Just a point, but the.com/.net/.org TLD's are non-geographic. The only important thing is the place where your server is hosted. Someone could register a.com site and host it on a Japanese based server, and still get clobered by this ruling.
Does this rulling apply to deep linking, or only the first tier of links? If it's deep linking, then i can see a large number of.jp sites disapearing overnight.
First the Dr Godfrey / Demon thing in the UK, now this. I just seriously hope this doesn't become a world-wide trend.
I would certianly like to see a good textbook that teaches OS design, using the source to a modern OS as examples....
Funnily enough, try the book "Operating Systems Design and Implementation", using none less than the Minix source as an example, written by none other than Mr Tanenbaum & his ascociate Mr Woodhill.
You can evan change CPU's and binaries still run, because they are compiled for a virtual processor ala Java (native binaries are, of course, also possible).
I once had the same idea of writing a portable OS with a VM layer. Someone at Amiga have been nicking my ideas! Good to see it was such a good idea that Amiga have done it though;)
Excuse me, but how do you run an OS ontop of another OS?
Well, it depends. Obviously running a complete OS on top of another (without using a Virtual Machine), has it's problems. Your OS would be a "normal" user-space app as far as your host OS is concerned, which means no access to privaleged instructions, or low level hardware access.
But you can construct a schedular that runs on the host OS (Think user-space threads), and then build the rest of the OS API (Which can all be done). Device access can be done with stub device drivers that just redirect calls such as Read() to the host OS drivers.
I would guess that this is excatly the sort of thing Amiga are planing to do. When the time comes to get rid of the host OS, the OS API layer doesn't change, and so applications should run pretty much unchanged.
Not the point, this case should have been thrown (laughed?) out of court. For a start, the man clearly had no idea who to sue, so simply went for the ISP who's news server he saw the post on. It just happened that it was Demon who got in the way.
Someone needs to sit our judges and MP's down and explain very carefully the concept of NNTP and the Internet in general.
Hopefully Demon will appeal and win, i'd hate to have Usenet restricted any more than it already is.
I would say that the current situation regarding the so called "dot com" companies is very relevent.
It seems that every day a new company floats on the stock market, and is instantly worth milions of $'s. The companies do not actually make a profit. Where is all this money coming from? Why are people so eager to chuck money at such small companies (reletivly speaking).
If it continues, we're looking at a world wide economic time-bomb. Long standing Blue Chip companies are being replaced on the FTSE 100 by these dot com companies. It's a very shaky situation, and when the bubble bursts we could all be in a lot of trouble.
Personally i have given it 6 months before the stock markets crash because of these dot com's. I'm watching the Nasdeq very carefully.
So such variants as Linux are *NOT* considered Unix.
Wasn't Linux descended from the MINIX source code? And wasn't the MINIX code in turn descended from the Unix source code? Guess that mean Linux is a Unix OS. Oh well.
Hey, I'm not from France either, but it's still interesting. Is this another "It's not in the good US of A, i don't care"/"Wheres Europe Again?" Questions?
Good point. And at 12fps for 15 seconds, it's more likly to cause epileptic fits than any sort of understaning. Still, it is a kick in the balls the the MPAA.
a) He is entitled to his view. This is Slashdot, not Linux lovers anonymous. People can like M$ if they want to, even if you don't
b) Have you read the moderator guidlines? Just because you don't agree with the points raised in the post, doesn't mean that someone cannot say something insightful, or funny, or informative etc.
c) You didn't moderate the post, so the moderator in question obviously had diferent views to you. When you are moderating, you may moderate the guy down. Until then, live with it.
Now, can people stop moaning about the moderators / the fact they posted the "same story weeks ago and it was rejected" / "This isn't news for nerds". Thank you.
When you say sound, do you mean the KDE system sounds, or just any sound output at all?
KDE System sounds don't work for me either, although general audio output works fine (I.E Xmms, Real Player etc).
If it's "no sound at all" then it's gonna be an OSS problem. It works fine here (Redhat 6.1 at the moment, with an AWE32 compatible card). The OSS installer is quiet good, so should tell you if there are any configuration problems. If there are, it usually tells you what you need to do to fix them.
And, as to your last question, why would I want what is now a generalized data-processing system on my palmtop?
That wasn't your original argument. *Any* OS is "a data-processing system", that's the whole point. Input - Process - Output. You seem to be going out of your way to bend the "Linux is a great OS that can do anything" argument all over the shop to suit yourself.
My entire point is, that there are much better choices for a palmtop OS. You even answered most of your points yourself when you said "I use a Psion, and it's never crashed."
