The GPL does not let you take any source code anywhere and release it under the GPL.
No one's debating that this is a legal, legitimate way of freeing code under the GPL. I don't think there's many GPL zealots that would think so.
The problem arises when you think about who released the WASTE code, the actualy author of WASTE and (head honcho?) of Nullsoft at the time: Justin.
I guess what really legally determines this is how much power over Nullsoft does AOL legally have? It's something that needs to be worked out in a court, but will probably never go there unless something decides to test them, fighting the GPL with respect to WASTE. But since that notice is on Nullsoft's site, meaning Nullsoft caved in and pulled the plug because of presure from AOL no doubt, I'm guessing that ya, WASTE is illegal.
Justin should just put up a website, have people vote on what he should program , have a donate button, maybe a message board showing his progress, etc. With his fame, I'm sure he could easily get by. And since he's be programming on his own time, there would be no one with any say to pull his projects down.
That's what kills me, people GPL code and release it, and then get their panties in a bunch when someone "steals" their code, makes a new project out of it, and re-releases it under a different name. That's allowed under the GPL folks, and definitely does not explain why Via pulled the project.
Heh, that's kinda like paying someone your lunch money so they don't beat you up. If you don't pay you're property tax, they'll take your land away from you.
Borderlines on the brink of extortion if you ask me.:)
You can also snoop in on other people's "encrypted" messages, as long as you're part of the collective. Makes me wonder how encrypted other stuff is as well. But ya, the main problem is key management.
Another problem is this: Say Jane, Joe, and Pete are on the same network, but Jane hates Pete because he didn't call the next morning, so Jane deletes Pete's key. Pete is still allowed on the network through his long time buddy Joe, and Pete can even route through Jane. We tried some tests, and this actually works.
Or buy an external 250 gig drive, and probably never have to pop out a disk ever, because it simply will never get filled up. And if it does, so what? Buy another HD. By the time you need it, it'll be bigger, better, and cheaper.
1 iomega drive $400 3 140 meg packs $600 2 35 meg disks $120
480 meg storage $1120
2 250 meg WD firewire drives $600
500 meg storage
Let's see, $1120 vs $600? Sure you have two drives with the HD route, but I'd rather have that, if one drive fails, you still have the other, if the iomega drive fails, you're out $400, and stuck with a bunch of useless cartidges until it's replaced.
Plus with the HD's you have a single point of failure. Which makes it easy say if you wanted to get two drives, and have them mirror each other. Plus the HD's are active storage (not just a backup device), no disk swapping.
I think they've all been. I had was a SyQuest EZ Flyer 230 drive. Held 230 meg per cart, and was about as reliable as I am balancing my checkbook without a calculator, and about as fast to boot. I've heard similar stories about Iomega gear, but I think SyQuest was worse.
Needless to say, this was the last one drive of it's kind I bought, since then, I started backing everything up on CDRs. And since CDRs don't hold enough anymore, I back up to an extra hard drive (in another machine) using rsync. If my house catches on fire, then ya, I lose my data, but I'm also missing my house, so I have a lot more to worry about anyway.:)
I just picked up a DVD-R/+R-RW+RW-etc+etc+omg-lol drive awhile back so I'll probably end up burning the really vital stuff to DVDs, and maybe storing them somewhere else. That is, if I can ever find any really vital stuff, most of my code is GPL'd so I can just re-download it.:)
A flat tax wouldn't simplify things as much as you'd think. The difficult part with the income tax is deciding exactly what is income and needs to be declared. There's a LOT of ways to get income, think about it for a bit.
Doing a simple tiered percentage for different tax brackets is relatively easy.
The browser is just MSIE embedded. Winamp 5 with the classic skin is actually pretty fast. Winamp 3 with the new skins was horribly slow, I stuck to 2.x until 5.x came out.
I'd probably get Sirius if Howard was onboard. Sattelite goes over the airwaves just like normal radio, so isn't it a matter of time before the FCC starts fucking that up as well? It's encrypted, yes, but is that enough to stop the almighty FCC?
Here here, I've written some crazy stuff in php, a few daemons etc, that fork off into the background, listen on ports for incoming connections, etc. Fun stuff, it's easy as heck to program in and it's rock solid. I've had daemons up and running for at least a month a time, handling hundreds of thousands of socket connections over the time, and not a sign of any memory leaks, or at least nothing noticeable. The only reason the daemons don't stay up for long is because of deploying newer versions.
I wish more people would take php more seriously as a non-web scripting language. It's so much nicer than perl. I just wish php has support for calling threads. Maybe it does and I just haven't looked hard enough.
How about writing a version of Amiga DOS that didn't fragment memory like mad so you didn't get a guru mediation error every day or so of use? Amiga DOS 2.x got rid of the Guru Mediation error had something else instead, can't remember what it was tho, I believe just some more generic professional sounding error.
Linux could have started a new life for the Amiga, and might be a stronger competitor today because of it. Probably not, but who knows...
