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Doing the Work of an Organizing Pastor

Chapter 4 of Planting an Orthodox Presbyterian Church

Those who take on the role of an organizing pastor are involved in a unique kind of work. As was discussed briefly in Chapter 2, an organizing pastor is a man who is specially called of God and is so intensely gripped with the significance of the doctrine of the church that, at the bidding of his presbytery, he is willing to move to a place where he is needed, and to love and serve a group of people temporarily as God builds them into a mature body of Christ and provides them with their own session and pastor.

Consider four special traits that God builds into the life of a man who serves effectively as an organizing pastor:

He has a special call. He is drawn not to a group of people he knows, nor to a place where he will stay, but to the idea of the body of Christ that God will build through his efforts. That call is so intense and specific that his confidence in it is undeterred by disappointments and discouragements.

He is gripped by the doctrine of the church. He understands the unique privilege of implementing the Bible's teaching concerning the nature and purpose of the church. He takes great joy and pleasure in watching his labors be used as tools in God's hands to build an individual manifestation of the body of Christ.

He makes a deep commitment to a place and a people. He quickly becomes a part of the community in which the new church is being planted and develops a deep sense of compassion and concern for his neighbors. And he commits himself without reserve to the believers that God gathers around him, showing them the love of Christ and an example of faithfulness.

He serves without the promise of permanence. He recognizes that his work is to serve an emerging body of Christ, and he knows that when it matures, it may no longer need his ministry.

What is this work that so powerfully grips the life of an organizing pastor that he is willing to make the sacrifices necessary to see it accomplished? The remainder of this chapter is written to and for the church planter about his ministry in the mission work to which he has been called. But what follows is not so much a job description of what he must do as it is a list of concerns and values which are a part of him and which he must impress upon his people.

Set in Order What Remains

"For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order what remains, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you" (Titus 1:5). This was the job description that Paul gave to Titus and has, in effect, become the job description of every church planter. You are to "set in order what remains." That is a difficult phrase to translate from the Greek, but the implication is clear. As a church planter, your job is to do whatever is necessary to overcome the present weaknesses and deficiencies of the group that prevent it from being a mature body of Christ that can stand on its own.

Bring the church to maturity

Yours will be the job and the privilege of seeing God bring about the words of Ephesians 4:11-16 in the life of the mission work He has called you to serve. You have the confidence that Christ has made you a pastor and teacher for these people, and you are watching as He equips them for the work of the ministry. Your ministry is pointed toward doing anything and everything necessary to bring them to unity in their faith and the knowledge of the Son of God. And you marvel when they no longer act like little children tossed about by the trickery of men and the perversion of doctrine, but begin to grow up in all things into Him who is the head--Christ. But it will not be easy. Harsh words and deceitful scheming are part of what you are to expect, because you will also be called to serve as an example of suffering in the process of their coming to the unity of the faith and to a measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

Find their God-appointed leaders

Your task is to find those whom God has appointed to be the leaders of the new church. You have confidence that God has called you to do this work. You have confidence as well that if it is to be done, He will raise up those men. So your task is not to make unordained men into elders by your winsome persuasion and skillful training. Rather, it is to do anything and everything necessary to make all the conditions right for those men to be found, challenged, and equipped, and for the people of the new church to be taught how to choose and follow them.

Care Deeply about People

If you do not care deeply for people, if you do not get along well with them generally, and if you find yourself not liking them nearly so much as you like your books and your study, then the work of church planting will not go well for you. Nothing else in Reformed ministry works very well, including preaching, if you do not care deeply for people. 2 Corinthians 1-4 reveals a tenderhearted Apostle Paul caring deeply about the Corinthian believers and about how his harsh, corrective letters were being received by them. Your work as a church planter must be one of caring for people. Here is a minimum checklist of how to care for the people of a mission work:

Shepherd them

"I am the Good Shepherd, and I know my sheep," says Jesus in John 10:14. As a shepherd of a mission work, it is vital that you care for and protect an expanding flock of God's people. You must know who they are and where they are both physically and spiritually. Know what they do for a living and the location of their workplaces. Know the condition of their marriages and their family relationships. Know what provokes them and what encourages them. Know the needs of the little ones and the elderly ones in the church. Then use this shepherding knowledge to be there when they need you, to preach in such a way that they will understand you, and to encourage wisely and rebuke at just the right moment. But be aware that some in the flock have never experienced a shepherd's care, and they may resist it until they learn that your love and watching come from your desire to please the Lord Jesus.

Visit them

Spend time with them in their homes, as Paul did with the Ephesians, teaching from house to house (Acts 20:20). Get to know them where they live. Learn their strengths, their weaknesses, their preferences, and how they relate to others. Read the Scriptures and pray with them there. Encourage them and counsel them when they face difficult decisions. Visit them when they are in the hospital, and read the Scriptures and pray with them there. Generally spend time with them to give them a clear sense of your pastoral presence and love for them.

Pray for them

Your care for the people of the mission work must go beyond your knowledge of them and your presence with them. Praying for them is an absolute pastoral necessity, which cannot be neglected. It is just as much the work of a pastor as is the preparation and delivery of sermons. So develop a system to pray for each member and family of the mission work regularly. Make the system flexible enough so that new people can be added as the church grows. Also, make the time and do the praying, remembering that such unseen work that shows no immediate result is often tempting to omit from a busy schedule. And let the people of the mission work know that you are praying for them, not as a means to win their love, but to show them a pattern for what they need for their own spiritual well-being and for the blessing of the developing church.

Assimilate them

The word assimilation is often identified as a Church Growth technique. But it is really a Biblical concept when linked with that of caring for the flock. When God adds to the flock, as is anticipated often in the life of a new mission work, some important Scriptural dynamics come into play. The new sheep in the flock need to know when and where their feeding will take place. They need to know how the flock behaves when danger threatens. And because they are loved by the Good Shepherd, the other sheep of the flock need to be taught to accept and trust them. Assimilation is really just the constant work of seeing to the needs of the flock as the Good Shepherd enlarges it. A wise organizing pastor knows the addition of new families often poses a threat to the stability of the flock. But his care for people extends to assimilating new families fully into the life of the mission work and using their Spirit-given gifts to bless and further mature the developing body of Christ.

