He's basically making 2 claims. 1. Zebra uses non-standard file locations, so it must be modified. 2. GCC used to compile the system has been modified (binary signature is different).
However, I'm currious to what extent of moving files constitutes being "modified". Are these changes that can be made with "./config --target-dir=/someplace/else"? If so, then the claim is baseless because no modification of the source was necessary.
As for GCC, we can see that it was modified because the binary signature is different. Does this constitute a GPL violation? Possibly, I'm unclear what the intent of the GPL is in a situation like this. Basically, GCC was modified and used internally by LinkSys. If I modify GCC and don't distribute it to anyone other than me, do I have to put the changes out on a website (or anywhere)? No. Is it different for a corporate entity?
If binaries compiled with an undistributed modified GCC are distributed, does that then require the disclosure of the modifications to GCC? I think that the spirit of the GPL would have to say yes, but since IANAL, they may be perfectly within the law to keep it. It's exclusion may be just an oversight.
The last time a LinkSys issue came up, we discovered that it was just a matter of someone jumping the gun too quickly. I think that LinkSys is a smart company, and I think they respect the Linux community. I don't think they would shoot themselves in the foot with licencing issues. Let's all have a little patience and give them the benifit of the doubt until there are more facts than speculations, shall we?
Maybe I'll take a lot of flak for saying this, but...
The Bible is the most widely translated textual work, and Bible translators are very meticulous that as much of the origonal meaning and intent is conveyed in each translation.
Just taking the number of languages Zondervan has translated the Bible into, should give a pretty consistent translation matrix, especially using this method. I'd be very interested to see how well this program would work at being able to translate any literary work into any language once it's been trained with every lingual translation of the Bible.
Of course, the real test would be to take a particular Bible translation and convert into various langages and back to see how closely it matches to the origonal. Then for some real fun, we'll directly translate the Greek and Hebrew versions to whatever language and see how it compares to the "official" translation for that language.
No big news. All they did was take a Zalman vga cooler and package it with the card.
The only thing that really makes this significant, is that if it comes with the card you can't void your warranty by placing something "too heavy" on it.
Several years ago I bought a lot of CD's. Cranberries, Aerosmith, Queen, Alanis Morrisette, etc. Over the years the disks have gotten scratched/broken/otherwise unusable.
Since it's the RIAA's alegation that I'm not buying music, I'm only buying a disk and acompaning license to play the music on the disk, I have paid legitimately for a licence to that music, so when the disk became unusable I retrieved my validly licensed content from the only available source, Napster.
Blank CD's cost a quarter. If the RIAA had supplied me with an avenue to obtain a replacement copy of my damaged media I would have had no need for a file sharing service. Without them I would have had to pay for a second license (in which case one would assume that since I own two licences I could make enough copies to match the number of licenses I've obtained).
Even Microsoft has a replacement media program. If your disks are damaged in some way and unusable you can send them to Redmond and they'll ship you another copy.
any firm/soft-ware that came with the device you only have a license to use.. at their terms.
Fine then, I don't accept the terms of the license. I guess I gotta delete the software. Hmm, now what am I going to do with my XBOX? I know! I'll run Linux on it!
People will natually want to use the computer system they grew up with. My mom first used to learn about computers with a System 5 Macintosh, and she still swears by them even though she's been using a PC for the past 10 years. She still wishes it were a mac, she just knows they're far too expensive. Today's generation of people using computers really have only known MS products. There's comfort there, and better the devil you know than the one you don't.
I've always said that Linux on the desktop is not harder, it's only different. It's just different, so they complain. Linux is different so it's too hard. Mac is different so it's too dumbed down. It's just lame excuses from people unwilling to change. If kids grow up learning Linux they'll stick with it their entire lives. Just as youngsters in the 80's loved UNIX and when they grew up and got IT jobs they brought it into business. Truth is, people are sheep. They'll follow and do pretty much whatever they're told. The best progress into the world of home and business can be made in schools. If children grow up riding on a penguin they'll stick with it.
What happened to DPMS? Why don't you just enable that and be done with it?
The only real excuse for screen savers in this age of DPMS enabled monitors (and don't even try to say your LCD screen doesn't have it) is for locking the workstation while you go take a piss. So I say again, what's your screen doing on after 10 minutes idle anyway?
Simply amazing, I love it. Can't wait until I can afford to buy a Mac (after the college bills stop happening). -> Sometimes, you just gotta break free from the shackles of proprietary code.
What an odd mix, your post directly contradicts your sig. Rarely have I seen such blatant foolery.
However, more investigation is necessary. I cracked into McBride's computer and found something very interesting...
