part of the integration was in putting rendering engine routines in system libraries. another part was then not exposing those apis to competitors. So not necessarily adding IE code to the kernel code, per se, but making it impossible to have windows without IE code.
I don't recall if it was the AV or firewall application, I think it was the AV, but it prevented people from using SMTP servers with STARTTLS. I think it's pretty retarded for an AV program to be snooping on the protocol streams themselves. Scanning a file prior to reading or writing should be enough to catch any file-born virus. You have to open the file for reading to execute it, do you not? You have to write the email attachement to disk before you can execute it, correct? So why the **** does it have to snoop my SMTP/IMAP/POP connections?!
I tried out the knx-hdinstaller on knoppix 3.3 over the weekend. Very disappointed with what I was left with. First thing I did after booting the installed distro was apt-get update and attempted to apt-get upgrade. There were almost 300 packages to upgrade, and it failed. So tried to manually trim things down, until I was pretty much left with a debian testing box + some set of packages installed by knoppix which I hadn't manually removed after getting rid of the extra repositories. tasksel wouldn't install the desktop environment stuff due to evolution and abiword related problems. So I tried jumping up to unstable. Same deal. Ultimately I had installed knoppix, removed a good chunk of it as it wouldn't upgrade packages, tried to go to strictly debian testing, and then unstable. In the end I had a system which basically worked but had the feel of home-rolled distro with crappy menus. So my review, knoppix == great on CD, crap if you want to install a system that is upgradeable.
Perhaps legal fees should be reverse-unionized. Put a cap on how much lawyers can charge per hour. For long and drawn-out cases the wealthier party still has an advantage, but not because they can afford more competent counsel.
The last time I used Acrobat, it installed a print driver, so you go to print the document, you select the pdf printer, and get a pdf file. That saves the step of converting from postscript to pdf. Also, you don't ghostscript, windows has it's own postscript file print drivers. So you print to that driver and get a postscript file.
You know you can talk to them directly? Via email, IRC, newsgroups, mailing lists, etc. Just find out how maintains a package which lacks your desired feature, and tell them.;p
You only have to provide the source to those to whom you provided the binaries. So if you sell binaries and don't give them away, you only have to provide the source to people who purchased the binaries.
Well, the proprietary Unix implementations need to stay around until we get Linux/BSD running reliably on machines with several hundred CPUs. (and please don't point to clusters, I mean one machine with a buttload of CPU's like really high end Sun and IBM mainframes.) Thankfully we have IBM working on making Linux work in this role, but it's not there yet.
while apt-get does work some magic, a difference here is that RH bundles an applet which displays an exclamation mark in a big red circle when a patch comes available (a check mark in a blue circle when you're all patched up). They also have a daemon which can be configured similarly to the current WindowsUpdate (download and install, download, do nothing). This is most likely due to my own lack of familiarity with Debian, but all you have there is adding a cron job to run apt-get udpate && apt-get upgrade periodically.
slightly OT, anyone else notice the --upgrade-to-channel argument to up2date? I haven't tried it out yet, but I think it's to live upgrade!
When an exploit is made public, they already have the patch ready. This is unlike what Linux/Open source has
Surely you're joking, Ms. Discharge. Yesterday's exploit of SSH was made by examining the fix included in the newly realesed version of OpenSSH. Microsoft vulnerabilities are identified by third parties and exploits are created, before Microsoft announces/acknowledges the flaw exists. Debian, RedHat, and Gentoo all had patched builds available within hours of the release.
Microsoft does provide a nice update service, and it's good they are trying to set sensible defaults moving forward. But they need to acknowledge flaws quicker. It does no good for them to keep it quiet until they have a fix ready. That just means crackers are armed with tools while users aren't even armed with information!
I do understand your point, and consider it valid. The point I was trying to make was that while it probably would be pretty simple to add that in Nautilus, or in Konqueror, there are a large number of interfaces to add it to, and more protocols to be able to configure than on Windows or Mac. Red Hat does have a very easy to use config utility (Applications->System Settings->Server Settings->Samba Server), but they wrote it as a standalone rather than writing it twice or more (once for every file browser included in their distribution). How's that for big picture?
yeah, because documents which can only be read on a machine with network access to the corporate DRM server are going to be sent outside the company all the time.
after working at two failed startups, I'd have to say she's right. It doesn't matter if you have put gold or a turd in the box, if it can't be sold by your marketing/sales department. It's the sad truth, but the business development is far more relevant to the success of the company than the tehcnical merit of the product in question.
