The really funny part is that my post got modded redundant.
What is funny about that? It is redundant. It had already been said. The idea behind moderation is not to reward witty types for their wittines, it is about filter out noise for the reader. If a joke is told two times one of them really is redundant. It would be noise.
Oh, this comment is also redudant. One can probably read all about this here in the Slashdot FAQ
If you don't agree with the redundant modifier you could always set redundant to be +/-0 points in stead of -1.
The european patent office has issued a lot of patents on software. I believe it is in the thousands. What the patent holder cannot do at this point in time is to enforce the patent. That is of course what they would like to change.
Ubuntu is an example of some folks who want to do things that are IMO very very stupid.
What is very very stupid about the ideas of the people working on Ubuntu? Please enlighten me, as I do not know.
This is Ubuntu:
he Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit
Mostly like Debian.
And then there is:
Ubuntu will always be free of charge, and there is no extra fee for the "enterprise edition", we make our very best work available to everyone on the same Free terms.
Ubuntu includes the very best in translations and accessibility infrastructure that the Free Software community has to offer, to make Ubuntu usable by as many people as possible.
Ubuntu is released regularly and predictably; a new release is made every six months. You can use the current stable release or the current development release. Each release is supported with security updates for at least 18 months.
Ubuntu is entirely committed to the principles of free and open source software development; we encourage people to use free and open source software, improve it and pass it on.
Gnome is not a window manager, it is a desktop environment. There is a difference. These days Metacity is the window manager of Gnome. It used to be sawfish/sawmill. Before that I think it was Enlightenment. Anyway... Gnome is not a window manager.
Its a EU-directive. For some reason Norway think its good to follow whatever the EU decide. The parties in charge of government also want the new law, they are however in a minority. The oposition has signaled that the law will not be passed. That would be quite interesting actually as it would be only the second time Norway vetos a EU-directive.
Debian still has no PHP 5 support, that probably helps. I am not sure why. Anyway, will hold out until PHP 5 goes.deb. The only thing I install from source on my servers is the Linux-kernel.
How about this? Apple prepared lots of BTO boxes with Bluetooth and hard drive upgrades before the launch. But because of the price almost no one bothered ordering Bluetooth and 80gb upgrades for their systems. Now Apple has lots of upgraded Mac Minis, but is getting short on barebone systems.
Apple now hope to get rid of their stock of mac minis with bluetooth, Airport, 512MB ram, and 80GB hard drive.
This theory does not however address the 4x to 8x superdrive issue. Maybe Apple bought the last batch of 4x from that their supplier inteded to manufacture.
". IPv6 is intended to replace the previous standard, IPv4, which only supports up to about 4 billion (4 × 109) addresses, whereas IPv6 supports up to about 3.4 × 1038 (3.4 dodecillion) addresses. This is the equivalent of 4.3 × 1020 addresses per inch (6.7 × 1017 addresses/mm) of the Earth's surface."
It should hold for a little while.
It's enough addresses for many trillions of addresses to be assigned to every human being on the planet.
The earth is about 4.5 billion years old.
If we had been assigning IPv6 addresses at a rate of 1 billion per second since the earth was formed, we would have by now used up less than one trillionth of the address space.
What is to keep me from replacing the laptop with another laptop that use the same ip-address? MAC filtering will not cut it because MAC can easily be spoofed.
I am not very impressed with the network mounting in os x. FTP does not support upload, there is no sftp, and if the remote host goes down there is a 30 second Finder freeze before you can continue with your work.
I hope they fix this in Tiger. 10.3 is way better than 10.1 in this respect though.
And this is why my boycott won't work. Too many people are content with the idea of disposable hardware, and just accept the fact that they'll have to buy several of the same machine
I am all for boycotting stuff that needs to be boycotted. However GTA3 prevent me from boycotting Playstation 2. There is no way I buy a new PC just to run that game alone. And I need my GTA3 fix.
I opened the first failed PS2 i actually manged to fix it. There was a issue with the mechanics that is supposed to move laser over the disc. This playstation was bought as a gift to my borther. It was bought with GTA3 (the original)
I added some oil and let the mechnics move a bit so the thing worked fine for a few months. But then it failed again. I think I can make it work a second time.
The 2nd PS2 my girlfriend bought for me. It was bought a few weeks before the relase of GTA3:Vice City.
Now its quite likely that I may have to buy another PS2 for the release of San Andres.
Its true; GTA3 drives the sales of the PS2. At least in my family.
Im not bitter at Sony or anything. Stuff break. Hopefully I have just been unlucky.
Sure, but the DVD-drive stops working after about a year. At least it has done so one my two PS2. I will try to fix one this week. If I fail I must buy another PS2 so that I can play San Andreas this weekend.
Yes. The Quake II source contain makefiles for Windows (Visual c++ project), GNU/Linux, Solaris, Irix and the abandoned Rhapsody. Fruitz of dojo has ported the game to os x.
You are supposed to buy the game, or use your old copy to make use of the sourcecode. Another option is to create your own content.
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The really funny part is that my post got modded redundant.
What is funny about that? It is redundant. It had already been said. The idea behind moderation is not to reward witty types for their wittines, it is about filter out noise for the reader. If a joke is told two times one of them really is redundant. It would be noise.
Oh, this comment is also redudant. One can probably read all about this here in the Slashdot FAQ
If you don't agree with the redundant modifier you could always set redundant to be +/-0 points in stead of -1.
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The european patent office has issued a lot of patents on software. I believe it is in the thousands. What the patent holder cannot do at this point in time is to enforce the patent. That is of course what they would like to change.
