Well my 2 year olds (I have 3 kids ranging from 5->12 yrs now) when they were twoish got a dumpster-dived beige box which we run GNU/Linux (back then Mandrake, now Ubuntu). All three of my kids can recognise TUX from 50 yards. They are all happy with picking which OS they run as everything I build is dual booted. Some games on Ubuntu and some on Windows XP. Kids just do NOT have the need for fast machines until they get to FPS or more complex sims like Homeworld. To make it not a beige box and make it personal just let them go wild with a spray can and paint on the case.
The US is full of on-line resource I use every day. The CIA web site has fantastic (hopefully accurate) country data. Same with GPS - paid for by the US TAX payer.
Quid pro quo - they give us spooks and military satellite systems and we give them culture like Telliy Tubbies, Bob the Builder and Fimbles (what was they smokin ?).
Thats very mean to the Lads from Lagos - I like 419 scan letters as they usually have gone to as much effort as Readers Digest in getting me to part with my money. Its always fun trying to work out just how much fantasy money I could get.
They are certainly a lot nicer than the usual crap that comes through and they only make up around 1% or so of spams.
If you view the 419'ers efforts as a freedom of speech then I still think that the artists against 419 scams are indulging in a bit of censorship. True its to help stop the stupid being departed from their money but as the saying goes...
The next time I see a multi-1000 dollar price tag on some work of physical art, I'm going to say that the material costs are just say 100 bucks and it looks like you spent all of 1 afternoon on it so I'll give you another 50 to cover ancillaries and say 100 for your time - USD 250 it is.
"XAML enables you to create a UI without using code. You can create quite elaborate documents entirely in markup using controls, text, images, shapes and so forth..."
Helloooooo, anyone home ?, once you get into creating 'elaborate' stuff in 'markup' then you are smack back into programming and code. Its that kind of thinking that gives us unmaintainable Excel or Word macros, JavaScript, ASP, Perl, Expect/Tk,...list goes on.
It IS programming and it IS in CODE because it has a syntax , a grammer and a vocabulary. Unless it is a natural language parser then its still a computer language.
I'm not knocking the language - I just think its being oversold by saying its not code.
I agree with you here on this my complaint was with the god is a fact statement from the parent joker.
Using the fact of a sequence of words and then saying that because those sequence of words exists as a fact then the sematic content as it would be interpreted by an english language reader for those words as also being a fact is sophistry.
The next time he misses a credit card payment then he needs to simply conjure up a fact of it being paid. I'm sure the card company will accept that fact exists like I accept the fact that there is a god.
Legal Costs - Microsoft will charge you the cost of their own audit of your site if there is a discrepancy of 3%.
This threat means that you really must have a software compliance officer (it could be an existing legal or IT manager) in any company that uses anything more than a few desktops else you really are risking your business.
MS Office doesn't run on Unix/Linux. OK its sort of obvious but if you have Solaris/Linux desktops then the cost of getting MS Office working across your company could be quite high.
Support ; MS Office does not come with developer-access support that say OpenOffice has the potential of offering unless you are a very big company (like a Tier-1 Bank, Fortune 500 etc). Trust me - you cannot email Microsoft and get a developer handle the call and start fixing your corrupt document when you buy a retail boxed product. Anyone you thinks otherwise has never tried this. The only time I got access to Microsoft like you do with OpenOffice was when we were on a joint-project and were covered by NDAs.
MS Office is globally priced the same - thus the actual cost in local terms can vary dramatically range nearly a year's salary through to a day's salary. OpenOffice is at a price that has the same burden on each worker throughout the world ! with OpenOffice, from the US to Mexico it takes up exactly the same amount of cost in local terms to switch, whereas with MS Office it can vary dramatically.
The labour costs to switch is always the same in local terms as its using local labour but the licensing costs can be astronomical for MS Office in some countries.
Not at all. It is a fact that God exists, it is merely one that cannot be proven. A fact does not only become a fact when it is proven. A fact has always been a fact, no matter who doesn't know it.
At best its a hypothesis that god exists. A conjecture at least, but not a fact as there is not even circumstantial evidence to allow anyone to entertain that god exists...as a fact.
