The old Pine license precluded it from being included in binary format in any distributions unless they chose to violate the license. Alpine doesn't have that problem. I don't know why this is particularly news though since I've been using Alpine on my Ubuntu Feisty box since May.
These are kind of irrelevant now that Gmail supports IMAP. I have my mail stored for offline use in Thunderbird or I can pull it down with fetchmail if I really wanted to, or just have it forwarded to me at my home MTA as well for archival. I can also use Alpine with IMAP so I can access it from a text console.
Red Hat is a business and is selling a product. What operating system the CEO runs is irrelevant as long as he knows how to market a product and keep a company afloat. In fact, maybe it would be a good thing to diversify Red Hat a little more and bring some of their enterprise products to other platforms like Windows and MacOS since the Linux market isn't really growing as fast as anyone had hoped. By embracing Windows and MacOS they could open new markets to their enterprise offerings.
Most corporations aren't as secretive about their projects as Apple is for some reason. Intel publishes road maps of their upcoming technology years before it ever hits the consumer market, yet Apple keeps a lid on their "secrets" until the day the hardware is marketed in the Apple Stores or announced at a MacWorld event. Ridiculous.
That's probably what they're doing instead of having the register "StarTrekMovie.com". I don't see why they couldn't just kill the two birds with one stone, but I imagine Paramount's marketing department has big plans for the site and it includes lots of big Flash intros and trailer videos. The other content is getting in the way.
Hopefully they will let the domain expire so it can be snatched up by one of the various high-quality search engine providers like www.starttrek.com, www.jamestkirk.com, www.ussenterprise.com, klingon.com, romulans.com, etc. These sites show their dedication to Star Trek by providing search engines targeted towards their primary audience... namely Star Trek fanatics.
Rear-wheel-drive cars with the engine in the front is an oddity from where you're from? Where do they put the engine in your cars, in the trunk? I've never heard of a car with an engine in the trunk except the VW Beetle from the 1960s.
Microsoft is always bad, and always will be... that they occasionally (and largely by accident) do something good doesn't make the organization any less bad.
What about Google then? I don't see Google open-sourcing their search engine, GMail interface, or any of their other major tools and yet they're held as the epitome of a "good" company. All of their stuff is proprietary and kept very closed-source.
Irrelevant in the new economy. We need employees to be fluid and quick to react to any situation. When it comes time to lay them off they should be able to leave at a moment's notice with little to no trace that they ever existed at the company other than their e-mail account and storage space on the company file server which are being wiped as we speak. Turn in your badge and laptop and calmly wait for security to escort you off the premises.
Why don't you just take it to their office and swap it out with a new one? Don't tell me they charge you for in-office replacements. If you're asking for a service call then the guy needs to get paid somehow even if he's a glorified UPS driver delivering a package.
Why do you assume they would have the plaintext? Look at Mozy for an example of what the parent commenter was talking about. You can either use their key to encrypt your data, in which case they can also decrypt it without you needing a separate key, or you can use your own encryption key and the software encrypts the data which it before it sends it to Mozy's servers. Why can't Google do the same thing?
It isn't related to their job and they're full of shit. I went through the exact same background checks and nowhere on there did it ask anything about your sexual orientation. They're interested in criminal activities, drug use, extreme debt that could be an incentive for an employee to flip loyalties, etc. They couldn't care less about whether or not you take it up the ass.
I'm surprised they're calling 50MiB a service pack.
The 50 MB download is probably just the download helper that then downloads the other 7 gigs and lets you resume if your dialup connection gets interrupted over the next several weeks.
Hibernation sounds like something you'd attribute to a bear though. When you wake the bear up from his hibernation prematurely he's going to be pissed and maul anyone around him. I prefer a much nicer term like "safe sleep" which brings to my mind visions of a baby sleeping in a crib peacefully under the watchful protective gaze of its parents.
Well, technically nobody DOES need DNS. How often do we really type in URLs anymore anyway? Most of the time I'm just clicking on a hyperlink from a search engine, bookmark, e-mail message, or some other web site I'm viewing and couldn't care less what the hostname of the site is.
What exactly is the US "controlling" anyway? They decide who is responsible for the content going into the root DNS servers and who assigns IP addresses, but that's about it. Nobody really HAS to use our DNS root structure, but everyone that has tried to setup an alternative one has failed miserably. Logically someone *should* be responsible for at least allocating IP addresses so they are globally unique or else you're going to have a ton of problems... but who is anyone really complaining about the way the ARIN/APNIC/RIPE arrangement is working? It seems to be handing out IP address space pretty efficiently.
