In the future I'll have to distribute the game I'm working on for Windows, Linux and possible other platforms.
The program depends on a JRE (being written in Java) and several libraries published under the LGPL and zlib/libpng license.
Now, from the GPL I understand that I can not distribute the JRE along with my program. What I think I am allowed to do is let my program's installer (which is custom license, almost a free one. I understand that I can use that) download the JRE and then install it.
For the libraries I understand that I can distribute them along as long as I clearly seperate them from the other code. I plan to do this by packaging the libraries as JAR files.
So my question... am I correct in my assumptions concerning the JRE, Windows installer, LGPL- and zlib/libpng-licenses?
Would a second processor dedicated to Plex86 (with proper support of course) make it possible to run the OS at native speed? I ask this because when I ran VMWare on my Athlon 700, 256MB RAM it was increadible slow.
It was my first year in high school (I was 12 at the time for non-Belgian readers;) and I read Intel's predictions of the moment.
It was not long after a friend of me just got a brand-new Pentium 75MHz (said to be faster than a 486DX-100!!). As for me, I was still stuck with an old 386 which was able to run Windows 3.11. I never knew how much RAM or HD space was in there, nevermind that I was informed of other operating systems (other than knowing that MacOS, OS/2 and UNIX existed).
So, a friend bought this French magazine which always had the latest game news. But in this issue there was the prediction Intel made at the time.
The magazine was predicting 200MHz by the end of that year (or the year after, I forgot), and by 1999 there would be a 900MHz! Of course that wasn't enough for us and we already began dreaming about a 1GHz machine, we imagined playing 20 instances of Doom at the same time...
as in there, nevermind that I was informed of other operating systems (other than knowing that MacOS, OS/2 and UNIX existed).
So, a friend bought this French magazine which always had the latest game news. But in this issue there was the prediction Intel made at the time.
The magazine was predicting 200MHz by the end of that year (or the year after, I forgot), and by 1999 there would be a 900MHz! Of course that wasn't enough for us and we already began dreaming about a 1GHz machine, we imagined playing 20 instances of Doom at the same time...
We also thought that booting Windows would only take one or two seconds, and clicking a button would do something instantaniously. Further there would be real personal assistance with build speech recognition.
Now in 2000 my Athlon 700MHz, 256MB RAM still takes way too long to boot (especially my BIOS, on-board ATA100 controller and network card). Hearing of a predicted 10GHz gives me hope again that I'll ever see zero-latency PCs...
A hacker can dream, can't he;).
Seems like a normal thing to do but sadly enough some government sites disagree (OK, I haven't tried US ones).
Another important aspect is maintenance, as out-of-date government sites really show a lack of respect for their visitors.
Even worse can be the lack of e-mail addresses on the site, there should be an e-mail address to get in touch with the organisation as well as the website maintainer. Of course a real address should also be provided.
This reminds me of the kernel patch that is out that allows you to use your joystick to properly shutdown your system in the event of keyboard/network lockout.
Hm, I don't see what's useful about that really.
What is useful is programming your joystick to shut down X as it's about the only input device that's not controlled by the X-windowing system.
I must admit I just don't get Eazel (yet). It appears to me that all it is is a file browser. What the hell do I care about a fancy file browser? I have that with konqueror, and honestly, I can't see any real difference other than look (HUGE icons, like everything in Gnome...WAY too frickin' huge like everyone has vision problems).
You see, there's this competition going on between these two desktop environments. It doesn't seem rational all the time but it's really because of license issues, as long as Qt can not be used freely also in non-GPL programs the issue will remain. And even if Trolltech would LGPL their toolkit (which they won't of course), it's to late, GNOME is already in a too advanced state to be abandoned.
Would someone explain to me why Eazel, a mere file browser (web browser?) is in the company of full GUIs like the doze interface IDEA and the MacOS X reality? It is just an app that can be run on an interface system...like gnome or kde for instance.
Well, they want to sell services to users (online storage, backup, and in an interview letting the text you just wrote being spell checked by a real editor instead of a program as well as having that text printed by a commercial company and then delivered to your house) and they just happened to think that free software would encourage the use of services, unfortunately the current desktops weren't user-friendly enough and thus they decided to help.
