The foot soldiers might not have known about it, but the upper leadership of the US, UK, and Soviet military knew about. IIRC, the US government didn't want the European theater to be consider a jewish war, so they ignored all reports of the atrocities. Even gave an order to that effect.
The Soviets liberated the most Eastern death camps in '44, but reports from them were considered Soviet propaganda.
What about Braveheart? Heard some Scottish historians are pretty peeved off about that one.
Of course, the History Channel interviewed the screenwriter for Braveheart, and his argument that though his movie wasn't historically true, it was emotionally true (or something to that effect. Don't remember the exact words). I think Pearl Harbor was penned by the same guy.
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Wasn't the Doolittle raid more of a moral booster at home?
There is a difference between letting the 'community' create addons, and giving away the main product, and creating the addons yourself.
And since the main product is what is the most difficult to create, I fail to see how GPL it would help the company recoup the investment (and doesn't the fact that the main product would be GPL'ed, that the addons would have to be GPL too?)
DJB is working on v2.0 of Qmail. I think some of the patches will be included.
His problem, if you read the mailing list is this: he knows he can write secure code. He has a personal warantee to that effect. He doesn't have time to audit other people's code. Now, someone replaces his password check program with another one, and introduced a security problem (buffer overflow). The person then went to the mailing list and complained.
Whose fault was it? In the user's mind, it was djb, because a) he had a warantee that there would be no securiy issues with his software, b) user found a security problem.
djb is responsible for his code. Other people who wants to write patches against his code, has to be responsible for their code. By keeping it separate, you, as the user, knows who wrote what, and *you* will be responsible for the changes you make to his code.
Lets take Mutt as an example (only using it because I just happened to use Mutt as my MUA).
Say, I'm a company that want to do so customization of Mutt, and distribute it to my customers, but I don't want to distribute the source. It's under GPL, right? So, I can just go the the copyright holder(s), and give them a million dollars (or whatever it takes), and they relicense the software to me. No difference than how I would do it if I wanted to resell Eudora or Outlook.
From the author(s) point of view, they made money, and the people who are unwilling to pay them money, pay with their sourcecode.
NOw, if the software was under BSD, however, I could just take the software, and not compensate the Mutt people in any way.
GPL is really only anti-business insofar that business wants something for nothing. For the rest, the GPL is really no more restrictive than the normal M$ license.
I think there are always exceptions to any generalizations.
For instance, operator overloading. The std use it to make std::vector behave and look like an array. So you have something like
std::vector<int> v; int i = v[4];
Looks natural to me.
Nice thing about the stream I/O is that you don't have to deal with the damn %s%d%S crap. Sorry, printf is just evil compared to cout.
References, mostly agree, but you can save some time and memory by using reference in connection with const for objects. For instance,
int foo( const Obj& o );
Instead of making a copy of Obj, you know get a reference to the original object. Saves you time.
Oh, please. Debian won't solve what he is trying to accomplice (and I'm using Debian so..). He wants to compile from source (as in a tar.gz package), have the package manager recognize it. Dpkg won't solve this. It will only resolve dependencies when you use dpkg to install software, same as RPM.
When I used RedHat, I used to compile from source RPM all the time. No problems.
Sure you do. Don't watch the 'making of' on TV, don't watch the documentary, don't read the novelization, don't buy the action figure, don't buy the limited edition storyboard.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but nobody is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to do anything you don't want. Stop blaming other people for your inability to control yourself.
Often the open source developer and the "money-hungry programmer" is the same. Where do you think we get the money to make a living from? Here's a hint: We're not the voice in McDonald's box.
Windows XP is meant for the home user, so it doesn't have to have the same multiuser capabilites that Linux or other UNIX'es do.
All a home user really needs is a separation of the user folders (like email folders, documents etc), and this has been supported at least since Win98, because most likely, no more than one person will be logged into a system anyways.
Also, even a non-root can shut down a Linux box. Ctrl-Alt-Del will reboot my Linux system as a user. And with GNOME ( and perhaps KDE?), there is a menu option to shutdown as user. (Yes, it can be disabled, but dists. like RedHat and Debian turns this feature on by default).
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UNIX philosophy: Small utilities that only do one thing really well, then chain them together to form a bigger whole.
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Well, djbdns isn't really Free. I can't patch it, add some security holes, and redistribute it as the original, like I can with BIND.
Nope, I think most reasonable people who reads this site will agree that it better to be rooted than to run a free secure alternative.
Remember, the 'all bugs are shallow with enough eyeballs' only apply if the bugs are under GPL.
Regardless, you should have tripwire or something running anyway.
What you should do is uninstall services you don't need. And if you absolutely need a named server, run something that doesn't have a history of being cracked.
One of the reason I went for the Visor Deluxe instead of the color one was because of with the Deluxe model (b/w), two AAA batteries last almost 3 weeks, while the guy at the counter only thought one charge of the color version would last 6-8 hours (or something like that).
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The foot soldiers might not have known about it, but the upper leadership of the US, UK, and Soviet military knew about. IIRC, the US government didn't want the European theater to be consider a jewish war, so they ignored all reports of the atrocities. Even gave an order to that effect.
The Soviets liberated the most Eastern death camps in '44, but reports from them were considered Soviet propaganda.
