The AC is right; you're confusing copyright and trademark. Copyrights protect a specific instance - if I duplicated Disney's images of their cartoon charachters I would infringe their copyright. Trademarks protect the use of a symbol; if I drew Disney's cartoon charachters I would infringe their trademark.
I've got Radio Free Ethernet on this Sun, and the date on the manpage is March 17 1992, but I've read the patent and it dosen't look like Radio Free Ethernet on a Sun counts as prior art.
How about support for the AAA-130 RAID controllers? We've had one for ten months, but it only supports NT, Novell, DOS and SCO. It's currently running in non-RAID mode, appearing as three AIC-7883Us and is scheduled for replacement with a non-Adaptec RAID controller that works on a Linux system.
I used to use Delphi when I was in middle school - it's really very nice for UI design. I haven't used it for 3-4 years, but a Linux port would be nice if it can turn out.o files ready for the linker. I could do the guts of a program in C with vi and gcc, use Delphi and its variant of Pascal for the interface (handy, since I've never really been good at building graphical interfaces), and link the results together.
On the other hand, programs built this manner would be difficult to collaborate on or distribute, as you'd have to have Delphi to build or modify 'em. Unless Linux Delphi churned out code that could be built with gpc (is Gnu Pascal still being actively developed? Is it in a usable state?) without a copy of Delphi, it would only be useful for software that's distributed binary-only.
Hit 'o' and change the user agent to 'Not L*ynx - we DON'T give you our understanding because we DON'T understand why' or some other silly message like 'EvilBrowser 1.666'.
While it's good that Tivoli's gateway will run on Linux, it's VERY bad if it only runs on Linux. Not only is it the very thing we currently protest (programs only available on Windows or Mac), but homogenous networks are scary. If something takes down one system it can take down them all (e.g. recent viruses and worms on Windows), while on hetrogenous networks only some hosts will be vulnerable. I'd rather have some systems run Linux, some run *BSD, some run Solaris, and a few with other, less common systems (MacOS X, BeOS, etc) than all Linux. It's more of an administration hassle to manage many diffirent systems but I feel safer with a hetrognenous network.
Unix-like systems are vulnerable, just like any other system, but it tends to be more difficult for virii to propagate than on something like DOS because virii are (should) only be able to do bad things that the user they're running as could do anyway. Virii and Stupid User Syndrome can kill a user's files, but it can't kill the whole system unless root is affected with S.U.S too or if there's buggy privlidged software on the system.
I've got a CoolPix 900; it's a nice camera (it works relatively well in low-light). The thing already works with my Linux box - there's a program called 'photopc' that grabs images from it over the serial line. It dosen't work with my Windows box; I installed their driver but it crashes whenever it tries to talk to the camera. Strange that it works better on a system for which there is no official support than on a system for which there is official support.
more dangers, from working as a sysadmin and being bored in high-school computer classes:
4. Don't try to hotswap processors, memory, and cards that aren't supposed to be hotswapped. Even if you're bored.
5. Don't touch circuit boards or connectors with metal objects when the system is turned on (altough abusing the video card will result in pretty displays).
6. Make sure the power switch is really attached to what you think it is before pressing it.
7. Mice and other objects with cables should not be hung from ceiling fans unless you like missiles flying at you. (Yes, this really happened in my computer class while the teacher wasn't looking)
A big tape is cheaper than a $30 rewritable CD when you consider that (if I did my math right) you'd pay about $738 to buy CD-RWs with the capacity of a $65 tape (assuming $30 dollars per 650 MB rewritable CD and 16GB per $65 dollar tape - I got the tape size&cost from the tapes used on our Linux server), but the cost of the drives is murder for a home user. You're right about CDs being cheaper if you want to keep all the backups forever (about $24 dollars for 16GB of write-once CDs, if I didn't screw up my math).
But nice big fast tape drives are sooo much more expensive than CD burners...:(
(gahck, if you read my posts in this article you'd think I'm some crazy tape evangelist... I sound like your steriotypical OS bigot... uh-oh, here come the men in white coats...:)
A price check on CDW shows 2GB Jaz cartridges selling for $124.95. The Tandberg drive we use at work can put 16GB (uncompressed) on a single $65.71 tape. The server the tape drive is on has a bunch of Seagate ST39140W drives which hold about 8GB apiece (CDW says they hold 9.1 GB) and cost $339.10. The hot swap hardware for the drives adds to the cost, and the disks have to be present when the system is booted.
Two of those disks cost $678.20 and would have about 2GB more capacity than a $65.71 tape (IIRC a 25GB tape can be had for about $78), and $999.60 (probably a little less, because there's a discount for 3-packs) to buy eight Jaz cartridges which would equal a single tape. The disks and cartridges would probably be faster (although it would be annoying to sit for hours changing cartridges when you can stick in a tape and go home), but imagine paying $8000 to keep twice-a-week backups going back six weeks when you could pay $800 plus the one-time expense of the drive. Imagine if you did daily backups (which we don't), or kept a few months worth of backups... or kept 'em indefinately...
