MAPS didn't block you. MAPS added you to a blacklist. Some admins have decided to block you based on you being in the MAPS list.
SORBS also like to stress this point. They offer their RBL to be used as anyone sees fit, and they take no responsibility for its contents or how it is used. It is the ultimate disclaimer.
The problem is that some ISPs do use these RBLs, and this causes a great deal of 'collateral damage'. When you are the victim of collateral damage, there is often very little you can do about it.
ISP X won't deliver my email to its customers because my ISP's server is on an RBL. My complaints to ISP X go unheeded because I am not one of their customers. I complain to my own ISP. They can't do anything either. They've cancelled the account used to send the spam, but the RBL administrator isn't being cooperative.
Ultimately it is the innocent users who come out worst.
And in my experience, all the comments about RBL admins being high-handed and arrogant are true. SORBS even demand a $50 'fine' for removal. The money goes to a charity that supports someone's legal case against a spammer and not to SORBS itself, but it is as near to extortion as is still legal.
So the TV Licensing Authority are being inconsistent.
I also telephoned them to ask if I could use a FreeView digital set-top box in order to receive digital radio channels without a TV license, given the fact that I do not have a TV and am therefore unable to watch any of the TV channels it also provides.
Their answer was that I would need a TV license.
The problem is the ambiguity in the statement "If you use a TV or any other device to receive or record TV programmes..."
One person at the TVLA interprets that to mean a set top box requires a TV license (because it receives TV programmes) regardless of whether a TV is plugged into it. Another person interprets it to mean that a detuned TV doesn't need a license.
Your grandfather might have used a similar method, projecting into the lens of a digitial video camera, or even projecting onto a screen and just recording the image from there.
Unfortunately, projecting into the lens of a camera doesn't work. The rays from the projector are too divergent and directional for the camera to be able to pick up the whole picture. You have to put a screen in place to scatter the light.
I pay 1200 bucks a year for car insurance, it's nothing. Decent health insurance costs me over 5000 a year by comparison.
That's scary. Here in the UK, I pay 200 UK pounds for car insurance (and I thought that was too high). I don't need health insurance because we have the NHS.
No, what we need to do to get insurance costs under control is regulate the lawsuit business.
Unfortunately, things are going in the opposite direction. I don't think it will be long until the situation here as degenerated into what you already have in the US.
I'm not sure you didn't get my point backwards. If a CD has an autorun.inf and you have AutoPlay enabled, then the CD can automatically launch an application on your PC when it is inserted, without you having to click on anything. I'd say that's asking for trouble, because you've surrendered control of what code you allow to run on your PC to whoever compiled the CD.
The standard answer to CSS complaints: actually, there is, it just isn't implemented in Internet Explorer. The following CSS
div.main-content { max-width: 1200px; }
does exactly what it says on the tin
This site does exactly that, and works on Internet Explorer too. The trick is a small JavaScript that you include on each page. I don't remember exactly where I got it from, but feel free to poke around. Yes, it's a hack, but it works.
I'd love to be able to filter out all sites that are trying to sell something.
Searching on Google for things like reviews of mp3 players has become a nightmare these days. Any useful sites are drowned out in a noise of pricerunner/dealtime/kelkoo/shopping.yahoo/etc and other sites that are simply affiliate sites for Amazon etc.
Diesels produce much higher particulate emissions than regular gas engines.
Bzzt! Wrong. Diesels produce much larger particulates than petrol (gas) engines, but in terms of overall mass the amount is similar or less. Particulates from petrol engines are hard to measure because they are so small. But there are lots more of them.
I remember reading some research recently (sorry, can't find the reference) suggesting that particulates from petrol engines may be more harmful than the larger ones from diesel engines and may be a significant cause of asthma.
I think one of the most telling points in the interview is their comment that KDE needs a unified media player. (Presently, there are various players that all behave slightly differently, with overlapping functionality etc.)
Their philosophy seems to be that choice may be good, but something that Just Works is even better.
Re:Xandros is just Debian with KDE and Codeweavers
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Do you not consider submitting bug fixes back to the KDE team giving back to the FOSS community? Read the article.
