Can anyone tell me how I can find or generate (via bonsai) a changelog to show exactly what was changed in Firefox between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6? The Fx release notes don't give Bugzilla references, or anything else like that.
My (Irish-American Catholic) family, all the way back in the '70s, had reached a general consensus that the IRA had a serious lack of genuine Irish patriots and a serious surplus of rabble who just liked blowing things up. That's one reason why I tend to doubt Gerry Adams' ability to follow through on Good Friday... it's not like he can have the Republican thugs arrested for disobeying orders.
I believe the grandparent was saying that the problem with Linux is that it has to actually be installed, not that the install itself is particularly hard. Here are my Postulates for Home Desktop Computing:
The goal is Effortless Computing: tasks that have to do with manipulating the computer rather than accomplishing the Task At Hand are to be kept to the barest possible minimum.
"Barest minimum" is determined by end-users with no particular computer knowledge above the consumer level (think: working single moms and road sales force users in non-technical industries), not computer professionals.
Users expect errors to occur occasionally, and are more accepting of errors during use than they are of additional upfront effort to achieve claimed error reductions (claims, I should add, of which they are sceptical).
Truth is, the GPL is the constitution of the Free Software movement.
I don't think that ESR has ever been a fan of the "Proprietary software is morally wrong" aspect of the FS movement; that's why he advocates the Open Source mantra of "the right tool for the right job, and open-source Bazaar development produces better tools." He's not the person with such beliefs, either.
Because cable companies have monopolies granted by local government....
This canard aggravates me no end. If you were to go down to your local franchising authority (FA) and actually look at the franchise contract, you will probably see the words non-exclusive. This means that the FA is allowed at any time to grant a franchise to any capable competitor who wants to do a build-out (where "capable" means "actually able to do what they say"). The effective monopoly comes from the fact that in almost all cases (Manhattan Island being an exception, IIRC), there is not nearly the population density to support two competing cable systems. But an effective monopoly is not the same as having an actual one granted by government.
Well, if the choice is between a $25,000 integrated solution and $25,000 in software plus the cost of a PC with a wireless and an Ethernet card, I'd save money and avoid the support-time cross-vendor fingerpointing by buying the all-in-one box.
It's really what I think of as the Louisiana Purchase rationale. A law is enforceable so long as it hasn't been declared unconstitutional. Only the courts can make such a declaration, and they have to have a relevant case in front of them to do so. In order to bring a suit against the government, you need to have standing to do so; i.e., you have to have been directly harmed by the government action or law in question. There was no reasonable cause of action regarding the Louisiana Purchase (you aren't allowed to claim a general harm based on how your taxes are used), so it was effectively constitutional even though there was no grant of power in the Constitution allowing the federal government to purchase additional territory.
Therefore, if a law can't be shown to have a specific harm to a person or other entity capable of bringing suit, it's effectively constitutional regardless of the enumerated powers in the Constitution.
Of course, IANAL, so feel free to disregard any of this as you see fit.
No, VHS tapes aren't regionally encoded... but it still wouldn't play because the VHS tape contains the analog PAL (is SECAM still out there as well?) signal, which would completely baffle either the VCR or the TV it's hooked to.
I think it showed up twice in EP 3: once when C-3P0 said it, and once (I think) when they left R2 alone in the hangar bay of Grievous' flagship... he whistled something, and I firmly believe that what was behind that whistle was the line in question.
I don't think they're chasing open source developers; their target market for the servers (and hence, indirectly, the target for the dev tools as well) has always been hosting companies and large corporations. I think they're finally realizing two things: programmers have no desire to try to write code in Dreamweaver (they've been pushing DW as the replacement for ColdFusion Studio since the MX launch), and that their skill is in design tools, not coding tools. So, they're opening this up (and I would hope they'd put some cash into the CFEclipse project as well) so they can point to it as the preferred programming tool for the Flex platform.
To date, I will say that I have seen exactly one knock-your-socks-off "Rich Internet Application": the GameDay near-real-time app at mlb.com. I have no reason to mention this, other than that I am a baseball fan and I think it's cool.
If we assume that the page in question is really an intranet page (I'm not going to advocate ActiveX on the real Internet), what the fat-client-in-an-ActiveX-control model gives you is an automated upgrade capability that was much harder to achieve in a freestanding fat client. If the client is downloading the binary from the web server every time (with allowance for caching if no upgrade has occurred), then upgrading the app on all the machines is as simple as installing the upgrade on the server.
I think the comparisons to Communism are more with regard to the original "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" as posited by Marx in the Communist Manifesto, than with the command-economy police state fashioned by Lenin and Stalin where it was impossible to distinguish the men from the pigs.
Updates, upgrades and patches don't qualify as paid support items if they are for a GPL'd product, or at least they don't once someone who is willing to post them publicly buys them.
The more relevant question is, "How many paid support packages did BitMover sell for BitKeeper, and were they profitable enough to support the entire enterprise?"
... their policies resemble those of a closed source company much more than those of open source projects.
Open Source and Bazaar development (where Bazaar is interpreted as "accepting patches from many outside sources") are not equivalent concepts. Many FLOSS projects are managed as Cathedrals, including (IIRC) most of the core FSF/GNU projects.
That's something I've been wondering about: what if Frist let one of the nominations through to the floor, and let the actual filibuster (i.e, "extended debate") happen? Would today's politicians be able to pull it off?
