It doesn't matter, this is a fake. They were DNS hacked and are trying to figure out what the hell is going on (according to their IRC channel). The Feds don't put up websites like that and they don't go around boasting about morals and copyright infringment on sites that they shut down. The feds also use style sheets on their sites and don't put 1337 sigs at the end of the page many line breaks past the end of the content. But the biggest offender is that that images don't have alt tags (as well as a few other things wrong) and thus the site doesn't comply with federal regulations for disabled people to be able to access all of the content of a federal page, if this were a government site, they'd be breaking their own laws. Not to mention that the feds just take a site offline when they shutdown a place (and they've never done it for copyright infringement), they don't dick around with new homepages for visitors to see like the MPAA did with lokitorrent. Regards, Steve
The additional security, portability, and flexibility of a VM more then make up for the very minor speed decreases found in modern VMs when compared to native code. In fact often times I see java code running better then a C++ counterpart simply because you don't have to muck around with memory and the Java HotSpot technology can dynamically optimize your byte-code while the program is running as it finds which paths your program uses most. The only people that I've heard of that still think VM == bad for performance are only people who have never done any serious development with one. Regards, Steve
Why should all transactions be taxed? (Not sure about your country) But here in the states, we already get local, state and federal taxes taken out of our pay (in addition to many other taxes and fees) and in addition to that we still pay state and local sales tax. In Philadelphia its 7% which is ridiculous, in New York it is something like 9 or 10% and then in some states like Delaware there is no sales tax because Delaware has its government and budget in such good check with business's income and taxes that they don't need to burden their residents with additional and unnecessary taxes (granted their real estate tax isn't that low iirc). Perhaps instead of you trying to justify the government taking more and more of our money, the government (and this goes for all governments of the world that I've seen) should start trying to justify taking more of our money rather then them having to watch expenses and spending carefully. Regards, Steve
Red Hat has all the limelight because they deserve it.
1) Red Hat and Fedora together have over 2 million active servers according to Netcraft, whereas Suse has under half a million.
2)Red Hat does a ton for the community, are experienced, and make a very easy to use distro while retaining the full power of linux.
3) Red Hat's core and only business is Linux. Novell just jumped on the Linux ship because it was failing in other areas, and if Novell sees another oppurtunity to make more money with something else, they'll jump off the linux ship and move on to whatver else they want. Red Hat's whole business is linux.
3) Read this.
Red Hat takes the initiative and keeps the community moving foward. They deserve everything that comes to them. Regards, Steve
Most of the news sites that reported it, couldn't confirm it. It was big in japan, but no where else really considering that it isn't just a click and play kind of thing and you already had to have a license to remove the encryption. It's easier to just record your video out and take the minor loss that might be made if you use a cheap cable. But still... programs do exist to pull the drm key out of memory while the video is playing and then another tool exists to remove the DRM using said key. Its a pain in the ass but doable. The exe is no longer on websites (none that I know of)but you might find it on p2p networks. Rumor has it that Micorosft handled the situation quickly and silently with lawyers. Regardless, in the middle of February or so, Microsoft released an update that apparently makes this tool useless and allows content providers to make sure that you have the update installed. Treacherous computing at its best. Regards, Steve
WMV v9 has been broken, its just nobody uses it. Its a piece of crap format and there are way better ones out there. Surprisingly it was cracked even with such little interest behind it. DRM is flawed in that the producer gives you the key but tries to hide it from you as best as they can, sooner or later you're bound to find it. Regards, Steve
LOC is usually measured as 20 Terabytes (although estimates range from 17-20, 20 is almost always taken). 20 TB = 20,480 GB so 16GB would be.08% of one LOC (78/100,000). Regards, Steve
You can have AJAX (I prefer JSON-RPC, but same idea) register in the browser history, at least on mozilla platforms. The trick (and there are a few ways to do this, the way I'm explaining here is the simplest but I use a different method) is that before you go modifying the DOM with your script, just set document.innerHTML = document.innerHTML. In mozilla, whenever innerHTML is modified it treats it as a new page despite no reload (this causes wierd affects with Google's footer when running Greasemonkey scripts, FYI). You can verify this just by hitting the back button on your browser and seeing the page go back to how it was. I know it is usually recommended to treat innerHTML as read only, but this is one of the areas where it's worthwhile to write to it. I'm not saying the iframe technique doesn't work (I've used that technique plenty of times), but this tends to be more convenient and it seems that the web in general is moving away from frames (thank god). Regards, Steve
Anakin went to the Chancellor simply because Anakin always felt like the Jedi were treating him like a child, where as the chancellor was treating Anakin how Anakin wanted to be treated. For example, Chancellor gets Anakin on the the council, The council refuses to give him status as a master. The Jedi then go as far as to ask him to spy on the chancellor. From Anakin's point of view, the chancellor was becoming his friend more and more where as the Jedi were distrusting him and thinking he was getting ahead of himself. Not to mention that the Chancellor was a Sith Lord and obviously already had some kind of control over Anakin which was demonstrated in the beginning of the movie when Anakin won the fight and the Chancellor told Anakin to kill him. Despite Anakin not wanting to kill him, he still did simply because the Chancellor said to. This demonstrated that the Chancellor had more control over Anakin then was thought.
