All this "right tool for the job" crap is just nonsense, if C isnt the right tool for the job, then you're using it incorrectly. C is always the right tool, and no, I dont care what you PHP or VB users think.
You forgot the Java advocates who go on that people should write a OS in Java for security reasons.
According to the statistics on sites I administrate/maintain, particular versions of OS X alone don't go over Vista... And for some strange reason, I have more Solaris hits than I do of Vista.
It will be easy to figure out, just watch OS X version, if it releases as "Intel only" , it is WINE:)
I have plenty of programs I have written that are not worth porting to a dead PPC platforms, since it requires a lot of messing around with big-enden, little-enden issues, increased testing (and obtaining the hardware todo it, which is somewhat more difficult now).
I don't agree that not having a PPC would mean it's 100% Wine.
You've clearly never used Opera if you're attempting to spin this article by claiming that we just plain don't know that Opera renders stuff in general near the top of the pack already, and also is perhaps the most standards compliant browser.
Just remember, w3c just makes recommendations, not standards. Anything that is a standard usually has "ISO/IEEE" on it, such as one of the HTML4 specifications. So far, I don't know of anything beyond HTML4 being a standard in the web world.
I get a kick out of FF fans on this site. FF is by no means bad, but Opera clearly has areas where it consistently outshines the open-source browser.
I have no problem with what browser people use. I use Firefox though, main reason is that it runs on all the modern platforms and I can synchronize cookies, bookmarks, passwords while keeping my privacy despite storing it on Google's servers (the content is encrypted) thanks to Google Browser Sync. So far I have no real alternative to Firefox.
Before, people used to say "I don't like ads in my browser" as an excuse for not using it.
It's a legitimate complaint.
hen when it became free, it was "I use lots of GreaseMonkey scripts", despite the fact that you can use most GM scripts in Opera too.
Haha, I didn't know that one. The most common one I hear though from people is that it doesn't work with many sites (I've experienced this one myself, it doesn't work when you login into www.online.citibank.pl since it doesn't handle something with javascript correctly there).
Opera leads the way for most browsing achievements, and they show no signs of stopping.
Not that I would know what those achievements are.
and to top it off I'm a web developer by trade. I code for Opera, then break it for FF and IE.
What we need is a small, secure, stable email client that doesn't store it's data in one giant file. Ideally with one-click backup, and simple import/export to make recovery and transfer of mail and contact data simple. Until we have one, I'm sticking with Gmail.
I use kmail, my configuration stores e-mails in maildir format (each e-mail is a separate file in a directory).
On Gmail you could have read it and deleted it without ever once having to dump it onto your hard drive, typically in the form of a ridiculous/large mbox file and cough it up back then.
Sure you have, the browser cache.
Firefox may take longer to render than your mail client, but that's not the bottleneck here. If your mailbox is sufficiently large, processing the metadata and handling your e-mail can take some time. Google's computers are faster at this than your PC will ever be, so what is it to wait a second or two to download the data?
My "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz" laptop with 1GB ram with a rather slow harddrive with around several GB of e-mails is still faster than my Gmail account which has around 200 mails which is around 14MB in size.
It's practically instant todo e-mail searches (Google desktop), pretty much instant to access all of my e-mails in any folder (cold booting Kontact will take me a few seconds to get into any e-mail I particularly want).
Gmail: Process request -> receive data -> wait to render
I'm sure we can
enter gmail URL -> process request -> recieve data -> browser caches content -> wait to render -> enter login credentials, login -> process request -> receive data -> browser caches content -> get to inbox -> have constant request and replies using ajax -> browser constantly changes cookies around for the session information
Except mail clients typically need to request new mail from the server--aka polling. I would guess that Gmail pushes new mail into your open mailbox, or at least the polling is much more efficient (eg doesn't require authentication every time).
It does in the form of cookies. Additionally protocols like imap do have the ability to allow a mail client to remain connected and periodically poll for new messages.
You want mail alerts? Take your pick. Leave Firefox open,
Can say the same with mail software, leave thunderbird, kmail whatever open.
connect to Google Talk, you're covered (Pidgin or the official client alike)
Pidgin will not give notifications for e-mail, and yes, if I were using a mail client with gmail, I'd be covered that way too.
download Gmail (official or unofficial versions) notifier, you're covered.
Again, I can use a normal mail client with Gmail and be 'covered' the same way if I wanted.
Plus you can bet your bonnet that Gmail notifier isn't expending nearly as many system resources as your mail client while idle.
Kontact has never really impacted my system's performance. I could also use Korn or whatever as a new e-mail notifier if I don't want Kontact open.
