Some companies [Microsoft] won't like what the clueful have to say about their software. But every other company in the world needs to hear it.
Good. The more such hacking and virus writing schools will be around the world the less chances Windows will have to survive on the market.
All other OS vendors (including/especially OS teams) are adapting quickly (Apple even abandoned their old crap in a favor of BSD), while Microsoft still sticks to the old mix of DOS and VMS.
Of course the law also will catch up, but that would be really slow. Especially counting the fact that Internet is already international, while the law is not. So, until the law will work we have to live in the anarchy and chaos of hackers, virus writers and, of course, spammers (BTW, not spammer courses around yet?).
I would say, every bad enough guy kills at least two Windows installations: one s/he works on, the other he cracks. The more bad guys the less Windows market share.
I never thought about cyber-bad guys in so good sense. Usually I have to defeat them and thus I hate them. But now I think different (TM).
Give them some time (I mean - don't bomb them like Iraq) and they advance technologically. Remember? The later you get into the game the better your startup. And I see China moves in the right direction. Go China!
You seem to be implying that fink-ported apps are running under an emulator of some sort. Not at all. Fink merely handles the (usually small) changes to make the apps run under OS X and X11.
I am implying what I've seen by myself.
Which apps are you comparing here? The OS X version of Word versus the Linux version of Word? The OS X version of PhotoShop versus the Linux version of PhotoShop? The OS X version of iMovie versus the Linux version of iMovie? Don't tell me about the "equivalents" - you have to compare the same program if you are going to talk sensibly about speed. An "equivalent" program often turns out to not be quite so sophisticated and speed versus functionality is one common trade-off.
As an user I care about functions. Text processing (in other words: style based text editing) functions of LyX under Lunux/PPC work more convinient and much faster than text processig functions of Word for OSX. Graphical editing in GIMP/Linux works same convinient as in Photoshop/OSX, but much faster. Cannot tell anything about iJunk as I don't need it and didn't use it. So I don't have to compare same programs. Functions - that what matters.
However, if you want to compare exactly the same program, then do it with Mozilla, especially its Composer mode. My experience shows that Mozilla/Composer under Linux/PPC (Gentoo) works faster with the same documents than it does on OSX. I didn't have a chance to compare OpenOffice yet. You?
Don't watch the stock alone - compare it (after normalization) to QQQ or at least to other software companies.
Re:Another news: US 'abused rights post-9/11'
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Oops, my fault, I missed it. CNN's article is even more detailed, BTW. Thanks for the link.
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Can anyone explain to me why I see this news on BBC, but not on CNN? Is it a sort of censorship or most of Americans don't think it's a news worth of reading? Anyway, here is the article:
A review into the detention of hundreds of foreign nationals in the United States following the 11 September 2001 attacks has found significant problems in the way they were handled.
The report, by the inspector general of the US Justice Department, says some of the detainees were held in unduly harsh conditions and were subject to abuse.
The report looks into the cases of 762 people who were living in the US illegally and were detained in the 11 months following the attacks.
It concludes that some had to wait more than a month before being charged with any offence, and that they remained in custody for weeks without any investigations taking place as to whether they actually had any links to terrorism.
Restrictive conditions
The report is particularly critical of conditions at the Metropolitan detention centre in New York.
Eighty-four of the detainees were held there under what the report calls highly restrictive conditions, including being locked up for at least 23 hours per day.
They were also subject to escort procedures that included hand-cuffs, leg-irons and heavy chains; and a limit of one legal telephone call per week, which the report says prevented them from obtaining timely advice.
Some detainees also suffered a pattern of physical and verbal abuse at the centre.
The Justice Department says its actions were fully within the law, adding that it makes no apologies for finding every legal way possible to protect the American public from terrorist attacks.
You think it's funny? - I did it before on my Powerbook. Well, I don't have a screenshot and VPC is not on that disk anymore. And it was Win98, not XP. But it worked - Office-97, IE5.0, Together (the version before Control Center), Rational Rose 2000, Oracle JDeveloper 2.0, many other proprietary win32 apps. I needed them on the road, sometimes simultaniously with some Linux and MacOS applications - that's why MOL+VPC worked better than reboot to MacOS.
