You don't have to wait for the "vendor" to patch anything.
It's open source. if the maintainer of that specific package don't come with a solution in less than 24h FIX IT YOURSELF. you have the code for G_d sake...
I posted aomething similar to this in the IBM linux watch arcticle a few days ago, and I'm repeating this here for one single reason:
A WRIST WATCH IS NOT THE PLACE TO PUT ALL THIS CRAP!!!.
a wrist watch is suposed to tell you USEFULL information (like time) in a quick, convenient and direct way.
It's not supposed to take pictures or to double as a Linux PDA.
Let me tell you the origins of wrist watch. I late 1890's a young brasilian from a rich familly moved to Paris. He was a briliant inventor and liked to experiment new things.
One day he rented a hot air baloon and went for a ride. He found that a marvelous thing, except for the fact that the ballon was too big and clumsy.
Then he started to work on hot air ballons which were small, light anc convenient enough to be carried in a car's trunk.
he succeeded at this, but that was not enough. after he almost died in one of his ballons becouse the wind sent him to the ocean, he decided it was time to have control of the thing.
the result was the very first drovable baloon, or blimp.
What all this have to do with wrist watches ??? try to take a big clumsy watch from your pocket to see time while strugling with a primitive blimp...
to solve this problem he designed the wrist watch and asked Cartier to build it for him.
The device was small, light and wrist mounted. This means you can simply turn quickly your wrist to see the time, which is extremely convenient. no hands on pockets, no anoying covers, no buttons to press. flip the wrist and see the time. done.
The name of this guy was Alberto Santos Dumont. He never patented his inventions. he left everything in public domain for the benefit of mankind.
Now IBM and Cassio comes with these montrosities ??? give me a break.
"telezaper" is certainly a name more adequate to a stun-gun. If they find a way to send a high voltage through phone lines (like 100.000 volts) I'll certainly buy one.
The bigest point would make this work with cell phones too...
KDE today is as good as window manager as MS windows or Apple finder, Gnome is getting closer, WindowMaker is rock solid and is small and fast, as Kojima dreamt years ago.
Until someone comes with a unbelievable great idea, things will go slow for a while.
And since the window managers "market" (don't know if this word can be applied to open source) are stable now, only the best and most used WM (gnome, WindowMaker, KDE) sees any development.
It's about how such an important piece of code passed dec. 31 1999 without beeing tested against Y2k, specially when everybody involved with the code knew it uses dates to give the result.
I wonder how many lines of code are still there, untested, waiting for someone to run them and screw things up big time...
Join forces with England, France, Itally, Germany, Spain and Portugal and sail abroad to reconquer the empires and colonies these countries once had, right ?
Wrong. Some of these countires are now much diferent from the time they were conquered by those nations. They won't fall this easy, and if US starts bulling them some former colonies that now have shit loads of military power (China, India, etc...) may react.
This is time of re-action, and it must be precisely aimed agains the ones who blown the buildings. Nail them down, just like you did whith Japan.
After this is acomplished, it'll be the time to be pro-active, not with weapons, but with money, technology and support to help them create developed nations, with all the things we take for granted: well paid jobs, health care, education, etc.
This was done in Japan and Germany once and it worked. These nations are between US's best allies, even after beeing leveled down by your military machine.
Remember this, you don't make friends by force, hiting them. you make friends HELPING them and caring them.
is the phone I considered buying a few months ago. It cost here R$ 799,00 (aprox. US$ 300). I had the money to buy it without caring for the money, but after a second tough I gave up and kept my old 5120, you know why ???
I have a palm IIIC with a modem that allows me to connect to internet and read mail, I have a desktop at home and at the office for more sofisticated use of the Net, so would I buy a phone with crapy 9.2kbps, black and white small screen when most of the time I'm on the big blue room I DON'T need to be connected ?
7100 is big end clumsy for a cell phone, is not a decent PDA, and almost worthless as a web browser. I rather have an excelent PDA, with a reasably good web connection and an awesome desktop.
all-in-one devices usually doesn't perform any of it's individual tasks as good as a dedicated device and in some cases they cost more than buying 3 or 4 separate pieces of hardware, so give me a break.
even video over cable modem is still vaporware IMHO what to say over 28.8...
