This should have been done when the allegations first surfaced but better late than never. The more GPL authors who stand up for their rights in court, the fewer vultures will try to rip off GPL code.
Could it be that more users are employing protection against these worms now? Thanks to ClamAV I never see any in my inbox now, but my log messages would suggest there are still plenty of clueless people out there propagating them.
Mandrake Linux is distributed via torrents. That is a perfectly legal way to distribute the enormous bandwidth costs of millions of downloads of several CDROMs full of Free data.
This might be a reasonable argument against the university using the word "illegal" in their cut-off notices, but unless you can make a valid academic case for needing Mandrake Linux then it won't necessarily make them declare BitTorrent to be "legitimate". I work in an academic IT support role and I have to enforce somewhat anal policies like this. Students are often surprised to discover that the uni's network is not their personal playground.
Keep in mind that your definition of "legitimate use" may be quite different from theirs. University IT departments tend not to consider anything to be "legitimate" unless it has a valid academic application. Do you know of any academic uses for BitTorrent? Not trying to rain on your parade, but "I need it to download X" probably won't cut much ice.
We have just as many Linux workstations as Windows boxen where I work. I have a Sun box on my desk at home. I have friends who use Macs exclusively. Still telling me that Microsoft is a monopoly?
Why would you? Solaris runs perfectly fine on x86 hardware these days.
Oh come on, where's your sense of geekiness?! Sun hardware is cool! Give me my E250 over some boring beige box running Linux any day.
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sucks if you don't have supported hardware
Solaris is a server-class OS that was never intended to run on the kind of commodity hardware most people have in the box on their desk. That said, maybe now it's open source people will start writing and contributing drivers.
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The SPARC version used to include 32-bit and 64-bit packages on the same CDs, although I think they dropped the 32-bit SPARC stuff now. I'm guessing the x86 version does the same thing and will install 64-bit on processors that support it and 32-bit otherwise.
Speak for yourself. I care about high wattage if it means I have to clamp a fan the size of Manhattan on my CPU and have my room sound like a datacenter.
These technical parameters will allow either side to effectively jam the other's signal in a small area, such as a battlefield, without shutting down the entire system.
Damn I wish I had modpoints. Some people are bound to cry "no censorship!" and "information wants to be free!" but I have no more problem with filtering in schools than I do with a responsible parent using filtering on their child's computer. In fact aren't schools supposed to act in the capacity of a responsible parent when the kids are in their care?
Mandating filtering in public libraries and other places used by adults just in case a child might come along and use them is a whole different kettle of fish though. I don't want my internet access curtailed just because little Johnnie's folks are too clueless to watch him while he's in the library. This whole education thing is a great idea. If more parents were clued in about the internet and kept an eye on what their little darlings were up to on it then they wouldn't be at risk of exposure to porn, paedophiles, etc.
Exactly. Wouldn't the dialog boxes IE already spews out asking "do you want to install and run Gator/CometCursor/BonziBuddy/spyware-of-the-month? " already meet at least the first requirement of this law? How much spyware actually gets installed completely silently?
I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that a manned mission could someday retrieve the rover, and bring it all the way back to the Smithsonian.
I'd like to think that by the time we have people on Mars with the equipment and time to go looking for old rovers and the like, we might have a museum on Mars itself to put them in.
popular packages you find on the net Isn't that what I just said:)
No you said the Solaris tools have bugs in them. Not supporting a GNU extension does not count as a bug since they are extensions which are not part of the standard.
Try the latest version. It crashed and burned in the same way on my Via Eden when I first tried it, but a month or two later I downloaded a newer release and it worked like a charm.
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This should have been done when the allegations first surfaced but better late than never. The more GPL authors who stand up for their rights in court, the fewer vultures will try to rip off GPL code.
Could it be that more users are employing protection against these worms now? Thanks to ClamAV I never see any in my inbox now, but my log messages would suggest there are still plenty of clueless people out there propagating them.
Mandrake Linux is distributed via torrents. That is a perfectly legal way to distribute the enormous bandwidth costs of millions of downloads of several CDROMs full of Free data.
