I like the concept of Gentoo, as I find my system gets in a mess as soon as you leave the comfort of RPMs to install a newer version of something from source that hasn't made it into the official distribution yet.
But... how can I install it on top of my existing Linux installations without having to reformat and reconfigure everything again from scratch? e.g. firewall, sendmail, etc... Will it detect existing files in/etc and try to keep things the same?
Maybe the problem is that people don't care about any bands any more... it could be because we're getting older, or it could be that music from new bands is just not very good and music from old bands is just more of the same tired stuff.
I can't even be bothered to pirate it... let alone pay for it.
One problem with spam is that different people define spam in different ways.
If I used your definition (bulk email from a stranger) then it could prevent me getting emails I am interested in.
For example, if a new company I had never heard of had developed a new programming tool then I would not object to an email from a real person at the company advertising the product, who had found my email address from my web site and so knew I was a software developer. Your definition would also prevent me as a software developer from sending out emails to selected development managers at potential clients to make an initial contact.
What I define as spam is email from unknown people doing any of the following: - faking the email headers - using open mail servers - advertising illegal products (child pornography, Nigerian scam, network marketting scams) - advertising products that I can not possibly be interested in (e.g. financial services in countries I don't live in).
I think that just stopping the ones with faked headers, open proxies and illegal content would block the majority... then other bulk mailings from real companies would be easily traceable and should have an opt-out policy.
So it should be illegal to advertise illegal products (presumably it already is in most countries!)... and it should be illegal to deliberately fake email headers, use proxy servers or use other techniques to mislead the recipient about who has sent the email.
There have also been several previous discussions on Slashdot about this subject.
Personally I don't care about the "LEGO" versus "lego" trade-mark business. The problem is more about the difference between the American English and British English languages. To an English person, the word "LEGOS" looks and sounds completely wrong and stupid. And even if it could be pluralised it should probably be "legoes" to maintain the "oh" sound at the end.
Lego is the media used to make things, there is no such thing as "a lego", it is like making electronic devices from "silicons" instead of "silicon chips" or a house out of "concretes" instead of "concrete blocks".
Take a look at section 2.2 which covers non-personal use of the code: It looks like an open-source license to me. The section you quote above just removes the need to make source code available if you only use it for your own personal use.
2.2 You may use, reproduce, display, perform, modify and Deploy Covered Code, provided that in each instance:
(a) You must satisfy all the conditions of Section 2.1 with respect to the Source Code of the Covered Code;
(b) You must duplicate, to the extent it does not already exist, the notice in Exhibit A in each file of the Source Code of all Your Modifications, and cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that You changed the files and the date of any change;
(c) You must make Source Code of all Your Deployed Modifications publicly available under the terms of this License, including the license grants set forth in Section 3 below, for as long as you Deploy the Covered Code or twelve (12) months from the date of initial Deployment, whichever is longer. You should preferably distribute the Source Code of Your Deployed Modifications electronically (e.g. download from a web site);
(d) if You Deploy Covered Code in object code, executable form only, You must include a prominent notice, in the code itself as well as in related documentation, stating that Source Code of the Covered Code is available under the terms of this License with information on how and where to obtain such Source Code; and
(e) the object code form of the Covered Code may be distributed under Your own license agreement, provided that such license agreement contains terms no less protective of Sybase and each Contributor than the terms of this License, and stating that any provisions which differ from this License are offered by You alone and not by any other party.
I would love to se the Watcom Debugger ported to Linux. If you like visual debuggers then I think Watcom hsa some features missing from Microsoft Visual Studio debugger.
Rather than try to port the whole compiler to Linux it might be better to try and get Watcom and Gcc to work together for example by supporting the same object file formats.
