may I recommend reading Cory Doctorow's Little Brother - It's fiction but It really get's you thinking about what these, still increasing, limitations to your privacy rights may lead to.
I don't get it. How would companies like Sherman Networks find sites to throw the DMCA at if it weren't for a site like google?
If google decided not to cache any sites with the word 'kazaa' in it, I'm pretty sure that the users of it would find it anyhow, but the pointy haired suits at Sherman Networks would probably not find it as easely.
Sounds to me like they are shooting themselves in the foot.
my observations above might only happen with an older version of stow. I've haven't tried the scenario lately. If that's a fact I apalogize for misguiding you:)
I've used stow on different unix platforms during the last couple of years, and I think it is a great tool to maintain software packages which aren't supported by the platforms own packaging system (deb, rpm, pkg, etc..)
But remember one thing. If you are starting with a new stow system in f.x./usr/local, then be sure to make the directory structure:
if it doesn't exit before stowing anything. Otherwise the following will happen. let's asume that you have the software package in:/usr/local/packages/app-1.4
with it's own strucure like:/usr/local/packages/app-1.4/bin/usr/local/packages/app-1.4/lib etc.
stow'ing this packages without the/usr/local-structure will result in:
ls -l/usr/local
bin -> packages/app-1.4/bin lib -> packages/app-1.4/lib etc.
Then the nect package (let's call it app2-1.5) you will be stow'ing to/usr/local wille see that f.x./usr/local/bin allready exits at then link the files from it's own bin-drectory to/usr/local/bin, which result in files from app2-1.5 will be linked to the/usr/local/packages/app-1.4 structure, which will mess up things.
I wonder when we will see a 3D animated Academy Awards show, where Gollum himself could walk up to the podium and thank his animators, the actor who made his moves be so realistic and the computer which raytraced him so well:)
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may I recommend reading Cory Doctorow's Little Brother - It's fiction but It really get's you thinking about what these, still increasing, limitations to your privacy rights may lead to.
I don't get it. How would companies like Sherman Networks find sites to throw the DMCA at if it weren't for a site like google?
If google decided not to cache any sites with the word 'kazaa' in it, I'm pretty sure that the users of it would find it anyhow, but the pointy haired suits at Sherman Networks would probably not find it as easely.
Sounds to me like they are shooting themselves in the foot.
my observations above might only happen with an older version of stow. I've haven't tried the scenario lately. If that's a fact I apalogize for misguiding you :)
I've used stow on different unix platforms during the last couple of years, and I think it is a great tool to maintain software packages which aren't supported by the platforms own packaging system (deb, rpm, pkg, etc..)
/usr/local, then be sure to make the directory structure:
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/lib
/usr/local/include
/usr/local/packages/app-1.4
/usr/local/packages/app-1.4/bin /usr/local/packages/app-1.4/lib
/usr/local-structure will result in:
/usr/local
/usr/local wille see that f.x. /usr/local/bin allready exits at then link the files from it's own bin-drectory to /usr/local/bin, which result in files from app2-1.5 will be linked to the /usr/local/packages/app-1.4 structure, which will mess up things.
But remember one thing. If you are starting with a new stow system in f.x.
etc
if it doesn't exit before stowing anything. Otherwise the following will happen. let's asume that you have the software package in:
with it's own strucure like:
etc.
stow'ing this packages without the
ls -l
bin -> packages/app-1.4/bin
lib -> packages/app-1.4/lib
etc.
Then the nect package (let's call it app2-1.5) you will be stow'ing to
I wonder when we will see a 3D animated Academy Awards show, where Gollum himself could walk up to the podium and thank his animators, the actor who made his moves be so realistic and the computer which raytraced him so well :)
Just ignore me. Didn't know about developers.slashdot.org until 5 minutes ago.
Why hasn't this story been on the front page? I only found it through slashdot.rdf