The article also said that "Publishers can choose to eschew BBeB and present pages - for example, those in unsupported scripts such as Cyrillic - as graphical images". Since graphical images are supported, I'd be surprised if plain text was not.
For most internet users there is no real value attached to their computer accounts. Then... This, I think, is a big problem and the only way to solve it is to re-educate people for them to understand that such a password is important.
I hope I'm not quoting you out of context here. But you appear to have directly contradicted yourself. First you say there is no real value attached to an account. If so, how is the password important? You just said is has no value.
I don't mind admitting that my user account on my home machine has no password. That's ok. There's no password to my (physical) filing cabinet either. Access to both rests on access to my house, and my house is locked. I think that is how most people see it.
You may want to protest that access to a computer doesn't need physical access, but I disagree. In my case (and in most domestic cases) it does. If you were to try to access my computer right now, I guarantee you would fail, even if I told you the IP address. That's because it's switched off. Even if it were switched on, you'd have to find a whopping great remote-access exploit - because it is behind a firewall with no open ports.
I've used CVS and Merant Dimensions (which is the 'grown up' version of PVCS).
CVS doesn't come with a GUI, but WinCVS (+ others mentioned in this thread) are available. Overall, the quality of these GUIs is roughly in-line with Dimensions - i.e. not amazing but usable.
The main difference between CVS and Dimensions is in their basic philosophy of what a version control system is for.
CVS works on the basis that it lets you get on with whatever you want to do, and then tells you what you did. I.e., which files you changed, what the changes were, etc.
Dimensions demands that you tell it what you are going to do before you do it. You can't edit a file from Dimensions before first checking it out for editing. Dimensions also has no view of your disk. It assumes that if you didn't check a file out for editing then the copy on your disk is identical to the one in the repository. There is a project compare function, but it is inconvenient to use to say the least.
Note that Dimensions offers a lot beyond what CVS will do in the area of configuration management, but it sounds like all you really want is version control.
If you need to convert a high flow/low pressure into a low flow/high pressure, you could look into ram pumps. I'm not sure that would help in this particular case though.
Want to reduce accidents? Want to save lives? Mandatory driving skills and car control training before you get a license.
Car control and the practical side of driving skills is only a minor factor in good driving.
My simple definition of a Good Driver is one who is somewhere else when the accident happens.
Good driving is mostly about anticipating the conditions just around the next obstruction and especially anticipating what all the other idiots are likely to do. A good driver almost never has to take emergency evasive action because he reacted to the approaching problem before it became an emergency. Good drivers also have a knack of creating space around themselves and know how to get rid of tailgaters and other menaces.
Of course, there's nothing wrong with being an ace at skid control, but it is no substitute for chosing the correct speed for the corner in the first place. But that's no fun, is it?
Beware of the X-Window focus option in XP Powertoys.
It is incompatible with some applications, and can lead to hard to diagnose problems. I was very puzzled as to why I could never get the properties window to come up in MS Developer Studio. I eventually came to the conclusion that my installation was hosed. But re-installing didn't help.
It was much later that I discovered it was the X-Windows focus causing the problem. The properties dialog closes as soon as it loses focus, unless it is pinned. But you can't open it to pin it, because when you open it, it immediately doesn't have the focus (unless it happens to appear directly under the pointer) and so closes again before you even see it.
It seems that clause 6 of the GPL withdraws your right to redistribute a GLPed program if you place any restrictions on it beyond the restrictions that the GPL itself imposes. The requirement that you acknowledge the Xfree name could be seen as a restriction.
Fair enough.
Presumably the reason this is not a problem in any of the other non-GPL compatible licenses is that none of them are used for libraries. Or if they are, no one links GPLed code to them.
I can think of a very obvious solution to this. If the Xfree team exempted linking to libraries from their acknowledgement clause everyone would be happy. They'd still get their acknowledgement, because a program that uses an Xfree library isn't going to be much use without an X server, so the acknowledgement will be in the distribution anyway. (Sort of what you said, but you wouldn't need to double-install anything.)
