Go there. Use nukes, block quakes, and switch screens to crush your opponents. You haven't played tetris until you've played TetriNet. (This is the currently #1 game at our LANs).
Makes me wonder what sort of "protection from liability suits" these seals will get exactly. It may just be me, but I don't think antiterrorism products need this sort of freedom.
Essentially anyone can do anything in the linux community...
Hence the free-as-in-speech. We WANT anyone to be able to do anything with the open source projects. Linus, however, maintains the official "untainted" kernel tree. You use his when you want the raw kernel, and apply patches such as openmosix (http://openmosix.sf.net) when you require extra functionality. The infrastructure is there, but it's also circumventable if it doesn't meet your needs.
There actually is organization. Linus has the kernel, developers have the applications, and distributors act as the "editors." Appropriate subdivisions exist in each of these catagories.
I personally don't see this going anywhere though because it really is a community effort. Almost like voting in a way. If you want a feature, simply "vote" it into an implementation. That can be done by actually programming it or requesting the developers to add it.
Government employees could work out specific algorithims/implementations (the best example being SE Linux), but the heart of open source is the community, and I don't see that shifting to the government anytime soon. There will always be more community developers than government ones. Small time additions to the open source world is all I see from government institutions. I doubt anything bigger than the SE Linux kernel would happen, especially as the Department of Free Software Production or something.
Besides, would any government really want to help create the infrastructure of another government for them (e.g. "terrorist" nation uses the USALinux distro)? There's a reason for export restrictions on certain cryptographic algorithms in the US. Or would those nations really trust foreign governments to do this? Might make an electronic war pretty easy if you wrote all the software.
Building houses right on the animals homes is probably a lot worse for them than shining lights during the twilight hours. At midnight in my town we don't have coyotes and mountain lions roaming our streets; they stay out in what wilderness is left. And somehow I think my little wooden box has more to do with it than the light it emits.
Any child big and old enough to climb a fence and know what a roller coaster is is old enough in my opinion to be held accountable for his actions. Like the grandparent post said, not holding the children responsible for their actions (and their parents for preparing them to take those actions) is a major flaw in modern society, independant of the law's opinion.
You don't have to *destroy* it, simply augment it's functionality. I can run linux and play games on my xbox. This could be a super cool next generation PDA/gaming console. And to be competitive it'd probably have to be cheaper than most modern PDAs. Sounds appealling to me.
Actually, I find Slack to be quite user friendly myself if your willing to learn the simplest command line opperations. Simply pop in a disk and type "setup." When your done, you have everything you need, simply pop over to openoffice.org and sun.com for java and your set.
It's definitely not Mandrake, but I like how slack always looks clean, and I'd never use anything else for my desktop.
As far as I know, the Windows box only uses SMB, and therefore all of the Linux boxes would be forced to go samba as well. Windows's proprietary nature let's it win when it's in the majority AND the minority.
The only thing I found wrong with the article was that they assumed non-technical people would be system admins. Even in a Windows only environment, it's generally pretty tech-savy people acting as the admins. Sure, they're tech-savy in a windows sort of way, but they're not the average grandma trying to figure out wheere the power button is. The users would never see most of the problems they pointed out (except the mozilla cut n' paste), which is the real catch in any OS transition.
Abe didn't fail at reaching the non-military solution, the generations that came before him that created the problems failed. When he was elected president, he did not declare war on the South, but the South declared war on him (Ft. Sumter). Lincoln was not responsible for the lives lost during the Civil War. Every man in the United States (North and South) had an opportunity to fix the rising tensions between the two sides with their ballot and their attitude. They did not, Lincoln fixed their mistakes and restored the union.
Sherman gave ample warning to towns before buldozing them. And sadly, war does involve restless boys who desrie to rape people, but that cannot be considered the leader's fault.
Now I understand that even the greatest men have their flaws (and Abe certainly wasn't the perfect leader), but our nation needs more men willing to fight for justice, and I'm damn proud when I look on the Lincoln memorial.
"Metric" does not denote any base. According to dictionary.com, it is "a standard of measurement." And this certainly is a standard of measurement. It's al those milli- and centi- thingies that denote that they relate to base 10. And guess what? Bio means it's related to an organism in some fashion.
Many distros (including the latest Mandrake) come with partition resizing software for ntfs, fat, and others, but the point is it's still another major hassle that shouldn't be there.
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Err, shouldn't that be "I for one welcome our Microsoft Overlords... Again"
* There is no God
Kind of ironic how you juxtaposed your religious viewpoint into a discussion on cursing, causing the subject matter to be changed entirely.
BTW, I disagree. On both accounts.
tetrinet.org
Go there. Use nukes, block quakes, and switch screens to crush your opponents. You haven't played tetris until you've played TetriNet. (This is the currently #1 game at our LANs).
