Any browser without NoScript is a loser in my books. Firefox wins.
That said, there's certainly something nice about Safari's appearance and layout: On FF2, I had the iSafari theme installed on Mac, Windows & Linux, which gave me the best of both worlds. Alas, the guy behind iSafari has decided not to update it for FF3:-(.
Sounds a bit like the region locked DVD players you used to get in Australia before the major players finally saw sense.
It got to the point where the people were routinely recommending no-name brands from China as the better option than name brands like Sony or Panasonic as they were less likely to be cripple-locked and retailers started putting "region unlocked" on features tags to try to restore product confidence.
It's tragic how these same companies never learn from experience.
Killing MinWin, in order to turn Windows 7 into Vista plus some more bloat, is pretty much the end of the product line. By the time it's out, people will have the choice of an even more bloaty Microsoft offering or ReactOS (free GPL Windows) which will have become stable and usable by this stage.
Most commercial software is tooled to be compatible back to Windows 2000 (and often back to Windows 98), so a stable ReactOS will be sufficient and, unlike Windows 7, exceptionally trim. Currently, a ReactOS vmWare image is all of 22M and is already capable of running complex software for Windows such as Mozilla's collection. Even if you treble that size for 2-3 years more ReactOS development and it'll still perfect for getting the most out of your hardware, even down to the smallest UMPC. The bloated bohemoth that is a MinWin-free Windows 7 will be slaughtered like a stuck pig.
Have you ever been to NVIDIA? Do you have *any* idea how many really smart people they have working on these problems 60 hours a week?
A significant non-Windows part of the market has no ability to access the extra shiny features of proprietory cards because they're locked away and inaccessible. An open spec, open API, card that could become the recommended standard BSD/GPL licensed OS target for OpenGL... sounds like an absolute god-send. Drivers in the kernel tree, all features supported, no binary blobs... bring it on.
There is just way too much of an initial investment required. Even with FPGAs it's too expensive, and you're way too far behind to start with.
You think there won't be a Chinese company who won't leap at the chance to snaffle up a free design graphics card design with an unsatisfied market of FOSS OS performance hungry OpenGL geeks? We're talking about a demographic which buys tech gear at a rate well above the market average here.
To the question poser: use SQLite. Learn how to use a search engine too, for goodness sake. To the Slashdot editor who approved this question: improve. This is utterly woeful.
But in 3 years WINE will have matured enough to run most Windows applications under Linux. Unless you need hardware drivers that aren't supported in Linux (unlike the XO) what reason is there to run ReactOS?
Some people prefer a Windows-like GUI, and ReactOS aims to give them that without the Microsoft bloat and crippled security.
So unless you want to run Windows apps (which would be needless if WINE improves) or hardware drivers (needless for the XO) I don't see a real need for ReactOS for the OLPC project.
ReactOS and Wine share driver code, so that's a non-issue;-). ReactOS will win the laptop and desktop simply because it will be what everyday people are familiar with and actively want: a stable Windows variant with a UI they can understand and manage, and with a footprint, price and license that's right.
And also, knowing MS, they will release Windows 7 Lite edition that will just barely run on them and stop supporting XP in 3 years and charge them around $25 for each upgrade as is the way of MS.
In those three years time, there's a pretty good chance ReactOS will be a stable Win32 alternative OS. Even today, version 0.3.4 packs in a huge amount of functionality into its 22M ISO; it installs, boots and you can successfully run an increasing number of Windows apps including Firefox and Thunderbird. It's definitely one to watch in future.
I don't know about elsewhere, but, EDS have a reputation for unrivaled incompetence in Australia. A better message would be: "Under new management - EDS will improve."
People in Saddam's own government believed he had WMD's.
US post-invasion spin. The only source the US had for its WMD claims came from a single souce called 'Curveball' - a man generally considered unreliable inside the US agencies, but, whom the Bush cabal latched onto as providing a trigger.
Why? Saddam wanted people to believe this. Most likely to keep Iran in check.
Were that true, Saddam wouldn't have released a mountain of documentation indicating they had no active WMD programs in late 2002 and offered UN weapons inspectors complete access to anywhere they wanted - including palaces.
