Indeed there are smart people doing coding on both sides of the camp. There is no "in the genes" kind of superiority to any platform.
The advantage to Linux (and *BSDs) is that they are of a different architecture that permits almost infinite customization, and that they are open.
The customization means that you can do pretty much whatever you can imagine with the machine because it's components do no make assumptions on the existence and configuration of other componetns (as in windows where you HAVE to have the registry, RPC , etc.. etc..). This means that a competent administrator on Linux can MAKE the machine more secure than a competent admin on Windows because it is more difficult on windows (and GUIs don't count here:).
As for the freely available source code. Well, i really don't need to repeat it, we all know it. If you think something should behave differently for the shake of security , you can modify it yourself. (Which is not even an option on windows or most of the applications on top of Windows)
Ofcourse none of this guarantees 100% safety (except pulling the network plug as we all know) , but it allows a consious and informed admin to make a system more secure.
To those who critisize my spelling.
I will gladly accept your citicism when you speak Greek as well as i speak English. Until that time i surely have the right to demand a properly typed article in an American News site.
Not to mention that i am a READER, not paid by Slashot to run the site.
I've had it with those spelling errors!. It goes through so many stages to post a story.
The original poster can spell check the article, the slashdot internel system can use ispell and the likes, and Slashdot editors can proofread them.
I am lead to believe that Slashdot is completely automated , unattended system that looks for patterns in posts (like "Linux" , "SCO" etc.) before accepting them.
I know , typos happen. But how is it possible to make an error in a few lines of text!? And it happens so often!
I know i am going down as a troll/offtopic/whatever but this is NOT FUNNY anymore.
Especially for those of us the non-native English speakers , it is really frustrating. I had to look "giantic" through dictd jsut to be sure it was gigantic mispelled and not something else.
I ignored your second post because it does not compute. You mean your address is: saf4502@E8Hkl3.biz@notsohotmail.com ?
especially when you put two "@" characters. Postfix, interprets this as
saf4502@E8Hkl3.biz.notsohotmail.com
(replaces all @ after the first one with dots.)
So there is something wrong with this.
I am not sure about getting spam with such an addres ssaf4502@E8Hkl3.biz . I AM certain , however, that i would not receive regular mail. You can not put it in a bussiness card, people will always type it wrong. You definately cannot pronounce it over the phone.
In fact, most would give up on contacting me through e-mail just looking at this monster.
1) It was intended as humorous. Obviously you possess no such quality.
2) what you are suggesting is that Microsoft put some artists into designing a UI and then WITHOUT it ever heving been actually coded, they release it. And that even if it HAD been coded the coder asked the designer to fill in the blanks...
No. Chances are that it WAS a developer who typed it. I know that anyone could make such a "mistaek", but that anyone being Microsoft provides ground for finger pointing and humour.
3) You respond to a a post that was intended to be simply humorous, with a completely uninformed and arbitrary opinion, presenting it as information and calling me a dipshit. What does that make YOU sir?
Do you work for Microsoft and have inside knowledge? Are you the artist? if you had a company, would YOU release screenshots of a product that has not been coded?
It's the likes of you that make your goverment reconsider freedom of speech.
Am i the only one to think that a part of this document calls to Redmond (you who is there, don't you?) and says: "Wake up! You could loose too!"?
SCO behaves so ruthlessly and unpredictably (even for evil geniuses) that could make even MS scared. (hel, at least we KNOW what to expect from MS
I doubt they would have the resources for such an undertaking.
Mr RMS seems to restrict his statements around how Linux is Really GNU/Linux and how we can all use FreeBSD and the HURD if Linus is hit by SCO.
Even though i consider this man an important figure worthy of deep admiration, the truth is that i have not read a statement from Mr Stallman that was not about the GNUness of things.
Yes. This is what it technically called "Recursive Slashdotting"
It would be better illustrated if hey posted all 331 images. This would be the "Slashdot - hit of death" attack.
Well , it seems that AMD will be doing some serious damage to Intel with it's new Opteron. From what i read the sales haven't yet reached their peak and we might expect a new change to these statistics.
From what i understand AMD is moving very aggressivley right now and Intel has yet to produce a sign of response. One can not help but wonder what the future will hold....
Good to see the author has a nice sense of humour.
From the article: MySQL had a small stand where they no doubt people queried them using a structured language.
Oh, and 'm not a native English speaker but isn't this bad english?
What are you talking about ? How can you translate legalese when there is nothing to translate? No matter what they say, you can be 100% confident hat an accurate translation would be "You are f*cked"
If you have devices that eat up a lot of batterys and quickly (e.g. if you have an RC model car or stuff like that) then you NEED rechargeble batterys.
You save a lot of money in the long run
they don't last as long as the other batterys so it is not worth using them on a clock or something.
So, if you use a lot of batteries it is definately worth it. The rechargers are generaly cheap, but the batterys qre quite expensive (as i recall , it's been a while)
Wait. If IP becomes that broad term they want it to be, then can't Xerox sue them for the Windows GUI?
I am sure there a lot of cases where MS had copied it's competitors and has driven them out of bussiness.
This is just Microsoft laying the ground in case SCO is successful.
Slashdot Mirror
Come on , they are not stupid. They will obviously charge by either ethernet frames or TCP packets. In the latter case ,UDP will be free as a bonus.
