I have a copy of the original Unreal Tournament that has worked on every install of Debian and Ubuntu I've had since 2001. If the developer knows what they're doing then binary only games that are robust over time and variants are possible. No "compile troubleshooting" required.
Pinning binary packages is a bad idea but source debs between whatever the current flavor of Ubuntu is and Sid/Testing are highly compatible. They should be. The bulk of Ubuntu is a snapshot of Sid that gets some QC and Ubuntu specific bits added. The few times I've wanted something newer that the Ubuntu repos had, I'd just build the Sid source deb in Ubuntu. apt-get build-dep is your friend here since of course the build dependencies and names are the same. There was one time Ubuntu had a newer spamassassin and I built an Ubuntu source deb and installed it on a Lenny Debian I was running but I generally do this in the other direction.
I basically treat Ubuntu as the QCed Sid snapshot that it basically is.
Yes but betamax cassettes don't have the capability to see exactly what you are copying and determine if it should be allowed or not.
More often than not, neither does the storage locker site. The files are increasingly encrypted zips or rars. The password to decrypt them is given out in forum threads or other out-of-band means.
You generally don't get to play ps3 games "within minutes". Count on at least 15 minutes for the game to install to the hd and another half hour to patch itself. First time I saw that behaviour, I thought I was gaming on a pc..........
When it comes to rooting a phone, you are essentially doing hte same thing as jailbreaking an iPhone. In the end you are still at the mercy of the handset vendors. The OS may be open, but the vendors and cell networks most definitely are not. Faced with a choice of letting the provider make the decisions, or the manufacturer, I'd choose the manufacturer every time since they have more incentive to make their hardware a popular buy, where the provider doesn't care once they get you under a contract.
Yes and no. Simply rooting a phone is analogous to jailbreaking an iDevice. However, many who root Android devices also replace the firmware with a community build and that is not at all the same as iDevice rooting. Apple is always interested in frustrating jailbreakers and updates tend to undo jailbreaking so either have to hold off updating until a new jailbreak is out or do without the benefits of jailbreaking. But a firmware replaced Android device is out of vendor control permanently. And groups like Cynanogen have already proven themselves faster and generally more competent than the vendors.
NeoOffice generally does a better job of bringing the OOO suite to OS X than OS X branch of OpenOffice. They've had an OS X interface for OOO years before Sun got started on a non X Window port.
It doesn't require a strange build of firefox. I manage proxy settings for the domain with the ADM templates and update Firefox on the clients with standard mozilla.com builds of Firefox. I don't know if it is OFFICIAL enough for you but it has proven effective here in letting Firefox work just as transparently as IE with AD and our proxies.
go-oo and go-oo derived versions of OpenOffice of which LibreOffice is one can save in docx actually. Not perfectly I'm sure but they can. I've even used go-oo to convert MS Works files to Office.
MS Office and Adobe may do these things but they don't seem to do it well judging from all the scandals where blacked out text was still embedded in classified and legal documents.
There could also be more than one sort of life with a "best value" and associated range of possible values for each. At least, this is the obvious point that jumps out at me if we have a "hypothetical space of life".
It was actually about a faked Mars landing. But yes, it is holy canon to the Moon Conspiracy Nutters.....loved it when Buzz Aldrin decked the one who wouldn't get out of his face.
Or a recent example of mine, when it's pissing down so much that you can't see 10m ahead of you and half the traffic is driving with it's hazards on some impatient dick with a SUV and the worlds biggest bullbar on the front decides to overtake without having a lane to do so.
If you think that only SUV drivers drive like that, you've seriously deluded is all I can say.
Indeed but it is much worse when it is an SUV driver doing it. If somebody in a Corolla is adhered to my bumper I get annoyed. If it is a hulking SUV, first I get scared then I get seriously f------ pissed. The Toyota after all could probably only give me a nasty bump at worst. The SUV could wipe out me and my family in the car with me.
But the cute thing is that more often than not, it is SUV drivers who are hyperaggressive in traffic. Sitting up high...and more than one SUV owner has gushed to me about how much they like that... in three tons of glass of steel triggers a set of basic and primal responses that add up to this: "I'm bigger and those small fry should get out of my way."
But my probable response will not be to get an SUV of my own. What I am considering is to purchase a used Crown Vic from a state auction and then I'll pity the soccer mommy who tries to run me down in THAT. It is a more equal contest in mass but the stance of the vehicle doesn't encourage aggressiveness and it furthermore has the manoeuvrability and power to avoid the urban assault vehicles in the first place. As a bonus, all the SUV drivers in front of me and around me will tend take me for a cop and chill the f--- out.
