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  1. Re:Power Outage - More of the same on Deregulation and Niagara Mohawk - Is There a Story? · · Score: 1

    But at the same time Canada's capital and largest city both lost power and there has been virtually no coverage of that.

  2. serial devices on Linux v2.6 Begins Testing · · Score: 1

    Does this kernel fail to compile on riscom8, isicom, or specialix for anyone else, I'm scared to report it to the list becuse i'll probably be laughed off for it being something thats my fault, i tried googling it but couldn't find any answers.

  3. Re:He should have faught. on RIAA Grabs Student's Life's Savings · · Score: 1

    where in the constitution does it say the supreme court can declare laws unconstitutional

  4. Re:use BSD on Did SCO 'Borrow' Linux Code? · · Score: 1

    The way I heard it was that the problem in the BSD was that the copying went both ways, Berkley agreed to remove a group of files of thier choice. They chose crufty old stuff scheduled for a rewrite anyway. The rest of the BSD tree was BSD'd and the Unix owner got to keep their Berkley code.

  5. Re:He should have faught. on RIAA Grabs Student's Life's Savings · · Score: 1

    "The constitution is what defines the Supreme Court as an appeals court... not common law."

    The funny thing though is its common law that gives the supreme court the power to overturn legislation. That power is not granted in the constitution.

  6. Re:Best quote in the Streisand story on Barbra Streisand, Miss Vermont, And Your Website · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, one seems to be reasonable, while the other is completely ridiculous.

    Which one is which? They both seem like the first
    ammendment should prevail to me

  7. Re:It's illegal on AOL Pulls Nullsoft's WASTE · · Score: 1

    "What if I work at Microsoft and I release Microsoft Bob source code to GPL? Same deal here. I do not have the right to do it.

    In the same way, it seems a human at nullsoft posted internal files online [Waste was used like their own intranet file sharing app]. Just because he had 1) the source code to release it, and 2) nullsoft web site FTP password, doesn't mean he has the ownership of it to declare it GPL.

    Who would own the project? Well, since it is used internally in Nullsoft, it was probably one on Nullsoft's own projects, in which case the company owns it. But even if an employee wrote it during his free time at the company, if he was paid during 'free time' then the company still owns it by default (unless his employee contract says anything he does at work he keeps rights to.)

    Whether stuff was posted discretely by a disgruntled programmer or whether the process of approval of distributing this online was followd to the letter, the ultimate bosses at AOL apparently don't like this so they will have some heads rolling. And by doing that, they will blame those people responsible for it and say, whether there is 1 person found or 800, that those people were not acting on behalf of the company and that the company never wanted the files online. Which.. is exactly what it says on the site now! Only time remains for public 'humiliation' of the people judged responsible by AOL.

    AOL's goal will be showing how an employee was not authorized to distribute those files on behalf of the company.

    Since this will be pretty easy to do as I've described above, we can safely conclude that the files were distributed illegally and posessing and modifying the code is a federal offense. NOT GPL at all."


    but nullsoft does have release autonomy. there is alot of junk they wrote that probably didn't get approval from AOL, though it's known that they aren't fond of AOL.

    Here is a list of their software: http://www.nullsoft.com/pinkumbrella.phtml

  8. Re:Gnutella - YES on Nullsoft's Waste: Encrypted, Distributed, Mesh Net · · Score: 1

    "Umm no, I was one of the first downloaders, and they didn't release the source. They were waiting to finalize the protocol. The handshake of their client is "Gnutella/0.4".

  9. if _kilo_gram is base on The Changing Definition Of 'Kilogram' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What i've never understood is since the kilogram is the base unit why didn't they just call it the gram?

  10. Re:I had no idea.... on GNOME 2.3 Snapshot, KDE 3.1.2 Released · · Score: 1

    All redhat did was change the default theme, throw in a few small patches here and there, and make most of the defaults gnome stuff, there wasn't anything that revolutionary.

  11. Re:xine on Xine Gets Native Sorenson3 Decoding · · Score: 3, Informative

    I tried totem but i had issues with some file formats that regular xine handeled fine and the only soultion i got was run gnome-mime-data from cvs

  12. Re:Offtopic advice on Lowest Raw Score Ever on the SAT · · Score: 1

    "My 4 PSAT/SAT scores were: 1240, 1260, 1340, 1420."

    how did you get above 240 on the PSAT?

