LiveCDs are cool. I'm use Knoppix all the time (Linux bliss in the computer lab, finally). But what is the logic behind using a source-based distribution for a LiveCD?
I don't have anything against Gentoo, but fail to see *why* Gentoo... Is PPC support better with Gentoo? Or are the Gentoo guys just the first ones to do this for PPCs?
As for the argument that intangible property has no value (and thus cannot be stolen), you're full of shit. While it's true that the artist/record company has no less music on hand than before (cf. stealing a CD from Tower Records), you have deprived them of the right to receive renumeration for that copy. They own the IP; they are entitled to get money for a copy of it. Whether $16.99 a pop is a fair price is a reasonable question, but that's another discussion.
I never said it hasn't got any value. I tried to show that it is much more like borrowing something without permission. The object in question has it's value reduced, but not by much.
Your idea that they are entitled to get money from every copy doesn't sit right with me. Here in Europe, copying cds and movies to friends and family is (still) completely legal, and I can't see anything wrong with it.
And by the way, I'm not from the UK. English is my third language, please excuse my bad spalling.
I have yet to see a credible argument that only tangible property has value. Using IP without the owner's premission is theft. The thief can justify it however he or she wants, but the IP has less value after he or she takes it without permission.
The theft / copyright violation debate is getting a bit old, but for Tim's sake, your way off mark. There are lots of things going on that reduces the value of something, and few of those constitutes theft. When you sit in you neighbours coach, the coach suffers wear and tear. Are you stealing from your neighbour when you sit in his coach?
Copyright violations are more like borrowing something from someone (without their permission in most cases). You return the borrowed item at once, but it has suffered some wear and tear and has its value reduced a tiny bit. Much like your neighbours coach, when you sit in it.
To me, this has to be some ridiculous fast one Apple pulled on the RIAA Labels. I mean, you can still share music. You just have to use an iPod to do it.
And why is that a bad thing? Most places that kind of personal copies are legal. The whole "problem" has been distribution on the internet, not copying among friends.
A new bill requiring all pornographic material and terrorist communication to be transmitted with the "evil bit" set was proposed only hours later by a Texas representative.
This just in: RIAA will propose a bill later this week requiring all p2p apps to use the "evil bit" as well.
Much good that did, you still had to sign up. They're not giving away accounts anymore you know.
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Three of the four fundamental parameteres, labor, capital and land (resources) are naturally bounded. But the fourth and final parameter, technology is usually considered unbounded in just about every economic model I've seen. Consider being a pharaoh in ancient egypt. You have almost unbounded labor (slaves), capital (treasure) and resources (you own the country). Yet you could achieve a lot more today, with the same starting point. And I bet you'll be able to achieve even more in ten, hundred or a thousand years as well.
Technology is not enough on its own. Why are there fewer spacecrafts and supersonic passenger jets today compared to 10 years ago? Why do the number of poor people in the US grow faster than the population growth? Almost 35 years ago we landed on the moon, with todays technology we should be able to roam the plains of Mars. Why don't we?
We achieved more with less 30 years ago. Technological development is no substitute for a good government.
The UK government has put forward a compelling and intelligent case for this war and has won the hearts and minds of the nation because of it.
This is just not true. The people in the UK are firmly set against the war. From the Guardian: "Our ICM poll this week showed a 44-38% majority against a military attack".
Actually, the support is pretty much the same, except the function names start with pg_:)
As far as I've found out there is no pg_ equivilent for "while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($res)) you have to use indexes and a for loop. Makes it hard to convert a php/mysql script to use posrgreSQL.
Point 1: PostgreSQL lacked many of those features just 2 years ago. Did you ever try to use it before 7.0? You had triggers, but no cascading or outer join.
Point 2: It was slower, and you had to recompile (according to the readme) to get it to use more than 32 (or was it 64) simulatious connections. Not that that should be a big problem, execpt for the fact that posrgreSQL had serious problems closing a connection after use.
Point 3 (Much) better support for mysql than postgreSQL in PHP. You can argue all you want that php isn't something you would like do develop with, but a whole lot of websites use it.
Point 4: If you already have started using mysql for a project, it is often more work to change DBMS.
Point 5: Most ISPs support mysql if they offer hosting on linux servers, and sometimes on ms servers as well. I've not found one ISP (in Norway) who offer PostgreSQL. Our company ended up looking quite stupid when we couldn't find a ISP who would host the site we had developed for our customer. We ended up having to place a server in a server farm somewhere, and admin the server ourself (this was while posrgres was in a 6.x version, after 2 years we tried again after 7.1 was released, but noone were able to provide it). The universities I've attended or know of offer mysql for all students, and oracle for (some of the) comp students.
