All programs (for the most part) must be written by people. People crash, they're buggy and they dont have a development team working on them. Computers crash because people cant catch that one little fatal error in 10,000 lines of code. Smaller programs are less succeptable to errors and big scary warning messages that make even the most world-hardend geek worried about his files. Yes, it's getting better with more and more people working on something at once. Mozilla (www.mozilla.org) has a feedback option to help them debug, many software companies are including this. But even with that in place, there is always that small human error, that will screw something up.
This seems like just another technology that's neat, but not very usefull. Sure on some campuses it would be helpfull, but other than that, i see no End User marketability. Not many people want to broadcast their own TV. Neat technology though...
They really cant say "oh but we had it right!" after the fact. That sets a standard for other companies, that's not OK. They have to knowingly distribute the SC. not just "Whoops" and find out later, that it's "in there somewhere"
System Admins are always trying to keep up with hackers, and i dont see that stopping anytime soon. There is only so much we can do to prevent it, and the only way to be invunerable is if your computer is off or not on the net. And that's not very productive. System admins are just going to have to keep coding their own firewalls and other anti-virus stuff, download microsoft "security" patches, and just roll with the punches. There is no way to stop hacking, and if we could, would we want to?
Unfortunately all of us West-Coast people who dont realize that there is a time difference dont have the April 1'st status displaying on our computer clocks. We're ovbiously in the dark here.
The Red Hat Package Manager system is convienent for those of us who are not very capable at compiling source code and the like. It provides ease of use basically, and that is the objective I think that they are trying to obtain by conforming to the.RPM standard. Sure it may not be as complicated and therefore not as geeky, but it will save the not-so-nerdy people some time, which is good because the world needs to be exposed to more Open Source Software
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All programs (for the most part) must be written by people. People crash, they're buggy and they dont have a development team working on them. Computers crash because people cant catch that one little fatal error in 10,000 lines of code. Smaller programs are less succeptable to errors and big scary warning messages that make even the most world-hardend geek worried about his files. Yes, it's getting better with more and more people working on something at once. Mozilla (www.mozilla.org) has a feedback option to help them debug, many software companies are including this. But even with that in place, there is always that small human error, that will screw something up.
This seems like just another technology that's neat, but not very usefull. Sure on some campuses it would be helpfull, but other than that, i see no End User marketability. Not many people want to broadcast their own TV. Neat technology though...
They really cant say "oh but we had it right!" after the fact. That sets a standard for other companies, that's not OK. They have to knowingly distribute the SC. not just "Whoops" and find out later, that it's "in there somewhere"
System Admins are always trying to keep up with hackers, and i dont see that stopping anytime soon. There is only so much we can do to prevent it, and the only way to be invunerable is if your computer is off or not on the net. And that's not very productive. System admins are just going to have to keep coding their own firewalls and other anti-virus stuff, download microsoft "security" patches, and just roll with the punches. There is no way to stop hacking, and if we could, would we want to?
Unfortunately all of us West-Coast people who dont realize that there is a time difference dont have the April 1'st status displaying on our computer clocks. We're ovbiously in the dark here.
The Red Hat Package Manager system is convienent for those of us who are not very capable at compiling source code and the like. It provides ease of use basically, and that is the objective I think that they are trying to obtain by conforming to the .RPM standard. Sure it may not be as complicated and therefore not as geeky, but it will save the not-so-nerdy people some time, which is good because the world needs to be exposed to more Open Source Software