Unfortunately, more often than not these software companies entered into entangling agreements with contractors or companies to provide missing pieces of their program. These pieces are often intermeshed so wildly that it's nearly impossible to extract them.
I've been told that Microsoft Word has a complete copy of WordStar somewhere in the build tree, and they never bothered to untangle it for fear of all the work that implied. I suspect it's so wrapped up in class interfaces that nobody notices.
So the copyright holders on your abandoned proprietary software, like the open source developer who has incorporated lots of large third-party patches, probably doesn't have the right to re-license the program.
I recommend buying them on CD. I have the 13 CD set, and I keep them ripped to rc2 ogg vorbis files on my laptop. Great stuff, and it only takes up 340MB. Vorbis is beyond leet.
One item from the FAQ bothers me more than the rest:
Question 6: When will you ship it?
[...] A rough estimate is that we might be able to run our C# compiler on Linux by the end of the year. That means running the Windows Executable generated by a Microsoft.NET compiler on the Linux platform.
When I was in high school, we all ran OS/2 2.1. It was hep, it was scientificologically advanced, and it sure as hell beat the crap out of DOS and Windows 3.1. We made them PC/Mac wars easy, since OS/2 made things as easy as a Mac while still giving you command prompt windows! LEET STUFF!
But the apps weren't there. We had to scrounge a bit and use DOS apps (fortunately, those still worked), but we knew that sooner or later there would be a kerbillion bajillion OS/2 apps out there and we'd own the world.
Imagine the joy when OS/2 began to support Win16 apps as well! WOw! Now we could run MORE STUFF than those Windows weenies could, and we could do it BETTER because OS/2 wouldn't crash when the Win16 subsystem went pecs-up! Our cuisine reigned supreme!
But developers looked at the available platforms when choosing how to write their apps. "Gosh," Mr. J. Random Hacker said, "I could write for OS/2 and Win16 and Mac, or I could write for Win16 and Mac and let OS/2's Win16 layer handle all the nitty-gritty."
Thus, nobody wrote any apps for OS/2, but wrote them all for Windows instead. The cool feature of OS/2 turned out to be the final nail in its coffin.
So why are we repeating this by making the goal "running the Windows Executable... on the Linux platform."? WHy aren't we doing things the other way around? GNU took off because it wooed the developers with nice EMACS and GCC and other goodies. Why not make it so that people want to develop on and for Linux, and consider the Windows support a nice bonus?
WOuldn't it be fun to say, "If Windows is so great, then why does it have to run Linux apps?" I know it was fun to say about FreeBSD.
When I was in college, we used to all waste hours re-tinkering with our prompts. I finally ended up with the following, and have stuck with it (or a variation on it) for years:
export PS1='\[\e[0;34m\][\[\e[1;34m\]\h\[\e[0;34m\](\[\e[ 1;34m\]\w\[\e[0;34m\])] \[\e[0;0m\]'
if test $USER = "root" || test $LOGNAME = "root" || test `whoami` = "root" ; then
PS1="\[\e[41m\]\[\e[1;33m\]ROOT: $PS1"
fi
that's for my server machine. My laptop uses this:
So it's a pity that these new web mediur zine thingummies all went out of bizness.
When Ford managed to get a guy to give them fordsucks.com and $3,000 in handling fees, I figgerd the best thing for it would be for suck.com to sue Ford for violating their Intellectual Property.
I don't mean to imply that someone would use Free Software as a dumping tactic. I am more concerned with the possibility that IBM (or Red Hat, or J. Random Hacker) could be forced into some consent decree not to release Free Software on the grounds that it is anticompetitive dumping.
Suppose we reach a Free Software nirvana: the GPL is successfully defended in court, the DMCA/patent/UCITA/other restrictive laws must keep their mitts out of free software, etc...
Now what of antitrust law? Yes, we're doing this for the good of humanity, but larger institutions could (especially in the eyes of the courts) use Free Software as a way to quickly drown competitors. Could a company be held liable for releasing free software, especially if it's a "category killer" that makes the proprietary competition irrelevant?
Would the fact that the competition can build on the released codebase help matters any?
Look, the point is that the agenda software is not ready to ship. It is a good thing that they're holding back on the release date, rather than pulling a death march.
I, for one, am really excited about getting my agenda, because for once it's a system where not all of the problems have been solved before I got there. I have a chance to write some small elegant programs that provide some function for the agenda end-users.
My impression is that Agenda should really have marketed their first push as a second-gen developer release. Most of the agenda users are linux freaks and mips hackers anyway.
