Exactly. I want my work to be licensed under the terms of the GPL, therefore I use the GPL. I do maintain the copyright of all my code, so I can dual-license it where I want, but otherwise the GPL outlines the terms I have applied to my code. If I don't feel the GPL is quite right for what I do (like GTK/libc), I'll use the LGPL, or whatever suits my needs. If you don't like it, don't use my code in your projects. It's as simple as that. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
What if RedHat would switch to dpkg...
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I wonder how much more RedHat could make if they switched to dpkg (in a few quarters, once most of the few big deficiencies of dpkg are resolved). I know I refuse to refer people to the RedHat distro for the sole reason that I think RPM sucks. If RedHat used dpkg, I'd refer people to it (and probably buy it myself, just to support them). Anyone else doing the same thing? -------- "I already have all the latest software."
There's no need to. It'll just roll over to 00xxxx, and when 2099 comes along, it will either be obsolete, or well-developed enough to use x.x.x version numbers. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
Unlike WINE, Project Odin actually converts the Windows app into a native OS/2 application. The EXE and DLL's are modified so that OS/2 can load them, and a Win32 equivalent of the DLL's is provided. Odin also has a very cool feature where it intercepts the loader and actually convers a Windows EXE/DLL into an OS/2 EXE/DLL on the fly. This lets you run your Windows apps under OS/2 in a truly seamless fashion.
Actually, that's exactly what WINE does. Remember: Wine Is Not an Emulator, it just converts winxx executables to ELF, then links it into winelib. That's why you can't run wine on other platforms besides the x86. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
Of course, realistically, Microsoft has spent thousands of programmer hours developing these proprietary products and making them all work together nicely.
What sad, is that often these products don't even really work together nicely at all. I know it well. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
I'll sell Debian 2.2 (in a few months) for $10,000 US for anyone who wants it. That makes it 2x as good as W2K, right? -------- "I already have all the latest software."
Microsoft used to be playing it sly. Now that the antitrust is essentially (almost?) over, they must already know they won, and therefore just went back to their typical monopolistic practices. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
I'm sorry I haven't kept up with the weekly changes in Microsoft Vapourware. First MS said W2K would be essentially NT 5.0, then they said it would be based on W9x after all, then (according to you) they split the two up again and called one WinMil and one W2K. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
W2K is based on 95/98 (Not NT like MS said before), and therefore it is not an operating system, but a "helper API" that runs on top of DOS, like 95/98 was.
And did you see the wink (;) ) in the guy's message? It means "joking", "not true", etc. Besides, why would you waste $2 on something as crappy as a successor to the bloatation of Win98?
I have a cd-burner too: a blow torch. I'll burn every W2K CD I ever get... to ashes.
(Please don't argue that NT is better. As W2K is not NT as Microsoft originally claimed, that argument is quite irrevalent.) -------- "I already have all the latest software."
Does anyone know of a cheap way to do fast, medium-range (3-20 mile radius), non-line-of-sight wireless networking? Think of the LAN (erm. WAN) parties! -------- "I already have all the latest software."
When will people learn? The term "Hacker" was originated in the 1980s to describe the people at the MIT AI lab. These people conformed to the profile of a True Hacker, not the crackers you now see on TV calling themselves hackers.
Think of it this way: If some criminal decided to call himself a locksmith, because he picks locks to break into people's houses and smash their televisions, is he really a locksmith? And should the real locksmiths get a new name because the media screwed it up? Of course not.
The same thing applies here: If some criminal decided to call himself a hacker, because he picks passwords and program bugs to break into people's computers and smash their information, is he really a hacker? And should the real hackers get a new name because the media screwed it up? Of course not. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
Do you consider Democratic nations to be "free countries"? If you do, then surely you will acknowledge the fact that true freedom for all comes with responsibility. Just you can't kill someone, and say "It's a free country!", you can't expect developers to want to be ripped off (although some will). The GPL doesn't let you be selfish (eg. reap all the reward/profit for something others worked on). This is why I use the GPL. If I'm going to be generous enough to release something to the community, I sure as hell do not want some selfish bastard^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbusinessman to claim ownership to my work. As it is my right to license my work however I please, I choose the GPL, because my views happen to coincide with RMS's.
I use the GPL in all code I write, except when it's a patch to, say, BSD-licensed code, because that would just be dumb. Why? Because it my choice, and I want to. I want free software to have an edge against proprietary software. BSD-style licenses do not let free software have this edge; the GPL does.
