In my state at least, anyone who sells automobile batteries, must, BY LAW, accept any old batteries for no charge. The stores then have their battery distributor (or freelance recycler) pick them up and take them to be recycled.
You mean Subpoena 127 for loopback. And none of this makes sense anyhow because anything after 223 is used for multicasting and testing, and will never be given out to the public.
The DMCA isn't just a blanket law covering all instances of reverse engineering, regardless of the context. The DMCA covers reverse engineering in cases where it is being used for copyright circumvention, which driver hackers aren't trying to do. MOST Linux drivers have to be written this way. Don't get me wrong, the DMCA is still a pile of hot garbage. I just hate it when people are scared to do ANYTHING that might be useful because of the DMCA.
You're right. I remember when these first came to market, my dad, who is a dentist and performs teeth whitening procedures (among other things, of course), was actually worried because these OTC products whitened teeth almost as well as he did, but for a tiny, tiny fraction of the price. I think you only need to wear them twice a day, for half an hour each time, and over a few weeks your teeth will turn several shades whiter.
I remember a story about how some company tried to sue IBM over IP issues, and IBM would say "let's meet, we'll settle it out of court." So the company would show up for a meeting with IBM, with a list of their claims, and IBM would look at them, and then pull out binders of IP violations that that company had committed against IBM, which is nearly unavoidable for many companies because of the sheer amount of IP that IBM holds. The reps from that company would basically go "eep" and it would be over. Of course, I don't know if this story is true or not, but it would really say something about how IBM views IP-related lawsuits, and how they really aren't good for the industry as a whole, and they know better than to just go after companies without being provoked.
iii) start editing the story titles so that they are more easily found via searches (eg, a chess story should have some chess reference in the story title, rather than being called "Man Last Stand vs Machine" or whatever)
I'd rather see some type of meta-tagging, rather than actual insertion of the topic into the headline, just so the headlines don't get too monotonous and hard to discern between.
With the people of the United States holding and maintaining a large part of the country's infrastructure, it makes sense to protect them in the pursuit of protecting the country as a whole.
About the NSA: It coordinates, directs, and performs highly specialized activities to protect U.S. information systems and produce foreign intelligence information. A high technology organization, NSA is on the frontiers of communications and data processing. It is also one of the most important centers of foreign language analysis and research within the Government. It's actually in their public duty to create something like SELinux. If you go to their front page, they have links to many guides on how to secure various Windows and Cisco systems. It's seems really surprising when you think about it, but they actually want to protect the United States.
I don't understand why all these Linux distros give you 10 different runmodes, of which only one or two are ever used
Actually, on Sys-V systems there are more than ten.
0 - halt
1 - system adminstration mode/single user
S/s - Single user mode
2 - multiuser, no networking
3 - multiuser + networking
4 - administrator definable
5 - multiuser + networking + GUI
6 - move to 0 and reboot
7 - administrator definable
8 - administrator definable
9 - administrator definable
a - administrator definable
b - administrator definable
c - administrator definable
Q/q - tell init to reread/etc/inittab (ok, not REALLY a runlevel but init will accept it as an argument)
Of course this an absolutely absurd number of runlevels for the home user, but I suppose there could be situations where you would want 7 different custom runlevels, namely on very large systems, instead of having to edit the contents of each runlevel's directory every time you wanted a certain set of services to start or stop. Try them sometime.
It's basically Internet Explorer for linux
Exactly.. it's the only web browser on my system that doesn't block pop ups. If it weren't for that, it would probably be my default browser.. until then, it's opera.
You can easily convert an ext2 partition into ext3 without any risk of data loss. 'mkfs -t ext3' will just dedicate a part of your ext2 partition to journalling.
What if they found the so-called stolen code after they released it under the GPL? Of course, the fact that they are stilldistributing it might have some bearing on that.
This free, open source software project doesn't have the $$$ for sponsored links. After a couple of months, their site 'll be buried in Phoenix links in Google.
Who needs sponsored links when you have this much free publicity?
Their Project Statistics don't seem to be doing too badly this past week.
I would consider it to be more of an investment on DARPA's part, rather than some sort of influence on the direction of OpenBSD development. They see a project that meets their needs, and they want to ensure that it does well, so it will serve them well. It's not that different from IBM spending $1 billion on Linux because they want to see it do well.
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In my state at least, anyone who sells automobile batteries, must, BY LAW, accept any old batteries for no charge. The stores then have their battery distributor (or freelance recycler) pick them up and take them to be recycled.
You mean Subpoena 127 for loopback. And none of this makes sense anyhow because anything after 223 is used for multicasting and testing, and will never be given out to the public.
Ibiblio has a picture of the platypus here.
I'm pretty sure that UNIX is the trademarked term (Open Group), and Unix is the generic term, at least according to the courts.
