Then again, it's their technology, they can do whatever they want. Heck, Linus changes the public interface to the kernel between dot releases (then again, he documents the changes). At least MS changes stuff in major releases.
Besides, they can't make too radical changes, because people will still be connecting WinNT, Win2K to their WinXP network (if nothing else).
So Samba driven systems might no longer be a PDC, but it should still work as clients.
I have to recheck with Mozilla 0.9.3 when I get home, but I've been home banking with BoA using Mozilla on Linux for a while now (at least every since the Personal Security Manager, or whatever they call it, got included with Mozilla).
Don't know about other platforms, but on Linux, you can just download the jdk (jre might work too). It contains a plugin directory. Inside the plugin/i386 directory, there are two directories: ns4 and ns600. Each contain a java plugin. Just make a link to the ns600 plugin to your mozilla/plugins directory. Works for me.
Interesting how the majority here are jumping up and down when other people (RIAA MPA etc) are trying to protect their copyright. Wonder if it is the same group of people who jumps up and down when it is known that company X has disregarded the GPL (which is based on copyright).
Or is it such that *we* can break copyright, but *they* shouldn't be allowed to?
The problem I find with contributing to OpenOffice is that they will not accept code submissions over 10 lines of code if one has not assigned copyright to Sun.
So does FSF and the GCC team. Lots of Free Software requires you to sign over the copyright.
Problem is, most open source developer works on something they need themselves. There are few or any incentive (for the open source developer) to work on something that will only be useful for other people.
Hmmm... Finland is not considered part of the Scandinavian countries. It is part of the Nordic countries, though (only Norway, Sweden and Denmark are part of the Scandinavian countries).
They already do that for bigtime gamblers (not exactly keeping him drunk, but keeping him happy).Basically, they send the limo out to greet him at the airport, free suites, anything s/he wants, s/he gets.
For the rest of the people, do you really think they're going to have 1 employee for each guest going through the casino? Not very cost effective, especially if you only spend $50. Don't think the Casino really notice you unless you start betting $10,000+ pr. hand.
Don't they already do that? Check out the Casino Diaries on Discovery. They do the face recognition against a database of people they know cheats or suspect of cheating.
Check out the comments section when gcc 3.0 was released here on Slashdot. Apparently, some people had some problems with kernel oopses when compiling the kernel with gcc 3.0. Also, from what I understand, the linux kernel is not completely ANSI compliant (which is why predecessor of gcc 3.0 (egcs?) couldn't compile the kernel). Think most of the problems got fixed though (haven't had problems compiling with gcc 2.95.x).
They only need to release the code to people they distribute to, and then only if customer ask for the sourcecode. They don't have to make the source publically available. They don't have to roll the mods back to the original kernel.
Imagine KDE and Gnome were two railroad companies. Now, each company wants to be the 'standard', but they can't agree, so each one lay their own railroads. Fine, problem is, the distance between the rails are different.
Now, the train builders have to choose between the two rails. Instead of building one train that works on all railroads, they either have to choose one or the other. Now, of course, people who buys the train can refit the trains to their railroads, but this refitting is very expensive, so why bother.
A train builder who builds for one set of rails is not really competiting against another train builder that buils for the other set of rails.
Now, as a user, why would you care? Well, say one set of rails are put between your city and city B. You usually travel between your city and city A, so you have monthly pass. To get to city B, you have to pay an extra ticket instead of using your monthly + learning new schedules, changing trains etc etc. Waste of money and time.
In short, common infrastructure is good. KDE and GNOME pretty much split the infrastructure in two (actually three, third one for application that hasn't/won't be changed).
My understanding is that even Gnome has a browser, not as far along as Konquerer, but it's there. Don't use Gnome much, so I don't know the name, but it's there
I'm wondering if Mozilla matters anymore. On the Linux side we already have alternatives in Konquerer and Opera. On Windows and MAC, IE does a good job. And these alternatives don't try to be anything but browsers.
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Wonder why they didn't wait to release 2.4.8 on that date.
Then again, it's their technology, they can do whatever they want. Heck, Linus changes the public interface to the kernel between dot releases (then again, he documents the changes). At least MS changes stuff in major releases.
Besides, they can't make too radical changes, because people will still be connecting WinNT, Win2K to their WinXP network (if nothing else).
So Samba driven systems might no longer be a PDC, but it should still work as clients.
