The author tested the code on Solaris 8, SuSE Linux 8, FreeBSD 4.6 and Darwin (Mac OS X kernel) 6.8. In the preface, he talks about using a Windows box with SSH client to upload the code to the destination systems and run them there.
No testing - or even discussion - under cygwin, MS's native POSIX subsystem, linux-on-windows or MS's unix services for windows?
People need to develop for unix - for windows. All those killer win32 apps end up unix compatible, and future migrations are a snap once you tell your pointy haired boss that his favorite solitaire program is really a unix application running through a compatiblity layer.
So there ya go.
Seriously though, why do people ignore such things? The future is in hybrid systems. Your OS prejudices be damned.
10 bucks says others are struggling with the same fuckin thing.
Oh, and as for IDEALX's LDAP user webmin module, when you configure it and it asks for the "LDAP Admin Username", it wants the fully qualified dn, like "uid=cmdrtaco,ou=homos,dc=slashdot,dc=org".
Of course, like all useful linux utilities, there's absolutely no documentation about it. Now some other dork can benefit from my hours of trial-and-error.
But yay me, after a week of cussing, I know have a half-assed functional equivalent of a 10 year old server technology that MSFT abandoned!
Who needs krb5 and ldap when you got flatfiles and MSRPC, right?
Now make install renames old binaries with.old, so you can do make revert.
But, since the binaries are in a wholly different spot, it doesnt matter.
Your samba init script, or inetd.conf no doubt are configured to run from bin. So you'll be endlessly scouring google, running testparm - and getting no errors, running smbd in debug mode - getting no errors, but when the system launches, you'll get errors out the asshole in your log and wont know why!
so do this: rm -rf/usr/local/samba/sbin/usr/local/samba/bin./configure make make install
Java is a fine teaching language. You can learn the basics of OOP and the syntax is fairly clean.
The language taught in school means nothing. If you're a good programmer you can take the skills you learned in Java and apply them to whatever you use in real life.
Hell, I was taught Pascal in school. You don't see much of that on the street.
Sun will fade, be bought, split up. Java will die. Java HAS to die, it's fundamentally flawed. It's completely based on a 32 bit architecture. In languages like C, C++ the architecture is independent. On one system an int is 16 bits, on another 32 bits, on another 64.
What happens in a few years when the base word type on all the desktops is 64 bit. You declare everything as long int? What if you want 128 bit variables? long long long long int?
Irrelevant, but the very principles on which java was designed (virtual machines) gave it a limited useful lifespan.
Linux put all the old big iron Unix boys out in the cold. IBM and HP are going to do what they can to embrace it, but it'll wind up as too little too late.
In the end, there can be only one. And it shall be called MicroSoft.
Most of these suits against the big corps dont seem to be about linux, but about other SCO code. This doesnt seem to have anything to do with linux whatsoever.
If we're talking about SCO code running 7 years ago, it wasnt linux. Not in a corporation of that stature. Hell, 7 years ago it was hardly useful in my Uni's labs.
There are probably cases out there where corporations migrated from SCO Unix to Linux, took SCOs userland code and recompiled it. This would most likely be wrong.
Ie; my company writes code that runs on Windows. If one of our clients decides to switch to linux, and run our code under Wine or recompile it, that doesn't mean they dont owe us licenses.
But it doesnt matter. Zealots need there heroes and victims, to paint everything in black and white. The real world is hardly ever like that.
Next article up: SCOs lawyers file a motion that Daimlers lawyers are full of shit and they use SCO IP wrongly every day.
Seriously, you think it's that easy? What if you were on trial for stealing a DVD player (or whatver), do you think you can just say to the judge "I havent even watched a movie for 7 years so I dont even have a dvd player"?
It wasnt worth the hassle for me to install itunes and browse their shitty (imo) selection to find a single song that I might want to listen to - of course only from my own computer.
I'm surprised they redeemed 5 million. I'd think it would be less. Most people simply don't care about a free download of a song from apple. And I mean most as in 99.9% of the population who aren't Apple geeks.
Just because apple charges a buck a tune doesn't mean that's what people think it's worth. "Hooray here's your prize, a song - net value for you: nothing".
The whole point of the promotion was to get iTunes on TV, and the Pepsi ads "Im gonna download free music so fuck you copyright laws nyah nyah" did just that.
HOSTS was never meant to have 1000's of listings. I can't think of anything stupider than to sequentially search a huge text file for each outgoing tcp request.
