It is true that GNU/Linux advocates want proprietary, closed-source models to fail.
Some do, yes. But not all. The antagonism against Microsoft is strong in the F/OSS community, but also among proprietary software developers. Microsoft has a long history of breaking the law, behaving unethically toward customers and competitors, and making crappy -- but well marketed -- software. Some people think that Microsoft is the natural final state of the closed source company, and that closed source thus is proven to be bad for innovation, business and freedom. I don't agree. I say blame the government for letting lawbreakers slip through their fingers, and blame the customers for being lazy. I believe that closed source still is a legitimate business model, both for consumer products and bespoke systems. I don't see proprietary products as "evil" in any way and won't mind paying for a good product, except that I wonder wether the source is free of infringement, back doors and security flaws.
True, listening to the keyboard is valuable, if you either
- Have full physical access to the computer, and can key in identical pass phrases or - The text is typed into the computer as you listen.
Without access to an encrypted secret key or if the data has another source than the keyboard, you can't get the data by listening to the keyboard. Each attack has it's own advantages and disadvantages.
His followers were transformed - from frightened idiots to fearless evangelists.
What do you base this on? The bible? It was written by those same followers. How could that be a reliable source then?
If some guy described himself as a former idiot, I would be inclined to belive him. More than I would an idiot who described himself as a former fearless evangelist.
it is certainly not something I installed. Yet somehow, my 2.04 box didn't need TLAs to identify files
Interesting. Maybe it was another system. or it could be like this:
Before DefIcons the OS just knew the difference between these types of files:
Tool
Project
Drawer
Disk
Trashcan
The way that the OS knew what program to use with MyFile, was the content of Myfile.info: The icon file. The icon files of projects (data files) contains the icon, protection bits (readable, editable, deletable, executable) some optional settings (tool types), and the default tool. The icon files for tools would have stack size, the icon files for drawers would contain layout information.
If you selected a data file and opened the "Information" window, you could enter what Tool (Program) you wanted to open the file. Example: You had an IFF picture called Picture1. When you double-clicked it, it opened in DPaint by default, because the picture was made in DPaint. If you wanted to change that, you could open the Information window and change the default tool DPaint:DPaintIII to something like c:ppshow.
What DefIcons did was providing sensible.info files to data files that had no icons.
When viewing the contents of a directory with Show All, DefIcons would check the contents of the icon-less files, the TLD suffixes and other rules to determine the file type. Then the default icon would represent that file. A very clever thing to do. The result was different icons for different file types, and the correct program opened. Very similar to Windows when you hide TLD suffixes. Windows trusts the TLDs though. That's a quick and dirty solution next to DefIcons.
>> DefIcons was, from AmigaOS3.5 included in the OS.
>Nope, I had 2.04.
It was included in the OS from OS3.5. Before that it was an add-on, which came with NewIcons. If you wanted, you could run DefIcons without NewIcons. I don't remember if I ran NewIcons and DefIcons on my A600 (OS 2.04), but I certainly ran them om our two A1200 with OS 3.0 and OS 3.1. When I got OS 3.5, DefIcons and NewIcons was included in the OS.
What you describe is the DefIcons system. A very nice system that was packaged with NewIcons. DefIcons would, as you say, recognize file types without relying on filename extentions, and open the correct program for the file. (If you hadn't done some daft reconfiguring opening text files in DPaint.) DefIcons was, from AmigaOS3.5 included in the OS.
Datatypes are really an easy way for programs to access files of different types. Let's say I'm writing an image program and the user opens file xyz. The filetype of xyz is not internally supported by my image program, but luckily I've written it with Datatype support. If the user has a installed a datatype for the type of file xyz on his system, my program will open file xyz right away. Some datatypes even allows saving in the new format. (IIRC)
I have spoken with RMS face-to-face and he didn't smell.
It's not my fault his nose ain't working:-P
OK, sorry. We're just using RMS as the geek. You know, since he's extremely GNU, he's presumably got extremely more beard, more hair, more BO, more anime and Star Trek obsession, etc.
