Try and do similar on a Redhat or SuSE or Mandrake installation. You get all the bloated tools, most of it stuff you'll never use, and a system filled with software that consistantly seems to be filled with buffer overflows and exploitable flaws. I get lots of security bulletins about Redhat and its off-shoots, but not very often do I get one about a flaw in Slackware.
I do agree with you view here, but do not forget that code has to be tested. In fact Slackware probably needs other distros just to build such a bug-free distro themselves.
In the end it is all about choice anyway: You want GUI-goodies, easy-install (as in newbie) or you want a stable server setup? My choice would be Redhat/Suse for the first choice for the second Slack/Debian.
This was all over the news channels here in the Netherlands and they actually stated that might happen here too.
As you might know in Europe (except for England) the power coporations are owned by the the government. At the moment there is a excess rate of about 30%, meaning that there is 30% too much power. But now even (it-)companies in Amsterdam have difficulty getting power and more and more are deciding for co-location outside of the city
Privatisation is scheduled for the power companies, who knows what is going to happen then as 30% excess is not efficient
In my opinion we will get there a lot sooner than we think, and we should actually think about making our devices use less energy. Not just our computers, but also routers and air-conditioners(!!!) etc.
I have to admit that this could sound logical, *but* your argument sounds a bit like:
They ordered me to do it, so you cannot blame me
Money making -and inherently corporations- are evil, because where someone makes money someone looses money too.
Imho for example we - the Western World - can only exist in the way we are now, because we keep the Third World poor. We sell arms to them, give them loans against ridiculous interest rates and please dont tell me your government is helping them, because that is just a drop of water on a glowing plate.
In this case you are writing that although because coporations are persueing goals which we would rather not see happening they are not evil? Of course they are! They might be just as evil as the government which in its eager to make money (yes they want to, as the coporations) is taxing this because of the wrong reasons (read: excuse)
I still do not agree with the writer of This is bad news. A merger between a service provider and a distributor can mean quite good news: finally some customer support!
If we want to get OSS software accepted by the general public (which means we can devote even more time to it), we do need some kind of commercial backing otherwise companies will not use it as much and neither will the average user.
Watch all those companies which are using linux now: most of them are redhat, some suse and the ones who have a clue run debian.
Companies want support.
They want someone to blaim for when something goes wrong and fixes it 24/7. So then you need a service-supplier which is strong and will not go out of business within the year. And it seemed that both were loosing money so it might actually be a Good Thing (TM)
Because where should there customers go when the go out of business? To the debian user group? They will (most likely) respond with: Please get a decent distribution first, because we dont do RPM.
Let's face it (another time): companies have to make money, for their shareholders and for their employees. When they lay off their employees because of not enough revenue then we might loose a few linux-users, because M$-programming still gives you fastermoney.
With so many implementations around of the various *nix/*bsd flavors why another one?
Is there enough distinction between OpenBSD and TrustedBSD to justify it?
And most importantly How do you get some much time to devote it *two* projects?
Nevertheless I congratulate you (and am kind of jealous;) ) with the work you have done.
They could easily introduce some nifity features in IIS-x.x that work only with M$ IE x.x. Everyone wants/needs these features of course, forcing the web-server market to use M$ OS...:-(
Of course they cannot. Why? Browsing consists of client/server interaction with data being send over the internet. If Microsoft would introduce such a "feature" within days there will be an open source counterpart.
OOP can be good for somethings, but I do not think a OS has to be readable to "normal" people. It would be nice, but coding decisions should on "readability" alone.
I like my Operating System (whatever it be) to slick and fast and it should do whatever I want it to do.
C++ (any any other OO Language) does add some overhead to a program and in the case of an application that can be affordable, but I would rather have a OS written in C or even better Assembler, because the OS should "just" be the OS nothing else.
Just browsing somewhat futher in the mailinglist, I found this stating that win2k PDC was on its way in the HEAD branch.
Btw as a answer to above mentioning (like you need to have a FTP server running the get files across win2k linux), nothing less is true, just disable active directory (or whatever it is called) and it does work!
There is really no way for IOC the enforce this. I know a couple (1,2 of sites which are reporting about the games with background information (all the sites mentioned are Dutch btw, though both running copies of slashcode so you should feel at home:-) ). Our stories come from spectators which have close relationships to the athletes.
Honestly, how can you place something which is happening in public under copyright? It would be the same thing as the US copyrighting the Gulf-war.