This might be a reasonable argument against the university using the word "illegal" in their cut-off notices, but unless you can make a valid academic case for needing Mandrake Linux then it won't necessarily make them declare BitTorrent to be "legitimate". I work in an academic IT support role and I have to enforce somewhat anal policies like this. Students are often surprised to discover that the uni's network is not their personal playground.
Keep in mind that your definition of "legitimate use" may be quite different from theirs. University IT departments tend not to consider anything to be "legitimate" unless it has a valid academic application. Do you know of any academic uses for BitTorrent? Not trying to rain on your parade, but "I need it to download X" probably won't cut much ice.
Microsoft are a monopoly
We have just as many Linux workstations as Windows boxen where I work. I have a Sun box on my desk at home. I have friends who use Macs exclusively. Still telling me that Microsoft is a monopoly?
Maybe you should run the OS your sparc was made for? Or if it really is that old ther's always NetBSD.
Now I'll never get a date.
Why would you? Solaris runs perfectly fine on x86 hardware these days.
Oh come on, where's your sense of geekiness?! Sun hardware is cool! Give me my E250 over some boring beige box running Linux any day.
sucks if you don't have supported hardware
Solaris is a server-class OS that was never intended to run on the kind of commodity hardware most people have in the box on their desk. That said, maybe now it's open source people will start writing and contributing drivers.
The SPARC version used to include 32-bit and 64-bit packages on the same CDs, although I think they dropped the 32-bit SPARC stuff now. I'm guessing the x86 version does the same thing and will install 64-bit on processors that support it and 32-bit otherwise.
Maybe I missed something, or you guys are smoking something, because I downloaded Solaris 10 from the Sun site at the end of November.
You downloaded 'Solaris Express', which is a kind of rolling beta release they put out. What the article links to is the real deal release version.
Speak for yourself. I care about high wattage if it means I have to clamp a fan the size of Manhattan on my CPU and have my room sound like a datacenter.
The US and EU reached and agreement over mutual jamming capabilities:
These technical parameters will allow either side to effectively jam the other's signal in a small area, such as a battlefield, without shutting down the entire system.
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Why is GDS not a native application? Is it written in Java or something?
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it's fair enough to have filtering at schools
Damn I wish I had modpoints. Some people are bound to cry "no censorship!" and "information wants to be free!" but I have no more problem with filtering in schools than I do with a responsible parent using filtering on their child's computer. In fact aren't schools supposed to act in the capacity of a responsible parent when the kids are in their care?
Mandating filtering in public libraries and other places used by adults just in case a child might come along and use them is a whole different kettle of fish though. I don't want my internet access curtailed just because little Johnnie's folks are too clueless to watch him while he's in the library. This whole education thing is a great idea. If more parents were clued in about the internet and kept an eye on what their little darlings were up to on it then they wouldn't be at risk of exposure to porn, paedophiles, etc.
It's a joke. Laugh.
Did you just suggest that the Linux section of Slashdot is not the place to talk about a Linux release? Certainly that can't be! ;)
I think he was trying to suggest that it wasn't really worthy of the front page.
But is it better than these text adventures?
11. Not learning how to format slashdot posts ;-)
Exactly. Wouldn't the dialog boxes IE already spews out asking "do you want to install and run Gator/CometCursor/BonziBuddy/spyware-of-the-month? " already meet at least the first requirement of this law? How much spyware actually gets installed completely silently?
I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that a manned mission could someday retrieve the rover, and bring it all the way back to the Smithsonian.
I'd like to think that by the time we have people on Mars with the equipment and time to go looking for old rovers and the like, we might have a museum on Mars itself to put them in.
Yeah, especially given this:
"Baynes has effectively been the standard-bearer of the so-called Alphaville Government, which has no official power"
isn't it "guilty until proven innocent" in the UK?
No, you're thinking of continental Europe. The law in the UK works the same way as it does in the UK as regards the burden of proof.
popular packages you find on the net Isn't that what I just said :)
No you said the Solaris tools have bugs in them. Not supporting a GNU extension does not count as a bug since they are extensions which are not part of the standard.
Try the latest version. It crashed and burned in the same way on my Via Eden when I first tried it, but a month or two later I downloaded a newer release and it worked like a charm.