The Unix/OSS security model in OSX (and lack of Outlook type automatic unsecure scripting) is not the only protection. This exists in Linux and BSD et al also. The use of x86 machine code in buffer overflow attacks will not work on PPC or Sparc machines.
This is just another form of security through obscurity. Imagine some point in the future where OSX-PPC has 50% marketshare or more (a stretch, I know...) Btw, if you want real security, your best bet is MacOS 9 or lower, it has fewer remote exploits than OpenBSD:-)
I don't really want to go the LaTeX -> DVI -> PS -> PDF because it is somewhat cumbersome and the DVI -> Postscript conversion has the problem of rasterizing the fonts is special care is not taken. It was this problem that made me find dvipdfm for conversion of DVI to PDF while skipping the PS step. Pdflatex sounds like it's one better, doing the conversion directly.
Since you're using Linux, you might want to try out
VTeX from MicroPress . Their windows implementation is expensive but they're giving the linux version away for free. Like PDFTeX, VTeX translates.tex to.pdf directly. Unlike PDFTeX, it includes its own PostScript interpreter, so it can handle.eps without Ghostscript. I usually have both TeXLive (which is mostly teTeX) and VTeX installed.
You can try all the different routes: latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf; latex -> dvipdfm; pdflatex;
vlatex (VTeX) and see which gives you the best results. Some ways result in bigger pdf's than others, but tends to depend on the specific document.
> You dont have to like the GPL to use it. I use GPL'd software, and I personally dont like it, nor do I consider it a truly free license, > compared BSD's "do whatever the fuck you want we dont care" mentality.
SCO isn't just using GPL software, they're *distributing* it, *selling* it as a component of their own OpenServer. Obviously they can't do that if they do think that the GPL is a valid license.
> Responding to a legal threat with lies can really bite you in the end. Instead, I would say that you're not using the entire kernel - > which is true since you aren't loading every device driver, architecture, and filesystem - and that you need the sections in violation to > be identified to verify their claim.
Good advice, but SCO will claim that they own critical components of the kernel, without which it will not compile. You can reply that you're using a "heavily modified" version of linux, which changes its internal workings in the core (be as vague as they are). Just apply the pre-emptible or low latancy patches and introduce some trivial changes so you're not lying. In order to determine if your special version is infringing, you will need to see their code. You can make your own kernel close source and claim trade secret and whatnot, since the GPL only applies if you're distributing your modified version, not if you're using it in-house.
> How do you think that Slackware 9.0 is anywhere close to Debian unstable? > You are able to automatically update ALL packages with one simple command? > You are running the latest and greatest of everything on your Slackware 9.0 box? > I didn't think so. > Slackware is as current as its version number and requires a full install each time you want to upgrade. > Debian is a 1 time install and subsuqent updates are done by apt-get to give you the latest and greatest (via unstable).
Slackware-current and slackware-stable (9.0) are *different*, just check a slackware ftp mirror. Slackware 9.0 is the latest stable release, like debian woody (but its packages are generally much newer). Slackware-current, like debian-sarge, is the next release candidate (although sometimes it's even newer than debian-sid, cf. the versions of XFree86).
Slackware can be upgraded without a full install using upgradepkg. It is more demanding on the administrator in that you need to take care when upgrading critical components like glibc (read upgrade.txt). If you must have automatic updates with dependency tracking, you can install a third party tool called "swaret". But what you're missing is that slackware and debian are *different*.
Debian is a far more ambitious project than slackware. Debian supports 11 platforms and contains almost any free linux software of importance. It has a Social Contract. It has Official Policies for Everything. It has enough developers to form commissions, sub-commissions and possibly sub-sub-commissions. Slackware is more or less a one-man show for i486 (the i368 is no longer supported, I think the SPARC and Alpha are also dropped), with a very tight focus. It is pragmatic like Linus, rather than idealistic like Stallman. Unlike debian, it is very possible for a single person to have an overview of every slackware packages. There is much less demand for something like apt-get, since there aren't that many dependencies within slackware itself (installing everything from the l(ibraries) subdirectory will get you very far). From a practical standpoint, debian is nicer if you use packages not provided by slack and you don't like to compile it yourself. Otherwise, they're not that different in daily use.
