I agree. I discovered the show after meeting Jono at SCaLE6X in February, and enjoyed it very much as I prepared to be at LRL USA to run the Ubuntu booth. I'm really going to miss the podcast, not to mention the LRL events. Where else can I make my mother proud by getting up on stage and being introduced by a pasty need in a thong? But seriously, it have me a vgance to hang out with a lot of other Ubuntu and Free Software enthusiasts, and I was looking forward to next year. I wish the four of them the best of luck in their future endeavors.
The GPLv3 doesn't require you to make source code available for web services. The related Affero GPL versions 2 and 3 do, however, since some web developers thought this was a loophole in the GPL. RMS didn't seem to think it was, but instead the FSF reviewed the Affero license and authorized its use of the name GPL as well.
The Affero GPL is fairly uncommon as far as I know, but as long as you keep to the GPL and away from the Affero GPL, you should be fine.
The point of the GPL is to produce software which is freely redistributable. But if you integrate non-Free software, then you lose the rights that the GPL is meant to protect. You can no longer share the entire project. You can no longer examine the way the entire project works. You can no longer sell the project. You can no longer fix and support the project.
If you do not want to grant others the freedom to your software that the GPL offers, then you should not license your code under the GPL and instead you should pick a more appropriate license.
Actually, that was originally the location of Ctrl. I'm not sure why the changed it, but if I were to remap my CapsLock, it would definitely be to Ctrl.
On the other hand, the OLPC XO-1 is mapped that way and I haven't become used to it yet... So for now I'll leave everything where it is until I can get a nice keyboard with generic keycaps (although I'd substitute a Tux icon for a "Super" label...).
Actually, Nintendo rarely asks questions when you send in a unit for warranty repair. I can imagine you might be charged if you sent in a perfectly working unit, but Nintendo Consumer Service is probably the most friendly, helpful team I've ever seen over the last 20 years I've had Nintendo products.
When the Nintendo DS first came out, there was a small number of units with dead pixels. Nintendo's advice was "Play the system and see if it bothers you. We want you to have an enjoyable gaming experience, so if you decide you don't like it, call us up and we'll replace it at no charge." They were 3-day-shipping units, you'd drop your old DS into the box and slap the included postage-paid return label and out it went again, totally free.
Ubuntu 7.10 didn't "break" your copy of VMware server. Every time you change your kernel, you need to recompile the kernel modules for VMware. VMware provided kernel modules for Ubuntu 7.04's updates. Currently they do not provide kernel modules for 7.10. They will probably begin providing these updates within a few weeks.
In the meantime, you just have to compile your own modules. It's very simple--it's a matter of running vmware-config.pl every time you upgrade the kernel, which will automatically take care of everything for you as long as you have build-essential installed.
As annoying as this is (and I find it mildly annoying, at least), it is the price of using a proprietary solution like VMware instead of similar Free solutions (like QEMU or VirtualBox).
I checked into this, too (although I was quite relieved that I tend to pay my credit cards a couple days after I receive the statements, and not just before the due dates, so I'm covered for another month).
Any electronic bill transactions will be held until Sunday, but all direct deposits will be automatically transferred and electronic transactions will resume Sunday evening. As far as I can tell, there should be no interruption--we'll even continue using the NetBank website for the next couple of months.
I keep my longterm savings in an Orange Savings account at Ing Direct (I'm just starting again, you see), and I have been rather pleased with them, so I was relieved to see that they had assumed NetBank's consumer bank accounts.
Actually, I agree with you on that last point, and Ubuntu works pretty well in this regard--especially since 7.04.
Going to Add/Remove... and adding "Ubuntu restricted extras" gets you a bunch of codecs, the Microsoft TTF "core Web fonts", Adobe Flash 9, and Sun Java 6. In my experience, this takes care of most things right off the bat.
They didn't go up in price, but the standard prices are the ones apparently suggested by Nintendo. Each publisher is free to set their own price for each product they want to offer in the Wii Shop Channel.