He has an agenda. And he's throwing sand in our eyes.
Sure, the US have a gun lobby. Some of those who talk back are gun advocates and right wingers. But not all those who speak out against Michael Moore are "gun nuts". I don't own a gun, and neither does Richard Bushnell, the operator of that site. You don't even have to be "conservative" to see that Michael Moore plays fast and loose with the truth.
Let's take the bank scene as an example. He represents his critics as saying that he used actors and a stage to "stage" the scene. No critics said that. They said the gun buy was pre-arranged, the bank employees not doing what they usually would have, i.e. staged, and cut to look different than what it was.
I was happy to see Wesley Clark drop out. Him as president with Michael Moore as information minister? Scary as Hell.
Are you sure gathering so much leadership is wise? You know, when you have armed enemies? You should do like they do at the State of the Union address, and leave one* of the members at an undisclosed location, in case the FSF is bombed or something.
*: The rest of the FSF might hope to leave RMS out of there because of BO considerations, but, alas, he is too important not to attend. It would be like Dick Cheney staying away from State of the Union.
I'm one of those people who can't understand why some people in the US think they need guns to protect themselves from crime, and even the government. But I'd just like to share that link.
SEC agent: Mr. McBride, you're under arrest for fraud. Please come with us.
SWAT sniper: Subject 1 has a gun under left arm. Advice caution.
SEC agent: Please hand over your firearms.
Darl: This firearm? [Whips out gun, pointing it at SEC agent. Darl's body guard does the same.]
[Cue: Hans Zimmer music.]
They stand pointing each other's guns at each other, shouting.
SEC agent, police officers and Darl shouting at each other: Put your guns down! No, you put yours down.
ESR and RMS are hiding under a table, witnessing it all. They have to save the day etc.etc.
Alternative 2 SEC and FBI agents approach SCO headquarters.
In A.D. 2004 Search was beginning. Darl: What happen ? Security guard: Somebody set up us the search warrant. Secretary: We get signal. Darl: What ! Secretary: Main screen turn on. Darl: It's You !! SEC: How are you gentlemen !! SEC: All your evidence are belong to us. SEC: You are on the way to prosecution. Darl: What you say !! SEC: You have no right to resist make your time. SEC: HA HA HA HA.... Captain: Take off every 'gun' !! Captain: You know what you doing. Captain: Move 'gun'. Captain: For great evasion of justice.
Replay Waco situation with search [David Koresh] replace [Darl McBride]. Only this time, after SCO set fire to their complex, they are rescued by Microsoft helicopters.
Army general: The fire was a diversion! Cancel the fire rescue! Call the air force! Bring some artillery etc.
For the curious, Slashdot (as of September 2001) runs on nine machines: nine webservers (each is Pentium III/600, 1GB RAM, 9GB hard drive), one NFS server (600MHz PIII, 1GB RAM), and three database servers database server (quad 600MHz PIII, 4GB RAM).
So, 24: one for each webserver (9), one for each webserver (to make dupes)(9), one for each of the NFS/database servers(4), one to moderate them (1), and one to metamoderate(1). That makes 24.
I saw a list of movies in a joke trailer released before the Fellowship of the Ring was out. I think it's this one.
I think it wasn't hosted on modernhumorist when I saw it first.
I posted this list in a previous post, but can't find it. (Not subscriber)
The Fellowship of the Ring (Christmas 2001) The Two Towers (Cristmas 2002) The Third One (Christmas 2003) Lord of the Rings: Episode 1 - The Hobbit (Christmas 2005) The Fellowship of the Ring: Special Edition (Christmas 2006) The Book of Lost Tales (Christmas 2007) Scribbles in Tolkien's Math Book (Hannukah 2009) Dude, Where's My Ring? (Christmas 2010) What Hobbits Want (Christmas 2011) Bilbo Brockovich (Christmas 2012) All the Pretty Hobbits (Christmas 2013) O, Bilbo, Where Art Thou? (Christmas 2014) Crouching Gollum, Hidden Balrog (Christmas 2015) Orc by Orcwest (Christmas 2017)
I mean, it's no great feat to predict that Peter Jackson might make The Hobbit, but if all those pan out, I promise to eat my right sock.