I'm not sure then what they mean by 'incompatible with the GPL'. I've just read the references you gave.
They mention only 'practical problems' - that is, the problem of what to do if your product includes very many components, all under different old-style BSD-style licenses (with the acknowledgement clause) - that you end up having to include rather a lot of acknowledgements in all your publicity material.
I don't think it can be 'incompatibility' that is causing the current fuss. All of the following licenses are considered by the GNU to be incompatible with the GPL:
The original BSD license The OpenSSL license The Apache Software License, version 2.0 IBM Public License, Version 1.0 Common Public License Version 1.0 The Mozilla Public License (MPL) The FreeType license The PHP License, Version 3.0
Yet we don't see Linux distributers refusing to include products with those licenses.
If RedHat have a problem inserting the required acknowledgements into their publicity and packaging material in time for their next release, that is quite understandable. In that case they should talk to Xfree and come to an arrangement. Perhaps the Xfree people will allow them an exemption this time around.
Personally, this smells to me like politics and personality disputes. The major Linux distributors ought to be above such things.
Swap is a way of extending your available (volatile) RAM using a disk, which is cheaper but slower. Flash is a way of using (non-volatile) RAM instead of a disk, which is more expensive but quieter, less power, etc.
So using flash RAM as a swap partition is replacing cheap and fast volatile RAM with expensive and slow non-volatile RAM that has a limited lifetime. Hmm. Time to put on my thinking cap...
I know! How about making a RAM disk in cheap volatile RAM for your swap partition. Then it will be almost as fast as normal memory. Oh, hang on a moment...
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MAPS didn't block you. MAPS added you to a blacklist. Some admins have decided to block you based on you being in the MAPS list.
SORBS also like to stress this point. They offer their RBL to be used as anyone sees fit, and they take no responsibility for its contents or how it is used. It is the ultimate disclaimer.
The problem is that some ISPs do use these RBLs, and this causes a great deal of 'collateral damage'. When you are the victim of collateral damage, there is often very little you can do about it.
ISP X won't deliver my email to its customers because my ISP's server is on an RBL. My complaints to ISP X go unheeded because I am not one of their customers. I complain to my own ISP. They can't do anything either. They've cancelled the account used to send the spam, but the RBL administrator isn't being cooperative.
Ultimately it is the innocent users who come out worst.
And in my experience, all the comments about RBL admins being high-handed and arrogant are true. SORBS even demand a $50 'fine' for removal. The money goes to a charity that supports someone's legal case against a spammer and not to SORBS itself, but it is as near to extortion as is still legal.
Just for Karma whoring, here's an interesting link (if slightly old) The Spam Problem: Moving Beyond RBLs.
So the TV Licensing Authority are being inconsistent.
I also telephoned them to ask if I could use a FreeView digital set-top box in order to receive digital radio channels without a TV license, given the fact that I do not have a TV and am therefore unable to watch any of the TV channels it also provides.
Their answer was that I would need a TV license.
The problem is the ambiguity in the statement "If you use a TV or any other device to receive or record TV programmes..."
One person at the TVLA interprets that to mean a set top box requires a TV license (because it receives TV programmes) regardless of whether a TV is plugged into it. Another person interprets it to mean that a detuned TV doesn't need a license.
Your grandfather might have used a similar method, projecting into the lens of a digitial video camera, or even projecting onto a screen and just recording the image from there.
Unfortunately, projecting into the lens of a camera doesn't work. The rays from the projector are too divergent and directional for the camera to be able to pick up the whole picture. You have to put a screen in place to scatter the light.
Will Rockbox be able to give the H1xx series USB on-the-go like the H3xx series have, I wonder?
Does anyone know if you need special USB hardware to support USB host operations (not found in the H1xx series), or is it just in the driver?
I pay 1200 bucks a year for car insurance, it's nothing. Decent health insurance costs me over 5000 a year by comparison.
That's scary. Here in the UK, I pay 200 UK pounds for car insurance (and I thought that was too high). I don't need health insurance because we have the NHS.
