... The Software Engineer, looks a the other two, says "Close all windows, shut down the engine, start the engine, open the windows again and see if the problem is still happening"
At weekends you can often find hundreds of people to play against. It features an ELO-system, chat, practice game rooms and you can view other peoples games.
Having read the fine print at trolltech, my guess is that Qt can use the funtionalities of the underlying architecture. Don't forget that Qt is cross-platform and while multi-head (for example) might be available for X, it might not be for MacOS. I guess that's the biggest challenge for the Trolls: keep everything consistent on every platform.
You're probably right in the end. I've been a unix sysadmin for a long time and I still have diffuculty adapting to the idea of only one person using one computer. (I think that the trend for the future will be different though.)
As for the "professional courtesy" part, I seriously doubt that that has anything to do with it. In my opinion, among others, these things limit the spread of concept virii on Linux:
- Fragmented use of software: people don't just use outlook & IE, they use a long list of different softwares and distributions. Fortunately, the competition between KDE & Gnome is still going strong, and there will always be different distributions people can use.
- The speed of development. By the time someone developed a concept virus, the mail-client wil have had 3 revisions of it's code base. As an example, KDE is releasing code at an amasing pace.
To finish, I don't really NEED a full blown attack, but it sure is fun to watch at times.;-)
The major difference between Win32 and Linux is that Linux has a good security model. Regardless of how bad Gnome/KDE-scripting, the possible damage is going to be limited to the users files.
Even with the worst possible scripting installed in terms of security, it still would be very difficult to gain root access.
Now the same can be said about Windows NT/2K but it's soo much easier to give yourself admin rights on these platforms isn't it? I wonder how many people like to work without it. The lack of an su command kind of takes the fun away...
1. Don't agree. AIX is as standard as it gets.
2. Comparing AIX5L with NT is asking to be flamed since the L stands for Linux.
3. I used to compile earlier versions of KDE on AIX. Never had a problem and when I did, the developers always took it seriously.
4. Fix it, don't invent excuses.
By the time these kinds of smart & small robots become a reality, they'll have rights of their own.
After human rights, animal rights and rights for fish(*) the robot-rights will become a reality. Not because robots can claim these rights for themselves, but because humans identify so much with the robots. After all, if it looks like a dog, acts like a dog and sounds like a dog, people are going to think it IS a dog.
Time to read Asimovs robot stories again.
Cheers,
Matt
(*) Recently, a court in Belgium ruled it illegal to eat live fish after a complaint by animal rights organisation GAIA. The consumption of the live fish was a tradition that lasted a few hundred years...
The evolution is to combine home tv/dvd/video/computer/stereo/... in a single home network. It allows you to transfer your TV program to your computer on the fly and vice versa. "Computer: transfer this signal to my office"
Extend this to larger organisations and networks and you might want to encrypt video signals and the lot.
(Or... It's just another sort of copy protection like DVD uses)
Reading the complete story on Nikola Tesla, it is clear to me now that he was a time traveler. There simply is no other explanation! This guy knew everything in advance.
I can see why an investigation can be worth while: Win2K so far has:
- an incompatible DNS implementation - an incompatible Kerberos 5 implementation
Who can't imagine environments where this might be a problem? The obvious solution is to go 100% Microsoft and this could make competitors nervous.
Now the real question for the EC is: did Microsoft engineer these 'bugs' by accident or by design? Incidents from the past seem to indicate that it was done on purpose, but you can't be sure can you?
I went to SP World about 6 weeks ago and there I got a glimpse of the directions IBM RS/6000 is taking. As far as NUMA is concerned (Although they refused to really call it NUMA) they will be upgrading the current SP backbone (300MB/s) to 2GB/s and later to even over 10GB/s with very low latencies. (That's Byte, not bit)
As far as the software is concerned, Sequents software will be incorporated into Monterey. AIX and Monterey will evolve to become a single source tree to be marketed under a new name. They were asking for original names, although they said it shouldn't have a number in it...
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The Software Engineer, looks a the other two, says "Close all windows, shut down the engine, start the engine, open the windows again and see if the problem is still happening"
At weekends you can often find hundreds of people to play against. It features an ELO-system, chat, practice game rooms and you can view other peoples games.
HTH,
Matt
I disagree!
