IIRC, 321 Studios is (was) a company in California, USA, right. So, looks like it's time to open this kind of business in other countries that does not have this kind of draconian laws. Hmmm... but the DMCA aplies to *sell* this kind of software? If so, the USA market for it is lost.
Our armed forces are going full to OSS specialy because they can look at the source and find anything fishy. Take our navy, for instance. They already have a custom made cryptography layer to run over linux to create secure communication channels. Of course this is not an easy task but we are doing it slowly and with the help of the community and the academia. The ideia is to have an "Army grade" linux distro with all the code audited and cuntom, strong cryptography.
I really believe that if the conflict can't be settled with a good pair of talks, with the all cards on the table, it will only get worst. My advice is: play his game, be nice to him and meanwhile find another job. Quick. Yes, it's not fair but life isn't aways fair. I've been on this situation twice and once I was able to settle everything down and in another the things became so nasty that I just gave up one morning and, even without another job in sight, I quit. It was just impossible to work another day.
Actually, you are wrong indeed. All the core NX technology is GPL. The proprietary part is based on them. What Fabian did was to take those components and create it's own version of this part.
it does raise some interesting issues about how much 'value' society puts on certain types of harm It gets better if you think it's actually easier to murder someone than rob a bank. And get away unpunished, btw.
What about learn from other people for a change?
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Here in Brazil have e-voting for years and the same technology is used in several other countries. Can't the USA just admit it can learn something from a "developmment country" and come down here to see how we did it? I don't want to start a flame war but sometimes I think that most of the USA people keep their noses too high.
On top of the thin client/fat server advantages, have you ever tried to do X forwarding over crappy, slow lines? If you combine it with NX you will see the difference.
We have 100% e-vote for several years already and, we are a quite big country with very remote areas. Probably it's not as big operation as in India but quite big as well. Another very interesting feature we have here is the possibility to follow results in real time via web or a java program (which I run on my linux box;) ) that connects directly with the central servers that count the votes. As for the security, the source of the system is not generaly open but any representative of any party can ask for review, random audits are made in the ballots and a part of them print the vote for the voter.
I dont want to be a programmer. Writing code, chasing bugs, talking about SCO's nonsense... I never wanted to do this job in the first place! I want to be... a Lumberjack!
Sorry but I'm not *completely wrong*. Is anything wrong about what I said? I agree with you. My statemment wasn't precise, after I read it again I saw it but from that to say that I'm "completely wrong" it's a long way. As I said it worked quite well *for me* (and I'm not doing this kind of job anymore). I never said I was (or am) a DBA. And, again, for me *was* "maintence-free" as usualy my customers at that time was small offices and shops with no IT literate people around and when I used interbase, sometimes people did the database backup dragging and dropping the database file to the local machine. Got it?
Why are you people bashing so hard about the naming issue? You know what? I don't care! I know Firebird DB since it's earlier days and I was a Interbase user before that. And I loved it. Why? Because the kind of job I did that time required a simple, efective, maintence-free database and Firebird is exactly that. You can just install it and forget it. The whole database is just one file (at least was) so a simple tar or zip will backup your stuff. Yeah, yeah, I know there is MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc but as I said, I'm not on this kind of job anymore and even if I was, while firebird does what I want (and well) why should I care about other RDBMS?
It's simplicity. Reling on numbers and not in raw power as some projects to explode a nuclear device close to the object makes this solution very interesting. Lots of cheap(?) devices. If some of them breaks, there's a lot more to carry on.
