It looks a bit weird, but the core funcationlity remains. It is a plain webDAV server at it's heart, and you can access it with open source tools.
Some of the special integration that Office offeres doesn't work though.
It will give you a web site where you can create document libraries. You can put documents in these libraries and open them directly in Office. The documents are locked per user. All communication is done with WebDAV.
However it does clearly miss the point of the Unix shell. Monad needs commands written for it to do everything. The Unix shell's entire point was to build upon the existing commands and provide a way to chain them together. This lets you say "if somebody provided a program, we can script with it". This includes all programs that are not GUI on a Unix distribution. Everything.
Monad however has to have everything written for it. You can't take your existing command line apps, or GUI apps, and intermix them to create new programs or script with what you have. This means right out of the gate, Monad is going to be pretty useless to a real administrator.
It has potential to eventually give you a scriptable interface for everything present in the GUI, but only when the developers of those interfaces make equivilent Monad commands... if they even do!
In Unix, we simply have commands for everything. Period.
The idea of turning a pipe into an object stream is sort of neat though, I'll admit that.
That's also a pretty dumb comparison. What you should be comparing is the complete software stack from all angles: speed, reliability, maintainability, and development time.
This means taking Windows + IIS6 + ASP.Net + MsSQL and comparing it with Linux + Apache + PHP + MySQL.
MS's stack vs LAMP.
Personally I think MS's stack will win on all points, including price.
Incorrect. The vast majority of distros these days distribute X with a higher (lower nice) priority. Yet my X still feels slow.
Dragging this Firefox window around for instance... As I move it over Xchat and evolution, I see massive screen refreshes. Things flickering on and off. As they do, the window I am draggign stutters.
So, we have to wonder still how Windows makes this any better, because it does. When I drag windows around (on the same system) in XP, over outlook, and IE, I don't even notice a refresh. I suspect they are just double buffering each window. When GTK refreshes it seems to go through a complete widget tree refresh ( you can see the widgets refresh in order).
It's worth pointing out that the need for features such as the ones you point out is extremely minimal and constricted to the highest echelons of computing.
We have a Solaris box at work, running Oracle. It's got about 80GB of data. I imagine this is fairly common in the lower end Sun shops.
I'd ditch it for Linux in a SECOND if the program it was running wasn't being phased out anyways. It's a piece of shit OS, seriously. It's a pain to get things done. It took me 2 hours to figure out the right command magic yesterday to get a local queue to a remote LPD. (Yeah I know you can install Cups on it, I'm just saying, *by default*)
I'm guessing a large majority of Sun users are in a similar siutation... and a smaller minority has need for features such as dtrace.
Although, I admit, those features are cool. So cool in fact that I bet you linux will have them in a year.
If they look at the drivers, it's just as if I had looked at the Windows source code and wrote my own product with it. Not going to fly legally. They need a clean room implementation, just like we do.
It sounds to me like you should choose to use.sxw files. After all, it is your choice.
If you're going to give me some bullshit about society forcing you to make a choice, well that's bullshit. Peer presure was never an excuse. You are a human being with the ability to freely decide weither to use Office or not. Decide against it. Take the penality and hardships that come with deciding against it, or shut the fuck up, Donny.
You forget what depression itself is. It is a condition that clouds judgement by casting a darker shadow across what is simply present in every day life. Somebody who is depressed in the way you described cannot make a clear intelligent decision about weither it will or will not go away as their view point is itself effected by the condition.
I think the laws as they work right now are nearly perfect with one exception, the debilitating medical exception.
For instance, it is illegal to assist somebody to kill themselves. That's fine. If they really want to kill themselves they can do it themselves. Jump off a bridge. Cut your wrists. It's not that hard. Elliot Smith managed.
It being illegal to kill yourself is just a silly pointless law. Lets see them try to enforce it!
There was a period in my life, about 8 years of it, where I contiplated suicide every day. If given an appropiate painless means, I have no doubt I would have taken it. However, I didn't. I was too scared to cut my wrists because it would hurt, I was too scared to jump off a bridge because it would be a long fall.
