It is not the custom of the OSS-community to bind software to one platform, and AFAIK Red Hat is still pretty much in touch with the community, despite what some trolls seem to suggest at times.
But Red-carpet does not install packages unless it has all dependencies.
I've sometimes not been able to fetch some packages due to server-errors, but they've never created any problems, as red-carpet has just not installed any of them.
Have you filed any bug-reports, or asked around on monkey-chat? I bet that would be more useful than just naming problems on Slashdot.
People don't normally know their history
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Unions have traditionally been very important to make sure that employee rights are not neglected.
In bad times when some employers could pay people obscenely small amounts of money for hard work, because people seriously couldn't afford loosing that income either, unions played a pretty important role, at least in some countries.
Just because things are generally better now, doesn't mean that it will always be that way.
I know plenty of people that work in professions where the employer have all the power, that are very glad for the added security that union-membership gives you.
Unions (as long as they operate within the current system, instead of trying to destroy the system), isn't necessarily a foe of the free market, it is actually part of the free market. Just as coorporations make alliances and merges, so must employees be able to.
If me being a Union-member can get me some benefits, I see nothing wrong with it.
Of course, the norwegian law sucks in the way that in some professions you are automatically a union-member, and the union provides funds for the election-campaign of the Labour-party in Norway. This means that some people are forced to support the Labour-party with their union-fees.
Do you have any info on this? I've searched the kde-websites, and cannot find any information about this Kcontrol-module.
Re:danger of audio format monopoly
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The problem is that even though you could do this digitally, with little loss (some due encoding twice), most people wouldn't.
They run windows, and can play all the.wma, so why bother encoding it in something else?
This would mean that the people that DO care about this, is a minority, and the amount of mp3s would diminish.
.. I don't normally think that the proprietary plugins are ok with a stock GPL-license. As long as the plugins are dependent on the GIMP, then they have to be GPL as well.
However, I _do_ think that in this particular case (The Gimp), there is an exception-clause that grants you the right to create proprietary plugins.
The same is true for the Linux-kernel, for which Linus Torvalds has said that proprietary kernel-modules that do not modify any kernel-code, is ok.
I'm normally in favor of the GPL, but when it comes to interpreted languages, I'm glad they are not GPL'd, as anything that LINKS to a GPL'd application (with an exception when it comes to system libraries), has to be GPL'd.
As a python-script is totally dependent of Python, this would make all python-scripts GPL'd.. of course, Python isn't GPL'd so this isn't a problem.
The moral is; choose licenses with care, neither the BSD nor the GPL is any better than the other, they are different though.
Take an existing GPL-project like Open Office, which is dual licensed.
They can actually demand that people who want their patches included in official release agree to cross-license their code. Noone has a right to get any code included in the official Linux kernel for example.
So Linus could have (from the start, now it is next to impossible as he has to get approval from all contributors),
released the Linuxkernel, and demanded that people who wanted anything in the official Linuxkernel cross-licensed their code. Of course he could also demand that any forks is not to be called Linux as he has copyright on that name.
Of course, anyone can fork Open Office so that they don't have to submit anything cross-licensed, and the official Open Office cannot use it unless they only make it available in their GPL-version.
Note: I'm not saying this is how Open Office currently works, it is just an example.
The point behind cross-licensing is to make the original authors capable of releasing a commercial version.
For instance.. Qt is available in two licenses, GPL and commercial. This makes sure that Trolltech can earn money off people wanting to develop closed-source projects.
I do not know how their policy on patches is, but if they do not demand patches to be cross-licensed I would except that most people submit patches to them cross-licensed anyway, since they recognize the important work Trolltech has done for the community and wants to give something back.
You're saying that these two statements are mutually exclusive:
1. he does not own the content
2. he is responsible for the content.
This conclusion is actually very wrong. Image this:
You are writing software for you're company, on their time and with salary from them. The code belongs to them and not you. Correct? If so, statement 1 is true.
Are you claiming that what you wrote is not your responsibility?
What if you deliberately added in a backdoor in the code, which none of the other workers spotted because you write really dirty code.
