Netcraft doesn't look at Ubuntu's stats. It's been rising like crazy over the past year, poking its head up to the top of DistroWatch's average hits/day list for the last 3 months and last month. As to the last 6 months (netcraft looks at this period), Mandrake seems to have the top seat.
Looking at percentage increase, Ubuntu probably beats the pants off of Fedora, rising from an average hits/day of 300 in 2004 to an average hits/day of 1916 in the past month; that's a 638% increase. Using the same math for Fedora, we see a LOSS of 8%.
Of course, this is just a measure of people's interest in DistroWatch's stats on distros... far from complete. However, it shows that increase in Ubuntu is massive. Perhaps bigger than Fedora. Then again, both are very young and very successful; a massive percentage increase should be expected.
put email addresses like content@beijingnet.com everywhere you can and let the spambots pick them up; if they get enough hard-to-block spam, maybe they'll start applying the needed pressure.
Does XFree86 GPL become incompatible?
Sent of demon at the Fr, 30 January 2004 around 10:21
Does a change of the license
regulations will will become the coming version of XFree86
incompatible to the well-known GPL and a linking of GPL applications
to XFree86 "problematic".
Hardly the turbulences in the
XFree86-Lager grew silent, seem a further controversy
from the fence to to break. As David Dawes of the
XFree86-Projekt communicated, the
XFree86-Projekt changes its license on a new version
1.1. A change of the license represents no
point at issue in the reason still, became nevertheless already in the past restrictive licenses of liberals. This time the
situation seems to be however more problematic, because XFree86
becomes more restrictive.
As license can be taken further very much from the
liberal, can be changed, driven out and applied all programs under the
"XFree86 License 1,1" without publication of the source code.
Again was added however a clause, which means that each
distribution and each product, which contain XFree86 must attach a
note either in the documentation or in the application on XFree86
("This product includes software developed by The XFree86 Project,
Inc. (http://www.xfree86.org/) and its contributors"). That is
problematic, as the Free software Foundation already meant in another
case.
The organization had not GPL compatibly classified
the first version of the BSD license in the past as and had expressed
substantialdoubts against a linking
of GPL- and BSD applications. The famous "BSD advertising
clause" does not make the license unfree, cause however practical
problems, including an incompatibility with the GNU GPL, so the
Foundation. In the past the Free software Foundation
guessed/advised to use the straight XFree86-Lizenz because it was to a
large extent with the BSD license compatible and the notorious clause
does not contain. Thus conclusion might probably be, because a
determination of the BSD clause as "GPL incompatible" makes
automatically also the new XFree86-Lizenz for GPL applications
"problematic".
Which follows from the earlier declaration of the BSD
license, could extensive consequences both for the Distributoren as
well as for other manufacturers have. Thus GPL applications may
be linked against an GPL incompatible library, this require however a note in
the source code - a condition, which will fulfill hardly an
application. If this note is not contained, linking is not
permitted.
Thus either if XFree86 should not change their license or
the Free software Foundation their declaration, then the current
version of XFree86 will be probably also last release delivered by the
Distributoren. Because it is questionable whether Distributoren
get involved in a "problematic" use. Options during a
non--change might be eith
Love of Monsters, by Nancy A. Collins, 1994.
NOT mentioned on amazon or in white wolf's own catalog.
it did exist, as you can find it on google.
perhaps the book was completely inaccessible
and the only thing ripped off was World of Darkness?
looks like a win95+cygwin repackage ...
on
SkyOS GUI Contest
·
· Score: 1, Interesting
that page doesn't do much to explain what it is.
there are screenshots of skyos running photoshop and quicktime,
and in addition, there are icons for MS Internet Explorer, Adobe Acrobat, ICQ, and WinAMP.
i'd really like to think that the sole developer did this all on his own.
but it seems more likely that he hacked the hell out of win95 with help from cygwin,
violating the gpl and ms eula
(or perhaps linux and wine, violating just the gpl).
please prove me wrong!
hopefully the only violation here is the failure to release the ported code
to all those open source projects used, and that can be rectified.
there is no way all of those projects work seamlessly without any modification
...unless this is a win32 kernel.
SCO's legal theory fails, because they ignore the fact that if a work doesn't contain some portion of SCO's copyrighted code, it is not a derived work.
the code regarding the supposed "obfuscated copying" was actually "a clean-room re-implementation... sharing none of the original source code, but carefully following the documentation of the Lab's product."
since bruce is active on slashdot (uid 3872), it's only a matter of time before he responds to these allegations more directly, both here and to mcbride.
