Neither The PCWorld article nor Slashdot give any reference to who is drafting this or how to contact them. I would like to start a formal letter followed perhaps by a popular petition to have this bill either tabled or ammended in a way that gets rid of the obvoious loopholes caused by the abiguity of the proposal's language. As-is, this bill if passed would be non-progressive at best, and completely detrimental to the OSS movement at its worst.
This is good news for me, but also in a way bad. Only a few short hours before this article was posted, I was trying to upgrade my mandrake kernel 2.4.8 to the 2.4.14 kernel and everything seemed to be perfect up until the reboot- I got a kernel panic- no support for ext3 in the standard kernel, and for some reason the support wasnt caried over from make oldconfig.
Its good that we're going to have support for this, but Im sorry I couldnt have waited a few more hours before doing this! The only real problems I've had with updating is a few NIC drivers (not a problem anymore) and FS support. Last time it was no ReiserFS support and now its no ext3.. (sigh)
Thats very cool... That means that Unix is almost 2x as old as I am!:) This brings me to a question however... Were the majority of telephone systems still run by human operators as late as the late 60's to early 70's when computerized systems running Unix began to become more prevalent? What was there before, if anything, and how did it fare in comparison to the the automatic switching performed by the 'nix mainframes?
Finally, I'm no cracker, but how (even today) do the computer switching systems on phone/cell networks stay so protocol-transparent? Why is it that "phreaks", etc. rarly, except maybe on some outlandishly massive scale involve messing w/ the unix machines which run these networks?
Forgetting all the wills and emotions of the common citizen, think about how the "US GOVT" will react to this. As Bush made clear in his address from Louisiana, The US at large, at least from the governments perspective cannot do anything less. Failing to rebuild the towers would not only result in a major relocation of much of US/International trade, but it would also symbolize that the enemy has won. We are America, people. We don't give up and we never back down. I'm sure that the powers that be will be thinking about how to accomplish this massive rebuild effort soon if they haven't at least briefly pondered it already. The descrution of the World Trade Center towers and part of the Pentagon are a powerful display of hate and agression on a massive scale. The US people aren't going to let this pass under the mat- we will instead go under the mat after it and hunt it down.
So Say a prayer tonight for all the thousands of people in New York who died this day, 9/11/01 or at least think of what happened there. This event will be in the history books someday. Everyone alive today unfortunately has experienced it first hand!
Personally, I buy Linux about every 0.5-1.0 Distro version, downloading the new versions in between. I've used Red Hat, which came with a book on Linux, and I've bought Linux Mandrake 7.1/7.2. I downloaded version 8.0 because I was short on money, and the consensus was that it had more of what one would want and less extra crap no one needs;) The only version of Windows that I've bought personally is Windows 2000 last year. All the other copies have either been preinstalled or have been *cough* borrowed from work. -----------------------------------------
Thats just not right! I mean come on. Closing the source on a GREAT open source game, who just recently at E3 was still open and got a lot of good publicity, is bad enough, but using good ol' Tux in a proprietery Windows game, especially one that could become very popular if it continues to improve is just wrong. Its an insult to the entire Free Software community (Linux people anyway), whether the developers wanted it to be that way or not. I, for one am NOT going to be a purchaser of that game! At least open development can continue in a new code branch. If there's anyone talented out there who wants to maintain this project, PLEASE STEP FORWARD! ---------------------------------------- -
Yea you guys are all right. I had a bad last couple of days, I'm short on money, and my girfriend dumped me last night. Seeing this article at the top of Slashdot's front page first thing this morning did NOT help matters in the least. Ah well... -----------------------------------------
And then he discovers that he can fuse many rocks together to make a boulder. It is at this time, that he realizes that his homeworld has been oblitherated, and he has left himself out in the cold vacuum of space forever.
Mabe we'll all get lucky and be killed by a giant alien death ray:) -----------------------------------------
I will NEVER enlist. You can bet your life on that. I may have to become a freakin politicion if thats wat it takes to bail the human race's ass out. Dang. I thought I'd never say I wanted to be a politicion..:) -----------------------------------------
Damn. Just when I finally get the impression that mabe, just mabe the US military would leave thier fat butts out of this. You gotta love how the Pentagon always finds the perfect way to pervert the very technologies that will help us- help the entire world, and use them against the very people it was created to serve. But of course it must be done because "we need protection from evil rougue states".
