[The EU] have a fairly good record of not blowing too much money on things which the tax payers have to foot
Yeah, except for that 50% of the EU's budget goes to 2% of the EU population (the farmers).
Thus we get the great benefits of investing tax money in raising food prices for our citizens, while at the same time preventing third world countries (and others) from selling us (cheaper due to lower labour costs) their crops.
Could this law be used to sue spammers? If a spammer uses your mail server to send out a ton of mail (thereby degrading its performance while the e-mail is being sent out), will that be considered a DoS attack under this bill?
Leverage Conectiva's Apt focus, build a Debian-like "universal" repository
Why go through the trouble of doing this when Debian has already done it? If this is the way to go, why not just build on Debian? This sounds a lot like re-inventing the wheel to me.
So, what you are asking is whether Linux installers have improved in any way over the last five years (or when was it that Redhat 5.0 was released)? Well, they have. Big surprize...
Among those distros I have attempted to install (an ancient Slackware, RH52-71, Mandrake 6 and 7, Debian Potato, SuSe 7.0(?)), Mandrake have had the best installer, but as these things change all the time, that may or may not be true today.
And even though the Debian installer may not be the best in the world (it lacks automatic hardware detection); once I managed to get Testing onto my computer I've never looked back.
In my personal opinion, WinCVS is far more complicated to use than the ordinary command line client. It *looks* nice, but that's about it.
If you want a graphical shell for CVS under Windows, I have heard good things about TortoiseCVS. I have no personal experience with TortoiseCVS however, so whether it is actually better I really cannot say.
Best thing is of course if you try 'em both out and see for yourself.
There is a good reason that "Reinstall Windows" is in the 90th percentile of all support responses. It's a simple answer, and by having nobody who can actually repair a broken windows machine, it's the best answer.
Something I've been pondering (a little) is that since Linux boxes are fixable (regardless of distro), why couldn't this fixing be automated? Have a program that diagnoses the problem by trying to dial out, run traceroute, start X, and / or whatever, then when an error is encountered "check" (for some definition of checking) relevant config files or whatnot for errors, maybe asking the user some questions in the process.
Granted, this would be a task in full parity with making something like Linuxconf or XST, but if somebody did, imagine what it would do to the support costs!
If your current operating system vendor is unable to provide you with a hassle-free environment, maybe your company should be looking elsewhere for those services? Of course, switching operating system is not something you do in a jiffy, but considering the problems you seem to be having, have you at least evaluated the alternatives? What was the result?
One thing speaking against this is that people tend to upgrade from older versions of software to newer, even though the newer version is not the same as the older version. It could be that the threshold of ditching MS Office for OpenOffice is not that much higher than dumping MS Office for MS Office (aka "upgrading"). Especially considering the difference in price-tag.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 62240 60456 1784 1056 1124 15232
You may think you are short on memory, but your Linux kernel thinks it can afford to use 15232 + 1124 kb = 16Mb for disk cache. I haven't seen your system, so it may very well be swapping like crazy (especially considering the bad rap the 2.4 VM system has been getting), but in the best of all worlds these numbers could mean that your Penguin has in its infinite wisdom thrown out 27Mb memory that isn't used much to improve disk performance (through caching).
As I have never attempted anything like this it may or may not work for you. However as ASP2PHP is GPL:ed, at least downloading it and giving it a try should be quite doable. If you have any native Windows code (aka "vendor lock in"), you'll probably have to re-write it though.
Whose idea was it to put Windows servers on the 'net in the first place, anyway?
ASP2PHP will convert the ASP code into PHP for you. Haven't used it myself so I don't know how well it works, but it's GPL so you can just download it yourself and try it out if you're interested. I agree that ActiveX stuff (aka "vendor lock in") is still a problem though, but ASP2PHP may be a good first step.
