Only Gentoo does track the licenses for each package. Take, for example, the ebuild for net-im/gaim-0.71-r2:
# Copyright 1999-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc. # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header:/home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-im/gaim/gaim-0.71-r2. ebuild,v 1.2 2003/10/28 13:19:21 mholzer Exp $
Note the LICENSE field. Those are supposed to appear in each ebuild. It's up to the developers to set it correctly, and I'd like to think that they usually get it right. Also note that Portage includes has a copy of each license at/usr/portage/licenses.
If you want to restrict your system to entirely free software, there's nothing preventing you from checking the ebuilds before installing a package. It wouldn't be difficult for someone to extend Portage to allow users to set a policy for what types of licenses they accept. For instance, you could say that you only want to use free software, and Portage would ignore or mask ebuilds that had licenses other than those that are "free".
Yes, shell accounts are available for students under certain circumstances. An undergraduate student either has to pay for one each semester or be in a college that provides shell access. FWIW, I'd be surprised if a student got away with tunneling for long, but I'm basing my opinion on the notion that activity outside the norm will make people interested in you.
Maybe it wasn't clear from the article, but Icarus scans only the housing network, to which the president, provost, etc. do not connect. Think of the housing network as an entirely separate segment of the overall UF network.
And assuming you were clever enough to say, spoof a housing network router's IP, you'd probably (1) get a lot of your friends pissed off at you for taking them offline, and (2) get kicked out of campus housing for violating the living agreement.
I wouldn't mind this program except that the University has a monopoly over ISPs during a students freshman and sophmore year.
Not at UF. Living in residence halls is entirely voluntary.
And if a student is researching something that requires an unusual amount of bandwidth, his or her college should provide the resources. Actually, that's how it works at UF.
If you were the target of a denial of service attack, I'm sure it would make your day to find that your service provider closed your account to "maintain the quality of service to their other customers".
Instead of moving the binary, you can just remove Nautilus from your Gnome session by going to Desktop Preferences -> Advanced -> Sessions. Then remove Nautilus from the current session and hit apply. Make sure to save your session when you logout.
Email is not necessarily the only answer here. Since email is covered by many open records laws (such as the Sunshine Laws in Florida), there is a need in public institutions for communication that occurs off the record. Face-to-face communication works when you're in the same office and phones are nice. Instant messaging, which AFAIK is not covered by open records laws (at least in Florida), serves the same purpose as stopping by someone's office or phoning, and is less of an interruption.
Or worse, have a gap between each track. Apple, oh Apple, WHY won't you address the issue of seamless (but still tracked) music?? if MP3/AAC can't handle it, then you should be supporting OGG or something that can.
Uhh, all the albums I play in XMMS are without gaps in between tracks (other than those on the CD) thanks to the XMMS Crossfade Plugin. There's nothing intrinsic to the MP3 format that causes the gaps. To do this on the iPod, Apple would have to transfer the next song into the 32- or 64-MB buffer and tell the hardware to immediately beging decoding the next file once the first one is done. They're already buffering the next song, but my guess is that the decoding hardware cannot handle song changes fast enough.
The issue has been brought up many times on the Apple discussion forums, but I've never really seen a good response on the issue.
And the iPod can't even play a trance cd ripped as one track without stopping halfway through. Why the hell can't it read in more data while playing what is currently in memory?? Grrr!!!
This seems to be an issue with Apple's caching algorithm. They apparently assume that people will be playing smaller tracks as opposed to larger ones that do not fit in the buffer. When you are halfway through an album, the iPod flips out because the buffer is empty and it didn't know to continue reading the file from disk. The pause results from the iPod needing to go back to disk. This may be less of an issue on the new iPods with the 64-MB buffer, especially if the album is less than 64 MB.
I don't know why they haven't fixed these problems; they seem relatively simple on the surface.
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If you want to restrict your system to entirely free software, there's nothing preventing you from checking the ebuilds before installing a package. It wouldn't be difficult for someone to extend Portage to allow users to set a policy for what types of licenses they accept. For instance, you could say that you only want to use free software, and Portage would ignore or mask ebuilds that had licenses other than those that are "free".
Yes, shell accounts are available for students under certain circumstances. An undergraduate student either has to pay for one each semester or be in a college that provides shell access. FWIW, I'd be surprised if a student got away with tunneling for long, but I'm basing my opinion on the notion that activity outside the norm will make people interested in you.
