I got it running on a good old TNT. Performance was unacceptable due to nVidia waiting to improve their drivers until Xfree 4.0 comes out.
Make sure you look at the readme page on nVidia's site.
But basically, install Mesa 3.0, then rename the libmesa.so.* file to something else, and symlink the old name to libGL.so.1 whereever it happens to be.
Yes, but the some people don't need to get that extra 10 pixels of horizontal resolution out of their monitors. Some people would rather have their monitors work "out of the box" with Linux. I don't think that's too much to ask.
Having an automatic configurator doesn't mean you need to eliminate a text-based configuration file... it just means that you generate that file and have it work the first time. You can tune it later if you are so inclined...
As it is for me, when I installed my monitor under RH6, both card and monitor were listed. Started X, and of course, it didn't work.
The information is available. VESA modelines are standard enough. If a monitor claims to be VESA compliant, then it will be able to use VESA modelines. As has been said elsewhere: Frequencies can be found in Windows.inf files... why not support getting information from Windows driver disks? What about DDC? You can get the information there, too... and is also the easiest.
Imagine it like this: You run your X config tool. It queries your monitor via DDC. Sets all the modelines for the VESA modes your monitor supports. X works instantly. If you want to play around with new modelines, you still have your xf86config file easily editable.
Digital TV does so exist in the U.S. Either by cable or satellite. Where the hell are you getting your information? Even a small, depressed, backwoods town like Klamath Falls, Oregon, has digital cable TV.
I am an American, and I know the metric "SI" system quite well. It's all you deal with in chemistry and physics. Newer USGS and DMA maps use it. It's what the military uses. It's taught in schools. Every other modern country in the world uses it. It's all over the place. Any American who doesn't know the metric system, and some of the basic conversions (volume, temperature, mass, and distance) from the American measurements to metric and vice-versa is plainly ignorant.
I'm an American who's not ignorant.
I'm also an American who believes that we should be using the metric system. Sadly, it's probably too late for us.
But maybe I can teach you all a little bit about why the metric system is better. Do you know what the mass in ounces of one cubic inch of water is? Probably not. But even a child can learn the relation in metric: One cubic centimeter of water has a mass of one gram. Easy.
Well, if you believe the horse's mouth, it looks like I was right to doubt. A perfectly logical, and probably truthful explanation, even if it did come from M$. It may have been an NSA requirement to have two keys, but... OMG, the NSA doesn't own either one! Imagine that.
So, while the NSA requires a backup key in case of compromise or disaster, they are not promoting "back doors" in products, at least not in this case.
At least I know I don't jump to conclusions. It would seem my view of reality is not so delusional after all...
Of course, I can't really believe M$'s explanation, but I'd rather give them the benefit of doubt rather than immediately jump to the conclusion that the NSA has a backdoor to all copies of Windows. They don't have the time, budget, or manpower to make use of something like that. I'd sooner believe that the NSA mandated the Windows Number and PIII PSN, so that they could track down people and confiscate their stuff, than to try and compromise machines remotely. They may be a big, bad, nasty government agency, but (a) they are in charge of domestic security, not international intellegence. (b) being a government entity, cost is always an issue in an age of budget cuts, and it'd be a lot cheaper to raid someone's home a la BATF or FBI than to sit there and hack their machines remotely.
BTW, I've worked for Uncle Sam, and I do know what goes on in government. It's more red tape, hype, and wag-the-dog type stuff than proactive "spying on the public" type stuff anyway. Why do you think people believe that the government keeps extra-terrestrial creatures and technology at Area 51 of Groom Lake? See my signature line. Why do you think the government doesn't deny it? Because they want people to believe that, instead of finding out the truth.
I personally don't care. I don't use Windows, and I don't give a damn what happens with it. And the wired article wasn't referred to when I read the Slashdot posting.
At any rate, it really doesn't matter. It's not a "back door," and Microsoft owns the key. I don't see a problem here except that you can replace the key. But that's typical of M$ stuff anyway. There's no remote exploit, and Windows will never be immune to local attacks.
