hopefully it will work, i have been buying thier HTML CDs as i like certain topics (like programming languages) covered online since your going to be on a computer while reading them anyway. its much more convienient then dead trees, and doesent kill trees. html books do not inconvience the users as ebooks do. (for example, i would have to install windows just to read it)
books on theory etc, i still prefer as dead trees (except for the killing trees part)
if the government really wants us to use the airline industry they should not be causing problems to those who do. im glad this got posted as it will discourage others from flying.
the program looks more like witch hunting than real security practice, and could easily get out of hand. for example, to be used by the government as an excuse to remove people they dont like. imagine what would happen if the likes of a modern up and comming hitler were given these kinds of powers...
but, like many things, we dont have to participate. dont like the airlines? maybe you can take a train or drive. dont like the MPAA? watch indy films instead. dont like RIAA? they are easy to boycott, theres plently of good indy music. dont like SSSCA?, dont go to disneyland, there are many other theme parks.
even if hundreds of thousands of us chooses not to participate in these things it probably wont change them, but at least we can that know we are not helping them either.
1) digest authentication only works on plaintext, so the best the server could do is store passwords with some symetric cipher (=minor delay for an attacker at best) anyway.
2) root on a jabber server can do as she pleases with your communications. just like email or any other client/server IM system, you are trusting your communications with whomever runs that server. of course since anyone can have jabber servers, you could have your own jabber server and not worry about having to trust the administrator of another server (just like with email). jabber can also be concidered/used as a peer to peer system.
or are you scared that someone seeing your password will give a clue to your other passwords? if so, rethink how you make your passwords.
yes, but i dont think you have anywhere near microsofts history of lying, cheating, stealing, extortion, bribery, falsifying court evidence, flagrant disregard of the law, meglomania, etc etc.
also microsoft claimed (at least according to the letter) that they want all internet users signed up.this is really scary, especially given the companies history.
granted anyone reading this probably knows better so its up to us to warn everyone else.
disclaimer: i change interfaces on a whim, or by project. sometimes even aewm or 9wm...
the kde that ships with the current slackware is dated, but solid. kde 2.2.2 compiles and installs out of the box (except the kdeaddons package) this takes a very long time, so script the process and let it run overnight or over the weekend. i installed it over the kde 2.1 that it came with, which was probably not a good idea, but hasnt given me any trouble.
gnome is not as dated and the only parts thats given me any problems was nautilus. its not a well featured as ximian gnome.
since its a new computer, you can easily just install everything except that youll probably want reiserfs (press F1 and F2 at the lilo (boot) prompt for the 2.4.5 kernel, then it gives the option when you format, then when you install, dont select "just install everything" because that will install the 2.2 kernel which will kernel panic)
for speed, efficiency, etc, you may want to look at something more lightwieght, like xfce or just a window manager. (wmaker, fvwm2, enlightnement(depending on theme/settings) etc) it all depends on what your used to and what your doing.
gnome-terminal / Eterm work well in KDE, the konqueror in 2.2.2 is nice no non-sense browser when you want that. and/or download the latest mozilla or netscape, they work much better than the versions provided.
overall kde has been more "complete" but its nothing you cant fix yourself just by toying with it.
python changes. 2.0 to 2.1 changed rules but thier solution to backwards compatibility is to introduce incompatible changes slowy and eventually they dont work.that still means you have to go back and change your scripts from the past, or at least thats how they wrote about about it in PEP 236.
The reaction to nested scopes was widespread concern about the dangers of breaking code with the 2.1 release, and it was strong enough to make the Pythoneers take a more conservative approach. This approach consists of introducing a convention for enabling optional functionality in release N that will become compulsory in release N+1.
note that there was nothing in that statement about making python aribtrarily backwards compatible. something where newer versions would default to old behavior unless there was convention in the script to use the newer rules could solve that problem without having to recompile all your python extentions (pygnome etc) or worrying about it. (extentions written in python would simply be subject to the same convention so that you could still use it down the line even you upgrade python). anyway, this is just an example of what ive seen done elsewhere and there are probably better ways to deal with it.
what you have on your red hat box would be fine if thats how python was distributed, it kinda emulates what i was blabbering about above. but when someone using python on another platform who only has 2.1 and mabe some extentions gives you a bunch of scripts, the least youll have to do is s/python/python2/ in the first line. maybe thats all it takes. ill have to play with it.
i did just look on a another machine that only has python 2.1 installed. it did install a binary called python2.1. theres still the question of extentions written in python and thier compatibility with newer releases, have to look at that too.
this may seem bitchy or whatever but i really dont want to spend my time learning a new language and writing a buch of stuff and then get bitten by something chaging incompatibly to where i end up having to write different version for certain platforms. at least not more than changes that can themselves be easily scripted...