A distance star is a fact to many, to a reasonable degree of certainty, as it has evidence that it exists which in plain view. Distant planets on the other hand were hypothesised and you either believed in them or not until evidence had been presented that confirms to a reasonable degree of their existance. They are as strong a fact now as the star they orbit.
Your god (I'm guessing a Christian one) is your faith and truthfully by trying to turn your god into a fact you dilute the power of your faith. The purpose of faiths is to keep the public happy. This is where the communists made a mistake and the one you are making. Once you remove faith from people then you remove hope. The general population doesn't want life without faith.
I'd be very careful in trying to factualise your faith because then you're playing a different game with different rules and the joke is...no one wins. Life is a lot harder without faith in a god because you got to discover the truths for yourself.
Did they actually read the article text ! To quote the article...
"..launch its program called ''What's The Diff?"
Doh - I guess I was moded by some Microsoft drone who didn't even understand the joke of...
cvs diff...."
I'll explain: on UNIX/LINUX and similar when you want to get a difference between two things you use a program called diff. In fact I wouldn't suprised that the articles' use of the word diff is in fact a reference to the Unix diff.
The UK government (currently run solely by our own Prime Minister Blair) is attempting to bring in ID cards to stop benefit fraud, identity theft, illegal immigration and the likes.
Meanwhile the US - which has very strict laws and ID of some kind is fairly well mandatory to even buy a beer, also has a problem with identity theft, benefit fraud and illegal immigration.
Hello UK - ramping up the amount of ID you carry or require will not stop identity theft even if its biometric because it is human nature to commit fraud given enough money. Terrorists have money; terrorists commit fraud. Known terrorists WILL get new identities and unknown terrorists will also be quite happy to be sleepers and have good identities.
Nothing changes.
To solve terrorism and the likes you have to identify networks of people. Its not so much my identity but who I am related to and interact with that counts. This is how PGP signing works with self-generated keys and the same signing system should work with ID cards.
The choice should not be a PKI style system with a central authority but a combination of a PGP style system with a central authority that co-signs self-generated keys.
Lets face it - the day the goverment makes an unforgable banknote is the day I'll reconsider the arguments. Until that time the more ID you have the more problems you have with identity theft of that same ID.
Not that Funny - I get some weird ICMP data hit my servers and I'm sure people use ICMP echo packets as for covert data flows.
As far as I understand you send out a ICMP echo with the source address of where you want to go to and the destination of any server that echos back OK.
Send your ICMP packet to the server. It echos this for you back to the provided source address (which isn't actually but the somewhere else that you wanted to get to.
Inside the ICMP data you'll have to provide your own transport layer but thats not too hard.
I've been trying to get ANY message that has a link to ANY site on voila.fr blocked by my ISP (BT Internet via Yahoo) but absolutely no luck.
As far as I'm concerned (given the amount of spams from ADSL users and the inability of major ISP to block obvious SPAM) major ISPs don't give a damn about SPAM.
They go on about how if you click 'spam' when you receive a 'spam' then they get a message blah blah blah usual IT support canned email comes back.
They show concern in their Press - the problem is they want to charge a premium for anti-SPAM technology.
I get spam from KNOWN spammers and spam sites with absolutely fricken(US)/fuggin(UK) obvious spam contents which my Mozilla quite happily bins but stupid multi-billion dollar/pound ISP with all the technology in the world at its grasp i.e. BT (who invented the Internet if you remember from their law suits) and Yahoo! (who invented the use of silly diacritics in brands) have trouble classifying bleeding obvious spam emails.
Oh and they also mark legitimate commercial email addressed to me directly to me sourced from a domain that has the SMTP server as 'Bulk' along with the other 200 per day of spams, thus causing me to have to scroll through via their crappy Web interface, hundreds of discusting email subjects trying to find a missing email.
BT and Yahoo! email is a joke.
I've said that I'll be charging them 10 EURO for every email from site.voila.fr that I get. Don't know if that'll do much but Yahoo! has to talk to Wanadoo and lose those crappy porno-dialer merchants who host on site.voila.fr and then spam the shite out of the rest of us.