Since you're all linux nerds, and swear up and down you use nothing but linux on the desktop, why would you even fuck with such a thing?
Throw your hosts into an ldap and install (and use) libnss_ldap.so. That'd be slightly more efficient since of course, you do have nscd running, right?
Or use something like privoxy, which works well, though I don't care for proxy servers. Mozilla's pop-up blocking works well too.
Gack, leave HOSTS alone. This is the 21st century for fuck sakes. Run a dns cache/server like pdnsd or BIND and block them out there.
is used to describe the stiff legged, uncomfortable walk of a man in the waiting room of the free clinic, his penis belching what feels like liquid fire, after a trip to "exotic" Indonesia.
I read it as "un-fucking-believable I'm supposed to get a hard on because some fucking nerd copied the DeCSS code down off of a T-shirt? This is his ace in the hole? Gawd, fuck these guys. I'm glad I talked Lucas into ruining Star Wars. Wait till these douchebags see what I had 'em do to "I Robot" Heh. Will Smith."
I bought an eMachine that came bundled with PowerDVD. Just like Turbolinux comes bundled with PowerDVD.
MSFT licensed their DVD player, so it's part of the cost of Windows.
Buying turbolinux = getting PowerDVD "free, just like buying Windows XP = getting Media Player "free".
How come there isnt a completely free, no strings, non-bundled DVD player for linux? Because you haven't written one yet, and payed all the royalties out of your own pocket.
I wouldnt expect Valenti to know about it, as I wouldnt expect any 84 year old man to give a rats ass about "whats happenin' wit linux".
It is possible that the OSS zealot community would completely ignore a commercial product for linux. Especially one that so buttfucks the whole "there's no dvd player for linux so its ok for me to get divx off kazaa!" argument.
It's stuff like this that just brings out what I hate about the linux "community". It's all about greed and freebies and some ridiculous sense of entitlement.
There has been a legal route to playing DVDs under linux for years. It involves paying money, so its non-Free, so the "community" (handful of loudmouth zealots hellbent on dooming linux) chooses to ignore it.
But the fact is, it exists, and has for a while now.
It's been around for about a year, type "powerdvd linux" into google and find the press releases. They targetted embedded linux first, and have been fighting tooth and nail to get it into various distros.
I have to agree, in the four years I've worked hear and had the same email address, I've gotten not a single spam to it. One coworker in particular gets literally hundreds of porn spams in a day. He thinks it happens to everyone, and doesnt realize that I know the only reason he gets it is because he stays late browsing the web's stickier side.
I use my work email only for work and personal correspondance, not to sign up for websites, etc.. I use a hotmail address for that, and lo and behold - it's crammed with spam.
My home email, on comcast.net gets the odd spam - maybe 3 or 4 in a week. I hardly ever use it and have never given it out. Big domain names like hotmail or comcast or aol are just going to be targets no matter what.
All the same, I agree. I'm tired of peoples lack of personal responsibility these days, laws like this make me sick. So Vladimir stays late one night, browsing pictures of hot man-cow anal action - then sues his employer when his inbox floods with man-cow advertisements?
It's like saying you're going to jerk off in the washroom, then sue your boss when your dicks sore because he didn't provide vaseline in the stalls.
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The author tested the code on Solaris 8, SuSE Linux 8, FreeBSD 4.6 and Darwin (Mac OS X kernel) 6.8. In the preface, he talks about using a Windows box with SSH client to upload the code to the destination systems and run them there.
No testing - or even discussion - under cygwin, MS's native POSIX subsystem, linux-on-windows or MS's unix services for windows?
People need to develop for unix - for windows. All those killer win32 apps end up unix compatible, and future migrations are a snap once you tell your pointy haired boss that his favorite solitaire program is really a unix application running through a compatiblity layer.
So there ya go.
Seriously though, why do people ignore such things? The future is in hybrid systems. Your OS prejudices be damned.
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Thats offtopic, but not flamebait.
10 bucks says others are struggling with the same fuckin thing.
Oh, and as for IDEALX's LDAP user webmin module, when you configure it and it asks for the "LDAP Admin Username", it wants the fully qualified dn, like "uid=cmdrtaco,ou=homos,dc=slashdot,dc=org".
Of course, like all useful linux utilities, there's absolutely no documentation about it. Now some other dork can benefit from my hours of trial-and-error.