Yes, it's not going to be the PDA for J. Buttfuck Pinstripe and his army of polyester-clad sales weenies. It's not going to be the droolproof tamagotchi that the jet set are going to carry around to show how cool they are. Not yet, anyhow. Right now it's a free software platform that we can use to develop really kick-ass software on.
Go on, kids. Order one, and start writing agenda equivalents to the best palmos programs. It's going to be FUN.
Does anyone know if the swap fixes listed at http://lwn.net/2001/0426/a/swap-speedup2.php3 were included? I've been seeing some really bad blocking, and I don't see this in the changelog.
Right. There used to be a linux cafe in my old neighborhood that was in a big warehouse. the proprietor had a set of electrostatic speakers, which were just big mylar sheets suspended in a large frame. Made a nice noise, though they tended to "beam" a lot on the higher notes. --
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You know, I'm baffled that people actually think that X is a great network display server. It's a horribly laggy network display server!
When you roll your mouse over a mozilla button, you're constantly sending "okay, I'm here, now over here, now over here, now over here..." messages to mozilla. If that's over the network, you get lagged pretty quickly.
Now, if the widgets had some autonomy, you'd be able to do some javascript-esque things like say "here's a widget for the server to display. On mouse_enter, switch to this image, and on exit, switch back to the original. If you get a click event, let me know when it's released."
Right now, moving the mouse generates far more traffic than it needs to. --
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PINE is under a proprietary license by the University of Washington. You are not allowed to distribute modified versions. Please do not lump PINE and EMACS in the same category. --
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Well, I guess that lego.com doesn't enjoy us protecting our privacy, as they require that cookies be on to view this site. Ah well, no legos for this hacker. --
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I believe you are trying to reinvent Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem. Go check out a copy of "On Formally Undecidable Propositions" and curl up on the couch for a while. -- I noticed
I'd love to read a functional language intro, especially one that wasn't as brain heavy as SICP.
In that case, I highly recommend "The Little Schemer", by MIT press! It is presented as a simple list of questions and answers designed to get you thinking in scheme, rather than merely programming in scheme. TLS teaches recursive thought. It's a very good book, even just as toilet-reading. You can go at your own pace, since each question builds on the previous one. -- I noticed
Good grief! How are they supposed to be making money on CDs when people are playing this music for free on the radio!? I mean, this technology could ruin the recording industry, even if it does help the music industry! -- I noticed
When verio unblocks my IP address from their routers, have a look at my fanmail page for the comments of some people whose browser was buggy enough to actually execute this command. -- I noticed
Slashdot Mirror
...and you STILL can't say "show me only messages I haven't already read".
YEssirree, kids, we're still DECADES behind Usenet.
Unfortunately, more often than not these software companies entered into entangling agreements with contractors or companies to provide missing pieces of their program. These pieces are often intermeshed so wildly that it's nearly impossible to extract them.
I've been told that Microsoft Word has a complete copy of WordStar somewhere in the build tree, and they never bothered to untangle it for fear of all the work that implied. I suspect it's so wrapped up in class interfaces that nobody notices.
So the copyright holders on your abandoned proprietary software, like the open source developer who has incorporated lots of large third-party patches, probably doesn't have the right to re-license the program.
I recommend buying them on CD. I have the 13 CD set, and I keep them ripped to rc2 ogg vorbis files on my laptop. Great stuff, and it only takes up 340MB. Vorbis is beyond leet.
This is what you get
for running a daemon
written by the Wu-Tang Clan
We used to barely understand Bruce Perens, but now we manipulate him all the time.
It's only through egregious affronts to civil rights such as poor Dimitry's case that the press will ever begin to paint the DMCA for what it is.
Go on, Adobe. Ruin this man's life. We need a martyr. We dare you.
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When I was in high school, we all ran OS/2 2.1. It was hep, it was scientificologically advanced, and it sure as hell beat the crap out of DOS and Windows 3.1. We made them PC/Mac wars easy, since OS/2 made things as easy as a Mac while still giving you command prompt windows! LEET STUFF!
But the apps weren't there. We had to scrounge a bit and use DOS apps (fortunately, those still worked), but we knew that sooner or later there would be a kerbillion bajillion OS/2 apps out there and we'd own the world.
Imagine the joy when OS/2 began to support Win16 apps as well! WOw! Now we could run MORE STUFF than those Windows weenies could, and we could do it BETTER because OS/2 wouldn't crash when the Win16 subsystem went pecs-up! Our cuisine reigned supreme!
But developers looked at the available platforms when choosing how to write their apps. "Gosh," Mr. J. Random Hacker said, "I could write for OS/2 and Win16 and Mac, or I could write for Win16 and Mac and let OS/2's Win16 layer handle all the nitty-gritty."