Ubuntu is an example of some folks who want to do things that are IMO very very stupid.
What is very very stupid about the ideas of the people working on Ubuntu? Please enlighten me, as I do not know.
This is Ubuntu:
he Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customise and alter their software in whatever way they see fit
Mostly like Debian.
And then there is:
Ubuntu will always be free of charge, and there is no extra fee for the "enterprise edition", we make our very best work available to everyone on the same Free terms.
Ubuntu includes the very best in translations and accessibility infrastructure that the Free Software community has to offer, to make Ubuntu usable by as many people as possible.
Ubuntu is released regularly and predictably; a new release is made every six months. You can use the current stable release or the current development release. Each release is supported with security updates for at least 18 months.
Ubuntu is entirely committed to the principles of free and open source software development; we encourage people to use free and open source software, improve it and pass it on.
Where is the stupidity?
Gnome is not a window manager, it is a desktop environment. There is a difference. These days Metacity is the window manager of Gnome. It used to be sawfish/sawmill. Before that I think it was Enlightenment. Anyway... Gnome is not a window manager.
Its a EU-directive. For some reason Norway think its good to follow whatever the EU decide. The parties in charge of government also want the new law, they are however in a minority. The oposition has signaled that the law will not be passed. That would be quite interesting actually as it would be only the second time Norway vetos a EU-directive.
Debian still has no PHP 5 support, that probably helps. I am not sure why. Anyway, will hold out until PHP 5 goes .deb. The only thing I install from source on my servers is the Linux-kernel.
Apple does sell a server with a UNIX* default install. It is called xserve
*(UNIX as in not Linux)
One can get sound to work on the Mac Mini. There is a post from a guy getting it to work on Ubuntuforums.
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http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1274
How about this? Apple prepared lots of BTO boxes with Bluetooth and hard drive upgrades before the launch. But because of the price almost no one bothered ordering Bluetooth and 80gb upgrades for their systems. Now Apple has lots of upgraded Mac Minis, but is getting short on barebone systems.
Apple now hope to get rid of their stock of mac minis with bluetooth, Airport, 512MB ram, and 80GB hard drive.
This theory does not however address the 4x to 8x superdrive issue. Maybe Apple bought the last batch of 4x from that their supplier inteded to manufacture.
". IPv6 is intended to replace the previous standard, IPv4, which only supports up to about 4 billion (4 × 109) addresses, whereas IPv6 supports up to about 3.4 × 1038 (3.4 dodecillion) addresses. This is the equivalent of 4.3 × 1020 addresses per inch (6.7 × 1017 addresses/mm) of the Earth's surface."
It should hold for a little while.
It's enough addresses for many trillions of addresses to be assigned to every human being on the planet.
The earth is about 4.5 billion years old.
If we had been assigning IPv6 addresses at a rate of 1 billion per second since the earth was formed, we would have by now used up less than one trillionth of the address space.
From tcpipguide
RMS will also pronounce the / part. So it is GNU slash Linux. Thats Lih-nux not Lie-nux.
Deja vu
>every Apple sold gets Bill G. money.
How is that?
His point is that the exchange used in the article could be wrong.
What is to keep me from replacing the laptop with another laptop that use the same ip-address? MAC filtering will not cut it because MAC can easily be spoofed.
Funny joke but uspto tell a different story:
I am not very impressed with the network mounting in os x. FTP does not support upload, there is no sftp, and if the remote host goes down there is a 30 second Finder freeze before you can continue with your work.
I hope they fix this in Tiger. 10.3 is way better than 10.1 in this respect though.
This is strange. It used to work before. I think I used it about a month ago, different ISP same country (Norway). Today I also get access denied.
What is the reason for blocking other countries? Whe deny american voters in Norway access to the campaign website?
My guess is that GWB-campaign is tired of foreign media linking to their videos. This could however be fixed in a different manner.
And this is why my boycott won't work. Too many people are content with the idea of disposable hardware, and just accept the fact that they'll have to buy several of the same machine
I am all for boycotting stuff that needs to be boycotted. However GTA3 prevent me from boycotting Playstation 2. There is no way I buy a new PC just to run that game alone. And I need my GTA3 fix.
I opened the first failed PS2 i actually manged to fix it. There was a issue with the mechanics that is supposed to move laser over the disc. This playstation was bought as a gift to my borther. It was bought with GTA3 (the original)
I added some oil and let the mechnics move a bit so the thing worked fine for a few months. But then it failed again. I think I can make it work a second time.
The 2nd PS2 my girlfriend bought for me. It was bought a few weeks before the relase of GTA3:Vice City.
Now its quite likely that I may have to buy another PS2 for the release of San Andres.
Its true; GTA3 drives the sales of the PS2. At least in my family.
Im not bitter at Sony or anything. Stuff break. Hopefully I have just been unlucky.
Did I say anything about Windows or even Microsoft?
Sure, but the DVD-drive stops working after about a year. At least it has done so one my two PS2. I will try to fix one this week. If I fail I must buy another PS2 so that I can play San Andreas this weekend.
Mmmm, organized crime.
Heh. Even .Mac upped their accounts from 15mb to 250mb. (shared with iDisk). Thanks a bunch Google.
Yes. The Quake II source contain makefiles for Windows (Visual c++ project), GNU/Linux, Solaris, Irix and the abandoned Rhapsody. Fruitz of dojo has ported the game to os x.
You are supposed to buy the game, or use your old copy to make use of the sourcecode. Another option is to create your own content.