While it's sad to see him go, I have to wonder if his legacy isn't the easing of mankind's stress levels but accelerating it to the stratosphere. Computers have done wonders in improving our productivity, but at the cost of making humans part of the machine. We live according to the schedule of the computer rather than the other way around...How incredibly wrong he was.
LOL buddy, brush those tears from your eyes, he didn't invent your nemesis (the computer), just the integrated circuit.
What, you mean looking like an idiot isn't a great way to get a good paying job? Amazing the things you can learn on slashdot. The worst part is that the article submitter seems to frame the question as if he is part of some great repressed minority fighting to gain the right to look like an idiot.
Excuse me, but since when the Bible salesman look is a sign of maturity or wisdom?
Some people just don't like it. That's why dress codes have to be enforced genius. Because not everybody likes to wear the same stuff.
There's no merit whatsoever in dressing the way your daddy dressed when he was your age. And by the way, some of us think that judging people based solely on their appearence is the ultimate sign of idiocy.
What I find ironic, to say the least, is that the same company that accusseLinux and the GPL of being communistbans the word democracy and freedom across the ocean to avoid offending the most visible Communist Party on the planet.
I have a laptop running Red Hat 9 because Fedora 1, Fedora 2, Fedora 3 and SuSE 9.x all have so many major problems with their basic installation that the machine is unusable. My next laptop will be an Apple machine.
Obviously, you're free to do whatever you want and I don't know if there's any particular reason for you to keep using Red Hat-based distros. But if you just want to use Linux in your laptop I seriously recommend Ubuntu. For what I've seen, it's the best distro for laptops and actually, one of their next release (Oct. 2005) main priorities is to support every single laptop in the market made by Dell, HP, Toshiba and IBM (I don't know what you are using). You can get more details here.
Come on, JWZ asked the people not to run to Slashdot about it, kindly honour his privacy request.
The problem with this is that he mixed two very different topics in a single post. One, his new choice for a desktop (which honestly, I couldn't care less) but also, to inform every single Linux and BSD user out there that the future of his [almost] ubiquitous piece of software (xscreensaver) is "ambiguous".
Now, isn't it a bit "naïve" to release such news in a post you intend to keep private? Can you seriously expect to keep it out of Slashdot when every single Linux or BSD project over the face of the Earth is concerned about it?
Sounds a lot like the claims SCO claimed against IBM. I suppose you're SCO's bitch too. This patent is a joke.
Dude, seriously, try to read once in a while before insulting people. Every software patent is a joke. This is not about the merits of a particular patent, this is about proving a deliberate attempt to profit from someone else's ideas when those ideas have been previously patented, and that makes a huge difference between this guy vs. Microsoft and SCO vs. IBM. SCO has no evidence nor argument whatsoever.
So.. he patented a way for Microsoft Excel to work with Microsoft Access.. both products that Microsoft makes. Then he sued Microsoft??? I know.. i patent a way for Apple Intel to work with Apple PowerPC, no one would ever think of that.
You didn't get it:
1. The guy came up with a technique to interact with Access and Excel while doing graduate studies and gets a patent.
2. He approached Microsoft Corp. in the 90s and offered them his patent. Microsoft rejects the idea and say they're not interested.
3. About the same time, Microsoft adds the same technique to his products, makes a great deal of it and gets millions in revenue.
4. Then, and only then, the guy went to court, proved that he was the first to come up with the technique , proved that he approached Microsoft, proved that he showed it to them before they ever thought about it and then gets a fair amount of money.
I don't support software patents, but if Microsoft is promoting that nasty game, they have to obey the nasty game's rules.
1. The main (if not the only) reasons to outsource a job to India are a)Operating expenses b)A large pool of talented but underpaid engineers. If the pool is running out of human resources, they will just relocate those jobs to China. With a population of 1.6 billion, a 0.001% of German or French speakers still gives you 1.6 million Chinese people to choose from.
