A company is legally an entity, and is as much an entity as you when they pay taxes, get represented in courts or sign agreements. This has been the way for the past 2 or more centuries. You can sue Novell, you can pay for licenses to Novell etc...
Of course, if you are looking to screw a company, or take them out to a date, then its a different story;)
It is based on the tree, but the version says 6.0. Also there has been architectural changes and a lot of background changes. I usually bash microsoft, but credit goes to them for a major release.
you could easily
#rm -r -f / tmp/dir
when "all" you wanted was
#rm -r -f/tmp/dir
You are forgetting one thing - there's no solution for stupidity and lack of common sense. While tips like these are generally useful, the person who's going to screw up a system will ignore you, and the zillion other tips that people have taken efforts to write. I've seen people who've run a rm -rf/bin to clean the recycle bin and then wonder what happened.
Its hard to bring in any improvement in the average unix admin, and part of the reason is that unix is unlike windows an OS that expects people to think and run sane commands. Its hard to cultivate a habit like that especially when the average-joe-fng-admin is used to next-next-next install processes and right-click-select-click-click operations. I'd love to see a change, but I feel that the IQ of the average person using a computer (any computer for that matter) is dropping sharply these days.
(I am not trolling, but I *am* sure that this will be voted down as one)
There are several problems with having closed-source binary-only modules. One of the advantages of linux is the various places that it can be used at - embedded systems, cute little desktops, the Z series etc... part of that comes with the customizability of the kernel. I for one recompile my kernel to load everything I want inside the kernel and disable module support entirely. That's where the binary modules have come to bit me behind my ass - most of them simply don't have the option to allow me to do that, and whenever I've seen one, its always been too funky and unreliable. Right now, the nvidia drivers are forcing me to do exactly that - and removing one of my options to have a more secure system which will not allow a hacker to run arbitrary kernel code.
I welcome any move from the companies to open source their drivers; but Linus has summed it all up perfectly - this is a change that should come from their management, not the linux communities'. Sadly, not everyone in the industry want a level playing field. The actual reason (atleast the one which I've seen frequently on the x11 dri list) why the graphics card vendors do not release their drivers is because they *feel* that the competitor will get an edge by being able to see how the layout of the hardware is. That's in my opinion as lame an excuse as it can get. I for one will switch to a company that releases open source graphics drivers, Sadly the only one there is Intel and its lacking in a lot more basic areas.
We'll soon see the flurry of fud from them - ISO standards mean nothing much, we're all about lowering tco etc...
But seriously, what difference does it make to anyone? I've been using odt long before and that's not going to change. Those big corporations with a billion dollar budget were using Word since decades. I don't see how that's going to change either.
It's not hard at all! The trouble is you see, it's not cheap.
But just look at history. A better choice always takes more time to create, and is more expensive to design and implement, but in the long run it pays off much better. Take Unix, most of RSA's products, etc. There's no short cut to success, there is no overnight solution. Its just that a lot of people with power can't simply realize that common fact. Well, to whoever said common sense was common....
I don't know why a simple thing as desgining a security algorithm can be so hard. There are a lot of standards and implementations out there. It *just* would have been better if governments started using a public/private key policy to safeguard all the data.
> Linux was non-existent until even 5 years back
Please verify the following at kernel.org
linux-1.0.tar.gz 13-Mar-1994 00:00 1.2M
I am talking about mass usage. Just how many people did you know who used linux since that time. FWIW, I've been using it as my primary desktop since RH6.
Its changing - Linux was non-existent until even 5 years back. As an Indian, I can see a trend which Microsoft won't like and for good reasons - many educational institutions and government organizations are welcoming Linux. Things won't change overnight - the monopoly that Microsoft and co have made over the years is deep rooted. Simply said, if I mail my neighbor a word doc with Office's whistles and bells - he's forced to use Word to open it. If the neighborhood support guy only speaks the windows lingo, grandma and friends have no choice.
