Strange, few years ago I've drunk slightly over 30 lagers in less than 12 hours. Yet I failed to drown my brain. I guess they don't call me alcoholic for nothing.
There're debian/gentoo users that feel they're 133t on slashdot but there's equally large group of slashdot users who can stand the fact that linux as such posses certain qualities that *BSD doesn't. Such as relatively wide-spread and acceptability by bussines.
I'm not going to tell customer who has policy of using Checkpoint NG firewall on solaris/linux to use PF instead or buy incredibly expensive Nokia boxes to get BSD based IPSO. And no, I will not tell the customer whose administrators went long way to learn linux and are using it in they daily jobs they should switch to OpenBSD because of their "no remote holes in the default install". It's not like "screw you boys i'm going away because linux sucks". Because it doesn't.
I like many *BSD features and dislike others. The same applies to LINUX. I've love fully usable NetBSD Debian port, but they're not there yet.
BTW: It's not about being l33t or BSD dissident on./ it's just way life goes.
There's lot more in debian than stability and apt-get. Social-contranct, extensive multiplatform support and compatibility, serious full-disclosure security policy to name a few (key) things. I'm using debian-stable exclusively on customers servers. I can do apt-get upgrade without fear that something will break. It NEVER EVER did. The only real PITA is that virtually no commercial vendor supports debian so I've had to create few redhatXX_compatibility.deb packages to get all required libraries and scripts to make things work.
It is true debian-unstable sometimes lives up to its name but it's perfectly usable most of the time. I usually do apt-get dist-upgrade --download -only and wait 2 or 3 days. Then I check debian's mailing lists for complaints and bug reports. If nothing significant is reported I upgrade. I do this 2 times a month and can't remember when I had unusable desktop last time. My coleagues do the same and apart from minor glitches we have no troubles with debian-unstable on many workstations and internal test servers.
Either you're blessed with endless patience or you're ehm...ehm liar:-) I'm using GPRS for more then year now (in more then one country) but it's unusable for interactive access (shell). The problem is latency. Roundtrip delay from phone to first IP hop is usually around 1s. I've never seen latency under 600ms. Latency variation (jitter) is usually very low so I guess it's 'built-in' property of GSM/GPRS network. Also I often get 2+1 on normal day which sucks. Few months ago I was getting 3+1 all the time regardless of location. Yes this is provider dependent but having no guaranteed bandwith sucks anyway.
You're wrong unless you're deaf. I'm not an audiophile but I've got half decent Marantz/B&W rig (about $2200 IIRC) and can tell the difference between CD and 256kb ogg. I've been demonstrating it to my friends and they could hear the difference too! OGG/MP3(pro) is fine if you want to listen music while joging or sitting on train, but for serious listening OGG/MP3 is insult to your ears.
Even in US, corporations aren't citizens. Goverment in democratic country should act in public interest. That means interests of the majority of citizens. Every tax dollar goverment gets come from the citizens. So goverment (understand: citizen) funded project must be beneficial to majority of citizens. GPL doesn't prevent corporations (understand: few citizens) to benefit from software developed in public projects, it just ensures benefit for the majority of citizens.
Allowing ALL ougoing and RELATED incoming traffic is hardly secure setup. Every fscking worm/backdoor is allowed to call home, replicate itself or even participate in DDOS network. I also doubt that netgear cares about actual packet payload (layers 4-7). I guess that they're using dynamic packet filter.
You're right (or I'm as blind as you). I've seen "sources" subdirectory under xd2/redhat-9-i386 (at least on ftp.mirror.co.uk) but it's not there at the moment.
Ximian promised to deliver sources today so I guess they've couple of hours to comply. I'm not trolling but I expect former GNU posterchild (Miguel) and his company to follow GPL religiously.
US GPS and Russion GLONASS are operated by millitary. The Galileo project should assure Europe's indepenedence. Criticism and lobbying by US makes the project even more important. Galileo will send strong political message to US goverment.
Considerable industrial returns in manufacturing and services are expected as well. Besides free public accessible signal there will be commercial data stream modulated on basic signal. Users will pay for guaranteed availability and greater precision. AFAIK there should be also high precision signal available only to military and certain public authorities (regulation of air, sea and road transport comes to mind).
