Bullshit. You can work for a university and write free code. We do it here and have no problems. Of course, I release everything under the BSD license. No. I won't tell you what I work on as the university doesn't endorse it.
My original impetus for writing PING for 4.2a BSD UNIX came from an offhand remark in July 1983 by Dr. Dave Mills while we were attending a DARPA meeting in Norway...."
Why on earth was a US Defense department group having a meeting in Norway? I need to get my boss to start having meetings in Maui. Sheesh.
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Excellent. Thanks. I guess the point is that comedies rarely win Academy Awards. Thanks again.
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Sure, this movie is not a contender for a Comedy Oscar, but I thought it delivered on what it advertised....
There is no Academy Award for Comedy and I think it that "My Cousin Vinny" was the first Oscar for a comedy (Mira Sorvino) in a long time.
I personally like the way ICQ handles messages and think that this could be applied to email as well. You could have settings that would require people to request authoriztion to send email to you. Everything else gets filtered. This would make spam a two step process for those involved and hence eliminate a vast majority of unwanted mail.
But would this stop people from faking who the message is coming from? No. The real shitty evil of spammers is that they look for ways to take a Good Thing(tm) like SMTP and turn it in on itself. It would be a matter of time before spoofing brought such a concept to its knees. I personally like the idea of digital signatures for e-mail marketers. It gives something ironclad to opt-out on and filter.
Use of my text outside of Slashdot, for example in a book
published by Andover, or on a Best Of Slashdot CD-ROM, or in
other places or for purposes other than discussion here on
Slashdot requires a license. That is, I have to explicitly grant
you the right to use my words.
Wrong. I can use your words as long as I properly attribute them. Example:
Some Slashdot posters assert that "I have to explicitly grant
you the right to use my words" (Kris, 2002).
One other question; if Debian is the most pure Linux in an open source point of view why are they porting it to a more restrictive licensing scheme?
How is the BSD license more restrictive? It allows for free and non-free use. It is actually more open than the GPL and probably better for students as it allows them the freedom to carry their work away from school. Does the GPL do this?
My experience with STABLE and Debian GNU/Linux is that it is an outdated tree. FreeBSD pkgs, again in my experience, are right where they need to be, not outdated versions of common apps.
I am not a NetBSD user, but I love FreeBSD like Madonna loves dick. Debian's pkgs are interminably behind the curve relative to the rest of Linux-land and this would only serve to slow down NetBSD's acceptance. As far as BSDs go, NetBSD aims for hardware-indpedence/multiple platform acceptance. It is already behind the curve as far as pkgs go. The Debian "keep it stable at the cost of progress" mentality might hurt NetBSD. Please keep these people away. They might come after FreeBSD and really dick up things. Luckily, OpenBSD has Theo -- who is just plain mean as shit -- to protect the very important security work that is done over there. I don't see Hubbard as such a crusader to stop the "everything-that-is-bad-about-linux" crowd from poking their heads in.
Agreed! LOTR is at its worst boring. At its best, it is overwrought. I can think of better Fantasy/SciFi stuff than this (Stephen R. Donaldson comes to mind) and most of that genre is full of bad writers, megalomaniacs and blowhards (Robert Jordan comes to mind). If you want a challenging, multibook read try Mishima's 4-book series that includes Runaway Horses. I know too many geeks I work with who are obsessed with Tolkien, Star Wars, etc., but turn their collective noses up at The Ramayana or the Epic of Gilgamesh. I find the whole geek culture of fantasy very shallow.
I worked for him on his campaigns in the late 80s/early 90s when I was in college. An excellent being as humans go, and really, really up on tech issues for a Beltway guy. Always has a firm grasp of the people side of issues as well as the numbers and ideologies.
Well, probably the same way they can filter http and https: by origin and destination ports.
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If I remember correctly, in Leviticus, it also says that anyone who touches the skin of pig shall be cast out the village. I guess that means anyone who plays American Football is a filthy, remorseless heathen. At least, when the ball was made of pigskin...
The Windows example is common enought to appear on the MCSE, A+ and Network+ exam.
The point is that Windows "advocates" or "didacts" go to great pains to present things as easy, while, often, Linux types represent their OS as only for the anointed.
Personally, when asked a question about a *nix problem, I try to be as clear as possible and send a step by step example with referenced URLs and man pages.
As a *nix person who has had to pick up Winders skills, I will be the first to admit that all the Windows training I have taken has had the tone "This isn't really that hard."
In contrast, I went to a LUG meeting where a workshop was held for Newbies and I distinctly remember someone saying "Look, mounting a share with NFS is hard." You would never hear this at a Windows workshop.
Take my example:
C:\net use p: \\foo\bar
versus:
hookado@monkeyfudge ~$ mount -t nfs gorilla:/export/mnt/disk
Why is one "easier" than the other? Is it just cultural?
Read the post. If the people at Nola had time to evacuate their dead, then they would have buried them or burned them giving a bit of indication of who they were. The interesting thing about Herc. is that something rare was discovered there: forensic evidence of the lives of Romans -- their remains. Of course, they didn't bury them. Sheesh. It's pyroclastic flow, anyhoo.
