What does.NET brings to Linux that I couldn't do on my Windows PCS?
Really ? You get all the excitement of patching MS Software and lots of free and exciting utilities delivered right to your server without having ask or install yourself. Plus your server will be very happy to share these cool and fun utilities with others servers without manual intervention! What more can someone want ?
Well between Microsoft, Apple and now Kaspersky seems there are little trust with Proprietary Software with vendors outside of the country of origin. And who knows what is embedded in modern cell phones.
Maybe this will finally convince people and businesses to move to Free Software. And more importantly, convince companies like Nvidia to release source of their drivers and firmware. one can always hope:)
ooohh boyy - I am so happy we get another 2 weeks to send comments you will ignore. What, did you upgrade your bandwith and want to run a stress test ?
How about reading the 16,000,000 comments you already received for keeping Net Neutrality!
Is it easier to ignore 17,000,000 comments supporting Net Neutrality than ignoring the 16,000,000 you (the FCC) already have ?
Well I am not concerned about Microsoft pledges, the big worry is the Corporatization of Open of Free software. There are hundreds of examples of that happening and easy enough to find.
Already we see no push back on proprietary blobs/firmware. I almost would like to see this as a requirement: "If you do not support Open Firmware, you cannot have any decision input on the direction of Linux" or any related project.
So you you pay extra money you get special privileges in what use to be a freedom (travel). So much for the US Revolution and the Declaration of Independence
Law -- You cannot submit a comment to a Federal Agency when someone else is submitting a comment at the same time to any Federal Agency. Doing so violates the "Computer Fraud and Abuse Act" and the Patriot Act.
So COMCAST wants to do self-driving cars. Lets see, these cars will probably cost 100,000 USD each. So instead of building better infrastructure and invest the profits in the infrastructure, they want yet another freebie.
Remind me, why is COMCAST regularly at the top of list of the most hated companies again ?
What is wrong with the major majority English speaking nations ? It is like a virus that makes people stupid is focusing on people who's first language is English. All that seems to be left is Canada, and about half that country speaks French. Maybe I should learn French:)
Here you go - where I work I need to use proprietary applications on my Linux system at work (yes they exist). Here is my list (you had to ask).
These applications: 1. refuse to follow X standard cut/paste. 2. crash and hang all the time 3. loose focus a lot, forced to use a mouse to gain focus 4. All are JAVA based, so that to me indicates there is something wrong with JAVA:) 5. These applications do not play well with window managers, you are forced to use either GNOME3 or KDE
Freedesktop.org - do not get me started. I used X for many years and I liked it's eccentricities - freedesktop (and maybe others) seem to be trying (and succeeding) onmoving X Window to a Microsoft model and that may be the root of the my complaints. Here is my big one: These applications (and a few others) ignore ~/.Xdefaults (X server resource database). That make it hard to impossible force a geometry on them.
Granted there are some good things done by Freedesktop.org, but it annoys me when old working utilities are thrown away because they are not shiny.
Well the parents who ensure their kids study 'fake science' will get a nice lesson in darwinism when the only work their kids can do is flipping hamburgers.
Good for parents who do want their children to get a real well rounded education, will give them an advantage.
Though I feel bad for the children who get 'brain washed' who are being used as a tool.
As a Slackware user myself; Slackware chooses the right path; and follow the good UNIX practices that gives us better securities expectations.
As a Slackware user this is true. I need to use a systemd workstation at work and I get the benefit of random freezes, I cannot even ssh to it. Bringing back my "ptsd" from windows use ages ago:).
At home with Slackware (same hardware), no random freezes, my server only goes down when I loose power (I know, UPS blahblah, someday) and the desktop no issues either.
So that indicates something in the 'systemd' workstation is a bit off.
And again, it's not the huge security issue some people make out that it is because in order to create a user with a name starting with a digit and then create a service starting as that user, you have to have root anyway.
true, but - with people downloading packages (rpm/deb/whatever), what if that package contained a unit file with such an ID ? off to root it goes. So does that means a admin after installing a package needs to examine the unit files even if from a trusted source ?
Bugs happen and since systemd is open someone found it and it may very well have been fixed by now. If systemd was proprietary, at this point maybe only the (three letter) orgs would know and keep it a secret. So the development model worked anyway:)
The silly thing is the argument of "is this a bug ? yes/no/yes/no...".
