If you want to get yourself buried with the details as much as you seem, Linux really does not need an IRC client. I mean, my kernel is pretty fine as it is without any extra cruft like that.
Exactly. The IRC client doesn't compile into your kernel. Likewise, the IRC client in Mozilla is no more integrated into Mozilla than an IRC client is integrated into the Linux kernel. It's just some extra XUL and JavaScript code that comes along with Mozilla when it ships. Think of it as getting a Linux distribution and seeing all of the binaries that come along with that distribution. Now think of Mozilla the same way. Is a development platform. You can write code and run it on Mozilla.
Why the hell does Mozilla need an IRC client?? Whatever happened to the idea of doing one thing and doing it well? If I want an IRC client, I can find a good one that works and fits my needs!!
This comment shows that you don't understand Mozilla. Mozilla isn't just a browser; It's a new development platform that happens to have a powerful HTML,CSS,XML,etc rendering engine at its core. Your comment is equivilent to asking why Linux needs an an IRC client.
The IRC client was written by outside developers. There are games written using Mozilla, also by outside developers. Are you going to complain about that, too? If you don't want the IRC client, then don't install it, just like you wouldn't install an IRC client on your system if you didn't want it.
Has anyone noticed the overwhelming number of horror movies/shows that the Sci-Fi channel shows? I'm not trying to be a troll, but to point this out. I don't think the suits/production people at the Sci-Fi channel realize that there is a big difference between science fiction and horror. Many times when I turn on the sci-fi channel the shows have a lot of fiction but very little science at all.
some people have been talking about more CERTs regarding "super" DDOS attacks.
Yes, these "super" DDOS attacks can bring a site to its knees. The XMAS attack is one of the most devastating, hitting the servers of e-commerce companies from many infected computers around the globe. It seems to only happen only around December 1st through December 25th, then mysteriously stop. These attacks also leave eXtra Masstive Attack Signatures (XMAS) in the form of many hits on a site -- particuarly to resource intensive pages such as online catalog pages -- and sometimes many orders, keeping both credit card verification and product delivery channels clogged for days.
This reminds me of an amusing email from RMS on the evils of Natalism
The Context:
The kabuki-west mailing list is for planning dinners and get-togethers the San Francisco Bay Area. Somebody made the horrible mistake of
posting a baby announcement, and RMS replied, at his finest.
RMS's Natalism Flame:
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 93 15:14:50 -0500
From: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman)
To: mcuddy@ctbu.rational.com
Cc: kabuki-west@mica.berkeley.edu
Subject: Another mcuddy..
Could people please not use this list to announce information of no
particular interest to the people on the list? Hundreds of thousands
of babies are born every day. While the whole phenomenon is menacing,
one of them by itself is not newsworthy. Nor is it a difficult
achievement--even some fish can do it. (Now, if you were a seahorse,
it would be more interesting, since it would be the male that gave
birth.)
Following your example, I might send the list an announcement whenever
a new GNU program is written. That happens less often than babies are
born, it does the world a lot more good, it reflects more conscious
creativity and hard work, and some of the readers might actually find
the information useful. Even so, I think most of the readers would
consider this outside the scope and purpose of the list. Clearly that
goes double for babies.
Of course, we have another place for announcements of new GNU
programs. If some people like to read birth announcements, perhaps you
should set up a suitable list or newsgroup. Perhaps rec.births? (While
you're at it, start rec.deaths for obituaries--they're usually more
interesting to read.)
These birth announcements also spread the myth that having a baby is
something to be proud of, which fuels natalist pressure, which leads
to pollution, extinction of wildlife, poverty, and ultimately mass
starvation.
Perhaps the people who have decided to have no children should start
making proud announcements, so as to set a better example. I could
start. I'm sure everyone on this list will be glad to know I don't
plan to reproduce myself.
I don't understand why the FSF is throwing so much energy into working on HURD. The Linux kernel is already GPL and therefore complies with the FSF goals. Why is the FSF working on this when they already have that component to help make a free operating system?
I have no problem with typo squatting as a whole, but there are a dozen Slashdot typo sites, one of which frames Slashdot with a 2nd banner ad. Now I don't care... but this fools about 1 person every 2-3 days, and they flame me for selling out and doing something so horrible as framing Slashdot for extra ad space. So I guess typo sites that frame the site are pretty slimey, but as long as the typo site provides a link to the correct site, I'm totally cool with 'em.
I'm looking forward to buying my own Andover.net approved CmdrTaco media sock puppet from ThinkGeek this Christmas!;-)
I have found Junkfilter for Procmail effective at stopping 99% of all of my spam. It filters out about 3-5 spam messages per day.
Re:The problem with the RBL is that it is not opt-
on
MAPS Sued Again
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The problem with the MAPS RBL is that it is
not Opt-In.
Yes, it is opt-in. MAPS is intended to be used at the ISP level, not the individual level (although it can be). Each ISP chooses whether or not to subscribe to and use the information that MAPS provides.
When I had a machine at Above.net, there was a time when I wished to communicate with someone at whowhere.com, but, unfortunatly, whowhere.com was on the MAPS RBL that particular day. Above.net was unwilling (or unable) to take my machine off of the RBL so I could communicate with my friend.
Then that's your problem with Above.net, not MAPS. It's Above.net's responsibility to inform you that they are using the MAPS system and that you might not receive some emails because of this. If they didn't do this, then you need to talk to them about it. If you don't like it, take your business elsewhere where you can find the types of services that you desire.
