Even though OpenBSD is a derivative of BSD, they have taken off the BSD copyright as well. Their/etc/termcap file says the same thing. So does the one on many Linux systems. (Look for it in Caldera Linux?)
# COPYRIGHTS AND OTHER DELUSIONS
. . . The BSD ancestor of this file had a standard Regents of the University of California copyright . . . Some information has been merged in from a terminfo file SCO distributes . . . This file deliberately has no copyright. It belongs to no one and everyone.
But since the X-Prize is for suborbital flights that require little heat shielding and less involved life support, I don't think it in itself is a good metric for the privatization of space. It's "space lite", not really the real deal.
If the challenge were to launch a craft that could dock with the ISS, that's a different story. I know Nasa could use a vehicle like that right now;)
The Concorde went out of service because it had to compete with other flights that did the same thing, except slower and cheaper. So the 100-km-reaching manned vessels could retire the orbit-reaching manned vessels, because they do the same thing, except lower and cheaper.
Today we can no longer reach the moon but we can send more people into space (as ISS shows). Soon we may not be able to reach ISS, but even more people will reach space (by passing 100 km).
It might have a low probability of happening, but the X-Prize could finish manned orbits.
I don't need to fix lines 0 or 4, because I made a subroutine like this:
0) $maxTrips = number of trips you want to take; $numTrips = 0;
1) Build spaceship.
2) Fly it up to 100 km.
3) Come back safely.
4) if ($numTrips <= $maxTrips) {$numTrips++; goto 2;}
101) Define "Build spaceship.": 102) ) $numTrips++; # make code confusing
103) ) import store;
105) ) global $spaceship:= new Object();
106) ) for each i in parts:
107) ) ) tell $spaceship to add i
104) ) let parts = store.buy(spaceship parts);
Maybe "$" means global variable, so I don't need the word "global" on line 105. Now, if more Slashdot users post the rest of the subroutines, we'll have that X Prize very soon, after we put the lines in order.
The nonobvious but simple fix is to modify your 'ut2003-demo' or 'ut2003' startup script by adding "unset LD_ASSUME_KERNEL" at the beginning, and adding it "export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5" back at the end (so RPM will work again).
You probably don't need to set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL at the end of the script. Each program has a separate environment, initially inherited from the program that launched it. So "export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5" (in sh and bash scripts) only applies to programs launched by the ut2003 startup script after that line. Since its at the end of the script, it does nothing. In fact, the script would not need that line at all unless it wanted to run RPM.
To demonstrate (on OpenBSD, where LD_ASSUME_KERNEL probably has no meaning):
checkcondition() { if [ -z "$LD_ASSUME_KERNEL" ]; then echo ut2003 works, rpm does not else echo rpm works, ut2003 does not fi }
echo starting... checkcondition echo unsetting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL... unset LD_ASSUME_KERNEL echo pretending to run ut2003... checkcondition $ chmod 700 sampletfsh $./sampletfsh starting... rpm works, ut2003 does not unsetting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL... pretending to run ut2003... ut2003 works, rpm does not $ printenv LD_ASSUME_KERNEL 2.2.5 $
First I set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL pretending I had RPM on a Linux 2.6 system. Then I wrote and executed a script. The script unset LD_ASSUME_KERNEL so that ut2003 would start working (but rpm would not). However, even though I did not redefine LD_ASSUME_KERNEL at the bottom of the script, the shell from which I called the script still kept the old 2.2.5 value. The script could have been a ut2003 startup script.
One only needs to add the first "unset LD_ASSUME_KERNEL" line.
Make sure you check your filesystems so you don't lose that huge file you just downloaded! (I know it is a bad joke because fsck starts with a lowercase f. If "mebi" was not hyperlinked I would be very confused now.)
Not only did my country, the USA, invade France and get bombed at Hawaii, but as part of a coalition they entered North Africa and Italy and attacked Japanese-held islands. But there are plenty of games about the USA fighting WW2, even though there was no fighting on the US mainland and much fighting did not involve US forces.
