1) As someone else pointed out, it's not Linux-only, it's *NIX-only. My guess is that you could get it to run under Cygwin if you really wanted to (assuming Cygwin has POSIX thread support).
2) I don't use OpenAntiVirus.
3) I would hazard a guess that 99% of the virii that infect (or are infecting) China are transmitted by email. To stop an email virus, the only thing you have to do is scan all incoming and outgoing email at some point in your own network. A Linux box running your choice of SMTP software and anti-virus software works nicely for a small network. Larger networks would need more scalable solutions, obviously. (Personally, I like using a combination of postfix, amavisd-new, clamav and cyrus-imapd.)
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It's not about making money. It's about providing better audio tools to more people to lower the barrier of entry into the world of "professional" audio recording. That's why the project is funded by the EU.
If you give people access to basic tools and let them be creative, you'll expand the number of people participating in a particular craft and change the dynamics of the whole group.
God knows the top-heavy music industry needs a good grass-roots level shake-up like the operating system market is experiencing with Linux now.
Windows is a great server OS. It's even a great desktop OS, if you know what you're doing. But why replace it?
It's nice to dream, but for now an the forseeable future, the userland software for a free, open source operating system just won't be there. There's barely enough software for DOS...a free, open source operating system just wouldn't compete.
Until the userland software's written, there's no point in making a free, open source operating system that pretends to supplant Windows.
Besides, about 98% of professionals use Windows. The other 2% use Macs.:) </SARCASM>
What steps are you taking (if any) to evangelize Linux on "low-end" PowerPC systems such as the Apple Power Macintosh line? Is there any chance of seeing low-end PowerPC-based motherboards with out-of-the-box Linux support from IBM in the near future?
This article highlights the differences between television and the Internet. TV is a passive medium: you don't usually have to think much (or at all) while watching it and you don't get the whole picture because you only see what the person (or organization) that is broadcasting wants you to see (or is able to show you).
If you read about the same situation from credible sources on the Internet, it doesn't provide you instant gratification and it makes you think more (and hopefully investigate more) about the situation. You are more likely to get different viewpoints on the same topic depending on who wrote the information. While this is a longer process, I would argue it facilitates more tolerant view points from the person doing the reading and the research. Instead of taking up arms, the boy mentioned in the article may have decided to evoke change through peaceful means and become a future leader of his people instead of taking up arms and putting himself at risk of dying a senseless death.
Television is a wonderful entertainer, but a poor educator. (Are you reading this, parents?)
If you want to find the IP address of a transparent proxy, simply point your web browser at a web page that will print out "your" IP address when you request a web page. Instead of printing the IP of your firewall or your host, it will print the transparent proxy's IP address.
After that, you may be able to do some more investigation into what kind of host it is and/or what kind of software it is running. (This is left as an excercise for the crac...err, reader.)
The worst part was that when the proxy went down, packets continued to be routed to it, but tier 1 tech support personnel (located in another state--probably Minnesota) had no idea that the proxy even existed. The only way to work around it was to use a web proxy somewhere on the Internet that did not operate on port 80!
Qwest finally removed the transparent proxy shortly before switching customers to MSN. I eventually switched to Mediacom cable modem at home and McLeodUSA DSL at work.
I don't have much experience with Delphi 6/Kylix or Object Pascal, but Perl 5 will handle most of your requirements.
Personally, I would go back to your boss and ask why he needs all these features. The list of requirements sounds more like a buzzword-compliant list of programming language features that a typical PHB would come up with than a real requirements list. For example, if a design document hasn't been created, it's likely that this list of requirements is bogus.
NOTE: I found Cliff's question appended to the end of this story very confusing. It's orthogonal to the original question, at best. At worst, it's going to cause two entirely separate topics of discussion which will be difficult to distinguish when reading comments.
One of my favorite moments in the Simpsons is Espisode 8F11 where Bart has a microphone that broadcasts over the radio to a gullible Rod and Todd.
Bart: [over the radio] Rod! Todd! This is God!
Rod: How did you get on the radio?io?
Bart: Whaddya mean, how did I get on the radio? I created the universe! Stupid kid.
Todd+Rod: [fall to their knees and clasp their hands]
Todd: Forgive my brother. We believe you.
