Of course, if you really are the the genius you would have me beleive, do us both a favor and don't call. I'm sure you'll get it figured out.
Bullshit. Not every call to tech support is the result of a screwup on the user end. For example, I have made probably 10 calls (total) to my various broadband ISPs (AT&T, SBC, etc.) over the past 3 years; in each case, THEIR network was broken, not mine. I am highly competent in the area of networking, and can maintain a reliable network on my end. If my ISP connection is down, explain to me how the hell I'm supposed to fix that on my own!
I can understand how, working in tech support, you are biased against all users. That's fine. But don't assume that all problems are the result of user error. In a large ISP, outages, routing screwups, etc. WILL happen -- and those of us who are competent enough to diagnose that on our own and just want to (a) alert someone in the ISP and (b) get a sense of when it will be fixed do NOT need the sarcastic shit that was your last paragraph.
Just because software isn't open source doesn't mean it's not free to use..
Your definition of "free", namely "without price", is shortsighted. The proper definition of "free" is "without undue restriction", which is what the GPL provides.
Arbitrarily stipulating that someone may not run software which he otherwise could because of political OS-choice reasons is retarded. Kinda like you.
And GNU's response to this? "It's not free enough", which means "it's not the GPL, therefore it sucks". Maybe one of these days RMS will learn to [blah blah blah]
Bullshit. Free software is what it is today precisely because of RMS's 100% no-compromises attitude.
So basically, this Gateway offering is no more impressive then your run-of-the-mill 128MB MP3 player.
No joke. I wish the Slashdot editors had even a smidgen of journalistic integrity; if they did, obviously paid-for advertisements would not be posted under the guise of "news for nerds".
How about creating a story category for blatantly unlabelled advertisements posing as real submissions? Since that would deprive Malda of his fifth new Porsche, I think we'll see that happening right after SCO reveals the infringing code in the kernel...
Red Hat Takes Aim at Infringement Claims Complaint launched against SCO claims, Red Hat pledges $1MM to create fund to protect Linux
SAN FRANCISCO--August 4, 2003--Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT) today made two significant announcements to protect Red Hat Linux customers and the worldwide Linux industry. First, Red Hat announced that it filed a formal complaint against The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX, "SCO"). The purpose of this complaint is to demonstrate that Red Hat's technologies do not infringe any intellectual property of SCO and to hold SCO accountable for its unfair and deceptive actions.
"We filed this complaint to stop SCO from making unsubstantiated and untrue public statements attacking Red Hat Linux and the integrity of the Open Source software development process," said Mark Webbink, General Counsel at Red Hat. "Red Hat is confident that its current and future customers will continue to realize the significant value that our Red Hat Linux platform provides without interruption."
To further protect the integrity of Open Source software and the Open Source community, Red Hat has established the Open Source Now Fund. The purpose of the fund will be to cover legal expenses associated with infringement claims brought against companies developing software under the GPL license and non-profit organizations supporting the efforts of companies developing software under a GPL license. Red Hat has pledged one million dollars to be provided as funding in this initiative. For more information please e-mail opensourcenow@redhat.com.
"The collaborative process of Open Source software development which created the Linux operating system has been unjustly questioned and threatened," said Matthew Szulik, Chairman and CEO of Red Hat. "In its role as industry leader, Red Hat has a responsibility to ensure the legal rights of users are protected."
About Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat is the world's premier open source and Linux provider. Red Hat is headquartered in Raleigh, N.C. and has offices worldwide. Its European headquarters is based in Surrey, UK, with offices throughout Europe. Please visit Red Hat on the Web at www.redhat.com.
Forward-Looking Statements Forward-looking statements in this press release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E ofRed Hat Takes Aim at Infringement Claims Complaint launched against SCO claims, Red Hat pledges $1MM to create fund to protect Linux
SAN FRANCISCO--August 4, 2003--Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT) today made two significant announcements to protect Red Hat Linux customers and the worldwide Linux industry. First, Red Hat announced that it filed a formal complaint against The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX, "SCO"). The purpose of this complaint is to demonstrate that Red Hat's technologies do not infringe any intellectual property of SCO and to hold SCO accountable for its unfair and deceptive actions.
