I should add, in reference to my other reply, that using Alt-Left-click and Alt-Right-click is a giant leap forward in productivity. I always see other people carefully moving the mouse to the three-pixel border of a window so they can resize it, or dragging the mouse all the way up to the top of a window so they can move it. All i have to do is slam the Alt button and grab onto a window anywhere. No aiming for tiny borders or titlebars.
I use Enlightenment with all the decorations turned off too -- when i don't have any applications open, all i see is the root window.
I do things a little differently from you, though. I don't use the mouse menus; instead, i use keyboard shortcuts:
Shift-F1 opens an xterm Shift-F2 opens an xterm running "su -" Shift-F5 opens emacs Shift-F6 opens Mozilla
That's it; i run any other apps from the xterm. I do it this way because it's a lot easier to hit Shift-F5 than to find the root window (which may be buried beneath a pile of windows), click, hold, drag to "Mozilla", and release.
I also turned off all titlebars. Focus follows the mouse, and this is how i do window operations:
Bring to front: Alt-Left click Send to back: Ctrl-Alt-Left click Move: Alt-Left click and drag Resize: Alt-Right click and drag Maximize: Alt-Double left click
Most of these people, politics aside and given a choice, would take Word any day over WordPerfect and would take Excel any day over 1-2-3.
I disagree -- many if not most customers would gladly save hundreds of dollars to use the alternatives, once they could see that they could still write letters and keep track of finances. Others would be willing to pay hundreds of dollars more for the real McCoy. The point is that customers should have the choice to get the cheaper, supposedly less powerful program, or the more expensive, "first class" one.
"As a result of my occupation, I think I know a bit about where operating are going in the next decade or so."
"To me, writing a monolithic system in 1991 is a truly poor idea."
"... my guess is that the fraction of the 60 million existing PCs that are 386/486 machines as opposed to 8088/286/680x0 etc is small.... Making software free, but only for folks with enough money to buy first class hardware is an interesting concept. Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5."
But in the case of BT, you will have to be real real close to the person to *snort*. And so it is not really that big a security risk
You only have to be close when you're using standard products. I'm sure some guy sitting outside in a van with a high-powered signal amplifier would have no trouble communicating with your BlueTooth stuff.
If you can take network resources by that argument, why not tap into the building's electrical service and grab a few spare amperes?
It is virtually unheard of for someone to provide a free electrical access point on the street. This is not the case with wireless networks -- people often provide free wireless service to the general public.
My argument is not, "Let's take a little bit from someone, because they won't miss it." My argument is, "If your behavior would lead a reasonable person to believe that you were giving something away, you cannot be upset when people take it."
Thank you for proving my point. A driveway is assumed by default to welcome the occasional person to turn around in it. If you don't want that, you have to post a sign, and can then go after people who ignore it.
Similarly, it is assumed that if you have a public wireless network, you invite the public to use it to a reasonable extent. If you don't want that, you have to put up a sign, either physical or, more easily, digital. If people break in anyway, then you can go after them.
But these wireless honey pots are like me having a normal-looking driveway, and having a big cage drop on anyone's car that tries to turn around in it.
No, because you can't drive someone's car without making it worse in one way or another -- using his gas, creating wear and tear, risking (however slim) that you'll get into an accident, messing up the seat position...
If someone pulls into my driveway in order to turn their car around, that's just fine with me. If people are constantly parking their cars there so that i can't use it, that's another story.
I own a restuarant. I give away all the food for free, but i charge anyone who walks past on the sidewalk $100 to make up for it. Now, some people are walking past without paying! If we don't get some laws passed, then the finances get all screwed!
Um, plenty of people intentionally provide free wireless access to the public. Nobody intentionally makes their car available to be stolen. People who find the honeypot may be innocent white hat people who just want to check their damn email. People who steal a car have no such excuse.
Additionally, taking someone's car is stealing -- you deprive them of the car. Using someone's bandwidth is likely not, unless you use so much that they can't get their work done.
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You're right that it might not be possible to force someone to release changes they made to your GPLed software. But you could at least prevent them from using it anymore once they stated that they wouldn't release their changes.
Think about it. What if the GPL said "You may not use this software unless you give the FSF 1 billion dollars. Re-copying of this software implies acceptance of this price."
Everybody would agree that's ridiculous.
