You might also want to have a look at rage. A multimedia frontend raster from enlightenment has written. As the pc seems to have the necessary libraries for e17 already installed it should be not much of a problem to also compile rage.
They are using e17, which is still in development. IMO this outshine anything you get with gnome or kde unless you have compiz installed (not viable on these specs). Have a look over at www.enlightenment.org or www.get-e.org. What they've done is quite amazing. Lots of eyecandy without resource hogging.
So what do you consider a software firewall? A machine running iptables can be considered a software firewall, hey iptables is software. Also you do realize that what you're saying is totally impractical for say laptops. You might never leave the house (as any good slashdot nerd;), but other people might actually go outside, and they might want to connect to a wireless hotspot. What do you do then? Where's your hardware firewall?
Shouldn't be used in the first place. You really need an external dedicated firewall if you want to pretend to be safe. Yeah that's why I always carry around my router with me, in case I need to access wireless at an hotspot.
I think there's some real irony here. Linus says that scheduling performance is "hard science" therefore it is easy to make a decision. But he did not make his scheduler decision based on "hard science" he based it on personal preference.
And nuclear plants run on what?! It's not like there's abundant uranium in the world. There's actually quite little and most is controlled by 2 countries, Canada and Australia. Good idea instead of making yourself dependant on the oil producing countries (>10 IIRC) just make yourself dependant on mainly 2.
Having said that, I disagree on the purpose of journal articles- to me the purpose of journal articles is to transmit knowledge from scientists to engineers. And then, yes, I expect any relevant assumption or axiom to at least be linked to. It doesn't need a full explanation, just a "click here if you don't understand"- and that pointer can lead to a textbook that contains the material.
Now how did you come to this idea? Journal articles are the prime medium for communication between the experts in the field. There are actually specific journals (usually not scientific ones), who select interesting articles and summarize them for an engineering audience. If you disagree with this purpose how do you suggest the experts in the field communicate?
Acupuncture? Definitely does something, but I don't think we know exactly what.
It pokes holes in you and irritates tissues normally protected by your skin. Other than that, lots of nearly untestable placebo effect.
Actually there just has been a huge scientific study about acupuncture (mainly for pain relief I think) in Germany (the sample population was several thousand people IIRC). Now they found that Acupuncture had a significant positive effect on pain relief. Quite strong if I remember right. Now the interesting thing was I did not really matter what acupuncture method you use. So no matter where you poke it helps. I remember scientist were quite puzzled by these results. One possible explanation given was that the acupuncture procedure leads to a more intimate relationship with your doctor, thus increasing the placebo effect.
Well according to Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at zdnet http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=702 the network even goes down for system sounds. That means every single ping and whatnot will slowdown the network transfers. The next thing is he mentions that every time the sound stops the network stops for a short moment as well. How can you play games like this. Wouldn't this be a huge problem? The whole design of this seems like big ass fuckup.
One thing that bugs me about this article, it claims that it would make boot times faster, how? Sure if the hypervisor boots from flash that would be there in an instant, but we still need to boot a proper os, and that ususally will happen from disk. So no difference to booting the os directly, if anything it would boot a little slower (the hypervisor boot-time). How is there something I'm missing.
Cheers
Cyco
What I want from a phone is to make phone calls, and every once in awhile, check the time. But apparently, they don't make those phones in the US anymore. I can't even get a ringer that sounds like a phone on my cell.
That's one of the things that has been bothering me forever. They cramp more and more things into those bloody things. Crap I really don't need but that one useful feature they never managed. Why can't phones not sync their time to the network? The feature about my phone I use the most apart from txt and calls is looking what time it is. Now all phones I have owned were quite terrible with regards to accuracy, they'd usually go wrong by about 5 min over 1-2months. If they'd get the time from the network I would not have to worry if my time is actually correct.
attempts to impose itself and is being shoved down the throats or people who dislike it.
