A translation of the German text (which is not much better than the English one, BTW): "A friend of mine brought me to the idea to publish this on the Internet so that other POWER USERS also have the possibility to feast their eyes on how fast you can STILL get your PC".
Since JDK 1.2 you can declare references "Weak", "Soft" or normal, affecting the behaviour of the garbage collector. According to the documentation, one usage of this is to implement "memory-sensitive caches". See the java.ref package for more details.
You mean Jesus was born on year 1 *after* Christ???:-)
Actually you can't say for sure when the millenium starts by 7 years as they (the scientists) can't determine exactly when Christ was born. So I think it is best to celebrate the millenium when there is a 2 at the first position instead of a 1.
But you are certainly free to celebrate your millenium next year.:-)
What about a mechanism to allow only a limited number of Anonymous posts from a certain IP Address within a Topic? (Similar to the Poll system) Only registered users may post as they wish.
The thing is, in Europe no company is allowed to do anything with your address or social security number (if it does, it gets sued, this just happend with a company that tried to take photos of all houses in Germany). The government can control companies that are in Europe, and it is very unlikely that a company outside Europe will get your social security number. So protection is actually there.
This is completely different with the PIII-ID. This can be distributed all over the world (and unfortunately there are only a few users that use secure systems like Linux), so the government has no chance to protect the citizens from that!
I would really like to see this. I very much like Debian's amount of packages and ease of installation and configuration while I think FreeBSD is more stable and faster than the Linux Kernel (at the moment), but the configuration is doing everything by foot.
A Debian/FreeBSD would combine the best things, IMHO.
This statement can be found at http://www.channel-one.de/html/pressl inux.html (in German). I'll try to do a translation here:
"As can be read in today's Heise Newsticker, we are currently registering a trademark for the name Linux at the German Patent Office in Munich. That is correct. The articel has lead to high tides and now we are partly alleged of having the intention to steal the trademark or gain advantages in any way out of this step.
We certainly realize that we cannot claim the trademark Linux, because it represents the community. If at all, it is the right of Linus Torvalds to claim the trademark. Furthermore, we realize, that we, even if we succeeded, wouldn't make many friends in the Linux community.
We have however heard rumors about another company exactly trying to do this. First we couldn't believe that the trademark Linux wasn't registered in Germany. Meeting our lawyer, we however realized it was in fact true. Without much thinking we simply applied for the trademark to ensure that noone with commercial intention does before us.
We of Channel One are friends of the Linux movement and we are far from making profit from it that we don't earn ourselves. In fact we are currently working on our own Linux distribution targeted at the Office User that we want to distribute next year to further increase the number of Linux users. Our self-written intranet-software Intraware also runs on Linux.
On the domain linux.channel-one.de we will publish a comic series with the Linux penguin as a protagonist shortly, to provide some entertainment to the Linux community. And as you can see on our homepage www.channel-one.de, we are also helping to enlarge the Linux community by other means."
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I hope that I did a readable translation (the other way is easier, i.e. English->German).
The Green and the Liberal parties probably will be against that. But that won't be of too much use since they only make up a small portion of the European Parliament.:-( The big people's parties (conservatives and social-democrates) are very likely for censoring and together hold more then 2/3 of the seats.:-((
It's a part of all people to try to get more might. So does/did Germany, UK, France, China and so does the US (and most other countries that can afford it).
Only the US way is a little more subtle, but no less cruel.
But those people are actually completely independent from the executive and legislative branches. No politician can ever "throw out" a judge.
Besides, I can give numerous examples where the government has lost (at least in Germany where the system is roughly the same), and some of them very painful.
Personally, I like this system better, because juries consisting of "common people" tend to judge much more emotional and minorities may be sentenced just because they are miniroties.
IMHO there is nothing like a European problem with Yugoslavia, it is a world problem.
Why is the EU any more responsible for that than the US or China?
I think that the US is just as responsible simply because they want to be the most powerful nation in the world. With might comes responsibility.
(Besides that, Serbia is about 400 miles away from the EU-European outer border in Austria, where the HQ is in Bruxelles in Belgium, which is about 1000 miles or the whole of Germany and Austria from this border. Europe is small, but not that small:-) ).