Some people slip up and send confidential data (like bank account and credit card numbers) over unencrypted email, without realising the potential harm. Making it simple enough that it has plugins for the popular mail clients, and they have simple buttons to encrypt and/or sign an email in the compose window, with an option to do so by default, can only be a good thing. Building it into mail clients, so no extra software is needed, would be even better.
How do I set a share in RH? I right click in windows, select "properties" and configure the share tab. Where's the share tab in RH? I don't see it... all I see is a bunch of widgets that set "755" and "644" - what the hell does this stuff mean to an luser?
That's not as trivial a thing as you make it out to be. First off, is the security implications. In both environments, you need administrative privileges to create network-shared folders. Windows, including XP, creates user accounts with administrative rights by default.
After the security implications is the choice of protocol. Do you create an all-in-one sharing tab that gives you a drop-down list of protocols (smb, nfs, whatever old Macs used, etc). If so, how do you configure the list? A dynamic probing of the kernel? Do you check for it built into the kernel, or for a loadable module, or both? If the dialog does try to support all protocols, do the fields change with the protocol selection, or is it a dumbed down common set? Even then, if this was added to Nautilus, it still wouldn't be in KDE (Konqueror serves this function, right?), or fluxbox, or blackbox, or icewm, or enlightenment, or... (I know that you could use Nautilus from any one of the listed window managers, but how many are set up to install/user Nautilus?)
So while it seems easy after the way Windows does it, there's actually much more complexity to what Linux might offer. What RH does offer, today, is a very nice GUI to configure SMB shares, which asks for the root password if you're not logged in as root. Not to mention the fairly complete swat web interface to configuring samba. But the RH tool is much simpler to use.
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part of the integration was in putting rendering engine routines in system libraries. another part was then not exposing those apis to competitors. So not necessarily adding IE code to the kernel code, per se, but making it impossible to have windows without IE code.
I don't recall if it was the AV or firewall application, I think it was the AV, but it prevented people from using SMTP servers with STARTTLS. I think it's pretty retarded for an AV program to be snooping on the protocol streams themselves. Scanning a file prior to reading or writing should be enough to catch any file-born virus. You have to open the file for reading to execute it, do you not? You have to write the email attachement to disk before you can execute it, correct? So why the **** does it have to snoop my SMTP/IMAP/POP connections?!
I tried out the knx-hdinstaller on knoppix 3.3 over the weekend. Very disappointed with what I was left with. First thing I did after booting the installed distro was apt-get update and attempted to apt-get upgrade. There were almost 300 packages to upgrade, and it failed. So tried to manually trim things down, until I was pretty much left with a debian testing box + some set of packages installed by knoppix which I hadn't manually removed after getting rid of the extra repositories. tasksel wouldn't install the desktop environment stuff due to evolution and abiword related problems. So I tried jumping up to unstable. Same deal. Ultimately I had installed knoppix, removed a good chunk of it as it wouldn't upgrade packages, tried to go to strictly debian testing, and then unstable. In the end I had a system which basically worked but had the feel of home-rolled distro with crappy menus. So my review, knoppix == great on CD, crap if you want to install a system that is upgradeable.
I say this as a native Texan. Tim Horton's kicks the crap out of Krispy Kreme.
but the problem was that DeCSS is a circumvention device, not that the code itself is copyright by someone else.
Not Bill Nye, Bill Nighy. Viktor in Underworld, and the singer in Still Crazy.
Perhaps legal fees should be reverse-unionized. Put a cap on how much lawyers can charge per hour. For long and drawn-out cases the wealthier party still has an advantage, but not because they can afford more competent counsel.
The last time I used Acrobat, it installed a print driver, so you go to print the document, you select the pdf printer, and get a pdf file. That saves the step of converting from postscript to pdf. Also, you don't ghostscript, windows has it's own postscript file print drivers. So you print to that driver and get a postscript file.
You know you can talk to them directly? Via email, IRC, newsgroups, mailing lists, etc. Just find out how maintains a package which lacks your desired feature, and tell them. ;p
I thought code monkeys write nmap.
