As far as I know, the problems with Linux on sparc32 are bit rot and other problems in the Linux kernel code. Debian, SuSE and Mandrake are Linux distributions and they distribute software written by others. No distribution has full support of sparc32 hardware because sparc32 issues are not distro issues. They are issues with kernel development, and especially lack of interest from kernel developers.
I think that the idea of fair use ought to be extended, but am I supposed to be outraged that this is happening? They're actually going after people who are breaking the law, instead of trying to end technologies with legitimate uses.
I guess there are lots of people who just want to have music for free (as in beer). If you look at their lines of argumentation, they are not consistent and change from one side to another depending on what happens to apply to some narrow situation discussed at the time.
Yes, using your own server is the best way to do it if the environment is diverse. I maintain a simple HTML page with all my favorite links and store it on a local server. HTML is easy to write, easy to understand, universally supported by older browsers and likely by all future browsers that will emerge in the future.
Apart from the whole Free/non-free issue for documentation and firmware (or at least my understanding is that firmware is the source (oops, bad pun) of the other issues), I don't know of any other major plans for etch which could cause a long release cycle?
There are some plans for multiarch support. As far as I understand the issue, it would require modifications to all library packages but I don't know how big task it will really be.
Users don't care about OS internals. Don't send them to a page explaining OS scheduling, just tell them "All new Linux makes your applications more responsive!". That's all they want to hear.
I don't think the ordinary users (at least the ones you talk about) are readers of Slashdot or OSNews. This is not marketing material you are reading. It would be silly to judge it as such.
Does anyone know if there are distro's compiled with, say, the Intel compiler?
I don't know of such distro but at least according to Gentoo documentation Gentoo has some kind of support for icc. I don't know how widely and how well it works. (I've never used Gentoo.)
Does this now set a precedent in favor of the GPL to be used in such cases as SCO vs *ix/BSD?
IANAL (heh) but I think that one factor one should consider is the fact that this court is in Germany while many other court cases are in other jurisdictions of the world. As an example, I don't think that the decisions of German courts can be used as legal precedents in the US courts.
The MyDoom virus takes advantage of the users of Microsoft operating system so it is evident that, in fact, Microsoft users are an essential help in DDoS attack on SCO. The virus has also been written for the Windows operating system, therefore, it was written by a Windows programmer. This makes perfect sense because Microsoft is trying to gain marketshare from UNIX.
It's easy to speculate. Unless there aren't hard facts, it's easy to sling mud at anyone who is even remotely involved. Microsoft is somehow involved just like Linux is. So in the long-running Slashdot tradition, why not just blame Microsoft regardless of facts?
I don't know anyone respectable who uses AOL so I won't ever be able to find out how this works...
Heh. Actually (if I have understood correctly) SPF should prevent anyone from spoofing aol.com as the sender address during the SMTP session. So if a spammer attempts to spoof aol.com and your mail server is SPF-aware, then it would be good for you and AOL because you won't get spam and AOL won't get bounces for the addresses that had problems with delivery (and with spam, problems with delivery are not rare).
A few years back when I had JavaScript enabled without any restrictions (like not allowing popups), I often got the feeling that it would be very nice to see my very own desktop instead of windows I hadn't asked for. I still occasionally get the same feeling when some applications suddenly grab all the attention and display warnings like "host foo.com not found". Clicking a dead link hardly warrants attention-grabbing popup warning that appears in a minute or two when I'm probably doing something else on another virtual desktop.
Try reading info pages with "pinfo" instead of "info" - you'll like info pages much more when you've got a decent viewer =)
Yeah, pinfo is definitely better than the default info viewer. The only problem with pinfo is that it's not really standard. If I log on to a system I'm not familiar with (and then I often really _need_ documentation), I can't be sure if "pinfo foo" will work whereas "man foo" will work with almost 100% certainity.
Because it is pretty much guaranteed that man pages can be read on every system without any viewer brain damage, it also leads to a situation where many people write only man pages and additional documentation in other formats (like plain text or HTML). I know that info can view man pages when info pages are not found but I rarely bother. I just use "man foo" and if that doesn't give what I'm searching for, then check/usr/share/doc or search the web.
Did I miss a memo, or is this a truly sinister precedent? It suggests that every kind of application will now be able to patent the way it saves data, thereby denying others the opportunity to import data from that file.
Did you not know that many jurisdictions allow software patents? They include things like methods for displaying data to users, methods for compressing data etc. Why would it not include methods for storing data?
Of course talking of methods (software) for an apparatus (normal computer) might sound confusing but that's software patents for you. People who talk about "obvious" patents being the primary problem with software patents are on completely wrong tracks. The patenting of software itself is the fundamental problem.
