to steer development effort away from Linux and on to Solaris
Just by open sourcing Solaris? Unlikely. By this logic, a lot of Linux kernel developers would have already moved to the BSDs. Yet it (usually) doesn't happen. Why? Perhaps because hackers like the systems they're developing and so stick to them no matter what happens outside. It may be just a matter of habit or laziness (to learn new interfaces, functions, etc...).
You know, even 50M isn't that much for an investment group like BayStar,
or a big bank like RBC. In the big finance world, 50M is nothing to
worry about. Actually, BayStar (a.k.a. Microsoft) and RBC are just
playing a little poker, just in case SCO's case prevails. If not,
WTF? A single regular advertisement campaign is much more expensive.
As long as FUD around Linux helps M$, SCO is worth every penny,
no matter where their stock price goes.
Why not teach her to program a turing machine? Or a register machine? Or recursive functions? Once she has learned the concepts, she can implement Scheme, Assembler, C, whatever. And best of all: no hardware (except pen an paper) required.
Right. A programming language should at least be as powerful as a turing machine. Once you can simulate a turing machine in one PL, every other PL' can be build on top of that. Or, said another way, all programming languages are equivalent. HTML is not powerful enough to be a programming language.
Not necessarily. Qt is GPL, while GNOME are LGPL. This is a very
important aspect for some developers who can't afford to pay $$$$ to
Trolltech for developing non-GPL inhouse products. It's great that
GNOME is still around, even though it sucks.
I remembered the number, because
when the movie came out, I mimicked WOPRs terminal,
including 30 bps slowness and everything else on
a VAX. The password was the only way to get rid
of that emulation on a terminal and to login for real. A lot
of people were quite puzzled by this, but it was fun!
Anyway, it's over 20 years now, but memory sticks
to pleasent events...
Re:We really need to repurpose the sticky bit...
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Please don't touch the sticky bit semantics. They are still used on other Unix-like systems (though rarely) and having different meaning in Linux is just calling for trouble.
A better way would be to use other file attributes. On FreeBSD you can use chflags(1) to set flags like arch, opaque, nodump, sappnd, schg, sunlnk, uappnd, uchg, uunlnk. It is IMHO always better to add more flags in a specific filesystem implementation, than to break backward compatibility without very good reason.
So what are the legal implications of writing viruses?
Legal implications? C'mon, this is the real world, not the mirror and smoke universe of regulators and lawyers.
It would be fun to see a virus/worm attacking the legal system itself. Kind of SCO. DDoSing courts, generating silly and contradictory jurisprudence and prompting for even more dumb laws and regulations until the judicial system comes to a grinding halt.
How would you reboot Justice then? Would we need a foreign power to invade us and provide us with a brand new, lean and mean legal system?
If we were to kill all harmful bacteria today, infections will go back dramatically.
You can't kill all harmful bacteria. We've tried this with antibiotica, only to notice, much to our sorrow, that new stems of resistent bacteria and virii evolved.
As far as virus/worm writers are concerned: you couldn't eliminate all of them either. It is not even possible to root out drug dealers and other common criminals; how do you expect to catch all virus writers? All it takes to wreck havoc in the Windows monoculture is a single prolific virus creator who may be operating from some dark place on this planet.
Better to grow up and fix that crappy OS which allows for virii to do so much harm so easily! After all, Redmond is a single point you can put pressure on. Instead of wasting resources trying to catch trillion flies, concentrate on the shit producer that attracts them in the first place (to speak bluntly).
On FreeBSD 5.x, GBDE does transparent filesystem encryption
very nicely. Since it encrypts a partition, you can even use
it with DB servers that access raw partitions directly.
Area 51 is probably just another detention camp where alien terrorists are being tortured^Wquestioned. Govt. denies the existence of this camp to protect the red cross inspectors from the awful sight of ugly aliens nursing their greenish wounds. Ever seen an alien with sleep deprivation? Uh oh...
The best place to hide something is exactly there, BECAUSE it would not make any sense.
Seriously though, if there is something there, what did the commercial observation satellites detect? Any idea where we can have a look at some hi-res photos of Area 51?
