You are right. I am astonished. Now my question is this: do you really consider yourself bound by that license?
For example, I find it hard to believe that you wouldn't have at least limited resale rights; at worst, destroy the templates and re-sell the tool to someone else.
This strikes me as very similar to books; it's a tangible physical object. Although they can argue that you've used your template making tool and received value, that argument strikes me as parallel to having read a book and received value. And the latter is definitely invalid.
I've used Dvorak for about 9 years. My experience is that I touch-type Dvorak and hunt-and-peck in Qwerty (which I used to touch-type). I admit that I never tried to keep up my Qwerty.
It took a good month of practice to get my speed up, and probably a year before it really felt comfortable. I don't remember how long before my wrists felt better. They don't bother me now.
For a while, I think I felt physically a bit worse, because I carried slightly more tension when I was learning. I've had no reason to want to switch back.
Actually a couple of the most ethical people I know have become attorneys. It's actually quite confusing. I don't trust them in general, but the attorneys I actually know are very straight-up people.
I don't use Windows, so my recommendation is pretty much vapor when it comes to actual software experience, but Winsock Firewall is the only free software firewall I have been able to dig up.
Naturally, as free software, it isn't going to cost you anything. The people I have asked to try it out tell me it isn't quite as nice to use as some other non-free but no-cost (for personal use) solutions. But they tell me it is functional and would probably be suitable for a reasonably technical person.
" I am a Debian junkie. Recently I had to switch over to Redhat due to the fact that Debian was not certified to run Oracle (which doesnt run on any system whether its certified or not). "
Boy isn't that just the truth! Oracle is my officially least-favorite program. If people had that much trouble installing any free software program, they would quite rightly characterize it as a stinking piece of shit.
Matlab is not far behind for my second least favorite. Mathematica is third.
I have pretty modest requirements, but still found a lot of solutions lacking. At the moment, I am pretty happily using Plans (http://www.planscalendar.com/).
That 80% think it would be life like us is mind-boggling. I suppose it is the taint of science-fiction. It's hard to enjoy characters that are hard to fathom.
But really, intelligent I could see. But like us? That just demonstrates a lack of imagination.
I did a test like this with one of my cars, and I did find the conventional wisdom to hold. I could drive about 15% farther when I was smoother and less aggressive.
Wow, I hope this goes well. I've for years felt that Java got a lot of things right (and a few things wrong). But I'll take a C program every time over a Java implementation.
Why? Because I believe in free software, and I try to use free software. While I might have a practical bone in me that would install Sun's no-cost JVM, it doesn't come packaged with my Linux distro.
If you want to develop for Java, there's this huge impediment to distributing your software. You've got to get the end user to thunk down an enormous environment first to support it.
And it doesn't always go well. That's why so many vendors ship with their own JVM. When I installed Oracle last summer, they had done exactly that. Only their bundled JVM didn't work. I ultimately discovered that I could get the software to function by excising that JVM and putting Sun's current offereing in its place. But I would describe the experience as a nightmare, and a less-experienced person would have found it hopeless.
A common platform, with a free license, that can be packaged by my favorite Linux distro is exactly what Java needs.
I can't offer what you ask for, but I have really liked Plans (http://www.planscalendar.com/) myself. I'm pretty sure there are others out there who would to.
And as a long-time Debian user, I have to say that was a strange choice. If I want to follow testing through the freeze into stable, I just follow "Sarge".
But say, I find myself needing to track unstable for a while, but would like to migrate to testing when possible? Not easy. It could be, if the codename for unstable propogated back to testing.
The name "Sid" is completely redundant. As everyone is quick to point out, Sid is always unstable. I understand that it has become a historical part of Debian's structure. But that doesn't make it less silly.
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Actually, I believe 'aptitude dist-upgrade' is now the prefered upgrade path. This was just discussed on a mailing list.
I have been lead to understand that drives don't typically fail because their platters got hot. They tend to fail because their circuit boards fail. You'll find advice all over the internet suggesting that you try to fix a broken drive by swapping the circuit board from another of the same model before purchasing expensive data reclamation.
