Cool, I'll be happy to use this choice next time I want to play wmv files. Oh wait, you mean that there isn't a choice? That because Microsoft don't document their specifications, I'm unable to use pretty much any application unless I use Windows? Then there isn't a choice. There is a choice for a lot of applications, but Microsoft aren't interested in creating more. If Microsoft are capable of competing on pure open standards then they are welcome to try, but it appears that, given that they don't release specs to most of their more interesting file formats that they're not.
If somebody gets rooted, and after being warned, does not clear the rooted box, then they could be fined. I'ld imagine very few attacks are managed from home boxes, and a significant number of DDoS attacks come from rooted boxes. It's not impossible to find out what these boxes are, and people on high end connections could be pushed to comply with the threat of fines.
As well as this, ISPs could be required to do egress filtering, to reduce the incidence of IP spoofing in attacks, amongst some other simple solutions. I imagine both of these would help to some degree at least.
Nvidia's drivers aren't DRI. They use their own approach, and have a much larger kernel driver. I use (at the moment) a Radeon DRI driver, and it's very solid, albeit slower. The amount of actual kernel code used in DRI is tiny, unlike the nvidia code (which was unbelievably huge)
Aside from this, as I understand it, due to the design of PCs, it's not impossible to stop anything that directly writes to your graphics card from screwing it up, as your graphics card can do exceptionally unpleasant things to the rest of your machine. DRI is meant to have lots of checks to try and avoid nastiness happening to your kernel from your video card, and apparently it seems to work.
> should be relitvly easy to do a GBA clone on the IPAQ as its the same ISA why havent we seen this before ?
The problem is that I think it has custom chips other than the StrongARM. I could be wrong. Also, the graphics speed on my GBA is a lot faster than my Palm, and seemingly than the IPAQs I've seen. They're also a touch button deficient.
What you should be doing is turning the GBA into a PDA:)
For example, say I run netscape, and I want it to launch RealPlayer (to play a stream). It then needs to launch realplayer. The only way it can really do this (portably btw) is fork(), and exec().
fork() means that you have to account for the same memory space the program takes up if you want to be overcommit free. There's no equivalent to ExecuteProcess() (or whatever it's called), this is the unix way[tm].
Now, this blows, but it's life, I have lots of forked copies of apache running, and they're all about 2Mb. But, combined I bet you they're taking up far less. However, I would have to allocate space for them otherwise.
I'm personally a non-fan of overcommit, and would like to actually switch it off, but for your average desktop machine, it isn't an option, it requires a *lot* of memory, or stuff will fail, despite not doing anything big.
RTSs are generally always going to end up with the player with the fastest reactions doing well, or he who has the luck to attack first. There's some strategic element in knowing what to build, but there is a reaction element.
One of the most tactical games I ever played (on a computer, I'll ignore the boardgame diplomacy) is the initial Battle Isle Series (along with History Line). You get enough time to plan out each attack, and it works very well in multiplayer. It is however, not real-time.
Also,Settlers and Settlers 2 are nice and real-time. They also I find have more interesting combat. They have less of an "instant reaction" or rush requirement, indeed, you can't rush in the Settlers. (of course, Settlers 2 hates my PC, and the later Settlers aren't as much fun IMHO). I find these more fun multiplayer than many standard RTSs
If I don't sign up for a mailing list, I should not suffer hundreds and hundreds of spam from it.
If I signed you up to 100 such mailing lists, would you rather get 100 verification mails that you could just delete, or 10,000 mails from the mailing lists that you'd have to unsubscribe from manually?
The idea of double opt-in isn't designed to make people's lives inconvenient - all it needs is a quick reply. It's pretty easy, I do it all the time. You can even do it from a different e-mail address. However, it does protect those who suffer from massive mailbombing.
"Hi Jeremy. How do you like the sights of New York.
I hear that the left Tower of the world trade centre is fantastic - the view from the 100th floor is spectacular."
etc.
