Re:Huh, they're using the Nouveau driver...
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To be honest, the experience of nouveau for me has been pretty horrible. I've found that it crashes once every 2 or 3 days. The old nv driver was slow, but at least it was stable.
Note that this could just be my particular hardware/software combo, and I do tend to run only the bleeding edge. (Fedora 12? Pah! I'm already on Rawhide!)
Rather than take the Ubuntu approach of popping up a "Do you want to download these non-OSS drivers button" which handles it almost perfectly in every instance
Except when your distribution is hosted anywhere in the western world. Fedora is based and distributed from the US and a "do you want to infringe on the copyrights and patents of another company" button won't cut it.
If you want Xen dom0 support, get Xen dom0 patches upstream in the kernel. It's exactly because they aren't there that Fedora doesn't support it. Xen as an open source technology is twitching and not quite dead anyway, and the reason for that is entirely because upstream didn't get their stuff into the kernel or care enough about the open source bits.
We designed a "peer-to-peer" MMO many years ago, although I have to say we didn't implement it and the devil is definitely in the implementation.
Anyway, you can read the design docs here.
After it was clear we weren't going to write it, I published the docs just to give a priority date (1998) to
invalidate any stupid patents...
Bill Clinton issued pardons on far worse offenses as political rewards
TBH I never understood why the US puts up with presidential pardons. Why on earth can the president pardon someone and how is that different from having a King?
Did the iPhone suddenly invent mobile internet access? Web access has been a standard feature of every cell phone and PDA sold in the world (certainly in Europe and Asia) since years before the iPhone even existed.
No, but IME the iPhone made web access usable and cheap. Sure, I could browse the web
using Opera on my Symbian Nokia, paying £1/megabyte to Orange for the privilege, but umm, that really was not a fun
experience. The iPhone is the first phone I've had that is useful for web browsing.
If jurors search online for information about the case or the defendant, then it
makes it harder to maintain the presumption of innocence.
For example, the media
might report all sort of information about the case:
the defendant had previously been seen hanging around the schoolyard,
the defendant was "known to police", he was convicted of a similar crime
20 years before, etc.
Some of this information might be true, and some of it might not be true.
If it's raised during the court case, then it can be rebutted by the
other side. If it's just speculation printed in the media and found out
by the jurors from their hotel room, the defence might not know what they
have to rebut.
Of course.. this is going to get harder and harder as computers and the
internet become more and more pervasive.
[The four freedoms] Which are completely useless to the vast majority of people
Sure - that's like capitalism vs communism. Some (probably many) people would be better off
under communism, in that their daily needs would be taken care of and they woudn't have
to do much. As long as they don't think too much about their situation. Or want to say something
that their rulers disagree with. Or want to do anything new and interesting.
On an unrelated note, thanks for publishing the details of the case in English,
and I hope you'll keep giving updates in English.
There have been several of these cases in Germany, and the details have only
been published in German, which means 99% of the world won't get to hear
about them.
Yeah those bastards, trying to stop children from being abused, people from being battered and the general populus from being blown up. What are they thinking.
The problem is this law isn't very effective at this. Most children are abused by
relatives and friends. Most adults are battered by the same. And the general
populus has only the most remote risk of being "blown up" (less than, say, being
hit by lightning, and far far less than the real risks - dying from heart attacks
or cancer for example).
The unintended consequences of this law are serious and don't outweigh the
risks. It's not just about people genuinely losing keys, but about having
corrupt policemen pawing over data, or allowing people in positions of authority
unquestioned access to details of your children and loved ones. Think
there's no danger in that?
The parent post is quite correct, not a troll. If you don't believe it, read
the constitution (sorry, I mean "Lisbon Treaty"). I have, perhaps one of
the very few here who have done so, and it's disgusting.
I'm not sure what "cursive" is - seems to be an American thing. But I will concur that fountain pens are the one true way to write. And add that you need to spend real money on a good fountain pen. It's an investment that will last a lifetime. Cheap fountain pens (by which I mean anything under about £20) aren't worth it, and really nice fountain pens sell for hundreds of pounds.
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Yes, writing scripts in C is a great idea.
It's certainly not a new idea ...
Minimal webserver, written in C, supporting C scripts ...
I'm used to GIMP -- never used Photoshop in my life -- and I still find GIMP unintuitive.
Well ... no. Until yesterday I hadn't managed to get a good stack trace (because the machine is basically hung solid after any crash).
I don't want my distro to be pushing new versions on me that break compatibility.
It sounds like you do want RHEL, because that's the whole point. Red Hat engineers backport the fixes and features and they retain ABI compatibility.
Rich.
You may wish to read about contributory infringement.
Rich.
To be honest, the experience of nouveau for me has been pretty horrible. I've found that it crashes once every 2 or 3 days. The old nv driver was slow, but at least it was stable.
