The wikipedia "model" as it stands now is all reward (big ego boos, "Look Ma, I edited Luxembourg!") and very little risk (Dood1: "Yo, I just got banned from posting in wikipedia!" Dood2: "Like, D00d, you are so-o-o-- cool! That rawks, man! And screw them!"). The day a writer of a wikipedia article loses his source of income for doing a bad job is the day wikipedia begins to be credible.
The open source development "model" as it stands now is all reward (big ego boos, "Look Ma, I edited the linux kernel!") and very little risk (Dood1: "Yo, I just got banned from the dev list!" Dood2: "Like, D00d, you are so-o-o-- cool! That rawks, man! And screw them!"). The day a developer of an open source project loses his source of income for doing a bad job is the day opensource software begins to be credible.
The problem is that there's no real, new, revolutionary development in browsers. They're all following each other's leads and copying each other's successes, not looking beyong the narrow confines of their little war for market share.
It's official, you did not RTFA...
Today, e-mail, maps, word processing and other traditionally standalone applications are migrating online. Major Internet companies such as Google, Yahoo and even Microsoft are devoting tremendous resources developing these web applications -- and browser developers want them to run well.
Opera 9 sports "widgets" -- web-based applications that run off its browser but appear detached as standalone tools. Anyone knowing web coding can develop widgets for Opera to check weather, soccer results or the status of eBay auctions; others can download existing ones.
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The new Opera, making its debut in Seattle to invoke images of Opera chief executive Jon S. von Tetzchner landing in Microsoft's backyard, also formally supports a file-sharing mechanism called BitTorrent and lets users customize preferences -- such as whether to allow JavaScript -- on a site-by-site basis.
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Firefox 2, a "beta" version for which is planned this summer and a full version by September, will also include anti-phishing features, along with tools to automatically restore web pages should the browser suddenly crash or require a restart. Other features in the Mozilla browser include a search box that can suggest queries as users type.
And Mozilla already has its sights on Firefox 3 next year, with plans to let users run online applications even when there is no live Internet connection.
Meanwhile, Flock Inc. released a test version of its Firefox-based Flock browser. Tapping into the recent wave of sites that encourage users to share content, Flock makes it easy to drag and drop images to MySpace.com and automatically notifies users when friends add items to selected photo sites.
You don't need GTalk for reminders. It can send SMS to your mobile. It can also send you e-mail reminders. It also sends you a daily digest at 5am for your upcoming day.
Also, you can export subscribe to your own.ics files that include reminders. I've got all of my machines (home, work, laptop) pulling my google calendar ics file with reminders and everything, as well as getting SMS messages for important stuff all from my centralized google calendar, all for free.
If exchange worked this well across my different platforms, I'd use it.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are equal, that they have certain rights..." Along with "creator", another word disappeared - "inalienable". Because once we don't believe in God, and that He gave us these rights, then we just have them because... well, because we decided that we have them. And that means that we (or the majority of "we") can decide that we don't have them. The rights aren't inalienable any more.
When our country lost its collective faith in God, it had political consequences. All our rights are up for grabs now.
This is bullshit. If civil rights were granted upon a religiousbasis, would atheists not have these rights, or people with beliefs in the "wrong" god?
Basic political philosophy postulates an implicit social contract agreed upon by members of society. Prior to or without this social contract, we have not given up any rights, and live in a state of anarchy (a state of nature). We sacrifice or trade some rights for the benefits of a functional society.
I think that this is a lot more likely than civil rights based upon religion.
I'm unsure how god could play into this picture. Even with the police state that the US (and UK) is turning into, the political situation is one hell of a lot better than, say Spain in the Fifteenth Century when "collective faith in [a Catholic] God" was at a high.
Briefly survey religious states, historical: early Calvinism or early American Puritanism, etc and modern: Iraq, Afganistan, Iran, etc. In fact, I would say that the vast majority of all of Judeo-Christian thought negates the desirability and the liklihood of individual, inalienable liberties. "Collective faith in god" mixed with politice has never gotten humanity any better than dictatorship and has merely served as an opiate of the masses.
You're a dangerous fool for espousing such a viewpoint and it frightens me that so many people apparently agree with you. If Bush was chosen to lead the nation by God, you damn well better not question him.
so, go ahead, make java open source, and starting from the one man utility developer to IBM, let everyone change anything since they believe it is a better method of doing x,y,z... So 3 years from now, working on the new major version, my software will no longer be easily portable to other configs. It will be possible, but it will cost me much more than today. That cost my friends, will make us go down in the not so long run.
