I just installed FC6 on my macbook pro over the weekend, and I had no internet connection at all during the entire process (I regularly work offline). It worked fine, so I can only assume that your case is an isolated incident. Regards, Steve
According to one report, Cisco didn't have any product on the market named "iPhone" until December 18th, 2006. I'm pretty sure that they are going to lose this one. Regards, Steve
Some would argue that we should be doing away with traditional interfaces, and that computers should in fact act exactly like appliances. I think you'll see interfaces getting simpler, hopefully more like this. The way interfaces are now is terrible. Also, the interface is designed in such a way to accommodate the underlying hardware. It is a pretty basic machine and the UI lets you do with it what you can. Regards, Steve
What is up with everyone pointing fingers at Red Hat? Fedora was never supported by Red Hat. Fedora is a community driven project and the Fedora Legacy project just didn't have enough community interest. Now the Fedora community is rethinking how it can support older releases... Red Hat has nothing to do with any of it. Regards, Steve
This has absolutely nothing to do with Red Hat... Fedora Legacy is not controlled or funded or anything by Red Hat. It is community driven, which is what Fedora is all about, and apparently the interest just wasn't there in Fedora Legacy. Hell, at the bottom of http://fedoralegacy.org/ it even says "The Fedora Legacy Project is not a part of Red Hat, Inc." Regards, Steve
Most people don't realize how good of a job America does even when dealing with guerrilla warfare. They are in a foreign location surrounded by enemies who *always* get to shoot first, because you can't be sure who the enemy is until they start firing at you. Despite the fact that the enemy in the large majority of cases is getting the first shot, the kill ratios are still something ridiculous like 1:50,000 favoring the Americans. Other nations are seeing this and pretty much realizing that America is doing a pretty wild job given the situation they are in. America also happens to have the armed forces with the most real-world practice. Many armed forces of other countries have been mostly dormant for the past decade or two, and the fact that America's army has been "practicing" gives them a huge advantage. Regards, Steve
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A lot of people underestimate how much Red Hat does. They have significantly more code in the kernel than any other entity, they are also responsible for a very large part of the GCC development, and most of the recent big improvements in GCC can be attributed to Red Hat. They also do a ton of dev for Gnome and have done wonderful things with GCJ. People give them a lot of shit, but a lot of OSS development would slow down drastically if they were taken out of the equation. Regards, Steve
You can't even begin to compare the UK to the US. Just the fact that a few years ago, the government had 1 camera for every 4 people watching you, and today's numbers are classified (it is estimated to be over 1 camera per person) is enough to end any debate. The UK is actively monitoring and silencing people who disagree with them on a large scale. The United States may be monitoring its people, but the UK does it on a scale that is magnitudes larger, and while the United States focuses more on external communications, the UK focuses internally. It is not uncommon in the States for TV shows or anyone to talk/joke about killing the President. If you actually have legitimate plans to kill him, or are trying to incite others to do so, it is a different story, but as far as just speaking about it... nothing will happen to you. It is ridiculous that in Poland some guy farted when a police officer mentioned the head of state, and is now being hunted down in a nation wide manhunt. I hear far too often people criticizing the U.S., and other nations focusing on the United States' follies, while their own people don't realize that they are slowly being suffocated. Regards, Steve
Receipts are a *good* thing, otherwise if one party retains all control over the results... they can be modified or forged without anyone knowing. Anonymous voter verification has been a well studied field for almost 2 decades now. You can give voters encrypted paper receipts that effectively require two keys to decrypt them (you'd be in possession of one). The receipts are user verifiable, after being printed out, but before the two layers are separated, and the voter gives one key to the voting place, and keeps the other. Well, I just greatly simplified the process to keep this brief, but that is the gist of it. Google for David Chaum sometime. Regards, Steve
If an author and/or appropriate copyright owner takes his book, rips out every page of it and lays it like a grid in the center of a city, and people come along and start taking pictures of it... the author has no right to restrict how the pictures are distributed, despite the fact that others who view the pictures may be able to read the book (assuming the photographs were high enough quality). The fact is, if you're putting your work out in public, than the public should have the right to archive it for themselves and add to the collective human creativeness. What you're arguing is like saying GAP owns any picture with people wearing their logo. If you're publicly dispersing a work, without discretion, then you should lose all legal rights to retainment. The law may not currently work like this, but laws were made to be changed:) A creative work is the property of humanity first, and the individual second. It is only in the last century or two that people have started trying to reverse this. Regards, Steve
I think you were just being a dumbass, but in case you weren't... according to this article about the same announcement, IBM is recommending Fedora Core as the operating system to use. So yes, linux does run on it. Regards, Steve
