Re:US is not socialist? Sez who!
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Linux in 2004?
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No country is purely socialist or purely capitalist. It doesn't work. For example, if education was entirely up to corporations...do I need to explain how bad would that be?
The US is a capitalist country because it is mostly capitalist and medicare is a joke compared to other western countries.
It doesn't mean Sarge will be set back.
Take a look at this:)
[19 Jul 2002] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 released
[13 Jul 2002] Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 updated (r7)
hmm.... T-80s. They are huge (around 50 tones) and some models come with jet engines. The perfect vehicle for driving through a pile of computers or traffic.
If like you said for Joe or Jane Six-Pack E-mail just appeared how to you expect them to even know they are in danger? The responsibility lies on the company that sells a dangerous product to its consumers while knowing that most of them do not have the skills to protect themselves. Windows should come with a warning label on the box: "WARNING: Severly broken product. Needs anti-virus to survive." or something. That would be great for publicity wouldn't it?
By failing to meet the terms of the subscription agreement you get your subscription service revoked but you do NOT lose the right to use the software (thus it is still GPL compatible).
As for the auditing it seems quite reasonable.
The agreement is very clear on that:
Any such audit shall only take place during Customer's normal business hours and upon no less than ten (10) days prior written notice from Red Hat. Red Hat shall conduct no more than one such audit in any twelve-month period except for the express purpose of assuring compliance by Customer where non-compliance has been established in a prior audit.
I think that the agreement is very reasonable and I don't understand what's all the fuss about.
I agree with everything you said and I am still in college (with "wired classes").
Laptops in classes are generally a bad idea. We have people playing games during class, chatting on MSN or whatever or writing reports for their job. I doubt than even half the people are using them for anything related to the class. If the class is so pointless or boring stay at home where you can do all those and more without interfering with other people's learning exprerience.
Re:Wait a minute...
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OSI vs SCO
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No, IBM always bundled Windows with their mainframes.
In this case x86 assembly does not give you the power it traditionally does, since the compiled code will bare little resemblance to the code you write.
The way to get the most power on the generated code would be to write in IL directly (you might as well write an IL assembler while you are at it).
My bad:) Cheers to the webmasters for considering non-English speakers.
Anyway my point was that you can't draw conclusions from a (possibly) not representative sample about the whole population.
There is no difference. A fileserver serves files and that's what a file sharing enabled machine does. It is still a machine serving files to others. So you can still get sued if M$ wishes to.
I think the bigger benefit in an "M or F?" question would be to set the defaults according to what the statistics say, so you would have less things to tweak later.
It would be the same as the asking you "Are you from county X?" and have the language, date format, time zone etc, being set based on that. Not everybody speaks the same language, like the same date format or live in the same time zone in country X, but the majority will not need to change those settings.
Configuration should be as short as possible and generalizations can help with that.
You are right you do need a good motive other than the l33tness factor.
Set up a dual boot configuration and play with linux whenever you feel like it. It takes some time to get used to it, so don't expect to get comfortable from the 1st week.
After some months you can make a good decision if Linux is better for you rather than relying on rumors. Make sure you try more than one distro. I suggest you at least try Debian, Mandrake and RH or one of their variants.
What about the reboots? Maybe Debian people should do something about it. A reboot after installing a new package should make John Doe fell right at home.
Yeah not to mention that source code you will get by decompiling obfuscaded bytecode will be full of Class.forName("x1234") or something in those lines.
Obfuscators even change names such that compilers won't accept them but the VM will (so you can't always recompile without fixing the sources).
This new format is not such a great idea now and it wont replace DVDs any time soon. The hardware players will be very expensive, judging from the processing power this new format requires. As for playing the videos on a PC (with Windows), 2GHz+ computers are the minority right now, so I doubt this format will become popular even as a computer-only video format in the next couple of years.
I agree that Red Hat (and any other major distro) has more security updates. But there is a slight difference. How many times did you hear microsoft releasing patches for theoretically only possible exploits. Nobody has access to the source code so I doubt any bugs are fixed BEFORE exploits happen.
For example, linux vendors release bug fixes for insecure temporary files. I doubt M$ even cares about insecure temporary files!
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No country is purely socialist or purely capitalist. It doesn't work. For example, if education was entirely up to corporations ...do I need to explain how bad would that be?
