This isn't about the kernel, it's about the distro. Linux won't stop running on other systems, Debian's just not going to support them. Maintaining a distribution on so many architectures is a lot of work that doesn't yield a very high return, and dropping the less common ones is really a very smart move.
Maybe they wait until there's an exploit before they publicly acknowledge it, but I doubt they completely ignore all security notices until something happens.
The only thing end users know is that some patch fixed some big problem that's been around for a while; who knows what other stuff it changed as well? There may have been twenty other holes that got patched that never got publicized because they were fixed before anyone noticed them. The big holes (presumably) take more work and more time to fix, so it seems to me that it'd be more likely for someone to find out about the hole and exploit it before they can patch it.
Now, it certainly doesn't help that they have a tendency to fix a lot of unrelated problems with one big patch instead of making several smaller ones to fix the holes as soon as they can, but maybe this is what they're really planning to do with the government: the general public will still get the big patches that fix everything at once, but the government gets the smaller patches to fix each problem one at a time. This would make sense to me, as I would hope that the sysadmins for government computers are competent enough to deal with installing several handfuls of patches, whereas many people with one computer at home have a hard enough time trying to install one patch, let alone twenty.
B E T W E E N: CHEICKH BANGOURA Plaintiff - and - THE WASHINGTON POST, WILLIAM BRANIGIN, JAMES RUPERT, STEVEN BUCKLEY, UNITED NATIONS and FRED ECKHARD Defendants
Leela: Hey look, that's William Branigin's court case. Fry: Wow, the William Branigin? Leela: Uh-huh. Fry: Who's the William Branigin?
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KWM? *ducks*
You could try using the XFCE window manager -- xfwm -noxfce -- though I haven't actually tried this so it might not play nice with Gnome, but I don't see why it wouldn't offhand.
The GPL and BSD-like licenses are at least understandable for a non-lawyer. I can see how people can't understand the GPL; it's fairly long and "lawyery" looking. But the BSD license? It's about six sentences long! It pretty much comes down to "do anything you want with it, modify it or don't, distribute as source or binary, we don't care, as long as you give credit where it's due, don't use our names to endorse your product, and don't blame us if something goes wrong."
Now Ctrl-\ can be used to invoke screen commands... and when you forget you're not running screen, you hit ^\ c to open a new screen and inadvertently cause whatever you're doing to dump core. Ctrl-] might be a better choice, since it's not mapped to "scream and die" by default.
I wouldn't be so sure of Pine's security just because it doesn't handle HTML:
Warning: The pine software has had several remote vulnerabilities discovered in the past, which allowed remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as users on the local system, by the action of sending a specially-prepared email. All such known problems have been fixed, but the pine code is written in a very insecure style and the FreeBSD Security Officer believes there are likely to be other undiscovered vulnerabilities. You install pine at your own risk.
Who was the first moron to put HTML in mail clients?
I don't know for sure, but to hazard a guess, I think it might have been America Online. I remember seeing AOL e-mail with pretty (read: "annoying") colors on AOL before anyone else was doing it.
I'm not a net.historian by a long shot, though, so you should probably take that with a spoonful of salt. Google helpfully returns practically every page on the net when searching for "html" so it's fairly difficult to find anything of relevance.
From my point of view, the most interesting thing with uIP in theCubeSat kit is the extremely small packet buffer that is used. The RAM footprint for the entire uIP stack is as small as 128 bytes, where something like 96 bytes was used for the packet buffer. I never thought that such a small RAM configuration would ever be used in my pants. In their system, however, the space-to-earth communications link is not fast enough to warrant a larger buffer anyway.
Strange enough as it is that someone would post the article text for a story that hasn't even had thirty comments, it's even stranger that no one's noticed and modded this down as the troll it is.
Web sites were not protected by free speech because they are not legitimate members of the press.
So you only have free speech if you're a journalist? I guess I didn't read the First Amendment closely enough. This comes as somewhat of a surprise. I thought Apple was generally doing things right and not being stupid, but maybe I was wrong. I wonder where Google stands on this?
Podcasting really needs a better name. The 'pod' bit, is just another commercial plug for Apple. It wouldn't be acceptable to call all PCs 'Window-machines', would it? Or websites 'Internet Explorer sites'?
