Sun have finally seen the light, and have created packages that allow distributors to include Java in their operating systems: https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net/.
After a few back-and-forths with Sun's legal department, even Debian have packaged it for their non-free section: http://packages.debian.org/src:sun-java5. Users can simply install the sun-java5-plugin package. In a few days time, the packages will be eligible for inclusion in the forthcoming Debian 4.0 ("etch") release.
Your mouse only works because the kernel itself provides a device that unifies all mouse events together into the same virtual mouse. You are unable to access the data from individual mice--and if you want to plug in a new joystick, keyboard, graphics tablet, monitor, midi device... etc then you're screwed.
3d should not be more compilcated. udev will already load the nvidia or ati kernel modules based on the vendor/device IDs of the video devices present in the system; the X server has no reason at all to worry about OS-specific stuff such as loading kernel modules.
Yes, it's fine as long as you don't care about 3D, or being able to plug in a new mouse or joystick or graphics tablet or monitor without restarting the X server entirely.
Having a config file is flawed in the first place.
When my system boots up, the Linux kernel constructs a list of all the hardware in the system. This list is read by udev, which sets it all up by loading the correct kernel module and doing other things for each piece of hardware. It's fast, simple and works really well. So why on earth doesn't the X server do the same?
Instead we're stuck in the early 90s, with a crappy config file and sixteen different frontends to editing it, all of which are shit.
Part of a (very recently published) ISO standard they may be, but for now they are still annoying, Windows-specific warts. Judging by the speed with which the C99 standard is being implemented, I think this situation will continue for many years.
Yes, and that's not such a serious problem--only a Denial of Service attack. But consider the case where your memory is arranged like this:
char foo[10] int authenticated [ ][ ]
Memory boxes not to scale. Or maybe sizeof(int) on this platform is really large.;)
Anyway, if you screw up and copy an 11-byte string over foo, the final byte will be written into authenticated. Now imagine that authenticated is a flag which stores whether the user is permitted to perform a priviliged operation.
What is interesting, but not really surprising, is that Microsoft chose to replace the unsafe functions such as strcpy with their own safe variants with names like safe_strcpy (though I can't remember the exact name, it's something like that). They could have just recommended people used already-existing functions such as strncpy or strlcpy, instead of adding yet another incompatibility obstacle that must be surmounted when porting software from/to the Windows platform...
While holding down the Alt/Command key, I find pressing two additional keys (Shift with little finger and Tab with ring finger) much more difficult and uncomfortable than pressing a single additional key (Tab or Grave Accent with middle finger).
I realize that it is a long standing tradition here at Slashdot for posters to state their opinions without RTFA. But I don't understand why there are so many anti-GPLv3 trolls. How can you be against the GPLv3 if you haven't read it and don't have a clue about what it says?
Astroturfers, or bitter pro-BSD partisans. Or maybe they are the same thing?;)
Why should they? Consumers have shown time and time again that they don't give a shit about how ethically a corporation acts, only about how cheap their products are.:(
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I'm still using the X11 core font subsystem, you insensitive clod!
Can't it?
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Sun have finally seen the light, and have created packages that allow distributors to include Java in their operating systems: https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net/.
After a few back-and-forths with Sun's legal department, even Debian have packaged it for their non-free section: http://packages.debian.org/src:sun-java5. Users can simply install the sun-java5-plugin package. In a few days time, the packages will be eligible for inclusion in the forthcoming Debian 4.0 ("etch") release.
Nah, it sucks for GNOME users too. We use Epiphany. :)
Your mouse only works because the kernel itself provides a device that unifies all mouse events together into the same virtual mouse. You are unable to access the data from individual mice--and if you want to plug in a new joystick, keyboard, graphics tablet, monitor, midi device... etc then you're screwed.
3d should not be more compilcated. udev will already load the nvidia or ati kernel modules based on the vendor/device IDs of the video devices present in the system; the X server has no reason at all to worry about OS-specific stuff such as loading kernel modules.
Yes, it's fine as long as you don't care about 3D, or being able to plug in a new mouse or joystick or graphics tablet or monitor without restarting the X server entirely.
It's called xorgcfg (formerly xfree86cfg).
Having a config file is flawed in the first place.
When my system boots up, the Linux kernel constructs a list of all the hardware in the system. This list is read by udev, which sets it all up by loading the correct kernel module and doing other things for each piece of hardware. It's fast, simple and works really well. So why on earth doesn't the X server do the same?
Instead we're stuck in the early 90s, with a crappy config file and sixteen different frontends to editing it, all of which are shit.
No, but it would be nice if some of it was available for the kernel's buffers and cache occasionally.
If you rely on the encryption as the only security measure then you also are being negligent.
Please define the term 'species'.
You mean, the fault of the idiot web developer who didn't mark the page as being encoded in windows-125x.
There's nothing inherantly wrong with the Windows character sets, they're just an encoding!
Part of a (very recently published) ISO standard they may be, but for now they are still annoying, Windows-specific warts. Judging by the speed with which the C99 standard is being implemented, I think this situation will continue for many years.
Yes, and that's not such a serious problem--only a Denial of Service attack. But consider the case where your memory is arranged like this:
;)
char foo[10] int authenticated
[ ][ ]
Memory boxes not to scale. Or maybe sizeof(int) on this platform is really large.
Anyway, if you screw up and copy an 11-byte string over foo, the final byte will be written into authenticated. Now imagine that authenticated is a flag which stores whether the user is permitted to perform a priviliged operation.
What is interesting, but not really surprising, is that Microsoft chose to replace the unsafe functions such as strcpy with their own safe variants with names like safe_strcpy (though I can't remember the exact name, it's something like that). They could have just recommended people used already-existing functions such as strncpy or strlcpy, instead of adding yet another incompatibility obstacle that must be surmounted when porting software from/to the Windows platform...
While holding down the Alt/Command key, I find pressing two additional keys (Shift with little finger and Tab with ring finger) much more difficult and uncomfortable than pressing a single additional key (Tab or Grave Accent with middle finger).
I think it's pretty clear that the spirit of the GPL is to defend the Four Freedoms; and that what Tivo does makes a mockery of Freedom One.
Surely it would be simpler to take a screenshot of the topmost window whenever the user clicks their mouse?
It's 6-10 digits I believe. Mine is certainly longer than six.
Have they fixed their archives yet?
Because well-known, "enterprise-ready" vendors never "ignore critical vulnerabilities for years.
NVIDIA don't want the 'open source' driver to be too good. They prefer us to continue to suckle at the teat of their proprietary offering.
Besides, they are only technically open source. The 'nv' driver is basically undocumented and pretty much unmaintainable by anyone other than an NVIDIA employee.
Are you talking about Xorg's 'nv' driver? AFIAK that's maintained by an employee of NVIDIA.
Is that like regular HD gaming but more X-Treme?
Why should they? Consumers have shown time and time again that they don't give a shit about how ethically a corporation acts, only about how cheap their products are. :(