I like to be notified about updates, but I want to install them myself. To achieve this I've put the following script in/etc/cron.daily:
#!/bin/sh
# Keep the apt cache current
apt-get update >/dev/null
# Update the dselect cache from the apt cache
TEMPFILE=`mktemp/tmp/apt-update.XXXXXX`
apt-cache dumpavail > $TEMPFILE
dpkg --update-avail $TEMPFILE
rm $TEMPFILE
# Remind admin to keep the system current
apt-get dist-upgrade -u --trivial-only
The possible downside of this script is that you'll get notified whether there are any updates available or not. I think that's good (I like getting informed about that the script is still working), but others may not like this.
... just not from Clearchannel. They haven't "decided that the country (USA) shouldn't be listening" to anything, they have opted not to play it to their listeners.
You do have more than one radio station, haven't you? If lots of people think Clearchannel are behaving like idiots, rest assured that they will change this decision fast.
The other points I can agree with, but how are these points any different from closed source software? For point one, if you haven't already, pick any proprietary software license agreement, read it and weep. For point two, what kind of guarantees do you have with proprietary software? With Free software, you at least have the option of continuing a project yourself if it stalls. Granted, everybody can't do that, but with a discontinued closed source product you are fucked.
I love LATeX and TeX, but trying to introduce it in a Microsoft oriented place is asking for disaster. You will just exchange unusable word document with unusable LATeX documents. At least the Word Documents don't have syntax errors.
Did you try getting people to use LyX? Why (not)? Did it work? Why (not)?
Cheers//Johan
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Of course the interesting point is the supposedly hugh amounts of helium on the Moon, any excuse for a trip I guess!
In that case, how would you get the Helium from the moon (where it is now) down to Earth (where it's needed)? Since it's lighter than air, it's not like you could just fly it down in a Zeppelin or something.
Their FAQ has the following to say about the relationship between Forte and Netbeans:
The Forte for Java product line is based on NetBeans. Forte for Java Community Edition is a productized version of NetBeans and will continue to be free. The relationship between NetBeans and Forte for Java Community Edition is similar to that between Linux and companies such as Red Hat, Caldera, SuSE, Debian, etc. - a productized version of an open source project.
Could you give some examples of URLs that don't render well (or at all) with Mozilla? As I'm not having any problems with Mozilla myself I'm kind of curious.
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Yeah, except for that 50% of the EU's budget goes to 2% of the EU population (the farmers).
Thus we get the great benefits of investing tax money in raising food prices for our citizens, while at the same time preventing third world countries (and others) from selling us (cheaper due to lower labour costs) their crops.
Could this law be used to sue spammers? If a spammer uses your mail server to send out a ton of mail (thereby degrading its performance while the e-mail is being sent out), will that be considered a DoS attack under this bill?
Why go through the trouble of doing this when Debian has already done it? If this is the way to go, why not just build on Debian? This sounds a lot like re-inventing the wheel to me.
Among those distros I have attempted to install (an ancient Slackware, RH52-71, Mandrake 6 and 7, Debian Potato, SuSe 7.0(?)), Mandrake have had the best installer, but as these things change all the time, that may or may not be true today.
And even though the Debian installer may not be the best in the world (it lacks automatic hardware detection); once I managed to get Testing onto my computer I've never looked back.
Considering their current ambivalence towards Bugzilla's voting feature, how exactly is this voting supposed to be done?
I can't say I've read very much about 641D though, so it may be obvious...
Cheers //Johan
If you want a graphical shell for CVS under Windows, I have heard good things about TortoiseCVS. I have no personal experience with TortoiseCVS however, so whether it is actually better I really cannot say.
Best thing is of course if you try 'em both out and see for yourself.
Something I've been pondering (a little) is that since Linux boxes are fixable (regardless of distro), why couldn't this fixing be automated? Have a program that diagnoses the problem by trying to dial out, run traceroute, start X, and / or whatever, then when an error is encountered "check" (for some definition of checking) relevant config files or whatnot for errors, maybe asking the user some questions in the process.