Again this accusation of the GPL3 imposing itself and being shoved down peoples throats. I have yet to see evidence of one example of the license being "shoved down" peoples throats. How is that even possible? Everybody can choose the license they want there is absolutely no way of shoving a license down peoples throat, nobody can force anyone to use a certain license.
But GPL 3 is what worries people myself included because we feel that it is going into a direction that is to strict and removes to much freedom from the developer and the user as well. Because a lot of the time Users are Developers too.
OK then instead of empty words, where does the GPL 3 take away freedoms of the user and the developer? Give me concrete examples!
But it looks like they actually modified the dosbox code(it's mentioned on one of the forum threads, the md5 sum does no match the dosbox release), so they are still in violation, as they now have to supply the source code. Also a public apology would be appropriate IMO.
That's essentially it. In most common law countries there is a strong emphasis on the locality of the crime. This is not the case in countries like Germany. You can and will be prosecuted for crimes you have committed overseas. I think you can even be prosecuted for something which is not necessarily illegal in the country you visited. IIRC there where some cases with sex tourists to Thailand etc. having sex with children, which was not illegal there but was in Germany.
On a final note it's worth pointing out that some countries constitutions are more guidelines and not taken as gospel as in the US meaning that the constitution doesn't always necessarily trump the decision of the courts/president/whoever. In fact recently Germany has been close to extraditing citizens to the US however the reason it didn't happen was not as a result of the constitution but because of the whole Guantanamo Bay no fair trial farce. Had the US legal system been shown to be fair and just this last few years Germany would've undoubtedly extradited at least some of these suspects against their constitution.
IMO the constitution has an even stronger position in countries which follow the french law system (forgot what it's called atm) than in countries which follow the common law system. So Germany for example the constitution is gospel and not just a guideline, I believe Russia to be similar. With regards to Germany extraditing it's citizens to the US. I think you're mistaken, this is not possible under the German constitution and every court would rule it as unlawful. There is an clause in the German constitution which allows for extradition to other EU countries or an international court, this was added as a result to the EU extradition treaty AFAIK. I think the cases you're thinking of are cases of German residents not citizens, the German constitution makes quite a clear distinction between rights which apply to all people and the ones which only apply to German citizens. Artikel 16 (which is the extradition article I think) only applies to German citizens.
Secondly, we here in the UK are in a bit of pickle and wish this would go away. See, some crazy Russian murdered another Russian spy in London with some nasty radioactive poison. Pretty serious right? But if we want him to stand trial and be extradited from Russia then we'd have to give them an equally unpleasant mafia boss who is hiding in London that Putin wants. Stalemate. Both countries are hiding behind the skirt of "We don't extradite people to countries where they would face danger or unfair trial"
Actually it is explicitly forbidden by the Russian constitution. I just read up on this, because I thought that almost all states don't extradite their own citizens (Germany has a similar "Artikel" in their constitution). Apparently it is a lot less common in common law countries. So the US, the UK... do extradite their own citizens. So bottom line the UK are demanding that the Russians break their constitution.
I'm surprised that this is even possible. Germanys constitution forbids the extradition of German citizens I actually thought it was the same for the UK. Well guess I was wrong.
2007-05-15: Toward More Transparent Government: Workshop on eGovernment and the Web will be held 18-19 June in Washington, D.C., USA, at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Attendees, invited speakers and panelists will discuss how the Web works for citizens and governments and how it can best achieve their goals. Co-sponsored by W3C and the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), the Workshop is free and open to all but registration is required. The deadline was extended to 22 May for position papers which are strongly encouraged. Read the press release, the report of the first W3C eGovernment symposium, and about Workshops.
It says open to all, where does it say open to all except for journalists? I agree on the fact that the reporter should probably have registered, however given that the organizer said they wouldn't have let the reporter in anyways, it doesn't seem to be the reason why they would not let her in.
Cyco
It's really too bad the blogger is taking this so personally, continuing to blog about it, and cannot spell. None of these make him a sympathetic defendant... and if it eventually gets to court that's going to matter a good deal. Like it or not, hackers have a bad public reputation, and if this punk gets in front of a jury and spouts off the way he has been on his blog, his case is sunk regardless of whether the written law is on his side. Each time he goes on a rant he gets closer to defamation and now it's a whole new ball game.
