What's even more ironic is the fact that we also accept many of these 'illegal' boat people here, yet at the same time, turn away people who filled out the paperwork and 'deport' them because they can stay here no longer. The only reason the paperwork doesn't get finished is because of backlog.
Yes, they do. But the difference is, every time you query the CDDB database YOU are accessing their server. It would make sense that their server could keep track of this.
IN the case of real player, why should it send information to RealNEtworks when it's not required to?
Same goes for browsers, in case nobody noticed. If you mis-type a URL, the error page is fetched from Microsoft (Or Netscape, as the case may be)
This is BAD> Just because I mistyped something does not mean they should know about it.
You are incorrect, I believe. The store, unfortunately, acts like they sold you a 'product' when really all they did was collect a license fee for Microsoft.
The installation screen states rather clearly (if you read it) that 'USING THIS SOFTWARE PRODUCT constitutes agreement with the enclosed EULA. If you do not like this, return the product for a full refund'
This is fairly clear, even by legalese standards. (note, though it sounds wierd, it is not forcing you to agree to a contract you haven't seen. It simply states that you agree that, in order to proceed with installation, you must agree to the terms of the license, and that if you do not, you can return it for a full refund.
That's what I read, yeah. They license what you can use the machine for in a traditional server sense. They simply want you to fork out the $$$ if you want a server instead of a workstation.
They don't want to prevent you from connecting to stuff.
Firstly, perl was a very good tool for unix sysadmins. Unix sysadmins tended to be a) young and b) dominate the ISP industry. IN other words, the people in the position to write CGI stuff were the unix sysadmins. they could, easier than someone else, understand the integration between everything. So, naturally, they used whatever tools were handy to do CGI scripts. (I hate the term, btw. CGI defines an interface between the web server and the program. There is really no such thing as a 'CGI script'. It is a program that conforms to the CGI.)
So, naturally, all the original documents about how to deal with CGI were perl examples. So everyone did it in perl. Now, you ahve a path of least resistance. The perl tools are already there, and perl is an easy language to use.. so.... everyone uses it.
What do you mean you still have to pay InterNIC? (You mean Network Solutions, right?)
You don't. You pay the accreditted registrar who registered your domain for you. In this case, tucows. (yes, Network Solutions sees some of this money)
People haven't done this before because Network Solutions has SOLE CONTROL of the.com,.net, and.org domains, and nobody but them, until very recently, could insert names into the root zones.
In what way is the redhat kernel non-standard? What closed-source driver modules? Heavily pathced? As far as I've ever seen, RedHat simply compiles lots of modules, they don't use any patched kernel source to do it either.
As for modules, remember, binary-only (non-gpl) modules are only permitted if the hooks for them already exist in the kernel. If they don't, they can't do it.
I also brought this in to an all-NT environment, and so-far, it was worked out very nicely.
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How would it fall 'up' instead of down?
It would seem obvious that the only gravity well nearby is the Earth, and as the top of the elevator would be in geosynchronous orbit (or would it?), the only place for things below the geosynch point would be to fall down the gravity well.
Or is there some way that the base could be pulled up into orbit?
Reading DVD Rom is no problem whatsoever in linux. They behave, as far as I can tell, like a normal CD Rom drive. (read: To use my new pioneer DVD Rom in Linux, I didn't have to make single modification.) (it replaced my aging cdrom drive)
The issue here is decoding and playing actual DVD Movie titles. Accessing the raw files is not a problem. It's the decoding of the video/audio files that is the issue.
Okay. Yes, evidence may show this, as a statistic.
I think the reason, though, lies in what we choose to do with our brains.
If you don't think about abstract problems very much, your ability to do so declines. If you never think about math, your ability to deal with it decilnes.
If you start studying math again, and getting all these patterns wrapped up in your head, you start getting better at it again. The brain is good at what it does the most, as those are generally the most important things to you.
If you get older, and stop thinking so much, then of course, when some wierd problem comes by, you'll think 'I could have solved that in my youth'. But really, you could have done it now, too, if you hadn't given up.
No. You can have all the mp3 you want. Owning copyrighted material is legal. DISTRIBUTING copyrighted material without permission is what is illegal.
