As it turns out, in Oz, we have another way of dealing with these things outside of the courts - the "Small Claims Tribunal". Most hearings cost $A5.00 - at most $A20.00 plus your time (which you don't pay the court:) ). Lawyers are generally not seen in these buildings. It's a way of getting claims under $7,500 dollars settled quickly, with no recourse to the courts proper (which would make it expensive for anyone else, because the big guy simply moves to the court). The only place you can appeal is the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, which again is a significantly cheaper version of the courts.
This is the Queensland version of it - I can't seem to find the New South Wales version, but it's essentially the same - it might be called the "Fair Trading Tribunal".
Across the Tasman, though, that's complete bullshit, and I suspect it is as well in NZ. (Don't tell me you guys don't have the equivalent of the Trade Practices Act!). In fact, the Trade Practices Act gives very wide-reaching protections for consumers, and means that you cannot advertise that you have a product for sale, and all of a sudden you're "out-of-stock" - That's considered bait & switch advertising, and there's a similar story for advertising a lower price than what you'r selling. I'll ask the NZ girl I know this evening then, she's pretty clued up on NZ law:)
How about we put Mandrake into a proper charity, like Debian? We Debianise Mandrake, control what packages are a part of this Debianised Mandrake, and we take some of the Debian packages. That results in less duplicated effort, and means that we have a true charity looking after all of that, and last time I checked debian's not looking like going down the gurgler. As a distro-maker, you could package that, offer support for it, and hopefully make a couple of dollars.
The reason they'd do that is that you need a *lot* less fuel near the equator to launch than you do in Russia, which is quite near the poles. Hence they don't build their launch sites on their own land.
Sorry, I just thought *what*? You're right - I'm wrong. It seems that licence is a GPL-like licence from clause 3.2:
3.2 Availability of Source Code.
Any Modification which You create or to which You contribute must be made available in Source Code form under the terms of this License either on the same media as an Executable version or via an accepted Electronic Distribution Mechanism to anyone to whom you made an Executable version available; and if made available via Electronic Distribution Mechanism, must remain available for at least twelve (12) months after the date it initially became available, or at least six (6) months after a subsequent version of that particular Modification has been made available to such recipients. You are responsible for ensuring that the Source Code version remains available even if the Electronic Distribution Mechanism is maintained by a third party.
So it looks like we get even more *free* software! Thank you for pointing out my error.
What??? Can I have some of what you're smoking?
From internetnews.com:
However, the code won't be open in the sense that full open source platforms are, such as Linux. Rather, Symbian will allow developers in the program the same access to source code that it already has given to mobile phone manufacturers.
Seriously - what's the big deal? Simple. Lindows uses a totally new system of installing software that makes it easy to use for people who aren't serious tech-heads. I have used almost every PC & Mac operating system since 1987 and this one finally has what I want - a stable core, a nice looking easy to use interface and the price that I want. THAT is the big deal.
OK, I'll bite.
Bullshit
It uses apt-get, with the auto-apt package. Not exactly what I'd call new.
Admissably, I don't use this feature, nor do I want to, and I certainly have no interest in a "root by default" distribution.
As for Mandrake having nothing on Lindows, I beg to differ. We put Mandrake systems into some sites, and they reckon it's excellent - and these guys have never used a computer before! I even know a 75 year old who uses Mandrake.
So just to reaffirm - Lindows has nothing new - and I don't know that auto-install is such a great feature anyway...
I know of some memory available *right now* that is *not* volatile and runs at *huge* speeds. Admissably, it is only available in 256kb (32KB) sizes right now, but a 64Mb (8MB) version is almost ready for sale
Assuming computing speed doubles every 1.5 years, and we only start working on it when we can solve it in 4 years, *I* get 85 years, so hence it is less than that. Sorry - your maths must be wrong:)
Well, the reason is is that you start off knowing the public key, and then you keep plugging values for the private key in until you get something that makes sense, i.e. gives you the public key. *That's* when you know you've got it.
N.B. That's only for assymetric, or public-private key encryption. For shared secret, you probably need several messages to figure out what it is, and encrypting it twice does work, i.e. sends them off the trail.
