"Shaun Gabb, director of the anti-censorship organization the Libertarian Alliance, said: 'If you are criminalizing possession then you are giving police inquisitorial powers to come into your house and see what you've got, now we didn't have this in the past.'"
What the kernel really lacks is a good standard for coding practices, like say adding comments and indenting at least somewhat sensibly [yeah I know for some of you "elites" you can take reading a complete lack of consistent indentation but for the rest of us...]
The kernel includes a document detailing the coding style to use. It lives in Documentation/CodingStyle.txt You can read the current version from Linus' Git tree here. If you spot anything in the kernel that doesn't follow CodeingStyle.txt you should submit a patch to the kernel janitors to fix it up.
I think its inevitable. Someone's going to come along and glue Tor and [insert p2p client] together and release it.
As for bandwidth requirements, I'd hope whoever did this would be intelligent enough to realise the restrictions of the current Tor network and build their own Tor compatible net for their P2P clients or just use it for finding nodes.
I agree that if Tor was used for bulk p2p data transfer it would quickly fold under the pressure. We've already seen that with Freenet.
Are people going to be held accountable for the traffic that passes through their Tor server?
IANAL but I think we're back to the 'substantial non-infringing uses' arguement again. Unlike P2P software, Tor has wide ranging uses covering a multitude of applications and protocols. I doubt the RIAA can sucessfully bring it down.
OTOH I doubt Tor can afford to defend itself unless the FSF comes to the rescue.
I suspect it wont do anything other than look slightly prettier and require a faster cpu, more disk space and twice as much memory as XP does to do the same basically thing.
Ok, I read the link to the sun page about D-Trace but that really didn't answer the questions I had. So can any Sun users explain:
1. Why has Sun open sourced this of all things? 2. It seems very similar to gdb in role. Is this assumption correct? Does it compare favorably? 3. Is a Linux/BSD/whatever port of this desirable/attainable? Or does it rely to much on the guts of SunOS? Do we have better tools already on those OS's?
Something interesting to look out for, or just more hype from a developer often criticized even by Gentoo people for not looking before he leaps?
No, I don't think so. There's been a installer for Solaris avalible from this self same developer for some time. As this is just an incremental update rather than inventing a whole new wheel I don't think anyone can be seriously worried about him pulling this off.
Yes, I think thats a fair prediction. Open Source software usually kills off retail software first. As a consumer, would you rather pay Opera for your browser or download it for free from mozilla.org. IMHO thats a no brainer.
The situation with IE is a little more murky. As its bundled with the OS lazyness comes into play. "Why should I go and download some other browser. This one I have works fine!" The only motivation thus far that people have to actively switch is because of all the malware targetting IE.
The only nice windows apps I'm missing are games. I have perfectly sensible Open Source software for everything day to day I need to do. That said, I think porting Linux software to Win32 is a good thing. It makes it easier for people to switch over to Linux.
Seems to me employers these days value experience much more highly that any bits of paper from big name educational establishments you might bring along to your interview.
I RTFA'd a couple of times but I couldn't get P2P software to fit anywhere in his lifecycle. Infact, it seems to completely fly in the face of his arguments.
Is there something wierd going on with P2P software? The MPAA/RIAA induced arms race perhaps?
Don't forget, *nix has been doing this for a really long time indeed. Google for 'dumb terminal'.
On a more practical note, the Linux Terminal Server Project is worth checking out if you want to implement this sort of setup with Linux based systems. I recently implemented 8 terminals and a server in a library to act as web surfing kisoks using LTSP.
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You seem to be on the inside so I'm curious on why she'd want to leave just at the point where things were working out? Any insights on that?
"Shaun Gabb, director of the anti-censorship organization the Libertarian Alliance, said: 'If you are criminalizing possession then you are giving police inquisitorial powers to come into your house and see what you've got, now we didn't have this in the past.'"
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
I can't believe no-one has mentioned Textmate. It's an excellent text editor for MacOS X and wonderful for doing any sort of programming work.
http://macromates.com/
If you want to see how easy it makes things, it's used in the Ruby on Rails screencasts.
http://www.rubyonrails.org/screencasts
What the kernel really lacks is a good standard for coding practices, like say adding comments and indenting at least somewhat sensibly [yeah I know for some of you "elites" you can take reading a complete lack of consistent indentation but for the rest of us ...]