Having a technology based on strict rules, has it's own advantages. in case of java, i believe these advantages far outweight the cons, but that's just me. However, i don't think my argument will be nonsense for many enterprise development projects.
This is FUD. The F/OSS community is as interested in producing cross-platform code at least as much as SUN, probably moreso. Most of "Java" is just code libraries that target the standard (ie Sun's) JVM and the code libraries are where sun would see the most input from the community.
* One of many examples: I think a lot of people might be interested in SunRay if it wasn't that its use is still painfully tied to Solaris, which nobody wants to use so much as within 50 feet of a desktop machine.
Sun Ray Server Software 3.1 is also designed to run on the following operating systems with x64 servers:
* Solaris 10 3/05 or greater
* Java Desktop System, Release 2 on x86
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3 on x86 (32-bit)
* SuSe Linux Enterprise Server 8 Service Pack 3 on x86 (32-bit)
One doesn't need solaris to run a SunRay network. Additionally, these are only the OSs that are supported by Sun.
About a year ago Sun boughtTarantella which provides remote desktop software. I've set up a testing install of Tarantella with MS Windows Server 2003, Solaris 10 and Red Hat. You need at least one server for each offered OS and Global Desktop handles the connecting and much of the glue (of course, MS makes it more difficult than necessary, but...).
This product of Sun's is definitely an enterprise-level competitor (and really hits the sweet spot when used with their thin-client products).
Seeing as that memory is now lost and unusable you **should** care. It is a sign of sloppy design anyways and the other two (Opera and IE) don't seem to have problems with memory leaks...
That's odd, I thought that Opera and Safari were the "other two"...
Exactly, all this is doing is splitting the online bookmarks sharing market into even smaller and smaller silos, subtracting value from end users. Why doesn't Slashdot just work out a deal with del.icio.us so that Slashdotters can mark the fact that they have a Slashdot account in their del.icio.us preferences, and then have those bookmarks be minable by the Slashdot editors. That way it would be easier for the Slashdot editors, better for del.icio.us, and would actually add value to the Internet instead of further splintering the market.
While "importing" bookmarks from browsers, del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/api/posts/all), google, ma.gnolia.com, yahoo, etc (does MS have social bookmarking yet?), is a great idea, slashcode is opensource. Hell, it even has its own O'Reilly book.
I'd love to offer a friendly, clean social bookmarking service to my users. Where can I get the del.icio.us source? (I'm a heavy del.icio.us user (del.icio.us/Iaughter) and I resent giving my bookmarks to a multinational corporation.)
Sure, digg's comment moderation sucks (or the majority of digg posters really are idiots), but digg's bottom-up system of "generating" news has alot to offer. A good reason to stick with slashdot is that it's released under the GPL. Walking the walk, as it were.
Okay, this is really the stupidest thing I've ever seen grace the front page of Slashdot....
1) You need to have a reason to run applications. There are VERY FEW COOL applications.
2) If you are a Mac user, why does it even worry you? Have you found your program selection limiting in what you do every day? Once again, most people don't sit and think of cool programs to run, they run a program because they need to get something done.
I think that it's important to understand that traditional mac users do make, read and use lists of "cool" software. Probably this is due to the devotion that long-time mac users show toward their systems and because there are fewer applications for the mac.
While this article is obviously self-promotion for this guy's blog and of questionably worth as a slashdot article, I think that the list of Windows apps, as coming from a pure Mac user, is authentic and quite illustrative of the differences between Windows and Mac users.
Purdue University's Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security. http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/
It's a well-known and top-notch program, one of the first of its kind.
Its head is Eugene Spafford, who seems to be well-known in tech circles and is part of the Center's claim to fame.
CERIAS offers, I think, both masters and PhD's.
I looked at it a few years ago, but I'm sure that it's still worth looking into. I think that their site recently was dugg for some security checklist or something...
But none of these compare to Sun's Messenging Server. Calendaring, IM, mail, all standards-compliant (even to the backend ldap server), all open-source. It integrates with outlook. It's backed up by a global corporation and is certified to run on Solaris, Red Hat, HP-UX and Windows. *
I don't understand why people even look at some of these other mail/calendar systems, let alone ignore this offering from Sun. Seriously, will someone answer that? (Sure it's not GPL'd, but Zimbra?)
