There are complete goits everywhere you look...
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Ethics In IT
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· Score: 1
This'll be no news to anyone here but still...
A (former) friend of mine used to work in a local computer shop (repairs, parts the usual stuff). After a little while there he started bragging about all the stuff they kept finding on peoples computers. He and everyone else there used to wander over computers brought in looking for passwords, account details, music, films, videos and anything else they considered interesting... Utterly reprehensible!
When I called him on it, his attitude could be best summed up as "well they should learn to fix their computers themselves then".
Fortunately said shop went out of business. Unfortunately it did so as the owner was a financial idiot not because they got caught or anything similar.
(admittedly I've always worked under the suspicion/assumption this went on, just nice to get it confirmed once in a while)
Just think of it as doing your bit to increase the number of females in IT - solidarity sister!;) ). Speaking as another one, it's nice to see someone not thinking we're cheating the system by doing this.;-)
I think there are about 20 of us Pine users left! That's because a load of us have already switched over to Alpine instead.;-)
Maybe not a problem really...
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GCC 4.2.1 Released
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· Score: 4, Informative
To be honest from my reading of the gcc mailing list, most of the complaints seemed to be focused around the fact that the original plan (which was up for discussion at least) was to change the numbering system so they went straight from 4.2.1 to 4.3.3 (lots of 3's to ram the point home of course) which would be confusing to most people (and probably to a few packaging systems as well). With what would be 4.3 going to 4.4.
The big problem is that RMS seems to want all patches put into SVN after July 31st to be GPL3+ no matter what, even on release branches which automatically pollutes them. This then causes problems for corporate users who may then have to wait for a legal department evaluation on the license...
I don't think many people would object if the GPLv3+ restriction was for 4.3/4.4+ really. (well as long as RMS doesn't go mad and revoke the linking exception for libgcc anyway...)
Not quite, Debian is still upto date on Sparc as far as I'm aware. Admittedly my Sparc running Sarge was last updated a couple of months back, but hey if it works and all...
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For anyone who doesn't remember Vik Olliver was on Slashdot before... http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/03/22/2120235
In my defence I only remember this as I know them
This'll be no news to anyone here but still...
A (former) friend of mine used to work in a local computer shop (repairs, parts the usual stuff). After a little while there he started bragging about all the stuff they kept finding on peoples computers. He and everyone else there used to wander over computers brought in looking for passwords, account details, music, films, videos and anything else they considered interesting... Utterly reprehensible!
When I called him on it, his attitude could be best summed up as "well they should learn to fix their computers themselves then".
Fortunately said shop went out of business. Unfortunately it did so as the owner was a financial idiot not because they got caught or anything similar.
(admittedly I've always worked under the suspicion/assumption this went on, just nice to get it confirmed once in a while)
I wonder if all the /.'ers with sub 6-digit ID's who're still around will have popped up by the end of it. :-)
I know that feeling...
To be honest from my reading of the gcc mailing list, most of the complaints seemed to be focused around the fact that the original plan (which was up for discussion at least) was to change the numbering system so they went straight from 4.2.1 to 4.3.3 (lots of 3's to ram the point home of course) which would be confusing to most people (and probably to a few packaging systems as well). With what would be 4.3 going to 4.4.
The big problem is that RMS seems to want all patches put into SVN after July 31st to be GPL3+ no matter what, even on release branches which automatically pollutes them. This then causes problems for corporate users who may then have to wait for a legal department evaluation on the license...
I don't think many people would object if the GPLv3+ restriction was for 4.3/4.4+ really. (well as long as RMS doesn't go mad and revoke the linking exception for libgcc anyway...)
Aww, I always knew I should've registered when I first came here...
Not quite, Debian is still upto date on Sparc as far as I'm aware.
Admittedly my Sparc running Sarge was last updated a couple of months back, but hey if it works and all...