I wholeheartedly agree with you - Malaysia is certainly nowhere near a democratic country. For those Slashdotters who'd like an education on thus, hunt for the name `Anwar Ibrahim' on Google. Amnesty Interantional got better fish to fry in Malaysia than video games.
> Anything racist is banned
Sort of - it really depends on who you're being racist against. If your target is Malaysia large population of Malay-Chinese [which the government treats as badly as Japan treats Japanese Koreans], then you'll be fine.
And companies like Intel and Dell support the government of this country nevertheless. And if you've got the money, they can bend afew of the above rules if you're willing to invest in the failed Multimedia Super Corridor project.
Oh, and Datuk Seri Mahathir bin Mohamad [the prime minister] pushes against any sort of trade agreements between Asian nations and Australia simply because `their faces aren't asian'. Either continue this childish view but realize that a Malay face also doesn't look like a Chinese face, or grow up and look on goddamned atlas and look where Australia is.
Something esle which nobody ever seems to address is that Open Source development seems to be perpetually portrayed as disorganized by the media.
The benevolent dictatorship / meritocracy of most Linux mailing lists, combined with the massive amount of open source projects management tools for cuncurrent effort, bug tracking, web site management, etc would astound these people. CVS, Bugzilla, SoreForge, etc. are highly organized.
Indeed. I'm herining echoes of cries for story moderation here...score -1, Flamebait.
Ironically, as a committee member on my local 1200 person LUG, and someone who spends a lot of time with Linux users, the main arguments are always between Debian and Red Hat users. Again, and this is only an observation, I have met less than 10 people who use Slackware, and most others treat it as a bit of a joke, due to its lack of a packaging system.
While being a Red Hat user, those who see some semblance between Debian and Slackware would more than likely offend many [of not most] Debian users. Debian users like their distro because of its neat packaging capability. To suggest a semblance with a non-packaged Linux distribution would offend them to death. Likewise, most Linux server installations would ignore Slackware due to the idfficulty of upgrades and software maintenance tools.
I can't stress how much I agree with you. Does anyone know any details about when ACLs are going to become aprt of Linux? Linus has said the next release post 2.4 will be a 3.0 version. Obviously, there's soemthing big happening there, but I can't find any info...
Do any of the existing or development filesystems have support for ACLs and capabilities?
on a different note, why do many many shitty apps complain when I rename UID 0? This basic test of development technique seems to fail a vast quantity of popular Linux [and other Unix] software. Why are apps looking for a string than a digit?
This confusions eems to be the basis of the Mandrake distribution of Linux calling itself `Linux Mandrake' rather than `Mandrake Linux'. it makes a lot of sense - `Linux Mandrake 7.2' implies the 7.0 is attached to Mandrake. `Red Hat Linux 7.0' or `SuSE Linux 7.0' can be confusing.
> Many changes which required a restart in NT4 now only require a restart of the specific process, just as in Linux/BSD.
I think our definitions of `many' are a little different. So you can change your IP address without a reboot. Yay. Try modifying anything* else in control panel / network.
> Would you cut Microsoft the same slack if they came out with an advisory saying "in order to make a Windows machine secure, block all Internet services" as you advocate for Linux boxes?
They do. Read the Technet security guidelines for running IIS in a `secure' fashion - the document suggests disabling nearly all other services.
BRW: Inverted commas for `secure' because nothing is 100% secure, not because I'm a Linux / Windows troll who uses terms like Windoze / Open Sores.
> The server might be easy enough to administer that an IT flunky can keep it going
There's a stack of dead simple apache interfaces which are much eaier to use than the IIS4/5 MMC plugin.
Most notably commanche: www.commanche.org - there's a stack of others, but commanche is the best. IMHO anyway.
Yould could also use e-smith [www.e-smith.net] for a dead simple web administered [no Linux or Unix knowledge required] Linux based machine.
An ISP or NT shop would prefer the Cobalt boxes, which have SSL Apache, PHP, and ASP support. Cobalt boxes are also configured through a web-based interface.
Both of the above solutions are far more simpler than NT IIS4 / W2K / IIS5. Tell your box you've had it with archaic, non-reliable technology that costs you money to fix, and money to train people to use. Go with e-smith or Cobalt.
