Also, People who release GPL'd software will be able to Nuke anyone using Proprietry Software which contains stolen GPL'd code. So... anyone who's contributed to the Linux Kernel should be able to nuke anyone using SCO Unixware.
It seems to me that the Music Industry is headed into a spiral of self-destruction and terminal decline. Draconian DRM will result in general opposition to the Industry as a whole leading to a slow-down in legitimate sales. Strangely, as DRM methods become harder to by-pass the drive to pirate might become more purposeful and partially legitimised leading inexorably to increased piracy. In the end it could lead to a complete break down of the Industry. This of course is a good thing because then there would be less music that our neighbours would be able to play at high volumes. Indeed the total demise of the music industry could be the best way reduce the number of acts of violence between neighbours! Seriously, if CD's are being produced which won't play in my car's CD player, then I'm much more likely to pirate the music so that I can burn it to CDR's which will play!
When you "buy" some music, it is actually only licenced, and then only to you, so any sharing of music is therefore illegal. Students should be stopped from playing any copyrighted music load enough for any more than one person to hear. In fact, all HiFi systems should be illegal... only personal music players should be allowed, and only as long as they are incapable of making any audible sound to anyone else other than the owner (licencee). Humming and Singing of Copyrighed music should be stopped too.
Sounds like you want on ene of the new 12" G4 laptops. Comes with *nix as standard. OK, it _is_ expensive, but if it's want you really want then it's worth it. Also, don't forget that the GHz rating for P4-M laptops is a load of crock. My Compaq EVI N800v (1.7GHz P4-M) spends most of its time running at 1.1 GHz because it's running on batteries. Also, if battery life is really important, then you you'll find the Macs hard to beat.
RM Plc (here in the UK) simply replaced all the
Fujitsu hard drives in the machines we had... even if they hadn't failed (two out of three had failed). They did this even though the PC's were themselves out of waranty.
Bravo RM! I'd certainly recommend them.
I used to use a nice shakle lock and a 50kg weight (110 lb) to lock my bike up... and one day, when my bike wasn't attached to it, some bugger stole my weight and lock. I can't imagine why... I still have both keys for the lock. I got a new shackle lock and from then on locked my bike up to a steel stair case. If someone wants your bike/lock/laptop/phone then there's not alot you can do. I always thought that a small remote controlled bomb might be a good solution.... someone steels your laptop and boom!... Problem is it's probably your brother. Ooops!
I saw a peice from uThe inquirer about a little hack which winxp/2k users can use to enable them toZapp the unwanted bits of XP.... like Microsoft Instant Messaging. Useful stuff.
Not quite the same concept. GCC has become the
compiler of choice in Free OS's for two reasons:
1) It's free (as in Beer and as in Speech)
2) There aren't any other compilers which
cover the same (vast) number of platforms.
MS Office has become the office suite of choice because it's pushed by the biggest software company in the world and the have crushed all
competing products.
If the TV has the capability of receiving TV signals then you have to pay the TV licence. It doesn't matter how many TV's you have tho'.. it's the same price for one TV or two hundred. Indeed you don't even have to have a TV... a VCR which is capable of receiving TV signals counts too. For example, there is a lower cost licence for black and white TV's.... but if you have a B&W TV and a VCR which is capable of receiving colour signals then you should pay the colour fee (even though you can only _see_ B&W).
The second point is quite serious really. In the UK we have to pay for a "TV Licence" in order to receive TV broadcasts. It's a little over 100 pounds a year. That's not so bad I guess... the problem is that (in my option) there isn't 100 pounds "worth" of programs broadcast each year. I would be quite happy do do away with broadcast (UHF/Cable/Satelite) TV altogether and spend 100 pounds a year on DVD's.... However, I do listen (every day) to BBC Radio 3 and 4 (Classical and Talk respectively), and my 100 pounds a year does go to the BBC, and I would like to continue to contribute to that. If OTOH the Government changed the way the Licence fee was used (for example as just another form of taxation), then I would probably take down my arial and not receive TV signals, and cease to pay the 100 pounds a year.
