It seems the owner's best avenue would be to sue, but unfortunately MS will fight that until he's broke. So either way, he's fucked 6 ways from Sunday
The best avenue for any business owner is to never, under ANY circumstances, do business with MS. This applies to being a reseller, partner, customer, or certification holder. Don't use hotmail. Stop using windows and MS applications. Stop using MS formats and file systems.
One of my projects a while ago was to develop a checklist that one could go through to be 100% MS free. It turned out to be larger than I thought, but I've been happy ever since with my technology.
I don't have to believe, I can simply point out all of the orgs that have a working Bugzilla implementation. Even DESC, a homeless shelter NPO, uses bugzilla.
Why the hell should I *have* to fill out the version number
So that the upstream knows what version you are running. Are you running foosoft 1.0, or foosoft 1.0-ubuntu6_AMD64_whining_willie. There's a big difference between the two.
The Internet of 2009? No.
You are mistaken. Checkout the irc.netsplit.de stats
I've had that problem with GTK+, Inkscape, Notepad++
Seeing the tone and demeanor of your posts here, I'd love to see your bug reports for these products.
If your project is using Bugzilla (or Sourceforge), the poor quality and usability of your bug tracker is driving people way
Bugzilla and sourceforge are perfectly usable, as are their alternatives. People don't like fileing defects because it requires some effort, such as filling in the version and repro steps. Most people don't want to do that, they just want to whine about usability. Whining is not criticism.
If you only speak to users via mailing list
Mailing lists exist so the users can speak to developers. Mailing list archives are for Devs to speak to users.
If you only meet on IRC, you're alienating the people who won't install and download an IRC client to talk to you
If you're using a free *nix, you probably already have an IRC client. IRC is a critical part of distributed software development on the internet.
Of course the next step is to actually read and act on that feedback. Considering most open source projects don't even read their own bug database, I don't hold out much hope in this area.
I found that the author totally misinterprets "Linux is free, so why are you complaining?". Linux is free, as in speech. Don't complain... file a bug report, participate with the architect, write some code. All of these help solve the problem. Complaining does nothing. Criticism works, but works better in the context of a bug report or MList discussion.. Not in a pcworld/zdnet blog. The author isn't criticizing linux, he's criticizing the community surrounding Gnu/Linux.
After you have filed a bug report, and spoken to the devs on the mailing list, and written some horrible pseudocode to resolve an issue, you are now given the right to complain louder than Theo on the blog of your choice.
In the US, there are an many words for "carbonated beverage" as there are dialects. They are commonly referred to as "soda", "pop", "soda-pop", and "cola". Even worse than "cola" is a southern US dialect that uses the word "coke" to mean carbonated beverage.
I'll have a Coke.
What kind?
A coke, you know, a soda..
Yes, but what kind?
It's almost about as bad as the words for "long sandwich", which are "hero", "sub", "grinder", and "submarine sandwich". Then there are various definitions of what constitutes an "Italian sub". Moving from NJ/NY to the west coast was a shock for me.
The funniest US dialect uses the word "mash" instead of "push/press" when referring to pushing buttons on a remote or phone. You do not "press 1 for English", you "mash" 1.
A little competition between two rival Physics engines is a good thing for consumers. We can only hope that the few available gaming-oriented FOSS physics engines improve as well.
To bring this slightly back on topic, I don't really see why any laptop needs to have all those flash-and-trash iCandy effects that Visa is so "famous" for, but then, if you take those out, what do you have left that's worth having?
My sentiments exactly. If you want to experiment with eye-candy on an 800x600 Pentium laptop with 96 megs, you might want to try an e17 (enlightenment) based distro. See if you can snag the e-livecd.org live CD and give it a go. Granted, it's not Vista/OSX/Compiz level bling, but it'll be better than TWM.
So yes, you can run "Linux" on a low memory computer, but you're sure as hell not going to be running KDE or GNOME or some other good-looking interface with it.
Bear in mind that one needs neither KDE nor Gnome to have a full featured desktop experience based on Linux. While I no longer dabble with 386's on a regular basis, I can state with some authority that "Linux" runs great on a P54c-233 with 64MB of RAM. Web, e-mail, word processing. Flash video on footube tends to get bogged down a bit, but otherwise an A+ computing experience.
So, just to get this straight, the RIAA pursued a questionable case that has already cost the defendant money to prepare for, and as soon as credible resistance emerges they quickly run and do it again to someone else - without sanctions?
Or did I miss something?
No you didn't miss anything.
With the exception that it will now be slightly less expensive for "someone else" to defend themselves.
Honestly, the state of filesystems in Linux is SO f***d that just blaming whoever added writeback mode is irrelevant.
