I'll tell you why: We're crackwhores and Saudi Arabia is our pimp and dealer. We'll do anything to make sure the Saudis keep selling us that sweet, sweet liquid love (petroleum).
I'll tell you something else, You're Michael Moore's crackwhore believing in his psychopathic conspiracy theories. Seriously, there is no conspiracy. If you want some good explanation on why all that crap in Fahrenheit 9/11 is false(Or a good part of it), try here http://www.davekopel.com/Terror/Fiftysix-Deceits-i n-Fahrenheit-911.htm
Until then stop smoking his crack, its bad for you.
Also about your comment about China, China wouldn't care if we invaded NK, the reason we don't is because it would be a blood bath and really doesn't gain anyone anything(and Im not talking monitarialy). Right now we are doing the right thing in just watching them closely and letting them tie a noose around their own necks. It wont be 5 years before NK colapses and there is one democratic Korea. Also you should note, China would acctually invite this because it would open up the country to all its goods and China and Korea would probably be eachother's top trading partners.
If you don't believe me when I say that NK is going to collapse, check out the simularities between Korea and Germany of the late 1980's. Its going to happen in a very simular fassion, the only problem is NK's huge army, but I figure China won't let them do too much damage without interviening or SK, Japan, and the U.S., or all 4, will keep control of the situation in some way.
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Yes I agree with you, but I think your missing something. You can demand that they meet with the license terms( release the source) or stop distributing and possibly pay damages.
I never said anything about a judge ordering anything under copyright law, what I said was the the developers could demand that the Go Music people comply with the license, or the Go Music people would have to deal with copyright law, which is no fun at all. Maybe I wasn't clear about that in my original post, if I was I apologize.
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Not exactly correct. Acctually very wrong. First, the GPL doesn't say you can't sell a piece of software. You actually can and many people do(Red Hat, SUSE, etc.).
To counter the rest of your argument, its unclear as to how far the GPL extends, but some people read it to say that if you distribute GPL source inside your _product_ the product must be licenced under the GPL. This is because the definition of a Derivative Work is kind of hazey as far as software is concerned. It sounds like these people took the shareza software and created a derived product called Go Music that now includes SpyWare. So it may be possible for the developers of Shareza to demand the release of all the source including the spyware. Oh, and the GPL doesn't give people unlimited rights to include your code anywhere. The distribution of your code is governed by a very strict set of rules and if they don't, they deal with copyright law which is no fun.
I think the Go Music people are in trouble wrt copyright, though I may be wrong.
" Really? I guess Debian must do it much better than Fedora..."
Yes, yes they do. I run Unstable and I only have the occasional breakage due to the fact that I am running PPC and when a debian developer uploads for i386 that includes an all package that has an exact versioned dep, apt will start doing stupid things, but I can always apt-get source and build it on my local machine and apt will be happy once more.
So to completely answer your question, its not just apt that makes Debian so great. Its the deb package format, its dpkg, and most importantly is the debian developers and the crazy amount of quality assurance they put into every release. And to any trolls who want to bitch about how slow the release process is, please don't because some people have different priorities than using the latest release of appFoo. That is why there are other distros for you to choose from. Im not going to hate on anyone because they use Fedora or Gentoo or whatever they want. I use Debian because it fulfills my needs and I hope you use your OS because it makes you happy.
Active Directory isnt so bad, Samba 3 can join AD domains and participate as a native client. Its a bit harder to setup but it is definately possible.
As for Macs, Linux, and other commercial Unixes most people dont want that, so the CS department Im working at is concidering forcing Debian onto all our departmentally owned machines and denying access to all privately owned computers except on the highly locked down wireless lan, and even then we require virus scanners and up to date patches.
