuration changes or restarts..
Look forward to a lot of REALLY powerful scripts coming from this(there is an experimental rootkit coming out even, that used dtrace to sniff out passwords in system memory, etc). Very powerful, very dangerous.
Hot-swapping live components is a hardware capability first, OS must support it as well though. Mainframes have this, hot-swap processors, etc. x86 just does not support it. That isn't Linux's fault.
All the major OSs, Mac OS 10,4 Tiger is getting ACLs, with SELinux, Linux will get ACLs, Sun's free version will have ACLs.
What about Windows?
Actually it is more accurately like:
"My OS is binary compatible with Linux, and can run your Linux software without a porblem. My OS also happens to be highly scalable, secure, Trusted and reliable. Why the FUCK are you deliberatly not recognizing My OS as being able to run your software?"
Solaris 10 is BINARY compatible with Linux, it doesn't need a massive port to run, minor, if any, modifications. The real problem hear is the IBM just doesn't want "Solaris 10" as being a supported platform, even if it works fine on there.
"One of the nice things about SMIT is that you can see the actual command line incantation do do whatever it was you asked SMIT to do via the menus & filling out fields. This allows one to actually learn the command line, and save time later."
Is there an equivalent for FreeBSD, Linux or Mac OS X(darwin)? Apple's A/UX had a 'commando' or something program that did a similar job by makeing each command have a gui alternative that built the cli arguments with the proper options, I haven't seen anything since.
Solaris 10 has the feature set from Trusted Solaris integrated into it. Trusted Solaris is on par with the world's most secure systems on the planet, there is no reason to question that.