Note that this could just be my particular hardware/software combo, and I do tend to run only the bleeding edge. (Fedora 12? Pah! I'm already on Rawhide!)
Rich.
Rather than take the Ubuntu approach of popping up a "Do you want to download these non-OSS drivers button" which handles it almost perfectly in every instance
Except when your distribution is hosted anywhere in the western world. Fedora is based and distributed from the US and a "do you want to infringe on the copyrights and patents of another company" button won't cut it.
Rich.
If you want Xen dom0 support, get Xen dom0 patches upstream in the kernel. It's exactly because they aren't there that Fedora doesn't support it. Xen as an open source technology is twitching and not quite dead anyway, and the reason for that is entirely because upstream didn't get their stuff into the kernel or care enough about the open source bits.
Rich.
UK internet addresses used to be like that. I remember it well. It caused a bit of fun during the changeover period c. 1992.
Rich.
We designed a "peer-to-peer" MMO many years ago, although I have to say we didn't implement it and the devil is definitely in the implementation. Anyway, you can read the design docs here. After it was clear we weren't going to write it, I published the docs just to give a priority date (1998) to invalidate any stupid patents ...
Rich.
Interesting article about the Microsoft/Pink/Danger/Sidekick relationship and leaks indicating that Microsoft are trying to kill Sidekick without telling the partners. Microsoft would never do such a thing of course ...
Rich.
Do you have any examples at all to back this absurd statement up?
Rich.
Bill Clinton issued pardons on far worse offenses as political rewards
TBH I never understood why the US puts up with presidential pardons. Why on earth can the president pardon someone and how is that different from having a King?
Rich.
Did the iPhone suddenly invent mobile internet access? Web access has been a standard feature of every cell phone and PDA sold in the world (certainly in Europe and Asia) since years before the iPhone even existed.
No, but IME the iPhone made web access usable and cheap. Sure, I could browse the web using Opera on my Symbian Nokia, paying £1/megabyte to Orange for the privilege, but umm, that really was not a fun experience. The iPhone is the first phone I've had that is useful for web browsing.
Rich.
If jurors search online for information about the case or the defendant, then it makes it harder to maintain the presumption of innocence.
For example, the media might report all sort of information about the case: the defendant had previously been seen hanging around the schoolyard, the defendant was "known to police", he was convicted of a similar crime 20 years before, etc.
Some of this information might be true, and some of it might not be true. If it's raised during the court case, then it can be rebutted by the other side. If it's just speculation printed in the media and found out by the jurors from their hotel room, the defence might not know what they have to rebut.
Of course .. this is going to get harder and harder as computers and the
internet become more and more pervasive.
Rich.
[The four freedoms] Which are completely useless to the vast majority of people
Sure - that's like capitalism vs communism. Some (probably many) people would be better off under communism, in that their daily needs would be taken care of and they woudn't have to do much. As long as they don't think too much about their situation. Or want to say something that their rulers disagree with. Or want to do anything new and interesting.
Rich.
Debian offers a far wider selection of software
and Red Hat supports the software for 7+ years, in the original version, backporting all the nasty security patches to it for you.
Rich.
Considering the number of magical incantations you need to manage Windows, maybe not such a bad idea ...
On an unrelated note, thanks for publishing the details of the case in English, and I hope you'll keep giving updates in English.
There have been several of these cases in Germany, and the details have only been published in German, which means 99% of the world won't get to hear about them.
Rich.
Unless he's writing a tech version of the Da Vinci Code, he's not going to be making enough money to pay the rent ...
Rich.
My story of when I was involved with an Apress book here.
Rich.
Yeah those bastards, trying to stop children from being abused, people from being battered and the general populus from being blown up. What are they thinking.
The problem is this law isn't very effective at this. Most children are abused by relatives and friends. Most adults are battered by the same. And the general populus has only the most remote risk of being "blown up" (less than, say, being hit by lightning, and far far less than the real risks - dying from heart attacks or cancer for example).
The unintended consequences of this law are serious and don't outweigh the risks. It's not just about people genuinely losing keys, but about having corrupt policemen pawing over data, or allowing people in positions of authority unquestioned access to details of your children and loved ones. Think there's no danger in that?
Rich.
The parent post is quite correct, not a troll. If you don't believe it, read the constitution (sorry, I mean "Lisbon Treaty"). I have, perhaps one of the very few here who have done so, and it's disgusting.
I'm not sure what "cursive" is - seems to be an American thing. But I will concur that fountain pens are the one true way to write. And add that you need to spend real money on a good fountain pen. It's an investment that will last a lifetime. Cheap fountain pens (by which I mean anything under about £20) aren't worth it, and really nice fountain pens sell for hundreds of pounds.
Rich.
Lenslok, hated by 8-bit gamers everywhere.