Since the GPL doesnt allow for distribution of code under any other license
Don't you mean re-distribution?
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that the GPL only covered re-distribution, and also could not prohibit authors from distributing under multiple licenses. Put simply, as the author of software, I choose the number and type of each license for every release of code.
You're right in a sense, but the OP is technically more accurate... If you acquire code under the GPL, you can only re-distribute it under the GPL. However, if you write a derivative work based on a work you acquire under the GPL, then the original distribution of that must also be under the GPL.
All three of these are based on KDE, and so should be relatively familiar-looking for a Windows user. If you are comfortable enough with "Mac-like" theme, you can also try:
All of these are live CDs, which means that you can boot into them and try them out to your heart's content, without harming your existing windows installations. Those 5 CDs (Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Games-Knoppix 0.1 and 0.2 and LLGP) are what I give out to people to try out linux... Because there are games, they don't feel like it's so scary...
In order to get used to the command line (if that is one of your goals) the following may be useful:
I think you missed my point; it's not that they are only going to assign these as/8s.... they've only RESERVED them in aggregate - when they assign them they are free to assign them right down to/32s (single addresses).
Now, IANA generally doesn't assign anything smaller than a/16, but it also generally doesn't assign to address-space users ("customers"). Instead, IANA assigns to "Regional Internet Registries" like ARIN, RIPE and APNIC. There are exceptions for those mega-organisations who do, in fact, require/8s - but most of those are historical.
The fact is that when the RIRs run out, they can turn back to IANA and request more addresses from that reserved space... so there is still plenty of time before you and I run out of addresses to use...
Whoa - that's freaky... No wonder there's no real incentive to go to IPV6....:-)
Although to be fair, thats only 89 class A's (or should I say, "/8"s) which means that it represents only 35% of the total address space. We don't have enough room to double - and with the exponential growth in network-capable devices, the doubling time is steadily getting shorter...
FWIW, a good read on the matter is at http://bgp.potaroo.net/ipv4/. Geoff's analysis concludes that we run out of addresses somewhere between March 2014 and February 2022.
I must admit, I have only briefly used Acrobat once, and I wasn't doing anything particularly complex.
That said, I know of one person who uses Acrobat regularly, despite also having Word on his machine, and he seems to love it. That's my only real basis on which to assess it...
I always thought that the cost was the prohibitive factor - that people were not inclined to pay for another word processor. This especially after people stopped calling them "word processors" and started calling them "Word".
But if you say that Acrobat is useless, I guess I'll have to take your word for it.
So that the SO can watch her soppy movie on the bigscreen in the bedroom, while I watch the fuzeball in the computer-room while downloading Service Pack 2 and still get good enough pings to play HL2 at the same time?
(Note: the above is a simulation; none of those apply to me... I am single, hate football, don't do Windows, and don't play PC games... so if I messed something up, please substitute the nearest applicable idea.)
Any ramdisk tied to a standard PCI bus is going to be bandwidth limited to 133 MB/s. You'd do better with PCI-X or -E;
Ok, I'll question it: why would a ramdisk be tied to a peripherals bus? A ramdisk fakes a drive by applying filesystem calls directly to RAM, and the processor-RAM data path is clocked to provide those transfer rates which I mentioned earlier.
So where does PCI/PCI-X/PCI-E come into the picture?
why not search for a hardware device that appears to be an IDE or SCSI drive but is actually a bank of DIMMs?
Can't speak for the OP, but possibly because IDE maxes out at 1.06 Gbps (Gigabits per second) for ATA-133 and 1.20 Gbps for SATA, whereas PC3200 DDR SDRAM can push 25.60 Gbps?
The biggest issue with running as root is that any flaws in the system can have FAR bigger effects if you are running as root. For example:
* If a program crashes, it can overwrite any part of the drive at all, not just your home directory. This could mean it belches over your programs, or worse, your kernel, meaning your computer won't boot.
* If you run a malicious program (like a virus or trojan) it can make changes to the entire configuration of your system, infecting every program on your computer. This can make it impossible to remove without a reinstall. Note: this does not have to mean you explicitly running such a program... a virus could exploit a bug in Gaim or Evolution/KMail to get malicious code to run.
* If you type a command wrong by accident ("rm -rf//bin" instead of "rm -rf./bin") you can seriously corrupt your install.
Getting "owned" is a multi-step process - local code execution, priviledge escalation, rootkit installation - running as root eliminates one of those steps.
Ive heard everything, dont make changes from root account, don't install.rpms Whats the purpose of the root account if you are not to use the OS from it.
I'm not sure who has been feeding you those lines, but "making changes" is what the root account is for. Root is a nickname for "superuser", or what "Administrator" means on Windows. Basically, root is for system administration, and installation/removal of "critical system components". Things you might do as root:
* Install drivers * Install software * Reconfigure your network settings * Format harddrives * Check the harddrive for errors * Add users * Set services to run at bootup
And if you are running an RPM-based distro (Redhat, Fedora, Suse, etc) then installing RPMs is the recommended way to install software.