This is stupid; how can you fix something if you don't know which card it is ?. Maybe I misread it but he's happy to quote Windows this, Linux that but didn't mention the actual card.
Also, amazing as it may seem, when you have a room of servers, the LAST thing you ever bother with is sound cards and speakers !
Has he ever tried rebooting a Windows 95 machine remotely after its been running for a few months file/print serving ?.
I admit it : I code new features, I like coding new features and I code for me. I also like fixing bugs that affect me. I also like logging Bugzillas too.
Thing is, no one pays me to do this: its my time and its my hobby and in many cases if someone wants to change the UI then they can easily run up Glade or whatever and alter it.
Most Open Source projects slowly evolve and are always after new people.
The cry should be for Goverment and Educators to allow more Tax dollars that are currently spent at Schools and Universities to contribute to Open Source projects.
Most courses I've done have been very Windows-centric using commercial code when in fact if the money spent on licensing those was invested in changing what wasn't right with equivelent OSS projects then all OSS project would slowly be better as more skilled users go through the system.
Come on Cray - I still hold have you in high regard as an innovating company; maybe you were misquoted, but fact remains your problem is not Linux (a kernel) but the likes of IBM (the world largest IT company) and NEC (e.g. Earth Simulator).
The Japanese Earth Simulator shows that the Japanese chewwed up and spat out the US competition using vector CPUs and a Super-UX UNIX-based OS. Not Linux and not scalar CPUs which Linux is aimed at.
The joke being that Seymour Cray always was a vector processor innovator but the narrow minded US goverment pushed towards scalar.
Nah, sounds like you have a scalar product to flog now and are playing catchup by childishly poking fun at the competition. So far Linux has worked very well in what many would consider to be valid HPC environments of film production and at a lot lower cost than what you've made to date.
When you get a product that Digital Weta can use cost effectively then you can say Linux isn't a valid HPC platform.
Yup, similar to one of my ideas too: of following links provided automatically so as to polute spammer databases, but I just couldn't work out how to solve the spammers using it to cause traffic to flow (or in this case block) legitimate sites.
My other idea of quarantine has yet to be proven to be a bad idea. Hopefully someone will now implement that.
This is like asking : when I change the channel on my TV I need to really have access to the flyback controller on the electron gun.
Only a "Built for Windows TV" would ever need such a capability !
The Linux security model splits user (fancy stuff) and root (low level stuff) very well. Retail Windows has only recently had this separation; ever tried to log into Administrator in Windows XP Home ?????
As GNU/Linux (a distribution) becomes more user friendly (presuming is isn't already) then nothing the GNOME or KDE can do would break the intrinsic security of the Linux kernel. Nothing.
So as long as a user plays in user space , Linux is happy to keep the hardware rocking. Log in to root and all bets are off but even so, when Linux has the NSA stuff then root won't always mean root.
Nah - this is stupid. a GNU/Linux distro like Mandrake is user friendly and as long as you are not using root - it can be secure and quite usable. Sounds like FUD to me.
Though presented with an obvious bias, he may have a point regarding the Open Source contributor trust model.
Maybe its time to look at how current contribution methods could be further enhanced through crypto/keysigning similar to what PGP/GNUpg does.
I still think his USD 500 per line is a bit steep ! If its true then maybe that USD 500 would be better spent on better high-tech ceramic/kelvar body armour protecting US troops than giving it to this guy to spend on Double-choc Mocha Latte while looking if a strncpy() was OK !
Huh - weird, I thought Sourceforge was related to Free/Open Source software. Odd how relevant that the DMCA is to this goal.
Sounds like free and Open Source world requires a better domicile which is unaffected by parochial considerations. Maybe time that the EU or UN hosted software for and on behalf of the free world.
Its a serious consideration as the US seems to be cyclical based on presidential terms whereas the EU or UN has no such short term considerations to trample rights.
Apple should realise that the only way to protect youself from Open Source is to adopt a strong cryptographically signed service. There is no intrinsic value is any line of code but in code as a service. Sounds like lazy programmer bugs fixed by application of lawyer.