So the 4.0 release are great for all of us who for some reason *have* to stick with mysql for most of our work. I prefer posrgreSQL in most cases, but if it's web related, I don't allways have that option.
I'm used to pay $9.99 a month for unlimited download at emusic.com. And they have music that doesn't suck(tm), a format that doesn't suck(r) and it's so simple even your neighbour can use it(r)(tm)(whatnot). *
Download, burn and keep it all when/if you terminate the subscription.
It's all we've been nagging about since napster died.
* Brought to you by the Wote With Your Moeny department. (A fully owned subsidary of The Republican Party) and Hillary Rosens** kidnapped superhero twin.
** Anyone as evil as HR is a super villan evil twin.
Consider this: I can IMG SRC something really naughty (and illegal where you live), and crunch it down to basically nothing. It's now in your browser cache, and will persist in various forms (swap file, cache files, etc) for some time. Tip off the right people, and now you're in trouble.
Ohh the joys of living in a free country!
We don't have to worry about that kind of things. We are allowed to *view* anything, although *posessing*, *buying* and *selling* some forms of information is illigal. BUT: storing something in ram/cache etc. isn't considered *posessing* as it is a technical side-effect of viewing, not an an act of deliberate storing.
This would mean that online services finally have to start adopting real Java support.
Showstopper No. 1 for Linux useres wanting to use internet services such as banking has been MS Java VM. I got a message form my bank to days ago telling me I had to use the 'standard' Java VM to get their service to work. They meant MS VM.
This SHOULD open up for lawsuits agains producers of guns and crowbars. Guns in private hands has about as much legal use as p2p apps, and missuse has MUCH more damaging effects.
But I guess the CA judges and politicians values IP more than human lives.
*Any* network will do for who/rusers/talk. Their pate(tic)nt is for a network that allows users to see and chat with eachother, any network can do that with talk and finger. Just because they have another way of doing the same thing, and perhaps doing it a bit easyer by stitching it all up in a nice GUI doesn't mean they should be awarded a patent (there is no invention there, putting to well known apps together and use another protocol is not an invention).
Granting a patent to AOL for this is bad enough, but they had to go the whole way, and make it so broad the telcos will get in trouble for their sms service.
That was one looong rant. But I have to say I agree to more of it than I'd like to admit (I don't much like economist...)
I must say I totally agree with him on point nr. 1, the basis for a innovative society is quality education for the whole population. He may not have said so, but that was what point 1 boils down to.
As for his 2, and 3, I think he's a bit of base. Granted the legal system in the US is quite fucked up, but businesses beeing targeted by lawsuits when harming others (through neglect or intentionally) is hardly the biggest problem.
As far as I can see he doesn't talk about the *real* dangers to innovation in the US. The totally fucked up patent system, and big monopolic players in important technology sectors. When you have players with much power and influence working activly against innovation (MPAA, IRAA) and owners of ridicolusly broad patents going after everyone and his grandmother for patent infrignation. Well, the US ends up a nation of lawyers, not inventors.
For instance, if I wanted to watch a Sorenson Quicktime file, I have only two options: Codeweavers crossover plugin (which is excellent) and MPlayer. (I don't consider running the quicktime player through wine an option worth even considering. If you've ever done it you'd understand)
Huh? What do you think the Crossover plugin is? It's a cusomized wine, with some install scripts. Notting more.
Some of the wine code must have been altered to make WMP 6.4 work, I can't get my wine to do that, but for the QuickTime all there is to it is to copy the QuickTime part of the wine.conf file in Crossover to you wine.conf, and everything works perfectly. I haven't noticed any difference in speed using the Crossover plugin compared to vanilla wine.
To make wine run QuickTime put this in your wine config: [AppDefaults\\quicktimeplayer.exe\\DllOve rrides] "ddraw" = "" "*" = "builtin, native, so"
#!/bin/sh # ##### # # Linux Update # *Almost* as dangerous as # Windows update # sudo/usr/bin/apt-get -qq update sudo/usr/bin/apt-get -qq -y upgrade
# Save file in/usr/local/bin # chmod o+x filename # Create link on desktop # Name link Linux update # You now have the ability to upgrade your system # with *no* way of controlling what gets put # there! Just as with windows!
