The degree of modularity that would allow vendors to plug in binary drivers would lead to vendors no longer cooperating at all in providing open source drivers.
Some would say that this goes against the spirit that XFree86 is being developed under, and would lead to the project eventually falling into becoming fairly proprietary.
I am not saying this is good or bad, but there's a political agenda behind the licensing tactic of many Open Source projects. That's how it works.
Well, yes. If you live in a world where all your opponents are parodies that your side has created as stickmen (this is true of both the right and left wing broadcasting interest) then you want reliable news that will reinforce your beliefs.
Also, there are Iraqi government censors standing right beside those news crews sending out the live video feeds from Baghdad. Excercizing a degree of censorship (the jackbooted thug kind) that, if attempted by the US military against the media would kick off a screaming fit like we've not seen in awhile.
The right way to prevent bank robbery is to provide a convenient way for random people to walk into a bank and get money legally. Maybe the first start would be a new law banning banks from checking IDs when people want to make withdrawals... It'a violation of their right to anonymnity, after all.
Where I live, I pay $9 a month for weekly garbage pickup. And they haul off anything I put out at the curb. I don't throw away that many machines, I am through with hauling anything at all home so the occasional machine I put out on the curb isn't that outrageous.
The attack on Kuwait was unprecedented in modern history because this time it is Iraq that invaded a sovereign nation. This is similar to what Hitler did to Poland to spark WW2. Hitler's motivation was clear. He wanted more land and to expand Germany. The motives of the Iraqui administration were clear.
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Definitely. The sooner the Iraqi soldiers lay down their arms and surrender the fewer casualties there will be. There is limited popular support for Saddam. The sooner his dictatorship crumbles and the sooner all outside forces can be out of the country, the better.
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And surprise, surprise, that sounds a lot like the reason Saddam justifies his invasion of Kuwait.
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Well, there is actually an objective truth. Yes, there is good, there is evil. I am not talking in terms of any religious dogma. There is a common humanist concept of what is good.
Which reduces your 'moral relativism' to drivel when you try to claim 'one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.' You're talking about propaganda there, dude. There are terrorists (people who attack civilian populations to terrorize and get power over them), and there are freedom fighters (people who attack unjust governmental organizations, and have the support of civilian populations).
People who blow up a bus full of civilians are terrorists. It's really not very complicated...
Softway Systems, the developers of the Interix POSIX subsystem for Windows NT put out a call to the Open Source community a few years back to find out if there was any interest in them Open Sourcing their product. This was back before Microsoft bought the product. It was an abortive attempt, but it would have been interesting.... to say the least.
Just because someone who is clueless asks a question doesn't mean it should make the front page of Slashdot. We could start echoing the Usenet posts to hardware groups asking clueless questions if that were the case.
Is this gonna turn into a forum for people whining because the connector from their phone doesn't plug into their ethernet jack??
How lame is it that a question like this is being asked about a time sharing system like Linux?
How did something like this get to be an 'ask slashdot' question?
And why would anybody crowd two people onto one machine in this day and age when most of us have whole networks of multiple machines at our disposal, i.e. single user, multiple machines?
Stick a 68HC11 on a circuit board, a MAX232 and a few jumpers and the crystal and stuff. Set it up to do bootstrap mode over the built in serial port of the HC11, and write your software to talk to the HC11 through the serial port.
Use some of the Free IO Port lines on the HC11 to feed relay drivers. Write a little firmware to take parse serial commands.
It sounds like a fun project, and there is tons of info about how to build a bootstrap type 68HC11 single board out there.
I see that the vendor of my favorite single board solution for the HC11 part of the project has discontinued the product so I'm providing a semi-dead link. Thank goodness I have the schematic and code to produce as many of those things as I need. Your homework assignment is to find the equivalent SBC.
The HC11 is extremely popular with robotics types, they're cheap on eBay too. Shouldn't be hard to find your board, or make one from scratch if you like.
Put it this way: I find most of the 'web based' comic strips unintelligent. Who cares about post-modern narcissist drivel? Get over the sarcastic angst, kids.
I think Little Orphan Annnie is funny. Pogo rocks. L'il Abner is cool too.
Why should I 'cripple' my chain saw by putting a guard on it. Hell, I could remove the turnoff switch too, and when I'm not using it, leave it sitting there running, ripping anything that it comes into contact with.