You might as well call Kleenex "tissues", call a Xerox machine a "photocopier", or a Band-aid a "bandage". The iPod has the vast majority of the market share and mind share for digital music players, and it's not going away.
More directly, what masses would have enough computers to set up a cluster in the first place?
Put simply, this isn't for the masses; it's aimed directly toward the big businesses, who would otherwise be using, say, Red Hat Enterprise. Microsoft tries to cover all their bases, and I'm surprised it took them this long to notice that they've left this one wide open for so long.
Yeah but finding another job is really not that difficult.
Depends on where you are. In a big city, this is true, but sometimes Surly Joe really is the only foundation repair company in town, and it'd be wise to look in the phone book first.
No reasonably sensible person "needs" a warning to remind them of this fact.
Show me a reasonably sensible person, and I'll show you twelve people who have "met their true love" on the Internet, willing to drop everything to go meet some random person they only know from talking on AIM for a week. Sex is powerful, and sometimes it makes people do very, very dumb things.
We haven't proven for certain that this person isn't a psychopath!
Good. Maybe this will make people more aware that these things aren't the greatest idea. A relative of someone my dad works with disappeared for months after meeting someone she met on the net, and worried everyone in her family sick.
I think it has to do with the number of fingers on your hand.
In that case, why aren't five-button mice more popular?
The difference is, in the beginning the Mac software was designed for a mouse with one and only one button, and that hasn't changed much despite the fact that current software supports that second (and third, even) button. For the iMacs that people are only going to use for browsing the web, iTunes, and word processing, more buttons just won't get used. Maybe the answer would be to ship multi-button mice with the higher-grade power-user-oriented systems like the PowerMac G5, and stick with the single button mouse for the rest of them. (Still, it's certainly possible to plug in any old scroll mouse and use it just as easily as their one-button mouse, so it's pretty much a moot point anyway.)
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This isn't about the kernel, it's about the distro. Linux won't stop running on other systems, Debian's just not going to support them. Maintaining a distribution on so many architectures is a lot of work that doesn't yield a very high return, and dropping the less common ones is really a very smart move.
Maybe they wait until there's an exploit before they publicly acknowledge it, but I doubt they completely ignore all security notices until something happens.
The only thing end users know is that some patch fixed some big problem that's been around for a while; who knows what other stuff it changed as well? There may have been twenty other holes that got patched that never got publicized because they were fixed before anyone noticed them. The big holes (presumably) take more work and more time to fix, so it seems to me that it'd be more likely for someone to find out about the hole and exploit it before they can patch it.
Now, it certainly doesn't help that they have a tendency to fix a lot of unrelated problems with one big patch instead of making several smaller ones to fix the holes as soon as they can, but maybe this is what they're really planning to do with the government: the general public will still get the big patches that fix everything at once, but the government gets the smaller patches to fix each problem one at a time. This would make sense to me, as I would hope that the sysadmins for government computers are competent enough to deal with installing several handfuls of patches, whereas many people with one computer at home have a hard enough time trying to install one patch, let alone twenty.
His first name is Zap, not William.
Actually, it's Zapp, not Zap. Further, his last name is spelled "Brannigan", and it's a "ship", not a "court case". Is that better?
Leela: Hey look, that's William Branigin's court case.
Fry: Wow, the William Branigin?
Leela: Uh-huh.
Fry: Who's the William Branigin?
KWM?
*ducks*
You could try using the XFCE window manager -- xfwm -noxfce -- though I haven't actually tried this so it might not play nice with Gnome, but I don't see why it wouldn't offhand.
The GPL and BSD-like licenses are at least understandable for a non-lawyer.
I can see how people can't understand the GPL; it's fairly long and "lawyery" looking. But the BSD license? It's about six sentences long! It pretty much comes down to "do anything you want with it, modify it or don't, distribute as source or binary, we don't care, as long as you give credit where it's due, don't use our names to endorse your product, and don't blame us if something goes wrong."
The puppy, the puppy, the puppy is on fire.
We don't need no pen drive, let that mother fucker burn!
How do you click links on slashdot?
What, to read the articles? No one does that, silly.
But in all seriousness, you can either type a bit of the text of the link or use tab/shift-tab to highlight it, and then hit enter to go to it.
