The only problem is that article has a STRANGE interpretation of clause 4.
It's trying to say that if you relicense code you own once it's been GPL'ed, you loose all rights... That clause only applies to code you RECEIVE under the GPL, not code you PUT under the GPL.
I can't believe you don't have SOME kind of zoning where you are
Want a good laugh?
How about a major city (in the top 10 in the US) with no zoning?
Houston, Texas has NO zoning (atleast I've never seen it...)
You are far more likely to be stopped by a Home Owners Association (if your in a modern subdivision). Where I used to live, their were atleast 5 businesses (with signs out front) within 2 blocks of me.
There was a case like this not too long ago, two girls (somewhere between 14 and 16 years of age) were taking pictures of each other (and themselves) and displaying them on the internet. They were both charged with distributing kiddie porn (including the pictures they did of themselves).
People, intelligence is NOT requirement to hold public office and create laws. For proof look at Kansas and Georgia (monkey trial anyone?).
If you don't really care about performance, you might like the additional features PostgreSQL offers.
Serious question here...
Has anyone seen a MODERN performance comparison between PostgreSQL and MySQL? I'm talking like PostgreSQL 7.3.X and MySQL 4.X? A plus would be showing them on FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris.
Everything up on the MySQL site is comparing PostgreSQL 7.2.2 which is way old in features and speed...
According to the crash-me [mysql.com] comparison page, there's not much differences with the previous stable release. Some current benchmarks would probably be more significant, performance-wise.
Will InnoDB still let you drop an active table from the database? FK constraints don't mean much if you can just drop a table needed by them...
Plus they are testing old versions of various databases... The PostgreSQL base version is over a year old...Uggghhh.
The main problems I've run into with MySQL is backing up/restoring without locking up the whole system (table-level locking). InnoDB of course removes this!
Oh, the hot backup stuff for InnoDB is now free? Or do you still have to buy the software to allow you to backup your system without taking the server down? Which is alot worse than just locking a table...
You lost me there... The three Linux JDKs in the ports tree are BINARY installs, you don't have to compile them.
You install the binary Linux JDK so you can compile the FreeBSD JDK sources to binary form. After this you can set NATIVE_BOOTSTRAP and get rid of the Linux binary because you now have a FreeBSD binary (but you can't distribute it).
Once Alexey gets the TCK to pass, and Sun gets them the stamp, then you won't have to compile anything, just install the FreeBSD binary JDK.
The problem right now is that the FreeBSD Project/Foundation CAN NOT distribute binary JDKs, so you have to compile it yourself, which requires a working compiler...
When Alexey gets all 27,000+ tests passing, Sun stamps it and they get to ship a binary image, instead of making people compile from the source.
All 1.4.1 source compiles require a working 1.4.1 java compiler. After you have compiled and installed it once, you can set NATIVE_BOOTSTRAP and get rid of the linux bins.
Who determines what adult content is? Someone from San Fransisco, California or Podunk, Alabama? Is a written fiction site that "may" contain adult material, even if that is not the focus of the site? Or how about a photographers site that may have nudes? How much of the site has to be adult to be stuck there? Plus, how do you get the rest of the world to follow suite?
As far this goes, I would rather my kids see a little sex than see some of the sites dealing with the idiots that promise damnation and hellfire if you don't worship THEIR god...
But it is the governments responsibility, their only real responsibility, to make sure the environment in which we raise our children is safe.
The big question is: Who gets to define what the word safe means? I've got no problems with a little nudity or sexual sitituations. But I do have problems with gratuitous violence.
Why should the content that my kids can view be determined by the most conservative community that a DA can find? (To this day Postal Inspectors search out little towns in the middle of nowhere so they can request information of adult material and then press charges).
We think kids are mature enought to be tried as adults at ages as young as 12. If our kids are that damn mature, then go ahead and let them vote, smoke, drink and look at p0rn! Can't have it both ways people...
BSDi had bought a UNIX licence at one time, if you like paying $995 for your UNIX.
Ahhh... No. BSDi started out with the 4.4BSD open release, added missing files and started selling it. The first thing that got them into trouble was their telephone number 1-800-its-unix. Plus the $995 price was for SOURCE... Real Unix source has never been the cheap for commericial use.