Be Concerned for What Is Believed

In Galatians 1:8, Paul says, "Even if we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed." It does not appear that Paul would advocate, in the name of reaching the lost, that we should soften the message and dilute the Reformed faith to only its most basic elements in order that it not be rejected. As the organizing pastor of a mission work, you must never compromise the truths which you hold dear in order to reach people, or you will have sold your birthright. Be bold and caring at the same time. Work out the best means of articulating the whole counsel of God both to those in the community and to those in the mission work. Here are three aspects of what it means to be concerned for what is believed in the life of a mission work:

Prepare well-balanced meals

The metaphor of pastor as shepherd is usually the one employed when discussion centers around feeding the people of God. But being a wise organizing pastor sometimes means being a good mother to God's children. Mom plans the menu well in advance and spends much time preparing both tasty and well-balanced meals. You must preach and teach the whole counsel of God and not just your interest or specialty. You must remember that your goal is to bring a young body of Christ to maturity, and that requires a healthy and well-rounded diet of teaching.

Be self-consciously Reformed

As a church planter, you must make it plain from the beginning of your preaching and teaching ministry that the rich doctrinal teaching of the Reformed faith is necessary in order to understand the Bible in all its fullness. Make the Westminster Confession of Faith available to your people and refer to it in your public ministry. Help them to memorize the Shorter Catechism. Let them know that being "Reformed" is being "Biblical." Introduce them to books about the doctrines of the Reformed faith, and let them know that it is not being sectarian, divisive, or unbiblical to be identified as a Reformed Christian.

Integrate your doctrinal standards into church life

As the organizing pastor of an Orthodox Presbyterian mission work, you already have a sound tradition of doctrinal beliefs to undergird its ministry. Your people do not have to spend months or years coming to conclusions about how to interpret the Bible. The Confession of Faith and Catechisms embraced by the OPC supply a framework of Biblical understanding that allows a mission work to be unified in its doctrinal belief from its earliest days. But if they are to have the time-honored beneficial effect they were intended to have, the OPC's doctrinal standards must be integrated into the life of the church. Refer to them in your sermons. Explain them when you visit in the homes of your people. Comment on portions of them in church bulletins and newsletters. Do all you can to help your people appreciate the rich doctrinal tradition they have inherited.

Reach Out to the Unsaved

The unchurched, the pre-Christians, the unbelievers, the pagans, or however they are referred to, are not Arminians, Baptists, dispensationalists, or charismatics. With these you do not have deep theological discussions to win them over to your way of baptizing. With these you talk about basic truths and ultimate issues. Do you believe God can change their hearts? Can He call an unbeliever tomorrow afternoon from darkness into light? Yes, He can! As a church planter, you should care deeply for those outside of Christ because they are candidates for the kingdom, just as you care deeply for those who are in Christ because they are members of the kingdom. In a marvelous book published in 1954, but now out of print, entitled Biblical Evangelism Today, Calvin Knox Cummings and John Murray put forth just this case. More will be said about this in Chapter 5. Here are three things you should keep in mind about outreach as a church planter:

Be in contact with the unconverted

It will be easy and tempting to spend all your time with believers. But you are also an ambassador of Christ, imploring men to be reconciled to God. That means you must intentionally and purposefully spend time with unbelievers, forming relationships with them, getting to know their needs and concerns, and earning the right to share your faith with them. You must have a plan and stick to it until it becomes a natural part of your ministry life. Your motive in this is to reach out to the unconverted out of love and concern because you are following the example and the instructions of the Lord Jesus.

Be clear that the issue of growth is faithfulness

If you are consistent and effective in spending time with unbelievers, the people of your mission work and other Christians will soon learn of it. You must be clear with yourself and with them about what you are doing. You are not doing this so that the church will have more people in attendance at worship services. Your activity of cultivating relationships with unbelievers does not have to do primarily with the growth of the church, but with being faithful to God.

Encourage others to follow your example

Reaching out to the unsaved is not just the responsibility of a pastor or a Christian leader. It is the responsibility of every believer to bear witness to the grace of Jesus Christ. So let your example serve to encourage others to do the same. Make clear to your people that not everyone in the church is called or gifted to be an evangelist, but that is not what this is about. Show them through your example the significance of being salt and light, and stress the importance of faithfulness rather than success.

Be Concerned for How Things Are Done

In the midst of addressing problems in the church in Corinth which appear to be far outside the norm of what we have come to expect today concerning Christian conduct and ecclesiastical practice, Paul makes two astounding statements in 1 Corinthians 14: "God is not a God of disorder but of peace" (verse 33), and, "Everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way" (verse 40). He was advancing a Biblical attitude that spoke to the servant-leaders of the church about their need for organizational skills and the personal character traits of integrity, propriety, and excellence. Such an attitude will be shown in today's Reformed church by a pastor and people who give attention to the details of public gatherings and show respect and consideration for people. As a church planter, you should be concerned about how things are done in the mission work in which you serve. Consider these aspects of public ministry which require your constant attention as an organizing pastor:

Worship decorum

One of the guiding principles of Reformed worship is that worshipers must understand what they are doing and why they are doing it. The regulative principle of worship, set forth in WCF XXI.1, requires that when God's people gather for worship, they are to be both active and knowledgeable. This manual makes no attempt to prescribe specific elements or circumstances of Reformed worship. But worship decorum is an important aspect of your work of establishing sound worship practice in a mission work. Here are three aspects of worship decorum that are important to consider from the earliest days of your work as an organizing pastor:

Plan worship carefully. From the salutation to the benediction, the parts of worship should be planned so that they fit together to form a dialogue between God and His people. Select with care the Scripture passages which will be read publicly, and practice reading them aloud. That which is sung should be chosen both for the content of the words and the appropriateness of the meter and the melody. Plan and order the petitions of your public prayers as carefully as you prepare your sermon. Make the time in your busy schedule for the planning of worship, just as you make the time for other important aspects of the conduct of your ministry.

Lead your people in worship. Knowledgeable, Reformed worship does not merely rely on an adopted order of service. The people of God should be carefully and wisely led in their worship by the one who has taken the time to plan and prepare for what will actually be read, heard, prayed, and sung. Consider it a privilege to lead your people in the worship of God, providing appropriate rubrics to announce the parts of worship and tie them together, and keeping them informed about the purpose of each thing that is done.

Speak and act appropriately in worship. As the OPC Directory for the Public Worship of God explains, "A service of public worship is in its essence a meeting of God and His people." So your leadership of the worship service must be done in such a way as to point the people of the mission work to God while avoiding calling attention to yourself. Your words should be chosen carefully. Grammar, voice inflection, and pronunciation all matter. Your movements and gestures should be measured and thought out beforehand. And your clothing should be chosen to reflect the care with which you have planned the worship service.

