It's not interoperable with other jabber servers currently...Using Gaim, I tried sending messages to a friend at jabber.org from google talk and she did not receive them. (this works with normal Jabber servers, though there are some hiccups with netsplits; my normal account is at jabber.evilrealms.net and that works just fine) Therefore, for all practical purposes it's just another IM service.
I'm pretty sure Dreamcast Linux is fairly unusable, but I left the scene a few years ago, so that may have changed. I know for a fact it's not "popular" to run things off linux; selfbooting disc images are preferred.
People who are accustomed to building their computers from OEM parts don't understand retail markup, and for them, there isn't anything more to a product than wholesale component costs. (building computers is fun, not work) For this crowd, the Xbox 360 is competing with computer upgrades, and given the caliber of people on Xbox Live, the computer crowd might even be a nicer environment.
It's open source, right? That means somebody has to review the submissions in some way. If they were flooded with submissions that introduced subtle errors into the scheme, the only way to tell which ones to accept would be to know what they were doing in the first place, and they dont' know what they're doing since they've seen fit to form this project.
8.911s on my Athlon-64 3400+ running debian-pure64. It would probably be faster if it didn't have to waste time kicking the processor from 1000 MHz to 2400 MHz...yep, new time is 7.111 s if I throttle back up before running the test.
Wow; I meant to disagree with your position. I guess that my post could have been taken either way, on a second reading. It's not Joe Agent we're worried about; it's the government actually being able to _enforce_ more bad laws, for any definition of bad.
Bad laws get passed all the time, so illegal activity isn't necessarily _wrong_. There exists a category of laws (bad or not) that is very difficult to enforce without active snooping; an example being small-time copyright infringement. (i.e. the government would have to raid one's house to get any evidence but they can't do so _until_ they get evidence to get a warrant, so one could be fine despite breaking the law.) The concern is that under the ever-growing accumulation of laws, non-conformance has an increasing probability of illegality, but it would be much more difficult to prove without active spying.
Lossless compression, by definition, can't disort the image. Surely you meant lossy compression? TIFF is a container format, so the kind of compression, if any, isn't actually set in stone.
I'm pretty sure it's not actually instant - the clients poll the server for new mail on a regular interval. If you're bored, you can get yourself stuck and sitting there refreshing all the time.
Er, my mistake...I was thinking that the "dynamic linking is ok" provisions from LGPL were in GPL. Apparently all that parsing work won't go to waste after all.
Interestingly, it's come to our attention that using a plugin system for the debugger would allow us to statically link a debugger plugin with GDB and then simply release the _plugin_ under the GPL while keeping the majority of our source closed. Guess the GPL isn't perfect...
By landmass, it's no bigger than the USA.
While this statement is techinically true (Mainland China's area is 9,596,960 km, and the USA's area is 9,631,418 km), the continental USA is significantly smaller than China. Correcting for Alaska's area (1,717,854 km) and noting that Hawaii is three orders of magnitude smaller than Alaska gives a figure of 7,913,564 km for the area of the U.S., which means that China is 1.2127 or about 6/5 times the size of what is normally thought of as the USA, hardly an insignifcant proportion. Figures for the areas of China, the USA, and Alaska obtained from Wikipedia. They do include water, but the USA is a higher proportion water than China, so the difference is underestimated in favor of the USA and the point stands.
The (small) company I work with is developing an IDE and a development board for ARM. Our obvious choice for debugger is GDB, which, being GPL, cannot be linked with our code. Accordingly, I've been searching for a BSD-licensed front-end to GDB for a long time to avoid spending the months it is taking to write a class to interface between GDB, using its GDB/MI interface, and the rest of the IDE. The task involves a bison parser and several layers of code that could all be avoided if any of the components necessary were under the BSD license.
Of course a worm is not a security problem; a worm exploits a security problem. A worm is just a program that automatically exploits a security hole to gain entry into a computer system, delivers an optional payload, and repeats the process, copying itself.
By the way, does anyone even write true viruses any more? A true virus copies itself over the front of user programs so that it runs first when they run...
If you're typing www.slashdot.org into anywhere to get to Slashdot, something is wrong. You only need to type slashdot.org - check the link in the upper-left corner.
What if everybody had personal defense shields, making guns obsolete? It would be the opposite of the Old West, where everyone carried guns and asshole behaviour could easily get you perforated.
No, it'd be Dune.
What IP? The protocols were either reverse-engineered or published, no violation there. Miranda doesn't run any servers, therefore it's the users' problem if the users use Miranda without permission. Simple.
You can't shred a file if it's on, say, ReiserFS because the filesystem doesn't overwrite data in place. shred's manpage actually reveals that shredding just plain doesn't work nowadays, as it doesn't work on journalled filesystems. You would have to boot a live CD and run shred on the block device to be sure.
If anything, Microsoft will figure out how to buy Linux and jigger with it.
Funny, my stepfather told me the same thing a while ago. What he and you don't seem to understand is that there's no one to buy it from. The contributors to the kernel have guaranteed with the GPL that, at worse, you will ALWAYS be able to obtain a copy of the kernel as it stands today (even if Microsoft DID "buy" it by doing something like hiring everyone who knows how to hack the kernel for exorbitant wages, a major new life goal for me would be "learn to maintain Linux kernel") for no more than the cost of making said copy. Of course, by the time the copyrights expire, something better comes along, and it fades into relative obscurity, the cost of making a copy of the kernel may be enormous, but that's probably a moot point.
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It's not interoperable with other jabber servers currently...Using Gaim, I tried sending messages to a friend at jabber.org from google talk and she did not receive them. (this works with normal Jabber servers, though there are some hiccups with netsplits; my normal account is at jabber.evilrealms.net and that works just fine) Therefore, for all practical purposes it's just another IM service.
