Alpha blended cursors. Not true transparency yet (waiting on Keith Packard's tranparency server for 5,0), but cursors can be colored, shadowed, animated, and themed.
mkfontscale A new utility, mkfontscale, is included with this version. This creates fonts.scale files. In the past, in order to install third party TTF fonts (such as MS corefonts), a utility called ttmkfontdir was often needed (except in distros like RedHat that took care in making everything "just work") to build the fonts.scale file. This program depended on Freetype 1.x libraries (which can't always coexist peacefully with freetype2), and was generally a PITA.
I live in the Austin area and have seen him on television (that is, until I cut the cable). He's quite extreme, but knows his shit and can back up his claims. Research everything with respect to prior involvement and police state takeover yourself and draw your own conclusion (the truth is stranger than fiction).
This isn't one of them. If I have access to a box physically, I can destroy all of the content with a sledgehammer. I can also mount any partition for any operating system and start messing around. Ever tried booting into rescue mode in Windows? That works too. Use digital security means for digital access, physical means for physical access. That means a security guard and at the very least lock and key.
The Penny Black project is investigating several techniques to reduce spam by making the sender pay. We're considering several currencies for payment: CPU cycles, memory cycles, Turing tests (proof that a human was involved), and plain old cash.
This is an anti-spam tool that doesn't need to be paid in cash. This also presents/. with an interesting juggling act: we hate Microsoft, but we also hate spam.
If you're adminning a corporate environment where the only things that the employees should have access to is email and browsing, you could cap their bandwidth. If you're at a school, you might want to try blocking access to the login websites (there's a username/pass system in KaZaA, right?), and forget the bandwidth cap entirely, since students may want to download monster.iso files or something.
Any thoughts about the GNU project? How did you first learn about it?
Dennis Ritchie: I can't remember when I first learned about it, but a long time ago. The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well as providing real software. The interesting thing is the way that free-software ideas have begun to influence major existing commercial players.
Interesting how modern day critics claim the gnu project to be too political, and try to rephrase free software rhetoric to be more palatable (sic) for business and those of a less "leftist" mindset, and he has the same beliefs, but for such a different reason: he existed before computing and software were touched by politics. He was co-developing UNIX before printer companies decided to have software contractors signing NDAs and closing off the specs, or vendor lock-ins.
Yeah, keep that in mind when all of the current admins making 50-80K a year with a house, car, and family to support are out of jobs because they have been replaced by cheap under-educated labor.
Time will tell on this one. If this new cheap labor force turns out to do fine, then it is the current admins that are actually over-educated.
This last generation has been taught that college degrees, and only college degrees, provide viable education for the workplace. Hence, it's no surprise we have a surplus of college degrees.
This is really unnecessary and harmful to the workplae overall, which is why I have chosen to go into tradeschool and become an electrician. You get paid modest wages while you learn (apprenticeship), and because of the low demand for college diplomas, trade professions are really lacking in new prospects.
Since the patent process confers upon those with an interest in a patent an exceptional economic benefit in the form of a legal monopoly, it is particularly important for competitors to be aware when companies who already enjoy an effective monopoly are to augment their monopoly with patents. This is very much the case with a company such as Microsoft that has been ruled, in court, to have an effective monopoly. In such cases, one would assume that practices that might be forgiven others would not be forgiven to the monopolists. Such companies should be expected to have, if anything, an augmented duty of candor when pursuing the legal monopolies granted by the patent process.
If Microsoft can continue to perpetuate their monopoly vis-a-vis managing content and applications for their platform (e.g. MSN appearing broken to Opera users, or in the more distant past with modifications to Java), their patents will not only be another slap in the face to competition, but will work with other unfair practices for a synergistic effect. They will use their platform to make standard their own quirks and extensions which are either closed-source, or too dynamic to follow; their patents can and will make it effectively illegal to try.