Apparently Konami felt they needed 600 Wii Points for this game, although I suspect it maybe a combination of the movie cross-marketing and the TMNT licensing. On the other hand, you never can tell.
I use Ubuntu now, too, except for my finances (thank goodness for VMware Server and seamlessrdp!).
I feel for you. I like little indie games, and for the most part I've had to just learn to live with my GameCube, Wii, and Nintendo DS games. Oh, Flash games work in theory, too.
Anyhow, dual-booting can work... but I dislike stopping everything I'm working on just to play a game (which is why my DS and cell phone come in handy so often). I'm glad to hear you had a good experience with Linux, though!
Sure, but by "built-in wireless chat", you should realize that it has even less of a range than, say, walkie-talkies. Maybe about 120 feet with any walls or buildings around, and maybe 300 feet or so if you're facing someone else with a DS. It's also a bit flakey, so I would imagine the "stranger danger" factor is practically nil.
If, on the other hand, you mean the online play over the Internet, well, it's all anonymous, nickname-only random matches with others, with no communication in most games, and the ability to send positive, pre-defined messages in some others. In order to personally communicate with anyone at all, you have to trade 12-digit "friend codes" with another and each has to register the number on his own copy of the game, and even then it's per game.
On the one hand, I wish there were something more flexible but on the other hand it makes online games practically grief-free (except for people turning off the power when they're losing.
Or, perhaps it's that when you are presented with a scenario to smash a tennis ball back down a court or roll a bowling ball down a lane, the motions are so intuitive and natural that a player's first instinct is to really swing the remote hard, or to tense up the muscles as though he were really holding a 16-pound bowling ball.
I found it took a day or two to really get used to making realistic but relaxed gestures in Wii Sports (I still have to try to remember it). I actually take two steps forward while bowling, just like my entire family did when we got together at Thanksgiving. Wii sports is responsive in a second nature sort of way. As a developer team interview shared, they knew they had a good idea going when Nintendo employees who were asked to test out the interface started "throwing" the tennis ball up with their free left hands while serving. (I hate when people share anecdotes but not the source--these were really fun to read.)
Well, this sounds like fun. Mostly just "because you can", but on the other hand, I know the TI-89 eBook reader was pretty nice. Maybe this would be useful for something like that. Maybe some new project will come along now that an external flash drive is available. Everyone makes fun of these types of projects, but I think the entire thing's just good fun. I used to use calculator games or books to occupy my time between classes in college when I didn't feel like (or need to) study or work on homework. Today when I have a little downtime I just use a Nintendo DS, but the principle's the same.
And anyway, it's good electronics and hardware interface and programming practice for the developers. Congratulations to Michael, Brandon, and Dan!
The rationale is that to be Free Software, the user must be able to modify and build the source. If you provide the source, but encumber the build process, then the software is not actually Free to the user. This is why the GPL includes the build scripts to also be Free--as a protection for the user.
Better than that, Nintendo never lost money fromthe GameCube. Wii may be the first console they don't break even on, but Satoru Iwata has made statements to the effect that it will be less than $2 or $3 per unit for a short time until prices fall.
This came up during the Nintendo DS launch in November 2004. Nintendo's offical policy on dead pixels was "We want you to be happy with our products and anything that detracts from your enjoyment is not acceptable to us. We invite you to play your DS for a day or two and see if the pixel bothers you. If you find that it is distracting, we'll ship you a new one free of charge."
If you can't exchange it at the place you purchased it, just call Nintendo Consumer Service (1-800-255-3700) as listed on the back of your DS. If you give them a credit card number as a deposit, I'm sure they'll ship you a replacement. Just open the box, grab your new DS, test it... then put your old DS back in the box, slap on the new mailing label, and drop it back in the mail.
