Consider that virtual hosting could be defined much more widely. I wouldn't be surprised if some folks out there are offering a sort of vitual machine for their users, using virtual hosting, and chroot to provide locked down areas for users to work in, plus virtual web hosting and mail.
I used the virtual hosting capabilities of Sendmail, as well as web virtual hosts.
It's not clear to me that sendmail would scale up to having many many virtual hosts. It needs to be tested.
I could never get apache to do the right thing, which I suspect was because of the funny setup I have (my dsl router does NAT). A speculation. Roxen worked for me.
The effect of MS moving to Canada would be the sudden removal of MS as an allowable product for use by the US government. Their rules of purchase say that they must buy from US companies.
It has a lot to do with where the taxes go, and a little to do with nationalisim and national security.
This would be an amazing loss to MS, as the Government also dictates what file formats are to be used in communicating with vendors, and those vendors tend to have the same policy in talking to their vendors.
1. Did Napster even try to protect copyright? It's one thing to say they are a service provider, but it's clear that unlik regular ISP's, which in effect promote free discourse, Napster can only exist by promoting the copying of materials that are copyrighted about 99.9 percent of the time.
2. You can't run a business on a protocol. Napster had some business plan that would let them make money. Did they have a model to compensate the artists who works they were using to promote this business model? Apparently not.
Metallica's suit could be likened to restrictions on gun dealers: You may only sell assuming you promote correct usage. Sell guns to people who basicly say they are going after the president, and a case could be made that you are promoting assasination. If an ISP promoted use of their system to arrange for assassinations, you can be sure it would be shut down.
Cycas's CAD packages is hobbled: one layer, no printing above letter sized... It's demoware. No one really professional is going to use it, but a student brought up on it might ask for it in a commercial setting.
The important thing in this is the license, and source code. If the license says non-revokable for this version, and the version includes source, then hey, when the company gets annoying, you can start with the old and build up from there. Hence OpenSSH.
If you like a program, there is always a cost. Even if you never paid a dime for it, you have a moral obligation towards the programmers who brought it to you. Whether you build them a shrine, send them cash, stand them a few beers of merely hold a door open for them, you must do something. The nice thing is that they let you use your imagination, and require nothing.
Commercial companies merely demand cash. But this situation illustrates the idea of hidden cost.
The cost for using software that might change it's conditions for continued use is allowing yourself into a blackmail situation, where to continue work, you must have a new license of the software.
Sometimes this is overt, such as timeout demoware.
Sometimes it's covert, like packages that have a free version, but no support, and no bug fixes beyond the catastrophic. The cost here is in discovering you have sunk 6 months into a learning and internally supporting a package just to discover that to get it to do what you need, you must pay out large sums of money that you might not have.
So treipidation is warranted, but I'd say not for erosion of freedom reasons.
Cordwainer Byrd is the Pen Name that Harlan Ellison uses when someone has done a hatchet job on his writing, and he doesn't want his real name connected with it.
You don't make money efficiently by tossing whole market segments out because you aren't willing to continue work already in progress.
Also, how do you handle upgrades?
Anyone should be able to get a Linux CD-ROM with instructions on how to boot the computer with it, that will install itself on the computer. Period.
The installer should determine the hardware, the disk geometry, what partitions there are, whether is has partitions at all, and make intelligenet recommendations as to partitioning, with 4 or 5 different setups which reflect the intended use of the machine. Then it should install everything if possible, and keep to itself until it is a bootable system. Then it should ask for a root password, and having set that, it should run the configuration program. This should be the same configuration program the user can run at anytime to change the box. It should cover all the important well known services, and be good about keeping secure.
No one should be thinking of stripping it down, either. Hell, Mac's come with an http server these days.
Alpha = feature freeze. All planned features are in and working as advertised for typical use.
Beta = code freeze. All planned features are working for typical and atypical use, as far as testing can determine. Testing has run coverage tests, and can't find any crashes or surprises. A cautious release could be made, with a "we think it's good, but what do we know about you crazy people" label firmly attached.
