Linux users just did not get used to (have not need to) make unauthorized copies of the software. So they are more often respecting any copyright.
If I want other people to respect my license terms (GPL) I also tend to respect license terms of other copyright owners. If license terms are not reasonable (read: nonfree) I am just not interested in the product.
>> Stuff that used to work no longer does. Documents that used to look "correct" now look different.
Well, this is the same as upgrading MS Office. We have a lot of about 2-3 years old Word documents here which do not open anymore in new MS Word - it just hangs.
Fortunately antiword is able to convert them to text and Openoffice, well, opens them.
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Well, they have enhanced the GIMP (developed the filmgimp) after all, and YOU may profit from it. They have also sponsored a lot of GIMP development.
It is rather the GIMP developers who did not want to merge their work back in GIMP (I do observe it often that free SW maintainers do not accept useful code from outsiders if it is too radical).
All is nice, but I have additional requirement - I need to access my email from a text terminal sometimes. So I need I client which woul be able to access mail processed by Evolution (possibly with reduced functionality).
Another question: after many back-ups, moving between many hosts I ended up with many folders with partially duplicated emails. How to make "one big merge" to make mail IDs unique, but still link to the virtual folders there were originally in (so merge the data, but keep the original forlder names as meta-data)?
If you just need predictable timing and no IO, no memory allocation in real time, then both RTL and RTAI will work. RTAI has richer API. You will get below 20 us typical, below 30-50 us worst case delay (if you will not get PCI stalls (e.g. XFree 4.0 on some video cards)). You will have to recompile all the modules with RT kernel - any binary kernel module may contain cli().
Split your application cleanly between real time (put there only what absolutely neccesary) and all the rest.
I was in fact doing it when I was 14 years old. I wrote hex codes in one column and mnemonics as a comments in the other. And then entered the data through the monitor or with a simple BASIC program.
Exactly this way. I was thinking about putting my private data on my homepage in such a way that they may be only requested by email. And may be excluding domains like yahoo.com, hotmail.com.
I think this is a fair balance - everywhone may get information about you, but with your knowledge.
> Your system has a GPLed implementation of L. Now what?
Easy. I can compile your C and link it with my GPL library. But I can not distribute the binary. If I would be distributing it, I would need to put it under GPL, which I can not because license L prohibits this.
But I guess when I use dynamic linking, I may be able to distribute it (your code) under L by saying that I have linked it with the non-GPL library - there is no difference in the binary exec anyway!
This is similar problem to non-GPL kernel modules and is a grey area.
The day 60% of PCs on this planet run Linux you will get flamed on Slashdot-next-generation for not running some GNU Hurd derived system (of course they will have GPLed super portable microkernel by then). But I am optimistic. This bad commercial Linux will be still GPL.
For me free programs have 2 advantages: they are SIMPLE and IMPROVABLE. Important point is also the ease of personal intercation with the author, they are not anonymous.
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> And don't tell me to compile things, because Windows sure doesn't need it
Better say, can't do it. If something does not work, you are not allowed to repeair it.
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> how do you know that the author is living in the US?
He does not need to. Exporting is illegal according to USA law. In most countries using crypto is legal. Just get it from http://www.replay.com/ You do not need to export it yourself.
If you have not yet reinstalled the system, you have a chance to recover some information from the raw partitions. You can do e.g.
grep -A 4 -B 4 -i passw/dev/hda1 grep -A 4 -B 4 -i his_ip_address/dev/hda1 grep -i any_other_keyword/dev/any_partition
Collect this information to files on some other disk. Check the offset of your hardware clock, so when you see some time in your logs you know +- few seconds what exact time was it. Do traceroute and whois ip_number@whois.arin.net and @whois.ripe.net . Write to admins of those networks.
If you have a single transmitter, it will be below the noise. But the noise will be significant if the technique becomes widespread.
Using this TD technique you get huge bandwidth, but this is no suprise - you are using the whole frequency spectrum.
I do not understand why the probability of overlapping pulses from different sources is estimated to be low? With thousands of simultaneous data transfers at a time?
I have noticed about an hour ago that my NIC handle TM978 was missing. I have thought they have deleted that because it was too old;-)
But now I am seeing it again. Interesting. And just one minute after it is gone again. May be they use some kind of load sharing and one of the servers has lost its DB ?
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Linux users just did not get used to (have not need to) make unauthorized copies of the software. So they are more often respecting any copyright.
If I want other people to respect my license terms (GPL) I also tend to respect license terms of other copyright owners. If license terms are not reasonable (read: nonfree) I am just not interested in the product.
>> Stuff that used to work no longer does. Documents that used to look "correct" now look different.
Well, this is the same as upgrading MS Office. We have a lot of about 2-3 years old Word documents here which do not open anymore in new MS Word - it just hangs.
