The upcoming Solr 1.4 release (http://lucene.apache.org/solr) includes the Tika document parser. You can throw Word, PDF etc files to it, and it will index them for you. Solr is a web service; a few hundred lines of PHP would be enough to use the Solr to index your shared volume, and a again that much for a web-based search tool.
You said: "They could go even further and set up servers at the network borders so even dns servers still set to use the old roots would get the new ones."
Which network borders? On "the border on the Internet where France borders on the US"? That does not exist. There are a zillion places where France is connected to the rest of the Internet. And it doesn't help for people outside France that wish to find a web server in the.fr domain.
Anyway, there is hardly any need. Most people make use of their ISP's DNS servers. If those ISP's either migrate to new roots, or manually inject the.fr servers, or if the root servers outside the US take things into their own hands, the problem is over.
Yes, they can. The root zone ( "." ) contains the IP addresses of the.fr name servers. French ISPs usually will not have the.fr name servers hard coded, but will ask the root servers (which are hard coded, bind9 has them in the "root.db" file) where to find the.fr name servers. As long as ICANN controls the root zone file, they could remove the.fr DNS servers from it. Then, French surfers would not be able to resolve.fr domain names. Until the French ISPs would hard-code the.fr name servers, that is.
Confirmed on WinXP SP2, all Windows updates, all Office updates. OK in Firefox (1.0PR), but crashes IE 6. And it's not even a goatse link: http://sylvana.net/test/AP4.jpg
Sure, They can release their own code however they like, but not other people's code they use. That's exactly what the GPL is for: to prevent community work to be taken into a proprietary product and thus depriving the community from the enhancements made to its own code.
The term "property" is only relevant if there is rule of law. Otherwise, there's just stuff. Property means that if you steal something from me (note that stealing has no meaning without law saying what it is), I can go to a court and have the state make sure I get my stuff back.
The guy with the stick can tell you to shut your mouth, thus preventing you from expressing your ideas, making them as good as useless. Only if the law says ideas are property, and the state upholds the law, the guy with the stick loses.
Same with EM spectrum (to get a little back op topic, thank you): unless there is a law that says what you can do with it, and how, and who, and unless the state upholds that law, anyone with a bigger transmitter can outpower you. That doesn't mean it's property per se, I agree to that.
This discussion about spectrum as property, and the whole lot about the several kinds of intellectual property, really reminds me of what I just read in Paul Johnson's "History of the American People" about the debate in the early 19th century about "natural property" (shoes, rice, land, houses) vs "artificial property" (money, stock, loans, corporations) and whether the US Constitution should offer the same kind of protection to this "artificial" property as it does for natural property. In hindsight, it is obvious that these should be protected just as physical property, to foster economic activity and capitalism.
As many/. readers, I'm inclined to emphasize the differences between old-style property (to us) and copyright, patents, and trademark just the way many people around 1800 emphasized the differences between natural and artificial property. but it makes me wonder, are we the dinosaurs here, instead of the RIAA, FCC et al. ?
PS - just for the record, I'm not American, I'm Dutch.
Funny - in The Netherlands, we also use ABC to help remember what to check for, but over here it means "Ademhaling, Bewustzijn, Circulatie", or respiration, consciousness, and circulation. Don't you people learn to check whether he patient is conscious (i.e., responds to questions, or reacts to pain)? It seems to me that "airway" is kind of superfluous, since you need it for breathing?
Actually, that would be "vincis", since "vincere" is third coniugatio (short "e"). "vinces" means "you shall conquer", which is exactly what you would expect from a vision: "In this sign you shall conquer".
My apologies for nitpicking,
Jan-Pascal (just 5 years of Latin and 3 years of Greek in secondary education)
Opening the source isn't enough. How do I check that the code running on the machine I place my vote on is compiled from the source code I checked? And how can I check the _compiler_?
Actually, I don't really care about the software and all. Just print a paper ballot that goes in a box, and have the local representatives of the political parties, or anyone else interested, recount the paper ballots if they feel like it. That's all that's needed.
This is almost a "Delphi study". A Delphi study is actually when you ask a number of professionals in a certain field about their opinion, or expectations, about a number of topics. Then you process the results, show the results to the same group of professionals, and ask their opinion again.
Yes, I had to upload an assembly program to the
1541 RAM and execute it there. It looked a lot like the code that GEOS used to check for the special track, but with writes instead of reads.
The GEOS article under the first link talks a lot about the copy protection on GEOS, and why it hurt widespread acceptance so much. Am I the only one who was able to produce the "special" track on copies of the GEOS disk, so that the copies would actually work?
