Wow I never knew about an OpenOffice/OpenOffice.org fork... (I thought it was always OpenOffice.org)
And your exactly right, if people like the fork better than the original, the fork will take over really (or because 2 seperate products), and if they don't like the fork, well it won't get very far now will it?
"Consider the problem of dealing with revisions -- only a few file formats allow revision-tracking. Clearly, we should not exclude such a useful feature. Each file should also contain deltas from all previous revisions of that file -- much like a file in a CVS repository."
What about data corruption? Thats a huge problem these days. We have 3 copies of the documents imbedded inside itself, that way if one is corrupted, you have 2 more chances. Also each version will also have 3 copies. Whats the point of a revision control system if all the copies have been corrupted?
Another major threat is misdirrection. I propose all documents are signed. Using keys equal to the square of the size of the document (with a minimum of 1099511627776k keys). Also ever access attempt should be forced to factor a large prime number to prevent mass flooding, AND every access attempt should be given one of those pictures w/ text in it to prevent bots from just swarming over sites downloading the content. The minimum security should have at least 50 characters in the picture to authenticate.
Of course this will only work for 56k users, people with broadband and up will be required much high protection.
Fedora offers only 6 months, though it is designed to be a test bed for technology that will go into Red Hat Enterprise, and I wouldn't recommend it as a production server (only because of its release cycle). My stability with Fedora has been very good, I've only ever had to problems happen, and both were because I switched my apt-get respiratory to the unstable branch. One was the KDE configuration file was damaged, and the other caused Xine to just not be able to play 5 or 6 files.
Of course you shouldn't have KDE and Xine on a production server.
Fine the person that hands out the patent, not the office. The office would then just have to have a bigger pockets next year. Or it would go so far in debt that it would have to shut down forever...
"The 234 Arab prisoners in Israeli jails who the terrorists were demanding be freed should have been swiftly executed."
Wow I can just see NBC's headlines after that: "Peace loving Muslims friend's slaughtered after their requested release!" "Those damn jews did it again! No wonder everyone hates them!" "Israel's jihad?" "Israel takes Muslim hostages then executes them then threatens they will kill NBC more civilians!"
Firefox, Mozilla, and Konqueror (last not running on Windows), have all the features of the Google Toolbar built in. Though not limited to only using the Google search engine (even if it is the single best).
"it looks to see if you have any antivirus software and nags you if you don't (a good thing)"
Couldn't a virus just fake being an anti-virus program to windows, then the poor user will think they are secure (saying they had a clue in the first place).
"It's not that they touch install.log, it's just one way to "prove" that nothing was installed. IIRC, everytime something is installed on a windows machine, an entry is placed in install.log"
So when viruses, spyware, trojans, ad-ware, and the like install them selfs update install.log to show it? Hell no, and this doesn't either.
They only let you reactivate by internet a couple of times, after that you have to call them up. When I last replaced my RAM (I had bought a defective stick), I had to reactive. Now I use the corporate edition. I can't stand calling MS up and having to say 'can I pwease use my computer? I swear I didn't pirate it! Please believe me! I'm begging you!'
Thats because everything is compiled statically. In linux most of my 'big' programs don't even come up to 1/2 meg, why you ask? Because of dependencies. And no, I'm not in Single User Mode, I proudly run KDE.
"On "the computer for the rest of us", the way you normally install applications is by dragging them into the "Applications" folder from wherever you unpacked them."
What your doing there is practically just dragging the folder containing all the program into 'Program Files' on windows. On first launch the program then checks to see if its settings are anywhere, and if they aren't, sets up the defaults.
"And all the scary UNIX stuff is in hidden folders *below* the root"
No. The folders are just set as hidden. If you poke around w/ bash you will see a file in / that says what folders to hide.
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You could always use rsync to update the changes... won't work in every situation, but could in some.
I can get a Linux desktop, with an X server, on only 2 floppies... I think thats smaller than a CD.
And DSL is only 50 mbs I believe.
Wow I never knew about an OpenOffice/OpenOffice.org fork... (I thought it was always OpenOffice.org)
And your exactly right, if people like the fork better than the original, the fork will take over really (or because 2 seperate products), and if they don't like the fork, well it won't get very far now will it?
Maybe the person who creates it? Wow who would of thought of that!
The sysadmin may of been having to make up for the boss's lack of work (otherwise he would get blamed).
Or maybe the sysadmin just didn't like his boss and was trying to find a way to get him fired.
Can you be sure of either ATM?
be-fan wrote:
"Open source will handle this challenge quite fine. It's not a unified effort, but all the pieces are falling into place:
1) OpenGL 2.0 should easily be a match for whatever the successor to Direct 3D is. A lot stuff mentioned in the article is also in OpenGL 2.0.
2) The freedesktop.org folks are working on building an X server that sits on top of OpenGL.