"We filed this complaint to stop SCO from making unsubstantiated and untrue public statements attacking Red Hat Linux and the integrity of the Open Source software development process," said Mark Webbink, General Counsel at Red Hat. "Red Hat is confident that its current and future customers will continue to realize the significant value that our Red Hat Linux platform provides without interruption."
To further protect the integrity of Open Source software and the Open Source community, Red Hat has established the Open Source Now Fund. The purpose of the fund will be to cover legal expenses associated with infringement claims brought against companies developing software under the GPL license and non-profit organizations supporting the efforts of companies developing software under a GPL license. Red Hat has pledged one million dollars to be provided as funding in this initiative. For more information please e-mail opensourcenow@redhat.com.
"The collaborative process of Open Source software development which created the Linux operating system has been unjustly questioned and threatened,"
In a direct current (DC) circuit, voltage or current is simple to define, but in an alternating current (AC) circuit, the definition is more complicated, and can be done in several ways. Root-mean-square (rms) refers to the most common mathematical method of defining the effective voltage or current of an AC wave.
To determine rms value, three mathematical operations are carried out on the function representing the AC waveform:
(1) The square of the waveform function (usually a sine wave) is determined.
(2) The function resulting from step (1) is averaged over time.
(3) The square root of the function resulting from step (2) is found.
In a circuit whose impedance consists of a pure resistance, the rms value of an AC wave is often called the effective value or DC-equivalent value. For example, if an AC source of 100 volts rms is connected across a resistor, and the resulting current causes 50 watts of heat to be dissipated by the resistor, then 50 watts of heat will also be dissipated if a 100-volt DC source is connected to the resistor.
For a sine wave, the rms value is 0.707 times the peak value, or 0.354 times the peak-to-peak value. Household utility voltages are expressed in rms terms.? A so-called "117-volt" AC circuit carries about 165 volts peak (pk), or 330 volts peak-to-peak (pk-pk).
If you are beaming your signals into my property [...] I will damn well do what I please with them!
If only I had mod points now... the poster is absolutely correct. Any company stupid enough to deliver a set of data to someone's property and then rely on client-side programming to select a billable subset of this data to present to the subscriber (think satellite TV, cable modem service via TFTP'd DOCSIS config files, etc.) deserves whatever happens to their signal.
The fact that the tools overtly intended to circumvent satellite TV receiver limitations are illegal is appalling enough. That DirecTV is pulling this sue-everyone-regardless-of-intent horseshit is so much worse, so incredibly "over the top", I can hardly string coherent words together to describe my rage!
several states have already banned NAT, and several more are moving in that direction.
Huh? Did I miss something? Can you provide references backing up your statement? Banning NAT (or attempting to, anyway) would be so incredibly... ugh... asinine!
Forged headers are only possible because of bad code. This has been a recognised problem for years now, I read an article 5 years ago about the flawed code, and that it should be fixed (sendmail2 from memory).
Is this a troll, or are you just really stupid?
That fact that mail headers are forgeable is due to the nature of SMTP, not anyone's "bad code". While programs like sendmail are certainly poorly written, that has nothing to do with forgery. Moron.
Go read this, or perhaps RFC 821/2821. But whatever you do, get a damned clue.
Let's say I own a house, and I pay the local utility company $40 per month for water service, with a maximum of 5.0 gallons per minute entering my house.
Then, I set up a drinking fountain in my garage, leave the door open all the time, and put up a sign: "Free Water!". People come and drink.
If the water company came after me for "stealing", that suit would get laughed out of court, and the judge would bitch-slap the entire plaintiff party on the way out.
How is this any different from my having a DSL line, for which I pay $X.00 per month for a rate cap of Z kbits/sec, and setting up a public 802.11 network for passersby to use?
Bottom line: bandwidth companies -- if you can't provide Z kilobits/sec to Y customers for $X.00 per month per subscriber, then you have no business advertising these rates. Period.
Really, it beggars the imagination to think that anyone in this day and age could be this fatally stupid. If you agree, drop a note to NPR's ombudsman.