Sequent has been shipping large x86 machines since atleast 1990, I remember when the UUnet UUCP machine was a Sequent Symmetry and I last used UUnet for UUCP in 1991 so...
Microsoft had this product called Xenix on the market (the first UNIX port to the Intel 8086 processor) before IBM ever approached them to produce a DOS. They were not a mere piddly BASIC vendor.
A couple of things. First, SCO was NOT founded by Microsoft. Microsoft licensed SysIII code, and helped SCO get going. SCO did the work and Microsoft did the marketing.
A little timeline: 1975 Altair 8800 released, Bill Gates and Paul Allen develop a BASIC for it. 1976-1979 MS doing langauges (COBAL and FORTRAN) and selling add-on hardware for Apple IIs. 1979 SCO founded. 1979 MS announces Xenix for 16bit processors. Developed on a VAX by SCO. 1980 IBM release IBM PC with MS-DOS 1.0 1983 SCO gets its own UNIX license. 1984 SCO and MS split up.
MS did NOT hit it big until IBM went with MS-DOS for the PC. So sure, MS was not a piddly BASIC vendor for a year before IBM released the PC with MS-DOS 1.0, not much to talk about there...
IMHO, MS would not be near as big without that BIG push from IBM.
I like the list, but I like the Stroustroup version of the C++ one better. It goes something like "C++ makes it harder to shoot your own foot. But when you do manage it, it blows your entire leg off."
I've got a LinkSys KVM (2 port) and have nary a problem with my mouse (Logitech TrackMan Marble FX). Could the problem be that you've got a dumber than usual KVM? The cheap ones don't do the ps/2 thing quite right from my experiance (and forget the old manual switches).
The expanded memory hack worked but most programs later on only worked with extended memory which the 286 could not do.
The 80286 could indeed run in extended memory mode. I quite happily ran both Coherent and Xenix 286 on a OLD NEC APC IV. 286-12, 640KB base with a 2MB extended memory card maxed out (my dad worked for NSM at the time). What the 286 did NOT have was a flat address mode; This meant that you had to use Bondage & Domination opps I meant segment & offset to address your memory.
(Which is BS. You ever tried using Java under BSD? Support changes about once a week, it works, or it doesn't. Sheesh.)
huh??? If your not interested in helping the debugging of the BSD 1.4.1 port, just install the Linux Blackdown system and it just works. One of the nice things about FreeBSD is the ability to run just about ANY Linux program...:)
It is under a modified BSDL. How do I know? I'm the one that put it into FreeBSD way back when.
Here is the clip from the top, it then follows up with a modified 4 clause BSDL (It's almost LGPL).
This copyright notice covers the redistribution and use of the FPU emulator developed by W. Metzenthen. It covers only its use in the 386BSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD operating systems. Any other use is not permitted under this copyright.
It was added to the system along with the sun libm so I could use ghostscript on a i386 with no math-co...:)
Ok, they said it was a third party processor (which means they process your transactions on their merchant account). This just about ONLY happens on the internet for subscription accounts (real stores have their own merchant accounts).
When you take into account that a large adult site can have over 200,000 members (and yes, some do), it does not boggle the mind that if they process for 10 or 20 sites like this and come up with 2.2 to 5 million accounts.
They said third-party processor. Third party processors are companies that can legaly process YOUR sales on THEIR merchant accounts. Most people can not do this, it's called factoring, which is a big no-no.
Look for the companies that process for pOrn sites... No regular site will pay the 10 to 15% fees charged (not if they are selling a real product).
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After the end of the BSD project at Berkeley in 1986?
Huh? The CSRG did not disband until after the release of 4.4BSD-Lite, Release 2. This was about 1995. Check this
history out.
BWP
The only problem is that article has a STRANGE interpretation of clause 4.
It's trying to say that if you relicense code you own once it's been GPL'ed, you loose all rights... That clause only applies to code you RECEIVE under the GPL, not code you PUT under the GPL.
BWP
I can't believe you don't have SOME kind of zoning where you are
Want a good laugh?
How about a major city (in the top 10 in the US) with no zoning?
Houston, Texas has NO zoning (atleast I've never seen it...)
