Just out of curiosity, if there are 2500 bugs in bugzilla, what do all of those "NOTA" and "DUPL" entries in result mean? Has VALinux backed Slashdot turned on RedHat?
It'd be cool if someone had a link or some more information about only 1 bug showing up in public. I was kind of wondering why I haven't noticed any of the 65,000 bugs.
Crystal Reports 8, however, is another story altogether. Who thought a supposedly well reputed reporting system AVs its pants in the middle of a drag-and-drop operation? I thought that was only something my Delphi apps did.
Are you kidding? If I were a consumer that only read/., I'd assume that W2k is just this really awful, buggy piece of crap that doesn't do anything nearly as well as Leenucks.
I know I read it because I like to keep in touch with the opinions of the geek masses even if I think a lot of the people on it(even some of the editors included) are total idiots. Wheat with the chaff, you might say.
I also enjoy being one of the idiots most of the time. Keeps me from thinking I'm smart.
Yeah, you're probably right. Like many people on this thread, I just got pretty ticked at Homes' calling the list useless because our buddies Linus, RMS, ESR, et al weren't all at the top of the list. I might be wrong in my interpretation, but as you can see I'm not alone in this one. 'Course, I'd probably run nothing but Linux if I didn't get a free one to develop on.
For that matter, what has Turing done lately? I'm not saying that his contributions to computer science continue to be fundamentally important to this day or anything, but that flunky stopped contributing to the community years ago! He also hasn't produced any GPL'd work. Someone should talk to him about that.
I heard that cnet news has an article about the same Sony Airboard, which is a wireless web pad with a 10-inch touch screen that also doubles as a television and a remote control for other appliances. The Airboard will be introduced in Japan on December 1. Interesting, but judging by the picture, it's not entirely flat, so it will be more of a counter-top appliance, rather than a knee-top.
There's also an article on cnet about the same thing
The FBI is forced to open up its system for a thorough investigation. The university folk invited to review it decline to review it. The FBI decides to review the system pretty much by itself.
Is it a stacked deck because they had to go to someone else with some sort of credentials to do it? And no, the RedHat Certified Security Dude or M.S.?.?.?. abbreviation you put after your sig doesn't count.
True, they could be looking for the rubber stamp, as another post said, but really, I don't know enough about the matter to say who they should've had look at it instead. Do you? (the "many eyes of the open source community" doesn't count)
Rather than wondering if search services are going to "Open Source" their search engines, why not start your own? If you're curious about whether many eyes are better, or you're out to prove the ultimate power of Open Source, then go ahead and do it!
Personally, I'm busy right now, but hey, there's gotta be enough people around to try it, right?
After seeing what's happened here with the post of this article and previous articles, you have to wonder how Industry's experience with Open Source has been. Is it always going to be the screaming hordes everytime someone makes a mistake? Are the people of Compaq going to say, "We didn't like our experience with the Open Source community. Maybe we shouln't jump right onto this bandwagon just yet. Maybe we shouldn't even work with these guys."
Such a harsh backlash before anyone even notices the problem is going to push makers of proprietary products toward more reluctance to even work with Open Source in the first place.
Just like any group of people, I know that the vocal minority are usually quite embarrassing to the more temperate amongst us. If that's your experience with the representatives of a group, though, what else can you say about it? "They're *probably* nice guys deep down inside? Most of them *probably* are more reasonable?"
I'd guess that Intel has retained most of its top mental brass over the years. Assuming that, maybe these problems are creeping up because Intel is focusing its best and brightest on another project.
I love the Register's references to Chipzilla and Itanic. I think they do it for fun, and they're definitely not bashful about writing something nice when "Chipzilla" does something that's in their opinion worthwhile.
Suppose I'm not feeling quite so enraged as when I saw this article appear on/. (read the Tom's article a while back), but the disappointment I feel toward Tom's Hardware lately just makes me feel like he doesn't deserve any more attention.
"Satan" Clara? Grow up, Tom. That's just as juvenile as referring to Microsoft as M(dollar-sign).
