I always wondered if it was a good idea to have one person be the end all for the kernel. Not to start a flame war here, but FreeBSD seems to take a more community approach in decision-making. The single leader format gives linux a single point of failure. With Linux, Linus is the one guy in charge. If he goes nuts, people don't really have much say (except to fork.)
This is a bad move for propagating linux, but it makes sense. Right now, a company can benefit from Open Source projects without having to give anything back to the community because they do not have to share their innovations as long as they do not distribute the code.
Thus, Open Source code essentially becomes is the product of free labor for corporations.
By altering the license, those who make $ off of Open Source should pay for the otherwise free labor of others.
However, doing this will kill Linux support by companies, just when it is becoming mainstream. In the long run, Linux's success is based on the fact that it promotes innovation through the GPL. If we want Linux to spread like Paris Hilton, we need to make sure this idea is killed.
You don't, sucka! Too bad for you. Others have loved and enjoyed my posting, which unlike your elitist pompous cry-baby whining, actually makes people smile. If you can't handle that, go join a war because your life is a waste anyway.
I wanted to try Fedora to put another feather in my Linux cap. What is good/bad about Fedora? And whasup with the Fedora/Red Hat icon guy. He looks like he's never seen the Sun.
This totally sucks. Bye bye 1st amendment. I would write to you, but it's probably against the law.
In fact, writing about the loss of the 1st Amendment is probably against the law too, since it invariably is related to National Security and Kevin Bacon.
The problem is the Alaskan senator does not understand the law (typical republican moron.) Congress can regulate broadcast TV because of the "surprise" element (much like broadcast radio) where a child or a person may--without warning--accidentally stumble onto a station that is playing objectionable material (to the local community.)
Cable is a private company for which people must subscribe--thus, it is treated differently in terms of restrictions from a pubilc forum. One cannot accidentally stumble onto a cable "broadcast" because it is something that must be sought after and the consumer knows what it is they are purchasing & hence are not "surprised."
That's my limited understanding of the situation.
Actually the law makes sense--you cannot wiretap your own phone or record conversations in many states without disclosing it to the third party (the no good cheatin' mistress, NOT the husband). I believe (because I don't really KNOW anything here, but it's slashdot, so I can post without knowledge but with authority) the wife would have to notify the mistress before recording their conversation (and possibly the husband, too.)
I am getting SAIC of these criminals who steal identities and of the companies that help them.
For our SAIC, companies who have such personal information & fail to secure it should be sued.
I realize that is SAICriligious, but I don't care any more.
Finding these criminals will be like looking for a needle in the haySAIC.
Hi Doc,
You seem knowledgable about NetBSD. Is it easy to install an entire KDE system on say an iBook using binaries with NetBSD (i.e. no source compiling).
thanks in advance.
You know, the thing that really pisses me off is the fact that whenever companies start using a technology, they make everything that the scientists and engineers who don't work for them illegal. In the meantime, they release products (like MS Windows) that are totally insecure.
I don't advocate releasing viruses--especially script kiddies--but it seems like more an more things are going to be illegal to give businesses a tool to punish those who reveal the flaws in their shitty products.
Soon Nmap will be considered a terrorist tool used to infiltrate networks. Maybe MS can succeed in making all of Linux illegal, since it was put together by a bunch of European commies anyway. That is the attitude of the Bush administration toward Europe anyways--just hope it doesn't whittle Linux down.
I was lured in by a beautiful woman holding an Apple (IIc to be precise).
It was so shiny and clean and pure. I thought, if I can just get a taste of it, I will be happy forever. And I was right. After I booted it up all night long, I have been addicted since.
I was exposed to the lurid world of BASIC at the tender loin of 14. Ah yes, the good old days of "10 PRINT "Fuck Bush" "20 GOTO 10."
9-1-1 dilemma--what if there is an emergency & someone needs to use VOIP to call for help?
Are we going to create "emergency" packets with sirens so all of the other packets will pull over?
Does this mean that network traffic will get worse because all the packets will be on the phone?
This sounds like a phony answer to a question packet with problems.
A great hack would be to redirect all the annoying drivers talking on the cell phone, putting on make up, having sex and playing the guitar while driving into the ocean.
The problem with this scheme is it also introduces a single point of failure. If "evildoers" (other than cheney, bush, rove, rummy & company) figure out a hole, the entire system is in jeopardy--like that whole problem with a homogenous computing environment. If the system is unmanageable for the government as it is, imagine how difficult it is for the "evildoers" to "do evil" with it.
Potential Reviews by the Pundits (apologies in advance):
"His one man show is the one ring to rule them all!"
"The acting dwarfs any other performance of LOTRs"
"This one man does the work of elven!"
"Mordor, She Wrote!"
"His performance was so good, I could write an entire Gollum about it!"
Hi Serban,
Unfortunately I just ended up using the plug all the time because under Linux I too did not get much battery life. Because I gave the laptop away before investigating further, I never figured out how to get around the problem. Sorry dude/dudette.
Slashdot Mirror
I always wondered if it was a good idea to have one person be the end all for the kernel. Not to start a flame war here, but FreeBSD seems to take a more community approach in decision-making. The single leader format gives linux a single point of failure. With Linux, Linus is the one guy in charge. If he goes nuts, people don't really have much say (except to fork.)
