The only place it lookes like power shell won was in killing a process, but it could've been much more easily accomplished with a single command, killall konquorer. Why he did all the grepping, awking, and piping, I don't know.
There are whole schools of teaching philosophy that advocate a child's natural interest in learning. This is impossible to accomodate in a classroom setting because its just too big. Students have different learning styles. Students become interested in different topics at different times. If each child had an educated generalist waiting to explain and drill the items of interest as they came up and in a way which motivated the student, he would finish primary school with his full potential realized. Secondary school would then be about liberal education, not rote memorization. We gave up the ancient method of educating only the wealthy and began mandatory schooling until age \\fill in your country's requirement here\\. That decision created large classes with little flexibility.
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No point still being bitter, yes?
I'm not the original poster, but I'll still answer your question: No. I'm bitter that I lost a lot of my childhood by sitting in a prison of the mind, wasting my time instead of doing something better with my life.
I'm not on Slashdot because of my time in school. I'm here because I value continuing education. Don't laugh.
Except for about four years of my schooling (one in primary, one in middle, and two in high) where I was given a chance to self-educate, I spent my time in school alternately at the top of the class or rebelling. Those times when I was self-paced, I completed a couple of years' coursework at a time. For anyone with an IQ above 130, public school is an undeniable waste of time. I'd even say that it's a waste of several hours a day for the average student. Not much goes on in school except crowd control, lunch, and socializing.
I have had a few teachers who pushed me to my limit and were educated enough to lead me, but most were just average and knew little about their subjects. The textbook was always a better source of information than the average teacher, and I didn't have to waste fifty hours of my life to get through it at a snail's pace. My time on Slashdot educates me better than my time in school did, though the signal/noise ratio has gone down in the last few years.
I understand you'll see this post as egotistical and smug, but I feel qulified to comment on this story (and your post) because
My IQ was well above 145, just as TFA's chief subject was;
I was not allowed to skip grades, either; and
I stated the facts in my post as I remember them, without embellishment or hyperbole.
If you want to know what a society without copyright would look like, you should look at the countries where piract is rampant (95%+), like Thailand or China (off the top of my head). Do these countries still produce music and movies? They do, but I'm not sure how well they'd compete with the products of equally wealthy countries who value copyright.
Oh, and Ong Bak is one of the greatest martial arts movies ever made.
You didn't use your distro's packages and related tools? Are you a Linux From Scratch user or something? Fedora and RH-based distros have yum, while Ubuntu and Debian-based distros have apt. Why would you download and install a tarball (.tar.gz)? Geez, even Gentoo's Open Office install is easy. It takes two days, but it's easy.
Considering that the developer is one of the copyright holders on the kernel's code, I think your post makes no sense.
I'm not hyperbolizing anything (killing babies or the like): I merely stated the facts of the license in question. The GPL does come with limitations, but they are much less stringent than standard licenses. If VMWare had taken the same liberties with a piece of Microsoft's software under the Microsoft Community License (Ms-CL), VMWare would be in the same boat. GPL is not the only license with reciprocal terms. VMWare has been working with Linux for long enough to know the terms of its licensing. They knew what they were getting into.
So you want VMWare to be able to use Linux any way they want without having to follow the license requirements? Is that right? If there were no GPL, they would have had to follow whatever license Linux would be under. Maybe that license would be more permissive, like an MIT/BSD-style one, but maybe not.
No one was required to use Linux to bootstrap the ESX server. If, in fact, they were able to do it without Linux, they could have easily used GRUB or some other loader, but they didn't. They used the Linux kernel to reduce their development time, obviously. Perhaps they should have used the BSD kernel if they wanted to modify without releasing the modifications. Oh wait, they would have used GRUB or the BSD kernel if they could have, so obviously they needed Linux and the hard work the developers offered up.
I guess they wanted it for free, though. They aren't required to release their entire code base -- only the linked / derivative stuff.
It's not a blogger questioning their rights. It's a kernel developer. The blogger is merely reporting that the developer has a problem and that VMWare hasn't answered the requests for information for over a year.
He could have run the vmkmod module through a disassembler and compared it to parts of the Linux binary. It takes a lot of effort, but you can show that actual code has been copied that way, which is really what matters.
So you didn't actually read the article? The problem is not copied code: it's the use of a binary-only module which links to and requires the Linux kernel to boot the ESX server. According to Linus' guidance, this steps over the line into an area where binary modules can't be used. The iSCSI component developer is refusing to let ESX use any of his code until they answer questions about how the ESX kernel module interacts with the Linux kernel.
