The real difference is when you want to remove said spambot and be sure it hasn't left any backdors into your system. If root has been compromised, you need to reformat and reinstall everything (including the MBR and BIOS for the paranoid!!). If only a single user has been compromised a spambot is much easier to remove and detect, and it cannot bypass the firewall or hide funny processes.
The reason why you could not abort the drive change command, is because the error didn't come from the drive-change but from displaying the command promt.
If you had set the PROMT variable to only diplay the drive-letter, you could change to an empty disk drive without problem (as long as you didn't try to start any commands on the empty drive). But if the prompt was set to display the current working dir, DOS needed for some reason to access the drive each time it displayed the command promt.
Basically, going into a patent deal IS unethically because you give MS money and FUD ammo. But it is not against the GPL or the spirit of the GPL as long as you don't put patented stuff into free software.
Since i wrote the original post, I have have taken a pub-to-pub round in Berlin, so I am most likely intoxicated when I write this.
What I wanted to say with my post, is that a patent deal is mostly an insurance, not a license to use MS patents. You don't go into a patent deal with MS because MS has so many fine ideas you want to copy, but because you don't want to risk getting sued by the juggernaut that MS is.
A deal, or no deal, doesn't change the fact that you can't use MS patents because of the GPL. But at least MS won't sue you to death if you do a small mistake.
BTW. I don't see what Darth Water has to do with all of this... maybe I'll get it tomorrow when I am sober...
The way I see it, only entering a patent deal is not necessary bad. (except for giving MS money and FUD ammo.) The problems only starts the moment you include patented stuff into GPL'd software.
Without the patent deal, if you by mistake include patented stuff, you will anger the authors of free software AND risk being sued to death by Microsoft. With the deal, MS can't touch you. You only have to find a way to please the authors of any GPL'd code you may have distributed. History has shown that if it only was an honest mistake, they tend to have small demands. Just remove the offending code and everyone will most likely be happy.
And, you have to admit that those London street cameras helped quite a bit in tracking down the London train and bus bombers No, they didn't. The bombers was tracked down because they left their ID at the scene.
It is more important for a distro to be "politically correct" than to meet the needs of users for whom access to source will always be meaningless.
...and that is a very good thing sir.
Even if the access to source is meaningless for the majority of users, it is NOT meaningless for those few who contribute to your favorite application.
If we started to accept closed source software in our distributions, the development of free software would come to a halt.
So the the only way to meet the needs of the users, is to be "politically correct" and stick to free software.
No he didn't get a deal. In a sanely designed system, rolling back a borked configuration should be a matter of minutes. Thats less time than you need to look up the phone number, call your MS-rep and explain the problem.
I do understand that sometimes things happen that shouldn't have happened, and you have pay to have the problems fixed. But when the MS-rep needs 7 hour to do a job that shouldn't have lasted more than 15 minutes, the value of of the job done is still a 15 min job, not a 7 hour job.
Even if you encrypt your message with a short key that you don't need to write down somewhere, you could still keep a OTP around that decrypts the message to a "safe content"
What if I rip it to Ogg/Vorbis?
Or when I copy it from CD to CD via the HD, am I then allowed to listen to it from the HD before I transfer it to the new CD? What if wait to long before transfering it to the CD, is it then a CD to HD copy? What if I create a data-CD with mp3s?
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No, it's the formerly artist known as Prince
That's because the new cylons don't have the Cylon "eye".
What is a standard browser? They say you may only render it using a standard browser. I am browsing using telnet. Is telnet standard?
Read the posts. They ARE pushing the update, but NOT as a security update
The real difference is when you want to remove said spambot and be sure it hasn't left any backdors into your system. If root has been compromised, you need to reformat and reinstall everything (including the MBR and BIOS for the paranoid!!). If only a single user has been compromised a spambot is much easier to remove and detect, and it cannot bypass the firewall or hide funny processes.
The reason why you could not abort the drive change command, is because the error didn't come from the drive-change but from displaying the command promt.
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If you had set the PROMT variable to only diplay the drive-letter, you could change to an empty disk drive without problem (as long as you didn't try to start any commands on the empty drive). But if the prompt was set to display the current working dir, DOS needed for some reason to access the drive each time it displayed the command promt.
man, do I feel old
Basically, going into a patent deal IS unethically because you give MS money and FUD ammo. But it is not against the GPL or the spirit of the GPL as long as you don't put patented stuff into free software.
Since i wrote the original post, I have have taken a pub-to-pub round in Berlin, so I am most likely intoxicated when I write this.
What I wanted to say with my post, is that a patent deal is mostly an insurance, not a license to use MS patents. You don't go into a patent deal with MS because MS has so many fine ideas you want to copy, but because you don't want to risk getting sued by the juggernaut that MS is.
A deal, or no deal, doesn't change the fact that you can't use MS patents because of the GPL. But at least MS won't sue you to death if you do a small mistake.
BTW. I don't see what Darth Water has to do with all of this... maybe I'll get it tomorrow when I am sober...
The way I see it, only entering a patent deal is not necessary bad. (except for giving MS money and FUD ammo.) The problems only starts the moment you include patented stuff into GPL'd software.
Without the patent deal, if you by mistake include patented stuff, you will anger the authors of free software AND risk being sued to death by Microsoft. With the deal, MS can't touch you. You only have to find a way to please the authors of any GPL'd code you may have distributed. History has shown that if it only was an honest mistake, they tend to have small demands. Just remove the offending code and everyone will most likely be happy.
You don't need the "-e ssh". rsync should already be configured to use ssh by default
From this we can draw some conclusions:
It is more important for a distro to be "politically correct" than to meet the needs of users for whom access to source will always be meaningless.
Even if the access to source is meaningless for the majority of users, it is NOT meaningless for those few who contribute to your favorite application.
If we started to accept closed source software in our distributions, the development of free software would come to a halt.
So the the only way to meet the needs of the users, is to be "politically correct" and stick to free software.
Ubuntu downloads packages using http, so just set up a proxy
No he didn't get a deal. In a sanely designed system, rolling back a borked configuration should be a matter of minutes. Thats less time than you need to look up the phone number, call your MS-rep and explain the problem.
I do understand that sometimes things happen that shouldn't have happened, and you have pay to have the problems fixed. But when the MS-rep needs 7 hour to do a job that shouldn't have lasted more than 15 minutes, the value of of the job done is still a 15 min job, not a 7 hour job.
So what you are saying, is that paying 35-60$ to fix something That-Should-Not-Happen (tm) is cheap because a MS-rep need 7 hours to do the job?
When you shut the light off, the light bouncing back and forth would keep pushing.
After each "push" the photons will not be reflectet with the same frequency (the sails are moving away from the light. hint: doppler effect)
Huh.. How could this be modded interesting without someone posting the solution?
rm -- -foo
`man rm' is your friend.
It was called "The Trigger"
Even if you encrypt your message with a short key that you don't need to write down somewhere, you could still keep a OTP around that decrypts the message to a "safe content"
You forgot templates.
There is no better way to secure your job than using a lot of templates in your code....
(I just followed the links in the ./ article ;-)
Fast forward to paragraph 6 about confidentiality. Just be careful when reading it, or your head will explode...
I think I was the first person in 7,500.000 years managing to read this without getting killed..
What if I rip it to Ogg/Vorbis? Or when I copy it from CD to CD via the HD, am I then allowed to listen to it from the HD before I transfer it to the new CD? What if wait to long before transfering it to the CD, is it then a CD to HD copy? What if I create a data-CD with mp3s?
mount -t nfs my.file.server.com:/client-root/ /