They don't really seem to care about not following the standard for i686. You still have to compile everything for i586 on the Via C3 Ezra chips. The specs. for i686 states that cmov is an optional feature in i686 chips but gcc still doesn't check if the cpu supports it. Of cause with the new C3 it doesn't matter, but I don't have one of those.
Not a big fault, but it would be nice not having to remember to set the cpu type to i586 everytime you compile stuff.
I think I would use the free access to the latest techologies and the quick security updates.
I have never really dealt with this issue my self but I guess most people in the company top would like things like: Total control of the techology in the company.
You might as well ask why doesn't closed source software interoperate.
In a perfect world everyone would write software that works together. One shouldn't only look at getting open source software to support a common standard, we should try getting everyone to support common standards.
It's not my expirience that getting open source software is all that hard. Getting non open source stuff to work with anything is hard. Closed standards is want gets in the way of interoperability. With open source you always have the option of adding the features you need. If two open source applications can benefit from working together, it will be implemented by someone who needs it. The original authors might not always see the need for a given feature.
I don't see it as a problem in the open source community. It's fare worse is commercial closed source software.
I wonder why it is that people claim that Windows is so cheap to support when you can get any one to do it for free. I work as a Linux administartor (Mail, Fileserver, stuff like that), we're two unpaid Linux guys and we could easily get more people to help us out... for free. We have one person to handle Windows workstation, he gets paid because there is no way in hell you'll get anyone to handle that crap for free. The workload on the seven workstations is amazing. Sure it's NT 4.0, but we can't afford the upgrade, neither the licenses nor the hardware we'll be needing.
Resent studies of the IT companies in Denmarks claims things are getting better. We won't see the unrealistical high payments anymore and companies aren't allowed to go five years without making money.
Generally the IT companies are beginning to look more like every other company. They grow more slowly and more securely than they did in the 90'
Who care what the Oracle guy says anyway. He said to much crap already.... Hey Larry, SHUT UP.
Since I never studied operating system I should have the university remove that course from my exam papers. Really you should never assume that people you don't know doesn't understand a given subject.
Thank for the link. I'll agree with you. Microsoft has some very good idea regarding security features. You should have link to it in your inital post. You often get marked as a troll if you don't argue your claims.
However good idea MS has, it doesn't make up for writting good code. There are no nice features like ACLs if they aren't properly implemented. OpenBSD strenght lie in the quality of their code, while MS tried to implement more security features, without auditing the code they already have. OpenBSD attempts to find bug in the code before they become a problem. MS ignores small bug, which could become a problem, simply because they have to meet their deadlines. Later on the small bugs many not be as small as they first seemed. Deadlines aren't good for security.
Don't you think it's a bit strange that even with all those nice security features, Windows isn't more secure ?
If you believe that the NT operating systems from Microsoft has a better security model, fine with me. I would however like to hear the argumentation. OpenBSDs argumentation is their 7 years without root exploits. What is the argumentation for NT being more secure?
If your going to make claims like that on Slashdot, you better have some good arguments handy.
Im not sure a wide screen would help. I suspect that having a larger screen would mean that you just put more information on the screen, because now you got room for it. Okay so I'm not an expect on usability nor women, but the amount of stuff must have something to do with the ease of navigation.
If I read the GFDL correctly an Invariant Section simply concerns it self with secondary sections. Secondary sections being sections which contains information about authors, publishers and so on. They are not allowed to contain content regarding the overall subject.
To me this seems fair. Invariant sections ensures that all people involved in the creation of this document is properly credited. When writing free documents all you have is the credit and the Debian people want to take that away from you. I must have misunderstood something, this can't be right. If it is then Debian just became the bad guys. When we're developing free software / doucuments / whatever the only thing we have is our name. We don't expect to get paid, but most of us would like the credit.
I'm sure I misread the GFDL, if not I didn't I'm really disappointed with Debian.
That's kinda cool. I don't think ogg can be ignored much longer. MP3Pro migth be better quality than ogg, but you can't beat the price tag of ogg (Actually Im not sure about the quality bit, haven't tested it). For people like myself, it doesn't make much sense to buy a portable mp3 player, not without ogg support. When I rip my cds I always use ogg. Im not saying that mp3 isn't good, I just don't want to pay for an encoder. Not even sure I can buy an mp3 encoder that will work under Linux, I might be wrong.
Of cause the big question is: "When we get ogg support in every new portable player, are we then going to bitch about not having Flac support ?"
