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Don't turn on ftp *ever* - use scp.

And instead of anonymous FTP? Is there anonymous scp, or should I be using HTTP for world-readable files anyway?

DSL users have to live practically next door (within 12,000 ft) to the local telephone monopoly. What other broadband Internet access choice is there other than the local cable monopoly?
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I don't know about RAR vs. BZ2, but they're both a lot tighter than ZIP.
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• The .gz format was created because free software couldn't get a Unisys patent license for the LZW algorithm at the core of the .Z format and because Phil Katz's deflation algorithm.
• The .ogg format was created because free software couldn't get a Fraunhofer patent license for the MPEG layer 3 algorithm at the core of the .mp3 format and because the xiph.org people had a better algorithm.

There's a link to Cecil Adams's Straight Dope on gerbil and hamster stuffing at my Hampsterdeath page.
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There's a link to Cecil Adams's Straight Dope on gerbil and hamster stuffing at my Hampsterdeath page.
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First there was Hampsterdance, then GUWAME Hampsterdeath, now this? Damn.

First there was Hampsterdance, then GUWAME Hampsterdeath, now this? Damn.

the artist formerly known as O(+> ?
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Do freeservers.com banners and tripod.com popups count as ads for these purposes?
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The statute is 17 USC 504
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...have little if any legal force. The legal force of a patent is concentrated in its "claims." IANAL but I have studied patent law if only to figure out how to create a game that infringes Nintendo's U.S. Patent 5,265,888 on the game of Dr. Mario.
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...have little if any legal force. The legal force of a patent is concentrated in its "claims." IANAL but I have studied patent law if only to figure out how to create a game that infringes Nintendo's U.S. Patent 5,265,888 on the game of Dr. Mario.
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All the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) lacks that Adobe Photo$hop has is robust color management. Plugin anyone?
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So how, in a civil action, does the copyright owner establish an entitlement to other than nominal damages?

You apparently fail to realize that "nominal damages" is anywhere from $500 to $150,000 plus all equipment used in the infringement. And if certain conditions are met, the damages can be trebled. How would you like paying a $500,000 bill?

Users have no need to switch from CDs because the 16-bit 44.1 KHz waveforms stored on a CD are (to human ears) 100% noiseless. Dogs OTOH...
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Here, in the good old U. S. S. of A.,* in the great State of Indiana, in Allen County, there is an Allen County Public Library that lends software. Seems libraries are allowed to do this under Federal copyright law. This is also the justification for the "digital libraries" known colloquially as w4r3z sites: their "due date" is 24 hours after the download.)

I've programmed in 6502 assembly on both Apple II and NES, and I've looked at a Game Boy ROM (Game Boy uses a Z80-compatible CPU, and only once have I ever seen a string written backwards. It was "DISK VOLUME BARSBAIT" in the old Apple II DOS 3.3. Try editing some legal NES ROMs with a hex editor.
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I've programmed in 6502 assembly on both Apple II and NES, and I've looked at a Game Boy ROM (Game Boy uses a Z80-compatible CPU, and only once have I ever seen a string written backwards. It was "DISK VOLUME BARSBAIT" in the old Apple II DOS 3.3. Try editing some legal NES ROMs with a hex editor.
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What is the Pr that FascDot killed?
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I saw a YesMail opt-in form at the 50megs.com sign up. AFAIK, YesMail is an opt-in newsletter.
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YesMail is an opt in service.
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The only thing that really sucks about this is that the byte order is still backwards Intel legacy crap.

But is little-endian (LSB first) really backwards? That's how bytes are sent over a serial port (low bit first). Little-endian is also the standard on the popular 6502 and Z80 CPUs in embedded systems and in the popular Game Boy handheld console (think Handspring Visor without the pen input). x86 asm coders seem to think the way 68000 and friends do it is bass-ackwards.

Microsoft has already abandoned DOS totally

But the embedded market hasn't. Neither have these guys. And the FreeDOS Project is even creating a GPL'd DOS clone.

GNU Lesser GPL was designed to allow code sharing between copylefted software (e.g. the Free IM clients) and proprietary software (e.g. AIM).
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• Many of the games at the Allegro Games Depot recompile fine on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and UNIX® systems, provided you install the Allegro library.
• Want Tetris®? You won't get it, but you will get an exact clone along with six other games in freepuzzlearena. (This also needs Allegro.)
• Head over to Zophar.net for an NES emulator to run on your GNU, BSD, or UNIX system. Grab some free(beer/speech) software here and here. If you're not satisfied, get some i11ega1 ROMz at Tobbe's.