Software, on the other hand, is about licensing. What MS was trying to do was find companies who had purchased counterfiet microsoft products. And this seems to me like a good way to do it. They would rather give the guy who unknowingly purchased counterfiet software the real thing, and find out about it, and gather evidence (maybe they can find out who is counterfieting.).
No, it certainly doesn't mean that. It means if you have that distribution, you can drop it in and play. The company is telling you 'This is the version we made it to work with. We only guarantee that it works on that.'. It really doesn't mean that they've even checked whether it works anywhere else. They probably don't know.
The problem is, you don't 'buy' a domain, you 'register' it. It's not yours, it's just a database entry that points to your servers> You pay a fee to have it put there. there is NOTHING saying you have to renew, or that anyone has to let you.
This was not because Internic had to obey trademark law, it was only due to their own internal policy.. that a Trademark holder wins over a non-trademark holder.
Unlimited TLD's are a bad idea. What would be better is a lock-down on the generic TLD's. Stick to the country domains. Let countries do what they want with them.
And find a different way to 'browse the web' than using domain names directly. Some sort of directory services. DNS wasn't intended to be used in the fashion it is now.
I have to disagree with you there. What squatters do is just plain wrong. The DNS system was created so there would be an easy way to reference IP addresses (among other things). The system was set up so that if you need a domain, you can have one. These people who are registering domains just so that those who have a real planned use for them have to pay are abusing the system.
I've always believed that it was wrong to allow registrations of domains using false information. .com's shouldn't ahve been given to non-commercial entities..net's should not be given to anyone but network providers,.org, only to organizations. Registering multiple domains should not be allowed.
You know, the thing that really gets me though, is that it's MUCH cheaper to build a 10baseT ethernet transciever into a device than it is to implement a modem. (cheap 56k modem: $90, 10Mbps generic ethernet: $19.95)
Simply put, they are trying to make sure future genrations don't question the status-quo, and that future society, in general, see anyone who goes 'outside the lines' and uses software/tools for what they are, not what they are supposed to be, as bad.
But linux *does* fit on the corporate desktop. The home desktop might just take a bit longer.
We all know that, regardless of the underlying complexity, we can make a linux system as simple or as hard to use as we want. We can build tailored systems, including a desktop, software packaging, fancy graphics, etc.. that's easy to use for Joe Average.
The fact is, the more configurable, and the more flexible something becomes, the more complicated it becomes. To put it differently (I hope this doesn't sound conceited, it's not meant to be), The only way Joe Average will be able to to as much with an OS as I can is if the OS is so simple that there is a very limited number of things to do. This is simply because I have a 10 year head start into computers than Joe does.
There isn't one linux.. there never will be. There should be a linux-based OS that is SIMPLE to use. (Why NOT use linux as a base?). It can have a pretty desktop, and it's apps can be upward compatable to more complex linux distributions. This can be 'linux for the masses'. Perhaps this is what Corel Linux will be... who knows?
If you don't want a 2 gig OS, simply don't install 2 gigs worth of stuff! Linux may have become much bigger over the past few years, but that growth is probably linear (or better) to the number of features. The reason for it's size? Because of all the free software, there is no reason *NOT* to include it on that CD Rom (or that set of 6 CD's, or whatever)
Though I can see reasons why you would want to do this... and though I haven't really thought about it for more than 20 seconds, doing a direct correlation between MAC addresses and the actual IPv6 address (or at least the low-order end of it) would seem to defeat the purpose of having that many extra bits in the first place. A company certainly doesn't neat 24 bits of address space just becauset hey have a few hundred machines.
This article seems to be saying that they don't get enough press in places like slashdot, etc. Mandrake gets lots of press. So does RedHat. (which in turn, helps mandrake, as it's based on redhat) Macmillan? Just because they sell lots of boxes doesn't make them matter to the free software world. It's good that they pay money to Mandrakesoft. But if they want recognition in the oss community, they will have to really DO something. Just like if someone bought redhat.... would we think they were great and deserving of credit for hard work? This is like someone selling debian and then complaining that they 'don't get enough credit for their distribution'
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No, it's not. Neither of them are pronounced the way you think.