First of all, racial integration is just as much a problem in Denmark as anywhere else.
Regarding your 3 points. 1. No one can ask for you id based on race and really it wouldn't tell them anything. Currently is just tells people that you're entitled to free medical care and stuff like that. You can not be arrested for not having one. 2. Non-nationals has no need for a national id for another country, why would they? Same goes for asylum seekers, they however will get one if granted asylum. 3. Danish ids are useless for anyone but the owner. They in themself doesn't identify you. They simply contain your name, part of you adresse and you social security number (I check with a card reader). No one can use my id card to gain access to my bank account, only to get information which is publicly available anyway. Just a handy way of locating me in a database. Databases containing personal information is stricly regulated by the way. Cross reference is VERY illegal, even for government institutions.
Personally Im more worried about losing the keys to my apartment than my social security card.
I really like the comment on the radio part. My local radio station claims to be playing hit after hit. Which is true, to bad they play the same hit over and over again. If you don't like the music which has been defined as hits this week, well to bad, you're going to hate what their playing on the radio then. I would agree with what they claim in the article, the radios doesn't play enough different music.
Another problem which they don't cover is the fact that the music industry doesn't give its customers what they want. If they don't know what we want, it's because they don't listen. We keep telling them what we want and they keep ignoring us. We want cheap downloadable music. The music should be available in the formats we like, not some weirdo proprietary file format. It must be available in high quality, 128kbps is not nearly enough. Most importantly, the selection needs to be huge, just like we see on the p2p networks. Also the website where we buy the music should remember what we bought, just in case we lose the file and needs to re-download it. No other industry can survive ingoring the wishes of their customer, I don't see what make the music indutry so unique.
Why don't they try to make music something you buy on impulse, just like chewing gum in the supermarket. If I hear a song in the radio or on tv, my only shoot at getting this song, while I remember it, is via some p2p network. Why the music indutry doesn't see profit in this is beyond me.
Being Danish I was given a social security number when I was born, works just like a national id. My social security card work pretty much like an national id card, you sometimes need some sort of picture id in combination with the social security card.
The only thing I hate is that it doesn't include more "features". I what to use it as a credit card, drives license, access card to the university and so on. Having an all purpose id card would make my life a lot easier. Why is national id cards a bad idea? Are people afraid that the government will track them. Who really gives a fuck if it allows the government to track you with it? They could do that anyway if they really cared enough. I simply don't get it.
Please tell me why national ids are bad. Who are you people afraid of ? Im tired of hearing that national ids are bad, without being given a good reason. So fare I just heared "National id, bad" and it's every time Slashdot brings it up. Only once have I hear of misuse in Denmark and that was due of lack of security at the post office, not really something you can blame the system for.
This is only news in the US. For around two years (Think it's two years) people in Denmark have been able to move their number from one phone company to another, wireless or non-wireless, makes no difference. Only problem is that it's nolonger possible to tell if your calling a mobil or a regular phone.
I agree CDs are way to expensive. Apparently the only way to make the record comapanies realise that they should lower the prices is to stop buying music and stop the piracy at the same time. Currently they just blame piracy every time something doesn't go their way, but with no piracy they would have to rethink that idea.
This looks like packman (http://pack.sunsite.dk) only it's written in Perl instead of Python. Packman seems to have more features, like using a configuration fil (Does Stow have this?) also the packman.map which tells packman what to link and what not to link. Only problem is that packman was written for Python 1.5 and needs to be updated.
Where do you get that information from ? I never seen any claim that postfix is more powerful than Qmail. Postfix seems less powerful than sendmail and Qmail. Qmail being the most powerful. Regarding the word powerful, are we talking features or number of mails it can handle or what ?
Im not saying that you're wrong, but I would like to see that numbers that prove this claim.
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They don't really seem to care about not following the standard for i686. You still have to compile everything for i586 on the Via C3 Ezra chips. The specs. for i686 states that cmov is an optional feature in i686 chips but gcc still doesn't check if the cpu supports it. Of cause with the new C3 it doesn't matter, but I don't have one of those.
Not a big fault, but it would be nice not having to remember to set the cpu type to i586 everytime you compile stuff.
They want to use multiple cpu as an alternative to an Opteron ? Sorry but two 32 bit processors isn't really the same as one 64bit.
I think I would use the free access to the latest techologies and the quick security updates.
