I'm not sure its needs to be so sophisticated.
You can have hours of fun with a recording of
"I'm just going to fetch daddy", a thud and random
background noise until they hang up.
Or for iritation factor
"Let me fetch mum, click"
See how many times they try and call and say "dont
put the phone down on the hook..."
We can all add the TrustE seal to procmailrc and a whole chunk of conveniently labelled spam would go away. Now if only I could get the postman to deliver all the junk mail into a different letter box too (a round one outside)
If you got an letter that can in any way be held to be threatening, malicious or falsely alledging you can be prosecuted make sure the document isnt violating any laws.
In the UK our equivalent (FAST) are normally a little better behaved but when they stepped out of line people did go to the police and to advertising standards to complain about receiving threatening letters, false advertising and the like
Whats more is the advertising standards authority sided with the people against FAST, and if they do it again that way they'll get a nasty suprise.
You would think that the BSA would get further if it was the nice guy. Very few companies want to violate licenses, and most of those who pay licenses really dont like those who dont pay.
Mind you, if you bought a copy of Kylix or installed some versions of MS media player, you've already given the license holder in the USA at least the right to enter your home and check you for compliance, mp3 files and whatever they like.
IBM are already heavily involved with SuSE, and may be this lawyer will get his just deserts this time around.
Every country has stupid laws somewhere - German trademark law is one, the UK its libel/slander. The US has its catalogue too - DMCA, liability law, patents.
The trade offs you have to make in basic compartmentalisation are hard to get right. There are so many different ways to break a "jail" on any system where the security is at the main OS level.
Instinctively I've never trusted jail based solutions Linux or otherwise. If you want to compartmentalise build a small reasonably verifyable core and run Linux unpriviledged on it - its one of the uses for real microkernels (not Mach but something thats actually -micro-).
Well let me see
1. Its not trademarked
2. Its satire which has a special place in copyright law
3. Its political speech. The WTO are trying to censor legitimate protest at their attempts to screw the planet.
Do the maths and work out what the loss of one section of each frame is over a complete CD - its a reasonable portion of one track that is effectively missing.
Nothing is said about the fact you are buying a faulty product either, nor that chunks of it have not been supplied.
Actually in many countries the EUCD adds a limited notion of fair use beyond what there is. The EUCD has some serious problems like directly conflicting with existing law and basically ensuring anyone who helps the blind read ebooks goes to jail (compatibility is ok but people dont count as compatibility....)
The current protected disks are actually possibly criminally illegal in the UK anyway. The CD causes an unauthorised modification of the contents of the computer (viz you dont get the proper data when issuing legitimate commands that are actually needed eg for USB speaker kits) and it "impairs the operation of any such program or the reliability of any such data". Finally the "knowledge that the modification he intends to cause is unauthorised", which I think we can safel y assume to have been demonstrated.
I don't know if there are similar US state laws or not. The Hammonds Suddards Edge book makes passing reference to that being the case but does not cover them.
Getting NUMA to work well with Andrea/Marcelo's VM might be more interesting. On the other hand Martin and the other IBM folks don't seem duly perturbed on list so I'm not that worried
It feels nice. Its a thinner and lighter than the ipaq with CF jacket which is a good thing. The display quality was nice. They input methods were interesting (eg full unicode popups) but I found I hated all of them. CF and a memory card slot are built in to the base thin unit. There is no PCMCIA provision at all.
It had no full screen handwriting mode like familiar on the iPAQ. The pop out thumbpad is cute but almost unusable - even for me an ex sinclair computer user and PC110 owner.
The apps were good, but appear to be proprietary, The guy present wasnt sure how many binary only driver modules it used and I've not seen much sign of hardware docs.
It seemed very much "nice PDA that happened to have Linux hiding at the bottom" than "Linux on a PDA".
The DMCA has nothing to do with this btw - and I think given 6 months the US courts will have given the congress the required slap around the head with a wet herring. Until then it pays to be careful
All uncensored change logs are on
http://www.thefreeworld.net for non US citizens. US citizens take their own chances
The ext3 stuff is scheduled for merging soon. The VM is simply more important, and as of 2.4.14pre7 basically works (there are a couple of corner cases left where it fails) - and is much faster than the older Riel VM. That was a concluded experiment anyway
RH doesn't get to decide what I feed to Linus,and Linus wouldn't listen if they did. XFS is 2.5 material certainly. JFS I don't know - Im watching it with great interest.
As of 2.4.14pre the Andrea/Marcelo VM is definitely doing better on most workloads. Where the Riel one has advantages the right way is going to be to build on the Andrea VM.
The 2.4.14pre VM also seems to be taking the harder brutalisation test sets pretty well - something the Andrea VM didnt do in 2.4.10-13
DVD's contain very simple programs in a virtual machine that handle a lot of the viewing control settings. If they are software however then the film industry still loses.