Release = No show stopper bug reports have come in in several days or weeks. All other bugs are trivial or border cases, though if time and market permits, you'd like to nail them too.
Stable = It's been in production use for 2 times the typical use time* and no one has complained.
*Typical use time varies as the the product. For a game like Quake, I'd say this is at least two nights of serious muliplayer gaming, plus a couple of weeks for people to do a full feature discovery. For something like Linux kernel, it's several months of production use. For a CAD/CAM program, it's a few real projects from start to completion.
While I think most record companies are hideous monsters, let's give credit where credit is due:
Typically the record company arranges to have you recorded professionally, often to the tune of $100,000 to $250,000 to much more if the folks in attendance believe it's worth the money for the extra time. They handle national promotion, including booking tours and getting you to them. And, of course, they handle distribution to distributors, unless they are their own. Most aren't, because it's too annoying to make and keep millions of local contacts.
On the flip side, It is basicly correct that most band gets about $.65 a copy, but it takes a while to get that. After all, you need to pay for the promotion and recording.
If you are doing it all yourself, you can expect to get about $3.00 a copy, when all is said and done. How many copies you sell will be a function of how well it is promoted, as well as how popular it is.
It cost about $.75 to press the cd's, $.50 to package them, Add a quarter for shipping handling to stores. Add in production, and promotion. If they ship 100,000 copies, you might recover this money. The record company adds on a markup, probably 100%. You get paid out of that, if the promotions and production have been paid. The distributor adds a markup, the retailer adds a markup.
In the end, the record company gets the $3.00 and gives you some of that.
Never the less, bands should not sign contracts assigning their copyright to the company, and should not sign any assigning the company anything in perpituity. That's asking to be screwed. See http://www.digitalglobalmobile.com
Linus won't even accept new drivers during that times, even if they supposedly don't effect anything. He wants everyone to concentrate of finding bugs so the the release, which will literally be picked up by millions of people, will not hose a large portion of the linux community.
Basicly it's "Don't send me new anything. If it doesn't fix existing code, I'm throwing it out. No new features anywhere, we don't have time to deal with them."
At any given time, some random member of the audience who is in good standing (not a newbie or AC) might get to moderate a small number of comments.
To check that, at any given time, some less random member of the audience might get to moderate the choice of moderators, but suggesting that their moderations were unfair or fair.
Lastly, you have the Web Masters, who can presumably remove a comment if they notice it, assuming they think it's warranted. They can also remove anyone's ability to moderate, or meta-moderate.
The moderators are congress.
The Meta-moderators are the Supreme court.
The Web Masters are the Royalty. I'd say President, but they weren't elected, they got there by deed.
So we have a democratic monarchy, with a currently thoughtful and benevolent King and his court.
Alright, I like it.
If you could figure out a way to have two houses, and have that be useful, it might be a good idea. They would be the folks that have a large number of 4's and 5's assigned to their comments. Perhaps these should be the ones who get extra moderation points, to be used on comments in threads they have not contributed to.
Are you the one going around feeling people's beards? Next one of us you touch is going to slap you in cuffs, and then we're going to depilate your entire body with duct tape at the next LinuxWorld.
For those who wish to spectate, look for the BOF called "Hair or Code, which would you hack?"
Something like less than 5% of all companies survive their first 5 years. Most just plain fail. Internet companies just fail more publicly, with a few million spectators, instead of a few thousand.
A winning company has to have a product or service that enough people want, and management that knows how to keep up with the demand.
asm-alpha/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned int __kernel_uid_t; asm-arm/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned short __kernel_uid_t; asm-i386/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned short __kernel_uid_t; asm-m68k/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned short __kernel_uid_t; asm-mips/posix_types.h:typedef long __kernel_uid_t; asm-ppc/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned int __kernel_uid_t; asm-sparc/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned short __kernel_uid_t; asm-sparc64/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned int __kernel_uid_t; asm-sparc64/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned short __kernel_uid_t32; asm/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned short __kernel_uid_t; [deletia] linux/types.h:typedef __kernel_uid_t uid_t;
So the answer is "depends". A short is signed, BTW. It's not clear how a a uid of 50,000 would be dealt with.
