I get a 302 Moved Temporarily, when I send the referer as the full slashdot story URL. If I send the referer as just slashdot.org or nothing, then it sends me the real file.
I experienced the same thing with the Carmageddon II demo. Once you tweaked the config file to let you play more than 15 minutes, it was nearly as good as the full game.
I bought the full game, but by the time I got the package in the mail, I wasn't very hot on playing anymore. I played the full game for a while, but nearly all the cool stuff was already played out in the demo (crazy jumps and crashes). The game really was just the physics engine and incredible car damage model, after that, it's just a matter of getting different cars to jump and smash in the full game.
I appreciate that Devil's Whiskey is a game that runs on Linux, and the authors are very open source friendly, but in the end, it's still a proprietary game they wrote for money.
The demo was more like a public beta test. The game was basically unplayable, major bugs everywhere, and really annoying gameplay (I'd like to make it two steps from the pub before getting my lvl 1 party slaughtered!). Yes, it was a big turn-off in regard to later purchase prospects.
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You've got a good point. As an industry, we've mostly let hype drive development, with empty promises, and whiz-bang stuff that actually requires more work in the long run to maintain pureness of abstraction.
At least in the background, there are people working hard to make the basics better, without hype or useless paradigm shifts. Most of this work is open source. A day rarely goes by when I am not thankful for the countless hours of work that has given us robust open platforms.
Unfortunately, here in the States, most cases like this are finally settled on appeal, seldom at the first trial
Because unless it's appealed, it doesn't really set a very strong precedent. The precedent is the important thing. This case is minor in the big scheme of things, but if the decision can be used in similar cases, it's more important.
If the directors could be shown to have done certain things, then they can be charged personally. It's not so much that the system needs to change, we just need to make sure we apply all the rules, all of the time.
"Piercing the corporate veil" can and should happen in all cases of fraud.
And that's the distinction all the other posters who are spouting numbers like $100+/hr are missing. This isn't regular contract work if you are rolling these changes back into your app, you are building equity in your app. The value of that must be considered.
It's different if they want you to fork in a direction you don't want to take your app, or they ask that the code be licensed in a way that is encumbered, etc, in that case, I'd charge more. Maintaining a fork is a major undertaking.
I'd keep it a reasonable rate, especially considering that the guy is still in school. Working with contractors or employees that are still in school can be difficult.
Doh, you are right. Everyone should just use ISO and get it over with. Even here in hickville, VA USA, I put ISO date formats throughout my company's web app, and no one seems confused.
The only solution to having a computer that can't spy on you is having full access to the code that's running on it, both at install time and after...
You'd have to read and understand all the code, and then compile from that code. Something I am willing to bet very, very, few people do for every piece of software they run.
Even then, you'd be vulernable to compiler based attacks, although I don't know if anyone has successfully pulled that off.
Regarding firewalls, I hope you're aware that you can filter outgoing traffic as easily as incoming. Regarding the malicious service masquerading as a legitimate one, the only solution to that is cryptographic signing for authentication, and even then, you are still trusting the party to not do anything malicious, the signing just proves that the person is who you think it is.
A few years ago, one could have said the same thing about software. It just takes a group to go out and start doing it. I'd be hard to attack such a movement, even harder than attacking Free software, since everyone can identify with textbooks.
I'd be like the current telemarketer do-not-call thing. They would be viewed as a minority who wanted to hold the majority hostage against its will, public support would be huge.
All those problems come from the assumption that it will be published in some closed proprietary format. It's entirely possible to distribute the book in an open format, and have none of those problems.
If you still want to be an asshole about it, you can require the students give you a valid serial number before they can pass the class.
There, problem solved, without stupid DRM. Read in your favorite editor/browser/DVI viewer.
But it can be a good thing, as long as the content is Free from restrictions.
Think.... The classes taught worldwide in universities are nearly the same, why the hell do we waste effort and money reinventing the wheel constantly. If we had a strong library of open text books, college would be that much cheaper for everyone.
It works for elementary school too. There's even less diversity there in textbooks. Was I the only person who thought it was insane that school districts don't have enough money for textbooks?
Our tax money is being wasted on "All Rights Reserved" textbooks to the tune of billions of dollars a year. If 5% of that money for one year instead went to fund the creation of open text books, we'd never have to buy another textbook again.
I've got one just like this at work, but it is PS/2 instead of USB. It uses CAT5 and extends USB KB/Mouse and VGA video in this case, in my case it uses cat5 and extends PS/2.
Currently there's no plans to support older versions of Fedora core with errata and security updates, longer than 3 months or so after the next release is out. By the time a Fedora core is stable, the new one will be out, and you either upgrade or start patching everything by hand. It's deliberately not suitable for production use.
Many of us don't need "support" in the sense of calling someone to help me do something. We are the support. Any company with in-house sysadmins that are competent is in the same position.
