Gradually, our student terminals -- PCs and Mac -- are shifting towards a "common platform": Unix. Our Macs are being upgraded to OSX, and each PC (most are Dell Optiplex GX-110s, GX150s and newer 270s) can be booted into either Windows 2000 or a customized RedHat lab image.
OSX as Unix is very-very different from Linux. Different FS layout, different libraries, lots of compatibility problems. You can gradually shift to the common Linux distro having unified really many things on both. Just install Gentoo/PPC on Macs and Gentoo/x86 on PCs. Oh, and by the way, you'll get a very good tool to combine your proprietary updates with the mainstream from the distro vendor: Portage it's called.
I don't belive that ripping off hurt any artist. They must work as all of us, not create something and then parasiting on earlier result the rest of the life.
the RIAA, which is only the US again
Most of Western countries has something that often even worse than RIAA. Otherwise how would you explain that Canadians and Europians cannot buy from Apple iTMS?
Example: CD is a physical matter that you can take away from me. Now try to take away from anything that I learned to know.
Now, if I've got a CD and made a copy, and encrypted it with my own key - no way you can find *THAT* specific copy and prove that it is *THAT* specific copy and thus you cannot get away from me *THAT* specific copy.
Finally, don't forget about "First Sale Doctrine". Once China has bought a first copy of CD - forget it. It's theirs. They are fine to do anything with it as far as it is legal *THERE*. If you don't like - don't sell it to them from the first place. But if you use such trade sanctions - be ready for sunctions from China. And be ready that your voters will be very unhappy to see empty shelves in Walmart stores.
Very true, but I wouldn't want to try it with 8 year olds. I wonder at what age it would be appropriate for kids to start building their own OS?
right after they can read and right. No other limitations and restrictions. Some of my friends was teaching their kids to play chess even before reading/writing skills - very useful to develop abstract thinking. Later it helps a lot with math.
Is it really? So if I look in the ground somewhere I will find "Yellow Submarine" by the Beattles?
The problems that "nature" for you means only a "dirty mud", while for creative people it includes many spiritual layers.
Do not give me this bull about the "good old days" where there was no copyright. In the "good old days" there were also not as many artists
Most of artists today has no entry to CD store. Most of CDs there are not from artists (I am not sure how I should call those talentless people). At the time of Mozart, Bach and Beethoven there was no copyrights. And Jazz was created without any looking back at any copyrights.
These days artists can earn money and express ideas to the world.
You just repeat it after RIAA. Real artists are not allowed to come any close to CD store. No need to mention that about % of the profit going to original authors of CD content after it's sold.
With so much abuse in area of so-called "Intellectual Property", Western economies are not fres even for 50%. You are not free to do anything new anymore as all technologies, algorithms, protocols, business methods are patented, while almost all english words are copyrighted, and all images are trademarked. Wake up to the reality.
They don't pirate a thing. They just use what they thing is a correct law regarding IP. And Ia gree with them. The trueth is: there is no IP. All result of intellectual activity belong to the public domain. Period. It's US that breakes natural laws. Writing the software or music is not building anything material - it's a discovery of what has been existing in the nature alway, forever. Publishing CD is a different story. But once they buy a first copy of that CD than relax, you don't own the content. Well, you didn't from the first place - see all above about IP.
Why do you think that your american model of what is IP is correct, when the rest the world is worng? Just b/c you have more power? Not any more.
First, You don't talk about Afganistan, you talk about a country that has a nuclear weapon. China has enough nuclear weapons to make any your military attack obsolete. You may destroy more their cities and kill more their children. But after the nuclear winter will begin, the US goverment will have more serious issues to solve rather than "IP infriging" in China. If there will be any US goverment after that:)
Second, last time I've chekced in Walmart and other US supermarkets: almost everything was made in China. Burn Chinese economy down and start to think where you will buy next time all your clothes, electronics and everything else. The trueth is that US consumer becomes a slave of the China economy. If China goverment will stop all export to US that will crash US economy better than all previous dot-bombs, enrons, 9/11 and 8/14 altogether.
No, think again and come back here to fix your wrong comment.
The best way to learn what is OS is to build the OS. That's why I would recommend Linux From Scratch as a first part of an OS course, and Gentoo as a second part of it.
At first part students must understand very deep details of OS design and they have to understand that by practicing: kernel configuration, disk partioning, filesystem choice, init scripts.
