What ESR notably underestimates (or at least does not mention) is the protection the GPL offers to its users, not the developers. No other licence gives the user of a piece of software so many Freedoms. Replace the GPL, take away the Freedom, and the some person is using some piece of software which he can no longer, modify and share, with his/her friends.
It's not the point if Developers need the GPL, WE need the GPL !
[... Reiser has proved the most annoying because first, I have to do a full fsck on it most frequently, and second, a quarter of the time it is the root fs and needs rebuild-tree, which is annoying as freaking hell because you can't even have it mounted read-only... ]
You might want to check your hardware in that case. I'm using reiser3 for years and it only failed when the hardware went broke ( and then it went down very hard ). Check for DMA errors in your syslog and use the smartd or smartctl -a/dev/hda tool to diagnose your drive. My two reiser-crashes requiring a rebuild-tree were a to hot harddrive and a to long IDE cable causing DMA CRC errors and worse.
Solves Loki problem
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Wired Talks Wine
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Would people be willing to pay for this ? I think so. A goot working WINE would solve problems of 6 months late game ports. They are porting DirectX 8 and so on too. So this anticipates new releases. The version 1.0 claims also to solve some program installer problems.
THE absolute advantage for game developers are the WINElets which they are working on here. It will make rewriting game code unnessecary and, remember, WINE Is Not an Emulator, so i don't really expect speed issues in the future !
"....but as people begin to move into space more(missions to mars in the next 50 years, moon in possibly less,..."
I am a believer myself, but i don't believe nasa can pull it off in the near future. You are right, protection from these flares is essential for future missions ( cfr "red planet":-)
Nasa is getting cut in budget every year and i believe it has become to much of a slow (non flexible ?) organisation for coping efficiently with their honourable task (getting us up there).
The cheaper, faster, better solution prooved to fail (i remember a quote like: " cheaper, faster, better : pick any two ").
Maybe the Russians aren't that stupid, sell space, they finance half of their space program with:-)
Re:What can be done about terrorism? - We help
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More On Tragedy
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Yesterday, within 24h after the first crash, Belgium sent their top experts in fire wound handling with a military airplane to NY. (They are the best from Europe). Other countries also sent their best expert people to help you.
Europe has declared (article 5) that it considers itself also as attacked by these terrorists. Not many Europeans are happy about this because when the US go into war, we go into war and we did not forget our wars yet (WWII, Jougoslavia). So it was not an easy decision
Yesterday evening, i was discussing with my friends about what happened. And, yes, the foreign policy of America was believed to be *a* cause of the hate against America (look at the Palestinians, they consider each attack of Israel as an attack of the US). So ! Did we decide that it was your fault and we shouldn't intervene ? No ! Like i said before we have not forgotten our previous wars, so America will be our friend and ally for a long time.
But we still believe we should together look for a solution to:
1. Stop the terrorist leaders (elimination)
2. Stop the hate
You can not imagine how the Palestinians start hating America when Israel has in the past build illegal colonist settlements and fired upon them, and America does not even say that Israel should stop these actions. They feel they are underdogs (and they are).
Another case, when American fighters bomb iraq, we get a small article somewhere in our newspapers, but overthere, the news is front page, and covered for several days how "the coward americans attack civilian targets" (indeed, the US blow up a radar post, the iraquee say it was a farm)
Uncareful intervention leads to hate.
The world is an interacting system, when you pull a string in the middle east, something will move in America. So pull carefully.
In that case, shouldn't companies like RedHat etc. inform your government and protest against this result of the law ?
Another remark, this law (and the DMCA too in lesser extent) reminds me of what happened when alcohol was banned in America : the maffia jumped on it and sold suddenly 'illegal' goods to the masses.
As an European, i'll probably violate half of the American IP laws within the next 5 years. I don't think i'll ever go back for a holiday. You guys frighten me. The way companies influence your government through election money is like alowing the worst part of kapitalism to determine the law : the interest of the shareholder supercedes the freedom of the individual. Like in europe (well at least in Belgium, but in most other countries too), companies funding in elections is limited by law, thus restricting such dangerous evolution.
I don't think you can ever win by fighting the DMCA, the SSSCA and so on ad infinitum.
You have to fight company involvement in government by restricting the funding. That's the only way out, or you'll only loose more and more freedom.
