The drug that does marvels for me is practicing judo twice a week. Nothing worked better for being able to focus attention in a very short time on something important and going to the core at once. Mind will serve you only if you are the one that controls it. However, it took several years to be a nidan.
Drugs are no substitute for reading a lot, tinkering, listening to others and keeping classifying things with respect to what you already know. Learning is a very long-term process, certainly little understood, and no drug can kick you on that time scale. What drugs can certainly do is to make you think you are smarter and temporarily relieve the pain of learning. The problem is that anything that makes you different, smarter or otherwise, is painful in some way.
By 1921, there was ample evidence of the relevance of relativity, special and general. The real reason for not awarding the Nobel for relativity was because of what was dur to Poincaré. See my reply as an AC to the post you reply to before I found my pw again.
That pushed Germany's jobless rate to 12%, compared with about 5% in the UK and the US. [...] Does anybody here really believe that the lower taxes in the US and UK have nothing to do with that fact that we're more wealthy?
It is a well known fact that when you take into account those people under poverty threshold that are not registered in the jobless rate, there are more poor in the UK than in Germany or France.
Well, this seems to be a favorite american joke... Coming from people that cannot play rugby (or some variant thereof) without wearing helmets, that is quite amusing...Then how do you explain that sports where french have been traditionally quite good are fencing, judo, karate, rugby etc. Please take a look at the list of judo world champions by country and see where in the list France and USA appear.
As for the article, I see slashdot as usual: many people shooting at France at first sight without having read the article. An unknown administrative staff has answered "why not" to a journalist's question and this is news? WMD in Irak was not a lesson?
There was the same disinformation in the previous slashdot article about Jeanneney (head of Bibliothèque Nationale) on Google, where if you followed all the links, you would find out that there was really nothing as aggressive as was portrayed, just the fact the Google example should be followed. But it seems that some never like disinformation as much as when it involves french.
Disclaimer: I have number of very close american friends. I have a lot of respect for them and so do they for me.
If I'm not mistaken, at least most Linux distributions have issued security fixes by now... After all, this might be a good example (another) of why the open source model is one of the most secure.
write a quick, half-assed article for ZDnet or Cnet about the major Linux bug/vulnerability you've found, and the resulting controversy will certainly grab the developers attention
According to the release notes of linux-2.2.17, the saving of db6 on debug traps is fixed in 2.2.17.
Moreover, the fix has been available in the 2.2.17pre series since June 15, as can be seen in the announcement of Linux 2.2.17pre2 by Alan Cox (look for Cownie).
I'm thus surprised that this story appears now.
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What should we think about the fact that only Qt/Unix (i.e., the one directly threatened by gtk/gnome) goes GPL ?
This article is right on the target. The GNOME infrastructure (libs, etc...) are gorgeous (I prefer them a lot over KDE/Qt..), but the actual apps suck big time, because no one seems to have spend a little time to figure out how to interact graphically with a program. As a consequence, everybody ends up copying Microsoft's errors.
The choice of Smirnoff alleviated the potential problems of insufficient cooling which may have occurred if cheaper source product had been in use.
Funny! The smirnoff is usually considered here (in France) as one of the cheapest vodkas out there (and in fact at least part of the production comes from Grenoble, in France). Definitely not in the same league as many fne polish and russian vodkas.
Am I the only one to have tried building the Helix RedHat packages from the SRPMS ? The reason I did it is that the prebuilt packages are all compiled with "-g", which results in a massive waste of disk space (not far from ~100 MB). With 1.1.90, I managed to built almost of them (once I had figured in which order to build them, gdk-pixbuf must come first), except a few which didn't compile (most notably gnome-libs dying with a compilation error on a RH6.2 box with gnome 1.0.53). I wanted to do the same with gnome 1.2, but unfortunately, the updated SRPMS are not yet available (only the 1.1.90 can be found). I don't understand this. They build the packages from SRPMS, right ? If HelixCode really wants to become a prominent Open Source company, they better fix this. Except for this, Gnome has made a lot of progress, and the infrastructure for programmers is simply wonderful. However, it is highly time to improve the UI design and to invent new ways to interact with the desktop, even though the current stuff is very usable. Gnome programmers have done so much neat stuff that expectations are high:-)
Have a look at Linbox (http://www.linbox.com), which seems to have designed a nice solution with diskless stations + server running under Suse or Mandrake. The diskless 'Net stations' can seemingly run Linux, Windows, or MacOS as requested at the boot.