True, they were concerned about the composition of the inspection team, but, that's understandable given their previous experiences with the now hopelessly discredited UNSCOM (who directed non-WMD intelligence reports to the US military) and their concerns of evidence being planted to justify the invasion that happened later anyway.
You need to face facts: The Iraq misadventure was a transparent resource war. Without resources, the US would have been about as interested in Iraq as they are in Zimbabwe.
Your setup is completely idiotic. A shared account is just begging to be abused, particularly in a student politics environment.
Email arrives, on an issue which incriminates a board member: "Oh gee, it's been deleted and nobody knows who did it or what it contained." Issue turns up at the local student meeting and details regarding why that dodgy contract was approved: "Golly, looks like that email was removed." Crazy stuff. Unless your cabal intentionally wants to make itself unaccountable, you need to fix that up pronto.
How? Set up a mailing list (using, for example, Mailman) and have it deliver mail to each board member's personal email address. This stuff is trivial for any junior systems administrator. How this got approved as a Slashdot question is a mystery.
Does it take its adherence to free software to the point of leaving us in a ghetto where we cannot do the things we could with other distros?
Yep, I suspect it does. The FSF list skips even Debian, a group so committed to FOSS that they release Firefox as Iceweasel due to their concerns regarding non-free images. You've got to wonder how restricted your Linux actually has to be to make the FSF recommended list.
Maybe the reason none show any interest is that it'd be the equivalent to looking to mug mike tyson when there's an 80 year old granny a hundred miles closer?
No. Try again. Name a single country with any interest in an invasion of US soil.
The main reason why there aren't any to name: invasion is immensely costly and impractical, particularly when the population to be taken over isn't willing (or at least ambivalent). All the neighbours of the US, who might at a long stretch otherwise be candidates, understand this.
US home soil is as secure as Canada's, Australia's and New Zealand's; and each spend far far less on defence. However, it's not because of any military deterrence.
If one person forgets how to build the weapons of war, it doesn't mean that their enemies will do so as well.
Oh come on. Name a single country with any interest in an invasion of US soil. Just one.
Even 9/11 was just a single day's worth of attack after five decades of the US deliberately picking fights with every random third world country with a small tin of resources she can think of.
Because Messianic Complex is not the typical personality trait of a dictator?
All part of narcissism, which is an inherently selfish disorder. To a narcissist, just as they feel nobody else is capable, nobody else really matters either.
that allows players to behave selflessly, or like national dictators and 'little Hitlers'
The word you're looking for is "selfishly". "Selflessly" suggests they are disregarding their actions impact on themselves; which selfish people like dictators never do.
Sounds like a fair deal, presuming DJs are free to charge a similar fee back for all that previously free advertising of ARIA's recording artists.
Without their music played in venues, their sales plummet and music loses mind-share as a passtime to other forms of entertainment such as the Internet, video games, cinema tickets, etc.
What is shocking is the rise is antisemitism in the Left.
Of course it is thinly thinly disguised as anti-Zionism.
Much of the Left consider Israel's actions toward the Palestinians to be war crimes. Israel is a country, not a religion. You don't generally see "it's the Jews that dunnit" from anyone but the lunar Right.
As the Palestinians are also a semitic people, the Left's interest in their plight would be a pro-semitic one, if anything. Wanting to see one group of semitic peoples stop committing atrocities against another is hardly the stuff of race hate.
It'll be interesting to see how this works out, considering both US parties are well to the Right of any of our major parties in Australia, let alone those in Europe.
When Sesto got a supervisor on the phone, the company changed its story and claimed the site had surpassed its 3 terabyte bandwidth limit, a claim that Sesto says is nonsense. "How can it be overloaded when it only had 80,00 page views today, and 400,000 yesterday?"
Ping flood. A rather nasty denial of service attack which chokes bandwidth and costs the victim money if they're charged for bandwidth. Will also exhaust a traffic quota if it's in place.
Can't say whether Sesto's had that happen, but, it would easily explain the sudden over-quota traffic.
