Google President Eric Schmidt thinks that 90 percent of computing will eventually reside in the Web-based 'cloud.'
Current 'web applications' specifically prevent you from accessing 'the web' for security reasons, instead only allowing you to access the server you got the 'web application' from.
This limitation is needed because if you're going to be running random untrusted scripts on your computer you want to restrict them hugely so they can't do anything nasty.
I believe 90 percent of computing is best done using networks, but there is absolutely no good reason to put 90 percent on your computing on the 'web'. Computer networking has so much much potential than that offered by XMLHttpRequest(). We need to get out of the browser and back on to the network.
I can't speak for other package managers but the gentoo package manager(emerge) runs the installer in a sandbox, it then copies the relevent files to the system while checking to see if they conflict with the files of any other package. An rm -rf in an install script will not do anything to the system.
When is MS Windows going to get proper package management? These sort of problems are not something that should be occuring in a modern operating system.
Give a man a bowl of rice and he eats for a day. Give a man access to all the information in the world and he can improve the way he does everything from farming,to building, to teaching his community.
The U.N is corrupted by it's continued need to allow the US to be involved in it. The US invaded Iraq against the wishes of the UN and without proper evidence to back up their claims of immenient danger from the iraq government. But the UN has done nothing to delcare sanctions against the US for this action.
The GNU GPL actively prevents forks by removing the point of forking.
Nobody forks the linux kernel because it's too much work and you generally get the same benefits by making your own patchsets and applying them to the code in the main tree.
We already went over this, the open document foundation is just four guys in a garage with no real connection to the OpenDocument Format. This news is pointless.
Electric cars are far more efficient in how they use the energy as well. * Electric cars can generate power using the kinetic energy lost in breaking. * Electric cars don't use any power while standing still in traffic
If there are more electric cars on the road then upgrades to the electricity generation to make them cleaner, solar power, wind power, thermodynamic power, hydro power etc. will also make the whole fleet of cars cleaner.
Our position is that the proprietor of an enclosed space should have the right to control disturbances within that space. I agree, but rude behaviour(eg. a bar fight) is currently dealt with by asking the person to leave, this should be the same for a obnoxious person on a phone.
"What sort of an effect does this sort of thinking, and practice, have on the overall security of your systems, networks, and efforts to educate?"
No effect, anti-virus/malware/adware etc. is useless. It creates a false sense of security while wasting your computing resources while being lots of extra code running with Admin privileges.
umm...yeah, it's much better to do what they do in the Windows world, were they ignore the fact that users are doing the wrong thing and instead of pointing that out and teaching them developers make hacks to work around the users incompetence. eg. personal firewalls, anti-virus, anti-malware, preventing administrators from deleting specific files that the system thinks shouldn't be modified.
If you're entering any information in to a computer at a cyber cafe that you don't want public then you are an idiot. You can't trust any random computer you sit down at.
Furthermore, advertisers such as Sprint, Verizon, T Mobile, Target, and Qwest wouldn't be too happy to learn that they are paying for ads on the 'F**k Islam' group pages.
Racists have money too. Just because someone is racist doesn't mean they won't buy the products being advertised.
If idiots want to be racist them be racist.
Who is facebook to complain about discrimination? They promote segregation of the web community.
- Gentoo Linux(minimum system means less things can be broken and less security updates required) - ssh (for remote administration)
- xorg - Firefox( I think there is a kiosk mode addon, and you'll have to install security updates every couple of weeks) - dwm (remove the status bar and add rules to tag all firefox window the same) and run it all as a user with only read/write permission to firefox's cache.
You can't disable javascript because so many websites stupidly depend on it. I've seen some sites that don't display anything if javascript is disabled.
The GPLv2 never prevents sharing back with the developer, as long as the developer wishes to release his code under the GPLv2 also.
BSD is the simpler license and does offer more freedom. But, to parapharse Linus, the GPLv2 encourages trust between developers because there is no way for another developer to steal your code if it is licensed under the GPL.
The question is: Is the trust encouragement more important and productive than the freedoms that are lost while using the GPLv2? Linus seems to think so.
In great *nix tradition, you should solve the problem by combinding many single purpose tools. Use something like http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/ifplugd/ to launch a script that runs Unison file sync when ever you are connected to the network.
So, you idea is to convert current configuration files in to xml files, use them for configuration and then have them converted back in to the current configuration files formats for the individual applications. This has been thought of before many times and implemented many times. It sounds great is theory, but when you actually look at it, it's a lot of work for little gain. Have you seen the apache config file? Do you really want to create an xml version of that?...and a GUI interface for that XML file? and then do you want to do the same thing for thousands of other programs? Maintain and update these for config format changes?
Now all you have to do is contact the 1000's of projects and get them all to agree that your XML format is the best and that they should put in the effort to support it.
This idea has been around for going on 10 years and it hasn't even come close to getting off the ground.
If I had developer resources I would spend them on the kernel, which is currently going fine, I'd spend them on reducing complexity(from a developers perspective) across the base system, libraries, applications etc. Less complexity means that most developers can contribute and more users can become developers and gain real freedom in their computer usage.
Dumbing down the user interface doesn't help the free software community nor does it help the user gain freedom and GNU\Linux is about giving users freedom.
If the services are up and running and the machines are online providing service then that should be metrics enough.
This isn't really helpful. Say you have 10 sys admins and the machines are working fine.
Do you really need 10 sys admins?
Would 5 get the same outcome?
How do you measure how many employees you need to make sure nothing goes wrong if you only measure that nothing is going wrong.
