If you want to contribute to the development of the software then
please join the mailing list. The Samba team accepts patches
(preferably in "diff -u" format, see docs/BUGS.txt for more details)
and are always glad to receive feedback or suggestions to the address
samba@samba.org. We have recently put a new bug tracking
system into place which should help the throughput quite a lot. You
can also get the Samba sourcecode straight from the CVS tree - see
http://samba.org/cvs.html.
You could also send hardware/software/money/jewelry or pizza
vouchers directly to Andrew. The pizza vouchers would be especially
welcome, in fact there is a special field in the survey for people who
have paid up their pizza:-)
Your best bet is always asking... if you really want to make them happy, make sure you're getting them what they want.
How about a search engine that doesn't index 'rpmfind' mirrors and newsgroups so searches for linux related info turn up something more useful than 50 pages of rpmfind entries...
Ok, I agree with the rpmfind mirrors, but I have to disagree on the newsgroup issue. Usually when I'm really stuck on something (ie: Linux SMP box hanging under high network load (which makes backups a real bitch), forcing me to power cycle : flawed APIC handling for the 3c905 ethernet card), I hit google specifically LOOKING FOR NEWSGROUP discussions on the topic. Granted, I dont need 50 mirrored copies, but I definitely do want to see newsgroup archives indexed.
If I had modpoints, i'd have used them on you. The other explainations (ie: it's better/quicker than a for loop) are valid, but seem wasteful. This, though, seems appropriate.
I guess i'll download and try it later tonight, I just dont like the VB style conditionals (if fuck break else shit break end nonsense).
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How bright would it be anyway? I'm on the west coast, and it SHOULD be clear then, but the show will be competing with sunrise in California, and I'm assuming it will be pretty much impossible to see it here. Anyone know otherwise?
But the court granted Infineon's request to prohibit Rambus from pursuing further litigation regarding Infineon's SDRAM memory and ordered Rambus to pay $7.1 million in Infineon's legal fees.
OUT
It's nice to see a judge standing up against large companies, to stop them from throwing lawsuits around against smaller companies who cant afford great legal defenses. Maybe this will (*cough ADOBE cough*) stop (*cough ADOBE cough*) from suing smaller groups over trivial (or perhaps nonsense) items.
Sony charges stiff fees for Playstation (2) development licenses. Was one of the primary focuses of SDL a way to circumvent these fees, broaden the PS2 platform, broaden the SDL platform, or broaden Linux as a viable game platform?
Looking at all of your possible choices, and knowing relatively little (I've played the games, never tried coding w/ SDL), I really find it hard to believe it was developed solely for any one of these reason. It seems likely that there is no PRIMARY REASON, but more likely a combination of broadening all of the platforms, AND providing a base for game programming on the linux platform.
I agree... the intelligent thing would have been to post it to the front page of slashcode.com and let THEM find the bugs/features. THEN put it on a decent set of boxes and post it to the front page....
the flying windows is a logo. the blue screen is an unfortunate side effect/combination of windows bugs. an analogy, to your poor analogy, would be a windows screensaver of a netscape crash, although making it take 99% of the processor might take a little more work.
I live in New Jersey and admit this is the state which invented DWB as a crime
I dont know about that.... I live in southern california, and frequent some shitty neighborhoods (heh, Lincoln and Washington in Pasadena, horrible area, I'm convinced I'm the only white person who's ever been to the vons near there) and I'm pretty sure there's been people complaining about police stops for DWB for years. I'm sure it's a problem where you are, but it's a problem everywhere....
I, for one, appreciate the sentiments behind the law. It's a step in the right direction to help teachers who take too much abuse. I'm wary of the wording, but maybe precedents will be laid down to protect some of the more ridiculous abuses of the law.
Being a son of two high school teachers, I have to appreciate this clause in the law. Numerous times in the past year, one or both of my teachers has received either blatant threats, hate mail, or nuisance emails to their personal email accounts, after giving them out as a way to encourage kids to ask for help when stuck on homework. Sometimes, it's been pretty easy to trace back (ie: people using their ISP email accounts), occasionally I've gone through the headers to figure out the originating IP, and then contacted the ISP to find the offender. It typically isnt hard to outsmart a high school student.