Commenting only on this article, and not the follow-up, let's review a couple of points:
1)Tom didn't test on the Motherboard he was supposed to test on
2)He didn't have the required microcode update
3)Tom DOES NOT receive ANY MONEY OR ENDORSEMENTS from ANY competing hardware manufacturer, ESPECIALLY NOT AMD
What kind of excuse is it for Tom to say he doesn't believe in Microcode updates because they supposedly disable certain functionality?
Now, let's review a couple of points from the follow-up article
1)Tom glosses over reports of other people doing well with their testing, and gives well overdone attention to problem cases
2)Tom claims that Intel COULD BE shipping faulty chips to OEMs with little factual basis, then treats his claim as a FACT for the rest of his article
3)Tom heroically posts his "scathing" letter to Intel PR, but oddly enough "forgets" to post Intel's reply. Perhaps he considered Intel's reply long-winded, but after the two previous full-text quotes, I somehow doubt it could possibly be any worse.
4)Tom seems to think himself somehow godlike in his heroic letter, saying that Intel couldn't possibly disagree with the opinions of the great Thomas Pabst.
I used to respect Tom's Hardware, but have you ever noticed that whenever there are banner ads for one product on his site, the competition mysteriously receives bad reviews?
In accordance with Microsoft's "X-Box", and Nintendo's newly renamed "N-Cube", Sony has announced that the Playstation 2 will now be called the "P-Right-Cylindrical-Solid". Sony could not be reached for further comment.
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Just out of curiosity, if there are 2500 bugs in bugzilla, what do all of those "NOTA" and "DUPL" entries in result mean? Has VALinux backed Slashdot turned on RedHat?
It'd be cool if someone had a link or some more information about only 1 bug showing up in public. I was kind of wondering why I haven't noticed any of the 65,000 bugs.
Crystal Reports 8, however, is another story altogether. Who thought a supposedly well reputed reporting system AVs its pants in the middle of a drag-and-drop operation? I thought that was only something my Delphi apps did.
He didn't say that there was only one user-visible bug. He said that only one of them is seen in public(read: in practice).
Are you kidding? If I were a consumer that only read /., I'd assume that W2k is just this really awful, buggy piece of crap that doesn't do anything nearly as well as Leenucks.
I know I read it because I like to keep in touch with the opinions of the geek masses even if I think a lot of the people on it(even some of the editors included) are total idiots. Wheat with the chaff, you might say.
I also enjoy being one of the idiots most of the time. Keeps me from thinking I'm smart.
Yeah, you're probably right. Like many people on this thread, I just got pretty ticked at Homes' calling the list useless because our buddies Linus, RMS, ESR, et al weren't all at the top of the list. I might be wrong in my interpretation, but as you can see I'm not alone in this one. 'Course, I'd probably run nothing but Linux if I didn't get a free one to develop on.
For that matter, what has Turing done lately? I'm not saying that his contributions to computer science continue to be fundamentally important to this day or anything, but that flunky stopped contributing to the community years ago! He also hasn't produced any GPL'd work. Someone should talk to him about that.
What do you mean? He asked a whole bunch of people to write his Kernel for him.
God forbid that "getting the attention" of the guys who make a successful OS would be considered significant at all.
I think you're forgetting that Bill Gates used to be a programmer himself.
I heard that cnet news has an article about the same Sony Airboard, which is a wireless web pad with a 10-inch touch screen that also doubles as a television and a remote control for other appliances. The Airboard will be introduced in Japan on December 1. Interesting, but judging by the picture, it's not entirely flat, so it will be more of a counter-top appliance, rather than a knee-top.
There's also an article on cnet about the same thing
Somedays, it just ain't your day.
Anonymous, please note: Spelling and grammer errors only count when they're made by pro-Microsoft people.
No Way! It's not written for Leeenucks, and therefore is the work of evil Satan himself!!!
Geez, you'd think that CmdrTaco was 0wnz3r3d by an anti Microsoft company or something...
The FBI is forced to open up its system for a thorough investigation. The university folk invited to review it decline to review it. The FBI decides to review the system pretty much by itself.
Is it a stacked deck because they had to go to someone else with some sort of credentials to do it? And no, the RedHat Certified Security Dude or M.S.?.?.?. abbreviation you put after your sig doesn't count.
