In the US, Bungie is singular. In almost every other country in the world, Bungie are plural. If you want to flame someone for grammar, at least get it right.
Marathon was an improvement on DOOM, but it was still just 2.5D. It used ceilings, floors, smoke, and mirrors to imitate full 3D, but it wasn't. Quake was the first successful FPS with a real 3D world.
Yeah, can anyone help me with a Linux problem I have? I tried GNOME and liked it better, so I wanted to remove KDE. I got rid of all the packages starting with "k", and now LILO crashes.
j/k
But the real question is...
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Can someone sneak a dual-boot on there? Of course the wireless hardware might not work and you'd probably be stuck with FBDev, but you could run Apache and get slashdotted. ("Websever runnning on soler power!")
* Installation and use. You may install, use, access, display and run one copy of the Product on a single computer, such as a workstation, terminal or other device ("Workstation Computer"). A "License Pack" allows you to install, use, access, display and run additional copies of the Product up to the number of "Licensed Copies" specified above. The Product may not be used by more than two (2) processors at any one time on any single Workstation Computer. You may permit a maximum of ten (10) computers or other electronic devices (each a "Device")to connect to the Workstation Computer to utilize the services of the Product solely for file and print services, internet information services, and remote access (including connection sharing and telephony services). The ten connection maximum includes any indirect connections made through "multiplexing" or other software or hardware which pools or aggregates connections. You may not use the Product to permit any Device to use, access, display or run other executable software residing on the Workstation Computer, nor may you permit any Device to display the Product's user interface, unless the Device has a separate license for the Product.
You cannot:
Put any executables on an SMB share. (Does this include the hidden admin shares (c$ etc.) that are automatically created?)
Become an RPC server of any sort. (Necessary for Microsoft's "networking".)
Use VNC, unless the client also has a license.
Take a screenshot, unless the bitmap has a license.
Run Apache, unless you set MaxClients to 10 and turn off all other servers.
Have more than 2 CPUs, even though that version of NT5 will only use 2 of them anyway.
Have an HTTP server with 10 connections, but behind a proxy on another machine.
Have more than 10 electronic devices attached to your computer. I wonder if this includes internal devices as well?
Nice that Microsoft's lawyers didn't bother to consult anyone technical before writing this license, because once you count the surge protector, I don't have any connections left for passive FTP! (Microsoft's own networking schemes are clearly not allowed.)
Isn't that somewhat akin to leaving anthrax-filled candy on the street, and teaching people a lesson about eating food from untrusted sources? Hurting innocent users is not the best way to bring them out of their ignorance.
Packages are distributed in PPM format, which as far as I can see are quite separated from the CPAN model which has been so effective for the Perl community
AFAIK CPAN still works for non-Win32 OSs, and there are no plans to close it. PPM is necessary for Win32 because CPAN packages come uncompiled. That's a problem on Win32, where most users don't have a compiler, never mind a POSIX environment.
Personally, I don't lose too much sleep over ActiveState. The Perl community has always been very vocal and pro-Unix. If ActiveState wants to provide and support Perl binaries, more power to them. Though they employ several Perl developers, if they were to fork, they wouldn't be able to maintain the huge beast without the support of the community, and p5p would happily leave them behind.
Microsoft is interested in Perl for several reasons:
VB sucks, and they know it. It may be easy to write code, but serious programmers don't like it. (Microsoft, which employs a surprisingly large number of programmers, is acutely aware of this.) Microsoft wants to position Perl as a supplement for VB. They could integrate it with IE if/when Mozilla does the same. They won't do this until they need to, because VB is a great way of getting people to create web sites that only work with IE, but they don't want to be caught off-guard when people start scripting sites in Perl and thus requiring Mozilla.
There are a large number of COTS and free software CGI scripts written in Perl. Many IIS sites would benefit from them. (They already do, but more Win32:: modules wouldn't hurt.)
Microsoft always wants more people coding in a language that works on their OSs. Not having Perl on Win32 would really hurt them for this reason.
If Microsoft ever really wanted to EEE Perl, they wouldn't be subtle about it. They could easily buy ActiveState. But it really isn't worth it to them: Perl has a strong community organized around a single open source interpreter, and very few people are writing cross-platform applications with a scripting language. (They were afraid of Java not only for this reason, but also because it was tied to Sun.) Perl isn't a threat to Microsoft.
Actually, I've seen large OO projects that worked very well. I've also seen large non-OO projects that worked very well. But over the last 5 or 6 years overall software quality has decreased, with the exception perhaps of free software (the majority of which is C or its generate cousin _GNU_C). It's hard to tell whether OO projects have been doing better or worse, because there's been so much more buggy code across the spectrum.
