This is part of the reason some consider Linux to be viral, some actually believe that code running with or under Linux is required to have it's source available to all those who want it, that would be a big no.
Unless you're statically linking your code to GPLed code, as in Linksys' case.
Maybe this way of doing business was patented by 3Dfx. That's why NVidia bought them.
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This is true passing from 1.4rc1 to 'latest and greatest', but if you have an 1.2 switching from gcc 2.95.3 to 3.2.x it's more tricky. There are ery good docs on the subject indeed.
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We hope Nintendo is fair enough to respect the queue.
Yours sincerely, The SCO Group
Widespread adoption will never occur : So what? This system will work for me even if I'm the only user. It's not one of those things that require a critical mass of users to be useful.
For what I understood, it works like the Tobin Tax: a very little fee for legitimate mail (I send say 1000 e-mails per years, even if I'll have to pay one cent for each one, it's only ten dollars) which becomes a proibitive amount for people sending millions of e-mails per week.
If the percentage of users requiring the fee drops, either the cost per mail has to drop or there is the possibility that spammers would not care of the increase in costs and will not blacklist me (the costs for purging their address lists could be more than the fees required by a small amount of recipients). I agree that probably even a very low percentage of people requiring fees should be enough to constrain spammers to avoid their addresses.
However the idea is good IMHO.
If this one gets modded +5 too, we will achieve uber-meta-dupe status
Sorry, I just finished my moderator points, but I promise that the third time htey will post this story I'll mod you up.
To be more general, an ebuild is a file containing the description of the operations needed to have an app installed.
1) It checks dependancies. If dependancies are satisfied it goes to step 2, else it launches the installation of needed packages.
2) It retrieves the app (either sources or binary package, in any format). Some times the portage system simply cannot automatically retrieve the app through the network (apps with required registration or license agreement acceptance requirement). In this case it stops asking the user to manually retrieve the package files, then it continues with the installation.
3) It prepares the app for installation (compiling sources or simply extracting in a temp dir the precompiled binaries (obviously it can deal with every package format)).
4) It installs the app, updating config files.
This way of working simply separates the actual app (source or any other package) from the metadata (contained in the ebuild script). So Gentoo can handle a lot of packets written for other distros (acting as a wrapper), simply trashing the original metadata and substituting it with its own.
As a matter of fact writing an ebuild is easier than packaging an rpm.
In other news:
recently published satellite maps show the 3000 feet deep, 112 miles wide crater subsequent to the explosion of a NASA webserver during the second slashdotting in two days.
Dear Mr Seti@home project leader,
we can tell for sure that your software needs some serious revision because as it is it doesn't work well in finding alien lifeforms.
I don't have time to continuously check my e-mail at work. I have important things to do, such as compulsively click on 'refresh' button on./ main page for first posts.
A good system would be the one hiding the 'dangerous' informations such that none would suspect they even exist (steganography). Obviously it would be very difficult to hide the program used to obfuscate the informations (if they fid the program, they could suspect you use it against them and torture you to know your keys).
One solution could be something like a Live CD system (which doesn't leave any trace of your activity on your computer) which uses some sort of 'online' information hiding program (which should be accessible without being traced), but in this case even only the possession of this 'suspect' CD could put you into troubles.
As long as they don't access to your PC and they don't intercept any suspect communication from it (I suspect that a PGP encrypted mail leads straight to torture in some countries), however, this is a good method to raise the chances of success in human rights violations reporting.
Just curiosity: could it be possible to create a Linux bootable CD (or zip) containing NTFS support (readonly, I know), Dosemu, any DOS, and F-Prot (or a similar AV software)?. I imagine thet basically an antivirus is based on pattern matching, so maybe avoiding memory scanning it shouldn't be a so complex piece of software to cause problems to Dosemu. At least it would be possible to detect if a system is infected.
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Welcome to Slashdot! ... mmh ... are you new to this place, ain't you?
It's always a pleasure to meet new friends. 'Cause
This is part of the reason some consider Linux to be viral, some actually believe that code running with or under Linux is required to have it's source available to all those who want it, that would be a big no.
Unless you're statically linking your code to GPLed code, as in Linksys' case.