It a bit of habit-breaking for people used to saving everything to C-Drive, but a little Pavlovian experience of "Ohmigosh, my file is gone!/Oh wow, you got my file back!" will reinforce people that Hard Drives Are Bad/LAN Drive is Good.
I agree with your point, but I must nitpick your labeling of this system as "Pavlovian". Pavlov's experiments demonstrated classical conditioning, i.e. the association of a neutral stimulus (e.g. bell) with an unconditioned stimulus (e.g. food) in such a way that the newly-conditioned stimulus (bell) induces the same results (e.g. salivation).
What you describe, on the other hand, is operant conditioning, which was proposed by B.F. Skinner, et. al.. In this model, behavior (e.g. not backing up to a LAN drive) is rewarded or (in this case) punished, causing the luser to be more likely to follow the proper procedure next time.
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Of course, if you really are the the genius you would have me beleive, do us both a favor and don't call. I'm sure you'll get it figured out.
Bullshit. Not every call to tech support is the result of a screwup on the user end. For example, I have made probably 10 calls (total) to my various broadband ISPs (AT&T, SBC, etc.) over the past 3 years; in each case, THEIR network was broken, not mine. I am highly competent in the area of networking, and can maintain a reliable network on my end. If my ISP connection is down, explain to me how the hell I'm supposed to fix that on my own!
I can understand how, working in tech support, you are biased against all users. That's fine. But don't assume that all problems are the result of user error. In a large ISP, outages, routing screwups, etc. WILL happen -- and those of us who are competent enough to diagnose that on our own and just want to (a) alert someone in the ISP and (b) get a sense of when it will be fixed do NOT need the sarcastic shit that was your last paragraph.
THE ADMINISTRATOR DOES NOT EVER, FOR ANY REASON, TOUCH THE DATA.
Sheesh. Now I know why I can't get a job, and companies who are laying you people off are checking out India and Russia.
Since you're such an expert, please justify the first statement. I say it's BS. (Hoping that the AC will come back and actually read replies...)
He will serve at least seven years in federal prison under the deal.
Would that be a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison?
Just because software isn't open source doesn't mean it's not free to use..
Your definition of "free", namely "without price", is shortsighted. The proper definition of "free" is "without undue restriction", which is what the GPL provides.
Arbitrarily stipulating that someone may not run software which he otherwise could because of political OS-choice reasons is retarded. Kinda like you.
And GNU's response to this? "It's not free enough", which means "it's not the GPL, therefore it sucks". Maybe one of these days RMS will learn to [blah blah blah]
Bullshit. Free software is what it is today precisely because of RMS's 100% no-compromises attitude.
I've changed all my licenses so that my software cannot be installed on SCO operating systems:
Maybe other free software developers will do the same?
Please explain to me how adding unreasonable restrictions is compatible with free software. Retard.
I needed to know the CDs weren't going to fail on me like a copied ISO might
Uhm... you do know about md5sum, don't you?
So basically, this Gateway offering is no more impressive then your run-of-the-mill 128MB MP3 player.
No joke. I wish the Slashdot editors had even a smidgen of journalistic integrity; if they did, obviously paid-for advertisements would not be posted under the guise of "news for nerds".
How about creating a story category for blatantly unlabelled advertisements posing as real submissions? Since that would deprive Malda of his fifth new Porsche, I think we'll see that happening right after SCO reveals the infringing code in the kernel...
Send me an email if interested. I can have it ready before the root nameservers' next reload.
Or me -- I can do the same, and I won't charge you $50, either. $15 (to cover domain reg) will be fine.
Red Hat Takes Aim at Infringement Claims
Complaint launched against SCO claims, Red Hat pledges $1MM to create fund to protect Linux
SAN FRANCISCO--August 4, 2003--Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT) today made two significant announcements to protect Red Hat Linux customers and the worldwide Linux industry. First, Red Hat announced that it filed a formal complaint against The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX, "SCO"). The purpose of this complaint is to demonstrate that Red Hat's technologies do not infringe any intellectual property of SCO and to hold SCO accountable for its unfair and deceptive actions.
