All the pay distros out there right now have some major competition with Fedora. Even if Mandrake did release a 2.6 kernel, Fedora is realeasing test 1 for core 2 on February 1st. This has all the latest and greatest stuff, including SE Linux. I'm looking real foward to this, alot of things have been improved. Also they support AMD's 64 bit which is nice. Core 2 won't be officially released until April 5th, but testers are more then welcome. (Send in those bug fixes! ) I still use Debian, and have Mandrake on one machine. But ever since Core 1 was released I'ved put Fedora on everything that needed linux. Debian is great, but its main benefits, i.e. apt, are being seriously challenged by Fedora. Fedora is the first distro that has ever made me think of not using Debian as my main distro. If you haven't checked it out I would recommend doing so. Its going places. Regards, Steve P.S. Is it true that mandrake puts advertisements in its installer? And if so are they on the computer after install too? Just curious, haven't used it since 8.2.
Give me my cookie, and a few other dozen for the rest of my firm. It freezes, crashes, and just plain is horrible. Not sure if its so much the OS as it is the apps on it, but before I switched everyone over to Mozilla, their computers were easily crashing once a week. Now the only thing I really see problems with is PCAnywhere. But many apps will crash XP, i.e. ZoneAlarm is known for that as well as some versions of one of the big two Anti-Virus companies. Also, there was a glitch in the first service pack that caused many servers(including mine) to make the STORE.exe in Windows 2000 server use all of the ram in the system and completely freeze the server, it happened as often as every 3 days, but sometimes you could get 14 days straight with it. I had to write a script that will restart the Information Store and flush the ram daily to keep my server uptime over two weeks. I don't mind though, its really great for convincing the higher ups into switching everything over two Linux. In Decemeber I did a two week testrun with two employees and Liux as a desktop, the results were great. I suspect that 2004 is the year of Linux for my company. Regards, Steve
P.S. Yea I know that the server isn't XP, but its a MS operating system and they've had similar problems with XP. I don't use XP(yes I'm a linux zealot), but have more then enough exposure and experience with it through work to know that you are full of it. A skilled user can keep it running for 88 days, but in the scheme of things most users aren't skilled.Also 88 days is nice, but I've had Linux up for years now on some computers.
Even better is that you can run your programs in User Mode Linux which is kind of like a sandbox, or a jail for those who use FreeBSD. It will in no way affect your regualr system and there is no way for the virus/worm to escape. The worm will exist in a fake world that it thinks it controls, but it doesn't. User Mode Linux will let you place any restrictions that you want and its easy to run with any binary/code that is untrusted/unknown. An admin can set this up fairly easy and UML has made a ton of progress recently. Regards, Steve
As long as my cell is running linux, I'm sure myself or someone can find some way around this if such a feature were implemented. On the other hand, the very same person could probably find a way to abuse this.Anyone know if any virus/firewall software is made for cellphones yet? Maybe opensource could get ahead of the game on this one. Regards, Steve
Actually, most ISPs calculate your monthly cap based on the average bandwidth by all customers. If it exceeds a certain number, then they send you a letter. This may be good for all of us if it bumps that average up a notch or two:) Regards, Steve
P.S.I'm sure in a week Moz's nightly build and/or a Moz plug-in will have some feature blocking these.
On the other side of things, Google stands to make a killing here. Google can sell a new class of ads to people like plumbers, who don't need a webpage.
Back a few months ago I was developing software and the question arose as to whether or not it'd be best to charge for the software or to include ads in it (i.e. Kazaa). It was concluded that Kazaa like ads were too intrusive and text based ads would be appropriate. I emailed Google about whether or not their AdWords could be used in a software environment and they said not at the current moment, but its a possibility for the future. The guy was real nice and forwarded the idea onto some more people inside Google. Personally I think that text based ads would be perfect for situations where you can't open source your project, but you can't (or don't want to)charge for it either, but still want to make profit. For example, you could place a nice little unobtrusive text ad at the bottom of your menus or something. Who knows, maybe we'll see google coming out with this kind of feature in the future. Regards, Steve
If your looking to solve that problem now, make sure you use mozilla. Netscape white lists itself, AOL, and about 20-30 other domains that appear to deal with advertising. Also I had major trouble removing it and going back to mozilla, not sure if it was me, linux, or Netscape trying to lock me in, but it was a pain. Regards, Steve
Assuming your correct about the frost...do you by any chance know what it would be composed of? I mean I doubt its water or else you just saved NASA and ESA billions:) But it could be other substances, any ideas? Regards, Steve
I have recent experience with this (sorry can't give any more details) and typically everything that can be duplicated is duplicated and a copy is given with whoever is pressing charges (I don't believe they give a copy to the defendant but don't quote me on that). The holders of the duplicated data must keep it in a secured and locked place so that during testimony they can honestly swear that they know that noone has changed the data. The Feds can keep their own copies and originals as long as they want/need, and from talking to agents, it seems they make quite a few. But as far as having your data backed up, there is nothing quite like having it taken by the FBI in a raid, and Linus thought FTP was good:) Regards, Steve P.S. He probably will get his stuff back, they are only hesitant to give things back if there was stuff found on any one of the machines. This guy says he's clear so I wouldn't be too worried about it.