The profile is strictly to determine the likelyhood of the potential investor being unable to withstand a failed investment. If you have never invested before, and have just cleared your bank account of the money you need to pay the rent because your friends are saying it's a sure thing, they want to be sure to tell you, "Ain't nothing sure, bud. The stock could go down from the initial price. It's happened before. It'll happen again. And we don't want you crying to us and crying to the government about how you got ripped off, and now you are destitute."
The profile has nothing to do with RedHat's view of the Linux community. The folks at RedHat are also hoping the stock price goes up, so they can cash in on their large investment of time and energy, so they want as many people as possible looking to buy the stock, especially after the IPO, because that's where the real money comes in.
NSI may own the system to compile the information (or maybe the government does, this is more likely), and they have the right to charge for maintenance.
In the most practical sense ownership is an expression of your rights.
I did not offer NSI the right to use my information for the purpose of monetary gain.
This information, and how people use it, is as private as any legally required infomation. People can use it on a need-to-know basis, and strictly for the purposes of ensuring the correct functioning of the Internet.
As to who else can modify the database, I won't go into. In the end, I don't care a whole lot, as long as the root servers are maintained, and (importantly) as long as no one can strip me of my domain name without due process.
I agree very much. I was offended by how non-funny it was. If it were clever at all, they could get away with anything. These guys could get away with a cup of coffee they paid for.
It's no accident that the folks who made the enlightenment window manager decided to call it that. Their work is a result of the enlightenment that Katz was writing about.
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Consider that virtual hosting could be defined much more widely. I wouldn't be surprised if some folks out there are offering a sort of vitual machine for their users, using virtual hosting, and chroot to provide locked down areas for users to work in, plus virtual web hosting and mail.
I used the virtual hosting capabilities of Sendmail, as well as web virtual hosts.
It's not clear to me that sendmail would scale up to having many many virtual hosts. It needs to be tested.
I could never get apache to do the right thing, which I suspect was because of the funny setup I have (my dsl router does NAT). A speculation. Roxen worked for me.
Good point.
The effect of MS moving to Canada would be the sudden removal of MS as an allowable product for use by the US government. Their rules of purchase say that they must buy from US companies.
It has a lot to do with where the taxes go, and a little to do with nationalisim and national security.
This would be an amazing loss to MS, as the Government also dictates what file formats are to be used in communicating with vendors, and those vendors tend to have the same policy in talking to their vendors.
1. Did Napster even try to protect copyright?
It's one thing to say they are a service provider, but it's clear that unlik regular ISP's, which in effect promote free discourse, Napster can only exist by promoting the copying of materials that are copyrighted about 99.9 percent of the time.
2. You can't run a business on a protocol. Napster had some business plan that would let them make money. Did they have a model to compensate the artists who works they were using to promote this business model? Apparently not.
Metallica's suit could be likened to restrictions on gun dealers: You may only sell assuming you promote correct usage. Sell guns to people who basicly say they are going after the president, and a case could be made that you are promoting assasination. If an ISP promoted use of their system to arrange for assassinations, you can be sure it would be shut down.
If the applications are truly BSD programs, then it's an almost trivial port to Linux.
My guess is they are really BSD + Apple's Runtime programs, meaning that the runtime would need to be ported as well.
At the API level, Linux and BSD are almost identical. They are Unixoid, after all.
So don't discount the possibility that Apple programs on Linux are a compatibility library away.
Cycas's CAD packages is hobbled: one layer, no printing above letter sized... It's demoware. No one really professional is going to use it, but a student brought up on it might ask for it in a commercial setting.
The important thing in this is the license, and source code. If the license says non-revokable for this version, and the version includes source, then hey, when the company gets annoying, you can start with the old and build up from there. Hence OpenSSH.
If you like a program, there is always a cost. Even if you never paid a dime for it, you have a moral obligation towards the programmers who brought it to you. Whether you build them a shrine, send them cash, stand them a few beers of merely hold a door open for them, you must do something. The nice thing is that they let you use your imagination, and require nothing.
