I run KDE 1.90 binaries dated 5-5-2000 (even before Beta 1). The idea is that you install both QT 1.44 for the old KDE1 stuff and QT 2 for KDE2. You can best set up KDE2 as a new window manager if you're using [xgk]dm. On my P2-233, only starting up is a bit slower. After that, I find KDE2 a bit faster than KDE1. Not at all a "memory hog" and it doesn't crash either - except when I run Konqueror, which is still heavily beta. The beta versions of KOffice and KDevelop are great, though. I can't wait for the release!
I've got this from a weird German BSD book: KDE started off as the "Cool Desktop Environment", but CDE was already a short for the Common Desktop Environment, included with Solaris. In the tradition of weird Unix names (GNU = "Gnu is Not Unix", PINE = "Pine Is Not Elm") they decided in favor of the name "K Desktop Environment".
Sorry, I'm a Lynx user and I couldn't resist to answer..
a. Writing HTML is too expensive. Web-authoring tools should use the lowest common denominator, which are the W3C standards for HTML. I don't blame you for using Frontpage, I blame tools for using bad HTML.
b. Plugins such as shockware are common. Maintaining 2 versions of a site is not efficient. Javascript is common too. So what? I can visit most Javascript-sites with Lynx perfectly, as long as the content is HTML. Javascript should be used for page style, not for encoding content. There's a reason that Slashdot headlines aren't animated GIFs.. Will I ever convince you? The majority of Internet users thinks that HTTP == Internet, they log in to visit a playground. Anyway, I will not upgrade in the next 2-3 years. I expect you to have a decent web page. If not, I won't visit your page. It is as simply as that. 5% may not be much, but you might want to take that extra cost once you realize how much 5% of a few million visitors is.
First off, this story was on k5 yesterday. At that time, the site was still accessible. I wonder whether all mirrors have got antifile.zip - which includes 4 MB of email addresses of people who replied to get off Rodana Garst's mailinglists. I would never have put that file online. By the way, the archive didn't shock me because of Rodana's pictures, but because of the size of antifile.zip - if those people are only the ones who hoped to get removed from Garst's List (I found five of my co-students on it), how big must the full archive be?? Twenty million email addresses? Forty? One billion? We are just some toy in the spammer's hands. I'm never going to reply spam again "to be removed". Deleting is the only thing that helps. Well, I could put up a.procmailrc filter on the headers..:)
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Do a search on "GNUtella" on freshmeat and you'll find several projects. By the way, acceptance of a protocol lies by no means in its simplicity, but in its functionality, quality, security and speed.
You mean democracy, as in the old Greek days? Where all men gathered at the "agora" (marketplace) to let their voices be heard? To me, this seems to be exactly the meaning of The Democracy Project. Democracy, in its purest classical meaning, was impossible because you can't have everybody at one place. The mob needs to be represented by a small number of people. The Internet, however, is a place where just anybody in a no-matter-what-sized community can stand up and shout his opinion. If his/her opinion is agreed upon, it gets moderated up, just like here on/. IMHO, a republic is just a practically more or less usable implementation of a democracy. If politicians strive to hear the opinion of the people they represent, they should be very interested in the Internet as a massa medium. The only problem is, where to start. Will TDP be accepted as an objective forum? Are politicians really willing to join a public forum? (Which is often time waste, because opinions tend to repeat on forums) TDP is a great idea, but I yet have to see it work out. Last: this is again a U.S. oriented article. There's much PR blah on the Quorum site. Living in The Netherlands, I don't know similar political forums. At our elections a few years ago, the only highly visited sites were Voting Wizards - you do a quiz and the computer tells you which party to vote on. It seems like most of the mob isn't interested in politics. However, our Queen Beatrix is really popular here...;)
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I sent a message to the webmaster, and I got this reply:
Thanks for your feedback. You are not the only person who has requested that we support Lynx and other text-only browsers at Raging Search. We are currently working on this, and we expect to have text-only support for Raging Search coming very soon. Please keep using the site.
Thanks again for your support, Josh Hornik, Product Manager, Raging Search.
Well, I think we should give them some time. Joshua answered a friend of mine in the same way: "Our thinking was to send text-only users to AltaVista, which has a search that is meant specifically for text-only browsers." "We are currently working on text-browser-enabling Raging Search. The work (optimizing pages for text-only browsers and making sure no functionality gets lost) should be done soon." Even better!