We will destroy the entire village or sector of the city of anyone who creates a terrorist act on an airplane of our country that causes a loss of live.
Capital punishment of a non-combattant without a fair trial is a war crime, and on the scale you're talking about, it's a crime against humanity.
It's also monumentally stupid, tactically. Mass killing civilians creates more terrorists who'll rightly believe they're fighting an evil oppressor.
When the criminals realize that they will be destroying their city, their mosque, their people, themselves, by convincing young men and women to murder random others in the name of some god, then this nonsense will stop.
Sheer idiocy. You kill peoples families indiscriminately as some form of braindead communal punishment, they'll hate you and have nothing left to lose.
+ Too hard for us to administer (yes your highness)
That's their job. They answer to their boss and must be able to confirm to them particular policies are in operation.
+ We can't run our anti-virus on your computer (ahem, I don't need that crap)
Just because your Linux/Mac OS X machine might not fall to a virus or trojan, doesn't mean your machine isn't capable of acting as a 'Typhoid Mary' -- capable of passing them to others. That's leaving aside whether they trust you and your chosen distro to keep up to date patches going.
+ We can't tell if you're running unlicensed software on that computer (why don't you just like, ask me?)
Because if you lie (and from experience, users do lie about these things) it can cost gigantic amounts of money in penalties if they're audited.
+ We can't tell if you're running encryption software of packet sniffers you would-be corporate spy?
Their general auditing tool is probably specialised for Microsoft environments. Again, the cost of being wrong (their entire client list or source code going missing or other sensitive information getting where it shouldn't) outweighs the needs of one whiney user -- unless you can give them a good business case as to why your need overrides the risk, you'll be out of luck. Sorry about that.
For some reason, a few of the sysadmins I've met aren't clued into the fact that you can get source-code and compile it into a binary and then execute it. Pretty standard stuff. Software doesn't *have* to be installed using some wizard-install-software, and never need show up on any audit.
I suspect they'd notice the installation of a compiler though where it shouldn't exist;-).
Perhaps you could scan the computer for filenames of well-known software, but that wouldn't stop someone who knew what they're doing.
Don't underestimate a good Windows policy editor. There are many places where things are extremely well locked down.
I asked one "top" resource if he'd let me use it anyway if I could sniff the network from a windows box without "installing" any software - he looked at me like a criminal.
Well, you'd just admitted plotting to breach network security and likely breach terms of your employment contract. No wonder!;-). Rather than bitching about sysadmin stubbornness, you should be thanking them for not reporting the incident to your manager and it turning into a formal warning or instant dismissal.
Techies will rule. I'm thinking of an HG Wells Time Machine two different routes of evolution scenario. Dumbass Christians lead one way, CS/EE people another. We can eat their bodies for food!!
Hate to break it to you, but, in humans, evolution unfortunately currently favours the ignorant, stupid and obsessively kooky. They're more likely to botch their contraception and have unexpected children -- or refuse to use contraception in the first place due to their religious beliefs and have much larger families.
While it may not be a FOSS project, check out this freeware app: DHPOS
What an odd developer. From his DOS app's FAQ:
"13,000 ITEM LIMIT [...] This is because all of the stock numbers are indexed and held in memory by the program. Unfortunatly there is limited memory in DOS software to do this. [...]"
"There is no Windows version of POS mainly because I cannot think of a reason to have a Windows version. And to create a Windows version would mean that I would have to stop working on the DOS version to write it and I still have many new features to add to the DOS version of POS."
I'd have thought that removing a 13,000 item limit by increasing the amount of RAM available (through virtual memory and better memory addressing than DOS) would be an excellent reason to have a Windows version.
Both evolved, and the winning version of VHS had longer recording times AND Betamax video quality
This could only be said by someone who's never seen a Beta recording compared with VHS on a PAL screen;-).
Yes, SVHS came out later and that can be compared in quality to Beta. However, that's not what was sold in the ordinary consumer market. VHS won because it was cheaper and more movies were available for it. It's really that simple.
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Any browser without NoScript is a loser in my books. Firefox wins.
