The Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Eastern Orthodox Churches (collectively the Apostolic Churches, because they have valid, unbroken apostolic succession [which is also debatably claimed by Anglican bishops]) derive all translations of their bibles directly or indirectly from the Hebrew scriptures (the Law and the Prophets) and the Septuagint. The Septuagint adds several Greek texts to the Law and the Prophets to round out the Christian Old Testament (including the Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach, certain pieces of the Book of Daniel, etc.), and the four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles and the Revelation to John, which compose the New Testament. The Protestant and Pentecostal Churches have at times left out certain Greek writings in the Old Testament which the Apostolic Churches call deuterocanonical and they call apocryphal, some because it reduces printing costs and others because they question the inspiration of them. The western churches nearly all leave out the Books of Maccabees beyond the second because they were omitted by St. Jerome in his translation into Latin, called the Vulgate, which was used almost exclusively in the Roman Church until the Second Vatican Council.
The neccessity of all the edits arises out of the diversity and dynamic nature of the common languages. Should we all not speak different languages, the Septuagint and the Vulgate would likely be sufficient. Should English not have changed since the 15th century, Anglicans would probably all still use King James' Authorized translation. But this is not the case. Even most of Jesus' own words were probably never written in any language but Greek, although his primary and possibly only language was Aramaic, spoken today only in the Assyrian Catholic and Orthodox Churches.
I hope you have some appreciation for what I wrote here, and I hope I did not offend anyone. This is not intended to be flamebait.
In nomine Patris, et Filii, + et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
arguably the most reliable and rediculously expensive OS ever made - VMS. I think there are still hobbyist licenses available for VMS from HP. But it is defnitely worthy of mention.
The lefty commie hippie in a drug-induced stupor
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From the article:
"So . . . when he attacks the GPL as being somehow against 'financial gain', that notion that the GPL has of 'exchange of receipt of copyrighted works' is actually EXPLICITLY ENCODED in the US copyright law. It's not just a crazy idea that some lefty commie hippie dreamed up in a drug-induced stupor."
In other words, it was in the law before RMS thought about it.
You need a license only if you choose to distribute the software. If this is an in-house application, simply obtain copies of MySQL Standard/Max (GPL) directly from MySQL mirrors for each server. Since you do not perform the distribution, you are in good shape (see MySQL License Policy - Licensing -2).
However, the folks at MySQL AB are very decent folks who offer great support and warranty for their product and who have to feed their families, and licenses are cheap. IMHO, buy at least one license for a master and one for a slave. That way you get support for the program in each role.
MySQL has very nice replication functionality, and, in certain circumstances, you can even set up replication rings. It is somewhat flexible about the topology you choose to use, so pick the one best for your application. Load balance ala DNS and you're in business.
There are of course many possible reasons why particular platforms are more susceptible to or are more frequently targeted by malicious activities. I contend that application diversity on a platform is key to its susceptibility.
For example, virtually all Microsoft Windows systems have very similar web browsers, scripting engines, pop/imap clients, and CIFS services. This makes a widespread exploit very likely.
UNIX and Linux systems, however, exhibit a much greater variety of applications. A typical GNU/Linux user might use PINE for e-mail, Mozilla Firebird for browsing with a Blackdown JVM, postfix for an MTA, etc., while a no-less-typical user of even possibly the very same system might choose to use elm, Konqueror with a genuine Sun JVM, and sendmail, while yet another might choose Evolution, lynx and fastmail. Get the picture?
UNIX systems are extremely diverse, much more diverse than in days of old when the was only one MTA. Just about the only ubiquitous daemon out there anymore is Apache httpd, but even it has good alternatives for certain applications. It is very difficult to write a worm to take out the vast majority of UNIX and Linux systems because they are all so different.
Windows systems, on the other hand, are about as diverse as the shoots of asparagus in a tin can. There is only one packager. There are only about five major default configurations out there, and the is only one default TCP/IP application suite. The installer has no options for activating or even making system administrators aware of security measures such as state-tracking firewalling. This bland array of distributions of Windows makes for a class of systems ripe for the picking.
Perhaps Microsoft would be better off offering an array of products (a nice web browser, a good proprietary scripting engine, etc.) but letting other folks distribute them as best-of-breed packages; I'm not saying that they should make their software free but that they should make their software the best and rely on the merits of their software to support their business model instead of monopolistic shenanigans and vendor-lock. Perhaps if MS let others package their software in other-than-Microsoft's-default-way, then the differences in configurations might just be enough to disuade a little of the viral heat. Also, this would lead to the distrubutors having a vested interest in the integrity of MS's software and would place the burden of creating good security-conscious configurations on third parties. Apache httpd can be just as bad as IIS if you set your DocumentRoot to/, let anyone run scripts anywhere, or had PHP set up with a super-high http post file upload limit.
