I took an intro to CS class last year, and we were programming in C++. I remember being marked down by 50% because, even with the Makefile I supplied, the guy who was grading couldn't get it to compile under Visual C++.
Mind you, I had no trouble under g++. My prof, an emacs junkie, later reversed the grading decision.
I've found Richochet to be quite good at deciphering the SPAM headers in my inbox and sending notices to the appropriate abuse departments. The FAQ even has a key-binding line for mutt.
I'm not sure if I read it correctly, but did it read that the basic LX install did NOT include the source code? So are they shipping a version that violates the GPL? I did see that the upgraded more expensive version includes 3 additional CD's, with one of them being marked as the source code disk. Could someone clear this up for me?
That isn't a violation - the source just has to be available, for a reasonable amount. Several good comments were posted in the Shawn Gordon story - see here, here and, of course, here.
You named exactly one format: TeX (LaTeX is just a macro package on top of TeX).
LaTeX and TeX are both very different in usage; LaTeX very clearly focuses on Layout, whereas TeX is much more about typesetting. I felt the differences were such as to warrant a distinction between the two.
And TeX is really a pain in the ass.
I found TeX to be a pain in the ass to get specific results at an introductory level; but, as I stated above, it is much more directed as specific typesetting. I felt LaTeX was much easier to approach as a beginner.
Also, say what you want about DOC/PDF, but they have supports for these new and fancy things called fonts and something called layout, which makes them slightly more useful for serious stuff.
As do TeX, LaTeX and various other formats that are stored in plain text.
It's too bad that they used a non-commercial license... Just seems like it would be so much better if other companies could take it and turn it into commercial software. Right, Craig?;-)
So it's a problem when the GPL prevents proprietization of software, but when the MS one even prevents selling it, or using it for commercial work...
My feelings
on
SSSCA Hearing
·
· Score: 3, Insightful
Honestly, I don't particularly care if Windows gets built in DRM - unless somebody can convince me otherwise - because I don't use it.
But, see, the thing is, this mandates DRM - to Hollywood's specs - not only in Windows, but in Linux, *BSD, MacOS, PalmOS, and every single device I own. That's unreasonable.
If I'm told that I'm not allowed to use FreeBSD anymore because the TCP stack doesn't check incoming packets for copyrighted material, and because FFS lets me store mp3's, then I'm going to be really pissed. If I'm told that there are going to be some components that can no longer be 'open source' - or, more importantly, Free Software - I'm going to be really pissed. If every hard drive that I see in the store has built in DRM, I'm going to be even more pissed.
Well, guess what? That's what this bill says. My rights are getting pissed on by this bill, and it pisses me off. I'm calling my reps and telling them that if they vote for it I will not vote for them.
Leaves a watermark... doesn't use plugins... non-commercial format...
Ok, so is this a demo? I'm confused as to what seperates this from, say, CoolEdit Pro Demo or Paint Shop Pro, or any of the other semi-crippled products available for test use.
I was curious about this - on my system, I've got a particular GTK theme set. It looks terrible. But when I use "startkde" in.xinitrc, all the GTK stuff looks very nice - consistent with the KDE theme, as well as with the KDE widget style.
If this is the case, why do we need any more integration?
Yeah, I tend to agree with most of the other comments here - he seems to be getting more and more self-indulgent, more and more self-enthralled. Let's see if we can take a look at his filmography, courtesy of the IMDB.
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Hannibal (2001)
Gladiator (2000)
G.I. Jane (1997)
White Squall (1996)
1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) ... aka 1492: Christophe Colomb (1992) (France) ... aka 1492: La conquête du paradis (1992) ... aka 1492: la conquista del paraíso (1992) (Spain)
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Black Rain (1989)
Someone to Watch Over Me (1987)
Legend (1985)
Blade Runner (1982)
Alien (1979)
Duellists, The (1977)
"Informer, The" (1966) TV Series
"Adam Adamant Lives!" (1966) TV Series
"Z Cars" (1962) TV Series
The only ones of those that I can even stand to watch are Blade Runner, Alien, and to a lesser extent Hannibal. Yeah - BR and Alien are outstanding, utter masterpieces. But why the hell does he have such a reputation for 'excellence' when he hasn't made a drop-dead, universally recognized classic since 1982?
Then again, maybe I'm missing something. Did anybody else absolutely love any of his other movies?
Second, telnet doesn't allow you to log in directly as root.
