A blogger predicts that Linux on the desktop will really take off in 2003. Yeah, this rumor pops up pretty often, but I wonder how long before we'd get a working Windows emulation environment.
The only way to make this work would be to make the person buy the stamp from the mail receiver. Maybe a middleman would take a little cut, but I wouldn't mind getting a penny or more for receiving each email.
I'm happy to see that the original poster put in a link about "Europe." Otherwise, I'm afraid, many American/. readers might not have known what they were talking about.:-)
What's the license for using the information in the database? If it's under your control, I don't think I care that much about submitting. If any bookseller can use it on their website, and I can download it and do whatever I want with it-- cf dmoz.org used by Google-- you have me on.
No, you do not have permission to set up a spy cam in my living room. Feel free to set one up in your living room [...], and I'll probably still come and visit without complaining, as long as you tell me [...]
Hey, really? For me it's the other way 'round: For all I know about myself, likely I'd still come without complaining until they told me (if they did a good job hiding the cam, that is)...
Will we look back at these stories in a couple of years and think the same way about them as we now do with stories about 'Java applications storming the desktop', 'Push applications redefining the way we work on the net', or 'Debian releases new version before 2025'?
To be precise here, the next Debian release is now scheduled for 2038; elected Debian officials said it is going to be an important maintenance release that cannot be delayed further after this date.
Apple no longer "creates" standards, it simply implements them,...
Actually, they do-- in cooperation with the appropriate standards bodies. Apple was/is heavily involved in IETF zeroconf, widely known as Apple's Rendezvous (bringing the ease of AppleTalk to IP networks).
Which is exactly what they ought to do!
... it may possibly improve apon them if it is possible to give back to the open source community.
Um, so the city of Houston switched to a different proprietary office suite, and there's also an interview with a Microsoft person about Linux. Does that have anything to do with each other?
Aaah, right! Because the M$ person's last name's Houston! Right. Nevermind.
raging.com is Alta Vista's minimal search, and it's just as fast and sleek as google, AND it doesn't assume just because you come from 203.x.x.whatever you're automatically interested in Australian content.
You're a Mac person, right? You're excused, but for the next time, please remember that in *real* operating systems, "Enter" (newline) is *not* a carriage return, but a linefeed!;-)
You are living in the past. Legacy security products like Debian, Red Hat and OpenBSD take a simple-minded approach to security: Protect the user from the outside world. More modern security systems like Microsoft's Palladium are needed to cater to today's real security needs (see here for first-hand information): Protecting the world from the users!
(Look at it like this: If hackers cannot break *out* of their own system, how can they ever break *into* another system? This is providing maximum security at a minimum price to legal users, because if you are a legal user ["l-user"], you don't want to break the system anyway.)
This company takes the concept one step further: It offers Internet security by checking people's history files for illegal and objectionable sites. This will bring those sites down because they won't have any customers any more (how's Debian going to solve *that* problem, hmm?). If you recommend products like the above, you're not going to do any good, just harm, because modern security products like this company's usually only run on Microsoft computers. (Open source is not likely to get professional security soon-- proof: currently there are NO open-source projects working on a free implementation of Palladium!)
Hmmm, isn't that "Ransom It For the Peace Corps" (RIFPC)? I thought Ransom It For Peace was,
#1. Develop a good piece of software.
#2. Choose any currently ongoing war.
#3. Put a ransom on your software.
#4. Once the war has been settled peacefully -- you open-source it!
Ok, it has to be a pretty good piece of software for those warmongers to make peace because of it, but when has a challenge stopped a real hacker?
Don't want to get into a big discussion about cultural differences, but I'm German, and what I can tell you for sure is that EMI's reply is extremely rude by German standards, too. (And the replies in the German forum where this mail was first posted don't look all that different from the comments posted here...)
In what way does this [showing the same card in two boxes --benja] differ from the already existing implementation of hard and soft links?
