Yes, I know, it is a great distro (it is mine too), it compiles everything from scratch, let you optimize the produced code for your machine, and does it automatically and nearly flawlessly. But I don't think enterprises having to manage dozens of linux servers will ever be really excited about this. Why ? Because compiling simply takes *time*, and that is exactly what most serious system administrators are trying not to loose.
However, I agree Gentoo is an excellent distro for geeks and advanced users, especially because of its BSD-like+compiling powerful packaging system. But it is ridiculous to stand up to say gentoo combines "the best of both binary and sources packages". It doesn't.
In October 2003, the european union voted a strongly amended law whose initial aim was to allow and regulate software patents.
One of these amendments clearly stipulates a patent doesn't have to be respected when its infringment is needed to permit the connection between several systems. This protects samba, doesn't it ?
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I don't know if would be as fascinating as space exploration, but it would surely be cheaper. Are all US people so rich that their government can spend billions in spacecrafts ?
I wonder if the Gnome server was compromised the same way the gnu.org server was last year. If so, that would be disappointing.
GNU website attack used a kernel local security flaw in do_brk() which allowed a normal user to get root privileges. This flaw was quickly fixed, and I think it is more than unlikely that the Gnome project website is still running an unpatched kernel.
Gnome being closely related to the GNU project, I wonder if there could be a relation between the two attacks ?
is M$ trying to rule the world or should I say the general consumer world market? What's next M$ food products; just imagine the vir....
Seriously, I think it may happen some day. It looks like they don't want to focus only on softwares anymore ; they're now trying to extend their monopoly on more or less related domains. Of course, if today they tried to sell sport clothes or TVs, everyone would find it ridiculous. So, they need to do things step by step, slowly sliding from a computer-products-only strategy to a all-tech-and-media one, and may be later to much larger.
Another proprietary multiplexing algorithm ?
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You basically have two ways to achieve this ; the most obvious, but also the most inelegant one being simply saving multiple tracks in the file. I think they will rather use a multiplexing algorithm dealing with phasis and frequency similarities between the tracks ; that's why it shouldn't be that space-consuming.
But it is exactly what the Ogg Vorbis is working on. Please, don't adopt this standard ; I am sick of patents and licenses issues on video and audio codecs and algorithms. The industry will probably choose the MP3, because they feel more confident with protected formats, as well as with proprietary softwares. But this doesn't mean they make good choices. The MP3's first aim was voice encoding, not music one ; but it was choosen even instead of better solutions.
I don't get this shit on my computer because I use a firewall and PC-Cillin updates daily. It's a shame because as linux becomes popular, viruses will exist for it too.
Virus for Linux are not likely to be very damageable. For doing such kind of things (ie. the first blocks of a hard disk), the virus should be based on a remote root exploit, which happens, but is *very* rare. Most exploits are local, so you can't use them if you don't have a ssh account on this computer.
It's easier in a windows environment to make big remote damages because many programs and servers run at administrator rights ; which is the case of this firewall software. In linux, all the firewalling stuff is based on netfilter/iptables, netfilter in kernel space, and iptables as the super-user interface. The benefit of having firewalling facilities in kernel space, integrated with the TCP/IP stuff, are that the size of the potentially unsecure code is quite small, when in windows all the security stuff is a user space developers responsability.
I know this may look like a troll. But windows security design is a disaster ; and I don't think this will really change soon.
"We're really close to finding out what really strikes consumers as the most relevant search results," said Karen Redetzki, an MSN product manager.
Tranalation: After several years of weekly strategy meetings with high-paid analysts and consultants we have discovered that people do not, in fact, want advertisements to be displayed with search results.
Or may be have they simply understood new users will use their search engine if it is made the default homepage in Internet Explorer ? Sure this will be done. And another lawsuit ; another 4 or 5 years of a western-like story.
Ok, may be it is not true in your countries. However, where I live, in France, the most used messenger is msn, and competitors are far behind it. When someone wants to contact you via Internet, he first asks : "Do you have msn ?"
Will Microsoft try to take control in any existing domain related to computing ? They already have a monopoly on operating systems, messengers, and now they want to take control on search engines ? I know it's not new but, can't they really bear the idea that there is some company doing something better than them ?
I don't know if they will succeed in replacing google as the leader search engine... but I wonder if it is not dangerous for a company to attempt extending its control on everything.