I keep finding that most of the things people complain about in these movies are simply because they didn't follow it through, missed something, interpreted something wrong, or didn't understand the full implication of some prior action. George Lucas did a more or less flawless job in keeping his story straight and people just need to accept this. If the movies don't seem like they had the same impact as they did 15-20 years ago maybe...just maybe, that is because you are 15 years older and view life in a different light. Call me crazy, but most of slashdot's complaints can be summed up in "But this seemed so much better and made so much more sense when I saw the first trilogy" which shows nothing but the fact that they've grown up and their imaginations have died a little. Regards, Steve
That is funny because Red Hat has quite a few active developers on the firefox team. Red Hat is trying to play nice, just like it does with the other OSS projects but firefox doesn't want to. Read this for a previous comment of mine to someone who didn't appreciate everything that Red Hat does for the community. Regards, Steve
Red Hat doesn't just patch up other's work. Red Hat codes most of the stuff in the linux desktop and they pay alot of programmers to do it. Red Hat has coded most of Gnome (ximian also did alot), Red Hat hosts Gnome.org. They've done a hell of a lot of work for making OpenOffice.org integrate well with the linux desktop including using native widgets and Red Hat has coded and still currently develops GCJ allowing them to compile all of OpenOffice's java stuff natively.
They contribute code to firefox to make it work seamlessly with Linux. Red Hat contributes tons of code to Apache, they played a key role in getting SELinux into the mainline kernel. As a matter of fact, they pay the salaries of some of the best and most important kernel coders including Alan Cox. Red Hat has put more code into the kernel then any other entity.
Most of the drivers you are using were probably written by Red Hat, especially the audio and video drivers, and most likely your network drivers. Most of those kernel bugs and security issues are fixed by Red Hat within 24 hours, if not a few days, and Red Hat is one of the reasons why linux is known for such a good turn around time with patches.
Lets see what else they do... okay they host and fund GCC, GLIBC, Binutils, GDB and brought us Cygwin as well. Red Hat is a major backbone in the OSS world. They deserve all they praise and success that has come to them simply because most of the applications you use in a free software environment were coded, if not fully, then partially by them.
They are an integral part in Linux's success and are the only reason that it is enterprise ready with high levels of stability. You were right in saying that most distro's just repackage and sell other people's work, but Red Hat is the exception to that. Red Hat actually helps to make the stuff it sells and plays a huge role in that software. Now they are working on advancing linux's graphics capabilities and bringing linux to a whole other level.
