I've been using PGPGPG (I found it on the same page as GPG when I started using it a few version points ago). It's a wrapper that "translates" PGP options for GPG. Works like a charm for all the PGP options I've thrown at it so far.
The thing a lot of people seem to not realize (but that Bob mentioned in his letter) is that Red Hat has to do things like this.
Trademarks aren't something you can get and ignore. If you want to keep a trademark, the law requires you to actively protect or you face the danger of losing it. If you allow a trademark to be used by anyone who feels like losing it, you lose it. It's that simple.
I get the feeling there are facts that aren't showing up in that article.
Call me naive and optimistic, but I have a hard time believing the people at GT Interactive are really stupid enough to think they could get away with marketing someone else's software without eventually getting busted big-time.
Someone, please tell me there's more to this story, or I may lose what little faith I have left in humanity.
What's everyone so up in arms about? What's the big deal?
So, the President has submitted an order to investigate how to deal with illegal activity on the Internet. It gets posted on Slashdot, and people start to go nuts, like it's some sort of oppression.
Relax! It's a friggin' study group!
Would it be better if the U.S. government was, indeed, truly clueless, and never stopped to think about how do deal with things like Internet fraud and illegal gun sales?
Taken point by point, I fail to see how anyone could get really upset about this:
(1a) They're putting together a "working group." Not that it isn't called a gestapo, or a "task force," or anything nearly that sinister.
1. They're going to study how effective the current laws are for investigation and prosecution of illegal activity on the net. Would you rather they just enacted bad, half-baked laws, and never reviewed them?
2. They're going to take a look at the technologies available for investigating and prosecuting illegal activity. Let 'em. I can't get upset because they're taking the time to find out what's available. Would you rather have your government clueless?
3. They'll look at ways to empower parents and teachers to keep their kids safe from crime on the Internet. Oooooh, that's scary. Somebody gimme a picket sign; I wanna protest THAT.
(1b) They want a focus of industry self-regulation where possible. Help! Help! I'm being opressed!
Sometimes I think most people around here are just looking for a way they can feel put-upon. This ain't it.
While we're on the subject of badly needed pronouns, I'd like to add an addendum for the legitimization of "ain't" as a contraction of "am not." We've got second and third person, singular and plural, covered in all applicable tenses. It's time we spoke out for #1.
I'm mad as hell, and I ain't going to take it any more!
I can't really offer any suggestions beyond what the gurus around here have already given, but as someone who's attempted large-scale Exchange set-ups, I can definitely say:
For God's sake, dont. If you'd like me to sign something saying I've seen havily-used Exchange servers take over an hour to shut down in a power outage, and then wipe out a few thousand users' mail when the UPS finally gave out, I'm more than willing to.
Funny -- when I read that it came with the "Netscape roaming module," I assumed what they were talking about *is* mod_roaming. It definitely *doesn't* say it comes with a Netscape server. Look again.
The day a Honda CRX with anything short of a rocket engine can do 0-92 in under 4 seconds is the same day my Pentium spontaneously changes into a Cray. Then again, maybe you meant meters per hour. Are you European?
I ran into the same problem a little while ago, and there's a free way out if you don't want to fork over the cash for a commercial Mac SMB client like DAVE. I ran the Mars Netware emulator and IPX on a Linux box, and then just used the respective platforms' NetWare client (in my case it was Windows, Mac and OS/2) to attach to the shared drives. Works great, and it doesn't cost a dime.
Come on -- who's a moderator around here and who's not changes almost daily, as far as I can tell. I've got doubts there are many people out there moderating for the sake of making their "clan" (which they might not even belong to tomorrow) look good.
The fact that I work for free once in a while bothers me far less than, for example, the fact that I made at least two really egregious spelling errors in my earlier post.
It's not a big deal to me. I'd rather feel proud of my work and leave late than get some extra personal time by leaving early. I know I'm not alone in this, either, since most of the other techies I know and work with put in as much time as I do, and almost none of them are paid overtime.
Don't get me wrong -- money's nice, and I'm definitely not a cheap hire. But when a company hires me, they're getting a guy who's not afraid to put in a lot of uncompensated time, if necessary, to make sure the job's done right.
