I'm not knocking Hammer, but why does everyone act like the Itanium and Hammer versions of Linux are the first 64 bit versions?
Noone does. Everybody acts like the Itanium and Hammer will be the first 64 bit versions that will get substantial market share in both server and desktop environments. Like it or not, x86 is pretty big and important, so x86-64 and i64 will be pretty big and important.
XS4ALL is applealing this decision and they are still in court (you can check the XS4ALL pages at...
This is why everyone in The Netherlands who cares about this stuff should sign up with them if they can and not another ISP. They have great service, savvy people, roots within the community and indeed, they are with us on every issue that every comes up in YRO. See this page about their views (dutch only).
It is nice to see that even in the corporate world, there are good guys.
What new fascist government? You mean the coalition of the christen democrats, liberals and a party that is a tad more right-wing but had its leader killed and now won't be as provocative and will have to be (and already are becoming) milder as part of the coalition?
And to reply to the parent comment, are sex and drugs laws aren't really loose, just because they we prefer regulation than outright banning certain things.
Is there a small OpenOffice Reader available for download? The entire suite might be a free and legal download, as long as it is as huge as it is now, I probably can't convince a lot of people.
The UK encrypted to air TV people went spectacularly bankrupt but thats market forces at work.
Same in the Netherlands. They wanted to hide our premier football league (American? read: soccer) behind a subscription model. Noone used it, the "Sport 7" channel went bankrupt and football is right back on public TV.
Turns out you can't cheat the public from what they think should be available. Piracy wasn't an issue here (weekly matches are much permanent than movies and audio, which you tend to *keep*). Only bad thing: many of the smaller teams now have huge debts because they made huge investments based on a multi-year sponsor contract of Sport 7.
Let's hope the general audience will also be smart enough to ignore any devices and software overly protected just for the sake of getting more money. Educating them indeed seems the proper way to fight.
.. I am so going to submit my childhood stories to Slashdot.:)
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If the US's closest ally, Britain, see's Hollywood's constant rewriting of history as an insult you can start to understand some of the indignance that breeds in the Arab world.
Very insightful, but the problem is that most of the people on the world (not just Americans) don't know that Hollywood and revisionist history walk hand in hand. Let alone that thet know the real world issues at hand.
If India made a movie about a capitalist president on coke flying a few commercial jetliners into the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur with India saving the civilised Hindi world from further terrorist actions by those greedy merkins, maybe that would wake people up. "Hey, that sounds familiar, but didn't that go slightly different?".
Of course, noone would see that movie because it has no keyword on AOL.:)
At least once a month, I get an ADAD call, always in violation of California or federal law, but the calls are always Caller-ID blocked and don't identify the caller, so I haven't been able to do anything about them.
If you're really into doing something about this, you could contact your phone company. Aren't they legally obliged to keep records of any call passing their network? While the law and their policy probably prevents them from giving you the number, they should be in the position to report it to the proper authorities.
Whether that helps, I don't know, but here in The Netherlands that would probably help. There are plenty of consumer protection organisations to deal with this crap. One of them even has a popular TV show running for over a decade addressing these issues and other less than friendly stories about companies and government instituations people deal with.
While it is done with a humerous approach (making the bad guys look really stupid and dislikable), they usually manage to resolve stuff and always tell the viewer who to contact if they end up in crap.
Does Attack Of The Clones improve The Phantom Menace in retrospect?
I'll be seeing the flick on Friday, when it opens here and you'd think that by getting more overlap between the original movies and the "new" prequels, this would improve Star Wars as a whole.
And if III is done, would we then say: Star Wars is 6 movies, instead of 3+3? Just curious if the fans who saw it are now more ready to accept the whole package, including TPM, which indeed wasn't bad, just not great nor Star Wars either.
Implementations across platforms aren't always the same and g++ older than 2.95 doesn't support a bunch of stuff like streams and such.
Also, the strings lack many obvious operators such as string(int) which makes STL a pain in the ass for me.
My recommendation? For projects who can stand using a GPL'ed library, definitely Qt/E. With the right config you can compile it in well under 1MB and QString, QMap, QServerSocket, QSocket are all wonderful.
there is no way I can memorize a 10+ randomly generated strings
The don't have to be randomly generated, they should look like it. It's not that hard to come up with a string that is easy to remember yet hard to guess.
1.4 "IPR Impairing License" shall mean the GNU General Public License, the GNU Lesser/Library General Public License, and any license that requires in any instance that other software distributed with software subject to such license (a) be disclosed and distributed in source code form; (b) be licensed for purposes of making derivative works; or (c) be redistributable at no charge.
