while(offtopic){Eh? No..I opened it with SVGALib in lynx:) hint: there is nothing you _need_ X for. } That comic reminds me though, does anyone know if there is an effective way of killing zombie processes? Or could we make unused signal 16 SIGZMBIE and instruct the kernel to destroy it at all costs?:) "init! You have misuderstood my orders! *alt+sysrq+l* (don't try that!!)
Well, this is all good and great, but we have a lot of data streams we have to break still:) -Quick time came up a few weeks ago on slashdot. -We need to come up with a good GPLed VCD player (I can't find any, youknow of one?) -console based Real-Audio receiver that can save to.wav or.mp3 or something So while we have a way of watching dvds now, we still have a lot more work that needs doing before we can do everything other OSs can.
Yes, you can.:) I was playing it quite recently on my Pentium 2. (must get AMD....) It works quite smoothly (much more so then JetFight 1 did on computers >486) but this is getting way offtopic:) or is it?:)
karma seems to be broken. i haev a karma--; and a karma++; today and neither had any effect on my karma (ie, it didn't go down with -- and it didn't come up with ++).
The link goes to some main page with frames, try this one instead.
I remember using a great DOS flight sim a while back (comparitavely (for my age)), called JET, which had 16 options for video, one of them being Hercules Monographics Adapter. I hadn't heard of the company since and figured they'd dissapeared ages ago. Goes to show how companies work behind the scenes so much I guess...either that or I am just out of touch with reality:)
i am getting a weird bug - between refreshes i get logged out. i logged back in on the main page, and followed the user-info link at the top of the page for me, where i was asked to log in again. after logging in there, i was sent back to the main page. back to square one. the error is not applying to the replies, just to my userinfo. which worked on the third or fourth time through....weird:) anyone else finding this?
use lynx:) it all looks nice and pretty this way, the page downloads in a flash, and everything works more or less perfectly from lynx, and at least then where a slashbox is is totally irrelevant...its under the articles:)
This just goes to show how much of a lottery the US legal system is now-a-days. And these lawyers are just the latest people to hit the court-room jack-pot (though, if they had settled in court, the article says, they stand to have made 5 times there 147 million US each). The problem is entirely insignificant, even in DOS, it probably would not be a problem since about DOS3, with the copy/v (verify) flag set. It would go "wow, there is a byte in the wrong place. lets fix it!"
Why is the civil case system so far out of reach with reality?
I'd never heard of them before, but looking around their site I have trouble taking them seriously. Mailing the late JFK? Wha are these people, and what significance do they have in the open source world?
Its actually interesting that this happened. It illustrates how the internet is becoming more and more of an anarchy, controlled by the people who use it, rather then by the governments. With that goes people taking matters into their own hands.
I keep getting spam offering me 51 million email addresses for $115...that kind of thing makes me very annoyed. Put that together with someone with an attitude and a gun, and the spammer's gone.
I porsotnally take preference to debian. And IIRC there was a/. poll that showed debian to be tho most used on slashdot, though those polls are inherently inaccurate.
Is it just me, or did that article sound like there were no other dists in the game?
For my own boxes, I have always had names that have something to do with me (canadia is my desktop, as that was my nickname at school in the US at the time, and my laptop's name is cdlu). But a more common practice I have seen, is naming computers after characters in books the admins happen to be reading (for example, the person who named a server in my high school 'ishmael' was reading Moby Dick), or after historical figures (cartier), or simply the name of the person who gave us the computer (adam). Here in the college computer science club, we have a naming convention based on the non-sequuitor. Our newest (oldest--its a 486, but we just got it:)) box is called 'eh' while eddie, jolt and salem are also in use. We do have a Mac Classic 2 running our clock in the room, so it is the Macinclock, but that is more againts the theme...or lack thereof.:)
Though the best way of naming a boxb has to be hashing/etc/dictionary, and taking a random entry from it.:)
I live in Canada, and go to University in Canada. Say what you may, but the government pays post of the University costs, limiting tuition to as _much_ as C$4000/year. I love the fact that the cost of University in the US for one year is the same as the cost of an equivalent university in Canada for your full degree. Gotta love capitalism, eh? Harvard can afford to pay for all its students indefinately, but they choose to charge US$30,000 a year/student because that makes them value it more... I'm glad we only have a one-tiered system here. (/rant)
Gotta love University resnet. I am only getting about 400KBps (3200Mbps) download speeds, but that can be increased by running an SMB server and calling your computer a Master Browswer on the winodws network. Windows computers have an odd tendency to allow network priority to Master Browswers, so my computer often gets s much as twice the speed on the network of my co-students. I have yet to figure out how this works, but I discovered this feature on my high school T1, until IT called and asked me to please cease being master browser on their network, as it was causing errors on their NT server.