That said, there's certainly something nice about Safari's appearance and layout: On FF2, I had the iSafari theme installed on Mac, Windows & Linux, which gave me the best of both worlds. Alas, the guy behind iSafari has decided not to update it for FF3 :-(.
Sounds a bit like the region locked DVD players you used to get in Australia before the major players finally saw sense.
It got to the point where the people were routinely recommending no-name brands from China as the better option than name brands like Sony or Panasonic as they were less likely to be cripple-locked and retailers started putting "region unlocked" on features tags to try to restore product confidence.
It's tragic how these same companies never learn from experience.
Killing MinWin, in order to turn Windows 7 into Vista plus some more bloat, is pretty much the end of the product line. By the time it's out, people will have the choice of an even more bloaty Microsoft offering or ReactOS (free GPL Windows) which will have become stable and usable by this stage. Most commercial software is tooled to be compatible back to Windows 2000 (and often back to Windows 98), so a stable ReactOS will be sufficient and, unlike Windows 7, exceptionally trim. Currently, a ReactOS vmWare image is all of 22M and is already capable of running complex software for Windows such as Mozilla's collection. Even if you treble that size for 2-3 years more ReactOS development and it'll still perfect for getting the most out of your hardware, even down to the smallest UMPC. The bloated bohemoth that is a MinWin-free Windows 7 will be slaughtered like a stuck pig.
Have you ever been to NVIDIA? Do you have *any* idea how many really smart people they have working on these problems 60 hours a week?
A significant non-Windows part of the market has no ability to access the extra shiny features of proprietory cards because they're locked away and inaccessible. An open spec, open API, card that could become the recommended standard BSD/GPL licensed OS target for OpenGL... sounds like an absolute god-send. Drivers in the kernel tree, all features supported, no binary blobs... bring it on.
There is just way too much of an initial investment required. Even with FPGAs it's too expensive, and you're way too far behind to start with.
You think there won't be a Chinese company who won't leap at the chance to snaffle up a free design graphics card design with an unsatisfied market of FOSS OS performance hungry OpenGL geeks? We're talking about a demographic which buys tech gear at a rate well above the market average here.
To the question poser: use SQLite. Learn how to use a search engine too, for goodness sake. To the Slashdot editor who approved this question: improve. This is utterly woeful.
But in 3 years WINE will have matured enough to run most Windows applications under Linux. Unless you need hardware drivers that aren't supported in Linux (unlike the XO) what reason is there to run ReactOS?
Some people prefer a Windows-like GUI, and ReactOS aims to give them that without the Microsoft bloat and crippled security.
So unless you want to run Windows apps (which would be needless if WINE improves) or hardware drivers (needless for the XO) I don't see a real need for ReactOS for the OLPC project.
ReactOS and Wine share driver code, so that's a non-issue ;-). ReactOS will win the laptop and desktop simply because it will be what everyday people are familiar with and actively want: a stable Windows variant with a UI they can understand and manage, and with a footprint, price and license that's right.
And also, knowing MS, they will release Windows 7 Lite edition that will just barely run on them and stop supporting XP in 3 years and charge them around $25 for each upgrade as is the way of MS.
In those three years time, there's a pretty good chance ReactOS will be a stable Win32 alternative OS. Even today, version 0.3.4 packs in a huge amount of functionality into its 22M ISO; it installs, boots and you can successfully run an increasing number of Windows apps including Firefox and Thunderbird. It's definitely one to watch in future.
"We are -- and will remain -- EDS."
I don't know about elsewhere, but, EDS have a reputation for unrivaled incompetence in Australia. A better message would be: "Under new management - EDS will improve."
People in Saddam's own government believed he had WMD's.
US post-invasion spin. The only source the US had for its WMD claims came from a single souce called 'Curveball' - a man generally considered unreliable inside the US agencies, but, whom the Bush cabal latched onto as providing a trigger.
Why? Saddam wanted people to believe this. Most likely to keep Iran in check.
Were that true, Saddam wouldn't have released a mountain of documentation indicating they had no active WMD programs in late 2002 and offered UN weapons inspectors complete access to anywhere they wanted - including palaces.