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is what keeps me from taking python seriously. this isnt like perl where you can take a really old script and still run it. if you could do something like
#!/usr/local/bin/python-1.5.2
for some scripts and
#!/usr/local/bin/python-2.1
for others than maybe this could work if the different versions of python are treated like differnt languages that just happen to resemble eachother and have thier own sets of extentions and libs etc that each interpreter knows how to handle (and of course, the sym link to your "default" python interpreter)
i realize that you can make wrappers that would create the proper environment, but thats not exactly a portable solution. the way it is now looks like they want you to keep re writing your old code.
running a proxy does not use any more of thier IPs, so they probably dont care. its not like they could do anything about it anyway since many large company sell "dsl routers" and the like. the bad press would destroy them in such a competitive market...
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its more of a mess. yes, you can get it to run on windows,linux,mac etc. but its still a mess, and many unixes are still left out of cross platform GUI apps. tcl/tk is an example of a cross platform environment. python is a nice one. too bad it changes every 6 months...
including me. i find it much nicer to buy CDs at thier shows...
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ive noticed that many irix (SGI) users dont touch the command line. of course this is in situations where there is a sys admin to take care of those things so all they are doing is playing with the file manager and thier apps (netscape, maya, etc)
excuse my silly rant, but giving into propriatary formats only makes the problem worse because then the people using them are actually getting away with it! duh!, the only reason for formats to be propriatary is so we depend on them, and thus thier platforms!
we need to let content providers know that there are platforms that dont use propriatary codecs.
i know/. readers already know all this, but it needs saying again. maybe a journalist or someone else making a movie will read this comment.
outside of irix very few gl drivers are fast at all with 2d, and this includes "workstations" (the HP visualize comes to mind). there are a few cards available for windows that accelerate 2d GL calls like the firegl but for most part GL 2d is much slower than the usuall X11 or whatever windowing systems calls.
we need to get more card manufactureres/driver writers to pay attention to 2d stuff, especially since none of the high end hardware available for linux has open source drivers. sgi,hp,firegl etc all closed source. atis radeon seems to be the best bet we have for source.
you can get a quadro chip based on this will be released. quadro is nvidias line of "professional" hardware, in other words, meant to get real work done. and still good for games.
i actually hope ati gets better market share than nvidia. i know nvidia makes better hardware now, but if they become anything like a "standard" that can only mean trouble for free software. ati is the only real competition for them (unless matrox or some dark horse surprises us). while nvidia may be releasing linux drivers for now, it would not surprise me if down the road they and MS get more entangled and the linux support stops. and of course there the whole closed source thing. never a chance of using another free OS (which is one the major advantages of free software like linux in the first place!)
and yes, nvidias relations with MS are a small part of that concern. i think its really funny that nvidia bought 3dfx and suddenly the linux drivers are gone from the 3dfx web site and not available from nvidias either, yet all microsoft OSes are still supported...
my next card will most likely be a radeon (or radeon2 if they are out be then) it will be nice to play with the AV stuff, and maybe even use it for work...
nvidia will not give you any spec so youd have to reverse engineer. with that amount of time you could probably implement the full driver for the much more friendly to free software radeon cards.
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This card is meant for games. there are other cards out there are meant for content creation, like the quadro2 based ones (also by nvidia) or the firegl1 that have features like overlay planes that game cards usually lack.
