They adopted the proven BSD-codebase TCP/IP stack for use in Windows, as opposed to Linux, which rolled one of the few non BSD-derived stacks into the kernel because Linus didn't like the Berkeley stack for unknown reasons.
As a consequence Linux TCP/IP performance has it's own unique quirks and cranks, unlike almost any other OS in common usage on the net.
Like most other bureaucrats, he is probably highly skilled at identifying and hiring the competent staff to accomplish the task at hand. That makes him as qualified as a 'cyberterrorism expert' as your boss is qualified to do your work. Which if you work in a tech company where there are thick fat layers of middle management, means he's probably damn good at creating GANTT charts, but not a lot more.
He's saying that his DSL-connected home PC usually runs the newest Apache binary, since whenever he feels bored and tweaky he goes to the apache.org website and downloads, compiles, and installs the latest source tarball. (usually twice a week, he's unemployed [still in High School])
Career bureaucrats are the moss that grow on the slower-moving parts of government.
One doesn't have to choose to like either politicians or bureaucrats. One can like neither. One can also like the few politicians who smack bureaucrats around and/or campaign to get bunches of them out looking for REAL jobs.
I'm not so certain Linux wouldn't fork into a whole balkan state full of different versions if Linus was 'hit by a truck.'
There are already a lot of corporate entities using the Linux codebase in wide and varying ways. And Linus is a central force in holding it all together.
Consensus isn't some magic process that people naturally converge toward. Linus is a catalyst.
I have a bunch of binaries in my C:\utilties directory on my Windows 2000 machine that are far, far older than System 7 on the Macintosh. Hell, even the old 'applets' from Windows 3 (cardfile.exe, terminal.exe, write.exe, calendar.exe) work flawlessly on a current Windows machine.
It's a serious mistake to champion the binary compatability of any other OS to the Microsoft juggernaut. Deep, long lasting binary compatabiltiy is arguably the ONLY thing good about Windows.
Do I really want to mix 20+ explorer windows in my task bar with the other 5 active applications?
And it's so COOL when one particular instance of IE decides to explode, often taking explorer.exe itself along with it. Whoosh. All twenty+ windows disappear in a puff of greasy smoke. If you're lucky you can bring up a new explorer.exe instance from the task manager and recover.
You right click and select 'block images from this server' which clears away the junk. Works fabulously well on democraticunderground discussion threads, where people SPAM the forum with graphics.
And the plus-side is that it's a cross-site way of blocking image spam. Anybody in the future who links image spam from the site will be blocked, too.
(I very seldom miss the various bitmaps hosted on images.slashdot.org )
The number of mice in my garage, however, would feed all six of our cats for awhile.
I live surrounded by hundreds of acres of cornfields. Where do you think all those mice head when the weather gets cold? They have even peed on some of the PC hardware I have to store in the garage (lowgrade PeeCee stuff only).
Our cats have not been told to 'fend for themselves.' Nor do I release them mercilessly on the songbirds, mind you. There's a nice catbird that hangs out around the house (catbirds are mimic-fiends, you never know WHAT you're going to hear it sounding like) and it's not to become catfood if I have any say.
I'm not attacking anyone. I'm pointing out that the grandparent does not deserve "informative" mod due to the fact that he's not giving any kind of evidence for his words.
And you're posting what you have to say with your 'No Karma Bonus' box not checked off.
For a scholarly look at this issue read Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky's...
I will just post a parallel comment, to point out that Chomsky is an expert in the field of Linguistics, and thus his non-linguistic works are not 'scholarly' but, rather, are polemical.
I'm posting this because the 'other' main reply seems to have turned into a redbaiting/reaction-to-redbaiting thread.
Chomsky simply isn't a qualified expert outside the field of linquistic. Just a verbose idealogue. He leverages his knowledge of rhetoric quite well.
Indeed. Who are we to say that our open-minded attitude about freedom of expression is right for the rest of the world? It's almost as if freedom was a universal human right or something.
And for goodness sakes, if you can't detect the sarcasm in above, please THINK about it awhile.
My inability to sell my copy of Office on eBay was a legal matter between myself and Microsoft. eBay was the big burly intermediary who would have sided with the big bruiser if I had pushed matters. I didn't have the 'licence card' portion of the Office 2000 package (it's still here somewhere). I couldn't transfer the CD and CD-key without said license card.
Selling Office for $10 on the street corner is a peculiar way of doing business. Not an uncommon practice, but I wouldn't use it as an example of the legitimate transfer of a software license.
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They adopted the proven BSD-codebase TCP/IP stack for use in Windows, as opposed to Linux, which rolled one of the few non BSD-derived stacks into the kernel because Linus didn't like the Berkeley stack for unknown reasons.
As a consequence Linux TCP/IP performance has it's own unique quirks and cranks, unlike almost any other OS in common usage on the net.
Like most other bureaucrats, he is probably highly skilled at identifying and hiring the competent staff to accomplish the task at hand. That makes him as qualified as a 'cyberterrorism expert' as your boss is qualified to do your work. Which if you work in a tech company where there are thick fat layers of middle management, means he's probably damn good at creating GANTT charts, but not a lot more.
He's saying that his DSL-connected home PC usually runs the newest Apache binary, since whenever he feels bored and tweaky he goes to the apache.org website and downloads, compiles, and installs the latest source tarball. (usually twice a week, he's unemployed [still in High School])
Career bureaucrats are the moss that grow on the slower-moving parts of government.
