Apparently, because it doesn't work for me. Yep. Seems Slashdot Slashdotted itself.:) It times out which probably means it crashed and burned.
Not surprising really given that it's not running without the full hardware, is known to be slow, and is brand new code Taco hasn't really tested out yet.:)
Handwriting test: if their handwriting is anything but completely illegible, don't hire them.
Eye test: if they aren't near-sighted, just say no.
Wrist test: if they don't have carpal tunnel, nix 'em.
Clothing test: if they show up to the job interview wearing a suit, they have no clue.
Jargon file test: Do you know what RTFM means? Can you recite the entire "Story of Mel"?
Caffeine test: If they don't ask for coffee, tea, Coke, or some other form of caffeine several times throughout the interview, forget it.
Slashdot test: What is your slashdot karma? (Don't hire if Karma 25)
Microsoft test: show them a picture of Bill Gates naked. If they don't turn away and run in disgust, don't hire 'em. (NOTE: a good hire will be very difficult to catch)
/dev/null test: What is the true use for/dev/null? If the answer is not 'for redirecting Web proxy logs' forget it.
No...this is happening on your computer, using software licensed by you. If this happened on your ISPs computers, for instance, then the ISP would be violating copyright. But it doesn't, it happens on YOUR machine, using software that YOU installed.
If you don't pay attention while installing software, that's your problem, but the install program, FWIU, DOES tell you that it's going to install the TopText program, and you ARE given the opportunity to turn it off.
It's not their problem if you're stupid enough to install software on Windows by blindly clicking "Next >" a bunch of times.
Of course you are excercising your fair use rights. Just as you may amalgomate several movies on a videotape or create a videotape with your collection of favorite clips or whatever, so long as you aren't distributing that, you can add links to web pages, albeit automatically.
Remember, they aren't modifying the content on the web and redistributing it here. The content is being modified on your computer, more or less by you, although the program is doing it for you.
However, IANAL, so don't blame me if you get used.:)
Just because factor A and factor B are both present in something, it does not mean factor B was caused by factor A, or vice versa. They could both be merely caused by a third, unseen factor.
Yeah, that's a bit like saying 99% of criminals eat sliced bread, therefore eating sliced bread incites people to commit crimes.:P
Copyright says that the recipients don't have any ownership of the code at all. GPL says you have ownership, but with some responsibilities. Seems to me that the GPL is less restrictive (you own it and can produce derivative works, etc) than copyright. I think you have the wrong idea about copyright, including the idea of "derivative works".
#include
No, GPL does not give recipients ownership of the code. If that were the case, there would be no such thing as GPL violations.
GPL leverages copyright to keep the software free (speech, not beer). The original author of the code retains ALL rights, including the right to copy, distribute or make derivative works.
Where the GPL comes in is that the author is licensing to you the rights of copying, distribution and making of derivative works, WITH CERTAIN CONDITIONS. The conditions are of course that you can copy and distribute and even modify the software, but only so long as you make the source code available and all copies and all derivative works must be licensed under the GPL as well. Never are you given ownership of the code, except that when you make a derivative work, you own the modifications and the original author owns the original code.
?!? For christ's sake, most cars still dont even come with a CD player
Most inexpensive cars, true. However, all of the SUV's that the Big Three sell above the very basic models come with an in-dash CD player as standard equipment.
You have to look at the primary market segment. Right now that's SUV's....
OpenOffice blatantly rips off Microsoft Office's UI in a number of ways. No, its not an exact duplicate, but many things work exactly the same as they do in MS Office.
I have StarOffice (OpenOffice's kissing cousin so to speak) sitting on some Solaris boxes at work and have had some dyed-in-the-wool Office users who are not technical people at all sit at them and they were able to get their work done. That's what counts. Not bug-for-bug compatibility.
I work for GM and recently saw prototype of an in dash car stereo with an MP3 player that will undoubtedly become standard equipment in future vehicles.
The guy who was supposed to demo the thing went on vacation, so nobody could tell me anything about the MP3 player other than it will pick off MP3s from CDs and that there would be other methods for getting MP3s onto the player's 40GB hard disk. (Several people thought that one of the methods was via wireless Internet access, but no one could confirm that for sure)
I can't really use Linux at work, because it doesn't support very many desktop application standards. I can't open many office documents (and Star Office cannot be relied upon to open all documents, plus it's incredibly slow on a PIII800/512M!!!), nor can I read HTML email consistently, nor can I easily and consistently deal with attachments.
