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I think you've got something here. Check out this nugget from their web site:
Since patents are our only business, we are not vulnerable to retaliatory claims of patent infringement by infringers who are themselves patent owners.
I'd have to say, with the frames and all, they have to be using trained wombats to design their site. You should sue them.
The problem with that lawnmower is that you still have to drive around to mow your lawn. That's the part I hate. I want a big laser than I can set on my porch and use to mow the entire lawn without leaving my seat. Sure, I might have to take out a few trees, birds, neighbors, etc to do it, but hey, that's the price for convenience.
That's really not true except for the very recent models. In fact, even the Dual G4's are supported now. I run Mac OS X and 9 side-by-side on my Dual G4-450, and have a partition set aside for Linux. I haven't installed yet, though; OS X is too much fun!:)
The nice thing about OS X and OS 9 is that they can share a partition. So you really only need to worry about setting up Linux and MacOS to dual-boot, which is a common setup. Then, from within MacOS, you choose whether you want to boot OS 9 or OS X. I have a friend who does this, and it seems to work pretty well.
And yes, the Airport is supported under Linux, and presumably under OS X as well. What I'd really like to see is support for OS X under Mac-On-Linux. Then I could run Linux, with MacOS X on a virtual desktop, running OS 9 applications.;)
Why is this comment moderated as a troll? He does have a point. If you look at the Supreme Court today, you'll find that it's bitterly divided. On the "liberal" side you have Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer, with Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy, and O'Connor on the "conservative" side. Although the decision to send the case back to the appeals court was nearly unanimous, you'll find that the Court frequently splits down these lines in its decisions. What's interesting is that the issues involved don't even seem to matter. Whether the topic is abortion, school prayer, business regulation, or federalism, the decision splits almost the same.
So why does this matter in the next election? George W. Bush has stated that his Supreme Court appointees would all be like Justice Scalia- the most outspoken conservative on the Court. While their fundamental ideology may be about reducing the role of the federal government, you would likely see his appointees siding with the conservative side of the Court on other issues as well-- including the Microsoft case.
Oh yes, and though it's true that the conservative ideology involves reducing the role of government, in practice this seems to apply more to issues of federal legislation and business regulation than protection of individual freedoms. Just look at the rhetoric coming out of the Congressional Republicans- that we have to reduce taxes in X, Y, and Z, and that states should have more freedom to decide A, B, and C. But they're more than happy to pass bills limiting, for example, abortion rights, free speech rights, and other individual liberties. Whatever they stand for in "theory", if you want someone who will truly stand up for individual rights, you should vote Libertarian.
Still, for me, the most important issue this election is the Supreme Court, and how it will affect future laws affecting individual liberties, especially online. Thus, my biggest concern is that George W. Bush not get the opportunity to appoint people who would not be inclined to advance those goals. That's why I'm voting for Al Gore this November.
It looks like whoever is going after your system may be looking for hidden data to crack into. At least, that's the best explanation I can think of. Here's a copy of an actual robots.txt file that I found on one of the sites I work on:
Actually, AFAIK, only the FireWire name is trademarked by Apple. So a company could conceivably use IEEE1394 without paying Apple, so long as they didn't call it FireWire. (Note that many digital video cameras call it "DV link", probably for this reason).
And source code has been found in a different circuit to be protected speech, and once a case involving that idea gets to the Supreme Court it's likely to be upheld there too
Don't count on it. Remember who commands the majority on the Supreme Court right now- Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas are all extremely conservative, and Kennedy and O'Connor tend to side with them on most issues. And don't forget that the next president will appoint up to four new Justices. If W. gets the honor, that could be very bad news for free speech advocates nationwide, not just in the DeCSS case.
I disagree that the article did a good job covering both viewpoints. Although it did mention both sides, it hardly did so in an unbiased way. At times, it said something like, "providing abandonware is illegal and infringes on the intellectual property rights of publishers and authors." Then it said, "The pirates claim that they are providing a service to the community." I hardly call that an unbiased report when one side is presented as fact, the other as a mere allegation.
