A Limbo is a person living or origination from Limburg, the most southern province of the Netherlands.
The version that's good enough to release and actually works will probably be called Brabo, after people from the neighbouring province of Noord-Brabant. Just kidding all you Limbo's.;^)
Actually, a nice song by Rowwen Heze is very fitting for this release. The song is called 'Limburg (Een kwestie van geduld)' (Limburg, a matter of time). The main text in the song is 'Het is een kwestie van geduld, rustig wachten op de dag, dat heel Holland Limburgs lult.' For this release it could be appropriatly be translated as 'It a matter of time, wait patiently for the day when everybody talks Limbo/Linux'.
5) A standard "driver package" format containing the kernel module, user-mode tools and installation instructions for binary only (yecc) drivers. (One driver fits all distros!)
This is a complete don't care for me. If it comes with a binary-only module, I don't buy it. I'm still running a Matrox G400 at home as a result. Generally, I think kernel developer sentiment is turning more and more negative towards binary-only drivers--I wouldn't expect the community to do much, if anything, to make it easier for such developers.
I agree. A better solution would be to have a mechanism in place that allows a driver module to be compiled from source easily, without the need of having a previous compiled kernel. Maybe this mechanism exists, I don't know. I've never seen it though.
Ideal scenario: A new device is being developed. The manufacturer writes a driver for all relevant kernel versions and mails it to Linus. At some point after this, the drivers shows up in the relevant kernels. Now the new hardware hits the market with a source-only driver and a compile script that figures out which kernel is present on the system for the people who do not run the newest kernel.
If a scenario like this is formalized, it will give hardware manufacturers more incentive to write drivers for linux, since it will be easier to garantee that the hardware will work with a stable kernel.
And don't buy Princes Black Album either. Although Prince (yes calling him that is allowed again) investigates new ways of distributing his music in a nice way, if you buy his Black Album, your money will just go to Warner Brothers.
This clearly shows that we require filters on random generators.
These filters should filter against small snippets of copyrighted works.
This however introduces a new problem. Snippets of a certain length are protected by copyright. Shorter snippets should not be filtered. So the filter database should contain snippets that are long enough so that you cannot distribute them freely.
Then it's illegal to distribute the filter database freely. So in order to filter a random generator, you have to buy the filter database with all copyrighted works.
All these P2P programs can have a lot of problems: - music downloaded can be wrong or low quality - music is often illegal - download is speed is really slow
What labels should do is let users download music for a small fee. For example by buying 100 songs for 100 bucks. Songs to be chosen by the user at any time.
I think a service like this can be really succesfull. The labels do not need to be affraid of piracy because of the crappy quality or low survival rate of these programs.
It's equally exhausting and keeps you lean too. Also a coed games of twister is much more interesting.
And there's no need for these silly computer thingies in the gym.
Gentoo is bad for penguins
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Gentoo Linux or for that matter all source derived distributions cost a lot of time waiting for a compile and a lot of energy hours of CPU usage for compilation.
This will increase the greenhouse effect and melt the icecaps. Then the only gentoo surviving will be those in zoos and those on harddisks.
According to the website, Cinelerra is not intended for end users, because it is not user friendly. They suggest looking at Kino. From Kino's website:
Kino is a simple non-linear video editor. Although it has windows and menus, it is actually a keyboard driven program. It uses many keyboard commands that are similar to the vi text editor.
Hmm. Sounds very user frienly.:^)
I'll give Kino a try though when my new digicam arrives!
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it'l take a nuclear reactor
Aren't we orbiting one?
It should be "Dirty Tricks of Pretenders".
A Limbo is a person living or origination from Limburg, the most southern province of the Netherlands.
;^)
The version that's good enough to release and actually works will probably be called Brabo, after people from the neighbouring province of Noord-Brabant. Just kidding all you Limbo's.
Actually, a nice song by Rowwen Heze is very fitting for this release. The song is called 'Limburg (Een kwestie van geduld)' (Limburg, a matter of time). The main text in the song is 'Het is een kwestie van geduld, rustig wachten op de dag, dat heel Holland Limburgs lult.' For this release it could be appropriatly be translated as 'It a matter of time, wait patiently for the day when everybody talks Limbo/Linux'.
The reporters were looking for a troll in the sewers, but couldn't find him.
I guess they had their threshold too high.
The should have looked at -1.
5) A standard "driver package" format containing the kernel module, user-mode tools and installation instructions for binary only (yecc) drivers. (One driver fits all distros!)
