The elections are being held from the 10th June to the 13th. Actual arrangements are left to the individual countries. Italy and the Czech Republic are holding them over two days, all the others over one particular day. "Election night" is the 13th.
I always wondered why angry mobs wait until nighttime. If they just rampaged during the day, they wouldn't need the torches, and could carry machetes instead.
From the other perspective, somebody mentioned the addition of the BSDs to distrowatch. There was a lengthy discussion on the site as they tried to figure out the correct terminology for refering to a BSD distribution^Wrelease^Wproject^Wcycle^Wbranch. Can't find it on the site now, but I think some of them were getting quite confused about the whole -RELEASE/-CURRENT thing.
I think the best example for this is the fact that the default kernel has no support for sound cards.
It's similar to the differing firewall philosophies - do you block everything first, and then allow what you need, or do you allow everything first, and then block what you don't need?
My one gripe with the ports tree is the way the 'make clean' process recurses through everything, without remembering earlier iterations. If, like me, you tend to forget to clean up after yourself, it can take an age to clean up your tree, where what you really want to do is "rm -r `du -ad3/usr/ports|grep '/work$'`". Thankfully portupgrade does it properly, so I can get away with laziness.
1. Install cvsup from the ports collection. 2. Upgrade your sources. 3. Read/usr/src/Makefile and follow the instructions for upgrade. 4. Before you install the kernel, read up on mergemaster; it upgrades your/etc to the new distribution. Be aware of what you've changed in there in case there's a new version. The obvious ones are/etc/passwd,/etc/group,/etc/hosts, and files in/etc/ssh 5. Install your kernel and reboot - your downtime will be how long you can run through mergemaster and do an installworld. Typically, it takes me about ten-fifteen minutes.
It can be daunting first time, just be prepared, like the good boy scout you never were.
This then allows their server to know when the mail was downloaded by the user without having to rely on images.
Bollocks. Complete and utter bollocks.
Neither you or the moderator who considered this to be insightful have any idea what you're talking about; you clearly were taken in by their marketing material.
When you tack their domain onto the end of the recipient's address the email is delivered to their servers. This allows them to tack on whatever insidious webbug they want to the email, and possibly mine your email for marketing information while they are at it.
The email is then delivered onto the recipient's mailserver, just as if you had sent it directly.
Once it accepts it, they have absolutely no fucking way of knowing what that mailserver does with it. When the user downloads it, they will not receive any special gilt-edged notification of the event which you would normally be denied.
"On average, any two sites in cyberspace are just four clicks away"
Yes, but the best ones need a credit-card... (Or so I'm told...) Where does our contorsible companion (I think AMEX patented flexible friend..) fit into the E-Cology? Are they the equivalent to sexual attraction...? Surfer: Oooh.. they take Mastercard... Server: Oooh.. She's got a platinum card...
On a (slightly) more serious note, I really like IBM's Digital Immune System. I know in my heart that it will be an abysmal failure, just because, but I like the thought of human 'antibodies' protecting the net. You'd probably get a cool T-shirt to wear, too.
-Feargal Reilly. "A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"
To me I would suspect that MS have realised that they screwed up with J++, ever since they decided to ignore the whole 'any platform' idea.
Selling the rights to a competitor makes them look good, especially in the anti-trust spotlight. It wouldn't surprise me if they drop support for it, and relace it with something of their own.
Then, when J++ becomes defunct, they can say 'Hey, we gave them a fair chance, we can't help it if people preferred our products...'
I dunno, but I expect a platform independent realise from them to compete with Java. They couldn't seriously do so with J++, so they dumped it.
Or so I think...
-Feargal Reilly. "A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"
Yet again lawyers create another money-spinner. While not a legal expert myself, I presume that international law regarding say, business names, is not so mad that it considers translations of names as being copyright infringement... If that is the case however, I'm currently developing my own language, called 'litigationese', which will include every word in every language. Then I'm sending my lawyers out to feed...
I'm in two minds about this. Giving detailed personal info to a company which is more of a marketing machine than a software house does not bring any smiles to my face.
The first problem here is how in hell's name does anybody verify the security and privacy of it? MS do not have an inspring track record when it comes to security, and although it may be unethical to sell on info and stats gathered, who considers MS to be above doing that?
Another consideration is the infrastructure of the Passport database server system. Scary thought: Passport (tm) becomes the standard for online shopping, vendors worldwide rely on this system, and MS use a single NT server... Can anyone spell downtime...?
Seriously though, the passport idea is required by today's online community. And unless better alternatives are presented to the general public, Passport could well become essential in any online transactions. Are there any other real alternatives?
But most importantly of all... Where's the damn RFC???:^)
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The elections are being held from the 10th June to the 13th. Actual arrangements are left to the individual countries. Italy and the Czech Republic are holding them over two days, all the others over one particular day. "Election night" is the 13th.