Asking SCO Unix users to lobby SCO to drop the open source litigation is pointless. For one, SCO Unix users are likely at this point not looking to SCO for additional products and services since SCO Unix sucks and there are better Unix and Unix-like products out there for the x86 (Solaris, GNU/Linux). For two, SCO is not interested in selling Unix of their own accord anymore. They are only interested in selling Unix to folks that they will never give a product to and suing the folks that don't buy the nothing that they offer. Customers don't have much influence when your business model is centered on FUD and litigation.
TeX is great, and LaTeX is a great abstraction layer. However, we lack a mature DTP application which allows us to readily and easily design new documents (newsletters, company letterhead, etc.), especially in a GUI. Scribus is a good start, but we really need something like InDesign.
Also, fonts are a problem. Great progress has been made here (TTF support for X, etc.), but I want a good way to manage my fonts such that my fonts in X are available to TeX and vice versa. I shouldn't have to do 50 steps to install a font for LaTeX and not have it available in OO.
LaTeX, being essentially a markup language, needs to be reformulated in XML (with Unicode encoding) and brought into the 21st century. It appears that XHTML 2 is becoming very LaTeX-ish (markup represents soley the structure of the documents), and styling is done via stylesheets kinda like LaTeX packages. If both were XML-based, translation would be a breeze, and we would have a nice convergence of print and online publication, something that has been very shitty to this point.
I would also like to see categorized font browsing in applications; I want to go to choose a font, choose sans-serif, then choose Helvetica from a list of 20 faces, not having to find it in a list of 200.
Internet Explorer is the bane of a web developer's existence: it is the browser that does everything differently, and doesn't support loading Java applets with object elements sanely. You try making an XHTML 1.0 Strict validating document with an embedded Java applet using the W3C's reccomended method.
IE sucks.
Today, the National Institute for Standards and Technology, the civilian agency of the US Government responsible for researching and making available data concerning the physical properties of substances including chemical elements, annouces the discontinued use of francium as the name of the 87th chemical element.
"It's just not appropriate to continue to refer to an element by the name of a nation whose inaction is tantamount to condoning terrorism," said Dr. Hratch G. Semerjian, director of the Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory. "We decided that it would be better to refer to the 87th element as Freedomium in honor of those who died to secure the liberty of our country.
Asked if the agency would once again return to calling the 87th element francium, Semerjian said that the element would not return to its former name. "We are prepared to take whatever action is necessary to liberate any element whose nomenclature is derived from a repressive regime."
I'd like to educate my peers on the alternatives to Windows (Linux and Open Source), how hardware works and fits together, job offerings in computer-related fields, and anything else that may be of interest.
When I was in college, our student chapter of the MAA met for no other reason than to eat pizza, paid for by the math department book sales, and to listen to guest speakers give colloquia.
However, I think, given his reasons, the club will fail. Here's why:
I'd like to educate my peers on the alternatives to Windows (Linux and Open Source)
noble cause, but the school probably won't let you use their hardware or your hardware on their net for demonstrations (however, since GNU/Linux and BSD can run on commodity stuff, not such a big deal)
how hardware works and fits together this assumes hardware works and fits together
job offerings in computer-related fields What are these so-called "job-offerings"?
"Ethernet Local Area Network connects computers and the vehicle to the ground."
From this we can ascertain:
- They're only gonna be able to put stuff into orbit at 2000m altitude, since they are using Ethernet media.
- They would have to simulaneously provide an amphibious vehicle with an attached Ethernet transciever to circle the globe below.
- The satellites they put into orbit will require propulsion to compensate for the severe friction that would occur at 2000 m altitude.
- They have found a way to encircle the globe without crossing public right-of-way (since it is a LAN, not a WAN).
Impressive.
They must have invented a way to put an airplane into orbit at ~ 9000 ft orbit using a 6 million dollar rocket, with a tether for air-to-ground communications!
"Should the Defendants, be allowed to continue their assault upon the Plaintiff and the Plaintiff's industry, the Plaintiff's industry will cease to exist."
Yay. Now there's an incentive for a judge to issue an injunction if I ever heard one: the preservation of spam.
