generally even an untweaked desktop lenny reboots in ~1minute, you would require ~50 reboots to mess up 99.99%, ofc if you were going for five 9s, then ~5minutes could be messed up by 4 boots a year
The time to restart a service is much less than that of a full os reboot, your complaining because your services will be down an order of magnitude less than before!
Patching network services without dropping open sessions is something that requires userspace work (it doesn't seam that hard to spawn a new process and have that process accept all new network connections) OR the ksplice approach could be adapted to almost any program (this would however require all package maintainers to learn how to analyze changes and produce code to get ksplice updates to work.
2 different activities: *I shutdown when i finish what I'm doing and statup when i need my computer again. *I don't want to be interrupted by reboots when I'm doing something. And while servers have all kinds of rollover solutions, reducing the amount of time any one server is down is still good.
There are problems *Copy Protection/DRM, it's hard to protect your artwork without some level of anti-piracy tool, it's hard to include one in a gpl engine. *Consoles, its hard to release code for anything that your release on a console (see the recent atari fiasco). *Always lag behind, for many reasons opensource game engines always seam to lag behind even old game engines (when ID release their old engines, its very welcome and they get used by many open-source projects over the constantly in development alternatives). *Hacking (multiplayer), while not really a major issue, there is a lower barrier to entry in hacking open-source games.
TBH I'm not sure how ID are doing atm. They may be set for a nice profit as they bring their older games to android/iphones/wiis/anything they can, if they get it right (and TBH im not sure they will, they are good on tech but sometimes not so good with the content). However they could serve as a good nucleus to bring open-source gaming to the masses (the only downside being that one major concern is how to distribute OSS game content, and game distribution is not their strong point), imagine the innovation you get at the tech level in linux combined with the content you get at the community level counter-strike, sven-coop, day of defeat, etc. If somebody could harness that, perhaps not GPL but a more proprietary friendly license (to close of parts for consoles etc), the possibilities are awe inspiring, dynamic mesh p2p games , fps level graphics in everything (RTS/RPG/SIMS/etc), off-screen displays (using your phone as a map), they are pretty lame but its 1am and i can't think of anything better.
Open Source gaming could be amazing, however much in the way of open gaming technology (openGL, open audio, etc) has lacked leadership, if ID were to be a leader they could provide a framework for open gaming to take off (there are a fair few ways to make money in the model besides the obvious dual licensing/repackaging/sell engine support/customize engines to certain specs). While this could come from elsewhere Canonical/google (why?) some other indie developer, ID know gaming tech and if other ventures fail, i for one would jizz my pants^H^H^H welcome this move.
I was under the impression that the problem is it gives a legitimate copy of parts of the API, which can then be used to produce wii-compatible games without paying Nintendo SDK fees OR agreeing to Nintendo rules.
If the source code is available, that means that someone can find vulnerabilities directly in the source code.
Given that it wasn't hard to find out that there was GPL code in this game, I think homebrew devs have access to most code (or at least decompiled code) fairly easily.
Doesn't this show that scummvm is the best scumm emulator out there, what are the advantages of re-licensing to lgpl? To me it seams like a bad idea, give why not lgpl a read, particularly
we can achieve much more if we stand together. We free software developers should support one another. By releasing libraries that are limited to free software only, we can help each other's free software packages outdo the proprietary alternatives. The whole free software movement will have more popularity, because free software as a whole will stack up better against the competition.
It will always be unlikely that closed SDKs are going to allow code to be released (to protect the API), while GPL guarantees that homebrew ports stay 100% open. It is also unlikely that developers will want people to be aware they are using scummvm because (they will think) it may increase piracy, as people will take the game data and play the games elsewhere (they can do this if it runs on a scumm emulator anyway, but corporate boss's don't always follow logic).
Obviously this is just my humble opinion as I've not contributed to scummvm but please be weary of opening yourself up to proprietary (scummvm+evil console closed code) offshoots, especially if there is little benefit.
