Contributed by jolan on from the who-did-what-and-why dept.
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Contributed by jolan on from the who-did-what-and-why dept.
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By frantisek holop (165.72.200.11) on
otherwise excellent interview.
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By Anonymous Coward (151.41.14.156) on
I'm using Konqueror and I don't see any problem with q/a. What do you see as messed up?
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By frantisek holop (165.72.200.11) on
TRACE was disabled. Why? Is there anything else that you would like to disable or remove from the codebase?
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Henning Brauer: It was only a stub with nothing in it, because some software incorrectly assumed it always had to link libresolv. We found that these days the stub libresolv just confused some configure script.
page4:
Where has libresolv gone?
Matthieu Herrb: Loic Duflot demonstrated in an excellent paper [PPT slides] at CanSecWest that the hardware access privileges that the X server is granted by the aperture driver can be abused to gain access to kernel privileges (allowing to bypass the security level settings for example).
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maybe some more i haven't read it again.
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By Anonymous Coward (151.41.1.117) on
Ok, Seen them.
By Anonymous Coward (151.41.9.7) on
Crazy questions fixed!
By Luis (68.8.241.29) on
By Anonymous Coward (67.170.176.126) on
Over and over again we see emails in the mailing lists "can you support xyz driver for this new laptop" followed by chastizing replies "why dont' you call the vendor of the product you bought ...". I do understand that point but I am wondering if we could go one step further by publishing from the get-go a list of recommended product/vendor based on how well they support open/free projects. This way we could reinforce positively the concept "you stay open, we reward you".
just my $.02
AC
By Anonymous Coward (156.34.218.80) on
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By Corentin (81.56.152.193) on
And physical communication is much more efficient than remote communication.
By Anonymous Coward (128.171.90.200) on
However, I work with developers in other countries, and communicate via email and Skype, but nothing beats being able to go to the local pub and discussing things to death, or being able to go over to someones console and work on something together.
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By Anonymous Coward (128.171.90.200) on
By jolan (66.188.109.124) on
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By Anonymous Coward (156.34.218.80) on
True. I can't figure out a way to distribute beer either =) But I still think it could be a extremely convenient tool in many situations (much better than email tag!) -- especially if developed with specific needs and desires of developers in mind.
By Anonymous Coward (82.43.92.127) on
This sounds remarkably like pair-programming as practised by the extreme programming crowd (http://www.pairprogramming.com). While this is generally applied to object-oriented programming, perhaps the hackathons show that it works for procedural code as well?
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By Anonymous Coward (128.171.90.200) on
Working in pairs has absolutely nothing to do with object orientation
By Anonymous Coward (128.171.90.200) on
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By Matthias Kilian (84.134.64.216) on
Much longer battery lifetime. When idle, the zaurus is clocked down to 91 MHz. Still enough for editing files, reading mails etc. (though lcd(4)/wsdisplay(4) seem to be a little bit cpu-hungry when scrolling).
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By Anonymous Coward (128.171.90.200) on
I've tried another cpu-stepping daemon recently and it had a habit of making the screen shudder when stepping. In the past OpenBSD has sucked the battery really quickly, so I am keen to try this out.
By Anonymous Coward (128.171.90.200) on
http://www.openbsd.org/plus39.html
By chill (216.229.170.65) on http://www.howtobeinvisible.com/
OpenBSD's stance and public statements with the 3.9 release are frequently pointed to as a shining example of "how things should be done".
BSD vs GPL aside, this is one area that more and more Linux developers and users are coming to realize is of major importance.
-Charles
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By Anonymous Coward (70.27.15.123) on
Yeah sure, that's why they are helping nvidia and friends to hold back consumers, and prevent us from ever getting hardware that we can use.
By Anonymous Coward (70.74.75.200) on
http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020472,39264019-2,00.htm
Quote:
Warning shot across the bow
Users got a taste of an open source-only world last month from Red Hat. The company inadvertently suppressed the ability to use proprietary kernel modules when it shipped the new version 5 of its popular Fedora Core Linux. The unplanned experiment wasn't pretty for newbies.
"I do not believe the intention was to promote open source modules and to attack proprietary modules," Larabel says. "One of the reasons I personally believe this is the fact that beginning Linux users who tried Fedora Core 5 would experience problems with loading mainly ATI or Nvidia modules and ultimately tarnish Fedora's reputation due to a troubling experience - or so I have gathered from the countless emails I received from those beginning users."
By Anonymous Coward (70.74.75.200) on
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-April/014874.html
Or, directly here:
http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/fr/sciences/fichiers/lti/cansecwest2006-duflot-paper.pdf
http://www.cansecwest.com/slides06/csw06-duflot.ppt
http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/fr/sciences/fichiers/lti/sstic2006-duflot-papier.pdf
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By Anonymous Coward (151.42.125.9) on
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> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-April/014874.html
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> Or, directly here:
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> http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/fr/sciences/fichiers/lti/cansecwest2006-duflot-paper.pdf
> http://www.cansecwest.com/slides06/csw06-duflot.ppt
> http://www.ssi.gouv.fr/fr/sciences/fichiers/lti/sstic2006-duflot-papier.pdf
And now he has been interviewed...
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/402