I think the AC meant the "press release". Perhaps he was thinking of changing it to something like: "Google will force us to put advertising within our articles, and you should hate them for it".
Pfft... it says right in the slashdot summary that the cause of the security flaw was AWStats, not the forums themself (or the php language itself, which far too many people have needless grudges against). I assure you, there are plenty of secure php pages out there, and plenty of insecure perl pages out there. It depends on the coder.
I paid for DoomIII. And I would have paid for Enemy Territory and America's Army, but for some reason iD is giving away ET for free and the American taxpayer is paying for America's Army for me.
They even got Halo Mac Edition. Which means that there is a Halo engine out there written in OpenGL. And the sourcecode is just sitting on a fileserver somewhere at the Microsoft HQ. Damn Bungie, why did you have to get sold to Microsoft?!?!?!
It has been a very long time since I played, but IIRC, you only got a snapshot of the whole world on the turn that Apollo was finished. After that, you would need conventional exploration to find anything (again).
That really is a decent idea, but it assumes a couple of things (which don't exist in my work environment).
Identical hardware, or at least very close
Identical software requirements on every server (our mailserver doesn't need X11 support but our grpahical terminal server will)
A dedicated fileserver for all those packages. Theoretically, not difficult, but it does mean yet another server in the datacentre, or at least a harddrive in one of our other servers, hosting up via NFS or http.
All that being said, binary distros don't really have many advantages to the situation either. In fact, for a binary distro, if I want apache and php, and php relies on X11, then I guess I'm stuck with X11 on our webserver, even though we'll never use it.
Disclaimer: All software in this comment was used simply as an example and may or may not represent the actual setup we have at work. It also may or may not have the dependencies I say it has.
I suppose there are those nifty new binary package servers,...
I KNOW. Although I guess I did fail to mention a stage 3 install with GRP, but alas, I knew about that too. All I was really trying to say was that they don't really seem to fit in with the whole point of gentoo though, which is selective dependencies via USE flags, and maybe some optimizations (trolls read: you can optimize without being a riceboy). You can't do that with binaries (unless your mirror has a million copies of every package, with different settings; which isn't going to happen), so gentoo/binary just turns out like debian (for example) which requires the installation of every dep even if you're never going to use that particular functionality. If you're going to end up using a binary distribution, and you want it to be free (in either sense of the word), then perhaps you should just use debian or BSD instead (or, or, or...).
Gentoo was made for installing or at the very least maintaining by source, and although it is feasable to run a gentoo system with only packages installed from binaries, it isn't what the system was designed for, and therefore doesn't have any particular advantage over any other binary distro.
Okay, for a second, pretend you are a PHB (I know, it is hard). Do you want Gentoo (Huh? What's that? It is free you say? What?), or do you want Solaris (The incredibly stable, highly secure, Unix made by our good friends and reputable Internet Citizens Sun Microsystems, the genius creators of Java, the best programming langauge ever).
It is hard to step into the PHB shoes isn't it? But anyway that's your answer. If you don't have a PHB then maybe gentoo could be a viable server platform, but IMO that would still be pushing it. I use gentoo for a desktop and server at home, but I know that I wouldn't entertain the idea of such at work. Compiling from source is something I have the luxury to wait for at home, but work is a different story. I suppose there are those nifty new binary package servers, but I haven't investigated how they fit in with the rest of portage (mainly because I am satisfied with compiling from source at this point).
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.spamgourmet.com/
Geoip?
The sourceforge project, so anyone can use it
I know it was a joke, but I thought I just point out something for you. ^H is the backspace "character". ^W deletes an entire word...
NVIDIA's SLI Shortchanges Gamers?
A nice article.
That "pop" you heard earlier was that joke going over your head at mach 3.
I think the AC meant the "press release". Perhaps he was thinking of changing it to something like: "Google will force us to put advertising within our articles, and you should hate them for it".
Pfft... it says right in the slashdot summary that the cause of the security flaw was AWStats, not the forums themself (or the php language itself, which far too many people have needless grudges against). I assure you, there are plenty of secure php pages out there, and plenty of insecure perl pages out there. It depends on the coder.
