I suppose you also send all your snailmail on cards instead of an envelope and you make sure you are always visible through the windows of your house to make sure you look as normal and unsuspicious as possible?
This is the just the scarry thing that W.A.V.E article was about, anybody doing anything not regarded as 'normal' is a suspect.
Do you really think those terrorists didn't have encryption yet????? It always has been very easy to obtain encryption programs, it was only hard if you wanted to get them legally but that is not really a problem for these people, is it?
But go ahead, let the nsa monitor you 24/7 and give away every right you have if you want to feel save......
Technically it is, however there is a lot of post-cold-war sentiment in most western countries. Most countries are willing to disrespect their own laws to please the US. Just look at the things that happend around on of the decss authors.
I live in The Netherlands myself and I haven't seen anything like that here yet, it will not happen quick (I hope) but don't be to sure about that.
Get thos guys from gnullsoft here!!!! NOW!!! And call those guys from the spanish inquisition, no even better get the mpaa+riaa+microsoft legal departments. I want to know who 'has acces to the source'!!!!!!!
Will this be an OS??????? Don't they mean a window manager or a toolkit or a library or something like that... If they really are going to make an os shouldn't they better use a real microkernel instead of linux???
Ok programe are actually a series of many instructions couldn't the OS just be programmed to have say if you have 100 instructions that instruction 1 would be on processor one and instuction 2 be on on the second processor or just devide the program into two halves to be executed on each?
This could be done, but than you would get problems if instruction 2 depends on data that will be created with instruction 1. Or if instruction 1 is a jump to instruction 10 in which case instruction 2 should never have been executed. You see there are a lot of situations in which this would not be possible.
How much more effort would you have to do say in a standard C++ program to get it to fully equally use the 2 processors in doing something like calculating all of the primes between 1 and 9,000,000,000,000? Are there good examples of this?
This depends on how splitable your calculation method would be, again if one calculation is dependand on data from another you might get one processor waiting for another. Effective paralel computing depends very much on how much and what kind of traffic you have between the processes.
With 'real time mathematical problems' they probably ment 'lots of frames in my windoze shoot-em-up games'. So they are not likely to choose for anything but x86. But if one of these guys wants to correct me please do!
Does each individual program need to be written for multiprocessors? Isn't it enough if the OS supports multiple processors?
Usually you get the best results if a program can be diveded into several processes, the os can then spread these over all processors. I believe Mosix works this way, for beowulf the programs have to be specially written in order to use it.
I don't like the word 'patent' in the first sentence of the paragraph about this thing. Is it a software patent? I am a bit sceptic about this thing......
For all the things mentioned in a previous post you don't need X. Linux!=X
Unlike some windows fans will tell you 99 out of 100 servers do NOT need anything but a mda adapter.
There is another possibility: I use a 386 laptop with linux 2.0.0 (never bothered to upgrade) for programming micro controllers and for controlling my parallel port rom-emulator.
The only problem would be that your post wouldn't get on slashdot neither would mine because it contains both first and post.......
Or a message saying something like: 'I didn't know anything about a journalling fs at first, but after reading the following article posted at this site it became very clear to me.'
This is the same problem you see with all that censorware, a search for keywords just wouldn't work.
It does (I am sysop of a Packet Radio node running linux).
There even is a worldwide network although you need to be a licensed HAM to use it and in some coutries it uses the internet for tunneling almost everything. But you could use the drivers to build a network on the CB band for example (I started with packetradio on this band with a 1k2 modem due to limited bandwidth). But I think you are better of if you use Wavelan like cards with directional antennas and a litle more power.....
Well, if they legally ARE responsible, then they cant just say they ARENT responsible. If i am about to shoot someone, i cant just say `this isnt murder` and then do it!
In this case you would commit a crime, but for Yahoo it is different, they didn't sell pirated software.... So they could only be sued for aiding the selling of the cdrs. And I don't know if that can be done since there is a lot of discussion lately about ISP's and the content they are hosting.... (This is an auction site and not just a homepage, but I think the same kind of principles are valid here)
Otherwise you`d just release the games as freeware? No, GPL'ed ofcourse:)
If this was a tool specificly made for illegal use you might be right, but I don't think Yahoo set this site up for trading warez. The fact that a knife can be used for killing doesn't mean a knife producer should be sued for every dead through one. Unless of course the knife was specifically made for killing such as 'survival' knifes which seem to be designed to do as much damage as possible.