The similarity in Krayon and Crayon is purely in the pronunciation. You cannot argue that the similarity in the spelling is significant... "Crayon" is also pretty close to Canyon,
Canton and Croydon. No-one could possibly claim and infringement there. So the SuSE problem is simple: rename Krayon, Krayon, pronounced K-rayon. Simple!
Yes, this works. I made a 10-CD cd jukebox from a linux box with an old 8G hard disk.... running Samba.
Even more amazing... my CD Juke Box didn't even have a CD-ROM drive:-)
The first thing I did when I saw the/. headline was search for "harboring"... because I thought exactly the same. By not releasing the Source Code, Microsoft is guilty of "harboring" bugs which are the AMMUNITION for computer terrorists.
Ok, it's a poor analogy, and the whole computer terrorism thing is stupid. Let's push for this silly knee-jerk reaction to be stopped. Nah... let's Nuke Redmond:-)
How can a browser have "IE compatibility" issues? Surely it is IE that has compatibility issues?! Gecko isn't perfect, but it aims for standards compilance. Don't fall into the trap of slamming products for not being "compatible".... with certian other products which are designed and developed specifically to break such compatibilities. If a web site renders well for IE, but not for Gecko (or Opera or OmniWeb or...) then it is the WEB sites fault, not Geckos!
From Timothy's question concerning GPL infringement, it might be construed that he has already assumed that there _is_ GPL infringement... and he's quite possibly right. Unfortunately becasue SkyOS is closed source, we will never know. Wine OTOH is an implementation of the win32 API written without access to microsoft's windows code... and therefore can't be an infringement of the windows copyright. In theory they _might_ be guilty of
reverse engineering microsoft code but that's alot harder to do and probably not the case. Linux has been successful because it has been open sourced. Microsoft has been successful... well not's get into that, but what I was going to say included the word "illegal". SkyOS will most probably go nowhere. ReactOS OTOH has a very good chance of being successful (althought in a much smaller arean than Linux). In the original posters article, the ReactOS link[osnews.com] links to an article in osnews.com where the authour of ReactOS talks about similarities and differences with PetrOS and also about GUI stuff... but presumably, the best GUI for ReactOS would be implemented through wine... Isn't that the only API / GUI (in the windows world API and GUI are confused) that makes sense?
There is a fundemental difference between the Windows and the Linux(R) world... Linux(R), Apache(R??) etc... are open sourced. This means that
potential security holes can be found and fixed before the exploit exists. In the Windows world, because it's closed source, the only way to find out about a security flaw is through an exploit. Then it becomes a matter of speed. Can the systems be secured before a h4x0r gets in? If microsoft gets its way, then the h4x0r5 have the edge... they'll know before you. You just have to hope that microsoft have spotted the security hole already and are working on fixing it. The important word in that last sentence is *hope*. We would need to trust microsoft. And do we? Nah!
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I don't think killing people can ever really be described as "cool". The Taliban are a terrible regime, but they are not the only terrible regime in the world. BTW you miss typed GPS...
Yes, the original poster forgot the Power/PowerPC line... probably the second most important processor line after x86. However, this Risc/Cisc processor cagetorization is way dated... Power/PowerPC's aren't strictly risc anymore and Athlons are essentially x86. Other posts have mentioned that in the end there will be three arch's left: x86, Power and Sparc. This assumes that the Desktop market is still the driving force. In the future the mobile market will be the driving force. The game's not over yet. Also, don't forget that the PA-RISC "lives on" in the IA64 line... talk about major sucking. If I had to predict which THREE arch's will be big in (say) five years time, I don't think I would include Sparc. I'd say x86/IA64, Power and ???. The question marks are for some more portable processor arch... maybe ARM or Crusoe (by then Crusoe may not simply be an x86 emulator).
Apple as a sponsor would be a very interesting idea. It is common knowledge that much of the BSD in MacOS X is FreeBSD, so it would seem to be in Apple's favour to keep FreeBSD going. I would bet that most of the FreeBSD development in the past has been on the x86 platform, and these developers are not going to go out and buy Macs... the only way to keep the input comming into FreeBSD (and therefore MacOS) is to support FreeBSD (I Guess they could be using Darwin on x86???) How about closer links between FreeBSD and Darwin? Let's hope that FreeBSD keeps on moving forward somehow!