What's weird is if say Joe Blow walks into my bank pretending to be me, and withdrawls all my money. The bank would them be liable for giving my money to the wrong person, correct? How is that different than Joe Blow acquired my debit card somehow, and used it to take my money that way.
I've known people that have gotten their bank accounts withdrawn on, and they go their money back. One thru a debit card, and the other thru wire transfers. They both go their money back I believe, but maybe the bank was just being nice, as I don't believe it was all that much money.
If debit cards aren't covered, maybe I should get rid of mine. Something to look into.
I always loved how my Amiga got 880k out of a 3.5" dd floppy by default. It was a damn nice machine, it was a sad day to retire it for a PC. I never did fill up my massive 80mb hard drive.:) Over a 2400 baud modem? riiiight.
I never quite got what those insurance fees were for, except to needlessly charge your more money. As far as I know, credit card companies are responsible for fraud if you have their insurance or not. You can always issue a charge back on the place that charged your cc # in the first place to get your money back. It screws the retailer, but what choice to you have? Note, I've never done a charge back before. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
Debit cards are different, then your bank is liable for the fraud and it takes much longer to get your money back, but from what I hear you still get all or most of your money back.
One trick I learned: Maybe every year or so, call your cc company and ask for a new number and issue you a new card. They'll be more than happy to do it, and you have the peace of mind knowing all those retailers in the past year your gave your card to no longer have a valid number on file anymore.
Heh, I remember paying $220 for a pair of USED 4 meg simms back in, what was it, '95? I only remember that because win95 came out on August 24, 1995 (gee I sound like Sarah Conor predicting Judgement day), and photoshop needed more than 8 megs of ram to run any filters. And that was with trading in a pair of 2 meg simms. I doubt 64 megs simms even existed back then.:)
Now I have sticks of 256 just laying around collecting dust, waiting for me to gather up enough spare parts to build an extra computer, or until a friend comes along that can use it.:)
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Heh, I had an '86 Toyota Corolla, I loved it, but up here in Ohio, they tend to rust a bit more. It barely made it to the junk yard. :(
The GPL does not let you take any source code anywhere and release it under the GPL.
No one's debating that this is a legal, legitimate way of freeing code under the GPL. I don't think there's many GPL zealots that would think so.
The problem arises when you think about who released the WASTE code, the actualy author of WASTE and (head honcho?) of Nullsoft at the time: Justin.
I guess what really legally determines this is how much power over Nullsoft does AOL legally have? It's something that needs to be worked out in a court, but will probably never go there unless something decides to test them, fighting the GPL with respect to WASTE. But since that notice is on Nullsoft's site, meaning Nullsoft caved in and pulled the plug because of presure from AOL no doubt, I'm guessing that ya, WASTE is illegal.
Justin should just put up a website, have people vote on what he should program , have a donate button, maybe a message board showing his progress, etc. With his fame, I'm sure he could easily get by. And since he's be programming on his own time, there would be no one with any say to pull his projects down.
That's what kills me, people GPL code and release it, and then get their panties in a bunch when someone "steals" their code, makes a new project out of it, and re-releases it under a different name. That's allowed under the GPL folks, and definitely does not explain why Via pulled the project.
ack! s/you're/your/ /. needs an edit button, or at the bare minimum an append button.
Heh, that's kinda like paying someone your lunch money so they don't beat you up. If you don't pay you're property tax, they'll take your land away from you.
:)
Borderlines on the brink of extortion if you ask me.
I can't remember if it was private or a multiuser chat messages. But I specifically remember them showing up in my waste log on my linux server.
You can also snoop in on other people's "encrypted" messages, as long as you're part of the collective. Makes me wonder how encrypted other stuff is as well. But ya, the main problem is key management.
Another problem is this: Say Jane, Joe, and Pete are on the same network, but Jane hates Pete because he didn't call the next morning, so Jane deletes Pete's key. Pete is still allowed on the network through his long time buddy Joe, and Pete can even route through Jane. We tried some tests, and this actually works.
Or buy an external 250 gig drive, and probably never have to pop out a disk ever, because it simply will never get filled up. And if it does, so what? Buy another HD. By the time you need it, it'll be bigger, better, and cheaper.
1 iomega drive $400
3 140 meg packs $600
2 35 meg disks $120
480 meg storage $1120
2 250 meg WD firewire drives $600
500 meg storage
Let's see, $1120 vs $600? Sure you have two drives with the HD route, but I'd rather have that, if one drive fails, you still have the other, if the iomega drive fails, you're out $400, and stuck with a bunch of useless cartidges until it's replaced.
Plus with the HD's you have a single point of failure. Which makes it easy say if you wanted to get two drives, and have them mirror each other. Plus the HD's are active storage (not just a backup device), no disk swapping.
I think they've all been. I had was a SyQuest EZ Flyer 230 drive. Held 230 meg per cart, and was about as reliable as I am balancing my checkbook without a calculator, and about as fast to boot. I've heard similar stories about Iomega gear, but I think SyQuest was worse.
