From the announcement: "Sun also provided licenses for SunOne Studio 9"
That's plural, and each Studio 9 license retails for $2,995.00.
If there were several licenses, for example, this means the donation could be "worth" up to $10K or more.
Really? It's of course nice of Sun to do so, but it's not like it's costing Sun $2,995.00 for each copy of software they make and sell themselves. But fear not, the bean counters know how to account for it so the total donation cost Sun just about nothing.
Maureen O'Gara's bylined material will no longer appear anywhere in the Sys-con universe of sites or publications.
If that means new material from her, sure they can do that. If they remove old material authored by her, it shows a disturbing lack of editorial integrity. That is much worse than publicing articles from Maureen O'Gara.
Why did a magazine called LinuxWorld continue to print garbage by someone who is so obviously anti-Linux?
Advertisers are a very important source of revenue, and for some the most important one. Have a look at Slashdot stories and keep the phrase "advertisers pay money" in your mind at the same time. Hmh, the average Slashdotter should edit/etc/login.conf and increase maxproc-max from 1 to 2 while doing this. They would need to relogin after this change, though.
US already has media censorship done by the mainstream media itself (corporate media a better term). The form of censorship is self-censorship by avoiding beeing critical of the government and the very rich. They accept just about any government lie, however absurd, and present it as "objective truth". The illegal Iraq war is a clear case of this.
But Internet has given many a chance to circumvent the control of news/information, and actually inform themselves :
Liberating the "Liberal Media"
Right and the pulling down fencing as some people I know have had to do as part of "Work for the dole" gives you experience, installs a work ethic and allows you to make meaningful contacts?
The grandparent got this right : "Mutual obligation tasks are menial, pointless and soul destroying."
You see, I know unemployed people with a PhD looking for work, and you can be sure that they are not lacking in "work ethics". But they do have to endure the type of drivel you uttering.
We've been using Subversion at work for about year and a half (from about version 0.30), and still has not lost any data. But this is just anectotal "evidence". Did the project that lost their repositories contact the Subversion developers regarding this?
It's unfortunate but if you choose to negotiate with kidnappers (and thereby encourage more kidnapping) and further don't tell someone who's subject to daily suicide car bombs that you're going to be speeding down a road that is infamous for daily suicide car bombs, is it any surprise this happened?
Curious enough, the kidnappers warned the hostage to be wary of US soldiers. The US soldiers attempted to murder her, and failed but murdered the Italian agent negotiating her release. The current Italian government is strongly supporting the illegal US occupation of Iraq, and still the US does this to a close ally. I'm a bit surprised that the government did not fall because of this. Like everywhere in Eurpoe, people is very much against this war.
Is this a troll, or should I care what your opinion is? Every time there is an RMS article there is a stream of +5 Insightful posts basically saying "I am in the Open Source crowd, not the Free Software crowd."
WE GET IT. There are two sides, it's NOT insightful.
Actually, there are more than two sides. RMS is much closer to OpenBSD (Theo de Raadt) than to most Linux distros. Really.
Coming from the Windows side, I hear this warning constantly, but rarely hear about the practical fallout. OK, splain, Lucy.
When you run as root, you can easily hose your entire system. Small mistakes/typos can ruin your whole system. For instance "rm -fr / somedir/*" (not the space after first/) will happily remove just about any file. There are many commands available to root that should be used with care. Applications have bugs that when run as root can do much more damage.Better not run as root for daily use.
From a security point of view : If you run as root it's easier to get a compromised system. If many people runs as root, you can be sure that viruses will be a plague for Linux as well (or any other *BSD/Unix)
BTW. You should work on the art of... placement. your comment read like you were retarded.
BTW, it's common to quote a parent post by using italics. Once you've aware of that you may try read my post once again. Perhaps you'll understand why I used "..." excessively. But then you are just a
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In many setting we don't care abuot the heat....just raw performance. The heat issue is of concern of course..just that when it comes to serious computation you only care about the processing performance....now for home users heat/electrcity becomes a much bigger concern...also I guess if you are building a 2000 node cluster...then the extra heat would translate into significant costs... just my worthless 0.025431343 cents worth.
for the rest...of us...that care about stability...heat is an issue...as well...as...the required...cooling...does makes it sound...like my vacuum cleaner...only louder...This translate into....considerable costs...due to reduced concentration while...actually....trying...to do some...work.