* KDE2 [due 16th October]
* GNOME 1.2 [due sometime this month]
* Galeon 1.0 [Due Novemberish]
* OMS [the Open Source DVD player] 0.1, due Real Soon Now
* LinDVD 1.0 [released to manufacturing a couple of weeks ago, avaliable Real Soon Now too]
* Sonique [due around end of year / start of next]
* StarOffice Open Source Release / Staroffice 6 [13th Oct]
I know there seems to be a massive outcry that the old Mozilla skin seemed to annoy a lot of people, I personally found it quite professional looking - it was a very minimalist aesthetic, and the interlaced images came out as very professional looking.
I kno nobody seems to agree with me, but IMHO the new modern skin seems to fall into the `soft gradients / brushed metal' aesthetic which I find well and truly overdone.
I find the new throbber quite impressive for such a low color pallette though. While this makes Netscape very good looking on 256 color boxes, producing an additional high color version might be a better idea.
If they decide to replace IE with it then we could see a massive dent in IE's market share.
They already have decided. Have a hunt of your favourite peer-to-peer file sharing network for aol4linux.tar.gz. Its a version of AOL 6.0 designed to run on Linux, on an embedded set-top device which gateway will produce.
Its basically Mozilla with a customized skin which looks mostly like AOL 5, and afew extra libraries to add into ld.so.conf. It comes as an RPM package, with a perl script to install, and was leaked off office.aol.com perhaps two months ago. It seems quite genuine. EFronts betanews seemed to initially break the story.
Another interesting aspect of this is that AOL have absolutely no idea about the Linux file system, and put the entire app into/usr/lib/aol. Silly people.
.XXX is actually a fairly good internation description of merdi of an adult nature, and is used over the world by many more organizations than the MPAA.
The reason why I prefer.xxx is because that way the sites that believe they are pornography [ie, persiankitty type sites] can use their.xxx domain as an advertising tool, and those who'd prefer not to see these sites get the option to ban at least those who label themselves as porn, but not all sex related sites per se [and prevent access to what may be some valuable information]. For example, a high school could ban all.xxx access, but if.sex existed [and they decided to ban it], they would be throwing out info about contraceptives.
But not completely redundant. There are some important differences which is why I wouldn't like to see.sex implemented. `Sex' is a larger category, and would classify things like sex education, which IMHO should be rated differently from from pornography [which would be the field of endeavor of the.xxx domain].
There a difference between a sex education column for teenagers, and adult products site, a community for hedonists, and a porno site. Though, as with all other TLDs, that distinction is blurry. A fundamentalist christian would perhaps find the sex education column to be pornographic, other fiond the use of marital aids offensive, and sites like nerve.com bl;ur the lines between erotica and porn.
Large amounts of commented out code make programs unreadable.
Comments should be used for comments. Some text explaining code.
Is it just me, but does the phrase `Why don't explain what the code you commented out originally did and why you needed to modify it' seem completely and utterely bleeding obvious?
I don't think Gordon's going too far at all, and I think those of use were set to purchase Corel Wordperfect Office 2000, until we saw the speed [which chugs on a Pentium II 400 with 128Mb of RAM] would agree.
That WINE apps look like a kludge bites, and annoys many Linux users. That they also feel like a kludge is one step farther.
Or perhaps I have it wrong? The original intent for WP)2K was a port using WINElib. But rather Corel came out with a Win32 version that's installed to run under WINE. That might be the reason for the slowness.
>>Yeah, but they're trying to unify them. That's what Windows Milennium is about, migrating users to a single OS
I believe you're thinking of Whistler. Windows ME is another Windows 9x with some minor upgrades like system restore. system file protection, and the seriously low-end Windows movie maker, plus various free downloads from MS.
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> Muslims also don't believe in interest charges on loans, iirc.
I presume they would logically extrapolate this concept to banks as well. Do they?
I wholeheartedly agree with you - Malaysia is certainly nowhere near a democratic country. For those Slashdotters who'd like an education on thus, hunt for the name `Anwar Ibrahim' on Google. Amnesty Interantional got better fish to fry in Malaysia than video games.
> Anything racist is banned
Sort of - it really depends on who you're being racist against. If your target is Malaysia large population of Malay-Chinese [which the government treats as badly as Japan treats Japanese Koreans], then you'll be fine.