Toshiba laptops are sealed with a printed license. If you don't agree, you must return the whole computer. I believe this was done exactly to prevent claims like this. If more people try to get a refund, I believe more and more companies will just seal the complete computer/laptop.
Throughout the computer industry, SCO is commonly recognized as the best unix out there, and as the forthcoming lawsuit will show, probably the only legal. There are companies, such as IBM, Sun, SGI, and others, that have their own version of unix, but their unixes are nothing but cheap off-shoots from the original SCO source code, and their legality is certainly questionable.
True. To make your decision easier, you can think of
Linux as the software equivalent of a bicycle, while SCO is the software equivalent of a luxury car
They could then do something sensible like put PalmOS on top of a decent kernel, like Linux, QNX, or Symbian, while keeping the existing applications; those kernels could do as good a job at running existing Palm applications as PalmOS 5 does, and they don't suffer from the same memory management or driver stupidity as PalmOS.
In case you didn't know, at least until version 4, PalmOS was built on top of the AMX RTOS from Kadak. Alledgedly, their contract did not allow Palm to expose the multitasking API to developers, but some of their own libraries did make use of multitasking.
This is really interesting. I love how the professor has the notes available in various formats. This differs from most places where the only option to read math notes is M$ Word, because it has a built in eq. editor.
"most places"? MS Word? I thought that about any serious piece of math is written in (La)TeX nowadays.
He asked for something lightweight, Thunderbird is over 9Mb to download (while the complete Mozilla is only 13Mb). Even the bloated Eudora is only 6.4Mb, Pegasus and Calypso are both around 4Mb. If you only need POP3, Foxmail is very lightweight. Also, Opera browser+email is under 4Mb.
Re:you know it's true
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All The Rave
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1 a : to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully
Sounds like stealing to me.
If the original track is still there after you're done, you copied it. If the original was removed, you took/stole it. What's so difficult about that?
Unfortunately, latex2pdf does not actually work very well. It doesn't understand the \href tag used to signify hyperlinks in pdfs (from the hyperref package) and seems to produce documents which have a huge gap between images and their captions.
Then use pdflatex, which has supported hyperref for years now.
If you are concerned with job creation, Microsoft is the wrong company to give money to. First of all, Microsoft needs much fewer employees than other industries to generate each $1m in revenue. In addition, since these are probably sales of existing software, there will be almost no job creation from those sales at all. Furthermore, Microsoft has a lot of its jobs overseas, so much of Microsoft's already measly job creation doesn't even take place in the US.
All reasons why Microsoft is such a great company, from a shareholders POV.
From the BYTE interview
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· Score: 2, Informative
"We [SCO] believe that UNIX System V provided the basic building blocks for all subsequent computer operating systems, and that they all tend to be derived from UNIX System V."
I really hope they present use this line in court.
And Ill wait to buy a Ferrari when they have one thats less than $20,000. Apple doesnt go for the low end because it doesnt have to, and it couldnt gaurentee the quality its got if it did. You get what you pay for.
Yes. The Mac is the hardware equivalent of a luxury car, while the PC is the hardware equivalent of... euhm... a bicycle!
Kill, rape or beat someone to within an inch of their lives and you'll probably receive less than half of the sentence this guy faces. I realize he most likely won't get 26 years, but what's wrong with a society where you get more hardcore jail time for swiping a copy of the latest Disney flick than for say running down the Director.
The economic damage of a single act of violence is small, compared to copying the latest Disney flick. It seems that many laws can be most easily understoon in money terms.
Gandalf and Sauron were both Maiar, immortal beings. They both participated in the Music of Iluvatar before the beginning of the world.
But you don't know this from LOTR. You can't, since it (or more precisely, the Redbook of Westmarch) was written by hobbits, who have only the vaguest notions about Eru and Ainur. Resurrections are cheesy, whether it's the Bible, LOTR or Sherlock Holmes.
Killing them was fundamentally impossible. Even Saruman didn't die. He just fled into the West and was probably cast outside of Arda...but only Manwe knows.
Which is death for all practical purposes. You might as well as say that when we die we are cast outside the universe but our spirits don't die, only god knows. Changing the words does not change the meaning.
The Eldar who came back from Mandos, incidentally, were not permitted to depart Valinor again.
*cough* Glorfindel *cough*
Frodo pulled through, beside his very mortal constitution, because of the application of what you might call magic.
