Sure, not a problem. For more cool javascript stuff checkout:
Some more demos from dojo (the editor one is neat, after you select your toolbars, it lets you edit the text of the page on the fly.
Another site, OpenRico, has a neat javascript library. The link takes you to their live grid which updates in realtime through AJAX, but above the grid you'll see their other demos that you can click to view.
Here is another site, ActiveWidgets, their 1.0 version is just a very customizable grid that can be made to look like anything from an excel spreadsheet to a listing of files in a directory (look at the examples linked to from their front page). If you scroll down on this page you'll see links to examples for their 2.0 beta. Check out all 3, you can make your website essentially appear like a native WinXP dialogue (I think that is WinXP, I run Fedora though).
Keep in mind all of this is in javascript/css/html, its also all opensource (you can search for other projects like these, a notable site is scriptaculous). Its really neat to see javascript finally being used to its full potential, web apps should get really interesting in the next few years.
AJAX is hyped a bit, but it really does have some neat capabilities. Actually I've noticed better use of javascript in general recently. Its a very powerful language and only now is its true potential being realized. For some cool examples check out:
This which is a live grid of data updated through AJAX.
This which is just a cool javascript toolbar that also uses SVG icons if your browser is capable (Most people who see this think its flash at first).
Web Applications really are starting to take on a whole new generation of capablities and software. I personally think that is pretty neat, its like the perfect merger of fat and thin clients. Regards, Steve
Security should be easy. Fedora comes with it preconfigured and has an excellent default policy that you can modify at your desire. The more obstructions in the way, the less likely the security features are to be used, Fedora literally removes all obstructions. Gentoo has significantly more vulnerabilites than Fedora, even if you add up all the vulnerabilities for all 4 cores (not that those raw numbers really matter in the end as long as they all get patched). The difference is that most of the vulnerabilities announced in Fedora can't actually be used against the system for a couple of reasons including SELinux, exec-shield, randomized memory mappings and compiling with fortify source for all major public facing services . All of this is done and implemented without the user having to do anything, that is the way to implement security (if you want it to be used). Keep it simple, and keep it out of the way. In addition to this, Fedora/RHEL have the fastest rate of getting patches out, followed by Novell which is sometimes 2 or 3 days later, and then followed by others (Its been a few months since I've read the report, but it was on/.) I'm not knocking Gentoo, it has its place, but it isn't really made for the desktop or the server, it is a really good learning tool that some people use as their main OS (of course it also has other purposes). I've ran Gentoo before, and learned alot about my system, but as far as speed goes I noticed nothing above Fedora (which has all optimized packages). Infact the only distro that I've ever used where there was a huge noticable speed difference over the others was Yoper., unfortunately its development seems stagnant. REgards, Steve
Granted the motivation is noble, you are still less restricted in the states. You can join the Ku Klux Klan, or the Nazi party and argue your points. You should be allowed to believe that you want even if it upsets others. If you are in the KKK, it is not uncommon for you to claim slavery is great, etc.., just like the Nazi party can claim that the Holocaust was awesome, and they can hang swastikas out their window. That *is* freedom of speech, allowing others to speak what they want despite who it may offend or whos views it may conflict with. I believe that most of the stuff they shout is ignoarnt bullshit, but I'll die defending their right to say it. Regards, Steve
If you do a minimal install of Fedora, it requires only the first CD and gives you just the essentials. Anything else can be installed with Yum. Gentoo is horrific as far as security goes. Fedora takes security very serious (SELinux, exec-shield, code foritification, quick patching, etc...), and it is also great on performance too. It focuses on ease of use, yet targets power users and server operators as well. It is quite an impressive distro and I've seen it used all throughout companies, inlcuding a few Fortune 500s. If your doing anything other then little kid stuff, use a real distro like Fedora. Regards, Steve
Fedora overtook Suse within a year and a half in terms of users. It is now a close 3rd to Debian which is a far second from Red Hat (Red Hat and Fedora together have around 3 times the market share of Debian, check netcraft to confirm those numbers). The numbers on distrowatch are not downloads or users, that number is how many people clicked on the link to read about Ubuntu. Mark Shuttleworth is obscenely good at getting press about Ubuntu so the Ubuntu link gets a lot of click throughs, and now that it is at the top, it is kind of self fulfilling as interested people want to read about the top distro so they click on that more.
