I use Red Hat, but whenever I upgrade a package I recompile it from the source RPM. So you can get the best of both worlds - download a binary package if you want, or rebuild from source (_with_ full dependency tracking) if you prefer.
People often forget that RPM-based distributions are not 'binary only' - every RPM package has a corresponding source package which can be used to rebuild it.
Maybe the answer is to break FreeBSD into a 'development' team and a 'packaging' team: the developers can get on with doing cool stuff while the packagers can obsess about things and fight holy wars. Consider Linux as an example. No matter what arguments break out on the Debian mailing lists or which distribution-making companies go bankrupt, this will not cause Linus to resign from kernel development. The kernel developers are shielded from all that. Similarly the gcc, bash, XFree86 and so on developers are not all crowded into one room. The 'single integrated distribution' approach of FreeBSD may produce better quality software (so the BSDers claim), but maybe it doesn't scale so well to large numbers of developers and 'town councils'.
It's lucky that some reputable sites will not resort to secretly changing their page content without a retraction. The old-style 'web with integrity' is still out there if you know where to look.
It would be cool if Google or other search engines could track this kind of thing. When linking to a page it could tell you how much of the textual content of the page had changed, and how recently. For things like the 'home page' of a news site this is useless, they change all the time anyway. So there would need to be some heuristic for detecting 'sneaky modifications' to a body of text.
The answer is quite simple - create a.tm.us domain that is directly administered by the US trademark office. And similar for other countries. That gives the strongest trademark protection anyone could wish for, and still allows a sensible lawyer-free system to exist in other domains.
No Javascript is on balance a good feature. That is, I normally turn Javascript off in Mozilla because its main uses are for things like popups which annoy me. This would depend on what sites you visit, of course. For some sites Javascript is essential. Personally I have not found a Javascript-requring site that does not suck anyway, but YMMV.
'Crippleware' normally means deliberately crippled, as in 'pay us extra for the Professional version and we'll enable this feature'. Dillo is not crippleware by that definition.
The lack of i18n is a valid criticism. There are some patches available for Japanese, and I think it already handles Western European languages, but there are certainly several languages and scripts which cannot be displayed. Internationalizing the application itself should not be too hard - but I see that you can read English anyway so it shouldn't be a big concern that the app itself is in English.
'What can you do with Dillo' - well read Slashdot, Freshmeat, Google, and most pages linked from them. The latest release has cookies (although you may have to edit ~/.dillo/cookiesrc to enable them) so it works really well for Slashdot.
I don't think that businesses securing trademarks is necessarily a good thing, if it gets in the way of making a useful domain name system. The purpose of trademarks is to protect consumers - so if you buy Nike brand trainers, you know you are getting the real thing and not some ripoff produced for $0.65 in a far-East sweatshop. OK, bad example. But that is the purpose.
Now, imagine a domain '.notm' where trademarks do not apply. *As long as* most web users understand this, there is no danger of anyone getting ripped off. Given the tendency of businesses to use trademark law against freedom of speech - lawsuits against Xsucks.com for example - some clearly marked space which is lawyer-free is needed.
Even if thousands of TLDs were available, I don't think any small business would be harmed. People are simply not that stupid to assume that every foo.X - for X = com, org, co.uk, or goatse - points to the same company.
I don't buy your argument about 'market confusion' - if the new TLDs confuse you, you would be free not to use them; I don't see why confusion of some people should block everybody else. Just let the free market sort it out!
OK, so what about all the other TLDs? Where can I buy those from - if I wanted.goatse for example?
The trouble is creating artificial scarcity of TLDs, and then for those few new ones that are created giving exclusive control to a private monopoly.
It would be better to just generate all sequences of ASCII characters, and auction each one (that isn't already taken) on Ebay as a TLD.
Or phase out the top-level TLDs altogether and switch to exclusively national ones -.edu.au and so on - so that at least it is clear which country's trademark laws should apply to each.
I understand why _Apple_ want to market OS X as being 'BSD'... what I don't understand is why the BSD crowd seem so eager to award it that label, when they wouldn't do the same for other operating systems which are much more closely related.
If Mac OS X goes under the 'BSD' section on Slashdot, why not the GNU HURD? And why not Linux? Is there any criterion for an operating system being 'BSD' other than what its vendor claims?
