All the mysterious keys are there for you to remap using xmodmap! And having a spare one left over is allways good if a key fails (as a result of piping tea through yourr keyboard). And of course, the windows-key is in the correct place of a meta key, so you could be a better emacs-user in just minutes! And when talking about SysReq, it really is a request to the system, if you gave Magique SysReq compiled in in your Linux-kernel - then press Alt-SysReq-key where key is b to reboot, s to sync disks and r to remount all disks read-only. And this works even if some user-space program fucks up your screen and keyboard...
You don't see that what's importtantt i not the differences between US 1980 and US 2003, but, between the differences between the US 1980 and say Europe 1980, and between the US 2003 and the EU 2003?
For one, several cryptopackages and other software has moved its developement center out of the US for exaclty these reasons.
Duh, just dont let the bytes of the picture be bytes of sound samples, but determine the frequency or something like that, or take ome of them together to dettermine a sett of frequences and their volumes. Should be pretty OK to liusten to, though not really beautifull all the time, prolly more like modern classic music...
One thing that I need to consider at my current job is that you can NOT trust employees computers at home, even if you can trust employees - if they are running Windows, they are potential virus and worm vectors, and needs to be shielded off, so a simple VPN-solution is no solution.
We've solved the most immediate problem by allowing only ssh, and giving employees with Windows a copy of WinSCP (an excelent, two-pane Windows-FTP-client-look-a-like front-end to scp), which they have had no problems using (they did not have any oportunity to work from home before, so they don't complain:).
We also plan to later on introduce AFS and allow remote AFS mounts, and VNC remote-desktops.
Locally, we have a simple port-based firewall, basically walling off all inbound traffic except ssh and http (and allowing nearly all outbound traffic), and keep our OpenSSH and Apache servers updated (have you patched the two ssh bugs reported on/. on your machines yet?).
So, my advice is - keep it simple. Do not trust a too complicated system. And keep your software patched for the latest bugs - keep an eye on the security-update-service for your distro/OS and bugtraq.
>I suspect there's a path of BSD style code swipes by corporations along the way.
I think the LISP-machine-corps where somehow involved in that step...
As a thank to you RMS, I'l write some more free software. But I hope you can wait till monday, today I'm too dead to do anything:) And I hope you all do the same, the best way to thank him is to write some more good free software, be it GPL or any other Free Software license.
Somone got fired for having the wrong opinions? And which century do you live in over there?! If a company did that here, and the ex-employee could prove that, (s)he would sue them out of existence....
My employer should only be concerned with that I produce what I'm supposed to produce, and that I do not disturb or make my collegues uppset, and my boss does just that and nothing more. If I read/., he doesn't check that, as long as the hack is ready on friday. And if I did watch pr0n, I think he wouldn't care much as long as none of my collegues would see it (and feel bad about it) (however, if any of them did feel bad about it, I would be pretty much fried:)
I didn't know about their membership of Schengen (I thought you could only be a member of that if you where a member of the EU), but did know but forrgot about the EFTA (or whatever it's called today)...
The Nordic Ministrial Council, and the Nordic coopeation between the Nordic vountries have existed for quite some time, including cooperation on crime prevention, fishing, expot control and a pasport union, much like the Schenegen union within the EU.
This raises some interresting problems and questions, as Sweden, Denmark and Finland are all members of EU/Schengen, and Norway is not, but all of them are members of the Nordic Cooperation, so norweigians are allowed to move to the other of these counttries freely and without passport, but not to the other Schenegn countries, and all citizens of a schenegn country are allowed to move to any other one of them as freely... So we have two overlapping pasport unions. Wheee...
Slashdot might have stated as an American website, but today, the fact is, it is read, and comments on it are written, by people all over the world (not only US and EU, but all of the connected world). And as a side-note, it's slashdot dot _org_, not dot _us_ (yes, there is a.US top-level domain, if you didn't know (and.org,.net and.com _are_ used all over the world)).
