OK. I'm going to repeat a story I've been telling here for almost four years. If you've heard it, just move along.
When I lived in Thailand (2000-2004), FLOSS was really picking up steam there. The government had a program to promote it and move all its servers and desktops over to Linux within five years (IIRC). NECTEC was even developing a "national OS" called LinuxTLE. It was in every tiny bookstore and in every hypermarket's computer section.
Then MS came in -- I'm assuming after a BSA-style audit -- and told the Thai government that MS would pardon all the gov't piracy and give them blanket licenses for all existing computers for free. I'm also assuming there was an "or else."
In the end, the Thai government reversed its stance and killed the FLOSS movement there with strategic comments meant to cover their asses -- things like "Linux is not ready for real-world use" and "the OSS development method can't produce quality software."
The clincher? The licenses were all for Win98, which MS EOLed less than a year later.
Bugs in old code don't matter. Canonical released 8.04 "LTS" with a bunch of known bugs. Several of these were related to the replacement of Gnomevfs and ESD with Gvfs and PulseAudio.
1. Audio locking with Flash or FF crashes with libflashsupport -- your choice of one.
2. Yanking a removable drive without unmounting first leaves the drive mounted and browsable (in cache), but it can't be unmounted and writes fail (of course).
3. F-Spot (now the default photo app) can be run once on 64bit, but GConf entries written on first run cause the app to SIGSEV on subsequent attempts. ...
The list is enormous. Canonical should have delayed a couple of months just like they did for 6.06, but they were too interested in making their time-table and bragging about it.
If you think I'm off-topic, the timeliness brag is a the beginning of TFA.
By the way, what happened to the ordered and unordered lists on/.?
I'll go further and admit that in the aftermath of the 1985 eruption and mudslide at Nevado del Ruiz, I laughed all day at a mental image of the disaster which I couldn't get rid of. Yeah, it was crass.
Just to be clear, though, people die. Lots of them die, They die every year and every day. There is no rhyme or reason. Who gets taken isn't fair.
This disaster pales in comparison to the nearly 3/4 million premature deaths caused each year in China due to air and water pollution.
I want Taco Cowboy to talk about nothing else than pollution in China until that atrocity ends.
I'd go so far as to say that this site is specifically for antisocial geeks and that there will probably be a lower percentage of people on this discussion with empathy than there would be in a general forum.
A Linux system will use up as much memory as you have in order to speed up the system, releasing the memory if it's needed for something else.
My 1GB Gnome system actually uses ~275MB for the desktop, web browser, torrent application, Tomboy notes, and Rhythmbox music player. I'd call that reasonable.
The canon source disagrees with you:
per http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
Does prelinking a GPLed binary to various libraries on the system, to optimize its performance, count as modification?
Why not quote something pertinent?
The GNU General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General Public License instead of this License. But first, please read.
* GPL code cannot be priced up if a monopoly is ever achieved. The terms of the GPL prohibit charging for GPL code ever, so real predatory pricing is precluded.
4. Conveying Verbatim Copies.
You may convey verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice; keep intact all notices stating that this License and any non-permissive terms added in accord with section 7 apply to the code; keep intact all notices of the absence of any warranty; and give all recipients a copy of this License along with the Program.
You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey, and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee.
"Lawyers... [independent clause 1], and unfortunately for them, the companies... [independent clause 2]."
The independent clauses are well formed. There are no comma splices. Give it up.
The "standing on my head" part was a joke, see? If I were to stand on my head, I wouldn't be lying down and wouldn't get paid, see? I couldn't do ninety days standing on my head, see?
I read about this deal yesterday, and yes, it appears that the codec is much better than what's available on Linus right now. It's apparently using hardware acceleration and multi-threaded programming. Ffdshow is supposed to come out with those features soon, though.
That was not a run-on sentence. Hand in your GN badge, please. You are suspended until the GNAA (Grammar Nazi Association of the Americas) has finished its investigation of the matter.
What about the student who was arrested in Egypt recently and only rescued because he managed to get off a message to Twitter (read by hundreds of people) before his phone was taken away.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah ... and there's no way to DRM a real book.
OK. I'm going to repeat a story I've been telling here for almost four years. If you've heard it, just move along.
When I lived in Thailand (2000-2004), FLOSS was really picking up steam there. The government had a program to promote it and move all its servers and desktops over to Linux within five years (IIRC). NECTEC was even developing a "national OS" called LinuxTLE. It was in every tiny bookstore and in every hypermarket's computer section.