THigh lattitude (northern Europe) coverage of GPS isn't very good. By placing satellites in orbits at a greater inclination to the equatorial plane than GPS, Galileo will achieve better coverage at high latitudes.
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What "Czech border reform" are you talking about? There was no "Czech republic" in 1989. Country you're talking about was Czechoslovakia. In case you don't see the diference the word contains names of two major nations who formed new state shortly after WWI in 1918. Peaceful separation happend on January 1, 1993. There were no border related disputes.
I should know it since I'm half Slovak/half Czech and enjoy the luxury of having double citizenship.:-)
With utmost respect I can't see any predictions, he's just stating obvious facts and logical conclusions derived from the present state of things. I feel the hidden message in the whole prophecy: M$ sux, Linux sux, closed source UNICES rules. A few rants/unconstructive comments follow:
1) Consumers will never be able to 'distinguish safe code from the typical dreck they're used to buying' just because there's no _SAFE_ code and they're not supposed to do so. They're _CONSUMERS_.
2) Yes the sales of security products will grow, US goverment and media are working around the clock with their 'war on human rights'.
3) I don't understand the point behind this rant.
4) The spam _IS_ a problem already, but there're effective solutions. Smart ISP already offer SPAM filtering service.
5) I hope he's not talking about US DOJ way of international cooperation when any human being living on earth is subject to US laws, which is also known as "All your ass belongs to us".
6) When lawyers and insurance companies jump in, software prices will skyrocket and we're going to see even more stupid EULAs and laws. That's the way lawyers work.
7) Oh, consumers _ALWAYS_ focus on wrong things, it's hardly any news. But, honestly who made him (or me) god to say: What you do is the wrong thing?
8) Open source isn't technology it's more a philosophy, a way of thinking. Other mentioned technologies can be safe enough for average consumer or company when implemented properly. Even matches are dangerous technology in the fire-lighter's hands.
IMHO this PR stunt is an attempt to take the eye off their not so good results. According to the report Intentia's revenues declined by 14% during the period Jan-Sep 2002 and their operating margin is very close to ZERO.
IANAL, but I think they're stepping on thin ice because report was already uploaded to public accessible server and thus it should be considered published. Even if there was no hyperlink pointing to it Intentia didn't take any protective measure to restrict the access to the report. Reuters didn't have to circumvent any security measures so they can be hardly accused of hacking. And since the report was on public server they can't be accused of unathorized access. Another possible scenario is that Reuters've got the information about the document location from an insider, but the report was already accessible by public so i can't see any wrongdoing.
Getting source code doesn't mean that entire product goes down the drain. I legally cannot start to sell my own WinXP clone compiled from original source code. There're laws and other measures that prevents such practices.
Information (knowledge) itself isn't good or bad. It's just that: human knowledge. It's entirely upon human being what he does with the knowledge. Man should be held accountable for his deeds not for what he knows.
I know how to make explosives and yet I don't make them. Almost every high school student knows how to make nuke and (surprise, surprise) almost nobody is trying to make one. Just because I possess the information (in your case the source code) it doesn't mean I'm criminal. Nobody has the right to tell me what I'm allowed to know. And that's exactly what Big Brother is trying to do - prevent people from having the information he doesn't want them to know, and to criminalize people who possess such kind of information. Freenet is designed to fight this information slavery.
IMHO there's no such thing as unbiased court verdict. Assuming that judges are better people then we is simply stupid. They do have strong opinnions on various thnigs just as we common mortals do.
And yes, Microsoft needs slapping just like mentioned mule, but he should say it ex cathedra not in a interview.
Simple reason: speed. I've got aplication (data gathering) that inserts 100.000 rows (average row length is about 60 bytes) in 1 minute. I'm die-hard postgres fan, but it simply can't cope with such load.
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Because watching TV makes you dumb, while messing with configuration files is good brain excercise.
Strange, few years ago I've drunk slightly over 30 lagers in less than 12 hours. Yet I failed to drown my brain. I guess they don't call me alcoholic for nothing.
Ok, I'll bite.