Seriously, with all my personal problems aside, I can honestly say that if I was older, and had the ability to move away I would. Mabe to Canada or Mexico. Hell, even mabe to Germany. Its at times like these that I'm ashamed to be an American. The Pentagon is wrong. Rougue states won't destroy the world, and neither will madmen with nukes. The "end of the world as we know it" may very well be in the hands of the United States military, and I don't "feel fine" at all.
At this rate, things can only get worse if somone doesn't do something about it. I have this bad feeling in the back of my mind that if this idiocy keeps up on the part of the American government, enough nations will become enraged enough to reach one final conclusion- to wipe us out before we do the same to the rest of the world.
Calvin in Calvin & Hobbes was right: We DO have proof that there's intellegent life out there- none of it has tried to contact us!
At least I hope there's other life out there because otherwise, we may just destroy all sentient life in the universe yet. Ourselves.
God save us all! (Whoever that is for you) -----------------------------------------
I don't understand why the powers-that-be chose this wierd hex system over either
A) increading the subnet to 999.999.999.0 from 255.255.255.0 or
B) adding on another decimal or two (ex. xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) or
C) doing both
While the actual mechanics of the protocol itself in terms of getting the data where it needs to go seem very good, the new hex addressing model is completely idiotic. When this goes into effect, we will be taking a giant step backwards, back into the 70s and 80s when no normal person could find their way around a network. And sure, there will be domain names still, but sometimes you need to use an IP. I'd much rather type a 11 or 12-digit number rather than a big huge alphanumeric hex number. And just think how beautifully slow DNS servers will be in the future.
I'd like to end this posting with a question:
Why did they decide on a big nasty hex setup, rather than expanding the current system, maintaining some form of compatability? And, if it moves forward, when can I expect the displeasure of seeing my IP change from 24.5.164.0/255 to something like 2001:200:800:6000::/56? ------------------------- ----------------
I think they key idea is much better, as you don't have to deal with the time and effort of physically switching drives. Even in a hot-swap setup, this is still better for the drives, as there is less of a chance of the drives getting their contact pins bent, etc. Also, it makes downtime less, as you can just select what you want instead of switching everything around and reconfiguring the BIOS every single time. -----------------------------------------
Unlike when Microsloth attempted to break Java, Ximian (and everyone else) unfortunately does not currently have enough economic or political power to break this Empire ordained quote "standard", because statistically, M$ has all the money, power, and influence. The best thing that Ximian could do would be to start their own independant system which would be similar and most likely compatable with many of the.NET features. This would not only prevent it from being weakened and eventually killed by M$, but it would also encourage further development for open soure e-comerce platforms. Attempted fragmentation is not the answer. The answer is overpowering.NET by creating a fully independant system that is much better. -----------------------------------------
At least to me, doing this is entirely pointless.
First of all, C as a scripting language would just plain suck. This is because it is such an established and complex (I say crappy, its 2 hard!;) coding language. Simply 'scripting it' would just dumb it down and make it much more bulky and slow than it normally would be. Also, with PERL and many other scripting languages, which are designed to actually BE scripting languages, CSS has no real place in the world because it is not really needed due to these other already established languages. Finally, whats up with that name anyway? Its much too confusing; sounds too much like Cascading Style Sheets. Yeah! I *do* want some nice DHTML in my Oracle database thank you very much! -----------------------------------------
Caldera even from the beginning, just like corel, was too simple, to "'dozeish", and just plain sucked. Now with this new liscensing deal, even less people will want to get it. I'd say that Caldera is one of those Linux companies which is kind of a Free Software based Microsoft, in the sense that its beginning to slowly get tighter and tigher on its liscensing policies. Can we expect the next release to have a EULA when you're installing? CD keys?! If Caldera continues this behaviour, I'm more than willing to bet that it will slowly strangle its capitol in the same way that its beginning to slowly strangle its users. -----------------------------------------
Themes.org's still locked up. and its 10:12:32pm PST right now here in San Diego. Anyone thought of the possible political motives behind this? We all know that several US sites, mostly government related, have been the target of various Chineese cracker attempts. Themes.org is primarily a US & Co. site, so could this be an attempt to destroy Western creativity in the United States in light of the recent fiasco with the recent American spy plane incedent? Only the Shadow knows...:-) -----------------------------------------
The thing is, he WAS NOT going to be sent to prison, or even a juvinile detention facility. Was simply suspended for computer cracking. If he hadn't commited suicide, he could have been back to school today. -----------------------------------------
I was asking myself the very same question when i wrote the story. Personally, IBM was stupid, didn't advertise, charged way too much for their software, and lost thier market entirely. It was way ahead of everything else for its time, but its time is over, I admit. Now its time to move to Linux and be happy. -----------------------------------------
Correct. In short, the Evil Empire does not know how develop a sucessful buisness model, nor did it ever.