Then MS came in -- I'm assuming after a BSA-style audit -- and told the Thai government that MS would pardon all the gov't piracy and give them blanket licenses for all existing computers for free. I'm also assuming there was an "or else."
In the end, the Thai government reversed its stance and killed the FLOSS movement there with strategic comments meant to cover their asses -- things like "Linux is not ready for real-world use" and "the OSS development method can't produce quality software."
The clincher? The licenses were all for Win98, which MS EOLed less than a year later.
I phrased that wrong. What I meant is that bugs in old code don't really matter to Canonical. My post was semi-coherent, at best.
Bugs in old code don't matter. Canonical released 8.04 "LTS" with a bunch of known bugs. Several of these were related to the replacement of Gnomevfs and ESD with Gvfs and PulseAudio.
...
/.?
1. Audio locking with Flash or FF crashes with libflashsupport -- your choice of one.
2. Yanking a removable drive without unmounting first leaves the drive mounted and browsable (in cache), but it can't be unmounted and writes fail (of course).
3. F-Spot (now the default photo app) can be run once on 64bit, but GConf entries written on first run cause the app to SIGSEV on subsequent attempts.
The list is enormous. Canonical should have delayed a couple of months just like they did for 6.06, but they were too interested in making their time-table and bragging about it.
If you think I'm off-topic, the timeliness brag is a the beginning of TFA.
By the way, what happened to the ordered and unordered lists on
I'll go further and admit that in the aftermath of the 1985 eruption and mudslide at Nevado del Ruiz, I laughed all day at a mental image of the disaster which I couldn't get rid of. Yeah, it was crass.
Just to be clear, though, people die. Lots of them die, They die every year and every day. There is no rhyme or reason. Who gets taken isn't fair.
This disaster pales in comparison to the nearly 3/4 million premature deaths caused each year in China due to air and water pollution.
I want Taco Cowboy to talk about nothing else than pollution in China until that atrocity ends.
I'd go so far as to say that this site is specifically for antisocial geeks and that there will probably be a lower percentage of people on this discussion with empathy than there would be in a general forum.
Chalk it up to Asberger's, I guess.
A Linux system will use up as much memory as you have in order to speed up the system, releasing the memory if it's needed for something else.
My 1GB Gnome system actually uses ~275MB for the desktop, web browser, torrent application, Tomboy notes, and Rhythmbox music player. I'd call that reasonable.
Only four apps are targeted.
See my comment about this.
- Photoshop CS2 tryout
- Microsoft Powerpoint Viewer 97 and 2003
- Microsoft Word Viewer 97 and 2003
- Microsoft Excel Viewer 97 and 2003
That's all they're targeting. I think it's a great idea to get to that level first, then expand without regression.When they supplied a link, it didn't meet the licensing terms because they still didn't notify the receiver of his right to redistribute.
They won't notice until they try to get the latest American Idol songs from the iTunes store. Expect the complaints to start rolling in after that. ;)
per http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html Does prelinking a GPLed binary to various libraries on the system, to optimize its performance, count as modification?
Why not quote something pertinent? The GNU General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General Public License instead of this License. But first, please read
"Lawyers ... [independent clause 1], and unfortunately for them, the companies ... [independent clause 2]."
The independent clauses are well formed. There are no comma splices. Give it up.
The "standing on my head" part was a joke, see? If I were to stand on my head, I wouldn't be lying down and wouldn't get paid, see? I couldn't do ninety days standing on my head, see?
Ninety days? I can do that standing on my head! Oh, wait ... I guess not.
I read about this deal yesterday, and yes, it appears that the codec is much better than what's available on Linus right now. It's apparently using hardware acceleration and multi-threaded programming. Ffdshow is supposed to come out with those features soon, though.
If you change the compiler, then yes, it could break, but if you use EGCS or whatever was from that period, then I'd assume the code would compile.
Code written for Windows 95/NT (back in 1996) still works today on the Windows platform. 12 years later.
Try that with System 7 code on OS X.
I'm pretty sure you could take code that would compile on Linux 2.0 and compile it on Linux 2.6.
That was not a run-on sentence. Hand in your GN badge, please. You are suspended until the GNAA (Grammar Nazi Association of the Americas) has finished its investigation of the matter.
What about the student who was arrested in Egypt recently and only rescued because he managed to get off a message to Twitter (read by hundreds of people) before his phone was taken away.
Yes, they did. Read the article in my sig for full info.
This is the major difference between the Free Software movement and the Open Source movement. Open Source is all about business. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative
The Ubuntu stool is still looser than the Apple stool. That's practically tar-like.