14000 computers? Crap, can you imagine setting up that many copies of any OS? (I know, there're tools for doing that, still sounds like a big task though) Do you end up mirroring a disk 13000 times only to discover that you forgot to put kcalc on, or that the company intranet in the bookmarks list had changed?
According to the article, the only person saying that Linux is more costly is Steve Ballmer, so it's not a statement being made by Munich government itself.
The article seems to be equally harsh and generous with microsoft, first talking about the cost of viruses, but then taking at face value some statements about how they're going to improve security.
"The next step is to make the Windows XP operating system less vulnerable to malicious attacks." says His Billness.
What are we, 3 or 4 major versions into the WindowsNT kernel and they're only just starting to think about making it less vulnerable?
It's a bit misleading calling it an article about linux, when it's actually an article about microsoft. If you're going to talk about installing Linux in Munich, why would you then go on to interview the entire leadership of a vendor that hasn't been involved since they lost the bid?
Okay, two possible answers to that, one sensible and one not.
(a) Fill up the prisons with even more people abusing the system. Hope it makes a difference, even though you know it won't really.
(b) Create the.xxx domain already! What does it take to figure out that porn sites would be quite happy in their own domain, not least because it guarantees that people won't go there by accident!
Don't. 30 years of psychological research has shown that punishment has no desirable long-term effects.
X is not a lab rat. (Even if he were a lab rat, punishment wouldn't work; at least, not if he were one of the sorts of lab rats the psych research was done on.)
"life is a lot more resilient than it is usually given credit for"
That's because Life evolved in conjunction with its predators, viruses, and diseases, which themselves evolved in about the same timescales. The "resiliance" from these things tends to come from evolving a design for the human which can cope with the latest round of disease.
(Unless you're from Utah, in which case it happened three days after heaven and earth separated)
How exactly is a lab virus supposed to fit into that?
At a guess, a virus created in the lab would have about the same effect on the US population as a virus created in Europe would have on the Aztecs. Never experienced it before? Try this!
You might argue that evolution would then proceed extremely quickly, "The Stand"-style, where everyone dies except for the odd few who happen to have resistance. That's hardly a consolation for the people who weren't immune, but I suppose it never is... Anyone left amongst the survivors could look forward to getting laid a lot more frequently, and would either have to do a lot of work destroying corpses and running power stations, or look forward to a life of tribal fighting, depending on how organised people are and how many are left.
"If the designers were half-smart about UI issues (like, say, Windows programers) they'd probe the local network neighborhood and omit the impossible entries."
If the designers were half-smart about UI issues (like, say, Windows programers) they'd send DNS updates to the internet root nameservers whenever you add your computer to a non-existant domain...
>>License states that third parties cannot distribute java development kit / where does it say that? [Included section B of jdk 1.4 license]
Howabout the "non-transferable" bit? If I give my mandrake CDs to someone, have I infringed the java license?
Howabout "for the sole purpose of running your programs" -- (a) they're not my programs, they were written by various GNU authors, and (b) java would be included just because it's useful, and not to make any other particular program run
Howabout "you only distribute the Software subject to a license agreement that protects Sun's interests" -- how am I supposed to know what Sun is interested in, and am I supposed to modify the distribution CDs based on that guess?
Howabout "you agree to defend and indemnify Sun and its licensors from and against any damages, costs..." -- I'm supposed to provide insurance for sun, at my own cost, against any damage caused by the people that I'm giving distro CDs to for free?
And as for "that arises or results from the use or distribution of any and all Programs and/or Software." -- err, which programs?
"Anyone who ever has turned Java down in favor of something else, because it is not free?"
Yeah, I'm not using Java yet, partially because it's non-free, and partially because the best IDE I have for it insists on using Windows-specific extensions.
I figure it has the potential to become another visual-basic, i.e. looks nice, easy to use, easy to design with, but ultimately subject to the whims of one company. What if Sun went SCO tomorrow, and decided they wanted to sue everything that moved? It's happened to nicer companies before.
So why bother? If the open-source world is re-writing Java from scratch (kaffe, jboss etc.), then that makes it no better than.NET or C# -- C# has also got a proprietry implementation that we hope the vendor will continue to support too, and C# has a free-software project (mono) reimplementing it too. As far as free software developers are concerned, what's the difference between Java and Visual Basic.NET or C#?
The hacker ethic says that nothing should have to be created twice, and if the Java license is forcing Kaffe developers to waste years of their time reimplementing java that they could better spend writing new software, then that means java isn't free enough.
"That isn't a 'good guide' at all! It's barely more than a rant if you can manage to read between the lines.Here's some useful links to UI design concepts: Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines, IBM/Ease of Use/Design, Microsoft User Experience and Interface Design Resources, KDE User Interface Guidelines"
4 sets of links about where to put the OK button, and how to use widget-sets? The article is about making software more intelligent, and already mentioned that the graphical design was solid.
