Comment Re:Why is Raymond's claim theoretically sound? (Score 2) 582
You should consider avoiding pretty much any OS kernel then for the same reasons!
You should consider avoiding pretty much any OS kernel then for the same reasons!
The service they provide is worth about £1 or £2 a year.
The floodgate of pay to play has been unleashed.
Presumably if you're arguing on slashdot its because you've got quite a long beard yourself.
> People moved in hordes to RDP as a protocol because X sucks so bad on a LAN
That doesn't add up - VNC has been around since forever so people would have moved to that for the same reasons that they might move to RDP. (RDP is a bit better than VNC but that's not really relevant).
My experience of X on a lan is quite good - I use remote gvim all the time. X over the internet isn't so good. I have occasionally ran remote gvim sessions over the internet in the past but forgoing a GUI and running vim over SSH is preferable in that case.
Network transparency was conspicuous by its absence for a long time.
The elephant in the room is the saturation of guns. Far more people in the USA die or are injured due to guns than roads. Should probably focus on the more serious issues first...
Isn't it the case that any application you install on your computer can secretly open a upnp connection through your firewall to your computer without you being aware of this?
DD WRT has a history of GPL violations, so anyone who's cool doesn't use it!
In less than a century, computers will be making substantial progress on ... the overriding problem of war and peace. -- James Slagle