Seriously, you don't need to write an essay every time copyrights or the RIAA is mentioned. We're all up to speed on the different sides to the fair use vs. ip theft debate.
Don't think Europe doesn't have it's own power elite that runs the show.
Honestly, though, it's hard over here getting support for a war in Iraq. The ignorant patriot has become sort of a humorous stereotye in other countries, but in actuality there is just no way the RIAA could force America to wage war.
Still, you do have a good point. Analysis of the Telecommunications Act of 1997 (I believe it was 1997, but I'm not sure) is proof of the massive media conglomerates power in Congress (the Act actually helped perpetuate this).
Well it just so happens that I have an offer for you!
You don't settle for an average car, an average house, an average job, or an average wife. So why do you settle for an averaged size penis?
With longitude, your partner will watch in awe as your member grows and grows with seemingly no boundaries. In just six weeks, some customers acheive a blazing two and a half inch increase.
P.S. This is just a joke. Don't take it personally;)
2. A simple cheatsheet listing the kernel options needed to support the hardware.
Why do you even need that? Dell laptops come with really common hardware (stuff like ATI Rage Mobility). All you need is the manual they give you. In fact, it's not any harder to look at the manual, since they organize the basic specs together.
Gentoo sure has taken off. Good for you guys. I'll stick with the only distro I can handle. LFS - your distro, your rules:)
See, if the cops start asking civilians for their "papers," so to speak, they are probably also looking for criminals and Joe Sixpack's data will effectively get ignored. However, that doesn't stop such a system from becoming a more powerful control mechanism. I shouldn't have to show my face for a camera period, since "policy" with respect to what's done with data collected often changes. Simply having to prove I'm not a criminal at various checkpoints is a restriction on anonymous movement in public, and reminds us of totalitarian governments (namely Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany), and is distinctly what the Bill of Rights attempts to avoid.
You should read up on Nazi and soviet propaganda. You don't get tyranny overnight, and we must learn to guard ourselves vigilantly.
Part in parcel with common interpretation of the fourth amendment is the right to anonymity. Here in America, "show me your papers, please" is considered unreasonable search and ceisure. Face scanning is merely a digital extension of this.
Aha! Therin lies the joke. I wasn't genuinely thanking San Diego Police for their concern for privacy at all. This is an issue heavily tied with civil rights questions (especially regarding the fourth amendment), and being in the YRO section, we're supposed to say, "Yippie! No face scanning. Thanks for coming to the decision not to go ahead and violate the fourth amendment this year!" Meanwhile the Constitution has been reduced to a guideline that police can follow or go ahead forget about. "Yippie! Thanks, San Diego Police!" Get it? I hope so.
Seriously you'd think that the tongue-and-cheek tone of the post would clue people in to the fact that a joke is indeed being made.
It sounds like they're already being run by a non-profit organization...
Unfortunately, that's likely the reason Mandrake got into financial problems in the first place. In my opinion they forgot that old maxim, that "free software" means freedom, not price. They offered for free what anyone could download. Had they sold their product commercially, along with the source code in accordance with the GPL, they would have had more paying customers. In this case, distributing the source code would allow hackers more room to tinker, but the binary cd and installation still would be infinately more useful (and necessary).
I don't understand this business about the GPL not being able to be successful; no one else can make money for your work, 90% of the customers don't want the source, and even if they do a binary copy is still important as well. Consider how much harder it would be to 'pirate' a distribution from it's source than from the binaries.
Huh? No they're not. In fact, Windows is one of the best-selling pieces of software ever to be produced.
People are sick of the expensive update/release cycles, and few Windows users are enthusiastic about using it. Most are either dissatisfied with Windows, indifferent to it, or ignorant to it. None of this matters to my claim, however, since it is true that people are very much annoyed by Microsoft's upgrade/release cycles. Especially in countries like Australia where Windows is a subscription based service.
Also note that I did not limit my scope to Windows.