Why don't you rather apply for a patent on patenting? I think some guy allready was granted a patent for that, but you might get it if you call it "A process and tools for granting monopolies on the use of inventions as well as one-click-shopping and other obvious stuff on the Internet."
Yes, and there are three main ways to terrorise: 1. A rule of terror (a government against its citizens). 2. War (legitimate actions and war crimes) 3. Terrorism
That word is used far to often in the USA, and the rest of the world, today.
Even the terrorists call their enemies terrorists today. "Bush is the real terrorist! Hunting is terrorism! Prank calls are terrorism!"
After 9/11, I've started saying "direct action activism". It is not really more precise, but it is used less wrongly than the word "terrorism". Today, you'd have to look hard for someone willing to describe themselves as terrorists, except in jest. Self-declared "direct action activists" are easier to find, although they are still less popular now than before 9/11. Bombing abortion clinics, federal buildings, animal testing facilities etc. are not in vogue anymore.
OK, I've understood the rules of pedestrian crossings for a while. (I just got the Highway Code from the bookshelf to refresh.) I have allways been puzzled by the names of the crossings (Pelican, Puffin, Toucan, Zebra) And reading that site has just DECREASED MY IQ by at least 10 points. Pedestrian User Friendly INtelligent Crossings? Time for valium:-D
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It is true that GNU/Linux advocates want proprietary, closed-source models to fail.
Some do, yes. But not all.
The antagonism against Microsoft is strong in the F/OSS community, but also among proprietary software developers. Microsoft has a long history of breaking the law, behaving unethically toward customers and competitors, and making crappy -- but well marketed -- software.
Some people think that Microsoft is the natural final state of the closed source company, and that closed source thus is proven to be bad for innovation, business and freedom. I don't agree. I say blame the government for letting lawbreakers slip through their fingers, and blame the customers for being lazy.
I believe that closed source still is a legitimate business model, both for consumer products and bespoke systems. I don't see proprietary products as "evil" in any way and won't mind paying for a good product, except that I wonder wether the source is free of infringement, back doors and security flaws.
True, listening to the keyboard is valuable, if you either
- Have full physical access to the computer, and can key in identical pass phrases
or
- The text is typed into the computer as you listen.
Without access to an encrypted secret key or if the data has another source than the keyboard, you can't get the data by listening to the keyboard.
Each attack has it's own advantages and disadvantages.
They could have sent it out as a Word .doc, but then people would have to download OpenOffice to read it.
HP makes desktops and laptops.
Novell owns SuSe.
His followers were transformed - from frightened idiots to fearless evangelists.
What do you base this on? The bible? It was written by those same followers. How could that be a reliable source then?
If some guy described himself as a former idiot, I would be inclined to belive him. More than I would an idiot who described himself as a former fearless evangelist.
Interesting. Maybe it was another system. or it could be like this:
Before DefIcons the OS just knew the difference between these types of files:
The way that the OS knew what program to use with MyFile, was the content of Myfile.info: The icon file. The icon files of projects (data files) contains the icon, protection bits (readable, editable, deletable, executable) some optional settings (tool types), and the default tool.
The icon files for tools would have stack size, the icon files for drawers would contain layout information.
If you selected a data file and opened the "Information" window, you could enter what Tool (Program) you wanted to open the file.
Example: You had an IFF picture called Picture1. When you double-clicked it, it opened in DPaint by default, because the picture was made in DPaint. If you wanted to change that, you could open the Information window and change the default tool DPaint:DPaintIII to something like c:ppshow.
What DefIcons did was providing sensible
When viewing the contents of a directory with Show All, DefIcons would check the contents of the icon-less files, the TLD suffixes and other rules to determine the file type. Then the default icon would represent that file. A very clever thing to do.