Okay, GPL/LGPL are specifically mentioned, little to do about that. But any other license should be fine. Not even the GPL and LGPL say anything about software you merely distribute with GPL'ed software.
"Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope."
This refers to distribution of the software under the software itself, not of other works. The GPL is only covering other software when that software is a copy or modification of the the original work. I assume most other licenses work the same and thus have no problem at all, thanks to Microsoft's clueless phrasing.
You'd really think they still haven't actually read the full GPL.
Interesting. Of course "gnome" is also a dictionary word and KDE is not (well, in Czech it is, I believe), so it might not be as neck to neck as this implies. I think I'm gonna buy fvwm keywords and see how long I can last with $5.;-)
Okay, I asked if he could see how stuff like "vi/emacs/joe/word/koffice" or "gnome/kde/fvwm" or "linux/windows/bsd" would rate. Let's end all those flamewars once and for all with a pretty accurate non-scientific popularity contest.
then escaping from the roof via helicoptor, which Spidey subsequently snares and reals in, leaving it suspended in a web between the Trade Towers. In my opinion, a very cool shot that should have been left in (scene was shot before 9/11)
Hopefully they will put it on the DVD as an extra. I'm not American, so I do not know how such a thing would be received by the public now that we're 6 months (by the time of the DVD release over a year) past 9/11. Personally I would love to see such footage and I think it would actually tribute the WTC.
But I can understand how it upsets many people as well and would be deemed inappropriate to be included.
Well, there are some open jobs within the KDE project. Another dull piece of work would be an installer/upgrader for KDE or a system configuration tool.
Although the largest problem here is to come up with something that works transparently on all those different platforms: several Linux distributions, *BSD, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, Windows (well, there's a Cygwin port of KDE 2) and so on.
I am sure others can mention dull problems within other projects as well.
Re:Screenshots anyone?
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Maybe they bought Red Hat. It makes a profit, innovates and could be a threat to Microsoft. That usually means they buy it, right?
You just admitted yourself that Intel is the big similarity between x86 and ia64.
I'm not knocking Hammer, but why does everyone act like the Itanium and Hammer versions of Linux are the first 64 bit versions?
Noone does. Everybody acts like the Itanium and Hammer will be the first 64 bit versions that will get substantial market share in both server and desktop environments. Like it or not, x86 is pretty big and important, so x86-64 and i64 will be pretty big and important.
XS4ALL is applealing this decision and they are still in court (you can check the XS4ALL pages at ...
This is why everyone in The Netherlands who cares about this stuff should sign up with them if they can and not another ISP. They have great service, savvy people, roots within the community and indeed, they are with us on every issue that every comes up in YRO. See this page about their views (dutch only).
It is nice to see that even in the corporate world, there are good guys.
What new fascist government? You mean the coalition of the christen democrats, liberals and a party that is a tad more right-wing but had its leader killed and now won't be as provocative and will have to be (and already are becoming) milder as part of the coalition?
And to reply to the parent comment, are sex and drugs laws aren't really loose, just because they we prefer regulation than outright banning certain things.
Please, don't spread nonsense.
Is there a small OpenOffice Reader available for download? The entire suite might be a free and legal download, as long as it is as huge as it is now, I probably can't convince a lot of people.
A guy on the street just charged me 5 bucks when I didn't accept his flyer.
The UK encrypted to air TV people went spectacularly bankrupt but thats market forces at work.
Same in the Netherlands. They wanted to hide our premier football league (American? read: soccer) behind a subscription model. Noone used it, the "Sport 7" channel went bankrupt and football is right back on public TV.
Turns out you can't cheat the public from what they think should be available. Piracy wasn't an issue here (weekly matches are much permanent than movies and audio, which you tend to *keep*). Only bad thing: many of the smaller teams now have huge debts because they made huge investments based on a multi-year sponsor contract of Sport 7.
Let's hope the general audience will also be smart enough to ignore any devices and software overly protected just for the sake of getting more money. Educating them indeed seems the proper way to fight.
I don't read the kernel mailing list. Could someone who does tell us what we have to look forward to in the 2.4 line?
As usual with the stable series, bugfixes. No new features, just bugfixes.
.. I am so going to submit my childhood stories to Slashdot. :)
If the US's closest ally, Britain, see's Hollywood's constant rewriting of history as an insult you can start to understand some of the indignance that breeds in the Arab world.
:)
Very insightful, but the problem is that most of the people on the world (not just Americans) don't know that Hollywood and revisionist history walk hand in hand. Let alone that thet know the real world issues at hand.
If India made a movie about a capitalist president on coke flying a few commercial jetliners into the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur with India saving the civilised Hindi world from further terrorist actions by those greedy merkins, maybe that would wake people up. "Hey, that sounds familiar, but didn't that go slightly different?".
