The thing that irritates me is that so many people think GPL implies free binaries and source for everyone direct from the original distributor, it doesn't. It means that whomever the original distributor gives binaries to, the distributor must also give them the source, which they are free to redistribute. Sun can release Solaris under the GPL, and not ever give away a single free binary, and not ever put a single line of source code on a single public web/ftp server. That is the truth of the GPL that so many people don't seem to realise. Then they start spouting off about how companies are disrespecting/violating the GPL.
ok. but for a long time running the mozilla packages from redhat used system colors and fonts and stuff only in the default theme, and the mozilla.org package did not in any.
I was always under the impression that they were Chrome apps. It could just be Mozilla. Anyhow, I'm mostly referring to how Firefoz/Thunderbird/Mozilla have their theme engines, and their own themes. Red Hat has always done some extra packaging so that the default theme picks up GTK colors and icons. But if you use any other theme.
Thunderbird doesn't use the system themes, nor does Firefox or the Mozilla suite, they aren't GTK apps. Evolution is the mail client that should have an integrated look/feel. Epiphany is the browser. Galeon is another browser that should have the consistent system look/feel, but it isn't bundled like epiphany.
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Why would any man have to get his wife/girlfriend to "LET" them do something
most conventional western marriages include each partner vowing to forsake all others. If your wedding vows include such a statement, then you really should make sure your partner is ok with you paying other people to rub their genitals (clothed or not) on you.
I hate arguing with people who can't admit Williams has ripped off stuff for some of his more memorable movie tunes. One guy citing his music degree as proof that the theme from Jaws isn't a ripoff of Dvorak. I had to just shake my head in disbelief and leave him to wallow in his ignorance after that.
Better to have never served at all, than to quit like a coward after four months.
Is signing up for domestic service to avoid foreign service, and then going AWOL for a year better than volunteering to go under fire, saving the life of a person you hardly know, being honorably discharged, and then speaking out as a conscientious objector having witnessed it first hand?
This finally pushed me over to Thunderbird, even though it's not ready for my needs (for the love of Linus, people, make the SMTP server definable per email account, just like the POP server). Thunderbird displays the same URL on mouseover as it will use when one clicks on it (I actually filed a bug report with Microsoft that OE/IE do not).
While the interface probably isn't what you're expecting, that is already possible. In the Account Settings dialog, select SMTP in the pane on the left. Then click the Advanced button on the right, and you can add multiple SMTP servers. Then for each account select Server Settings in the left pane, and click the Advanced button on the right. You can specify any of the configured SMTP servers there. You can also select from any of the configured SMTP servers during email composition, the from line should have a pull-down arrow next to it.
Are you implying that if there is a law requiring you to identify yourself you lose the right not to not have to identify yourself?
I'm assuming that double negative was a typo.
Federal courts have already stated we do not have the right to not identify ourselves to law enforcement. Obviously, we are still physically able to refuse to identify ourselves, but doing so will result in arrest. I'm not commenting on whether or not this is acceptable, or whether or not the right to refuse to identify one's self is one of those inalienable rights or anything philosophical. I'm just saying that as of today, the judicial and executive branches of government do not observe a right of the people to refuse to identify themselves to law enforcement upon request. As such, from a legal standpoint, refusing to identify yourself to a police officer who has no probable cause on matter of principle is civil disobedience.
If you didn't have to identify yourself, the police would not be able to arrest and fine you for refusing to. That's the bloody point. You are legally required to identify yourself. Choosing not to isn't observing a right, it's civil disobedience.
man did you miss the point (at least I'm assuming you did since you didn't respond to it directly). The topic is using redistribution of SP2 to demonstrate a legal use of p2p. If MS doesn't allow redistribution, then this is still an example of illegal use. Copyright is the determining factor here, not the legality of p2p networks, which is what the OP was alluding to. Microsoft holds the copyright for the code in SP2, so they have the legal authority to say distribution of SP2 on p2p networks is not allowed.
Now, before you go off on me for thinking I missed your point, I agree that Congress is out of touch with the tech community and behind the curve on what legislation will have the intended impact. All they seem to do is make things harder for honest people (the copyright infringers won't be slowed down, but people trying to spread valid security patches might for fear of prosecution).
