Quite frankly, if I knew of a BT client that flat out rejected people refusing to upload, I'd use that instead.
Well, BT clients essentially participate in a tit-for-tat; that means that anybody not uploading will have a horrendously slow download, because no clients will want to give them anything. There is a bit of slack for people just starting out, of course, but if your client doesn't upload a single byte of the torrent, you'll have a hard time downloading anything. You know how BT is a bit slow to start, until you have some of the file and it starts getting fast? Well, if you didn't upload, it would just stay slow like that until it's done downloading.
IIRC, the only nodes on a BT swarm that will upload to somebody who isn't uploading are the seeds who don't need to download and won't care that that node isn't uploading.
I would argue that a government agency, being funded by you and me, doesn't have the right to lock their documents into a proprietary format like MSWord's.doc.
Everything they do is funded by public money, so everything they produce should be accessible by the public. I can't (reliably) open.doc files, therefore they should not be used. If they want to buy MSOffice and then save all their files as RTF, that'd be ok with me. But it would be even better if they used PDFs or OpenOffice.org's native format. Then they could ensure that everybody would be able to read the files, since the files are stored in an open format that can be implemented by any format.
Were huge? MiniDisc still is huge, and growing, as far as I can tell. I've got one myself and wouldn't replace it with anything. A few of my friends have MD players, and I see them all over campus and in class. And I'm in Canada, eh.
So far, I've bought two minidisc players in my life, and though I love them dearly, Sony really needs to get their act together if they want these things to catch on big-time.
My first minidisc player was great, for all intents and purposes it was just a souped-up walkman. Record with line-in, play to line-out, worked great.
The second was NetMD-enabled, it promised to hold 5 times as much music, and sported a USB cable for fast(er) data transfer. It had no support for linux whatsoever! The thing was basically useless to me! Gah.
I settled for recording via analogue, but that's actually a big hassle, especially when you know there's a perfectly good USB cable to connect the thing.
I probably won't be buying another MiniDisc player ever again. In fact, my next portable music player is probably going to be the Neuros. I like to think of it as the iPod for PCs... it's got a 20 GB HD, supports Ogg Vorbis, upgradeable firmware, native linux support... what more could a guy want? Well, Canadian retailers, I guess...:(
Do a base linux from scratch system, then install what you need on top of that (netfilter and maybe a DHCP client is pretty much the only stuff you need on top of an LFS system).
Once the firewall is configured the way you want it, and everything you need is compiled and installed, delete the compiler and whatever else you *don't* need.
their recent performance seems to be more on the order of 3+ months
Not only that, but most linux vulns get patched within a few hours.
Most of the time, I hear about the patch before I hear that there was ever a vuln. Contrast this with the 30+ known IE vulnerabilities that haven't been patched in years.
Well, there's Rhythmbox. It doesn't seem to have the ability to edit ogg vorbis tags (dunno about mp3), but as long as your tags are good, it's decent at displaying your music library in a vaguely iTunes-ish way.
There isn't one. That's why a Linux "monoculture" would be better than the current Windows monoculture, because it wouldn't be. You'd have Mandrake boxes, RedHat boxes, SuSE boxes, Slackware boxes, Debian boxes, Gentoo boxes, and the millions of other distributions.
The important point is that they'd all be different, they'd have better firewalls, and they'd all be running less crappy software than on any given Windows box.
Do you expect any less out of a company that makes a product that requires NO technical expertise to defeat?
I felt kinda bad for SunnComm when I heard about this. They tried so hard to develop an undefeatable DRM system, and the company that tested it for them verified that it was impervious to any sort of attack.
When it got released into the wild, half the world would never notice that the DRM ever existed, and the other half can disable it by holding down one key.
Oh, you mean those ads from Novell depicting two guys from upper management laughing their asses off because they're smoking up Linux Brand[tm] cocaine?
Those are almost as bad as the "Microsoft: We put the demolition crew right in the middle of your offices" ad.
You asked a lpd 101 question that could easily have been Googled,
Did you not read the part where I said I was googling and couldn't find anything? Contrary to what that one guy said, "I'm feeling lucky" on a search for "DI-707P" does not provide me with any useful information. Every result that I've been able to find for that search is just some site trying to sell me the router, not any sites providing me with any useful information.