Having read the fine print at trolltech, my guess is that Qt can use the funtionalities of the underlying architecture. Don't forget that Qt is cross-platform and while multi-head (for example) might be available for X, it might not be for MacOS. I guess that's the biggest challenge for the Trolls: keep everything consistent on every platform.
Cheers,
Matt
You're probably right in the end. I've been a unix sysadmin for a long time and I still have diffuculty adapting to the idea of only one person using one computer. (I think that the trend for the future will be different though.)
;-)
As for the "professional courtesy" part, I seriously doubt that that has anything to do with it. In my opinion, among others, these things limit the spread of concept virii on Linux:
- Fragmented use of software: people don't just use outlook & IE, they use a long list of different softwares and distributions. Fortunately, the competition between KDE & Gnome is still going strong, and there will always be different distributions people can use.
- The speed of development. By the time someone developed a concept virus, the mail-client wil have had 3 revisions of it's code base. As an example, KDE is releasing code at an amasing pace.
To finish, I don't really NEED a full blown attack, but it sure is fun to watch at times.
just my 2 -cents.
Matt
The major difference between Win32 and Linux is that Linux has a good security model. Regardless of how bad Gnome/KDE-scripting, the possible damage is going to be limited to the users files.
Even with the worst possible scripting installed in terms of security, it still would be very difficult to gain root access.
Now the same can be said about Windows NT/2K but it's soo much easier to give yourself admin rights on these platforms isn't it? I wonder how many people like to work without it. The lack of an su command kind of takes the fun away...
Cheers,
Matt
you guys are 3 days early...
border of course.
Shees!
You forgot: All your superconductors are belong to us.
:-)
Whoa Michel!
My bad???
Take it easy buddy! Burn some karma.
Cheers,
Matt
1. Don't agree. AIX is as standard as it gets.
2. Comparing AIX5L with NT is asking to be flamed since the L stands for Linux.
3. I used to compile earlier versions of KDE on AIX. Never had a problem and when I did, the developers always took it seriously.
4. Fix it, don't invent excuses.
Cheers,
Matt
Do you want to beat your robot? Go right ahead
Abusing robots are we?
By the time these kinds of smart & small robots become a reality, they'll have rights of their own.
After human rights, animal rights and rights for fish(*) the robot-rights will become a reality. Not because robots can claim these rights for themselves, but because humans identify so much with the robots. After all, if it looks like a dog, acts like a dog and sounds like a dog, people are going to think it IS a dog.
Time to read Asimovs robot stories again.
Cheers,
Matt
(*) Recently, a court in Belgium ruled it illegal to eat live fish after a complaint by animal rights organisation GAIA. The consumption of the live fish was a tradition that lasted a few hundred years...
The evolution is to combine home tv/dvd/video/computer/stereo/... in a single home network. It allows you to transfer your TV program to your computer on the fly and vice versa.
"Computer: transfer this signal to my office"
Extend this to larger organisations and networks and you might want to encrypt video signals and the lot.
(Or... It's just another sort of copy protection like DVD uses)
Reading the complete story on Nikola Tesla, it is clear to me now that he was a time traveler. There simply is no other explanation! This guy knew everything in advance.
Nobodies that smart...hu?
I can see why an investigation can be worth while:
Win2K so far has:
- an incompatible DNS implementation
- an incompatible Kerberos 5 implementation
Who can't imagine environments where this might be a problem? The obvious solution is to go 100% Microsoft and this could make competitors nervous.
Now the real question for the EC is: did Microsoft engineer these 'bugs' by accident or by design? Incidents from the past seem to indicate that it was done on purpose, but you can't be sure can you?
Maybe we should wait for the first service pack?
I guess the EC doesn't want to wait...
Matt 'Euro' Casters
I went to SP World about 6 weeks ago and there I got a glimpse of the directions IBM RS/6000 is taking.
As far as NUMA is concerned (Although they refused to really call it NUMA) they will be upgrading the current SP backbone (300MB/s) to 2GB/s and later to even over 10GB/s with very low latencies. (That's Byte, not bit)
As far as the software is concerned, Sequents software will be incorporated into Monterey. AIX and Monterey will evolve to become a single source tree to be marketed under a new name. They were asking for original names, although they said it shouldn't have a number in it...
Matt