They might be able to do that anyway. Who knows if they hadn't had secret deals with Intel, AMD, or whomever? You probably cannot review the source code of your CPU.
Sorry, but I'm paranoid. What if you're a NSA agent? So I think you're lying me - my CPUs are safe.
Uh...you can read the code. People has read the code and there's nothing "hidden" on it. People who thinks that SELinux allows the NSA to enter your computer are just clueless.
-It was slow in some cases that Hans deleted from his benchmark pages (and it's not me who says this, but a ex-namesys developer that dared to say it to hans' face when he left namesys)
I don't think we'll see blogger improving. Just like it happened when they bought Writely, they may not care that much about the product the company is selling, but the team that does it. Blogger seems to be in "mainteinance mode", they may have a small team working on maintaining and keeping it up to date while the rest of the people works on a "blogger killer". They haven't even tried to integrate blogger with the rest of Google apps (blogger interrupts the service some times for "mainteinance", something that would never happen in a google app)
In opensolaris (just like in openoffice) you need to give your copyright rights to Sun.
I can't imagine why anyone would want to take part of a community that requires the copyright assignment. Yeah, the FSF also uses a copyright assignment, but then the FSF is a foundation, Sun is a company. I mean, I write the code and Sun takes my rights??? (yeah, i can fork opensolaris and keep my copyright, but it just shows how community-unfriendly opensolaris is...)
I'm definitively not wasting time with a project that requires copyright assignment to a copmany....
If only they fixed the bug that happens when you moderate, then you try to comment, the dialog warns you that the moderation you did it will be undone and you can't get out of there....
I can't help but feel the new algorithm that implements searching bookmarks/page titles/etc. for results when you type in the address bar is aimed at the "I am incompetent when it comes to technical things and don't understand the concept of URLs"-type people; the like to whom the Internet is the blue IE logo on their desktops.
Which is why the awesomebar is going to be a big success in the Real World (outside of slashdot). You know, real people don't care about what a URL is, and I can't find a reason why they should.
I'm a geek, and I can't live without the awesomebar. You can remember a domain of a frequently visited page, but the whole URL? When I've to search an article I visited a week ago, I just have to type "slashdot" and some word from the title and the url appears. Typically I'd google to find it, now the awesomebar avoids me that. That alone makes the awesomebar worth of it. When I type "sla", the first item in the list is ALWAYS slashdot, because the awesomebar knows what pages you visit more frequently. Oh, and the favicons make easier to browse at the list of URLs than the old text list, because you can differenciate one domain from other.
In fact, there are patches implementing ACID3 features that aren't going to be merged in Firefox 3 because they're too intrusive (what, slashdotters want an example? look here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421765#c8)
Acid 3, just like acid 2, has been released when the firefox development cycle is focusing on stabilizing...other browsers have focused on passing acid3 like it was the most important thing to do and have done ugly things just to be the first, take for example this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410460#c44
And the fact that at least WebKit has introduced a special case for the Acid3 font: m_allowFontSmoothing = (nameStr != "Ahem");
Firefox passes ACID2 since years. Just like with ACID2, the gecko development period finished when acid3 was released. Right now the firefox developers are not wasting time with ACID3, but preparing the release. If acid3 would have been published just after releasing firefox 3, you probably would see a lot of acid3 improvements in the firefox 4 trunk, but right now there're even patches that are not being merged due to being too complicated at this stage of the development.
There's a small difference. UMSDOS was a (ugly, but useful) hack that allowed to use FAT files and directories as if they were UNIX-like files and directories. So even if you booted in MSDOS/win you could read the linux files. WUBI is different: It stores a whole Linux filesystem in a file. Wubi then mounts the NTFS filesystem with NTFS-3G, and the big file containing the linux filesystem is mounted with the loop device as an ext (or reiser, or whatever) filesystem.
I have 7 tabs open (one of them with a couple of flash videos and some images) with Firefox nightly in Linux and it's eating 108 MB of RAM. If I close the tabs I recover memory.
