"Chromium, after all, is a Linux-based OS entering the smartbook/netbook market at a time when the product segment is already being well served by a variety of Linux distros, XP, and Windows 7."
Remember when Google entered the search engine space? It was being well served by Yahoo, Dogpile, MSN, Excite and a bunch of other search engine vendors... I mean really, how could they improve internet searching?
While I'm a firm believer in checklists, I have my doubts about the study. It sounds to me like this might have been conducted by a guy who has a bias toward having checklists (which I do too).
It'd be difficult to measure how many lives were saved by the checklist (as opposed to other factors). I bet he looked at the deaths, and then looked for mistakes in procedures (that could have been avoided with a checklist).
But there are some serious issues with this methodology. Were these patients going to die of something else? Would the checklist have prevented the mistake? And how many patients inadvertently lived due to mistakes that would have died, had checklist procedures been followed?
This message was posted in Slashdot tradition - without reading the article.
If using checklists saved even a *single* life, isn't it worth it?
Maybe he's not playing games and using it for work, like me.
I have a Sager 5690, high end laptop that I bought almost two years ago (from http://www.discountlaptops.com/ highly recommended!), and I use it for development work. It's loaded and great for heavy development, and when I need to go into the office (or to a client's site), I just pack it up and bring it with me. I got it with a P4 3.2, 2GB ram, high resolution display, *2* years ago, for about $2500. It was a no-brainer for me. I'm still using it for work to this day, and it still out performs most other laptops on the market. Granted, it weighs like 8 pounds and isn't for a lot of travel, but it's perfect for my needs.
> Some teachers and school administrators were pretty insecure, petty people who liked to use > their positions to bully students.
Unfortunately, this isn't limited to some teachers. It's also *some* cops, *some* politicians, *some* managers, etc. It pretty much happens anywhere people are placed in power. There's going to be some people that seek power just because of their own insecurities, and then proceed to abuse that power.
Sorry... I didn't mean that the first post was stupid, I ment that my post was stupid...I thought I was first post! sorry..... go ahead and mod that as a troll, sorry about that, was an honest mistake. I suck!
I bought my laptop (A Sager 5690 - model no longer sold on their site) from http://www.discountlaptops.com/, and I couldn't be happer with it. No operating system, great value, and excellent customer service. I also paid about $1,000 less for my laptop than I would have paid if I bought it from Dell (P4 w/hyperthreading, 2GB ram, 1400x1050 LCD, over a year ago). If you don't believe me read their buyer ratings at the bottom of their web site. I actually had to return my laptop for repairs because of a faulty motherboard, and they paid for all the shipping and had my laptop back to me in a few days. The owner of the company emailed me several times before I bought the laptop and answered questions I had about it (like what ethernet chip it had), and made *objective* suggestions about which laptop I should buy. The owner also contacted me several times during my warranty work episode and I felt extremely comfortable that he was making sure that I was well taken care of by Sager. (Sager and Chembook are two of the main manufacturers that they sell on their site. These are the companies that sell to places like Alienware, Hypersonic PC, Pro-star, Voodoo PC and many others. I'm running Ubuntu Hoary on it now, and have not had any problems at all. Before this I ran Fedora Core 2 and 3 with no problems (save the faulty motherboard).
I can't recommend discountlaptops.com enough. I don't work for them or anything like that, I am just a happy, happy customer. You can bet my next laptop will be from them as well.
I've been using Ubuntu since it's first public preview release a few weeks ago. It's based on Debian unstable. If you are looking for a distribution based on Debian that's easy to install, solid, and Gnome based, check out Ubuntu. And yes, you can install K3B if you want to. You've got access to all the Debian unstable packages, but they are the Ubuntu repostories, which are a snapshot of the Debian repositories. You should not mix the main Debian repositories with the Ubuntu repositories.
The company that sponsors it employs several Debian developers, which is a good thing. The distribution *just works*, and is a true pleasure to use.
Yes, it's another Debian-based distribution. But this one is truly different than the others. I suggest that you check it out if you're at all curious about it.
The mailing lists have been exceptionally helpful with all the problems that have been posted, and everyone on the lists are very friendly and courteous. I feel like this is going to be one of the best distributions out there.
If you are sick of all the new distributions out there, that's fine, don't check out Ubuntu. But I'm telling you, from my experience, it may be your loss.
You can find out more about Ubuntu at http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
since it's already getting slashdotted... ----------- Posted by dave on Feb 11, 2004 2:55 PM By Dave Whitinger
In 1999, I editorialized that the browser was the battleground that would win or lose us the whole thing. 4 years later, it is time to update the article with a slightly more optimistic view.
