Like somebody in this discussion already said, it's the state of software installation which is holding Linux back. Drivers and user software installers both vary from one-click-executables, to RPM's, to DEB's, to plain old source with no makefile. What we need for Linux to work for Joe Sixpack is a unified installer system that works on most distros and only requires a few clicks.
Remember, it doesn't "work" with anything yet. I'm pretty sure if this goes mainstream software support will be available in both Windows and Linux though.
It's not being hosted in Iran. It's hosted in the US by Virtuoso Net Solutions inc. I sent this email to abuse@virtuosonetsolutions.com yesterday about 7 PM (I sent them my real info, obviously):
Dear Sir/Madam: The OpenSuSE website was defaced either today or yesterday by an Iranian hacker clan whose website is located on your servers. I checked the whois data for the hacker clan's domain (ihsteam.com):
Majid NT
Bl Sajjad-milad 7 no. 12
Mashhad 8735452575
Iran
IP of the website (according to whois records of the ip, it is owned by your company):
In case the sites above have been changed, I've attached an compressed archive saves of their main pages. I hope you'll see that ihsteam.com is in direct violation of your AUP.
Sincerely,
Name
Phone
Email
They haven't replied yet, and the website is still up. But it IS a weekend.
No, that's wrong. The national ID card would be a required thing, unless of course you see "moving to another country" as a simple thing as using a different piece of blogging software. Also, it isn't like the passenger flying list only applies to a few airlines, it applies to everything.
Then don't use the software that requires you to release modified source.
Any project making the decision whether or not to force this will think about the fact that many people would be very uncomfortable with this. I doubt many services will ever use this.
Remember, this NOT required of developers of OSS web service type software who release under GPL3. This is a voluntary thing - basically if the developer's original has a show source feature, later modifiers aren't permitted to remove it. Nothing to see here folks, please move along.
Yes, I am. They came down with a bad case of the slashdots and the fastest thing to do was change their DNS entry to point at google.
Note:
www.fuddruckers.com goes to google.
fuddruckers.com points at the original server.
fuddruckers.com loads as slowly as a slashdotted page on a dialup modem in Antarctica in January.
Really now, did anyone EXPECT to be able to fly to the moon for lunch? Until some sort of antigravitational device is made, it will always be very expensive. Did you really think we would colonize Mars unless we HAD to? All those things are cool and all, but what really matters?
The most important things I see in the future are improved energy sources (efficient, low environmental impact, small, cheap, and/or reliable), more capable computing, and possibly a change in the mindset that cool == good.
I saw on the US copyright office website that you may be forcing users who wish to preregister a work to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. This would cause me a good deal of trouble, as I use the operating systems FreeBSD and Ubuntu Linux, for which the browser is not available. I use the browser Mozilla Firefox regularly - it's compatible with most W3C standards, which you can read about at www.w3.org. It's quite possible to create a website with most of the capability of ActiveX using Javascript and CSS.
Mozilla Firefox does not implement ActiveX because it requires running native code - something that generates a very high risk of security issues.
If you take into account Linux, BSD, and Macintosh users (none of whom can run Internet Explorer), you would be denying the full use of the Copyright Office website to at least 10% of your previous users - possibly more, as Macintosh is used more often by artists and writers, who would be more likely to use the Copyright Office website.
You can save a large number of people a lot of trouble by using web standards such as HTML 4.01 Transitional and CSS2.
Thank you,
Eric Stein
The copyright office is going to moderate this -1, Redundant. At least I hope so.
Ah, I love xpdf too. It's so awesome that I can't even begin to stop talking about how awesome it is. It loads in like.5 seconds as opposed to.5 years for adobe reader.:D
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Like somebody in this discussion already said, it's the state of software installation which is holding Linux back. Drivers and user software installers both vary from one-click-executables, to RPM's, to DEB's, to plain old source with no makefile. What we need for Linux to work for Joe Sixpack is a unified installer system that works on most distros and only requires a few clicks.
Remember, it doesn't "work" with anything yet. I'm pretty sure if this goes mainstream software support will be available in both Windows and Linux though.
You divided by zero between equations 4 and 5.
it's a pumice stone!