Software patents will always give an option to make it illegal for others to be interoperable with your software. If you don't agree with this principle, then you can't agree with the idea of software patenting either. Some people might be confused by copyright (an entirely different branch of legislation) that allows reverse-engineering and interoperability but with patents, that's not the case. Indeed, patents can effectively destroy your copyright the software you have written because after you realize that it is covered by a patent granted to someone else, you won't have the power to license it under your own terms (and whether it is a closed or open licensing, is irrelevant).
For EU citizens, I recommend that you join the fight against software patents. For people in different jurisdictions, I recommend taking a serious political stand against all software patents regardless of how ridiculous or serious they sound.
Well, sooner or later the sales of physical records are going to fall anyway. The only thing I need physical CDs for are backup purposes e.g. in the case my computer hardware was damaged and I needed to recreate the digital copies.
I have all my CD's encoded in a digital format and because of all the convenience it gives me, I'm not willing to give it up. The physical discs will sooner or later become obsolete. Not this year or the next year (I mean there are still people who buy new vinyl records) but in the end, it'll all be just bits in general-purpose storage formats. The costs of maintaining separate storage formats just for music will become too high.
Frag rate and bus type?
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The most interesting question about space mice is how they are going to affect our fragging experience. I mean are space mice better when shooting at aliens or are they just yet another project wasting taxpayers' hard-earned money instead of doing something useful (like improving our frag rate)? Also, I would also like to know if the space mice will be available in PS/2 or USB versions since I saw no mentions of the bus types.
Seriously, there are plenty of people who hate all popular operating systems and use them only because they have to use one to get some things done. Hating Windows doesn't mean that you would love Mac, Linux, or something else.
Guess what my bayesian filter is going to start thinking of those headers soon... this could prove to be a problem for them if they don't get things fixed ASAP.
My bogofilter database seems to consider the Habeas headers to be rather neutral. Of course it'll adapt but as far as I can tell, the Habeas headers are not a good indicator of spamminess of a message.
27 vs. 28 makes these tokens to have no value. Maybe Habeas might have some chances in the court but I don't think that they have any long-term chances in convincing the people on the net to modify their filters to let Habeas-marked messages automatically pass through. It seems that they convinced SpamAssassin developers but I wouldn't be surprised if they removed their test for Habeas headers.
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As far as I know, the problems with Linux on sparc32 are bit rot and other problems in the Linux kernel code. Debian, SuSE and Mandrake are Linux distributions and they distribute software written by others. No distribution has full support of sparc32 hardware because sparc32 issues are not distro issues. They are issues with kernel development, and especially lack of interest from kernel developers.
At first glance I read the story headline as "Bozos Patent Information Exchange" and for once, I thought the headline fit the story.
I guess there are lots of people who just want to have music for free (as in beer). If you look at their lines of argumentation, they are not consistent and change from one side to another depending on what happens to apply to some narrow situation discussed at the time.
Actually Earth's gravity does exist on the moon. It certainly is a lot weaker than what we experience here but it is definitely real and measurable.
Yes, using your own server is the best way to do it if the environment is diverse. I maintain a simple HTML page with all my favorite links and store it on a local server. HTML is easy to write, easy to understand, universally supported by older browsers and likely by all future browsers that will emerge in the future.
Those who don't understand Unix jokes are doomed to reinvent them, poorly. :)
There are some plans for multiarch support. As far as I understand the issue, it would require modifications to all library packages but I don't know how big task it will really be.
The answer is emerging. Check back in a couple of days.
That's the size of the .tar.gz version. Bzip2 compresses a lot better. The .tar.bz2 version at kernel.org is about 9 MB smaller.
It's not based on Progeny Anaconda. It has been written from scratch.
Some screenshots are available at http://people.debian.org/~madduck/d-i/screenshots/
All the addresses you mentioned point at the same IP addresses so I don't think it makes any difference.
I don't think the ordinary users (at least the ones you talk about) are readers of Slashdot or OSNews. This is not marketing material you are reading. It would be silly to judge it as such.
I don't know of such distro but at least according to Gentoo documentation Gentoo has some kind of support for icc. I don't know how widely and how well it works. (I've never used Gentoo.)
Slashdot hits you. You die. --More--
For those who live in a geographical area other than the US, the local TLDs can be very important e.g. .de for Germans, .fr for the French etc.
IANAL (heh) but I think that one factor one should consider is the fact that this court is in Germany while many other court cases are in other jurisdictions of the world. As an example, I don't think that the decisions of German courts can be used as legal precedents in the US courts.
The MyDoom virus takes advantage of the users of Microsoft operating system so it is evident that, in fact, Microsoft users are an essential help in DDoS attack on SCO. The virus has also been written for the Windows operating system, therefore, it was written by a Windows programmer. This makes perfect sense because Microsoft is trying to gain marketshare from UNIX.
It's easy to speculate. Unless there aren't hard facts, it's easy to sling mud at anyone who is even remotely involved. Microsoft is somehow involved just like Linux is. So in the long-running Slashdot tradition, why not just blame Microsoft regardless of facts?