3) Some DRI folks are working on an OpenGL implementation that can operate without the X server, to support using the X server on top of it."
The OSS community has already been working on it. Now find some new FUD.
"Consider the problem of dealing with revisions -- only a few file formats allow revision-tracking. Clearly, we should not exclude such a useful feature. Each file should also contain deltas from all previous revisions of that file -- much like a file in a CVS repository."
What about data corruption? Thats a huge problem these days. We have 3 copies of the documents imbedded inside itself, that way if one is corrupted, you have 2 more chances. Also each version will also have 3 copies. Whats the point of a revision control system if all the copies have been corrupted?
Another major threat is misdirrection. I propose all documents are signed. Using keys equal to the square of the size of the document (with a minimum of 1099511627776k keys). Also ever access attempt should be forced to factor a large prime number to prevent mass flooding, AND every access attempt should be given one of those pictures w/ text in it to prevent bots from just swarming over sites downloading the content. The minimum security should have at least 50 characters in the picture to authenticate.
Of course this will only work for 56k users, people with broadband and up will be required much high protection.
/. uses ads.osdn.com
"http://ads.osdn.com/"
Thats the first part of the ad thats up right now for me.
You do realize that hotmail runs on Windows 2000, right?
Netcraft's list goes back to 01 and all say Windows 2000 (except for 1 day it was reported as Unknown)
You do know Microsoft owns Hotmail, right?
Maybe hes proud of his annoyatude so he submits stories about annoying people?
w00t! New words!
"I think it would be ironic if we were made of iron."
The last episode of Red vs Blue season 2 has a joke about irony near the end (thats part of it).
Somewhat like Monkey butlers?
Fedora offers only 6 months, though it is designed to be a test bed for technology that will go into Red Hat Enterprise, and I wouldn't recommend it as a production server (only because of its release cycle). My stability with Fedora has been very good, I've only ever had to problems happen, and both were because I switched my apt-get respiratory to the unstable branch. One was the KDE configuration file was damaged, and the other caused Xine to just not be able to play 5 or 6 files.
Of course you shouldn't have KDE and Xine on a production server.
w00t! Family Guy!
Fine the person that hands out the patent, not the office. The office would then just have to have a bigger pockets next year. Or it would go so far in debt that it would have to shut down forever...
"The 234 Arab prisoners in Israeli jails who the terrorists were demanding be freed should have been swiftly executed."
Wow I can just see NBC's headlines after that:
"Peace loving Muslims friend's slaughtered after their requested release!"
"Those damn jews did it again! No wonder everyone hates them!"
"Israel's jihad?"
"Israel takes Muslim hostages then executes them then threatens they will kill NBC more civilians!"
Also KDE-RedHat project keeps KDE up2date (harhar).
You can use up2date, yum, or apt-get to update your system too (apt-get isn't on FC1 cd, not sure about FC2).
Firefox, Mozilla, and Konqueror (last not running on Windows), have all the features of the Google Toolbar built in. Though not limited to only using the Google search engine (even if it is the single best).
"it looks to see if you have any antivirus software and nags you if you don't (a good thing)"
Couldn't a virus just fake being an anti-virus program to windows, then the poor user will think they are secure (saying they had a clue in the first place).
"If it's David Beckham"
Who the hell is David Beckham?
"It's not that they touch install.log, it's just one way to "prove" that nothing was installed. IIRC, everytime something is installed on a windows machine, an entry is placed in install.log"
So when viruses, spyware, trojans, ad-ware, and the like install them selfs update install.log to show it? Hell no, and this doesn't either.
The OSDN is owned by VA Software Corporation. Formerly VA Linux.
They only let you reactivate by internet a couple of times, after that you have to call them up. When I last replaced my RAM (I had bought a defective stick), I had to reactive. Now I use the corporate edition. I can't stand calling MS up and having to say 'can I pwease use my computer? I swear I didn't pirate it! Please believe me! I'm begging you!'
Thats because everything is compiled statically. In linux most of my 'big' programs don't even come up to 1/2 meg, why you ask? Because of dependencies. And no, I'm not in Single User Mode, I proudly run KDE.
"It was the convergence of the two MS OS trees"
By convergence you do mean ending the 9X line, and bringing in Fisherprice to design the interface to XP, right?
"They are no rebooting jokes with XP"
Every single damn thing tells me to reboot, just like before, and also like before I just ignore them.
"On "the computer for the rest of us", the way you normally install applications is by dragging them into the "Applications" folder from wherever you unpacked them."
What your doing there is practically just dragging the folder containing all the program into 'Program Files' on windows. On first launch the program then checks to see if its settings are anywhere, and if they aren't, sets up the defaults.
"And all the scary UNIX stuff is in hidden folders *below* the root"
No. The folders are just set as hidden. If you poke around w/ bash you will see a file in / that says what folders to hide.