# Atari could not "buy out" ScummVM from us # There is no possibility to double license ScummVM, at least SCUMM engine # We do not need any money as a "bribe to keep silent"
I smoke weed but I'm still outraged if somebody steals my 20bag! Many people that are fans of the GPL want all software to be freely modifiable, if there were no copyrights on software then the GPL wouldn't be needed to achieve what these people want, but until then GPL is all they have. Me personally, i think OSS (particularly GPL2) produces a better ecosystem and better software (sure there are blunders, but the audio system in windows was fucked for years and the drivers for OS X to run on my acer don't exist)
I find it even more absurd that you haven't got a fucking clue what your talking about. 1)GPL software can run on any hardware (my current laptop is defiantly not-gpl'd hardware) 2)GPL software can run on any OS 3)The only problem is that to keep the SDK/API secret (not really secret, just legally secret), Nintendo prevent any opensource code being released (GPL/BSD/MIT/Apache/MSSL)
You can't blame scummvm devs for somebody stealing their code, as has been stated elsewhere the blame lies with Atari and their (sub^2)contractors. IMHO everybody has been very reasonable in this situation and the fact the game is going to be left to rot is a shame but the code is legally impossible to do anything with (it's like a rock an omnipotent being has made that they can't move)
yeah and you can but you need to reverse engineer the API/SDK first, if the code was released anybody could legally produce a wii-compatible game (legally, ofc there are plenty of ways to do it illegally already). ATM any "API"/"SDK"s are in at best a legally grey area (more likely completely black), so legitimate companies have to pay nintendo to develop for wiis (which is sort of good as otherwise you'd have to pay more for your hardware)
The version being discussed is GPLv2, they where still GPL2till after 0.11 and AFAIK GPLv2 doesn't have any restrictions on signing (in fact i think that's one of the reasons that the linux kernel is still gpl2)
I hope you realize that Firefox was initiated by Mozilla, or did they finish the full frontal lobotomy after your first post? Apache, lighthttpd, vsftpd, squid Linux , bsd, darwin kernels mythtv vim/emacs/nano mysql/PostgreSQL GCC/llvm
60% is bit of a price to pay, however IMHO the point of the video tag is tighter integration with your website than is easily achievable with flash. Hopefully theora will improve and compete with mpeg-4, but there are still many advantages to using it over flash for embedded video (for stand alone pages, it doesn't matter so much as most users have a plugin to handle mpeg-4) *Interacts with the rest of the page easily (TBF actionscript, et al can achieve this) *Much lower cpu usage. While flash is particularly bad, theora is particularly good *Cross architecture. As people browse the web on phones, pdas, etc, this does actually matter *Much less likely to be exploitable (TBF webhosts don't care, but users should) *Open standards.
I don't think theora should be seen as simply a tool to replace flash videos but it should be seen as an opportunity to better integrate video into sites and/or make video content available to more people annoy people with video backgrounds
if they have little keeping them going, then they have little to declare, they will also be of little interest to the FTC, this is hopefully aimed at taking down FUD blogs and other shills that make it look like some random person's opinions when its in fact paid for by MS/apple/etc.
Still on kde3 while i they finish kde4, but a couple of the features are quite nice for productivity: the new klauncher is pretty useful as it can do math/launch stuff/check bookmarks/etc kross scripting makes "plugins" easy to make integrating power-management into desktop effect settings is a nice tweak
I do agree its not ready yet (or atleast the fedora beta i used wasn't) but there where a lot of good background improvements and once it settles down abit hopefully it willl be clear that kde4 wasn't just for innovation.
Because its a bad idea to give a process more rights than it needs. Sure i could leave my front door unlocked all day and I'd probably be fine, but its still a fucking stupid idea! While selinux/apparmor is a bit too much of a pita to setup for your average user, correctly configuring a system to not run browsers as root isn't that hard. While you are probably safe (most hackers CBA with bios), its still a terrible idea to do things the "wrong way"(tm) just because you can.
TBF i recently used a 256MB machine and i could run email(kmail) & a browser(FF3) just fine, unfortunately i had little need for office app use so stuck with OO which made stuff painful, but I'm sure if id looked around something like abiword+gnumeric would have been usable. When ram is available programs SHOULD use it Firefox (~180M) and ktorrent(~120M) are using more than 256M on my machine atm, however I know for a fact that i ran them on my old machine and had no problems.
And yes, as another poster already mentioned, not all older machines can be upgraded (especially notebooks), and memory for older machines is a LOT more expensive than a burger lunch.
How old? I upgraded the ram on my an old acer-travelmate (the machine with 256MB ram (or 128 i never remember)) with DDR2 off ebuyer (Where 512mb is currently £2, which isn't even enough for a nice burger)while 2GB@£15.78, perhaps if you want to buy a single stick of 4GB ram you'll have to fork out enough for a meal (£146.96). even older DDR(1gb@£30) or SDR(512M@£45) is closer to a burger, than a meal for 4 (unless you take you consider burger king a restaurant!)
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generally even an untweaked desktop lenny reboots in ~1minute, you would require ~50 reboots to mess up 99.99%, ofc if you were going for five 9s, then ~5minutes could be messed up by 4 boots a year
The time to restart a service is much less than that of a full os reboot, your complaining because your services will be down an order of magnitude less than before!
Patching network services without dropping open sessions is something that requires userspace work (it doesn't seam that hard to spawn a new process and have that process accept all new network connections) OR the ksplice approach could be adapted to almost any program (this would however require all package maintainers to learn how to analyze changes and produce code to get ksplice updates to work.
