While yes, it is easier to program (except the core), it's hard to keep it secure for running mission critical jobs running on user space instead of kernel space (which are by nature, far more relatively secure), but it is not impossible.
Keeping things simple is the fashionable new way of 90s and 2000s. Look at qmail, or other simple but secure/robust/fast/insert_favorite_software_engine ering_objective_here programs by DJB (even though they are structural).
Look at Object Oriented Programming (yes, it was available before, but not that widely used). Makes it great for a group of programmers safely (without killing each other) develop a complex system, consisted of numerous very simple parts.
Andrew Tanenbaum is surely a smart guy. He has thought of things many could still not think of.
It's very hard to make things change in academic minds (I have a slight academic background), but this guy had revolutionary ideas back then.
I think that's a make up on the current insecure credit card framework, which is hopeless. Credit cards are so propagated through the world, and it would be very costly (and disastrous) to build a brand new security mechanism so anyone can understand why MasterCard does such kind of show-off, without doing actually anything.
This quote is worth any comment:
"PayPass is guaranteed as safe and secure as all MasterCards."
Oh, then that gave me a very strong and confident feeling. (Read this as: secure my ass)
Did anyone also recognized that old advertisements have long and informative texts.
I also have many computer magazines from 80s and the strange thing I notice is not the prices but changes in today's advertisements.
Today's advertisements include nice logos, running technological sprites all over the screen, a big motto and some "WE ARE THE BEST" sentences.
I agree with you. I have a very friendly professor an the university. He is a professor of physics.
He had learned how to compute using Unix machines. When Linux became available, he started using it. He has never practically used Windows for his own favor and he certainly is frustrated when he has to do something in a Windows box, as it is not what he is used to. He always searches for the simplicity and easyness that he is used to. He looks for Linux.
The same applies to me also, but I have been using Linux as my primary desktop operating system only for 5 years and it is not the first operating system I have used (I have used AmigaOS and Windows 3.1/95/98 then switched to Linux full time).
A600 was a good machine, but it broke software compatibility. (The chipset was changed.) The chipset in Amiga (The PAD, with their old names, Paula, Agnus and Denise) was very important. The chipset was intelligently designed (thanks to Jay Miner), so that good old MC68000 would not cry under heavy pre-emptive multitasking.)
It was also born dead, as it had no numberic keyboard. It had very good interfaces (with native IDE interface and the legendary PCMCIAish slot on the left)
Also a very interesting thing I think many are unaware: It was also the first Amiga produced with VLSI.
So PC focused? near as i'm aware they only released an xt, an AT, perhaps a 386sx or so. I still own a commodore b&w vga monitor that I bought from the only amiga shop in town.
Commodore invested what it has earned from Amiga to PCs. They tried many false strategies (sometimes no strategies at all) and this is the main purpose of its bankrupt. Amiga was very profitable for the company, even though Commodore did not sell (or even manufacture) many peripherals for it. All the good went off for the sake of PC.
By the way, they have many PC models. Just browse through any computer museum web site. (With very IBMish CBM name)
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SCO used to be a recognized brand when it was "Santa Cruz Operation". Just browse through computer magazines of late 80s and early 90s.
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Googling is now synonymous with Internet searching.
Remember the days when Netscape was synonymous with Internet browsing?
Brands are valuable. But companies can't stand if they only rely on them.
Simple examples are Netscape, DEC. An upcoming example will be SCO.
IP security would be easy to provide using many of the decent implementations of IPSec, but the most important problem of VoIP is that it is vulnerable to any kind of DoS attack.
The PSTN/POTS service is also on a publicly switched network, but controlled by central authorities. However, noone will try a DoS attack by constantly ringing your phone and making it busy.
I don't think it would be slow. Flash movies playing on Flash Player for Windows running on WINE (Crossover) are faster than the Macromedia native Linux Flash Player (which is very unoptimized and naturally sucks).
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Linus himself is aimed at the desktop, he does not care about business, he leaves that to other people.
I'm sure somebody will upload his own ass instead of Shrek's, or the donkey's (can't recall the name).
This claims hardwriting recognition. (Although it requires some sort of structure in the OCR'd page I think)/
While yes, it is easier to program (except the core), it's hard to keep it secure for running mission critical jobs running on user space instead of kernel space (which are by nature, far more relatively secure), but it is not impossible.
e ering_objective_here programs by DJB (even though they are structural).
