I never said anything about Debian on a server. I use mostly FreeBSD and NetBSD for that. But as far as Debian on the desktop, I think it is perfect for enterprise desktop use. Once it is setup, with NFS for file access form the FreeBSD server, anyone can use it, even my grandmother, grandmother and uncle are able to use icewm and Firefox (with webmail) for checking e-mail, using usps.com, playing mp3's, OpenOffice, etc., and some of them have never used a computer before. I am going to have to disagree about a distribution's platform support in the enterprise. I do think platform support is important. If I have fifty x86 desktops and I want to add 20 Mac Minis (because they are quiet, cheap, and small), do I want to worry about having to run two different distributions? No. I want one solid distribution to run on both to ease migration.
I used Slackware for two years on my desktops and laptop. Even with the lack of package management features, I didn't mind it. It was a very solid distribution that served my x86 desktop machines well, and it still runs on my x86 laptop. I purchased a Mac Mini from Apple to put Linux on. After checking some reviews, I decided Debian was the way to go for my PPC desktop machine. I like Debian so well that I decided to put it on all my other desktop machines. It has served me well. Now I still have my Slackware x86 laptop, and my Debian {x86, PPC] desktops with ReiserFS. Of course, I keep all my C source to my coding projects and mp3's on my FreeBSD server, with NetBSD running my Apache server for playing with PHP, and OpenBSD for firewall. If Slackware had a mature Mac PPC port, I would run it.
It disappoints me that distributions that are forked off of Debian often fall short of it by not preserving some of Debians greatest assets, like being the NetBSD of Linux dsitributions so I can run Debian on my x86 desktops, and my PPC Mac Mini. I tried Xandros, which is based off of Debian a while back (not for myself, I was running Slackware back then) and it was okay for x86, but required alot of mucking around just to change the window manager to one that the user preferred. Also, it is x86 only, which is too bad (I know about Ubuntu, but I want one distribution for all desktops if possible, but I don't mind different iteraitons of *BSD on server/router) Lets hope this one will at least support both PPC Macs and x86 PCs.
Marc Fleury obviously doesn't understand the philosophy of opensource. Did he bother to consider revenue from support contracts? Or that companies will pay you to work on opensource software? Also, opensource software saves companies money. Instead of building your application from scratch for your particular company, use an existing opensource application and (thanks to source) pay for only modification to meet your needs, and your changes may be useful for others. Or you can dual license, or sell hardware with opensource software included.
Colour blindness is not a disability. I think a colour is black if it is too dark (if it is brown, blue, purple, black, etc.), but I don't need brail to read Shakespeare. I can use my computer as long as my terminal doesn't use ridiculous colours for foreground and background. The only problem is sometimes copying text from an image to confirm I am not a script (if the text is obfuscated.) People need to stop assuming everyone has perfect colour sight and letting the rest of us get thrown to the side. Print things in black and white, and make it easier for everyone to read.
Sorry about what happened to your machine. The same thing happened to my older 50 MHz 16 colour LCD 486 Zenith laptop that runs NetBSD (it has 16 MB RAM.) It was dropped down the stairs twice, knocked off a desk onto a ceramic tile floor, and slammed into my car's dash board when someone went out in front of me at 40 MPH. Everything works fine, except the battery has been dead for many years, so I have to run it plugged in. Zenith may have made some bad CRT televisions, but the Zenith data systems laptop was solid. After the crash the case has a small (one centimetre long) crack on the back edge, but it is still good. I no longer use it now that I have my 233 MHz Dell Latitude with 64 MB of RAM. It came with Windows XP, which ran fine. I have Slackware Linux running on it now though. It has also been very reliable (but has never been dropped like the other was) ever since I had to take it apart eight times last year to fix various problems (keyboard/mouse not working, screen flicker, etc.) With enough memory, anything should run. Of course, CPU cache helps alot. My Pentium 133 MHz IBM server with NetBSD (as backup machine for 300 MHz PII running FreeBSD) crawls if I disable CPU cache in the CMOS setup.