2 different activities:
*I shutdown when i finish what I'm doing and statup when i need my computer again.
*I don't want to be interrupted by reboots when I'm doing something.
And while servers have all kinds of rollover solutions, reducing the amount of time any one server is down is still good.
yea... no. what he said was:
Even if you didn't like his plastic surgery addiction and kiddie fondling
and that implies that he did actually fondle kids.
and that implies that he did actually fiddle kids.
just sayin
There are problems
*Copy Protection/DRM, it's hard to protect your artwork without some level of anti-piracy tool, it's hard to include one in a gpl engine.
*Consoles, its hard to release code for anything that your release on a console (see the recent atari fiasco).
*Always lag behind, for many reasons opensource game engines always seam to lag behind even old game engines (when ID release their old engines, its very welcome and they get used by many open-source projects over the constantly in development alternatives).
*Hacking (multiplayer), while not really a major issue, there is a lower barrier to entry in hacking open-source games.
TBH I'm not sure how ID are doing atm. They may be set for a nice profit as they bring their older games to android/iphones/wiis/anything they can, if they get it right (and TBH im not sure they will, they are good on tech but sometimes not so good with the content). However they could serve as a good nucleus to bring open-source gaming to the masses (the only downside being that one major concern is how to distribute OSS game content, and game distribution is not their strong point), imagine the innovation you get at the tech level in linux combined with the content you get at the community level counter-strike, sven-coop, day of defeat, etc. If somebody could harness that, perhaps not GPL but a more proprietary friendly license (to close of parts for consoles etc), the possibilities are awe inspiring, dynamic mesh p2p games , fps level graphics in everything (RTS/RPG/SIMS/etc), off-screen displays (using your phone as a map), they are pretty lame but its 1am and i can't think of anything better.
Open Source gaming could be amazing, however much in the way of open gaming technology (openGL, open audio, etc) has lacked leadership, if ID were to be a leader they could provide a framework for open gaming to take off (there are a fair few ways to make money in the model besides the obvious dual licensing/repackaging/sell engine support/customize engines to certain specs). While this could come from elsewhere Canonical/google (why?) some other indie developer, ID know gaming tech and if other ventures fail, i for one would jizz my pants^H^H^H welcome this move.
I was under the impression that the problem is it gives a legitimate copy of parts of the API, which can then be used to produce wii-compatible games without paying Nintendo SDK fees OR agreeing to Nintendo rules.
If the source code is available, that means that someone can find vulnerabilities directly in the source code.
Given that it wasn't hard to find out that there was GPL code in this game, I think homebrew devs have access to most code (or at least decompiled code) fairly easily.
Doesn't this show that scummvm is the best scumm emulator out there, what are the advantages of re-licensing to lgpl? To me it seams like a bad idea, give why not lgpl a read, particularly
we can achieve much more if we stand together. We free software developers should support one another. By releasing libraries that are limited to free software only, we can help each other's free software packages outdo the proprietary alternatives. The whole free software movement will have more popularity, because free software as a whole will stack up better against the competition.
It will always be unlikely that closed SDKs are going to allow code to be released (to protect the API), while GPL guarantees that homebrew ports stay 100% open. It is also unlikely that developers will want people to be aware they are using scummvm because (they will think) it may increase piracy, as people will take the game data and play the games elsewhere (they can do this if it runs on a scumm emulator anyway, but corporate boss's don't always follow logic).
Obviously this is just my humble opinion as I've not contributed to scummvm but please be weary of opening yourself up to proprietary (scummvm+evil console closed code) offshoots, especially if there is little benefit.
Please mod parent down its FUD, probably not deliberate but defiantly completely untrue (especially as the scummvm version in question is gpl2)
nope
# Atari could not "buy out" ScummVM from us
# There is no possibility to double license ScummVM, at least SCUMM engine
# We do not need any money as a "bribe to keep silent"
I smoke weed but I'm still outraged if somebody steals my 20bag! Many people that are fans of the GPL want all software to be freely modifiable, if there were no copyrights on software then the GPL wouldn't be needed to achieve what these people want, but until then GPL is all they have. Me personally, i think OSS (particularly GPL2) produces a better ecosystem and better software (sure there are blunders, but the audio system in windows was fucked for years and the drivers for OS X to run on my acer don't exist)
I find it even more absurd that you haven't got a fucking clue what your talking about.
