This is great news for the Dutch. I am wondering if rulings like this can help any cases in the US? Lawyers always cite case law, but do foreign decisions carry any weight in the US? You would think that a thorough logical analysis of a situation would be persuasive anywhere. I am assuming the laws of logic apply everywhere, kind of like the laws of physics. Or am I being naive?
I vote for "One Click Shopping"
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But I wasn't able to find that one in Netlib.
just firewall out this spyware stuff
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If you are using FreeBSD, netstat, sockstat, tcpdump, and ipfilter are your friends. I'm sure there must be some similar Windows utilities out there that can do the job.
Now a lot of my friends use Mandrake with great success, but I had very poor results with 8.2 on a Sony Viao FX290. None of the config utities would work, they mostly hung needing a reboot. So I switched to SuSE Professional, and the only glitch was having to specify NOPCMCIA=yes as a kernel param which was stated in their handbook. Maybe I could have done the same with Mandrake, but the people who responded on the mailing lists to my questions were arrogant and unhelpful. Thats what got me to use fdisk and wipe out the partition:) I also searched the cooker archives and found that many people were saying that the Mandrake community had changed- too much pressure to release, and a reluctance to acknowledge bugs. But I wish them luck. SuSE is a much bigger organnization with more resources. Plus I had to pay $80 for SuSE- but it was well worth the money.
For the first time in my life I wrote to my Senators. I mainly concentrated on the impact that I believe the bill will have on the economy. If passed it would throw the tech industry and consumers into a state of confusion. We really don't need that with a weak recovery under way. I also told them that I thought the bill impinged upon my free speech rights as a programmer. The government would be telling my what I can and can't do with my ideas and inventions as expressed in source code. I will be interested in seeing if I hear anything back from them.
I always thought the Amiga was a neat inovative computer. Friends of mine were doing production video animation on them backin the early 80s. They were clearly more powerful than the Mac at that time. Still I can t help but think that without the latest IBM G5 or whatever its called, its not going to hold up against the best Athlons and P4s.
FreeBSD beats Mandrake for ease of software upgrades and packages due to the Ports Collection and CVSup.
Mandrake, though, had an easier install that even Forrest Gump could do.
However, a look at the/etc directory shows Mandrake to be very complicated compared to FreeBSD. Complicated translates to more potential problems and security risks.
Are the only ones I really like. Does any one remember OverCat from Underdog? He was the evil cat that lived in the heavens and would pound his fist saying "I want my milk!". I really like the old cartoons because they had appeal for adults too. There are a lot of things in those old cartoons that would go right over the head of a child or even teenager. The Simpsons are the penultimate example of that. Have fun tooning!
I've been running a node or two for several years now. There were once a large number of Freenet web sites, but when the protocol changed, most of them dissappeared. Now a lot of them are coming back. But who's to say the protocal won't change again in a few months, and we're back to square one. It seems to be a project with no plan and thus no endpoint. Imagine if Microsoft changed the format for Word files every 6 months, and you get the idea.
I hope you were kidding. Your neighborhood software hacker may also be a ham. I have to admit that since the advent of the internet I've done less ham hardware hacking and more programming, mainly python. As for spectrum space, the entire amateur radio allocation would only be enough for a few CDMA channels. Its really pretty small. I wish we could get more ham radio youngsters interested in the hobby, as I've been involved in a number of disaster relief efforts and our work was deeply appreciated. I'd hate to see that public service die.
I was intrigued to hear about the strong radiation that blankets Jupiter's moons. Those would have been the closest place to look for life outside of earth. I forget the reference, but it turned out that Jupiter's massive auroras create too severe of a radiation field for life to exist, at least as we know it. But who knows, maybe some form of life has adapted to extreme radiation. After all, some alien could say the same about earth, until he saw that the earthlings skin tans in the sun:)
I'm wondering what radio spectrum they are going to use to accomplish this. Its a finite resource. If 3G ever gets going every bit of spectum left except the ISM bands is going to be used up. And I have a hard time imagining that products are going to work in a city where there are 10000 other people sharing the band at the same time. Marketing clashes with reality on this one.
Let us with high karmas, and do thougthful moderating get grandfathered. Otherwise, all you'll be left with are trolls and flamers, and Slashdot will be dead. Basically, I am not going to pay for a service where I am providing the content.
What about Python? Python is not "like" any other language- it is an amalgamation of the best features of many languages. I program in Python because the language does not get in my way- of doing things. Later its easy to port Python apps to C, Fortran, whatever. The opposite route is pure hell.
Its not just computers. I would think that by now there are so many discarded AOL disks that entire subdivisions could be built on landfills full of them.
Sure, companies can produce these superfast chips for unbelievably high data transfer rates. But when will even a tiny fraction of this bandwidth ever reach into the ordinary home or small business? My understanding is that there now is enough fiber in the country that everyone could be wired for 100Mb/s ethernet, if we could somehow bridge the few miles.
Thanks for pointing this out. I was thinking that maybe I should dump my old Iwill board, but its been running FreeBSD and has done a few "make worlds" with absolutely no problems.
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This is great news for the Dutch. I am wondering if rulings like this can help any cases in the US? Lawyers always cite case law, but do foreign decisions carry any weight in the US? You would think that a thorough logical analysis of a situation would be persuasive anywhere. I am assuming the laws of logic apply everywhere, kind of like the laws of physics. Or am I being naive?