When it comes down to it, Fedora is the most advanced linux distribution out there. It comes standard with SELinux and virtualization. It uses LVM by default, integrates exec-shield and other code foritfying techniques into all major services. It has the latest and greatest of everything. Things just work in Fedora because a large portion of that code was coded by Red Hat. Red Hat maintains GCC and glibc, they commit more kernel code than anyone else, they play a large role in everything from Apache and Gnome to creating GCJ to get java to run natively under linux. Whether you like it or not, Fedora is the distro most professionals go with, despite what the slashdot popular oppinion is and despite the large amounts of noise that a few ubuntu users create.
Out of the big two, Novell and Red Hat, Novell has never been worse off and Red Hat has never been healthier. Red Hat doesn't officially provide support for Fedora, but it is built and paid for by Red Hat and their engineers (in addition to the community contributions). By targetting Fedora, IBM knows that they are targeting a stable platform with the largest array of hardware support. IBM is in bed with both Novell and Red Hat, they didn't choose Fedora because they were paid to or something... they chose Fedora based on technical merits. Claiming that Fedora is unstable is no different than claiming GMail is in beta, both products are still the best in their respective industries. Why do people go spreading FUD about such a good produc when they've never used it themselves? Whether you want to admit it or not, Fedora is the platform to target for most. It is compatible in large part with RHEL, so you're getting the most bang for your buck.
IBM doesn't just shit around, or make decisions for dumb reasons. If Fedora is good enough for IBM it is good enough for anyone. Apparently this is a common oppinion as more and more businesses switch to Fedora desktops. Here is one recent story of a major Australian company, Kennards, replacing 400 desktops with Fedora. Don't be so close minded or you might be left behind. Regards, Steve
Taking down a site because of copyright infringement is not censorship. Also we have pretty liberal fair use laws. Even if the company does send a cease and desist, you can take them to small claims court which will cost them alot more money than it will cost you (After lawyers fees). The laws favor citizens much more in America, even if your site is taken down, you can fight it. In many European countries it is much harder to do so. You cannot argue that there is more censorship in America than Europr, you'd be nuts to do so. Once again the whole Nazi thing, but in addition to that London is trying to outlaw religious jokes and other forms of speech. Things like that are just unthinkable and not tolerated in the U.S. You have your rights, one of those rights does not include the ability to impede others profitting from their copyrights, if you infringe on someones copyright then you deserve to be shutdown, granted it can be abused sometimes, but it is used positively alot more than negatively, you only here the media report about negative uses. Regards, Steve
Even if spyware is defined as sending back personally identifiable data, Sony kind of broke that too. Downloading the uninstaller requires you to fill out two forms (one with your email address which emails you a url to another form). Regards, Steve
Completely different. If it infringes on someone's copyright or is a direct threat at someone with the intention and knowledge that it may result in their personal injury, then it can be taken down but only in certain cases. I can threaten you all I want, I can say what I want about you as long as its true, if I don't believe that it will result in your personal injury or degradation of life then its fine. The laws here are to protect people so you can't just make claims about me that may ruin my chances of ever getting a job or making me fear walking down the street. The laws in France, and unfortunately most of Europe, are there specifically to censor the public. They are there to manipulate what information gets out, hell at least in the U.S. we don't try to erase our past, instead we embrace it, unlike many European countries where you you can't write about Nazi's (even in areas where it isn't illegal, it is still frowned upon and will get many eyes from the law looking at you). In the U.S. things like that just don't happen, you'd have the ACLU suing every branch of the government. This, if nothing else, shows that the U.S. should remain in control of the DNS servers among other things. Regards, Steve