I've never tried "Red Orchestra", but if it really is a game about the eastern European front, then it is a game about one of the most important but overlooked parts of WW2. The "Great Patriotic War" was fought between Germany and the USSR. Germany had captured many states, several entire Soviet Socialist Republics, and had its front line deep to the east in the Russian SSR. But Russia was too big, allowing the Soviets to gain strength with aid from certain other countries. The city of Stalingrad saw urban war. The German army could not hold that Russian town and also defend Tunisia (in Northern Africa near Italy), and lost both. Then the Soviets advanced west and some other troops went north into Italy.
Of the southern and eastern fronts, the eastern saw more action, if action is measured by the amount of land taken. It was the Red Army that took Berlin, the German capital. The Soviets won the Great Patriotic War, though they would also see action in eastern Asia.
In Asia was another of the great overlooked fronts, the War of Resistance Against Japan, fought by the Chinese Guomintang/Kuomintang (depending on which desktop environment you prefer) and the Chinese Communists against Japan. Could this be the sequel to "Red Orchestra"? Or what if someone plays "Red Orchestra" as Germany and captures all Siberia (eastern Russia)?
DarwinPorts is TCL-based, just as Gentoo Portage is Python-based, so neither of these are really BSD Ports. For a real BSD Ports, the system must be based on Makefiles, not Portfiles or ebuilds.
The NetBSD Packages Collection "pkgsrc" claims it can run on Darwin because it is cross-platform. It is based on Makefiles. However, I don't know how well it works on Darwin.
Your post is here. It is not deleted. You can find it on the main page just above the capital-letter "article summary" and below the "removing some utilities" comments.
I didn't know about any songs. There seems to be a "songs" directory on each OpenBSD mirror, I've never noticed it before. Perhaps because I'm always inside "3.3".
Wow! BSD is the most fun of dying software. Skilled Anonymous Cowards get to make careful calculations about the number of remaining users, and now BSD even receives poems that rhyme!
It seems that the dead or near-dead, like BSD and Mac OS 9, only seem to get more interesting. Mac OS 9 is almost dead, of course, because it was replaced by Mac OS X, which is BSD-based. But the death of BSD seems to be far more interesting anything else. When Microsoft killed Internet Explorer for the Mac, the only result was a typical, hundreds-of-comments Slashdot article. But Mac is now BSD-based, of course.
I recently repaired Mac OS 9 and added OpenBSD to what had been essentially a GNU/Linux-only system. Interestingly, since BSD is relying on life-support from Linux software, I was able to keep running KDE as usual. Now, when BSD is dying, seems to be the most interesting time to run BSD on a computer.
Reading the bill HR 2885 on thomas.loc.gov, I noticed the following:
(b) REGULATIONS- Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commission shall promulgate regulations that--
(1) define the term `peer-to-peer file trading software' for purposes of this Act, with such definition to encompass computer software that enables the transmission of computer files or data over the Internet or any other public network of computers and that has as its primary function the capability to do all of the following--
(A) enable a computer on which such software is used to transmit files or data to another such computer;
(B) enable the user of one such computer to request the transmission of files or data from another such computer; and
(C) enable the user of one such computer to designate files or data available for transmission to another such computer, but which definition excludes, to the extent otherwise included, software products legitimately marketed and distributed primarily for the operation of business and home networks, the networks of Internet access providers, or the Internet itself; and . . .
DISCLAIMER: The following is just commenting, not the truth.
The combination of Microsoft Internet Explorer and a web browser would be "peer-to-peer file trading software" in the United States. The server would perform functions (A), Explorer would be (B), and (C) would be satisfied by the fact that the server lets the user pick what files to distribute, even which file is the home page and how to link the files.
Then Explorer would be regulated by the Act: it would have to require a warning that it could access pornography; young children would have to send personal info to Microsoft. Also, interestingly, I would be able to set up a 'do-not-install beacon' preventing Explorer from being installed on a computer, and it would have to be possible to remove Explorer from a computer. This would cripple Windows.
But read the act more closely. The Windows version of Explorer is actually part of Windows, and Windows' "primary function" is not file sharing, or even network use. So Explorer may be exempt from regulation by this bill. But competing web browsers may be at a disadvantage because they meet the "primary function" requirement; thus Mozilla may have pornography warning labels while Explorer does not; meanwhile Windows' new default do-not-install beacon prevents Mozilla from running.
