You should only download rpms which are specifically built for the linux system you are using
Ah yes I can see now how wrong it was to call it awkward. Instead of just installing something after I've verified it runs in windows, I just have to wade through rpm after rpm in the hopes that someone has made an RPM for my specific distro. Thats not a pain at all. Reminds me of why I switched to Slackware.
No there are parts of KDE, Gnome, X and others, for instance Net-SNMP, that have problems with anything other then make -j1. The make process fails to find a library that it hasn't built yet, passing make -j1 fixes everything, well these problems anyway.
...no "sysadmin" is going to put a box on the DMZ, running every service on the box, with no firewall...
I think you'll find it happens more often then you think. Administrating a *nix box doesn't make you a better admin any more then being a Windows admin means you know nothing. Unix has already had its trial by fire, the Internet worm knocked out something like 2/3's of what the internet was at the time. As bad as SQL Slammer, blaster and the like were, they haven't come close to what that one was able to do, their a nuisance not a plague.
I wish they hadn't taken it down, but the Honeyd project took a 'poll' of spam, and found something like 40% of what was hitting the honeypot was from Linux hosts. Security is in the configuration, and the configuration is done by the admin. There are good windows admins and bad ones, there are good *nix admins and there are ones that don't know their ass from their elbows.
Ya ya ya, I realized that explanation was wrong in the middle of the night, I also missed a semi-colon. Before you end up going off on some tirade about new programmers, I'm not a programmer, and I'm only learning C on the side for the hell of it.
#include <stdio.h> int main(void) { float num = 2.56; int five;
five = num+num
printf("%d\n);
}
Obviously its not really 2+2=5 but by the way C, and possibly other languages, cast from a float to an int, it rounds up, hence the reason this shirt says what it says.
Technically uname reports the kernel version, there's a difference between the kernel version and the version of the 'Operating Environment.' Its all just splitting hairs really.
Yes they incorporated it into the product, meaning they aren't simply reselling OpenSSL libraries, but it is a part of a larger whole. Once again, quit whining about someone making money. Taxes won't go down simply because the government isn't spending as much money.
Quebecers aren't French, and Britain was at war with France for a large part of its history. What happened in the US is a uniquely American habit of throwing tantrum when things don't go their way, coupled with the belief that they are the pinnacle of civilization and can do no wrong.
Bundling a package is different the bundling it all together as inseparable from the OS. If I didn't like Konqueror, I just wouldn't use KDE, all thats required is make a different choice when I log in as to what environment to use, maybe even remove KDE completely if I wish. If on the other hand I don't like IE, I'm stuck with it, because while I can use something else at some sites, IE is the OS, and for OS related actions, for example Windows Update, I have no choice but to use it. On top of that, there is no way to remove it, and many other OS bundled apps, (MSN Messenger), ignore the setting of default browser, and always launch IE.
No one would have to worry if they stopped worrying about raw viewership and worried about actually putting some decent programming on. Specialty channels are a great idea, except they only have 4-6 hours a day of unique programming which is repeated 4-6 times a day. If you saw Star Trek at noon, you don't watch it again at 4 then at 11 or whatever, because you already saw that episode.
No, the 'zealots' want to tell you what you can and can not do with your system just as much as anyone else, they just hide that fact behind 'free' software. Don't believe me?
Richard Stallman:
It may be worth mentioning that the GNU Project urges people to refuse
to work with Sun, and to instead use the free alternatives to the
non-free Sun software.
When I want freedom I'll work with whomever I damn well please. Richard Stallman:
We need to replace these
proprietary software products, not use them.
You have to use what works, FOSS doesn't have decent replacements for most things, sorry RMS there's work to be done, we don't all get free grant money. Remember those rental systems where you don't really own your system? Richard Stallman:
I proposed a tax on
computer supplies and equipment as one possible way to fund free
software development.
I guess the grants don't give him enough free money. RMS, being the quintessential zealot has also stated that people should replace all closed software with FOSS even when it doesn't have the same capabilities, and encouraged people to never ever have a hand in writing proprietary software. RMS wants the power to tell you how to work, and how to use your system. He wants to be the one to tell you what is right and what is wrong as regards software, and what you do with it.
Services for Unix is widely known to use BSD licensed code and utilities from the OpenBSD project. The TCP/IP stack in early NT products was BSD code, and its possible some of the utilities, the ftp client for example, is still BSD code.
Microsoft doesn't like the GPL, but the GPL is not the be all and the end all of Free Software. Microsoft has no problems with other open licenses.
If they are so similar, why would you switch to linux? I alreayd have it close enought in Windows if they are.
Of course Windows and Linux are similar, they're both OS's. This is like saying that a Nissan is similar to a Ford and claiming it to be a revelation. While both OS's do similar things, exactly how they do them is probably not that similar at all.
What I found of the article was the apparent lack of respect the author had toward the Linux kernel developers, like this quote, " "Molnar said it was a 'clear red herring', said Russinovich, "A month later he turned around and made all paths (in the Linux kernel) r-eentrant."" Are you telling me that a Windows dev has never changed his mind about how to do things? Isn't it simply possible that being asked about it, Molnar did some further research and found he might have been originally mistaken. Implementing a kernel is not an easy thing to do, give some credit where its due.
Why would a media player from MS be "necessarily larger, necessarily heavier, necessarily more precarious." All you'd have to do is buy a iPod and look at it and you'd have an idea what has to be done. The iPod was cool, but its not like you have to be a rocket scientist to understand it.
Im glad it works for you, but I've had nothing but graphics corruption and sound errors making it unplayable, and I've tryed every patch I can find, and the sound got worse. Compatability settings didn't change anything.