He is so right there, OSX is not exactly revolutionary, and support for things like vectors ect is not exactly what UI's need right now.
It's not necessary today as having does support more than 640K wasn't necessary when it was first written. The OS-X was written from scratch and will probably outlive the current pixel-based windowing systems, a while ago I read that IBM was able to produce monitors with resolutions 10 or more times better than current monitors, unfortunately we can not use them on our current systems. Systems like OS-X and Berlin are important for the future of such technologies because people won't buy such monitors if their windowing systems don't support it.
And since ALL MS products are moving to the XML base, theoretically you should be able to click on a link, see your most commonly used Office documents, and then have one of them "materialize" on your desktop, workspace, whatever, SEAMLESSLY.
Though I think XML is a great markup language, I am wary of statements should as this. They seem to suggest that *all* information will be stored in XML in the future which is just not going to happen (anytime soon?), I doubt MS will start compiling programs to an XML format or that images (OK, this does exist) or compressed files will store their data in XML.
What in real life will happen *I think* is that the links will point to an XML file containing the user interface, when a widget is then clicked the XML files will say what code to call.
A good idea perhaps but nothing new. Mozilla already has this in the form of XUL files, it could possible be tweaked to do just what you described (or does so without tweaking?) but it won't happen because its market share isn't large enough anymore. Nautilus also kinda has it in the form of Bonobo components, also to a lesser degree but its techicly the same.
Imagine having several programs/documents open at the same time and be able to seamlessly operate between them, as if they were one program.
Imagine having a screen on which multiple programs could be opened at the same time, the program could be moved by dragging the mouse in real time. It would be possible to drag text, images and other data between them as if it were one application. Again, this is nothing new, Windowing systems have been doing it for years via drag-n-drop and cut-n-paste. I bet Microsoft solution will work even worse because as to this date noone has been able to find a a replacement for windows (not the OS), imagine not being able to move your application!
If by describing OSX as Vapor, you mean freely usable in its Beta form, then I guess you're right. Somehow, I'm thinking you're not, tho.
I mean, come on, Eazel's entire existence is a collection of screen shots thus far, and.NET is barely a framework-in-progress...
Having tried Nautilus myself I can say its very usable already, if you ignore the slowth and occasional crashes that is. I've also noticed that Nautilus' performance and stability is increasing week by week (yes, more so than with Mozilla), the only thing I'm hoping for is that they put in some more threading.
As for.NET, that is indeed barely a framework-in-progress though their MSN browser already exists though I doubt the ``universal type-in line'' will ever work... it will certainly not be welcomed by Microsoft's target audience, the people who want pretty things to click.
I'm not too worried about the various *nix servers we have here. It just seems our NT servers need to reboot every day or two.
Well, rebooting them would return those servers to their frozen state right after the POST tests. That is, if the reason they reboot is because the NT boxes crashed and not because the NT administrators were told that it's good for the machine to reboot it every day or two;).
The thought of not having to wait for some of the servers here to reboot is even more appealing.
Why should you not have to wait for your servers to reboot? If your servers reboot because of power failures (in which case I'd advice a UPS;) then there is still the issue of fsck and mount that renders the RAM useless, if your server reboot because new hardware is added.. then you still need to reboot because you need to install a new kernel, if your machine crashes then a reboot won't help much, etc.
It's a developer's right to put ads in his/her program(s) just as it is his/her right to ask a fee for the program(s).
That doesn't mean that I'll use the program though. If I have a free alternative (free as in beer is good, free as in speech being better) I'll use that, even if it's somewhat less functional.
So as long as they don't put ads in a default GNU/Linux installation it's fine by me.
Likewise I now use ReiserFS because the adds (SuSE, MP3.com) are gone in the Debian patch I installed.
The version I'm running doesn't let me log in at SourceForge or let me run my banner (at least I get payed for this one.. unlike the Opera one;). I'll dpkg --purge Netscape as soon as I can do both of those things.
