One feature that I've been wishing for for years is what I call 'layered search', which would search the root, then top level directories, followed by the second-level directories, etc. (basically a fifo queue rather than lifo or recursive). I wrote a simple search app that worked this way in Delphi 1.0 (that shows how long ago), and it was invariably faster than Windows search. I've lost it now though, but I might rewrite it in Perl/TK. It would be cool to have it as a checkbox in Windows built-in search though.
My new laptop, with a 60GB 7200RPM disk, is under two months old, and I'm defragmenting it now. It's been running for 5 minutes, and is 3% complete, on a disk that is 62% full.
20 minutes later, and it's on 17%. That's pretty damn fragmented, in my opinion.
The pictures of the fake iBook are the punchline, but they're all over the page that links to the pdf file, so the main joke fell a bit flat. It was the "other escrow transaction" that had me in stitches.
I can specifically decline to accept the GPL, and my additional rights to the software terminate at that point. However, this still permits me to use the software that I have legitimately acquired.
The Windows Freenet installer will not let me past the GPL licence screen until I click "I agree".
Sorry, but I missed that one, nothing in the article really surprised me.
Was it the fact that he was using a pcode-interpreted language? I've already been surprised so many times at how fast Perl is, that this does not surprise me any more. I've parallel-written a few programs in Perl, C, and C++, and Perl won every time.
Actually I'm in the UK, though because of DRM etc still subjected to US rules. Ho hum.
The UK rules are pretty much the same as in the US. It has been illegal to circuvent copy-protection measures since 1988 over here. It has been illegal to copy a CD that you bought onto a cassette tape or MP3 player since at least then as well.
It's easier and cheaper, and therefore everyone would do it, therefore effectively stripping USian content producers of the protection that the US has fought so hard to afford them internationally. Effectively, you are buying this musc in the US. You are in the US, you are buying the music, therefore you should be subject to US copyright law. There is an exception for bringing back music that your bought while you were abroad, so you can bring back your music collection if you've been working abroad for instance, but saying that this exception should be expanded to an infinite degree is just silly.
I've been using the trial version of DVDFab for a few weeks now, and it works like a dream. It will even allow you to select just the movie and a selection of sound and subtitle tracks, so a dual-layer movie can be written to a single disc (I did this with the Region 3 Spiderman special edition).
Do you steal Gucci off the racks? Do you steal Porsches from dealerships? Do you steal Nikes from department stores?
The difference is that there is competition for all those goods. The RIAA is a cartel that controls the market for commercial music. Yes, we could all go out and find independent music that we like, but the truth is that our culture is fat and lazy and we all want to listen to the music that our friends and idols are listening to. Exploiting that craving through a cartel is illegal.
And no, I don't illegally download music either, and I haven't bought an RIAA CD in over three years, so I'm sitting right next to you on the moral high-ground. Nice view from up here, isn't it?:-)
I saw one at a train station in England that had a message saying that some video player software might be out of date, and would I like to look for updates on the internet? I didn't have a camera on me, sadly.
Of course, this may be irrelevent since SCO has no proof that this actually occurred.
The priginal point was that AutoZone should be OK because they have an SCO licence already, and therefore the SCO code in Linux is ok for them to use, not that AutoZone actually did the porting.
Yes, but if the SCO code was delivered in the form of a sale it's not clear they can restrict use of their copyrighted material other than copying.
Technically, even executing the software requires it to be loaded into memory. I seem to recall that this arguement has already been thrown out of court at least once, though, since it is the software's designed purpose to be copied into memory to be executed. However, creating a derivative work, even for personal use only, I think would not be thrown out as trivial. Remember, copying a CD onto your MP3 player or cassette walkman is illegal, at least here in the UK it is.
My friend's mum was annoyed that her email had stopped working, so I had a look and got it working again - someone had changed the SMTP server.
An hour later, she came back and said it was broken again. I checked, and she was getting "550 Administrative Denial" from btinternet.com, which was the recipient's email server.