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Current 'web applications' specifically prevent you from accessing 'the web' for security reasons, instead only allowing you to access the server you got the 'web application' from. This limitation is needed because if you're going to be running random untrusted scripts on your computer you want to restrict them hugely so they can't do anything nasty.
I believe 90 percent of computing is best done using networks, but there is absolutely no good reason to put 90 percent on your computing on the 'web'. Computer networking has so much much potential than that offered by XMLHttpRequest(). We need to get out of the browser and back on to the network.
I can't speak for other package managers but the gentoo package manager(emerge) runs the installer in a sandbox, it then copies the relevent files to the system while checking to see if they conflict with the files of any other package.
An rm -rf in an install script will not do anything to the system.
When is MS Windows going to get proper package management?
These sort of problems are not something that should be occuring in a modern operating system.
Give a man a bowl of rice and he eats for a day. Give a man access to all the information in the world and he can improve the way he does everything from farming,to building, to teaching his community.
The U.N is corrupted by it's continued need to allow the US to be involved in it.
The US invaded Iraq against the wishes of the UN and without proper evidence to back up their claims of immenient danger from the iraq government. But the UN has done nothing to delcare sanctions against the US for this action.
The GNU GPL actively prevents forks by removing the point of forking. Nobody forks the linux kernel because it's too much work and you generally get the same benefits by making your own patchsets and applying them to the code in the main tree.
We already went over this, the open document foundation is just four guys in a garage with no real connection to the OpenDocument Format.
This news is pointless.
oh, you mean like IPv6?
Yeah, apparently nobody sees a reason to upgrade to it.
Electric cars are far more efficient in how they use the energy as well.
* Electric cars can generate power using the kinetic energy lost in breaking.
* Electric cars don't use any power while standing still in traffic
If there are more electric cars on the road then upgrades to the electricity generation to make them cleaner, solar power, wind power, thermodynamic power, hydro power etc. will also make the whole fleet of cars cleaner.
More transistors != more performance.
This is the whole point of the GNU GPL.
ah php, the unholy merger of c/c++, perl and java.
"What sort of an effect does this sort of thinking, and practice, have on the overall security of your systems, networks, and efforts to educate?"
No effect, anti-virus/malware/adware etc. is useless. It creates a false sense of security while wasting your computing resources while being lots of extra code running with Admin privileges.
umm...yeah, it's much better to do what they do in the Windows world, were they ignore the fact that users are doing the wrong thing and instead of pointing that out and teaching them developers make hacks to work around the users incompetence. eg. personal firewalls, anti-virus, anti-malware, preventing administrators from deleting specific files that the system thinks shouldn't be modified.
Fucking christen extremists!
If you're entering any information in to a computer at a cyber cafe that you don't want public then you are an idiot.
You can't trust any random computer you sit down at.
Furthermore, advertisers such as Sprint, Verizon, T Mobile, Target, and Qwest wouldn't be too happy to learn that they are paying for ads on the 'F**k Islam' group pages.
Racists have money too. Just because someone is racist doesn't mean they won't buy the products being advertised.
If idiots want to be racist them be racist.
Who is facebook to complain about discrimination? They promote segregation of the web community.
- Gentoo Linux(minimum system means less things can be broken and less security updates required)
- ssh (for remote administration)
- xorg
- Firefox( I think there is a kiosk mode addon, and you'll have to install security updates every couple of weeks)
- dwm (remove the status bar and add rules to tag all firefox window the same)
and run it all as a user with only read/write permission to firefox's cache.
You can't disable javascript because so many websites stupidly depend on it.
I've seen some sites that don't display anything if javascript is disabled.
- Jesse McNelis
The GPLv2 never prevents sharing back with the developer, as long as the developer wishes to release his code under the GPLv2 also.
BSD is the simpler license and does offer more freedom. But, to parapharse Linus, the GPLv2 encourages trust between developers because there is no way for another developer to steal your code if it is licensed under the GPL.
The question is: Is the trust encouragement more important and productive than the freedoms that are lost while using the GPLv2?
Linus seems to think so.
Two wrong don't make a right.
He should sue viacom.
In great *nix tradition, you should solve the problem by combinding many single purpose tools.
Use something like http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/ifplugd/ to launch a script that runs Unison file sync when ever you are connected to the network.
So, you idea is to convert current configuration files in to xml files, use them for configuration and then have them converted back in to the current configuration files formats for the individual applications. This has been thought of before many times and implemented many times. It sounds great is theory, but when you actually look at it, it's a lot of work for little gain. Have you seen the apache config file? Do you really want to create an xml version of that?...and a GUI interface for that XML file? and then do you want to do the same thing for thousands of other programs? Maintain and update these for config format changes?
Now all you have to do is contact the 1000's of projects and get them all to agree that your XML format is the best and that they should put in the effort to support it.
This idea has been around for going on 10 years and it hasn't even come close to getting off the ground.
If I had developer resources I would spend them on the kernel, which is currently going fine, I'd spend them on reducing complexity(from a developers perspective) across the base system, libraries, applications etc.
Less complexity means that most developers can contribute and more users can become developers and gain real freedom in their computer usage.
Dumbing down the user interface doesn't help the free software community nor does it help the user gain freedom and GNU\Linux is about giving users freedom.
If the services are up and running and the machines are online providing service then that should be metrics enough. This isn't really helpful. Say you have 10 sys admins and the machines are working fine.
Do you really need 10 sys admins?
Would 5 get the same outcome?
How do you measure how many employees you need to make sure nothing goes wrong if you only measure that nothing is going wrong.