You can verbally masturbate as much as you want, but you can't deny that Microsoft has continually set the standard for what a modern desktop OS should be.
Again, my point is still valid, since I am not claiming that Windows "sucks," or that no one likes it. I am claiming (among other things) that their upgrade/release cycles are a cause for perturbation among most users cognizent of it.
(P.S. give MacOSX a try sometime--you won't deny that Apple has continually set the standard for what Windows should/will be)
Microsoft Corp. announced on Saturday the introduction of new digital rights software aimed at helping music labels control unauthorized copying of CDs, one of the biggest thorns in the ailing industry's side.
Whoa there! How about the fact that people are sick of proprietary software vendors and their expensive update/release cycles? Or in the case of audio media, prices have doubled in 15 years of being on the market, and being forced to lower prices by the justice department (having been shown guilty of essentially collusion and price-fixing).
Until these companies start listening to the consumers, they'll continue to write their own stories explaining the industries problems that allow them to justify witch-hunts (remember the RIAA seeking authority to hack computers suspected of carrying illegal media?).
Last year, some resourceful software enthusiasts cracked Sony Music's proprietary technology simply by scribbling a magic marker pen around the edges of the disc, thus enabling playback on any device.
Something tells me that history will repeat itself here...
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Not true transparency yet (waiting on Keith Packard's tranparency server for 5,0), but cursors can be colored, shadowed, animated, and themed.
A new utility, mkfontscale, is included with this version. This creates fonts.scale files. In the past, in order to install third party TTF fonts (such as MS corefonts), a utility called ttmkfontdir was often needed (except in distros like RedHat that took care in making everything "just work") to build the fonts.scale file. This program depended on Freetype 1.x libraries (which can't always coexist peacefully with freetype2), and was generally a PITA.
I live in the Austin area and have seen him on television (that is, until I cut the cable). He's quite extreme, but knows his shit and can back up his claims. Research everything with respect to prior involvement and police state takeover yourself and draw your own conclusion (the truth is stranger than fiction).
while(reading_slashdot == TRUE){
++nerdiness;
--social_life; }
How about,
while(reading_slashdot){++nerdiness;--social_life}
This isn't one of them. If I have access to a box physically, I can destroy all of the content with a sledgehammer. I can also mount any partition for any operating system and start messing around. Ever tried booting into rescue mode in Windows? That works too. Use digital security means for digital access, physical means for physical access. That means a security guard and at the very least lock and key.
This is an anti-spam tool that doesn't need to be paid in cash. This also presents /. with an interesting juggling act: we hate Microsoft, but we also hate spam.
If you're adminning a corporate environment where the only things that the employees should have access to is email and browsing, you could cap their bandwidth. If you're at a school, you might want to try blocking access to the login websites (there's a username/pass system in KaZaA, right?), and forget the bandwidth cap entirely, since students may want to download monster .iso files or something.
You have got to be kidding me. That has to be the oddest, most random sentence I've ever seen (including my .sig).
Interesting how modern day critics claim the gnu project to be too political, and try to rephrase free software rhetoric to be more palatable (sic) for business and those of a less "leftist" mindset, and he has the same beliefs, but for such a different reason: he existed before computing and software were touched by politics. He was co-developing UNIX before printer companies decided to have software contractors signing NDAs and closing off the specs, or vendor lock-ins.
Time will tell on this one. If this new cheap labor force turns out to do fine, then it is the current admins that are actually over-educated.
You're still an exception.
This is really unnecessary and harmful to the workplae overall, which is why I have chosen to go into tradeschool and become an electrician. You get paid modest wages while you learn (apprenticeship), and because of the low demand for college diplomas, trade professions are really lacking in new prospects.
If Microsoft can continue to perpetuate their monopoly vis-a-vis managing content and applications for their platform (e.g. MSN appearing broken to Opera users, or in the more distant past with modifications to Java), their patents will not only be another slap in the face to competition, but will work with other unfair practices for a synergistic effect. They will use their platform to make standard their own quirks and extensions which are either closed-source, or too dynamic to follow; their patents can and will make it effectively illegal to try.
