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Re:Pretty much never?
eMule still works. I am finding more and more garbage these days when I use its search feature for video and programs, but for music, it works pretty well.
There are also sites like TV Underground and ShareReactor that provide good ed2k links.
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Re:Nuclear submarines"In other words, this sort of thing has been operating safely for about 50 years now."
Sure, unless you count: K-19, K-11, K-27, K-140, K-429, K-222, K-123, K-314, K-431, K-192, K-8, K-386, TK-208, K-279, K-447, K-508, K-208, K-210, K-216, K-316, K-462, K-38, K-37, K-371, and K-367.
Those are submarines which experienced nuclear accidents from just the Northern Fleet of the former Soviet Union and Russia. Too lazy to look for the Pacific fleet accidents..
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Re:Russian Linux distribution
Linux.Org.Ru, perhaps the largest Russian on-line Linux community officially considers "Linux-XP" offtopic: http://www.linux.org.ru/view-message.jsp?msgid=2307077&lastmod=1238366650084
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Re:Shortsighted if true
"As long as Oracle keeps pretending Russia doesn't exist, we'll pretend licensed Oracle software doesn't exist" ((c))
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Re:I would like to hear from a lawyer on this..
Well, I'm sure you would be glad to know that you'd be in fine company. Feynman was deferred from the draft because the psychiatric tests indicated that he was insane.
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Re:what?
here is a good explanation
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Dead in which region?I'd say [the Famicom/NES is] dead. No more commercial releases. Games for Famicom and Famiclones are still being produced for sale in developing countries. Look at Street Fighter for NES, Mortal Kombat for NES, and all these Chinese games. And if someone sells a copy of a homebrew on a ReproPak cart, is that commercial? Meanwhile the Dreamcast still gets games released commercially. In which territory? Most Dreamcast software released during production of consoles was region coded. Is the Dreamcast (U) still alive, or is only the Dreamcast (J) alive?
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Re:Never used it myself.
I'm a pretty big fan of Drupal myself (the only thing I've got against it is I don't care for PHP much), but I've got to agree with you that the Drupal forum module, while basically functional, is really ugly.
I like SMF for a forum app, and there is a pretty good SMF bridge Drupal module that handles user synchronization between the two, and gives you few nifty blocks for showing recent posts and other SMF information in Drupal sidebars. It's worked pretty well for me in a couple projects.
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Re:Exploring linux/biometrics in 2000...
well i agree my reasearch lead me to http://biomark.org.ru/
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Parsing Error Discloses Memory to Remote Users
Mozilla Browser Javascript Regex Parsing Error Discloses Memory to Remote Users - Apr 5, 2005 Description: A vulnerability was reported in Mozilla Browser in Javascript regex parsing. A remote user can obtain portions of browser memory. The browser's javascript implementation does not properly parse lamba list regular expressions. The vulnerability resides in 'js/src/jsstr.c' in the find_replen() function. A demonstration exploit is available at: http://cubic.xfo.org.ru/firefox-bug/index.html
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Re:Coming Soon: Mozilla, The OS
Already been done!
OEone HomeBase.
Check out this screenshot:
http://www.linux.org.ru/gallery/bigbBdSgP.jpg
Although it's hard to find info about it, the product integrated OpenOffice into a Desktop written entirely in XUL. -
Re:Kernel mailing list comment
So in this comment by an AC, we can see clearly that the code presented in the slides was in fact in the PDP-11 Unix code, which clearly states at the top: ...The source code for which Caldera International, Inc. grants rights are limited to the following UNIX Operating Systems that operate on the 16-Bit PDP-11 CPU and early versions of the 32-Bit UNIX Operating System...
So, this code has been under the BSD license since 1986? /*
* Copyright (c) 1986 Regents of the University of California.
* All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement
* specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
*
* @(#)subr_rmap.c 1.2 (2.11BSD GTE) 12/24/92
*/
So far SCO has proven nothing. -
Re:From my previous postFrom the site you found that file on
What is the copyright/ownership status of these old versions of Unix?
The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) own (at least): Unix research editions 1 to 7, PWB/UNIX, Mini-UNIX, 32V, System III and System V. Those parts of 2.xBSD which are derived from SCO's stuff is also copyright by SCO. Non-derived parts of anything are owned by someone else (e.g the Regents of the University of California for the BSD stuff).
None of the stuff owned by SCO is freely available, nor is it in the public domain. You must still be covered by a Unix source license in order to have legal access to this material. However, you can obtain a UNIX source for free from SCO's web site.
Dunno what that means exactly, but doesn't look favorable :/ -
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The code predates UNIX?
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Re:So this is what they're pitching a fit about?
I'll wager that code is also in BSD
You are correct. It was in the PDP11 architecture BSD UNIX as long ago as v2.11 -
From my previous post
From this thread
This goes at least as far back as 1982 and is under a BSD license. Nothing to worry about here.
subr_rmap.c [pdp11.org.ru] 1.2 (2.11BSD GTE) 12/24/92 -
Code from BSD?
