And two minutes later, someone told me of Gnap, a GNOME client for Napster which apparently the Napster people doesn't really like. I mirrored it here for those interested. Looks pretty okay.
I looked at it the other week and I didn't really like the client very much. Had a quick look at the protocol used and it seems simple enough so I was thinking about writing a GNOME client for it. It's hard to do GNOME stuff on a VT320 terminal though, but perhaps someone else is working on this already (I hope so)?
There are several examples like that. I don't know the origin, but I think it was a newspaper article quite a few years ago (I have it around here.. somewhere). For example, when Nova (the car) was brought to Spain, it didn't sell very well since Nova (no va) translates into "doesn't go". Ford Pinto didn't fare much better; who would drive a car named "small male appendage"? Nike cought on fire (literally!) when an angry mob informed them of that "air" on one of their products was strikingly similar the arabic "Allah". Branif translated it's airline slogan, "Fly in leather" into Spanish as "Fly naked", and the most horrible error was probably some random baby food manufacturer who began selling their product in South Africa. What they didn't think of was that most products in South Africa are labeled with a picture of the food inside the container (due to illiteracy). Their product was of course labeled with a baby, since that was whom the product was supposed for. Imagine the horror -- tinned babies!?
So what IS a violation of privacy then? What type of processor you have? How much diskspace you have left? How about all of those "innocent" things together? We have here a group of people who say, "yeah, well, it's not such a big problem." What they are doing is giving up a small part of their privacy. Instead of protesting against this, the have the idea that it's okay to lose a little of your privacy because you get to play a nice game instead. Remember that whenever you lose some of your freedom or your privacy, you always get something in return, some small thing which you get to have, or get to know. What we must do is resist the urge to say "well, it's not so bad after all," and really stand up to tell them that this is unacceptable behaviour and that we would rather not play their games than lose parts of our privacy.
I was watching some show yesterday. I have no idea what it was, but I come to think of something that was said then; "Anyone who intends to become a public person should decide at age 7 that he wants this, and then live his entire life as if he didn't have a private life."
Or; you can just change the logformat in Apache. This is what I use. It gives the same output format as the default log format, but has two entries appended to it for referer and user-agent.
I too spend some time on MUSHes. Surprisingly, when I fired up TinyFugue a month or so ago after having been away for almost one year, I still saw the same people connected (more or less) as was there when I left. Unfortunately, there are not a great deal of new players/community members to MUDs.
The communities still exist in various forms. They have just moved on from the dial-up form to some other form of communication. There are a lot of BBSes out on the Internet which you can connect to using telnet. There's also an increasing amount of gatheringplaces on the web for people to meet and interact with each other. I don't really prefer the web type interaction, but it certainly seems to attract a lot of the youths today. But contrary to the BBS world, people don't seem to "advertise" their communities like they used to do earlier. Instead, they kind of keep to themselves and it turns into a very closely connected society. Also, communities are formed inside of larger groups of people. IRC, AIM, Zephyr, etc are probably good examples of this. When you think of it; this is really the way the world works IRL too. You seldom see advertisements for groups of people (unless they have a specific interest). Instead, you tend to meet new people through friends and family. In IRC, you probably meet friends of your friends and start talking and perhaps that person you speak to will then be your friend too, just like in real life.
This seems to be the way our community works now that we have "news" agencies such as Slashdot to focus our attention to specific issues. You're busy hacking for 12 hours and when you return to the world, perhaps looking quickly at Slashdot, all hell has broken loose. I trust Bruce, RMS and others to handle these situations perfectly well and there's no need for me to get particularly upset about it. I'd rather spend my energy on writing free software instead, wouldn't you?
Why did you send this to Bruce? It should be perfectly obvious that it's better to contact the FSF about issues regarding possible flaws in the GPL. If your conclusion would have been right (I don't think it is), the FSF lawyer could have looked at it together with RMS to draft a change.
The DFSG simply says this so that all licenses that does not conform with it will cause programs licensed with that license to be excluded from the Debian main distribution. There is nothing that prevents Corel from making up their own restrictions on who can aquire the software from them. But when someone has gotten the software from them, they must be able to release sourcecode to any GPL och LGPLed software they have sold.
Also, nothing prevents one person from getting their distribution and then giving it away to minors in part or as a whole (provided their distribution doesn't contain any proprietary software, or software with an obnoxious license).
That probably depends on exactly what they are restricting. You can always say to someone that, "No, I don't want to give you this software." But it's a violation of the GPL if you say, "Here! Take this software from me!" and in another breath say "Oh, I forgot, you can't have the sourcecode if you're a minior."
Isn't this like drawing the attention of people away from the real issue? They should probably not be collecting this information in the first place! Now, instead of having a bunch of people shouting, "you shouldn't be doing this!", they have a group shouting, "HA! Told you it would never work!", whilst the NSA really can handle the information and just sits back and relaxes, confident in that noone thinks of the real issue any more.
Yes, the hotels in NYC are increadibly expensive. You can look at some of the hostels though. Some of them are really just a few blocks away from Javits and cost significantly less than a hotel. There's a list of hostels here.
I'm going there to meet interesting and fun people. This community is like an extended family, so you can think of these conferences as family reunions:-)
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, as far as I know, it is abandoned. The FSF doesn't work on it any more and the last mail to the hackers list was in early 1998.
So what would one cost then? I want one.. err.. I NEED one ;>
Any news on when Debian will start accepting new maintainer applications again?
And two minutes later, someone told me of Gnap, a GNOME client for Napster which apparently the Napster people doesn't really like. I mirrored it here for those interested. Looks pretty okay.