But yes, more and more educational institutions are mandating that the labs have only Linux and BSDs installed. In fact the college where I studied has made it a rule that every project submitted should run on *nix. This will bring in a subtle change, slow but steady. Maybe this might take 10, 20 years - but I am confident that at the end, corporate and locked up OSes will be something that everyone will laugh at as one of history's mistakes.
Sun had some good sense when they made it, its been the industry standard for all these years and I hear that RSA has pam modules for all their security devices.
Sigh, when will Microsoft get to this fact that using standards might actually help the customers?
I've kind of realized this since I've first used hotmail back in '96. Luckily, someone finally has research to back me up.
Now, why is this headlines on/.?
I disagree with you - the first place where I worked my manager gave me a few wise words "The advantage of reinventing the wheel is that you get to know first hand how the wheel works". Over the last many years this has become second habit to me. I've seen code totally fucked up and rewrites and fresh designs usually scale much better.
The US is facing the same issues right now. It wants to restart its space oddeysey, but unfortunately most of the technology used back then has been outdated - plus the original team that worked on these missions are either resting in their graves or enjoying retirement. I welcome this move - more players in the field bring in more competition, more innovation and a race to get things moving. Remember what happened in the 70s when the Soviet Union stopped their space voyages?
Seriously, why so? If you rewind 400 500 years in history this has been the case - the human race only needs an excuse to kill one another. Back then wars meant only 1000s dead, there was no long lasting ecological or cultural damage. Take the case of now, and all the wars fought in the 2[01]st century. Mines abound everywhere, people are killed/affected by the millions, and its hard to see where its going to end. You may call me a troll, and I may be so but I have a point - each war is proving more costly and the way we are heading, it seems that people don't care a fuck about reality. The world will end sooner or later, and yeah I'll die the same. But trust me - we have at least one nuclear war ahead of us.
All this makes sense. USA has been abusing its power way too much - The taliban war can be termed a knee-jerk reaction against 9/11 and to a small extent justifiable. The attack against Iraq was uncalled for, and it is only logical that other countries perceive this as a threat against their sovereignty. I'll only blame the US's high attitude for the escalation in the nuclear problem - something the whole world will pay for dearly in the next 100 years.
Seriously, as the article said Microsoft needs a new deterrent for all the players in the free software movement. SCO is history, now they need a new partner, someone who's not as big (or will be) as Microsoft is today. A major linux vendor is the perfect way to achieve that. Microsoft will keep continuing to push only that much technology that they would like to - I doubt whether we'll see MAPI being opened up, whether the doc format will, whether we'll see a pam_ad etc... All Microsoft wants is to look good in the press, give a cozy feeling to its customers and more importantly have a position to draw lines in the free software movement. Patents and litigation will be seen as a major drawback by all the majors looking at deploying free software solutions. I am not talking about the average bearded nerd here in/., but the multi-millionaire CEOs who don't know jargon from garbage.
As for me, I am in India, I can keep laughing whenever talk about software patents happen.
Gentoo's init system is still the plain old init. The only difference is in a set of more intelligent scripts, plus a cross betwwen bsd and sysv levels.
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It still seems to be a serialised startup process, and the documentation does not make it clear how to specify startup dependencies ("IP before NTP", or "spamd before sendmail"), so there is no implied optimisation behind-the-scenes by using parallel startup.
Check gentoo's startup scripts and their structure - they feature a lot of cool modifications like soft boot levels, and an exhaustive dependency structure. I don't know why other vendors aren't adopting it, but its worth taking a look and there is nothing gentoo specific in the whole structure.
(I will probably be modded troll for this.)
What about flv8? What about Flash 9, with it's completely rewritten from scratch virtual machine, and 10x performance increase? I have a feeling it will be a looong time before either of these see support in FOSS. But that's ok, most people who are hardline free software, are used to being a couple of years behind the latest technology, right?
I don't like the situation either, but this involves 100% reverse engineering. I don't fault the mplayer and xine devs - they are doing everything they can, but its a battle against proprietory formats. In fact I haven't noticed any performance problems with flv8 on mplayer. Plus, i don't even comtemplate swicthing to gflashplayer (or whatever the new goodie is called) to play my ripped flvs.