Also, notice that I mentioned an Explorer-web server combination, not Explorer by itself, so Explorer without a web server wouldn't qualify as "peer-to-peer", because Explorer would not meet (A) and (C): it can't send files to another computer, and it can't make files available for upload. Actually, Explorer allows web pages to include a file upload form widget (Mozilla and Konqueror support this also), which could be used to "transmit files or data to another computer," meeting (A), and also meeting (C) since I pick which files are available by choosing them with the widget. The web browser will only send files if the user has selected them with the widget.
Except (C) contains a crafty exclusion. Here it is again:
. . . which definition excludes, to the extent otherwise included, software products legitimately marketed and distributed primarily for the operation of business and home networks, the networks of Internet access providers, or the Internet itself . ..
The exclusion creates the passage: is a web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, necessary "for the operation of" "the Internet"? The "Commission" (Federal Trade Commission) would have to decide. So it seems this bill has much language to protect Explorer, just in this one section.
But what about other software, like rsync and CVS? Does it co
Actually, my local Mac OS 9 system does not run Microsoft Office. (I do use Microsoft Internet Explorer a lot.) Therefore my computer was immune from Office macro viruses.
But I remember using Macs a few years ago that got infected. I don't think they were damaged, though.
I'm also running Gentoo Linux and OpenBSD. Some KDE installations can be infected by postscript files. So it may be possible to create a Linux-BSD cross-platform virus, but only if KDE is used. Unfortunately I use KDE a lot.
Keeping players is very important if server/game owners can't find new ones. I have no incentive to play an MMORPG. I'm not sure which one to try or how much network bandwith it uses; it seems too expensive; it probably requires Microsoft Windows; I probably don't have time to play, as I browse Slashdot too much...
Wrong. A virus that exploits a cross-platform program such as Mozilla can infect multiple platforms.
A well-known class of Win-Mac viruses are the Microsoft Office macro viruses. MS Office is available for both Windows and Macintosh, and the versions for both platforms accept the same documents and viruses. With so few Mac-specific viruses available, these macro viruses were once the biggest threats to Mac users, but only those who had certain Microsoft programs. Now these viruses are forgotten as newer Office versions protect against macro viruses.
I knew of GGI before (though I've never used it), but not of KGI. Currently I rely on XFree86, unless I'm using Mac OS.
I'm not sure if this is right, but GGI can draw to X11, toolkits like GDK/Qt/FOX can draw to X11, X11 "XGGI" can draw to GGI, GGI can draw to KGI, and GGI can draw to some "svgalib" which draws to Linux framebuffer. A bit confusing, but it seems that GGI can probably be avoided unless one doesn't like X11 or needs to have 3D acceleration on BSD.
Neither Linux nor GNU/Linux is a correct name all the time. I usually prefer to say GNU/Linux, because there are important GNU programs (GNU's glibc, gcc, bash, as, awk, sed, make, ghostscript). But sometimes, I really do want to talk about the kernel. When I'm dealing with kernel modules or sound drivers or filesystem drivers or many other things, I refer to Linux. I need some name for the kernel, so I say Linux. If I'm more concerned about the GUI, I'll call the system KDE (or whatever software is running), with no mention of Linux, GNU, or even XFree86. Also, sometimes I'll just say Linux instead of GNU/Linux to avoid having to use a third syllable, or press four more keys. However, when I want to talk about the kernel, I want to say Linux and I don't want people to think I'm referring to KDE or GNOME.
But FSF has a point when they refer to the Linux vs GNU/Linux distinction in their response to SCO vs IBM. Their response is directed at SCO's public comments, many of which are unclear about whether they are complaining about the Linux kernel or something else. SCO needs to hide information to protect itself and successfully take revenge on IBM for the code that IBM has stolen in disregard of SCO's rights, assuming IBM is guilty. If IBM is not guilty, then SCO is just being dumb, and we should expect it to do things like spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Go here, scroll down and read my (ThreeFarthingStone's) message to the Gentoo users, if you want.