This is ZDNet trying to make sh*t stick. Its the classic ploy of asking "When did you stop beating your wife ?" - It doesn't matter if you havent, whatever you say it sounds like you had in the past.
So ZDNet is now gathering data so that they can ask: "When did you stop copying code ?"
What people do regarding copying code from one employer to another has nothing to do with Linux and for ZDnet to try and survey copde copying and then make a tenuous association with Linux is disingenuous at best.
There is no SCO IP in Linux because SCO have not sent a single patch or email to a single maintainer asking for lines to be patched out. This is any SCO code is present then its present because SCO want it there for a reason and thus they accept the curent Linux licensing for that module.
Poor earthing with high earth return currents can cause really weird stuff because many appliances are earthed and also have a connection back at the main box from earth to neutral.
High earth current can happen during times of earthquakes too or during times when there are stresses in certain type of ground.
Alternatively could be that the warranties have all expired - it happens.
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Well my 2 year olds (I have 3 kids ranging from 5->12 yrs now) when they were twoish got a dumpster-dived beige box which we run GNU/Linux (back then Mandrake, now Ubuntu). All three of my kids can recognise TUX from 50 yards. They are all happy with picking which OS they run as everything I build is dual booted. Some games on Ubuntu and some on Windows XP. Kids just do NOT have the need for fast machines until they get to FPS or more complex sims like Homeworld. To make it not a beige box and make it personal just let them go wild with a spray can and paint on the case.
Sounds like this guys got a job at Microsoft if he wants !.
Quid pro quo - they give us spooks and military satellite systems and we give them culture like Telliy Tubbies, Bob the Builder and Fimbles (what was they smokin ?).
Fair trade !
They are certainly a lot nicer than the usual crap that comes through and they only make up around 1% or so of spams.
If you view the 419'ers efforts as a freedom of speech then I still think that the artists against 419 scams are indulging in a bit of censorship. True its to help stop the stupid being departed from their money but as the saying goes...
The next time I see a multi-1000 dollar price tag on some work of physical art, I'm going to say that the material costs are just say 100 bucks and it looks like you spent all of 1 afternoon on it so I'll give you another 50 to cover ancillaries and say 100 for your time - USD 250 it is.
Helloooooo, anyone home ?, once you get into creating 'elaborate' stuff in 'markup' then you are smack back into programming and code. Its that kind of thinking that gives us unmaintainable Excel or Word macros, JavaScript, ASP, Perl, Expect/Tk,...list goes on.
It IS programming and it IS in CODE because it has a syntax , a grammer and a vocabulary. Unless it is a natural language parser then its still a computer language.
I'm not knocking the language - I just think its being oversold by saying its not code.
Using the fact of a sequence of words and then saying that because those sequence of words exists as a fact then the sematic content as it would be interpreted by an english language reader for those words as also being a fact is sophistry.
The next time he misses a credit card payment then he needs to simply conjure up a fact of it being paid. I'm sure the card company will accept that fact exists like I accept the fact that there is a god.
Legal Costs - Microsoft will charge you the cost of their own audit of your site if there is a discrepancy of 3%. This threat means that you really must have a software compliance officer (it could be an existing legal or IT manager) in any company that uses anything more than a few desktops else you really are risking your business.
MS Office doesn't run on Unix/Linux. OK its sort of obvious but if you have Solaris/Linux desktops then the cost of getting MS Office working across your company could be quite high.
Support ; MS Office does not come with developer-access support that say OpenOffice has the potential of offering unless you are a very big company (like a Tier-1 Bank, Fortune 500 etc). Trust me - you cannot email Microsoft and get a developer handle the call and start fixing your corrupt document when you buy a retail boxed product. Anyone you thinks otherwise has never tried this. The only time I got access to Microsoft like you do with OpenOffice was when we were on a joint-project and were covered by NDAs.
MS Office is globally priced the same - thus the actual cost in local terms can vary dramatically range nearly a year's salary through to a day's salary. OpenOffice is at a price that has the same burden on each worker throughout the world ! with OpenOffice, from the US to Mexico it takes up exactly the same amount of cost in local terms to switch, whereas with MS Office it can vary dramatically.