Terrorists can invent their own codes, most of them will be able to exchange secret keys. They will make hints, messages like this are more than capable of looking completely innocent.
If you backdoor crypto then the only people who will lose out will be law-abiding citizens.
Yeah, great idea. We might eliminate Islamic fundamentalist terrorism for 5 years. Then all of the Palestinians and other groups in the middle east, who see that there *IS* no future, that there is no way out, that the Western world stands by and makes them suffer will form new terrorist groups, and they will keep coming.
We need to get the people who did this, but unless you deal with the root of the problem, it will grow back like a weed stronger and more powerful than before.
ahhh. That makes life a little easier - I was thinking I might have to repeatedly code useless loops forever.
As regards to functions
Sometimes it's handy to have a function to say, write out important parts of a structure, or to obtain a sanitised structure you might have a function call etc.
gdb (much maligned) can do this, it's very very nice in those respects.
The only thing I would love in emacs from Visual C++ is the Visual Basic style hints anyway.. Is anybody working on this?
you can use print in gdb, it's not that horrendous. ddd can also show you structs and so on, but I've not used it on really complex objects.
A question about Visual C++ - I've been using it, and the debugger has it's useful features, but two things have been erking me, and I can't honestly believe that they don't exist.
Firstly, how do you view the contents of an array in Visual C++? I can see the top element (this is using things like CArrays and vectors). And secondly, how the hell do I call a function from the debugger? (I know I could theorectically break it, modify the code, rerun it, then remove the code, and recompile it, but this sounds very very fiddly)
A heads up - I used 2.4.4-ac (or was it 5?) and it had multithreaded core dumping. It wasn't perfect (core per thread, which is not pleasant), but I could backtrace each and every one of them.
Linus has put in some changes to make this a bit better, but I don't know if it's fully supported in gdb yet, I haven't seen anything about it on the development list. However, all of the necessary data should be in there. I'ld imagine that this will work better than it used to (I think that the thread to die has it's memory dumped, which should be the same as all of the other threads).
If all else fails, you could use a slightly older version of AC, or work out the patches, I'ld imagine they're not much different.
I'm one of the many TiVo owners who tends to fastforward through ads (we used to have a phrase "quick, fast forward before we have to pay for TV") - and there's a simple reason why. Ads are crap.
I went to see Tomb Raider (don't laugh) at the cinema, and with the exception of one awful haircare related advert, I actually didn't mind sitting through them. They were generally funny. And this is what ads need to be.
If they want people to watch adverts, then they're going to have to make them worth people's while. They need to be short, memorable and funny, and, most of all, not frequently repeated! I'll stop fastforwarding even now if I see an advert that catches my eye - but, given the adverts on British TV, this is very rare. The adverts on American TV are too frequent, but less irritating (but then I was only over there recently for a week, times change)
It's still technically a monarchy, but the queen uses none of her powers (and it's unlikely that she would last very long if she did start to use them)
Unfortunately, she's also about the only check and balance on our "democracy" (aka, elective dictatorship)
Constitutionally there would be a lot of complaining if we got rid of the queen, and it might impact tourist revenues, so in the best traditions of Britain, the issue is fudged as usual and she'll be around for a while (and her successors)
A strong democracy that is privatising the tube against the wishes of Londoners (who voted against it), a relatively open government that publishes almost no information unless it has absolutely no choice, whose home secretary said "Freedom of Information acts are for oppositions", as he neutered a manifesto promise.
Of course we could go into the huge strength of the government whips over such areas as privatising Air Traffic control, and the same open government that felt that it would be a good idea to kick two of their backbenchers that didn't toe the party line off select committees.