Now I hear people groaning already about forcing Debian on all machines, well imagine this;
A person sits down at a computer and is presented with a GDM login screen. They type in their user name and password and set their session to "Microsoft Windows 2000." Yup, you guessed it, a hardware independent completely locked down, controled and up to date version of Windows pops up logged into the domain with complete access to all their files and all the printers and everything, and they can even open up a terminal that automagically presents them with a Debian environment for them to do their programing on. How will we do this? VMWare running ontop of our nice Debian install. That way the Windows install is completely hardware independent and every time there is an update we just roll up a new image and throw it up on the file server and all our users have all the latest updates. Combine that with the fact that the Debian host machine is running snort and puts the Windows machine inside a highly restricted private ip space that is monitored, and virtually all the problems we have with Windows suddenly disappear. Now yes this is an abomination, but it turns Windows from a huge headache into just another *.deb that we have to keep track of and keep up on security for.
Now thats how to deal with the Windows virus/spyware/worm administration nightmare. Now Im not saying that this would work to roll out on the entire campus, but it is a very novel approach.
Why would emerge rule because it gets rid of dependency hell? Debian has been doing that for years through apt-get and dselect. But to bring this back on topic, aptitude is the best console package manager out there. It is easy to use when your first jumping in, then when your ready, all the power is there for the learning. My definition of a console application done right.
Debian doesnt distribute stuff based on if it is GPL compatible. It bases it on if the software is DFSG-free. After that is the question of linking and Debian always tries to follow the license of the software. That is where the stuff about the binary only firmware in the kernel came from along with the XFree86 stuf. The linux kernel is not distributable with the firmware and all the GPLed software that depends on xlib cant link against it under the latest XFree86 license.
TROLL!!!!
Are you seriously complaining about firefox consuming 140 to 150 MB when you have 50 tabs open?
First, let me see IE do that. Last time I checked it couldn't. So, lets just try opening 50 webpages in 50 different windows of IE and watch your system crash and burn.
Somebody probably already said this, but...
I dont get why Sun can't keep the trademark and make people pass the test suite to us the Java trademark. Isnt this what happened to UNIX, the trademark went to one company and you have to pass a test suite to call your product a UNIX. This would be optimal for sun because Java would get a lot more use and development, while they still get to control what is called Java.
Maybe there is a difference that I just don't see, but it seems like they are doing this already, just also placing that as a restriction on distributing the changes as well. GPL the source and keep the trademark. Its that simple.
For that 20lbs that are hanging around, try the Hacker's Diet. You can google for it and it is the first result that came up. Not to sound like a comercial or anything, but... "It worked for me!!"(tm)
Your argument is even more specious. If you ask for someone's wallet and they give it to you freely its a gift. The only time this is illegal is when you threaten them, place them under duress, or solicite in an area that has anti-solicitation(not prostitution but places where you cant sell or ask people for money). So if someone asked Ms. Ima Luser for her wallet and she gave it to them it is her own problem and she probably would owe Mr. Mugger for filling a false police report and such.
Please note that I am not saying anything about WhenU's buisness model, but if people just say yes to every question they really should expect to get taken.
Buisness case: I work in a place where two of my bosses, a coworker, and myself have replaced OSX with various distributions of GNU/Linux. The two bosses and myself run Debian and my coworker runs Gentoo. We use GNU/Linux because the rest of our environment is Debian and we are able to integrate better. Also there is the question of freedom which we all value. But again the main reason is usability and uniformity accross all of our platforms(i386, sparc, mips, ppc). So yes Yellow Dog has a buisness case for people like us.
As for your second question about why support 64-bit G5's now? Why not? Just because not many people have them yet and from your point of view even less would want Yellow Dog on them, why not support them now and be ready when more and more people start getting G5's and want to put Yellow Dog or another version of GNU/Linux on them, they will be ready. I dont know the internal working of Yellow Dog, but I would assume it is a lot like Debian in that as long as there is enough people and hardware to work on a port it wll survive. Also you fail to realize that these chips come from IBM and if my memory serves me they already have 64-bit PPC systems out there that one can put GNU/Linux onto.