The labour costs to switch is always the same in local terms as its using local labour but the licensing costs can be astronomical for MS Office in some countries.
At best its a hypothesis that god exists. A conjecture at least, but not a fact as there is not even circumstantial evidence to allow anyone to entertain that god exists...as a fact.
A distance star is a fact to many, to a reasonable degree of certainty, as it has evidence that it exists which in plain view. Distant planets on the other hand were hypothesised and you either believed in them or not until evidence had been presented that confirms to a reasonable degree of their existance. They are as strong a fact now as the star they orbit.
Your god (I'm guessing a Christian one) is your faith and truthfully by trying to turn your god into a fact you dilute the power of your faith. The purpose of faiths is to keep the public happy. This is where the communists made a mistake and the one you are making. Once you remove faith from people then you remove hope. The general population doesn't want life without faith.
I'd be very careful in trying to factualise your faith because then you're playing a different game with different rules and the joke is...no one wins. Life is a lot harder without faith in a god because you got to discover the truths for yourself.
Did they actually read the article text ! To quote the article...
"..launch its program called ''What's The Diff?"
Doh - I guess I was moded by some Microsoft drone who didn't even understand the joke of...
cvs diff ...."
I'll explain: on UNIX/LINUX and similar when you want to get a difference between two things you use a program called diff. In fact I wouldn't suprised that the articles' use of the word diff is in fact a reference to the Unix diff.
Seems to work. Pity SCO can't work out how to use such a simply command.
Meanwhile the US - which has very strict laws and ID of some kind is fairly well mandatory to even buy a beer, also has a problem with identity theft, benefit fraud and illegal immigration.
Hello UK - ramping up the amount of ID you carry or require will not stop identity theft even if its biometric because it is human nature to commit fraud given enough money. Terrorists have money; terrorists commit fraud. Known terrorists WILL get new identities and unknown terrorists will also be quite happy to be sleepers and have good identities.
Nothing changes.
To solve terrorism and the likes you have to identify networks of people. Its not so much my identity but who I am related to and interact with that counts. This is how PGP signing works with self-generated keys and the same signing system should work with ID cards.
The choice should not be a PKI style system with a central authority but a combination of a PGP style system with a central authority that co-signs self-generated keys.
Lets face it - the day the goverment makes an unforgable banknote is the day I'll reconsider the arguments. Until that time the more ID you have the more problems you have with identity theft of that same ID.
Looks like he's found the way !
Brings a whole new meaning to the words: "Gonna sue your ass out of this town."
As far as I understand you send out a ICMP echo with the source address of where you want to go to and the destination of any server that echos back OK.
Send your ICMP packet to the server. It echos this for you back to the provided source address (which isn't actually but the somewhere else that you wanted to get to.
Inside the ICMP data you'll have to provide your own transport layer but thats not too hard.
THEN I'll know my data got to the other side !.
As far as I'm concerned (given the amount of spams from ADSL users and the inability of major ISP to block obvious SPAM) major ISPs don't give a damn about SPAM.
They go on about how if you click 'spam' when you receive a 'spam' then they get a message blah blah blah usual IT support canned email comes back.
They show concern in their Press - the problem is they want to charge a premium for anti-SPAM technology.
I get spam from KNOWN spammers and spam sites with absolutely fricken(US)/fuggin(UK) obvious spam contents which my Mozilla quite happily bins but stupid multi-billion dollar/pound ISP with all the technology in the world at its grasp i.e. BT (who invented the Internet if you remember from their law suits) and Yahoo! (who invented the use of silly diacritics in brands) have trouble classifying bleeding obvious spam emails.
Oh and they also mark legitimate commercial email addressed to me directly to me sourced from a domain that has the SMTP server as 'Bulk' along with the other 200 per day of spams, thus causing me to have to scroll through via their crappy Web interface, hundreds of discusting email subjects trying to find a missing email.
BT and Yahoo! email is a joke.
