but with an "all your contributed changes belong to us" condition
dodge the supposedly "bulletproof" protections of the GPL
Umm.. that's a little misleading. The condition is on MySQL accepting patches from the public, not on the GPL (since that's not allowed). If you want MySQL to accept your patches, you have to give them copyright (that's the only way they can dual-license).
You're still free to fork the code and apply your own patches to the fork, which MySQL cannot touch and relicence, since your patches are GPL'ed.
Why no PGP in Microsoft mail clients? There's no money in it.
Microsoft mail clients support SSL certificates though. SSL certificates cost you money. SSL certificate authorities provide kickbacks to Microsoft to include their CA key in MS products.
One more reason I hope Firefox/Thunderbird takes the world by storm: whoever controls the client controls which CAs are distributed with it. Oh, Verisign, you're being cunts again. Say goodbye to your CA key. Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla will also be able to fund themselves by operating their own (cheaper, less arseholeish) CA.
I mean I you want some user to be able to to partitionning on SCSI drivers, juste assign "/dev/sd*" to group "scsi-disk" and make user member of that group.
Try mount a filesystem, even one where you own the source device and mount point, as a non-root user. Without pre-configuring it in fstab as root, that is.
How are users being forced to use either IE or WMP, besides their own laziness? How are they "new markets" when GUIs, network stacks, file/printer sharing, defraggers, A/V, and other bits are not?
No, this whole line of thought is completely misguided. It is nothing more than sabotage by sore losers, and doesn't correct the true problem.
If MS are abusing their position to lock out competitors and control their current market, then it's their contracts with OEMs that should be in question.
If MS are using their position to enter and control new markets, then it's their adherence to existing standards (eg. HTML) and the openness of their own formats (Windows Media) that should be in question.
Having the government design Microsoft's software is just stupid.
And where does that setup icon come from? I don't see an icon on windows that can download almost any program, compile it, and install it automatically.
Anywhere.
Unlike Windows, it's rather rare to find a Linux software package that includes everything it needs to run. Generally, you're fucked for anything not under package management.
Personally, I anything I compile manually I do statically, and shove under/opt. The Unix way (spraying shit all over the filesystem) is just too much fucking work. Good thing Debian has an awesome collection of software to start with, or I'd be fucked.
You do realise that you're comparing the quake 3 install process to downloading video drivers and configuring X.org, right?
Installing video drivers in Windows is the same. Insert CD, click OK, reboot. Ooh, and here's the cool bit: if it (Windows GUI system) can't figure out WTF you're running, it drops back to 640x480 VGA. It never fails to at least start. EVAR. Unlike X, if you so much as sneeze on the same continent it'll refuse to start.
Just another reason why none of my Linux machines (3) even have X installed...
And this is why, in a society where "ignorance of the law is no defence," the law must be what the average person would consider reasonable, even common sense.
Specialist laws are fine in specialised fields, but when the average shmoe has the ability to do something and doesn't see anything wrong with it, the law has to change. Printing presses were rare. Computers today are not. Something has to give.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Freelancer had something like that... you have a reputation with each of the factions, which were interdependant (if you killed someone, their allies with start to dislike you, and their enemies start to like you). When your reputation hits Hostile, NPCs of that faction will attack you on sight. If you're neutral with one of your Hostiles' Allies, they will turn Hostile on you temporarily too, and join in.
Unfortunately the Freelancer universe was a little too simplistic (methinks they didn't finish it in case there was $$ to be made on a subscripion based version), so newbie areas had pissweak NPCs, and the bounty missions were limited to NPCs. But the thought was there.
Permadeath sucks though. Better to lose all your stuff and get teleported to some unholy corner of the universe that takes ages to get back from.
Ehh.. that's only 35 degrees (in real measurements). Try 40 in the city and 45 out in the western suburbs. Now put a PC or three indoors, which of course generate their own heat. Unless you're home and/or leave your A/C on all day, it's going to get mighty toasty.
Where's the "Steam, for the most part, fucking rocks, but hell will freeze over before I contribute to its success as an authentication mechanism" option?
If it was quick (and free) to transfer a single game from one account to another, maybe (making separate accounts for each game so they can be transferred to another party is just lame). If they promise to remove all remote authentication schemes from it completely after 5-10 years (perhaps kept in escrow, so they can't renege), maybe. But a system that neatly kills the "pre-loved" market, the buddy system (borrow games from friends), and will eventually stop authenticating new installs (when I get all retro sometime in the future and want to reinstall), can go and get fucked.
I have the original Half-Life (released pre-steam of course), and have since installed Steam for it (free), so I'll be playing the HL2 demo for sure. But I won't buy the full game.
Presumably email will get faster and friendlier, and hell, at some point probably may as well be the same as an IM system.
