From what I recall, odd versions are supposed to be free ugprades (i.e., 10.1, 10.3, 10.5, etc.) and even versions are paid-for upgrades (10.2, 10.4, etc.).
So Panther should be free to owners of Jaguar/10.2.
I myself rather hate the sue-happy atmosphere in America. There are, sure, plenty of cases where the lawsuit is justified; the problem is, so many people sue for the sole reason of getting easy money. Even when the whole lawsuit is wrong.
One solution I've considered (I've not seen if previous ideas like it have been discussed in length; waaay too lazy) is to continue having the lawsuits, but to require the money be given to charity or gov't activities (by that i mean healthcare system or something, not the $600 toilet seats). The idea being, people aren't going to sue to get rich; they're going to sue to punish wrong-doers.
I'm sure humanity and the American legal system would find a way for the corrupt to abuse my idea, as well. Yay.
Oh, so the very first code you wrote was perhaps a full accounting package? "Experience" counts the beginning to your current level. If you don't count the first bullcrap code you wrote under "experience", than the vast majority of college graudates have 0 experience. If you don't start writing little pieces of useful crap, you don't get to the next stage _to_ earn "real" experience.
This is totally insane. I'd much rather have an older, _more experienced_ coder, who may be slower (tho I don't believe that to be true) than some fresh out of college coder.
As someone _in_ college, looking at the vast majority of my classmates (actually, as vain as it sounds, _all_ my classmates) people coming out of college don't have any business going anywhere near critical code. You don't become a good coder by going to school, after all, you become a good coder by writing a metric shitload of code and thus getting real-world experience.
I believe I'm so much better than my classmates because I've been doing this since I was 9, and have 11 years experience writing code. And no, I _don't_ spit out as much code as I did back when I was 10 or 11, and poured out code all day long to do whatever dumb little project I worked on then.
But you know what? I code less now, because I use my experience to sit back and think about what I'm going to code, and end up not only writing higher quality code, but less code to get the same job done, as I did back when I was a dumb little kid!
Bah, I'm just ranting now. Think I've made my point at least 3 times by now. ~,^
Hoping RH pushes updated kernels for RH9. Piss-poor IDE disk performance is my one big gripe with my Linux boxen at the moment; whole machine feels like shit when something heavy is running the disk in the background.:(
You could bother actually reading about Trusted Computing* and DRM and realize that the above probably wouldn't even be possible. If it _was_, almost no one would buy it - what company would trust that? What government would ever buy that hardware/software? And so on. That kind of feature doesn't help business any, especially in the gov't market, where it would _NEVER_ be purchased.
*Note I'm talking Trusted Computing, not Palladium - Palladium is Microsoft's version of TCPA that will run on Windows - it's a moot point for things like AIX and Linux and such, since it's a Windows technology. TCPA on the other hand is platform neutral. Palladium may well have the "external control of systems" feature, but I don't know - Palladium isn't my problem, since I don't run MS systems. ~,^ On the other hand, I _look forward to_ TCPA, since it actually does offer the ability to increase security, and doesn't have any features to make me worry, especially not on an Open Source platform.:P Likewise, TCPA would be a cool feature to have in AIX, Solaris, and so on as well. The OS determines if its used for DRM - my OS (any that I would use) would only use TCPA for security.
Aside from installer errors I've encountered, requiring installation to be started over from scratch, quite a few of the custom tools or apps are broken.
Abiword was terminally dead in RH8, as one example I can recall atm. The large amount of crashes I've received in both RH8 and RH9 are another. (Not sure which lib caused that; I've since upgraded to Rawhide and things are suprisingly better.) RPM4.1 in RH8 and RH9 is _very_ broken, this is just fact; it locking up and failing to work again during normal operation is just horrendous. The lack of even half-usable menu-editing in RH9 is a big usability flaw. (Even if it is technically an upstream GNOME problem, they shouldn't ship the broken version of GNOME if there are problems.)
There've been other minor issues I've had, but you wanted me to limit it to the glaring obvious ones. I've not used RH7.3 for more than a few days, and I wasn't the one who installed or set it up, so I can't personally attest to its problems, but I was told by a fellow employee it had several.
The lifetime applies to security patches, which is a good point to consider - are your experts up to keeping usable RPMs ready for any and all security vulnerabilities releases, across a variety of RHL products?
