Anyone who has talked with Koch would probably do the same thing I did and basically say "fuck you" and walk away.
Heh, I thought I was the only one that had that problem. I was trying to write a MUA plugin that would make it much easier to work with encrypted mail back before gnupg 1.0 was released. I had been doing that sort of thing for years with the closed-source PGP for UNIX and thought that GPG would be a great place to stabilize an interface so that you wouldn't have to use all these pipes, expect scripts and temp files all over the place (secure? I think not). He basically told me to jump in a lake, and write Yet Another Parser that could read/write to gnupg via pipes.
Agreed. And even then, the new Nvidia installer is pretty slick. It finds what kernel you're running; checks a list of available ones online, and if it cannot find a match, will automatically compile a new one for you (all in a pretty curses interface). Their ABI bindings are hidden with some source glue that goes in the kernel. This may not be "the Windows way to do things", but it works just fine on my systems. Very few drivers are binary-only anyway; most hardware manufacturers make money on sales, not on driver IP...
So, if you have a Linux kernel driver that is not in the main kernel tree, what are you, a developer, supposed to do? Releasing a binary driver for every different kernel version for every distribution is a nightmare, and trying to keep up with an ever changing kernel interface is also a rough job.
Simple, get your kernel driver into the main kernel tree (remember we are talking about GPL released drivers here, if your code doesn't fall under this category, good luck, you are on your own here, you leech.) If your driver is in the tree, and a kernel interface changes, it will be fixed up by the person who did the kernel change in the first place. This ensures that your driver is always buildable, and works over time, with very little effort on your part.
If we were to free up all THOSE domains then that would be a helluva lot more useful to the internet than new TLDs. And isn't ICAAN sposed to be looking after the interests of the internet, rather than simply representing business interests?
You simply have to look at it from ICAAN's point of view. They get money for domains. Even though they are supposedly a not-for-profit organization, they are collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars for silly things such as writing the RFP for.NET maintenance. The more domains that there are, the more money the "not-for-profit" organization can collect and spend. Network Solutions had problems... but at least they were somewhat beholden to a democratic body and was price regulated (and so is ICANN to an extent, I know -- but it just smells wrong when they collect $$$ just to "give" the rights to run.NET to Verisign for another five years).
And, yes, that really is a good deal compared to how much it cost 5 years ago (unless you have a modem and want to stay online for more than an hour); but still more expensive than the US land lines. Wireless service in the UK is better for it.
Europe and Japan have had state-run telephone companies that charge ridiculous rates for land lines. With wireless came competition and cheaper phone service; which of course brought investment for differentiation. Contrast this with the US, where one can call local numbers for "free" with basic service (from 15-30 dollars a month). Our local coverage here extends about 90 miles in all directions. I do own a cell phone, but I get the cheapest service because it's simply a portable phone for me, and not a replacement for my Qwest line (which is also my DSL).
BTW, does Windows Server support any LDAP back-end that is not Microsoft's Active directory?
Shhhhhh. Microsoft doesn't have to work with 3rd parties; the 3rd parties are responsible for reverse-engineering Windows and working perfectly with every possible combination that an end user may choose. And, god forbid anyone track down the bugs with iPlanet and fix them... it's much more efficient to complain about it on Slashdot.
FWIW, we have PDC/BDC witih Samba3; and we previously used a 'hot standby' Samba2 server in a PDC/coldPDC configuration. Samba is incredible; we love it. We're even using <gasp> OpenLDAP with Samba3 right now. It plugs in with Squirrelmail, Courier, Exim, Apache, Tomcat, Coldfusion, and a buch of custom applications. Oh, and I also wrote a Samba-to-fax gateway that doesn't require any Windows programs to work (and works from any OS). It's a verah niiice.
My first Nokia [a blue beast, I forget the model number] lasted for almost 4 years; I'm about 18 months into my second one right now [3560]. I had to buy a new battery for my first one after a couple years because it wouldn't hold a charge for more than a couple days. My current phone still only gets charged once a week (looks like they improved the battery technology though).
Nokias are ugly and lack features; but they do two things well: work as a phone, and have batteries that last forever.
You had better filter traffic coming out of any VPN endpoint, regardless your topology. Most (all?) VPN software has packet filtering abilities in addition to the actual policies involved, so you can filter it there if you must.
The VPN solution is great for the Vendor Company portion of the link, but I would also suggest a "vendor firewall" if you need to extend that service down to machines in the internal network (eg, stores in a grocery chain). The Vendor will *only* see their appserver from the outside, and their appserver will *only* see the vendor's devices internally. Good luck securing the actual end devices; unless you have each device behind a layer 2/3 firewall of some sort. Assume that the vendor can do anything with their devices, and try to limit/monitor their actions as much as you possibly can. The whole "root access" is a red herring, unless it's root access on one of *your* servers that they are requiring (which I would vigorously fight against); nmap, rdesktop, etc. all run without "root" privileges.
Metroid Fusion is an excellent side-scroller, to start off with.
