This is sort of true, although it's a really bad way of putting it.
MySQL the server, is GPL. You don't need to buy a license for it. There are no restrictions on what you use it for. Same as any other GPL software, the only thing you are restricted from doing is distributing non-GPL'd modifications to it. All standard stuff.
The way they get you is via the client library, which is also GPL, and not LGPL, which is very important: In order to use the server you need to link your code against the client library. This means that in GPL land, your code is classed as a derivative work of the client library and must also be released under the GPL. If that's not compatible with your aims, you need to pay for a license of the client library that will allow you to link it as you please.
There is of course nothing to stop you writing your own client library, but really, who's going to bother for a commercial project? It's going to be less risky, and probably cheaper, to just buy the license.
It's a simple but effective way of making sure that FOSS software projects use it under FOSS terms while proprietary projects use it under commercial terms. Fair enough, IMO.
Because Webkit is superior to Gecko - it's faster and it uses less memory. The built in MicroB browser is not very quick. Fennec is even worse. The GUI responses lag behind the input noticeably.
I wasn't aware of Opera being available for the N900 though, I will give it a try.
But the catalog of applications available is dire. Nobody is developing for it. Yes there are a few apps which are really cool, but they're the exception, and they don't have the same level of polish as you'd expect from Android or iPhone apps. And still no decent Webkit browser!
I'm dumping my N900 for an Android device as soon as I'm out of contract. Sad really because the hardware is excellent, and it had a lot of potential.
First impressions on my N900 - slow and unresponsive. The zooming action is not rendered smoothly and it takes a good few seconds to repaint the zoomed-in area at the new zoom level, in the meantime you're left with pixellated text from where the previous image has been scaled up.
Vitamin Water is OK but still too sweet for my tastes. And expensive. Can't stand squash, something in it makes my back itch (yes I know, I'm a freak) - probably the artificial additives.
Meh. It's about time for me to get off sodas altogether, I think, and start filling the bottles with water. I used to refill them with home-made sweet iced tea - cheap, sweet but not overly so.
I think there's a niche in the market for a soft drink that's tasty and refreshing but not full of sugar. I can't find one. The closest you can get is fruit juice, and even that's usually concentrated or has added sugar.
I obviously have to be careful what I'm saying for legal reasons but if the Toffs have their flash cars and big houses targeted, and some fat cat banker gets stabbed in the street I'm not going to get in anyone's way.
Yes Comrade, fight the power! I haven't worked to earn any of those things either, but damnit I can express outrage towards the people who have! Life isn't fair, so let's hurt other people! Wooo!
You honestly think peoples' wealth is directly proportional to how hard they work? The world isn't that simple. Social injustice is all around us, it's an entirely reasonable thing to be outraged about.
It won't be anything like residential FiOS connections in the US. It's the same kind of fibre leased line service you can get from any telco if you're a business in a city, based on SDH or metro ethernet, with a price tag to match. We're still some way off residential FTTH in the UK. Some areas have it but it's still very rare and very early days.
Can you do an accelerated triple/quad head setup with 2 Nvidia cards in any Windows flavour? If so, then what's holding Linux/xorg/KDE back?
Years of neglect during the XFree86 days, basically. Xorg is still playing catch-up to Windows which had these concepts nailed years ago. It also doesn't help that Nvidia and ATI, as the two main vendors of graphics hardware, tend to ignore the Xorg architecture and implement things like multiple displays in their own way. The whole mess is an embarrassment, and one of the few major problems holding Linux back as a desktop OS:(
Xinerama needs to die and the driver vendors need to start taking RandR 1.3 support seriously (I'm looking at you Nvidia).. I found a triple-head Xinerama setup using two Quadro NVS 295s had such bad 2D performance (especially in KDE) that it was unusable.
From the same page: "Left-libertarianism combines the libertarian premise that each person possesses a natural right of self-ownership with the egalitarian premise that natural resources should be shared equally."
SSL is designed to protect against active man-in-the-middle attacks.
If you use a self-signed certificate, they will get a big scary red warning page instead of the site (even on IE these days)...
If you have your own certificate (slightly more expensive and difficult to obtain) then you stand a better chance of fooling them, as it won't trigger the warning page, but won't stand up to close scrutiny.
The various coverage of the absurd longevity of IE6 recently has made me feel pretty good about my decision to move my career away from things Web-related. The pain of trying to make a modern website work with a 9 year old & buggy-as-shit browser is something I never wish to go through. IE6 is something I would maybe fire up for a bit of ironic nostalgia, typing in various URLs, giggling at how badly it renders and remembering that this is what the internet used to be like, before remembering that people are actually still using this software on a daily basis, and being very glad I'm not one of them.
Here's an idea for Mozilla and Google. Make your browsers configurable by Active Directory Group Policy Objects so that they can be locked down in "enterprise" environments like IE can be. This is surely the biggest barrier to corporate uptake of Firefox, Chrome, etc?