GNU/Linux is constantly blasted for not supporting the latest hardware and what you are saying is that they shouldnt support the G5 because it is too new. Also, just because you view OSX as supirior does not mean everyone does. I find Debian runs much faster on my ibook G4 than did OSX 10.3. As the G5's and IBM's 64-bit PPC's become more prolific(IBM is looking for OEM mobo providers) Yellow Dog will have a stable OS for them to run. That is why it is good that they are supporting the arch now.
I do, but the problem is that they see us as less than human because we are not muslim. Atleast that is the way the most radical of them think. Its unfortunate because Ive read parts of the Koran and I dont see how they justify that stance, but I guess they know more of it than me.
But on the subject of this off-topic flame war. I think the proper way of dealing with terrorism is a combination of both approaches. One has to go in with an iron fist and kill those who plan, fund, and support those doing the acctual attacks. The suicide bombers dont really matter. OBL and friends just use them as pawns and we really shouldnt be concerned with pawns but should be goin for the death blows against the king and queen by taking out the planners and supporters.
As for changing US policy, this has to happen as well. We have to give the common man on the muslim street an alternative and give him a way to live a peaceful life the way he sees fit(this applies to women as well). Im not sure how to go about doing this, but Im sure it can be done and done in the right way, not the common american reaction of we know best.
A good example is Arafat. This is a man who really doesnt care about the people he purports to lead and protect. His actions continually point to the fact that he just wants power. He is a terrorist against the Israili peple and the Palistinian people. What the US needs to do in this situation is tell him that he has a month to bring the terrorists under control before the US takes the gloves off of Isreal and gives them a free hand to take care of the problem up to and including killing him. I would be willing to bet that he would bitch and complain and yell bloody murder but at the end of that month there would be peace or he would be dead and another leader would come up and take his place and take control of the terrorist organizations. As for Isreal, they are dependent on US support so just threaten to remove it if they sabotage the peace process.
Its sad, but sometimes the only way to bring peace is to be a bigger bully than those causing the violence. The only thing is that the US needs to remember that no empire lasts forever and it cant be such a big bully that it feeds the hatred but it also cant be so weak that one attack can cause us to pull out. Both positions lead to more terrorism. Its finding a median that can be maintained supported by humanitarian operations that give the possible recruits alternatives. Ok Im done with my rant
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Look in any compressible aerodynamics book or combustion and propulsion book, they dont care about volume because it doesnt mean anything. They care about mass flow rate.
Technically we are both talking about the same thing but you are looking at it from a very simplistic layman's point of view. Any true engineer will use mass flow rate over volume because it means more and carries with it more information.
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Wrong, volume has nothing to do with it. Remember, as the density goes up the mass that a certain velume contains goes down. All that matters is the mass flow rate. That is the density times the velocity(parallel to the inlet) times the inlet area. For purposes of any air breathing engine its that value that determines if it can sustain combustion.
On a side note though, one of these combined with a Pulse Detonation Engine could be enough to create a truly reusable orbital vehicle, which would be mad cool(yes mad cool is an engineering term).
You know something I noticed that everytime MS is compromised they get the FBI to look into it. I have yet to see the FBI look into one OSS compromise. I guess it has something to do with the money and all, but I think its high time the OSS community to get our friends in goverment involved. I would vote for bringing in the NSA(makers of SELinux) with their dark rooms and "friendly convincing" methods. Im sure they would get to the bottom of who is causing these breakins, plus the added bonus of the fear factor. After people hear of some cracker being put through the anal probes, umm I mean friendly inspections, of the NSA I doubt that there would be many more people out there willing to attempt a compromsise an OSS system again.
Wow, Im going to have to call BS on that one. Im sitting here infront of a Celeron 800 with 512 megs of ram running gnome 2.4 on linux 2.6(Debian Sid). Im currently compiling garnome and I have 2 browsers open, 4 terminals, and emacs running and my system is not slowing down at all and still feels very responsive. This includes switching terminals which it does almost instantly.