First of all, it is a dupe. Just as a newspaper that publishes an article on Tuesday on page F3 and then again on page A1 the next day would be rightly deserving of criticism, so Slashdot is.
Second of all, I think this fracturization of/. into Apple and everyone else is stupid. Apple people are not special. BSD people are not special. Linux people are not special. Windows people are not, well, I guess some might consider them special in an empathetic sort of way.
All of us have stronger interests in certain sections than others, but nobody should bitch and moan when something gets posted to the main section in a Slashback when its just not that important. It's just NPR. If you want an MPEG stream for public radio, scrap up some donated bandwidth and set up a Darwin streaming service for your local NPR station. If you volunteer to do it, maybe they would let you.
Bitching about NPR dropping a flavor of stream is like bitching at the Red Cross for dropping a particular color of Band-Aid at the bloodmobile. Get over it.
Some of us don't like Quicktime because it doesn't run on our platform anyway. At least you can snarf a copy of the W32 codecs and use mplayer, etc, to play the Windows Media streams (even you Mac folks).
I meant 'least' no least. Perhaps a nice improvement to the submit form would be to place the "preview" submit element to the left of the "submit" submit element.
'"But it happened because the DARPA grant happened, because when you throw a bunch of... guys into a room and get them drunk, this is what you get." De Raadt was careful to point out that the group paid for its own beer.'
------------ ...beer? I would really like to know what sort of beer is the best inpirational beverage for coding? Is there a different best beer per language/platform? Or do some platforms require liquor instead? I hear Java is much better with Irish cream...
This quote clearly demonstrates that free as in beer is not free at all. Even the most notorius free software developers actually pay money for their beer.
Gates said hardware should be free.
Stallman said software should be free.
I think beer should be free.
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The Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Eastern Orthodox Churches (collectively the Apostolic Churches, because they have valid, unbroken apostolic succession [which is also debatably claimed by Anglican bishops]) derive all translations of their bibles directly or indirectly from the Hebrew scriptures (the Law and the Prophets) and the Septuagint. The Septuagint adds several Greek texts to the Law and the Prophets to round out the Christian Old Testament (including the Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach, certain pieces of the Book of Daniel, etc.), and the four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles and the Revelation to John, which compose the New Testament. The Protestant and Pentecostal Churches have at times left out certain Greek writings in the Old Testament which the Apostolic Churches call deuterocanonical and they call apocryphal, some because it reduces printing costs and others because they question the inspiration of them. The western churches nearly all leave out the Books of Maccabees beyond the second because they were omitted by St. Jerome in his translation into Latin, called the Vulgate, which was used almost exclusively in the Roman Church until the Second Vatican Council.
The neccessity of all the edits arises out of the diversity and dynamic nature of the common languages. Should we all not speak different languages, the Septuagint and the Vulgate would likely be sufficient. Should English not have changed since the 15th century, Anglicans would probably all still use King James' Authorized translation. But this is not the case. Even most of Jesus' own words were probably never written in any language but Greek, although his primary and possibly only language was Aramaic, spoken today only in the Assyrian Catholic and Orthodox Churches.
I hope you have some appreciation for what I wrote here, and I hope I did not offend anyone. This is not intended to be flamebait.
In nomine Patris, et Filii, + et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
arguably the most reliable and rediculously expensive OS ever made - VMS. I think there are still hobbyist licenses available for VMS from HP. But it is defnitely worthy of mention.
In other words, it was in the law before RMS thought about it.
This is so cool. Try any of the following:
:-).
1 nibble in bits
1 byte in nibbles
1 kilobyte in bytes
1 megabyte in kilobytes
1 gigabyte in megabytes
1 terabyte in gigabytes
1 petabyte in terabytes
But, for any of you loking for the 'right' answer to that age old question, you're SOL.
P.S. - tan(pi/2) is finite
You need a license only if you choose to distribute the software. If this is an in-house application, simply obtain copies of MySQL Standard/Max (GPL) directly from MySQL mirrors for each server. Since you do not perform the distribution, you are in good shape (see MySQL License Policy - Licensing -2).
However, the folks at MySQL AB are very decent folks who offer great support and warranty for their product and who have to feed their families, and licenses are cheap. IMHO, buy at least one license for a master and one for a slave. That way you get support for the program in each role.
MySQL has very nice replication functionality, and, in certain circumstances, you can even set up replication rings. It is somewhat flexible about the topology you choose to use, so pick the one best for your application. Load balance ala DNS and you're in business.
