My car's manufacturer would be responislbe if it was a Were-Car who's headlights turn unsuspecting robots into where-cars that spread the disease exponentially, expanding with each generation.
Microsoft clearly places advertising as a higher priority than security, to the detriment of their subjects^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcustomers.
For a serious analogy, an automaker should be held responsible if their cars could be unlucked and started by tapping the hood a certain way, and the same problem kept recurring in many models despite being absent in competitor's models.
This is not about Winshit breaking down every chance it gets; this is about recurring security issues resulting from vulnerabilities that are never quite fixed.
As for crashes being litigatable, I lost a year's worth of source code when my last Windows machine corrupted its allocation tables. (Then again, seeing as how that got me to switch completely over to unices, I consider it a profit. I guess I can't sue, but I'd love to see M$'s lawyers make the point that I didn't lose anything in the crash because of Linux's superiority...)
for a "tivo box" you can get quick startup times by starting your tivo app before anything else.
If you want a fully bloated User Friendly GUI, then of course it'll take longer to boot! Most Linux distros are anything but a minimal "weenie" gui coupled with some card games and a DOS-era text editor or two.
Try building everything unnecessary as a module, loaded after your UI starts, and make the UI as high a priority as possible.
Also look into hybernation, whereby a minimal kernel loads a ram image from a booted system and lets it go.
Most users won't want one. The fact that my zaurus can run GCC, XFree86, ESD, and the works is what made me buy it.
Situations come up that can't be predicted, and that's where Linux shines on handhelds. I'm using my zaurus as a network ESD server at the moment, and I'll be using it as an HTTP server in a few minutes. Because my zaurus runs Linux, no one has to rewrite software to do such things. Only a simple recompile is necessary.
"Elmo knows where you live!", Elmo on the Simpsons.
(Let's make a donation of billions of dollars to PBS on SCO's behalf, to be collected from SCO in a week or two. I'm sure they're kindhearted enough to appreciate it.)
or you could assume I meant something clever involving the following of open SMTP standards that don't descriminate on namespace but rather by server usage or proofreading habits.
Get 10,000,000 more of these guys and major domains will start accepting mail from innocent bystandards like me that are unlucky enough to be on small subnets again.
Then the entire security model rests in NSA translators knowing the traditioonal chinese word for RCP and the servers having enough bandwidth to support VNC or Terminal Server.
The NSA won't bother with any backdoors beyond a possible inclusion of Systram translation software.
If I download a song or copy a disc for personal use, I'm not profiting from the authors work without their consent.
If a company violates the GPL in this matter, they are essentially selling Linux for a profit without following the terms that allow them to sell it for a profit.
If I plagurize you, it only matters if I claim the work is mine and publish it. No one cares if I plagurize your and keep the plagurized work in my closet, away from the eyes of others.
Furthermore, if Linus starts suing children and grandmothers, we might stop caring about such things. Blackmailing college students into settlements would also prompt such a response.
we hooked a 300 baud modem to a dumb terminal and dialed into a server with the games we wanted to play, all the while laughing at those chumps that paid for their own computers.
Granted "my day" wasn't that long ago and everyone else have 486 and pentium desktops that cost less than my transcontinental phone bills in my pursuit of 20 y/o MUDs...
I have an applet for that. Just tap it and start talking, the result is a wav. A real wav. none of that proprietary garbage.
What many people forget is that the Zaurus is a computer, you can do anything on it that you could on a desktop with similar resources. You could even oggenc/dev/dsp for high quality recordings.
But I'd prefer to use it over gigabit ethernet, or at the very least a separate ethernet device than the one I use for me lan.
Can multiple computers access the same drives through this?
On another note, is it possible to network over traditional SCSI, by changing the SCSI card ID's to make them co-operate on the same chain? Does an implementation of this exist in Linux, *BSD, or Solaris?
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(who lives in Jefferson City, TN) calls it "emodium"
Just as with misuse of the term hacker, we eventually learn to deal with such ignorance.
(My emodium has more cross compilers than your emodium, so there!)
My car's manufacturer would be responislbe if it was a Were-Car who's headlights turn unsuspecting robots into where-cars that spread the disease exponentially, expanding with each generation.
Microsoft clearly places advertising as a higher priority than security, to the detriment of their subjects^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcustomers.
For a serious analogy, an automaker should be held responsible if their cars could be unlucked and started by tapping the hood a certain way, and the same problem kept recurring in many models despite being absent in competitor's models.
This is not about Winshit breaking down every chance it gets; this is about recurring security issues resulting from vulnerabilities that are never quite fixed.