At least Microsoft follows some of the laws, right? It was mandated by an agency that has the granted authority to require what it does. You don't like it? Maybe you should think about how you vote the next time you are at the polls. Or maybe you should become a politician. All you people bitch about the goverment doing what it does, but the percentage of eligble voters doing anything about it is slim to none. Blame yourselves.
On another point: Before you go calling me an "idiot," and saying I have "supposed" things which I have not, and calling me "delusional," you'd better learn something about me first. Until then, keep your presumptuous remarks to yourself. I did not see the wired article when I posted my comment, which I did immediately after reading the "press release" that made mere assumptions about the "NSAKEY" well before M$ said anything. So, excuse me for doubting a vague and assumptive piece of "journalism."
Now it's my turn to make some presumptuous remarks about you. (An eye for an eye, to say...)
You probably believe everything you read in print or see on TV.
You are probably only worried because you use M$ software.
A symbol called "NSAKEY" from an unstripped binary is immediately taken to mean the U.S. National Security Agency, without any evidence whatsoever.
Someone decides it MUST be the U.S. National Security agency, and presents it as such, with no evidence to back it up. A purely opinionated and paranoid assumption.
For kicks, I looked up "NSA" in my dictionary... it stood for five different entities, only one of which is the National Security Agency.
At any rate, it ends up on Slashdot and provokes the usual knee-jerk reaction. While it's possible that the paranoid assumption is true, it's still not known, but yet was presented by the media as the truth.
This is why, even if 100% of all computing devices that used dates are corrected for Y2K, there will still be a Y2K crisis. Paranoid assumptive reactions like the one we witness here and now.
All because a symbol in an unstripped binary from M$ is called "NSAKEY."
But a similar T1-speed service has been in place in Bend, OR. for over a year now. I wish I could remember their URL. Oh, yeah... it's $500/month plus equipment and set-up.
Surely you jest. At my location, we have problems with our NT servers due to problems with NT that M$ knows about, and described in the following knowledge base articles: Q196745 ("Very slow paged pool leak in Windows NT 4.0") and Q185211 ("Non-Paged Pool Memory Leak in COMX Pool Tag.")
The first one says that it is a known problem, and to install the latest service pack... well, we installed SP5, and the leak is still there! I noted that the article never said that the service pack fixed the problem. It has been a known bug since SP4.
Article on the non-paged pool leak seems to have disappeared recently from the M$ knowledgebase. Fortunately, I have a printout. The status is: "M$ has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 4.0. We are researching this problem and will post new information here... as it becomes available."
If you read the article on the paged pool leak, you will see that if you have the situation described, YOU CANNOT KEEP NT SERVER UP FOR MORE THAN A WEEK. And there is no workaround. There isn't even a fix for the non-paged pool leak.
So, don't question my competency, when the problems are not fixable by me, and M$ hasn't gotten off their ass and fixed it.
If we had the source code, it'd be fixed. HAIL LINUX!
Ever since the invention of the term "byte," it's been understood that it's powers of two, at least by the technical community.
By using a word construct like [prefix]byte, you know it's power of two. Of course, since the general population is full of clueless lusers, the hard drive companies started using the terms such as megabyte and using the terms under their SI meanings... powers of ten. Why? Because the numbers are smaller, and the public will assume it's "computer" numbers, and not "metric" numbers. Of course, when people complain the hard drive manufacturers can say "but 'mega' means million, not one million, forty-eight thousand, five hundred seventy-six."
I counterpropose that we make hard drive manufacturers adhere to the 2^10 kilo system.
The typical cycle of a Slashdot article related to politics:
1. Person who submits story fails to read the article they found thoroughly.
2. Person who decides that it should go up on Slashdot (CmdrTaco, Hemos, whoever), fails to research (or sometimes not even read) the original article.
3. Article gets posted on Slashdot, and immediately provokes a knee-jerk reaction from people on either the right or the left wing (or both in some cases), because they fail to read the original story as well.
4. Foaming-at-the-mouth Slashdot readers argue in the comments, e-mail everybody and their mothers, and generally look bad.
I've seen bad thinks posted about Slashdot readers in the Linux kernel mailing lists, BSD websites, IRC, and on news sites.
The sad thing is, it's all true.