Microsoft: No Vista Code Changes By Ed Oswald, BetaNews March 24, 2006, 4:05 PM
Microsoft slammed an article by Australian technology publication Smart House on Friday, calling it "speculation." The retort came as a result of a story that cited sources within the company saying as much as 60 percent of Vista code needs to be rewritten.
The article claimed that the Redmond company had to transfer developers from the Xbox team to the Windows division in order to ensure the Vista makes it to a CES 2007 release. Much of the article centered on issues with the Media Center and multimedia functionality, and claimed Intel was assisting Microsoft in rushing out the new code.
Relatively unknown outside Australia before this week, Smart House made waves in the blogosphere and throughout the Apple enthusiast community with a story on Tuesday. In that article, the publication cited an unnamed BenQ executive as saying among Taiwanese manufacturers, the existence of an Apple "iPhone" is "common knowledge."
"This is speculation with no demonstrable basis in fact," a Microsoft spokesperson told BetaNews on Friday. "There aren't any Xbox developers moving over to the Windows Vista team," he said, disputing the core premise of the story.
Representatives with Intel could not be reached for comment.
Microsoft said that Vista is "feature complete," which means that the code writing process is basically over. "The next phase of development focuses on security, testing and fit/finish - not writing new code," the spokesperson added.
The company also reiterated its prior shipping targets -- to business in November, and consumers in January 2007.
The only true advantage I see to this is that Google gives you a LOT more disk space for free, wheras you have to pay for more with G&A... but perhaps that's why we're seeing "Sorry, we are unable to offer new accounts today. We appreciate your interest and invite you to add your Gmail address to our wait list. We'll let you know when we've enabled your account."
This is a silly statement. I'd wager money that the reason google is capping the number of participants has nothing to do with disk space and everything to do with the scaleability factor of the software.
I think that many of these webapps that come out of google's 20% time don't scale. Remember Orkrut?
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I work in a network with 4 1/2 admins, myself included. Notably two of them get so irritated at having to type sudo before every command that they'll just sudo into a shell and be done with it. However, we got sudo configured to last for five minutes or so, so that once you authenticate using sudo, only five minutes of sudo inactivity will require you to re-authenticate. I find that it works well. And of course, there's the extra benefit of not becoming innured to being root.
Where does Slony fit into a comparison with Oracle's replication features?
And I dispute that Pg is less stable, and even that it is perceived as less stable than MySQL. Do others really believe this? My personal experience has been the extreme opposite.
I totally agree with parent. I've been switching between mac mail and thunderbird for the past year and a half, trying to figure out which one sucks the least. Get disgusted with one and switch to the other for a few weeks.
However, recently, I've been passing all my mail to my gmail account, which is set up to write the from address for my real email addresses, thereby avoiding the tackiness that is having a free, web-based email address as my primary account.
Nowadways, I only use a fat email client, thunderbird, for S/MIME.
Admittedly, I'm concerned about allowing a giant corporation to host all of my mail and not giving me the ability to encrypt any of it...
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The open source development "model" as it stands now is all reward (big ego boos, "Look Ma, I edited the linux kernel!") and very little risk (Dood1: "Yo, I just got banned from the dev list!" Dood2: "Like, D00d, you are so-o-o-- cool! That rawks, man! And screw them!"). The day a developer of an open source project loses his source of income for doing a bad job is the day opensource software begins to be credible.
This is true.
mod parent up
It's official, you did not RTFA ...
Today, e-mail, maps, word processing and other traditionally standalone applications are migrating online. Major Internet companies such as Google, Yahoo and even Microsoft are devoting tremendous resources developing these web applications -- and browser developers want them to run well.
Opera 9 sports "widgets" -- web-based applications that run off its browser but appear detached as standalone tools. Anyone knowing web coding can develop widgets for Opera to check weather, soccer results or the status of eBay auctions; others can download existing ones.
The new Opera, making its debut in Seattle to invoke images of Opera chief executive Jon S. von Tetzchner landing in Microsoft's backyard, also formally supports a file-sharing mechanism called BitTorrent and lets users customize preferences -- such as whether to allow JavaScript -- on a site-by-site basis.
Firefox 2, a "beta" version for which is planned this summer and a full version by September, will also include anti-phishing features, along with tools to automatically restore web pages should the browser suddenly crash or require a restart. Other features in the Mozilla browser include a search box that can suggest queries as users type.