I haven't tried flv in xine, but at least in mplayer+ffmpeg, it seems to have problems sometimes. About 40% of the FLV videos I play, sound and video get horribly out of sync. (This doesn't happen with any other video format for me). It's possible it's my fault, but I'm using precompiled packages, and a fairly standard config, so I dunno.
How old was the version of ffmpeg and mplayer? I use the latest gentoo ~amd64, so far video ripped from youtube and google videos play spotlessly.
While not perfect, this release makes me wonder when the free software Gnash player reaches a usable state. Being a free software enthuasist, i generally don't like the idea of using a proprietary plugin, but being also pragmatic, i use it. I also think that the official Flash plugin could be faster and more bug-free, if the source code were available and under a GPL compatible licence.
gnash is usable enough for me. Most ads works (sigh), and from what I've seen pretty much everything is rendered fine except for the flv videos. Now that ffmpeg and xine have full flv7 support, its only a matter of time before we can start to see gnash support youtube in its full glory. The best part is that it "works" on an x86_64.
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heh, and now you were modded funny too :)
A company is legally an entity, and is as much an entity as you when they pay taxes, get represented in courts or sign agreements. This has been the way for the past 2 or more centuries. You can sue Novell, you can pay for licenses to Novell etc ...
;)
Of course, if you are looking to screw a company, or take them out to a date, then its a different story
It is based on the tree, but the version says 6.0. Also there has been architectural changes and a lot of background changes. I usually bash microsoft, but credit goes to them for a major release.
Its hard to bring in any improvement in the average unix admin, and part of the reason is that unix is unlike windows an OS that expects people to think and run sane commands. Its hard to cultivate a habit like that especially when the average-joe-fng-admin is used to next-next-next install processes and right-click-select-click-click operations. I'd love to see a change, but I feel that the IQ of the average person using a computer (any computer for that matter) is dropping sharply these days.
(I am not trolling, but I *am* sure that this will be voted down as one)
There are several problems with having closed-source binary-only modules. One of the advantages of linux is the various places that it can be used at - embedded systems, cute little desktops, the Z series etc ... part of that comes with the customizability of the kernel. I for one recompile my kernel to load everything I want inside the kernel and disable module support entirely. That's where the binary modules have come to bit me behind my ass - most of them simply don't have the option to allow me to do that, and whenever I've seen one, its always been too funky and unreliable. Right now, the nvidia drivers are forcing me to do exactly that - and removing one of my options to have a more secure system which will not allow a hacker to run arbitrary kernel code.
I welcome any move from the companies to open source their drivers; but Linus has summed it all up perfectly - this is a change that should come from their management, not the linux communities'. Sadly, not everyone in the industry want a level playing field. The actual reason (atleast the one which I've seen frequently on the x11 dri list) why the graphics card vendors do not release their drivers is because they *feel* that the competitor will get an edge by being able to see how the layout of the hardware is. That's in my opinion as lame an excuse as it can get. I for one will switch to a company that releases open source graphics drivers, Sadly the only one there is Intel and its lacking in a lot more basic areas.
We'll soon see the flurry of fud from them - ISO standards mean nothing much, we're all about lowering tco etc ...
But seriously, what difference does it make to anyone? I've been using odt long before and that's not going to change. Those big corporations with a billion dollar budget were using Word since decades. I don't see how that's going to change either.
But just look at history. A better choice always takes more time to create, and is more expensive to design and implement, but in the long run it pays off much better. Take Unix, most of RSA's products, etc. There's no short cut to success, there is no overnight solution. Its just that a lot of people with power can't simply realize that common fact.
Well, to whoever said common sense was common
I don't know why a simple thing as desgining a security algorithm can be so hard. There are a lot of standards and implementations out there. It *just* would have been better if governments started using a public/private key policy to safeguard all the data.
Did you mean this http://www.opensync.org/wiki/kitchensync ?