Also isn't it great to have all of this privacy, with cameras on virtually every road (something you don't see in America), the fact that the police can collect DNA evidence even if you've committed no crime (recent house of lords decision, the police do not have to destroy DNA evidence. So just arrest the whole of the population once. Should be quite easy to do it over a period of a couple of years)
The RIP bill is basically awful legislation, and I hope that somebody pushes it through court soon so that they can see what the European Court of Human Rights says (which we lose at a lot, with our fantastically open government and strong democracy)
Once you're done with whatever you're smoking, please pass it round to the rest of us.
It has threaded coredumps - which is nice, until of course you get one (well "one" - it dumps every single core seperately for each cloned process)
So you have to manually go through them and bt them - but it does work, it's simply fiddly, and you can't easily check other threads without seperately reading in the cores.
In terms of threaded processes however, gdb is a lot better - indeed, the worst thing we've been bitten by is some of the bugs that it has with C++ and static members in superclasses.
gdb CVS seems competant with threads - I've had it weird out on me occasionally, but generally it's capable of doing the job.
gdb 5.0 isn't capable (at least, not the one debian ship), but the CVS version is a damn site better.
The current situation is that there is devolution to Northern Ireland, with both Republicans (Sinn Fein) and Ulster Unionists (the other people) in their parliament.
The other part of ruling Northern Ireland, aside from stuff that these two groups look after is done by a mixture of London and cross-border bodies (ie, Ireland and Britain) - it's very very muddled - it's still technically part of Britain, but moving to a situation where it's more of a shared responsibility.
I don't think any serious situations are done without consultation with Ireland anyway - but I think it's one of those "glorious" kludges where both sides of the Northern Ireland divide can claim victory, whereas they have both in fact compromised.
The IRA have declared a cease fire, and have agreed to stop blowing people up. However, a few of them formed the "Real IRA" - who are busy trying to blow things up, and generally being like your average terrorists. They reject any compromises and purely want Northern Ireland to be a province of Ireland (or, to be blunt, probably just want to enjoy carrying their guns around and making bombs).
The current situation is the effective outcome of the peace negotiations - with both sides in power now - I'ld imagine that as they begin to trust each other more, it'll become more and more powerful, until it only really depends on Britain for defense if that. - But I fear it'll take time until they all trust each other enough to carry it on. It looks promising, although fragile.
>Can you even imagine why you are getting the crap bombed out of you?
Because these people have no concept of not using violence and because they are unwilling to compromise with other people?
Half the people in Northern Ireland don't want to be in a United Ireland - this is why both sides of the issue should work together and find a suitable compromise, which they are trying to do now. The Real IRA simply refuse to compromise at all.
You can argue the rights and wrongs of partition and the initial colonisation, but they have happened, and attaching Northern Ireland to Ireland would make a lot of people unhappy, Ireland poorer, and give them the same problem we have.
> Has your Parliament no hand in all this? Do you not see that you are reaping what you have sown?
Unification of Ireland might be something that should occur, but I doubt it'll occur within the forseeable future - and it isn't going to be a sudden big bang, but will instead end up happening slowly. Repeated terrorist incidents are not going to make it happen any faster, but will in fact, probably slow it down.
At the moment what is needed most is for both sides to start trusting each other and repeated bombings are at best going to slow this down.
>The BBC, instead of using advertising on it's channels charges an annual fee to viewers (around £80 per household).
Not purchased a TV license recently have we?:)
Last one I bought says £104 on it - I'ld imagine it'll go up soon - I seem to remember it being £103 last year. Or so, but then I've not been awake as late.
It's very very fiddly when you're renting accomodation - I'ld imagine that the people at our previous residence have received quite nasty letters - as I've received some for the people before us "FINAL REMINDER" etc. I had to ring them in the end as I didn't really want to piss around with this.
(However, I still like the BBC, although most of the stuff I get my TiVo to tape is admittedly on Sky 1)
This reads to me like a troll, but I'll bite anyway
I actually have (relatively) little problem with CCTV, but "honest politicians"? What a joke!