In copyright law, ownership cannot be transferred without express, written authority of a copyright holder. Some have claimed that, because SCO software code was present in software distributed under the GPL, SCO has forfeited its rights to this code. Not so - SCO never gave permission, or granted rights, for this to happen.
Transfer of copyright ownership without express written authority of all proper parties is null and void.
Use of derivative rights in copyrighted material is defined by the scope of a license grant. An authorized derivative work may not be used beyond the scope of a license grant. License grants regarding derivative works vary from license to license - some are broad and some are narrow. In other words, the license itself defines the scope of permissive use, and licensees agree to be bound by that definition.
so this suggests... mr mcbride doesn't understand the gpl?
the gpl gives express permission to modify and reproduce freely... is this a direct challenge on the strength of the gpl?
or is he claiming that sco never released this code under the gpl?
Re:All Your Base is post-Dot Com
on
Dotcom Era Fads
·
· Score: 1
Palestinians, being semites themselves, can hardly be anti-semitics...
Somebody's not paying attention.
Semite means of the Semetic peoples, ie those in and around the Arab world
but 'anti-semite' has been tied to the jewish people for a long time.
Even your own source agrees with me (emphasis in dictionary):
Main Entry: anti-Semitism
Pronunciation: "an-ti-'se-m&-"ti-z&m, "an-"tI-
Function: noun
Date: 1882
: hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group
Main Entry: Semitic
Pronunciation: s&-'mi-tik also -'me-
Function: adjective
Etymology: German semitisch, from Semit, Semite Semite, probably from New Latin Semita, from Late Latin Semitic Shem
Date: 1813
1 : of, relating to, or constituting a subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic language family that includes Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and Amharic
2 : of, relating to, or characteristic of the Semites
3 : JEWISH
you forgot about debian's fierce attentiveness to genuine Free Software,
which the article acutally called "Debian's devotion to the purity of truly Open Source licences."
that aside, debian will soon have support for the "better" free software kernels (bsd and hurd),
which will attract the more technical users when they abandon linux as too mainstream, monolithic, and bogged down by politics.
i hope debian does some work on OpenBSD or attempts reaching its security reputation.
my current home system is an OpenBSD box and a Debian GNU/Linux box
I look forward to changing it to Debian/OpenBSD and Debian/HURD.
you are correct.
from bug 195280 comments 76 and 77:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195280 #c76
nnooiissee:
So just to clarify, 1.4 will ship with mng support, correct?
Stuart Parmenter: Yes. This was landed on the trunk and will not effect 1.4 at all.
bug 18574, restore support for MNG animation format and JNG image format,
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18574
has been reopened to address this.
it is being removed to reduce the footprint by a few hundred kB,
but as Bill Gates (our hero) said in 1981,
"640K ought to be enough for anyone."
put it back in!
5. Notice of Automatic Software Updates from Sun. You acknowledge
that the Software may automatically download, install, and execute
applets, applications, software extensions, and updated versions of
the Software from Sun ("Software Updates"), which may require you to
accept updated terms and conditions for installation. If additional
terms and conditions are not presented on installation, the Software
Updates will be considered part of the Software and subject to the
terms and conditions of the Agreement
6. Notice of Automatic Downloads. You acknowledge that, by your use
of the Software and/or by requesting services that require use of the
Software, the Software may automatically download, install, and
execute software applications from sources other than Sun ("Other
Software"). Sun makes no representations of a relationship of any
kind to licensors of Other Software....
Java for Mozilla will require this!
that's right, mozilla 1.4final and up will need java 1.4.2+ (due to gcc3.2.x),
which means you need to agree to those terms if you want java.
see mozilla bug 204236, http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204236
(bugzilla blocks direct links from slashdot; you'll have to copy & paste.)
wow, i always assumed 7-zip had a command-line interface for linux and cygwin.
it does not.
in fact, it only has a distribution for windows.
website claims it works with wine, though.
if i still used win2k, i'd be on this in seconds;
the interface looks very usable, better than winzip or power archiver (imho).
the parent post forgot to mention:
the.7z format has the highest general compression algorithm out there.
it accepts windows extended characters in passwords
(so a password could be "can't#cRaCk;me[alt+0233]!")
the 'advanced zip recovery' tool from elcomsoft didn't deal with those by default
and it (used to) take forever to crack a 255^20 complexity password.