Heh, I didn't know that. But how does SSH behave with respect to a no root password situation? Does it just turn it over? (And yeah, this time I *do* know that SSH has a AllowRootLogins parameter.:) I recognize that it seems like RedFlag doesn't have ssh turned on, but hypothetically how does it work? (I'm not about to test my system out...;-)
Ok, as far as I can tell, this wasn't written by Roblimo, but by Matt Michie.
Also, I noticed this sentence to be a bit odd - "...although one thing I immediately noted was that they included Xine, which plays DVDs, DivX, AVI, and other media..." I find it odd that the author didn't note that, probably more importantly, Xine is a great VCD player. My understanding is that the Chinese pirate market is based very heavily on VCD's - I suspect having an Xine icon on the desktop is indicative of the extent of the VCD influence.
I would definitely like to hear what everyone's opinion on the NMAP results are, as I'm not knowledgable enough to know which are vulnerable and which aren't. More curiously, though, I wonder if the NMAP results were localized to the 192 network via some firewalling script, or if an external IP would have gotten the same results.
I also want to note that nmap'ing was probably superfluous, in the circumstances - all that was really needed to crash the system is logging in as a passwordless root on telnet, which is an extraordinarily wide open hole.
Then again, I imagine the english-only version would be expected to be run mostly outside of the People's Republic. Perhaps the localized version would indeed come with a root password. Hmm... Insidious plot?;-)
I think that this story should definitely be followed up by an analysis of the localized version. Too bad I'm a mono-lingual individual. (Shh, don't tell my University or they won't let me graduate!:)
People bitch about the DMCA but if Blizzard comes out with a must have game, will you go out and buy it anyway ?
Will I? No. I most certainly won't. But I don't think everyone will do the same - this is the same old "Hey, this game isn't out for Linux, so rather than holding out I'll buy it for Windows" situation. It seems like so many people are willing to use Free Software or go without - except when it comes to games.
It's almost like these games are the weakest link in the Free Software community - like they are the single hold that the community gives away to closed-source, proprietary vendors.
And if we don't use this as a great opportunity to stick it back to Blizzard, they win. I for one will not buy another Blizzard game - and will actively dissuade others from doing the same - until this matter is resolved to my satisfaction. Much the same way that I do not purchase or use Microsoft products, Adobe products (although the reason for that has since been reduced) or, as of this morning, Nintendo products.
We have to stand up as a community, people! Don't take this shit any longer.
No, not because of the improvements in Konq, KFM, or any of those - not even the multi-key shortcuts.
I just want to be able to use KMail for my Maildir mailboxes. I know there are hacks, workarounds, all that - but I don't want those. I just want to be able to plug in and go. Right now I use Mutt, but sometime in the future I'd like to be able to do some of the things it doesn't - like inline HTML viewing. KMail won't be for regular use, I guarantee it, but it will certainly be a nice complement to mutt.
A very close second is the switching of desktops when dragging a window - that's on the "KDE 3 List" and it's definitely something I miss from E. I don't know if it's going to be in 3, but I also really miss the ability to "walk off the edges" of the desktop and switch to a different virtual desktop. I've got the keyboard shortcuts set up, but it just isn't the same.
...and can be ported to Windows, *BSD, and Mac OS X.
hell, why stop there? i've always wanted a Myth 2 server that'd run through my hotsync cradle, or, alternatively, through my official sega broadband adaptor.
If you check out some of the older developments that concerned Space Quest 7, it doesn't look entirely rosy. They wanted to make it multiplayer, or 3-D, or one of many different things that kind of stole away from the charm of the first six games. If I remember correctly, number 6 even came with an AVI advertising the seventh game, which was in development at that time. So is this a new project, or just a revisitation of the old?
And more importantly, are either of the Two Guys from Andromeda involved?
Well, DIVX was hindered by the need for a "DIVX-enabled" drive. In addition, that "DIVX-enabled" player had to be connected to a phone line, and all in all it was a rather poor setup.
I suspect that, down the road, somebody will discover that these cause damage to some players, and this will all blow up in a firestorm. Let's hope these two companies did their homework really well.
Or, hell, we could all just still buy the real ones.
PC/Computing used to run a series of pretty nasty tests on laptops once a year - stuff like spilling coffee, oven-roasting, ladder dropping, and so on. Is that magazine still around? I cancelled my sub when they dropped Penn Jillette in like 1994.
Well, I'm turning eleventy-one on the same day my nephew is turning thirty-three, so I think we're going to hold a big joint party. I've got a big surprise planned for the ending - so keep your eyes peeled.