I still remember ISPs and media focused promissing real-time-full-screen-VHS-quality-30-frames per second video over cable/DSL/ISDN... All I can get now is real-time-AM-radio-quality-sound with what seems to be a slide-show in nakednews.com with a 256 Kbps ADSL.
so, untill I _SEE_ this video over 28.8K I'll deny the possibility of such a thing...
Take a look at all the civil rights violations reported on/. , Yahoo, Salon, etc. in the last few weeks all due to aleged DMCA violations.
Some of this news made to cnn.com's sci-tech page, but they're not related with AOL-TW. CNN'll try to protect their mother company the same way MSNBC tries to protect M$, as/. reported in earlier articles.
BTW, the salon story's writer said clearly that their connection was provided by TW cable. so don't expect ANY mention of this on CNN...
In more civilized countries any judge would laugh at an atempt to suit a 4th party for copyright infringiment.
Some ppl pointed in other comments about ppl suing weapons manufacturers or kitchen knife maker, etc. because their products were used in crimes... for god's sake, anyone can commit a crime with BARE HANDS... who the victim will sue in this case ? G_d ? Or a random religious institution as "G_d's representans on Earth".
Please, ppl. before posting comments on how these kind of suits are outrageous, press your congressmen to reform US's judicial system. The amount of stupid suits like this in US is ridiculous.
This "license to use it" may be legal in US, but may not be in other countries.
IANAL, but my brother is, and I discussed this with him. The OEM (like compaq, IBM, etc) is not buying or licensig the software here in brasil, he is just RE-SELING it to the final consumer, who IS NOT bound by Microsoft's EULA, and you know why ??? Because there's no signature in a paper...
MS's EULA is a contract, and contracts are valid only with both partie's signature.
One solution to the OEM would be instaling some kind of "wizard" on the machine and tell MS that the wizard is suposed to show the user how the hardware works, give the user an intoduction to Windows and "Help him configure the system". Then this wizard could simply wipe MSN's icon from the desktop if the user clicks "yes", and that's it...
In US MS may have some legal tool to prevent this, like including in the EULA that the final user can't remove the standard icons, but as I said, MS's EULA is VOID in brasil (and probably in other countries too). Here the user can do whatever he wants, including reverse engineering and decompile. Copyright laws prevent the user from copying the software, just like it prevent someone to produce and sell an exact replica of a car, but one can still disassemble the engine to see how it works...
As strange as the theories that the pyramids were built by an advanced alien civilization.
I don't believe the egyptians knew how to fly. If they did the'd probably would have used this to get closer to the sun, after all, our star were a god to them, and this wold be registered in hyerogliphs on their temples and/or pyramids.
It's a known fact that maya civilization in tha andes had hot air baloons shaped as an iverted pyramid build with vegetable fiber, and a reproduction of this balloon flew 200 meters near lake titicaca. Detail, this ballon was registered in stone in a temple near the lake. The cientist who reproduced the machine copied the shape of it from this stone.
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Not likely. HP is Intel's partner in the development of Itanium, which is based on PA-RISC.
If AMD has a desire to cram two AMD-64 in one package they better come with their own solution or license IBM's one...
You don't have to wait for the "vendor" to patch anything.
It's open source. if the maintainer of that specific package don't come with a solution in less than 24h FIX IT YOURSELF. you have the code for G_d sake...
Cassio released a few days ago, and cheaper too.
and is not wrist mounted...
try an IBM Memory Key USB. 8 MB in your keychain.
It's just memory. no bells or whistles.
Please, don't quote out of context, ok ???
Does it show the time ?
I posted aomething similar to this in the IBM linux watch arcticle a few days ago, and I'm repeating this here for one single reason:
A WRIST WATCH IS NOT THE PLACE TO PUT ALL THIS CRAP!!!.
a wrist watch is suposed to tell you USEFULL information (like time) in a quick, convenient and direct way.