(except for the nvidia based ones because thier developers have something against overlay planes and ignore the fact that both softimage and maya use them. aritisan (a tool in maya) takes a big performance hit as a result)
the firegl1/2/3 are solid cards for work, but the linux drivers are still unstable, and closed source (at least for now). hopefully that will change..
supposedly you dont ever want to enable glnormalize since doing that calculation yourself is cheaper. but, looking at the instruction set, seems like the right driver will just do it in the hardware for free.
the article crashed mozilla (.8) so i couldnt read the rest to find out what else might be usefull without using special extentions...
why use html-4 with all that when xhtml-1 is the current recomendation? and it still seems like the standards a in a messy flux. wait until they settle down first. at least xhtml basic seems stable for now...
whats it with companies refusing to document spec? i would love to know why lucent is hiding info on thier winmodems. do they honestly think some competitor will clone them and sell them for less? by that time lucent has gone on to the next version...
of course, i still dont know why ibm just doesnt just use real modems. they worked great in the earlier models. i somehow doubt the cost difference would be more than a few more dollars at the factory...
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hopefully it will work, i have been buying thier HTML CDs as i like certain topics (like programming languages) covered online since your going to be on a computer while reading them anyway. its much more convienient then dead trees, and doesent kill trees. html books do not inconvience the users as ebooks do. (for example, i would have to install windows just to read it)
books on theory etc, i still prefer as dead trees (except for the killing trees part)
by Denise Ritche and Brian Kernighan.
good book. 250 pages. always easy to find what your looking for. more books should follow its example.
if the government really wants us to use the airline industry they should not be causing problems to those who do. im glad this got posted as it will discourage others from flying.
the program looks more like witch hunting than real security practice, and could easily get out of hand. for example, to be used by the government as an excuse to remove people they dont like. imagine what would happen if the likes of a modern up and comming hitler were given these kinds of powers...
but, like many things, we dont have to participate. dont like the airlines? maybe you can take a train or drive. dont like the MPAA? watch indy films instead. dont like RIAA? they are easy to boycott, theres plently of good indy music. dont like SSSCA?, dont go to disneyland, there are many other theme parks.
even if hundreds of thousands of us chooses not to participate in these things it probably wont change them, but at least we can that know we are not helping them either.
1) digest authentication only works on plaintext, so the best the server could do is store passwords with some symetric cipher (=minor delay for an attacker at best) anyway.
2) root on a jabber server can do as she pleases with your communications. just like email or any other client/server IM system, you are trusting your communications with whomever runs that server. of course since anyone can have jabber servers, you could have your own jabber server and not worry about having to trust the administrator of another server (just like with email). jabber can also be concidered/used as a peer to peer system.
or are you scared that someone seeing your password will give a clue to your other passwords? if so, rethink how you make your passwords.
yes, but i dont think you have anywhere near microsofts history of lying, cheating, stealing, extortion, bribery, falsifying court evidence, flagrant disregard of the law, meglomania, etc etc.
also microsoft claimed (at least according to the letter) that they want all internet users signed up.this is really scary, especially given the companies history.
granted anyone reading this probably knows better so its up to us to warn everyone else.
disclaimer: i change interfaces on a whim, or by project. sometimes even aewm or 9wm...
the kde that ships with the current slackware is dated, but solid. kde 2.2.2 compiles and installs out of the box (except the kdeaddons package) this takes a very long time, so script the process and let it run overnight or over the weekend. i installed it over the kde 2.1 that it came with, which was probably not a good idea, but hasnt given me any trouble.
gnome is not as dated and the only parts thats given me any problems was nautilus. its not a well featured as ximian gnome.
since its a new computer, you can easily just install everything except that youll probably want reiserfs (press F1 and F2 at the lilo (boot) prompt for the 2.4.5 kernel, then it gives the option when you format, then when you install, dont select "just install everything" because that will install the 2.2 kernel which will kernel panic)
for speed, efficiency, etc, you may want to look at something more lightwieght, like xfce or just a window manager. (wmaker, fvwm2, enlightnement(depending on theme/settings) etc) it all depends on what your used to and what your doing.
gnome-terminal / Eterm work well in KDE, the konqueror in 2.2.2 is nice no non-sense browser when you want that. and/or download the latest mozilla or netscape, they work much better than the versions provided.
overall kde has been more "complete" but its nothing you cant fix yourself just by toying with it.
even if thier is a valid claim that dvd players on linux is illigal, that says nothing for *bsd, atheos, macos-x, etc...
what you have on your red hat box would be fine if thats how python was distributed, it kinda emulates what i was blabbering about above. but when someone using python on another platform who only has 2.1 and mabe some extentions gives you a bunch of scripts, the least youll have to do is s/python/python2/ in the first line. maybe thats all it takes. ill have to play with it.
i did just look on a another machine that only has python 2.1 installed. it did install a binary called python2.1. theres still the question of extentions written in python and thier compatibility with newer releases, have to look at that too.
this may seem bitchy or whatever but i really dont want to spend my time learning a new language and writing a buch of stuff and then get bitten by something chaging incompatibly to where i end up having to write different version for certain platforms. at least not more than changes that can themselves be easily scripted...
