I drive a car. I do it every day. The fact that I can't or don't wish to tweak it doesn't take away from its utility or value.
No, there's a significant difference here. Modifications I make to *my* car cannot be instantly and trivially copied to yours. Modifications I make to my copy of a piece of software *can* be instantly and trivially copied to yours.
The overriding benefit of free software is not that you *personally* can modify your copy if you wish, but that you can benefit from the aggregation of the modifications of others.
Enough already with the state-sponsored wireless internet access. The government has shown quite well enough what they'll do if you give them access to privately operated networks. There's no crippling gap in wireless network access in this country. Please, focus on something else and keep your goddamn data mining machines out of my papers and effects.
No, it isn't. Do you have an md5 for all of your binaries?
Package: debsums Description: Verify installed package files against MD5 checksums. debsums can verify the integrity of installed package files against MD5 checksums installed by the package, or generated from a.deb archive. Tag: devel::packaging, security::integrity, suite::debian
Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on me again. Fool me a third time with an Alienware merger... yeah, shame on me. Meet the new box, same as the old box. Won't get fooled again.
When you finish a website, do you run it to the validator to laugh and take bets, or do you e-mail the results to the office intern and tell him/her to get to work?
no, when i *start* a website, i'm running it through the validator. producing valid html and css isn't some kind of bonus afterthought. it's something you do from line 1.
This is essentially the same as Apple's equally dubious patent on... well, exactly the same thing. They both claim to have invented an interface for hierarchical browsing of media files.
I guess they don't know how to handle Creative any other way?
It took a while for developers to "get" the mouse as a gaming controller, but after iD released Quake, the mouse/keyboard combination has been the only FPS controller setup worth mentioning. Likewise, it will take a while for developers and gamers to accept the demise of the unwieldy playstation-style controller.
When you commit a felony, you give up your rights. Period.
There must be clear limits to the specific rights that the state can infringe, even for felons. To state categorically that the removal of rights is acceptable because the person in question has committed some crime is extremely shallow and reactionary.
Infringement of felons' rights should be limited to the scope of the crimes committed. No one would say that someone who speeds on the freeway or litters in a public park should be required to provide DNA samples. Likewise, no one would recommend execution for someone convicted of drug possession.
Requiring a blood sample for DNA analysis is a highly unusual and bizarre response to someone whose offenses to date have not shown any probability of leaving DNA evidence. A law which requires this response is one which must be rescinded or rewritten.
Sure, it's an increase in the frequency, but is it really an improvement? Are people really clamoring for an update over sarge?
Debian's QA process takes a long time, but it's nice not to have to go through a dist-upgrade every few months on servers that need to be left alone and 'just work'.
Also -- hard links. One would be hard pressed to find a filesystem with poorer hard link support than HFS+, except those that don't support links at all.
I find that unlikely. Imagine a dude who upgraded to HD. He watches HD. He loves HD. Then he puts a standard DVD in his player and.. well. it's not HD. So what does he do?
Sorry. You lost me there. Am I supposed to imagine he would even notice that the DVD signal was not HD?
for a while i had a warning to the users that disk space was critically low and that they should delete any files they weren't using. but apparently all those gigs of mp3's were very important, and i was the only one who ever deleted anything. so i got a new disk for the system and removed the motd:-(
i expect it was pretty annoying. it was even RED ALL CAPITALS and i had a similar message in/etc/issue.net that was printed with every ssh, sftp, and ftp login.
what i learned was: users do not pay attention to the motd, so don't bother. also, mp3's are very important.
i suppose i should have expected this reaction. i got the idea from the motd on my school's sunos server, which had a message stating that mail space was low and that users should delete any mp2 (not mp3) files they were storing. that message was there the entire time i was enrolled. now it's on new hardware with a larger disk...
now i just have a standard "Access to this system is permitted for authorized users only" in issue.net, and mord
That doesn't make it a strategic move against Google so much as a strategic move against cruft that nobody wants to see. If Google is indexing this crap, and their business somehow depends upon it (which is unlikely), then that's their problem.
"Sequencing software" wouldn't be my first choice for describing Max/MSP, but at any rate it's much more than that. Max/MSP is a very powerful modular synthesis environment, allowing the user to assemble very interesting and complicated instruments and processing chains using a graphic interface. Miller S. Puckette (the MSP in the name of the software) has also released a similar package called 'pd' under an open source license (or, at least, it is distributed as source code).
