"
New Delhi disputes Beijing's rule over 38,000 sq km (15,000 square miles) of barren, icy and uninhabited land on the Tibetan plateau, which China seized from India in the 1962 war."
Though that feature is unavailable what you can do is to set up a fileter to apply
a label to ur maling list emails and set "skip inbox" for that.That way your inbox won't be cluttered.
But does Microsoft
1)has a license stating that windows users can't develop other competing products ?
2)refuse to license windows to say Novel or IBM who develops competing products ?
The answer is No !
Bitkeeper won't even sell you a license if
you work on a competing product.If that is not being paranoid and unreasonable i don't know what is.
"Businesses and organizations of all sizes need consistent, predictable, scalable, self-contained platforms for server solutions. Windows wins. Linux doesn't lose, because it can continue the legacy of another nonplatform, namely Unix, that needs to be refreshed and extended."
Linux isn't scalable ? It runs on everything from ARM to huge supercomputer clusters.
Consistent ? I will give it to him that across distributions linux is not consistent but businesses use RHEL or Novell against which all major applications like Oracle are certified.Within these distributions things are largely consistent.
Predictable ? What is unpredictable about Linux ?
What does self-contained mean ?
Doesn't this article give the feeling the author has no clue about what he is talking about and has just put together some buzzwords like scalable, self-contained to create a controversial article?
If the Chinese govt. is subsidising Huawei to undercut the competitors and be a loss leader
wouldn't the US be able to invoke anti dumping laws or something similar ?
"No database professional would touch a product that doesn't support those with a ten foot pole"
Thats a pretty harsh comment.I think MySQL is useful in a lot of situations.Heck it's even used by
Yahoo
Yahoo surely employs "database professionals" ?
Huh ?
Ofcourse they are staged.How it is done is
1)tzoom in on the monitor alone with the camera
on a tripod.
2)Then remove the monitor and take a picture.
3)Make that picture the transparent background.
4)Do some final adjustments.
Now how will a "live" webcam behind monitor help?
PS:The most impressive photo is among them is one with a cat as background.He/she must have done it really fast or the cat is incredibly lazy.
How will popups count? Popups load pages from some
ad company webserver.I don't think they are tracking
hits on adservers.They will more likely track hits
on well known websites
Kasmhir is a part of India.
The way you put it it sounds like Kashmiris are not Indians.If you follow news you will find that the government of Kashmir is elected.Also the majority of Lashkar-e-Toiba members are non kashmiris.Read it here
BBC Profile of Lashkar-e-Toiba.
So it is not Kashmiris attacking Indians.Believe it or not most Kashmiris are sick and tired of terrorism.They will rather get on with their life and business.Tourism which was the main source of income for kasmiris declined drastically after the terrorists upped their attacks.
Lashkar started in Pakistan and has its headquartes in Pakistan and after the US declared it as a terrorist organisation it
no longer opeartes publicly in Pakistan.
I'm from india.100 Rs is definitely very cheap.
To put it in perspective
--In Metros a movie ticket costs 70-200 Rs.(depends on the metro).
--Landline rentals start at around 350 Rs.
--Internet call rates (not the ISP charge) if you use the BSNL telephone network is more than 20 Rs an hour and around 7 Rs after 10.30pm till 8 am.ISP charges are extra.
Considering the fact that adblock is one of the most
popular extensions(if not the most), is this really surprising??
I don't even see the ads(except for google text ads).How will i click?:-).
I'm an indian and the rampant piracy is the main reason why open source hasn't caught up much.
But in governments and corporations linux is slowly gaining momentum.India's biggest insurance company LIC moved it's entire infrastructure onto linux.LIC moved 25,000 desktops and 1000 servers to linux.(But the conversion was from Unix)
Even in most organisations linux use is limited o
proxy servers,mail servers and file servers.
The biggest concern is support.With Redhat and IBM in the arena now the situation is much better.
But consumer adoption remains a distant dream.
The only way linux can win over the consumer is local language computing.Though Hindi is the official language of India,individual states, whose borders are mostly drawn on socio-linguistic borders, are free to decide their own regional languages for internal administration and education, so there are 22 official languages spoken throughout the country
Some of the LUG's are very active in local language computing.Gnome has been translated into
Hindi,Bengali and Malayalam.
