ctrl+tabbing through windows never worked for me, pressing escape doesn't close the window, it constantly gets moved to the second screen, is rather slowish, etc
Hrm:
By "never worked for me", do you mean that hitting ctrl-tab doesn't do anything, or doesn't do what you expect?
Every single time someone complains about FairPlay, it's instant proof that they've never even bought anything from the iTunes Store and actually used it.
Of course I haven't. My iRiver wouldn't be able to play it. (No, burning a CD, re-ripping that CD and reencoding the track does not count as a reasonable way to listen to music I buy.) It may be the "most liberal DRM in existence", but that's obviously not liberal enough because I would not be able to listen to the tracks. (The fact that my iRiver doesn't play AAC is irrelevant --- Rockbox (which I use) may well cope with it. I've never tried.)
My housemate appears to have lost all her music because iTunes has decided that she's copied it too many times. I suspect that, if she has exceeded the limit, it's because she's on her third under-warranty replacement iPod. \o/
Lots of cameras use PTP, rather than USB Mass Storage. My Canon IXUS 55 is one example. I'm not sure why they do. =) Anyway, libgphoto is what's generally used to speak to such cameras.
Technically speaking, it'd be much easier just to try and get all the pron people to put some kind of broadcast flag on their own stuff, and then just filter by that.
they do things like (to point out the landmark example) weld the web browser to the kernel.
For about the 35,348th time: no, no they don't. IE has nothing to do with the kernel. Go and learn what a kernel is. Hope that helps, have a nice day.:-)
No, their primary job is to create and play music. Whether they do that on a CD or live is up to them, but I (and I'm not alone) have far more time for a band that plays live all the time, and well, than I do for a band that puts out a record a year.
Let's imagine for a second that I owned 3 CDs, ripped MP3s off of them, burned that to an MP3 CD and left it in my car. Then, let's imagine that I sold one of the origional CDs to a used music store.
You claim that the sum total of those actions is illegal, yes? Which action would be breaking what law?
Assuming that you haven't been given explicit permission to do so, in the UK, you break the law when you rip the CDs, since the UK doesn't have provisions for fair use copying such as that. (We do have provisions for educational use copying, but I doubt you could show your example to fall under that.
You haven't tried to get Java running on Ubuntu, have you?
No, mainly because I use Debian.
I have, however, got Java running _perfectly_ on Debian, and am currently playing Puzzle Pirates. I do feel unclean for using it, though.
21:36 <resiak> install java
21:36 <dpkg> First, read <java licensing>. Still here? If you're in sarge or sid, ask me about <java-package>. If you're in woody, grab java-package manually from http://packages.debian.org/java-package and then ask me about <java-package> for instructions on how to use it. Also, ask me about <java-package howto>
21:36 <resiak> java-package
21:36 <dpkg> somebody said java-package was the new name for mpkg-j2se... err, I mean j2se-package... DAMN IT, CAN'T THEY PICK A NAME?! Anyway, it lets you build a.deb file from Sun's non-free upstream Java distributions. See "man make-jpkg". Cf. "make-kpkg" (from kernel-package).only in sarge and sid currently, but it's a -all package, so it's safe to use it in woody. This packages lives in 'contrib', so make sure you have that in your sources.list.
21:38 <resiak> java-package howto
21:38 <dpkg> http://www.debian-administration.org/?article=142
Go speak to dpkg on freenode. You'll need to/j #debian.
Synaptic doesn't have a database of its own. It's just a frontend to apt, which uses the repositories you give it. You're referring to the out-of-date packages in Debian, aren't you? Erm, well, they're not bleeding edge, I'll give you, but the versions in testing (apart from right now, because of freezing things while Sarge releases) are usually up-to-date within days of new versions being released upstream. Oh, and don't pull out X.org here -- that's on its way, and again was held up by Sarge. "Complete"? I can't think of the last thing that wasn't in Debian that I wanted to install. Sorry, try again.
(If you're feeling suicidal, use Ubuntu's unstable stuffs. They're up-to-date, but break more often than Sid. That's the choice you make.)
