Re:Good for benchmarking
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You can load it up with demos yourself. There are tools ; start at http://knoppix.net/
Re:Tracker for GamesKnoppix
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Don't know what 'xmame' and 'smes' are. But if you are sure they have no significant legitimate uses, please let the uni-kl students know; they can come off the CD and make room for more games.
It's likely that they are tools. Most tools can be used for good purposes and bad purposes. Not many tools were invented for bad purposes.
Re:What About DVD+-R Booting?
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Re:I always thought a 2 CD system would be perfect
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Have a system with 1GB RAM (or more). Boot with 'knoppix toram'. Eject the boot CD, you have your regular CD drive to play with (and a much more responsive system as well)
I think there's a Mac Knoppix; hunt in http://www.knoppix.net/forum/ .
You can get source for all the games and build them for Mac , of course, also.
Language, 3d
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It's easy enough to make it English (knoppix lang=en or knoppix26 lang=en if you like 2.6 kernels). 3d support is proper, i.e. 'nvidia' not 'nv'. Believed legal; you can separate out the 'nvidia' if you want an untainted version. Besides, which grinch would disagree with a free distribution ?
Nothing to do with SuSE, just pointing out that uni-kl have a track record of being trustworthy.
Is there any comeback, recompense,or apology if something was legal and was unjustifiedly taken offline or seized ? Maybe the police would refuse to repeat the exercise, thinking they had been taken for a ride ? Like those who arrested 'DVD Jon', surely would think twice before doing it again ?
I want to use torrents to share stuff where the creators have freely given their permission, and to share stuff which I create. And I want to do so without fear of the rich and powerful.
You get a US patent by paying a 'tax' to the US Government. Don't pay the 'tax' to the Canadian government, your idea can be exploited there for free. In return for the 'tax', you can use the US courts to stop someone else exploiting your idea in the US.
You get a copyright everywhere that respects the Berne Convention (pretty much everywhere in the world) by creating something. You can use any court anywhere to stop someone else copying the thing you created.
Hard to disband copyright in the US without renegotiating Berne. And maybe some people like copyright.
TuxRacer is educational and gives pretty unstructured feedback (how else did the summer golf course version come about).
'Your patent has prior art':-)
DVD Knoppix is good ( http://iso-top.de ) . UNESCO Linux is good (Look for freeduc-cd ). SuSE Live 9.2 is good.
Better if you glue in a 'qemu' and make it able to autoplay-boot virtually under Windows.
Puppy Linux on a USB stick is also good. Who needs disks ?
"And then we'll get a better DNS from someone else"
or
"DNS was invented 30 years ago by hundreds of programmers interested in creating a surviveable network" --- prior art, and expired too.
or
"Just like a phone book. Had them for a century."
"That's not the intent of Linux. Show me some who did it; let's try and figure out why they were unhappy with their Linux, and improve things for the next set of people"
Together. Cooperatively. Freely. Empowered.
(Start with a bootable Linux Live DVD, ask Dipl. Ing. Klaus Knopper. It works. Very well. Never seen anything like it.)
(and show him that people can figure ways to help themselves. Maybe he will, and help others along the way. Make sure you have time and materials to follow through the ideas he has... and those of his friends...)
If he's really bright, just turn on the braille terminal (or Morse key/beep language support) for Linux, and he will do as well as the rest of us.
At least show him that it is possible. And that he need not be considered to be handicapped.
There may be other tools, but 'empowering him to get on with stuff as well as me' would be what I'd want as a right if I had something like that. Someone who would treat it as a minor obstacle, easily overcome.
That's only Munich's worry if Munich want to import the software into USA. Relatively unlikely, I would think.
Publish the source and etablish prior art before Munich's country government takes money off anyone for grant of a patent.
When we get blockbusters called Timidity, Lame, and GIMP, I'll start thinking seriously about these concerns.
FIASCO, too. That was too close to the truth. It was renamed SPSS.
Until then, "Live and Let Live":-)
Re:Own a computer, own a car
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Computer is a consumer good, it should 'just work', if not you take it back and demand it be brought in line with its advertisement.
Not the consumer's fault or liability if due to a defect in the product a loss or outage is caused. Lemon law does it for cars. Should be so for computers as far as consumers are concerned. Different for companies, they can take their own risks.
BBC seem to think 'free' means 'worse than cheap'. Not so; there is nothing inferior about Free Software.
