You only have to make the sources available to people you give the binaries to (if you make the binaries available).
You don't, AFAICT, have to distribute your modificatioins _at all_.
If I have a limited private beta of a software package that's GPL'd, I have to give out the source with the binaries, but I don't have to do so for others.
However, the kicker is that I can't prevent those private beta people from redistributing the software themselves... nor can the company prevent employees from copying it and putting it on their PCs at home or offering it for download, but the person who does the distributing is the one responsible to make the sources available.
Its the wait -- if its taking a couple hours, they've probably found a competitor's software and purchased it online in the time your password was being generated for them...
My configuration files are (almost) all under/etc and are part of the root file system which is mounted read-only. For programs that have lots of configuration files, I use additional sub-directories like/etc/qmail or/etc/httpd.
I keep all state information under/var which is mounted seperately, on its own disk with sync'd writes and without access time logging.
Software I manage with RPM is all under/usr in whatever directories it came in. For system software I'm specifically interested in keeping updated, I manage it myself with the source and install it under/usr/local/bin,/usr/local/man, etc. (but with the configuration files still under/etc and state information still under/var).
Application-specific binaries, however, I sometimes keep under/usr/[local/]libexec/appname.
Many sysadmins with different needs are prone to NFS mount system binaries and/or home dirtectories which necessitates further classification work.
You may think its an organisational nightmare, but I think it allows us to use the system in 'smart' ways.
First off, I have no problem with _some_ applications being under their own directories, especially if they're pre-designed to run chrooted as services. However, I _will_ demand that I can log my app logs to a partition mounted on/var/log and that my root partition be read-only mountable.
There are lots of considerations that go into good filesystem use and several 'problems' we have now can be fixed by some more discourse, not by just taking an option and doing it because that's what you like as a developer -- developers are not the target market; users are (although many users may be developpers).
For the sake of lengthening this thread a little, I'll agree. The poster you replied to is ignoring that the proxying and thus the speed advantages (and bandwidth savings on the part of the ISP) can still exist if the ISP honours the IP decisions made by the customer.
Has anyone looked at common proxy software such as Squid to see what the right and wrong configurations would be and posted them? (hint)
It depends on the article... when was the last time you read every article in a given week and every message attached thereto?
_Sometimes_ unique or semi-unique or thought-provoking ideas get stated. That's the nature of chat rooms and discussion boards. USENET has unique ideas as well and is much more spam-filled and useless looking on first glance.
They're not cracking down on rebranded players, they're cracking down on unlicensed players -- there's a difference.
Lots of DVD players are made that don't have a license from the appropriate parties to do CSS, etc. but do it anyway. Its basically a patent infringement issue, not a copyright / piracy issue.
I agree with you, but I've noticed over the past few years that a great many software companies have this type of clause (including Microsoft and Oracle).
I always thought that "fair use" laws in the US would allow someone to write about any copyrighted thing, but licensing is a different question -- as another poster pointed out, perhaps letting a 3rd party "agree" to the shrink-wrap license before you yourself review the product would get around the issue.
When writing in C, put one public function per source file by the same name if possible. If you want to see what killkenny() does, you look it up in killkenny.c. If you want to use killkenny() in cartman.c, just #include "killkenny.h".
You're missing the type of "unsafe" code the poster was refering to -- unsafe in coding practice, not in whether it has been cryptographically signed or not. Just because a program is signed (or even distributed with the OS) doesn't mean it is _safe_.
Who is Mythic Entertainment, and what games have they done?
Mythic Entertainment is the most prolific and one of the most successful online gaming developers in the industry today. With eleven online games to its credit, Mythic has been a major part of all of its distribution and publishing partners pay-for-play games including AOL, the Centropolis Gaming Center, Gamestorm and ENGAGE. Our titles include some of the most popular online-only games of all time including Spellbinder: The Nexus Conflict, Aliens Online, Starship Troopers: Battlespace, Silent Death Online, Rolemaster: Magestorm, Darkness Falls, Darkness Falls: The Crusade, Splatterball, Godzilla Online, and Dragon's Gate.
Mythic has more experience in developing and running multi-user online role-playing games than most of its competitors. Dragon's Gate is one of the longest running online RPGs out there, having just hit its 12th anniversary and is still going strong on the Centropolis Gaming Center. Mythic also has the successful Darkness Falls RPGs, which is available on the Centropolis Gaming Center.
Does anyone want to cross-reference those stats against their market saturation on netcraft?