And Mozilla already has its sights on Firefox 3 next year, with plans to let users run online applications even when there is no live Internet connection.
Meanwhile, Flock Inc. released a test version of its Firefox-based Flock browser. Tapping into the recent wave of sites that encourage users to share content, Flock makes it easy to drag and drop images to MySpace.com and automatically notifies users when friends add items to selected photo sites.
Also, you can export subscribe to your own .ics files that include reminders. I've got all of my machines (home, work, laptop) pulling my google calendar ics file with reminders and everything, as well as getting SMS messages for important stuff all from my centralized google calendar, all for free.
If exchange worked this well across my different platforms, I'd use it.
When our country lost its collective faith in God, it had political consequences. All our rights are up for grabs now.
This is bullshit. If civil rights were granted upon a religiousbasis, would atheists not have these rights, or people with beliefs in the "wrong" god?
Basic political philosophy postulates an implicit social contract agreed upon by members of society. Prior to or without this social contract, we have not given up any rights, and live in a state of anarchy (a state of nature). We sacrifice or trade some rights for the benefits of a functional society. I think that this is a lot more likely than civil rights based upon religion.
I'm unsure how god could play into this picture. Even with the police state that the US (and UK) is turning into, the political situation is one hell of a lot better than, say Spain in the Fifteenth Century when "collective faith in [a Catholic] God" was at a high.
Briefly survey religious states, historical: early Calvinism or early American Puritanism, etc and modern: Iraq, Afganistan, Iran, etc. In fact, I would say that the vast majority of all of Judeo-Christian thought negates the desirability and the liklihood of individual, inalienable liberties. "Collective faith in god" mixed with politice has never gotten humanity any better than dictatorship and has merely served as an opiate of the masses.
You're a dangerous fool for espousing such a viewpoint and it frightens me that so many people apparently agree with you. If Bush was chosen to lead the nation by God, you damn well better not question him.
Because they weren't legally required to do it. They were merely pressured to do it.
Having a technology based on strict rules, has it's own advantages. in case of java, i believe these advantages far outweight the cons, but that's just me. However, i don't think my argument will be nonsense for many enterprise development projects.
This is FUD. The F/OSS community is as interested in producing cross-platform code at least as much as SUN, probably moreso. Most of "Java" is just code libraries that target the standard (ie Sun's) JVM and the code libraries are where sun would see the most input from the community.
Schwartz seems to backpeddle and tends to alienate communities that genuinely want to help the company succeed.
Hey Brian, substantiate this.
* One of many examples: I think a lot of people might be interested in SunRay if it wasn't that its use is still painfully tied to Solaris, which nobody wants to use so much as within 50 feet of a desktop machine.
From http://www.sun.com/software/sunray/index.xml:
Sun Ray Server Software 3.1 is also designed to run on the following operating systems with x64 servers:
* Solaris 10 3/05 or greater
* Java Desktop System, Release 2 on x86
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3 on x86 (32-bit)
* SuSe Linux Enterprise Server 8 Service Pack 3 on x86 (32-bit)
One doesn't need solaris to run a SunRay network. Additionally, these are only the OSs that are supported by Sun.
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This product of Sun's is definitely an enterprise-level competitor (and really hits the sweet spot when used with their thin-client products).
That's odd, I thought that Opera and Safari were the "other two" ...
While "importing" bookmarks from browsers, del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/api/posts/all), google, ma.gnolia.com, yahoo, etc (does MS have social bookmarking yet?), is a great idea, slashcode is opensource. Hell, it even has its own O'Reilly book.
I'd love to offer a friendly, clean social bookmarking service to my users. Where can I get the del.icio.us source? (I'm a heavy del.icio.us user (del.icio.us/Iaughter) and I resent giving my bookmarks to a multinational corporation.)
Sure, digg's comment moderation sucks (or the majority of digg posters really are idiots), but digg's bottom-up system of "generating" news has alot to offer. A good reason to stick with slashdot is that it's released under the GPL. Walking the walk, as it were.
1) You need to have a reason to run applications. There are VERY FEW COOL applications.
2) If you are a Mac user, why does it even worry you? Have you found your program selection limiting in what you do every day? Once again, most people don't sit and think of cool programs to run, they run a program because they need to get something done.
I think that it's important to understand that traditional mac users do make, read and use lists of "cool" software. Probably this is due to the devotion that long-time mac users show toward their systems and because there are fewer applications for the mac.