$ ls -ld usr/src/linux usr/src/unix lrwxrwxrwx 1 darl users 4 Jun 17 10:33/usr/src/linux -> unix/ drwxr-xr-x 2 darl users 4096 Jan 9 13:16/usr/src/unix/
Hmm, very interesting indeed? Digging even deeper, you'll find that this was all meant to be an April Fools joke by the former Caldera CEO Ransom Love. Unfortunately the IBM lawsuite was McBride jumping the gun before Love got to let him on the joke. By the time 4-1 came around everything was too far out of control
I noticed after going to 2.4.20 that whenever I burn a CD(and this is on an 8x writer, not exactly 'fast'), the CPU(Athlon 1.5ghz) goes to 30%, all of it system time-and the system slows to a crawl, cursor jumping and everything-which is new- and I've got 32bit IO and unmasked IRQs set on all my IDE devices....
That's because converting mp3's to wav so you can burn them takes some overhead.
They don't have to offer anything for download. All they have to do is provide the source, in whatever way they see fit. They can chage you $50 mil for the full source inscribed on gold bricks if they want. The GPL does not say you must provide a no charge download. And they don't have to provide the source to anyone who didn't buy the binaries (and the GPL clearly states they can charge whatever arbitrary ammount they want for the binaries). They don't even have to provide the source with the binaries. They only have to provide it if you ask.
It seems to me that RH is acting fully within the bounds of the GPL. Why is everyone getting their panties in a bunch over a non-issue?
Way to go Michael, for publicly spanking that boy.
This could have easily been relegated to "not news" since it's apparent that McNett simply misunderstood. But I'm all for public humiliation, especially here on/. where we all can ridicule him for his mistake.
Duh, do you know nothing of Star Wars physics? The crystal is used to focus the beam causing it to loop back upon itself so that the emission point and termination point are very close together. Essentially it's a very steep parabolic arc, or possibly a bubble (parabolic arc expanded to the 3rd dimension).
Ever hear of Javascript? Animating an image (of any format, not just png) is as easy as counting on your fingers if you're even moderately familiar with Javascript.
is that PNG will never see large scale use until all of it's features are supported in IE. I would love to use PNG for everything, except that they look like hell in IE. And as much as I badger people about using Mozilla, they don't.
GIF does have full support in IE, and nobody seems to know that the patent even exists. Even those that do rarely care enough to even tell one person.
This is the truth and it sucks. PNG, better in every way, suffers for it.
It's been my experience that browser advocates come in one of two flavors. Those who worship Bill and constantly mutter under their breath "I hate netscape", and those (us) fringers that use an alternative browser (mozilla, phoenix, opera, icab, etc).
People that used to love Netscape have pretty much turned to IE due to the NS4 line's stagnation and the netscape branch of mozilla being inadequate (I'm highly looking forward to a branch of the 1.4 trunk). They don't complain or they'll get laughed at.
The last group of people I find are people who don't understand why some people's Internet is a big E and some people's is a wheel, and some are a lighthouse.
I work for a huge megacorp that you have heard of. We're worldwide. The official policy is Netscape 4.78 is the mandatory web browser. I only found that by digging for several hours on our Intranet. But our IT staff is to afraid to tell anybody which browser to run, and we've got the most ugly assortment of browsers you can imagine.
Think of any flaw available for IE and send it to my company and you're going to destroy most people here.
The problem I think is that to most people (especially those of us who remember the browser war vividly) browser choice has become one of those things like religion or politics. You've got one side that's rational, logical and informed about their choice, and the other who have the attitude "don't bother me with facts because I've made up my mind" (which in turn causes a heated response from the first group) and the whole thing gets ugly. Another major problem is that on all currently available versions of Windows there's no way to remove IE, even if you wanted to standardize on a non MS browser you can't, because the bugger will always be there.
The question isn't which browser to use it's how does one combat the demons of stupidity so that it actually does get used.
The classic exmaple is a star destroyer vs. the enterprise.
And the SD would "win" if they fought at any reasonable range
Actually, this is not true. Star Destroyers use lasers for weaponry (well, turbo-lasers but lasers nonetheless). May I quote some dialog from the TNG episode The Outrageous Okona:
Worf: They're locking lasers. Riker: Lasers? That won't even penetrate the hull. Picard: Well, shields up anyway, we wouldn't want them to think we aren't taking them seriously.
So a SD with all of it's thousands of lasers might do enough damage to scratch the NCC-1701-D registry right off. The best hope would be simply ramming, either with all those TIEs or just the SD itself, but unless the Enterprise was incapacitated first it would easily move out of the way being a smaller more manuverable ship.
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If anybody bothered to RTFA...
He's basically making 2 claims.
1. Zebra uses non-standard file locations, so it must be modified.
2. GCC used to compile the system has been modified (binary signature is different).
However, I'm currious to what extent of moving files constitutes being "modified". Are these changes that can be made with "./config --target-dir=/someplace/else"? If so, then the claim is baseless because no modification of the source was necessary.