Keeping things simple is the fashionable new way of 90s and 2000s. Look at qmail, or other simple but secure/robust/fast/insert_favorite_software_engin
Look at Object Oriented Programming (yes, it was available before, but not that widely used). Makes it great for a group of programmers safely (without killing each other) develop a complex system, consisted of numerous very simple parts.
Andrew Tanenbaum is surely a smart guy. He has thought of things many could still not think of.
It's very hard to make things change in academic minds (I have a slight academic background), but this guy had revolutionary ideas back then.
Very interesting behavior, but social and ethical rules may not be tolerable to such device.
By the way. Slackware 9.1 is 2 CDs (even though you can install much of the core stuff with CD1).
GIMP is dead easy compared to Photoshop I think.
I think that's a make up on the current insecure credit card framework, which is hopeless. Credit cards are so propagated through the world, and it would be very costly (and disastrous) to build a brand new security mechanism so anyone can understand why MasterCard does such kind of show-off, without doing actually anything.
This quote is worth any comment:
"PayPass is guaranteed as safe and secure as all MasterCards."
Oh, then that gave me a very strong and confident feeling. (Read this as: secure my ass)
Did anyone also recognized that old advertisements have long and informative texts. I also have many computer magazines from 80s and the strange thing I notice is not the prices but changes in today's advertisements.
Today's advertisements include nice logos, running technological sprites all over the screen, a big motto and some "WE ARE THE BEST" sentences.
Linux 2.6.x has a nice forced module unloading feature.
.config
Try:
CONFIG_MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD=y
in
Of course it exists and I've got the source code right here:
#!/bin/bash
# David source code: david.sh
# Warning: Strictly confidential!!!
str=$1
while [ "$1" != "" ]
do
shift
str="$str $1"
done
wine $str
Which should go fine, if you manage to output a.out instead of ELF.
I agree with you. I have a very friendly professor an the university. He is a professor of physics.
He had learned how to compute using Unix machines. When Linux became available, he started using it. He has never practically used Windows for his own favor and he certainly is frustrated when he has to do something in a Windows box, as it is not what he is used to. He always searches for the simplicity and easyness that he is used to. He looks for Linux.
The same applies to me also, but I have been using Linux as my primary desktop operating system only for 5 years and it is not the first operating system I have used (I have used AmigaOS and Windows 3.1/95/98 then switched to Linux full time).
A software license permits the usage of the software. There is a common misunderstanding that the license owner owns the software. No (s)he does not.
I don't think that would be a problem. The person who is the founder of Microsoft and known as "Bill Gates" is actually "William Gates".
It's the same issue that if we have a buddy named "Robert Craft", then it's OK to say "Bob Craft has no penis", as his name is not Bob, it's Robert.
YaST has already been open source. It was just not GPL'd.
A600 was a good machine, but it broke software compatibility. (The chipset was changed.) The chipset in Amiga (The PAD, with their old names, Paula, Agnus and Denise) was very important. The chipset was intelligently designed (thanks to Jay Miner), so that good old MC68000 would not cry under heavy pre-emptive multitasking.)
It was also born dead, as it had no numberic keyboard. It had very good interfaces (with native IDE interface and the legendary PCMCIAish slot on the left)
Also a very interesting thing I think many are unaware: It was also the first Amiga produced with VLSI.
Commodore invested what it has earned from Amiga to PCs. They tried many false strategies (sometimes no strategies at all) and this is the main purpose of its bankrupt. Amiga was very profitable for the company, even though Commodore did not sell (or even manufacture) many peripherals for it. All the good went off for the sake of PC.
By the way, they have many PC models. Just browse through any computer museum web site. (With very IBMish CBM name)
SCO used to be a recognized brand when it was "Santa Cruz Operation". Just browse through computer magazines of late 80s and early 90s.
Brands are valuable. But companies can't stand if they only rely on them.
Simple examples are Netscape, DEC. An upcoming example will be SCO.
Simple Greek:
Demos: People
Krateo: Rule
Democracy: Rule by the people
Nothing about free speech.
(By the way, I can't speak Greek, but it's common knowledge)
IP security would be easy to provide using many of the decent implementations of IPSec, but the most important problem of VoIP is that it is vulnerable to any kind of DoS attack.
The PSTN/POTS service is also on a publicly switched network, but controlled by central authorities. However, noone will try a DoS attack by constantly ringing your phone and making it busy.
I don't think it would be slow. Flash movies playing on Flash Player for Windows running on WINE (Crossover) are faster than the Macromedia native Linux Flash Player (which is very unoptimized and naturally sucks).