The only bug I've known of was Thunderbird not letting you view folders while loading them... It's been fixed now.
with new improved GUI which took all development time to annoy with new even more weirder (or (re)moved) keyboard shortcuts
Which I never noticed in all the years I've used it.
usual mail folder manipulation flops/crashes and inability to display certain messages at all.
I don't have that issue.
OMG, they are SO MUCH BETTER! than Tb. And often are SO MUCH FASTER!!.
I find the opposite, also I have yet to see a decent web based e-mail system that lets me use multiple accounts at the same time, apply more than 50 complex filters (I've been involved with different companies, projects and so on. I still get e-mail from them on my project/company specific e-mail addresses which need to get filtered into specific folders for easier management).
Thunderbird, kmail and so on allow me todo this. Web mail does not.
And now, I see no reasons for Eudora resurrection other than some people being annoyed with how development of Tb is done and managed.
Maybe you should read the article, they just took the Thunderbird code-base and added features that couldn't of been added through a extension and hope that it will make itself back to the core. They're only naming the client Eudora.
Mozilla people clearly stated that Tb is to "go after Outlook Express" users.
Funny thing is that I don't know/anyone/ who uses outlook express. I know those who use Outlook though.
IOW, it's not for serious e-mail users. It's not something what Netscape Messenger was. And will never be. It's something you can't rely on. Nor should you in future. It's "Outlook Express" (c)ed by Mozilla with all relevant bugs copy-pasted.
I'm serious about e-mail and the only thing that I know of in it when compared to Netscape Messenger is the lack of LDAP synchronization support for profiles. Which I wouldn't use anyway.
The store called the police to come intervene, and that in itself may have been within the scope of the shopkeeper's privilege (if the time and manner of detention was reasonable and on the store's premises, which would typically include its parking lot as seems to be the situation in this story). But the police then overstepped their bounds by a long shot.
No, the customer called the police because the store staff were blocking him from leaving. Then the police involved/might/ have overstepped his bounds when requesting to see the customer's drivers license.
But if you don't trust Google to keep your bookmarks secure, how can you trust their program to do a proper encryption?
I've looked at the source of the extension, and it looks like it's using AES encryption. AES is recognized as "proper encryption".
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Sync your bookmarks with an online service? Sounds rather privacy invasive to me...
What I like about Google Browser Sync is that it will let you encrypt your personal data so Google can't even read it directly if they wanted to -- That said, they could in theory brute-force the password you provide for encrypting/decrypting the content. But this is better than what's being done in the majority of other services.
There have been bookmark synchronization extensions for Opera already...
The synchronization still doesn't compare to Google browser sync.
Until I have a browser that's multiplatform, allows online synchronization of passwords, cookies and bookmarks (no manual FTPing files about, file shares -- don't work too well since I may have more than one computer's browser open), ability to import Firefox's passwords, cookies, bookmarks -- there is no alternative to Firefox for me.
I suppose at the very worst I could go through my passwords and enter them manually in Opera, but I have so many.
On my desktop, swap death ocassionally happens when compiling. kdevelop + second life + vmware + konqueror + kmail + a mono app can quite easily bring my 4GB RAM box very near the limit, but not to swapping just yet.
The fact that code released under the GPL can not be closed is a lack of freedom which BSD doesn't have.
*Playing devil's advocate* The fact code released under the BSD can not be closed under the GPL is a lack of freedom which GPL/public domain doesn't have.
Communistic in this case refers to the "community" and the high value that the GPL places upon keeping code available to the community as a whole - this is the principle of communism that I refer to: a higher value is placed on the rights of the community than the individual. GPL simply places higher values upon the rights of the community. BSD places high value on freedom to choose by the individual and the community.
Despite the fact the individual still has the freedom to relicense the code he wrote as he sees fit, I don't understand what the problem itself is with ensuring everyone has the same rights to the code.
The GPL's sad devotion to it's community (aka communistic) principle creates a lack of freedom and a number of serious adoption problems for many considering using, extending and modifying GPL'd software.
I like how you spin this to be communists verses freedom:)
If they don't intend to give out the sourcecode, yes, that is a problem. But it still didn't stop companies like TiVo among many others from choosing GPL software over BSD licensed.
For example, lets say you take a BSD copyrighted program such as Apache, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, or any other large program and make some minor changes.
Apache is under the Apache license, majority of the new pieces of OpenBSD are under the ISC license.
The BSD license itself has annoying advertising clauses, a lot of older BSD licensed software had the advertising clause much later rescinded by the copyright owners, but the BSD license never changed. Now we have annoying variations of it under the Apache licenses, ISC licenses and modified BSD licenses (but are not known as 'the BSD license').