Defendants? continued proliferation of the DeCSS decryption software after this Court?s January preliminary injunction was an act of "electronic civil disobedience" (Tr. 834:18-835:18 (Corley)) designed to frustrate
plaintiffs? often successful efforts to convince others to stop proliferating DeCSS. Indeed, after the preliminary injunction issued, defendants encouraged others to "take a stand [against the MPAA] and mirror these
files" in order to replace and add to those that were removed through the MPAA?s enforcement efforts. (PX 51). Defendants stressed that because "a handful of sites have gone down due to [enforcement efforts of the
MPAA] . . . [w]e need to replace them and add to the number." (PX 28, p. 6; see also PX 51, p. 1).
It's awfully hard to be persuaded by the MPAA's arguments when they keep asking so many questions.:)
I have a couple systems with 20 Gig drives running Red Hat 6.2. Here's what I've found:
I did complete installs on both machines. That took up about 2 Gigs without any extra goodies like CPAN, source code, etc. Other than that, I don't use/usr much at all. I did put my Java stuff in/usr/java, but that could go anywhere./usr should be about 3 Gigs so you don't have to worry about overloading it with RPMs, but you don't waste too much space either.
/home and/usr/local should definitely be separate partitions. I've reinstalled systems many times, and it is very nice to be able to save all your personal files and custom-compiled stuff while reinstalling everything in the distribution.
Make/usr/local big. Really big.:) One thing you don't always count on is how much space source code takes up. The unpacked Linux 2.4 kernel source takes up 130 Megs! Just to make a 1 Meg file! You don't want to have to delete your source because you ran out of space. On one system with a 8 Gig drive, I made/usr/local way too small and ended up having to put my stuff on/usr in a directory called/usr/extra. It wasn't pretty.
I have JRun installed on one machine. It went in/opt, but only took about 30 Megs. However, it expects a lot of its data to be in the same directory, so if I used it more, that could grow enormously. You can never be sure exactly what the closed-source commercial applications will want.
A/boot partition at the beginning of the disk is nice, because it frees you to do whatever you want with the root partition without worrying about the 1024-cylinder BIOS limit. I made mine 16 Megs (which turned out to be more like 23 on a 20G drive), because I wanted to choose between a number of 2.2 and 2.4 kernels on startup.
/var is pretty small unless you start using stuff like MySQL, which stores its data there. I use MySQL, but I compiled it myself, so the data is in/usr/local/var, which isn't a problem. Right now my/var has only 19 Megs used, including two printer spools.
I might warn against overpartitioning, that is, to split everything into dozens of itty bitty partitions. Then later, when some of your partitions are nearly empty and others are bulging at the seams, you're screwed. But again, I highly recommend having/usr/local and/home separate. As for swap, IMHO, more is better. I use about 192 Megs, since that's what my systems have. If, after you've accomodated everything, you have extra space, put it in/usr/local. It's the easiest partition to fill.
I'm not an expert sysadmin, but that's what's worked for me.
This proves, once again, the fallacy of evaluating any system or product based on a single criterion. From reading the article, his point seems to be: "Linux has the most bugs, therefore it's the worst operating system in existence." Forget any other factors like how quickly bugs are fixed, or how reliable the system is otherwise, or even how severe the bugs are... "Well, NT only has one bug, that it doesn't work, so it must be the best system!" Right. He almost considers those factors, but then brushes them aside because they interfere with his conclusion. From the article:
All that aside, though, one conclusion is inescapable: If you look this list over, and measure each system's number of vulnerabilities against the number of its customers, Linux is arguably the worst operating-system product in history, and Microsoft's the best.
Also, I could be wrong about this, but it seemed that he referred to the number of bugs discovered in Linux software in general. Isn't his condemnation of Linux based on that a bit like saying that since Netscape for Windows has tons of bugs, that Windows is a bad operating system?
Well, I guess everyone's entitled to their (wrong) opinion.:)
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Since patents are our only business, we are not vulnerable to retaliatory claims of patent infringement by infringers who are themselves patent owners.
I'd have to say, with the frames and all, they have to be using trained wombats to design their site. You should sue them.
The problem with that lawnmower is that you still have to drive around to mow your lawn. That's the part I hate. I want a big laser than I can set on my porch and use to mow the entire lawn without leaving my seat. Sure, I might have to take out a few trees, birds, neighbors, etc to do it, but hey, that's the price for convenience.
