Funny thing about your comment. Please, review with me.
A) This is slashdot, aka linuxfest.
B) You just suggested that they have yet to hit their 1.0 milestone
Then..
C) You say, and I quote, "from the way my XP machine"
*blink*
So. Is there any reason that you're using the pre-1.0 milestone?;)
They actually DID start with the serious port 25tcp filtering a while back. They did it in phases. They first tested it on a small range of hosts (100ish). The next wave was simply massive, and after that, my friend who worked in their call center quit:P
I'm not sure how they determine if the host is a bot or not, but I've still got full SMTP...(legit mailserver:P)
I was about 4 when I was introduced to a computer. I spent the next several years of my life learning QBasic, tho...but let's not get caught up on stupidities, shall we?;)
I call bullcrap. This IS slashdot, and likewise it's rare to see a "Windows Geek" get posted here.
Slashdot is also a serious minority. Compare the number of shashdotters to the number of people running windows 98 (at home). We're nothing in number. Consequently, go look at Channel 9. *Tons* of windows geeks. And suprise, some of them just may be worth listening too.
I'm not expecting too many people to care, but there ARE intilligent people who use windows. Justin Frankel just managed/. posting "about him", which is uncommon.
I do just a little bit more work. I install them as/usr/local/packagename/packageversion, and symlink the version I want to use to/usr/local/packagename/current.
Concerning the "someone find this man a package manager" comment below, realize this: he has a package mangager. Himself. Heck, I'd even argue that his method is many, many times more useful any package manager: he has *complete* control over every app he install, over every lib it compiles with, and then to top it off, he has complete dang-near-instant rollback/rollforward support.
I've got a nice script, that recurses through/usr/local/*/current/bin, and them symlinks them (and whatever else I want to (man pages, updates/etc/ld.so.conf)) to a place in my path for me. Do you see any major issue with this? I can still type 'smbd' as I would if it was installed "normally", and I don't have a mass of symlinks in hundreds of places.
Package managers have their places. However, for him (and me), this is just plain easier, and nicer. Not to mention it doesn't clutter the/usr/bin, and such directories.
Cable modems (using coax), due to the nature of coax, the more up you send, the less down you can recieve. iirc it's more of a technology limitation than most other things.
On most any computer, you have an audio out jack, and a microphone (or line in jack).
What's to stop someone from playing the CD, only with a cable connecting the out to the in, and pressing record/play...?
What's to stop someone from making an audio "device" that simply writes everything it gets to disk...?
Granted, you'll have a generic "loss of quality", but as long as you're playing from the CD, in theory the loss is no more or less than an encode directly from the CD (if using the device driver method, the audio cable may/may not kill some quality).
I'm just waiting for an automated program that'll do this...it completly removes all forms of DRM, it would remove the iTunes user ID, it would remove everything BUT the audio.
What a concept, huh? A friend of mine, after I told him this (that I've been contemplating for years), said, "but..that's like cheating!"
Who cares? It works.
As long as it can be heard (or seen), it can be re-recoreded at near identical quality.
And you're posting saying that people WON'T be interested in something like a robotics competition? I know at my high school at least (which I'm currently attending), given the funds the entire tech lab "poplulation" would LOVE a robotics contest. Note that tech lab is roughly 40 students per period, 8 periods a day, per 2 teachers. Do the math yourself, just note that a grand MANY students would love the idea. "High technology" in the average US public school would be welcomed open-armed, imho.
Good job not RTFA'ing people. If you'll note, he was on an AMD64, and in this release, they switch to a diff compiler, gcc 3.4. I know that it has the same software, so quit telling me that.
A different compiler though for a stage one might actually mean something:P
After searching a bit, I can't find the netcraft page that lists which apache version (1 or 2) the % of sites are using...but for some reason I remember apache2 being actually *used*.
Hence why it's default now on a grand many distros...and many many others...
(Chances of you being right about it being more of a security risk? Depends on your view, namely the time it's been out vs. the time apache1 has been out. But hey, why not at least post proof with your post compared to just stating such things blindly?)
I'm sorry, but that's like a troll at it's finest. Granted, SOME pages have issues, but I have yet to find a PHP doc page where if the actal 'documenation' was insufficient, the users didn't comment/correct/fix.
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Funny thing about your comment. Please, review with me.
;)
A) This is slashdot, aka linuxfest.
B) You just suggested that they have yet to hit their 1.0 milestone
Then..
C) You say, and I quote, "from the way my XP machine"
*blink*
So. Is there any reason that you're using the pre-1.0 milestone?
I believe I speak for everyone when I say..
.
"That explains SO much."
"All I can say is WOW." very...apt statment.
"Apparently, there was a big demand for integrating 'LOTUS 1-2-3 with Miami Vice.'" no crap? I mean....whoa!
"$500 dollars? $1000 dollars?" . .
You're right. I can no longer say that MS has no sense of humor.
Oh how I wish that was a false statment...I mean, it even goes along with the new goatse.
...up until you realize that "Bungie" != "Microsoft". I'd hardly call a 3rd party company "Microsoft's own".
