Umm... in my experience, setting up CUPS is trivial.
At my house, my brother set up the CUPS server. When I configured my laptop (with Gentoo Linux), I found that after I started the CUPS daemon, it already was configured.
The CUPS server broadcasts its configuration to the local network. The local CUPS daemon
I literally have not touched the local CUPS configuration ever since. I'm not sure how much trouble setting up the print server was, but in my experience, setting up a client is no problem.
Hello, people, not everyone on LJ is a 12-year old girl complaining about her life.
I have kept an LJ for over a year now, along with a (growing) group of friends. Now that many of us have left for university and co-op work terms abroad, it has become a way to keep up with what's going on with them.
It turns out that some of the people in my residence section also keep LJs, and recently my girlfriend has started one. Over the holidays, when we've been split up, I've kept up with them by reading their LJs. Yes, I do talk to many of them over IM, but reading a post on an LJ beats telling at least a half-dozen people the same story. I find other people's posts to be interesting to read, and I hope other people think the same of mine.
As other people have said, yes, these entries are generally not very insightful writings, and are retellings of the days events. Because many of the people who read my LJ are not geeks, I hide overly geeky talk behind an "LJ cut" (a link to the full text of a hidden part of a post).
Seriously, stop it with the stereotyping of LJ users.
I think a solution would be to encrypt private messages end-to-end. If they want the dump of the encrypted data as it passes through the server, let them have it. They can crack it if they want to, but never process unencrypted private messages on the server. I believe that this is permissable by the USA PATRIOT Act, but IANAL.
As for public messages, people should realize that they are just that: public and open to prying eyes.
Then again, anyone who discusses important matters over an MMORPG's chat mechanism doesn't really care much about privacy...
This isn't really news... I've heard teachers say for a long time that a class' score on a test/exam correlates with the temperature in the room. Too cold or too hot, and the score decreases.
Even patents and legislation mainly only affect its large-scale adoption with businesses. Think about it: even if corporations start enforcing key patents, they will never go after individual users. They will, however, prey on large adopters.
As long as there are developers working on it, open source software will never die, but it can be pushed aside, into a kind of shady underground status, which is a worse fate than death.
The comma operator is covered in most respectable intermediate C or C++ books. It's commonly used in a for-loop declaration when there's more than one thing to declare or increment.
The USA has done many things, but claiming ownership of things like the telephone and computer is egotistical at best.
In the case of the telephone, Bell was Scottish by origin, and started work on the telephone there, then moved to Canada and did most the work here, then moved to the USA where he completed his work and patented it. Who should get "bragging rights" to its invention? Americans look at the patent and say it's an American invention, when most the work was done outside the US. I say, Bell should get credit, and we should leave it at that. It was not "invented" in any one country.
A similar story goes for the computer. Yes, American universities made significant contributions, but so did UK, German, and many other nation's institutions and people. It is a world-wide invention. Anyone who claims ownership of it should be shot.
Yes, hemp is a wonderful plant -- not just nutritionally, but it's also strong as hell. People make rope out of it and whatnot. Even clothes, such as jeans, that last a long time.
But, there are lots of legal problems with it. The plant looks nearly identical to its cousin, the marijuana plant, so what's to stop a hemp farmer from (knowingly, or unknowingly) hiding some marijuana plants in his field for a little extra profit.
"It's hemp, officer, I swear!" Suuure...
I agree that they should take a close look at the laws governing hemp... and some of the other stupid laws you mentioned.
Just wondering out loud, why don't they point the Hubble telescope to the moon to show the world the space vehicles, flag, etc left on the moon
Except that, at the distance of the moon, the Hubble telescope has a resolution of approximately 80m. It is designed for looking at things very far away, not (relatively) so close as the moon. There is no way to make the Hubble resolve something so small as the lander, or even worse, a bootprint.
The poster's point was that, apparently, one of the weaknesses of OSS is upward compatibility, when Microsoft itself breaks backwards compatibility in products such as VB. Clearly, there is no guarantee with their software either, so his point is moot.
However, I agree that the VB example is a poor one, and clearly fan service to the/. community.
In fact, the truth is that, in general, OSS is very good with preserving binary and source compatibility. In general, libraries are compatible within a major revision, and even when major development has moved past an obsolete major version, large projects "hire" a maintainer who keeps the old versions up to date with bug fixes, security issues, etc. A good example is either the Linux kernel, or GTK.
That's what I have on this very computer, and I have never had problems with it in the 5 months it has been like this (approx. the time I have had this machine). At 2:00 every morning, a crontab syncs and updates, and when it completes, I get an email saying what was upgraded, and any errors that may result.
Most nights, it only takes a matter of minutes to run, and I have never had it run into the morning, even when Gnome was upgraded to 2.6.