The DMCA isn't just a blanket law covering all instances of reverse engineering, regardless of the context. The DMCA covers reverse engineering in cases where it is being used for copyright circumvention, which driver hackers aren't trying to do. MOST Linux drivers have to be written this way. Don't get me wrong, the DMCA is still a pile of hot garbage. I just hate it when people are scared to do ANYTHING that might be useful because of the DMCA.
'Hey Pierre, curriel me those sales figures.' Just sounds wrong!
Of course it sounds wrong... especially since the rest of it would probably sound more like:
Hé Pierre, curriel je que ces ventes figure!
You know, since they're in France, and everything.
You're right. I remember when these first came to market, my dad, who is a dentist and performs teeth whitening procedures (among other things, of course), was actually worried because these OTC products whitened teeth almost as well as he did, but for a tiny, tiny fraction of the price. I think you only need to wear them twice a day, for half an hour each time, and over a few weeks your teeth will turn several shades whiter.
it caches pixmaps, stupid.
I remember a story about how some company tried to sue IBM over IP issues, and IBM would say "let's meet, we'll settle it out of court." So the company would show up for a meeting with IBM, with a list of their claims, and IBM would look at them, and then pull out binders of IP violations that that company had committed against IBM, which is nearly unavoidable for many companies because of the sheer amount of IP that IBM holds. The reps from that company would basically go "eep" and it would be over. Of course, I don't know if this story is true or not, but it would really say something about how IBM views IP-related lawsuits, and how they really aren't good for the industry as a whole, and they know better than to just go after companies without being provoked.
iii) start editing the story titles so that they are more easily found via searches (eg, a chess story should have some chess reference in the story title, rather than being called "Man Last Stand vs Machine" or whatever)
I'd rather see some type of meta-tagging, rather than actual insertion of the topic into the headline, just so the headlines don't get too monotonous and hard to discern between.
His last comment is marked "Tuesday April 23, @11:24AM". April 23rd was on a Wednesday this year. The last time it fell on a Tuesday was 2002.
With the people of the United States holding and maintaining a large part of the country's infrastructure, it makes sense to protect them in the pursuit of protecting the country as a whole.
About the NSA:
It coordinates, directs, and performs highly specialized activities to protect U.S. information systems and produce foreign intelligence information. A high technology organization, NSA is on the frontiers of communications and data processing. It is also one of the most important centers of foreign language analysis and research within the Government.
It's actually in their public duty to create something like SELinux. If you go to their front page, they have links to many guides on how to secure various Windows and Cisco systems. It's seems really surprising when you think about it, but they actually want to protect the United States.
what?
So, what, that means I just have to think about it and the letters appear?
Don't get me wrong, Stuart. They're fine people, good Americans.
I don't understand why all these Linux distros give you 10 different runmodes, of which only one or two are ever used
/etc/inittab (ok, not REALLY a runlevel but init will accept it as an argument)
Actually, on Sys-V systems there are more than ten.
0 - halt
1 - system adminstration mode/single user
S/s - Single user mode
2 - multiuser, no networking
3 - multiuser + networking
4 - administrator definable
5 - multiuser + networking + GUI
6 - move to 0 and reboot
7 - administrator definable
8 - administrator definable
9 - administrator definable
a - administrator definable
b - administrator definable
c - administrator definable
Q/q - tell init to reread
Of course this an absolutely absurd number of runlevels for the home user, but I suppose there could be situations where you would want 7 different custom runlevels, namely on very large systems, instead of having to edit the contents of each runlevel's directory every time you wanted a certain set of services to start or stop. Try them sometime.
Alright, Spongebob
Exposure to microwaves can cause instant cataracts.
It's basically Internet Explorer for linux
Exactly.. it's the only web browser on my system that doesn't block pop ups. If it weren't for that, it would probably be my default browser.. until then, it's opera.
You can easily convert an ext2 partition into ext3 without any risk of data loss. 'mkfs -t ext3' will just dedicate a part of your ext2 partition to journalling.
What if they found the so-called stolen code after they released it under the GPL? Of course, the fact that they are still distributing it might have some bearing on that.
"As for me? I switched to the Mac. No more grep, no more piping, no more SED scripts.. "
Oh well. I guess he really can't escape Unix.
This free, open source software project doesn't have the $$$ for sponsored links. After a couple of months, their site 'll be buried in Phoenix links in Google.
Who needs sponsored links when you have this much free publicity?
Their Project Statistics don't seem to be doing too badly this past week.
I would consider it to be more of an investment on DARPA's part, rather than some sort of influence on the direction of OpenBSD development. They see a project that meets their needs, and they want to ensure that it does well, so it will serve them well. It's not that different from IBM spending $1 billion on Linux because they want to see it do well.