There was a very interesting article (it isn't published online yet, but was linked to this coverstory) in the German computer magazine C'T a few weeks ago, about the legal implications of pressing a "I agree" button etc. The conclusion was, roughly, that there aren't any! I'd find this interesting. In the same article, btw, it is suggested that written disclaimers don't matter either, since a customer isn't required to sign them.. Anyway, this too is the freedom of Open Source - anyone could start an (illegal) fork of Samba which makes use of these "trade secrets"..
If MS did so, that would be the same kind of "bundling" software like they did with IE. This would be the ideal move to press C++ Builder and Watcom out of the market. Microsoft is already involved in a monopoly lawsuit, so I suppose they won't even face the risk of another huge one. By the way, MS really can't complain about the number of WinAPI coders. It is amazing that the software industry picked it up - the WinAPI is continuously changing and a real chaos. Ask the Wine developers..
Now this is a troll. Would you please leave Haider out of this discussion? If you actually tried to follow the news, ALL other European countries have shown that they are against Haider. We are ashamed enough that he won the elections in Austria. By making this comparison you have just shown you are the stereotype of a dumb yank that we Europeans always think Americans to be. Slashdot may be an American forum for 75%, but at least get a clue!
Because I haven't got an Internet connection, I have upgraded to SuSE 6.3 by only using CDs that were bundled with some German magazines, like PC Intern and Chip. I had to use some dirty tricks in DOS to let the single SuSE63 "evaluation" CD boot YaST1 - YaST2 just could only install a fresh SuSE 6.3, not upgrade from SuSE 6.2. There's definitely some work in there. By the way, is there a way to customize SuSEconfig (which is automatically started by YaST)? It always overwrites manually edited files in the/etc dir with YaST's general settings, and personally I don't need it to always regenerate the HTML help database. Overall, I do enjoy running SuSE and its wealth of applications. It has weird directories like/usr/doc/packages instead of/usr/doc, but in itself it is a beautiful system. SuSE really tries to deliver something complete. (OSS can't be upgraded together with a new kernel version, though.. then you need a real 4Front license, and my cheap isapnp AZT2320-card is fully supported by OSS only)
Wow, a non-geek posting at Slashdot. No matter how provoking this posting is, I'd moderate it up. And you surely know how to market yourself.. I didn't particularly like that "how likely is it that you have anything important to add to my posting"? Btw, if you want to know what I look like, I'm a 20-aged short-haired student in The Netherlands. So what. I agree that marketing isn't that bad. Marketing is essential in commercial software business. The point is that Linux is not commercial. Linux World Domination is an illusion. The idea is, that people will get less dependent on commercial software houses. No wonder that the marketing business doesn't like Linux;) I think it's something in between. Marketing tries to say the best things about a product, and to hide the nasty details. Many press releases are worthless, so are ads. Marketing isn't essential to knowledge, it tries to convince you by subjectivity. Slashdot is so cool because of all the different opinions here, not because of yours only. Consumers need a choice. They surely need Windows too, and Linux surely needs marketing to get more support. Even Linux has a "market". The cool thing about Linux is, that Linux' market IS its marketing.
First off, kudos for this point. Not many people dared to post that. Because they were afraid of not having an open mind? Jon Katz points to an old taboo, but he is right. What has it to do with nerds? Nothing in particular. But it certainly does matter. The USA have quite some influence on the rest of the world. We share a lot of media, like TV and the Web. Rather than just forbid sex, there should be discussion about how to circumvent it. Of course we need to protect children, but politicians want to seem morally correct and they invent regulations that damage free speech and our privacy. Surely something for/., isn't it? Politicians come up with the most ridiculous Decency Acts on the web, but they don't pay attention to, for example, Microsoft's monopoly or cybercrime. I find that downright scary. However, I'm afraid that Jon posts this story for readers who already agree. It is the conservative wing of America we have to convince.
The Solaris and HP ports of Internet Exploder were horrible, if I remember some posts in earlier threads about this. IE's power lies in the integration with the operating system, which is typically Microsoft. Porting IE to Linux in two days is impossible, and I don't think it will get a big userbase in the open source community.
