What SUN fails to realize is that the decision of whether Linux fragments or not falls to we Users, not vendors. Anyone can fragment the code, but if no one wants to use it, who cares? And if the fragmented version turns out to be useful, it will eventually make it into the mainstream kernel anyway.
Your experience is something a lot of people have been through.
What we need is the same thing that made Linux what it is today: community. We don't need a third party to test products and put their stamp of approval on them, we need a resource where we as Linux users can list our experiences with various products for the benefit of others and ourselves. Granted, getting support for such a project and someone to administer it will be a challenge, but we need to get the message back to vendors: If you make crap, we won't buy it.
Knowing the full specification before writing a single line of code is vapor. You will never have a complete spec. Developing strictly to spec without being flexible for requirements that develope over time is a sure way to end up with a swiss cheese of security holes.
The key restraining everyone from building an H bomb is materials. Things like weapons grade plutonium are highly restricted, possesion with out the proper paperwork lands you in jail. Restricting the recipe is pointless.
I just saw Mystery Man last night (kids, who can get to theaters). The whole time I was watching I kept thinking "Damn, if only the writers from the Tick had been involved...."
Translation through Microsoft Filter: Maybe we used it, maybe we didn't. Prove it.
Gimmie a break, why would they intercept the emails unless they were using the information?
I'll answer that: Why prevent the email from being delivered when it could just as easily be copied? The only reason would be they didn't want their customers to see the email.
The scary part is: how many other email providers are skimming their customers' email without their knowledge?
I'll second the Switchview (4 port). They're fairly inexpensive and work really well. voodo mentioned that you can use a serial mouse, but what they can really do is use say a PS/2 mouse as the 'real' mouse and have machine 1 use PS/2, machine 2 use serial, machine 3 use PS/2, etc. Very flexible devices and they just work.
If you plan on doing any kind of decent resolution on the monitor, invest in good cables, they really make a difference.
That is completely up to us, the consumers. If the sheep, I mean the people, hadn't bought in to all of Microsoft's crap, they would not had gained monopoly status. Personally, with the way Redhat distributions are turning out nowadays, I am looking for a new distribution.
The answer lies in this: with great power comes great responsibility. Okay, something like that anyway.
Thin clients fall into the niche where one needs a device to get work done with a minimal of fuss and tweaking. Today's PC, whether it is running Linux or Windoze or whatever, requires a lot of work to setup and keep running. Thin clients answer the bill by being as simple as possible while allowing meaningful work to be done.
Neither is Cobalt. For those who have never dealt with one, you can't install a distribution on the thing. You are stuck with whatever Cobalt gives you, including little nasties that like to rewrite certain config files such as/etc/hosts. Cobalt's machines are for non-linux people to setup web hosting services via a GUI.
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That's right! I had forgotten about the conditioning part. Time to read the series again, 15 years is too long.
What SUN fails to realize is that the decision of whether Linux fragments or not falls to we Users, not vendors. Anyone can fragment the code, but if no one wants to use it, who cares? And if the fragmented version turns out to be useful, it will eventually make it into the mainstream kernel anyway.
SunFUD = slightly more intelligent MSFUD
As does Sun. You'll find similiar langauge in the Solaris EULA.
What we need is the same thing that made Linux what it is today: community. We don't need a third party to test products and put their stamp of approval on them, we need a resource where we as Linux users can list our experiences with various products for the benefit of others and ourselves. Granted, getting support for such a project and someone to administer it will be a challenge, but we need to get the message back to vendors: If you make crap, we won't buy it.
Anything is possible given time and money
Knowing the full specification before writing a single line of code is vapor. You will never have a complete spec. Developing strictly to spec without being flexible for requirements that develope over time is a sure way to end up with a swiss cheese of security holes.
No. The act of Yelling "Fire! Fire!" in a theater is not a crime. Inciting a riot is.
The key restraining everyone from building an H bomb is materials. Things like weapons grade plutonium are highly restricted, possesion with out the proper paperwork lands you in jail. Restricting the recipe is pointless.
SPOOOOOOOOOOON!
Naughty Spawn, you face the Tick!
Gimmie a break, why would they intercept the emails unless they were using the information?
I'll answer that: Why prevent the email from being delivered when it could just as easily be copied? The only reason would be they didn't want their customers to see the email.
The scary part is: how many other email providers are skimming their customers' email without their knowledge?
If you plan on doing any kind of decent resolution on the monitor, invest in good cables, they really make a difference.
That is completely up to us, the consumers. If the sheep, I mean the people, hadn't bought in to all of Microsoft's crap, they would not had gained monopoly status. Personally, with the way Redhat distributions are turning out nowadays, I am looking for a new distribution.
Thin clients fall into the niche where one needs a device to get work done with a minimal of fuss and tweaking. Today's PC, whether it is running Linux or Windoze or whatever, requires a lot of work to setup and keep running. Thin clients answer the bill by being as simple as possible while allowing meaningful work to be done.
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The Net is really starting to suck.
Neither is Cobalt. For those who have never dealt with one, you can't install a distribution on the thing. You are stuck with whatever Cobalt gives you, including little nasties that like to rewrite certain config files such as /etc/hosts. Cobalt's machines are for non-linux people to setup web hosting services via a GUI.