FTA, he states that some of the software would be useless to release unless you have "more than a hundred" servers in a datacenter. That's really not that many boxes nowadays. Besides, I don't need more than a hundred physical machines when all I need is ten decent machines and VMWare or Xen to run ten virtual servers each.
I was honestly shocked when I first heard about Mr. Robbins leaving one of the more geek-oriented Linux distros to work at MS. I'm sure there's much more to the story that isn't being said publicly, but he probably found the hive-like corporate culture incompatible to the freedom he had when managing his hard core distro. Going from being a superstar in the Linux/OSS world to one of the Joe's at MS had to be a huge shock.
I wish him all the best and I hope he returns to actively manage and develop Gentoo again. You can't blame him for wanting to feed his family and I'm sure he'll be welcomed back to our side.
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Is SuSE Linux unstable because there isn't a "gold standard" or "official" machine that will run it? Is Slackware any less stable or usable because I didn't get a PC from Pat Volkerding with Slackware pre-installed? Is FreeBSD more stable on a Dell or a HP?
I reject the argument that being able to run MacOS on any generic x86 box will hurt Apple in terms of stability or image. Sure, you might be running a slick looking OS on a beige box, but that doesn't mean that it won't be any less stable than official Apple hardware. (That is, unless Apple intentionally cripples their OS...)
"...Having requested some 204,012 distinct web sites, we found more than 50,000 to be inaccessible from at least one point in China on at least one occasion. Adopting a more conservative standard for determining which inaccessible sites were intentionally blocked and which were unreachable solely due to temporary glitches, we find that 18,931 sites were inaccessible from at least two distinct proxy servers within China on at least two distinct days. We conclude that China does indeed block a range of web content beyond that which is sexually explicit. For example, we found blocking of thousands of sites offering information about news, health, education, and entertainment, as well as some 3,284 sites from Taiwan. A look at the list beyond sexually explicit content yields insight into the particular areas the Chinese government appears to find most sensitive..."
KDE is doing some great things and I'm glad to see the amount of development going into making the Linux desktop as polished and feature rich as possible. I would encourage everyone who's used KDE to donate a small amount of money to fund this project. They deserve it.
What's the likely impact on Verizon's data network if you have millions of users all over the world sending data constantly to Google's server farm for this new service in addition to the already high amount of web traffic? Verizon is going to be pissed.
To be "Vista certified", system makers like Dell and HP will have to build their systems with a certain level of graphics, memory and processor horsepower. So the average user who upgrades their computer to a "certified" Dell will not have anything to worry about. For those of us who are geeky enough to build their own, we already use higher-end video, CPU's and memory so Vista won't be a problem for that segment either.
The posts start out provocatively talking about "hot fixes", "KamaSutra", "fingering", "port scanning"... But I get worried when the conversation moves to "virii" and "worms".
This is a good example of why you should not put all of your eggs in one basket. The US Federal Goverment uses Blackberries and this is a response to their mandate that no matter what happens to RIM over this patent dispute, Senators still need their Blackberries to work. Given other communication forms out there, I think it would be better for companies and governments to diversify or use an open standard for communication rather than relying on a single, vulnerable source for all of their commo needs.
Are there any cases of patents actually helping people/companies? Why do I see story after story of companies whipping out their patents and hurting technology by suing and/or demanding massive royalty payments? Can someone point to any good uses of patents?
First of all, employers have been monitoring e-mail for years and we all know how fundamentally unsecure plain text e-mail is. Just like your regular paper mail, if you want to have some privacy, use some measures to conceal the content. If you send postcards all the time, don't expect any privacy.
Unfortunately, the current versions of Windows are too exploitable and unmanageable. The average Joe User isn't going to know how to set up a firewall or disable services he doesn't need. What we need is a fundamental shift from the current MS way of doing things.
I've got this already with my Dell Axim x51v PDA. Plus it has 802.11b so I can send/recv e-mail. So, why would I want an ipod when my PDA does so much more?
Given their latest "sellout" (or whatever you want to call it) to get into the Chinese search market, would you maybe think twice before you accepted a job offer from Google? I mean, it would be pretty interesting to work with the caliber of people they have working for them now, but what if they turn into the next Microsoft and you contributed to the next Evil Empire(tm).
