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That's why all tech personell that are actually permitted to touch the expensive computing hardware should wear white robes

And risk looking like this? (Yes, I know it's not white...)

I've been mulling over the GPL and BSD licenses for some time, trying to think of a way that businesses can make money while the community still benefits. (Isn't everybody?) So where does this come together?

Cooperation between business and free software would be a cool thing, but is that necessarily the end-all be-all of software?

Some people don't think so

Here's an app that might be interesting to some people:

GTKeyboard. This is an on-screen keyboard for X11 that allows redirection of keypresses to foreign windows, remapping keyboards, multiple layouts, and lots of other features. This is a type of application that's listed in the GNOME accessibility page, although it doesn't have any particular affiliation with GNOME.

The image @ http://www.inside-aol.com/ss3/cris@aoledited.jpg has apparently been slashdotted

You can now view it at
http://www.nols.com/slashdot/cris@aoledited.jpg without having to wait an hour for it to load.

I've written a program called gtkeyboard which uses this keyboard layout as one of its "possibilities". The keyboard is meant for all kinds of different applications (including possible wearable applications and things like keyboardless kiosks and the physically disabled).

The keyboard layout was originally given to me as the "opti" keyboard by one of the people who contributed code to the project. It actually is quite good for using a keyboard with one finger, or in the case of gtkeyboard, with the mouse, which is functionally equivalent to one finger really.

It is quite a good design, putting the spaces pretty much everywhere so that you can get to them from any key. With an average word length of 5 in English, it pretty much means that rougly 18-20% of your keystrokes are going to be spaces. Makes sense to have them in a convenient place, eh?

Most people wouldn't believe how much research goes into making these things the way they are. With this keyboard, they did a lot of tests training people to use it. As was expected, at the beginning people were actually a bit slower with it than with a qwerty keyboard because they didn't know where the keys were. As time went on though, they were able to VASTLY improve their speed over even the best speeds with qwerty. (remember, we're talking one finger here, not 10)

I think Mandrake would be the lucky sob with the nikon d1 as you can see in this picture.

There's a better picture of her at this site. At least it shows her rather ample bosom a little more clearly. I rather hate to say it but her bod looks just a tad on the flabby side. But that's OK, some guys go for chicks just a touch on the voluptuous side.

The tongue piercing will give you that counterculture appeal in your 20s, and in your early 30s it might have some cachet with younger chicks. After that, you're just another loser with a lifestyle he should've given up years ago.

If I were you I'd ditch the tongue piercing and focus on the cooking and the laundry skills. You're more likely to end up with a chick who has her shit together. My experience has been that chicks who *do* have their shit together tend to like guys who can fend for themselves and don't drag them down with needy father/child dependencies.

Plus they're a whole lot more rational and they also tend to have really good jobs and make lots of money. At least my wife does.

The other advice is that chicks could care less what fscking technology you have. Some chicks dig guys with flash kit, but only because they assume it means he has money he should start spending on her. My wife thinks we should get a new stereo because we painted the walls a new color and the old one doesn't match well. The only bandwidth they care about is from their mouths to our ears.

Anyway, weddings are a great place to get laid although from the other postings it looks like this one is taken. Good luck!

Mirrored copy: http://www.nols.com/hemos/DSCN0542.JPG

Who is that girl? How old is she? And is she spoken for?

I don't have any stock options but I can cook and do laundry. Plus, I have a tongue piercing. And I have a Ultra Wide SCSI hard drive to compensate for the tinyness of my bandwidth (56K).

Oh, and I like to cuddle.

There is a mirror of the site being setup since it is currently slashdotted.


Please surf on over to http://www.nols.com/hemos

Well, I'm the author of a utility that was recently accepted as GNU software. At the time when I was swapping emails with RMS and a great guy named Jonas Oberg, I asked about just this type of stuff.

I was told that if I chose, I could assign the copyright for the entire program to GNU, or I could retain the copyright myself. Not knowing what I was doing at the time, I chose to keep the copyright since I felt that would be safer.

As it turns out, I think the main difference between assigning the copyright to GNU and not doing it is if there is a dispute, or if company X is using your GPL'd source code in some way that is contrary to what the GPL says, if the code's copyright is held by the FSF, they'll stand up for it and litigate, whereas if the individual keeps the copyright, GNU may not have a stake enough to through their weight against the company.

Frankly, if there's anybody on earth that I TRUST to hold the copyright and make sure that the GPL is enforced, it's Stallman and the FSF.

As for signing over patches, I think it's possible that the FSF has gotten burned in the past on submissions being written by people at their jobs, incorporating the patches, and then finding out later that the employee didn't have the write to submit that code under the GPL since it was written on the company's time and hence property of the company.

Signing over patches and explicitly authorizing them for the FSF is a procedural thing to make sure that the free software we use remains pure of other types of non-free code, and presents as small of a profile as possible to litigious lawyers who might want to take someone to court over possible misappropriations of source code.

I think it makes sense to even require this of people. Why else would you be writing software for the FSF if it wasn't going to be GPL'd? If that's the case, why wouldn't you want someone larger than yourself to be able to back and protect the code? The only problem with this I could see would be if you didn't trust the FSF. If that's the case, I'd wonder what your reasons for that are, but I won't disagree with your personal feelings about the FSF.

I'm the author of a package called GTKeyboard, located at http://opop.nols.com/gtkeyboard.html. It's an on-screen keyboard that allows users to type using only the mouse. The keystrokes can then be sent either to the regular text editing area in the application, or even to other applications, (such as typing shell commands into an rxvt or URLs into netscape and so on)

It comes with layouts for a bunch of different languages/keyboard styles.

I hope this will be useful to you or other people. I've gotten email from a bunch of people in the past that said they found it quite useful - among those were a stroke victim using linux, several people with ALS (Lou Gherig's disease) and cerebral palsy.

The good part is that if you can use a mouse and you have X, you can do anything a keyboard can do. Of course it's a bit slower than using the keyboard, (we've got some new features coming soon to address that) but one mouse and three buttons is never going to be able to compete with 10 fingers for speed.

Hope this helps.

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Earl Higgins

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They have a very stable service and it is worth the nominal fee.

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Quake 2 works intermittently for me. It seems to work better if my sound modules aren't loaded yet. If the sound modules are loaded, and I try to start up Quake 2, I get nothing. It starts to load, and switches video modes, but then freezes. If I kill quake2 from a telnet session, things go back to normal, but attempting to kill it from the machine itself is nearly impossible because you can't do anything but SysRq commands. And those don't always bring the machine back into a usable state. Check here for information on my setup.