Nah. Being a treaty and not a law, they could simply say that it is unenforcable in the US. Either way it would be the same: totally legal, and yet effectively meaningless.
Looks like you got your wish. I'm sure there's a beowulf cluster working on it as I write. Maybe next time you should invoke Natalie Portman naked and petrified with hot grits.
Where the hell do you live? That same $900 is an entire month's rent with utilities here. In the USA even. So no, it's not something that I can just pull out of my ass.
I'm a happy subscriber to time-warner, with only basic cable and hi-speed internet.
I remember when the cable co first came through my town. There were loads of referendum meetings and etc. They spent a couple years yammering about how they wouldn't need ads anymore, and etc.
I would give my left huejas to be able to pick and choose only the chans that I actually watch. Furthermore, I would be glad to pay for them, if only these knuckle-heads could get that idea.
After all, I'm already paying, and big time at that.
Now that digital and HD TV is rolled out across my area (upstate NY), I think this is inexcusable. So would somebody plz send a quick memo to this asshat? And hint, yes I *have* operated at the CxO and VP level.
As if anything needs to be agreed upon. Hint: it doesn't. From a strictly binary perspective, all that matters is things like arch and endian-ness. I think these guys are onto a decent idea, but I doubt the mainline is gonna pick it up. Likely it will be offered as a kernel module; this is what I would recommend, instead of going away all bitter. Rather, its most likely that distros will pick it up and eventually force it upstream. Why? Because its *that* much less that they have to maintain and offer for download. A fringe benefit is that non-OSS places can build only one binary and make it work. OTOH it may mean stretching the ELF spec, which is something that I doubt anyone wants to do. ISTR switching from a.out to ELF and it was not painless.
At the end of the day, all that joe user and joe sysadmin wants to do, is click on one thing to download and have it work regardless. The various package managers come pretty close so far, but no cigar yet. FWIW I'm happy with openSuSE and YaST at the moment; previously it was RH.
And if you look at the man page for chattr (man chattr) you will see that you can set the "immutable bit"... "A file with the `i' attribute cannot be modified: it cannot be deleted or renamed, no link can be created to this file and no data can be written to the file. Only the superuser or a process possessing the
CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE capability can set or clear this attribute."
This could be usefull.... so no, a faulty program cannot just re-write bashrc or anything else, unless it has root privs, which itself is very unlikely.
What makes you think I have sudo installed? For that matter, I *do* know what is in my.bashrc. I better darn well know that stuff.... anything that is going to start a shell instance is going to get my attention, or a log file.
You might be surprised about reverse engineering, considering how many drivers are created in just that way. Let alone things like SAMBA. Guru kernel hackers like Alan Cox and Greg K-H eat that stuff for breakfast it seems; they enjoy something halfway challenging. Having said that, the best 3D support I ever had was from a 3dfx VooDoo card right before nvidia bought them. Pity we can't do drivers like that anymore without nvidia's input and guidance.
It depends on the type of work load. Different schedulers are good for different tasks. Deadline scheduling is good for real time because it says "The job must be done by x time". In contrast, the Anticipatory scheduler tries to predict the next disk read, which may be good for streaming large files. The CFQ scheduler (the default) tries to balance everything out between extremes. There are a few other schedulers available as well. The scheduler can be selected on the kernel command line or from the bootloader. Google for it, there's plenty of info about it online.
Remember, however, that both IBM and RedHat have Lanham Act counter-suits pending against them; therefore Darl could still lose it all and end up in the big house someday.
Funny thing, it was Win98SE on a brand-new Pentium Pro that pushed me into full-time linux. That particular machine *still* does pretty well for basic office stuff.
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Nah. Being a treaty and not a law, they could simply say that it is unenforcable in the US. Either way it would be the same: totally legal, and yet effectively meaningless.
Looks like you got your wish. I'm sure there's a beowulf cluster working on it as I write. Maybe next time you should invoke Natalie Portman naked and petrified with hot grits.
Where the hell do you live? That same $900 is an entire month's rent with utilities here. In the USA even. So no, it's not something that I can just pull out of my ass.
