Inferring that your *BSD* comment was an anti-GNU stab, what exactly do you mean by "should be able to make a buck from it"? What is so wrong with SDL's approach and the LGPL license for toolkits? How many people would contribute to an open source project knowing that others can freeload their code? Sure, there are an altruistic few that code simply for the heck of it and need no other motivation, but the harsh reality is that they are a vast minority compared to us who prefer our free work to remain protected.
While not as bad as your $800 286 anecdote, i was thinking the same thing when the other day I saw a sign in someone's yard as I drove past. It was advertising a "Pentium 200 Computer" and listing its components, which were nothing special, and the price was $250. You'd be lucky to get $25 for the machine these days!
Oh, naturally. Hacking binary blobs with symbols stripped and no documentation is *obviously* just nearly as intuitive as hacking C source. And if it's not, or you don't have infinite time to sit around and trace code, it's just your skills that are lacking, n00b.
Oh, it's possible. Jumper a 2.2V K6/2 at 2.8V like a customer of mine did. When the CPU eventually burns up, it'll do the dandy trick of setting a regulator on fire too. I guess that's one way to collect insurance money!
Well, if he was "just lucky", then so was I. The exact same thing happened to me; Win2K would no longer boot with that drive attached to the system even as a secondary because the NTFS filesystem driver had some kind of issue. Pop in Knoppix and I was able to copy all the files off. Pooh-pooh it all you want but it certainly saved my butt that time.
You forgot to mention two things:
1. Optical cables are expensive, easily destroyed, and can't be grafted to fix a break like coaxial cables. Roll a chair over one, or step on it in the wrong way, and you're in for a whole new length of cable.
2. Optical cables won't propagate ground loop current like coaxial cables will. Optical cables can be useful in solving connections that go from room to room (or house to house) and pick up a ground loop hum somewhere along the way.
I can't believe this question was even asked. vim is the obvious choice for content management, bar none. Give your parents the gift of vim this season!
Well, the guy was talking about "Linux", I guess he means he is using just the kernel. So I would have to agree that the usability would be very poor from that standpoint. Maybe he should try installing a distribution and critiquing that instead.
How is it obvious? I use your code in my application, and only sell the binary to some particular groups of people. How have I not hijacked your code? You are not allowed to use it without paying, and nobody who paid for it is damn well going to just give you a copy.
The remainder of the registry looks like its going to be rolled into WinFS. Several of the reports from PDC describe mounting the registry like a hard drive and using a command prompt to change through directories/keys to read files/values.
That's funny; so now they're doing what Cygwin has been doing for years on the Win32 platform already. (/proc/registry) Go MS! Champions of innovation they are.
Not only is locating affected binaries trivial scripting, finding currently running and affected services is even more trivial. Restarting said affected services is entirely automatable on a site wide scale.
Furthermore, some operating systems (like Debian) already do this for you. How much easier could it possibly get?
dietlibc is also under the GPL, which makes it very annoying for use in embedded projects. At least with uclibc/newlib you don't have to worry about license problems (as long as you dynamically link and don't modify the libraries)
That is an excellent point, and one I've been trying to drive home for a long time to various folks who were either misinformed in the first place, or simply want to believe that GNU is a bad organization that wants to co-opt everyone else's work.
No idea why this other tripe was modded up instead of your post, since you're the only one making a coherent point.
While you may decry the state of television programming, or the rampant amount of porn on the net, these arguments do not change the fact that television and the Internet are just containers for content. Any content. That includes all the imagination and dreaming you want.
No kidding. When I was younger I was struggling to learn Pascal, run a BBS, and played MUDs for fun, loving every minute because it was like reading a book that was different every day.
The only thing that turns people into "consumers" is a lack of creativity or drive, in which case they didn't need a computer to "poison" them; if it weren't for the computer, they'd find something else to latch onto for their passive time-wasting. The problem comes both from lack of spirit in the individual, coupled with a lack of proper encouragement by parents, teachers, and peers.
I seriously think that we need to take some time to consider how Open Source projects do security. The "more eyes" mantra doesn't cut it.
Um, how do you think this problem was spotted? Read the mailing list post. There was a pair of eyes that found the bug, and he subsequently posted to the list.
In addition, a fix was checked in within four hours. 14 hours later, exploit code was posted to SecurityFocus, in the afternoon. Any admin who checked the lsh mailing list in the morning would have seen the error and the fix, and been well ahead of the exploit.
They are exempt from that. The goverment can loot whatever patent, copyright, or whatever for whatever use they want. Its part of the deal when you patent or copyright something. You let the goverment use what you have done for FREE.
Is the patent office, or is it not, an entity independent of the federal government?
GTK at least, is not tied to X at all. GDK, the underlying drawing and windowing system, is designed to be portable and has already been ported to Win32, to console, to DirectFB, etc.