This might be obvious, but maybe Psion, and OS that has been designed for a palmtop, and is stable, is a better choice for a palmtop?
O.K, fine, If you want to get all historical. But by the same argument, why would you want a fully featured text processing system on your palmtop?
"Unix has "high overheads"?"
O.K, i'll revise that. You are right, UNIX itself does not have high overheads. But X sure does have high system overheads, and if they want to provide backwards compatibility with existing apps., i assume they'll need some type of X system included.
"to say nothing of "more stable""
Oh please, now you have to be joking. How often do you think a palmtop crashes? Do you have uptime competitions against your friends palmtops? If it's just that you don't want to run WinCE, there are other, better choices. Choose Palm, EPOC etc.
Why are everyone in such a rush to jump on the Linux bandwagon, and ignore the technical aspects?
Linux is derived from UNIX. UNIX is a server OS. It is multi-user, with tough security and relitivly high system overheads. Even getting it into a usable desktop OS is a pretty big hack, so why force a server OS onto a palmtop? What advantages do people think there are to using Linux on a palmtop? Maybe they'll provide an ethernet port and allow multiple users to telnet in? Didn't think so.
The only reason i can see for companies to use Linux is the "Me too!" factor involved.
In #sex* type channels, i have a distinct feeling that, well, all the Females are Male. How many women do you really think would want to have cybersex anyway?
But outside of those channels, you'll probably find that most IRCers who claim to be Female, are indeed Female. For example, i know (At a quick count) 4 women who frequent the same channel as myself and several other men.
IRC isn't the internet equivelent of the Gentlemans Club, but most of the women there are hiding in the corner;)
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forced to use .COM/.NET/.ORG like the rest of us
.com/.net/.org TLD's are non-geographic. The only important thing is the place where your server is hosted. Someone could register a .com site and host it on a Japanese based server, and still get clobered by this ruling.
Just a point, but the
Does this rulling apply to deep linking, or only the first tier of links? If it's deep linking, then i can see a large number of .jp sites disapearing overnight.
First the Dr Godfrey / Demon thing in the UK, now this. I just seriously hope this doesn't become a world-wide trend.
...making our own internet...
Does that mean you're going to build the US/Europe fiber link? Best start saving....;)
I found GNAT (the GNU Ada compiler) on Google.
:)
Um, i think he means Ada Lovelace. Ada the language is named after her, btw. Unless that was meant in humour and i missed it
I would certianly like to see a good textbook that teaches OS design, using the source to a modern OS as examples....
Funnily enough, try the book "Operating Systems Design and Implementation", using none less than the Minix source as an example, written by none other than Mr Tanenbaum & his ascociate Mr Woodhill.
The ISBN, if you prefer, is 0-13-638677-6.
Well, people have long been saying Windows is a virus.
You can evan change CPU's and binaries still run, because they are compiled for a virtual processor ala Java (native binaries are, of course, also possible).
;)
I once had the same idea of writing a portable OS with a VM layer. Someone at Amiga have been nicking my ideas! Good to see it was such a good idea that Amiga have done it though
Excuse me, but how do you run an OS ontop of another OS?
Well, it depends. Obviously running a complete OS on top of another (without using a Virtual Machine), has it's problems. Your OS would be a "normal" user-space app as far as your host OS is concerned, which means no access to privaleged instructions, or low level hardware access.
But you can construct a schedular that runs on the host OS (Think user-space threads), and then build the rest of the OS API (Which can all be done). Device access can be done with stub device drivers that just redirect calls such as Read() to the host OS drivers.
I would guess that this is excatly the sort of thing Amiga are planing to do. When the time comes to get rid of the host OS, the OS API layer doesn't change, and so applications should run pretty much unchanged.
Not the point, this case should have been thrown (laughed?) out of court. For a start, the man clearly had no idea who to sue, so simply went for the ISP who's news server he saw the post on. It just happened that it was Demon who got in the way.
Someone needs to sit our judges and MP's down and explain very carefully the concept of NNTP and the Internet in general.
Hopefully Demon will appeal and win, i'd hate to have Usenet restricted any more than it already is.
I know they have XFree 4, but what else?
XFree 4 is actually one of the things Redhat 6.2 doesn't have. It's been left out for now for a number of (very good) reasons.
I would say that the current situation regarding the so called "dot com" companies is very relevent.
It seems that every day a new company floats on the stock market, and is instantly worth milions of $'s. The companies do not actually make a profit. Where is all this money coming from? Why are people so eager to chuck money at such small companies (reletivly speaking).