So quit whining that "It's not BSD", because really, the BSD license is also incompatible with the QT license, and would have caused the exact same problem.
(And no, I am not an RMS-worshipper. I just happen to agree with much of what RMS says, though not everything: GNU/Linux is a dumb name for the Linux OS, as GNU software is not the only software on it. If I followed RMS's views on that, I'd take it one step further, calling it X/GNU/BSD/TrollTech/Corel/Apache/KDE/OSI/Aladdin/L inux, which is completely absurd.) -------- "I already have all the latest software."
Right, so we should completely ignore licensing issues that could potentially kill our projects? Not a good idea. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
Passing the gene on to your own offspring in the conventional manner would have to be considered "fair use", as would cloning oneself, though reverse-engineering it from a tissue sample through technological means would not.
Let me get this straight: You say that I cannot look at my own genes if my parents applied some patented patch?
Also, you clearly do not understand the patent system, as anything patented is disclosed to the public. There cannot be an NDA on patented genes.
Patents are not copyright. AFAIK you cannot apply the same terms to patent licenses as you can with copyright (not to mention the fact that I would never have signed anything). -------- "I already have all the latest software."
If *I* knew my site would get slashdotted, I'd sign up for an AOL account too, that way if my e-mail address gets slashdotted (whether from spam or from real mail), AOL takes the hit, and my personal e-mail address is still fine. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
The hacker/cracker debate has been around much longer than Slashdot. The term "Hacker" was originated in the 1980s to describe the people at the MIT AI lab. These people conformed to the profile of a True Hacker, not the crackers you now see on TV calling themselves hackers.
Think of it this way: If some criminal decided to call himself a locksmith, because he picks locks to break into people's houses and smash their televisions, is he really a locksmith? And should the real locksmiths get a new name because the media screwed it up? Of course not.
The same thing applies here: If some criminal decided to call himself a hacker, because he picks passwords and program bugs to break into people's computers and smash their information, is he really a hacker? And should the real hackers get a new name because the media screwed it up? Of course not. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
More of an Intel advertisement than a comparison
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All this article talks about is how cool the Coppermine is, and how it's better than the Athlon. It looks more like Intel propaganda than a true comparison.
I can't even get a Coppermine box yet, so why should I care that some computer is better in theory? -------- "I already have all the latest software."
Yep, you have. Stupid Amiga Inc. (Commodore), changed it to "Task:" and "Address:" or something on OS 3.x.
They also got rid of that cool disk-in-hand logo, and changed their official logo from that cool checkmark to that stupid ball. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
If you don't need custom chips, then how the hell can't I get UAE to fully emulate a simple A500 on a P233? The fact is that the old PC architecture is bulky and cumbersome. Too bad that next-generation Amiga didn't come out.
Oh well, I'll have to wait until I get older and rich enough to resurrect the Amiga, the right way.
Things that good are not easily forgotten. Just nobody seems to be smart enough to pull it off. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
Think, for a moment, what BeOS would be like, if it had its great architecture, mixed in with the advantages of open source. It would have already taken over Windows. -------- "I already have all the latest software."
I've only had an X lockup that totally froze my computer about 5 times ever. My video has been nuked a few more times, but the SysRQ keys still successfully did a clean boot on the system.
SysRQ-E (send TERM to all processes) Wait until disk activity stops SysRQ-I (send KILL to all processes) Wait 2 seconds SysRQ-U (remount all filesystems readonly) Wait until disk activity (if any) stops SysRQ-S (sync all disks) Wait until disk activity stops, minium 2 seconds SysRQ-B (reboot)
And it's all good.
* SysRQ on ix86es is Alt-PrtSc * If nothing seems to happen when you press the keys, try doing the SysRQ sequence again, it sometimes gets sticky.
-------- "I already have all the latest software."
Slashdot Mirror
Exactly. I want my work to be licensed under the terms of the GPL, therefore I use the GPL. I do maintain the copyright of all my code, so I can dual-license it where I want, but otherwise the GPL outlines the terms I have applied to my code. If I don't feel the GPL is quite right for what I do (like GTK/libc), I'll use the LGPL, or whatever suits my needs. If you don't like it, don't use my code in your projects. It's as simple as that.