Knowing what icons to put on your buttons won't help if the application is requesting information that the user doesn't know.
"You don't seriously believe that any format that is newline-dot-newline-delimited is a good one, do you?"
Ask that again when you've got your x million messages-per-hour email gateway parsing an XML file each time...
Email is so simple you could probably parse it with a circuit board and a few NAND gates, and that's very good indeed when you want people to start using it.
"It's so damned easy to parse XML these days, why reinvent the wheel having to parse a comma delimited file, a fixed width file, a bizzare internal format?"
because one requires a "while(<>)split(/\t/, $_);", and the other takes loading a library, DLL, or module, initialising it, setting up callbacks which may or may not be possible in the context of your function, loading data into the XML parser, then trying to keep track of your place in the data structure as the XML library floods your callback functions with crap and just praying that it's all thread-safe.
Plus text files are human-readable. And smaller. And take less memory to parse. And are easier to debug...or edit...or validate
"Does anyone know if an open-source (cheap) watermark solution exists?"
Look at ImageMagick (or Image::Magick for Perl people) -- it lets you add text to an image from the command line, among many other things.
For websites, ImLib lets you modify images from within PHP, but it's probably easier to batch-process them if you care about your webserver's CPU usage.
"When the Aeron was developed, people were just beginning to realize that computers meant RSI and other ergonomic issues. HermanMiller wanted to tap into that"
Talking of which, is it possible to get a DVORAK keyboard (in the UK) from anyone without an ass-full of pseudo-medical crap on their website and a price-tag designed for insurance companies and blackmailed employers?
According to the article, it seems to have been written by a journalist who's used GIMP about once every three months. So expect some simple screenshots, and things like putting minor bug reports in as part of "a review"
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14000 computers? Crap, can you imagine setting up that many copies of any OS? (I know, there're tools for doing that, still sounds like a big task though) Do you end up mirroring a disk 13000 times only to discover that you forgot to put kcalc on, or that the company intranet in the bookmarks list had changed?
According to the article, the only person saying that Linux is more costly is Steve Ballmer, so it's not a statement being made by Munich government itself.
The article seems to be equally harsh and generous with microsoft, first talking about the cost of viruses, but then taking at face value some statements about how they're going to improve security.
"The next step is to make the Windows XP operating system less vulnerable to malicious attacks." says His Billness.
What are we, 3 or 4 major versions into the WindowsNT kernel and they're only just starting to think about making it less vulnerable?
It's a bit misleading calling it an article about linux, when it's actually an article about microsoft. If you're going to talk about installing Linux in Munich, why would you then go on to interview the entire leadership of a vendor that hasn't been involved since they lost the bid?
"Has anyone considered saving it all for future reference?"
Usual answer
"Why do even our games have to be subject to crime, no matter how virtual?"
Because the first Matrix wasn't believable enough.
"When does this law apply to SiteFinder?"
When laws start applying to Verisign
He tricked people into looking at porn.
.xxx domain already! What does it take to figure out that porn sites would be quite happy in their own domain, not least because it guarantees that people won't go there by accident!
Okay, two possible answers to that, one sensible and one not.
(a) Fill up the prisons with even more people abusing the system. Hope it makes a difference, even though you know it won't really.
(b) Create the
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"many high gain high bandwidth op amps can and do oscillate at frequencies well above audio if the physical circuit layout supports it"
Bandwidth being inversely proportional to gain when you design that physical op-amp circuit...
"Why? Remember Nyquist theorem?"
Nyquist assumes a sine-wave. If your signal has a 1MHz repetition but isn't a sine wave, its highest frequency will be many times larger than 1MHz
"life is a lot more resilient than it is usually given credit for"
That's because Life evolved in conjunction with its predators, viruses, and diseases, which themselves evolved in about the same timescales. The "resiliance" from these things tends to come from evolving a design for the human which can cope with the latest round of disease.
(Unless you're from Utah, in which case it happened three days after heaven and earth separated)
How exactly is a lab virus supposed to fit into that?
At a guess, a virus created in the lab would have about the same effect on the US population as a virus created in Europe would have on the Aztecs. Never experienced it before? Try this!
You might argue that evolution would then proceed extremely quickly, "The Stand"-style, where everyone dies except for the odd few who happen to have resistance. That's hardly a consolation for the people who weren't immune, but I suppose it never is... Anyone left amongst the survivors could look forward to getting laid a lot more frequently, and would either have to do a lot of work destroying corpses and running power stations, or look forward to a life of tribal fighting, depending on how organised people are and how many are left.
"How about using the spacebar?"
RemovedItForRoutineMaintenance,Sorry...
"If the designers were half-smart about UI issues (like, say, Windows programers) they'd probe the local network neighborhood and omit the impossible entries."
If the designers were half-smart about UI issues (like, say, Windows programers) they'd send DNS updates to the internet root nameservers whenever you add your computer to a non-existant domain...
"there is a separate help button for every item"
If the user needs to resort to a help-file, then the interface designer has already failed.