Microsoft Office is *anything* but a true standard. Office is what we call a *defacto* standard: it is only a standard in the sense that it is commonly used. Let's step out of this picture for a second:
Way back in the days of 9600 BPS modems, US Robotics had a standard called "High Speed Technology" (HST). HST was only a standard because USR played Microsoft tactics: they sold their modems to BBS and online service operators at a loss. Because most of the BBSes and online services had HST modems, many regular users popped down the US$500 retail price for the 9600 BPS modems.
Then came V.32. V.32 was a true standard: it was hammered out by what was then the CCITT and is now known as the ITU. (The same committee that sets telephone standards around the world). USR had to come out with "dual standard" modems to try to compete. Eventually, they came out with 14.4kbps HST, but it was too late. USR had already started to slide in market share and profits.
With *real* standards, the prices for high speed modems dropped. No proprietary manufacturer could dominate the market. 9600 bps and faster modems became a *commodity*.
And that's what needs to happen here. We need to adopt a common, open standard: XML. Microsoft Office 2000 and later plays lip service to this, but truely we do not have interoperability between office suites that claim to support "XML." I cannot take my OpenOffice.org documents, which use "XML" and put them into Microsoft Office, which claims to use "XML" or into KWord, which uses "XML." If we can all agree on ONE flavor of XML, then then stuff like Microsoft Office will become a commodity: and this is exactly what Microsoft doesn't want. Because if they have to compete head to head on features and price with open source alternatives, they KNOW they'll lose.
We want REAL standards. Anybody hear us????
You too, eh? Mozilla and Galeon seem to work ok. I prefer Konq myself, though, as it is much faster...again, one thing in mind: browsing the Web on KDE on *NIX. Mozilla was written for much more than that.
I remember how stressed out my cat, Kyoto, was when she became Cisco Certified.
Well, for all of you wondering whether or not this is the real Sarcasta, as in Rob "Cmdr Dorko...err..Taco" Malda's other half, Kathleen Fent...here is your answer right here, plain as day.
If you check out this pageyou'll quickly see that Aunt Kathy here doesn't have a cat named Kyoto .
Combine this with the fact that for a Mac using graphic designer (and I know many:) "she" knows a little too much about PostgreSQL vs. MySQL.
Add to that the high user number (c'mon, if this was Taco's chick, she'd be like a high user number, right?:).
No way. Taco: If this user is really your chick, tell us.:)
And to the holder of this Sarcasta account: Do try to do a little research before you troll as Sarcasta, 'k?
Errm...that's what I was trying to say only you said it better.:)
KDE does have its problems, but compared to what we see here they are small. The aforementioned Craig Black, for example.:) KDE as a group is very cohesive...like you said, once a decision is made, everyone pretty much goes along with it. (I too read the mailing lists:)
They get a lot done: look at KDE...it's very mature, very stable, and has lots of applications already. They've done a very fine job and aside for the relatively long stretch between KDE 1.4 and KDE 2.0, things seem to get done in a reasonably fast manner.
Have the KDE crowd had any similar problems? There will always be dissagreements about how to go about things, but it always seems to me that Gnome is trying to do too much and isn't getting anwhere. At least, not anywhere stable.
Sure. KDE has it's problems at times. All large open source projects do at some point. I think it is part of the natural Bazaar mode process.
OTOH, my impression of the KDE group is that it is far more cohesive than the GNOME group. That's why they tend to get things done faster, IMHO. However, cohesiveness, as we all know from basic sociology and critical thinking classes, can lead to groupthink....anybody think KDE is subject to that?
I doubt most of you have worked in a union shop at any point in your lives.
Huh? I work in a union shop now, although I'm not union.:)
There are lots of UAW workers here at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, MI.
Let me tell you...union rules sometimes just defy logic.
I understand that unions may be a necessary evil in order to protect workers' rights to some extent. However, some of the ways the portend to do it are ridiculousness.
For example: you cannot move a computer in your cube, not even to the cube next to you. It's against union rules. A union worker must move any computer equipment that you cannot carry under one arm. So a laptop is ok, but a desktop or tower machine? No way. Supposedly this prevents people from losing their job. Ridiculous.
Having the webbrowser as an OS component isnt always a good thing
Not a good thing? KHTML is cool, IMHO. It allows many KDE programs to view Web pages right inside their program. This is good.
OF course, if you run Linux you don't have to have KDE, and therefore you don't have to have KHTML. I can't say the same thing for Windows. If I have Windows, I'm pretty much stuck with Internet Exploiter.
