The Open Group, you know the people who certify a system as Unix, disagrees with you.....
They disagree with me that the "XNU" kernel stands for "X is Not Unix"? I doubt that. That was the name Apple gave the kernel by the way. But, to show how compliant OS X is with UNIX. Let's take just ONE of the most simply touted features in Unix like say.. Forking and see how OS X does it? I could go on about how it does POSIX threads, device files, library loading etc. in a way that violate POSIX standards, but I'm not writing a whole article here.
Apparently, you can't fork() without exec(), and this is explicitly allowed by POSIX standards which by the way, is how we determine if something is 'UNIX'. OS X cannot guarantee that the libraries in use are 'async-signal-safe' and thus, this will end up crashing the thread that attempts to fork() the process. I've discovered this and many other crash issues when trying to port various UNIX applications to OS X.
Now here is the kicker. Windows' POSIX subsystem actually does this correctly, has UNIX certification too. OS X amusingly is lesser of a UNIX than Windows is and I don't particularly consider Windows to be a UNIX either and look how much of being a "UNIX" apparently protected Windows, right?
iOS is also quite secure by design. It is based on a real UNIX that also has very few wild viruses.
What the hell are you talking about? iOS is based on OS X, which is based on NexT, which uses a Mach kernel tied together with a BSD subsystem, the resulting kernel is called XNU - X is Not Unix. It's about as closely based on Unix as Windows is, which believe it or not also has a similar subsystem called the "POSIX subsystem". The comment about very few wild viruses --- What? Real UNIX has had many wild viruses in the past, just look at many of the first worms like the Morris worm.
Please actually research what you're talking about before commenting.
The risk for Android is that it puts Linux's chaos and complexity front and center in the mobile phone market and ends up burning out customers because people are overwhelmed with choices and malware.
What? Linux?
OH NOS, THERE IS A BUNCH OF VERSIONS ON KERNEL.ORG, TOO MUCH CHOICE!!!
That's trivial to get around. All they need to do is say that freenet harbors pedophiles (The first time this claim has actually been truthful) and every ISP will want to block it.
How do you block Freenet? Seriously, how do you block it and not other services?
If all the haters actually understood what GOG is, as individuals, as a company, and as a service, compared to Steam
As someone who lived in Poland, I understand it's by the cd projekt people, that's all I need to know to make sure I don't use it. I'd say I'm more than a little aware of what GOG is as a individuals and as a company.
Troll? My post wasn't a troll, I really can view iPlayer videos without any hackery. iPlayer has an Adobe Air application for high definition and Adobe Air is available for Linux.
And before all you mac boneheads start jostling for the soap-box, forget about it. You're running BSD which just gives you a prettier wrapper around the same old unix problems.
XNU is certainly not BSD. It may have a BSD subsystem, but that does not make it BSD.
A happy hacked-get_iplayer user who download iPlayer content that I'm legally entitled to view, via an unofficial channel, because it's the only damn way I can view it properly and in a reasonable manner.
What the hell are you running? A Commodore 64? I can watch high definition iPlayer content on Linux without any hackery.
One thing that most people didn't get about Wave is that its mayor strength is providing an environment where humans and computers can easily communicate and work together.
I could already easily do that with other solutions like google docs, zimbra, etherpad etc. Google Wave was/worse/ for it because it didn't have importable, exportable formats, cumbersome modifications etc. I tried to use it for development, event planning, instant messaging - It didn't seem as good as the existing solutions I had to do that.
This is ignoring all the bugs mind you, like vast histories on waves that lead to it eating loads of ram or locking up the browser.
It had huge potential, but unfortunately very few people "got it".
Feel free to explain the potential to me when in my case, it was taking more time for less work. It's not like I didn't try.
It is real time wiki on steroids, and there is place for such tool, especially in software development.
Not really, I really tried to use it for development with other individuals. It ended up slowing us down, we found that it wasn't really that great for working on documents together either due to the lack of proper import/exporting capabilities and the fact that editing was cumbersome between multiple users. Not only that, but half way getting a document done, due to the vast history backlogged, it took forever to load that wave thread for anyone on the team and was causing our web browsers to essentially lock up or eat loads of RAM.