Riiiight.... Like Papua New Guinea politicians will ever stop receiving aid^H^H^Hbribes from Australia to continue mining in various areas, etc... Do you honestly think that 3rd world nations are independent from the rest of the world? So just how independent is a nation with a couple of times its GDP in debt?
I submitted a bug on cyrus21 (deb package of Cyrus 2.1, IMAP/POP/God-knows-what server), and got a reply within what - 48 hours (quite understandable, since I'm Australian and so have a bit of a lag time for TZ *and* submitted it on a Sunday)
Cheers
You can download the source for DeCSS (far more important than binaries:)) from
http://www.videolan.org/libdvdcss/download.html
Happy compiling...
vandy
As it turns out, the speed of light is defined to be a constant (ca. 2.99792458x10^8 ms^-1 IIRC) and we a second is defined to be "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium atom." with this definition being agreed upon in 1967. Atomic clocks based on the cesium atom then became the primary means for accurate timekeeping. We then define the metre in terms of these two constants.
Tja, ich erinnere mich nicht immer an die pluralen von Korpeteilen... Wir duerfen beim HSC (das ist so wie das Abitur) naemlich ein Woertebuch benutzen.
Michael
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As it turns out, in Oz, we have another way of dealing with these things outside of the courts - the "Small Claims Tribunal". Most hearings cost $A5.00 - at most $A20.00 plus your time (which you don't pay the court :) ). Lawyers are generally not seen in these buildings. It's a way of getting claims under $7,500 dollars settled quickly, with no recourse to the courts proper (which would make it expensive for anyone else, because the big guy simply moves to the court). The only place you can appeal is the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, which again is a significantly cheaper version of the courts.
This is the Queensland version of it - I can't seem to find the New South Wales version, but it's essentially the same - it might be called the "Fair Trading Tribunal".
HTH,
Michael
Across the Tasman, though, that's complete bullshit, and I suspect it is as well in NZ. (Don't tell me you guys don't have the equivalent of the Trade Practices Act!). In fact, the Trade Practices Act gives very wide-reaching protections for consumers, and means that you cannot advertise that you have a product for sale, and all of a sudden you're "out-of-stock" - That's considered bait & switch advertising, and there's a similar story for advertising a lower price than what you'r selling. I'll ask the NZ girl I know this evening then, she's pretty clued up on NZ law :)
Somehow, I don't think that's quite the case.
Michael
How about we put Mandrake into a proper charity, like Debian? We Debianise Mandrake, control what packages are a part of this Debianised Mandrake, and we take some of the Debian packages. That results in less duplicated effort, and means that we have a true charity looking after all of that, and last time I checked debian's not looking like going down the gurgler. As a distro-maker, you could package that, offer support for it, and hopefully make a couple of dollars.
My A$0.02
Michael
The reason they'd do that is that you need a *lot* less fuel near the equator to launch than you do in Russia, which is quite near the poles. Hence they don't build their launch sites on their own land.
My A$0.02
Michael
I'm not sure about the "no good Office clone" bit; I use openoffice.org, and it works fine.
My A$0.02
Michael
Each to his own... I find Perl to be very much a "write-only language"...
I don't see how you make it out to be better than, say, c++, or even Java!
My A$0.02, far less than the American version...
Michael
Sorry, I just thought *what*? You're right - I'm wrong. It seems that licence is a GPL-like licence from clause 3.2:
3.2 Availability of Source Code. Any Modification which You create or to which You contribute must be made available in Source Code form under the terms of this License either on the same media as an Executable version or via an accepted Electronic Distribution Mechanism to anyone to whom you made an Executable version available; and if made available via Electronic Distribution Mechanism, must remain available for at least twelve (12) months after the date it initially became available, or at least six (6) months after a subsequent version of that particular Modification has been made available to such recipients. You are responsible for ensuring that the Source Code version remains available even if the Electronic Distribution Mechanism is maintained by a third party.
So it looks like we get even more *free* software! Thank you for pointing out my error.
Michael
What??? Can I have some of what you're smoking?