One of the big problems with IIS is that it's
very easy to install. In fact many people don't
even realize that it is installed - until they get h^Hcracked... and even then not always. M$ often claims that Windows provides easy administration.... that's not always a good idea. Until installing IIS is an non-standard optional extra these internet worms are going to be a problem. ISP's which are "ruthless" (like this has been) will, I'm sure, make alot of people more aware of potential security problems. Perhaps they should take it one step futher and install cracking software of thier own... when an insecure site is found, simply shut it down. If every ISP did this then many worms would not be able to spread quite as quickly. This all assumes that the ISP sysadmins know what they're up to!! Do they?
YOU probably have a black hole in you! No, not kiddin' New Scientist had as the cover story [registration required free for seven days] that some scientists believe that small black holes probably exist in a stable state, acting a little like a atomic nucleus.... that is a massive (as in has mass) core with electrons whizzing round. These stable black holes were created near the beginning of time and will have persisted til today: "Despite their fearsome reputation, not all black holes are cosmos-gobbling monsters, says Marcus Chown. There could even be one inside you". The scientists calculated the approximate proportion of these black-hole atoms and concluded that some people might have one somewhere inside them.
To my knowledge, I don't think there is a single example fo where a black hole from inside a person has detroyed the earth/solar system/galaxy. I'm sure that if it ever happens the BBC will carry the story:-)
I clicked on the Dylan link
in the main post and got to the PCAI Dylan site. The first thing I saw was: "Overview: Dylan is a new object-oriented dynamic language (OODL) being developed by Apple. " Then I had a lok around and found out that Apple pulled the plug on Dylan in late 1995. Aparently, it had been being developed at Apple's Cambridge labs. (Don't bother trying to follow that link... it's DEAD!) A better link is http://dylanpro.com/DylanExchange.html. Does anyone know if the Dylan language is being actively developed by anyone? Or do they have any other resources?
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Also, People who release GPL'd software will be able to Nuke anyone using Proprietry Software which contains stolen GPL'd code. So... anyone who's contributed to the Linux Kernel should be able to nuke anyone using SCO Unixware.
It seems to me that the Music Industry is headed into a spiral of self-destruction and terminal decline. Draconian DRM will result in general opposition to the Industry as a whole leading to a slow-down in legitimate sales. Strangely, as DRM methods become harder to by-pass the drive to pirate might become more purposeful and partially legitimised leading inexorably to increased piracy. In the end it could lead to a complete break down of the Industry. This of course is a good thing because then there would be less music that our neighbours would be able to play at high volumes. Indeed the total demise of the music industry could be the best way reduce the number of acts of violence between neighbours! Seriously, if CD's are being produced which won't play in my car's CD player, then I'm much more likely to pirate the music so that I can burn it to CDR's which will play!
Tell that to the Europeans currently living on Europa. I doubt they'll be impressed!
When you "buy" some music, it is actually only licenced, and then only to you, so any sharing of music is therefore illegal. Students should be stopped from playing any copyrighted music load enough for any more than one person to hear. In fact, all HiFi systems should be illegal... only personal music players should be allowed, and only as long as they are incapable of making any audible sound to anyone else other than the owner (licencee). Humming and Singing of Copyrighed music should be stopped too.
Sounds like you want on ene of the new 12" G4 laptops. Comes with *nix as standard. OK,
it _is_ expensive, but if it's want you really want then it's worth it. Also, don't forget that the
GHz rating for P4-M laptops is a load of crock. My
Compaq EVI N800v (1.7GHz P4-M) spends most of its time running at 1.1 GHz because it's running on batteries. Also, if battery life is really important, then you you'll find the Macs hard to beat.
RM Plc (here in the UK) simply replaced all the Fujitsu hard drives in the machines we had... even if they hadn't failed (two out of three had failed). They did this even though the PC's were themselves out of waranty.
Bravo RM! I'd certainly recommend them.