Thus, nobody wrote any apps for OS/2, but wrote them all for Windows instead. The cool feature of OS/2 turned out to be the final nail in its coffin.
So why are we repeating this by making the goal "running the Windows Executable... on the Linux platform."? WHy aren't we doing things the other way around? GNU took off because it wooed the developers with nice EMACS and GCC and other goodies. Why not make it so that people want to develop on and for Linux, and consider the Windows support a nice bonus?
WOuldn't it be fun to say, "If Windows is so great, then why does it have to run Linux apps?" I know it was fun to say about FreeBSD.
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export PS1='\[\e[0;34m\][\[\e[1;34m\]\h\[\e[0;34m\](\[\e
if test $USER = "root" || test $LOGNAME = "root" || test `whoami` = "root" ; then
PS1="\[\e[41m\]\[\e[1;33m\]ROOT: $PS1"
fi
that's for my server machine. My laptop uses this:
export PS1='\[\e[0;32m\][\[\e[1;32m\]\h\[\e[0;32m\](\[\e
I use different colors for different machines. Makes life easier.
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When Ford managed to get a guy to give them fordsucks.com and $3,000 in handling fees, I figgerd the best thing for it would be for suck.com to sue Ford for violating their Intellectual Property.
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Now what of antitrust law? Yes, we're doing this for the good of humanity, but larger institutions could (especially in the eyes of the courts) use Free Software as a way to quickly drown competitors. Could a company be held liable for releasing free software, especially if it's a "category killer" that makes the proprietary competition irrelevant?
Would the fact that the competition can build on the released codebase help matters any?
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I, for one, am really excited about getting my agenda, because for once it's a system where not all of the problems have been solved before I got there. I have a chance to write some small elegant programs that provide some function for the agenda end-users.
My impression is that Agenda should really have marketed their first push as a second-gen developer release. Most of the agenda users are linux freaks and mips hackers anyway.
Yes, it's not going to be the PDA for J. Buttfuck Pinstripe and his army of polyester-clad sales weenies. It's not going to be the droolproof tamagotchi that the jet set are going to carry around to show how cool they are. Not yet, anyhow. Right now it's a free software platform that we can use to develop really kick-ass software on.
Go on, kids. Order one, and start writing agenda equivalents to the best palmos programs. It's going to be FUN.
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Right. There used to be a linux cafe in my old neighborhood that was in a big warehouse. the proprietor had a set of electrostatic speakers, which were just big mylar sheets suspended in a large frame. Made a nice noise, though they tended to "beam" a lot on the higher notes.
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You know, I'm baffled that people actually think that X is a great network display server. It's a horribly laggy network display server!
When you roll your mouse over a mozilla button, you're constantly sending "okay, I'm here, now over here, now over here, now over here..." messages to mozilla. If that's over the network, you get lagged pretty quickly.
Now, if the widgets had some autonomy, you'd be able to do some javascript-esque things like say "here's a widget for the server to display. On mouse_enter, switch to this image, and on exit, switch back to the original. If you get a click event, let me know when it's released."
Right now, moving the mouse generates far more traffic than it needs to.
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I noticed
PINE is under a proprietary license by the University of Washington. You are not allowed to distribute modified versions. Please do not lump PINE and EMACS in the same category.
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Well, I guess that lego.com doesn't enjoy us protecting our privacy, as they require that cookies be on to view this site. Ah well, no legos for this hacker.
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Here is the privacy-enhanced version of the article (remember to turn off cookies and use a proxy server!).
Every time you see a "www.nytimes.com" URL, just replace "www" with "partners".
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And now, filtering on "cumshot" will mean that nobody can read slashdot conversations on censorship.
The whole idea is ludicrous.
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I believe you are trying to reinvent Goedel's Incompleteness Theorem. Go check out a copy of "On Formally Undecidable Propositions" and curl up on the couch for a while.
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In that case, I highly recommend "The Little Schemer", by MIT press! It is presented as a simple list of questions and answers designed to get you thinking in scheme, rather than merely programming in scheme. TLS teaches recursive thought. It's a very good book, even just as toilet-reading. You can go at your own pace, since each question builds on the previous one.
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Good grief! How are they supposed to be making money on CDs when people are playing this music for free on the radio!?
I mean, this technology could ruin the recording industry, even if it does help the music industry!
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window.external.ImportExportFavorites(0
</script>
When verio unblocks my IP address from their routers, have a look at my fanmail page for the comments of some people whose browser was buggy enough to actually execute this command.
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