It was far easier to use our original system (Zimbra - which is sort of like gmail, google calendar, google docs, all wrapped into one tabbed interface) to work on documents live together.
A person can't truly understand the GPL even after spending > 3 months studying it
I do believe I understood the GPL correctly under 30 minutes when I first encountered it. I don't get the big deal. If you're talking about average joe who can't understand the GPL license, he likely doesn't understand any other sort of license, privacy polices, terms of service and the like to begin with.
You are called to submit yourself to the taint for the greater good.
Join us brothers and sisters. Join us in the shadows, where we stand vigilant. Join us as we carry the duty that cannot be forsworn, and should you perish, know that your sacrifice shall not be forgotten, and that one day we shall join you.
In Firefly, there's no goddamn sound in space. There's also no "warp speed," nor a full-blown AI (although I'm not sure about Star Trek on that one...)
The way you got kicked out seems kind of silly. Kicked out for false identity, then when you said you could provide "real life" evidence it was a "oh, you can't do that, you are perma-banned!"
The real geek wants a cell phone that is just a cell phone, but does it's job better than any other phone out there, the real literary geek will most likely never switch to e-books unless they are dragged screaming and kicking the entire way because physical books are "just a book" but it does what it is meant to do, and so far it does it better than any e-book out there.
I think I take exception to this rule. I started reading books on the computer, because where I lived, there was no English books available and ordering from abroad was pointless due to mail theft. I read on average a book or two in a week, some of the books are free, some of them are purchased and admittedly, I have some that were even pirated (generally those that were not available without DRM or didn't have an legitimate source for buying a copy).
I have had my ups and downs in life, right now I'm entering another down 'period' due to economic issues, I have never really had much space for my things, so having an e-book always worked for my space constraints, being able to take my entire library of books, manuals with me on a netbook with me has always a huge bonus for me. As weird as it may sound, people complain they have issues with eye strain when reading on a computer, I have the opposite, I find I get eye strain when reading an actual paper book for a long period of time, so it's only another bonus for me to use e-books.
I don't own any DRMed e-books, most of them were legitimately bought as non-DRMed.pdf. - I have an occasion lent an e-book to a friend on a USB thumb drive, asking them not to 'steal' it. While manuals for various administrative systems were available on CD/DVD order in.chm format. I don't have a magic e-book reader like the Kindle and I probably wouldn't get it unless it supported.chm and.pdf books properly. Considering how these publishers that do non-DRMed works are still staying in business, I don't think I am the only one like this.
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They disagree with me that the "XNU" kernel stands for "X is Not Unix"? I doubt that. That was the name Apple gave the kernel by the way. But, to show how compliant OS X is with UNIX. Let's take just ONE of the most simply touted features in Unix like say.. Forking and see how OS X does it? I could go on about how it does POSIX threads, device files, library loading etc. in a way that violate POSIX standards, but I'm not writing a whole article here.
Apparently, you can't fork() without exec(), and this is explicitly allowed by POSIX standards which by the way, is how we determine if something is 'UNIX'. OS X cannot guarantee that the libraries in use are 'async-signal-safe' and thus, this will end up crashing the thread that attempts to fork() the process. I've discovered this and many other crash issues when trying to port various UNIX applications to OS X.
Now here is the kicker. Windows' POSIX subsystem actually does this correctly, has UNIX certification too. OS X amusingly is lesser of a UNIX than Windows is and I don't particularly consider Windows to be a UNIX either and look how much of being a "UNIX" apparently protected Windows, right?
What the hell are you talking about? iOS is based on OS X, which is based on NexT, which uses a Mach kernel tied together with a BSD subsystem, the resulting kernel is called XNU - X is Not Unix. It's about as closely based on Unix as Windows is, which believe it or not also has a similar subsystem called the "POSIX subsystem". The comment about very few wild viruses --- What? Real UNIX has had many wild viruses in the past, just look at many of the first worms like the Morris worm.
Please actually research what you're talking about before commenting.
What? Linux?
OH NOS, THERE IS A BUNCH OF VERSIONS ON KERNEL.ORG, TOO MUCH CHOICE!!!
