This idea had been posted by a number of people on slashdot, so it is good to see that the people at OSI do listen to the community. If nothing else, this shows good will (something that was required -- it was almost at the stage where portions of the community had no support for OSI).
Now OSI needs to follow up on this, and actually listen to and participate on this open list. If this list is not used by OSI in the decision making process, the list gives the community nothing. Only time will tell how successful this move is.
If OSI respects the opinions of people on the list, the actions of OSI and the process by which licences are approved will be much closer to the open model some people wanted for OSI from the start.
The idea of having anonymity for the companies proposing licences is good for two reasons. First it will allow companies thinking about releasing source code to keep their internal decisions private until they want to tell people about it. Also it should make list members more objective about what they are reviewing (would you be more critical of a new proposed open source licence from Microsoft or one from companies you may consider friendly like Netscape or Cygnus?).
The other thing needed for this list to succeed in its goal is for the right people to subscribe (this means both ESR and Bruce Perens among others -- I hope they can stay civil).
There are a number of programs out there that will encode MP3's for you. It would be trivial to get them to read from/dev/dsp or/dev/audio and encode that. The main problem is that encoding is expensive CPU wise, so the computer may not be able to keep up.
You don't see many machines that are capable of real time MPEG video encoding, but that format is not dismissed as "only used for pirating films".
I don't see how using an intermediate format for creating MP3's (ie. directly dumping the samples from/dev/dsp or whatever) makes the format any less legitimate.
Same here... for a while I couldn't work out why no other stations were carrying news about it, seeing how JJJ is delayed 3 hours over here. It had me going for a while.
What with this and hearing that the IOC had revoked Sydney's right to hold the 2000 olympic games on the radio (Beijing and Manchester being asked to reapply), I think the world is comming to an end:)
Someone who considers Tim O'Reilly a suitable person to represent, and accept a prize for, the "colabrorative software movement" (apparently he uses that term because he doesn't care about the free speach aspect of free software) does not get my vote as a representative of the free software community.
When I view the comment, I get only one (no matter what view. Well, for nested, I get one sibling for at each level). I guess this is a bug in the slashdot changes.
Also it doesn't seem to be recognising my password.
If you assume that the OS's used for www.theos.com and www.theos-software.com can handle equal loads (I don't know how THEOS and openbsd compare), you would expect a page like www.theos-software.com to crash the server more.
If you didn't notice, the page on www.theos.com was a single page with no graphics, while www.theos-software.com was quite graphical. Theo's page may be able to handle hundreds of times more hits, all other things being equal.
$if term=xterm "\C-?": delete-char # xterm delete "\e[\C-@": beginning-of-line # xterm home "\e[e": end-of-line # xterm end $else "\e[3~": delete-char # linux delete "\e[1~": beginning-of-line # linux home "\e[4~": end-of-line # linux end $endif
Most cases where library versions are incompatible, the soname of the library has been changed. This way you can have the two libraries on your system at once.
As for requiring new libraries, how did you install GNOME. Was it from binary packages or from source? If it was from binaries, then it would have been configured for the libraries on the build system, and not necessarily yours. When GNOME requires a newer version of a library (that is not part of the project -- image libraries for instance), it is often because the interface has changed, or bugs have been found in the old one.
On an other note, how has the work of many volunteers (myself included) offended you so much? If you don't want to use gnome, then don't. There are alternatives. GNOME adds to your choices, not subtracts from them.
How bout RPM's for different processor steps
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Try editing the/usr/lib/rpmrc file, and finding the line starting with "optflags: i386" and change the options there. Now doing rpm --rebuild should give the correct optimisations.
Is this Australian sarcasm? Just asking.
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I agree that Pauline Hanson is racist, and doesn't speak for the majority of Australians (I don't know any people under 30 who take anything she says seriously). Proof of this is the fact that her party lost all its federal seats in the last elections, and half the One Nation people who got seats in the Queensland elections have defected or been kicked out (One Nation has a particularly undemocratic structure).
If you want an example of Australian humor, see if you can find MP3's of the songs "Backdoor Man" or "I don't like it" by Pauline Pantsdown.
I don't know where you got your (incorrect) info, but that is just not true.
GNOME development has most certainly not stopped. Just today Miguel released a new version of MC, and bugs are being actively fixed. If you have found a problem, use the gnome-bug script that gets installed with gnome-libs. If you have not installed GNOME try getting informed before making comments like that.
Have you noticed how a lot of americans just don't get sarcasm or irony. I suppose that's why I find so many of their sitcoms obnoxious (I mean, if the jokes are funny why do they need a fake laughter?).