You knock Red Hat for selling other people's work, yet they've written most of it and others repackage it and sell it. Get your facts straight and start appreciating what they do for the community (and just FYI, they do alot of quality assurance for OSS projects too, including firefox). Regards, Steve
Err... actually this whole everyone releases together is a common thing in OSS and it keeps the projects happy with each other. Red Hat writes a lot of code that gets put back into the official firefox build as well as alot of other OSS projects, including security fixes. Red Hat doesn't just release their security patches and then let the other projects know about them (thus putting firefox behind). They make sure that everyone is caught up, all of which can usually be achieved in about a 12-24 hour period which is fine. This isn't just something Red Hat does, all the major OSS projects do it, it actually takes some effort but as long as everyone follows these rules it works nicely. Mozilla would be screaming bloody murder if Red Hat released a security fix for firefox without letting the official firefox team in on the patch before it was relased. Red Hat does alot of active development and its not exactly fair that anything they fix they send to Mozilla and wait for Mozilla to officially release, but anything that Mozilla releases they just don't care about the many vendors who constantly do QA, coding, and security for Mozilla. Higher threads were talking about user/vendor equality, but vendors do alot more for mozilla then most users. Noone is complaining about Mozilla's security policy, just how it is ironic that if all the vendors started collaborating together and lets say Novell and Red Hat released a version of firefox to their users that they fixed so that their end users get the fix as fast as possible and then they let mozilla know about it, mozilla would be freaking the hell out. All the vendors are asking is that mozilla give them the same courtesy that they give to mozilla. Regards, Steve
So ignorant,its not even funny. This goes for plugins too. Netbeans, imho, has surpassed eclipse in capabilities. Download Netbeans and look at what you have, then download Eclipse and look at what you have. You'll find that Netbeans is way more feature rich. Also, even after you install your favorite eclipse plugins, Netbeans still usually has a few key features that eclipse just can't compete with. Most programmers at my job used to use Eclipse, most heard bad things about Netbeans from the older days when it was stagnant in development and slow. Since 4.0 (and even better with 4.1), alot of people have been changing to Netbeans, it just works and everything integrates wonderfully. Regards, Steve
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For Web Application devlepment and J2ME development, you absultely can't beat NetBeans. It is also becoming my favorite IDE for general java app development as well, but I mean it really excels in those two previously noted areas. The new visual editor for J2ME is pretty neat IMHO and even the NetBeans profiler is great. NB 4.1 brings a whole new level of integration and ease of use not previously seen in any IDE. Its worth noting that the memory usage and speed has gotten a thousand fold better in this release too. Regards, Steve
The Red Hat devs are responsible for bringing us GCJ (Gnu Compiler for Java), and they have gotten it to such an advanced stage that it supports AWT, Swing, SWT (I think SWT, not too sure) and even JOGL so you can write native 3D java apps. All of OpenOffice.org's java components in Fedora and RHEL are compiled with GCJ and so the version of OpenOffice.org in those distros actually runs entirely native without a JVM without any loss of functionality. Its quite nice. Regards, Steve
Exactly... people dont realize how much Red Hat does for the community. Most distros just package up pre-existing software and bundle it in an easy to use way. Red Hat actually writes the stuff and pays a lot of devlopers a lot of money to do it. They've contributed far more code then any other entity in the kernel, they also nearly completely coded all of Gnome except for a few tidbits here and there (they even host Gnome.org) They've done wonders for Open Office on linux, including coding GCJ so that all the java components for OO.o could be compiled natively and distributed without a JVM.(They also played a big role in getting OO.o to use native widgets) Red Hat coders also do a hell of a lot of coding for Apache and make major advancements in all sorts of areas like File Systems and enterprise stability. They were a key force in getting SELinux into the kernel, as well as coding most of the drivers that are used in your hardware, and are in large part a reason why linux is considered business ready today. Now they are pushing major advancements in Linux's graphics capabilities and giving it a modern day desktop with modern day capabilites. The list could go on for quite a bit longer but I think I'll stop there. For all the knocking that people do of Red Hat, they sure as hell do alot for the community. Regards, Steve
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A non-free JVM hasn't stopped the Fedora devs. They put together GCJ, which is under very active devlopment, but can compile most java applications including apps that use Swing, AWT, and SWT (I believe it supports SWT but never tried) it supports JOGL too so you can code 3D java apps that run natively. In the next release of Fedora, all of the java stuff in Open Office will be compiled with GCJ, same goes for Eclipse and Apache Tomcat. GCJ is an amazing project and being able to run java as native code is even cooler. Look for all this (plus a whole bunch of other cool stuff) in Fedora Core 4 which should be released on June 6th. Regards, Steve
Well for a little more then $10 you can upgrade to AOL Broadband, not all AOL services are dialup, and there was a rumor a while ago saying that they were canceling their broadband service across the nation but it was just a rumor and not true. AOL also offers many more things then just a typical ISP. AOL gives you free access to all kinds of music, video, and other media sources. Things that most people would have to pay monthly per source for, AOL subscribers get as part of their subscription. On top of that, they have kick ass spam filters, AOL scans for spyware, has a virus blocker and even though they use IE as a backend to their browser, they've included additional features such as a privacy protector and a pop-up blocker (long before SP2). All of this is contained in one window on your screen where you can easily talk to anyone else online, while accessing these many other features. I personally don't use AOL but I've recommended it to many people. Its actually a really nice service now a days, it just has a bad rep. This most likely stems from the fact that just about everyone compares them directly to other ISPs and other ISP prices. You get a hell of alot more bang for your buck then you do with something like NetZero. Let me put it this way... I've had to cleanup a lot more computers that have had Comcast or Verizon broadband then I've had to that have had AOL Broadband or Dialup services. Regards, Steve
Run sshd on some linux box outside the country, run it on some nonstandard port. Then if they prefer using windows you can set your friend up with putty, set up a dynamic tunnel using socks 4 or 5 or whatever it offers (haven't had to use putty in quite some time as I'm on linux 99% of the time). Once they log into the ssh box through putty, tell them to set the proxy in firefox to localhost and the port to whatever port you chose in putty. Then they can safely surf without fear of being caught. I'd do this from their home so noone is looking over their shoulder.
