In some ways it has some interesting usages. I can spin up a few hundred CentOS boxes (A lot of places use redhat even though I tend towards debian based distros personally) and have them configured with Salt to simulate a flexible cloud architecture, do integration tests, or a bazillion other things. As for the way it functions differently than the lxc containers, that's another story. It's build on aufs (though has support for other systems) and thus also does versionioning on write. I can tag anything at any point, rewind them, etc... but they behave exactly like virtual machines, right down to shells and package mangement.
It's weird, but super cool.
Actually, docker is already open source. The question is really whether something that's valueable to the open source community needs to be driven by a single company; it's an interesting question.
The product though has always been free.
You can craft the interface however you want however by matter of policy, apple restricts 3rd party browsers to using UIWebView component to render HTML which is the internal WebKit rendering engine. Gecko is not allowed on iOS. This means the JavaScript engine as well. In fact the newer JavaScript engine used by safari is also not accessible. UIWebView only exposes a slower older js engine.
This means outside of the interface itself, all browsers by default will have inferior performance to Safari. It is simply a restriction imposed by Apple. One can argue about whether this is good policy or if they have good reasons or not, this is completely fair. But it is a matter of simple fact that you cannot use any other rendering engine.
http://pcdserver.shacknet.nu/Downloads/PIFTS.txt
Is the dump of what happens when I disassemble it back to code. Has some interesting imports:
+++++++++++++++++++ IMPORTED FUNCTIONS ++++++++++++++++++
Number of Imported Modules = 8 (decimal)
Import Module 001: KERNEL32.dll
Import Module 002: USER32.dll
Import Module 003: ADVAPI32.dll
Import Module 004: ole32.dll
Import Module 005: SHELL32.dll
Import Module 006: OLEAUT32.dll
Import Module 007: VERSION.dll
Import Module 008: WININET.dll
as well as some other interesting information, check it out maybe someone can tell me from this what its trying to do.
User suggestions are great and its good they are doing this. That said one thing I would prefer is if there were more good open source games available. Better yet I would love to know why something like an Open Source Online RPG game has a hard time finding developers but other projects with less global appeal seem to have larger developer bases. Its interesting.
(Disclaimer: I'm a core developer for an online RPG called Peragro Tempus ( www.peragro.org ) and have always pondered why gaining developers is so difficult.
OSS solutions? ClamWin is actually quite a nice scanner though it does no cleaning at all. In fact with a few simple tweaks you can have it run full scheduled scans every night and email YOU the admin the results. Then if a virus needs cleaning you can go take care of it the proper way, either by deleting the infected file completely, or by REPLACING (not cleaning) the affected.dll files. This is really the proper way of taking care of it. I keep a disk around with all the dll files installed by default cabextracted and carried on the 2nd track of a puppy linux live cd. That way I can boot up, replace the bad files with known good copies, and not worry if my virus cleaner actually fully removed the virus. In the end the whole solution cost my company no money at all other than a few blank cd's and I've found it much better overall.
I live in a 2 story house. ONe of the rooms of the upper story contains my little computer lab. It has 4 desktops equipt with 21inch CRT's (yes crt's not lcd's.. come on they were free!) and a small server rack with a few Super Servers (super is the brand). Most of the summer the upsairs room is stiflingly hot and I sweat away the pounds as I model in blender. In the winter I don't even open my upstairs vents. Partially because heat rises of course but I'm reasonably certain the PC's are really keeping my upper story fairly warm.
It is true that it sometimes takes a bit for a new release to support the newest patches which is really the main detriment. I've played quite a bit though maybe not as much as you have, and never had any stability or function problems, everything from macro's to the interface performed completely as expected. Worked equally as well as world of warcraft did.
I know many people have already chimed in to disagree with your post. I disagree as well of course, but I think that they are missing your point a little bit. I understand why it seems logical for the goverment to have access to this type of information. Complete knowledge is the only means a bureaucratic government can use for real control. This control can be used in good ways, for example, security. The issue is the type of people who manage to make it into politics aren't a real representation for the average American. The process to become a good politician and a successful one essentially requires you to sell out your votes to the highest bidder. Sure, they tell themselves I'll do my little voting for Exon just to get into power then I'll use that for good, but they keep selling out. Even with good intentions at the onset, most fall into the corruption that engulfs politics. For this reason the average goverment cannot be trusted because they represent other bureaucratic organinzations such as large companies, before the interests of the average american. They vote for special laws to protect big businesses, not caring that 80% of americans are employed by SMALL businesses, and that helping big business only hurts the little guy, the average american, and the small businesses that drive our economy.