1)GPL software can run on any hardware (my current laptop is defiantly not-gpl'd hardware)
2)GPL software can run on any OS
3)The only problem is that to keep the SDK/API secret (not really secret, just legally secret), Nintendo prevent any opensource code being released (GPL/BSD/MIT/Apache/MSSL)
You can't blame scummvm devs for somebody stealing their code, as has been stated elsewhere the blame lies with Atari and their (sub^2)contractors. IMHO everybody has been very reasonable in this situation and the fact the game is going to be left to rot is a shame but the code is legally impossible to do anything with (it's like a rock an omnipotent being has made that they can't move)
yeah and you can but you need to reverse engineer the API/SDK first, if the code was released anybody could legally produce a wii-compatible game (legally, ofc there are plenty of ways to do it illegally already). ATM any "API"/"SDK"s are in at best a legally grey area (more likely completely black), so legitimate companies have to pay nintendo to develop for wiis (which is sort of good as otherwise you'd have to pay more for your hardware)
The version being discussed is GPLv2, they where still GPL2till after 0.11 and AFAIK GPLv2 doesn't have any restrictions on signing (in fact i think that's one of the reasons that the linux kernel is still gpl2)
I hope you realize that Firefox was initiated by Mozilla, or did they finish the full frontal lobotomy after your first post?
Apache, lighthttpd, vsftpd, squid
Linux , bsd, darwin kernels
mythtv
vim/emacs/nano
mysql/PostgreSQL
GCC/llvm
title was supposed to be more to "video tag" but i didn't notice Slashdot lamed it up.
60% is bit of a price to pay, however IMHO the point of the video tag is tighter integration with your website than is easily achievable with flash. Hopefully theora will improve and compete with mpeg-4, but there are still many advantages to using it over flash for embedded video (for stand alone pages, it doesn't matter so much as most users have a plugin to handle mpeg-4)
*Interacts with the rest of the page easily (TBF actionscript, et al can achieve this)
*Much lower cpu usage. While flash is particularly bad, theora is particularly good
*Cross architecture. As people browse the web on phones, pdas, etc, this does actually matter
*Much less likely to be exploitable (TBF webhosts don't care, but users should)
*Open standards.
I don't think theora should be seen as simply a tool to replace flash videos but it should be seen as an opportunity to better integrate video into sites and/or make video content available to more people annoy people with video backgrounds
if they have little keeping them going, then they have little to declare, they will also be of little interest to the FTC, this is hopefully aimed at taking down FUD blogs and other shills that make it look like some random person's opinions when its in fact paid for by MS/apple/etc.
damn socialists! *shakes fists*
kde4 has themes for kde1-3,BII,win9x,ettc so if people just want to make the desktop look the same, that is not a problem
apt-get install libdvdcss2, but i think most distros will just give you a nice gui when you try playing mp3s/dvds for the 1st time
Still on kde3 while i they finish kde4, but a couple of the features are quite nice for productivity:
the new klauncher is pretty useful as it can do math/launch stuff/check bookmarks/etc
kross scripting makes "plugins" easy to make
integrating power-management into desktop effect settings is a nice tweak
I do agree its not ready yet (or atleast the fedora beta i used wasn't) but there where a lot of good background improvements and once it settles down abit hopefully it willl be clear that kde4 wasn't just for innovation.
Why?
Because its a bad idea to give a process more rights than it needs. Sure i could leave my front door unlocked all day and I'd probably be fine, but its still a fucking stupid idea! While selinux/apparmor is a bit too much of a pita to setup for your average user, correctly configuring a system to not run browsers as root isn't that hard. While you are probably safe (most hackers CBA with bios), its still a terrible idea to do things the "wrong way"(tm) just because you can.
Or maybe, why the fuck would he need to sudo everything as most stuff just works without administrators privileges (OR "shims"), especially browsers!
TBF i recently used a 256MB machine and i could run email(kmail) & a browser(FF3) just fine, unfortunately i had little need for office app use so stuck with OO which made stuff painful, but I'm sure if id looked around something like abiword+gnumeric would have been usable. When ram is available programs SHOULD use it Firefox (~180M) and ktorrent(~120M) are using more than 256M on my machine atm, however I know for a fact that i ran them on my old machine and had no problems.
And yes, as another poster already mentioned, not all older machines can be upgraded (especially notebooks), and memory for older machines is a LOT more expensive than a burger lunch.
How old? I upgraded the ram on my an old acer-travelmate (the machine with 256MB ram (or 128 i never remember)) with DDR2 off ebuyer (Where 512mb is currently £2, which isn't even enough for a nice burger)while 2GB@£15.78, perhaps if you want to buy a single stick of 4GB ram you'll have to fork out enough for a meal (£146.96).
even older DDR(1gb@£30) or SDR(512M@£45) is closer to a burger, than a meal for 4 (unless you take you consider burger king a restaurant!)
I think that's why its important for Americans not to get too involved in this or this lesser of two evils *will* look like a U.S puppet!