The ideal solution would've been for the 'troublemaker' to leave the group, so that the gift-giver would have no grounds to stop giving to the entire group. But nooo....that was too simple for them to consider.
It appears to be a "gift" with chains attached to it, and is not much different from other vendors lock-in attempts. Many refused the "gift", and they are, of course, not obliged to respect it's condition nor live by them.
No, our healthcare isn't better because we pay more, but it generally is better than in most countries.
You sure pay more, but you don't in general have better health care when comparing to countries in Western Europe.
We pay more because we are not so heavily subsidized by socialist healthcare government programs as in other countries.
We pay for this with our taxes, even taxes for the rich.
We also pay more because of the insurance conspiracy that artificially keeps prices high (don't fear, I am wearing my tin foil hat), and federal regulations that keep medicines "safe".
Indeed, the US privatized health care is very costly. Seems more like a racketeer business.
But yes, we have top notch health care in the U.S. and no, its not because we, as Americans, pay more per office visit than the average Canadian or Norwegian. (I just pulled those two countries out of my ass, so don't get your panties in a bunch if you feel that health care is better there than in the U.S.)
You have top notch health care for the rich. US spends about three times more on health care than a Scandinavian country. But general health of the US population is not three times better.
Well, sure, but that doesn't to squat for security -- it just makes things more insecure.
So now an unprivileged app can masquerade as a apache or imapd.
You do not understand the issue : Too many daemons runs as root just beacuse they need to bind to a low port. So any exploit will be a remote root exploit. Besides, if you rely on port numbers for security on random machines, I guess you have some problems;-)
You believe that there is no restrictions on what the Vatican state can do with it's physical property (be it internal or external)? Perhaps you are aware, but I doubt it, that the Vatican is very rich?
If you are "oversimplifying" then there is not much "info" to process, yes? A major difference between communism and socialism is not "restriction on trade of physical property", and the same can be said with respect to capitalism. To many US citizens, a commie is anything to the left of Atila the Hun.
Restrictions on the trade of physical property would be communist.
May I suggest that you find some other sources of information than Fox "news"? You do have a brain, so use it. As an exercise, try find a modern state that does not have restrictions on the trade of physical property i.e. find a state that is not communist by this definition.
So, what's the consensus been about the experience with this. Has it proven to be a huge improvement in security?
Writing systrace policies are alot of work, and requires much testing in order not to break the application. In addition you need knowledge of the system calls involved (pass/deny).
As an example "mv a/b" involves different system calls depending on a is on same filesystem as/b.
CO-OPs are designed to be businesses by the people, for the people, without engaging in the communist-like practice of merging everything under the government's umbrella.
Then you believe that Western Europe is communist as well? I actually have education, basic health care and pensions paid by the government (through my taxes) even if I should be unemployed. Nor do I've to rely on Enron style pensions plan on my old age. When we have tax reforms we don't give 99.99% of the reductions to the super rich either.
This isn't really surprising. The tech started here in the US, so that made us #1. But the rural spread of our population makes market penetration quite difficult, thus resulting in countries with higher population densities pulling ahead. As Mark Twain once said, "There are lies, damn lies, and statistics."
Subversion is very nice, and I use use it daily on a smaller project. However, it's still a memory hog (128MB+ RAM usage for some operations on OpenBSD source tree last time I tried), even though many improvements has been done.
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Enron was quite a bit bigger, and yes they had cash as well.
Really? It's of course nice of Sun to do so, but it's not like it's costing Sun $2,995.00 for each copy of software they make and sell themselves. But fear not, the bean counters know how to account for it so the total donation cost Sun just about nothing.
If that means new material from her, sure they can do that. If they remove old material authored by her, it shows a disturbing lack of editorial integrity. That is much worse than publicing articles from Maureen O'Gara.
Advertisers are a very important source of revenue, and for some the most important one. Have a look at Slashdot stories and keep the phrase "advertisers pay money" in your mind at the same time. Hmh, the average Slashdotter should edit /etc/login.conf and increase maxproc-max from 1 to 2 while doing this. They would need to relogin after this change, though.
But Internet has given many a chance to circumvent the control of news/information, and actually inform themselves : Liberating the "Liberal Media"
The grandparent got this right : "Mutual obligation tasks are menial, pointless and soul destroying."