First of all maybe you should follow your own advice, you just called him a punk, I'd say that clearly matches the definition of defamation. Second, once you proved that you can spell correctly in Romanian I might accept you critizing his spelling. And finally have you read what these guys have sent to the jem report? Apart from them having absolutely no clue what so ever, they border pretty close on insult and defamation as well.
Again with proper quoting:Are you reading the same document?!
Yes, that is exactly what they are trying to say and what I was trying to clarify. don't release 'articles' mentioning 'Google'.. Where the two quoted words are defined within the same section of the NDA as 'articles' == Articles, Advertizing, Publicity and 'Google' == matters relating to this 'Agreement' (Agreement is defined in Introduction and section 2) and being about Google.
Now look at the original quote:
(a) issue or release any articles, advertising, publicity or other matter relating to this Agreement or mentioning or implying the name of Google; realize something? You just converted an OR to an AND. Now I don't know about you, but by every definition I know about AND and OR mean something different. So what the sentence means is:
The... agrees: to not:
1)"issue or release any articles, advertising, publicity or other matter relating to this Agreement"
OR
2) "issue or release any articles, advertising, publicity or other matter mentioning or implying the name of Google"
This clearly means you cannot write or even mention the name Google. Now even if this wasn't intended it still is what it says.
Nowhere does it say what you say:
Google == matters relating to this 'Agreement'.
Yes, that is exactly what they are trying to say and what I was trying to clarify. don't release 'articles' mentioning 'Google'.. Where the two quoted words are defined within the same section of the NDA as 'articles' == Articles, Advertizing, Publicity and 'Google' == matters relating to this 'Agreement' (Agreement is defined in Introduction and section 2) and being about Google.
Now look at the original quote:
(a) issue or release any articles, advertising, publicity or other matter relating to this Agreement or mentioning or implying the name of Google;
realize something? You just converted an OR to an AND. Now I don't know about you, but by every definition I know about AND and OR mean something different. So what the sentence means is:
The... agrees: to not:
1)"issue or release any articles, advertising, publicity or other matter relating to this Agreement"
OR
2) "issue or release any articles, advertising, publicity or other matter mentioning or implying the name of Google"
This clearly means you cannot write or even mention the name Google. Now even if this wasn't intended it still is what it says.
Nowhere does it say what you say:
Google == matters relating to this 'Agreement'.
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The only one extension I really use is reply-to-list. Unfortunatly it needs a patch to thunderbird, which fortunatly is in Debian. This was so far the main reason why I was always trying different mail programs. The bugzilla entry is there since the mozilla suite days IIRC, and it still hasn't been addressed. Reading the discussion there it also seems to me like the mozilla developers sometimes put _way_ too much emphasis on "making it simple for noobs" and totally forget that it was the power users who are the ones sticking with them from the beginning. The patch making the reply to list possible has been around for quite a while, so the argument: "if you want functunality code it yourself" does not fly either.
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Actually from the screenshots it looks like the pc is running e17 (DR17) which is still fast. But quite a lot more featureful and shiny than e16.
You might also want to have a look at rage. A multimedia frontend raster from enlightenment has written. As the pc seems to have the necessary libraries for e17 already installed it should be not much of a problem to also compile rage.
Why did you not want to use apt-get? I think it's the way better alternative to dselect.
They are using e17, which is still in development. IMO this outshine anything you get with gnome or kde unless you have compiz installed (not viable on these specs). Have a look over at www.enlightenment.org or www.get-e.org. What they've done is quite amazing. Lots of eyecandy without resource hogging.
So what do you consider a software firewall? A machine running iptables can be considered a software firewall, hey iptables is software. Also you do realize that what you're saying is totally impractical for say laptops. You might never leave the house (as any good slashdot nerd ;), but other people might actually go outside, and they might want to connect to a wireless hotspot. What do you do then? Where's your hardware firewall?