You will find a sample of Linus pronouncing his own name, as well as linux, on ftp.kernel.org
What's even more ironic is the fact that we also accept many of these 'illegal' boat people here, yet at the same time, turn away people who filled out the paperwork and 'deport' them because they can stay here no longer. The only reason the paperwork doesn't get finished is because of backlog.
Yes, they do. But the difference is, every time you query the CDDB database YOU are accessing their server. It would make sense that their server could keep track of this.
IN the case of real player, why should it send information to RealNEtworks when it's not required to?
Same goes for browsers, in case nobody noticed.
If you mis-type a URL, the error page is fetched from Microsoft (Or Netscape, as the case may be)
This is BAD> Just because I mistyped something does not mean they should know about it.
You are incorrect, I believe. The store, unfortunately, acts like they sold you a 'product' when really all they did was collect a license fee for Microsoft.
The installation screen states rather clearly (if you read it) that 'USING THIS SOFTWARE PRODUCT constitutes agreement with the enclosed EULA. If you do not like this, return the product for a full refund'
This is fairly clear, even by legalese standards.
(note, though it sounds wierd, it is not forcing you to agree to a contract you haven't seen. It simply states that you agree that, in order to proceed with installation, you must agree to the terms of the license, and that if you do not, you can return it for a full refund.
That's what I read, yeah.
They license what you can use the machine for in a traditional server sense. They simply want you to fork out the $$$ if you want a server instead of a workstation.
They don't want to prevent you from connecting to stuff.
Firstly, perl was a very good tool for unix sysadmins.
Unix sysadmins tended to be a) young and b) dominate the ISP industry.
IN other words, the people in the position to write CGI stuff were the unix sysadmins. they could, easier than someone else, understand the integration between everything. So, naturally, they used whatever tools were handy to do CGI scripts. (I hate the term, btw. CGI defines an interface between the web server and the program. There is really no such thing as a 'CGI script'. It is a program that conforms to the CGI.)
So, naturally, all the original documents about how to deal with CGI were perl examples.
So everyone did it in perl.
Now, you ahve a path of least resistance. The perl tools are already there, and perl is an easy language to use.. so.... everyone uses it.
What do you mean you still have to pay InterNIC? (You mean Network Solutions, right?)
You don't. You pay the accreditted registrar who registered your domain for you. In this case, tucows. (yes, Network Solutions sees some of this money)
People haven't done this before because Network Solutions has SOLE CONTROL of the .com, .net, and .org domains, and nobody but them, until very recently, could insert names into the root zones.
In what way is the redhat kernel non-standard?
What closed-source driver modules?
Heavily pathced? As far as I've ever seen, RedHat simply compiles lots of modules, they don't use any patched kernel source to do it either.
As for modules, remember, binary-only (non-gpl) modules are only permitted if the hooks for them already exist in the kernel. If they don't, they can't do it.
That is true.
The problem is, they don't even check to see if you provided false information or not.
Yet they take your money.
I would suggest Apache/Zope
http://www.zope.org
I also brought this in to an all-NT environment, and so-far, it was worked out very nicely.
How would it fall 'up' instead of down?
It would seem obvious that the only gravity well nearby is the Earth, and as the top of the elevator would be in geosynchronous orbit (or would it?), the only place for things below the geosynch point would be to fall down the gravity well.
Or is there some way that the base could be pulled up into orbit?
Reading DVD Rom is no problem whatsoever in linux. They behave, as far as I can tell, like a normal CD Rom drive. (read: To use my new pioneer DVD Rom in Linux, I didn't have to make single modification.) (it replaced my aging cdrom drive)
The issue here is decoding and playing actual DVD Movie titles. Accessing the raw files is not a problem. It's the decoding of the video/audio files that is the issue.
Okay.
Yes, evidence may show this, as a statistic.
I think the reason, though, lies in what we choose to do with our brains.
If you don't think about abstract problems very much, your ability to do so declines.
If you never think about math, your ability to deal with it decilnes.
If you start studying math again, and getting all these patterns wrapped up in your head, you start getting better at it again. The brain is good at what it does the most, as those are generally the most important things to you.
If you get older, and stop thinking so much, then of course, when some wierd problem comes by, you'll think 'I could have solved that in my youth'. But really, you could have done it now, too, if you hadn't given up.
No. You can have all the mp3 you want.