In order to mask this significant (potentially fatal?) mistake, it instead says that open source (the effective model) is fundamentally faulty, yet comes up with ways to deny that it is not using some of its practices, albeit not in even remotely the correct form.
After reading Alan Cox's response to this, it becomes even clearer how utterly stupid and just plain desparately pathetic Microsoft's internal philosophy is. As far as I'm concerned, this alone, along with fircing themselves upon end users/buisninesses, is all that is keeping this pathetic and downright incompetent company afloat at this time. -----------------------------------------
I put in 6 hours a day @ highschool, plus God knows how much time in homework. While I'm doing the homework, I'm usually hacking something or other at the same time, effectively making both less efficient. All told, I get about 5-6 hours a night of sleep, making my avarage "work day" if you will about 18-19 hours. I do however sleep more on the weekends;-) -----------------------------------------
According to the article, the highest possible date that can be counted to is 2**1E80. According to my (possibly flawed) calculations on my trusty HP VPN Scientific calculator here, that 'Final Date' will occur approximately sometime in the year 15,616. Supposedly after this, is the total number of known particles in the universe, hence no dates beyond this number can exist. Interesting!.... Very very interesting! ------------------------------------ -----
And Microsoft is actually doing this for *end-user* benefit? It'll be quiet day on the PHP mailing list when that happens;-) I'll be very suprised if the powers-that-be in the Evil Empire don't pass up the opertunity to turn this *amazing feature* into a backdoor to steal information from users. Its been known to happen. -----------------------------------------
Slashdot Mirror
Neither The PCWorld article nor Slashdot give any reference to who is drafting this or how to contact them. I would like to start a formal letter followed perhaps by a popular petition to have this bill either tabled or ammended in a way that gets rid of the obvoious loopholes caused by the abiguity of the proposal's language. As-is, this bill if passed would be non-progressive at best, and completely detrimental to the OSS movement at its worst.
Just thought the poster should know that :)
This is good news for me, but also in a way bad. Only a few short hours before this article was posted, I was trying to upgrade my mandrake kernel 2.4.8 to the 2.4.14 kernel and everything seemed to be perfect up until the reboot- I got a kernel panic- no support for ext3 in the standard kernel, and for some reason the support wasnt caried over from make oldconfig.
Its good that we're going to have support for this, but Im sorry I couldnt have waited a few more hours before doing this! The only real problems I've had with updating is a few NIC drivers (not a problem anymore) and FS support. Last time it was no ReiserFS support and now its no ext3.. (sigh)
Thats very cool... That means that Unix is almost 2x as old as I am! :) This brings me to a question however... Were the majority of telephone systems still run by human operators as late as the late 60's to early 70's when computerized systems running Unix began to become more prevalent? What was there before, if anything, and how did it fare in comparison to the the automatic switching performed by the 'nix mainframes?
Finally, I'm no cracker, but how (even today) do the computer switching systems on phone/cell networks stay so protocol-transparent? Why is it that "phreaks", etc. rarly, except maybe on some outlandishly massive scale involve messing w/ the unix machines which run these networks?
Forgetting all the wills and emotions of the common citizen, think about how the "US GOVT" will react to this. As Bush made clear in his address from Louisiana, The US at large, at least from the governments perspective cannot do anything less. Failing to rebuild the towers would not only result in a major relocation of much of US/International trade, but it would also symbolize that the enemy has won. We are America, people. We don't give up and we never back down. I'm sure that the powers that be will be thinking about how to accomplish this massive rebuild effort soon if they haven't at least briefly pondered it already. The descrution of the World Trade Center towers and part of the Pentagon are a powerful display of hate and agression on a massive scale. The US people aren't going to let this pass under the mat- we will instead go under the mat after it and hunt it down.