Open-source software--available widely through the Internet--has the potential to provide our nation's enemies or potential enemies with computing capabilities that are restricted by U.S. law
Sounds like Mr. McBride is really looking for any way to show linux is a danger. But does he really believe to make us think his goal is to protect the world from US enemies ?
And who is SCO to tell what the US should do with free software ?
...does he suffer from being alone ? Or is he only annoyed by people making fun of his brushing ?
I mean, social skills is not always essential for a good-living. When I was around 12 years old, a girl told me I was probably very sad to have so poor social abilities, and that if she were me, she would cry every night in her bed. It was a great surprise because this question never came to my mind before, and I did not suffer from this at all. Still today, if I now have some friends, I tend to accept only mainly intellectual relationships ; I don't care about their social/private life, nor do I about their clothes, favorite sport team or pet. No.
Well, I not going to expose my whole-life on slashdot. But I just wanted to say this issue does matter only if he has problems establishing relations, and if he does want to. May be people should admit there are people who simply don't care.
They also have said that these first two lawsuits will be against companies that hold SCO Unix licenses. (EV1.net servers or Lindows?)
I don't see why they may sue EV1. Perhaps is it me, but EV1 paid for their "Linux IP License", which should protect them. And anyway, it's about companies with SCO UNIX licenses, which is not the same, simply because it is a different product.
Well, just had a look at the "new" audacity. I don't find it so innovative ; indeed, I was expecting for many features which were not included here. Some are pretty simple ; for example, I would like the FFT filter to have a "log scale" option, which would make it much more interesting and usable.
Anyway, Audacity is an interesting project. I will keep suggesting it to people wanting a simple and quite powerful audio editor on Linux. But the time we get something like Protools or Adube Audition seems quite far, far away...
Do you remember how much time people had to wait to get a proper nvidia driver working with the 2.6 kernel ? We had to use an unofficial patch, which brought many problems with ACPI, was incompatible with many configurations, etc.
What's is interesting in Linux kernel, is that the driver API is always changing ; backward compatibility has little or no importance in the development. Enterprises developing proprietary drivers are not very responsive to these changes. Having GPL'd drivers included in the kernel permits to adress problems quickly and efficiently.
Testing and review is the strength of Free Software.
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Yes, I know, it is a great distro (it is mine too), it compiles everything from scratch, let you optimize the produced code for your machine, and does it automatically and nearly flawlessly. But I don't think enterprises having to manage dozens of linux servers will ever be really excited about this. Why ? Because compiling simply takes *time*, and that is exactly what most serious system administrators are trying not to loose. However, I agree Gentoo is an excellent distro for geeks and advanced users, especially because of its BSD-like+compiling powerful packaging system. But it is ridiculous to stand up to say gentoo combines "the best of both binary and sources packages". It doesn't.
In October 2003, the european union voted a strongly amended law whose initial aim was to allow and regulate software patents.
One of these amendments clearly stipulates a patent doesn't have to be respected when its infringment is needed to permit the connection between several systems. This protects samba, doesn't it ?
I don't know if would be as fascinating as space exploration, but it would surely be cheaper. Are all US people so rich that their government can spend billions in spacecrafts ?
GNU website attack used a kernel local security flaw in do_brk() which allowed a normal user to get root privileges. This flaw was quickly fixed, and I think it is more than unlikely that the Gnome project website is still running an unpatched kernel.
Gnome being closely related to the GNU project, I wonder if there could be a relation between the two attacks ?
Seriously, I think it may happen some day. It looks like they don't want to focus only on softwares anymore ; they're now trying to extend their monopoly on more or less related domains. Of course, if today they tried to sell sport clothes or TVs, everyone would find it ridiculous. So, they need to do things step by step, slowly sliding from a computer-products-only strategy to a all-tech-and-media one, and may be later to much larger.
You basically have two ways to achieve this ; the most obvious, but also the most inelegant one being simply saving multiple tracks in the file. I think they will rather use a multiplexing algorithm dealing with phasis and frequency similarities between the tracks ; that's why it shouldn't be that space-consuming.
But it is exactly what the Ogg Vorbis is working on. Please, don't adopt this standard ; I am sick of patents and licenses issues on video and audio codecs and algorithms. The industry will probably choose the MP3, because they feel more confident with protected formats, as well as with proprietary softwares. But this doesn't mean they make good choices. The MP3's first aim was voice encoding, not music one ; but it was choosen even instead of better solutions.
