Staples keeps sending me spam, and they should know better...there's always Office Depot!
I'm not certain what Staples has been doing, but Office Depot has to be at least as bad. After ordering from them online, I got put on several of their mailing lists, and could never manage to get myself removed from them (over a course of 6 months) -- Mailing the listserver (per their instructions), their NIC contact, postmaster, their support address, and others, never managed to get me unsubscribed from their list. I ended up procmailing them to/dev/null.
The source code for MySQL is and always has been available, and the license doesn't restrict one's ability to alter that source for their own needs. The existing license, already fairly liberal for a 'commercial' piece of software, allows anyone who cares to assist to help fix whatever problems slashdot may have.
...unless you're saying that people can't bugfix code without it being GPL'd first. I'd really hope that isn't the case!
In IPv6, fragmentation is only allowed at the source of the packet. This means that the MTU for the entire path must be determined ahead of time and packets fragmented accordingly. This will lighten the load on the routers in between the source and destination because fragmentation would have already been done and packets won't need to be broken up/reassembled.
The thing is -- many of these perfmormance (and security, etc) improvements can be had in IPv4, as well. To take your fragmentation example, most modern OSes (Solaris and NT come immediately to mind, I'm sure Linux and others are in there, as well) do pMTU (path-MTU) discovery, and ONLY communicate with a packet size smaller than the smallest MTU on the path over which they are communicating.
For this, the only thing IPv6 does is make it mandatory -- The underlying functionality is implimented in an identical way, for all practical purposes. The same types of answers apply to many other of the "good" points about IPv6 -- security (IPv4: IPsec), address space (IPv4: address translation), multicasting support (IPv4: available, in use, but not mandatory).
How about using old hardware for furniture? It doesn't work that well for PCs, but I have, for example, an old rackmount ethernet switch (24 inches high?) acting as and endtable (I just covered the top with some rabit fur I had lying around -- It's amazingly inconspicuous!), and in my bedroom, I have a few old Mac II's as a bedside table (my bed is a mattress on the floor, so this works well)
I'm kindof doubting that this would actually hold up in court of NSI tried to bring someone up on charges -- This amounts to a contract with the user, but there's this one phrase that causes problems:
> By submitting this query, you agree to abide by this policy.
... but to _see_ this license, you have to submit a query, which automatically means you've agreed to the license! This is like taking a contract, sealing it in an envelope, and giving it to someone, with a clause in the contract that reads "By opening the envelope in which this contract was contained, you agree to abide by its terms."
Granted, this would be a bit harder to make fly if you did enough queries to get "a substantial portion" of the database, but still definately an issue.
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I'm not certain what Staples has been doing, but Office Depot has to be at least as bad. After ordering from them online, I got put on several of their mailing lists, and could never manage to get myself removed from them (over a course of 6 months) -- Mailing the listserver (per their instructions), their NIC contact, postmaster, their support address, and others, never managed to get me unsubscribed from their list. I ended up procmailing them to /dev/null.
Yuck.
How does the GPL help make /. more stable?
The source code for MySQL is and always has been available, and the license doesn't restrict one's ability to alter that source for their own needs. The existing license, already fairly liberal for a 'commercial' piece of software, allows anyone who cares to assist to help fix whatever problems slashdot may have.
...unless you're saying that people can't bugfix code without it being GPL'd first. I'd really hope that isn't the case!
The thing is -- many of these perfmormance (and security, etc) improvements can be had in IPv4, as well. To take your fragmentation example, most modern OSes (Solaris and NT come immediately to mind, I'm sure Linux and others are in there, as well) do pMTU (path-MTU) discovery, and ONLY communicate with a packet size smaller than the smallest MTU on the path over which they are communicating.
For this, the only thing IPv6 does is make it mandatory -- The underlying functionality is implimented in an identical way, for all practical purposes. The same types of answers apply to many other of the "good" points about IPv6 -- security (IPv4: IPsec), address space (IPv4: address translation), multicasting support (IPv4: available, in use, but not mandatory).
How about using old hardware for furniture? It doesn't work that well for PCs, but I have, for example, an old rackmount ethernet switch (24 inches high?) acting as and endtable (I just covered the top with some rabit fur I had lying around -- It's amazingly inconspicuous!), and in my bedroom, I have a few old Mac II's as a bedside table (my bed is a mattress on the floor, so this works well)
:)
I'm kindof doubting that this would actually hold up in court of NSI tried to bring someone up on charges -- This amounts to a contract with the user, but there's this one phrase that causes problems:
> By submitting this query, you agree to abide by this policy.
... but to _see_ this license, you have to submit a query, which automatically means you've agreed to the license! This is like taking a contract, sealing it in an envelope, and giving it to someone, with a clause in the contract that reads "By opening the envelope in which this contract was contained, you agree to abide by its terms."
Granted, this would be a bit harder to make fly if you did enough queries to get "a substantial portion" of the database, but still definately an issue.