You're assume that each feature is totally orthogonal to all others. This is frequently the case and with drivers you don't even need to exclude them because they just won't be loaded but some features require adding little changes that transcend the system. There is some merit to what CA is claiming. Have you tried to run 2.2 recently? It's noticably quicker in most instances (of course the problem is it won't run on anything later that a PIII and all the libs for it suck).
Simply stated, it appears that using GPL-licensed fonts in a document makes your document subject to the GPL.
For whatever reason, there are some people who just LOVE contronversey. They LIKE to get into big flame wars on mailing lists. These people are TROLLS and should be ignored. This one's not even close to being right. A document is not a derived work of a font. Is a document with copyrighted Adobe fonts subject to that font's license? If you extracted the font from the document and created a new font file THAT would be a violation but the document itself is a separate work. This is just like the apache fools who claim the LGPL is not suitable for Java libraries. The Sun libraries constitute the standard environment of the Java language. These guys need to actually read the GPL before that make such rediculous claims.
Also, the GPL and LGPL is slightly subject to some community interpretation. To some extent it is what we say it is. That's why what these folks are doing is also a little dangerous. I claim the LGPL is ok for Java libs. Who's going to stop me from shipping my library as LGPL? Linux binary only modules are not subject to GPL. Why? Because Linus says the're not derived works of the Kernel. I'm pretty sure everyone will conclude that documents that use GPL fonts should not be GPL. And therefore they aren't.
Ignore these IP-issue sensationalizing trolls. They just want something to argue about. Let them argue - in courier.
Whenever I see "is a powerful, ultra-high performance" I just stop reading right there. Excess positive adjectives are a sure-fire sign of misrepresentation.
These poor saps got in the wrong line, were made fun of for their devotion to a once great film genre, and you called them life-long virgins on the biggest geek site in the civilized world. I bet you drive a big truck Taco. Huh? Am I right? Insecure bastard.
I have always thought it would be great if people would share their knowledge with instructional videos. You know, like how to use vim, write a C program, backup Windows machines with smbtar, etc. When it comes to computers it is frequently a lot easier to just demonstrate something rather than ask someone to read some arcane documentation. It seems to me we have all of the important peices in place - fast hardware, mass storage, and quick data links.
If Google will host video this could be the start of an educational renaissance! Well maybe it's not going to be like "I know Kung Fu!" but it would still be nice to WTFV instead of RTFM.
But unfortunately after looking around a bit I have failed to locate any software that can export the display as a digital video import source. I just bought a Mac Mini and thought it would be ideal for this sort of thing but iMovie doesn't appear to do it out of the box. So what's the best way to capture your desktop as compressed video?
There's no infomation on this decision anywhere. Does anyone else get the feeling this is just a hoax. I mean there must be *something* official that explains the situation. Where is it?
I just want my mouse to stop stalling and for form elements to have some keyboard intellegence. If I cared about drop shadows and translucent boot prompts I wouldn't be using X.
Google News is basically just a search engine for news. How do these fools think people link to their site?! One has to wonder if their trying a cash out scam. I would counter sue with extortion.
Before you pooh pooh this ask yourself if playing another game like say Grand Theft Auto should be banned on State owned computers. If so, what's the difference between playing GTA and Solitare on company time?
Actually that's the one I got. The MX900 optical, rechargable, bluetooth. It's slow. Wave it around in small circles. Now go to a Windows machine with a non-cordless mouse. I think you'll notice there's a lag. It's not a showstopper but for a busy worker like me it can really start to slow you down. Also the acceleration a little goofy.
This is a little OT but if you're thinking about getting a Mac don't bother with the bluetooth mouse. It's very sluggish. Originally I bought their bluetooth mouse and it was horrible. I returned it and got the Logitech MX700 bluetooth optical mouse. It was better but it's not nearly as solid as a wired mouse. At least not compared to a wired mouse in windows. I have to run out and buy a usb mouse for my Mac mini. So at least I hope the problem is the fact that it's bluetooth.
Now people will be astrotrufing Wikipedia with sales pitches for their products. Not that that is necessarily bad but the content will tend toward not being less concise. It could become more of a junkpile of stuff like the web is now as opposed to the well defined concise descriptions that they have now. Perhaps some form of moderation should be applied.
Either you've never worked without Visual Studio or you care more putting the maximum number of hours on your timesheet than you do about the product (in which case you will be filling out timesheets for a loooong time).
Anyone know where I can get root on FreeBSD for ~$20/month? Right now I'm using a Linux hoster and I'm happy with it but I'd be happier with FreeBSD for something on the Internet.
