Yeah, but there are ways around a lack of seteuid and related calls that can be implemented without too much difficulty. It'd be pretty much worthless, though. The lack of real file locking capabilities pretty much ruins the show, though. That's a problem for a lot of things under cygwin. I finally got Eterm to compile and run, for example, but it's almost not worth having.
Several of my family members are lawyers, and heavily involved in patent law, specifically software patents. We recently had a discussion about the current state of IP law, and we all agreed; it's screwed up. But their hands are tied. Developers MUST protect their intellectual property or risk another party patenting the idea and forcing them out of the market.
YOu are correct, an encrypted file is indeed not random. But one should not be able to differentiate encrpyted data from random data. The presence of a pattern, no matter how trivial, would be evidence of reduced security in the algorithm.
I have generalized here to keep this post short...
While it may seem rather unfair to the schools, the law is the law, and these schools are violating it. Microsoft, for better or for worse, is in the business of making money, and this particular school system is impeding their ability to do so. The licensing terms are clear, and the school system obviously violated them. They should be held responsible, regardless of their financial situation.
This is, however, a perfect opportunity to introduce these poorer school systems to the benefits of Free Software. Unfortunately, there is very little if any OSS available that is suitable for widespread use in such an environment. Linux, Gnome, etc., are all fine and good for those of us that know what we're doing, but teaching a computer illiterate person how to use a Linux based system is far more difficult than teaching them, say, a Windows based one. Yes, the software would be free, but it isn't doing anyone any good if no one can figure out how to use it.
If MS were wise, and a little less profit hungry, they'd consider offering even ddeper discounts for public school systems. It might make for some effective positive PR, something they desperately need these days.
Try the small business section... you can have redhat preinstalled. You have to make some configuration compromises, though... no 1 GHz processors, no UXGA screens, etc.
Oh, sure. Then clip the phone to your belt and irradiate your lower abdomen. Good idea. "I may have intestinal/ovarian/testicular/spleen/ass/whatever cancer, but at least I can see!"
I agree with you there. It would be nice to see a list of the patches in some other format. I can't even examine the SRPM on my RH62 box, because the version of the RPM executable has been updated.
Actually, just update to the latest version of rpm, available in the 6.2 directory on updates.redhat.com. This will allow yo to access those new RPMs.
I'm well aware of this fact, thanks. But short of downloading the whole SRPM, it's difficult if not impossible to determine exactly which patches were added.
RH hasn't always been a stinking pile of doo-doo... 6.2 was a dman fine release.
I fully understand that RH.0 releases are typically unstable, and not suited for general use. This one was just particularly bad, and the reasons that it is bad are evident.
And yeah... the part about the source being unavailable was poorly worded, sorry about that. My biggest beef is with their kernel... what changes has RH made? Where did they come from? I'd like to see a list of these changes, and have never seen one to date.
Goodness, what world are you from? Go to their FTP site. They have these things called "source RPMs". They have instructions for installing them. When you install them, you will see not only the pristine source code for the component, but also the individual patches that they apply
to them.
Perhaps I wasn't clear. Yes, SRPMs are available. But how, for example, did RedHat get from the standard version of the kernel source to the version that they ship with their releases? Dozens of pathces have been applied, and I have as of yet been unable to locate a definitive list of what these patches are.
And as for kernel in debian... if it works, great. If it doesn't, and I can't recompile a new version to fix whatever is broken, I'll complain about debian, too.;)
Why would you EVER pay for a T1 to connect to "the building next door" when you can get a laser or microwave link for a ONE TIME COST reoughly half that of the monthly charge for your T1??? And it would be FASTER???
Suppose that MS were working on a office for linux port... where else would you go for people experienced with office suites for linux? Corel, of course...
Yeah, I made the citation up, referencing the only bit of the ohio revised code I'm familiar with... the part about landlords and renters. Handy 'cause I'm suing my landlord.;)
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The LSB should take care of most of these problems. Once everything is in a standard location across distributions, installation methods will be able ot become compatable across distros.
RPM ships with scripts that will build large parts of the dependency database for you. Yes, you'll still need to do a little tweaking after the database is built, but after a relatively short period of time tou'll be OK. Hell, I've installed RPM on IRIX and haven't had much problem with dependencies.
OTOH, for someone like me that cares about what is installed, how it is installed, where it is installed, and the overall security of my server, I have found that RPM just gets in the way and increases the frustration. I'm personally dealing with details that RPM is supposed to help me avoid dealing with, because I need to deal with them, not avoid them. RPM is definitely NOT easy for everyone.
I've heard this argument a million times before, but no one has EVER given a solid explanation as to just what in the hell they mean. Give me examples other than, "It's from RedHat, so it's underpowered and for newbies."