Under EU law I have a right to make backups of software.
The policy was pretty much as described. You didn't stick anything on the corporate network that wasnt approved (and ironically there was approved stuff I wouldnt put on my home lan!) and the developer lan was seperated by an airgap and a single firewalling file transfer box.
IS folks made sure we had 3COM mail (or rather they spent their life apologising for lotus notes), and fixed those boxes, anything on the developer boxes was developer problem.
Within Red Hat nobody expects IS to handle a box that the developers have done crazy things to. And we have a few core boxes the developers choose to manage instead of IS.
It is possible to find a good policy, but with the current Microsoft campaign of license auditing I can understand a lot of people running very very scared in the direction of total mind control.
Larry McVoy has some fascinating and well thought out arguments about cases where pure open source does not work.
Stress test time for the ftp servers.
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UK folks should find
ftp://zeniiib.linux.theplanet.co.uk/pub/distribu ti ons/redhat/7.2
nice and fast (its the new linux.org.uk test box)
Alan
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gcc 2.96-RH is all open , always has been. Gcc 3 is not quite compatible so wouldnt be appropriate for the base tools for a new release. It is on the CD though if you want it
The only nonfree stuff on the RH distro should be netscape, and we recommend mozilla 8)
Make sure you use UTF8. Firstly because unlike UCS2 (16bit) it can encode all the characters not a subset of them. Eventually 16bit won't be enough for you. Secondly its 7bit ASCII equivalent so there is no real problem with migration over time.
Thirdly since ascii 7bit is UTF8 ascii space there isnt any data migration to be done to set this up.
I've also explained to the Sistina people that even if they own all the code and can happily relicense it (which may be the case) it requires a huge patch to the kernel so cannot be conceivably consider entirely a "seperate work" nor part of Linus binary modules using existing exported symbols exception.
We will see what happens in our discussion, and if need be I will be sending them notice recorded delivery that I believe they are violating my copyrights.
In the mean time I hope IBM who provided the GPL DLM used for some GFS setups and Compaq who are doing all the great cluster work will adopt and support OpenGFS instead.
The OpenGFS folks would also like to hear from anyone who contributed patches to GFS while it was GPL licensed that are still in the non-free one without their permission.
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I'm not sure its needs to be so sophisticated.
..."
You can have hours of fun with a recording of
"I'm just going to fetch daddy", a thud and random
background noise until they hang up.
Or for iritation factor
"Let me fetch mum, click"
See how many times they try and call and say "dont
put the phone down on the hook
We can all add the TrustE seal to procmailrc and a whole chunk of conveniently labelled spam would go away. Now if only I could get the postman to deliver all the junk mail into a different letter box too (a round one outside)
No search warrant needed. In the US or in the UK.
In the UK our equivalent (FAST) are normally a little better behaved but when they stepped out of line people did go to the police and to advertising standards to complain about receiving threatening letters, false advertising and the like
Whats more is the advertising standards authority sided with the people against FAST, and if they do it again that way they'll get a nasty suprise.
You would think that the BSA would get further if it was the nice guy. Very few companies want to violate licenses, and most of those who pay licenses really dont like those who dont pay.
Mind you, if you bought a copy of Kylix or installed some versions of MS media player, you've already given the license holder in the USA at least the right to enter your home and check you for compliance, mp3 files and whatever they like.
Every country has stupid laws somewhere - German trademark law is one, the UK its libel/slander. The US has its catalogue too - DMCA, liability law, patents.
The trade offs you have to make in basic compartmentalisation are hard to get right. There are so many different ways to break a "jail" on any system where the security is at the main OS level.
Instinctively I've never trusted jail based solutions Linux or otherwise. If you want to compartmentalise build a small reasonably verifyable core and run Linux unpriviledged on it - its one of the uses for real microkernels (not Mach but something thats actually -micro-).
Well let me see
1. Its not trademarked
2. Its satire which has a special place in copyright law
3. Its political speech. The WTO are trying to censor legitimate protest at their attempts to screw the planet.
Do the maths and work out what the loss of one section of each frame is over a complete CD - its a reasonable portion of one track that is effectively missing.
Nothing is said about the fact you are buying a faulty product either, nor that chunks of it have not been supplied.
Actually in many countries the EUCD adds a limited notion of fair use beyond what there is. The EUCD has some serious problems like directly conflicting with existing law and basically ensuring anyone who helps the blind read ebooks goes to jail (compatibility is ok but people dont count as compatibility....)
The current protected disks are actually possibly criminally illegal in the UK anyway. The CD causes an unauthorised modification of the contents of the computer (viz you dont get the proper data when issuing legitimate commands that are actually needed eg for USB speaker kits) and it "impairs the operation of any such program or the reliability of any such data". Finally the "knowledge that the modification he intends to cause is unauthorised", which I think we can safel y assume to have been demonstrated.