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Yeah, stupid Walmart and their cute little smiley guy, or the AOL running man, what a DUMB idea, and that whole Jack-In-The-Box and M&M's, Little Caesar's, Aflac, Coca-Cola Bears... not professional, like a duotone flag.
Although, the logo has changed; both Firefox and Mozilla now sport newer logos (the "communist" star was MUCH better than that awful Phoenix logo!), and the mozilla.org team has a marketing group as well.
Start with Cryptonomicon; it is brilliant. I had Neal sign a paperback at USENIX 2003. I felt like a heel, having him sign a paperback, but... it's an incredible read.
That's a little too simplistic, esp. since we are talking about copyright which is an artifical line drawn in the sand.
So change the laws. If you decide to break them instead, then don't be surprised when you're arrested. I think the current intellectual "property" laws are as stupid as the next geek, but distributing 2.7 terrabytes of music isn't the way to "fight" it... it's an excuse that the industry can use to shove DRM down our throats. These criminals are only proving the RIAA/MPAA's case.. they are unwilling to pay 99 cents to download a song, they are unwilling to buy music at the retail level -- there is no excuse left.
This is a flaw in the justice system then, and not an indication that the RIAA should stop trying to sue. If you think that it costs too much money to defend yourself in the judicial system (which I wouldn't disagree with...), that's great -- but don't confuse the two issues. By the way, where are the "numerous" cases of people who don't even own computers being sued found at? I was under the impression that they were tracking all of this with IP information, and ISP cooperation...
People trading in illegal media are not "helpless", they're criminals. The RIAA should be suing lawbreakers instead of trying to get software banned. The same goes for people who pirate Windows and then complain about Linux/BSD -- a bunch of whiners.
Third and last, people in EUrope have good reason to be wary of nuclear power. Have you seen and felt the effects of a big nuclear accident? most of Europe did, they KNOW what they fear, a nuclear accident is not an unlikely theoretical possibility, it has becoem reality in a rather prominent way already.
Regardless, even accounting for all the tragic deaths from CHernobyl, EUrope (FRance, in particular) still has cleaner power than the primary power source in AMerica. I would gladly trade the coal fire plant nearby for a nuclear plant; the waste is much easier to contain, even if it is more dangerous. Fusion reactors would be much better, of course -- but many malign nuclear power and install designs that are much more harmful to the environment. Also, "clean" natural gas power plants don't seem so clean when we have to go to war to fuel them.
Summary: Many, many, many more people have died for non-nuclear power supplies, than in nuclear disasters. The environment has been much more damaged by non-nuclear power supplies as well.
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Gentoo is a source-based distribution. It won't work, unless they give everyone their private key; which would obviate the entire exercise.
Heh, I thought I was the only one that had that problem. I was trying to write a MUA plugin that would make it much easier to work with encrypted mail back before gnupg 1.0 was released. I had been doing that sort of thing for years with the closed-source PGP for UNIX and thought that GPG would be a great place to stabilize an interface so that you wouldn't have to use all these pipes, expect scripts and temp files all over the place (secure? I think not). He basically told me to jump in a lake, and write Yet Another Parser that could read/write to gnupg via pipes.
Agreed. And even then, the new Nvidia installer is pretty slick. It finds what kernel you're running; checks a list of available ones online, and if it cannot find a match, will automatically compile a new one for you (all in a pretty curses interface). Their ABI bindings are hidden with some source glue that goes in the kernel. This may not be "the Windows way to do things", but it works just fine on my systems. Very few drivers are binary-only anyway; most hardware manufacturers make money on sales, not on driver IP...
Actually, the author has a simple reccomendation:
You simply have to look at it from ICAAN's point of view. They get money for domains. Even though they are supposedly a not-for-profit organization, they are collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars for silly things such as writing the RFP for .NET maintenance. The more domains that there are, the more money the "not-for-profit" organization can collect and spend. Network Solutions had problems... but at least they were somewhat beholden to a democratic body and was price regulated (and so is ICANN to an extent, I know -- but it just smells wrong when they collect $$$ just to "give" the rights to run .NET to Verisign for another five years).
Call anywhere in the UK for up to an hour for just 5.5p during Evenings and Weekends. You'll also enjoy daytime calls in the UK at just 3p a minute.
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And, yes, that really is a good deal compared to how much it cost 5 years ago (unless you have a modem and want to stay online for more than an hour); but still more expensive than the US land lines. Wireless service in the UK is better for it.
Europe and Japan have had state-run telephone companies that charge ridiculous rates for land lines. With wireless came competition and cheaper phone service; which of course brought investment for differentiation. Contrast this with the US, where one can call local numbers for "free" with basic service (from 15-30 dollars a month). Our local coverage here extends about 90 miles in all directions. I do own a cell phone, but I get the cheapest service because it's simply a portable phone for me, and not a replacement for my Qwest line (which is also my DSL).
Here's the latest release: http://inconnu.isu.edu/~ink/new/projects/smbfax/ I haven't tried it with Samba 4 yet.
