Your point is good and right, but do notice that it's quite likely that a/Windows/ decision will be made because of strong marketing by MS themselves or some third party trying to convince the bank of its amazing omnipotence. Because there's many more people endorsing a Windows product because it makes them money.
I'm wondering if I should hope that Linux does not get picked up by even more businesses... because as it is, people use it/where it's appropriate/, and not/where other people want to make a bargain/.
Re:The multi million dollar question...
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Google simply won because it did what it was supposed to do -- find web pages. Just that. Fast. No advertisement crap and other "portal" bullshit. Remember, when Google came up, other engines were getting gradually more clogged up with crap no one needed -- just because someone wanted to make an extra buck. Look at the other engines now. Like AltaVista. They've all gone back to simpler interfaces and concentrated on what they are supposed to do -- providing a simple interface for a web search, not a shopping mall.
Once people realized that Google just/worked/, the world was conquered simply by word of mouth...
Sorry to say this, but the fact that on such a story -- which is highly interesting and moving at the same time --, the first five comments are (+5, Funny) ones, makes me feel rather sad.
Anyway, these are great pictures. Most people have forgotten about Tchernobyl now -- I bet practically everyone thinks that life is just going on there normally by now. The pictures show us the dangers of working with nuclear energy -- one small mistake, and the whole region is doomed for a long time, far beyond the lifetime of a single human. If this doesn't teach us a lesson about safety and security, I don't know what will.
I think you're confusing two things here. The Linux kernel still takes the/dev/... arguments as far as I know. But grub itself has a different device naming scheme -/dev/hda1 becomes (hd0,0) in most cases. The kernel worked fine with the usual/dev/... names for me.
Hm, since you have done an upgrade under Gentoo - maybe you can point me to a page with some good information for that? I had a 2.6 kernel running on my laptop in Gentoo, but had trouble with the devfs stuff... it's supposed to be replaced by udev, but I couldn't make that work all too well. There's probably some nice documentation out there somewhere which explains how to migrate from devfs to udev, but I couldn't seem to find it. Any ideas? Thanks!
One has to be careful at interpreting the numbers: 80% of the successful attacks hit Linux boxes. That's around 13,000 attacks, with MS being hit 2,005 times. However, we are missing the numbers for how often each OS was present among the surveyed systems. According to Netcraft, about 67% of servers run Apache (i.e., mostly Linux/Mac) with 21% running MS servers. This does not accurately represent Linux/Mac/Windows numbers, but at least roughly, there are three times as many Linux servers than Windows servers to attack. Were there as many Windows servers as Linux servers, they'd suffer about 3x2,000 = 6000 attacks. Granted, Linux still suffered more attacks, but it does make a difference.
I agree that calling an OS 'most secure' due to the numbers they got is bullshit. But I still think it's legitimate to restrict the survey to overt cracking attacks -- because this may apply to Windows, but it applies to the others as well. Therefore it/is/ in fact legitimate to make a statement about/security of systems in a server environment/ -- but not in a Desktop environment.
It could be damn impressive, but you better make sure the whole damn thing is in memory, or otherwise you'll be stuck with your HD's transfer rate (more like 300 Mbit)...
Exactly. While it may be nice for me to use a SuSE package on a RedHat system or a Fedora package on a Debian system, would I really want that? The distros still put some stuff in different places (even though that problem is almost gone thanks to the LSB), and they use different installation and removal scripts, different/etc/init.d scripts, different default configurations, etc. The boot scripts may be very different (compare, say, Gentoo's runlevels and config files with Debian's, RedHat's, and SuSE's).
Since I personally prefer Debian, I can only really argue about Debian... but hell, I've worked with other distros, and they all have their advantages and shortcomings.
As a matter of fact, Debian would probably work just as well if it used RPMs. Because the whole advantage of Debian over some other distros is the consistency of the distribution and the great care that goes into creating the packages. Other distros have their own advantages - but that has absolutely nothing to do with the package format. Different distros try to address very different needs and have their own philosophy. And you should/always/ prefer a package made for/your distro/ over any other one.
That being said, distro-neutral packages might be nice in case no distro-specific ones have been created yet, but they can never replace them.