It's not supposed to take pictures or to double as a Linux PDA.
Let me tell you the origins of wrist watch. I late 1890's a young brasilian from a rich familly moved to Paris. He was a briliant inventor and liked to experiment new things.
One day he rented a hot air baloon and went for a ride. He found that a marvelous thing, except for the fact that the ballon was too big and clumsy.
Then he started to work on hot air ballons which were small, light anc convenient enough to be carried in a car's trunk.
he succeeded at this, but that was not enough. after he almost died in one of his ballons becouse the wind sent him to the ocean, he decided it was time to have control of the thing.
the result was the very first drovable baloon, or blimp.
What all this have to do with wrist watches ??? try to take a big clumsy watch from your pocket to see time while strugling with a primitive blimp...
to solve this problem he designed the wrist watch and asked Cartier to build it for him.
The device was small, light and wrist mounted. This means you can simply turn quickly your wrist to see the time, which is extremely convenient. no hands on pockets, no anoying covers, no buttons to press. flip the wrist and see the time. done.
The name of this guy was Alberto Santos Dumont. He never patented his inventions. he left everything in public domain for the benefit of mankind.
Now IBM and Cassio comes with these montrosities ??? give me a break.
With a high-power electric discharge.
"telezaper" is certainly a name more adequate to a stun-gun. If they find a way to send a high voltage through phone lines (like 100.000 volts) I'll certainly buy one.
The bigest point would make this work with cell phones too...
and e-mail, quake, GCC...
But does it show the time ???
KDE today is as good as window manager as MS windows or Apple finder, Gnome is getting closer, WindowMaker is rock solid and is small and fast, as Kojima dreamt years ago.
Until someone comes with a unbelievable great idea, things will go slow for a while.
And since the window managers "market" (don't know if this word can be applied to open source) are stable now, only the best and most used WM (gnome, WindowMaker, KDE) sees any development.
like the ones my country has in orbit ? or russia ? or china ?
This would be a major infringment on other countries sovereignity. If LA really needs an extra cash tax it's own inhabitants, not the whole world.
It's about how such an important piece of code passed dec. 31 1999 without beeing tested against Y2k, specially when everybody involved with the code knew it uses dates to give the result.
I wonder how many lines of code are still there, untested, waiting for someone to run them and screw things up big time...
Basicaly what you propose is:
Join forces with England, France, Itally, Germany, Spain and Portugal and sail abroad to reconquer the empires and colonies these countries once had, right ?
Wrong. Some of these countires are now much diferent from the time they were conquered by those nations. They won't fall this easy, and if US starts bulling them some former colonies that now have shit loads of military power (China, India, etc...) may react.
This is time of re-action, and it must be precisely aimed agains the ones who blown the buildings. Nail them down, just like you did whith Japan.
After this is acomplished, it'll be the time to be pro-active, not with weapons, but with money, technology and support to help them create developed nations, with all the things we take for granted: well paid jobs, health care, education, etc.
This was done in Japan and Germany once and it worked. These nations are between US's best allies, even after beeing leveled down by your military machine.
Remember this, you don't make friends by force, hiting them. you make friends HELPING them and caring them.
Is the book GNU GPLed, so I can grab it on an ftp, change it, and charge for these changes ???
is the phone I considered buying a few months ago. It cost here R$ 799,00 (aprox. US$ 300). I had the money to buy it without caring for the money, but after a second tough I gave up and kept my old 5120, you know why ???
I have a palm IIIC with a modem that allows me to connect to internet and read mail, I have a desktop at home and at the office for more sofisticated use of the Net, so would I buy a phone with crapy 9.2kbps, black and white small screen when most of the time I'm on the big blue room I DON'T need to be connected ?
7100 is big end clumsy for a cell phone, is not a decent PDA, and almost worthless as a web browser. I rather have an excelent PDA, with a reasably good web connection and an awesome desktop.
all-in-one devices usually doesn't perform any of it's individual tasks as good as a dedicated device and in some cases they cost more than buying 3 or 4 separate pieces of hardware, so give me a break.
even video over cable modem is still vaporware IMHO what to say over 28.8...