PPP (large interests pushing the government to pick the absolute worst option for financing the London Underground), Tobacco's exemption from Formula 1 Racing, The changes in the copyright law that are like the DCMA but without even the token "fair use" comments in the bill, as well as people like Geoffrey Robinson who appears to have monied many members of parliament... and so on.
The government might not quite be to the legalised influence buying position that's tolerated in America, but it's hardly perfect.
And the police - well, they're humans too, and they mess up - unless you missed the huge number of bad convictions and the many miscarriages of justice.
The worst part is that British law (generally) used to be designed to be incorruptible. With the (seemingly heralded) removal of double jeopardy laws and the slippery slope trodden by RIP, it looks like we may be heading in a position which would scare a lot of people.
I've only briefly seen BSD in action and only quickly played with apt-get source.... but...
apt-cache does the equivalent of searching and interogating the ports tree (make search KEY whatever) and apt-get does the rest
apt-get can also build source - apt-get -b source will build it - however this isn't done like the ports tree - it won't pick up all the dependancies in the same way that the binary packages will, or at least not that I've seen while playing with building apache.
The source bit needs work IMO, although I'm not an expert - I merely had a bit of a play because I was bored:)
Downsides: no CVS - if a package gets a 5 line patch you need a whole new binary or source package for it.
Hard to modify makefiles exactly - tends to be rather hardcoded to do what it likes anyway.
This was a rather cursory view. And I know that the first issue at least has been raised before on debian mailing lists.
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There is a choice to using Windows?
Cool, I'll be happy to use this choice next time I want to play wmv files. Oh wait, you mean that there isn't a choice? That because Microsoft don't document their specifications, I'm unable to use pretty much any application unless I use Windows? Then there isn't a choice. There is a choice for a lot of applications, but Microsoft aren't interested in creating more. If Microsoft are capable of competing on pure open standards then they are welcome to try, but it appears that, given that they don't release specs to most of their more interesting file formats that they're not.
Maybe it's appropriate to use a stick?
If somebody gets rooted, and after being warned, does not clear the rooted box, then they could be fined. I'ld imagine very few attacks are managed from home boxes, and a significant number of DDoS attacks come from rooted boxes. It's not impossible to find out what these boxes are, and people on high end connections could be pushed to comply with the threat of fines.
As well as this, ISPs could be required to do egress filtering, to reduce the incidence of IP spoofing in attacks, amongst some other simple solutions. I imagine both of these would help to some degree at least.
Nvidia's drivers aren't DRI. They use their own approach, and have a much larger kernel driver. I use (at the moment) a Radeon DRI driver, and it's very solid, albeit slower. The amount of actual kernel code used in DRI is tiny, unlike the nvidia code (which was unbelievably huge)
Aside from this, as I understand it, due to the design of PCs, it's not impossible to stop anything that directly writes to your graphics card from screwing it up, as your graphics card can do exceptionally unpleasant things to the rest of your machine. DRI is meant to have lots of checks to try and avoid nastiness happening to your kernel from your video card, and apparently it seems to work.
> should be relitvly easy to do a GBA clone on the IPAQ as its the same ISA why havent we seen this before ?
:)
The problem is that I think it has custom chips other than the StrongARM. I could be wrong. Also, the graphics speed on my GBA is a lot faster than my Palm, and seemingly than the IPAQs I've seen. They're also a touch button deficient.
What you should be doing is turning the GBA into a PDA
You can't avoid overcommit in a usable system.
For example, say I run netscape, and I want it to launch RealPlayer (to play a stream). It then needs to launch realplayer. The only way it can really do this (portably btw) is fork(), and exec().
fork() means that you have to account for the same memory space the program takes up if you want to be overcommit free. There's no equivalent to ExecuteProcess() (or whatever it's called), this is the unix way[tm].
Now, this blows, but it's life, I have lots of forked copies of apache running, and they're all about 2Mb. But, combined I bet you they're taking up far less. However, I would have to allocate space for them otherwise.
