Wrong direction - I fully believe the FBI would go after state records, but the state getting FBI intel... really, the FBI can't even play nice with other fed agencies...
Hey, this is state collection, not US IRS collection. It takes a very severe case of paranoia to think that the FBI would share data with the California Franchise Tax Board...
Probably get marked as a troll, but...
Somebody ports an application to Mac OS and it warrants a thread on slashdot? Porting a suite of applications warrants a thread.
Must be a slow news day.
The web site is breathtaking in how it compares apples and oranges and then draws conclusions from that. I spent a lot of time in the OODBMS world and we could always come up with a benchmark that was arbitrarily faster than an RDBMS and there were many applications where this was proved out. But we would never say that OODBMS was going to replace RDBMS because we knew that there were plenty of applications where RDBMS would kick OODBMS butt.
What these people seem to miss is that you need to use the right tool for the right task - some things work quite well is in-memory databases and some things suck wind big time; the same applies for all other database technologies.
Doesn't it seem strange that the finding of multiple bugs in the same piece of open source software in a short period of time is stated as a strength of open source while the same thing in Microsoft software is stated as a weakness...
Yes, in the open source case they were found by code inspection and in the case of Microsoft they were found by exploit, but a patch a day is still a patch a day. It's not always a good idea to rush patches out as soon as a potential hole is found...
Wow, can you say worthless troll bait? User's had control over the MS problem also, it's just that some didn't use that control.
Re:This isn't about freedom of speech or linking..
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Fine and that may be the case (but then, I'm not a constitutional lawyer) but he is still a script kiddie who caught defacing web sites. He took the plea bargin because he was guilty.
And of course while it's all 'correct' to support this guy for his 'thoughts', he clearly does advocate using violence to reach his ends and thus I'm happy to have him off the street.
Hmmm... Windows cheaper than Linux? Certainly on the desktop and I wonder how server pricing will eventually work out?
Looks like I made the smart choice by running Windows XP at work and at home:) I'd better remove my copy of RedHat from my other work box...
Now how many users will actually pay?...
I agree. I quite easily installed and set up Red Hat Linux but when I tried to set up access to Windows file and printer servers from the Linux machine... My relatives who use Windows at home sure as hell aren't going to be able to make those machines interact with the exist Windows machines that they have.
Of course, as noted, this thread has very little to do with KDE usability:)
I'm finding that use of the Outclass interface to POPfile is surprisingly effective at dealing with my spam problem (and I get a lot of it) - since training POPfile I haven't had a single spam message get into my inbox no false positives. Of course I could just be very, very lucky and with this post the email gods will punish me...
How does the effectiveness of Greylisting compare with what others are seeing with existing techniques (such as Bayesian filtering)? Is it a false positives problem, such as digests and opt-in mailing lists getting incorrectly tagged as spam?
The titles of these books remind me of the Monty Python bookstore skit...
No, "Rarnaby Budge" by Charles Dikkens. That's Dikkens with two Ks, the well-known Dutch author.
Do you have "Leaf By Niggle" by....
That's okay, how about "Smith of Wootton Major" by....
Hmmm... first set of divers ended their dive at 10pm and had a flight the next day at 6:30am! Even under the most extreme 'gonzo diving' rules, you should have 12 hours between your dive and flight and most say 24 hours. Definitely relying a bit too much on the computer and not enough on common sense...
As I learned, for the next 24 hours after diving the highest you should go is the height of a bar stool...
Rick
A bunch of self-appointed digerati giving themselves awards and patting themselves on the backs. Time to get back to real work.
Good riddance!
Re:The JNLP community is a good place to look
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We have a large Java application for the enterprise deployed and launched via JNLP.
Moving from an applet in Java 1 using AWT+third party widgets (Swing was a big, leaky pig in Java 1) to a Java Web Start (JNLP) application in Java 2 using Swing was a big win for us in terms of better control over our evironment (control over the JRE version), better Java VMs (we used the MS JVM in Java 1 because the SUN implementation wasn't very good; SUN's recent Java 2 implementations are much better), and write-once run-anywhere is a lot closer to reality (it was pretty much marketing hype for non-trivial GUI applications in Java 1).
The downside with Java 2 is that on Windows you need to get a plugin (if you want to integrate with portals and launch from the browser; for applets or for Java Web Start) and a JRE down to the client. The combination of locked down machines (which make this hard to do for those companies without good software push models), IT managers who feel their job is to not install software on client machines (what? support new software? that will make my job harder...), and Microsoft not providing Java 2 can cause you serious problems. And let's not forget those forward thinking individuals who believe that the browser provides the only UI you will ever need.
Java has come quite a long ways from where it was a few years ago and provides an excellent software development environment, platform independence, and good performance.