Smart tags, wheel/optical mouse, modularizing the web browser engine as just another system component, intelligent menus or whatever they're called, SOAP/UDDI. Well, that was easy.
Smart tags--what about XML/XSLT?
Wheel/optical mouse: I know a guy who came up with the wheel mouse back in late 80s and I beleive he even filed a patent application (I don't know if it was awarded or not...maybe patents.ibm.com could come up with the answer to that?). He wanted to sue Microsoft, but couldn't get the money for a lawyer
Optical mouse: I remember optical mice as early as about 1986.... they required a special reflective mouse pad and were much more expensive than traditional mice but they were there!!!
Intelligent menus are also nothing new.
I don't know what SOAP/UDDI is, so I won't answer that one.:)
StarOffice/OpenOffice.org seem to open all of those formats pretty well. It's not 100%, it can't be, but much of the formatting and even the VBA scripts will transfer in, far better than it does in AbiWord or Kword.
And OpenOffice.org is open source, so no guilt required. Plus they got rid of that annoying desktop thing.:)
he end user needs only to have v4 nat happen - and have the v4 to v6 translation happen upstream. so - the end user has a 10.x private - which goes upstream to his isp, the isp has v6 peering relationships and has a block of legal v4 classes assigned to them. keep v6 out at the core backbone level for as long as possible - but each tier 1-3 has a certain v4 and v6 blocks that they own - and dole them out as needed v4 first.
This sounds like the "end user" would not be able to have a "real" IP address for running things such as a Web server...
I think we need to suspend paranoia mode for a second here.
At the risk of sounding like "user friendly" software, Are you sure?:)
From the GPT/EFI FAQ:
Each GPT partition has a unique identification GUID and a partition content type, so no coordination is necessary to prevent partition identifier collision.
With a unique identification, is it possible that this could be used for some basic, broken form of DMCA-style "content protection"?
Slashdot Mirror
Apparently, because it doesn't work for me. Yep. Seems Slashdot Slashdotted itself. :) It times out which probably means it crashed and burned.
:)
Not surprising really given that it's not running without the full hardware, is known to be slow, and is brand new code Taco hasn't really tested out yet.
o/~ Oh, Susanna, don't you cry for me o/~
Handwriting test: if their handwriting is anything but completely illegible, don't hire them.
/dev/null? If the answer is not 'for redirecting Web proxy logs' forget it.
Eye test: if they aren't near-sighted, just say no.
Wrist test: if they don't have carpal tunnel, nix 'em.
Clothing test: if they show up to the job interview wearing a suit, they have no clue.
Jargon file test: Do you know what RTFM means? Can you recite the entire "Story of Mel"?
Caffeine test: If they don't ask for coffee, tea, Coke, or some other form of caffeine several times throughout the interview, forget it.
Slashdot test: What is your slashdot karma? (Don't hire if Karma 25)
Microsoft test: show them a picture of Bill Gates naked. If they don't turn away and run in disgust, don't hire 'em. (NOTE: a good hire will be very difficult to catch)
/dev/null test: What is the true use for
No...this is happening on your computer, using software licensed by you. If this happened on your ISPs computers, for instance, then the ISP would be violating copyright. But it doesn't, it happens on YOUR machine, using software that YOU installed.
If you don't pay attention while installing software, that's your problem, but the install program, FWIU, DOES tell you that it's going to install the TopText program, and you ARE given the opportunity to turn it off.
It's not their problem if you're stupid enough to install software on Windows by blindly clicking "Next >" a bunch of times.
Of course you are excercising your fair use rights. Just as you may amalgomate several movies on a videotape or create a videotape with your collection of favorite clips or whatever, so long as you aren't distributing that, you can add links to web pages, albeit automatically. Remember, they aren't modifying the content on the web and redistributing it here. The content is being modified on your computer, more or less by you, although the program is doing it for you. However, IANAL, so don't blame me if you get used. :)
Just because factor A and factor B are both present in something, it does not mean factor B was caused by factor A, or vice versa. They could both be merely caused by a third, unseen factor. Yeah, that's a bit like saying 99% of criminals eat sliced bread, therefore eating sliced bread incites people to commit crimes. :P
Copyright says that the recipients don't have any ownership of the code at all. GPL says you have ownership, but with some responsibilities. Seems to me that the GPL is less restrictive (you own it and can produce derivative works, etc) than copyright. I think you have the wrong idea about copyright, including the idea of "derivative works".
#include
No, GPL does not give recipients ownership of the code. If that were the case, there would be no such thing as GPL violations.
