The unfortunately consequence of your action may well be the next time you or another GPL developer make a mistake involving BSD/ISC licensed code, you will be publicly burned at the stake first with no good-faith attempt for you to correct privately what may well be an honest mistake. You know de Raadt's got a vengeful streak - he's still holding OpenSSH over everyone's heads, um des Gottes willen. I think the majority of the people agree with you, Michael, that Glocker should not have committed the GPL code to their CVS; the real sticking point is that you didn't offer the man an attempt to remedy the situation privately and in good faith.
the second para should read (snip)The interests of expediency (notifying Glocker and the other copyright holders, as well as people who did the reverse-engineering (wtf? why? I still can't figure that one out) in a public forum)(/snip). dammit, always fscked when I don't preview.
eh, a lot of whining on both sides occurred - the whole thing could definitely have been handled much more professionally and politely by both sides. Buesch could've contacted Glocker privately via email and asked him to remove the copyrighted material from CVS, and encouraged him to contact the copyright holders-in-question if he were interested in obtaining assistance in getting his bcw driver to work. It's called giving him "the benefit of the doubt." The interests of expediency (notifying Glocker and the other copyright holders, as well as people who did the reverse-engineering (wtf? why? I still can't figure that one out)) didn't serve either group's PR interests. Now people are lining up on the tired BSD/ISC vs. GPL battlefront again, fighting over something that only involves a few developers. I don't think Glocker should've committed that GPL nonsense into CVS, but I do think he should've been given a chance privately to correct his mistake. All this hassle and stupid flamewar because simple politeness was dispensed with. Gad, I'm glad I don't work on anything involving these groups.
Inasmuch as the article only indirectly references his friend's involvement in the possible origins of VoIP, I took the astoundingly original step of sending an email to Paul Graham directly. Much easier to mention to him that his knowledge (or his friend's) might be of some use to the EFF than to badger a user who simply posted a link to the essay, and otherwise could have no knowledge of the subject at hand.
Hopefully your outbound mail won't get flagged as spam by larger networks. I used to run my own mailserver, and I ran across this frequently. I guess there were enough spammers from my (then) cable-provided ISP that any mail originating from our IP block was considered spam.
I hated the idea of keeping my mail on someone else's machine, but *shrugs* I don't have anything worth keeping on there any more, anyway. Google wants to read my old correspondance with my ex-girlfriend, let 'em. They want to read all of those geeky RPG forum update notices - who cares. I'm not paying, anyway, and if it gets some fat wank excited to read about my sex life, I can live with that.
Ahhh, you're just jealous because, a year after the beta was announced, you *still* don't have a gmail account. I've got a whole bunch of referrals left, but seeing as how 'GMAIL SUx0rZ', guess you wouldn't be interested...
er, hate to break it to you, but the 'asymmetric' part of ADSL refers to the mismatch in speed between download and upload; it has nothing to do with whether the link is half-duplex (data moves in one direction at a time) or full-duplex (data moves in both directions at the same time).
Wow, your Linux airlines sounds like no version of Linux I ever ran on the desktop. I always had as many problems with Linux as with Windows (though they weren't the same problems, I'll grant you that).
I understand your point about evangelizing OSS, but truthfully I've moved on to being more interested in having a fully-functional UNIX-like desktop than the ideological benefits of Linux or FreeBSD (which is more free, fuck you GPL huggers everywhere).
At the risk of being modded a troll::shrugs:: Linux on the desktop is a dead horse. Mac OS X is a real UNIX-like desktop, and lets you fiddle with things as little or as much as you'd like. You might bitch because it costs $129, or because it doesn't run on your computer cobbled together from 15 years of computer upgrades, but it does work, and it works very well. And it's not Windows, nor does it aspire to be. If you want a UNIX-like work environment in which you can still run real-world, commercial applications, it's your only choice.