In two ways. Firstly, if I see a linked file in some directory, in the normal view modes, I don't see in which other directories this file is linked, too. I should be able to see which "boxes" an item is in-- for example, if I see some bug in a class on my TODO list, and this bug is also in a "thoughts+issues related to this class" box, I should see that and should be able to jump to the "thoughts+issues" box. (Of course, file managers like Konqueror could implement this without changing the file system.)
Secondly, a file is simply too large-- for example, a whole HTML document, a whole spreadsheet or a whole mailbox are usually stored in a single file. Meaning, I cannot use hard or soft links to put an email in a mailbox, cite it in an HTML document, and put it into a spreadsheet cell at the same time.
Storing XML in the file system, with tags as directories and text nodes as text files would be going in the right direction-- and we could put the same thing in multiple contexts through hard and soft links (which XML cannot). (Additionally get rid of the hierarchy, make it more efficient, provide better views for it, make it comfortable to use, and you have something like zzstructure.;^))
Tossing files away? I like it. A file is a bunch of data walled off from the rest of the world, when nothing is walled off from anything else in reality. Lately I wrote a proposal, sent it to a list, and then I got a number of emails about it; lots of valuable comments, and now I need to update the proposal based on them. I'd like to open the proposal, see the comments about it and start working-- but wait, where are they? Buried in my inbox, with no connection to the proposal. Hey, I should've made a connection when I received the emails... but no, Mozilla Mail doesn't allow me to make a connection to that document. Ok, I could delve into Mozilla's source and implement that... but wait, the proposal's in a different FILE. How can Mozilla make a connection to it? All I can do is copy those comments *into the same file* as the proposal, but then if I want to see my threaded replies, I again have to dig them up in my inbox.
Okay, I'm biased-- I'm a developer of Gzz, a project that implements Ted Nelson's zzstructure: a data structure that different applications ("applitudes" in zzspeak) can use to store data on a computer. Since it doesn't separate information into files, it's perfectly possible for an email being connected to a proposal, for an address book to be shared between two apps, or for an email and a letter using the same address book entry to be connected (because if you use the address from the address book in those contexts, they implicitly become connected to the address and are only "one step away from it"-- which means they're only two steps away from each other).
Connected information is what computers can do that paper cannot. If I write two index cards that are related, then put them in two different boxes, there's no connection between them. The computer *can* be different: There's no technical reason it couldn't show the same card in different boxes, or another related card right next to it, even if it doesn't belong in the same box. But the computer isn't different, and the only way to make a connection is to make an HTML, one-way link-- the same as scribbling on a card, "This is related to card Foo in the orange box" (except that the computer automatically finds card Foo for us, UNLESS we've moved it into another box).
Trashing files may be radical, but IMHO it is also overdue.
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I wonder whether tracking suspected "terrorists" is among the emergency uses for the US companies' GPS receivers?
A blogger predicts that Linux on the desktop will really take off in 2003. Yeah, this rumor pops up pretty often, but I wonder how long before we'd get a working Windows emulation environment.
Mailing lists into pyramid schemes!
Thank you for educating the geek world, Slashdot!
What's the license for using the information in the database? If it's under your control, I don't think I care that much about submitting. If any bookseller can use it on their website, and I can download it and do whatever I want with it-- cf dmoz.org used by Google-- you have me on.
Hey, really? For me it's the other way 'round: For all I know about myself, likely I'd still come without complaining until they told me (if they did a good job hiding the cam, that is)...
The Common Language Infrastructure? Wow, Microsoft smuggled .NET into Sun's BIOS? ;-)
To be precise here, the next Debian release is now scheduled for 2038; elected Debian officials said it is going to be an important maintenance release that cannot be delayed further after this date.
Well, yes, almost; there's just a slight little difference: It substitutes \in by a colon, and the colon by a closing bracket. Otherwise, yeah...
Actually, they do-- in cooperation with the appropriate standards bodies. Apple was/is heavily involved in IETF zeroconf, widely known as Apple's Rendezvous (bringing the ease of AppleTalk to IP networks).
Which is exactly what they ought to do!
Right'o.
Unix.