Using windows with putty though is a pretty crappy solution and when the authorities see all sorts of encrypted traffic coming out of some awkward port they'll come and take your computer away, then they'll pull things off of your harddrive and shoot you. Dont worry there is a solution, and an excellent one at that. Download a knoppix cd (or your favorite live distro), boot knoppix entirely into ram so you can remove the cd after its booted (i'd recomend having a gig or two of ram, unfortunately liberty and freedom is expensive), create a tunnel through ssh (read the man pages, its easy), then set firefox to localhost and the proxy port. Everything will be encrypted when your browsing the web through firefox, and if the authorities come knocking because they are suspicious, turn off the computer.
Everything is in ram so when you turn off the computer any history of what you've done is gone, and there is no cd in the computer so if the authorities come rushing through they won't catch you trying to remove a cd. You just have to hit the power, pull the plug, or cut the power to your house if its all you can do, regardless they'll have no evidence of you running an alternative operating system and they'll boot into windows see everything is okay ask about that traffic (just play dumb, say maybe your infected or something, infact you might want to purposely get a few viruses on the machine so your story is believable, as long as you only run the machine from knoppix, the viruses wont affect you, but when the authorities boot into windows it'll look like you were owned). Best of luck, unforutnately all of this depends on you having a box outside of the country with ssh, and also assuming that their firewalls only block by port and dont do any kind of protocol checking... if they do there are other ways around it but they are more complex. Regards, Steve
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As a system admin for your company, you should use a msi package, but if for some reason you can't, firefox's installer can be fully scripted by simply passing it some args and turning on the quiet switch(or invisible or something switch, you'll have to look it up). Regards, Steve
I've never seen someone write such an ignorant comment. Have you ever coded in java? It is more then capable of running as fast as native code, some times faster then a c++ implementation because of the hotspot feature optimizing the most often used code paths in real time as the application runs (you can't do that in c++). It has excellent development tools and is one of the few enterprise ready languages. It is also literally a couple hundred thousand times faster then python. Run something as simple as a for loop with some simple operation in each loop. Run it 2 billion times, you'll be waiting all day for python to finish. Java will take under 10 seconds. And for such simple code that can easily be optimized, a c++ implementation should take a few milliseconds. The ease of coding in java, the cross platform capabilities, the speed (in a worst case it is 1000 times slower then c++, but it is rarely even a fraction of that, python is over a million times slower), the great utilities, and the ease of management is why it is the language used most by enterprise and why so many Apache projects are done in java. Java is an excellent language and designed for huge applications. Python is a great little scripting language but does not scale to the size of applications that real companies need. I use python all the time, but it is often a bad choice for large projects (just the sheer amount of libraries available for java is astounding) Regards, Steve
Debt is not bad. Debt being bad is quite possibly the worst misconception that the public has ever believed. Controlled debt is what keeps the world's economies moving. In fact all debt is is using someone else's money to make yourself money. With a typical consumer they borrow money buy something like a car and then have to pay back more money then they took out. With businesses, they borrow money and make much more money with it, then they just give that borrowed money back (plus a little bit more) but in the end the company winds up positive. Regards, Steve
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It doesn't matter, this is a fake. They were DNS hacked and are trying to figure out what the hell is going on (according to their IRC channel). The Feds don't put up websites like that and they don't go around boasting about morals and copyright infringment on sites that they shut down. The feds also use style sheets on their sites and don't put 1337 sigs at the end of the page many line breaks past the end of the content. But the biggest offender is that that images don't have alt tags (as well as a few other things wrong) and thus the site doesn't comply with federal regulations for disabled people to be able to access all of the content of a federal page, if this were a government site, they'd be breaking their own laws. Not to mention that the feds just take a site offline when they shutdown a place (and they've never done it for copyright infringement), they don't dick around with new homepages for visitors to see like the MPAA did with lokitorrent.