I agree that the who-dun-it part is irrelevant. I disagree on the "SO f***d" part. We have three filesystems that write the journal prior to the data. Basically, we know the issue, and a similar fix can be shared amongst the three affected filesystems. We've had far more "f***d" situations than this (think etherbrick-1000) where hardware was being destroyed without a good understanding of what was happening. Everything will work out as it seems to have everyone's attention.
The thing that worries me is the amount of information sharing, it seems that this is just ripe for abuse, data theft, data loss, and misinformation. I would love it if just my doctor had access to my medical records instead of everyone and their brother.
Anyone can have my medical information, as long as only my doctor can associate it with me.
So is the open source backend using the OpenEHR data standards, or did someone re-invent the wheel yet again? I see no mention of OpenEHR in the article.
The Supreme being makes a much larger assumption, the supreme being must somehow exist outside of the rules that all the other characters live by, and be able to affect those who are constrained by those rules. We cannot see this from our own chronology, or anywhere that has not later been re-explained, and re-attributed to something living within the rules of the system, through investigation using the scientific method.
But there was no supreme being in BSG. Ralph Richardson was not involved with its production in any way.
I believe that joke predates the IT crowd by a decade or two. I'm pretty certain it was invented by George Carlin about someone entirely different than Yanni. That said, I've seen 5 minutes of the IT crowd in my lifetime and it was a flashback about some ominous looking goth dude about how he came to be goth.
It appears that the author has edited the article and removed the windows/linux but (which the submitter quoted from the article). I agree. Parallelization of most tasks is difficult. It will remain difficult till the end of time.
Agreed. I wish that they would have kept the suspended disbelief unexplained, much like the force was before metacloriates (blame firefox for not having a star-wars enabled spell checker). The god thing was a major cop-out for those of us that don't believe in magic.
Wait, you're pissed that they scientifically explained away the 'magic' in Star Wars, but didn't scientifically explain away the 'magic' in BSG?
No. I'm pissed that they scientifically explained the force, and I'm equally as pissed that they explained the events of BSG as magic (or whatever you want to call it). When I want to see magic, I'll watch LOTR, Harry Potter, Fox News, or The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston.
I'm equally as "pissed" at Yanni. If you're going to dress like a magician, and cut your hair like a magician, you should do magic. I can't tell what he does, but the background music at his shows suck.
The finale was reasonably good, but I would have preferred the last scene to have been Adama on top of the hill next to Laura's grave.
Agreed. I wish that they would have kept the suspended disbelief unexplained, much like the force was before metacloriates (blame firefox for not having a star-wars enabled spell checker). The god thing was a major cop-out for those of us that don't believe in magic.
So now if you manage to collect a bunch of money in a game you have to file an FBAR with the IRS.
Generally, the IRS will only be interested when you pull money out of the game. They have little interest in money that you have sitting in an overseas account. It's when you withdraw from that account into the US that they'll want their cut.
No apology necessary. This is slashdot after all. I will say that there does seem to be a windows paradigm where users feel obligated to purchase, download, and install software for functionality already offered by the default OS. For example:
People wanting to defrag download speedDisk. People wanting to surf the web download firefox. People wanting to burn CDs purchase Nero, and so on and so forth. It's as if they do not even try to use the built-in software any more. It always struck me as odd. My wife installed solitaire from some MSN Gaming site. She says that it's "better than the solitaire already installed". I'm putting her on Ubuntu next week.
I know your post was meant to be ridiculing various Windows features, but it really just reveals your ignorance.
Quite the contrary. My NY style sarcasm sometimes is a little overboard for you interweb folks. It would never occur to me to pay money, download, and install an alternative to any of these packages, with the possible exception of an entirely different OS.
That said.. I wasn't aware that Meeting Space was an H323 and T120 app. It looks more like a WebX competitor and Sharepoint accessory than a Netmeeting replacement.
Windows Defrag is fine for any system. Any further optimization is polishing a turd. EFS and RDP work as advertised. NTBackup will be missed by all.
(1) Right Click the directory
(2) Left Click Properties
(3) Left Click "Advanced" near the bottom
(4) Check with you Left Moust button "Encrypt contents to secure data"
(5) Left Click OK, wait until it finishes
What's next? Are you going to suggest using NTBackup to back files up? Netmeeting to do an H323 conference with the office? Use 'windows' degragmenter? Remote Desktop instead of VnC? Crazy talk I say!
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@ Will be interesting to see what malware creators do to get around this ..."
Attrib -w? Flip the Writeprotect dword in StorageDevicePolicies?
BBH
A miniPCI card with an OpenSSL-supported crypto engine that can handle saturate the bus costs around $50.
You would pay $50.. for a ssl crypto PCI card, and you're implying that 'other' people are being suckered?
BBH
It seems the owner's best avenue would be to sue, but unfortunately MS will fight that until he's broke. So either way, he's fucked 6 ways from Sunday
The best avenue for any business owner is to never, under ANY circumstances, do business with MS. This applies to being a reseller, partner, customer, or certification holder. Don't use hotmail. Stop using windows and MS applications. Stop using MS formats and file systems.