If I remember correctly, I found the checking code somewhere in GEOS, then wrote some code to produce the proper patterns on the disk. Mind you, that code had to run inside the 1541 disk drive, so that it could determine what would be written to disk directly.
Microsoft is a legal entity in many EU countries. They have a large presence in Ireland (research & production) and local sales & translation offices almost everywhere.
The kdepim developers are busy implementing pluggable backends ("resources") for KOrganizer and Kontact. There is stable support for local and remote files and more experimental work on support for Exchange servers. You're more than welcome to submit a patch for WCAP support to kde-pim@kde.org;-)
You're _always_ taking chances. Like I said, if you invest all your efforts into reducing CO2 output, you can't at the same time do other things. We might end up with a lot of CO2 stored under the seas, in order to limit CO2 emissions, while we had better had spent our efforts on doing _other_ things. It's all about priorities, and keeping to the Kyoto agreements will certainly cost us a lot. What other things can we do with that money/time/effort?
The problem is that we do not know if keeping to the Kyoto agreements _is_ protecting the environment. This paper suggests that there is no evidence that climate change is human CO2 production. That means that the environment might be better off if we would spend the time, money and energy on other things than reducing CO2 output, like reducing water pollution. Or even if we would not focus on short-term CO2 reduction like storing CO2 under the sea.
There's been talk about skipping the 3.1 version number and going to 3.1.1 directly, since the extra time for the security audit has allowed us to include many bugfixes into the 3.1 release. And yes, the "for workgroups" moniker has been discusses on kde-core-devel, so who knows...
Not really. IPv6 reserves a few more bits in the
header than IPv4, but the use of those
bits is not yet defined, let alone the implementation in routers. Diffserv (a QoS protocol) for IPv4 (and presumable also for IPv6) is ready to be used, but it isn't used, except for (virtual) private networks. The reason: the organisation part is just too hard. There's provisioning to be done, every ISP needs to enter QoS terms in their contracts with the other ISPs they exchange traffic with.
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The upcoming Solr 1.4 release (http://lucene.apache.org/solr) includes the Tika document parser. You can throw Word, PDF etc files to it, and it will index them for you. Solr is a web service; a few hundred lines of PHP would be enough to use the Solr to index your shared volume, and a again that much for a web-based search tool.
You said: "They could go even further and set up servers at the network borders so even dns servers still set to use the old roots would get the new ones."
.fr domain.
.fr servers, or if the root servers outside the US take things into their own hands, the problem is over.
Which network borders? On "the border on the Internet where France borders on the US"? That does not exist. There are a zillion places where France is connected to the rest of the Internet. And it doesn't help for people outside France that wish to find a web server in the
Anyway, there is hardly any need. Most people make use of their ISP's DNS servers. If those ISP's either migrate to new roots, or manually inject the
Yes, they can. The root zone ( "." ) contains the IP addresses of the .fr name servers. French ISPs usually will not have the .fr name servers hard coded, but will ask the root servers (which are hard coded, bind9 has them in the "root.db" file) where to find the .fr name servers. As long as ICANN controls the root zone file, they could remove the .fr DNS servers from it. Then, French surfers would not be able to resolve .fr domain names. Until the French ISPs would hard-code the .fr name servers, that is.
Jan-Pascal
Confirmed on WinXP SP2, all Windows updates, all Office updates. OK in Firefox (1.0PR), but crashes IE 6. And it's not even a goatse link: http://sylvana.net/test/AP4.jpg
Sure, They can release their own code however they like, but not other people's code they use. That's exactly what the GPL is for: to prevent community work to be taken into a proprietary product and thus depriving the community from the enhancements made to its own code.
The term "property" is only relevant if there is rule of law. Otherwise, there's just stuff. Property means that if you steal something from me (note that stealing has no meaning without law saying what it is), I can go to a court and have the state make sure I get my stuff back.
The guy with the stick can tell you to shut your mouth, thus preventing you from expressing your ideas, making them as good as useless. Only if the law says ideas are property, and the state upholds the law, the guy with the stick loses.
Same with EM spectrum (to get a little back op topic, thank you): unless there is a law that says what you can do with it, and how, and who, and unless the state upholds that law, anyone with a bigger transmitter can outpower you. That doesn't mean it's property per se, I agree to that.
All property is a legal construction. The natural state of all property is that is belongs to the guy with the biggest stick and the strongest arms.
This discussion about spectrum as property, and the whole lot about the several kinds of intellectual property, really reminds me of what I just read in Paul Johnson's "History of the American People" about the debate in the early 19th century about "natural property" (shoes, rice, land, houses) vs "artificial property" (money, stock, loans, corporations) and whether the US Constitution should offer the same kind of protection to this "artificial" property as it does for natural property. In hindsight, it is obvious that these should be protected just as physical property, to foster economic activity and capitalism.
