Once I built a network, I made it run I made it race against time Once I built a network, now it's done Brother, can you paradigm?
Once I built an OS, just like Sun Bits and coders and lines Once I built a OS, now it's done Brother, can you paradigm?
There are two more stanzas for which I can't think of anything just yet. Look here for the original words. Once I've burnt up all my karma, I think I may quit/.
2. No exclusionary contracts. We should also study why the 1995 consent decree failed, because it was supposed to stop this, and didn't.
I'd like to see some sort of uniform law against exclusionary contracts for *all* corporations, not just MS.
This is really a big problem with the cola wars, which have, IMHO, been worse for the consumer than anything MS has ever done. How many of you live on a campus that is dominated by Coke or dominated by Pepsi?
The only reason this is being ignored is that Coke-Pepsi is not a monopoly; but a *Duopoly* can be just as bad for competition, and in this case, exclusive contracts are the primary instrument used to destroy competition.
I'd like to see the govt force both companies to use well defined price schedules for their products that do not depend on whether or not their customers deal with the competitor. I'd like both companies to be forced to divest of their restaurant holdings. And, what I'd really like is to have a Coke with my Pizza Hut pizza, while my dinner guest has a Pepsi.
I realize this post will make no sense to those who "can't taste the difference". For those of us who can, the Coke-Pepsi duopoly is a far greater daily nuisance than MS.
Here here! There really is a striking resemblance between this and the hot-rods of the 50s. I mean, you've got machinery that a high-schooler with a paper route or a part-time summer job can afford to tinker with. You've got noisy fans, companies competing to make the fastest chip, high-end chip hot-rodders using LN2. I love it!!! Better yet, there probably won't be any reason for the EPA to saddle these babies with anything like a polution control.
Peltier devices *do* generate heat. All electrical devices that do useful work do likewise. There is no doubt a measureable voltage drop accross the device. This, multiplied by the current through the device, represents the power used by the device. That power, integrated over time, represents the energy lost by the device, and ultimately that energy is dissipated as heat. This is the basic problem of "Can you cool the whole room by leaving the refrigerator door open?". The answer is NO. It's a basic law of thermodynamics.
However, with the right kind of case, he can produce local cold spots inside the case. The room as a whole, however, will get hotter.
The idea that a refrigerator is really a net heater with respect to the room it occupies is counter-intuitive, but true.
Better yet, will the Klingons lose their cranial growths and get haircuts? Did they ever try to explain that? I nominate some kind of bizarre virus that caused all the Kligons to mutate.
Shortly after I posted, I went to download it and realized that you are right--it is advertising BSD. So, draw a slightly smaller circle inside the big circle. This circle encompasses most, if not all, of the other small circles. It may not encompass GPL. I've always wondered about that. For example, have the authors of GPL'd software written their own JPEG implementation, just to get around the IJG advertising clause? If they have, I think that's a bit ridiculous.
After filching around inside the Minix distro, I discovered that a number of the packages that come with it are in fact GPL'ed!!! So, it's not totally BSD. In fact, as with a lot of newly freed software, they were careless about changing the licensing documents in this distro, and if you didn't know better you'd think that some parts were still commercial.
Obviously, they can't remove or re-license the GPL'd components without permission from the author(s) of those components. So, what MINIX 2.0 really is, is an aggregate with some components that have now been placed under an advertising BSD license.
It doesn't matter too much to me. I just thought it was cool to download a *NIX like OS over my 28.8 modem in a reasonable ammount of time. (It was roughly a 5 meg download).
OK. To all the complainers that it isn't GPL'ed: Anything that is (non advertising) BSD can be incorporated into GPL. In other words, GPL provides a subset of the freedoms provided by BSD.
Now, follow my directions. 1. Draw a big circle. 2. Label it "BSD". 3. Draw a little circle inside the big circle. 4. Label it GPL. 5. Draw another little circle inside the big circle, but be very careful to make sure that it doesn't touch the other little circle. 6. Label the second little circle "closed source".