So what library are you using for structured storage? Last I checked creating and writing into a new stream was very poorly supported. That's great!
You do RPC?! Wow, so I can take some custom IDL, compile that to get a proxy, create a named pipe transport, and call server code using signing and sealing with the Kerberos session key? That's fabulous!
As for examples how about:
Retrieve the group membership information for a user?
Create Kerberos principals that threads can then impersonate?
Schedule a job on a remote server?
Enumerate open files on a server so an application can break files locked by a certain user?
... its true power lies in providing windows api's on linux that you can compile against.
As cool as that would be I seriously doubt people will get very far with this approach. There are too many libraries that WINE simply doesn't support without linking against MS' DLLs. There's structured storage, NDR / RPC, MAPI, workstation management and security network functions, etc, etc, etc. Sure they might have a few individual ops that have been cobbled together using libsmbclient or some OpenLDAP code but the API is not nearly as complete and robust as it needs to be to actually compile a stand alone binary that doesn't require emulation.
One notibly important difference between Win32 and Linux is that the internal Unicode encoding is UTF-8 as opposed to UTF-16LE. This takes some getting used as it requires special consideration when working with text (e.g. when iterating over individual characters). I have prepared a document and a text.h header file [1] that could assist people with porting Win32 applications to Linux. Or at the very least it explains how to maintain I18N support as you migrate code.
[1] The header is part of a library but you can easily remove the library specific #defines.
Does anyone else get the feeling this "Message Queue System" is about 85% marketing buzz? It sounds like a standard component that might be found in any basic networking software. It's probably ~500 lines of code in any language that has builtin support for condition variables and RPCs (e.g. Java).
I don't like Microsoft's business tactics any better than you do but this point from Billy is dead on. He is NOT refering to OSS interop with non-OSS software. OSS applications do not interoperate with other OSS applications. I won't bother to post a list as you can pick just about any application and find that importing and exporting data from it is highly application specific. This is just the cost of a distributed development model and why open standards are so important to OSS. Unfortunately there is very little activity on open standards for many critical things - particularly on the Desktop (e.g. COM style discovery).
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"menuconfig"...then you can unbloat your kernel
You're assume that each feature is totally orthogonal to all others. This is frequently the case and with drivers you don't even need to exclude them because they just won't be loaded but some features require adding little changes that transcend the system. There is some merit to what CA is claiming. Have you tried to run 2.2 recently? It's noticably quicker in most instances (of course the problem is it won't run on anything later that a PIII and all the libs for it suck).
Simply stated, it appears that using GPL-licensed fonts in a document makes your document subject to the GPL.
For whatever reason, there are some people who just LOVE contronversey. They LIKE to get into big flame wars on mailing lists. These people are TROLLS and should be ignored. This one's not even close to being right. A document is not a derived work of a font. Is a document with copyrighted Adobe fonts subject to that font's license? If you extracted the font from the document and created a new font file THAT would be a violation but the document itself is a separate work. This is just like the apache fools who claim the LGPL is not suitable for Java libraries. The Sun libraries constitute the standard environment of the Java language. These guys need to actually read the GPL before that make such rediculous claims.
Also, the GPL and LGPL is slightly subject to some community interpretation. To some extent it is what we say it is. That's why what these folks are doing is also a little dangerous. I claim the LGPL is ok for Java libs. Who's going to stop me from shipping my library as LGPL? Linux binary only modules are not subject to GPL. Why? Because Linus says the're not derived works of the Kernel. I'm pretty sure everyone will conclude that documents that use GPL fonts should not be GPL. And therefore they aren't.
Ignore these IP-issue sensationalizing trolls. They just want something to argue about. Let them argue - in courier.
Whenever I see "is a powerful, ultra-high performance" I just stop reading right there. Excess positive adjectives are a sure-fire sign of misrepresentation.
These poor saps got in the wrong line, were made fun of for their devotion to a once great film genre, and you called them life-long virgins on the biggest geek site in the civilized world. I bet you drive a big truck Taco. Huh? Am I right? Insecure bastard.
I have always thought it would be great if people would share their knowledge with instructional videos. You know, like how to use vim, write a C program, backup Windows machines with smbtar, etc. When it comes to computers it is frequently a lot easier to just demonstrate something rather than ask someone to read some arcane documentation. It seems to me we have all of the important peices in place - fast hardware, mass storage, and quick data links.
If Google will host video this could be the start of an educational renaissance! Well maybe it's not going to be like "I know Kung Fu!" but it would still be nice to WTFV instead of RTFM.
But unfortunately after looking around a bit I have failed to locate any software that can export the display as a digital video import source. I just bought a Mac Mini and thought it would be ideal for this sort of thing but iMovie doesn't appear to do it out of the box. So what's the best way to capture your desktop as compressed video?