I think what they mean is that empty crates have been marked "Do Not Open before Midnight" so that a miscreant will be go for those crates first. It is a classic social engineering technique. Like putting out a junk laptop in the view of a theif that says "important data" so he will run off with that one and not go for where the data really is (the server.) I do agree that it is not really digital rights management, but nonetheless, GPS is digital.;)
Wouldn't it be better to have goggles (with built-in hearing aids for sound decryption and reproduction to the ear) that everyone has to use in order view/hear content. Text in books, on web sites would be encrypted with visual representation of the cipher text that the computer embedded in the goggles would read, and decrypt with your unique iris scan data used for the private key, and the public key being downloaded over the cell phone network. Video and sound could also be decrypted for view/listening of only the owner. If someone stole the goggles, their iris would be different, causing them to have to create their own account with a provider in order to view content in pay-per-view, with the ability to prepay for so many views of a book, or anything that can be displayed on a CRT (video, text) (or sound) to be viewed so many times. Someday books and "digital" content will sell for the price of the medium, and then you pay for the license to use it. GPS could be also included so that content could not be viewed in countries it was not approved for.
There needs to be more action against typosquatting/registering of domain names to provide useless ad-filled "search" sites with no real content. These sites are annoying when they come up as results on Google, and when I make a mistake, like typing slashdot and then Shift-Enter (for.net) instead of Ctrl-Shift Enter (for.org) and go to some other site. Domains registration should require review of the registration request, kind of like USPTO and patents. I find it annoying when I want to register a domain for a site and find it is being used for something stupid, and I can't afford to buy it off of them.
I have some Debian Linux desktops and and NetBSD/FreeBSD servers on my network, along with a 133 MHz Windows 2000 machine with 32 MB of RAM for compiling my source in MinGW. (I didn't want to put Windows 2000 on my 300 MHz PII machine, that is for my FreeBSD server). I can tell you that I need to keep my firewall. As a lazy admin, I can't worry about the adverse effects of not keeping up on the latest vurnerbilities on securityfocus. And no one should run a regular desktop machine (even Linux or *BSD) directly on their broadband connection. That makes it too easy for the malicous. I think ISPs should require all users have at least a software firewall. Maybe if you aren't a lazy admin like me, you can afford the risk of running your server without a firewall in between.
No offense, but please don't tell me that. I cancelled my health insurance and stopped seeing my doctor (or any other medical personel) because I got sick of hearing that. I know a biology teacher that told me that they don't know if it causes diabetes anyway. I don't think it does. I may be overweight, and unable to run, but I am not an athlete so it doesn't matter. I have two automobiles if I need to go somewhere.
As a typical slashdotter, I don't think I will ever have childen, let alone grandchildren. I don't even have any friends. I get modded -1, Unfunny in real life. So I don't really give a bloody hell what happens when I am gone. You can blame people like the fucktards that oppose us putting oil wells in Alaska for the shortage of oil. I like how my Mac Mini is composed with hydrocarbons from oil as an ingredient. The intelligent will find new ways of getting around problems. Germany produced oil from coal. There is always around a problem. There are too many stupid people alive anyway. 95% of the world population can't even grasp the basics of pointers in C. It is these people who use our oil by paying for CDs with useless garbage on them, associated with the RIAA MPAA. Televisions be manufactured so people can watch inaccurate news. Maybe the future will become more like early America was? Instead of "I've got to have that!", they will ask themselves "Do I really want to support wasting oil on making plastic cases for the latest DVD of mindless garbage?" I know I only buy things I can use. I may be running twelve computers, but I actually gain knowledge from coding, applying OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD to different objectives, etc.
I refuse to give up driving my Ford Explorer and eating my Big Macs! Seriously, "become a vegetarian and stop driving" sounds like a troll. We should be able to come up with better energy fuel sources for beef production and propelling my vehicle. Why should we compromise?
