MySQL's code is owned by developer David Axmark, and its roughly 3 million users follow the GPL (General Public License). The GPL allows open-source programs to be changed by users, but those changes aren't official and can't be sold commercially unless they're given back to and accepted by the owner.
The GPL means nothing of the sort. Am I the only that things at least tech press should have figured out these basic facts by now?
You copyright code so that you (as an author) can decide under what terms it is distributed.
This author picked the BSD license, which, ammong things, requires that verbatim copies of the code retain their copyright notices.
If we (The open source community) decide that we can ignore that part of the license, then what is to stop eg Microsoft deciding they can ignore the bits about keeping source open (GPL)???
> Try doing anything sophisticated like, say, a
> table which has an embedded tree and
> expands/contracts rows as the tree elements are
> expanded/contracted. This is really easy to do
> with code (at least in Java) but unbelievably
> nightmarish to do in an IDE.
Would you mind knocking up a quick example of this then please? I'll like to do more advanced GUI stuff in java, but I really haven't got my head around how to do it tidily; all my code that uses more than a simple gui ends up looking like the hacked up mess it is...
I seem to remember reading somewhere (I'll dig out a pencil & paper sometime I'm more bored than I am now) that 140 ish digits is enought to calculate the circumfrence (sp?) of the observable universe to within the diameter of a hydrogen atom...
There is a book that is rather out-of-date now, but follows that format and I'd still recommend it if you can spare the cash - 'Tricks of the game programming gurus'. It is by no means perfect but I'd say that an updated version that was linux-centric and covered vaguely similar material (Though it was written before 3d accellerators et al) could be good.
I can't remember who published it off the top of my head but if you really can't find it on a search then the above email address is valid...
I really doubt that it would be a port, the backend of the compiler (GEM, common between the cc & various fortran compilers) is *really* optimised for the alpha, so for something as architecturally different as the x86 it would be a reimplementation, and a massive job to get it anything like as good.
Meanwhile I'll have the skills to navigate without being reliant an a GPS, so that when it rains and your GPS shorts out(seen that happen) or your battery runs flat (seen that several times), I can sit & laugh as you wonder round in circles.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against GPS systems, but anybody out walking should be able to navigate proficiently by several methods. I've seen people who had the same problem when they cracked their compass, had no idea how to orientate a map without it...
> If these patches want to make your machine really
> secure then they would disconnect you from the
> internet. You cant get much safer than that
> unless the patch turns your machine OFF!
Hmmm, where is my copy of the power management API gone???
Slashdot Mirror
It's only got the first page though - the interesting stuff (like the actual advice) is not mirrored. Did anybody grab a copy before it fell over?
The name actually came from the fact that teh author was told by a mate at uni that 'any window manager he used must be evil and sadistic'...
Actually it isn't, but that's a damn good idea.
I'd have thought that a couple of tomahawks would make a good job of clearing the mines too...
You copyright code so that you (as an author) can decide under what terms it is distributed.
This author picked the BSD license, which, ammong things, requires that verbatim copies of the code retain their copyright notices.
If we (The open source community) decide that we can ignore that part of the license, then what is to stop eg Microsoft deciding they can ignore the bits about keeping source open (GPL)???
> Try doing anything sophisticated like, say, a
> table which has an embedded tree and
> expands/contracts rows as the tree elements are
> expanded/contracted. This is really easy to do
> with code (at least in Java) but unbelievably
> nightmarish to do in an IDE.
Would you mind knocking up a quick example of this then please? I'll like to do more advanced GUI stuff in java, but I really haven't got my head around how to do it tidily; all my code that uses more than a simple gui ends up looking like the hacked up mess it is...
(Email address *is* valid)
Cheers
Is there a way to do this in just vi/vim, or do you have to modify the base keyboard map?
Sounds damn useful...
I seem to remember reading somewhere (I'll dig out a pencil & paper sometime I'm more bored than I am now) that 140 ish digits is enought to calculate the circumfrence (sp?) of the observable universe to within the diameter of a hydrogen atom...
Hmmm, would that be a house computer then?
There is a book that is rather out-of-date now, but follows that format and I'd still recommend it if you can spare the cash - 'Tricks of the game programming gurus'. It is by no means perfect but I'd say that an updated version that was linux-centric and covered vaguely similar material (Though it was written before 3d accellerators et al) could be good.
I can't remember who published it off the top of my head but if you really can't find it on a search then the above email address is valid...
>"lust happened" to be named Barney
Great. 6 words and you've set my therapy back months...
And that would be bad because? Help me out here, I must be missing something...
Any chance of some references here for those of us who have never heard of co-routines?
(Admittedly I have so far done no more than scan the main article but I didn't see a mention)...
Cheers
Hexex? Hexes? Toggle em in from the front panel in binary!
I really doubt that it would be a port, the backend of the compiler (GEM, common between the cc & various fortran compilers) is *really* optimised for the alpha, so for something as architecturally different as the x86 it would be a reimplementation, and a massive job to get it anything like as good.
Except that dynamic register renaming can make a mov more efficient than eg and xor with self in certain pipelined operations...
I *thonk* the voodoo3 tv has hardware mp3 encoding...
.id.au IIRC?
Looked at another way, 200 years is very young and immature for a country...
I would have though that endianness (sp?) would be one of the easier problems to solve with this approach...
Meanwhile I'll have the skills to navigate without being reliant an a GPS, so that when it rains and your GPS shorts out(seen that happen) or your battery runs flat (seen that several times), I can sit & laugh as you wonder round in circles.
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against GPS systems, but anybody out walking should be able to navigate proficiently by several methods. I've seen people who had the same problem when they cracked their compass, had no idea how to orientate a map without it...
Hmmm, please note the bit that said *laptops*. Most people who have laptops take them home with them...
> If these patches want to make your machine really
> secure then they would disconnect you from the
> internet. You cant get much safer than that
> unless the patch turns your machine OFF!
Hmmm, where is my copy of the power management API gone???
Bah!
You know I'm going to have to go order the book now, don't you?
Mutter mutter mutter