I think that it looks like SCO's snippet, doesn't even belong to them, compare following which is: Copyright 1986 Regents of the University of California
That's BSD -
Yes, that's right, they're claiming malloc()
Here's the earliest implementation people have found so far, from 1979 (before SCO was "born"):
http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/sys/sys/mal loc.c.html
And here's where it was part of BSD 2.11 circa 1992:
http://unix-archive.pdp11.org.ru/PDP-11/Trees/2.11 BSD/sys/sys/subr_rmap.c
Oh, how I hope the mainstream tech press "gets" this. -
SCO code shown = BSD
SCO did a big dog and pony show yesterday at their conference. They also raised their claims, and according to them, there are "millions of lines" of offending code which they have identified by "rocket scientists" using "spectral recognition" and "pattern analysis".
To convince SCOforum attendees of their case, SCO showed obscured slides which supposedly proved copying.
Research reveals that the code fragment SCO showed in one of their slides, doesn't even belong to SCO - it's from BSD. See for yourself, the code originated from, and is Copyright 1986 Regents of the University of California! And, while they might have more up their sleeve, it's is revealing that the most compelling example they can show at their forum, doesn't even belong to them! -
Re:they're showing some....
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SCO showing portions of code at "SCO Forum"According to heise SCO is showing portions of offending source code. Here is an image of the offending code, and here is another image. From the Gentoo Forums:
There seems to be nothing of value here. As pointed out by Starborn this comment goes at least as far back as BSD 2.11, which, according to the file, is from subr_rmap.c 1.2 (2.11BSD GTE) 12/24/92
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The linux version is slightly modified with some differing variable names, but the algorithim seems to be nearly identical.
Basicly, the code they've showed goes as far back as 1992 from BSD 2.11, perhaps even further? -
Wont show them to anyone... except germans?A german website has released images of some code SCO claims linux copied. You can read the article (in german) here. (the code is in the two images)
We've been discussing this on the gentoo forums just now, and we've found that:
1) Their example is from the IA64 port of linux 2.4 (its not in 2.6)
2) Their example can be traced back to 2.11BSD
3) The greek in the sco code is actually english, with the font changed to english (Stupid obfucation attempt) heres what it says:"As part of the kernel evolution towards modular naming, the functions malloc and mfree are being renamed to rmalloc and rmfree. Compatibility will be maintained by the following assembler code: (also see mfree/rmfree below)"
We're still discussing it on the gentoo forums here
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Re:I haven't done more than peek at the kernel sou
The only thing that shows up being even close between the Linux kernel and the versions of Unix with source available is what seems to be a derivative of malloc and mfree in ate_utils.c
ate_utils is/was part of the NUMA code for IA64. It has been removed from the latest development and prepatch kernels (it's obsolete, from what I've read.)
There are some less interesting similarities between the signal handling code, but that's hardly remarkable. How many ways can you write a switch statement?
The key thing to remember though is that SCO doesn't actually claim they wrote the code. They claim to own rights in code that IBM wrote. I would bet that it's safe to assume that a detailed inspection of AIX and Linux 2.4.21 will reveal similarities. The question is, does IBM have the right to relicense code they created? -
Re:i must have good luck...
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WINE = good
Well, I haven't seen the article, cause it's been slashdotted, but to all that talk about wine virii execution - look at this (the author of the screenshot is C-Pro).
Besides, I mean, just as with any other tool, you need caution. If you run wine as root with the whole tree as e: then sooner or later you're gonna regret it. The level achieved by wine emulation is amazing, so there are going to be security flaws if you don't know what you are doing, just as with any product with functionality as extensive as wine's -
My antidotum
In order for this to work, each time you give a site an "F", you should be contractually bound so that if it turns out that the site is legit, then you are the one that gets in trouble: you would have to pay a fine. Then, in order to give people a motive for using this plug-in, the company should pay bounty money to the vigilante via a Paypal type system.
My antidotum would be a website like this:
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A fine guaranteed.
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CE/PocketPC version
OK so I'm posting this far to late to get it modded up, but anyway....
For those of us Pocket PC owners who've seen that it's been ported to Palm and are upset with the lack of a PocketPC version, well there is one!!:
Nethack 3.3.1 for Windows (98/NT/2000/CE)
This kicks ass! Handheld support for ARM, MIPS, and SH3, good job Alex!
Here's a mirror of the ARM version, but please don't hit either of 'em too hard, or the boys might get some bandwidth bills from their ISPs.For more general PocketPC gaming news, check out Pocket Gamer
There's also an OpenGL version of Nethack which looks pretty damn cool (for the heretics who don't want to play in ASCII). Screenshots are here.As for other cool retro stuff for the Pocket PC, check this out: FreeCiv port of Pocket PC, not yet released but coming soon hopefully. Here are a few screenshots to keep you going 'til they give us something to download (watch out for the popups though)
Happy gaming,
ManxStef
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Re:Wolf3D the first FPS, don't think so...
I was just about to suggest Driller, but it seems to be just a different name for the one you suggested! According to this article it came out in 1987. IIRC it was released for Spectrum/AmstradCPC/C64, and I've a vague memory there was even an early PC version.
