to the effect that the suits own Linux now. I think that's wrong.
The same companies that balkanized Unix are now jumping on the Linux bandwagon. Some may try to introduce proprietary extensions. I don't think that's going to work, mostly because of the GPL, but also because any company that tried would face a backlash from developers that would impair the company's ability to get features added to the standard kernel.
The question of whether the suits own Linux or not boils down to whether or not the suits can get the features they want, at the expense of everyone else. Case in point: DRM. Suits love it. Linux users hate it. Linus may include it in the kernel, but Linux will be dead the day he includes it *without* a compiler switch to turn it off.
You mean the kernel for the Linux operating system?
The name of the OS is what's being debated. When I say the Linux kernel I think it's pretty clear which kernel I'm talking about.
You refer to Linux as an operating system (distribution)
I referred to a hypothetical Linux distribution that always installed the Linux kernel but gave you the option of whether or not you installed GNU. I don't believe one exists.
RMS would like us to say the GNU kernel is called Linux.
My impression is that RMS would like people to refer to GNU/Linux or GNU/HURD as appropriate when referring to the OS, and Linux or HURD when referring to the kernel. I also think he is making too big a deal out of it.
I think the FSF is fighting a losing battle with the whole GNU/Linux thing, but the reasons they are fighting it are a lot more valid than you imply.
The Linux kernel is called Linux. It doesn't matter that it was edited in emacs and compiled with gcc. It's Linux.
GNU/Linux refers to distributions. If you package Linux and GNU, in such a way that there is no option not to install the GNU part, it's a GNU/Linux distribution. There may be GNU/Linux/X distributions (maybe Lindows is a GNU/Linux/X/Wine distribution), but I am not aware of any Linux distributions that allow you the option of not installing GNU.
I wonder who found this interesting? They're now even more misinformed than they were before.
"Common carrier" generally refers to telephone companies. As long as they do not refuse to deliver based on the contents of the message, they are not liable for the contents of the message. So when you dial directly to my BBS and download kiddie porn, it's not Qwest's problem.
Oh, and the files in question are not on UUNets hardware. They're in Spain and Russia. The packets merely traverse UUNets network.
Apparently they weren't able to stand up for those rights, and had them taken away. Bitching on/. about free speech may not be much of a stand, but it's a stand.
The problem is sub-humans who abuse children. Dropping all packets between Pennsylvania and any of 5 IP addresses is not the answer.
Wow, that is a scary site. It's like the wet dream of proprietary software salesmen. Anything you don't pay for is *evil*. If you even look at the CD twice you owe us an extra licence fee. Don't like it? 5 years in jail or be fined 3 months salary.
First off, I am a long-time C++ programmer (and C before that) with a recent conversion to Perl for anything involving munging text files.
It has been brought to my attention that no sane programmer would design a record keeping system that involved giving the a customer a text editor and a manual and making him enter his records in a particular format in files with a particular name and extension. Yet that's exactly what we do to ourselves with programming languages.
What we need is something that goes from UML all the way down to ASM, and more importantly, all the way back up. Editable at every level in between. Use colour, fonts, sounds and whatever else you want to indicate the age of a piece of logic (at whatever level), who last changed it and/why/. If you're mucking around at the low level and it's making your high level design look a mess, take it as a clue that your design is not clear. Sure, there are exceptions that have to be coded for. Get them in the model at the right level and save yourself some work. I know programmers who have worn out the Cs and Vs on their keyboards, they cut and paste so much (yes, Windows, sue me).
I don't imagine this is going to be easy. However, the implementation is almost certain to be easier than getting people like me to start using it. Perhaps you youngsters should just write off everyone over 22 and start again. You'll thank us when we're gone.
My understanding was that the legal force of EULAs came not from the act of installation, but the act of making a copy of the program in RAM, which was held to infringe copyright in the absence of a licence.
This is a job for the distros. Lindows is having some success by bundling Wine and giving you a windows look & feel. RedHat is moving more towards an "official RedHat default desktop", while preserving your choice, if you want to do the expert installation.
Debian, Gentoo, and the other "hard-core" distros, I imagine, will never do this, because that's not the what their users want.
This is an excellent illustration of how you make money off free software. You put in the effort of selecting a single CD player, a single web browser, a single email client and so on, lay it down on the users hard disk with a minimum of flashy install screens. Then people buy it more than they buy those other distros that didn't want to make a decision.
You want MSNBC. This is Slashdot. When you pine for the sound of the open source drum, come back. We'll still be beating it. And the open source dead horse, too.
The 16 minutes figure came from the article. I imagine most students are hibernating their laptops while they walk around, then resuming them to check email, etc.
