If we're supposed to be comparing like distributions, then shouldn't it be SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS or Novell Linux Desktop vs. Red Hat Desktop? SLES is aimed at the enterprise workstation market just like RHEL WS is....though an argument could be made for SL Pro I think.
Blockbuster was printing "If you liked this, you might also enjoy" on the back of their video tapes years before Amazon existed, which I'm sure was based on the same kind of statistical data. Amazon has no claim here!
I just want to nix the epilepsy-enducing flashing ads, the popunders and popups that launch a site when they are closed, the ads that install spyware when they display, and the sound/video ads and I'll leave them turned on. I think everyone understands that content isn't free and someone has to pay the bills, but making an ad annoying raises brand awareness and negative connotations toward that brand.
There's also the opposite extreme: There's an ad at the top of my screen right now about porting a Solaris application to Linux on Power. It's non-intrusive and I can click on it if I want to, but it doesn't get my attention. I'll leave that turned on but its ineffective.
There are many ways for the advertising industry to continue to fund sites like Slashdot. Ads can be effective without being annoying.
There are also ways to make money from a web site without advertisements. Here are three: * Merchandising * content so good that people don't mind paying for it * Sale of devices that enhance the usability of the web site
I don't know... if you consider all the spam that's sent from a forged hotmail address, half the e-mail on the Internet just might have a hotmail.com "From" address.
One of the reasons for having some of the most importantLinuxevents in Ottawa was that by going to Canada you would escape the U.S.'s DMCA and therefore avoid situations like what happened to Dmitri Sklyarov in 2002, regarding his so-called violation of the DMCA. Refresher: Dmitri was arrested in the U.S. for code he developed for Elcomsoft in his home country of Russia which circumvented some copyright mechanisms to convert files to eBooks. I wonder if:
The Canadian version of this law will be enforced in the same way, and
whether this might cause the organizers of these events to change the venue in future years.
As long as there's Spyware included with programs like Kazaa, there will be jobs to remove and prevent the installation of spyware. Much like the virus industry.:) I always tell people I'm always thankful to Microsoft for creating a market for Linux.
Insurrection was kind of cookey, but I tend to agree... Nemesis fell a bit short.
I apologize in advance for butchering spellings...
A DS9 movie won't happen. Since Sisko was killed off in the final episode and Emry Dax just isn't Jatzia, I don't think the remaining characters will be enough of a draw. Seven of Nine and Tuvok on Voyager might be enough, though.
A movie surrounding the U.S.S. Prometheus introduced in Voyager would be very cool, though. A movie focused on the parallel universe would be very, very cool.:):) Sex and violence usually sells pretty well in the theaters.
Don't hold your breath. Whoopie did make an appearance in Star Trek: Generations but was so disgusted with the movie that she asked not to be in the credits....or maybe she just bought into the "odd-numbered Star Trek movie curse" and predicted that movie's quality. (
Myself, I thought the only thing wrong with Generations was the way it was marketed: as a movie about Picard and Kirk working together to stop the latest menace to the universe, which in reality only lasted for two scenes toward the end of the movie. The movie itself was actually alright if you overlook that.
If the odd-numbered curse holds, I am concerned about the Star Trek franchise depending on an odd-numbered movie to get back on its legs again.
Yes, it's better than it was for sure, but I still get blue screens in Win XP on my notebook for no particular reason, and my desktop reboots in the middle of loading an app every now and then.
With AMD's dual-core processor launching today I can finally state that for the record, I've been working with OEMs on AMD's dual-core chip-based solutions for months now. AMD sent dual-core chips to its OEMs long before April 12. Go by RAMBUS memory if you believe everything Intel tells you.
The people who want to do all of that at once, maybe? Honestly, ever tried to MD5SUM your CD1 ISO at the same time as you were encoding your MP3s for CD2? Dual-core processors would make multitasking much smoother.
Good point. Section 508 compliance makes a number of biometric methods unfeasable. A fingerprint or retinal scan has the same problem.
Not that biometrics are the best way to validate identity anyway. You think things are bad when someone steals your password or PIN, just wait 'til someone finds a way to duplicate the data from your voice print, retinal scan, or fingerprint.
Pin numbers and passwords are 508-friendly and can easily be changed if stolen. Can't change your voice (without surgery, anyway).
I agree with that -- I've been a Trekkie for a long time. I've enjoyed watching during the first few seasons as they set they stage for what would become the world of Star Trek that we've known from the original series. They did an excellent job of retaining consistency, but until Enterprise went on its quest to find the Xindi, it lacked the kind of action that earned it good ratings....and during that season, the nature of Enterprise, speaking both of the show and its characters, changed. This season has been a jigantic leap forward in terms of the quality of the show overall. It rivals The Next Generation and is far above DS9 and Voyager in quality (now Voyager -- that was all about 7of9's boobies).