One of my projects a while ago was to develop a checklist that one could go through to be 100% MS free. It turned out to be larger than I thought, but I've been happy ever since with my technology.
BBH
I even actually wrote it:
Great! Now convert it all to caps, and add an exclamation point after each sentence. It will be indistinguishable from a Slashdot poster.
It's about time we got a new AliceBot.
BBH
If you truly and honestly believe that
I don't have to believe, I can simply point out all of the orgs that have a working Bugzilla implementation. Even DESC, a homeless shelter NPO, uses bugzilla.
Why the hell should I *have* to fill out the version number
So that the upstream knows what version you are running. Are you running foosoft 1.0, or foosoft 1.0-ubuntu6_AMD64_whining_willie. There's a big difference between the two.
The Internet of 2009? No.
You are mistaken. Checkout the irc.netsplit.de stats
I've had that problem with GTK+, Inkscape, Notepad++
Seeing the tone and demeanor of your posts here, I'd love to see your bug reports for these products.
BBH
If your project is using Bugzilla (or Sourceforge), the poor quality and usability of your bug tracker is driving people way
Bugzilla and sourceforge are perfectly usable, as are their alternatives. People don't like fileing defects because it requires some effort, such as filling in the version and repro steps. Most people don't want to do that, they just want to whine about usability. Whining is not criticism.
If you only speak to users via mailing list
Mailing lists exist so the users can speak to developers. Mailing list archives are for Devs to speak to users.
If you only meet on IRC, you're alienating the people who won't install and download an IRC client to talk to you
If you're using a free *nix, you probably already have an IRC client. IRC is a critical part of distributed software development on the internet.
Of course the next step is to actually read and act on that feedback. Considering most open source projects don't even read their own bug database, I don't hold out much hope in this area.
You're confusing Open source with Ubuntu.
BBH
I found that the author totally misinterprets "Linux is free, so why are you complaining?". Linux is free, as in speech. Don't complain... file a bug report, participate with the architect, write some code. All of these help solve the problem. Complaining does nothing. Criticism works, but works better in the context of a bug report or MList discussion.. Not in a pcworld/zdnet blog. The author isn't criticizing linux, he's criticizing the community surrounding Gnu/Linux.
After you have filed a bug report, and spoken to the devs on the mailing list, and written some horrible pseudocode to resolve an issue, you are now given the right to complain louder than Theo on the blog of your choice.
BBH
In the US, there are an many words for "carbonated beverage" as there are dialects. They are commonly referred to as "soda", "pop", "soda-pop", and "cola". Even worse than "cola" is a southern US dialect that uses the word "coke" to mean carbonated beverage.
I'll have a Coke.
What kind?
A coke, you know, a soda..
Yes, but what kind?
It's almost about as bad as the words for "long sandwich", which are "hero", "sub", "grinder", and "submarine sandwich". Then there are various definitions of what constitutes an "Italian sub". Moving from NJ/NY to the west coast was a shock for me.
The funniest US dialect uses the word "mash" instead of "push/press" when referring to pushing buttons on a remote or phone. You do not "press 1 for English", you "mash" 1.
BBH
I fail to see how the parent is a troll, regardless of whether he is right or not.
Welcome to slashdot. It's the only place on the internet where a first post can be modded redundant.
BBH
A little competition between two rival Physics engines is a good thing for consumers. We can only hope that the few available gaming-oriented FOSS physics engines improve as well.
BBH
To bring this slightly back on topic, I don't really see why any laptop needs to have all those flash-and-trash iCandy effects that Visa is so "famous" for, but then, if you take those out, what do you have left that's worth having?
My sentiments exactly. If you want to experiment with eye-candy on an 800x600 Pentium laptop with 96 megs, you might want to try an e17 (enlightenment) based distro. See if you can snag the e-livecd.org live CD and give it a go. Granted, it's not Vista/OSX/Compiz level bling, but it'll be better than TWM.
BBH
So yes, you can run "Linux" on a low memory computer, but you're sure as hell not going to be running KDE or GNOME or some other good-looking interface with it.
Bear in mind that one needs neither KDE nor Gnome to have a full featured desktop experience based on Linux. While I no longer dabble with 386's on a regular basis, I can state with some authority that "Linux" runs great on a P54c-233 with 64MB of RAM. Web, e-mail, word processing. Flash video on footube tends to get bogged down a bit, but otherwise an A+ computing experience.
BBH
So, just to get this straight, the RIAA pursued a questionable case that has already cost the defendant money to prepare for, and as soon as credible resistance emerges they quickly run and do it again to someone else - without sanctions? Or did I miss something?
No you didn't miss anything.