I refuse to take part in it anymore. I've been guilty of being a knee-jerker in the past. No more.
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I'll simplify this for simpler minds: You need to show me one thing from this list:
Okay, how about almost all of them?
1) It is OK to make a decision (like what OS you use) not based on ethics. (This is a hard route to take... saying "it is OK" seems to say "it is ethical")
How about utility? I know there's a long list of things Win32 is still better than Linux for. (New computer users, for example.) I think it's perfectly acceptable to use an operating system that suits your purpose, no matter the vendor or the license. That's part of freedom. Freedom to choose. It would be unethical for you to try and restrict that freedom from others.
2) Guns do not imply opression. (I cannot understand how this argument would work, but if you can make it, go for it!)
Of course they don't. A tyrant can only rule with the consent of the people, no? People are opressed because they choose to do nothing about the opression. You can cite incidents like those that happen in China every so often, but obviously those people aren't willing to die for their causes.
Further, remember that the American colonies were very opressed just before the revolution. It took guns to get us where we are now, the most powerful nation on the planet.
3) Linux/GPL does not imply freedom.
It does. So does the right to bear arms. Freedom to defend yourself. Freedom to practice sport shooting (which is an Olympic event, I might add.)
4) Every choice one makes is independant from one's other choices. (This seems to be the path you are taking. If you prove this, however, I think you de-centralize life from the individual, which seems to me a bad thing.)
That is the basis of freedom. You can do what you want, and I can do what I want. Of course, to maintain order, one must submit to the rule of law. You trade freedoms for rule of law. That is the price paid by you to live under the law.
5) There is no such thing as "ethics."
If you look at the world around you, it is pretty hard to prove the existence of ethics, isn't it? We have an American President who lies and commits adultery. We have tabloids. We have abortionists, murderers, and whatnot. But we all know that ethics really do exist. But not everyone's ethics are the same. Here's why:
Ethics and morals are based entirely on perception. Perception of right and wrong. The mice living in my house eating my dry foods think they are right to be doing so... it keeps them alive and gives them a home. I trap the mice to get rid of them. I, too, think I am right to get rid of the mice. My cat thinks they are dinner, and kills the mice... all the while thinking he is right. The guy who sold me the mouse traps thinks it's right to sell the tools to assist me in removing the mouse.
So, which of us is right? Me, my cat, the guy selling the traps, or the mice? Is it ethical for someone to sell me mouse traps knowing what I will be doing to the mice with them? Is it ethical for my cat to eat mice when I feed him cat food? Is it ethical for me to dispose of the mice? Is it ethical for the mice to eat my food?
So, an individual cannot hold other people to his/her own ethical standards like you are trying to do. Your perceptions of right and wrong, morality, and ethics are different from everyone else's.
Just remember, murderers think that they are right. Their perception is very different from yours and mine, but they think they are right.
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And how is my logic "poor?"
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It looks to me like your argument is trying to say something to the equivalent of "non GPL users are killers."
"these are the set of ethics which made me choose the GPL, these are the set of ethics which made me choose not to be a killer."
How I can read that is this way: Your same ethics that made you choose the GPL are the same ones that give you your sense of right and wrong, and therefore you are not a killer.
Consequently, you are saying that anyone who say... chooses a restrictive, non-open source license is a killer.
But, of course you don't think that. But be careful what you say, because it's very easy for people to misunderstand what you say. Moving on...
"If the GPL is an ethical choice for one who is a gun advocate, I will question his/her ethics."
Well, the GPL is about FREEDOM! It's all about FREEDOM. Including the freedom to own a gun for protection and sporting. The GPL is about "Free Speech", not free beer. Well, guess which amendment to the Constitution follows the "Free Speech" one? The one that says "Right to bear arms."
So, you don't understand the ethics of a gun owner choosing GPL. Well, I don't understand how a gun owner could NOT choose the GPL.
Linus is on the list because people think of him as a figurehead of a movement. If you look at the list, almost all of those people are figureheads of some sort of movement. (Einstein being a notable exception.)
If you had seen the poll without/. linking to it, who would you have picked out of the hat inside your mind?
Obviously, quite a few people picked Linus. I don't believe because "Linus is a great guy," but rather that "Linus gave us something that brings us together."
