One thing that strikes me about this is that I don't see any mention of them sueing or licensing to MicroSoft for UltimateTV. I wonder if MS is one of the "investors" here, or if Pause just knows they'd be stomped flat in a patent fight with MS.
If you want to give away your work to someone who will modify it or include it in their program and then not share their result, that's your option. The GPL simply says, "sure, you can use my code, as long as you give me/everyone the same freedoms to use the result as I'm giving." If you don't want to agree to that, just don't use GPL code. It's that simple.
I didn't read anything in the linked article about people spamming pagers. The article seems to be about Motorla suing a company that was email spamming people claiming to give away Motorola pager, when they were really giving away a different (inferior) brand. It appears the lawsuit is more about false advertizing and trademark dillution than the actual spam.
The baby bells don't want to spend money to make more bandwidth available cheap to the average user. These are the same companies that have made it difficult or impossible to get ISDN service so they wouldn't cut into their lucrative 56k leased-line business.
Distributions install multiple editors by default because they can't be certain which one you would want. The logic is that it is better to install stuff people won't need than for them to want it and it not be there. Many people don't know which editor they want, the 4 you listed seems like a reasonable set of them. If you know what you want installed, you're welcome and able to edit the install list better than someone who isn't certain.
Of course our "rules" are just an orginized way of threatening that someone bigger and badder than you will come and pick a fight if you don't follow them. We prefer to call this civilized, because very few people actually call this threat.
If you want the kind of mail security people drool over, use HushMail. Encrypted end-to-end with other HushMail users. Encrypted end-to-end with your browser via a java applet.
It would be interesting if someone would take everyone that spammed them, and sue them in small claims court for the portion of their time and bandwidth it took to deal with their message. Or for an ISP to sue them for the storage and bandwidth it took to deliver to all their customers (and the time it took for their support people to deal with complaints)
Of course, having spent an hour looking, I've wasted about $30 of my time. If I was shopping for something high ticket, I'd spend time looking, but for CDs or Videos, it isn't worth my time to spend too much time price shopping.
I expect that sendmail and exim are covered as the 2 most popularly installed mail servers (Debian defaults to exim, and many distributions use sendmail). Nothing against qmail (I'm rather fond of it myself), but it's author (djb) has some rather unhelpful policies regarding its license that make it difficult to integrate into a distribution.
ssh-keygen AUTOMATICALLY sets the permissions on the private keys it generates to 0700.
Hacking/etc/group requires root access, there went your security anyway.
My comment about shared projects is meant for example,/var/www (which you set to group writable by a web author group, and chmod +s the directory). Once you've done this, every file created in the directory will carry the group of the directory (i.e. web-auth) and if they're group writable, your web authoring group will have fewer problems where they need to track someone else down to make changes. Of course this assumes that this is the security model you want, but it does make it easier to work with by default.
Group writable home directories: Debian uses "user groups", where every user gets their own group. This makes working on shared projects (in a +s directory) slightly easier, since your umask is 002. However, since nobody is in your group by default, your home directory and files there are as secure as if they were only user writable. This is configurable in/etc/adduser.conf, and if it is set to no, Debian's default login scripts do the correct thing and set your umask to 022
The whole premise of an ISP's "common carrier" status is that they don't inspect traffic passing through their network. If they start blocking out Napster/Gnutella, it gives me the impression that maybe we should threaten to sue them for other traffic on their networks. Maybe that will keep them out of Sony's pockets.
IIRC, Slackware grew out of the frustration at the lack of updates from SLS. The Slackware package system and section layout is a reminant of its SLS heritage (and from when you had to download several dozen floppy images to install it)
The point of your standard KVM switch is that is supplies the illusion of a keyboard and mouse, even when you aren't switched to that console. It shouldn't matter if it's PC98 or not.
I believe it is out of line to remove links to Microsoft's documents, but the comments actually containing the document are probably a legitimate target for removal.
Many states that use your SSN by default as your drivers licence number will issue you an alternate number if you refuse to provide your SSN. You can generally refuse to give your SSN to other orginizations that request them (other than your employer, for obvious reasons). There are laws regarding who is permitted to require SSNs.
I'm not too suprised. You must remember, Florida journalists have a lot of experience covering space launches. It only makes sense to send the people who already know what they're talking about to cover it.
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I expect that the same people are also cutting back on their cable TV subscriptions.
One word:
killfile
One thing that strikes me about this is that I don't see any mention of them sueing or licensing to MicroSoft for UltimateTV. I wonder if MS is one of the "investors" here, or if Pause just knows they'd be stomped flat in a patent fight with MS.