I don't like the name 'GNU system' by itself. The GNU system includes TeX and X Window System, according to the FSF. But they imply that Linux (the kernel) is not a part. Even though GNU has components that are not GNU software, apparently Linux can't be a component. The FSF insists that GNU/Linux is useful, but they will finish their own kernel Hurd, and Hurd will be GNU's kernel. If this actually happens, I'll probably call it GNU/Hurd instead of just GNU. (The Debian distro is already called Debian GNU/Hurd.) Sometimes I will just call it a Hurd system, maybe to emphasize that it isn't Linux. Example: "I installed a Hurd distro." Sometimes I might even call it a Mach system (or L4 or whatever microkernel ends up being used).
There is one other thing to mention, something on which my opinion approaches that of jmorris42. The FSF likes to complain about the "Open Source movement" which they think is distinct from the "Free Software movement". But the "Open Source movement" that the FSF refers to doesn't really exist in that manner. In fact, some "open source" software ends up under a GNU GPL license, making it effectively the same as "free software". I just use the term "free software" when I want to emphasize my ability to copy and distribute the software; I say "open source" to emphasize my ability to modify or compile the software.
Google is a monopoly and I was glad to here of competition until I realized how bad MSN search was by reading the above comments.
According to an MSNsearch for SCO actually gave me SCO's home page at the top. In fact the first five hits go to SCO's site. But I was surpised to learn (emphasis added)
Long-time vendor of UNIX for PCs has made the transition to Linux. Learn about their consulting services and their software offerings.
I think I meant The creators of music do not have to give the rights that they do not want to give.
Now, if I bought a CD and could only listen for ten minutes before having to pay another toll, I might complain. But if I didn't want to buy a second CD to give it to someone else (because copying isn't allowed), I'd just have to get different music from somewhere else.
Even if the music selling business is very profitable, that doesn't mean its OK to steal music. But you are right when you wrote This lawsuit and subesquent settlement has nothing to do with losing money due to P2P trading, so please don't try to associate the two. The conspiracy is not excused by the illegal trading.
There should be some fair use allowed (example: if I play a CD I can have several people listen). But distributing digitally compressed music (such as mp3) is dangerous if required royalties are not being paid.
ALL distros I have ever used that set up a KDE or GNOME desktop for you, have a web browser, normally Mozilla/Konqueror. In fact any version of KDE since 2 always includes the browser, it is as integrated into the desktop as MS Internet Explorer into Windows.
GNOME 2 however doesn't have a browser, unless I add something like Mozilla, so this Ximian Desktop 2 idea is great. KDE has Konqueror and you can install Konqueror on top, but I think OpenOffice and Mozilla are more powerful. KDE 3 needs its competition, that would be XD2.
Problem with XD2 is that its really only available for a few distros.
It's almost ridiculous that many in the music industry have to make all these US$13 payments, after they've already lost so much money to illegal P2P trade.
Many Americans want to get American RIAA music without paying. Apparently they hate the singers, lyrics writers, MIDI bit-adjusters, record companies, and all others who want to create music. The creators can music do not have to give the rights that they do not want to give.
If you think this is wrong, if you think you want to do things like copy music, then don't get this music! Get non-RIAA music, get music from copyright owners that will let you use P2P, or whatever you want to do! Can't find such music? Create your own. (Maybe you can use those US$13 you just got.) Maybe you can even use real instruments instead of MIDI. Or maybe you can get the computer to sing, to save money.
Don't try to get rights from recorders that do not want to give. It's copyright law. The RIAA prevents one from distributing music, the FSF prevents one from distributing modified software without source code, etc.
If you like a piece of music, and its recorder/creator/author charges US$100 to get the music (on CD for example), then pay US$100. If they make it illegal for you to distribute the music over P2P, then don't. If you don't like this, don't use the music. The recorder didn't have to initially distribute it anyway.
(I am an American, not affiliated with the RIAA. I am not about to get US$13 because I have not been buying much music, because I don't like listening to most of it. But if music is in your culture, then don't let stealing music be in your culture.)
You better not use GNU/Linux, then. Look at all these Linux kernels: Linux 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4,... up to 2.4.20, and I hear someone just invented 2.4.21. There is also a 2.5 tree, old 2.2 and 2.0 versions, even older various 1.X and 0.X versions. Those are only the official kernels.