Granted, this would be a task in full parity with making something like Linuxconf or XST, but if somebody did, imagine what it would do to the support costs!
Surely, what the source says must be a lot more important than who compiled it?
Cheers //Johan
Cheers //Johan
There's a standard X extension (?) called LBX that comes with XFree86 and others. Check out the LBX Mini-HOWTO if you are interested.
Cheers //Johan
If they are the market leader, how come there are more than twice as many Apache servers as there are IIS servers out there?
Cheers //Johan
Mem: 62240 60456 1784 1056 1124 15232
You may think you are short on memory, but your Linux kernel thinks it can afford to use 15232 + 1124 kb = 16Mb for disk cache. I haven't seen your system, so it may very well be swapping like crazy (especially considering the bad rap the 2.4 VM system has been getting), but in the best of all worlds these numbers could mean that your Penguin has in its infinite wisdom thrown out 27Mb memory that isn't used much to improve disk performance (through caching).
Cheers //Johan
- Install PHP on your IIS server.
- Convert your ASP to PHP using ASP2PHP and get it running on Windows/IIS/PHP.
- Install Apache with PHP on the Windows box. Get your site running on Windows/Apache/PHP.
- Install a new box with some securish Unix lookalike or other and move the site over.
As I have never attempted anything like this it may or may not work for you. However as ASP2PHP is GPL:ed, at least downloading it and giving it a try should be quite doable. If you have any native Windows code (aka "vendor lock in"), you'll probably have to re-write it though.Whose idea was it to put Windows servers on the 'net in the first place, anyway?
Cheers //Johan
Cheers //Johan
- Download and install PHP for IIS on Windows.
- Convert your ASP pages to PHP (using ASP2PHP).
- Get it running on IIS.
- Replace IIS with Apache (still on Windows).
- Replace Windows with some secure Unix lookalike or other.
I haven't used ASP2PHP myself so I can't say whether it works or not. It's GPL though, so try it out if you're interested.Cheers //Johan
#!/bin/sh
/dev/null
/tmp/apt-update.XXXXXX`
# Keep the apt cache current
apt-get update >
# Update the dselect cache from the apt cache
TEMPFILE=`mktemp
apt-cache dumpavail > $TEMPFILE
dpkg --update-avail $TEMPFILE
rm $TEMPFILE
# Remind admin to keep the system current
apt-get dist-upgrade -u --trivial-only
The possible downside of this script is that you'll get notified whether there are any updates available or not. I think that's good (I like getting informed about that the script is still working), but others may not like this.
Cheers //Johan
You do have more than one radio station, haven't you? If lots of people think Clearchannel are behaving like idiots, rest assured that they will change this decision fast.
Cheers //Johan
The other points I can agree with, but how are these points any different from closed source software? For point one, if you haven't already, pick any proprietary software license agreement, read it and weep. For point two, what kind of guarantees do you have with proprietary software? With Free software, you at least have the option of continuing a project yourself if it stalls. Granted, everybody can't do that, but with a discontinued closed source product you are fucked.
Cheers //Johan
Did you try getting people to use LyX? Why (not)? Did it work? Why (not)?
Cheers //Johan
Shameless plug: Or you could subscribe to some of my projects :-).
Cheers //Johan
In that case, how would you get the Helium from the moon (where it is now) down to Earth (where it's needed)? Since it's lighter than air, it's not like you could just fly it down in a Zeppelin or something.
Cheers //Johan
Yeah, like the GPL:ed SAP DB for example.
Their FAQ has the following to say about the relationship between Forte and Netbeans:
The Forte for Java product line is based on NetBeans. Forte for Java Community Edition is a productized version of NetBeans and will continue to be free. The relationship between NetBeans and Forte for Java Community Edition is similar to that between Linux and companies such as Red Hat, Caldera, SuSE, Debian, etc. - a productized version of an open source project.
Cheers //Johan
Cheers //Johan