*) Shorter term *) Not able to be unconditionally assigned to others - i.e. original creator retains control and nobody can gain an exclusive licence such that the original creator is unable to do other things with their creation.
This would still allow a company to create an amalgamation of many different authors' work and sell it, but would not allow them to stop the author from ever doing the same thing again (as there have been cases with musicians selling the rights to their own compositions so they aren't even allowed to perform them any more!)
No, but you could theoretically build a new GPL on top of something which wasn't copyright but provided the protections that the GPL needs. Copyright is not the _only_ set of base rules on which a GPL could exist, it's just the current one.
Find whoever is sending them and go kill them. Messily. Publically.
You'll go to jail for a long time, but the chilling effect it has on the rest of the spammers out there will make you a fricking hero to the rest of us.
(if you're lucky, "the rest of us" includes your parole board. If you're super extra lucky it includes your jury!)
#include - this is Funny not Informative ok mods. Sheesh.
There are still a couple of people at SuSE (except we hate them too, right?) supporting ReiserFS, and the Namesys programmers haven't magically disappeared off the face of the earth. I got a reply from them just a couple of months ago about porting a patch we use against ReiserFS forward to 2.6.19+ where some of the VFS interfaces had changed.
And ReiserFS is still by far the best filesystem out there for large Cyrus installations according to all our testing, so we're not switching any time soon.
The mean of 1.0 and 4.0 on the other hand is 2.5. Assuming you know your '1' and '4' in the above to that level of accuracy. Otherwise especially your 4 could be anywhere from 3.0_1 to 4.9_9 because it might only be accurate to half a digit.
There are always some things about each image that you want to have different (hostname, machine ID,/etc/ethertab or equivalent if you have one - er, XP activation gunk)
Post installation scripts are pretty easy for your FOSS stuff (we do FAI + svn co + make -C conf install), not so easy on XP. I don't have a clue about OS X, my Mac days were pre version 8.
That's fine if your puzzle source is guaranteed to give one possible solution, as opposed to multiple possible solutions in which case you're wasting your time on an inferior sudoku source.
That said - if _my_ solver couldn't solve past that point, I would figure out why not and encode the logic I used into it. The challenge is understanding the puzzle well enough to describe it to a computer.
By the way - you might realise that you're describing brute-forcing (Many times I have to resort to a parallel solution, i.e. if a box with two possibilities, if I set it as one or the other and proceed to solve) as my solver implements it. If you reach a point where no rules can find a move, then split the board into two copies and make a speculative change in each one.
Mine uses plain text, 9 rows in which _ is an empty square, a number is a number, everything else is formatting gunk. Easy enough to write by hand, looks readable
_ _ 1 | 3 4 5 _ 2 3 | _ _ 7 7 _ _ | 9 _ 8...
But yeah, harder to do that sort of thing for some other puzzles.
My Perl sudoku solver was probably more complete - it even does set analysis: [A, B, C] are blank, values [2, 5, 7] are available, but A can only be [5, 7], B can only be [5, 7] so C must be 2.
It reverts to brute force only where its algorithms can't find any possible moves. I've only found that to be the case for puzzles with more than one legal solution (crappy cheap books).
Kakuro is more interesting - first the format is a cow to transcribe to a data file. I'm using "X Y DIRN LEN SUM" as the format. Output is a HTML file because plaintext doesn't quite read easily (my sudoku solver just outputs ASCII art).
The solver itself actually turned out to be very easy to write, and I get the feeling that it's not even complete yet (there are things I can do by hand that it doesn't attempt) and yet every puzzle I've thrown at it solves fine. It doesn't have a brute-force mode. I suspect this may be because either the kakuro book I'm using isn't very advanced, or it's just not so popular yet that people have crafted difficult puzzles.
What I'd really love to see is a standard data file format for describing these puzzles so I can share them and/or use other peoples' puzzles as input to my scripts. But I don't have THAT much free time, really...;)
Which is why (as suggested in another thread) we use Cyrus replication now for people's email. That has its own collection of "issues" - I've probably written at least half the bugfixes that have been merged into the past couple of releases to get it stable - but it's a whole lot better than relying on a single disk unit.
We had another failure where the RAID controller went psycho and decided to lie about the status of drives, it failed 5 of them in quick succession on a single RAID6 unit, and the worst thing is we actually replaced some before we gave up and switched RAID controllers, so we lost the volume. No knowing how corrupted it would have been anyway.
Perhaps it has multiple different names (polymorphic indeed) and the grandparent wanted the damn kids to get off his lawn^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^Wto provide maximum clarity about the actual feature wanted and how it would work.
a situation where little Johnny purchases some erotica from their provider, via Dad's phone, is one that has many a Telco exec waking up at night, covered in sweat.
Now see, they should be reporting themselves to the police immediately. Paedophiles. They should be waking up at night covered in sweat for good old-fashioned boobies like their counterparts in Canada. Much healthier.
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*) Shorter term
*) Not able to be unconditionally assigned to others - i.e. original creator retains control and nobody can gain an exclusive licence such that the original creator is unable to do other things with their creation.
This would still allow a company to create an amalgamation of many different authors' work and sell it, but would not allow them to stop the author from ever doing the same thing again (as there have been cases with musicians selling the rights to their own compositions so they aren't even allowed to perform them any more!)
No, but you could theoretically build a new GPL on top of something which wasn't copyright but provided the protections that the GPL needs. Copyright is not the _only_ set of base rules on which a GPL could exist, it's just the current one.