If memory serves, Debian is having problems of its own from the leadership down. Red Hat on the other hand has never been more successful. Red Hat has contributed more to the kernel than any other entity. They are responsible for getting SELinux integrated with the kernel. They maintain and enhance GCC, and glibc. They've given us so much from a directory server, to major enhancements in the desktop. They played a key role in getting OpenOffice.org a native interface, and they contribute code to Apache. The amount that Red Hat has contributed to the community is astounding and the list could go on for ages, lets not forget GCJ allowing java to run natively on linux (this is how openoffice.org and eclipse are included in Fedora). Unlike many other distros, Red Hat doesn't just repackage other people's work... they actually code alot of it themselves. The only reason that linux is enterprise ready is because of them, the only reason that the kernel has such a good security track record for getting patches out fast is because of Red Hat. They are taking linux into whole new directions by working on Xen and Stateless Linux. Through SystemTap, they are working on giving us the capabilities of Solaris' DTrace. I think you should think before you speak. Without Red Hat, OSS would be no where near where it is today. Oh and Fedora is more free than Debian (Fedora infringed not a single patent, which Debian does), so yea choose something really free and pick Fedora. Regards, Steve
Well, I guess it depends how you look at it. Every RSA number can have factors that end in 1 combination out of 10 possible combinations (this is common knowledge). These combinations are: 1*1, 1*3, 1*7, 1*9, 3*3, 3*7, 3*9, 7*7, 7*9, 9*9 . Now you've reduced it from 10 to 3, a 70% reduction (still good). You can continue this process to the 2nd digit and so forth, but it eventually all evens out and you wind up having to do just as many calculations as though you divided up the sqrt(n) by every odd number that doesn't end in 5. Saying a 97% reduction is a little misleading, or maybe I'm just too used to automatically discarding even numbers and multiples of 5 in my head. Regards, Steve
While I think your remark was a joke about them breaking into RSA's computers, this is still worth mentioning. Noone in the entire world knows or has ever known the factors of the remaining numbers. Read this for more info. Regards, Steve
I implore all thinking Americans to do the opposite. Please stay and fight. Only we can make change. Write letters, protest, spread information, lobby for the spaghetti monster in schools too. Do everything you can. Ever wanted your oppurtunity to make the world a better place? To affect the well being of millions in a positive way? Now is your chance. Stand up and shove the truth down their damn throats if you need to. Regards, Steve
All signs point to linux having anywhere from the same market share as macs up to 3 times the market share of macs, particularly if you take into account webservers which would not show up in places like traditional webstats because web servers don't browse web sites, same thing for HPCs. Also, most linux machines are converted wintel boxes, meaning that as far as sales stats go, Windows makes out really well. Take into account that alot of linux boxes are old as well as new, meaning that alot of people who run linux often run more then one linux box, some of which may be a decade or so old (or much older in some cases). The average wintel box is replaced every 2~3 years. That means, for the sake of argument, if I set up a linux box today and a windows box, in 6 years after the first wintel box is replaced,Microsoft will have 2 "points" and linux will have 1 even though there is still 1 linux box and 1 wintel box running. Now if that linux box originally was a windows box, as it is in most cases, then Microsoft would have 3 "points" and linux none.
Apple often uses sales figures to make their market share appear larger than it is, those numbers are not accurate and highly biased against linux. But as far as your little rant goes, this is an exploit in php and only php. But it is even more specific than that, you must have a very speicific configuration which pretty much allows anyone to own your machine. This worm doesn't use an exploit, it uses people's stupidity that configure machines for convenience rather than security. It's akin to be leavning the door to my house not only unlocked, but wide open because I didn't feel like being inconvenienced by opening it every day. I've never heard of a box being configured the way the aritcle describes so this is indeed a rare occurence.