What about Braveheart? Heard some Scottish historians are pretty peeved off about that one.
Of course, the History Channel interviewed the screenwriter for Braveheart, and his argument that though his movie wasn't historically true, it was emotionally true (or something to that effect. Don't remember the exact words). I think Pearl Harbor was penned by the same guy.
Wasn't the Doolittle raid more of a moral booster at home?
There is a difference between letting the 'community' create addons, and giving away the main product, and creating the addons yourself.
And since the main product is what is the most difficult to create, I fail to see how GPL it would help the company recoup the investment (and doesn't the fact that the main product would be GPL'ed, that the addons would have to be GPL too?)
DJB is working on v2.0 of Qmail. I think some of the patches will be included.
His problem, if you read the mailing list is this: he knows he can write secure code. He has a personal warantee to that effect. He doesn't have time to audit other people's code. Now, someone replaces his password check program with another one, and introduced a security problem (buffer overflow). The person then went to the mailing list and complained.
Whose fault was it? In the user's mind, it was djb, because a) he had a warantee that there would be no securiy issues with his software, b) user found a security problem.
djb is responsible for his code. Other people who wants to write patches against his code, has to be responsible for their code. By keeping it separate, you, as the user, knows who wrote what, and *you* will be responsible for the changes you make to his code.
Happy Independence Day, Norway!!!!
So, it would be like their flying machines, right?
Man, Star Trek: TOS seems more and more outdated.
I don't think the GPL is anti-business.
Lets take Mutt as an example (only using it because I just happened to use Mutt as my MUA).
Say, I'm a company that want to do so customization of Mutt, and distribute it to my customers, but I don't want to distribute the source. It's under GPL, right? So, I can just go the the copyright holder(s), and give them a million dollars (or whatever it takes), and they relicense the software to me. No difference than how I would do it if I wanted to resell Eudora or Outlook.
From the author(s) point of view, they made money, and the people who are unwilling to pay them money, pay with their sourcecode.
NOw, if the software was under BSD, however, I could just take the software, and not compensate the Mutt people in any way.
GPL is really only anti-business insofar that business wants something for nothing. For the rest, the GPL is really no more restrictive than the normal M$ license.
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Eazel is both.
So? Just because support is where they make their money, doesn't mean that their going to make the source available to their competitors.
I think there are always exceptions to any generalizations.
For instance, operator overloading. The std use it to make std::vector behave and look like an array. So you have something like
std::vector<int> v; int i = v[4];
Looks natural to me.
Nice thing about the stream I/O is that you don't have to deal with the damn %s%d%S crap. Sorry, printf is just evil compared to cout.
References, mostly agree, but you can save some time and memory by using reference in connection with const for objects. For instance,
int foo( const Obj& o );
Instead of making a copy of Obj, you know get a reference to the original object. Saves you time.
NuMega's BoundsChecker is a program that can discover memory leaks in your program. I think it's only for NT.
dselect has the worse userinterface ever. You're the first person who has said anything remotely nice about it.
Which is why Debian is moving away from dselect to aptitude.
Oh, please. Debian won't solve what he is trying to accomplice (and I'm using Debian so..). He wants to compile from source (as in a tar.gz package), have the package manager recognize it. Dpkg won't solve this. It will only resolve dependencies when you use dpkg to install software, same as RPM.
When I used RedHat, I used to compile from source RPM all the time. No problems.
Sure you do. Don't watch the 'making of' on TV, don't watch the documentary, don't read the novelization, don't buy the action figure, don't buy the limited edition storyboard.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but nobody is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to do anything you don't want. Stop blaming other people for your inability to control yourself.
Shouldn't you be asking that of the person who decided to interview the MS guy?
How many planets did the Shadows and Vorlons destroy before they retired?
Really? You never used GNOME 1.0, didya?
Oh, please.
Often the open source developer and the "money-hungry programmer" is the same. Where do you think we get the money to make a living from? Here's a hint: We're not the voice in McDonald's box.
Windows XP is meant for the home user, so it doesn't have to have the same multiuser capabilites that Linux or other UNIX'es do.
All a home user really needs is a separation of the user folders (like email folders, documents etc), and this has been supported at least since Win98, because most likely, no more than one person will be logged into a system anyways.
Also, even a non-root can shut down a Linux box. Ctrl-Alt-Del will reboot my Linux system as a user. And with GNOME ( and perhaps KDE?), there is a menu option to shutdown as user. (Yes, it can be disabled, but dists. like RedHat and Debian turns this feature on by default).
UNIX philosophy: Small utilities that only do one thing really well, then chain them together to form a bigger whole.
Well, djbdns isn't really Free. I can't patch it, add some security holes, and redistribute it as the original, like I can with BIND.
Nope, I think most reasonable people who reads this site will agree that it better to be rooted than to run a free secure alternative.
Remember, the 'all bugs are shallow with enough eyeballs' only apply if the bugs are under GPL.
Regardless, you should have tripwire or something running anyway.
What you should do is uninstall services you don't need. And if you absolutely need a named server, run something that doesn't have a history of being cracked.
What is the battery life on this one?
One of the reason I went for the Visor Deluxe instead of the color one was because of with the Deluxe model (b/w), two AAA batteries last almost 3 weeks, while the guy at the counter only thought one charge of the color version would last 6-8 hours (or something like that).