You *rarely* need to use the "mount command" in SuSE or other distributions. To me, it's sad that newbies are advised to use such primitive and archaic methods to access removable media.
In SuSE, you usually access the distribution CDs via YAST. This is simply the "SuSE way" : do eerything through YAST ( or/etc/rc.config ). Some newbies love this, but if you don't like doing it this way, you are better off with another distribution.
Of course, the other way of accessing removable media is to install an automounter. Redhat comes with autofs. I can't remember what SuSE has.
I agree with your comments that SuSE's bugs go un-noticed. My opinion is that Redhat gets more than its due credit for bugs partly because of the disastrous 5.0 release which hurt it's rep, and partly because they actually *fix* all of their bugs ( hence have a long bugfix page giving the impression that the bugs are redhat specific, which is usually untrue. )
Did you make sure that each of the 1024x1280 pixels were really resolved ? it's one thing for the gun to be able to sync up to the resolution , and another thing for your shadow mask to have a fine enough pitch to actually display it.
You might be able to sync up to that resolution, but will you be able to resolve all the pixels ? What is the dot pitch on the P817 ? 0.22mm horizontal, I believe. You have about 0.75x20in viewable horizontal distance, which leaves you with approx
25.4*20*0.75=1731 dots per row
In other words, you might be able to sync up to the higher resolution, but you aren't really getting better than 1800x1440 pixels.
Most of the Chinese immigrants go straight to the comp sci graduate programs because these grad programs are very easy to get admitted to ( it's not hard to acquire the skills required to enter with about a year of swatting, without any background knowledge ) and the chance of getting a H1B sponsor are much better in the high tech sector than outside it. So the fact that so many Chinese immigrants use compsci graduate programs as their immigration path tends to push this group upwards in the computer literacy department.
Tom is coming at it from the other side. Him , and others in the BSD/Artistic license schools believe that the GPL is *not* free, and that RMS is abusing the word "FREE". There have been several long and heated flamewars in comp.os.linux.advocacy, in fact this article originated one of them (ie it was posted to the group)
The defaults in some linux distributions are ridiculous. It's easy for a newbie to plug in a distribution, and have fingerd, telnetd, (anon) ftpd, rshd, and rlogind all going out of the box. And these services are kind enough to proudly and loudly announce the kernel version to any potential crackers. I hope this distribution will default to more paranoid settings, and use the convention that the user has to know what they are doing to turn a service *on*, not to turn it *off*.
ESR has contributed, though not as substantially as RMS. This is partly because RMS is probably a much better programmer. However, ESR has contributed some valuable pieces of code and documentation. For example, see ncurses, fetchmail, and the video timings howto.
Export laws on encryption have served to dramatically slow the adoption of encryption-enabled software within the US, simply because they make it inconvenient for US citizens to acquire crypto enabled software. Typically, people in the US *IMPORT* their crypto software.
An interesting consequence is that in the absence of conveniently availability of crypto software, there are several insecure systems ( eg using telnet as the primary login service ) , and no doubt several of these are government systems.
Well you can "go all over", but it's one hell of a lot of largely unneccessary work, and you have to be prepared to do most of the work yourself until you have a product. Other volunteer projects (don't wish to name anyone) failed because there was no-one good enough to get the ball rolling. My experience is that it's almost impossible to draw any interest until you have a working product ( distribution ), and most of the interest you draw will come from newbies (since they are your target audience), not programmers.
Anyway, good luck to you (-; you're welcome to drop me an email when your distribution's ready (ie beta release), so I can bug you about including my programs (-;
A pointer to an ftp server doesn't cut it, because they are not offering to
"give to any third party , for a charge of no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code,"
On the contrary, linking to someone elses ftp site would be to nominate another party to distribute the source code in a means that greatly inconveniences the party wishing to examine the code.
Cheapbytes comply by offering CDs containing the source code for $2- ( eg this is strict compliance with the terms of the license ). OTOH, LSL do not appear to do this.
LSL are active violaters of the GPL. In an act of doublethink, they call their Redhat CD "Redhat GPL" even though this CD violates the GPL ( since they don't ship the source code. They might as well sell warez.
The number of distributions doesn't increase the fragmentation by itself. There are currently Redhat, some fully compatible variants , and Caldera/SuSE. The main incompatibilities are between RH, Caldera, and SuSE. This has more to do with SuSE... "SuSifying" everything, and Redhat changing versions of glibc in some kind of mad haste ( as if they're in a race or something )
Why start your own project when there are already a number of already functional distributions that need developers ? ( for example, there's my pet prject http://independence.seul.org. There's also others... )
GL/X looks a lot better than softx (Q2), but is still not terribly fast. Fortunately, it's open sourced. The release notes advise against using with Q3 (probably too slow). The direct rendering will speed it up somewhat though.
Killing spam is not so hard to do. I almost *NEVER* get spam, despite posting under my (unmodified) real address in newsgroups.
The one thing you can do to eliminate almost all spam is to reject Bcc-mail. Spammers almost never put your address on the header, so this is almost 100% succesful.
Of course, you will need a collection of appropriate exceptions to your "delete all Bcc mail" rule, to take care of mailing lists. ( it's probably also a good idea to accept all email from your work's domain ) See http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/unix/ for a tutorial on procmail which explains how to do this
Have it run as a cron job ; ie output these things to a file , possibly parsing the output with perl or the basic unix tools. Or write a daemon in perl. But in the latter case, you want to be careful that you don't create security holes.
so anouncing a project would get people to go there and work on it, so it makes perfect sense,
Yes, but they could give the limelight to a project that has actually done something (like written some code, for example) but is nevertheless in need of developers. This would seem more appropriate.