I always wondered why angry mobs wait until nighttime. If they just rampaged during the day, they wouldn't need the torches, and could carry machetes instead.
I can't tell - do you think this is a good thing or a bad thing?
From the other perspective, somebody mentioned the addition of the BSDs to distrowatch. There was a lengthy discussion on the site as they tried to figure out the correct terminology for refering to a BSD distribution^Wrelease^Wproject^Wcycle^Wbranch. Can't find it on the site now, but I think some of them were getting quite confused about the whole -RELEASE/-CURRENT thing.
I think the best example for this is the fact that the default kernel has no support for sound cards.
It's similar to the differing firewall philosophies - do you block everything first, and then allow what you need, or do you allow everything first, and then block what you don't need?
My one gripe with the ports tree is the way the 'make clean' process recurses through everything, without remembering earlier iterations. If, like me, you tend to forget to clean up after yourself, it can take an age to clean up your tree, where what you really want to do is "rm -r `du -ad3 /usr/ports|grep '/work$'`".
Thankfully portupgrade does it properly, so I can get away with laziness.
1. Install cvsup from the ports collection. /usr/src/Makefile and follow the instructions for upgrade. /etc to the new distribution. Be aware of what you've changed in there in case there's a new version. The obvious ones are /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/hosts, and files in /etc/ssh
2. Upgrade your sources.
3. Read
4. Before you install the kernel, read up on mergemaster; it upgrades your
5. Install your kernel and reboot - your downtime will be how long you can run through mergemaster and do an installworld. Typically, it takes me about ten-fifteen minutes.
It can be daunting first time, just be prepared, like the good boy scout you never were.
The real question is does anybody have a sackful of lawyers, and a corresponding sackful of cash for each lawyer?
Even if somebody did show prior art, they can just amend their patent to work around it.
Your patents system is broken. Fix it.
Yeah, I started the reply before anybody else posted theirs, then got stuck on the phone before I finished it. Sigh.
This then allows their server to know when the mail was downloaded by the user without having to rely on images.
Bollocks. Complete and utter bollocks.
Neither you or the moderator who considered this to be insightful have any idea what you're talking about; you clearly were taken in by their marketing material.
When you tack their domain onto the end of the recipient's address the email is delivered to their servers. This allows them to tack on whatever insidious webbug they want to the email, and possibly mine your email for marketing information while they are at it.
The email is then delivered onto the recipient's mailserver, just as if you had sent it directly.
Once it accepts it, they have absolutely no fucking way of knowing what that mailserver does with it. When the user downloads it, they will not receive any special gilt-edged notification of the event which you would normally be denied.
The only trick they rely on is the images thing.
Any claims otherwise are complete and utter lies.
In case I wasn't clear enough, bollocks.
Yes, but the best ones need a credit-card... (Or so I'm told...) Where does our contorsible companion (I think AMEX patented flexible friend..) fit into the E-Cology? Are they the equivalent to sexual attraction...?
Surfer: Oooh.. they take Mastercard...
Server: Oooh.. She's got a platinum card...
On a (slightly) more serious note, I really like IBM's Digital Immune System. I know in my heart that it will be an abysmal failure, just because, but I like the thought of human 'antibodies' protecting the net.
You'd probably get a cool T-shirt to wear, too.
-Feargal Reilly.
"A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"
To me I would suspect that MS have realised that they screwed up with J++, ever since they decided to ignore the whole 'any platform' idea.
Selling the rights to a competitor makes them look good, especially in the anti-trust spotlight. It wouldn't surprise me if they drop support for it, and relace it with something of their own.
Then, when J++ becomes defunct, they can say 'Hey, we gave them a fair chance, we can't help it if people preferred our products...'
I dunno, but I expect a platform independent realise from them to compete with Java. They couldn't seriously do so with J++, so they dumped it.
Or so I think...
-Feargal Reilly.
"A goldfish was his muse, eternally amused"
Cynicism != stupidity...
Yet again lawyers create another money-spinner. While not a legal expert myself, I presume that international law regarding say, business names, is not so mad that it considers translations of names as being copyright infringement... If that is the case however, I'm currently developing my own language, called 'litigationese', which will include every word in every language. Then I'm sending my lawyers out to feed...
The first problem here is how in hell's name does anybody verify the security and privacy of it? MS do not have an inspring track record when it comes to security, and although it may be unethical to sell on info and stats gathered, who considers MS to be above doing that?
Another consideration is the infrastructure of the Passport database server system. Scary thought: Passport (tm) becomes the standard for online shopping, vendors worldwide rely on this system, and MS use a single NT server... Can anyone spell downtime...?
Seriously though, the passport idea is required by today's online community. And unless better alternatives are presented to the general public, Passport could well become essential in any online transactions. Are there any other real alternatives?
But most importantly of all... Where's the damn RFC??? :^)