Slashdot Mirror
So you're saying my signature rings true? :)
I stand corrected...
Wrong direction - I fully believe the FBI would go after state records, but the state getting FBI intel... really, the FBI can't even play nice with other fed agencies...
Hey, this is state collection, not US IRS collection. It takes a very severe case of paranoia to think that the FBI would share data with the California Franchise Tax Board...
And the documentation you mention would be...
Finally, a use for all of those old ICBMs! Rick
On the day that their system is announced or goes live let's repost this article and see if their slashdotted site starts attacking all of us :)
Probably get marked as a troll, but... Somebody ports an application to Mac OS and it warrants a thread on slashdot? Porting a suite of applications warrants a thread. Must be a slow news day.
... nobody in L.A. County hears a Unix sys admin talking about killing children or looking for zombies...
The web site is breathtaking in how it compares apples and oranges and then draws conclusions from that. I spent a lot of time in the OODBMS world and we could always come up with a benchmark that was arbitrarily faster than an RDBMS and there were many applications where this was proved out. But we would never say that OODBMS was going to replace RDBMS because we knew that there were plenty of applications where RDBMS would kick OODBMS butt. What these people seem to miss is that you need to use the right tool for the right task - some things work quite well is in-memory databases and some things suck wind big time; the same applies for all other database technologies.
Doesn't it seem strange that the finding of multiple bugs in the same piece of open source software in a short period of time is stated as a strength of open source while the same thing in Microsoft software is stated as a weakness... Yes, in the open source case they were found by code inspection and in the case of Microsoft they were found by exploit, but a patch a day is still a patch a day. It's not always a good idea to rush patches out as soon as a potential hole is found...
Wow, can you say worthless troll bait? User's had control over the MS problem also, it's just that some didn't use that control.
Fine and that may be the case (but then, I'm not a constitutional lawyer) but he is still a script kiddie who caught defacing web sites. He took the plea bargin because he was guilty. And of course while it's all 'correct' to support this guy for his 'thoughts', he clearly does advocate using violence to reach his ends and thus I'm happy to have him off the street.
Hmmm... Windows cheaper than Linux? Certainly on the desktop and I wonder how server pricing will eventually work out? Looks like I made the smart choice by running Windows XP at work and at home :) I'd better remove my copy of RedHat from my other work box...
Now how many users will actually pay?...
I agree. I quite easily installed and set up Red Hat Linux but when I tried to set up access to Windows file and printer servers from the Linux machine... My relatives who use Windows at home sure as hell aren't going to be able to make those machines interact with the exist Windows machines that they have. Of course, as noted, this thread has very little to do with KDE usability :)
How does the effectiveness of Greylisting compare with what others are seeing with existing techniques (such as Bayesian filtering)? Is it a false positives problem, such as digests and opt-in mailing lists getting incorrectly tagged as spam?
The titles of these books remind me of the Monty Python bookstore skit... No, "Rarnaby Budge" by Charles Dikkens. That's Dikkens with two Ks, the well-known Dutch author. Do you have "Leaf By Niggle" by ....
That's okay, how about "Smith of Wootton Major" by ....
Hmmm... first set of divers ended their dive at 10pm and had a flight the next day at 6:30am! Even under the most extreme 'gonzo diving' rules, you should have 12 hours between your dive and flight and most say 24 hours. Definitely relying a bit too much on the computer and not enough on common sense... As I learned, for the next 24 hours after diving the highest you should go is the height of a bar stool... Rick
A bunch of self-appointed digerati giving themselves awards and patting themselves on the backs. Time to get back to real work. Good riddance!
Moving from an applet in Java 1 using AWT+third party widgets (Swing was a big, leaky pig in Java 1) to a Java Web Start (JNLP) application in Java 2 using Swing was a big win for us in terms of better control over our evironment (control over the JRE version), better Java VMs (we used the MS JVM in Java 1 because the SUN implementation wasn't very good; SUN's recent Java 2 implementations are much better), and write-once run-anywhere is a lot closer to reality (it was pretty much marketing hype for non-trivial GUI applications in Java 1).
The downside with Java 2 is that on Windows you need to get a plugin (if you want to integrate with portals and launch from the browser; for applets or for Java Web Start) and a JRE down to the client. The combination of locked down machines (which make this hard to do for those companies without good software push models), IT managers who feel their job is to not install software on client machines (what? support new software? that will make my job harder...), and Microsoft not providing Java 2 can cause you serious problems. And let's not forget those forward thinking individuals who believe that the browser provides the only UI you will ever need.
Java has come quite a long ways from where it was a few years ago and provides an excellent software development environment, platform independence, and good performance.
Java, it's not just for servers anymore...