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A year ago, last Thursday I was strolling in the zoo when I met a man who though he knew the lot. He was laying down the law about the habits of baboons and how many spines a porcupine has got. So I asked him: 'What's that creature there' He answered: 'Oh, it's a h'Elk' I might of gone on thinking that was true If the animal in question hadn't put that chap to shame And remarked: 'I h'aint a h'Elk I'm a Gnu' 'I'm a Gnu I'm a Gnu The g-nicest work of g-nature in the zoo I'm a Gnu How do you do You really ought to k-now w-ho's w-ho's I'm a Gnu Spelt G-N-U I'm g-not a Camel or a Kangaroo So let me introduce I'm g-neither man or moose Oh g-no g-no g-no I'm a Gnu'
I had taken furnished lodgings down at Rustington-on-Sea Whence I travelled on to Ashton-under-Lyne it was actually And the second night I stayed there I was woken from a dream That I'll tell you all about some other time Among the hunting trophies on the wall above my bed Stuffed and mounted, was a face I thought I knew; A Bison? No, it's not a Bison. An Okapi? Unlikely, Really. A Hartebeest? When I though I heard a voice: I'm a Gnu I'm a Gnu A g-nother gnu I wish I could g-nash my teeth at you I'm a Gnu How do you do You really ought to k-now w-ho's w-ho's I'm a Gnu Spelt G-N-U Call me Bison or Okapi and I'll sue G-nor am I the least like that dreadful Hartebeest, Oh, g-no, g-no, g-no, G-no g-no g-no I'm a Gnu G-no g-no g-no I'm a Gnu
Maybe it is an American English thing. I come from England, where the term legos sounds completely strange and wrong. We have always referred to several pieces of lego as lego as in I am going to play with my lego or I would like some more lego.
I think you are correct in that Lego in this context is an adjective rather than a noun. It it is the material that you use to build things, similar to the word wood. You would buy 3 planks of wood rather than 3 woods. Similarly you use several lego pieces, and not several legos.
Maybe this is another example of Americans destroying the English language... Even if you did want to make it plural, you would spell it legoes or else the o would be pronounced short has in log rather than long as in hole.
Maybe NASA should pitch the idea of a manned mission to Mars (or even just another Lunar landing) to the film industry... and then charge people to view the "live" landing in cinemas or pay to view TV. Then get some PR people to turn the astronauts into celebraties, such as guest appearances on chat shows, a big-brother style show about the training, or life on a space-station (... what happens when they vote to eject one of them?)
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> The answer, of course, is to use less energy period
Using less energy is not a solution.
The future of humans can not survive by staying on earth. The only way to get to the next level of development required for interplanetary and insterstella travel will require huge amounts of energy compared to what we have on Earth. The sun is pumping out loads of wasted energy into space. The sooner we can start the technology development to grab some of this energy then the sooner we can expand off this planet and increase our chances of survival.
It holds enough megabytes that if a football pitch sized colony of ants were to hold one bit per ant and stood on top of each other it would reach to the moon in more time than Concorde could fly between London and New York if all the passengers were listening to inferior MP3 players during take off and landing.
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I like the concept of Gentoo, as I find my system gets in a mess as soon as you leave the comfort of RPMs to install a newer version of something from source that hasn't made it into the official distribution yet.
/etc and try to keep things the same?
But... how can I install it on top of my existing Linux installations without having to reformat and reconfigure everything again from scratch? e.g. firewall, sendmail, etc... Will it detect existing files in
Maybe the problem is that people don't care about any bands any more... it could be because we're getting older, or it could be that music from new bands is just not very good and music from old bands is just more of the same tired stuff.
I can't even be bothered to pirate it... let alone pay for it.
This is to match the equally confusing "Press ctrl-alt-delete to login" to some versions of Windows NT.
One problem with spam is that different people define spam in different ways.
If I used your definition (bulk email from a stranger) then it could prevent me getting emails I am interested in.
For example, if a new company I had never heard of had developed a new programming tool then I would not object to an email from a real person at the company advertising the product, who had found my email address from my web site and so knew I was a software developer. Your definition would also prevent me as a software developer from sending out emails to selected development managers at potential clients to make an initial contact.
What I define as spam is email from unknown people doing any of the following:
- faking the email headers
- using open mail servers
- advertising illegal products (child pornography, Nigerian scam, network marketting scams)
- advertising products that I can not possibly be interested in (e.g. financial services in countries I don't live in).
I think that just stopping the ones with faked headers, open proxies and illegal content would block the majority... then other bulk mailings from real companies would be easily traceable and should have an opt-out policy.
So it should be illegal to advertise illegal products (presumably it already is in most countries!)... and it should be illegal to deliberately fake email headers, use proxy servers or use other techniques to mislead the recipient about who has sent the email.
Why do the geese need mobile phones when they could more easily have adapted the well known RFC 1149 protocol?
Here is the Lego FAQ with a section about LEGO plural.
There have also been several previous discussions on Slashdot about this subject.
