An old TV I used to have had a little compartment in the back with fold out schematics. Just chuck a source code CD in a little semi-hidden compartment and there you go.
The other thing you could do is have the source burned on the prom along with the binary. That seems fairly idiot proof.
In the case of SFS, MS did a textbook job of complying with the GPL. They didn't automagically infect everything from Windows to Office in the process either.
"Bug for Bug" behaivor that matches the features can be a large clue. Devs tend to know intimately what their code can and can't do. Chasing out enough of those bugs to not get caught is about as much work as legitimately developing it in the first place.
A few years back, the LinuxPPC guys ran a challenge this like. Even though DOS attacks were clearly against the rules as the only thing that counted was getting root, lamers doing them nearly ended the challenge.
I have to wonder if their hosting provider won't wind up throwing them out.
Most of what is on that page is provided by FOSS projects and some of them are GPLed. Gawd but those people are flaming idiots. Wasn't it SCO that wanted everyone to know that FOSS is out to destroy UNIX and that the GPL is unconstitutional?
Otherwise that'll be the last port you see from them.
Perhaps that is true. But then if it is, they're doomed anyway. Most people and this includes most Linux users won't pay $40.00 for a Linux native port when the Windows version is bargain priced for $25. This is one of the things that killed Loki. If their business is porting Windows games, then they need to work out deals to port nascent games. A Linux port should be out no later than a month or two from the Windows port; the same day would be even better. It should be comparably priced.
If they CAN'T produce timely ports for whatever reason, then they'd better focus on producing original games. I'll occaisionally spend $40 for an original game but I won't spend that for a year late warmed over port from Windows.
Those cartridges are years old. I came by a couple of "bad" 4M+ printers with cartridges. A Jetdirect and exit roller swap made for one good printer. The first cartridge lasted over three years before the component responsible for removing excess toner from the imaging drum failed. Hence my crappy printouts. I just chucked in the other cartridge and all has been well.
I have no expectation of warranty service with this puppy. I'll be more than happy to buy my next cartridge when (if) I ever run this one dry.
That is no defense whatsoever. As the one doing the printing, I decide what is an acceptable printout. There are a million reasons why you might print something and not give a crap whether the the quality matches the printer's theoretical maximum or not. You certainly don't subject my wallet to additional assrape to get that theoretical maximum either.
Incidentally, I've got a Laserjet 4M+ with more than a few miles on it. The last (used) cartridge I put in lasted three years before something failed in the cartridge and started dumping toner on the paper. I had another (used) cartridge handy and it has lasted over a year and a half to date. Needless to say, print quality (PQ) remains great.
These shady inkjet printer manufacturers can take their $30,000/gal ink, their half-filled chipped cartridges, their plasticky disposable printers, their business models, the lawyers they use to enforce said business models, and shove them where the sun don't shine. Sideways.
It isn't the GPL. However, the MAME license forbids any sort of commercial profit whatsoever. Yes, this guy has dirty hands and should be sued into the ground and run out of business.
In one of his open letters, this asshat admits to NOT being the "rightful owner" of the marks he is applying for. Even a hack lawyer should have zero trouble using this.
We have no desire to use the M.A.M.E. name or logos; we simply wish to find ways to prevent illegal distribution of classic arcade games. We will be happy to cancel our application and work with the M.A.M.E. team to assign it to its rightful owners; however we do want to prevent it from being awarded to someone that intends to use it commercially.
I always hated that when I had to use Mozilla. I prefer the URL for the current page I'm on to stay intact. I sometimes navigate sites by manually inputting message ids and the like.
I thought part of your job is to make sure MS cluefully promotes Windows over FOSS. Very recently, Bill Gates once again trotted Communists and Socialists.
Do you think MS will ever be able to promote their products without resorting to tactics such as red-baiting?
Windows ME is basically 98 with a little extra suck added and the ability to boot straight to DOS (still very much there though) removed. It was strictly a gap-filler until they could get XP out the door.
You listen closely to your fans after the fact. The writers will be completely oblivious to an impending shark-jump. The fans will smell it coming four episodes off. You don't go through three full seasons of dreck to finally get the message that the product sucks or is starting to suck.
When MRI was being invented it was called NMRI. The "N" of course standing for Nuclear. What they have in the big city hospitals operates on exactly the same principles that the NMRI prototypes operated on. Now why do you think they chopped the "N" off?
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The tricky part is the hard drives. They really want to see +/- 12V. I'm pretty sure, and please, someone correct me, that you could actually provide that by providing the +12V leg of the system with the straight power, and simply reversing the polarity of power coming in for the -12V. That is assuming that you can't find a hard drive that operates at 5V. I'm too lazy to research it.
Actually, hard drives want to see +12, +5, and ground. All of which can be supplied by a 12V supply. However, other components in the system may want to see -12,-5, G, +5, +12. You cannot simply reverse the leads on such a device. The "ground" or "(-)" floats above or below the actual ground and is a reference point for the other voltages. You can look at it as a +24 volt supply that has been referenced with +12V being the "ground" with other voltages above or below this reference. The -12,+12 point of view is equally valid as long as you are consistent. The point is that most computers expect a spread of levels that span 24 volts.
Do you guys call that a GNOME vs KDE flamewar?!? Get with the program already! This should have already spawned a thread 30 messages long and running. Kids these days! Can't even troll properly for their partison platform....
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An old TV I used to have had a little compartment in the back with fold out schematics. Just chuck a source code CD in a little semi-hidden compartment and there you go.
The other thing you could do is have the source burned on the prom along with the binary. That seems fairly idiot proof.