There are of course many possible reasons why particular platforms are more susceptible to or are more frequently targeted by malicious activities. I contend that application diversity on a platform is key to its susceptibility.
/, let anyone run scripts anywhere, or had PHP set up with a super-high http post file upload limit.
For example, virtually all Microsoft Windows systems have very similar web browsers, scripting engines, pop/imap clients, and CIFS services. This makes a widespread exploit very likely.
UNIX and Linux systems, however, exhibit a much greater variety of applications. A typical GNU/Linux user might use PINE for e-mail, Mozilla Firebird for browsing with a Blackdown JVM, postfix for an MTA, etc., while a no-less-typical user of even possibly the very same system might choose to use elm, Konqueror with a genuine Sun JVM, and sendmail, while yet another might choose Evolution, lynx and fastmail. Get the picture?
UNIX systems are extremely diverse, much more diverse than in days of old when the was only one MTA. Just about the only ubiquitous daemon out there anymore is Apache httpd, but even it has good alternatives for certain applications. It is very difficult to write a worm to take out the vast majority of UNIX and Linux systems because they are all so different.
Windows systems, on the other hand, are about as diverse as the shoots of asparagus in a tin can. There is only one packager. There are only about five major default configurations out there, and the is only one default TCP/IP application suite. The installer has no options for activating or even making system administrators aware of security measures such as state-tracking firewalling. This bland array of distributions of Windows makes for a class of systems ripe for the picking.
Perhaps Microsoft would be better off offering an array of products (a nice web browser, a good proprietary scripting engine, etc.) but letting other folks distribute them as best-of-breed packages; I'm not saying that they should make their software free but that they should make their software the best and rely on the merits of their software to support their business model instead of monopolistic shenanigans and vendor-lock. Perhaps if MS let others package their software in other-than-Microsoft's-default-way, then the differences in configurations might just be enough to disuade a little of the viral heat. Also, this would lead to the distrubutors having a vested interest in the integrity of MS's software and would place the burden of creating good security-conscious configurations on third parties. Apache httpd can be just as bad as IIS if you set your DocumentRoot to
Just a few rantings and ravings.
Asking SCO Unix users to lobby SCO to drop the open source litigation is pointless. For one, SCO Unix users are likely at this point not looking to SCO for additional products and services since SCO Unix sucks and there are better Unix and Unix-like products out there for the x86 (Solaris, GNU/Linux). For two, SCO is not interested in selling Unix of their own accord anymore. They are only interested in selling Unix to folks that they will never give a product to and suing the folks that don't buy the nothing that they offer. Customers don't have much influence when your business model is centered on FUD and litigation.
TeX is great, and LaTeX is a great abstraction layer. However, we lack a mature DTP application which allows us to readily and easily design new documents (newsletters, company letterhead, etc.), especially in a GUI. Scribus is a good start, but we really need something like InDesign.
Also, fonts are a problem. Great progress has been made here (TTF support for X, etc.), but I want a good way to manage my fonts such that my fonts in X are available to TeX and vice versa. I shouldn't have to do 50 steps to install a font for LaTeX and not have it available in OO.
LaTeX, being essentially a markup language, needs to be reformulated in XML (with Unicode encoding) and brought into the 21st century. It appears that XHTML 2 is becoming very LaTeX-ish (markup represents soley the structure of the documents), and styling is done via stylesheets kinda like LaTeX packages. If both were XML-based, translation would be a breeze, and we would have a nice convergence of print and online publication, something that has been very shitty to this point.
I would also like to see categorized font browsing in applications; I want to go to choose a font, choose sans-serif, then choose Helvetica from a list of 20 faces, not having to find it in a list of 200.
Just my $0.02.
...don't worry about pager rotations because our datacenters never have failures, you insensitive clod!
... total lack of CSS2 fixed positioning?
Internet Explorer is the bane of a web developer's existence: it is the browser that does everything differently, and doesn't support loading Java applets with object elements sanely. You try making an XHTML 1.0 Strict validating document with an embedded Java applet using the W3C's reccomended method. IE sucks.
ReAIM, a GPLed AIM proxy, already has the ability to dump all messages traversed into an RDBMS.
Duh. Force them to use a transparent proxy.
Maple doesn't get an established commercial languages link?
BTW, Maxima, Macsyma, etc, is free and has been around for years.