Use fink and you can use the linux software you are acustomed to under macosx.
Been there, don that. Fink is a very slow way to run Linux applications on OSX - comparing to MOL running OSX applications on Gentoo Linux/PPC.
Well, no need to mention that OSX apps in native OSX boot are much slower than Linux apps in native Linux boot on the same PPC. Especially, of course, if Linux is Gentoo.
Can anyone explain to me why I see this news on BBC, but not on CNN? Is it a sort of censorship or most of Americans don't think it's a news worth of reading?
A review into the detention of hundreds of foreign nationals in the United States following the 11 September 2001 attacks has found significant problems in the way they were handled.
The report, by the inspector general of the US Justice Department, says some of the detainees were held in unduly harsh conditions and were subject to abuse.
The report looks into the cases of 762 people who were living in the US illegally and were detained in the 11 months following the attacks.
It concludes that some had to wait more than a month before being charged with any offence, and that they remained in custody for weeks without any investigations taking place as to whether they actually had any links to terrorism.
Restrictive conditions
The report is particularly critical of conditions at the Metropolitan detention centre in New York.
Eighty-four of the detainees were held there under what the report calls highly restrictive conditions, including being locked up for at least 23 hours per day.
They were also subject to escort procedures that included hand-cuffs, leg-irons and heavy chains; and a limit of one legal telephone call per week, which the report says prevented them from obtaining timely advice.
Some detainees also suffered a pattern of physical and verbal abuse at the centre.
The Justice Department says its actions were fully within the law, adding that it makes no apologies for finding every legal way possible to protect the American public from terrorist attacks.
In order of being modded up you either say your points with facts or say your point with logic arguments or just give a funny joke here about the subject.
I don't see any facts in your original post, neither any logic. So what did you try - to joke?
US Govt is involved everywhere, so that's why I don't read american news about any international things.
Well, I read American international news *AFTER* I read about the events somewhereelse - just to check what exactly they are lying and thus to know what's the point in US administration about it:)
The trick is to find the neutral news source which would be a professional one at the same time.
When I am looking for news about Middle East events I prefer Russian sources. When I am looking for news about Russian events in Chechnya I prefer British and French sources. When I am looking for news about China events I prefer Canadian sources.
The fact is that good professional news agencies try to tell the info as close to truth as they can. But they fail to tell the truth more often when they are under the pressure. And they are under the pressure when the news is somehow related to the goverment they work under.
US Govt is involved everywhere, so that's why I don't read american news about any international things. But it's ok to read tech news on CNN - it's hard to lie about planets and computers or otherwise you will make your american scientists to look as complete idiots (for politicians it's usually ok).
Does slashdot now do OSS project announcements? I have a few I may like to promote on slashdot.
I like your idea and actually support it. I suggest new article subject: top ten forgotten OSS projects. I would publish such review by myself, but it's useless: everything that I've tried to publish was refused. I think/. editors dislike my name (just kidding here).
Anyway, coming back to the original post, I think it's too short for review and too old for news. I think this guy is just a friend of one of/. editors and that's why his article was approved and published.
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SVG apparently has too many bugs to enable as yet (and in Linux at least, depends on libart, which most people don't have AFAIK).
If you'll try XUL examples on xulplanet and SVG examples on crockzilla you'll find about the same chance to meet a bug. XUL is enabled, SVG is not. I don't understand it.
libart is free (if I remember - LGPL). So, its license is not the problem, right? So why "most of people don't have" it? Is it its quality?
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Speaking about SVG. Any news when by default it will be on and stable?
Another question: any news about XForms support?
Re:What's that other Internet Explorer thing again
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Hmm, it starts same fast as Oper 7 on my Gentoo Linux boxes. Yes, I am talking about Mozilla integrated suite. And yes again, it's not just a nyew window - it's a new process.