With all of the hiring of so much top talent and the fact that they now have shareholders and eeeeeeevil governments that they censor information for, kindof makes me nervous... I dunno, I guess I need to adjust my tinfoil hat.
Would it be possible to write some kind of virtualization that would present an easy-to-develop-on layer? Besides, if you already have Linux that runs on this platform and compilers written, how would it be any harder than developing for any other platform? A rose by any other name...
I challenge you to show me the kind of atrocities that women and minorities face in the West as compared to the Muslim world. If you even think the West and the Muslim world are in the same century then you are sadly uninformed. You cannot compare the two at all.
If there even is good going on by Muslim religious organizations, why aren't they getting the word out about it? Where are the Muslim soup kitchens around town that feed the homeless? Where are the Muslim institutions of higher learning in the West (or anywhere)? Where's the Muslim outrage and calls for equal human rights?
Answer: They don't exist, there aren't any, they don't call for it.
The developers are going to have to recoup their development costs and as competition increases price wars will ensue.
I remember how expensive CD's and CD players were at first, too. You will pay a premium for being an early adopter. For everyone else it means that non blue ray DVD's will drop in price.
Some countries, such as Italy, as well as government and law-enforcement agencies, are able to remotely monitor communications traffic without having to go through the individual service providers.
I think this is much more interesting than the constant railing against our government's efforts to monitor terrorist and foriegn government agent communication. At least in this country there are several hands this information has to go through. Like the article says, outside of the U.S., governments have the ability to monitor communication directly.
I know that Slashdot is left-leaning and apparently never misses an opportunity to post a "see, President Bush sux0rs!!!!" story and this is just par for the course. Do you think that other liberal administrations haven't monitored communication in this country? As a matter of fact, if you think back over all administrations we've had, which administrations have done more to hurt this country rather than help or protect it? Jimmy Carter's giveaway of the Panama Canal, hostage crisis disater, energy policy disaster, coverup of the three-mile island disaster or remarks that there was no need to apologize for Viet Nam? Bill Clinton's transfer of missle technology to China, bombing an asprin factory and killing the janitor, ignoring an opportunity to capture Osama Bin Laden when he was offered, and (since everyone likes to point out lies) lieing under oath and being impeached? L.B.J./Kennedy starting the Vient Nam war or his remarks about Thurgood Marshall - "Son, when I appoint a nig**r to the court, I want everyone to know he's a nig**r."?
The fact is, President Bush will be trashed no matter what he does or doesn't do. National Protection? He's infringing on civil liberties!! Natural Disasters? He didn't move fast/more/personally or did too much. (Didn't he plant explosives and blow up the dikes himeself?)
First of all, try to stay on the topic. We're talking about Muslim extremism and violence over a cartoon depicting them as violent. We're NOT talking about another country drawing a cartoon about the U.S. and then the U.S. deciding to bomb them because of it.
I think you're seeing more than just a few fringe extremists rioting. Their governments are some of the worst bigots and incite these reactions from their people in general.
wiping our asses on pages of the bible maybe? raping blow up jesus dolls?
How about the crucifix that was submurged in urine a few years ago. Remember that? There was outrage on the part of Christians, but they didn't freakin' riot and burn shit down because of it.
That's not to say that Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Taoism, Agnosticism don't have some crackpots, but you don't see any other religion being as violent as Islam. Period. You just don't see it. But what you are seeing are whole countries of Muslims uniting in their anger and resolve to destroy the West and Israel.
I think you're really onto something - if these guys weren't sitting on anything but camels and sand, would we really care about what they're doing? We have got to get away from our dependance on oil. This is stupid.
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I wish him all the best and I hope he returns to actively manage and develop Gentoo again. You can't blame him for wanting to feed his family and I'm sure he'll be welcomed back to our side.
I reject the argument that being able to run MacOS on any generic x86 box will hurt Apple in terms of stability or image. Sure, you might be running a slick looking OS on a beige box, but that doesn't mean that it won't be any less stable than official Apple hardware. (That is, unless Apple intentionally cripples their OS...)