Eventually I just got over it. I made a friend. Life just one day got better. It wasn't a permanent condition, but at the time it seemed so. If I had taken the easy way out, or been offered an easy way out, I would have never reached this point.
Because your web browser will say "Alert the certificate is not valid!"
That's hte point of SSL. Not just to encrypt, but to ensure the integrity of the entire connection between both end points. Private/public key... only the web server and web client have one. The guys in the middle don't.
You are 100%. Just because they say so, doesn't make it true. But it does however make it possible for them to find out weither it is or isn't true.
Do you think it would make any sense if after some lady claims I stole her purse, I could hide in a church (private property) and the police couldn't persue me there?
No, the police come in. They verify if a crime took place, and then they leave... either with the criminal or without.
Yes. You. The Windows naysayer who one day says "MS is so sucky because they leave so much cruft and stupid APIs and don't release security patches in 5 minutes."
And then 5 minutes later says "I hate SP2 because MS fixed a lot of really important things and it broke a lot of poorly programmed third party programs or stupid user's computers."
How about the private sector which should be searching for ways to invest into this research to create new and profitable products? Basically not the government.
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It looks a bit weird, but the core funcationlity remains. It is a plain webDAV server at it's heart, and you can access it with open source tools. Some of the special integration that Office offeres doesn't work though.
Microsoft SharePoint.
It will give you a web site where you can create document libraries. You can put documents in these libraries and open them directly in Office. The documents are locked per user. All communication is done with WebDAV.
Best of all it's free with Windows Server 2003!
Sounds like the GPL makes this very clear. We don't want you using our software if this is your attitude, so fuck off.
Follow the terms of the license or don't use our software. Like any other. We just happen to think our terms are better than everybody elses.
It's neat. The idea is neat.
However it does clearly miss the point of the Unix shell. Monad needs commands written for it to do everything. The Unix shell's entire point was to build upon the existing commands and provide a way to chain them together. This lets you say "if somebody provided a program, we can script with it". This includes all programs that are not GUI on a Unix distribution. Everything.
Monad however has to have everything written for it. You can't take your existing command line apps, or GUI apps, and intermix them to create new programs or script with what you have. This means right out of the gate, Monad is going to be pretty useless to a real administrator.
It has potential to eventually give you a scriptable interface for everything present in the GUI, but only when the developers of those interfaces make equivilent Monad commands... if they even do!
In Unix, we simply have commands for everything. Period.
The idea of turning a pipe into an object stream is sort of neat though, I'll admit that.
Not when the skillset is itself ignorance. That works equally well on them all.
They are lacking becuase they ARE NOT DONE.
It's disappointing to see the Apache guys start from 0% when we're already at 60%. It's going to take them years to catch up.
www.linuxbios.org
That's also a pretty dumb comparison. What you should be comparing is the complete software stack from all angles: speed, reliability, maintainability, and development time.
This means taking Windows + IIS6 + ASP.Net + MsSQL and comparing it with Linux + Apache + PHP + MySQL.
MS's stack vs LAMP.
Personally I think MS's stack will win on all points, including price.
Howl was recently purged from Debian main and Ubuntu for not being DFSG compliant.
Some patent clause. Google for it.
LDAP libraries? What?
What a retarded answer.
Incorrect. The vast majority of distros these days distribute X with a higher (lower nice) priority. Yet my X still feels slow.
Dragging this Firefox window around for instance... As I move it over Xchat and evolution, I see massive screen refreshes. Things flickering on and off. As they do, the window I am draggign stutters.
So, we have to wonder still how Windows makes this any better, because it does. When I drag windows around (on the same system) in XP, over outlook, and IE, I don't even notice a refresh. I suspect they are just double buffering each window. When GTK refreshes it seems to go through a complete widget tree refresh ( you can see the widgets refresh in order).
It's worth pointing out that the need for features such as the ones you point out is extremely minimal and constricted to the highest echelons of computing.
We have a Solaris box at work, running Oracle. It's got about 80GB of data. I imagine this is fairly common in the lower end Sun shops.
