We all saw how well those Disney et al. sites went when they "required" MSIE in order to be accessed. It didn't take long for them to reverse that decision.
However, this is even dumber. No one is claiming that Intel chips and Windows aren't the parts with the most prevelance in the market currently. But whither the poor Linux user with a dual Pentium II 450? S/he obviously has enough power to run both X and Netscape with these websites open, but can't, because s/he lacks a processor ID and "KNI," which IMHO isn't all that great a step up from 3dnow!. Believe me, these sites will be few, far between, and used mainly for Intel to say "Wow, look how amazing our processor is! Now your web experience will be many times better, more efficient, and faster!"
Free Software doesn't exist to 'impress' someone or the other. It exists because someone needed to do a certain task. For example, a little-known guy named Linus wanted to not use Minix or DOS on his 386. So instead, he wrote Linux. He didn't write it to impress Andrew Tanenbaum (sp?). (Actually it did rather the opposite. Die monolitic kernels die!:) He didn't write it to say "Wow, I'm an ubergeek." He wrote it to get a worthwhile OS on his computer.
As for funding, who's to say you can't fund Free Software development? Surely not Alan Cox, who does get paid to write Free Software.
More than anything, Free Software exists to (if you'll pardon the borrowed expression) 'scratch an itch' a developer had. If a developer has the need (and in a lot of cases the specs, for eg their hardware) to develop, it'll be developed. It's as simple as that.
I've always been impressed with id. I still remember the first time I tried DOOM - it blew me away. Imagine, he was WALKING and it LOOKED LIKE HE WAS! Ever since then I've been a real id booster. With their releases of Wolfenstein and Doom source code, they really do show that they're much more friendly towards free software and consumers in general than most people. They don't make any money off DOOM anymore, so why not release the code? They still own the copyright on their levels. They should be emulated by many companies.
The only problems with speed I've had, are when the kernel doesn't pick up any memory above 16MB.
In those cases (on Compaqs as far as I've seen, even with 2.2 they have trouble) just tell Linux how much memory you have. You can do it by passing the command-line arguments mem=96M (for example, 96 megabytes) on the LILO bootprompt or in the append line of your lilo.conf.. eg,
append="mem=96M"
Hope this helps.;)
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The GPL doesn't give you the freedom to make a proprietary program. It, however, gives you the freedom to do pretty much whatever else you wish with the code - as long as you release what you do under the GPL too.
FUD is used improperly a lot of the time, but the root of this thread was the very definition of FUD. Uh-oh, what if you don't buy the known quantity Intel? You might have crashes. AMD and Cyrix processors are unstable. No one ever got fired for buying Intel. Etc. Sure, I too have noticed the proliferation of the term "FUD," but in this case it first perfectly.
Create your own if you don't like this Slashdot. It's Rob's to operate however he sees fit - and he doesn't have to ask anyone else for permission to do it however he wants. This is his place. Go somewhere else, you ungrateful bastard.
Sorry to break it to you, but the Criminal Code is a federal statute. Child pornography is disallowed in the Criminal Code, thus it's disallowed in B.C. Provinces have no jurisdiction over criminal law.
(Note that you might be talking about a precedent-setting case. If so, it's probably waiting on an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. Once that's decided the rest of Canada abides by that rule. Right now you can still get arrested for Child Pornography in BC, I'll bet)
Cachedot is the web-cache version of Slashdot. It's hosted on bbn, and is generally faster than slashdot because slashdot is generally swamped with traffic;) It's available also from the left linksbar.
USB will be supported in LinuxPPC 5.0 - you can find information about it here. The skinny on it is that support is an ongoing project, but progressing rapidly (with people like Alan Cox helping out, even!)
