I have a couple of domains that I registered through GoDaddy that are not currently in use. They defaulted to using GoDaddy's parking scheme but with this announcement I now have a Linux based place to point them to.
I don't know anything about InnoBase but I do use BerkleyDB (as part of Bogofilter) and I know that Sleepy Cat dual licenses it under a commerical and an OSI approved open source license. While I understand that Sun could try and close the BerkleyDB source code, wouldn't MySQL be able to fork it and continue on their own?
I looked at the license for BerkleyDB and didn't notice anything that would prevent forking. Am I wrong?
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In August 2002, Paul wrote and published the article "A Plan For Spam". On December 13 2002, Networks Associates applied for spam filtering software patent that includes "Bayes rules". From the patent (#6,732,157):
"wherein the utilization of the Bayes rules further includes identifying a probability associated with each of the words; wherein the probability associated with each of the words is identified using a Bayes rules database; wherein the electronic mail messages are filtered as being unwanted based on a comparison involving the probability and a Bayes rules threshold; wherein the threshold is user-defined."
Maybe I'm just not wearing my tin hat today but I believe someone at Network Associates read "A Plan For Spam" and applied for a patent on it, every though it was not an idea created by them. That is sickening.
I work part time at a B&N (to fund my computer habit) and it does indeed happen a lot with computer books. My returns are frequently MSCE, C#, and Java books.
On the flip side, it is nice to help and talk to people who are looking for information on Linux and Mac OS X. Sadly, they are outnumbered 1000 to 1 by the Oprah zombies.
I'll tell you what happened: somebody submitted this old story to Digg and a Digg reader then submitted it here. (I have noticed that many stories appear at Digg first, which is why I read Slashdot once a day now, and Digg now has Slashdot's old spot on my link toolbar in Firefox.)
Mark Twain once said that "Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it". Evidently, people have been using children as a means of taking things away from adults for a long time now.
"The Judge has granted the subpoena and orders that all e-mail messages, including deleted messages, be divulged. Google's privacy policy says deleted e-mail messages 'may remain in our offline backup systems' in perpetuity. It does not guarantee that backups are ever deleted. So much for the Delete Forever button."
This is kind of funny, considering this dude is trying to get his own email back and can't seem to get any help (not even a human response) from Google:
"The Windows version of ImageMagick is self-installing. Simply click on the appropriate version below and it will launch itself and ask you a few installation questions. Versions with Q8 in the name are 8 bits-per-pixel component, whereas, Q16 in the filename are 16 bits-per-pixel component. A Q16 version permits you to read or write 16-bit images without losing precision but requires twice as much resources as the Q8 version. Versions with dynamic in the filename include ImageMagick libraries as dynamic link libraries. If you are not sure which version is appropriate, choose ImageMagick-6.2.6-3-Q16-windows-dll.exe."
I know that its not a readme file but the website seems pretty explainatory. You are right about the FTP site, however.
From what I have seen, Apple was using OpenFirmware to artificially restrict monitor spanning on the iMacs and eMacs. Maybe the loss of OpenFirmware when they moved to Intel made this harder, or not worth the effort?
but I was surprised to see that the reviewer was using XP Professional Service Pack 1. I actually had to double check the review date to make sure that I wasn't reading an old article.
I personally use 7-Zip. It doesn't perform the best but it is free software and it includes a command line component that it nice for shell scripts.
I fail to see how this problem is specific to just Windows Vista. Wouldn't all operating systems (Mac OS X Tiger & BeOS included) that have filesystems that support metadata have this potential problem?
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I don't think we should ever underestimate the value a community can create for an operating system. I think the Mac is a great example of this.
"They conclude that 60 million Americans can be called "intellectually curious.""
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Wow, I didn't know that there were that many atheists in the United States.
I have a couple of domains that I registered through GoDaddy that are not currently in use. They defaulted to using GoDaddy's parking scheme but with this announcement I now have a Linux based place to point them to.
I was going to buy a Thinkpad before the announcement. Now, I will be spending my money elsewhere.
I don't know anything about InnoBase but I do use BerkleyDB (as part of Bogofilter) and I know that Sleepy Cat dual licenses it under a commerical and an OSI approved open source license. While I understand that Sun could try and close the BerkleyDB source code, wouldn't MySQL be able to fork it and continue on their own?