Are you sure you're looking at REAL memory usage (aka RSS), and not "virtual memory"?
I don't agree. Microsoft IS trying to make Windows the best FOSS platform. The goal is not to be nice to FOSS, but to try to damage Linux. It's not me who says it, but Mary Jo Foley (who got it from a Microsoft), one of the most journalists experts in microsoft, if not the best. Quote:
"Microsoft is looking at open-source software (OSS) as just another flavor of independent software vendors (ISV) software. Microsoft's goal is to convince OSS vendors to port their software to Windows. But Microsoft doesn't want OSS software to just sit on top of Windows; the company wants this software to be tied into the Windows ecosystem by integrating with Active Directory, Microsoft Office, Expression designer tools, System Center systems-management wares and SQL Server database.
In cases where customers and software vendors want/need Linux to still be part of the picture for some reason, Microsoft will suggest they use Hyper-V, its forthcoming virtualization hypervisor, to run Linux and Linux-dependent applications.
Microsoft's OSS strategy makes a lot of sense for Microsoft. It's another way for Microsoft to try to make Linux obsolete, and not look as obviously ruthless doing so. And for OSS vendors who are selling a lot of their software on Windows -- Ramji repeated a couple of times that more than 50 percent of JBoss' business these days is from software running on Windows -- Microsoft's OSS push isn't a bad deal, either.
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Cuba is the final testament to the failure of communism.
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But WHAT if the company who made the oscilloscope also had secret deals with the NSA???
They might be able to do that anyway. Who knows if they hadn't had secret deals with Intel, AMD, or whomever? You probably cannot review the source code of your CPU.
Sorry, but I'm paranoid. What if you're a NSA agent? So I think you're lying me - my CPUs are safe.
Uh...you can read the code. People has read the code and there's nothing "hidden" on it. People who thinks that SELinux allows the NSA to enter your computer are just clueless.
Messenger is bigger than AOL+Yahoo
Ext4 has a lot of performance improvements, like extents or delayed allocation. Desktop users will notice that ext4 is much faster
That said, ext4 is unstable. It can easily eat your data. Just say NO to moving your filesystem to ext4 - for now.
Nothing is being "closed", just that some new features may not be released in the community edition.
In other words, those features are closed source.
There's a small problem with maintaining reiser4: It's a VERY large codebase, and it's INSANELY complex.
Add to the list:
-It was slow in some cases that Hans deleted from his benchmark pages (and it's not me who says this, but a ex-namesys developer that dared to say it to hans' face when he left namesys)
I don't think we'll see blogger improving. Just like it happened when they bought Writely, they may not care that much about the product the company is selling, but the team that does it. Blogger seems to be in "mainteinance mode", they may have a small team working on maintaining and keeping it up to date while the rest of the people works on a "blogger killer". They haven't even tried to integrate blogger with the rest of Google apps (blogger interrupts the service some times for "mainteinance", something that would never happen in a google app)
In opensolaris (just like in openoffice) you need to give your copyright rights to Sun.
I can't imagine why anyone would want to take part of a community that requires the copyright assignment. Yeah, the FSF also uses a copyright assignment, but then the FSF is a foundation, Sun is a company. I mean, I write the code and Sun takes my rights??? (yeah, i can fork opensolaris and keep my copyright, but it just shows how community-unfriendly opensolaris is...)
I'm definitively not wasting time with a project that requires copyright assignment to a copmany....
I've never installed Java in my box, and I've never needed it...I must live in a different internet.
I love them.
If only they fixed the bug that happens when you moderate, then you try to comment, the dialog warns you that the moderation you did it will be undone and you can't get out of there....
It's a shame for Sun that POWER has also supported SMT for a long time.
Uwe Boll is the worst director EVER.
Which is why you shouldn't sign the petition. His films are so bad that they're wonderful. Don't listen the gamers.
I can't help but feel the new algorithm that implements searching bookmarks/page titles/etc. for results when you type in the address bar is aimed at the "I am incompetent when it comes to technical things and don't understand the concept of URLs"-type people; the like to whom the Internet is the blue IE logo on their desktops.