Can you use pkg_add under NetBSD or do you have to compile everything from scratch for the x86 platform?
This is a bad move for propagating linux, but it makes sense. Right now, a company can benefit from Open Source projects without having to give anything back to the community because they do not have to share their innovations as long as they do not distribute the code.
Thus, Open Source code essentially becomes is the product of free labor for corporations.
By altering the license, those who make $ off of Open Source should pay for the otherwise free labor of others.
However, doing this will kill Linux support by companies, just when it is becoming mainstream. In the long run, Linux's success is based on the fact that it promotes innovation through the GPL. If we want Linux to spread like Paris Hilton, we need to make sure this idea is killed.
Are you calling me F2A6T12?
You don't, sucka! Too bad for you. Others have loved and enjoyed my posting, which unlike your elitist pompous cry-baby whining, actually makes people smile. If you can't handle that, go join a war because your life is a waste anyway.
One format to rule them all, One format to find them One format to bring them all and in the package bind them...
I knew it was a phony iPod story. Now it's time the phonys face the music.
I wanted to try Fedora to put another feather in my Linux cap. What is good/bad about Fedora? And whasup with the Fedora/Red Hat icon guy. He looks like he's never seen the Sun.
This totally sucks. Bye bye 1st amendment. I would write to you, but it's probably against the law. In fact, writing about the loss of the 1st Amendment is probably against the law too, since it invariably is related to National Security and Kevin Bacon.
Is there a confederatefs located at the bottom of this stack that uses ioslaves to pick fields from a database?
The problem is the Alaskan senator does not understand the law (typical republican moron.) Congress can regulate broadcast TV because of the "surprise" element (much like broadcast radio) where a child or a person may--without warning--accidentally stumble onto a station that is playing objectionable material (to the local community.) Cable is a private company for which people must subscribe--thus, it is treated differently in terms of restrictions from a pubilc forum. One cannot accidentally stumble onto a cable "broadcast" because it is something that must be sought after and the consumer knows what it is they are purchasing & hence are not "surprised." That's my limited understanding of the situation.
Actually the law makes sense--you cannot wiretap your own phone or record conversations in many states without disclosing it to the third party (the no good cheatin' mistress, NOT the husband). I believe (because I don't really KNOW anything here, but it's slashdot, so I can post without knowledge but with authority) the wife would have to notify the mistress before recording their conversation (and possibly the husband, too.)
I am getting SAIC of these criminals who steal identities and of the companies that help them. For our SAIC, companies who have such personal information & fail to secure it should be sued. I realize that is SAICriligious, but I don't care any more. Finding these criminals will be like looking for a needle in the haySAIC.
Hi Doc, You seem knowledgable about NetBSD. Is it easy to install an entire KDE system on say an iBook using binaries with NetBSD (i.e. no source compiling). thanks in advance.
You know, the thing that really pisses me off is the fact that whenever companies start using a technology, they make everything that the scientists and engineers who don't work for them illegal. In the meantime, they release products (like MS Windows) that are totally insecure. I don't advocate releasing viruses--especially script kiddies--but it seems like more an more things are going to be illegal to give businesses a tool to punish those who reveal the flaws in their shitty products. Soon Nmap will be considered a terrorist tool used to infiltrate networks. Maybe MS can succeed in making all of Linux illegal, since it was put together by a bunch of European commies anyway. That is the attitude of the Bush administration toward Europe anyways--just hope it doesn't whittle Linux down.
This guy sounds like a pompous, arrogant, moron. I predict he will sound like a pompous self-aggrandizing moron in 2005.
How fashionable! Sarge: it's the new Stable.
Are the Treo 650s any good? Anyone have any experience they can share with me?
I was lured in by a beautiful woman holding an Apple (IIc to be precise). It was so shiny and clean and pure. I thought, if I can just get a taste of it, I will be happy forever. And I was right. After I booted it up all night long, I have been addicted since. I was exposed to the lurid world of BASIC at the tender loin of 14. Ah yes, the good old days of "10 PRINT "Fuck Bush" "20 GOTO 10."
- what
did I like about my last job?" When my answers were repetitive, I asked the interviewer if they wanted me to reiterate my answers. how strange.9-1-1 dilemma--what if there is an emergency & someone needs to use VOIP to call for help? Are we going to create "emergency" packets with sirens so all of the other packets will pull over? Does this mean that network traffic will get worse because all the packets will be on the phone? This sounds like a phony answer to a question packet with problems.
A great hack would be to redirect all the annoying drivers talking on the cell phone, putting on make up, having sex and playing the guitar while driving into the ocean.
The problem with this scheme is it also introduces a single point of failure. If "evildoers" (other than cheney, bush, rove, rummy & company) figure out a hole, the entire system is in jeopardy--like that whole problem with a homogenous computing environment. If the system is unmanageable for the government as it is, imagine how difficult it is for the "evildoers" to "do evil" with it.
Potential Reviews by the Pundits (apologies in advance): "His one man show is the one ring to rule them all!" "The acting dwarfs any other performance of LOTRs" "This one man does the work of elven!" "Mordor, She Wrote!" "His performance was so good, I could write an entire Gollum about it!"
Hi Serban, Unfortunately I just ended up using the plug all the time because under Linux I too did not get much battery life. Because I gave the laptop away before investigating further, I never figured out how to get around the problem. Sorry dude/dudette.