./ it's just way life goes.
There're debian/gentoo users that feel they're 133t on slashdot but there's equally large group of slashdot users who can stand the fact that linux as such posses certain qualities that *BSD doesn't. Such as relatively wide-spread and acceptability by bussines.
I'm not going to tell customer who has policy of using Checkpoint NG firewall on solaris/linux to use PF instead or buy incredibly expensive Nokia boxes to get BSD based IPSO. And no, I will not tell the customer whose administrators went long way to learn linux and are using it in they daily jobs they should switch to OpenBSD because of their "no remote holes in the default install". It's not like "screw you boys i'm going away because linux sucks". Because it doesn't.
I like many *BSD features and dislike others. The same applies to LINUX. I've love fully usable NetBSD Debian port, but they're not there yet.
BTW: It's not about being l33t or BSD dissident on
There's lot more in debian than stability and apt-get. Social-contranct, extensive multiplatform support and compatibility, serious full-disclosure security policy to name a few (key) things. I'm using debian-stable exclusively on customers servers. I can do apt-get upgrade without fear that something will break. It NEVER EVER did. The only real PITA is that virtually no commercial vendor supports debian so I've had to create few redhatXX_compatibility.deb packages to get all required libraries and scripts to make things work.
It is true debian-unstable sometimes lives up to its name but it's perfectly usable most of the time. I usually do apt-get dist-upgrade --download -only and wait 2 or 3 days. Then I check debian's mailing lists for complaints and bug reports. If nothing significant is reported I upgrade. I do this 2 times a month and can't remember when I had unusable desktop last time. My coleagues do the same and apart from minor glitches we have no troubles with debian-unstable on many workstations and internal test servers.
Either you're blessed with endless patience or you're ehm...ehm liar :-) I'm using GPRS for more then year now (in more then one country) but it's unusable for interactive access (shell). The problem is latency. Roundtrip delay from phone to first IP hop is usually around 1s. I've never seen latency under 600ms. Latency variation (jitter) is usually very low so I guess it's 'built-in' property of GSM/GPRS network. Also I often get 2+1 on normal day which sucks. Few months ago I was getting 3+1 all the time regardless of location. Yes this is provider dependent but having no guaranteed bandwith sucks anyway.
You're wrong unless you're deaf. I'm not an audiophile but I've got half decent Marantz/B&W rig (about $2200 IIRC) and can tell the difference between CD and 256kb ogg. I've been demonstrating it to my friends and they could hear the difference too! OGG/MP3(pro) is fine if you want to listen music while joging or sitting on train, but for serious listening OGG/MP3 is insult to your ears.
BS.
Even in US, corporations aren't citizens. Goverment in democratic country should act in public interest. That means interests of the majority of citizens.
Every tax dollar goverment gets come from the citizens. So goverment (understand: citizen) funded project must be beneficial to majority of citizens. GPL doesn't prevent corporations (understand: few citizens) to benefit from software developed in public projects, it just ensures benefit for the majority of citizens.
It's not dream - just ideal case.
Allowing ALL ougoing and RELATED incoming traffic is hardly secure setup. Every fscking worm/backdoor is allowed to call home, replicate itself or even participate in DDOS network. I also doubt that netgear cares about actual packet payload (layers 4-7). I guess that they're using dynamic packet filter.
You're right (or I'm as blind as you). I've seen "sources" subdirectory under xd2/redhat-9-i386 (at least on ftp.mirror.co.uk) but it's not there at the moment.
Ximian promised to deliver sources today so I guess they've couple of hours to comply. I'm not trolling but I expect former GNU posterchild (Miguel) and his company to follow GPL religiously.
US GPS and Russion GLONASS are operated by millitary. The Galileo project should assure Europe's indepenedence. Criticism and lobbying by US makes the project even more important. Galileo will send strong political message to US goverment.
Considerable industrial returns in manufacturing and services are expected as well. Besides free public accessible signal there will be commercial data stream modulated on basic signal. Users will pay for guaranteed availability and greater precision. AFAIK there should be also high precision signal available only to military and certain public authorities (regulation of air, sea and road transport comes to mind).