As for GCC, we can see that it was modified because the binary signature is different. Does this constitute a GPL violation? Possibly, I'm unclear what the intent of the GPL is in a situation like this. Basically, GCC was modified and used internally by LinkSys. If I modify GCC and don't distribute it to anyone other than me, do I have to put the changes out on a website (or anywhere)? No. Is it different for a corporate entity?
If binaries compiled with an undistributed modified GCC are distributed, does that then require the disclosure of the modifications to GCC? I think that the spirit of the GPL would have to say yes, but since IANAL, they may be perfectly within the law to keep it. It's exclusion may be just an oversight.
The last time a LinkSys issue came up, we discovered that it was just a matter of someone jumping the gun too quickly. I think that LinkSys is a smart company, and I think they respect the Linux community. I don't think they would shoot themselves in the foot with licencing issues. Let's all have a little patience and give them the benifit of the doubt until there are more facts than speculations, shall we?
Maybe I'll take a lot of flak for saying this, but...
The Bible is the most widely translated textual work, and Bible translators are very meticulous that as much of the origonal meaning and intent is conveyed in each translation.
Just taking the number of languages Zondervan has translated the Bible into, should give a pretty consistent translation matrix, especially using this method. I'd be very interested to see how well this program would work at being able to translate any literary work into any language once it's been trained with every lingual translation of the Bible.
Of course, the real test would be to take a particular Bible translation and convert into various langages and back to see how closely it matches to the origonal. Then for some real fun, we'll directly translate the Greek and Hebrew versions to whatever language and see how it compares to the "official" translation for that language.
No big news. All they did was take a Zalman vga cooler and package it with the card.
The only thing that really makes this significant, is that if it comes with the card you can't void your warranty by placing something "too heavy" on it.
All InterTrust would have to do is sit around, do nothing except drop an occasional law suit on someone and then collect money. What could be easier?
Do you work for SCO?
Darl? Is that you?
Setting the accel to n and the threshhold to 1 will cause the mouse to have a constant speed set at n
Several years ago I bought a lot of CD's. Cranberries, Aerosmith, Queen, Alanis Morrisette, etc. Over the years the disks have gotten scratched/broken/otherwise unusable.
Since it's the RIAA's alegation that I'm not buying music, I'm only buying a disk and acompaning license to play the music on the disk, I have paid legitimately for a licence to that music, so when the disk became unusable I retrieved my validly licensed content from the only available source, Napster.
Blank CD's cost a quarter. If the RIAA had supplied me with an avenue to obtain a replacement copy of my damaged media I would have had no need for a file sharing service. Without them I would have had to pay for a second license (in which case one would assume that since I own two licences I could make enough copies to match the number of licenses I've obtained).
Even Microsoft has a replacement media program. If your disks are damaged in some way and unusable you can send them to Redmond and they'll ship you another copy.
Does nobody even know how their system works anymore? xset people! xset!!
any firm/soft-ware that came with the device you only have a license to use.. at their terms.
Fine then, I don't accept the terms of the license. I guess I gotta delete the software. Hmm, now what am I going to do with my XBOX? I know! I'll run Linux on it!
What? The operating system that Microsoft didn't work on is stable and usable?
Somehow I'm not surprised.
People will natually want to use the computer system they grew up with. My mom first used to learn about computers with a System 5 Macintosh, and she still swears by them even though she's been using a PC for the past 10 years. She still wishes it were a mac, she just knows they're far too expensive. Today's generation of people using computers really have only known MS products. There's comfort there, and better the devil you know than the one you don't.
I've always said that Linux on the desktop is not harder, it's only different. It's just different, so they complain. Linux is different so it's too hard. Mac is different so it's too dumbed down. It's just lame excuses from people unwilling to change. If kids grow up learning Linux they'll stick with it their entire lives. Just as youngsters in the 80's loved UNIX and when they grew up and got IT jobs they brought it into business. Truth is, people are sheep. They'll follow and do pretty much whatever they're told. The best progress into the world of home and business can be made in schools. If children grow up riding on a penguin they'll stick with it.
xset +dpms
xset dpms force off
What happened to DPMS? Why don't you just enable that and be done with it?
The only real excuse for screen savers in this age of DPMS enabled monitors (and don't even try to say your LCD screen doesn't have it) is for locking the workstation while you go take a piss. So I say again, what's your screen doing on after 10 minutes idle anyway?
Simply amazing, I love it. Can't wait until I can afford to buy a Mac (after the college bills stop happening).
-> Sometimes, you just gotta break free from the shackles of proprietary code.
What an odd mix, your post directly contradicts your sig. Rarely have I seen such blatant foolery.