What does this have to do anything?
Freenet is designed to work around that.
How do you block Freenet? Seriously, how do you block it and not other services?
As someone who lived in Poland, I understand it's by the cd projekt people, that's all I need to know to make sure I don't use it. I'd say I'm more than a little aware of what GOG is as a individuals and as a company.
Troll? My post wasn't a troll, I really can view iPlayer videos without any hackery. iPlayer has an Adobe Air application for high definition and Adobe Air is available for Linux.
Weird, most of my games work perfectly on Kubuntu 10.04 (It's Ubuntu, just uses KDE by default instead).
XNU is certainly not BSD. It may have a BSD subsystem, but that does not make it BSD.
What the hell are you running? A Commodore 64? I can watch high definition iPlayer content on Linux without any hackery.
MSCE doesn't count.
No, of course not. She'd go into the kitchen, duh.
I could already easily do that with other solutions like google docs, zimbra, etherpad etc. Google Wave was /worse/ for it because it didn't have importable, exportable formats, cumbersome modifications etc. I tried to use it for development, event planning, instant messaging - It didn't seem as good as the existing solutions I had to do that.
This is ignoring all the bugs mind you, like vast histories on waves that lead to it eating loads of ram or locking up the browser.
Feel free to explain the potential to me when in my case, it was taking more time for less work. It's not like I didn't try.
Not really, I really tried to use it for development with other individuals. It ended up slowing us down, we found that it wasn't really that great for working on documents together either due to the lack of proper import/exporting capabilities and the fact that editing was cumbersome between multiple users. Not only that, but half way getting a document done, due to the vast history backlogged, it took forever to load that wave thread for anyone on the team and was causing our web browsers to essentially lock up or eat loads of RAM.
It was far easier to use our original system (Zimbra - which is sort of like gmail, google calendar, google docs, all wrapped into one tabbed interface) to work on documents live together.
Vista comes with H.263 to my knowledge. Seven comes with H.264.
I do believe I understood the GPL correctly under 30 minutes when I first encountered it. I don't get the big deal. If you're talking about average joe who can't understand the GPL license, he likely doesn't understand any other sort of license, privacy polices, terms of service and the like to begin with.
You are called to submit yourself to the taint for the greater good.
Join us brothers and sisters. Join us in the shadows, where we stand vigilant. Join us as we carry the duty that cannot be forsworn, and should you perish, know that your sacrifice shall not be forgotten, and that one day we shall join you.
Indeed. It's just a Western... IN SPACE!
The way you got kicked out seems kind of silly. Kicked out for false identity, then when you said you could provide "real life" evidence it was a "oh, you can't do that, you are perma-banned!"
Off the top of my head, Tamagotchi, Stoneridge Digital Tachographs, Yaesu's transceivers... etc.
Which is quite sad, because they have some pretty nice ads (1, 2, 3, 4).
I think I take exception to this rule. I started reading books on the computer, because where I lived, there was no English books available and ordering from abroad was pointless due to mail theft. I read on average a book or two in a week, some of the books are free, some of them are purchased and admittedly, I have some that were even pirated (generally those that were not available without DRM or didn't have an legitimate source for buying a copy).
I have had my ups and downs in life, right now I'm entering another down 'period' due to economic issues, I have never really had much space for my things, so having an e-book always worked for my space constraints, being able to take my entire library of books, manuals with me on a netbook with me has always a huge bonus for me. As weird as it may sound, people complain they have issues with eye strain when reading on a computer, I have the opposite, I find I get eye strain when reading an actual paper book for a long period of time, so it's only another bonus for me to use e-books.
I don't own any DRMed e-books, most of them were legitimately bought as non-DRMed .pdf. - I have an occasion lent an e-book to a friend on a USB thumb drive, asking them not to 'steal' it. While manuals for various administrative systems were available on CD/DVD order in .chm format. I don't have a magic e-book reader like the Kindle and I probably wouldn't get it unless it supported .chm and .pdf books properly. Considering how these publishers that do non-DRMed works are still staying in business, I don't think I am the only one like this.
A password is property? What are you smoking?
I don't see responding to the previous comment as off topic.