I dont know ANYTHING about solaris, so, does it have X or some other GUI? If yes, is it as good as kde or gnome (or can we run kde or gnome on solaris?). br>
I wonder what will happen to the fate of Linux (kernel) now that solaris will be open sourced.
Many years, people were willing to pay for browsers. Now, after free(as in beer) browsers available, people are willing no more. Some might even think the idea is just absurd.
Who knows, many years from now, people might laugh when someone says "I paid 200 bucks for Windows XP". (I know some people who would laugh right now, but thats beside the point)
It is a little absurd for us to all think that open sources licenses won't get abused to some extent.
Huh? Its not the license that's abused. Source code with any license can be abused like this. Its the source code thats abused. If its just a grammatical error, make sure you get stuff like this right the next time.
What you are frowning about is the very the nature of the current state of OSS software. There are just too many apps to do a single task and most of them can do better with a little more work. This might not be so bad for end-user apps like mail clients, but this bad for stuff like X toolkits and libraries. People who develop end-user apps are in a dillema - make your app less dependent but lacking features OR more dependent with features. People need to either stop duplicating work or agree on standards for libraries et al.
On a side note, however, anyone with a fair amount of harddisk space has to install both KDE and GNOME and the supporting libraries. There are just too many important apps using either one of them to ignore one of them completely, and statically linking programs is only going to increase burden on your disk space.
No. Contributing to the same project would be better unless you have something in mind that would need some serious design changes. Even then there would be stuff you will want from other projects.
Mod parent up. I searched for "fuck" and didn't get even one result. There are far too many non-porn related pages which contain words like this to be censored out.
On google:
Results 1 - 10 of about 195,000,000 for windows
Results 1 - 10 of about 162,000,000 for linux
Results 1 - 10 of about 44,400,000 for unix
Results 1 - 10 of about 163,000,000 for microsoft
So, google has a higher proportion of linux pages than msn. But wait before you start spinning your conspiracy theories. Google indexes the web archives of Linux related mailing lists and msn seems to be not so good at that. Excluding the mailing lists there a lot more pages contaning the term "windows" than "linux'. Also, since msn is run by Microsoft, the crawlers probably started at microsoft.com and msn.com and other microsoft run websites which obviously have more windows pages and links than linux related ones. So this might be an honest "mistake".
It seems that Microsoft might just be trying to cut in on the business that Google, Yahoo, AskJeeves and all those other engines are making.
No, Bill Gates is just trying to impress his wife. "Look at my search engine honey, search for 'bill gates nude'. I bet you have never seen THAT before!"
Microsoft is finally beginning to learn that simplicity is very important. Look at the UI of their search engine page. Hmm... A word that starts with 'G' and ends with 'oogle' comes to my mind..
I searched for 'html' in their "preview" search engine and the w3c page for HTML was nowhere in the first 20 results. I didn't look beyond 20 results. The w3c page should have been in at least the first 20 results. Is this search engine really that good?
Looks like Google and Firefox have brains
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It seems Google and Firefox developers really have some grey matter. For a long time Microsoft's strategy has been to use one of its existing monopoly in a market to monopolize another market - Browser, Search Engine, E-mail, Server, You name it. The thing is that all of its program depend on one another - or as Microsoft would have loved to put it, "integrate" with one another. The only way for Microsoft Competitors to compete against Microsoft is to unite - an Office Suite provider can team with a graphics software provider, a server side software provider can team up with a client side software provider, or in this case, a search engine can team up with a Browser. But, Microsoft still has a monopoly in the desktop market and it can use/abuse it to gain marketshare in the search engine and browser fields. So now if Google/Firefox want to make sure they dont't just disappear they have to team up with other desktops like Mac or the open source desktops like KDE/GNOME. Anyway, this looks like an intelligent move by both Google and Firefox. Now google can get a share of Firefox's (increasing number of) users and Firefox will great (customized for Firefox) start page by Google to attract new users.
There seem to be a lot of FireFox related articles on slashdot and after the release of 1.0 it will only increase. So how about a new FireFox topic in the submit stories section of slashdot with the cool looking FireFox logo?
This is what happenes when applications try to do more than what they are supposed to do. An email client is just supposed to read and send messages. All "dynamicness" and interactivity must be left to the appropriate programs. And this is exactly where *NIXes excell. You can't do a scripting exploit in 'mail' - Why? Because you can't do scripting. Let the current do-eveything software industry led by Microsft be a lesson to all programmers. Let's keep our programs simple. Let's continue the UNIX philosophy of one program for one task.
Stuff like Photoshop and 3ds max will be ported to Linux eventually. Companies like Adobe just can't afford to avoid the Linux market. Also, by not porting them to Linux the companies would be encouraging people to switch to Open Source alternatives like GIMP and Blender. Once these Open Source alternatives develop enough they will starting coming into Windows (as these two already have) and will start cutting into the market share of Photoshop et al. IIRC, PowerDVD has already been ported to Linux.
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Bill Gates has just proclaimed the end of passwords.
In the future we will be using smartcards and our computers will have 64k of memory.
900,000(songs) / 1000(songs/day) = 900 days > 10 months
note that he "started slowly", which i assume means less than 1000 songs / day
the math does not add up for me. anyone can fix the anomaly?
Maybe he worked for Arthur Andersen.
I dont know ANYTHING about solaris, so, does it have X or some other GUI? If yes, is it as good as kde or gnome (or can we run kde or gnome on solaris?).
br> I wonder what will happen to the fate of Linux (kernel) now that solaris will be open sourced.