I'm personally a non-fan of overcommit, and would like to actually switch it off, but for your average desktop machine, it isn't an option, it requires a *lot* of memory, or stuff will fail, despite not doing anything big.
RTSs are generally always going to end up with the player with the fastest reactions doing well, or he who has the luck to attack first. There's some strategic element in knowing what to build, but there is a reaction element.
One of the most tactical games I ever played (on a computer, I'll ignore the boardgame diplomacy) is the initial Battle Isle Series (along with History Line). You get enough time to plan out each attack, and it works very well in multiplayer. It is however, not real-time.
Also,Settlers and Settlers 2 are nice and real-time. They also I find have more interesting combat. They have less of an "instant reaction" or rush requirement, indeed, you can't rush in the Settlers. (of course, Settlers 2 hates my PC, and the later Settlers aren't as much fun IMHO). I find these more fun multiplayer than many standard RTSs
If I don't sign up for a mailing list, I should not suffer hundreds and hundreds of spam from it.
If I signed you up to 100 such mailing lists, would you rather get 100 verification mails that you could just delete, or 10,000 mails from the mailing lists that you'd have to unsubscribe from manually?
The idea of double opt-in isn't designed to make people's lives inconvenient - all it needs is a quick reply. It's pretty easy, I do it all the time. You can even do it from a different e-mail address. However, it does protect those who suffer from massive mailbombing.
"Hi Jeremy. How do you like the sights of New York.
I hear that the left Tower of the world trade centre is fantastic - the view from the 100th floor is spectacular."
etc.
Terrorists can invent their own codes, most of them will be able to exchange secret keys. They will make hints, messages like this are more than capable of looking completely innocent.
If you backdoor crypto then the only people who will lose out will be law-abiding citizens.
Yeah, great idea. We might eliminate Islamic fundamentalist terrorism for 5 years. Then all of the Palestinians and other groups in the middle east, who see that there *IS* no future, that there is no way out, that the Western world stands by and makes them suffer will form new terrorist groups, and they will keep coming.
We need to get the people who did this, but unless you deal with the root of the problem, it will grow back like a weed stronger and more powerful than before.
ahhh. That makes life a little easier - I was thinking I might have to repeatedly code useless loops forever.
As regards to functions
Sometimes it's handy to have a function to say, write out important parts of a structure, or to obtain a sanitised structure you might have a function call etc.
gdb (much maligned) can do this, it's very very nice in those respects.
The only thing I would love in emacs from Visual C++ is the Visual Basic style hints anyway.. Is anybody working on this?
you can use print in gdb, it's not that horrendous. ddd can also show you structs and so on, but I've not used it on really complex objects.
A question about Visual C++ - I've been using it, and the debugger has it's useful features, but two things have been erking me, and I can't honestly believe that they don't exist.
Firstly, how do you view the contents of an array in Visual C++? I can see the top element (this is using things like CArrays and vectors). And secondly, how the hell do I call a function from the debugger? (I know I could theorectically break it, modify the code, rerun it, then remove the code, and recompile it, but this sounds very very fiddly)
Except of course, that it only works about 40-50% of the time. At least for me.
And it doesn't always want to show subclasses for me.
Maybe I've done something drastically wrong, and I'd love to be corrected.
Visual Basic does this nigh on perfectly, it must be said. Shame the language is so horrible, the editor is lovely.
A heads up - I used 2.4.4-ac (or was it 5?) and it had multithreaded core dumping. It wasn't perfect (core per thread, which is not pleasant), but I could backtrace each and every one of them.
Linus has put in some changes to make this a bit better, but I don't know if it's fully supported in gdb yet, I haven't seen anything about it on the development list. However, all of the necessary data should be in there. I'ld imagine that this will work better than it used to (I think that the thread to die has it's memory dumped, which should be the same as all of the other threads).
If all else fails, you could use a slightly older version of AC, or work out the patches, I'ld imagine they're not much different.