Printed materials

With the availability of today's computer technology, there is no excuse for poorly printed materials. But choosing the right words is still a difficult process, and creating an attractive format to blend with those words takes time. In a larger, more mature church, there are often gifted people who are assigned the task of ensuring that the congregation's printed materials are produced with quality and effectiveness. But in a mission work, the job of ensuring excellence in printed materials often falls to the organizing pastor. Since it is often difficult to decide how to convey necessary information in the right way, consider these suggestions for choosing the appropriate print format:

Church bulletins announce. Keep them factual and make sure people of all ages can read them. They are rarely kept for more than a few days, so their content should be written for immediate use. But they may be the only introduction to the ministry of the mission work that newcomers receive, so their design and format are important.

Letters inform. They convey both facts and explanations. Keep them concise and anticipate that they will be retained for several weeks. An attractive and informative letterhead is important.

Newsletters communicate philosophy. They serve both to announce events and ministries and also to express what the mission work is about. Because of this dual function, they must be carefully written, usually with the help of others. Since they are often retained for a month or more, their standard formatting should contain much factual information about the church.

Brochures convey purpose. They express to interested outsiders the aims and desires of the mission work. They should be written in such a way that outsiders can comprehend how the new church's aims and desires apply to them. And they should convey enough factual information to substitute for your business card. [Note: click here to see samples of attractive and effective printed materials from various mission works.]

Congregational communication

In the life of a maturing body of Christ, the need for good congregational communication is important and the opportunities for misunderstanding are many. As the organizing pastor of a mission work, you must work hard to ensure that communication is done well. Keep your people informed about decisions which have been made on their behalf by others. In the early days of a mission work, many such decisions are made by the borrowed elders. You must work hard to announce them carefully, both in writing and from the pulpit, so that misunderstanding will not arise. And it makes sense to continue this kind of informative communication throughout the life of the church. You should also structure venues for your people to discuss church life with you and the borrowed elders of the mission work. It is important to be able to talk through the issues of congregational development, officer training, and church decision making in a "town hall" kind of meeting, where matters can be discussed without the pressure of conducting a business meeting. This kind of congregational communication is an important aspect of building and preserving the peace and unity of the church.

Structuring productive meetings

Gathering for worship is not the only time the people of a mission work or their elders get together. Holding meetings to discuss, review, evaluate, or decide are routine parts of life for an organizing pastor. But often those meetings produce few results and much frustration. Here are some suggestions to consider when you have responsibility for leading or moderating a meeting:

Plan meetings carefully. Think through what needs to be accomplished and what actions will probably be taken. If possible, arrange the order of business so that quick, easy, and mutually agreeable decisions can be made near the beginning of the meeting. Allow enough time for the discussion of difficult questions, but do not hold all sensitive matters until the end of the meeting. Do not try to manipulate or control the meeting, but rather assist everyone in their decision making with a good meeting plan.

Allow time for new ideas to be evaluated. If you or someone else wants to make a proposal for something new to be undertaken, allow for a brief introductory discussion of the idea, but with no provision for a decision to be made on the matter. Then schedule further discussion on the matter at a later meeting. Good ideas often take time to gain mutual acceptance, and the implications of bad ideas often take time to assess. In either case, a decision on the matter is not harmed by waiting.

Summarize the decisions made at a meeting. At the close of a meeting, it is often helpful to note what has been decided. This provides attendees with a sense of accomplishment, and it clarifies what has to be done as a result of the meeting. In session meetings, this practice also allows all members to come together in ownership and articulation of their decisions.

Ensure that decisions are implemented. It is often assumed that the minutes are a sufficient reminder of what needs to be done as a result of the meeting. But following a meeting for which you have responsibility, it is wise to make a list of the actions taken and the decisions made. Then assign each item to yourself or to someone else for implementation.

Meeting place ambiance

The meeting place of a mission work is almost always a borrowed building. But during the time it is being used as your worship location, the room and its surroundings reflect directly on your theological commitments and your personal understanding of the nature and purpose of worship. As the organizing pastor, it will often fall to you to ensure that the functioning and the ambiance of the meeting place reflect the Reformed character of the mission work.

The room where worship is to be held should be carefully and neatly arranged. The chairs should not be crowded together, and locations for greeting people and displaying literature should be selected. Flowers and plants often help to make a stark facility a more hospitable location. Musical instrumentation in a rented facility often poses a significant challenge.

There are also other considerations concerning the use of borrowed or rented facilities for worship. External signs should identify the church's meeting location and should be large enough that their wording can be read from a distance. And there should be enough external signs so that some of them may be used to point visitors directly to the entrance of the facility. Internal signs should clearly mark all meeting
areas and rooms that are being used by the mission work. If child care of some sort is offered, whether it be a full nursery or a play area for children following worship, great care must be taken that it is well supervised, that parents know where to find their children, and that caregivers are screened and formally approved for their work. Additionally, restroom facilities need to be checked for cleanliness and serviceability during their time of use by the mission work. [Note: click here to find a list and descriptions of portable keyboards, sound systems, and recorded musical accompinament CDs and tapes that mission works have found useful over the past several years.]

Encourage the Church to Grow

The natural tendency for the conscientious Reformed pastor and session is to care for the flock they already have. They have counted their hundred sheep and know them well. And precisely because so much time and energy was spent to bring the straying ones back, they are not very enthusiastic about seeing their flock double in a decade. Reformed sessions and pastors must see numerical growth as something Biblical, vital, and necessary. As the organizing pastor of a mission work, it will be your job to keep before both the elders and the people the message of Ephesians 4:16, that Christ is causing the growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love. Biblical, numerical growth is something you must sincerely desire for the glory of God and for the sake of His kingdom here on earth. And you must be willing to do the extra work, to provide the extra hospitality and nurture, and to do the simple teaching that will be necessary to encourage the church to grow. Here are three things to consider in your role as the encourager of the numerical growth of your mission work:

Carefully analyze your harvest field

Your harvest field is the circumference of that geographic area surrounding your meeting location from which interested families and persons are likely to travel to visit your public services of worship. Remember that your harvest field overlaps with the harvest fields of many Bible-believing churches which the Lord is also using to gather in what He has planted and tended. These churches are not to be seen as "the enemy" or "the competition," but are to be accepted as part of God's harvest plan. While never compromising the consistency of your Reformed beliefs as you do your harvest field analysis, your focus should be on identifying and working to reach three distinct types of people in your harvest field. There are the misled, who have been exposed to wrong doctrinal teaching and need to know the truth. Then there are the underfed, who have never feasted on the depth of Reformed teaching. And there are the spiritually dead, who, though they may have a formal relationship to a church in your community, do not have a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Overcome the internal obstacles to growth

It will also be necessary for you to dispel misconceptions and fears about numerical growth within the body of believers. Some will argue that holding consistently to the doctrines of the Reformed faith prevents the church from growing and that small size is an indication of faithfulness. But the Scriptures do not teach such a concept. Rather, 1 Corinthians 3:5 teaches that God gives the increase. The size of a local church is God's business and not ours to determine. And others, fearing that numerical growth will result in a lack of spiritual care or pastoral attention, or suffering from a lack of desire for the growth that God may be providing, or believing that preaching is the only acceptable form of evangelism, will oppose ministries of outreach. You must state God's case clearly to those who oppose the proper, Biblical growth of the local church.

