If you're a business and you a DB that will be strategic to your success you will need support for it so if you're going to us an open source DB go with a DB supported by a large existing player.
4. Red Hat: Gone. I hear Fedora Core is good. Nice that they gave us the free version, but it doesn't have near the support or attention that Red Hat does.
There's always CentOS. The Open Source version of RHEL stripped of all the Red Hat branding.
It appears that the root cause of the low voter turnout in the most recent election of a leader for the Debian project is that all of the potential voters are still compiling the latest version of Firefox on their Gentoo boxes and are unable to access the Internet to submit their votes.
Yes, and the Mac will not have an operating system at all, but will be replaced with a super-multimedia presentation/movie about ultra-hip people using computers to create, relate, and procreate. And IBM/Linux will be on the verge of making inroads into the desktop. Estimates in 2015 show that it should have a 5% desktop market share by 2025. Fortunately, none of us will care, because the robots will be in control by then anyway.
One massive virus, named meteor, will drive the dinosaur that is Microsoft Windows to extinction. It will seemlessly replace Windows XP with a copy of one of the many mature Linux distributions targeted at the desktop (Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.). Microsoft's share of the desktop market will plummet to.2% in a matter of hours. Once the replacement is complete a message will be displayed to the user indicating that their PC has been liberated, and they will be informed of the Linux distribution and the desktop environment they are now using (Unbuntu Linux w/ Gnome for example). After 20 seconds they will be redirected to/. where they will immediately be subjected to someone posting a comment about how Gentoo is better than Ubuntu, or vice versa, and KDE is hands down better than Gnome. Enraged by the insult they will flame back calling the original poster and ass hat imbicile and although they have no idea what KDE is or how it compares with Gnome they're certain it sucks and if they ever do use it will only learn that they're original belief was true. And thus begins the successful entrenchment of Linux on the desktop. Only through the purity of a flamewar will the desktop be purged. 2007 cannot come soon enough. So sayeth the prophecies.
International copyright law shold be observed (see here). 28 years is a pipe dream. Try life+25 years for most countries as a minimum. Now if a 15 year old kid added code the kernel and lived to be 60. That would mean the code wouldn't be out from under the copyright for 80 years from the point of release.
With the Linux kernel locked into v2 of the GPL and exposed to international copyright and software patent attacks only code secured within the high walls and protective defenses of GPL v3 will be safe for FOSS developers. With the kernel sufficiently undermined developers and users alike will need to find a new, more protected, codebase from which to operate. That codebase is The Hurd.
The funny thing is that the reason to switch exclusively to the newer license would be to limit freedom.
All licenses that place any restrictions on the licensee restrict the freedom of the licensor. Even the BSD license requires that I not say the code was written by me. The intention of the GPL is to open up the code to any type of freedom imagineable. It is specifically designed to "Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software." Patent law could limit the freedoms of the users of GPL code by requiring NDAs or licenses for the use of the technology. International copyright law could open the code up to any type of changes (including closing the source). Without restrictions or changes to the GPL, the purpose of the license could be undermined.
This clause was added in the 2.4.18 version of the file It did not exist prior to that. This seems that this would create a problem. If I submitted my work into the Linux kernel prior to 2.4.18 I would have submitted my work under the generic GPL and applied the license allowing for future versions of the GPL to be used. For Linus to make a blanket change to the licensing would violate the copyright holders intention and would be essentialy a violation of the GPL. Linus may have avoided this by securing certain rights from the copyright holder when the code was submitted. I doubt that happened. Also, any derivitive works that changed the licensing of the code to be more restrictive would seem to violate the copyright holders license.
The problem gets worse, I think, because if I submitted code after the 2.4.18 release I would have submitted my code under a license that restricted my code to be license under GPL v2 only. Which would mean there is code in the kernel that is licensed under two different sets of restrictions.
is that this one defect will unintentionally give the microprocessor the ability to realize itself and learn. Ultimately dooming mankind to a firey death at the hands of our microprocessing overlords.
Gentoo was the first Linux distribution I ever downloaded, in the summer of 2004. I was on a P4 w/ a Gig of RAM at the time (and didn't even have my own beowulf cluster setup for distributing compiling operations, so I couldn't compile at full speed 24/7), and I remember being worried that there'd be a new release by the time I was done compiling the first ISO. I mean, open-source software moves fast, right?
I was right. I finished the compilation, only to have to recompile 70% of the system.
Is it that this is a non Lucas Star Wars movie or that someone else will release a Star Wars film that they will continue to revise, edit, and tweak over time always moving closer to their "original vision"?
Dekker said... "I just got lucky when I was in high school; sciences and math came easy," said Dekker, who holds a B.A. in computer sciences and statistics from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. "It is not because I received a lot of direction (that I ended up in IT). It was really by chance that I ended up in the career I am in today."
Dekker, from her scientific studies knew about the mating and social rituals of the human species, and knew that in order to increase her chance of mating and rising socially she could leverage the satistically low representation of women in IT; e.g. low number of competitors. She made the calculated move and has come out on top for it.