And companies like Intel and Dell support the government of this country nevertheless. And if you've got the money, they can bend afew of the above rules if you're willing to invest in the failed Multimedia Super Corridor project.
Oh, and Datuk Seri Mahathir bin Mohamad [the prime minister] pushes against any sort of trade agreements between Asian nations and Australia simply because `their faces aren't asian'. Either continue this childish view but realize that a Malay face also doesn't look like a Chinese face, or grow up and look on goddamned atlas and look where Australia is.
Something esle which nobody ever seems to address is that Open Source development seems to be perpetually portrayed as disorganized by the media.
The benevolent dictatorship / meritocracy of most Linux mailing lists, combined with the massive amount of open source projects management tools for cuncurrent effort, bug tracking, web site management, etc would astound these people. CVS, Bugzilla, SoreForge, etc. are highly organized.
Indeed. I'm herining echoes of cries for story moderation here...score -1, Flamebait.
Ironically, as a committee member on my local 1200 person LUG, and someone who spends a lot of time with Linux users, the main arguments are always between Debian and Red Hat users. Again, and this is only an observation, I have met less than 10 people who use Slackware, and most others treat it as a bit of a joke, due to its lack of a packaging system.
While being a Red Hat user, those who see some semblance between Debian and Slackware would more than likely offend many [of not most] Debian users. Debian users like their distro because of its neat packaging capability. To suggest a semblance with a non-packaged Linux distribution would offend them to death. Likewise, most Linux server installations would ignore Slackware due to the idfficulty of upgrades and software maintenance tools.
I can't stress how much I agree with you. Does anyone know any details about when ACLs are going to become aprt of Linux? Linus has said the next release post 2.4 will be a 3.0 version. Obviously, there's soemthing big happening there, but I can't find any info...
Do any of the existing or development filesystems have support for ACLs and capabilities?
on a different note, why do many many shitty apps complain when I rename UID 0? This basic test of development technique seems to fail a vast quantity of popular Linux [and other Unix] software. Why are apps looking for a string than a digit?
> Test the following: static web serving, file sharing (Samba or NTFS)
Methinks you mean MSs SMB implementation, rather NTFS. Or Ext2 / ReiserFS [/other journalling filesystem when its finished] versus NTFS.
> Wilber the Gimp (finally, we get to see what the rest of him looks like)
/ 1.11.ppm.gif
The rest of him looks like this...
http://tigert.gimp.org/gimp/gimp-splash-history
This confusions eems to be the basis of the Mandrake distribution of Linux calling itself `Linux Mandrake' rather than `Mandrake Linux'. it makes a lot of sense - `Linux Mandrake 7.2' implies the 7.0 is attached to Mandrake. `Red Hat Linux 7.0' or `SuSE Linux 7.0' can be confusing.
A question: Is the current version of Realplayer for Unix Realplayer 8? The only version available seems to be 7.0, the last time I checked...
> Many changes which required a restart in NT4 now only require a restart of the specific process, just as in Linux/BSD.
I think our definitions of `many' are a little different. So you can change your IP address without a reboot. Yay. Try modifying anything* else in control panel / network.
> Tux is a kernel module that integrates the html protocol directly into the kernel.
:-).
*HTTP* protocol directly into the kernel. But we know what you mean
> Would you cut Microsoft the same slack if they came out with an advisory saying "in order to make a Windows machine secure, block all Internet services" as you advocate for Linux boxes?
They do. Read the Technet security guidelines for running IIS in a `secure' fashion - the document suggests disabling nearly all other services.
BRW: Inverted commas for `secure' because nothing is 100% secure, not because I'm a Linux / Windows troll who uses terms like Windoze / Open Sores.
> For the price of an MS-IIS license
You mean an NT/2K license, client access license, and internet connector license. But we get your point.
Also consider the likely move to non-perpetual licensing in the near future.
> The server might be easy enough to administer that an IT flunky can keep it going
There's a stack of dead simple apache interfaces which are much eaier to use than the IIS4/5 MMC plugin.
Most notably commanche: www.commanche.org - there's a stack of others, but commanche is the best. IMHO anyway.
Yould could also use e-smith [www.e-smith.net] for a dead simple web administered [no Linux or Unix knowledge required] Linux based machine.