There are also hundreds of forks of the Linux kernel. Gentoo Linux provides more than thirty. On PowerPC machines alone, you can get the benh kernels for better hardware compatibility, or special kernels for NuBus machines.
So now that we have thousands of kernels, we must multiply them by the libc libraries that they are running. The possibilities are glibc 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, or 2.3, and there are multiple versions of each. Its also possible to have older libc5 or ancient libc4. And, multiple of these might be installed simultaneously, with different programs using different ones.
But back to the Slashdot article - its about a problem with Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook, a web browser and email program. There are many of these for GNU/Linux: pine, mutt, Mozilla, konqueror, kmail, many others.
In fact, there are so many different kinds of GNU/Linux out there that one may have difficulty hacking into them all. Maybe one should try attacking Microsoft Windows, which has only a few thousand variants.
Java really needs a good collections interface (introduced in 1.2) and generics (to come in 1.5), but it may be years if Java 1.5 is ever available for my platform (notice my selfishness).
I've never heard of JBoss before, but it seems it will turn almost any J2SE into a J2EE. But where do I get my J2SE (a Java 2 Standard Edition, runtime environment, libraries, and compiler) so that it works correctly?
Right now, on my GNU/Linux system with a PowerPC CPU (a Macintosh), I'm running Blackdown Java (J2SE) 1.3.
Anonymous Coward wrote: It is real, effective, efficient and fit my need;) In my case
Java is sometimes not real. Programs using the GUI (JFC/Swing) are not working. I can't get the latest version of Java 1.4, because its not ported to PowerPC.
Java is sometimes not effective. Java is my preferred programming language, and usually effective. It would help if I could use collections with generics, but once Java 1.5 is out providing this, it probably won't be ported to my platform.
Java is sometimes not efficient. Interpreted Java bytecodes are fast enough for me, but my platform does not provide JIT or HotSpot acceleration.
I am watching potential sources of ports (Blackdown, GNU Classpath, GCJ, and Jikes RVM) for emerging Java 1.4 or 1.5 that actually works. Until then I won't have working Java.
Anonymous Coward wrote: What MS fears the most is Linux + Java. Because it is a more powerfull that they can even provide. However in my case, working Java is an incentive for me to switch to an x86 computer with Microsoft Windows, in order to run Windows + Java.
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Even though OpenBSD is a derivative of BSD, they have taken off the BSD copyright as well. Their /etc/termcap file says the same thing. So does the one on many Linux systems. (Look for it in Caldera Linux?)
The Concorde went out of service because it had to compete with other flights that did the same thing, except slower and cheaper. So the 100-km-reaching manned vessels could retire the orbit-reaching manned vessels, because they do the same thing, except lower and cheaper.
Today we can no longer reach the moon but we can send more people into space (as ISS shows). Soon we may not be able to reach ISS, but even more people will reach space (by passing 100 km).
It might have a low probability of happening, but the X-Prize could finish manned orbits.
I don't need to fix lines 0 or 4, because I made a subroutine like this:
0) $maxTrips = number of trips you want to take; $numTrips = 0;
:= new Object();
1) Build spaceship.
2) Fly it up to 100 km.
3) Come back safely.
4) if ($numTrips <= $maxTrips) {$numTrips++; goto 2;}
101) Define "Build spaceship.":
102) ) $numTrips++; # make code confusing
103) ) import store;
105) ) global $spaceship
106) ) for each i in parts:
107) ) ) tell $spaceship to add i
104) ) let parts = store.buy(spaceship parts);
Maybe "$" means global variable, so I don't need the word "global" on line 105. Now, if more Slashdot users post the rest of the subroutines, we'll have that X Prize very soon, after we put the lines in order.
You probably don't need to set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL at the end of the script. Each program has a separate environment, initially inherited from the program that launched it. So "export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5" (in sh and bash scripts) only applies to programs launched by the ut2003 startup script after that line. Since its at the end of the script, it does nothing. In fact, the script would not need that line at all unless it wanted to run RPM.
To demonstrate (on OpenBSD, where LD_ASSUME_KERNEL probably has no meaning):
First I set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL pretending I had RPM on a Linux 2.6 system. Then I wrote and executed a script. The script unset LD_ASSUME_KERNEL so that ut2003 would start working (but rpm would not). However, even though I did not redefine LD_ASSUME_KERNEL at the bottom of the script, the shell from which I called the script still kept the old 2.2.5 value. The script could have been a ut2003 startup script.
