Only old people keeps logs...
Ok, avoid the bad joke, today I found out this link
about a law for ISP and how much they should log and for how much this info should be keeped.
The original link is in spanish, but in resume it talks about logs of all user activity (sited visites, information trasmited, etc) and how it should be keeped by ten years... and of course, how the ISP should take charge of all this, no the state.
Re:Do we really need the extra cores?
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AMD Quad Cores, Oh My
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I don't want to hear any of your horseshit about how Windows does work, because you know damn well that you need a couple of friends helping you on how to get it installed and running.
This article trys to talk about something that not necesary happens always. A couple o months ago in some thread there was a discusion about the release cicle of Debian and how it seems afected by the multiple plataforms that it's supports and somebody else name NetBSD and how it support more plataforms and has a short release cycle.
As NetBSD, there is OpenBSD, and the filosofy of "porting is bad because it leave an open door for bugs", thats the why of the -p releases.
Just remember that giving a company notice before you leave is not a requirement...it is a courtesy
I don't know how is the legislation in that place, but in Argentina (where I live) it's a requirement of at least two weeks.
In fact, one time, working for the goverment they told me that I've to stay at least for a month and find myself a replacement at least with the same skills as I do.
In my experience, I've installed my gateway with Gentoo 1.4, thats about 2 years ago. I run glsa-check every day, update if necesary, and emerge -uD world every week.
That system never have been broke, I mean, in the past two years it has an uptime average of 80 days. I didn't install it compiling all the source, in fact I use a stage3 installation that runs over a month without any update.
What I mean is: Gentoo isn't about compiled source or not, it's an option, that you can use or choose to not.
Binary packages exist for a reason, You like it? great, You prefer a weird CFLAGS string changing the way that it's gonna be compiled, you can. Thats is what is about.
Ubunto take me about 20' more to install on this machine (an Athlon XP with 512mb of ram) that Gentoo, 20' more minutes for a distribution with less options, that doesn't seems like a "great improve" of quality, performance or whatever for me.
As far as I remember 2 years ago in the UBA (University of Buenos Aires) two profesors discover how does that part of the bird brain works and reproduced it in a computer, with great repercution in the media (at least here in Argentina).
I'm looking for the article in any newspaper database to post it here...
The UI as is planed today is more for a CUPS developer or a devoted user more than for a joe sixpack.
What can be done, and would be pretty is to leave the desktop enviroment to take over cups. Why? Better integration into they envirovement. Maybe an standar-protocol way of comunicate whit it, like XMLRPC, SOAP or Corba would make possible to a Gnome or KDE to leave CUPS configured.
Also will bring the posibility to third party developers to make they own apps.
That would be nice.
And that's why Nikon clarify that Adobe can acces to they propietary format trought they propietary SDK for free.
Re:Found it: ISO C standard, sections 5.2.1 and 7.
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GCC 4.0.0 Released
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I think that stuff like this made the GCC developers to add de -pedantic flag, from de man file:
-pedantic
Issue all the warnings demanded by strict ISO C and ISO C++; reject all programs that use forbidden extensions, and some other programs that do not follow ISO C and ISO C++.For ISO C, follows the version of the ISO C standard specified by any -std option used.
Valid ISO C and ISO C++ programs should compile properly with or without this option (though a rare few will require -ansi or a -std option specifying the required version of ISO C).However, without this option, certain GNU extensions and traditional C and C++ features are supported as well.With this option, they are rejected.
-pedantic does not cause warning messages for use of the alternate keywords whose names begin and end with __.Pedantic warnings are also disabled in the expression that follows "__extension__".However, only system header files should use these escape routes; application programs should avoid them.
Some users try to use -pedantic to check programs for strict ISO C conformance.They soon find that it does not do quite what they want: it finds some non-ISO practices, but not all---only those for which ISO C requires a diagnostic, and some others for which diagnostics have been added.
A feature to report any failure to conform to ISO C might be useful in some instances, but would require considerable additional work and would be quite different from -pedantic.We don't have plans to support such a feature in the near future.
Where the standard specified with -std represents a GNU extended dialect of C, such as gnu89 or gnu99, there is a corresponding base standard, the version of ISO C on which the GNU extended dialect is based.Warnings from -pedantic are given where they are required by the base standard.(It would not make sense for such warnings to be given only for features not in the specified GNU C dialect, since by definition the GNU dialects of C include all features the compiler supports with the given option, and there would be nothing to warn about.)