Security concerns over 802.11b usually resolve around people plugging access points directly into a corporate network. That's not the case here. Think of the wireless cloud like the public internet. I see three security issues, two of which are easily addressed.
1) security of the end users machine. Most of us would shudder at the though of connecting a desktop windows box directly to the internet. Since the average student is only online for 16 minutes at a time, there's enough of a moving target to make this easily as secure as 85% of dialup usage.
2) privacy of the data. There is none. Neither is there once your packets leave your wired ISP. Deal with it, or use GPG.
3) abuse of the network. Drive-by spammers, kiddie-porn downloaders, and so on. MAC addresses can be snooped and reused. Possibly the triangulation tools they were talking about can help you prove that it wasn't you downloading live goat porn in the lecture hall in the middle of Prof. X's lecture, even if it was going to your MAC address.
Our exchange server only does that if one of the meetings is recurring. It's still a major pain, though.
Are you inviting the rooms as resources or attendees?
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Well, some people think so. Every third book review someone will complain that there are never any negative reviews, and the whole review section is just to drive up slashdot's income from the referral program at fatbrain.
I don't think there'd be any point in a slashdot review of Business @ the Speed of Thought, but this is a book I might have bought otherwise, because the premise is interesting.
Since most of Slashdot is under 28 I suspect I'm going to be modded down as offtopic. Hopefully the three of you who are over thirty will see this post before it hits -1 so hard it bounces.
This is the 10th film. 10 is even, so the film is going to be good.
Given that the TNG cast are all about ready for the knackers yard, can we presume that film 11 will be Voyager, and thus suck royally on at least two counts?
Actually there were lots of things I liked about Voyager, but they're not the things that would make a good movie. Apart from 7 of 9. And it won't be that kind of movie, I'm sure.
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to the effect that the suits own Linux now. I think that's wrong.
The same companies that balkanized Unix are now jumping on the Linux bandwagon. Some may try to introduce proprietary extensions. I don't think that's going to work, mostly because of the GPL, but also because any company that tried would face a backlash from developers that would impair the company's ability to get features added to the standard kernel.
The question of whether the suits own Linux or not boils down to whether or not the suits can get the features they want, at the expense of everyone else. Case in point: DRM. Suits love it. Linux users hate it. Linus may include it in the kernel, but Linux will be dead the day he includes it *without* a compiler switch to turn it off.
Wouldn't you need a choice of 3,000 different OSes?
Also, as someone else pointed out below, the CGA used 2KB of memory for video, and 2MB video RAM is pretty small by today's standards.
This is turning into a summary of the other posts. Why not?
No hard disk.
One or two 180MB floppies.
2.38Gbps to the expansion cards.
Supports up to 640MB or RAM, but only comes with 64MB as standard (or 16MB if you get one of the first ones).
There you go then. I can't speak for RMS, but that sounds OK to me.
You mean the kernel for the Linux operating system?
The name of the OS is what's being debated. When I say the Linux kernel I think it's pretty clear which kernel I'm talking about.
You refer to Linux as an operating system (distribution)
I referred to a hypothetical Linux distribution that always installed the Linux kernel but gave you the option of whether or not you installed GNU. I don't believe one exists.
RMS would like us to say the GNU kernel is called Linux.
My impression is that RMS would like people to refer to GNU/Linux or GNU/HURD as appropriate when referring to the OS, and Linux or HURD when referring to the kernel. I also think he is making too big a deal out of it.
I think the FSF is fighting a losing battle with the whole GNU/Linux thing, but the reasons they are fighting it are a lot more valid than you imply.
The Linux kernel is called Linux. It doesn't matter that it was edited in emacs and compiled with gcc. It's Linux.
GNU/Linux refers to distributions. If you package Linux and GNU, in such a way that there is no option not to install the GNU part, it's a GNU/Linux distribution. There may be GNU/Linux/X distributions (maybe Lindows is a GNU/Linux/X/Wine distribution), but I am not aware of any Linux distributions that allow you the option of not installing GNU.
The same way you preserve, say, HCA's "Little Mermaid" as a poignant story about love and loss and a total absence of Jamaican lobsters.
You can't. You just have to tell the story your way, and hope that more people will like your vision than that of $MEGA_ENTERTAINMENT_CORP.
I wonder who found this interesting? They're now even more misinformed than they were before.
"Common carrier" generally refers to telephone companies. As long as they do not refuse to deliver based on the contents of the message, they are not liable for the contents of the message. So when you dial directly to my BBS and download kiddie porn, it's not Qwest's problem.
Oh, and the files in question are not on UUNets hardware. They're in Spain and Russia. The packets merely traverse UUNets network.
Apparently they weren't able to stand up for those rights, and had them taken away. Bitching on /. about free speech may not be much of a stand, but it's a stand.