There's also application support to consider; the "hobbyist" version of RHL breaks binary compatibility ever other version these days, it seems. Depending on how much non-Free software you want to install, this could be a problem.
Finally, the hobbyist RHL releases tend to have lots of instabilities. There are at least several glaringly obvious major problems in every release. I haven't used an Enterprise RHL, so I can't attest that they are any better; you may find with some experimentation tho that the Enterprise RHL releases are more stable and polished, and wont take as much of your experts' time in fixing dumb distro errors.
If you're truly curious why I want to run it emulated, it's because I don't want or need a full FreeBSD machine. I just want to occasionally compile/run some software in it for porting. Even _with_ a separate hard-drive, I'd need a whole separate case, CPU, display, mobo, memory, etc. in order to avoid shutting down my entire system just to do a quick check that app XYZ still compiles and runs natively on FreeBSD.
Unless of course you'd like to forward me a couple hundred bucks to pay for a test machine. ~,^
1) Organizing space
2) Preventing access
3) Posters/calendars
4) Wall-mounted displays
5) An excuse to use Windows
6) Wacky martial-art stunts
7) Climate control
8) Holding up ceilings
9) Blocking noise 10) Paint retention
Not true - quite a bit of code gets e-mailed directly to Linus, or another major contributor. Pre-bitkeeper, there are no real records of how any given code got in; unless Linus have a perfect recollection of every patch he's merged and who sent it to him...
What groups are lobbying for this stuff? I can't imagine a politician pushing for stuff like this without someone with money lobbying for it.
After all, these days, politicians care more about compaign money than actually pleasing the people who do the real voting; enough compaign money, it doesn't matter how much of a bastard you are. ~,^
I pushed for a similar "rule" at the local government offices I work at. All documents available to the public, and all documents used for communications with contractors/agencies/whatever, must be in an open format, unless no open format exists for the given data that conveys all needed information. (Which is pretty damn rare to not have.)
It's working fairly well. Enough of the employees are still just using the default MS formats in MS Office (I still receive enough.DOC files from coworkers) but a good deal of external communication is on open formats. Our e-mail gateway blocks most non-open formats, which helps a good deal as well.;-)
On a sadder note, tho, the residents have never requested this. Likely, they do not care; the majority of them, anyways. Increasing demand from residents would help push more gov't agencies to use rules similar to ours. How many of you Free Software and Open Communications geeks have even sent an e-mail to your local township/city/county/etc. requesting open formats? Truly, even a small handful of voices are listened to, from my own experience in the field.
Don't tell my boss; he might make me put this on the router so his EverQuest sessions don't start lagging when some secretary starts doing useful work online...
This really should belong to the companies/organization running the virtual world. If they state, "we own all virtual property, blah blah" then that's that. And honestly, every single MUD/MMORPG/etc. should have that in the agreement...
People make claims about how they put time and money into building characters and amassing equipment in these games. People need to realize you're paying for the right/time/resources for you to _have fun_ while doing this. You paid to be allowed to spend your time playing a game.
It's like an arcade; you don't own the game or anything when you put in a quarter (or dollar, as is becomming common), you are just paying for the right to play the game for a while.
If you don't like those rules... don't give them your money to play!
If you like fantasy at all, I'd recommned Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series, Terry Goodkind's "Sword of Truth" series (which is all but a blatant ripoff of Jordan's work, mind), or any of the Forgotten Realms mini-series (RA Salvatore is the best writer of FR books, imo).
If you like humour (yes, the British version of it;-), and can at least tolerate fantasy, you _must_ read Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" books. Absolutely must.
I'd also recommend Asian folklore; those stories are surprisingly good, considering the plots seem like they were thought up by someone using the peace pipe...;-)
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From what I recall, odd versions are supposed to be free ugprades (i.e., 10.1, 10.3, 10.5, etc.) and even versions are paid-for upgrades (10.2, 10.4, etc.).
So Panther should be free to owners of Jaguar/10.2.
There is a Linux installer on the expansion? No need to wait for Liarware to make a separate 1.13 GB linux download?
Yay dupes!
;-)
I should pretend I'm a Slashdot editor, and make a second post in a few hours, pointing out that this story is a dupe.
I myself rather hate the sue-happy atmosphere in America. There are, sure, plenty of cases where the lawsuit is justified; the problem is, so many people sue for the sole reason of getting easy money. Even when the whole lawsuit is wrong.