It's not an island. But it's warm, and most of all is non-US influenced. Welcome here in Italy, man.
This really rocks! If it only worked on slashdotted pages ...
Maybe this way of doing business was patented by 3Dfx. That's why NVidia bought them.
This is true passing from 1.4rc1 to 'latest and greatest', but if you have an 1.2 switching from gcc 2.95.3 to 3.2.x it's more tricky. There are ery good docs on the subject indeed.
We hope Nintendo is fair enough to respect the queue.
Yours sincerely,
The SCO Group
But the benefits of LFS are the headaches!!
Does it mean California has finally solved its power supply problems?
I'm already able to program using my thought as a computer language.
To be honest, my first thought went to Whitespace.
For what I understood, it works like the Tobin Tax: a very little fee for legitimate mail (I send say 1000 e-mails per years, even if I'll have to pay one cent for each one, it's only ten dollars) which becomes a proibitive amount for people sending millions of e-mails per week.
If the percentage of users requiring the fee drops, either the cost per mail has to drop or there is the possibility that spammers would not care of the increase in costs and will not blacklist me (the costs for purging their address lists could be more than the fees required by a small amount of recipients). I agree that probably even a very low percentage of people requiring fees should be enough to constrain spammers to avoid their addresses.
However the idea is good IMHO.
If this one gets modded +5 too, we will achieve uber-meta-dupe status
Sorry, I just finished my moderator points, but I promise that the third time htey will post this story I'll mod you up.
Hey, this is Slashdot? How could I make the acclaimed BEOWULF CLUSTER OF THESE (R) without at least 10000 units?
... the big issue is not wearing the devices, it's actually wearing the antenna.
1) It checks dependancies. If dependancies are satisfied it goes to step 2, else it launches the installation of needed packages.
2) It retrieves the app (either sources or binary package, in any format). Some times the portage system simply cannot automatically retrieve the app through the network (apps with required registration or license agreement acceptance requirement). In this case it stops asking the user to manually retrieve the package files, then it continues with the installation.
3) It prepares the app for installation (compiling sources or simply extracting in a temp dir the precompiled binaries (obviously it can deal with every package format)).
4) It installs the app, updating config files.
This way of working simply separates the actual app (source or any other package) from the metadata (contained in the ebuild script). So Gentoo can handle a lot of packets written for other distros (acting as a wrapper), simply trashing the original metadata and substituting it with its own. As a matter of fact writing an ebuild is easier than packaging an rpm.
As a matter of fact, I am Elvis Presley.
In other news:
recently published satellite maps show the 3000 feet deep, 112 miles wide crater subsequent to the explosion of a NASA webserver during the second slashdotting in two days.
Dear Mr Seti@home project leader,
we can tell for sure that your software needs some serious revision because as it is it doesn't work well in finding alien lifeforms.
Respectfully yours,
Alf
Mork
E.T.
Chewbecca
Yoda
Spock
I don't have time to continuously check my e-mail at work. I have important things to do, such as compulsively click on 'refresh' button on ./ main page for first posts.
The article seems already slashdotted. Can someone e-mail me a copy, please?
Disclaimer: it's still beta and very buggy, but in case of necessity
ill -9 kremoveinitial
should solve any problem
Yet another dupe. Sigh. There have been way too many duplicate articles lately. Are /. editors not reading their own site?
One solution could be something like a Live CD system (which doesn't leave any trace of your activity on your computer) which uses some sort of 'online' information hiding program (which should be accessible without being traced), but in this case even only the possession of this 'suspect' CD could put you into troubles.
As long as they don't access to your PC and they don't intercept any suspect communication from it (I suspect that a PGP encrypted mail leads straight to torture in some countries), however, this is a good method to raise the chances of success in human rights violations reporting.
Just curiosity: could it be possible to create a Linux bootable CD (or zip) containing NTFS support (readonly, I know), Dosemu, any DOS, and F-Prot (or a similar AV software)?. I imagine thet basically an antivirus is based on pattern matching, so maybe avoiding memory scanning it shouldn't be a so complex piece of software to cause problems to Dosemu. At least it would be possible to detect if a system is infected.
Sure, no Bluetooth, no 16 bit screen, no built-in digital camera, but it's damn fast at computing square roots!