For example, if 50% of defaced sites are hosted on Windows but 70% of sites are hosted by Apache then Windows had more defacements than Apache (for example).
You have some verbal diharrea problems here. The flag trademark in question is for the flag accompanied by the words "Government of Canada" in French and English, making up the logo for the Government of Canada. The flag itself is not listed afaics and use of a company or governments representation symbols (trademarks) is illegal in the "free" US of A as well.
If you don't like canadian views on things like the "freedom" to own child pornography or the "freedom" to incite hate against other groups for whatever reason, stay away.
People need to read the information; thanks for that link.
The Government of Canada symbol is the flag with "Government of Canada" written in English and French next to it. This is trademarked, the generic canadian flag is not, afaics.
If in fact the smokers' rights group used the Government of Canada logo on their page without permission and/or proper recognition of its status, they would be misleading people.
Large companies wanting to port their software to Linux may well be much more comfortable buying a copy of Borland C++ (I know some of my coworkers would be) than using gcc.
Check out the software suspend patch for Linux. It allows the system to be suspended by SysRq-D (or shutdown -z) into swap space and resumed (or not) at the next reboot.
Intel doesn't have the market share it had... by a long shot. Christmas 1999 or 2000 was the year AMD sold more CPUs than Intel did. Intel still has a hold on mid-sized servers, but without the Itanium taking off, they'll lose it.
I submit that a patch-holding website would be much more valuable. The patches are sent to a common site with destination E-mail specified (Linus, Alan, Rik, etc.) and are visible or private (visible allowing others to come along and look through the patch and post comments to it; like Slashdot).
This is similar to the submission already made on the LKML that patches be auto-resent, but I don't believe the resending of them is necessary; I think sending a daily E-mail with a list of the patches and an URL to retrieve them, as well as basics about who submitted it and when would be much more valuable to all.
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You only have to make the sources available to people you give the binaries to (if you make the binaries available).
... nor can the company prevent employees from copying it and putting it on their PCs at home or offering it for download, but the person who does the distributing is the one responsible to make the sources available.
You don't, AFAICT, have to distribute your modificatioins _at all_.
If I have a limited private beta of a software package that's GPL'd, I have to give out the source with the binaries, but I don't have to do so for others.
However, the kicker is that I can't prevent those private beta people from redistributing the software themselves
Its the wait -- if its taking a couple hours, they've probably found a competitor's software and purchased it online in the time your password was being generated for them ...
Just to expound some concepts:
/etc and are part of the root file system which is mounted read-only. For programs that have lots of configuration files, I use additional sub-directories like /etc/qmail or /etc/httpd.
/var which is mounted seperately, on its own disk with sync'd writes and without access time logging.
/usr in whatever directories it came in. For system software I'm specifically interested in keeping updated, I manage it myself with the source and install it under /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/man, etc. (but with the configuration files still under /etc and state information still under /var).
/usr/[local/]libexec/appname.
My configuration files are (almost) all under
I keep all state information under
Software I manage with RPM is all under
Application-specific binaries, however, I sometimes keep under
Many sysadmins with different needs are prone to NFS mount system binaries and/or home dirtectories which necessitates further classification work.
You may think its an organisational nightmare, but I think it allows us to use the system in 'smart' ways.
/var/log and that my root partition be read-only mountable.
First off, I have no problem with _some_ applications being under their own directories, especially if they're pre-designed to run chrooted as services. However, I _will_ demand that I can log my app logs to a partition mounted on
There are lots of considerations that go into good filesystem use and several 'problems' we have now can be fixed by some more discourse, not by just taking an option and doing it because that's what you like as a developer -- developers are not the target market; users are (although many users may be developpers).
For the sake of lengthening this thread a little, I'll agree. The poster you replied to is ignoring that the proxying and thus the speed advantages (and bandwidth savings on the part of the ISP) can still exist if the ISP honours the IP decisions made by the customer.
Has anyone looked at common proxy software such as Squid to see what the right and wrong configurations would be and posted them? (hint)
Flight experiments are _always_ potentially lethal.
You think that flying at several times the speed of sound is safe?
It depends on the article ... when was the last time you read every article in a given week and every message attached thereto?
_Sometimes_ unique or semi-unique or thought-provoking ideas get stated. That's the nature of chat rooms and discussion boards. USENET has unique ideas as well and is much more spam-filled and useless looking on first glance.
One might want to push for a seperation between responsible disclosure and responsible discovery.
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For Microsoft, if you release any information during discovery you're probably labelled as malicious even if the thoughts are hypothetical or hunches.