This is a complete don't care for me. If it comes with a binary-only module, I don't buy it. I'm still running a Matrox G400 at home as a result. Generally, I think kernel developer sentiment is turning more and more negative towards binary-only drivers--I wouldn't expect the community to do much, if anything, to make it easier for such developers.
I agree. A better solution would be to have a mechanism in place that allows a driver module to be compiled from source easily, without the need of having a previous compiled kernel. Maybe this mechanism exists, I don't know. I've never seen it though.
Ideal scenario:
A new device is being developed. The manufacturer writes a driver for all relevant kernel versions and mails it to Linus. At some point after this, the drivers shows up in the relevant kernels. Now the new hardware hits the market with a source-only driver and a compile script that figures out which kernel is present on the system for the people who do not run the newest kernel.
If a scenario like this is formalized, it will give hardware manufacturers more incentive to write drivers for linux, since it will be easier to garantee that the hardware will work with a stable kernel.
Or better, give a userid and passwd for a NYTimes account.
I'm sure it's legal. It's like sharing/swapping discount passes at the supermarket.
And don't buy Princes Black Album either. Although Prince (yes calling him that is allowed again) investigates new ways of distributing his music in a nice way, if you buy his Black Album, your money will just go to Warner Brothers.
It's better to join his on-line service.
Who's Johnny?
she said and smiled in her special way.
a lovely view of the sandwich I am eating.
Stop talking with your mouth full!
What if they put a camera in this tooth mobile phone?
Now people on the other side can go: "brush your teeth!" instead of "clean you ear!".
Of course, sex sells, so go for it EFF!
I like the slogan:
Carabella warez me out
Hey, that's the same set of rules Dutch policemen must obey.
It's a misnomer for another reason too.
Win-dependence day
What are we celebrating, our dependance on Windows? Sounds more like a day for mourning.
I'm in favor of Defenestration Day
open windows, throw out Windows
Sorry, completely offtopic, but I'm so happy.
One year of uptime.
%uptime
9:47am up 365 days, 15:30, 5 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.05
This is a machine running linux 2.2.19 and it's the central server of a distributed computing network.
Hooray!
Now blow out the karma.
This clearly shows that we require filters on random generators.
These filters should filter against small snippets of copyrighted works.
This however introduces a new problem. Snippets of a certain length are protected by copyright. Shorter snippets should not be filtered. So the filter database should contain snippets that are long enough so that you cannot distribute them freely.
Then it's illegal to distribute the filter database freely. So in order to filter a random generator, you have to buy the filter database with all copyrighted works.
All these P2P programs can have a lot of problems:
- music downloaded can be wrong or low quality
- music is often illegal
- download is speed is really slow
What labels should do is let users download music for a small fee. For example by buying 100 songs for 100 bucks. Songs to be chosen by the user at any time.
I think a service like this can be really succesfull. The labels do not need to be affraid of piracy because of the crappy quality or low survival rate of these programs.
ROTFLOL
Checked to make sure: no difference.
But I haven't checked the difference for image searches...
The ultimate test: how many webpages about me:
;^)
Google: 185
AllTheWeb: 57
I'll stick with google. It indexes more interesting stuff.
Why not play twister?
It's equally exhausting and keeps you lean too. Also a coed games of twister is much more interesting.
And there's no need for these silly computer thingies in the gym.
Gentoo Linux or for that matter all source derived distributions cost a lot of time waiting for a compile and a lot of energy hours of CPU usage for compilation.
This will increase the greenhouse effect and melt the icecaps. Then the only gentoo surviving will be those in zoos and those on harddisks.
So according to the license, all GPL code that implements a software patent cannot be distributed when there is a license fee for the patent.
If this is true, free software can easily be damaged by patent lawyers.
Conclusion: abolish software patents.
Where is the problem exactly with patents in GPL-ed software?
If a company has a patent on a software technique and writes and distributes GPL code to implement it, anybody can use this code. Or can't they?
And can people modify that code? I guess one cannot write new GPL-ed code that does the same thing.
Or can a company charge you for using the GPL-ed code with patents?
By the way, if you want Mozilla or another javascript capable browser to check any webpage for HTML easily, look here.
You can add a bookmark to your toolbar that checks the current page in your browser if clicked.
Great! this is actually one of the few sites that passes the w3 (x)html validator!
Check it too.
According to the website, Cinelerra is not intended for end users, because it is not user friendly. They suggest looking at Kino. From Kino's website:
:^)
Kino is a simple non-linear video editor. Although it has windows and menus, it is actually a keyboard driven program. It uses many keyboard commands that are similar to the vi text editor.
Hmm. Sounds very user frienly.
I'll give Kino a try though when my new digicam arrives!
I wonder if this will work
:%s/fat/muscle/g