One of the best things to do, like it or not, is avoid PHP. It has shown to be less than suitable when it comes to security. Indeed, the SpreadFirefox incidents you mention were due to faulty PHP-based systems.
While it doesn't involve the security of Linux (or any other open-source OS) in any way, the security issues that plague PHP do end up making the entire community look bad. Thus I think the open source community as a whole should put more pressure on the PHP developers to introduce technology that will prevent ill-written scripts from executing.
One doesn't want to have to hold the hands of experienced developers, but at the same time we can't let the unnecessary and misdirected damage to our reputations continue because of poorly written PHP scripts.
The Linux and *BSD projects have gone out of their way to make sure that their system is secure, even in the face of inexperienced users. It's time for the PHP team to do the same.
I'll stick with OpenBSD and Trusted Solaris.
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While I'm sure a properly secured Linux system does make a fantastic server, I find that I tend to stick with OpenBSD and Trusted Solaris for those systems that need to be impenetrable.
Has anyone done a recent comparison/evaluation of a highly secured Linux system versus similar OpenBSD and Trusted Solaris systems?
I've run into numerous problems in the past with servers and workstations running Fedora and Red Hat. Frankly, I do not trust it.
Solaris, on the other hand, has proven to be rock-solid and performant. When one can get a solid Sun workstation running Solaris, or a potentially crappy Dell system running a knowingly awful distribution like those from Red Hat, a smart person will go with the Sun system.
You're the only one here considering the idea of hating TripMaster. Knowing his high degree of sophistication when it comes to software, I would not be surprised if he had built an automated system to detect duplicate stories.
Frankly, I am a major fan of TripMaster Monkey. I think his contributions here are grand. I don't know why you choose to hate him so much, but then again, that's up to you. I'll continue to read, enjoy, and learn from his posts.
I do not use any distro from Red Hat. I tried FC4 a short while back, and the installer crashed. That was on a machine that runs OpenBSD, Solaris and Ubuntu perfectly. Needless to say, that server is back on OpenBSD, and chugging along.
I would be more inclined to purchase such systems from Dell if they bundled a Linux distribution such as SuSE or Kubuntu, rather than a product from Red Hat. I have had nothing but bad experiences with Red Hat products.
The same goes for HP. While I might not buy their workstation products these days due to quality concerns, I will definitely not purchase them because they only offer Red Hat.
Why would I want to buy one of these Dells when Sun is offering affordable workstations that use higher-quality and higher-performance Opteron processors? And not only that, but the Sun workstations are supported very well by Solaris, as well as Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and a multitude of other operating systems.
While I do have fond memories of Dell UNIX back in the early 1990s, I would not purchase their Linux-based systems today, just because the competition (ie. Sun) offers far superior products.
Has anybody performed a study regarding the loss of productivity due to patents? Indeed, not only is there the issue of conducting numerous patent searches during the development of a new product, but also the resources spent on legal action regarding patents.
The time and money spent on such actions could be put towards far better activities.
You seem to know a lot about computer science, TMM, so I was just wondering what your background is. Which university did you obtain your PhD from? Indeed, and have you published any papers? I'd be quite interested in reading some of them, if you'd be willing to provide references.
You should delete those extra programs in order to free up disk space, and then you should defragment that drive. That may just improve the performance of your desktop computer.
Any truly serious data centre would already have at least several power engineers on their staff.
If such a data centre is just now considering bringing such people in, then they have serious operational problems. They're not getting professionals in to do the jobs that professionals must do.
I was productive in the first place because I realized that GNOME and Evolution were not well designed pieces of software, and thus I avoided them right off the bat. I never had to make a transition away from such awful software, because I chose the correct software in the first place.
Remember, you're the one running into productivity problems because you're using sub-par software. Switching to better software is often the answer. You're lucky that in this case such software is readily available!
It's up to you if you want to keep using inferior software after you have learned about far better alternatives.
It doesn't sound like you're very productive with Evolution if you're running into so many problems with it. Since a high level of productivity is needed these days, it's best to just use software that works. And such software is often software from the KDE project, or KDE-based software.