In the case of SFS, MS did a textbook job of complying with the GPL. They didn't automagically infect everything from Windows to Office in the process either.
"Bug for Bug" behaivor that matches the features can be a large clue. Devs tend to know intimately what their code can and can't do. Chasing out enough of those bugs to not get caught is about as much work as legitimately developing it in the first place.
I don't even think they bothered with poison. I know I wouldn't have.
A few years back, the LinuxPPC guys ran a challenge this like. Even though DOS attacks were clearly against the rules as the only thing that counted was getting root, lamers doing them nearly ended the challenge.
I have to wonder if their hosting provider won't wind up throwing them out.
Most of what is on that page is provided by FOSS projects and some of them are GPLed. Gawd but those people are flaming idiots. Wasn't it SCO that wanted everyone to know that FOSS is out to destroy UNIX and that the GPL is unconstitutional?
Otherwise that'll be the last port you see from them.
Perhaps that is true. But then if it is, they're doomed anyway. Most people and this includes most Linux users won't pay $40.00 for a Linux native port when the Windows version is bargain priced for $25. This is one of the things that killed Loki. If their business is porting Windows games, then they need to work out deals to port nascent games. A Linux port should be out no later than a month or two from the Windows port; the same day would be even better. It should be comparably priced.
If they CAN'T produce timely ports for whatever reason, then they'd better focus on producing original games. I'll occaisionally spend $40 for an original game but I won't spend that for a year late warmed over port from Windows.
Those cartridges are years old. I came by a couple of "bad" 4M+ printers with cartridges. A Jetdirect and exit roller swap made for one good printer. The first cartridge lasted over three years before the component responsible for removing excess toner from the imaging drum failed. Hence my crappy printouts. I just chucked in the other cartridge and all has been well.
I have no expectation of warranty service with this puppy. I'll be more than happy to buy my next cartridge when (if) I ever run this one dry.
That is no defense whatsoever. As the one doing the printing, I decide what is an acceptable printout. There are a million reasons why you might print something and not give a crap whether the the quality matches the printer's theoretical maximum or not. You certainly don't subject my wallet to additional assrape to get that theoretical maximum either.
Incidentally, I've got a Laserjet 4M+ with more than a few miles on it. The last (used) cartridge I put in lasted three years before something failed in the cartridge and started dumping toner on the paper. I had another (used) cartridge handy and it has lasted over a year and a half to date. Needless to say, print quality (PQ) remains great.
These shady inkjet printer manufacturers can take their $30,000/gal ink, their half-filled chipped cartridges, their plasticky disposable printers, their business models, the lawyers they use to enforce said business models, and shove them where the sun don't shine. Sideways.
It isn't the GPL. However, the MAME license forbids any sort of commercial profit whatsoever. Yes, this guy has dirty hands and should be sued into the ground and run out of business.
In one of his open letters, this asshat admits to NOT being the "rightful owner" of the marks he is applying for. Even a hack lawyer should have zero trouble using this.
We have no desire to use the M.A.M.E. name or logos; we simply wish to find ways to
prevent illegal distribution of classic arcade games. We will be happy to cancel our
application and work with the M.A.M.E. team to assign it to its rightful owners; however
we do want to prevent it from being awarded to someone that intends to use it
commercially.
Yes or no. No spin. Are you or are you not attempting to gain MAME trademarks?
Maybe it's possible to have an email conversation with her. I don't even know.
Try it. It isn't all that uncommon for autistics to be articulate with the written word yet be unable to speak or handle face-to-face communication.
If you're remastering Knoppix, it is handy to see if your new ISO will do what you will expect without having to burn and reboot.
And it wants its commercial back.
I always hated that when I had to use Mozilla. I prefer the URL for the current page I'm on to stay intact. I sometimes navigate sites by manually inputting message ids and the like.
I thought part of your job is to make sure MS cluefully promotes Windows over FOSS. Very recently, Bill Gates once again trotted Communists and Socialists.
Do you think MS will ever be able to promote their products without resorting to tactics such as red-baiting?
Windows ME is basically 98 with a little extra suck added and the ability to boot straight to DOS (still very much there though) removed. It was strictly a gap-filler until they could get XP out the door.
You listen closely to your fans after the fact. The writers will be completely oblivious to an impending shark-jump. The fans will smell it coming four episodes off. You don't go through three full seasons of dreck to finally get the message that the product sucks or is starting to suck.
When MRI was being invented it was called NMRI. The "N" of course standing for Nuclear. What they have in the big city hospitals operates on exactly the same principles that the NMRI prototypes operated on. Now why do you think they chopped the "N" off?
But does it run Windows?
The tricky part is the hard drives. They really want to see +/- 12V. I'm pretty sure, and please, someone correct me, that you could actually provide that by providing the +12V leg of the system with the straight power, and simply reversing the polarity of power coming in for the -12V. That is assuming that you can't find a hard drive that operates at 5V. I'm too lazy to research it.
Actually, hard drives want to see +12, +5, and ground. All of which can be supplied by a 12V supply. However, other components in the system may want to see -12,-5, G, +5, +12. You cannot simply reverse the leads on such a device. The "ground" or "(-)" floats above or below the actual ground and is a reference point for the other voltages. You can look at it as a +24 volt supply that has been referenced with +12V being the "ground" with other voltages above or below this reference. The -12,+12 point of view is equally valid as long as you are consistent. The point is that most computers expect a spread of levels that span 24 volts.
Do you guys call that a GNOME vs KDE flamewar?!? Get with the program already! This should have already spawned a thread 30 messages long and running. Kids these days! Can't even troll properly for their partison platform....
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Yowza but those are awful. Those screenshots look like a bad acid trip inspired by themes.org.