RFC 1149
Well, I guess maybe I did. I'm not sure I understand the significance of this fact.
You're obviously either an imposter or an amature. You're only allowed "?", "!", or "1" as punctuation. You used a comma.
I paid for DoomIII. And I would have paid for Enemy Territory and America's Army, but for some reason iD is giving away ET for free and the American taxpayer is paying for America's Army for me.
They even got Halo Mac Edition. Which means that there is a Halo engine out there written in OpenGL. And the sourcecode is just sitting on a fileserver somewhere at the Microsoft HQ. Damn Bungie, why did you have to get sold to Microsoft?!?!?!
It is hardly an unreasonable assumption to say that you leave fingerprints everywhere, when you can see the obvious ones (glass, smooth metals, etc.).
What exactly do you mean by "failed"? What would you consider "success"?
Maybe after everyone else has died from skin cancer, geeks will inherit the earth. That 'outside' thing was always overrated anyway.
Haha, no. They're paying out the nose to the guy who came up with the 'white rounded box' idea.
It has been a very long time since I played, but IIRC, you only got a snapshot of the whole world on the turn that Apollo was finished. After that, you would need conventional exploration to find anything (again).
They also released SMAC. Tricky to get it running on a modern setup, but it is possible.
Well, he didn't say "floats like a duck", but I agree. It could also quite possibly be a wooden witch ;).
- Identical hardware, or at least very close
- Identical software requirements on every server (our mailserver doesn't need X11 support but our grpahical terminal server will)
- A dedicated fileserver for all those packages. Theoretically, not difficult, but it does mean yet another server in the datacentre, or at least a harddrive in one of our other servers, hosting up via NFS or http.
All that being said, binary distros don't really have many advantages to the situation either. In fact, for a binary distro, if I want apache and php, and php relies on X11, then I guess I'm stuck with X11 on our webserver, even though we'll never use it.Disclaimer: All software in this comment was used simply as an example and may or may not represent the actual setup we have at work. It also may or may not have the dependencies I say it has.
If you had actually read my comment, I said:
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I suppose there are those nifty new binary package servers,
I KNOW. Although I guess I did fail to mention a stage 3 install with GRP, but alas, I knew about that too. All I was really trying to say was that they don't really seem to fit in with the whole point of gentoo though, which is selective dependencies via USE flags, and maybe some optimizations (trolls read: you can optimize without being a riceboy). You can't do that with binaries (unless your mirror has a million copies of every package, with different settings; which isn't going to happen), so gentoo/binary just turns out like debian (for example) which requires the installation of every dep even if you're never going to use that particular functionality. If you're going to end up using a binary distribution, and you want it to be free (in either sense of the word), then perhaps you should just use debian or BSD instead (or, or, or...).
Gentoo was made for installing or at the very least maintaining by source, and although it is feasable to run a gentoo system with only packages installed from binaries, it isn't what the system was designed for, and therefore doesn't have any particular advantage over any other binary distro.
Okay, for a second, pretend you are a PHB (I know, it is hard). Do you want Gentoo (Huh? What's that? It is free you say? What?), or do you want Solaris (The incredibly stable, highly secure, Unix made by our good friends and reputable Internet Citizens Sun Microsystems, the genius creators of Java, the best programming langauge ever).
It is hard to step into the PHB shoes isn't it? But anyway that's your answer. If you don't have a PHB then maybe gentoo could be a viable server platform, but IMO that would still be pushing it. I use gentoo for a desktop and server at home, but I know that I wouldn't entertain the idea of such at work. Compiling from source is something I have the luxury to wait for at home, but work is a different story. I suppose there are those nifty new binary package servers, but I haven't investigated how they fit in with the rest of portage (mainly because I am satisfied with compiling from source at this point).
I'm in Canada, that likely has something to do with it.
**sigh**
I always have to wait halfway through the month for the damn magazine to arrive (I never expected a subscrition would bite me in the ass).