So get a domain name and use a service like zoneedit.com to have anything@example.com forwarded to whatever your current account is. Hand out the @example.com address to anyone who needs to message you, set it as the reply-to on your emails, etc. When your ISP or employer changes, just sign into zoneedit and have your @example.com address changed to point at your new address. No need to tell anybody of the change, they can keep emailing you as before.
chroot just selects a new root filesystem/userland. The kernel remainst the same. Real men use user mode linux, which accomplishes what you describe, letting you use one kernel as a process running under another.
Why must we download this sort of proprietary crud just to view webpages? What benefit does Macromedia gain from hiding the source to Flash from its users? How would we view flash pages if Macromedia went bankrupt tomorrow and you couldn't download the player anymore? (The EULA states that only Macromedia and their partners can distribute the player.) Why to we tolerate this sort of closed-source code, with who knows how many security vulnerabilities, running (I believe their installer runs as root?) on our Linux systems?
I flat out refuse to download Flash until Macromedia releases the source code. Any site that relies on such proprietary software is not a site I want to do business with or use as a source of reliable information. If you care about Free software, I urge you to do the same, and refuse to install Flash until the source code is released.
How about?: MacOS 6 running on vMac running on DOS 5 running on MacBochs running on MacOS 8.1 running on BasiliskII running on Windows 98 running on SoftWindows running on MacOS 9.2 running on PearPC running on Windows XP running on VirtualPC running on MacOSX 10.3 running on MacOnLinux running on Linux 2.6 running on a G5.
It seems more likely that their business model was to get you to enter your address into a web form and then sell the address to junk-snailmail companies.
Linus IS a figurehead. Sure he started the project, and maintains the "main" tree of it, but the amount of code that is actually his is relatively small, and it's certainly no justification for him to have the enormous influence he does. Slashdot has every right to trivialize what he says, if the editors and posters involved believe it is trivial.
The fact that Linus is nearly always right is merely coincidental. (see sig)
They really should institute some sort of "semi-free" section for those of us who agreed with the old social contract, and therefore don't want to use contrib or non-free, but find the new one too broad, and therefore have no objection to installing things like GFDL documentation. Moving all binary firmware and GFDL docs out to non-free will just force almost everybody to use non-free, which defeats the point.
Every treaty the U.S. has ratified thusfar has had a reservation added to it by the senate, that "nothing in this treaty shall be contstrued to contradict the Constitution of the United States." One presumes the cybercrime treaty will be no exception, if it is ever ratified.
That probably wouldn't be terribly effective either... in 1905, Grigory Rasputin was an obscure Siberian monk. He did not begin to have influence with the royal family until 1911, and even a well-informed peasant would probably not have heard of him until 1915 or so. He died in 1916, so for the other 48 years of proto-U-2 usage, some other form of stealth would have been necessary.
The U-2 has been used against many other nations than the USSR, though, and it seems unlikely that the Roosevelt administration would have bothered spying on Russia at the time. Mexico would have been a more likely target.
*checks how far into the ground he has buried the joke..* two metres... I think it's pretty dead.
Since nothing is certain or provable, i.e. there are no "laws", anything you do must rely on theories. By your logic, that makes _everyone_ a "complete fucking moron" which, in my experience, seems quite probable.
I've been relying soley on online friendships for several years. For reasons beyond my control, I attend a small boarding school in Africa, and "get some face to face friends" is a lot more difficult when you only have about 50 people to choose from. While I look forward to attending university in the states where I will no longer be the only geek/nerd in a 100km radius, I haven't really had any problems stemming from my online-only social life. Well, aside from lack of fulfilling female companionship (15 females my age here, chances of finding someone with interests remotely similar to mine are roughly nil), but that seems to be a problem for almost all slashdotters.
The trouble is, this requires that Flash be available for you platform. Many architectures, operating systems, and browsers are not supported by Flash at all. Until a decent, reliable, open-source (i.e. easily recompileable) flash player is available, I will continue to avoid flash-using sites like the plague.
Regarding ad revenue: why can't they just display GIF or JPEG ads? GIF ads can even be animated. What features do the advertisers need that can't be provided by a platform-independent GIF animations?
Whatever the truth or falsehood of your post, referring to you opponents in this debate as "rats" is an ad hominem attack and severely weakens your argument. If you truly believe you are correct, you should be able to prove your point without resorting to insulting terms.
So basically what you're saying is that Windows should come on like 10 CDs and include just about every alternative to any piece of software Microsoft makes
No, it could automatically download the needed packages from MS mirrors or even the vendor websites, just like Linux distros do.