One solution I've considered (I've not seen if previous ideas like it have been discussed in length; waaay too lazy) is to continue having the lawsuits, but to require the money be given to charity or gov't activities (by that i mean healthcare system or something, not the $600 toilet seats). The idea being, people aren't going to sue to get rich; they're going to sue to punish wrong-doers.
I'm sure humanity and the American legal system would find a way for the corrupt to abuse my idea, as well. Yay.
Sneakers that destitch themselves when you jaywalk.
Cars whose tires go flat when you speed.
Oxygen tanks that cease providing oxygen when diving in restricted areas.
Planes whose wings fall off when flying over restricted space.
Trenchcoats that burst into flame when used to conceal theft of 3 pens from the office.
Buildings which systematically disassemble themselves when accountants working for the company owning the building fudge figures.
Planets that implode when governments on them begin passing fucking retarded laws.
Oh, so the very first code you wrote was perhaps a full accounting package? "Experience" counts the beginning to your current level. If you don't count the first bullcrap code you wrote under "experience", than the vast majority of college graudates have 0 experience. If you don't start writing little pieces of useful crap, you don't get to the next stage _to_ earn "real" experience.
This is totally insane. I'd much rather have an older, _more experienced_ coder, who may be slower (tho I don't believe that to be true) than some fresh out of college coder.
As someone _in_ college, looking at the vast majority of my classmates (actually, as vain as it sounds, _all_ my classmates) people coming out of college don't have any business going anywhere near critical code. You don't become a good coder by going to school, after all, you become a good coder by writing a metric shitload of code and thus getting real-world experience.
I believe I'm so much better than my classmates because I've been doing this since I was 9, and have 11 years experience writing code. And no, I _don't_ spit out as much code as I did back when I was 10 or 11, and poured out code all day long to do whatever dumb little project I worked on then.
But you know what? I code less now, because I use my experience to sit back and think about what I'm going to code, and end up not only writing higher quality code, but less code to get the same job done, as I did back when I was a dumb little kid!
Bah, I'm just ranting now. Think I've made my point at least 3 times by now. ~,^
Hoping RH pushes updated kernels for RH9. Piss-poor IDE disk performance is my one big gripe with my Linux boxen at the moment; whole machine feels like shit when something heavy is running the disk in the background. :(
You could bother actually reading about Trusted Computing* and DRM and realize that the above probably wouldn't even be possible. If it _was_, almost no one would buy it - what company would trust that? What government would ever buy that hardware/software? And so on. That kind of feature doesn't help business any, especially in the gov't market, where it would _NEVER_ be purchased.
:P Likewise, TCPA would be a cool feature to have in AIX, Solaris, and so on as well. The OS determines if its used for DRM - my OS (any that I would use) would only use TCPA for security.
*Note I'm talking Trusted Computing, not Palladium - Palladium is Microsoft's version of TCPA that will run on Windows - it's a moot point for things like AIX and Linux and such, since it's a Windows technology. TCPA on the other hand is platform neutral. Palladium may well have the "external control of systems" feature, but I don't know - Palladium isn't my problem, since I don't run MS systems. ~,^ On the other hand, I _look forward to_ TCPA, since it actually does offer the ability to increase security, and doesn't have any features to make me worry, especially not on an Open Source platform.
You are so reading the wrong website if you want to avoid profanity.
In the same vein, this is so the wrong website to be asking for "professionalism."
~,^
Aside from installer errors I've encountered, requiring installation to be started over from scratch, quite a few of the custom tools or apps are broken.
Abiword was terminally dead in RH8, as one example I can recall atm. The large amount of crashes I've received in both RH8 and RH9 are another. (Not sure which lib caused that; I've since upgraded to Rawhide and things are suprisingly better.) RPM4.1 in RH8 and RH9 is _very_ broken, this is just fact; it locking up and failing to work again during normal operation is just horrendous. The lack of even half-usable menu-editing in RH9 is a big usability flaw. (Even if it is technically an upstream GNOME problem, they shouldn't ship the broken version of GNOME if there are problems.)
There've been other minor issues I've had, but you wanted me to limit it to the glaring obvious ones. I've not used RH7.3 for more than a few days, and I wasn't the one who installed or set it up, so I can't personally attest to its problems, but I was told by a fellow employee it had several.
The lifetime applies to security patches, which is a good point to consider - are your experts up to keeping usable RPMs ready for any and all security vulnerabilities releases, across a variety of RHL products?