Now, what have we learned from this little exercise? We learned that BSD is a big circle that encompasses both free and proprietary software. It's a rising tide that lifts all boats, not a whirlpool that sucks them down.
Let's sing a little song: "Now I know my BSD's, won't you come and play with me..."
RHAT was a tool used by Intel and IBM to break MS. Now that it looks like MS is going to be punished by the govt., who needs Linux? In the same article notice that IBM appears to have filed to sell 750,000 shares of RHAT.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: These corporations didn't get involved with Linux because they love you.
You think this is funny?! My left leg is two inches shorter than the other, and I'm sick and tired of this "lame" business. This is a serious handicap, people. You're such a bunch of dummies. No, cretins... No, you're a mongol horde.. no, wait... um.. help me out here.
"In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up."
-Martin Niemöller
I should note that I don't condone homosexuality. But then I don't condone gluttonly, drunkeness, adultry, or any of the other more popular sins either.
The license *is* an OSI certified license. It's even copylefted. IMHO, Apple should be thwacked for taking BSD code and copylefting it. Oh well, that's the downside of BSD's freedom.
...Is apparently the story of a Red Army officer during the Russian Civil war (I presume they mean the early days of the revolution). The article said that watching this film is a pre-launch tradition.
This is not available at your local Blockbuster. Apparently it is available at Boston University (http://www.geddes.bu.edu/). So, if you understand Russian (I assume they haven't dubbed it) you can probably go there and capture some of the cosmonaut experience.
These days, I wonder what these guys will feel like watching this Soviet era film. I can only presume the tradition started to inspire the cosmonauts that they were working for the "glory of the revolution". Can anybody else offer further insights into this?
Ok, so this is just something some guy at work told me, but supposedly, his 486 overheated and exploded. The chip was mounted in a platic socket with some space between the plastic and the chip which sealed air-tight. The heating caused the plastic to burn enough so that the smoke had nothing better to do then build up pressure and pop! off went the CPU a few feet. I assume that the soccket design was later revised so that it didn't seal. Can anybody corroborate? Does anybody really know how to spell corroborate? I think I'm going to have a corroborated beverage now.
...Don't read/. on April 1. Now, if they'd replaced the banner ads for Linux with MS ads, and posted an article saying that VA had been bought by MS that would have been a good April 1 joke.
I never did it, I just heard about it. The big danger is hot steam pipes. Some of them carry superheated steam (300-500 degrees F). Count on getting dirty too.
Between the E-school and the Chemistry/material science building there is a long double-sidewalk walkway. If you're a toolie, you know it well. I seem to recall there were some entry points there, and I may have even seen some 'hoos emerging from them.
I also seem to recall something about Monroe Hill. Before the school got all security conscious, you could walk through this area that had pipes and stuff in it, but it was an open area, and is probably still open to Monroe Hill residents. Supposedly, there is an even more pipey passageway somewhere around Monroe Hill. Lotsa luck, I never saw any indication of it. They've had haunted houses there for Halloween, and it's quite a trip.
Doesn't the CD have archives online now? The CD (or maybe the UJ) ran an article about tunneling one time.
If this fails you, just visit the stacks:). Lawn streaking season is upon us too. Thanks for reminding me of all this fun stuff.
Finally, IF YOU WANT TO BURN YOURSELF ON A HOT PIPE, THAT'S YOUR BUSINESS. I WILL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANYTHING THAT STEMS FROM THIS.
At UVa we called this "steam tunneling". Either the steam tunnels were the only structures that readily lent themselves to this sort of activity, or people just weren't that into it. I never heard of anybody climbing through the ceiling or anything like that.
Or, get a bunch of people together, go through the yearbook, and turn everybody in. Their list will be meaningless. Eventually they might be able to "profile" phony reports, but in any case their phone system will get clogged. Especially if each protesters makes 10 calls a day after school until they give up.
IANAL am and only familiar with this law within the context of the VRML test suite, the license of which I will now quote:
This software was developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology by employees of the Federal Governmentin the course of their official duties. Pursuant to title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code this software is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. NIST assumes no responsibility whatsoever for its use by other parties, and makes no guarantees, expressed or implied, about its quality, reliability, or any other characteristic. We would appreciate acknowledgement if the software is used.