Think of it this way -- the show's charter is to explain how Starfleet and the UFP all started. From its humble beginnings of Zeffrin Cochran as illustrated in Star Trek: Insurrection to Captain Kirk in the original series. Humble beginnings don't get great ratings. I think the show is right on track. I want to see more of this. I want to see the Vulcans and humans start the United Federation of Planets. They've got great writers now.
I'm very proud to have donated to the continuation of Enterprise and wish I could afford to contribute more. My fiancee thinks I'm crazy to be supporting this but I don't care. I'm a geek and proud of it.
Rate me redundant if you like, but I insist I'm the first to put several of the points already stated today in one concise reply -- this isn't new. I've gotten about a dozen or so of these encoded.RAR files over the past few months. A lot of people don't have the tools to extract them (I had to teach our IT staff what an.RAR file is the first time I was sent one of these viruses), but they arrive with a note that says here's the password, extract the.EXE file from the enclosed.RAR, and run the thing to get a screensaver or whatever..RAR password protection is used because it is so hard for mail servers to detect on the fly. Most (but not all) of the viruses in these.RAR files were detected the instant that I decoded the things (yes, I am foolish enough to rely on IT to catch me with Windows-based software if I fall).
So despite all of this discussion, (1) the distribution method has been around long enough that Symantec Anti-Virus can detect these things, and (2) many of the posts here say virus writers should instruct their users on how to open the file. They already do!
You'll notice that this "news" article is dated 6/10/2004, which is June 10 which is way off... Oh wait. That's the funky European date; they're talking about October 6, aren't they?
Nevertheless, you're right; SUSE themselves told me November so I don't understand why they're issuing the press release now.
If the car started accelerating out of control, that's not a cruise control lock-up, but rather something else.
In the early 90's, there were several reports of Saturn sedans having a true cruise control lock-up. I remember reading about it on the Prodigy (original service) bulletin boards. The car would lock in at 75 mph.
Shifting into neutral (as suggested by other/. readers) did work for those drivers, and after they had coasted to a stop on the side of the road and with the engine roaring, they could turn off the ignition.
That's why when I bought my 1995 Saturn SL-1 I explicitly asked for one without cruise control. Saturn redesigned their sedans in 1996 and the problem seemed to disappear at about the same time. Saturn didn't want to call attention to this problem, but it was severe enough to show up when I did my research through Consumer Reports.
To demonstrate my trust of Saturn Corp. to have solved the problem, my second car was a 2001 LS series Saturn equipped with cruise control.
I'm amazed no one has pointed this out before, but whitelist or not, seperate e-mail system or not, web-based or not, dmail is still ultimately vulnerable to any sapm or virus that can:
* Use a bot to post in its system and act as a dmail client (even if that is the web) * Scan inbox and address book for valid e-mail addresses * Send to valid e-mail address. Maybe it forges the From headers too, maybe not; doesn't really matter.
So e-mail, d-mail, g-mail, PhiBetaLambdaMail, doesn't really matter. Any system is capable of being exploited any number of ways. You can't tell me that the web is safe from any of these either -- just look at all the SpyWare and AdWare I cleaned out of my system last week.
Yeah, but how do you create an anonymous paper receipt? There has to be a way to ensure that no person votes more than once, yet the vote can't be tagged to any one person. Does the machine then print out "1 vote for George" "1 vote for John", etc.? I mean, it can be done, but they're going to have to think of some procedures to enforce it. Used to be that each person was checked off the list and handed one (and only one) ballot. What's to keep someone from tapping into a computer, "I'm the next voter." "...and the next." "...and the next."?
Perhaps each voter is given a voter card which are distributed in random order?
So let me get this straight... Santa Cruz Operation buys some of the UNIX rights from Novell, Caldera sells Linux, Caldera buys Santa Cruz Operation, Caldera continues distributing Linux code (including the UNIX parts of it), meaning that they protected the right to give the UNIX code to the community by gaining ownership of Santa Cruz Operation's IP, then Caldera becomes SCO Group, SCO Group then starts suing its own customers (using SCO UNIX and Linux). Miraculously, this drives the stock price up, and in one fell swoop, SCO (Caldera) announces that before it acquired Santa Cruz Operation it started off being in the business of selling pirated UNIX (which it claims is Linux). Do I have that about right? Okay, just wanted to be sure.
Don't believe everything you read, nor believe everything that a SCO representative is reported to have said.
The BSD license has already been held up by U.S. courts. SCO would have to come up with *real evidence* that hadn't been brought to the table before to reverse that decision.
Also, several times SCO's official position on something has turned out to be different than what someone from SCO is quoted as having said.