Is is possible for the company to sue you because they lost a lot of money because of what you did. Correct?
If so, statement 2 is true.
Both statements are true, which you stated was impossible.
The next one, may have other legal issues than purely logical. I'm just arguing the logic, as I am not a lawyer.
If the university has a policy that all things put up on their servers are their property, this means that something you put up is their property, and not your own. But what you put up there may actually be illegal.
You most certainly is responsible for putting it up there, and you most certainly do not own it. Thus your logic fails yet again.
To clarify, I am morally against what has happened here, and I don't even think it is legal (again, IANAL), but your "proof" is not valid.
The US is also the the place where radio-stations can get enormous fines for playing even the censored version of Enimem-songs. Is that freedom?
It is the new Bush-administration that tries to clean up obscenity and indecency.
This is no troll, the popular opinion that "the US has laws ensuring more freedom than any other nation", is not always correct.
Here is my source: Reuters.
Re:Do I need v4.x if my video card uses XFree86 3?
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If your card is supported by XFree86 4.x it is REALLY worth an upgrade.
XFree86 4.x is actually a pretty much totally new architecture, and is faster in both 2d and 3d. It also have some really nice new features. Like the render-extension for smooth fonts, DRI for smooth 3d, seperating drivers from the server (4.x uses one server for all cards, just with different drop-in drivers).
.. if the software-developer is a rather famous OSS-personality, you could actually also generate buzz around your company, just by hiring that person. This buzz may actually help generate revenue.
While I agree that filtering based on philosophy is generally a bad idea, it may actually be much easier to seperate the good prospects from bad prospects in the OSS-world.
In the OSS-world, you will have access to the persons code, and the persons activities on open mailing-lists.
This means that you have a huge amount of information on a candidate not gather by the employee himself/herself. I'd say that this would make it more of
a "guarantee" that the employee will function well in your company.
This all means that while the pool of programmers may be even bigger and better in the regular pool of applicants, you may more easily find the good candidates, and much FASTER find the good candidates from the OSS-pool.
I say, that if you can save your company quite a few hours searching for candidates, by recruiting an employee from the OSS-world, then do it.
They are not going to control the media. According to this
older Slashdot-story, they are actually going to let people create clones of the terminal.
"We would rather have a small part of a large market than a large part of a small market if we had used proprietary technologies." is the quote.
I think this could be cool, but Nokia is obviously thinking that they can make money out of services to the consumer, and sales of the terminal, as they won't get royalties from each game created this way.
What is the difference between this and Indrema? Well.. contrary to what the older slashdot-story seemed to suggest, I don't think this is really an Playstation2, Nintendo and X-box-competitor. It's more like they are selling an Internet-appliance, that can also play some decent games. If it has good software, and some good functionality, it might work
... since when did doubling the amount of performance only cost twice as much money?
Never? Have you ever seen anything like it? Even something as simple as getting double clock rate from Intel costs about 4 times the amount of money. Is someone somehow not expecting that going from extreme performance, to twice the performance would NOT cost 4 times as much?
1. Doubling the amount of CPUs does not yield double performance, but cost much more than twice the amount. This would happen to the Windows 2000 servers as well.
2. Did anyone at least check out what is included in the price? I do not know, but for all I know, the SGI 1450 may be equipped with more levels of redundancy, have more expensive (more stable, not fastedr) hardware.
3. The operating system cost for one of these beasts is miniscule, so I as a Linux-advocate would not even consider arguing for price of the OS for machines like this. (I'd argue performance, stability and tweakability).
I may be wrong, but doesn't making things smaller actually _decrease_ heat output?
Every time the transistor size decreases, it has been possible to increase the clock-rate, and decrease the amount of voltage required.
One of the reasons Athlons will soon be viable as processors for laptops is because of decreased transistor size.
I would guess that if Moore's Law DOES NOT continue, liquid cooled computers will become necessary.
Why are processors hotter today than they used to be? Because the extreme competition has made the manufacturers increase clock-speed and add features without always being able to decrease the size of the silicon.