If it continues, we're looking at a world wide economic time-bomb. Long standing Blue Chip companies are being replaced on the FTSE 100 by these dot com companies. It's a very shaky situation, and when the bubble bursts we could all be in a lot of trouble.
Personally i have given it 6 months before the stock markets crash because of these dot com's. I'm watching the Nasdeq very carefully.
So such variants as Linux are *NOT* considered Unix.
Wasn't Linux descended from the MINIX source code? And wasn't the MINIX code in turn descended from the Unix source code? Guess that mean Linux is a Unix OS. Oh well.
Hey, I'm not from France either, but it's still interesting. Is this another "It's not in the good US of A, i don't care"/"Wheres Europe Again?" Questions?
Good point. And at 12fps for 15 seconds, it's more likly to cause epileptic fits than any sort of understaning. Still, it is a kick in the balls the the MPAA.
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O.K, a few points:
a) He is entitled to his view. This is Slashdot, not Linux lovers anonymous. People can like M$ if they want to, even if you don't
b) Have you read the moderator guidlines? Just because you don't agree with the points raised in the post, doesn't mean that someone cannot say something insightful, or funny, or informative etc.
c) You didn't moderate the post, so the moderator in question obviously had diferent views to you. When you are moderating, you may moderate the guy down. Until then, live with it.
Now, can people stop moaning about the moderators / the fact they posted the "same story weeks ago and it was rejected" / "This isn't news for nerds". Thank you.
Pong & Visicalc are two. The mouse & pretty much anything that came from Xerox Parc are good examples too :)
So what does flying to far off places give you
;)
You've obviously never read BOFH then. SysAdmins love a junkett, especially when free
Looks fine from where i'm sat, with Netscape on Linux. Shows the date as "Tuesday, February 29, 2000", which if i'm not mistaken, is today ;)
Still if it was a site problem, then it's good to see that site maintainers fixed it so quickly.
When you say sound, do you mean the KDE system sounds, or just any sound output at all?
KDE System sounds don't work for me either, although general audio output works fine (I.E Xmms, Real Player etc).
If it's "no sound at all" then it's gonna be an OSS problem. It works fine here (Redhat 6.1 at the moment, with an AWE32 compatible card). The OSS installer is quiet good, so should tell you if there are any configuration problems. If there are, it usually tells you what you need to do to fix them.
And, as to your last question, why would I want what is now a generalized data-processing system on my palmtop?
That wasn't your original argument. *Any* OS is "a data-processing system", that's the whole point. Input - Process - Output. You seem to be going out of your way to bend the "Linux is a great OS that can do anything" argument all over the shop to suit yourself.
My entire point is, that there are much better choices for a palmtop OS. You even answered most of your points yourself when you said "I use a Psion, and it's never crashed."
This might be obvious, but maybe Psion, and OS that has been designed for a palmtop, and is stable, is a better choice for a palmtop?
"Unix is a text processing system."
O.K, fine, If you want to get all historical. But by the same argument, why would you want a fully featured text processing system on your palmtop?
"Unix has "high overheads"?"
O.K, i'll revise that. You are right, UNIX itself does not have high overheads. But X sure does have high system overheads, and if they want to provide backwards compatibility with existing apps., i assume they'll need some type of X system included.
"to say nothing of "more stable""
Oh please, now you have to be joking. How often do you think a palmtop crashes? Do you have uptime competitions against your friends palmtops? If it's just that you don't want to run WinCE, there are other, better choices. Choose Palm, EPOC etc.
Why are everyone in such a rush to jump on the Linux bandwagon, and ignore the technical aspects?
Linux is derived from UNIX. UNIX is a server OS. It is multi-user, with tough security and relitivly high system overheads. Even getting it into a usable desktop OS is a pretty big hack, so why force a server OS onto a palmtop? What advantages do people think there are to using Linux on a palmtop? Maybe they'll provide an ethernet port and allow multiple users to telnet in? Didn't think so.
The only reason i can see for companies to use Linux is the "Me too!" factor involved.
In #sex* type channels, i have a distinct feeling that, well, all the Females are Male. How many women do you really think would want to have cybersex anyway?
;)
But outside of those channels, you'll probably find that most IRCers who claim to be Female, are indeed Female. For example, i know (At a quick count) 4 women who frequent the same channel as myself and several other men.
IRC isn't the internet equivelent of the Gentlemans Club, but most of the women there are hiding in the corner
Aye, IIRC i picked up a lot of TLA's from IRC buddies. AFAIK they picked them up from other chan's. OTOH, IANAL (I am not a linguist), so CYAL.