56K modems actually run at a 2800 baud symbol rate, exactly the same as a 28.8K modem.
Illogically, it is actually easier to establish and maintain a 56k connection than it is a 33.6K connection, when the local phone line is the only thing in question. (with 56k, you also have to have no more than one analog->digital conversion in between you and the phone company).
A 33.6K connection requires a symbol rate of 3200, which is greater than the 2800 that the 56K uses; hence, when customers would ask "Whats the chances I can get 56k out of my line" and the tech would answer "Can you connect at the maximum 33.6K right now? If not, it wont work", they were flat out wrong.
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Inferring that your *BSD* comment was an anti-GNU stab, what exactly do you mean by "should be able to make a buck from it"? What is so wrong with SDL's approach and the LGPL license for toolkits? How many people would contribute to an open source project knowing that others can freeload their code? Sure, there are an altruistic few that code simply for the heck of it and need no other motivation, but the harsh reality is that they are a vast minority compared to us who prefer our free work to remain protected.
While not as bad as your $800 286 anecdote, i was thinking the same thing when the other day I saw a sign in someone's yard as I drove past. It was advertising a "Pentium 200 Computer" and listing its components, which were nothing special, and the price was $250. You'd be lucky to get $25 for the machine these days!
Oh, naturally. Hacking binary blobs with symbols stripped and no documentation is *obviously* just nearly as intuitive as hacking C source. And if it's not, or you don't have infinite time to sit around and trace code, it's just your skills that are lacking, n00b.
Oh, it's possible. Jumper a 2.2V K6/2 at 2.8V like a customer of mine did. When the CPU eventually burns up, it'll do the dandy trick of setting a regulator on fire too. I guess that's one way to collect insurance money!
Well, if he was "just lucky", then so was I. The exact same thing happened to me; Win2K would no longer boot with that drive attached to the system even as a secondary because the NTFS filesystem driver had some kind of issue. Pop in Knoppix and I was able to copy all the files off. Pooh-pooh it all you want but it certainly saved my butt that time.
You forgot to mention two things: 1. Optical cables are expensive, easily destroyed, and can't be grafted to fix a break like coaxial cables. Roll a chair over one, or step on it in the wrong way, and you're in for a whole new length of cable. 2. Optical cables won't propagate ground loop current like coaxial cables will. Optical cables can be useful in solving connections that go from room to room (or house to house) and pick up a ground loop hum somewhere along the way.
Hi there, you forgot to mention how you phrased your question to the IRC channel. Please reply, kthx.
I can't believe this question was even asked. vim is the obvious choice for content management, bar none. Give your parents the gift of vim this season!
www.backports.org is also a good resource for finding cutting-edge packages backported to the stable release.
xmove also doesn't support some of the more modern X extensions that are needed for toolkits to work. I think XRender was the one I had problems with.
Well, the guy was talking about "Linux", I guess he means he is using just the kernel. So I would have to agree that the usability would be very poor from that standpoint. Maybe he should try installing a distribution and critiquing that instead.
How is it obvious? I use your code in my application, and only sell the binary to some particular groups of people. How have I not hijacked your code? You are not allowed to use it without paying, and nobody who paid for it is damn well going to just give you a copy.
Huh? There was a hard drive for 8-bit Atari machines too. Logically enough, it connected to the joystick port.
dietlibc is also under the GPL, which makes it very annoying for use in embedded projects. At least with uclibc/newlib you don't have to worry about license problems (as long as you dynamically link and don't modify the libraries)
No idea why this other tripe was modded up instead of your post, since you're the only one making a coherent point.
Yes, it was called ReBorn, but the site is dead now.
The only thing that turns people into "consumers" is a lack of creativity or drive, in which case they didn't need a computer to "poison" them; if it weren't for the computer, they'd find something else to latch onto for their passive time-wasting. The problem comes both from lack of spirit in the individual, coupled with a lack of proper encouragement by parents, teachers, and peers.
In addition, a fix was checked in within four hours. 14 hours later, exploit code was posted to SecurityFocus, in the afternoon. Any admin who checked the lsh mailing list in the morning would have seen the error and the fix, and been well ahead of the exploit.
In what way is the parent a troll? He is right on the money IMO.
GTK at least, is not tied to X at all. GDK, the underlying drawing and windowing system, is designed to be portable and has already been ported to Win32, to console, to DirectFB, etc.
Illogically, it is actually easier to establish and maintain a 56k connection than it is a 33.6K connection, when the local phone line is the only thing in question. (with 56k, you also have to have no more than one analog->digital conversion in between you and the phone company).
A 33.6K connection requires a symbol rate of 3200, which is greater than the 2800 that the 56K uses; hence, when customers would ask "Whats the chances I can get 56k out of my line" and the tech would answer "Can you connect at the maximum 33.6K right now? If not, it wont work", they were flat out wrong.