Not only is such a large migration more complicated than you may imagine, but think about the changes that will happen to Free Software/OSS in the intervening period, between now and 2008. By that time, Linux and the GNU accoutrements will be more mature, and will probably be just about ready for desktop use by government officials (who, at least here in the US, are typically anything other than power users). So by delaying, Munich is not only playing it safe, they are gaining a lot of usability that isn't there yet and might not arrive for a while.
That being said, I think a fast migration is perfect for either a small business or a business dominated by tech-savvy employees (e.g. a programming firm). Migrations just need to be tailored to the situation at hand, that's all.
Problem is, introducing something with Pagerank involved will automatically introduce strange licensing issues, and after watching what happened to XFree86, I doubt any open-source dev team is going to risk that.
I run FluxBox on a Pentium 166 w/ 64MB of RAM, complete with a background picture, pseudo-transparency, anti-aliased fonts, etc. All at 1024x768 resolution. The distro for that machine is Slack, since so few of the distros out there run decently on an early model Pentium. I should note, however, that it takes about a minute for Mozilla GnarlyJackalope to come up. Oh well.
Ditto for Finding Nemo-making things too realistic would have taken away from the fact that it was a cartoon, not a documentary. Some of the early images they made, of whales for example, were extraordinary.
Zero-day means the exploit was created on the same day the bug was found. For example, if somebody finds a hole in Apache (to pick a random softwar title) but nobody begins to exploit it until, say, a week later, it is not zero-day. This thing was so simple to exploit that somebody already has a working exploit running.
Even more disappointing is that this hole in IE is then used to put a file on your computer, and then the file takes advantage of a local exploit that Microsoft has known about since August of 2003. Yet they have failed to patch it.
Yep, found a computer in my school parking lot-someone didn't want to pay the nifty $50 fee San Diego residents are required to fork out to recycle old computers. Hey Kyle, if you're reading this, your data is safe with me;)
I, for one, found the golf cart very entertaining.
Seriously, I wish the participants luck, and I don't expect them to finish this year either. I live near the Mojave, and it's damned hard to off-road there even when you don't have obstacles and you do have a driver. So cut the guys/gals some slack.
The difference between OpenOffice.org and StarOffice is that it comes with licensing, support, and the odd extra feature included. Corporations use StarOffice as opposed to OpenOffice for the same reasons they use Red Hat as opposed to Gentoo (I said it, I'm putting on asbestos underwear, you can't hurt me!). In a corporate setting that support tends to save you a few headaches.
Disclaimer: I like Gentoo, I just wouldn't use it as a server OS in a large corporation or an educational setting.
I live within driving distance of about 4 reservations, 3 of which have casinos. 2 of those are less than 10 minutes from me.
By and large, those two casinos send most of their money to out-of-state banks that fronted the money to build the casinos in the first place (and those banks are connected to Vegas). That will taper down once the casinos have paid most of the debt off. Some of the money gets sent to the state in the form of "taxes" (that's right, in order to have a casino the tribes do pay the state money). The rest gets split up amongst the reservation, tribal members, and employees (not all of whom are tribe members).
In my community, the nearby casinos have paid millions of dollars (about 4 million total) to widen roads and improve the traffic situation-things which have been needed for a long time (a decade and a half) but didn't start to happen until casinos were built and the money became available. Both nearby reservations are undergoing environmental cleanup, since years of mis-management have made them polluted, dangerous places to live. Schools desperately needing rebuilding have been rebuilt.
There are a lot of things that are bad about the casinos. I personally don't like to gamble and blame the casinos for the surge in DUI activity that I've seen around here. But at least here, where I am, some of that money is being very well spent and the tribes, who were historically shown the finger by both state and local governments, are worlds removed from the state they were in just a decade ago.
a game involving all of the above, as well as Natalie Portman/grits. Use ASCII characters, and call it SlashHack. Make it massively multiplayer, and get this: at random intervals, everyone else who's playing begins thrashing your box with corrupted packets...
I think the default theme now could perhaps be tweaked in a few areas, but putting a Macintosh theme on a Windows application could prove to be a fatal mistake. It doesn't look like it belongs.