Could someone confirm this, or perhaps prove me wrong?
The way of using specialized displays for different types of directories is rather revolutionary. It is currently only used for displaying mp3-directories like a playlist, but should be used for different types of directories later on. F.eks. having more image-functionality for image-directories.
"It was slow on my P3-500/256MB of RAM, and excruciatingly slow on my Dual P-Pro 200/96MB RAM machine"
When did you try it last? The latest releases of Nautilus is pretty snappy on my Celeron 400/128MB. It actually starts just as fast as Konqueror from WindowMaker, which mean that neither has had the chance to preload their libraries.
Nautilus 1.x was never intended to be a full feature web-browser, and if you don't need it to be a webbrowser, then don't USE IT AS SUCH. There is nobody stopping you from not installing nautilus-mozilla (the package that lets nautilus browse the web) at all.
The giant "eazel"-throbber is just part of the theme. Switch theme!
Btw, Nautilus DOES use GTK-themes. Look at the toolbar and at the dialogs. It just recognizes that the GTK-themes doesn't cover all the stuff that Nautilus needs to be good-looking.
Font antialiasing could be better, but you can turn it off, and buy yourself some extra speed as well.
There is plenty of good things about nautilus. It is a functional and intuitive file manager, much more so than gmc. It has good looks, it can preview text, sound and images. It even has the ability to eazily extend the functionality with scripting.
It may not be revolutionary yet, but the design and idea behind it has an awesome amount of potential, if you'd ever care to check. It has the potential to provide a specialized view for all kinds of folders (like music, document or image-folders), and to put a much easier abstract layer above the Unix file-hiearchy.
It has the potential to be the easiest to use of all desktop-managers ever.
As far as I know, Durons are just as SMP-capable as Athlons, and should work in this motherboards.
The only catch is that Athlons will perform much better due to their bigger amount of cache, and since the motherboards will probably be rather expensive, at least in the beginning, there might not be much point in buying one, and then fitting them with the cheaper but poorer option. Besides, athlons are not very expensive right now.
This is nothing but FUD, and I cannot believe I even responded to this.
AMD processors are a viable solution for plenty of choices. They also give have much better value/money.
The Pentium IV is also currently a risk, as you have NO UPGRADE PATH.
The Pentium IV is still a good processor, and may be your best bet for extreme performance, but it is no less of a risk than AMD-processors.
If the number of moves is more than number of atoms in the universe, why should that stop us?
Haven't you d00dz ever heard about recycling? Where I live we sort out all the paper from the trash for recycling, so why can't the chess computer do this?
Ximian, as I understand it, still has money. In addition, Ximian is highly dependant of Eazel's work, and has competing business strategies (services). How about Ximian buying out Eazel, thus keeping them alive, and merging Eazels services-strategies with their own.
I suspect this would have been the better option from the beginning, as newbies won't like the idea of several different entities from which they are supposed to get help.
IPv6 is the long term solution to the ip-exhaustion-problem.
However, the adoption of IPv6 is dependent on several other parties, over which you personally may have no control whatsoever.
This solution could be deployed today, without having to wait for all parties to adopt IPv6, something which may actually never happen.. a different protocol may be used at the time that people actually convert.
The GPL and the BSD-license, the two most common licenses, does not restrict you from using the software commercially.
What could be tax-deductable anyway, is developing software and giving it out under an opensource-license.
You know the difference between just saying "I'll kill you", and the actual _real_ threatening of people?
An actual death threat makes a normal life rather impossible, due to the imminent fear of being killed everytime you go to bed, or go out og the house, or just about any situation.
Personally I dislike people who yell "I'll kill you", I find it crude and unpleasant, but I wouldn't want to see you prosecuted for it. If however, you looked me in my eyes and told me in a way I found to be truly sincere, that you would hunt me and my children down at night, then yes I would file charges against you, and I would be _very_ glad that this kind of law applies. The same goes for letters threatening to kill. If I file a complaint, you may of course be innocent, and that is up to the courts to decide.
This story isn't even _about_ this. The slashdot-crowd just goes way too far sometimes.