IBM was a 'bad mofo' not too long ago. Reverse the clock 15 years or so and they're the Microsoft of that time. The difference is that IBM, after being bitten by Microsoft, has learned how to be a (IMHO) truly good company. Things like helping out Apache and their constant advancement in hardware make the difference. The fact is that IBM does make good stuff nowadays, and they do help the computer industry. Maybe 15 years from now we'll be saying the same thing about Microsoft. Don't forget that the Scanning-tunneling electron microscope was invented by IBM's Zurich labs. Whatever they've done in the past, they've made up for it: I believe in IBM now.
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Unfortunately it looks like your patch broke. Look for *.rej files around in your source dirs, and if that fails, just download the whole tarball (from a mirror!). After that use patches. Unfortunately sometimes things go wrong.
Really? Wow. What an accomplishment, especially considering there was no 1.4 series of kernels. It went straight from 1.3 to 2.0, and that invalidates everything you say, moron.
There are no plans to make this a commercial project. Netscape just gave a fast JVM/JIT compiler with a lot of potential to the Open Source community (mozilla.org) and you're bashing them for it. Makes a *lot* of sense.
They don't violate the license until they distribute binaries. Much like the GPL, the NPL doesn't require you distribute the changed sources unless you also distribute the changed binaries - or to put it another way, you don't have to distribute any changes if it's an internal project.
Until they distribute binaries, they are perfectly within their rights under the NPL - but once they do, sources had better be available. I fear the wrath that Mozilla.org will bring upon them (well, it's probably more like "Post them please." If they say "No" then, I really fear the wrath) if they don't follow the NPL.
If aMozilla isn't using NGLayout they might have made a big mistake. The old codebase is dead and doesn't support wonderful things like CSS1, DOM, and RDF 100%. While I appreciate the work that went into this, most of it was probably porting NSPR, and once you learn the codebase it shouldn't be too difficult to apply this to NGLayout. I urge the aMozilla team to please switch to NGLayout, if they haven't already. You're using an old, unmaintained codebase if you don't.
Note that I did look for this information but I couldn't find otherwise.
Also, one more thing: You have to release the source. I have seen a bunch of stuff floating around on their eZine about beta.exes - but do not forget to make available the source code, because otherwise you're violating the NPL.
(I won't get into the debate of cathedral vs. bazaar - both have their proponents and detractors. Regardless of which model you choose to follow, it's not an option on whether to follow the NPL.)
I always thought it interesting that TUCOWS was owned (and operated?) by a Canadian company, Internet Direct. (Well, actually Computerlink Online, but Internet Direct is more fun to say.)
(Back when I was into MUDs, I also liked boasting that Realms of Despair, a very popular MUD, is owned and operated by the same Canadian company.)
you're going to have to edit your httpd.conf. Most likely it's using so much RAM (and spawns 6 sessions) because of the modules you're using and the configuration. You specifically tell Apache how many spare processes to leave lying around so it doesn't have to take time to fork().
Apache is big in memory sometimes, but doesn't have to be.
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However, this is even dumber. No one is claiming that Intel chips and Windows aren't the parts with the most prevelance in the market currently. But whither the poor Linux user with a dual Pentium II 450? S/he obviously has enough power to run both X and Netscape with these websites open, but can't, because s/he lacks a processor ID and "KNI," which IMHO isn't all that great a step up from 3dnow!. Believe me, these sites will be few, far between, and used mainly for Intel to say "Wow, look how amazing our processor is! Now your web experience will be many times better, more efficient, and faster!"
As for funding, who's to say you can't fund Free Software development? Surely not Alan Cox, who does get paid to write Free Software.
More than anything, Free Software exists to (if you'll pardon the borrowed expression) 'scratch an itch' a developer had. If a developer has the need (and in a lot of cases the specs, for eg their hardware) to develop, it'll be developed. It's as simple as that.
I've always been impressed with id. I still remember the first time I tried DOOM - it blew me away. Imagine, he was WALKING and it LOOKED LIKE HE WAS! Ever since then I've been a real id booster. With their releases of Wolfenstein and Doom source code, they really do show that they're much more friendly towards free software and consumers in general than most people. They don't make any money off DOOM anymore, so why not release the code? They still own the copyright on their levels. They should be emulated by many companies.