I'm one of the many TiVo owners who tends to fastforward through ads (we used to have a phrase "quick, fast forward before we have to pay for TV") - and there's a simple reason why. Ads are crap.
I went to see Tomb Raider (don't laugh) at the cinema, and with the exception of one awful haircare related advert, I actually didn't mind sitting through them. They were generally funny. And this is what ads need to be.
If they want people to watch adverts, then they're going to have to make them worth people's while. They need to be short, memorable and funny, and, most of all, not frequently repeated! I'll stop fastforwarding even now if I see an advert that catches my eye - but, given the adverts on British TV, this is very rare. The adverts on American TV are too frequent, but less irritating (but then I was only over there recently for a week, times change)
to stay moderately on topic
Does not copying it pay your bills?
Even if we don't shorten terms, we need more compulsary licensing.
I for one am itching to get Dogtanian in some form or another. And lots of other shows. That I can't get.
It's still technically a monarchy, but the queen uses none of her powers (and it's unlikely that she would last very long if she did start to use them)
Unfortunately, she's also about the only check and balance on our "democracy" (aka, elective dictatorship)
Constitutionally there would be a lot of complaining if we got rid of the queen, and it might impact tourist revenues, so in the best traditions of Britain, the issue is fudged as usual and she'll be around for a while (and her successors)
A strong democracy that is privatising the tube against the wishes of Londoners (who voted against it), a relatively open government that publishes almost no information unless it has absolutely no choice, whose home secretary said "Freedom of Information acts are for oppositions", as he neutered a manifesto promise.
Of course we could go into the huge strength of the government whips over such areas as privatising Air Traffic control, and the same open government that felt that it would be a good idea to kick two of their backbenchers that didn't toe the party line off select committees.
Also isn't it great to have all of this privacy, with cameras on virtually every road (something you don't see in America), the fact that the police can collect DNA evidence even if you've committed no crime (recent house of lords decision, the police do not have to destroy DNA evidence. So just arrest the whole of the population once. Should be quite easy to do it over a period of a couple of years)
The RIP bill is basically awful legislation, and I hope that somebody pushes it through court soon so that they can see what the European Court of Human Rights says (which we lose at a lot, with our fantastically open government and strong democracy)
Once you're done with whatever you're smoking, please pass it round to the rest of us.
Ahhh, I've noticed this
But, it's not as bad as you think
I use 2.4.5-acsomethingorother
It has threaded coredumps - which is nice, until of course you get one (well "one" - it dumps every single core seperately for each cloned process)
So you have to manually go through them and bt them - but it does work, it's simply fiddly, and you can't easily check other threads without seperately reading in the cores.
In terms of threaded processes however, gdb is a lot better - indeed, the worst thing we've been bitten by is some of the bugs that it has with C++ and static members in superclasses.
gdb CVS seems competant with threads - I've had it weird out on me occasionally, but generally it's capable of doing the job.
gdb 5.0 isn't capable (at least, not the one debian ship), but the CVS version is a damn site better.
HTH
The current situation is that there is devolution to Northern Ireland, with both Republicans (Sinn Fein) and Ulster Unionists (the other people) in their parliament.
The other part of ruling Northern Ireland, aside from stuff that these two groups look after is done by a mixture of London and cross-border bodies (ie, Ireland and Britain) - it's very very muddled - it's still technically part of Britain, but moving to a situation where it's more of a shared responsibility.
I don't think any serious situations are done without consultation with Ireland anyway - but I think it's one of those "glorious" kludges where both sides of the Northern Ireland divide can claim victory, whereas they have both in fact compromised.
The IRA have declared a cease fire, and have agreed to stop blowing people up. However, a few of them formed the "Real IRA" - who are busy trying to blow things up, and generally being like your average terrorists. They reject any compromises and purely want Northern Ireland to be a province of Ireland (or, to be blunt, probably just want to enjoy carrying their guns around and making bombs).