So Say a prayer tonight for all the thousands of people in New York who died this day, 9/11/01 or at least think of what happened there. This event will be in the history books someday. Everyone alive today unfortunately has experienced it first hand!
Good!
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Personally, I buy Linux about every 0.5-1.0 Distro version, downloading the new versions in between. I've used Red Hat, which came with a book on Linux, and I've bought Linux Mandrake 7.1/7.2. I downloaded version 8.0 because I was short on money, and the consensus was that it had more of what one would want and less extra crap no one needs ;) The only version of Windows that I've bought personally is Windows 2000 last year. All the other copies have either been preinstalled or have been *cough* borrowed from work.
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Thats just not right! I mean come on. Closing the source on a GREAT open source game, who just recently at E3 was still open and got a lot of good publicity, is bad enough, but using good ol' Tux in a proprietery Windows game, especially one that could become very popular if it continues to improve is just wrong. Its an insult to the entire Free Software community (Linux people anyway), whether the developers wanted it to be that way or not. I, for one am NOT going to be a purchaser of that game! At least open development can continue in a new code branch. If there's anyone talented out there who wants to maintain this project, PLEASE STEP FORWARD!- -
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Yea you guys are all right. I had a bad last couple of days, I'm short on money, and my girfriend dumped me last night. Seeing this article at the top of Slashdot's front page first thing this morning did NOT help matters in the least. Ah well...-
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And then he discovers that he can fuse many rocks together to make a boulder. It is at this time, that he realizes that his homeworld has been oblitherated, and he has left himself out in the cold vacuum of space forever. Mabe we'll all get lucky and be killed by a giant alien death ray :)
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I will NEVER enlist. You can bet your life on that. I may have to become a freakin politicion if thats wat it takes to bail the human race's ass out. Dang. I thought I'd never say I wanted to be a politicion.. :)
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Damn. Just when I finally get the impression that mabe, just mabe the US military would leave thier fat butts out of this. You gotta love how the Pentagon always finds the perfect way to pervert the very technologies that will help us- help the entire world, and use them against the very people it was created to serve. But of course it must be done because "we need protection from evil rougue states".
Seriously, with all my personal problems aside, I can honestly say that if I was older, and had the ability to move away I would. Mabe to Canada or Mexico. Hell, even mabe to Germany. Its at times like these that I'm ashamed to be an American. The Pentagon is wrong. Rougue states won't destroy the world, and neither will madmen with nukes. The "end of the world as we know it" may very well be in the hands of the United States military, and I don't "feel fine" at all.
At this rate, things can only get worse if somone doesn't do something about it. I have this bad feeling in the back of my mind that if this idiocy keeps up on the part of the American government, enough nations will become enraged enough to reach one final conclusion- to wipe us out before we do the same to the rest of the world.
Calvin in Calvin & Hobbes was right: We DO have proof that there's intellegent life out there- none of it has tried to contact us!
At least I hope there's other life out there because otherwise, we may just destroy all sentient life in the universe yet. Ourselves.
God save us all! (Whoever that is for you)
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I don't understand why the powers-that-be chose this wierd hex system over either
- ----------------
A) increading the subnet to 999.999.999.0 from 255.255.255.0 or
B) adding on another decimal or two (ex. xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) or
C) doing both
While the actual mechanics of the protocol itself in terms of getting the data where it needs to go seem very good, the new hex addressing model is completely idiotic. When this goes into effect, we will be taking a giant step backwards, back into the 70s and 80s when no normal person could find their way around a network. And sure, there will be domain names still, but sometimes you need to use an IP. I'd much rather type a 11 or 12-digit number rather than a big huge alphanumeric hex number. And just think how beautifully slow DNS servers will be in the future.
I'd like to end this posting with a question:
Why did they decide on a big nasty hex setup, rather than expanding the current system, maintaining some form of compatability? And, if it moves forward, when can I expect the displeasure of seeing my IP change from 24.5.164.0/255 to something like 2001:200:800:6000::/56?