Owning copyrighted material is legal.
DISTRIBUTING copyrighted material without permission is what is illegal.
Software, on the other hand, is about licensing.
What MS was trying to do was find companies who had purchased counterfiet microsoft products. And this seems to me like a good way to do it.
They would rather give the guy who unknowingly purchased counterfiet software the real thing, and find out about it, and gather evidence (maybe they can find out who is counterfieting.).
No, it certainly doesn't mean that. It means if you have that distribution, you can drop it in and play. The company is telling you 'This is the version we made it to work with. We only guarantee that it works on that.'. It really doesn't mean that they've even checked whether it works anywhere else. They probably don't know.
The problem is, you don't 'buy' a domain, you 'register' it. It's not yours, it's just a database entry that points to your servers> You pay a fee to have it put there. there is NOTHING saying you have to renew, or that anyone has to let you.
This was not because Internic had to obey trademark law, it was only due to their own internal policy.. that a Trademark holder wins over a non-trademark holder.
Unlimited TLD's are a bad idea.
What would be better is a lock-down on the generic TLD's.
Stick to the country domains. Let countries do what they want with them.
And find a different way to 'browse the web' than using domain names directly. Some sort of directory services.
DNS wasn't intended to be used in the fashion it is now.
I have to disagree with you there. What squatters do is just plain wrong.
.net's should not be given to anyone but network providers, .org, only to organizations. Registering multiple domains should not be allowed.
The DNS system was created so there would be an easy way to reference IP addresses (among other things). The system was set up so that if you need a domain, you can have one.
These people who are registering domains just so that those who have a real planned use for them have to pay are abusing the system.
I've always believed that it was wrong to allow registrations of domains using false information.
.com's shouldn't ahve been given to non-commercial entities.
You know, the thing that really gets me though, is that it's MUCH cheaper to build a 10baseT ethernet transciever into a device than it is to implement a modem.
(cheap 56k modem: $90, 10Mbps generic ethernet: $19.95)
Simply put, they are trying to make sure future genrations don't question the status-quo, and that future society, in general, see anyone who goes 'outside the lines' and uses software/tools for what they are, not what they are supposed to be, as bad.
But linux *does* fit on the corporate desktop. The home desktop might just take a bit longer.
We all know that, regardless of the underlying complexity, we can make a linux system as simple or as hard to use as we want. We can build tailored systems, including a desktop, software packaging, fancy graphics, etc.. that's easy to use for Joe Average.
The fact is, the more configurable, and the more flexible something becomes, the more complicated it becomes.
To put it differently (I hope this doesn't sound conceited, it's not meant to be), The only way Joe Average will be able to to as much with an OS as I can is if the OS is so simple that there is a very limited number of things to do. This is simply because I have a 10 year head start into computers than Joe does.
There isn't one linux.. there never will be.
There should be a linux-based OS that is SIMPLE to use. (Why NOT use linux as a base?). It can have a pretty desktop, and it's apps can be upward compatable to more complex linux distributions. This can be 'linux for the masses'.
Perhaps this is what Corel Linux will be... who knows?
If you don't want a 2 gig OS, simply don't install 2 gigs worth of stuff! Linux may have become much bigger over the past few years, but that growth is probably linear (or better) to the number of features. The reason for it's size? Because of all the free software, there is no reason *NOT* to include it on that CD Rom (or that set of 6 CD's, or whatever)
Though I can see reasons why you would want to do this... and though I haven't really thought about it for more than 20 seconds, doing a direct correlation between MAC addresses and the actual IPv6 address (or at least the low-order end of it) would seem to defeat the purpose of having that many extra bits in the first place.
A company certainly doesn't neat 24 bits of address space just becauset hey have a few hundred machines.
This article seems to be saying that they don't get enough press in places like slashdot, etc. Mandrake gets lots of press. So does RedHat. (which in turn, helps mandrake, as it's based on redhat) Macmillan? Just because they sell lots of boxes doesn't make them matter to the free software world. It's good that they pay money to Mandrakesoft. But if they want recognition in the oss community, they will have to really DO something. Just like if someone bought redhat.... would we think they were great and deserving of credit for hard work? This is like someone selling debian and then complaining that they 'don't get enough credit for their distribution'