In terms of memory and CPU requirements, emacs is nothing compared to applications like Netscape or StarOffice.
And when was the last time your Emacs made the whole system unstable? Please compare this to Netscape, too. (Today my Netscape browser crashed tree times, and I can't remember if've ever seen emacs or xemacs crash.)
But anyway, I still found your comment somewhat funny.:)
I really enjoyed reading that NYT article - and it's good to hear that such a big company seems to "get it".
So when do they bring us smit/smitty to Linux? I think this is a great system administration tool, and despite some flaws that AIX has, I think this is their major advantage over other *IXes.
<rant> I'm really wondering where those four guys (and girls?) left their brain when moderating that one up to score five! Is is so hard just to check a few links before you waste your scarce moderator points? Does that really take so much of your time? <rant>
Oddly enough, slashdot is not a US state. It'd have to be something like slashdot.andover.holland.mi.us.
Neither are ibm or yahoo or amazon or whatever German states, but they all have a.de domain. Just look around what the current practice outside of the U.S.A. is!
What, then, would you suggest Slashdot's URL be? "Slashdot.com" doesn't fit, because Slashdot isn't really a commercial venture (the ads notwithstanding). "Slashdot.net" doesn't work for the reasons you just said. "Slashdot.gov" and "slashdot.mil" are obvious problems as well.
What about slashdot.us? Everybody (*) in every other contry uses the two letter ISO country code for the TLD, only folks in the US don't. Why?
"This is how it always used to be" is the worst argument at all.
(*) Okay, not everybody, but really most people/companies etc.
The reason I restrain is that my source code might be worth a lot of money someday. If I GPL it then people can get it free. Isn't there a lot of profit lost in open sourcing?
There are companies which did exactly this, opening there former proprietary software. Two very well known examples are Mozilla and Zope. There is a good description how Digital Creations went open source with Zope and what their fears were and why they still did it.
There are a lot of good documents that could anser your questions, e. g. the business case which gives you arguments for convincing your boss. There is also a list of licenses, although it doesn't compare them. I think many people here at/. would recommend the GPL.
Many open source projects work like you describe your wishes, including the Linux kernel itself. Linux is under the GPL.
And for your last question: although I don't use Windoze and other micros~1 products, I would really be happy if there were an increasing number of Win open source projects! I think this way more people would get aware of the open source philosophy and then perhaps would consider doing there own software development as open source. And perhaps we would see less proprietary or shareware (yuck) software.
Open the floodgates. Allow *anything* to be used as a TLD, HOWEVER.... and this is what's important: All domain registrations *must* still consist of two parts, domain + TLD.
Sorry, "root", but that won't work at all. That way every company would register www.company (like www.micros~1, www.apple, www.megami), which is a two part domain. Is this what you intended? I don't think so.
Actually you can use W2K kerberos to access Unix/Linux kerberos systems. But you can't use Unix/Linux kerberos clients to access W2K servers. Typical Microsoft "embrace-and-extend" crap.
Acually it's the other way round: any client can access W2K servers, but a W2K client will only work properly when communicating with a W2K kerberos server. Otherwise some Win-services like printing won't be available.
But I think that was what I wrote when I posted that news, only with less words.:-)
Then you stand to lose the context of the conversations.
There is a little link called Parent underneath each comment - you only have to use it in case you think you need some context to understand that comment. At least that's what I do.
Besides, I think Amphigory's point is a very good one, can't it just be added to the moderator guidelines?
Someday, we might have to be the agressor, too. Enforcing our licenses, or attacking something like the DVD Copy Control Consortium in the courts. I'm not expecting all of this to be pro-bono. We need more money to do this than we have so far.
So what about the "new" big&rich companies like Red Hat and VA Linux, has somebody asked them about this? Especially VA, they emphasize all the time that they want to support the "Linux community" in many different ways, so how about them hiring attorneys?
But what happens when your DNS server is out, and all the data have expired ?
Of course at least you should have different DNS servers, preferably also in different geographical regions. Then the data can't expire, if there is still at least one of your DNS servers around the world up and running.
And with the MX records: as somebody stated before, you don't have to have different domains for your email and your web server, as long as the A record for web server points to a completely different server than the MX record for your email.
And, another important thing, you should also have at least two MX records with completely different servers behind them, perhaps also in different geographical regions. This way you still get email (at least with some delay) when the first MX server is down.
Why don't you just fix the stats by adjusting the number of total blocks in the keyspace?
If you set the number of total block to the number of blocks in the keyspace plus the number of blocks handed out twice, wouldn't the total percentage be correct again?
But they can't control all media, since we don't live in a communist country, or at least I don't. So there probably will be some media who doesn't ignore this.