If it really has to be a typical geek thing (I kind of favor a non-geeky gift), then a keychain USB drive sounds good -- just don't forget to store a nice picture of you on it! (Will make a nice surprise the first time he uses the drive)
I'd prefer to have a really discreet ring tone, just a very short, soft, but recognizable beep. I think polyphonic ringtone bullshit and mangled classical music themes are for braggards.
Not to get into a pro/anti-gun discussion, but you'll have to admit one thing:
Guns are/designed/ to kill.
Re:How stupid do you have to be?
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It might well be a publicity stunt; but it's not like they're completely unprepared, at least according to netcraft:
We had expected that SCO might take www.sco.com out of the DNS in the run up to the MyDoom DDoS payload in order to keep the denial of service http traffic off the Internet. So far, though, www.sco.com still resolves and receives http requests, though closing the connection without sending a response.
That said, the sco.com hostmaster is reserving his options, with the TTL set to just 60 seconds at time of writing.
This is going to be a very difficult mission. I would love to have a job constructing the lander... I am simply amazed by the fact that we're able to hurl a piece of fragile technology at tiny objects in space that are far, far away (yes, considering how big space is, I would call Mars 'small' too) -- and they will actually get there in one piece and work.
I really hope they'll make it with this one. The German Max-Planck Institute for Aeronomy (soon to be called Institute for Solar System Research) is responsible for the lander. My mom works there, so from what she talked about I could tell how complicated the development of such a lander is.
Considering how long one of the computer scientists there has been working on the lander software, and what kinds of stress testing procedures the parts had to go through (some of them were done at Astrium in Munich and my mom had the honor of personally delivering the components...), I have deep respect for the engineers who work on such projects - even more when they actually make it work (Spirit/Opportunity).
Also, I am glad that the Rosetta project got to keep going at all, considering that originally it was supposed to visit Wirtanen (German link, for English see maybe here), a whole different comet. That also means that for the new target, the lander's software and some components even had to be redesigned to suit the new comet's features. So, good luck to Rosetta - hitting this target would be one cool achievement.
Oh, also, this ESA page has some nice information about the mission as well.
How is GNOME becoming popular in developing countries when it's geared towards newer machines?
Most developing countries use quite different locales. So I think it might have to do with the fact that GNOME's Pango engine is very great for truly internationalized apps, including very good bidirectional support.
Then again, I don't really know about KDE's i18n/l10n capabilities since I've hardly used it for quite a while.
I grew up in (western) Germany, but pretty close to the border (just about two miles). So in 1989 (I was nine at the time) I got some first-hand experience of the borders opening up, and I actually got to see most of these cars in action. I found the ZaZ car to be pretty weird... but the Moskvitch and Volga ones (I think that second link has pictures of them) were pretty cool to see. All those cars coming across the border seemed sort of like riding a time machine to me. Besides those, the Trabant of course, and the Wartburg (especially the older version). Weird (hey, I was just nine years old), but pretty cool---and, most of them, very sturdy.
Well, the problem didn't directly have to do with conversion. But after all, it still was the fact that everything had to be converted which led to the communication problems later.
Now, in this case, humans just made dumb mistakes. But we don't need stupid things like unit conversions to cause even more problems, do we?
Oh, and before I forget... maybe 1.5 inches or 38.1 mm are both just numbers and no one should really have to care. But you miss the point that imperial units don't 'fit'. For example, what does a gallon have to do with an inch? According to this page, "the standart gallon of the Unites States contains 231 cubic inches, or 8.3389 pounds avoirdupois of distilled water at its maximum density." Or this is what it says about a quart: "In imperial measure, a quart is forty English fluid ounces; in wine measure, it is thirty-two American fluid ounces. The United States dry quart contains 67.20 cubic inches, the fluid quart 57.75. The English quart contains 69.32 cubic inches."
WTF? A liter, OTOH, is simply 1 dm^3, or 10x10x10 cm (though you would simply express volumes in m^3 of course). In SI you have meter, kilogram, and second. The point is simplicity, completeness, and the comfort of the decimal system.
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Your point is good and right, but do notice that it's quite likely that a /Windows/ decision will be made because of strong marketing by MS themselves or some third party trying to convince the bank of its amazing omnipotence. Because there's many more people endorsing a Windows product because it makes them money.