The drive *is* rather expensive, but because of media prices tape is cheaper than other solutions if you make frequent backups and keep them for a while.
...and, the 8 Jaz cartridges take up as much space in your fireproof container (which should hopefully be designed to protect magnetic media, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread) as four tapes - that's four backups in the physical space of one.
Not in the entire Unix world; only in the Unix-on-32-bit-processor world. For example, AlphaLinux and Digital Unix (now with the odd name Compaq Tru64) shouldn't encounter sort of problem.
The Asus mainboard (don't have the model number handy; the machine and docs are about a mile away) I use can be configured in the BIOS to be 'always on', but it also has a setting so that the power switch must be held down for four seconds in order to switch the machine off. It's a nice feature for servers because it protects you from accidentally pressing the power switch, and if you really do want to turn off the power it's easier than untaping the metal plate that's covering the switch (we really do use little metal plates to protect switches at work).
On the Asus mainboard I use there's a setting in the BIOS that will cause the powerswitch to act as a suspend switch. A daemon could watch for suspend requests and run shutdown when it sees 'em.
The Washington Times article implies that simply typing your name at the bottom of a document or affixing an image of a fingerprint could be considered an electronic signature. This makes cut&paste forgeries easy for anyone:) . The Senate bill dosen't clarify if this would be so. I assume that any court would rule that only a cryptographic signature (like PGP) that isn't vulerable to cut&paste is valid, but I'd like to see it written into the bill anyway.
Oh - the link for the text of the House bill (it's HR1714) dosen't work, and thomas.loc.gov says that the text of HR1714 has not been entered into the database yet.
The vendor accepted the EULA on my laptop when some hardware was installed prior to delivery. I never saw the EULA, though. (unfortunately I can't get a refund since I used Windows to telnet to a Linux box with dead keyboard controller)
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The AC is right; you're confusing copyright and trademark. Copyrights protect a specific instance - if I duplicated Disney's images of their cartoon charachters I would infringe their copyright. Trademarks protect the use of a symbol; if I drew Disney's cartoon charachters I would infringe their trademark.
I've got Radio Free Ethernet on this Sun, and the date on the manpage is March 17 1992, but I've read the patent and it dosen't look like Radio Free Ethernet on a Sun counts as prior art.
How about support for the AAA-130 RAID controllers? We've had one for ten months, but it only supports NT, Novell, DOS and SCO. It's currently running in non-RAID mode, appearing as three AIC-7883Us and is scheduled for replacement with a non-Adaptec RAID controller that works on a Linux system.
I used to use Delphi when I was in middle school - it's really very nice for UI design. I haven't used it for 3-4 years, but a Linux port would be nice if it can turn out .o files ready for the linker. I could do the guts of a program in C with vi and gcc, use Delphi and its variant of Pascal for the interface (handy, since I've never really been good at building graphical interfaces), and link the results together.
On the other hand, programs built this manner would be difficult to collaborate on or distribute, as you'd have to have Delphi to build or modify 'em. Unless Linux Delphi churned out code that could be built with gpc (is Gnu Pascal still being actively developed? Is it in a usable state?) without a copy of Delphi, it would only be useful for software that's distributed binary-only.
Hit 'o' and change the user agent to 'Not L*ynx - we DON'T give you our understanding because we DON'T understand why' or some other silly message like 'EvilBrowser 1.666'.
:)
Then their server will let you in
First, we need to ask: Was the offensive material really there?
If not, then Harvard and JP are at fault.
If so, then: Was the offensive material there before Harvard offered to host the site?
If it was, then Harvard is at fault, either for pulling the site or for offering to host it in the first place knowing what was there.
If it wasn't, then Ken is at fault for placing the material there.
You realize that all you are doing by spouting threats is lending credence to JP's side of the story...
Apache is under the BSD liscense, not the GPL. It would be perfectly legal not to publish the source for proprietary extensions.
Last month this silly story about Weird Al and Larry Wall was posted.
While it's good that Tivoli's gateway will run on Linux, it's VERY bad if it only runs on Linux. Not only is it the very thing we currently protest (programs only available on Windows or Mac), but homogenous networks are scary. If something takes down one system it can take down them all (e.g. recent viruses and worms on Windows), while on hetrogenous networks only some hosts will be vulnerable. I'd rather have some systems run Linux, some run *BSD, some run Solaris, and a few with other, less common systems (MacOS X, BeOS, etc) than all Linux. It's more of an administration hassle to manage many diffirent systems but I feel safer with a hetrognenous network.
Unix-like systems are vulnerable, just like any other system, but it tends to be more difficult for virii to propagate than on something like DOS because virii are (should) only be able to do bad things that the user they're running as could do anyway. Virii and Stupid User Syndrome can kill a user's files, but it can't kill the whole system unless root is affected with S.U.S too or if there's buggy privlidged software on the system.