I need to get in on this so I can start my new business, named Doublelook, Inc. Companies like GEICO and Vonage will pay me to display thier banner ads on large 10-mile-wide orbiting displays. And everynight, an eclipse caused by a circular display. Maybe it could say "This eclipse brought to you by Coca-Cola?" I just need to work out my pricing model. Maybe a cost per impression, but how am I going to know when someone looks at the space banner?
You may be trying to be funny, but it is not that Americans like using inefficient fossil fuel burning vehicles. Alot of us don't want to afford a new, efficient fuel cell vehicle. My older Ford Explorer and Dodge Grand Caravan have served me well with excellent performance and have been relatively trouble free (the Ford Explorer stalls sometimes and the Dodge Grand Caravan SE burns engine oil and goes through a transmission every nine-thirteen months.) I don't have to deal with car payments, which is important, as I am not an auto enthusiest, I like to use my money for more interesting things like buying hardware for running *BSD (server/router) and Linux (desktop), like my Mac Mini, and Adelphia cable. If I bought a new, efficient vehicle, I could no longer enjoy cable and buying computer hardware, or my six litres of Mountain Dew a day (two litres of it store brand thanks to high gasoline tax)
You made some good points. Hydrogen to cars is like ATP (adenosine triphosphate) to cells. We can take glucose, fructose in as energy, and it doesn't matter, it ends up as ATP. I never said I don't think we should use fuel cells in cars. I think we should, but we need to be aware of where the energy is coming from for these fuel cells. I don't really care what we do to the enviroment as long as I'm not alive when oxygen becomes rare enough to charge a fee for. But I do care about dependence on foreign fuel sources. If we could combine many different energy sources for fuel cell production (oil from U.S. ground, welfare recipients on stationary bicycles, solar energy, wind mills, dams, used soybean oil running in diesel generators, etc.) maybe we could lessen dependence on foriegn fossil fuels by 25%? I don't know about you, but I don't like paying $37 USD to fill my Ford Explorer's tank (Maine, U.S. has high gas taxes) and then having it gone after I get back from work. To afford the gasoline, I have to drink only four litres of real Mountain Dew a day. After that, the next has to be Wal-Mart brand Mountain Lightning for the day.:(
If it takes more oil to obtain hydrogen in proper form than just refining it to diesel or gasoline and using it in an internal combustion engine, is it going to help? We will still be dependent on foreign oil. Maybe we could power the fuel cell producing plants by burning soybean oil in modified disel generators? There is a John Deere diesel generator I saw that was modified with a heat exchanger to heat up used soybean oil and run it through the engine after it warms up, requiring disel (fossil fuel) ot only be used to start up and shut down. We could get that oil from Texas, or maybe Alaska.
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Microsoft hopes people will be forced to upgrade to Longhorn to use my software. But I plan to make sure my software runs on Windows NT 4.0/Windows 95 and up. I would only install Longhorn to work out incompatibilities with changes in Longhorn.
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Well, my grandmother is fine with Windows 98 and Firefox, but she isn't a developer. I personally run Debian Linux on my desktop Macs and PCs, and laptops, with the OpenBSD to firewall, and FreeBSD and NetBSD on servers. But as a developer, I am interested in the latest version of Windows and Mac OS X because I may want to develop for it. Right now my applications I have written use Xlib directly, so it will be difficult to port, but nonetheless, when I do start porting, I will want to have Longhorn as a target to develop for, because that is what is going to go with all the new Dells.
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Huh? Where is the torrent? gcnaddict forgot to add the torrent link. I plan to install this on my 233 MHz Dell Latitude 64 MB of RAM. I got Windows 2000 Professional to install on my 133 MHz Dell Dimension with 32 MB of RAM (albeit Windows complained about running too low on virtual memory), so I know this laptop will run Longhorn.
license its technology to other companies, and encourage customers to invest in it, like when Kmart started encouraging non investors to purchase KMart shares.
NASA had visual, but I am hoping China can one-up NASA and put a microphone onboard so we can hear the exciting sounds of a space collision. Did George Lucas do this?
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You don't need to buy a dvorak keyboard, just change the keybd map and rip off the key covers and change them to be dvorak.
You must be bored. Why not post under an account or something?