I looked at the license for BerkleyDB and didn't notice anything that would prevent forking. Am I wrong?
http://www.sleepycat.com/company/oslicense.html
In August 2002, Paul wrote and published the article "A Plan For Spam". On December 13 2002, Networks Associates applied for spam filtering software patent that includes "Bayes rules". From the patent (#6,732,157):
"wherein the utilization of the Bayes rules further includes identifying a probability associated with each of the words; wherein the probability associated with each of the words is identified using a Bayes rules database; wherein the electronic mail messages are filtered as being unwanted based on a comparison involving the probability and a Bayes rules threshold; wherein the threshold is user-defined."
Maybe I'm just not wearing my tin hat today but I believe someone at Network Associates read "A Plan For Spam" and applied for a patent on it, every though it was not an idea created by them. That is sickening.
Did you read the article? He does give links to Apple documentation on the subject.
"A friend who worked at B&N"
I work part time at a B&N (to fund my computer habit) and it does indeed happen a lot with computer books. My returns are frequently MSCE, C#, and Java books.
On the flip side, it is nice to help and talk to people who are looking for information on Linux and Mac OS X. Sadly, they are outnumbered 1000 to 1 by the Oprah zombies.
I'll tell you what happened: somebody submitted this old story to Digg and a Digg reader then submitted it here. (I have noticed that many stories appear at Digg first, which is why I read Slashdot once a day now, and Digg now has Slashdot's old spot on my link toolbar in Firefox.)
Oh please, not everybody needs Redhat's support, which is really what you pay for when buying RHEL.
Mark Twain once said that "Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it". Evidently, people have been using children as a means of taking things away from adults for a long time now.
"The Judge has granted the subpoena and orders that all e-mail messages, including deleted messages, be divulged. Google's privacy policy says deleted e-mail messages 'may remain in our offline backup systems' in perpetuity. It does not guarantee that backups are ever deleted. So much for the Delete Forever button."
This is kind of funny, considering this dude is trying to get his own email back and can't seem to get any help (not even a human response) from Google:
http://blog.outer-court.com/forum/22209.html
Maybe he should sue.
"The ImageMagick Web site and FTP file listings appear to have no README file or installation help file to explain which flavor you should download."
From http://www.imagemagick.com/www/binary-releases.htm l :
"The Windows version of ImageMagick is self-installing. Simply click on the appropriate version below and it will launch itself and ask you a few installation questions. Versions with Q8 in the name are 8 bits-per-pixel component, whereas, Q16 in the filename are 16 bits-per-pixel component. A Q16 version permits you to read or write 16-bit images without losing precision but requires twice as much resources as the Q8 version. Versions with dynamic in the filename include ImageMagick libraries as dynamic link libraries. If you are not sure which version is appropriate, choose ImageMagick-6.2.6-3-Q16-windows-dll.exe."
I know that its not a readme file but the website seems pretty explainatory. You are right about the FTP site, however.
Thanks man. I am one of the people who have a period in their email address and I didn't even realize Google did this.
Or, you could try a left handed keyboard.
From what I have seen, Apple was using OpenFirmware to artificially restrict monitor spanning on the iMacs and eMacs. Maybe the loss of OpenFirmware when they moved to Intel made this harder, or not worth the effort?
From the Apple Imac specs page:
"Support for external display in extended desktop and video mirroring modes "
To me, that is a big deal, to have monitor spanning without a hack. Nice.
Currently on my Mac: Bash, Camino, Cog, Handbrake, ImageMagick, InfoZip, Lame, PostgreSQL, Rsync, Vim, XinePlayer.
My version:
Network
* Mozilla Firefox
* Putty
* uTorrent
* Filezilla
Doing Work
* Paint.net
* ImageMagick
Utilities
* 7-zip
* Notepad2
* Vim
Multimedia
* Foobar2000
* Exact Audio Copy
* Flac
* Lame
* Media Player Classic
* K-Lite Codec Pack
* iTunes/Quicktime
Word.
But that won't stop people from whining when this subject comes up, be it Microsoft or Yahoo or Google.
You're right, although I would like to see Apple support the OpenDocument format with the Pages application and TextEdit.
but I was surprised to see that the reviewer was using XP Professional Service Pack 1. I actually had to double check the review date to make sure that I wasn't reading an old article.
I personally use 7-Zip. It doesn't perform the best but it is free software and it includes a command line component that it nice for shell scripts.
I would love to have an email client that works like it does, which should be possible under Unix using something like Maildir and soft links.
Is anyone aware of such an effort?
I fail to see how this problem is specific to just Windows Vista. Wouldn't all operating systems (Mac OS X Tiger & BeOS included) that have filesystems that support metadata have this potential problem?