In my experience with corporate users, most of them are not particularly interested in operating systems. They're more interested in applications, since to most of them the OS is transparent. To this end, you might try skipping the Linux bit, and instead grab something like Inkscape and have your coworkers design something. Make a contest out of it, or something like that. While they're busy doodling with their mice, you can talk a bit about the way the software was developed, and the differences between the more well-known commercial apps and the OSS one you're having them play around with. You could of course use Gimp to re-touch images of your IS VP or CTO or whatever, as well. Something along those lines would be much more entertaining, I'd wager, than a dry lecture on the benefits of OSS while they watch the incomprehensible process of downloading, burning, booting, and installing an OS that ends up looking and acting a lot like the Windows desktops they're used to.
I guess all of those problems I had trying to use hard disk controllers in the 'incorrect' slot of my Motorola StarMax were benefits, then? Or the SCSI controller that worked fine in all of my official Apple hardware (7600,9600, beige G3, Quicksilver G4), but absolutely would not work in the Motorola clone? And the 9600 was 'known' to have issues with certain PCI cards used in the slots that were bridged. Huh. Guess I missed where that was a benefit; kind of like having to reinstall a USB mouse driver under Windows when you plug it into a different USB port. Sorry - the experience I had with Mac clones made me stick with tried-and-true Apple hardware. I ended up just putting YDL on the StarMax, and using it as a mail server. NetBSD wouldn't run on it, because the version of Open Firmware Motorola used wasn't up to Apple specs. Yeah, we definitely need those problems with OS X. No thanks, man...
that's presuming, of course, that the intel hardware that apple eventually will sell will use BIOS or its replacement, as opposed to Open Firmware.
Apple stuff is expensive because Apple wants to make a fat profit off of their stuff. It's not because the hardware is inherently so much more expensive.
As far as driver support goes - there's a huge difference between Mac OS X and Windows. Consider I can unplug my crappy USB mouse on my Mac while the OS is running, and plug it into another USB port, and it will pick right up where it left off. Last time I tried this with a Windows box, I was prompted to re-install drivers, etc. for the new device (wtf?), which is a joy when your only mouse is the one you've just moved, and won't work until you either a) proceed with the driver install using the keyboard only, or b) put the mouse back in the old port. This is even more fun if you have your mouse plugged into your keyboard, and move the keyboard and mouse at the same time. Good job, Windows!
damn, it's been a long time since i posted anything...
i'm a unix nerd, and a mac user. i got my start in the modern PC world with windows, and was an ardent windows user until i was introduced to linux in 1995. I can remember running redhat 4.2 and Slackware on a PoS Packard Bell 486sx25 (overclocked to 33!), and having a bitch of a time with it, but also having a lot of fun with it as well. I switched to the Macintosh in 2000, and never looked back, though I've had x86 PCs off and on in addition to at least one Macintosh.
In my experience, the real enemy isn't Windows, or Linux, or FreeBSD, or any other OS. It's lack of choice. I find OS X to be an ideal OS for me; for someone else, I might find Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, or some other OS to be the best choice. It really depends on what makes the user the most comfortable, and the most productive. Lack of choice, and the whole least-common-denominator mentality is really the enemy. Some may equate that with Windows, but I can see that term being applied to Linux and any version of Mac OS as well.
Choice is what's beautiful - not a particular OS or license or platform. Just my opinion, anyway.
If you've got a server that is actually working with more than 4GB of RAM, you might take a significant performance hit to use PAE. HP (nee Compaq) used to have a whitepaper up that showed the performance difference between two of their DL-series servers when used as Windows Terminal Servers. It showed an increase in the number of simultaneous sessions the server could support when going up to 4GB of installed memory. The number of supportable sessions didn't increase, though, with more than 4GB of RAM. PAE was enabled on the version of 2000 Server that was used for the test, but I suppose it's possible it's a limitation of Windows, rather than PAE. YMMV with *BSD or Linux, I suppose. Incidentally, this little tidbit wasn't the point of the whitepaper, but it was an interesting artifact. Saved my company some money (to put into the veep's back pocket) to put no more than 4GB of RAM into a bunch of WTS boxes we purchased.
I'm not sure there's a version of RealBASIC that actually runs on Linux. I think it's more like a compiler target. Maybe with their next version (should be out soon) there'll be something that actually allows Linux dev on Linux.