Don't try to stop each bullet, that's impossible, stop the shooter, you'll feel much safer.
PS : Here, elections are paid by the taxpayer. The amount of money involved is many orders of magnitude lower than in America.
Well, it's time then to consider to make the complete switch to linux : mplayer does the trick.
I use it for all my video pleasure (DivX;-), ASF,mpeg...) and the news page mentions full DVD playback support.
It's my number one choice, i'm not even looking for another one, never had reason to do so. They are still optimizing, and with each update, they get faster and better. It's a very active project.
They are also working on a GUI which looks really neat and is skinnable.
Hey, do you guys also have these continuous time-outs ? I had to press the "Reply" button alone at least 5 times before i could post, and i know i'll have to press 'submit' 5 to 10 times again before this gets posted.
Good point, but they said that it peaked at 34% percent. I think they mean by this that on some spots of their pannel they got good efficiency and on others far lower.
Improving efficiency would mean that the whole solar pannel works on efficiency levels close to 34%
Mosfets Icon themes manual no longer online
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KDE 2.2 Released
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It is possible to use icon themes in KDE, but the online manual for creating them is no longer online:-(
It used to be on http://www.mosfet.org/themeapi
I don't know how this comes, but if one is technical/intellectual able to write a worm, why then :
Use they pseudo random number generation (all infected servers check exactly the same IP addresses) -->with less effort you could just run all the IP addresses sequentially.
Encode the target IP statically
don't they just simply use one of the many DDOS BOTS available if the only purpose is flooding.
Wasn't the hackers code : "Do it once, do it good" ?
It just looks to me like a 'gotten out of hand' toy, prematurely released on the internet...
In contrast what most others say (buy cheap CPUs on SMP), the inverse is true. If you decide to go SMP, you have to take the fastest CPUs available to be "cost effective".
I'll explain:
Imagine that you go for the cheaper ones at half the speed of the fastest one. Your performance will be 25%-40% slower than the fastest single cpu box, and still more expensive because you had to pay extra for the motherboard.
Strangely enough, this is true for intel CPUs and not for AMD CPUs. AMDs slower CPUs are far more cheaper and may turn more profitable. But for Intel, the only CPU with which your SMP can compete is a not yet existing one (because availability wins from price) which would theoritically be 1.7 times faster than your cpu speed on your smp.
Konqueror has an "User Agent" that you can ask to send a specific string for each website.
At the moment, 16 different strings are supported ranging from Lynx over MSIE (various versions) till wget.
It would also be lighter and be able to lift a bigger fraction of its starting mass into orbit - perhaps as much as 45 per cent. "With existing systems, it's more like 10 per cent," he says.
This is true, but it DOES NOT MATTER. The 90% of the mass that doesn't make it to orbit is fuel. Fuel is very cheap. The current Space Shuttle uses something like $20 million dollars of fuel to get to orbit (and the vast majority of that is the solid rockets, not the hydrogen). The total cost of a Shuttle mission is more like $1000 million. Even if you could make the fuel free it wouldn't make the shuttle any cheaper.
Hmm, you for get one important thing : if i can get twice the stuff up with one launch, i save one flight, cutting the costs to half of what it was before. They are talking about an increase of factor 4.5 (per launch) thus saving $3500 million ! (1 launch instead of 4.5)
OK, so I can't turn VirtuaDub into COM component. But if I register it with COM+ and run it in a seperate process, then it's OK?
This would require COM+ to be GPLed since it uses a "Plugin", say a dynamically linked library which is not executed or forked (the COM+ component is executed)
Since COM+ is not GPLed, registering a GPLed library to COM+ is in violation of the GPL and thus not allowed
There are infinitely (literally) many theories to describe the universe and how it functions.
Which one is correct ? All of them, but scientists rather choose the easiest one to work with, the ones we can somehow still understand.
Push pull, it's all a mather of rewriting the formulas, but in the end representing the same thing.
I'm living in Europe.
I've been threatened by other kids too when i was young, but we knew nothing could happen, why ? Because no one had guns, and we all knew that.
When i want to get a gun, it takes me so much procedures to get the license, that makes it quite hard to ever get one, and that's when you're an adult, try to get a gun when you're a kid, VERY though.
Kids will allways make ungrounded threats, you'll never be able to stop that.
Why don't you try to stop the weapons which make the threats hard and deadly ?