Lead the church to growth

Leading the church to growth means articulating the Bible's vision of a bountiful harvest and a growth in numbers that is caused by God. It also means articulating the Reformed faith's zeal that all people may know the truth. But all of this must be applied by making plans for the mission work to see itself as part of God's harvest storehouse, by taking concrete steps to reach out with the gospel, and by making provision for more people to become part of the church.

Manage Yourself and Your Family

The qualities and spiritual traits of an overseer expounded by Paul in 1 Timothy 3:1-7 must be abundantly evident in the life of a church planter. No amount of skill and education will be able to compensate for a lack of godly Christian character which is described in this passage. Nothing which this manual equips you to do as the organizing pastor of a mission work will prove effective without your prior preparation for, and continuing devotion to, your personal development as a man of God. Here are five aspects of personal management of yourself and your family which are vital to your effectiveness as a church planter:

Conduct your ministry with integrity

In order to understand and appreciate fully this aspect of personal character development, you are wise to observe it in the lives of godly ministers who are senior to you in years and experience. No amount of discussion on the topic of integrity in the ministry can replace the personal experience of watching godly servants of Christ react to trying situations of ministry with the demonstration of the character traits of 1 Timothy 3:1-7 and Titus 1:5-9. Conducting your ministry with integrity involves being a man who stands on principle, whose word can be relied on, who uses the Scriptures honorably and respectfully, and who has a clear conscience before God. And it will show itself in your ministry by your ability to shepherd the whole flock which Christ has entrusted to your care, including the weak and difficult ones.

Avoid impropriety, temptation, and sin

Following the godly example of mature Christian servants and learning to conduct your ministry with integrity also means that you will work hard to actively avoid sin and conscientiously refrain from practices that might lead you into temptation or compromise. The life of a Reformed pastor is one of constantly serving as an example to other believers. But this means that others will often assume that you have mastered sin and temptation in your own life, and you may even start to believe it yourself. The ministry is fraught with temptations and opportunities to stumble or to fall into grievous sin. It is imperative that you guard yourself from these. For instance, when visiting, counseling, or working with a woman, give serious consideration to doing so in the presence of her husband or when accompanied by your wife or other mature members of the congregation. Be very circumspect in your ministry to children, and ensure that others are always present when you are counseling or teaching them. Say no to the various forms of pornography that are available on the Internet and in your community. Paul's words to the Romans should speak to the heart of every man who ministers the gospel amid the temptations of the twenty-first century: "Clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature" (Romans 13:14).

Be a servant-leader

Jesus reminds us in Matthew 20:25-28 that our leadership style in the church is to be in contrast to the leadership style of the world--"Whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant." The church needs leaders who will set an example for people to follow, show the way through difficult circumstances, take responsibility for the care of Christ's flock, and hold firmly to sound Biblical principles of conduct and ministry. As the organizing pastor, you must serve in that leadership capacity or the mission work will falter. You must take the initiative and do what needs to be done when others are in doubt or unwilling to help. You must set a godly example and lead the people of the mission work to discover and operate on the basis of sound Presbyterian polity and Reformed doctrine. And you must ensure the sound ministerial and administrative functioning of the church. But the way you deliver that leadership makes all the difference. You must excel in service to your people, helping them to live godly and productive lives, and styling every aspect of your work as service to Christ on their behalf.

Manage your time well

The rigors of pastoral ministry are doubled for the organizing pastor. Not only do you have all the responsibilities of a pastor, but you must also care for all the necessary details of the initial structure and operation of a new church. As the organizing pastor of a mission work, the demand on your time will be significant. It will be imperative for you to keep a calendar and operate with a schedule. But being a wise manager of your time also means allowing for interruptions to alter that schedule, since it is not actually your time that you are managing, but the conduct of your ministry. Furthermore, it will be important for you to keep some form of a list of tasks and responsibilities and to incorporate them into the scheduling of your time. And finally, it will be vital for you to learn to distinguish between the things that are urgent and those that are really important as you budget the 168 hours in your ministry week.

Shepherd your family

Of all that is required of an organizing pastor, nothing is as important as utilizing all your shepherding skills in the care of your own family. You should consider your family to be your most treasured possession and their care to be your highest aim, as well as an opportunity to showcase the Reformed concept of covenant theology. If your family life is not sound and stable, your ministry and the mission work you serve will suffer. Spend time with your wife. Talk to her. Be her friend. Enjoy her company. Spend time with your children as well. Take an interest in their personal lives as well as their spiritual development. Be the spiritual head of your home and set the tone for your family in the love of God and the conduct of life. In order to do and be all these things, it will be necessary for you to take appropriate days off and vacation time. In the work of shepherding your family, you must do anything and everything necessary to care for their spiritual and physical well-being.

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Re: (ITS#6131) "TLSVerifyClient try" not working with GNU TLS

Kartik Subbarao wrote:
> Howard Chu wrote:
>> This bug report makes no sense; the code you quoted is not part of
>> OpenLDAP 2.4.16. The relevant code is in function tlsg_session_accept()
>> in tls_g.c, and there is no such bug in that function.
> Well, according to the CVS head branch, the code that I cited in tls.c
> is still there:
> http://www.openldap.org/devel/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/libraries/libldap/tls.c?rev=1.167&hideattic=1&sortbydate=0
> But I certainly defer to your knowledge of which code is relevant

Read the Makefile; tls.c is not used any more.

> -- I
> was just looking around for a possible explanation to the problem that
> I'm encountering.
> I double-checked the version that I was running and it's actually
> 2.4.15, not 2.4.16. Would there be a significant difference between
> these two versions with respect to TLS certificate handling?

Yes. Read the 2.4.16 CHANGES.

   -- Howard Chu
   CTO, Symas Corp.           http://www.symas.com
   Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
   Chief Architect, OpenLDAP  http://www.openldap.org/project/

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Re: Using third party code - copyright issues?

Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:

I do not see any copyright issue here. But we should chat
about whether we need this, and why, given the lutil_uuid
routines. Also, I might have some concerns with moving
entryUUID out of the frontend. Such discussion, however,
we likely should move to the developer's list.

Sure. I'm not concerned about moving entryUUID generation/handling out of the frontend; I need a means to create repeatable and "reasonably unique" entryUUID values from other unique data, something like the uuid_create_from_name() in <http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.txt>. I want to put it in the module where I plan to use it because I'm not sure it would be of general usefulness, but if it does, liblutil will likely be the most appropriate place.