I know runs contrary to some of the other posts here but I found Firefox for the N900 to be frustratingly slow. The MicroB browser feels far more responsive. I ended up uninstalling Firefox in the end because I just didn't have any reason to use it over MicroB. But even MicroB isn't as fast as it should be - this is inherent in using Gecko, which everyone knows is slower than Webkit, and the difference is especially noticable on a mobile device. It seemed like a very odd choice for Nokia to make. Tear shows promise but is not quite there yet.
It seems that the head researcher on this project is David Nutt, who was sacked by the British government over his "controversial" views on drugs like THC and ecstasy. What a bunch of blowhards; but then I'm not one to talk, since the teabaggers here hold the same rigid views.
The guy is awesome. Having been sacked in a purely political manoeuvre by Jacqui Smith (spit) it sounds like he now leads an Alexander Shulgin-like life of synthesising new chemicals and trying them out faster than the government can ban or control them. Sadly the same reasons for him being sacked will probably mean that this project doesn't gain any traction. Politics trump science and reason...
2.6.32's KMS and R600/700 improvements are expected to give a huge 3D performance boost to the open source ATI drivers - can't wait to test this!
This is indeed excellent although it needs to be backed up by support from the X driver. Currently I am running Ubuntu Karmic on a Radeon HD 3600 series card (RV635, which counts as an R600 series - quite confusing) and 3D support sucks. Both the "radeon" and "radeonhd" drivers only have basic support for these chips - desktop effects don't really work.
I was using the fglrx driver on Jaunty, which worked OK, but it seems to be getting worse with every release. In Karmic it was so broken I just gave up on it. It seems to play a lot better with Compiz/GNOME than with KDE for some reason.
The logical fallacy in this cliche has always irritated me.
- If all bad workmen blame their tools, does it follow that all workmen that blame their tools are bad ones? - If all dogs are animals with four legs*, does it follow that all animals with four legs are dogs?
If you like pizza and would like one in authentic Italian style at an insanely cheap price, go to Franco Manca in Brixton market. It's made by real Italians and I've heard it described as the best pizza you can get outside Italy, the best pizza in London, the best pizza in the UK etc etc and can confirm first-hand that it is indeed "bloody good". It is a completely different beast to pizza you get in America (also damn good, but different). The awkward thing is that because it's inside a covered market it has to close when the market closes, so no evenings or Sundays. And you might have to queue for 20 minutes or so. And you don't get much elbow room. And you might have to share your table with a stranger. All worth it though:)
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This is sort of true, although it's a really bad way of putting it.
MySQL the server, is GPL. You don't need to buy a license for it. There are no restrictions on what you use it for. Same as any other GPL software, the only thing you are restricted from doing is distributing non-GPL'd modifications to it. All standard stuff.
The way they get you is via the client library, which is also GPL, and not LGPL, which is very important: In order to use the server you need to link your code against the client library. This means that in GPL land, your code is classed as a derivative work of the client library and must also be released under the GPL. If that's not compatible with your aims, you need to pay for a license of the client library that will allow you to link it as you please.
There is of course nothing to stop you writing your own client library, but really, who's going to bother for a commercial project? It's going to be less risky, and probably cheaper, to just buy the license.
It's a simple but effective way of making sure that FOSS software projects use it under FOSS terms while proprietary projects use it under commercial terms. Fair enough, IMO.
And stupid people will find a way to be annoying no matter what you do.
Like just holding down the shift key?
Yes.
Because Webkit is superior to Gecko - it's faster and it uses less memory. The built in MicroB browser is not very quick. Fennec is even worse. The GUI responses lag behind the input noticeably.
I wasn't aware of Opera being available for the N900 though, I will give it a try.
But the catalog of applications available is dire. Nobody is developing for it. Yes there are a few apps which are really cool, but they're the exception, and they don't have the same level of polish as you'd expect from Android or iPhone apps. And still no decent Webkit browser!
I'm dumping my N900 for an Android device as soon as I'm out of contract. Sad really because the hardware is excellent, and it had a lot of potential.
First impressions on my N900 - slow and unresponsive. The zooming action is not rendered smoothly and it takes a good few seconds to repaint the zoomed-in area at the new zoom level, in the meantime you're left with pixellated text from where the previous image has been scaled up.
It's still a sweetened drink though isn't it? It's as much about the taste as it's about the calorific value as far as I'm concerned.
Vitamin Water is OK but still too sweet for my tastes. And expensive. Can't stand squash, something in it makes my back itch (yes I know, I'm a freak) - probably the artificial additives.
Meh. It's about time for me to get off sodas altogether, I think, and start filling the bottles with water. I used to refill them with home-made sweet iced tea - cheap, sweet but not overly so.
I think there's a niche in the market for a soft drink that's tasty and refreshing but not full of sugar. I can't find one. The closest you can get is fruit juice, and even that's usually concentrated or has added sugar.
Yes Comrade, fight the power! I haven't worked to earn any of those things either, but damnit I can express outrage towards the people who have! Life isn't fair, so let's hurt other people! Wooo!
You honestly think peoples' wealth is directly proportional to how hard they work? The world isn't that simple. Social injustice is all around us, it's an entirely reasonable thing to be outraged about.
Free Norton products for life!
With America's wealth, it shouldn't need charity to fight disease. Also, the two aren't mutually exclusive. Also, it's not more important.
