As other have mentioned, stable is STABLE. You can set up a server running stable, and it will run for years, including security updates that won't break anything.
Another big plus for Debian is it is multi-platform. I have an old SGI Indy. It has a MIPS cpu. My choices for OS pretty much boil down to Irix, NetBSD and Debian. Debian also runs on Sparc, Alpha, ARM HP PA-RISC, PowerPC,... They all work the same way.
Finally, it's good that someone is taking the ideological high ground. Knowing the Debian is there helps keep other distros from adding tons of non-free stuff to try and get distro lock-in.
I'm tired of SSN being considered "sensitive" data, given how easy it is to find someone's, and the number of places that ask for yours.
So what we should do is have the Government announce: "Stop considering SSN private information. As of Jan 1, 2010, we will be publishing the complete list of names/SSNs."
This would force places that misuse SSNs because they think it is "confidential" to stop using it in that manner.
This is bad. This a prelude to the RIAA and the MPAA no longer having to pay lawyers to sue their customers, instead getting the US Taxpayers foot the bill and the DOJ to be the 'bad guys'. The DOJ gets to claim to be "tough on crime" and call for more money for more agents.
Are you aware of the so-called "CREATE" and "PIRATE" acts currently in the Senate? They create "a civil enforcement authority" in the DOJ. This is very very scary. Tell Your Senator to Oppose H.R. 4077 and H.R. 2391. Seriously.
Good. Then we get another chance to fight it, and delay while HD-VCRs/Tivos/etc make it into the hands of the "consumers", who will yell and scream if Congress tries to "take away my VCR!".
I have 24GB (about 6000 songs) of mp3, that are all perfectly legal, that I downloaded over a 2-year period from emusic, back when emusic was "unlimitted"(*) downloads for $10 a month.
(*) In practice, they would send you a nasty letter if you downloaded over 2000 tracks a month.
Sez you. Business use of the Internet happened quite early in the history of the net -- the Department of Defense could exchange email with Defense contractors (and academic researchers). Defense contractors are most assuredly "business".
My primary email address, which I have had since 1992, has been published on the web (in documentation I have written), posted to Usenet (back when I wrote and maintained a FAQ), used in communication with online vendors like Amazon and ebay, and more. It receives lots of spam. It is the account at the educational institution where I work. While I can get a new account elsewhere, and tell my friends to use that email address, I cannot change the address my workplace has assigned me, and I cannot abandon it--it's where other employees (rightly) expect to email me.. So I have to deal with lots of spam.
For those of us too lazy to do the research ourselves, which card has better open source drivers under X? I'm annoyed with binary-only kernel modules.
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That proves everything. They have the same inode number -- they *are* the same file. Not identical streams of bits (which is all md5sum would prove) but the exact same magnetic spots on the hard disk.
But I do have a question -- the link count for the file is 3, so it's less, more, and what else?
Back in the VAX/VMS days, our school's VAXcluster included an ancient VAX 11/785, because it was much cheaper for us to license software for that machine than for the other, faster machines. When we finally turned it off in (I think) 1996, it was the last 11/785 operating in NJ.
War of the Worlds was original published in 1898. At the time, US copyright lasted for 28 years, and was renewable at that point for a second 28 year term, so copyright could have lasted until 1954. Now that it's public domain, no-one needs to ask permission to make a film out of it.
In comparison, H.G. Wells died in 1946. If Wells had lived under current US copyright law (life+70), WotW would not be public domain until 2016.
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What someone needs to produce is a cell-phone with a PDA sized display, Memory Card slot, and a keyboard(/mouse?) port, which you can plug in a small portable keyboard.
Then I can use it for note taking, web surfing, music, playing games, etc.
I can't figure out why the Democratic convention wasn't protest[ed] this much.
That's easy:
The DNC was held in Boston, a largely Democratic city.
The RNC was held in New York, a largely Democratic city.
The Republicans are the ones currently in power, and in all three branches of government no less. They're the ones who have "done to us lately".
If Democratic party members held the White House and Senate, and the DNC had been held in a Republican stronghold,with the date pushed back to try and take political advantage of the upcoming anniversary of a national tragedy that happened there, you would probably see a similar sized protest.
The consumer electronics industry could just buy out the music industry and throw all the content into the public domain. The entire music industry isn't that big; it's about the size of Compaq when HP acquired it. Content could be viewed as a loss leader for the hardware.
I've been saying the same thing, but for the telecommunications industry. Buy out the music industry, and sell lots and lots of bandwidth. It makes no sense how the larger electronics/telecom industry lets itself be lead around by the nose by media companies.
In the US, most songs recordings _are_ works for hire, owned by the record company. Composers get life+70 for the song itself, whereas the record company gets 95 years for the recording.
There is a difference in duration between performer and composer copyright. This is _not_ the case with the US.
If I understand what you mean, you are semi-correct for pre-1976 recordings. That was when we had somewhat sane (if long), fixed length copyright. Incorrect, post-1976. Post 1976 it _is_ the case with the US, as the composer copyright is for life+70, but the performer copyright (for the recording), is owned by the record company as a work for hire, which has a 95 year copyright.
That means that unless the composer happens to drop dead exactly 25 years post-creation, then one or the other will expire first.
So you can have a song in the public domain, with the recording still copyrighted, or a recording in the public domain, even though the underlying song is still covered by copyright--not being a lawyer, I have no idea what that means for derivative works of the public domain recording.
The problem is, as I understand it, that it *used* to be a civil matter up until 1997 and the No Electronic Theft (NET) act was passed.