The modern version of this is to run unzip on a docx or odt. If that doesn't work, then try a zip repair utility on it (may have to rename to have a.zip on the end). I've had the.zip repair all by itself recover a file enough to open (immediately Save As to another filename). I've also recovered text from the xml in cases where the formatting was all boogered up.
I've also used a variation on this to fix what I call a PowerPoint Of Doom. A PPOD is a presentation with many tens or even hundreds of slides that consist mainly of photos taken in a camera's highest quality mode and not resized prior to be used in the presentation. PowerPoint seems to like to uncompress all compressed assets into memory at once and swap thrashing hilarity ensues. The first you hear of such a monstrosity being created is when there is a room full of people waiting to see it. So unzip the pptx and sure enough you'll find a directory stuffed with jpegs that are all least 4MB in size. Run a batch on them to take them down to 25% of their former size (or less sometimes) and rezip taking care to preserve the directory structure.
Of course, this all hurts worse when you start out with an older ppt and not a pptx.......
* Non-maintainer upload by the Security Team.
* Fix SMTP file descriptors being leaked to processes invoked with ${run...}
* Fix memory corruption issue in string_format(). CVE-2010-4344
* Fix potential memory pool corruption issue in internal_lsearch_find().
It is probably more likely the case there are sets of genes that can predispose one to homosexuality to greater or lesser degree. Not all traits can be neatly handled by introductory Mendelian genetics.
Libertarianism doesn't take into account the Golden Rule the parent post brought up or power vacuums. In Libertarian Fantasy Land, Strong Contracts Are All We'll Ever Need. So, of course, what will happen is everyone in an economic position of power will hang a contract on everything. And I mean EVERYTHING. The door to Krogers will have a EULA you that you agree to by walking past it. And that is just the direct approach that will be taken if Libertarian philosophy is taken and implemented at face value. Of course just like every other would-be utopian idea it won't be. Power will still be bought and sold and the only thing accomplished will be to (maybe) change exactly how you go about it.
Basically what I'm saying here is Libertarianism as a system is just as open to subversion as everything because people will be involved. I'd be open to a (truly) libertarian bloc in the government to slow down and bring into open things like COICA but it is a fantasy to think there is any system that can prevent things like it.
I think there needs to be a punishment clause. Bringing these people into compliance is one thing, but the way it played out in the past - do whatever you please until someone calls you out, then promise compliance and slowly and partially do something - means that the optimal strategy for a business is to try to get by without adhering to the GPL first, and only if that fails put some effort into compliance.
The degree to which you can do that probably varies widely by jurisdiction and the GPL tries very hard to be a universal license. Penalty clauses are much more for executed contracts where both parties are explicitly signing. In any case, it is copyright law that provides the punishments or more properly speaking the remedies for breaching the license. And those can include in increasing severity:
1. Termination of right to use software. 2. Renumeration of author 3. Injunctions against distribution of products which include the software.
Most GPL using authors aren't the slavering militants they're made out to be. They're generally interested in gaining compliance with the license rather than monetary revenge. There's myths here too. Neither the GPL nor copyright law require making ("forcing") an entire codebase to be GPL to achieve compliance. The violator can implement the needed functionality himself, he can change how he calls it since most don't consider submitting data and receiving answers back from a discrete GPL binary to be "linking". Depending on the exact circumstances, the violator may be able to purchase an alternative license that allows him to keep his product closed or the court may just mandate fines. And indeed, the most effective GPL actions have been low-key and haven't involved vengeance on the part of the enforcers. You certainly don't see BSA drug bust styled raids.
The problem here isn't a lack of a stick in the GPL. Copyright law is replete with big sticks. The problem is that any license is only as effective as the will to enforce it.
There is some effort involved in setting it up but I have been managing OS X clients for years by installing the apple.schema in OpenLDAP. OpenDirectory is mainly Kerberos+OpenLDAP with an Apple specific schema file installed. Any BSD or Linux can mimic OS X Server well enough as far as the clients are concerned. I'm not aware of anyone making this available in a turnkey fashion but it CAN be done.
Anybody accustomed to managing OpenLDAP won't find it terribly difficult.