Any bugfixes, additions, modifications, kernel patches, etc. produced by the DoD are probably under this also. OTOH, they can justify classifying just about anything as SECRET. Because of their ability to classify, DoD is a poor test case for Linux in government.
I think that the GPL is incompatable with section 105 for a number of reasons. Of course if they just add things to the stock kernel and redistribute the mods separately, there is no problem.
The real problem comes from government employees doing maintenance work on Linux.
Then what you have is the software business paying taxes so that the government can write free software and put them out of business.
They should look at BSD. It is very close to public domain. If anybody tries to touch this section of the Federal law to make an exception for Linux, I will be marching down to see my congressman so quickly to let him know that it is wrong, Wrong, WRONG!!!
What is it with the tabloid headlines? Antigravity research confirmed?!! Indeed. While technicly true (they have confirmed that the research is being performed). It has a double meaning (one might also infer that the existance of an antigravity phenomenon has been confirmed).
A better headline would be: BAE Funds Anti Gravity Research.
No it says that basically that there should not be large organizational entities be they governments or corporations that hold all of the power and the ability to divest themselves of that power.
Then he should forfeit the FSF tax exempt status and disolve it as a formal organization. That's all just part of the "system".
Make money on the service, the documentation, the support.
Maybe a little money. You left out hardware and advertising, which appear to be much more viable as revenue streams to subsidize free software. The downside is that these revenue streams only work for large organizations that can employ economies of scale.
There's nothing hard to understand about the free software proponent's position. We just don't all agree.
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Once I built a network, I made it run
I made it race against time
Once I built a network, now it's done
Brother, can you paradigm?
Once I built an OS, just like Sun
Bits and coders and lines
Once I built a OS, now it's done
Brother, can you paradigm?
There are two more stanzas for which I can't think of anything just yet. Look here for the original words. Once I've burnt up all my karma, I think I may quit /.
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POKE 53281,1
The screen always looked better when it was black.
FYI, Neoplanet will not work without IE. Neoplanet is little more than a skin for IE.
2. No exclusionary contracts. We should also study why the 1995 consent decree failed, because it was supposed to stop this, and didn't.
I'd like to see some sort of uniform law against exclusionary contracts for *all* corporations, not just MS.
This is really a big problem with the cola wars, which have, IMHO, been worse for the consumer than anything MS has ever done. How many of you live on a campus that is dominated by Coke or dominated by Pepsi?
The only reason this is being ignored is that Coke-Pepsi is not a monopoly; but a *Duopoly* can be just as bad for competition, and in this case, exclusive contracts are the primary instrument used to destroy competition.
I'd like to see the govt force both companies to use well defined price schedules for their products that do not depend on whether or not their customers deal with the competitor. I'd like both companies to be forced to divest of their restaurant holdings. And, what I'd really like is to have a Coke with my Pizza Hut pizza, while my dinner guest has a Pepsi.
I realize this post will make no sense to those who "can't taste the difference". For those of us who can, the Coke-Pepsi duopoly is a far greater daily nuisance than MS.
Here here! There really is a striking resemblance between this and the hot-rods of the 50s. I mean, you've got machinery that a high-schooler with a paper route or a part-time summer job can afford to tinker with. You've got noisy fans, companies competing to make the fastest chip, high-end chip hot-rodders using LN2. I love it!!! Better yet, there probably won't be any reason for the EPA to saddle these babies with anything like a polution control.
Peltier devices *do* generate heat. All electrical devices that do useful work do likewise. There is no doubt a measureable voltage drop accross the device. This, multiplied by the current through the device, represents the power used by the device. That power, integrated over time, represents the energy lost by the device, and ultimately that energy is dissipated as heat. This is the basic problem of "Can you cool the whole room by leaving the refrigerator door open?". The answer is NO. It's a basic law of thermodynamics.