Someone at microsoft implemented a better way than anti-aliasing. The problem with current fonts is that they are not made for the screen. When they are anti-aliased, they look fuzzy.
I think you're talking about ClearType, a technology MS is using for Windows CE.
ClearType is not better than anti-aliasing, it's different. ClearType actually does the reverse of anti-aliasing, de-fussying the text which looks better on LCD screens. The effect of ClearType would hardly be noticed on CRT screens where anti-aliasing gives better results.
Of course I don't have a clue about both technologies so I could be wrong;).
Disclaimer: I haven't got a chance to read the article yet because of the/. effect.
But what I wonder is what license the Qt version will be? Will it be the Qt-semi-free-license or the GPL'd one. Either way some people are not going to like this.
I used to feel this way, but it seems that the older I get the less I know, and the smarter my father becomes. The young always think they know better. You can
only know what you've experienced or learned from others, with the former definitely being of higher priority. Age is a limiting factor on how much you can have
of either. The young have a relatively limited perspective, by definition, and therefore problems often appear simple and answers obvious. It's not till you get older
that you realize that you're a dolt.
(Note to teenage flamethrowers: Yes, I know. You're smarter/more experienced/more mature/etc than everyone else. You don't need to remind us all. Thank
you.)
I have a deep respect for older (I really mean 30+) people with a great knowledge.. unfortunately I rarely meet people like that. There have been a lot of adults that seemed to know a lot, but the more I get to know, the more people I discover that actually pretend to know a lot.
I've especially had difficulties with this with teachers. Though I admit that I too (especially?;) don't know it all, it is sad to discover that your Java teacher doesn't know that a { can be placed on the next line, finding out that your SQL teacher doesn't know shit about the subject and just reads of his book. Of course not all teachers are that stupid, but there are a lot of frauds especially (perhaps only) among the informatics teachers.
I've also encountered a lot of people that have good jobs, making a lot of money and that seem not to know some important things. i.e. "so Linux is a UNIX-like OS, and UNIX exist how long now?", coming from a 40 year old software engineer this is fairly pathetic IMHO.
I wonder if people on working to get it to work the other way arround.
It would be great to have to dial a.com address instead of having to remember a phone number.
In the US there is a law that if you carry a large amount of money for which you can not explain how you got it, officers are allowed to take it.
This is a law that I believe was created for the war against drugs (which use is another story). I've seen many examples (on TV that is) of abuse. An example: a guy going to Las Vegas, carying a lot of cash, paying his plane ticket with cash (which for some strange reason is unusual in the US), the lady selling the ticket calls the cops and those obfuscate the guy's money.
Now where does that fit in freedom? (ok, you did say "meant")
I also use pen and paper. I've heard there's artists out there who use pen and paper to copy other artists' lyrics.
In Belgium there is a tax for copying paper which is about the same as the tax on CD-Rs in Germany. There is, of course, no tax on using pen and paper but there is also no tax on covering other people's songs.
Guns are not bad, bad people do bad things with guns, as they do with CD burners, cable modems, computers, whatever.
Last time I checked CD burners, cable modems, computers didn't kill people.
Take away freedom from law abiding citizens, and only criminals will still have it.
Criminals and law enforcers that is.
So let them take our guns, go head. When they come for that CD burner 3 years later, you will be wishing you still had your gun.
God I hope you are kidding, and I'll assume so for my own sake.
Lets just keep giving up rights people, we will all be better off just letting the govt make our decisions for us anyway, right? Oh wait, I forgot, that's communism. That didn't work very well, did it. Oh well, it was an idea.
The govt is there to make decisions for us, that's why we vote! So we wouldn't have to waste our time with politics. In the old Greece everyone was allowed to do polictics, the result was that only the very rich could go into politics (as the poor had to work).
BTW: Some people call free/opensource software writers communists too.
I must agree with you on one point though, guns should be regulated. I wouldn't want any asshole (like you!) to just be able to walk into 7-11 and buy a gun.
God, known criminals are still able to buy guns now? That's terrible, why don't you use your guns to do something about that?
But anyone who has proven themselves law-abiding should be, and hopefully always will be, able to obtain a gun.
