You mean you'd spend 50 bucks on Internet Explorer 1.1 (or was it 2.0?)? Even when you could get Navigator 3.0 for free (student license, non-commercial license, I don't remember why I could get it free but I remember I could...)?
Given that Karma is very embedded in Indian culture, one would be tempted to suggest they try to reduce their own software piracy before talking about the others' bio-piracy...
Yeah, because standards that are developed from the beginning by a commitee are SOOOOO better compared to de facto standards. Now let me resume coding in ADA.
RTFA. Specially at the end. The text of the specification is under a Creative Commons license. Also, MS explicitly states that they have no intention of burdening implementations of the standard with patents.
Rasterman http://www.rasterman.com/index.php?page=News posted some videos of enlightenment doing some stuff like that just after havoc's original post. And let me say that I tried e17 in a p200mmx, and even with all the shining stuff moving around, it still was more responsive than GTK2.
Of course, before enlightenment 17 hits final, it will be rewritten by the millionth time to support holographic interfaces in flying cars for cyborgs. But it will still support it earlier and better than GNOME or KDE:)
Easy: Most optical drives have this security "feature" where discs that are cracked, scratched or dirty won't read correctly. Unless it is a small crack in an area that contains no data...
Some years ago I used to hear a lot about putting used batteries (non-rechargeable, non-alcaline) on the fridge in order to do what varied between recharging it, extending its charge, etc.
I guess this should work at least as good as the sticker thingy
Dear mods. This answer is the opposite of the reality. This is called sarcasm, and is sometimes used to achieve a 'Funny' effect, but not usually to be 'informative'.
Haha! This will be the return of the HotJava browser! Now Sun will show everyone what it is to be light and fast! HotJava with plugin support will rule the world!
Now I am driving on a reasonable speed (say, 100km/h), and my car fires the "must rebreath" alarm. So, (1) my car starts blinking and shouting like a cheap toy until I find some sideways to stop, or (2) I forget about the road, and run over some 10 children while blowjobbing that interlock stuff for 30 seconds.
Really increased the security of your roads. Thanks guys!
I find this one refreshing... if (app.exename="NETSCAPE.EXE") system.sluggify();
And this one provides for the future... if (site.url="www.google.com") {
browser.renderer.togglebuggyrenderer();/* You will be assimilated, suckers */
browser.fakepopup("www.msn.com"); }
I can't say anything about this one though:
if (user.status==PISSED_OFF)
prick.annoyingpopup("Hello, I noticed you are writing a letter")
Seriously, given the denounces of delayed APIs for Navigator, I wouldn't doubt the first one... could someone with the codes please grep for netscape.exe?
X 4.3 is GPL compatible. Any app developed for X 4.3 can be GPL'ed. Unless X 4.4 includes such an advancement as Xv (XFree86? advancement? before the next century?) that the application author wants to use, the apps can just use the 4.3 API and be safe. So this does not mean immediate doom to Qt, GTK, etc., as long as they use 4.3 xlibs.
As for using the X 4.4 with GPL'ed apps, I think there's nothing precluding users from doing that. Both licences are clear in "the user can do whatever he fucking wants with the code, as long as he does not distribute it in any form (binary or source)". Both only impose restrictions over distribution, if you don't distribute, you're safe. For the user, all the licences are regarding _distribution_, not use. The user can use GPL'ed code with X 4.4 as long as noone distributes the two together.
The only problem would be for distros, which could not legally distribute the GPL'ed apps linked with X 4.4, or, maybe, not even distribute the two together...
When will people learn? apt-get dist-upgrade is meant for that: DISTRIBUTION upgrade. You've been running woody, want to run sarge, apt-get dist-upgrade. Other than that, it CAN cause breakage. It is meant to remove all traces of the previous distribution, thus it defaults to _remove_ packages which do not exist in the new one. For everyday use you type apt-get upgrade (no dist-). It upgrades to the new packages, and when conflicts arise it always assumes the conservative approach (leave you with non-upgrade packages instead of breaking).
You wouldn't want it. Debian is ran by a bunch of european virus writer commies who want to destroy the USA, Freedom, and the universe as it is known (tm).
I once stumbled across a scan of the "Amish virus" card on the internet...
It ran somewhat like this:
"You have been infected by the Amish virus. We can't use computers to make this virus, so please go home and delete all your files. Send copies of this card to all your friends. Thank you."
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You mean you'd spend 50 bucks on Internet Explorer 1.1 (or was it 2.0?)? Even when you could get Navigator 3.0 for free (student license, non-commercial license, I don't remember why I could get it free but I remember I could...)?
But how will I take a picture of it if it is on the opposite side of my camera phone? I feel confused...
Given that Karma is very embedded in Indian culture, one would be tempted to suggest they try to reduce their own software piracy before talking about the others' bio-piracy...
Maybe that's why they call them "extensions", not "standards"...