Yes, according to this article. Looks like they will be including OpenSSH and OpenSSL in 7.0.
From the article:
Two other security technologies, OpenSSH and OpenSSL, which were formerly available separately because of U.S. export laws on encryption, will be included in Linux 7.0.
Annoying that they call it Linux and not Red Hat Linux, though.
The idea of a more "free" network built on top of the current one is something I thing we're going to need more and more in the current climate of censorship and oppressive legislation, but I'd like to know if it is possible for Freenet users to be indentified, either through the content they upload or their behaviour whilst online.
"If a man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately, he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case are superfluous."
a search for the Planet of the Apes DVD on the Amazon site that Computerworld conducted using a
Netscape Web browser turned up a quoted price of $64.99 -- 35% off the original price of $99.98, according to the online retailer. But several seconds later, a similar search performed with Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser resulted in a price of $74.99 for the same product.
See what happens when you use Microsoft software? You pay and pay and pay...:-)
But GNOME is here, and is not going to disappear. GNOME and KDE will remain two rival desktops, unless some day they can be merged in some way.
Although I respect RMS a lot, I don't understand how he could say this with a straight face. I thought that one of the many points of free software is choice. There is no reason that KDE and Gnome need to either be rivals or be merged. Now that the biggest point of contention is finally being solved, there should be more cooperation between the two groups and, hopefully, less flamage among everyone else. I doubt the maintainers of, say, Pine and Mutt see themselves as rivals. They are just merrily going about their business and scratching their own itch.
Reasons from GPLing from the authors
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It's marked help wanted so put your code where your mouth is and help us fix this issue.
Brian Transeau is a DJ better known as BT and puts his albums out under that name. Liam Howlett is the musician for the band Prodigy.
Exactly. The IRC client doesn't compile into your kernel. Likewise, the IRC client in Mozilla is no more integrated into Mozilla than an IRC client is integrated into the Linux kernel. It's just some extra XUL and JavaScript code that comes along with Mozilla when it ships. Think of it as getting a Linux distribution and seeing all of the binaries that come along with that distribution. Now think of Mozilla the same way. Is a development platform. You can write code and run it on Mozilla.
The IRC client was written by outside developers. There are games written using Mozilla, also by outside developers. Are you going to complain about that, too? If you don't want the IRC client, then don't install it, just like you wouldn't install an IRC client on your system if you didn't want it.
Has anyone noticed the overwhelming number of horror movies/shows that the Sci-Fi channel shows? I'm not trying to be a troll, but to point this out. I don't think the suits/production people at the Sci-Fi channel realize that there is a big difference between science fiction and horror. Many times when I turn on the sci-fi channel the shows have a lot of fiction but very little science at all.
Something MUST be done about this!
The Context:
The kabuki-west mailing list is for planning dinners and get-togethers the San Francisco Bay Area. Somebody made the horrible mistake of posting a baby announcement, and RMS replied, at his finest.
RMS's Natalism Flame:
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 93 15:14:50 -0500
From: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman)
To: mcuddy@ctbu.rational.com
Cc: kabuki-west@mica.berkeley.edu
Subject: Another mcuddy..
Could people please not use this list to announce information of no particular interest to the people on the list? Hundreds of thousands of babies are born every day. While the whole phenomenon is menacing, one of them by itself is not newsworthy. Nor is it a difficult achievement--even some fish can do it. (Now, if you were a seahorse, it would be more interesting, since it would be the male that gave birth.)
Following your example, I might send the list an announcement whenever a new GNU program is written. That happens less often than babies are born, it does the world a lot more good, it reflects more conscious creativity and hard work, and some of the readers might actually find the information useful. Even so, I think most of the readers would consider this outside the scope and purpose of the list. Clearly that goes double for babies.
Of course, we have another place for announcements of new GNU programs. If some people like to read birth announcements, perhaps you should set up a suitable list or newsgroup. Perhaps rec.births? (While you're at it, start rec.deaths for obituaries--they're usually more interesting to read.)
These birth announcements also spread the myth that having a baby is something to be proud of, which fuels natalist pressure, which leads to pollution, extinction of wildlife, poverty, and ultimately mass starvation.
Perhaps the people who have decided to have no children should start making proud announcements, so as to set a better example. I could start. I'm sure everyone on this list will be glad to know I don't plan to reproduce myself.
Maybe Egypt should invade England and retrieve the stone. Isn't this what guns are for? Use 'em!
What difference does it make? It's not like we can vote online anyway.
I don't understand why the FSF is throwing so much energy into working on HURD. The Linux kernel is already GPL and therefore complies with the FSF goals. Why is the FSF working on this when they already have that component to help make a free operating system?
There's a screenshot of IE5 working under Wine on the page this article is about.
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http://home.twcf.rr.com/ischmidt/wineimg/ie5.jp
I have found Junkfilter for Procmail effective at stopping 99% of all of my spam. It filters out about 3-5 spam messages per day.
And so, uh, what is Counter-Strike?
IIRC, Mandrake is based on Red Hat. I bet we'll see Mandrake drop SPARC support in the near future.
From the article:
Annoying that they call it Linux and not Red Hat Linux, though."If a man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately, he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case are superfluous."
-- UnknownYou mean there is no BugZilla for Linux kernels? How do you guys keep track of bugs?
Freshmeat has an article by the Troll Tech guys talking about why they decided to go GPL.