From internetnews.com:
However, the code won't be open in the sense that full open source platforms are, such as Linux. Rather, Symbian will allow developers in the program the same access to source code that it already has given to mobile phone manufacturers.
That's hardly Open Source...
Michael
Seriously - what's the big deal? Simple. Lindows uses a totally new system of installing software that makes it easy to use for people who aren't serious tech-heads. I have used almost every PC & Mac operating system since 1987 and this one finally has what I want - a stable core, a nice looking easy to use interface and the price that I want. THAT is the big deal.
OK, I'll bite.
Bullshit
It uses apt-get, with the auto-apt package. Not exactly what I'd call new.
Admissably, I don't use this feature, nor do I want to, and I certainly have no interest in a "root by default" distribution.
As for Mandrake having nothing on Lindows, I beg to differ. We put Mandrake systems into some sites, and they reckon it's excellent - and these guys have never used a computer before! I even know a 75 year old who uses Mandrake.
So just to reaffirm - Lindows has nothing new - and I don't know that auto-install is such a great feature anyway...
Thanks.
Michael
I know of some memory available *right now* that is *not* volatile and runs at *huge* speeds. Admissably, it is only available in 256kb (32KB) sizes right now, but a 64Mb (8MB) version is almost ready for sale
Go to Ramtron Corporation or NV Technologies to see more!
Michael
Assuming computing speed doubles every 1.5 years, and we only start working on it when we can solve it in 4 years, *I* get 85 years, so hence it is less than that. Sorry - your maths must be wrong :)
Michael
As an aside, may I ask what a radix sort is, and what its drawbacks are? After all, my STL doesn't seem to be implementing it :)
Michael
Well, the reason is is that you start off knowing the public key, and then you keep plugging values for the private key in until you get something that makes sense, i.e. gives you the public key. *That's* when you know you've got it.
N.B. That's only for assymetric, or public-private key encryption. For shared secret, you probably need several messages to figure out what it is, and encrypting it twice does work, i.e. sends them off the trail.
HTH
Michael
perhaps that should be UDP/IP, but anyway :)
Michael
Well, I'm not an Italian; nor do they use Liras any more, but hey... :)
Riiiight.... Like Papua New Guinea politicians will ever stop receiving aid^H^H^Hbribes from Australia to continue mining in various areas, etc... Do you honestly think that 3rd world nations are independent from the rest of the world? So just how independent is a nation with a couple of times its GDP in debt?
Sorry, but this sort of crap really annoys me.
Michael
Perhaps you should ask Mandrake - on the user mailing list. People from Mandrake read that, & should know what to do. HTH
I submitted a bug on cyrus21 (deb package of Cyrus 2.1, IMAP/POP/God-knows-what server), and got a reply within what - 48 hours (quite understandable, since I'm Australian and so have a bit of a lag time for TZ *and* submitted it on a Sunday) Cheers
No. M$FT only has a butchered Kerberos V implementation; there is NO Kerberos IV support.
Note that this only affects you if you have enabled Kerberos IV backward compatibility support.
Michael
Actually, it does support the Fritz Cards, among others. Essentially, those that support the CAPI standard.
Not that bad, actually.
Here (ogle)
This relies on libdvdcss to play encrypted DVDs.
Happy viewing!
vandy
You can download the source for DeCSS (far more important than binaries :)) from
Here
Happy compiling... vandy (sorry about prev... formatting error (should've previewed))
You can download the source for DeCSS (far more important than binaries :)) from
http://www.videolan.org/libdvdcss/download.html
Happy compiling...
vandy
As it turns out, the speed of light is defined to be a constant (ca. 2.99792458x10^8 ms^-1 IIRC) and we a second is defined to be "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium atom." with this definition being agreed upon in 1967. Atomic clocks based on the cesium atom then became the primary means for accurate timekeeping. We then define the metre in terms of these two constants.
"You can't always have it your way" - me
Tja, ich erinnere mich nicht immer an die pluralen von Korpeteilen... Wir duerfen beim HSC (das ist so wie das Abitur) naemlich ein Woertebuch benutzen. Michael