The advantage to Linux (and *BSDs) is that they are of a different architecture that permits almost infinite customization, and that they are open.
The customization means that you can do pretty much whatever you can imagine with the machine because it's components do no make assumptions on the existence and configuration of other componetns (as in windows where you HAVE to have the registry, RPC , etc.. etc..). This means that a competent administrator on Linux can MAKE the machine more secure than a competent admin on Windows because it is more difficult on windows (and GUIs don't count here :).
As for the freely available source code. Well, i really don't need to repeat it, we all know it. If you think something should behave differently for the shake of security , you can modify it yourself. (Which is not even an option on windows or most of the applications on top of Windows)
Ofcourse none of this guarantees 100% safety (except pulling the network plug as we all know) , but it allows a consious and informed admin to make a system more secure.
2.2 million employees?! Are you sure you mean company and not Country?
I will gladly accept your citicism when you speak Greek as well as i speak English. Until that time i surely have the right to demand a properly typed article in an American News site.
Not to mention that i am a READER, not paid by Slashot to run the site.
The original poster can spell check the article, the slashdot internel system can use ispell and the likes, and Slashdot editors can proofread them.
I am lead to believe that Slashdot is completely automated , unattended system that looks for patterns in posts (like "Linux" , "SCO" etc.) before accepting them.
I know , typos happen. But how is it possible to make an error in a few lines of text!? And it happens so often!
I know i am going down as a troll/offtopic/whatever but this is NOT FUNNY anymore.
Especially for those of us the non-native English speakers , it is really frustrating. I had to look "giantic" through dictd jsut to be sure it was gigantic mispelled and not something else.
I ignored your second post because it does not compute. You mean your address is: saf4502@E8Hkl3.biz@notsohotmail.com ?
especially when you put two "@" characters. Postfix, interprets this as
saf4502@E8Hkl3.biz.notsohotmail.com
(replaces all @ after the first one with dots.)
So there is something wrong with this.
I am not sure about getting spam with such an addres ssaf4502@E8Hkl3.biz . I AM certain , however, that i would not receive regular mail.
You can not put it in a bussiness card, people will always type it wrong. You definately cannot pronounce it over the phone.
In fact, most would give up on contacting me through e-mail just looking at this monster.
1) It was intended as humorous. Obviously you possess no such quality.
2) what you are suggesting is that Microsoft put some artists into designing a UI and then WITHOUT it ever heving been actually coded, they release it.
And that even if it HAD been coded the coder asked the designer to fill in the blanks...
No. Chances are that it WAS a developer who typed it. I know that anyone could make such a "mistaek", but that anyone being Microsoft provides ground for finger pointing and humour.
3) You respond to a a post that was intended to be simply humorous, with a completely uninformed and arbitrary opinion, presenting it as information and calling me a dipshit. What does that make YOU sir?
Do you work for Microsoft and have inside knowledge? Are you the artist? if you had a company, would YOU release screenshots of a product that has not been coded?
It's the likes of you that make your goverment reconsider freedom of speech.
Now that sound more like what a Microsoft developer would type in...
Even though she is a Slashdoter , there is no Cowboy Neal option in the poll at her website
I wonder why...
Am i the only one to think that a part of this document calls to Redmond (you who is there, don't you?) and says: "Wake up! You could loose too!"?
SCO behaves so ruthlessly and unpredictably (even for evil geniuses) that could make even MS scared. (hel, at least we KNOW what to expect from MS
Companies will charge for the air we breathe, if they get the chance...
Give them a little time man! They are only human!
SCO.
Mr RMS seems to restrict his statements around how Linux is Really GNU/Linux and how we can all use FreeBSD and the HURD if Linus is hit by SCO.
Even though i consider this man an important figure worthy of deep admiration, the truth is that i have not read a statement from Mr Stallman that was not about the GNUness of things.
Yes. This is what it technically called "Recursive Slashdotting"
It would be better illustrated if hey posted all 331 images. This would be the "Slashdot - hit of death" attack.
Well , it seems that AMD will be doing some serious damage to Intel with it's new Opteron. From what i read the sales haven't yet reached their peak and we might expect a new change to these statistics.
From what i understand AMD is moving very aggressivley right now and Intel has yet to produce a sign of response.
One can not help but wonder what the future will hold....
Linux NOT from Sun is also clear from litigation.
They can't sue you unless there is a court decision saying they own what they claim they do.
From the article:
MySQL had a small stand where they no doubt people queried them using a structured language.
Oh, and 'm not a native English speaker but isn't this bad english?
# bugscan bugscan
Segmentation Fault
Hehe
What are you talking about ? How can you translate legalese when there is nothing to translate? No matter what they say, you can be 100% confident hat an accurate translation would be "You are f*cked"
You save a lot of money in the long run
they don't last as long as the other batterys so it is not worth using them on a clock or something.
So, if you use a lot of batteries it is definately worth it. The rechargers are generaly cheap, but the batterys qre quite expensive (as i recall , it's been a while)
I am sure there a lot of cases where MS had copied it's competitors and has driven them out of bussiness.
This is just Microsoft laying the ground in case SCO is successful.
Why have heard this again now haven't we?
Can you Say NeverWinter Nights? (Well at least they DID release a Linux client)
Ahh , so this explains why i was modded offtopic..