Like stated in the article... this took it from the equivalent of putting something funny on your dorm room to announcing it on a billboard. It is facebook's fault, apparently they didn't comprehend how social circles work. Regards, Steve
You have to keep in mind that you only see negative things reported. The good things that are happening far outweigh the bad and you're getting a very biased view of the state of affairs in America. Things have certainly been better, but the things you see reported on/. and pretty much any news source (including the BBC in recent times, unfortunately) are extremely biased, twisted, and typically statistical anomalies pushing an agenda or grasping for headlines. Europe has it's own problems, with a lot of countries either already forcing you to hand over your encryption keys, or working on legislation that will (regardless of guilt in a crime), and in some places it is practically impossible to not be surveilled by government camera equipment. Europe has some issues with police corruption, and in many places free speech is limited. Not being able to use nazi related terms is ridiculous, at least in the U.S. you won't get arrested for standing outside the whitehouse and screaming "9/11 was a government conspiracy" or "9/11 victims deserved what they got" or any other ridiculous statement on such a sensitive topic, however discussing certain topics in Europe will almost certainly get you in trouble. Sometimes I get the feeling like the Europan governments helps highlight certain deficiencies in the American system in hopes that Europeans will be pointing fingers and laughing, and forgetting that their own rights are deteriorating. Regards, Steve
I believe AOL was very pleased at first. This was AOL thinking they were looking cool and hip and gaining "cred" with the tech community. And then the tech community flipped them off and pointed out the significant issues with releasing the data. Regards, Steve
BZZZT! In many countries, writable CDs are sold with a mandatory(sometimes voluntary) media tax. So if I buy a CD to make a backup of my harddrive, the RIAA is still getting paid. It is distributed according to some poplarity related scheme, and I know that not all musicians are probably getting paid that should (I don't even know if the RIAA passes that money along to the artists). So while you're arguing that musicians are getting screwed by the consumer, I'm arguing that the record industry has turned the tables and the consumer is getting screwed(in more ways than just this CD tax). I personally disagree with you on the copyright issues too. We went thousands of years without copyright, and people still wrote good music (for the time) because they enjoyed it, and got paid for playing for crowds or events. I do believe in the free flow of the collective human creativeness, and as methods become available to help further spread this and break down barriers, they should be embraced. Yes, I do play an instrument and have been in multiple bands. You shouldn't be able to write a song and still profit it off of it 3 decades later, no matter how good the song is. People should be able to copy your music for free, and be so damn impresed by it that they've just got to see it live. This is just my opinion, and I realize there are several flaws. But you're at one extreme, this is the other extreme, neither of them are 100% right. Regards, Steve
Well we didn't evolve from apes. Us and Apes evolved from a very similar ancestor which no longer exists (although there is no reason one species must become extinct for a new one to evolve). The apes comparison is a common misconception, although our ancestors did closely resemble apes, so its easy for most people to relate to. Your quote that you heard is about as intelligent as claiming "If adults grew from children... why are there still children?" Regards, Steve
Red Hat has been including it in Fedora for a bit now, and it works, and probably good enough for most companies, but in all seriousness, its not "enterprisey" at all and has its issues too, as all software does. Red Hat contributes to Xen, and their website has articles and I even believe videos about using Xen (things like migrating processes between two virtual machines and stuff), iirc. So they certainly like Xen, and have a vested interest in it, but it could use more work. Red Hat's enterprise line is pretty damn stable and you know you're getting quality stuff with it. Novell had no choice but to make this statement because they are supporting it with their latest release and can't have customers thinking they are getting a bad deal. Regards, Steve
60% of their startup is in the U.S. Most of their customers are in the U.S. How is saying they are primarily based in the U.S. misleading? Regards, Steve
Because Google's Summer of Code, or code.google.com or, more importantly, code.google.com/hosting weren't enough? The hundred patches that Google gave back to Wine after getting Wine to work with Picasa, or the many other libraries and APIs that Google provides. What Yahoo is doing is great, but you're not giving Google nearly enough credit. Regards, Steve
My thoughts are that packets already have a natural "jitter", so the device will already be designed to compensate for such delays. It wouldn't be hard to design around. Now if you did this at say the router level, then it'd be different. Just add random jitter sometime after the packets have hit the wire. Regards, Steve
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I just installed FC6 on my macbook pro over the weekend, and I had no internet connection at all during the entire process (I regularly work offline). It worked fine, so I can only assume that your case is an isolated incident.
Regards,
Steve
According to one report, Cisco didn't have any product on the market named "iPhone" until December 18th, 2006. I'm pretty sure that they are going to lose this one.