The poll, was, indeed for the person who influenced history for better or for worse, so no, Linus does not qualify for person of the century, but I agree with other posters that he does deserve person of the year.
The poll is now biased since/. posted the link and mentioned it, but the fact that people were thinking of Linus before/. saw it is a true testament of what people think.
Remember, his name isn't on the list because he wrote Linux. His name is on the list because he gave Linux to the world.
Okay, real easy solution... if the document referrer isn't from one of their sites, they simply redirect to the home page, or whatever. It'd take like 5 minutes to configure the average web server to do this. And if you really wanted to get fancy you could make the site 100% CGI-driven and just make a page right on the spot with all the advertising you want!
Such a solution requires no lawsuits, and for the very minimal solution, just a few minutes of time from the guy who runs the server.
Sheesh. Maybe I should ask Universal for a job as Webmaster. The one they have now obviously can't do anything that requires changing config files or writing if-then statements. He's probably got every M$ certification in the book, too.
I am using BO2K at work for remote administration.
It's a highly reliable product that gets the job done in the simplest way.
And guess what else? I have it listed in the task list as BO2K, and it's executable is named BO2K. Doesn't matter. The average user is too ignorant/stupid/apathetic to realize what it is anyway.
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Nope. That should be:
1. e4 Nc6 2. a4 Nb4 3. Ra3 Nxc2+ 4. Rd3 Nb4 5. Ne2 Nxd3#
Notice black's 3rd move, Nxc2+, puts the white king in check. White's 4th move, Rd3, is illegal, as the king would remain in check.
I got it running on a good old TNT. Performance was unacceptable due to nVidia waiting to improve their drivers until Xfree 4.0 comes out.
Make sure you look at the readme page on nVidia's site.
But basically, install Mesa 3.0, then rename the libmesa.so.* file to something else, and symlink the old name to libGL.so.1 whereever it happens to be.
Yes, but the some people don't need to get that extra 10 pixels of horizontal resolution out of their monitors. Some people would rather have their monitors work "out of the box" with Linux. I don't think that's too much to ask.
Having an automatic configurator doesn't mean you need to eliminate a text-based configuration file... it just means that you generate that file and have it work the first time. You can tune it later if you are so inclined...
As it is for me, when I installed my monitor under RH6, both card and monitor were listed. Started X, and of course, it didn't work.
The information is available. VESA modelines are standard enough. If a monitor claims to be VESA compliant, then it will be able to use VESA modelines. As has been said elsewhere: Frequencies can be found in Windows .inf files... why not support getting information from Windows driver disks? What about DDC? You can get the information there, too... and is also the easiest.
Imagine it like this: You run your X config tool. It queries your monitor via DDC. Sets all the modelines for the VESA modes your monitor supports. X works instantly. If you want to play around with new modelines, you still have your xf86config file easily editable.
Digital TV does so exist in the U.S. Either by cable or satellite. Where the hell are you getting your information? Even a small, depressed, backwoods town like Klamath Falls, Oregon, has digital cable TV.
Do some research.
I am an American, and I know the metric "SI" system quite well. It's all you deal with in chemistry and physics. Newer USGS and DMA maps use it. It's what the military uses. It's taught in schools. Every other modern country in the world uses it. It's all over the place. Any American who doesn't know the metric system, and some of the basic conversions (volume, temperature, mass, and distance) from the American measurements to metric and vice-versa is plainly ignorant.
I'm an American who's not ignorant.
I'm also an American who believes that we should be using the metric system. Sadly, it's probably too late for us.
But maybe I can teach you all a little bit about why the metric system is better. Do you know what the mass in ounces of one cubic inch of water is? Probably not. But even a child can learn the relation in metric: One cubic centimeter of water has a mass of one gram. Easy.
Well, if you believe the horse's mouth, it looks like I was right to doubt. A perfectly logical, and probably truthful explanation, even if it did come from M$. It may have been an NSA requirement to have two keys, but... OMG, the NSA doesn't own either one! Imagine that.
So, while the NSA requires a backup key in case of compromise or disaster, they are not promoting "back doors" in products, at least not in this case.
