Autoconfig didn't exist when Nethack was originally written. Since Slashem bases their releases on the latest Nethack source, it's not in their interest to screw around with the build system - it ends up being just more stuff they have to maintain outside the Nethack tree that provides no player-visible benefit.
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If you actually checked your facts before spouting off, you'd know that the discoverer of aluminium named it "alumium". The IUPAC then gave it the name "aluminium" to bring it into line with other elements (you know, sodium, potassium, etc. - gee, there doesn't seem to be any others that end in -num), and the US used this spelling until 1925 when the American Chemical Society had a fit of contrariness and decided to use "aluminum" (please note that the IUPAC spelling has always been aluminium).
Oh, by the way, if you check back before Shakespeare, centre, colour, etc. were spelled the right way. It's just that at the time the USA was formed, the irregular -or forms were in vogue.
- Windows installers can quite happily break your system too. I work for a software house that has the client side running on NT/2000?XP, and making sure that the right version of, say, the MFC dlls are installed is a nightmare if there's other apps installed that are less well-behaved about where they put their dlls.
There are actually quite a few POS systems that run 95. Most of them have a "higher-spec" (read "more expensive") version that can take NT, but the 95 models do exist. Typical spec is a fast 486 or slow Pentium.
So, why do you consider Cygwin (I presume that's what you meant by GNU-Win32) a viable porting aid, but not Wine? With Wine, NO porting has to be done - Windows software works straight out of the box.
(And don't say it's because Wine is so slow - Cygwin isn't going to win any speed competitions, either.)
RH doesn't require you to pay for updates - you get one 'free' machine per registered RHN user. So just do what I do - register a new user for each machine;)
This is hardly new - the IC-R3 has been out in Japan since before I bought my ICOM scanner (I'm at work atm so I can't check, but it's an R5, I think) a couple of years ago.
Excuse me, what part of my post indicated they were "single-purpose" machines? Both of them were responsible for two major pieces of functionality, not to mention that the older box also acted as a PPP dial-in server, a print server and a Netware server, and the newer box is also an FTP server.
(You want to know what a single-purpose machine is? The six NT boxes at my current company - one for Exchange, one for the PDC, one for an SMB fileserver, one for an HTTP proxy, one for virus scanning, one for a webserver. Those are what I would call single-purpose boxes.)
The RH6.2 box is a webserver+mailserver - it gets a few thousand hits and a couple of hundred mails a day. Not heavy by any means, but not sitting around doing nothing either. The TurboLinux box was a fileserver running Samba and Netatalk, serving files to a dozen Windows and Macintosh machines. It was fairly heavily used - the company does publishing, so some of the files were quite large for the time (at a time when HDDs were 4-8GB, it was serving 100-200MB files). Neither of the boxes has ever crashed, except for the older one when its HDD died.
The GPL does not "limit duplication rights" under copyright law.
It gives you rights you would not otherwise have had. If you breach the GPL, then your rights to the software revert to the rights everybody has under standard copyright - i.e., none.
HAHAHA... jeez, what are you doing with your boxes?! I have a Red Hat 6.2 box that's happily chugging away, currently at day 276. An older box (now decommissioned) running TurboLinux, quite possibly the shittiest Linux distribution in existence, still managed to have a uptime record of 340 days (the machines got shut down over the New Year period).
If the GPL gets "tossed out", then no-one can use the code - that's how it works. The only rights granted to third parties are those given under the GPL; thus, if the GPL is found to be legally unenforceable, nobody other than the original author has any rights to that code.
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Autoconfig didn't exist when Nethack was originally written. Since Slashem bases their releases on the latest Nethack source, it's not in their interest to screw around with the build system - it ends up being just more stuff they have to maintain outside the Nethack tree that provides no player-visible benefit.
If you actually checked your facts before spouting off, you'd know that the discoverer of aluminium named it "alumium". The IUPAC then gave it the name "aluminium" to bring it into line with other elements (you know, sodium, potassium, etc. - gee, there doesn't seem to be any others that end in -num), and the US used this spelling until 1925 when the American Chemical Society had a fit of contrariness and decided to use "aluminum" (please note that the IUPAC spelling has always been aluminium).