Eventually I discovered that her email goes through Freeserve, and a few weeks ago I had rebuilt their network so all the PCs went through a shared broadband connection. The recipient was detecting that this email had come from a machine that was not dialled up to Freeserve, and bounced it!
She now dials up to Freeserve to send email, but carries on using the broadband at other times.
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One feature that I've been wishing for for years is what I call 'layered search', which would search the root, then top level directories, followed by the second-level directories, etc. (basically a fifo queue rather than lifo or recursive). I wrote a simple search app that worked this way in Delphi 1.0 (that shows how long ago), and it was invariably faster than Windows search. I've lost it now though, but I might rewrite it in Perl/TK. It would be cool to have it as a checkbox in Windows built-in search though.
My new laptop, with a 60GB 7200RPM disk, is under two months old, and I'm defragmenting it now. It's been running for 5 minutes, and is 3% complete, on a disk that is 62% full.
20 minutes later, and it's on 17%. That's pretty damn fragmented, in my opinion.
The pictures of the fake iBook are the punchline, but they're all over the page that links to the pdf file, so the main joke fell a bit flat. It was the "other escrow transaction" that had me in stitches.
I can specifically decline to accept the GPL, and my additional rights to the software terminate at that point. However, this still permits me to use the software that I have legitimately acquired.
The Windows Freenet installer will not let me past the GPL licence screen until I click "I agree".
Pyrrhic.
Sorry, but I missed that one, nothing in the article really surprised me.
Was it the fact that he was using a pcode-interpreted language? I've already been surprised so many times at how fast Perl is, that this does not surprise me any more. I've parallel-written a few programs in Perl, C, and C++, and Perl won every time.
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Freedom Fighters gives Communism a really negative image, in my opinion.
Downloading it from Russia and keeping it on your hard drive is not a temporary act, and is neither transient nor incidental.
It's easier and cheaper, and therefore everyone would do it, therefore effectively stripping USian content producers of the protection that the US has fought so hard to afford them internationally. Effectively, you are buying this musc in the US. You are in the US, you are buying the music, therefore you should be subject to US copyright law. There is an exception for bringing back music that your bought while you were abroad, so you can bring back your music collection if you've been working abroad for instance, but saying that this exception should be expanded to an infinite degree is just silly.
I've been using the trial version of DVDFab for a few weeks now, and it works like a dream. It will even allow you to select just the movie and a selection of sound and subtitle tracks, so a dual-layer movie can be written to a single disc (I did this with the Region 3 Spiderman special edition).
And no, I don't illegally download music either, and I haven't bought an RIAA CD in over three years, so I'm sitting right next to you on the moral high-ground. Nice view from up here, isn't it?
One of these days, a non-biometric card will be introduced, and it will be cool and retro, and therefore newsworthy.
What's PERL? I know what Perl is, it's a scripting language, but I've never come across PERL.
I saw one at a train station in England that had a message saying that some video player software might be out of date, and would I like to look for updates on the internet? I didn't have a camera on me, sadly.
You can do it in Perl as well. Not only is it a stereogram generator, but it's also a quine!
Guess what! I just get my brand-new Xtreme gaming laptop up and running, and what is the top story on Slashdot?
Why?
Make sure you muss up your hair before you go in
So just un-tick the 'Send Referrer' box on the prefbar.
My friend's mum was annoyed that her email had stopped working, so I had a look and got it working again - someone had changed the SMTP server.
An hour later, she came back and said it was broken again. I checked, and she was getting "550 Administrative Denial" from btinternet.com, which was the recipient's email server.
Eventually I discovered that her email goes through Freeserve, and a few weeks ago I had rebuilt their network so all the PCs went through a shared broadband connection. The recipient was detecting that this email had come from a machine that was not dialled up to Freeserve, and bounced it!
She now dials up to Freeserve to send email, but carries on using the broadband at other times.