Corruption in politics and thus in goverment to me is the biggest threat to security America faces. Sure we've been dicks to alot of other countries lately, and our unfaltering support of Israel makes many middle eastern people upset with us (not to mention Iraq) but we can deal with military threats without needing to know what book little John Doe is reading. Because the average politician is corrupt, I am quite leary of handing over any information that can be misused, without probable cause for intervention. Obtaining of private information should be limited to a subpoena or warrant that is approved by a judge. This safeguard helps prevent mistreatment and misuse of government executative powers.
Besides, what you are describing is the opposite of freedom. To me freedom is the ability to think things secretly to myself and not be judged; to read a book without someone criticising me (even if I don't know I'm being criticised); to have a private conversation with a close friend and share a secret are all things that I treasure and value greatly. I am not a threat to national security, nor is the average american. Lets focus our security means on the demographics that provide the greatest threat (not racial profiling, but demographic! BIG DIFFERENCE) instead of on the innocent.
Gun control is a good example of a good idea in theory, bad in practice. The lawful americans will simply abide by the laws and obtain their guns legally. Its a hassle for them, but criminals get their guns illegally. They aren't registered, they dont get background checks. THESE are the people that commit the crimes. Gun control merely puts a hassle in the way of a law abiding citizen and while I'm waiting for my background check to go through and my mandatory waiting period, I'm hoping no one breaks into my house armed with an illegally obtained weapon.
This all isn't to say we shouldn't have laws. We need laws to prevent certain types of disputes from being commonplace. Things like divorce law, land ownership, patents, etc... other than that sort of law IMHO the only other law we need is "don't do anything that interferes with the freedom of another person" For instance I think it should be legal for me to buy marajuana. I don't smoke, but doing so DOESN"T HURT YOU unless I'm blowing it in your face or driving. Those are the things taht should be punishable. Drinking isn't illegal but drinking and driving is. Why? because drinking and driving puts others in danger. The line should be drawn at the point that smoeone elses rights are being infringed upon, not drawn where I'm standing because that makes me take a step back. Metaphorically this is a step backwards for society anytime a law draws a line where everyone is already standing.
If I subscribed to an online terrorism service and I committed any action that tipped off authorities that I was doing so, then authorities would have the right to invade my privacy in the interests of national security. Were I not to do anything illegal, then there is no reason for the goverment to need to know this information. I am fairly old fashioned I guess. I prefer innocent until proven guilty, though our law system and society no longer adhere to this standard.
I'm assuming though that your post was sarcasm? Satire in the purest form, using the viewpoint of the opposing side in order to reflect the stupidity of the opionion and or viewpoint is something which I do use fairly often, and is the basis for The Colbert Report!
Seriously is this stuff serious? Or rather are some of the replies here serious? Do people really not care if the government can access your information easily? People say that if you have nothing to hide well then you shouldn't worry. I doubt this very much. I am pretty wary when it comes to trusting our government, especially in a post 9/11 world where they hide information from us "for our protection". For one, the feasibility of implementing this on a hardware level would cost such an increadible ammount of money. Why not have the goverment exoloit security holes in windows which are already documented but MS refuses to fix? Cheaper! Later they can just rely on more holes in Vista to get in, or have MS leave them a hole in their little wga program.
But back to my first point as I have a nasty tendency to jump around and lose focus. EVEN IF I HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE I DON'T WANT THE GOVERMENT OR ANYONE ELSE TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO LOOK AT MY PRIVATE INFORMATION! What I have to hide isn't illegal, or a threat to our country anyways. Everyone has something to hide of a personal nature. For instance, perhaps I don't want anyone to know that I've modified my wife and I's bed to contain built in restraints for recreational purposes. Perhaps I don't want them to know I subscribed to an online dating service because I was a desperate loser. Who cares? Thats personal. Its only law enforcements problem if I'm breaking a law/hurting someone else. Until then I should have the right to be as weird as I want without worrying if someone is looking at my bank records and email and seeing if I'm trying to arrange a special encounter for my wife with another woman.
