It'd be great to be able to see something of the like on new hardware when you buy it. I've lost count of how many times I've walked into a CompUSA and forgot which brands and models of hardware are supported.
I was playing SID files downloaded from Q-Link (now AOL) on my Commodore 64 back in 1986. There was also a hack for the C64 which let you rip about 5 seconds of poor quality PCM into memory. I remember downloading the program and different sample sound files from a local BBS, circa 1988 or 1989.
Sorry, but unless the patent covers some specific method of digital-based playback, I think it's invalid due to prior art.
So, Microsoft in set-top boxes, eh? Will the box have a little "blue LED of death" to indicate when I should reboot it? Rebooting via the remote would be a real plus.
If it crashes in the middle of a PPV screening, do I get my money back?
I've recieved some pricey offers from people wanting to purchase microsoff.com and iesucks.com (and I'm not even advertising them, nor are they for sale), and even an offer for linuxonline.org. There are definitely people out there looking for "strategic" domains..
Has any thought been given to the legality of any software license (yes, M$ included)? If it doesn't have someone's signature on it, how can it be a valid contract? Will "assumed signatures" hold up in court?
I just installed freeBSD I didnt like it... I wanted to see whitch was more solid freeBSD seemed nice but A lot of the basics just wouldnt work like *netscape* which hurt my feelings.
Well, netscape is hardly one of the basics of a server operating system, but it's always worked fine for the FreeBSD machines I've used it on. I trust you're using the version from the ports collection?
But linux will grow faster and more streamlined.
As will the BSDs.
ALso does anyone know where i can get the BSD kernel source? Like the latest version.
It's in/usr/src/sys (or at least it should be if you installed everything correctly). The entire sources for the system live in/usr/src. You can get the most current sources by using cvsup to update your local source trees from the FreeBSD cvsup servers. Some example cvsup files live in/usr/share/examples/cvsup. Check out stable-supfile and ports-supfile.
Isn't the phone company usually the one responsible for breaking everything? Well, I'm not sure about up there, but down here, Bell Atlantic does a damned good job of breaking things.
My main problem with *BSD personally is that you still have to install most of the GNU tools by hand due to *BSD licensing/NIH/minimalism issues.
It makes sense if you think about it. Start with a working base system and let the user build on it from there.
I don't know how NetBSD and OpenBSD handle it, but you can run/stand/sysinstall to select and install all of your favorite GNUish stuff after your FreeBSD system is up and running.
Or, you can cvsup your ports tree and build them from source if you want.
Why can't we combine the forces we have and come up with a platform that is secure, portable, stable, and well-supported?
Probably because the GPL zealots will start screaming "violation! violation!"
Does no one take Linux seriously outside of the Linux community?
Linux has its place, as do the BSDs, but it does seem kind of silly to see Linux users on here insisting that everything be GPLed, and everything be free, as if the GPL is some kind of ultimate saviour.
i'll be having sex with various victoria secret model's pirated images.
[closeup of you, 10 years from now, you're at your desk maintaining the www.microsoft.mil website. Suddenly the phone rings..]
"Hello?.. Hi! What's up?.... uhh... hmm.. but...... Honey, she was only a few beams of light to me. Honest!.... No, no.. There's no need for the magnet.. Consider her deleted. Today. I know. Love you, bye.. *click*".. Damn you David Brady! Damn you University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign! aahhhh!
[you run out of your office and into the street where you are hit by a bus]
Remember that you can relay shoutcast streams, which raises the question: Does operating a rebroadcast point for the originator's stream qualify as a crime?
People need to realize that nothing is totally private. Anything which has a distance greater than zero between point A and point B has the possibility of being intercepted somehow. Thus, the focus must shift to making it as difficult as possible to decode the intercepted transmissions.
Presumably the "Phoenix start-up software" is a Windows executable file that gets auto-started on boot by the OS and reads info from the BIOS to place an icon on the desktop. I can't really envision it happening (safely) any other way.
Thus every Tivoli implementation would require Linux.