Which is why the awesomebar is going to be a big success in the Real World (outside of slashdot). You know, real people don't care about what a URL is, and I can't find a reason why they should.
I'm a geek, and I can't live without the awesomebar. You can remember a domain of a frequently visited page, but the whole URL? When I've to search an article I visited a week ago, I just have to type "slashdot" and some word from the title and the url appears. Typically I'd google to find it, now the awesomebar avoids me that. That alone makes the awesomebar worth of it. When I type "sla", the first item in the list is ALWAYS slashdot, because the awesomebar knows what pages you visit more frequently. Oh, and the favicons make easier to browse at the list of URLs than the old text list, because you can differenciate one domain from other.
In fact, there are patches implementing ACID3 features that aren't going to be merged in Firefox 3 because they're too intrusive (what, slashdotters want an example? look here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421765#c8)
Acid 3, just like acid 2, has been released when the firefox development cycle is focusing on stabilizing...other browsers have focused on passing acid3 like it was the most important thing to do and have done ugly things just to be the first, take for example this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410460#c44
And the fact that at least WebKit has introduced a special case for the Acid3
font:
m_allowFontSmoothing = (nameStr != "Ahem");
Firefox passes ACID2 since years. Just like with ACID2, the gecko development period finished when acid3 was released. Right now the firefox developers are not wasting time with ACID3, but preparing the release. If acid3 would have been published just after releasing firefox 3, you probably would see a lot of acid3 improvements in the firefox 4 trunk, but right now there're even patches that are not being merged due to being too complicated at this stage of the development.
There's a small difference. UMSDOS was a (ugly, but useful) hack that allowed to use FAT files and directories as if they were UNIX-like files and directories. So even if you booted in MSDOS/win you could read the linux files. WUBI is different: It stores a whole Linux filesystem in a file. Wubi then mounts the NTFS filesystem with NTFS-3G, and the big file containing the linux filesystem is mounted with the loop device as an ext (or reiser, or whatever) filesystem.
I have 7 tabs open (one of them with a couple of flash videos and some images) with Firefox nightly in Linux and it's eating 108 MB of RAM. If I close the tabs I recover memory.
Are you sure you're looking at REAL memory usage (aka RSS), and not "virtual memory"?
Their "own" benchmarks consists in opening web pages. I can't see how it can be biased.
May this open the door to be able to install linux on the iPhone?
It's not hard to read. It's just not possible to understand it if you start reading The Children of Hurin. You need to read the Silmarillion before.
Firefox 3 beta 4 gets 66. I've heard that webkit snapshots get even more.
I don't agree. Microsoft IS trying to make Windows the best FOSS platform. The goal is not to be nice to FOSS, but to try to damage Linux. It's not me who says it, but Mary Jo Foley (who got it from a Microsoft), one of the most journalists experts in microsoft, if not the best. Quote:
"Microsoft is looking at open-source software (OSS) as just another flavor of independent software vendors (ISV) software. Microsoft's goal is to convince OSS vendors to port their software to Windows. But Microsoft doesn't want OSS software to just sit on top of Windows; the company wants this software to be tied into the Windows ecosystem by integrating with Active Directory, Microsoft Office, Expression designer tools, System Center systems-management wares and SQL Server database.
In cases where customers and software vendors want/need Linux to still be part of the picture for some reason, Microsoft will suggest they use Hyper-V, its forthcoming virtualization hypervisor, to run Linux and Linux-dependent applications.
Microsoft's OSS strategy makes a lot of sense for Microsoft. It's another way for Microsoft to try to make Linux obsolete, and not look as obviously ruthless doing so. And for OSS vendors who are selling a lot of their software on Windows -- Ramji repeated a couple of times that more than 50 percent of JBoss' business these days is from software running on Windows -- Microsoft's OSS push isn't a bad deal, either.
Cuba is the final testament to the failure of communism.
Cuba is the final testament of the failure of commercial interventionism - USA embargo is also included here