Well, in my experience, they key to getting software to be accepted in the wild world out there is the way it looks, not the performance or reliability. After all, look at IE. When a friend of mine switched his families browser to Firefox, the biggest beef was "it looks hokey" (he hadn't installed any of the pretty themes). So perhaps the dev team has realized that the development path should include parallel development on the eye candy, instead waiting until everything else is done to work on the interface.
The "inconvenience" stems from the fact that 2 GB is nowhere hear large enough to hold much of my music collection (upwards of 10 GB, and some of my friends have more than twice that much on their computers). A hard drive player can hold your entire library. Since most transfer methods for PC-to-flash have yet to realize the full potential of the USB 2.0 or Firewire interfaces, I would have to spend quite a bit of time swapping that flash card in and out of my computer and waiting for files to transfer.
That said, the ability to shop for music at the local wireless hotspot and then play directly from a device would be sweet, and it's a capability the iPod/iTunes service can't match yet (if it ever will).
If it costs less than the iPod, I know I would probably bite. Flash cards are inconvenient compared to a hard drive based player, but the niche is there. Right now, the chioce is between flash-based players like the Muvo (at 64-512 MB) and the iPod (more than 2 gigs but expensive). Something in the 2 GB range would close the gap. Make it 802.11 capable, and you could shop for online music right from the player.
Of course, I'd assume it will play Ogg Vorbis, right?
Do what I do-give them a Knoppix disk or an ISOLinux boot disk and let them play with it for a month. Tell them to carefully research everything they can on the web, and maybe loog at a simple *nix manual. If they still want to install after that, set them up with something user-friendly (I sense a promising distro war would happen if I named distros, so I'll leave it to your own judgement;).
Hmm, mine usually hovers between 50 and 60 pounds, or 23 to 27 kilos. However, a Marine Corps rucksack hovers around 85 pounds (38.5 kilos). This thing is nowhere close to either of those numbers.
You know, you can boot Slackware from a USB key. And the first disc in the Slackware set is an ISOLinux CD, just like the first disc in the Gentoo set, and can be used as a boot disk. Not as configured as Knoppix though, which in my mind is still king of the boot CD distros.
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Not only is such a large migration more complicated than you may imagine, but think about the changes that will happen to Free Software/OSS in the intervening period, between now and 2008. By that time, Linux and the GNU accoutrements will be more mature, and will probably be just about ready for desktop use by government officials (who, at least here in the US, are typically anything other than power users). So by delaying, Munich is not only playing it safe, they are gaining a lot of usability that isn't there yet and might not arrive for a while.
That being said, I think a fast migration is perfect for either a small business or a business dominated by tech-savvy employees (e.g. a programming firm). Migrations just need to be tailored to the situation at hand, that's all.
Problem is, introducing something with Pagerank involved will automatically introduce strange licensing issues, and after watching what happened to XFree86, I doubt any open-source dev team is going to risk that.
The two previous articles were both talking about the release candidate, not the actual 0.9 release, which just came out today.
I run FluxBox on a Pentium 166 w/ 64MB of RAM, complete with a background picture, pseudo-transparency, anti-aliased fonts, etc. All at 1024x768 resolution. The distro for that machine is Slack, since so few of the distros out there run decently on an early model Pentium. I should note, however, that it takes about a minute for Mozilla GnarlyJackalope to come up. Oh well.
Ditto for Finding Nemo-making things too realistic would have taken away from the fact that it was a cartoon, not a documentary. Some of the early images they made, of whales for example, were extraordinary.
I like AC/DC!
Zero-day means the exploit was created on the same day the bug was found. For example, if somebody finds a hole in Apache (to pick a random softwar title) but nobody begins to exploit it until, say, a week later, it is not zero-day. This thing was so simple to exploit that somebody already has a working exploit running.
Even more disappointing is that this hole in IE is then used to put a file on your computer, and then the file takes advantage of a local exploit that Microsoft has known about since August of 2003. Yet they have failed to patch it.
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Well, since IBM creates PowerPC RISC processors, that would probably be the type of processor Meyerson is referring to.
Yep, found a computer in my school parking lot-someone didn't want to pay the nifty $50 fee San Diego residents are required to fork out to recycle old computers. Hey Kyle, if you're reading this, your data is safe with me;)
I, for one, found the golf cart very entertaining.
Seriously, I wish the participants luck, and I don't expect them to finish this year either. I live near the Mojave, and it's damned hard to off-road there even when you don't have obstacles and you do have a driver. So cut the guys/gals some slack.