I used to use a nice shakle lock and a 50kg weight (110 lb) to lock my bike up... and one day, when my bike wasn't attached to it, some bugger stole my weight and lock. I can't imagine why... I still have both keys for the lock. I got a new shackle lock and from then on locked my bike up to a steel stair case. If someone wants your bike/lock/laptop/phone then there's not alot you can do. I always thought that a small remote controlled bomb might be a good solution.... someone steels your laptop and boom! ... Problem is it's probably your brother. Ooops!
I saw a peice from uThe inquirer about a little hack which winxp/2k users can use to enable them toZapp the unwanted bits of XP.... like Microsoft Instant Messaging. Useful stuff.
Not quite the same concept. GCC has become the
compiler of choice in Free OS's for two reasons:
1) It's free (as in Beer and as in Speech)
2) There aren't any other compilers which
cover the same (vast) number of platforms.
MS Office has become the office suite of choice because it's pushed by the biggest software company in the world and the have crushed all
competing products.
If the TV has the capability of receiving TV signals then you have to pay the TV licence. It doesn't matter how many TV's you have tho'.. it's the same price for one TV or two hundred. Indeed you don't even have to have a TV... a VCR which is capable of receiving TV signals counts too. For example, there is a lower cost licence for black and white TV's.... but if you have a B&W TV and a VCR which is capable of receiving colour signals then you should pay the colour fee (even though you can only _see_ B&W).
The second point is quite serious really. In the UK we have to pay for a "TV Licence" in order to receive TV broadcasts. It's a little over 100 pounds a year. That's not so bad I guess... the problem is that (in my option) there isn't 100 pounds "worth" of programs broadcast each year. I would be quite happy do do away with broadcast (UHF/Cable/Satelite) TV altogether and spend 100 pounds a year on DVD's.... However, I do listen (every day) to BBC Radio 3 and 4 (Classical and Talk respectively), and my 100 pounds a year does go to the BBC, and I would like to continue to contribute to that. If OTOH the Government changed the way the Licence fee was used (for example as just another form of taxation), then I would probably take down my arial and not receive TV signals, and cease to pay the 100 pounds a year.
Oh, shucks! I just made the same point... well, using more words... but it basically the same. Lets just have a pronunciation change! K-rayon rules!
The similarity in Krayon and Crayon is purely in the pronunciation. You cannot argue that the similarity in the spelling is significant... "Crayon" is also pretty close to Canyon, Canton and Croydon. No-one could possibly claim and infringement there. So the SuSE problem is simple: rename Krayon, Krayon, pronounced K-rayon. Simple!
Yes, this works. I made a 10-CD cd jukebox from a linux box with an old 8G hard disk.... running Samba. :-)
Even more amazing... my CD Juke Box didn't even have a CD-ROM drive
The first thing I did when I saw the /. headline was search for "harboring"... because I thought exactly the same. By not releasing the Source Code, Microsoft is guilty of "harboring" bugs which are the AMMUNITION for computer terrorists.
:-)
Ok, it's a poor analogy, and the whole computer terrorism thing is stupid. Let's push for this silly knee-jerk reaction to be stopped. Nah... let's Nuke Redmond
How can a browser have "IE compatibility" issues? Surely it is IE that has compatibility issues?! Gecko isn't perfect, but it aims for standards compilance. Don't fall into the trap of slamming products for not being "compatible".... with certian other products which are designed and developed specifically to break such compatibilities. If a web site renders well for IE, but not for Gecko (or Opera or OmniWeb or ...) then it is the WEB sites fault, not Geckos!
From Timothy's question concerning GPL infringement, it might be construed that he has already assumed that there _is_ GPL infringement... and he's quite possibly right. Unfortunately becasue SkyOS is closed source, we will never know. Wine OTOH is an implementation of the win32 API written without access to microsoft's windows code... and therefore can't be an infringement of the windows copyright. In theory they _might_ be guilty of
reverse engineering microsoft code but that's alot harder to do and probably not the case. Linux has been successful because it has been open sourced. Microsoft has been successful... well not's get into that, but what I was going to say included the word "illegal". SkyOS will most probably go nowhere. ReactOS OTOH has a very good chance of being successful (althought in a much smaller arean than Linux). In the original posters article, the ReactOS link[osnews.com] links to an article in osnews.com where the authour of ReactOS talks about similarities and differences with PetrOS and also about GUI stuff... but presumably, the best GUI for ReactOS would be implemented through wine... Isn't that the only API / GUI (in the windows world API and GUI are confused) that makes sense?