I used to work for quite large industries as steel and paper. There were some people who, despite the lack of formal education, had wages way bigger than lots of engineers on the same company. Why? they knew their jobs and the process as a whole so well that they can make it run smoothly and fix the problems quite fast so they worth a lot for the company. There's one guy I remember that could tell what's wrong with the paper pulp just looking at and smelling it. The man was a damn walking lab:-D
We have a very interesting situation. ADSL is a somewhat new here (about 3 years where I live, not much older in more developed regions). When it came out there was not such thing like caps but now, as the user base is expanding fast, the companies are trying to implement this kind of limitations but they have a problem: the old broadband users like me. Our legislation forbid them to change or cancel the contract unless the other part agrees. So you see on TV and papers, adds about new broadband plans at a lower prices and bonuses for the suck^H^H^H^H users wanting to "upgrade" to the new plans but the catch about the caps only appears in the contract and who have the patience to read EULAS and contracts after all?;)
Well, I had the same idea but, unfortunatly, I had nothing but trouble using OpenBSD and I tried the last 3 releases. Basicaly, I had complete system freezes when under heavy load and unstable network drivers (can't remember wich ones right now but the interface dropped at random times). I don't know if was me but I used the same hardware with IpCop (VIA-M boards actualy) without a hitch so I decided to stick with it. I will probably try OpenBSD again as I like the idea but at least for me, right now, it's a dead fish - pun intended;)
Actualy, wasn't weird: it was a dress but it was the ugliest dress I could find. Of course was a joke but the funny part was to see my mother's face trying to smile (a very yellow smile!) and saying it was beautiful and thank you until I burst in laught. When my mother realized it was a joke her first words to me were "Thank Lord was a joke! I was already thinking a way to get rid o it without offend you!" Them I gave her the real present:-D
I'm not feeling sorry for this guy. If he was robbed or lost the money on a fraudulent bank or something like that them he would be a victim but he was asked to help on an *ilegal* transaction and was his greed what moved him on. For me, he is accesory for this crime, not a victim.
I worked with Marcelo at Conectiva (man, I missed that place but...) and that's *not* his real hair:) He probably just went to a hair stylist and made that... thing:-D I swear I never imagined Marcelo doing this kind of stuff but he's a kernel developer so you can expect anything!
About 15 years ago I worked for a steel industry. We had those serial, dumb terminals all over the place. Some of them were in places where you have very high temperatures and large quantities of a kind of carbon dust in the air. Some times we had to take them off and to clean the insides, we had to let them imersed in soap water for 24 Hs so the old dust was softed enough to allow us to scrub it off. After that we hang them to dry and voila! Those things never stopped! I really *doubt* a normal PC can handle that place.
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IIRC, 321 Studios is (was) a company in California, USA, right.
So, looks like it's time to open this kind of business in other countries that does not have this kind of draconian laws.
Hmmm... but the DMCA aplies to *sell* this kind of software? If so, the USA market for it is lost.
Our armed forces are going full to OSS specialy because they can look at the source and find anything fishy. Take our navy, for instance. They already have a custom made cryptography layer to run over linux to create secure communication channels.
Of course this is not an easy task but we are doing it slowly and with the help of the community and the academia. The ideia is to have an "Army grade" linux distro with all the code audited and cuntom, strong cryptography.
I really believe that if the conflict can't be settled with a good pair of talks, with the all cards on the table, it will only get worst.
My advice is: play his game, be nice to him and meanwhile find another job. Quick. Yes, it's not fair but life isn't aways fair.
I've been on this situation twice and once I was able to settle everything down and in another the things became so nasty that I just gave up one morning and, even without another job in sight, I quit. It was just impossible to work another day.
Actually, you are wrong indeed.
All the core NX technology is GPL. The proprietary part is based on them. What Fabian did was to take those components and create it's own version of this part.
I just can't live without it.
Oh, and the console version of bittorrent is a must too.
it does raise some interesting issues about how much 'value' society puts on certain types of harm
It gets better if you think it's actually easier to murder someone than rob a bank. And get away unpunished, btw.
Here in Brazil have e-voting for years and the same technology is used in several other countries. Can't the USA just admit it can learn something from a "developmment country" and come down here to see how we did it?
I don't want to start a flame war but sometimes I think that most of the USA people keep their noses too high.
On top of the thin client/fat server advantages, have you ever tried to do X forwarding over crappy, slow lines? If you combine it with NX you will see the difference.
We have 100% e-vote for several years already and, we are a quite big country with very remote areas. Probably it's not as big operation as in India but quite big as well. ;) ) that connects directly with the central servers that count the votes.
Another very interesting feature we have here is the possibility to follow results in real time via web or a java program (which I run on my linux box
As for the security, the source of the system is not generaly open but any representative of any party can ask for review, random audits are made in the ballots and a part of them print the vote for the voter.
Hmmm... maybe it's a typo because I read it as "Harvard, in a laughable attempt..." :)
Joe User just does not know and/or just don't care what happens inside their computer.
A few un-ethical, a few security holes and there you have it.
I dont want to be a programmer.