I know a Secret Service Agent (family member) and I know an FBI agent through a computer related crime that happened at my firm. What you said is much more true then you probably realize. The Secret Service really is involved with everything, and I mean everything. Protecting the President is a very small portion of what they do. The FBI is pretty involved with alot of things, but the SS is crazy. Regards, Steve
Actually around my way we have two major donut shops, Krispy Kreme and Dunkin Donuts. There is also a smaller shop called Dunken Donuts and no one is bitching about that. This is just some kid's site who isn't a threat to Microsoft, just like Dunken Donuts isn't a real threat to Krispy Kreme and Dunken Donuts. Microsoft is just being babies. The website none the less is more then two-thirds composed of his name. Noone should be able to take it away from. him. Regards, Steve
Are we forgetting that some people do have a right to download the copyrighted materials? In most cases its special circumstances, but reasons still exist and are valid. For example, I own a cd but my computer doesn't have a CD drive in it (its rare but can happen). I then have the legal ability to download the cd or a song if its the only way to transfer it to my computer. Also, if you break your cd by stepping on it or scratching it or something to that affect then you can legally download it because you are entitled to its use through the purchase of the cd. When you purchase it you essentially sign a contract and are granted use of those materials, that injunction with "Free Use" makes it very legal for many people to download copyrighted materials. IANAL but as far as I know and from what I've heard all of these situations are true and perfectly legal. You don't buy the music, you buy the right to listen to it. Regards, Steve
Speaking of things dying...would the Gnu/Hurd kernel be considered dead? or being born? I've toyed with it and its hardly good for anything that I could see. There is even a bug that if you press a key while boot messages are going by it will freeze. I mean Hurd has been around since 1990 so its old enough to be dying, but the thing is it never matured and is still slowly being worked on, so is it being born? I would like to see more work on this. If SCO does somehow win (I know they won't, I don't need to hear it a million times) in some other parallel dimension, I would hope most developers would flock to Hurd. I know BSD is more developed, but I disagree with the license personally. Yes technically it gives you more freedom, but I think it may be over kill.Anyone on slashdot regularly use Hurd?
Regards, Steve
P.S. for those coders who haven't looked at it, the Hurd source, while not highly developed, is pretty beautiful to handle and work with.
No...Dell sucks with businesses too. I had a whole bunch of Dell computers shipped to my firm to replace the older computers. Then I got the paperwork and they were charging us twice the amount that it should have been! Needless to say many eyebrows rose when they got wind of this. I called Dell and they realized that it was a problem on their end, they said they fixed it. Then a month later we received another invoice from them stating our overdue balance. The crazy thing is that we didn't have a balance and were told to disregard them and that it was noted in their system. We had payed for the computers in one lump sum to avoid things like this but we kept getting invoices for about 4 more months. Whether its still on our credit report I'm not sure, but it was stating that we owed Dell money (and alot of it) which is Not a Good Thing (tm). Moral of the story: I only order from Gateway now for business and Emachines for home. Regards, Steve
Oh yea and don't only read the article, but look up some info on you own. Slashdot will distory your views sometimes and researching your own information will lead you to better decisions.
Sorry bout the typos, it should read:
Oh yea and don't only read the article, but look up some info on your own. Slashdot will distort your views sometimes and researching your own information will lead you to better decisions.