People were using Linux in the workplace long before RedHat and SUSE produced "Enterprise" editions of their OS. There's nothing to say they won't, still. (Although having "Enterprise" in the name certainly is a marketing tool.)
The commercial viability of a Linux distribution as an Enterprise offering has little to do with the vendor itself. It has to do with other companies like Oracle and Rational (technically now IBM) supporting those distributions. And really the only thing that prompts those companies is the Linux vendor offering multi-year support contracts that say the versions of the software included will not change over the course of the support contract. So even though every other Linux vendor can produce just about the exact same distribution, they don't offer the support contracts that get the big software companies to port applications.
Schwartz is retarded. I doubt IBM would let themselves be dependent on Sun in the same way they were dependent on Microsoft in the 80s. If Sun bought Novell to get Suse to have leverage on IBM, IBM could just switch to another distro, or roll their own, or whatever. That's the whole freaking point behind IBM moving from proprietary Unix to Linux on the server.
What is copyrighted there is not the songs themselves, but that particular recording. So the artist who wrote the song (and thus most likely owns the copyright on the music and lyrics) is free to re-record or perform the song without having to worry about royalties to the publisher.
If you're self-employed or working as an independent contractor, you can deduct your costs of doing business. Even when you're a W2 employee of a company, you can deduct expenses which your employer doesn't cover. For example, if you're programmer who works from home you can deduct the cost of your internet connection and the purchase of your computing hardware and software. Then you can also track depreciation of those assets from year to year.
I like that the rebuttal has no scientific value but is still rated +5 Insightful. Nothing about thermodynamics, just the supposed emotions of toasted bread.
IE isn't "part of the OS" any more than Apache is "part of the OS".
Yes it is. Internet Explorer is pretty much the Explorer shell with the Microsoft rendering engine. The reusable, shared library code is bundled into core OS DLL files. You can't run Windows without running IE, as of Windows 95b.
check out Frank's corner for step-by-step instructions that tend to include links to other applications you need to install to get it going. The user forum on that site is pretty good too. I've found it to be a better resource for getting common applications running than winehq.com.
because lots of OSS code depends on GCC "features" that aren't part of the ISO standards. So MS would have had to add these features to VC++. Maybe you should get your head out of your ass.
I'm surprised nobody replied about Rick Boucher's bill, the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act. It requires producers to clearly label their products as incorporating copy protection devices.
Every time someone complains about the lack of big companies offering Linux desktops, somebody quickly claims that Microsoft does all sorts of illegal manipulations to make it impossible -- and, of course, promptly gets moderated up to +5 Insightful. Would they care to explain this?
To play Devil's Advocate and seemingly contradict an earlier post of mine, notice that this announcement applies to Europe, where the judicial system seems to have sharper teeth when it comes to punishing Microsoft to level the playing field.
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The thing that irritates me is that so many people think GPL implies free binaries and source for everyone direct from the original distributor, it doesn't. It means that whomever the original distributor gives binaries to, the distributor must also give them the source, which they are free to redistribute. Sun can release Solaris under the GPL, and not ever give away a single free binary, and not ever put a single line of source code on a single public web/ftp server. That is the truth of the GPL that so many people don't seem to realise. Then they start spouting off about how companies are disrespecting/violating the GPL.
ok. but for a long time running the mozilla packages from redhat used system colors and fonts and stuff only in the default theme, and the mozilla.org package did not in any.
I was always under the impression that they were Chrome apps. It could just be Mozilla. Anyhow, I'm mostly referring to how Firefoz/Thunderbird/Mozilla have their theme engines, and their own themes. Red Hat has always done some extra packaging so that the default theme picks up GTK colors and icons. But if you use any other theme.
Thunderbird doesn't use the system themes, nor does Firefox or the Mozilla suite, they aren't GTK apps. Evolution is the mail client that should have an integrated look/feel. Epiphany is the browser. Galeon is another browser that should have the consistent system look/feel, but it isn't bundled like epiphany.
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most conventional western marriages include each partner vowing to forsake all others. If your wedding vows include such a statement, then you really should make sure your partner is ok with you paying other people to rub their genitals (clothed or not) on you.
I hate arguing with people who can't admit Williams has ripped off stuff for some of his more memorable movie tunes. One guy citing his music degree as proof that the theme from Jaws isn't a ripoff of Dvorak. I had to just shake my head in disbelief and leave him to wallow in his ignorance after that.