Im sorry that you feel gnome is too slow on your dual p3 system, but I have no clue why unless your running a webserver on that machine thats in the middle of a slashdotting, or possibly you have something horribly missconfigured.
I can understand people with p2 and bellow with less than 128 megs of ram having a problem running gnome or KDE, but for goodness sakes man, you have a nice system sitting on your desk(or wherever it may be).
ATI cant and wont expose the low level details of their hardware's functionality to competitors.
I dont know why so many people use that argument. Its pretty much BS. ATI and Nvidia have totally different archetectures in how their cards do graphics. I dont remember the exact differences right now, but it would be very difficult to incorporate anything you learned from one's drivers into the other's products. Also there is this little thing called patents that would also stop such a theft. Im sure ATI has patents on all the intresting parts of its products that would keep nvidia from stealing them.
The main reason for ATI not open sourcing their drivers is plain and simple; its that corprate mentality of not giving away anything for free. Im not arguing that thats wrong or anything, its their driver to do what they want with, but just recognize the real reason for what they are doing. ATI is a corporation and Im sure if enough people sent emails saying how much they loved their ATI cards and how much it would make them love their ATI cards even more, and buy more of the beloved cards, if they had good high quality open sourced drivers to run their cards. Im sure ATI would open source the drivers if it got enough such emails. Isnt that how people got them to produce linux drivers and give specs to developers in the first place?
I think your problem is much deeper than the users having too much access. Your assuming that you can keep your client machines secure. This is a losing battle. As another poster has already pointed out that there are plenty of ways to take root access on a local machine you have total access to.
Where I work we assume the clients can be comprmised at any time and we protect the servers. We also have ways of reinstalling the clients at a moments notice in a very reproducable way. Its surprisingly easy and much more secure than locking down the clients and trusting them. It also doesnt hinder the users.
At my university, we run a solaris box as our file server. We only allow logins from admins and only via dsa ssh_keys to the system. We do this with all our production servers(web, mail, zope, database, etc. all running debian), but we also run many desktop systems and two shell servers running debian as well. We assume that these machines will be comprimised, corrupted, and/or otherwise broken. As such we manage them all via a system call FAI that we can reinstall the system at any time via a floppy and about 30 minutes of time.
Basically we keep all the systems that need to be up all the time safe from normal user login( normal users login via ldap) the same way we do with our file server, and those systems that can be comprimised we keep them so we can reinstall easily and quickly. This system is surprisingly flexible, secure, and easy to use. I dont see why more organizations dont use this type of setup. We assume we will be comprimised and are putting into place a system in which comprimises, hardware failures, and other mishaps dont matter.
P.S. We are currently moving all our machines to FAI including replacing the solaris file server running NFS with two debian file servers running OpenAFS. After that any of our machines can be comprimised and with our nightly back-ups we will be back up and running in as little as a few seconds(fail-over) to at most a few hours if we have to reinstall, patch, and restore.
I think that part was meant as a joke. You know, one of those things you laugh at. The thought of invading Canada has been part of American comedic culture for some time. Have you ever seen "Canadian Baccon"? Its a funny movie that acctually has something to say about current events. US President goes to war with Canada for popular opinion, saying they have WMDs.
Btw, Im sure he got modded insightful for the rest of his comment.
Seriously though, Flash, like many other tools, can always be used poorly. Its up to the web designer to use the tools properly and if you encounter a site that uses any tool in a way that you dont like, dont just degrade a tool for someone else's mistake, degrade that person or orginization for being braindead.
Note: For those people not using one of macromedia's supported operating system, there is an open source plugin that Im currently using to view all flash and I have seen only a few instances where it does not work.