What would stop video sites from streaming over TLS?
Processing power. Really, that's all it comes down to anymore and even then there are dedicated crypto cards you can buy to offload the TLS crypto calculations from the main CPUs. Frankly, I wish *all* web sites would switchover to using TLS exclusively, including sites like Slashdot. The two biggest obstacles to this other than sheer processing power are the fact that "trusted" SSL certificates are so expensive and that SSL web sites each need their own unique IP address (no more virtual web hosting hundreds of sites on one IP). Until IPv6 comes along I don't think it is feasible for this to take off without all those sites sharing the same SSL certificate of the virtual hosting provider.
Those options are still there. When you "print" something and it brings up the window with the option to "Save as PDF", click the downward facing black on blue triangle right next to the printer name and it'll expand the window and give you all the other options like duplexing, color matching, paper handling and so on. To get those other options, select the drop-down box with the name of the application you're printing from after hitting the triangle and you'll see the rest of the options. At least, that's how it works on my Brother HL-1650N Laser Printer using IPP printing.
Crackers break the copyright protection on computer software. Hackers use their skills to find weaknesses in the security of software, hardware, and networks. Those that exploit them for malicious purposes are black hat hackers and those that report them to the proper people so the vulnerabilities can be fixed are white hat hackers. Script kiddies are ones that take programs written by bad hackers and just run them without actually comprehending what they're doing other than the fact that they've owned another box.
Those have been the definitions for at least the past 20 years now and the only people who would argue that are old fat hippie open source programmers who think they are hackers when in fact they are just geeks.
NBC doesn't seem to realize that a conveniance based model has more opportunities for growth. Time after time the internet has favored those who have figured out how to make a profit by catering to conveniance.
Except that one of your examples is illegal and the other is not. I've never found BitTorrent to be "fast". It usually takes me over 8-36 hours to download a 2 hour 700 MB movie when I try it. I have to leave it going overnight and this is on a 6 Mbps ADSL connection. In fact, I always choose an HTTP or FTP mirror of software over BitTorrent because they are ALWAYS faster. I can regularly get 500-600 KB/sec with direct downloads but the BitTorrent traffic spread out across a half dozen 56 Kbps upload streams stuttering on and off as people disconnect and other reconnect, etc. Bittorrent blows.
How would you load this port on the iPhone though? It's a closed platform. Even if Apple releases a 3rd party SDK in February, I guarantee you they'll do some stupid like require that developers submit binaries to be signed to Apple and users will need to download applications from the iTunes store for a low-low-low convenient fee for maintaining the signatures and bandwidth for serving up the applications. Something nice and round like $4.99 for a "freeware" app hosting and then perhaps off developers to let them sell their shareware and commercial apps through iTunes store for a percentage of the profits. After the whole ringtone fiasco I would not put it past Apple. It's utterly ludicrous I can't take a sound bite that I make myself and load it onto my iPhone.
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The old Pine license precluded it from being included in binary format in any distributions unless they chose to violate the license. Alpine doesn't have that problem. I don't know why this is particularly news though since I've been using Alpine on my Ubuntu Feisty box since May.
These are kind of irrelevant now that Gmail supports IMAP. I have my mail stored for offline use in Thunderbird or I can pull it down with fetchmail if I really wanted to, or just have it forwarded to me at my home MTA as well for archival. I can also use Alpine with IMAP so I can access it from a text console.
Red Hat is a business and is selling a product. What operating system the CEO runs is irrelevant as long as he knows how to market a product and keep a company afloat. In fact, maybe it would be a good thing to diversify Red Hat a little more and bring some of their enterprise products to other platforms like Windows and MacOS since the Linux market isn't really growing as fast as anyone had hoped. By embracing Windows and MacOS they could open new markets to their enterprise offerings.
Most corporations aren't as secretive about their projects as Apple is for some reason. Intel publishes road maps of their upcoming technology years before it ever hits the consumer market, yet Apple keeps a lid on their "secrets" until the day the hardware is marketed in the Apple Stores or announced at a MacWorld event. Ridiculous.
That's probably what they're doing instead of having the register "StarTrekMovie.com". I don't see why they couldn't just kill the two birds with one stone, but I imagine Paramount's marketing department has big plans for the site and it includes lots of big Flash intros and trailer videos. The other content is getting in the way.
Woooooossshhhhhh. That sound you heard was the grand parent's joke passing over your head at warp speed.