GPL leverages copyright to keep the software free (speech, not beer). The original author of the code retains ALL rights, including the right to copy, distribute or make derivative works.
Where the GPL comes in is that the author is licensing to you the rights of copying, distribution and making of derivative works, WITH CERTAIN CONDITIONS. The conditions are of course that you can copy and distribute and even modify the software, but only so long as you make the source code available and all copies and all derivative works must be licensed under the GPL as well. Never are you given ownership of the code, except that when you make a derivative work, you own the modifications and the original author owns the original code.
Gnutella doesn't scale well and is already starting to show signs of that...
?!? For christ's sake, most cars still dont even come with a CD player
Most inexpensive cars, true. However, all of the SUV's that the Big Three sell above the very basic models come with an in-dash CD player as standard equipment.
You have to look at the primary market segment. Right now that's SUV's....
OpenOffice blatantly rips off Microsoft Office's UI in a number of ways. No, its not an exact duplicate, but many things work exactly the same as they do in MS Office.
I have StarOffice (OpenOffice's kissing cousin so to speak) sitting on some Solaris boxes at work and have had some dyed-in-the-wool Office users who are not technical people at all sit at them and they were able to get their work done. That's what counts. Not bug-for-bug compatibility.
I work for GM and recently saw prototype of an in dash car stereo with an MP3 player that will undoubtedly become standard equipment in future vehicles.
The guy who was supposed to demo the thing went on vacation, so nobody could tell me anything about the MP3 player other than it will pick off MP3s from CDs and that there would be other methods for getting MP3s onto the player's 40GB hard disk. (Several people thought that one of the methods was via wireless Internet access, but no one could confirm that for sure)
I can't really use Linux at work, because it doesn't support very many desktop application standards. I can't open many office documents (and Star Office cannot be relied upon to open all documents, plus it's incredibly slow on a PIII800/512M!!!), nor can I read HTML email consistently, nor can I easily and consistently deal with attachments. Microsoft Office is *anything* but a true standard. Office is what we call a *defacto* standard: it is only a standard in the sense that it is commonly used. Let's step out of this picture for a second: Way back in the days of 9600 BPS modems, US Robotics had a standard called "High Speed Technology" (HST). HST was only a standard because USR played Microsoft tactics: they sold their modems to BBS and online service operators at a loss. Because most of the BBSes and online services had HST modems, many regular users popped down the US$500 retail price for the 9600 BPS modems. Then came V.32. V.32 was a true standard: it was hammered out by what was then the CCITT and is now known as the ITU. (The same committee that sets telephone standards around the world). USR had to come out with "dual standard" modems to try to compete. Eventually, they came out with 14.4kbps HST, but it was too late. USR had already started to slide in market share and profits. With *real* standards, the prices for high speed modems dropped. No proprietary manufacturer could dominate the market. 9600 bps and faster modems became a *commodity*. And that's what needs to happen here. We need to adopt a common, open standard: XML. Microsoft Office 2000 and later plays lip service to this, but truely we do not have interoperability between office suites that claim to support "XML." I cannot take my OpenOffice.org documents, which use "XML" and put them into Microsoft Office, which claims to use "XML" or into KWord, which uses "XML." If we can all agree on ONE flavor of XML, then then stuff like Microsoft Office will become a commodity: and this is exactly what Microsoft doesn't want. Because if they have to compete head to head on features and price with open source alternatives, they KNOW they'll lose. We want REAL standards. Anybody hear us????
Set a password on the nobody account and give it a shell... so you can log in.
/bin/sh
passwd nobody
chsh nobody
then telnet into your box:
telnet 127.0.0.1
login as nobody.
Then they can put in all the exits they want and it won't make a diff, especially if you use something like ktelnet or gtelnet.
You too, eh? Mozilla and Galeon seem to work ok. I prefer Konq myself, though, as it is much faster...again, one thing in mind: browsing the Web on KDE on *NIX. Mozilla was written for much more than that.
I remember how stressed out my cat, Kyoto, was when she became Cisco Certified.
:) "she" knows a little too much about PostgreSQL vs. MySQL.
:).
:)
Well, for all of you wondering whether or not this is the real Sarcasta, as in Rob "Cmdr Dorko...err..Taco" Malda's other half, Kathleen Fent...here is your answer right here, plain as day.
If you check out this pageyou'll quickly see that Aunt Kathy here doesn't have a cat named Kyoto .
Combine this with the fact that for a Mac using graphic designer (and I know many
Add to that the high user number (c'mon, if this was Taco's chick, she'd be like a high user number, right?