If you want to give away your work to someone who will modify it or include it in their program and then not share their result, that's your option. The GPL simply says, "sure, you can use my code, as long as you give me/everyone the same freedoms to use the result as I'm giving." If you don't want to agree to that, just don't use GPL code. It's that simple.
I didn't read anything in the linked article about people spamming pagers. The article seems to be about Motorla suing a company that was email spamming people claiming to give away Motorola pager, when they were really giving away a different (inferior) brand. It appears the lawsuit is more about false advertizing and trademark dillution than the actual spam.
The baby bells don't want to spend money to make more bandwidth available cheap to the average user. These are the same companies that have made it difficult or impossible to get ISDN service so they wouldn't cut into their lucrative 56k leased-line business.
Distributions install multiple editors by default because they can't be certain which one you would want. The logic is that it is better to install stuff people won't need than for them to want it and it not be there. Many people don't know which editor they want, the 4 you listed seems like a reasonable set of them. If you know what you want installed, you're welcome and able to edit the install list better than someone who isn't certain.
And if you don't want to pay for a cert, Thawte offers their personal certs for free, complete with a web-of-trust program.
Of course our "rules" are just an orginized way of threatening that someone bigger and badder than you will come and pick a fight if you don't follow them. We prefer to call this civilized, because very few people actually call this threat.
If you want the kind of mail security people drool over, use HushMail. Encrypted end-to-end with other HushMail users. Encrypted end-to-end with your browser via a java applet.
Yep, tell everyone to use gzip and peg the processor. Real great idea there.
It would be interesting if someone would take everyone that spammed them, and sue them in small claims court for the portion of their time and bandwidth it took to deal with their message. Or for an ISP to sue them for the storage and bandwidth it took to deliver to all their customers (and the time it took for their support people to deal with complaints)
Solaris 8: 14.5M
Solaris 7: 31.7M
Solaris 2.6: 42M
Solaris 2.5.1: 52.2M
Solaris 2.5: 45.7M (gee, their point release is buggier than the release before it, some QA)
Of course, having spent an hour looking, I've wasted about $30 of my time. If I was shopping for something high ticket, I'd spend time looking, but for CDs or Videos, it isn't worth my time to spend too much time price shopping.
Use alien (from Debian, RedHat might incorperate it at this time too) to convert the RPMs or the DEBs to TGZs easily :)
I expect that sendmail and exim are covered as the 2 most popularly installed mail servers (Debian defaults to exim, and many distributions use sendmail). Nothing against qmail (I'm rather fond of it myself), but it's author (djb) has some rather unhelpful policies regarding its license that make it difficult to integrate into a distribution.
ssh-keygen AUTOMATICALLY sets the permissions on the private keys it generates to 0700.
/etc/group requires root access, there went your security anyway.
/var/www (which you set to group writable by a web author group, and chmod +s the directory). Once you've done this, every file created in the directory will carry the group of the directory (i.e. web-auth) and if they're group writable, your web authoring group will have fewer problems where they need to track someone else down to make changes. Of course this assumes that this is the security model you want, but it does make it easier to work with by default.
Hacking
My comment about shared projects is meant for example,
Group writable home directories: Debian uses "user groups", where every user gets their own group. This makes working on shared projects (in a +s directory) slightly easier, since your umask is 002. However, since nobody is in your group by default, your home directory and files there are as secure as if they were only user writable. This is configurable in /etc/adduser.conf, and if it is set to no, Debian's default login scripts do the correct thing and set your umask to 022
The whole premise of an ISP's "common carrier" status is that they don't inspect traffic passing through their network. If they start blocking out Napster/Gnutella, it gives me the impression that maybe we should threaten to sue them for other traffic on their networks. Maybe that will keep them out of Sony's pockets.
IIRC, Slackware grew out of the frustration at the lack of updates from SLS. The Slackware package system and section layout is a reminant of its SLS heritage (and from when you had to download several dozen floppy images to install it)
The point of your standard KVM switch is that is supplies the illusion of a keyboard and mouse, even when you aren't switched to that console. It shouldn't matter if it's PC98 or not.
I believe it is out of line to remove links to Microsoft's documents, but the comments actually containing the document are probably a legitimate target for removal.
Many states that use your SSN by default as your drivers licence number will issue you an alternate number if you refuse to provide your SSN. You can generally refuse to give your SSN to other orginizations that request them (other than your employer, for obvious reasons). There are laws regarding who is permitted to require SSNs.
I'm not too suprised. You must remember, Florida journalists have a lot of experience covering space launches. It only makes sense to send the people who already know what they're talking about to cover it.