Besides, in addition. For example, It rained every day and it was cold to boot, or He said they'd lower the price of the car by $1,000 and throw in air conditioning to boot. This expression has nothing to do with footwear. Boot here is an archaic noun meaning "advantage," and in the idiom has been broadened to include anything additional, good or bad. [c. a.d. 1000] (emphasis added)
1. v.,n. [From the Usenet group alt.folklore.urban] To utter a posting on Usenet designed to attract predictable responses or flames; or, the post itself. Derives from the phrase "trolling for newbies" which in turn comes from mainstream "trolling", a style of fishing in which one trails bait through a likely spot hoping for a bite. (emphasis added)
These idioms have been around for ages... they're anything but "new memes"
But I wonder what people are doing with their exotic Linux installations... What are these used for besides showing off? Is there some real-life application to having Linux on these things?
Agreed; another example is that of the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne, which collapsed in 1970 during construction. Interestingly, this one was not a new design (although it is currently the largest of its design).
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Don't you mean re-distribution?
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that the GPL only covered re-distribution, and also could not prohibit authors from distributing under multiple licenses. Put simply, as the author of software, I choose the number and type of each license for every release of code.
You're right in a sense, but the OP is technically more accurate... If you acquire code under the GPL, you can only re-distribute it under the GPL. However, if you write a derivative work based on a work you acquire under the GPL, then the original distribution of that must also be under the GPL.
Things you might consider:
Kubuntu Live CD (Info at Kubuntu.org)
Games Knoppix (Although the 0.2 release is accidentally missing a file manager. Also, the 0.2 version is not a "upgrade" of 0.1 - it has a different list of games, though they do overlap.)
Linux Live Game Project
All three of these are based on KDE, and so should be relatively familiar-looking for a Windows user. If you are comfortable enough with "Mac-like" theme, you can also try:
Ubuntu Live CD (Info at Ubuntulinux.org)
All of these are live CDs, which means that you can boot into them and try them out to your heart's content, without harming your existing windows installations. Those 5 CDs (Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Games-Knoppix 0.1 and 0.2 and LLGP) are what I give out to people to try out linux... Because there are games, they don't feel like it's so scary...
In order to get used to the command line (if that is one of your goals) the following may be useful:
The Command Line - The Best Newbie Interface? (an alternative perspective on the "scary" command line)
and
The CLI Series at Linux.com (Start at the last one on the last page "alias cat and pipe meet grep" and work your way up at your leisure.)
You may want to read and/or contibute to GrokDoc:
GrokDoc
I think you missed my point; it's not that they are only going to assign these as /8s.... they've only RESERVED them in aggregate - when they assign them they are free to assign them right down to /32s (single addresses).
/16, but it also generally doesn't assign to address-space users ("customers"). Instead, IANA assigns to "Regional Internet Registries" like ARIN, RIPE and APNIC. There are exceptions for those mega-organisations who do, in fact, require /8s - but most of those are historical.
Now, IANA generally doesn't assign anything smaller than a
The fact is that when the RIRs run out, they can turn back to IANA and request more addresses from that reserved space... so there is still plenty of time before you and I run out of addresses to use...
Perhaps you should read the explanatory page i linked to to follow what I'm talking about...
Sig Replye | grep "IANA - Reserved"
:-)
--
Shortage of IPv4 addresses? lynx -dump http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-spac
Whoa - that's freaky... No wonder there's no real incentive to go to IPV6....
Although to be fair, thats only 89 class A's (or should I say, "/8"s) which means that it represents only 35% of the total address space. We don't have enough room to double - and with the exponential growth in network-capable devices, the doubling time is steadily getting shorter...
FWIW, a good read on the matter is at http://bgp.potaroo.net/ipv4/. Geoff's analysis concludes that we run out of addresses somewhere between March 2014 and February 2022.
Really?
I must admit, I have only briefly used Acrobat once, and I wasn't doing anything particularly complex.
That said, I know of one person who uses Acrobat regularly, despite also having Word on his machine, and he seems to love it. That's my only real basis on which to assess it...
I always thought that the cost was the prohibitive factor - that people were not inclined to pay for another word processor. This especially after people stopped calling them "word processors" and started calling them "Word".
But if you say that Acrobat is useless, I guess I'll have to take your word for it.
You're trolling right?
Why doesn't adobe make a pdf word processor?
Adobe's PDF Word Processor: Adobe Acrobat
not to be confused with:
Adobe's Free PDF Viewer: Adobe Acrobat Reader
I'd add it to Freshmeat, but this looks too much like a one-off project, rather than something being sustained.