But the point is, Nintendo Consumer Service has been superlative since as long as I can remember (1988 at least), so give them a try if the store gives you any hassles.
This causes Update Manager to display a version upgrade that is still in pre-release status. For example, I ran it on the kids' machine a month or two ago and didn't go through with the upgrade, then sent the logs into Michael Vogt by email so he could see whether the upgrade tool was working properly.
I think if a major upgrade fails, waiting 24 hours seems reasonable--if there were server problems, a day would be long enough for the replication issues to sort themselves out.
Sadly, it doesn't seem so, although if you stick the CD into the drive and register it as a source, then cancel Synaptic popping up, and then run the release migration tool, it might pull the unchanged files from the CD. I didn't get time to run this scenario in VMware, though.
Simply use Update Manager. 5.10 will say that the new release 6.06 is now available, with a button that will download an upgrade tool that will handle the repository and package transitions plus the postinstall stuff for you in a safe manner. If you've been running a 6.06 beta, just download any new package updates. If you've updated the beta in the last two days, you're basically already running 6.06 LTS.
Adding the restriction that you can't include the source file without releasing the source of your own program makes me LESS free, not more.
This isn't really true, for the simple fact that it's not an added restriction. You simply aren't allowed to incorporate x.cpp into a program you write, because the author of x.cpp owns the copyright and you need explicit written permission to redistribute x.cpp. The permission to incorporate x.cpp is what has been added.
The GPL gives you that explicit written permission up front--you don't have permission to use x.cpp in any other way. If you like the conditions, you can proceed with no further work on your part. If you do not, then you simply must do what you would have to do in any other circumstance--contact the author and negociate for the right to reuse his copyrighted material.
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I agree. I discovered the show after meeting Jono at SCaLE6X in February, and enjoyed it very much as I prepared to be at LRL USA to run the Ubuntu booth. I'm really going to miss the podcast, not to mention the LRL events. Where else can I make my mother proud by getting up on stage and being introduced by a pasty need in a thong? But seriously, it have me a vgance to hang out with a lot of other Ubuntu and Free Software enthusiasts, and I was looking forward to next year. I wish the four of them the best of luck in their future endeavors.
The GPLv3 doesn't require you to make source code available for web services. The related Affero GPL versions 2 and 3 do, however, since some web developers thought this was a loophole in the GPL. RMS didn't seem to think it was, but instead the FSF reviewed the Affero license and authorized its use of the name GPL as well.
The Affero GPL is fairly uncommon as far as I know, but as long as you keep to the GPL and away from the Affero GPL, you should be fine.
The point of the GPL is to produce software which is freely redistributable. But if you integrate non-Free software, then you lose the rights that the GPL is meant to protect. You can no longer share the entire project. You can no longer examine the way the entire project works. You can no longer sell the project. You can no longer fix and support the project.
If you do not want to grant others the freedom to your software that the GPL offers, then you should not license your code under the GPL and instead you should pick a more appropriate license.
Because Ubuntu releases an update every six months and Debian stable (this is a server we're talking about) releases an update every two years.
Debian and Ubuntu maintain the same version of their packages as is released for each version, generally applying only bugfixes.
Surely the more information is available and easily-accessible (from an introduction point of view) the better, right?
I'm happy to see more resources aimed at educating developers. Particularly new ones.
They flavor their fries with beef tallow, which is the same reason that Chicken McNuggets are so good.
Actually, that was originally the location of Ctrl. I'm not sure why the changed it, but if I were to remap my CapsLock, it would definitely be to Ctrl.
On the other hand, the OLPC XO-1 is mapped that way and I haven't become used to it yet... So for now I'll leave everything where it is until I can get a nice keyboard with generic keycaps (although I'd substitute a Tux icon for a "Super" label...).
Actually, Nintendo rarely asks questions when you send in a unit for warranty repair. I can imagine you might be charged if you sent in a perfectly working unit, but Nintendo Consumer Service is probably the most friendly, helpful team I've ever seen over the last 20 years I've had Nintendo products.