The end result, though, is depressing. Teachers trying to help decent, hardworking students by offering their email addresses are harassed viciously, and are offered no more defense than any person against everyday SPAM, unless there is a blatant threat.
Twice, emails with full headers in hand, I've gotten ISP accounts cancelled, but the person always seems to resurface thanks to netzero, juno, freei, etc, using a hotmail or yahoo email address. Police can/will/should do nothing unless there is a threat of harm, but it's a shame. I hope this law becomes widespread, well known, and strengthened by numerous precedents to the point that this kind of abuse declines substantially. Educators should not need to take the abuse they are often faced with. These kind of acts, hopefully, will keep the educators who truly care (they're the ones releasing their email addresses in the first places, right?) from taking abuse from students who dont, so that they can concentrate on teaching the students who want to make the best of the sad situation that is our public school system.
Doesnt that seem logical to you? If you rebuild something, starting from scratch, yes, you'll have to re-apply the patch, because the source you're using to rebuild the stack is UNPATCHED. Same as if you apply service packs that might not incorporate all of the fixes: remaining fixes must be re-applied.
More interesting to me, though, is this comment in one of the articles:
A second proposal was to simply send an e-mail to the registered administrator of every infected IP address saying "Hey, your server is infected, patch it!" This, too, was rejected, because the authorities didn't want to scare poor sysadmins by asking them to do their jobs. That they didn't at least try the e-mail route astounds me. They have a list of all the IP addresses. It would have taken an hour, but it didn't happen, according to sources who were present at the meeting.
I work on the Unix staff at a small private college. Many students on the dorm network choose to run win2k/IIS to serve personal webpages. We received an email from "codered@securityfocus.com" informing me of two boxes on the school network that were compromised. Interesting. A portion of that email is below:
Hello,
This mail is from the ARIS Analyzer Service (Attack Registry and Intelligence
Service) from SecurityFocus. It has come to our attention that your system(s),
listed below have been identified as being compromised by the Code Red Worm.
The Code Red Worm is rapidly spreading across the Internet, compromising
vulnerable Windows NT IIS servers.
The addresses identified as belonging to you are as follows:
In short this worm is propagated by a recently released buffer overflow
attack in Microsoft's IIS Index Server and Indexing Service ISAPI Extension.
The worm exploits this buffer overflow in the code handles.ida requests.
An as-yet unknown source has created an exploit and turned it into a worm.
The worm attempts to deface the Web site of the victim host with the
following HTML code:
Odd, but good. I was able to forward the email on to those responsible, and they have both since been patched.
I'm gonna laugh my ass off if anyone actually gets this right.. the NY Times, and LA Times always massacre the truth right out of the headlines, so, I'm guessing it'll be something wrong, along the lines of:
NYT News: Hackers use virus to attack whitehouse computers.
Obviously wrong, but a good way to get some readers....
You miss the point of the GPL. The GPL's about freedom. The GPL is intended to guarantee the freedom for a user to use the software, and the freedom to modify it to suit their own purposes. The thing that separates it from BSD-like licenses is that any such derivatives must allow for that same freedom if they are released.
First, a disclaimer: I like the GPL, I've used the GPL, I respect the GPL. Now, for reality: The GPL is NOT about freedom, it's about partial freedom while maintaining copyrights. You note this yourself: THAT is the purpose of the GPL - to preserve the author's copyright ownership and the users' freedom. , but you're failing to realize that this IS NOT the users' freedom: real freedom would not necessarily require that derivatives use the GPL, nor would it force the derivative programs to be open source!
True freedom is only achieved by a BSD or apache style license. This allows the writer to put his marks on the code, and it allows the user to remove those, if they want to release modifications. This is true freedom. Is it the best way to do things? Well, it disregards much of the credit by the original programmers, but it is more "free" than the GPL.
Summary: I like the GPL, I frequenly use the GPL on my own code, but it's not a free license...