But just in case you forgot, Mac OSX does have its problems, despite the limited amount of software that comes with them and the limited liability that Apple takes. Apple's track record is on par with any linux distro, for instance Debian or Fedora, but this actually means that Apple's record is worse because in a distro like Debian or Fedora, these projects take responsibility for something like 10,000 packages. If you look at Fedora's page in secunia you'll see that its advisories include updates for Mozilla, Squid, Wget, Abiword and every other package. Considering that one project has the burden of having to report and patch so many packages, you would expect the number to be much higher. Looks like linux is still kicking both Microsoft's and Apple's ass as far as security goes. Regards, Steve
Except that everything that Red Hat makes is open source. Even its defensive patents can be used by any open source project (Red Hat gives irrevocable patent permission to any OSS project). The guys point in the article was that if I make a customization that isn't pushed upstream then I have to maintain that customization... no shit. That is true of any software or distro. The difference is... the source is open, I can go to Red Hat's ftp server right now and get the source for everything they've got and make as many changes as I want. The beauty is, if the patch might be more general than to just my specific needs, I have the option of pushing it upstream and if it is valuable enough to whatever project then it will be merged. If it doesn't have mass appeal then of course I'll have to maintain it, you aren't going to get the masses to maintain something specific to your company. Even if the upstream patch is rejected, if I damn want to I'll release my own version of the product (just like Whitebox or CentOS took all the source to Red Hat and released their own version). Lets see how fast Microsoft stops me if I take their source using their shared source license, make a change or two and start a new project called "Steve's SQL Server" and let anyone download it for free. This article is nothing but FUD being cranked out by the good ol' MS FUD machine. If they put as much effort into their software as they did their FUD then the software industry would be flipped upside down. Regards, Steve
Well technically the cipher did continue to get harder to crack so by the time the Americans got involved it was pretty much a whole new ball game and with all due respect to the Brits and the Poles, America stepped up to the plate and cracked some of the hardest ciphers significantly faster then their counterparts would have according to their current rates of progress. In reality, all 3 groups were essential, but you seemed to simply disregard the American contribution, when America was contributing during the most vital time. Regards, Steve
The idea is, once information is created it should never be destroyed for any reason (I guess spam is an exception). Archive everything, that is why they give you 2.6 gigs of space and growing. Regards, Steve
LOL what a troll. You've probably never even used Fedora. It is enterprise quality. Don't beleive the nonsense that/. feeds you. Not to mention Fedora takes security significantly more serious. Suse is just not enterprise ready. Novell is making hardly any money off it because noone is using it. Fedora over took Suse's market share in under a year and a half according to netcraft (and no, there was not a symmetric decrease in Red Hat's share). Novell has done nothing good with Suse since they've bought it. Read this about a huge Australian firm that is switching 400 desktops to Fedora. Have you ever used Suse? It is a piece of crap. Things just don't work like they do in Fedora, which is reknowned for things just working. At least use the damn product before you make claims about it, don't be a troll. Not to mention that Novell is damn near going out of business, while Red Hat has never been healthier. Regrds, Steve
Yes, but we have the tech now for much higher efficiencies, just not on consumer levels. Even nanotubes can be used as highly efficient power cells. The goal here is to find a mix of good materials (probably not nanotubes as they are still too expensive) that will be reasonably sized while producing good amounts of energy at a reasonable cost. Those goals are good goals to set and are more reachable than ever before. Right now 30% efficiency isn't that hard if you have the money. DARPA is responsible for large portions of the advancements in modern society, so I wouldn't put it past them to achieve this. They obviously reviewed the research of these lab workers and found it impressive enough to put 57 million into it. If they didn't find hard evidence that the goal was reachable then DARPA typically starts off with smaller amounts of cash like half a million to a million dollars and they see where to go from there. Regards, Steve
Chunni Babu, stop posting on slashdot you goddamn troll. And don't post as an AC either. You are a tool. Every single one of your posts is a troll against Google. Who do you work for? And then you even include links to your own blog with anti-google stories. Your e-mail is chunidude@yahoo.com , you have a huge bias against Google for some ungodly reason. Get over yourself, Google provides certain services that are better than Yahoo's. Yahoo maps is particularly shitty, if for nothing else then the fact that it forces users to use flash, not even Microsoft did that. Regards, Steve
If its a problem, its a problem with your system or firefox. I hate users who assume its a programmers fault that something doesn't work right when in reality its something else on their specific system like a driver (for games) or dependancy that everyone else in the world but them have.
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Sure, not a problem. For more cool javascript stuff checkout:
Some more demos from dojo (the editor one is neat, after you select your toolbars, it lets you edit the text of the page on the fly.
Another site, OpenRico, has a neat javascript library. The link takes you to their live grid which updates in realtime through AJAX, but above the grid you'll see their other demos that you can click to view.
