Core kernel development team donates 2000 million dollars to Linux development!
The entire core development team of the Linux kernel announced they will donate major parts of their 100 million dollars salary a year to the newly created Linux Development Fund, FSF and EFF.
When asked about the future of the Linux kernel, the team laughed and said "Now we can pay a lot of people to spend more time on kernel development."
Now tell me that giving tons of money into the right hands can't change things...
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Oligarc hy
Oligarchy is a form of government where most political power effectively rests with a small segment of society (typically the most powerful, whether by wealth, military strength, ruthlessness, or political influence). The word oligarchy is from the Greek for "few" and "rule".
or
http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/o036.htm
OLIGARCHY - This name is given to designate the power which a few citizens of a state have usurped, which ought by the constitution to reside in the people.
>5. Make sure that the first 40MB of space on your hard drive is not being actively used.... I'm afraid that is NOT a trivial thing in 99.9% of all machines
... which allows me to create unlimited numbers of FAT filesystems on unlimited number of media.
Yes - i bought DOS, Windows, OS2, etc.. Why should i have to pay more money for using those formatted media or for duplicating formatted media with the "dd" command on linux ?
They sold me "format.com" and "diskcopy.com", and now i am supposed to pay for using those ?
Great idea!
"Here's your new car, but now you need to buy a license to drive it ! (250.000 for unlimited driving, or.25 per KM you drive)"
WMP will let you view videos for any codec you have installed.
Hmmm... Microsoft makes the OS, the specifications for the codecs and the player. And by accident the Microsoft media player happens to use the Microsoft specifications to access codecs ?
Sadly, Apple and Real don't give out system codecs. They're more interested in keeping some resemblence of market share.
If MS would pay Apple and Real a reasonable fee for every copy of Windows sold both of them surely would be happy to supply system codecs "for free, as it's already included in Windows":-)
You pay for the MS supplied codecs and media player by buying windows (and/or their media server technology)
> Telemarketing probably helps keep more jobs than just > those of the telemarketers. Most notably, the jobs of > the people at the places they are advertising for.
a) Those calls probably are disturbing more than just one person per telephone call. My whole family gets disturbed when you interrupt our dinner.
b) There are other ways of advertising, don't pretend the world of advertising will stand still if telemarketers can't continue calling me at home.
-- Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted. ( Groucho Marx )
>Ninety of the blocked servers were from Taiwan, blocking.tw servers should be no problem for.cn, but it's not blocking any spam not going to.cn addresses ?
>eight were from the mainland wow! 8 servers from.cn - great! leaves how many still open ? 2^24 ? more ? less ?
>and 29 were from elsewhere, that surely will save us from lots of spam NOT
nice of them to tell all the world that thy block 127 servers from sending mail to THEM, but i am afraid that won't save the whales or the rain forrest in the very near future:-)
> Whether you like it or not, gun rights are civil rights.... which is nice if you live in the wild west round 1850, but has no real use in the 21st century in a country of freedom, law and civilization.
> If you are against gun rights, then you are in > the same pack as the Klan and the communists,.. and Ghandi, Martin Luther King. If you are Vegetarian you are in the same pack with Adolf Hitler ? If you take your religion seriously you are in the same pack with the Taliban ?
>and are as likely to vote to shut down churches and > newspapers as you are to license and register guns. Probably i'm just missing the sarcasm, but if this is no sarcasm: do you have any facts to support that idea ? ( I do not remember churches and newspaper are being shut down all over Europe.:-)
If you think that page is "certainy more reliable information than Bowling for Columbine" you probably could inform me who is behind "gunfacts.info" and what their qualifications are.
>> No more money going over there. All my fuel money stays in the USA.
> Ummmmmare you SURE that none of your money went to Germany when you baught a VW? Or is that part of the "USA" now?!?!
"All my fuel money"
did not know that you have to buy the fuel for your VW in Germany:-)
...I can't really say this really bothers me at all (yeah yeah, then just move on to next article, right?). But come on, what do I really expect? More eyecandy.
The desktop will be hardware accelerated DirectX, so eyecandy won't slow things down.
We really need a hardware accelerated DirectX desktop for a want-to-be-your-server-OS.... NOT.
More "protection from myself".
People always play this card without citing a single example in XP. Can you?
Windows File Protection (WFP)
DRM support that's part of the Windows Media
Player
Registration + Re-Registration on HW changs
Nice Messenger running by default and needs a guru to remove
etc.
Just get XPAntiSpy and check what it disables and why:-)
More Messenger, WMP and goodness what else providing "integrated Windows features that can't be removed and keep nagging you".
How do they keep nagging you? I don't ever use WMP, and I removed Messenger at least a year ago.
I'm not having your CD problem at all. I'm using the latest Nero 6.
I'm not having your CD problem at all. I'm using SuSE 8.2:-)
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Core kernel development team donates 2000 million dollars to Linux development!
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The entire core development team of the Linux kernel announced they will donate major parts of their 100 million dollars salary a year to the newly created Linux Development Fund, FSF and EFF.
When asked about the future of the Linux kernel, the team laughed and said "Now we can pay a lot of people to spend more time on kernel development."
Now tell me that giving tons of money into the right hands can't change things
oops - correction: "apic pci=acpi"
SATA seems to need some kernel parameters on
most boards. worked for me with:
"apci pci=acpi"
Actually i'm not sure about SPAM, but some kind of "pig arse" is definitely involved in the sendig of this mail :-)
No, it's not a police state (yet? :-)
c hy
it's called "Oligarchy"
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Oligar
Oligarchy is a form of government where most political power effectively rests with a small segment of society (typically the most powerful, whether by wealth, military strength, ruthlessness, or political influence). The word oligarchy is from the Greek for "few" and "rule".
or
http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/o036.htm
OLIGARCHY - This name is given to designate the power which a few citizens of a state have usurped, which ought by the constitution to reside in the people.