Practically any Windows application with builtin browser need IE to function.
Obviously, Star Office and macromedia arent windows applications that use a builtin browsers. Mozilla is obviously a browser unto itself, so of course it doesnt need the IE dll, but then again, it still hasnt hit 1.0 yet, has it?
As for winamp, no, no IE, but take a guess at how many of your windows games use IE framework/dll's? probably most of them.
Why dont you complain to the people who allocate the money, ie: your congressmen. Bush tells them what he wants, and eventually signs the bill, but they have the opportunity to control and the policy.
What would you propose if they decided NOT to change their name?
If I owned a trademark, and someone infringed on it, I'd first ask, as I assume Adobe has. (I may be wrong in this assupmtion, but it's irrelevant for the point I'm trying to make) If the infringing company DECIDES not to honor my request, then what? Do you drop the case entirely? Or do you force them with further action. I think, in this case, one has to force them, else the trademark is meaningless.
I think the trademark is perfectly valid, and I'll attempt to explain why here.
There is obviously more than one way to illustrate something: pencils, paint, computers, etc. Adobe markets Illustrator to fill this need via software. Period. Any other program that fills this need via the same medium (ie. KIllustrator) should need to differentiate itself from Adobe's product by name. Using a similar name does seem wrong in this case.
The first question though ("whether they should be able to be sued or not") is yes, they should be ABLE to sue to enforce their trademark. The better question is: Should they sue first, or try to peacefully get KIllustrator to change names. It seems to me that if the folks working on KIllustrator were WILLING to change their name, this would all go away fine, and everyone would be happy.
I completely agree. Typical "linux is good, everyone who makes more money than me is bad" slashdot zealots...
Guys, come on. It's obvious that KIllustrator is named that way to identify it as an alternative to Adobe's product. I think the attempt by Adobe to make money from past actions is wrong, but asking them to change their name is certainly justified.
Utilizing low noise power supplies, cases with good ventilation, and noise enclosures for hard drives, you can actually here you stereo over your PC again.
the guy who used to runisgay.com said the site was going down a while ago, but it appears to be back up again... Just in case, you might want to snag the source for the site while you can...
First, look at the headline... that pretty much says it all. Reading the article, I realized that the TVA was not complaining about security, as much as unauthorized use. They mentioned security only briefly, saying it was a potential, and cited an example. Slashdot readers like to embellish stories to make it more likely that they'll get to the front page. It's human nature. People need to look past the headline, and read the story. Yes, someone complained. No, it's not newsworthy, but the headline was sufficiently flamboyant that it made it to the front page anyway, since the editors probably never read the entire article...
If I'm paying someone to do work, I want to know that they're doing it - and if they're getting it done in half the time, then spending the other half browsing porn and napstering, I'll want a goddamn good explanation. Either reward them for their efficiency, or give them more work to do (probably accompanied by a raise due to their heightened value to the company).
I completely agree with you. BUT, why is everyone overlooking the legitimate use of this software? Corporations spend tons of time trading paperwork back and forth, often in an email-tag type atmosphere.
Consider this scenario:
An employee in California would like to review a draft of a memo written by an employee in London. Under normal circumstances, the only way to do this would be email the London based employee, who, due to the fact he's in a far distant time zone would not respond until the next day. Thus, the California based employee is forced to either attempt to search (shared resources, ftp sites, corporate file servers, whatever) manually for a document. This software, however, could expedite this process SUBSTANTIALLY.
So, I submit to the/. community this: why must you focus on the negative possibilities? Assume that Some people are good, and not everyone is out there trying to invade your privacy. This program could have its merits, give it a chance before condemning it to hell for something that hasnt yet happened.
And in the field of photonics and optical computing, cheap bright lasers are essential.
Yang said that at this preliminary stage of development, the nanolaser is comparable to or better than the gallium nitride blue laser in terms of ease of manufacture, brightness and much smaller dimensions.
"It basically has high enough intensity to think about making a practical device," he said. Plus it operates at room temperature.