Regards, Steve
Yes,I agree entirely! I have been running Debian and Mandrake for years and when Core 1 was realeased for Fedora I grabbed it. Fedora is the best distro that I've used plain and simple. It just installs and works and I mean everything just works. Then I configured it to how I like it. I put apt on it and life is just as good as with Debian except Fedora set up all my hardware with proper drivers and literally everything just works. Apt repositories aren't quite as large as Debian's but they are grwoing fast and have anything that a typical power user would need.Come on people! Red Hat is the good guy, they can't afford to give everything away so give them a break. They are taking money from this area to apply to advancing Linux in other areas where its needed. So back off of them a little bit. They've done a lot for the community and will continue to do so.Oh yea and don't only read the article, but look up some info on you own. Slashdot will distory your views sometimes and researching your own information will lead you to better decisions. Regards, Steve
Not to start any trouble here but... Have you ever used Ogg or looked at the codec and/or source? It is superior and compresses better while retaining the same quality as mp3. The developers are extremely intelligent and ogg is being used in many places because of its benefits. EA Games used ogg in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, ogg was used in Soul Rever 2, and in Unreal Tournament 2003. Many developers are starting to realize that it is superior. Linux is arguably superior to windows (and please no comments on GUIs) and Microsoft hired thousands of people to develop that. Just because its free doesnt mean its bad, that is a common misconception. Microsoft can hire whoever they want but they can't compete with brilliant minds across the globe collaborating to produce something better for free. Microsoft uses a ton of free source code for various things and government agencies, like the NSA, have shown that Linux and BSD are more secure and reliable. It's fairly simple to prove that Ogg is of superior quality when you put the codecs side by side.Its one thing to argue about someone's opinion on whether or not something sounds better, but you can't argue anything when comparing codecs. Its clear which is the best, and it just also happens to be free. Regards, Steve
Have you ever heard ogg comapred to mp3 at the same bitrate? It is fairly superior and my hearing isnt even all that good. As a matter of fact I can't hear all that well and I can still tell the difference. I'm not deaf or anything, but my hearing isn't superb like most crazy audio codec people claim. Linux wasn't popular in '91, but we pushed it and its hitting mainstream now. Ogg may not be popular now but its made alot of progress especially considering that it is compatible with some portable players. If we push it hard enough then maybe we can let Ogg be the standard for DRM-free music. Regards, Steve P.S. And its community is far larger then 1056. Where did you get this number from?
Slashdot Mirror
All the pay distros out there right now have some major competition with Fedora. Even if Mandrake did release a 2.6 kernel, Fedora is realeasing test 1 for core 2 on February 1st. This has all the latest and greatest stuff, including SE Linux. I'm looking real foward to this, alot of things have been improved. Also they support AMD's 64 bit which is nice. Core 2 won't be officially released until April 5th, but testers are more then welcome. (Send in those bug fixes! ) I still use Debian, and have Mandrake on one machine. But ever since Core 1 was released I'ved put Fedora on everything that needed linux. Debian is great, but its main benefits, i.e. apt, are being seriously challenged by Fedora. Fedora is the first distro that has ever made me think of not using Debian as my main distro. If you haven't checked it out I would recommend doing so. Its going places.
Regards,
Steve
P.S. Is it true that mandrake puts advertisements in its installer? And if so are they on the computer after install too? Just curious, haven't used it since 8.2.
Shhh... don't give Bush any ideas.
If the new handheld had 128 MB of RAM, the press release would have stated so.
If that new handheld had 128 MB of RAM, it would be my new server.
Regards,
Steve
Give me my cookie, and a few other dozen for the rest of my firm. It freezes, crashes, and just plain is horrible. Not sure if its so much the OS as it is the apps on it, but before I switched everyone over to Mozilla, their computers were easily crashing once a week. Now the only thing I really see problems with is PCAnywhere. But many apps will crash XP, i.e. ZoneAlarm is known for that as well as some versions of one of the big two Anti-Virus companies. Also, there was a glitch in the first service pack that caused many servers(including mine) to make the STORE.exe in Windows 2000 server use all of the ram in the system and completely freeze the server, it happened as often as every 3 days, but sometimes you could get 14 days straight with it. I had to write a script that will restart the Information Store and flush the ram daily to keep my server uptime over two weeks. I don't mind though, its really great for convincing the higher ups into switching everything over two Linux. In Decemeber I did a two week testrun with two employees and Liux as a desktop, the results were great. I suspect that 2004 is the year of Linux for my company.
Regards,
Steve
P.S. Yea I know that the server isn't XP, but its a MS operating system and they've had similar problems with XP. I don't use XP(yes I'm a linux zealot), but have more then enough exposure and experience with it through work to know that you are full of it. A skilled user can keep it running for 88 days, but in the scheme of things most users aren't skilled.Also 88 days is nice, but I've had Linux up for years now on some computers.
why the repost? low karma day?
Regards,
Steve
Even better is that you can run your programs in User Mode Linux which is kind of like a sandbox, or a jail for those who use FreeBSD. It will in no way affect your regualr system and there is no way for the virus/worm to escape. The worm will exist in a fake world that it thinks it controls, but it doesn't. User Mode Linux will let you place any restrictions that you want and its easy to run with any binary/code that is untrusted/unknown. An admin can set this up fairly easy and UML has made a ton of progress recently.
