What, you mean the judge applied the law as it stands? Are there other sorts of rulings in your country (better not answer that....) Just because the judge said he sympathised with the plaintiff doesn't affect the worth of their case one iota.
Yeah. The lander could be hit by a rock; there could (seriously) be a global dust storm that junks many of the sensors as it passes through the atmosphere. But having a motor wouldn't prevent these problems - Mars won't suddenly stop moving in a Keplerian orbit. The lander was released okay (which you have to presume means on course); it's not going to suddenly veer off course except through a collision which would probably junk the thing anyway.
Wow. The first TIME I've been REPLIED TO by Zippy! YOW! You have to wait for some college kid to make the fix in the first place; Debian generally applies that pretty quickly to the version in stable, or provides a workaround while they produce an update. Plus, the version in stable has had a lot more hammering. All the easy-to-find bugs have been found. Although the newer versions have had the old bugs fixed they may well have introduced new, less well understood bugs. If you think it's a good security strategy to run the latest versions of mission-critical software on the basis that old bugs have been fixed without considering the possibility that new ones have been introduced, I pray you are never responsible for adminning any boxes I depend on. The updates to stable take place in a very predictable way: an update to a package in stable will never require installation of new dependency package (something that does occasionally happen in other distros - and is clearly a poor security policy). Anyway, that's why there are different distributions. You keep ruunning your mission-critical apps on gentoo[0], I'll keep mine on a debian/stable box thanks. We'll see who has more problems....
A whole CGI character seems pretty ambitious, but hey - WETA Digital got it right with Gollum three years ago, which is an eternity in the digital FX business. There's no excuse for shoddy CGI now.
I think you have the wrong idea about debian. Stable isn't about playing games, it's not about using for a business desktop. It's not even about development. It's about being very stable and very secure. It's the kind of distribution you want running your ISP's webservers. Everything else, other than stability and security, is irrelevant to stable. The only changes they make to it are bugfixes. If you want to run a 2.4 kernel with stable it's very easy - unpack the tarball, drop in your.config, do 'make-kpkg binary' and install the debs. No, that's not something every user can do, but debian-stable isn't really suitable for every user. Newbies have Mandrake or SuSE; businesses have RHEL (though I would take issue that testing is unusable for businesses given that testing is already as reliable as any other linux distribution[0] and is likely to become the new stable within months, unless you mean that because it lacks the security updates using it is a problem in terms of due diligence).
If debian doesn't suit you there are plenty of other distributions to try. I, for one, am glad it doesn't try to please everyone; projects that try to do that generally end up as a mess that pleases no-one, whereas at least debian pleases three groups of users with stable, testing and unstable.
Linux has been ready for a few years - for most uses (certainly for the desktop). This makes it ready for huge SMP systems, and better for other uses. Having said that, John and Jane Enduser are probably better avoiding.0 releases - wait for a Mandrake that comes with 2.6.8 or so.
I think they let their web designer name their craft too, that's why it's in SuckyStudlyCaps. Let's just hope he wasn't allowed anywhere near the real design:-)
I was thinking about this recently. Of course we need corporations to bring inventions to mass markets, but how many really great inventions are made by corporations? Most of the defining inventions seem to be made, at least initially, by academics or driven private individuals rather than companies.
The movie industry isn't evil, it's just out to maximise its profit and has been badly advised / lobbied as to the best way of doing so. Its problem is, it's like a supertanker. Even if they realised today that region encoding was losing them more to the real pirates than they make through controlled regional releasing, it would take years for them to change course and get behind a new, more constructive approach. The/real/ best way to make most profit, obviously, would be to keep the customers happy, or at least not so unhappy that they actually feel dirty when handing over money to the movie industry.
Well, it seemed to be Zionists you wanted to get at, rather than Israelis in general. It seems a case of "hammer to crack a nut". Have you ever wondered whether the freedom of your country would be threatened if you had freedom of speech, civil rights and democracy (for all)? Someone once said: "If you sacrifice freedom for security you deserve neither." I think you eloquently prove his point; moreover, I suspect that if you sacrifice freedom for security not only do you deserve neither but you will get neither.