  13. Re:"Stacks" in Longhorn... on Looking at Longhorn · · Score: 1

    That link http://www.inxight.com/map/ seems mostly blank to me

  14. Re:Explain Please? on Available To The Right Buyer: Sun Microsystems · · Score: 1

    C++ can be easier though. It's main advantage it it's multiparadigm. (That's also what makes it difficult though, C++:Java::Perl:(some really structured scripting language)) You don't need to mess with nasty OO stuff if you don't want OO, and your program doesn't take a hit for OO stuff that it doesn't need

  15. Re:Really? on The Hundred-Year Language · · Score: 1

    HTML is a derivitave of SGML, XML is a derivative of HTML, XHTML is a reformulation of HTML to make it fit the rules of XML

  16. Re:Dont like it? Then change the law on Former Intel Employee 'Disappeared' by U.S. · · Score: 1

    The Material Witness rules have been on the books for almost 20 years. They have survived 4 presidents, including the golden age of Clinton. In this situation again, the law has been used and appears to have been used (proceduraly) correctly.

    But why solitary?

  17. Re:What's up Sun??!! on Public Standards: C# 2, Java 0 · · Score: 1

    Or microsoft could just use the japitools to show compatibility.

    Furthermore, although not adoped by ISO or the EMCA, it is a defacto standard supportrd by others like IBM and right now a GNU implementation is in the works.

  18. Re:great on Technical Review for Red Hat Linux 9 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Which application?
    Did you check if redhat ships it first?
    did you check for compat libs and libs with numbers on the end?
    If that still doesn't help its probably targetted for another distro/version
    did you try rebuilding the SRPM?

  19. Seriously, why not? on Gentoo Linux Rethinks Package Management System · · Score: 1

    you can still have a sources build system and use rpm packages, just use checkinstall or use spec-stubs and installwatch for the file list.

  20. Re:Pain and Misery (FUD) on Red Hat 9 To Be Released March 31 · · Score: 1

    And you use rawhide on production boxes? Not in my shop, you don't.

    But rawhide is the leading indicator of the release and mod_perl being in rawhide suggests it will make the release. The complaint was that mod_perl wont be in the release.

  21. Re:A barrel of random thoughts... on Red Hat 9 To Be Released March 31 · · Score: 1

    Calm down, RedHat still ships sawfish, Metacity is just the default, and it's not that hard to stick on a different wm like Xfwm4. As far as the sawfish version thing goes the initial gtk 2 port was called 2.0, and only after that was released the the numbers backpeddle to 1.2. Also you can stick the terminal back on the desktop, it isn't forbidden.

    Furthermore redhat's gcc snapshot helped prep alot of broken code for gcc3. The main reason behind thinds not compiling in 2.96 that compiled in 2.95 was broken code and anti-RH folks explicitly prohibiting it.

  22. Re:Pain and Misery (FUD) on Red Hat 9 To Be Released March 31 · · Score: 1

    That is totally FUD, mod_perl was included in the last rawhide snapshot and unless redhat has reversed itself will ship with the next release

    http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/rawhide/1.0/i38 6/ mod_perl-1.99_07-5.i386.html

  23. Re:Rawhide will have their hands full on Gnome 2.2 Released · · Score: 1
    Between this and the new gcc, RedHat will have their hands full redoing all kinds of packages at rawhide...

    Actually most of this is already in rawhide

  24. Re:Garbage on JWZ Reviews Video on Linux · · Score: 1

    "And I don't know what he's doing criticising others' code if he was responsible for the abomination that was Netscape 4. And how long did it take to get Mozilla to 1.0, hmm? Now it's there it's slow and bloated, and not only does it have skins but you can build whole fucking different applications in it (!?!??)"

    Actually he didn't work on NS4 and when he was given mozilla , it was Netscape 5 - piles of code licesened from others, and he was told to turn it in't a working project, an IIRC, he resigned well before M12 which was the first really usable Milestone.

  25. Re:Anyone else having problems installing? on PHP 4.3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    do you have the cURL headers etc. installed?