Here is another site, ActiveWidgets, their 1.0 version is just a very customizable grid that can be made to look like anything from an excel spreadsheet to a listing of files in a directory (look at the examples linked to from their front page). If you scroll down on this page you'll see links to examples for their 2.0 beta. Check out all 3, you can make your website essentially appear like a native WinXP dialogue (I think that is WinXP, I run Fedora though).
Keep in mind all of this is in javascript/css/html, its also all opensource (you can search for other projects like these, a notable site is scriptaculous). Its really neat to see javascript finally being used to its full potential, web apps should get really interesting in the next few years.
Regards,
Steve
AJAX is hyped a bit, but it really does have some neat capabilities. Actually I've noticed better use of javascript in general recently. Its a very powerful language and only now is its true potential being realized. For some cool examples check out:
This which is a live grid of data updated through AJAX.
This which is just a cool javascript toolbar that also uses SVG icons if your browser is capable (Most people who see this think its flash at first).
This or any of the examples linked to on page.
Web Applications really are starting to take on a whole new generation of capablities and software. I personally think that is pretty neat, its like the perfect merger of fat and thin clients.
Regards,
Steve
For a really cool use of SVG (it uses png if SVG isn't available), check this out. That is pure javascript/css/html.
Regards,
Steve
Security should be easy. Fedora comes with it preconfigured and has an excellent default policy that you can modify at your desire. The more obstructions in the way, the less likely the security features are to be used, Fedora literally removes all obstructions. Gentoo has significantly more vulnerabilites than Fedora, even if you add up all the vulnerabilities for all 4 cores (not that those raw numbers really matter in the end as long as they all get patched). The difference is that most of the vulnerabilities announced in Fedora can't actually be used against the system for a couple of reasons including SELinux, exec-shield, randomized memory mappings and compiling with fortify source for all major public facing services . All of this is done and implemented without the user having to do anything, that is the way to implement security (if you want it to be used). Keep it simple, and keep it out of the way. In addition to this, Fedora/RHEL have the fastest rate of getting patches out, followed by Novell which is sometimes 2 or 3 days later, and then followed by others (Its been a few months since I've read the report, but it was on /.) I'm not knocking Gentoo, it has its place, but it isn't really made for the desktop or the server, it is a really good learning tool that some people use as their main OS (of course it also has other purposes). I've ran Gentoo before, and learned alot about my system, but as far as speed goes I noticed nothing above Fedora (which has all optimized packages). Infact the only distro that I've ever used where there was a huge noticable speed difference over the others was Yoper., unfortunately its development seems stagnant.
REgards,
Steve
Granted the motivation is noble, you are still less restricted in the states. You can join the Ku Klux Klan, or the Nazi party and argue your points. You should be allowed to believe that you want even if it upsets others. If you are in the KKK, it is not uncommon for you to claim slavery is great, etc.., just like the Nazi party can claim that the Holocaust was awesome, and they can hang swastikas out their window. That *is* freedom of speech, allowing others to speak what they want despite who it may offend or whos views it may conflict with. I believe that most of the stuff they shout is ignoarnt bullshit, but I'll die defending their right to say it.
Regards,
Steve
If you do a minimal install of Fedora, it requires only the first CD and gives you just the essentials. Anything else can be installed with Yum. Gentoo is horrific as far as security goes. Fedora takes security very serious (SELinux, exec-shield, code foritification, quick patching, etc...), and it is also great on performance too. It focuses on ease of use, yet targets power users and server operators as well. It is quite an impressive distro and I've seen it used all throughout companies, inlcuding a few Fortune 500s. If your doing anything other then little kid stuff, use a real distro like Fedora.
Regards,
Steve
Fedora overtook Suse within a year and a half in terms of users. It is now a close 3rd to Debian which is a far second from Red Hat (Red Hat and Fedora together have around 3 times the market share of Debian, check netcraft to confirm those numbers). The numbers on distrowatch are not downloads or users, that number is how many people clicked on the link to read about Ubuntu. Mark Shuttleworth is obscenely good at getting press about Ubuntu so the Ubuntu link gets a lot of click throughs, and now that it is at the top, it is kind of self fulfilling as interested people want to read about the top distro so they click on that more.