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It is not the custom of the OSS-community to bind software to one platform, and AFAIK Red Hat is still pretty much in touch with the community, despite what some trolls seem to suggest at times.
But Red-carpet does not install packages unless it has all dependencies.
I've sometimes not been able to fetch some packages due to server-errors, but they've never created any problems, as red-carpet has just not installed any of them.
Have you filed any bug-reports, or asked around on monkey-chat? I bet that would be more useful than just naming problems on Slashdot.
Unions have traditionally been very important to make sure that employee rights are not neglected.
In bad times when some employers could pay people obscenely small amounts of money for hard work, because people seriously couldn't afford loosing that income either, unions played a pretty important role, at least in some countries.
Just because things are generally better now, doesn't mean that it will always be that way.
I know plenty of people that work in professions where the employer have all the power, that are very glad for the added security that union-membership gives you.
Unions (as long as they operate within the current system, instead of trying to destroy the system), isn't necessarily a foe of the free market, it is actually part of the free market. Just as coorporations make alliances and merges, so must employees be able to.
If me being a Union-member can get me some benefits, I see nothing wrong with it.
Of course, the norwegian law sucks in the way that in some professions you are automatically a union-member, and the union provides funds for the election-campaign of the Labour-party in Norway. This means that some people are forced to support the Labour-party with their union-fees.
Well, just my 2 cents...
Do you have any info on this? I've searched the kde-websites, and cannot find any information about this Kcontrol-module.
The problem is that even though you could do this digitally, with little loss (some due encoding twice), most people wouldn't. .wma, so why bother encoding it in something else?
They run windows, and can play all the
This would mean that the people that DO care about this, is a minority, and the amount of mp3s would diminish.
.. I don't normally think that the proprietary plugins are ok with a stock GPL-license. As long as the plugins are dependent on the GIMP, then they have to be GPL as well.
However, I _do_ think that in this particular case (The Gimp), there is an exception-clause that grants you the right to create proprietary plugins.
The same is true for the Linux-kernel, for which Linus Torvalds has said that proprietary kernel-modules that do not modify any kernel-code, is ok.
Not only flamebait, but also very wrong.
I'm normally in favor of the GPL, but when it comes to interpreted languages, I'm glad they are not GPL'd, as anything that LINKS to a GPL'd application (with an exception when it comes to system libraries), has to be GPL'd.
As a python-script is totally dependent of Python, this would make all python-scripts GPL'd.. of course, Python isn't GPL'd so this isn't a problem.
The moral is; choose licenses with care, neither the BSD nor the GPL is any better than the other, they are different though.
Take an existing GPL-project like Open Office, which is dual licensed.
They can actually demand that people who want their patches included in official release agree to cross-license their code. Noone has a right to get any code included in the official Linux kernel for example. So Linus could have (from the start, now it is next to impossible as he has to get approval from all contributors),
released the Linuxkernel, and demanded that people who wanted anything in the official Linuxkernel cross-licensed their code. Of course he could also demand that any forks is not to be called Linux as he has copyright on that name.
Of course, anyone can fork Open Office so that they don't have to submit anything cross-licensed, and the official Open Office cannot use it unless they only make it available in their GPL-version.
Note: I'm not saying this is how Open Office currently works, it is just an example.
The point behind cross-licensing is to make the original authors capable of releasing a commercial version.
For instance.. Qt is available in two licenses, GPL and commercial. This makes sure that Trolltech can earn money off people wanting to develop closed-source projects.
I do not know how their policy on patches is, but if they do not demand patches to be cross-licensed I would except that most people submit patches to them cross-licensed anyway, since they recognize the important work Trolltech has done for the community and wants to give something back.
You're saying that these two statements are mutually exclusive:
1. he does not own the content
2. he is responsible for the content.
This conclusion is actually very wrong. Image this:
You are writing software for you're company, on their time and with salary from them. The code belongs to them and not you. Correct? If so, statement 1 is true.
Are you claiming that what you wrote is not your responsibility?
What if you deliberately added in a backdoor in the code, which none of the other workers spotted because you write really dirty code.