Fortunately antiword is able to convert them to text and Openoffice, well, opens them.
Well, they have enhanced the GIMP (developed the filmgimp) after all, and YOU may profit from it. They have also sponsored a lot of GIMP development.
It is rather the GIMP developers who did not want to merge their work back in GIMP (I do observe it often that free SW maintainers do not accept useful code from outsiders if it is too radical).
well, but the number of stairs in surrouding spheres also increments as r^2. When going to infinitity you get infinity
All is nice, but I have additional requirement - I need to access my email from a text terminal sometimes. So I need I client which woul be able to access mail processed by Evolution (possibly with reduced functionality).
Another question: after many back-ups, moving between many hosts I ended up with many folders with partially duplicated emails. How to make "one big merge" to make mail IDs unique, but still link to the virtual folders there were originally in (so merge the data, but keep the original forlder names as meta-data)?
If you just need predictable timing and no IO, no memory allocation in real time, then both RTL and RTAI will work. RTAI has richer API. You will get below 20 us typical, below 30-50 us worst case delay (if you will not get PCI stalls (e.g. XFree 4.0 on some video cards)). You will have to recompile all the modules with RT kernel - any binary kernel module may contain cli().
Split your application cleanly between real time (put there only what absolutely neccesary) and all the rest.
And have a look into one shared mechanism - mbuff
SNMP
I was in fact doing it when I was 14 years old. I wrote hex codes in one column and mnemonics as a comments in the other. And then entered the data through the monitor or with a simple BASIC program.
Exactly this way. I was thinking about putting my private data on my homepage in such a way that they may be only requested by email. And may be excluding domains like yahoo.com, hotmail.com.
I think this is a fair balance - everywhone may get information about you, but with your knowledge.
And BTW all American companies should register in
.us
.com was, is and will be for international use.
Just when you think the action is going to begin, the film ends.
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Tomek
P.S. I would recommend The sixth day instead.
Hey, may I have the script/config file which has generated your comment? It really looks like some autogenerated postmodern text.
> Your system has a GPLed implementation of L. Now what?
Easy. I can compile your C and link it with my GPL library. But I can not distribute the binary. If I would be distributing it, I would need to put it under GPL, which I can not because license L prohibits this.
But I guess when I use dynamic linking, I may be able to distribute it (your code) under L by saying that I have linked it with the non-GPL library - there is no difference in the binary exec anyway!
This is similar problem to non-GPL kernel modules and is a grey area.
Read the actual letter. They will release their
instalation and other programs as open source with the final distribution.
The testers are getting now the source code for
all changes Corel made to GPL software under GPL.
Yes, but if it was open source, you have a chance of fixing it, before things get really bad.
If you were a "nomadic user" you would speak differently. X windows saves me here.
2nd power, not 4th
The day 60% of PCs on this planet run Linux you will get flamed on Slashdot-next-generation for not running some GNU Hurd derived system (of course they will have GPLed super portable microkernel by then). But I am optimistic. This bad commercial Linux will be still GPL.
For me free programs have 2 advantages:
they are SIMPLE and IMPROVABLE. Important point is also the ease of personal intercation with the author, they are not anonymous.
> And don't tell me to compile things, because Windows sure doesn't need it
Better say, can't do it. If something does not work, you are not allowed to repeair it.
> how do you know that the author is living in the US?
He does not need to. Exporting is illegal according to USA law. In most countries using crypto is legal. Just get it from http://www.replay.com/ You do not need to export it yourself.
This would make things even worse.
You need to be INSIDE the shield (wrapping yourself in aluminium foil should suffice).
Fully agree.
If you have not yet reinstalled the system, you have a chance to recover some information from the raw partitions. You can do e.g.
/dev/hda1 /dev/hda1 /dev/any_partition
grep -A 4 -B 4 -i passw
grep -A 4 -B 4 -i his_ip_address
grep -i any_other_keyword
Collect this information to files on some other disk. Check the offset of your hardware clock, so when you see some time in your logs you know +- few seconds what exact time was it. Do traceroute and whois ip_number@whois.arin.net and @whois.ripe.net . Write to admins of those networks.
If you have a single transmitter, it will be below the noise. But the noise will be significant if the technique becomes widespread.
Using this TD technique you get huge bandwidth, but this is no suprise - you are using the whole frequency spectrum.
I do not understand why the probability of overlapping pulses from different sources is estimated to be low? With thousands of simultaneous data transfers at a time?
I have noticed about an hour ago that my NIC handle TM978 was missing. I have thought they have deleted that because it was too old ;-)
But now I am seeing it again. Interesting.
And just one minute after it is gone again. May be they use some kind of load sharing and one of the servers has lost its DB ?