If you will promise your students that OS has a kernel with drivers they won't understand it. If you will shouw the control panel of some driver configuration in Windows they will remember it as a control panel. But if they will configure the kernel in Linux and build it to see the difference between configurations - that will give them a much better picture of the kernel design.
As for Gentoo, it will be a great step for a student after a lot of manual work with LFS to learn how to automate some aspects of system installation, what are system and application packages. and what is their life cicle. Gentoo's Portage demostrates the most fine-grained control of package dependencies. Making own ebuilds for existing open source applications will teach various application building techniques.
After playing with many application packages on both LFS and Gentoo a student will have a very deep understandig of what is networking, document processing, databasing, graphics, music etc. A student will remember it in concepts rather than in screenshot images of control panels, like that would be after close-source OSes like Windows or OSX.
The scientists admit that their understanding of how it can be achieved is not comletely clear
And that means that the project of planning such a mission is not completed yet in its design stage. They achieved some progress in their design and have shown that the principle is doable. The published result is just preliminar. And before 2030 they have plenty of time to finish both design, implementation and even financing of the project. The question is: who is the customer?
No need to resign. Yet. Go to the local (city, twonship, destrict) goverment, there should be some comission (I forgot the name), where you can report about the situation. Your boss will receive the notification that either the qualified professional will be hired to fix the life hazard or or the whole company will be shutdown.
Do it officially, so your boss will have no right to fire you after that. And do it right after your boss rejects your suggestion to hire the qualified professional. After it's rejected don't burgen with your boss about this, just got to that comission for it, or you will be fired before you can do anything about it.
Vi and Emacs are not popular outside the Unix commandline community because they're console apps
You obviously don't use neither Emacs nor Xemacs. Both works perfectly under X11 and Win32 (there is even a port to Mac) with support of fonts making both Emacs and Xemacs an excelent IDE with many WYSIWYG features.
I am afraid that every new name, or domain one whishes to use in the near future will have to be 12 charcters long, with at least 2 digits, and randomly generated.
Why randomly? Just use one of your corporate IPv6 address and you are fine for at least one more centure.
Do you like Jerker's design? That's not all! Jerker
s design is flexible: you can adapt it to size of your equipment. But what's the most important, Jerker is the strongest desk I've ever found.
I don't work for IKEA. I just love Jerker after I spent so much of time and money looking for the best desk.
Besides the difference in defaults themes, there is nothing in Quartz that brings some new to UI, something that users cannot find in other GUI APIs *AND* that would essentially improve the work.
All that makes Quartz different from MFC/win32 you can find in Enlightenment, Sawfish and the moder XFree86. Some whistles may not be found in X11 and win32 worlds, but none of them are essential to do the job.
So, all (from the end-user prospective) that makes Quartz different from Windows and X11 GUI APIs is the themeing: it's all about whistles and which are by default. That's why MIS/IT in business doesn't pay for it. That's why OSX will be always only for geeks, unless Apple will bring to OSX something that really makes a difference from the business prospective.
Sure Apple zealots won't use anything from Microsoft. As for the rest 95% of PC users - I don't see any of them share your attitude.
As for iTMS on Windows, why Apple would do it?
As for iTMS database, where did they found such content? I need same music as in the next CD store, not something I can find through Google in MP3 format for free.
Better use sharks, or hawks, or even snakes. But not rabbits. What's good in mixing human intellect with rabbit sexuality? Now imagine big spiders with human brains. That would be a certain improvement for both.
Personally, I used Slackware, Redhat and Debian almost equal time (2 years each) before I found Gentoo a year ago. With Portage in my hands there is no way I'll return back to any of those three my previous distros. And I am not a zealot - I am a software developer often responsible for deployment, I need a fine-graine package management tool (something like Portage) for living, not just for personal installation.
If you can't afford to police a network you're responsible for, shut it down.
I guess we should shut the whole Internet down - just to be sure.
If you really want to distribute legal files, use another method - FTP server, web server, whatever.
What if he wants to let other users to share their legal files? He just don't have a chance to check everyone.
What if I want to invite to my child's birthday party other classmates with their parents, should I ask them to bring the papers from the police that they are not criminals or should I just shut the whole party down?
You are wrong. Everyone is responsible only for own actions. If there is a law making me responsible for the other's actions - that law is anti-constitutional and can be defeated. If some organization is abusing such laws - that can be defeated. And if I cannot defeat myself against anti-constitutaional laws and actions - I should leave the country where the constitution is not more than a piece of paper.
BTW, it's exactly what I did right after 9/11. The Canadian winter might be colder, but at least my constitutional rights are protected better. Even if I am not a Canadian (yet).