Someone mentioned only 7% of the revenues is actively being used for covering the games. The rest goes to the developing countries. That's weird I did not know Belgium was a Third World country, yet they cant pay enough money for everything they want to cover. That really sux. The IOC might need to sponsor Belgium in addition as well then.
Unfortunately is a bit (a lot actually) lagging behind in terms of release dates. Sim City 3000 is out for ages now on the M$ platform and hardcore gamers wont wait. Period.
Remember John Carmack complaining/stating that Linux sales were a bit disappointing? Of course
they were, who's going to wait 6 months to get
your game just to play it on the platform you
want.
I know I don't.
Surely I play games on Linux, such as Quake. I play it mainly on Linux because of my lower
ping times. Actually that is why I started using
*nix in the first place. But I got them for
Windows first
So if they want me to buy Linux games (and
that's why there in business for, aren't they?)
They should come out at the same time, as well
as they should have some European department,
because I won't buy a game which shipping costs
are higher than the game price itself.
The did not want to install it so why should they support it? Refer the Mandrake instead and ask them if the can help with the driver issues on that particular hardware setup.
Seriously, you aren't asking netscape to provide support for windows either.
I just tried to get a copy of Rialroad Tycoon II of Loki's website, but hey the shipping costs to the Netherlands are almost as much as the actual games costs ($36,95 vs $39,95).
Slashdot Mirror
what about MP3Enterprise or MP3Datacenter...?
OS = OpenSource
DUH!
I hope no one will call this a review of a distribution (the RH one I mean).
"I recommend that all new server installations use this distribution, and SMP servers upgrade to it to maximize the servers' capabilities. "
You can't be expecting any sysadmin or any user for that matter to base a decision to buy this on such a superficial advertisement?
I thought TUX passed request to dynamic content to the underlying HTTP server, such as Apache?
The court ruled against Napster (the company) not against OpenNap (people running servers).
Also I don't know any way - except for reconfiguring your router/firewall - to get Napsters official client to point to OpenNap servers.
Try and do similar on a Redhat or SuSE or Mandrake installation. You get all the bloated tools, most of it stuff you'll never use, and a system filled with software that consistantly seems to be filled with buffer overflows and exploitable flaws. I get lots of security bulletins about Redhat and its off-shoots, but not very often do I get one about a flaw in Slackware.
I do agree with you view here, but do not forget that code has to be tested. In fact Slackware probably needs other distros just to build such a bug-free distro themselves.
In the end it is all about choice anyway: You want GUI-goodies, easy-install (as in newbie) or you want a stable server setup? My choice would be Redhat/Suse for the first choice for the second Slack/Debian.
Your opinions may vary though. Fortunateley!
Bolke
I have got a refrigerator full of data: I you open it up the data starts coming out, if you close it, it is being saved.
-Bolke
This was all over the news channels here in the Netherlands and they actually stated that might happen here too.
As you might know in Europe (except for England) the power coporations are owned by the the government. At the moment there is a excess rate of about 30%, meaning that there is 30% too much power. But now even (it-)companies in Amsterdam have difficulty getting power and more and more are deciding for co-location outside of the city
Privatisation is scheduled for the power companies, who knows what is going to happen then as 30% excess is not efficient
In my opinion we will get there a lot sooner than we think, and we should actually think about making our devices use less energy. Not just our computers, but also routers and air-conditioners(!!!) etc.
- Bolke
here you go:
SELECT * from pr0n WHERE sex='f' AND species 'goat';
(imagine species='et' and action='phone home')
-Bolke
I have to admit that this could sound logical, *but* your argument sounds a bit like:
They ordered me to do it, so you cannot blame me
Money making -and inherently corporations- are evil, because where someone makes money someone looses money too.
Imho for example we - the Western World - can only exist in the way we are now, because we keep the Third World poor. We sell arms to them, give them loans against ridiculous interest rates and please dont tell me your government is helping them, because that is just a drop of water on a glowing plate.
In this case you are writing that although because coporations are persueing goals which we would rather not see happening they are not evil? Of course they are! They might be just as evil as the government which in its eager to make money (yes they want to, as the coporations) is taxing this because of the wrong reasons (read: excuse)
I still do not agree with the writer of This is bad news. A merger between a service provider and a distributor can mean quite good news: finally some customer support!