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Re: PAM/LDAP performance problem

begin  Stefan Brohs quotation:
>Both, user lookup and password lookup seem to search the whole LDAP
>directory without using indexes (slapd takes 99% CPU for the time in
>question), even though they exist on almost all attributes (cn, uid,
>uidnumber, gid, gidnumber, etc.). Since ldapsearch is answering within

There's one item that it's looking for by attribute name and it's not
finding it

(this one got me bad), it's searching for some attribute  that has no
value assigned to it anywhere in the directory.  If no value is assigned
anywhere in the directory, no index gets created for that attribute even
though you have an index defined in slapd.conf.

Start slapd with a debug level -1 and you'll see exactly what it's
searching for.  Shut down the server, modify the slapd.conf for the
index, reindex the directory with slapindex (possibly having to do the
dummy record like I did above), and then restart the server.

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granting/denying access based on client ip address

hi , everybody

IS there a way to grant/deny access to your ldapserver

based on client ip address??
- ACL
I wanted to block machine from
accessing the ldap server:

access to *
 by addr="" none

But I still could retrieve information by running
ldapsearch on  machine , by using the
rootdn to bind to the ldap server.

Let say I only wanted machines and to be able to access the ldapserver,
all other machines should be denied access.

What are the ACL?

Let say i wanted to block network,allow
access for network

what are the ACL?

- TCPwrappers:
a quote:"TCP-Wrappers is another security enhancement
package. The theory is that you take programs being
run under inetd (see /etc/inetd.conf) and before you
run the program to do the real work (ftpd, telnetd,
etc...), you first run the connection attempt through
a package that checks to see if the IP address of the
source packet is coming from a host known to be either
good or bad (you may filter connection attempts by
source host name, domain name, raw IP address, port
they are attempting to connect to; and either allow
known good connections through thus refusing unknown
connections, or accept all connections except those
known to be bad)."

TCPwrappper is not such a good idea since it means
that you don't have a standalone slapd daemon , thus
performance goes down.

thanks in advance.

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Nelson, Robert$38,18220
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Armstrong Printery$5,0881
Capitol Hill Club$4,44014
KBF Print Technology$4,0052
Front Porch Strategies$3,6541
Hope Enterprises$3,2183
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 I've been spending a lot of time lately redoing the website.

 When I started this site, it was just a way to provide some technical details about the jDUL/DUDE tool. I needed a quick jumpstart of a website. The easiest way to do that, is to buy a Frontpage html template (which are offered by a gazillion sites), and upload that to a cheap hosting/provider. Actually, I only did the 'History' page because I otherwise had to throw one of the template's pages out. I think I all did that within 30minutes and in total costed me 25$.

 It all went so fast because the website was not a priority - I had to get things moving. In fact, the whole company (ORA600) was setup within half a day (I was pretty chuffed about that - when starting a small company in Belgium there's almost no red tape anymore). For the first 2,5years I did all the financials myself... which I utterly hated. (someone give me an MBA for this ). Anyway ... the jDUL/DUDE tool ... that was and still is the focus.

 When looking back, it's - ahum - a miracle we got ORA600 off the ground. It was the opening of the Miracle brewery that triggered the startup...

 Back then, I had no interest whatsoever in the Oracle community. I've lost my mother in 2003 (after loosing my dad 5y earlier). I did not have any brothers and sisters - and so I had decided that I should enjoy life and not wait for retirement. I had thought about it for a long time when I told my boss at AXI that I wanted to work only 4 days a week anymore. Mind you, I was only 28, 29y old - I expected him to say that I could look for another job (and I had a job in mind - the banking and insurance business is always throwing with large amounts of vacation days ). But no, he accepted and I haven't regretted it yet (this year is my 10th year at AXI). Just to say - I wasn't really eager to start a company on the side.

 What I said above about the Oracle community is not entirely true. I wrote some open source tools - and got a paper/presentation approved for the Oracle Openworld in Berlin, 2001. The topic of the presentation was about Oracle Parallel Server and single instance databases. My luck was that 2001 was the year Oracle launched RAC - so my paper got selected (I was smart enough to put some buzzwords like cache fusion in the abstract). In actual fact, the conclusion of the presentation was that you only needed OPS/RAC if one big SMP box is not big enough and if you used it, watch out for scalability issues in your application. Funny enough, by the time I started doubting my own theory, I stumbled upon a paper called 'You probably don't need RAC' by Mogens Norgaard. I had no idea who he was, but I contacted him because I couldn't find the  RAC benchmark by Mario Broodbakker he mentions in the paper.

 Another year later, 2004, I buy this book 'Oracle Insights : Tales of the Oak Table' from Amazon (I used to buy a *lot* of books back then). I've already had a quite complete jDUL version - I used it now and then on databases from people who contacted me. The problem was - I needed more people I could trust to test jDUL. The tool itself was controversial and I couldn't just give it to anyone. Now I'm really bad with names, but after reading that book, I realised (it took me a while) I had already had exchanged some mails with this Mogens character. So I thought, why not let him and his buddies play around with jDUL. I contacted him and he was interested - in fact, he cc'd Peter Gram (also from Miracle and ex-Oracle), who had tried to create a DUL like tool in the past. Those were not the words I was looking for and just blew things off. (mind you that jDUL is written in java and can be easely decompiled to it's source code - I was and still am very protective about the source code).

 Fast forward another - 2005. I get a call at my office - Mogens Norgaard. He asks if I can recover a database for him and asks about the rate. Back then I agreed on recoveries, only if you uploaded the datafiles and within a limit of 15Gb.  I did the recoveries basicaly for free as they were excellent test cases. Mogens refuses the 'free' part and says he can not accept that. I found that a bit strange at the moment - I now know better, and people knowing Mogens, know he's made out of a different kind of wood then most other people. In the end we agreed that he either would give me a free seat to Miracle's next masterclass (which was Steve Adams in Utrecht - i think) or we would discuss later on how we could colaborate.

 I probably would have taken the free masterclass if it wasn't for the grand opening of the Miracle Brewery. My cousin Wim is a micro brewer. In Belgium, everybody has a cousin who either makes beer or wine as a hobby or (semi-)professional. And I used to work for a brewery (Primus Haacht) as a student. (it's not part of InBev mind you!) Needless to say we were both interested in seeing the brewery. And as Mogens promised to set us up at Lasse's place it was only natural that Wim, me and Els (then girlfriend - now wife) would go on a roadtrip. I had this gps system back then - a pioneer AVIC X1. I trusted it blindly - unfortunately, the brewery is located in a street called 'strandvej' or basically 'beachroad' ... apparently, there are a lot streets called 'strandvej' near the beach even within the same village... I think Lasse will still remember the trouble he had guiding us in !