:)
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Needless to say, this was the last one drive of it's kind I bought, since then, I started backing everything up on CDRs. And since CDRs don't hold enough anymore, I back up to an extra hard drive (in another machine) using rsync. If my house catches on fire, then ya, I lose my data, but I'm also missing my house, so I have a lot more to worry about anyway.
I just picked up a DVD-R/+R-RW+RW-etc+etc+omg-lol drive awhile back so I'll probably end up burning the really vital stuff to DVDs, and maybe storing them somewhere else. That is, if I can ever find any really vital stuff, most of my code is GPL'd so I can just re-download it.
A flat tax wouldn't simplify things as much as you'd think. The difficult part with the income tax is deciding exactly what is income and needs to be declared. There's a LOT of ways to get income, think about it for a bit.
Doing a simple tiered percentage for different tax brackets is relatively easy.
Now you know someone that uses winamp to play music modules (.xm, .mod, .s3m, .it, etc)... me. :)
The browser is just MSIE embedded. Winamp 5 with the classic skin is actually pretty fast. Winamp 3 with the new skins was horribly slow, I stuck to 2.x until 5.x came out.
I don't know, but what would happen if you added in the evil bit?
Dell does sell computers that don't require the microsoft tax you know.
It's already been said that 2.6 will likely not make it into Sarge.
:(
Personally I hate it when Debian prepares for releases, it means I have to wait until the release is made until I get new software in sid again.
roomjuice My very own pet project that I started over 2 years ago when I wanted to do the same thing and couldn't find anything I liked.
I'd probably get Sirius if Howard was onboard. Sattelite goes over the airwaves just like normal radio, so isn't it a matter of time before the FCC starts fucking that up as well? It's encrypted, yes, but is that enough to stop the almighty FCC?
I just view it as improved C
Here here, I've written some crazy stuff in php, a few daemons etc, that fork off into the background, listen on ports for incoming connections, etc. Fun stuff, it's easy as heck to program in and it's rock solid. I've had daemons up and running for at least a month a time, handling hundreds of thousands of socket connections over the time, and not a sign of any memory leaks, or at least nothing noticeable. The only reason the daemons don't stay up for long is because of deploying newer versions.
I wish more people would take php more seriously as a non-web scripting language. It's so much nicer than perl. I just wish php has support for calling threads. Maybe it does and I just haven't looked hard enough.
How about writing a version of Amiga DOS that didn't fragment memory like mad so you didn't get a guru mediation error every day or so of use? Amiga DOS 2.x got rid of the Guru Mediation error had something else instead, can't remember what it was tho, I believe just some more generic professional sounding error.
Linux could have started a new life for the Amiga, and might be a stronger competitor today because of it. Probably not, but who knows...
What's weird is if say Joe Blow walks into my bank pretending to be me, and withdrawls all my money. The bank would them be liable for giving my money to the wrong person, correct? How is that different than Joe Blow acquired my debit card somehow, and used it to take my money that way.
I've known people that have gotten their bank accounts withdrawn on, and they go their money back. One thru a debit card, and the other thru wire transfers. They both go their money back I believe, but maybe the bank was just being nice, as I don't believe it was all that much money.
If debit cards aren't covered, maybe I should get rid of mine. Something to look into.
I always loved how my Amiga got 880k out of a 3.5" dd floppy by default. It was a damn nice machine, it was a sad day to retire it for a PC. I never did fill up my massive 80mb hard drive. :) Over a 2400 baud modem? riiiight.
I never quite got what those insurance fees were for, except to needlessly charge your more money. As far as I know, credit card companies are responsible for fraud if you have their insurance or not. You can always issue a charge back on the place that charged your cc # in the first place to get your money back. It screws the retailer, but what choice to you have? Note, I've never done a charge back before. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
Debit cards are different, then your bank is liable for the fraud and it takes much longer to get your money back, but from what I hear you still get all or most of your money back.
One trick I learned: Maybe every year or so, call your cc company and ask for a new number and issue you a new card. They'll be more than happy to do it, and you have the peace of mind knowing all those retailers in the past year your gave your card to no longer have a valid number on file anymore.
You fool! That's going to lead the underwear gnomes straight to you!
Phase 1: Collect Underpants...
oh forget it...
Heh, I remember paying $220 for a pair of USED 4 meg simms back in, what was it, '95? I only remember that because win95 came out on August 24, 1995 (gee I sound like Sarah Conor predicting Judgement day), and photoshop needed more than 8 megs of ram to run any filters. And that was with trading in a pair of 2 meg simms. I doubt 64 megs simms even existed back then. :)
:)
Now I have sticks of 256 just laying around collecting dust, waiting for me to gather up enough spare parts to build an extra computer, or until a friend comes along that can use it.
No sense in going to all that trouble. Just get one of these cables. I think Belkin makes them.