Maybe it wasn't clear from the article, but Icarus scans only the housing network, to which the president, provost, etc. do not connect. Think of the housing network as an entirely separate segment of the overall UF network.
And assuming you were clever enough to say, spoof a housing network router's IP, you'd probably (1) get a lot of your friends pissed off at you for taking them offline, and (2) get kicked out of campus housing for violating the living agreement.
No, UF does not require freshmen to live on campus. There's not enough available housing.
I wouldn't mind this program except that the University has a monopoly over ISPs during a students freshman and sophmore year.
Not at UF. Living in residence halls is entirely voluntary.
And if a student is researching something that requires an unusual amount of bandwidth, his or her college should provide the resources. Actually, that's how it works at UF.
Well, according to my receipt, I bought my iPod on October 3, 2002. Way before the third generation iPods were announced.
Best Buy definitely started carrying iPods before then. I bought my second generation 20 GB iPod there.
If you were the target of a denial of service attack, I'm sure it would make your day to find that your service provider closed your account to "maintain the quality of service to their other customers".
Double standards are bad, mm-kay?
Instead of moving the binary, you can just remove Nautilus from your Gnome session by going to Desktop Preferences -> Advanced -> Sessions. Then remove Nautilus from the current session and hit apply. Make sure to save your session when you logout.
I wonder what those of us who purchased the Athlon XP CD set are going to receive.
Slightly offtopic, but Jabber does queue messages. See Jabber technology overview.
Email is not necessarily the only answer here. Since email is covered by many open records laws (such as the Sunshine Laws in Florida), there is a need in public institutions for communication that occurs off the record. Face-to-face communication works when you're in the same office and phones are nice. Instant messaging, which AFAIK is not covered by open records laws (at least in Florida), serves the same purpose as stopping by someone's office or phoning, and is less of an interruption.
Maybe because he's using the original iTrip with his first or second generation iPod?
It's Saturday. The last trade was yesterday.
Yes, I considered mentioning AxKit and Cocoon. I haven't worked with either, so I stuck to listing the ones I have worked with.
I've seen plenty of servlets that do this, mostly done by people who don't know better. :-)
I was referring primarily to the documentation available on the Struts site. Their user guide and taglib documentation is generally very good.
Yes, in fact I didn't really recommend The Linux Problem Solver in my review from a while ago. (The formatting is not my fault.)
Also, feel free to submit your own reviews of BAD books.
Uhh, what? The Apple Store has the dual 2.0 GHz machines right now, and they will be shipping in August.
Yes, but they had to reverse engineer it. IIRC, it was reverse engineered first in libfaim.
That is the TOC protocol. All new AIM clients use the Oscar protocol, which is not open.
Do you know of a place to download any of the older LinuxPPC bootable CDs? I have a 7600 that I would like to try booting.
Yes, instead of having their summer interns do the work. No word on what the summer interns will do. :-)
Or worse, have a gap between each track. Apple, oh Apple, WHY won't you address the issue of seamless (but still tracked) music?? if MP3/AAC can't handle it, then you should be supporting OGG or something that can.
Uhh, all the albums I play in XMMS are without gaps in between tracks (other than those on the CD) thanks to the XMMS Crossfade Plugin. There's nothing intrinsic to the MP3 format that causes the gaps. To do this on the iPod, Apple would have to transfer the next song into the 32- or 64-MB buffer and tell the hardware to immediately beging decoding the next file once the first one is done. They're already buffering the next song, but my guess is that the decoding hardware cannot handle song changes fast enough.
The issue has been brought up many times on the Apple discussion forums, but I've never really seen a good response on the issue.
And the iPod can't even play a trance cd ripped as one track without stopping halfway through. Why the hell can't it read in more data while playing what is currently in memory?? Grrr!!!
This seems to be an issue with Apple's caching algorithm. They apparently assume that people will be playing smaller tracks as opposed to larger ones that do not fit in the buffer. When you are halfway through an album, the iPod flips out because the buffer is empty and it didn't know to continue reading the file from disk. The pause results from the iPod needing to go back to disk. This may be less of an issue on the new iPods with the 64-MB buffer, especially if the album is less than 64 MB.
I don't know why they haven't fixed these problems; they seem relatively simple on the surface.
...IEEE 1394...
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