The article says that there are 3 kinds of clusters, not 4. They are scientific clusters (like Beowolf -- think of them as CPU clusters), load-balancing clusters, and high-availability clusters.
Well, virus source code is probably still okay. If you recall, the Concept virus was written in Word's macro language just to show that it could be done. It was first written by an acedemic to point out the vulnerability. It was later modified to actually do harm. So, I would say that a virus in and of itself is okay, at least while still in source form. Once you compile it into a binary and spread it, you are definitely in trouble.
Unless they can show that you intended to do harm, spreading the source code to a virus may be okay. It would most likely depend on the context under which it was released. If it was released as code to be studied, it should be okay. If it is realeased with the obvious intent to do harm, then you are in trouble. This makes sense -- it's exactly the same as free speech -- you can't go around yelling fire in crowded theatres or saying things with the intent of harming stock valuations.
That price is unreasonable for any release date prior to 2002 or 2003. Perhaps they plan on selling a monthly service along with it, sort of like WebTV. That way they can screw you over a longer period of time.
How do the support volunteers that use the Internet compare to those that have been traditionally involved? Are they more active, or more talk and less action?
I've got a Dell Inspiron 7000 -- it's great. It really is a desktop replacement. I've got the 14" screen, which is bigger than a 15" monitor, but is more like a 17" monitor, since it sits closer to you. Their customer service was great too -- the machine arrived ealier than promised, and they reimbursed me for the WinModem that they told me was not a WinModem. (All the non-PCMCIA modems are WinModems, despite what the sales people say.) I've got my system dual-booting 98 and Red Hat. Take a look at the Inspiron 7500 and 3700. The amount of hard drive and memory you can put in them is unbelievable. A tip: if you're going to be flying a lot, get a DVD -- otherwise don't.
The MD format only holds about 150 MB. The music format uses a compression method that is supposedly similar to MP3, but only compresses about 4X. The compression scheme is called ATRAC. (Someone had a sense of humor, because the name sounds like 8-track.) At the time it was released, 150 MB re-writable media of that size was impressive. Now, it's not all that impressive. Even though the MD media is cheap, the read/write mechanism is not. I think you'd probably be better off using one of IBM's tiny hard drives or some type of flash memory stick.
Ragarding the US court case, it sounded to me like the judge said that the only reason that the code is illegal is that it was obtained in violation of the click license. So all we need to do to make the trade secret invalid is to get a reverse engineered program by a legal means. One method that may work is by getting the source code from others who legally got it from the court documents before they were sealed, but it is questionable whether the judge would allow that.
It occurs to me that the other possibility would be to decompress the Xing program from the installation CD by hand, so that we can copy the DLLs and EXEs to our hard drives without clicking on the license. Then we are free to reverse engineer it and can duplicate the steps to come up with a legal DeCSS.
Torx is obviously a better implementation, but has the problem that a lot of people don't own Torx drivers. It even does a good job of holding the screw for you in most instances. It's main downfall is its lack of a critical mass of installed users.
Red Hat also hosts the GNOME.org site, which does appear to be down at this time. (There may be mirror sites, but DNS has not been set up to send you there automatically.)
I thought Bender was very similar to Marvin the Paranoid Android in the Hitchhikers Guide. He's very depressed and suicidal. But he's also quite like Kryten, the mechanoid in Red Dwarf, who breaks his programming so that he can think for himself. As far as the entire premise, I don't think that it tried to copy either one, but they all create a setting in which the main character feels very out of place. They are also 3 of the best examples of sci-fi humor.
Just create a separate slashdot account to use on your PalmPilot. So the Booker account will keep your current settings, and Booker-Palm will be set to a minimal view for PalmPilot use.
I had a similar problem getting through the metaphors. The article wasn't bad, it's just that the author needs to be more conscise in getting his point across. I like EngrBohn's distilled summary. Maybe we can have him write for us instead -- it will save me a lot of time reading.
Is there already a game called Civilization III, or something? Or is Civ:CTP not by the same company that did Civ II? In either case, I would think that just using the base name of Civilization would be enough to get sued.
Excellent point on the bounties. I knew that there was something wrong with the bounty idea when I first read it, but I couldn't quite figure out what. You've captured it beautifully -- it really isn't open source when everyone is competing to win the money. Open source is all about cooperation. I think that many "suits" are seeing things in terms of free labor, and this pretty much proves it.