Regards,
Steve
Yes. Cingular and Sprint both offer *true* unlimited data plans for around $20 a month. You can do whatever you want with it.
Regards,
Steve
Some would argue that we should be doing away with traditional interfaces, and that computers should in fact act exactly like appliances. I think you'll see interfaces getting simpler, hopefully more like this. The way interfaces are now is terrible. Also, the interface is designed in such a way to accommodate the underlying hardware. It is a pretty basic machine and the UI lets you do with it what you can.
Regards,
Steve
What is up with everyone pointing fingers at Red Hat? Fedora was never supported by Red Hat. Fedora is a community driven project and the Fedora Legacy project just didn't have enough community interest. Now the Fedora community is rethinking how it can support older releases... Red Hat has nothing to do with any of it.
Regards,
Steve
This has absolutely nothing to do with Red Hat... Fedora Legacy is not controlled or funded or anything by Red Hat. It is community driven, which is what Fedora is all about, and apparently the interest just wasn't there in Fedora Legacy. Hell, at the bottom of http://fedoralegacy.org/ it even says "The Fedora Legacy Project is not a part of Red Hat, Inc."
Regards,
Steve
Most people don't realize how good of a job America does even when dealing with guerrilla warfare. They are in a foreign location surrounded by enemies who *always* get to shoot first, because you can't be sure who the enemy is until they start firing at you. Despite the fact that the enemy in the large majority of cases is getting the first shot, the kill ratios are still something ridiculous like 1:50,000 favoring the Americans. Other nations are seeing this and pretty much realizing that America is doing a pretty wild job given the situation they are in. America also happens to have the armed forces with the most real-world practice. Many armed forces of other countries have been mostly dormant for the past decade or two, and the fact that America's army has been "practicing" gives them a huge advantage.
Regards,
Steve
This is Red Hat's list: http://www.redhat.com/opensourcenow/leadership/dev elopment.html
This is Red Hat's contributions according to the Fedora Project (gives more detail about Red Hat's role in projects) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RedHatContributions
This is just another list of different projects: http://sourceware.org/projects.html
A lot of people underestimate how much Red Hat does. They have significantly more code in the kernel than any other entity, they are also responsible for a very large part of the GCC development, and most of the recent big improvements in GCC can be attributed to Red Hat. They also do a ton of dev for Gnome and have done wonderful things with GCJ. People give them a lot of shit, but a lot of OSS development would slow down drastically if they were taken out of the equation.
Regards,
Steve
You can't even begin to compare the UK to the US. Just the fact that a few years ago, the government had 1 camera for every 4 people watching you, and today's numbers are classified (it is estimated to be over 1 camera per person) is enough to end any debate. The UK is actively monitoring and silencing people who disagree with them on a large scale. The United States may be monitoring its people, but the UK does it on a scale that is magnitudes larger, and while the United States focuses more on external communications, the UK focuses internally. It is not uncommon in the States for TV shows or anyone to talk/joke about killing the President. If you actually have legitimate plans to kill him, or are trying to incite others to do so, it is a different story, but as far as just speaking about it... nothing will happen to you. It is ridiculous that in Poland some guy farted when a police officer mentioned the head of state, and is now being hunted down in a nation wide manhunt. I hear far too often people criticizing the U.S., and other nations focusing on the United States' follies, while their own people don't realize that they are slowly being suffocated.
Regards,
Steve
Receipts are a *good* thing, otherwise if one party retains all control over the results... they can be modified or forged without anyone knowing. Anonymous voter verification has been a well studied field for almost 2 decades now. You can give voters encrypted paper receipts that effectively require two keys to decrypt them (you'd be in possession of one). The receipts are user verifiable, after being printed out, but before the two layers are separated, and the voter gives one key to the voting place, and keeps the other. Well, I just greatly simplified the process to keep this brief, but that is the gist of it. Google for David Chaum sometime.
Regards,
Steve
If an author and/or appropriate copyright owner takes his book, rips out every page of it and lays it like a grid in the center of a city, and people come along and start taking pictures of it... the author has no right to restrict how the pictures are distributed, despite the fact that others who view the pictures may be able to read the book (assuming the photographs were high enough quality). The fact is, if you're putting your work out in public, than the public should have the right to archive it for themselves and add to the collective human creativeness. What you're arguing is like saying GAP owns any picture with people wearing their logo. If you're publicly dispersing a work, without discretion, then you should lose all legal rights to retainment. The law may not currently work like this, but laws were made to be changed :) A creative work is the property of humanity first, and the individual second. It is only in the last century or two that people have started trying to reverse this.