I'm a happy subscriber to time-warner, with only basic cable and hi-speed internet. I remember when the cable co first came through my town. There were loads of referendum meetings and etc. They spent a couple years yammering about how they wouldn't need ads anymore, and etc. I would give my left huejas to be able to pick and choose only the chans that I actually watch. Furthermore, I would be glad to pay for them, if only these knuckle-heads could get that idea. After all, I'm already paying, and big time at that. Now that digital and HD TV is rolled out across my area (upstate NY), I think this is inexcusable. So would somebody plz send a quick memo to this asshat? And hint, yes I *have* operated at the CxO and VP level.
As if anything needs to be agreed upon. Hint: it doesn't. From a strictly binary perspective, all that matters is things like arch and endian-ness. I think these guys are onto a decent idea, but I doubt the mainline is gonna pick it up. Likely it will be offered as a kernel module; this is what I would recommend, instead of going away all bitter. Rather, its most likely that distros will pick it up and eventually force it upstream. Why? Because its *that* much less that they have to maintain and offer for download. A fringe benefit is that non-OSS places can build only one binary and make it work. OTOH it may mean stretching the ELF spec, which is something that I doubt anyone wants to do. ISTR switching from a.out to ELF and it was not painless. At the end of the day, all that joe user and joe sysadmin wants to do, is click on one thing to download and have it work regardless. The various package managers come pretty close so far, but no cigar yet. FWIW I'm happy with openSuSE and YaST at the moment; previously it was RH.
I have a very good mind to begin creating a linux distro called "Fr0st Pist"
The more the cushion, the more the pushin'.
I would also nominate PJ at Groklaw, for applying FOSS principles and practices to IP law.
Just try that up here in winter time, see how far ya get.
Like, totally....
And if you look at the man page for chattr (man chattr) you will see that you can set the "immutable bit"... "A file with the `i' attribute cannot be modified: it cannot be deleted or renamed, no link can be created to this file and no data can be written to the file. Only the superuser or a process possessing the CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE capability can set or clear this attribute." This could be usefull.... so no, a faulty program cannot just re-write bashrc or anything else, unless it has root privs, which itself is very unlikely.
What makes you think I have sudo installed? For that matter, I *do* know what is in my .bashrc. I better darn well know that stuff.... anything that is going to start a shell instance is going to get my attention, or a log file.
Now you can get tele-fragged by a n00b even faster, thereby enabling greater synergies for e-presence and brand recognition!
You might be surprised about reverse engineering, considering how many drivers are created in just that way. Let alone things like SAMBA. Guru kernel hackers like Alan Cox and Greg K-H eat that stuff for breakfast it seems; they enjoy something halfway challenging. Having said that, the best 3D support I ever had was from a 3dfx VooDoo card right before nvidia bought them. Pity we can't do drivers like that anymore without nvidia's input and guidance.
Yes, it has been done. This seems to be a new implementation, perhaps with different characteristics and features.
It depends on the type of work load. Different schedulers are good for different tasks. Deadline scheduling is good for real time because it says "The job must be done by x time". In contrast, the Anticipatory scheduler tries to predict the next disk read, which may be good for streaming large files. The CFQ scheduler (the default) tries to balance everything out between extremes. There are a few other schedulers available as well. The scheduler can be selected on the kernel command line or from the bootloader. Google for it, there's plenty of info about it online.
Remember, however, that both IBM and RedHat have Lanham Act counter-suits pending against them; therefore Darl could still lose it all and end up in the big house someday.
Remember this guy who crammed ancient UNIX onto a gameboy? Coolest. Hack. Evar.
Funny thing, it was Win98SE on a brand-new Pentium Pro that pushed me into full-time linux. That particular machine *still* does pretty well for basic office stuff.
Tetris is realistic enough for me. MMmmm munchies!!!....
Your GF will be deployed by enterprises???
It's OK to tell us.... we all have dark secrets. Here, have a coffee?
Oooooh, I bet the RIAA is gonna have a hearburn and nightmares over this.... heheheheee
Wait till they test it with goatse. I'm sure the comments will change after that.
Imagine if a porno company got hold of that camera... It would be *so* easy to get funding!