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LiveCDs are cool. I'm use Knoppix all the time (Linux bliss in the computer lab, finally).
But what is the logic behind using a source-based distribution for a LiveCD?
I don't have anything against Gentoo, but fail to see *why* Gentoo...
Is PPC support better with Gentoo? Or are the Gentoo guys just the first ones to do this for PPCs?
- Ost
Balmer sold shares in Microsoft for the first time in 12 years today...
- Ost
As for the argument that intangible property has no value (and thus cannot be stolen), you're full of shit. While it's true that the artist/record company has no less music on hand than before (cf. stealing a CD from Tower Records), you have deprived them of the right to receive renumeration for that copy. They own the IP; they are entitled to get money for a copy of it. Whether $16.99 a pop is a fair price is a reasonable question, but that's another discussion.
I never said it hasn't got any value.
I tried to show that it is much more like borrowing something without permission. The object in question has it's value reduced, but not by much.
Your idea that they are entitled to get money from every copy doesn't sit right with me. Here in Europe, copying cds and movies to friends and family is (still) completely legal, and I can't see anything wrong with it.
And by the way, I'm not from the UK. English is my third language, please excuse my bad spalling.
- Ost
The theft / copyright violation debate is getting a bit old, but for Tim's sake, your way off mark. There are lots of things going on that reduces the value of something, and few of those constitutes theft. When you sit in you neighbours coach, the coach suffers wear and tear. Are you stealing from your neighbour when you sit in his coach?
Copyright violations are more like borrowing something from someone (without their permission in most cases). You return the borrowed item at once, but it has suffered some wear and tear and has its value reduced a tiny bit. Much like your neighbours coach, when you sit in it.
- Ost
And why is that a bad thing?
Most places that kind of personal copies are legal. The whole "problem" has been distribution on the internet, not copying among friends.
- Ost
A new bill requiring all pornographic material and terrorist communication to be transmitted with the "evil bit" set was proposed only hours later by a Texas representative.
This just in:
RIAA will propose a bill later this week requiring all p2p apps to use the "evil bit" as well.
- Ost
Much good that did, you still had to sign up. They're not giving away accounts anymore you know.
Technology is not enough on its own. Why are there fewer spacecrafts and supersonic passenger jets today compared to 10 years ago?
Why do the number of poor people in the US grow faster than the population growth?
Almost 35 years ago we landed on the moon, with todays technology we should be able to roam the plains of Mars. Why don't we?
We achieved more with less 30 years ago.
Technological development is no substitute for a good government.
- Ost
This is just not true. The people in the UK are firmly set against the war. From the Guardian:
"Our ICM poll this week showed a 44-38% majority against a military attack".
Blair has not convinced the people in the UK.
- Ost
As far as I've found out there is no pg_ equivilent for "while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($res)) you have to use indexes and a for loop. Makes it hard to convert a php/mysql script to use posrgreSQL.
- Ost
Point 1:
PostgreSQL lacked many of those features just 2 years ago. Did you ever try to use it before 7.0? You had triggers, but no cascading or outer join.
Point 2:
It was slower, and you had to recompile (according to the readme) to get it to use more than 32 (or was it 64) simulatious connections. Not that that should be a big problem, execpt for the fact that posrgreSQL had serious problems closing a connection after use.
Point 3
(Much) better support for mysql than postgreSQL in PHP. You can argue all you want that php isn't something you would like do develop with, but a whole lot of websites use it.
Point 4:
If you already have started using mysql for a project, it is often more work to change DBMS.
Point 5:
Most ISPs support mysql if they offer hosting on linux servers, and sometimes on ms servers as well. I've not found one ISP (in Norway) who offer PostgreSQL. Our company ended up looking quite stupid when we couldn't find a ISP who would host the site we had developed for our customer. We ended up having to place a server in a server farm somewhere, and admin the server ourself (this was while posrgres was in a 6.x version, after 2 years we tried again after 7.1 was released, but noone were able to provide it). The universities I've attended or know of offer mysql for all students, and oracle for (some of the) comp students.
So the 4.0 release are great for all of us who for some reason *have* to stick with mysql for most of our work. I prefer posrgreSQL in most cases, but if it's web related, I don't allways have that option.
- Ost
I guess we have different taste in music then.
They have the every album by Pennywise, NOFX, and Rancid and a lot of Bad Religion.
Add a little Public Enemy, and I'm happy.
