If you liked the Space Quest games, and you haven't done so already, you might want to take a look at the Two Guys SpaceVenture - it's not yet funded, but has pledged Linux support from day one. I completely agree with it being a pain when projects make Linux support a stretch goal, not wanting to fund something you won't be able to play.
'Free Software' is about adding restrictions on distribution, to support a particular ideology; it's got nothing to do with freedom at all.
That is not true. The FSF considers public domain software to be Free Software as well; they don't consider software to be non-Free unless it's (L)GPLd. There are even licences that the FSF considers to be Free, but which aren't GPL compatible - the Apache licence, for instance. See the gnu.org list of licences for more details on individual licences.
Now, you may argue that the GPL is about "adding restrictions on distribution, to support a particular ideology", but the FSF's concept of Free Software certainly is not.
I have a UK passport with an RFID. I never (to my knowledge, at least) gave the government a fingerprint or retinal scan. The booklet that came with it also implied that the only thing "biometric" about it is that it has your photo on it.
It's not as if Google doesn't modify their search result display for some terms; see, for example, a search for "1600x1200". You're (or, at least, I am) given the Google Calculator response, and 3 image results.
I do agree that a second search box is pretty useless though. Perhaps there is a good reason for it to exist in some scenarios.
Note the "and" in your first block of quoted text. It's saying that if both of the conditions are true (i.e. the author explicitly allows the use of any later GPL version), then you can use it under the terms of the specified GPL version or any later one. This is the preferred wording of the FSF, but I'm fairly sure it's not required.
They come from dmoz (or, more accurately, from Google Directory, which is their local "mirror" of dmoz - last time I checked it tended to be out of date).
brickOS, a replacement firmware for the Lego Mindstorms RCX, was formerly called "legOS". So no, it doesn't run on standard x86 hardware. *ahem*
(I personally find it very annoying to read "Legos". I think it must be an American thing, I'd never heard of anyone calling Lego bricks "Legos" until reading Slashdot.)
Which non-x86 platforms? There are Opera 9.02 builds for Linux on PPC and SPARC. (Hey, if you don't want to use it just because it's not F/OSS, that's a perfectly valid stance to have, I'm just pointing out that Opera is actually pretty well ported.)
This isn't a valid argument; you don't hold your TV remote for extended periods of time. You do with a game controller. I agree with "there is such a thing as too light"; I found the N64 controller without a Rumble Pak to be disconcertingly light.
I've encountered the Linux OOM killer a couple of times; I believe it was when Mozilla or Firefox was choking on a page when I was on a machine with about 128MB of RAM. It does exist. Or did at one point, at least.
Whilst I use the nVidia blob (actually I'm using a Matrox Millennium II at the moment, but I digress), the reason why people want open source drivers is so that if it doesn't work, they can make it work, rather than relying on nVidia to fix it.
Another benefit would be that if nVidia's drivers were GPLd, they could be included with the Linux kernel and X(org|Free86) if they were to a high enough standard, completely eliminating the current issue of having to kill X to install the drivers, and reinstall with every kernel update; an open source driver would be far simpler to work with for all users.
Whilst the blob is, IMO, better than nothing, I'd still much rather prefer good OSS drivers.
Actually, it's not quite that simple; Windows (2000, at least) doesn't like it if it's not on the primary HDD. You have to make Windows think it is on the primary HDD to allow it to boot. In GRUB it's a case of adding the following lines:
map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0)
Not a major change, but without knowing this beforehand, you can't just get Windows to boot off a secondary HDD.
I'm running testing too, and the page I linked to does say that they messed up the 2005->2006 key change in various ways, which they hope to have addressed for next year. debian-archive-keyring is a new package, introduced after the 2005->2006 changeover, and the wording on the page seems to suggest that it will play more of a role at the 2006->2007 changeover.
Personally, I'm not going to install the keys package (I don't want to get the keys from the same location as I'm getting the files...), so I'm not sure how it actually should work, but to add a key to the apt keyring manually, you can run the following:
Just to follow on from what others have said, the Debian signing key changes yearly, which is probably why you had a number of unknown signature warnings.
You're using an old version of Firefox, which probably A) is vulnerable to exploits, B) has an old version of the Gecko rendering engine.
It's quite possible that you can't get it to display properly because you are using an outdated version of Gecko, though without trialling this I can't say for sure.
I'm not saying that they were quick to support these features; PNG was fairly old even at the time of IE6's release after all. I also don't like that they're only releasing it for XP and above, though they may have some justification to do so (using new APIs or something - not being a member of the IE team I really wouldn't know), and I also don't feel that they should release it for anything below 2K (the 9x line is dead, as is NT4). I'm simply pointing out that they are actually finally working on these things, so that example of incompatibility isn't really valid any more.
Maybe if they want to interoperate better with OSS they should implement CSS 2, or transparent PNGs.