I don't know if there are similar US state laws or not. The Hammonds Suddards Edge book makes passing reference to that being the case but does not cover them.
Alan
Well its their heads under the DMCA 8)
Getting NUMA to work well with Andrea/Marcelo's VM might be more interesting. On the other hand Martin and the other IBM folks don't seem duly perturbed on list so I'm not that worried
It feels nice. Its a thinner and lighter than the ipaq with CF jacket which is a good thing. The display quality was nice. They input methods were interesting (eg full unicode popups) but I found I hated all of them. CF and a memory card slot are built in to the base thin unit. There is no PCMCIA provision at all.
It had no full screen handwriting mode like familiar on the iPAQ. The pop out thumbpad is cute but almost unusable - even for me an ex sinclair computer user and PC110 owner.
The apps were good, but appear to be proprietary, The guy present wasnt sure how many binary only driver modules it used and I've not seen much sign of hardware docs.
It seemed very much "nice PDA that happened to have Linux hiding at the bottom" than "Linux on a PDA".
I wanted to work more on other stuff. We both felt Marcelo was a great choice and Marcelo wanted to be 2.4 maintainer
The DMCA has nothing to do with this btw - and I think given 6 months the US courts will have given the congress the required slap around the head with a wet herring. Until then it pays to be careful
All uncensored change logs are on
http://www.thefreeworld.net for non US citizens. US citizens take their own chances
The ext3 stuff is scheduled for merging soon. The VM is simply more important, and as of 2.4.14pre7 basically works (there are a couple of corner cases left where it fails) - and is much faster than the older Riel VM. That was a concluded experiment anyway
RH doesn't get to decide what I feed to Linus,and Linus wouldn't listen if they did. XFS is 2.5 material certainly. JFS I don't know - Im watching it with great interest.
Alan
As of 2.4.14pre the Andrea/Marcelo VM is definitely doing better on most workloads. Where the Riel one has advantages the right way is going to be to build on the Andrea VM.
The 2.4.14pre VM also seems to be taking the harder brutalisation test sets pretty well - something the Andrea VM didnt do in 2.4.10-13
DVD's contain very simple programs in a virtual machine that handle a lot of the viewing control settings. If they are software however then the film industry still loses.
Under EU law I have a right to make backups of software.
The policy was pretty much as described. You didn't stick anything on the corporate network that wasnt approved (and ironically there was approved stuff I wouldnt put on my home lan!) and the developer lan was seperated by an airgap and a single firewalling file transfer box.
IS folks made sure we had 3COM mail (or rather they spent their life apologising for lotus notes), and fixed those boxes, anything on the developer boxes was developer problem.
Within Red Hat nobody expects IS to handle a box that the developers have done crazy things to. And we have a few core boxes the developers choose to manage instead of IS.
It is possible to find a good policy, but with the current Microsoft campaign of license auditing I can understand a lot of people running very very scared in the direction of total mind control.
Larry McVoy has some fascinating and well thought out arguments about cases where pure open source does not work.
UK folks should findu ti ons/redhat/7.2
ftp://zeniiib.linux.theplanet.co.uk/pub/distrib
nice and fast (its the new linux.org.uk test box)
Alan
gcc 2.96-RH is all open , always has been. Gcc 3 is not quite compatible so wouldnt be appropriate for the base tools for a new release. It is on the CD though if you want it
The only nonfree stuff on the RH distro should be netscape, and we recommend mozilla 8)
Not me - I did a bit of benchmarking but that is my sole contribution to nautilus. Lots of other folks both inside and outside of RH did all the work.
Make sure you use UTF8. Firstly because unlike UCS2 (16bit) it can encode all the characters not a subset of them. Eventually 16bit won't be enough for you. Secondly its 7bit ASCII equivalent so there is no real problem with migration over time.
Thirdly since ascii 7bit is UTF8 ascii space there isnt any data migration to be done to set this up.
I've also explained to the Sistina people that even if they own all the code and can happily relicense it (which may be the case) it requires a huge patch to the kernel so cannot be conceivably consider entirely a "seperate work" nor part of Linus binary modules using existing exported symbols exception.
We will see what happens in our discussion, and if need be I will be sending them notice recorded delivery that I believe they are violating my copyrights.
In the mean time I hope IBM who provided the GPL DLM used for some GFS setups and Compaq who are doing all the great cluster work will adopt and support OpenGFS instead.
The OpenGFS folks would also like to hear from anyone who contributed patches to GFS while it was GPL licensed that are still in the non-free one without their permission.
Alan
The goal there is to make it unneccessary. 2.4.8-ac7/ac8 have slightly smarter VM merging behaviour done by Ben LaHaise for example.