I never said anything about Debian on a server. I use mostly FreeBSD and NetBSD for that. But as far as Debian on the desktop, I think it is perfect for enterprise desktop use. Once it is setup, with NFS for file access form the FreeBSD server, anyone can use it, even my grandmother, grandmother and uncle are able to use icewm and Firefox (with webmail) for checking e-mail, using usps.com, playing mp3's, OpenOffice, etc., and some of them have never used a computer before. I am going to have to disagree about a distribution's platform support in the enterprise. I do think platform support is important. If I have fifty x86 desktops and I want to add 20 Mac Minis (because they are quiet, cheap, and small), do I want to worry about having to run two different distributions? No. I want one solid distribution to run on both to ease migration.
I used Slackware for two years on my desktops and laptop. Even with the lack of package management features, I didn't mind it. It was a very solid distribution that served my x86 desktop machines well, and it still runs on my x86 laptop. I purchased a Mac Mini from Apple to put Linux on. After checking some reviews, I decided Debian was the way to go for my PPC desktop machine. I like Debian so well that I decided to put it on all my other desktop machines. It has served me well. Now I still have my Slackware x86 laptop, and my Debian {x86, PPC] desktops with ReiserFS. Of course, I keep all my C source to my coding projects and mp3's on my FreeBSD server, with NetBSD running my Apache server for playing with PHP, and OpenBSD for firewall. If Slackware had a mature Mac PPC port, I would run it.
It disappoints me that distributions that are forked off of Debian often fall short of it by not preserving some of Debians greatest assets, like being the NetBSD of Linux dsitributions so I can run Debian on my x86 desktops, and my PPC Mac Mini. I tried Xandros, which is based off of Debian a while back (not for myself, I was running Slackware back then) and it was okay for x86, but required alot of mucking around just to change the window manager to one that the user preferred. Also, it is x86 only, which is too bad (I know about Ubuntu, but I want one distribution for all desktops if possible, but I don't mind different iteraitons of *BSD on server/router) Lets hope this one will at least support both PPC Macs and x86 PCs.
No I didn't. I am too busy working on my Xlib program to be bothered to RTFA, I just read the Slashdot summery, call me lazy. :-)
Marc Fleury obviously doesn't understand the philosophy of opensource. Did he bother to consider revenue from support contracts? Or that companies will pay you to work on opensource software? Also, opensource software saves companies money. Instead of building your application from scratch for your particular company, use an existing opensource application and (thanks to source) pay for only modification to meet your needs, and your changes may be useful for others. Or you can dual license, or sell hardware with opensource software included.
Colour blindness is not a disability. I think a colour is black if it is too dark (if it is brown, blue, purple, black, etc.), but I don't need brail to read Shakespeare. I can use my computer as long as my terminal doesn't use ridiculous colours for foreground and background. The only problem is sometimes copying text from an image to confirm I am not a script (if the text is obfuscated.) People need to stop assuming everyone has perfect colour sight and letting the rest of us get thrown to the side. Print things in black and white, and make it easier for everyone to read.
Sorry about what happened to your machine. The same thing happened to my older 50 MHz 16 colour LCD 486 Zenith laptop that runs NetBSD (it has 16 MB RAM.) It was dropped down the stairs twice, knocked off a desk onto a ceramic tile floor, and slammed into my car's dash board when someone went out in front of me at 40 MPH. Everything works fine, except the battery has been dead for many years, so I have to run it plugged in. Zenith may have made some bad CRT televisions, but the Zenith data systems laptop was solid. After the crash the case has a small (one centimetre long) crack on the back edge, but it is still good. I no longer use it now that I have my 233 MHz Dell Latitude with 64 MB of RAM. It came with Windows XP, which ran fine. I have Slackware Linux running on it now though. It has also been very reliable (but has never been dropped like the other was) ever since I had to take it apart eight times last year to fix various problems (keyboard/mouse not working, screen flicker, etc.) With enough memory, anything should run. Of course, CPU cache helps alot. My Pentium 133 MHz IBM server with NetBSD (as backup machine for 300 MHz PII running FreeBSD) crawls if I disable CPU cache in the CMOS setup.