At least I know I don't jump to conclusions. It would seem my view of reality is not so delusional after all...
Of course, I can't really believe M$'s explanation, but I'd rather give them the benefit of doubt rather than immediately jump to the conclusion that the NSA has a backdoor to all copies of Windows. They don't have the time, budget, or manpower to make use of something like that. I'd sooner believe that the NSA mandated the Windows Number and PIII PSN, so that they could track down people and confiscate their stuff, than to try and compromise machines remotely. They may be a big, bad, nasty government agency, but (a) they are in charge of domestic security, not international intellegence. (b) being a government entity, cost is always an issue in an age of budget cuts, and it'd be a lot cheaper to raid someone's home a la BATF or FBI than to sit there and hack their machines remotely.
BTW, I've worked for Uncle Sam, and I do know what goes on in government. It's more red tape, hype, and wag-the-dog type stuff than proactive "spying on the public" type stuff anyway. Why do you think people believe that the government keeps extra-terrestrial creatures and technology at Area 51 of Groom Lake? See my signature line. Why do you think the government doesn't deny it? Because they want people to believe that, instead of finding out the truth.
I personally don't care. I don't use Windows, and I don't give a damn what happens with it. And the wired article wasn't referred to when I read the Slashdot posting.
At any rate, it really doesn't matter. It's not a "back door," and Microsoft owns the key. I don't see a problem here except that you can replace the key. But that's typical of M$ stuff anyway. There's no remote exploit, and Windows will never be immune to local attacks.
At least Microsoft follows some of the laws, right? It was mandated by an agency that has the granted authority to require what it does. You don't like it? Maybe you should think about how you vote the next time you are at the polls. Or maybe you should become a politician. All you people bitch about the goverment doing what it does, but the percentage of eligble voters doing anything about it is slim to none. Blame yourselves.
On another point: Before you go calling me an "idiot," and saying I have "supposed" things which I have not, and calling me "delusional," you'd better learn something about me first. Until then, keep your presumptuous remarks to yourself. I did not see the wired article when I posted my comment, which I did immediately after reading the "press release" that made mere assumptions about the "NSAKEY" well before M$ said anything. So, excuse me for doubting a vague and assumptive piece of "journalism."
Now it's my turn to make some presumptuous remarks about you. (An eye for an eye, to say...)
You probably believe everything you read in print or see on TV.
You are probably only worried because you use M$ software.
You probably vote democrat.
Okay, here we go...
A symbol called "NSAKEY" from an unstripped binary is immediately taken to mean the U.S. National Security Agency, without any evidence whatsoever.
Someone decides it MUST be the U.S. National Security agency, and presents it as such, with no evidence to back it up. A purely opinionated and paranoid assumption.
For kicks, I looked up "NSA" in my dictionary... it stood for five different entities, only one of which is the National Security Agency.
At any rate, it ends up on Slashdot and provokes the usual knee-jerk reaction. While it's possible that the paranoid assumption is true, it's still not known, but yet was presented by the media as the truth.
This is why, even if 100% of all computing devices that used dates are corrected for Y2K, there will still be a Y2K crisis. Paranoid assumptive reactions like the one we witness here and now.
All because a symbol in an unstripped binary from M$ is called "NSAKEY."
Incredible, isn't it?
But a similar T1-speed service has been in place in Bend, OR. for over a year now. I wish I could remember their URL. Oh, yeah... it's $500/month plus equipment and set-up.
1. Learn how to type.
2. Did you ever think about sending your broken K6-2 back to AMD for warranty replacement?
3. Do you have a good heatsink/fan combination on the K6-2, with a nice layer of thermal-conductive paste between it and the processor?
4. Your probable answer to one or both of those questions is: No.
5. My K6-2 350 has been happily overclocked for almost a year with no adverse effects.
I don't have enough money to go SMP, and I don't use Intel processors anyway.
My next x86 chip will be an Athlon. Maybe if I have the money I might get 2 of them... but seeing that I just got laid off, not likely.
Surely you jest. At my location, we have problems with our NT servers due to problems with NT that M$ knows about, and described in the following knowledge base articles: Q196745 ("Very slow paged pool leak in Windows NT 4.0") and Q185211 ("Non-Paged Pool Memory Leak in COMX Pool Tag.")