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I think they key idea is much better, as you don't have to deal with the time and effort of physically switching drives. Even in a hot-swap setup, this is still better for the drives, as there is less of a chance of the drives getting their contact pins bent, etc. Also, it makes downtime less, as you can just select what you want instead of switching everything around and reconfiguring the BIOS every single time.
-----------------------------------------
Unlike when Microsloth attempted to break Java, Ximian (and everyone else) unfortunately does not currently have enough economic or political power to break this Empire ordained quote "standard", because statistically, M$ has all the money, power, and influence. The best thing that Ximian could do would be to start their own independant system which would be similar and most likely compatable with many of the .NET features. This would not only prevent it from being weakened and eventually killed by M$, but it would also encourage further development for open soure e-comerce platforms. Attempted fragmentation is not the answer. The answer is overpowering .NET by creating a fully independant system that is much better.-
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At least to me, doing this is entirely pointless. First of all, C as a scripting language would just plain suck. This is because it is such an established and complex (I say crappy, its 2 hard! ;) coding language. Simply 'scripting it' would just dumb it down and make it much more bulky and slow than it normally would be. Also, with PERL and many other scripting languages, which are designed to actually BE scripting languages, CSS has no real place in the world because it is not really needed due to these other already established languages. Finally, whats up with that name anyway? Its much too confusing; sounds too much like Cascading Style Sheets. Yeah! I *do* want some nice DHTML in my Oracle database thank you very much!
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Caldera even from the beginning, just like corel, was too simple, to "'dozeish", and just plain sucked. Now with this new liscensing deal, even less people will want to get it. I'd say that Caldera is one of those Linux companies which is kind of a Free Software based Microsoft, in the sense that its beginning to slowly get tighter and tigher on its liscensing policies. Can we expect the next release to have a EULA when you're installing? CD keys?! If Caldera continues this behaviour, I'm more than willing to bet that it will slowly strangle its capitol in the same way that its beginning to slowly strangle its users.
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Themes.org's still locked up. and its 10:12:32pm PST right now here in San Diego. Anyone thought of the possible political motives behind this? We all know that several US sites, mostly government related, have been the target of various Chineese cracker attempts. Themes.org is primarily a US & Co. site, so could this be an attempt to destroy Western creativity in the United States in light of the recent fiasco with the recent American spy plane incedent? Only the Shadow knows... :-)
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The thing is, he WAS NOT going to be sent to prison, or even a juvinile detention facility. Was simply suspended for computer cracking. If he hadn't commited suicide, he could have been back to school today.
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I was asking myself the very same question when i wrote the story. Personally, IBM was stupid, didn't advertise, charged way too much for their software, and lost thier market entirely. It was way ahead of everything else for its time, but its time is over, I admit. Now its time to move to Linux and be happy.
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In order to mask this significant (potentially fatal?) mistake, it instead says that open source (the effective model) is fundamentally faulty, yet comes up with ways to deny that it is not using some of its practices, albeit not in even remotely the correct form.
After reading Alan Cox's response to this, it becomes even clearer how utterly stupid and just plain desparately pathetic Microsoft's internal philosophy is. As far as I'm concerned, this alone, along with fircing themselves upon end users/buisninesses, is all that is keeping this pathetic and downright incompetent company afloat at this time.
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I put in 6 hours a day @ highschool, plus God knows how much time in homework. While I'm doing the homework, I'm usually hacking something or other at the same time, effectively making both less efficient. All told, I get about 5-6 hours a night of sleep, making my avarage "work day" if you will about 18-19 hours. I do however sleep more on the weekends ;-)
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your bad! ;-)
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According to the article, the highest possible date that can be counted to is 2**1E80. According to my (possibly flawed) calculations on my trusty HP VPN Scientific calculator here, that 'Final Date' will occur approximately sometime in the year 15,616. Supposedly after this, is the total number of known particles in the universe, hence no dates beyond this number can exist. Interesting!.... Very very interesting!- -----
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And Microsoft is actually doing this for *end-user* benefit? It'll be quiet day on the PHP mailing list when that happens ;-) I'll be very suprised if the powers-that-be in the Evil Empire don't pass up the opertunity to turn this *amazing feature* into a backdoor to steal information from users. Its been known to happen.-
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