I would definitely agree. It is unusual (in the Linux world) that Sarge took two and a half years to release, but I think that the benefits of the Debian QA process are very apparent. Taking the time to sort out bugs as well as they do -- on a very large number of packages -- makes a Debian release worth waiting for.
The slower release cycle is offset by two things. If you know you need a fresher system, and are willing to sacrifice some stability for updated packages, you have as many choices as you can handle: adding a few packages from testing to your stable system, directly tracking testing or unstable, some mix of any of the three, or even adding packages from experimental if you really want to go out on a limb.
The power of Debian is not only in APT, but in Debconf, the configuration system. Configuration changes are pretty much a given on a system that's directly tracking sid, but are unheard-of (and perhaps even forbidden?) in the stable release. The ease of administration that comes with knowing that changes Debian stable will consist only of backported security patches makes it worth the wait.
Lastly, a system administrator does not want to have to go through a major operating system upgrade on numerous heterogenous servers every 9 months. Knowing that it will be somewhere around 18-36 months between Debian releases means spending a lot less time migrating and fiddling with systems just to keep up with supported releases.
Other distributions do release every 6-9 months. It's not for me... except when it is, and I use testing/unstable in those cases:-)
When you say "Push Email", all I hear is "Opening connection to remote mail host on port 25".
The claim that this is an evolution over POP'ing your mail down from the mail host is... well... characteristic of someone who's not used to being informed at his shell prompt that he has new mail waiting over in/var/spool...
Seriously, now. This is just a pocket-sized mail host. Email has been "pushed" to a remote machine for ages and ages.
This is more of an embarrassing reduction of Xenakis than an expansion.
Where Xenakis built beautiful, evolving structures, this guy presents us with a randomly generated flatline sliced up incoherently by a looping automaton.
If you generate a PCM stream of pseudorandom amplitudes, that's called "noise". If you generate a video stream of pseudorandom pixels, that's also called "noise".
Shuffling an audio and video stream together in a plain, pseudorandom fashion? Yep. Still just "noise". Using flavor-of-the-week blog fodder as the input to the noise generator? That just makes it even harder to take it seriously.
This is why it's important to think of accessiblility and standards. Not only is there a huge base of people using browsers other than MSIE -- there's a base of users who interact with computers in entirely different ways than most of us.
He probably just replaced his audio cabling. The cable is the giant antenna that's picking up this signal, not the speakers -- and it's probably the signal going into the amplifier that's being distorted by the GSM data bursts.
Cell phones probably aren't powerful enough to cause cancer, but they sure as hell aren't powerful enough to drive a speaker cone from across the room.
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No, there's a significant difference here. Modifications I make to *my* car cannot be instantly and trivially copied to yours. Modifications I make to my copy of a piece of software *can* be instantly and trivially copied to yours.
The overriding benefit of free software is not that you *personally* can modify your copy if you wish, but that you can benefit from the aggregation of the modifications of others.
Enough already with the state-sponsored wireless internet access. The government has shown quite well enough what they'll do if you give them access to privately operated networks. There's no crippling gap in wireless network access in this country. Please, focus on something else and keep your goddamn data mining machines out of my papers and effects.
the best shows are $5 and $10, anyway. if ticketmaster wants this market so bad, let them have it.
Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on me again. Fool me a third time with an Alienware merger... yeah, shame on me. Meet the new box, same as the old box. Won't get fooled again.
Meet the new Jobs: same as the old Jobs.
no, when i *start* a website, i'm running it through the validator. producing valid html and css isn't some kind of bonus afterthought. it's something you do from line 1.
I guess they don't know how to handle Creative any other way?
It took a while for developers to "get" the mouse as a gaming controller, but after iD released Quake, the mouse/keyboard combination has been the only FPS controller setup worth mentioning. Likewise, it will take a while for developers and gamers to accept the demise of the unwieldy playstation-style controller.
There must be clear limits to the specific rights that the state can infringe, even for felons. To state categorically that the removal of rights is acceptable because the person in question has committed some crime is extremely shallow and reactionary.