Shhhhhh. Microsoft doesn't have to work with 3rd parties; the 3rd parties are responsible for reverse-engineering Windows and working perfectly with every possible combination that an end user may choose. And, god forbid anyone track down the bugs with iPlanet and fix them... it's much more efficient to complain about it on Slashdot.
FWIW, we have PDC/BDC witih Samba3; and we previously used a 'hot standby' Samba2 server in a PDC/coldPDC configuration. Samba is incredible; we love it. We're even using <gasp> OpenLDAP with Samba3 right now. It plugs in with Squirrelmail, Courier, Exim, Apache, Tomcat, Coldfusion, and a buch of custom applications. Oh, and I also wrote a Samba-to-fax gateway that doesn't require any Windows programs to work (and works from any OS). It's a verah niiice.
My first Nokia [a blue beast, I forget the model number] lasted for almost 4 years; I'm about 18 months into my second one right now [3560]. I had to buy a new battery for my first one after a couple years because it wouldn't hold a charge for more than a couple days. My current phone still only gets charged once a week (looks like they improved the battery technology though). Nokias are ugly and lack features; but they do two things well: work as a phone, and have batteries that last forever.
You had better filter traffic coming out of any VPN endpoint, regardless your topology. Most (all?) VPN software has packet filtering abilities in addition to the actual policies involved, so you can filter it there if you must.
The VPN solution is great for the Vendor Company portion of the link, but I would also suggest a "vendor firewall" if you need to extend that service down to machines in the internal network (eg, stores in a grocery chain). The Vendor will *only* see their appserver from the outside, and their appserver will *only* see the vendor's devices internally. Good luck securing the actual end devices; unless you have each device behind a layer 2/3 firewall of some sort. Assume that the vendor can do anything with their devices, and try to limit/monitor their actions as much as you possibly can. The whole "root access" is a red herring, unless it's root access on one of *your* servers that they are requiring (which I would vigorously fight against); nmap, rdesktop, etc. all run without "root" privileges.
Metroid Fusion is an excellent side-scroller, to start off with.
Yeah, stupid Walmart and their cute little smiley guy, or the AOL running man, what a DUMB idea, and that whole Jack-In-The-Box and M&M's, Little Caesar's, Aflac, Coca-Cola Bears... not professional, like a duotone flag.
Although, the logo has changed; both Firefox and Mozilla now sport newer logos (the "communist" star was MUCH better than that awful Phoenix logo!), and the mozilla.org team has a marketing group as well.
Start with Cryptonomicon; it is brilliant. I had Neal sign a paperback at USENIX 2003. I felt like a heel, having him sign a paperback, but... it's an incredible read.
So change the laws. If you decide to break them instead, then don't be surprised when you're arrested. I think the current intellectual "property" laws are as stupid as the next geek, but distributing 2.7 terrabytes of music isn't the way to "fight" it... it's an excuse that the industry can use to shove DRM down our throats. These criminals are only proving the RIAA/MPAA's case.. they are unwilling to pay 99 cents to download a song, they are unwilling to buy music at the retail level -- there is no excuse left.
This is a flaw in the justice system then, and not an indication that the RIAA should stop trying to sue. If you think that it costs too much money to defend yourself in the judicial system (which I wouldn't disagree with...), that's great -- but don't confuse the two issues. By the way, where are the "numerous" cases of people who don't even own computers being sued found at? I was under the impression that they were tracking all of this with IP information, and ISP cooperation...
People trading in illegal media are not "helpless", they're criminals. The RIAA should be suing lawbreakers instead of trying to get software banned. The same goes for people who pirate Windows and then complain about Linux/BSD -- a bunch of whiners.
Just click on accounts, find the account and you can usually change everything about it (buddy icon, SSL, etc.)
Can't change themes without re-installing.What? It just uses the default GTK theme; if you change your GTK theme, GAIM happily uses the new one just fine -- no need to reinstall.
But for an all 1 in one client, its the best.Yep, it _is_.
where did you find the 10,000 number?
As you can see, the user agent string gets quite silly as you go down the list, but Internet Explorer is definately losing popularity.
Back in 2002, I mirored another story; the breakdown is available here.
Regardless, even accounting for all the tragic deaths from CHernobyl, EUrope (FRance, in particular) still has cleaner power than the primary power source in AMerica. I would gladly trade the coal fire plant nearby for a nuclear plant; the waste is much easier to contain, even if it is more dangerous. Fusion reactors would be much better, of course -- but many malign nuclear power and install designs that are much more harmful to the environment. Also, "clean" natural gas power plants don't seem so clean when we have to go to war to fuel them.
Summary: Many, many, many more people have died for non-nuclear power supplies, than in nuclear disasters. The environment has been much more damaged by non-nuclear power supplies as well.
# US5819281: Notification of aspect value change in object-oriented programming (owned by EDS)
# US5983227: Dynamic page generator (Yahoo)
# US6025810: Hyper-Light-Speed antenna (also accelerates plant growth)
# US05443036: Exercising a cat with a laser pointer (note that it took two people to think of this )
So, it doesn't even have to be cool, it seems....
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