True, they were concerned about the composition of the inspection team, but, that's understandable given their previous experiences with the now hopelessly discredited UNSCOM (who directed non-WMD intelligence reports to the US military) and their concerns of evidence being planted to justify the invasion that happened later anyway.
You need to face facts: The Iraq misadventure was a transparent resource war. Without resources, the US would have been about as interested in Iraq as they are in Zimbabwe.
Your setup is completely idiotic. A shared account is just begging to be abused, particularly in a student politics environment.
Email arrives, on an issue which incriminates a board member: "Oh gee, it's been deleted and nobody knows who did it or what it contained." Issue turns up at the local student meeting and details regarding why that dodgy contract was approved: "Golly, looks like that email was removed." Crazy stuff. Unless your cabal intentionally wants to make itself unaccountable, you need to fix that up pronto.
How? Set up a mailing list (using, for example, Mailman) and have it deliver mail to each board member's personal email address. This stuff is trivial for any junior systems administrator. How this got approved as a Slashdot question is a mystery.
Does it take its adherence to free software to the point of leaving us in a ghetto where we cannot do the things we could with other distros?
Yep, I suspect it does. The FSF list skips even Debian, a group so committed to FOSS that they release Firefox as Iceweasel due to their concerns regarding non-free images. You've got to wonder how restricted your Linux actually has to be to make the FSF recommended list.
I suppose I'll be called a self-hating liberal [...]
I can't imagine why. Liberals hate neo-conservatives and their policies.
Liberals ain't neo-conservatives, so why would you be self-hating?
Maybe the reason none show any interest is that it'd be the equivalent to looking to mug mike tyson when there's an 80 year old granny a hundred miles closer?
No. Try again. Name a single country with any interest in an invasion of US soil.
The main reason why there aren't any to name: invasion is immensely costly and impractical, particularly when the population to be taken over isn't willing (or at least ambivalent). All the neighbours of the US, who might at a long stretch otherwise be candidates, understand this.
US home soil is as secure as Canada's, Australia's and New Zealand's; and each spend far far less on defence. However, it's not because of any military deterrence.
If one person forgets how to build the weapons of war, it doesn't mean that their enemies will do so as well.
Oh come on. Name a single country with any interest in an invasion of US soil. Just one.
Even 9/11 was just a single day's worth of attack after five decades of the US deliberately picking fights with every random third world country with a small tin of resources she can think of.
Because Messianic Complex is not the typical personality trait of a dictator?
All part of narcissism, which is an inherently selfish disorder. To a narcissist, just as they feel nobody else is capable, nobody else really matters either.
that allows players to behave selflessly, or like national dictators and 'little Hitlers'
The word you're looking for is "selfishly". "Selflessly" suggests they are disregarding their actions impact on themselves; which selfish people like dictators never do.
Sounds like a fair deal, presuming DJs are free to charge a similar fee back for all that previously free advertising of ARIA's recording artists. Without their music played in venues, their sales plummet and music loses mind-share as a passtime to other forms of entertainment such as the Internet, video games, cinema tickets, etc.
What is shocking is the rise is antisemitism in the Left. Of course it is thinly thinly disguised as anti-Zionism.
Much of the Left consider Israel's actions toward the Palestinians to be war crimes. Israel is a country, not a religion. You don't generally see "it's the Jews that dunnit" from anyone but the lunar Right.
As the Palestinians are also a semitic people, the Left's interest in their plight would be a pro-semitic one, if anything. Wanting to see one group of semitic peoples stop committing atrocities against another is hardly the stuff of race hate.
It'll be interesting to see how this works out, considering both US parties are well to the Right of any of our major parties in Australia, let alone those in Europe.
From the article summary:
When Sesto got a supervisor on the phone, the company changed its story and claimed the site had surpassed its 3 terabyte bandwidth limit, a claim that Sesto says is nonsense. "How can it be overloaded when it only had 80,00 page views today, and 400,000 yesterday?"
Ping flood. A rather nasty denial of service attack which chokes bandwidth and costs the victim money if they're charged for bandwidth. Will also exhaust a traffic quota if it's in place.
