Way too many voices from anonymous cowards in this discussion dissing Linus. Linus is the voice of the Linus kernel. Period. Sure many,many others contribute, but it's his original creation. He holds the copywrite to the name Linux so he has the 'EARNED' right to the authoritative voice. Nuff said.
O.k so how will this affect anyone other than major ISP's that can really do anything about it? Seeing at it affects BGP
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is judged to be potentially most affected by this vulnerability.
Run IPSEC the advisory says..o.k so what else is new? IPv4 is inhernetly insecure, we all know that - that's why there is such a thing as packet sniffing, DoS attacks and all the other crap that net admins gotta deal with each and every day.
I think its time for the dev community to embrace XUL as a cross-platform development tool. Too much is made of Qt and GTK - both are great, don't get me wrong..but XUL just doesn't get it's due respect.
Holy crap - screw Darth Vader - some of the bonus features are worth a kidney!!! LIke this for example..
"The Birth of the Lightsaber: Its unforgettable hum and scintillating glow are instantly recognizable around the world. Now, viewers will discover the origins of this elegant weapon from a more civilized age in this documentary devoted to the lightsaber."
I'm gonna make my own Lightsaber and Darth Vader's gonna teach me how!!!!
I don't get OSRM at all to be honest. Is it just a ploy by PJ/Groklaw and Perens to grab some cash???
HP was the first back in September to indemnify its customers, then IBM, Red Hat and others followed. Big companies may feel they need it and good for them. The GPL license itself does offer any software warrantees and it never should and never will. Those of us that know and use the the stuff on a daily basis know the real deal. internetnews.com had an article titled, "What do if SCO comes knocking" a few weeks back that was real interesting too...
Real World Linux offers discounted LPIC exams..but
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The main reason why the Globe and Mail, ran these articles is because the Real World LInux show (www.realworldlinux.com) starts next week. The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is offering discounted LPIC exam certifications at the event, BUT here's the CATCH. They're offering the exams at the same time the Keynote Speaches are being delivered...I guess the braniacs at LPI figured that tech's are a bunch of 'properller-heads' and won't understand the business of Linux... I think I'm just gonna get an RHCT and screw the LPIC.
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if you strip down the kernel and get rid of some of the extra stuff - so long as you've got 128MB RAM you're laughing...
I've set up a GNU/Linux machine for my kids too
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Like everyone else I've got alot of old hardware that Windoze won't run on - but you can run Open Office, Mozilla on top of KDE/GNOME on a Pentium I and it'll work for kids quite well. No need to upgrade and shell out additional cash. And hey KDE Games are GREAT for kids..and they're free!!!
And who paid for the Forrestor study?? Not Red Hat they haven't got the cash. Probably another Microsoft funded event.
The most dramatic thing from my point of view is that SuSe, Red Hat, Mandrake and community based Debian all got together to formulate a common reply. This is the BEST news we could ever hope for - a common on unified front - no forking when it comes to security.
UConn v.funny - naaw all i'm saying is that the U.S and Canadian Gov't should be putting $$$ towards a new power grid - especially since they seem to be willing to pay for other countries to updgrade their grids.
First they blamed CANADA then they reneged on that - then they said Ohio, and now the whole thing was 'preventable.' No shit it was preventable, we've got a 50 year old electric grid in desperate need of repair. Maybe some of the $87 Billion that going to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure could rebuild our electrical grid. The sad reality is that by the end of 2004, Iraq will have a more modern Power Grid than NYC and the whole golden horseshoe
Great news, but now the 1.7 stable release has been pushed back by a month. So, if FireFox is based on the 1.7 trunk it would mean that the FireFox 0.9 release will be pushed back too.
It would have made more sense to make this decision before 1.7 hit beta, this is really an ass-backwards way of handling the stability of the trunk.
So I get a video on demand over the internet - and I assume that it'll stream and make use of my cache (or some other temp file). If I keep the cache/temp file, does that mean I can keep/own the movie?? Or will these guys have some kind of no-cache proxy in place?
This could be a great thing for the open source community. Maybe we'll all get lucky and he'll join up with an open source 'java' project like Tomcat, JBoss or others.
The full effort is properly referred to ASIANUX and is heavily sponsored by ORACLE.
Read about the initial announcement of ASIANUX at internetnews.com
They also have a story that just ran on Friday about ASIANUX hitting 1.0 Beta and signing up over 40 vendors for certification.
I wonder if they'll like it with the FBI's Carnivore email system to track emails with subject headers like "I'm going to cheat on my taxes."
Red Hat is the anithesis of Microsoft
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Red Hat's licensing model is very very different than Microsoft. You don't pay to license the software, you pay a subscription fee for support and update. It's a big difference. If you decide you don't want Red Hat support than you just don't pay for it - it doesn't mean that you can't use the software - or support through other open source mechanisms.
Red Hat has always been a strong supporter of the GPL - read the internetnews.com article - they still support it - The GPL is the foundation of GNU/Linux and Red Hat - unlike SuSe who just recently GPL'ed YasT - has always given back to the community. Where would -wannabes- like me be without RPM? Do I really want to compile everything myself??
If an enterprise has got inside technies that live and breathe open source - like Red Hat does for example - than there are no barrier to adoption.
When you got wannabes like Novell out there, that admittly don't even use Open Source 'stuff' on their own desktops yet, how do you expect others to jump on board???
Like other posters..i hadn't thought about GOPHER in a long long time...
It is the salvation of the Internet, it's time for it to make its comeback!!! Who's with me!! Let's setup a GOPHER friendly version of/. !!!
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Way too many voices from anonymous cowards in this discussion dissing Linus. Linus is the voice of the Linus kernel. Period. Sure many,many others contribute, but it's his original creation. He holds the copywrite to the name Linux so he has the 'EARNED' right to the authoritative voice. Nuff said.