Bart: Talk is cheap. Perhaps I'll test a guy's faith. Walk through the wall! I will remove it for you.
Rod: [walks into the wall] [thud]
Bart: Ha ha ha.
Todd+Rod: [return to their knees in prayer]
Todd: What do you want from us?
Bart: I got a job for you. Bring forth all the cookies from your kitchen and leave them on the Simpsons' porch.
Rod: But those cookies belong to our parents.
Bart: Ugh! Look, do you want a happy God or a vengeful God?
Todd: [quickly] Happy God. Happy God.
Bart: Then quit flapping your lip and make with the cookies!
Todd+Rod: Yes, sir!
Here is Mediacom's response (taken from the annoying JavaScript popup windows).
I'm crossing my eyes, fingers, legs and anything else I can find. I really don't want to go back to Qwest ISDN. *shudder*
I just called my local TCI...err, AT&T Broad...err, Mediacom provider and the customer rep there just read me a letter that basically states what was on the web page above.
Guess we'll have to wait and see. I hope the judge has a lot of good karma in reserve if he allows Excite@Home's network to be turned off.
A lot of people are complaining that autoconf doesn't do this or libtool doesn't work on this platform. Please remember that all of these tools are Open Source, so you may fix them yourself and contribute the changes back to the respective projects!
Granted, not everyone has the time or the desire to fix such complex tools, but the author of the Berkeley amd story contributed many of his new tests back to these projects.
Why not improve the status quo for everyone by contributing or fixing these tools when you decide to use them? You may learn a new skill or two that you may add to your résumé in the process!
TNT, while rebroadcasting episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, puts a black bar across the bottom of the whole screen without scrunching the screen vertically, thereby covering up some of the show.
It gets better.
Has anyone noticed TNT digitally adding their logo to scenes from the movie in commercials for Rush Hour?
Did anyone catch Fox Sports using "green screen" technology to place self-promoting ads to the left of the batter, catcher and umpire in World Series Game 7?
When will digital editing of TV shows become so easy that you never know when you're watching original versus edited content?
Better yet, will the barrier to broadcasting television signals ever become low enough for "open source" alternatives?
When I receive a call that I suspect is from a telemarketer, I pick up the phone, say my greeting, then listen for a pause. If there is a pause, I hang up the phone right away.
Occasionally this catches people making legitimate calls offguard, but they usually call back. Telemarketers, because they're on a round-robin dialer, won't call back right away. Unfortunately this really doesn't solve the problem because (as I understand it) your phone number just gets put back in the dialing queue.
If you really want to get rid of the telemarketers, you need to put your phone number and address on a Direct Marketing Association "blacklist".
I consider banning Don McLean's "American Pie" to
be un-American. I mean, c'mon, if you're going
to ban that song, at least ban Madonna's remake
of it!
BTW, I would call this action "extreme political
correctness" rather than "censorship".
After first seeing Microsoft's slogan for its upcoming Windows XP operating
system, "it just works", I couldn't help wondering: what were the slogans for all
the previous releases? After thinking about it for a while, they became
obvious.
Windows 1.0: Good joke, eh?
Windows 2.0: Still funny, isn't it?
Windows 286: Yeah, we're still kidding.
Windows 386: Going boldly where Desqview has been for years.
Windows 3.0: It's finally worth buying!
Windows 3.1: It's finally worth using!
Windows 95: Going boldly where the Mac has been for years.\
Windows 98: More usable! Less stable!
Windows 98SE: More stable! Less usable!
Windows ME: Less usable AND less stable!
NT 1.0: Give me more hardware! NOW!!!
NT 2.0: Dammit, I said MORE HARDWARE!!! NOW!!!!
NT 3.0: Which part of "more hardware" do you not understand?
NT 3.5: With enough hardware, I'd work. Honest.
NT 4.0: Does less than Win98 with twice the hardware at one-half the speed.
Windows 2K: Works almost as well as Windows 98! Honest!
Windows XP: It just works.
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Google Image Search has some nice headshots of her.
Looks like a match to me!
1) As someone else pointed out, it's not Linux-only, it's *NIX-only. My guess is that you could get it to run under Cygwin if you really wanted to (assuming Cygwin has POSIX thread support).
2) I don't use OpenAntiVirus.