Why is Darwin counted as 'BSD'? Last time I looked it was a Mach-derived microkernel with a BSD personality layered on top. Linux has a better claim to being 'BSD' if you define it that loosely.
The only thing that I found creepy in a computer game was the sound of laser fire in Elite. Something about the blackness and emptiness of space, and then you hear this noise. As it says in the manual:
Laser fire striking the defensive shields makes a light screeching sound.
Listen for laser fire striking the hull direct. Through damaged screens it
makes a low, screeching sound. DANGER.
Of course it has to be the original BBC speaker sound: other versions of the game on machines with better sound hardware just don't sound as creepy.
It probably helps to have a slightly underheated room, too.
It would also be fun to have a random EULA generator which puts together a few stock phrases and the occasional ridiculous condition (you agree not to tell anyone you are using this software, etc) into a new licence 'agreement' for each app. A Linux distribution could arrange for it to run whenever application is started for the first time.
Obviously what will happen now is that Jordan Hubbard will purchase a fleet of ships, give himself the rank of commodore and set up a mysterious 'BSD Organization' sailing around the globe.
When I read the comments, there was no working link. So I went and found a link and posted it. In the meantime, of course, other people did the same thing so there were some 'redundant' postings. It's just a race condition.
Eazel failed because it is only one letter away from Etzel, which is German for Edsel (== Attila). All these things have a rational explanation if you look hard enough.
I wonder if the mascot Hexley is named after T. H. Huxley, 'Darwin's bulldog' and the strongest defender of the theory of evolution after it was published.
How expensive would it be to manufacture vegetable oil, compared to diesel? What's the crude oil price at which this becomes economical?
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It must have been put under PHP because people who already know Zope wouldn't want to buy this book. Its potential readership is PHP users who want to migrate.
Although I do not see this argument working too well when Linux stuff starts appearing in the BSD section.
#In. order [that readers# without one# of these wonderful| new cards; can experience#some of the improved #display quality/, (I have antialiased {this Slashdot#post.
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I use Red Hat, but whenever I upgrade a package I recompile it from the source RPM. So you can get the best of both worlds - download a binary package if you want, or rebuild from source (_with_ full dependency tracking) if you prefer.
People often forget that RPM-based distributions are not 'binary only' - every RPM package has a corresponding source package which can be used to rebuild it.
Maybe the answer is to break FreeBSD into a 'development' team and a 'packaging' team: the developers can get on with doing cool stuff while the packagers can obsess about things and fight holy wars. Consider Linux as an example. No matter what arguments break out on the Debian mailing lists or which distribution-making companies go bankrupt, this will not cause Linus to resign from kernel development. The kernel developers are shielded from all that. Similarly the gcc, bash, XFree86 and so on developers are not all crowded into one room. The 'single integrated distribution' approach of FreeBSD may produce better quality software (so the BSDers claim), but maybe it doesn't scale so well to large numbers of developers and 'town councils'.
It's lucky that some reputable sites will not resort to secretly changing their page content without a retraction. The old-style 'web with integrity' is still out there if you know where to look.
It would be cool if Google or other search engines could track this kind of thing. When linking to a page it could tell you how much of the textual content of the page had changed, and how recently. For things like the 'home page' of a news site this is useless, they change all the time anyway. So there would need to be some heuristic for detecting 'sneaky modifications' to a body of text.
The answer is quite simple - create a .tm.us domain that is directly administered by the US trademark office. And similar for other countries. That gives the strongest trademark protection anyone could wish for, and still allows a sensible lawyer-free system to exist in other domains.
No Javascript is on balance a good feature. That is, I normally turn Javascript off in Mozilla because its main uses are for things like popups which annoy me. This would depend on what sites you visit, of course. For some sites Javascript is essential. Personally I have not found a Javascript-requring site that does not suck anyway, but YMMV.
'Crippleware' normally means deliberately crippled, as in 'pay us extra for the Professional version and we'll enable this feature'. Dillo is not crippleware by that definition.
The lack of i18n is a valid criticism. There are some patches available for Japanese, and I think it already handles Western European languages, but there are certainly several languages and scripts which cannot be displayed. Internationalizing the application itself should not be too hard - but I see that you can read English anyway so it shouldn't be a big concern that the app itself is in English.