Many people here have insisted on why it is important to apply security updates, and for obvious reasons. There is however one reason that has not been emphasized enough IMHO. A security update from a vendor should be applied IMMEDIATELY because the existence of the hole it fixes appears BLACK ON WHITE in a knowledge base at the time the update is issued.
If someone was reading on a public web site that their home door had not been locked in the morning, I guess that they would rush to correct this. This seems not to be always the case with computers.
The guy who hacked securelinux explicitely mentioned he browsed the RedHat errata in hope that some fix would not have been applied.
And frankly, the guys who write that it is difficult to apply security updates on a Linux system are incompetent at best.
The shame in the duplication of applications is that the KDE and GNOME teams could probably collaborate on toolkit-independent back-ends, and only implement the graphical front-end with the toolkit of their choice. The result is that while, there are for example excellent mail programs such as mutt or pine (or gnus) on one hand, programs such as kmail are cute but do not come anywhere close in functionality.
I quite agree. However, whereas this does not prove anything regarding Linux, it certainly does prove something regarding the Red Hat secure server as it was shipped until now (I guess there will be some updates in a near future)
P.S. Any news regarding the 'RedHat Linux on NT' diagnostic by netcraft ?
It seems to me that it would be trivial for some file managers such as kfm or gmc to have an install action bound to.deb or.rpm file types. The file manager would have just to prompt for the root password to install the binary package. So the argument about the useability of Linux has more to do with the way some programs are distributed than with the system itself. Anyway, it is quite easy to find today a lot of programs pre-packaged, even if not always in the smartest way.
If I understand it correctly, the license prohibits reverse engineering and disassembling of the software, i.e. of the compiler itself. Does this forbid to disassemble and to do reverse engineering on the *output* of the compiler, i.e. the assembler files and executables produced by the compiler ? I don't think so. If you see somebody doing well, you have a right to try to do as well without cheating.
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The drug that does marvels for me is practicing judo twice a week. Nothing worked better for being able to focus attention in a very short time on something important and going to the core at once. Mind will serve you only if you are the one that controls it. However, it took several years to be a nidan.
Drugs are no substitute for reading a lot, tinkering, listening to others and keeping classifying things with respect to what you already know. Learning is a very long-term process, certainly little understood, and no drug can kick you on that time scale. What drugs can certainly do is to make you think you are smarter and temporarily relieve the pain of learning. The problem is that anything that makes you different, smarter or otherwise, is painful in some way.
By 1921, there was ample evidence of the relevance of relativity, special and general. The real reason for not awarding the Nobel for relativity was because of what was dur to Poincaré. See my reply as an AC to the post you reply to before I found my pw again.
[...] Does anybody here really believe that the lower taxes in the US and UK have nothing to do with that fact that we're more wealthy?
It is a well known fact that when you take into account those people under poverty threshold that are not registered in the jobless rate, there are more poor in the UK than in Germany or France.
Well, this seems to be a favorite american joke... Coming from people that cannot play rugby (or some variant thereof) without wearing helmets, that is quite amusing...Then how do you explain that sports where french have been traditionally quite good are fencing, judo, karate, rugby etc. Please take a look at the list of judo world champions by country and see where in the list France and USA appear.
As for the article, I see slashdot as usual: many people shooting at France at first sight without having read the article. An unknown administrative staff has answered "why not" to a journalist's question and this is news? WMD in Irak was not a lesson?
There was the same disinformation in the previous slashdot article about Jeanneney (head of Bibliothèque Nationale) on Google, where if you followed all the links, you would find out that there was really nothing as aggressive as was portrayed, just the fact the Google example should be followed. But it seems that some never like disinformation as much as when it involves french.
Disclaimer: I have number of very close american friends. I have a lot of respect for them and so do they for me.
I think Mandrake fills that hole to some extent, but they're largely a repackaged RH.
That was true at the beginning, but there has been quite some time since Mandrake stopped to be a repackaged RH.
MandrakeClub, which as far as I can tell is paying $60 a year to feel good about yourself
The $60 also helps you to download the next release.
What is the relevance of this for the Mono project from Ximian ?
That was indeed in 2.2.0. The command ldd applied on a core file immediately rebooted the machine.
