Yes, GPL software is freer than public domain, in the sense that the source code can never be taken proprietary (other than by the original author) and redistributed.
This is a very odd thing to assert, and I suspect that the same people who believe this believe that the GPL isn't a contract. No matter what, GPL'd software has restrictions -- the restrictions listed in the GPL. Public domain software has no restrictions whatsoever. Public domain software HAS to be more free.
You're saying that the user of public domain code is more free (which is obvious). The parent is saying that the code itself is more free under GPL (which is equally obvious: nobody can capture and restrict it).
Uh-oh, and I just found this, too, from Roman Zippel on lkml: [ANNOUNCE] HFS+ driver, a Linux HFS+ driver that now "supports full read and write access". (Not sure if anyone successfully compiled it into a powerpc kernel, though?)
This is very helpful, especially about the 10.2.8 upgrade. Panther might have the same problem, so I guess I'll try it first on 10.2.7, which I'm still running.
I have a 700MHz iBook and a 1GHz 12" Powerbook both running Linux
What distro did you install on the 12" PB? I'd like to know if the stock Debian Woody kernel (maybe even the new Debian installer?) will boot on it.
Also, should the Linux or OS X partition go first? This report says Linux ("Use Drive Setup to create a partition at the beginning of the disk. This partition needs to be big enough to house all of your planned Debian partitions"), that one says OS X ("It's important you leave MacOS partition first"). Both are for iBooks though; couldn't find any report specifically on the 12" PB.
Also: is HFS (not HFS+) still the only file system that both OS X and Linux can read and write to?
Wha? Are you sure it then takes DVI to ADC, which is needed to attach a Studio Display? This page only talks about attaching them to PowerMacs and PoweBooks...
I'm actually interested (my GF has a 12" [okay:-)] G3 with video out, presumably the same as yours, and we might share a display then. But it has to be digital, not go through analog and back like those "industry standard" VGAs.
Yeah, I do this as well -- but here I'm not sure saving $50 by downgrading the built-in RAM from 256 to 128 MB (and losing the combo drive) is such a good deal.
student discount! it takes the $1099 12inch ibook down to $949.
Actually I think it's only a $100 rebate across the board, but the edu store (here, anyway) has an extra $949 moder with only a CD-rom drive, and the RAM downgraded to 128 MB (clearly not enough).
The eMacs were also upgarded -- both models have 1GHz processors now. Specs:
Combo Drive model
1GHz PowerPC G4
128MB SDRAM
40GB Ultra ATA drive
$799.00 ($749 at edu store)
Super Drive model
1GHz PowerPC G4
256MB SDRAM
80GB Ultra ATA drive
$1,099.00 ($999 at edu store)
Didn't see it coming -- saw them on apple.com a few minutes ago, and at the time neither MacRumors nor ThinkSecret had anything. (Macbidouille did, however.)
Just got myself a 12' PowerBook, oh well:-) Today I'd be hard pressed to choose -- one big plus on the PB is the *digital* video out, which lets you attach a Studio display. The new iBooks are discounted $100 at my University's edu store, versus $200 on the PBs. Specs and Euro prices from Macbidouille:
- 12" / 800MHz
PowerPC G4 a 800 MHz
256 Ko de cache N2 (a 800 MHz)
Ecran TFT 12" (1024 x 768)
256 Mo DDR266 / 30 Go
Lecteur combo DVD/CD-RW
ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 (32 Mo VRAM)
1.199 euros
- 14" / 933MHz
PowerPC G4 a 933 MHz
256 Ko de cache N2 (a 933 MHz)
Ecran TFT 14" (1024 x 768)
256 Mo DDR266 / 40 Go
Lecteur combo DVD/CD-RW
ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 (32 Mo VRAM)
1449 euros
- 14" / 1GHz
PowerPC G4 a 1 GHz
256 Ko de cache N2 (a 1 GHz)
Ecran TFT 14" (1024 x 768)
256 Mo DDR266 / 60 Go
Lecteur combo DVD/CD-RW
ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 (32 Mo VRAM)
1699 euros
(He has a bottomless bag of "Euler's theorem (due to Bernoulli)", "the inequality named after Schwarz (and therefore not due to Schwarz)..." with which to crack up audiences.)
While a staff member watches, the voter deposits his vote card into the official ballot kiosk's card reader.
This kiosk reads the barcode, electronically sends the vote to
the regional counting center, and keeps the vote card for future
audits.
Then it's possible to listen on that line and find out what the Nth voter voted. I don't want any decipherable signal to be dispatched at the time I vote.
You may start talking about encryption, but my point is that listening is possible; besides, it would be yet another technological escalation to make the process opaque and impenetrable to the citizens it's supposed to serve.
the Electronic Frontier Foundation announced that it will defend the right (...)
If that's independent news media, give me my biased greedy coporate controlled news anyday.