"After a long beta testing period and many delays, Windows 2000 shipped with 64000 documented bugs of which 25000 were considered serious by Microsoft itself"
But it is also known that the word "Bug" in this context doesn't mean 'able to crash system/application' but more in the sense of features that haven't made it yet in the release as if the developpers hoped for.
This is also the case for these 25000 thingies.
Read the quality press (german C'T for example) for really to the bone tests, and you'll find that Windows 2000 is a worthy oponent (which we can beat in no time never the less:)
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2 is not equal to 3.
Even not for very large values of 2.
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What ESR notably underestimates (or at least does not mention) is the protection the GPL offers to its users, not the developers. No other licence gives the user of a piece of software so many Freedoms. Replace the GPL, take away the Freedom, and the some person is using some piece of software which he can no longer, modify and share, with his/her friends.
It's not the point if Developers need the GPL, WE need the GPL !
[ ... Reiser has proved the most annoying because first, I have to do a full fsck on it most frequently, and second, a quarter of the time it is the root fs and needs rebuild-tree, which is annoying as freaking hell because you can't even have it mounted read-only... ]
/dev/hda tool to diagnose your drive. My two reiser-crashes requiring a rebuild-tree were a to hot harddrive and a to long IDE cable causing DMA CRC errors and worse.
You might want to check your hardware in that case. I'm using reiser3 for years and it only failed when the hardware went broke ( and then it went down very hard ). Check for DMA errors in your syslog and use the smartd or smartctl -a
THE absolute advantage for game developers are the WINElets which they are working on here. It will make rewriting game code unnessecary and, remember, WINE Is Not an Emulator, so i don't really expect speed issues in the future !
I am a believer myself, but i don't believe nasa can pull it off in the near future. You are right, protection from these flares is essential for future missions ( cfr "red planet" :-)
Nasa is getting cut in budget every year and i believe it has become to much of a slow (non flexible ?) organisation for coping efficiently with their honourable task (getting us up there).
The cheaper, faster, better solution prooved to fail (i remember a quote like : " cheaper, faster, better : pick any two ").
Maybe the Russians aren't that stupid, sell space, they finance half of their space program with :-)
Europe has declared (article 5) that it considers itself also as attacked by these terrorists. Not many Europeans are happy about this because when the US go into war, we go into war and we did not forget our wars yet (WWII, Jougoslavia). So it was not an easy decision
Yesterday evening, i was discussing with my friends about what happened. And, yes, the foreign policy of America was believed to be *a* cause of the hate against America (look at the Palestinians, they consider each attack of Israel as an attack of the US). So ! Did we decide that it was your fault and we shouldn't intervene ? No ! Like i said before we have not forgotten our previous wars, so America will be our friend and ally for a long time.
But we still believe we should together look for a solution to
1. Stop the terrorist leaders (elimination)
2. Stop the hate
You can not imagine how the Palestinians start hating America when Israel has in the past build illegal colonist settlements and fired upon them, and America does not even say that Israel should stop these actions. They feel they are underdogs (and they are).
Another case, when American fighters bomb iraq, we get a small article somewhere in our newspapers, but overthere, the news is front page, and covered for several days how "the coward americans attack civilian targets" (indeed, the US blow up a radar post, the iraquee say it was a farm)
Uncareful intervention leads to hate.
The world is an interacting system, when you pull a string in the middle east, something will move in America. So pull carefully.
Another remark, this law (and the DMCA too in lesser extent) reminds me of what happened when alcohol was banned in America : the maffia jumped on it and sold suddenly 'illegal' goods to the masses.
As an European, i'll probably violate half of the American IP laws within the next 5 years. I don't think i'll ever go back for a holiday. You guys frighten me. The way companies influence your government through election money is like alowing the worst part of kapitalism to determine the law : the interest of the shareholder supercedes the freedom of the individual.
Like in europe (well at least in Belgium, but in most other countries too), companies funding in elections is limited by law, thus restricting such dangerous evolution.
I don't think you can ever win by fighting the DMCA, the SSSCA and so on ad infinitum.
You have to fight company involvement in government by restricting the funding. That's the only way out, or you'll only loose more and more freedom.
Don't try to stop each bullet, that's impossible, stop the shooter, you'll feel much safer.
