So what happens if I happen to have a local machine named "tube", and someone decides to register the "tube" TLD and puts an A record on it, which he most likely will -- after all, if you owned a TLD, wouldn't you put your website there?
That won't work. You need an extra dot for the TLD. See, for example http://dk. vs. http://dk.
Problem with that analogy: you might as well be talking about Y2K glitches in 1995. Also, Y2K was mostly a stupid high level programming problem with easy workarounds. This is hardware.
Buying new hardware is pretty cheap, compared to having a consultant go through millions of lines of code. You do it every three years anyway.
Or do you think those high y2k salaries for COBOL programmers were for chatting at the water cooler?
Uhm, yes. That was my point.
Obviously, there were some problems. There always is with software. But hell didn't break loose, power didn't go away, time didn't go backwards. This also goes for countries like Eastern Europe where little was spent on Y2K fixing.
on top of that if they would redo ssl so thatyou can support host headers that would allow allot of consolidation of webservices/sites by farm hosters..
That would be RFC 2817, which Apache already supports since version 2.2. Unfortunately, this is unsupported in most browsers.
In the current stable version, an imap client cannot delete a mail from any folder. This is fun when a client does not actually move mails between folders or the trash, but copies first and then deletes, such as Apple Mail.
Copy+delete is the only way to move mail with IMAP. Unfortunately, there is no atomic move command.
Man, they SERIOUSLY need that license notification...considering that last I checked, Firefox wasn't GPL (its MPL) and a lot of people here seem to think it is!
So, last you checked, people were still busy fixing that whole Y2K issue...
So show the trademark notice (not the actual GPL text) during install with a specific message that tells the user they do not have to agree to it unless they're actually thinking of redistributing it.
This is petty for the same reason that the GPL is so strong: you do not have a right to distribute, unless it is granted to you. So there is no need to have users accept any license. Distribution is forbidden by default!
I always wondered about if accepting the gpl is required. If I decline the gpl license, what right does I have to use the software?
You don't have to wonder so much. Read the GPL, even the preamble, and you will know...
[...] If possession is enough, then I can also conclude that any software EULA is invalid, because I can just run the software without accepting the EULA.
An EULA is invalid because it is imposed after the purchase. Indeed, you often have to break the seal to learn what you agree to by breaking the seal.
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as Bruce Perens famously said at Linux SF Con 2006, Linux is only free if your time has no value
Huh, I think that is a quote by JWZ, from 1998.
Glad I'm using Lotus Notes.
That's a first!
You have a format that only worked in Red Hat 5.0's version of star office. you have the source.
Actually, StarOffice was closed source back then.
I prefer this [zoy.org] site, its facts are far more accurate ;-)
At least it wasn't a rickroll ...
What a retarded headline. Would it have killed someone to write it as "Soyuz 4 and 5 Made History 40 Years Ago Today"?
"Soyuz 4 and 5 Made History 40 Years Ago Yesterday"
Every semester some intern puts Javascript code in the Java bin and the other way around!
We got rid of that problem by decomposing the code all the way down to ones and zeroes.
(Yes, I know I am going to get voted down for attempting to defend IE in any capacity...they should really just add -1 Disagree and be done with it)
Much more needed is "-1, Reverse psychology"
(runner-up is "+1, your uid is prime")
nonsense, disk is cheap and having a couple extra libs around doesn't impact it that much
Well, you also need to keep the extra library in memory, rather than sharing the 64 bit version. So that takes some extra RAM.
Of course, RAM is also cheap. Which is why we buy lots of it. And when you have more than 1GB of RAM, 64 bit performs better. So there.
Why don't they anyway?
One reason would be that it also requires 32-bit libraries, and that is a mess to maintain.
So what happens if I happen to have a local machine named "tube", and someone decides to register the "tube" TLD and puts an A record on it, which he most likely will -- after all, if you owned a TLD, wouldn't you put your website there?
That won't work. You need an extra dot for the TLD. See, for example http://dk. vs. http://dk.
1) A /64 is equivalent to *DOUBLE* the *ENTIRE* IPv4 address space.
Define "double".
Problem with that analogy: you might as well be talking about Y2K glitches in 1995. Also, Y2K was mostly a stupid high level programming problem with easy workarounds. This is hardware.
Buying new hardware is pretty cheap, compared to having a consultant go through millions of lines of code. You do it every three years anyway.
IPv6 will happen as quickly as DVD did.
Or do you think those high y2k salaries for COBOL programmers were for chatting at the water cooler?
Uhm, yes. That was my point.
Obviously, there were some problems. There always is with software. But hell didn't break loose, power didn't go away, time didn't go backwards. This also goes for countries like Eastern Europe where little was spent on Y2K fixing.
Haven't they noticed the IPv4 exhaustion report yet?
It seems IPv4 exhaustion is the new Y2K. Lots of reports, few problems.
Just telnet in and use SMTP commands.
SMTP? I would expect his main problem to be with reading mail, not sending.
on top of that if they would redo ssl so thatyou can support host headers that would allow allot of consolidation of webservices/sites by farm hosters..
That would be RFC 2817, which Apache already supports since version 2.2. Unfortunately, this is unsupported in most browsers.
Note that the anti-phishing feature makes Firefox slow over time.
In the current stable version, an imap client cannot delete a mail from any folder. This is fun when a client does not actually move mails between folders or the trash, but copies first and then deletes, such as Apple Mail.
Copy+delete is the only way to move mail with IMAP. Unfortunately, there is no atomic move command.
Man, they SERIOUSLY need that license notification...considering that last I checked, Firefox wasn't GPL (its MPL) and a lot of people here seem to think it is!
So, last you checked, people were still busy fixing that whole Y2K issue ...
No, the GPL covers distribution only, not use.
Sure, we fully get the idea that they need license notification so that you can get up to speed without having to spend two minutes at Wikipedia.
I agree.
... and if it's Free software, they don't have to agree.
So show the trademark notice (not the actual GPL text) during install with a specific message that tells the user they do not have to agree to it unless they're actually thinking of redistributing it.
This is petty for the same reason that the GPL is so strong: you do not have a right to distribute, unless it is granted to you. So there is no need to have users accept any license. Distribution is forbidden by default!
I always wondered about if accepting the gpl is required. If I decline the gpl license, what right does I have to use the software?
You don't have to wonder so much. Read the GPL, even the preamble, and you will know ...
[...] If possession is enough, then I can also conclude that any software EULA is invalid, because I can just run the software without accepting the EULA.
An EULA is invalid because it is imposed after the purchase. Indeed, you often have to break the seal to learn what you agree to by breaking the seal.