The current situation is the effective outcome of the peace negotiations - with both sides in power now - I'ld imagine that as they begin to trust each other more, it'll become more and more powerful, until it only really depends on Britain for defense if that. - But I fear it'll take time until they all trust each other enough to carry it on. It looks promising, although fragile.
>Can you even imagine why you are getting the crap bombed out of you?
Because these people have no concept of not using violence and because they are unwilling to compromise with other people?
Half the people in Northern Ireland don't want to be in a United Ireland - this is why both sides of the issue should work together and find a suitable compromise, which they are trying to do now. The Real IRA simply refuse to compromise at all.
You can argue the rights and wrongs of partition and the initial colonisation, but they have happened, and attaching Northern Ireland to Ireland would make a lot of people unhappy, Ireland poorer, and give them the same problem we have.
> Has your Parliament no hand in all this? Do you not see that you are reaping what you have sown?
Unification of Ireland might be something that should occur, but I doubt it'll occur within the forseeable future - and it isn't going to be a sudden big bang, but will instead end up happening slowly. Repeated terrorist incidents are not going to make it happen any faster, but will in fact, probably slow it down.
At the moment what is needed most is for both sides to start trusting each other and repeated bombings are at best going to slow this down.
>The BBC, instead of using advertising on it's channels charges an annual fee to viewers (around £80 per household).
:)
Not purchased a TV license recently have we?
Last one I bought says £104 on it - I'ld imagine it'll go up soon - I seem to remember it being £103 last year. Or so, but then I've not been awake as late.
It's very very fiddly when you're renting accomodation - I'ld imagine that the people at our previous residence have received quite nasty letters - as I've received some for the people before us "FINAL REMINDER" etc. I had to ring them in the end as I didn't really want to piss around with this.
(However, I still like the BBC, although most of the stuff I get my TiVo to tape is admittedly on Sky 1)
This reads to me like a troll, but I'll bite anyway I actually have (relatively) little problem with CCTV, but "honest politicians"? What a joke! PPP (large interests pushing the government to pick the absolute worst option for financing the London Underground), Tobacco's exemption from Formula 1 Racing, The changes in the copyright law that are like the DCMA but without even the token "fair use" comments in the bill, as well as people like Geoffrey Robinson who appears to have monied many members of parliament... and so on. The government might not quite be to the legalised influence buying position that's tolerated in America, but it's hardly perfect. And the police - well, they're humans too, and they mess up - unless you missed the huge number of bad convictions and the many miscarriages of justice. The worst part is that British law (generally) used to be designed to be incorruptible. With the (seemingly heralded) removal of double jeopardy laws and the slippery slope trodden by RIP, it looks like we may be heading in a position which would scare a lot of people.
> What group of people brought AIDS into the US? It sure wasn't heterosexuals.
And you can prove this can you? Given that heterosexuals can transmit it as well.
And it was much less likely to have been a gay female than any heterosexual.
Given the number of STDs that can affect solely heterosexual men, it's a rather poor argument
I've only briefly seen BSD in action and only quickly played with apt-get source .... but...
:)
apt-cache does the equivalent of searching and interogating the ports tree (make search KEY whatever) and apt-get does the rest
apt-get can also build source - apt-get -b source will build it - however this isn't done like the ports tree - it won't pick up all the dependancies in the same way that the binary packages will, or at least not that I've seen while playing with building apache.
The source bit needs work IMO, although I'm not an expert - I merely had a bit of a play because I was bored
Downsides: no CVS - if a package gets a 5 line patch you need a whole new binary or source package for it.
Hard to modify makefiles exactly - tends to be rather hardcoded to do what it likes anyway.
This was a rather cursory view. And I know that the first issue at least has been raised before on debian mailing lists.
- Andrew
dpkg -S IIRC
:)
At uni, so not a debian box atm
but yes. But you can't have file by file dependancies as you can with rpm.