I doubt about it, unless the current situation with SCO against Linux was the original plan at the day Sun licensed Solaris. However at THAT day Linus was far way from California and didn't scare anyone on the West Coast (yet). And I don't see any other reasons why Sun would overpay for the blanket Unix license back so far then.
Another way to look at it would be that if you buy Linux from SCO, HP, IBM, or SUN it is UNIX. If you get it any where else, it is UNIX-like.
Is there any link to the SCO web site showing that SCO Linux is Unix?
Slashdot Mirror
OSX as Unix is very-very different from Linux. Different FS layout, different libraries, lots of compatibility problems. You can gradually shift to the common Linux distro having unified really many things on both. Just install Gentoo/PPC on Macs and Gentoo/x86 on PCs. Oh, and by the way, you'll get a very good tool to combine your proprietary updates with the mainstream from the distro vendor: Portage it's called.
I don't belive that ripping off hurt any artist. They must work as all of us, not create something and then parasiting on earlier result the rest of the life.
the RIAA, which is only the US again
Most of Western countries has something that often even worse than RIAA. Otherwise how would you explain that Canadians and Europians cannot buy from Apple iTMS?
Example: CD is a physical matter that you can take away from me. Now try to take away from anything that I learned to know.
Now, if I've got a CD and made a copy, and encrypted it with my own key - no way you can find *THAT* specific copy and prove that it is *THAT* specific copy and thus you cannot get away from me *THAT* specific copy.
Finally, don't forget about "First Sale Doctrine". Once China has bought a first copy of CD - forget it. It's theirs. They are fine to do anything with it as far as it is legal *THERE*. If you don't like - don't sell it to them from the first place. But if you use such trade sanctions - be ready for sunctions from China. And be ready that your voters will be very unhappy to see empty shelves in Walmart stores.
right after they can read and right. No other limitations and restrictions. Some of my friends was teaching their kids to play chess even before reading/writing skills - very useful to develop abstract thinking. Later it helps a lot with math.
The problems that "nature" for you means only a "dirty mud", while for creative people it includes many spiritual layers.
Do not give me this bull about the "good old days" where there was no copyright. In the "good old days" there were also not as many artists
Most of artists today has no entry to CD store. Most of CDs there are not from artists (I am not sure how I should call those talentless people). At the time of Mozart, Bach and Beethoven there was no copyrights. And Jazz was created without any looking back at any copyrights.
These days artists can earn money and express ideas to the world.
You just repeat it after RIAA. Real artists are not allowed to come any close to CD store. No need to mention that about % of the profit going to original authors of CD content after it's sold.
With so much abuse in area of so-called "Intellectual Property", Western economies are not fres even for 50%. You are not free to do anything new anymore as all technologies, algorithms, protocols, business methods are patented, while almost all english words are copyrighted, and all images are trademarked. Wake up to the reality.
Why do you think that your american model of what is IP is correct, when the rest the world is worng? Just b/c you have more power? Not any more.
First, You don't talk about Afganistan, you talk about a country that has a nuclear weapon. China has enough nuclear weapons to make any your military attack obsolete. You may destroy more their cities and kill more their children. But after the nuclear winter will begin, the US goverment will have more serious issues to solve rather than "IP infriging" in China. If there will be any US goverment after that :)
Second, last time I've chekced in Walmart and other US supermarkets: almost everything was made in China. Burn Chinese economy down and start to think where you will buy next time all your clothes, electronics and everything else. The trueth is that US consumer becomes a slave of the China economy. If China goverment will stop all export to US that will crash US economy better than all previous dot-bombs, enrons, 9/11 and 8/14 altogether.
No, think again and come back here to fix your wrong comment.
At first part students must understand very deep details of OS design and they have to understand that by practicing: kernel configuration, disk partioning, filesystem choice, init scripts.
If you will promise your students that OS has a kernel with drivers they won't understand it. If you will shouw the control panel of some driver configuration in Windows they will remember it as a control panel. But if they will configure the kernel in Linux and build it to see the difference between configurations - that will give them a much better picture of the kernel design.
As for Gentoo, it will be a great step for a student after a lot of manual work with LFS to learn how to automate some aspects of system installation, what are system and application packages. and what is their life cicle. Gentoo's Portage demostrates the most fine-grained control of package dependencies. Making own ebuilds for existing open source applications will teach various application building techniques.