When the Nintendo DS first came out, there was a small number of units with dead pixels. Nintendo's advice was "Play the system and see if it bothers you. We want you to have an enjoyable gaming experience, so if you decide you don't like it, call us up and we'll replace it at no charge." They were 3-day-shipping units, you'd drop your old DS into the box and slap the included postage-paid return label and out it went again, totally free.
Ubuntu 7.10 didn't "break" your copy of VMware server. Every time you change your kernel, you need to recompile the kernel modules for VMware. VMware provided kernel modules for Ubuntu 7.04's updates. Currently they do not provide kernel modules for 7.10. They will probably begin providing these updates within a few weeks.
In the meantime, you just have to compile your own modules. It's very simple--it's a matter of running vmware-config.pl every time you upgrade the kernel, which will automatically take care of everything for you as long as you have build-essential installed.
As annoying as this is (and I find it mildly annoying, at least), it is the price of using a proprietary solution like VMware instead of similar Free solutions (like QEMU or VirtualBox).
I checked into this, too (although I was quite relieved that I tend to pay my credit cards a couple days after I receive the statements, and not just before the due dates, so I'm covered for another month).
Any electronic bill transactions will be held until Sunday, but all direct deposits will be automatically transferred and electronic transactions will resume Sunday evening. As far as I can tell, there should be no interruption--we'll even continue using the NetBank website for the next couple of months.
I keep my longterm savings in an Orange Savings account at Ing Direct (I'm just starting again, you see), and I have been rather pleased with them, so I was relieved to see that they had assumed NetBank's consumer bank accounts.
Actually, I agree with you on that last point, and Ubuntu works pretty well in this regard--especially since 7.04.
Going to Add/Remove... and adding "Ubuntu restricted extras" gets you a bunch of codecs, the Microsoft TTF "core Web fonts", Adobe Flash 9, and Sun Java 6. In my experience, this takes care of most things right off the bat.
They didn't go up in price, but the standard prices are the ones apparently suggested by Nintendo. Each publisher is free to set their own price for each product they want to offer in the Wii Shop Channel.
Apparently Konami felt they needed 600 Wii Points for this game, although I suspect it maybe a combination of the movie cross-marketing and the TMNT licensing. On the other hand, you never can tell.
I use Ubuntu now, too, except for my finances (thank goodness for VMware Server and seamlessrdp!).
I feel for you. I like little indie games, and for the most part I've had to just learn to live with my GameCube, Wii, and Nintendo DS games. Oh, Flash games work in theory, too.
Anyhow, dual-booting can work... but I dislike stopping everything I'm working on just to play a game (which is why my DS and cell phone come in handy so often). I'm glad to hear you had a good experience with Linux, though!
Sure, but by "built-in wireless chat", you should realize that it has even less of a range than, say, walkie-talkies. Maybe about 120 feet with any walls or buildings around, and maybe 300 feet or so if you're facing someone else with a DS. It's also a bit flakey, so I would imagine the "stranger danger" factor is practically nil.
If, on the other hand, you mean the online play over the Internet, well, it's all anonymous, nickname-only random matches with others, with no communication in most games, and the ability to send positive, pre-defined messages in some others. In order to personally communicate with anyone at all, you have to trade 12-digit "friend codes" with another and each has to register the number on his own copy of the game, and even then it's per game.
On the one hand, I wish there were something more flexible but on the other hand it makes online games practically grief-free (except for people turning off the power when they're losing.
Hey!
I didn't make you come with me. ;)
... I didn't make you leave home Mario Kart, Tetris DS, and Animal Crossing, either. What were you thinking? :P
Or, perhaps it's that when you are presented with a scenario to smash a tennis ball back down a court or roll a bowling ball down a lane, the motions are so intuitive and natural that a player's first instinct is to really swing the remote hard, or to tense up the muscles as though he were really holding a 16-pound bowling ball.