'What can you do with Dillo' - well read Slashdot, Freshmeat, Google, and most pages linked from them. The latest release has cookies (although you may have to edit ~/.dillo/cookiesrc to enable them) so it works really well for Slashdot.
A shame that the very fast and neat Dillo wasn't mentioned.
I don't think that businesses securing trademarks is necessarily a good thing, if it gets in the way of making a useful domain name system. The purpose of trademarks is to protect consumers - so if you buy Nike brand trainers, you know you are getting the real thing and not some ripoff produced for $0.65 in a far-East sweatshop. OK, bad example. But that is the purpose.
Now, imagine a domain '.notm' where trademarks do not apply. *As long as* most web users understand this, there is no danger of anyone getting ripped off. Given the tendency of businesses to use trademark law against freedom of speech - lawsuits against Xsucks.com for example - some clearly marked space which is lawyer-free is needed.
Even if thousands of TLDs were available, I don't think any small business would be harmed. People are simply not that stupid to assume that every foo.X - for X = com, org, co.uk, or goatse - points to the same company.
I don't buy your argument about 'market confusion' - if the new TLDs confuse you, you would be free not to use them; I don't see why confusion of some people should block everybody else. Just let the free market sort it out!
OK, so what about all the other TLDs? Where can I buy those from - if I wanted .goatse for example?
.edu.au and so on - so that at least it is clear which country's trademark laws should apply to each.
The trouble is creating artificial scarcity of TLDs, and then for those few new ones that are created giving exclusive control to a private monopoly.
It would be better to just generate all sequences of ASCII characters, and auction each one (that isn't already taken) on Ebay as a TLD.
Or phase out the top-level TLDs altogether and switch to exclusively national ones -
I understand why _Apple_ want to market OS X as being 'BSD'... what I don't understand is why the BSD crowd seem so eager to award it that label, when they wouldn't do the same for other operating systems which are much more closely related.
If Mac OS X goes under the 'BSD' section on Slashdot, why not the GNU HURD? And why not Linux? Is there any criterion for an operating system being 'BSD' other than what its vendor claims?
Why is Darwin counted as 'BSD'? Last time I looked it was a Mach-derived microkernel with a BSD personality layered on top. Linux has a better claim to being 'BSD' if you define it that loosely.
It probably helps to have a slightly underheated room, too.
What is the opposite of Molotov?
It would also be fun to have a random EULA generator which puts together a few stock phrases and the occasional ridiculous condition (you agree not to tell anyone you are using this software, etc) into a new licence 'agreement' for each app. A Linux distribution could arrange for it to run whenever application is started for the first time.
Obviously what will happen now is that Jordan Hubbard will purchase a fleet of ships, give himself the rank of commodore and set up a mysterious 'BSD Organization' sailing around the globe.
I thought it was: Old world == Europe and the Mediterranean. New world == the Americas and Australasia. Third world == everywhere else.
When I read the comments, there was no working link. So I went and found a link and posted it. In the meantime, of course, other people did the same thing so there were some 'redundant' postings. It's just a race condition.
Working link to RFC 3271. (Since the original seems Slashdotted.)
Fixed point MP3 decoder? Is that like Fractint on the PC, which was much faster than anything else because it used integer operations?
What is the fastest MP3 decoder (assuming output quality is moderately important, but not everything)?
Just goes to show that Linux will run on any old POS.
Eazel failed because it is only one letter away from Etzel, which is German for Edsel (== Attila). All these things have a rational explanation if you look hard enough.
I wonder if the mascot Hexley is named after T. H. Huxley, 'Darwin's bulldog' and the strongest defender of the theory of evolution after it was published.
How expensive would it be to manufacture vegetable oil, compared to diesel? What's the crude oil price at which this becomes economical?
It must have been put under PHP because people who already know Zope wouldn't want to buy this book. Its potential readership is PHP users who want to migrate.
Although I do not see this argument working too well when Linux stuff starts appearing in the BSD section.
#In. order [that readers# without one# of these wonderful| new cards; can experience#some of the improved #display quality/, (I have antialiased {this Slashdot#post.