I have never really dealt with this issue my self but I guess most people in the company top would like things like: Total control of the techology in the company.
Do you mean something like this: http://www4.justnet.ne.jp/%7Ekat/pc/ern/ern001.htm
That just spooky, motherboards does not go between the legs.
You might as well ask why doesn't closed source software interoperate.
In a perfect world everyone would write software that works together. One shouldn't only look at getting open source software to support a common standard, we should try getting everyone to support common standards.
It's not my expirience that getting open source software is all that hard. Getting non open source stuff to work with anything is hard. Closed standards is want gets in the way of interoperability. With open source you always have the option of adding the features you need. If two open source applications can benefit from working together, it will be implemented by someone who needs it. The original authors might not always see the need for a given feature.
I don't see it as a problem in the open source community. It's fare worse is commercial closed source software.
And we just got the first company convicted for sending out spam emails. The fine was as big as expected, but it show that the law works.
Most of my spam is from China, Korea or the US. Im not about to blacklist the US, but I could do without China and Korea.
I wonder why it is that people claim that Windows is so cheap to support when you can get any one to do it for free. I work as a Linux administartor (Mail, Fileserver, stuff like that), we're two unpaid Linux guys and we could easily get more people to help us out... for free. We have one person to handle Windows workstation, he gets paid because there is no way in hell you'll get anyone to handle that crap for free. The workload on the seven workstations is amazing. Sure it's NT 4.0, but we can't afford the upgrade, neither the licenses nor the hardware we'll be needing.
If you eliminate the cost of staff, Windows lose.
Resent studies of the IT companies in Denmarks claims things are getting better. We won't see the unrealistical high payments anymore and companies aren't allowed to go five years without making money.
Generally the IT companies are beginning to look more like every other company. They grow more slowly and more securely than they did in the 90'
Who care what the Oracle guy says anyway. He said to much crap already.... Hey Larry, SHUT UP.
I know the Ogg people isn't done with Theora yet, but I would have loved to see it included. Im really interested in seeing how it will perform.
Hmm if MySQL is a clone, isn't all relational databases a clone of the first relational database, regardless of license.
Linux, Gnome/KDE and OpenOffice are generally clones, but they all add alot of their own stuff.
The problem would go away if we only had free software. Who uses commercial software anyway?
Since I never studied operating system I should have the university remove that course from my exam papers. Really you should never assume that people you don't know doesn't understand a given subject.
Thank for the link. I'll agree with you. Microsoft has some very good idea regarding security features. You should have link to it in your inital post. You often get marked as a troll if you don't argue your claims.
However good idea MS has, it doesn't make up for writting good code. There are no nice features like ACLs if they aren't properly implemented. OpenBSD strenght lie in the quality of their code, while MS tried to implement more security features, without auditing the code they already have. OpenBSD attempts to find bug in the code before they become a problem. MS ignores small bug, which could become a problem, simply because they have to meet their deadlines. Later on the small bugs many not be as small as they first seemed. Deadlines aren't good for security.
Don't you think it's a bit strange that even with all those nice security features, Windows isn't more secure ?
If you believe that the NT operating systems from Microsoft has a better security model, fine with me. I would however like to hear the argumentation. OpenBSDs argumentation is their 7 years without root exploits. What is the argumentation for NT being more secure?
If your going to make claims like that on Slashdot, you better have some good arguments handy.
Are you sure it wouldn't be easier for IBM to simply find a few patents in their archive which SCO violate? I am sure they have patents like that.
Really to sue IBM is just dumb, you know you're going to lose. In SCO case their more likely to get killed.
Im not sure a wide screen would help. I suspect that having a larger screen would mean that you just put more information on the screen, because now you got room for it. Okay so I'm not an expect on usability nor women, but the amount of stuff must have something to do with the ease of navigation.
If I read the GFDL correctly an Invariant Section simply concerns it self with secondary sections. Secondary sections being sections which contains information about authors, publishers and so on. They are not allowed to contain content regarding the overall subject.
To me this seems fair. Invariant sections ensures that all people involved in the creation of this document is properly credited. When writing free documents all you have is the credit and the Debian people want to take that away from you. I must have misunderstood something, this can't be right. If it is then Debian just became the bad guys. When we're developing free software / doucuments / whatever the only thing we have is our name. We don't expect to get paid, but most of us would like the credit.
I'm sure I misread the GFDL, if not I didn't I'm really disappointed with Debian.