I think there's some real irony here. Linus says that scheduling performance is "hard science" therefore it is easy to make a decision. But he did not make his scheduler decision based on "hard science" he based it on personal preference.
And nuclear plants run on what?! It's not like there's abundant uranium in the world. There's actually quite little and most is controlled by 2 countries, Canada and Australia. Good idea instead of making yourself dependant on the oil producing countries (>10 IIRC) just make yourself dependant on mainly 2.
Well according to Adrian Kingsley-Hughes at zdnet http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=702 the network even goes down for system sounds. That means every single ping and whatnot will slowdown the network transfers. The next thing is he mentions that every time the sound stops the network stops for a short moment as well. How can you play games like this. Wouldn't this be a huge problem? The whole design of this seems like big ass fuckup.
One thing that bugs me about this article, it claims that it would make boot times faster, how? Sure if the hypervisor boots from flash that would be there in an instant, but we still need to boot a proper os, and that ususally will happen from disk. So no difference to booting the os directly, if anything it would boot a little slower (the hypervisor boot-time). How is there something I'm missing. Cheers Cyco
What I want from a phone is to make phone calls, and every once in awhile, check the time. But apparently, they don't make those phones in the US anymore. I can't even get a ringer that sounds like a phone on my cell. That's one of the things that has been bothering me forever. They cramp more and more things into those bloody things. Crap I really don't need but that one useful feature they never managed. Why can't phones not sync their time to the network? The feature about my phone I use the most apart from txt and calls is looking what time it is. Now all phones I have owned were quite terrible with regards to accuracy, they'd usually go wrong by about 5 min over 1-2months. If they'd get the time from the network I would not have to worry if my time is actually correct.
attempts to impose itself and is being shoved down the throats or people who dislike it. Again this accusation of the GPL3 imposing itself and being shoved down peoples throats. I have yet to see evidence of one example of the license being "shoved down" peoples throats. How is that even possible? Everybody can choose the license they want there is absolutely no way of shoving a license down peoples throat, nobody can force anyone to use a certain license.
But GPL 3 is what worries people myself included because we feel that it is going into a direction that is to strict and removes to much freedom from the developer and the user as well. Because a lot of the time Users are Developers too. OK then instead of empty words, where does the GPL 3 take away freedoms of the user and the developer? Give me concrete examples!
But it looks like they actually modified the dosbox code(it's mentioned on one of the forum threads, the md5 sum does no match the dosbox release), so they are still in violation, as they now have to supply the source code. Also a public apology would be appropriate IMO.
That's essentially it. In most common law countries there is a strong emphasis on the locality of the crime. This is not the case in countries like Germany. You can and will be prosecuted for crimes you have committed overseas. I think you can even be prosecuted for something which is not necessarily illegal in the country you visited. IIRC there where some cases with sex tourists to Thailand etc. having sex with children, which was not illegal there but was in Germany.
I'm surprised that this is even possible. Germanys constitution forbids the extradition of German citizens I actually thought it was the same for the UK. Well guess I was wrong.
First of all maybe you should follow your own advice, you just called him a punk, I'd say that clearly matches the definition of defamation. Second, once you proved that you can spell correctly in Romanian I might accept you critizing his spelling. And finally have you read what these guys have sent to the jem report? Apart from them having absolutely no clue what so ever, they border pretty close on insult and defamation as well.
The only one extension I really use is reply-to-list. Unfortunatly it needs a patch to thunderbird, which fortunatly is in Debian. This was so far the main reason why I was always trying different mail programs. The bugzilla entry is there since the mozilla suite days IIRC, and it still hasn't been addressed. Reading the discussion there it also seems to me like the mozilla developers sometimes put _way_ too much emphasis on "making it simple for noobs" and totally forget that it was the power users who are the ones sticking with them from the beginning. The patch making the reply to list possible has been around for quite a while, so the argument: "if you want functunality code it yourself" does not fly either.