(just don't get stuck entering the password in unix or dos!)
then i switched to gpg.
it's my fault.
i hold pens "like a lefty" but in my right hand, sort of "upside-down"
makes for a ink/lead-stained hand after a notes-intensive class.
my fingertips ALL touch the pen as i write.
i didn't start typing until well after developing this
and didn't start touch-typing for another ~5 years.
i hate it when i fall into these (assumption) boats...
besides, i can't remember the last time i could acutally read a (non-english) teacher's handwriting.
the world would be a lot better off if everybody handwrote in print rather than script.
for those who think there is personalization, etc from script, guess what?
as the world starts typing everything,
handwritten messages will take that position regardless of print vs script.
Umm, so logically, you think that stealing is the same thing as trespassing? no, i never said that
I know it is common practice for PI's to grab garbage from the street. that's the street. this is about a private dumpster on private property. take a look at the top of this thread, where somebody points that out and asks about dumpsters.
it's a good thing you disregarded everything i've said;
all i was doing was pointing out that if it isn't stealing, diving into a corporate dumpster on private property is likely tresspassing.
referring to the parking lot being public argument:
parking lots are not public. the ones that care about your being there will post notice of such.
If the dumpster sits in the parking lot? I imagine that the store expects people to use the parking lot, therefor, being in the parking lot shouldn't be trespassing. I wouldn't think jumping into a dumpser (aka trash receptacle) on property where you are allowed would be considered trespassing.
so, logically, you won't mind if i take stuff from your car through the opened window.
chances are that with a dumpster, they don't care and/or won't notice,
but the trash is still theirs and they still have the right to retrieve it at the last second.
i don't see use in realtime irc reporting, but the stats page is interesting.
i only wish it were more informative;
quantity would be better served by icons or even colors;
the more active are brighter and the less active duller.
i would like to see "average day in past week/month/year" as a ratio comparing to total,
so for example the entry for week could read "19:133"
meaning there were 19 commits in the average day last week.
this would better show changes in activity.
the question is where you draw the line;
trash is public domain, but if it is in a nonpublic dumpster, is it trash yet?
at what point does it cross over into public domain?
since i am in no way an authority on the matter,
i say the trash is public domain (it is marked as 'trash')
but the dumpster location means you're tresspassing to dig in it.
anything you take is yours if you're caught, but you still get caught for being there.
Slashdot Mirror
Netcraft doesn't look at Ubuntu's stats. It's been rising like crazy over the past year, poking its head up to the top of DistroWatch's average hits/day list for the last 3 months and last month. As to the last 6 months (netcraft looks at this period), Mandrake seems to have the top seat.
Looking at percentage increase, Ubuntu probably beats the pants off of Fedora, rising from an average hits/day of 300 in 2004 to an average hits/day of 1916 in the past month; that's a 638% increase. Using the same math for Fedora, we see a LOSS of 8%.
Of course, this is just a measure of people's interest in DistroWatch's stats on distros ... far from complete. However, it shows that increase in Ubuntu is massive. Perhaps bigger than Fedora. Then again, both are very young and very successful; a massive percentage increase should be expected.
That's odd; the New York Times just bought half of the Boston Metro, a freely distributed paper.
put email addresses like content@beijingnet.com everywhere you can and let the spambots pick them up; if they get enough hard-to-block spam, maybe they'll start applying the needed pressure.
looking at Palm, iPAQ, and iPod sizes
The picture makes it look like it is quite thick ... I wonder how it will compare to the above.
SD memory for palms is rapidly improving; soon, larger capacities will be cheaper, making a $250 1GB+ palm smaller and better than this toy.
(note, I have posted on this before)
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl? url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pro-linux.de%2Fnews%2F2004%2F 6414.html&lp=de_en&tt=url
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Does XFree86 GPL become incompatible?
Sent of demon at the Fr, 30 January 2004 around 10:21
Does a change of the license regulations will will become the coming version of XFree86 incompatible to the well-known GPL and a linking of GPL applications to XFree86 "problematic".
Hardly the turbulences in the XFree86-Lager grew silent, seem a further controversy from the fence to to break. As David Dawes of the XFree86-Projekt communicated, the XFree86-Projekt changes its license on a new version 1.1. A change of the license represents no point at issue in the reason still, became nevertheless already in the past restrictive licenses of liberals. This time the situation seems to be however more problematic, because XFree86 becomes more restrictive.