O.k so how will this affect anyone other than major ISP's that can really do anything about it? Seeing at it affects BGP
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is judged to be potentially most affected by this vulnerability.
Run IPSEC the advisory says..o.k so what else is new? IPv4 is inhernetly insecure, we all know that - that's why there is such a thing as packet sniffing, DoS attacks and all the other crap that net admins gotta deal with each and every day.
I think its time for the dev community to embrace XUL as a cross-platform development tool. Too much is made of Qt and GTK - both are great, don't get me wrong..but XUL just doesn't get it's due respect.
Holy crap - screw Darth Vader - some of the bonus features are worth a kidney!!! LIke this for example.. "The Birth of the Lightsaber: Its unforgettable hum and scintillating glow are instantly recognizable around the world. Now, viewers will discover the origins of this elegant weapon from a more civilized age in this documentary devoted to the lightsaber." I'm gonna make my own Lightsaber and Darth Vader's gonna teach me how!!!!
I don't get OSRM at all to be honest. Is it just a ploy by PJ/Groklaw and Perens to grab some cash???
HP was the first back in September to indemnify its customers, then IBM, Red Hat and others followed. Big companies may feel they need it and good for them.
The GPL license itself does offer any software warrantees and it never should and never will. Those of us that know and use the the stuff on a daily basis know the real deal.
internetnews.com had an article titled, "What do if SCO comes knocking" a few weeks back that was real interesting too...
Nat Friedman gave a keynote address on Desktop LInux the other day at the Real World LInux show. internetnews.com wrote a decent piece on it.
There is a pretty solid article over at C|net's builder.com that was written last August.
The guys at internetnews.com wrote a good story on this whole thing that I've linked here
The main reason why the Globe and Mail, ran these articles is because the Real World LInux show (www.realworldlinux.com) starts next week.
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is offering discounted LPIC exam certifications at the event, BUT here's the CATCH.
They're offering the exams at the same time the Keynote Speaches are being delivered...I guess the braniacs at LPI figured that tech's are a bunch of 'properller-heads' and won't understand the business of Linux...
I think I'm just gonna get an RHCT and screw the LPIC.
if you strip down the kernel and get rid of some of the extra stuff - so long as you've got 128MB RAM you're laughing...
Like everyone else I've got alot of old hardware that Windoze won't run on - but you can run Open Office, Mozilla on top of KDE/GNOME on a Pentium I and it'll work for kids quite well. No need to upgrade and shell out additional cash. And hey KDE Games are GREAT for kids..and they're free!!!
And who paid for the Forrestor study?? Not Red Hat they haven't got the cash. Probably another Microsoft funded event.
The most dramatic thing from my point of view is that SuSe, Red Hat, Mandrake and community based Debian all got together to formulate a common reply. This is the BEST news we could ever hope for - a common on unified front - no forking when it comes to security.
UConn v.funny - naaw all i'm saying is that the U.S and Canadian Gov't should be putting $$$ towards a new power grid - especially since they seem to be willing to pay for other countries to updgrade their grids.
First they blamed CANADA then they reneged on that - then they said Ohio, and now the whole thing was 'preventable.'
No shit it was preventable, we've got a 50 year old electric grid in desperate need of repair. Maybe some of the $87 Billion that going to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure could rebuild our electrical grid. The sad reality is that by the end of 2004, Iraq will have a more modern Power Grid than NYC and the whole golden horseshoe
Great news, but now the 1.7 stable release has been pushed back by a month. So, if FireFox is based on the 1.7 trunk it would mean that the FireFox 0.9 release will be pushed back too.
It would have made more sense to make this decision before 1.7 hit beta, this is really an ass-backwards way of handling the stability of the trunk.
So I get a video on demand over the internet - and I assume that it'll stream and make use of my cache (or some other temp file). If I keep the cache/temp file, does that mean I can keep/own the movie??
Or will these guys have some kind of no-cache proxy in place?
I used to run an Apple ][ BBS, I wonder if I could do the same - and if I'd actually get any traffic. Any takers?
JBoss just raised a bunch of cash...any JBoss HR types out there that can make this guy an offer?
This could be a great thing for the open source community. Maybe we'll all get lucky and he'll join up with an open source 'java' project like Tomcat, JBoss or others.
The full effort is properly referred to ASIANUX and is heavily sponsored by ORACLE. Read about the initial announcement of ASIANUX at internetnews.com
They also have a story that just ran on Friday about ASIANUX hitting 1.0 Beta and signing up over 40 vendors for certification.
I wonder if they'll like it with the FBI's Carnivore email system to track emails with subject headers like "I'm going to cheat on my taxes."
Red Hat's licensing model is very very different than Microsoft. You don't pay to license the software, you pay a subscription fee for support and update. It's a big difference. If you decide you don't want Red Hat support than you just don't pay for it - it doesn't mean that you can't use the software - or support through other open source mechanisms.
Red Hat has always been a strong supporter of the GPL - read the internetnews.com article - they still support it - The GPL is the foundation of GNU/Linux and Red Hat - unlike SuSe who just recently GPL'ed YasT - has always given back to the community. Where would -wannabes- like me be without RPM? Do I really want to compile everything myself??
the pidgeons could become roving hotspots...you could visually know if you were in a spots by checking out the amount of poop on the ground
If an enterprise has got inside technies that live and breathe open source - like Red Hat does for example - than there are no barrier to adoption. When you got wannabes like Novell out there, that admittly don't even use Open Source 'stuff' on their own desktops yet, how do you expect others to jump on board???
Like other posters..i hadn't thought about GOPHER in a long long time... It is the salvation of the Internet, it's time for it to make its comeback!!! Who's with me!! Let's setup a GOPHER friendly version of /. !!!