It's about making smart consumer decisions. You have a choice on whether you should support companies that are doing "the wrong thing"
Examples include:
Anything winmodem - You should refuse to buy, or sell these. If they come in an OEM system, demand that it be replaced with a real modem, or buy another system that has a real modem.
Video cards that have only closed source binary drivers that *still* don't work properly with SMP systems.
CPU's with serial numbers
Hard disks that blow off the CRC check in UDMA mode, bye bye data.
Monopolistic companies.
example:
Does Microsoft Space Cadet Table (a mission critical app) run on Linux?
Instead ask "Is there some other mission critical app that runs on Linux that is as fun as, and perhaps more fun than Space Cadet Table?"
It's not _that_ hard, it just requires that the consumer makes a sound decision.
Uh, have you read some of Linus Torvald's and Andre Hedrick's linux kernel mailing list posts? These guys are Grade "A" assholes, and thier code is just awesome.
Andre Hedrick (ide guy)is one strange cookie, here is the slashdot interview with him. Read his answers. Make any sense? Should this man be committed?
Regarding that hard drive copy protection: Choices...
by cnladd
I apologize for the open-endedness of this question, but I have to ask it anyways.:)
If this copy protection were to become mandatory, I can definately imagine the effects that it would cause. But what effects - both long and short term - do you feel this would cause?
Andre:
Sorry, I do not feel anything! If you wish to know what I THINK, then I will answer the question. The very nature of asking people how they feel about an issue allows one to wrap it in fuzzy language, and this is how we got into this mess. So THINK DAMN-IT do not FEEL, this is silicon and not flesh!
Think about all the software you own for backup -- WORTHLESS in a CPRM environment. OPEN wallets!!!!
Ever had a morning where you were not kissed and told "I love you," when the night before you SCREWED so wildly that you could not remember?
GOOD MORNING!!!!
Have fun using thier code, I know I do, and I get a real kick out of reading the kernel mailing list, too.
It's simple, Microsoft and its affiliate company's pay bonuses out to its employees to troll whatever they decide is thier competition, in the forums.
About a year ago on slashdot, there was a heavy Microsoft story, and someone posted a link to a page that showed a benchmark or something comparing Microsoft to a Linux product. It was a dummy link, however he was logging. Several of the hits were tide#.microsoft.com, which he proudly pasted in the same thread.
Except that Apple refuses to beleive that anybody uses a GUI (XFree86) in Linux, and that even if they did, they certainly don't ever want to watch a movie in Quicktime format.
When I go to the streaming website, it requires that I accept the APSL (the non-free opensource license that Apple has).
I chose to not accept the APSL, I get this:
Improper Access Attempt
It appears you attempted to link into this registration script from page "" which is not allowed access to this script.
Please follow the instructions at/apsl/.
So what it is doing is trying to force me to accept the APSL, under duress, by using a bad link, instead of actually doing something when I reject the terms of thier license.
As far as the age of consent, in Canada its 14, as long as you don't have authority over the youngster, and don't have any kind of anal relations. It's 18 for all kinds of sexual relations. (source = ageofconsent.com)
Remember what happened when that Quake Lives! guy stole the GPL source and had a click-thru license where you had to give up your rights to the GPL to download it.
It had something to do with Carmack and lawyers, I think.
They can't release the source for two reasons. Both are Microsoft related
1. It is based on the same driver used on Windows (can you say MS-NDA?)
2. They don't have full control of thier own drivers source, so they cannot single handedly open the specs.
Well, what you could do is get a pirated copy of Windows 2000, and call that your full backup, which you are legally entitled to make. Provided you don't run your one licensed copy on more than one computer at a time.
This is a delicious way to circumvent the brain-damaged "restore" cd distributions of Windows.
Has anyone got that 1984 Apple commercial archived? Not in Quicktime format, I would prefer a format that can play on any os, such as MPEG or the older AVI. Hell, convert it to DivX:) if you want.
Well, you could use the mirroring and parity features of RAID, since hard disks tend to be cheaper than the media that can be used to back them up. (like the big ass super gig tape drives)
My first taste of Linux was Debian. I hated it.