Where, anywhere in The Dark Knight Returns, does Bruce Wayne experience any self-doubt or moral ambiguity whatsoever? He barely flinches when Carrie, hesitantly, appoints herself as the new Robin!
It went by very quickly, but I think I did see a reference to Dark Knight: isn't that Batman on a stallion in that quick montage near the end?
My guess is that those programs are somehow not coded to correctly pick up the RunAs environment. I have no idea what the specifics would be, but it's probably similar to the difference between doing an su and then executing
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At least I'm not the only one who saw the article title and thought we were talking Infocom!
Can anyone tell me how I can find or generate (via bonsai) a changelog to show exactly what was changed in Firefox between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6? The Fx release notes don't give Bugzilla references, or anything else like that.
My (Irish-American Catholic) family, all the way back in the '70s, had reached a general consensus that the IRA had a serious lack of genuine Irish patriots and a serious surplus of rabble who just liked blowing things up. That's one reason why I tend to doubt Gerry Adams' ability to follow through on Good Friday... it's not like he can have the Republican thugs arrested for disobeying orders.
Here are my Postulates for Home Desktop Computing:
That's my opinion, Slashdot welcomes yours.
I don't think that ESR has ever been a fan of the "Proprietary software is morally wrong" aspect of the FS movement; that's why he advocates the Open Source mantra of "the right tool for the right job, and open-source Bazaar development produces better tools." He's not the person with such beliefs, either.
You have been sacked.
This canard aggravates me no end. If you were to go down to your local franchising authority (FA) and actually look at the franchise contract, you will probably see the words non-exclusive. This means that the FA is allowed at any time to grant a franchise to any capable competitor who wants to do a build-out (where "capable" means "actually able to do what they say"). The effective monopoly comes from the fact that in almost all cases (Manhattan Island being an exception, IIRC), there is not nearly the population density to support two competing cable systems. But an effective monopoly is not the same as having an actual one granted by government.
Well, if the choice is between a $25,000 integrated solution and $25,000 in software plus the cost of a PC with a wireless and an Ethernet card, I'd save money and avoid the support-time cross-vendor fingerpointing by buying the all-in-one box.
It's really what I think of as the Louisiana Purchase rationale. A law is enforceable so long as it hasn't been declared unconstitutional. Only the courts can make such a declaration, and they have to have a relevant case in front of them to do so. In order to bring a suit against the government, you need to have standing to do so; i.e., you have to have been directly harmed by the government action or law in question. There was no reasonable cause of action regarding the Louisiana Purchase (you aren't allowed to claim a general harm based on how your taxes are used), so it was effectively constitutional even though there was no grant of power in the Constitution allowing the federal government to purchase additional territory.
Therefore, if a law can't be shown to have a specific harm to a person or other entity capable of bringing suit, it's effectively constitutional regardless of the enumerated powers in the Constitution.
Of course, IANAL, so feel free to disregard any of this as you see fit.
No, VHS tapes aren't regionally encoded... but it still wouldn't play because the VHS tape contains the analog PAL (is SECAM still out there as well?) signal, which would completely baffle either the VCR or the TV it's hooked to.
How about these guys??
from the buy-lnux-please dept
Note that LNUX is good old VA Software, owners of Slashdot and also of this really sad graph.
I think it showed up twice in EP 3: once when C-3P0 said it, and once (I think) when they left R2 alone in the hangar bay of Grievous' flagship... he whistled something, and I firmly believe that what was behind that whistle was the line in question.
Ever browse
I don't think they're chasing open source developers; their target market for the servers (and hence, indirectly, the target for the dev tools as well) has always been hosting companies and large corporations. I think they're finally realizing two things: programmers have no desire to try to write code in Dreamweaver (they've been pushing DW as the replacement for ColdFusion Studio since the MX launch), and that their skill is in design tools, not coding tools. So, they're opening this up (and I would hope they'd put some cash into the CFEclipse project as well) so they can point to it as the preferred programming tool for the Flex platform.
To date, I will say that I have seen exactly one knock-your-socks-off "Rich Internet Application": the GameDay near-real-time app at mlb.com. I have no reason to mention this, other than that I am a baseball fan and I think it's cool.
If we assume that the page in question is really an intranet page (I'm not going to advocate ActiveX on the real Internet), what the fat-client-in-an-ActiveX-control model gives you is an automated upgrade capability that was much harder to achieve in a freestanding fat client. If the client is downloading the binary from the web server every time (with allowance for caching if no upgrade has occurred), then upgrading the app on all the machines is as simple as installing the upgrade on the server.
I thought the plural was Bugaloos!
Chuck Woolery?? Is that you??
I think the comparisons to Communism are more with regard to the original "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" as posited by Marx in the Communist Manifesto, than with the command-economy police state fashioned by Lenin and Stalin where it was impossible to distinguish the men from the pigs.
Updates, upgrades and patches don't qualify as paid support items if they are for a GPL'd product, or at least they don't once someone who is willing to post them publicly buys them.
The more relevant question is, "How many paid support packages did BitMover sell for BitKeeper, and were they profitable enough to support the entire enterprise?"
Open Source and Bazaar development (where Bazaar is interpreted as "accepting patches from many outside sources") are not equivalent concepts. Many FLOSS projects are managed as Cathedrals, including (IIRC) most of the core FSF/GNU projects.
That's something I've been wondering about: what if Frist let one of the nominations through to the floor, and let the actual filibuster (i.e, "extended debate") happen? Would today's politicians be able to pull it off?
Umm... some of us are trying to remain spoiler-free, you know (re: the lava thing)