I've said that I'll be charging them 10 EURO for every email from site.voila.fr that I get. Don't know if that'll do much but Yahoo! has to talk to Wanadoo and lose those crappy porno-dialer merchants who host on site.voila.fr and then spam the shite out of the rest of us.
Also, amazing as it may seem, when you have a room of servers, the LAST thing you ever bother with is sound cards and speakers !
Has he ever tried rebooting a Windows 95 machine remotely after its been running for a few months file/print serving ?.
Wow - politicians must be running fully in L1 cache !
Thing is, no one pays me to do this: its my time and its my hobby and in many cases if someone wants to change the UI then they can easily run up Glade or whatever and alter it.
Most Open Source projects slowly evolve and are always after new people.
The cry should be for Goverment and Educators to allow more Tax dollars that are currently spent at Schools and Universities to contribute to Open Source projects.
Most courses I've done have been very Windows-centric using commercial code when in fact if the money spent on licensing those was invested in changing what wasn't right with equivelent OSS projects then all OSS project would slowly be better as more skilled users go through the system.
The Japanese Earth Simulator shows that the Japanese chewwed up and spat out the US competition using vector CPUs and a Super-UX UNIX-based OS. Not Linux and not scalar CPUs which Linux is aimed at.
The joke being that Seymour Cray always was a vector processor innovator but the narrow minded US goverment pushed towards scalar.
Nah, sounds like you have a scalar product to flog now and are playing catchup by childishly poking fun at the competition. So far Linux has worked very well in what many would consider to be valid HPC environments of film production and at a lot lower cost than what you've made to date.
When you get a product that Digital Weta can use cost effectively then you can say Linux isn't a valid HPC platform.
My other idea of quarantine has yet to be proven to be a bad idea. Hopefully someone will now implement that.
Only a "Built for Windows TV" would ever need such a capability !
The Linux security model splits user (fancy stuff) and root (low level stuff) very well. Retail Windows has only recently had this separation; ever tried to log into Administrator in Windows XP Home ?????
As GNU/Linux (a distribution) becomes more user friendly (presuming is isn't already) then nothing the GNOME or KDE can do would break the intrinsic security of the Linux kernel. Nothing.
So as long as a user plays in user space , Linux is happy to keep the hardware rocking. Log in to root and all bets are off but even so, when Linux has the NSA stuff then root won't always mean root.
Nah - this is stupid. a GNU/Linux distro like Mandrake is user friendly and as long as you are not using root - it can be secure and quite usable. Sounds like FUD to me.
Maybe its time to look at how current contribution methods could be further enhanced through crypto/keysigning similar to what PGP/GNUpg does.
I still think his USD 500 per line is a bit steep ! If its true then maybe that USD 500 would be better spent on better high-tech ceramic/kelvar body armour protecting US troops than giving it to this guy to spend on Double-choc Mocha Latte while looking if a strncpy() was OK !
Huh - weird, I thought Sourceforge was related to Free/Open Source software. Odd how relevant that the DMCA is to this goal.
Sounds like free and Open Source world requires a better domicile which is unaffected by parochial considerations. Maybe time that the EU or UN hosted software for and on behalf of the free world.
Its a serious consideration as the US seems to be cyclical based on presidential terms whereas the EU or UN has no such short term considerations to trample rights.
Apple should realise that the only way to protect youself from Open Source is to adopt a strong cryptographically signed service. There is no intrinsic value is any line of code but in code as a service. Sounds like lazy programmer bugs fixed by application of lawyer.
So ZDNet is now gathering data so that they can ask: "When did you stop copying code ?"
What people do regarding copying code from one employer to another has nothing to do with Linux and for ZDnet to try and survey copde copying and then make a tenuous association with Linux is disingenuous at best.
There is no SCO IP in Linux because SCO have not sent a single patch or email to a single maintainer asking for lines to be patched out. This is any SCO code is present then its present because SCO want it there for a reason and thus they accept the curent Linux licensing for that module.
High earth current can happen during times of earthquakes too or during times when there are stresses in certain type of ground.
Alternatively could be that the warranties have all expired - it happens.