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Wouldn't that be a meblog.
You should only download rpms which are specifically built for the linux system you are using
Ah yes I can see now how wrong it was to call it awkward. Instead of just installing something after I've verified it runs in windows, I just have to wade through rpm after rpm in the hopes that someone has made an RPM for my specific distro. Thats not a pain at all. Reminds me of why I switched to Slackware.
No there are parts of KDE, Gnome, X and others, for instance Net-SNMP, that have problems with anything other then make -j1. The make process fails to find a library that it hasn't built yet, passing make -j1 fixes everything, well these problems anyway.
...no "sysadmin" is going to put a box on the DMZ, running every service on the box, with no firewall...
I think you'll find it happens more often then you think. Administrating a *nix box doesn't make you a better admin any more then being a Windows admin means you know nothing. Unix has already had its trial by fire, the Internet worm knocked out something like 2/3's of what the internet was at the time. As bad as SQL Slammer, blaster and the like were, they haven't come close to what that one was able to do, their a nuisance not a plague.
I wish they hadn't taken it down, but the Honeyd project took a 'poll' of spam, and found something like 40% of what was hitting the honeypot was from Linux hosts. Security is in the configuration, and the configuration is done by the admin. There are good windows admins and bad ones, there are good *nix admins and there are ones that don't know their ass from their elbows.
Ya ya ya, I realized that explanation was wrong in the middle of the night, I also missed a semi-colon. Before you end up going off on some tirade about new programmers, I'm not a programmer, and I'm only learning C on the side for the hell of it.
no, 2+2 wont equal 3 unless your system is messed, or perhaps an early pentium. You can make 2+2 output 5 without using a messed system.
My eyes! The goggles, they do nothing!
Technically uname reports the kernel version, there's a difference between the kernel version and the version of the 'Operating Environment.' Its all just splitting hairs really.
I think I just had a product idea.
Pretty bad to succumb to your own virus.
Yes they incorporated it into the product, meaning they aren't simply reselling OpenSSL libraries, but it is a part of a larger whole. Once again, quit whining about someone making money. Taxes won't go down simply because the government isn't spending as much money.
Quebecers aren't French, and Britain was at war with France for a large part of its history. What happened in the US is a uniquely American habit of throwing tantrum when things don't go their way, coupled with the belief that they are the pinnacle of civilization and can do no wrong.
Heaven forbid someone makes money.
All those definitions say the same thing, so what was your problem?
Bundling a package is different the bundling it all together as inseparable from the OS. If I didn't like Konqueror, I just wouldn't use KDE, all thats required is make a different choice when I log in as to what environment to use, maybe even remove KDE completely if I wish. If on the other hand I don't like IE, I'm stuck with it, because while I can use something else at some sites, IE is the OS, and for OS related actions, for example Windows Update, I have no choice but to use it. On top of that, there is no way to remove it, and many other OS bundled apps, (MSN Messenger), ignore the setting of default browser, and always launch IE.
No one would have to worry if they stopped worrying about raw viewership and worried about actually putting some decent programming on. Specialty channels are a great idea, except they only have 4-6 hours a day of unique programming which is repeated 4-6 times a day. If you saw Star Trek at noon, you don't watch it again at 4 then at 11 or whatever, because you already saw that episode.
Richard Stallman:When I want freedom I'll work with whomever I damn well please.
Richard Stallman:You have to use what works, FOSS doesn't have decent replacements for most things, sorry RMS there's work to be done, we don't all get free grant money.
Remember those rental systems where you don't really own your system?
Richard Stallman:I guess the grants don't give him enough free money.
RMS, being the quintessential zealot has also stated that people should replace all closed software with FOSS even when it doesn't have the same capabilities, and encouraged people to never ever have a hand in writing proprietary software. RMS wants the power to tell you how to work, and how to use your system. He wants to be the one to tell you what is right and what is wrong as regards software, and what you do with it.
Quotes taken from here.
Technically, I don't believe that the licenses are transferable.
Services for Unix is widely known to use BSD licensed code and utilities from the OpenBSD project. The TCP/IP stack in early NT products was BSD code, and its possible some of the utilities, the ftp client for example, is still BSD code.
Microsoft doesn't like the GPL, but the GPL is not the be all and the end all of Free Software. Microsoft has no problems with other open licenses.
Microsoft has no resistance to *everything* open, despite what you read on Slashdot.
If they are so similar, why would you switch to linux? I alreayd have it close enought in Windows if they are.
Of course Windows and Linux are similar, they're both OS's. This is like saying that a Nissan is similar to a Ford and claiming it to be a revelation. While both OS's do similar things, exactly how they do them is probably not that similar at all.
What I found of the article was the apparent lack of respect the author had toward the Linux kernel developers, like this quote, " "Molnar said it was a 'clear red herring', said Russinovich, "A month later he turned around and made all paths (in the Linux kernel) r-eentrant."" Are you telling me that a Windows dev has never changed his mind about how to do things? Isn't it simply possible that being asked about it, Molnar did some further research and found he might have been originally mistaken. Implementing a kernel is not an easy thing to do, give some credit where its due.
Now that I didn't see. It also means this isn't really positioned against the iPod.
Why would a media player from MS be "necessarily larger, necessarily heavier, necessarily more precarious." All you'd have to do is buy a iPod and look at it and you'd have an idea what has to be done. The iPod was cool, but its not like you have to be a rocket scientist to understand it.
Im glad it works for you, but I've had nothing but graphics corruption and sound errors making it unplayable, and I've tryed every patch I can find, and the sound got worse. Compatability settings didn't change anything.