In that context, this fellow's solution doesn't seem so irrelevant. Keeping the circuit board cool is likely to lengthen the life of the drive.
In my estimation, Adobe should be concerned. Given their history of using the DMCA to oppress others, a suit that burned them would provide delightful irony and karmic balance.
o I set out to review some of the TCO analyses I had seen on the net. To begin, I wanted to get a realistic assessment of how much one could save on a Windows-free computer purchase. It's at least erroneous, and probably intentional distortion, to use the Windows shelf price of $299 in a TCO analysis. Nobody pays $299 to get Windows with a computer. A fair assessment of what they do pay is the difference between otherwise identical configurations with and without Windows. That is what I wanted to find, and so I went shopping. I thought this would be a relatively straightforward number to get. Silly me.
While $299 as the cost of Windows might not be completely accurate, you also can't discount double-paying for Windows licenses
For example, I work at a University, and essentially every PC we buy comes with Windows. However, it would be a aweful to work with those images, which are essentially controlled from outside us. More importantly, license management is a nightmare. So we pay a (large) fee to license our MS operating systems and applications again with more liberal license conditions.
Add to that the other more obscure places we pay for licenses. For example Computer Science is a Academic Alliance member. For a token fee, they essentially buy licenses again (and they don't use that many, so a token fee is actually non-negligable).
That means that any copy of Windows I personally use for work has been paid for 3 times, and those are just the payments I am aware of. Add to that the cost of the labor of the people whose job it is to ensure that we don't violate our licenses, because people get paid for that too.
By comparison, a piece of free software (with the 4 freedoms) is a dream. No fee. No need to pay someone to track licenses or maintain a license server. Use the software for whatever you like.
It might not be $299, but there is definitely a savings, but it's a sight more that $9.
> One flaw in any hard drive backup system: what happens if your system is cracked?
I've thought of that too. I like to backup my gradebook to another server.
So, you're asking yourself. What keeps the malicious intruder from logging into the 2nd server after perusing my backup script?
I used a little-used feature of ssh that allows you to restrict a session to a single pre-specified command. My backup script has only the ability to write new gradebook backups to the server. It cannot execute any other commands--it especially cannot overwrite or delete old files.
Each snapshot of my gradebook is encrypted with my public key (for privacy) and copies of my keyrings exist on the remote server (because it's no good having the data there if I can't open it in a disaster).
I don't know what made me think to check, but I found myself wondering how the list was made. If I made such a list, you could expect me to have used free software for that task.
Inside the PDF, it says:
/Title(Microsoft Word - ~9653746.doc) /Creator(PScript5.dll Version 5.2) /Author(JPrince) /Producer(Acrobat Distiller 6.0.1 \(Windows\))
Perhaps this doesn't truly indicate how the.doc was made (could have been made by OO), but in my "lists of good and bad" I've still got Adobe welded to the bad list.
I once taught my Numerical Analysis class how to make a simple rake and tension wrench and use them. It was just a few pictures on the chalk board in between classes.
About a week later, one of my students came to class very excited. He had made the tools and tried them--no success.
Then he locked his keys in his house. His tools were sitting on the seat of his unlocked car. So he tried again. I believe he said it took him about 40 minutes to get in. Not bad for a beginner.
> Although all open source software is free by its very nature, it's ridiculous to try to make the reverse analogy that free software is also by default open source.
I don't know if you are intentionally misunderstanding, but this is precisely incorrect. Free Software (with a capital F) has the 4 Freedoms set forth by the FSF, who created the term.
That means Free Software is always Open Source, butthe reverse is not always true.
Whoever modded the parent as insightful made an error.
> All the article links are Flash... preventing an "Open in New Tab". This is certainly a weird way to do rollovers on links.
Ah, thanks for the heads up. That page was loading slow anyway. Since I don't read Flash, it's good to know that I can just close the tab and move on to other business.
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You are right. I am astonished. Now my question is this: do you really consider yourself bound by that license?
For example, I find it hard to believe that you wouldn't have at least limited resale rights; at worst, destroy the templates and re-sell the tool to someone else.