The first one says that it is a known problem, and to install the latest service pack... well, we installed SP5, and the leak is still there! I noted that the article never said that the service pack fixed the problem. It has been a known bug since SP4.
Article on the non-paged pool leak seems to have disappeared recently from the M$ knowledgebase. Fortunately, I have a printout. The status is: "M$ has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 4.0. We are researching this problem and will post new information here ... as it becomes available."
If you read the article on the paged pool leak, you will see that if you have the situation described, YOU CANNOT KEEP NT SERVER UP FOR MORE THAN A WEEK. And there is no workaround. There isn't even a fix for the non-paged pool leak.
So, don't question my competency, when the problems are not fixable by me, and M$ hasn't gotten off their ass and fixed it.
If we had the source code, it'd be fixed. HAIL LINUX!
Hey, a good use of a M$-style License Agreement!
Hard drive makers.
Ever since the invention of the term "byte," it's been understood that it's powers of two, at least by the technical community.
By using a word construct like [prefix]byte, you know it's power of two. Of course, since the general population is full of clueless lusers, the hard drive companies started using the terms such as megabyte and using the terms under their SI meanings... powers of ten. Why? Because the numbers are smaller, and the public will assume it's "computer" numbers, and not "metric" numbers. Of course, when people complain the hard drive manufacturers can say "but 'mega' means million, not one million, forty-eight thousand, five hundred seventy-six."
I counterpropose that we make hard drive manufacturers adhere to the 2^10 kilo system.
The typical cycle of a Slashdot article related to politics:
1. Person who submits story fails to read the article they found thoroughly.
2. Person who decides that it should go up on Slashdot (CmdrTaco, Hemos, whoever), fails to research (or sometimes not even read) the original article.
3. Article gets posted on Slashdot, and immediately provokes a knee-jerk reaction from people on either the right or the left wing (or both in some cases), because they fail to read the original story as well.
4. Foaming-at-the-mouth Slashdot readers argue in the comments, e-mail everybody and their mothers, and generally look bad.
I've seen bad thinks posted about Slashdot readers in the Linux kernel mailing lists, BSD websites, IRC, and on news sites.
The sad thing is, it's all true.
I refuse to take part in it anymore. I've been guilty of being a knee-jerker in the past. No more.
I'll simplify this for simpler minds: You need to show me one thing from this list:
Okay, how about almost all of them?
1) It is OK to make a decision (like what OS you use) not based on ethics. (This is a hard route to take... saying "it is OK" seems to say "it is ethical")
How about utility? I know there's a long list of things Win32 is still better than Linux for. (New computer users, for example.) I think it's perfectly acceptable to use an operating system that suits your purpose, no matter the vendor or the license. That's part of freedom. Freedom to choose. It would be unethical for you to try and restrict that freedom from others.2) Guns do not imply opression. (I cannot understand how this argument would work, but if you can make it, go for it!)
Of course they don't. A tyrant can only rule with the consent of the people, no? People are opressed because they choose to do nothing about the opression. You can cite incidents like those that happen in China every so often, but obviously those people aren't willing to die for their causes.
Further, remember that the American colonies were very opressed just before the revolution. It took guns to get us where we are now, the most powerful nation on the planet.
3) Linux/GPL does not imply freedom.
It does. So does the right to bear arms. Freedom to defend yourself. Freedom to practice sport shooting (which is an Olympic event, I might add.)
4) Every choice one makes is independant from one's other choices. (This seems to be the path you are taking. If you prove this, however, I think you de-centralize life from the individual, which seems to me a bad thing.)
That is the basis of freedom. You can do what you want, and I can do what I want. Of course, to maintain order, one must submit to the rule of law. You trade freedoms for rule of law. That is the price paid by you to live under the law.
5) There is no such thing as "ethics."
