In Poland there are always scandals. I've lived there for 12 years and there was not one week when I was shocked by how much bloody corruption there was.
I know I'm in the minority here on slashdot, but I trusted Sun before Linux was a gleam in Linus's eyes, and I will certainly still trust Sun over the various distros out there who are all capitulating with Microsoft at this point.
Old Unix guru I take it?
Seriously, no sane person is bitching about the fact that the java updater installed an update that makes java work better in the browser.
Unless at the expense, it slows down the rest of the system by loading something that is relatively unused most of the time.
If you want something to bitch about, bitch about the absolute hell it is to have acrobat installed and NOT have the browser plugin installed.
Yeah, I just delete the np plugin for Acrobat in Firefox's plugin directory.
2. With smart player matching, it can also be much faster. If all players are from the same region, but the servers from Microsoft are in an different region, then there'll be far less lag.
I get less latency from a colocation facility in the States with a dedicated server using a tier 1 connection than someone on the same ISP I'm on, in the UK hosting 6 people.
Of course, we're ignoring the fact that Microsoft's xbox content distribution network has servers in every region.
Wait - the only version that doesn't cost a bundle of money is a "Research" kernel, which I really can't use to build apps with for the latest OS versions.
At least the entirety of the source code is available, unlike with OS X. Where you just get the Darwin base, which doesn't give you really anything useful.
In fact Windows 7 has losts of extra DRM that even Vista doens't have.
Care to elaborate on that?
All I found on Google was a vague reference to some badly written crack not working with Photoshop on Windows 7 - Windows 7 wasn't using any DRM technologies to do that.
Heh, not particularly surprising, and seems a bit blown out of proportion. I don't know what would contribute to this being more of a problem than it might be for PC games, and I really don't think it's a problem for them.
PC versions of games like Left 4 dead, Team Fortress 2 and pretty much every other game have dedicated servers which aren't hosted on the player's machine. xbox does not, xbox also has a larger 'lag' issue since games aren't hosted in proper colocation facilities etc.
I only got DoS'd off once when I was playing Tribes 2 a few years ago.
Fink has a tendency to have compile issues, segfaults etc. with random packages....
Then again, one gets the same problems generally under OS X when compiling the forementioned software manually, although it will generally work in more instances than Fink/Macports does.
Apple needs to decide if they're going to regularly and consistently update the open-source software that their Server OS runs. If not, leave it alone and let the users apply and configure updates. This wishy-washy, middle-ground, Jobsy-come-lately approach is just an annoyance and an inconvenience.
all windows machines have--or at least used to have--a (Free)BSD TCP/IP stack
Actually, Windows 3.11 for workgroups had winsock 1.x which was really a commercial product that provided TCP/IP under Win9x. It was a fairly bad port of BSD's TCP/IP stack and Microsoft's only intention at the time was to make it easy to port Unix socket based applications to Windows with it. Winsock 1.x was a unstable piece of doodoo.
However winsock 2.x came out, and while it retained a significant backwards compatibility with Winsock 1 and still emphasized on make it easy to port Unix applications to Windows (even though it still wasn't 1:1 par on compatibility with certain things), by that time, the majority of the original Winsock 1.x code was pretty much gone and from the leaked sources of Winnt, win2k that spread out through the web, the winsock sourcecode did not look at all derived from any BSD implementation. In Windows Vista, the socket implementation was completely rewritten from scratch.
As far as I am aware, the only BSD code you will find in Windows these days is "C:\windows\system32\ftp.exe". I can't think of a single person who has used it, ever.
As for userland (and I think it's true for desktop environments, too) the GNU project is just including more features in their tools
I am theorizing here, so don't take this all as fact:
I think it's more than that. I think GNU generally has a following of people who want to work on it, improve it, continue going further and publicly, there is more of a following on that too. I believe that to be the reason of why GNU licensed software have succeeded more in the world than BSD licensed software. It could also be all stemming from the fact that many developers don't want to make BSD code, which may also be why GNU licenses have had greater penetration.
Either way, I would say there is far more BSD code running on people's machines than GPL code, although such a claim could never be proven.
Well, if you want to count ftp.exe which nobody runs... And just one instance doesn't really prove much. We've got a huge amount of home routers running Linux and a GNU userland, home set top boxes that run on a Linux kernel, DVRs running on a Linux kernel.
I don't even think netbsd runs on as many platforms as I can run Linux on any more. I have been playing with Linux on my mobile phone, my Nintendo DS, my Nintendo Wii, my home router - I can't seem to find netbsd ports for most modern things any more.
Eh, I'm not sure where I stand on the GPL vs. BSD debate, but each probably has their own benefits.
My own position on the matter is really that "I don't care as long as it works". I am a developer, I admit to having contributed only to GPL projects rather than BSD ones, but that's only because there isn't any BSD projects I am interested in (I have also contributed to other kinds of licenses and proprietary software, but not really relevant here).
Fixing this should be a top priority for the Gnome and KDE developers so we can keep GNU/Linux malware free. Just make it require +x for launchers and automatically ask the user for the password when running one, to make it +x - kind of like OS X does with sudo operations.
Or just prevent.desktop files from be executed from mail clients.
There is no need to execute.desktop files in mail clients.
the BSD license is the ideal license for openssh, since the goal is maximum use of the code. the code already works and does not need much improvement
I agree, however, I think this issue is truely unique to OpenSSH. Most other software wouldn't benefit the same way from this in my opinion.
seems like gpl is for maximum openness of software where it is used; bsd is for maximum adoption of software.