They're going to have a ball in White River, Ontario (which has the record lowest temperature in Canada at -72o Centigrade). The machine will have to dish out about $25 for you to take a coke out in those parts, or up on Baffin Island... Hmm. Unless its asymptotal....
Next thing you know, we will have the Complete Idiots Guide to Macdonalds Hamburgers for Dummies, (released under the End-User-Lisence-Agreement).
How far can trademark protection go before it is simply ridiculous? My uncle owned a cookie chain in Montreal until recently (M. Felix & Mr. Norton) for a while, which trademarked 'cookie bouquets'. When he sued another company for using his trademark, he got countersued for stealing the other company's idea.
Trade marks are a Bad Thing(tm) for the average citizen. Note that the world's most recognised symbol isn't the christian cross, or the star of david, but the coke can. How far can trade marks go before they are out of hand?
Would it make any sense for the linux community at large to all move 100% to the GNU/GPL? While I think its nice, by definition, to live in a utopia, I don't think its going to happen.
Getting everyone to write under GPL assumes there is no self-interest anywhere in the community, (except, maybe, for the nice ego boost we all like:)), and that is entirely against human nature. Think though, it could be worse. We could all be writing under the EULA. Personally I don't think what libraries you use should have any effect on what liscence(sp? i can never remember..) your code uses.
If I want to write something that calls libc6 and qt's libraries, they call two different liscensing schemes there. Does that mean that i can not use programmes that use both?
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while(offtopic){Eh? No..I opened it with SVGALib in lynx :) :)
hint: there is nothing you _need_ X for. }
That comic reminds me though, does anyone know if there is an effective way of killing zombie processes? Or could we make unused signal 16 SIGZMBIE and instruct the kernel to destroy it at all costs?
"init! You have misuderstood my orders! *alt+sysrq+l* (don't try that!!)
Well, this is all good and great, but we have a lot of data streams we have to break still :) .wav or .mp3 or something
-Quick time came up a few weeks ago on slashdot.
-We need to come up with a good GPLed VCD player (I can't find any, youknow of one?)
-console based Real-Audio receiver that can save to
So while we have a way of watching dvds now, we still have a lot more work that needs doing before we can do everything other OSs can.
Yes, you can. :) I was playing it quite recently on my Pentium 2. (must get AMD....) It works quite smoothly (much more so then JetFight 1 did on computers >486) :) or is it? :)
but this is getting way offtopic
karma seems to be broken. i haev a karma--; and a karma++; today and neither had any effect on my karma (ie, it didn't go down with -- and it didn't come up with ++).
The link goes to some main page with frames, try this one instead.
:)
I remember using a great DOS flight sim a while back (comparitavely (for my age)), called JET, which had 16 options for video, one of them being Hercules Monographics Adapter. I hadn't heard of the company since and figured they'd dissapeared ages ago. Goes to show how companies work behind the scenes so much I guess...either that or I am just out of touch with reality
i am getting a weird bug - :)
between refreshes i get logged out.
i logged back in on the main page, and followed the user-info link at the top of the page for me, where i was asked to log in again. after logging in there, i was sent back to the main page.
back to square one.
the error is not applying to the replies, just to my userinfo. which worked on the third or fourth time through....weird
anyone else finding this?
use lynx :) it all looks nice and pretty this way, the page downloads in a flash, and everything works more or less perfectly from lynx, and at least then where a slashbox is is totally irrelevant...its under the articles :)
I'm always asked to log in again when i view articles from userinfo pages or from archives.
other people get this too?
'Learn how to spell.' :)
but that would be entirely against the stereotypical image of a geek... we wouldn't want _that_ now would we?
This just goes to show how much of a lottery the US legal system is now-a-days. And these lawyers are just the latest people to hit the court-room jack-pot (though, if they had settled in court, the article says, they stand to have made 5 times there 147 million US each). The problem is entirely insignificant, even in DOS, it probably would not be a problem since about DOS3, with the copy /v (verify) flag set. It would go "wow, there is a byte in the wrong place. lets fix it!"