Yeah, because standards that are developed from the beginning by a commitee are SOOOOO better compared to de facto standards. Now let me resume coding in ADA.
RTFA. Specially at the end. The text of the specification is under a Creative Commons license. Also, MS explicitly states that they have no intention of burdening implementations of the standard with patents.
Rasterman http://www.rasterman.com/index.php?page=News posted some videos of enlightenment doing some stuff like that just after havoc's original post. And let me say that I tried e17 in a p200mmx, and even with all the shining stuff moving around, it still was more responsive than GTK2.
:)
Of course, before enlightenment 17 hits final, it will be rewritten by the millionth time to support holographic interfaces in flying cars for cyborgs. But it will still support it earlier and better than GNOME or KDE
Easy: Most optical drives have this security "feature" where discs that are cracked, scratched or dirty won't read correctly. Unless it is a small crack in an area that contains no data...
Some years ago I used to hear a lot about putting used batteries (non-rechargeable, non-alcaline) on the fridge in order to do what varied between recharging it, extending its charge, etc.
I guess this should work at least as good as the sticker thingy
I wonder if I can get +1 informative for this definition of sarcasm...
Dear mods.
This answer is the opposite of the reality. This is called sarcasm, and is sometimes used to achieve a 'Funny' effect, but not usually to be 'informative'.
Haha! This will be the return of the HotJava browser! Now Sun will show everyone what it is to be light and fast! HotJava with plugin support will rule the world!
Doom won't fit in a floppy disk. I believe the shareware version takes two or three disks...
Wolfenstein, maybe
Will it start honking and blinking in the middle of the road if I forget to turn on the wipers after 30 seconds of rain?
I am too lazy to link to the article I am referencing.
They havent. It is still on the distribution. They just hope no one will notice :)
Does it check for SCO IP on each commit?
No article should remain without a [bad] SCO joke.
I thought we were supposed to NOT comment on security flaws...
Now I am driving on a reasonable speed (say, 100km/h), and my car fires the "must rebreath" alarm. So, (1) my car starts blinking and shouting like a cheap toy until I find some sideways to stop, or (2) I forget about the road, and run over some 10 children while blowjobbing that interlock stuff for 30 seconds.
Really increased the security of your roads. Thanks guys!
Of course you can't! it's ms-something, must be a bad thing.
I find this one refreshing...
/* You will be assimilated, suckers */
if (app.exename="NETSCAPE.EXE") system.sluggify();
And this one provides for the future...
if (site.url="www.google.com") {
browser.renderer.togglebuggyrenderer();
browser.fakepopup("www.msn.com");
}
I can't say anything about this one though:
if (user.status==PISSED_OFF)
prick.annoyingpopup("Hello, I noticed you are writing a letter")
Seriously, given the denounces of delayed APIs for Navigator, I wouldn't doubt the first one... could someone with the codes please grep for netscape.exe?
X 4.3 is GPL compatible. Any app developed for X 4.3 can be GPL'ed. Unless X 4.4 includes such an advancement as Xv (XFree86? advancement? before the next century?) that the application author wants to use, the apps can just use the 4.3 API and be safe. So this does not mean immediate doom to Qt, GTK, etc., as long as they use 4.3 xlibs.
As for using the X 4.4 with GPL'ed apps, I think there's nothing precluding users from doing that. Both licences are clear in "the user can do whatever he fucking wants with the code, as long as he does not distribute it in any form (binary or source)". Both only impose restrictions over distribution, if you don't distribute, you're safe.
For the user, all the licences are regarding _distribution_, not use. The user can use GPL'ed code with X 4.4 as long as noone distributes the two together.
The only problem would be for distros, which could not legally distribute the GPL'ed apps linked with X 4.4, or, maybe, not even distribute the two together...
When will people learn?
apt-get dist-upgrade is meant for that: DISTRIBUTION upgrade. You've been running woody, want to run sarge, apt-get dist-upgrade.
Other than that, it CAN cause breakage. It is meant to remove all traces of the previous distribution, thus it defaults to _remove_ packages which do not exist in the new one.
For everyday use you type apt-get upgrade (no dist-). It upgrades to the new packages, and when conflicts arise it always assumes the conservative approach (leave you with non-upgrade packages instead of breaking).
You wouldn't want it. Debian is ran by a bunch of european virus writer commies who want to destroy the USA, Freedom, and the universe as it is known (tm).
I once stumbled across a scan of the "Amish virus" card on the internet...
It ran somewhat like this:
"You have been infected by the Amish virus. We can't use computers to make this virus, so please go home and delete all your files. Send copies of this card to all your friends. Thank you."
fd.o is not the device. fd.o is the kernel module. The correct command would be:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
modprobe fd.o
mount
Xlibs depends on fd.o because of the FXS (Floppy X Server), which uses an array of floppy disk LEDS for display.
BTW, if you are using 2.6, the name is fd.ko. Gnome people still rename it to fd.go though...