For small businesses that don't have a full time sysadmin there's also risks running your own. It might fail and take long time to fix for example. And it might go for long times without security patches.
I suppose both those things are true for larger places as well with sysadmins overloaded with work:(
If you want only a few versions with long support to evaluate it might be better to stick to for example Ubuntu 6.06 LTS & Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Then you wouldn't have to evaluate a new version every six months.
But sure, it won't beat the ~10 year support period of Windows XP:)
I hope they at least mean that everyone should have at least 2Mb/s upload speed as well. At least here in Sweden there's a lot of people on ADSL that only have 1Mb/s upload.
Are you disputing that the US has freer political speech than Europe? Copyright law is certainly censorship, and the US has stricter commercial censorship - but I'm far more concerned about political speech than commercial speech.
Prosecutions continued until a series of United States Supreme Court decisions in 1957 threw out numerous convictions under the Smith Act as unconstitutional.
Yeah, but the next sentence reads:
The statute remains on the books, however.
And several people where actually sent to jail under this law.
(not to mention the more than 100 people that have been in jail at Guantanamo lately without even getting a trial...)
Well, Javascript isn't exactly radically new either (appeared in 1995 according to wikipedia). But sure some of those examples you gave have even been around a bit longer than that.
Most of the OpenAFS bugs on MacOS is actually bugs in Finder or the rest of MacOS, so they're a bit difficult to fix for the OpenAFS developers. But in the development version they've made workarounds for some of them (and I think they even convinced Apple to fix a bug in Finder).
NIS is not a serious authentication alternative today. Kerberos is a lot more secure, and can be used in NFSv4 (and in OpenAFS).
Postscript is a stack based programming language. PDF was afaik originally designed to be a simpler format for just describing page layout. But then they've extended it to be able to include javascript for programming and embedding videos, flash and all sorts of stuff (sounds like HTML...).
Yeah, but.gov,.mil and.edu has always contradicted any such order. (.edu was originally meant to be for the whole world, but ended up being USA only). They should be renamed to.mil.us,.gov.us and.edu.us if they were interested in any order.
Yet for example Skype does it 'for free' (I know the Windows client has loads more features).
A statically compiled binary would pretty much just continue to work even if the distro is upgraded. Of course there's been a few changes like OSS->ALSA and such that could cause incompatibilities once every few years, but not all the time.
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For small businesses that don't have a full time sysadmin there's also risks running your own. It might fail and take long time to fix for example. And it might go for long times without security patches.
I suppose both those things are true for larger places as well with sysadmins overloaded with work :(
You should really read up on data structures, using a hash map which I guess most DNS-servers use is a LOT faster than searching through a hosts file.
But in South Africa (which is one of the countries this cable goes to) the figure was 60% Urban population in 2007. Source: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/southafrica_statistics.html
If you want only a few versions with long support to evaluate it might be better to stick to for example Ubuntu 6.06 LTS & Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Then you wouldn't have to evaluate a new version every six months.
But sure, it won't beat the ~10 year support period of Windows XP :)
I hope they at least mean that everyone should have at least 2Mb/s upload speed as well. At least here in Sweden there's a lot of people on ADSL that only have 1Mb/s upload.
Are you disputing that the US has freer political speech than Europe? Copyright law is certainly censorship, and the US has stricter commercial censorship - but I'm far more concerned about political speech than commercial speech.
Yes, I'm disputing that. You can also have a look at the latest Worldwide Press Freedom Index:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_Press_Freedom_Index#Worldwide_Press_Freedom_Index
1 Iceland
1 Luxembourg
1 Norway
4 Estonia
4 Finland
4 Republic of Ireland
7 Belgium
7 Latvia
7 New Zealand
7 Slovakia
7 Sweden
7 Switzerland
13 Canada
14 Austria
14 Denmark
16 Czech Republic
16 Lithuania
16 Netherlands
16 Portugal
20 Germany
snip...
38 United States
Perhaps you notice that the top of that list is quite dominated by European countries?
Just fyi, from your link:
Yeah, but the next sentence reads:
And several people where actually sent to jail under this law.
(not to mention the more than 100 people that have been in jail at Guantanamo lately without even getting a trial...)
All American states limit free speech:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Act
HTML provides a way to specify which charset it accepts in forms:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#adef-accept-charset
However, only programming projects are allowed in Google Summer of Code. Marketing would of course be nice, but it won't be sponsored by Google.
Directory Opus?
And, btw some games did actually use the OS, for example Civilization and Colonization.
You forgot to include Enterprise edition in some of those answers, so apparently it was a bit too confusing.
Well, Javascript isn't exactly radically new either (appeared in 1995 according to wikipedia). But sure some of those examples you gave have even been around a bit longer than that.
As a sysadmin of a news site I can attest they censored it the whole time, before, during and after the olympics.
I just hope I'm not the one they hit while they're texting on their phone.
I haven't seen them in a while either. But my first thought was these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Computers
What about Vietnam then?
But I agree they probably wouldn't be able to repeat that feat today.
Most of the OpenAFS bugs on MacOS is actually bugs in Finder or the rest of MacOS, so they're a bit difficult to fix for the OpenAFS developers. But in the development version they've made workarounds for some of them (and I think they even convinced Apple to fix a bug in Finder).
NIS is not a serious authentication alternative today. Kerberos is a lot more secure, and can be used in NFSv4 (and in OpenAFS).
A HTML page using javascript?
Probably doable in a spreadsheet as well.
Postscript is a stack based programming language. PDF was afaik originally designed to be a simpler format for just describing page layout. But then they've extended it to be able to include javascript for programming and embedding videos, flash and all sorts of stuff (sounds like HTML...).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript
Yep, and Windows proves Linux is unnecessary as it is a widely accepted and usable solution for operating a computer.
Yeah, but .gov, .mil and .edu has always contradicted any such order. (.edu was originally meant to be for the whole world, but ended up being USA only). .mil.us, .gov.us and .edu.us if they were interested in any order.
They should be renamed to
For starters most microkernels can boot from any filesystem even if the driver is in userspace.
Yeah, you're the only one using those applications.
Yet for example Skype does it 'for free' (I know the Windows client has loads more features).
A statically compiled binary would pretty much just continue to work even if the distro is upgraded. Of course there's been a few changes like OSS->ALSA and such that could cause incompatibilities once every few years, but not all the time.