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Steve
The additional security, portability, and flexibility of a VM more then make up for the very minor speed decreases found in modern VMs when compared to native code. In fact often times I see java code running better then a C++ counterpart simply because you don't have to muck around with memory and the Java HotSpot technology can dynamically optimize your byte-code while the program is running as it finds which paths your program uses most. The only people that I've heard of that still think VM == bad for performance are only people who have never done any serious development with one.
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Steve
Why should all transactions be taxed? (Not sure about your country) But here in the states, we already get local, state and federal taxes taken out of our pay (in addition to many other taxes and fees) and in addition to that we still pay state and local sales tax. In Philadelphia its 7% which is ridiculous, in New York it is something like 9 or 10% and then in some states like Delaware there is no sales tax because Delaware has its government and budget in such good check with business's income and taxes that they don't need to burden their residents with additional and unnecessary taxes (granted their real estate tax isn't that low iirc). Perhaps instead of you trying to justify the government taking more and more of our money, the government (and this goes for all governments of the world that I've seen) should start trying to justify taking more of our money rather then them having to watch expenses and spending carefully.
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Steve
Perhaps you should read this if you think slashdot is in the wrong by including all those state abbreviations, etc...
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Steve
Red Hat has all the limelight because they deserve it.
1) Red Hat and Fedora together have over 2 million active servers according to Netcraft, whereas Suse has under half a million.
2)Red Hat does a ton for the community, are experienced, and make a very easy to use distro while retaining the full power of linux.
3) Red Hat's core and only business is Linux. Novell just jumped on the Linux ship because it was failing in other areas, and if Novell sees another oppurtunity to make more money with something else, they'll jump off the linux ship and move on to whatver else they want. Red Hat's whole business is linux.
3) Read this.
Red Hat takes the initiative and keeps the community moving foward. They deserve everything that comes to them.
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Steve
Here is a walk through kind of thing
This was one of many announcements.
Most of the news sites that reported it, couldn't confirm it. It was big in japan, but no where else really considering that it isn't just a click and play kind of thing and you already had to have a license to remove the encryption. It's easier to just record your video out and take the minor loss that might be made if you use a cheap cable. But still... programs do exist to pull the drm key out of memory while the video is playing and then another tool exists to remove the DRM using said key. Its a pain in the ass but doable. The exe is no longer on websites (none that I know of)but you might find it on p2p networks. Rumor has it that Micorosft handled the situation quickly and silently with lawyers. Regardless, in the middle of February or so, Microsoft released an update that apparently makes this tool useless and allows content providers to make sure that you have the update installed. Treacherous computing at its best.
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Steve
WMV v9 has been broken, its just nobody uses it. Its a piece of crap format and there are way better ones out there. Surprisingly it was cracked even with such little interest behind it. DRM is flawed in that the producer gives you the key but tries to hide it from you as best as they can, sooner or later you're bound to find it.
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Steve
LOC is usually measured as 20 Terabytes (although estimates range from 17-20, 20 is almost always taken). 20 TB = 20,480 GB so 16GB would be .08% of one LOC (78/100,000).
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Steve
You can have AJAX (I prefer JSON-RPC, but same idea) register in the browser history, at least on mozilla platforms. The trick (and there are a few ways to do this, the way I'm explaining here is the simplest but I use a different method) is that before you go modifying the DOM with your script, just set document.innerHTML = document.innerHTML. In mozilla, whenever innerHTML is modified it treats it as a new page despite no reload (this causes wierd affects with Google's footer when running Greasemonkey scripts, FYI). You can verify this just by hitting the back button on your browser and seeing the page go back to how it was. I know it is usually recommended to treat innerHTML as read only, but this is one of the areas where it's worthwhile to write to it. I'm not saying the iframe technique doesn't work (I've used that technique plenty of times), but this tends to be more convenient and it seems that the web in general is moving away from frames (thank god).