When it comes down to it, Fedora is the most advanced linux distribution out there. It comes standard with SELinux and virtualization. It uses LVM by default, integrates exec-shield and other code foritfying techniques into all major services. It has the latest and greatest of everything. Things just work in Fedora because a large portion of that code was coded by Red Hat. Red Hat maintains GCC and glibc, they commit more kernel code than anyone else, they play a large role in everything from Apache and Gnome to creating GCJ to get java to run natively under linux. Whether you like it or not, Fedora is the distro most professionals go with, despite what the slashdot popular oppinion is and despite the large amounts of noise that a few ubuntu users create.
Out of the big two, Novell and Red Hat, Novell has never been worse off and Red Hat has never been healthier. Red Hat doesn't officially provide support for Fedora, but it is built and paid for by Red Hat and their engineers (in addition to the community contributions). By targetting Fedora, IBM knows that they are targeting a stable platform with the largest array of hardware support. IBM is in bed with both Novell and Red Hat, they didn't choose Fedora because they were paid to or something... they chose Fedora based on technical merits. Claiming that Fedora is unstable is no different than claiming GMail is in beta, both products are still the best in their respective industries. Why do people go spreading FUD about such a good produc when they've never used it themselves? Whether you want to admit it or not, Fedora is the platform to target for most. It is compatible in large part with RHEL, so you're getting the most bang for your buck.
IBM doesn't just shit around, or make decisions for dumb reasons. If Fedora is good enough for IBM it is good enough for anyone. Apparently this is a common oppinion as more and more businesses switch to Fedora desktops. Here is one recent story of a major Australian company, Kennards, replacing 400 desktops with Fedora. Don't be so close minded or you might be left behind.
Regards,
Steve
Taking down a site because of copyright infringement is not censorship. Also we have pretty liberal fair use laws. Even if the company does send a cease and desist, you can take them to small claims court which will cost them alot more money than it will cost you (After lawyers fees). The laws favor citizens much more in America, even if your site is taken down, you can fight it. In many European countries it is much harder to do so. You cannot argue that there is more censorship in America than Europr, you'd be nuts to do so. Once again the whole Nazi thing, but in addition to that London is trying to outlaw religious jokes and other forms of speech. Things like that are just unthinkable and not tolerated in the U.S. You have your rights, one of those rights does not include the ability to impede others profitting from their copyrights, if you infringe on someones copyright then you deserve to be shutdown, granted it can be abused sometimes, but it is used positively alot more than negatively, you only here the media report about negative uses.
Regards,
Steve
Even if spyware is defined as sending back personally identifiable data, Sony kind of broke that too. Downloading the uninstaller requires you to fill out two forms (one with your email address which emails you a url to another form).
Regards,
Steve
Red Hat also countersued. I believe both Novell and Red Hat have their cases on hold until IBM destroys SCO.
Regards,
Steve
Completely different. If it infringes on someone's copyright or is a direct threat at someone with the intention and knowledge that it may result in their personal injury, then it can be taken down but only in certain cases. I can threaten you all I want, I can say what I want about you as long as its true, if I don't believe that it will result in your personal injury or degradation of life then its fine. The laws here are to protect people so you can't just make claims about me that may ruin my chances of ever getting a job or making me fear walking down the street. The laws in France, and unfortunately most of Europe, are there specifically to censor the public. They are there to manipulate what information gets out, hell at least in the U.S. we don't try to erase our past, instead we embrace it, unlike many European countries where you you can't write about Nazi's (even in areas where it isn't illegal, it is still frowned upon and will get many eyes from the law looking at you). In the U.S. things like that just don't happen, you'd have the ACLU suing every branch of the government. This, if nothing else, shows that the U.S. should remain in control of the DNS servers among other things.