Heh. Actually (if I have understood correctly) SPF should prevent anyone from spoofing aol.com as the sender address during the SMTP session. So if a spammer attempts to spoof aol.com and your mail server is SPF-aware, then it would be good for you and AOL because you won't get spam and AOL won't get bounces for the addresses that had problems with delivery (and with spam, problems with delivery are not rare).
At least this is how I have understood it.
A few years back when I had JavaScript enabled without any restrictions (like not allowing popups), I often got the feeling that it would be very nice to see my very own desktop instead of windows I hadn't asked for. I still occasionally get the same feeling when some applications suddenly grab all the attention and display warnings like "host foo.com not found". Clicking a dead link hardly warrants attention-grabbing popup warning that appears in a minute or two when I'm probably doing something else on another virtual desktop.
Yeah, pinfo is definitely better than the default info viewer. The only problem with pinfo is that it's not really standard. If I log on to a system I'm not familiar with (and then I often really _need_ documentation), I can't be sure if "pinfo foo" will work whereas "man foo" will work with almost 100% certainity.
Because it is pretty much guaranteed that man pages can be read on every system without any viewer brain damage, it also leads to a situation where many people write only man pages and additional documentation in other formats (like plain text or HTML). I know that info can view man pages when info pages are not found but I rarely bother. I just use "man foo" and if that doesn't give what I'm searching for, then check /usr/share/doc or search the web.
Did you not know that many jurisdictions allow software patents? They include things like methods for displaying data to users, methods for compressing data etc. Why would it not include methods for storing data?
Of course talking of methods (software) for an apparatus (normal computer) might sound confusing but that's software patents for you. People who talk about "obvious" patents being the primary problem with software patents are on completely wrong tracks. The patenting of software itself is the fundamental problem.
Software patents will always give an option to make it illegal for others to be interoperable with your software. If you don't agree with this principle, then you can't agree with the idea of software patenting either. Some people might be confused by copyright (an entirely different branch of legislation) that allows reverse-engineering and interoperability but with patents, that's not the case. Indeed, patents can effectively destroy your copyright the software you have written because after you realize that it is covered by a patent granted to someone else, you won't have the power to license it under your own terms (and whether it is a closed or open licensing, is irrelevant).
For EU citizens, I recommend that you join the fight against software patents. For people in different jurisdictions, I recommend taking a serious political stand against all software patents regardless of how ridiculous or serious they sound.
Well, sooner or later the sales of physical records are going to fall anyway. The only thing I need physical CDs for are backup purposes e.g. in the case my computer hardware was damaged and I needed to recreate the digital copies.
I have all my CD's encoded in a digital format and because of all the convenience it gives me, I'm not willing to give it up. The physical discs will sooner or later become obsolete. Not this year or the next year (I mean there are still people who buy new vinyl records) but in the end, it'll all be just bits in general-purpose storage formats. The costs of maintaining separate storage formats just for music will become too high.
The most interesting question about space mice is how they are going to affect our fragging experience. I mean are space mice better when shooting at aliens or are they just yet another project wasting taxpayers' hard-earned money instead of doing something useful (like improving our frag rate)? Also, I would also like to know if the space mice will be available in PS/2 or USB versions since I saw no mentions of the bus types.
Because all operating systems suck?
Seriously, there are plenty of people who hate all popular operating systems and use them only because they have to use one to get some things done. Hating Windows doesn't mean that you would love Mac, Linux, or something else.
My bogofilter database seems to consider the Habeas headers to be rather neutral. Of course it'll adapt but as far as I can tell, the Habeas headers are not a good indicator of spamminess of a message.
$ bogoutil -w ~/.bogofilter/wordlist.db head:X-Habeas-SWE-{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} head:{winter,into,spring,brightly,anticipated,like ,Habeas,SWE}
spam good
head:X-Habeas-SWE-1 27 28
head:X-Habeas-SWE-2 27 28
head:X-Habeas-SWE-3 27 28
head:X-Habeas-SWE-4 27 28
head:X-Habeas-SWE-5 27 28
head:X-Habeas-SWE-6 27 28
head:X-Habeas-SWE-7 27 28
head:X-Habeas-SWE-8 27 28
head:X-Habeas-SWE-9 27 28
head:winter 27 28
head:into 27 304
head:spring 27 28
head:brightly 27 28
head:anticipated 27 28
head:like 27 365
head:Habeas 27 28
head:SWE 27 28
27 vs. 28 makes these tokens to have no value. Maybe Habeas might have some chances in the court but I don't think that they have any long-term chances in convincing the people on the net to modify their filters to let Habeas-marked messages automatically pass through. It seems that they convinced SpamAssassin developers but I wouldn't be surprised if they removed their test for Habeas headers.