Infringement of felons' rights should be limited to the scope of the crimes committed. No one would say that someone who speeds on the freeway or litters in a public park should be required to provide DNA samples. Likewise, no one would recommend execution for someone convicted of drug possession.
Requiring a blood sample for DNA analysis is a highly unusual and bizarre response to someone whose offenses to date have not shown any probability of leaving DNA evidence. A law which requires this response is one which must be rescinded or rewritten.
y'all NEED to have an acoustic coupler.
No, seriously.
Well... I... wouldn't have said "Sarge" if I were referring to Ubuntu.
Debian's QA process takes a long time, but it's nice not to have to go through a dist-upgrade every few months on servers that need to be left alone and 'just work'.
Also -- hard links. One would be hard pressed to find a filesystem with poorer hard link support than HFS+, except those that don't support links at all.
Poking and prodding it with a debugger is NO. SUBSTITUTE. for reading the source code and then building your own.
Sorry. You lost me there. Am I supposed to imagine he would even notice that the DVD signal was not HD?
i expect it was pretty annoying. it was even RED ALL CAPITALS and i had a similar message in /etc/issue.net that was printed with every ssh, sftp, and ftp login.
what i learned was: users do not pay attention to the motd, so don't bother. also, mp3's are very important.
i suppose i should have expected this reaction. i got the idea from the motd on my school's sunos server, which had a message stating that mail space was low and that users should delete any mp2 (not mp3) files they were storing. that message was there the entire time i was enrolled. now it's on new hardware with a larger disk...
now i just have a standard "Access to this system is permitted for authorized users only" in issue.net, and mord
That doesn't make it a strategic move against Google so much as a strategic move against cruft that nobody wants to see. If Google is indexing this crap, and their business somehow depends upon it (which is unlikely), then that's their problem.
"Sequencing software" wouldn't be my first choice for describing Max/MSP, but at any rate it's much more than that. Max/MSP is a very powerful modular synthesis environment, allowing the user to assemble very interesting and complicated instruments and processing chains using a graphic interface. Miller S. Puckette (the MSP in the name of the software) has also released a similar package called 'pd' under an open source license (or, at least, it is distributed as source code).
The slower release cycle is offset by two things. If you know you need a fresher system, and are willing to sacrifice some stability for updated packages, you have as many choices as you can handle: adding a few packages from testing to your stable system, directly tracking testing or unstable, some mix of any of the three, or even adding packages from experimental if you really want to go out on a limb.
The power of Debian is not only in APT, but in Debconf, the configuration system. Configuration changes are pretty much a given on a system that's directly tracking sid, but are unheard-of (and perhaps even forbidden?) in the stable release. The ease of administration that comes with knowing that changes Debian stable will consist only of backported security patches makes it worth the wait.
Lastly, a system administrator does not want to have to go through a major operating system upgrade on numerous heterogenous servers every 9 months. Knowing that it will be somewhere around 18-36 months between Debian releases means spending a lot less time migrating and fiddling with systems just to keep up with supported releases.
Other distributions do release every 6-9 months. It's not for me... except when it is, and I use testing/unstable in those cases :-)
The claim that this is an evolution over POP'ing your mail down from the mail host is ... well ... characteristic of someone who's not used to being informed at his shell prompt that he has new mail waiting over in /var/spool ...
Seriously, now. This is just a pocket-sized mail host. Email has been "pushed" to a remote machine for ages and ages.
Where Xenakis built beautiful, evolving structures, this guy presents us with a randomly generated flatline sliced up incoherently by a looping automaton.
If you generate a PCM stream of pseudorandom amplitudes, that's called "noise". If you generate a video stream of pseudorandom pixels, that's also called "noise".
Shuffling an audio and video stream together in a plain, pseudorandom fashion? Yep. Still just "noise". Using flavor-of-the-week blog fodder as the input to the noise generator? That just makes it even harder to take it seriously.
This is why it's important to think of accessiblility and standards. Not only is there a huge base of people using browsers other than MSIE -- there's a base of users who interact with computers in entirely different ways than most of us.
Cell phones probably aren't powerful enough to cause cancer, but they sure as hell aren't powerful enough to drive a speaker cone from across the room.
But hey, why listen to me? This article by an electronics engineer was just a quick google search away!