IMO good things have happened to VirtualBox since Sun bought it... I agree that Sun keeping a proprietary version is suboptimal, but nevertheless Sun have done many great things... - And I'd hate to see them go away...
I'm sorry but on what planet can your teacher confiscate your laptop just because you're running an illegal version of Windows?
If you did run a pirated version of Windows, Microsoft could sue you, but it's a civil law suit, not a crime!
Schools teach more that just math, reading and writing...
Schools needs to teach how to use computers too... Schools educates kids how to interact as a part of society. I think adults who can type on a keyboard, have bigger issues, than those who can't write an entire sentence grammatically correct... Today, you can't even get a monkey job at a factory unless you can count and type the number of totally identical items you've produced any given day...
While C is great... I'd not recommend it for GUI development... If what you come from is VS.Net, and you want to make apps with a pretty UI, what you'd want to use is GTK with Python, Java, C# or maybe C++ with Qt...
C is great for high performance things and system programming, but it was not designed to do GUI applications, while it sure is possible and you'll learn a lot about GNU autotools, it's not a pleasant experience.
So it most certainly depends on what type of apps you wish to do... Webapps, enduser apps or system tools and backend libraries.
What's needed is not centralized effeorts... We've already got project like freedesktop.org etc...
If the average user needs to just check facebook, hotmail etc... Then average users needs to buy a netbook... And netbook producers needs to make consistent distributions...
The rest of the Linux community should continue to innovate in whatever directions they'd like, and let evolution decide what gets into the mainstream netbook distributions.
It will be nice when we can transport disks around, similar to fat(32), and not have to worry about whether another OS will be able to read it or not.
I'm no filesystem expert... But I think different filesystems for different purposes is a good idea... Do you want to use ZFS on a flash disk or external harddrive... (the ladder might make a little sense).
Generally I don't get all the fuss about ZFS... Okay, it's cool that we'll need more energy to reach it's limits than needed to boil this oceans...
smb/nfs/iscsi support integrated, Volume AND partition manager.
Yes, that's cool... But why does it need to be *in* the filesystem???
I'm not expert but AFAIK we've got LVM for volume management, and we can run any filesystem ontop of LVM... I think the idea of having volume management separate from filesystem sounds like a good idea, as it would enable you to used different filesystems for different purposes... But hey maybe I'm missing something, why not improve or create a replacement for LVM instead of including volume management in the filesystem?
How can you produce a product that attacks things attempting to exploit your holes when you have the ability to patch the holes?
I agree, however, holes in non-microsoft applications and plugins such as Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Flash is probably just as big an issue... As the holes in MS windows. (thought those problems could as many suggest be fixed by proper execution level separation).
Generally, I view antivirus as quick, dirty and cheap patch to a fundamental flaw in the proprietary software ecosystem.
I think in Denmark you can be charged with a thing called misleading or deceiving marketing. I'd suppose a company repetitively advertising with the wrong prices would at some point face charges.
I'd agree completely... Nevertheless, I recently saw an article on a Danish technology site, about a publisher who'd switched to Google docs because their Microsoft, I think it was sharepoint, solution wasn't stable enough and way too expensive...
Personally I kind think the entire idea of running apps in a browser is absurd... That's not what HTML and javascript was design to... Okay, yes it works... But does it really work very well, for anything but network dependent applications such as email.. etc...?
Not to mention that, if you really insist, you can still choose a different copy of Wikipedia to get information about him. Ok, granted, not in German, but is there anyone in Germany using the internet and NOT able to read English?
Yes, there is... I'm not one, I'm Danish... But I do sometimes get mails in German from people who are either too lazy or stupid to write in English...
I usually tell them to please write in English, as I would hate to use my rusty German, a language I by the way hated in school:)
If the University doesn't deliver the mail isn't that some sort of mail fraud? Or am I missing something...
Not if it's addressed to a specific IP on their internal network:)
In fact many would probably argue that an IP address is personal data, and shouldn't be given out public unless a warrant is present. E.g. Sharing means given name and address of those who have been using a specific IP.
Somehow I don't get the EU, they don't like it when Google stored peoples IP forever... But when ISPs shares peoples IP with counter piracy organizations like the RIAA, nothing happens...
Does anyone else get the feeling that the summary wants us to react in a certain way?
Would you put your servers on the NUKELEURZ? WOULD YOU!?
Yeah...
I wonder if there's more radiation than normal?
Does anybody know if could be bad for the servers, chips etc...
I'm sure they wont die immediately, but I wouldn't be surprised if radiation is bad for todays frail processors...
My guess is that their prices dipped to near-zero while they were being prosecuted in European courts in order to help influence opinion about Microsoft...
Are you insinuating that there're any links what so ever between what the European court and the contracts the EU counsel have to buy software?
The judges who convicted MS in the antitrust case were not politicians and they were not publicly elected!
To insinuate that the European court could be bribed by offering cheap contracts to EU counsel is absurd.
(I assume the contracts we're talking about is the software delivery contracts Microsoft has with EU, where EU is a customer).