XML, RTF and TXT are not closed, basically they can be open with most text editor.
The problem is that many goverment institucions give info or documents in propietary formats, as microsoft word.doc files or excel tables. In that case if you wan't to read that you'll need to sing an agreetment with Microsoft, even if you are gona to export it to another format 5 secs after have opened it.
BTW: XML itself is not a format:D
Also there are to many services only avilable for the US. Maps, tracking,... recently this week appear the option for translete gmail, months after they launch it with '50 invites' per user.
Maybe look at other markets don't will hurt them.
But as a VB6 developer you can't now, and neither cant 7 years ago, find information about some APIs, like Winsock for example, there are many features that are not documented, and never will be.
Like Wine (The Windows API emulator for *nix variants) with Cedega (ex WineX) and CrossOver Office, there is always a space for the development over open source software from enterprises with restricted licences.
Re:Really cool but suffers from a common problem..
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Mapping Google News
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Also it is distorted by where it's consulted from, if I enter googlenews encounter more news of latin america that those that appears there.
Or have it as a distcc server only and MAKEOPTS to -j2 so just that 'compile farm' is used, saving the packages instead of merge them, that way you can watch (and see if you break anything) then the package is installed and have a historical archive of packages for go back in case something goes bad.
Yes, in fact there are more useflags and cflags to make the system more secure.
In this particular case, kde can't be compiled without pdf support. There is no useflag for that, but, for example, PHP ebuild allows to ommit pdf support (depends on pdflib, not xpdf).
There're a couple of USE flags for security like PAM, TCP, also for the djb fans a set of scripts that permits to run _ALL_ the services inside daemontools (and tcpserver), and CFLAGS like -fstack-protector to use it with a patched version of GCC for stack protection.
I personally use Gentoo on servers, with good uptimes. Ofcourse, I can broke things, as I can in Debian or Solaris, is just the fact of know what I'm doing. And for the support, Gentoo Forums seems to have informations for all the things that happens me building a desktop or a server.
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Only old people keeps logs...
Ok, avoid the bad joke, today I found out this link about a law for ISP and how much they should log and for how much this info should be keeped.
The original link is in spanish, but in resume it talks about logs of all user activity (sited visites, information trasmited, etc) and how it should be keeped by ten years... and of course, how the ISP should take charge of all this, no the state.
We need it and in a beowulf cluster.
I don't want to hear any of your horseshit about how Windows does work, because you know damn well that you need a couple of friends helping you on how to get it installed and running.
Read and then talk.
This article trys to talk about something that not necesary happens always. A couple o months ago in some thread there was a discusion about the release cicle of Debian and how it seems afected by the multiple plataforms that it's supports and somebody else name NetBSD and how it support more plataforms and has a short release cycle.
As NetBSD, there is OpenBSD, and the filosofy of "porting is bad because it leave an open door for bugs", thats the why of the -p releases.
The life is longer that a few years ago, that should impact in the math.
But remember that GPL 3 will change this: as discused here.
Just remember that giving a company notice before you leave is not a requirement...it is a courtesy
I don't know how is the legislation in that place, but in Argentina (where I live) it's a requirement of at least two weeks.
In fact, one time, working for the goverment they told me that I've to stay at least for a month and find myself a replacement at least with the same skills as I do.
In my experience, I've installed my gateway with Gentoo 1.4, thats about 2 years ago. I run glsa-check every day, update if necesary, and emerge -uD world every week.
That system never have been broke, I mean, in the past two years it has an uptime average of 80 days. I didn't install it compiling all the source, in fact I use a stage3 installation that runs over a month without any update.
What I mean is: Gentoo isn't about compiled source or not, it's an option, that you can use or choose to not.
Binary packages exist for a reason, You like it? great, You prefer a weird CFLAGS string changing the way that it's gonna be compiled, you can. Thats is what is about.
Ubunto take me about 20' more to install on this machine (an Athlon XP with 512mb of ram) that Gentoo, 20' more minutes for a distribution with less options, that doesn't seems like a "great improve" of quality, performance or whatever for me.
I think internals has ben discused here and Microsoft didn't look either (the discusion, not the article).
Here is the link to the article (In spanish) no a too much tecnical review: http://old.clarin.com/diario/2003/01/09/s-02601.ht m and google translated for those who doesn't speak spanish: http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fold .clarin.com%2Fdiario%2F2003%2F01%2F09%2Fs-02601.ht m&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8.