As I recall that is to permit odd cases like crypto code which, if it is to be distributed in the US, cannot legally be exported to certain countries (as I recall, currently North Korea, Iran and Taleban-controlled areas of Afghanistan). It is not intended to indulge developers' whims for political point-scoring. Obviously you can license your software however you like, making your own license that's similar to the GPL but with restrictions if you wish[0]. However, I would regard a license containing arbitrary restrictions as non-free in just the same way that Microsoft's licenses are non-free, and refuse to use it -- just because it's legal doesn't make it a "good right". Consider what Linus has said in several interviews: he doesn't necessarily like everything that Linux has been used for, but to restrict it would be more damaging than good.
[0] Once you've altered it, it isn't the GPL any more though.
Bah. It was in reply to a troll bizarrely modded as insightful. Sure, it was in poor taste and fair enough to mod me as a troll, but my post was really no more offensive than much stuff in mainstream media. Sometimes, political correctness is just too limiting.
For what it's worth I was extremely upset when I read about both deaths. But, as someone at least vaguely famous once said, there is no subject which is unsuitable for comedy.
have been doing this; their bandwidth limit is 1GB/day up to a total of 5GB/week. They have been blaming their various recent problems on a few bandwidth hogs but I think it's more likely they just haven't invested in enough infrastructure. I wouldn't normally get anywhere near this bandwidth limit but it does piss me off: what about the once every year or so when I might want to burn a set of ISOs for a distribution? It would suck to have to do so over ten days or thereabouts; frankly, I think I'll just take the chance on the occasional overuse and if virgin.net don't like it they can lose my custom.
Not really. People "couldn't live without" MS Office until they started to drift to OOo. Similarly, people will drift to gimp etc. (especially when there's finally a version of gimp that does high-res colour and colour proofing[0], maybe gimp 1.6ish...) I guess QuarkXpress would be harder to replace (is that Adobe?) as there isn't (afaik) a comparable open-source project.
[0] Like a combination of filmgimp and regular gimp-1.4. It's apparently on the cards but nowhere near imminent.
1: I don't have bold fonts on my KDE desktop. I have no idea why not or when I turned them off, and I can't be bothered to find out for you, but it can be done. 2: So you prefer a Mozilla-style settings location to a KDE-style one? Big deal. It's just personal taste and for everyone who would be happier if it were done your way I'm sure there is someone who likes it better as it is. It is, after all, consistent. 3: I half agree with you. The settings in KControl should IMHO stay (my ideal desktop, I'm sure, is nothing like yours and I'm glad there are configurators so we can both be happy) but be hidden for novices (probably by the first-time wizard). 4: Agreed. Possibly configurable somewhere in the KControl panel? (gd&r) 5: I think konq's ok as a file manager, though I have issues with its standards-compliance as a browser. But I still find bash to be the best filemanager on my system:) 6: This is such a troll. QT's been available under the GPL for ages now.
You don't expect osnews to change its bias towards what? KDE? Did you miss the bit where she basically said KDE was the best DE on the (unix) planet and she loved it, but there were just a few tweaks that could make it even better?
Did you prelink kde? It helps a bit. For what it's worth I only find it a bit slow when logging in, but my main machine is generally logged in all the time. I'd think twice about putting it on a laptop though..
The most random USB thing I ever had to attach to my office computer was a departmental digital camera. Even on a Windows machine software installation was still required; on a linux box it would just be a case of apt-get install gtkam (or whatever). But any other "random" hardware was right out.
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What, you mean the judge applied the law as it stands? Are there other sorts of rulings in your country (better not answer that....) Just because the judge said he sympathised with the plaintiff doesn't affect the worth of their case one iota.
Yeah. The lander could be hit by a rock; there could (seriously) be a global dust storm that junks many of the sensors as it passes through the atmosphere. But having a motor wouldn't prevent these problems - Mars won't suddenly stop moving in a Keplerian orbit.