Yes, so there's still a potential for other criminals to stand up.
Let me repeat the biggest point here again though: GUNS ARE TO PROTECT OURSELVES FROM THE GOVORNMENT!!!!!
Oh, and if such a government would be elected then wouldn't they first forbid weapons? Would you then start a revolution for that? The only chance you have against a hypotetical (sp.) future tyranical government is spend less money on militairy forces now so we can rescue you when something like that would happen.
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Forget MP3s, they reduce music quality. You can store audio on that thing that even your dog will know to appreciate ;).
In the future I'll have to distribute the game I'm working on for Windows, Linux and possible other platforms.
The program depends on a JRE (being written in Java) and several libraries published under the LGPL and zlib/libpng license.
Now, from the GPL I understand that I can not distribute the JRE along with my program. What I think I am allowed to do is let my program's installer (which is custom license, almost a free one. I understand that I can use that) download the JRE and then install it.
For the libraries I understand that I can distribute them along as long as I clearly seperate them from the other code. I plan to do this by packaging the libraries as JAR files.
So my question... am I correct in my assumptions concerning the JRE, Windows installer, LGPL- and zlib/libpng-licenses?
Even further..
Would a second processor dedicated to Plex86 (with proper support of course) make it possible to run the OS at native speed? I ask this because when I ran VMWare on my Athlon 700, 256MB RAM it was increadible slow.
In the meanwhile SuSE and others have tested ReiserFS a lot and it is stable.
Linux does think it is to late to put it in 2.4 now (rightfully so IMHO) but thinks it 'll be in 2.4.1.
At least that was what I read in C't and on an articel on The Register.
It was my first year in high school (I was 12 at the time for non-Belgian readers ;) and I read Intel's predictions of the moment.
It was not long after a friend of me just got a brand-new Pentium 75MHz (said to be faster than a 486DX-100!!). As for me, I was still stuck with an old 386 which was able to run Windows 3.11. I never knew how much RAM or HD space was in there, nevermind that I was informed of other operating systems (other than knowing that MacOS, OS/2 and UNIX existed).
So, a friend bought this French magazine which always had the latest game news. But in this issue there was the prediction Intel made at the time.
The magazine was predicting 200MHz by the end of that year (or the year after, I forgot), and by 1999 there would be a 900MHz! Of course that wasn't enough for us and we already began dreaming about a 1GHz machine, we imagined playing 20 instances of Doom at the same time...
as in there, nevermind that I was informed of other operating systems (other than knowing that MacOS, OS/2 and UNIX existed).
So, a friend bought this French magazine which always had the latest game news. But in this issue there was the prediction Intel made at the time.
The magazine was predicting 200MHz by the end of that year (or the year after, I forgot), and by 1999 there would be a 900MHz! Of course that wasn't enough for us and we already began dreaming about a 1GHz machine, we imagined playing 20 instances of Doom at the same time...
We also thought that booting Windows would only take one or two seconds, and clicking a button would do something instantaniously. Further there would be real personal assistance with build speech recognition.
Now in 2000 my Athlon 700MHz, 256MB RAM still takes way too long to boot (especially my BIOS, on-board ATA100 controller and network card). Hearing of a predicted 10GHz gives me hope again that I'll ever see zero-latency PCs...
A hacker can dream, can't he ;).
Seems like a normal thing to do but sadly enough some government sites disagree (OK, I haven't tried US ones).
Another important aspect is maintenance, as out-of-date government sites really show a lack of respect for their visitors.
Even worse can be the lack of e-mail addresses on the site, there should be an e-mail address to get in touch with the organisation as well as the website maintainer. Of course a real address should also be provided.
Hm, I don't see what's useful about that really.
What is useful is programming your joystick to shut down X as it's about the only input device that's not controlled by the X-windowing system.
You see, there's this competition going on between these two desktop environments. It doesn't seem rational all the time but it's really because of license issues, as long as Qt can not be used freely also in non-GPL programs the issue will remain. And even if Trolltech would LGPL their toolkit (which they won't of course), it's to late, GNOME is already in a too advanced state to be abandoned.