One doesn't have to choose to like either politicians or bureaucrats. One can like neither. One can also like the few politicians who smack bureaucrats around and/or campaign to get bunches of them out looking for REAL jobs.
Especially since you're so obviously a Troll.
The guy who posted a comment advocating the death penalty for masturbation calls somebody else a troll?
Flamebait? Damn. What about people who want to read news on a terminal? I don't think the Google Groups interface will work properly in Lynx.
I'm sorry. It's not a solution.
I'm not so certain Linux wouldn't fork into a whole balkan state full of different versions if Linus was 'hit by a truck.'
There are already a lot of corporate entities using the Linux codebase in wide and varying ways. And Linus is a central force in holding it all together.
Consensus isn't some magic process that people naturally converge toward. Linus is a catalyst.
I have a bunch of binaries in my C:\utilties directory on my Windows 2000 machine that are far, far older than System 7 on the Macintosh. Hell, even the old 'applets' from Windows 3 (cardfile.exe, terminal.exe, write.exe, calendar.exe) work flawlessly on a current Windows machine.
It's a serious mistake to champion the binary compatability of any other OS to the Microsoft juggernaut. Deep, long lasting binary compatabiltiy is arguably the ONLY thing good about Windows.
Do I really want to mix 20+ explorer windows in my task bar with the other 5 active applications?
And it's so COOL when one particular instance of IE decides to explode, often taking explorer.exe itself along with it. Whoosh. All twenty+ windows disappear in a puff of greasy smoke. If you're lucky you can bring up a new explorer.exe instance from the task manager and recover.
I get my 'tabs' in taskbar if I opened multiple windows. Same thing, different location.
There's no 'taskbar' on the machine that is my favorite to browse online with (Mozilla on NetBSD on FVWM).
Well, I suppose there *could* be one, there's suchlike stuff embedded in FVWM if you dig. But certainly not on MY desktop.
everyone else had them BEFORE Microsoft.
Lynx doesn't have tabs. Except for the tab key to navigate around the URLs on a page, of course.
I remember, nostalgically, the days when one of the advertised features of Opera was 'the whole download fits on a single floppy diskette.'
That day is gone forever. It's as bloated and eyecandy ridden as the rest of them now.
And then you'll be able to say you never got further than the lobby into many interesting companies developing cool tech.
X11 had Tab (the Tab Window Manager) before many current users of X were even born.
You right click and select 'block images from this server' which clears away the junk. Works fabulously well on democraticunderground discussion threads, where people SPAM the forum with graphics.
And the plus-side is that it's a cross-site way of blocking image spam. Anybody in the future who links image spam from the site will be blocked, too.
(I very seldom miss the various bitmaps hosted on images.slashdot.org )
The number of mice in my garage, however, would feed all six of our cats for awhile.
I live surrounded by hundreds of acres of cornfields. Where do you think all those mice head when the weather gets cold? They have even peed on some of the PC hardware I have to store in the garage (lowgrade PeeCee stuff only).
Our cats have not been told to 'fend for themselves.' Nor do I release them mercilessly on the songbirds, mind you. There's a nice catbird that hangs out around the house (catbirds are mimic-fiends, you never know WHAT you're going to hear it sounding like) and it's not to become catfood if I have any say.
for text usenet group access, Google Groups is fine.
Okay, then. What's the name of their NNTP server. Will I need a logon to post?
Don't feed me their pretty 'web' interface. It's gotten more and more a convoluted mess over the years since DejaNews started.
Mice are not 'native wildlife' when in the pantry chewing holes in the bottom of bags of grain and rice.
Communism is thoroughly dead in China. The current ruling gang apparently doesn't even give it lip service any more.
Right on the front page of the main official Chinese Newspaper website, People's Daily, you can find links clearly defining a socialist doctorine.
Down in the lower left corner you can find a link to Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping.
In the same area on the page you'll find a link to documents about the Communist Party and State Organs.
Perhaps the CP of China isn't the strictly Stalinist regime it once was. It hasn't ceased being a Communist Party, nor has it relinquished power.
And it's not better, either.
I'm not attacking anyone. I'm pointing out that the grandparent does not deserve "informative" mod due to the fact that he's not giving any kind of evidence for his words.
And you're posting what you have to say with your 'No Karma Bonus' box not checked off.
Hmmmm...
For a scholarly look at this issue read Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky's...
I will just post a parallel comment, to point out that Chomsky is an expert in the field of Linguistics, and thus his non-linguistic works are not 'scholarly' but, rather, are polemical.
I'm posting this because the 'other' main reply seems to have turned into a redbaiting/reaction-to-redbaiting thread.
Chomsky simply isn't a qualified expert outside the field of linquistic. Just a verbose idealogue. He leverages his knowledge of rhetoric quite well.
Indeed. Who are we to say that our open-minded attitude about freedom of expression is right for the rest of the world? It's almost as if freedom was a universal human right or something.
And for goodness sakes, if you can't detect the sarcasm in above, please THINK about it awhile.
Yes, this discussion has been a mistake.
My inability to sell my copy of Office on eBay was a legal matter between myself and Microsoft. eBay was the big burly intermediary who would have sided with the big bruiser if I had pushed matters. I didn't have the 'licence card' portion of the Office 2000 package (it's still here somewhere). I couldn't transfer the CD and CD-key without said license card.
Selling Office for $10 on the street corner is a peculiar way of doing business. Not an uncommon practice, but I wouldn't use it as an example of the legitimate transfer of a software license.