The lander was released okay (which you have to presume means on course); it's not going to suddenly veer off course except through a collision which would probably junk the thing anyway.
Nah, it'll be pints ;-)
Wow. The first TIME I've been REPLIED TO by Zippy! YOW!
You have to wait for some college kid to make the fix in the first place; Debian generally applies that pretty quickly to the version in stable, or provides a workaround while they produce an update. Plus, the version in stable has had a lot more hammering. All the easy-to-find bugs have been found.
Although the newer versions have had the old bugs fixed they may well have introduced new, less well understood bugs.
If you think it's a good security strategy to run the latest versions of mission-critical software on the basis that old bugs have been fixed without considering the possibility that new ones have been introduced, I pray you are never responsible for adminning any boxes I depend on.
The updates to stable take place in a very predictable way: an update to a package in stable will never require installation of new dependency package (something that does occasionally happen in other distros - and is clearly a poor security policy).
Anyway, that's why there are different distributions. You keep ruunning your mission-critical apps on gentoo[0], I'll keep mine on a debian/stable box thanks. We'll see who has more problems....
[0] or Fedora, or whatever.
Hm, fair enough about the NIC. I thought IDE was pretty standard and backward-compatible though?
A whole CGI character seems pretty ambitious, but hey - WETA Digital got it right with Gollum three years ago, which is an eternity in the digital FX business. There's no excuse for shoddy CGI now.
I think you have the wrong idea about debian. Stable isn't about playing games, it's not about using for a business desktop. It's not even about development. It's about being very stable and very secure. It's the kind of distribution you want running your ISP's webservers. Everything else, other than stability and security, is irrelevant to stable. The only changes they make to it are bugfixes. If you want to run a 2.4 kernel with stable it's very easy - unpack the tarball, drop in your .config, do 'make-kpkg binary' and install the debs. No, that's not something every user can do, but debian-stable isn't really suitable for every user. Newbies have Mandrake or SuSE; businesses have RHEL (though I would take issue that testing is unusable for businesses given that testing is already as reliable as any other linux distribution[0] and is likely to become the new stable within months, unless you mean that because it lacks the security updates using it is a problem in terms of due diligence).
If debian doesn't suit you there are plenty of other distributions to try. I, for one, am glad it doesn't try to please everyone; projects that try to do that generally end up as a mess that pleases no-one, whereas at least debian pleases three groups of users with stable, testing and unstable.
[0] Maybe slackware has the edge.
Why on earth do you care what kernel the installer uses? You only have to run it once.
Linux has been ready for a few years - for most uses (certainly for the desktop). This makes it ready for huge SMP systems, and better for other uses. Having said that, John and Jane Enduser are probably better avoiding .0 releases - wait for a Mandrake that comes with 2.6.8 or so.
I think they let their web designer name their craft too, that's why it's in SuckyStudlyCaps. Let's just hope he wasn't allowed anywhere near the real design :-)
I was thinking about this recently. Of course we need corporations to bring inventions to mass markets, but how many really great inventions are made by corporations? Most of the defining inventions seem to be made, at least initially, by academics or driven private individuals rather than companies.
The movie industry isn't evil, it's just out to maximise its profit and has been badly advised / lobbied as to the best way of doing so. Its problem is, it's like a supertanker. Even if they realised today that region encoding was losing them more to the real pirates than they make through controlled regional releasing, it would take years for them to change course and get behind a new, more constructive approach. /real/ best way to make most profit, obviously, would be to keep the customers happy, or at least not so unhappy that they actually feel dirty when handing over money to the movie industry.
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Well, it seemed to be Zionists you wanted to get at, rather than Israelis in general. It seems a case of "hammer to crack a nut". Have you ever wondered whether the freedom of your country would be threatened if you had freedom of speech, civil rights and democracy (for all)?