True, they could be looking for the rubber stamp, as another post said, but really, I don't know enough about the matter to say who they should've had look at it instead. Do you? (the "many eyes of the open source community" doesn't count)
Oh 5hit, Cryptome just circumvented a no doubt proprietary encryption algorithm! Drag 'em out and shoot 'em!
Heck, how many of you would've read this Slashdot article if it wasn't buttered up with scandal and comments that scare people?
Rather than wondering if search services are going to "Open Source" their search engines, why not start your own? If you're curious about whether many eyes are better, or you're out to prove the ultimate power of Open Source, then go ahead and do it!
Personally, I'm busy right now, but hey, there's gotta be enough people around to try it, right?
So that would put you somewhere in France, seeing as it's somewhere around half past 10 in the morning here in Planet Earth's Pacific Daylight Time.
Try not to mod this out - I just think it's kind of funny, and I'd like to add a post correcting the time of the update.
After seeing what's happened here with the post of this article and previous articles, you have to wonder how Industry's experience with Open Source has been. Is it always going to be the screaming hordes everytime someone makes a mistake? Are the people of Compaq going to say, "We didn't like our experience with the Open Source community. Maybe we shouln't jump right onto this bandwagon just yet. Maybe we shouldn't even work with these guys."
Such a harsh backlash before anyone even notices the problem is going to push makers of proprietary products toward more reluctance to even work with Open Source in the first place.
Just like any group of people, I know that the vocal minority are usually quite embarrassing to the more temperate amongst us. If that's your experience with the representatives of a group, though, what else can you say about it? "They're *probably* nice guys deep down inside? Most of them *probably* are more reasonable?"
Let's hope he did more than go to Amazon to do his research.
If searching Amazon is legit, then I've got some Google "research" you might want to see:
Google results 1-10 of about 41,800,000 for good. Search took 0.10 seconds.
Google results 1-10 of about 3,210,000 for evil. Search took 0.08 seconds
I'd guess that Intel has retained most of its top mental brass over the years. Assuming that, maybe these problems are creeping up because Intel is focusing its best and brightest on another project.
I love the Register's references to Chipzilla and Itanic. I think they do it for fun, and they're definitely not bashful about writing something nice when "Chipzilla" does something that's in their opinion worthwhile.
/. (read the Tom's article a while back), but the disappointment I feel toward Tom's Hardware lately just makes me feel like he doesn't deserve any more attention.
Suppose I'm not feeling quite so enraged as when I saw this article appear on
"Satan" Clara? Grow up, Tom. That's just as juvenile as referring to Microsoft as M(dollar-sign).
Commenting only on this article, and not the follow-up, let's review a couple of points:
1)Tom didn't test on the Motherboard he was supposed to test on
2)He didn't have the required microcode update
3)Tom DOES NOT receive ANY MONEY OR ENDORSEMENTS from ANY competing hardware manufacturer, ESPECIALLY NOT AMD
What kind of excuse is it for Tom to say he doesn't believe in Microcode updates because they supposedly disable certain functionality?
Now, let's review a couple of points from the follow-up article
1)Tom glosses over reports of other people doing well with their testing, and gives well overdone attention to problem cases
2)Tom claims that Intel COULD BE shipping faulty chips to OEMs with little factual basis, then treats his claim as a FACT for the rest of his article
3)Tom heroically posts his "scathing" letter to Intel PR, but oddly enough "forgets" to post Intel's reply. Perhaps he considered Intel's reply long-winded, but after the two previous full-text quotes, I somehow doubt it could possibly be any worse.
4)Tom seems to think himself somehow godlike in his heroic letter, saying that Intel couldn't possibly disagree with the opinions of the great Thomas Pabst.
I used to respect Tom's Hardware, but have you ever noticed that whenever there are banner ads for one product on his site, the competition mysteriously receives bad reviews?
In accordance with Microsoft's "X-Box", and Nintendo's newly renamed "N-Cube", Sony has announced that the Playstation 2 will now be called the "P-Right-Cylindrical-Solid". Sony could not be reached for further comment.
Alright, that wasn't so anonymous :)