 Anyway - the opening itself was pretty cool - lots of beer of course. And the beer was quite good. Much to our surprise, because it's not normal that a recipe is good on the first batch. So kudos to Lasse. As you can see from the picture above - my cousing Wim had the time of his life . I had no idea what Mogens looked like and we only got to talk business later in the evening. I think we were both drunk and the conversation was quite short (I only needed an answer to one question really). Anyway I had met Lasse and Mogens face to face and that was enough for me to go for it. (beer is an excellent catalyst) So that day was quite defining and quite unexpected.

 That's the reason I went with the simple web presence - it was all quite sudden. So after 3 years, I think it's fair to say it was time for a make over. I took the original Frontpage theme and turned it into a Drupal theme. Drupal is a CMS with its origine in Belgium. It's database driven - I could have used OracleXE, but I didn't (I could have even used APEX, but I didn't). I went with mysql instead. Maybe I'll blog about it later. The major reason for going the Drupal road is that it's :

open source

there are a million modules available to do just about anything

php based - and I needed to write a whole partner module for generating licenses and customer/partner management

most people use Wordpress

 The last thing that was missing was a blog ... this whole web 2.0 thing sure got fired up the last 3years so maybe it's time I jump that wagon too. You'll probably find some recovery war stories here in the future... but what you probably will not find here are whole replicas of Oracle manuals (that's not why I read blogs). Anyway - I won't be writing any hardcore dry technical content ... I do that enough already during the day.

 I guess that's enough for now - time to get back to the real world.

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Folks planning to attend the Beaverton School Board meeting tonight should expect a crowd as supporters of Westview High teacher Bert Stafford fill the room to make their case to keep the popular teacher.

Stafford lost his job today after failing to take the required college coursework to renew his teaching license. Stafford and his supporters, mostly students, plan to argue that there should be an option other than termination when a teacher fails to renew his license.

Stafford received a wealth of support in an unscientific online poll created by The Beaverton Leader. Asked if the Beaverton School District should give Stafford unpaid leave to fulfill his licensure requirements or fire him, the vast majority supported Stafford.

Of 1,197 people who took the reader survey, 87 percent voted to give him the time to finish his requirements. About 11 percent said he should be fired.

Stafford, who was sent reminders from Teacher Standards and Practices Commission starting in 2003, said he misunderstood the requirements and thought he had met them with AP seminars. Stafford, who has taught for about 10 years, has asked for unpaid leave to give him time to meet the requirements and renew his license.

The board will listen to comments Monday night but is not scheduled to make a decision on Stafford’s situation. The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. at the district office, 16550 SW Merlo Road.

After the public comment time the board will discuss the following:

Bond - Superintendent Jeff Rose is expected to recommend the list of 27 construction bond projects to the board, which will make a final decision on the bond. The board will also decide whether to place the bond on the May 20 ballot. According to school district information, Rose will ask the board to include $250,000 for musical instruments across the district.

Report cards – The board will learn the results of a grading and reporting survey of parents gathered after report cards went home.

Music Task Force - The board will receive an update from the district’s new established Music Task Force on the state of music in Beaverton and recommendations for improvement.

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A program at Mt. Hood Community College prepares students for careers in the funeral industry. Last week, students participated in a program that taught them how to make funeral arrangements with a bereaved family member. They also take their turns in the embalming room, practicing on real bodies. Watch the video below:

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After all these years of "Project Runway," one thing has become clear. There are designers who can only make formal wear, and turn every challenge into an excuse to make a gown or a party dress. And then there are others, who can't design a red carpet look to save their lives.

That fateful split played out yet again in Thursday's episode, when the designers were challenged to create a red carpet look for Heidi Klum to wear to the 2014 Creative Arts Emmys. Some designers instantly went to their happy place. Others -- including Oregonian-turned-Brooklynite Korina Emmerich -- were worried, because red carpet looks were miles out of their comfort zone.

Turned out, there were plenty of reasons to be apprehensive, as several of the designers flamed out with their fancy looks. And that meant facing the Wrath of Heidi, which we all know can be a bone-chilling experience.

(Let's pause here for a spoiler alert. If you haven't yet watched the episode and want to be surprised, be warned I'm going to be talking about who won and who lost.)

Heidi starts out by telling the designers she wants a look that reflects their individual vision, while also incorporating Heidi's sense of style, which she describes as unexpected, fashion forward and fearless.

Designers were given $250 to buy fabric at Mood -- Swatch sighting alert! -- and they only had one day to whip up this dazzling creation.

"I don't want to be safe anymore," says Korina in one of her many talking-to-the-camera moments. Be careful what you wish for, Korina. Those finishing in the middle of the pack results are going to feel pretty good by the time this episode is over.

Korina's thinking a green dress with a mermaid skirt for Heidi. But when Heidi and Tim Gunn visit the workroom, Heidi isn't pleased. She hates the shade of green Korina has chosen. Heidi even busts out her German to dish with her fellow German, Fade, about the shade reminding them of something a German hunter would wear.

Which isn't a good thing. "Don't start crying about it," Heidi says, giving Korina a  stern look. "Don't be sad about it. Make it work."

But Korina isn't the only one to feel the big freeze. Heidi gets an eyeful of Sandhya's gleaming, peacock-feathered creation, and compares it to something from "Dynasty."

There's so much that's not right, Heidi and Tim tell the designers they can go back to Mood with another $100 to buy more fabric. But they don't get any more time, so the deadline is coming right up.

Still thinking green, Korina buys some emerald green, traditional gown fabric, that looks dowdy. Sandhya has shrewdly gotten more money to spend, asking the designers who don't return to Mood if she can use their allotted $100 budgets. She buys luxury, expensive fabrics.

With only a few hours to create something new, Korina's not in good shape, and neither are some of her fellow designers when it's time for the runway show. Heidi, Zac Posen, Nina Garcia and guest judge Lindsey Vonn decide the top three are Sean, making a big comeback from last week with a royal blue fringed dress that's stylish and fun; Amanda (who has immunity) who once again impresses the judges with something that looks -- to me, at least -- like a messy, beaded, bohemian creation; and Kini, the fastest sewer in the West, who makes an Old Hollywood-inspired black dress with body-defining sequins, and a sexy bare back.

Sean is the deserving winner. So much for the good news.

The bottom three: Korina, for a green halter gown that's just limp; Mitchell, for a messy red creation; and Kristine for another red dress with a ghastly top that Zac refers to as "a boob canyon."

The judges all hate Korina's dress, which they dismiss as "so old lady," "a boring, simple, Mother of the Bride dress" with "cliche ideas." Ouch.