Hey, if girls have to put up with shaving their armpits, I think you should have to deal with shaving your back...
=P
>5. Make sure that the first 40MB of space on your hard drive is not being actively used. ...
I'm afraid that is NOT a trivial thing in 99.9% of all machines
... which allows me to create unlimited numbers of FAT filesystems on unlimited number of media.
.25 per KM you drive)"
Yes - i bought DOS, Windows, OS2, etc..
Why should i have to pay more money for using those formatted media or for duplicating formatted media with the "dd" command on linux ?
They sold me "format.com" and "diskcopy.com", and now i am supposed to pay for using those ?
Great idea!
"Here's your new car, but now you need to buy a license to drive it ! (250.000 for unlimited driving, or
Can't the spammers' tiny brains remember the fact that SPAM IS NOT free speech ?
twice - just to be sure :-)
>pouring money to buy the best lawyers money could buy
that's ok, as long as they don't pour money to buy the best judges money could buy
Hmmm... Microsoft makes the OS, the specifications for the codecs and the player. And by accident the Microsoft media player happens to use the Microsoft specifications to access codecs ?
If MS would pay Apple and Real a reasonable fee for every copy of Windows sold both of them surely would be happy to supply system codecs "for free, as it's already included in Windows"
You pay for the MS supplied codecs and media player by buying windows (and/or their media server technology)
... and if you make one request every 8 hours it is breaking 100% of the time :-)
> SCO is dead ... for quite some time.
Now it even smells^H^H^H^H^Htinks badly.
> Maybe the whole thing will be Palladium-protected so that it's virus-proof.
... and blessed with holy water so that it is "Vampire-Proof (TM)"
What in the world makes you think Palladium could make anything virus-proof ?
'I wish those people just would be quiet.'
I wish Steve "Developers" Ballmer just would be quiet.
> Telemarketing probably helps keep more jobs than just
> those of the telemarketers. Most notably, the jobs of
> the people at the places they are advertising for.
a) Those calls probably are disturbing more than just one
person per telephone call. My whole family gets disturbed
when you interrupt our dinner.
b) There are other ways of advertising, don't pretend the
world of advertising will stand still if telemarketers
can't continue calling me at home.
--
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted. ( Groucho Marx )
>It looks like they are abusing their right to manage
.us and not .com or .net
>the USA TLDs along with violating RFCs.
Pardon me, but the USA TLD is
>Ninety of the blocked servers were from Taiwan, .tw servers should be no problem for .cn, but it's not blocking any spam not going to .cn addresses ?
.cn - great!
:-)
blocking
>eight were from the mainland
wow! 8 servers from
leaves how many still open ? 2^24 ? more ? less ?
>and 29 were from elsewhere,
that surely will save us from lots of spam NOT
nice of them to tell all the world that thy block 127 servers from sending mail to THEM, but i am afraid that won't save the whales or the rain forrest in the very near future
the makers of the Weapons .. oh no .. this would be completely absurd - let's sue the makers of a game :-)
> Whether you like it or not, gun rights are civil rights. ... which is nice if you live in the wild west round 1850, but has no real use in the 21st century in a country of freedom, law and civilization.
.. and Ghandi, Martin Luther King.
:-)
> If you are against gun rights, then you are in
> the same pack as the Klan and the communists,
If you are Vegetarian you are in the same pack with Adolf Hitler ?
If you take your religion seriously you are in the same pack with the Taliban ?
>and are as likely to vote to shut down churches and
> newspapers as you are to license and register guns.
Probably i'm just missing the sarcasm, but if this is no sarcasm: do you have any facts to support that idea ? ( I do not remember churches and newspaper are being shut down all over Europe.
If you think that page is "certainy more reliable information than Bowling for Columbine" you probably could inform me who is behind "gunfacts.info" and what their qualifications are.
... and do not forget to compare to USA (And as long as people are killed and tortured software piracy is a minor issue to me)
>> No more money going over there. All my fuel money stays in the USA. :-)
> Ummmmmare you SURE that none of your money went to Germany when you baught a VW? Or is that part of the "USA" now?!?!
"All my fuel money"
did not know that you have to buy the fuel for your VW in Germany
The desktop will be hardware accelerated DirectX, so eyecandy won't slow things down.
We really need a hardware accelerated DirectX desktop for a want-to-be-your-server-OS
More "protection from myself".
People always play this card without citing a single example in XP. Can you?
Windows File Protection (WFP)
DRM support that's part of the Windows Media Player
Registration + Re-Registration on HW changs
Nice Messenger running by default and needs a guru to remove
etc.
Just get XPAntiSpy and check what it disables and why
More Messenger, WMP and goodness what else providing "integrated Windows features that can't be removed and keep nagging you".
How do they keep nagging you? I don't ever use WMP, and I removed Messenger at least a year ago.
I'm not having your CD problem at all. I'm using the latest Nero 6.
I'm not having your CD problem at all. I'm using SuSE 8.2
http://perens.com/Articles/SCOCopiedCode.html
http://lwn.net/Articles/44981/
http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/32VKern/usr/src/ sys/sys/malloc.c.html
ftp://ftp.tribug.org/pub/tuhs/Caldera-license.pd f
http://www.lemis.com/grog/UNIX/ etc. etc etc.