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If we're supposed to be comparing like distributions, then shouldn't it be SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server vs. Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS or Novell Linux Desktop vs. Red Hat Desktop? SLES is aimed at the enterprise workstation market just like RHEL WS is. ...though an argument could be made for SL Pro I think.
Blockbuster was printing "If you liked this, you might also enjoy" on the back of their video tapes years before Amazon existed, which I'm sure was based on the same kind of statistical data. Amazon has no claim here!
I just want to nix the epilepsy-enducing flashing ads, the popunders and popups that launch a site when they are closed, the ads that install spyware when they display, and the sound/video ads and I'll leave them turned on. I think everyone understands that content isn't free and someone has to pay the bills, but making an ad annoying raises brand awareness and negative connotations toward that brand.
There's also the opposite extreme: There's an ad at the top of my screen right now about porting a Solaris application to Linux on Power. It's non-intrusive and I can click on it if I want to, but it doesn't get my attention. I'll leave that turned on but its ineffective.
There are many ways for the advertising industry to continue to fund sites like Slashdot. Ads can be effective without being annoying.
There are also ways to make money from a web site without advertisements. Here are three:
* Merchandising
* content so good that people don't mind paying for it
* Sale of devices that enhance the usability of the web site
I don't know... if you consider all the spam that's sent from a forged hotmail address, half the e-mail on the Internet just might have a hotmail.com "From" address.
As long as there's Spyware included with programs like Kazaa, there will be jobs to remove and prevent the installation of spyware. Much like the virus industry. :) I always tell people I'm always thankful to Microsoft for creating a market for Linux.
Insurrection was kind of cookey, but I tend to agree... Nemesis fell a bit short.
:) :) Sex and violence usually sells pretty well in the theaters.
I apologize in advance for butchering spellings...
A DS9 movie won't happen. Since Sisko was killed off in the final episode and Emry Dax just isn't Jatzia, I don't think the remaining characters will be enough of a draw. Seven of Nine and Tuvok on Voyager might be enough, though.
A movie surrounding the U.S.S. Prometheus introduced in Voyager would be very cool, though. A movie focused on the parallel universe would be very, very cool.
Enterprise characters would be good too.
Don't hold your breath. Whoopie did make an appearance in Star Trek: Generations but was so disgusted with the movie that she asked not to be in the credits. ...or maybe she just bought into the "odd-numbered Star Trek movie curse" and predicted that movie's quality. (
Myself, I thought the only thing wrong with Generations was the way it was marketed: as a movie about Picard and Kirk working together to stop the latest menace to the universe, which in reality only lasted for two scenes toward the end of the movie. The movie itself was actually alright if you overlook that.
If the odd-numbered curse holds, I am concerned about the Star Trek franchise depending on an odd-numbered movie to get back on its legs again.
Maybe they could just skip straight to XII?
Yes, it's better than it was for sure, but I still get blue screens in Win XP on my notebook for no particular reason, and my desktop reboots in the middle of loading an app every now and then.
Linux is still much more stable.
...or if you prefer, it just crashes.
I've got too much experience with Windows to consider it for an enterprise environment.
With AMD's dual-core processor launching today I can finally state that for the record, I've been working with OEMs on AMD's dual-core chip-based solutions for months now. AMD sent dual-core chips to its OEMs long before April 12. Go by RAMBUS memory if you believe everything Intel tells you.
The people who want to do all of that at once, maybe? Honestly, ever tried to MD5SUM your CD1 ISO at the same time as you were encoding your MP3s for CD2? Dual-core processors would make multitasking much smoother.
Good point. Section 508 compliance makes a number of biometric methods unfeasable. A fingerprint or retinal scan has the same problem.
Not that biometrics are the best way to validate identity anyway. You think things are bad when someone steals your password or PIN, just wait 'til someone finds a way to duplicate the data from your voice print, retinal scan, or fingerprint.
Pin numbers and passwords are 508-friendly and can easily be changed if stolen. Can't change your voice (without surgery, anyway).
I was thinking more like "Awnold". You know, the guy from Cawleefoneeuh. (yeah; okay, off topic, couldn't resist)
I agree with that -- I've been a Trekkie for a long time. I've enjoyed watching during the first few seasons as they set they stage for what would become the world of Star Trek that we've known from the original series. They did an excellent job of retaining consistency, but until Enterprise went on its quest to find the Xindi, it lacked the kind of action that earned it good ratings. ...and during that season, the nature of Enterprise, speaking both of the show and its characters, changed. This season has been a jigantic leap forward in terms of the quality of the show overall. It rivals The Next Generation and is far above DS9 and Voyager in quality (now Voyager -- that was all about 7of9's boobies).