Well maybe because the NSA spies on European companies and gives European knowledge to your economy. Or perhaps it is also because you won WWII and took most of the far ahead German scientists (without even recognizing that some of them were really brown bastards that should have been hanged in Nürnberg). As an example for this, Computers as well as rocketry was invented in Germany during WWII (Computers by Zuse, Rocketry for bombing England). Also, the US could prosper while Europe was not much more than rubble. To conclude, I just wanted to point out that there are many other reasons besides the constitution why the US develops most new technologies. Sebastian
Plus they have a very strong relationship with Sun and will abandon Sinix (and Reliant Unix) for Solaris in the near future. At least that is what I was told on a Sun/Siemens conference.:-)
As we were among the few to have full sight on the solar eclipse. It simply was great!!!
Not only the sun itself, but the fast moving shadow wall and all the surrounding, the Alpes partly in shadow and partly in light, behind us (in the North) the big rain clouds falling down.
And then the diamond light when the sun reappeared. It's very hard to describe all of that in a few sentences...
We had so much luck that you simply must believe that God is a Chiemgau'ian.:-)))
Sebastian
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It's nothing more than those annoying people that put banners in your guestbook. Not a "hack". (Hackers/Crackers are people skilled at something, I don't consider HTML a real skill).
Certainly it would have been better to consider that people do that with guestbooks that allow HTML.
If it's a good firewall it is almost impossible, as only connections are going through to this server where they think that they are secure. All others are already blocked at the firewall server.
The only possibility would be to first crack the firewall server which is certainly very well guarded.
For more information about such topics see the Network Administrators Guide of the Linux Documentation Project or the book "Unix and Internet Security".
Because our government at least doesn't allow software patents (yet). And we have a far advanced telephone system ("thanks" to the higher telephone costs.):-)
Well, at least Netscape can definatley take X with it if it crashes. Happens about once a week for me (while Netscape itself crashes 4-5 times a day, sometimes it is reproducable for certain websites and can be avoided be switching of Java or JavaScript).
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A translation of the German text (which is not much better than the English one, BTW):
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"A friend of mine brought me to the idea to publish this on the Internet so that other POWER USERS also have the possibility to feast their eyes on how fast you can STILL get your PC".
Not that this was very important
Sebastian
According to the documentation, one usage of this is to implement "memory-sensitive caches".
See the java.ref package for more details.
Sebastian
You mean Jesus was born on year 1 *after* Christ???:-)
Actually you can't say for sure when the millenium starts by 7 years as they (the scientists) can't determine exactly when Christ was born. So I think it is best to celebrate the millenium when there is a 2 at the first position instead of a 1.
But you are certainly free to celebrate your millenium next year.:-)
Sebastian
You simply seem to have too much time. Go doing something useful.
Sebastian
What about a mechanism to allow only a limited
number of Anonymous posts from a certain IP Address within a Topic? (Similar to the Poll system) Only registered users may post as they wish.
Sebastian
The thing is, in Europe no company is allowed to do anything with your address or social security number (if it does, it gets sued, this just happend with a company that tried to take photos of all houses in Germany). The government can control companies that are in Europe, and it is very unlikely that a company outside Europe will get your social security number. So protection is actually there.
This is completely different with the PIII-ID. This can be distributed all over the world (and unfortunately there are only a few users that use secure systems like Linux), so the government has no chance to protect the citizens from that!
Sebastian
I would really like to see this. I very much like Debian's amount of packages and ease of installation and configuration while I think FreeBSD is more stable and faster than the Linux Kernel (at the moment), but the configuration is doing everything by foot.
A Debian/FreeBSD would combine the best things, IMHO.
Sebastian.
Unforutnately, many times it is not that easy. Many programs use Linux system includes (even if you don't expect it)...
Sebastian
Sebastian
"As can be read in today's Heise Newsticker, we are currently registering a trademark for the name Linux at the German Patent Office in Munich. That is correct. The articel has lead to high tides and now we are partly alleged of having the intention to steal the trademark or gain advantages in any way out of this step.
We certainly realize that we cannot claim the trademark Linux, because it represents the community. If at all, it is the right of Linus Torvalds to claim the trademark. Furthermore, we realize, that we, even if we succeeded, wouldn't make many friends in the Linux community.
We have however heard rumors about another company exactly trying to do this. First we couldn't believe that the trademark Linux wasn't registered in Germany. Meeting our lawyer, we however realized it was in fact true. Without much thinking we simply applied for the trademark to ensure that noone with commercial intention does before us.
We of Channel One are friends of the Linux movement and we are far from making profit from it that we don't earn ourselves. In fact we are currently working on our own Linux distribution targeted at the Office User that we want to distribute next year to further increase the number of Linux users. Our self-written intranet-software Intraware also runs on Linux.