But yay me, after a week of cussing, I know have a half-assed functional equivalent of a 10 year old server technology that MSFT abandoned!
Who needs krb5 and ldap when you got flatfiles and MSRPC, right?
And THAT's advanced unix programming, folks.
3.0 installs smbd/nmbd in /usr/local/samba/sbin
/usr/local/samba/bin
.old, so you can do make revert.
/usr/local/samba/sbin /usr/local/samba/bin ./configure
2.2 installed them in
Now make install renames old binaries with
But, since the binaries are in a wholly different spot, it doesnt matter.
Your samba init script, or inetd.conf no doubt are configured to run from bin. So you'll be endlessly scouring google, running testparm - and getting no errors, running smbd in debug mode - getting no errors, but when the system launches, you'll get errors out the asshole in your log and wont know why!
so do this:
rm -rf
make
make install
test test test test test scream
buy Windows Server 2003
Thank you, that is all.
Look, for some reason since Google uses linux, they were a friend of the open source free-as-in-capitalism-sucks cliq.
Now that they want to go public, increase capital, and build the business, that same cliq sees it as a betrayal or selling out.
So, of course the comment is baseless. Just some philosophically motivated anger management.
Java is a fine teaching language. You can learn the basics of OOP and the syntax is fairly clean.
The language taught in school means nothing. If you're a good programmer you can take the skills you learned in Java and apply them to whatever you use in real life.
Hell, I was taught Pascal in school. You don't see much of that on the street.
Sun will fade, be bought, split up. Java will die. Java HAS to die, it's fundamentally flawed. It's completely based on a 32 bit architecture. In languages like C, C++ the architecture is independent. On one system an int is 16 bits, on another 32 bits, on another 64.
What happens in a few years when the base word type on all the desktops is 64 bit. You declare everything as long int? What if you want 128 bit variables? long long long long int?
Irrelevant, but the very principles on which java was designed (virtual machines) gave it a limited useful lifespan.
Linux put all the old big iron Unix boys out in the cold. IBM and HP are going to do what they can to embrace it, but it'll wind up as too little too late.
In the end, there can be only one. And it shall be called MicroSoft.
And this could be one of them.
Most of these suits against the big corps dont seem to be about linux, but about other SCO code. This doesnt seem to have anything to do with linux whatsoever.
If we're talking about SCO code running 7 years ago, it wasnt linux. Not in a corporation of that stature. Hell, 7 years ago it was hardly useful in my Uni's labs.
There are probably cases out there where corporations migrated from SCO Unix to Linux, took SCOs userland code and recompiled it. This would most likely be wrong.
Ie; my company writes code that runs on Windows. If one of our clients decides to switch to linux, and run our code under Wine or recompile it, that doesn't mean they dont owe us licenses.
But it doesnt matter. Zealots need there heroes and victims, to paint everything in black and white. The real world is hardly ever like that.
So says a lawyer.
Next article up: SCOs lawyers file a motion that Daimlers lawyers are full of shit and they use SCO IP wrongly every day.
Seriously, you think it's that easy? What if you were on trial for stealing a DVD player (or whatver), do you think you can just say to the judge "I havent even watched a movie for 7 years so I dont even have a dvd player"?
by everyone involved in every one of SCOs cases. They really aren't newsworthy.
Judges orders, warrants, and decisions from the bench are worth noting. But legal filings are just the gears of the bloated legal system in action.
The first thing any lawyer does in almost any case is file for dismissal on some obscure precedent.
It wasnt worth the hassle for me to install itunes and browse their shitty (imo) selection to find a single song that I might want to listen to - of course only from my own computer.
I'm surprised they redeemed 5 million. I'd think it would be less. Most people simply don't care about a free download of a song from apple. And I mean most as in 99.9% of the population who aren't Apple geeks.
Just because apple charges a buck a tune doesn't mean that's what people think it's worth. "Hooray here's your prize, a song - net value for you: nothing".
The whole point of the promotion was to get iTunes on TV, and the Pepsi ads "Im gonna download free music so fuck you copyright laws nyah nyah" did just that.
do adervisters really think this will increase their sales
Because it does. Advertising works.
HOSTS was never meant to have 1000's of listings. I can't think of anything stupider than to sequentially search a huge text file for each outgoing tcp request.
Since you're all linux nerds, and swear up and down you use nothing but linux on the desktop, why would you even fuck with such a thing?