If I'm not mistaken, at least most Linux distributions have issued security fixes by now... After all, this might be a good example (another) of why the open source model is one of the most secure.
OK. Sorry for not understanding that there were in fact two patches involved
Or ask slashdot
And apparently was incorporated in 2.2.17pre2 (and is now in 2.2.17) 3 days later on June 15 !
:-)
Not too bad, I think
I'm thus surprised that this story appears now.
What should we think about the fact that only Qt/Unix (i.e., the one directly threatened by gtk/gnome) goes GPL ?
This article is right on the target. The GNOME infrastructure (libs, etc...) are gorgeous (I prefer them a lot over KDE/Qt..), but the actual apps suck big time, because no one seems to have spend a little time to figure out how to interact graphically with a program. As a consequence, everybody ends up copying Microsoft's errors.
The choice of Smirnoff alleviated the potential problems of insufficient cooling which may have occurred if cheaper source product had been in use.
Funny! The smirnoff is usually considered here (in France) as one of the cheapest vodkas out there (and in fact at least part of the production comes from Grenoble, in France). Definitely not in the same league as many fne polish and russian vodkas.
Am I the only one to have tried building the Helix RedHat packages from the SRPMS ? The reason I did it is that the prebuilt packages are all compiled with "-g", which results in a massive waste of disk space (not far from ~100 MB). With 1.1.90, I managed to built almost of them (once I had figured in which order to build them, gdk-pixbuf must come first), except a few which didn't compile (most notably gnome-libs dying with a compilation error on a RH6.2 box with gnome 1.0.53). I wanted to do the same with gnome 1.2, but unfortunately, the updated SRPMS are not yet available (only the 1.1.90 can be found). :-)
I don't understand this. They build the packages from SRPMS, right ? If HelixCode really wants to become a prominent Open Source company, they better fix this.
Except for this, Gnome has made a lot of progress, and the infrastructure for programmers is simply wonderful. However, it is highly time to improve the UI design and to invent new ways to interact with the desktop, even though the current stuff is very usable. Gnome programmers have done so much neat stuff that expectations are high
Have a look at Linbox (http://www.linbox.com), which seems to have designed a nice solution with diskless stations + server running under Suse or Mandrake. The diskless 'Net stations' can seemingly run Linux, Windows, or MacOS as requested at the boot.
Many people here have insisted on why it is important to apply security updates, and for obvious reasons. There is however one reason that has not been emphasized enough IMHO. A security update from a vendor should be applied IMMEDIATELY because the existence of the hole it fixes appears BLACK ON WHITE in a knowledge base at the time the update is issued.
If someone was reading on a public web site that their home door had not been locked in the morning, I guess that they would rush to correct this. This seems not to be always the case with computers.
The guy who hacked securelinux explicitely mentioned he browsed the RedHat errata in hope that some fix would not have been applied.
And frankly, the guys who write that it is difficult to apply security updates on a Linux system are incompetent at best.
The shame in the duplication of applications is that the KDE and GNOME teams could probably collaborate on toolkit-independent back-ends, and only implement the graphical front-end with the toolkit of their choice. The result is that while, there are for example excellent mail programs such as mutt or pine (or gnus) on one hand, programs such as kmail are cute but do not come anywhere close in functionality.
I quite agree. However, whereas this does not prove anything regarding Linux, it certainly does prove something regarding the Red Hat secure server as it was shipped until now (I guess there will be some updates in a near future)
P.S. Any news regarding the 'RedHat Linux on NT' diagnostic by netcraft ?
It seems to me that it would be trivial for some file managers such as kfm or gmc to have an install action bound to .deb or .rpm file types. The file manager would have just to prompt for the root password to install the binary package. So the argument about the useability of Linux has more to do with the way some programs are distributed than with the system itself. Anyway, it is quite easy to find today a lot of programs pre-packaged, even if not always in the smartest way.
Yes, but the only quad servers that are ahead of the mentioned system are Alpha systems, not Intel ones. Not really the same class.
If I understand it correctly, the license prohibits reverse engineering and disassembling of the software, i.e. of the compiler itself. Does this forbid to disassemble and to do reverse engineering on the *output* of the compiler, i.e. the assembler files and executables produced by the compiler ? I don't think so. If you see somebody doing well, you have a right to try to do as well without cheating.