Gee, that's a new one to me. Are you one of those astroturfers who claims Microsoft invented everything??
If you check your history, Netscape was an early player in the business of introducting proprietary HTML extensions, to hook businesses into their server product line, before Microsoft. Microsoft couldn't even innovate in that with regard to Web technology.
I'd like to see Doonesbury republished, except... ooooh... a few years back I figured out how to hack the HTML serving their comics and I download the whole archive and have it on CD.
The 'sample chapter' strategy by O'Reilly just facilitates online sales of books. It's the equivalent of browsing the book at the bookstore a bit, to decide if you want to purchase it.
Further, it's O'Reilly's choice to distribute content under their (or their author's) copyright. How many 'file swappers' have asked the permission of the artist who made the music they're trading?
The library buys a fixed number of copies of songs/albums, and they can only be used by one person at a time. If there is popular demand for more copies of that song, the library pays for more and increases the fixed number.
That's the old 'like a book' license that was popular with the Borland Compilers. It worked really well.
What you described is nothing like a library.
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Sharing accounts has a long tradition among the hackers. Back in the old days of UNIX, people like Richard Stallman refused to password protect their accounts on principle.
Now, of course, people who don't password protect their accounts with totally obscure number/letter/symbol sequences are ostracized.
That's gotta bug Richard at least a little.
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Big chunks of the userland in Free/Net/OpenBSD are completely GPL free. And it's a surpisingly good userland at that.
Netcraft has never meant much beyond what statistics they can derive from public Internet presences. And that includes the thousands and thousands of casual 'hobby' websites that skew their statistics in favor of Apache. The servers that really matter in many instances aren't exposed to the net. Netscape knew this when they tried to penetrate the corporate Intranet market with their server product line and their browser.
People need to recognize that 'the Web' is only a part, and actually a fairly irrelevant part of the world's server infrastructure. Real work and what matters is on the other side the firewalls. Where Netcraft can't probe.
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The degree of modularity that would allow vendors to plug in binary drivers would lead to vendors no longer cooperating at all in providing open source drivers.
Some would say that this goes against the spirit that XFree86 is being developed under, and would lead to the project eventually falling into becoming fairly proprietary.
I am not saying this is good or bad, but there's a political agenda behind the licensing tactic of many Open Source projects. That's how it works.
Well, yes. If you live in a world where all your opponents are parodies that your side has created as stickmen (this is true of both the right and left wing broadcasting interest) then you want reliable news that will reinforce your beliefs.
Also, there are Iraqi government censors standing right beside those news crews sending out the live video feeds from Baghdad. Excercizing a degree of censorship (the jackbooted thug kind) that, if attempted by the US military against the media would kick off a screaming fit like we've not seen in awhile.
The right way to prevent bank robbery is to provide a convenient way for random people to walk into a bank and get money legally. Maybe the first start would be a new law banning banks from checking IDs when people want to make withdrawals... It'a violation of their right to anonymnity, after all.
Where I live, I pay $9 a month for weekly garbage pickup. And they haul off anything I put out at the curb. I don't throw away that many machines, I am through with hauling anything at all home so the occasional machine I put out on the curb isn't that outrageous.
The attack on Kuwait was unprecedented in modern history because this time it is Iraq that invaded a sovereign nation. This is similar to what Hitler did to Poland to spark WW2. Hitler's motivation was clear. He wanted more land and to expand Germany. The motives of the Iraqui administration were clear.
Definitely. The sooner the Iraqi soldiers lay down their arms and surrender the fewer casualties there will be. There is limited popular support for Saddam. The sooner his dictatorship crumbles and the sooner all outside forces can be out of the country, the better.
And surprise, surprise, that sounds a lot like the reason Saddam justifies his invasion of Kuwait.
Well, there is actually an objective truth. Yes, there is good, there is evil. I am not talking in terms of any religious dogma. There is a common humanist concept of what is good.
Which reduces your 'moral relativism' to drivel when you try to claim 'one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.' You're talking about propaganda there, dude. There are terrorists (people who attack civilian populations to terrorize and get power over them), and there are freedom fighters (people who attack unjust governmental organizations, and have the support of civilian populations).
People who blow up a bus full of civilians are terrorists. It's really not very complicated...
