Teacher: If I have one pound of apples and one pound of pears, how much fruit do I have alltogether?
Pupil: 42 pounds.
Teacher: 42 pounds? Noooooo! I'd say I have two pounds!
Pupil: That's because you forgot the Dark Matter...
You can hope, but PalmSource, the developer of Palm OS, was recently sold to a japanese company. It looks like a total rollover to me...
See This link.
There's one group of Linux users (mostly businesses who just want their commodity tools to simply work - sorta like a hammer) who want extreme stability (with lightning-fast fixes for real problems). RH's solution: RH Enterprise Linux.
... or if you don't need the support,
White Box Linux offers an RHEL derived distribution, that enables you to use Red Hats errata.
Basically, this guy is saying that the Internet in its current form won't be around in five years.
Duh! That's a null statement. NOTHING will be around in its current form in five years! I just love it when the everybody drops jaw just because some notability spews predictions about the future. Nobody knows anything, that's the simple truth. Making predictions is ludicrous. I am surprised anyone of reputation is willing to do such a thing.
As for email, I don't see the problem. I get 100-200 spams a day but 99.9% are filtered out. I've never seen a false positive, and if it ever happens -- my phone number is on my homepage.
Right, it doesn't say. It only says "a research computer" so it could have been anything, even a laptop running Windows. The text also talks about "a well known exploit". This hints that it was indeed Windows. The significant difference in this hacker job is that most exploits install spyware and sends out viruses, while we don't hear about data theft very often.
0 degrees centigrade is the freezing point of pure water at a pressure of 1 atmosphere.
100 degrees centigrade is the boiling point of water at 1 atmosphere.
A salt-ice mixture has a temperature of ~ -14 degrees C.
It would be a mistake if the Open Source community sat back and waited for Microsoft and Yahoo to force upon the world their standard for email postage. The idea of email postage is being put forward as a means to put an end to spam, but it is much more than that! The idea opens a floodgate of opportunities for restricting, registering and limiting the use of email as an inexpensive means of communication for ordinary people.
IMHO, the RFC822 standard can easily accomodate an efficient spam-prevention, simply by using some kind of password protection scheme. In the most simple implementation, there would simply be an encrypted password in the header, which has to match for the mail to be categorized as personal.
All it takes is that the addressbook of an email application needs to store passwords as well as the @ddresses of your friends. It would be very simple to implement in existing Open Source email programs, and would be most efficient for preventing spam. When sending an email, the program needs to encrypt the password and put it in the header. On the receiving end, the MUA would have to check the Password: field.
I realize there would be a slight problem sending an email to someone you don't know, you'd have to get hold of the password somehow, but that could be given in a.PNG file on a web page or something.
Incoming mail without a Password: field in the header could be directed into a separate mailbox -- thoroughly filtered for spam, of course!
Such a scheme could be put into motion in a matter of months, and would take the air out of Microsofts recent proclamation...;-)
Rumors are that the US goverment is going to appoint Balmer as the new Information minister for Iraq. "We need someone to match the format of former information minister Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf in his formidable communication of current events" a spokesman for the Bush administration comments...
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Hmmm, then I guess we'll never hear this again:
Teacher: If I have one pound of apples and one pound of pears, how much fruit do I have alltogether?
Pupil: 42 pounds.
Teacher: 42 pounds? Noooooo! I'd say I have two pounds!
Pupil: That's because you forgot the Dark Matter...
You can hope, but PalmSource, the developer of Palm OS, was recently sold to a japanese company. It looks like a total rollover to me...
See This link.
Are you saying it works in Firefox?? Must be a bug. It should only work in IE under Windows.
"All free men, wherever they may live, are users of Linux, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'I am a Loser!'"
Bitkeeper = CVS, subversion knockoff
Meese luuvs Jar Jar!!
For maximum WOW be sure to include XDesktopwaves!!!
Duh! That's a null statement. NOTHING will be around in its current form in five years! I just love it when the everybody drops jaw just because some notability spews predictions about the future. Nobody knows anything, that's the simple truth. Making predictions is ludicrous. I am surprised anyone of reputation is willing to do such a thing.
As for email, I don't see the problem. I get 100-200 spams a day but 99.9% are filtered out. I've never seen a false positive, and if it ever happens -- my phone number is on my homepage.
IMHO it is highly unlikely that this is BSD.
Hmmm, even in the dark ages, UNIX came with a C compiler...
0 degrees centigrade is the freezing point of pure water at a pressure of 1 atmosphere. 100 degrees centigrade is the boiling point of water at 1 atmosphere.
A salt-ice mixture has a temperature of ~ -14 degrees C.
IMHO, the RFC822 standard can easily accomodate an efficient spam-prevention, simply by using some kind of password protection scheme. In the most simple implementation, there would simply be an encrypted password in the header, which has to match for the mail to be categorized as personal.
All it takes is that the addressbook of an email application needs to store passwords as well as the @ddresses of your friends. It would be very simple to implement in existing Open Source email programs, and would be most efficient for preventing spam. When sending an email, the program needs to encrypt the password and put it in the header. On the receiving end, the MUA would have to check the Password: field.
I realize there would be a slight problem sending an email to someone you don't know, you'd have to get hold of the password somehow, but that could be given in a .PNG file on a web page or something.
Incoming mail without a Password: field in the header could be directed into a separate mailbox -- thoroughly filtered for spam, of course!
Such a scheme could be put into motion in a matter of months, and would take the air out of Microsofts recent proclamation... ;-)
Rumors are that the US goverment is going to appoint Balmer as the new Information minister for Iraq. "We need someone to match the format of former information minister Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf in his formidable communication of current events" a spokesman for the Bush administration comments...