However, with the right kind of case, he can produce local cold spots inside the case. The room as a whole, however, will get hotter.
The idea that a refrigerator is really a net heater with respect to the room it occupies is counter-intuitive, but true.
Did you ever see the short-lived 80s action-adventure show Sledgehammer?
Better yet, will the Klingons lose their cranial growths and get haircuts? Did they ever try to explain that? I nominate some kind of bizarre virus that caused all the Kligons to mutate.
Shortly after I posted, I went to download it and realized that you are right--it is advertising BSD. So, draw a slightly smaller circle inside the big circle. This circle encompasses most, if not all, of the other small circles. It may not encompass GPL. I've always wondered about that. For example, have the authors of GPL'd software written their own JPEG implementation, just to get around the IJG advertising clause? If they have, I think that's a bit ridiculous.
After filching around inside the Minix distro, I discovered that a number of the packages that come with it are in fact GPL'ed!!! So, it's not totally BSD. In fact, as with a lot of newly freed software, they were careless about changing the licensing documents in this distro, and if you didn't know better you'd think that some parts were still commercial.
Obviously, they can't remove or re-license the GPL'd components without permission from the author(s) of those components. So, what MINIX 2.0 really is, is an aggregate with some components that have now been placed under an advertising BSD license.
It doesn't matter too much to me. I just thought it was cool to download a *NIX like OS over my 28.8 modem in a reasonable ammount of time. (It was roughly a 5 meg download).
OK. To all the complainers that it isn't GPL'ed: Anything that is (non advertising) BSD can be incorporated into GPL. In other words, GPL provides a subset of the freedoms provided by BSD.
Now, follow my directions. 1. Draw a big circle. 2. Label it "BSD". 3. Draw a little circle inside the big circle. 4. Label it GPL. 5. Draw another little circle inside the big circle, but be very careful to make sure that it doesn't touch the other little circle. 6. Label the second little circle "closed source".
Now, what have we learned from this little exercise? We learned that BSD is a big circle that encompasses both free and proprietary software. It's a rising tide that lifts all boats, not a whirlpool that sucks them down.
Let's sing a little song: "Now I know my BSD's, won't you come and play with me..."
Got it kiddies? Good. Now it's nap time.
RHAT was a tool used by Intel and IBM to break MS. Now that it looks like MS is going to be punished by the govt., who needs Linux? In the same article notice that IBM appears to have filed to sell 750,000 shares of RHAT.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: These corporations didn't get involved with Linux because they love you.
You think this is funny?! My left leg is two inches shorter than the other, and I'm sick and tired of this "lame" business. This is a serious handicap, people. You're such a bunch of dummies. No, cretins... No, you're a mongol horde.. no, wait... um.. help me out here.
"In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up."
-Martin Niemöller
I should note that I don't condone homosexuality. But then I don't condone gluttonly, drunkeness, adultry, or any of the other more popular sins either.
The license *is* an OSI certified license. It's even copylefted. IMHO, Apple should be thwacked for taking BSD code and copylefting it. Oh well, that's the downside of BSD's freedom.
...Is apparently the story of a Red Army officer during the Russian Civil war (I presume they mean the early days of the revolution). The article said that watching this film is a pre-launch tradition.
This is not available at your local Blockbuster. Apparently it is available at Boston University (http://www.geddes.bu.edu/). So, if you understand Russian (I assume they haven't dubbed it) you can probably go there and capture some of the cosmonaut experience.
These days, I wonder what these guys will feel like watching this Soviet era film. I can only presume the tradition started to inspire the cosmonauts that they were working for the "glory of the revolution". Can anybody else offer further insights into this?
In that same perfect world, everybody who is able would pay $35 for GNU/Linux. We don't see that happening either.
How 'bout that NASDAQ? Down 11%. BTW, this is the 32nd anniversary of the Martin Luther King assassination. Rough day.