In the beginning, IE was developed because of Netscape. The Netscape browser was an attack to Microsofts APIs, as Judge Jackson's Findings state. Microsoft has no reason to release IE for Linux - they won't make money and they won't improve image.
One offtopic thing: this is one of the messages that always get moderated up as insightful: "Microsoft may seem Enemy #1, but it indeed helps Linux towards standards." While that is a truth we don't always consider, we should take care of problems ourselves instead of begging MS to port IE.
I have seen this in the newspaper here in The Netherlands, too. Of course ISP's protested, but I've seen little discussion for the rest. Of course this judgement is ridiculous. You don't declare the Major of a city guilty for having an inhabitant doing illegal things. And it is immoral to force the major to stalk his inhabitants. The same thing holds for universities. Haven't they got anything more serious to do than spying on users? It is my own responsibility, not theirs. Of course, the general rules prescribe that I don't put illegal things online, but the reason for such regulations should be prevention that lamers who want to download it flood the university's network. Apart from that, I still think the industry should do something about the core problem - software and music prices are simply too high. Furthermore, the damage is only done to the already popular stuff. You hardly find the Charlatans in MP3. You *will* find Britney Spears, and lots of her. Acrobat nowhere, Office 2K everywhere. With DVDs it'll be the same. Office 97, however, is gone - and it's too young for abandonwarez. Maybe pricing that one for a bargain could help against piracy? I think MP3 is a wonderful format. There should definitely come some kind of regulation for bootlegs. Napster is just great for finding unreleased Radiohead live tracks and rare B-sides.
With "kill", I mean that Wine will lose the functionality battle with MainSoft - no wonder, because MainSoft has the Windows source code and Wine doesn't. MainSoft basically has to recode Wine. Remember how Micros~1 recoded Netscape? You are right; proprietary Microsoft-Win32 libraries are a scary thing. But this is probably exactly what MainSoft is going to ship... and every distribution will be going to include it, just like they include Wine. Which brings us back to the question, how bad is it to support the Win32 API?
Some years ago, I read a book by ex-Microserf Eller, about his experiences at MS since he started coding Windows 1.0 there. I found the part concerning GO Corporation very interesting. Around 1992, Go launched their pen-oriented (instead of mouse-oriented) operating system. Microsofts reaction was "Pen Windows", in fact just Windows 3.11 plus some DLLs for pen drivers and text recognition. In the marketing war thereafter, Microsoft said: "Hey, you don't need Go. Windows can do it too." The hype was gone and Go was dead, as Martin Eller describes it. The same might apply to this situation. Linux does a heck of a lot more than running Win32 binaries, but Microsoft will tell us that we don't need too switch to Linux, because Windows runs Win32 binaries natively. People won't see the difference between Windows and Linux anymore, and therefore people won't move to Linux. Isn't that the strategy, classical extend & embrace? Even if this idea doesn't kill Linux, it probably kills Wine. That is a real loss, because Wine is the bridge between Microsofts monopoly on the Win32 standard and the Open Source movement. Wine itself might be alpha forever, but look at the impact it has. Even for Windows-coders, it is a huge resource of information about Windows. Snippets of code have been reused in lots of (even closed-source) applications. Which exactly shows the importance of Linux: we do not want to depend of the Redmond Giant. That is the freedom you are talking about.
As proved at the Dutch site Fokzine, people are mainly interested in what is not broadcasted. The nine people locked in the isolated house have been forced to sign a contract, that they can't sell their story to any other medium than Veronica, the company which broadcasts Big Brother now. Moreover, Veronica seems to realize that simply "watching people" is too boring, so there is probably a script involved. Even nicer to see is the way Veronica tries to hide this - at the moment something strange occurs, they simply pull the plug out of the studio - even the webcams are censored.
The reactions are funnier than the program itself: a camera team from another TV station landed in the garden using parachutes, there would even have been a fight. And there's the Fish Brother parody, a webcam on nine goldfishes in a bowl, and you can vote them away..
You can set up Lynx to ask for every cookie to accept it or not (including Always/Never settings), but I have not yet found out how to save these settings. Anyone?