One only needs to add the first "unset LD_ASSUME_KERNEL" line.
Make sure you check your filesystems so you don't lose that huge file you just downloaded! (I know it is a bad joke because fsck starts with a lowercase f. If "mebi" was not hyperlinked I would be very confused now.)
Not only did my country, the USA, invade France and get bombed at Hawaii, but as part of a coalition they entered North Africa and Italy and attacked Japanese-held islands. But there are plenty of games about the USA fighting WW2, even though there was no fighting on the US mainland and much fighting did not involve US forces.
I've never tried "Red Orchestra", but if it really is a game about the eastern European front, then it is a game about one of the most important but overlooked parts of WW2. The "Great Patriotic War" was fought between Germany and the USSR. Germany had captured many states, several entire Soviet Socialist Republics, and had its front line deep to the east in the Russian SSR. But Russia was too big, allowing the Soviets to gain strength with aid from certain other countries. The city of Stalingrad saw urban war. The German army could not hold that Russian town and also defend Tunisia (in Northern Africa near Italy), and lost both. Then the Soviets advanced west and some other troops went north into Italy.
Of the southern and eastern fronts, the eastern saw more action, if action is measured by the amount of land taken. It was the Red Army that took Berlin, the German capital. The Soviets won the Great Patriotic War, though they would also see action in eastern Asia.
In Asia was another of the great overlooked fronts, the War of Resistance Against Japan, fought by the Chinese Guomintang/Kuomintang (depending on which desktop environment you prefer) and the Chinese Communists against Japan. Could this be the sequel to "Red Orchestra"? Or what if someone plays "Red Orchestra" as Germany and captures all Siberia (eastern Russia)?
DarwinPorts is TCL-based, just as Gentoo Portage is Python-based, so neither of these are really BSD Ports. For a real BSD Ports, the system must be based on Makefiles, not Portfiles or ebuilds.
The NetBSD Packages Collection "pkgsrc" claims it can run on Darwin because it is cross-platform. It is based on Makefiles. However, I don't know how well it works on Darwin.
Your post is here. It is not deleted. You can find it on the main page just above the capital-letter "article summary" and below the "removing some utilities" comments.
I didn't know about any songs. There seems to be a "songs" directory on each OpenBSD mirror, I've never noticed it before. Perhaps because I'm always inside "3.3".
Maybe I can download them later.
Wow! BSD is the most fun of dying software. Skilled Anonymous Cowards get to make careful calculations about the number of remaining users, and now BSD even receives poems that rhyme!
It seems that the dead or near-dead, like BSD and Mac OS 9, only seem to get more interesting. Mac OS 9 is almost dead, of course, because it was replaced by Mac OS X, which is BSD-based. But the death of BSD seems to be far more interesting anything else. When Microsoft killed Internet Explorer for the Mac, the only result was a typical, hundreds-of-comments Slashdot article. But Mac is now BSD-based, of course.
I recently repaired Mac OS 9 and added OpenBSD to what had been essentially a GNU/Linux-only system. Interestingly, since BSD is relying on life-support from Linux software, I was able to keep running KDE as usual. Now, when BSD is dying, seems to be the most interesting time to run BSD on a computer.
Reading the bill HR 2885 on thomas.loc.gov, I noticed the following:
DISCLAIMER: The following is just commenting, not the truth.
The combination of Microsoft Internet Explorer and a web browser would be "peer-to-peer file trading software" in the United States. The server would perform functions (A), Explorer would be (B), and (C) would be satisfied by the fact that the server lets the user pick what files to distribute, even which file is the home page and how to link the files.
Then Explorer would be regulated by the Act: it would have to require a warning that it could access pornography; young children would have to send personal info to Microsoft. Also, interestingly, I would be able to set up a 'do-not-install beacon' preventing Explorer from being installed on a computer, and it would have to be possible to remove Explorer from a computer. This would cripple Windows.