"We filed this complaint to stop SCO from making unsubstantiated and untrue public statements attacking Red Hat Linux and the integrity of the Open Source software development process," said Mark Webbink, General Counsel at Red Hat. "Red Hat is confident that its current and future customers will continue to realize the significant value that our Red Hat Linux platform provides without interruption."
To further protect the integrity of Open Source software and the Open Source community, Red Hat has established the Open Source Now Fund. The purpose of the fund will be to cover legal expenses associated with infringement claims brought against companies developing software under the GPL license and non-profit organizations supporting the efforts of companies developing software under a GPL license. Red Hat has pledged one million dollars to be provided as funding in this initiative. For more information please e-mail opensourcenow@redhat.com.
"The collaborative process of Open Source software development which created the Linux operating system has been unjustly questioned and threatened," said Matthew Szulik, Chairman and CEO of Red Hat. "In its role as industry leader, Red Hat has a responsibility to ensure the legal rights of users are protected."
About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat is the world's premier open source and Linux provider. Red Hat is headquartered in Raleigh, N.C. and has offices worldwide. Its European headquarters is based in Surrey, UK, with offices throughout Europe. Please visit Red Hat on the Web at www.redhat.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Forward-looking statements in this press release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E ofRed Hat Takes Aim at Infringement Claims
Complaint launched against SCO claims, Red Hat pledges $1MM to create fund to protect Linux
SAN FRANCISCO--August 4, 2003--Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT) today made two significant announcements to protect Red Hat Linux customers and the worldwide Linux industry. First, Red Hat announced that it filed a formal complaint against The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX, "SCO"). The purpose of this complaint is to demonstrate that Red Hat's technologies do not infringe any intellectual property of SCO and to hold SCO accountable for its unfair and deceptive actions.
"We filed this complaint to stop SCO from making unsubstantiated and untrue public statements attacking Red Hat Linux and the integrity of the Open Source software development process," said Mark Webbink, General Counsel at Red Hat. "Red Hat is confident that its current and future customers will continue to realize the significant value that our Red Hat Linux platform provides without interruption."
To further protect the integrity of Open Source software and the Open Source community, Red Hat has established the Open Source Now Fund. The purpose of the fund will be to cover legal expenses associated with infringement claims brought against companies developing software under the GPL license and non-profit organizations supporting the efforts of companies developing software under a GPL license. Red Hat has pledged one million dollars to be provided as funding in this initiative. For more information please e-mail opensourcenow@redhat.com.
"The collaborative process of Open Source software development which created the Linux operating system has been unjustly questioned and threatened,"
RMS is one of several ways that the maximum output of a piece of stereo equipment is rated.
You were going to actually explain what RMS stands for, and what the term means, right?
Shamelessly ripped from whatis.com:
root-mean-square
Also see peak and peak-to-peak.
In a direct current (DC) circuit, voltage or current is simple to define, but in an alternating current (AC) circuit, the definition is more complicated, and can be done in several ways. Root-mean-square (rms) refers to the most common mathematical method of defining the effective voltage or current of an AC wave.
To determine rms value, three mathematical operations are carried out on the function representing the AC waveform:
(1) The square of the waveform function (usually a sine wave) is determined.
(2) The function resulting from step (1) is averaged over time.
(3) The square root of the function resulting from step (2) is found.
In a circuit whose impedance consists of a pure resistance, the rms value of an AC wave is often called the effective value or DC-equivalent value. For example, if an AC source of 100 volts rms is connected across a resistor, and the resulting current causes 50 watts of heat to be dissipated by the resistor, then 50 watts of heat will also be dissipated if a 100-volt DC source is connected to the resistor.
For a sine wave, the rms value is 0.707 times the peak value, or 0.354 times the peak-to-peak value. Household utility voltages are expressed in rms terms.? A so-called "117-volt" AC circuit carries about 165 volts peak (pk), or 330 volts peak-to-peak (pk-pk).
So when I came acorss [sic] this story, I decided to post it to slashdot.
:)
Funny how you just up and "decided to post it." Have you discovered some secret way to bypass the editors? If so, please share.