The real reason it interesting is because the European Union probably did a study as to whether or not an opensource solution would be better. And they probably found that Microsoft suddenly would offer their software for close to nothing... And then the politicians decides that they'll get Microsoft since the price is not that much different... Only problem he doesn't see is the lockin...:)
EU what?
I'm sorry but exactly what kind of enforcement agencies those the EU have?
AFAIK the only intelligence agency is Europol, and all it's investigation are performed by member nations it has no executive rights anywhere as far as I know...
My guess is that EU got a really dirt cheap deal for some software... And promised not to tell others... Like everybody else...
The Danish newspaper Politiken has an article where they ask a historian at the Danish institute of International studies... He says that it was known at the time and thus he considers it unlikely that the US kept it secret from the Danish government. He also says that it's extremely unlikely that the bomb still exists as the other were blown up.
The article (in Danish): http://politiken.dk/udland/article596270.ece
Politiken also has another article with the headline "USA kept nuclear bomb a secret to Denmark".
However, I wouldn't be surprised if the Danish government decided to deny it after the crash, even if they didn't know about before the crash... As the Danish government usually has a minority of the seats in parliament and would likely be voted out of office if was to be known that there as American nuclear weapons on Danish territorie.
Could probably be implemented... But I don't like the idea that people can vote for or against a particular law... Sometimes a tax raise is needed, sometimes we need to make decisions that the majority strongly disapproves of, but that doesn't make such decisions less needed.
No, but suggesting that people should be allowed to make money from such transplants... What next can I get a transplant in advance, just be safe, and then make money off it?:)
Offtopic: I think slashdot eat my sacrasm tags around the first line:)
Direct democracy would be unimplementable as most people wouldn't want to vote on most issues... And even fewer people would know how to vote in their own interest...
Personally I'm not having a hard time seeing that indirect democracy is not perfect either. But on the other hand it's probably the only thing that really works.
As it make people think their vote matters and that they rule... When in reality it's probably almost completely random who gets elected... and the ones that does get elected feels a great responsibility and wont screw things up... That said I think my vote matters in my country, and I do like our democracy even thought there's things I strongly disagree with (I'm European too, Denmark).
IMO, in perfect world people would only vote on ethics and ideology, not concrete issues... The concrete issues are what's destroying democracy...
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I agree it would be real bad if politicians started to ask voters what they wanted...
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IMO good things have happened to VirtualBox since Sun bought it... I agree that Sun keeping a proprietary version is suboptimal, but nevertheless Sun have done many great things...
- And I'd hate to see them go away...
I'm sorry but on what planet can your teacher confiscate your laptop just because you're running an illegal version of Windows?
If you did run a pirated version of Windows, Microsoft could sue you, but it's a civil law suit, not a crime!
Schools teach more that just math, reading and writing... ...
Schools needs to teach how to use computers too... Schools educates kids how to interact as a part of society. I think adults who can type on a keyboard, have bigger issues, than those who can't write an entire sentence grammatically correct...
Today, you can't even get a monkey job at a factory unless you can count and type the number of totally identical items you've produced any given day
While C is great... I'd not recommend it for GUI development... If what you come from is VS.Net, and you want to make apps with a pretty UI, what you'd want to use is GTK with Python, Java, C# or maybe C++ with Qt...
C is great for high performance things and system programming, but it was not designed to do GUI applications, while it sure is possible and you'll learn a lot about GNU autotools, it's not a pleasant experience.
So it most certainly depends on what type of apps you wish to do... Webapps, enduser apps or system tools and backend libraries.
What's needed is not centralized effeorts... We've already got project like freedesktop.org etc...
If the average user needs to just check facebook, hotmail etc... Then average users needs to buy a netbook... And netbook producers needs to make consistent distributions...
The rest of the Linux community should continue to innovate in whatever directions they'd like, and let evolution decide what gets into the mainstream netbook distributions.
I agree. And that's the way I like it.
Aren't all operating systems? On windows or similar you just don't get to see the mess :)
It will be nice when we can transport disks around, similar to fat(32), and not have to worry about whether another OS will be able to read it or not.
I'm no filesystem expert... But I think different filesystems for different purposes is a good idea... Do you want to use ZFS on a flash disk or external harddrive... (the ladder might make a little sense).
Generally I don't get all the fuss about ZFS... Okay, it's cool that we'll need more energy to reach it's limits than needed to boil this oceans...
smb/nfs/iscsi support integrated, Volume AND partition manager.
Yes, that's cool... But why does it need to be *in* the filesystem???
I'm not expert but AFAIK we've got LVM for volume management, and we can run any filesystem ontop of LVM... I think the idea of having volume management separate from filesystem sounds like a good idea, as it would enable you to used different filesystems for different purposes...
But hey maybe I'm missing something, why not improve or create a replacement for LVM instead of including volume management in the filesystem?
How can you produce a product that attacks things attempting to exploit your holes when you have the ability to patch the holes?
I agree, however, holes in non-microsoft applications and plugins such as Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Flash is probably just as big an issue... As the holes in MS windows. (thought those problems could as many suggest be fixed by proper execution level separation).
Generally, I view antivirus as quick, dirty and cheap patch to a fundamental flaw in the proprietary software ecosystem.