Phonetically:
Uniform: u = yu (soft beginning)
Unlicensed: u = u (hard beginning)
At least that's how it's pronounced in SoCal.
Makes me wonder what sort of "protection from liability suits" these seals will get exactly. It may just be me, but I don't think antiterrorism products need this sort of freedom.
Hence the free-as-in-speech. We WANT anyone to be able to do anything with the open source projects. Linus, however, maintains the official "untainted" kernel tree. You use his when you want the raw kernel, and apply patches such as openmosix (http://openmosix.sf.net) when you require extra functionality. The infrastructure is there, but it's also circumventable if it doesn't meet your needs.
That's well and good, but without the source it ain't free as in speech.
Would the NSA's Security Enhanced Linux kernel (http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/) count?
I personally don't see this going anywhere though because it really is a community effort. Almost like voting in a way. If you want a feature, simply "vote" it into an implementation. That can be done by actually programming it or requesting the developers to add it.
Government employees could work out specific algorithims/implementations (the best example being SE Linux), but the heart of open source is the community, and I don't see that shifting to the government anytime soon. There will always be more community developers than government ones. Small time additions to the open source world is all I see from government institutions. I doubt anything bigger than the SE Linux kernel would happen, especially as the Department of Free Software Production or something.
Besides, would any government really want to help create the infrastructure of another government for them (e.g. "terrorist" nation uses the USALinux distro)? There's a reason for export restrictions on certain cryptographic algorithms in the US. Or would those nations really trust foreign governments to do this? Might make an electronic war pretty easy if you wrote all the software.
Wow. This HAS to be a slashdot record low: only 39 posts! I feel dark times approching...
Building houses right on the animals homes is probably a lot worse for them than shining lights during the twilight hours. At midnight in my town we don't have coyotes and mountain lions roaming our streets; they stay out in what wilderness is left. And somehow I think my little wooden box has more to do with it than the light it emits.
Any child big and old enough to climb a fence and know what a roller coaster is is old enough in my opinion to be held accountable for his actions. Like the grandparent post said, not holding the children responsible for their actions (and their parents for preparing them to take those actions) is a major flaw in modern society, independant of the law's opinion.
Seems the new release suffers from a certain DDoS bug.
Yeah, you could do that, or you could just use this translator. Even generates nifty little sound files.
And I swear that the morse code I tried to post really wasn't THAT lame.
But are they coworkers that go to the same doctor?
You don't have to *destroy* it, simply augment it's functionality. I can run linux and play games on my xbox. This could be a super cool next generation PDA/gaming console. And to be competitive it'd probably have to be cheaper than most modern PDAs. Sounds appealling to me.
But we all know the REAL question is how long till it runs linux?
It's definitely not Mandrake, but I like how slack always looks clean, and I'd never use anything else for my desktop.
But it will never have to work the other way around. If you had a Linux network would you want to migrate to Windows? That's what I thought.
As far as I know, the Windows box only uses SMB, and therefore all of the Linux boxes would be forced to go samba as well. Windows's proprietary nature let's it win when it's in the majority AND the minority.
The only thing I found wrong with the article was that they assumed non-technical people would be system admins. Even in a Windows only environment, it's generally pretty tech-savy people acting as the admins. Sure, they're tech-savy in a windows sort of way, but they're not the average grandma trying to figure out wheere the power button is. The users would never see most of the problems they pointed out (except the mozilla cut n' paste), which is the real catch in any OS transition.
Abe didn't fail at reaching the non-military solution, the generations that came before him that created the problems failed. When he was elected president, he did not declare war on the South, but the South declared war on him (Ft. Sumter). Lincoln was not responsible for the lives lost during the Civil War. Every man in the United States (North and South) had an opportunity to fix the rising tensions between the two sides with their ballot and their attitude. They did not, Lincoln fixed their mistakes and restored the union.
Sherman gave ample warning to towns before buldozing them. And sadly, war does involve restless boys who desrie to rape people, but that cannot be considered the leader's fault.
Now I understand that even the greatest men have their flaws (and Abe certainly wasn't the perfect leader), but our nation needs more men willing to fight for justice, and I'm damn proud when I look on the Lincoln memorial.
"Metric" does not denote any base. According to dictionary.com, it is "a standard of measurement." And this certainly is a standard of measurement. It's al those milli- and centi- thingies that denote that they relate to base 10. And guess what? Bio means it's related to an organism in some fashion.
Many distros (including the latest Mandrake) come with partition resizing software for ntfs, fat, and others, but the point is it's still another major hassle that shouldn't be there.
What about the North and South Poles? Technically there couldn't be any latitude lines there and only longitude.