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This kind of proves that both the submitter and the editor did not read the article (the above is stated on line 5 of the blog, not like you really have to look for it)
try Debian... make a local mirror and install cron-apt on all other boxes... patch comes out... test on your own box and if nothing breaks (if you're running stable, that shouldn't be a worry anyway, but we all know that stable isn't really what you want on your desktop anymore), update your mirror. On next boot all boxes are patched.
This can also be achieved in a MS environment using SUS but I prefer my patch downloads around 30K instead of 3MB a piece (barring some heavy Gnome or KDE package, those are big too). I also think SUS is a bit cumbersome in its approach to patching (you can mark a patch safe for installation in your network, but by default it will download all patches, something you can avoid in Debian... just mirror the packages you want/need and not the whole universe. I know you can select different OSes in SUS, but then you'll still have to test against all OSes you run. I've administered this in a mixed environment (win98, win98se, win2k, winxp, win2003, mssql, exchange 2k) and frankly, it has happened that our nightly downloads were over 100MB in total size on updates alone (and that's just for the OS patches - don't get me started on the numerous other patches I have to download and create an msi package of if it's not an MS product). Yeah... give me a debian mirror anytime with a stable repository for the servers and an unstable repository for the desktops.
So tell me... what is cheaper (measuring bandwidth, testing, downtime , licensing and staffing - especially staffing: I couldn't do all testing on the SUS server alone with all the platforms we were running there, but I had the debian mirror running as well, which took me maybe about 5 minutes of work daily on average for 5 servers and a handful of desktops)... a Microsoft based solution or a linux based solution?
Safe haven for IT-administrators. I wouldn't be surprised if they made a full working version in an msi package so sysadmins can finally roll out Firefox more easily. Or modify the search bar so you can search on your corp's intranet instead of Google. Or make ActiveX work seamlessly, but sandboxed in some way.
There's a lot of interesting things still to do with Firefox, I've only mentioned a few, but I think these are the most obvious ones.
Anyway, good luck to Bart and his new company. I applaud the fact that you want to capitalize on a good product yet still - as a startup - commit yourselves to sponsoring free content.
Why then don't the developers create something like Nero Burning Rom does? Create a separate group for gaming, with all appropriate permissions. Shouldn't be that hard.
On another note, I'd like Windows to have simple profile switching. No, not the user profile, but the system settings. 1 gaming profile with all the systray stuff out of the way except for AV-software and the firewall, no background services bloat etc. Another profile for strictly browsing and e-mailing with super-restricted access to the lower layer API's or everything sandboxed or whatever. Third profile for productivity apps. E-mailing and web browsing are almost a must here so this may make profile 2 not needed (except in the home for your kids maybe?) but this also needs to be sandboxed. I don't mind waiting for an extra 5 seconds loading my mailclient for security reasons. If Microsoft could make this work (aw with so much money in the bank, they ought to be) they'd have a very powerful feature on their hands. It increases their security (which is mediocre at best) and improves on the user experience. The only problem I can think of is the load time of these profiles. That should be kept to a minimum.
I'm willing to bet that there are loads of Slack/Linux users eager to collaborate on such a project. If there could be some government funding on such a project this could really take off, creating new opportunities in the job market as well - benefitting the French economy even more while keeping everything "home-made".
Oh well, I guess this will never happen. Slackware doesn't have wads of cash to wave to politicians so probably they're not even a blip on their clue-radar.
LOL, the problem with the slashcode is (AFAIK) that once you post, that's it... so I guess they'll have to directly edit the SQL tables to get it right.
man... try to locate "boobies" in new york and you get (among others) a Leukemia facility and a Tennis school. I tried Missouri and they came up with this: Missouri Democratic Party
This is exactly why my provider Planet Internet doesn't allow for connecting your SMTP server directly to the internet. You set up your MX records correctly and they relay the mail for you. The gains are obvious:
spam zombies simply won't work
people with no clue but wanting to run a mailserver will have trouble setting it up, so their choice is either to ask someone knowledgeable enough or forget about the whole thing.
the ISP won't get blacklisted
When I set it up back in the day I was annoyed at the stuff I needed to do to get my mailserver up and running (even though it took me only about 30 mins for finding out what to do and reconfigure my server). Nowadays I'm glad they do this because of the advantages this small requirement offers.
yes... and there are countries where people are treated as animals. For example in China where researchers have succeeded in this project.
This might well be a breakthrough for medical science. We create a lifeform to test new medicine or maybe even "tweak" the cells to let them become more resistant to certain diseases and harvest those cells for implantation in real humans. As for the short and painful life, how is this different from the current batch of animals being used in laboratories? I'd rather see a specifically designed lifeform being used for this than a real animal.
While I like this product (I especially think the barcode thing is spiffy), I don't really like some of their ideas for the next version. They state that you will be able to see other peoples profile with the same taste... Well I think marketeers are going to have a field trip with this... a fully free accessible database of online contacts already sorted by the profile you make... all that for only 40 bucks. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea in principle, but it's just too easy to be taken advantage of.
Since a few days, I use HitmanPro. It's a program that has a bunch of anti-spyware apps rolled in one. Spyware blaster, AdAware, Spybot are a few that are being used. It auto-updates all packages and runs all of them sequentially without interference (you can put it on hold or exit the program though). Easy to use and works great. You'll have to be running windows 2000 or higher, but that's about the only catch I could find.
This is not as much a technical issue as it is a legal one. Support contracts and legal indemnifications have been considered, and as far as I know, the Dutch government cannot just use Open Source software. And don't forget the huge amount of data that has to be converted to [insert OSS-package here]. The ministry of internal affairs in the Netherlands still have their OSS pages available here (Dutch), so they are still backing the Open Source iniative.