I am talking about mass usage. Just how many people did you know who used linux since that time. FWIW, I've been using it as my primary desktop since RH6.
Its changing - Linux was non-existent until even 5 years back. As an Indian, I can see a trend which Microsoft won't like and for good reasons - many educational institutions and government organizations are welcoming Linux. Things won't change overnight - the monopoly that Microsoft and co have made over the years is deep rooted. Simply said, if I mail my neighbor a word doc with Office's whistles and bells - he's forced to use Word to open it. If the neighborhood support guy only speaks the windows lingo, grandma and friends have no choice.
But yes, more and more educational institutions are mandating that the labs have only Linux and BSDs installed. In fact the college where I studied has made it a rule that every project submitted should run on *nix. This will bring in a subtle change, slow but steady. Maybe this might take 10, 20 years - but I am confident that at the end, corporate and locked up OSes will be something that everyone will laugh at as one of history's mistakes.
Sun had some good sense when they made it, its been the industry standard for all these years and I hear that RSA has pam modules for all their security devices. Sigh, when will Microsoft get to this fact that using standards might actually help the customers?
Well, what isn't in today's world?
I've kind of realized this since I've first used hotmail back in '96. Luckily, someone finally has research to back me up. Now, why is this headlines on /.?
I disagree with you - the first place where I worked my manager gave me a few wise words "The advantage of reinventing the wheel is that you get to know first hand how the wheel works". Over the last many years this has become second habit to me. I've seen code totally fucked up and rewrites and fresh designs usually scale much better.
The US is facing the same issues right now. It wants to restart its space oddeysey, but unfortunately most of the technology used back then has been outdated - plus the original team that worked on these missions are either resting in their graves or enjoying retirement. I welcome this move - more players in the field bring in more competition, more innovation and a race to get things moving. Remember what happened in the 70s when the Soviet Union stopped their space voyages?
Seriously, why so? If you rewind 400 500 years in history this has been the case - the human race only needs an excuse to kill one another. Back then wars meant only 1000s dead, there was no long lasting ecological or cultural damage. Take the case of now, and all the wars fought in the 2[01]st century. Mines abound everywhere, people are killed/affected by the millions, and its hard to see where its going to end. You may call me a troll, and I may be so but I have a point - each war is proving more costly and the way we are heading, it seems that people don't care a fuck about reality. The world will end sooner or later, and yeah I'll die the same. But trust me - we have at least one nuclear war ahead of us.
I wanted to say the exact same thing. What's wrong /. editors, it isn't as if news dissappeared off the face of earth.
All this makes sense. USA has been abusing its power way too much - The taliban war can be termed a knee-jerk reaction against 9/11 and to a small extent justifiable. The attack against Iraq was uncalled for, and it is only logical that other countries perceive this as a threat against their sovereignty. I'll only blame the US's high attitude for the escalation in the nuclear problem - something the whole world will pay for dearly in the next 100 years.
Seriously, as the article said Microsoft needs a new deterrent for all the players in the free software movement. SCO is history, now they need a new partner, someone who's not as big (or will be) as Microsoft is today. A major linux vendor is the perfect way to achieve that. Microsoft will keep continuing to push only that much technology that they would like to - I doubt whether we'll see MAPI being opened up, whether the doc format will, whether we'll see a pam_ad etc ... All Microsoft wants is to look good in the press, give a cozy feeling to its customers and more importantly have a position to draw lines in the free software movement. Patents and litigation will be seen as a major drawback by all the majors looking at deploying free software solutions. I am not talking about the average bearded nerd here in /., but the multi-millionaire CEOs who don't know jargon from garbage.
As for me, I am in India, I can keep laughing whenever talk about software patents happen.
Gentoo's init system is still the plain old init. The only difference is in a set of more intelligent scripts, plus a cross betwwen bsd and sysv levels.
How old was the version of ffmpeg and mplayer? I use the latest gentoo ~amd64, so far video ripped from youtube and google videos play spotlessly.
I can't wait to pay my tax in WoW gold.
They haven't blocked http://www.pornotube.com/ yet!