On November 5th, 1999 I wrote an essay to the community titled The Battle That Could Lose Us The War. In that essay I described my mounting frustration over the losing battle we were fighting in the area of web browsers. My conclusion was that if Microsoft was able to dominate the web on the desktop, it would be a short matter of time before they could extend and dominate the web on the server. I knew that Mozilla was our last and only hope for winning this.
In the years since then, despite enormous and sundry pressures against them, the Mozilla project has moved forward at a remarkable pace. They somehow rebounded from each major setback even stronger. Milestones were passed, 1.0 came and went, and the layout engine Gecko started to pick up speed and became used in a variety of applications, including Galeon and Netscape 6 and 7. When AOL finally turned the developers loose, they responded by apparantly doubling their efforts and moving even faster and smarter. Whether you like Mozilla or not, their persistence is an inspiration to the entire Free Software community.
So much progress has been made, in fact, that today, more than four years since my gloomy outlook was keyed, with unspeakable pleasure I am now in a position to report that this tide has finally turned. The Gecko layout engine seems unbreakable and is reportedly more standards compliant than Internet Explorer. The Firefox browser is fast and stable, and supports the plugins out there that the users want and need, and, for the first time in several years, my wife is actually excited about her Linux desktop again. For the first time since Internet Explorer 3.0 was released, I am seeing people switching browsers in droves.
Furthermore, we now have the same browser as the Windows users. By making sure that my web pages look good in Firefox, I can be sure that it will look similarly in Firefox for Windows. Speaking of Windows, many of the Windows folks that I know, including those computer newbies that still think the "internet" is in their "Internet Explorer icon", have already made the switch to Firefox. Joe-User is excited about Firefox, and this means fast adoption of this browser in all computing circles.
Not only is Mozilla/Firefox a superior product, but it is built in the best traditions of quality software: simple, extensible and free (libre). The extensions support in Firefox is simply genius and will continue to create an entire industry of software products to enhance and customize the browser for individuals.
At the risk of fostering an attitude of complacency, I must say that the Mozilla project has breathed new life into the web, and as a side-effect, into the Linux desktop. The war is still far from over, but the tide of this crucial battle has most definitely turned. Things have never looked brighter for Linux (as a server, and a desktop), nor for the computing community as a whole, as a direct result of the tireless and outstanding work of the Mozilla developers. Well met!
Oh, I absolutely agree. If the kernel was compromised it would be a very bad thing. Putting in a digital signature for the bridge between CVS and BitKeeper is a really good idea.
Just in the interest of full details, BitKeeper was NOT compromised. The CVS bridge to BitKeeper was the software that was compromised. BitKeeper caught the problem and did not let the back door into the kernel source tree.
I am at a company that does exactly the same thing. It's really hard to get certain types of work done. I can't even access a remote CVS repository to download updated versions of software...
===BEGIN=== From "Stefan Bodewig" Subject [ANN] Apache Ant 1.5.4 has been released Date Wed, August 13, 2003 12:21 am To e.org,announce@apache.org,announce@jakarta.apache. org,announce@xml.apache.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
Apache Ant 1.5.4 is a minor bugfix release that adresses problems in two domains:
(1) With JDK 1.4.2 Sun has changed the entry point for javah, therefore Ant 1.5.3's task doesn't work on JDK 1.4.2 anymore.
(2) The Visual Age for Java tasks had some major flaws.
If you don't use Visual Age for Java or , there is no reason to upgrade from Ant 1.5.3.
Note that Ant 1.5.4 is the last release that supports JDK 1.1 at runtime. The next major release of Ant, Ant 1.6, will require JDK 1.2 or later to run. Compiling for a 1.1 target JVM will still be possible with Ant 1.6.
You can download Ant as binary distribution from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi or as source distribution from http://ant.apache.org/srcdownload.cgi.
Slashdot Mirror
"Chromium, after all, is a Linux-based OS entering the smartbook/netbook market at a time when the product segment is already being well served by a variety of Linux distros, XP, and Windows 7."
Remember when Google entered the search engine space? It was being well served by Yahoo, Dogpile, MSN, Excite and a bunch of other search engine vendors... I mean really, how could they improve internet searching?
> Each mail was in a random mix of upper and
> lower cases, unformatted and written in
> strange language.
Sounds like typical l33t speak. Maybe she turns into a hacker in her sleep? :)
While I'm a firm believer in checklists, I have my doubts about the study. It sounds to me like this might have been conducted by a guy who has a bias toward having checklists (which I do too).