The result was different icons for different file types, and the correct program opened. Very similar to Windows when you hide TLD suffixes. Windows trusts the TLDs though. That's a quick and dirty solution next to DefIcons.
>> DefIcons was, from AmigaOS3.5 included in the OS.
>Nope, I had 2.04.
It was included in the OS from OS3.5. Before that it was an add-on, which came with NewIcons. If you wanted, you could run DefIcons without NewIcons.
I don't remember if I ran NewIcons and DefIcons on my A600 (OS 2.04), but I certainly ran them om our two A1200 with OS 3.0 and OS 3.1.
When I got OS 3.5, DefIcons and NewIcons was included in the OS.
What you describe is the DefIcons system. A very nice system that was packaged with NewIcons.
DefIcons would, as you say, recognize file types without relying on filename extentions, and open the correct program for the file. (If you hadn't done some daft reconfiguring opening text files in DPaint.)
DefIcons was, from AmigaOS3.5 included in the OS.
Datatypes are really an easy way for programs to access files of different types.
Let's say I'm writing an image program and the user opens file xyz.
The filetype of xyz is not internally supported by my image program, but luckily I've written it with Datatype support.
If the user has a installed a datatype for the type of file xyz on his system, my program will open file xyz right away. Some datatypes even allows saving in the new format. (IIRC)
I have spoken with RMS face-to-face and he didn't smell.
:-P
It's not my fault his nose ain't working
OK, sorry. We're just using RMS as the geek. You know, since he's extremely GNU, he's presumably got extremely more beard, more hair, more BO, more anime and Star Trek obsession, etc.
So, you met RMS. You're luckier than me.
Read about Michael Moore using strawmen for defence.
He has an agenda. And he's throwing sand in our eyes.
Sure, the US have a gun lobby. Some of those who talk back are gun advocates and right wingers. But not all those who speak out against Michael Moore are "gun nuts". I don't own a gun, and neither does Richard Bushnell, the operator of that site.
You don't even have to be "conservative" to see that Michael Moore plays fast and loose with the truth.
Let's take the bank scene as an example. He represents his critics as saying that he used actors and a stage to "stage" the scene. No critics said that. They said the gun buy was pre-arranged, the bank employees not doing what they usually would have, i.e. staged, and cut to look different than what it was.
I was happy to see Wesley Clark drop out. Him as president with Michael Moore as information minister? Scary as Hell.
Are you sure gathering so much leadership is wise? You know, when you have armed enemies?
You should do like they do at the State of the Union address, and leave one* of the members at an undisclosed location, in case the FSF is bombed or something.
*: The rest of the FSF might hope to leave RMS out of there because of BO considerations, but, alas, he is too important not to attend. It would be like Dick Cheney staying away from State of the Union.
Go watch Bowling for Columbine.
I'm one of those people who can't understand why some people in the US think they need guns to protect themselves from crime, and even the government. But I'd just like to share that link.
Alternative 1
....
[A public place.]
SEC agent: Mr. McBride, you're under arrest for fraud. Please come with us.
SWAT sniper: Subject 1 has a gun under left arm. Advice caution.
SEC agent: Please hand over your firearms.
Darl: This firearm? [Whips out gun, pointing it at SEC agent. Darl's body guard does the same.]
[Cue: Hans Zimmer music.]
They stand pointing each other's guns at each other, shouting.
SEC agent, police officers and Darl shouting at each other: Put your guns down! No, you put yours down.
ESR and RMS are hiding under a table, witnessing it all. They have to save the day etc.etc.
Alternative 2
SEC and FBI agents approach SCO headquarters.
In A.D. 2004
Search was beginning.
Darl: What happen ?
Security guard: Somebody set up us the search warrant.
Secretary: We get signal.
Darl: What !
Secretary: Main screen turn on.
Darl: It's You !!
SEC: How are you gentlemen !!
SEC: All your evidence are belong to us.