When I was first introduced to IM, each message was delivered in its own window, and that was it. It wasn't long before each person got their own IRC style chat window, so you could follow multiple discussions easily.
This behaviour would be fairly simple to replicate in an email client. IIRC, one of the Mozilla based email apps has "virtual folders," so they're already on the way. Add a folder-specific reply window that automagically CC's all the filtered senders to that folder, and the (optional) ability to open said folder in its own barebones window, and you're there.
Substitute Postgres or whatever to taste, but that just fucks up a perfectly good acronym, so we'll pretend MySQL is a placeholder for $REAL_DATABASE of your choice.
for two weeks of
Special High Intensity Training and returning with...
undreds of megabytes of Outlook PST files, Adobe PageMaker & Illustrator (4 different versions for Mac & PC), Gerber files, Microsoft Office files (every version ever), Visio Files, Tiffs, Jpegs, AutoDesk Files, Pro-E files.
Windows may be the OS, but that doesn't make MS the vendor being sued (or paying out due to contract). It's not uncommon to purchase reliability guarantees in addition to the usual maintenance contracts from your hardware/application vendor, and the OS is included as part of the package.
But for some reason, every linux admin under the SUN seems to have a GIANT BONER for samba, despite its limitations
Doesn't NFS do client side auth? Even though I hear remote root access is now disabled by default, that's not good enough for workstations. It's plenty fine for server-server though.
I don't know what you mean by GUI/CLI integration and OS/2 was not object oriented, only the WPS was. To demonstrate, move a file from the GUI and the CLI; the GUI will preserve your shadows, but the CLI won't.
I'm guessing what you mean is WPS provides hooks to allow the script to control the GUI was if it was a user. I believe Applescript is like that. Windows is much more object oriented than OS/2, but most of the time only functionality is exposed, not user-level control (ie. a mail client might expose objects to access the address book and mail related functions, but not control the GUI widgets as the user sees them).
Performance the same, lower noise and power consumption--this is all great, but the most important question is: is it equally robust as the full-sized version?
Smaller size (== less mass) and lower power (== less heat) can only be a Good Thing for wear and tear. Unless you drop it I suppose.
because anything that is smaller is inevitably easier to scratch, as any given scratch is relatively larger
Only if the density is higher. You'll note SCSI drives tend to lag a bit behind IDE for capacity, and 2.5" drives lag behind a LOT. Not that it matters, any scratch of note means a dead drive. The days when one could live with a bad sector or three are long gone. Once SMART reports your drive is using its spare sectors, it's time to place an order for a replacement.
namely laptops might finally get SCSI drives to achieve much better quality and throughput than the legacy IDE we are usually left with now
Market separation. There's nothing stopping mfr's from making high quality, high speed IDE drives. They just don't want to. If SCSI hits mainstream there will be pressure to lower the cost of SCSI, which will fuck up their profit models. Right now, if you're serious about storage, you bend over and take it with a smile as you have no other choice. SCSI-on-the-desktop/laptop gives SCSI users a choice.
I for one quite like the SCSI zealots subsidising my cheap 256GB IDE drives, thank you:)
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You're still free to fork the code and apply your own patches to the fork, which MySQL cannot touch and relicence, since your patches are GPL'ed.
When you breathe open air, you're breathing communism.
Now. Mmkay. To. English. Learn. Speak. You.
Why no PGP in Microsoft mail clients? There's no money in it.
Microsoft mail clients support SSL certificates though. SSL certificates cost you money. SSL certificate authorities provide kickbacks to Microsoft to include their CA key in MS products.
One more reason I hope Firefox/Thunderbird takes the world by storm: whoever controls the client controls which CAs are distributed with it. Oh, Verisign, you're being cunts again. Say goodbye to your CA key. Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla will also be able to fund themselves by operating their own (cheaper, less arseholeish) CA.
How are users being forced to use either IE or WMP, besides their own laziness? How are they "new markets" when GUIs, network stacks, file/printer sharing, defraggers, A/V, and other bits are not?
No, this whole line of thought is completely misguided. It is nothing more than sabotage by sore losers, and doesn't correct the true problem.
If MS are abusing their position to lock out competitors and control their current market, then it's their contracts with OEMs that should be in question.
If MS are using their position to enter and control new markets, then it's their adherence to existing standards (eg. HTML) and the openness of their own formats (Windows Media) that should be in question.
Having the government design Microsoft's software is just stupid.
Doesn't that require the source tree to have ./Debian control files?
**hugs USR Couriers**
Don't you listen to that Bad Man...
Unlike Windows, it's rather rare to find a Linux software package that includes everything it needs to run. Generally, you're fucked for anything not under package management.
Personally, I anything I compile manually I do statically, and shove under
Installing video drivers in Windows is the same. Insert CD, click OK, reboot. Ooh, and here's the cool bit: if it (Windows GUI system) can't figure out WTF you're running, it drops back to 640x480 VGA. It never fails to at least start. EVAR. Unlike X, if you so much as sneeze on the same continent it'll refuse to start.