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/
KDE is doing some great things and I'm glad to see the amount of development going into making the Linux desktop as polished and feature rich as possible. I would encourage everyone who's used KDE to donate a small amount of money to fund this project. They deserve it.
What's the likely impact on Verizon's data network if you have millions of users all over the world sending data constantly to Google's server farm for this new service in addition to the already high amount of web traffic? Verizon is going to be pissed.
The posts start out provocatively talking about "hot fixes", "KamaSutra", "fingering", "port scanning"... But I get worried when the conversation moves to "virii" and "worms".
Are there any cases of patents actually helping people/companies? Why do I see story after story of companies whipping out their patents and hurting technology by suing and/or demanding massive royalty payments? Can someone point to any good uses of patents?
First of all, employers have been monitoring e-mail for years and we all know how fundamentally unsecure plain text e-mail is. Just like your regular paper mail, if you want to have some privacy, use some measures to conceal the content. If you send postcards all the time, don't expect any privacy.
Unfortunately, the current versions of Windows are too exploitable and unmanageable. The average Joe User isn't going to know how to set up a firewall or disable services he doesn't need. What we need is a fundamental shift from the current MS way of doing things.
With all of the hiring of so much top talent and the fact that they now have shareholders and eeeeeeevil governments that they censor information for, kindof makes me nervous... I dunno, I guess I need to adjust my tinfoil hat.
Would it be possible to write some kind of virtualization that would present an easy-to-develop-on layer? Besides, if you already have Linux that runs on this platform and compilers written, how would it be any harder than developing for any other platform? A rose by any other name...
If there even is good going on by Muslim religious organizations, why aren't they getting the word out about it? Where are the Muslim soup kitchens around town that feed the homeless? Where are the Muslim institutions of higher learning in the West (or anywhere)? Where's the Muslim outrage and calls for equal human rights?
Answer: They don't exist, there aren't any, they don't call for it.
I remember how expensive CD's and CD players were at first, too. You will pay a premium for being an early adopter. For everyone else it means that non blue ray DVD's will drop in price.
I think this is much more interesting than the constant railing against our government's efforts to monitor terrorist and foriegn government agent communication. At least in this country there are several hands this information has to go through. Like the article says, outside of the U.S., governments have the ability to monitor communication directly.
I know that Slashdot is left-leaning and apparently never misses an opportunity to post a "see, President Bush sux0rs!!!!" story and this is just par for the course. Do you think that other liberal administrations haven't monitored communication in this country? As a matter of fact, if you think back over all administrations we've had, which administrations have done more to hurt this country rather than help or protect it? Jimmy Carter's giveaway of the Panama Canal, hostage crisis disater, energy policy disaster, coverup of the three-mile island disaster or remarks that there was no need to apologize for Viet Nam? Bill Clinton's transfer of missle technology to China, bombing an asprin factory and killing the janitor, ignoring an opportunity to capture Osama Bin Laden when he was offered, and (since everyone likes to point out lies) lieing under oath and being impeached? L.B.J./Kennedy starting the Vient Nam war or his remarks about Thurgood Marshall - "Son, when I appoint a nig**r to the court, I want everyone to know he's a nig**r."?
The fact is, President Bush will be trashed no matter what he does or doesn't do. National Protection? He's infringing on civil liberties!! Natural Disasters? He didn't move fast/more/personally or did too much. (Didn't he plant explosives and blow up the dikes himeself?)
First of all, try to stay on the topic. We're talking about Muslim extremism and violence over a cartoon depicting them as violent. We're NOT talking about another country drawing a cartoon about the U.S. and then the U.S. deciding to bomb them because of it.
How about the crucifix that was submurged in urine a few years ago. Remember that? There was outrage on the part of Christians, but they didn't freakin' riot and burn shit down because of it.
That's not to say that Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Taoism, Agnosticism don't have some crackpots, but you don't see any other religion being as violent as Islam. Period. You just don't see it. But what you are seeing are whole countries of Muslims uniting in their anger and resolve to destroy the West and Israel.
I think you're really onto something - if these guys weren't sitting on anything but camels and sand, would we really care about what they're doing? We have got to get away from our dependance on oil. This is stupid.