Find whoever is sending them and go kill them. Messily. Publically.
You'll go to jail for a long time, but the chilling effect it has on the rest of the spammers out there will make you a fricking hero to the rest of us.
(if you're lucky, "the rest of us" includes your parole board. If you're super extra lucky it includes your jury!)
#include - this is Funny not Informative ok mods. Sheesh.
_allegedly_ killed, sheesh. There's no body.
There are still a couple of people at SuSE (except we hate them too, right?) supporting ReiserFS, and the Namesys programmers haven't magically disappeared off the face of the earth. I got a reply from them just a couple of months ago about porting a patch we use against ReiserFS forward to 2.6.19+ where some of the VFS interfaces had changed.
And ReiserFS is still by far the best filesystem out there for large Cyrus installations according to all our testing, so we're not switching any time soon.
Almost always, yes. I can say "hi" before they finish typing whatever they wanted to say.
That's libpurple to you, ta muchly.
Network Manager Integration, that's my favourite part. Plus better status management and some other nice under-the-hood stuff.
(but I've been tracking/running SVN and now monotone, so I've seen things as they happened - despite the stern instructions not to)
In the finest traditions of unix naming:
x2x
No, it's 2. When in doubt round even.
The mean of 1.0 and 4.0 on the other hand is 2.5. Assuming you know your '1' and '4' in the above to that level of accuracy. Otherwise especially your 4 could be anywhere from 3.0_1 to 4.9_9 because it might only be accurate to half a digit.
http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/
There are always some things about each image that you want to have different (hostname, machine ID, /etc/ethertab or equivalent if you have one - er, XP activation gunk)
Post installation scripts are pretty easy for your FOSS stuff (we do FAI + svn co + make -C conf install), not so easy on XP. I don't have a clue about OS X, my Mac days were pre version 8.
That's fine if your puzzle source is guaranteed to give one possible solution, as opposed to multiple possible solutions in which case you're wasting your time on an inferior sudoku source.
That said - if _my_ solver couldn't solve past that point, I would figure out why not and encode the logic I used into it. The challenge is understanding the puzzle well enough to describe it to a computer.
By the way - you might realise that you're describing brute-forcing (Many times I have to resort to a parallel solution, i.e. if a box with two possibilities, if I set it as one or the other and proceed to solve) as my solver implements it. If you reach a point where no rules can find a move, then split the board into two copies and make a speculative change in each one.
Mine uses plain text, 9 rows in which _ is an empty square, a number is a number, everything else is formatting gunk. Easy enough to write by hand, looks readable
...
_ _ 1 | 3 4 5
_ 2 3 | _ _ 7
7 _ _ | 9 _ 8
But yeah, harder to do that sort of thing for some other puzzles.
Has no solution in which all blocks contain all possible values. You could do one with 2x2 (1234), but that's pretty trivial.
Yeah, I wrote one in Perl. Also one for Kakuro.
;)
My Perl sudoku solver was probably more complete - it even does set analysis: [A, B, C] are blank, values [2, 5, 7] are available, but A can only be [5, 7], B can only be [5, 7] so C must be 2.
It reverts to brute force only where its algorithms can't find any possible moves. I've only found that to be the case for puzzles with more than one legal solution (crappy cheap books).
Kakuro is more interesting - first the format is a cow to transcribe to a data file. I'm using "X Y DIRN LEN SUM" as the format. Output is a HTML file because plaintext doesn't quite read easily (my sudoku solver just outputs ASCII art).
The solver itself actually turned out to be very easy to write, and I get the feeling that it's not even complete yet (there are things I can do by hand that it doesn't attempt) and yet every puzzle I've thrown at it solves fine. It doesn't have a brute-force mode. I suspect this may be because either the kakuro book I'm using isn't very advanced, or it's just not so popular yet that people have crafted difficult puzzles.
What I'd really love to see is a standard data file format for describing these puzzles so I can share them and/or use other peoples' puzzles as input to my scripts. But I don't have THAT much free time, really...
What about "doesn't blow up more than one suburban block if the driver has the bad taste to sneeze or brake hard."
I see you come from the Alanis school of irony detection.
Well, in your case it's obviously not even an 081 IQ or you would have mastered simple string reversal...
Even RAID6 isn't always enough:
http://blog.fastmail.fm/?p=521
Which is why (as suggested in another thread) we use Cyrus replication now for people's email. That has its own collection of "issues" - I've probably written at least half the bugfixes that have been merged into the past couple of releases to get it stable - but it's a whole lot better than relying on a single disk unit.
We had another failure where the RAID controller went psycho and decided to lie about the status of drives, it failed 5 of them in quick succession on a single RAID6 unit, and the worst thing is we actually replaced some before we gave up and switched RAID controllers, so we lost the volume. No knowing how corrupted it would have been anyway.
*cough*
Eventually - but we're not turning our automated replication checks off just yet...
Amazing the little corner cases that can go in and corrupt your data for you.
for all you teached me.
I see she hasn't taught you everything you need to know yet.
Indeed, you probably picked up apostrophiti's there.
Perhaps it has multiple different names (polymorphic indeed) and the grandparent wanted the damn kids to get off his lawn^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^Wto provide maximum clarity about the actual feature wanted and how it would work.
a situation where little Johnny purchases some erotica from their provider, via Dad's phone, is one that has many a Telco exec waking up at night, covered in sweat.
Now see, they should be reporting themselves to the police immediately. Paedophiles. They should be waking up at night covered in sweat for good old-fashioned boobies like their counterparts in Canada. Much healthier.