Now imagine how much ID could earn if those people could actually just walk down to the local gamestore and purchase the game instead of having to download it!
This is a universe where the pub owner gets sued if a patron drinks too much and falls over and where McDonalds is responsible for making people fat.
Actually not true... What you are talking about is your country... Repeat after me:" USA is NOT the universe." Other countries still have sane legal systems.
I wouldn't really want Debian to join forces with the larger software houses. Debian is truly free, and I love that it stays that way. Furthermore I like the Debian way of doing things, while I recent the Redhat way - that's why I use Debian, and wouldn't want a merge to change this.
It being a technical university the users often need a lot of computing power. The system is set up with about 300 dumb clients (sun ray terminals) connected to a smaller server (running Solaris). All the heavier programs must be executed from the cpu servers (running Solaris), thus the students have access (heavier programs ranging from mozilla to matlab). The service the servers provides is computing power, so there certainly is a reason for everyone to be poking around in there.
At my university we run large solaris servers where about 12000 users have access. I'd say the risk here is a little more than medium, if we aren't even able to determine who the culprit is. Of course if the Solaris box was used as a local install only for one user the risk would be medium, but aren't Solaris primarilly used for servers (lots of users, lots of risk)?
I wonder... Does this go for GPL code as well? If I glance at a bit of GPL code and then at a later time write something that uses a smart trick used in that code, or something which resembles a piece of that code, then my whole project should be GPL? Or is it just that Windows is Evil and everyone who gets near their code becomes tainted and must now work for them?
Designing for the minimum browser certainly isn't the same as designing for the minimum bandwidth! In fact some of the new standards are able to minimize the bandwidth consumption, while they require more from the browser. From that point of view it's hard to fill both requirements, don't you think?
"Show me a website that renders properly in Safari that doesn't render useably in MSIE, and I'll consider removing your dunce cap."
As recently posted (by me) my very own page renders just fine in both Mozilla and Opera, but looks despicable in IE... Does it look optimal in Safari? No idea, I don't have access to one (just like I don't have access to IE, but I have access to people who use it).
Now is it usable to Internet Explorer users? Probably, but it definately isn't pretty... Especially not if you run at a sufficiently low resolution (browser width).
What does ie support? I have no idea what IE supports, not to mention fully... All I know is which well defined standards are out there. My problem is here overlapping divs, which internet explorer cannot. So I should stop using divs? Not really something I'm willing to do.
FYI the page is this one. Of course I could make small alterations to make it more to IE's liking, but personally I don't have a machine to test it with.
I code to XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2.0... It validates. It looks perfect in mozilla and opera, but somehow mozilla manages to completely ravage the page so everything looks wrong. I have a "Best viewed with *\msie"... It's not that I hate IE, it's just that I'd rather code to the standards than to IE..
Well, of course the component you link to isn't as such wireless... The wire is just a great deal bigger than you're used to. Now what I want is air transmitted power. What I don't want is to get in between the transmitter and the reciever (think microwave).:)
Of course you can do it in windows. But close to everyone in Windows runs as admin, while close to no one in Linux runs as root. In effect you wouldn't have to change anything in Linux, while you'd have to drop all your admin privileges in Windows. I've tried maintaining an XP box, and on most occations I had to log out my normal user and log in as admin because the run as feature simply did not work properly. Games couldn't run because the permissions were wrong, and impossible to change to the right ones (I tried, I called friends of mine who are windows admins, who told me it was different on their XP boxes...).... I don't believe it's as easy to do to every windows box as it is to every Linux box. In Linux all you need is the capacity, in Windows the users need to refrain from using their default proile. Big difference!
But while you in windows has to copy to a tape or cd or likewise you can merely copy to another location on the same machine in Linux, change permissions, and there ya go: A backup! This can be done way more transparently than with an external medium like a cd-rom. Just make a new user called backup and make that copy your files every day, and there ya go!
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Now imagine how much ID could earn if those people could actually just walk down to the local gamestore and purchase the game instead of having to download it!
This is a universe where the pub owner gets sued if a patron drinks too much and falls over and where McDonalds is responsible for making people fat.
Actually not true... What you are talking about is your country... Repeat after me:" USA is NOT the universe." Other countries still have sane legal systems.
George Lucas gives to you:
STARWARS: RELOADED!
I wouldn't expect anything else...
Mine neither... It does kill my graphics card though, leaving the "pulling down" to me... By ssh, or magic SysRq, the result is the same.