There is a fundemental difference between the Windows and the Linux(R) world... Linux(R), Apache(R??) etc... are open sourced. This means that
potential security holes can be found and fixed before the exploit exists. In the Windows world, because it's closed source, the only way to find out about a security flaw is through an exploit. Then it becomes a matter of speed. Can the systems be secured before a h4x0r gets in? If microsoft gets its way, then the h4x0r5 have the edge... they'll know before you. You just have to hope that microsoft have spotted the security hole already and are working on fixing it. The important word in that last sentence is *hope*. We would need to trust microsoft. And do we? Nah!
I don't think killing people can ever really be described as "cool". The Taliban are a terrible regime, but they are not the only terrible regime in the world. BTW you miss typed GPS...
Yes, the original poster forgot the Power/PowerPC line... probably the second most important processor line after x86. However, this Risc/Cisc processor cagetorization is way dated... Power/PowerPC's aren't strictly risc anymore and Athlons are essentially x86. Other posts have mentioned that in the end there will be three arch's left: x86, Power and Sparc. This assumes that the Desktop market is still the driving force. In the future the mobile market will be the driving force. The game's not over yet. Also, don't forget that the PA-RISC "lives on" in the IA64 line... talk about major sucking. If I had to predict which THREE arch's will be big in (say) five years time, I don't think I would include Sparc. I'd say x86/IA64, Power and ???. The question marks are for some more portable processor arch... maybe ARM or Crusoe (by then Crusoe may not simply be an x86 emulator).
Apple as a sponsor would be a very interesting idea. It is common knowledge that much of the BSD in MacOS X is FreeBSD, so it would seem to be in Apple's favour to keep FreeBSD going. I would bet that most of the FreeBSD development in the past has been on the x86 platform, and these developers are not going to go out and buy Macs... the only way to keep the input comming into FreeBSD (and therefore MacOS) is to support FreeBSD (I Guess they could be using Darwin on x86???) How about closer links between FreeBSD and Darwin? Let's hope that FreeBSD keeps on moving forward somehow!
One of the big problems with IIS is that it's very easy to install. In fact many people don't even realize that it is installed - until they get h^Hcracked... and even then not always. M$ often claims that Windows provides easy administration.... that's not always a good idea. Until installing IIS is an non-standard optional extra these internet worms are going to be a problem. ISP's which are "ruthless" (like this has been) will, I'm sure, make alot of people more aware of potential security problems. Perhaps they should take it one step futher and install cracking software of thier own... when an insecure site is found, simply shut it down. If every ISP did this then many worms would not be able to spread quite as quickly. This all assumes that the ISP sysadmins know what they're up to!! Do they?
YOU probably have a black hole in you! No, not kiddin' New Scientist had as the cover story [registration required free for seven days] that some scientists believe that small black holes probably exist in a stable state, acting a little like a atomic nucleus.... that is a massive (as in has mass) core with electrons whizzing round. These stable black holes were created near the beginning of time and will have persisted til today: "Despite their fearsome reputation, not all black holes are cosmos-gobbling monsters, says Marcus Chown. There could even be one inside you". The scientists calculated the approximate proportion of these black-hole atoms and concluded that some people might have one somewhere inside them.
:-)
To my knowledge, I don't think there is a single example fo where a black hole from inside a person has detroyed the earth/solar system/galaxy. I'm sure that if it ever happens the BBC will carry the story
I clicked on the Dylan link in the main post and got to the PCAI Dylan site. The first thing I saw was: "Overview: Dylan is a new object-oriented dynamic language (OODL) being developed by Apple. " Then I had a lok around and found out that Apple pulled the plug on Dylan in late 1995. Aparently, it had been being developed at Apple's Cambridge labs. (Don't bother trying to follow that link... it's DEAD!) A better link is http://dylanpro.com/DylanExchange.html. Does anyone know if the Dylan language is being actively developed by anyone? Or do they have any other resources?