Why doesn't he sue his computer manufacturer ?
Virus for Linux are not likely to be very damageable. For doing such kind of things (ie. the first blocks of a hard disk), the virus should be based on a remote root exploit, which happens, but is *very* rare. Most exploits are local, so you can't use them if you don't have a ssh account on this computer.
It's easier in a windows environment to make big remote damages because many programs and servers run at administrator rights ; which is the case of this firewall software. In linux, all the firewalling stuff is based on netfilter/iptables, netfilter in kernel space, and iptables as the super-user interface. The benefit of having firewalling facilities in kernel space, integrated with the TCP/IP stuff, are that the size of the potentially unsecure code is quite small, when in windows all the security stuff is a user space developers responsability.
I know this may look like a troll. But windows security design is a disaster ; and I don't think this will really change soon.
Now, every windows user aware of this will believe a firewall is a great danger for his computer.
Oh... After all, what will it change ?
Or may be have they simply understood new users will use their search engine if it is made the default homepage in Internet Explorer ? Sure this will be done. And another lawsuit ; another 4 or 5 years of a western-like story.
Ok, may be it is not true in your countries. However, where I live, in France, the most used messenger is msn, and competitors are far behind it. When someone wants to contact you via Internet, he first asks : "Do you have msn ?"
Of course, don't know about foreign countries...
Will Microsoft try to take control in any existing domain related to computing ? They already have a monopoly on operating systems, messengers, and now they want to take control on search engines ? I know it's not new but, can't they really bear the idea that there is some company doing something better than them ?
I don't know if they will succeed in replacing google as the leader search engine... but I wonder if it is not dangerous for a company to attempt extending its control on everything.
Sounds like Mr. McBride is really looking for any way to show linux is a danger. But does he really believe to make us think his goal is to protect the world from US enemies ?
And who is SCO to tell what the US should do with free software ?
...does he suffer from being alone ? Or is he only annoyed by people making fun of his brushing ?
I mean, social skills is not always essential for a good-living. When I was around 12 years old, a girl told me I was probably very sad to have so poor social abilities, and that if she were me, she would cry every night in her bed. It was a great surprise because this question never came to my mind before, and I did not suffer from this at all. Still today, if I now have some friends, I tend to accept only mainly intellectual relationships ; I don't care about their social/private life, nor do I about their clothes, favorite sport team or pet. No.
Well, I not going to expose my whole-life on slashdot. But I just wanted to say this issue does matter only if he has problems establishing relations, and if he does want to. May be people should admit there are people who simply don't care.
Oh yeah, sure. You must be right ; that's their kind of logic.
I don't see why they may sue EV1. Perhaps is it me, but EV1 paid for their "Linux IP License", which should protect them. And anyway, it's about companies with SCO UNIX licenses, which is not the same, simply because it is a different product.
I'm likely to do so ;-)
Well, just had a look at the "new" audacity. I don't find it so innovative ; indeed, I was expecting for many features which were not included here. Some are pretty simple ; for example, I would like the FFT filter to have a "log scale" option, which would make it much more interesting and usable.
Anyway, Audacity is an interesting project. I will keep suggesting it to people wanting a simple and quite powerful audio editor on Linux. But the time we get something like Protools or Adube Audition seems quite far, far away...
Well, did anyone else think at Largo Winch ?
Oh, duh, of course, it's their legitimate right to keep drivers closed-source. And it's mine not to use them.
Less than 6 months is quite good, but no delay is much better. Technical long-time problems are not acceptable, though.
Do you remember how much time people had to wait to get a proper nvidia driver working with the 2.6 kernel ? We had to use an unofficial patch, which brought many problems with ACPI, was incompatible with many configurations, etc.
What's is interesting in Linux kernel, is that the driver API is always changing ; backward compatibility has little or no importance in the development. Enterprises developing proprietary drivers are not very responsive to these changes. Having GPL'd drivers included in the kernel permits to adress problems quickly and efficiently.
Testing and review is the strength of Free Software.
By the way, it just took me 16.622s to copy a 341Mb from a IDE disk to another one on a Athlon XP 2400+/512Mb PC3200 DDR-SDRAM.
I would just like to know how you could try Linux 2.7 kernel branch, as it wasn't forked from 2.6 yet. Hugh.