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Yeah, but there are ways around a lack of seteuid and related calls that can be implemented without too much difficulty. It'd be pretty much worthless, though. The lack of real file locking capabilities pretty much ruins the show, though. That's a problem for a lot of things under cygwin. I finally got Eterm to compile and run, for example, but it's almost not worth having.
Just for shits and grins, I've started compiling Samba 2.2.1a on Cygwin on a windows box... I'll let you know how it works out.
Several of my family members are lawyers, and heavily involved in patent law, specifically software patents. We recently had a discussion about the current state of IP law, and we all agreed; it's screwed up. But their hands are tied. Developers MUST protect their intellectual property or risk another party patenting the idea and forcing them out of the market.
YOu are correct, an encrypted file is indeed not random. But one should not be able to differentiate encrpyted data from random data. The presence of a pattern, no matter how trivial, would be evidence of reduced security in the algorithm.
I have generalized here to keep this post short...
Superior? Look at the benchmarks, man! RDRAM consistently falls short of DDR (or in some cases, _SDR_) SDRAM!
Just look at the benchmark results...
BandwidthGeneral Benchmark 2
General Benchmark
Exxonmobile bought BP a while ago...
While it may seem rather unfair to the schools, the law is the law, and these schools are violating it. Microsoft, for better or for worse, is in the business of making money, and this particular school system is impeding their ability to do so. The licensing terms are clear, and the school system obviously violated them. They should be held responsible, regardless of their financial situation.
This is, however, a perfect opportunity to introduce these poorer school systems to the benefits of Free Software. Unfortunately, there is very little if any OSS available that is suitable for widespread use in such an environment. Linux, Gnome, etc., are all fine and good for those of us that know what we're doing, but teaching a computer illiterate person how to use a Linux based system is far more difficult than teaching them, say, a Windows based one. Yes, the software would be free, but it isn't doing anyone any good if no one can figure out how to use it.
If MS were wise, and a little less profit hungry, they'd consider offering even ddeper discounts for public school systems. It might make for some effective positive PR, something they desperately need these days.
Ooops... $3500 includes a wireless card and base station, as well.
Actually, the inspiron 8000 configured to that spec comes to over $3500 if you include the 3 year completecare service.
Try the small business section... you can have redhat preinstalled. You have to make some configuration compromises, though... no 1 GHz processors, no UXGA screens, etc.
Oh, sure. Then clip the phone to your belt and irradiate your lower abdomen. Good idea. "I may have intestinal/ovarian/testicular/spleen/ass/whatever cancer, but at least I can see!"
Die slowly, cut into a thousand pieces.
Two words : Screen Saver
Actually, just update to the latest version of rpm, available in the 6.2 directory on updates.redhat.com. This will allow yo to access those new RPMs.
I'm well aware of this fact, thanks. But short of downloading the whole SRPM, it's difficult if not impossible to determine exactly which patches were added.
RH hasn't always been a stinking pile of doo-doo... 6.2 was a dman fine release.
.0 releases are typically unstable, and not suited for general use. This one was just particularly bad, and the reasons that it is bad are evident.
I fully understand that RH
And yeah... the part about the source being unavailable was poorly worded, sorry about that. My biggest beef is with their kernel... what changes has RH made? Where did they come from? I'd like to see a list of these changes, and have never seen one to date.
Why would you EVER pay for a T1 to connect to "the building next door" when you can get a laser or microwave link for a ONE TIME COST reoughly half that of the monthly charge for your T1??? And it would be FASTER???
Suppose that MS were working on a office for linux port... where else would you go for people experienced with office suites for linux? Corel, of course...
Yeah, I made the citation up, referencing the only bit of the ohio revised code I'm familiar with... the part about landlords and renters. Handy 'cause I'm suing my landlord. ;)
To whom it may concern,
Our clients, the slashdot communicty, have recently made it clear to us that your firm has been partcipating in an unjustified harassment campaign against developers of open source CueCat software on behalf of your client, Digital Convergance. Despite repeated requests for clarification from the recipients of your requests, your firm has seen fit to persist with its harassment of developers working on legitimate hardware and software development.
This letter is being provided to inform you that persuant to section 53, paragraph 12 of the State of Ohio Revised code, you are hereby ordered to cease and desist all actions against the forementioned developers until such time as a complete list of specific grievances can be included with your request. Failure to comply will result in the filing of a civil lawsuit against your firm, digital convergance, and its partners.
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Will that do?
The LSB should take care of most of these problems. Once everything is in a standard location across distributions, installation methods will be able ot become compatable across distros.
RPM ships with scripts that will build large parts of the dependency database for you. Yes, you'll still need to do a little tweaking after the database is built, but after a relatively short period of time tou'll be OK. Hell, I've installed RPM on IRIX and haven't had much problem with dependencies.
It did.