It sounds just like chaffing & winnowing, except using DNA instead of packets.
I've got a CoolPix 900; it's a nice camera (it works relatively well in low-light). The thing already works with my Linux box - there's a program called 'photopc' that grabs images from it over the serial line. It dosen't work with my Windows box; I installed their driver but it crashes whenever it tries to talk to the camera. Strange that it works better on a system for which there is no official support than on a system for which there is official support.
You see twinkling stars because of the planet's atmosphere that you're looking through.
I prefer:
'White hat hacker' : good hacker
'Grey hat hacker'
'Black hat hacker' : evil hacker ('cracker')
'h4x0r' or '5kr1p+ k1dd13' : evil, but not a hacker
more dangers, from working as a sysadmin and being bored in high-school computer classes:
4. Don't try to hotswap processors, memory, and cards that aren't supposed to be hotswapped. Even if you're bored.
5. Don't touch circuit boards or connectors with metal objects when the system is turned on (altough abusing the video card will result in pretty displays).
6. Make sure the power switch is really attached to what you think it is before pressing it.
7. Mice and other objects with cables should not be hung from ceiling fans unless you like missiles flying at you. (Yes, this really happened in my computer class while the teacher wasn't looking)
A big tape is cheaper than a $30 rewritable CD when you consider that (if I did my math right) you'd pay about $738 to buy CD-RWs with the capacity of a $65 tape (assuming $30 dollars per 650 MB rewritable CD and 16GB per $65 dollar tape - I got the tape size&cost from the tapes used on our Linux server), but the cost of the drives is murder for a home user. You're right about CDs being cheaper if you want to keep all the backups forever (about $24 dollars for 16GB of write-once CDs, if I didn't screw up my math).
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:)
But nice big fast tape drives are sooo much more expensive than CD burners...
(gahck, if you read my posts in this article you'd think I'm some crazy tape evangelist... I sound like your steriotypical OS bigot... uh-oh, here come the men in white coats...
A price check on CDW shows 2GB Jaz cartridges selling for $124.95. The Tandberg drive we use at work can put 16GB (uncompressed) on a single $65.71 tape. The server the tape drive is on has a bunch of Seagate ST39140W drives which hold about 8GB apiece (CDW says they hold 9.1 GB) and cost $339.10. The hot swap hardware for the drives adds to the cost, and the disks have to be present when the system is booted.
Two of those disks cost $678.20 and would have about 2GB more capacity than a $65.71 tape (IIRC a 25GB tape can be had for about $78), and $999.60 (probably a little less, because there's a discount for 3-packs) to buy eight Jaz cartridges which would equal a single tape. The disks and cartridges would probably be faster (although it would be annoying to sit for hours changing cartridges when you can stick in a tape and go home), but imagine paying $8000 to keep twice-a-week backups going back six weeks when you could pay $800 plus the one-time expense of the drive. Imagine if you did daily backups (which we don't), or kept a few months worth of backups... or kept 'em indefinately...
The drive *is* rather expensive, but because of media prices tape is cheaper than other solutions if you make frequent backups and keep them for a while.
...and, the 8 Jaz cartridges take up as much space in your fireproof container (which should hopefully be designed to protect magnetic media, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread) as four tapes - that's four backups in the physical space of one.
Not in the entire Unix world; only in the Unix-on-32-bit-processor world. For example, AlphaLinux and Digital Unix (now with the odd name Compaq Tru64) shouldn't encounter sort of problem.
The Asus mainboard (don't have the model number handy; the machine and docs are about a mile away) I use can be configured in the BIOS to be 'always on', but it also has a setting so that the power switch must be held down for four seconds in order to switch the machine off. It's a nice feature for servers because it protects you from accidentally pressing the power switch, and if you really do want to turn off the power it's easier than untaping the metal plate that's covering the switch (we really do use little metal plates to protect switches at work).
The Asus mainboard (don't have the model number handy; the machine and docs are about a mile away) I use can be configured to switch on whenever
On the Asus mainboard I use there's a setting in the BIOS that will cause the powerswitch to act as a suspend switch. A daemon could watch for suspend requests and run shutdown when it sees 'em.
The Washington Times article implies that simply typing your name at the bottom of a document or affixing an image of a fingerprint could be considered an electronic signature. This makes cut&paste forgeries easy for anyone :) . The Senate bill dosen't clarify if this would be so. I assume that any court would rule that only a cryptographic signature (like PGP) that isn't vulerable to cut&paste is valid, but I'd like to see it written into the bill anyway.
Oh - the link for the text of the House bill (it's HR1714) dosen't work, and thomas.loc.gov says that the text of HR1714 has not been entered into the database yet.
The vendor accepted the EULA on my laptop when some hardware was installed prior to delivery. I never saw the EULA, though. (unfortunately I can't get a refund since I used Windows to telnet to a Linux box with dead keyboard controller)
Is anyone else annoyed when companies put the oh-so-trendy '.com' in their names?