2. Also, you can easily find 20k, 30k, 40k underpaid engineers in Central America or impoverished nations in South America such as Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. The Russians may be well-served by Eastern European countries outside the EU, such as Belarus, Georgia, and the -istans.
3. And no, those jobs wont go back to the US. If a foreign euro laguage is one of the requirements, the worst place to look it for is in one of the most monolingual societies in the developed world. Sadly, the US it's one of the few places where people brag about not being able to speak a foreign language.
The idea is awesome and it's quite easy to understand, but the devil is in the execution. I know it's still in beta, but if you try, for example, "Linux" and choose 100% researching, it comes up with:
(56) Cooperative Linux. Open this result in new window
Main site. Publications. Development. Search. All the web. Only www.colinux.org. References. What is coLinux. If Linux runs on every architecture, why should another operating system be in its way? "... Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively...
colinux.org
(16) Linux BoxOpen this result in new window... DebianDesktopDevelopmentDistributionFuture of LinuxGamingGeneral newsGentooGovernmentHardwareInterviewKernelLinux vs WindowsLinux.Box NewsletterMan of...
linux.box.sk
(25) Home - The Community's Center for SecurityOpen this result in new window... If you want to set up a Linux-based firewall, there's no need to run a bloated distribution... toward systematically auditing Windows and Linux device-driver code for flaws, security...
linuxsecurity.com
Which are not exactly what I would call useful research sites. Wikipedia comes in #4.
I greatly enjoyed The Broken. Whatever happened to it?
The Broken just released a few episodes. Apparently he's going to rerelease it again with systm (according to his blog, those are going to be his two flagship shows).http://www.kevinrose.com/
By the way, he has a website: http://www.digg.com/ which is like Slashdot but community-driven, give it a try.
I would find a more scientific subject to study, you know, that is actually related to physics
Not just a better topic, but much better assumptions. Look at what they say in the last paragraph:
"The researchers admit that their analysis is based on one contentious assumption: that all the songs presented are equally good, so that votes are a reflection of national taste rather than the absolute quality of the entries."
So would people vote in the same way whether the singer is Eric Clapton or the Spice Girls??
"For a great example of infighting, read the latest colomn on pcmag.com by John C. Dvorak. but it doesnt dtop there, ask any linux geek what distro they like and then mention that you like a differant one, that is the quickest way to start a petty-ass flamewar that I have ever seen."
I agree with you, there are a lot of FOSS zealots quite vocal in Slashdot and other community forums, but you have to keep in mind that Linux didn't get where it is because of them but because of a tech-savvy silent majority, which is way more helpful and way more involved in the real issues than those guys. The zealots have more time and more energy to waste in sterile discussions, but what can we do? Should we spend hours modding down those morons or typing coherent arguments that get ignored or mod down by them anyways?
"OSS evangalist that you like GIMP, but preder photoshop, stand back on this one, lest rabid drool fall on your shoe as their eyes get bloodshot with anger and they shout "THE GIMP CAN DO ANYTHING PS CAN!" the same can be said for any number of titles. Untill the greater linux community stops acting like all closed source software is rooted in pure evil, this will be a barrier to entry as well."
True, but you're talking with an evangelist, what were you expecting? I mean, do you get objective, facts-based analysis when you speak with MS Office evangelists or Mac evangelists? The problem is not the community but a very specific type of guy within the community. Just talk to different people and you'll see the difference.
This is not the same. Red Hat and Debian mostly pull from upstream sources which do not develop together. For most of OpenBSD userland, the upstream is the same as the package maintainer.
I think you need to learn a bit more about the way Red Hat or Debian are integrated and how much they influence and contribute to the "upstream sources". Alan Cox is one example, he's a key kernel developer and he serves Red Hat interests, just as many other Red Hat employees or Debian devs helping out Linus. The same applies to different projects.
By the way: for every Linux distro I've used, the default kernel always lacks something or doesn't work in some way, and I always end up building a custom one. With OpenBSD, the default kernel is much better than any default Linux kernel I've seen.
As for your last argument, about how many people use Linux: This proves nothing. I can just as easily say, "Look how many people use Microsoft Windows! Obviously, it must be better!"