Over 40% of the computers sold in india are assembled by some neighbourhood vendor.(Brand PC's are more expensive hence not very popular among the pric conscious and in India price is the single most important factor in buying ANYTHING).Allmost all the vendors install pirated copies of windows.If MS ever decides to
go after these vendors they will be digging their own grave.
Sorry,
I forgot to add this.
(a slashdot comment from this article
)
In India at every polling station, there are usually representatives of all parties and/or independent candidates besides the Election Commission's (EC)representatives, who have with them the voter list for that constituency.
Every voter has to produce a proof of identity. Upon verification, his/her name is called out, and all the representatives go through their individual paper lists, as well the EC representatives, and they mark that person has cast a vote.
After you cast the vote, an indelible ink mark is put against the fingernal of the index finger (or other fingers if you have any handicap), which takes a few days to dissolve and disappear.
The number of people that cast the ballot is then verified against the number of people who have been marked as "voted" in these individual paper lists at the end of the polling day.
On the final counting day, of course the EVM provides the actual votes cast, but the count of votes is re-verified against EC representative's list.
This is how things are done in India - The world's largest democracy.India uses electronic
voting machines but they are much simpler than
their american counterparts and is less susceptible to damage.
Here's a
slashot articlediscussing the indian voting machine vs Diebold.
Here's the original articlereferenced in the slashdot discussion above
PS:the votes are counted at district headquarters and not at voting site.Still good enough.With an election as huge as India's it's not possible to
count the votes at the voting site
Winamp 2.9 series has every feature an mp3 player should have
and plethora of plugins available.
So what more do u need ?
Video ?? get 5 series.Use the classic skin for more performance.
I can't think of any feature that is not available (a plugin exists for any feature i can think of )
I mean doesthis really matter as long as winamp work
on all windows verions.
XSS was highlighted because that's easiest way to steal the cookie without physical access to the machine which the victim uses.(correct me if i'm wrong).XSS makes it extremely easy for an attcker to social engineer a user into divulging his cookie, using a malformed hyper link in a mail.
Though GMail was initially limited to computer savvy people it has now percolated to the masses.As the spread of recent viruses have shown social engineering normal users is trivial.
Checkinstall is a program which helps you in keeping
track of programs installed from surce.
instead of make install,you run checkinstall which gives you the option to create an rpm or deb or tgz kg(??)
Say if you choose rpm,an rpm will be bult and installed and saved.
Now you can use the native package manager to keep track of the packages you have installed from source.
But this is useful for people who are not afarid to build programs from source.
Neverthless it's one of the best tools for linux.
http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/index. php
Hi,
I find the story(url given below) linking the recent MyDoom virus to unhappy linux users very infuriating and utterly baseless.
Infact the opinion of security experts is that this is yet another virus created by spammers to help them in relaying spam through compromised "zombie" maachines.
The evidence comes from the fact that
1)The virus installs a back door turning the computer into a zombie machine
2)It's very similar to the previous viruses and all of them have been suspected to be created by spammers
Infact since the article claims that the virus is successful and very ingenious it must have ben written
by an expert windows programmer.
Note that not many people are that proficient in windows and also linux advocates at the same time
The statement that the virus is ingenious is hilarious.Some months ago spammers used exactly the same technique to force the anti-spam web sites to close down
A DDOS(Distributed Denial of Service) against some prominent anti spam sites forced most of them to close down permanently.
I respect BBC and consider it as a reliable source of news.But ill researched articles like this forces me think otherwise.
--Manu
--http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~ee01b044
Looks like they will be "monitoring" those accounts which sent more than 20 emails in 10 minutes.
No need to get paranoid about that.
But will they be invading the privacy.
Suppose they suspect some mail to be spam will they be using a spam filter or they just pick up a mail in random and read it(assuming the no of accounts which send 20 emails in 10 minutes is less..or else reading is not an option)
Slashdot Mirror
Though that feature is unavailable what you can do is to set up a fileter to apply a label to ur maling list emails and set "skip inbox" for that.That way your inbox won't be cluttered.
me1@privacy.net
password1
Thank you bugmenot
But does Microsoft
1)has a license stating that windows users can't develop other competing products ?
2)refuse to license windows to say Novel or IBM who develops competing products ?
The answer is No !
Bitkeeper won't even sell you a license if you work on a competing product.If that is not being paranoid and unreasonable i don't know what is.
Linux isn't scalable ? It runs on everything from ARM to huge supercomputer clusters.