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I'll tell you something else, You're Michael Moore's crackwhore believing in his psychopathic conspiracy theories. Seriously, there is no conspiracy. If you want some good explanation on why all that crap in Fahrenheit 9/11 is false(Or a good part of it), try here http://www.davekopel.com/Terror/Fiftysix-Deceits-
Until then stop smoking his crack, its bad for you.
Also about your comment about China, China wouldn't care if we invaded NK, the reason we don't is because it would be a blood bath and really doesn't gain anyone anything(and Im not talking monitarialy). Right now we are doing the right thing in just watching them closely and letting them tie a noose around their own necks. It wont be 5 years before NK colapses and there is one democratic Korea. Also you should note, China would acctually invite this because it would open up the country to all its goods and China and Korea would probably be eachother's top trading partners.
If you don't believe me when I say that NK is going to collapse, check out the simularities between Korea and Germany of the late 1980's. Its going to happen in a very simular fassion, the only problem is NK's huge army, but I figure China won't let them do too much damage without interviening or SK, Japan, and the U.S., or all 4, will keep control of the situation in some way.
Yes I agree with you, but I think your missing something. You can demand that they meet with the license terms( release the source) or stop distributing and possibly pay damages.
I never said anything about a judge ordering anything under copyright law, what I said was the the developers could demand that the Go Music people comply with the license, or the Go Music people would have to deal with copyright law, which is no fun at all. Maybe I wasn't clear about that in my original post, if I was I apologize.
Not exactly correct. Acctually very wrong. First, the GPL doesn't say you can't sell a piece of software. You actually can and many people do(Red Hat, SUSE, etc.).
To counter the rest of your argument, its unclear as to how far the GPL extends, but some people read it to say that if you distribute GPL source inside your _product_ the product must be licenced under the GPL. This is because the definition of a Derivative Work is kind of hazey as far as software is concerned. It sounds like these people took the shareza software and created a derived product called Go Music that now includes SpyWare. So it may be possible for the developers of Shareza to demand the release of all the source including the spyware. Oh, and the GPL doesn't give people unlimited rights to include your code anywhere. The distribution of your code is governed by a very strict set of rules and if they don't, they deal with copyright law which is no fun.
I think the Go Music people are in trouble wrt copyright, though I may be wrong.
" Really? I guess Debian must do it much better than Fedora..."
Yes, yes they do. I run Unstable and I only have the occasional breakage due to the fact that I am running PPC and when a debian developer uploads for i386 that includes an all package that has an exact versioned dep, apt will start doing stupid things, but I can always apt-get source and build it on my local machine and apt will be happy once more.
So to completely answer your question, its not just apt that makes Debian so great. Its the deb package format, its dpkg, and most importantly is the debian developers and the crazy amount of quality assurance they put into every release. And to any trolls who want to bitch about how slow the release process is, please don't because some people have different priorities than using the latest release of appFoo. That is why there are other distros for you to choose from. Im not going to hate on anyone because they use Fedora or Gentoo or whatever they want. I use Debian because it fulfills my needs and I hope you use your OS because it makes you happy.
Active Directory isnt so bad, Samba 3 can join AD domains and participate as a native client. Its a bit harder to setup but it is definately possible.
As for Macs, Linux, and other commercial Unixes most people dont want that, so the CS department Im working at is concidering forcing Debian onto all our departmentally owned machines and denying access to all privately owned computers except on the highly locked down wireless lan, and even then we require virus scanners and up to date patches.
Now I hear people groaning already about forcing Debian on all machines, well imagine this;
A person sits down at a computer and is presented with a GDM login screen. They type in their user name and password and set their session to "Microsoft Windows 2000." Yup, you guessed it, a hardware independent completely locked down, controled and up to date version of Windows pops up logged into the domain with complete access to all their files and all the printers and everything, and they can even open up a terminal that automagically presents them with a Debian environment for them to do their programing on. How will we do this? VMWare running ontop of our nice Debian install. That way the Windows install is completely hardware independent and every time there is an update we just roll up a new image and throw it up on the file server and all our users have all the latest updates. Combine that with the fact that the Debian host machine is running snort and puts the Windows machine inside a highly restricted private ip space that is monitored, and virtually all the problems we have with Windows suddenly disappear. Now yes this is an abomination, but it turns Windows from a huge headache into just another *.deb that we have to keep track of and keep up on security for.