While this article is obviously self-promotion for this guy's blog and of questionably worth as a slashdot article, I think that the list of Windows apps, as coming from a pure Mac user, is authentic and quite illustrative of the differences between Windows and Mac users.
Purdue University's Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security.
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http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/
It's a well-known and top-notch program, one of the first of its kind.
Its head is Eugene Spafford, who seems to be well-known in tech circles and is part of the Center's claim to fame.
CERIAS offers, I think, both masters and PhD's.
I looked at it a few years ago, but I'm sure that it's still worth looking into. I think that their site recently was dugg for some security checklist or something
Zimbra? Come on people, you want me to trust my user's email to a web2.0 company? what the hell?
Horde? For a user-base of this size? That's crazy! Where are you going to find enterprise-class support for a mediocre php web app framework?
The decent alternatives are Open Xchange, or Hula Server
But none of these compare to Sun's Messenging Server. Calendaring, IM, mail, all standards-compliant (even to the backend ldap server), all open-source. It integrates with outlook. It's backed up by a global corporation and is certified to run on Solaris, Red Hat, HP-UX and Windows. *
I don't understand why people even look at some of these other mail/calendar systems, let alone ignore this offering from Sun. Seriously, will someone answer that? (Sure it's not GPL'd, but Zimbra?)
*I do not work for sun.
What a sad case for a Slashdotter who need to copy posts in order to gain karma, if that's now what the person wish.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_No_Vista _Code_Changes/1143232877
Microsoft: No Vista Code Changes
By Ed Oswald, BetaNews
March 24, 2006, 4:05 PM
Microsoft slammed an article by Australian technology publication Smart House on Friday, calling it "speculation." The retort came as a result of a story that cited sources within the company saying as much as 60 percent of Vista code needs to be rewritten.
The article claimed that the Redmond company had to transfer developers from the Xbox team to the Windows division in order to ensure the Vista makes it to a CES 2007 release. Much of the article centered on issues with the Media Center and multimedia functionality, and claimed Intel was assisting Microsoft in rushing out the new code.
Relatively unknown outside Australia before this week, Smart House made waves in the blogosphere and throughout the Apple enthusiast community with a story on Tuesday. In that article, the publication cited an unnamed BenQ executive as saying among Taiwanese manufacturers, the existence of an Apple "iPhone" is "common knowledge."
"This is speculation with no demonstrable basis in fact," a Microsoft spokesperson told BetaNews on Friday. "There aren't any Xbox developers moving over to the Windows Vista team," he said, disputing the core premise of the story.
Representatives with Intel could not be reached for comment.
Microsoft said that Vista is "feature complete," which means that the code writing process is basically over. "The next phase of development focuses on security, testing and fit/finish - not writing new code," the spokesperson added.
The company also reiterated its prior shipping targets -- to business in November, and consumers in January 2007.
preview kicks a$$
I feel the same way, except that I want to provide it for my users.
Seriously though, in a year or two we'll start seeing f/os ajax app's that duplicate the current new, proprietary stuff.
a good way to make a name for yourself, would be to write an open source ajax imap client
This is a silly statement. I'd wager money that the reason google is capping the number of participants has nothing to do with disk space and everything to do with the scaleability factor of the software.
I think that many of these webapps that come out of google's 20% time don't scale. Remember Orkrut?
I work in a network with 4 1/2 admins, myself included. Notably two of them get so irritated at having to type sudo before every command that they'll just sudo into a shell and be done with it. However, we got sudo configured to last for five minutes or so, so that once you authenticate using sudo, only five minutes of sudo inactivity will require you to re-authenticate. I find that it works well. And of course, there's the extra benefit of not becoming innured to being root.
And I dispute that Pg is less stable, and even that it is perceived as less stable than MySQL. Do others really believe this? My personal experience has been the extreme opposite.
I totally agree with parent. I've been switching between mac mail and thunderbird for the past year and a half, trying to figure out which one sucks the least. Get disgusted with one and switch to the other for a few weeks.
However, recently, I've been passing all my mail to my gmail account, which is set up to write the from address for my real email addresses, thereby avoiding the tackiness that is having a free, web-based email address as my primary account.
Nowadways, I only use a fat email client, thunderbird, for S/MIME.
Admittedly, I'm concerned about allowing a giant corporation to host all of my mail and not giving me the ability to encrypt any of it...