I'm not saying the laptops won't ever reach the children (though that's a distinct possibility). Once they get to the children there's very little hope that they'll stay there.
If you want to blame corruption on the old government (Thaksin), you need to look back into Thai history a bit. Just because you've lived in Thailand for a year doesn't mean you understand how things work there.
Hey "little monkey" (I'm assuming that's the translation of your UID), why would (s)he have to be American. Couldn't (s)he be an equally ignorant person from another developed and rich country?
By the way, if you expect these laptops to stay in the hands of the Thai children to whom they're given, you don't understand much about Thai societal corruption.
Wat di.
Exactly. I wondeer how Megapass makes money off of me. I've got the Megapass Lite package (their cheapest) with about 10Mb/s download and have a full-time torrent+MythTV server that brings down 100s of GB per month. The torrent upload (capped out by me at 40KB/s) is almost always maxed out, as well. I've never gotten a complaint or phone call (over three years, now).
Yeah. I don't actually know how fast my connection is rated. I figured it out from the max download. I could have 20Mb/s and not know it. So you're right, but I almost never get 10 in day-to-day use. Itonly happens when I'm downloading from universities in the country. Everywhere else is slower than that.
Two words, man... Myth Buntu. Oh, wait, it's just one... Mythbuntu. Either that or install ubuntu-minimal then apt-get install the frontend and / or backend.
I get something 8-10 Mb/s for 31K won -- maybe $35, but that's the lowest speed available. Megapass Lite. I guess I could get something for $40, but why would I? Almost everything I download is limited by someone else's bandwidth. The max I've ever seen on a download is 1.2MB/s.
Yeah, and the Slashdot spaghetti code is readable by...what...? Maybe five people in the world? Heck, it was so complicated for so long that the developers couldn't even update it without breaking it. I haven't looked at it since it moved to CSS, though.
i think i see a fork coming along. still a 'community' version, but based on the supposedly more conservative enterprise codebase (whatever the last freely available gpl version is i suppose). either that or someone will take the current community version and strip it back to be a 'lean stable' version and build from there.
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The only place it lookes like power shell won was in killing a process, but it could've been much more easily accomplished with a single command, killall konquorer. Why he did all the grepping, awking, and piping, I don't know.
Their scripts were written in PhP using a single mysql database. That explainss the outage. They were Slashdotted ... er ... Microsofted.
There are whole schools of teaching philosophy that advocate a child's natural interest in learning. This is impossible to accomodate in a classroom setting because its just too big. Students have different learning styles. Students become interested in different topics at different times. If each child had an educated generalist waiting to explain and drill the items of interest as they came up and in a way which motivated the student, he would finish primary school with his full potential realized. Secondary school would then be about liberal education, not rote memorization. We gave up the ancient method of educating only the wealthy and began mandatory schooling until age \\fill in your country's requirement here\\. That decision created large classes with little flexibility.
Hey AC -- What country were you educated in?
I'm not the original poster, but I'll still answer your question: No. I'm bitter that I lost a lot of my childhood by sitting in a prison of the mind, wasting my time instead of doing something better with my life.
I'm not on Slashdot because of my time in school. I'm here because I value continuing education. Don't laugh.
Except for about four years of my schooling (one in primary, one in middle, and two in high) where I was given a chance to self-educate, I spent my time in school alternately at the top of the class or rebelling. Those times when I was self-paced, I completed a couple of years' coursework at a time. For anyone with an IQ above 130, public school is an undeniable waste of time. I'd even say that it's a waste of several hours a day for the average student. Not much goes on in school except crowd control, lunch, and socializing.
I have had a few teachers who pushed me to my limit and were educated enough to lead me, but most were just average and knew little about their subjects. The textbook was always a better source of information than the average teacher, and I didn't have to waste fifty hours of my life to get through it at a snail's pace. My time on Slashdot educates me better than my time in school did, though the signal/noise ratio has gone down in the last few years.
I understand you'll see this post as egotistical and smug, but I feel qulified to comment on this story (and your post) because
If you want to know what a society without copyright would look like, you should look at the countries where piract is rampant (95%+), like Thailand or China (off the top of my head). Do these countries still produce music and movies? They do, but I'm not sure how well they'd compete with the products of equally wealthy countries who value copyright.
Oh, and Ong Bak is one of the greatest martial arts movies ever made.
What do you mean by aggregator? An RSS feed?
As for CMSs, I know that Plone and EZPublish can accept/convert ODF files, and I just found HippoCMS, an Apache Caccon-based CMS, through a quick Google search for "ODF CMS."
You definitely don't have a good handle on the street prices in Bangkok, sir.