Next up was Redhat 4.2, 5.0 followed. After I hosed the libs with rpm, I was reinstalling in custom mode and decided I didn't want xscreensaver installed. If I am away from my computer, I just shut the monitor off - it uses less power that way.
The installer warned me that XFree86 REQUIRED xscreensaver, no problem I thought, no it doesn't I'll just continue and ignore it.
The installer quit at that point.
The Redhat guys had engineered xfree86 to require xscreensaver, user be damned.
Slackware includes a boot disk image called ata100.i, in previous releases it was ata66.i
It is a kernel with hedricks patches applied, but the kernel source that slackware installs is a fresh one, you are going to have to patch it yourself.
The Linux Trustees project fixes it, but its currently not in the main kernel. As a result, if you be much easier for MS to make a Windows 2000 that was reasonably secure out of the box than for Red Hat to make a secure Linux.
If you go to any linux information site, or even freshmeat.net you will see that there are many Linux distributions. Red Hat was not the first, and is not all, Linux distributions. Please don't paint the entire Linux community Red just because of how bad some Red Hat distributions have been.
Slashdot Mirror
It's about making smart consumer decisions. You have a choice on whether you should support companies that are doing "the wrong thing"
Examples include:
Anything winmodem - You should refuse to buy, or sell these. If they come in an OEM system, demand that it be replaced with a real modem, or buy another system that has a real modem.
Video cards that have only closed source binary drivers that *still* don't work properly with SMP systems.
CPU's with serial numbers
Hard disks that blow off the CRC check in UDMA mode, bye bye data.
Monopolistic companies.
example:
Does Microsoft Space Cadet Table (a mission critical app) run on Linux?
Instead ask "Is there some other mission critical app that runs on Linux that is as fun as, and perhaps more fun than Space Cadet Table?"
It's not _that_ hard, it just requires that the consumer makes a sound decision.
About Microsoft and 8.3 filenames, here is an excercise.
Find a system file in Windows NT or Windows 2000 that has a filename longer than 8.3
Drop legacy, my ass.
Uh, have you read some of Linus Torvald's and Andre Hedrick's linux kernel mailing list posts? These guys are Grade "A" assholes, and thier code is just awesome.
:)
Andre Hedrick (ide guy)is one strange cookie, here is the slashdot interview with him. Read his answers. Make any sense? Should this man be committed?
Regarding that hard drive copy protection:
Choices... by cnladd
I apologize for the open-endedness of this question, but I have to ask it anyways.
If this copy protection were to become mandatory, I can definately imagine the effects that it would cause. But what effects - both long and short term - do you feel this would cause?
Andre:
Sorry, I do not feel anything! If you wish to know what I THINK, then I will answer the question. The very nature of asking people how they feel about an issue allows one to wrap it in fuzzy language, and this is how we got into this mess. So THINK DAMN-IT do not FEEL, this is silicon and not flesh!
Think about all the software you own for backup -- WORTHLESS in a CPRM environment. OPEN wallets!!!!
Ever had a morning where you were not kissed and told "I love you," when the night before you SCREWED so wildly that you could not remember?
GOOD MORNING!!!!
Have fun using thier code, I know I do, and I get a real kick out of reading the kernel mailing list, too.
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-cu rrent/ChangeLog.txt
This serves as the "next version" of slackware, as well as a place to get security updates, which are clearly marked (* security fix *) .
They are even dated!
I would hardly call them hourly bugfixes and workarounds.
It's simple, Microsoft and its affiliate company's pay bonuses out to its employees to troll whatever they decide is thier competition, in the forums.
About a year ago on slashdot, there was a heavy Microsoft story, and someone posted a link to a page that showed a benchmark or something comparing Microsoft to a Linux product. It was a dummy link, however he was logging. Several of the hits were tide#.microsoft.com, which he proudly pasted in the same thread.
Except that Apple refuses to beleive that anybody uses a GUI (XFree86) in Linux, and that even if they did, they certainly don't ever want to watch a movie in Quicktime format.
Thanks Apple.
When I go to the streaming website, it requires that I accept the APSL (the non-free opensource license that Apple has).
/apsl/.