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My ~# key is between @' and Enter. (To the left of 1 is ` and boolean not, which/. doesn't seem to like me typing.) My |\ is to the left of Z. You'd hate the UK.:-)
No, that's not true. If you're calling a function like that, you have linked the GPLed code to your homebrew code, and so the GPL's "viral" nature kicks in --- if you release the binaries to the world, you must release your own code under the GPL to anyone to whom you supply binaries.
The example you were looking for is something like the following:
#!/usr/bin/perl # This file is covered by the GPL, blah blah.
sub frobnitzigate { #return "No frobbing possible!"; return `a-binary-we-dont-want-to-gpl`; # Added by Evil Company(TM) }
# blah
Now you don't have to release the source to a-binary-we-dont-want-to-gpl --- this is what the GPL calls "mere aggregation", and is (probably) what has happened with the DVR stuffs.
If Sun were to suddenly make Java pay-to-use, the programs could, for the most part, be rewritten in C++ with minimal effort (most of the work could be done in 15 minutes by a Lisp program.)
It could? Then why don't you do that right now with OOo? You'd be a hero, and only at the expense of "minimal effort".
GNU coreutils already do this for the fact that the POSIX block size is 512kb whereas RMS decided that the GNU block size would be 1024kb -- they revert to the POSIX behaviour if you set POSIX_ME_HARDER ^W POSIXLY_CORRECT. Something like RM_SANITY would be better than mere aliasing in.bashrc, so. I'll look into doing this when my current uni work panic has ended...
Well, ignoring non-existant files seems like a fairly irrelevant thing to do or not to do to me, so -f really does just mean "yeah, I mean it". You're right that it'd be nice if --preserve-root had a --preserve-sanity sibling, and then distro's default.bashrcs could do alias rm='rm --preserve-sanity' for interactive shells. It couldn't be made the default for rm without requiring every single sysadmin script ever to be rewritten, but I think that this is a good compromise. Perhaps when I'm bored enough I'll have a play at adding it to GNU rm. Perhaps you could do the same if you get bored before I do?:-)
The use of ® at the end of the articles is completely unrelated to trademark law. The article text is clearly not a trademark (are you confusing trademarks with copyright?) and so the symbol has no meaning apart from being a joke.
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Hrm:
http://icculus.org/quake3/ is close enough to the "definitive" Quake 3 for me.
Of course I haven't. My iRiver wouldn't be able to play it. (No, burning a CD, re-ripping that CD and reencoding the track does not count as a reasonable way to listen to music I buy.) It may be the "most liberal DRM in existence", but that's obviously not liberal enough because I would not be able to listen to the tracks. (The fact that my iRiver doesn't play AAC is irrelevant --- Rockbox (which I use) may well cope with it. I've never tried.)
My housemate appears to have lost all her music because iTunes has decided that she's copied it too many times. I suspect that, if she has exceeded the limit, it's because she's on her third under-warranty replacement iPod. \o/
I have never made a movie with it, so no. :-)
Also, yes, the needing of drivers is minging. I didn't realise for quite some time, because I only use Linux.
That's a good answer: thanks.
Lots of cameras use PTP, rather than USB Mass Storage. My Canon IXUS 55 is one example. I'm not sure why they do. =) Anyway, libgphoto is what's generally used to speak to such cameras.
Sounds like you just reinvented the evil bit!
For about the 35,348th time: no, no they don't. IE has nothing to do with the kernel. Go and learn what a kernel is. Hope that helps, have a nice day. :-)
No, their primary job is to create and play music. Whether they do that on a CD or live is up to them, but I (and I'm not alone) have far more time for a band that plays live all the time, and well, than I do for a band that puts out a record a year.
Assuming that you haven't been given explicit permission to do so, in the UK, you break the law when you rip the CDs, since the UK doesn't have provisions for fair use copying such as that. (We do have provisions for educational use copying, but I doubt you could show your example to fall under that.
I have no clue about the US. Please enlighten me!
Hmm, okay. I use hjkl just because they seem faster. I'll ask Google what to do. :-)
As a vim user, I'm held away from Dvorak by hjkl. Did you remap those, or did you just accept that they're no longer on the homerow?
No, mainly because I use Debian.