I think they know really, though; look at their proposed Free video codec
I can't help feeling that an algorithm is like a painting, or a book, or a (millions-of-digits-long) number. Sure, you might have been able to patent the idea of a painting, a book, or a number; but all much longer ago than 20 years, so bound to be expired by now.
Now, a particular painting, book, or number might be copyrighted, as might a particular implementation of an algorithm; different kettle of fish, different laws apply. In England, anyway.
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You can load it up with demos yourself. There are tools ; start at http://knoppix.net/
It's likely that they are tools. Most tools can be used for good purposes and bad purposes. Not many tools were invented for bad purposes.
Yes. Try http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10230
Have a system with 1GB RAM (or more). Boot with 'knoppix toram'. Eject the boot CD, you have your regular CD drive to play with (and a much more responsive system as well)
I think there's a Mac Knoppix; hunt in http://www.knoppix.net/forum/ . You can get source for all the games and build them for Mac , of course, also.
Nothing to do with SuSE, just pointing out that uni-kl have a track record of being trustworthy.
'xsnow' on the wallpaper, too. Animated snow and reindeer.
I want to use torrents to share stuff where the creators have freely given their permission, and to share stuff which I create. And I want to do so without fear of the rich and powerful.
You get a copyright everywhere that respects the Berne Convention (pretty much everywhere in the world) by creating something. You can use any court anywhere to stop someone else copying the thing you created.
Hard to disband copyright in the US without renegotiating Berne. And maybe some people like copyright.
TuxRacer is educational and gives pretty unstructured feedback (how else did the summer golf course version come about). 'Your patent has prior art' :-)
DVD Knoppix is good ( http://iso-top.de ) . UNESCO Linux is good (Look for freeduc-cd ). SuSE Live 9.2 is good. Better if you glue in a 'qemu' and make it able to autoplay-boot virtually under Windows. Puppy Linux on a USB stick is also good. Who needs disks ?
"And then we'll get a better DNS from someone else" or "DNS was invented 30 years ago by hundreds of programmers interested in creating a surviveable network" --- prior art, and expired too. or "Just like a phone book. Had them for a century."
Patent can be invalidated if there is prior art. Patent can be chucked if congress chuck all software patents and buy them back.
A free one and a non-free one. What they're called, who knows. The free one will successively drive out the non-free one, though.
Together. Cooperatively. Freely. Empowered.
(Start with a bootable Linux Live DVD, ask Dipl. Ing. Klaus Knopper. It works. Very well. Never seen anything like it.)
(and show him that people can figure ways to help themselves. Maybe he will, and help others along the way. Make sure you have time and materials to follow through the ideas he has ... and those of his friends ...)
If he's really bright, just turn on the braille terminal (or Morse key/beep language support) for Linux, and he will do as well as the rest of us. At least show him that it is possible. And that he need not be considered to be handicapped. There may be other tools, but 'empowering him to get on with stuff as well as me' would be what I'd want as a right if I had something like that. Someone who would treat it as a minor obstacle, easily overcome.
That's only Munich's worry if Munich want to import the software into USA. Relatively unlikely, I would think. Publish the source and etablish prior art before Munich's country government takes money off anyone for grant of a patent.
FIASCO, too. That was too close to the truth. It was renamed SPSS.
Until then, "Live and Let Live" :-)
Computer is a consumer good, it should 'just work', if not you take it back and demand it be brought in line with its advertisement. Not the consumer's fault or liability if due to a defect in the product a loss or outage is caused. Lemon law does it for cars. Should be so for computers as far as consumers are concerned. Different for companies, they can take their own risks.
IBM Global Services will support anything that you pay them to. Just ask. A fair number of them like learning new things, too.
So what happens when they download the DVD Bootable Debian Linux with a little help from the scalable download mechanism and reboot ?
BBC seem to think 'free' means 'worse than cheap'. Not so; there is nothing inferior about Free Software. I think they know really, though; look at their proposed Free video codec
I can't help feeling that an algorithm is like a painting, or a book, or a (millions-of-digits-long) number. Sure, you might have been able to patent the idea of a painting, a book, or a number; but all much longer ago than 20 years, so bound to be expired by now. Now, a particular painting, book, or number might be copyrighted, as might a particular implementation of an algorithm; different kettle of fish, different laws apply. In England, anyway.
You mean, like this guy ? BlueGene