The whole point seems a bit moot anyway as the vast majority of Windows users just use the copy installed by their OEM. With hard drive sizes what they are, the OEM could easily ship several competing media players or office suites and let the user decide. If choosing how to use his computer is too much thinking for poor stupid Joe User, the OEM could just choose the default packages for him, installing whatever they felt (or were paid to feel) was best.
I've found it nearly impossible to have an up/down ratio of less than 200%. For every 10MB I download, I see anywhere between 20MB and 60MB uploaded. Maybe my connection is just messed up, though.
What about all the below-freezing weather? If Minnesota was Hell, then Hell would have already frozen over, which would mean we would have to get around to implementing IPv6.
That being the point, I certainly don't want to be chosen for such a program. Most slashdotters probably prefer their current jobs, would hate to work for the government, and would hate working in an all windows environment.
However: Microsoft != everything. Things like knowledge of TCP/IP, BIOSes, configuration of embedded devices, knowledge of computer hardware, etc are all relevant to a generic "computer personel" job. Microsoft, however, is a large subset of everything, such that without any (alleged) experience of it you are likely to be rejected by any organization ignorant enough to use it.
That being said, I don't think they should throw their logo all over. I don't even really know what you're talking about, I mostly use mozilla, evolution, and the CLI, the most I've seen is a debian background and maybe a motd.
Try about:start (the default start page) or just about: in Mozilla, or the splash screen for OpenOffice.org, or the contents of the KDE K menu, among others.
IANAL, but actually, strictly speaking, just having a monopoly (without special government licensing and regulation) is still a felony.
USC Title 15, Chapter 1, Section 2: Monopolizing trade a felony; penalty
Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding $10,000,000 if a corporation, or, if any other person, $350,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding three years, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court
This is rarely enforced, however, as such cases often end up being very difficult and time-consuming to prosecute (e.g. see US vs. Alcoa, 1945). The law has, however, been upheld by courts in the past, notably in US vs. Standard Oil (1911) and US vs. DuPont (1956).
Slashdot Mirror
So get a domain name and use a service like zoneedit.com to have anything@example.com forwarded to whatever your current account is. Hand out the @example.com address to anyone who needs to message you, set it as the reply-to on your emails, etc. When your ISP or employer changes, just sign into zoneedit and have your @example.com address changed to point at your new address. No need to tell anybody of the change, they can keep emailing you as before.
chroot just selects a new root filesystem/userland. The kernel remainst the same. Real men use user mode linux, which accomplishes what you describe, letting you use one kernel as a process running under another.
Clickable link for the lazy:
http://i860.sourceforge.net/gallery/
Duron is being phased out, to be replaced by Sempron. AMD will thus still only have two consumer CPU names, Athlon64/Sempron.
Why must we download this sort of proprietary crud just to view webpages? What benefit does Macromedia gain from hiding the source to Flash from its users? How would we view flash pages if Macromedia went bankrupt tomorrow and you couldn't download the player anymore? (The EULA states that only Macromedia and their partners can distribute the player.) Why to we tolerate this sort of closed-source code, with who knows how many security vulnerabilities, running (I believe their installer runs as root?) on our Linux systems?
I flat out refuse to download Flash until Macromedia releases the source code. Any site that relies on such proprietary software is not a site I want to do business with or use as a source of reliable information. If you care about Free software, I urge you to do the same, and refuse to install Flash until the source code is released.
How about?:
MacOS 6 running on vMac running on
DOS 5 running on MacBochs running on
MacOS 8.1 running on BasiliskII running on
Windows 98 running on SoftWindows running on
MacOS 9.2 running on PearPC running on
Windows XP running on VirtualPC running on
MacOSX 10.3 running on MacOnLinux running on
Linux 2.6 running on a G5.
There used to be a G4 version of the Crescendo 7200 (info here ) but I'm not sure it's available anymore.
Already been done: www.maconlinux.org
It seems more likely that their business model was to get you to enter your address into a web form and then sell the address to junk-snailmail companies.
Linus IS a figurehead. Sure he started the project, and maintains the "main" tree of it, but the amount of code that is actually his is relatively small, and it's certainly no justification for him to have the enormous influence he does. Slashdot has every right to trivialize what he says, if the editors and posters involved believe it is trivial.
The fact that Linus is nearly always right is merely coincidental. (see sig)
They really should institute some sort of "semi-free" section for those of us who agreed with the old social contract, and therefore don't want to use contrib or non-free, but find the new one too broad, and therefore have no objection to installing things like GFDL documentation. Moving all binary firmware and GFDL docs out to non-free will just force almost everybody to use non-free, which defeats the point.
