I've one of those targus rucksack bags so it doubles as a lunch box for me too.
Dell Inspiron 5100, 20g, 256meg, radeon, running debian. Two 802.11b cards, some cat5, some sma/ntype cable, food + drink, print outs of a couple of how-tos.
On some special days I also stuff half a gym kit in there too.
> The true value of open source solutions involving Linux and the *BSD's is that you're not trapped into one management model,
Thats not true. We're using something OpenBSD/carp/pfsync provides, and I've never seen it offered in Linux or windows. So in a way, I'm trapped by what OpenBSD provides and there's no alternative!
Very true words. Except the Windows jockey probably doesnt know the difference between automatic and manual and probably wont know what a service is till they use something Unix-like.
It's also a matter of what oil you use. If you don't use performance oil then your engine is just being suffocated.
Linux is still a specialised topic, therefore the cost of employment is higher, so I guess it all has a knock on effect and the two products cost about the time. The only difference being that Windows boxes need more attention, and higher licence fees. Everything else is more or less the same.
I have my own geek blog, and it's not just any other blog, it has it's own special features in the way it works etc, yeah, I'll open it up soon, but until it's sorted it will remain closed.
That's not terribly useful right now, but I see the geek blog as a can of food for google. The more detail I put into the blog, the more chance users will hit my site, and thus use the paypal button.
I do watch the webalizer statistics, and certain searches do repeat, so the demand for the data is there, so the demand too for writers does exist.
We need to take a look at what was going on two or three years ago, security was a much more interesting subject, and people were beginning to go wireless, windows XP was also new and interesting.
Right at the moment the newest thing for joe public is windows 2003, so it's all quiet at the moment, and I don't think this is really going to have any earth shattering effect on things generally.
I think hacking really is a thirst for knowledge. Since the advent of the internet search engine, anyone can now freely research a topic. Why should hacking be limited to computers?
It is easier for someone to become a bad hacker these days. I think what divides the good from the bad is the fear of being caught, perhaps the good hackers know that the log file is forever watching.
In the true sense of hacker, someone sitting in front of a computer all waking hours does not have to be producing anything of worth.
Google is is a tool in the sense that it is a content search. It has tried to branch out in many ways but is it after all, still a page search engine.
There are alternatives that we all know of. Of late it appears that google now want money for their splendid efforts of acurate page delivery. Which is fair enough. But we all rely on google.
It is my opinion that Google has not yet peaked, there are plenty more ideas that they can deliver.
Expect to see user targeted adverts more frequently.
Well done to the GIMP developers getting this far. I really don't understand when people say that it's not got a good interface. I really like it the way that it is.
I don't think GIMP has any problems, other that other desktop clutter that might get in the way, and perhaps the icon toolbox is a little too big, but that's only because of my system settings.
I hope the test is not conducted on KDE because that will probably make the tester suggest that GIMP looks more like the rest of the desktop.
No way! OpenBSD is the tool of the good guys, no remote exploits for how many years?
OpenBSD is the force behind pf(sync)/carp. NetBSD hasn't really brought a whole lot to the community, and doesnt to the best of my knowledge have any hackathons, also, openbsd has some of the best cds/t-shirts.
Nice comment though, but openbsd is the way forward, although slowly.
Originally I was excited about the news of what Monad might let me do... script actions which can only be half done with batch files.
This seemed like a good idea to me, something with equal power to bash, but in windows. How wrong:
1) it's not a shell, its a runtime 2) its now announced that it's not going to be included
So, is this Redmond just trying to do away with the command prompt all together and have everything run from the browser?
I'm quite pissed off about this, now the release dates are getting futher away. Why don't I just have all the config saved on a Samba share and run the batch through linux... like it should be.
ICQ has 'other person is typing', but this is slightly different as the other person can stop typing and the original message is then potentially 'other person has stopped typing, but im not telling you'.
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I've one of those targus rucksack bags so it doubles as a lunch box for me too.
Dell Inspiron 5100, 20g, 256meg, radeon, running debian. Two 802.11b cards, some cat5, some sma/ntype cable, food + drink, print outs of a couple of how-tos.
On some special days I also stuff half a gym kit in there too.
Any form of DRM sucks, and I'll do whatever I can to avoid entering into any DRM agreement.
> The true value of open source solutions involving Linux and the *BSD's is that you're not trapped into one management model,
Thats not true. We're using something OpenBSD/carp/pfsync provides, and I've never seen it offered in Linux or windows. So in a way, I'm trapped by what OpenBSD provides and there's no alternative!
Very true words. Except the Windows jockey probably doesnt know the difference between automatic and manual and probably wont know what a service is till they use something Unix-like.
It's also a matter of what oil you use. If you don't use performance oil then your engine is just being suffocated.
Linux is still a specialised topic, therefore the cost of employment is higher, so I guess it all has a knock on effect and the two products cost about the time. The only difference being that Windows boxes need more attention, and higher licence fees. Everything else is more or less the same.