Of course, if you listen to N'Sync and Britney, you're not going to find your music there, thank Tim.
- Ost
$.99 a song sounds like a *LOT* to me.
I'm used to pay $9.99 a month for unlimited download at emusic.com. And they have music that doesn't suck(tm), a format that doesn't suck(r) and it's so simple even your neighbour can use it(r)(tm)(whatnot). *
Download, burn and keep it all when/if you terminate the subscription.
It's all we've been nagging about since napster died.
* Brought to you by the Wote With Your Moeny department. (A fully owned subsidary of The Republican Party) and Hillary Rosens** kidnapped superhero twin.
** Anyone as evil as HR is a super villan evil twin.
- Ost
The ORION project from the dark ages would have put *humans* that far out in not much more than a year.
If the US actually goes through with building the new small nukes, ORION might be feasible.
- Ost
Ohh the joys of living in a free country!
We don't have to worry about that kind of things. We are allowed to *view* anything, although *posessing*, *buying* and *selling* some forms of information is illigal. BUT: storing something in ram/cache etc. isn't considered *posessing* as it is a technical side-effect of viewing, not an an act of deliberate storing.
- Ost
I will as soon as I find a bank that does support SUN Java and have a comparable online solution.
I'm writing back and telling them MS will start to ship SUN Java, so if they don't want to scare away new users, they should fix their code.
- Ost
This would mean that online services finally have to start adopting real Java support.
Showstopper No. 1 for Linux useres wanting to use internet services such as banking has been MS Java VM. I got a message form my bank to days ago telling me I had to use the 'standard' Java VM to get their service to work. They meant MS VM.
- Ost
This SHOULD open up for lawsuits agains producers of guns and crowbars. Guns in private hands has about as much legal use as p2p apps, and missuse has MUCH more damaging effects.
But I guess the CA judges and politicians values IP more than human lives.
- Ost
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Perhaps I can play Darklands again...
O what memories
- Ost
To words: ship initiative.
Now we just need a version with video out, and support for DVD, vcd and divx.
If one doesn't appear soon, we'll just have to start making them ourselves.
- Ost
*Any* network will do for who/rusers/talk.
Their pate(tic)nt is for a network that allows users to see and chat with eachother, any network can do that with talk and finger. Just because they have another way of doing the same thing, and perhaps doing it a bit easyer by stitching it all up in a nice GUI doesn't mean they should be awarded a patent (there is no invention there, putting to well known apps together and use another protocol is not an invention).
Granting a patent to AOL for this is bad enough, but they had to go the whole way, and make it so broad the telcos will get in trouble for their sms service.
- Ost
That was one looong rant.
But I have to say I agree to more of it than I'd like to admit (I don't much like economist...)
I must say I totally agree with him on point nr. 1, the basis for a innovative society is quality education for the whole population. He may not have said so, but that was what point 1 boils down to.
As for his 2, and 3, I think he's a bit of base. Granted the legal system in the US is quite fucked up, but businesses beeing targeted by lawsuits when harming others (through neglect or intentionally) is hardly the biggest problem.
As far as I can see he doesn't talk about the *real* dangers to innovation in the US. The totally fucked up patent system, and big monopolic players in important technology sectors. When you have players with much power and influence working activly against innovation (MPAA, IRAA) and owners of ridicolusly broad patents going after everyone and his grandmother for patent infrignation. Well, the US ends up a nation of lawyers, not inventors.
Now, that was my rant.
Huh? What do you think the Crossover plugin is?
It's a cusomized wine, with some install scripts. Notting more.
Some of the wine code must have been altered to make WMP 6.4 work, I can't get my wine to do that, but for the QuickTime all there is to it is to copy the QuickTime part of the wine.conf file in Crossover to you wine.conf, and everything works perfectly. I haven't noticed any difference in speed using the Crossover plugin compared to vanilla wine.
To make wine run QuickTime put this in your wine config:
[AppDefaults\\quicktimeplayer.exe\\DllOv
"ddraw" = ""
"*" = "builtin, native, so"
- Ost
#!/bin/sh /usr/bin/apt-get -qq update /usr/bin/apt-get -qq -y upgrade
/usr/local/bin
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# Linux Update
# *Almost* as dangerous as
# Windows update
#
sudo
sudo
# Save file in
# chmod o+x filename
# Create link on desktop
# Name link Linux update
# You now have the ability to upgrade your system
# with *no* way of controlling what gets put
# there! Just as with windows!