You missed the point. I never said that Linux was better because more people use it, I said that experts and corporations that really need performance, security, and overall a well written OS choose Linux over OpenBSD and I gave you plenty of examples that you are free to compare against the testimonies in the OpenBSD website. http://www.openbsd.org/users.html
Linux is very ad-hoc. It just sort of "grew." It was developed in many places by many people, few of them working together with the big context of "the Linux system" in mind.
This is the typical response of a BSD fanboy when comparing his/her BSD with "Linux", not with a Linux distro. Let's do a real comparison. I'll use RedHat Linux and Debian in most examples.
OpenBSD is the opposite. People working on OpenBSD core packages have a specific kernel, userland, config script, etc., etc. in mind. There is a concept of "the OpenBSD system" and it is fairly consistent.
You can say EXACTLY THE SAME about the Linux distros I mentioned. Both RedHat and Debian have their own "generic kernels", core pkgs, etc.
The fact is, OpenBSD just does things the Right Way. People say OpenBSD's big strength is security, but that's slightly missing the point. OpenBSD's strength is correctness. From correctness yields stability, security, and all around ease of use.
Well, let see where's the hype... Google, one (if not the most) popular search engine in the planet depends on Linux. So does Amazon.com, Earth's largest library, and MerrylLynch, one of the world's leaders in financial investments. In all cases, the stability and performance required are state of the art, and needless to say, these 3 institutions have more things to keep secure and more things to worry about than all institutions using OpenBSD combined. Just take a look at the testimonials in the OpenBSD website: http://www.openbsd.org/users.html
Now it's time to use the 2nd most popular argument of the fanboys: they use linux because of the hype.
Let's assume that three of the most powerful companies on the internet invest millions of dollars in a technology fad. Let's see what the experts are using:
The University of California, Berkeley, the alma mater of the BSDs does not use OpenBSD. Actually, they barely use FreeBSD because most computers use Debian Linux.
So does the MIT, which uses mostly Red Hat Linux and Athena, its own distro. Same thing in Stanford and CMU.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory uses Linux to build better spacecraft and make accurate calculations, such as the on-board navigational computers of space probes and airborne Scanning Radar Altimeter to study hurricanes. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3936. They use it in the Institutional Navigation System Software (INSS) in all flight projects (Galileo, Cassini, Mars, DS1, Stardust, etc.) It contains 4.5 million lines of source code. Guess what? They use RedHat.
The U.S. Army manages personnel records for 1.2 million U.S. Army soldiers, and they access those records reliably and securely anytime, from any place via a Web interface. They use RedHat, not OpenBSD. http://www.redhat.com/solutions/info/casestudies/u sarmy.html
I can go on and on forever, but this is useless. Most of the OpenBSD fans are amateurs reading crypto books, not security professionals.
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I use plan9, one day *your* standards may reflect mine
Funny, especially after reading your previous posts in this thread. What do you use it for?
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* No file name completion.
* No colored directories.
* Update the system by recompilation (yay!)
these are bad things ?
Yes my friend. We're not in 1976 anymore. Thirty years of CS development must be reflected in an OS. We have higher standards now.
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Your post really made me laugh, and you know what's even worse? When you compare it to Solaris or OSX.
In my opinion, OpenBSD users fail to distinguish between a security-oriented system and an archaic OS bloated with crypto. It is designed by paranoid amateurs reading security books, not by security experts.
I guess you need to be Matthew Thomas to appear on Slashdot's main page whining about stuff like:
10.... A foot icon? What's that about, anyway? Ubuntu's logo isn't a foot. 36. Items can't be renamed by clicking on their names and typing!
Seriously, life must be a total nightmare for this guy. Apparently he spends his first 48 hours with any OS enduring it. My favorite quote: "I have encountered that is tolerable enough for me to use for everyday work. That is a great achievement". No sh*t!
You want me to voluntarily contribute my DNA so you can keep it on file somewhere? Not a chance! I watch CSI, you know!