Why is the civil case system so far out of reach with reality?
heh... ok. I am getting more of a feel now.
:)
Remind me to fix my monitor so i can see graphics with more then aalib (txt2graphics) again...
I'd never heard of them before, but looking around their site I have trouble taking them seriously. Mailing the late JFK? Wha are these people, and what significance do they have in the open source world?
Aren't we all? :)
We'll all be expended sooner or later.
dang it...i thought i could live forever..
think that will stop anyone else from spamming?
Its actually interesting that this happened. It illustrates how the internet is becoming more and more of an anarchy, controlled by the people who use it, rather then by the governments. With that goes people taking matters into their own hands.
I keep getting spam offering me 51 million email addresses for $115...that kind of thing makes me very annoyed. Put that together with someone with an attitude and a gun, and the spammer's gone.
I porsotnally take preference to debian. And IIRC there was a /. poll that showed debian to be tho most used on slashdot, though those polls are inherently inaccurate.
Is it just me, or did that article sound like there were no other dists in the game?
For my own boxes, I have always had names that have something to do with me (canadia is my desktop, as that was my nickname at school in the US at the time, and my laptop's name is cdlu). But a more common practice I have seen, is naming computers after characters in books the admins happen to be reading (for example, the person who named a server in my high school 'ishmael' was reading Moby Dick), or after historical figures (cartier), or simply the name of the person who gave us the computer (adam). Here in the college computer science club, we have a naming convention based on the non-sequuitor. Our newest (oldest--its a 486, but we just got it:)) box is called 'eh' while eddie, jolt and salem are also in use. We do have a Mac Classic 2 running our clock in the room, so it is the Macinclock, but that is more againts the theme...or lack thereof. :)
/etc/dictionary, and taking a random entry from it. :)
Though the best way of naming a boxb has to be hashing
I live in Canada, and go to University in Canada. Say what you may, but the government pays post of the University costs, limiting tuition to as _much_ as C$4000/year. I love the fact that the cost of University in the US for one year is the same as the cost of an equivalent university in Canada for your full degree. Gotta love capitalism, eh? Harvard can afford to pay for all its students indefinately, but they choose to charge US$30,000 a year/student because that makes them value it more... I'm glad we only have a one-tiered system here. (/rant)
Gotta love University resnet. I am only getting about 400KBps (3200Mbps) download speeds, but that can be increased by running an SMB server and calling your computer a Master Browswer on the winodws network. Windows computers have an odd tendency to allow network priority to Master Browswers, so my computer often gets s much as twice the speed on the network of my co-students. I have yet to figure out how this works, but I discovered this feature on my high school T1, until IT called and asked me to please cease being master browser on their network, as it was causing errors on their NT server.
No way, Jolt all the way!! :)
They're going to have a ball in White River, Ontario (which has the record lowest temperature in Canada at -72o Centigrade). The machine will have to dish out about $25 for you to take a coke out in those parts, or up on Baffin Island... Hmm. Unless its asymptotal....
Shouldn't it be based on the history of tux?
:)
Think we should call it Soh (Stuffed on Herring)?
Who knows? I use lynx... :)
Slashdot Polls for Dummies
Next thing you know, we will have the Complete Idiots Guide to Macdonalds Hamburgers for Dummies, (released under the End-User-Lisence-Agreement).
How far can trademark protection go before it is simply ridiculous? My uncle owned a cookie chain in Montreal until recently (M. Felix & Mr. Norton) for a while, which trademarked 'cookie bouquets'. When he sued another company for using his trademark, he got countersued for stealing the other company's idea.
Trade marks are a Bad Thing(tm) for the average citizen. Note that the world's most recognised symbol isn't the christian cross, or the star of david, but the coke can. How far can trade marks go before they are out of hand?
Would it make any sense for the linux community at large to all move 100% to the GNU/GPL? While I think its nice, by definition, to live in a utopia, I don't think its going to happen.
:)), and that is entirely against human nature. Think though, it could be worse. We could all be writing under the EULA. Personally I don't think what libraries you use should have any effect on what liscence(sp? i can never remember..) your code uses.
Getting everyone to write under GPL assumes there is no self-interest anywhere in the community, (except, maybe, for the nice ego boost we all like
If I want to write something that calls libc6 and qt's libraries, they call two different liscensing schemes there. Does that mean that i can not use programmes that use both?