...or plot devices. That is the whole point, you don't get these in a MMORPG, where there are no protagonists.
These new ideas might revitalize the MMORPG market, EVEN if the game fails, the ideas and new features because of PD might be really useful even for other games.
I just heard that there's this new and incredibly realistic MMORPG with PD and tons of other goodies. Apparently, subscription involves turning off the computer and walking out the door (expensive, I know). Someone tried this yet?
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> You dont have to like the GPL to use it. I use GPL'd software, and I personally dont like it, nor do I consider it a truly free license,
> compared BSD's "do whatever the fuck you want we dont care" mentality.
SCO isn't just using GPL software, they're *distributing* it, *selling* it as a component of their own OpenServer. Obviously they can't do that if they do think that the GPL is a valid license.
> Responding to a legal threat with lies can really bite you in the end. Instead, I would say that you're not using the entire kernel -
> which is true since you aren't loading every device driver, architecture, and filesystem - and that you need the sections in violation to
> be identified to verify their claim.
Good advice, but SCO will claim that they own critical components of the kernel, without which it will not compile. You can reply that you're using a "heavily modified" version of linux, which changes its internal workings in the core (be as vague as they are). Just apply the pre-emptible or low latancy patches and introduce some trivial changes so you're not lying. In order to determine if your special version is infringing, you will need to see their code. You can make your own kernel close source and claim trade secret and whatnot, since the GPL only applies if you're distributing your modified version, not if you're using it in-house.
> How do you think that Slackware 9.0 is anywhere close to Debian unstable?
> You are able to automatically update ALL packages with one simple command?
> You are running the latest and greatest of everything on your Slackware 9.0 box?
> I didn't think so.
> Slackware is as current as its version number and requires a full install each time you want to upgrade.
> Debian is a 1 time install and subsuqent updates are done by apt-get to give you the latest and greatest (via unstable).
Slackware-current and slackware-stable (9.0) are *different*, just check a slackware ftp mirror. Slackware 9.0 is the latest stable release, like debian woody (but its packages are generally much newer). Slackware-current, like debian-sarge, is the next release candidate (although sometimes it's even newer than debian-sid, cf. the versions of XFree86).
Slackware can be upgraded without a full install using upgradepkg. It is more demanding on the administrator in that you need to take care when upgrading critical components like glibc (read upgrade.txt). If you must have automatic updates with dependency tracking, you can install a third party tool called "swaret". But what you're missing is that slackware and debian are *different*.
Debian is a far more ambitious project than slackware. Debian supports 11 platforms and contains almost any free linux software of importance. It has a Social Contract. It has Official Policies for Everything. It has enough developers to form commissions, sub-commissions and possibly sub-sub-commissions. Slackware is more or less a one-man show for i486 (the i368 is no longer supported, I think the SPARC and Alpha are also dropped), with a very tight focus. It is pragmatic like Linus, rather than idealistic like Stallman. Unlike debian, it is very possible for a single person to have an overview of every slackware packages. There is much less demand for something like apt-get, since there aren't that many dependencies within slackware itself (installing everything from the l(ibraries) subdirectory will get you very far).
From a practical standpoint, debian is nicer if you use packages not provided by slack and you don't like to compile it yourself. Otherwise, they're not that different in daily use.
The $999 dollar ibook only has cdrom, not dvd.
Toshiba laptops are sealed with a printed license. If you don't agree, you must return the whole computer. I believe this was done exactly to prevent claims like this. If more people try to get a refund, I believe more and more companies will just seal the complete computer/laptop.
If the original track is still there after you're done, you copied it. If the original was removed, you took/stole it. What's so difficult about that?
The benchmark amongst benchmarks is due later this year.
Kill, rape or beat someone to within an inch of their lives and you'll probably receive less than half of the sentence this guy faces. I realize he most likely won't get 26 years, but what's wrong with a society where you get more hardcore jail time for swiping a copy of the latest Disney flick than for say running down the Director. The economic damage of a single act of violence is small, compared to copying the latest Disney flick. It seems that many laws can be most easily understoon in money terms.
People are afraid of new things. You should have just taken an existing product and put a clock on it or something.
-- Homer, on the baby translator, "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?"
There was an old and little known linux distribution called cLIeNUX which did something similar. Not sure if it's still alive though.
if you don't have any CD's to rip...