But when the hammer comes down, Korina is safe, "barely," as Heidi says. Mitchell is out. And so is Kristine, for her dress Zac calls "unwearable."

Korina is shaken up by finishing in the bottom, and knowing she deserved to be there. It's "miserable and embarrassing," she says.

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3-6-09 -- Yesterday I wrote a review for the Wednesday night Factor, I gave credit to O'Reilly for nailing Obama on his earmarks promise, and I made a big mistake. It just goes to show that O'Reilly is a dishonest jerk of a right-wing liar. And nothing he says can ever be believed, especially when he is talking about a Democratic president.

O'Reilly aired a clip of President Obama stating, "We are going to ban all earmarks, the process by which individual members insert pet projects without review," which O'Reilly falsely characterized as "President Obama pledging last January to end earmarks in FEDERAL SPENDING."

Later in the show, referring to earmarks included in the omnibus appropriations bill, O'Reilly stated, "But Obama's on record -- we just played the clip -- that he's going to do away with this. And then he takes 9,000 of them and signs it?"

In fact, in the January 6th clip O'Reilly played, Obama was referring to his desire to "ban all earmarks" from his "recovery and reinvestment plan," which he specifically distinguished from "the overall budget process."

Billy cherry picked the Obama statement, and only played the part he wanted you to see, then misrepresented what he was talking about. And you know he did it on purpose because he had the video, all of it. Then he only played it at the part where Obama said he would ban all earmarks. So he partially quoted Obama and used it to lie about what he meant.

If someone does that to O'Reilly he screams bloody murder, and calls them low life scum who should not be allowed to have a job in journalism. Then he does the exact same thing, talk about a fraud, he is a massive fraud, and a hypocrite. And how many times did O'Reilly take a cherry picked partial quote from Bush, then misrepresent what he said, never, not once in 8 years. But Obama is president 6 weeks and he is already doing it, if that's not a perfect example of bias from O'Reilly I dont know what is.

Here is most of the full statement from Obama, the part O'Reilly dishonestly failed to show you.
OBAMA: But we're not going to be able to expect the American people to support this critical effort unless we take extraordinary steps to ensure that the investments are made wisely and managed well. And that's why my recovery and reinvestment plan will have -- will set a new higher standard of accountability, transparency, and oversight.

We are going to ban all earmarks, the process by which individual members insert pet projects without review.
O'Reilly is just the latest right-wing hack to misrepresent Obama's statements regarding earmarks to then accuse Obama of breaking his promise. During his presidential campaign, Obama actually promised to REFORM the earmark process and cut wasteful spending, not ELIMINATE earmarks.

That is 100% proof that O'Reilly is a biased and dishonest right-wing fraud, he edited that clip on purpose to misrepresent what Obama promised so he could make it look like he broke a promise to the American people, when he did no such thing. This is really low, even for O'Reilly, and he did it to the president, O'Reilly misrepresented what the president said, and did it on purpose. After this he can not even claim to be a journalist, or complain about bias from other journalists, he's a low life partisan hack, not a journalist.

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DETROIT — Theo Spight wears a Lions hard hat, a jersey numbered "00" and after every touchdown scored by the home team at Ford Field, he grabs a microphone behind the end zone, and thrusts his deep voice into "Gridiron Heroes," the Lions' fight song.

Spight needs approximately 40 seconds to reach the end of each performance. Yet for a stretch of the second quarter Sunday, it would have been easy to think he somehow got stuck on loop.

Forward down the field! A charging team that will not yield …

Over and over again.

In a span of 11 minutes, 1 second, the Lions dumped 24 consecutive points on the Bears, turning an early 10-6 deficit into a commanding three-score lead. That tsunami carried the Lions to an all-too-easy 40-32 victory.

And if the Bears spent much of their afternoon dizzied by Reggie Bush's open-field moves and Jay Cutler's four turnovers, Spight's repetitive encores had to further the agitation.

"This is the NFL," cornerback Tim Jennings said. "Any time you give a home team that momentum and that confidence, they're going to be tough to beat."

The Bears' bid for a perfect September went off the rails early in the second quarter. After running back Matt Forte provided a 10-6 lead with a 53-yard touchdown dash, the Lions erupted.

There was Bush darting through the middle of the Bears defense, spinning and juking and gliding through openings on his way to 139 rushing yards.

Then came safety Glover Quin veering under an underthrown Cutler deep ball for an interception and returning it 42 yards to the Bears' 2.

And if you had forgotten about the Matthew Stafford-Calvin Johnson combination, that, too, was showcased with a 2-yard touchdown pass on a perfectly executed fade route against Charles Tillman.

Johnson's touchdown came just 22 seconds after Stafford scored on a 1-yard keeper and 3:04 before Bush slithered free for his nifty 37-yard score, blazing past Cornelius Washington, hurdling safety Major Wright, then outrunning Jennings and Tillman to the end zone.

By halftime, the Lions had 260 yards, 17 first downs and 30 points.

"We fit some runs up wrong," linebacker James Anderson said. "We were missing tackles. We can't do that as a defense."

That emphasis the Bears so often place on limiting big plays with the always-dangerous Johnson lurking? It's not so easy when Bush can jet about underneath.

The Lions running back had 136 of his 173 yards from scrimmage by halftime, contributing a half-dozen double-digit gains on 15 first-half touches.

"As you saw, it's going to be a tough day anytime their running back is on," Jennings said. "He's able to create missed tackles. He's a hard back to bring down. He's explosive, he catches balls out of the backfield. He brings the element they need to get this team going."

Cutler, meanwhile, left Ford Field fully aware that his four biggest errors were far too costly. Those turnovers led to 17 Lions points and it was difficult to identify which giveaway was most egregious.

Chalk up the first interception to the quickness and instincts of Louis Delmas, who ripped the ball from Alshon Jeffery on an 11-yard pass over the middle.

But Quin's pick? That, Cutler asserted, was an underthrown back-footed pass on a play in which he thought Brandon Marshall had gained separation up the sideline.

The third interception came on a pass that sailed 6 feet over Jeffery's head.

"Throws I'm accustomed to making and usually make," Cutler said. "I've just got to make them."

And his third-quarter fumble, caused by Ndamukong Suh and returned 4 yards by Nick Fairley for a win-sealing touchdown? That came after Cutler waited so long for something to come open after his initial three-step drop that Suh had time to shed a block by Kyle Long, then loop around the right side of the Bears' line to deliver a jarring hit.

Cutler directed no blame toward his line for that error.

"They think the ball's going to be away pretty quickly," he said.