As license can be taken further very much from the liberal, can be changed, driven out and applied all programs under the "XFree86 License 1,1" without publication of the source code. Again was added however a clause, which means that each distribution and each product, which contain XFree86 must attach a note either in the documentation or in the application on XFree86 ("This product includes software developed by The XFree86 Project, Inc. (http://www.xfree86.org/) and its contributors"). That is problematic, as the Free software Foundation already meant in another case.
The organization had not GPL compatibly classified the first version of the BSD license in the past as and had expressed substantial doubts against a linking of GPL- and BSD applications. The famous "BSD advertising clause" does not make the license unfree, cause however practical problems, including an incompatibility with the GNU GPL, so the Foundation. In the past the Free software Foundation guessed/advised to use the straight XFree86-Lizenz because it was to a large extent with the BSD license compatible and the notorious clause does not contain. Thus conclusion might probably be, because a determination of the BSD clause as "GPL incompatible" makes automatically also the new XFree86-Lizenz for GPL applications "problematic".
Which follows from the earlier declaration of the BSD license, could extensive consequences both for the Distributoren as well as for other manufacturers have. Thus GPL applications may be linked against an GPL incompatible library, this require however a note in the source code - a condition, which will fulfill hardly an application. If this note is not contained, linking is not permitted.
Thus either if XFree86 should not change their license or the Free software Foundation their declaration, then the current version of XFree86 will be probably also last release delivered by the Distributoren. Because it is questionable whether Distributoren get involved in a "problematic" use. Options during a non--change might be eith
Love of Monsters, by Nancy A. Collins, 1994.
NOT mentioned on amazon or in white wolf's own catalog.
it did exist, as you can find it on google.
perhaps the book was completely inaccessible
and the only thing ripped off was World of Darkness?
that page doesn't do much to explain what it is.
there are screenshots of skyos running photoshop and quicktime,
and in addition, there are icons for MS Internet Explorer, Adobe Acrobat, ICQ, and WinAMP.
i'd really like to think that the sole developer did this all on his own.
but it seems more likely that he hacked the hell out of win95 with help from cygwin,
violating the gpl and ms eula
(or perhaps linux and wine, violating just the gpl).
please prove me wrong!
hopefully the only violation here is the failure to release the ported code
to all those open source projects used, and that can be rectified.
there is no way all of those projects work seamlessly without any modification
...unless this is a win32 kernel.
Analysis of SCO's Las Vegas Slide Show, http://perens.com/SCO/SCOSlideShow.html
... sharing none of the original source code, but carefully following the documentation of the Lab's product."
SCO's legal theory fails, because they ignore the fact that if a work doesn't contain some portion of SCO's copyrighted code, it is not a derived work.
the code regarding the supposed "obfuscated copying" was actually "a clean-room re-implementation
since bruce is active on slashdot (uid 3872),
it's only a matter of time before he responds to these allegations more directly,
both here and to mcbride.
so this suggests
the gpl gives express permission to modify and reproduce freely...
is this a direct challenge on the strength of the gpl?
or is he claiming that sco never released this code under the gpl?
that's what i was thinking ...
all my base are still belong to you!
Palestinians, being semites themselves, can hardly be anti-semitics...
Somebody's not paying attention.
Semite means of the Semetic peoples, ie those in and around the Arab world
but 'anti-semite' has been tied to the jewish people for a long time.
Even your own source agrees with me (emphasis in dictionary):
Main Entry: anti-Semitism
Pronunciation: "an-ti-'se-m&-"ti-z&m, "an-"tI-
Function: noun
Date: 1882
: hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group
Main Entry: Semitic
Pronunciation: s&-'mi-tik also -'me-
Function: adjective
Etymology: German semitisch, from Semit, Semite Semite, probably from New Latin Semita, from Late Latin Semitic Shem
Date: 1813
1 : of, relating to, or constituting a subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic language family that includes Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and Amharic
2 : of, relating to, or characteristic of the Semites
3 : JEWISH
you misquoted me.
i very purposefully outlined why mainstream was bad in the same sentence:
too mainstream, monolithic, and bogged down by politics.
my first comma there might have been better suited as a semi-colon.
if i was picking my OS based on "l33t obscurity," i would already be running hurd.
you forgot about debian's fierce attentiveness to genuine Free Software,
which the article acutally called "Debian's devotion to the purity of truly Open Source licences."