What is of some value is errata and security backports and patches. That's what my company pays a good deal of money to Red Hat for several RHN seats for the standard Red Hat Linux. We can afford to have lots of servers, because the seats are a reasonable price.
RHEL is not an option. My company is not going to pay $350 per year per server, and be subject to an EULA that is as bad as Microsoft's, that gives Red Hat the right to audit us for license compliance, to make sure we purchased support seats for every server/desktop, just to get security errata, something every other operating system (including most other Linux distros) give for free.
Our other option is to consolidate servers, which presents technical compromises, and reduces the value of running Linux in the first place. One of the key benefits to free software is that we were free to pop it on a server without the license hassle, and fear of audit. If that server became a permanant addition, we could buy another seat for it.
So it looks like we will be slowly moving to Debian on all Red Hat servers. After April, we'll have no reason to subscribe to RHN any longer. I really didn't want to do this. I really like a lot of things Red Hat has done. They have been a big help to the open source community, and with the Fedora project, it looks like they will continue to support the community. I admire them for that.
Red Hat has just left people like me, who work for and consult for small to medium businesses, with no other viable options.
Red Hat has made a liar out of me when I told consulting clients and my employer that a Red Hat 7.3 server would not need to be upgraded for at least a couple years. I do resent that also.
Microsoft doesn't even treat their customers quite this bad. They at least have an EOL cycle that works for businesses, and don't stop providing security updates suddenly on a OS versions that are less than 2 years old with a huge install bases. TCO for Red Hat just shot through the roof.
It's a testament to the value of open source, that I can drop in a replacement from Debian with very few issues. At least free software still beats the pants off MS, even if RH can't anymore.
What are Red Hat's plans here? Why is Red Hat leaving small to medium businesses with so few option?
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It's so flammable that they use a 93% mix of it in fire extinguishing agent, right?
Sheesh, I don't know where some of these dubious "facts" come from.
They are using a referer based redirect it seems.
I get a 302 Moved Temporarily, when I send the referer as the full slashdot story URL. If I send the referer as just slashdot.org or nothing, then it sends me the real file.
I experienced the same thing with the Carmageddon II demo. Once you tweaked the config file to let you play more than 15 minutes, it was nearly as good as the full game.
I bought the full game, but by the time I got the package in the mail, I wasn't very hot on playing anymore. I played the full game for a while, but nearly all the cool stuff was already played out in the demo (crazy jumps and crashes). The game really was just the physics engine and incredible car damage model, after that, it's just a matter of getting different cars to jump and smash in the full game.
I appreciate that Devil's Whiskey is a game that runs on Linux, and the authors are very open source friendly, but in the end, it's still a proprietary game they wrote for money.
The demo was more like a public beta test. The game was basically unplayable, major bugs everywhere, and really annoying gameplay (I'd like to make it two steps from the pub before getting my lvl 1 party slaughtered!). Yes, it was a big turn-off in regard to later purchase prospects.
You've got a good point. As an industry, we've mostly let hype drive development, with empty promises, and whiz-bang stuff that actually requires more work in the long run to maintain pureness of abstraction.
At least in the background, there are people working hard to make the basics better, without hype or useless paradigm shifts. Most of this work is open source. A day rarely goes by when I am not thankful for the countless hours of work that has given us robust open platforms.
How many days did the install take though? And on what processor system?
I wouldn't count Debian out, Red Hat's recent policy changes have prompted me to migrate or plan to migrate several servers to Debian.
Yeah, but does it have porn?
Unfortunately, here in the States, most cases like this are finally settled on appeal, seldom at the first trial
Because unless it's appealed, it doesn't really set a very strong precedent. The precedent is the important thing. This case is minor in the big scheme of things, but if the decision can be used in similar cases, it's more important.
If the directors could be shown to have done certain things, then they can be charged personally. It's not so much that the system needs to change, we just need to make sure we apply all the rules, all of the time.
"Piercing the corporate veil" can and should happen in all cases of fraud.
And that's the distinction all the other posters who are spouting numbers like $100+/hr are missing. This isn't regular contract work if you are rolling these changes back into your app, you are building equity in your app. The value of that must be considered.
It's different if they want you to fork in a direction you don't want to take your app, or they ask that the code be licensed in a way that is encumbered, etc, in that case, I'd charge more. Maintaining a fork is a major undertaking.
I'd keep it a reasonable rate, especially considering that the guy is still in school. Working with contractors or employees that are still in school can be difficult.
Doh, you are right. Everyone should just use ISO and get it over with. Even here in hickville, VA USA, I put ISO date formats throughout my company's web app, and no one seems confused.
But this is even worse, since the classic argument is that even with access to the source of the compiler, you can still be trojaned.