It does seem that way, but practically, I think about what software is used more by the people, it seems that more people use GPL software than BSD. Just look at the adoption usage of Linux kernels over BSD kernels, GPL userland over BSD-ish userland, GPL desktop environments (Gnome, KDE), over BSD-sh (Fluxbox - okay, it's MIT, but it's essentially the same as BSD in this case) - it shows that, this is not what happens practically.
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I'm pretty sure I read this e-mail on Slashdot already.
My office uses Skype and 3 skype phones when out of office.
Wow, your argument is so compelling.
Seriously, what's wrong with this troll? Is he drugged up or something and can't troll properly?
In Poland there are always scandals. I've lived there for 12 years and there was not one week when I was shocked by how much bloody corruption there was.
Bad example.
Linus did get paid quite a bit for contributions he did in the past, even if it wasn't expected.
My Netbook fits in my jacket pocket. I love it.
I find Opera tends to be unreliable when it comes to loads of tabs with Java loaded. I don't get that in Firefox or IE.
Old Unix guru I take it?
Unless at the expense, it slows down the rest of the system by loading something that is relatively unused most of the time.
Yeah, I just delete the np plugin for Acrobat in Firefox's plugin directory.
nppdf32.dll on Windows, nppdf32 on Linux.
Alright, added a rule in Windows group policy to disable it from running. It's not reappeared since?
Quite a dreamer, aren't you?
Likely many will get laid off.
They won't be able to do the latter legally, so no.
Obviously their design and capacity arrangements were flawed, despite getting paid by all those users - the users got nothing.
They should of had the methods that PC users use, since they can't do it right.
I get less latency from a colocation facility in the States with a dedicated server using a tier 1 connection than someone on the same ISP I'm on, in the UK hosting 6 people.
Of course, we're ignoring the fact that Microsoft's xbox content distribution network has servers in every region.
At least the entirety of the source code is available, unlike with OS X. Where you just get the Darwin base, which doesn't give you really anything useful.
From this website -> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/productsourceprogram.mspx
It's the full sourcecode too, not just the kernel and very basic console utilities that were opensource to begin with.
Care to elaborate on that?
All I found on Google was a vague reference to some badly written crack not working with Photoshop on Windows 7 - Windows 7 wasn't using any DRM technologies to do that.
Where did you get this from? Steve B is not asking for Apple to open source the iPhone.
PC versions of games like Left 4 dead, Team Fortress 2 and pretty much every other game have dedicated servers which aren't hosted on the player's machine. xbox does not, xbox also has a larger 'lag' issue since games aren't hosted in proper colocation facilities etc.
Never heard of that game before.
This already exists, you can contact them through thepiratebay's site, using the person's user name.
Problem solved.
Fink has a tendency to have compile issues, segfaults etc. with random packages. ...
Then again, one gets the same problems generally under OS X when compiling the forementioned software manually, although it will generally work in more instances than Fink/Macports does.
I completely agree.
Mod parent up.
Actually, Windows 3.11 for workgroups had winsock 1.x which was really a commercial product that provided TCP/IP under Win9x. It was a fairly bad port of BSD's TCP/IP stack and Microsoft's only intention at the time was to make it easy to port Unix socket based applications to Windows with it. Winsock 1.x was a unstable piece of doodoo.
However winsock 2.x came out, and while it retained a significant backwards compatibility with Winsock 1 and still emphasized on make it easy to port Unix applications to Windows (even though it still wasn't 1:1 par on compatibility with certain things), by that time, the majority of the original Winsock 1.x code was pretty much gone and from the leaked sources of Winnt, win2k that spread out through the web, the winsock sourcecode did not look at all derived from any BSD implementation. In Windows Vista, the socket implementation was completely rewritten from scratch.
As far as I am aware, the only BSD code you will find in Windows these days is "C:\windows\system32\ftp.exe". I can't think of a single person who has used it, ever.
I am theorizing here, so don't take this all as fact:
I think it's more than that. I think GNU generally has a following of people who want to work on it, improve it, continue going further and publicly, there is more of a following on that too. I believe that to be the reason of why GNU licensed software have succeeded more in the world than BSD licensed software. It could also be all stemming from the fact that many developers don't want to make BSD code, which may also be why GNU licenses have had greater penetration.
Well, if you want to count ftp.exe which nobody runs... And just one instance doesn't really prove much. We've got a huge amount of home routers running Linux and a GNU userland, home set top boxes that run on a Linux kernel, DVRs running on a Linux kernel.
I don't even think netbsd runs on as many platforms as I can run Linux on any more. I have been playing with Linux on my mobile phone, my Nintendo DS, my Nintendo Wii, my home router - I can't seem to find netbsd ports for most modern things any more.
My own position on the matter is really that "I don't care as long as it works". I am a developer, I admit to having contributed only to GPL projects rather than BSD ones, but that's only because there isn't any BSD projects I am interested in (I have also contributed to other kinds of licenses and proprietary software, but not really relevant here).
Or just prevent .desktop files from be executed from mail clients.
There is no need to execute .desktop files in mail clients.
I agree, however, I think this issue is truely unique to OpenSSH. Most other software wouldn't benefit the same way from this in my opinion.
It does seem that way, but practically, I think about what software is used more by the people, it seems that more people use GPL software than BSD. Just look at the adoption usage of Linux kernels over BSD kernels, GPL userland over BSD-ish userland, GPL desktop environments (Gnome, KDE), over BSD-sh (Fluxbox - okay, it's MIT, but it's essentially the same as BSD in this case) - it shows that, this is not what happens practically.
I am unable to locate evidence that 50% of the Internet was non-functional.
An Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday!
Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.