Here, the "Windows" keys function as Meta (as opposed to Alt) and the menu key is my Çømposé key =)
Works like a charm, wouldn't want to go without it.
If you think BSD's ports do the same thing, you're in for a surprise. apts dependency handling is much more complex: it doesn't just check if a program is there but also makes sure all versions match, handles multiple packages providing the same feature, takes conflicts and recommendations into account and complete dependency resolution.
If you managed to screw up your dependencies by dpkg --force, apt can compute a complete set of changes to bring your system into a usable state.
Robert X. Cringely pointed out that it would be a comparatively trivial matter to end up charging for music copying by just slapping a tax onto every blank CD-R and CD-RW sold.
Oh great, so every time I make a backup of/home, I get to make brittney fucking spears even richer. No thanks.
In a world without copyright I am not required to provide the source code to programs I release under the GPL or changes I make to programs with a GPL license.
Zip files plus (god forbid) TCL are supposed
to be superior to apt+dpkg?! Don't get me wrong
here, I like FreeBSD as much as the next guy,
but it would merely approach dpkg/rpm,
leaving apt junkies like me standing in the
cold.
I like his idea of restricted installation
scripts though
(anyone remember SYS:Installer? =)
The Right to Read is a small story written by RMS which I read some time ago.
When I first read it, I thought that (a) RMS is not a very good writer and (b) what he sketches is vastly exaggerated.
After seeing this copy protection scheme I still think RMS doesn't write very good stories, but I'm beginning to suspect that his dystopia isn't that far-fetched at all.
You see, hard drive encryption is not where it ends! Soon, everyone will be using it and you won't be able to get anything done for your school or company without it. Until now we have managed to avoid things like this but when cryptographic hard drives are involved, things will get a lot tougher. What will they come up with next?
Ironically, in this capitalist world it may not be the state muffling free speech and human rights but large corporations and cartels. We need a cushion between consumers and companies, being able to copy materials at will is one such cushion.
Of course you can buy a chinese drive. But you won't be able to install the software
your company needs on it, so you can keep your job. And you want to buy that piece of music you like so much. And you need that book for college. And you heard a lot of good critiques about that book.
The point is that although people can prevent you from downloading a certain book, no one can prevent you from spreading a book!
We still have some time before Fahrenheit 451 kicks in.
ratpoison is a simple window manager with no large library dependencies, fancy graphics, window decorations, or flash. It is largely modelled after GNU Screen, which has done wonders in virtual terminal market. All interaction with the window manager is done through keystrokes. ratpoison has a prefix map to minimize the key clobbering that cripples EMACS and other quality pieces of software. You'll also be pleased to hear that there is NO ratpoison.conf to configure. If you want to configure ratpoison, edit the source.
I'm running an OpenBSD 2.6 firewall at home for half a year now, but I miss Linux' "plugins" (ip_masq_ftp et alii). It's really a nat issue, not firewalling, but it's till annoying having to switch on FTP passive mode every time, and not being able to initiate a DCC chat/send with IRC.
Is there anything I can do with OpenBSD to alleviate this?
AmigaOS had a nice OO part (called BOOPSI), it had a lightweight library-based structure instead of a kernel. The hardware sucked IMHO, but then again I used to have an A1200.
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T-rex isn't even DFSG compliant. Actually, a brief glance suggests that its "LPL" license is just as restrictive as the ipfilter license.
Here, the "Windows" keys function as Meta (as opposed to Alt) and the menu key is my Çømposé key =) Works like a charm, wouldn't want to go without it.
If you think BSD's ports do the same thing, you're in for a surprise. apts dependency handling is much more complex: it doesn't just check if a program is there but also makes sure all versions match, handles multiple packages providing the same feature, takes conflicts and recommendations into account and complete dependency resolution. If you managed to screw up your dependencies by dpkg --force, apt can compute a complete set of changes to bring your system into a usable state.
libh just made me laugh.
Robert X. Cringely pointed out that it would be a comparatively trivial matter to end up charging for music copying by just slapping a tax onto every blank CD-R and CD-RW sold.
Oh great, so every time I make a backup of /home, I get to make brittney fucking spears even richer. No thanks.
In a world without copyright I am not required to provide the source code to programs I release under the GPL or changes I make to programs with a GPL license.
Exactly how do you do the equivalent of apt-get upgrade in BSD ports?
The Magic User Interface library I had in 1994 had both widget rendering libraries and pixmap data parametrization.
Prior art, anyone?
Well blocking www.pr0n.com would be pretty easy, especially since SSL host keys depend on the domain name.
Zip files plus (god forbid) TCL are supposed to be superior to apt+dpkg?! Don't get me wrong here, I like FreeBSD as much as the next guy, but it would merely approach dpkg/rpm, leaving apt junkies like me standing in the cold.
I like his idea of restricted installation scripts though (anyone remember SYS:Installer? =)
The Right to Read is a small story written by RMS which I read some time ago.
When I first read it, I thought that (a) RMS is not a very good writer and (b) what he sketches is vastly exaggerated.
After seeing this copy protection scheme I still think RMS doesn't write very good stories, but I'm beginning to suspect that his dystopia isn't that far-fetched at all.
You see, hard drive encryption is not where it ends! Soon, everyone will be using it and you won't be able to get anything done for your school or company without it. Until now we have managed to avoid things like this but when cryptographic hard drives are involved, things will get a lot tougher. What will they come up with next?
Ironically, in this capitalist world it may not be the state muffling free speech and human rights but large corporations and cartels. We need a cushion between consumers and companies, being able to copy materials at will is one such cushion.
Journalling (ie writing all metadata twice) is silly.
We need soft-updates (or phase-trees, whatever).
Of course you can buy a chinese drive. But you won't be able to install the software your company needs on it, so you can keep your job. And you want to buy that piece of music you like so much. And you need that book for college. And you heard a lot of good critiques about that book.
The point is that although people can prevent you from downloading a certain book, no one can prevent you from spreading a book!
We still have some time before Fahrenheit 451 kicks in.
hey, if your manager sucks that's a problem by itself
there's no way you can blame CERT for that
so write them and stop whining.
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It seems different all right =)
that does it
I'm switching to FreeBSD.
the need to be l33+
That site has buttons.
KDE in Debian is as easy as visiting http://kde.tdyc.com/ and adding a line to /etc/apt/sources.list (per the instructions).
You will then have all the benefits of Debian and KDE together. You can even try a beta of KDE2 if you like.
I'm running an OpenBSD 2.6 firewall at home for half a year now, but I miss Linux' "plugins" (ip_masq_ftp et alii). It's really a nat issue, not firewalling, but it's till annoying having to switch on FTP passive mode every time, and not being able to initiate a DCC chat/send with IRC.
Is there anything I can do with OpenBSD to alleviate this?
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Any word if RAID and LVM will somehow be merged?
AmigaOS had a nice OO part (called BOOPSI),
it had a lightweight library-based structure
instead of a kernel. The hardware sucked IMHO,
but then again I used to have an A1200.
And MUI kicks ass. Wish I had that in Linux.