Oh, by the way, if you check back before Shakespeare, centre, colour, etc. were spelled the right way. It's just that at the time the USA was formed, the irregular -or forms were in vogue.
Don't feel bad. Everybody else laughs when they hear "American".
Yes. I have two separate free RH accounts for those boxes (created with different mail addresses).
No, actually. I just ran up2date on my RH* and RH9 boxes simultaneously, without problems, from behind NAT.
Inoshiro, I expected better of you...
- Windows installers can quite happily break your system too. I work for a software house that has the client side running on NT/2000?XP, and making sure that the right version of, say, the MFC dlls are installed is a nightmare if there's other apps installed that are less well-behaved about where they put their dlls.
- If you want a Macintosh, go buy one.
What's useless about the demo account?
/. mentioned one of our security updates", it works fine.
I run three RH boxes on demo accounts, and aside from the occasional "we're too busy because
There are actually quite a few POS systems that run 95. Most of them have a "higher-spec" (read "more expensive") version that can take NT, but the 95 models do exist. Typical spec is a fast 486 or slow Pentium.
Hi Darl, you fascist, I run Linux on a dozen boxes. Please send me a bill that I will be happy to wipe my ass with and send back to you.
What an arrogant little prick.
Shit, I wish my philosophy professor had spent more time talking about zombies and less about "the meaning of being" and suchness.
So, why do you consider Cygwin (I presume that's what you meant by GNU-Win32) a viable porting aid, but not Wine? With Wine, NO porting has to be done - Windows software works straight out of the box.
(And don't say it's because Wine is so slow - Cygwin isn't going to win any speed competitions, either.)
Andre the Giant's dead, dude...
Well, he does say "most", and there's always dosemu or FreeDOS...
RH doesn't require you to pay for updates - you get one 'free' machine per registered RHN user. So just do what I do - register a new user for each machine ;)
Well, you obviously didn't look too hard for Linux software ;)
Not according to Microsoft... the giveaway was specifically targetted at the enduser.
This is hardly new - the IC-R3 has been out in Japan since before I bought my ICOM scanner (I'm at work atm so I can't check, but it's an R5, I think) a couple of years ago.
Excuse me, what part of my post indicated they were "single-purpose" machines? Both of them were responsible for two major pieces of functionality, not to mention that the older box also acted as a PPP dial-in server, a print server and a Netware server, and the newer box is also an FTP server.
(You want to know what a single-purpose machine is? The six NT boxes at my current company - one for Exchange, one for the PDC, one for an SMB fileserver, one for an HTTP proxy, one for virus scanning, one for a webserver. Those are what I would call single-purpose boxes.)
In case you hadn't noticed, MSDN is licensed to a particular end-user, not the company.
The RH6.2 box is a webserver+mailserver - it gets a few thousand hits and a couple of hundred mails a day. Not heavy by any means, but not sitting around doing nothing either.
The TurboLinux box was a fileserver running Samba and Netatalk, serving files to a dozen Windows and Macintosh machines. It was fairly heavily used - the company does publishing, so some of the files were quite large for the time (at a time when HDDs were 4-8GB, it was serving 100-200MB files).
Neither of the boxes has ever crashed, except for the older one when its HDD died.
The GPL does not "limit duplication rights" under copyright law.
It gives you rights you would not otherwise have had. If you breach the GPL, then your rights to the software revert to the rights everybody has under standard copyright - i.e., none.
HAHAHA... jeez, what are you doing with your boxes?!
I have a Red Hat 6.2 box that's happily chugging away, currently at day 276.
An older box (now decommissioned) running TurboLinux, quite possibly the shittiest Linux distribution in existence, still managed to have a uptime record of 340 days (the machines got shut down over the New Year period).
If the GPL gets "tossed out", then no-one can use the code - that's how it works. The only rights granted to third parties are those given under the GPL; thus, if the GPL is found to be legally unenforceable, nobody other than the original author has any rights to that code.
Yeah, I've got that CD, and I must admit that listening to it now is rather painful. "Pretentious" doesn't begin to describe the songs on that album.
Forty bucks?!? It's less than $US20 here.