THigh lattitude (northern Europe) coverage of GPS isn't very good. By placing satellites in orbits at a greater inclination to the equatorial plane than GPS, Galileo will achieve better coverage at high latitudes.
What "Czech border reform" are you talking about? There was no "Czech republic" in 1989. Country you're talking about was Czechoslovakia. In case you don't see the diference the word contains names of two major nations who formed new state shortly after WWI in 1918. Peaceful separation happend on January 1, 1993. There were no border related disputes.
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I should know it since I'm half Slovak/half Czech and enjoy the luxury of having double citizenship.
Oh boy, don't you know that "29.1 kb ought to be enough for everybody" ?
With utmost respect I can't see any predictions, he's just stating obvious facts and logical conclusions derived from the present state of things. I feel the hidden message in the whole prophecy: M$ sux, Linux sux, closed source UNICES rules. A few rants/unconstructive comments follow:
1) Consumers will never be able to 'distinguish safe code from the typical dreck they're used to buying' just because there's no _SAFE_ code and they're not supposed to do so. They're _CONSUMERS_.
2) Yes the sales of security products will grow, US goverment and media are working around the clock with their 'war on human rights'.
3) I don't understand the point behind this rant.
4) The spam _IS_ a problem already, but there're effective solutions. Smart ISP already offer SPAM filtering service.
5) I hope he's not talking about US DOJ way of international cooperation when any human being living on earth is subject to US laws, which is also known as "All your ass belongs to us".
6) When lawyers and insurance companies jump in, software prices will skyrocket and we're going to see even more stupid EULAs and laws. That's the way lawyers work.
7) Oh, consumers _ALWAYS_ focus on wrong things, it's hardly any news. But, honestly who made him (or me) god to say: What you do is the wrong thing?
8) Open source isn't technology it's more a philosophy, a way of thinking. Other mentioned technologies can be safe enough for average consumer or company when implemented properly. Even matches are dangerous technology in the fire-lighter's hands.
IMHO this PR stunt is an attempt to take the eye off their not so good results. According to the report Intentia's revenues declined by 14% during the period Jan-Sep 2002 and their operating margin is very close to ZERO.
IANAL, but I think they're stepping on thin ice because report was already uploaded to public accessible server and thus it should be considered published. Even if there was no hyperlink pointing to it Intentia didn't take any protective measure to restrict the access to the report. Reuters didn't have to circumvent any security measures so they can be hardly accused of hacking. And since the report was on public server they can't be accused of unathorized access. Another possible scenario is that Reuters've got the information about the document location from an insider, but the report was already accessible by public so i can't see any wrongdoing.
Getting source code doesn't mean that entire product goes down the drain. I legally cannot start to sell my own WinXP clone compiled from original source code. There're laws and other measures that prevents such practices.
Information (knowledge) itself isn't good or bad. It's just that: human knowledge. It's entirely upon human being what he does with the knowledge. Man should be held accountable for his deeds not for what he knows.
I know how to make explosives and yet I don't make them. Almost every high school student knows how to make nuke and (surprise, surprise) almost nobody is trying to make one. Just because I possess the information (in your case the source code) it doesn't mean I'm criminal. Nobody has the right to tell me what I'm allowed to know. And that's exactly what Big Brother is trying to do - prevent people from having the information he doesn't want them to know, and to criminalize people who possess such kind of information. Freenet is designed to fight this information slavery.
Lik Sang and it's employees couldn't even speak about the case due to an injunction of the High Court
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All the Court Orders have been issued before hearing a single word from the company.
I can't talk about the case and the injuction is issued before can I say anything? Honk Kong really looks like a nice place to live...
IMHO there's no such thing as unbiased court verdict. Assuming that judges are better people then we is simply stupid. They do have strong opinnions on various thnigs just as we common mortals do.
And yes, Microsoft needs slapping just like mentioned mule, but he should say it ex cathedra not in a interview.
I no sign no agrement. No understand english. I live where english speak nobody.
Simple reason: speed. I've got aplication (data gathering) that inserts 100.000 rows (average row length is about 60 bytes) in 1 minute. I'm die-hard postgres fan, but it simply can't cope with such load.