I have almost eighty, 20-amp circuits, plus a few 50's
On a domestic power supply? WTF are you doing with all that power?!
It won't be anything like residential FiOS connections in the US. It's the same kind of fibre leased line service you can get from any telco if you're a business in a city, based on SDH or metro ethernet, with a price tag to match. We're still some way off residential FTTH in the UK. Some areas have it but it's still very rare and very early days.
Can you do an accelerated triple/quad head setup with 2 Nvidia cards in any Windows flavour? If so, then what's holding Linux/xorg/KDE back?
Years of neglect during the XFree86 days, basically. Xorg is still playing catch-up to Windows which had these concepts nailed years ago. It also doesn't help that Nvidia and ATI, as the two main vendors of graphics hardware, tend to ignore the Xorg architecture and implement things like multiple displays in their own way. The whole mess is an embarrassment, and one of the few major problems holding Linux back as a desktop OS :(
Xinerama needs to die and the driver vendors need to start taking RandR 1.3 support seriously (I'm looking at you Nvidia).. I found a triple-head Xinerama setup using two Quadro NVS 295s had such bad 2D performance (especially in KDE) that it was unusable.
Also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTkc7s8pA0 - 0:19 :)
Not really.
From the same page: "Left-libertarianism combines the libertarian premise that each person possesses a natural right of self-ownership with the egalitarian premise that natural resources should be shared equally."
I'd guess either "very suspicious" or "very confused" depending on level of technical ability...
SSL is designed to protect against active man-in-the-middle attacks.
If you use a self-signed certificate, they will get a big scary red warning page instead of the site (even on IE these days)...
If you have your own certificate (slightly more expensive and difficult to obtain) then you stand a better chance of fooling them, as it won't trigger the warning page, but won't stand up to close scrutiny.
The various coverage of the absurd longevity of IE6 recently has made me feel pretty good about my decision to move my career away from things Web-related. The pain of trying to make a modern website work with a 9 year old & buggy-as-shit browser is something I never wish to go through. IE6 is something I would maybe fire up for a bit of ironic nostalgia, typing in various URLs, giggling at how badly it renders and remembering that this is what the internet used to be like, before remembering that people are actually still using this software on a daily basis, and being very glad I'm not one of them.
Here's an idea for Mozilla and Google. Make your browsers configurable by Active Directory Group Policy Objects so that they can be locked down in "enterprise" environments like IE can be. This is surely the biggest barrier to corporate uptake of Firefox, Chrome, etc?
I know runs contrary to some of the other posts here but I found Firefox for the N900 to be frustratingly slow. The MicroB browser feels far more responsive. I ended up uninstalling Firefox in the end because I just didn't have any reason to use it over MicroB. But even MicroB isn't as fast as it should be - this is inherent in using Gecko, which everyone knows is slower than Webkit, and the difference is especially noticable on a mobile device. It seemed like a very odd choice for Nokia to make. Tear shows promise but is not quite there yet.
It seems that the head researcher on this project is David Nutt, who was sacked by the British government over his "controversial" views on drugs like THC and ecstasy. What a bunch of blowhards; but then I'm not one to talk, since the teabaggers here hold the same rigid views.
The guy is awesome. Having been sacked in a purely political manoeuvre by Jacqui Smith (spit) it sounds like he now leads an Alexander Shulgin-like life of synthesising new chemicals and trying them out faster than the government can ban or control them. Sadly the same reasons for him being sacked will probably mean that this project doesn't gain any traction. Politics trump science and reason...
2.6.32's KMS and R600/700 improvements are expected to give a huge 3D performance boost to the open source ATI drivers - can't wait to test this!
This is indeed excellent although it needs to be backed up by support from the X driver. Currently I am running Ubuntu Karmic on a Radeon HD 3600 series card (RV635, which counts as an R600 series - quite confusing) and 3D support sucks. Both the "radeon" and "radeonhd" drivers only have basic support for these chips - desktop effects don't really work.
I was using the fglrx driver on Jaunty, which worked OK, but it seems to be getting worse with every release. In Karmic it was so broken I just gave up on it. It seems to play a lot better with Compiz/GNOME than with KDE for some reason.
it's just sometimes, it's a resource hog.
A bad workman always blames his tools
The logical fallacy in this cliche has always irritated me.
- If all bad workmen blame their tools, does it follow that all workmen that blame their tools are bad ones?
- If all dogs are animals with four legs*, does it follow that all animals with four legs are dogs?
* Excluding accidents and birth defects
If you like pizza and would like one in authentic Italian style at an insanely cheap price, go to Franco Manca in Brixton market. It's made by real Italians and I've heard it described as the best pizza you can get outside Italy, the best pizza in London, the best pizza in the UK etc etc and can confirm first-hand that it is indeed "bloody good". It is a completely different beast to pizza you get in America (also damn good, but different). The awkward thing is that because it's inside a covered market it has to close when the market closes, so no evenings or Sundays. And you might have to queue for 20 minutes or so. And you don't get much elbow room. And you might have to share your table with a stranger. All worth it though :)