Summary: She did it for the boys.
Summary for male moderators: This is a joke, mod funny not troll you dim-whitted better-then-though morons.
Summary for female moderators: Hey baby, how you doin'?
What a backward society. Here in America men and women can return to work within mere days of the birth of the new child. For the first couple years of the child's life they leave him or her with strangers at an all day care facility. What a wonderfully uplifiting, social experience for the child. After that, our advanced technology has allowed us to use television, video games, and an excess of overly competitive sports and pointless hobbies to develop the child's intellect, keep them from trouble, and raise them to be wonderful members of society. Caring for your children directly is such a thing of the past, leave it to professionals is what I say.
The point is not that "people don't matter". Fines are a motivational tool used to enforce regulations. The level of the fine is an incentive to the individual or business to not violate the regulation. Fines must be set at a level that is prohibitively high, if a business can make one minor mistake and lose everything, the risk is too high and many people will not go into that business, and the cost of the increased risk, and the reduced supply will be passed onto the consumer. At the same time, the fine cannot be too low or it will not be adhered to. If show breasts, swearing, etc. only cost $60,000 per incident most networks would seriously consider running Sex and the City, the Sopranoes or uncut R-rate movies on prime time TV, because they'd make that cost up and more in viewership. This effectively defeats the purpose of the regulation because the fines are not effective motivators.
To be clear, my point is not that we should or should not allow Howard Stern, boobs, or Sex and the City on primetime broadcast television, rather I'm saying that fines have to be proportional or they prove to be ineffective.
For the grandparent who referred to the low fines for nuclear power plants. $60,000 was "the Nuclear Regulatory Commission levied last year". There is no information in the post or in the article about what these fines were for or what the maximum penalty for the plant would have been for a situation that could have actually led to a nuclear incident. For all we know that fine for not putting the wet floor sign up in the men's restroom after it had just been mopped.
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Sounds like a good security system to implement on my Linux box.
Prompt: Do you belong here?
Hax0r: Yes
root@mybox>
Now if we could only implement the evil bit in people we wouldn't need all of this silly security.
If you're a business and you a DB that will be strategic to your success you will need support for it so if you're going to us an open source DB go with a DB supported by a large existing player.
I'd never need to find my TV remote control again!
4. Red Hat: Gone. I hear Fedora Core is good. Nice that they gave us the free version, but it doesn't have near the support or attention that Red Hat does.
There's always CentOS. The Open Source version of RHEL stripped of all the Red Hat branding.
It appears that the root cause of the low voter turnout in the most recent election of a leader for the Debian project is that all of the potential voters are still compiling the latest version of Firefox on their Gentoo boxes and are unable to access the Internet to submit their votes.
Kids don't grow up to become prostitute-murdering psychopaths because they played a videogame that "taught them it was cool."
Off the record... I did.
I prefer screen.
Dvorak is that you?
Yes, and the Mac will not have an operating system at all, but will be replaced with a super-multimedia presentation/movie about ultra-hip people using computers to create, relate, and procreate. And IBM/Linux will be on the verge of making inroads into the desktop. Estimates in 2015 show that it should have a 5% desktop market share by 2025. Fortunately, none of us will care, because the robots will be in control by then anyway.
In 2015 we'll all ask ourselves, "What did we do before the Hurd was released?"
One massive virus, named meteor, will drive the dinosaur that is Microsoft Windows to extinction. It will seemlessly replace Windows XP with a copy of one of the many mature Linux distributions targeted at the desktop (Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.). Microsoft's share of the desktop market will plummet to .2% in a matter of hours. Once the replacement is complete a message will be displayed to the user indicating that their PC has been liberated, and they will be informed of the Linux distribution and the desktop environment they are now using (Unbuntu Linux w/ Gnome for example). After 20 seconds they will be redirected to /. where they will immediately be subjected to someone posting a comment about how Gentoo is better than Ubuntu, or vice versa, and KDE is hands down better than Gnome. Enraged by the insult they will flame back calling the original poster and ass hat imbicile and although they have no idea what KDE is or how it compares with Gnome they're certain it sucks and if they ever do use it will only learn that they're original belief was true. And thus begins the successful entrenchment of Linux on the desktop. Only through the purity of a flamewar will the desktop be purged. 2007 cannot come soon enough. So sayeth the prophecies.
The intention of the GPL is to open up the code to any type of freedom imagineable.
Ahhh... that was a serious typo on my part. You're correct it should have been "is not to open up".
You're correct about the BSD license. My error.
But not before Bill Gates expires!
Bill Gates' cyborg body and vast nueral network will never expire.
International copyright law shold be observed (see here). 28 years is a pipe dream. Try life+25 years for most countries as a minimum. Now if a 15 year old kid added code the kernel and lived to be 60. That would mean the code wouldn't be out from under the copyright for 80 years from the point of release.