As someone who has published software licensed the same software under the GPL and the BSD it's clear that BSD trumps GPL rules at anytime - allowing software published in this manner to override any GPL'd rule, phrase, sentence, paragraph or concept
I've worked on software with various licenses, GPL, LGPL, BSD, ISC and many others. In my opinion, it depends what your goals are for choosing your license.
I tend to stay towards the GPL side for my non-work projects. I don't mind other people using my code, I don't mind people selling my code. What I do mind is people taking the code, close sourcing it. I didn't write the code for someone to slack off at their job and then get to keep all their enhancements.
That said, I don't use software over the licenses they have, I try to use what I consider is best for the job.
I only really care about licenses when I'm developing.
Free and Open Source software shouldn't be limited by the GPL. If somebody takes open-source libraries and incorporates them into a proprietary program, does it harm you at all?
It does if it's licensed by GPL, in which case the program that incorporates it should be GPLed too.
They've chosen to seek profit for their software
You can sell GPL software, that isn't the issue.
while you have chosen to freely distribute your work for use and derivative productions.
Under the conditions that future derivative productions are under the same license.
Assuming GPL, in doing that, the creator of that open-source code hereby surrenders their right to restrict its use.
The creator of the sourcecode put it under the GPL license, they did not give up their copyright. They can relicense their code anyway they wish, they are the copyright holder. If they redistribute a license under legally enforceable terms, then you must obide by those terms.
I can understand everyone's outrage if somebody was reselling an unmodified open-source program, but if your software is truly free, people should be allowed to do whatever they please with it.
Truly free software is public domain, GPL is not 'truly free', it just guarantees everyone gets the ability to modify the code and redistribute the package. It is giving people a freedom, a right, but it is doing that by using restrictions.
Thanks for the very helpful information. I am using OS X on a personal laptop in stealth mode (i.e. it doesn't give any response to incoming traffic/pings). How would they be able to identify who the individual web surfer is?
Many corporate networks block computers with unknown mac addresses from connecting to networks (either using really sophisticated routing equipment, or just modifying the DHCP server configuration), requiring you to goto the tech department and register your device with them before you can get on the network.
In which case it would be easy for them to check who it was based off the mac address of the computer. If your IT department didn't do that, they'd have to resort to other methods... The Mac address can contain information such as the vendor of the card and I assume if the IT department were really determined they could go checking each computer on the network quickly for the brand of the network card... Although Mac addresses can be easilly changed too.
Although, it's more likely in a scenario that has a poor infrastructure to track whos who, they will resort to a mix of smart-guessing and verifying the guess with facts.
I've used Mandriva for many years, but when the 2007 version came out, they messed up club member stuff entirely, did not fix it for months on end. The SeerOfSouls repository ended up providing better packages for drivers, the proprietary software than Mandriva's official pay repositories did.
I do not mind paying for a good service, but I felt really cheated with Mandriva 2007.
Then I tried Kubuntu as the founder of SeerOfSouls decided to try it out at the time...
I was utterly amazed by the speed of the OS in general, how fast it boots up, responsive in comparison. The package management tools, searches that took over ten minutes on Mandriva would take literally seconds on Kubuntu, and it had far more packages to search through. Everything was well supported. I didn't even need to fiddle with things to get WEP working properly.
Hell, installing flash, sun java, proprietary codec support was just installing the package 'ubuntu-restricted-extras' (you will need 'libxine-extracodecs' too if you use xine though). I've never had such ease under Mandriva.
Skype, Google, Opera even provide proper repositories for Kubuntu, which I never got with Mandriva, definitely a plus as I dislike going to separate sites checking for updates.
I used to particularly miss harddrake from Mandriva, but then restricted-manager became available under Kubuntu and provided a much more user friendly interface (just tick the drivers for the detected hardware you want to use, downloads, installs and configures them automatically). One thing I do really miss, although I don't need currently is DKMS - It would build any kernel modules you had installed if the kernel you were using didn't have it, and set it up. It was rather useful when running custom/not so standard kernels (although I don't use those currently).
I am aware of module-assistant in Kubuntu, but it's not quite the same as it was not setup out of the box to build and setup modules on bootup, nor is it a default package to assist handling kernel modules if need be (I'm sure I could set this up manually in Kubuntu with a lot of scripting, but there goes your ease of use right there).
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And what did Apple change exactly in science?
That is, beyond proving hardware and software lock-in models still work.
Frontier: Elite II, it's so tiny, but such a old, full featured DOS 3d game.
I don't agree that not having a PPC would mean it's 100% Wine.
