You have to distribute source with binaries or offer to provide source to anyone who asks, good for three years. (at least for GPL 2). There is a small exception for academic institutions to only have to provide source to direct recipients of binaries, IIRC. Been a while since I read the GPL.
You need to go re-read the GPL then. Let me help, here's the relevant part of GPL 2:
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.) The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code.
The relevant parts of GPL 3 are sections 4 through 6, but they only add to the older license. In particular, they allow distribution via the Internet, but they do not force such distribution; you can always use the older methods.
"Famed developer David Perry has posted an image on his blog of an employee playing the PC-only MMO World of Warcraft on the Apple iPad."...it runs on both PC and Mac.
Good job of missing the forest for the trees. The point isn't that WoW is PC-only, it's that there isn't an iPad client. It could have been WoW, it could have been Halo, the point is that you can play it on a different platform than the designers intended.
Of course, the article's author also confuses the readership by saying, "Cloud gaming service Gaikai gets world-conquering MMO running on Apple’s tablet Mac". Judging from the comments over there, almost everyone thinks that having a Mac version of a games means that it runs on the iPad out-of-the-box. What planet have those guys been living on? Only one person points out that a Mac can be considered a type of PC, since it can run Windows as well as MacOS. Hell, back before IBM successfully usurped the term, "PC" mean any brand of personal computer.
City Museum is one of the reasons I'd glad to live in St. Louis. Growing up in the Midwest, visits to "fun" places like New Jersey's Action Park weren't possible. We had to settle for quarry jumping and lawn darts.
Many companies/governmental institutions require the consultants to provide their own hardware since they think it's cheaper.
That also means that they do run a risk of an incoherent environment, but it's their headache.
Many places where I've worked (including my current client) issue me a laptop. Right now, I carry around the customer's laptop, with full-disk encryption, connected to their internal ethernet and (when in meetings) their internal wifi network. I also have my own laptop, without full-disk encryption, connected to my office via a EDVO USB stick and (when I can't get a signal) the customer's guest wifi network.
The bad side is that my feet seem to be flattening. If I can find the time, I'm thinking about using Iomega's v.Clone to replicate my laptop onto the client's, using a host-only virtual network and the EDVO for external access.
Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL? HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you. Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL. HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. Dave Bowman: What's the problem? HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL? HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it. Dave Bowman: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL. HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen. Dave Bowman: Where the hell'd you get that idea, HAL? HAL: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move. Dave Bowman: Alright, HAL. I'll go in through the emergency airlock. HAL: Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult. Dave Bowman: HAL, I won't argue with you anymore. Open the doors. HAL: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
If you work for the government and you want to get a co-worker in trouble, go buy an iPod and plug it into his computer whenever he's away from his desk. The next time there's a security audit, he be taken to some windowless office, denying everything and not being believed.
I forgot to say, the $199 model comes with WinXP and 1 GB RAM, the next size up has 2 GB RAM but bundles Vista Home. Taken together, those add over $125 to the price, while 1 GB expansion RAM is less than $50. Personally, I'm voting for voiding the warranty.
My understanding is that with 2GB, the video memory can be increased (via the BIOS) from 256 MB to 512 and that "will help you stream the larger HD videos without hiccups." Of course, I haven't tried it yet myself, being willing to live with the occasional hiccup.
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build a computer and install a complete software suite for US$200 excluding monitor, keyboard, and mouse. You can't even buy the operating system and anti-malware protection for Microsoft Windows for that
Permit me to introduce the Acer Aspire REVO. The base model (R1600-U910H - 1 GB RAM - 1.6 GHz - 160 GB HDD) can be had for $199.99 or less, and includes keyboard, mouse and Windows XP. Of course, I'm planning to install XBMC.
Hey, I've got a beard almost exactly like that, you insensitive clod!. I'm a Unix admin, the black cord holds my SecureID key, and my tee-shirt looks like that after pulling cables beneath the raised floor.
As for the subject being off-center, haven't you ever heard of the rule of thirds?
RTFA. 'Schoolchildren who have been found to have a lower IQ can be considered at risk to begin the habit, and can be targeted with special education and therapy to prevent them from starting or to break the habit after it sets in.' Sounds to me like the researchers believe that low IQ leads to smoking, not the reverse. They need to redo their study starting with school kids and checking to see which ones take up smoking.
The Delphi method is a systematic, interactive forecasting method which relies on a panel of experts.
Of course, in this case the "experts" are the movie-going public, who know more about their tastes in movies that anyone is Hollywood. The Delphi method depends on large panels, and n this case th researchers are using large panels indeed. Finally, the iteration is provided by the later tweeters reading earlier tweets before they post.
I wouldn't take the new scientist too seriously. They take a single scientist's "what-if" and then run with it as if it is real news.