/. readers, I'm inclined to emphasize the differences between old-style property (to us) and copyright, patents, and trademark just the way many people around 1800 emphasized the differences between natural and artificial property. but it makes me wonder, are we the dinosaurs here, instead of the RIAA, FCC et al. ?
As many
PS - just for the record, I'm not American, I'm Dutch.
Funny - in The Netherlands, we also use ABC to help remember what to check for, but over here it means "Ademhaling, Bewustzijn, Circulatie", or respiration, consciousness, and circulation.
Don't you people learn to check whether he patient is conscious (i.e., responds to questions, or reacts to pain)? It seems to me that "airway" is kind of superfluous, since you need it for breathing?
Actually, that would be "vincis", since "vincere" is third coniugatio (short "e"). "vinces" means "you shall conquer", which is exactly what you would expect from a vision: "In this sign you shall conquer".
My apologies for nitpicking,
Jan-Pascal
(just 5 years of Latin and 3 years of Greek in secondary education)
Opening the source isn't enough. How do I check that the code running on the machine I place my vote on is compiled from the source code I checked? And how can I check the _compiler_?
Actually, I don't really care about the software and all. Just print a paper ballot that goes in a box, and have the local representatives of the political parties, or anyone else interested, recount the paper ballots if they feel like it. That's all that's needed.
This is almost a "Delphi study". A Delphi study is
actually when you ask a number of professionals in a certain field about their opinion, or expectations, about a number of topics. Then you process the results, show the results to the same group of professionals, and ask their opinion again.
Something like that.
Yes, I had to upload an assembly program to the 1541 RAM and execute it there. It looked a lot like the code that GEOS used to check for the special track, but with writes instead of reads.
OPEN 15,8,15,"" was used to issue commands to the 1541. "N0:name" for formatting a disk, etc. A URL for 1541 commands is http://www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/~rlieger/Power20/Docu mentation/Power20-ReadMe/AB-Floppy_Commands.html
The GEOS article under the first link talks a lot about the copy protection on GEOS, and why it hurt widespread acceptance so much. Am I the only one who was able to produce the "special" track on copies of the GEOS disk, so that the copies would actually work?
If I remember correctly, I found the checking code somewhere in GEOS, then wrote some code to produce the proper patterns on the disk. Mind you, that code had to run inside the 1541 disk drive, so that it could determine what would be written to disk directly.
Those were the days...
Microsoft is a legal entity in many EU countries. They have a large presence in Ireland (research & production) and local sales & translation offices almost everywhere.
You can see a nice small movie of actual 3He crystal growth at Leiden University.
The kdepim developers are busy implementing pluggable backends ("resources") for KOrganizer and Kontact. There is stable support for local and remote files and more experimental work on support for Exchange servers. You're more than welcome to submit a patch for WCAP support to kde-pim@kde.org ;-)
It even has a hydrogen bomb.
You're _always_ taking chances. Like I said, if you invest all your efforts into reducing CO2 output, you can't at the same time do other things. We might end up with a lot of CO2 stored under the seas, in order to limit CO2 emissions, while we had better had spent our efforts on doing _other_ things. It's all about priorities, and keeping to the Kyoto agreements will certainly cost us a lot. What other things can we do with that money/time/effort?
The problem is that we do not know if keeping to the Kyoto agreements _is_ protecting the environment. This paper suggests that there is no evidence that climate change is human CO2 production. That means that the environment might be better off if we would spend the time, money and energy on other things than reducing CO2 output, like reducing water pollution. Or even if we would not focus on short-term CO2 reduction like storing CO2 under the sea.
Most European countries have voting machines. Our system (in the Netherlands) is electronic, but there is a printer inside the machine for backup.
Go re-read your Shakespeare. The "to be or not to be" quote is from Hamlet, not from MacBeth.
There's been talk about skipping the 3.1 version number and going to 3.1.1 directly, since the extra time for the security audit has allowed us to include many bugfixes into the 3.1 release. And yes, the "for workgroups" moniker has been discusses on kde-core-devel, so who knows...
You can find the CERT's take on this here:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/412115.
Not really. IPv6 reserves a few more bits in the header than IPv4, but the use of those bits is not yet defined, let alone the implementation in routers. Diffserv (a QoS protocol) for IPv4 (and presumable also for IPv6) is ready to be used, but it isn't used, except for (virtual) private networks. The reason: the organisation part is just too hard. There's provisioning to be done, every ISP needs to enter QoS terms in their contracts with the other ISPs they exchange traffic with.