Your inability to read, troll, isn't really my problem but I'll answer you anyway:
Just because you have a microkernel doesn't inherently give you flexibility. You have to design around that concept. As I noted, no Free OS has.
Also, I'd love it if you went into the "overhead inherent in a micro kernel message passing architecture." It would be interesting to see if you've actually got any knowledge on the topic, or if you're truly just an idiot.
The core design of the Hurd still isn't in use by any Free OS out there. The idea is to have as much as possible sit in userspace, and to have "translators" that allow any user to add hooks into the filesystem (making cool things like ftpfs and nfs possible without requiring root, and without requiring the sysadmin to install it for you).
If you're interested, take a look at Towards a New Strategy of OS Design - It explains what we're doing different with the Hurd, and what the core servers are used for.
In Canada non-competition clauses aren't legal. I can't imagine that they'd be legal anywhere else, but certainly the US has some laws that I've found amazing.
I don't understand the posters comments about the ability to defend the license if it's not presented to the user.
Fundamentally under copyright law, you have virtual no rights except that you can use the software. I refer to section 5 of the GPL:
5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it.
Click-wrap licenses should only be necessary if the licenses restricts the *use* of the program.
The Skytrain in Vancouver, BC runs above ground, and most people didn't mind it. Of course, Vancouver's either on quicksand or bedrock, depending on where you're standing, so underground wasn't exactly an option!
I used bnetd on internal corporate networks where Internet access wasn't available. We had cron start the server up after hours, and anyone in the company was welcome to play (or even coleague dialing in from home). That way you *knew* everyone on the system, and people could just play to have fun.
I do not remember anything in the EULA about 3rd party services emulating the battle.net protocol.
If it's there, please let me know.
Otherwise this is just some stupid lawyering, and the company deserves to lose business over people deciding that they won't support those practices. This is fundamental principal of capitalism.
(I sent this to both sales@blizzard.com and support@blizzard.com)
You don't seem to have a PR department email, so I'm sending this to both sales and support.
I have purchased Starcraft, Warcraft II, and Brood Wars - so as I customer I tell you that I'm very dissapointed in the recent shutdown of the bnetd site.
I have used bnetd in the past for playing games with friends, and this product is directly responsible for me purchasing the Brood Wars pack. The stupidity of shutting down a product that doesn't harm Blizzard in any way is certainly a mis-application of the DMCA, and in fact encourages sales amazes me.
Unless you immediately rescind the injunction against the bnetd folks, I will choose to not purchase any further Blizzard products. The DMCA is a bad law in the first place, and misuses like this cannot be tollerated.
Do what most people do, and don't care about the packaging. In the packages that I maintain, I provide source code. The various packagers can sort out what they need to as they see fit.
IIRC,/opt is in the latest LSB. I frequently wish Debian would use it.
``opt'' is nice, because instead of having all that cruft in/usr/bin (Like windows tends to insist you do with DLLs!), you can actually install packages in/opt/PACKAGE/ and symlink them in. This lets you see what package all of that stuff belongs to from ls, without having to run various tools (different per distro!) to find out.
If I remember right, the original word-macro "concept" viruses infected all of the inside of Microsoft within days and had a total payload of "See, I told you it could be done." Several news sources suggested that it was written inside Microsoft by a tech to prove a point.
I wonder if this too, was a similar sort of event.
First that I've only run 3 of the 2.4 kernels over the last year, but second that I've run Windows Update at least every 2 weeks for updates that are marked ``critical''.
Half of these updates aren't critical: They're not even for software that I use - But I don't trust Microsoft to actually list all of the fixes in their release notes. I've had Internet Explorer updates fix overall system crash problems. Incredibly sad.
The stock Debian kernels have been just fine for me. I used to enjoy going through and selecting all of the options in versions 1.2.x. Now with all of the options, it's become an all-day project to try and remember which options to pick. The debian kernels nicely have (almost) everything available as a module, and has all the scripts to setup the initrd.
I have a Via VT82C686 and hand all sorts of randomness with this driver. The output was always corrupt unless I used esd, and the microsoft didn't work. I went out and bought an SBLive! card so that I could use gnomemeeting with it (The savings on my phone bill made it pay for itself in about 3 days).
It's not obvious from the ALSA web pages if this chip is supported there or not. Once the kernel updates slow down, I'm going to try ALSA - It would be cool to have a sound card just for telephony, and the SBLive! for games...
Learn the difference between a License agreement and a Copyright Assignment.