No, what we need to do to get insurance costs under control is regulate the lawsuit business.
Unfortunately, things are going in the opposite direction. I don't think it will be long until the situation here as degenerated into what you already have in the US.
I'm not sure you didn't get my point backwards. If a CD has an autorun.inf and you have AutoPlay enabled, then the CD can automatically launch an application on your PC when it is inserted, without you having to click on anything. I'd say that's asking for trouble, because you've surrendered control of what code you allow to run on your PC to whoever compiled the CD.
The standard answer to CSS complaints: actually, there is, it just isn't implemented in Internet Explorer. The following CSS
div.main-content { max-width: 1200px; }
does exactly what it says on the tin
This site does exactly that, and works on Internet Explorer too. The trick is a small JavaScript that you include on each page. I don't remember exactly where I got it from, but feel free to poke around. Yes, it's a hack, but it works.
Sorry, but anyone running Windows who doesn't have AutoPlay disabled for removable media is just asking for trouble.
I'd love to be able to filter out all sites that are trying to sell something.
Searching on Google for things like reviews of mp3 players has become a nightmare these days. Any useful sites are drowned out in a noise of pricerunner/dealtime/kelkoo/shopping.yahoo/etc and other sites that are simply affiliate sites for Amazon etc.
Diesels produce much higher particulate emissions than regular gas engines.
Bzzt! Wrong. Diesels produce much larger particulates than petrol (gas) engines, but in terms of overall mass the amount is similar or less. Particulates from petrol engines are hard to measure because they are so small. But there are lots more of them.
I remember reading some research recently (sorry, can't find the reference) suggesting that particulates from petrol engines may be more harmful than the larger ones from diesel engines and may be a significant cause of asthma.
I think one of the most telling points in the interview is their comment that KDE needs a unified media player. (Presently, there are various players that all behave slightly differently, with overlapping functionality etc.)
Their philosophy seems to be that choice may be good, but something that Just Works is even better.
Do you not consider submitting bug fixes back to the KDE team giving back to the FOSS community? Read the article.
No. It'll be VHS vs Betamax all over again.
(I hope not though.)
The article also said that "Publishers can choose to eschew BBeB and present pages - for example, those in unsupported scripts such as Cyrillic - as graphical images". Since graphical images are supported, I'd be surprised if plain text was not.
I'm on a different computer :-)
For most internet users there is no real value attached to their computer accounts.
Then...
This, I think, is a big problem and the only way to solve it is to re-educate people for them to understand that such a password is important.
I hope I'm not quoting you out of context here. But you appear to have directly contradicted yourself. First you say there is no real value attached to an account. If so, how is the password important? You just said is has no value.
I don't mind admitting that my user account on my home machine has no password. That's ok. There's no password to my (physical) filing cabinet either. Access to both rests on access to my house, and my house is locked. I think that is how most people see it.
You may want to protest that access to a computer doesn't need physical access, but I disagree. In my case (and in most domestic cases) it does. If you were to try to access my computer right now, I guarantee you would fail, even if I told you the IP address. That's because it's switched off. Even if it were switched on, you'd have to find a whopping great remote-access exploit - because it is behind a firewall with no open ports.
QVCS is fine in terms of what it sets out to do. But it isn't a patch on CVS + WinCVS, which is free.
I've used CVS and Merant Dimensions (which is the 'grown up' version of PVCS).
CVS doesn't come with a GUI, but WinCVS (+ others mentioned in this thread) are available. Overall, the quality of these GUIs is roughly in-line with Dimensions - i.e. not amazing but usable.
The main difference between CVS and Dimensions is in their basic philosophy of what a version control system is for.
CVS works on the basis that it lets you get on with whatever you want to do, and then tells you what you did. I.e., which files you changed, what the changes were, etc.
Dimensions demands that you tell it what you are going to do before you do it. You can't edit a file from Dimensions before first checking it out for editing. Dimensions also has no view of your disk. It assumes that if you didn't check a file out for editing then the copy on your disk is identical to the one in the repository. There is a project compare function, but it is inconvenient to use to say the least.
