'inetd' does this. 'cron' does something very similar. 'X' does the reverse.
Passing access rights (UNIX-domain sockets sendmsg/recmnsg) is designed to achieve this.
These are all old enough that even had they been patented, the patents would be expired now.
This guy is a 'scapegoat', or even a 'whistleblower'.
How about the ISP who supplied him with the infective agent ? The software vendor who supplied the infectable code ?
I expect they both have waivers which will cover them against the possibility of civil liability, but surely they are both in the same boat as him if it comes to criminal liability.
Well, yes, but remember that copyright applies to anything that is created/creative; and the creator may license the creation as he or she sees fit. DRM had better respect that.
As for me, I shall try and persuade my children to license anything they create (until they turn professional) under an open licence such as Creative Commons. I'm sure they will prefer the potential exposure their work will receive.
Give it a few years, and the Disneys of this world will be snowed under by people whose work is equally good because of this newfound ability to share.
Well, you can make a living as a university professor; or as an employee of a company which wants to use computers. As part of either of those, you might write software (for teaching, research, operating the business) and you might well be encouraged to make it available under GPL to enhance reputations, attract collaboration, bird-of-feather-flocking-together help, and so on.
If you are paid by public money (e.g. a government employee), should your work-for-hire be denied to all members of the public ? If so, why ?
On the other topic, you either set the BIOS to boot from the second disk, or you boot from diskette.
If you change the BIOS settings, you can make it boot LILO or GRUB from the second disk, and then that can be made to give you a choice between Linux and Windows.
Java (with a little help from Eclipse) would be good and free.
Prolog ('gprolog' from FSF) would be an interesting baptism of fire.
Colobot (www.colobot.com) shows graphically how programming automates things you might do by hand.
If you have upwards of 1GB of RAM, 'morphix toram' will copy the CD to memory and things run just fine.
To get TuxRacer to run well, you need 3d 'accelerated' graphics; Morphix has the nVidia driver, and I think Intel 'extrame graphics' works too. (Does the Windows port of TuxRacer at http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/ work for you ?)
Networking is always a matter of sharing. IWBNI companies like this would help; e.g. if proxy servers would reduce their costs, let them install one and tell you how to use it. If a decent mirror somewhere would stop you using bittorrent to help others (and would reduce their costs), likewise.
RCN runs a nice mirror for 'cygwin'; I've always wondered why...
It's probably a matter of configuring your Linux to use hardware graphics. Blender will get the graphics card to do the serious number crunching when it can; look at your graphics card vendor's web site and see if they provide a driver for your Linux.
I think it's out of copyright, and it may be considered an inappropriate reference to sowewhere so close to Finland; but the attached is a reasonable analysis of the situation to my mind
Danegeld
Slashdot Mirror
Does it come with a Knoppix CD in the back ? How about a Knoppix DVD ?
'inetd' does this. 'cron' does something very similar. 'X' does the reverse. Passing access rights (UNIX-domain sockets sendmsg/recmnsg) is designed to achieve this. These are all old enough that even had they been patented, the patents would be expired now.
This guy is a 'scapegoat', or even a 'whistleblower'. How about the ISP who supplied him with the infective agent ? The software vendor who supplied the infectable code ? I expect they both have waivers which will cover them against the possibility of civil liability, but surely they are both in the same boat as him if it comes to criminal liability.
No, your supreme court will uphold the first amendment. (My queen will do as she wishes. Usually that comes down to respecting the Berne Convention.)
Well, yes, but remember that copyright applies to anything that is created/creative; and the creator may license the creation as he or she sees fit. DRM had better respect that. As for me, I shall try and persuade my children to license anything they create (until they turn professional) under an open licence such as Creative Commons. I'm sure they will prefer the potential exposure their work will receive. Give it a few years, and the Disneys of this world will be snowed under by people whose work is equally good because of this newfound ability to share.
Well, you can make a living as a university professor; or as an employee of a company which wants to use computers. As part of either of those, you might write software (for teaching, research, operating the business) and you might well be encouraged to make it available under GPL to enhance reputations, attract collaboration, bird-of-feather-flocking-together help, and so on. If you are paid by public money (e.g. a government employee), should your work-for-hire be denied to all members of the public ? If so, why ? On the other topic, you either set the BIOS to boot from the second disk, or you boot from diskette. If you change the BIOS settings, you can make it boot LILO or GRUB from the second disk, and then that can be made to give you a choice between Linux and Windows.
Java (with a little help from Eclipse) would be good and free. Prolog ('gprolog' from FSF) would be an interesting baptism of fire. Colobot (www.colobot.com) shows graphically how programming automates things you might do by hand.
If you have upwards of 1GB of RAM, 'morphix toram' will copy the CD to memory and things run just fine. To get TuxRacer to run well, you need 3d 'accelerated' graphics; Morphix has the nVidia driver, and I think Intel 'extrame graphics' works too. (Does the Windows port of TuxRacer at http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/ work for you ?)
These people http://www.ibm.com/linux/ can help. Worldwide, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Look at http://www.openafs.org/ , http://www.opendx.org/ , http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/news/2003111 4_bluegene.shtml
if you want to be convinced they know what they are talking about; both on the 'giving' and 'receiving' sides of the coin.
Networking is always a matter of sharing. IWBNI companies like this would help; e.g. if proxy servers would reduce their costs, let them install one and tell you how to use it. If a decent mirror somewhere would stop you using bittorrent to help others (and would reduce their costs), likewise. RCN runs a nice mirror for 'cygwin'; I've always wondered why ...
It's probably a matter of configuring your Linux to use hardware graphics. Blender will get the graphics card to do the serious number crunching when it can; look at your graphics card vendor's web site and see if they provide a driver for your Linux.
You can find most of what you want to know on IBM Research or US Department of Energy (search for bluegene). I think both can survive slashdotting.
I think it's out of copyright, and it may be considered an inappropriate reference to sowewhere so close to Finland; but the attached is a reasonable analysis of the situation to my mind Danegeld