SEC: You are on the way to prosecution.
Darl: What you say !!
SEC: You have no right to resist make your time.
SEC: HA HA HA HA
Captain: Take off every 'gun' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'gun'.
Captain: For great evasion of justice.
Replay Waco situation with search [David Koresh] replace [Darl McBride].
Only this time, after SCO set fire to their complex, they are rescued by Microsoft helicopters.
Army general: The fire was a diversion! Cancel the fire rescue! Call the air force! Bring some artillery etc.
Actually, this would make a kick-ass anime.
If Darl comes in again, make him sign a relase for that saying that he won't sue you. Then follow the advice for treating Darl McBride's usual ailments.
Valium, cooling blankets, acetaminophen (Tylenol), thrombolytic drugs and cardiac catheterization may be needed.
If doctors think this is a good idea why are they so opposed to keeping their own legal/discipline records away from the public?
:-P
Yes, we know what you meant to say, but don't you just long for an "edit post" option now?
I think doctors' discipline records should be public. But I don't think those records should include silly lawsuits that never went to trial.
I saw a list of movies in a joke trailer released before the Fellowship of the Ring was out.
I think it's this one.
I think it wasn't hosted on modernhumorist when I saw it first.
I posted this list in a previous post, but can't find it. (Not subscriber)
The Fellowship of the Ring (Christmas 2001)
The Two Towers (Cristmas 2002)
The Third One (Christmas 2003)
Lord of the Rings: Episode 1 - The Hobbit (Christmas 2005)
The Fellowship of the Ring: Special Edition (Christmas 2006)
The Book of Lost Tales (Christmas 2007)
Scribbles in Tolkien's Math Book (Hannukah 2009)
Dude, Where's My Ring? (Christmas 2010)
What Hobbits Want (Christmas 2011)
Bilbo Brockovich (Christmas 2012)
All the Pretty Hobbits (Christmas 2013)
O, Bilbo, Where Art Thou? (Christmas 2014)
Crouching Gollum, Hidden Balrog (Christmas 2015)
Orc by Orcwest (Christmas 2017)
I mean, it's no great feat to predict that Peter Jackson might make The Hobbit, but if all those pan out, I promise to eat my right sock.
Why don't you rather apply for a patent on patenting? I think some guy allready was granted a patent for that, but you might get it if you call it
"A process and tools for granting monopolies on the use of inventions as well as one-click-shopping and other obvious stuff on the Internet."
I think that means that the electronic system doesn't accept it. You will have to send them in on plain papaer.
Yes, and there are three main ways to terrorise:
1. A rule of terror (a government against its citizens).
2. War (legitimate actions and war crimes)
3. Terrorism
That word is used far to often in the USA, and the rest of the world, today.
Even the terrorists call their enemies terrorists today. "Bush is the real terrorist! Hunting is terrorism! Prank calls are terrorism!"
After 9/11, I've started saying "direct action activism". It is not really more precise, but it is used less wrongly than the word "terrorism".
Today, you'd have to look hard for someone willing to describe themselves as terrorists, except in jest. Self-declared "direct action activists" are easier to find, although they are still less popular now than before 9/11. Bombing abortion clinics, federal buildings, animal testing facilities etc. are not in vogue anymore.
This reminds me of a Simpsons episode:
Some guy: "If you don't come in Friday, don't bother comming in Monday."
Homer: "Woohoo! Long weekend!"
OK, I've understood the rules of pedestrian crossings for a while. (I just got the Highway Code from the bookshelf to refresh.) I have allways been puzzled by the names of the crossings (Pelican, Puffin, Toucan, Zebra) :-D
And reading that site has just DECREASED MY IQ by at least 10 points.
Pedestrian User Friendly INtelligent Crossings? Time for valium
Don't know why not. If you suggest it to him, he might include it.
You can see the size of a Borg cube here. About half way down the page.
WARNINGS:
Slight spoilers for various sci-fi and skiffy series.
Bandwidth intensive graphics.
High geek level.