I just remember to run etc-update every once in a while, and it's all good. I noticed that once, some Gnome programs failed to start. I ran etc-update, merged everything, and it was fixed. I've considered making it start a terminal, running etc-update. If there's nothing to do, it'll quit long before I see it. If there is, it'll be open for me when I wake up, and I can merge the changes.
Seriously, it's not a problem. So, you can stop spreading FUD any time now...
- Flexibility: I can configure my computer to work exactly how I want. In addition, I use Gentoo, which allows further control. Yes, this adds complexity; it doesn't work "out of the box", so to speak, but that's fine with me. No one dictates how it looks or feels. For the record, I use parts of GNOME with Enlightenment.
- Freedom: I am a programmer. If I can't make a program do something I want it to, I can always open the source (another advantage of source-based distros, by the way: it's easier to modify the source for programs than with binary distros, because you have the headers for everything). To date, I have patched 4 programs, and submitted the patches for 2 of them.
- Philosophy: I can't explain why, but the whole philosophy behind the open source movement appeals to me.
I would say "price" as an advantage, but that's really a non-issue, since *ahem* I have never bought a copy of Windows (Microsoft tax excluded).
Disclaimer: This is based on the rules put out by Industry Canada, not the FCC, so there may be some differences, but I don't think so.
The rules for broadcasting radio signals basically boil down to whoever has primary and secondary rights to a band. For the FM broadcast band (93 MHz to 108MHz), which I believe you would be using, channel are sold to radio stations, and they have primary access to the channel. The general public is a secondary user.
As a primary user, the radio stations have the right to shut down any station found to be interfering with their service. This is where the FCC gets involved.
If you find yourself an unused channel, and broadcast at low power, then you won't have a problem. You might want to keep an eye on it to make sure a station doesn't start up on that channel.
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Umm... in my experience, setting up CUPS is trivial.
At my house, my brother set up the CUPS server. When I configured my laptop (with Gentoo Linux), I found that after I started the CUPS daemon, it already was configured.
The CUPS server broadcasts its configuration to the local network. The local CUPS daemon
I literally have not touched the local CUPS configuration ever since. I'm not sure how much trouble setting up the print server was, but in my experience, setting up a client is no problem.
Hello, people, not everyone on LJ is a 12-year old girl complaining about her life.
I have kept an LJ for over a year now, along with a (growing) group of friends. Now that many of us have left for university and co-op work terms abroad, it has become a way to keep up with what's going on with them.
It turns out that some of the people in my residence section also keep LJs, and recently my girlfriend has started one. Over the holidays, when we've been split up, I've kept up with them by reading their LJs. Yes, I do talk to many of them over IM, but reading a post on an LJ beats telling at least a half-dozen people the same story. I find other people's posts to be interesting to read, and I hope other people think the same of mine.
As other people have said, yes, these entries are generally not very insightful writings, and are retellings of the days events. Because many of the people who read my LJ are not geeks, I hide overly geeky talk behind an "LJ cut" (a link to the full text of a hidden part of a post).
Seriously, stop it with the stereotyping of LJ users.
I think a solution would be to encrypt private messages end-to-end. If they want the dump of the encrypted data as it passes through the server, let them have it. They can crack it if they want to, but never process unencrypted private messages on the server. I believe that this is permissable by the USA PATRIOT Act, but IANAL.
As for public messages, people should realize that they are just that: public and open to prying eyes.
Then again, anyone who discusses important matters over an MMORPG's chat mechanism doesn't really care much about privacy...
Ssh! Don't tell the Americans that. I'll be needing one of those jobs in a few years!
This isn't really news... I've heard teachers say for a long time that a class' score on a test/exam correlates with the temperature in the room. Too cold or too hot, and the score decreases.
Don't you mean Gauls?
Even patents and legislation mainly only affect its large-scale adoption with businesses. Think about it: even if corporations start enforcing key patents, they will never go after individual users. They will, however, prey on large adopters.
As long as there are developers working on it, open source software will never die, but it can be pushed aside, into a kind of shady underground status, which is a worse fate than death.
I believe he means "equate".
This reminds me of a joke: "Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice."
"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein
The comma operator is covered in most respectable intermediate C or C++ books. It's commonly used in a for-loop declaration when there's more than one thing to declare or increment.
Lots of things are dead or stillborn, but we still talk about it here anyways.
I saw this article and thought, "WHAT? Someone proved P=NP?". I was disappointed.
As it is, I see nothing enlightening about this article whatsoever... As people so often say here, "nothing to see here, move along".
"If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants." -- Issac Newton
It works in math and science, it works in computers.
Try running both OSes on identical hardware and then see what kind of results you get...
Simple: they already know the results of that survey.
You took the words out of my mouth.
