that ever happend to FreeBSD, was Linux. The best thing that ever happened to Linux, was FreeBSD. Instead of fighting in the mud with those other guys, both can compete on the higher ground of techinical merit. As long as both keep leap frogging each other, we are all better off.
Is it me or are a lot of pod-people posting lately?
Are the pods actually disguised as XP boxes or as X-Boxes? Will I wake up tomorrow, and feel the uncontrollable urge to load XP?
Authorship of such papers includes all the scientists who contributed to the experiment. Thus, giving credit to all. Among other things, this enables all the participating institutions to share the credit in the discovery, giving them incentive to participate in further experiments. It also encourages a more open environment of exchange among the members of the experiment. It is a good system, and it helps to breed an environment that promotes the open exchange of information, instead of hoarding it.
I haven't read the pasport user's agreement, but would I be incorrect in guessing that Microsoft takes no responsibility for the safety of one's personal data? We're sorry we ruined your life, but if you read the fine print you will see that we are not responsible for anything. When will Microsoft be held responsible for it's actions?
Funny you should mention "Grateful", if memory serves correct, 3.0 was finished while Patrick was in town for a Grateful Dead concert at Soldier Field in Chicago.;->
My memory is fuzzy on this, but didn't slackware come from SLS? I seem to remember that SLS died, stalled, whatever, and Patrick picked it up and ran with it. Regardless, slackware deserves a lot of credit for building mementum early on, and helping make Linux what it is today. It is also one of the purest and most honest distributions, done for love and not for a fast buck.
IANAL, but as far as I know, innocent until proven guilty only applies in criminal law. In civil law, the standard is a preponderance of evidence. So, if someone makes an accusation, and a jury of your peers thinks that it probably is harmful to a child, you're guilty. IMHO, this would be a clear violation of that pesky document that keeps getting in the way of the "True Patriots(TM)". Of course, apparently, I have the rather warped view that the definition of patriotism is the defense of that same pesky document.
Is it possible that Brian West was confronted with the following:
FBI: Mr. West, we'll give you a choice, you can plead guilty and admit to the following and serve a light sentence, or you can fight this for the next five plus years, probably be found innocent, while you and your family starve in the mean time.
Mr. West: Um..Um...Um....OK, where do I sign?
Don't believe this can happen? It already has to others. Unless you are an absolute saint, few of us are, you don't stand a chance if the big wheels decide to roll in your direction.
At least if you are trying to support an Open Source solution, you have a chance of going back and fixing the old application to be conformant with new API's, etc. If you're running an old binary, you have no choice but to provide the old API's.
IANAL, nor do I play one on/., but, if memory serves correct, treaty's supercede the constitution. Believe it or not. I suspect this is why the powers that be are trying so hard to get DMCA recognized by treaty. Once that happens, we'll all screwed. If I'm wrong on this point, please correct me! Damn, I hope I am.
Ask your average Windows programmer about Donald Knuth. Then, ask your average Unix/Linux programmer about Donald Knuth. I think you will notice an interesting pattern emerge. IMHO, if you haven't read Knuth's work, you aren't a programmer.
Simply grep for involvement by Harlan Ellison. It has about a 66% hit rate.:-)
On a related note, has anyone noticed that one of the finest pieces of SF to hit TV has finally been re-released after over 20 years? Ursala K Le Guin's "The Lathe if Heaven".
have a Teletype ASR-33 console and magnetic core memory. We may laugh now, but in their time, many of the old machines were wonders of engineering and technology. Older teletypes actually encoded and decoded ASCII mechanically. UNIX actually ran on machines with 128KB of RAM. A 5MB removable platter hard drive was HUGE! If only our software matured as fast as the hardware.
Why should Microsoft pay someone to port.net when the community will do it for free and get a much higher quality port than Microsoft would if they did it themselves. Are efforts to reverse engineer.net playing into Microsoft's hands? As long as we fight the battle on their turf, we are greatly handicapped. If we can design an alternative to.net and pull the game onto our turf, we stand a much greater chance of succeeding.
Howdy Kirk! Are you still jumping out of fast moving vehicles?;-> This is a symptom of the ever dropping skill sets of the admin population these days. Anything, they don't understand, must be an attack. Time to send some folk to Internet network administration 101.
I would like to see a breakdown of server O/S weighted by usage. For example, a server that receives 1000hits/hour would have 1000 times more
weighting than a server which receives 1 hit/hour. Such a weighting would give a much more honest view of usage. In other words, which server O/S is getting the most work done. I suspect this would lead to significantly different results from what we have seen so far.
BSD is the best thing that ever happened to Linux. Linux is the best thing that ever happened to BSD. This has NOTHING to do with licensing, but with the business decisions of Wind River. Do I like this decision, NO! Was this a good decision by Wind River, I DON'T think so. Does this have anything to do with BSD vs. GPL licensing? NO!
If you want to argue to merits of GPL vs. BSD, please do so on reasonable grounds. I will point out that one of the reasons for Slackware's popularity is that it was the most BSD-like Linux distribution, instead of the System-V style most other distributions have taken. Go fight againt Microsoft, the real enemy, instead of the close allie BSD is. After you take out M$, then you can worry about BSD,
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that ever happend to FreeBSD, was Linux. The best thing that ever happened to Linux, was FreeBSD. Instead of fighting in the mud with those other guys, both can compete on the higher ground of techinical merit. As long as both keep leap frogging each other, we are all better off.
Is it me or are a lot of pod-people posting lately?
Are the pods actually disguised as XP boxes or as X-Boxes? Will I wake up tomorrow, and feel the uncontrollable urge to load XP?