Maybe they should select somebody in their company to be a project maintainer and pay developers a bounty by-the-line for code that gets accepted. Basically divide the $20,000 or whatever by lines of code submitted.
I'd also like more companies to follow the Red Hat model by hiring free software programmers and basically funding them to continue to write free software. I don't like it that only one company is really doing that so far -- it gives them a little too much influence. But this influence could easily be mitigated if another company started doing the same thing. Problems could turn up when 2 companies want to influence the same project, but I think that they could both hire programmers, and the 2 teams would have to cooperate in order to prevent a code fork.
Actually, I'd say that it is totalitarianism that was always the problem more than Communism and Socialism. Which is to say that the ruling party never gave up their power to the proletariat like they were supposed to in true Marxism.
No. Salon seems to be independent, as well as quite clueful when it comes to technology and Linux. I think Slate is the Microsoft-affiliated magazine site. And Sidewalk, if it still exists.
You can get your Maestro-2 to work by booting into DOS and loading the DOS-based initialization driver, then using LOADLIN to load Linux. It will see the Maestro-2 as a regular SoundBlaster (can't remember if it is Pro or 16 -- probably Pro).
If you subtract out Deep Crack's (toad.com) numbers from the #1 team, we're the fastest software-based team.
Plus, I joined Team Slashdot just now (with keys already submitted) because it hasn't been possible to join a team for most of the past 3 weeks while the DES-TESTs were running.
Umm, didn't Microsoft agree not to charge per-processor in their 1995 consent decree? I'm pretty sure that they did. If they did agree to that but are still doing it, I think the DOJ has another case ahead....
It looks like if you follow the links, you end up getting a 2.7100 or 2.7102 client. But if I'm reading correctly, you need the 2.7103 client to do DES III. Try getting the latest client from here. It says libc5, but it really isn't linked to any libraries at all, so it's okay to use no matter what libc you have.
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The article says that there are 3 kinds of clusters, not 4. They are scientific clusters (like Beowolf -- think of them as CPU clusters), load-balancing clusters, and high-availability clusters.
Well, virus source code is probably still okay. If you recall, the Concept virus was written in Word's macro language just to show that it could be done. It was first written by an acedemic to point out the vulnerability. It was later modified to actually do harm. So, I would say that a virus in and of itself is okay, at least while still in source form. Once you compile it into a binary and spread it, you are definitely in trouble.
Unless they can show that you intended to do harm, spreading the source code to a virus may be okay. It would most likely depend on the context under which it was released. If it was released as code to be studied, it should be okay. If it is realeased with the obvious intent to do harm, then you are in trouble. This makes sense -- it's exactly the same as free speech -- you can't go around yelling fire in crowded theatres or saying things with the intent of harming stock valuations.
That price is unreasonable for any release date prior to 2002 or 2003. Perhaps they plan on selling a monthly service along with it, sort of like WebTV. That way they can screw you over a longer period of time.
How do the support volunteers that use the Internet compare to those that have been traditionally involved? Are they more active, or more talk and less action?
I've got a Dell Inspiron 7000 -- it's great. It really is a desktop replacement. I've got the 14" screen, which is bigger than a 15" monitor, but is more like a 17" monitor, since it sits closer to you. Their customer service was great too -- the machine arrived ealier than promised, and they reimbursed me for the WinModem that they told me was not a WinModem. (All the non-PCMCIA modems are WinModems, despite what the sales people say.) I've got my system dual-booting 98 and Red Hat. Take a look at the Inspiron 7500 and 3700. The amount of hard drive and memory you can put in them is unbelievable. A tip: if you're going to be flying a lot, get a DVD -- otherwise don't.
The MD format only holds about 150 MB. The music format uses a compression method that is supposedly similar to MP3, but only compresses about 4X. The compression scheme is called ATRAC. (Someone had a sense of humor, because the name sounds like 8-track.) At the time it was released, 150 MB re-writable media of that size was impressive. Now, it's not all that impressive. Even though the MD media is cheap, the read/write mechanism is not. I think you'd probably be better off using one of IBM's tiny hard drives or some type of flash memory stick.