I looked at it the other week and I didn't really like the client very much. Had a quick look at the protocol used and it seems simple enough so I was thinking about writing a GNOME client for it. It's hard to do GNOME stuff on a VT320 terminal though, but perhaps someone else is working on this already (I hope so)?
Different languages? Does this mean they have several versions for different langauges? Why not just support internationalization through gettext?
There are several examples like that. I don't know the origin, but I think it was a newspaper article quite a few years ago (I have it around here.. somewhere).
For example, when Nova (the car) was brought to Spain, it didn't sell very well since Nova (no va) translates into "doesn't go". Ford Pinto didn't fare much better; who would drive a car named "small male appendage"? Nike cought on fire (literally!) when an angry mob informed them of that "air" on one of their products was strikingly similar the arabic "Allah". Branif translated it's airline slogan, "Fly in leather" into Spanish as "Fly naked", and the most horrible error was probably some random baby food manufacturer who began selling their product in South Africa. What they didn't think of was that most products in South Africa are labeled with a picture of the food inside the container (due to illiteracy). Their product was of course labeled with a baby, since that was whom the product was supposed for. Imagine the horror -- tinned babies!?
So what IS a violation of privacy then? What type of processor you have? How much diskspace you have left? How about all of those "innocent" things together?
We have here a group of people who say, "yeah, well, it's not such a big problem." What they are doing is giving up a small part of their privacy. Instead of protesting against this, the have the idea that it's okay to lose a little of your privacy because you get to play a nice game instead. Remember that whenever you lose some of your freedom or your privacy, you always get something in return, some small thing which you get to have, or get to know. What we must do is resist the urge to say "well, it's not so bad after all," and really stand up to tell them that this is unacceptable behaviour and that we would rather not play their games than lose parts of our privacy.
I was watching some show yesterday. I have no idea what it was, but I come to think of something that was said then; "Anyone who intends to become a public person should decide at age 7 that he wants this, and then live his entire life as if he didn't have a private life."
Why not a combination? Cultural Imperialism and Statistical Geekology in a Postmodern Slashdot Society.
We'll just call is WASEP (WASEP Addendum to the Slashdot Effect Paper), and then we can recurse all we want.
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\""
I too spend some time on MUSHes. Surprisingly, when I fired up TinyFugue a month or so ago after having been away for almost one year, I still saw the same people connected (more or less) as was there when I left. Unfortunately, there are not a great deal of new players/community members to MUDs.
The communities still exist in various forms. They have just moved on from the dial-up form to some other form of communication. There are a lot of BBSes out on the Internet which you can connect to using telnet. There's also an increasing amount of gatheringplaces on the web for people to meet and interact with each other. I don't really prefer the web type interaction, but it certainly seems to attract a lot of the youths today.
But contrary to the BBS world, people don't seem to "advertise" their communities like they used to do earlier. Instead, they kind of keep to themselves and it turns into a very closely connected society.
Also, communities are formed inside of larger groups of people. IRC, AIM, Zephyr, etc are probably good examples of this. When you think of it; this is really the way the world works IRL too. You seldom see advertisements for groups of people (unless they have a specific interest). Instead, you tend to meet new people through friends and family. In IRC, you probably meet friends of your friends and start talking and perhaps that person you speak to will then be your friend too, just like in real life.
Well, it wasn't -that- bad, but I think they could have made it a little more Lynx-friendly. The list of links look particularly horrible.
This seems to be the way our community works now that we have "news" agencies such as Slashdot to focus our attention to specific issues. You're busy hacking for 12 hours and when you return to the world, perhaps looking quickly at Slashdot, all hell has broken loose. I trust Bruce, RMS and others to handle these situations perfectly well and there's no need for me to get particularly upset about it. I'd rather spend my energy on writing free software instead, wouldn't you?
Why did you send this to Bruce? It should be perfectly obvious that it's better to contact the FSF about issues regarding possible flaws in the GPL. If your conclusion would have been right (I don't think it is), the FSF lawyer could have looked at it together with RMS to draft a change.
The DFSG simply says this so that all licenses that does not conform with it will cause programs licensed with that license to be excluded from the Debian main distribution. There is nothing that prevents Corel from making up their own restrictions on who can aquire the software from them. But when someone has gotten the software from them, they must be able to release sourcecode to any GPL och LGPLed software they have sold.
Also, nothing prevents one person from getting their distribution and then giving it away to minors in part or as a whole (provided their distribution doesn't contain any proprietary software, or software with an obnoxious license).
That probably depends on exactly what they are
restricting. You can always say to someone that, "No, I don't want to give you this software."
But it's a violation of the GPL if you say, "Here! Take this software from me!" and in another breath say "Oh, I forgot, you can't have the sourcecode if you're a minior."
This is an interesting license. I don't see any immediate showstoppers which would prevent this from being a free software license.
Isn't this like drawing the attention of people away from the real issue? They should probably not be collecting this information in the first place! Now, instead of having a bunch of people shouting, "you shouldn't be doing this!", they have a group shouting, "HA! Told you it would never work!", whilst the NSA really can handle the information and just sits back and relaxes, confident in that noone thinks of the real issue any more.
Yes, the hotels in NYC are increadibly expensive. You can look at some of the hostels though. Some of them are really just a few blocks away from Javits and cost significantly less than a hotel. There's a list of hostels here.
I'm going there to meet interesting and fun people. This community is like an extended family, so you can think of these conferences as family reunions :-)
Just got my plane tickets to The Bazaar today :) This is going to be such a great conference. Hope a good time will be had by all.
I'd say that Starwar and ITS are among the top 10 hacks, not counting the numerous non-computer related hacks.