With the exception that it will now be slightly less expensive for "someone else" to defend themselves.
BBH
Honestly, the state of filesystems in Linux is SO f***d that just blaming whoever added writeback mode is irrelevant.
I agree that the who-dun-it part is irrelevant. I disagree on the "SO f***d" part. We have three filesystems that write the journal prior to the data. Basically, we know the issue, and a similar fix can be shared amongst the three affected filesystems. We've had far more "f***d" situations than this (think etherbrick-1000) where hardware was being destroyed without a good understanding of what was happening. Everything will work out as it seems to have everyone's attention.
BBH
In short, what the fuck were they thinking?
"I wonder if this cow has any milk left in it?"
They're seeing if they can extract more $ for mp3 IP licenses.
The thing that worries me is the amount of information sharing, it seems that this is just ripe for abuse, data theft, data loss, and misinformation. I would love it if just my doctor had access to my medical records instead of everyone and their brother.
Anyone can have my medical information, as long as only my doctor can associate it with me.
So is the open source backend using the OpenEHR data standards, or did someone re-invent the wheel yet again? I see no mention of OpenEHR in the article.
BBH
The Supreme being makes a much larger assumption, the supreme being must somehow exist outside of the rules that all the other characters live by, and be able to affect those who are constrained by those rules. We cannot see this from our own chronology, or anywhere that has not later been re-explained, and re-attributed to something living within the rules of the system, through investigation using the scientific method.
But there was no supreme being in BSG. Ralph Richardson was not involved with its production in any way.
BBH
I believe that joke predates the IT crowd by a decade or two. I'm pretty certain it was invented by George Carlin about someone entirely different than Yanni. That said, I've seen 5 minutes of the IT crowd in my lifetime and it was a flashback about some ominous looking goth dude about how he came to be goth.
BBH
It appears that the author has edited the article and removed the windows/linux but (which the submitter quoted from the article). I agree. Parallelization of most tasks is difficult. It will remain difficult till the end of time.
BBH
Agreed. I wish that they would have kept the suspended disbelief unexplained, much like the force was before metacloriates (blame firefox for not having a star-wars enabled spell checker). The god thing was a major cop-out for those of us that don't believe in magic.
Wait, you're pissed that they scientifically explained away the 'magic' in Star Wars, but didn't scientifically explain away the 'magic' in BSG?
No. I'm pissed that they scientifically explained the force, and I'm equally as pissed that they explained the events of BSG as magic (or whatever you want to call it). When I want to see magic, I'll watch LOTR, Harry Potter, Fox News, or The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston.
I'm equally as "pissed" at Yanni. If you're going to dress like a magician, and cut your hair like a magician, you should do magic. I can't tell what he does, but the background music at his shows suck.
BBH
The finale was reasonably good, but I would have preferred the last scene to have been Adama on top of the hill next to Laura's grave.
Agreed. I wish that they would have kept the suspended disbelief unexplained, much like the force was before metacloriates (blame firefox for not having a star-wars enabled spell checker). The god thing was a major cop-out for those of us that don't believe in magic.
BBH
So now if you manage to collect a bunch of money in a game you have to file an FBAR with the IRS.
Generally, the IRS will only be interested when you pull money out of the game. They have little interest in money that you have sitting in an overseas account. It's when you withdraw from that account into the US that they'll want their cut.
BBH
No apology necessary. This is slashdot after all. I will say that there does seem to be a windows paradigm where users feel obligated to purchase, download, and install software for functionality already offered by the default OS. For example:
People wanting to defrag download speedDisk. People wanting to surf the web download firefox. People wanting to burn CDs purchase Nero, and so on and so forth. It's as if they do not even try to use the built-in software any more. It always struck me as odd. My wife installed solitaire from some MSN Gaming site. She says that it's "better than the solitaire already installed". I'm putting her on Ubuntu next week.
BBH
I know your post was meant to be ridiculing various Windows features, but it really just reveals your ignorance.
Quite the contrary. My NY style sarcasm sometimes is a little overboard for you interweb folks. It would never occur to me to pay money, download, and install an alternative to any of these packages, with the possible exception of an entirely different OS.
That said.. I wasn't aware that Meeting Space was an H323 and T120 app. It looks more like a WebX competitor and Sharepoint accessory than a Netmeeting replacement.
Windows Defrag is fine for any system. Any further optimization is polishing a turd. EFS and RDP work as advertised. NTBackup will be missed by all.
BBH
(1) Right Click the directory (2) Left Click Properties (3) Left Click "Advanced" near the bottom (4) Check with you Left Moust button "Encrypt contents to secure data" (5) Left Click OK, wait until it finishes
What's next? Are you going to suggest using NTBackup to back files up? Netmeeting to do an H323 conference with the office? Use 'windows' degragmenter? Remote Desktop instead of VnC? Crazy talk I say!
BBH