I've been truly encouraged by the critical tone of most of the posts so far.
No longer is FSF/Free Software being seen by the/. crowed as the "liberating force" or the next great revolution that would sweep us into a better future.
The underlying zealotry, the undelivered sweeping promises (quality products for free; ha!) and the increased control in the name of freedom (if you license your software under GPL, can you do anything you want with it? No!) are beginning to show.
Uninformed (L)GPL advocate: "Sure you can release your software under GPL without releasing the sourcecode. Just link to binary libraries. We'd rather have you not doing that, though, because we feel that source code should be free."
Informed (L)GPL advocate: "Unreleased source code is EVIL. If you don't publish software under GPL you are EVIL, too. Producing software under GPL and breaking the spirit - if not the letter - of the license by nasty binary links is an abomination. SOURCE CODE MUST BE FREE OR OUGHT TO DIE FOR PRODUCING IT!"
In other words: if you want to produce free code (ie. no restrictions to anyone), do NOT release it under "Free Software" license. Use any of the "Open Source" licenses instead. That way other people can benefit (=really, economically benefit) from your code too.
WinXP PRo sucks bigtime - lots of Spyware, builtin lousy fiewall, builtin DRM enabled CD writing s/w etc..........."
I don't know where you got the Spyware, but if you don't like the firewall or the CD-writing software you can always buy software you like! Hell, if Windows XP did NOT come with a firewall, you'd be screaming "Micro$oft sux!" for not including one.
The bureaucrats (aka Civil Service/Commission) draw up the proposals, but the people who decide whether it becomes law or not are the government ministers and the MEPs.
Haha! Ever seen brilliant comedy shows called "Yes, Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister?"
because it's appearing to target more banks and government institutions rather than random internet addresses
Attacking banks like this doesn't make any sense. You can't cripple banks by attacking their internet addresses because all the critical systems are isolated from the net.
Yes indeed. 6502 assembler, specifically Apple 2+ assembly, taken from Nibble (QV), a computing magazine. There are also scenes where some COBOL code visible.
But isn't that horribly insecure? If the packets are not validated against a database of safe, registered and valid IPs, our entire cyber-infrastructure would be susceptible to attacks by any islamic cyberterrorists from rogue states all around the world!
"Internet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14am Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. And, the net fights back."
I've been considering buying a mobo with nforce2 chipset, but if it not going to work with non-nvidia gfx-cards, there's no way I'm going to buy the motherboard!
Fucking troll! What the hell is it with you people?!
What is it that motivates you to spoil the fun for the rest of us? I sincerely hope that Malda hunts down you trolls, you in particular for writing that piece of crap, and sues you to the ground!
I was not annoyed by the cars, the wind or (most) people back in the days when the PCs didn't have any fans in them.
The annoyance began with the Pentium Classics (the fan bearings would wear out after a while) and culminated in the 72 W AMD CPUs and the monstrous graphics cards with a half-pound heatsink and a high speed fan.
There was some light at the end of the tunnel when Intel released low-power (30 W) Tualatin PIIIs. One could almost run a 1.2 GHz/512 MB cache Tualatin without active cooling. I used a huge heatsink, tweaked the fan so that it would run only at around 700 rpm and padded the case with noise-absorbing material. This coupled with a silent Maxtor 5400 rpm hard drive, fanless graphics card and noise-killer PSU made the system practically silent.
Would not a convection based water cooling be the ultimate noiseless CPU cooling system? Now, is there anyone who would have an access to the blueprints of the US Navy's nuclear submarine reactor cooling system (pumpless and convection based at low speeds)?-)
Or is this just another way to force an upgrade cycle?
But I like to upgrade!
I usually build two computers a year. If I sell my computer every six months at 75% (which is about the going price) of its original price, I can keep up experimenting with sweet new hardware.
As an added bonus, I've built an expanding network of friends, friends' friends and practically unknown people who have been referred to me by the others. They buy my second hand computers, consult me whenever they want to buy a computer and have me build computers for them. I do it free, although sometimes I ask a steady "customer" to buy me some interesting item as a nominal fee for my services.
It's great fun! Yes, I tend to lose some money but most hobbies will cost you something.
Caffeine can trigger palpitations, increase blood pressure and disrupt sleep in sensitive people
So we must protect the fools who, in spite of the symptoms, insist on drinking coffee. Not only do we have to do that, but we'll just have to do it by letting loose modifed genomes with no idea of how this will change the ecosystem?
GM food has not been proved safe in long term cultivation and it will not help to relieve hunger in 3rd world countries. Hunger is a political problem, not an agricultural problem. The production capacity of the Earth would feed the current and future population very well if the distribution of food were done fairly.
DNA has been used as evidence for quite a while now. People have been and still are being put to death based on DNA evidence, although statistically it would often be possible to find one or two other indidividuals in the USA, for instance, whose DNA would show up as positive in a crime scene test.
What the courts want is a probable cause. MD5 would do just fine.
It's kind of sad how some people insist that software should be chosen on some lofty ideological principles instead of acknowledging the cold, hard reality that MS Windows and Office are and will be the de facto standards in business worldwide for the decades to come.
Sure open source has its uses like the success of Apache and Linux in the server markets shows. However, most kids will not end up as system administrators but office workers who will only do word processing and spreadsheets. It is essential to get them familiarized with the standard tools of the trade at the earliest opportunity.