GAITHERSBURG, MD
22 May 2003
Today, the National Institute for Standards and Technology, the civilian agency of the US Government responsible for researching and making available data concerning the physical properties of substances including chemical elements, annouces the discontinued use of francium as the name of the 87th chemical element.
"It's just not appropriate to continue to refer to an element by the name of a nation whose inaction is tantamount to condoning terrorism," said Dr. Hratch G. Semerjian, director of the Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory. "We decided that it would be better to refer to the 87th element as Freedomium in honor of those who died to secure the liberty of our country.
Asked if the agency would once again return to calling the 87th element francium, Semerjian said that the element would not return to its former name. "We are prepared to take whatever action is necessary to liberate any element whose nomenclature is derived from a repressive regime."
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No, it just creates a new market for accessories.
There has been a HOWTO for controlling an automatic drip coffee machine for years using your legacy paraport. See Coffee HOWTO.
I think he's already stated the point:
When I was in college, our student chapter of the MAA met for no other reason than to eat pizza, paid for by the math department book sales, and to listen to guest speakers give colloquia.
However, I think, given his reasons, the club will fail. Here's why:
noble cause, but the school probably won't let you use their hardware or your hardware on their net for demonstrations (however, since GNU/Linux and BSD can run on commodity stuff, not such a big deal)
this assumes hardware works and fits together
What are these so-called "job-offerings"?
From the flash file:
"Ethernet Local Area Network connects computers and the vehicle to the ground."
From this we can ascertain:
- They're only gonna be able to put stuff into orbit at 2000m altitude, since they are using Ethernet media.
- They would have to simulaneously provide an amphibious vehicle with an attached Ethernet transciever to circle the globe below.
- The satellites they put into orbit will require propulsion to compensate for the severe friction that would occur at 2000 m altitude.
- They have found a way to encircle the globe without crossing public right-of-way (since it is a LAN, not a WAN).
Impressive.
They must have invented a way to put an airplane into orbit at ~ 9000 ft orbit using a 6 million dollar rocket, with a tether for air-to-ground communications!
Okay, so here is what we know:
1. Recruit developers
2. Develop OSS program(s)
3. Distribute software
4. ????
5. Profit!
6. ????
Before we answer 6, give us 4.
From the filing:
"Should the Defendants, be allowed to continue their assault upon the Plaintiff and the Plaintiff's industry, the Plaintiff's industry will cease to exist."
Yay. Now there's an incentive for a judge to issue an injunction if I ever heard one: the preservation of spam.
First of all, it is a dupe. Just as a newspaper that publishes an article on Tuesday on page F3 and then again on page A1 the next day would be rightly deserving of criticism, so Slashdot is.
/. into Apple and everyone else is stupid. Apple people are not special. BSD people are not special. Linux people are not special. Windows people are not, well, I guess some might consider them special in an empathetic sort of way.
Second of all, I think this fracturization of
All of us have stronger interests in certain sections than others, but nobody should bitch and moan when something gets posted to the main section in a Slashback when its just not that important. It's just NPR. If you want an MPEG stream for public radio, scrap up some donated bandwidth and set up a Darwin streaming service for your local NPR station. If you volunteer to do it, maybe they would let you.
Bitching about NPR dropping a flavor of stream is like bitching at the Red Cross for dropping a particular color of Band-Aid at the bloodmobile. Get over it.
Some of us don't like Quicktime because it doesn't run on our platform anyway. At least you can snarf a copy of the W32 codecs and use mplayer, etc, to play the Windows Media streams (even you Mac folks).
I meant 'least' no least. Perhaps a nice improvement to the submit form would be to place the "preview" submit element to the left of the "submit" submit element.
The inertia of GNOME and KDE will eventually cause commercial UNIX vendors to at lease include them.
It's not over until the fat lady sends a KILL signal.
Cut and paste. Click is better than click-ctrl-v or click-meta-v or click shft-ins.
I thought this was what MMB was always for.
'"But it happened because the DARPA grant happened, because when you throw a bunch of... guys into a room and get them drunk, this is what you get." De Raadt was careful to point out that the group paid for its own beer.'
...beer? I would really like to know what sort of beer is the best inpirational beverage for coding? Is there a different best beer per language/platform? Or do some platforms require liquor instead? I hear Java is much better with Irish cream...
------------
This quote clearly demonstrates that free as in beer is not free at all. Even the most notorius free software developers actually pay money for their beer.
Gates said hardware should be free. Stallman said software should be free. I think beer should be free.