You are far more likely to be stopped by a Home Owners Association (if your in a modern subdivision). Where I used to live, their were atleast 5 businesses (with signs out front) within 2 blocks of me.
BWP
There was a case like this not too long ago, two girls (somewhere between 14 and 16 years of age) were taking pictures of each other (and themselves) and displaying them on the internet. They were both charged with distributing kiddie porn (including the pictures they did of themselves).
People, intelligence is NOT requirement to hold public office and create laws. For proof look at Kansas and Georgia (monkey trial anyone?).
BWP
Say what you want about Dan, his product (qmail) hasn't changed for several years.
And that is part of the problem and one of the reasons why I still run Sendmail.
To get any decent function (outside of bare SMTP service) you have to add 3rd party patches and hope you get them in the right order...:(
BWP
I already use PostgreSQL and it is plenty fast for the sites running it.
The reason I was asking is that I DO NOT know how to tune a MySQL system, so I could not do a fair test..
BWP
If you don't really care about performance, you might like the additional features PostgreSQL offers.
Serious question here...
Has anyone seen a MODERN performance comparison between PostgreSQL and MySQL? I'm talking like PostgreSQL 7.3.X and MySQL 4.X? A plus would be showing them on FreeBSD, Linux and Solaris.
Everything up on the MySQL site is comparing PostgreSQL 7.2.2 which is way old in features and speed...
BWP
According to the crash-me [mysql.com] comparison page, there's not much differences with the previous stable release. Some current benchmarks would probably be more significant, performance-wise.
Will InnoDB still let you drop an active table from the database? FK constraints don't mean much if you can just drop a table needed by them...
Plus they are testing old versions of various databases... The PostgreSQL base version is over a year old...Uggghhh.
BWP
The hot backup tool costs $440 US (400 Euros).
Considering the other option is buying Oracle for thousands of dollars, it's not like you're breaking the bank.
Why do I have to goto Oracle? What about PostgreSQL and Firebird?
BWP
The main problems I've run into with MySQL is backing up/restoring without locking up the whole system (table-level locking). InnoDB of course removes this!
Oh, the hot backup stuff for InnoDB is now free? Or do you still have to buy the software to allow you to backup your system without taking the server down? Which is alot worse than just locking a table...
BWP
You lost me there... The three Linux JDKs in the ports tree are BINARY installs, you don't have to compile them.
You install the binary Linux JDK so you can compile the FreeBSD JDK sources to binary form. After this you can set NATIVE_BOOTSTRAP and get rid of the Linux binary because you now have a FreeBSD binary (but you can't distribute it).
Once Alexey gets the TCK to pass, and Sun gets them the stamp, then you won't have to compile anything, just install the FreeBSD binary JDK.
The problem right now is that the FreeBSD Project/Foundation CAN NOT distribute binary JDKs, so you have to compile it yourself, which requires a working compiler...
BWP
When Alexey gets all 27,000+ tests passing, Sun stamps it and they get to ship a binary image, instead of making people compile from the source.
All 1.4.1 source compiles require a working 1.4.1 java compiler. After you have compiled and installed it once, you can set NATIVE_BOOTSTRAP and get rid of the linux bins.
BWP
I'm was not saying that Microsoft was never a Unix vendor. But SCO was never owned 100% by Microsoft.
I think the largest share that Microsoft ever owned was like 25%. They were buddy-buddy, but I think that was about it...
BWP
Well the term ghetto comes to mind...
Who determines what adult content is? Someone from San Fransisco, California or Podunk, Alabama? Is a written fiction site that "may" contain adult material, even if that is not the focus of the site? Or how about a photographers site that may have nudes? How much of the site has to be adult to be stuck there? Plus, how do you get the rest of the world to follow suite?
As far this goes, I would rather my kids see a little sex than see some of the sites dealing with the idiots that promise damnation and hellfire if you don't worship THEIR god...
BWP
But it is the governments responsibility, their only real responsibility, to make sure the environment in which we raise our children is safe.
The big question is: Who gets to define what the word safe means? I've got no problems with a little nudity or sexual sitituations. But I do have problems with gratuitous violence.
Why should the content that my kids can view be determined by the most conservative community that a DA can find? (To this day Postal Inspectors search out little towns in the middle of nowhere so they can request information of adult material and then press charges).