Right, and those people wouldn't be allowed to use, modify, or redistribute the software. As the GPL says, you normally don't have any right to do any of those things. So if you want to legally be able to do those things, you need to do whatever the GPL says. If the FSF demands a billion dollars, and you don't pay it, then you can't distribute GPL software.
This is great news! So many stupid universities just blocked P2P altogether. UCI smartly set things up -- important stuff gets high priority. Your neighbor doesn't have to deal with slow access to a class website because you're downloading the latest Lord of the Rings bootleg. You can still get the bootleg; it just takes longer.
5 - 10 Mbps is nothing to sneeze at. I had a 10baseT card for a long time, and it seemed rocket-fast.
Besides, if you want to download porn fast, get it from the web.:)
VeriSign used to release the actual zone file, on an ftp site. You sign a document basically saying, "I'm not a spammer or that sort of thing", and they give you an account on the ftp site. You can go there and download the entire zone file in bulk.
Now, they've removed the.gov entries from that zone file.
You can still get that information by querying each domain, either through DNS or whois. But that takes much, much longer.
If you read the article, you'll see that this has nothing to do with WHOIS (which contains information on the name, address, etc of the person who owns the domain). It's about the DNS zone file, which looks something like this:
slashdot.org. NS NS1.OSDN.COM. slashdot.org. NS NS2.OSDN.COM. slashdot.org. NS NS3.OSDN.COM. NS1.OSDN.COM. A 64.28.67.51 NS2.OSDN.COM. A 209.192.217.106 NS3.OSDN.COM. A 64.28.67.53
That's all it contains for each domain -- the names and addresses of their DNS servers. Nothing more.
The British invented postage stamps, so they're the only country in the world that doesn't have to put their name on their stamps. You don't hear anyone complaining about this. It's a fair deal; they were the first so they get dibs.
The international telephone prefix for the USA is 1, because we invented the telephone. Same deal here.
So if you'd like your country to be the default for the next wave of communication technology, write your government officals encouraging them to invest in this sort of research so your country can beat the rest of the world to the punch.
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I need other features of enlightenment, like windows groups and "Remember this window's size / location / stacking layer for future sessions".
I should add, in reference to my other reply, that using Alt-Left-click and Alt-Right-click is a giant leap forward in productivity. I always see other people carefully moving the mouse to the three-pixel border of a window so they can resize it, or dragging the mouse all the way up to the top of a window so they can move it. All i have to do is slam the Alt button and grab onto a window anywhere. No aiming for tiny borders or titlebars.
I use Enlightenment with all the decorations turned off too -- when i don't have any applications open, all i see is the root window.
I do things a little differently from you, though. I don't use the mouse menus; instead, i use keyboard shortcuts:
Shift-F1 opens an xterm
Shift-F2 opens an xterm running "su -"
Shift-F5 opens emacs
Shift-F6 opens Mozilla
That's it; i run any other apps from the xterm. I do it this way because it's a lot easier to hit Shift-F5 than to find the root window (which may be buried beneath a pile of windows), click, hold, drag to "Mozilla", and release.
I also turned off all titlebars. Focus follows the mouse, and this is how i do window operations:
Bring to front: Alt-Left click
Send to back: Ctrl-Alt-Left click
Move: Alt-Left click and drag
Resize: Alt-Right click and drag
Maximize: Alt-Double left click
Most of these people, politics aside and given a choice, would take Word any day over WordPerfect and would take Excel any day over 1-2-3.
I disagree -- many if not most customers would gladly save hundreds of dollars to use the alternatives, once they could see that they could still write letters and keep track of finances. Others would be willing to pay hundreds of dollars more for the real McCoy. The point is that customers should have the choice to get the cheaper, supposedly less powerful program, or the more expensive, "first class" one.
I'm honored. Here are some more Tanenbaum quotes:
... Making software free, but only for folks with enough money to buy first class hardware is an interesting concept. Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now
"As a result of my occupation, I think I know a bit about where operating are going in the next decade or so."
"To me, writing a monolithic system in 1991 is a truly poor idea."
"... my guess is that the fraction of the 60 million existing PCs that are 386/486 machines as opposed to 8088/286/680x0 etc is small.
everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5."
Here's the obligatory link to Tanenbaum's 1992 "Linux is obsolete" post.
A new variant on the tired:
"God is dead" - Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead" - God
can be:
"Linux is obsolete" - Andy Tannenbaum
"Minix is obsolete" - Linus Torvalds
Timothy, this story was already posted. By, um, Timothy.