The Bears hope the sting of Sunday's stumble will fade quickly. In a dejected postgame locker room, several players talked about having a "short memory" while still zeroing in on the flood of miscues that surfaced Sunday.

"We go make corrections," Anderson said, "and we go back to work."

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I greatly appreciate the level of detail and number of sources that you provided in the article. Its a welcome change of the usual procedure. However, some stats are better than others. I largely agree with the conclusions, but some of the arguments leading up to them are a bit off.

One example: Citing the many predictions that feature phones will be killed off as a possible sign that smart phones will also affect laptop sales. If you give a feature phone and a smart phone to an average joe,and ask them which is which, You might only get the right answer 60% of the time. Try that with laptop and a smart phone and I bet that figure would clime to close to 90%. There is a real, obvious difference between them that points towards a difference in use cases.

But if you were to survey actual users to determine their computing use cases, you might learn that the majority of users who's use cases were being met with a laptop could be better met with a smart phone. I said might, because I haven't done the research and don't know of any reliable source that has. But, that would build a more convincing argument for the conclusion. As it is, I even find it a better argument than the very substantial and reputable statistic of feature phone replacement.

There are a bunch of similar spots of logic in there, don't have time to list em all. But good job none the less, you've obviously put some serious thought and research into this and I think the conclusions are very valid: Microsoft missed the mobile boat.

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Google "Google Chrome OS is designed around the concept of "expendable" terminals that you can lose, drop or simply throw away without fear of losing your data, which is safely stored into the cloud. [However, one] thing is certain, with all your data being available into the cloud, in one place, available 24/7 through a fast internet link, this will be a goldmine for cybercriminals. All that is necessary here is to get hold of the authentication tokens required to access the cloud account."
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The Cloud -- great for document collaboration and sharing, free software like Google Docs, no worries for me about backups, and other advantages.

But also The Cloud -- who knows where your data is stored or who can see it? Security and backups may be well handled or not... it's not longer in your power to control them. And as far as using Google for the Cloud... their entire business plan is based on using other peoples' data (OPD).

The Cloud is great for many informal uses. But the companies and individuals who naively use it without probing -- deeply -- about specifics are taking big chances.

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Linux "For years now, Linux has been a black sheep standing in the shadow of Apple and Microsoft. Despite having a fervent and enthusiastic following, the operating system hasn't been able to grab a sizable share of the computing market and has instead been content to subsist on the customers that come away dissatisfied with the mainstream competition. But that may be about to change. With the release of Microsoft Windows 8 on the horizon, some are saying Linux may have a great opportunity to steal a significant share of the market away from Microsoft, allowing it to finally take the helm as a major operating system service provider." This has to stop, and the only reason I'm linking to this nonsense is to make this very clear: Linux will not magically conquer the desktop or even make any significant gains because of Windows 8. People who don't like Windows 8 (Vista) will continue to use Windows 7 (Windows XP). This is getting so tiring. And does it even matter? Linux is winning big time in the mobile space, server space, and countless other spaces. The desktop is and always has been irrelevant to Linux.
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RE[5]: X Sucks
by Valhalla on Wed 29th Aug 2012 13:13 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: X Sucks"
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So you have 50 guys, dealing with everything from the kernel on up being constantly futzed with, and you have 10,000 drivers and a release every 6 months to a year...see the problem?

First of all, the developers are not testing all the drivers/hardware, others are testing the hardware they have and report problems upstream.

Secondly you don't seem to understand what an ABI is, it's an interface, a change to that interface means that in the majority of cases all it takes is a tweak to the driver source code, you sound as if the driver functionality needs to be rewritten.

And third, just because the ABI isn't stable doesn't mean it changes all the time and force kernel devs to make those small changes in drivers. And just so that you understand what we are talking about here, it's in-kernel interfaces, not the userspace->kernel interface, which is very stable.

Finally, the stability of a driver does not lie in the ABI, you can make changes to the ABI with every minor revision with a perfectly stable driver as a result.

And unlike Windows and OSX, Linux needs to run on a wide range of cpu architectures, many for which hardware device vendors have little to no interest in providing proprietary drivers, however due to the amazing in-tree driver support of Linux these cpu architectures enjoys great hardware support.

Proprietary drivers is a moronic concept, it creates an artificial barrier preventing you from using the hardware you've purchased in the environment of your choice and instead you are beholden to the good will of the hardware vendor to 'allow' you to use the hardware where they see fit.

Therefore it's so great to see not only that the holdouts are practically extinct (NVidia), and that discrete GPU's are being obsoleted from the end user desktop and replaced by gpgpu's with fully open source drivers which means there's suddenly every possibility of a future where you can get full use of your graphics hardware no matter if you use Linux, BSD's, Haiku, insert favourite alternative OS here

And for those who still use discrete GPU's there are alternatives like Nouveau which has made incredible progress in a very short amount of time through nothing but painstaking reverse engineering and skill.

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That doesn't prevent you from reporting the bug. If you don't, it's never likely to be fixed.

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Google Is Android still open now that Google has postponed the source code release of Honeycomb, version 3.0 of the mobile operating system? I've been reading a whole boatload of articles and blog posts on the web claiming Android is no longer open, but it seems like very few people seem to actually understand what 'open' really means when it comes to the GPL and the Apache license. Here's a short primer.
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They can also restrict access to the services and repositories to only official Android release not child forks. Do like Canonical did; "fork our distro all you like just don't claim it's an Ubuntu and don't use our repositories"

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April 16, 2013 - North American Soccer League (NASL) - FC Edmonton

Edmonton, Alberta (April 16, 2013) - FC Edmonton continue to finish off their roster after the first two games of the 2013 NASL season.

Central midfielder Robert Garrett signed with the FC Edmonton team on Saturday, on loan from Northern Ireland side Linfield, and needed to pass a medical before officially joining the team.

The 24-year-old completed the medical this morning and will be introduced to the team at training today.

Garrett joined Linfield FC in 2008 after a few years at Stoke City and Wrexham in England. It was also in 2008 when Garrett received his first call up to the Northern Ireland U21 team. After 15 appearances with the side, he graduated to the senior Northern Ireland side in 2009.

It won't take very long for Garrett to settle in to the Eddies side - fellow ex-Linfield players Daryl Fordyce and Albert Watson will make him feel at home and help to introduce him to North American soccer.

"I'm a good friend of Robert's I played with him for a long time," said current Eddie striker Daryl Fordyce.

Fordyce played with Garrett for the last year and a half at Linfield.

"He's a very good player," he added. "He works hard and is an excellent central midfielder."

Garrett will train with the team this week before they head off to Minnesota for April 20. He will be available for selection.

FC Edmonton is training in Spruce Grove today at Fuhr Sports Park. Training times are 10:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

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