Yes and everyone ignores those, because they appear even for fully updated installations. E.g. Fedora 13 which isn't even out yet is still on ClamAV 0.95.3.
Google is lucky enough that most ISP's are eager to peer with them just to avoid having to pay their transit providers for the traffic. The ISP I work for would happily string a 1Gbps to pretty much anywhere Google wanted to in Denmark, and allow Google free access to our customers. Alas, we're too small, and when there was talk about making all the small and medium-sized ISP's in Denmark gather in one place and offer Google an exchange point, Google said no. Denmark doesn't have enough traffic to make it worthwhile for Google to bother with a national exchange point.
If the large transit providers start playing hardball with Google, Google can bypass them for a whole lot of customers. The only other content providers I know of in similarly enviable positions are Youtube (which is Google again) and Akamai.
The problem is that if you do the responsible thing, the vendor ignores it, and it gets posted to bugtraq, it can be pretty bad for you. Doesn't matter if it was you who posted there or not, or if it was morally right to post it.
You have to make the choice beforehand: either go via the vendor or go via bugtraq, you can't do one and then switch to the other.
Doesn't creating a new process use more memory than a thread?
Yes, on the order of a few kB extra for a large program. Parts of the page table need to be maintained twice. If you're into saving as much memory as possible I can recommend AmigaOS where essentially all "programs" and the OS are threads. Great performance, lousy security and stability.
The plugin that gives me by far the most trouble (on Windows) is Adobe Acrobat Reader. I can already restart that (by killing the process) without crashing firefox.
There are much better products even on Windows which provide the same functionality as Acrobat Reader. E.g. the built-in Remote Desktop is quite ok these days, and TeamViewer is very nice.
You don't have to install a different window manager, Compiz is what you'd typically use with Gnome.
And your rant about 3D is very 90's. If Linux doesn't give you remote 3D 20 years after Silicon Graphics got it working, then complain about that. Don't complain that the Gnome desktop has finally entered the 21st century.
Maximize-vertically and horizontally are available from the Compiz "maximumize" plugin. It should be installed already if you're running Compiz, but it isn't enabled by default. It's easy to enable with CompizConfig.
What makes you think there would be no viable third party?
As far as I can tell all democratic countries with proportional representation have multiple parties, whereas the only two I know of with a single-winner-in-each-district system both have two-party systems.
Correlation may not be causation, but it's a bit difficult to explain that one otherwise.
The US is naturally a de facto two-party system, because our demographics just work out that way
No, the US is a two-party system because the voting system is that way. The UK is the same, except the two parties are doing sufficiently badly that a third party has a little bit of power too.
All their competitors manage it, and there's no bug reports in the Fedora bugzilla about software getting dog slow after switching to Mozilla's TLS-library.
OpenSSL has until now had the least stable ABI of all commonly used Unix libraries. Having to upgrade half the system for a change from 0.98f to 0.98g is rather sad. Especially when bug fixes come with ABI changes.
It isn't a copy, because I wrote it myself. Copyright law is smarter than that. If you do dd if=/dev/urandom of=avatar.mkv, that is NOT a copy of Avatar. Not even if it happens to be bit-for-bit identical to another avatar.mkv which was generated directly from the movie master. The first avatar.mkv can be freely distributed, and you can't even get copyright on it because there was no creative process involved.
You believe you can circumvent the law by technical means. It doesn't work like that. Copying part of a work isn't a defence; you're still trying to share it.
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But I can't subscribe to the announce list for every free software product I use, I'd do nothing else but read these lists.
I can recommend Gmane for that kind of thing. If you stick to the announce lists it shouldn't be a problem.
Also, if you get your free software as a complete bundle (i.e. as a Linux distribution or Cygwin or similar), all you have to do is keep up with that.
Yes and everyone ignores those, because they appear even for fully updated installations. E.g. Fedora 13 which isn't even out yet is still on ClamAV 0.95.3.
And still the Intel drive did reasonably well. Including being 4 times as fast in the 512b random write test...
Google is lucky enough that most ISP's are eager to peer with them just to avoid having to pay their transit providers for the traffic. The ISP I work for would happily string a 1Gbps to pretty much anywhere Google wanted to in Denmark, and allow Google free access to our customers. Alas, we're too small, and when there was talk about making all the small and medium-sized ISP's in Denmark gather in one place and offer Google an exchange point, Google said no. Denmark doesn't have enough traffic to make it worthwhile for Google to bother with a national exchange point.