I chose to not accept the APSL, I get this:
Improper Access Attempt
It appears you attempted to link into this registration script from page "" which is not allowed access to this script.
Please follow the instructions at
So what it is doing is trying to force me to accept the APSL, under duress, by using a bad link, instead of actually doing something when I reject the terms of thier license.
I am embarrassed too by this and another Canadian law.
Possession of child pornography is not a crime, a British Columbia judge has ruled.
CANADA COURT QUASHES CHILD-PORN LAW - Says Measure Violates Freedom of Expression
As far as the age of consent, in Canada its 14, as long as you don't have authority over the youngster, and don't have any kind of anal relations. It's 18 for all kinds of sexual relations. (source = ageofconsent.com)
Have they ever considered using more than one floppy? To install Slackware, you use a boot disk, and a root disk.
No problemo.
Remember what happened when that Quake Lives! guy stole the GPL source and had a click-thru license where you had to give up your rights to the GPL to download it.
It had something to do with Carmack and lawyers, I think.
They can't release the source for two reasons. Both are Microsoft related
1. It is based on the same driver used on Windows (can you say MS-NDA?)
2. They don't have full control of thier own drivers source, so they cannot single handedly open the specs.
People pirate Windows 2000 every day.
So to answer your question: Yes.
Well, what you could do is get a pirated copy of Windows 2000, and call that your full backup, which you are legally entitled to make. Provided you don't run your one licensed copy on more than one computer at a time.
This is a delicious way to circumvent the brain-damaged "restore" cd distributions of Windows.
Has anyone got that 1984 Apple commercial archived? Not in Quicktime format, I would prefer a format that can play on any os, such as MPEG or the older AVI. Hell, convert it to DivX:) if you want.
Well, you could use the mirroring and parity features of RAID, since hard disks tend to be cheaper than the media that can be used to back them up. (like the big ass super gig tape drives)
Windows NT 4 does not have a journalled filesystem at all.
Windows 2000 does.
Let's recap:
NTFS4 = no
NTFS5 = yes
You do realize that all you needed to download was the slackware-current/slakware directory to be up-to-bleeding-edge-date?
It's ~425 megs.
There is a review of XFree86 4.0.2 on dukeofurl
The nvidia chipsets fly on XFree86 4.0.2 with thier binary module.
Voodoo3,4,5 blows in 4.0.2, having ~1/3 performance compared to 3.3.6 .
Stick to 3.3.6
My first taste of Linux was Debian. I hated it.
Next up was Redhat 4.2, 5.0 followed. After I hosed the libs with rpm, I was reinstalling in custom mode and decided I didn't want xscreensaver installed. If I am away from my computer, I just shut the monitor off - it uses less power that way.
The installer warned me that XFree86 REQUIRED xscreensaver, no problem I thought, no it doesn't I'll just continue and ignore it.
The installer quit at that point.
The Redhat guys had engineered xfree86 to require xscreensaver, user be damned.
That is when I decided to switch distributions.
Slackware includes a boot disk image called ata100.i, in previous releases it was ata66.i
It is a kernel with hedricks patches applied, but the kernel source that slackware installs is a fresh one, you are going to have to patch it yourself.
So what you are saying is that Red Hat bundled 2.4 before Linus decided it was ready?
Why does that not surprise me? *cough* GCC *cough*
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 03,@10:57AM PDT (#322)
You're just annoyed that kernel 2.4 is VAPORWARE.
Linux faggot.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Linux 2.4 Ladies And Gentlemen, Linux 2.4 Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 04, @05:49PM
If you go to any linux information site, or even freshmeat.net you will see that there are many Linux distributions. Red Hat was not the first, and is not all, Linux distributions. Please don't paint the entire Linux community Red just because of how bad some Red Hat distributions have been.
Well, someone better be up at night, because all the kernel hackers sure are. Making the kernel, utilities, and the X Windowing System better, every day. While Microsoft integrates the animated Office helper into its next version of Windows 2000, and plans to increase OS licensing fees. I especially like how you are forced to connect to Microsoft in order to use this next version of Windows
This isn't funny, its a damn brilliant prediction of what Microsoft *must* do.
Damn brilliant.