It'd be difficult to measure how many lives were saved by the checklist (as opposed to other factors). I bet he looked at the deaths, and then looked for mistakes in procedures (that could have been avoided with a checklist).
But there are some serious issues with this methodology. Were these patients going to die of something else? Would the checklist have prevented the mistake? And how many patients inadvertently lived due to mistakes that would have died, had checklist procedures been followed?
This message was posted in Slashdot tradition - without reading the article.
If using checklists saved even a *single* life, isn't it worth it?
You know that, and I know that.
Can you please tell my boss that?
451 comments so far, that's what. :)
:)
er...make that 452.
Maybe he's not playing games and using it for work, like me.
I have a Sager 5690, high end laptop that I bought almost two years ago (from http://www.discountlaptops.com/ highly recommended!), and I use it for development work. It's loaded and great for heavy development, and when I need to go into the office (or to a client's site), I just pack it up and bring it with me. I got it with a P4 3.2, 2GB ram, high resolution display, *2* years ago, for about $2500. It was a no-brainer for me. I'm still using it for work to this day, and it still out performs most other laptops on the market. Granted, it weighs like 8 pounds and isn't for a lot of travel, but it's perfect for my needs.
Take care,
-Frank
> Some teachers and school administrators were pretty insecure, petty people who liked to use
:)
> their positions to bully students.
Unfortunately, this isn't limited to some teachers. It's also *some* cops, *some* politicians, *some* managers, etc. It pretty much happens anywhere people are placed in power. There's going to be some people that seek power just because of their own insecurities, and then proceed to abuse that power.
OK, so maybe it's *most* politicians!
Take care,
-Frank
It's true!
:)
I have officially been double-burned, and I deserve it!
Sorry... I didn't mean that the first post was stupid, I ment that my post was stupid...I thought I was first post! sorry..... go ahead and mod that as a troll, sorry about that, was an honest mistake. I suck!
but it's ALL MINE BABY! ;)
Thanks! This torrent is *flying* for me.
My dsl is maxed out at 135KB/sec!
-Frank
I bought my laptop (A Sager 5690 - model no longer sold on their site) from http://www.discountlaptops.com/, and I couldn't be happer with it. No operating system, great value, and excellent customer service. I also paid about $1,000 less for my laptop than I would have paid if I bought it from Dell (P4 w/hyperthreading, 2GB ram, 1400x1050 LCD, over a year ago). If you don't believe me read their buyer ratings at the bottom of their web site. I actually had to return my laptop for repairs because of a faulty motherboard, and they paid for all the shipping and had my laptop back to me in a few days. The owner of the company emailed me several times before I bought the laptop and answered questions I had about it (like what ethernet chip it had), and made *objective* suggestions about which laptop I should buy. The owner also contacted me several times during my warranty work episode and I felt extremely comfortable that he was making sure that I was well taken care of by Sager. (Sager and Chembook are two of the main manufacturers that they sell on their site. These are the companies that sell to places like Alienware, Hypersonic PC, Pro-star, Voodoo PC and many others. I'm running Ubuntu Hoary on it now, and have not had any problems at all. Before this I ran Fedora Core 2 and 3 with no problems (save the faulty motherboard).
I can't recommend discountlaptops.com enough. I don't work for them or anything like that, I am just a happy, happy customer. You can bet my next laptop will be from them as well.
baby
The site is suspended.
sorry about that link...
here....
-Frank
They actually specifically answered that question here:
n /f aq/userlinux :)
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentatio
-Frank
sorry about my sloppy .sig above! :)
-Frank
I've been using Ubuntu since it's first public preview release a few weeks ago. It's based on Debian unstable. If you are looking for a distribution based on Debian that's easy to install, solid, and Gnome based, check out Ubuntu. And yes, you can install K3B if you want to. You've got access to all the Debian unstable packages, but they are the Ubuntu repostories, which are a snapshot of the Debian repositories. You should not mix the main Debian repositories with the Ubuntu repositories.
The company that sponsors it employs several Debian developers, which is a good thing. The distribution *just works*, and is a true pleasure to use.
Yes, it's another Debian-based distribution. But this one is truly different than the others. I suggest that you check it out if you're at all curious about it.
The mailing lists have been exceptionally helpful with all the problems that have been posted, and everyone on the lists are very friendly and courteous. I feel like this is going to be one of the best distributions out there.
If you are sick of all the new distributions out there, that's fine, don't check out Ubuntu. But I'm telling you, from my experience, it may be your loss.