Take a look at this, for answers to your questions. I do believe the filesystem limitations of most common platforms upon which MySQL runs are listed...
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/table-size.htm l
Note it's a bit dated (though that's the current reference manual), but I still suspect most of that information is accurate.
*sighs* you can run Win2KServer TS in administration mode, which will allow one remote connection at a time, in conjunction with one session on the 'console'. 2K Server supports this for free. You don't have to buy anything extra to do this.
Ick, VNC is kind of crappy for using a desktop where any sort of feedback is important. The screen redraw issues, latency, etc. don't really make it suitable, IMO, for a remote desktop solution where one is trying to actually work with applications. I had a W2K Pro workstation using TightVNC, and tried running CheetaChat over it, but the problems with latency and screen refresh made me just dump 2kPro and install 2kServer with TS. I now use an RDP client, and it's much better. Response time and latency are just about the same as working at the desktop, in truth. I'd stick with W2K Server, and use TS in administration mode, or if you're running XP Pro, use the remote desktop feature. For responsiveness, RDP beats VNC hands-down.
hmmm, your haiku is teh suck. You got the syllabic count right, but: the first two lines should be linked thematically. they may 'run together'. the last line should be separate and provide a counterpoint to the first two. ideally, you should use some word or idea that communicates a season for your haiku.
with a little word juggling:
a wasted effort, we are shouting "You've Failed It!" april's cruel humor
ok, so perhaps your haiku isn't teh suck. it just needed a little work. no thanks are necessary.
If you want to see a decent movie that happens to be anime, I'd recommend Jin-Roh, The Wolf Brigade. It's got a pretty decent story, though there aren't really any mecha.
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The unfortunately consequence of your action may well be the next time you or another GPL developer make a mistake involving BSD/ISC licensed code, you will be publicly burned at the stake first with no good-faith attempt for you to correct privately what may well be an honest mistake. You know de Raadt's got a vengeful streak - he's still holding OpenSSH over everyone's heads, um des Gottes willen. I think the majority of the people agree with you, Michael, that Glocker should not have committed the GPL code to their CVS; the real sticking point is that you didn't offer the man an attempt to remedy the situation privately and in good faith.
the second para should read (snip)The interests of expediency (notifying Glocker and the other copyright holders, as well as people who did the reverse-engineering (wtf? why? I still can't figure that one out) in a public forum)(/snip). dammit, always fscked when I don't preview.
eh, a lot of whining on both sides occurred - the whole thing could definitely have been handled much more professionally and politely by both sides. Buesch could've contacted Glocker privately via email and asked him to remove the copyrighted material from CVS, and encouraged him to contact the copyright holders-in-question if he were interested in obtaining assistance in getting his bcw driver to work. It's called giving him "the benefit of the doubt."
The interests of expediency (notifying Glocker and the other copyright holders, as well as people who did the reverse-engineering (wtf? why? I still can't figure that one out)) didn't serve either group's PR interests. Now people are lining up on the tired BSD/ISC vs. GPL battlefront again, fighting over something that only involves a few developers. I don't think Glocker should've committed that GPL nonsense into CVS, but I do think he should've been given a chance privately to correct his mistake. All this hassle and stupid flamewar because simple politeness was dispensed with. Gad, I'm glad I don't work on anything involving these groups.
Inasmuch as the article only indirectly references his friend's involvement in the possible origins of VoIP, I took the astoundingly original step of sending an email to Paul Graham directly. Much easier to mention to him that his knowledge (or his friend's) might be of some use to the EFF than to badger a user who simply posted a link to the essay, and otherwise could have no knowledge of the subject at hand.
Hopefully your outbound mail won't get flagged as spam by larger networks. I used to run my own mailserver, and I ran across this frequently. I guess there were enough spammers from my (then) cable-provided ISP that any mail originating from our IP block was considered spam.
I hated the idea of keeping my mail on someone else's machine, but *shrugs* I don't have anything worth keeping on there any more, anyway. Google wants to read my old correspondance with my ex-girlfriend, let 'em. They want to read all of those geeky RPG forum update notices - who cares. I'm not paying, anyway, and if it gets some fat wank excited to read about my sex life, I can live with that.