The kernel includes a document detailing the coding style to use. It lives in Documentation/CodingStyle.txt You can read the current version from Linus' Git tree here. If you spot anything in the kernel that doesn't follow CodeingStyle.txt you should submit a patch to the kernel janitors to fix it up.
Get the repacked version http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/extfirefox/Firesome thing_1.6.0_rep.xpi
Your describing Gentoo's package management system, Portage.
Calender for firefox. Its based on Sunbird. (Or Sunbird is based on the Calender component, I'm not sure which came first).
I think its inevitable. Someone's going to come along and glue Tor and [insert p2p client] together and release it.
As for bandwidth requirements, I'd hope whoever did this would be intelligent enough to realise the restrictions of the current Tor network and build their own Tor compatible net for their P2P clients or just use it for finding nodes.
I agree that if Tor was used for bulk p2p data transfer it would quickly fold under the pressure. We've already seen that with Freenet.
bleah, I meant the EFF of course.
Are people going to be held accountable for the traffic that passes through their Tor server?
IANAL but I think we're back to the 'substantial non-infringing uses' arguement again. Unlike P2P software, Tor has wide ranging uses covering a multitude of applications and protocols. I doubt the RIAA can sucessfully bring it down.
OTOH I doubt Tor can afford to defend itself unless the FSF comes to the rescue.
Cracked lens more like. Seriously, who's paying this guy to write this? He's just rehashing old fud giving it a new twist.
Its all well and good M$ locking the front door, but they left all the windows open.
Power users and worm writers can just install Windows PCAP libraries.
I know, I was expecting to be moderated redundant.
I suspect it wont do anything other than look slightly prettier and require a faster cpu, more disk space and twice as much memory as XP does to do the same basically thing.
Same old story really.
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Can't you people use google?
Mozilla should probably create some sort of permission system for extensions. Can it connect to a remote server? Can it write to disk?
Isn't that just reinventing Java?
Ok, I read the link to the sun page about D-Trace but that really didn't answer the questions I had. So can any Sun users explain:
:)
1. Why has Sun open sourced this of all things?
2. It seems very similar to gdb in role. Is this assumption correct? Does it compare favorably?
3. Is a Linux/BSD/whatever port of this desirable/attainable? Or does it rely to much on the guts of SunOS? Do we have better tools already on those OS's?
Please be gentle.
Something interesting to look out for, or just more hype from a developer often criticized even by Gentoo people for not looking before he leaps?
No, I don't think so. There's been a installer for Solaris avalible from this self same developer for some time. As this is just an incremental update rather than inventing a whole new wheel I don't think anyone can be seriously worried about him pulling this off.
Plus, has anyone tried this on WINE?
Full instructions here.
Yes, I think thats a fair prediction. Open Source software usually kills off retail software first. As a consumer, would you rather pay Opera for your browser or download it for free from mozilla.org. IMHO thats a no brainer.
The situation with IE is a little more murky. As its bundled with the OS lazyness comes into play. "Why should I go and download some other browser. This one I have works fine!" The only motivation thus far that people have to actively switch is because of all the malware targetting IE.
so 250ms then? :)
The only nice windows apps I'm missing are games. I have perfectly sensible Open Source software for everything day to day I need to do. That said, I think porting Linux software to Win32 is a good thing. It makes it easier for people to switch over to Linux.
Seems to me employers these days value experience much more highly that any bits of paper from big name educational establishments you might bring along to your interview.
I RTFA'd a couple of times but I couldn't get P2P software to fit anywhere in his lifecycle. Infact, it seems to completely fly in the face of his arguments.
Is there something wierd going on with P2P software? The MPAA/RIAA induced arms race perhaps?
Don't forget, *nix has been doing this for a really long time indeed. Google for 'dumb terminal'.
On a more practical note, the Linux Terminal Server Project is worth checking out if you want to implement this sort of setup with Linux based systems. I recently implemented 8 terminals and a server in a library to act as web surfing kisoks using LTSP.