Now Ctrl-\ can be used to invoke screen commands ... and when you forget you're not running screen, you hit ^\ c to open a new screen and inadvertently cause whatever you're doing to dump core. Ctrl-] might be a better choice, since it's not mapped to "scream and die" by default.
-- http://freebsd.active-venture.com/handbook/mail-a
Who was the first moron to put HTML in mail clients?
I don't know for sure, but to hazard a guess, I think it might have been America Online. I remember seeing AOL e-mail with pretty (read: "annoying") colors on AOL before anyone else was doing it.
I'm not a net.historian by a long shot, though, so you should probably take that with a spoonful of salt. Google helpfully returns practically every page on the net when searching for "html" so it's fairly difficult to find anything of relevance.
From my point of view, the most interesting thing with uIP in theCubeSat kit is the extremely small packet buffer that is used. The RAM footprint for the entire uIP stack is as small as 128 bytes, where something like 96 bytes was used for the packet buffer. I never thought that such a small RAM configuration would ever be used in my pants. In their system, however, the space-to-earth communications link is not fast enough to warrant a larger buffer anyway.
Strange enough as it is that someone would post the article text for a story that hasn't even had thirty comments, it's even stranger that no one's noticed and modded this down as the troll it is.
You failed it, moderators.
Web sites were not protected by free speech because they are not legitimate members of the press.
So you only have free speech if you're a journalist? I guess I didn't read the First Amendment closely enough. This comes as somewhat of a surprise. I thought Apple was generally doing things right and not being stupid, but maybe I was wrong. I wonder where Google stands on this?
Podcasting really needs a better name. The 'pod' bit, is just another commercial plug for Apple. It wouldn't be acceptable to call all PCs 'Window-machines', would it? Or websites 'Internet Explorer sites'?
You might as well call Kleenex "tissues", call a Xerox machine a "photocopier", or a Band-aid a "bandage". The iPod has the vast majority of the market share and mind share for digital music players, and it's not going away.
More directly, what masses would have enough computers to set up a cluster in the first place?
Put simply, this isn't for the masses; it's aimed directly toward the big businesses, who would otherwise be using, say, Red Hat Enterprise. Microsoft tries to cover all their bases, and I'm surprised it took them this long to notice that they've left this one wide open for so long.
"Borgowulf"?
"Internal Server Error"...
that is kinda creepy, come to think of it.
a video editor that was professional grade
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Have you looked at Cinelerra? It looks fairly hardcore... alas, my computer's not fast enough for it by a long shot.
Yeah but finding another job is really not that difficult.
Depends on where you are. In a big city, this is true, but sometimes Surly Joe really is the only foundation repair company in town, and it'd be wise to look in the phone book first.
Only if you haven't seen BTTF.
(Back to the Future, 1985)
Biff: "So why don't you make like a tree... and get outta here."
- http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future
So he used to be a pert?
(What is he now, a pantene?)
I like this one... but then again, this is getting a bit off-topic :)
No reasonably sensible person "needs" a warning to remind them of this fact.
Show me a reasonably sensible person, and I'll show you twelve people who have "met their true love" on the Internet, willing to drop everything to go meet some random person they only know from talking on AIM for a week. Sex is powerful, and sometimes it makes people do very, very dumb things.
We haven't proven for certain that this person isn't a psychopath!
Good. Maybe this will make people more aware that these things aren't the greatest idea. A relative of someone my dad works with disappeared for months after meeting someone she met on the net, and worried everyone in her family sick.
Take a look at this. Getting alsa's dmix plugin to play nice really isn't as difficult as it would seem from the documentation.
I think it has to do with the number of fingers on your hand.
In that case, why aren't five-button mice more popular?
The difference is, in the beginning the Mac software was designed for a mouse with one and only one button, and that hasn't changed much despite the fact that current software supports that second (and third, even) button. For the iMacs that people are only going to use for browsing the web, iTunes, and word processing, more buttons just won't get used. Maybe the answer would be to ship multi-button mice with the higher-grade power-user-oriented systems like the PowerMac G5, and stick with the single button mouse for the rest of them. (Still, it's certainly possible to plug in any old scroll mouse and use it just as easily as their one-button mouse, so it's pretty much a moot point anyway.)