There's also application support to consider; the "hobbyist" version of RHL breaks binary compatibility ever other version these days, it seems. Depending on how much non-Free software you want to install, this could be a problem.
Finally, the hobbyist RHL releases tend to have lots of instabilities. There are at least several glaringly obvious major problems in every release. I haven't used an Enterprise RHL, so I can't attest that they are any better; you may find with some experimentation tho that the Enterprise RHL releases are more stable and polished, and wont take as much of your experts' time in fixing dumb distro errors.
If you're truly curious why I want to run it emulated, it's because I don't want or need a full FreeBSD machine. I just want to occasionally compile/run some software in it for porting. Even _with_ a separate hard-drive, I'd need a whole separate case, CPU, display, mobo, memory, etc. in order to avoid shutting down my entire system just to do a quick check that app XYZ still compiles and runs natively on FreeBSD.
Unless of course you'd like to forward me a couple hundred bucks to pay for a test machine. ~,^
Which virtual machine/emulator is best for running BSD5 on a Linux host on x86?
Walls have many purposes.
1) Organizing space
2) Preventing access
3) Posters/calendars
4) Wall-mounted displays
5) An excuse to use Windows
6) Wacky martial-art stunts
7) Climate control
8) Holding up ceilings
9) Blocking noise
10) Paint retention
Not true - quite a bit of code gets e-mailed directly to Linus, or another major contributor. Pre-bitkeeper, there are no real records of how any given code got in; unless Linus have a perfect recollection of every patch he's merged and who sent it to him...
What groups are lobbying for this stuff? I can't imagine a politician pushing for stuff like this without someone with money lobbying for it.
After all, these days, politicians care more about compaign money than actually pleasing the people who do the real voting; enough compaign money, it doesn't matter how much of a bastard you are. ~,^
Seriously, tho, who are the backers of this bill?
I pushed for a similar "rule" at the local government offices I work at. All documents available to the public, and all documents used for communications with contractors/agencies/whatever, must be in an open format, unless no open format exists for the given data that conveys all needed information. (Which is pretty damn rare to not have.)
.DOC files from coworkers) but a good deal of external communication is on open formats. Our e-mail gateway blocks most non-open formats, which helps a good deal as well. ;-)
It's working fairly well. Enough of the employees are still just using the default MS formats in MS Office (I still receive enough
On a sadder note, tho, the residents have never requested this. Likely, they do not care; the majority of them, anyways. Increasing demand from residents would help push more gov't agencies to use rules similar to ours. How many of you Free Software and Open Communications geeks have even sent an e-mail to your local township/city/county/etc. requesting open formats? Truly, even a small handful of voices are listened to, from my own experience in the field.
Be heard!
The gov't would call us up offering the service, to block telemarketers! /me deletes another "block unwanted spam" message from his INBOX...
So this is like humans - you don't need a lot of information, just something seemingly complex/intricate, and their brains shutdown for a while?
;-)
(Or maybe this only happens to me?
Don't tell my boss; he might make me put this on the router so his EverQuest sessions don't start lagging when some secretary starts doing useful work online...
This really should belong to the companies/organization running the virtual world. If they state, "we own all virtual property, blah blah" then that's that. And honestly, every single MUD/MMORPG/etc. should have that in the agreement...
People make claims about how they put time and money into building characters and amassing equipment in these games. People need to realize you're paying for the right/time/resources for you to _have fun_ while doing this. You paid to be allowed to spend your time playing a game.
It's like an arcade; you don't own the game or anything when you put in a quarter (or dollar, as is becomming common), you are just paying for the right to play the game for a while.
If you don't like those rules... don't give them your money to play!
This I have to admit to; the last book was dreadfully pointless.
I hope the guy hurries up and finishes writing these, or the old bastard is going to die before it's all done!
If you like fantasy at all, I'd recommned Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series, Terry Goodkind's "Sword of Truth" series (which is all but a blatant ripoff of Jordan's work, mind), or any of the Forgotten Realms mini-series (RA Salvatore is the best writer of FR books, imo).
;-), and can at least tolerate fantasy, you _must_ read Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" books. Absolutely must.
;-)
If you like humour (yes, the British version of it
I'd also recommend Asian folklore; those stories are surprisingly good, considering the plots seem like they were thought up by someone using the peace pipe...
I must've imagined all those Linux Alpha boxen, iBooks running Linux, etc. that I've seen...