Ragarding the US court case, it sounded to me like the judge said that the only reason that the code is illegal is that it was obtained in violation of the click license. So all we need to do to make the trade secret invalid is to get a reverse engineered program by a legal means. One method that may work is by getting the source code from others who legally got it from the court documents before they were sealed, but it is questionable whether the judge would allow that.
It occurs to me that the other possibility would be to decompress the Xing program from the installation CD by hand, so that we can copy the DLLs and EXEs to our hard drives without clicking on the license. Then we are free to reverse engineer it and can duplicate the steps to come up with a legal DeCSS.
Torx is obviously a better implementation, but has the problem that a lot of people don't own Torx drivers. It even does a good job of holding the screw for you in most instances. It's main downfall is its lack of a critical mass of installed users.
Red Hat also hosts the GNOME.org site, which does appear to be down at this time. (There may be mirror sites, but DNS has not been set up to send you there automatically.)
That wasn't half as funny as the option to purchase the Personal Edition of WordPerfect 8!
I thought Bender was very similar to Marvin the Paranoid Android in the Hitchhikers Guide. He's very depressed and suicidal. But he's also quite like Kryten, the mechanoid in Red Dwarf, who breaks his programming so that he can think for himself. As far as the entire premise, I don't think that it tried to copy either one, but they all create a setting in which the main character feels very out of place. They are also 3 of the best examples of sci-fi humor.
Just create a separate slashdot account to use on your PalmPilot. So the Booker account will keep your current settings, and Booker-Palm will be set to a minimal view for PalmPilot use.
I had a similar problem getting through the metaphors. The article wasn't bad, it's just that the author needs to be more conscise in getting his point across. I like EngrBohn's distilled summary. Maybe we can have him write for us instead -- it will save me a lot of time reading.
Is there already a game called Civilization III, or something? Or is Civ:CTP not by the same company that did Civ II? In either case, I would think that just using the base name of Civilization would be enough to get sued.
Excellent point on the bounties. I knew that there was something wrong with the bounty idea when I first read it, but I couldn't quite figure out what. You've captured it beautifully -- it really isn't open source when everyone is competing to win the money. Open source is all about cooperation. I think that many "suits" are seeing things in terms of free labor, and this pretty much proves it.
Maybe they should select somebody in their company to be a project maintainer and pay developers a bounty by-the-line for code that gets accepted. Basically divide the $20,000 or whatever by lines of code submitted.
I'd also like more companies to follow the Red Hat model by hiring free software programmers and basically funding them to continue to write free software. I don't like it that only one company is really doing that so far -- it gives them a little too much influence. But this influence could easily be mitigated if another company started doing the same thing. Problems could turn up when 2 companies want to influence the same project, but I think that they could both hire programmers, and the 2 teams would have to cooperate in order to prevent a code fork.
Actually, I'd say that it is totalitarianism that was always the problem more than Communism and Socialism. Which is to say that the ruling party never gave up their power to the proletariat like they were supposed to in true Marxism.
That's why we need the Doomsday device.
He shoots. He scores!
(Sorry, but somebody had to say it.)
Yeah, haven't you seen unitron's signature lately?
No. Salon seems to be independent, as well as quite clueful when it comes to technology and Linux. I think Slate is the Microsoft-affiliated magazine site. And Sidewalk, if it still exists.
You can get your Maestro-2 to work by booting into DOS and loading the DOS-based initialization driver, then using LOADLIN to load Linux. It will see the Maestro-2 as a regular SoundBlaster (can't remember if it is Pro or 16 -- probably Pro).
If you subtract out Deep Crack's (toad.com) numbers from the #1 team, we're the fastest software-based team.
Plus, I joined Team Slashdot just now (with keys already submitted) because it hasn't been possible to join a team for most of the past 3 weeks while the DES-TESTs were running.
Umm, didn't Microsoft agree not to charge per-processor in their 1995 consent decree? I'm pretty sure that they did. If they did agree to that but are still doing it, I think the DOJ has another case ahead....
It looks like if you follow the links, you end up getting a 2.7100 or 2.7102 client. But if I'm reading correctly, you need the 2.7103 client to do DES III. Try getting the latest client from here. It says libc5, but it really isn't linked to any libraries at all, so it's okay to use no matter what libc you have.