Maybe submit it to Unmaintained Free Software?
http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org/
Sig reply:
? username=Singapore_Air
--
"all around the world/never go away without you/my Singapore girl" Anyone know the rest of this SIA/SQ slogan?
I haven't heard it in a long time, but from memory the line was something like "Singapore Girl, You're a great way to fly"....
A quick search on that phrase nets this user on the Airliners.net forums:
http://www.airliners.net/discussions/profile.main
whose signature is:
"Such A Way About You - Singapore Girl - You're A Great Way To Fly"
Now, that's not the most authoritative source in the world, but it roughly matches both what you remember, and what I do...
Cheers...
so again ... what for??
So that the SO can watch her soppy movie on the bigscreen in the bedroom, while I watch the fuzeball in the computer-room while downloading Service Pack 2 and still get good enough pings to play HL2 at the same time?
(Note: the above is a simulation; none of those apply to me... I am single, hate football, don't do Windows, and don't play PC games... so if I messed something up, please substitute the nearest applicable idea.)
Any ramdisk tied to a standard PCI bus is going to be bandwidth limited to 133 MB/s. You'd do better with PCI-X or -E;
Ok, I'll question it: why would a ramdisk be tied to a peripherals bus? A ramdisk fakes a drive by applying filesystem calls directly to RAM, and the processor-RAM data path is clocked to provide those transfer rates which I mentioned earlier.
So where does PCI/PCI-X/PCI-E come into the picture?
why not search for a hardware device that appears to be an IDE or SCSI drive but is actually a bank of DIMMs?
Can't speak for the OP, but possibly because IDE maxes out at 1.06 Gbps (Gigabits per second) for ATA-133 and 1.20 Gbps for SATA, whereas PC3200 DDR SDRAM can push 25.60 Gbps?
(all numbers above handily supplied by http://www.forret.com/tools/bandwidth.asp )
The real meat is here (two links in... why don't people link to the interesting content anyway?)
Test-Driving the Dual Core Pentium EE 840
ummm, sex?
How about "sudo nautilius" (or whatever the filemanager is in gnome)?
And how much file management do you have to do as root that makes it that important?
The biggest issue with running as root is that any flaws in the system can have FAR bigger effects if you are running as root. For example:
//bin" instead of "rm -rf ./bin") you can seriously corrupt your install.
.rpms
* If a program crashes, it can overwrite any part of the drive at all, not just your home directory. This could mean it belches over your programs, or worse, your kernel, meaning your computer won't boot.
* If you run a malicious program (like a virus or trojan) it can make changes to the entire configuration of your system, infecting every program on your computer. This can make it impossible to remove without a reinstall. Note: this does not have to mean you explicitly running such a program... a virus could exploit a bug in Gaim or Evolution/KMail to get malicious code to run.
* If you type a command wrong by accident ("rm -rf
Getting "owned" is a multi-step process - local code execution, priviledge escalation, rootkit installation - running as root eliminates one of those steps.
Ive heard everything, dont make changes from root account, don't install
Whats the purpose of the root account if you are not to use the OS from it.
I'm not sure who has been feeding you those lines, but "making changes" is what the root account is for. Root is a nickname for "superuser", or what "Administrator" means on Windows. Basically, root is for system administration, and installation/removal of "critical system components". Things you might do as root:
* Install drivers
* Install software
* Reconfigure your network settings
* Format harddrives
* Check the harddrive for errors
* Add users
* Set services to run at bootup
And if you are running an RPM-based distro (Redhat, Fedora, Suse, etc) then installing RPMs is the recommended way to install software.
Linspire (formerly Lindows) made that decision a long time ago, and it has been brought up on Slashdot many-a-time...
/.) also noted this problem...
A quick search reveals this article from 2003 in which the founder of Lindows states his case for the matter...
And this review from 2002 (linked to by
And to be honest its $5 who cares if your paying $5 for somtheing you dont need.
Presumably the same people who care about paying $2 more for a different supplier of something they DO need?
Not only that, but an Amish getting cold calls when the nearest landline is 100 miles away!
+5 Can't get the joke right!
* Connect 2 iPods with a Firewire chord -- iShare
No, no, no, it's iCopulate!!!
New memes? You don't get out much, do you?
http://dictionary.com/search?q=to+boot
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/troll.html
These idioms have been around for ages... they're anything but "new memes"
But I wonder what people are doing with their exotic Linux installations... What are these used for besides showing off? Is there some real-life application to having Linux on these things?
I don't know myself, but obviously some people smarter than me seem to think that it is useful:
PlayStation turns supercomputer
Scientific Computing on the Sony PlayStation 2
Playstation 2 Linux Cluster at NCSA
It gets easier; from TFA:
Agreed; another example is that of the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne, which collapsed in 1970 during construction. Interestingly, this one was not a new design (although it is currently the largest of its design).
I kinda prefer define:data mining...
But to each their own...