Re:This it intended to stop dual booting Linux/BSD
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You can always use fips to resize a Windows partition, then install another OS in the free space. And of course you can always get rid of Windows entirely. Let's say tech support tells you to reinstall Windows, but you can't do that without reinstalling everything. In your frustration at Microsoft, you might install another OS and microwave the OEM CD.
What Microsoft has been doing for a long time to try and lock out other OSs is encouraging vendors to ship hardware that only has Windows drivers. They've also been making their APIs so fscked up that it's hard to write portable software, so developers are encourage to write unportable code.
When I downloaded Mandrake 7.0, I first pulled Mandrake/base, which has the package lists. Then I wrote a set of Perl scripts to read in a copy of the complete package list from which you can remove or comment out packages you don't want. The scripts checked the dependencies, created new copies of all the package lists (comps*), and produced an HTML list of all the packages you've chosen to download. Then I took the HTML file to work (fast connection) and used GetRight (still looking for a Linux replacement) to grab all the files at night). I'd imagine it would be even more useful to modem users. If anyone's interested, I can release the scripts. I'd prefer if Mandrake actually maintained them, so I don't have to keep up with their crazy installation scheme.
As much as I love the idea of , I'm not sure Perl has any framework for security. (Taint-mode is only useful when the script is trusted but the input is not.) Would this require a whole new security model to be grafted onto Perl?
If you looked down the page, they linked to 2600 and called it something very different. They mentioned an IPO, but nothing related to sales or products. In other words, it's a normal open source project with a webmaster that likes having fun.
This is all well and fine for unmanned probes, but what if they wanted to put people on it? How would they have the energy to return? Would they have to aim towards another star so they could turn around? (They'd have to first worry about slowing down; even if it's thin, it would be fairly massive with a crew compartment, and at 58 mi/sec that's quite a bit of momentum.)
#!/usr/[local/]bin/perl -w # -W is highly recommended for v5.6 and upwards use strict;
It might not be ideal for one page scripts you throw together, and it might negate many of the messy constructs we all love (e.g. "push @doesnt_exist_yet $value"), but you'll catch a fair number of errors at compile time and more at runtime that might otherwise have been mysterious errors.
..how long do they plan to research the direction of the Earth's rotation? Are they going to release a Hotfix which will cause it to rotate around a random axis, or more likely not rotate at all? Will they later release a service pack fixing these issues and breaking Lotus Globe Pro(tm)?
I'm not an expert, but from my experience, there will be a few important utilities that you'll want to upgrade to get a stable system. I believe the README has a list of required software; if you check it against what you have you'll see what you would need to upgrade. It shouldn't be very complicated, but you might be better off sticking with 2.2 until your distro makes the switch.
Re:NOT smart, if you ask me.
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If they all have network connections, they can cooperate. IR ports aren't necessary.
I suspect that, even if regedit.exe (or regedt32.exe) doesn't allow you to, it would be a fairly trivial program to write. In fact, I bet I could do it with Perl and Win32::Registry in 15 minutes.
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I think space is actually 3 kelvins or something like that. In any case, it would be (aside from the radiation) a great place to overclock.
Presumably, if they have the rights to those games, they'll need the tools to maintain them.
In the US, Bungie is singular. In almost every other country in the world, Bungie are plural. If you want to flame someone for grammar, at least get it right.
Marathon was an improvement on DOOM, but it was still just 2.5D. It used ceilings, floors, smoke, and mirrors to imitate full 3D, but it wasn't. Quake was the first successful FPS with a real 3D world.
j/k
Can someone sneak a dual-boot on there? Of course the wireless hardware might not work and you'd probably be stuck with FBDev, but you could run Apache and get slashdotted. ("Websever runnning on soler power!")
- Put any executables on an SMB share. (Does this include the hidden admin shares (c$ etc.) that are automatically created?)
- Become an RPC server of any sort. (Necessary for Microsoft's "networking".)
- Use VNC, unless the client also has a license.
- Take a screenshot, unless the bitmap has a license.
- Run Apache, unless you set MaxClients to 10 and turn off all other servers.
- Have more than 2 CPUs, even though that version of NT5 will only use 2 of them anyway.
- Have an HTTP server with 10 connections, but behind a proxy on another machine.
- Have more than 10 electronic devices attached to your computer. I wonder if this includes internal devices as well?
Nice that Microsoft's lawyers didn't bother to consult anyone technical before writing this license, because once you count the surge protector, I don't have any connections left for passive FTP! (Microsoft's own networking schemes are clearly not allowed.)Isn't that somewhat akin to leaving anthrax-filled candy on the street, and teaching people a lesson about eating food from untrusted sources? Hurting innocent users is not the best way to bring them out of their ignorance.