The rule is that anything that is Copyright the FSF, must be wholly copyright the FSF, or they weaken their position to defend it in court. Some GNU projects don't assign their copyright, but in that case, if someone violates copyright the FSF can't get involved to prosecute.
Your view on what makes "Open Source" software (Which GNU software isn't...) so nice completely disregards copyright law. Certainly in the US and Canada, any document, piece of software, etc. that does NOT have a copyright statement and/or license agreement is automatically copyright the author and is restricted from being copied.
This is how the supply and demand curve starts, though. These initial folks are doing a few important things:
1) Proving that the service is worth providing, and that people want it.
2) Forcing the ISS folks to start making the station safer for "average folk".
3) Providing funding.
I think the next step is that space agencies will start to see these ``tourists'' as sources of revenue. So then you start to see the ads show up in the Robb Report.
After that, commercial enterprises will be able to demonstrate a market and secure the funding they need to do it themselves, and cheaper, and then leave the poor scientists alone.
Effectively, the count down to watching an earth-rise from the moon has begun. =)
One of the biggest speed problems we face right now is how expensive fork is. Everytime something forks, all the ports (and send rights) have to be copied from one task to another (Many many RPCs for that). If that's followed by an exec (which then has to clear it) it's quite expensive.
The solution for that is to use posix_spawn (in the latest posix drafts). This signals that a new task can be setup cheaply. Hopefully when bash, make, and gcc use that, we'll see a huge improvement in speed.
So far raw execution speed seems fine. I don't use X (since mostly my machine just sits and compiles binaries), but even when it's going full tilt, it's quite usable on a PII/233mhz. (Multiple ssh sessions, irc)
I wish this shortsightedness were limited to slashdotters.. It's amazing the number of times that people don't understand the importance of actually being *interested* in what you're doing. =)
I don't run X on my GNU/Hurd system here, but I know a number of people who do. If you're willing to put in a bit of work to get it to run, you should be able to from the files that are in the Debian archive now.
If you're having trouble, bug reports are more than welcome. =)
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Your inability to read, troll, isn't really my problem but I'll answer you anyway:
Just because you have a microkernel doesn't inherently give you flexibility. You have to design around that concept. As I noted, no Free OS has.
Also, I'd love it if you went into the "overhead inherent in a micro kernel message passing architecture." It would be interesting to see if you've actually got any knowledge on the topic, or if you're truly just an idiot.
If you're interested, take a look at Towards a New Strategy of OS Design - It explains what we're doing different with the Hurd, and what the core servers are used for.
Tks,
Jeff Bailey
In Canada non-competition clauses aren't legal. I can't imagine that they'd be legal anywhere else, but certainly the US has some laws that I've found amazing.
I don't understand the posters comments about the ability to defend the license if it's not presented to the user.
Fundamentally under copyright law, you have virtual no rights except that you can use the software. I refer to section 5 of the GPL:
5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not
signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or
distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are
prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by
modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the
Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and
all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying
the Program or works based on it.
Click-wrap licenses should only be necessary if the licenses restricts the *use* of the program.
Tks,
Jeff Bailey
I think the cameras are probably so the operators can enjoy watching the couples having sex during long trips...
The Skytrain in Vancouver, BC runs above ground, and most people didn't mind it. Of course, Vancouver's either on quicksand or bedrock, depending on where you're standing, so underground wasn't exactly an option!
More like "Who can keep up with the daily patches and updates"...
I used bnetd on internal corporate networks where Internet access wasn't available. We had cron start the server up after hours, and anyone in the company was welcome to play (or even coleague dialing in from home). That way you *knew* everyone on the system, and people could just play to have fun.
I do not remember anything in the EULA about 3rd party services emulating the battle.net protocol.
If it's there, please let me know.
Otherwise this is just some stupid lawyering, and the company deserves to lose business over people deciding that they won't support those practices. This is fundamental principal of capitalism.
(I sent this to both sales@blizzard.com and support@blizzard.com)
You don't seem to have a PR department email, so I'm sending this to
both sales and support.
I have purchased Starcraft, Warcraft II, and Brood Wars - so as I
customer I tell you that I'm very dissapointed in the recent shutdown
of the bnetd site.
I have used bnetd in the past for playing games with friends, and this
product is directly responsible for me purchasing the Brood Wars pack.
The stupidity of shutting down a product that doesn't harm Blizzard in
any way is certainly a mis-application of the DMCA, and in fact
encourages sales amazes me.
Unless you immediately rescind the injunction against the bnetd folks,
I will choose to not purchase any further Blizzard products. The DMCA
is a bad law in the first place, and misuses like this cannot be tollerated.