I am confident that we can build a broadband system that allows users to decide what websites they want to see and what applications they want to use - and that also guarantees high quality service and network security. That network model has and can continue to provide economic and anal benefits to innovators and consumers--and to the broadband operators who will reap anus for providing access to such a valued network.
That's just it. You're using buggy software. In the past people had to ditch Outlook because it was buggy. Now people are realizing that Evolution (and many other GNOME projects) are becoming just as buggy.
While people such as yourself are futzing around with broken software, those in the know are using KDE and are thus being far more productive. Aethera is a far superior product than Evolution, just as Konqueror is often superior to Firefox.
Don't complain about your broken software when there are far better substitutes available. Do yourself a favour and make the switch you should have made several years ago.
Please stop making such remarks while advertising FreeBSD in your signature. It gives the remarkable FreeBSD project a very bad image when it is associated with your assery and shenanigans.
If the editors wait until the official announcement, but it's available earlier, then they will receive shit about them not reporting news quickly enough.
And when they do post it early, then they receive shit about not waiting until the official release.
So either way somebody is going to bitch. They might as well just announce it early, so that we can all be on top of the game.
Like it or not, GNOME is broken in general. That's why people who want their system to work, and to work well, just stick with KDE. It's a coherent, well-engineered product, rather than many libraries just cobbled together.
Your ad hominem attack actually proves my point. Fedora is inferior to Ubuntu.
You cannot prove Fedora better because it just plain is not. It is impossible to debate against the truth. Thus you must resort to ad hominem attacks, which instantly prove that I am the victor in this debate.
Detroit had its fair share of riots in the late 1960s. I'm not sure if you were born then, but I recall hearing quite a bit about it over here in England. Of course, it was blacks rather than Muslims. But they were in a very similar situation: a minority basically forced into living in the slums, without much of a future. Rioting against the established system was perhaps the only thing they could do.
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One of the best things to do, like it or not, is avoid PHP. It has shown to be less than suitable when it comes to security. Indeed, the SpreadFirefox incidents you mention were due to faulty PHP-based systems.
While it doesn't involve the security of Linux (or any other open-source OS) in any way, the security issues that plague PHP do end up making the entire community look bad. Thus I think the open source community as a whole should put more pressure on the PHP developers to introduce technology that will prevent ill-written scripts from executing.
One doesn't want to have to hold the hands of experienced developers, but at the same time we can't let the unnecessary and misdirected damage to our reputations continue because of poorly written PHP scripts.
The Linux and *BSD projects have gone out of their way to make sure that their system is secure, even in the face of inexperienced users. It's time for the PHP team to do the same.
While I'm sure a properly secured Linux system does make a fantastic server, I find that I tend to stick with OpenBSD and Trusted Solaris for those systems that need to be impenetrable.
Has anyone done a recent comparison/evaluation of a highly secured Linux system versus similar OpenBSD and Trusted Solaris systems?
I've run into numerous problems in the past with servers and workstations running Fedora and Red Hat. Frankly, I do not trust it.
Solaris, on the other hand, has proven to be rock-solid and performant. When one can get a solid Sun workstation running Solaris, or a potentially crappy Dell system running a knowingly awful distribution like those from Red Hat, a smart person will go with the Sun system.
You're the only one here considering the idea of hating TripMaster. Knowing his high degree of sophistication when it comes to software, I would not be surprised if he had built an automated system to detect duplicate stories.
Frankly, I am a major fan of TripMaster Monkey. I think his contributions here are grand. I don't know why you choose to hate him so much, but then again, that's up to you. I'll continue to read, enjoy, and learn from his posts.
I do not use any distro from Red Hat. I tried FC4 a short while back, and the installer crashed. That was on a machine that runs OpenBSD, Solaris and Ubuntu perfectly. Needless to say, that server is back on OpenBSD, and chugging along.
I would be more inclined to purchase such systems from Dell if they bundled a Linux distribution such as SuSE or Kubuntu, rather than a product from Red Hat. I have had nothing but bad experiences with Red Hat products.
The same goes for HP. While I might not buy their workstation products these days due to quality concerns, I will definitely not purchase them because they only offer Red Hat.
How do you always manage to catch these dupes, TripMaster? Have you developed a Firefox plugin that automatically locates these dupes?