The difference between OpenOffice.org and StarOffice is that it comes with licensing, support, and the odd extra feature included. Corporations use StarOffice as opposed to OpenOffice for the same reasons they use Red Hat as opposed to Gentoo (I said it, I'm putting on asbestos underwear, you can't hurt me!). In a corporate setting that support tends to save you a few headaches.
Disclaimer: I like Gentoo, I just wouldn't use it as a server OS in a large corporation or an educational setting.
I live within driving distance of about 4 reservations, 3 of which have casinos. 2 of those are less than 10 minutes from me.
By and large, those two casinos send most of their money to out-of-state banks that fronted the money to build the casinos in the first place (and those banks are connected to Vegas). That will taper down once the casinos have paid most of the debt off. Some of the money gets sent to the state in the form of "taxes" (that's right, in order to have a casino the tribes do pay the state money). The rest gets split up amongst the reservation, tribal members, and employees (not all of whom are tribe members).
In my community, the nearby casinos have paid millions of dollars (about 4 million total) to widen roads and improve the traffic situation-things which have been needed for a long time (a decade and a half) but didn't start to happen until casinos were built and the money became available. Both nearby reservations are undergoing environmental cleanup, since years of mis-management have made them polluted, dangerous places to live. Schools desperately needing rebuilding have been rebuilt.
There are a lot of things that are bad about the casinos. I personally don't like to gamble and blame the casinos for the surge in DUI activity that I've seen around here. But at least here, where I am, some of that money is being very well spent and the tribes, who were historically shown the finger by both state and local governments, are worlds removed from the state they were in just a decade ago.
Well, it's certainly better than goatse...
a game involving all of the above, as well as Natalie Portman/grits. Use ASCII characters, and call it SlashHack. Make it massively multiplayer, and get this: at random intervals, everyone else who's playing begins thrashing your box with corrupted packets...
At the end, you have to defeat CowboyNeal...
I think the default theme now could perhaps be tweaked in a few areas, but putting a Macintosh theme on a Windows application could prove to be a fatal mistake. It doesn't look like it belongs.
Well, in my experience, they key to getting software to be accepted in the wild world out there is the way it looks, not the performance or reliability. After all, look at IE. When a friend of mine switched his families browser to Firefox, the biggest beef was "it looks hokey" (he hadn't installed any of the pretty themes). So perhaps the dev team has realized that the development path should include parallel development on the eye candy, instead waiting until everything else is done to work on the interface.
Yeah, well you try to do that via webcam.
The "inconvenience" stems from the fact that 2 GB is nowhere hear large enough to hold much of my music collection (upwards of 10 GB, and some of my friends have more than twice that much on their computers). A hard drive player can hold your entire library. Since most transfer methods for PC-to-flash have yet to realize the full potential of the USB 2.0 or Firewire interfaces, I would have to spend quite a bit of time swapping that flash card in and out of my computer and waiting for files to transfer.
That said, the ability to shop for music at the local wireless hotspot and then play directly from a device would be sweet, and it's a capability the iPod/iTunes service can't match yet (if it ever will).
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5. Profit!
If it costs less than the iPod, I know I would probably bite. Flash cards are inconvenient compared to a hard drive based player, but the niche is there. Right now, the chioce is between flash-based players like the Muvo (at 64-512 MB) and the iPod (more than 2 gigs but expensive). Something in the 2 GB range would close the gap. Make it 802.11 capable, and you could shop for online music right from the player.
Of course, I'd assume it will play Ogg Vorbis, right?
Do what I do-give them a Knoppix disk or an ISOLinux boot disk and let them play with it for a month. Tell them to carefully research everything they can on the web, and maybe loog at a simple *nix manual. If they still want to install after that, set them up with something user-friendly (I sense a promising distro war would happen if I named distros, so I'll leave it to your own judgement;).
Hmm, mine usually hovers between 50 and 60 pounds, or 23 to 27 kilos. However, a Marine Corps rucksack hovers around 85 pounds (38.5 kilos). This thing is nowhere close to either of those numbers.
You know, you can boot Slackware from a USB key. And the first disc in the Slackware set is an ISOLinux CD, just like the first disc in the Gentoo set, and can be used as a boot disk. Not as configured as Knoppix though, which in my mind is still king of the boot CD distros.