Linking (static or dynamic) indicates derivative work. This is why there is LGPL, a license identical to GPL that allows linking, and why Linux kernel has a mechanism for handling modules' licenses.
Yeltsin and his government was pretty much the purest form of Libertarian government that existed anywhere at any point in 20th century. It had a distinction of not having pre-existing local Social Conservatives to guide them into becoming an unwitting front for those Conservatives.
Of course, the results are exactly what one would expect from Libertarians -- government being replaced by "business owners" as the most politically powerful entity in the country.
But this is about Russia. A country that didn't sentence anyone to death since late 90's and doesn't now even have a procedure that would allow courts to issue such a sentence. Even though laws allowing death sentence for some crimes is still on the books, courts can only give prison terms on those.
about the only thing worse than the present regime in Russia would be the rise of the local Nazis.
There are plenty of things that are worse. Looting and enslavement like one that happened in 90's with approval of Yeltsin and his libertarian friends again, for example.
Changing BIOS settings from the default is necessary to operate the system in a headless mode. And changing BIOS settings from the default is impossible on a headless device. That makes it absolutely necessary to have monitor and keyboard to do any maintenance on those "headless servers".
Have you even read what I wrote? I never mentioned anything about keyboard errors preventing booting.
All modern BIOS'es CAN'T BE CONFIGURED WITHOUT A MONITOR AND A KEYBOARD from their "full reset" state. They will always try to boot only from whatever looks like a CD or, if absent, the first hard drive, will have RAID disabled, SATA controller set to Windows XP mode, and all kinds of other options set to very "non-embedded" values. Oh, and have I mentioned that even if you managed to boot, you can't access BIOS configuration because even though you can access ESCD in flash and CMOS RAM, most formats are undocumented, randomly change between BIOS versions, and nearly impossible to reverse engineer?
This is why "crash cart" (or a ridiculous remote-controlled VGA+keyboard hardware emulators lovingly connected to every computer) is absolutely unavoidable even in the most modern datacenters.
I think, Ballmer dumber than Gates, but in Gates' opinion Ballmer is smarter.
Gates' ambition was to become a great engineer and programmer, and he could easily see that he is a failure, especially compared to other people he seen in Harvard and computer companies at that time. His greatest engineering achievement was a BASIC interpreter -- at the time it was approximately at the level of what now would be writing an address book in PHP. It sounds complex because no one bothers doing those things now, and many lazy students are allowed to skip classes on languages and parsers, but at the time it was a mundane project, often performed by students as a routine exercise. He was hopelessly outmatched by anyone who had a clue about hardware, operating systems, compilers, CS theory, etc. I don't think, Gates would become such a monster without this inferiority complex eating at him endlessly, forcing him to abuse and subjugate more and more people until whole industries became hostage to his stupidity.
Ballmer's ambition was to be a successful and powerful businessman, and he succeeded at that. When Ballmer acts like abusive moron, he reaffirms his power over people who have to tolerate his antics with monkey dances and chairs. He is exactly where he wants to be -- except, of course, he would prefer to have even more power.
Of course, he is! Any moron can exploit an opportunity to create a giant empire from monopoly that fallen into his lap from dying IBM. It takes a smart person to build such empire on things other than descendants of BASIC, CP/M and some misheard lecture on object-oriented design.
Harvard students are a lot of things but not nearly as smart as people assume.
I didn't claim that Harvard students are smart (or were smart in Gates' time). Gates' problem is that he knew that each and every of his "friends" is smarter than him.
No, Microsoft was started by a son of rich parents who was pissed off because he was the dumbest person in Harvard, and it and went downhill ever since.
Actually no, it can't, because after BIOS reset you have control over boot device order, because console redirection will be disabled. All PCs must be configured with a keyboard and a monitor before anything can be done "headless", and the same procedure has to be repeated if by any chance BIOS is reset, ESCD is erased, or CMOS battery died (yes, they ALL still have those things).
How do you think, I know that? Because once I had to modify one of PC BIOS'es to actually work on an embedded x86-based device, one that had no VGA-compatible controller. And yes, BIOS vendor claimed that their BIOS was "embedded-ready". And no, it was not.
I do embedded systems development for loudspeakers and audio equipment, and the hardware I use at work is full of SoC-based boards similar to Pi, minus HDMI, plus ADC, DAC, SRCs and analog circuits.
Yes, it is -- it has a SoC originally intended to be HDMI video decoder, with various serial and GPIO interfaces exposed, and without expandable CPU bus. Just because it can be connected to a keyboard and a monitor, does not make it any less embedded.
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Linking (static or dynamic) indicates derivative work. This is why there is LGPL, a license identical to GPL that allows linking, and why Linux kernel has a mechanism for handling modules' licenses.
Yeltsin and his government was pretty much the purest form of Libertarian government that existed anywhere at any point in 20th century. It had a distinction of not having pre-existing local Social Conservatives to guide them into becoming an unwitting front for those Conservatives.
Of course, the results are exactly what one would expect from Libertarians -- government being replaced by "business owners" as the most politically powerful entity in the country.
