In other litagous moves ScoGI have announced an intention to file suit against Intel over ownership of said patent. And every-one who designs, manufactures, sells or even looks at any kind of device for interaction between a computer and a human eye must pay us roayalties! Honest!
Stnadardising on 12V would make it easier and more efficient to use alternate power sources such as solar as no inverter is required. UPS technology ccould also be simplified (and made more efficient) for the same reason. Of course you would need a 12V in connector on the back of the case.
Rack mounted systems could be made even smaller by removing the individual AC power supplies and having reliable/efficient 12V sources in the rack/building -telecommunications gear has been built like this forever (though it is more likely to be powered at 48V or 24V).
Great interview. Good questions. Good thoughtful answers. Interviews is one of the things Slashdot does really well and this is an example of it at it's best. Well done team!
I don't think I've ever actually known anyone to do the classic accidental rm -Rf / as root.
A user on a system I administered ran rm -Rf/. Fortunately he wasn't root. Deleted a bunch of data in a shared directory but otherwise we were OK. I recoverd the data from the previous nights backup and celebrated; if it had happened a few months earlier it would have been a disaster- before I took over the administration every-one logged in as root. Just as well it was a Red Hat box and not a Linspire one:-)
I thought Firefox was scheduled to be *the* browser in the suite (with Thunderbird the equivalent in the mail space). How does that work if Firefox is on a branch and the suite ploughs ahead?
I hope bugfixes (217527 for example which affects Slashdot) are consistantly and promptly backported to 1.7 (and thus to Firefox) or the impetus could be there to reverse the flow back to the suite- up until now I have tended to think of Firefox as "the best of Mozilla"...
Agreed! I wrote a blog entry about this the other day and emailed it off to Google as well. Basically I suggest a preference to exclude sites selling stuff and exclude training courses (as well as wishing for improved indexing and ranking for content in Wiki's...)
This story was posted on Groklaw two days ago. This seems to be a bit of a trend with Slashdot lately, it is rapidly becoming irellevent as a "news" site, maybe the name should change to "News for Nerds. Stuff thats two days old.".
Except that this is a news/discussion forum not a help forum. Sure even in help forums some people get itchy about "basic" questions but there will always be someone willing to point you in the right direction.
From the zdnet article"It's not uncommon for vulnerabilities in Unix-style systems to be exploited for months by the underground community, Maiffret said."
I guess thats in contrast to windoze vulnerabilities which go for years exploited by the underground community (whoever they are- any-one want to own up?) and then more years exploited by who-ever wants to.
I have another idea which may work- find out what sort of specialist software lawyers require (there has to be something?) and create free packages to fill that need. With OSS/free software quality and a little publicity before too long the community would have a team of lawyers available to if not to equal the mega-corps then at least to frighten off jerks like SCO.
As ESR said"willing allies are far better value than lackeys and sock puppets", it could be time that the community went out of it's way to create some allies in the legal proffession.
"What makes this process even more lame is that at least in Mozilla, the tabs are on the opposite end of the screen from where I switch tasks on my WM. This means I have to do a lot of unnecessary mousing around. "
I never understood why the task bar is positioned at the bottom - every other menu on the system is at the top of the window and pops down, yet the task bar is at the bottom with menu's that pop up? Why? It's completely non-sensical.
Save yourself all that mousing around and put the task bar at the top where it belongs! (thats what I do)
My Linux box stayed up over the crossover... no surprises there:-) All other essential services seem OK too. My HP200LX palmtop seems to have survived as well.
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It's SCO I tell you, the "S" stands for SCO.
In other litagous moves ScoGI have announced an intention to file suit against Intel over ownership of said patent. And every-one who designs, manufactures, sells or even looks at any kind of device for interaction between a computer and a human eye must pay us roayalties! Honest!
Stnadardising on 12V would make it easier and more efficient to use alternate power sources such as solar as no inverter is required. UPS technology ccould also be simplified (and made more efficient) for the same reason. Of course you would need a 12V in connector on the back of the case.
Rack mounted systems could be made even smaller by removing the individual AC power supplies and having reliable/efficient 12V sources in the rack/building -telecommunications gear has been built like this forever (though it is more likely to be powered at 48V or 24V).