It's practically instant todo e-mail searches (Google desktop), pretty much instant to access all of my e-mails in any folder (cold booting Kontact will take me a few seconds to get into any e-mail I particularly want).I'm sure we can
enter gmail URL -> process request -> recieve data -> browser caches content -> wait to render -> enter login credentials, login -> process request -> receive data -> browser caches content -> get to inbox -> have constant request and replies using ajax -> browser constantly changes cookies around for the session informationIt does in the form of cookies. Additionally protocols like imap do have the ability to allow a mail client to remain connected and periodically poll for new messages.Can say the same with mail software, leave thunderbird, kmail whatever open.Pidgin will not give notifications for e-mail, and yes, if I were using a mail client with gmail, I'd be covered that way too.Again, I can use a normal mail client with Gmail and be 'covered' the same way if I wanted.Kontact has never really impacted my system's performance. I could also use Korn or whatever as a new e-mail notifier if I don't want Kontact open.
Thunderbird, kmail and so on allow me todo this. Web mail does not.Maybe you should read the article, they just took the Thunderbird code-base and added features that couldn't of been added through a extension and hope that it will make itself back to the core. They're only naming the client Eudora.Funny thing is that I don't know
I heard from Penny arcade some rather negative things about Lair.
There have been bookmark synchronization extensions for Opera already...
The synchronization still doesn't compare to Google browser sync.
Until I have a browser that's multiplatform, allows online synchronization of passwords, cookies and bookmarks (no manual FTPing files about, file shares -- don't work too well since I may have more than one computer's browser open), ability to import Firefox's passwords, cookies, bookmarks -- there is no alternative to Firefox for me.
I suppose at the very worst I could go through my passwords and enter them manually in Opera, but I have so many.
Finally, the church will now be paying taxes, yes?
If they don't intend to give out the sourcecode, yes, that is a problem. But it still didn't stop companies like TiVo among many others from choosing GPL software over BSD licensed.Apache is under the Apache license, majority of the new pieces of OpenBSD are under the ISC license.
The BSD license itself has annoying advertising clauses, a lot of older BSD licensed software had the advertising clause much later rescinded by the copyright owners, but the BSD license never changed. Now we have annoying variations of it under the Apache licenses, ISC licenses and modified BSD licenses (but are not known as 'the BSD license').I've worked on software with various licenses, GPL, LGPL, BSD, ISC and many others. In my opinion, it depends what your goals are for choosing your license.
I tend to stay towards the GPL side for my non-work projects. I don't mind other people using my code, I don't mind people selling my code. What I do mind is people taking the code, close sourcing it. I didn't write the code for someone to slack off at their job and then get to keep all their enhancements.
That said, I don't use software over the licenses they have, I try to use what I consider is best for the job.
I only really care about licenses when I'm developing.
That said, I don't really find the majority of blogs that interesting.
In which case it would be easy for them to check who it was based off the mac address of the computer. If your IT department didn't do that, they'd have to resort to other methods... The Mac address can contain information such as the vendor of the card and I assume if the IT department were really determined they could go checking each computer on the network quickly for the brand of the network card... Although Mac addresses can be easilly changed too.
Although, it's more likely in a scenario that has a poor infrastructure to track whos who, they will resort to a mix of smart-guessing and verifying the guess with facts.
Stop trolling.
I've used Mandriva for many years, but when the 2007 version came out, they messed up club member stuff entirely, did not fix it for months on end. The SeerOfSouls repository ended up providing better packages for drivers, the proprietary software than Mandriva's official pay repositories did.
I do not mind paying for a good service, but I felt really cheated with Mandriva 2007.
Then I tried Kubuntu as the founder of SeerOfSouls decided to try it out at the time...
I was utterly amazed by the speed of the OS in general, how fast it boots up, responsive in comparison. The package management tools, searches that took over ten minutes on Mandriva would take literally seconds on Kubuntu, and it had far more packages to search through. Everything was well supported. I didn't even need to fiddle with things to get WEP working properly.
Hell, installing flash, sun java, proprietary codec support was just installing the package 'ubuntu-restricted-extras' (you will need 'libxine-extracodecs' too if you use xine though). I've never had such ease under Mandriva.
Skype, Google, Opera even provide proper repositories for Kubuntu, which I never got with Mandriva, definitely a plus as I dislike going to separate sites checking for updates.
I used to particularly miss harddrake from Mandriva, but then restricted-manager became available under Kubuntu and provided a much more user friendly interface (just tick the drivers for the detected hardware you want to use, downloads, installs and configures them automatically). One thing I do really miss, although I don't need currently is DKMS - It would build any kernel modules you had installed if the kernel you were using didn't have it, and set it up. It was rather useful when running custom/not so standard kernels (although I don't use those currently).
I am aware of module-assistant in Kubuntu, but it's not quite the same as it was not setup out of the box to build and setup modules on bootup, nor is it a default package to assist handling kernel modules if need be (I'm sure I could set this up manually in Kubuntu with a lot of scripting, but there goes your ease of use right there).