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"I already have all the latest software."
(slightly offtopic)
I wonder how much more RedHat could make if they switched to dpkg (in a few quarters, once most of the few big deficiencies of dpkg are resolved). I know I refuse to refer people to the RedHat distro for the sole reason that I think RPM sucks. If RedHat used dpkg, I'd refer people to it (and probably buy it myself, just to support them). Anyone else doing the same thing?
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"I already have all the latest software."
oh yeah, and maybe SuSE, as well.
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"I already have all the latest software."
IIRC, Debian was always totally separate from RedHat. I know of only a few original Linux distributions (i386 only):
Debian
Slackware
RedHat
There might be 1 or 2 more (OpenLinux, maybe?), but most things seem to be based on those few.
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"I already have all the latest software."
There's no need to. It'll just roll over to 00xxxx, and when 2099 comes along, it will either be obsolete, or well-developed enough to use x.x.x version numbers.
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"I already have all the latest software."
Unlike WINE, Project Odin actually converts the Windows app into a native OS/2 application. The EXE and DLL's are modified so that OS/2 can load them, and a Win32 equivalent of the DLL's is provided. Odin also has a very cool feature where it intercepts the loader and actually convers a Windows EXE/DLL into an OS/2 EXE/DLL on the fly. This lets you run your Windows apps under OS/2 in a truly seamless fashion.
Actually, that's exactly what WINE does. Remember: Wine Is Not an Emulator, it just converts winxx executables to ELF, then links it into winelib. That's why you can't run wine on other platforms besides the x86.
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"I already have all the latest software."
"Linux is obsolete."
-- Andy Tanenbaum
'Nuff said
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"I already have all the latest software."
How does murder, rape, and the high seas have anything to do with software?
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"I already have all the latest software."
Of course, realistically, Microsoft has spent thousands of programmer hours developing these proprietary products and making them all work together nicely.
What sad, is that often these products don't even really work together nicely at all. I know it well.
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"I already have all the latest software."
I'll sell Debian 2.2 (in a few months) for $10,000 US for anyone who wants it. That makes it 2x as good as W2K, right?
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"I already have all the latest software."
Microsoft used to be playing it sly. Now that the antitrust is essentially (almost?) over, they must already know they won, and therefore just went back to their typical monopolistic practices.
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"I already have all the latest software."
I'm sorry I haven't kept up with the weekly changes in Microsoft Vapourware. First MS said W2K would be essentially NT 5.0, then they said it would be based on W9x after all, then (according to you) they split the two up again and called one WinMil and one W2K.
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"I already have all the latest software."
A few things:
;) ) in the guy's message? It means "joking", "not true", etc. Besides, why would you waste $2 on something as crappy as a successor to the bloatation of Win98?
W2K is based on 95/98 (Not NT like MS said before), and therefore it is not an operating system, but a "helper API" that runs on top of DOS, like 95/98 was.
And did you see the wink (
I have a cd-burner too: a blow torch. I'll burn every W2K CD I ever get... to ashes.
(Please don't argue that NT is better. As W2K is not NT as Microsoft originally claimed, that argument is quite irrevalent.)
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"I already have all the latest software."
Does anyone know of a cheap way to do fast, medium-range (3-20 mile radius), non-line-of-sight wireless networking? Think of the LAN (erm. WAN) parties!
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"I already have all the latest software."
When will people learn? The term "Hacker" was originated in the 1980s to describe the people at the MIT AI lab. These people conformed to the profile of a True Hacker, not the crackers you now see on TV calling themselves hackers.
Think of it this way: If some criminal decided to call himself a locksmith, because he picks locks to break into people's houses and smash their televisions, is he really a locksmith? And should the real locksmiths get a new name because the media screwed it up? Of course not.
The same thing applies here: If some criminal decided to call himself a hacker, because he picks passwords and program bugs to break into people's computers and smash their information, is he really a hacker? And should the real hackers get a new name because the media screwed it up? Of course not.
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"I already have all the latest software."
Do you consider Democratic nations to be "free countries"? If you do, then surely you will acknowledge the fact that true freedom for all comes with responsibility. Just you can't kill someone, and say "It's a free country!", you can't expect developers to want to be ripped off (although some will). The GPL doesn't let you be selfish (eg. reap all the reward/profit for something others worked on). This is why I use the GPL. If I'm going to be generous enough to release something to the community, I sure as hell do not want some selfish bastard^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbusinessman to claim ownership to my work. As it is my right to license my work however I please, I choose the GPL, because my views happen to coincide with RMS's.