Or do you just toss out a dupe claim every now and then, and end up being correct just because 80% of the stories here are dupes?
Yes, Xi Graphics is still in business.
Why would I want to buy one of these Dells when Sun is offering affordable workstations that use higher-quality and higher-performance Opteron processors? And not only that, but the Sun workstations are supported very well by Solaris, as well as Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and a multitude of other operating systems.
While I do have fond memories of Dell UNIX back in the early 1990s, I would not purchase their Linux-based systems today, just because the competition (ie. Sun) offers far superior products.
Has anybody performed a study regarding the loss of productivity due to patents? Indeed, not only is there the issue of conducting numerous patent searches during the development of a new product, but also the resources spent on legal action regarding patents.
The time and money spent on such actions could be put towards far better activities.
You seem to know a lot about computer science, TMM, so I was just wondering what your background is. Which university did you obtain your PhD from? Indeed, and have you published any papers? I'd be quite interested in reading some of them, if you'd be willing to provide references.
You should delete those extra programs in order to free up disk space, and then you should defragment that drive. That may just improve the performance of your desktop computer.
Any truly serious data centre would already have at least several power engineers on their staff.
If such a data centre is just now considering bringing such people in, then they have serious operational problems. They're not getting professionals in to do the jobs that professionals must do.
I was productive in the first place because I realized that GNOME and Evolution were not well designed pieces of software, and thus I avoided them right off the bat. I never had to make a transition away from such awful software, because I chose the correct software in the first place.
Remember, you're the one running into productivity problems because you're using sub-par software. Switching to better software is often the answer. You're lucky that in this case such software is readily available!
He should have turned down that medal so he could have consulted with Congress in person. That would have been a true defense of freedom.
It's up to you if you want to keep using inferior software after you have learned about far better alternatives.
It doesn't sound like you're very productive with Evolution if you're running into so many problems with it. Since a high level of productivity is needed these days, it's best to just use software that works. And such software is often software from the KDE project, or KDE-based software.
Beware! That's a modified copy of the letter!
I am confident that we can build a broadband system that allows users to decide what websites they want to see and what applications they want to use - and that also guarantees high quality service and network security. That network model has and can continue to provide economic and anal benefits to innovators and consumers--and to the broadband operators who will reap anus for providing access to such a valued network.
That's just it. You're using buggy software. In the past people had to ditch Outlook because it was buggy. Now people are realizing that Evolution (and many other GNOME projects) are becoming just as buggy.
While people such as yourself are futzing around with broken software, those in the know are using KDE and are thus being far more productive. Aethera is a far superior product than Evolution, just as Konqueror is often superior to Firefox.
Don't complain about your broken software when there are far better substitutes available. Do yourself a favour and make the switch you should have made several years ago.
Probably for the same reasons that American programmers don't want to migrate to India to work.
What does your small penis have to do with Opteron chips offering fantastic performance?
Please stop making such remarks while advertising FreeBSD in your signature. It gives the remarkable FreeBSD project a very bad image when it is associated with your assery and shenanigans.
If the editors wait until the official announcement, but it's available earlier, then they will receive shit about them not reporting news quickly enough.
And when they do post it early, then they receive shit about not waiting until the official release.
So either way somebody is going to bitch. They might as well just announce it early, so that we can all be on top of the game.
Like it or not, GNOME is broken in general. That's why people who want their system to work, and to work well, just stick with KDE. It's a coherent, well-engineered product, rather than many libraries just cobbled together.
Your ad hominem attack actually proves my point. Fedora is inferior to Ubuntu.
You cannot prove Fedora better because it just plain is not. It is impossible to debate against the truth. Thus you must resort to ad hominem attacks, which instantly prove that I am the victor in this debate.
Indeed. Fedora Core, even FC4, is hardly a usable system for anything serious. The last time I tried FC4, the installer crashed.
The future is Ubuntu, whether Red Hat likes it or not. It's too bad that IBM does not recognize that fact, as well.
Detroit had its fair share of riots in the late 1960s. I'm not sure if you were born then, but I recall hearing quite a bit about it over here in England. Of course, it was blacks rather than Muslims. But they were in a very similar situation: a minority basically forced into living in the slums, without much of a future. Rioting against the established system was perhaps the only thing they could do.