• Many of the games at the Allegro Games Depot recompile fine on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and UNIX® systems, provided you install the Allegro library.
• Want Tetris®? You won't get it, but you will get an exact clone along with six other games in freepuzzlearena. (This also needs Allegro.)
• Head over to Zophar.net for an NES emulator to run on your GNU, BSD, or UNIX system. Grab some free(beer/speech) software here and here. If you're not satisfied, get some i11ega1 ROMz at Tobbe's.

• Many of the games at the Allegro Games Depot recompile fine on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and UNIX® systems, provided you install the Allegro library.
• Want Tetris®? You won't get it, but you will get an exact clone along with six other games in freepuzzlearena. (This also needs Allegro.)
• Head over to Zophar.net for an NES emulator to run on your GNU, BSD, or UNIX system. Grab some free(beer/speech) software here and here. If you're not satisfied, get some i11ega1 ROMz at Tobbe's.

Do NOT say www.SPAM.com when referring to bad advertising practices. The domain "SPAM.com" is registered to Hormel Foods Corp, and so is the trademark "SPAM" luncheon meat.
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SPAM Luncheon Meat is a Hormel product. Here's Hormel's official position of use of the term "spam" to refer to unsolicited bulk mail.
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The abstract, background, and preferred embodiment sections of a patent have little if any legal force. Only the claims define the scope of the patent. And my Dr. Mario clone (like all Dr. Mario clones) falls well within the claims of Nintendo's patent 5,265,888 on Dr. Mario.

The abstract, background, and preferred embodiment sections of a patent have little if any legal force. Only the claims define the scope of the patent. And my Dr. Mario clone (like all Dr. Mario clones) falls well within the claims of Nintendo's patent 5,265,888 on Dr. Mario.

Since the pages can be retrieved with special (CGI based I think) URLs, they could probably be indexed by standart search engines

Many search engines (such as webcrawler) automatically throw out all URLs containing a ? because they don't want to waste the resources to index CGI.

By "footprint" did they mean "getting Mozilla to run properly in a GNOME desktop without crashing"? Guess they should add "sprocket" also for KDE.

By "footprint" did they mean "getting Mozilla to run properly in a GNOME desktop without crashing"? Guess they should add "sprocket" also for KDE.

Every time I try to type mode co80 at the logos.sys (It is now safe to switch off your computer) screen, my computer always loses power before I can finish typing.
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What if your hd is formatted FAT32? AFAIK, DR DOS won't be able to read it.
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I tried this. But no matter how fast I try to type, my computer always loses power before I can finish typing it.
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Intel 8086 in the old XT is a 16-bit CPU. When I want to run 8-bit processes (read: NES games), I pull out LoopyNES on my Pentium laptop.
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Look ^^^ up ^^^ a few comments to #73.
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There is an NES game floating around that pits a GNOME mascot against a KDE mascot in a vicious game of Bingo.
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There is an NES game floating around that pits a GNOME mascot against a KDE mascot in a vicious game of Bingo.
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You now have an IP address with which to do what you will: spamming, DDoS/SlashDoS, etc.
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With inexpensive ($2 ea) CDRW media, you can erase and rewrite the media. Good for development (it's like the EPROMs used in cartridge game development) but also good for piracy. Rent a game, burn it, play it for a month without paying late fees. Rent another game, burn it, play it for half a year. Also replace "rent" with "borrow from a friend".
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The ConScript Registry is defining meanings for character codes in Unicode's private use area. Tengwar, Klingon, and several other scripts are represented.
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ISPs could advertise that "we fight for you." They could offer a "Colorado-based mail server" and an "experienced legal team" to customers, with a class action suit perhaps every three months. Time Warner (roadrunner, AOL) has the money for it.
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My senior project in high school was to clone the SameGame (aka ksame; Same GNOME). What resulted was Insane Game for Linux, DOS, and Windows.
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My senior project in high school was to clone the SameGame (aka ksame; Same GNOME). What resulted was Insane Game for Linux, DOS, and Windows.
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I wrote an NES game that pits a GNOME mascot against a KDE mascot. Play it then tell me what you think.
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