Well, that's the good thing about compiling from sources, isn't it?:)
On a second thought, assuming that there is a hope you wake up, read this comment - it's about planning invasion to Cuba. It reminds me recent Afganistan and Iraq events.
Slashdot Mirror
Why that part pf the world? They may deploy their male surplus cross ocean, to liberate States from Bush's dynasty :)
Good. The more such hacking and virus writing schools will be around the world the less chances Windows will have to survive on the market.
All other OS vendors (including/especially OS teams) are adapting quickly (Apple even abandoned their old crap in a favor of BSD), while Microsoft still sticks to the old mix of DOS and VMS.
Of course the law also will catch up, but that would be really slow. Especially counting the fact that Internet is already international, while the law is not. So, until the law will work we have to live in the anarchy and chaos of hackers, virus writers and, of course, spammers (BTW, not spammer courses around yet?).
I would say, every bad enough guy kills at least two Windows installations: one s/he works on, the other he cracks. The more bad guys the less Windows market share.
I never thought about cyber-bad guys in so good sense. Usually I have to defeat them and thus I hate them. But now I think different (TM).
Does anyone find that I am wrong here?
Oh wait, Bill works for the other company. Anyway, Bill or not Bill - you got a point :)
Give them some time (I mean - don't bomb them like Iraq) and they advance technologically. Remember? The later you get into the game the better your startup. And I see China moves in the right direction. Go China!
How about Mozilla?
I am implying what I've seen by myself.
Which apps are you comparing here? The OS X version of Word versus the Linux version of Word? The OS X version of PhotoShop versus the Linux version of PhotoShop? The OS X version of iMovie versus the Linux version of iMovie? Don't tell me about the "equivalents" - you have to compare the same program if you are going to talk sensibly about speed. An "equivalent" program often turns out to not be quite so sophisticated and speed versus functionality is one common trade-off.
As an user I care about functions. Text processing (in other words: style based text editing) functions of LyX under Lunux/PPC work more convinient and much faster than text processig functions of Word for OSX. Graphical editing in GIMP/Linux works same convinient as in Photoshop/OSX, but much faster. Cannot tell anything about iJunk as I don't need it and didn't use it. So I don't have to compare same programs. Functions - that what matters.
However, if you want to compare exactly the same program, then do it with Mozilla, especially its Composer mode. My experience shows that Mozilla/Composer under Linux/PPC (Gentoo) works faster with the same documents than it does on OSX. I didn't have a chance to compare OpenOffice yet. You?
SCO threatens sue Linus
SCO threatens to sue Novell
What's wrong with HP and SGI? It's petty that I don't see such good companies among other leaders.
And don't forget Apple - Steve's asked for it when he moved to OSX :)
Don't watch the stock alone - compare it (after normalization) to QQQ or at least to other software companies.
Oops, my fault, I missed it. CNN's article is even more detailed, BTW. Thanks for the link.
A review into the detention of hundreds of foreign nationals in the United States following the 11 September 2001 attacks has found significant problems in the way they were handled.
The report, by the inspector general of the US Justice Department, says some of the detainees were held in unduly harsh conditions and were subject to abuse.
The report looks into the cases of 762 people who were living in the US illegally and were detained in the 11 months following the attacks.
It concludes that some had to wait more than a month before being charged with any offence, and that they remained in custody for weeks without any investigations taking place as to whether they actually had any links to terrorism.
Restrictive conditions
The report is particularly critical of conditions at the Metropolitan detention centre in New York.
Eighty-four of the detainees were held there under what the report calls highly restrictive conditions, including being locked up for at least 23 hours per day.
They were also subject to escort procedures that included hand-cuffs, leg-irons and heavy chains; and a limit of one legal telephone call per week, which the report says prevented them from obtaining timely advice.
Some detainees also suffered a pattern of physical and verbal abuse at the centre.
The Justice Department says its actions were fully within the law, adding that it makes no apologies for finding every legal way possible to protect the American public from terrorist attacks.
