There is nothing wrong with India going after manufacturing PDAs. It is not that government is going after that stuff only. Illiteracy and hunger are also addressed.
Problem solving should never be sequential. India can't wait to have hunger/illiteracy problems solved first and then go into high tech stuff. If country has to develop, it has to progress on all fronts.
You can't compare ASP/PHP with J2EE/.NET. Both have applications in totally different arenas. ASP/PHP is used where you don't have complex business logic. It does not make sense to use them for, say, a financial
instrument trading site having very complex business logic. That's where you required middleware apps like J2EE and.Net.
The OSS community can make a desktop that is better than XP. In fact, all of the bits of the puzzle are already there, it's just that they are in different distributions! (Xandros, SUSE, RedHat, Lindows, Debian...)
XP anyway is not known for its security. Linux IS. Recently there was article where KMail ran the windoze executable using wine, without asking the user.
Just think of a simple script attachment which your mail client runs without asking you. If the user has sudo rights, then a malicious script can trash the computer. But if he/she was a normal unprivileged user, then the damage won't be to that extent.
We will try to ensure that software is configured for the most common desktop use. For instance, the regular user account added by default during installation should have permission to play audio and video, print, and manage the system through sudo.
I think giving the root privileges to the user using sudo is a security risk. It will be very easy to wreak a havoc on the system, once you break into the user account.
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In our organization, we use an application which
keeps running on all the machines so that users can
know how much time they are spending on each task.
But, what this stupid application does is that if you don't click on it for 1 hour, it sends a NetBIOS messenger message that you have not used it for last 1 hour.
Now comes the fun part. I used to send messages to colleagues going something like this:
"You have not used the application for 1 hour. This incident will be reported to your top manager."
The terrified guys suddenly will start using it. Then again I'll send a message - "You still are not using the application !!! This incident will be reported to your CEO !"
You guys don't understand, do you? This LinuxKernelConf tool is just an internal change, and it's not going to change the current "make menuconfig". Only major thing it will be doing is change the.config file syntax, which anyway most of us never look into.
This will make life easier only for kernel developers. (May be in some way our lives too, but I don't know).
I am working for a software services firm. We normally code for backends of business websites. So, for guys like me math is almost never required except for some boolean logic.
We just get the business requirements from the customer and translate it to working software, and as long as I've worked (not much though - somewhat more than 2 yrs), we don't need maths to work.
This may not be the case for developers who work on system programming, scientific products, etc.
So finally it boils down to what kind of work you're doing. Software engineering is not a small field - it spans almost every aspect of our life.
(Anyway, regardless of my work, I'm very much interested in math algos, and this book is on my wishlist.)
Americans definitely do sue for anything and everthing.
Here at our place (I am not an American), we generally make jokes of americans suing when someone sneezes, farts or just even look at them.
I had read sometimes back that a kid in US sued his parents because they used to beat him ! Why can't people be a little more forgiving (There may be exceptions where millions are at stake, like this XBox stuff) ?
The reviewer lady is cribbing about having no shortcut to logout from WM. I don't know about KDE/Gnome shipped with RH 8, but on my RH 7.2 with KDE 2.2, you can popup the start menu using Alt+F1, and from there select "Logout". I'm sure there must be a shortcut in Gnome too.
The Lady should do her homework well before putting in her comments.
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Problem solving should never be sequential. India can't wait to have hunger/illiteracy problems solved first and then go into high tech stuff. If country has to develop, it has to progress on all fronts.
You can't compare ASP/PHP with J2EE/.NET. Both have applications in totally different arenas. ASP/PHP is used where you don't have complex business logic. It does not make sense to use them for, say, a financial instrument trading site having very complex business logic. That's where you required middleware apps like J2EE and .Net.
sed 's/Linux/Gnu\/Linux/' # forward slash between GNU and Linux
RMS is not going to like you ;)
Lindows ?!?? You mean Lycoris, right?
Just think of a simple script attachment which your mail client runs without asking you. If the user has sudo rights, then a malicious script can trash the computer. But if he/she was a normal unprivileged user, then the damage won't be to that extent.
We will try to ensure that software is configured for the most common desktop use. For instance, the regular user account added by default during installation should have permission to play audio and video, print, and manage the system through sudo.
I think giving the root privileges to the user using sudo is a security risk. It will be very easy to wreak a havoc on the system, once you break into the user account.
PROFIT !!
What?? and stare at blank screen??
These guys have windows executables having size of 256 bytes ! And believe me, those programs generate amazing graphics.
Now comes the fun part. I used to send messages to colleagues going something like this: "You have not used the application for 1 hour. This incident will be reported to your top manager."
The terrified guys suddenly will start using it. Then again I'll send a message - "You still are not using the application !!! This incident will be reported to your CEO !"
This was a fun way to make people go crazy. ;-)
~ Sam
This will make life easier only for kernel developers. (May be in some way our lives too, but I don't know).
Don't go for it already. Intel has to pay $150M for copyright infringement in their latest Itanium and Itanium 2 processors.
We just get the business requirements from the customer and translate it to working software, and as long as I've worked (not much though - somewhat more than 2 yrs), we don't need maths to work.
This may not be the case for developers who work on system programming, scientific products, etc.
So finally it boils down to what kind of work you're doing. Software engineering is not a small field - it spans almost every aspect of our life.
(Anyway, regardless of my work, I'm very much interested in math algos, and this book is on my wishlist.)
~ Sam
Here at our place (I am not an American), we generally make jokes of americans suing when someone sneezes, farts or just even look at them.
I had read sometimes back that a kid in US sued his parents because they used to beat him ! Why can't people be a little more forgiving (There may be exceptions where millions are at stake, like this XBox stuff) ?
Check whether the DIT site renders in Mozilla.
~ Sam
P.S.: BTW, on my Netscape 7, the site renders correctly. And I thought, Netscape was based on Mozilla.
The reviewer lady is cribbing about having no shortcut to logout from WM. I don't know about KDE/Gnome shipped with RH 8, but on my RH 7.2 with KDE 2.2, you can popup the start menu using Alt+F1, and from there select "Logout". I'm sure there must be a shortcut in Gnome too.
The Lady should do her homework well before putting in her comments.