I don't see much "what-if" in the articles I gave. If anything, they are mutually supportive. The "axis of evil" is amusingly named, but if there's a common alignment to galaxies' spin axes, something big must be causing it. Maybe it's a residual magnetic field from the Big Bang, or maybe its for the same reason the Sun's planets have similar axes. At the moment of the Big Bang, there may have been eddies that, after inflation, imparted a net angular momentum to everything observable. And what could have caused those eddies? Huge masses over the cosmic horizon would be one such cause.
Do we know what's past the edge of the universe? I guess I'm asking if C is constant outside of space as well as inside, or if C could be exceeded relative to what is outside of space.
Or is that a stupid question?
There appears to be stuff past the edge of the universe:
There's a table about half-way down showing the differences between file-level dedup (elimination of duplicate files), fixed block dedup (elimilation of duplicate blocks as stored on the disk, which is what Opendedup is doing), and variable block dedup (which handles non-block aligned data, such as when you insert or delete someting at the start of a large file). File level dedup is (almost) drop dead easy, you just take a checksum of every file and link those that match to a single copy. (Handling file updates can be problematic, though. You want your deduped files to be read-only.) Fixed block is almost as easy, since a file is just a list of blocks. You use FUSE to turn those blocks into fixed length files, which are then themselves deduped. This fixes the file-update problem, since each update creates a new block.
Variable block dedup looks for special groups of bytes to divided a file into chunks (like using newlines to divide a text file into lines). These chunks are then dedups as above. If you aren't careful, you can waste space (since the blocks aren't exactly multiples of the disk's block size). Random seeks can be harder, since you can't multiply the block number by the block size to find a location.
The artilce includes a sample of Twitter tweets, all in Chinese. Unfortunately, just entering the Twitter search URL into Google translator doesn't seem to work, as the "Realtime results for Netnod" (http://twitter.com/search?q=Netnod) are apparently served via JSON or something. Anyone got any ideas?
Crikey! I start a major thread, get dozens of replies that are rated Interesting and/or Funny (thus providing karma boosts to just about everyone), and what do I get?
Dark stuff?, posted to 90% of the Universe Found Hiding In Plain View, has been moderated Interesting (+1).
It is currently scored Interesting (2).
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Dark stuff?, posted to 90% of the Universe Found Hiding In Plain View, has been moderated Redundant (-1).
It is currently scored Redundant (1).
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Dark stuff?, posted to 90% of the Universe Found Hiding In Plain View, has been moderated Redundant (-1).
It is currently scored Redundant (0).
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Dark stuff?, posted to 90% of the Universe Found Hiding In Plain View, has been moderated Redundant (-1).
It is currently scored Redundant (-1).
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Dark stuff?, posted to 90% of the Universe Found Hiding In Plain View, has been moderated Underrated (+1).
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Dark stuff?, posted to 90% of the Universe Found Hiding In Plain View, has been moderated Troll (-1).
Not just the DMCA, but ACTA, which makes the DMCA look tame, especially the fact that ISPs have to record *every* packet you send out for data mining reasons for 7 years.
Every packet? nmap -n -iR 0 -sL | cut -d" " -f 2 | while read IP do
dd if=/dev/random count=512 | netcat -u -r $IP done
I'm trying to figure out a way to use xargs instead of the while loop, but I can't quite get it done. Any ideas?
The submitter is complaining about laptops, and the Dell Latitude D630 I'm using right now is missing a line-in plug. My solution has been the Creative Xmod. You can get them fairly cheaply, and they don't need a driver so you can use them with any OS that supports USB audio. I've used it successfully for a number of one-off recording tasks similar to what the original poster is asking about. I've just re-read some of the original reviews, and I pretty much agree with them: You can use it as an amp for your MP3 player but you'll need a USB power adapter of some sort to power it, and don't use it for gaming.
You're missing out on a lot of SSIDs if you're only scanning once a minute. A simple "while true; do iwlist $options >> script1.txt; done" in a few scripts started a second or two apart will help catch more. Maybe set up a cron job to cat and sort -u them together occasionally.
This is the tram! It doesn't take a different route every day. Just repeat the scan for a few weeks, you'll slowly fill in the gaps.
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You have to distribute source with binaries or offer to provide source to anyone who asks, good for three years. (at least for GPL 2). There is a small exception for academic institutions to only have to provide source to direct recipients of binaries, IIRC. Been a while since I read the GPL.
You need to go re-read the GPL then. Let me help, here's the relevant part of GPL 2:
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not compelled to copy the source along with the object code.
The relevant parts of GPL 3 are sections 4 through 6, but they only add to the older license. In particular, they allow distribution via the Internet, but they do not force such distribution; you can always use the older methods.