Writing code, chasing bugs, talking about SCO's nonsense... I never wanted to do this job in the first place!
I want to be...
a Lumberjack!
Sorry but I'm not *completely wrong*. Is anything wrong about what I said? I agree with you. My statemment wasn't precise, after I read it again I saw it but from that to say that I'm "completely wrong" it's a long way.
As I said it worked quite well *for me* (and I'm not doing this kind of job anymore). I never said I was (or am) a DBA.
And, again, for me *was* "maintence-free" as usualy my customers at that time was small offices and shops with no IT literate people around and when I used interbase, sometimes people did the database backup dragging and dropping the database file to the local machine.
Got it?
Why are you people bashing so hard about the naming issue? You know what? I don't care!
I know Firebird DB since it's earlier days and I was a Interbase user before that. And I loved it. Why? Because the kind of job I did that time required a simple, efective, maintence-free database and Firebird is exactly that. You can just install it and forget it. The whole database is just one file (at least was) so a simple tar or zip will backup your stuff.
Yeah, yeah, I know there is MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc but as I said, I'm not on this kind of job anymore and even if I was, while firebird does what I want (and well) why should I care about other RDBMS?
It's simplicity.
Reling on numbers and not in raw power as some projects to explode a nuclear device close to the object makes this solution very interesting.
Lots of cheap(?) devices. If some of them breaks, there's a lot more to carry on.
I know it's silly but for me was quite funny to read that one (specialy the title) as in Brazilian Portuguese "Pinto" is "Penis" :)
I used to work for quite large industries as steel and paper. :-D
There were some people who, despite the lack of formal education, had wages way bigger than lots of engineers on the same company. Why? they knew their jobs and the process as a whole so well that they can make it run smoothly and fix the problems quite fast so they worth a lot for the company.
There's one guy I remember that could tell what's wrong with the paper pulp just looking at and smelling it. The man was a damn walking lab
We have a very interesting situation. ADSL is a somewhat new here (about 3 years where I live, not much older in more developed regions). When it came out there was not such thing like caps but now, as the user base is expanding fast, the companies are trying to implement this kind of limitations but they have a problem: the old broadband users like me. Our legislation forbid them to change or cancel the contract unless the other part agrees. So you see on TV and papers, adds about new broadband plans at a lower prices and bonuses for the suck^H^H^H^H users wanting to "upgrade" to the new plans but the catch about the caps only appears in the contract and who have the patience to read EULAS and contracts after all? ;)
Well, I had the same idea but, unfortunatly, I had nothing but trouble using OpenBSD and I tried the last 3 releases. ;)
Basicaly, I had complete system freezes when under heavy load and unstable network drivers (can't remember wich ones right now but the interface dropped at random times).
I don't know if was me but I used the same hardware with IpCop (VIA-M boards actualy) without a hitch so I decided to stick with it.
I will probably try OpenBSD again as I like the idea but at least for me, right now, it's a dead fish - pun intended
Actualy, wasn't weird: it was a dress but it was the ugliest dress I could find. Of course was a joke but the funny part was to see my mother's face trying to smile (a very yellow smile!) and saying it was beautiful and thank you until I burst in laught. :-D
When my mother realized it was a joke her first words to me were "Thank Lord was a joke! I was already thinking a way to get rid o it without offend you!" Them I gave her the real present
I'm not feeling sorry for this guy.
If he was robbed or lost the money on a fraudulent bank or something like that them he would be a victim but he was asked to help on an *ilegal* transaction and was his greed what moved him on.
For me, he is accesory for this crime, not a victim.
I worked with Marcelo at Conectiva (man, I missed that place but...) and that's *not* his real hair :) :-D
He probably just went to a hair stylist and made that... thing
I swear I never imagined Marcelo doing this kind of stuff but he's a kernel developer so you can expect anything!
About 15 years ago I worked for a steel industry. We had those serial, dumb terminals all over the place. Some of them were in places where you have very high temperatures and large quantities of a kind of carbon dust in the air. Some times we had to take them off and to clean the insides, we had to let them imersed in soap water for 24 Hs so the old dust was softed enough to allow us to scrub it off. After that we hang them to dry and voila! Those things never stopped! I really *doubt* a normal PC can handle that place.
...so what on earth makes Steadicopter's design unique?
Maybe because it's so ugly that will scare the crap out the enemy?
It's about time...