I'd ditch it for Linux in a SECOND if the program it was running wasn't being phased out anyways. It's a piece of shit OS, seriously. It's a pain to get things done. It took me 2 hours to figure out the right command magic yesterday to get a local queue to a remote LPD. (Yeah I know you can install Cups on it, I'm just saying, *by default*)
I'm guessing a large majority of Sun users are in a similar siutation... and a smaller minority has need for features such as dtrace.
Although, I admit, those features are cool. So cool in fact that I bet you linux will have them in a year.
If they look at the drivers, it's just as if I had looked at the Windows source code and wrote my own product with it. Not going to fly legally. They need a clean room implementation, just like we do.
It sounds to me like you should choose to use .sxw files. After all, it is your choice.
If you're going to give me some bullshit about society forcing you to make a choice, well that's bullshit. Peer presure was never an excuse. You are a human being with the ability to freely decide weither to use Office or not. Decide against it. Take the penality and hardships that come with deciding against it, or shut the fuck up, Donny.
You forget what depression itself is. It is a condition that clouds judgement by casting a darker shadow across what is simply present in every day life. Somebody who is depressed in the way you described cannot make a clear intelligent decision about weither it will or will not go away as their view point is itself effected by the condition.
I think the laws as they work right now are nearly perfect with one exception, the debilitating medical exception.
For instance, it is illegal to assist somebody to kill themselves. That's fine. If they really want to kill themselves they can do it themselves. Jump off a bridge. Cut your wrists. It's not that hard. Elliot Smith managed.
It being illegal to kill yourself is just a silly pointless law. Lets see them try to enforce it!
There was a period in my life, about 8 years of it, where I contiplated suicide every day. If given an appropiate painless means, I have no doubt I would have taken it. However, I didn't. I was too scared to cut my wrists because it would hurt, I was too scared to jump off a bridge because it would be a long fall.
Eventually I just got over it. I made a friend. Life just one day got better. It wasn't a permanent condition, but at the time it seemed so. If I had taken the easy way out, or been offered an easy way out, I would have never reached this point.
Either way, it does pass. Or, it can be fixed.
It cannot be accomplished without hardware support.
If it's implemented in software, then somebody will just hack that software.
The idea is that every bit executed by the CPU must be signed by a third party, enforced by hardware, with NO WAY TO BE MODIFIED.
I guess it's worth pointing out that it is technically illegal to use the OEM copy you bought with any hardware OTHER than what you bought it with.
But I can tell you don't care about copyright or being legal, just getting patched.
Because your web browser will say "Alert the certificate is not valid!" That's hte point of SSL. Not just to encrypt, but to ensure the integrity of the entire connection between both end points. Private/public key... only the web server and web client have one. The guys in the middle don't.
You are 100%. Just because they say so, doesn't make it true. But it does however make it possible for them to find out weither it is or isn't true. Do you think it would make any sense if after some lady claims I stole her purse, I could hide in a church (private property) and the police couldn't persue me there? No, the police come in. They verify if a crime took place, and then they leave... either with the criminal or without.
RPM's package database (last I checked) was a binary BDB database. Dpkg's is a series of text files. One per package.
Dpkg really never breaks unless you have widespread disk corruption.
RPM breaks all the time (for me at least). Database corruption means all your package info is lost.
Dpkg, if 1 files gets corrupt, you just install that one package again and the files are replaced.
I think RPM has file dependencies. I don't know how I feel about these. I tend to think they aren't that useful.
Testing has no security updates.
Yes. You. The Windows naysayer who one day says "MS is so sucky because they leave so much cruft and stupid APIs and don't release security patches in 5 minutes."
And then 5 minutes later says "I hate SP2 because MS fixed a lot of really important things and it broke a lot of poorly programmed third party programs or stupid user's computers."
You make me sick.
How about the private sector which should be searching for ways to invest into this research to create new and profitable products? Basically not the government.
How about you read the article.
Bush's ban is on federal FUNDING for EMBRYONIC stem cells. Nothing about Bush's ban would have stopped this from happening here. It just didn't.