Congratulations/., you've finally found a story that can be used for something practical. Now my only question is, how long until 10 TB drives ship?
I didnt say it was a trick... but to do it quickly, and correctly, is NOT TRIVIAL... I consider myself rather intelligent, and I can not yet do it quickly, because there are simply too many digits to keep track of...
Interestingly enough, this "new algorithm" was taught to me by Art Benjamin, who teaches some math classes (combinitorics, discrete, number theory, etc) at Harvey Mudd College... who not only did this trick in his head for random (birthdays of students) days, but also did some very impressive multiplication (multiplying two 5 digit numbers in his head, no paper, no pencil, etc)... just some evidence that some people CAN do this in their head...
Slashdot Mirror
Your best bet is always asking... if you really want to make them happy, make sure you're getting them what they want.
How about a search engine that doesn't index 'rpmfind' mirrors and newsgroups so searches for linux related info turn up something more useful than 50 pages of rpmfind entries...
Ok, I agree with the rpmfind mirrors, but I have to disagree on the newsgroup issue. Usually when I'm really stuck on something (ie: Linux SMP box hanging under high network load (which makes backups a real bitch), forcing me to power cycle : flawed APIC handling for the 3c905 ethernet card), I hit google specifically LOOKING FOR NEWSGROUP discussions on the topic. Granted, I dont need 50 mirrored copies, but I definitely do want to see newsgroup archives indexed.
If I had modpoints, i'd have used them on you. The other explainations (ie: it's better/quicker than a for loop) are valid, but seem wasteful. This, though, seems appropriate.
I guess i'll download and try it later tonight, I just dont like the VB style conditionals (if fuck break else shit break end nonsense).
How bright would it be anyway? I'm on the west coast, and it SHOULD be clear then, but the show will be competing with sunrise in California, and I'm assuming it will be pretty much impossible to see it here. Anyone know otherwise?
But the court granted Infineon's request to prohibit Rambus from pursuing further litigation regarding Infineon's SDRAM memory and ordered Rambus to pay $7.1 million in Infineon's legal fees.
OUT
It's nice to see a judge standing up against large companies, to stop them from throwing lawsuits around against smaller companies who cant afford great legal defenses. Maybe this will (*cough ADOBE cough*) stop (*cough ADOBE cough*) from suing smaller groups over trivial (or perhaps nonsense) items.
Sony charges stiff fees for Playstation (2) development licenses. Was one of the primary focuses of SDL a way to circumvent these fees, broaden the PS2 platform, broaden the SDL platform, or broaden Linux as a viable game platform?
Looking at all of your possible choices, and knowing relatively little (I've played the games, never tried coding w/ SDL), I really find it hard to believe it was developed solely for any one of these reason. It seems likely that there is no PRIMARY REASON, but more likely a combination of broadening all of the platforms, AND providing a base for game programming on the linux platform.
I agree ... the intelligent thing would have been to post it to the front page of slashcode.com and let THEM find the bugs/features. THEN put it on a decent set of boxes and post it to the front page....
uh, or not...
the flying windows is a logo. the blue screen is an unfortunate side effect/combination of windows bugs. an analogy, to your poor analogy, would be a windows screensaver of a netscape crash, although making it take 99% of the processor might take a little more work.
I live in New Jersey and admit this is the state which invented DWB as a crime
I dont know about that.... I live in southern california, and frequent some shitty neighborhoods (heh, Lincoln and Washington in Pasadena, horrible area, I'm convinced I'm the only white person who's ever been to the vons near there) and I'm pretty sure there's been people complaining about police stops for DWB for years. I'm sure it's a problem where you are, but it's a problem everywhere....
I, for one, appreciate the sentiments behind the law. It's a step in the right direction to help teachers who take too much abuse. I'm wary of the wording, but maybe precedents will be laid down to protect some of the more ridiculous abuses of the law.