Authorship of such papers includes all the scientists who contributed to the experiment. Thus, giving credit to all. Among other things, this enables all the participating institutions to share the credit in the discovery, giving them incentive to participate in further experiments. It also encourages a more open environment of exchange among the members of the experiment. It is a good system, and it helps to breed an environment that promotes the open exchange of information, instead of hoarding it.
Have you thought of applying for a grant from the CIA?
I haven't read the pasport user's agreement, but would I be incorrect in guessing that Microsoft takes no responsibility for the safety of one's personal data? We're sorry we ruined your life, but if you read the fine print you will see that we are not responsible for anything. When will Microsoft be held responsible for it's actions?
Funny you should mention "Grateful", if memory serves correct, 3.0 was finished while Patrick was in town for a Grateful Dead concert at Soldier Field in Chicago. ;->
As the person who is directly responsible for introducing Patrick to the church, I can most certainly say, YES!
Too bad he didn't use the bleeding head of Arnold Palmer as a logo. That would teach those Sneedists a lesson or two. ;->
"I don't practice what I preach, as I'm not the type of person I preach to"
My memory is fuzzy on this, but didn't slackware come from SLS? I seem to remember that SLS died, stalled, whatever, and Patrick picked it up and ran with it. Regardless, slackware deserves a lot of credit for building mementum early on, and helping make Linux what it is today. It is also one of the purest and most honest distributions, done for love and not for a fast buck.
IANAL, but as far as I know, innocent until proven guilty only applies in criminal law. In civil law, the standard is a preponderance of evidence. So, if someone makes an accusation, and a jury of your peers thinks that it probably is harmful to a child, you're guilty. IMHO, this would be a clear violation of that pesky document that keeps getting in the way of the "True Patriots(TM)". Of course, apparently, I have the rather warped view that the definition of patriotism is the defense of that same pesky document.
Is it possible that Brian West was confronted with the following:
FBI: Mr. West, we'll give you a choice, you can plead guilty and admit to the following and serve a light sentence, or you can fight this for the next five plus years, probably be found innocent, while you and your family starve in the mean time.
Mr. West: Um..Um...Um....OK, where do I sign?
Don't believe this can happen? It already has to others. Unless you are an absolute saint, few of us are, you don't stand a chance if the big wheels decide to roll in your direction.
cvsup, a utility used to synchronize CVS repository's, was hit by the S1G event. Version 16.1d is available to fix the bug.
At least if you are trying to support an Open Source solution, you have a chance of going back and fixing the old application to be conformant with new API's, etc. If you're running an old binary, you have no choice but to provide the old API's.
Hail Open Source, Death to binary only!
The loader in FreeBSD is forth. So, forth is playing in the present already.
IANAL, nor do I play one on /., but, if memory serves correct, treaty's supercede the constitution. Believe it or not. I suspect this is why the powers that be are trying so hard to get DMCA recognized by treaty. Once that happens, we'll all screwed. If I'm wrong on this point, please correct me! Damn, I hope I am.
Ask your average Windows programmer about Donald Knuth. Then, ask your average Unix/Linux programmer about Donald Knuth. I think you will notice an interesting pattern emerge. IMHO, if you haven't read Knuth's work, you aren't a programmer.
Arrr....Make that "The Lathe of Heaven"
Simply grep for involvement by Harlan Ellison. It has about a 66% hit rate. :-)
On a related note, has anyone noticed that one of the finest pieces of SF to hit TV has finally been re-released after over 20 years? Ursala K Le Guin's "The Lathe if Heaven".
have a Teletype ASR-33 console and magnetic core memory. We may laugh now, but in their time, many of the old machines were wonders of engineering and technology. Older teletypes actually encoded and decoded ASCII mechanically. UNIX actually ran on machines with 128KB of RAM. A 5MB removable platter hard drive was HUGE! If only our software matured as fast as the hardware.
Why should Microsoft pay someone to port .net when the community will do it for free and get a much higher quality port than Microsoft would if they did it themselves. Are efforts to reverse engineer .net playing into Microsoft's hands? As long as we fight the battle on their turf, we are greatly handicapped. If we can design an alternative to .net and pull the game onto our turf, we stand a much greater chance of succeeding.
Howdy Kirk! Are you still jumping out of fast moving vehicles? ;-> This is a symptom of the ever dropping skill sets of the admin population these days. Anything, they don't understand, must be an attack. Time to send some folk to Internet network administration 101.
Will Apple make Open Source mainstream?
Will Jordan find happiness in Cupertino?
Will FreeBSD end up conquering the world?
The answer to these, and other questions, in the next episode of, "Silicone Valley".
> fsck that
The cassette port is in back.You know where to stick it.
(Obscure historical reference, the response Microsoft Advenure 1.0, running on an Apple II, gave to a simlilarly phrased response )
Don't think Doubleclick is going to have much trouble, they helped write the P3P standard.
I would like to see a breakdown of server O/S weighted by usage. For example, a server that receives 1000hits/hour would have 1000 times more weighting than a server which receives 1 hit/hour. Such a weighting would give a much more honest view of usage. In other words, which server O/S is getting the most work done. I suspect this would lead to significantly different results from what we have seen so far.
BSD is the best thing that ever happened to Linux. Linux is the best thing that ever happened to BSD. This has NOTHING to do with licensing, but with the business decisions of Wind River. Do I like this decision, NO! Was this a good decision by Wind River, I DON'T think so. Does this have anything to do with BSD vs. GPL licensing? NO! If you want to argue to merits of GPL vs. BSD, please do so on reasonable grounds. I will point out that one of the reasons for Slackware's popularity is that it was the most BSD-like Linux distribution, instead of the System-V style most other distributions have taken. Go fight againt Microsoft, the real enemy, instead of the close allie BSD is. After you take out M$, then you can worry about BSD,