After playing with many application packages on both LFS and Gentoo a student will have a very deep understandig of what is networking, document processing, databasing, graphics, music etc. A student will remember it in concepts rather than in screenshot images of control panels, like that would be after close-source OSes like Windows or OSX.
The scientists admit that their understanding of how it can be achieved is not comletely clear
And that means that the project of planning such a mission is not completed yet in its design stage. They achieved some progress in their design and have shown that the principle is doable. The published result is just preliminar. And before 2030 they have plenty of time to finish both design, implementation and even financing of the project. The question is: who is the customer?
Do it officially, so your boss will have no right to fire you after that. And do it right after your boss rejects your suggestion to hire the qualified professional. After it's rejected don't burgen with your boss about this, just got to that comission for it, or you will be fired before you can do anything about it.
You obviously don't use neither Emacs nor Xemacs. Both works perfectly under X11 and Win32 (there is even a port to Mac) with support of fonts making both Emacs and Xemacs an excelent IDE with many WYSIWYG features.
Why randomly? Just use one of your corporate IPv6 address and you are fine for at least one more centure.
That's right, but what you show is a very primitive, very unfuctional desk.
Nothing can beat (yet) IKEA's Jerker desk. Personally I have two of them, each with three shelves onthe top (Jerker can have an extension to make it even higher). It's the only desk that can fit two Apple Studio 21 on it, with two printers and two scanners on aside trail-shelves. The size is big to fit two big displays with keybowards *AND* to leave some space for papers.
Do you like Jerker's design? That's not all! Jerker s design is flexible: you can adapt it to size of your equipment. But what's the most important, Jerker is the strongest desk I've ever found.
I don't work for IKEA. I just love Jerker after I spent so much of time and money looking for the best desk.
All that makes Quartz different from MFC/win32 you can find in Enlightenment, Sawfish and the moder XFree86. Some whistles may not be found in X11 and win32 worlds, but none of them are essential to do the job.
So, all (from the end-user prospective) that makes Quartz different from Windows and X11 GUI APIs is the themeing: it's all about whistles and which are by default. That's why MIS/IT in business doesn't pay for it. That's why OSX will be always only for geeks, unless Apple will bring to OSX something that really makes a difference from the business prospective.
As for iTMS on Windows, why Apple would do it?
As for iTMS database, where did they found such content? I need same music as in the next CD store, not something I can find through Google in MP3 format for free.
Better use sharks, or hawks, or even snakes. But not rabbits. What's good in mixing human intellect with rabbit sexuality? Now imagine big spiders with human brains. That would be a certain improvement for both.
You mean dead cells? IMHO, one cell or several - if it's alive - it's a life.
Does iBot require an account on iMac as many other iApps?
More important - when it will be available outside of USA?
Personally, I used Slackware, Redhat and Debian almost equal time (2 years each) before I found Gentoo a year ago. With Portage in my hands there is no way I'll return back to any of those three my previous distros. And I am not a zealot - I am a software developer often responsible for deployment, I need a fine-graine package management tool (something like Portage) for living, not just for personal installation.
Easy there. A Biblical number would be seven days, not seven years.
I guess we should shut the whole Internet down - just to be sure.
If you really want to distribute legal files, use another method - FTP server, web server, whatever.
What if he wants to let other users to share their legal files? He just don't have a chance to check everyone.
What if I want to invite to my child's birthday party other classmates with their parents, should I ask them to bring the papers from the police that they are not criminals or should I just shut the whole party down?
You are wrong. Everyone is responsible only for own actions. If there is a law making me responsible for the other's actions - that law is anti-constitutional and can be defeated. If some organization is abusing such laws - that can be defeated. And if I cannot defeat myself against anti-constitutaional laws and actions - I should leave the country where the constitution is not more than a piece of paper.
BTW, it's exactly what I did right after 9/11. The Canadian winter might be colder, but at least my constitutional rights are protected better. Even if I am not a Canadian (yet).
I doubt about it, unless the current situation with SCO against Linux was the original plan at the day Sun licensed Solaris. However at THAT day Linus was far way from California and didn't scare anyone on the West Coast (yet). And I don't see any other reasons why Sun would overpay for the blanket Unix license back so far then.
Another way to look at it would be that if you buy Linux from SCO, HP, IBM, or SUN it is UNIX. If you get it any where else, it is UNIX-like.
Is there any link to the SCO web site showing that SCO Linux is Unix?
That just proves that it must be Sun.
That would clean Solaris. But doesn't Sun sell Linux to customers? And if so, shouldn't Sun worry about it?