I still remember ISPs and media focused promissing real-time-full-screen-VHS-quality-30-frames per second video over cable/DSL/ISDN... All I can get now is real-time-AM-radio-quality-sound with what seems to be a slide-show in nakednews.com with a 256 Kbps ADSL.
so, untill I _SEE_ this video over 28.8K I'll deny the possibility of such a thing...
They're controlled by Time-Warner.
/. , Yahoo, Salon, etc. in the last few weeks all due to aleged DMCA violations.
/. reported in earlier articles.
Take a look at all the civil rights violations reported on
Some of this news made to cnn.com's sci-tech page, but they're not related with AOL-TW. CNN'll try to protect their mother company the same way MSNBC tries to protect M$, as
BTW, the salon story's writer said clearly that their connection was provided by TW cable. so don't expect ANY mention of this on CNN...
Here where I live it's covered by the criminal code. article 171: "false testimony". this means jail...
that allow such a stupid law suit to be filed ?
In more civilized countries any judge would laugh at an atempt to suit a 4th party for copyright infringiment.
Some ppl pointed in other comments about ppl suing weapons manufacturers or kitchen knife maker, etc. because their products were used in crimes... for god's sake, anyone can commit a crime with BARE HANDS... who the victim will sue in this case ? G_d ? Or a random religious institution as "G_d's representans on Earth".
Please, ppl. before posting comments on how these kind of suits are outrageous, press your congressmen to reform US's judicial system. The amount of stupid suits like this in US is ridiculous.
I hate DMCA as much as evryone else, but using a Bad Thing(tm) against another would be at least ironic, don't you think ?
M$ breakdown proccess is being revised by another judge and they take such a monopolistic attitude ?
Don't gtes realize that this is just another nail in his company's coffin ???
And then try a refund for the windoze copy you never used...
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This is the title of a news article at mysql.org where MySQL AB invited NuSphere and Progress to resolve their disputes in neutral soil.
The article is here : http://www.mysql.com/news/article-76.html
This is the last anouncement in mysql.com about this issue. anyone knows if they made any progress ???
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This "license to use it" may be legal in US, but may not be in other countries.
IANAL, but my brother is, and I discussed this with him. The OEM (like compaq, IBM, etc) is not buying or licensig the software here in brasil, he is just RE-SELING it to the final consumer, who IS NOT bound by Microsoft's EULA, and you know why ??? Because there's no signature in a paper...
MS's EULA is a contract, and contracts are valid only with both partie's signature.
One solution to the OEM would be instaling some kind of "wizard" on the machine and tell MS that the wizard is suposed to show the user how the hardware works, give the user an intoduction to Windows and "Help him configure the system". Then this wizard could simply wipe MSN's icon from the desktop if the user clicks "yes", and that's it...
In US MS may have some legal tool to prevent this, like including in the EULA that the final user can't remove the standard icons, but as I said, MS's EULA is VOID in brasil (and probably in other countries too). Here the user can do whatever he wants, including reverse engineering and decompile. Copyright laws prevent the user from copying the software, just like it prevent someone to produce and sell an exact replica of a car, but one can still disassemble the engine to see how it works...
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My cable modem dies every friday night 'cause the fscking operator can't deal with all the traffic, and I don't make a farewell ceremony to it...
Sarcastic ? Me ?
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As strange as the theories that the pyramids were built by an advanced alien civilization.
I don't believe the egyptians knew how to fly. If they did the'd probably would have used this to get closer to the sun, after all, our star were a god to them, and this wold be registered in hyerogliphs on their temples and/or pyramids.
It's a known fact that maya civilization in tha andes had hot air baloons shaped as an iverted pyramid build with vegetable fiber, and a reproduction of this balloon flew 200 meters near lake titicaca. Detail, this ballon was registered in stone in a temple near the lake. The cientist who reproduced the machine copied the shape of it from this stone.
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