You MUST know the refresh-rates your monitor can stand. Or at least guess a too low value, or your monitor may brake. And there is no way the computer can ask a(n older) monitor for this info! Even Windows has to ask the user. The thing is, this info is written in the monitor manual. You don't need to know what they mean, just look them up and copy the values. Btw, to get a usable config for X, it is most often sufficient to just use the output file of 'X -configure'...
It' only really hard to pronounce for you USians - for a french person, it's obvious, and I imagine that it's for a UK resident too, at least if (s)he know the origin of the word. And for the rest of us, it really doesn't matter, since no word from the computer world really matches the local spelling conventions at all. Btw, when I first saw this, I thought it would be proncounced [ex uvert]...
1) The marks are no more, the current currency of most of the EU is called "Euro" (and the smallest coins "Eurocents"). 2) Quite some (in my opinion too many, and the wrong ones, especially the railroads and the landline ttelephone system in my country are nowdays really bad managed) previously state owned companies have been privatized, to a small gain fo the gov. and a big gain to some specific investors who whee lucky to buy at the right time.
Your government, yes. Mine, no. MS is not a swedish company, and does not pay much taxes here (only for sales here in Sweden), but our gov. still spend quite ome money on MS licenses...
I think governments funding OSS projects that benefits the governments are no worse (or better, for that sake) than you contributing to the OSS projects that you benefit from...
But as we all pay (through taxes), we would need to have some contrrol over what they fund, o they only fund project whose software they actually _use_ (or will use).
And exacly what i the difference for the dead people between a plain bombing and a suicide bombing? A terorit is not less a terrorist jut because (s)he's living aftterr the dead...
Nah, just they are more likely to blow people in the US up. Ask any brit about northen ireland and IRA (who where for a long time allowed to raise funds in the US!). The world isn't as simple as you might think...
That would be "Movie, Art and Fiction - Intimidation Associations of America"
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hehe, funny little rant. But even if that was true, which I think is very unlikly, it still wouldn't give them control over all the worlds computer, or make Linux closed-source anywhere except the US:
For SCO to claim IP-rights over Linux in say Germany, they'd have to prove their case in a german court (it might be it would be enought to prove it in any other european court, but I'm not sure).
And, even though the legal system here is prolly as easily manipulated by the ones in power, the ones in power are not the same people here as in the US. And they won't do anything that would strengthen the US at the cost of the EU. And Linux is a big thing economically here...
There are quite some angry people here right now, methinks (I'm one of them. Unfourtunately, I'm ill right now, so I won't be able to do anything right now, but when I get a little bit better, I _will_ write a post to one of the national newspapers about this!)... The problem with Sweden is that our politicians nowdays listens more to the central not-so-democratic EU byrocrazy than to our people... It's not really a battle between the lobbying organizationas and the people, but between the people and the EU. The former battle was lost some year ago...
Isn't that sort of behaviour of a company _illegal_ in your so-called Free World? Here in leftish Sweden, there are laws against such things.
At least, you do have a contract with your employer, don't you? And the company is as bound by that contract as you are. You should never agree to a contract that does not say how many houres per week you have to work! Never, ever.
And, in addition to some type of terms of an employment contract being illegal, we do have unions that forces some saner minimal terms on the employers... I've heard you more or less don't have unions over there, poor you...
If I where you, I would at least consider moving to any other country, out in the Free World, where there's no DMCA and where you do have some rights as a poor worker...
On the other hand, all features in the world is no substitute for having control over the software you use for the vittal functions of your country.
In my country (.SE), for the sake of democrasy, government functions, documents and decissions are, when not specifically mandated by national security, required to be available to the public for review.
The same should hold true for the software functions used in the government, if they affect the descissions or the order in which they are made, and must in all cases hold true for the fileformats used.
This is allready possible, as, as far as I know, Cygwin _is_ an Open Group certified UNIX...
But to be serious, I think it would be a Bad Thing if the UNIX trademark was made generic. But I hope that the Open Group will offer its test and certify any Free Software for free. That would probably give more credibility to both the UNIX trademark, and to the different Free Software *NIXes out there.
