Of course this is the Free Software Foundations fault. They started the rot years ago by daring to charge $150 for a copy of Emacs (GPL'd so anyone could copy it for free). And $150 twenty-or-so years ago would buy farmore coffee than $150 would today.
How DARE Libranet charge $15 for a copy of GNU/Linux (including Emacs and probably even Xemacs). Disgusting. Ridiculous. They should be shot!
Seriously, get a grip on yourself. It's really a very small fee to recompense them for putting together a cutting-edge distribution, which is what some people (like me) want and I'd be perfectly happy to pay them $15. After all, Free Software is supposedly more about Free (as in speech) than Free (as in beer).
This sounds like a very cool distribution (if it lives up to their claims) with the 2.4.2. kernel and XFree86 4.0.2. I'm currently running a RedHat 6.1 partially upgraded with 7.0 rpms, 2.4.2 (with pppoatm hacks) and XFree86 4.0.3. Considering how much it's been messed about with, it's remarkably (but not completely) stable, so I'm looking to upgrade to a properly put-together distro with similar features. Libranet sounds like it could be the ideal distribution for me and I don't mind 'donating' $15 for their trouble. Has anyone used Libranet who could comment on their experiences with it?
And remember that RMS started the FSF by selling copies of Emacs for $150 a tape. I don't consider Libranet charging one tenth of that for an entire distribution (including Emacs!) to be a bad thing at all.
So this disc is the size of a quarter. A quarter of what? I guess that this is some obscure american reference that us in the rest of the world just don't get. Could someone please enlighten me as to how small these discs actually are (diameter in mm, cm or inches for preference).
Supposing for a moment that this is possible and one day somebody will be able to create intelligent artificial lifeforms within a computer. I wonder will they...
Speculate on how they came into being?
Postulate a Creator (or Creators)?
Create religion(s) around those Creator(s)?
If so, have arguments/wars based on their religious beliefs?
Philosophise about the meaning of life?
Imagine if they came up with something like "I think therefore I am", based purely on their own intelligence.
Of course, if they're really intelligent, they'll realise that we were created 75 million years ago by Xemu the intergallactic alien ruler:-)
I've both used and written a number of DTD's and releasing one under the GPL would really make no sense. The GPL freely allows anyone to modify your code, which is the last thing you want with a DTD. Since a DTD is a formal specification, you need to keep control over it. Ideally, once defined, it should never be allowed to change. If people can modify it as they like, then it becomes useless, since your XML documents may not conform to the modified versions.
If I were you, I would use something very similar to the Docbook copyright notice:
Copyright 1992-2000 HaL Computer Systems, Inc.,
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., ArborText, Inc., Fujitsu Software
Corporation, Norman Walsh, and the Organization for the Advancement
of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).
Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute the DocBook XML DTD
and its accompanying documentation for any purpose and without fee
is hereby granted in perpetuity, provided that the above copyright
notice and this paragraph appear in all copies. The copyright
holders make no representation about the suitability of the DTD for
any purpose. It is provided "as is" without expressed or implied
warranty.
If you modify the DocBook DTD in any way, except for declaring and
referencing additional sets of general entities and declaring
additional notations, label your DTD as a variant of DocBook.
Why is this stupid? These people have done more for Debian than most (including starting Debian in the first place). It's their hobby and they love doing it - why shouldn't they try to turn it into their career too?
You're right about this being a tax dodge. Sone is apparently not happy at all about their games console being classified as a games console for tax purposes, so they're trying to persuade the EU that it's a computer by putting Basic on it. Of course, if they really want to convince people that it's a computer, they should have ported Emacs to it.
It's not a troll or flamebait if taken in the context of the original question, which was:
"What will you do to protect the rights of athiests and those who hold minority faiths, such as Wicca, Santaria, Shinto, et al?"
His answer only dealt with MAJORITY religions. Bush did not answer the fscking question and the poster was pointing that out. How's that a troll?
I would interpret Bush's answer as being that he is NOT "committed to the First Amendment principles of religious freedom, tolerance, and diversity" for minority religions.
As a member of one of the aforementioned minority religions, I am very, very glad that I do not live in the USA and be facing the possibility that this bigot might be elected.
Increasing RAM is not necessarily the best way to improve performance, especially if you're running that piece of shit known as Windows NT. I've got an NT box here (not my fault) with 1GB of RAM and it's swapping out to virtual memory. Peak memory usage of this machine is 450MB and current usage is 320MB, but the fucker is STILL SWAPPING (yes, hard page faults). Even with 640MB of free memory doing absolutely fuck all. Apparently, it's due to NT's VM system being optimized for machines with small amounts of physical RAM. What I really, really need right now is a baseball bat and a Microsoftie to vent my anger on.
