And there was stupid me thinking all these cases against Microsoft, abusing their monopoly (like punishing vendors with discriminating Windows prices when they want to offer PCs with pre-installed Linux as well, see VOBIS) and their embrace-extend-extinguish strategy of mudding Javascript with their own extensions so that 80% of web pages didn't display properly on competing browsers anymore, keeping their Word format messy and undocumented in a way that they were not even themself able to create any downwards compatible new version, not to mention keeping competing products incompatible, etc. would have to do with them keeping their quasi-monopoly so long...
Hopefully in a similar way that Qt does: By separating the UI from the backend, providing a simple way to design new UIs. The only "drawback" might be that even Windows-targeted developers need to think about their SW Design and start to write better structured Quality-Apps.:-)
So, if I have no Google account, Google did not collect any data about me (by cookies, IP addresses [yes, search information related to an IP address can be relevant for privacy. The IP address doesn't change that often.]), cooperation with other sites using my account and Google Script APIs, and whatnot)? Or do they, and I just need to trust them to create an account to be allowed to delete this data? Somehow I have a hard time to trust them.
It sounds like your family could use a trim. A good metric is to ask yourself, who you would have as a friend. Anyone who doesn't pass that test should either not be family or the relationship should be worked on. SCNR;-)
But its a Network device. It could scan for Windows-Computers on the network and deliver the value pack to them, just in case the owner might want to copy a Sony DVD/CD one day.
I think the main point of interest for roboter development is military use; at least for the first generation of robots this is probably where the money is to earn. And in most combat areas the oponent does not obey the accessibility laws.
the new alcohol powered electricity generator! You could actually use the car without being dependant on a power outlet! Instead you could start to use some liquid fuel, which is even easier to transpot. Just imagine! Or... oh, wait a minute... Oh, forget it.
PS: I think the technik might become more interesting when electricity generation becomes cheaper and less harmfull for our environment one day. Nuclear fusion somewhere in the far future may be?
If you only want to write SW, you should publish it without restrictions to the public domain. I think, the GPL on the other hand is already very much about self-interest, that's why I like it so much. The point Phipps seems to is that self-interest is not always about earning money, but freedom in itself is an interest desired by some developers. The self-interest could also be to join a collaborative group where uncollaborative members are inherently excluded.
And yes, I do know that even software developers need money. Regarding commerce joining the GPL based community is also an act of self-interest. The GPL (or any similar license) creates a polypoly and avoids monopoly, thus levelling the field for workers in the IT area. Thats one point why I prefere the GPL over the BSD-license.
Nice comment, but the link is bullshit! While the information on the drugs effect might be informative, it is totaly lacking any detailed description where I can get those drugs legally, how I can slip them into my desired girls drink, and so on. Additional, the proposed drugs are suboptimal. They all cause stomach problems and/or vomiting.
Nice try, but if thats all the drugs can do for me I will stick to flirting, good by pharma industry!
You know, if you don't shop at walmart, you are getting ripped off twice. Your taxes are paying for their employee's benefits. Other companies pay for benefits for their employees, and you pay for that by higher prices.
To me (I'm from Germany) this sounds funny. I did some shopping in Walmart before, but comparing the prices there are much more affordable offers from other competitors. Walmart prices just can't compete in most cases with Aldi, Kaufland, Real or Lidel. No wonder it's losing market share here. Now I just wonder if Walmart is more expensive here than it is in USA or if there are not so many competing discounters in USA?
Oh, by the way: I was mainly comparing products of their brand SmartPrice to similar products. For other brands they give a price guarantee: If You find another seller offering the same product for a lower price they will go down to the same offer. Unfortunately this does not mean that Walmart takes care to always have the best offer by default, as many customers assume. It's still up to the customer to run around and collect the price lists of the competitors.
Since the OS (more specifically the audio driver in the OS) maintaines the information, where the soundcard is and to configure the sound card, the application still relies heavily on the opearting system. A CPU instruction set can grant the application a secure channel to a device. But since the OS tells the application which device is the sound card, a dump device can be implemented and propagated as sound card by the OS.