>>License states that third parties cannot distribute java development kit / where does it say that? [Included section B of jdk 1.4 license]
Howabout the "non-transferable" bit? If I give my mandrake CDs to someone, have I infringed the java license?
Howabout "for the sole purpose of running your programs" -- (a) they're not my programs, they were written by various GNU authors, and (b) java would be included just because it's useful, and not to make any other particular program run
Howabout "you only distribute the Software subject to a license agreement that protects Sun's interests" -- how am I supposed to know what Sun is interested in, and am I supposed to modify the distribution CDs based on that guess?
Howabout "you agree to defend and indemnify Sun and its licensors from and against any damages, costs..." -- I'm supposed to provide insurance for sun, at my own cost, against any damage caused by the people that I'm giving distro CDs to for free?
And as for "that arises or results from the use or distribution of any and all Programs and/or Software." -- err, which programs?
"Anyone who ever has turned Java down in favor of something else, because it is not free?"
.NET or C# -- C# has also got a proprietry implementation that we hope the vendor will continue to support too, and C# has a free-software project (mono) reimplementing it too. As far as free software developers are concerned, what's the difference between Java and Visual Basic.NET or C#?
Yeah, I'm not using Java yet, partially because it's non-free, and partially because the best IDE I have for it insists on using Windows-specific extensions.
I figure it has the potential to become another visual-basic, i.e. looks nice, easy to use, easy to design with, but ultimately subject to the whims of one company. What if Sun went SCO tomorrow, and decided they wanted to sue everything that moved? It's happened to nicer companies before.
So why bother? If the open-source world is re-writing Java from scratch (kaffe, jboss etc.), then that makes it no better than
The hacker ethic says that nothing should have to be created twice, and if the Java license is forcing Kaffe developers to waste years of their time reimplementing java that they could better spend writing new software, then that means java isn't free enough.
"That isn't a 'good guide' at all! It's barely more than a rant if you can manage to read between the lines.Here's some useful links to UI design concepts: Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines, IBM/Ease of Use/Design, Microsoft User Experience and Interface Design Resources, KDE User Interface Guidelines"
4 sets of links about where to put the OK button, and how to use widget-sets? The article is about making software more intelligent, and already mentioned that the graphical design was solid.
Knowing what icons to put on your buttons won't help if the application is requesting information that the user doesn't know.
"If you want more secure software, upgrade."
Because since the last 20 releases were insecure, you can be especially sure that this one is better...
Wasn't there some joke about building castles in the swamp?
"The Earth is flat."
r . com
"The Sky is green."
"Earth is the center of the universe."
We have the linux users surrounded in their tanks.
There are no kernels in Baghdad.
http://www.welovethemicrosoftinformationministe
"You don't seriously believe that any format that is newline-dot-newline-delimited is a good one, do you?"
Ask that again when you've got your x million messages-per-hour email gateway parsing an XML file each time...
Email is so simple you could probably parse it with a circuit board and a few NAND gates, and that's very good indeed when you want people to start using it.
"XML pwns j00" = 0 results
<possessions owner="xml"><item character_encoding="ISO-31337" target="j00"></possesions>
"It's so damned easy to parse XML these days, why reinvent the wheel having to parse a comma delimited file, a fixed width file, a bizzare internal format?"
...or edit ...or validate
because one requires a "while(<>)split(/\t/, $_);", and the other takes loading a library, DLL, or module, initialising it, setting up callbacks which may or may not be possible in the context of your function, loading data into the XML parser, then trying to keep track of your place in the data structure as the XML library floods your callback functions with crap and just praying that it's all thread-safe.
Plus text files are human-readable.
And smaller.
And take less memory to parse.
And are easier to debug
Veni. Vidi. Libei.
"Does anyone know if an open-source (cheap) watermark solution exists?"
Look at ImageMagick (or Image::Magick for Perl people) -- it lets you add text to an image from the command line, among many other things.
For websites, ImLib lets you modify images from within PHP, but it's probably easier to batch-process them if you care about your webserver's CPU usage.
"When the Aeron was developed, people were just beginning to realize that computers meant RSI and other ergonomic issues. HermanMiller wanted to tap into that"
Talking of which, is it possible to get a DVORAK keyboard (in the UK) from anyone without an ass-full of pseudo-medical crap on their website and a price-tag designed for insurance companies and blackmailed employers?
"Bad advocacy and then some."
According to the article, it seems to have been written by a journalist who's used GIMP about once every three months. So expect some simple screenshots, and things like putting minor bug reports in as part of "a review"
"I really would like the option of having the gimp ui as one cohesive window with moveable panels instead of 50 windows I cannot keep track of"
Create a new desktop. Launch GIMP in that desktop. Voila, 'one cohesive window'.
Switch back to the original desktop to see whatever you were working on before, free of any GIMP-induced overcrowding.
I hear that even Windows is going to support multiple desktops soon...