Tks,
Jeff Bailey
My experience has been that while Debian stable tends to be quite out of date, the responsiveness can't be faulted! What problems have you had?
Do what most people do, and don't care about the packaging. In the packages that I maintain, I provide source code. The various packagers can sort out what they need to as they see fit.
IIRC, /opt is in the latest LSB. I frequently wish Debian would use it.
/usr/bin (Like windows tends to insist you do with DLLs!), you can actually install packages in /opt/PACKAGE/ and symlink them in. This lets you see what package all of that stuff belongs to from ls, without having to run various tools (different per distro!) to find out.
``opt'' is nice, because instead of having all that cruft in
When did he get responsabilities at Microsoft? =)
The Piano is "not entirely accurate" in the same way that a cat fight is "Not exactly pretty".
But what do you expect from firewood and car parts?
If I remember right, the original word-macro "concept" viruses infected all of the inside of Microsoft within days and had a total payload of "See, I told you it could be done." Several news sources suggested that it was written inside Microsoft by a tech to prove a point.
I wonder if this too, was a similar sort of event.
This hasn't been my experience at all.
First that I've only run 3 of the 2.4 kernels over the last year, but second that I've run Windows Update at least every 2 weeks for updates that are marked ``critical''.
Half of these updates aren't critical: They're not even for software that I use - But I don't trust Microsoft to actually list all of the fixes in their release notes. I've had Internet Explorer updates fix overall system crash problems. Incredibly sad.
I use my favourite format: .deb =)
The stock Debian kernels have been just fine for me. I used to enjoy going through and selecting all of the options in versions 1.2.x. Now with all of the options, it's become an all-day project to try and remember which options to pick. The debian kernels nicely have (almost) everything available as a module, and has all the scripts to setup the initrd.
Most systems I see this kind of problem on haven't enabled DMA on their drives.
/dev/hda
I use:
/sbin/hdparm -d1 -c1 -m16 -u1
That's DMA, 32bit IO, Multiple sector count: 16, Unmask IRQs
YMMV
I have a Via VT82C686 and hand all sorts of randomness with this driver. The output was always corrupt unless I used esd, and the microsoft didn't work. I went out and bought an SBLive! card so that I could use gnomemeeting with it (The savings on my phone bill made it pay for itself in about 3 days).
It's not obvious from the ALSA web pages if this chip is supported there or not. Once the kernel updates slow down, I'm going to try ALSA - It would be cool to have a sound card just for telephony, and the SBLive! for games...
Learn the difference between a License agreement and a Copyright Assignment.
The rule is that anything that is Copyright the FSF, must be wholly copyright the FSF, or they weaken their position to defend it in court. Some GNU projects don't assign their copyright, but in that case, if someone violates copyright the FSF can't get involved to prosecute.
Your view on what makes "Open Source" software (Which GNU software isn't...) so nice completely disregards copyright law. Certainly in the US and Canada, any document, piece of software, etc. that does NOT have a copyright statement and/or license agreement is automatically copyright the author and is restricted from being copied.
Welcome to the real world.
This is how the supply and demand curve starts, though. These initial folks are doing a few important things:
1) Proving that the service is worth providing, and that people want it.
2) Forcing the ISS folks to start making the station safer for "average folk".
3) Providing funding.
I think the next step is that space agencies will start to see these ``tourists'' as sources of revenue. So then you start to see the ads show up in the Robb Report.
After that, commercial enterprises will be able to demonstrate a market and secure the funding they need to do it themselves, and cheaper, and then leave the poor scientists alone.
Effectively, the count down to watching an earth-rise from the moon has begun. =)
One of the biggest speed problems we face right now is how expensive fork is. Everytime something forks, all the ports (and send rights) have to be copied from one task to another (Many many RPCs for that). If that's followed by an exec (which then has to clear it) it's quite expensive.
The solution for that is to use posix_spawn (in the latest posix drafts). This signals that a new task can be setup cheaply. Hopefully when bash, make, and gcc use that, we'll see a huge improvement in speed.
So far raw execution speed seems fine. I don't use X (since mostly my machine just sits and compiles binaries), but even when it's going full tilt, it's quite usable on a PII/233mhz. (Multiple ssh sessions, irc)
I wish this shortsightedness were limited to slashdotters.. It's amazing the number of times that people don't understand the importance of actually being *interested* in what you're doing. =)
I couldn't have said it better.
I don't run X on my GNU/Hurd system here, but I know a number of people who do. If you're willing to put in a bit of work to get it to run, you should be able to from the files that are in the Debian archive now.
If you're having trouble, bug reports are more than welcome. =)