I'm pretty sure Dreamcast Linux is fairly unusable, but I left the scene a few years ago, so that may have changed. I know for a fact it's not "popular" to run things off linux; selfbooting disc images are preferred.
Dreamcast? It had a commercial release of the game; be nice to see it go free now.
People who are accustomed to building their computers from OEM parts don't understand retail markup, and for them, there isn't anything more to a product than wholesale component costs. (building computers is fun, not work) For this crowd, the Xbox 360 is competing with computer upgrades, and given the caliber of people on Xbox Live, the computer crowd might even be a nicer environment.
It's open source, right? That means somebody has to review the submissions in some way. If they were flooded with submissions that introduced subtle errors into the scheme, the only way to tell which ones to accept would be to know what they were doing in the first place, and they dont' know what they're doing since they've seen fit to form this project.
What do Linux zealots care about OS X coming from BSD?
"Torvalds has also said that he would have joined the BSD effort had he known of it, rather than founding his own. But 386BSD was not shipped until early 1992, some months after the first Linux release."
8.911s on my Athlon-64 3400+ running debian-pure64. It would probably be faster if it didn't have to waste time kicking the processor from 1000 MHz to 2400 MHz...yep, new time is 7.111 s if I throttle back up before running the test.
Wow; I meant to disagree with your position. I guess that my post could have been taken either way, on a second reading. It's not Joe Agent we're worried about; it's the government actually being able to _enforce_ more bad laws, for any definition of bad.
Bad laws get passed all the time, so illegal activity isn't necessarily _wrong_. There exists a category of laws (bad or not) that is very difficult to enforce without active snooping; an example being small-time copyright infringement. (i.e. the government would have to raid one's house to get any evidence but they can't do so _until_ they get evidence to get a warrant, so one could be fine despite breaking the law.) The concern is that under the ever-growing accumulation of laws, non-conformance has an increasing probability of illegality, but it would be much more difficult to prove without active spying.
Lossless compression, by definition, can't disort the image. Surely you meant lossy compression? TIFF is a container format, so the kind of compression, if any, isn't actually set in stone.
I'm pretty sure it's not actually instant - the clients poll the server for new mail on a regular interval. If you're bored, you can get yourself stuck and sitting there refreshing all the time.
Er, my mistake...I was thinking that the "dynamic linking is ok" provisions from LGPL were in GPL. Apparently all that parsing work won't go to waste after all.
Interestingly, it's come to our attention that using a plugin system for the debugger would allow us to statically link a debugger plugin with GDB and then simply release the _plugin_ under the GPL while keeping the majority of our source closed. Guess the GPL isn't perfect...
By landmass, it's no bigger than the USA.
While this statement is techinically true (Mainland China's area is 9,596,960 km, and the USA's area is 9,631,418 km), the continental USA is significantly smaller than China. Correcting for Alaska's area (1,717,854 km) and noting that Hawaii is three orders of magnitude smaller than Alaska gives a figure of 7,913,564 km for the area of the U.S., which means that China is 1.2127 or about 6/5 times the size of what is normally thought of as the USA, hardly an insignifcant proportion. Figures for the areas of China, the USA, and Alaska obtained from Wikipedia. They do include water, but the USA is a higher proportion water than China, so the difference is underestimated in favor of the USA and the point stands.
The (small) company I work with is developing an IDE and a development board for ARM. Our obvious choice for debugger is GDB, which, being GPL, cannot be linked with our code. Accordingly, I've been searching for a BSD-licensed front-end to GDB for a long time to avoid spending the months it is taking to write a class to interface between GDB, using its GDB/MI interface, and the rest of the IDE. The task involves a bison parser and several layers of code that could all be avoided if any of the components necessary were under the BSD license.
What's the point of ideology if it doesn't come first?
Of course a worm is not a security problem; a worm exploits a security problem. A worm is just a program that automatically exploits a security hole to gain entry into a computer system, delivers an optional payload, and repeats the process, copying itself.
By the way, does anyone even write true viruses any more? A true virus copies itself over the front of user programs so that it runs first when they run...
If you're typing www.slashdot.org into anywhere to get to Slashdot, something is wrong. You only need to type slashdot.org - check the link in the upper-left corner.
What if everybody had personal defense shields, making guns obsolete? It would be the opposite of the Old West, where everyone carried guns and asshole behaviour could easily get you perforated.
No, it'd be Dune.
I'd rather take up fork(2) and exec(2).
What IP? The protocols were either reverse-engineered or published, no violation there. Miranda doesn't run any servers, therefore it's the users' problem if the users use Miranda without permission. Simple.
In their defense, CreateProcess is a real pain in the ass: it has about 10 parameters.
You can't shred a file if it's on, say, ReiserFS because the filesystem doesn't overwrite data in place. shred's manpage actually reveals that shredding just plain doesn't work nowadays, as it doesn't work on journalled filesystems. You would have to boot a live CD and run shred on the block device to be sure.
He's a web developer. How's it "his" game?
If anything, Microsoft will figure out how to buy Linux and jigger with it.
Funny, my stepfather told me the same thing a while ago. What he and you don't seem to understand is that there's no one to buy it from. The contributors to the kernel have guaranteed with the GPL that, at worse, you will ALWAYS be able to obtain a copy of the kernel as it stands today (even if Microsoft DID "buy" it by doing something like hiring everyone who knows how to hack the kernel for exorbitant wages, a major new life goal for me would be "learn to maintain Linux kernel") for no more than the cost of making said copy. Of course, by the time the copyrights expire, something better comes along, and it fades into relative obscurity, the cost of making a copy of the kernel may be enormous, but that's probably a moot point.