How bout RPM's for different processor steps
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This could be good. It would not be necessary to have optimised versions of everything, but having i386, i486, i586 and i686 versions of the kernel, compiler and X server in a distribution, and the installer installing the correct version would be very nice.
Currently there are some GTK java bindings (they follow GTK widget heirachy rather than AWT), and someone working on Japhar said they were going to do GTK AWT port.
I don't think there are java bindings for either gnome-libs or kdelibs.
I got the same user id for the devel program ...
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I think they give everyone the same user id. To bad you have to wait about 2 weeks for them to get back to you.
I think the registration is more marketing related than security related.
So lets see...a company contributes about 0.001% of software and get about 80% of the profit.
And you have every right to grab their distribution, rename it and sell it yourself. You wouldn't event have to add anything and it is perfectly legal (or you could modify it like mandrkae-linux did). Redhat is not preventing anyone else from making money off free software, so who do they harm?
There is a block of characters reserved for future use as extra control characters in iso8859. Since it wasn't used Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, assigned what they thought were useful characters (eg curly quotes. They also have a replacement for the standard back quote there). What is worse, all their HTML generation tools (eg export to HTML in word, frontpage, etc) use these characters as much as possible.
On systems unlucky enough to be missing the MS enhanced fonts, these characters will not display correctly (replaced by question marks in netscape).
I am not joining any cult that advocates putting invalid HTML on my web page. I mean, would you be seen dead with this in your page: <a><font>... </a></font>
I wouldn't say this is that much of a boost for gaming. The current mesa drivers for 3dfx would do a much better job. GLX is an X server extension and some libraries that translates opengl calls to a data stream, and then converts them back to opengl calls at the X server end.
You would get better performance by cutting X and GLX out of the loop and using a console opengl implementation such as mesa/3dfx. This would be true for any opengl implementation.
A merger is not very likely as GNOME and KDE have different design internally. KDE is written in C++, and GNOME is written in C with language bindings in mind (ie almost all callbacks pass a user_data argument that makes language bindings much easier).
On the other hand, interoperability is much more likely (and desirable to both groups).
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This idea had been posted by a number of people on slashdot, so it is good to see that the people at OSI do listen to the community. If nothing else, this shows good will (something that was required -- it was almost at the stage where portions of the community had no support for OSI).
Now OSI needs to follow up on this, and actually listen to and participate on this open list. If this list is not used by OSI in the decision making process, the list gives the community nothing. Only time will tell how successful this move is.
If OSI respects the opinions of people on the list, the actions of OSI and the process by which licences are approved will be much closer to the open model some people wanted for OSI from the start.
The idea of having anonymity for the companies proposing licences is good for two reasons. First it will allow companies thinking about releasing source code to keep their internal decisions private until they want to tell people about it. Also it should make list members more objective about what they are reviewing (would you be more critical of a new proposed open source licence from Microsoft or one from companies you may consider friendly like Netscape or Cygnus?).
The other thing needed for this list to succeed in its goal is for the right people to subscribe (this means both ESR and Bruce Perens among others -- I hope they can stay civil).
There are a number of programs out there that will encode MP3's for you. It would be trivial to get them to read from /dev/dsp or /dev/audio and encode that. The main problem is that encoding is expensive CPU wise, so the computer may not be able to keep up.
/dev/dsp or whatever) makes the format any less legitimate.
You don't see many machines that are capable of real time MPEG video encoding, but that format is not dismissed as "only used for pirating films".
I don't see how using an intermediate format for creating MP3's (ie. directly dumping the samples from
Same here ... for a while I couldn't work out why no other stations were carrying news about it, seeing how JJJ is delayed 3 hours over here. It had me going for a while.
What with this and hearing that the IOC had revoked Sydney's right to hold the 2000 olympic games on the radio (Beijing and Manchester being asked to reapply), I think the world is comming to an end :)
Someone who considers Tim O'Reilly a suitable person to represent, and accept a prize for, the "colabrorative software movement" (apparently he uses that term because he doesn't care about the free speach aspect of free software) does not get my vote as a representative of the free software community.
When I view the comment, I get only one (no matter what view. Well, for nested, I get one sibling for at each level). I guess this is a bug in the slashdot changes.
Also it doesn't seem to be recognising my password.
James Henstridge
Not necessarily.
If you assume that the OS's used for www.theos.com and www.theos-software.com can handle equal loads (I don't know how THEOS and openbsd compare), you would expect a page like www.theos-software.com to crash the server more.