No, that was a pretty accurate description of their actions. Probably not enough to justify 2 years in prison though.
But this is about Russia. A country that didn't sentence anyone to death since late 90's and doesn't now even have a procedure that would allow courts to issue such a sentence. Even though laws allowing death sentence for some crimes is still on the books, courts can only give prison terms on those.
about the only thing worse than the present regime in Russia would be the rise of the local Nazis.
There are plenty of things that are worse. Looting and enslavement like one that happened in 90's with approval of Yeltsin and his libertarian friends again, for example.
Changing BIOS settings from the default is necessary to operate the system in a headless mode. And changing BIOS settings from the default is impossible on a headless device. That makes it absolutely necessary to have monitor and keyboard to do any maintenance on those "headless servers".
Have you even read what I wrote? I never mentioned anything about keyboard errors preventing booting.
All modern BIOS'es CAN'T BE CONFIGURED WITHOUT A MONITOR AND A KEYBOARD from their "full reset" state. They will always try to boot only from whatever looks like a CD or, if absent, the first hard drive, will have RAID disabled, SATA controller set to Windows XP mode, and all kinds of other options set to very "non-embedded" values. Oh, and have I mentioned that even if you managed to boot, you can't access BIOS configuration because even though you can access ESCD in flash and CMOS RAM, most formats are undocumented, randomly change between BIOS versions, and nearly impossible to reverse engineer?
This is why "crash cart" (or a ridiculous remote-controlled VGA+keyboard hardware emulators lovingly connected to every computer) is absolutely unavoidable even in the most modern datacenters.
So dumb, they can't pass a law that allows smart people to stay in their country WHEN BOTH THEY AND THOSE PEOPLE STILL WANT TO STAY.
s/Ballmer/Ballmer is/
I think, Ballmer dumber than Gates, but in Gates' opinion Ballmer is smarter.
Gates' ambition was to become a great engineer and programmer, and he could easily see that he is a failure, especially compared to other people he seen in Harvard and computer companies at that time. His greatest engineering achievement was a BASIC interpreter -- at the time it was approximately at the level of what now would be writing an address book in PHP. It sounds complex because no one bothers doing those things now, and many lazy students are allowed to skip classes on languages and parsers, but at the time it was a mundane project, often performed by students as a routine exercise. He was hopelessly outmatched by anyone who had a clue about hardware, operating systems, compilers, CS theory, etc. I don't think, Gates would become such a monster without this inferiority complex eating at him endlessly, forcing him to abuse and subjugate more and more people until whole industries became hostage to his stupidity.
Ballmer's ambition was to be a successful and powerful businessman, and he succeeded at that. When Ballmer acts like abusive moron, he reaffirms his power over people who have to tolerate his antics with monkey dances and chairs. He is exactly where he wants to be -- except, of course, he would prefer to have even more power.
Gates is a lot of things but not dumb.
Of course, he is! Any moron can exploit an opportunity to create a giant empire from monopoly that fallen into his lap from dying IBM. It takes a smart person to build such empire on things other than descendants of BASIC, CP/M and some misheard lecture on object-oriented design.
Harvard students are a lot of things but not nearly as smart as people assume.
I didn't claim that Harvard students are smart (or were smart in Gates' time). Gates' problem is that he knew that each and every of his "friends" is smarter than him.
They had those "popups" for at least a decade. What they are trying to do now is making those notifications less annoying.
Especially after KDE 4.9.1 finally started working properly with Compiz. That's my primary desktop at work after I had to leave GNOME3.
Why would anyone do such a thing?
Only in Kenya
You can see Ballmer
Eaten by lions
And zebras!
No, Microsoft was started by a son of rich parents who was pissed off because he was the dumbest person in Harvard, and it and went downhill ever since.
All smartphones are, among other things, embedded controllers -- they control the phone.
you have control over boot device order
Should be: you have no control over boot device order
It can boot headless
Actually no, it can't, because after BIOS reset you have control over boot device order, because console redirection will be disabled. All PCs must be configured with a keyboard and a monitor before anything can be done "headless", and the same procedure has to be repeated if by any chance BIOS is reset, ESCD is erased, or CMOS battery died (yes, they ALL still have those things).
How do you think, I know that? Because once I had to modify one of PC BIOS'es to actually work on an embedded x86-based device, one that had no VGA-compatible controller. And yes, BIOS vendor claimed that their BIOS was "embedded-ready". And no, it was not.
I do embedded systems development for loudspeakers and audio equipment, and the hardware I use at work is full of SoC-based boards similar to Pi, minus HDMI, plus ADC, DAC, SRCs and analog circuits.
H.264 video decoder with HDMI output, to be precise.
good
Web IDE
lol wut
Yes, it is -- it has a SoC originally intended to be HDMI video decoder, with various serial and GPIO interfaces exposed, and without expandable CPU bus. Just because it can be connected to a keyboard and a monitor, does not make it any less embedded.
...a decency of not programming an embedded Linux device from a Windows desktop? Seriously, what is wrong with those people?
An "anti-government anarchist militia" is not illegal.
It is if it's actually proven to be anti-government militia. Armed coup is a crime in any stage of its development.