You see, I know unemployed people with a PhD looking for work, and you can be sure that they are not lacking in "work ethics". But they do have to endure the type of drivel you uttering.
We've been using Subversion at work for about year and a half (from about version 0.30), and still has not lost any data. But this is just anectotal "evidence". Did the project that lost their repositories contact the Subversion developers regarding this?
Curious enough, the kidnappers warned the hostage to be wary of US soldiers. The US soldiers attempted to murder her, and failed but murdered the Italian agent negotiating her release. The current Italian government is strongly supporting the illegal US occupation of Iraq, and still the US does this to a close ally. I'm a bit surprised that the government did not fall because of this. Like everywhere in Eurpoe, people is very much against this war.
Uhm, it's not Debian but SuSE.
WE GET IT. There are two sides, it's NOT insightful.
Actually, there are more than two sides. RMS is much closer to OpenBSD (Theo de Raadt) than to most Linux distros. Really.
When you run as root, you can easily hose your entire system. Small mistakes/typos can ruin your whole system. For instance "rm -fr / somedir/*" (not the space after first /) will happily remove just about any file. There are many commands available to root that should be used with care. Applications have bugs that when run as root can do much more damage.Better not run as root for daily use.
From a security point of view : If you run as root it's easier to get a compromised system. If many people runs as root, you can be sure that viruses will be a plague for Linux as well (or any other *BSD/Unix)
BTW, it's common to quote a parent post by using italics. Once you've aware of that you may try read my post once again. Perhaps you'll understand why I used "..." excessively. But then you are just a troll
for the rest...of us...that care about stability...heat is an issue...as well...as...the required...cooling...does makes it sound...like my vacuum cleaner...only louder...This translate into....considerable costs...due to reduced concentration while...actually....trying...to do some...work.
It appears to be a "gift" with chains attached to it, and is not much different from other vendors lock-in attempts. Many refused the "gift", and they are, of course, not obliged to respect it's condition nor live by them.
You sure pay more, but you don't in general have better health care when comparing to countries in Western Europe.
We pay for this with our taxes, even taxes for the rich.
Indeed, the US privatized health care is very costly. Seems more like a racketeer business.
You have top notch health care for the rich. US spends about three times more on health care than a Scandinavian country. But general health of the US population is not three times better.
You do not understand the issue : Too many daemons runs as root just beacuse they need to bind to a low port. So any exploit will be a remote root exploit. Besides, if you rely on port numbers for security on random machines, I guess you have some problems ;-)
You believe that there is no restrictions on what the Vatican state can do with it's physical property (be it internal or external)? Perhaps you are aware, but I doubt it, that the Vatican is very rich?
If you are "oversimplifying" then there is not much "info" to process, yes? A major difference between communism and socialism is not "restriction on trade of physical property", and the same can be said with respect to capitalism. To many US citizens, a commie is anything to the left of Atila the Hun.
May I suggest that you find some other sources of information than Fox "news"? You do have a brain, so use it. As an exercise, try find a modern state that does not have restrictions on the trade of physical property i.e. find a state that is not communist by this definition.
Writing systrace policies are alot of work, and requires much testing in order not to break the application. In addition you need knowledge of the system calls involved (pass/deny).
As an example "mv a /b" involves different system calls depending on a is on same filesystem as /b.
Then you believe that Western Europe is communist as well? I actually have education, basic health care and pensions paid by the government (through my taxes) even if I should be unemployed. Nor do I've to rely on Enron style pensions plan on my old age. When we have tax reforms we don't give 99.99% of the reductions to the super rich either.
This isn't really surprising. The tech started here in the US, so that made us #1. But the rural spread of our population makes market penetration quite difficult, thus resulting in countries with higher population densities pulling ahead. As Mark Twain once said, "There are lies, damn lies, and statistics."
And then there is US "education"...
Works fine for me, but then OpenBSD is not a real OS according to you.
Subversion is very nice, and I use use it daily on a smaller project. However, it's still a memory hog (128MB+ RAM usage for some operations on OpenBSD source tree last time I tried), even though many improvements has been done.
1) Install a OpenBSD after plugging in a wireless card that can be used in hostap mode.
2) Install OpenVPN (that has a nice Windows client), and generate server and client certificates. There are howto and scripts for this.
3) Configure the built-in OpenBSD packet filter to only accept connections to/from OpenVPN ports on the wireless NIC.
4) Show war drivers the finger.