You haven't seen anything, there are people willing to pay up to $290 for a DNA test that measure customers' racial ancestry and their ancestral proportions if they are of mixed race.
All of the negative noise about SP2 is alot of FUD (howz that for irony). I recommend it to all of my neighbors who are inundated with viruses and [mal|ad]-ware (no way they are switchng to Linux, so don't even go there).
Oh, don't worry! Microsoft is committed to QUALITY. Although, for some reasons, they acknowledge that Norton Antivirus, some firewalls and other critical security applications are not gonna work w/ SP-2, they are doing whatever is needed to secure a smooth and flawless transition for all the spyware in your friends' PCs.
" Spielberg could have saved himself a lot of money filming "Jaws" if this thing had existed then and been at all realistic. I'll bet Grade B movie producers are scrambling over themselves to offer to rent this thing."
This thing swims like a shark but does not bite like a shark, so is not ready for the movies.
Now, I don't know much about aquatic life, but wouldn't be cheaper if, instead of mimicking sharks with a robot, they just attach three remora-like cameras to a real shark?.
Your advice does not match your analysis. Your are stating that the problem is that FSF asks for assignments. Then you advise to keep the copyright under his name and to license under a specific GPL version. You gave no motivation for the latter.
I think it is quite obvious that if he or she keeps the copyright under his or her name and release the code under a specific GPL version (say, v.2 instead of "v.2 or any later version") s/he will always be in control. No matter what RMS may do, his decisions wont affect the copyrighted code. The code is released under v.2 only, not the latest GPL.
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While it's sad to see him go, I have to wonder if his legacy isn't the easing of mankind's stress levels but accelerating it to the stratosphere. Computers have done wonders in improving our productivity, but at the cost of making humans part of the machine. We live according to the schedule of the computer rather than the other way around...How incredibly wrong he was.
LOL buddy, brush those tears from your eyes, he didn't invent your nemesis (the computer), just the integrated circuit.
What, you mean looking like an idiot isn't a great way to get a good paying job? Amazing the things you can learn on slashdot. The worst part is that the article submitter seems to frame the question as if he is part of some great repressed minority fighting to gain the right to look like an idiot.
Excuse me, but since when the Bible salesman look is a sign of maturity or wisdom?
Some people just don't like it. That's why dress codes have to be enforced genius. Because not everybody likes to wear the same stuff.
There's no merit whatsoever in dressing the way your daddy dressed when he was your age. And by the way, some of us think that judging people based solely on their appearence is the ultimate sign of idiocy.
What I find ironic, to say the least, is that the same company that accusse Linux and the GPL of being communist bans the word democracy and freedom across the ocean to avoid offending the most visible Communist Party on the planet.
I have a laptop running Red Hat 9 because Fedora 1, Fedora 2, Fedora 3 and SuSE 9.x all have so many major problems with their basic installation that the machine is unusable. My next laptop will be an Apple machine.
Obviously, you're free to do whatever you want and I don't know if there's any particular reason for you to keep using Red Hat-based distros. But if you just want to use Linux in your laptop I seriously recommend Ubuntu. For what I've seen, it's the best distro for laptops and actually, one of their next release (Oct. 2005) main priorities is to support every single laptop in the market made by Dell, HP, Toshiba and IBM (I don't know what you are using). You can get more details here.
Good luck.
Come on, JWZ asked the people not to run to Slashdot about it, kindly honour his privacy request.
The problem with this is that he mixed two very different topics in a single post. One, his new choice for a desktop (which honestly, I couldn't care less) but also, to inform every single Linux and BSD user out there that the future of his [almost] ubiquitous piece of software (xscreensaver) is "ambiguous".
Now, isn't it a bit "naïve" to release such news in a post you intend to keep private ? Can you seriously expect to keep it out of Slashdot when every single Linux or BSD project over the face of the Earth is concerned about it?
Sounds a lot like the claims SCO claimed against IBM. I suppose you're SCO's bitch too. This patent is a joke.