Commercial companies merely demand cash. But this situation illustrates the idea of hidden cost.
The cost for using software that might change it's conditions for continued use is allowing yourself into a blackmail situation, where to continue work, you must have a new license of the software.
Sometimes this is overt, such as timeout demoware.
Sometimes it's covert, like packages that have a free version, but no support, and no bug fixes beyond the catastrophic. The cost here is in discovering you have sunk 6 months into a learning and internally supporting a package just to discover that to get it to do what you need, you must pay out large sums of money that you might not have.
So treipidation is warranted, but I'd say not for erosion of freedom reasons.
Linus et al have been working on this. I think it does 8 or 16 pretty well, but they aren't recommending it for above 16 yet.
Another Clue, though an obscure one:
Cordwainer Byrd is the Pen Name that Harlan Ellison uses when someone has done a hatchet job on his writing, and he doesn't want his real name connected with it.
Ironicly, the Real Weasel only supports some Award and Phoenix BIOSes, no AMI for the moment.
They are working on a PCI version, however.
You don't make money efficiently by tossing whole market segments out because you aren't willing to continue work already in progress.
Also, how do you handle upgrades?
Anyone should be able to get a Linux CD-ROM with instructions on how to boot the computer with it, that will install itself on the computer. Period.
The installer should determine the hardware, the disk geometry, what partitions there are, whether is has partitions at all, and make intelligenet recommendations as to partitioning, with 4 or 5 different setups which reflect the intended use of the machine. Then it should install everything if possible, and keep to itself until it is a bootable system. Then it should ask for a root password, and having set that, it should run the configuration program. This should be the same configuration program the user can run at anytime to change the box. It should cover all the important well known services, and be good about keeping secure.
No one should be thinking of stripping it down, either. Hell, Mac's come with an http server these days.
Alpha = feature freeze. All planned features are in and working as advertised for typical use.
Beta = code freeze. All planned features are working for typical and atypical use, as far as testing can determine. Testing has run coverage tests, and can't find any crashes or surprises. A cautious release could be made, with a "we think it's good, but what do we know about you crazy people" label firmly attached.
Release = No show stopper bug reports have come in in several days or weeks. All other bugs are trivial or border cases, though if time and market permits, you'd like to nail them too.
Stable = It's been in production use for 2 times the typical use time* and no one has complained.
*Typical use time varies as the the product. For a game like Quake, I'd say this is at least two nights of serious muliplayer gaming, plus a couple of weeks for people to do a full feature discovery. For something like Linux kernel, it's several months of production use. For a CAD/CAM program, it's a few real projects from start to completion.
While I think most record companies are hideous monsters, let's give credit where credit is due:
Typically the record company arranges to have you recorded professionally, often to the tune of $100,000 to $250,000 to much more if the folks in attendance believe it's worth the money for the extra time. They handle national promotion, including booking tours and getting you to them. And, of course, they handle distribution to distributors, unless they are their own. Most aren't, because it's too annoying to make and keep millions of local contacts.
On the flip side, It is basicly correct that most band gets about $.65 a copy, but it takes a while to get that. After all, you need to pay for the promotion and recording.
If you are doing it all yourself, you can expect to get about $3.00 a copy, when all is said and done. How many copies you sell will be a function of how well it is promoted, as well as how popular it is.
It cost about $.75 to press the cd's, $.50 to package them, Add a quarter for shipping handling to stores. Add in production, and promotion. If they ship 100,000 copies, you might recover this money. The record company adds on a markup, probably 100%. You get paid out of that, if the promotions and production have been paid. The distributor adds a markup, the retailer adds a markup.
In the end, the record company gets the $3.00 and gives you some of that.
Never the less, bands should not sign contracts assigning their copyright to the company, and should not sign any assigning the company anything in perpituity. That's asking to be screwed. See http://www.digitalglobalmobile.com
Linus won't even accept new drivers during that times, even if they supposedly don't effect anything. He wants everyone to concentrate of finding bugs so the the release, which will literally be picked up by millions of people, will not hose a large portion of the linux community.