It used solid 3D, was first-person perspective, and you did have a laser to shoot with, so it seems a valid candidate for first ever FPS.
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Re:Yes, but protocol driver and API are not free
Amiga: phah! ZX Spectrum rules!
:-) If you can get it to run there, you can get it to run anywhere. (I know it is not true....)I haven't studied the low-level spec for this purpose, so I wonder: could you make it work on some of these old devices? (The Spectrum wasn't great for comms: no real Basic support.) I have this vision of a computer museum with all the old computers connected via Bluetooth to the toaster and my wrist-watch.
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"Where do you come from?"
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Internet in KazakhstanWell, first off, I may get flamed for implying that Kazakhstan (a former Soviet Union republic, now part of CIS) is a third-world, less-than-developed country. Well, IMHO, it _is_ third-world when it comes to internet or any democracy-encouraging technology in general and it _is_ less-than-developed, because people in Kazakhstan have to pay an equivalent of US$1 per hour of connection time, while the average annual income after taxes is $1200.
In terms of overall Internet connectivity, Kazakhstan is ranked along with countries like Burma and some African countries, at the very bottom of the list. What's more, the government is very interested in NOT allowing people free access to the Internet and all the un-censored information that's on it. In particular the government is concerned with opposition sites, like Eurasia.org, based in neiboring Russia and at one point ordered the few tightly controlled ISPs to block requests for the eurasia.org.ru domain. And recently, again in an article on Eurasia.org, I found that the Kazakhstani government is sending a delegation to Burma to learn from Burmese experience of cencoring internet access with the presumed intent of implementing similar techniques in Kazakhstan.
Now, when I talk about Kazakhstani government, I usually mean the president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has a long history of rigging election, making adjustments to the constitution that will allow him to remain president for life, blocking the parliament from making changes in the constitution. He is also the 9th richest man in the world, and that in a country with rapidly decreasing population and GNP, not to mension the pitiful standard of living. Human rights activists are not happy with Kazakhstan, that's for sure.
What all of this translates into, is the fact that someone like me, a 24 year old man that doesn't come from a rich Kazakhstani family, first accesses the internet at the age of 23. (And I consider myself a computer geek, think about non-geeks in contrast). It also majority of people who have the internet access come from rich families, who in most cases are to some extent involved in the not very ethical accusition of wealth, and are not interested in openness of the opinion. That's why they seem to spend most of their time in chat rooms talking about sex...(my personal observation, from trying to find a good discussion board or chat room to talk with my former compatriots about Kazakhtani politics)
I'm a recent immigrant to the US from Kazakhstan (came here 1 year ago) and my parents and little brother are still there. I have a little of my own and my wife's writings on my web site about Kazakhstan, however, it's only marginally related to the topic at hand.
Anyway, now you know a little about Kazakhstan, even if you can't yet spell its name.
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Internet in KazakhstanWell, first off, I may get flamed for implying that Kazakhstan (a former Soviet Union republic, now part of CIS) is a third-world, less-than-developed country. Well, IMHO, it _is_ third-world when it comes to internet or any democracy-encouraging technology in general and it _is_ less-than-developed, because people in Kazakhstan have to pay an equivalent of US$1 per hour of connection time, while the average annual income after taxes is $1200.
In terms of overall Internet connectivity, Kazakhstan is ranked along with countries like Burma and some African countries, at the very bottom of the list. What's more, the government is very interested in NOT allowing people free access to the Internet and all the un-censored information that's on it. In particular the government is concerned with opposition sites, like Eurasia.org, based in neiboring Russia and at one point ordered the few tightly controlled ISPs to block requests for the eurasia.org.ru domain. And recently, again in an article on Eurasia.org, I found that the Kazakhstani government is sending a delegation to Burma to learn from Burmese experience of cencoring internet access with the presumed intent of implementing similar techniques in Kazakhstan.
Now, when I talk about Kazakhstani government, I usually mean the president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has a long history of rigging election, making adjustments to the constitution that will allow him to remain president for life, blocking the parliament from making changes in the constitution. He is also the 9th richest man in the world, and that in a country with rapidly decreasing population and GNP, not to mension the pitiful standard of living. Human rights activists are not happy with Kazakhstan, that's for sure.
What all of this translates into, is the fact that someone like me, a 24 year old man that doesn't come from a rich Kazakhstani family, first accesses the internet at the age of 23. (And I consider myself a computer geek, think about non-geeks in contrast). It also majority of people who have the internet access come from rich families, who in most cases are to some extent involved in the not very ethical accusition of wealth, and are not interested in openness of the opinion. That's why they seem to spend most of their time in chat rooms talking about sex...(my personal observation, from trying to find a good discussion board or chat room to talk with my former compatriots about Kazakhtani politics)
I'm a recent immigrant to the US from Kazakhstan (came here 1 year ago) and my parents and little brother are still there. I have a little of my own and my wife's writings on my web site about Kazakhstan, however, it's only marginally related to the topic at hand.
Anyway, now you know a little about Kazakhstan, even if you can't yet spell its name.