Dude, seriously, try to read once in a while before insulting people. Every software patent is a joke. This is not about the merits of a particular patent, this is about proving a deliberate attempt to profit from someone else's ideas when those ideas have been previously patented, and that makes a huge difference between this guy vs. Microsoft and SCO vs. IBM. SCO has no evidence nor argument whatsoever.
So.. he patented a way for Microsoft Excel to work with Microsoft Access.. both products that Microsoft makes. Then he sued Microsoft??? I know.. i patent a way for Apple Intel to work with Apple PowerPC, no one would ever think of that.
You didn't get it:
1. The guy came up with a technique to interact with Access and Excel while doing graduate studies and gets a patent.
2. He approached Microsoft Corp. in the 90s and offered them his patent. Microsoft rejects the idea and say they're not interested.
3. About the same time, Microsoft adds the same technique to his products, makes a great deal of it and gets millions in revenue.
4. Then, and only then, the guy went to court, proved that he was the first to come up with the technique , proved that he approached Microsoft, proved that he showed it to them before they ever thought about it and then gets a fair amount of money.
I don't support software patents, but if Microsoft is promoting that nasty game, they have to obey the nasty game's rules.
The article makes no sense at all:
1. The main (if not the only) reasons to outsource a job to India are a)Operating expenses b)A large pool of talented but underpaid engineers. If the pool is running out of human resources, they will just relocate those jobs to China. With a population of 1.6 billion, a 0.001% of German or French speakers still gives you 1.6 million Chinese people to choose from.
2. Also, you can easily find 20k, 30k, 40k underpaid engineers in Central America or impoverished nations in South America such as Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru. The Russians may be well-served by Eastern European countries outside the EU, such as Belarus, Georgia, and the -istans.
3. And no, those jobs wont go back to the US. If a foreign euro laguage is one of the requirements, the worst place to look it for is in one of the most monolingual societies in the developed world. Sadly, the US it's one of the few places where people brag about not being able to speak a foreign language.
The idea is awesome and it's quite easy to understand, but the devil is in the execution. I know it's still in beta, but if you try, for example, "Linux" and choose 100% researching, it comes up with:
... Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively ...
colinux.org
... DebianDesktopDevelopmentDistributionFuture of LinuxGamingGeneral newsGentooGovernmentHardwareInterviewKernelLinux vs WindowsLinux.Box NewsletterMan of ...
linux.box.sk
... If you want to set up a Linux-based firewall, there's no need to run a bloated distribution ... toward systematically auditing Windows and Linux device-driver code for flaws, security ...
linuxsecurity.com
(56) Cooperative Linux. Open this result in new window Main site. Publications. Development. Search. All the web. Only www.colinux.org. References. What is coLinux. If Linux runs on every architecture, why should another operating system be in its way? "
(16) Linux BoxOpen this result in new window
(25) Home - The Community's Center for SecurityOpen this result in new window
Which are not exactly what I would call useful research sites. Wikipedia comes in #4.
Oh my god, this already exists in Spain: Mobipay, Paybox. Little success, by the way.
Yep, and people have been doing it for YEARS in Scandinavia
Digg is not his; it was made and is run by a friend of his. Kevin's involvement in dig is that he's an active user on it.
Well, maybe I misunderstood something, but I just listened to the TWiT Podcast (#3) http://www.twit.tv/ and he says "yeah, digg is mine".
I greatly enjoyed The Broken. Whatever happened to it?
The Broken just released a few episodes. Apparently he's going to rerelease it again with systm (according to his blog, those are going to be his two flagship shows).http://www.kevinrose.com/
By the way, he has a website: http://www.digg.com/ which is like Slashdot but community-driven, give it a try.
I would find a more scientific subject to study, you know, that is actually related to physics
Not just a better topic, but much better assumptions. Look at what they say in the last paragraph:
"The researchers admit that their analysis is based on one contentious assumption: that all the songs presented are equally good, so that votes are a reflection of national taste rather than the absolute quality of the entries."
