Well, the fun of using the Firefox Trunk nightly builds is that I get a 200k patch each day that addresses the actual files that were updated. I guess it's harder to test the auto-update on milestones as they don't happen often enough to test them well.
They must've been running FreeBSD 5. Then again, I've had some bad experiences with FreeBSD 4 with large loads of users. I rebuilt from the ground up a system to try and work with the users with minimal load, and at this point a lot of performance gains seem to be overkill to your typical webmaster, but after having the fun of thousands of users on a single FreeBSD 4 server, I can safely say that it was quite good with performance.
The order is different. After linux.com, redhat.com comes in MSN while kernel.org comes in Google. Besides, you know as well as I do that linux.org, linux.com, redhat.com, debian.org, kernel.org, gentoo.org, ubuntu.com, etc., are all the top-known sites regarding Linux, so of course those should be the top results.
I'm using the Firefox trunk, so support for Windows Live might actually be better (or far superior) than in Firefox 1.0.x. Hell, I'm also wondering what they need to do to support Firefox at this point on their site as it seems to work fine other than maybe a couple layout-related glitches.
Sorry to spoil your fun, but "intro to CompSci" is just as helpful as having MS lawyers try to teach you about computer science. I'm pretty sure that learning how to make an OOP class in C++ or Java isn't going to teach you nearly enough to be "computer literate".
Scary as it is, Microsoft and other large software companies have patented software ideas and algorithms in order to make sure that no other company would go and patent the same idea and use it against them. Now they wouldn't have to waste the time and money in patenting algorithms (i.e. math equations, those of which aren't patentable anyways) if nobody patented them in the first place. It's usually a self-defence situation when patenting software, but when the company seeks out to use its patents to destroy "infringers" (see: SCO vs. Linux and IBM), that's where the problem lies. Yes, patenting software shouldn't even be a possibility, but while it is, companies need to legally defend themselves, but when they go and take the offence using their patents, that's when it becomes obvious to more than just us/. geeks that the idea of patenting software is ridiculous.
I too would like to point out that the stereotype is inaccurate! My mother lives in my basement....well, I do also live in an upside-down house, so who knows.
Would it be illegal to make an XSL document to translate OfficeXML to OpenDocument or AbiWord or [insert other XML format here] outside of their explicitly allowed licenses?
Of course it has no costs as it's not even made yet. The implementation was tested, but it wasn't mass produced, and it won't be for at least a few years as they say. My guess is that it will be an equivalent $40/month for Japanese subscribers...
The problem is, however, that you can't start up your own ISP that provides faster services than the ones the TelCo's provide because of their monopoly of land lines. If we had companies that sold the lines exclusively, then we'd have ISPs that buy lines from them and compete with each other to provide better services. We're effectively limited to the best services the main TelCo's will provide, and frankly, those services are absolute shit compared to places like Japan, and are also shit compared to what they could provide but fail to do.
Example: if Comcast did not sell broadband internet access, but rather they sold fibre lines to ISPs, we'd have several ISPs competing to provide the better service to attract more customers, and Comcast would be one of the few companies competing for ISPs to buy lines from. It all works out...
In a perfect world, you'd be able to get the updates to the product you bought for free. When you can't, the developers have to continue support for old versions for a reasonable amount of time. Which is more costly: give free updates (nobody needs to continue buying new versions) or continue support/development on old versions (requires more time and developers)?
Even Debian had this ready before the article! Word on the mailing lists it that they also hope to be able to release GNOME 2.14 (or was it 2.16?) in parallel with GNOME later on. Now wouldn't that be cool?
Couple Adblock+ with Filterset.G and you'll have yourself a clean browsing experience. I personally maintain my own filters, but by "maintain" I mean "edit every once in a while".
Your mentioning of Firefox made me think of how boring it is for a Mozilla dev to go back and even look at the 1.0 Aviary branch let alone patch it for some random "security vulnerability" that was fixed ages ago on the pre-1.5 branch. Microsoft is usually working on their new products, and going back to continue working on severely outdated branches to fix a few problems can sometimes feel like a waste of time the closer you get to launching the next big version. I guess the big difference here is that Microsoft isn't going to be offering free upgrades to Vista for current 2000/XP users, so they have a much larger need to go back and continue fixing up old branches in order to continue support for the old versions.
*sigh* The annoying pitfalls of developing a massive project and randomly having to go back and fix small or large things in 10+ month old code.
No, they got permission and whatnot. It seems that they also dumped the emails into a fake SMTP server to allow the spambots to think it was successful.
Now we are forced to use VS.NET because the professor can't run the programs to grade it without.vcproj and.sln files.
The incompetence of CS teachers lately has surprised me. That reminds me of how one of my CS teachers in the past did not even know what a.bz2 file was when I had sent him a bundle of code. The fact that he fucking teaches usage of compression algorithms, that including block sorting beforehand, should warrant the knowledge of highly-used compression formats.
At least he knows how to compile Java and C++ programs by hand...
Which might explain why most programming classes use Java to teach computer science concepts and usage. You get both the advantages of basically cross-platform code and object oriented programming that's strict enough not to allow newbie programmer mistakes.
Eh? The original post said that he didn't welcome them, but Slashdot received an order to edit the post or to receive some mighty harsh punishments such as the apprehension of CmdrTaco's WoW account (they did it anyways...) or his porn collection.
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Well, the fun of using the Firefox Trunk nightly builds is that I get a 200k patch each day that addresses the actual files that were updated. I guess it's harder to test the auto-update on milestones as they don't happen often enough to test them well.