If you didn't notice, the page on www.theos.com was a single page with no graphics, while www.theos-software.com was quite graphical. Theo's page may be able to handle hundreds of times more hits, all other things being equal.
But you do know exactly how many have write access to the CVS tree. That is probably where the number came from.
The G in GNOME (and GIMP and a number of other apps) stands for GNU. Do they want to take the GNU out of free software?
It is a symbolism thing. I like to think of the GNOME stuff I write as GNU stuff as well.
Put this in your ~/.inputrc and restart bash:
$if term=xterm
"\C-?": delete-char # xterm delete
"\e[\C-@": beginning-of-line # xterm home
"\e[e": end-of-line # xterm end
$else
"\e[3~": delete-char # linux delete
"\e[1~": beginning-of-line # linux home
"\e[4~": end-of-line # linux end
$endif
Most cases where library versions are incompatible, the soname of the library has been changed. This way you can have the two libraries on your system at once.
As for requiring new libraries, how did you install GNOME. Was it from binary packages or from source? If it was from binaries, then it would have been configured for the libraries on the build system, and not necessarily yours. When GNOME requires a newer version of a library (that is not part of the project -- image libraries for instance), it is often because the interface has changed, or bugs have been found in the old one.
On an other note, how has the work of many volunteers (myself included) offended you so much? If you don't want to use gnome, then don't. There are alternatives. GNOME adds to your choices, not subtracts from them.
Try editing the /usr/lib/rpmrc file, and finding the line starting with "optflags: i386" and change the options there. Now doing rpm --rebuild should give the correct optimisations.
I agree that Pauline Hanson is racist, and doesn't speak for the majority of Australians (I don't know any people under 30 who take anything she says seriously). Proof of this is the fact that her party lost all its federal seats in the last elections, and half the One Nation people who got seats in the Queensland elections have defected or been kicked out (One Nation has a particularly undemocratic structure).
If you want an example of Australian humor, see if you can find MP3's of the songs "Backdoor Man" or "I don't like it" by Pauline Pantsdown.
I don't know where you got your (incorrect) info, but that is just not true.
GNOME development has most certainly not stopped. Just today Miguel released a new version of MC, and bugs are being actively fixed. If you have found a problem, use the gnome-bug script that gets installed with gnome-libs. If you have not installed GNOME try getting informed before making comments like that.
Have you noticed how a lot of americans just don't get sarcasm or irony. I suppose that's why I find so many of their sitcoms obnoxious (I mean, if the jokes are funny why do they need a fake laughter?).
This could be good. It would not be necessary to have optimised versions of everything, but having i386, i486, i586 and i686 versions of the kernel, compiler and X server in a distribution, and the installer installing the correct version would be very nice.
Currently there are some GTK java bindings (they follow GTK widget heirachy rather than AWT), and someone working on Japhar said they were going to do GTK AWT port.
I don't think there are java bindings for either gnome-libs or kdelibs.
I think they give everyone the same user id. To bad you have to wait about 2 weeks for them to get back to you.
I think the registration is more marketing related than security related.
And you have every right to grab their distribution, rename it and sell it yourself. You wouldn't event have to add anything and it is perfectly legal (or you could modify it like mandrkae-linux did). Redhat is not preventing anyone else from making money off free software, so who do they harm?
There is a block of characters reserved for future use as extra control characters in iso8859. Since it wasn't used Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, assigned what they thought were useful characters (eg curly quotes. They also have a replacement for the standard back quote there). What is worse, all their HTML generation tools (eg export to HTML in word, frontpage, etc) use these characters as much as possible.
On systems unlucky enough to be missing the MS enhanced fonts, these characters will not display correctly (replaced by question marks in netscape).
I am not joining any cult that advocates putting invalid HTML on my web page. I mean, would you be seen dead with this in your page: ... </a></font>
<a><font>
I wouldn't say this is that much of a boost for gaming. The current mesa drivers for 3dfx would do a much better job. GLX is an X server extension and some libraries that translates opengl calls to a data stream, and then converts them back to opengl calls at the X server end.
You would get better performance by cutting X and GLX out of the loop and using a console opengl implementation such as mesa/3dfx. This would be true for any opengl implementation.
A merger is not very likely as GNOME and KDE have different design internally. KDE is written in C++, and GNOME is written in C with language bindings in mind (ie almost all callbacks pass a user_data argument that makes language bindings much easier).
On the other hand, interoperability is much more likely (and desirable to both groups).
James Henstridge (one of the GNOME hackers)
They mentioned my package PyGTK, which was a nice surprise. Overall a pretty good article. I hope they are successful in their GTK port to BeOS.