You think it's funny? - I did it before on my Powerbook. Well, I don't have a screenshot and VPC is not on that disk anymore. And it was Win98, not XP. But it worked - Office-97, IE5.0, Together (the version before Control Center), Rational Rose 2000, Oracle JDeveloper 2.0, many other proprietary win32 apps. I needed them on the road, sometimes simultaniously with some Linux and MacOS applications - that's why MOL+VPC worked better than reboot to MacOS.
Been there, don that. Fink is a very slow way to run Linux applications on OSX - comparing to MOL running OSX applications on Gentoo Linux/PPC.
Well, no need to mention that OSX apps in native OSX boot are much slower than Linux apps in native Linux boot on the same PPC. Especially, of course, if Linux is Gentoo.
I am confused. Do you mean immature user interfaces of OSX? That's why you run Gentoo on your iBook, right?
A review into the detention of hundreds of foreign nationals in the United States following the 11 September 2001 attacks has found significant problems in the way they were handled.
The report, by the inspector general of the US Justice Department, says some of the detainees were held in unduly harsh conditions and were subject to abuse.
The report looks into the cases of 762 people who were living in the US illegally and were detained in the 11 months following the attacks.
It concludes that some had to wait more than a month before being charged with any offence, and that they remained in custody for weeks without any investigations taking place as to whether they actually had any links to terrorism.
Restrictive conditions
The report is particularly critical of conditions at the Metropolitan detention centre in New York.
Eighty-four of the detainees were held there under what the report calls highly restrictive conditions, including being locked up for at least 23 hours per day.
They were also subject to escort procedures that included hand-cuffs, leg-irons and heavy chains; and a limit of one legal telephone call per week, which the report says prevented them from obtaining timely advice.
Some detainees also suffered a pattern of physical and verbal abuse at the centre.
The Justice Department says its actions were fully within the law, adding that it makes no apologies for finding every legal way possible to protect the American public from terrorist attacks.
Only Americans would force everyone to install $100 GPS on each car to get additional $1 tax a year from that car. Very good, very effective country.
I don't see any facts in your original post, neither any logic. So what did you try - to joke?
I thought that the style of Microsoft would be:
What *specifically* makes it more cleaner than Gnome or KDE?
in fact, it has the only Drag'nDrop GUI I've ever seen that I would be willing to call uncluttere
What *specifically* makes DnD in GNOME/KDE cluttered?
Well, I read American international news *AFTER* I read about the events somewhereelse - just to check what exactly they are lying and thus to know what's the point in US administration about it :)
When I am looking for news about Middle East events I prefer Russian sources. When I am looking for news about Russian events in Chechnya I prefer British and French sources. When I am looking for news about China events I prefer Canadian sources.
The fact is that good professional news agencies try to tell the info as close to truth as they can. But they fail to tell the truth more often when they are under the pressure. And they are under the pressure when the news is somehow related to the goverment they work under.
US Govt is involved everywhere, so that's why I don't read american news about any international things. But it's ok to read tech news on CNN - it's hard to lie about planets and computers or otherwise you will make your american scientists to look as complete idiots (for politicians it's usually ok).
I like your idea and actually support it. I suggest new article subject: top ten forgotten OSS projects. I would publish such review by myself, but it's useless: everything that I've tried to publish was refused. I think /. editors dislike my name (just kidding here).
Anyway, coming back to the original post, I think it's too short for review and too old for news. I think this guy is just a friend of one of /. editors and that's why his article was approved and published.
If you'll try XUL examples on xulplanet and SVG examples on crockzilla you'll find about the same chance to meet a bug. XUL is enabled, SVG is not. I don't understand it.
libart is free (if I remember - LGPL). So, its license is not the problem, right? So why "most of people don't have" it? Is it its quality?
Another question: any news about XForms support?
Well, that's the good thing about compiling from sources, isn't it? :)
On a second thought, assuming that there is a hope you wake up, read this comment - it's about planning invasion to Cuba. It reminds me recent Afganistan and Iraq events.