Regards,
Steve
As long as my cell is running linux, I'm sure myself or someone can find some way around this if such a feature were implemented. On the other hand, the very same person could probably find a way to abuse this.Anyone know if any virus/firewall software is made for cellphones yet? Maybe opensource could get ahead of the game on this one.
Regards,
Steve
Actually, most ISPs calculate your monthly cap based on the average bandwidth by all customers. If it exceeds a certain number, then they send you a letter. This may be good for all of us if it bumps that average up a notch or two:)
Regards,
Steve
P.S.I'm sure in a week Moz's nightly build and/or a Moz plug-in will have some feature blocking these.
On the other side of things, Google stands to make a killing here. Google can sell a new class of ads to people like plumbers, who don't need a webpage.
Back a few months ago I was developing software and the question arose as to whether or not it'd be best to charge for the software or to include ads in it (i.e. Kazaa). It was concluded that Kazaa like ads were too intrusive and text based ads would be appropriate. I emailed Google about whether or not their AdWords could be used in a software environment and they said not at the current moment, but its a possibility for the future. The guy was real nice and forwarded the idea onto some more people inside Google. Personally I think that text based ads would be perfect for situations where you can't open source your project, but you can't (or don't want to)charge for it either, but still want to make profit. For example, you could place a nice little unobtrusive text ad at the bottom of your menus or something. Who knows, maybe we'll see google coming out with this kind of feature in the future.
Regards,
Steve
I use Mozilla, but doesn't the Google toolbar install on IE and block pop-ups? Yey Google:) If I'm wrong about that, sorry.
Regards,
Steve
If your looking to solve that problem now, make sure you use mozilla. Netscape white lists itself, AOL, and about 20-30 other domains that appear to deal with advertising. Also I had major trouble removing it and going back to mozilla, not sure if it was me, linux, or Netscape trying to lock me in, but it was a pain.
Regards,
Steve
Assuming your correct about the frost...do you by any chance know what it would be composed of? I mean I doubt its water or else you just saved NASA and ESA billions :) But it could be other substances, any ideas?
Regards,
Steve
Them dinosaurs must have been smarter then we all thought...
Regards,
Steve
I have recent experience with this (sorry can't give any more details) and typically everything that can be duplicated is duplicated and a copy is given with whoever is pressing charges (I don't believe they give a copy to the defendant but don't quote me on that). The holders of the duplicated data must keep it in a secured and locked place so that during testimony they can honestly swear that they know that noone has changed the data. The Feds can keep their own copies and originals as long as they want/need, and from talking to agents, it seems they make quite a few. But as far as having your data backed up, there is nothing quite like having it taken by the FBI in a raid, and Linus thought FTP was good:)
Regards,
Steve
P.S. He probably will get his stuff back, they are only hesitant to give things back if there was stuff found on any one of the machines. This guy says he's clear so I wouldn't be too worried about it.
I know a Secret Service Agent (family member) and I know an FBI agent through a computer related crime that happened at my firm. What you said is much more true then you probably realize. The Secret Service really is involved with everything, and I mean everything. Protecting the President is a very small portion of what they do. The FBI is pretty involved with alot of things, but the SS is crazy.
Regards,
Steve
Actually around my way we have two major donut shops, Krispy Kreme and Dunkin Donuts. There is also a smaller shop called Dunken Donuts and no one is bitching about that. This is just some kid's site who isn't a threat to Microsoft, just like Dunken Donuts isn't a real threat to Krispy Kreme and Dunken Donuts. Microsoft is just being babies. The website none the less is more then two-thirds composed of his name. Noone should be able to take it away from. him.
Regards,
Steve
Are we forgetting that some people do have a right to download the copyrighted materials? In most cases its special circumstances, but reasons still exist and are valid. For example, I own a cd but my computer doesn't have a CD drive in it (its rare but can happen). I then have the legal ability to download the cd or a song if its the only way to transfer it to my computer. Also, if you break your cd by stepping on it or scratching it or something to that affect then you can legally download it because you are entitled to its use through the purchase of the cd. When you purchase it you essentially sign a contract and are granted use of those materials, that injunction with "Free Use" makes it very legal for many people to download copyrighted materials. IANAL but as far as I know and from what I've heard all of these situations are true and perfectly legal. You don't buy the music, you buy the right to listen to it.