But read the act more closely. The Windows version of Explorer is actually part of Windows, and Windows' "primary function" is not file sharing, or even network use. So Explorer may be exempt from regulation by this bill. But competing web browsers may be at a disadvantage because they meet the "primary function" requirement; thus Mozilla may have pornography warning labels while Explorer does not; meanwhile Windows' new default do-not-install beacon prevents Mozilla from running.
Also, notice that I mentioned an Explorer-web server combination, not Explorer by itself, so Explorer without a web server wouldn't qualify as "peer-to-peer", because Explorer would not meet (A) and (C): it can't send files to another computer, and it can't make files available for upload. Actually, Explorer allows web pages to include a file upload form widget (Mozilla and Konqueror support this also), which could be used to "transmit files or data to another computer," meeting (A), and also meeting (C) since I pick which files are available by choosing them with the widget. The web browser will only send files if the user has selected them with the widget.
Except (C) contains a crafty exclusion. Here it is again:
The exclusion creates the passage: is a web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, necessary "for the operation of" "the Internet"? The "Commission" (Federal Trade Commission) would have to decide. So it seems this bill has much language to protect Explorer, just in this one section.
But what about other software, like rsync and CVS? Does it co
Actually, my local Mac OS 9 system does not run Microsoft Office. (I do use Microsoft Internet Explorer a lot.) Therefore my computer was immune from Office macro viruses.
But I remember using Macs a few years ago that got infected. I don't think they were damaged, though.
I'm also running Gentoo Linux and OpenBSD. Some KDE installations can be infected by postscript files. So it may be possible to create a Linux-BSD cross-platform virus, but only if KDE is used. Unfortunately I use KDE a lot.
Keeping players is very important if server/game owners can't find new ones. I have no incentive to play an MMORPG. I'm not sure which one to try or how much network bandwith it uses; it seems too expensive; it probably requires Microsoft Windows; I probably don't have time to play, as I browse Slashdot too much...
Wrong. A virus that exploits a cross-platform program such as Mozilla can infect multiple platforms.
A well-known class of Win-Mac viruses are the Microsoft Office macro viruses. MS Office is available for both Windows and Macintosh, and the versions for both platforms accept the same documents and viruses. With so few Mac-specific viruses available, these macro viruses were once the biggest threats to Mac users, but only those who had certain Microsoft programs. Now these viruses are forgotten as newer Office versions protect against macro viruses.
I knew of GGI before (though I've never used it), but not of KGI. Currently I rely on XFree86, unless I'm using Mac OS.
I'm not sure if this is right, but GGI can draw to X11, toolkits like GDK/Qt/FOX can draw to X11, X11 "XGGI" can draw to GGI, GGI can draw to KGI, and GGI can draw to some "svgalib" which draws to Linux framebuffer. A bit confusing, but it seems that GGI can probably be avoided unless one doesn't like X11 or needs to have 3D acceleration on BSD.
But FSF has a point when they refer to the Linux vs GNU/Linux distinction in their response to SCO vs IBM. Their response is directed at SCO's public comments, many of which are unclear about whether they are complaining about the Linux kernel or something else. SCO needs to hide information to protect itself and successfully take revenge on IBM for the code that IBM has stolen in disregard of SCO's rights, assuming IBM is guilty. If IBM is not guilty, then SCO is just being dumb, and we should expect it to do things like spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Go here, scroll down and read my (ThreeFarthingStone's) message to the Gentoo users, if you want.
I don't like the name 'GNU system' by itself. The GNU system includes TeX and X Window System, according to the FSF. But they imply that Linux (the kernel) is not a part. Even though GNU has components that are not GNU software, apparently Linux can't be a component. The FSF insists that GNU/Linux is useful, but they will finish their own kernel Hurd, and Hurd will be GNU's kernel. If this actually happens, I'll probably call it GNU/Hurd instead of just GNU. (The Debian distro is already called Debian GNU/Hurd.) Sometimes I will just call it a Hurd system, maybe to emphasize that it isn't Linux. Example: "I installed a Hurd distro." Sometimes I might even call it a Mach system (or L4 or whatever microkernel ends up being used).