I don't think MS is able to finish this in the same timeframe as Apple putting out the x86 port. Just look at how long they are taking to get the AMD64 port out. This chip is now available for about a year, and the 64-bit port is still in BETA, while most linux distro's can now be easily optimized for running AMD-64 code.
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So editors... please fix
This kind of proves that both the submitter and the editor did not read the article (the above is stated on line 5 of the blog, not like you really have to look for it)
AFK, cop raid
only on /. can the above be modded +2 insightful
and the answer was 42
This can also be achieved in a MS environment using SUS but I prefer my patch downloads around 30K instead of 3MB a piece (barring some heavy Gnome or KDE package, those are big too). I also think SUS is a bit cumbersome in its approach to patching (you can mark a patch safe for installation in your network, but by default it will download all patches, something you can avoid in Debian... just mirror the packages you want/need and not the whole universe. I know you can select different OSes in SUS, but then you'll still have to test against all OSes you run. I've administered this in a mixed environment (win98, win98se, win2k, winxp, win2003, mssql, exchange 2k) and frankly, it has happened that our nightly downloads were over 100MB in total size on updates alone (and that's just for the OS patches - don't get me started on the numerous other patches I have to download and create an msi package of if it's not an MS product). Yeah... give me a debian mirror anytime with a stable repository for the servers and an unstable repository for the desktops.
So tell me... what is cheaper (measuring bandwidth, testing, downtime , licensing and staffing - especially staffing: I couldn't do all testing on the SUS server alone with all the platforms we were running there, but I had the debian mirror running as well, which took me maybe about 5 minutes of work daily on average for 5 servers and a handful of desktops)... a Microsoft based solution or a linux based solution?
There's a lot of interesting things still to do with Firefox, I've only mentioned a few, but I think these are the most obvious ones.
Anyway, good luck to Bart and his new company. I applaud the fact that you want to capitalize on a good product yet still - as a startup - commit yourselves to sponsoring free content.On another note, I'd like Windows to have simple profile switching. No, not the user profile, but the system settings. 1 gaming profile with all the systray stuff out of the way except for AV-software and the firewall, no background services bloat etc. Another profile for strictly browsing and e-mailing with super-restricted access to the lower layer API's or everything sandboxed or whatever. Third profile for productivity apps. E-mailing and web browsing are almost a must here so this may make profile 2 not needed (except in the home for your kids maybe?) but this also needs to be sandboxed. I don't mind waiting for an extra 5 seconds loading my mailclient for security reasons. If Microsoft could make this work (aw with so much money in the bank, they ought to be) they'd have a very powerful feature on their hands. It increases their security (which is mediocre at best) and improves on the user experience. The only problem I can think of is the load time of these profiles. That should be kept to a minimum.
I'm quite sure that's smaller, but obviously this product has a more general use.
hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
I'm willing to bet that there are loads of Slack/Linux users eager to collaborate on such a project. If there could be some government funding on such a project this could really take off, creating new opportunities in the job market as well - benefitting the French economy even more while keeping everything "home-made".
Oh well, I guess this will never happen. Slackware doesn't have wads of cash to wave to politicians so probably they're not even a blip on their clue-radar.LOL, the problem with the slashcode is (AFAIK) that once you post, that's it... so I guess they'll have to directly edit the SQL tables to get it right.
maybe a stupid question, but what package gives you the strike-out lists? I've searched the packages database but couldn't find anything.
It's been long overdue, but Mac will finally open up to pr0n.
Hurray!man... try to locate "boobies" in new york and you get (among others) a Leukemia facility and a Tennis school.
I tried Missouri and they came up with this: Missouri Democratic Party
- spam zombies simply won't work
- people with no clue but wanting to run a mailserver will have trouble setting it up, so their choice is either to ask someone knowledgeable enough or forget about the whole thing.
- the ISP won't get blacklisted
When I set it up back in the day I was annoyed at the stuff I needed to do to get my mailserver up and running (even though it took me only about 30 mins for finding out what to do and reconfigure my server). Nowadays I'm glad they do this because of the advantages this small requirement offers.This might well be a breakthrough for medical science. We create a lifeform to test new medicine or maybe even "tweak" the cells to let them become more resistant to certain diseases and harvest those cells for implantation in real humans.
As for the short and painful life, how is this different from the current batch of animals being used in laboratories? I'd rather see a specifically designed lifeform being used for this than a real animal.
While I like this product (I especially think the barcode thing is spiffy), I don't really like some of their ideas for the next version. They state that you will be able to see other peoples profile with the same taste... Well I think marketeers are going to have a field trip with this... a fully free accessible database of online contacts already sorted by the profile you make... all that for only 40 bucks. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea in principle, but it's just too easy to be taken advantage of.
Since a few days, I use HitmanPro. It's a program that has a bunch of anti-spyware apps rolled in one. Spyware blaster, AdAware, Spybot are a few that are being used. It auto-updates all packages and runs all of them sequentially without interference (you can put it on hold or exit the program though). Easy to use and works great. You'll have to be running windows 2000 or higher, but that's about the only catch I could find.
So does that mean we're gonna get another dupe in a few days?
This is not as much a technical issue as it is a legal one. Support contracts and legal indemnifications have been considered, and as far as I know, the Dutch government cannot just use Open Source software.
And don't forget the huge amount of data that has to be converted to [insert OSS-package here]. The ministry of internal affairs in the Netherlands still have their OSS pages available here (Dutch), so they are still backing the Open Source iniative.
That must be a first
I don't think MS is able to finish this in the same timeframe as Apple putting out the x86 port. Just look at how long they are taking to get the AMD64 port out. This chip is now available for about a year, and the 64-bit port is still in BETA, while most linux distro's can now be easily optimized for running AMD-64 code.