I don't get either of these jokes. :(
Long shot? I think you mean landslide.
But in the case of BT, you will have to be real real close to the person to *snort*. And so it is not really that big a security risk
You only have to be close when you're using standard products. I'm sure some guy sitting outside in a van with a high-powered signal amplifier would have no trouble communicating with your BlueTooth stuff.
Large "POTION"? That's nasty. And a spell check wouldn't pick that up.
Sure it would:
It looks like you're trying to mix an invisibility potion, but you used three newt eyes instead of the correct number, four.
If you can take network resources by that argument, why not tap into the building's electrical service and grab a few spare amperes?
It is virtually unheard of for someone to provide a free electrical access point on the street. This is not the case with wireless networks -- people often provide free wireless service to the general public.
My argument is not, "Let's take a little bit from someone, because they won't miss it." My argument is, "If your behavior would lead a reasonable person to believe that you were giving something away, you cannot be upset when people take it."
Thank you for proving my point. A driveway is assumed by default to welcome the occasional person to turn around in it. If you don't want that, you have to post a sign, and can then go after people who ignore it.
Similarly, it is assumed that if you have a public wireless network, you invite the public to use it to a reasonable extent. If you don't want that, you have to put up a sign, either physical or, more easily, digital. If people break in anyway, then you can go after them.
But these wireless honey pots are like me having a normal-looking driveway, and having a big cage drop on anyone's car that tries to turn around in it.
No, because you can't drive someone's car without making it worse in one way or another -- using his gas, creating wear and tear, risking (however slim) that you'll get into an accident, messing up the seat position...
If someone pulls into my driveway in order to turn their car around, that's just fine with me. If people are constantly parking their cars there so that i can't use it, that's another story.
I own a restuarant. I give away all the food for free, but i charge anyone who walks past on the sidewalk $100 to make up for it. Now, some people are walking past without paying! If we don't get some laws passed, then the finances get all screwed!
Um, plenty of people intentionally provide free wireless access to the public. Nobody intentionally makes their car available to be stolen. People who find the honeypot may be innocent white hat people who just want to check their damn email. People who steal a car have no such excuse.
Additionally, taking someone's car is stealing -- you deprive them of the car. Using someone's bandwidth is likely not, unless you use so much that they can't get their work done.
I don't get it.
You're right that it might not be possible to force someone to release changes they made to your GPLed software. But you could at least prevent them from using it anymore once they stated that they wouldn't release their changes.
Think about it. What if the GPL said "You may not use this software unless you give the FSF 1 billion dollars. Re-copying of this software implies acceptance of this price."
Everybody would agree that's ridiculous.
Right, and those people wouldn't be allowed to use, modify, or redistribute the software. As the GPL says, you normally don't have any right to do any of those things. So if you want to legally be able to do those things, you need to do whatever the GPL says. If the FSF demands a billion dollars, and you don't pay it, then you can't distribute GPL software.
This is great news! So many stupid universities just blocked P2P altogether. UCI smartly set things up -- important stuff gets high priority. Your neighbor doesn't have to deal with slow access to a class website because you're downloading the latest Lord of the Rings bootleg. You can still get the bootleg; it just takes longer.
:)
5 - 10 Mbps is nothing to sneeze at. I had a 10baseT card for a long time, and it seemed rocket-fast.
Besides, if you want to download porn fast, get it from the web.
VeriSign used to release the actual zone file, on an ftp site. You sign a document basically saying, "I'm not a spammer or that sort of thing", and they give you an account on the ftp site. You can go there and download the entire zone file in bulk.
.gov entries from that zone file.
Now, they've removed the
You can still get that information by querying each domain, either through DNS or whois. But that takes much, much longer.
They're not hiding the whois information, they're hiding the zone file, which contains just two bits of information for each domain:
What the names of their nameservers are
What the IPs of their nameservers are
You can still look this up via DNS, but it takes much, much longer.
The British invented postage stamps, so they're the only country in the world that doesn't have to put their name on their stamps. You don't hear anyone complaining about this. It's a fair deal; they were the first so they get dibs.
The international telephone prefix for the USA is 1, because we invented the telephone. Same deal here.
So if you'd like your country to be the default for the next wave of communication technology, write your government officals encouraging them to invest in this sort of research so your country can beat the rest of the world to the punch.