But, you submitted a question to askSlashdot, with the intent of it NOT being posted? That's asinine.
At the time, I honestly didn't know the queue name. Then I found it, a couple days passed, I forgot about my submission, and then it shows up on slashdot. After a couple days had passed, I wasn't expecting them to actually approve it.
Except, instead of calling it a "short kilobyte", we could just call it a "kilobyte", and instead of calling it a "long kilobyte", we could just call it a "kibibyte". Oh, wait...
AFAIK, most of the copyright notices for GPL software go something like "This code is licensed under the GPL v2.0, or any later version if you so choose" or something to that effect.
Granted, not *all* GPL code is released like that.
2. Now nobody can ship Linux. Bill Gates sez "W00T!"
It's more likely that Stallman would just finish up work on GPL 3.0, and release it. Then all people who licensed their code under the "invalid" GPL 2.0 would agree to relicense their code under the merely "untested" GPL 3.0, and then everybody would be free to ship Linux again.
hoping they can sue their largest competitor into nonexistance. If Linux goes away, they suddenly have a market again.
yeah, but that's like the guy who gets laid off and then takes his coworkers hostage in order to get his job back. Sure, the police negotiator might let you have your job back on paper, but if you honestly think your boss will want you around after learning you're unstable enough to take hostages, you're only kidding yourself. Your ass will get busted at the first opportunity.
SCO is in the same position; they may or may not succeed at suing linux out of existince, but even if they do, nobody will ever buy their products, just out of spite alone.
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Quite frankly, if I knew of a BT client that flat out rejected people refusing to upload, I'd use that instead.
Well, BT clients essentially participate in a tit-for-tat; that means that anybody not uploading will have a horrendously slow download, because no clients will want to give them anything. There is a bit of slack for people just starting out, of course, but if your client doesn't upload a single byte of the torrent, you'll have a hard time downloading anything. You know how BT is a bit slow to start, until you have some of the file and it starts getting fast? Well, if you didn't upload, it would just stay slow like that until it's done downloading.
IIRC, the only nodes on a BT swarm that will upload to somebody who isn't uploading are the seeds who don't need to download and won't care that that node isn't uploading.
I would argue that a government agency, being funded by you and me, doesn't have the right to lock their documents into a proprietary format like MSWord's .doc.
.doc files, therefore they should not be used. If they want to buy MSOffice and then save all their files as RTF, that'd be ok with me. But it would be even better if they used PDFs or OpenOffice.org's native format. Then they could ensure that everybody would be able to read the files, since the files are stored in an open format that can be implemented by any format.
Everything they do is funded by public money, so everything they produce should be accessible by the public. I can't (reliably) open
Were huge? MiniDisc still is huge, and growing, as far as I can tell. I've got one myself and wouldn't replace it with anything. A few of my friends have MD players, and I see them all over campus and in class. And I'm in Canada, eh.
:(
So far, I've bought two minidisc players in my life, and though I love them dearly, Sony really needs to get their act together if they want these things to catch on big-time.
My first minidisc player was great, for all intents and purposes it was just a souped-up walkman. Record with line-in, play to line-out, worked great.
The second was NetMD-enabled, it promised to hold 5 times as much music, and sported a USB cable for fast(er) data transfer. It had no support for linux whatsoever! The thing was basically useless to me! Gah.
I settled for recording via analogue, but that's actually a big hassle, especially when you know there's a perfectly good USB cable to connect the thing.
I probably won't be buying another MiniDisc player ever again. In fact, my next portable music player is probably going to be the Neuros. I like to think of it as the iPod for PCs... it's got a 20 GB HD, supports Ogg Vorbis, upgradeable firmware, native linux support... what more could a guy want? Well, Canadian retailers, I guess...
Nothing says you can't cross-compile from another machine.
deleteing GCC on a source only distro, and no RPM was a BIG mistake.
The idea is that you don't delete it until you're done with it. On a firewall box, you don't need to compile much.
Do a base linux from scratch system, then install what you need on top of that (netfilter and maybe a DHCP client is pretty much the only stuff you need on top of an LFS system).
Once the firewall is configured the way you want it, and everything you need is compiled and installed, delete the compiler and whatever else you *don't* need.
Simple, easy.
Are investment firms really that dumb?