/where it's appropriate/, and not /where other people want to make a bargain/.
I'm wondering if I should hope that Linux does not get picked up by even more businesses... because as it is, people use it
Google simply won because it did what it was supposed to do -- find web pages. Just that. Fast. No advertisement crap and other "portal" bullshit. Remember, when Google came up, other engines were getting gradually more clogged up with crap no one needed -- just because someone wanted to make an extra buck. Look at the other engines now. Like AltaVista. They've all gone back to simpler interfaces and concentrated on what they are supposed to do -- providing a simple interface for a web search, not a shopping mall.
/worked/, the world was conquered simply by word of mouth...
Once people realized that Google just
Sorry for replying to my own post, but...
Thanks to the moderators for taking care of that! Looks much better now.
Sorry to say this, but the fact that on such a story -- which is highly interesting and moving at the same time --, the first five comments are (+5, Funny) ones, makes me feel rather sad.
Anyway, these are great pictures. Most people have forgotten about Tchernobyl now -- I bet practically everyone thinks that life is just going on there normally by now. The pictures show us the dangers of working with nuclear energy -- one small mistake, and the whole region is doomed for a long time, far beyond the lifetime of a single human. If this doesn't teach us a lesson about safety and security, I don't know what will.
I think you're confusing two things here. The Linux kernel still takes the /dev/... arguments as far as I know. But grub itself has a different device naming scheme - /dev/hda1 becomes (hd0,0) in most cases. The kernel worked fine with the usual /dev/... names for me.
Hm, since you have done an upgrade under Gentoo - maybe you can point me to a page with some good information for that? I had a 2.6 kernel running on my laptop in Gentoo, but had trouble with the devfs stuff... it's supposed to be replaced by udev, but I couldn't make that work all too well. There's probably some nice documentation out there somewhere which explains how to migrate from devfs to udev, but I couldn't seem to find it. Any ideas? Thanks!
One has to be careful at interpreting the numbers: 80% of the successful attacks hit Linux boxes. That's around 13,000 attacks, with MS being hit 2,005 times. However, we are missing the numbers for how often each OS was present among the surveyed systems. According to Netcraft, about 67% of servers run Apache (i.e., mostly Linux/Mac) with 21% running MS servers. This does not accurately represent Linux/Mac/Windows numbers, but at least roughly, there are three times as many Linux servers than Windows servers to attack. Were there as many Windows servers as Linux servers, they'd suffer about 3x2,000 = 6000 attacks. Granted, Linux still suffered more attacks, but it does make a difference.
/is/ in fact legitimate to make a statement about /security of systems in a server environment/ -- but not in a Desktop environment.
I agree that calling an OS 'most secure' due to the numbers they got is bullshit. But I still think it's legitimate to restrict the survey to overt cracking attacks -- because this may apply to Windows, but it applies to the others as well. Therefore it
Question remains, why would you morse .--.-. (A+C, the new sign for @) as opposed to .- - (AT)??
I think they just missed Microsoft's most important code line in ms.h:
:)
#define int unsigned int
Lame joke, I know
...and you have failed already. What you should've done:
1. load unsigned int from char array
It could be damn impressive, but you better make sure the whole damn thing is in memory, or otherwise you'll be stuck with your HD's transfer rate (more like 300 Mbit)...
Exactly. While it may be nice for me to use a SuSE package on a RedHat system or a Fedora package on a Debian system, would I really want that? The distros still put some stuff in different places (even though that problem is almost gone thanks to the LSB), and they use different installation and removal scripts, different /etc/init.d scripts, different default configurations, etc. The boot scripts may be very different (compare, say, Gentoo's runlevels and config files with Debian's, RedHat's, and SuSE's).
/always/ prefer a package made for /your distro/ over any other one.
Since I personally prefer Debian, I can only really argue about Debian... but hell, I've worked with other distros, and they all have their advantages and shortcomings.
As a matter of fact, Debian would probably work just as well if it used RPMs. Because the whole advantage of Debian over some other distros is the consistency of the distribution and the great care that goes into creating the packages. Other distros have their own advantages - but that has absolutely nothing to do with the package format. Different distros try to address very different needs and have their own philosophy. And you should
That being said, distro-neutral packages might be nice in case no distro-specific ones have been created yet, but they can never replace them.