Not long ago, a girl was arrested for attempting to carry a condom full of white powder onto an aircraft. "Initial tests" determined it was cocaine, and the girl was in jail for over 3 months before some lab sent back and said it was only flower. Why was she detained? She was doing something unusual. If a girl is getting on a plane with a condom of white powder and you're concerned it might be coke, confiscate the condom and then determine if she is a threat to the flight. If she has no bomb, etc.. send her on her way minus her condom thing. There was no warrant so why should she be arrested even? There was no probable cause! I think this shows that you can be in trouble by simply being non-conformative, which is something that frightens me.
So yes, I do have stuff to hide but not things that are a threat to national security. Find a reason why I'm a threat, get it past a judge, THEN I say its ok to tap my communications.
I get really tired of people who are willing to give up freedom in the interests of better security as this is a process that doesn't reverse. The longer it goes on the less and less real freedoms we have. Its going on all the time but catastrophic incidents such as 9/11 greatly accelerated the process and as a result we have things like the [un]patriot[ic] act. Its only really noticible at accelerated rates such as now. People don't see that these changes are exactly the intended result of terrorist groups like al quaeda. They seek to undermine what we hold dear which is our freedom. A good way of doing this is fear. How to create fear? Kill some people on us soil. We'll all be like "protect us do whatever it takes to keep us safe!" In MY opinion the most defiant thing we could have done post 9/11 would have been to stand up and say "Your psychological and physical attack on the American people cannot and willnot deter us from mainting our greatest asset: Freedom. We will NOT let your terrorist ways change what America is and what America stands for!" I truely believe that this sort of response would have granted us better foreign relations as well thus stregnthening our world position, as opposed to pissing off most every country excetp a few close allies by saying if you're not with us you're against us. Way to go Bush, alienaing so many contries as enemies, though they did nothing to us.
I'm sorry but as much as I ha
He is correct. Wine is a reimplementation of the windows API. If Apple were to reimplement the entire API (A gigantic task) why wouldn't they support the already advanced work that has already been done by the wine project. Throw Codeweavers a few developers to help them with their CXOffice on Intel Apples project. Why redo work that has already been done for them for free? Once it is at a level they feel is adequate, they could even include it as a software bundle, add on, or as an OS component that would handle.exe executation. Better for Apple in the long run anyways, because Wine work will benefit BSD and Linux users as well. The better the API reimplementation is the less need there is for windows at all.
I agree. The focus seems to be to make the people believe that the governemnt is out to help the people. They care so much that they will appoint someone to have a desk job to oversee the civil rights violations. Theoretically with checks and balances this shouldn't be necessary. A bill such as the Patriot Act, which is an absolute direct assault on the civil rights of Americans, should never get past congress.... unless it is printed at midnight and passed the following morning, meaning that no one has a chance to read it. Thats not a good excuse in my opinion. Someone should have stood up and said that the vote should wait till there had been adequate time for review, but none did. Republicans, Democrats, and others alike, voted in favor without so much as a thought. As a result the government can write its own warrents without a judge, break into my house to search it, steal things so it looks like a robbery, and then not tell me.
"Who cares?" says the blinded people in favor of bills like the Patriot Act. "It is only a problem if you are doing something wrong." Actually, for one even if I'm not doing something wrong that doesn't mean I want my government spying on my private life. I don't want agents going through my wifes lingere drawer because I made a comment to a friend on the phone that mentioned Al Quada. These kinds of laws open greater doors for abuse, and that is an opportunity we already provide the government with far too often.
I seriously doubt this person will have any profound effect on our civil liberties. The damage has already been done because our government failed us. Instead of using the tragity of 911 to unite the american people, it used it to gain more power through fear. THAT is a step towards totalitarianism in my opinion, and one that would be tough to take a step back from. Unless the American people quit being stupid enough to believe thet "Less Free = More Safe" then I fear that America is on a path of self destruction that may have dire consequences for the world as well.