Did You notice that the deposition of MS will take place earlier than the deposition of Baystar? I would imagine that MS takes a high risk to deny claims which are acknowledged later by Baystar, and that MS would better produce all those letters which migh be produced by Baystar as part of their communication.
I use windowmaker as well. But I find it a good example, why fancy screenshots are no criterium. At their homepage the screenshots are currently not available. The standard installation does not have transparent windows, fancy moving icons etc, but is highly functional.
Sure. The Linux kernel e.g. can't be that good, it's not shiny. And LaTeX also lacks some shiny tools. What about emacs, vim, apache, mySQL? Also not so good? And about shiny applications: MS-Word, with the annoying Clip? Windows XP home edition in comparison to Windows 2003 Professional Edition? Sorry, but I think your argument is void.
Why would they give anything back? Are they going to re-distribute it?
sarkasm++ Yes, they are. The first release will probably be distributed in Iran beginning of next year. An early Beta migh be released in Irak. sarkasm--
To the lawyers here: Would it be a distribution in the sense of the GPL to fire an intelligent rocket on a Country? (I know it's slightly off topic, since the article refers to ground vehicles. I'm just curious.)
I'd guess, some userspace tools to do the setting, but the security (enforcement of those rules) has to be implemented in kernel space
*What's with those "3rd party config files"? If we wait for [all the] apps to catch up, good luck. See how "widely" the user home config file spec from FDO was implemented, and that one needs just an effort of good will.
For AppArmor it would already help to do the configuration for the most exposed programs, e.g. mail client, ftp server, browser, etc.
*Isn't it a bit strange to let a 3rd app specify its own security config on YOUR machine's context?
Why? Most people install software as root without a blink. The default properties (e.g. does the ftp server run as root or does it get it's own user ID) are set by the package maintainer. People with knowledge can tweak the settings to match their standards, but per default the package maintainer maintained already security relevant default settings. Strange would it be if the user couldn't change the settings anymore.
*What exactly do they mean by "easy to use"? No, miles long text files where you have to write down what files each program can access are not "easy to use".
I didn't read everyhing about it, but as far as I got it, easy to use means:
You can configure a single application without the need of configuring the whole system
Profiling tools are available to track what an application does, so if You trust Your application for an evaluation period You could build a ruleset from the actions the application was required to perform during the test run
In my operating system classes I learned, one of the basic tasks of an operating system is to provide privilege separation and enforce resource protection from unpriveleged users/tasks.
Windows 3.11/95/98/ME do not meet those basic requirements and are not in a league with Linux, Unix or even Win2000/NT/XP.
No recursive download with curl?!? Ok, we are discussing admin tools here, therefore it might be ok. But for me as an end-user recursive downloads are the main feature...
For illustration, let it be assumed that the version number is composed thus: A.B.C[.D]
A D number first occurred when a grave error, which required immediate fixing, was encountered in 2.6.8's NFS code. However, there were not enough other changes to legitimate the release of a new minor revision (which would have been 2.6.9). So, 2.6.8.1 was released, with the only change being the fix of that error. With 2.6.11, this was adopted as the new official versioning policy. Bugfixes and security patches are now managed by the fourth number, whereas bigger changes are only implemented in minor revision changes (the C number).
So, if you want stability go for the 2.6.13.4, it contains all bugfixes since 2.6.0 release
(dec. 03), and the newest features are released already for 2 months and therefore tested.
But I do agree that it looks like the older stables are not maintained very long, e.g. when I look at the changelog to the 2.6.12.[1..6], none of the patches is available for the 2.6.11, also I'm pretty sure some of the fixed bugs are there as well.
So basically, if I want the latest bugfixes, I also need to accept features which are only released for two months and therefore might be unstable. I think, it would be a very good idea to pick one stable release p.a. and maintain it a bit longer, e.g. the 2.6.11.
What compelling need is there for someone to relearn how to use a computer (ala Linux) if they already know how to navigate the web with their Windows-enabled box?
1. There is nothing to learn about Linux when you run it as a terminal only. The Admin (on a company intranet) has to configure it once for all desktops, and the Items will look like in windows. (Or the Computer will directly start the web browser on boot.) For Home-PCs it is also simple to build a Knoppix-like CD (with automatic installer) that will start the Browser on boot time. This argument is mood.