You only have to provide the source to those to whom you provided the binaries. So if you sell binaries and don't give them away, you only have to provide the source to people who purchased the binaries.
Well, the proprietary Unix implementations need to stay around until we get Linux/BSD running reliably on machines with several hundred CPUs. (and please don't point to clusters, I mean one machine with a buttload of CPU's like really high end Sun and IBM mainframes.) Thankfully we have IBM working on making Linux work in this role, but it's not there yet.
The legal question of what constitutes a derivative work remains to be answered. So yes, the GPL is, in part, questionable in court.
Some of use consider longer battery life, quieter components, and lower running temperatures to be advantages when looking at laptops.
Google is probably smart enough to not collect all knowledge. I mean really, would you want Nibbler and his ilk sending the likes of Fry after you?
Have you ever seen the "Music" CD-Rs which cost significantly more tha "Data" CD-Rs?
What tipped you off? Did his aid announce the formulation of a Cunning Plan?
while apt-get does work some magic, a difference here is that RH bundles an applet which displays an exclamation mark in a big red circle when a patch comes available (a check mark in a blue circle when you're all patched up). They also have a daemon which can be configured similarly to the current WindowsUpdate (download and install, download, do nothing). This is most likely due to my own lack of familiarity with Debian, but all you have there is adding a cron job to run apt-get udpate && apt-get upgrade periodically. slightly OT, anyone else notice the --upgrade-to-channel argument to up2date? I haven't tried it out yet, but I think it's to live upgrade!
Surely you're joking, Ms. Discharge. Yesterday's exploit of SSH was made by examining the fix included in the newly realesed version of OpenSSH. Microsoft vulnerabilities are identified by third parties and exploits are created, before Microsoft announces/acknowledges the flaw exists. Debian, RedHat, and Gentoo all had patched builds available within hours of the release.
Microsoft does provide a nice update service, and it's good they are trying to set sensible defaults moving forward. But they need to acknowledge flaws quicker. It does no good for them to keep it quiet until they have a fix ready. That just means crackers are armed with tools while users aren't even armed with information!
I do understand your point, and consider it valid. The point I was trying to make was that while it probably would be pretty simple to add that in Nautilus, or in Konqueror, there are a large number of interfaces to add it to, and more protocols to be able to configure than on Windows or Mac. Red Hat does have a very easy to use config utility (Applications->System Settings->Server Settings->Samba Server), but they wrote it as a standalone rather than writing it twice or more (once for every file browser included in their distribution). How's that for big picture?
yeah, because documents which can only be read on a machine with network access to the corporate DRM server are going to be sent outside the company all the time.
after working at two failed startups, I'd have to say she's right. It doesn't matter if you have put gold or a turd in the box, if it can't be sold by your marketing/sales department. It's the sad truth, but the business development is far more relevant to the success of the company than the tehcnical merit of the product in question.
Some people slip up and send confidential data (like bank account and credit card numbers) over unencrypted email, without realising the potential harm. Making it simple enough that it has plugins for the popular mail clients, and they have simple buttons to encrypt and/or sign an email in the compose window, with an option to do so by default, can only be a good thing. Building it into mail clients, so no extra software is needed, would be even better.
That's not as trivial a thing as you make it out to be. First off, is the security implications. In both environments, you need administrative privileges to create network-shared folders. Windows, including XP, creates user accounts with administrative rights by default.
After the security implications is the choice of protocol. Do you create an all-in-one sharing tab that gives you a drop-down list of protocols (smb, nfs, whatever old Macs used, etc). If so, how do you configure the list? A dynamic probing of the kernel? Do you check for it built into the kernel, or for a loadable module, or both? If the dialog does try to support all protocols, do the fields change with the protocol selection, or is it a dumbed down common set? Even then, if this was added to Nautilus, it still wouldn't be in KDE (Konqueror serves this function, right?), or fluxbox, or blackbox, or icewm, or enlightenment, or
So while it seems easy after the way Windows does it, there's actually much more complexity to what Linux might offer. What RH does offer, today, is a very nice GUI to configure SMB shares, which asks for the root password if you're not logged in as root. Not to mention the fairly complete swat web interface to configuring samba. But the RH tool is much simpler to use.
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MSCE: You mean, the are seats that don't hold you in place with a pole up your anus?