Can't say whether Sesto's had that happen, but, it would easily explain the sudden over-quota traffic.
We will destroy the entire village or sector of the city of anyone who creates a terrorist act on an airplane of our country that causes a loss of live.
Capital punishment of a non-combattant without a fair trial is a war crime, and on the scale you're talking about, it's a crime against humanity.
It's also monumentally stupid, tactically. Mass killing civilians creates more terrorists who'll rightly believe they're fighting an evil oppressor.
When the criminals realize that they will be destroying their city, their mosque, their people, themselves, by convincing young men and women to murder random others in the name of some god, then this nonsense will stop.
Sheer idiocy. You kill peoples families indiscriminately as some form of braindead communal punishment, they'll hate you and have nothing left to lose.
+ Too hard for us to administer (yes your highness)
That's their job. They answer to their boss and must be able to confirm to them particular policies are in operation.
+ We can't run our anti-virus on your computer (ahem, I don't need that crap)
Just because your Linux/Mac OS X machine might not fall to a virus or trojan, doesn't mean your machine isn't capable of acting as a 'Typhoid Mary' -- capable of passing them to others. That's leaving aside whether they trust you and your chosen distro to keep up to date patches going.
+ We can't tell if you're running unlicensed software on that computer (why don't you just like, ask me?)
Because if you lie (and from experience, users do lie about these things) it can cost gigantic amounts of money in penalties if they're audited.
+ We can't tell if you're running encryption software of packet sniffers you would-be corporate spy?
Their general auditing tool is probably specialised for Microsoft environments. Again, the cost of being wrong (their entire client list or source code going missing or other sensitive information getting where it shouldn't) outweighs the needs of one whiney user -- unless you can give them a good business case as to why your need overrides the risk, you'll be out of luck. Sorry about that.
For some reason, a few of the sysadmins I've met aren't clued into the fact that you can get source-code and compile it into a binary and then execute it. Pretty standard stuff. Software doesn't *have* to be installed using some wizard-install-software, and never need show up on any audit.
I suspect they'd notice the installation of a compiler though where it shouldn't exist ;-).
Perhaps you could scan the computer for filenames of well-known software, but that wouldn't stop someone who knew what they're doing.
Don't underestimate a good Windows policy editor. There are many places where things are extremely well locked down.
I asked one "top" resource if he'd let me use it anyway if I could sniff the network from a windows box without "installing" any software - he looked at me like a criminal.
Well, you'd just admitted plotting to breach network security and likely breach terms of your employment contract. No wonder! ;-). Rather than bitching about sysadmin stubbornness, you should be thanking them for not reporting the incident to your manager and it turning into a formal warning or instant dismissal.
Techies will rule. I'm thinking of an HG Wells Time Machine two different routes of evolution scenario. Dumbass Christians lead one way, CS/EE people another. We can eat their bodies for food!!
Hate to break it to you, but, in humans, evolution unfortunately currently favours the ignorant, stupid and obsessively kooky. They're more likely to botch their contraception and have unexpected children -- or refuse to use contraception in the first place due to their religious beliefs and have much larger families.
While it may not be a FOSS project, check out this freeware app: DHPOS
What an odd developer. From his DOS app's FAQ:
"13,000 ITEM LIMIT [...] This is because all of the stock numbers are indexed and held in memory by the program. Unfortunatly there is limited memory in DOS software to do this. [...]"
"There is no Windows version of POS mainly because I cannot think of a reason to have a Windows version. And to create a Windows version would mean that I would have to stop working on the DOS version to write it and I still have many new features to add to the DOS version of POS."
I'd have thought that removing a 13,000 item limit by increasing the amount of RAM available (through virtual memory and better memory addressing than DOS) would be an excellent reason to have a Windows version.
Both evolved, and the winning version of VHS had longer recording times AND Betamax video quality
This could only be said by someone who's never seen a Beta recording compared with VHS on a PAL screen ;-).
Yes, SVHS came out later and that can be compared in quality to Beta. However, that's not what was sold in the ordinary consumer market. VHS won because it was cheaper and more movies were available for it. It's really that simple.