Now thats how to deal with the Windows virus/spyware/worm administration nightmare. Now Im not saying that this would work to roll out on the entire campus, but it is a very novel approach.
Why would emerge rule because it gets rid of dependency hell? Debian has been doing that for years through apt-get and dselect. But to bring this back on topic, aptitude is the best console package manager out there. It is easy to use when your first jumping in, then when your ready, all the power is there for the learning. My definition of a console application done right.
Debian doesnt distribute stuff based on if it is GPL compatible. It bases it on if the software is DFSG-free. After that is the question of linking and Debian always tries to follow the license of the software. That is where the stuff about the binary only firmware in the kernel came from along with the XFree86 stuf. The linux kernel is not distributable with the firmware and all the GPLed software that depends on xlib cant link against it under the latest XFree86 license.
TROLL!!!!
Are you seriously complaining about firefox consuming 140 to 150 MB when you have 50 tabs open?
First, let me see IE do that. Last time I checked it couldn't. So, lets just try opening 50 webpages in 50 different windows of IE and watch your system crash and burn.
Somebody probably already said this, but...
I dont get why Sun can't keep the trademark and make people pass the test suite to us the Java trademark. Isnt this what happened to UNIX, the trademark went to one company and you have to pass a test suite to call your product a UNIX. This would be optimal for sun because Java would get a lot more use and development, while they still get to control what is called Java.
Maybe there is a difference that I just don't see, but it seems like they are doing this already, just also placing that as a restriction on distributing the changes as well. GPL the source and keep the trademark. Its that simple.
For that 20lbs that are hanging around, try the Hacker's Diet. You can google for it and it is the first result that came up. Not to sound like a comercial or anything, but... "It worked for me!!"(tm)
Your argument is even more specious. If you ask for someone's wallet and they give it to you freely its a gift. The only time this is illegal is when you threaten them, place them under duress, or solicite in an area that has anti-solicitation(not prostitution but places where you cant sell or ask people for money). So if someone asked Ms. Ima Luser for her wallet and she gave it to them it is her own problem and she probably would owe Mr. Mugger for filling a false police report and such.
Please note that I am not saying anything about WhenU's buisness model, but if people just say yes to every question they really should expect to get taken.
Couldn't you just steal one from the local holiday inn?
Buisness case: I work in a place where two of my bosses, a coworker, and myself have replaced OSX with various distributions of GNU/Linux. The two bosses and myself run Debian and my coworker runs Gentoo. We use GNU/Linux because the rest of our environment is Debian and we are able to integrate better. Also there is the question of freedom which we all value. But again the main reason is usability and uniformity accross all of our platforms(i386, sparc, mips, ppc). So yes Yellow Dog has a buisness case for people like us.
As for your second question about why support 64-bit G5's now? Why not? Just because not many people have them yet and from your point of view even less would want Yellow Dog on them, why not support them now and be ready when more and more people start getting G5's and want to put Yellow Dog or another version of GNU/Linux on them, they will be ready. I dont know the internal working of Yellow Dog, but I would assume it is a lot like Debian in that as long as there is enough people and hardware to work on a port it wll survive. Also you fail to realize that these chips come from IBM and if my memory serves me they already have 64-bit PPC systems out there that one can put GNU/Linux onto.
GNU/Linux is constantly blasted for not supporting the latest hardware and what you are saying is that they shouldnt support the G5 because it is too new. Also, just because you view OSX as supirior does not mean everyone does. I find Debian runs much faster on my ibook G4 than did OSX 10.3. As the G5's and IBM's 64-bit PPC's become more prolific(IBM is looking for OEM mobo providers) Yellow Dog will have a stable OS for them to run. That is why it is good that they are supporting the arch now.