PS : Here, elections are paid by the taxpayer. The amount of money involved is many orders of magnitude lower than in America.
Well, it's time then to consider to make the complete switch to linux : mplayer does the trick.
I use it for all my video pleasure (DivX;-), ASF,mpeg...) and the news page mentions full DVD playback support.
It's my number one choice, i'm not even looking for another one, never had reason to do so. They are still optimizing, and with each update, they get faster and better. It's a very active project.
They are also working on a GUI which looks really neat and is skinnable.
Hey, do you guys also have these continuous time-outs ? I had to press the "Reply" button alone at least 5 times before i could post, and i know i'll have to press 'submit' 5 to 10 times again before this gets posted.
No one noticed ? 'Hope they fix this soon.
Good point, but they said that it peaked at 34% percent. I think they mean by this that on some spots of their pannel they got good efficiency and on others far lower.
Improving efficiency would mean that the whole solar pannel works on efficiency levels close to 34%
It used to be on http://www.mosfet.org/themeapi
But Mosfet removed that page...in some moment of rage
Use they pseudo random number generation (all infected servers check exactly the same IP addresses) -->with less effort you could just run all the IP addresses sequentially.
Encode the target IP statically
don't they just simply use one of the many DDOS BOTS available if the only purpose is flooding.
Wasn't the hackers code : "Do it once, do it good" ?
It just looks to me like a 'gotten out of hand' toy, prematurely released on the internet...
I'll explain :
Imagine that you go for the cheaper ones at half the speed of the fastest one. Your performance will be 25%-40% slower than the fastest single cpu box, and still more expensive because you had to pay extra for the motherboard.
Strangely enough, this is true for intel CPUs and not for AMD CPUs. AMDs slower CPUs are far more cheaper and may turn more profitable.
But for Intel, the only CPU with which your SMP can compete is a not yet existing one (because availability wins from price) which would theoritically be 1.7 times faster than your cpu speed on your smp.
It's strange but it's true.
Buy AMD.
At the moment, 16 different strings are supported ranging from Lynx over MSIE (various versions) till wget.
I used it, it works flawlessly.
This is true, but it DOES NOT MATTER. The 90% of the mass that doesn't make it to orbit is fuel. Fuel is very cheap. The current Space Shuttle uses something like $20 million dollars of fuel to get to orbit (and the vast majority of that is the solid rockets, not the hydrogen). The total cost of a Shuttle mission is more like $1000 million. Even if you could make the fuel free it wouldn't make the shuttle any cheaper.
Hmm, you for get one important thing : if i can get twice the stuff up with one launch, i save one flight, cutting the costs to half of what it was before. They are talking about an increase of factor 4.5 (per launch) thus saving $3500 million ! (1 launch instead of 4.5)
Now that is what i call progress !
This would require COM+ to be GPLed since it uses a "Plugin", say a dynamically linked library which is not executed or forked (the COM+ component is executed)
Since COM+ is not GPLed, registering a GPLed library to COM+ is in violation of the GPL and thus not allowed
There is no way of circumventing the GPL. No Way
Think about it
There are infinitely (literally) many theories to describe the universe and how it functions.
Which one is correct ?
All of them, but scientists rather choose the easiest one to work with, the ones we can somehow still understand.
Push pull, it's all a mather of rewriting the formulas, but in the end representing the same thing.
Think about it.
I'm living in Europe.
I've been threatened by other kids too when i was young, but we knew nothing could happen, why ?
Because no one had guns, and we all knew that.
When i want to get a gun, it takes me so much procedures to get the license, that makes it quite hard to ever get one, and that's when you're an adult, try to get a gun when you're a kid, VERY though.
Kids will allways make ungrounded threats, you'll never be able to stop that.
Why don't you try to stop the weapons which make the threats hard and deadly ?
"After a long beta testing period and many delays, Windows 2000 shipped with 64000 documented bugs of which 25000 were considered serious by Microsoft itself"
:)
But it is also known that the word "Bug" in this context doesn't mean 'able to crash system/application' but more in the sense of features that haven't made it yet in the release as if the developpers hoped for.
This is also the case for these 25000 thingies. Read the quality press (german C'T for example) for really to the bone tests, and you'll find that Windows 2000 is a worthy oponent (which we can beat in no time never the less
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2 is not equal to 3.
Even not for very large values of 2.