Seriously, you don't need to write an essay every time copyrights or the RIAA is mentioned. We're all up to speed on the different sides to the fair use vs. ip theft debate.
Honestly, though, it's hard over here getting support for a war in Iraq. The ignorant patriot has become sort of a humorous stereotye in other countries, but in actuality there is just no way the RIAA could force America to wage war.
Still, you do have a good point. Analysis of the Telecommunications Act of 1997 (I believe it was 1997, but I'm not sure) is proof of the massive media conglomerates power in Congress (the Act actually helped perpetuate this).
You don't settle for an average car, an average house, an average job, or an average wife. So why do you settle for an averaged size penis?
With longitude, your partner will watch in awe as your member grows and grows with seemingly no boundaries. In just six weeks, some customers acheive a blazing two and a half inch increase.
P.S. This is just a joke. Don't take it personally ;)
Why do you even need that? Dell laptops come with really common hardware (stuff like ATI Rage Mobility). All you need is the manual they give you. In fact, it's not any harder to look at the manual, since they organize the basic specs together.
Gentoo sure has taken off. Good for you guys. I'll stick with the only distro I can handle. LFS - your distro, your rules :)
You should read up on Nazi and soviet propaganda. You don't get tyranny overnight, and we must learn to guard ourselves vigilantly.
Part in parcel with common interpretation of the fourth amendment is the right to anonymity. Here in America, "show me your papers, please" is considered unreasonable search and ceisure. Face scanning is merely a digital extension of this.
Seriously you'd think that the tongue-and-cheek tone of the post would clue people in to the fact that a joke is indeed being made.
So we do have a fourth amendment. I was a bit unsure after the PATRIOT act and all. Thanks, San Diego Police, for your concern with our privacy.
Kino is a program designed to work with dvgrab and also aims to be easier to use than Cinerella.
Unfortunately, that's likely the reason Mandrake got into financial problems in the first place. In my opinion they forgot that old maxim, that "free software" means freedom, not price. They offered for free what anyone could download. Had they sold their product commercially, along with the source code in accordance with the GPL, they would have had more paying customers. In this case, distributing the source code would allow hackers more room to tinker, but the binary cd and installation still would be infinately more useful (and necessary).
I don't understand this business about the GPL not being able to be successful; no one else can make money for your work, 90% of the customers don't want the source, and even if they do a binary copy is still important as well. Consider how much harder it would be to 'pirate' a distribution from it's source than from the binaries.
Moderators, this parent is a troll. Read it carefully, and you'll notice there isn't one single comment that actually means anything.
People are sick of the expensive update/release cycles, and few Windows users are enthusiastic about using it. Most are either dissatisfied with Windows, indifferent to it, or ignorant to it. None of this matters to my claim, however, since it is true that people are very much annoyed by Microsoft's upgrade/release cycles. Especially in countries like Australia where Windows is a subscription based service.
Also note that I did not limit my scope to Windows.
Again, my point is still valid, since I am not claiming that Windows "sucks," or that no one likes it. I am claiming (among other things) that their upgrade/release cycles are a cause for perturbation among most users cognizent of it.
(P.S. give MacOSX a try sometime--you won't deny that Apple has continually set the standard for what Windows should/will be)
Whoa there! How about the fact that people are sick of proprietary software vendors and their expensive update/release cycles? Or in the case of audio media, prices have doubled in 15 years of being on the market, and being forced to lower prices by the justice department (having been shown guilty of essentially collusion and price-fixing).
Until these companies start listening to the consumers, they'll continue to write their own stories explaining the industries problems that allow them to justify witch-hunts (remember the RIAA seeking authority to hack computers suspected of carrying illegal media?).
Something tells me that history will repeat itself here...