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Bullshit. You can work for a university and write free code. We do it here and have no problems. Of course, I release everything under the BSD license. No. I won't tell you what I work on as the university doesn't endorse it.
if ($passenger =~ /leftist|non-conformist|muslim|CowboyNeal|ain\'t\s right/gi) {
warn "Potential Threat\n";
jerkknee();
}
I work for a University. We will never die as long as we can squeeze....
Why on earth was a US Defense department group having a meeting in Norway? I need to get my boss to start having meetings in Maui. Sheesh.
Excellent. Thanks. I guess the point is that comedies rarely win Academy Awards. Thanks again.
There is no Academy Award for Comedy and I think it that "My Cousin Vinny" was the first Oscar for a comedy (Mira Sorvino) in a long time.
But would this stop people from faking who the message is coming from? No. The real shitty evil of spammers is that they look for ways to take a Good Thing(tm) like SMTP and turn it in on itself. It would be a matter of time before spoofing brought such a concept to its knees. I personally like the idea of digital signatures for e-mail marketers. It gives something ironclad to opt-out on and filter.
published by Andover, or on a Best Of Slashdot CD-ROM, or in
other places or for purposes other than discussion here on
Slashdot requires a license. That is, I have to explicitly grant
you the right to use my words.
Wrong. I can use your words as long as I properly attribute them. Example:
Some Slashdot posters assert that "I have to explicitly grant
you the right to use my words" (Kris, 2002).
Works Cited
Kris. http://www.koehntopp.de/kris/copyright.txt Accessed Jan. 23, 2002.
How is the BSD license more restrictive? It allows for free and non-free use. It is actually more open than the GPL and probably better for students as it allows them the freedom to carry their work away from school. Does the GPL do this?
My experience with STABLE and Debian GNU/Linux is that it is an outdated tree. FreeBSD pkgs, again in my experience, are right where they need to be, not outdated versions of common apps.
I am not a NetBSD user, but I love FreeBSD like Madonna loves dick. Debian's pkgs are interminably behind the curve relative to the rest of Linux-land and this would only serve to slow down NetBSD's acceptance. As far as BSDs go, NetBSD aims for hardware-indpedence/multiple platform acceptance. It is already behind the curve as far as pkgs go. The Debian "keep it stable at the cost of progress" mentality might hurt NetBSD. Please keep these people away. They might come after FreeBSD and really dick up things. Luckily, OpenBSD has Theo -- who is just plain mean as shit -- to protect the very important security work that is done over there. I don't see Hubbard as such a crusader to stop the "everything-that-is-bad-about-linux" crowd from poking their heads in.
"Until the windows registry can be maintained using a revision control system, it is just a toy."
Until Windows can be maintained using config files, it is just a toy.
Hey, I resemble that remark.
Sheesh. You can tell when all the old Usenet geeks find something on Slashdot they care about.
fountain-city-nightmares
Those are no more than the spillover from Christenberry Heights, Tim.
My only bitch is that I will have another bunch of dweeb kids who want to have their username/password to be:
SunOS 5.8
login: gandalf
password: 6O11uM
Please, God. Spare me.
Agreed! LOTR is at its worst boring. At its best, it is overwrought. I can think of better Fantasy/SciFi stuff than this (Stephen R. Donaldson comes to mind) and most of that genre is full of bad writers, megalomaniacs and blowhards (Robert Jordan comes to mind). If you want a challenging, multibook read try Mishima's 4-book series that includes Runaway Horses. I know too many geeks I work with who are obsessed with Tolkien, Star Wars, etc., but turn their collective noses up at The Ramayana or the Epic of Gilgamesh. I find the whole geek culture of fantasy very shallow.
Kill Smart Tags:
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Is this true?
I worked for him on his campaigns in the late 80s/early 90s when I was in college. An excellent being as humans go, and really, really up on tech issues for a Beltway guy. Always has a firm grasp of the people side of issues as well as the numbers and ideologies.
Well, probably the same way they can filter http and https: by origin and destination ports.
If I remember correctly, in Leviticus, it also says that anyone who touches the skin of pig shall be cast out the village. I guess that means anyone who plays American Football is a filthy, remorseless heathen. At least, when the ball was made of pigskin...
MSN
/. for lameness....
Looksmart
InfoSpace
Yahoo
Personally, my portal is Google for searching, Mutt and Sendmail for messaging, and
The Windows example is common enought to appear on the MCSE, A+ and Network+ exam.
The point is that Windows "advocates" or "didacts" go to great pains to present things as easy, while, often, Linux types represent their OS as only for the anointed.
Personally, when asked a question about a *nix problem, I try to be as clear as possible and send a step by step example with referenced URLs and man pages.
As a *nix person who has had to pick up Winders skills, I will be the first to admit that all the Windows training I have taken has had the tone "This isn't really that hard."
/mnt/disk
In contrast, I went to a LUG meeting where a workshop was held for Newbies and I distinctly remember someone saying "Look, mounting a share with NFS is hard." You would never hear this at a Windows workshop.
Take my example:
C:\net use p: \\foo\bar
versus:
hookado@monkeyfudge ~$ mount -t nfs gorilla:/export
Why is one "easier" than the other? Is it just cultural?
Read the post. If the people at Nola had time to evacuate their dead, then they would have buried them or burned them giving a bit of indication of who they were. The interesting thing about Herc. is that something rare was discovered there: forensic evidence of the lives of Romans -- their remains. Of course, they didn't bury them. Sheesh. It's pyroclastic flow, anyhoo.