Consistent ? I will give it to him that across distributions linux is not consistent but businesses use RHEL or Novell against which all major applications like Oracle are certified.Within these distributions things are largely consistent.
Predictable ? What is unpredictable about Linux ?
What does self-contained mean ?
Doesn't this article give the feeling the author has no clue about what he is talking about and has just put together some buzzwords like scalable, self-contained to create a controversial article?
If the Chinese govt. is subsidising Huawei to undercut the competitors and be a loss leader wouldn't the US be able to invoke anti dumping laws or something similar ?
"No database professional would touch a product that doesn't support those with a ten foot pole"
Thats a pretty harsh comment.I think MySQL is useful in a lot of situations.Heck it's even used by Yahoo
Yahoo surely employs "database professionals" ?
Huh ? Ofcourse they are staged.How it is done is 1)tzoom in on the monitor alone with the camera on a tripod. 2)Then remove the monitor and take a picture. 3)Make that picture the transparent background. 4)Do some final adjustments. Now how will a "live" webcam behind monitor help? PS:The most impressive photo is among them is one with a cat as background.He/she must have done it really fast or the cat is incredibly lazy.
But if there is a keylogger on your machine it will still be able to capture all your passwords and credit card info.
How will popups count? Popups load pages from some ad company webserver.I don't think they are tracking hits on adservers.They will more likely track hits on well known websites
Kasmhir is a part of India. The way you put it it sounds like Kashmiris are not Indians.If you follow news you will find that the government of Kashmir is elected.Also the majority of Lashkar-e-Toiba members are non kashmiris.Read it here
BBC Profile of Lashkar-e-Toiba.
So it is not Kashmiris attacking Indians.Believe it or not most Kashmiris are sick and tired of terrorism.They will rather get on with their life and business.Tourism which was the main source of income for kasmiris declined drastically after the terrorists upped their attacks.
Lashkar started in Pakistan and has its headquartes in Pakistan and after the US declared it as a terrorist organisation it no longer opeartes publicly in Pakistan.
Bloglines have confirmed it.
Announcement page
Press release
FAQ about acquisition
I'm from india.100 Rs is definitely very cheap. To put it in perspective
--In Metros a movie ticket costs 70-200 Rs.(depends on the metro).
--Landline rentals start at around 350 Rs.
--Internet call rates (not the ISP charge) if you use the BSNL telephone network is more than 20 Rs an hour and around 7 Rs after 10.30pm till 8 am.ISP charges are extra.
So at 100 Rs/month this is a steal !!
Considering the fact that adblock is one of the most popular extensions(if not the most), is this really surprising?? :-).
I don't even see the ads(except for google text ads).How will i click?
I'm an indian and the rampant piracy is the main reason why open source hasn't caught up much. But in governments and corporations linux is slowly gaining momentum.India's biggest insurance company LIC moved it's entire infrastructure onto linux.LIC moved 25,000 desktops and 1000 servers to linux.(But the conversion was from Unix) Even in most organisations linux use is limited o proxy servers,mail servers and file servers. The biggest concern is support.With Redhat and IBM in the arena now the situation is much better.
But consumer adoption remains a distant dream. The only way linux can win over the consumer is local language computing.Though Hindi is the official language of India ,individual states, whose borders are mostly drawn on socio-linguistic borders, are free to decide their own regional languages for internal administration and education, so there are 22 official languages spoken throughout the country
Some of the LUG's are very active in local language computing.Gnome has been translated into
Hindi,Bengali and Malayalam.
Over 40% of the computers sold in india are assembled by some neighbourhood vendor.(Brand PC's are more expensive hence not very popular among the pric conscious and in India price is the single most important factor in buying ANYTHING).Allmost all the vendors install pirated copies of windows.If MS ever decides to go after these vendors they will be digging their own grave.
(a slashdot comment from this article ) In India at every polling station, there are usually representatives of all parties and/or independent candidates besides the Election Commission's (EC)representatives, who have with them the voter list for that constituency.
Every voter has to produce a proof of identity. Upon verification, his/her name is called out, and all the representatives go through their individual paper lists, as well the EC representatives, and they mark that person has cast a vote.
After you cast the vote, an indelible ink mark is put against the fingernal of the index finger (or other fingers if you have any handicap), which takes a few days to dissolve and disappear.