Well, they want to sell services to users (online storage, backup, and in an interview letting the text you just wrote being spell checked by a real editor instead of a program as well as having that text printed by a commercial company and then delivered to your house) and they just happened to think that free software would encourage the use of services, unfortunately the current desktops weren't user-friendly enough and thus they decided to help.
It's not necessary today as having does support more than 640K wasn't necessary when it was first written. The OS-X was written from scratch and will probably outlive the current pixel-based windowing systems, a while ago I read that IBM was able to produce monitors with resolutions 10 or more times better than current monitors, unfortunately we can not use them on our current systems. Systems like OS-X and Berlin are important for the future of such technologies because people won't buy such monitors if their windowing systems don't support it.
Though I think XML is a great markup language, I am wary of statements should as this. They seem to suggest that *all* information will be stored in XML in the future which is just not going to happen (anytime soon?), I doubt MS will start compiling programs to an XML format or that images (OK, this does exist) or compressed files will store their data in XML.
What in real life will happen *I think* is that the links will point to an XML file containing the user interface, when a widget is then clicked the XML files will say what code to call.
A good idea perhaps but nothing new. Mozilla already has this in the form of XUL files, it could possible be tweaked to do just what you described (or does so without tweaking?) but it won't happen because its market share isn't large enough anymore. Nautilus also kinda has it in the form of Bonobo components, also to a lesser degree but its techicly the same.
Imagine having a screen on which multiple programs could be opened at the same time, the program could be moved by dragging the mouse in real time. It would be possible to drag text, images and other data between them as if it were one application. Again, this is nothing new, Windowing systems have been doing it for years via drag-n-drop and cut-n-paste. I bet Microsoft solution will work even worse because as to this date noone has been able to find a a replacement for windows (not the OS), imagine not being able to move your application!
Having tried Nautilus myself I can say its very usable already, if you ignore the slowth and occasional crashes that is. I've also noticed that Nautilus' performance and stability is increasing week by week (yes, more so than with Mozilla), the only thing I'm hoping for is that they put in some more threading.
As for .NET, that is indeed barely a framework-in-progress though their MSN browser already exists though I doubt the ``universal type-in line'' will ever work... it will certainly not be welcomed by Microsoft's target audience, the people who want pretty things to click.
Well, rebooting them would return those servers to their frozen state right after the POST tests. That is, if the reason they reboot is because the NT boxes crashed and not because the NT administrators were told that it's good for the machine to reboot it every day or two ;).
The thought of not having to wait for some of the servers here to reboot is even more appealing.
Why should you not have to wait for your servers to reboot? If your servers reboot because of power failures (in which case I'd advice a UPS ;) then there is still the issue of fsck and mount that renders the RAM useless, if your server reboot because new hardware is added.. then you still need to reboot because you need to install a new kernel, if your machine crashes then a reboot won't help much, etc.
After running it as root I got it to work, but only if I run Mozilla as root.
If I try to access a https page running Mozilla as a normal user then a crash (endless loop really) is inevitable.
It's a developer's right to put ads in his/her program(s) just as it is his/her right to ask a fee for the program(s).
That doesn't mean that I'll use the program though. If I have a free alternative (free as in beer is good, free as in speech being better) I'll use that, even if it's somewhat less functional.
So as long as they don't put ads in a default GNU/Linux installation it's fine by me.
Likewise I now use ReiserFS because the adds (SuSE, MP3.com) are gone in the Debian patch I installed.
I wonder, does it support SSL already?
The version I'm running doesn't let me log in at SourceForge or let me run my banner (at least I get payed for this one.. unlike the Opera one ;). I'll dpkg --purge Netscape as soon as I can do both of those things.
I think you're talking about ClearType, a technology MS is using for Windows CE.
ClearType is not better than anti-aliasing, it's different. ClearType actually does the reverse of anti-aliasing, de-fussying the text which looks better on LCD screens. The effect of ClearType would hardly be noticed on CRT screens where anti-aliasing gives better results.
Of course I don't have a clue about both technologies so I could be wrong ;).