2. 40+Dollars per workplace might be a compelling reason.
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And there was stupid me thinking all these cases against Microsoft, abusing their monopoly (like punishing vendors with discriminating Windows prices when they want to offer PCs with pre-installed Linux as well, see VOBIS) and their embrace-extend-extinguish strategy of mudding Javascript with their own extensions so that 80% of web pages didn't display properly on competing browsers anymore, keeping their Word format messy and undocumented in a way that they were not even themself able to create any downwards compatible new version, not to mention keeping competing products incompatible, etc. would have to do with them keeping their quasi-monopoly so long...
Hopefully in a similar way that Qt does: By separating the UI from the backend, providing a simple way to design new UIs. The only "drawback" might be that even Windows-targeted developers need to think about their SW Design and start to write better structured Quality-Apps.:-)
So, if I have no Google account, Google did not collect any data about me (by cookies, IP addresses [yes, search information related to an IP address can be relevant for privacy. The IP address doesn't change that often.]), cooperation with other sites using my account and Google Script APIs, and whatnot)? Or do they, and I just need to trust them to create an account to be allowed to delete this data? Somehow I have a hard time to trust them.
It sounds like your family could use a trim. A good metric is to ask yourself, who you would have as a friend. Anyone who doesn't pass that test should either not be family or the relationship should be worked on. SCNR ;-)
But its a Network device. It could scan for Windows-Computers on the network and deliver the value pack to them, just in case the owner might want to copy a Sony DVD/CD one day.
I think the main point of interest for roboter development is military use; at least for the first generation of robots this is probably where the money is to earn. And in most combat areas the oponent does not obey the accessibility laws.
PS: I think the technik might become more interesting when electricity generation becomes cheaper and less harmfull for our environment one day. Nuclear fusion somewhere in the far future may be?
If you only want to write SW, you should publish it without restrictions to the public domain. I think, the GPL on the other hand is already very much about self-interest, that's why I like it so much. The point Phipps seems to is that self-interest is not always about earning money, but freedom in itself is an interest desired by some developers. The self-interest could also be to join a collaborative group where uncollaborative members are inherently excluded.
And yes, I do know that even software developers need money. Regarding commerce joining the GPL based community is also an act of self-interest. The GPL (or any similar license) creates a polypoly and avoids monopoly, thus levelling the field for workers in the IT area. Thats one point why I prefere the GPL over the BSD-license.
Nice comment, but the link is bullshit! While the information on the drugs effect might be informative, it is totaly lacking any detailed description where I can get those drugs legally, how I can slip them into my desired girls drink, and so on. Additional, the proposed drugs are suboptimal. They all cause stomach problems and/or vomiting.
Nice try, but if thats all the drugs can do for me I will stick to flirting, good by pharma industry!
But those routine tasks can easily be parallelized. One or more multicore CPU could do the trick probably way cheaper.
To me (I'm from Germany) this sounds funny. I did some shopping in Walmart before, but comparing the prices there are much more affordable offers from other competitors. Walmart prices just can't compete in most cases with Aldi, Kaufland, Real or Lidel. No wonder it's losing market share here. Now I just wonder if Walmart is more expensive here than it is in USA or if there are not so many competing discounters in USA?
Oh, by the way: I was mainly comparing products of their brand SmartPrice to similar products. For other brands they give a price guarantee: If You find another seller offering the same product for a lower price they will go down to the same offer. Unfortunately this does not mean that Walmart takes care to always have the best offer by default, as many customers assume. It's still up to the customer to run around and collect the price lists of the competitors.
Since the OS (more specifically the audio driver in the OS) maintaines the information, where the soundcard is and to configure the sound card, the application still relies heavily on the opearting system. A CPU instruction set can grant the application a secure channel to a device. But since the OS tells the application which device is the sound card, a dump device can be implemented and propagated as sound card by the OS.
Did You notice that the deposition of MS will take place earlier than the deposition of Baystar? I would imagine that MS takes a high risk to deny claims which are acknowledged later by Baystar, and that MS would better produce all those letters which migh be produced by Baystar as part of their communication.