In contrast, those kids who end up as professional IT workers will always have the curiosity and skill to learn the more esoteric things like altenrative operating systems and other by themselves. There is no need to waste society's resources on trying to teach these difficult subjects to everyone.
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No longer is FSF/Free Software being seen by the /. crowed as the "liberating force" or the next great revolution that would sweep us into a better future.
The underlying zealotry, the undelivered sweeping promises (quality products for free; ha!) and the increased control in the name of freedom (if you license your software under GPL, can you do anything you want with it? No!) are beginning to show.
You are not using RMS-approved browser. Please download emacs www functionality right now or else.
Informed (L)GPL advocate: "Unreleased source code is EVIL. If you don't publish software under GPL you are EVIL, too. Producing software under GPL and breaking the spirit - if not the letter - of the license by nasty binary links is an abomination. SOURCE CODE MUST BE FREE OR OUGHT TO DIE FOR PRODUCING IT!"
In other words: if you want to produce free code (ie. no restrictions to anyone), do NOT release it under "Free Software" license. Use any of the "Open Source" licenses instead. That way other people can benefit (=really, economically benefit) from your code too.
I don't know where you got the Spyware, but if you don't like the firewall or the CD-writing software you can always buy software you like! Hell, if Windows XP did NOT come with a firewall, you'd be screaming "Micro$oft sux!" for not including one.
Haha! Ever seen brilliant comedy shows called "Yes, Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister?"
Attacking banks like this doesn't make any sense. You can't cripple banks by attacking their internet addresses because all the critical systems are isolated from the net.
Yes indeed. 6502 assembler, specifically Apple 2+ assembly, taken from Nibble (QV), a computing magazine. There are also scenes where some COBOL code visible.
But isn't that horribly insecure? If the packets are not validated against a database of safe, registered and valid IPs, our entire cyber-infrastructure would be susceptible to attacks by any islamic cyberterrorists from rogue states all around the world!
"Internet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14am Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. And, the net fights back."
I've been considering buying a mobo with nforce2 chipset, but if it not going to work with non-nvidia gfx-cards, there's no way I'm going to buy the motherboard!
Come on! I need just one more fix... just one fix!
The principle of convection should stay exactly the same in smaller applications.
What is it that motivates you to spoil the fun for the rest of us? I sincerely hope that Malda hunts down you trolls, you in particular for writing that piece of crap, and sues you to the ground!
Maybe you should have your hearing checked out.
I was not annoyed by the cars, the wind or (most) people back in the days when the PCs didn't have any fans in them.
The annoyance began with the Pentium Classics (the fan bearings would wear out after a while) and culminated in the 72 W AMD CPUs and the monstrous graphics cards with a half-pound heatsink and a high speed fan.
There was some light at the end of the tunnel when Intel released low-power (30 W) Tualatin PIIIs. One could almost run a 1.2 GHz/512 MB cache Tualatin without active cooling. I used a huge heatsink, tweaked the fan so that it would run only at around 700 rpm and padded the case with noise-absorbing material. This coupled with a silent Maxtor 5400 rpm hard drive, fanless graphics card and noise-killer PSU made the system practically silent.
Would not a convection based water cooling be the ultimate noiseless CPU cooling system? Now, is there anyone who would have an access to the blueprints of the US Navy's nuclear submarine reactor cooling system (pumpless and convection based at low speeds)?-)
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Were you trying to run the installer as the root? No? That explains your problem.
I would like to know how vladinator's real identity was discovered. By some sort of accident I suppose?
I'm waiting for today's SCO update.
I suppose you've never tried living with a woman?
But I like to upgrade!
I usually build two computers a year. If I sell my computer every six months at 75% (which is about the going price) of its original price, I can keep up experimenting with sweet new hardware.
As an added bonus, I've built an expanding network of friends, friends' friends and practically unknown people who have been referred to me by the others. They buy my second hand computers, consult me whenever they want to buy a computer and have me build computers for them. I do it free, although sometimes I ask a steady "customer" to buy me some interesting item as a nominal fee for my services.
It's great fun! Yes, I tend to lose some money but most hobbies will cost you something.
So we must protect the fools who, in spite of the symptoms, insist on drinking coffee. Not only do we have to do that, but we'll just have to do it by letting loose modifed genomes with no idea of how this will change the ecosystem?
GM food has not been proved safe in long term cultivation and it will not help to relieve hunger in 3rd world countries. Hunger is a political problem, not an agricultural problem. The production capacity of the Earth would feed the current and future population very well if the distribution of food were done fairly.
I liked her better when she was bad.
What the courts want is a probable cause. MD5 would do just fine.
It's kind of sad how some people insist that software should be chosen on some lofty ideological principles instead of acknowledging the cold, hard reality that MS Windows and Office are and will be the de facto standards in business worldwide for the decades to come.
Sure open source has its uses like the success of Apache and Linux in the server markets shows. However, most kids will not end up as system administrators but office workers who will only do word processing and spreadsheets. It is essential to get them familiarized with the standard tools of the trade at the earliest opportunity.
In contrast, those kids who end up as professional IT workers will always have the curiosity and skill to learn the more esoteric things like altenrative operating systems and other by themselves. There is no need to waste society's resources on trying to teach these difficult subjects to everyone.