The link http://www.suddendischarge.com contains a large collection of tools for playing around with DOS executables. I wrote myself a PKLite-alike wrapper for EXE executables, called Mess 1.31, which includes some "anti-debugging" code. It is open-sourced, except for the anti-debugging part (you may still find the full 1.07:). The HackStop project is the same - version 1.11 has been open-sourced too. Nowadays, DOS is about dead; that's why these projects get open. Most of them still have a taste of the old virus/cracking scene, when the.EXE format was as scary as the NE (for Win16) and PE format (used for Win32 and BeOS applications) were a few years ago. Micros~1's PE format is still being researched. The UPX program can compress these PE programs, it might be open-sourced soon. Uncompressors like Procdump exist too, but ProcDump is probably not going open-source. What you might be looking for, is the code that wrappers like HackStop or UPX add to the program being compressed or "protected": if the program is run, the compressed part is decompressed and the relocations must be "filled in". Basically this is what Dutky says above: add DS+10h (10h=16 bytes for the Program Segment Prefix) to all offsets named in the relocation table in the EXE header of the original program.
Sure. But we owe something to the fanatics - they do our marketing. *BSD may technically be better, but Linux is just bigger because it lets people create everything, even distributions, thus causing much more need to get yourself known. People attracted to pro-Linux-FUD will soon find out what Linux really is, and the stayers will try other Unixes too, in time. Seen in this light, Linux is the door to BSD.
Sorry, that "first kids" comment was not meant for the guy I responded to - he was asking a valid question, he isn't one of the first-posters I was complaining about. I agree about elitism. There are several communities with adoration for a specific OS, and that is a Good Thing. But, the diversity must not change into being closed-minded to knowledge from another camp. We can learn a lot a lot here, and that's exactly why Slashdot is so popular.
My university first teaches Clean, a functional language, second C++ and third Java. Clean is seen as an easy language to get students starting, however I/O is uneasy and GUI-programming heavily in development. I don't think the teachers would be willing to change to another introductional language; Clean is being developed here and is the status symbol of our theoretic department. More general, I am afraid that you can't set a Programming Language standard. HLLs have always been subject of religious debate. The computer world is dynamic, but teachers will stick to their own favorite language.
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I run KDE 1.90 binaries dated 5-5-2000 (even before Beta 1). The idea is that you install both QT 1.44 for the old KDE1 stuff and QT 2 for KDE2. You can best set up KDE2 as a new window manager if you're using [xgk]dm. On my P2-233, only starting up is a bit slower. After that, I find KDE2 a bit faster than KDE1. Not at all a "memory hog" and it doesn't crash either - except when I run Konqueror, which is still heavily beta. The beta versions of KOffice and KDevelop are great, though. I can't wait for the release!
I've got this from a weird German BSD book: KDE started off as the "Cool Desktop Environment", but CDE was already a short for the Common Desktop Environment, included with Solaris. In the tradition of weird Unix names (GNU = "Gnu is Not Unix", PINE = "Pine Is Not Elm") they decided in favor of the name "K Desktop Environment".
a. Writing HTML is too expensive. Web-authoring tools should use the lowest common denominator, which are the W3C standards for HTML. I don't blame you for using Frontpage, I blame tools for using bad HTML.
b. Plugins such as shockware are common. Maintaining 2 versions of a site is not efficient. Javascript is common too. So what? I can visit most Javascript-sites with Lynx perfectly, as long as the content is HTML. Javascript should be used for page style, not for encoding content. There's a reason that Slashdot headlines aren't animated GIFs..
Will I ever convince you? The majority of Internet users thinks that HTTP == Internet, they log in to visit a playground. Anyway, I will not upgrade in the next 2-3 years. I expect you to have a decent web page. If not, I won't visit your page. It is as simply as that. 5% may not be much, but you might want to take that extra cost once you realize how much 5% of a few million visitors is.
First off, this story was on k5 yesterday. At that time, the site was still accessible. I wonder whether all mirrors have got antifile.zip - which includes 4 MB of email addresses of people who replied to get off Rodana Garst's mailinglists. I would never have put that file online. .procmailrc filter on the headers.. :)
By the way, the archive didn't shock me because of Rodana's pictures, but because of the size of antifile.zip - if those people are only the ones who hoped to get removed from Garst's List (I found five of my co-students on it), how big must the full archive be?? Twenty million email addresses? Forty? One billion?