Many people are still operating under that assumption.
Imagine if "Gabber" automatically logged your instant messaging into your integrated gmail account. Imagine being able to use google to search all your old emails and instant message sessions for some dangling peice of information, like a phone number someone gave you six months ago.
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Curiousity makes me ask, as a fellow NJ resident, what legislation is preventing it, and who I should be writing to get things moving.
As other have mentioned, stable is STABLE. You can set up a server running stable, and it will run for years, including security updates that won't break anything.
... They all work the same way.
Another big plus for Debian is it is multi-platform. I have an old SGI Indy. It has a MIPS cpu. My choices for OS pretty much boil down to Irix, NetBSD and Debian. Debian also runs on Sparc, Alpha, ARM HP PA-RISC, PowerPC,
Finally, it's good that someone is taking the ideological high ground. Knowing the Debian is there helps keep other distros from adding tons of non-free stuff to try and get distro lock-in.
If you are interested in this sort of thing, check out this post from last year on getting dentistry done in Mexico.
I'm tired of SSN being considered "sensitive" data, given how easy it is to find someone's, and the number of places that ask for yours.
So what we should do is have the Government announce: "Stop considering SSN private information. As of Jan 1, 2010, we will be publishing the complete list of names/SSNs."
This would force places that misuse SSNs because they think it is "confidential" to stop using it in that manner.
I heard that Linux will charge TWICE the current amount as much for Multicore GPL licenses. :)
Bush plans to screen whole US population for mental illness
Are you aware of the so-called "CREATE" and "PIRATE" acts currently in the Senate? They create "a civil enforcement authority" in the DOJ. This is very very scary. Tell Your Senator to Oppose H.R. 4077 and H.R. 2391. Seriously.
Ha! I grew up on a farm. I never had to imagine what happened to food. I saw stuff go in one end of the cow, and stuff come out the other.
Good. Then we get another chance to fight it, and delay while HD-VCRs/Tivos/etc make it into the hands of the "consumers", who will yell and scream if Congress tries to "take away my VCR!".
(*) In practice, they would send you a nasty letter if you downloaded over 2000 tracks a month.
Sez you. Business use of the Internet happened quite early in the history of the net -- the Department of Defense could exchange email with Defense contractors (and academic researchers). Defense contractors are most assuredly "business".
I use throw-away accounts for risky stuff. But...
My primary email address, which I have had since 1992, has been published on the web (in documentation I have written), posted to Usenet (back when I wrote and maintained a FAQ), used in communication with online vendors like Amazon and ebay, and more. It receives lots of spam. It is the account at the educational institution where I work. While I can get a new account elsewhere, and tell my friends to use that email address, I cannot change the address my workplace has assigned me, and I cannot abandon it--it's where other employees (rightly) expect to email me.. So I have to deal with lots of spam.
For those of us too lazy to do the research ourselves, which card has better open source drivers under X? I'm annoyed with binary-only kernel modules.
That proves everything. They have the same inode number -- they *are* the same file. Not identical streams of bits (which is all md5sum would prove) but the exact same magnetic spots on the hard disk.
But I do have a question -- the link count for the file is 3, so it's less, more, and what else?
Back in the VAX/VMS days, our school's VAXcluster included an ancient VAX 11/785, because it was much cheaper for us to license software for that machine than for the other, faster machines. When we finally turned it off in (I think) 1996, it was the last 11/785 operating in NJ.
Thanks. That's bizarre.
In comparison, H.G. Wells died in 1946. If Wells had lived under current US copyright law (life+70), WotW would not be public domain until 2016.
What someone needs to produce is a cell-phone with a PDA sized display, Memory Card slot, and a keyboard(/mouse?) port, which you can plug in a small portable keyboard.
Then I can use it for note taking, web surfing, music, playing games, etc.
That's easy:
The DNC was held in Boston, a largely Democratic city.
The RNC was held in New York, a largely Democratic city.
The Republicans are the ones currently in power, and in all three branches of government no less. They're the ones who have "done to us lately".
If Democratic party members held the White House and Senate, and the DNC had been held in a Republican stronghold,with the date pushed back to try and take political advantage of the upcoming anniversary of a national tragedy that happened there, you would probably see a similar sized protest.
I've been saying the same thing, but for the telecommunications industry. Buy out the music industry, and sell lots and lots of bandwidth. It makes no sense how the larger electronics/telecom industry lets itself be lead around by the nose by media companies.
In the US, most songs recordings _are_ works for hire, owned by the record company. Composers get life+70 for the song itself, whereas the record company gets 95 years for the recording.
If I understand what you mean, you are semi-correct for pre-1976 recordings. That was when we had somewhat sane (if long), fixed length copyright. Incorrect, post-1976. Post 1976 it _is_ the case with the US, as the composer copyright is for life+70, but the performer copyright (for the recording), is owned by the record company as a work for hire, which has a 95 year copyright.
That means that unless the composer happens to drop dead exactly 25 years post-creation, then one or the other will expire first.
So you can have a song in the public domain, with the recording still copyrighted, or a recording in the public domain, even though the underlying song is still covered by copyright--not being a lawyer, I have no idea what that means for derivative works of the public domain recording.
The problem is, as I understand it, that it *used* to be a civil matter up until 1997 and the No Electronic Theft (NET) act was passed. Many people are still operating under that assumption.
That's trademark, not copyright.
Imagine if "Gabber" automatically logged your instant messaging into your integrated gmail account. Imagine being able to use google to search all your old emails and instant message sessions for some dangling peice of information, like a phone number someone gave you six months ago.