I found it took a day or two to really get used to making realistic but relaxed gestures in Wii Sports (I still have to try to remember it). I actually take two steps forward while bowling, just like my entire family did when we got together at Thanksgiving. Wii sports is responsive in a second nature sort of way. As a developer team interview shared, they knew they had a good idea going when Nintendo employees who were asked to test out the interface started "throwing" the tennis ball up with their free left hands while serving. (I hate when people share anecdotes but not the source--these were really fun to read.)
Hardly. The GPL is not an end user license. It's something you only have to accept if you distribute the software verbatim or modified.
You're free to do all the usage and private modification you like.
Well, this sounds like fun. Mostly just "because you can", but on the other hand, I know the TI-89 eBook reader was pretty nice. Maybe this would be useful for something like that. Maybe some new project will come along now that an external flash drive is available. Everyone makes fun of these types of projects, but I think the entire thing's just good fun. I used to use calculator games or books to occupy my time between classes in college when I didn't feel like (or need to) study or work on homework. Today when I have a little downtime I just use a Nintendo DS, but the principle's the same.
And anyway, it's good electronics and hardware interface and programming practice for the developers. Congratulations to Michael, Brandon, and Dan!
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The rationale is that to be Free Software, the user must be able to modify and build the source. If you provide the source, but encumber the build process, then the software is not actually Free to the user. This is why the GPL includes the build scripts to also be Free--as a protection for the user.
Better than that, Nintendo never lost money fromthe GameCube. Wii may be the first console they don't break even on, but Satoru Iwata has made statements to the effect that it will be less than $2 or $3 per unit for a short time until prices fall.
This came up during the Nintendo DS launch in November 2004. Nintendo's offical policy on dead pixels was "We want you to be happy with our products and anything that detracts from your enjoyment is not acceptable to us. We invite you to play your DS for a day or two and see if the pixel bothers you. If you find that it is distracting, we'll ship you a new one free of charge."
If you can't exchange it at the place you purchased it, just call Nintendo Consumer Service (1-800-255-3700) as listed on the back of your DS. If you give them a credit card number as a deposit, I'm sure they'll ship you a replacement. Just open the box, grab your new DS, test it... then put your old DS back in the box, slap on the new mailing label, and drop it back in the mail.
But the point is, Nintendo Consumer Service has been superlative since as long as I can remember (1988 at least), so give them a try if the store gives you any hassles.
This causes Update Manager to display a version upgrade that is still in pre-release status. For example, I ran it on the kids' machine a month or two ago and didn't go through with the upgrade, then sent the logs into Michael Vogt by email so he could see whether the upgrade tool was working properly.
I think if a major upgrade fails, waiting 24 hours seems reasonable--if there were server problems, a day would be long enough for the replication issues to sort themselves out.
Sadly, it doesn't seem so, although if you stick the CD into the drive and register it as a source, then cancel Synaptic popping up, and then run the release migration tool, it might pull the unchanged files from the CD. I didn't get time to run this scenario in VMware, though.
Simply use Update Manager. 5.10 will say that the new release 6.06 is now available, with a button that will download an upgrade tool that will handle the repository and package transitions plus the postinstall stuff for you in a safe manner. If you've been running a 6.06 beta, just download any new package updates. If you've updated the beta in the last two days, you're basically already running 6.06 LTS.
This isn't really true, for the simple fact that it's not an added restriction. You simply aren't allowed to incorporate x.cpp into a program you write, because the author of x.cpp owns the copyright and you need explicit written permission to redistribute x.cpp. The permission to incorporate x.cpp is what has been added.
The GPL gives you that explicit written permission up front--you don't have permission to use x.cpp in any other way. If you like the conditions, you can proceed with no further work on your part. If you do not, then you simply must do what you would have to do in any other circumstance--contact the author and negociate for the right to reuse his copyrighted material.