I think what they mean is that empty crates have been marked "Do Not Open before Midnight" so that a miscreant will be go for those crates first. It is a classic social engineering technique. Like putting out a junk laptop in the view of a theif that says "important data" so he will run off with that one and not go for where the data really is (the server.) I do agree that it is not really digital rights management, but nonetheless, GPS is digital. ;)
Wouldn't it be better to have goggles (with built-in hearing aids for sound decryption and reproduction to the ear) that everyone has to use in order view/hear content. Text in books, on web sites would be encrypted with visual representation of the cipher text that the computer embedded in the goggles would read, and decrypt with your unique iris scan data used for the private key, and the public key being downloaded over the cell phone network. Video and sound could also be decrypted for view/listening of only the owner. If someone stole the goggles, their iris would be different, causing them to have to create their own account with a provider in order to view content in pay-per-view, with the ability to prepay for so many views of a book, or anything that can be displayed on a CRT (video, text) (or sound) to be viewed so many times. Someday books and "digital" content will sell for the price of the medium, and then you pay for the license to use it. GPS could be also included so that content could not be viewed in countries it was not approved for.
There needs to be more action against typosquatting/registering of domain names to provide useless ad-filled "search" sites with no real content. These sites are annoying when they come up as results on Google, and when I make a mistake, like typing slashdot and then Shift-Enter (for .net) instead of Ctrl-Shift Enter (for .org) and go to some other site. Domains registration should require review of the registration request, kind of like USPTO and patents. I find it annoying when I want to register a domain for a site and find it is being used for something stupid, and I can't afford to buy it off of them.
I have some Debian Linux desktops and and NetBSD/FreeBSD servers on my network, along with a 133 MHz Windows 2000 machine with 32 MB of RAM for compiling my source in MinGW. (I didn't want to put Windows 2000 on my 300 MHz PII machine, that is for my FreeBSD server). I can tell you that I need to keep my firewall. As a lazy admin, I can't worry about the adverse effects of not keeping up on the latest vurnerbilities on securityfocus. And no one should run a regular desktop machine (even Linux or *BSD) directly on their broadband connection. That makes it too easy for the malicous. I think ISPs should require all users have at least a software firewall. Maybe if you aren't a lazy admin like me, you can afford the risk of running your server without a firewall in between.
No offense, but please don't tell me that. I cancelled my health insurance and stopped seeing my doctor (or any other medical personel) because I got sick of hearing that. I know a biology teacher that told me that they don't know if it causes diabetes anyway. I don't think it does. I may be overweight, and unable to run, but I am not an athlete so it doesn't matter. I have two automobiles if I need to go somewhere.
As a typical slashdotter, I don't think I will ever have childen, let alone grandchildren. I don't even have any friends. I get modded -1, Unfunny in real life. So I don't really give a bloody hell what happens when I am gone. You can blame people like the fucktards that oppose us putting oil wells in Alaska for the shortage of oil. I like how my Mac Mini is composed with hydrocarbons from oil as an ingredient. The intelligent will find new ways of getting around problems. Germany produced oil from coal. There is always around a problem. There are too many stupid people alive anyway. 95% of the world population can't even grasp the basics of pointers in C. It is these people who use our oil by paying for CDs with useless garbage on them, associated with the RIAA MPAA. Televisions be manufactured so people can watch inaccurate news. Maybe the future will become more like early America was? Instead of "I've got to have that!", they will ask themselves "Do I really want to support wasting oil on making plastic cases for the latest DVD of mindless garbage?" I know I only buy things I can use. I may be running twelve computers, but I actually gain knowledge from coding, applying OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD to different objectives, etc.
I refuse to give up driving my Ford Explorer and eating my Big Macs! Seriously, "become a vegetarian and stop driving" sounds like a troll. We should be able to come up with better energy fuel sources for beef production and propelling my vehicle. Why should we compromise?