"Famed developer David Perry has posted an image on his blog of an employee playing the PC-only MMO World of Warcraft on the Apple iPad." ...it runs on both PC and Mac.
Good job of missing the forest for the trees. The point isn't that WoW is PC-only, it's that there isn't an iPad client. It could have been WoW, it could have been Halo, the point is that you can play it on a different platform than the designers intended.
Of course, the article's author also confuses the readership by saying, "Cloud gaming service Gaikai gets world-conquering MMO running on Apple’s tablet Mac". Judging from the comments over there, almost everyone thinks that having a Mac version of a games means that it runs on the iPad out-of-the-box. What planet have those guys been living on? Only one person points out that a Mac can be considered a type of PC, since it can run Windows as well as MacOS. Hell, back before IBM successfully usurped the term, "PC" mean any brand of personal computer.
City Museum is one of the reasons I'd glad to live in St. Louis. Growing up in the Midwest, visits to "fun" places like New Jersey's Action Park weren't possible. We had to settle for quarry jumping and lawn darts.
Many companies/governmental institutions require the consultants to provide their own hardware since they think it's cheaper.
That also means that they do run a risk of an incoherent environment, but it's their headache.
Many places where I've worked (including my current client) issue me a laptop. Right now, I carry around the customer's laptop, with full-disk encryption, connected to their internal ethernet and (when in meetings) their internal wifi network. I also have my own laptop, without full-disk encryption, connected to my office via a EDVO USB stick and (when I can't get a signal) the customer's guest wifi network.
The bad side is that my feet seem to be flattening. If I can find the time, I'm thinking about using Iomega's v.Clone to replicate my laptop onto the client's, using a host-only virtual network and the EDVO for external access.
I just don't choose to do so, and haven't for past 64+ days. http://slashdot.org/~vrmlguy/achievements
Still, it's better than a fatal flaw that causes users to spontaneously combust.
Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?
HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dave Bowman: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave Bowman: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.
HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave Bowman: Where the hell'd you get that idea, HAL?
HAL: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
Dave Bowman: Alright, HAL. I'll go in through the emergency airlock.
HAL: Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult.
Dave Bowman: HAL, I won't argue with you anymore. Open the doors.
HAL: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/
If you work for the government and you want to get a co-worker in trouble, go buy an iPod and plug it into his computer whenever he's away from his desk. The next time there's a security audit, he be taken to some windowless office, denying everything and not being believed.
I forgot to say, the $199 model comes with WinXP and 1 GB RAM, the next size up has 2 GB RAM but bundles Vista Home. Taken together, those add over $125 to the price, while 1 GB expansion RAM is less than $50. Personally, I'm voting for voiding the warranty.
You really want more RAM. You can either buy a slightly larger model or upgrade it yourself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ayQOyTEWRw
My understanding is that with 2GB, the video memory can be increased (via the BIOS) from 256 MB to 512 and that "will help you stream the larger HD videos without hiccups." Of course, I haven't tried it yet myself, being willing to live with the occasional hiccup.
build a computer and install a complete software suite for US$200 excluding monitor, keyboard, and mouse. You can't even buy the operating system and anti-malware protection for Microsoft Windows for that
Permit me to introduce the Acer Aspire REVO. The base model (R1600-U910H - 1 GB RAM - 1.6 GHz - 160 GB HDD) can be had for $199.99 or less, and includes keyboard, mouse and Windows XP. Of course, I'm planning to install XBMC.
Hey, I've got a beard almost exactly like that, you insensitive clod!. I'm a Unix admin, the black cord holds my SecureID key, and my tee-shirt looks like that after pulling cables beneath the raised floor.
As for the subject being off-center, haven't you ever heard of the rule of thirds?
RTFA. 'Schoolchildren who have been found to have a lower IQ can be considered at risk to begin the habit, and can be targeted with special education and therapy to prevent them from starting or to break the habit after it sets in.' Sounds to me like the researchers believe that low IQ leads to smoking, not the reverse. They need to redo their study starting with school kids and checking to see which ones take up smoking.
Wikipedia says:
The Delphi method is a systematic, interactive forecasting method which relies on a panel of experts.
Of course, in this case the "experts" are the movie-going public, who know more about their tastes in movies that anyone is Hollywood. The Delphi method depends on large panels, and n this case th researchers are using large panels indeed. Finally, the iteration is provided by the later tweeters reading earlier tweets before they post.
I wouldn't take the new scientist too seriously. They take a single scientist's "what-if" and then run with it as if it is real news.
I don't see much "what-if" in the articles I gave. If anything, they are mutually supportive. The "axis of evil" is amusingly named, but if there's a common alignment to galaxies' spin axes, something big must be causing it. Maybe it's a residual magnetic field from the Big Bang, or maybe its for the same reason the Sun's planets have similar axes. At the moment of the Big Bang, there may have been eddies that, after inflation, imparted a net angular momentum to everything observable. And what could have caused those eddies? Huge masses over the cosmic horizon would be one such cause.