Ahhh, you're just jealous because, a year after the beta was announced, you *still* don't have a gmail account. I've got a whole bunch of referrals left, but seeing as how 'GMAIL SUx0rZ', guess you wouldn't be interested...
Damn, no wonder everyone made fun of my Atari computers - they only had 1MHz 6502s...
what machines had 2MHz chips?
wouldn't that be loquacity? seems a bit more, well, elegant, than loquaciousness.
er, hate to break it to you, but the 'asymmetric' part of ADSL refers to the mismatch in speed between download and upload; it has nothing to do with whether the link is half-duplex (data moves in one direction at a time) or full-duplex (data moves in both directions at the same time).
Wow, your Linux airlines sounds like no version of Linux I ever ran on the desktop. I always had as many problems with Linux as with Windows (though they weren't the same problems, I'll grant you that).
::shrugs:: Linux on the desktop is a dead horse. Mac OS X is a real UNIX-like desktop, and lets you fiddle with things as little or as much as you'd like. You might bitch because it costs $129, or because it doesn't run on your computer cobbled together from 15 years of computer upgrades, but it does work, and it works very well. And it's not Windows, nor does it aspire to be. If you want a UNIX-like work environment in which you can still run real-world, commercial applications, it's your only choice.
I understand your point about evangelizing OSS, but truthfully I've moved on to being more interested in having a fully-functional UNIX-like desktop than the ideological benefits of Linux or FreeBSD (which is more free, fuck you GPL huggers everywhere).
At the risk of being modded a troll
In my experience with corporate users, most of them are not particularly interested in operating systems. They're more interested in applications, since to most of them the OS is transparent. To this end, you might try skipping the Linux bit, and instead grab something like Inkscape and have your coworkers design something. Make a contest out of it, or something like that. While they're busy doodling with their mice, you can talk a bit about the way the software was developed, and the differences between the more well-known commercial apps and the OSS one you're having them play around with. You could of course use Gimp to re-touch images of your IS VP or CTO or whatever, as well. Something along those lines would be much more entertaining, I'd wager, than a dry lecture on the benefits of OSS while they watch the incomprehensible process of downloading, burning, booting, and installing an OS that ends up looking and acting a lot like the Windows desktops they're used to.
I guess all of those problems I had trying to use hard disk controllers in the 'incorrect' slot of my Motorola StarMax were benefits, then? Or the SCSI controller that worked fine in all of my official Apple hardware (7600,9600, beige G3, Quicksilver G4), but absolutely would not work in the Motorola clone? And the 9600 was 'known' to have issues with certain PCI cards used in the slots that were bridged. Huh. Guess I missed where that was a benefit; kind of like having to reinstall a USB mouse driver under Windows when you plug it into a different USB port.
Sorry - the experience I had with Mac clones made me stick with tried-and-true Apple hardware. I ended up just putting YDL on the StarMax, and using it as a mail server. NetBSD wouldn't run on it, because the version of Open Firmware Motorola used wasn't up to Apple specs. Yeah, we definitely need those problems with OS X. No thanks, man...
that's presuming, of course, that the intel hardware that apple eventually will sell will use BIOS or its replacement, as opposed to Open Firmware.
Apple stuff is expensive because Apple wants to make a fat profit off of their stuff. It's not because the hardware is inherently so much more expensive.
As far as driver support goes - there's a huge difference between Mac OS X and Windows. Consider I can unplug my crappy USB mouse on my Mac while the OS is running, and plug it into another USB port, and it will pick right up where it left off. Last time I tried this with a Windows box, I was prompted to re-install drivers, etc. for the new device (wtf?), which is a joy when your only mouse is the one you've just moved, and won't work until you either a) proceed with the driver install using the keyboard only, or b) put the mouse back in the old port. This is even more fun if you have your mouse plugged into your keyboard, and move the keyboard and mouse at the same time. Good job, Windows!