If we want to get OSS software accepted by the general public (which means we can devote even more time to it), we do need some kind of commercial backing otherwise companies will not use it as much and neither will the average user.
Watch all those companies which are using linux now: most of them are redhat, some suse and the ones who have a clue run debian.
Companies want support.
They want someone to blaim for when something goes wrong and fixes it 24/7. So then you need a service-supplier which is strong and will not go out of business within the year. And it seemed that both were loosing money so it might actually be a Good Thing (TM)
Because where should there customers go when the go out of business? To the debian user group? They will (most likely) respond with: Please get a decent distribution first, because we dont do RPM.
Let's face it (another time): companies have to make money, for their shareholders and for their employees. When they lay off their employees because of not enough revenue then we might loose a few linux-users, because M$-programming still gives you fastermoney.
Bolke.
With so many implementations around of the various *nix/*bsd flavors why another one?
;) ) with the work you have done.
Is there enough distinction between OpenBSD and TrustedBSD to justify it?
And most importantly How do you get some much time to devote it *two* projects?
Nevertheless I congratulate you (and am kind of jealous
Bolke.
Now I know why Bill Gates stepped down, he is going for president!
Bill (on sharing votes): One vote for Gore, Two votes for me. One vote for Bush, three votes for me
Bolke.
I wish I could count how many Script Kiddies are working there heads of now on that backdoor.
Bolke.
why not:
Open Sesame
That would seem more appropiate
Bolke.
Of course they cannot. Why? Browsing consists of client/server interaction with data being send over the internet. If Microsoft would introduce such a "feature" within days there will be an open source counterpart.
Just get a packet sniffer
Bolke
OOP can be good for somethings, but I do not think a OS has to be readable to "normal" people. It would be nice, but coding decisions should on "readability" alone.
I like my Operating System (whatever it be) to slick and fast and it should do whatever I want it to do.
C++ (any any other OO Language) does add some overhead to a program and in the case of an application that can be affordable, but I would rather have a OS written in C or even better Assembler, because the OS should "just" be the OS nothing else.
what about Nmap?
You can only portscan with Nmap, altough it is very sophisticated. Even Nessus uses Nmap to do part of its scans.
Nmap is defnitely *not* a vulnerability scanner.
Just browsing somewhat futher in the mailinglist, I found this stating that win2k PDC was on its way in the HEAD branch. Btw as a answer to above mentioning (like you need to have a FTP server running the get files across win2k linux), nothing less is true, just disable active directory (or whatever it is called) and it does work!
Nah isn't possible, cause there is prior art in the 1-click patent. (The click thingy :-))
There is really no way for IOC the enforce this. I know a couple (1,2 of sites which are reporting about the games with background information (all the sites mentioned are Dutch btw, though both running copies of slashcode so you should feel at home :-) ). Our stories come from spectators which have close relationships to the athletes.
Honestly, how can you place something which is happening in public under copyright? It would be the same thing as the US copyrighting the Gulf-war.
Someone mentioned only 7% of the revenues is actively being used for covering the games. The rest goes to the developing countries. That's weird I did not know Belgium was a Third World country, yet they cant pay enough money for everything they want to cover. That really sux. The IOC might need to sponsor Belgium in addition as well then.
Some athletes row, others just do sports. Skøll
Unfortunately is a bit (a lot actually) lagging behind in terms of release dates. Sim City 3000 is out for ages now on the M$ platform and hardcore gamers wont wait. Period.
Remember John Carmack complaining/stating that Linux sales were a bit disappointing? Of course
they were, who's going to wait 6 months to get
your game just to play it on the platform you
want.
I know I don't.
Surely I play games on Linux, such as Quake. I play it mainly on Linux because of my lower
ping times. Actually that is why I started using
*nix in the first place. But I got them for
Windows first
So if they want me to buy Linux games (and
that's why there in business for, aren't they?)
They should come out at the same time, as well
as they should have some European department,
because I won't buy a game which shipping costs
are higher than the game price itself.
The did not want to install it so why should they support it? Refer the Mandrake instead and ask them if the can help with the driver issues on that particular hardware setup.
Seriously, you aren't asking netscape to provide support for windows either.
I just tried to get a copy of Rialroad Tycoon II of Loki's website, but hey the shipping costs to the Netherlands are almost as much as the actual games costs ($36,95 vs $39,95).
Could not find it anywhere in the stores though.