L inux, which is completely absurd.)
I use the GPL in all code I write, except when it's a patch to, say, BSD-licensed code, because that would just be dumb. Why? Because it my choice, and I want to. I want free software to have an edge against proprietary software. BSD-style licenses do not let free software have this edge; the GPL does.
So quit whining that "It's not BSD", because really, the BSD license is also incompatible with the QT license, and would have caused the exact same problem.
(And no, I am not an RMS-worshipper. I just happen to agree with much of what RMS says, though not everything: GNU/Linux is a dumb name for the Linux OS, as GNU software is not the only software on it. If I followed RMS's views on that, I'd take it one step further, calling it X/GNU/BSD/TrollTech/Corel/Apache/KDE/OSI/Aladdin/
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"I already have all the latest software."
Right, so we should completely ignore licensing issues that could potentially kill our projects? Not a good idea.
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"I already have all the latest software."
Passing the gene on to your own offspring in the conventional manner would have to be considered "fair use", as would cloning oneself, though reverse-engineering it from a tissue sample through technological means would not.
Let me get this straight: You say that I cannot look at my own genes if my parents applied some patented patch?
Also, you clearly do not understand the patent system, as anything patented is disclosed to the public. There cannot be an NDA on patented genes.
Patents are not copyright. AFAIK you cannot apply the same terms to patent licenses as you can with copyright (not to mention the fact that I would never have signed anything).
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"I already have all the latest software."
If *I* knew my site would get slashdotted, I'd sign up for an AOL account too, that way if my e-mail address gets slashdotted (whether from spam or from real mail), AOL takes the hit, and my personal e-mail address is still fine.
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"I already have all the latest software."
The hacker/cracker debate has been around much longer than Slashdot. The term "Hacker" was originated in the 1980s to describe the people at the MIT AI lab. These people conformed to the profile of a True Hacker, not the crackers you now see on TV calling themselves hackers.
Think of it this way: If some criminal decided to call himself a locksmith, because he picks locks to break into people's houses and smash their televisions, is he really a locksmith? And should the real locksmiths get a new name because the media screwed it up? Of course not.
The same thing applies here: If some criminal decided to call himself a hacker, because he picks passwords and program bugs to break into people's computers and smash their information, is he really a hacker? And should the real hackers get a new name because the media screwed it up? Of course not.
--------
"I already have all the latest software."
All this article talks about is how cool the Coppermine is, and how it's better than the Athlon. It looks more like Intel propaganda than a true comparison.
I can't even get a Coppermine box yet, so why should I care that some computer is better in theory?
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"I already have all the latest software."
Yep, you have. Stupid Amiga Inc. (Commodore), changed it to "Task:" and "Address:" or something on OS 3.x.
They also got rid of that cool disk-in-hand logo, and changed their official logo from that cool checkmark to that stupid ball.
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"I already have all the latest software."
If you don't need custom chips, then how the hell can't I get UAE to fully emulate a simple A500 on a P233? The fact is that the old PC architecture is bulky and cumbersome. Too bad that next-generation Amiga didn't come out.
Oh well, I'll have to wait until I get older and rich enough to resurrect the Amiga, the right way.
Things that good are not easily forgotten. Just nobody seems to be smart enough to pull it off.
--------
"I already have all the latest software."
Think, for a moment, what BeOS would be like, if it had its great architecture, mixed in with the advantages of open source. It would have already taken over Windows.
--------
"I already have all the latest software."
I've only had an X lockup that totally froze my computer about 5 times ever. My video has been nuked a few more times, but the SysRQ keys still successfully did a clean boot on the system.
SysRQ-E (send TERM to all processes)
Wait until disk activity stops
SysRQ-I (send KILL to all processes)
Wait 2 seconds
SysRQ-U (remount all filesystems readonly)
Wait until disk activity (if any) stops
SysRQ-S (sync all disks)
Wait until disk activity stops, minium 2 seconds
SysRQ-B (reboot)
And it's all good.
* SysRQ on ix86es is Alt-PrtSc
* If nothing seems to happen when you press the keys, try doing the SysRQ sequence again, it sometimes gets sticky.
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"I already have all the latest software."