I have, however, got Java running _perfectly_ on Debian, and am currently playing Puzzle Pirates. I do feel unclean for using it, though.
21:36 <resiak> install java .deb file from Sun's non-free upstream Java distributions. See "man make-jpkg". Cf. "make-kpkg" (from kernel-package).only in sarge and sid currently, but it's a -all package, so it's safe to use it in woody. This packages lives in 'contrib', so make sure you have that in your sources.list.
21:36 <dpkg> First, read <java licensing>. Still here? If you're in sarge or sid, ask me about <java-package>. If you're in woody, grab java-package manually from http://packages.debian.org/java-package and then ask me about <java-package> for instructions on how to use it. Also, ask me about <java-package howto>
21:36 <resiak> java-package 21:36 <dpkg> somebody said java-package was the new name for mpkg-j2se... err, I mean j2se-package... DAMN IT, CAN'T THEY PICK A NAME?! Anyway, it lets you build a
21:38 <resiak> java-package howto
21:38 <dpkg> http://www.debian-administration.org/?article=142
Go speak to dpkg on freenode. You'll need to /j #debian.
Synaptic doesn't have a database of its own. It's just a frontend to apt, which uses the repositories you give it. You're referring to the out-of-date packages in Debian, aren't you? Erm, well, they're not bleeding edge, I'll give you, but the versions in testing (apart from right now, because of freezing things while Sarge releases) are usually up-to-date within days of new versions being released upstream. Oh, and don't pull out X.org here -- that's on its way, and again was held up by Sarge. "Complete"? I can't think of the last thing that wasn't in Debian that I wanted to install. Sorry, try again.
(If you're feeling suicidal, use Ubuntu's unstable stuffs. They're up-to-date, but break more often than Sid. That's the choice you make.)
i'm not sure, is it larger than a breadbox?, slashdot
My ~# key is between @' and Enter. (To the left of 1 is ` and boolean not, which /. doesn't seem to like me typing.) My |\ is to the left of Z. You'd hate the UK. :-)
In the context of a summary, I can't see anything wrong. I'd (honestly) like to know what it is that you disagree with.
No, that's not true. If you're calling a function like that, you have linked the GPLed code to your homebrew code, and so the GPL's "viral" nature kicks in --- if you release the binaries to the world, you must release your own code under the GPL to anyone to whom you supply binaries.
The example you were looking for is something like the following:
Now you don't have to release the source to a-binary-we-dont-want-to-gpl --- this is what the GPL calls "mere aggregation", and is (probably) what has happened with the DVR stuffs.
I've just fired off an email to them. Keep the pressure on, y'know? :-)
It could? Then why don't you do that right now with OOo? You'd be a hero, and only at the expense of "minimal effort".
Pugs is not meant for production uses. Its goal is, as I understand it, to bootstrap the Perl6 compiler, which will be written in Perl6.
GNU coreutils already do this for the fact that the POSIX block size is 512kb whereas RMS decided that the GNU block size would be 1024kb -- they revert to the POSIX behaviour if you set POSIX_ME_HARDER ^W POSIXLY_CORRECT. Something like RM_SANITY would be better than mere aliasing in .bashrc, so. I'll look into doing this when my current uni work panic has ended...
Well, ignoring non-existant files seems like a fairly irrelevant thing to do or not to do to me, so -f really does just mean "yeah, I mean it". You're right that it'd be nice if --preserve-root had a --preserve-sanity sibling, and then distro's default .bashrcs could do alias rm='rm --preserve-sanity' for interactive shells. It couldn't be made the default for rm without requiring every single sysadmin script ever to be rewritten, but I think that this is a good compromise. Perhaps when I'm bored enough I'll have a play at adding it to GNU rm. Perhaps you could do the same if you get bored before I do? :-)
The -f switch means "don't ask, I mean this". That's why it doesn't ask for confirmation: the invoker told it not to.
Next unfounded criticism of the shell, please...
The use of ® at the end of the articles is completely unrelated to trademark law. The article text is clearly not a trademark (are you confusing trademarks with copyright?) and so the symbol has no meaning apart from being a joke.
Can I go now?