Being a son of two high school teachers, I have to appreciate this clause in the law. Numerous times in the past year, one or both of my teachers has received either blatant threats, hate mail, or nuisance emails to their personal email accounts, after giving them out as a way to encourage kids to ask for help when stuck on homework. Sometimes, it's been pretty easy to trace back (ie: people using their ISP email accounts), occasionally I've gone through the headers to figure out the originating IP, and then contacted the ISP to find the offender. It typically isnt hard to outsmart a high school student.
The end result, though, is depressing. Teachers trying to help decent, hardworking students by offering their email addresses are harassed viciously, and are offered no more defense than any person against everyday SPAM, unless there is a blatant threat.
Twice, emails with full headers in hand, I've gotten ISP accounts cancelled, but the person always seems to resurface thanks to netzero, juno, freei, etc, using a hotmail or yahoo email address. Police can/will/should do nothing unless there is a threat of harm, but it's a shame. I hope this law becomes widespread, well known, and strengthened by numerous precedents to the point that this kind of abuse declines substantially. Educators should not need to take the abuse they are often faced with. These kind of acts, hopefully, will keep the educators who truly care (they're the ones releasing their email addresses in the first places, right?) from taking abuse from students who dont, so that they can concentrate on teaching the students who want to make the best of the sad situation that is our public school system.
More interesting to me, though, is this comment in one of the articles:
A second proposal was to simply send an e-mail to the registered administrator of every infected IP address saying "Hey, your server is infected, patch it!" This, too, was rejected, because the authorities didn't want to scare poor sysadmins by asking them to do their jobs. That they didn't at least try the e-mail route astounds me. They have a list of all the IP addresses. It would have taken an hour, but it didn't happen, according to sources who were present at the meeting.
I work on the Unix staff at a small private college. Many students on the dorm network choose to run win2k/IIS to serve personal webpages. We received an email from "codered@securityfocus.com" informing me of two boxes on the school network that were compromised. Interesting. A portion of that email is below:
Odd, but good. I was able to forward the email on to those responsible, and they have both since been patched.
I'm gonna laugh my ass off if anyone actually gets this right .. the NY Times, and LA Times always massacre the truth right out of the headlines, so, I'm guessing it'll be something wrong, along the lines of:
NYT News: Hackers use virus to attack whitehouse computers.
Obviously wrong, but a good way to get some readers....
You miss the point of the GPL. The GPL's about freedom. The GPL is intended to guarantee the freedom for a user to use the software, and the freedom to modify it to suit their own purposes. The thing that separates it from BSD-like licenses is that any such derivatives must allow for that same freedom if they are released.
First, a disclaimer: I like the GPL, I've used the GPL, I respect the GPL. Now, for reality: The GPL is NOT about freedom, it's about partial freedom while maintaining copyrights. You note this yourself: THAT is the purpose of the GPL - to preserve the author's copyright ownership and the users' freedom. , but you're failing to realize that this IS NOT the users' freedom: real freedom would not necessarily require that derivatives use the GPL, nor would it force the derivative programs to be open source!
True freedom is only achieved by a BSD or apache style license. This allows the writer to put his marks on the code, and it allows the user to remove those, if they want to release modifications. This is true freedom. Is it the best way to do things? Well, it disregards much of the credit by the original programmers, but it is more "free" than the GPL.
Summary: I like the GPL, I frequenly use the GPL on my own code, but it's not a free license...
Read, you moron:
Practically any Windows application with builtin browser need IE to function.
Obviously, Star Office and macromedia arent windows applications that use a builtin browsers. Mozilla is obviously a browser unto itself, so of course it doesnt need the IE dll, but then again, it still hasnt hit 1.0 yet, has it?
As for winamp, no, no IE, but take a guess at how many of your windows games use IE framework/dll's? probably most of them.
F'ing Bush..
Why dont you complain to the people who allocate the money, ie: your congressmen. Bush tells them what he wants, and eventually signs the bill, but they have the opportunity to control and the policy.
What would you propose if they decided NOT to change their name?
If I owned a trademark, and someone infringed on it, I'd first ask, as I assume Adobe has. (I may be wrong in this assupmtion, but it's irrelevant for the point I'm trying to make) If the infringing company DECIDES not to honor my request, then what? Do you drop the case entirely? Or do you force them with further action. I think, in this case, one has to force them, else the trademark is meaningless.