But I wasn't able to find that one in Netlib.
If you are using FreeBSD, netstat, sockstat, tcpdump, and ipfilter are your friends. I'm sure there must be some similar Windows utilities out there that can do the job.
Now a lot of my friends use Mandrake with great success, but I had very poor results with 8.2 on a Sony Viao FX290. None of the config utities would work, they mostly hung needing a reboot. So I switched to SuSE Professional, and the only glitch was having to specify NOPCMCIA=yes as a kernel param which was stated in their handbook. Maybe I could have done the same with Mandrake, but the people who responded on the mailing lists to my questions were arrogant and unhelpful. Thats what got me to use fdisk and wipe out the partition :)
I also searched the cooker archives and found that many people were saying that the Mandrake community had changed- too much pressure to release, and a reluctance to acknowledge bugs.
But I wish them luck. SuSE is a much bigger organnization with more resources. Plus I had to pay $80 for SuSE- but it was well worth the money.
For the first time in my life I wrote to my Senators. I mainly concentrated on the impact that I believe the bill will have on the economy. If passed it would throw the tech industry and consumers into a state of confusion. We really don't need that with a weak recovery under way. I also told them that I thought the bill impinged upon my free speech rights as a programmer. The government would be telling my what I can and can't do with my ideas and inventions as expressed in source code. I will be interested in seeing if I hear anything back from them.
I always thought the Amiga was a neat inovative computer. Friends of mine were doing production video animation on them backin the early 80s. They were clearly more powerful than the Mac at that time. Still I can t help but think that without the latest IBM G5 or whatever its called, its not going to hold up against the best Athlons and P4s.
FreeBSD beats Mandrake for ease of software upgrades and packages due to the Ports Collection and CVSup.
/etc directory shows Mandrake to be very complicated compared to FreeBSD. Complicated translates to more potential problems and security risks.
Mandrake, though, had an easier install that even Forrest Gump could do.
However, a look at the
Are the only ones I really like. Does any one remember OverCat from Underdog? He was the evil cat that lived in the heavens and would pound his fist saying "I want my milk!". I really like the old cartoons because they had appeal for adults too. There are a lot of things in those old cartoons that would go right over the head of a child or even teenager. The Simpsons are the penultimate example of that. Have fun tooning!
In that one the goal is to unobfuscate any code, I mean any at all that has ever been made in the last 40 years.
I've been running a node or two for several years now. There were once a large number of Freenet web sites, but when the protocol changed, most of them dissappeared. Now a lot of them are coming back. But who's to say the protocal won't change again in a few months, and we're back to square one. It seems to be a project with no plan and thus no endpoint. Imagine if Microsoft changed the format for Word files every 6 months, and you get the idea.
Or they are going to have lots of network downtime.
Everyone should be using FreeBSD instead. Ooops, wait, Apple is running FreeBSD in OS-X :)
I hope you were kidding. Your neighborhood software hacker may also be a ham. I have to admit that since the advent of the internet I've done less ham hardware hacking and more programming, mainly python. As for spectrum space, the entire amateur radio allocation would only be enough for a few CDMA channels. Its really pretty small. I wish we could get more ham radio youngsters interested in the hobby, as I've been involved in a number of disaster relief efforts and our work was deeply appreciated. I'd hate to see that public service die.
I was intrigued to hear about the strong radiation that blankets Jupiter's moons. Those would have been the closest place to look for life outside of earth. I forget the reference, but it turned out that Jupiter's massive auroras create too severe of a radiation field for life to exist, at least as we know it. But who knows, maybe some form of life has adapted to extreme radiation. After all, some alien could say the same about earth, until he saw that the earthlings skin tans in the sun :)
I'm wondering what radio spectrum they are going to use to accomplish this. Its a finite resource. If 3G ever gets going every bit of spectum left except the ISM bands is going to be used up. And I have a hard time imagining that products are going to work in a city where there are 10000 other people sharing the band at the same time. Marketing clashes with reality on this one.
Let us with high karmas, and do thougthful moderating get grandfathered. Otherwise, all you'll be left with are trolls and flamers, and Slashdot will be dead.
Basically, I am not going to pay for a service where I am providing the content.
What about Python?
Python is not "like" any other language- it is an amalgamation of the best features of many languages.
I program in Python because the language does not get in my way- of doing things. Later its easy to port Python apps to C, Fortran, whatever. The opposite route is pure hell.
That is one which I would like to see :) That big dog on the OpenBSD web page, OpenBSD's best friend. Here's lunch boy, come and get it! Gnaaarrrrllll.
Its not just computers. I would think that by now there are so many discarded AOL disks that entire subdivisions could be built on landfills full of them.
Sure, companies can produce these superfast chips for unbelievably high data transfer rates. But when will even a tiny fraction of this bandwidth ever reach into the ordinary home or small business? My understanding is that there now is enough fiber in the country that everyone could be wired for 100Mb/s ethernet, if we could somehow bridge the few miles.
"Scientists debated for weeks over whether 33, 45, or 78 rpm was the best speed for skiing"
Actually, I think this is possible running Linux and an emulator.
My zero-point energy extraction device. I've waited for this moment for years.
Thanks for pointing this out. I was thinking that maybe I should dump my old Iwill board, but its been running FreeBSD and has done a few "make worlds" with absolutely no problems.
Does it just blow out the circuit breakers?