There's a lot more to an OS than the damn window manager!
But thats what most newbies (who come from windows) seem to care right now...
Many years, people were willing to pay for browsers. Now, after free(as in beer) browsers available, people are willing no more. Some might even think the idea is just absurd.
Who knows, many years from now, people might laugh when someone says "I paid 200 bucks for Windows XP". (I know some people who would laugh right now, but thats beside the point)
Despite some minor issues (you still don't see what you type)
Despite some minor issues (your vaccum cleaner wont suck)
Wal-Mart has 460 terabytes of data
The Internet Archive has 100 terabytes of data.
It is a little absurd for us to all think that open sources licenses won't get abused to some extent.
Huh? Its not the license that's abused. Source code with any license can be abused like this. Its the source code thats abused. If its just a grammatical error, make sure you get stuff like this right the next time.
"Security vulnerability discovered in Windows" has become as common as "Britney Spears gets married".
No this dates WAY back - to 2001 google groups
A quick search on google groups reveals that this has been going on since as far back as 2001 (google groups). Why am I seeing an article so late?
What you are frowning about is the very the nature of the current state of OSS software. There are just too many apps to do a single task and most of them can do better with a little more work. This might not be so bad for end-user apps like mail clients, but this bad for stuff like X toolkits and libraries. People who develop end-user apps are in a dillema - make your app less dependent but lacking features OR more dependent with features. People need to either stop duplicating work or agree on standards for libraries et al.
On a side note, however, anyone with a fair amount of harddisk space has to install both KDE and GNOME and the supporting libraries. There are just too many important apps using either one of them to ignore one of them completely, and statically linking programs is only going to increase burden on your disk space.
but the more the merrier!
No. Contributing to the same project would be better unless you have something in mind that would need some serious design changes. Even then there would be stuff you will want from other projects.
Will this ever go past beta? because once they make it public it will definitely be abused...
Mod parent up. I searched for "fuck" and didn't get even one result. There are far too many non-porn related pages which contain words like this to be censored out.
On google:
Results 1 - 10 of about 195,000,000 for windows
Results 1 - 10 of about 162,000,000 for linux
Results 1 - 10 of about 44,400,000 for unix
Results 1 - 10 of about 163,000,000 for microsoft
So, google has a higher proportion of linux pages than msn. But wait before you start spinning your conspiracy theories. Google indexes the web archives of Linux related mailing lists and msn seems to be not so good at that. Excluding the mailing lists there a lot more pages contaning the term "windows" than "linux'. Also, since msn is run by Microsoft, the crawlers probably started at microsoft.com and msn.com and other microsoft run websites which obviously have more windows pages and links than linux related ones. So this might be an honest "mistake".
It seems that Microsoft might just be trying to cut in on the business that Google, Yahoo, AskJeeves and all those other engines are making.
No, Bill Gates is just trying to impress his wife. "Look at my search engine honey, search for 'bill gates nude'. I bet you have never seen THAT before!"
Microsoft is finally beginning to learn that simplicity is very important. Look at the UI of their search engine page. Hmm... A word that starts with 'G' and ends with 'oogle' comes to my mind..
I searched for 'html' in their "preview" search engine and the w3c page for HTML was nowhere in the first 20 results. I didn't look beyond 20 results. The w3c page should have been in at least the first 20 results. Is this search engine really that good?
It seems Google and Firefox developers really have some grey matter. For a long time Microsoft's strategy has been to use one of its existing monopoly in a market to monopolize another market - Browser, Search Engine, E-mail, Server, You name it. The thing is that all of its program depend on one another - or as Microsoft would have loved to put it, "integrate" with one another. The only way for Microsoft Competitors to compete against Microsoft is to unite - an Office Suite provider can team with a graphics software provider, a server side software provider can team up with a client side software provider, or in this case, a search engine can team up with a Browser. But, Microsoft still has a monopoly in the desktop market and it can use/abuse it to gain marketshare in the search engine and browser fields. So now if Google/Firefox want to make sure they dont't just disappear they have to team up with other desktops like Mac or the open source desktops like KDE/GNOME. Anyway, this looks like an intelligent move by both Google and Firefox. Now google can get a share of Firefox's (increasing number of) users and Firefox will great (customized for Firefox) start page by Google to attract new users.
There seem to be a lot of FireFox related articles on slashdot and after the release of 1.0 it will only increase. So how about a new FireFox topic in the submit stories section of slashdot with the cool looking FireFox logo?
More spam cases for Virgina?
Can't slashdot include an automatic spell-checker?
This is what happenes when applications try to do more than what they are supposed to do. An email client is just supposed to read and send messages. All "dynamicness" and interactivity must be left to the appropriate programs. And this is exactly where *NIXes excell. You can't do a scripting exploit in 'mail' - Why? Because you can't do scripting. Let the current do-eveything software industry led by Microsft be a lesson to all programmers. Let's keep our programs simple. Let's continue the UNIX philosophy of one program for one task.
Maybe he wrote the "Who wrote the SoBig?" report himself to popularize his "Send-Safe" software... You never know...
Stuff like Photoshop and 3ds max will be ported to Linux eventually. Companies like Adobe just can't afford to avoid the Linux market. Also, by not porting them to Linux the companies would be encouraging people to switch to Open Source alternatives like GIMP and Blender. Once these Open Source alternatives develop enough they will starting coming into Windows (as these two already have) and will start cutting into the market share of Photoshop et al. IIRC, PowerDVD has already been ported to Linux.