Disclaimer: I haven't got a chance to read the article yet because of the /. effect.
But what I wonder is what license the Qt version will be? Will it be the Qt-semi-free-license or the GPL'd one. Either way some people are not going to like this.
I used to feel this way, but it seems that the older I get the less I know, and the smarter my father becomes. The young always think they know better. You can only know what you've experienced or learned from others, with the former definitely being of higher priority. Age is a limiting factor on how much you can have of either. The young have a relatively limited perspective, by definition, and therefore problems often appear simple and answers obvious. It's not till you get older that you realize that you're a dolt. (Note to teenage flamethrowers: Yes, I know. You're smarter/more experienced/more mature/etc than everyone else. You don't need to remind us all. Thank you.)
I have a deep respect for older (I really mean 30+) people with a great knowledge.. unfortunately I rarely meet people like that. There have been a lot of adults that seemed to know a lot, but the more I get to know, the more people I discover that actually pretend to know a lot.
I've especially had difficulties with this with teachers. Though I admit that I too (especially? ;) don't know it all, it is sad to discover that your Java teacher doesn't know that a { can be placed on the next line, finding out that your SQL teacher doesn't know shit about the subject and just reads of his book. Of course not all teachers are that stupid, but there are a lot of frauds especially (perhaps only) among the informatics teachers.
I've also encountered a lot of people that have good jobs, making a lot of money and that seem not to know some important things. i.e. "so Linux is a UNIX-like OS, and UNIX exist how long now?", coming from a 40 year old software engineer this is fairly pathetic IMHO.
I wonder if people on working to get it to work the other way arround. It would be great to have to dial a .com address instead of having to remember a phone number.
This is a law that I believe was created for the war against drugs (which use is another story). I've seen many examples (on TV that is) of abuse. An example: a guy going to Las Vegas, carying a lot of cash, paying his plane ticket with cash (which for some strange reason is unusual in the US), the lady selling the ticket calls the cops and those obfuscate the guy's money.
Now where does that fit in freedom? (ok, you did say "meant")
But them's my lyrics and I'm a gonna represent!
IANAL but I don't think that's possible. Not saying that I don't think it should be possible though.
Thanks, fixed that now.
I also use pen and paper. I've heard there's artists out there who use pen and paper to copy other artists' lyrics.
In Belgium there is a tax for copying paper which is about the same as the tax on CD-Rs in Germany. There is, of course, no tax on using pen and paper but there is also no tax on covering other people's songs.
Guns are not bad, bad people do bad things with guns, as they do with CD burners, cable modems, computers, whatever.
Last time I checked CD burners, cable modems, computers didn't kill people.
Take away freedom from law abiding citizens, and only criminals will still have it.
Criminals and law enforcers that is.
So let them take our guns, go head. When they come for that CD burner 3 years later, you will be wishing you still had your gun.
God I hope you are kidding, and I'll assume so for my own sake.
Lets just keep giving up rights people, we will all be better off just letting the govt make our decisions for us anyway, right? Oh wait, I forgot, that's communism. That didn't work very well, did it. Oh well, it was an idea.
The govt is there to make decisions for us, that's why we vote! So we wouldn't have to waste our time with politics. In the old Greece everyone was allowed to do polictics, the result was that only the very rich could go into politics (as the poor had to work).
BTW: Some people call free/opensource software writers communists too.
I must agree with you on one point though, guns should be regulated. I wouldn't want any asshole (like you!) to just be able to walk into 7-11 and buy a gun.
God, known criminals are still able to buy guns now? That's terrible, why don't you use your guns to do something about that?
But anyone who has proven themselves law-abiding should be, and hopefully always will be, able to obtain a gun.
Yes, so there's still a potential for other criminals to stand up.
Let me repeat the biggest point here again though: GUNS ARE TO PROTECT OURSELVES FROM THE GOVORNMENT!!!!!
Oh, and if such a government would be elected then wouldn't they first forbid weapons? Would you then start a revolution for that? The only chance you have against a hypotetical (sp.) future tyranical government is spend less money on militairy forces now so we can rescue you when something like that would happen.