This strikes me as very similar to books; it's a tangible physical object. Although they can argue that you've used your template making tool and received value, that argument strikes me as parallel to having read a book and received value. And the latter is definitely invalid.
I've used Dvorak for about 9 years. My experience is that I touch-type Dvorak and hunt-and-peck in Qwerty (which I used to touch-type). I admit that I never tried to keep up my Qwerty.
It took a good month of practice to get my speed up, and probably a year before it really felt comfortable. I don't remember how long before my wrists felt better. They don't bother me now.
For a while, I think I felt physically a bit worse, because I carried slightly more tension when I was learning. I've had no reason to want to switch back.
Actually a couple of the most ethical people I know have become attorneys. It's actually quite confusing. I don't trust them in general, but the attorneys I actually know are very straight-up people.
I don't use Windows, so my recommendation is pretty much vapor when it comes to actual software experience, but Winsock Firewall is the only free software firewall I have been able to dig up.
Naturally, as free software, it isn't going to cost you anything. The people I have asked to try it out tell me it isn't quite as nice to use as some other non-free but no-cost (for personal use) solutions. But they tell me it is functional and would probably be suitable for a reasonably technical person.
I like science fiction, but there's no question that my opiate is fantasy. I want a world where magic is possible, and where it comes from inside.
I could care less who has the bigger blaster.
" I am a Debian junkie. Recently I had to switch over to Redhat due to the fact that Debian was not certified to run Oracle (which doesnt run on any system whether its certified or not). "
Boy isn't that just the truth! Oracle is my officially least-favorite program. If people had that much trouble installing any free software program, they would quite rightly characterize it as a stinking piece of shit.
Matlab is not far behind for my second least favorite. Mathematica is third.
I have pretty modest requirements, but still found a lot of solutions lacking. At the moment, I am pretty happily using Plans (http://www.planscalendar.com/).
For ToDo functions, I use TDL (http://www.rpcurnow.force9.co.uk/tdl/)
That 80% think it would be life like us is mind-boggling. I suppose it is the taint of science-fiction. It's hard to enjoy characters that are hard to fathom.
But really, intelligent I could see. But like us? That just demonstrates a lack of imagination.
> I made my own "Open CD" just for giving out to friends / family / whatever that has an assortment of my preferred OSS.
I did too. I keep it updated online at http://vh224401.truman.edu/pub/fsck/freecd/doc/
I did a test like this with one of my cars, and I did find the conventional wisdom to hold. I could drive about 15% farther when I was smoother and less aggressive.
Wow, I hope this goes well. I've for years felt that Java got a lot of things right (and a few things wrong). But I'll take a C program every time over a Java implementation.
Why? Because I believe in free software, and I try to use free software. While I might have a practical bone in me that would install Sun's no-cost JVM, it doesn't come packaged with my Linux distro.
If you want to develop for Java, there's this huge impediment to distributing your software. You've got to get the end user to thunk down an enormous environment first to support it.
And it doesn't always go well. That's why so many vendors ship with their own JVM. When I installed Oracle last summer, they had done exactly that. Only their bundled JVM didn't work. I ultimately discovered that I could get the software to function by excising that JVM and putting Sun's current offereing in its place. But I would describe the experience as a nightmare, and a less-experienced person would have found it hopeless.
A common platform, with a free license, that can be packaged by my favorite Linux distro is exactly what Java needs.
Go team.
I can't offer what you ask for, but I have really liked Plans (http://www.planscalendar.com/) myself. I'm pretty sure there are others out there who would to.
> > Sid is always "testing"
> No, Sid is always unstable.
And as a long-time Debian user, I have to say that was a strange choice. If I want to follow testing through the freeze into stable, I just follow "Sarge".
But say, I find myself needing to track unstable for a while, but would like to migrate to testing when possible? Not easy. It could be, if the codename for unstable propogated back to testing.
The name "Sid" is completely redundant. As everyone is quick to point out, Sid is always unstable. I understand that it has become a historical part of Debian's structure. But that doesn't make it less silly.
Actually, I believe 'aptitude dist-upgrade' is now the prefered upgrade path. This was just discussed on a mailing list.
