Obviously it's a coincidence, if it's accurate. But it'd be nice to kill such a rumor with historical information anyway. Seems like it would be difficult to accurately compare our current calendar with the Mayan one and pinpoint down to the day.
Anybody know if that measurement is wrong given the disparity between the Julian/Gregorian calendars in the West (or the history of our current calendar system in general)? Maybe that date is really November 24th (or whatever) in the earliest "modern" European calendar system. I remember reading somewhere that there's only been a unified calendar in Europe/the British colonies for about 250 years.
I'm not interested enough to research, but maybe there are slashdotters out there who know a lot about this subject...
Thanks for this, you beat me to the punch.
Either you believe in free speech or you don't. It's not a complicated concept, and it's been eloquently articulated at least as far back as Voltaire (if not much earlier). You'd figure we'd have progressed a bit more since the Enlightenment...
I believe The Register had a story about a good-sized chunk of those documents surfacing as torrents a week or so ago. The Internet Archive deleted a lot of it (nice "archive"). I'm on the run so I'm not gonna search for the story, but you can probably find it quickly (if not just do a torrent search for the documents).
Well the site I work on (primarily) gets a high amount of traffic, so I didn't want to risk the beta...when we were first going to switch to Joomla, I thought about it but the main problem is waiting for the developers of the components, modules, and mambots to update their stuff.
Joomla is nice and I've worked on a few custom modules and components (not ready for release yet). The 1.5 delay is really getting to me, however, because I'm becoming more and more reliant on code based on 1.0.12 From what I can tell, 1.5 takes care of a lot of the quirks that came from Mambo...I just hope releases don't take this long in the future. 1.5 is a complete rewrite so it's understandable but the longer it takes, the more Drupal looks tempting...
Well here's an overview of security on Ubuntu, although I haven't been able to find a straightforward answer to your question: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/security . I do know that the graphical interface seems to handle sudo/gksudo privileges separately from the terminal. So, if in the terminal I type "sudo mv somefile/bin/", I type the root password and can be sudo for 15 minutes in the terminal, but if I then go to open up a program like, say, Synaptic (package manager), I'm prompted again.
The question is, during the "sudo window", what can and can't be done by a malicious program? Things might be handled quite differently than logging in as root or they might not be.
I just switched my user agent to IE 6 and the site renders absolutely horribly on Firefox. Oh well, at least you can use this extension for other sites with the IE requirement that won't render as badly in Firefox (for example, my university's payroll system says it requires IE but doesn't throw any errors in Firefox).
For Firefox users who need to pretend they're using IE to get into the site: User Agent Switcher extension...this may also be a good time for you Safari users to try out Firefox:)
btw, I know that the site may throw all kinds of errors if you're browsing in Firefox, seeing as how they don't test for anything but IE.
Yeah I woulda been more willing to buy one before these DRM-like shenanigans...Beyond that, there are some other pretty good criticisms of the project and I'm not sure I should support it monetarily.
Thank you, thank you for summarizing the situation in an accurate way. You'd think more people on/. would have an understanding of what's going on (starting with NOT confusing a kernel with an operating system).
...btw I'm not sure how Novell could circumvent GPLv3, but I sure as hell hope they don't find a way.
...not to mention that the developers who are most involved with GNU projects wouldn't want to work on Novell's forked projects A) because many share RMS's ideology and B) because they have no incentive to jump ship on the project they've been working on for Novell's version (in fact, the corporate oversight is a turn-off).
Does anyone really believe that Novell will update/develop/maintain the GPLv2 versions of ALL of the packages in SuSE that will likely be GPLv3'ed? Recreating GNOME as NOME-vell isn't gonna be easy, even if you can port BSD-licensed replacements for some of the core utilities.
...I didn't mean to leave out KDE but I couldn't do the "clever" wordplay.
Seriously, most of these complaints with Firefox could be solved by looking for an extension that provides the functionality you want. There are a shitload of them. These features can't and shouldn't all be included in the browser by default; the customizability of Firefox is its biggest asset IMO.
I haven't checked this one for inaccuracies yet, but the last two were pretty stupid and, in some cases, contained completely distorted information.
This one from the first list still bothers me: Torvalds' personal mascot is a penguin, he invented Linux using an old 386 PC and he insists he is named after a character in the Peanuts comic strip -- in fact he was named after Linus Pauling, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist. Torvalds' operating system is used by computers all over the world and some believe it poses a serious threat to Microsoft's Windows -- not bad for a lone Computer Science student.
...maybe Richard Stallman isn't so crazy with the GNU/Linux thing, eh? Although there are many packages in the average distro that aren't GNU's...
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Obviously it's a coincidence, if it's accurate. But it'd be nice to kill such a rumor with historical information anyway. Seems like it would be difficult to accurately compare our current calendar with the Mayan one and pinpoint down to the day.