We think kids are mature enought to be tried as adults at ages as young as 12. If our kids are that damn mature, then go ahead and let them vote, smoke, drink and look at p0rn! Can't have it both ways people...
BWP
BSDi had bought a UNIX licence at one time, if you like paying $995 for your UNIX.
Ahhh... No. BSDi started out with the 4.4BSD open release, added missing files and started selling it. The first thing that got them into trouble was their telephone number 1-800-its-unix. Plus the $995 price was for SOURCE... Real Unix source has never been the cheap for commericial use.
BWP
Sequent has been shipping large x86 machines since atleast 1990, I remember when the UUnet UUCP machine was a Sequent Symmetry and I last used UUnet for UUCP in 1991 so...
BWP
Microsoft had this product called Xenix on the market (the first UNIX port to the Intel 8086 processor) before IBM ever approached them to produce a DOS. They were not a mere piddly BASIC vendor.
A couple of things. First, SCO was NOT founded by Microsoft. Microsoft licensed SysIII code, and helped SCO get going. SCO did the work and Microsoft did the marketing.
A little timeline:
1975 Altair 8800 released, Bill Gates and Paul Allen develop a BASIC for it.
1976-1979 MS doing langauges (COBAL and FORTRAN) and selling add-on hardware for Apple IIs.
1979 SCO founded.
1979 MS announces Xenix for 16bit processors. Developed on a VAX by SCO.
1980 IBM release IBM PC with MS-DOS 1.0
1983 SCO gets its own UNIX license.
1984 SCO and MS split up.
MS did NOT hit it big until IBM went with MS-DOS for the PC. So sure, MS was not a piddly BASIC vendor for a year before IBM released the PC with MS-DOS 1.0, not much to talk about there...
IMHO, MS would not be near as big without that BIG push from IBM.
BWP
I like the list, but I like the Stroustroup version of the C++ one better. It goes something like "C++ makes it harder to shoot your own foot. But when you do manage it, it blows your entire leg off."
That is VERY true in properly written C++...
BWP
I've got a LinkSys KVM (2 port) and have nary a problem with my mouse (Logitech TrackMan Marble FX). Could the problem be that you've got a dumber than usual KVM? The cheap ones don't do the ps/2 thing quite right from my experiance (and forget the old manual switches).
BWP
The expanded memory hack worked but most programs later on only worked with extended memory which the 286 could not do.
The 80286 could indeed run in extended memory mode. I quite happily ran both Coherent and Xenix 286 on a OLD NEC APC IV. 286-12, 640KB base with a 2MB extended memory card maxed out (my dad worked for NSM at the time). What the 286 did NOT have was a flat address mode; This meant that you had to use Bondage & Domination opps I meant segment & offset to address your memory.
BWP
(Which is BS. You ever tried using Java under BSD? Support changes about once a week, it works, or it doesn't. Sheesh.)
huh??? If your not interested in helping the debugging of the BSD 1.4.1 port, just install the Linux Blackdown system and it just works. One of the nice things about FreeBSD is the ability to run just about ANY Linux program...:)
BWP
GPL_MATH_EMULATE was NOT under the GPL!
It is under a modified BSDL. How do I know? I'm the one that put it into FreeBSD way back when.
Here is the clip from the top, it then follows up with a modified 4 clause BSDL (It's almost LGPL).
This copyright notice covers the redistribution and use of the FPU emulator developed by W. Metzenthen. It covers only its use in the 386BSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD operating systems. Any other use is not permitted under this copyright.
It was added to the system along with the sun libm so I could use ghostscript on a i386 with no math-co...:)
BWP
Huh?
Ok, they said it was a third party processor (which means they process your transactions on their merchant account). This just about ONLY happens on the internet for subscription accounts (real stores have their own merchant accounts).
When you take into account that a large adult site can have over 200,000 members (and yes, some do), it does not boggle the mind that if they process for 10 or 20 sites like this and come up with 2.2 to 5 million accounts.
BWP
They said third-party processor. Third party processors are companies that can legaly process YOUR sales on THEIR merchant accounts. Most people can not do this, it's called factoring, which is a big no-no.
Look for the companies that process for pOrn sites... No regular site will pay the 10 to 15% fees charged (not if they are selling a real product).
BWP