If it really has to be a typical geek thing (I kind of favor a non-geeky gift), then a keychain USB drive sounds good -- just don't forget to store a nice picture of you on it! (Will make a nice surprise the first time he uses the drive)
Aaaaahh... Open Source at work ;-)
No need to get into this argument, just see Slashdot's tenth most active story ever (at least at the moment). It's all been said I suppose.
I'd prefer to have a really discreet ring tone, just a very short, soft, but recognizable beep. I think polyphonic ringtone bullshit and mangled classical music themes are for braggards.
But you forgot the most important line from the article! See the headline:
Makes you wonder whether he was out to destroy this server...
Not to get into a pro/anti-gun discussion, but you'll have to admit one thing:
/designed/ to kill.
Guns are
It might well be a publicity stunt; but it's not like they're completely unprepared, at least according to netcraft:
This is going to be a very difficult mission. I would love to have a job constructing the lander... I am simply amazed by the fact that we're able to hurl a piece of fragile technology at tiny objects in space that are far, far away (yes, considering how big space is, I would call Mars 'small' too) -- and they will actually get there in one piece and work.
I really hope they'll make it with this one. The German Max-Planck Institute for Aeronomy (soon to be called Institute for Solar System Research) is responsible for the lander. My mom works there, so from what she talked about I could tell how complicated the development of such a lander is.
Considering how long one of the computer scientists there has been working on the lander software, and what kinds of stress testing procedures the parts had to go through (some of them were done at Astrium in Munich and my mom had the honor of personally delivering the components...), I have deep respect for the engineers who work on such projects - even more when they actually make it work (Spirit/Opportunity).
Also, I am glad that the Rosetta project got to keep going at all, considering that originally it was supposed to visit Wirtanen (German link, for English see maybe here), a whole different comet. That also means that for the new target, the lander's software and some components even had to be redesigned to suit the new comet's features. So, good luck to Rosetta - hitting this target would be one cool achievement.
Oh, also, this ESA page has some nice information about the mission as well.
Most developing countries use quite different locales. So I think it might have to do with the fact that GNOME's Pango engine is very great for truly internationalized apps, including very good bidirectional support.
Then again, I don't really know about KDE's i18n/l10n capabilities since I've hardly used it for quite a while.
Well in my day it was more like insects eating my abacus.
I grew up in (western) Germany, but pretty close to the border (just about two miles). So in 1989 (I was nine at the time) I got some first-hand experience of the borders opening up, and I actually got to see most of these cars in action. I found the ZaZ car to be pretty weird... but the Moskvitch and Volga ones (I think that second link has pictures of them) were pretty cool to see. All those cars coming across the border seemed sort of like riding a time machine to me. Besides those, the Trabant of course, and the Wartburg (especially the older version). Weird (hey, I was just nine years old), but pretty cool---and, most of them, very sturdy.
Hasn't anyone ever seen this?
...anyone?
anyone??
Bueller?
(...sorry about that, but you kinda asked for it :))
Well, the problem didn't directly have to do with conversion. But after all, it still was the fact that everything had to be converted which led to the communication problems later.
Now, in this case, humans just made dumb mistakes. But we don't need stupid things like unit conversions to cause even more problems, do we?
Oh, and before I forget... maybe 1.5 inches or 38.1 mm are both just numbers and no one should really have to care. But you miss the point that imperial units don't 'fit'. For example, what does a gallon have to do with an inch? According to this page, "the standart gallon of the Unites States contains 231 cubic inches, or 8.3389 pounds avoirdupois of distilled water at its maximum density." Or this is what it says about a quart: "In imperial measure, a quart is forty English fluid ounces; in wine measure, it is thirty-two American fluid ounces. The United States dry quart contains 67.20 cubic inches, the fluid quart 57.75. The English quart contains 69.32 cubic inches."
WTF? A liter, OTOH, is simply 1 dm^3, or 10x10x10 cm (though you would simply express volumes in m^3 of course). In SI you have meter, kilogram, and second. The point is simplicity, completeness, and the comfort of the decimal system.