Is is possible for the company to sue you because they lost a lot of money because of what you did. Correct?
If so, statement 2 is true.
Both statements are true, which you stated was impossible.
The next one, may have other legal issues than purely logical. I'm just arguing the logic, as I am not a lawyer.
If the university has a policy that all things put up on their servers are their property, this means that something you put up is their property, and not your own. But what you put up there may actually be illegal.
You most certainly is responsible for putting it up there, and you most certainly do not own it. Thus your logic fails yet again.
To clarify, I am morally against what has happened here, and I don't even think it is legal (again, IANAL), but your "proof" is not valid.
The US is also the the place where radio-stations can get enormous fines for playing even the censored version of Enimem-songs. Is that freedom?
It is the new Bush-administration that tries to clean up obscenity and indecency.
This is no troll, the popular opinion that "the US has laws ensuring more freedom than any other nation", is not always correct.
Here is my source: Reuters.
If your card is supported by XFree86 4.x it is REALLY worth an upgrade.
XFree86 4.x is actually a pretty much totally new architecture, and is faster in both 2d and 3d. It also have some really nice new features. Like the render-extension for smooth fonts, DRI for smooth 3d, seperating drivers from the server (4.x uses one server for all cards, just with different drop-in drivers).
.. to make the same kind of mistake.
/etc a partition of its own.
/etc/fstab to mount /etc.
I once in my very newbie-days made
Too bad I needed
.. if the software-developer is a rather famous OSS-personality, you could actually also generate buzz around your company, just by hiring that person. This buzz may actually help generate revenue.
While I agree that filtering based on philosophy is generally a bad idea, it may actually be much easier to seperate the good prospects from bad prospects in the OSS-world.
In the OSS-world, you will have access to the persons code, and the persons activities on open mailing-lists.
This means that you have a huge amount of information on a candidate not gather by the employee himself/herself. I'd say that this would make it more of
a "guarantee" that the employee will function well in your company.
This all means that while the pool of programmers may be even bigger and better in the regular pool of applicants, you may more easily find the good candidates, and much FASTER find the good candidates from the OSS-pool.
I say, that if you can save your company quite a few hours searching for candidates, by recruiting an employee from the OSS-world, then do it.
"We would rather have a small part of a large market than a large part of a small market if we had used proprietary technologies." is the quote.
I think this could be cool, but Nokia is obviously thinking that they can make money out of services to the consumer, and sales of the terminal, as they won't get royalties from each game created this way.
What is the difference between this and Indrema? Well.. contrary to what the older slashdot-story seemed to suggest, I don't think this is really an Playstation2, Nintendo and X-box-competitor. It's more like they are selling an Internet-appliance, that can also play some decent games. If it has good software, and some good functionality, it might work
.... since when did doubling the amount of performance only cost twice as much money?
Never? Have you ever seen anything like it? Even something as simple as getting double clock rate from Intel costs about 4 times the amount of money. Is someone somehow not expecting that going from extreme performance, to twice the performance would NOT cost 4 times as much?
1. Doubling the amount of CPUs does not yield double performance, but cost much more than twice the amount. This would happen to the Windows 2000 servers as well.
2. Did anyone at least check out what is included in the price? I do not know, but for all I know, the SGI 1450 may be equipped with more levels of redundancy, have more expensive (more stable, not fastedr) hardware.
3. The operating system cost for one of these beasts is miniscule, so I as a Linux-advocate would not even consider arguing for price of the OS for machines like this. (I'd argue performance, stability and tweakability).
I may be wrong, but doesn't making things smaller actually _decrease_ heat output?
Every time the transistor size decreases, it has been possible to increase the clock-rate, and decrease the amount of voltage required.
One of the reasons Athlons will soon be viable as processors for laptops is because of decreased transistor size.
I would guess that if Moore's Law DOES NOT continue, liquid cooled computers will become necessary.
Why are processors hotter today than they used to be? Because the extreme competition has made the manufacturers increase clock-speed and add features without always being able to decrease the size of the silicon.
Could someone confirm this, or perhaps prove me wrong?