As far as I remember 2 years ago in the UBA (University of Buenos Aires) two profesors discover how does that part of the bird brain works and reproduced it in a computer, with great repercution in the media (at least here in Argentina).
I'm looking for the article in any newspaper database to post it here...
The UI as is planed today is more for a CUPS developer or a devoted user more than for a joe sixpack.
What can be done, and would be pretty is to leave the desktop enviroment to take over cups. Why? Better integration into they envirovement. Maybe an standar-protocol way of comunicate whit it, like XMLRPC, SOAP or Corba would make possible to a Gnome or KDE to leave CUPS configured.
Also will bring the posibility to third party developers to make they own apps.
That would be nice.
And that's why Nikon clarify that Adobe can acces to they propietary format trought they propietary SDK for free.
I think that stuff like this made the GCC developers to add de -pedantic flag, from de man file:
-pedantic
Issue all the warnings demanded by strict ISO C and ISO C++; reject all programs that use forbidden extensions, and some other programs that do not follow ISO C and ISO C++.For ISO C, follows the version of the ISO C standard specified by any -std option used.
Valid ISO C and ISO C++ programs should compile properly with or without this option (though a rare few will require -ansi or a -std option specifying the required version of ISO C).However, without this option, certain GNU extensions and traditional C and C++ features are supported as well.With this option, they are rejected.
-pedantic does not cause warning messages for use of the alternate keywords whose names begin and end with __.Pedantic warnings are also disabled in the expression that follows "__extension__".However, only system header files should use these escape routes; application programs should avoid them.
Some users try to use -pedantic to check programs for strict ISO C conformance.They soon find that it does not do quite what they want: it finds some non-ISO practices, but not all---only those for which ISO C requires a diagnostic, and some others for which diagnostics have been added.
A feature to report any failure to conform to ISO C might be useful in some instances, but would require considerable additional work and would be quite different from -pedantic.We don't have plans to support such a feature in the near future.
Where the standard specified with -std represents a GNU extended dialect of C, such as gnu89 or gnu99, there is a corresponding base standard, the version of ISO C on which the GNU extended dialect is based.Warnings from -pedantic are given where they are required by the base standard.(It would not make sense for such warnings to be given only for features not in the specified GNU C dialect, since by definition the GNU dialects of C include all features the compiler supports with the given option, and there would be nothing to warn about.)
"pendantic" is a ironic way of call it.
XML, RTF and TXT are not closed, basically they can be open with most text editor. .doc files or excel tables. In that case if you wan't to read that you'll need to sing an agreetment with Microsoft, even if you are gona to export it to another format 5 secs after have opened it. :D
The problem is that many goverment institucions give info or documents in propietary formats, as microsoft word
BTW: XML itself is not a format
Also there are to many services only avilable for the US. Maps, tracking, ... recently this week appear the option for translete gmail, months after they launch it with '50 invites' per user.
Maybe look at other markets don't will hurt them.
But as a VB6 developer you can't now, and neither cant 7 years ago, find information about some APIs, like Winsock for example, there are many features that are not documented, and never will be.
Like Wine (The Windows API emulator for *nix variants) with Cedega (ex WineX) and CrossOver Office, there is always a space for the development over open source software from enterprises with restricted licences.
Also it is distorted by where it's consulted from, if I enter googlenews encounter more news of latin america that those that appears there.
What did they do?: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/1 7/1541230&from=rss
What about using grsecurity ACLS with Apache's suexec and hardened PHP?
..., but I prefer Unix Just completing the joke ;)
Or have it as a distcc server only and MAKEOPTS to -j2 so just that 'compile farm' is used, saving the packages instead of merge them, that way you can watch (and see if you break anything) then the package is installed and have a historical archive of packages for go back in case something goes bad.
Yes, in fact there are more useflags and cflags to make the system more secure.
In this particular case, kde can't be compiled without pdf support. There is no useflag for that, but, for example, PHP ebuild allows to ommit pdf support (depends on pdflib, not xpdf).
There're a couple of USE flags for security like PAM, TCP, also for the djb fans a set of scripts that permits to run _ALL_ the services inside daemontools (and tcpserver), and CFLAGS like -fstack-protector to use it with a patched version of GCC for stack protection.
I personally use Gentoo on servers, with good uptimes. Ofcourse, I can broke things, as I can in Debian or Solaris, is just the fact of know what I'm doing. And for the support, Gentoo Forums seems to have informations for all the things that happens me building a desktop or a server.
Laugh about this. Maybe offtopic but anyway funny :)