That's kinda cool. I don't think ogg can be ignored much longer. MP3Pro migth be better quality than ogg, but you can't beat the price tag of ogg (Actually Im not sure about the quality bit, haven't tested it). For people like myself, it doesn't make much sense to buy a portable mp3 player, not without ogg support. When I rip my cds I always use ogg. Im not saying that mp3 isn't good, I just don't want to pay for an encoder. Not even sure I can buy an mp3 encoder that will work under Linux, I might be wrong.
:-)
Of cause the big question is: "When we get ogg support in every new portable player, are we then going to bitch about not having Flac support ?"
Yeah we most likely going to aren't we
First of all, racial integration is just as much a problem in Denmark as anywhere else.
Regarding your 3 points.
1. No one can ask for you id based on race and really it wouldn't tell them anything. Currently is just tells people that you're entitled to free medical care and stuff like that. You can not be arrested for not having one.
2. Non-nationals has no need for a national id for another country, why would they? Same goes for asylum seekers, they however will get one if granted asylum.
3. Danish ids are useless for anyone but the owner. They in themself doesn't identify you. They simply contain your name, part of you adresse and you social security number (I check with a card reader). No one can use my id card to gain access to my bank account, only to get information which is publicly available anyway. Just a handy way of locating me in a database. Databases containing personal information is stricly regulated by the way. Cross reference is VERY illegal, even for government institutions.
Personally Im more worried about losing the keys to my apartment than my social security card.
I really like the comment on the radio part. My local radio station claims to be playing hit after hit. Which is true, to bad they play the same hit over and over again. If you don't like the music which has been defined as hits this week, well to bad, you're going to hate what their playing on the radio then. I would agree with what they claim in the article, the radios doesn't play enough different music.
Another problem which they don't cover is the fact that the music industry doesn't give its customers what they want. If they don't know what we want, it's because they don't listen. We keep telling them what we want and they keep ignoring us. We want cheap downloadable music. The music should be available in the formats we like, not some weirdo proprietary file format. It must be available in high quality, 128kbps is not nearly enough. Most importantly, the selection needs to be huge, just like we see on the p2p networks. Also the website where we buy the music should remember what we bought, just in case we lose the file and needs to re-download it. No other industry can survive ingoring the wishes of their customer, I don't see what make the music indutry so unique.
Why don't they try to make music something you buy on impulse, just like chewing gum in the supermarket. If I hear a song in the radio or on tv, my only shoot at getting this song, while I remember it, is via some p2p network. Why the music indutry doesn't see profit in this is beyond me.
Being Danish I was given a social security number when I was born, works just like a national id. My social security card work pretty much like an national id card, you sometimes need some sort of picture id in combination with the social security card.
The only thing I hate is that it doesn't include more "features". I what to use it as a credit card, drives license, access card to the university and so on. Having an all purpose id card would make my life a lot easier. Why is national id cards a bad idea? Are people afraid that the government will track them. Who really gives a fuck if it allows the government to track you with it? They could do that anyway if they really cared enough. I simply don't get it.
Please tell me why national ids are bad. Who are you people afraid of ? Im tired of hearing that national ids are bad, without being given a good reason. So fare I just heared "National id, bad" and it's every time Slashdot brings it up. Only once have I hear of misuse in Denmark and that was due of lack of security at the post office, not really something you can blame the system for.
This is only news in the US. For around two years (Think it's two years) people in Denmark have been able to move their number from one phone company to another, wireless or non-wireless, makes no difference. Only problem is that it's nolonger possible to tell if your calling a mobil or a regular phone.
I agree CDs are way to expensive. Apparently the only way to make the record comapanies realise that they should lower the prices is to stop buying music and stop the piracy at the same time. Currently they just blame piracy every time something doesn't go their way, but with no piracy they would have to rethink that idea.
This looks like packman (http://pack.sunsite.dk) only it's written in Perl instead of Python. Packman seems to have more features, like using a configuration fil (Does Stow have this?) also the packman.map which tells packman what to link and what not to link. Only problem is that packman was written for Python 1.5 and needs to be updated.
Where do you get that information from ? I never seen any claim that postfix is more powerful than Qmail. Postfix seems less powerful than sendmail and Qmail. Qmail being the most powerful. Regarding the word powerful, are we talking features or number of mails it can handle or what ?
Im not saying that you're wrong, but I would like to see that numbers that prove this claim.
If you like me is trying to minimize the use of the mouse, then this just seems like a dumb idea.