I've even heard of the Apple schema being installed on an Active Directory server but I was never brave enough to try that out...and no that doesn't mean you manage the Macs in AD. It just means you can point WorkGroup Manager at the AD server and join Macs to it as though it were an OD server. In fact, you'd join a client to such a server twice. Once as AD and once as OD. Users would authenticate against AD but OS X settings on the clients would be managed through OD. You can also run what is called a "Magic Triangle". That is just joining OS X clients to separate and OD and AD servers. Manage users on one and machines on the other.
And yeah, realism in this case would mean a lot of BVR combat, with the added element of total silence in space, and that's not going to create the kind of wow-factor and dramatic tension people expect. That's what I was getting at with the "rule of cool" description.
It could if done correctly. There can still be music because everyone understands that the music generally isn't part of the character's world. It's meant to communicate emotional tension to the audience. Anything depicted in space proper should not have associated sound effects but cutways to ship interiors or places where there is an atmosphere CAN have sound effects. If it is done right, the "silence of space" could be used to punctuate things like isolation and vulnerability. Imagine a ship taking weapons fire and we are shown that from the outside. You hear nothing but the music but can see all the glowing and flashing. Then have a quick cut to the desperate pilot who is surrounded by an absolute din as long as his ship still holds air. If the cockpit is breached the silence is a pretty good metaphor for sudden death.
There is a LOT that can be done without insulting the intelligence of anyone who has even a little knowledge. But we'll never see this as long as writers and producers assume a 5th grade level of education in the audience....and I don't mean the geeky 5th grader who devours hard SF.
It occurs to me that masters of the life sciences either ourselves in the far future or some alien race may be able augment meat in extremely creative ways. Suppose that even for a highly advanced race that the easiest way to build reasoning sentient brains is to incorporate meat into the design. Nothing says that it has to be a squishy mass that the first application of 100Gs will turn to pulp. It could be built into a lattice made of more durable materials and enhanced technologically in any number of ways. But it strikes me as too categorical to declare organic material has NO place or function in future spacecraft. Such mastery also means engineering appropriate support for the organic components. They don't necessarily have to bleed like a stuck pig when damaged.
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EFI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface
Pirates of "Silicone Valley"? What's that? An I.T. themed porno?
I have a copy of the original Unreal Tournament that has worked on every install of Debian and Ubuntu I've had since 2001. If the developer knows what they're doing then binary only games that are robust over time and variants are possible. No "compile troubleshooting" required.
The icculus guys seem to know what they're doing.
Ditto for Doom3 and RtCW.
Pinning binary packages is a bad idea but source debs between whatever the current flavor of Ubuntu is and Sid/Testing are highly compatible. They should be. The bulk of Ubuntu is a snapshot of Sid that gets some QC and Ubuntu specific bits added. The few times I've wanted something newer that the Ubuntu repos had, I'd just build the Sid source deb in Ubuntu. apt-get build-dep is your friend here since of course the build dependencies and names are the same. There was one time Ubuntu had a newer spamassassin and I built an Ubuntu source deb and installed it on a Lenny Debian I was running but I generally do this in the other direction.
I basically treat Ubuntu as the QCed Sid snapshot that it basically is.
Yes but betamax cassettes don't have the capability to see exactly what you are copying and determine if it should be allowed or not.
More often than not, neither does the storage locker site. The files are increasingly encrypted zips or rars. The password to decrypt them is given out in forum threads or other out-of-band means.
You generally don't get to play ps3 games "within minutes". Count on at least 15 minutes for the game to install to the hd and another half hour to patch itself. First time I saw that behaviour, I thought I was gaming on a pc..........
When it comes to rooting a phone, you are essentially doing hte same thing as jailbreaking an iPhone. In the end you are still at the mercy of the handset vendors. The OS may be open, but the vendors and cell networks most definitely are not. Faced with a choice of letting the provider make the decisions, or the manufacturer, I'd choose the manufacturer every time since they have more incentive to make their hardware a popular buy, where the provider doesn't care once they get you under a contract.
Yes and no. Simply rooting a phone is analogous to jailbreaking an iDevice. However, many who root Android devices also replace the firmware with a community build and that is not at all the same as iDevice rooting. Apple is always interested in frustrating jailbreakers and updates tend to undo jailbreaking so either have to hold off updating until a new jailbreak is out or do without the benefits of jailbreaking. But a firmware replaced Android device is out of vendor control permanently. And groups like Cynanogen have already proven themselves faster and generally more competent than the vendors.
NeoOffice generally does a better job of bringing the OOO suite to OS X than OS X branch of OpenOffice. They've had an OS X interface for OOO years before Sun got started on a non X Window port.
The go-oo codebase was basically the starting point for Libre and Libre obsoletes go-oo.