The way of using specialized displays for different types of directories is rather revolutionary. It is currently only used for displaying mp3-directories like a playlist, but should be used for different types of directories later on. F.eks. having more image-functionality for image-directories.
"It was slow on my P3-500/256MB of RAM, and excruciatingly slow on my Dual P-Pro 200/96MB RAM machine"
When did you try it last? The latest releases of Nautilus is pretty snappy on my Celeron 400/128MB. It actually starts just as fast as Konqueror from WindowMaker, which mean that neither has had the chance to preload their libraries.
Nautilus 1.x was never intended to be a full feature web-browser, and if you don't need it to be a webbrowser, then don't USE IT AS SUCH. There is nobody stopping you from not installing nautilus-mozilla (the package that lets nautilus browse the web) at all.
The giant "eazel"-throbber is just part of the theme. Switch theme!
Btw, Nautilus DOES use GTK-themes. Look at the toolbar and at the dialogs. It just recognizes that the GTK-themes doesn't cover all the stuff that Nautilus needs to be good-looking.
Font antialiasing could be better, but you can turn it off, and buy yourself some extra speed as well.
There is plenty of good things about nautilus. It is a functional and intuitive file manager, much more so than gmc. It has good looks, it can preview text, sound and images. It even has the ability to eazily extend the functionality with scripting.
It may not be revolutionary yet, but the design and idea behind it has an awesome amount of potential, if you'd ever care to check. It has the potential to provide a specialized view for all kinds of folders (like music, document or image-folders), and to put a much easier abstract layer above the Unix file-hiearchy.
It has the potential to be the easiest to use of all desktop-managers ever.
As far as I know, Durons are just as SMP-capable as Athlons, and should work in this motherboards.
The only catch is that Athlons will perform much better due to their bigger amount of cache, and since the motherboards will probably be rather expensive, at least in the beginning, there might not be much point in buying one, and then fitting them with the cheaper but poorer option. Besides, athlons are not very expensive right now.
This is nothing but FUD, and I cannot believe I even responded to this.
AMD processors are a viable solution for plenty of choices. They also give have much better value/money.
The Pentium IV is also currently a risk, as you have NO UPGRADE PATH.
The Pentium IV is still a good processor, and may be your best bet for extreme performance, but it is no less of a risk than AMD-processors.
If the number of moves is more than number of atoms in the universe, why should that stop us?
:->
Haven't you d00dz ever heard about recycling? Where I live we sort out all the paper from the trash for recycling, so why can't the chess computer do this?
(just had to)
Ximian, as I understand it, still has money. In addition, Ximian is highly dependant of Eazel's work, and has competing business strategies (services). How about Ximian buying out Eazel, thus keeping them alive, and merging Eazels services-strategies with their own. I suspect this would have been the better option from the beginning, as newbies won't like the idea of several different entities from which they are supposed to get help.
IPv6 is the long term solution to the ip-exhaustion-problem.
However, the adoption of IPv6 is dependent on several other parties, over which you personally may have no control whatsoever.
This solution could be deployed today, without having to wait for all parties to adopt IPv6, something which may actually never happen.. a different protocol may be used at the time that people actually convert.
The GPL and the BSD-license, the two most common licenses, does not restrict you from using the software commercially. What could be tax-deductable anyway, is developing software and giving it out under an opensource-license.
You know the difference between just saying "I'll kill you", and the actual _real_ threatening of people?
An actual death threat makes a normal life rather impossible, due to the imminent fear of being killed everytime you go to bed, or go out og the house, or just about any situation.
Personally I dislike people who yell "I'll kill you", I find it crude and unpleasant, but I wouldn't want to see you prosecuted for it. If however, you looked me in my eyes and told me in a way I found to be truly sincere, that you would hunt me and my children down at night, then yes I would file charges against you, and I would be _very_ glad that this kind of law applies. The same goes for letters threatening to kill. If I file a complaint, you may of course be innocent, and that is up to the courts to decide.
This story isn't even _about_ this. The slashdot-crowd just goes way too far sometimes.