We are just some toy in the spammer's hands. I'm never going to reply spam again "to be removed". Deleting is the only thing that helps. Well, I could put up a
Do a search on "GNUtella" on freshmeat and you'll find several projects. By the way, acceptance of a protocol lies by no means in its simplicity, but in its functionality, quality, security and speed.
You mean democracy, as in the old Greek days? Where all men gathered at the "agora" (marketplace) to let their voices be heard? /. ;)
To me, this seems to be exactly the meaning of The Democracy Project. Democracy, in its purest classical meaning, was impossible because you can't have everybody at one place. The mob needs to be represented by a small number of people. The Internet, however, is a place where just anybody in a no-matter-what-sized community can stand up and shout his opinion. If his/her opinion is agreed upon, it gets moderated up, just like here on
IMHO, a republic is just a practically more or less usable implementation of a democracy. If politicians strive to hear the opinion of the people they represent, they should be very interested in the Internet as a massa medium. The only problem is, where to start. Will TDP be accepted as an objective forum? Are politicians really willing to join a public forum? (Which is often time waste, because opinions tend to repeat on forums) TDP is a great idea, but I yet have to see it work out.
Last: this is again a U.S. oriented article. There's much PR blah on the Quorum site. Living in The Netherlands, I don't know similar political forums. At our elections a few years ago, the only highly visited sites were Voting Wizards - you do a quiz and the computer tells you which party to vote on. It seems like most of the mob isn't interested in politics. However, our Queen Beatrix is really popular here...
I sent a message to the webmaster, and I got this reply:
Thanks for your feedback. You are not the only person who has requested that we support Lynx and other text-only browsers at Raging Search. We are currently working on this, and we expect to have text-only support for Raging Search coming very soon. Please keep using the site.
Thanks again for your support,
Josh Hornik, Product Manager, Raging Search.
Well, I think we should give them some time. Joshua answered a friend of mine in the same way: "Our thinking was to send text-only users to AltaVista, which has a search that is meant specifically for text-only browsers." "We are currently working on text-browser-enabling Raging Search. The work (optimizing pages for text-only browsers and making sure no functionality gets lost) should be done soon." Even better!
There was a very interesting article (it isn't published online yet, but was linked to this coverstory) in the German computer magazine C'T a few weeks ago, about the legal implications of pressing a "I agree" button etc. The conclusion was, roughly, that there aren't any! I'd find this interesting. In the same article, btw, it is suggested that written disclaimers don't matter either, since a customer isn't required to sign them..
Anyway, this too is the freedom of Open Source - anyone could start an (illegal) fork of Samba which makes use of these "trade secrets"..
If MS did so, that would be the same kind of "bundling" software like they did with IE. This would be the ideal move to press C++ Builder and Watcom out of the market. Microsoft is already involved in a monopoly lawsuit, so I suppose they won't even face the risk of another huge one. By the way, MS really can't complain about the number of WinAPI coders. It is amazing that the software industry picked it up - the WinAPI is continuously changing and a real chaos. Ask the Wine developers..
Now this is a troll. Would you please leave Haider out of this discussion? If you actually tried to follow the news, ALL other European countries have shown that they are against Haider. We are ashamed enough that he won the elections in Austria. By making this comparison you have just shown you are the stereotype of a dumb yank that we Europeans always think Americans to be. Slashdot may be an American forum for 75%, but at least get a clue!