The US is a capitalist country because it is mostly capitalist and medicare is a joke compared to other western countries.It doesn't mean Sarge will be set back. Take a look at this :)
[19 Jul 2002] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 released
[13 Jul 2002] Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 updated (r7)
Hmm the question is... why did you underclock the CPU?
hmm.... T-80s. They are huge (around 50 tones) and some models come with jet engines. The perfect vehicle for driving through a pile of computers or traffic.
If is no real benefit to support xbox live, why doesn't EA come up with their own xbox online gaming network? (not a troll, just asking)
If mydomain.org exists then it's up to its DNS server.
As for the fact that MS is complaining about legal monopolies: "Damn you poetic justice."
Preferably inside #if DRM == 1 blocks in the code.
If like you said for Joe or Jane Six-Pack E-mail just appeared how to you expect them to even know they are in danger? The responsibility lies on the company that sells a dangerous product to its consumers while knowing that most of them do not have the skills to protect themselves. Windows should come with a warning label on the box: "WARNING: Severly broken product. Needs anti-virus to survive." or something. That would be great for publicity wouldn't it?
By failing to meet the terms of the subscription agreement you get your subscription service revoked but you do NOT lose the right to use the software (thus it is still GPL compatible).
As for the auditing it seems quite reasonable. The agreement is very clear on that:
Any such audit shall only take place during Customer's normal business hours and upon no less than ten (10) days prior written notice from Red Hat. Red Hat shall conduct no more than one such audit in any twelve-month period except for the express purpose of assuring compliance by Customer where non-compliance has been established in a prior audit.
I think that the agreement is very reasonable and I don't understand what's all the fuss about.
I agree with everything you said and I am still in college (with "wired classes"). Laptops in classes are generally a bad idea. We have people playing games during class, chatting on MSN or whatever or writing reports for their job. I doubt than even half the people are using them for anything related to the class. If the class is so pointless or boring stay at home where you can do all those and more without interfering with other people's learning exprerience.
No, IBM always bundled Windows with their mainframes.
From the specs on the website only a small subset of the x86 asm is supported, so I seriously doubt it.
In this case x86 assembly does not give you the power it traditionally does, since the compiled code will bare little resemblance to the code you write. The way to get the most power on the generated code would be to write in IL directly (you might as well write an IL assembler while you are at it).
My bad :) Cheers to the webmasters for considering non-English speakers.
Anyway my point was that you can't draw conclusions from a (possibly) not representative sample about the whole population.
Could it be that the site is European (judging from the flags on the page) and so they have better access to information about European CDs?
There is no difference. A fileserver serves files and that's what a file sharing enabled machine does. It is still a machine serving files to others. So you can still get sued if M$ wishes to.
I think the bigger benefit in an "M or F?" question would be to set the defaults according to what the statistics say, so you would have less things to tweak later. It would be the same as the asking you "Are you from county X?" and have the language, date format, time zone etc, being set based on that. Not everybody speaks the same language, like the same date format or live in the same time zone in country X, but the majority will not need to change those settings. Configuration should be as short as possible and generalizations can help with that.
You are right you do need a good motive other than the l33tness factor. Set up a dual boot configuration and play with linux whenever you feel like it. It takes some time to get used to it, so don't expect to get comfortable from the 1st week. After some months you can make a good decision if Linux is better for you rather than relying on rumors. Make sure you try more than one distro. I suggest you at least try Debian, Mandrake and RH or one of their variants.
What about the reboots? Maybe Debian people should do something about it. A reboot after installing a new package should make John Doe fell right at home.
Not to mention you could do a dir and read everyhing. Now we need pagers!
Yeah not to mention that source code you will get by decompiling obfuscaded bytecode will be full of Class.forName("x1234") or something in those lines. Obfuscators even change names such that compilers won't accept them but the VM will (so you can't always recompile without fixing the sources).
This new format is not such a great idea now and it wont replace DVDs any time soon. The hardware players will be very expensive, judging from the processing power this new format requires. As for playing the videos on a PC (with Windows), 2GHz+ computers are the minority right now, so I doubt this format will become popular even as a computer-only video format in the next couple of years.
Network speed has always been advertised in bits. What is the problem? Do 56K modems confuse you?
I agree that Red Hat (and any other major distro) has more security updates. But there is a slight difference. How many times did you hear microsoft releasing patches for theoretically only possible exploits. Nobody has access to the source code so I doubt any bugs are fixed BEFORE exploits happen. For example, linux vendors release bug fixes for insecure temporary files. I doubt M$ even cares about insecure temporary files!