Think of it this way -- the show's charter is to explain how Starfleet and the UFP all started. From its humble beginnings of Zeffrin Cochran as illustrated in Star Trek: Insurrection to Captain Kirk in the original series. Humble beginnings don't get great ratings. I think the show is right on track. I want to see more of this. I want to see the Vulcans and humans start the United Federation of Planets. They've got great writers now.
I'm very proud to have donated to the continuation of Enterprise and wish I could afford to contribute more. My fiancee thinks I'm crazy to be supporting this but I don't care. I'm a geek and proud of it.
Rate me redundant if you like, but I insist I'm the first to put several of the points already stated today in one concise reply -- this isn't new. I've gotten about a dozen or so of these encoded .RAR files over the past few months. A lot of people don't have the tools to extract them (I had to teach our IT staff what an .RAR file is the first time I was sent one of these viruses), but they arrive with a note that says here's the password, extract the .EXE file from the enclosed .RAR, and run the thing to get a screensaver or whatever. .RAR password protection is used because it is so hard for mail servers to detect on the fly. Most (but not all) of the viruses in these .RAR files were detected the instant that I decoded the things (yes, I am foolish enough to rely on IT to catch me with Windows-based software if I fall).
So despite all of this discussion, (1) the distribution method has been around long enough that Symantec Anti-Virus can detect these things, and (2) many of the posts here say virus writers should instruct their users on how to open the file. They already do!
You'll notice that this "news" article is dated 6/10/2004, which is June 10 which is way off... Oh wait. That's the funky European date; they're talking about October 6, aren't they?
Nevertheless, you're right; SUSE themselves told me November so I don't understand why they're issuing the press release now.
If the car started accelerating out of control, that's not a cruise control lock-up, but rather something else. In the early 90's, there were several reports of Saturn sedans having a true cruise control lock-up. I remember reading about it on the Prodigy (original service) bulletin boards. The car would lock in at 75 mph. Shifting into neutral (as suggested by other /. readers) did work for those drivers, and after they had coasted to a stop on the side of the road and with the engine roaring, they could turn off the ignition.
That's why when I bought my 1995 Saturn SL-1 I explicitly asked for one without cruise control. Saturn redesigned their sedans in 1996 and the problem seemed to disappear at about the same time. Saturn didn't want to call attention to this problem, but it was severe enough to show up when I did my research through Consumer Reports.
To demonstrate my trust of Saturn Corp. to have solved the problem, my second car was a 2001 LS series Saturn equipped with cruise control.
I'm amazed no one has pointed this out before, but whitelist or not, seperate e-mail system or not, web-based or not, dmail is still ultimately vulnerable to any sapm or virus that can:
* Use a bot to post in its system and act as a dmail client (even if that is the web)
* Scan inbox and address book for valid e-mail addresses
* Send to valid e-mail address. Maybe it forges the From headers too, maybe not; doesn't really matter.
So e-mail, d-mail, g-mail, PhiBetaLambdaMail, doesn't really matter. Any system is capable of being exploited any number of ways. You can't tell me that the web is safe from any of these either -- just look at all the SpyWare and AdWare I cleaned out of my system last week.
Emphasis mine: Its a new technology involving ink and paper. Do you work for Intel or Microsoft?
Uh-oh; our dot matrix printer ran out of ink! Let's see if we can read the "dimpled" paper...
Yeah, but how do you create an anonymous paper receipt? There has to be a way to ensure that no person votes more than once, yet the vote can't be tagged to any one person. Does the machine then print out "1 vote for George" "1 vote for John", etc.? I mean, it can be done, but they're going to have to think of some procedures to enforce it. Used to be that each person was checked off the list and handed one (and only one) ballot. What's to keep someone from tapping into a computer, "I'm the next voter." "...and the next." "...and the next."?
Perhaps each voter is given a voter card which are distributed in random order?
So let me get this straight... Santa Cruz Operation buys some of the UNIX rights from Novell, Caldera sells Linux, Caldera buys Santa Cruz Operation, Caldera continues distributing Linux code (including the UNIX parts of it), meaning that they protected the right to give the UNIX code to the community by gaining ownership of Santa Cruz Operation's IP, then Caldera becomes SCO Group, SCO Group then starts suing its own customers (using SCO UNIX and Linux). Miraculously, this drives the stock price up, and in one fell swoop, SCO (Caldera) announces that before it acquired Santa Cruz Operation it started off being in the business of selling pirated UNIX (which it claims is Linux). Do I have that about right? Okay, just wanted to be sure.
Well, would you rather frag and burn your lap?
Don't believe everything you read, nor believe everything that a SCO representative is reported to have said.
The BSD license has already been held up by U.S. courts. SCO would have to come up with *real evidence* that hadn't been brought to the table before to reverse that decision.
Also, several times SCO's official position on something has turned out to be different than what someone from SCO is quoted as having said.