I can beat that. My geek buddy and I were out at the grocery store with our SOs yesterday. His gf asked him "Is pork from a cow or a pig?" o_O
You want to cover every distro? Link statically. Done.
You didn't use your distro's packages and related tools? Are you a Linux From Scratch user or something? Fedora and RH-based distros have yum, while Ubuntu and Debian-based distros have apt. Why would you download and install a tarball (.tar.gz)? Geez, even Gentoo's Open Office install is easy. It takes two days, but it's easy.
Considering that the developer is one of the copyright holders on the kernel's code, I think your post makes no sense.
I'm not hyperbolizing anything (killing babies or the like): I merely stated the facts of the license in question. The GPL does come with limitations, but they are much less stringent than standard licenses. If VMWare had taken the same liberties with a piece of Microsoft's software under the Microsoft Community License (Ms-CL), VMWare would be in the same boat. GPL is not the only license with reciprocal terms. VMWare has been working with Linux for long enough to know the terms of its licensing. They knew what they were getting into.
So you want VMWare to be able to use Linux any way they want without having to follow the license requirements? Is that right? If there were no GPL, they would have had to follow whatever license Linux would be under. Maybe that license would be more permissive, like an MIT/BSD-style one, but maybe not.
No one was required to use Linux to bootstrap the ESX server. If, in fact, they were able to do it without Linux, they could have easily used GRUB or some other loader, but they didn't. They used the Linux kernel to reduce their development time, obviously. Perhaps they should have used the BSD kernel if they wanted to modify without releasing the modifications. Oh wait, they would have used GRUB or the BSD kernel if they could have, so obviously they needed Linux and the hard work the developers offered up.
I guess they wanted it for free, though. They aren't required to release their entire code base -- only the linked / derivative stuff.
It's not a blogger questioning their rights. It's a kernel developer. The blogger is merely reporting that the developer has a problem and that VMWare hasn't answered the requests for information for over a year.
He could have run the vmkmod module through a disassembler and compared it to parts of the Linux binary. It takes a lot of effort, but you can show that actual code has been copied that way, which is really what matters.
So you didn't actually read the article? The problem is not copied code: it's the use of a binary-only module which links to and requires the Linux kernel to boot the ESX server. According to Linus' guidance, this steps over the line into an area where binary modules can't be used. The iSCSI component developer is refusing to let ESX use any of his code until they answer questions about how the ESX kernel module interacts with the Linux kernel.
I'm not saying the laptops won't ever reach the children (though that's a distinct possibility). Once they get to the children there's very little hope that they'll stay there.
If you want to blame corruption on the old government (Thaksin), you need to look back into Thai history a bit. Just because you've lived in Thailand for a year doesn't mean you understand how things work there.
Wat di.
Hey "little monkey" (I'm assuming that's the translation of your UID), why would (s)he have to be American. Couldn't (s)he be an equally ignorant person from another developed and rich country?
By the way, if you expect these laptops to stay in the hands of the Thai children to whom they're given, you don't understand much about Thai societal corruption. Wat di.
Exactly. I wondeer how Megapass makes money off of me. I've got the Megapass Lite package (their cheapest) with about 10Mb/s download and have a full-time torrent+MythTV server that brings down 100s of GB per month. The torrent upload (capped out by me at 40KB/s) is almost always maxed out, as well. I've never gotten a complaint or phone call (over three years, now).
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Yeah. I don't actually know how fast my connection is rated. I figured it out from the max download. I could have 20Mb/s and not know it. So you're right, but I almost never get 10 in day-to-day use. Itonly happens when I'm downloading from universities in the country. Everywhere else is slower than that.
Two words, man ... Myth Buntu. Oh, wait, it's just one ... Mythbuntu. Either that or install ubuntu-minimal then apt-get install the frontend and / or backend.
I get something 8-10 Mb/s for 31K won -- maybe $35, but that's the lowest speed available. Megapass Lite. I guess I could get something for $40, but why would I? Almost everything I download is limited by someone else's bandwidth. The max I've ever seen on a download is 1.2MB/s.
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All I can say to that is "eku eku click, eku click eku aaaaa."
Yeah, and the Slashdot spaghetti code is readable by ...what...? Maybe five people in the world? Heck, it was so complicated for so long that the developers couldn't even update it without breaking it. I haven't looked at it since it moved to CSS, though.
i think i see a fork coming along. still a 'community' version, but based on the supposedly more conservative enterprise codebase (whatever the last freely available gpl version is i suppose). either that or someone will take the current community version and strip it back to be a 'lean stable' version and build from there.
I propose calling it OurSQL.