For games performance, a new graphics card may be your best bet. I've just upgraded my K6-2 450 linux box from a Matrox G200 (with XFree86 3.3) to a GeForce 256 (XFree86 4.0.1) and the difference is unbelievable. Quake 3 is now playable and Soldier of Fortune is much faster.
Apparently the Bletchley Park museum is now having a new security system installed. Must go there sometime, since it's only about an hour's ride away (as the Ducati flies).
I wonder if they'll realise that their protection was broken despite some of the serious talent boycotting their competition. They've spent a long time devising these encryption algorithms and they appear to have been broken in just a few weeks. So they seem to have the choice of either admitting defeat or spending many more years trying to devise another 'uncrackable' encryption knowing that it may again be broken immediately.
That's nothing. The BBC recently repo rte d that the University of Surrey is appointing a Professor of Airline Catering. Noted restaurant critic Egon Ronay commented, "You might as well appoint a professor of shoe cleaning"
By 2.4, I think that they mean 2.4.x and not 2.4.0
I agree that they won't get JFS into 2.4.0, especially since there's a feature freeze and even a bug-fix freeze except for fixes to serious bugs. The article also mentions that ReiserFS is likely to be finished & into the kernel before JFS. I believe that Alan Cox proposed an abstract journaling layer in the kernel that the various JFS's can plug into. This is probably going to be necessary at some stage as there now seem to be at least 5 JFS's for Linux: Reiser, IBM JFS, SGI XFS, Ext3 and TUX2.
I recently visited a large company here in England that use Linux on Sun Sparc. I'm not going to name them, but I will say that they are a Big Broadcasting Corporation.
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Of course this is the Free Software Foundations fault. They started the rot years ago by daring to charge $150 for a copy of Emacs (GPL'd so anyone could copy it for free). And $150 twenty-or-so years ago would buy farmore coffee than $150 would today.
How DARE Libranet charge $15 for a copy of GNU/Linux (including Emacs and probably even Xemacs). Disgusting. Ridiculous. They should be shot!
Seriously, get a grip on yourself. It's really a very small fee to recompense them for putting together a cutting-edge distribution, which is what some people (like me) want and I'd be perfectly happy to pay them $15. After all, Free Software is supposedly more about Free (as in speech) than Free (as in beer).
HH
This sounds like a very cool distribution (if it lives up to their claims) with the 2.4.2. kernel and XFree86 4.0.2. I'm currently running a RedHat 6.1 partially upgraded with 7.0 rpms, 2.4.2 (with pppoatm hacks) and XFree86 4.0.3. Considering how much it's been messed about with, it's remarkably (but not completely) stable, so I'm looking to upgrade to a properly put-together distro with similar features. Libranet sounds like it could be the ideal distribution for me and I don't mind 'donating' $15 for their trouble. Has anyone used Libranet who could comment on their experiences with it?
And remember that RMS started the FSF by selling copies of Emacs for $150 a tape. I don't consider Libranet charging one tenth of that for an entire distribution (including Emacs!) to be a bad thing at all.
HH
Except that 'The Register' ran this story several weeks ago.
And a RedHat unstable release is still probably much more stable than Windows. But then, Microsoft never claim to have stable releases.
HH
So this disc is the size of a quarter. A quarter of what? I guess that this is some obscure american reference that us in the rest of the world just don't get. Could someone please enlighten me as to how small these discs actually are (diameter in mm, cm or inches for preference).
Thanks
HH (who has never even visted America)
Supposing for a moment that this is possible and one day somebody will be able to create intelligent artificial lifeforms within a computer. I wonder will they...
:-)
Speculate on how they came into being?
Postulate a Creator (or Creators)?
Create religion(s) around those Creator(s)?
If so, have arguments/wars based on their religious beliefs?
Philosophise about the meaning of life?
Imagine if they came up with something like "I think therefore I am", based purely on their own intelligence.
Of course, if they're really intelligent, they'll realise that we were created 75 million years ago by Xemu the intergallactic alien ruler
HH
What the article (& the manufacturers website) do not seem to mention, is where the battery is, or what kind of battery it uses. Anyone got any ideas?
HH
...should stick to power chords and rock operas.
HH
I've both used and written a number of DTD's and releasing one under the GPL would really make no sense. The GPL freely allows anyone to modify your code, which is the last thing you want with a DTD. Since a DTD is a formal specification, you need to keep control over it. Ideally, once defined, it should never be allowed to change. If people can modify it as they like, then it becomes useless, since your XML documents may not conform to the modified versions.
If I were you, I would use something very similar to the Docbook copyright notice:
Copyright 1992-2000 HaL Computer Systems, Inc.,
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., ArborText, Inc., Fujitsu Software
Corporation, Norman Walsh, and the Organization for the Advancement
of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).