Softway Systems, the developers of the Interix POSIX subsystem for Windows NT put out a call to the Open Source community a few years back to find out if there was any interest in them Open Sourcing their product. This was back before Microsoft bought the product. It was an abortive attempt, but it would have been interesting.... to say the least.
the kernel bug was found by a developer that was auditing/working on part of the code and patch available before any bad guy got to it.
The kernel bug was publicized by the first white-hat developer who found it. 'Bad guys' who found it will now be pissed.
Just because someone who is clueless asks a question doesn't mean it should make the front page of Slashdot. We could start echoing the Usenet posts to hardware groups asking clueless questions if that were the case.
Is this gonna turn into a forum for people whining because the connector from their phone doesn't plug into their ethernet jack??
That's the first thing I thought, too.
How lame is it that a question like this is being asked about a time sharing system like Linux?
How did something like this get to be an 'ask slashdot' question?
And why would anybody crowd two people onto one machine in this day and age when most of us have whole networks of multiple machines at our disposal, i.e. single user, multiple machines?
Stick a 68HC11 on a circuit board, a MAX232 and a few jumpers and the crystal and stuff. Set it up to do bootstrap mode over the built in serial port of the HC11, and write your software to talk to the HC11 through the serial port.
Use some of the Free IO Port lines on the HC11 to feed relay drivers. Write a little firmware to take parse serial commands.
It sounds like a fun project, and there is tons of info about how to build a bootstrap type 68HC11 single board out there.
I see that the vendor of my favorite single board solution for the HC11 part of the project has discontinued the product so I'm providing a semi-dead link. Thank goodness I have the schematic and code to produce as many of those things as I need. Your homework assignment is to find the equivalent SBC.
The HC11 is extremely popular with robotics types, they're cheap on eBay too. Shouldn't be hard to find your board, or make one from scratch if you like.
More likely it'll run CP/M-86.
Umm, life matters if it's going to fail during use, which presumably would be the case.
Put it this way: I find most of the 'web based' comic strips unintelligent. Who cares about post-modern narcissist drivel? Get over the sarcastic angst, kids.
I think Little Orphan Annnie is funny. Pogo rocks. L'il Abner is cool too.
Why should we cripple the internet?
Why should I 'cripple' my chain saw by putting a guard on it. Hell, I could remove the turnoff switch too, and when I'm not using it, leave it sitting there running, ripping anything that it comes into contact with.
Microsoft invented Flash?
Gee, that's a new one to me. Are you one of those astroturfers who claims Microsoft invented everything??
If you check your history, Netscape was an early player in the business of introducting proprietary HTML extensions, to hook businesses into their server product line, before Microsoft. Microsoft couldn't even innovate in that with regard to Web technology.
I'd like to see Doonesbury republished, except... ooooh... a few years back I figured out how to hack the HTML serving their comics and I download the whole archive and have it on CD.
Naw, we don't need Doonesbury.
The 'sample chapter' strategy by O'Reilly just facilitates online sales of books. It's the equivalent of browsing the book at the bookstore a bit, to decide if you want to purchase it.
Further, it's O'Reilly's choice to distribute content under their (or their author's) copyright. How many 'file swappers' have asked the permission of the artist who made the music they're trading?
Something that works like a library would be:
The library buys a fixed number of copies of songs/albums, and they can only be used by one person at a time. If there is popular demand for more copies of that song, the library pays for more and increases the fixed number.
That's the old 'like a book' license that was popular with the Borland Compilers. It worked really well.
What you described is nothing like a library.
Sharing accounts has a long tradition among the hackers. Back in the old days of UNIX, people like Richard Stallman refused to password protect their accounts on principle.
Now, of course, people who don't password protect their accounts with totally obscure number/letter/symbol sequences are ostracized.
That's gotta bug Richard at least a little.
Big chunks of the userland in Free/Net/OpenBSD are completely GPL free. And it's a surpisingly good userland at that.
Netcraft has never meant much beyond what statistics they can derive from public Internet presences. And that includes the thousands and thousands of casual 'hobby' websites that skew their statistics in favor of Apache. The servers that really matter in many instances aren't exposed to the net. Netscape knew this when they tried to penetrate the corporate Intranet market with their server product line and their browser.
People need to recognize that 'the Web' is only a part, and actually a fairly irrelevant part of the world's server infrastructure. Real work and what matters is on the other side the firewalls. Where Netcraft can't probe.