No, I think that at least 95% of Americans would have major problems with Hitler being president. Also I am sick of hearing camparisons of Hitler to Bush. Bush has no chance to be anywhere near as bad as Hitler. Hell even Sadam was nowhere near the level of evil that Hitler was and Sadam was thousands of times worse than Bush could ever be. Bush has gotten rid of two horrible dictatorships, Hitler marched accross and conquered almost all of Europe. Go read a book on Hitler to find out just how bad he really was. Also it is illegal in Germany to say that the Holocaust did not happen.
Didn't they try to recount the republican counties 3 times but not the democratic counties? If I remember right, the supreme court (florida's I think) said that if they were going to do a recount they would have to recount ALL of the counties not just the republican counties. That finally ended the whole fiasco.
He(Luigi) had been submitting bug reports already and Gamespy had been accepting them, fixing them, and sending him thank you letters. They sent him a C&D letter to stop him from posting software that exploits these bugs, DDoS software, cd cracks, and other stuff on his website. There was no need to post these things since Gamespy had been accepting his bug reports. Also when they noticed that he was doing this, they stopped accepting his bug reports. Read this thread for a much less biased report:
here.
There is a problem with this posting in that it only tells a very small portion of the actual story. Gamespy was perfectly fine with him finding security holes and even sending him thank you notes for his work. Luigi had been posting the software that he made to find these holes and also posting cd cracking software. They sent the cease and desist letter telling him to remove these things from his website. In this case I think that Gamespy did NOT overreact because he was posting things on his site there shouldn't be released to the public. I'm ok with a person writing a program to test the security of something but I think that it's not ok to post said software publically, especially the source code. Here is the arstechnica posting on this which is much less biased in it's report of the incident
here. In the end I think he should remove the stuff from the website but should face no legal action.
I believe that they are doing this to force Linus to look at the source code for System V and see what code was stolen and put into the Linux kernel. So far he has refused to sign an NDA and actually look at the code. I think this will speed the process up a fair bit if he would just look at the code.
I actually believe that having them closed source is a good idea and that having them open source would make things worse on many fronts. Keeping the source closed would make it much harder for the system to be hacked. Also it allows for more competition since it would keep people from being able to copy code very easily. Despite this I'm not against having a federal review process that looks at the code before it decides to buy the machines just to make sure it isn't doing stupid things like using Access databases.
No, VMWare runs Linux very well, but VMWare does not run on OSX, whereas VirtualPC will. there was a great deal of concern that VirtualPC would not be able to run Linux, thus the story.
Why would you need to emulate a 386 to run linux applications in mac OSX? I've only come across one application that didn't work using X11 in OSX and that was Heroes of Might and Magic 3 since it was compiled only for the x86 processor.
I have not tried K3b. That must be a really new one. Also there is aim clients (trillian pro/aim vs gaim) and irc clients (mirc vs xchat/bitchx). If you can show me to anything better than gaim I'd be soo happy.
But as we all know only 1337 Microsoft haters use Linux. Not people like me who actually ENJOY Linux and the applications over the Windows offering.
I'm sorry. I've discovered that about 85% of the linux software is inferior to the Windows equivalent. For example CD burning software (nero vs cdroast or whatever), mp3 players (itunes vs xmms), games, web browser( yes the firebird for windows is better/faster than the linux version), photo editors (photoshop vs gimp), video editors (premiere/virtualdub vs NOTHING that i've found), text editor(textpad vs pic a texteditor). I could list more but I won't. Also note that all of the linux programs that are better than the windows variants are ported to windows already (apache, bash, vim if you're inclined).
Linux means I have to deal with no, "Well... reinstall X program or the OS all together." That's my PRIMARY beef with Windows. Something breaks or doesn't work in Linux, I can fix it. In Windows reinstall, pray. If that doesn't work, reload the OS and pray.
Have you truely used windows 2000 or xp? I can go without having to reinstall anything until my computer explodes (literally). Also Windows has this little thing called a standard install program which installs your software for you. Don't go saying that './configure && make && make install' is standard because not every program works that way, you have to download libjoerandom to get it to work anyways and it depends on the distrobution your using.
It may be possible to do so, but if it's schools that are mostly using this software, do you really think that they will unblock these sites? It would be even more unlikely at the more liberal "zero-tolerance" schools out there.
The problem with this library is that it is GPL. If you want commercial programs to use it you would have to release it under LGPL or BSD or some other licence that isn't GPL.
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you have a good point. Too bad the mods don't agree with it.
*pssst* It means that he's old.
No, I think that at least 95% of Americans would have major problems with Hitler being president. Also I am sick of hearing camparisons of Hitler to Bush. Bush has no chance to be anywhere near as bad as Hitler. Hell even Sadam was nowhere near the level of evil that Hitler was and Sadam was thousands of times worse than Bush could ever be. Bush has gotten rid of two horrible dictatorships, Hitler marched accross and conquered almost all of Europe. Go read a book on Hitler to find out just how bad he really was. Also it is illegal in Germany to say that the Holocaust did not happen.
Didn't they try to recount the republican counties 3 times but not the democratic counties? If I remember right, the supreme court (florida's I think) said that if they were going to do a recount they would have to recount ALL of the counties not just the republican counties. That finally ended the whole fiasco.
Go to his website and look at what software that he has available for download. I agree that he is an asshole.
He(Luigi) had been submitting bug reports already and Gamespy had been accepting them, fixing them, and sending him thank you letters. They sent him a C&D letter to stop him from posting software that exploits these bugs, DDoS software, cd cracks, and other stuff on his website. There was no need to post these things since Gamespy had been accepting his bug reports. Also when they noticed that he was doing this, they stopped accepting his bug reports. Read this thread for a much less biased report: here.
There is a problem with this posting in that it only tells a very small portion of the actual story. Gamespy was perfectly fine with him finding security holes and even sending him thank you notes for his work. Luigi had been posting the software that he made to find these holes and also posting cd cracking software. They sent the cease and desist letter telling him to remove these things from his website. In this case I think that Gamespy did NOT overreact because he was posting things on his site there shouldn't be released to the public. I'm ok with a person writing a program to test the security of something but I think that it's not ok to post said software publically, especially the source code. Here is the arstechnica posting on this which is much less biased in it's report of the incident here. In the end I think he should remove the stuff from the website but should face no legal action.
I believe that they are doing this to force Linus to look at the source code for System V and see what code was stolen and put into the Linux kernel. So far he has refused to sign an NDA and actually look at the code. I think this will speed the process up a fair bit if he would just look at the code.
I actually believe that having them closed source is a good idea and that having them open source would make things worse on many fronts. Keeping the source closed would make it much harder for the system to be hacked. Also it allows for more competition since it would keep people from being able to copy code very easily. Despite this I'm not against having a federal review process that looks at the code before it decides to buy the machines just to make sure it isn't doing stupid things like using Access databases.
I have not tried K3b. That must be a really new one. Also there is aim clients (trillian pro/aim vs gaim) and irc clients (mirc vs xchat/bitchx). If you can show me to anything better than gaim I'd be soo happy.
so my post is flamebait for telling the truth? The only arguable point on there is the text editor which is a valid arguement.
Now that i've pissed people off enough:
It may be possible to do so, but if it's schools that are mostly using this software, do you really think that they will unblock these sites? It would be even more unlikely at the more liberal "zero-tolerance" schools out there.
The problem with this library is that it is GPL. If you want commercial programs to use it you would have to release it under LGPL or BSD or some other licence that isn't GPL.