As for crashes being litigatable, I lost a year's worth of source code when my last Windows machine corrupted its allocation tables. (Then again, seeing as how that got me to switch completely over to unices, I consider it a profit. I guess I can't sue, but I'd love to see M$'s lawyers make the point that I didn't lose anything in the crash because of Linux's superiority...)
if you can convince them to pay you for time and a half during the Simpsons, South Park, and similar cartoons.
for a "tivo box" you can get quick startup times by starting your tivo app before anything else.
If you want a fully bloated User Friendly GUI, then of course it'll take longer to boot! Most Linux distros are anything but a minimal "weenie" gui coupled with some card games and a DOS-era text editor or two.
Try building everything unnecessary as a module, loaded after your UI starts, and make the UI as high a priority as possible.
Also look into hybernation, whereby a minimal kernel loads a ram image from a booted system and lets it go.
Sol currently has no president. If you would like to lay claim to this solar system, click here.
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Does this shoot the whole "butterfly in the rainforest" theory to hell, or does the simulator monitor butterfly activity?
Most users won't want one. The fact that my zaurus can run GCC, XFree86, ESD, and the works is what made me buy it.
Situations come up that can't be predicted, and that's where Linux shines on handhelds. I'm using my zaurus as a network ESD server at the moment, and I'll be using it as an HTTP server in a few minutes. Because my zaurus runs Linux, no one has to rewrite software to do such things. Only a simple recompile is necessary.
Do any of them have a console and the ability to run an onboard C (cross)compiler?
If not, I'll stick with my Zaurus.
"Elmo knows where you live!", Elmo on the Simpsons.
(Let's make a donation of billions of dollars to PBS on SCO's behalf, to be collected from SCO in a week or two. I'm sure they're kindhearted enough to appreciate it.)
or you could assume I meant something clever involving the following of open SMTP standards that don't descriminate on namespace but rather by server usage or proofreading habits.
Dogs, cats, treestumps, and the deceased had a voter turnout of 100%.
In unrelated news, Darl McBride of the TriumverateOfEvil party is our new president.
Get 10,000,000 more of these guys and major domains will start accepting mail from innocent bystandards like me that are unlucky enough to be on small subnets again.
they'll charge you no more than a few hundred for your own toaster, provided that you can't get a shell on it.
(Does a Titanium PowerBook count as a toaster? I'm willing to demonstrate cooking with it.)
They are the closest thing to a unified caffeine distributor. We're as likely to take down debian.org as anything coca-cola.
("Will code for caffeine" replacment billboards are quite another matter...)
If you start glowing green, people call in and report your location via the GPS units in their cell phones.
Then the entire security model rests in NSA translators knowing the traditioonal chinese word for RCP and the servers having enough bandwidth to support VNC or Terminal Server.
The NSA won't bother with any backdoors beyond a possible inclusion of Systram translation software.
interspacing hours of downtime, during the beginning of the W32Blast onslaught, was just a coincidence.
I didn't read read the notice on the bill; a friend told me that's why they upgraded.
recently did the same thing as an apology for recent downtime.
1. ISP catches WIN32BLAST
2. ????
3. BANDWIDTH!
IMHO, it's all about profit.
If I download a song or copy a disc for personal use, I'm not profiting from the authors work without their consent.
If a company violates the GPL in this matter, they are essentially selling Linux for a profit without following the terms that allow them to sell it for a profit.
If I plagurize you, it only matters if I claim the work is mine and publish it. No one cares if I plagurize your and keep the plagurized work in my closet, away from the eyes of others.
Furthermore, if Linus starts suing children and grandmothers, we might stop caring about such things. Blackmailing college students into settlements would also prompt such a response.
we hooked a 300 baud modem to a dumb terminal and dialed into a server with the games we wanted to play, all the while laughing at those chumps that paid for their own computers.
Granted "my day" wasn't that long ago and everyone else have 486 and pentium desktops that cost less than my transcontinental phone bills in my pursuit of 20 y/o MUDs...
I have an applet for that. Just tap it and start talking, the result is a wav. A real wav. none of that proprietary garbage.
/dev/dsp for high quality recordings.
What many people forget is that the Zaurus is a computer, you can do anything on it that you could on a desktop with similar resources. You could even oggenc
No, it was Homer Simpson as Paul Bunyon that caught a meteor in his ass.
Even a perfect incarnation of X/Y will be abused and treated as a dumb buffer by many libraries for the sake of asthetics.
But I'd prefer to use it over gigabit ethernet, or at the very least a separate ethernet device than the one I use for me lan.
Can multiple computers access the same drives through this?
On another note, is it possible to network over traditional SCSI, by changing the SCSI card ID's to make them co-operate on the same chain? Does an implementation of this exist in Linux, *BSD, or Solaris?