They actually DID start with the serious port 25tcp filtering a while back. They did it in phases. They first tested it on a small range of hosts (100ish). The next wave was simply massive, and after that, my friend who worked in their call center quit :P
:P)
I'm not sure how they determine if the host is a bot or not, but I've still got full SMTP...(legit mailserver
Only unlike 2000, the XP drivers aren't going to be slowly phased out, same goes for 2003 drivers.
Consequently, startup times....just a slight difference.
Basically, "quit holding my hand" and "hey look uber support in the future", plus "much faster startup times."
Something tells me you need to learn how to spell.
Tiny bit of electricity. Signal reached 546.8 miles away. Likewise, with 1 watt, signal can in theory travel 13,467,980 miles.
I was about 4 when I was introduced to a computer. I spent the next several years of my life learning QBasic, tho...but let's not get caught up on stupidities, shall we? ;)
I call bullcrap. This IS slashdot, and likewise it's rare to see a "Windows Geek" get posted here.
/. posting "about him", which is uncommon.
Slashdot is also a serious minority. Compare the number of shashdotters to the number of people running windows 98 (at home). We're nothing in number. Consequently, go look at Channel 9. *Tons* of windows geeks. And suprise, some of them just may be worth listening too.
I'm not expecting too many people to care, but there ARE intilligent people who use windows. Justin Frankel just managed
(*having premonitions of insightful troll*)
I do just a little bit more work. I install them as /usr/local/packagename/packageversion, and symlink the version I want to use to /usr/local/packagename/current.
/usr/local/*/current/bin, and them symlinks them (and whatever else I want to (man pages, updates /etc/ld.so.conf)) to a place in my path for me. Do you see any major issue with this? I can still type 'smbd' as I would if it was installed "normally", and I don't have a mass of symlinks in hundreds of places.
/usr/bin, and such directories.
Concerning the "someone find this man a package manager" comment below, realize this: he has a package mangager. Himself. Heck, I'd even argue that his method is many, many times more useful any package manager: he has *complete* control over every app he install, over every lib it compiles with, and then to top it off, he has complete dang-near-instant rollback/rollforward support.
I've got a nice script, that recurses through
Package managers have their places. However, for him (and me), this is just plain easier, and nicer. Not to mention it doesn't clutter the
Cable modems (using coax), due to the nature of coax, the more up you send, the less down you can recieve. iirc it's more of a technology limitation than most other things.
"Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSes is like saying anal sex is nice because it works on all genders."
--A friend of mine, aka Orlphar
You know, there's software ways of turning off autorun. Likewise, use a different shell and autorun magically disappears.
On most any computer, you have an audio out jack, and a microphone (or line in jack).
What's to stop someone from playing the CD, only with a cable connecting the out to the in, and pressing record/play...?
What's to stop someone from making an audio "device" that simply writes everything it gets to disk...?
Granted, you'll have a generic "loss of quality", but as long as you're playing from the CD, in theory the loss is no more or less than an encode directly from the CD (if using the device driver method, the audio cable may/may not kill some quality).
I'm just waiting for an automated program that'll do this...it completly removes all forms of DRM, it would remove the iTunes user ID, it would remove everything BUT the audio.
What a concept, huh? A friend of mine, after I told him this (that I've been contemplating for years), said, "but..that's like cheating!"
Who cares? It works.
As long as it can be heard (or seen), it can be re-recoreded at near identical quality.
You're forgetting.
/.
This is
And you're posting saying that people WON'T be interested in something like a robotics competition? I know at my high school at least (which I'm currently attending), given the funds the entire tech lab "poplulation" would LOVE a robotics contest. Note that tech lab is roughly 40 students per period, 8 periods a day, per 2 teachers. Do the math yourself, just note that a grand MANY students would love the idea. "High technology" in the average US public school would be welcomed open-armed, imho.
Good job not RTFA'ing people. If you'll note, he was on an AMD64, and in this release, they switch to a diff compiler, gcc 3.4. I know that it has the same software, so quit telling me that.
:P
A different compiler though for a stage one might actually mean something
This is the second time they did this to me. Second time!
My first gentoo system, I downloaded the 1.4 release, and by the time I was done installing, THEY RELEASED 2004.0. ARGH.
Now, after helping my friend install 2004.2 on his new amd64, they release 2004.3!
Gah! He finished not moments before this was posted, and now look!
-.-
http://www.free-codecs.com/CoreVorbis_download.htm
After searching a bit, I can't find the netcraft page that lists which apache version (1 or 2) the % of sites are using...but for some reason I remember apache2 being actually *used*.
Hence why it's default now on a grand many distros...and many many others...
(Chances of you being right about it being more of a security risk? Depends on your view, namely the time it's been out vs. the time apache1 has been out. But hey, why not at least post proof with your post compared to just stating such things blindly?)
"right" is relevant. According to the PHP docs, only the recursive acronym is correct now.
"documentation"? Yes, I'm *sure* that it's all with ramblings of the programmers.
I'm sorry, but that's like a troll at it's finest. Granted, SOME pages have issues, but I have yet to find a PHP doc page where if the actal 'documenation' was insufficient, the users didn't comment/correct/fix.
Sounds enough like linux to me ;)
Yeah, but don't tell anyone here that. They might mod you troll/flaimbait for it ;)
Then it's HILARIOUS!
Random idea.
1) IBM buys out Kodak.
2) Use your imagination.