No way. Taco: If this user is really your chick, tell us.
And to the holder of this Sarcasta account: Do try to do a little research before you troll as Sarcasta, 'k?
Errm...that's what I was trying to say only you said it better. :)
:) KDE as a group is very cohesive...like you said, once a decision is made, everyone pretty much goes along with it. (I too read the mailing lists :)
KDE does have its problems, but compared to what we see here they are small. The aforementioned Craig Black, for example.
They get a lot done: look at KDE...it's very mature, very stable, and has lots of applications already. They've done a very fine job and aside for the relatively long stretch between KDE 1.4 and KDE 2.0, things seem to get done in a reasonably fast manner.
Have the KDE crowd had any similar problems? There will always be dissagreements about how to go about things, but it always seems to me that Gnome is trying to do too much and isn't getting anwhere. At least, not anywhere stable.
Sure. KDE has it's problems at times. All large open source projects do at some point. I think it is part of the natural Bazaar mode process.
OTOH, my impression of the KDE group is that it is far more cohesive than the GNOME group. That's why they tend to get things done faster, IMHO. However, cohesiveness, as we all know from basic sociology and critical thinking classes, can lead to groupthink....anybody think KDE is subject to that?
I doubt most of you have worked in a union shop at any point in your lives.
:)
Huh? I work in a union shop now, although I'm not union.
There are lots of UAW workers here at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, MI.
Let me tell you...union rules sometimes just defy logic.
I understand that unions may be a necessary evil in order to protect workers' rights to some extent. However, some of the ways the portend to do it are ridiculousness.
For example: you cannot move a computer in your cube, not even to the cube next to you. It's against union rules. A union worker must move any computer equipment that you cannot carry under one arm. So a laptop is ok, but a desktop or tower machine? No way. Supposedly this prevents people from losing their job. Ridiculous.
Having the webbrowser as an OS component isnt always a good thing
Not a good thing? KHTML is cool, IMHO. It allows many KDE programs to view Web pages right inside their program. This is good.
OF course, if you run Linux you don't have to have KDE, and therefore you don't have to have KHTML. I can't say the same thing for Windows. If I have Windows, I'm pretty much stuck with Internet Exploiter.
Smart tags, wheel/optical mouse, modularizing the web browser engine as just another system component, intelligent menus or whatever they're called, SOAP/UDDI. Well, that was easy.
.... they required a special reflective mouse pad and were much more expensive than traditional mice but they were there!!!
:)
Smart tags--what about XML/XSLT?
Wheel/optical mouse: I know a guy who came up with the wheel mouse back in late 80s and I beleive he even filed a patent application (I don't know if it was awarded or not...maybe patents.ibm.com could come up with the answer to that?). He wanted to sue Microsoft, but couldn't get the money for a lawyer
Optical mouse: I remember optical mice as early as about 1986
Intelligent menus are also nothing new.
I don't know what SOAP/UDDI is, so I won't answer that one.
I have never bough a PC that came preloaded with Windows.
:)
Of course, that could have something to do with the fact that I build all my own boxes...
StarOffice/OpenOffice.org seem to open all of those formats pretty well. It's not 100%, it can't be, but much of the formatting and even the VBA scripts will transfer in, far better than it does in AbiWord or Kword.
:)
And OpenOffice.org is open source, so no guilt required. Plus they got rid of that annoying desktop thing.
he end user needs only to have v4 nat happen - and have the v4 to v6 translation happen upstream. so - the end user has a 10.x private - which goes upstream to his isp, the isp has v6 peering relationships and has a block of legal v4 classes assigned to them. keep v6 out at the core backbone level for as long as possible - but each tier 1-3 has a certain v4 and v6 blocks that they own - and dole them out as needed v4 first.
This sounds like the "end user" would not be able to have a "real" IP address for running things such as a Web server...
You left off a / on one of your anchors. I checked the source. Does that mean that this site is just 'dot' now? :-)
That's so funny because it could be true!
And that would be Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! At the Pontiac Sil-verdome! dome! dome!
-- A dyed-in-the-wool Detroiter
I think we need to suspend paranoia mode for a second here.
:)
At the risk of sounding like "user friendly" software, Are you sure?
From the GPT/EFI FAQ:
Each GPT partition has a unique identification GUID and a partition content type, so no coordination is necessary to prevent partition identifier collision.
With a unique identification, is it possible that this could be used for some basic, broken form of DMCA-style "content protection"?