Evidently you don't grok the difference between defending what Indymedia say, and defending their right to say it. Cf. Voltaire: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." (Letter to Helvetius, one of whose books had just been ordered to be burned.)
Thankfully, the EFF is more enlightened than you are.
it is extremely widespread his is an honest statement
Seriously. This program takes mail which has arrived in a pop mailbox, and resubmits it into another smtp server. Right? Now, what fraction of internet users do you think have their email go through such a process, anywhere along the line. Is it above, or below one percent?
It's useful for those who need it, no argument. But it's simply way out of proportion to say that it is "extremely widespread" and "touches an appreciable fraction of the Internet's mail traffic".
He wrote the damn thing, he should be familiar with it.
(Yeah, that's why I said familiar.)
It's not that he's just blowing his own horn eitherAhem...
fetchmail is a network gateway program. (...) It is in extremely widespread use on Unix
machines that use intermittent SLIP or PPP connections to Internet
service providers, and as such probably touches an appreciable fraction of the Internet's mail traffic.
Kudos for being included in every distribution, but hey, methinks he's overdoing it a bit here:-)
I think Raymond would be a lot more credible if he didn't keep using Fetchmail as an example for everything (with rather heavy insistence on how incredibly smart its conception is).
OK, he's familiar with the program, but the effect is, at times it really looks like it's all he's familiar with. I mean, if the design principles it illustrates are so prevalent, it shouldn't be hard to find other examples that avoid this obvious slant, no?
If I look out my window I can see a pyramid of shopping carts 4x5x3 (assembled in a crazy patton to connect the security chains and get the 1 deposit back)
You know, this disarmingly simple, mechanical system is the first thing that came to my mind while reading this story.
I know it's all over Europe, but believe it or not, it's completely unheard of here in the States.
(People here are still dumping the carts right by their cars, and we have poor blokes outside, rain or shine or snow, roaming around to pick them after us.)
It's so odd to see Stop & Shop go Wi-Fi before they even consider implementing this elementary system.
Chad hardin announces the "resurrection" of an OS X-like Linux distribution, SimplyGNUstep.
Actually I'd never have called it "dying" (it seemed to be going at a remarkable pace for a, basically, one-man project), but Hardin says he's decided to accelerate it further by basing the installer on Debian Sarge's instead of rolling his own.
Not connected in any way, but emulating NeXT/OS X goodness rather than Windows seems like a damn nice idea.
I hope nobody will get this wrong, but I'd like to know if anyone has measured the effect of Netscape largely pulling out of the Mozilla project.
It was always my impression that netscape.com people provided a major part (if by no means all) of the code committed to the tree. Several of them personally fixed bugs that I reported. You had the feeling that they were tending to the house. To what extent are they, or others, now filling this role?
Having not been involved in bugzilla as much as I used to, it's hard for me to evaluate how the situation has been affected. I understand that all of them who remain at AOL (how many before/after?) are officially on other projects now. Is there any way one can measure the effect on bugzilla activity?
The experiments -- a joint effort with IBM, run by the
Office of the E-envoy -- will "cover a range of departments, from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister to the e-envoy's office itself."
So the whole investigation is being run in.doc format?!? Obviously, the dice are loaded.
I can see it coming. "Linux has GNUs", "ready to launch in under 45 minutes", blah, blah.
Slashdot Mirror
Thus, I don't think you actually disagree at all.
Ellen Feiss is gonna have a field day.
Uh-oh, and I just found this, too, from Roman Zippel on lkml: [ANNOUNCE] HFS+ driver, a Linux HFS+ driver that now "supports full read and write access". (Not sure if anyone successfully compiled it into a powerpc kernel, though?)
Thanks. I didn't know about this, and it looks excellent. No more need for a special partition, just what I was after.
This is very helpful, especially about the 10.2.8 upgrade. Panther might have the same problem, so I guess I'll try it first on 10.2.7, which I'm still running.
What distro did you install on the 12" PB? I'd like to know if the stock Debian Woody kernel (maybe even the new Debian installer?) will boot on it.
Also, should the Linux or OS X partition go first? This report says Linux ("Use Drive Setup to create a partition at the beginning of the disk. This partition needs to be big enough to house all of your planned Debian partitions"), that one says OS X ("It's important you leave MacOS partition first"). Both are for iBooks though; couldn't find any report specifically on the 12" PB.
Also: is HFS (not HFS+) still the only file system that both OS X and Linux can read and write to?
I'm actually interested (my GF has a 12" [okay :-)] G3 with video out, presumably the same as yours, and we might share a display then. But it has to be digital, not go through analog and back like those "industry standard" VGAs.
Yeah, I do this as well -- but here I'm not sure saving $50 by downgrading the built-in RAM from 256 to 128 MB (and losing the combo drive) is such a good deal.