Slashdot Mirror
If that gets added the the ports collection, it's definitely going in my cvsup "refuse" file.
I took an intro to CS class last year, and we were programming in C++. I remember being marked down by 50% because, even with the Makefile I supplied, the guy who was grading couldn't get it to compile under Visual C++.
Mind you, I had no trouble under g++. My prof, an emacs junkie, later reversed the grading decision.
Reading the headers gives a different story ...
I've found Richochet to be quite good at deciphering the SPAM headers in my inbox and sending notices to the appropriate abuse departments. The FAQ even has a key-binding line for mutt.
I'm not sure if I read it correctly, but did it read that the basic LX install did NOT include the source code? So are they shipping a version that violates the GPL? I did see that the upgraded more expensive version includes 3 additional CD's, with one of them being marked as the source code disk. Could someone clear this up for me?
That isn't a violation - the source just has to be available, for a reasonable amount. Several good comments were posted in the Shawn Gordon story - see here, here and, of course, here.
You named exactly one format: TeX (LaTeX is just a macro package on top of TeX).
LaTeX and TeX are both very different in usage; LaTeX very clearly focuses on Layout, whereas TeX is much more about typesetting. I felt the differences were such as to warrant a distinction between the two.
And TeX is really a pain in the ass.
I found TeX to be a pain in the ass to get specific results at an introductory level; but, as I stated above, it is much more directed as specific typesetting. I felt LaTeX was much easier to approach as a beginner.
Also, say what you want about DOC/PDF, but they have supports for these new and fancy things called fonts and something called layout, which makes them slightly more useful for serious stuff.
As do TeX, LaTeX and various other formats that are stored in plain text.
It's too bad that they used a non-commercial license... Just seems like it would be so much better if other companies could take it and turn it into commercial software. Right, Craig? ;-)
So it's a problem when the GPL prevents proprietization of software, but when the MS one even prevents selling it, or using it for commercial work...
Honestly, I don't particularly care if Windows gets built in DRM - unless somebody can convince me otherwise - because I don't use it.
But, see, the thing is, this mandates DRM - to Hollywood's specs - not only in Windows, but in Linux, *BSD, MacOS, PalmOS, and every single device I own. That's unreasonable.
If I'm told that I'm not allowed to use FreeBSD anymore because the TCP stack doesn't check incoming packets for copyrighted material, and because FFS lets me store mp3's, then I'm going to be really pissed. If I'm told that there are going to be some components that can no longer be 'open source' - or, more importantly, Free Software - I'm going to be really pissed. If every hard drive that I see in the store has built in DRM, I'm going to be even more pissed.
Well, guess what? That's what this bill says. My rights are getting pissed on by this bill, and it pisses me off. I'm calling my reps and telling them that if they vote for it I will not vote for them.
Leaves a watermark... doesn't use plugins... non-commercial format...
Ok, so is this a demo? I'm confused as to what seperates this from, say, CoolEdit Pro Demo or Paint Shop Pro, or any of the other semi-crippled products available for test use.
Anybody know?
I was curious about this - on my system, I've got a particular GTK theme set. It looks terrible. But when I use "startkde" in .xinitrc, all the GTK stuff looks very nice - consistent with the KDE theme, as well as with the KDE widget style.
If this is the case, why do we need any more integration?
The only ones of those that I can even stand to watch are Blade Runner, Alien, and to a lesser extent Hannibal. Yeah - BR and Alien are outstanding, utter masterpieces. But why the hell does he have such a reputation for 'excellence' when he hasn't made a drop-dead, universally recognized classic since 1982?
Then again, maybe I'm missing something. Did anybody else absolutely love any of his other movies?
Second, telnet doesn't allow you to log in directly as root.
:) I recognize that it seems like RedFlag doesn't have ssh turned on, but hypothetically how does it work? (I'm not about to test my system out... ;-)
Heh, I didn't know that. But how does SSH behave with respect to a no root password situation? Does it just turn it over? (And yeah, this time I *do* know that SSH has a AllowRootLogins parameter.
Ok, as far as I can tell, this wasn't written by Roblimo, but by Matt Michie.
;-)
:)
Also, I noticed this sentence to be a bit odd - "...although one thing I immediately noted was that they included Xine, which plays DVDs, DivX, AVI, and other media..." I find it odd that the author didn't note that, probably more importantly, Xine is a great VCD player. My understanding is that the Chinese pirate market is based very heavily on VCD's - I suspect having an Xine icon on the desktop is indicative of the extent of the VCD influence.