Lucky? Im sorry, but those green chicks were kind of hot. I would rather do green chicks than shoot green people.
Oh Lord, I just resonded to a Star Wars/Trek post. I need to go wash myself and see if my girlfriend will still have me back.
"Btw, you do know they are human too?"
I do, but the problem is that they see us as less than human because we are not muslim. Atleast that is the way the most radical of them think. Its unfortunate because Ive read parts of the Koran and I dont see how they justify that stance, but I guess they know more of it than me.
But on the subject of this off-topic flame war. I think the proper way of dealing with terrorism is a combination of both approaches. One has to go in with an iron fist and kill those who plan, fund, and support those doing the acctual attacks. The suicide bombers dont really matter. OBL and friends just use them as pawns and we really shouldnt be concerned with pawns but should be goin for the death blows against the king and queen by taking out the planners and supporters.
As for changing US policy, this has to happen as well. We have to give the common man on the muslim street an alternative and give him a way to live a peaceful life the way he sees fit(this applies to women as well). Im not sure how to go about doing this, but Im sure it can be done and done in the right way, not the common american reaction of we know best.
A good example is Arafat. This is a man who really doesnt care about the people he purports to lead and protect. His actions continually point to the fact that he just wants power. He is a terrorist against the Israili peple and the Palistinian people. What the US needs to do in this situation is tell him that he has a month to bring the terrorists under control before the US takes the gloves off of Isreal and gives them a free hand to take care of the problem up to and including killing him. I would be willing to bet that he would bitch and complain and yell bloody murder but at the end of that month there would be peace or he would be dead and another leader would come up and take his place and take control of the terrorist organizations. As for Isreal, they are dependent on US support so just threaten to remove it if they sabotage the peace process.
Its sad, but sometimes the only way to bring peace is to be a bigger bully than those causing the violence. The only thing is that the US needs to remember that no empire lasts forever and it cant be such a big bully that it feeds the hatred but it also cant be so weak that one attack can cause us to pull out. Both positions lead to more terrorism. Its finding a median that can be maintained supported by humanitarian operations that give the possible recruits alternatives.
Ok Im done with my rant
Look in any compressible aerodynamics book or combustion and propulsion book, they dont care about volume because it doesnt mean anything. They care about mass flow rate.
Technically we are both talking about the same thing but you are looking at it from a very simplistic layman's point of view. Any true engineer will use mass flow rate over volume because it means more and carries with it more information.
Wrong, volume has nothing to do with it. Remember, as the density goes up the mass that a certain velume contains goes down. All that matters is the mass flow rate. That is the density times the velocity(parallel to the inlet) times the inlet area. For purposes of any air breathing engine its that value that determines if it can sustain combustion.
On a side note though, one of these combined with a Pulse Detonation Engine could be enough to create a truly reusable orbital vehicle, which would be mad cool(yes mad cool is an engineering term).
Try about:config You can configure virtually everything about any mozilla based browser from about:config. Its a nice thing to have.
You know something I noticed that everytime MS is compromised they get the FBI to look into it. I have yet to see the FBI look into one OSS compromise. I guess it has something to do with the money and all, but I think its high time the OSS community to get our friends in goverment involved.
I would vote for bringing in the NSA(makers of SELinux) with their dark rooms and "friendly convincing" methods. Im sure they would get to the bottom of who is causing these breakins, plus the added bonus of the fear factor. After people hear of some cracker being put through the anal probes, umm I mean friendly inspections, of the NSA I doubt that there would be many more people out there willing to attempt a compromsise an OSS system again.
Wow, Im going to have to call BS on that one. Im sitting here infront of a Celeron 800 with 512 megs of ram running gnome 2.4 on linux 2.6(Debian Sid). Im currently compiling garnome and I have 2 browsers open, 4 terminals, and emacs running and my system is not slowing down at all and still feels very responsive. This includes switching terminals which it does almost instantly.