If you look at the world around you, it is pretty hard to prove the existence of ethics, isn't it? We have an American President who lies and commits adultery. We have tabloids. We have abortionists, murderers, and whatnot. But we all know that ethics really do exist. But not everyone's ethics are the same. Here's why:
Ethics and morals are based entirely on perception. Perception of right and wrong. The mice living in my house eating my dry foods think they are right to be doing so... it keeps them alive and gives them a home. I trap the mice to get rid of them. I, too, think I am right to get rid of the mice. My cat thinks they are dinner, and kills the mice... all the while thinking he is right. The guy who sold me the mouse traps thinks it's right to sell the tools to assist me in removing the mouse.
So, which of us is right? Me, my cat, the guy selling the traps, or the mice? Is it ethical for someone to sell me mouse traps knowing what I will be doing to the mice with them? Is it ethical for my cat to eat mice when I feed him cat food? Is it ethical for me to dispose of the mice? Is it ethical for the mice to eat my food?
So, an individual cannot hold other people to his/her own ethical standards like you are trying to do. Your perceptions of right and wrong, morality, and ethics are different from everyone else's.
Just remember, murderers think that they are right. Their perception is very different from yours and mine, but they think they are right.
And how is my logic "poor?"
It looks to me like your argument is trying to say something to the equivalent of "non GPL users are killers."
"these are the set of ethics which made me choose the GPL, these are the set of ethics which made me choose not to be a killer."How I can read that is this way: Your same ethics that made you choose the GPL are the same ones that give you your sense of right and wrong, and therefore you are not a killer.
Consequently, you are saying that anyone who say... chooses a restrictive, non-open source license is a killer.
But, of course you don't think that. But be careful what you say, because it's very easy for people to misunderstand what you say. Moving on...
"If the GPL is an ethical choice for one who is a gun advocate, I will question his/her ethics."Well, the GPL is about FREEDOM! It's all about FREEDOM. Including the freedom to own a gun for protection and sporting. The GPL is about "Free Speech", not free beer. Well, guess which amendment to the Constitution follows the "Free Speech" one? The one that says "Right to bear arms."
So, you don't understand the ethics of a gun owner choosing GPL. Well, I don't understand how a gun owner could NOT choose the GPL.
Did anyone vote for Larry Wall? :)
Linus is on the list because people think of him as a figurehead of a movement. If you look at the list, almost all of those people are figureheads of some sort of movement. (Einstein being a notable exception.)
If you had seen the poll without /. linking to it, who would you have picked out of the hat inside your mind?
Obviously, quite a few people picked Linus. I don't believe because "Linus is a great guy," but rather that "Linus gave us something that brings us together."
The poll, was, indeed for the person who influenced history for better or for worse, so no, Linus does not qualify for person of the century, but I agree with other posters that he does deserve person of the year.
The poll is now biased since /. posted the link and mentioned it, but the fact that people were thinking of Linus before /. saw it is a true testament of what people think.
Remember, his name isn't on the list because he wrote Linux. His name is on the list because he gave Linux to the world.
Okay, real easy solution... if the document referrer isn't from one of their sites, they simply redirect to the home page, or whatever. It'd take like 5 minutes to configure the average web server to do this. And if you really wanted to get fancy you could make the site 100% CGI-driven and just make a page right on the spot with all the advertising you want!
Such a solution requires no lawsuits, and for the very minimal solution, just a few minutes of time from the guy who runs the server.
Sheesh. Maybe I should ask Universal for a job as Webmaster. The one they have now obviously can't do anything that requires changing config files or writing if-then statements. He's probably got every M$ certification in the book, too.
Actually, just toss out GNOME and use KDE and you will be perfectly stable.
If I didn't have to install a new UPS the otherd day, I could could shown you my RH6 uptime, still from about two weeks after I upgraded to it.
I can only pray that, should you get a life-threatening illness, the doctor who recommends the drugs that could save you doesn't have a silly name.
Well spoken. Though was sure I could give an example, my mind seems to have drawn a blank. Oh, well.
I am using BO2K at work for remote administration.
It's a highly reliable product that gets the job done in the simplest way.
And guess what else? I have it listed in the task list as BO2K, and it's executable is named BO2K. Doesn't matter. The average user is too ignorant/stupid/apathetic to realize what it is anyway.
Exactly... to bring up the old quote: It's not the gun that kills, it's the person with their finger on the trigger.