So would people vote in the same way whether the singer is Eric Clapton or the Spice Girls??
That's ridiculous.
"For a great example of infighting, read the latest colomn on pcmag.com by John C. Dvorak. but it doesnt dtop there, ask any linux geek what distro they like and then mention that you like a differant one, that is the quickest way to start a petty-ass flamewar that I have ever seen."
I agree with you, there are a lot of FOSS zealots quite vocal in Slashdot and other community forums, but you have to keep in mind that Linux didn't get where it is because of them but because of a tech-savvy silent majority, which is way more helpful and way more involved in the real issues than those guys. The zealots have more time and more energy to waste in sterile discussions, but what can we do? Should we spend hours modding down those morons or typing coherent arguments that get ignored or mod down by them anyways?
"OSS evangalist that you like GIMP, but preder photoshop, stand back on this one, lest rabid drool fall on your shoe as their eyes get bloodshot with anger and they shout "THE GIMP CAN DO ANYTHING PS CAN!" the same can be said for any number of titles. Untill the greater linux community stops acting like all closed source software is rooted in pure evil, this will be a barrier to entry as well."
True, but you're talking with an evangelist, what were you expecting? I mean, do you get objective, facts-based analysis when you speak with MS Office evangelists or Mac evangelists? The problem is not the community but a very specific type of guy within the community. Just talk to different people and you'll see the difference.
This is not the same. Red Hat and Debian mostly pull from upstream sources which do not develop together. For most of OpenBSD userland, the upstream is the same as the package maintainer.
h andbook/kernelconfig-custom-kernel.html
I think you need to learn a bit more about the way Red Hat or Debian are integrated and how much they influence and contribute to the "upstream sources". Alan Cox is one example, he's a key kernel developer and he serves Red Hat interests, just as many other Red Hat employees or Debian devs helping out Linus. The same applies to different projects.
By the way: for every Linux distro I've used, the default kernel always lacks something or doesn't work in some way, and I always end up building a custom one. With OpenBSD, the default kernel is much better than any default Linux kernel I've seen.
That's cool, but I hope you concede that your situation it's not common. That the vast majority of Linux users do not need to recompile kernels and, as a matter of fact, kernel recompilation is way more common in BSDland, http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/
As for your last argument, about how many people use Linux: This proves nothing. I can just as easily say, "Look how many people use Microsoft Windows! Obviously, it must be better!"
You missed the point. I never said that Linux was better because more people use it, I said that experts and corporations that really need performance, security, and overall a well written OS choose Linux over OpenBSD and I gave you plenty of examples that you are free to compare against the testimonies in the OpenBSD website. http://www.openbsd.org/users.html
Linux is very ad-hoc. It just sort of "grew." It was developed in many places by many people, few of them working together with the big context of "the Linux system" in mind.
u sarmy.html
This is the typical response of a BSD fanboy when comparing his/her BSD with "Linux", not with a Linux distro. Let's do a real comparison. I'll use RedHat Linux and Debian in most examples.
OpenBSD is the opposite. People working on OpenBSD core packages have a specific kernel, userland, config script, etc., etc. in mind. There is a concept of "the OpenBSD system" and it is fairly consistent.
You can say EXACTLY THE SAME about the Linux distros I mentioned. Both RedHat and Debian have their own "generic kernels", core pkgs, etc.
The fact is, OpenBSD just does things the Right Way. People say OpenBSD's big strength is security, but that's slightly missing the point. OpenBSD's strength is correctness. From correctness yields stability, security, and all around ease of use.
Well, let see where's the hype...
Google, one (if not the most) popular search engine in the planet depends on Linux. So does Amazon.com, Earth's largest library, and MerrylLynch, one of the world's leaders in financial investments. In all cases, the stability and performance required are state of the art, and needless to say, these 3 institutions have more things to keep secure and more things to worry about than all institutions using OpenBSD combined. Just take a look at the testimonials in the OpenBSD website: http://www.openbsd.org/users.html
Now it's time to use the 2nd most popular argument of the fanboys: they use linux because of the hype.