It's not being hosted in Iran. It's hosted in the US by Virtuoso Net Solutions inc. I sent this email to abuse@virtuosonetsolutions.com yesterday about 7 PM (I sent them my real info, obviously):
Dear Sir/Madam:
The OpenSuSE website was defaced either today or yesterday by an Iranian
hacker clan whose website is located on your servers. I checked the
whois data for the hacker clan's domain (ihsteam.com):
Majid NT
Bl Sajjad-milad 7 no. 12
Mashhad 8735452575
Iran
IP of the website (according to whois records of the ip, it is owned by
your company):
147.202.64.138
References:
http://www.opensuse.org/
http://www.ihsteam.com/
In case the sites above have been changed, I've attached an compressed
archive saves of their main pages. I hope you'll see that ihsteam.com
is in direct violation of your AUP.
Sincerely,
Name
Phone
Email
They haven't replied yet, and the website is still up. But it IS a weekend.
No, that's wrong. The national ID card would be a required thing, unless of course you see "moving to another country" as a simple thing as using a different piece of blogging software. Also, it isn't like the passenger flying list only applies to a few airlines, it applies to everything.
Then don't use the software that requires you to release modified source.
Any project making the decision whether or not to force this will think about the fact that many people would be very uncomfortable with this. I doubt many services will ever use this.
Remember, this NOT required of developers of OSS web service type software who release under GPL3. This is a voluntary thing - basically if the developer's original has a show source feature, later modifiers aren't permitted to remove it. Nothing to see here folks, please move along.
Me too. I was a bit confused for a bit...
Capital I, apostrophe. Capital I, apostrophe. It's It's, not its. Come on, you asked for it.
Oh well, I guess nobody knows about something called a joke here.
going to kill firefox befo3#*$(#$(&(9 9#*#* *H#h8h8#{NO CARRIER}
You seem to have confused modern technology with science fiction. No more TV for you.
Yes, I am. They came down with a bad case of the slashdots and the fastest thing to do was change their DNS entry to point at google.
Note:
www.fuddruckers.com goes to google.
fuddruckers.com points at the original server.
fuddruckers.com loads as slowly as a slashdotted page on a dialup modem in Antarctica in January.
That's when Great Britain switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. See http://webexhibits.org/calendars/year-text-British .html
Really now, did anyone EXPECT to be able to fly to the moon for lunch? Until some sort of antigravitational device is made, it will always be very expensive. Did you really think we would colonize Mars unless we HAD to? All those things are cool and all, but what really matters? The most important things I see in the future are improved energy sources (efficient, low environmental impact, small, cheap, and/or reliable), more capable computing, and possibly a change in the mindset that cool == good.
Dear Sir or Madam,
I saw on the US copyright office website that you may be forcing users who wish to preregister a work to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. This would cause me a good deal of trouble, as I use the operating systems FreeBSD and Ubuntu Linux, for which the browser is not available. I use the browser Mozilla Firefox regularly - it's compatible with most W3C standards, which you can read about at www.w3.org. It's quite possible to create a website with most of the capability of ActiveX using Javascript and CSS.
Mozilla Firefox does not implement ActiveX because it requires running native code - something that generates a very high risk of security issues.
If you take into account Linux, BSD, and Macintosh users (none of whom can run Internet Explorer), you would be denying the full use of the Copyright Office website to at least 10% of your previous users - possibly more, as Macintosh is used more often by artists and writers, who would be more likely to use the Copyright Office website.
You can save a large number of people a lot of trouble by using web standards such as HTML 4.01 Transitional and CSS2.
Thank you,
Eric Stein
The copyright office is going to moderate this -1, Redundant. At least I hope so.
You know, I think the first guy peaked it. No need to beat a dead
a beowulf cluster of these?
1) Write article 2) Post on your website 3) Submit to slashdot 4) ...
5) PROFIT!!!111!!!
Ah, I love xpdf too. It's so awesome that I can't even begin to stop talking about how awesome it is. It loads in like .5 seconds as opposed to .5 years for adobe reader. :D
Even the hammer for breaking the glass is slashdotted.
How can you SAY that? Nuclear physics is OBVIOUSLY better for ANYTHING than swiss cheese.
OK, that's the same flamewar that we'll be seeing in the rest of this discussion. Just change the words.
First you say they work to different ends and then ask which is better. Isn't that like comparing swiss cheese to nuclear physics?
Yeah, that's my impression too. I've decided to just ignore it because I can't do a damned thing about it. Oh well.