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MandrakeUpdate or Package Manager are GUI tools that work with rpms to do this type of thing. They call urpmi, a command line tool, to get the work done... You'll also notice that urpmi uses wget to fetch package dependencies... It all works quite well, but as most things in Linux, it still requires work.
This might be a bit offtopic, but I've been wondering for a while and have been waiting for a slashdot article that I could ask the question on.
We all know that a blackhole forms when you have so much mass in one place in space that even light can't escape its gravitational effects and a singularity forms.
We also know, from Einstein that mass and energy are interchangalbe by the formula E=mc^2.
Does this mean that in order to form a black hole all you need to do is put enough energy into a small enough volume? If so, how would this work, and if not, why not?
This is probably redundant, but I was just wondering why it costs to send packets and to receive packets?
Shouldn't the cost of sending packets be negative? How come people don't pay to receive their signal - and how come that payment doesn't go to the person who sends that signal?
If the cost of your ISP to receive a copy of/. went into the upstream market, such that a sum was paid to recieve that packet - you would pay slashdot (and infrastructure) by packet...
That doesn't make sense, so I'll reword it...
You pay your isp to get content, they pay their ISP, we should charge them to send packets... (almost)
basically at the network level you implement IP contracts.
I know why it costs, and that is because you have to do work to move signals along a guided path in either direction... cause entropy is always positive, etc... their are laws of physics at play that say work = cost, and someone put all those cables down I 'spose... and people have to get paid... so it always costs to send and receive a signal...
It seems to cost a lot of money... well it used too, cause the layoffs must be playing havoc with the market (what does that mean?).
So... here it is that I'm wondering why, if there was yet another ip protocol extention that allowed you attach a charge to that packet - it should acumulate that charge with various routers, telco's and isp agreements, until it came to the source of the request - ie the browser... but implemented at the network level with your isp connection(s)...
an isp that hosted a large site like slashdot, could probably charge for its content - lets face it, that's what ads are - "go rackspace" - but they are indirect, in that advertisers subsidise the network... and they're probably quite pissed off that we don't buy any of their products, cause we don't trust the net to fetch us stuff... but that's another matter altogether..
If your main way is making money from support and maintenance, then why would releasing the source code to the public under a GPL undermine your position and ability to do this (make money)?
If anything, I could see that this would give you an even bigger user base, and possibly open up the oppurtinity to create more support and maintenance contracts?
You could even continue selling new versions as the base code is improved upon..
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MandrakeUpdate or Package Manager are GUI tools that work with rpms to do this type of thing. They call urpmi, a command line tool, to get the work done... You'll also notice that urpmi uses wget to fetch package dependencies... It all works quite well, but as most things in Linux, it still requires work.
If we can just get 150 people to put $20 in each, we can buy a copy of this and then mirror it!!!
;0)
Isn't the GPL great?
so much free power all over and we can't use it because of cost factors
that doesn't really make sense....
This might be a bit offtopic, but I've been wondering for a while and have been waiting for a slashdot article that I could ask the question on.
We all know that a blackhole forms when you have so much mass in one place in space that even light can't escape its gravitational effects and a singularity forms.
We also know, from Einstein that mass and energy are interchangalbe by the formula E=mc^2.
Does this mean that in order to form a black hole all you need to do is put enough energy into a small enough volume? If so, how would this work, and if not, why not?
Thanks
This is probably redundant, but I was just wondering why it costs to send packets and to receive packets?
/. went into the upstream market, such that a sum was paid to recieve that packet - you would pay slashdot (and infrastructure) by packet...
Shouldn't the cost of sending packets be negative? How come people don't pay to receive their signal - and how come that payment doesn't go to the person who sends that signal?
If the cost of your ISP to receive a copy of
That doesn't make sense, so I'll reword it...
You pay your isp to get content, they pay their ISP, we should charge them to send packets... (almost)
basically at the network level you implement IP contracts.
I know why it costs, and that is because you have to do work to move signals along a guided path in either direction... cause entropy is always positive, etc... their are laws of physics at play that say work = cost, and someone put all those cables down I 'spose... and people have to get paid... so it always costs to send and receive a signal...
It seems to cost a lot of money... well it used too, cause the layoffs must be playing havoc with the market (what does that mean?).
So... here it is that I'm wondering why, if there was yet another ip protocol extention that allowed you attach a charge to that packet - it should acumulate that charge with various routers, telco's and isp agreements, until it came to the source of the request - ie the browser... but implemented at the network level with your isp connection(s)...
an isp that hosted a large site like slashdot, could probably charge for its content - lets face it, that's what ads are - "go rackspace" - but they are indirect, in that advertisers subsidise the network... and they're probably quite pissed off that we don't buy any of their products, cause we don't trust the net to fetch us stuff... but that's another matter altogether..
For which I have a wonderful command, unfortunately the comment box is not large enough to contain it ;)
If your main way is making money from support and maintenance, then why would releasing the source code to the public under a GPL undermine your position and ability to do this (make money)?
If anything, I could see that this would give you an even bigger user base, and possibly open up the oppurtinity to create more support and maintenance contracts?
You could even continue selling new versions as the base code is improved upon..
Just my 2p