Aaah, right! Because the M$ person's last name's Houston! Right. Nevermind.
So you're using Windows because you're afraid all the browser plugins only available for Linux are potential security hazards? Right. Oh wait...
True! raging.com redirects me to http://www.altavista.com/web/text?raging=1, which redirects me to http://de.altavista.com/web/text?raging=1, so it assumes that I'm interested in German content, not Australian.
Then again, I have a German IP address.
You're a Mac person, right? You're excused, but for the next time, please remember that in *real* operating systems, "Enter" (newline) is *not* a carriage return, but a linefeed! ;-)
The real one's here.
Um, let me get this straight. You are saying that vi is not a modal interface?
I mean, because of those people telling me that in ten years or so, there won't be any hardware available that supports general-purpose computing.
(Look at it like this: If hackers cannot break *out* of their own system, how can they ever break *into* another system? This is providing maximum security at a minimum price to legal users, because if you are a legal user ["l-user"], you don't want to break the system anyway.)
This company takes the concept one step further: It offers Internet security by checking people's history files for illegal and objectionable sites. This will bring those sites down because they won't have any customers any more (how's Debian going to solve *that* problem, hmm?). If you recommend products like the above, you're not going to do any good, just harm, because modern security products like this company's usually only run on Microsoft computers. (Open source is not likely to get professional security soon-- proof: currently there are NO open-source projects working on a free implementation of Palladium!)
#1. Develop a good piece of software.
#2. Choose any currently ongoing war.
#3. Put a ransom on your software.
#4. Once the war has been settled peacefully -- you open-source it!
Ok, it has to be a pretty good piece of software for those warmongers to make peace because of it, but when has a challenge stopped a real hacker?
- It has a camera.
- It can move around on its own.
- You can control it through the Internet.
- It's running Windows.
Aha.Don't want to get into a big discussion about cultural differences, but I'm German, and what I can tell you for sure is that EMI's reply is extremely rude by German standards, too. (And the replies in the German forum where this mail was first posted don't look all that different from the comments posted here...)
In two ways. Firstly, if I see a linked file in some directory, in the normal view modes, I don't see in which other directories this file is linked, too. I should be able to see which "boxes" an item is in-- for example, if I see some bug in a class on my TODO list, and this bug is also in a "thoughts+issues related to this class" box, I should see that and should be able to jump to the "thoughts+issues" box. (Of course, file managers like Konqueror could implement this without changing the file system.)
Secondly, a file is simply too large-- for example, a whole HTML document, a whole spreadsheet or a whole mailbox are usually stored in a single file. Meaning, I cannot use hard or soft links to put an email in a mailbox, cite it in an HTML document, and put it into a spreadsheet cell at the same time.
Storing XML in the file system, with tags as directories and text nodes as text files would be going in the right direction-- and we could put the same thing in multiple contexts through hard and soft links (which XML cannot). (Additionally get rid of the hierarchy, make it more efficient, provide better views for it, make it comfortable to use, and you have something like zzstructure. ;^))
Okay, I'm biased-- I'm a developer of Gzz, a project that implements Ted Nelson's zzstructure: a data structure that different applications ("applitudes" in zzspeak) can use to store data on a computer. Since it doesn't separate information into files, it's perfectly possible for an email being connected to a proposal, for an address book to be shared between two apps, or for an email and a letter using the same address book entry to be connected (because if you use the address from the address book in those contexts, they implicitly become connected to the address and are only "one step away from it"-- which means they're only two steps away from each other).
Connected information is what computers can do that paper cannot. If I write two index cards that are related, then put them in two different boxes, there's no connection between them. The computer *can* be different: There's no technical reason it couldn't show the same card in different boxes, or another related card right next to it, even if it doesn't belong in the same box. But the computer isn't different, and the only way to make a connection is to make an HTML, one-way link-- the same as scribbling on a card, "This is related to card Foo in the orange box" (except that the computer automatically finds card Foo for us, UNLESS we've moved it into another box).
Trashing files may be radical, but IMHO it is also overdue.