Nope. I dont agree. If I want to run an insecure, crappy box, thats my right. Just like if I have a house, and want to leave the door swinging in the wind wide open, its my peroggative.
I'm not sure about the region in which you live, but here in Nova Scotia, Canada, you (your insurance) are liable if someone steals your car and destroys something. Consequently, insurance companies reccomend that you disable all uninsured vehicles just in case. Being a computer scientist and not a lawyer, I have no clue whether you/your insurance would or should be liable if someone uses your hardware to destroy something but the two do sound awfully similar.
Tax on recordable media in Canada/Germany - Gov't Backed, Corp Bought
It should be pointed out that there is no tax on recordable media in Canada. It is a levy and actually gives the consumer something in return. It is perfectly legal and ethical for a Canadian to copy an audio CD for personal use, regardless of whether or not they have purchased it. 5.2c for a CD ain't bad!
There is one counter-argument to the coal vs. nuclear power debate that is too often forgotten. Using uranium in a fission reactor produces plutonium which then needs to be disposed of. The problem is just that, what do you do with all this radioactive waste? You can't, after all, just bury it in a landfill and hope it goes away. At least Coal smoke breaks down in the atmosphere.
You didn't read the article, did you. They're waiting until 2007 because they need testing time, and it has to be approved. Technology can't come overnight you know.
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My earlier post on Slack on the Alpha applies here.
Building all the packages is in fact trivial, although it's quite time consuming.
Take a peek inside the sources directory of the Slackware tree. You'll see a bunch of SlackBuild scripts inside each directory, all you have to do is run the script on your alpha, it will untar the source into a directory in/tmp, patch all necessary files, build the package and conveniently put it into a slackware package, also in/tmp.
The only thing requiring any effort I can think of off the top of my head would be the kernel and modules, you're going to have to tweak the sources.
Could you have Corel Linux confused with Caldera OpenLinux 2.2? Corel just went 1.0 and doesn't brag about supported monitors.
One thing I must add about Corel Linux, while personally I think it's too sugar coated (born Slack, die Slack), it's a great distribution for beginners, very easy to install.
Corel Linux's installer seems to probe your monitor the same way that Windows does. I was quite impressed when I was beta testing it and went to/etc/devices, the exact modelines for my monitor were right there, one for each of it's four favorite modes. Too bad I didn't save that when I switched back, I could have this baby running at 85Hz!
Sadly, the display is dying on my TI-85 after less than a year. Teach me to leave it in my pack while taking the bus during the winter up here. I have to constantly rotate the brightness on the sucker.
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On the subject of open relays, how does one tell sendmail to authenticate users (using login/passwd) coming from outside?
Are you saying that you don't object to the Taco Bell ads EVERYWHERE in THPS2X? They even put them all over the reservoir level taken from THPS1.
Microsoft X-box: $299
Linux: free
Turning a lean, mean, gaming machine into a $20 x-terminal: priceless
Nope. I dont agree. If I want to run an insecure, crappy box, thats my right. Just like if I have a house, and want to leave the door swinging in the wind wide open, its my peroggative.
I'm not sure about the region in which you live, but here in Nova Scotia, Canada, you (your insurance) are liable if someone steals your car and destroys something. Consequently, insurance companies reccomend that you disable all uninsured vehicles just in case. Being a computer scientist and not a lawyer, I have no clue whether you/your insurance would or should be liable if someone uses your hardware to destroy something but the two do sound awfully similar.
Tax on recordable media in Canada/Germany - Gov't Backed, Corp Bought
It should be pointed out that there is no tax on recordable media in Canada. It is a levy and actually gives the consumer something in return. It is perfectly legal and ethical for a Canadian to copy an audio CD for personal use, regardless of whether or not they have purchased it. 5.2c for a CD ain't bad!
think of it like an ISP saying "there's nothing wrong with prOn on the internet. I'm just not going to host it on my servers"
Or even like a developer saying "there's nothing wrong with owning intellectual property. I'm just going to give mine away to the world for free."
There is one counter-argument to the coal vs. nuclear power debate that is too often forgotten. Using uranium in a fission reactor produces plutonium which then needs to be disposed of. The problem is just that, what do you do with all this radioactive waste? You can't, after all, just bury it in a landfill and hope it goes away. At least Coal smoke breaks down in the atmosphere.
You didn't read the article, did you. They're waiting until 2007 because they need testing time, and it has to be approved. Technology can't come overnight you know.
My earlier post on Slack on the Alpha applies here.
Building all the packages is in fact trivial, although it's quite time consuming.
Take a peek inside the sources directory of the Slackware tree. You'll see a bunch of SlackBuild scripts inside each directory, all you have to do is run the script on your alpha, it will untar the source into a directory in /tmp, patch all necessary files, build the package and conveniently put it into a slackware package, also in /tmp.
The only thing requiring any effort I can think of off the top of my head would be the kernel and modules, you're going to have to tweak the sources.
Could you have Corel Linux confused with Caldera OpenLinux 2.2? Corel just went 1.0 and doesn't brag about supported monitors.
One thing I must add about Corel Linux, while personally I think it's too sugar coated (born Slack, die Slack), it's a great distribution for beginners, very easy to install.
Corel Linux's installer seems to probe your monitor the same way that Windows does. I was quite impressed when I was beta testing it and went to /etc/devices, the exact modelines for my monitor were right there, one for each of it's four favorite modes. Too bad I didn't save that when I switched back, I could have this baby running at 85Hz!
Not checking for NULL is very poor software engineering. A check for null is a single operation running in theta(1).
for Ibegin
for J
begin
if a[i] 0 then
begin
a[i] = a[i] + 1;
end
a[i] = a[i] * 2;
end
end
Analysing this algorithm, we see that it still runs in theta(n^2) time.
Not checking for NULL is very poor software engineering. A check for null is a single operation running in theta(1).
for Ibegin
for J
begin
if a[i] 0 then
begin
a[i] = a[i] + 1;
end
a[i] = a[i] * 2;
end
end
Analysing this algorithm, we see that it still runs in theta(n^2) time (n^2
Sadly, the display is dying on my TI-85 after less than a year. Teach me to leave it in my pack while taking the bus during the winter up here. I have to constantly rotate the brightness on the sucker.