For some reason I still think it's a hoax.
There's no infomation on this decision anywhere. Does anyone else get the feeling this is just a hoax. I mean there must be *something* official that explains the situation. Where is it?
Mmm, I don't know if that timeline is realistic. Don't be surprised if this get's delayed till 2035.
I just want my mouse to stop stalling and for form elements to have some keyboard intellegence. If I cared about drop shadows and translucent boot prompts I wouldn't be using X.
video clips embedded into Microsoft Word documents don't run properly, for example
No, I'd call that a bugfix.
Google News is basically just a search engine for news. How do these fools think people link to their site?! One has to wonder if their trying a cash out scam. I would counter sue with extortion.
Before you pooh pooh this ask yourself if playing another game like say Grand Theft Auto should be banned on State owned computers. If so, what's the difference between playing GTA and Solitare on company time?
Actually that's the one I got. The MX900 optical, rechargable, bluetooth. It's slow. Wave it around in small circles. Now go to a Windows machine with a non-cordless mouse. I think you'll notice there's a lag. It's not a showstopper but for a busy worker like me it can really start to slow you down. Also the acceleration a little goofy.
This is a little OT but if you're thinking about getting a Mac don't bother with the bluetooth mouse. It's very sluggish. Originally I bought their bluetooth mouse and it was horrible. I returned it and got the Logitech MX700 bluetooth optical mouse. It was better but it's not nearly as solid as a wired mouse. At least not compared to a wired mouse in windows. I have to run out and buy a usb mouse for my Mac mini. So at least I hope the problem is the fact that it's bluetooth.
Now people will be astrotrufing Wikipedia with sales pitches for their products. Not that that is necessarily bad but the content will tend toward not being less concise. It could become more of a junkpile of stuff like the web is now as opposed to the well defined concise descriptions that they have now. Perhaps some form of moderation should be applied.
Either you've never worked without Visual Studio or you care more putting the maximum number of hours on your timesheet than you do about the product (in which case you will be filling out timesheets for a loooong time).
Anyone know where I can get root on FreeBSD for ~$20/month? Right now I'm using a Linux hoster and I'm happy with it but I'd be happier with FreeBSD for something on the Internet.
I'd just like my mouse to stop freezing for a few ms every now and again.
So what library are you using for structured storage? Last I checked creating and writing into a new stream was very poorly supported. That's great!
You do RPC?! Wow, so I can take some custom IDL, compile that to get a proxy, create a named pipe transport, and call server code using signing and sealing with the Kerberos session key? That's fabulous!
As for examples how about:
Retrieve the group membership information for a user?
Create Kerberos principals that threads can then impersonate?
Schedule a job on a remote server?
Enumerate open files on a server so an application can break files locked by a certain user?
... its true power lies in providing windows api's on linux that you can compile against.
As cool as that would be I seriously doubt people will get very far with this approach. There are too many libraries that WINE simply doesn't support without linking against MS' DLLs. There's structured storage, NDR / RPC, MAPI, workstation management and security network functions, etc, etc, etc. Sure they might have a few individual ops that have been cobbled together using libsmbclient or some OpenLDAP code but the API is not nearly as complete and robust as it needs to be to actually compile a stand alone binary that doesn't require emulation.
One notibly important difference between Win32 and Linux is that the internal Unicode encoding is UTF-8 as opposed to UTF-16LE. This takes some getting used as it requires special consideration when working with text (e.g. when iterating over individual characters). I have prepared a document and a text.h header file [1] that could assist people with porting Win32 applications to Linux. Or at the very least it explains how to maintain I18N support as you migrate code.
[1] The header is part of a library but you can easily remove the library specific #defines.
I think thats why I failed the GED :-
Does anyone else get the feeling this "Message Queue System" is about 85% marketing buzz? It sounds like a standard component that might be found in any basic networking software. It's probably ~500 lines of code in any language that has builtin support for condition variables and RPCs (e.g. Java).
I don't like Microsoft's business tactics any better than you do but this point from Billy is dead on. He is NOT refering to OSS interop with non-OSS software. OSS applications do not interoperate with other OSS applications. I won't bother to post a list as you can pick just about any application and find that importing and exporting data from it is highly application specific. This is just the cost of a distributed development model and why open standards are so important to OSS. Unfortunately there is very little activity on open standards for many critical things - particularly on the Desktop (e.g. COM style discovery).
Currently I'm using a UML provider for my website / email / etc. I will be very interesting to see if Solaris 10 Zones perform better. If they do ISPs might provide more power per $.