Of course, noone would see that movie because it has no keyword on AOL.
At least once a month, I get an ADAD call, always in violation of California or federal law, but the calls are always Caller-ID blocked and don't identify the caller, so I haven't been able to do anything about them.
If you're really into doing something about this, you could contact your phone company. Aren't they legally obliged to keep records of any call passing their network? While the law and their policy probably prevents them from giving you the number, they should be in the position to report it to the proper authorities.
Whether that helps, I don't know, but here in The Netherlands that would probably help. There are plenty of consumer protection organisations to deal with this crap. One of them even has a popular TV show running for over a decade addressing these issues and other less than friendly stories about companies and government instituations people deal with.
While it is done with a humerous approach (making the bad guys look really stupid and dislikable), they usually manage to resolve stuff and always tell the viewer who to contact if they end up in crap.
Have you confirmed these are the exact same people?
Slashdot has many readers and posters, sometimes what seems hypocrite just means different opinions from different sources show up.
Does Attack Of The Clones improve The Phantom Menace in retrospect?
I'll be seeing the flick on Friday, when it opens here and you'd think that by getting more overlap between the original movies and the "new" prequels, this would improve Star Wars as a whole.
And if III is done, would we then say: Star Wars is 6 movies, instead of 3+3? Just curious if the fans who saw it are now more ready to accept the whole package, including TPM, which indeed wasn't bad, just not great nor Star Wars either.
Sooo, let me get this straight: it is riciculous to directly pay the artist who produce the music.
Musicians make music, record companies produce it. Not that I agree with the cut they take or pressure they can put on the musicians and market.
So the system was compromised before it was loaded? I think I'll ignore this testcase.
Here's another thought. Is it possible that _we_ are god?
Well I don't know about you, but I am..
..it's not too great.
Implementations across platforms aren't always the same and g++ older than 2.95 doesn't support a bunch of stuff like streams and such.
Also, the strings lack many obvious operators such as string(int) which makes STL a pain in the ass for me.
My recommendation? For projects who can stand using a GPL'ed library, definitely Qt/E. With the right config you can compile it in well under 1MB and QString, QMap, QServerSocket, QSocket are all wonderful.
there is no way I can memorize a 10+ randomly generated strings
The don't have to be randomly generated, they should look like it. It's not that hard to come up with a string that is easy to remember yet hard to guess.
1.4 "IPR Impairing License" shall mean the GNU General Public License, the GNU Lesser/Library General Public License, and any license that requires in any instance that other software distributed with software subject to such license (a) be disclosed and distributed in source code form; (b) be licensed for purposes of making derivative works; or (c) be redistributable at no charge.
Okay, GPL/LGPL are specifically mentioned, little to do about that. But any other license should be fine. Not even the GPL and LGPL say anything about software you merely distribute with GPL'ed software.
"Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope."
This refers to distribution of the software under the software itself, not of other works. The GPL is only covering other software when that software is a copy or modification of the the original work. I assume most other licenses work the same and thus have no problem at all, thanks to Microsoft's clueless phrasing.
You'd really think they still haven't actually read the full GPL.
Interesting. Of course "gnome" is also a dictionary word and KDE is not (well, in Czech it is, I believe), so it might not be as neck to neck as this implies. I think I'm gonna buy fvwm keywords and see how long I can last with $5. ;-)
Okay, I asked if he could see how stuff like "vi/emacs/joe/word/koffice" or "gnome/kde/fvwm" or "linux/windows/bsd" would rate. Let's end all those flamewars once and for all with a pretty accurate non-scientific popularity contest.
:-)
Help me hope he'll put it on the page.
then escaping from the roof via helicoptor, which Spidey subsequently snares and reals in, leaving it suspended in a web between the Trade Towers. In my opinion, a very cool shot that should have been left in (scene was shot before 9/11)
Hopefully they will put it on the DVD as an extra. I'm not American, so I do not know how such a thing would be received by the public now that we're 6 months (by the time of the DVD release over a year) past 9/11. Personally I would love to see such footage and I think it would actually tribute the WTC.
But I can understand how it upsets many people as well and would be deemed inappropriate to be included.
Well, there are some open jobs within the KDE project. Another dull piece of work would be an installer/upgrader for KDE or a system configuration tool.
Although the largest problem here is to come up with something that works transparently on all those different platforms: several Linux distributions, *BSD, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, Windows (well, there's a Cygwin port of KDE 2) and so on.
I am sure others can mention dull problems within other projects as well.
And as of now there is the new page with the official KDE 3.0 screenshots as well. :-)