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All the mysterious keys are there for you to remap using xmodmap! And having a spare one left over is allways good if a key fails (as a result of piping tea through yourr keyboard). And of course, the windows-key is in the correct place of a meta key, so you could be a better emacs-user in just minutes! And when talking about SysReq, it really is a request to the system, if you gave Magique SysReq compiled in in your Linux-kernel - then press Alt-SysReq-key where key is b to reboot, s to sync disks and r to remount all disks read-only. And this works even if some user-space program fucks up your screen and keyboard...
You don't see that what's importtantt i not the differences between US 1980 and US 2003, but, between the differences between the US 1980 and say Europe 1980, and between the US 2003 and the EU 2003?
For one, several cryptopackages and other software has moved its developement center out of the US for exaclty these reasons.
Duh, just dont let the bytes of the picture be bytes of sound samples, but determine the frequency or something like that, or take ome of them together to dettermine a sett of frequences and their volumes. Should be pretty OK to liusten to, though not really beautifull all the time, prolly more like modern classic music...
One thing that I need to consider at my current job is that you can NOT trust employees computers at home, even if you can trust employees - if they are running Windows, they are potential virus and worm vectors, and needs to be shielded off, so a simple VPN-solution is no solution.
:).
/. on your machines yet?).
We've solved the most immediate problem by allowing only ssh, and giving employees with Windows a copy of WinSCP (an excelent, two-pane Windows-FTP-client-look-a-like front-end to scp), which they have had no problems using (they did not have any oportunity to work from home before, so they don't complain
We also plan to later on introduce AFS and allow remote AFS mounts, and VNC remote-desktops.
Locally, we have a simple port-based firewall, basically walling off all inbound traffic except ssh and http (and allowing nearly all outbound traffic), and keep our OpenSSH and Apache servers updated (have you patched the two ssh bugs reported on
So, my advice is - keep it simple. Do not trust a too complicated system. And keep your software patched for the latest bugs - keep an eye on the security-update-service for your distro/OS and bugtraq.
>I suspect there's a path of BSD style code swipes by corporations along the way.
:) And I hope you all do the same, the best way to thank him is to write some more good free software, be it GPL or any other Free Software license.
I think the LISP-machine-corps where somehow involved in that step...
As a thank to you RMS, I'l write some more free software. But I hope you can wait till monday, today I'm too dead to do anything
Somone got fired for having the wrong opinions? And which century do you live in over there?! If a company did that here, and the ex-employee could prove that, (s)he would sue them out of existence....
My employer should only be concerned with that I produce what I'm supposed to produce, and that I do not disturb or make my collegues uppset, and my boss does just that and nothing more. If I read /., he doesn't check that, as long as the hack is ready on friday. And if I did watch pr0n, I think he wouldn't care much as long as none of my collegues would see it (and feel bad about it) (however, if any of them did feel bad about it, I would be pretty much fried :)
Nah, you forgot the most probable content - their staff's MP3-collection...
I didn't know about their membership of Schengen (I thought you could only be a member of that if you where a member of the EU), but did know but forrgot about the EFTA (or whatever it's called today)...
The Nordic Ministrial Council, and the Nordic coopeation between the Nordic vountries have existed for quite some time, including cooperation on crime prevention, fishing, expot control and a pasport union, much like the Schenegen union within the EU.
This raises some interresting problems and questions, as Sweden, Denmark and Finland are all members of EU/Schengen, and Norway is not, but all of them are members of the Nordic Cooperation, so norweigians are allowed to move to the other of these counttries freely and without passport, but not to the other Schenegn countries, and all citizens of a schenegn country are allowed to move to any other one of them as freely... So we have two overlapping pasport unions. Wheee...
Slashdot might have stated as an American website, but today, the fact is, it is read, and comments on it are written, by people all over the world (not only US and EU, but all of the connected world). And as a side-note, it's slashdot dot _org_, not dot _us_ (yes, there is a .US top-level domain, if you didn't know (and .org, .net and .com _are_ used all over the world)).
You MUST know the refresh-rates your monitor can stand. Or at least guess a too low value, or your monitor may brake. And there is no way the computer can ask a(n older) monitor for this info! Even Windows has to ask the user. The thing is, this info is written in the monitor manual. You don't need to know what they mean, just look them up and copy the values.