Note that Dimensions offers a lot beyond what CVS will do in the area of configuration management, but it sounds like all you really want is version control.
If you need to convert a high flow/low pressure into a low flow/high pressure, you could look into ram pumps. I'm not sure that would help in this particular case though.
Want to reduce accidents? Want to save lives? Mandatory driving skills and car control training before you get a license.
Car control and the practical side of driving skills is only a minor factor in good driving.
My simple definition of a Good Driver is one who is somewhere else when the accident happens.
Good driving is mostly about anticipating the conditions just around the next obstruction and especially anticipating what all the other idiots are likely to do. A good driver almost never has to take emergency evasive action because he reacted to the approaching problem before it became an emergency. Good drivers also have a knack of creating space around themselves and know how to get rid of tailgaters and other menaces.
Of course, there's nothing wrong with being an ace at skid control, but it is no substitute for chosing the correct speed for the corner in the first place. But that's no fun, is it?
Good advice. For a bit more detail see this link on The Art of Turboing.
The key is not to do it except when there is no alternative (sounds like your case), to contact the right person in the company, and keep it polite.
Beware of the X-Window focus option in XP Powertoys.
It is incompatible with some applications, and can lead to hard to diagnose problems. I was very puzzled as to why I could never get the properties window to come up in MS Developer Studio. I eventually came to the conclusion that my installation was hosed. But re-installing didn't help.
It was much later that I discovered it was the X-Windows focus causing the problem. The properties dialog closes as soon as it loses focus, unless it is pinned. But you can't open it to pin it, because when you open it, it immediately doesn't have the focus (unless it happens to appear directly under the pointer) and so closes again before you even see it.
Thanks. This is becoming clearer now.
It seems that clause 6 of the GPL withdraws your right to redistribute a GLPed program if you place any restrictions on it beyond the restrictions that the GPL itself imposes. The requirement that you acknowledge the Xfree name could be seen as a restriction.
Fair enough.
Presumably the reason this is not a problem in any of the other non-GPL compatible licenses is that none of them are used for libraries. Or if they are, no one links GPLed code to them.
I can think of a very obvious solution to this. If the Xfree team exempted linking to libraries from their acknowledgement clause everyone would be happy. They'd still get their acknowledgement, because a program that uses an Xfree library isn't going to be much use without an X server, so the acknowledgement will be in the distribution anyway. (Sort of what you said, but you wouldn't need to double-install anything.)
I'm not sure then what they mean by 'incompatible with the GPL'. I've just read the references you gave.
They mention only 'practical problems' - that is, the problem of what to do if your product includes very many components, all under different old-style BSD-style licenses (with the acknowledgement clause) - that you end up having to include rather a lot of acknowledgements in all your publicity material.
I don't think it can be 'incompatibility' that is causing the current fuss. All of the following licenses are considered by the GNU to be incompatible with the GPL:
The original BSD license
The OpenSSL license
The Apache Software License, version 2.0
IBM Public License, Version 1.0
Common Public License Version 1.0
The Mozilla Public License (MPL)
The FreeType license
The PHP License, Version 3.0
Yet we don't see Linux distributers refusing to include products with those licenses.
If RedHat have a problem inserting the required acknowledgements into their publicity and packaging material in time for their next release, that is quite understandable. In that case they should talk to Xfree and come to an arrangement. Perhaps the Xfree people will allow them an exemption this time around.
Personally, this smells to me like politics and personality disputes. The major Linux distributors ought to be above such things.
Swap is a way of extending your available (volatile) RAM using a disk, which is cheaper but slower. Flash is a way of using (non-volatile) RAM instead of a disk, which is more expensive but quieter, less power, etc.
So using flash RAM as a swap partition is replacing cheap and fast volatile RAM with expensive and slow non-volatile RAM that has a limited lifetime. Hmm. Time to put on my thinking cap...
I know! How about making a RAM disk in cheap volatile RAM for your swap partition. Then it will be almost as fast as normal memory. Oh, hang on a moment...