Ok, so this is just something some guy at work told me, but supposedly, his 486 overheated and exploded. The chip was mounted in a platic socket with some space between the plastic and the chip which sealed air-tight. The heating caused the plastic to burn enough so that the smoke had nothing better to do then build up pressure and pop! off went the CPU a few feet. I assume that the soccket design was later revised so that it didn't seal. Can anybody corroborate? Does anybody really know how to spell corroborate? I think I'm going to have a corroborated beverage now.
...Don't read /. on April 1. Now, if they'd replaced the banner ads for Linux with MS ads, and posted an article saying that VA had been bought by MS that would have been a good April 1 joke.
I did a little more research, and discovered that in recent years, some of the tunnels have actually collapsed. So, I'd just forget about it.
I never did it, I just heard about it. The big danger is hot steam pipes. Some of them carry superheated steam (300-500 degrees F). Count on getting dirty too.
Between the E-school and the Chemistry/material science building there is a long double-sidewalk walkway. If you're a toolie, you know it well. I seem to recall there were some entry points there, and I may have even seen some 'hoos emerging from them.
I also seem to recall something about Monroe Hill. Before the school got all security conscious, you could walk through this area that had pipes and stuff in it, but it was an open area, and is probably still open to Monroe Hill residents. Supposedly, there is an even more pipey passageway somewhere around Monroe Hill. Lotsa luck, I never saw any indication of it. They've had haunted houses there for Halloween, and it's quite a trip.
Doesn't the CD have archives online now? The CD (or maybe the UJ) ran an article about tunneling one time.
If this fails you, just visit the stacks :). Lawn streaking season is upon us too. Thanks for reminding me of all this fun stuff.
Finally, IF YOU WANT TO BURN YOURSELF ON A HOT PIPE, THAT'S YOUR BUSINESS. I WILL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANYTHING THAT STEMS FROM THIS.
At UVa we called this "steam tunneling". Either the steam tunnels were the only structures that readily lent themselves to this sort of activity, or people just weren't that into it. I never heard of anybody climbing through the ceiling or anything like that.
Or, get a bunch of people together, go through the yearbook, and turn everybody in. Their list will be meaningless. Eventually they might be able to "profile" phony reports, but in any case their phone system will get clogged. Especially if each protesters makes 10 calls a day after school until they give up.
IANAL am and only familiar with this law within the context of the VRML test suite, the license of which I will now quote:
This software was developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology by employees of the Federal Governmentin the course of their official duties. Pursuant to title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code this software is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. NIST assumes no responsibility whatsoever for its use by other parties, and makes no guarantees, expressed or implied, about its quality, reliability, or any other characteristic. We would appreciate acknowledgement if the software is used.
Any bugfixes, additions, modifications, kernel patches, etc. produced by the DoD are probably under this also. OTOH, they can justify classifying just about anything as SECRET. Because of their ability to classify, DoD is a poor test case for Linux in government.
I think that the GPL is incompatable with section 105 for a number of reasons. Of course if they just add things to the stock kernel and redistribute the mods separately, there is no problem.
The real problem comes from government employees doing maintenance work on Linux.
Then what you have is the software business paying taxes so that the government can write free software and put them out of business.
They should look at BSD. It is very close to public domain. If anybody tries to touch this section of the Federal law to make an exception for Linux, I will be marching down to see my congressman so quickly to let him know that it is wrong, Wrong, WRONG!!!
What is it with the tabloid headlines? Antigravity research confirmed?!! Indeed. While technicly true (they have confirmed that the research is being performed). It has a double meaning (one might also infer that the existance of an antigravity phenomenon has been confirmed).
A better headline would be: BAE Funds Anti Gravity Research.
No it says that basically that there should not be large organizational entities be they governments or corporations that hold all of the power and the ability to divest themselves of that power.
Then he should forfeit the FSF tax exempt status and disolve it as a formal organization. That's all just part of the "system".
Make money on the service, the documentation, the support.
Maybe a little money. You left out hardware and advertising, which appear to be much more viable as revenue streams to subsidize free software. The downside is that these revenue streams only work for large organizations that can employ economies of scale.
There's nothing hard to understand about the free software proponent's position. We just don't all agree.