Google does not only look at the result pages (micros~1 in this example) for the search terms you entered, but also at the links that point to that page! This is in fact one of the reasons why Google is so good.
I don't think the words evil and satan appear on their homepage, but instead they probably appear on some (or many) links to them.
Does anybody know anything about Linux software for the German tax system? I think it must be even harder, when you look how awfully complicated our tax system is.:-(
Just for the record, I am interested in financial markets, and I have Red Hat shares myself. But I'm a bit surprised to find every single financial news now on slashdot... if I want those I usually went to Yahoo's split calendar or something similar.
And on nerd vs. geek, since I'm not a native English speaker, I'm not that good at those fine differences - sorry.
Is this really "news for nerds"? I mean, every company splits its stock once in a while, and when looking at the current price of RHAT it looks quite reasonable to split it. But that doesn't change anything substantial, so I can't see the reason why this is a/. news.
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And when was the last time your Emacs made the whole system unstable? Please compare this to Netscape, too. (Today my Netscape browser crashed tree times, and I can't remember if've ever seen emacs or xemacs crash.)
But anyway, I still found your comment somewhat funny. :)
--Carpe diem!
So when do they bring us smit/smitty to Linux? I think this is a great system administration tool, and despite some flaws that AIX has, I think this is their major advantage over other *IXes.
--Carpe diem!
<rant>
--I'm really wondering where those four guys (and girls?) left their brain when moderating that one up to score five! Is is so hard just to check a few links before you waste your scarce moderator points? Does that really take so much of your time?
<rant>
Carpe diem!
Carpe diem!
Carpe diem!
"This is how it always used to be" is the worst argument at all.
(*) Okay, not everybody, but really most people/companies etc.
--Carpe diem!
There are companies which did exactly this, opening there former proprietary software. Two very well known examples are Mozilla and Zope. There is a good description how Digital Creations went open source with Zope and what their fears were and why they still did it.
--Carpe diem!
There are a lot of good documents that could anser your questions, e. g. the business case which gives you arguments for convincing your boss. There is also a list of licenses, although it doesn't compare them. I think many people here at /. would recommend the GPL.
By doing a Google search for open source licenses, I also found this, but there is probably more out in the net.
Many open source projects work like you describe your wishes, including the Linux kernel itself. Linux is under the GPL.
And for your last question: although I don't use Windoze and other micros~1 products, I would really be happy if there were an increasing number of Win open source projects! I think this way more people would get aware of the open source philosophy and then perhaps would consider doing there own software development as open source. And perhaps we would see less proprietary or shareware (yuck) software.
--Carpe diem!
Carpe diem!
But I think that was what I wrote when I posted that news, only with less words. :-)
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Some additional links for Europe can be found at http://noamazon.com/.
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Besides, I think Amphigory's point is a very good one, can't it just be added to the moderator guidelines?
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If you don't like it, don't read it.
I don't have the time to check Freshmeat all the time, so it's good to see important things here.
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Could you tell us more about that? I know a bit about the data communications part, but where are the applications in cryptography and lithography?
Or do you have any links to sites describing that?
Thanks!
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So what about the "new" big&rich companies like Red Hat and VA Linux, has somebody asked them about this? Especially VA, they emphasize all the time that they want to support the "Linux community" in many different ways, so how about them hiring attorneys?
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And, if I remember right, there was quite a big difference between the amount he could have got and the amount he actually got.
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Of course at least you should have different DNS servers, preferably also in different geographical regions. Then the data can't expire, if there is still at least one of your DNS servers around the world up and running.
And with the MX records: as somebody stated before, you don't have to have different domains for your email and your web server, as long as the A record for web server points to a completely different server than the MX record for your email.
And, another important thing, you should also have at least two MX records with completely different servers behind them, perhaps also in different geographical regions. This way you still get email (at least with some delay) when the first MX server is down.
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See you at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo!
Why not? What's wrong with cable modems?
This statement is IMHO nothing more than a flame if you give no reasons.
If you set the number of total block to the number of blocks in the keyspace plus the number of blocks handed out twice, wouldn't the total percentage be correct again?
- Stephan.
Carpe diem.
Google does not only look at the result pages (micros~1 in this example) for the search terms you entered, but also at the links that point to that page! This is in fact one of the reasons why Google is so good.
I don't think the words evil and satan appear on their homepage, but instead they probably appear on some (or many) links to them.
Look here for more about this.
- Stephan.
Carpe diem.
- Stephan.
Carpe diem!
And on nerd vs. geek, since I'm not a native English speaker, I'm not that good at those fine differences - sorry.
- Stephan.
Carpe diem.
- Stephan.
Carpe diem.
You're now quite right - there is always one party who wins: the gambling company! (And they win very much, I suppose.)