Hopefully they will let the domain expire so it can be snatched up by one of the various high-quality search engine providers like www.starttrek.com, www.jamestkirk.com, www.ussenterprise.com, klingon.com, romulans.com, etc. These sites show their dedication to Star Trek by providing search engines targeted towards their primary audience... namely Star Trek fanatics.
Rear-wheel-drive cars with the engine in the front is an oddity from where you're from? Where do they put the engine in your cars, in the trunk? I've never heard of a car with an engine in the trunk except the VW Beetle from the 1960s.
What about Google then? I don't see Google open-sourcing their search engine, GMail interface, or any of their other major tools and yet they're held as the epitome of a "good" company. All of their stuff is proprietary and kept very closed-source.
Irrelevant in the new economy. We need employees to be fluid and quick to react to any situation. When it comes time to lay them off they should be able to leave at a moment's notice with little to no trace that they ever existed at the company other than their e-mail account and storage space on the company file server which are being wiped as we speak. Turn in your badge and laptop and calmly wait for security to escort you off the premises.
Why don't you just take it to their office and swap it out with a new one? Don't tell me they charge you for in-office replacements. If you're asking for a service call then the guy needs to get paid somehow even if he's a glorified UPS driver delivering a package.
Why do you assume they would have the plaintext? Look at Mozy for an example of what the parent commenter was talking about. You can either use their key to encrypt your data, in which case they can also decrypt it without you needing a separate key, or you can use your own encryption key and the software encrypts the data which it before it sends it to Mozy's servers. Why can't Google do the same thing?
It isn't related to their job and they're full of shit. I went through the exact same background checks and nowhere on there did it ask anything about your sexual orientation. They're interested in criminal activities, drug use, extreme debt that could be an incentive for an employee to flip loyalties, etc. They couldn't care less about whether or not you take it up the ass.
Hibernation sounds like something you'd attribute to a bear though. When you wake the bear up from his hibernation prematurely he's going to be pissed and maul anyone around him. I prefer a much nicer term like "safe sleep" which brings to my mind visions of a baby sleeping in a crib peacefully under the watchful protective gaze of its parents.
Do you just walk into random houses and use their computer or phone whenever you feel like it as well?
Well, technically nobody DOES need DNS. How often do we really type in URLs anymore anyway? Most of the time I'm just clicking on a hyperlink from a search engine, bookmark, e-mail message, or some other web site I'm viewing and couldn't care less what the hostname of the site is.
What exactly is the US "controlling" anyway? They decide who is responsible for the content going into the root DNS servers and who assigns IP addresses, but that's about it. Nobody really HAS to use our DNS root structure, but everyone that has tried to setup an alternative one has failed miserably. Logically someone *should* be responsible for at least allocating IP addresses so they are globally unique or else you're going to have a ton of problems... but who is anyone really complaining about the way the ARIN/APNIC/RIPE arrangement is working? It seems to be handing out IP address space pretty efficiently.
Those options are still there. When you "print" something and it brings up the window with the option to "Save as PDF", click the downward facing black on blue triangle right next to the printer name and it'll expand the window and give you all the other options like duplexing, color matching, paper handling and so on. To get those other options, select the drop-down box with the name of the application you're printing from after hitting the triangle and you'll see the rest of the options. At least, that's how it works on my Brother HL-1650N Laser Printer using IPP printing.
Crackers break the copyright protection on computer software. Hackers use their skills to find weaknesses in the security of software, hardware, and networks. Those that exploit them for malicious purposes are black hat hackers and those that report them to the proper people so the vulnerabilities can be fixed are white hat hackers. Script kiddies are ones that take programs written by bad hackers and just run them without actually comprehending what they're doing other than the fact that they've owned another box.
Those have been the definitions for at least the past 20 years now and the only people who would argue that are old fat hippie open source programmers who think they are hackers when in fact they are just geeks.
How would you load this port on the iPhone though? It's a closed platform. Even if Apple releases a 3rd party SDK in February, I guarantee you they'll do some stupid like require that developers submit binaries to be signed to Apple and users will need to download applications from the iTunes store for a low-low-low convenient fee for maintaining the signatures and bandwidth for serving up the applications. Something nice and round like $4.99 for a "freeware" app hosting and then perhaps off developers to let them sell their shareware and commercial apps through iTunes store for a percentage of the profits. After the whole ringtone fiasco I would not put it past Apple. It's utterly ludicrous I can't take a sound bite that I make myself and load it onto my iPhone.