Regards,
Steve
Speaking of things dying...would the Gnu/Hurd kernel be considered dead? or being born? I've toyed with it and its hardly good for anything that I could see. There is even a bug that if you press a key while boot messages are going by it will freeze. I mean Hurd has been around since 1990 so its old enough to be dying, but the thing is it never matured and is still slowly being worked on, so is it being born? I would like to see more work on this. If SCO does somehow win (I know they won't, I don't need to hear it a million times) in some other parallel dimension, I would hope most developers would flock to Hurd. I know BSD is more developed, but I disagree with the license personally. Yes technically it gives you more freedom, but I think it may be over kill.Anyone on slashdot regularly use Hurd?
Regards,
Steve
P.S. for those coders who haven't looked at it, the Hurd source, while not highly developed, is pretty beautiful to handle and work with.
No...Dell sucks with businesses too. I had a whole bunch of Dell computers shipped to my firm to replace the older computers. Then I got the paperwork and they were charging us twice the amount that it should have been! Needless to say many eyebrows rose when they got wind of this. I called Dell and they realized that it was a problem on their end, they said they fixed it. Then a month later we received another invoice from them stating our overdue balance. The crazy thing is that we didn't have a balance and were told to disregard them and that it was noted in their system. We had payed for the computers in one lump sum to avoid things like this but we kept getting invoices for about 4 more months. Whether its still on our credit report I'm not sure, but it was stating that we owed Dell money (and alot of it) which is Not a Good Thing (tm). Moral of the story: I only order from Gateway now for business and Emachines for home.
Regards,
Steve
So I guess when I ran this and got 18, that was a bad thing? :)
bash-2.05# netstat -an | grep tcp | wc -l
18
Regards,
Steve
Oh yea and don't only read the article, but look up some info on you own. Slashdot will distory your views sometimes and researching your own information will lead you to better decisions.
Sorry bout the typos, it should read:
Oh yea and don't only read the article, but look up some info on your own. Slashdot will distort your views sometimes and researching your own information will lead you to better decisions.
Regards,
Steve
Yes,I agree entirely! I have been running Debian and Mandrake for years and when Core 1 was realeased for Fedora I grabbed it. Fedora is the best distro that I've used plain and simple. It just installs and works and I mean everything just works. Then I configured it to how I like it. I put apt on it and life is just as good as with Debian except Fedora set up all my hardware with proper drivers and literally everything just works. Apt repositories aren't quite as large as Debian's but they are grwoing fast and have anything that a typical power user would need.Come on people! Red Hat is the good guy, they can't afford to give everything away so give them a break. They are taking money from this area to apply to advancing Linux in other areas where its needed. So back off of them a little bit. They've done a lot for the community and will continue to do so.Oh yea and don't only read the article, but look up some info on you own. Slashdot will distory your views sometimes and researching your own information will lead you to better decisions.
Regards,
Steve
Now, who would be Herod? Shall we recast the entire Gospel ...
:)
That was already done in the Matrix
Regards,
Steve
P.S. The Matrix rocked no matter who Neo was trying be
Not to start any trouble here but... Have you ever used Ogg or looked at the codec and/or source? It is superior and compresses better while retaining the same quality as mp3. The developers are extremely intelligent and ogg is being used in many places because of its benefits. EA Games used ogg in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, ogg was used in Soul Rever 2, and in Unreal Tournament 2003. Many developers are starting to realize that it is superior. Linux is arguably superior to windows (and please no comments on GUIs) and Microsoft hired thousands of people to develop that. Just because its free doesnt mean its bad, that is a common misconception. Microsoft can hire whoever they want but they can't compete with brilliant minds across the globe collaborating to produce something better for free. Microsoft uses a ton of free source code for various things and government agencies, like the NSA, have shown that Linux and BSD are more secure and reliable. It's fairly simple to prove that Ogg is of superior quality when you put the codecs side by side.Its one thing to argue about someone's opinion on whether or not something sounds better, but you can't argue anything when comparing codecs. Its clear which is the best, and it just also happens to be free.
Regards,
Steve
Listen for yourself
Or heres the documentation proving it.
Have you ever heard ogg comapred to mp3 at the same bitrate? It is fairly superior and my hearing isnt even all that good. As a matter of fact I can't hear all that well and I can still tell the difference. I'm not deaf or anything, but my hearing isn't superb like most crazy audio codec people claim. Linux wasn't popular in '91, but we pushed it and its hitting mainstream now. Ogg may not be popular now but its made alot of progress especially considering that it is compatible with some portable players. If we push it hard enough then maybe we can let Ogg be the standard for DRM-free music.
Regards,
Steve
P.S. And its community is far larger then 1056. Where did you get this number from?