I think the trademark is perfectly valid, and I'll attempt to explain why here.
There is obviously more than one way to illustrate something: pencils, paint, computers, etc. Adobe markets Illustrator to fill this need via software. Period. Any other program that fills this need via the same medium (ie. KIllustrator) should need to differentiate itself from Adobe's product by name. Using a similar name does seem wrong in this case.
The first question though ("whether they should be able to be sued or not") is yes, they should be ABLE to sue to enforce their trademark. The better question is: Should they sue first, or try to peacefully get KIllustrator to change names. It seems to me that if the folks working on KIllustrator were WILLING to change their name, this would all go away fine, and everyone would be happy.
Just my opinion, I could be wrong.
I completely agree. Typical "linux is good, everyone who makes more money than me is bad" slashdot zealots...
Guys, come on. It's obvious that KIllustrator is named that way to identify it as an alternative to Adobe's product. I think the attempt by Adobe to make money from past actions is wrong, but asking them to change their name is certainly justified.
If you're going to complain, look to taco first:
Utilizing low noise power supplies, cases with good ventilation, and noise enclosures for hard drives, you can actually here you stereo over your PC again.
HEAR. Rob, it's spelled h e a r.
That is all.
the guy who used to runisgay.com said the site was going down a while ago, but it appears to be back up again ... Just in case, you might want to snag the source for the site while you can...
There's a lot of over reacting going on here...
... that pretty much says it all. Reading the article, I realized that the TVA was not complaining about security, as much as unauthorized use. They mentioned security only briefly, saying it was a potential, and cited an example. Slashdot readers like to embellish stories to make it more likely that they'll get to the front page. It's human nature. People need to look past the headline, and read the story. Yes, someone complained. No, it's not newsworthy, but the headline was sufficiently flamboyant that it made it to the front page anyway, since the editors probably never read the entire article...
First, look at the headline
If I'm paying someone to do work, I want to know that they're doing it - and if they're getting it done in half the time, then spending the other half browsing porn and napstering, I'll want a goddamn good explanation. Either reward them for their efficiency, or give them more work to do (probably accompanied by a raise due to their heightened value to the company).
/. community this: why must you focus on the negative possibilities? Assume that Some people are good, and not everyone is out there trying to invade your privacy. This program could have its merits, give it a chance before condemning it to hell for something that hasnt yet happened.
I completely agree with you. BUT, why is everyone overlooking the legitimate use of this software? Corporations spend tons of time trading paperwork back and forth, often in an email-tag type atmosphere.
Consider this scenario:
An employee in California would like to review a draft of a memo written by an employee in London. Under normal circumstances, the only way to do this would be email the London based employee, who, due to the fact he's in a far distant time zone would not respond until the next day. Thus, the California based employee is forced to either attempt to search (shared resources, ftp sites, corporate file servers, whatever) manually for a document. This software, however, could expedite this process SUBSTANTIALLY.
So, I submit to the
And in the field of photonics and optical computing, cheap bright lasers are essential.
/., you've finally found a story that can be used for something practical. Now my only question is, how long until 10 TB drives ship?
Yang said that at this preliminary stage of development, the nanolaser is comparable to or better than the gallium nitride blue laser in terms of ease of manufacture, brightness and much smaller dimensions.
"It basically has high enough intensity to think about making a practical device," he said. Plus it operates at room temperature.
Congratulations
I didnt say it was a trick ... but to do it quickly, and correctly, is NOT TRIVIAL... I consider myself rather intelligent, and I can not yet do it quickly, because there are simply too many digits to keep track of...
Interestingly enough, this "new algorithm" was taught to me by Art Benjamin, who teaches some math classes (combinitorics, discrete, number theory, etc) at Harvey Mudd College ... who not only did this trick in his head for random (birthdays of students) days, but also did some very impressive multiplication (multiplying two 5 digit numbers in his head, no paper, no pencil, etc)... just some evidence that some people CAN do this in their head ...