Actually I think it's only a $100 rebate across the board, but the edu store (here, anyway) has an extra $949 moder with only a CD-rom drive, and the RAM downgraded to 128 MB (clearly not enough).
The eMacs were also upgarded -- both models have 1GHz processors now. Specs:
Combo Drive model
1GHz PowerPC G4
128MB SDRAM
40GB Ultra ATA drive
$799.00 ($749 at edu store)
Super Drive model
1GHz PowerPC G4
256MB SDRAM
80GB Ultra ATA drive
$1,099.00 ($999 at edu store)
Just got myself a 12' PowerBook, oh well :-) Today I'd be hard pressed to choose -- one big plus on the PB is the *digital* video out, which lets you attach a Studio display. The new iBooks are discounted $100 at my University's edu store, versus $200 on the PBs. Specs and Euro prices from Macbidouille:
- 12" / 800MHz
PowerPC G4 a 800 MHz
256 Ko de cache N2 (a 800 MHz)
Ecran TFT 12" (1024 x 768)
256 Mo DDR266 / 30 Go
Lecteur combo DVD/CD-RW
ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 (32 Mo VRAM)
1.199 euros
- 14" / 933MHz
PowerPC G4 a 933 MHz
256 Ko de cache N2 (a 933 MHz)
Ecran TFT 14" (1024 x 768)
256 Mo DDR266 / 40 Go
Lecteur combo DVD/CD-RW
ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 (32 Mo VRAM)
1449 euros
- 14" / 1GHz
PowerPC G4 a 1 GHz
256 Ko de cache N2 (a 1 GHz)
Ecran TFT 14" (1024 x 768)
256 Mo DDR266 / 60 Go
Lecteur combo DVD/CD-RW
ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 (32 Mo VRAM)
1699 euros
(He has a bottomless bag of "Euler's theorem (due to Bernoulli)", "the inequality named after Schwarz (and therefore not due to Schwarz)..." with which to crack up audiences.)
You may start talking about encryption, but my point is that listening is possible; besides, it would be yet another technological escalation to make the process opaque and impenetrable to the citizens it's supposed to serve.
What the hell is wrong with ballot in a box?
You might want to check the next story's article:
Thankfully, the EFF is more enlightened than you are.
his is an honest statement
Seriously. This program takes mail which has arrived in a pop mailbox, and resubmits it into another smtp server. Right? Now, what fraction of internet users do you think have their email go through such a process, anywhere along the line. Is it above, or below one percent?
It's useful for those who need it, no argument. But it's simply way out of proportion to say that it is "extremely widespread" and "touches an appreciable fraction of the Internet's mail traffic".
Also NeXT(step), cf. Cocoa's NSPipe.
(Yeah, that's why I said familiar.)
It's not that he's just blowing his own horn either Ahem...
Kudos for being included in every distribution, but hey, methinks he's overdoing it a bit hereOK, he's familiar with the program, but the effect is, at times it really looks like it's all he's familiar with. I mean, if the design principles it illustrates are so prevalent, it shouldn't be hard to find other examples that avoid this obvious slant, no?
If I look out my window I can see a pyramid of shopping carts 4x5x3 (assembled in a crazy patton to connect the security chains and get the 1 deposit back)
You know, this disarmingly simple, mechanical system is the first thing that came to my mind while reading this story.
I know it's all over Europe, but believe it or not, it's completely unheard of here in the States.
(People here are still dumping the carts right by their cars, and we have poor blokes outside, rain or shine or snow, roaming around to pick them after us.)
It's so odd to see Stop & Shop go Wi-Fi before they even consider implementing this elementary system.
Actually I'd never have called it "dying" (it seemed to be going at a remarkable pace for a, basically, one-man project), but Hardin says he's decided to accelerate it further by basing the installer on Debian Sarge's instead of rolling his own.
Not connected in any way, but emulating NeXT/OS X goodness rather than Windows seems like a damn nice idea.
It was always my impression that netscape.com people provided a major part (if by no means all) of the code committed to the tree. Several of them personally fixed bugs that I reported. You had the feeling that they were tending to the house. To what extent are they, or others, now filling this role?
Having not been involved in bugzilla as much as I used to, it's hard for me to evaluate how the situation has been affected. I understand that all of them who remain at AOL (how many before/after?) are officially on other projects now. Is there any way one can measure the effect on bugzilla activity?
I can see it coming. "Linux has GNUs", "ready to launch in under 45 minutes", blah, blah.
Gartner echoes concerns on Microsoft reliance
A copy of the Gartner research note seen by CNET News.com mirrors the conclusions of seven prominent security researchers, who released a paper stating that Microsoft's dominance in software could have serious consequences for national cybersecurity. The Gartner report is scheduled to be published Friday.
(The point is not what they are saying, it who's saying it.)
Linas Vepstas has a good overview here:
Call Center, Bug Tracking and Project Management Tools for Linux.
Also: Problem Management Tools Summary.