The problem here is that they didn't sell it themself, they hosted an auction site on which these games were offered by someone else.
This just another big company sueing the wrong guys. Instead of going after the provider of the tools they should go after the guy using it to brake the law.
Doesn't it? I don't know about this auction site but it is likely they have some kind of disclaimer on the site saying that whoever places an add is responsible for its contents (Even slashdot has such a disclaimer on every page).
To me this lookes like a classic case of 'shoot the messenger'
Red Hat is dead! Long live Slackware!!!! I don't like RedHat either but I think everybody should be free to choose. I do agree that most of the people that are really doing something with their linux systems (This doesn't have to be kernel programming) that I know are NOT using RedHat. Grtz, Jeroen
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This is the just the scarry thing that W.A.V.E article was about, anybody doing anything not regarded as 'normal' is a suspect.
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But go ahead, let the nsa monitor you 24/7 and give away every right you have if you want to feel save......
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People will never learn.......
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I live in The Netherlands myself and I haven't seen anything like that here yet, it will not happen quick (I hope) but don't be to sure about that.
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Get thos guys from gnullsoft here!!!! NOW!!!
And call those guys from the spanish inquisition, no even better get the mpaa+riaa+microsoft legal departments. I want to know who 'has acces to the source'!!!!!!!
Grtz, Jeroen
Don't they mean a window manager or a toolkit or a library or something like that... If they really are going to make an os shouldn't they better use a real microkernel instead of linux???
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SLACKWARE
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This could be done, but than you would get problems if instruction 2 depends on data that will be created with instruction 1. Or if instruction 1 is a jump to instruction 10 in which case instruction 2 should never have been executed. You see there are a lot of situations in which this would not be possible.
How much more effort would you have to do say in a standard C++ program to get it to fully equally use the 2 processors in doing something like calculating all of the primes between 1 and 9,000,000,000,000? Are there good examples of this?
This depends on how splitable your calculation method would be, again if one calculation is dependand on data from another you might get one processor waiting for another. Effective paralel computing depends very much on how much and what kind of traffic you have between the processes.
Grtz, jeroen
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Usually you get the best results if a program can be diveded into several processes, the os can then spread these over all processors. I believe Mosix works this way, for beowulf the programs have to be specially written in order to use it.
Grtz, Jeroen
I don't like the word 'patent' in the first sentence of the paragraph about this thing. Is it a software patent? I am a bit sceptic about this thing......
Grtz, Jeroen
Unlike some windows fans will tell you 99 out of 100 servers do NOT need anything but a mda adapter.
There is another possibility: I use a 386 laptop with linux 2.0.0 (never bothered to upgrade) for programming micro controllers and for controlling my parallel port rom-emulator.
Grtz, Jeroen
Or a message saying something like: 'I didn't know anything about a journalling fs at first, but after reading the following article posted at this site it became very clear to me.'
This is the same problem you see with all that censorware, a search for keywords just wouldn't work.
Grtz, Jeroen
There even is a worldwide network although you need to be a licensed HAM to use it and in some coutries it uses the internet for tunneling almost everything. But you could use the drivers to build a network on the CB band for example (I started with packetradio on this band with a 1k2 modem due to limited bandwidth). But I think you are better of if you use Wavelan like cards with directional antennas and a litle more power.....
Grtz, Jeroen
In this case you would commit a crime, but for Yahoo it is different, they didn't sell pirated software.... So they could only be sued for aiding the selling of the cdrs. And I don't know if that can be done since there is a lot of discussion lately about ISP's and the content they are hosting.... (This is an auction site and not just a homepage, but I think the same kind of principles are valid here)
Otherwise you`d just release the games as freeware? :)
No, GPL'ed ofcourse
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This just another big company sueing the wrong guys. Instead of going after the provider of the tools they should go after the guy using it to brake the law.
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Doesn't it? I don't know about this auction site but it is likely they have some kind of disclaimer on the site saying that whoever places an add is responsible for its contents (Even slashdot has such a disclaimer on every page).
To me this lookes like a classic case of 'shoot the messenger'
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Red Hat is dead! Long live Slackware!!!! I don't like RedHat either but I think everybody should be free to choose. I do agree that most of the people that are really doing something with their linux systems (This doesn't have to be kernel programming) that I know are NOT using RedHat. Grtz, Jeroen
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But I think the most important thing is that you should make very clear that it is just your opinion and not facts, unless you can prove these facts.
One think IANAL and IANAA (I am not a american).
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That is not so difficult ;-))