PS: Mac, and I believe Linux with the NSA patches(maybe, not?!) gets rid of the 'root' concept, and just uses sudo/su for doing former root-only tasks... Very good design, in my opinion.
root never really goes away. su and sudo work by switching to user id 0, which is the user id of root. What you can do however, is remove root from existing as a user. The kernel/whatnot still grants specials priviledges to user id 0, but you can't actually login or use any user with that id because root doesn't exist now! (I suppose this might have been what you were saying...)
Actually, you can't have su without a root user anyway, since su needs to authenticate you as user, such as root.
sudo can be a bad too, like if you are using ssh. Many systems have ssh deny remote login of root by default. This means you need a user password (often this user needs to be wheel which is gid 0) + the root password to su to root as. Two different passwords are harder to acquire than one is.
Although, I'll admit here and now that I use normally sudo.
they are just trying to get rid of the fanboys since exploits will affect ALL browsers then...;)
You seem to assume that plugins would autoinstall themselves. I certaintly hope this would not be the case.
Also, you might get that if all browsers on all platforms came with the same default plugins. However, there are already a set of default plugins (mostly java and flash is what I see), but there hasn't been that many problems with them.
Now if someone decided to port activex over to this new plugin interface, then I'll be worried. But that'd be awfully difficult because, as I understand it, activex is depenedant on large chunks of the windows api.
There has been a lot of babbling on the mailing list. Everyone is against it. They are sticking with 1.3.39 (i think) with all of their security fixes. There will only be updates for security reasons. To quote the general thoughts of the developers: "If you don't like it, don't bitch at us; Bitch at Apache"
Or better yet, screw the default and install what -you- want.
Looks like only 2 of my 3 Yahoo! accounts got the boost overnight? Anyone know more details about the rollout?
My old yahoo account still has 6 megabytes. Yes, I got it back in a time when they gave you 6, not 4 meg. It hasn't gotten upgraded to 100 meg yet. (I didn't even know they had started doing the upgrade yet).
Example: Linux makes a darn good high-traffic web server, but FreeBSD makes an even better one. However, you won't see too many (or any) companies working on porting FreeBSD to wristwatches or big-iron supercomputers like you do with Linux because the FreeBSD kernel doesn't scale well in either direction.
That's what NetBSD is for. I'm typing this on my NetBSD toaster.
Until another language offers what CPAN does I don't care that much about it.
ack! I was going to mention CPAN, but someone got to it first. But perl isn't the only one with something like that. php has something called pear, which from what I hear it is basically be the CPAN for php.
CPAN is probably still way better than pear though. (And I have used CPAN, and CPAN is pretty cool).
(and yes, PHP can double as a REAL scripting language if you break out of mod_php and use the cli binary. I've never really used it as such though)
something about upgrading the imake version needed for xorg.
I know this is why XFree86 4.4.0 wasn't in ports, so I guess it makes sense it would affect Xorg as well. But then again, people -are- successfully using Xorg...so...I dunno.
What I am disappointed in, however, is the lack of movement by FreeBSD to getting XORG working. A known bug that has been sitting in bugzilla since last month still hasn't been fixed, whats taking FreeBSD so long?!
Er, it is in ports. And it sounds like from the ports mailing list that a good number of people have it working fine.
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s/day/case/
d'oh!
Looks like someone has a day of the mond..er, fridays. Figures SysAdmin Appreciation Day would be on a friday.
The again, not having a working heart at all would probably undermine those mechanisms as well...
The jail paper.
A better idea would probably be a Netscape branded Firefox. That would kick ass.
;P
Naw, a better idea is just to use firefox in the first place. Then you don't have to worry about what netscape is doing.
PS: Mac, and I believe Linux with the NSA patches(maybe, not?!) gets rid of the 'root' concept, and just uses sudo/su for doing former root-only tasks... Very good design, in my opinion.
root never really goes away. su and sudo work by switching to user id 0, which is the user id of root. What you can do however, is remove root from existing as a user. The kernel/whatnot still grants specials priviledges to user id 0, but you can't actually login or use any user with that id because root doesn't exist now! (I suppose this might have been what you were saying...)