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In some ways it has some interesting usages. I can spin up a few hundred CentOS boxes (A lot of places use redhat even though I tend towards debian based distros personally) and have them configured with Salt to simulate a flexible cloud architecture, do integration tests, or a bazillion other things. As for the way it functions differently than the lxc containers, that's another story. It's build on aufs (though has support for other systems) and thus also does versionioning on write. I can tag anything at any point, rewind them, etc... but they behave exactly like virtual machines, right down to shells and package mangement. It's weird, but super cool.
Actually, docker is already open source. The question is really whether something that's valueable to the open source community needs to be driven by a single company; it's an interesting question. The product though has always been free.
You can craft the interface however you want however by matter of policy, apple restricts 3rd party browsers to using UIWebView component to render HTML which is the internal WebKit rendering engine. Gecko is not allowed on iOS. This means the JavaScript engine as well. In fact the newer JavaScript engine used by safari is also not accessible. UIWebView only exposes a slower older js engine. This means outside of the interface itself, all browsers by default will have inferior performance to Safari. It is simply a restriction imposed by Apple. One can argue about whether this is good policy or if they have good reasons or not, this is completely fair. But it is a matter of simple fact that you cannot use any other rendering engine.
http://pcdserver.shacknet.nu/Downloads/PIFTS.txt Is the dump of what happens when I disassemble it back to code. Has some interesting imports: +++++++++++++++++++ IMPORTED FUNCTIONS ++++++++++++++++++ Number of Imported Modules = 8 (decimal) Import Module 001: KERNEL32.dll Import Module 002: USER32.dll Import Module 003: ADVAPI32.dll Import Module 004: ole32.dll Import Module 005: SHELL32.dll Import Module 006: OLEAUT32.dll Import Module 007: VERSION.dll Import Module 008: WININET.dll as well as some other interesting information, check it out maybe someone can tell me from this what its trying to do.
User suggestions are great and its good they are doing this. That said one thing I would prefer is if there were more good open source games available. Better yet I would love to know why something like an Open Source Online RPG game has a hard time finding developers but other projects with less global appeal seem to have larger developer bases. Its interesting. (Disclaimer: I'm a core developer for an online RPG called Peragro Tempus ( www.peragro.org ) and have always pondered why gaining developers is so difficult.
OSS solutions? ClamWin is actually quite a nice scanner though it does no cleaning at all. In fact with a few simple tweaks you can have it run full scheduled scans every night and email YOU the admin the results. Then if a virus needs cleaning you can go take care of it the proper way, either by deleting the infected file completely, or by REPLACING (not cleaning) the affected .dll files. This is really the proper way of taking care of it. I keep a disk around with all the dll files installed by default cabextracted and carried on the 2nd track of a puppy linux live cd. That way I can boot up, replace the bad files with known good copies, and not worry if my virus cleaner actually fully removed the virus. In the end the whole solution cost my company no money at all other than a few blank cd's and I've found it much better overall.
I live in a 2 story house. ONe of the rooms of the upper story contains my little computer lab. It has 4 desktops equipt with 21inch CRT's (yes crt's not lcd's .. come on they were free!) and a small server rack with a few Super Servers (super is the brand). Most of the summer the upsairs room is stiflingly hot and I sweat away the pounds as I model in blender. In the winter I don't even open my upstairs vents. Partially because heat rises of course but I'm reasonably certain the PC's are really keeping my upper story fairly warm.
It is true that it sometimes takes a bit for a new release to support the newest patches which is really the main detriment. I've played quite a bit though maybe not as much as you have, and never had any stability or function problems, everything from macro's to the interface performed completely as expected. Worked equally as well as world of warcraft did.
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Obviously- Everquest isn't on that list but it's really the only thing keeping me on windows now.
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Yet everquest is fully functional on linux in wine.