3) I would hazard a guess that 99% of the virii that infect (or are infecting) China are transmitted by email. To stop an email virus, the only thing you have to do is scan all incoming and outgoing email at some point in your own network. A Linux box running your choice of SMTP software and anti-virus software works nicely for a small network. Larger networks would need more scalable solutions, obviously. (Personally, I like using a combination of postfix, amavisd-new, clamav and cyrus-imapd.)
See Clam AntiVirus and OpenAntiVirus.
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It's not about making money. It's about providing better audio tools to more people to lower the barrier of entry into the world of "professional" audio recording. That's why the project is funded by the EU.
:)
If you give people access to basic tools and let them be creative, you'll expand the number of people participating in a particular craft and change the dynamics of the whole group.
God knows the top-heavy music industry needs a good grass-roots level shake-up like the operating system market is experiencing with Linux now.
BTW, nice South Park reference.
Windows is a great server OS. It's even a great desktop OS, if you know what you're doing. But why replace it?
It's nice to dream, but for now an the forseeable future, the userland software for a free, open source operating system just won't be there. There's barely enough software for DOS...a free, open source operating system just wouldn't compete.
Until the userland software's written, there's no point in making a free, open source operating system that pretends to supplant Windows.
Besides, about 98% of professionals use Windows. The other 2% use Macs.
</SARCASM>
Answer: Because they can.
Are the Italian police sure the web site was talking about the Virgin Mary and not the Material Girl?
Yahoo! News also carried this AP news story.
I wonder if the Chicago Tribune will have a large influx of new accounts being created today?
Without knowing more about the type of data you're storing, I would recommend putting it in a database. I like PostgreSQL 7.x myself.
For the software, I would organize it in a directory structure and use rsync+ssh to mirror it as needed.
For backup software, use Amanda.
For file sharing, use Samba.
'Nuff said.
What steps are you taking (if any) to evangelize Linux on "low-end" PowerPC systems such as the Apple Power Macintosh line? Is there any chance of seeing low-end PowerPC-based motherboards with out-of-the-box Linux support from IBM in the near future?
This article highlights the differences between television and the Internet. TV is a passive medium: you don't usually have to think much (or at all) while watching it and you don't get the whole picture because you only see what the person (or organization) that is broadcasting wants you to see (or is able to show you).
If you read about the same situation from credible sources on the Internet, it doesn't provide you instant gratification and it makes you think more (and hopefully investigate more) about the situation. You are more likely to get different viewpoints on the same topic depending on who wrote the information. While this is a longer process, I would argue it facilitates more tolerant view points from the person doing the reading and the research. Instead of taking up arms, the boy mentioned in the article may have decided to evoke change through peaceful means and become a future leader of his people instead of taking up arms and putting himself at risk of dying a senseless death.
Television is a wonderful entertainer, but a poor educator. (Are you reading this, parents?)
If you want to find the IP address of a transparent proxy, simply point your web browser at a web page that will print out "your" IP address when you request a web page. Instead of printing the IP of your firewall or your host, it will print the transparent proxy's IP address.
For example:
After that, you may be able to do some more investigation into what kind of host it is and/or what kind of software it is running. (This is left as an excercise for the crac...err, reader.)
Qwest Communications, before selling dial-up and DSL customers to MSN, once had a transparent web proxy set up in Des Moines, Iowa. All outgoing HTTP traffic to port 80 was routed through the proxy.
The worst part was that when the proxy went down, packets continued to be routed to it, but tier 1 tech support personnel (located in another state--probably Minnesota) had no idea that the proxy even existed. The only way to work around it was to use a web proxy somewhere on the Internet that did not operate on port 80!
Qwest finally removed the transparent proxy shortly before switching customers to MSN. I eventually switched to Mediacom cable modem at home and McLeodUSA DSL at work.
Reveille is a collie, the mascot of Texas A&M University.
A couple other languages/environments you may wish to look at are:
I don't have much experience with Delphi 6/Kylix or Object Pascal, but Perl 5 will handle most of your requirements.
Personally, I would go back to your boss and ask why he needs all these features. The list of requirements sounds more like a buzzword-compliant list of programming language features that a typical PHB would come up with than a real requirements list. For example, if a design document hasn't been created, it's likely that this list of requirements is bogus.