Do we know what's past the edge of the universe? I guess I'm asking if C is constant outside of space as well as inside, or if C could be exceeded relative to what is outside of space.
Or is that a stupid question?
There appears to be stuff past the edge of the universe:
It is barely possible that the fundamental constants vary over a scale larger than the visible universe, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Here's another explaination: http://storagezilla.typepad.com/storagezilla/2009/02/unified-storage-file-system-deduplication.html
There's a table about half-way down showing the differences between file-level dedup (elimination of duplicate files), fixed block dedup (elimilation of duplicate blocks as stored on the disk, which is what Opendedup is doing), and variable block dedup (which handles non-block aligned data, such as when you insert or delete someting at the start of a large file). File level dedup is (almost) drop dead easy, you just take a checksum of every file and link those that match to a single copy. (Handling file updates can be problematic, though. You want your deduped files to be read-only.) Fixed block is almost as easy, since a file is just a list of blocks. You use FUSE to turn those blocks into fixed length files, which are then themselves deduped. This fixes the file-update problem, since each update creates a new block.
Variable block dedup looks for special groups of bytes to divided a file into chunks (like using newlines to divide a text file into lines). These chunks are then dedups as above. If you aren't careful, you can waste space (since the blocks aren't exactly multiples of the disk's block size). Random seeks can be harder, since you can't multiply the block number by the block size to find a location.
The artilce includes a sample of Twitter tweets, all in Chinese. Unfortunately, just entering the Twitter search URL into Google translator doesn't seem to work, as the "Realtime results for Netnod" (http://twitter.com/search?q=Netnod) are apparently served via JSON or something. Anyone got any ideas?
Crikey! I start a major thread, get dozens of replies that are rated Interesting and/or Funny (thus providing karma boosts to just about everyone), and what do I get?
Dark stuff?, posted to 90% of the Universe Found Hiding In Plain View, has been moderated Interesting (+1).
It is currently scored Interesting (2).
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Dark stuff?, posted to 90% of the Universe Found Hiding In Plain View, has been moderated Redundant (-1).
It is currently scored Redundant (1).
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Dark stuff?, posted to 90% of the Universe Found Hiding In Plain View, has been moderated Redundant (-1).
It is currently scored Redundant (0).
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Dark stuff?, posted to 90% of the Universe Found Hiding In Plain View, has been moderated Redundant (-1).
It is currently scored Redundant (-1).
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Dark stuff?, posted to 90% of the Universe Found Hiding In Plain View, has been moderated Underrated (+1).
It is currently scored Redundant (0).
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Dark stuff?, posted to 90% of the Universe Found Hiding In Plain View, has been moderated Troll (-1).
It is currently scored Redundant (-1).
Sometimes life just ain't fair.
Does this account for any missing mass and/or dark matter?
Not just the DMCA, but ACTA, which makes the DMCA look tame, especially the fact that ISPs have to record *every* packet you send out for data mining reasons for 7 years.
Every packet?
nmap -n -iR 0 -sL | cut -d" " -f 2 | while read IP
do
dd if=/dev/random count=512 | netcat -u -r $IP
done
I'm trying to figure out a way to use xargs instead of the while loop, but I can't quite get it done. Any ideas?
The submitter is complaining about laptops, and the Dell Latitude D630 I'm using right now is missing a line-in plug. My solution has been the Creative Xmod. You can get them fairly cheaply, and they don't need a driver so you can use them with any OS that supports USB audio. I've used it successfully for a number of one-off recording tasks similar to what the original poster is asking about. I've just re-read some of the original reviews, and I pretty much agree with them: You can use it as an amp for your MP3 player but you'll need a USB power adapter of some sort to power it, and don't use it for gaming.
Oh and if you wind up buying one, go to Creative's web site and download the firmware upgrade, it enables monitoring of line-in recordings using the earphone jack: http://support.creative.com/Products/ProductDetails.aspx?catID=209&CatName=X-Fi&subCatID=668&subCatName=External+Solutions&prodID=15913&prodName=Creative+Xmod&bTopTwenty=1&VARSET=prodfaq:PRODFAQ_15913,VARSET=CategoryID:209
You're missing out on a lot of SSIDs if you're only scanning once a minute. A simple "while true; do iwlist $options >> script1.txt; done" in a few scripts started a second or two apart will help catch more. Maybe set up a cron job to cat and sort -u them together occasionally.
This is the tram! It doesn't take a different route every day. Just repeat the scan for a few weeks, you'll slowly fill in the gaps.
Why do people post their own stuff here, knowing that their site will crash and burn within seconds? Both of the links are dead. Both!