The USA has done many things, but claiming ownership of things like the telephone and computer is egotistical at best.
In the case of the telephone, Bell was Scottish by origin, and started work on the telephone there, then moved to Canada and did most the work here, then moved to the USA where he completed his work and patented it. Who should get "bragging rights" to its invention? Americans look at the patent and say it's an American invention, when most the work was done outside the US. I say, Bell should get credit, and we should leave it at that. It was not "invented" in any one country.
A similar story goes for the computer. Yes, American universities made significant contributions, but so did UK, German, and many other nation's institutions and people. It is a world-wide invention. Anyone who claims ownership of it should be shot.
IAC (I am Canadian!)
Yes, hemp is a wonderful plant -- not just nutritionally, but it's also strong as hell. People make rope out of it and whatnot. Even clothes, such as jeans, that last a long time.
But, there are lots of legal problems with it. The plant looks nearly identical to its cousin, the marijuana plant, so what's to stop a hemp farmer from (knowingly, or unknowingly) hiding some marijuana plants in his field for a little extra profit.
"It's hemp, officer, I swear!" Suuure...
I agree that they should take a close look at the laws governing hemp... and some of the other stupid laws you mentioned.
Realistically, how do they plan on doing this? A levy on the purchase of Wi-FI hardware, or do they somehow plan to tax the *usage* of the spectrum?
If they use the second option, how do they plan on enforcing this?
Just wondering out loud, why don't they point the Hubble telescope to the moon to show the world the space vehicles, flag, etc left on the moon
Except that, at the distance of the moon, the Hubble telescope has a resolution of approximately 80m. It is designed for looking at things very far away, not (relatively) so close as the moon. There is no way to make the Hubble resolve something so small as the lander, or even worse, a bootprint.
Another one is http://www.bumpymail.com/. I've used it before. It's simple and works great.
The poster's point was that, apparently, one of the weaknesses of OSS is upward compatibility, when Microsoft itself breaks backwards compatibility in products such as VB. Clearly, there is no guarantee with their software either, so his point is moot.
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However, I agree that the VB example is a poor one, and clearly fan service to the
In fact, the truth is that, in general, OSS is very good with preserving binary and source compatibility. In general, libraries are compatible within a major revision, and even when major development has moved past an obsolete major version, large projects "hire" a maintainer who keeps the old versions up to date with bug fixes, security issues, etc. A good example is either the Linux kernel, or GTK.
I heard he had good algorithms (Al Gore Rhythms)
Laugh, it's funny.
*ducks*
That's what I have on this very computer, and I have never had problems with it in the 5 months it has been like this (approx. the time I have had this machine). At 2:00 every morning, a crontab syncs and updates, and when it completes, I get an email saying what was upgraded, and any errors that may result.
Most nights, it only takes a matter of minutes to run, and I have never had it run into the morning, even when Gnome was upgraded to 2.6.
I just remember to run etc-update every once in a while, and it's all good. I noticed that once, some Gnome programs failed to start. I ran etc-update, merged everything, and it was fixed. I've considered making it start a terminal, running etc-update. If there's nothing to do, it'll quit long before I see it. If there is, it'll be open for me when I wake up, and I can merge the changes.
Seriously, it's not a problem. So, you can stop spreading FUD any time now...
I use Linux for three main reasons:
- Flexibility: I can configure my computer to work exactly how I want. In addition, I use Gentoo, which allows further control. Yes, this adds complexity; it doesn't work "out of the box", so to speak, but that's fine with me. No one dictates how it looks or feels. For the record, I use parts of GNOME with Enlightenment.
- Freedom: I am a programmer. If I can't make a program do something I want it to, I can always open the source (another advantage of source-based distros, by the way: it's easier to modify the source for programs than with binary distros, because you have the headers for everything). To date, I have patched 4 programs, and submitted the patches for 2 of them.
- Philosophy: I can't explain why, but the whole philosophy behind the open source movement appeals to me.
I would say "price" as an advantage, but that's really a non-issue, since *ahem* I have never bought a copy of Windows (Microsoft tax excluded).
It's simple: StarOffice has support. OpenOffice does not. If they do not get an agreement for software support in the deal, there would be no deal.
Disclaimer: This is based on the rules put out by Industry Canada, not the FCC, so there may be some differences, but I don't think so. The rules for broadcasting radio signals basically boil down to whoever has primary and secondary rights to a band. For the FM broadcast band (93 MHz to 108MHz), which I believe you would be using, channel are sold to radio stations, and they have primary access to the channel. The general public is a secondary user. As a primary user, the radio stations have the right to shut down any station found to be interfering with their service. This is where the FCC gets involved. If you find yourself an unused channel, and broadcast at low power, then you won't have a problem. You might want to keep an eye on it to make sure a station doesn't start up on that channel.