In this case, you won't even have source for the compiler, which makes it trivial to trojan.
It probably had a lot of copper in it, copper burns green.
If you ever see another one, contact local astronomers to report it, they get off on that sort of thing, and want people to report fireball sightings.
That article is from January, the one in the story is from yesterday. Looks like they were overturned.
Someone needs to tell ECS that Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is kinda taken.
ECS seems to think that Ctrl-Alt Backspace is a good sequence to use for software power off buttons.
Which really sucks when you go to exit X and your computer turns off.
On the K7SEM there was a BIOS option to disable it, but the BIOS option had no effect. Cute eh?
The only solution to having a computer that can't spy on you is having full access to the code that's running on it, both at install time and after...
You'd have to read and understand all the code, and then compile from that code. Something I am willing to bet very, very, few people do for every piece of software they run.
Even then, you'd be vulernable to compiler based attacks, although I don't know if anyone has successfully pulled that off.
Regarding firewalls, I hope you're aware that you can filter outgoing traffic as easily as incoming. Regarding the malicious service masquerading as a legitimate one, the only solution to that is cryptographic signing for authentication, and even then, you are still trusting the party to not do anything malicious, the signing just proves that the person is who you think it is.
A few years ago, one could have said the same thing about software. It just takes a group to go out and start doing it. I'd be hard to attack such a movement, even harder than attacking Free software, since everyone can identify with textbooks.
I'd be like the current telemarketer do-not-call thing. They would be viewed as a minority who wanted to hold the majority hostage against its will, public support would be huge.
All those problems come from the assumption that it will be published in some closed proprietary format. It's entirely possible to distribute the book in an open format, and have none of those problems.
If you still want to be an asshole about it, you can require the students give you a valid serial number before they can pass the class.
There, problem solved, without stupid DRM. Read in your favorite editor/browser/DVI viewer.
But it can be a good thing, as long as the content is Free from restrictions.
Think.... The classes taught worldwide in universities are nearly the same, why the hell do we waste effort and money reinventing the wheel constantly. If we had a strong library of open text books, college would be that much cheaper for everyone.
It works for elementary school too. There's even less diversity there in textbooks. Was I the only person who thought it was insane that school districts don't have enough money for textbooks?
Our tax money is being wasted on "All Rights Reserved" textbooks to the tune of billions of dollars a year. If 5% of that money for one year instead went to fund the creation of open text books, we'd never have to buy another textbook again.
If it were BSD only, they would have even more freedom to put whatever kind of EULA they wanted on any part of it.
I've got one just like this at work, but it is PS/2 instead of USB. It uses CAT5 and extends USB KB/Mouse and VGA video in this case, in my case it uses cat5 and extends PS/2.
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Currently there's no plans to support older versions of Fedora core with errata and security updates, longer than 3 months or so after the next release is out. By the time a Fedora core is stable, the new one will be out, and you either upgrade or start patching everything by hand. It's deliberately not suitable for production use.
Many of us don't need "support" in the sense of calling someone to help me do something. We are the support. Any company with in-house sysadmins that are competent is in the same position.
What is of some value is errata and security backports and patches. That's what my company pays a good deal of money to Red Hat for several RHN seats for the standard Red Hat Linux. We can afford to have lots of servers, because the seats are a reasonable price.
RHEL is not an option. My company is not going to pay $350 per year per server, and be subject to an EULA that is as bad as Microsoft's, that gives Red Hat the right to audit us for license compliance, to make sure we purchased support seats for every server/desktop, just to get security errata, something every other operating system (including most other Linux distros) give for free.
Our other option is to consolidate servers, which presents technical compromises, and reduces the value of running Linux in the first place. One of the key benefits to free software is that we were free to pop it on a server without the license hassle, and fear of audit. If that server became a permanant addition, we could buy another seat for it.
So it looks like we will be slowly moving to Debian on all Red Hat servers. After April, we'll have no reason to subscribe to RHN any longer. I really didn't want to do this. I really like a lot of things Red Hat has done. They have been a big help to the open source community, and with the Fedora project, it looks like they will continue to support the community. I admire them for that.
Red Hat has just left people like me, who work for and consult for small to medium businesses, with no other viable options.
Red Hat has made a liar out of me when I told consulting clients and my employer that a Red Hat 7.3 server would not need to be upgraded for at least a couple years. I do resent that also.
Microsoft doesn't even treat their customers quite this bad. They at least have an EOL cycle that works for businesses, and don't stop providing security updates suddenly on a OS versions that are less than 2 years old with a huge install bases. TCO for Red Hat just shot through the roof.
It's a testament to the value of open source, that I can drop in a replacement from Debian with very few issues. At least free software still beats the pants off MS, even if RH can't anymore.
What are Red Hat's plans here? Why is Red Hat leaving small to medium businesses with so few option?
No, you're wrong.