Which is why we now use dvd shrink
I know many people have already chimed in to disagree with your post. I disagree as well of course, but I think that they are missing your point a little bit. I understand why it seems logical for the goverment to have access to this type of information. Complete knowledge is the only means a bureaucratic government can use for real control. This control can be used in good ways, for example, security. The issue is the type of people who manage to make it into politics aren't a real representation for the average American. The process to become a good politician and a successful one essentially requires you to sell out your votes to the highest bidder. Sure, they tell themselves I'll do my little voting for Exon just to get into power then I'll use that for good, but they keep selling out. Even with good intentions at the onset, most fall into the corruption that engulfs politics. For this reason the average goverment cannot be trusted because they represent other bureaucratic organinzations such as large companies, before the interests of the average american. They vote for special laws to protect big businesses, not caring that 80% of americans are employed by SMALL businesses, and that helping big business only hurts the little guy, the average american, and the small businesses that drive our economy. Corruption in politics and thus in goverment to me is the biggest threat to security America faces. Sure we've been dicks to alot of other countries lately, and our unfaltering support of Israel makes many middle eastern people upset with us (not to mention Iraq) but we can deal with military threats without needing to know what book little John Doe is reading. Because the average politician is corrupt, I am quite leary of handing over any information that can be misused, without probable cause for intervention. Obtaining of private information should be limited to a subpoena or warrant that is approved by a judge. This safeguard helps prevent mistreatment and misuse of government executative powers. Besides, what you are describing is the opposite of freedom. To me freedom is the ability to think things secretly to myself and not be judged; to read a book without someone criticising me (even if I don't know I'm being criticised); to have a private conversation with a close friend and share a secret are all things that I treasure and value greatly. I am not a threat to national security, nor is the average american. Lets focus our security means on the demographics that provide the greatest threat (not racial profiling, but demographic! BIG DIFFERENCE) instead of on the innocent. Gun control is a good example of a good idea in theory, bad in practice. The lawful americans will simply abide by the laws and obtain their guns legally. Its a hassle for them, but criminals get their guns illegally. They aren't registered, they dont get background checks. THESE are the people that commit the crimes. Gun control merely puts a hassle in the way of a law abiding citizen and while I'm waiting for my background check to go through and my mandatory waiting period, I'm hoping no one breaks into my house armed with an illegally obtained weapon. This all isn't to say we shouldn't have laws. We need laws to prevent certain types of disputes from being commonplace. Things like divorce law, land ownership, patents, etc... other than that sort of law IMHO the only other law we need is "don't do anything that interferes with the freedom of another person" For instance I think it should be legal for me to buy marajuana. I don't smoke, but doing so DOESN"T HURT YOU unless I'm blowing it in your face or driving. Those are the things taht should be punishable. Drinking isn't illegal but drinking and driving is. Why? because drinking and driving puts others in danger. The line should be drawn at the point that smoeone elses rights are being infringed upon, not drawn where I'm standing because that makes me take a step back. Metaphorically this is a step backwards for society anytime a law draws a line where everyone is already standing.
If I subscribed to an online terrorism service and I committed any action that tipped off authorities that I was doing so, then authorities would have the right to invade my privacy in the interests of national security. Were I not to do anything illegal, then there is no reason for the goverment to need to know this information. I am fairly old fashioned I guess. I prefer innocent until proven guilty, though our law system and society no longer adhere to this standard.
I'm assuming though that your post was sarcasm? Satire in the purest form, using the viewpoint of the opposing side in order to reflect the stupidity of the opionion and or viewpoint is something which I do use fairly often, and is the basis for The Colbert Report!
yep thanks
There were breaks when I hit submit. Something with the overall legnth maybe? Perhaps I am just insane!