I've been managing Firefox through Active Directory for a couple of years now with FirefoxADM.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/firefoxadm/
It doesn't require a strange build of firefox. I manage proxy settings for the domain with the ADM templates and update Firefox on the clients with standard mozilla.com builds of Firefox. I don't know if it is OFFICIAL enough for you but it has proven effective here in letting Firefox work just as transparently as IE with AD and our proxies.
go-oo and go-oo derived versions of OpenOffice of which LibreOffice is one can save in docx actually. Not perfectly I'm sure but they can. I've even used go-oo to convert MS Works files to Office.
MS Office and Adobe may do these things but they don't seem to do it well judging from all the scandals where blacked out text was still embedded in classified and legal documents.
There could also be more than one sort of life with a "best value" and associated range of possible values for each. At least, this is the obvious point that jumps out at me if we have a "hypothetical space of life".
DriverPacks are your friend here. Of course if you slipstream 2 GB of drivers into a Windows install CD then you'll want a DVD drive in the machine.
It was actually about a faked Mars landing. But yes, it is holy canon to the Moon Conspiracy Nutters.....loved it when Buzz Aldrin decked the one who wouldn't get out of his face.
Or a recent example of mine, when it's pissing down so much that you can't see 10m ahead of you and half the traffic is driving with it's hazards on some impatient dick with a SUV and the worlds biggest bullbar on the front decides to overtake without having a lane to do so.
If you think that only SUV drivers drive like that, you've seriously deluded is all I can say.
Indeed but it is much worse when it is an SUV driver doing it. If somebody in a Corolla is adhered to my bumper I get annoyed. If it is a hulking SUV, first I get scared then I get seriously f------ pissed. The Toyota after all could probably only give me a nasty bump at worst. The SUV could wipe out me and my family in the car with me.
But the cute thing is that more often than not, it is SUV drivers who are hyperaggressive in traffic. Sitting up high...and more than one SUV owner has gushed to me about how much they like that... in three tons of glass of steel triggers a set of basic and primal responses that add up to this: "I'm bigger and those small fry should get out of my way."
But my probable response will not be to get an SUV of my own. What I am considering is to purchase a used Crown Vic from a state auction and then I'll pity the soccer mommy who tries to run me down in THAT. It is a more equal contest in mass but the stance of the vehicle doesn't encourage aggressiveness and it furthermore has the manoeuvrability and power to avoid the urban assault vehicles in the first place. As a bonus, all the SUV drivers in front of me and around me will tend take me for a cop and chill the f--- out.
This whole thread should be taken with a grain of salt.
The modern version of this is to run unzip on a docx or odt. If that doesn't work, then try a zip repair utility on it (may have to rename to have a .zip on the end). I've had the .zip repair all by itself recover a file enough to open (immediately Save As to another filename). I've also recovered text from the xml in cases where the formatting was all boogered up.
I've also used a variation on this to fix what I call a PowerPoint Of Doom. A PPOD is a presentation with many tens or even hundreds of slides that consist mainly of photos taken in a camera's highest quality mode and not resized prior to be used in the presentation. PowerPoint seems to like to uncompress all compressed assets into memory at once and swap thrashing hilarity ensues. The first you hear of such a monstrosity being created is when there is a room full of people waiting to see it. So unzip the pptx and sure enough you'll find a directory stuffed with jpegs that are all least 4MB in size. Run a batch on them to take them down to 25% of their former size (or less sometimes) and rezip taking care to preserve the directory structure.
Of course, this all hurts worse when you start out with an older ppt and not a pptx.......
Debian released patches this morning for it.
exim4 (4.69-9+lenny1) stable-security; urgency=high
* Non-maintainer upload by the Security Team.
* Fix SMTP file descriptors being leaked to processes invoked with ${run...}
* Fix memory corruption issue in string_format(). CVE-2010-4344
* Fix potential memory pool corruption issue in internal_lsearch_find().
-- Stefan Fritsch Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:25:07 +0100
It is probably more likely the case there are sets of genes that can predispose one to homosexuality to greater or lesser degree. Not all traits can be neatly handled by introductory Mendelian genetics.
Libertarianism doesn't take into account the Golden Rule the parent post brought up or power vacuums. In Libertarian Fantasy Land, Strong Contracts Are All We'll Ever Need. So, of course, what will happen is everyone in an economic position of power will hang a contract on everything. And I mean EVERYTHING. The door to Krogers will have a EULA you that you agree to by walking past it. And that is just the direct approach that will be taken if Libertarian philosophy is taken and implemented at face value. Of course just like every other would-be utopian idea it won't be. Power will still be bought and sold and the only thing accomplished will be to (maybe) change exactly how you go about it.