Every treaty the U.S. has ratified thusfar has had a reservation added to it by the senate, that "nothing in this treaty shall be contstrued to contradict the Constitution of the United States." One presumes the cybercrime treaty will be no exception, if it is ever ratified.
That probably wouldn't be terribly effective either... in 1905, Grigory Rasputin was an obscure Siberian monk. He did not begin to have influence with the royal family until 1911, and even a well-informed peasant would probably not have heard of him until 1915 or so. He died in 1916, so for the other 48 years of proto-U-2 usage, some other form of stealth would have been necessary.
The U-2 has been used against many other nations than the USSR, though, and it seems unlikely that the Roosevelt administration would have bothered spying on Russia at the time. Mexico would have been a more likely target.
*checks how far into the ground he has buried the joke..* two metres... I think it's pretty dead.
Since nothing is certain or provable, i.e. there are no "laws", anything you do must rely on theories. By your logic, that makes _everyone_ a "complete fucking moron" which, in my experience, seems quite probable.
(In theory, anyway).
I've been relying soley on online friendships for several years. For reasons beyond my control, I attend a small boarding school in Africa, and "get some face to face friends" is a lot more difficult when you only have about 50 people to choose from. While I look forward to attending university in the states where I will no longer be the only geek/nerd in a 100km radius, I haven't really had any problems stemming from my online-only social life. Well, aside from lack of fulfilling female companionship (15 females my age here, chances of finding someone with interests remotely similar to mine are roughly nil), but that seems to be a problem for almost all slashdotters.
Just wish Mozilla made it easy to disable flash too.
Easy. Don't install flash. It's useless, annoying, evil, and proprietary/non-free.
The trouble is, this requires that Flash be available for you platform. Many architectures, operating systems, and browsers are not supported by Flash at all. Until a decent, reliable, open-source (i.e. easily recompileable) flash player is available, I will continue to avoid flash-using sites like the plague.
Regarding ad revenue: why can't they just display GIF or JPEG ads? GIF ads can even be animated. What features do the advertisers need that can't be provided by a platform-independent GIF animations?
Gore and the 'rats
Whatever the truth or falsehood of your post, referring to you opponents in this debate as "rats" is an ad hominem attack and severely weakens your argument. If you truly believe you are correct, you should be able to prove your point without resorting to insulting terms.
So basically what you're saying is that Windows should come on like 10 CDs and include just about every alternative to any piece of software Microsoft makes
No, it could automatically download the needed packages from MS mirrors or even the vendor websites, just like Linux distros do.
The whole point seems a bit moot anyway as the vast majority of Windows users just use the copy installed by their OEM. With hard drive sizes what they are, the OEM could easily ship several competing media players or office suites and let the user decide. If choosing how to use his computer is too much thinking for poor stupid Joe User, the OEM could just choose the default packages for him, installing whatever they felt (or were paid to feel) was best.
You'd get a copy without even a simple text editor like pico or vi installed?
Yes.
I've found it nearly impossible to have an up/down ratio of less than 200%. For every 10MB I download, I see anywhere between 20MB and 60MB uploaded. Maybe my connection is just messed up, though.
What about all the below-freezing weather? If Minnesota was Hell, then Hell would have already frozen over, which would mean we would have to get around to implementing IPv6.
That being the point, I certainly don't want to be chosen for such a program. Most slashdotters probably prefer their current jobs, would hate to work for the government, and would hate working in an all windows environment.
However:
Microsoft != everything. Things like knowledge of TCP/IP, BIOSes, configuration of embedded devices, knowledge of computer hardware, etc are all relevant to a generic "computer personel" job. Microsoft, however, is a large subset of everything, such that without any (alleged) experience of it you are likely to be rejected by any organization ignorant enough to use it.
That being said, I don't think they should throw their logo all over. I don't even really know what you're talking about, I mostly use mozilla, evolution, and the CLI, the most I've seen is a debian background and maybe a motd.
Try about:start (the default start page) or just about: in Mozilla, or the splash screen for OpenOffice.org, or the contents of the KDE K menu, among others.
By the way, is KDE 3.2 working in unstable?
Works fine for me.
This is rarely enforced, however, as such cases often end up being very difficult and time-consuming to prosecute (e.g. see US vs. Alcoa, 1945). The law has, however, been upheld by courts in the past, notably in US vs. Standard Oil (1911) and US vs. DuPont (1956).