Im sorry that you feel gnome is too slow on your dual p3 system, but I have no clue why unless your running a webserver on that machine thats in the middle of a slashdotting, or possibly you have something horribly missconfigured.
I can understand people with p2 and bellow with less than 128 megs of ram having a problem running gnome or KDE, but for goodness sakes man, you have a nice system sitting on your desk(or wherever it may be).
ATI cant and wont expose the low level details of their hardware's functionality to competitors.
I dont know why so many people use that argument. Its pretty much BS. ATI and Nvidia have totally different archetectures in how their cards do graphics. I dont remember the exact differences right now, but it would be very difficult to incorporate anything you learned from one's drivers into the other's products. Also there is this little thing called patents that would also stop such a theft. Im sure ATI has patents on all the intresting parts of its products that would keep nvidia from stealing them.
The main reason for ATI not open sourcing their drivers is plain and simple; its that corprate mentality of not giving away anything for free. Im not arguing that thats wrong or anything, its their driver to do what they want with, but just recognize the real reason for what they are doing. ATI is a corporation and Im sure if enough people sent emails saying how much they loved their ATI cards and how much it would make them love their ATI cards even more, and buy more of the beloved cards, if they had good high quality open sourced drivers to run their cards. Im sure ATI would open source the drivers if it got enough such emails. Isnt that how people got them to produce linux drivers and give specs to developers in the first place?
I think your problem is much deeper than the users having too much access. Your assuming that you can keep your client machines secure. This is a losing battle. As another poster has already pointed out that there are plenty of ways to take root access on a local machine you have total access to.
Where I work we assume the clients can be comprmised at any time and we protect the servers. We also have ways of reinstalling the clients at a moments notice in a very reproducable way. Its surprisingly easy and much more secure than locking down the clients and trusting them. It also doesnt hinder the users.
At my university, we run a solaris box as our file server. We only allow logins from admins and only via dsa ssh_keys to the system. We do this with all our production servers(web, mail, zope, database, etc. all running debian), but we also run many desktop systems and two shell servers running debian as well. We assume that these machines will be comprimised, corrupted, and/or otherwise broken. As such we manage them all via a system call FAI that we can reinstall the system at any time via a floppy and about 30 minutes of time.
Basically we keep all the systems that need to be up all the time safe from normal user login( normal users login via ldap) the same way we do with our file server, and those systems that can be comprimised we keep them so we can reinstall easily and quickly. This system is surprisingly flexible, secure, and easy to use. I dont see why more organizations dont use this type of setup. We assume we will be comprimised and are putting into place a system in which comprimises, hardware failures, and other mishaps dont matter.
P.S. We are currently moving all our machines to FAI including replacing the solaris file server running NFS with two debian file servers running OpenAFS. After that any of our machines can be comprimised and with our nightly back-ups we will be back up and running in as little as a few seconds(fail-over) to at most a few hours if we have to reinstall, patch, and restore.
I think that part was meant as a joke. You know, one of those things you laugh at. The thought of invading Canada has been part of American comedic culture for some time. Have you ever seen "Canadian Baccon"? Its a funny movie that acctually has something to say about current events. US President goes to war with Canada for popular opinion, saying they have WMDs.
Btw, Im sure he got modded insightful for the rest of his comment.
I have to agree that Flash used poorly is a horrible thing. But Flash does have its uses.
Who can argue with Strong Bad.
Seriously though, Flash, like many other tools, can always be used poorly. Its up to the web designer to use the tools properly and if you encounter a site that uses any tool in a way that you dont like, dont just degrade a tool for someone else's mistake, degrade that person or orginization for being braindead.
Note: For those people not using one of macromedia's supported operating system, there is an open source plugin that Im currently using to view all flash and I have seen only a few instances where it does not work.