Regards,
Steve
The UK gets shafted on *everything* because you get taxed out the ass. Its like you guys love 'em or something :)
I think you were just being a dumbass, but in case you weren't... according to this article about the same announcement, IBM is recommending Fedora Core as the operating system to use. So yes, linux does run on it.
Regards,
Steve
He works for a company that sells DNS solutions, so obviously he's just trying to scare up some more business.
Regards,
Steve
If they are company phones, they can do what they want.
Regards,
Steve
Like stated in the article... this took it from the equivalent of putting something funny on your dorm room to announcing it on a billboard. It is facebook's fault, apparently they didn't comprehend how social circles work.
Regards,
Steve
You have to keep in mind that you only see negative things reported. The good things that are happening far outweigh the bad and you're getting a very biased view of the state of affairs in America. Things have certainly been better, but the things you see reported on /. and pretty much any news source (including the BBC in recent times, unfortunately) are extremely biased, twisted, and typically statistical anomalies pushing an agenda or grasping for headlines. Europe has it's own problems, with a lot of countries either already forcing you to hand over your encryption keys, or working on legislation that will (regardless of guilt in a crime), and in some places it is practically impossible to not be surveilled by government camera equipment. Europe has some issues with police corruption, and in many places free speech is limited. Not being able to use nazi related terms is ridiculous, at least in the U.S. you won't get arrested for standing outside the whitehouse and screaming "9/11 was a government conspiracy" or "9/11 victims deserved what they got" or any other ridiculous statement on such a sensitive topic, however discussing certain topics in Europe will almost certainly get you in trouble. Sometimes I get the feeling like the Europan governments helps highlight certain deficiencies in the American system in hopes that Europeans will be pointing fingers and laughing, and forgetting that their own rights are deteriorating.
Regards,
Steve
I believe AOL was very pleased at first. This was AOL thinking they were looking cool and hip and gaining "cred" with the tech community. And then the tech community flipped them off and pointed out the significant issues with releasing the data.
Regards,
Steve
BZZZT! In many countries, writable CDs are sold with a mandatory(sometimes voluntary) media tax. So if I buy a CD to make a backup of my harddrive, the RIAA is still getting paid. It is distributed according to some poplarity related scheme, and I know that not all musicians are probably getting paid that should (I don't even know if the RIAA passes that money along to the artists). So while you're arguing that musicians are getting screwed by the consumer, I'm arguing that the record industry has turned the tables and the consumer is getting screwed(in more ways than just this CD tax). I personally disagree with you on the copyright issues too. We went thousands of years without copyright, and people still wrote good music (for the time) because they enjoyed it, and got paid for playing for crowds or events. I do believe in the free flow of the collective human creativeness, and as methods become available to help further spread this and break down barriers, they should be embraced. Yes, I do play an instrument and have been in multiple bands. You shouldn't be able to write a song and still profit it off of it 3 decades later, no matter how good the song is. People should be able to copy your music for free, and be so damn impresed by it that they've just got to see it live. This is just my opinion, and I realize there are several flaws. But you're at one extreme, this is the other extreme, neither of them are 100% right.
Regards,
Steve
Well we didn't evolve from apes. Us and Apes evolved from a very similar ancestor which no longer exists (although there is no reason one species must become extinct for a new one to evolve). The apes comparison is a common misconception, although our ancestors did closely resemble apes, so its easy for most people to relate to. Your quote that you heard is about as intelligent as claiming "If adults grew from children... why are there still children?"
Regards,
Steve
Red Hat has been including it in Fedora for a bit now, and it works, and probably good enough for most companies, but in all seriousness, its not "enterprisey" at all and has its issues too, as all software does. Red Hat contributes to Xen, and their website has articles and I even believe videos about using Xen (things like migrating processes between two virtual machines and stuff), iirc. So they certainly like Xen, and have a vested interest in it, but it could use more work. Red Hat's enterprise line is pretty damn stable and you know you're getting quality stuff with it. Novell had no choice but to make this statement because they are supporting it with their latest release and can't have customers thinking they are getting a bad deal.
Regards,
Steve
60% of their startup is in the U.S. Most of their customers are in the U.S. How is saying they are primarily based in the U.S. misleading?
Regards,
Steve
Because Google's Summer of Code, or code.google.com or, more importantly, code.google.com/hosting weren't enough? The hundred patches that Google gave back to Wine after getting Wine to work with Picasa, or the many other libraries and APIs that Google provides. What Yahoo is doing is great, but you're not giving Google nearly enough credit.
Regards,
Steve
My thoughts are that packets already have a natural "jitter", so the device will already be designed to compensate for such delays. It wouldn't be hard to design around. Now if you did this at say the router level, then it'd be different. Just add random jitter sometime after the packets have hit the wire.
Regards,
Steve
Well that too :)