If you are beaming your signals into my property [...] I will damn well do what I please with them!
If only I had mod points now... the poster is absolutely correct. Any company stupid enough to deliver a set of data to someone's property and then rely on client-side programming to select a billable subset of this data to present to the subscriber (think satellite TV, cable modem service via TFTP'd DOCSIS config files, etc.) deserves whatever happens to their signal.
The fact that the tools overtly intended to circumvent satellite TV receiver limitations are illegal is appalling enough. That DirecTV is pulling this sue-everyone-regardless-of-intent horseshit is so much worse, so incredibly "over the top", I can hardly string coherent words together to describe my rage!
Fuck you, DirecTV!
several states have already banned NAT, and several more are moving in that direction.
Huh? Did I miss something? Can you provide references backing up your statement? Banning NAT (or attempting to, anyway) would be so incredibly... ugh... asinine!
Oh, and a cell phone. Every college student needs a cell phone, and you'll be left out if you do't get one.
Bullshit.
Forged headers are only possible because of bad code. This has been a recognised problem for years now, I read an article 5 years ago about the flawed code, and that it should be fixed (sendmail2 from memory).
Is this a troll, or are you just really stupid?
That fact that mail headers are forgeable is due to the nature of SMTP, not anyone's "bad code". While programs like sendmail are certainly poorly written, that has nothing to do with forgery. Moron.
Go read this, or perhaps RFC 821/2821. But whatever you do, get a damned clue.
Or, for those on a *nix system:Alternatively, for greater ease of use, add this:into your shell init file (e.g.
Example: When the M3 convertable came out, my manager at the time bought one and was stuck driving with her top down for a day
Don't suppose you've have pictures of that, that you could post somewhere?
[if you run it remotely through an ssh connection, the sysadmins *CAN'T* look up your history in the proxie logs.]
:^)
Ah, but that's where ngrep comes in!
You're an idiot. It's called SECURE shell for a reason. Sniff all the packets you want; they're encrypted, genius...
Let's say I own a house, and I pay the local utility company $40 per month for water service, with a maximum of 5.0 gallons per minute entering my house.
Then, I set up a drinking fountain in my garage, leave the door open all the time, and put up a sign: "Free Water!". People come and drink.
If the water company came after me for "stealing", that suit would get laughed out of court, and the judge would bitch-slap the entire plaintiff party on the way out.
How is this any different from my having a DSL line, for which I pay $X.00 per month for a rate cap of Z kbits/sec, and setting up a public 802.11 network for passersby to use?
Bottom line: bandwidth companies -- if you can't provide Z kilobits/sec to Y customers for $X.00 per month per subscriber, then you have no business advertising these rates. Period.
What the heck? Right after this story, another item was posted linking to this page:
7 44 9
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=30
Now, it's gone from the front page, and an error message appears upon refreshing the story!
Darn it! I read the first three words, got exited, and then was crushed with disappointment to see "eCos Team" (whatever the hell that is) afterward.
Down with Red Hat!
Karma whoring blah blah blah...
It a bit of habit-breaking for people used to saving everything to C-Drive, but a little Pavlovian experience of "Ohmigosh, my file is gone!/Oh wow, you got my file back!" will reinforce people that Hard Drives Are Bad/LAN Drive is Good.
I agree with your point, but I must nitpick your labeling of this system as "Pavlovian". Pavlov's experiments demonstrated classical conditioning, i.e. the association of a neutral stimulus (e.g. bell) with an unconditioned stimulus (e.g. food) in such a way that the newly-conditioned stimulus (bell) induces the same results (e.g. salivation).
What you describe, on the other hand, is operant conditioning, which was proposed by B.F. Skinner, et. al.. In this model, behavior (e.g. not backing up to a LAN drive) is rewarded or (in this case) punished, causing the luser to be more likely to follow the proper procedure next time.
See, this is why I'm keeping with ext2. ;)
;-)
Uhh, no. The original poster meant X Font Server, not XFS (the journalled filesystem from SGI).
TDM TLA's! (Too Damned Many Three-Letter Acronyms)