The logical conclusion of the argument is that we should have one program that does everything. Oh, wait, that's Emacs. I guess OSS does work then.
The nice thing about OS X and OS 9 is that they can share a partition. So you really only need to worry about setting up Linux and MacOS to dual-boot, which is a common setup. Then, from within MacOS, you choose whether you want to boot OS 9 or OS X. I have a friend who does this, and it seems to work pretty well.
And yes, the Airport is supported under Linux, and presumably under OS X as well. What I'd really like to see is support for OS X under Mac-On-Linux. Then I could run Linux, with MacOS X on a virtual desktop, running OS 9 applications. ;)
So why does this matter in the next election? George W. Bush has stated that his Supreme Court appointees would all be like Justice Scalia- the most outspoken conservative on the Court. While their fundamental ideology may be about reducing the role of the federal government, you would likely see his appointees siding with the conservative side of the Court on other issues as well-- including the Microsoft case.
Oh yes, and though it's true that the conservative ideology involves reducing the role of government, in practice this seems to apply more to issues of federal legislation and business regulation than protection of individual freedoms. Just look at the rhetoric coming out of the Congressional Republicans- that we have to reduce taxes in X, Y, and Z, and that states should have more freedom to decide A, B, and C. But they're more than happy to pass bills limiting, for example, abortion rights, free speech rights, and other individual liberties. Whatever they stand for in "theory", if you want someone who will truly stand up for individual rights, you should vote Libertarian.
Still, for me, the most important issue this election is the Supreme Court, and how it will affect future laws affecting individual liberties, especially online. Thus, my biggest concern is that George W. Bush not get the opportunity to appoint people who would not be inclined to advance those goals. That's why I'm voting for Al Gore this November.
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Actually, AFAIK, only the FireWire name is trademarked by Apple. So a company could conceivably use IEEE1394 without paying Apple, so long as they didn't call it FireWire. (Note that many digital video cameras call it "DV link", probably for this reason).
Given that supposedly all sites on the 'net are at most 6 links apart, I'd say it's time for the MPAA to sue itself over linking to DeCSS.
Don't count on it. Remember who commands the majority on the Supreme Court right now- Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas are all extremely conservative, and Kennedy and O'Connor tend to side with them on most issues. And don't forget that the next president will appoint up to four new Justices. If W. gets the honor, that could be very bad news for free speech advocates nationwide, not just in the DeCSS case.
I disagree that the article did a good job covering both viewpoints. Although it did mention both sides, it hardly did so in an unbiased way. At times, it said something like, "providing abandonware is illegal and infringes on the intellectual property rights of publishers and authors." Then it said, "The pirates claim that they are providing a service to the community." I hardly call that an unbiased report when one side is presented as fact, the other as a mere allegation.
It's awfully hard to be persuaded by the MPAA's arguments when they keep asking so many questions. :)
I might warn against overpartitioning, that is, to split everything into dozens of itty bitty partitions. Then later, when some of your partitions are nearly empty and others are bulging at the seams, you're screwed. But again, I highly recommend having /usr/local and /home separate. As for swap, IMHO, more is better. I use about 192 Megs, since that's what my systems have. If, after you've accomodated everything, you have extra space, put it in /usr/local. It's the easiest partition to fill.
I'm not an expert sysadmin, but that's what's worked for me.
-Andrew
This proves, once again, the fallacy of evaluating any system or product based on a single criterion. From reading the article, his point seems to be: "Linux has the most bugs, therefore it's the worst operating system in existence." Forget any other factors like how quickly bugs are fixed, or how reliable the system is otherwise, or even how severe the bugs are... "Well, NT only has one bug, that it doesn't work, so it must be the best system!" Right. He almost considers those factors, but then brushes them aside because they interfere with his conclusion. From the article:
All that aside, though, one conclusion is inescapable: If you look this list over, and measure each system's number of vulnerabilities against the number of its customers, Linux is arguably the worst operating-system product in history, and Microsoft's the best.
Also, I could be wrong about this, but it seemed that he referred to the number of bugs discovered in Linux software in general. Isn't his condemnation of Linux based on that a bit like saying that since Netscape for Windows has tons of bugs, that Windows is a bad operating system?
Well, I guess everyone's entitled to their (wrong) opinion. :)
-Andrew