I need to get in on this so I can start my new business, named Doublelook, Inc. Companies like GEICO and Vonage will pay me to display thier banner ads on large 10-mile-wide orbiting displays. And everynight, an eclipse caused by a circular display. Maybe it could say "This eclipse brought to you by Coca-Cola?" I just need to work out my pricing model. Maybe a cost per impression, but how am I going to know when someone looks at the space banner?
You may be trying to be funny, but it is not that Americans like using inefficient fossil fuel burning vehicles. Alot of us don't want to afford a new, efficient fuel cell vehicle. My older Ford Explorer and Dodge Grand Caravan have served me well with excellent performance and have been relatively trouble free (the Ford Explorer stalls sometimes and the Dodge Grand Caravan SE burns engine oil and goes through a transmission every nine-thirteen months.) I don't have to deal with car payments, which is important, as I am not an auto enthusiest, I like to use my money for more interesting things like buying hardware for running *BSD (server/router) and Linux (desktop), like my Mac Mini, and Adelphia cable. If I bought a new, efficient vehicle, I could no longer enjoy cable and buying computer hardware, or my six litres of Mountain Dew a day (two litres of it store brand thanks to high gasoline tax)
You made some good points. Hydrogen to cars is like ATP (adenosine triphosphate) to cells. We can take glucose, fructose in as energy, and it doesn't matter, it ends up as ATP. I never said I don't think we should use fuel cells in cars. I think we should, but we need to be aware of where the energy is coming from for these fuel cells. I don't really care what we do to the enviroment as long as I'm not alive when oxygen becomes rare enough to charge a fee for. But I do care about dependence on foreign fuel sources. If we could combine many different energy sources for fuel cell production (oil from U.S. ground, welfare recipients on stationary bicycles, solar energy, wind mills, dams, used soybean oil running in diesel generators, etc.) maybe we could lessen dependence on foriegn fossil fuels by 25%? I don't know about you, but I don't like paying $37 USD to fill my Ford Explorer's tank (Maine, U.S. has high gas taxes) and then having it gone after I get back from work. To afford the gasoline, I have to drink only four litres of real Mountain Dew a day. After that, the next has to be Wal-Mart brand Mountain Lightning for the day. :(
If it takes more oil to obtain hydrogen in proper form than just refining it to diesel or gasoline and using it in an internal combustion engine, is it going to help? We will still be dependent on foreign oil. Maybe we could power the fuel cell producing plants by burning soybean oil in modified disel generators? There is a John Deere diesel generator I saw that was modified with a heat exchanger to heat up used soybean oil and run it through the engine after it warms up, requiring disel (fossil fuel) ot only be used to start up and shut down. We could get that oil from Texas, or maybe Alaska.
Microsoft hopes people will be forced to upgrade to Longhorn to use my software. But I plan to make sure my software runs on Windows NT 4.0/Windows 95 and up. I would only install Longhorn to work out incompatibilities with changes in Longhorn.
Well, my grandmother is fine with Windows 98 and Firefox, but she isn't a developer. I personally run Debian Linux on my desktop Macs and PCs, and laptops, with the OpenBSD to firewall, and FreeBSD and NetBSD on servers. But as a developer, I am interested in the latest version of Windows and Mac OS X because I may want to develop for it. Right now my applications I have written use Xlib directly, so it will be difficult to port, but nonetheless, when I do start porting, I will want to have Longhorn as a target to develop for, because that is what is going to go with all the new Dells.
Huh? Where is the torrent? gcnaddict forgot to add the torrent link. I plan to install this on my 233 MHz Dell Latitude 64 MB of RAM. I got Windows 2000 Professional to install on my 133 MHz Dell Dimension with 32 MB of RAM (albeit Windows complained about running too low on virtual memory), so I know this laptop will run Longhorn.
license its technology to other companies, and encourage customers to invest in it, like when Kmart started encouraging non investors to purchase KMart shares.
NASA had visual, but I am hoping China can one-up NASA and put a microphone onboard so we can hear the exciting sounds of a space collision. Did George Lucas do this?