I have to recheck with Mozilla 0.9.3 when I get home, but I've been home banking with BoA using Mozilla on Linux for a while now (at least every since the Personal Security Manager, or whatever they call it, got included with Mozilla).
Don't know about other platforms, but on Linux, you can just download the jdk (jre might work too). It contains a plugin directory. Inside the plugin/i386 directory, there are two directories: ns4 and ns600. Each contain a java plugin. Just make a link to the ns600 plugin to your mozilla/plugins directory. Works for me.
Interesting how the majority here are jumping up and down when other people (RIAA MPA etc) are trying to protect their copyright. Wonder if it is the same group of people who jumps up and down when it is known that company X has disregarded the GPL (which is based on copyright).
Or is it such that *we* can break copyright, but *they* shouldn't be allowed to?
But what's the battery life of that device? Who cares if it runs Linux. I'm not programming on my PDA.
So does FSF and the GCC team. Lots of Free Software requires you to sign over the copyright.
It's not Xwindows. It's X Window System, or just X. The X Consortium wasn't trying to piggy back on Windows success.
Problem is, most open source developer works on something they need themselves. There are few or any incentive (for the open source developer) to work on something that will only be useful for other people.
Hmmm... Finland is not considered part of the Scandinavian countries. It is part of the Nordic countries, though (only Norway, Sweden and Denmark are part of the Scandinavian countries).
They should have called it Babylon. It could have been humanities last, best hope for peace.
They already do that for bigtime gamblers (not exactly keeping him drunk, but keeping him happy).Basically, they send the limo out to greet him at the airport, free suites, anything s/he wants, s/he gets.
For the rest of the people, do you really think they're going to have 1 employee for each guest going through the casino? Not very cost effective, especially if you only spend $50. Don't think the Casino really notice you unless you start betting $10,000+ pr. hand.
Besides, drinks are free.
Don't they already do that? Check out the Casino Diaries on Discovery. They do the face recognition against a database of people they know cheats or suspect of cheating.
Check out the comments section when gcc 3.0 was released here on Slashdot. Apparently, some people had some problems with kernel oopses when compiling the kernel with gcc 3.0. Also, from what I understand, the linux kernel is not completely ANSI compliant (which is why predecessor of gcc 3.0 (egcs?) couldn't compile the kernel). Think most of the problems got fixed though (haven't had problems compiling with gcc 2.95.x).
They only need to release the code to people they distribute to, and then only if customer ask for the sourcecode. They don't have to make the source publically available. They don't have to roll the mods back to the original kernel.
So, what exactly is the problem?
Which gcc? Make sure it's not 3.0. Would think that one will give problems, since it just came out (do a gcc --version).
When the conservative right realized they couldn't burn blasphemous books. When the liberal left realized they couldn't ban speech.
That's when ACLU became a dirty word.
alien
Converts a package from deb to rpm and back.
According to RMS, yes, and RMS is GOD.
Imagine KDE and Gnome were two railroad companies. Now, each company wants to be the 'standard', but they can't agree, so each one lay their own railroads. Fine, problem is, the distance between the rails are different.
Now, the train builders have to choose between the two rails. Instead of building one train that works on all railroads, they either have to choose one or the other. Now, of course, people who buys the train can refit the trains to their railroads, but this refitting is very expensive, so why bother.
A train builder who builds for one set of rails is not really competiting against another train builder that buils for the other set of rails.
Now, as a user, why would you care? Well, say one set of rails are put between your city and city B. You usually travel between your city and city A, so you have monthly pass. To get to city B, you have to pay an extra ticket instead of using your monthly + learning new schedules, changing trains etc etc. Waste of money and time.
In short, common infrastructure is good. KDE and GNOME pretty much split the infrastructure in two (actually three, third one for application that hasn't/won't be changed).
How did you sync your visor with win/wmware? vmware doesn't have support for USB yet.
Linus Torvald lives in CA.
Well, how about you just block Katz so that you don't see his reviews.
My understanding is that even Gnome has a browser, not as far along as Konquerer, but it's there. Don't use Gnome much, so I don't know the name, but it's there
I'm wondering if Mozilla matters anymore. On the Linux side we already have alternatives in Konquerer and Opera. On Windows and MAC, IE does a good job. And these alternatives don't try to be anything but browsers.
Hasn't the ship passed already?