Basicly it's "Don't send me new anything. If it doesn't fix existing code, I'm throwing it out. No new features anywhere, we don't have time to deal with them."
Let's see if I have this correct:
At any given time, some random member of the audience who is in good standing (not a newbie or AC) might get to moderate a small number of comments.
To check that, at any given time, some less random member of the audience might get to moderate the choice of moderators, but suggesting that their moderations were unfair or fair.
Lastly, you have the Web Masters, who can presumably remove a comment if they notice it, assuming they think it's warranted. They can also remove anyone's ability to moderate, or meta-moderate.
The moderators are congress.
The Meta-moderators are the Supreme court.
The Web Masters are the Royalty. I'd say President, but they weren't elected, they got there by deed.
So we have a democratic monarchy, with a currently thoughtful and benevolent King and his court.
Alright, I like it.
If you could figure out a way to have two houses, and have that be useful, it might be a good idea. They would be the folks that have a large number of 4's and 5's assigned to their comments. Perhaps these should be the ones who get extra moderation points, to be used on comments in threads they have not contributed to.
Are you the one going around feeling people's beards? Next one of us you touch is going to slap you in cuffs, and then we're going to depilate your entire body with duct tape at the next LinuxWorld.
For those who wish to spectate, look for the BOF called "Hair or Code, which would you hack?"
Something like less than 5% of all companies survive their first 5 years. Most just plain fail. Internet companies just fail more publicly, with a few million spectators, instead of a few thousand.
A winning company has to have a product or service that enough people want, and management that knows how to keep up with the demand.
Yep, you're right. Unsigned. Time for some sleep.
:-)
habitrail:/usr/src/linux/include /dev/null
hacksaw > egrep "typedef.*uid_t" */* 2>
asm-alpha/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned int __kernel_uid_t;
asm-arm/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned short __kernel_uid_t;
asm-i386/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned short __kernel_uid_t;
asm-m68k/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned short __kernel_uid_t;
asm-mips/posix_types.h:typedef long __kernel_uid_t;
asm-ppc/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned int __kernel_uid_t;
asm-sparc/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned short __kernel_uid_t;
asm-sparc64/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned int __kernel_uid_t;
asm-sparc64/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned short __kernel_uid_t32;
asm/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned short __kernel_uid_t;
[deletia]
linux/types.h:typedef __kernel_uid_t uid_t;
So the answer is "depends". A short is signed, BTW. It's not clear how a a uid of 50,000 would be dealt with.
The profile is strictly to determine the likelyhood of the potential investor being unable to withstand a failed investment. If you have never invested before, and have just cleared your bank account of the money you need to pay the rent because your friends are saying it's a sure thing, they want to be sure to tell you, "Ain't nothing sure, bud. The stock could go down from the initial price. It's happened before. It'll happen again. And we don't want you crying to us and crying to the government about how you got ripped off, and now you are destitute."
The profile has nothing to do with RedHat's view of the Linux community. The folks at RedHat are also hoping the stock price goes up, so they can cash in on their large investment of time and energy, so they want as many people as possible looking to buy the stock, especially after the IPO, because that's where the real money comes in.
NSI may own the system to compile the information (or maybe the government does, this is more likely), and they have the right to charge for maintenance.
In the most practical sense ownership is an expression of your rights.
I did not offer NSI the right to use my information for the purpose of monetary gain.
This information, and how people use it, is as private as any legally required infomation. People can use it on a need-to-know basis, and strictly for the purposes of ensuring the correct functioning of the Internet.
As to who else can modify the database, I won't go into. In the end, I don't care a whole lot, as long as the root servers are maintained, and (importantly) as long as no one can strip me of my domain name without due process.
I agree very much. I was offended by how non-funny it was. If it were clever at all, they could get away with anything. These guys could get away with a cup of coffee they paid for.
It's no accident that the folks who made the enlightenment window manager decided to call it that. Their work is a result of the enlightenment that Katz was writing about.