I would definitely like to hear what everyone's opinion on the NMAP results are, as I'm not knowledgable enough to know which are vulnerable and which aren't. More curiously, though, I wonder if the NMAP results were localized to the 192 network via some firewalling script, or if an external IP would have gotten the same results.
I also want to note that nmap'ing was probably superfluous, in the circumstances - all that was really needed to crash the system is logging in as a passwordless root on telnet, which is an extraordinarily wide open hole.
Then again, I imagine the english-only version would be expected to be run mostly outside of the People's Republic. Perhaps the localized version would indeed come with a root password. Hmm... Insidious plot?
I think that this story should definitely be followed up by an analysis of the localized version. Too bad I'm a mono-lingual individual. (Shh, don't tell my University or they won't let me graduate!
People bitch about the DMCA but if Blizzard comes out with a must have game, will you go out and buy it anyway ?
Will I? No. I most certainly won't. But I don't think everyone will do the same - this is the same old "Hey, this game isn't out for Linux, so rather than holding out I'll buy it for Windows" situation. It seems like so many people are willing to use Free Software or go without - except when it comes to games.
It's almost like these games are the weakest link in the Free Software community - like they are the single hold that the community gives away to closed-source, proprietary vendors.
And if we don't use this as a great opportunity to stick it back to Blizzard, they win. I for one will not buy another Blizzard game - and will actively dissuade others from doing the same - until this matter is resolved to my satisfaction. Much the same way that I do not purchase or use Microsoft products, Adobe products (although the reason for that has since been reduced) or, as of this morning, Nintendo products.
We have to stand up as a community, people! Don't take this shit any longer.
...the words of Yakkof Smirnof (or some spelling variation thereof,) in Communist Russia, Computer crash you!
The best geek watch, in my opinion, is the Hamilton Ventura - sported by two of the masters of Science Fiction, Rod Serling and JMS.
I know I'd go nuts if I got one.
I'm really looking forward to KDE 3.
No, not because of the move to QT3.
No, not because of the improvements in Konq, KFM, or any of those - not even the multi-key shortcuts.
I just want to be able to use KMail for my Maildir mailboxes. I know there are hacks, workarounds, all that - but I don't want those. I just want to be able to plug in and go. Right now I use Mutt, but sometime in the future I'd like to be able to do some of the things it doesn't - like inline HTML viewing. KMail won't be for regular use, I guarantee it, but it will certainly be a nice complement to mutt.
A very close second is the switching of desktops when dragging a window - that's on the "KDE 3 List" and it's definitely something I miss from E. I don't know if it's going to be in 3, but I also really miss the ability to "walk off the edges" of the desktop and switch to a different virtual desktop. I've got the keyboard shortcuts set up, but it just isn't the same.
The KDE FreeBSD project is a fairly small, but interesting, site. I still build from ports, though.
...and can be ported to Windows, *BSD, and Mac OS X.
hell, why stop there? i've always wanted a Myth 2 server that'd run through my hotsync cradle, or, alternatively, through my official sega broadband adaptor.
If you check out some of the older developments that concerned Space Quest 7, it doesn't look entirely rosy. They wanted to make it multiplayer, or 3-D, or one of many different things that kind of stole away from the charm of the first six games. If I remember correctly, number 6 even came with an AVI advertising the seventh game, which was in development at that time. So is this a new project, or just a revisitation of the old?
And more importantly, are either of the Two Guys from Andromeda involved?
Well, DIVX was hindered by the need for a "DIVX-enabled" drive. In addition, that "DIVX-enabled" player had to be connected to a phone line, and all in all it was a rather poor setup.
I suspect that, down the road, somebody will discover that these cause damage to some players, and this will all blow up in a firestorm. Let's hope these two companies did their homework really well.
Or, hell, we could all just still buy the real ones.
TechQuarium is a great site for Mac Aquariums and so on.
To be fair, he did distinguish between the NT security policy and the new .NET security policy, which he compared much more to a sandbox system.
PC/Computing used to run a series of pretty nasty tests on laptops once a year - stuff like spilling coffee, oven-roasting, ladder dropping, and so on. Is that magazine still around? I cancelled my sub when they dropped Penn Jillette in like 1994.
Well, I'm turning eleventy-one on the same day my nephew is turning thirty-three, so I think we're going to hold a big joint party. I've got a big surprise planned for the ending - so keep your eyes peeled.