On the domain linux.channel-one.de we will publish a comic series with the Linux penguin as a protagonist shortly, to provide some entertainment to the Linux community. And as you can see on our homepage www.channel-one.de, we are also helping to enlarge the Linux community by other means."
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I hope that I did a readable translation (the other way is easier, i.e. English->German).
Sebastian
The Green and the Liberal parties probably will be against that. :-((
But that won't be of too much use since they only make up a small portion of the European Parliament.:-(
The big people's parties (conservatives and social-democrates) are very likely for censoring and together hold more then 2/3 of the seats.
Sebastian
It's a part of all people to try to get more might. So does/did Germany, UK, France, China and so does the US (and most other countries that can afford it).
Only the US way is a little more subtle, but no less cruel.
Sebastian
Sweden is not Germany. The boy was a Swede so no German law was ever touched.
Sebastian
But those people are actually completely independent from the executive and legislative branches. No politician can ever "throw out" a judge.
Besides, I can give numerous examples where the government has lost (at least in Germany where the system is roughly the same), and some of them very painful.
Personally, I like this system better, because juries consisting of "common people" tend to judge much more emotional and minorities may be sentenced just because they are miniroties.
Sebastian
IMHO there is nothing like a European problem with Yugoslavia, it is a world problem.
Why is the EU any more responsible for that than the US or China?
I think that the US is just as responsible simply because they want to be the most powerful nation in the world. With might comes responsibility.
(Besides that, Serbia is about 400 miles away from the EU-European outer border in Austria, where the HQ is in Bruxelles in Belgium, which is about 1000 miles or the whole of Germany and Austria from this border. Europe is small, but not that small:-) ).
Sebastian
Probably the USSR would have had to surrender when the US hadn't interfered. Then Hitler would have had his terrible Empire.
But it is almost senseless to play with "woulds" and "wouldn'ts".
Sebastian
Well maybe because the NSA spies on European companies and gives European knowledge to your economy. Or perhaps it is also because you won WWII and took most of the far ahead German scientists (without even recognizing that some of them were really brown bastards that should have been hanged in Nürnberg). As an example for this, Computers as well as rocketry was invented in Germany during WWII (Computers by Zuse, Rocketry for bombing England). Also, the US could prosper while Europe was not much more than rubble. To conclude, I just wanted to point out that there are many other reasons besides the constitution why the US develops most new technologies. Sebastian
Plus they have a very strong relationship with Sun and will abandon Sinix (and Reliant Unix) for Solaris in the near future. At least that is what I was told on a Sun/Siemens conference. :-)
Sebastian
As we were among the few to have full sight on the solar eclipse. It simply was great!!!
Not only the sun itself, but the fast moving shadow wall and all the surrounding, the Alpes partly in shadow and partly in light, behind us (in the North) the big rain clouds falling down.
And then the diamond light when the sun reappeared. It's very hard to describe all of that in a few sentences...
We had so much luck that you simply must believe that God is a Chiemgau'ian.:-)))
Sebastian
It's nothing more than those annoying people that put banners in your guestbook. Not a "hack". (Hackers/Crackers are people skilled at something, I don't consider HTML a real skill).
Certainly it would have been better to consider that people do that with guestbooks that allow HTML.
Sebastian
If it's a good firewall it is almost impossible, as only connections are going through to this server where they think that they are secure. All others are already blocked at the firewall server.
The only possibility would be to first crack the firewall server which is certainly very well guarded.
For more information about such topics see the Network Administrators Guide of the Linux Documentation Project or the book "Unix and Internet Security".
Sebastian
I can't even resolve the name www.windows2000test.com.
/.'ed.:-)
Perhaps the crackers got another target after the real server got
Sebastian
Because our government at least doesn't allow software patents (yet).
And we have a far advanced telephone system ("thanks" to the higher telephone costs.):-)
In fact, SuSE is one of the major contributors of the Linux kernel and the XFree86 project (also mentioned yesterday in a /. article about SuSE Labs).
The often-mentioned mixing of free and non-free software is IMHO mainly to ease installation (make it more transparent for every user).
And, seriously, would you want YaST for any other distro? I'm happy with Debian apt-get (and vim) and will never use something like YaST.
Sebastian
Well, at least Netscape can definatley take X with it if it crashes. Happens about once a week for me (while Netscape itself crashes 4-5 times a day, sometimes it is reproducable for certain websites and can be avoided be switching of Java or JavaScript).
Sebastian