Digging even deeper, you'll find that this was all meant to be an April Fools joke by the former Caldera CEO Ransom Love. Unfortunately the IBM lawsuite was McBride jumping the gun before Love got to let him on the joke. By the time 4-1 came around everything was too far out of control
I noticed after going to 2.4.20 that whenever I burn a CD(and this is on an 8x writer, not exactly 'fast'), the CPU(Athlon 1.5ghz) goes to 30%, all of it system time-and the system slows to a crawl, cursor jumping and everything-which is new- and I've got 32bit IO and unmasked IRQs set on all my IDE devices....
That's because converting mp3's to wav so you can burn them takes some overhead.
They don't have to offer anything for download. All they have to do is provide the source, in whatever way they see fit. They can chage you $50 mil for the full source inscribed on gold bricks if they want. The GPL does not say you must provide a no charge download. And they don't have to provide the source to anyone who didn't buy the binaries (and the GPL clearly states they can charge whatever arbitrary ammount they want for the binaries). They don't even have to provide the source with the binaries. They only have to provide it if you ask.
It seems to me that RH is acting fully within the bounds of the GPL. Why is everyone getting their panties in a bunch over a non-issue?
Way to go Michael, for publicly spanking that boy.
/. where we all can ridicule him for his mistake.
This could have easily been relegated to "not news" since it's apparent that McNett simply misunderstood. But I'm all for public humiliation, especially here on
Duh, do you know nothing of Star Wars physics? The crystal is used to focus the beam causing it to loop back upon itself so that the emission point and termination point are very close together. Essentially it's a very steep parabolic arc, or possibly a bubble (parabolic arc expanded to the 3rd dimension).
Ever hear of Javascript? Animating an image (of any format, not just png) is as easy as counting on your fingers if you're even moderately familiar with Javascript.
is that PNG will never see large scale use until all of it's features are supported in IE. I would love to use PNG for everything, except that they look like hell in IE. And as much as I badger people about using Mozilla, they don't.
GIF does have full support in IE, and nobody seems to know that the patent even exists. Even those that do rarely care enough to even tell one person.
This is the truth and it sucks. PNG, better in every way, suffers for it.
Because /. is news for nerds, not software for nerds.
So the question really is "Why doesn't someone else create a torrent site for all that crap?"
Oh, wait, they did.
It's been my experience that browser advocates come in one of two flavors. Those who worship Bill and constantly mutter under their breath "I hate netscape", and those (us) fringers that use an alternative browser (mozilla, phoenix, opera, icab, etc).
People that used to love Netscape have pretty much turned to IE due to the NS4 line's stagnation and the netscape branch of mozilla being inadequate (I'm highly looking forward to a branch of the 1.4 trunk). They don't complain or they'll get laughed at.
The last group of people I find are people who don't understand why some people's Internet is a big E and some people's is a wheel, and some are a lighthouse.
I work for a huge megacorp that you have heard of. We're worldwide. The official policy is Netscape 4.78 is the mandatory web browser. I only found that by digging for several hours on our Intranet. But our IT staff is to afraid to tell anybody which browser to run, and we've got the most ugly assortment of browsers you can imagine.
Think of any flaw available for IE and send it to my company and you're going to destroy most people here.
The problem I think is that to most people (especially those of us who remember the browser war vividly) browser choice has become one of those things like religion or politics. You've got one side that's rational, logical and informed about their choice, and the other who have the attitude "don't bother me with facts because I've made up my mind" (which in turn causes a heated response from the first group) and the whole thing gets ugly. Another major problem is that on all currently available versions of Windows there's no way to remove IE, even if you wanted to standardize on a non MS browser you can't, because the bugger will always be there.
The question isn't which browser to use it's how does one combat the demons of stupidity so that it actually does get used.
Finally some big name companies on our side. Maybe now congress won't give free reign to the MPAA
The classic exmaple is a star destroyer vs. the enterprise.
And the SD would "win" if they fought at any reasonable range
Actually, this is not true. Star Destroyers use lasers for weaponry (well, turbo-lasers but lasers nonetheless). May I quote some dialog from the TNG episode The Outrageous Okona:
Worf: They're locking lasers.
Riker: Lasers? That won't even penetrate the hull.
Picard: Well, shields up anyway, we wouldn't want them to think we aren't taking them seriously.
So a SD with all of it's thousands of lasers might do enough damage to scratch the NCC-1701-D registry right off. The best hope would be simply ramming, either with all those TIEs or just the SD itself, but unless the Enterprise was incapacitated first it would easily move out of the way being a smaller more manuverable ship.
You're not very smart if you think that you wouldn't see chewbacca in the tv spots 6 months before the movie's release.
Here's another spoiler for you, Anakin will become Darth Vader and use a red light saber.
Sorry to spoil the movie for you though.