The problem is sub-humans who abuse children. Dropping all packets between Pennsylvania and any of 5 IP addresses is not the answer.
You can't do that because you'll violate this patent.
Wow, that is a scary site. It's like the wet dream of proprietary software salesmen. Anything you don't pay for is *evil*. If you even look at the CD twice you owe us an extra licence fee. Don't like it? 5 years in jail or be fined 3 months salary.
First off, I am a long-time C++ programmer (and C before that) with a recent conversion to Perl for anything involving munging text files.
/why/. If you're mucking around at the low level and it's making your high level design look a mess, take it as a clue that your design is not clear. Sure, there are exceptions that have to be coded for. Get them in the model at the right level and save yourself some work. I know programmers who have worn out the Cs and Vs on their keyboards, they cut and paste so much (yes, Windows, sue me).
It has been brought to my attention that no sane programmer would design a record keeping system that involved giving the a customer a text editor and a manual and making him enter his records in a particular format in files with a particular name and extension. Yet that's exactly what we do to ourselves with programming languages.
What we need is something that goes from UML all the way down to ASM, and more importantly, all the way back up. Editable at every level in between. Use colour, fonts, sounds and whatever else you want to indicate the age of a piece of logic (at whatever level), who last changed it and
I don't imagine this is going to be easy. However, the implementation is almost certain to be easier than getting people like me to start using it. Perhaps you youngsters should just write off everyone over 22 and start again. You'll thank us when we're gone.
Did you get that this was a pun?
Here's what I was talking about, although if you're not a goatse.cx fan you might find the images disturbing.
My understanding was that the legal force of EULAs came not from the act of installation, but the act of making a copy of the program in RAM, which was held to infringe copyright in the absence of a licence.
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You just pulled that number out of your ass.
This is a job for the distros. Lindows is having some success by bundling Wine and giving you a windows look & feel. RedHat is moving more towards an "official RedHat default desktop", while preserving your choice, if you want to do the expert installation.
Debian, Gentoo, and the other "hard-core" distros, I imagine, will never do this, because that's not the what their users want.
This is an excellent illustration of how you make money off free software. You put in the effort of selecting a single CD player, a single web browser, a single email client and so on, lay it down on the users hard disk with a minimum of flashy install screens. Then people buy it more than they buy those other distros that didn't want to make a decision.
Weapon Of Random Destruction
You want MSNBC. This is Slashdot. When you pine for the sound of the open source drum, come back. We'll still be beating it. And the open source dead horse, too.
The 16 minutes figure came from the article. I imagine most students are hibernating their laptops while they walk around, then resuming them to check email, etc.
Security concerns over 802.11b usually resolve around people plugging access points directly into a corporate network. That's not the case here. Think of the wireless cloud like the public internet. I see three security issues, two of which are easily addressed.
1) security of the end users machine. Most of us would shudder at the though of connecting a desktop windows box directly to the internet. Since the average student is only online for 16 minutes at a time, there's enough of a moving target to make this easily as secure as 85% of dialup usage.
2) privacy of the data. There is none. Neither is there once your packets leave your wired ISP. Deal with it, or use GPG.
3) abuse of the network. Drive-by spammers, kiddie-porn downloaders, and so on. MAC addresses can be snooped and reused. Possibly the triangulation tools they were talking about can help you prove that it wasn't you downloading live goat porn in the lecture hall in the middle of Prof. X's lecture, even if it was going to your MAC address.
Very true.
A thought just hit me
"Only Ventura could go to Cuba"
or
"Only Jesse would lead a trade delegation to a country he's forbidden to trade with"?
Our exchange server only does that if one of the meetings is recurring. It's still a major pain, though.
Are you inviting the rooms as resources or attendees?
Well, some people think so. Every third book review someone will complain that there are never any negative reviews, and the whole review section is just to drive up slashdot's income from the referral program at fatbrain.
I don't think there'd be any point in a slashdot review of Business @ the Speed of Thought, but this is a book I might have bought otherwise, because the premise is interesting.
That's kind of how I felt when I was 29.
"Only Google could go to China"
Since most of Slashdot is under 28 I suspect I'm going to be modded down as offtopic. Hopefully the three of you who are over thirty will see this post before it hits -1 so hard it bounces.
This is the 10th film. 10 is even, so the film is going to be good.
Given that the TNG cast are all about ready for the knackers yard, can we presume that film 11 will be Voyager, and thus suck royally on at least two counts?
Actually there were lots of things I liked about Voyager, but they're not the things that would make a good movie. Apart from 7 of 9. And it won't be that kind of movie, I'm sure.
The Self-Made Critic has a more detailed scoring scheme for Star Trek movies in his review of Insurrection. We'll see how accurate it is after Nemesis.