If the large transit providers start playing hardball with Google, Google can bypass them for a whole lot of customers. The only other content providers I know of in similarly enviable positions are Youtube (which is Google again) and Akamai.
Excellent! I think it would be fun to associate your site with a Google account and override their heuristic.
They have a very clever authentication system.
There are a lots of queries when you'd rather have a big company's site in the first page of results, rather than an obscure blog or scam site.
You assume that big companies can afford powerful web servers and fast lines.
I offer you HP and Cisco who seem to be hosted on the same Commodore 64 in Timbuktu on a GPRS line.
You can associate your site with a Google account and override their heuristic.
The problem is that if you do the responsible thing, the vendor ignores it, and it gets posted to bugtraq, it can be pretty bad for you. Doesn't matter if it was you who posted there or not, or if it was morally right to post it.
You have to make the choice beforehand: either go via the vendor or go via bugtraq, you can't do one and then switch to the other.
Doesn't creating a new process use more memory than a thread?
Yes, on the order of a few kB extra for a large program. Parts of the page table need to be maintained twice. If you're into saving as much memory as possible I can recommend AmigaOS where essentially all "programs" and the OS are threads. Great performance, lousy security and stability.
The plugin that gives me by far the most trouble (on Windows) is Adobe Acrobat Reader. I can already restart that (by killing the process) without crashing firefox.
There are much better products even on Windows which provide the same functionality as Acrobat Reader. E.g. the built-in Remote Desktop is quite ok these days, and TeamViewer is very nice.
So noone should not take advantage of basic multitasking because Task Manager is broken? Right...
A properly written task manager should have no problems showing process groups as, well, process groups.
You don't have to install a different window manager, Compiz is what you'd typically use with Gnome.
And your rant about 3D is very 90's. If Linux doesn't give you remote 3D 20 years after Silicon Graphics got it working, then complain about that. Don't complain that the Gnome desktop has finally entered the 21st century.
Maximize-vertically and horizontally are available from the Compiz "maximumize" plugin. It should be installed already if you're running Compiz, but it isn't enabled by default. It's easy to enable with CompizConfig.
What makes you think there would be no viable third party?
As far as I can tell all democratic countries with proportional representation have multiple parties, whereas the only two I know of with a single-winner-in-each-district system both have two-party systems.
Correlation may not be causation, but it's a bit difficult to explain that one otherwise.
You see a lot of Fords in Europe at least. They don't seem to be the same models you can get in the US though.
The US is naturally a de facto two-party system, because our demographics just work out that way
No, the US is a two-party system because the voting system is that way. The UK is the same, except the two parties are doing sufficiently badly that a third party has a little bit of power too.
In 3 weeks of (really) dumb fuzzing, 174 unique crashes in PowerPoint were discovered.
The fuzzing was dumb, but the picking of files as basis for the fuzzing was smart. Unfortunately Charlie Miller doesn't present a tool for doing that.
I was under the impression that licensing couldn't be changed retroactively
Don't be too confident about that. Many, perhaps even most, licenses include termination clauses.
Free Software/Open Source licenses generally have no or very limited termination clauses, but proprietary licenses are not so generous.
All their competitors manage it, and there's no bug reports in the Fedora bugzilla about software getting dog slow after switching to Mozilla's TLS-library.
Yes, but pre-1.0 versions of, well, pretty much anything, do not have stable A[PB]Is.
This would be a valid response for a project which hasn't been in development for over a decade.
OpenSSL has until now had the least stable ABI of all commonly used Unix libraries. Having to upgrade half the system for a change from 0.98f to 0.98g is rather sad. Especially when bug fixes come with ABI changes.
It isn't a copy, because I wrote it myself. Copyright law is smarter than that. If you do dd if=/dev/urandom of=avatar.mkv, that is NOT a copy of Avatar. Not even if it happens to be bit-for-bit identical to another avatar.mkv which was generated directly from the movie master. The first avatar.mkv can be freely distributed, and you can't even get copyright on it because there was no creative process involved.
The OP's main complaint seems to be that the speed is under-reported because packet loss causes the TCP session they used to slow down.
Other things cause TCP sessions to slow down too though. Like Windows XP with its lack of window scaling.
You believe you can circumvent the law by technical means. It doesn't work like that. Copying part of a work isn't a defence; you're still trying to share it.
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Enjoys work, but she likes the beach more.
She found a good way
To combine work and play:
She sells C shells by the seashore.