There is one other thing to mention, something on which my opinion approaches that of jmorris42. The FSF likes to complain about the "Open Source movement" which they think is distinct from the "Free Software movement". But the "Open Source movement" that the FSF refers to doesn't really exist in that manner. In fact, some "open source" software ends up under a GNU GPL license, making it effectively the same as "free software". I just use the term "free software" when I want to emphasize my ability to copy and distribute the software; I say "open source" to emphasize my ability to modify or compile the software.
According to an MSN search for SCO actually gave me SCO's home page at the top. In fact the first five hits go to SCO's site. But I was surpised to learn (emphasis added)
Now, if I bought a CD and could only listen for ten minutes before having to pay another toll, I might complain. But if I didn't want to buy a second CD to give it to someone else (because copying isn't allowed), I'd just have to get different music from somewhere else.
Even if the music selling business is very profitable, that doesn't mean its OK to steal music. But you are right when you wrote This lawsuit and subesquent settlement has nothing to do with losing money due to P2P trading, so please don't try to associate the two. The conspiracy is not excused by the illegal trading.
There should be some fair use allowed (example: if I play a CD I can have several people listen). But distributing digitally compressed music (such as mp3) is dangerous if required royalties are not being paid.
GNOME 2 however doesn't have a browser, unless I add something like Mozilla, so this Ximian Desktop 2 idea is great. KDE has Konqueror and you can install Konqueror on top, but I think OpenOffice and Mozilla are more powerful. KDE 3 needs its competition, that would be XD2.
Problem with XD2 is that its really only available for a few distros.
Many Americans want to get American RIAA music without paying. Apparently they hate the singers, lyrics writers, MIDI bit-adjusters, record companies, and all others who want to create music. The creators can music do not have to give the rights that they do not want to give.
If you think this is wrong, if you think you want to do things like copy music, then don't get this music! Get non-RIAA music, get music from copyright owners that will let you use P2P, or whatever you want to do! Can't find such music? Create your own. (Maybe you can use those US$13 you just got.) Maybe you can even use real instruments instead of MIDI. Or maybe you can get the computer to sing, to save money.
Don't try to get rights from recorders that do not want to give. It's copyright law. The RIAA prevents one from distributing music, the FSF prevents one from distributing modified software without source code, etc.
If you like a piece of music, and its recorder/creator/author charges US$100 to get the music (on CD for example), then pay US$100. If they make it illegal for you to distribute the music over P2P, then don't. If you don't like this, don't use the music. The recorder didn't have to initially distribute it anyway.
(I am an American, not affiliated with the RIAA. I am not about to get US$13 because I have not been buying much music, because I don't like listening to most of it. But if music is in your culture, then don't let stealing music be in your culture.)
There are also hundreds of forks of the Linux kernel. Gentoo Linux provides more than thirty. On PowerPC machines alone, you can get the benh kernels for better hardware compatibility, or special kernels for NuBus machines.
So now that we have thousands of kernels, we must multiply them by the libc libraries that they are running. The possibilities are glibc 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, or 2.3, and there are multiple versions of each. Its also possible to have older libc5 or ancient libc4. And, multiple of these might be installed simultaneously, with different programs using different ones.
But back to the Slashdot article - its about a problem with Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook, a web browser and email program. There are many of these for GNU/Linux: pine, mutt, Mozilla, konqueror, kmail, many others.
In fact, there are so many different kinds of GNU/Linux out there that one may have difficulty hacking into them all. Maybe one should try attacking Microsoft Windows, which has only a few thousand variants.
I've never heard of JBoss before, but it seems it will turn almost any J2SE into a J2EE. But where do I get my J2SE (a Java 2 Standard Edition, runtime environment, libraries, and compiler) so that it works correctly?
Right now, on my GNU/Linux system with a PowerPC CPU (a Macintosh), I'm running Blackdown Java (J2SE) 1.3.
Anonymous Coward wrote: It is real, effective, efficient and fit my need ;) In my case
I am watching potential sources of ports (Blackdown, GNU Classpath, GCJ, and Jikes RVM) for emerging Java 1.4 or 1.5 that actually works. Until then I won't have working Java.
Anonymous Coward wrote: What MS fears the most is Linux + Java. Because it is a more powerfull that they can even provide. However in my case, working Java is an incentive for me to switch to an x86 computer with Microsoft Windows, in order to run Windows + Java.