Every day is sendmail patch day :)
He's hardly a monopoly...
Dude, this is slashdot! Most people here are intimately familiar with Linux in a way you wouldn't ever want to know about anyway! :)
It's the only way to fly! :)
I wouldn't really want Debian to join forces with the larger software houses. Debian is truly free, and I love that it stays that way. Furthermore I like the Debian way of doing things, while I recent the Redhat way - that's why I use Debian, and wouldn't want a merge to change this.
Uhm... "Secure this box!"
"Ok..." *unplugs ethernet cable, and as a precaution makes iptables block everything*
It being a technical university the users often need a lot of computing power. The system is set up with about 300 dumb clients (sun ray terminals) connected to a smaller server (running Solaris). All the heavier programs must be executed from the cpu servers (running Solaris), thus the students have access (heavier programs ranging from mozilla to matlab). The service the servers provides is computing power, so there certainly is a reason for everyone to be poking around in there.
At my university we run large solaris servers where about 12000 users have access. I'd say the risk here is a little more than medium, if we aren't even able to determine who the culprit is. Of course if the Solaris box was used as a local install only for one user the risk would be medium, but aren't Solaris primarilly used for servers (lots of users, lots of risk)?
AMD didn't rate their processors as equivalent to Intel Pentiums, but as equivalent to AMD T-birds.
I wonder... Does this go for GPL code as well? If I glance at a bit of GPL code and then at a later time write something that uses a smart trick used in that code, or something which resembles a piece of that code, then my whole project should be GPL? Or is it just that Windows is Evil and everyone who gets near their code becomes tainted and must now work for them?
Designing for the minimum browser certainly isn't the same as designing for the minimum bandwidth! In fact some of the new standards are able to minimize the bandwidth consumption, while they require more from the browser. From that point of view it's hard to fill both requirements, don't you think?
"Show me a website that renders properly in Safari that doesn't render useably in MSIE, and I'll consider removing your dunce cap."
As recently posted (by me) my very own page renders just fine in both Mozilla and Opera, but looks despicable in IE... Does it look optimal in Safari? No idea, I don't have access to one (just like I don't have access to IE, but I have access to people who use it).
Now is it usable to Internet Explorer users? Probably, but it definately isn't pretty... Especially not if you run at a sufficiently low resolution (browser width).
Uuhm... Ok, perhaps I mean Internet Explorer... But nothing's certain at this point ;)
What does ie support? I have no idea what IE supports, not to mention fully... All I know is which well defined standards are out there. My problem is here overlapping divs, which internet explorer cannot. So I should stop using divs? Not really something I'm willing to do.
FYI the page is this one. Of course I could make small alterations to make it more to IE's liking, but personally I don't have a machine to test it with.
I code to XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2.0... It validates. It looks perfect in mozilla and opera, but somehow mozilla manages to completely ravage the page so everything looks wrong. I have a "Best viewed with *\msie"... It's not that I hate IE, it's just that I'd rather code to the standards than to IE..
"Get FIREFOX - The Browser, Reloaded"
But... Reloaded sucked! Is this a hint?
Well, of course the component you link to isn't as such wireless... The wire is just a great deal bigger than you're used to. Now what I want is air transmitted power. What I don't want is to get in between the transmitter and the reciever (think microwave). :)
Different solutions for different problems. :)
But you are, of course, correct (it says so in your signature!)
Of course you can do it in windows. But close to everyone in Windows runs as admin, while close to no one in Linux runs as root. In effect you wouldn't have to change anything in Linux, while you'd have to drop all your admin privileges in Windows. I've tried maintaining an XP box, and on most occations I had to log out my normal user and log in as admin because the run as feature simply did not work properly. Games couldn't run because the permissions were wrong, and impossible to change to the right ones (I tried, I called friends of mine who are windows admins, who told me it was different on their XP boxes...). ... I don't believe it's as easy to do to every windows box as it is to every Linux box. In Linux all you need is the capacity, in Windows the users need to refrain from using their default proile. Big difference!
But while you in windows has to copy to a tape or cd or likewise you can merely copy to another location on the same machine in Linux, change permissions, and there ya go: A backup! This can be done way more transparently than with an external medium like a cd-rom. Just make a new user called backup and make that copy your files every day, and there ya go!
I believe it's been officially changed to avoid confusion (but since they didn't tell anyone but the hardware manufactores, everyone's confused).
So 1 TB = 10^12, while you're talking about 1 tebi = 2^40.
More here.