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Steve
Most insightful post I've ever read on slashdot. Would you mind if I quoted this elsewhere?
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Anakin went to the Chancellor simply because Anakin always felt like the Jedi were treating him like a child, where as the chancellor was treating Anakin how Anakin wanted to be treated. For example, Chancellor gets Anakin on the the council, The council refuses to give him status as a master. The Jedi then go as far as to ask him to spy on the chancellor. From Anakin's point of view, the chancellor was becoming his friend more and more where as the Jedi were distrusting him and thinking he was getting ahead of himself. Not to mention that the Chancellor was a Sith Lord and obviously already had some kind of control over Anakin which was demonstrated in the beginning of the movie when Anakin won the fight and the Chancellor told Anakin to kill him. Despite Anakin not wanting to kill him, he still did simply because the Chancellor said to. This demonstrated that the Chancellor had more control over Anakin then was thought.
I keep finding that most of the things people complain about in these movies are simply because they didn't follow it through, missed something, interpreted something wrong, or didn't understand the full implication of some prior action. George Lucas did a more or less flawless job in keeping his story straight and people just need to accept this. If the movies don't seem like they had the same impact as they did 15-20 years ago maybe...just maybe, that is because you are 15 years older and view life in a different light. Call me crazy, but most of slashdot's complaints can be summed up in "But this seemed so much better and made so much more sense when I saw the first trilogy" which shows nothing but the fact that they've grown up and their imaginations have died a little.
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Steve
That is funny because Red Hat has quite a few active developers on the firefox team. Red Hat is trying to play nice, just like it does with the other OSS projects but firefox doesn't want to. Read this for a previous comment of mine to someone who didn't appreciate everything that Red Hat does for the community.
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Steve
See and that is where you are wrong.
Red Hat doesn't just patch up other's work. Red Hat codes most of the stuff in the linux desktop and they pay alot of programmers to do it. Red Hat has coded most of Gnome (ximian also did alot), Red Hat hosts Gnome.org. They've done a hell of a lot of work for making OpenOffice.org integrate well with the linux desktop including using native widgets and Red Hat has coded and still currently develops GCJ allowing them to compile all of OpenOffice's java stuff natively.
They contribute code to firefox to make it work seamlessly with Linux. Red Hat contributes tons of code to Apache, they played a key role in getting SELinux into the mainline kernel. As a matter of fact, they pay the salaries of some of the best and most important kernel coders including Alan Cox. Red Hat has put more code into the kernel then any other entity.
Most of the drivers you are using were probably written by Red Hat, especially the audio and video drivers, and most likely your network drivers. Most of those kernel bugs and security issues are fixed by Red Hat within 24 hours, if not a few days, and Red Hat is one of the reasons why linux is known for such a good turn around time with patches.
Lets see what else they do... okay they host and fund GCC, GLIBC, Binutils, GDB and brought us Cygwin as well. Red Hat is a major backbone in the OSS world. They deserve all they praise and success that has come to them simply because most of the applications you use in a free software environment were coded, if not fully, then partially by them.
They are an integral part in Linux's success and are the only reason that it is enterprise ready with high levels of stability. You were right in saying that most distro's just repackage and sell other people's work, but Red Hat is the exception to that. Red Hat actually helps to make the stuff it sells and plays a huge role in that software. Now they are working on advancing linux's graphics capabilities and bringing linux to a whole other level.
You knock Red Hat for selling other people's work, yet they've written most of it and others repackage it and sell it. Get your facts straight and start appreciating what they do for the community (and just FYI, they do alot of quality assurance for OSS projects too, including firefox).