Is signing up for domestic service to avoid foreign service, and then going AWOL for a year better than volunteering to go under fire, saving the life of a person you hardly know, being honorably discharged, and then speaking out as a conscientious objector having witnessed it first hand?
While the interface probably isn't what you're expecting, that is already possible. In the Account Settings dialog, select SMTP in the pane on the left. Then click the Advanced button on the right, and you can add multiple SMTP servers. Then for each account select Server Settings in the left pane, and click the Advanced button on the right. You can specify any of the configured SMTP servers there. You can also select from any of the configured SMTP servers during email composition, the from line should have a pull-down arrow next to it.
I'm assuming that double negative was a typo.
Federal courts have already stated we do not have the right to not identify ourselves to law enforcement. Obviously, we are still physically able to refuse to identify ourselves, but doing so will result in arrest. I'm not commenting on whether or not this is acceptable, or whether or not the right to refuse to identify one's self is one of those inalienable rights or anything philosophical. I'm just saying that as of today, the judicial and executive branches of government do not observe a right of the people to refuse to identify themselves to law enforcement upon request. As such, from a legal standpoint, refusing to identify yourself to a police officer who has no probable cause on matter of principle is civil disobedience.
If you didn't have to identify yourself, the police would not be able to arrest and fine you for refusing to. That's the bloody point. You are legally required to identify yourself. Choosing not to isn't observing a right, it's civil disobedience.
Now, before you go off on me for thinking I missed your point, I agree that Congress is out of touch with the tech community and behind the curve on what legislation will have the intended impact. All they seem to do is make things harder for honest people (the copyright infringers won't be slowed down, but people trying to spread valid security patches might for fear of prosecution).
The commercial viability of a Linux distribution as an Enterprise offering has little to do with the vendor itself. It has to do with other companies like Oracle and Rational (technically now IBM) supporting those distributions. And really the only thing that prompts those companies is the Linux vendor offering multi-year support contracts that say the versions of the software included will not change over the course of the support contract. So even though every other Linux vendor can produce just about the exact same distribution, they don't offer the support contracts that get the big software companies to port applications.
Schwartz is retarded. I doubt IBM would let themselves be dependent on Sun in the same way they were dependent on Microsoft in the 80s. If Sun bought Novell to get Suse to have leverage on IBM, IBM could just switch to another distro, or roll their own, or whatever. That's the whole freaking point behind IBM moving from proprietary Unix to Linux on the server.
What is copyrighted there is not the songs themselves, but that particular recording. So the artist who wrote the song (and thus most likely owns the copyright on the music and lyrics) is free to re-record or perform the song without having to worry about royalties to the publisher.
If you're self-employed or working as an independent contractor, you can deduct your costs of doing business. Even when you're a W2 employee of a company, you can deduct expenses which your employer doesn't cover. For example, if you're programmer who works from home you can deduct the cost of your internet connection and the purchase of your computing hardware and software. Then you can also track depreciation of those assets from year to year.
I like that the rebuttal has no scientific value but is still rated +5 Insightful. Nothing about thermodynamics, just the supposed emotions of toasted bread.
Yes it is. Internet Explorer is pretty much the Explorer shell with the Microsoft rendering engine. The reusable, shared library code is bundled into core OS DLL files. You can't run Windows without running IE, as of Windows 95b.
check out Frank's corner for step-by-step instructions that tend to include links to other applications you need to install to get it going. The user forum on that site is pretty good too. I've found it to be a better resource for getting common applications running than winehq.com.
because lots of OSS code depends on GCC "features" that aren't part of the ISO standards. So MS would have had to add these features to VC++. Maybe you should get your head out of your ass.
Corynthian leather?
I'm surprised nobody replied about Rick Boucher's bill, the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act. It requires producers to clearly label their products as incorporating copy protection devices.
I think the gun helps. You're not going to kill too many people standing on the corner going "BANG! BOOM! RATATAT! BOOM!"
To play Devil's Advocate and seemingly contradict an earlier post of mine, notice that this announcement applies to Europe, where the judicial system seems to have sharper teeth when it comes to punishing Microsoft to level the playing field.
ugh, walmart.com, not wlamart.com.