My ideal distro would install a huge tarball with all usual stuff (X, KDE, GNOME), plus a system like Portage to update or install new stuff easily. Unfortunately, nothing like this is in sight yet. Gentoo may be a step in the right direction, but their installation procedure is horrible (for newbies). If they streamlined and automated the initial install process, it would be a fairly decent distro.
Price discrimination is a necessity, because the cost of living is not the same everywhere.
USD 100 in the US is definitely not the same as USD 100 in the Philippines!
Is the price really relevant for institutions than operate a supercomputer? Perhaps yes, if they've spent their whole budget on the hardware and support already. Yep.
Finally we'll get faster crashes! And faster reboots too! Oh no, they'll need all the CPU cycles they can get to run Longhorn within the Bochs emulator!
What about accessibility laws? Do they apply only to government agencies, or can private/commercial websites be liable for gratuitously locking out a portion of the user population?
The ROKSO list says otherwise. Stop 10
top spammers, and the spam will likely decrease by over 90%. It's not the small spammers
who are flooding the net, it's a bunch of a few criminal individuals. Of course,
you'll have to keep up the fight, since other sociopaths will gladly take the
place of those top-10 spammers...
Unfortunately, most of ROKSO are living in the Land of the Free, where they
are unlikely to be prosecuted effectively [CAN-SPAM]:-(
but if you upgrade to the $599 Solaris JDS, all your hardware will work.
Nope. Solaris/x86 sucks on must PC desktop hardware too. I'm keeping a disk with Solaris 9/x86 around, just because I'm stuck with a Maple V Solaris/x86 license. As soon as I upgrade to a Linux version of Maple, I'll happily toss Solaris out. For servers, Solaris SPARC and x86 are fine though, but the hardware support on desktop machines is really that bad!
That's the difference between de jure and de facto
standards. The only de jure standards are ISO publications. All
others are de facto. Even the Internet (the RFCs) are de facto
standards, not de jure standards.
Sorry to nitpick here: Tim B. Lee didn't invent the internet, he invented the WWW, which is just one of many "layer 7" applications that run on top of the TCP/IP internet protocols. The Internet (and DNS) existed long before the WWW.
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to steer development effort away from Linux and on to Solaris
Just by open sourcing Solaris? Unlikely. By this logic, a lot of Linux kernel developers would have already moved to the BSDs. Yet it (usually) doesn't happen. Why? Perhaps because hackers like the systems they're developing and so stick to them no matter what happens outside. It may be just a matter of habit or laziness (to learn new interfaces, functions, etc...).
You know, even 50M isn't that much for an investment group like BayStar, or a big bank like RBC. In the big finance world, 50M is nothing to worry about. Actually, BayStar (a.k.a. Microsoft) and RBC are just playing a little poker, just in case SCO's case prevails. If not, WTF? A single regular advertisement campaign is much more expensive. As long as FUD around Linux helps M$, SCO is worth every penny, no matter where their stock price goes.
Why not teach her to program a turing machine? Or a register machine? Or recursive functions? Once she has learned the concepts, she can implement Scheme, Assembler, C, whatever. And best of all: no hardware (except pen an paper) required.
Right. A programming language should at least be as powerful as a turing machine. Once you can simulate a turing machine in one PL, every other PL' can be build on top of that. Or, said another way, all programming languages are equivalent. HTML is not powerful enough to be a programming language.
Ack, regarding X.org's superiority.
Not necessarily. Qt is GPL, while GNOME are LGPL. This is a very important aspect for some developers who can't afford to pay $$$$ to Trolltech for developing non-GPL inhouse products. It's great that GNOME is still around, even though it sucks.
I remembered the number, because when the movie came out, I mimicked WOPRs terminal, including 30 bps slowness and everything else on a VAX. The password was the only way to get rid of that emulation on a terminal and to login for real. A lot of people were quite puzzled by this, but it was fun!
Anyway, it's over 20 years now, but memory sticks to pleasent events...
But don't tell anybody, okay?
Please don't touch the sticky bit semantics. They are still used on other Unix-like systems (though rarely) and having different meaning in Linux is just calling for trouble.
A better way would be to use other file attributes. On FreeBSD you can use chflags(1) to set flags like arch, opaque, nodump, sappnd, schg, sunlnk, uappnd, uchg, uunlnk. It is IMHO always better to add more flags in a specific filesystem implementation, than to break backward compatibility without very good reason.