As long as they keep the fridge stocked. If they stop supplying me with Cokes (and God knows that's costing 'em -- got a really nasty caffeine habit to support), I might reconsider.
While I know a lot of people who work that way, and I respect their feelings on the subject, I don't, and can't, work that way. I love my work, and if sticking around an extra few hours for no pay once in a while means that my job gets done right, and I can be happy with my work, so be it.
I don't due what I do so I can pinch every dollar I can out of the company I work for. I don't due it because some nebulous "they" has me chained to my desk eight hours a day. I do it because I want to. Sure, the pay's nice (and don't get me wrong -- it's important), but doing half-assed work or leaving work unfinished just to keep from donating my time to the company just isn't my style.
The new law specifically exempts anyone in a "professional" occupation who makes more than twice the minimum wage. Silicon Valley has nothing to worry about (and I haven't read the article on Wired, but if they think differently, someone needs to give 'em a hard whack with the clue stick).
The latest rumor I caught wind of out here in L.A. was that they were looking at casting Ryan Phillipe for the part.
For the record, I could live with that. Leo's never done anything for me (major turn-off: the part of The Three Musketeers when they were in bed I couldn't tell which was Leo and which was the girl), but Ryan's a babe.
I was going by this quote from Matthia Elter on Linux Today:
"The idea was to create a animated assistant for the KDE Help Center but the result is so amazing that many people told me it would be nice for a KDE 2.0 mascot in general."
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I've been using PGPGPG (I found it on the same page as GPG when I started using it a few version points ago). It's a wrapper that "translates" PGP options for GPG. Works like a charm for all the PGP options I've thrown at it so far.
The thing a lot of people seem to not realize (but that Bob mentioned in his letter) is that Red Hat has to do things like this.
Trademarks aren't something you can get and ignore. If you want to keep a trademark, the law requires you to actively protect or you face the danger of losing it. If you allow a trademark to be used by anyone who feels like losing it, you lose it. It's that simple.
I get the feeling there are facts that aren't showing up in that article.
Call me naive and optimistic, but I have a hard time believing the people at GT Interactive are really stupid enough to think they could get away with marketing someone else's software without eventually getting busted big-time.
Someone, please tell me there's more to this story, or I may lose what little faith I have left in humanity.
For what it's worth, the latest CVS snapshot compiled and runs like a champ on the Ultra 1 I've got here at the office.
It's kinds cool havin' all the OpenWindows and CDE guys asking me "What the hell is THAT?!"
Thanks, John. I was hoping someone else had noticed that this was getting blown way out of proportion.
;)
Oh, and Lawrence is cool. Passed out there many times.
What's everyone so up in arms about? What's the big deal?
So, the President has submitted an order to investigate how to deal with illegal activity on the Internet. It gets posted on Slashdot, and people start to go nuts, like it's some sort of oppression.
Relax! It's a friggin' study group!
Would it be better if the U.S. government was, indeed, truly clueless, and never stopped to think about how do deal with things like Internet fraud and illegal gun sales?
Taken point by point, I fail to see how anyone could get really upset about this:
(1a) They're putting together a "working group." Not that it isn't called a gestapo, or a "task force," or anything nearly that sinister.
1. They're going to study how effective the current laws are for investigation and prosecution of illegal activity on the net. Would you rather they just enacted bad, half-baked laws, and never reviewed them?
2. They're going to take a look at the technologies available for investigating and prosecuting illegal activity. Let 'em. I can't get upset because they're taking the time to find out what's available. Would you rather have your government clueless?
3. They'll look at ways to empower parents and teachers to keep their kids safe from crime on the Internet. Oooooh, that's scary. Somebody gimme a picket sign; I wanna protest THAT.
(1b) They want a focus of industry self-regulation where possible. Help! Help! I'm being opressed!
Sometimes I think most people around here are just looking for a way they can feel put-upon. This ain't it.
While we're on the subject of badly needed pronouns, I'd like to add an addendum for the legitimization of "ain't" as a contraction of "am not." We've got second and third person, singular and plural, covered in all applicable tenses. It's time we spoke out for #1.
I'm mad as hell, and I ain't going to take it any more!
WAY off-topic...
The first version of pump released with Red Hat 6 had trouble with Windows NT DHCP servers.
Either way, the updated RPM ought to fix any weirdness that could potentially crop up.