Personally I don't care about the "LEGO" versus "lego" trade-mark business. The problem is more about the difference between the American English and British English languages. To an English person, the word "LEGOS" looks and sounds completely wrong and stupid. And even if it could be pluralised it should probably be "legoes" to maintain the "oh" sound at the end.
Lego is the media used to make things, there is no such thing as "a lego", it is like making electronic devices from "silicons" instead of "silicon chips" or a house out of "concretes" instead of "concrete blocks".
I would love to se the Watcom Debugger ported to Linux. If you like visual debuggers then I think Watcom hsa some features missing from Microsoft Visual Studio debugger.
Rather than try to port the whole compiler to Linux it might be better to try and get Watcom and Gcc to work together for example by supporting the same object file formats.
http://timothyplatypus.tripod.com/FaS/hat_gnu.html
A year ago, last Thursday
I was strolling in the zoo
when I met a man who though he knew the lot.
He was laying down the law about the habits of baboons and how many spines a porcupine has got.
So I asked him:
'What's that creature there'
He answered: 'Oh, it's a h'Elk'
I might of gone on thinking that was true
If the animal in question hadn't put that chap to shame
And remarked: 'I h'aint a h'Elk
I'm a Gnu'
'I'm a Gnu
I'm a Gnu
The g-nicest work of g-nature in the zoo
I'm a Gnu
How do you do
You really ought to k-now w-ho's w-ho's
I'm a Gnu
Spelt G-N-U
I'm g-not a Camel or a Kangaroo
So let me introduce
I'm g-neither man or moose
Oh g-no g-no g-no I'm a Gnu'
I had taken furnished lodgings down at Rustington-on-Sea
Whence I travelled on to Ashton-under-Lyne it was actually
And the second night I stayed there I was woken from a dream
That I'll tell you all about some other time
Among the hunting trophies on the wall above my bed
Stuffed and mounted, was a face I thought I knew;
A Bison? No, it's not a Bison. An Okapi? Unlikely, Really. A Hartebeest?
When I though I heard a voice:
I'm a Gnu
I'm a Gnu
A g-nother gnu
I wish I could g-nash my teeth at you
I'm a Gnu
How do you do
You really ought to k-now w-ho's w-ho's
I'm a Gnu
Spelt G-N-U
Call me Bison or Okapi and I'll sue
G-nor am I the least like that dreadful Hartebeest,
Oh, g-no, g-no, g-no,
G-no g-no g-no I'm a Gnu
G-no g-no g-no I'm a Gnu
It's very G-nice of you.
Maybe it is an American English thing. I come from England, where the term legos sounds completely strange and wrong. We have always referred to several pieces of lego as lego as in I am going to play with my lego or I would like some more lego.
On the Lego Website they seem very careful to always say LEGO bricks. By the way there is an article about Mitchel Resnick who came up with the design for Mindstorms.
I think you are correct in that Lego in this context is an adjective rather than a noun. It it is the material that you use to build things, similar to the word wood. You would buy 3 planks of wood rather than 3 woods. Similarly you use several lego pieces, and not several legos.
Maybe this is another example of Americans destroying the English language... Even if you did want to make it plural, you would spell it legoes or else the o would be pronounced short has in log rather than long as in hole.
I'm sure we already had this discussion recently. But it is one lego brick, two lego bricks, many lego bricks, several pieces of lego.
Maybe NASA should pitch the idea of a manned mission to Mars (or even just another Lunar landing) to the film industry... and then charge people to view the "live" landing in cinemas or pay to view TV. Then get some PR people to turn the astronauts into celebraties, such as guest appearances on chat shows, a big-brother style show about the training, or life on a space-station (... what happens when they vote to eject one of them?)
> The answer, of course, is to use less energy period
Using less energy is not a solution.
The future of humans can not survive by staying on earth. The only way to get to the next level of development required for interplanetary and insterstella travel will require huge amounts of energy compared to what we have on Earth. The sun is pumping out loads of wasted energy into space. The sooner we can start the technology development to grab some of this energy then the sooner we can expand off this planet and increase our chances of survival.
It holds enough megabytes that if a football pitch sized colony of ants were to hold one bit per ant and stood on top of each other it would reach to the moon in more time than Concorde could fly between London and New York if all the passengers were listening to inferior MP3 players during take off and landing.