So what are the legal implications of writing viruses?
Legal implications? C'mon, this is the real world, not the mirror and smoke universe of regulators and lawyers.
It would be fun to see a virus/worm attacking the legal system itself. Kind of SCO. DDoSing courts, generating silly and contradictory jurisprudence and prompting for even more dumb laws and regulations until the judicial system comes to a grinding halt.
How would you reboot Justice then? Would we need a foreign power to invade us and provide us with a brand new, lean and mean legal system?
If we were to kill all harmful bacteria today, infections will go back dramatically.
You can't kill all harmful bacteria. We've tried this with antibiotica, only to notice, much to our sorrow, that new stems of resistent bacteria and virii evolved.
As far as virus/worm writers are concerned: you couldn't eliminate all of them either. It is not even possible to root out drug dealers and other common criminals; how do you expect to catch all virus writers? All it takes to wreck havoc in the Windows monoculture is a single prolific virus creator who may be operating from some dark place on this planet.
Better to grow up and fix that crappy OS which allows for virii to do so much harm so easily! After all, Redmond is a single point you can put pressure on. Instead of wasting resources trying to catch trillion flies, concentrate on the shit producer that attracts them in the first place (to speak bluntly).
On FreeBSD 5.x, GBDE does transparent filesystem encryption very nicely. Since it encrypts a partition, you can even use it with DB servers that access raw partitions directly.
Is it prohibited again? Silly. You can get OpenSSL all over the world. What's the point?
Area 51 is probably just another detention camp where alien terrorists are being tortured^Wquestioned. Govt. denies the existence of this camp to protect the red cross inspectors from the awful sight of ugly aliens nursing their greenish wounds. Ever seen an alien with sleep deprivation? Uh oh...
The best place to hide something is exactly there, BECAUSE it would not make any sense.
Seriously though, if there is something there, what did the commercial observation satellites detect? Any idea where we can have a look at some hi-res photos of Area 51?
My ideal distro would install a huge tarball with all usual stuff (X, KDE, GNOME), plus a system like Portage to update or install new stuff easily. Unfortunately, nothing like this is in sight yet. Gentoo may be a step in the right direction, but their installation procedure is horrible (for newbies). If they streamlined and automated the initial install process, it would be a fairly decent distro.
Price discrimination is a necessity, because the cost of living is not the same everywhere. USD 100 in the US is definitely not the same as USD 100 in the Philippines!
Is the price really relevant for institutions than operate a supercomputer? Perhaps yes, if they've spent their whole budget on the hardware and support already. Yep.
Finally we'll get faster crashes! And faster reboots too! Oh no, they'll need all the CPU cycles they can get to run Longhorn within the Bochs emulator!
What about accessibility laws? Do they apply only to government agencies, or can private/commercial websites be liable for gratuitously locking out a portion of the user population?
The ROKSO list says otherwise. Stop 10 top spammers, and the spam will likely decrease by over 90%. It's not the small spammers who are flooding the net, it's a bunch of a few criminal individuals. Of course, you'll have to keep up the fight, since other sociopaths will gladly take the place of those top-10 spammers...
Unfortunately, most of ROKSO are living in the Land of the Free, where they are unlikely to be prosecuted effectively [CAN-SPAM] :-(
How would you send program[-fragments] and other non-[A-Z] mails? Tagging [^A-Z] as likely spam could wreck havoc in many mail settings.
but if you upgrade to the $599 Solaris JDS, all your hardware will work.
Nope. Solaris/x86 sucks on must PC desktop hardware too. I'm keeping a disk with Solaris 9/x86 around, just because I'm stuck with a Maple V Solaris/x86 license. As soon as I upgrade to a Linux version of Maple, I'll happily toss Solaris out. For servers, Solaris SPARC and x86 are fine though, but the hardware support on desktop machines is really that bad!
That's the difference between de jure and de facto standards. The only de jure standards are ISO publications. All others are de facto. Even the Internet (the RFCs) are de facto standards, not de jure standards.
Sorry to nitpick here: Tim B. Lee didn't invent the internet, he invented the WWW, which is just one of many "layer 7" applications that run on top of the TCP/IP internet protocols. The Internet (and DNS) existed long before the WWW.