I use windowmaker as well. But I find it a good example, why fancy screenshots are no criterium. At their homepage the screenshots are currently not available. The standard installation does not have transparent windows, fancy moving icons etc, but is highly functional.
Sure. The Linux kernel e.g. can't be that good, it's not shiny. And LaTeX also lacks some shiny tools. What about emacs, vim, apache, mySQL? Also not so good? And about shiny applications: MS-Word, with the annoying Clip? Windows XP home edition in comparison to Windows 2003 Professional Edition? Sorry, but I think your argument is void.
sarkasm++
Yes, they are. The first release will probably be distributed in Iran beginning of next year. An early Beta migh be released in Irak.
sarkasm--
To the lawyers here: Would it be a distribution in the sense of the GPL to fire an intelligent rocket on a Country? (I know it's slightly off topic, since the article refers to ground vehicles. I'm just curious.)
I'd guess, some userspace tools to do the setting, but the security (enforcement of those rules) has to be implemented in kernel space
*What's with those "3rd party config files"? If we wait for [all the] apps to catch up, good luck. See how "widely" the user home config file spec from FDO was implemented, and that one needs just an effort of good will.
For AppArmor it would already help to do the configuration for the most exposed programs, e.g. mail client, ftp server, browser, etc.
*Isn't it a bit strange to let a 3rd app specify its own security config on YOUR machine's context?
Why? Most people install software as root without a blink. The default properties (e.g. does the ftp server run as root or does it get it's own user ID) are set by the package maintainer. People with knowledge can tweak the settings to match their standards, but per default the package maintainer maintained already security relevant default settings. Strange would it be if the user couldn't change the settings anymore.
*What exactly do they mean by "easy to use"? No, miles long text files where you have to write down what files each program can access are not "easy to use".
I didn't read everyhing about it, but as far as I got it, easy to use means:
You can configure a single application without the need of configuring the whole system
Profiling tools are available to track what an application does, so if You trust Your application for an evaluation period You could build a ruleset from the actions the application was required to perform during the test run
Windows 3.11/95/98/ME do not meet those basic requirements and are not in a league with Linux, Unix or even Win2000/NT/XP.
Forget it, that was a German dude
You are wrong, because next year hurd is out and will bat Linux easily!
Hey, you are killing the flame war! ;-)
No recursive download with curl?!? Ok, we are discussing admin tools here, therefore it might be ok. But for me as an end-user recursive downloads are the main feature...
For illustration, let it be assumed that the version number is composed thus: A.B.C[.D]
A D number first occurred when a grave error, which required immediate fixing, was encountered in 2.6.8's NFS code. However, there were not enough other changes to legitimate the release of a new minor revision (which would have been 2.6.9). So, 2.6.8.1 was released, with the only change being the fix of that error. With 2.6.11, this was adopted as the new official versioning policy. Bugfixes and security patches are now managed by the fourth number, whereas bigger changes are only implemented in minor revision changes (the C number).
So, if you want stability go for the 2.6.13.4, it contains all bugfixes since 2.6.0 release (dec. 03), and the newest features are released already for 2 months and therefore tested.
But I do agree that it looks like the older stables are not maintained very long, e.g. when I look at the changelog to the 2.6.12.[1..6], none of the patches is available for the 2.6.11, also I'm pretty sure some of the fixed bugs are there as well.
So basically, if I want the latest bugfixes, I also need to accept features which are only released for two months and therefore might be unstable. I think, it would be a very good idea to pick one stable release p.a. and maintain it a bit longer, e.g. the 2.6.11.
You're a bit agressive, bad moot today?
1. There is nothing to learn about Linux when you run it as a terminal only. The Admin (on a company intranet) has to configure it once for all desktops, and the Items will look like in windows. (Or the Computer will directly start the web browser on boot.) For Home-PCs it is also simple to build a Knoppix-like CD (with automatic installer) that will start the Browser on boot time. This argument is mood.
2. 40+Dollars per workplace might be a compelling reason. Kind regards q.kontinuum