Five cents per bottle here. There are people who survive by collecting them.
5 cents does nothing, I remember when it was 2 cents per bottle and in today's $ that is 0.15. The deposit should be at least 50 cents per bottle, that will reduce the pollution in two ways, stop people from buying bottled water and give incentive for recycling.
I do not buy bottled water and I think at least in most of the first world it is no different than tap water (yes there are areas where it is needed, Flint anyone). But I see nothing changing in this regard
Welcome to Public Spending, you see things like this everywhere. No money to fund Gov agencies. Makes one wonder if it is due to graft or incompetence or something else.
I blame the public, the vast majority will talk about a celebrity's sex life or a bunch of millionaires running around on a playing field like the world depends upon it. But knowing or really caring about what an elected official does, no one cares. So we end up with a majority of officials who only cares about themselves and how much they can skim for themselves or family/friends.
Yes a true 386 was expensive, but when I went to Linux (a bit before Windows 95 came out), it worked great on the 386sx I had with 4 meg (without X). At the time I had little use for GUIs:)
Yes, but I think what Linus enforced early on was also key:
1. Ensuring Linux ran on low spec hardware (at least in the 90's), that helped people like me to move to it. Probably due to the fact Linus (and me) had very little $ back then. IIRC the BSDs you needed much more memory (by 90s standards). 2. His rule "Do not break user space". That made upgrading much easier
Slashdot Mirror
assumed it was dinner and a movie for *two* people
How can you assume this ? This slashdot, right ?
Well, that is still much shorter that it takes Massachusetts to build a simple Bridge.
What does .NET brings to Linux that I couldn't do on my Windows PCS?
Really ? You get all the excitement of patching MS Software and lots of free and exciting utilities delivered right to your server without having ask or install yourself. Plus your server will be very happy to share these cool and fun utilities with others servers without manual intervention! What more can someone want ?
Well between Microsoft, Apple and now Kaspersky seems there are little trust with Proprietary Software with vendors outside of the country of origin. And who knows what is embedded in modern cell phones.
Maybe this will finally convince people and businesses to move to Free Software. And more importantly, convince companies like Nvidia to release source of their drivers and firmware. one can always hope :)
ooohh boyy - I am so happy we get another 2 weeks to send comments you will ignore. What, did you upgrade your bandwith and want to run a stress test ?
How about reading the 16,000,000 comments you already received for keeping Net Neutrality!
Is it easier to ignore 17,000,000 comments supporting Net Neutrality than ignoring the 16,000,000 you (the FCC) already have ?
people working in all government agencies can only earn a full salary (including all benefits) equal to the Average Income of people in the US
You mean they are writing these extensions in rust ???
Inconceivable !! Not only is in impossible to have insecure rust code, it will also bake and put an apple pie on your window sill :)
'Real' governments do not need to hide their operations and finances from their citizens
Well I am not concerned about Microsoft pledges, the big worry is the Corporatization of Open of Free software. There are hundreds of examples of that happening and easy enough to find.
Already we see no push back on proprietary blobs/firmware. I almost would like to see this as a requirement: "If you do not support Open Firmware, you cannot have any decision input on the direction of Linux" or any related project.
So you you pay extra money you get special privileges in what use to be a freedom (travel). So much for the US Revolution and the Declaration of Independence
So will there me a new definition of a DDOS ?
Law --
You cannot submit a comment to a Federal Agency when someone else is submitting a comment at the same time to any Federal Agency. Doing so violates the "Computer Fraud and Abuse Act" and the Patriot Act.
So COMCAST wants to do self-driving cars. Lets see, these cars will probably cost 100,000 USD each. So instead of building better infrastructure and invest the profits in the infrastructure, they want yet another freebie.
Remind me, why is COMCAST regularly at the top of list of the most hated companies again ?
What is wrong with the major majority English speaking nations ? It is like a virus that makes people stupid is focusing on people who's first language is English. All that seems to be left is Canada, and about half that country speaks French. Maybe I should learn French :)
I think we should replace c with COBOL, no pointers, no dynamic memory allocation, rounding errors with floats rare and all strings fixed length.