Basically what I'm saying here is Libertarianism as a system is just as open to subversion as everything because people will be involved. I'd be open to a (truly) libertarian bloc in the government to slow down and bring into open things like COICA but it is a fantasy to think there is any system that can prevent things like it.
I think there needs to be a punishment clause. Bringing these people into compliance is one thing, but the way it played out in the past - do whatever you please until someone calls you out, then promise compliance and slowly and partially do something - means that the optimal strategy for a business is to try to get by without adhering to the GPL first, and only if that fails put some effort into compliance.
The degree to which you can do that probably varies widely by jurisdiction and the GPL tries very hard to be a universal license. Penalty clauses are much more for executed contracts where both parties are explicitly signing. In any case, it is copyright law that provides the punishments or more properly speaking the remedies for breaching the license. And those can include in increasing severity:
1. Termination of right to use software.
2. Renumeration of author
3. Injunctions against distribution of products which include the software.
Most GPL using authors aren't the slavering militants they're made out to be. They're generally interested in gaining compliance with the license rather than monetary revenge. There's myths here too. Neither the GPL nor copyright law require making ("forcing") an entire codebase to be GPL to achieve compliance. The violator can implement the needed functionality himself, he can change how he calls it since most don't consider submitting data and receiving answers back from a discrete GPL binary to be "linking". Depending on the exact circumstances, the violator may be able to purchase an alternative license that allows him to keep his product closed or the court may just mandate fines. And indeed, the most effective GPL actions have been low-key and haven't involved vengeance on the part of the enforcers. You certainly don't see BSA drug bust styled raids.
The problem here isn't a lack of a stick in the GPL. Copyright law is replete with big sticks. The problem is that any license is only as effective as the will to enforce it.
There is some effort involved in setting it up but I have been managing OS X clients for years by installing the apple.schema in OpenLDAP. OpenDirectory is mainly Kerberos+OpenLDAP with an Apple specific schema file installed. Any BSD or Linux can mimic OS X Server well enough as far as the clients are concerned. I'm not aware of anyone making this available in a turnkey fashion but it CAN be done.
Anybody accustomed to managing OpenLDAP won't find it terribly difficult.
I've even heard of the Apple schema being installed on an Active Directory server but I was never brave enough to try that out...and no that doesn't mean you manage the Macs in AD. It just means you can point WorkGroup Manager at the AD server and join Macs to it as though it were an OD server. In fact, you'd join a client to such a server twice. Once as AD and once as OD. Users would authenticate against AD but OS X settings on the clients would be managed through OD. You can also run what is called a "Magic Triangle". That is just joining OS X clients to separate and OD and AD servers. Manage users on one and machines on the other.
And yeah, realism in this case would mean a lot of BVR combat, with the added element of total silence in space, and that's not going to create the kind of wow-factor and dramatic tension people expect. That's what I was getting at with the "rule of cool" description.
It could if done correctly. There can still be music because everyone understands that the music generally isn't part of the character's world. It's meant to communicate emotional tension to the audience. Anything depicted in space proper should not have associated sound effects but cutways to ship interiors or places where there is an atmosphere CAN have sound effects. If it is done right, the "silence of space" could be used to punctuate things like isolation and vulnerability. Imagine a ship taking weapons fire and we are shown that from the outside. You hear nothing but the music but can see all the glowing and flashing. Then have a quick cut to the desperate pilot who is surrounded by an absolute din as long as his ship still holds air. If the cockpit is breached the silence is a pretty good metaphor for sudden death.
There is a LOT that can be done without insulting the intelligence of anyone who has even a little knowledge. But we'll never see this as long as writers and producers assume a 5th grade level of education in the audience....and I don't mean the geeky 5th grader who devours hard SF.
It occurs to me that masters of the life sciences either ourselves in the far future or some alien race may be able augment meat in extremely creative ways. Suppose that even for a highly advanced race that the easiest way to build reasoning sentient brains is to incorporate meat into the design. Nothing says that it has to be a squishy mass that the first application of 100Gs will turn to pulp. It could be built into a lattice made of more durable materials and enhanced technologically in any number of ways. But it strikes me as too categorical to declare organic material has NO place or function in future spacecraft. Such mastery also means engineering appropriate support for the organic components. They don't necessarily have to bleed like a stuck pig when damaged.