Actually, you can't have su without a root user anyway, since su needs to authenticate you as user, such as root.
sudo can be a bad too, like if you are using ssh. Many systems have ssh deny remote login of root by default. This means you need a user password (often this user needs to be wheel which is gid 0) + the root password to su to root as. Two different passwords are harder to acquire than one is.
Although, I'll admit here and now that I use normally sudo.
There sem to be relatively few active BSD developers,
You have proof of this?
...If you want I could subscribe you to the the cvs commits mailing lists for all of *BSD projects. >:P
The /. rendering problem is a known bug, and the fix should appear in Firefox 1.0
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http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21752
Most of the software distros ship weren't even developed by the distro in question.
Most software Microsoft ships with windows was developed by Microsoft.
It isn't RedHat OpenOffice or Debian binutils.
Well, you haven't voted to get that changed, now have you?
You appear to speak English.
While you're at it, buy a new $2500 laptop.
they are just trying to get rid of the fanboys since exploits will affect ALL browsers then... ;)
You seem to assume that plugins would autoinstall themselves. I certaintly hope this would not be the case.
Also, you might get that if all browsers on all platforms came with the same default plugins. However, there are already a set of default plugins (mostly java and flash is what I see), but there hasn't been that many problems with them.
Now if someone decided to port activex over to this new plugin interface, then I'll be worried. But that'd be awfully difficult because, as I understand it, activex is depenedant on large chunks of the windows api.
I understand that it's knit-picky, but sometimes slashdot headlines sound really silly.
nitpicky.Even when you are using the scanner?
There has been a lot of babbling on the mailing list. Everyone is against it. They are sticking with 1.3.39 (i think) with all of their security fixes. There will only be updates for security reasons. To quote the general thoughts of the developers: "If you don't like it, don't bitch at us; Bitch at Apache"
Or better yet, screw the default and install what -you- want.
Hotmail doesn't think most of the "Someone has a crush on you!" spams are spams anyway.
The only way you win for that is by turning the "if not in address book it's spam" spam filter on.
Your friend offers to hook you up with a gmail address, so you give them your email address so that they can send an invite.
How is this spam?
Offline working can be surprisingly productive
Because that means then you aren't on slashdot?
er....brb, I should probably get back to work.
Looks like only 2 of my 3 Yahoo! accounts got the boost overnight? Anyone know more details about the rollout?
My old yahoo account still has 6 megabytes. Yes, I got it back in a time when they gave you 6, not 4 meg. It hasn't gotten upgraded to 100 meg yet. (I didn't even know they had started doing the upgrade yet).
Example: Linux makes a darn good high-traffic web server, but FreeBSD makes an even better one. However, you won't see too many (or any) companies working on porting FreeBSD to wristwatches or big-iron supercomputers like you do with Linux because the FreeBSD kernel doesn't scale well in either direction.
That's what NetBSD is for. I'm typing this on my NetBSD toaster.
Until another language offers what CPAN does I don't care that much about it.
ack! I was going to mention CPAN, but someone got to it first. But perl isn't the only one with something like that. php has something called pear, which from what I hear it is basically be the CPAN for php.
CPAN is probably still way better than pear though. (And I have used CPAN, and CPAN is pretty cool).
(and yes, PHP can double as a REAL scripting language if you break out of mod_php and use the cli binary. I've never really used it as such though)
In response, Microsoft claimed it was a third party driver, and denied all responsibility.
something about upgrading the imake version needed for xorg.
I know this is why XFree86 4.4.0 wasn't in ports, so I guess it makes sense it would affect Xorg as well. But then again, people -are- successfully using Xorg...so...I dunno.What I am disappointed in, however, is the lack of movement by FreeBSD to getting XORG working. A known bug that has been sitting in bugzilla since last month still hasn't been fixed, whats taking FreeBSD so long?!
Er, it is in ports. And it sounds like from the ports mailing list that a good number of people have it working fine.