Because I haven't got an Internet connection, I have upgraded to SuSE 6.3 by only using CDs that were bundled with some German magazines, like PC Intern and Chip. I had to use some dirty tricks in DOS to let the single SuSE63 "evaluation" CD boot YaST1 - YaST2 just could only install a fresh SuSE 6.3, not upgrade from SuSE 6.2. There's definitely some work in there. /etc dir with YaST's general settings, and personally I don't need it to always regenerate the HTML help database. /usr/doc/packages instead of /usr/doc, but in itself it is a beautiful system. SuSE really tries to deliver something complete. (OSS can't be upgraded together with a new kernel version, though.. then you need a real 4Front license, and my cheap isapnp AZT2320-card is fully supported by OSS only)
By the way, is there a way to customize SuSEconfig (which is automatically started by YaST)? It always overwrites manually edited files in the
Overall, I do enjoy running SuSE and its wealth of applications. It has weird directories like
Wow, a non-geek posting at Slashdot. No matter how provoking this posting is, I'd moderate it up. And you surely know how to market yourself.. I didn't particularly like that "how likely is it that you have anything important to add to my posting"? Btw, if you want to know what I look like, I'm a 20-aged short-haired student in The Netherlands. So what. ;)
I agree that marketing isn't that bad. Marketing is essential in commercial software business. The point is that Linux is not commercial. Linux World Domination is an illusion. The idea is, that people will get less dependent on commercial software houses. No wonder that the marketing business doesn't like Linux
I think it's something in between. Marketing tries to say the best things about a product, and to hide the nasty details. Many press releases are worthless, so are ads. Marketing isn't essential to knowledge, it tries to convince you by subjectivity. Slashdot is so cool because of all the different opinions here, not because of yours only. Consumers need a choice. They surely need Windows too, and Linux surely needs marketing to get more support. Even Linux has a "market". The cool thing about Linux is, that Linux' market IS its marketing.
First off, kudos for this point. Not many people dared to post that. Because they were afraid of not having an open mind? /., isn't it? Politicians come up with the most ridiculous Decency Acts on the web, but they don't pay attention to, for example, Microsoft's monopoly or cybercrime. I find that downright scary.
Jon Katz points to an old taboo, but he is right. What has it to do with nerds? Nothing in particular. But it certainly does matter. The USA have quite some influence on the rest of the world. We share a lot of media, like TV and the Web. Rather than just forbid sex, there should be discussion about how to circumvent it. Of course we need to protect children, but politicians want to seem morally correct and they invent regulations that damage free speech and our privacy. Surely something for
However, I'm afraid that Jon posts this story for readers who already agree. It is the conservative wing of America we have to convince.
The Solaris and HP ports of Internet Exploder were horrible, if I remember some posts in earlier threads about this. IE's power lies in the integration with the operating system, which is typically Microsoft. Porting IE to Linux in two days is impossible, and I don't think it will get a big userbase in the open source community.
In the beginning, IE was developed because of Netscape. The Netscape browser was an attack to Microsofts APIs, as Judge Jackson's Findings state. Microsoft has no reason to release IE for Linux - they won't make money and they won't improve image.
One offtopic thing: this is one of the messages that always get moderated up as insightful: "Microsoft may seem Enemy #1, but it indeed helps Linux towards standards." While that is a truth we don't always consider, we should take care of problems ourselves instead of begging MS to port IE.
I have seen this in the newspaper here in The Netherlands, too. Of course ISP's protested, but I've seen little discussion for the rest. Of course this judgement is ridiculous. You don't declare the Major of a city guilty for having an inhabitant doing illegal things. And it is immoral to force the major to stalk his inhabitants.
The same thing holds for universities. Haven't they got anything more serious to do than spying on users? It is my own responsibility, not theirs. Of course, the general rules prescribe that I don't put illegal things online, but the reason for such regulations should be prevention that lamers who want to download it flood the university's network.
Apart from that, I still think the industry should do something about the core problem - software and music prices are simply too high. Furthermore, the damage is only done to the already popular stuff. You hardly find the Charlatans in MP3. You *will* find Britney Spears, and lots of her. Acrobat nowhere, Office 2K everywhere. With DVDs it'll be the same. Office 97, however, is gone - and it's too young for abandonwarez. Maybe pricing that one for a bargain could help against piracy?
I think MP3 is a wonderful format. There should definitely come some kind of regulation for bootlegs. Napster is just great for finding unreleased Radiohead live tracks and rare B-sides.
With "kill", I mean that Wine will lose the functionality battle with MainSoft - no wonder, because MainSoft has the Windows source code and Wine doesn't. MainSoft basically has to recode Wine. Remember how Micros~1 recoded Netscape?
You are right; proprietary Microsoft-Win32 libraries are a scary thing. But this is probably exactly what MainSoft is going to ship... and every distribution will be going to include it, just like they include Wine. Which brings us back to the question, how bad is it to support the Win32 API?