That is just as good an option as any for these crazy "my language is better than your's" posts
Here you go - where I work I need to use proprietary applications on my Linux system at work (yes they exist). Here is my list (you had to ask).
These applications: :)
1. refuse to follow X standard cut/paste.
2. crash and hang all the time
3. loose focus a lot, forced to use a mouse to gain focus
4. All are JAVA based, so that to me indicates there is something wrong with JAVA
5. These applications do not play well with window managers, you are forced to use either GNOME3 or KDE
Freedesktop.org - do not get me started. I used X for many years and I liked it's eccentricities - freedesktop (and maybe others) seem to be trying (and succeeding) onmoving X Window to a Microsoft model and that may be the root of the my complaints. Here is my big one: These applications (and a few others) ignore ~/.Xdefaults (X server resource database). That make it hard to impossible force a geometry on them.
Granted there are some good things done by Freedesktop.org, but it annoys me when old working utilities are thrown away because they are not shiny.
No one seems to want desktops these days, but for laptops -- go back to 4:3 screen resolutions. The 16:9 resolutions SUCK PERIOD.
I have no intention of buying any brand new laptop until screen ratios get back to what it was.
is the # of dollars the politicians received from Verizon/Comcast lobbyists greater that the number of comments against Net Neutrality ?
That is all that seems to matter these days.
Well the parents who ensure their kids study 'fake science' will get a nice lesson in darwinism when the only work their kids can do is flipping hamburgers.
Good for parents who do want their children to get a real well rounded education, will give them an advantage.
Though I feel bad for the children who get 'brain washed' who are being used as a tool.
As a Slackware user myself; Slackware chooses the right path; and follow the good UNIX practices that gives us better securities expectations.
As a Slackware user this is true. I need to use a systemd workstation at work and I get the benefit of random freezes, I cannot even ssh to it. Bringing back my "ptsd" from windows use ages ago :).
At home with Slackware (same hardware), no random freezes, my server only goes down when I loose power (I know, UPS blahblah, someday) and the desktop no issues either.
So that indicates something in the 'systemd' workstation is a bit off.
And again, it's not the huge security issue some people make out that it is because in order to create a user with a name starting with a digit and then create a service starting as that user, you have to have root anyway.
true, but - with people downloading packages (rpm/deb/whatever), what if that package contained a unit file with such an ID ? off to root it goes. So does that means a admin after installing a package needs to examine the unit files even if from a trusted source ?
Bugs happen and since systemd is open someone found it and it may very well have been fixed by now. If systemd was proprietary, at this point maybe only the (three letter) orgs would know and keep it a secret. So the development model worked anyway :)
The silly thing is the argument of "is this a bug ? yes/no/yes/no...".
Five cents per bottle here. There are people who survive by collecting them.
5 cents does nothing, I remember when it was 2 cents per bottle and in today's $ that is 0.15. The deposit should be at least 50 cents per bottle, that will reduce the pollution in two ways, stop people from buying bottled water and give incentive for recycling.
I do not buy bottled water and I think at least in most of the first world it is no different than tap water (yes there are areas where it is needed, Flint anyone). But I see nothing changing in this regard
Completely unusable, so long Google news, may check again in a few weeks. Moving to Reddit News (of all places) https://www.reddit.com/r/news/
Welcome to Public Spending, you see things like this everywhere. No money to fund Gov agencies. Makes one wonder if it is due to graft or incompetence or something else.
I blame the public, the vast majority will talk about a celebrity's sex life or a bunch of millionaires running around on a playing field like the world depends upon it. But knowing or really caring about what an elected official does, no one cares. So we end up with a majority of officials who only cares about themselves and how much they can skim for themselves or family/friends.
Yes a true 386 was expensive, but when I went to Linux (a bit before Windows 95 came out), it worked great on the 386sx I had with 4 meg (without X). At the time I had little use for GUIs :)
Wish I had mod points for you.
Yes, but I think what Linus enforced early on was also key:
1. Ensuring Linux ran on low spec hardware (at least in the 90's), that helped people like me to move to it. Probably due to the fact Linus (and me) had very little $ back then. IIRC the BSDs you needed much more memory (by 90s standards).
2. His rule "Do not break user space". That made upgrading much easier