NOTE: I found Cliff's question appended to the end of this story very confusing. It's orthogonal to the original question, at best. At worst, it's going to cause two entirely separate topics of discussion which will be difficult to distinguish when reading comments.
One of my favorite moments in the Simpsons is Espisode 8F11 where Bart has a microphone that broadcasts over the radio to a gullible Rod and Todd.
While searching for this episode, I ran across an article, "God and The Simpsons: The Religious Life of an Animated Sitcom" by Gerry Bowler, written in 1996.
Here is Mediacom's response (taken from the annoying JavaScript popup windows).
I'm crossing my eyes, fingers, legs and anything else I can find. I really don't want to go back to Qwest ISDN. *shudder*
I just called my local TCI...err, AT&T Broad...err, Mediacom provider and the customer rep there just read me a letter that basically states what was on the web page above.
Guess we'll have to wait and see. I hope the judge has a lot of good karma in reserve if he allows Excite@Home's network to be turned off.
A lot of people are complaining that autoconf doesn't do this or libtool doesn't work on this platform. Please remember that all of these tools are Open Source, so you may fix them yourself and contribute the changes back to the respective projects!
Granted, not everyone has the time or the desire to fix such complex tools, but the author of the Berkeley amd story contributed many of his new tests back to these projects.
Why not improve the status quo for everyone by contributing or fixing these tools when you decide to use them? You may learn a new skill or two that you may add to your résumé in the process!
TNT, while rebroadcasting episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation , puts a black bar across the bottom of the whole screen without scrunching the screen vertically, thereby covering up some of the show.
It gets better.
Has anyone noticed TNT digitally adding their logo to scenes from the movie in commercials for Rush Hour ?
Did anyone catch Fox Sports using "green screen" technology to place self-promoting ads to the left of the batter, catcher and umpire in World Series Game 7?
When will digital editing of TV shows become so easy that you never know when you're watching original versus edited content?
Better yet, will the barrier to broadcasting television signals ever become low enough for "open source" alternatives?
When I receive a call that I suspect is from a telemarketer, I pick up the phone, say my greeting, then listen for a pause. If there is a pause, I hang up the phone right away.
Occasionally this catches people making legitimate calls offguard, but they usually call back. Telemarketers, because they're on a round-robin dialer, won't call back right away. Unfortunately this really doesn't solve the problem because (as I understand it) your phone number just gets put back in the dialing queue.
If you really want to get rid of the telemarketers, you need to put your phone number and address on a Direct Marketing Association "blacklist".
I believe there are other resources similar to this.
NOTE: I have not tried either of the above, but I've heard of others that have used it successfully.
See also the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and this Anti-Telemarker / Anti-Spam web page.
My cousin is program director at a ClearChannel station in the midwest and said this report is false.
Don't believe the lie.
I consider banning Don McLean's "American Pie" to be un-American. I mean, c'mon, if you're going to ban that song, at least ban Madonna's remake of it!
BTW, I would call this action "extreme political correctness" rather than "censorship".
[Wow...that didn't take long.]
After first seeing Microsoft's slogan for its upcoming Windows XP operating
system, "it just works", I couldn't help wondering: what were the slogans for all
the previous releases? After thinking about it for a while, they became
obvious.
Windows 1.0: Good joke, eh?
Windows 2.0: Still funny, isn't it?
Windows 286: Yeah, we're still kidding.
Windows 386: Going boldly where Desqview has been for years.
Windows 3.0: It's finally worth buying!
Windows 3.1: It's finally worth using!
Windows 95: Going boldly where the Mac has been for years.\
Windows 98: More usable! Less stable!
Windows 98SE: More stable! Less usable!
Windows ME: Less usable AND less stable!
NT 1.0: Give me more hardware! NOW!!!
NT 2.0: Dammit, I said MORE HARDWARE!!! NOW!!!!
NT 3.0: Which part of "more hardware" do you not understand?
NT 3.5: With enough hardware, I'd work. Honest.
NT 4.0: Does less than Win98 with twice the hardware at one-half the speed.
Windows 2K: Works almost as well as Windows 98! Honest!
Windows XP: It just works.
The Internet Movie Database already has an entry for Star Trek: Enterprise with an interesting plot summary. They don't have any actors from the press release listed, though.
Hey, did NYC ever clean up that river of slime in Ghostbusters II? :^)