They must've been running FreeBSD 5. Then again, I've had some bad experiences with FreeBSD 4 with large loads of users. I rebuilt from the ground up a system to try and work with the users with minimal load, and at this point a lot of performance gains seem to be overkill to your typical webmaster, but after having the fun of thousands of users on a single FreeBSD 4 server, I can safely say that it was quite good with performance.
The order is different. After linux.com, redhat.com comes in MSN while kernel.org comes in Google. Besides, you know as well as I do that linux.org, linux.com, redhat.com, debian.org, kernel.org, gentoo.org, ubuntu.com, etc., are all the top-known sites regarding Linux, so of course those should be the top results.
I'm using the Firefox trunk, so support for Windows Live might actually be better (or far superior) than in Firefox 1.0.x. Hell, I'm also wondering what they need to do to support Firefox at this point on their site as it seems to work fine other than maybe a couple layout-related glitches.
Sorry to spoil your fun, but "intro to CompSci" is just as helpful as having MS lawyers try to teach you about computer science. I'm pretty sure that learning how to make an OOP class in C++ or Java isn't going to teach you nearly enough to be "computer literate".
Scary as it is, Microsoft and other large software companies have patented software ideas and algorithms in order to make sure that no other company would go and patent the same idea and use it against them. Now they wouldn't have to waste the time and money in patenting algorithms (i.e. math equations, those of which aren't patentable anyways) if nobody patented them in the first place. It's usually a self-defence situation when patenting software, but when the company seeks out to use its patents to destroy "infringers" (see: SCO vs. Linux and IBM), that's where the problem lies. Yes, patenting software shouldn't even be a possibility, but while it is, companies need to legally defend themselves, but when they go and take the offence using their patents, that's when it becomes obvious to more than just us /. geeks that the idea of patenting software is ridiculous.
Firefox offers to open it with /usr/bin/wine-safe
Think it's safe?
And I use Linux, so I'm assuming there's no need to worry. WINE isn't stable enough to support a virus/worm/trojan/etc.
I too would like to point out that the stereotype is inaccurate! My mother lives in my basement. ...well, I do also live in an upside-down house, so who knows.
Would it be illegal to make an XSL document to translate OfficeXML to OpenDocument or AbiWord or [insert other XML format here] outside of their explicitly allowed licenses?
Of course it has no costs as it's not even made yet. The implementation was tested, but it wasn't mass produced, and it won't be for at least a few years as they say. My guess is that it will be an equivalent $40/month for Japanese subscribers...
The problem is, however, that you can't start up your own ISP that provides faster services than the ones the TelCo's provide because of their monopoly of land lines. If we had companies that sold the lines exclusively, then we'd have ISPs that buy lines from them and compete with each other to provide better services. We're effectively limited to the best services the main TelCo's will provide, and frankly, those services are absolute shit compared to places like Japan, and are also shit compared to what they could provide but fail to do.
Example: if Comcast did not sell broadband internet access, but rather they sold fibre lines to ISPs, we'd have several ISPs competing to provide the better service to attract more customers, and Comcast would be one of the few companies competing for ISPs to buy lines from. It all works out...
In a perfect world, you'd be able to get the updates to the product you bought for free. When you can't, the developers have to continue support for old versions for a reasonable amount of time. Which is more costly: give free updates (nobody needs to continue buying new versions) or continue support/development on old versions (requires more time and developers)?
Obligatory "you must be a Gentoo user" response.
Even Debian had this ready before the article! Word on the mailing lists it that they also hope to be able to release GNOME 2.14 (or was it 2.16?) in parallel with GNOME later on. Now wouldn't that be cool?
Couple Adblock+ with Filterset.G and you'll have yourself a clean browsing experience. I personally maintain my own filters, but by "maintain" I mean "edit every once in a while".
Your mentioning of Firefox made me think of how boring it is for a Mozilla dev to go back and even look at the 1.0 Aviary branch let alone patch it for some random "security vulnerability" that was fixed ages ago on the pre-1.5 branch. Microsoft is usually working on their new products, and going back to continue working on severely outdated branches to fix a few problems can sometimes feel like a waste of time the closer you get to launching the next big version. I guess the big difference here is that Microsoft isn't going to be offering free upgrades to Vista for current 2000/XP users, so they have a much larger need to go back and continue fixing up old branches in order to continue support for the old versions.
*sigh* The annoying pitfalls of developing a massive project and randomly having to go back and fix small or large things in 10+ month old code.
And the alternatives to it aren't so appealing. I mean, OpenSphincter? GNU/Sphincter? Ksfinkter?? No thanks...
No, they got permission and whatnot. It seems that they also dumped the emails into a fake SMTP server to allow the spambots to think it was successful.
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OT: nice post ID. I was looking for that one.
Now we are forced to use VS.NET because the professor can't run the programs to grade it without .vcproj and .sln files.
.bz2 file was when I had sent him a bundle of code. The fact that he fucking teaches usage of compression algorithms, that including block sorting beforehand, should warrant the knowledge of highly-used compression formats.
The incompetence of CS teachers lately has surprised me. That reminds me of how one of my CS teachers in the past did not even know what a
At least he knows how to compile Java and C++ programs by hand...
Which might explain why most programming classes use Java to teach computer science concepts and usage. You get both the advantages of basically cross-platform code and object oriented programming that's strict enough not to allow newbie programmer mistakes.
Eh? The original post said that he didn't welcome them, but Slashdot received an order to edit the post or to receive some mighty harsh punishments such as the apprehension of CmdrTaco's WoW account (they did it anyways...) or his porn collection.
Kinda like how in PHP, 1 == true, but 1 !== true?
I found that they're equally easy to get working in Linux, but Windows was a different story, even with the win32 ports of PostgreSQL.
By which openness? Support for open standards if requested or the ability to easily incorporate your own stuff into it?