Oh my, Linux 2.2 was released just in time for redhat 6.0 as well - it must be a conspiracy.
In those cases (on Compaqs as far as I've seen, even with 2.2 they have trouble) just tell Linux how much memory you have. You can do it by passing the command-line arguments mem=96M (for example, 96 megabytes) on the LILO bootprompt or in the append line of your lilo.conf.. eg,
append="mem=96M"
Hope this helps. ;)
The GPL doesn't give you the freedom to make a proprietary program. It, however, gives you the freedom to do pretty much whatever else you wish with the code - as long as you release what you do under the GPL too.
I rather doubt he meant x86 compatible, seeing as he mentioned alpha.. grin
yes, it's ok. everything will be alright. don't worry, the men in white coats will be here shortly to put you in a nice soft room.
(of course, "first" doesn't fit in that last sentence as well as the word "fits" does. dumb tyops.)
FUD is used improperly a lot of the time, but the root of this thread was the very definition of FUD. Uh-oh, what if you don't buy the known quantity Intel? You might have crashes. AMD and Cyrix processors are unstable. No one ever got fired for buying Intel. Etc. Sure, I too have noticed the proliferation of the term "FUD," but in this case it first perfectly.
Create your own if you don't like this Slashdot. It's Rob's to operate however he sees fit - and he doesn't have to ask anyone else for permission to do it however he wants. This is his place. Go somewhere else, you ungrateful bastard.
(Note that you might be talking about a precedent-setting case. If so, it's probably waiting on an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. Once that's decided the rest of Canada abides by that rule. Right now you can still get arrested for Child Pornography in BC, I'll bet)
Cachedot is the web-cache version of Slashdot. It's hosted on bbn, and is generally faster than slashdot because slashdot is generally swamped with traffic ;) It's available also from the left linksbar.
USB will be supported in LinuxPPC 5.0 - you can find information about it here. The skinny on it is that support is an ongoing project, but progressing rapidly (with people like Alan Cox helping out, even!)
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IBM was a 'bad mofo' not too long ago. Reverse the clock 15 years or so and they're the Microsoft of that time. The difference is that IBM, after being bitten by Microsoft, has learned how to be a (IMHO) truly good company. Things like helping out Apache and their constant advancement in hardware make the difference. The fact is that IBM does make good stuff nowadays, and they do help the computer industry. Maybe 15 years from now we'll be saying the same thing about Microsoft. Don't forget that the Scanning-tunneling electron microscope was invented by IBM's Zurich labs. Whatever they've done in the past, they've made up for it: I believe in IBM now.
Unfortunately it looks like your patch broke. Look for *.rej files around in your source dirs, and if that fails, just download the whole tarball (from a mirror!). After that use patches. Unfortunately sometimes things go wrong.
There are no plans to make this a commercial project. Netscape just gave a fast JVM/JIT compiler with a lot of potential to the Open Source community (mozilla.org) and you're bashing them for it. Makes a *lot* of sense.
Plastic isn't a nice thing to burn ;)
Until they distribute binaries, they are perfectly within their rights under the NPL - but once they do, sources had better be available. I fear the wrath that Mozilla.org will bring upon them (well, it's probably more like "Post them please." If they say "No" then, I really fear the wrath) if they don't follow the NPL.
Note that I did look for this information but I couldn't find otherwise.
Also, one more thing: You have to release the source. I have seen a bunch of stuff floating around on their eZine about beta .exes - but do not forget to make available the source code, because otherwise you're violating the NPL.
(I won't get into the debate of cathedral vs. bazaar - both have their proponents and detractors. Regardless of which model you choose to follow, it's not an option on whether to follow the NPL.)
(Back when I was into MUDs, I also liked boasting that Realms of Despair, a very popular MUD, is owned and operated by the same Canadian company.)
Apache is big in memory sometimes, but doesn't have to be.