$Id: docbookx.dtd,v 1.12 2000/08/27 15:15:26 nwalsh Exp $
Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute the DocBook XML DTD
and its accompanying documentation for any purpose and without fee
is hereby granted in perpetuity, provided that the above copyright
notice and this paragraph appear in all copies. The copyright
holders make no representation about the suitability of the DTD for
any purpose. It is provided "as is" without expressed or implied
warranty.
If you modify the DocBook DTD in any way, except for declaring and
referencing additional sets of general entities and declaring
additional notations, label your DTD as a variant of DocBook.
HH
Why is this stupid? These people have done more for Debian than most (including starting Debian in the first place). It's their hobby and they love doing it - why shouldn't they try to turn it into their career too?
HH
You're right about this being a tax dodge. Sone is apparently not happy at all about their games console being classified as a games console for tax purposes, so they're trying to persuade the EU that it's a computer by putting Basic on it. Of course, if they really want to convince people that it's a computer, they should have ported Emacs to it.
HH
It's not a troll or flamebait if taken in the context of the original question, which was:
"What will you do to protect the rights of athiests and those who hold minority faiths, such as Wicca, Santaria, Shinto, et al?"
His answer only dealt with MAJORITY religions. Bush did not answer the fscking question and the poster was pointing that out. How's that a troll?
I would interpret Bush's answer as being that he is NOT "committed to the First Amendment principles of religious freedom, tolerance, and diversity" for minority religions.
As a member of one of the aforementioned minority religions, I am very, very glad that I do not live in the USA and be facing the possibility that this bigot might be elected.
HH
This is news? Any my story about Tux being a square on the latest Monopoly board was just rejected. Me bitter? No, of course not. Sob!
HH
Increasing RAM is not necessarily the best way to improve performance, especially if you're running that piece of shit known as Windows NT. I've got an NT box here (not my fault) with 1GB of RAM and it's swapping out to virtual memory. Peak memory usage of this machine is 450MB and current usage is 320MB, but the fucker is STILL SWAPPING (yes, hard page faults). Even with 640MB of free memory doing absolutely fuck all. Apparently, it's due to NT's VM system being optimized for machines with small amounts of physical RAM. What I really, really need right now is a baseball bat and a Microsoftie to vent my anger on.
For games performance, a new graphics card may be your best bet. I've just upgraded my K6-2 450 linux box from a Matrox G200 (with XFree86 3.3) to a GeForce 256 (XFree86 4.0.1) and the difference is unbelievable. Quake 3 is now playable and Soldier of Fortune is much faster.
HH
It astounds me to watch on a daily basis the right of free speech being taken away.
The article says EUROPE. You, I presume, are not in Europe* so no-one is taking away YOUR rights.
HH
*I've never heard a european whinge about their right to free speech. Americans do it all the time.
Oh my gods, so you can emulate a 390 on Linux and then run dozens of instances of Linux/390 on it???
HH
Paxman is a notorious talking-head famous for verbal jousting with MPs and other officials on "Newsnight"
I always thought that his theme-tune should be
"Paxman. Yeah, I'm the Paxman. And you answer to no-one but me" (sorry, George)
HH
Apparently the Bletchley Park museum is now having a new security system installed. Must go there sometime, since it's only about an hour's ride away (as the Ducati flies).
HH
OK, so who's going to be the first to make that crap Beowulf joke? Or should it be a Beowuff cluster of Aibo's?
HH
I wonder if they'll realise that their protection was broken despite some of the serious talent boycotting their competition. They've spent a long time devising these encryption algorithms and they appear to have been broken in just a few weeks. So they seem to have the choice of either admitting defeat or spending many more years trying to devise another 'uncrackable' encryption knowing that it may again be broken immediately.
What d'y'all reckon they'll do?
HH
That's nothing. The BBC recently repo rte d that the University of Surrey is appointing a Professor of Airline Catering. Noted restaurant critic Egon Ronay commented, "You might as well appoint a professor of shoe cleaning"
HH
I'm surprised they only got 13 participants!
So was there a menage-a-trois or was one just masturbating?
HH
By 2.4, I think that they mean 2.4.x and not 2.4.0
I agree that they won't get JFS into 2.4.0, especially since there's a feature freeze and even a bug-fix freeze except for fixes to serious bugs. The article also mentions that ReiserFS is likely to be finished & into the kernel before JFS. I believe that Alan Cox proposed an abstract journaling layer in the kernel that the various JFS's can plug into. This is probably going to be necessary at some stage as there now seem to be at least 5 JFS's for Linux: Reiser, IBM JFS, SGI XFS, Ext3 and TUX2.
HH
I recently visited a large company here in England that use Linux on Sun Sparc. I'm not going to name them, but I will say that they are a Big Broadcasting Corporation.
HH