#!/usr/local/bin/python-1.5.2
for some scripts and
#!/usr/local/bin/python-2.1
for others than maybe this could work if the different versions of python are treated like differnt languages that just happen to resemble eachother and have thier own sets of extentions and libs etc that each interpreter knows how to handle (and of course, the sym link to your "default" python interpreter)
i realize that you can make wrappers that would create the proper environment, but thats not exactly a portable solution. the way it is now looks like they want you to keep re writing your old code.
running a proxy does not use any more of thier IPs, so they probably dont care. its not like they could do anything about it anyway since many large company sell "dsl routers" and the like. the bad press would destroy them in such a competitive market...
its more of a mess. yes, you can get it to run on windows,linux,mac etc. but its still a mess, and many unixes are still left out of cross platform GUI apps. tcl/tk is an example of a cross platform environment. python is a nice one. too bad it changes every 6 months...
including me. i find it much nicer to buy CDs at thier shows...
ive noticed that many irix (SGI) users dont touch the command line. of course this is in situations where there is a sys admin to take care of those things so all they are doing is playing with the file manager and thier apps (netscape, maya, etc)
we need to let content providers know that there are platforms that dont use propriatary codecs.
i know /. readers already know all this, but it needs saying again. maybe a journalist or someone else making a movie will read this comment.
thankfully we have the xiph project.
outside of irix very few gl drivers are fast at all with 2d, and this includes "workstations" (the HP visualize comes to mind). there are a few cards available for windows that accelerate 2d GL calls like the firegl but for most part GL 2d is much slower than the usuall X11 or whatever windowing systems calls.
we need to get more card manufactureres/driver writers to pay attention to 2d stuff, especially since none of the high end hardware available for linux has open source drivers. sgi,hp,firegl etc all closed source. atis radeon seems to be the best bet we have for source.
you obviously have not met my mother...
http://www.hgb-leipzig.de/~leander/TDFSB/
the server was down last i looked, hopefully its back up now.
you can get a quadro chip based on this will be released. quadro is nvidias line of "professional" hardware, in other words, meant to get real work done. and still good for games.
and yes, nvidias relations with MS are a small part of that concern. i think its really funny that nvidia bought 3dfx and suddenly the linux drivers are gone from the 3dfx web site and not available from nvidias either, yet all microsoft OSes are still supported...
my next card will most likely be a radeon (or radeon2 if they are out be then) it will be nice to play with the AV stuff, and maybe even use it for work...
nvidia will not give you any spec so youd have to reverse engineer. with that amount of time you could probably implement the full driver for the much more friendly to free software radeon cards.
(except for the nvidia based ones because thier developers have something against overlay planes and ignore the fact that both softimage and maya use them. aritisan (a tool in maya) takes a big performance hit as a result)
the firegl1/2/3 are solid cards for work, but the linux drivers are still unstable, and closed source (at least for now). hopefully that will change..
supposedly you dont ever want to enable glnormalize since doing that calculation yourself is cheaper. but, looking at the instruction set, seems like the right driver will just do it in the hardware for free.
the article crashed mozilla (.8) so i couldnt read the rest to find out what else might be usefull without using special extentions...
why use html-4 with all that when xhtml-1 is the current recomendation? and it still seems like the standards a in a messy flux. wait until they settle down first. at least xhtml basic seems stable for now...
thats great for linux...
maybe i want to use bsd or something. a real modem would solve this silly problem, and the one about having to worry about certified equipment.
whats it with companies refusing to document spec? i would love to know why lucent is hiding info on thier winmodems. do they honestly think some competitor will clone them and sell them for less? by that time lucent has gone on to the next version...
of course, i still dont know why ibm just doesnt just use real modems. they worked great in the earlier models. i somehow doubt the cost difference would be more than a few more dollars at the factory...