I can't really offer any suggestions beyond what the gurus around here have already given, but as someone who's attempted large-scale Exchange set-ups, I can definitely say:
For God's sake, dont. If you'd like me to sign something saying I've seen havily-used Exchange servers take over an hour to shut down in a power outage, and then wipe out a few thousand users' mail when the UPS finally gave out, I'm more than willing to.
It's a bad, bad idea.
Forgive my ignorance, but, let's see...
I went to a site that seems to be about drag racing foreign cars.
You pointed me to a list of race winners.
They were all foreign cars, or course. Some were CRXs.
What's your point?
Funny -- when I read that it came with the "Netscape roaming module," I assumed what they were talking about *is* mod_roaming. It definitely *doesn't* say it comes with a Netscape server. Look again.
The day a Honda CRX with anything short of a rocket engine can do 0-92 in under 4 seconds is the same day my Pentium spontaneously changes into a Cray. Then again, maybe you meant meters per hour. Are you European?
I ran into the same problem a little while ago, and there's a free way out if you don't want to fork over the cash for a commercial Mac SMB client like DAVE. I ran the Mars Netware emulator and IPX on a Linux box, and then just used the respective platforms' NetWare client (in my case it was Windows, Mac and OS/2) to attach to the shared drives. Works great, and it doesn't cost a dime.
Oh, yeah... "they" all do that.
Come on -- who's a moderator around here and who's not changes almost daily, as far as I can tell. I've got doubts there are many people out there moderating for the sake of making their "clan" (which they might not even belong to tomorrow) look good.
Not a moderator today, but have been a few times,
T.
The fact that I work for free once in a while bothers me far less than, for example, the fact that I made at least two really egregious spelling errors in my earlier post.
It's not a big deal to me. I'd rather feel proud of my work and leave late than get some extra personal time by leaving early. I know I'm not alone in this, either, since most of the other techies I know and work with put in as much time as I do, and almost none of them are paid overtime.
Don't get me wrong -- money's nice, and I'm definitely not a cheap hire. But when a company hires me, they're getting a guy who's not afraid to put in a lot of uncompensated time, if necessary, to make sure the job's done right.
As long as they keep the fridge stocked. If they stop supplying me with Cokes (and God knows that's costing 'em -- got a really nasty caffeine habit to support), I might reconsider.
While I know a lot of people who work that way, and I respect their feelings on the subject, I don't, and can't, work that way. I love my work, and if sticking around an extra few hours for no pay once in a while means that my job gets done right, and I can be happy with my work, so be it.
I don't due what I do so I can pinch every dollar I can out of the company I work for. I don't due it because some nebulous "they" has me chained to my desk eight hours a day. I do it because I want to. Sure, the pay's nice (and don't get me wrong -- it's important), but doing half-assed work or leaving work unfinished just to keep from donating my time to the company just isn't my style.
The new law specifically exempts anyone in a "professional" occupation who makes more than twice the minimum wage. Silicon Valley has nothing to worry about (and I haven't read the article on Wired, but if they think differently, someone needs to give 'em a hard whack with the clue stick).
According to what you just quoted, the answer would be "no." It says separate cables, not separate controllers.
Man, the balls on those guys at MS get bigger every day.
I'd take that bet, on the basis that I think 2.4 will arrive before that -- and, as far as I know, nobody's even squeaking about a 3.0 yet.
I gotta wonder why this was moderated down for being off-topic, when the original article points out the new web site.
Now, *this* reply is off-topic.
Just for the record -- the default font server shipped with Red Hat 6.0 does TrueType. A minor point, but I was glad to see it.
The latest rumor I caught wind of out here in L.A. was that they were looking at casting Ryan Phillipe for the part.
For the record, I could live with that. Leo's never done anything for me (major turn-off: the part of The Three Musketeers when they were in bed I couldn't tell which was Leo and which was the girl), but Ryan's a babe.
I was going by this quote from Matthia Elter on Linux Today:
"The idea was to create a animated assistant for the KDE Help Center but the result is so amazing that many people told me it would be nice for a KDE 2.0 mascot in general."
Am I the only one worried by the mention of this guy being designed as an "animated assistant" for the KDE help system?
Does the world really need another paper clip?