Regards,
Steve
If memory serves, Debian is having problems of its own from the leadership down. Red Hat on the other hand has never been more successful. Red Hat has contributed more to the kernel than any other entity. They are responsible for getting SELinux integrated with the kernel. They maintain and enhance GCC, and glibc. They've given us so much from a directory server, to major enhancements in the desktop. They played a key role in getting OpenOffice.org a native interface, and they contribute code to Apache. The amount that Red Hat has contributed to the community is astounding and the list could go on for ages, lets not forget GCJ allowing java to run natively on linux (this is how openoffice.org and eclipse are included in Fedora). Unlike many other distros, Red Hat doesn't just repackage other people's work... they actually code alot of it themselves. The only reason that linux is enterprise ready is because of them, the only reason that the kernel has such a good security track record for getting patches out fast is because of Red Hat. They are taking linux into whole new directions by working on Xen and Stateless Linux. Through SystemTap, they are working on giving us the capabilities of Solaris' DTrace. I think you should think before you speak. Without Red Hat, OSS would be no where near where it is today. Oh and Fedora is more free than Debian (Fedora infringed not a single patent, which Debian does), so yea choose something really free and pick Fedora.
Regards,
Steve
Well, I guess it depends how you look at it. Every RSA number can have factors that end in 1 combination out of 10 possible combinations (this is common knowledge). These combinations are: 1*1, 1*3, 1*7, 1*9, 3*3, 3*7, 3*9, 7*7, 7*9, 9*9 . Now you've reduced it from 10 to 3, a 70% reduction (still good). You can continue this process to the 2nd digit and so forth, but it eventually all evens out and you wind up having to do just as many calculations as though you divided up the sqrt(n) by every odd number that doesn't end in 5. Saying a 97% reduction is a little misleading, or maybe I'm just too used to automatically discarding even numbers and multiples of 5 in my head.
Regards,
Steve
While I think your remark was a joke about them breaking into RSA's computers, this is still worth mentioning. Noone in the entire world knows or has ever known the factors of the remaining numbers. Read this for more info.
Regards,
Steve
I implore all thinking Americans to do the opposite. Please stay and fight. Only we can make change. Write letters, protest, spread information, lobby for the spaghetti monster in schools too. Do everything you can. Ever wanted your oppurtunity to make the world a better place? To affect the well being of millions in a positive way? Now is your chance. Stand up and shove the truth down their damn throats if you need to.
Regards,
Steve
Thank you for a well reasoned counterargument. You don't find many of those on here :-)
Regards,
Steve
All signs point to linux having anywhere from the same market share as macs up to 3 times the market share of macs, particularly if you take into account webservers which would not show up in places like traditional webstats because web servers don't browse web sites, same thing for HPCs. Also, most linux machines are converted wintel boxes, meaning that as far as sales stats go, Windows makes out really well. Take into account that alot of linux boxes are old as well as new, meaning that alot of people who run linux often run more then one linux box, some of which may be a decade or so old (or much older in some cases). The average wintel box is replaced every 2~3 years. That means, for the sake of argument, if I set up a linux box today and a windows box, in 6 years after the first wintel box is replaced,Microsoft will have 2 "points" and linux will have 1 even though there is still 1 linux box and 1 wintel box running. Now if that linux box originally was a windows box, as it is in most cases, then Microsoft would have 3 "points" and linux none.
Apple often uses sales figures to make their market share appear larger than it is, those numbers are not accurate and highly biased against linux. But as far as your little rant goes, this is an exploit in php and only php. But it is even more specific than that, you must have a very speicific configuration which pretty much allows anyone to own your machine. This worm doesn't use an exploit, it uses people's stupidity that configure machines for convenience rather than security. It's akin to be leavning the door to my house not only unlocked, but wide open because I didn't feel like being inconvenienced by opening it every day. I've never heard of a box being configured the way the aritcle describes so this is indeed a rare occurence.
But just in case you forgot, Mac OSX does have its problems, despite the limited amount of software that comes with them and the limited liability that Apple takes. Apple's track record is on par with any linux distro, for instance Debian or Fedora, but this actually means that Apple's record is worse because in a distro like Debian or Fedora, these projects take responsibility for something like 10,000 packages. If you look at Fedora's page in secunia you'll see that its advisories include updates for Mozilla, Squid, Wget, Abiword and every other package. Considering that one project has the burden of having to report and patch so many packages, you would expect the number to be much higher. Looks like linux is still kicking both Microsoft's and Apple's ass as far as security goes.