Great interview. Good questions. Good thoughtful answers. Interviews is one of the things Slashdot does really well and this is an example of it at it's best. Well done team!
:-)
Disclaimer- I'm a happy little Fedora user
"Now sometimes a sentence doesn't parse to me. "
I can see what you mean.
Can a convicted monopolist (and a predatory one at that) buy even a share in a competing company??? Surely not?
almaden.ibm.com
I had to look at that twice because the first time I read laden.bin.com... they really are declaring search engine jihad!
I suggested that Google do this over a year ago, many of my search results are still plagued with sales and training courses though :(
I don't think I've ever actually known anyone to do the classic accidental rm -Rf / as root.
A user on a system I administered ran rm -Rf /. Fortunately he wasn't root. Deleted a bunch of data in a shared directory but otherwise we were OK. I recoverd the data from the previous nights backup and celebrated; if it had happened a few months earlier it would have been a disaster- before I took over the administration every-one logged in as root. Just as well it was a Red Hat box and not a Linspire one :-)
Somewhere in IBM's headquarters there is a camel. A straw has just been placed on its back.
As long as they have the correct permissions from O'Reilly for use of said camel it's all OK :-)
It's Australian Capital Territory (ACT) you insenstive clod!
I thought Firefox was scheduled to be *the* browser in the suite (with Thunderbird the equivalent in the mail space). How does that work if Firefox is on a branch and the suite ploughs ahead?
I hope bugfixes (217527 for example which affects Slashdot) are consistantly and promptly backported to 1.7 (and thus to Firefox) or the impetus could be there to reverse the flow back to the suite- up until now I have tended to think of Firefox as "the best of Mozilla"...
Agreed! I wrote a blog entry about this the other day and emailed it off to Google as well. Basically I suggest a preference to exclude sites selling stuff and exclude training courses (as well as wishing for improved indexing and ranking for content in Wiki's...)
I appologise, put it down to a bad hair day :) "irrelevent" is far from fair and most of what I read here, I do read here first.
I stand by my frustration with the "lag" which affects some stories and seems to have been worse of late- maybe I only just noticed it though :)
This story was posted on Groklaw two days ago. This seems to be a bit of a trend with Slashdot lately, it is rapidly becoming irellevent as a "news" site, maybe the name should change to "News for Nerds. Stuff thats two days old.".
Except that this is a news/discussion forum not a help forum. Sure even in help forums some people get itchy about "basic" questions but there will always be someone willing to point you in the right direction.
Indeed the "Publish Settings" dialog shown in this image sitemanager.jpg still has the Mozilla icon on it.
Because a lot of ISP's (like mine iinet.net.au) only support FTP and do not allow shell access to the web hosting servers.
:)
As to why ISP's still insist on forcing ftp on their customers... I have no idea
From the zdnet article "It's not uncommon for vulnerabilities in Unix-style systems to be exploited for months by the underground community, Maiffret said."
I guess thats in contrast to windoze vulnerabilities which go for years exploited by the underground community (whoever they are- any-one want to own up?) and then more years exploited by who-ever wants to.
I have another idea which may work- find out what sort of specialist software lawyers require (there has to be something?) and create free packages to fill that need. With OSS/free software quality and a little publicity before too long the community would have a team of lawyers available to if not to equal the mega-corps then at least to frighten off jerks like SCO.
As ESR said "willing allies are far better value than lackeys and sock puppets", it could be time that the community went out of it's way to create some allies in the legal proffession.
SCO
SCO Sucks
Isn't that copy-right protected by Aardman Studios?
"What makes this process even more lame is that at least in Mozilla, the tabs are on the opposite end of the screen from where I switch tasks on my WM. This means I have to do a lot of unnecessary mousing around. "
I never understood why the task bar is positioned at the bottom - every other menu on the system is at the top of the window and pops down, yet the task bar is at the bottom with menu's that pop up? Why? It's completely non-sensical.
Save yourself all that mousing around and put the task bar at the top where it belongs! (thats what I do)
My Linux box stayed up over the crossover... no surprises there :-) All other essential services seem OK too. My HP200LX palmtop seems to have survived as well.