They don't read Slashdot, that's for sure.
their recent performance seems to be more on the order of 3+ months
Not only that, but most linux vulns get patched within a few hours.
Most of the time, I hear about the patch before I hear that there was ever a vuln. Contrast this with the 30+ known IE vulnerabilities that haven't been patched in years.
Go figure.
Yeah, Zinf Is Not Freeamp. I can't stand that program.
I just use XMMS, but I'll probably switch to Rhythmbox when it gets a little better.
Well, there's Rhythmbox. It doesn't seem to have the ability to edit ogg vorbis tags (dunno about mp3), but as long as your tags are good, it's decent at displaying your music library in a vaguely iTunes-ish way.
I'm using Gaim 0.71. I just signed off, then back on. I'm chatting with my MSN buddies right now, no troubles at all.
What company owns Linux?
There isn't one. That's why a Linux "monoculture" would be better than the current Windows monoculture, because it wouldn't be. You'd have Mandrake boxes, RedHat boxes, SuSE boxes, Slackware boxes, Debian boxes, Gentoo boxes, and the millions of other distributions.
The important point is that they'd all be different, they'd have better firewalls, and they'd all be running less crappy software than on any given Windows box.
How about hardeon?
"Yeah, I've got Woody running on my new Hardeon!"
How about hardeon?
Will they be rounding up capatalist^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HMicrosoft sympathizers and shipping them off to Syberia?
I hope so! Let the Microsoft apologizers freeze to death in Siberia, because this Linux training center is in Moscow.
I believe they're referring to some mainframes, in which there are bays of CPUs/RAM that can be swapped in and out while the system is running.
CPU hotplug support is not designed for removing the processor from your single-CPU x86 box.
Do you expect any less out of a company that makes a product that requires NO technical expertise to defeat?
I felt kinda bad for SunnComm when I heard about this. They tried so hard to develop an undefeatable DRM system, and the company that tested it for them verified that it was impervious to any sort of attack.
When it got released into the wild, half the world would never notice that the DRM ever existed, and the other half can disable it by holding down one key.
Oh, you mean those ads from Novell depicting two guys from upper management laughing their asses off because they're smoking up Linux Brand[tm] cocaine?
Those are almost as bad as the "Microsoft: We put the demolition crew right in the middle of your offices" ad.
You asked a lpd 101 question that could easily have been Googled,
Did you not read the part where I said I was googling and couldn't find anything? Contrary to what that one guy said, "I'm feeling lucky" on a search for "DI-707P" does not provide me with any useful information. Every result that I've been able to find for that search is just some site trying to sell me the router, not any sites providing me with any useful information.
But, you submitted a question to askSlashdot, with the intent of it NOT being posted? That's asinine.
At the time, I honestly didn't know the queue name. Then I found it, a couple days passed, I forgot about my submission, and then it shows up on slashdot. After a couple days had passed, I wasn't expecting them to actually approve it.
There needs to be an "undo" button for story submissions :)
Yeah, I posted this about a week ago, I've figured it out since then. I wasn't expecting slashdot to actually approve this.
The queue name was 'lp'. Now go to hell, you bastards.
Yes, that is a great idea!
Except, instead of calling it a "short kilobyte", we could just call it a "kilobyte", and instead of calling it a "long kilobyte", we could just call it a "kibibyte". Oh, wait...
AFAIK, most of the copyright notices for GPL software go something like "This code is licensed under the GPL v2.0, or any later version if you so choose" or something to that effect.
Granted, not *all* GPL code is released like that.
2. Now nobody can ship Linux. Bill Gates sez "W00T!"
It's more likely that Stallman would just finish up work on GPL 3.0, and release it. Then all people who licensed their code under the "invalid" GPL 2.0 would agree to relicense their code under the merely "untested" GPL 3.0, and then everybody would be free to ship Linux again.
hoping they can sue their largest competitor into nonexistance. If Linux goes away, they suddenly have a market again.
yeah, but that's like the guy who gets laid off and then takes his coworkers hostage in order to get his job back. Sure, the police negotiator might let you have your job back on paper, but if you honestly think your boss will want you around after learning you're unstable enough to take hostages, you're only kidding yourself. Your ass will get busted at the first opportunity.
SCO is in the same position; they may or may not succeed at suing linux out of existince, but even if they do, nobody will ever buy their products, just out of spite alone.