Regards,
Steve
Except that everything that Red Hat makes is open source. Even its defensive patents can be used by any open source project (Red Hat gives irrevocable patent permission to any OSS project). The guys point in the article was that if I make a customization that isn't pushed upstream then I have to maintain that customization... no shit. That is true of any software or distro. The difference is... the source is open, I can go to Red Hat's ftp server right now and get the source for everything they've got and make as many changes as I want. The beauty is, if the patch might be more general than to just my specific needs, I have the option of pushing it upstream and if it is valuable enough to whatever project then it will be merged. If it doesn't have mass appeal then of course I'll have to maintain it, you aren't going to get the masses to maintain something specific to your company. Even if the upstream patch is rejected, if I damn want to I'll release my own version of the product (just like Whitebox or CentOS took all the source to Red Hat and released their own version). Lets see how fast Microsoft stops me if I take their source using their shared source license, make a change or two and start a new project called "Steve's SQL Server" and let anyone download it for free. This article is nothing but FUD being cranked out by the good ol' MS FUD machine. If they put as much effort into their software as they did their FUD then the software industry would be flipped upside down.
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Steve
Well technically the cipher did continue to get harder to crack so by the time the Americans got involved it was pretty much a whole new ball game and with all due respect to the Brits and the Poles, America stepped up to the plate and cracked some of the hardest ciphers significantly faster then their counterparts would have according to their current rates of progress. In reality, all 3 groups were essential, but you seemed to simply disregard the American contribution, when America was contributing during the most vital time.
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Steve
The idea is, once information is created it should never be destroyed for any reason (I guess spam is an exception). Archive everything, that is why they give you 2.6 gigs of space and growing.
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Steve
LOL what a troll. You've probably never even used Fedora. It is enterprise quality. Don't beleive the nonsense that /. feeds you. Not to mention Fedora takes security significantly more serious. Suse is just not enterprise ready. Novell is making hardly any money off it because noone is using it. Fedora over took Suse's market share in under a year and a half according to netcraft (and no, there was not a symmetric decrease in Red Hat's share). Novell has done nothing good with Suse since they've bought it. Read this about a huge Australian firm that is switching 400 desktops to Fedora. Have you ever used Suse? It is a piece of crap. Things just don't work like they do in Fedora, which is reknowned for things just working. At least use the damn product before you make claims about it, don't be a troll. Not to mention that Novell is damn near going out of business, while Red Hat has never been healthier.
Regrds,
Steve
Yes, but we have the tech now for much higher efficiencies, just not on consumer levels. Even nanotubes can be used as highly efficient power cells. The goal here is to find a mix of good materials (probably not nanotubes as they are still too expensive) that will be reasonably sized while producing good amounts of energy at a reasonable cost. Those goals are good goals to set and are more reachable than ever before. Right now 30% efficiency isn't that hard if you have the money. DARPA is responsible for large portions of the advancements in modern society, so I wouldn't put it past them to achieve this. They obviously reviewed the research of these lab workers and found it impressive enough to put 57 million into it. If they didn't find hard evidence that the goal was reachable then DARPA typically starts off with smaller amounts of cash like half a million to a million dollars and they see where to go from there.
Regards,
Steve
Chunni Babu, stop posting on slashdot you goddamn troll. And don't post as an AC either. You are a tool. Every single one of your posts is a troll against Google. Who do you work for? And then you even include links to your own blog with anti-google stories. Your e-mail is chunidude@yahoo.com , you have a huge bias against Google for some ungodly reason. Get over yourself, Google provides certain services that are better than Yahoo's. Yahoo maps is particularly shitty, if for nothing else then the fact that it forces users to use flash, not even Microsoft did that.
Regards,
Steve
If its a problem, its a problem with your system or firefox. I hate users who assume its a programmers fault that something doesn't work right when in reality its something else on their specific system like a driver (for games) or dependancy that everyone else in the world but them have.
My 100% figure was obviously an exaggeration (the 60% for websites I got form netcraft). Regardless, the first, second and fourth largest banks in the world according to their tier-one capital are in the U.S. According to largest profit margins, 7 of the top 10 banks are from the U.S. In addition to this, nearly every major credit card company is owned by a company in the U.S. Check the bank information here. Even if you were right about no major banks being in the U.S. though, the censorship and international tax should be enough to make you want to cringe.
Regards,
Steve