I have been lead to understand that drives don't typically fail because their platters got hot. They tend to fail because their circuit boards fail. You'll find advice all over the internet suggesting that you try to fix a broken drive by swapping the circuit board from another of the same model before purchasing expensive data reclamation.
In that context, this fellow's solution doesn't seem so irrelevant. Keeping the circuit board cool is likely to lengthen the life of the drive.
In my estimation, Adobe should be concerned. Given their history of using the DMCA to oppress others, a suit that burned them would provide delightful irony and karmic balance.
Glass is a fluid. The plates will melt together and you'll have lost your data.
While $299 as the cost of Windows might not be completely accurate, you also can't discount double-paying for Windows licenses
For example, I work at a University, and essentially every PC we buy comes with Windows. However, it would be a aweful to work with those images, which are essentially controlled from outside us. More importantly, license management is a nightmare. So we pay a (large) fee to license our MS operating systems and applications again with more liberal license conditions.
Add to that the other more obscure places we pay for licenses. For example Computer Science is a Academic Alliance member. For a token fee, they essentially buy licenses again (and they don't use that many, so a token fee is actually non-negligable).
That means that any copy of Windows I personally use for work has been paid for 3 times, and those are just the payments I am aware of. Add to that the cost of the labor of the people whose job it is to ensure that we don't violate our licenses, because people get paid for that too.
By comparison, a piece of free software (with the 4 freedoms) is a dream. No fee. No need to pay someone to track licenses or maintain a license server. Use the software for whatever you like.
It might not be $299, but there is definitely a savings, but it's a sight more that $9.
When I switched, I would say it took about a month before I felt comfortable, although I could type well long before that.
It was a year before it was "natural." And my soreness did not go away as quickly as for others (although it did abate).
The 2nd day is the hardest. You find yourself thinking, "But I made all of these mistakes yesterday!"
> One flaw in any hard drive backup system: what happens if your system is cracked?
I've thought of that too. I like to backup my gradebook to another server.
So, you're asking yourself. What keeps the malicious intruder from logging into the 2nd server after perusing my backup script?
I used a little-used feature of ssh that allows you to restrict a session to a single pre-specified command. My backup script has only the ability to write new gradebook backups to the server. It cannot execute any other commands--it especially cannot overwrite or delete old files.
Each snapshot of my gradebook is encrypted with my public key (for privacy) and copies of my keyrings exist on the remote server (because it's no good having the data there if I can't open it in a disaster).
That's how I handle my really important data.
I don't know what made me think to check, but I found myself wondering how the list was made. If I made such a list, you could expect me to have used free software for that task.
Inside the PDF, it says:
/Title(Microsoft Word - ~9653746.doc)
/Creator(PScript5.dll Version 5.2)
/Author(JPrince)
/Producer(Acrobat Distiller 6.0.1 \(Windows\))
Perhaps this doesn't truly indicate how the .doc was made (could have been made by OO), but in my "lists of good and bad" I've still got Adobe welded to the bad list.
I once taught my Numerical Analysis class how to make a simple rake and tension wrench and use them. It was just a few pictures on the chalk board in between classes.
About a week later, one of my students came to class very excited. He had made the tools and tried them--no success.
Then he locked his keys in his house. His tools were sitting on the seat of his unlocked car. So he tried again. I believe he said it took him about 40 minutes to get in. Not bad for a beginner.
> Although all open source software is free by its very nature, it's ridiculous to try to make the reverse analogy that free software is also by default open source.
I don't know if you are intentionally misunderstanding, but this is precisely incorrect. Free Software (with a capital F) has the 4 Freedoms set forth by the FSF, who created the term.
That means Free Software is always Open Source, butthe reverse is not always true.
Whoever modded the parent as insightful made an error.
> All the article links are Flash... preventing an "Open in New Tab". This is certainly a weird way to do rollovers on links.
Ah, thanks for the heads up. That page was loading slow anyway. Since I don't read Flash, it's good to know that I can just close the tab and move on to other business.
Ironicly, my browser failed to render my previous post about my browser not rendering things!