Let's assume that three of the most powerful companies on the internet invest millions of dollars in a technology fad. Let's see what the experts are using:
The University of California, Berkeley, the alma mater of the BSDs does not use OpenBSD. Actually, they barely use FreeBSD because most computers use Debian Linux. So does the MIT, which uses mostly Red Hat Linux and Athena, its own distro. Same thing in Stanford and CMU.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory uses Linux to build better spacecraft and make accurate calculations, such as the on-board navigational computers of space probes and airborne Scanning Radar Altimeter to study hurricanes. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3936. They use it in the Institutional Navigation System Software (INSS) in all flight projects (Galileo, Cassini, Mars, DS1, Stardust, etc.) It contains 4.5 million lines of source code. Guess what? They use RedHat.
The U.S. Army manages personnel records for 1.2 million U.S. Army soldiers, and they access those records reliably and securely anytime, from any place via a Web interface. They use RedHat, not OpenBSD. http://www.redhat.com/solutions/info/casestudies/
I can go on and on forever, but this is useless. Most of the OpenBSD fans are amateurs reading crypto books, not security professionals.
I use plan9, one day *your* standards may reflect mine
Funny, especially after reading your previous posts in this thread. What do you use it for?
* No file name completion. * No colored directories. * Update the system by recompilation (yay!)
these are bad things ?
Yes my friend. We're not in 1976 anymore. Thirty years of CS development must be reflected in an OS. We have higher standards now.
Your post really made me laugh, and you know what's even worse? When you compare it to Solaris or OSX.
In my opinion, OpenBSD users fail to distinguish between a security-oriented system and an archaic OS bloated with crypto. It is designed by paranoid amateurs reading security books, not by security experts.
hopefully they can get onboard soundcards to actually work with the volumen control by 2010
Hopefully soundcards manufacturers will actually work with F/OSS developers by 2010.
I guess you need to be Matthew Thomas to appear on Slashdot's main page whining about stuff like:
10.
36. Items can't be renamed by clicking on their names and typing!
Seriously, life must be a total nightmare for this guy. Apparently he spends his first 48 hours with any OS enduring it. My favorite quote: "I have encountered that is tolerable enough for me to use for everyday work. That is a great achievement". No sh*t!
You want me to voluntarily contribute my DNA so you can keep it on file somewhere? Not a chance! I watch CSI, you know!
s t_nyt_Oct2002.htm
You haven't seen anything, there are people willing to pay up to $290 for a DNA test that measure customers' racial ancestry and their ancestral proportions if they are of mixed race.
Check it out: http://www.racesci.org/in_media/raceanddna/dna_te
All of the negative noise about SP2 is alot of FUD (howz that for irony). I recommend it to all of my neighbors who are inundated with viruses and [mal|ad]-ware (no way they are switchng to Linux, so don't even go there).
Oh, don't worry! Microsoft is committed to QUALITY. Although, for some reasons, they acknowledge that Norton Antivirus, some firewalls and other critical security applications are not gonna work w/ SP-2, they are doing whatever is needed to secure a smooth and flawless transition for all the spyware in your friends' PCs.
" Spielberg could have saved himself a lot of money filming "Jaws" if this thing had existed then and been at all realistic. I'll bet Grade B movie producers are scrambling over themselves to offer to rent this thing."
This thing swims like a shark but does not bite like a shark, so is not ready for the movies.
Now, I don't know much about aquatic life, but wouldn't be cheaper if, instead of mimicking sharks with a robot, they just attach three remora-like cameras to a real shark?.
Your advice does not match your analysis. Your are stating that the problem is that FSF asks for assignments. Then you advise to keep the copyright under his name and to license under a specific GPL version. You gave no motivation for the latter.
I think it is quite obvious that if he or she keeps the copyright under his or her name and release the code under a specific GPL version (say, v.2 instead of "v.2 or any later version") s/he will always be in control. No matter what RMS may do, his decisions wont affect the copyrighted code. The code is released under v.2 only, not the latest GPL.