that aside, debian will soon have support for the "better" free software kernels (bsd and hurd),
which will attract the more technical users when they abandon linux
as too mainstream, monolithic, and bogged down by politics.
i hope debian does some work on OpenBSD or attempts reaching its security reputation.
my current home system is an OpenBSD box and a Debian GNU/Linux box
I look forward to changing it to Debian/OpenBSD and Debian/HURD.
from bug 195280 comments 76 and 77:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19528
bug 18574, restore support for MNG animation format and JNG image format,
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18574
has been reopened to address this.
it is being removed to reduce the footprint by a few hundred kB,
but as Bill Gates (our hero) said in 1981,
"640K ought to be enough for anyone."
put it back in!
that's right, mozilla 1.4final and up will need java 1.4.2+ (due to gcc3.2.x),
which means you need to agree to those terms if you want java. see mozilla bug 204236,
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20423
(bugzilla blocks direct links from slashdot; you'll have to copy & paste.)
only saw that it wasn't much of a priority
here is the linux support request on sourceforge's system
urm.
i first read this and thought boeing and delta airlines had teamed up
to back this opreation, but it's got NASA's name on it.
no mention of boeing's involvement in the space.com article;
what's up? (ignore pun)
wow, i always assumed 7-zip had a command-line interface for linux and cygwin.
.7z format has the highest general compression algorithm out there.
it does not.
in fact, it only has a distribution for windows.
website claims it works with wine, though.
if i still used win2k, i'd be on this in seconds;
the interface looks very usable, better than winzip or power archiver (imho).
the parent post forgot to mention:
the
it accepts windows extended characters in passwords
(so a password could be "can't#cRaCk;me[alt+0233]!")
the 'advanced zip recovery' tool from elcomsoft didn't deal with those by default
and it (used to) take forever to crack a 255^20 complexity password.
(just don't get stuck entering the password in unix or dos!)
then i switched to gpg.
it's my fault.
i hold pens "like a lefty" but in my right hand, sort of "upside-down"
makes for a ink/lead-stained hand after a notes-intensive class.
my fingertips ALL touch the pen as i write.
i didn't start typing until well after developing this
and didn't start touch-typing for another ~5 years.
i hate it when i fall into these (assumption) boats...
besides, i can't remember the last time i could acutally read a (non-english) teacher's handwriting.
the world would be a lot better off if everybody handwrote in print rather than script.
for those who think there is personalization, etc from script, guess what?
as the world starts typing everything,
handwritten messages will take that position regardless of print vs script.
sadly, he won't get 12000 /.'ers.
especially with no direct link to donations.
as copied from google's cache of chewplastic.com,
which is back online.
think about it this way, people:
it could have been nearly any of us.
i've donated $30 and i hope others can feel as generous.
Umm, so logically, you think that stealing is the same thing as trespassing?
no, i never said that
I know it is common practice for PI's to grab garbage from the street.
that's the street. this is about a private dumpster on private property.
take a look at the top of this thread, where somebody points that out and asks about dumpsters.
it's a good thing you disregarded everything i've said;
all i was doing was pointing out that if it isn't stealing,
diving into a corporate dumpster on private property is likely tresspassing.
referring to the parking lot being public argument:
parking lots are not public. the ones that care about your being there will post notice of such.
If the dumpster sits in the parking lot? I imagine that the store expects people to use the parking lot, therefor, being in the parking lot shouldn't be trespassing. I wouldn't think jumping into a dumpser (aka trash receptacle) on property where you are allowed would be considered trespassing.
so, logically, you won't mind if i take stuff from your car through the opened window.
chances are that with a dumpster, they don't care and/or won't notice,
but the trash is still theirs and they still have the right to retrieve it at the last second.
i don't see use in realtime irc reporting, but the stats page is interesting.
i only wish it were more informative;
quantity would be better served by icons or even colors;
the more active are brighter and the less active duller.
i would like to see "average day in past week/month/year" as a ratio comparing to total,
so for example the entry for week could read "19:133"
meaning there were 19 commits in the average day last week.
this would better show changes in activity.
the question is where you draw the line;
trash is public domain, but if it is in a nonpublic dumpster, is it trash yet?
at what point does it cross over into public domain?
since i am in no way an authority on the matter,
i say the trash is public domain (it is marked as 'trash')
but the dumpster location means you're tresspassing to dig in it.
anything you take is yours if you're caught, but you still get caught for being there.