Is that necessarily a good thing? It'd be nice to see freedom of OS choice prevail over freedom of Linux distribution choice for their application. I'm all for Linux, don't get me wrong, but I don't think forcing people into using it (or anything) is a good thing.
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Does this mean people will prank-call in to say "MEEPT!" and hang up? (:
It'd be great to be able to see something of the like on new hardware when you buy it. I've lost count of how many times I've walked into a CompUSA and forgot which brands and models of hardware are supported.
Sorry, but unless the patent covers some specific method of digital-based playback, I think it's invalid due to prior art.
So, Microsoft in set-top boxes, eh? Will the box have a little "blue LED of death" to indicate when I should reboot it? Rebooting via the remote would be a real plus.
If it crashes in the middle of a PPV screening, do I get my money back?
It's more about getting eyes than anything else.
Now, what to do with crashdot.org... :-)
I still want to know what CmdrTaco has against Martha Stewart...
You might want to think twice about that..
Has any thought been given to the legality of any software license (yes, M$ included)? If it doesn't have someone's signature on it, how can it be a valid contract? Will "assumed signatures" hold up in court?
Well, netscape is hardly one of the basics of a server operating system, but it's always worked fine for the FreeBSD machines I've used it on. I trust you're using the version from the ports collection?
But linux will grow faster and more streamlined.
As will the BSDs.
ALso does anyone know where i can get the BSD kernel source? Like the latest version.
It's in /usr/src/sys (or at least it should be if you installed everything correctly). The entire sources for the system live in /usr/src. You can get the most current sources by using cvsup to update your local source trees from the FreeBSD cvsup servers. Some example cvsup files live in /usr/share/examples/cvsup. Check out stable-supfile and ports-supfile.
I didn't get any matches for it when I grepped Apache's source tree..
That hack looks an awful lot like Microsoft's new homepage..
Looks like they think that someone pressing a button is the same as their signature. Sorry Charlie, but that's not how it works in the real world.
Isn't the phone company usually the one responsible for breaking everything? Well, I'm not sure about up there, but down here, Bell Atlantic does a damned good job of breaking things.
It makes sense if you think about it. Start with a working base system and let the user build on it from there.
I don't know how NetBSD and OpenBSD handle it, but you can run /stand/sysinstall to select and install all of your favorite GNUish stuff after your FreeBSD system is up and running.
Or, you can cvsup your ports tree and build them from source if you want.
Probably because the GPL zealots will start screaming "violation! violation!"
Does no one take Linux seriously outside of the Linux community?
Linux has its place, as do the BSDs, but it does seem kind of silly to see Linux users on here insisting that everything be GPLed, and everything be free, as if the GPL is some kind of ultimate saviour.
Why not?
So much for this then, eh?
[closeup of you, 10 years from now, you're at your desk maintaining the www.microsoft.mil website. Suddenly the phone rings..]
"Hello? .. Hi! What's up? .. .. uhh. .. hmm .. but .. .. .. Honey, she was only a few beams of light to me. Honest! .. .. No, no.. There's no need for the magnet.. Consider her deleted. Today. I know. Love you, bye.. *click*" .. Damn you David Brady! Damn you University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign! aahhhh!
[you run out of your office and into the street where you are hit by a bus]
Moral: Good technology also has a bad side.
Well, I don't know about you, but I saw MS-Linux a few months ago..
Remember that you can relay shoutcast streams, which raises the question: Does operating a rebroadcast point for the originator's stream qualify as a crime?
People need to realize that nothing is totally private. Anything which has a distance greater than zero between point A and point B has the possibility of being intercepted somehow. Thus, the focus must shift to making it as difficult as possible to decode the intercepted transmissions.
One could also argue that the GPL makes code proprietary to freedom.
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Presumably the "Phoenix start-up software" is a Windows executable file that gets auto-started on boot by the OS and reads info from the BIOS to place an icon on the desktop. I can't really envision it happening (safely) any other way.
Is that necessarily a good thing? It'd be nice to see freedom of OS choice prevail over freedom of Linux distribution choice for their application. I'm all for Linux, don't get me wrong, but I don't think forcing people into using it (or anything) is a good thing.
Don't want to turn into a you-know-whosoft, you know..