With the Linux kernel locked into v2 of the GPL and exposed to international copyright and software patent attacks only code secured within the high walls and protective defenses of GPL v3 will be safe for FOSS developers. With the kernel sufficiently undermined developers and users alike will need to find a new, more protected, codebase from which to operate. That codebase is The Hurd.
The funny thing is that the reason to switch exclusively to the newer license would be to limit freedom.
All licenses that place any restrictions on the licensee restrict the freedom of the licensor. Even the BSD license requires that I not say the code was written by me. The intention of the GPL is to open up the code to any type of freedom imagineable. It is specifically designed to "Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software." Patent law could limit the freedoms of the users of GPL code by requiring NDAs or licenses for the use of the technology. International copyright law could open the code up to any type of changes (including closing the source). Without restrictions or changes to the GPL, the purpose of the license could be undermined.
This clause was added in the 2.4.18 version of the file It did not exist prior to that. This seems that this would create a problem. If I submitted my work into the Linux kernel prior to 2.4.18 I would have submitted my work under the generic GPL and applied the license allowing for future versions of the GPL to be used. For Linus to make a blanket change to the licensing would violate the copyright holders intention and would be essentialy a violation of the GPL. Linus may have avoided this by securing certain rights from the copyright holder when the code was submitted. I doubt that happened. Also, any derivitive works that changed the licensing of the code to be more restrictive would seem to violate the copyright holders license.
The problem gets worse, I think, because if I submitted code after the 2.4.18 release I would have submitted my code under a license that restricted my code to be license under GPL v2 only. Which would mean there is code in the kernel that is licensed under two different sets of restrictions.
is that this one defect will unintentionally give the microprocessor the ability to realize itself and learn. Ultimately dooming mankind to a firey death at the hands of our microprocessing overlords.
Gentoo was the first Linux distribution I ever downloaded, in the summer of 2004. I was on a P4 w/ a Gig of RAM at the time (and didn't even have my own beowulf cluster setup for distributing compiling operations, so I couldn't compile at full speed 24/7), and I remember being worried that there'd be a new release by the time I was done compiling the first ISO. I mean, open-source software moves fast, right?
I was right. I finished the compilation, only to have to recompile 70% of the system.
As for HD, who needs it?
You obviously haven't seen it on a good sized HD monitor. Ooooh, it's soooo pretty.
Is it that this is a non Lucas Star Wars movie or that someone else will release a Star Wars film that they will continue to revise, edit, and tweak over time always moving closer to their "original vision"?
I do have the answer, and if anyone correctly answers this question I will sue you for patent infringement. Be warned.
Dekker said ... "I just got lucky when I was in high school; sciences and math came easy," said Dekker, who holds a B.A. in computer sciences and statistics from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. "It is not because I received a lot of direction (that I ended up in IT). It was really by chance that I ended up in the career I am in today."
Dekker, from her scientific studies knew about the mating and social rituals of the human species, and knew that in order to increase her chance of mating and rising socially she could leverage the satistically low representation of women in IT; e.g. low number of competitors. She made the calculated move and has come out on top for it.
Summary: She did it for the boys.
Summary for male moderators: This is a joke, mod funny not troll you dim-whitted better-then-though morons.
Summary for female moderators: Hey baby, how you doin'?
What a backward society. Here in America men and women can return to work within mere days of the birth of the new child. For the first couple years of the child's life they leave him or her with strangers at an all day care facility. What a wonderfully uplifiting, social experience for the child. After that, our advanced technology has allowed us to use television, video games, and an excess of overly competitive sports and pointless hobbies to develop the child's intellect, keep them from trouble, and raise them to be wonderful members of society. Caring for your children directly is such a thing of the past, leave it to professionals is what I say.
The point is not that "people don't matter". Fines are a motivational tool used to enforce regulations. The level of the fine is an incentive to the individual or business to not violate the regulation. Fines must be set at a level that is prohibitively high, if a business can make one minor mistake and lose everything, the risk is too high and many people will not go into that business, and the cost of the increased risk, and the reduced supply will be passed onto the consumer. At the same time, the fine cannot be too low or it will not be adhered to. If show breasts, swearing, etc. only cost $60,000 per incident most networks would seriously consider running Sex and the City, the Sopranoes or uncut R-rate movies on prime time TV, because they'd make that cost up and more in viewership. This effectively defeats the purpose of the regulation because the fines are not effective motivators.
To be clear, my point is not that we should or should not allow Howard Stern, boobs, or Sex and the City on primetime broadcast television, rather I'm saying that fines have to be proportional or they prove to be ineffective.
For the grandparent who referred to the low fines for nuclear power plants. $60,000 was "the Nuclear Regulatory Commission levied last year". There is no information in the post or in the article about what these fines were for or what the maximum penalty for the plant would have been for a situation that could have actually led to a nuclear incident. For all we know that fine for not putting the wet floor sign up in the men's restroom after it had just been mopped.