Someone once said: "If you sacrifice freedom for security you deserve neither." I think you eloquently prove his point; moreover, I suspect that if you sacrifice freedom for security not only do you deserve neither but you will get neither.
As I recall that is to permit odd cases like crypto code which, if it is to be distributed in the US, cannot legally be exported to certain countries (as I recall, currently North Korea, Iran and Taleban-controlled areas of Afghanistan). It is not intended to indulge developers' whims for political point-scoring. Obviously you can license your software however you like, making your own license that's similar to the GPL but with restrictions if you wish[0]. However, I would regard a license containing arbitrary restrictions as non-free in just the same way that Microsoft's licenses are non-free, and refuse to use it -- just because it's legal doesn't make it a "good right".
Consider what Linus has said in several interviews: he doesn't necessarily like everything that Linux has been used for, but to restrict it would be more damaging than good.
[0] Once you've altered it, it isn't the GPL any more though.
So what about the many Israelis who are not Zionists and don't support the actions their government takes?
Bah. It was in reply to a troll bizarrely modded as insightful. Sure, it was in poor taste and fair enough to mod me as a troll, but my post was really no more offensive than much stuff in mainstream media. Sometimes, political correctness is just too limiting.
For what it's worth I was extremely upset when I read about both deaths. But, as someone at least vaguely famous once said, there is no subject which is unsuitable for comedy.
have been doing this; their bandwidth limit is 1GB/day up to a total of 5GB/week. They have been blaming their various recent problems on a few bandwidth hogs but I think it's more likely they just haven't invested in enough infrastructure.
I wouldn't normally get anywhere near this bandwidth limit but it does piss me off: what about the once every year or so when I might want to burn a set of ISOs for a distribution? It would suck to have to do so over ten days or thereabouts; frankly, I think I'll just take the chance on the occasional overuse and if virgin.net don't like it they can lose my custom.
"Mine's smaller than yours!"
"No, mine's smaller"
"No, mine... oh, wait, what am I saying!"
Meh. We'll see who's laughing when all the gnome developers have been picked off, one by one.
Not really. People "couldn't live without" MS Office until they started to drift to OOo. Similarly, people will drift to gimp etc. (especially when there's finally a version of gimp that does high-res colour and colour proofing[0], maybe gimp 1.6ish...)
I guess QuarkXpress would be harder to replace (is that Adobe?) as there isn't (afaik) a comparable open-source project.
[0] Like a combination of filmgimp and regular gimp-1.4. It's apparently on the cards but nowhere near imminent.
1: I don't have bold fonts on my KDE desktop. I have no idea why not or when I turned them off, and I can't be bothered to find out for you, but it can be done. :)
2: So you prefer a Mozilla-style settings location to a KDE-style one? Big deal. It's just personal taste and for everyone who would be happier if it were done your way I'm sure there is someone who likes it better as it is. It is, after all, consistent.
3: I half agree with you. The settings in KControl should IMHO stay (my ideal desktop, I'm sure, is nothing like yours and I'm glad there are configurators so we can both be happy) but be hidden for novices (probably by the first-time wizard).
4: Agreed. Possibly configurable somewhere in the KControl panel? (gd&r)
5: I think konq's ok as a file manager, though I have issues with its standards-compliance as a browser. But I still find bash to be the best filemanager on my system
6: This is such a troll. QT's been available under the GPL for ages now.
I'd be happy if any open source alternative had as much as KDE's "almost there" feeling.
You don't expect osnews to change its bias towards what? KDE? Did you miss the bit where she basically said KDE was the best DE on the (unix) planet and she loved it, but there were just a few tweaks that could make it even better?
Did you prelink kde? It helps a bit. For what it's worth I only find it a bit slow when logging in, but my main machine is generally logged in all the time. I'd think twice about putting it on a laptop though..
The most random USB thing I ever had to attach to my office computer was a departmental digital camera. Even on a Windows machine software installation was still required; on a linux box it would just be a case of apt-get install gtkam (or whatever). But any other "random" hardware was right out.