Once again, slashdot give the hype to a project which clearly doesn't deserve it. Couldn't slashdot at least give the benefit of the slashdot hype to a project ( hint: an announcement isn't a project !!! )
I don't think he's that far off base. Sure, these guys can be of use, but to appoint themselves as leaders and asking the people who do the real work to be their followers seems rather fruitless. Are they anything more than a big noise ?
I have worked on open source projects, and my experience is that a lot of people can spout nonsen^H^H^H^H^H^Hideas, but when it comes to getting some code done, there's very few people who have the talent and the time. And most people with the talent and time also have their own ideas ( after all, why should they take orders from someone who knows nothing about coding... ? ) This idea that you can make an announcement and the code will take care of itself is laughable. And wrong.
Ways to break and exploit the system would be almost as known as the system itself.
This is the old "closed source is more secure" argument. By your argument, kerberos and ssh are also insecure. If "ways to break in and exploit the system" are known, then they can be fixed.
The best candidate for an opensource project IMO is the game engine, as this is something that can be constantly hacked at, modified and improved. In fact look at the number of games that are based on hacks of the Quake2 engine...
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Even though you have a built in, chances are that it will be disabled automatically if you get another one ( you can ask ). TNT / Matrox are good choices ( esp in light of nVidia's recent announcement... )
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One of the problems with the fact that people can add adjectives to moderation is that this causes a lot of confusion when an article is moderated more than once. For example, suppose I moderate an article (+1, interesting ), then another moderator applies (+1, insightful ) , then another moderater applies ( -1 , flamebait ) . The end result is an article that has ( -1 , flamebait ). If these comments are to be applied to moderation, they all should be shown. eg +2 : +1 insightful,+1 interesting, -1 flamebait
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Uhhm, get a clue. I suspect you haven't even tried to use it.
Get a clue yourself. I use it all the time, and you are , in a nutshell, WRONG. In future, think before you flame.
In SuSE, you usually access the distribution CDs via YAST. This is simply the "SuSE way" : do eerything through YAST ( or /etc/rc.config ). Some newbies love this, but if you don't like doing it this way, you are better off with another distribution.
Of course, the other way of accessing removable media is to install an automounter. Redhat comes with autofs. I can't remember what SuSE has.
I agree with your comments that SuSE's bugs go un-noticed. My opinion is that Redhat gets more than its due credit for bugs partly because of the disastrous 5.0 release which hurt it's rep, and partly because they actually *fix* all of their bugs ( hence have a long bugfix page giving the impression that the bugs are redhat specific, which is usually untrue. )
Cheers,
Did you make sure that each of the 1024x1280 pixels were really resolved ? it's one thing for the gun to be able to sync up to the resolution , and another thing for your shadow mask to have a fine enough pitch to actually display it.
25.4*20*0.75=1731 dots per row
In other words, you might be able to sync up to the higher resolution, but you aren't really getting better than 1800x1440 pixels.
An interesting consequence is that in the absence of conveniently availability of crypto software, there are several insecure systems ( eg using telnet as the primary login service ) , and no doubt several of these are government systems.
The DOJ's case should be shot down in flames.
Well you can "go all over", but it's one hell of a lot of largely unneccessary work, and you have to be prepared to do most of the work yourself until you have a product. Other volunteer projects (don't wish to name anyone) failed because there was no-one good enough to get the ball rolling. My experience is that it's almost impossible to draw any interest until you have a working product ( distribution ), and most of the interest you draw will come from newbies (since they are your target audience), not programmers.
Anyway, good luck to you (-; you're welcome to drop me an email when your distribution's ready (ie beta release), so I can bug you about including my programs (-;
On the contrary, linking to someone elses ftp site would be to nominate another party to distribute the source code in a means that greatly inconveniences the party wishing to examine the code.
Cheapbytes comply by offering CDs containing the source code for $2- ( eg this is strict compliance with the terms of the license ). OTOH, LSL do not appear to do this.
The number of distributions doesn't increase the fragmentation by itself. There are currently Redhat, some fully compatible variants , and Caldera/SuSE. The main incompatibilities are between RH, Caldera, and SuSE. This has more to do with SuSE ... "SuSifying" everything, and Redhat changing versions of glibc in some kind of mad haste ( as if they're in a race or something )
The one thing you can do to eliminate almost all spam is to reject Bcc-mail. Spammers almost never put your address on the header, so this is almost 100% succesful.
Of course, you will need a collection of appropriate exceptions to your "delete all Bcc mail" rule, to take care of mailing lists. ( it's probably also a good idea to accept all email from your work's domain ) See http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/unix/ for a tutorial on procmail which explains how to do this
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Yes, but they could give the limelight to a project that has actually done something (like written some code, for example) but is nevertheless in need of developers. This would seem more appropriate.
This is the old "closed source is more secure" argument. By your argument, kerberos and ssh are also insecure. If "ways to break in and exploit the system" are known, then they can be fixed.
The best candidate for an opensource project IMO is the game engine, as this is something that can be constantly hacked at, modified and improved. In fact look at the number of games that are based on hacks of the Quake2 engine...
Even though you have a built in, chances are that it will be disabled automatically if you get another one ( you can ask ). TNT / Matrox are good choices ( esp in light of nVidia's recent announcement ... )
add adjectives to moderation is that this causes a lot
of confusion when an article is moderated more than once.
For example, suppose I moderate an article (+1, interesting )
then another moderator applies (+1, insightful ) , then another moderater
applies ( -1 , flamebait ) . The end result is an article that
has ( -1 , flamebait ). If these comments are
to be applied to moderation, they all should be shown.
eg +2 : +1 insightful,+1 interesting, -1 flamebait