I think in Denmark you can be charged with a thing called misleading or deceiving marketing. I'd suppose a company repetitively advertising with the wrong prices would at some point face charges.
I'd agree completely... Nevertheless, I recently saw an article on a Danish technology site, about a publisher who'd switched to Google docs because their Microsoft, I think it was sharepoint, solution wasn't stable enough and way too expensive...
Personally I kind think the entire idea of running apps in a browser is absurd... That's not what HTML and javascript was design to... Okay, yes it works... But does it really work very well, for anything but network dependent applications such as email.. etc...?
Not to mention that, if you really insist, you can still choose a different copy of Wikipedia to get information about him. Ok, granted, not in German, but is there anyone in Germany using the internet and NOT able to read English?
Yes, there is... I'm not one, I'm Danish... But I do sometimes get mails in German from people who are either too lazy or stupid to write in English... :)
I usually tell them to please write in English, as I would hate to use my rusty German, a language I by the way hated in school
If the University doesn't deliver the mail isn't that some sort of mail fraud? Or am I missing something...
Not if it's addressed to a specific IP on their internal network :)
In fact many would probably argue that an IP address is personal data, and shouldn't be given out public unless a warrant is present.
E.g. Sharing means given name and address of those who have been using a specific IP.
Somehow I don't get the EU, they don't like it when Google stored peoples IP forever... But when ISPs shares peoples IP with counter piracy organizations like the RIAA, nothing happens...
Does anyone else get the feeling that the summary wants us to react in a certain way? Would you put your servers on the NUKELEURZ? WOULD YOU!?
Yeah...
I wonder if there's more radiation than normal?
Does anybody know if could be bad for the servers, chips etc...
I'm sure they wont die immediately, but I wouldn't be surprised if radiation is bad for todays frail processors...
My guess is that their prices dipped to near-zero while they were being prosecuted in European courts in order to help influence opinion about Microsoft...
Are you insinuating that there're any links what so ever between what the European court and the contracts the EU counsel have to buy software?
:)
The judges who convicted MS in the antitrust case were not politicians and they were not publicly elected!
To insinuate that the European court could be bribed by offering cheap contracts to EU counsel is absurd.
(I assume the contracts we're talking about is the software delivery contracts Microsoft has with EU, where EU is a customer).
The real reason it interesting is because the European Union probably did a study as to whether or not an opensource solution would be better. And they probably found that Microsoft suddenly would offer their software for close to nothing... And then the politicians decides that they'll get Microsoft since the price is not that much different... Only problem he doesn't see is the lockin...
EU what?
I'm sorry but exactly what kind of enforcement agencies those the EU have?
AFAIK the only intelligence agency is Europol, and all it's investigation are performed by member nations it has no executive rights anywhere as far as I know...
My guess is that EU got a really dirt cheap deal for some software... And promised not to tell others... Like everybody else...
The Danish newspaper Politiken has an article where they ask a historian at the Danish institute of International studies... He says that it was known at the time and thus he considers it unlikely that the US kept it secret from the Danish government. He also says that it's extremely unlikely that the bomb still exists as the other were blown up.
The article (in Danish): http://politiken.dk/udland/article596270.ece
Politiken also has another article with the headline "USA kept nuclear bomb a secret to Denmark".
However, I wouldn't be surprised if the Danish government decided to deny it after the crash, even if they didn't know about before the crash... As the Danish government usually has a minority of the seats in parliament and would likely be voted out of office if was to be known that there as American nuclear weapons on Danish territorie.
Could probably be implemented... But I don't like the idea that people can vote for or against a particular law... Sometimes a tax raise is needed, sometimes we need to make decisions that the majority strongly disapproves of, but that doesn't make such decisions less needed.
No, but suggesting that people should be allowed to make money from such transplants... What next can I get a transplant in advance, just be safe, and then make money off it? :)
:)
Offtopic: I think slashdot eat my sacrasm tags around the first line
Yes, cause using medical bills to force people to donate organs is a real great idea...
Personally I don't get your medical system, it sure isn't ethically responsible. Makes me glade to be a European...
Direct democracy would be unimplementable as most people wouldn't want to vote on most issues... And even fewer people would know how to vote in their own interest...
Personally I'm not having a hard time seeing that indirect democracy is not perfect either. But on the other hand it's probably the only thing that really works.
As it make people think their vote matters and that they rule... When in reality it's probably almost completely random who gets elected... and the ones that does get elected feels a great responsibility and wont screw things up...
That said I think my vote matters in my country, and I do like our democracy even thought there's things I strongly disagree with (I'm European too, Denmark).
IMO, in perfect world people would only vote on ethics and ideology, not concrete issues... The concrete issues are what's destroying democracy...
Nah... I think the one shipped with Windows would fail unless you rename from .jar to .zip :)
I think maybe parent i trying to imply that anti virus systems only provides security through obscurity.
I'm guessing CC wasn't very known when wikipedia was founded...
Yeah but that's communism, and evil corporations and prevents competition.
There fixed it for you... :)
Though the sentence still needs a few tweaks to sound intelligent...