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Steve
Err... actually this whole everyone releases together is a common thing in OSS and it keeps the projects happy with each other. Red Hat writes a lot of code that gets put back into the official firefox build as well as alot of other OSS projects, including security fixes. Red Hat doesn't just release their security patches and then let the other projects know about them (thus putting firefox behind). They make sure that everyone is caught up, all of which can usually be achieved in about a 12-24 hour period which is fine. This isn't just something Red Hat does, all the major OSS projects do it, it actually takes some effort but as long as everyone follows these rules it works nicely. Mozilla would be screaming bloody murder if Red Hat released a security fix for firefox without letting the official firefox team in on the patch before it was relased. Red Hat does alot of active development and its not exactly fair that anything they fix they send to Mozilla and wait for Mozilla to officially release, but anything that Mozilla releases they just don't care about the many vendors who constantly do QA, coding, and security for Mozilla. Higher threads were talking about user/vendor equality, but vendors do alot more for mozilla then most users. Noone is complaining about Mozilla's security policy, just how it is ironic that if all the vendors started collaborating together and lets say Novell and Red Hat released a version of firefox to their users that they fixed so that their end users get the fix as fast as possible and then they let mozilla know about it, mozilla would be freaking the hell out. All the vendors are asking is that mozilla give them the same courtesy that they give to mozilla.
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Steve
So ignorant,its not even funny. This goes for plugins too. Netbeans, imho, has surpassed eclipse in capabilities. Download Netbeans and look at what you have, then download Eclipse and look at what you have. You'll find that Netbeans is way more feature rich. Also, even after you install your favorite eclipse plugins, Netbeans still usually has a few key features that eclipse just can't compete with. Most programmers at my job used to use Eclipse, most heard bad things about Netbeans from the older days when it was stagnant in development and slow. Since 4.0 (and even better with 4.1), alot of people have been changing to Netbeans, it just works and everything integrates wonderfully.
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Steve
For Web Application devlepment and J2ME development, you absultely can't beat NetBeans. It is also becoming my favorite IDE for general java app development as well, but I mean it really excels in those two previously noted areas. The new visual editor for J2ME is pretty neat IMHO and even the NetBeans profiler is great. NB 4.1 brings a whole new level of integration and ease of use not previously seen in any IDE. Its worth noting that the memory usage and speed has gotten a thousand fold better in this release too.
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Steve
The Red Hat devs are responsible for bringing us GCJ (Gnu Compiler for Java), and they have gotten it to such an advanced stage that it supports AWT, Swing, SWT (I think SWT, not too sure) and even JOGL so you can write native 3D java apps. All of OpenOffice.org's java components in Fedora and RHEL are compiled with GCJ and so the version of OpenOffice.org in those distros actually runs entirely native without a JVM without any loss of functionality. Its quite nice.
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Steve
Exactly... people dont realize how much Red Hat does for the community. Most distros just package up pre-existing software and bundle it in an easy to use way. Red Hat actually writes the stuff and pays a lot of devlopers a lot of money to do it. They've contributed far more code then any other entity in the kernel, they also nearly completely coded all of Gnome except for a few tidbits here and there (they even host Gnome.org) They've done wonders for Open Office on linux, including coding GCJ so that all the java components for OO.o could be compiled natively and distributed without a JVM.(They also played a big role in getting OO.o to use native widgets) Red Hat coders also do a hell of a lot of coding for Apache and make major advancements in all sorts of areas like File Systems and enterprise stability. They were a key force in getting SELinux into the kernel, as well as coding most of the drivers that are used in your hardware, and are in large part a reason why linux is considered business ready today. Now they are pushing major advancements in Linux's graphics capabilities and giving it a modern day desktop with modern day capabilites. The list could go on for quite a bit longer but I think I'll stop there. For all the knocking that people do of Red Hat, they sure as hell do alot for the community.
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Steve
A non-free JVM hasn't stopped the Fedora devs. They put together GCJ, which is under very active devlopment, but can compile most java applications including apps that use Swing, AWT, and SWT (I believe it supports SWT but never tried) it supports JOGL too so you can code 3D java apps that run natively. In the next release of Fedora, all of the java stuff in Open Office will be compiled with GCJ, same goes for Eclipse and Apache Tomcat. GCJ is an amazing project and being able to run java as native code is even cooler. Look for all this (plus a whole bunch of other cool stuff) in Fedora Core 4 which should be released on June 6th.