Just another reason why none of my Linux machines (3) even have X installed...
And this is why, in a society where "ignorance of the law is no defence," the law must be what the average person would consider reasonable, even common sense.
Specialist laws are fine in specialised fields, but when the average shmoe has the ability to do something and doesn't see anything wrong with it, the law has to change. Printing presses were rare. Computers today are not. Something has to give.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Python can handle semicolon line breaks. Observe:
import modified_tinyp2p, sys; modified_tinyp2p(sys.argv[1])
One line.
Freelancer had something like that... you have a reputation with each of the factions, which were interdependant (if you killed someone, their allies with start to dislike you, and their enemies start to like you). When your reputation hits Hostile, NPCs of that faction will attack you on sight. If you're neutral with one of your Hostiles' Allies, they will turn Hostile on you temporarily too, and join in.
Unfortunately the Freelancer universe was a little too simplistic (methinks they didn't finish it in case there was $$ to be made on a subscripion based version), so newbie areas had pissweak NPCs, and the bounty missions were limited to NPCs. But the thought was there.
Permadeath sucks though. Better to lose all your stuff and get teleported to some unholy corner of the universe that takes ages to get back from.
Ehh.. that's only 35 degrees (in real measurements). Try 40 in the city and 45 out in the western suburbs. Now put a PC or three indoors, which of course generate their own heat. Unless you're home and/or leave your A/C on all day, it's going to get mighty toasty.
Where's the "Steam, for the most part, fucking rocks, but hell will freeze over before I contribute to its success as an authentication mechanism" option?
If it was quick (and free) to transfer a single game from one account to another, maybe (making separate accounts for each game so they can be transferred to another party is just lame). If they promise to remove all remote authentication schemes from it completely after 5-10 years (perhaps kept in escrow, so they can't renege), maybe. But a system that neatly kills the "pre-loved" market, the buddy system (borrow games from friends), and will eventually stop authenticating new installs (when I get all retro sometime in the future and want to reinstall), can go and get fucked.
I have the original Half-Life (released pre-steam of course), and have since installed Steam for it (free), so I'll be playing the HL2 demo for sure. But I won't buy the full game.
When I was first introduced to IM, each message was delivered in its own window, and that was it. It wasn't long before each person got their own IRC style chat window, so you could follow multiple discussions easily.
This behaviour would be fairly simple to replicate in an email client. IIRC, one of the Mozilla based email apps has "virtual folders," so they're already on the way. Add a folder-specific reply window that automagically CC's all the filtered senders to that folder, and the (optional) ability to open said folder in its own barebones window, and you're there.
I think it's safe to assume that if a Russian submarine is reentering the atmosphere, any and all costs would be more that worth it to the US...
Substitute Postgres or whatever to taste, but that just fucks up a perfectly good acronym, so we'll pretend MySQL is a placeholder for $REAL_DATABASE of your choice.
Yep, I'd say you inherited a pile of shit.
Some people, cooks/chefs in particular, like it bloody.
Have you discovered the Services control panel yet? Try restarting the DHCP Server before rebooting the whole box.
Windows may be the OS, but that doesn't make MS the vendor being sued (or paying out due to contract). It's not uncommon to purchase reliability guarantees in addition to the usual maintenance contracts from your hardware/application vendor, and the OS is included as part of the package.
You can bet your left one that if we were shooting waste into the sun we'd get blamed for any and all anomalies...
I don't know what you mean by GUI/CLI integration and OS/2 was not object oriented, only the WPS was. To demonstrate, move a file from the GUI and the CLI; the GUI will preserve your shadows, but the CLI won't.
I'm guessing what you mean is WPS provides hooks to allow the script to control the GUI was if it was a user. I believe Applescript is like that. Windows is much more object oriented than OS/2, but most of the time only functionality is exposed, not user-level control (ie. a mail client might expose objects to access the address book and mail related functions, but not control the GUI widgets as the user sees them).
Only if the density is higher. You'll note SCSI drives tend to lag a bit behind IDE for capacity, and 2.5" drives lag behind a LOT. Not that it matters, any scratch of note means a dead drive. The days when one could live with a bad sector or three are long gone. Once SMART reports your drive is using its spare sectors, it's time to place an order for a replacement.
Market separation. There's nothing stopping mfr's from making high quality, high speed IDE drives. They just don't want to. If SCSI hits mainstream there will be pressure to lower the cost of SCSI, which will fuck up their profit models. Right now, if you're serious about storage, you bend over and take it with a smile as you have no other choice. SCSI-on-the-desktop/laptop gives SCSI users a choice.
I for one quite like the SCSI zealots subsidising my cheap 256GB IDE drives, thank you