Personally, I don't lose too much sleep over ActiveState. The Perl community has always been very vocal and pro-Unix. If ActiveState wants to provide and support Perl binaries, more power to them. Though they employ several Perl developers, if they were to fork, they wouldn't be able to maintain the huge beast without the support of the community, and p5p would happily leave them behind.
Microsoft is interested in Perl for several reasons:
- VB sucks, and they know it. It may be easy to write code, but serious programmers don't like it. (Microsoft, which employs a surprisingly large number of programmers, is acutely aware of this.) Microsoft wants to position Perl as a supplement for VB. They could integrate it with IE if/when Mozilla does the same. They won't do this until they need to, because VB is a great way of getting people to create web sites that only work with IE, but they don't want to be caught off-guard when people start scripting sites in Perl and thus requiring Mozilla.
- There are a large number of COTS and free software CGI scripts written in Perl. Many IIS sites would benefit from them. (They already do, but more Win32:: modules wouldn't hurt.)
- Microsoft always wants more people coding in a language that works on their OSs. Not having Perl on Win32 would really hurt them for this reason.
If Microsoft ever really wanted to EEE Perl, they wouldn't be subtle about it. They could easily buy ActiveState. But it really isn't worth it to them: Perl has a strong community organized around a single open source interpreter, and very few people are writing cross-platform applications with a scripting language. (They were afraid of Java not only for this reason, but also because it was tied to Sun.) Perl isn't a threat to Microsoft.$parent =~ s/generate/degenerate/;
Actually, I've seen large OO projects that worked very well. I've also seen large non-OO projects that worked very well. But over the last 5 or 6 years overall software quality has decreased, with the exception perhaps of free software (the majority of which is C or its generate cousin _GNU_C). It's hard to tell whether OO projects have been doing better or worse, because there's been so much more buggy code across the spectrum.
What Microsoft has been doing for a long time to try and lock out other OSs is encouraging vendors to ship hardware that only has Windows drivers. They've also been making their APIs so fscked up that it's hard to write portable software, so developers are encourage to write unportable code.
When I downloaded Mandrake 7.0, I first pulled Mandrake/base, which has the package lists. Then I wrote a set of Perl scripts to read in a copy of the complete package list from which you can remove or comment out packages you don't want. The scripts checked the dependencies, created new copies of all the package lists (comps*), and produced an HTML list of all the packages you've chosen to download. Then I took the HTML file to work (fast connection) and used GetRight (still looking for a Linux replacement) to grab all the files at night). I'd imagine it would be even more useful to modem users. If anyone's interested, I can release the scripts. I'd prefer if Mandrake actually maintained them, so I don't have to keep up with their crazy installation scheme.
If I were a naughty boy, I would use scripting to get name, email, or whatever file I want.
The ISPs would oppose it, but do you think the 0x3e9 commerce sites would mind if the government helped get them customers?
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As much as I love the idea of , I'm not sure Perl has any framework for security. (Taint-mode is only useful when the script is trusted but the input is not.) Would this require a whole new security model to be grafted onto Perl?
If you looked down the page, they linked to 2600 and called it something very different. They mentioned an IPO, but nothing related to sales or products. In other words, it's a normal open source project with a webmaster that likes having fun.
This is all well and fine for unmanned probes, but what if they wanted to put people on it? How would they have the energy to return? Would they have to aim towards another star so they could turn around? (They'd have to first worry about slowing down; even if it's thin, it would be fairly massive with a crew compartment, and at 58 mi/sec that's quite a bit of momentum.)
http://www.focusresearch.com/gregor/psh/
Begin every script with:
#!/usr/[local/]bin/perl -w
# -W is highly recommended for v5.6 and upwards
use strict;
It might not be ideal for one page scripts you throw together, and it might negate many of the messy constructs we all love (e.g. "push @doesnt_exist_yet $value"), but you'll catch a fair number of errors at compile time and more at runtime that might otherwise have been mysterious errors.
..how long do they plan to research the direction of the Earth's rotation? Are they going to release a Hotfix which will cause it to rotate around a random axis, or more likely not rotate at all? Will they later release a service pack fixing these issues and breaking Lotus Globe Pro(tm)?
I'm not an expert, but from my experience, there will be a few important utilities that you'll want to upgrade to get a stable system. I believe the README has a list of required software; if you check it against what you have you'll see what you would need to upgrade. It shouldn't be very complicated, but you might be better off sticking with 2.2 until your distro makes the switch.
If they all have network connections, they can cooperate. IR ports aren't necessary.
I suspect that, even if regedit.exe (or regedt32.exe) doesn't allow you to, it would be a fairly trivial program to write. In fact, I bet I could do it with Perl and Win32::Registry in 15 minutes.