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Steve
Well for a little more then $10 you can upgrade to AOL Broadband, not all AOL services are dialup, and there was a rumor a while ago saying that they were canceling their broadband service across the nation but it was just a rumor and not true. AOL also offers many more things then just a typical ISP. AOL gives you free access to all kinds of music, video, and other media sources. Things that most people would have to pay monthly per source for, AOL subscribers get as part of their subscription. On top of that, they have kick ass spam filters, AOL scans for spyware, has a virus blocker and even though they use IE as a backend to their browser, they've included additional features such as a privacy protector and a pop-up blocker (long before SP2). All of this is contained in one window on your screen where you can easily talk to anyone else online, while accessing these many other features. I personally don't use AOL but I've recommended it to many people. Its actually a really nice service now a days, it just has a bad rep. This most likely stems from the fact that just about everyone compares them directly to other ISPs and other ISP prices. You get a hell of alot more bang for your buck then you do with something like NetZero. Let me put it this way... I've had to cleanup a lot more computers that have had Comcast or Verizon broadband then I've had to that have had AOL Broadband or Dialup services.
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Steve
Run sshd on some linux box outside the country, run it on some nonstandard port. Then if they prefer using windows you can set your friend up with putty, set up a dynamic tunnel using socks 4 or 5 or whatever it offers (haven't had to use putty in quite some time as I'm on linux 99% of the time). Once they log into the ssh box through putty, tell them to set the proxy in firefox to localhost and the port to whatever port you chose in putty. Then they can safely surf without fear of being caught. I'd do this from their home so noone is looking over their shoulder.
Using windows with putty though is a pretty crappy solution and when the authorities see all sorts of encrypted traffic coming out of some awkward port they'll come and take your computer away, then they'll pull things off of your harddrive and shoot you. Dont worry there is a solution, and an excellent one at that. Download a knoppix cd (or your favorite live distro), boot knoppix entirely into ram so you can remove the cd after its booted (i'd recomend having a gig or two of ram, unfortunately liberty and freedom is expensive), create a tunnel through ssh (read the man pages, its easy), then set firefox to localhost and the proxy port. Everything will be encrypted when your browsing the web through firefox, and if the authorities come knocking because they are suspicious, turn off the computer.
Everything is in ram so when you turn off the computer any history of what you've done is gone, and there is no cd in the computer so if the authorities come rushing through they won't catch you trying to remove a cd. You just have to hit the power, pull the plug, or cut the power to your house if its all you can do, regardless they'll have no evidence of you running an alternative operating system and they'll boot into windows see everything is okay ask about that traffic (just play dumb, say maybe your infected or something, infact you might want to purposely get a few viruses on the machine so your story is believable, as long as you only run the machine from knoppix, the viruses wont affect you, but when the authorities boot into windows it'll look like you were owned). Best of luck, unforutnately all of this depends on you having a box outside of the country with ssh, and also assuming that their firewalls only block by port and dont do any kind of protocol checking... if they do there are other ways around it but they are more complex.
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Steve
As a system admin for your company, you should use a msi package, but if for some reason you can't, firefox's installer can be fully scripted by simply passing it some args and turning on the quiet switch(or invisible or something switch, you'll have to look it up).
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Steve
about:config
extensions.disabledObsolete = false
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Steve
I've never seen someone write such an ignorant comment. Have you ever coded in java? It is more then capable of running as fast as native code, some times faster then a c++ implementation because of the hotspot feature optimizing the most often used code paths in real time as the application runs (you can't do that in c++). It has excellent development tools and is one of the few enterprise ready languages. It is also literally a couple hundred thousand times faster then python. Run something as simple as a for loop with some simple operation in each loop. Run it 2 billion times, you'll be waiting all day for python to finish. Java will take under 10 seconds. And for such simple code that can easily be optimized, a c++ implementation should take a few milliseconds. The ease of coding in java, the cross platform capabilities, the speed (in a worst case it is 1000 times slower then c++, but it is rarely even a fraction of that, python is over a million times slower), the great utilities, and the ease of management is why it is the language used most by enterprise and why so many Apache projects are done in java. Java is an excellent language and designed for huge applications. Python is a great little scripting language but does not scale to the size of applications that real companies need. I use python all the time, but it is often a bad choice for large projects (just the sheer amount of libraries available for java is astounding)
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Steve
Debt is not bad. Debt being bad is quite possibly the worst misconception that the public has ever believed. Controlled debt is what keeps the world's economies moving. In fact all debt is is using someone else's money to make yourself money. With a typical consumer they borrow money buy something like a car and then have to pay back more money then they took out. With businesses, they borrow money and make much more money with it, then they just give that borrowed money back (plus a little bit more) but in the end the company winds up positive.
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Steve