However, its necessary to allow people to work together on the Internet in some form or else we can't benefit from each other's eyes
There is a Gnome-endorsed configuration system out there as well with at least XML and DB backends.
They're not cracking down on rebranded players, they're cracking down on unlicensed players -- there's a difference.
Lots of DVD players are made that don't have a license from the appropriate parties to do CSS, etc. but do it anyway. Its basically a patent infringement issue, not a copyright / piracy issue.
I agree with you, but I've noticed over the past few years that a great many software companies have this type of clause (including Microsoft and Oracle).
I always thought that "fair use" laws in the US would allow someone to write about any copyrighted thing, but licensing is a different question -- as another poster pointed out, perhaps letting a 3rd party "agree" to the shrink-wrap license before you yourself review the product would get around the issue.
When writing in C, put one public function per source file by the same name if possible. If you want to see what killkenny() does, you look it up in killkenny.c. If you want to use killkenny() in cartman.c, just #include "killkenny.h".
Readability wins.
You're missing the type of "unsafe" code the poster was refering to -- unsafe in coding practice, not in whether it has been cryptographically signed or not. Just because a program is signed (or even distributed with the OS) doesn't mean it is _safe_.
You misread the poster; because it sounds like they want to use an LGPL-style license and not necessarily the LGPL, they may be writing their own.
Use steganographic tools to make it impossible to prove that there's data on the partition.
From their own website:
Who is Mythic Entertainment, and what games have they done?
Mythic Entertainment is the most prolific and one of the most successful online gaming developers in the industry today. With eleven online games to its credit, Mythic has been a major part of all of its distribution and publishing partners pay-for-play games including AOL, the Centropolis Gaming Center, Gamestorm and ENGAGE. Our titles include some of the most popular online-only games of all time including Spellbinder: The Nexus Conflict, Aliens Online, Starship Troopers: Battlespace, Silent Death Online, Rolemaster: Magestorm, Darkness Falls, Darkness Falls: The Crusade, Splatterball, Godzilla Online, and Dragon's Gate.
Mythic has more experience in developing and running multi-user online role-playing games than most of its competitors. Dragon's Gate is one of the longest running online RPGs out there, having just hit its 12th anniversary and is still going strong on the Centropolis Gaming Center. Mythic also has the successful Darkness Falls RPGs, which is available on the Centropolis Gaming Center.
Does anyone want to cross-reference those stats against their market saturation on netcraft?
For example, if 50% of defaced sites are hosted on Windows but 70% of sites are hosted by Apache then Windows had more defacements than Apache (for example).
Arguably, of course -- some would state that entire acronyms should remain unsplit even for pluralisation, etc.
Even though its Attorneys General, AGs is probably acceptable.
You have some verbal diharrea problems here. The flag trademark in question is for the flag accompanied by the words "Government of Canada" in French and English, making up the logo for the Government of Canada. The flag itself is not listed afaics and use of a company or governments representation symbols (trademarks) is illegal in the "free" US of A as well.
If you don't like canadian views on things like the "freedom" to own child pornography or the "freedom" to incite hate against other groups for whatever reason, stay away.
People need to read the information; thanks for that link.
The Government of Canada symbol is the flag with "Government of Canada" written in English and French next to it. This is trademarked, the generic canadian flag is not, afaics.
If in fact the smokers' rights group used the Government of Canada logo on their page without permission and/or proper recognition of its status, they would be misleading people.
Large companies wanting to port their software to Linux may well be much more comfortable buying a copy of Borland C++ (I know some of my coworkers would be) than using gcc.
Check out the software suspend patch for Linux. It allows the system to be suspended by SysRq-D (or shutdown -z) into swap space and resumed (or not) at the next reboot.
They were faster and more scalable?
Intel doesn't have the market share it had ... by a long shot. Christmas 1999 or 2000 was the year AMD sold more CPUs than Intel did. Intel still has a hold on mid-sized servers, but without the Itanium taking off, they'll lose it.
I submit that a patch-holding website would be much more valuable. The patches are sent to a common site with destination E-mail specified (Linus, Alan, Rik, etc.) and are visible or private (visible allowing others to come along and look through the patch and post comments to it; like Slashdot).
This is similar to the submission already made on the LKML that patches be auto-resent, but I don't believe the resending of them is necessary; I think sending a daily E-mail with a list of the patches and an URL to retrieve them, as well as basics about who submitted it and when would be much more valuable to all.