An ISP or NT shop would prefer the Cobalt boxes, which have SSL Apache, PHP, and ASP support. Cobalt boxes are also configured through a web-based interface.
Both of the above solutions are far more simpler than NT IIS4 / W2K / IIS5. Tell your box you've had it with archaic, non-reliable technology that costs you money to fix, and money to train people to use. Go with e-smith or Cobalt.
You forgot:
* KDE2 [due 16th October]
* GNOME 1.2 [due sometime this month]
* Galeon 1.0 [Due Novemberish]
* OMS [the Open Source DVD player] 0.1, due Real Soon Now
* LinDVD 1.0 [released to manufacturing a couple of weeks ago, avaliable Real Soon Now too]
* Sonique [due around end of year / start of next]
* StarOffice Open Source Release / Staroffice 6 [13th Oct]
I know there seems to be a massive outcry that the old Mozilla skin seemed to annoy a lot of people, I personally found it quite professional looking - it was a very minimalist aesthetic, and the interlaced images came out as very professional looking.
I kno nobody seems to agree with me, but IMHO the new modern skin seems to fall into the `soft gradients / brushed metal' aesthetic which I find well and truly overdone.
I find the new throbber quite impressive for such a low color pallette though. While this makes Netscape very good looking on 256 color boxes, producing an additional high color version might be a better idea.
If they decide to replace IE with it then we could see a massive dent in IE's market share.
They already have decided. Have a hunt of your favourite peer-to-peer file sharing network for aol4linux.tar.gz. Its a version of AOL 6.0 designed to run on Linux, on an embedded set-top device which gateway will produce.
Its basically Mozilla with a customized skin which looks mostly like AOL 5, and afew extra libraries to add into ld.so.conf. It comes as an RPM package, with a perl script to install, and was leaked off office.aol.com perhaps two months ago. It seems quite genuine. EFronts betanews seemed to initially break the story.
Another interesting aspect of this is that AOL have absolutely no idea about the Linux file system, and put the entire app into /usr/lib/aol. Silly people.
Well, they put binaries in /etc, don't they :-)
.XXX is actually a fairly good internation description of merdi of an adult nature, and is used over the world by many more organizations than the MPAA.
m37hink5 j00 m34n .n37!!!!!@@@@!!111112222!!!@@!
Sorry, hit `submit' to early...
.xxx is because that way the sites that believe they are pornography [ie, persiankitty type sites] can use their .xxx domain as an advertising tool, and those who'd prefer not to see these sites get the option to ban at least those who label themselves as porn, but not all sex related sites per se [and prevent access to what may be some valuable information]. For example, a high school could ban all .xxx access, but if .sex existed [and they decided to ban it], they would be throwing out info about contraceptives.
The reason why I prefer
> having both .sex and .xxx is a bit redundant
.sex implemented. `Sex' is a larger category, and would classify things like sex education, which IMHO should be rated differently from from pornography [which would be the field of endeavor of the .xxx domain].
But not completely redundant. There are some important differences which is why I wouldn't like to see
There a difference between a sex education column for teenagers, and adult products site, a community for hedonists, and a porno site. Though, as with all other TLDs, that distinction is blurry. A fundamentalist christian would perhaps find the sex education column to be pornographic, other fiond the use of marital aids offensive, and sites like nerve.com bl;ur the lines between erotica and porn.
Large amounts of commented out code make programs unreadable.
Comments should be used for comments. Some text explaining code.
Is it just me, but does the phrase `Why don't explain what the code you commented out originally did and why you needed to modify it' seem completely and utterely bleeding obvious?
I don't think Gordon's going too far at all, and I think those of use were set to purchase Corel Wordperfect Office 2000, until we saw the speed [which chugs on a Pentium II 400 with 128Mb of RAM] would agree.
That WINE apps look like a kludge bites, and annoys many Linux users. That they also feel like a kludge is one step farther.
Or perhaps I have it wrong? The original intent for WP)2K was a port using WINElib. But rather Corel came out with a Win32 version that's installed to run under WINE. That might be the reason for the slowness.
>>Yeah, but they're trying to unify them. That's what Windows Milennium is about, migrating users to a single OS
I believe you're thinking of Whistler. Windows ME is another Windows 9x with some minor upgrades like system restore. system file protection, and the seriously low-end Windows movie maker, plus various free downloads from MS.