Throw your hosts into an ldap and install (and use) libnss_ldap.so. That'd be slightly more efficient since of course, you do have nscd running, right?
Or use something like privoxy, which works well, though I don't care for proxy servers. Mozilla's pop-up blocking works well too.
Gack, leave HOSTS alone. This is the 21st century for fuck sakes. Run a dns cache/server like pdnsd or BIND and block them out there.
is used to describe the stiff legged, uncomfortable walk of a man in the waiting room of the free clinic, his penis belching what feels like liquid fire, after a trip to "exotic" Indonesia.
I read it as "un-fucking-believable I'm supposed to get a hard on because some fucking nerd copied the DeCSS code down off of a T-shirt? This is his ace in the hole? Gawd, fuck these guys. I'm glad I talked Lucas into ruining Star Wars. Wait till these douchebags see what I had 'em do to "I Robot" Heh. Will Smith."
What "free" DVD player?
I bought an eMachine that came bundled with PowerDVD. Just like Turbolinux comes bundled with PowerDVD.
MSFT licensed their DVD player, so it's part of the cost of Windows.
Buying turbolinux = getting PowerDVD "free, just like buying Windows XP = getting Media Player "free".
How come there isnt a completely free, no strings, non-bundled DVD player for linux? Because you haven't written one yet, and payed all the royalties out of your own pocket.
And PowerDVD for linux goes back to 2001 at least
I wouldnt expect Valenti to know about it, as I wouldnt expect any 84 year old man to give a rats ass about "whats happenin' wit linux".
It is possible that the OSS zealot community would completely ignore a commercial product for linux. Especially one that so buttfucks the whole "there's no dvd player for linux so its ok for me to get divx off kazaa!" argument.
It's stuff like this that just brings out what I hate about the linux "community". It's all about greed and freebies and some ridiculous sense of entitlement.
Yeah, you are awesome!
Here's a press relase from JUNE 12, 2001
There has been a legal route to playing DVDs under linux for years. It involves paying money, so its non-Free, so the "community" (handful of loudmouth zealots hellbent on dooming linux) chooses to ignore it.
But the fact is, it exists, and has for a while now.
It's been around for about a year, type "powerdvd linux" into google and find the press releases. They targetted embedded linux first, and have been fighting tooth and nail to get it into various distros.
Especially when the "journalist" (really just a university linux zealot, no more a "journalist" than slashdots own michael) has the facts wrong.
About six articles ago they announced Turbolinux shipping with Cyberlink PowerDVD. Ooops..
Here's more fun. Cyberlink posting to debians forums, wanting to get PowerDVD into the distro. Of course, it goes ignored.
The "its legal for me to crack this to play dvds on my linux box" rant is just too good to be destroyed by reality.
TT: None under Linux. There's no licensed player under Linux.
Except this one
Man I hate it when a good zealot rant is spoiled by facts.
So the gist of this interview is some nerd stickin it to Valenti about there being no legal way to watch DVDs on Linux.
Meanwhile, 6 or 7 articles before this one, was there not an article about Turbolinux shipping with a licensed DVD player, and WMP licenses?
Oh, there's not a "Free as in gimme gimme i deserve it" DVD player for linux.
Lies and horseshit won't help the 'cause'.
I have to agree, in the four years I've worked hear and had the same email address, I've gotten not a single spam to it. One coworker in particular gets literally hundreds of porn spams in a day. He thinks it happens to everyone, and doesnt realize that I know the only reason he gets it is because he stays late browsing the web's stickier side.
I use my work email only for work and personal correspondance, not to sign up for websites, etc.. I use a hotmail address for that, and lo and behold - it's crammed with spam.
My home email, on comcast.net gets the odd spam - maybe 3 or 4 in a week. I hardly ever use it and have never given it out. Big domain names like hotmail or comcast or aol are just going to be targets no matter what.
All the same, I agree. I'm tired of peoples lack of personal responsibility these days, laws like this make me sick. So Vladimir stays late one night, browsing pictures of hot man-cow anal action - then sues his employer when his inbox floods with man-cow advertisements?
It's like saying you're going to jerk off in the washroom, then sue your boss when your dicks sore because he didn't provide vaseline in the stalls.
'cuz you're gunna be suckin for foodstamps if you think you're going to get rich in IT with no education or skills.
It translates roughly to this (my dingbat is rusty, please forgive me);
Blah blah blah buzzword buzzword buzzword spacefiller spacefiller blah blah this submission is now longer.