Ick.
damn, it's been a long time since i posted anything...
i'm a unix nerd, and a mac user. i got my start in the modern PC world with windows, and was an ardent windows user until i was introduced to linux in 1995. I can remember running redhat 4.2 and Slackware on a PoS Packard Bell 486sx25 (overclocked to 33!), and having a bitch of a time with it, but also having a lot of fun with it as well. I switched to the Macintosh in 2000, and never looked back, though I've had x86 PCs off and on in addition to at least one Macintosh.
In my experience, the real enemy isn't Windows, or Linux, or FreeBSD, or any other OS. It's lack of choice. I find OS X to be an ideal OS for me; for someone else, I might find Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, or some other OS to be the best choice. It really depends on what makes the user the most comfortable, and the most productive. Lack of choice, and the whole least-common-denominator mentality is really the enemy. Some may equate that with Windows, but I can see that term being applied to Linux and any version of Mac OS as well.
Choice is what's beautiful - not a particular OS or license or platform. Just my opinion, anyway.
If you've got a server that is actually working with more than 4GB of RAM, you might take a significant performance hit to use PAE. HP (nee Compaq) used to have a whitepaper up that showed the performance difference between two of their DL-series servers when used as Windows Terminal Servers. It showed an increase in the number of simultaneous sessions the server could support when going up to 4GB of installed memory. The number of supportable sessions didn't increase, though, with more than 4GB of RAM. PAE was enabled on the version of 2000 Server that was used for the test, but I suppose it's possible it's a limitation of Windows, rather than PAE. YMMV with *BSD or Linux, I suppose.
Incidentally, this little tidbit wasn't the point of the whitepaper, but it was an interesting artifact. Saved my company some money (to put into the veep's back pocket) to put no more than 4GB of RAM into a bunch of WTS boxes we purchased.
I'm not sure there's a version of RealBASIC that actually runs on Linux. I think it's more like a compiler target. Maybe with their next version (should be out soon) there'll be something that actually allows Linux dev on Linux.
i ngvisualbasic/
More info here, I think...
http://www.realsoftware.com/realbasic/guides/port
Take a look at this, for answers to your questions. I do believe the filesystem limitations of most common platforms upon which MySQL runs are listed...
m l
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/table-size.ht
Note it's a bit dated (though that's the current reference manual), but I still suspect most of that information is accurate.
hth
Because people compare published theoretical specifications like they actually mean something.
"Oh, look! SATA supports 150MB per second on each channel - Firewire is only 50MB. Drives on SATA must be faster!!"
Fucking retards. Ah, well...
*sighs*
you can run Win2KServer TS in administration mode, which will allow one remote connection at a time, in conjunction with one session on the 'console'. 2K Server supports this for free. You don't have to buy anything extra to do this.
Ick, VNC is kind of crappy for using a desktop where any sort of feedback is important. The screen redraw issues, latency, etc. don't really make it suitable, IMO, for a remote desktop solution where one is trying to actually work with applications. I had a W2K Pro workstation using TightVNC, and tried running CheetaChat over it, but the problems with latency and screen refresh made me just dump 2kPro and install 2kServer with TS. I now use an RDP client, and it's much better. Response time and latency are just about the same as working at the desktop, in truth.
I'd stick with W2K Server, and use TS in administration mode, or if you're running XP Pro, use the remote desktop feature. For responsiveness, RDP beats VNC hands-down.
hmmm, your haiku is teh suck. You got the syllabic count right, but:
the first two lines should be linked thematically. they may 'run together'.
the last line should be separate and provide a counterpoint to the first two.
ideally, you should use some word or idea that communicates a season for your haiku.
with a little word juggling:
a wasted effort,
we are shouting "You've Failed It!"
april's cruel humor
ok, so perhaps your haiku isn't teh suck. it just needed a little work. no thanks are necessary.
Mononoke is a good movie. I like it better with subtitles, though the dubbing is better than average, as stated by the previous poster.
If you want to see a decent movie that happens to be anime, I'd recommend Jin-Roh, The Wolf Brigade. It's got a pretty decent story, though there aren't really any mecha.
Sieg Zion!!
er
Sieg Zeon!
Hmmm, I actually liked Appleseed. What was it that was a letdown? The animation quality, or the story, or something else?