Anybody know if that measurement is wrong given the disparity between the Julian/Gregorian calendars in the West (or the history of our current calendar system in general)? Maybe that date is really November 24th (or whatever) in the earliest "modern" European calendar system. I remember reading somewhere that there's only been a unified calendar in Europe/the British colonies for about 250 years.
I'm not interested enough to research, but maybe there are slashdotters out there who know a lot about this subject...
If you're worried about privacy, I recommend Firefox and the Customize Google extension. I'm also a fan of Googlepedia.
Thanks for this, you beat me to the punch. Either you believe in free speech or you don't. It's not a complicated concept, and it's been eloquently articulated at least as far back as Voltaire (if not much earlier). You'd figure we'd have progressed a bit more since the Enlightenment...
I believe The Register had a story about a good-sized chunk of those documents surfacing as torrents a week or so ago. The Internet Archive deleted a lot of it (nice "archive"). I'm on the run so I'm not gonna search for the story, but you can probably find it quickly (if not just do a torrent search for the documents).
Well the site I work on (primarily) gets a high amount of traffic, so I didn't want to risk the beta...when we were first going to switch to Joomla, I thought about it but the main problem is waiting for the developers of the components, modules, and mambots to update their stuff.
Joomla is nice and I've worked on a few custom modules and components (not ready for release yet). The 1.5 delay is really getting to me, however, because I'm becoming more and more reliant on code based on 1.0.12 From what I can tell, 1.5 takes care of a lot of the quirks that came from Mambo...I just hope releases don't take this long in the future. 1.5 is a complete rewrite so it's understandable but the longer it takes, the more Drupal looks tempting...
It's got a badass beat as long as you can get the P Diddy (post-Puff Daddy, pre-Diddy) rap-over out of your head...
...if Joomla doesn't release 1.5 soon, I may be spending a lot more time with Drupal. I hope this is a step in the right direction for them...
hahaha...I'm not a big fan of John Searle, but that was funny as hell.
Well here's an overview of security on Ubuntu, although I haven't been able to find a straightforward answer to your question: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/security . I do know that the graphical interface seems to handle sudo/gksudo privileges separately from the terminal. So, if in the terminal I type "sudo mv somefile /bin/", I type the root password and can be sudo for 15 minutes in the terminal, but if I then go to open up a program like, say, Synaptic (package manager), I'm prompted again.
The question is, during the "sudo window", what can and can't be done by a malicious program? Things might be handled quite differently than logging in as root or they might not be.
I just switched my user agent to IE 6 and the site renders absolutely horribly on Firefox. Oh well, at least you can use this extension for other sites with the IE requirement that won't render as badly in Firefox (for example, my university's payroll system says it requires IE but doesn't throw any errors in Firefox).
For Firefox users who need to pretend they're using IE to get into the site: User Agent Switcher extension ...this may also be a good time for you Safari users to try out Firefox :)
btw, I know that the site may throw all kinds of errors if you're browsing in Firefox, seeing as how they don't test for anything but IE.
Yeah I woulda been more willing to buy one before these DRM-like shenanigans...Beyond that, there are some other pretty good criticisms of the project and I'm not sure I should support it monetarily.
Thank you, thank you for summarizing the situation in an accurate way. You'd think more people on /. would have an understanding of what's going on (starting with NOT confusing a kernel with an operating system).
...btw I'm not sure how Novell could circumvent GPLv3, but I sure as hell hope they don't find a way.
...not to mention that the developers who are most involved with GNU projects wouldn't want to work on Novell's forked projects A) because many share RMS's ideology and B) because they have no incentive to jump ship on the project they've been working on for Novell's version (in fact, the corporate oversight is a turn-off).
...I didn't mean to leave out KDE but I couldn't do the "clever" wordplay.
Does anyone really believe that Novell will update/develop/maintain the GPLv2 versions of ALL of the packages in SuSE that will likely be GPLv3'ed? Recreating GNOME as NOME-vell isn't gonna be easy, even if you can port BSD-licensed replacements for some of the core utilities.
Well, there's always the Church of Emacs.
I second that. Although this seems to be a top-down decision that was made without considering alternate strategies.
Seriously, most of these complaints with Firefox could be solved by looking for an extension that provides the functionality you want. There are a shitload of them. These features can't and shouldn't all be included in the browser by default; the customizability of Firefox is its biggest asset IMO.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Firefox has had a mouse gestures extension for quite some time.
I haven't checked this one for inaccuracies yet, but the last two were pretty stupid and, in some cases, contained completely distorted information.
...maybe Richard Stallman isn't so crazy with the GNU/Linux thing, eh? Although there are many packages in the average distro that aren't GNU's...
This one from the first list still bothers me:
Torvalds' personal mascot is a penguin, he invented Linux using an old 386 PC and he insists he is named after a character in the Peanuts comic strip -- in fact he was named after Linus Pauling, the Nobel Prize-winning chemist. Torvalds' operating system is used by computers all over the world and some believe it poses a serious threat to Microsoft's Windows -- not bad for a lone Computer Science student.
How does a Simpsons joke go this long on /. without being applauded? *applause*