Btw, to get a usable config for X, it is most often sufficient to just use the output file of 'X -configure'...
It' only really hard to pronounce for you USians - for a french person, it's obvious, and I imagine that it's for a UK resident too, at least if (s)he know the origin of the word. And for the rest of us, it really doesn't matter, since no word from the computer world really matches the local spelling conventions at all. Btw, when I first saw this, I thought it would be proncounced [ex uvert]...
1) The marks are no more, the current currency of most of the EU is called "Euro" (and the smallest coins "Eurocents"). 2) Quite some (in my opinion too many, and the wrong ones, especially the railroads and the landline ttelephone system in my country are nowdays really bad managed) previously state owned companies have been privatized, to a small gain fo the gov. and a big gain to some specific investors who whee lucky to buy at the right time.
Your government, yes. Mine, no. MS is not a swedish company, and does not pay much taxes here (only for sales here in Sweden), but our gov. still spend quite ome money on MS licenses...
I think governments funding OSS projects that benefits the governments are no worse (or better, for that sake) than you contributing to the OSS projects that you benefit from...
But as we all pay (through taxes), we would need to have some contrrol over what they fund, o they only fund project whose software they actually _use_ (or will use).
And exacly what i the difference for the dead people between a plain bombing and a suicide bombing? A terorit is not less a terrorist jut because (s)he's living aftterr the dead...
Nah, just they are more likely to blow people in the US up. Ask any brit about northen ireland and IRA (who where for a long time allowed to raise funds in the US!). The world isn't as simple as you might think...
No problems :) Have fun filling the site with nice rrants :)
That would be "Movie, Art and Fiction - Intimidation Associations of America"
hehe, funny little rant. But even if that was true, which I think is very unlikly, it still wouldn't give them control over all the worlds computer, or make Linux closed-source anywhere except the US:
For SCO to claim IP-rights over Linux in say Germany, they'd have to prove their case in a german court (it might be it would be enought to prove it in any other european court, but I'm not sure).
And, even though the legal system here is prolly as easily manipulated by the ones in power, the ones in power are not the same people here as in the US. And they won't do anything that would strengthen the US at the cost of the EU. And Linux is a big thing economically here...
How does that differ from Americrats sending their goons to Sweden to pursue the author of DeCSS?
Except, he's from Norway... And swedes and norweigians have moe or less the same relation to each other as USAians and Canadians...
There are quite some angry people here right now, methinks (I'm one of them. Unfourtunately, I'm ill right now, so I won't be able to do anything right now, but when I get a little bit better, I _will_ write a post to one of the national newspapers about this!)... The problem with Sweden is that our politicians nowdays listens more to the central not-so-democratic EU byrocrazy than to our people... It's not really a battle between the lobbying organizationas and the people, but between the people and the EU. The former battle was lost some year ago...
Isn't that sort of behaviour of a company _illegal_ in your so-called Free World? Here in leftish Sweden, there are laws against such things.
At least, you do have a contract with your employer, don't you? And the company is as bound by that contract as you are. You should never agree to a contract that does not say how many houres per week you have to work! Never, ever.
And, in addition to some type of terms of an employment contract being illegal, we do have unions that forces some saner minimal terms on the employers... I've heard you more or less don't have unions over there, poor you...
If I where you, I would at least consider moving to any other country, out in the Free World, where there's no DMCA and where you do have some rights as a poor worker...
On the other hand, all features in the world is no substitute for having control over the software you use for the vittal functions of your country.
In my country (.SE), for the sake of democrasy, government functions, documents and decissions are, when not specifically mandated by national security, required to be available to the public for review.
The same should hold true for the software functions used in the government, if they affect the descissions or the order in which they are made, and must in all cases hold true for the fileformats used.
Everything else would not be democratic.
This is allready possible, as, as far as I know, Cygwin _is_ an Open Group certified UNIX...
But to be serious, I think it would be a Bad Thing if the UNIX trademark was made generic. But I hope that the Open Group will offer its test and certify any Free Software for free. That would probably give more credibility to both the UNIX trademark, and to the different Free Software *NIXes out there.