You can find out more about Ubuntu at http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
since it's already getting slashdotted...
-----------
Posted by dave on Feb 11, 2004 2:55 PM
By Dave Whitinger
In 1999, I editorialized that the browser was the battleground that would win or lose us the whole thing. 4 years later, it is time to update the article with a slightly more optimistic view.
On November 5th, 1999 I wrote an essay to the community titled The Battle That Could Lose Us The War. In that essay I described my mounting frustration over the losing battle we were fighting in the area of web browsers. My conclusion was that if Microsoft was able to dominate the web on the desktop, it would be a short matter of time before they could extend and dominate the web on the server. I knew that Mozilla was our last and only hope for winning this.
In the years since then, despite enormous and sundry pressures against them, the Mozilla project has moved forward at a remarkable pace. They somehow rebounded from each major setback even stronger. Milestones were passed, 1.0 came and went, and the layout engine Gecko started to pick up speed and became used in a variety of applications, including Galeon and Netscape 6 and 7. When AOL finally turned the developers loose, they responded by apparantly doubling their efforts and moving even faster and smarter. Whether you like Mozilla or not, their persistence is an inspiration to the entire Free Software community.
So much progress has been made, in fact, that today, more than four years since my gloomy outlook was keyed, with unspeakable pleasure I am now in a position to report that this tide has finally turned. The Gecko layout engine seems unbreakable and is reportedly more standards compliant than Internet Explorer. The Firefox browser is fast and stable, and supports the plugins out there that the users want and need, and, for the first time in several years, my wife is actually excited about her Linux desktop again. For the first time since Internet Explorer 3.0 was released, I am seeing people switching browsers in droves.
Furthermore, we now have the same browser as the Windows users. By making sure that my web pages look good in Firefox, I can be sure that it will look similarly in Firefox for Windows. Speaking of Windows, many of the Windows folks that I know, including those computer newbies that still think the "internet" is in their "Internet Explorer icon", have already made the switch to Firefox. Joe-User is excited about Firefox, and this means fast adoption of this browser in all computing circles.
Not only is Mozilla/Firefox a superior product, but it is built in the best traditions of quality software: simple, extensible and free (libre). The extensions support in Firefox is simply genius and will continue to create an entire industry of software products to enhance and customize the browser for individuals.
At the risk of fostering an attitude of complacency, I must say that the Mozilla project has breathed new life into the web, and as a side-effect, into the Linux desktop. The war is still far from over, but the tide of this crucial battle has most definitely turned. Things have never looked brighter for Linux (as a server, and a desktop), nor for the computing community as a whole, as a direct result of the tireless and outstanding work of the Mozilla developers. Well met!
--------
Oh, I absolutely agree. If the kernel was compromised it would be a very bad thing. Putting in a digital signature for the bridge between CVS and BitKeeper is a really good idea.
-Frank
Just in the interest of full details, BitKeeper was NOT compromised. The CVS bridge to BitKeeper was the software that was compromised. BitKeeper caught the problem and did not let the back door into the kernel source tree.
Thanks!!!
:)
I will do this as soon as I get my satellite connection. Right now I am on a dial-up, and the outgoing speed at home is horrific!!!
This is really helpful, and soon I will be able to use it at work. Thanks again!
-Frank
I am at a company that does exactly the same thing.
It's really hard to get certain types of work done. I can't even access a remote CVS repository to download updated versions of software...
===BEGIN===. org,announce@xml.apache.org
From "Stefan Bodewig"
Subject [ANN] Apache Ant 1.5.4 has been released
Date Wed, August 13, 2003 12:21 am
To e.org,announce@apache.org,announce@jakarta.apache
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Apache Ant 1.5.4 is a minor bugfix release that adresses problems in
two domains:
(1) With JDK 1.4.2 Sun has changed the entry point for javah,
therefore Ant 1.5.3's task doesn't work on JDK 1.4.2 anymore.
(2) The Visual Age for Java tasks had some major flaws.
If you don't use Visual Age for Java or , there is no reason to
upgrade from Ant 1.5.3.
Note that Ant 1.5.4 is the last release that supports JDK 1.1 at
runtime. The next major release of Ant, Ant 1.6, will require JDK 1.2
or later to run. Compiling for a 1.1 target JVM will still be
possible with Ant 1.6.
You can download Ant as binary distribution from
http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi or as source distribution from
http://ant.apache.org/srcdownload.cgi.
Thank you for using Ant.
The Apache Ant Project
=== END ===
FYI, This software only runs on Windows. No downloads for GNU/Linux or OS X. Guess I'm outta luck...