Seriously is this stuff serious? Or rather are some of the replies here serious? Do people really not care if the government can access your information easily? People say that if you have nothing to hide well then you shouldn't worry. I doubt this very much. I am pretty wary when it comes to trusting our government, especially in a post 9/11 world where they hide information from us "for our protection". For one, the feasibility of implementing this on a hardware level would cost such an increadible ammount of money. Why not have the goverment exoloit security holes in windows which are already documented but MS refuses to fix? Cheaper! Later they can just rely on more holes in Vista to get in, or have MS leave them a hole in their little wga program. But back to my first point as I have a nasty tendency to jump around and lose focus. EVEN IF I HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE I DON'T WANT THE GOVERMENT OR ANYONE ELSE TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO LOOK AT MY PRIVATE INFORMATION! What I have to hide isn't illegal, or a threat to our country anyways. Everyone has something to hide of a personal nature. For instance, perhaps I don't want anyone to know that I've modified my wife and I's bed to contain built in restraints for recreational purposes. Perhaps I don't want them to know I subscribed to an online dating service because I was a desperate loser. Who cares? Thats personal. Its only law enforcements problem if I'm breaking a law/hurting someone else. Until then I should have the right to be as weird as I want without worrying if someone is looking at my bank records and email and seeing if I'm trying to arrange a special encounter for my wife with another woman. Not long ago, a girl was arrested for attempting to carry a condom full of white powder onto an aircraft. "Initial tests" determined it was cocaine, and the girl was in jail for over 3 months before some lab sent back and said it was only flower. Why was she detained? She was doing something unusual. If a girl is getting on a plane with a condom of white powder and you're concerned it might be coke, confiscate the condom and then determine if she is a threat to the flight. If she has no bomb, etc.. send her on her way minus her condom thing. There was no warrant so why should she be arrested even? There was no probable cause! I think this shows that you can be in trouble by simply being non-conformative, which is something that frightens me. So yes, I do have stuff to hide but not things that are a threat to national security. Find a reason why I'm a threat, get it past a judge, THEN I say its ok to tap my communications. I get really tired of people who are willing to give up freedom in the interests of better security as this is a process that doesn't reverse. The longer it goes on the less and less real freedoms we have. Its going on all the time but catastrophic incidents such as 9/11 greatly accelerated the process and as a result we have things like the [un]patriot[ic] act. Its only really noticible at accelerated rates such as now. People don't see that these changes are exactly the intended result of terrorist groups like al quaeda. They seek to undermine what we hold dear which is our freedom. A good way of doing this is fear. How to create fear? Kill some people on us soil. We'll all be like "protect us do whatever it takes to keep us safe!" In MY opinion the most defiant thing we could have done post 9/11 would have been to stand up and say "Your psychological and physical attack on the American people cannot and willnot deter us from mainting our greatest asset: Freedom. We will NOT let your terrorist ways change what America is and what America stands for!" I truely believe that this sort of response would have granted us better foreign relations as well thus stregnthening our world position, as opposed to pissing off most every country excetp a few close allies by saying if you're not with us you're against us. Way to go Bush, alienaing so many contries as enemies, though they did nothing to us. I'm sorry but as much as I ha
He is correct. Wine is a reimplementation of the windows API. If Apple were to reimplement the entire API (A gigantic task) why wouldn't they support the already advanced work that has already been done by the wine project. Throw Codeweavers a few developers to help them with their CXOffice on Intel Apples project. Why redo work that has already been done for them for free? Once it is at a level they feel is adequate, they could even include it as a software bundle, add on, or as an OS component that would handle .exe executation. Better for Apple in the long run anyways, because Wine work will benefit BSD and Linux users as well. The better the API reimplementation is the less need there is for windows at all.
I agree. The focus seems to be to make the people believe that the governemnt is out to help the people. They care so much that they will appoint someone to have a desk job to oversee the civil rights violations. Theoretically with checks and balances this shouldn't be necessary. A bill such as the Patriot Act, which is an absolute direct assault on the civil rights of Americans, should never get past congress.... unless it is printed at midnight and passed the following morning, meaning that no one has a chance to read it. Thats not a good excuse in my opinion. Someone should have stood up and said that the vote should wait till there had been adequate time for review, but none did. Republicans, Democrats, and others alike, voted in favor without so much as a thought. As a result the government can write its own warrents without a judge, break into my house to search it, steal things so it looks like a robbery, and then not tell me. "Who cares?" says the blinded people in favor of bills like the Patriot Act. "It is only a problem if you are doing something wrong." Actually, for one even if I'm not doing something wrong that doesn't mean I want my government spying on my private life. I don't want agents going through my wifes lingere drawer because I made a comment to a friend on the phone that mentioned Al Quada. These kinds of laws open greater doors for abuse, and that is an opportunity we already provide the government with far too often. I seriously doubt this person will have any profound effect on our civil liberties. The damage has already been done because our government failed us. Instead of using the tragity of 911 to unite the american people, it used it to gain more power through fear. THAT is a step towards totalitarianism in my opinion, and one that would be tough to take a step back from. Unless the American people quit being stupid enough to believe thet "Less Free = More Safe" then I fear that America is on a path of self destruction that may have dire consequences for the world as well.