Some years ago, I read a book by ex-Microserf Eller, about his experiences at MS since he started coding Windows 1.0 there. I found the part concerning GO Corporation very interesting. Around 1992, Go launched their pen-oriented (instead of mouse-oriented) operating system. Microsofts reaction was "Pen Windows", in fact just Windows 3.11 plus some DLLs for pen drivers and text recognition. In the marketing war thereafter, Microsoft said: "Hey, you don't need Go. Windows can do it too." The hype was gone and Go was dead, as Martin Eller describes it.
The same might apply to this situation. Linux does a heck of a lot more than running Win32 binaries, but Microsoft will tell us that we don't need too switch to Linux, because Windows runs Win32 binaries natively. People won't see the difference between Windows and Linux anymore, and therefore people won't move to Linux. Isn't that the strategy, classical extend & embrace?
Even if this idea doesn't kill Linux, it probably kills Wine. That is a real loss, because Wine is the bridge between Microsofts monopoly on the Win32 standard and the Open Source movement. Wine itself might be alpha forever, but look at the impact it has. Even for Windows-coders, it is a huge resource of information about Windows. Snippets of code have been reused in lots of (even closed-source) applications. Which exactly shows the importance of Linux: we do not want to depend of the Redmond Giant. That is the freedom you are talking about.
As proved at the Dutch site Fokzine, people are mainly interested in what is not broadcasted. The nine people locked in the isolated house have been forced to sign a contract, that they can't sell their story to any other medium than Veronica, the company which broadcasts Big Brother now. Moreover, Veronica seems to realize that simply "watching people" is too boring, so there is probably a script involved. Even nicer to see is the way Veronica tries to hide this - at the moment something strange occurs, they simply pull the plug out of the studio - even the webcams are censored.
The reactions are funnier than the program itself: a camera team from another TV station landed in the garden using parachutes, there would even have been a fight. And there's the Fish Brother parody, a webcam on nine goldfishes in a bowl, and you can vote them away..
Per Nino, Philips has to pay a $16 license fee to Micros~1. For PalmOS, it's $0.30.
You can set up Lynx to ask for every cookie to accept it or not (including Always/Never settings), but I have not yet found out how to save these settings. Anyone?
The link http://www.suddendischarge.com contains a large collection of tools for playing around with DOS executables. I wrote myself a PKLite-alike wrapper for EXE executables, called Mess 1.31, which includes some "anti-debugging" code. It is open-sourced, except for the anti-debugging part (you may still find the full 1.07 :). The HackStop project is the same - version 1.11 has been open-sourced too. Nowadays, DOS is about dead; that's why these projects get open. Most of them still have a taste of the old virus/cracking scene, when the .EXE format was as scary as the NE (for Win16) and PE format (used for Win32 and BeOS applications) were a few years ago. Micros~1's PE format is still being researched. The UPX program can compress these PE programs, it might be open-sourced soon. Uncompressors like Procdump exist too, but ProcDump is probably not going open-source. What you might be looking for, is the code that wrappers like HackStop or UPX add to the program being compressed or "protected": if the program is run, the compressed part is decompressed and the relocations must be "filled in". Basically this is what Dutky says above: add DS+10h (10h=16 bytes for the Program Segment Prefix) to all offsets named in the relocation table in the EXE header of the original program.
Sure. But we owe something to the fanatics - they do our marketing. *BSD may technically be better, but Linux is just bigger because it lets people create everything, even distributions, thus causing much more need to get yourself known. People attracted to pro-Linux-FUD will soon find out what Linux really is, and the stayers will try other Unixes too, in time. Seen in this light, Linux is the door to BSD.
Sorry, that "first kids" comment was not meant for the guy I responded to - he was asking a valid question, he isn't one of the first-posters I was complaining about. I agree about elitism. There are several communities with adoration for a specific OS, and that is a Good Thing. But, the diversity must not change into being closed-minded to knowledge from another camp. We can learn a lot a lot here, and that's exactly why Slashdot is so popular.
Using lynx, the posted link can't be accessed at the moment.. Can those "first" kids go away please?
My university first teaches Clean, a functional language, second C++ and third Java. Clean is seen as an easy language to get students starting, however I/O is uneasy and GUI-programming heavily in development. I don't think the teachers would be willing to change to another introductional language; Clean is being developed here and is the status symbol of our theoretic department. More general, I am afraid that you can't set a Programming Language standard. HLLs have always been subject of religious debate. The computer world is dynamic, but teachers will stick to their own favorite language.