I do not see 404 as disfunctional, that means there is a error on the client side, not server side.
At least that is how i interpret it.
Disfunctional would be 'Hello we are google, this page does nothing', or at least along those lines.
This is a matter of interpretation.
Well, for a technology company that serves up millions of pages daily, that site is already slashdotted (adsbygoogle).
I would have expected them to configure their server farm to cope with this, depending on demand.
/. is safe as houses though!
I have my own geek blog, and it's not just any other blog, it has it's own special features in the way it works etc, yeah, I'll open it up soon, but until it's sorted it will remain closed.
That's not terribly useful right now, but I see the geek blog as a can of food for google. The more detail I put into the blog, the more chance users will hit my site, and thus use the paypal button.
I do watch the webalizer statistics, and certain searches do repeat, so the demand for the data is there, so the demand too for writers does exist.
We need to take a look at what was going on two or three years ago, security was a much more interesting subject, and people were beginning to go wireless, windows XP was also new and interesting.
Right at the moment the newest thing for joe public is windows 2003, so it's all quiet at the moment, and I don't think this is really going to have any earth shattering effect on things generally.
I think hacking really is a thirst for knowledge. Since the advent of the internet search engine, anyone can now freely research a topic. Why should hacking be limited to computers?
It is easier for someone to become a bad hacker these days. I think what divides the good from the bad is the fear of being caught, perhaps the good hackers know that the log file is forever watching.
In the true sense of hacker, someone sitting in front of a computer all waking hours does not have to be producing anything of worth.
Google is is a tool in the sense that it is a content search. It has tried to branch out in many ways but is it after all, still a page search engine.
There are alternatives that we all know of. Of late it appears that google now want money for their splendid efforts of acurate page delivery. Which is fair enough. But we all rely on google.
It is my opinion that Google has not yet peaked, there are plenty more ideas that they can deliver.
Expect to see user targeted adverts more frequently.
Well done to the GIMP developers getting this far. I really don't understand when people say that it's not got a good interface. I really like it the way that it is.
I don't think GIMP has any problems, other that other desktop clutter that might get in the way, and perhaps the icon toolbox is a little too big, but that's only because of my system settings.
I hope the test is not conducted on KDE because that will probably make the tester suggest that GIMP looks more like the rest of the desktop.
But lets look at this another way... Java has had one virus since it's inception. Monad has 5 proof of concept viruses and has not yet been released.
And on other platforms too... check out apt-get install mono
Only if 'Linux' is in your product name. It's perfectly ok to use Linux on your systems without paying anything to Linux(tm) Inc.
You will however have to pay money if you want to call yourself "My Linux Babe Inc(tm)."
Stop spreading FUD.
No way! OpenBSD is the tool of the good guys, no remote exploits for how many years?
OpenBSD is the force behind pf(sync)/carp. NetBSD hasn't really brought a whole lot to the community, and doesnt to the best of my knowledge have any hackathons, also, openbsd has some of the best cds/t-shirts.
Nice comment though, but openbsd is the way forward, although slowly.
Thats just one more "£$%*%& stupid thing to patent; the displaying of data.
Perhaps, 'syntax highlighting' will be the next.
Why help you? you're just going to end up sueing some poor linux use for not having a MS licence!
Seriously though, just post your requirements on the usual *-dev@... maillists and don't say you're a legal worker.
Linpire? Purhaps someone needs educating. Tisk.
Originally I was excited about the news of what Monad might let me do... script actions which can only be half done with batch files.
This seemed like a good idea to me, something with equal power to bash, but in windows. How wrong:
1) it's not a shell, its a runtime
2) its now announced that it's not going to be included
So, is this Redmond just trying to do away with the command prompt all together and have everything run from the browser?
I'm quite pissed off about this, now the release dates are getting futher away. Why don't I just have all the config saved on a Samba share and run the batch through linux... like it should be.
wow this is such a cool page. im going to switch back to ie right now just cus it's so cool.
why would ms do this when they have shares in google? it makes no sense, if not to directly compete.
who knows, its probably got lots of google code in there.
I think I'll take out a patent on creating a patent.
Seriosuly though, why should anything that is fundamentally 0's and 1's be patented, unless its revolutionary it should not be a patent.
Does MS have some agreement with the US government where they must create work for 10,000,000 new lawyers per year?
If or when MS goes bust all those lawyers will have no work, other than deciding who creditors are.
use and maintain are different things. anyone could do a simple page, with enough time. but no clown is going to honestly maintain a bf project.
How can this be a patent. It's just gay. Things have existed longer that do the same things. Doesnt a vector image format do the same?
ICQ has 'other person is typing', but this is slightly different as the other person can stop typing and the original message is then potentially 'other person has stopped typing, but im not telling you'.
So I wonder if that is part of the patent?
I read on /. that I could have this problem, therefore I don't. If you think about it long enough it's a contradiction.