If you're able to, take a look at IE7 Beta 2 (which is layout complete). It does improve CSS support (though it's still not perfect), and it does do alpha transparency in PNGs.
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If you liked the Space Quest games, and you haven't done so already, you might want to take a look at the Two Guys SpaceVenture - it's not yet funded, but has pledged Linux support from day one. I completely agree with it being a pain when projects make Linux support a stretch goal, not wanting to fund something you won't be able to play.
Not any more!
That is not true. The FSF considers public domain software to be Free Software as well; they don't consider software to be non-Free unless it's (L)GPLd. There are even licences that the FSF considers to be Free, but which aren't GPL compatible - the Apache licence, for instance. See the gnu.org list of licences for more details on individual licences.
Now, you may argue that the GPL is about "adding restrictions on distribution, to support a particular ideology", but the FSF's concept of Free Software certainly is not.
It takes MicroSD. USB1 only does seem odd, I agree.
I have a UK passport with an RFID. I never (to my knowledge, at least) gave the government a fingerprint or retinal scan. The booklet that came with it also implied that the only thing "biometric" about it is that it has your photo on it.
Are you sure about that? (see the <title> and footer)
It's not as if Google doesn't modify their search result display for some terms; see, for example, a search for "1600x1200". You're (or, at least, I am) given the Google Calculator response, and 3 image results.
I do agree that a second search box is pretty useless though. Perhaps there is a good reason for it to exist in some scenarios.
Adblock lets you block elements such as embedded Flash and Java applets easily enough.
Note the "and" in your first block of quoted text. It's saying that if both of the conditions are true (i.e. the author explicitly allows the use of any later GPL version), then you can use it under the terms of the specified GPL version or any later one. This is the preferred wording of the FSF, but I'm fairly sure it's not required.
They come from dmoz (or, more accurately, from Google Directory, which is their local "mirror" of dmoz - last time I checked it tended to be out of date).
brickOS, a replacement firmware for the Lego Mindstorms RCX, was formerly called "legOS". So no, it doesn't run on standard x86 hardware. *ahem*
(I personally find it very annoying to read "Legos". I think it must be an American thing, I'd never heard of anyone calling Lego bricks "Legos" until reading Slashdot.)
irc.freenode.net blocks tor because there's a dedicated tor hidden service for freenode. freenode has been very accommodating towards tor.
Which non-x86 platforms? There are Opera 9.02 builds for Linux on PPC and SPARC. (Hey, if you don't want to use it just because it's not F/OSS, that's a perfectly valid stance to have, I'm just pointing out that Opera is actually pretty well ported.)
This isn't a valid argument; you don't hold your TV remote for extended periods of time. You do with a game controller. I agree with "there is such a thing as too light"; I found the N64 controller without a Rumble Pak to be disconcertingly light.
What the OP really needs is the Gentoo Optimisations Generator.
I've encountered the Linux OOM killer a couple of times; I believe it was when Mozilla or Firefox was choking on a page when I was on a machine with about 128MB of RAM. It does exist. Or did at one point, at least.
Whilst I use the nVidia blob (actually I'm using a Matrox Millennium II at the moment, but I digress), the reason why people want open source drivers is so that if it doesn't work, they can make it work, rather than relying on nVidia to fix it.
Another benefit would be that if nVidia's drivers were GPLd, they could be included with the Linux kernel and X(org|Free86) if they were to a high enough standard, completely eliminating the current issue of having to kill X to install the drivers, and reinstall with every kernel update; an open source driver would be far simpler to work with for all users.
Whilst the blob is, IMO, better than nothing, I'd still much rather prefer good OSS drivers.
What's wrong with p7zip?
Personally, I'm not going to install the keys package (I don't want to get the keys from the same location as I'm getting the files...), so I'm not sure how it actually should work, but to add a key to the apt keyring manually, you can run the following:where [key ID] is an ID such as 2D230C5F (the current Debian key ID).
Just to follow on from what others have said, the Debian signing key changes yearly, which is probably why you had a number of unknown signature warnings.
You're using an old version of Firefox, which probably A) is vulnerable to exploits, B) has an old version of the Gecko rendering engine.
It's quite possible that you can't get it to display properly because you are using an outdated version of Gecko, though without trialling this I can't say for sure.
Congratulations, you already have that UID!
I'm not saying that they were quick to support these features; PNG was fairly old even at the time of IE6's release after all. I also don't like that they're only releasing it for XP and above, though they may have some justification to do so (using new APIs or something - not being a member of the IE team I really wouldn't know), and I also don't feel that they should release it for anything below 2K (the 9x line is dead, as is NT4). I'm simply pointing out that they are actually finally working on these things, so that example of incompatibility isn't really valid any more.
If you're able to, take a look at IE7 Beta 2 (which is layout complete). It does improve CSS support (though it's still not perfect), and it does do alpha transparency in PNGs.