The number of people that cast the ballot is then verified against the number of people who have been marked as "voted" in these individual paper lists at the end of the polling day.
On the final counting day, of course the EVM provides the actual votes cast, but the count of votes is re-verified against EC representative's list.
Here's a slashot articlediscussing the indian voting machine vs Diebold.
Here's the original articlereferenced in the slashdot discussion above
PS:the votes are counted at district headquarters and not at voting site.Still good enough.With an election as huge as India's it's not possible to count the votes at the voting site
Winamp 2.9 series has every feature an mp3 player should have and plethora of plugins available. So what more do u need ? Video ?? get 5 series.Use the classic skin for more performance. I can't think of any feature that is not available (a plugin exists for any feature i can think of ) I mean doesthis really matter as long as winamp work on all windows verions.
XSS was highlighted because that's easiest way to steal the cookie without physical access to the machine which the victim uses.(correct me if i'm wrong).XSS makes it extremely easy for an attcker to social engineer a user into divulging his cookie, using a malformed hyper link in a mail. Though GMail was initially limited to computer savvy people it has now percolated to the masses.As the spread of recent viruses have shown social engineering normal users is trivial.
Yes they seem to be fixed.a /changel og-rc1.html
c gi?id=26495 6
i d=12475 0
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/q
This is the relevant entry in bugzilla.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.
Also focus stealing has been fixed
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?
Usage statistics from my university department webserver. Sorry didn't get time to consolidate the results. June 2004 1 3290 15.17% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) 2 2412 11.12% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) 3 2098 9.67% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) 4 1998 9.21% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) 5 1198 5.52% Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030 6 1155 5.33% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) 7 988 4.56% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1
8 681 3.14% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1
July 2004
1 17777 15.50% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
2 11423 9.96% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
3 10373 9.04% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
4 8492 7.40% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
5 4957 4.32% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
6 4761 4.15% Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031
7 4693 4.09% Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030
8 3787 3.30% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1
August 2004
1 22228 12.46% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
2 17564 9.85% Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030
3 16021 8.98% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
4 15607 8.75% Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030
5 15391 8.63% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
6 10005 5.61% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
7 5596 3.14% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
8 4825 2.71% Mozilla/4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.8 sun4u)
September 2004
1 31895 16.34% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
2 14501 7.43% Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030
3 13648 6.99% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
4 12352 6.33% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
5 11954 6.12% Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030
6 9855 5.05% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
7 5626 2.88% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)
8 5224 2.68% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1
October 20041 28969 14.48% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
2 12199 6.10% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
3 10209 5.10% Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030
4 10059 5.03% msnbot/0.3 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
5 8721 4.36% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
6 7434 3.72% Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
7 7417 3.71% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/2004
8 6836 3.42% Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030
Checkinstall is a program which helps you in keeping track of programs installed from surce. instead of make install,you run checkinstall which gives you the option to create an rpm or deb or tgz kg(??) Say if you choose rpm ,an rpm will be bult and installed and saved.
Now you can use the native package manager to keep track of the packages you have installed from source.
But this is useful for people who are not afarid to build programs from source.
Neverthless it's one of the best tools for linux.
http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/index. php
Hi, I find the story(url given below) linking the recent MyDoom virus to unhappy linux users very infuriating and utterly baseless. Infact the opinion of security experts is that this is yet another virus created by spammers to help them in relaying spam through compromised "zombie" maachines. The evidence comes from the fact that 1)The virus installs a back door turning the computer into a zombie machine 2)It's very similar to the previous viruses and all of them have been suspected to be created by spammers Infact since the article claims that the virus is successful and very ingenious it must have ben written by an expert windows programmer. Note that not many people are that proficient in windows and also linux advocates at the same time The statement that the virus is ingenious is hilarious.Some months ago spammers used exactly the same technique to force the anti-spam web sites to close down A DDOS(Distributed Denial of Service) against some prominent anti spam sites forced most of them to close down permanently. I respect BBC and consider it as a reliable source of news.But ill researched articles like this forces me think otherwise. --Manu --http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~ee01b044
Looks like they will be "monitoring" those accounts which sent more than 20 emails in 10 minutes. No need to get paranoid about that. But will they be invading the privacy. Suppose they suspect some mail to be spam will they be using a spam filter or they just pick up a mail in random and read it(assuming the no of accounts which send 20 emails in 10 minutes is less ..or else reading is not an option)