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If the usb video class takes off like usb mass storage (Logitec is using it for one). Have a look at work of Laurent Pinchart http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/.
Debian Woody has LFS for ext3 (although I belive it was a backport and 2.4 only) and that was released on 19th of July 2002; what distro are you refering to?
ID (in a biological science sense) is not discussed much outside of the US, but continental European philosophers began writing about it hundreds of years ago as a philosophy.
And then new scientific theories arose wich utterly debunked that theory and left it for historians and possibly theologians to discuss.
having a philosphy professor take the time to write a paper attempting to refute a philosphical idea (in this case ID, per your example) does make it a philosophical idea worthy of discussion. Otherwise he would not have taken the time to write about it.
So are you claiming that when Hegel refuted phrenology he wasn't as I certainly belive, one of the ones who passed it to the scrapheap of history, but instead "immortalized" it and now phrenology is a something that possibly ought to be tought in philosophy class because of it? Science in itself is subject to philosophical debate, it does not follow in the least that (pseudo-) science debunked should be.
Thanks for making my point
I'm doing no such thing.
Feel free to write to some of U of M's philosphers and question their decision to include ID in their curriculum.
Pointing to authority and then when I question the validity of you even constructing an argument in such a way, you want me to take it up with said philosophy department?
I'm just saying that it is indeed a philosophy that merits discussion by some of the best philosophers in the world.
And that's the rather bold claim you're continually making and failing to back up.
if the philosophical community at large merits ID to be a system worthy of inclusion in a standard philosophical curriculum, then I will defer to their judgment instead of yours.
Very few people outside the US has even heard of ID, it's a non-issue mainly supported by sectarian religious groups (again outside of the US).
I don't think you have the authority to say "this doesn't deserve to be called a philosophy". Or maybe you can point me to some of your published works on the subject?
It works the other way around.
I studied philosophy at the University of Michigan (our program is #1 in the country)
From what I can find http://www.msu.edu/~pennock5/ having your professor Robert T. Pennock refute ID, really doesn't make ID into philosophy (refuting it however might be and that ofcourse entails learning about it, but I'm thinking I might be talking over your head here).
We need to defend the trademark that we license to people whose software is using an approved license.
What was the point of approving licences in the first place? Is it not the specific software that's marketed by the OSI trademark that really matters. Grant the trademark to all software that use an approved licence and you could in practice revoke the trademark by dropping an approved licence, only the specific version of the software made before the drop could use the trademark. This might even have the nice side effect of gravitating people to those licences that OSI could hardly distance themself from (like let's say, the GPL).
The ONE showstopper which makes impossible to make software installable between different distros is the per-distro "package namespace". In redhat X.org is called "xorg-foo", in debian it's called "xserver-xorg". No matter how good your packing system and how good your "dependency solver" is, if every distro names every package differently THINGS ARE NOT GOING TO WORK.
I don't think this part is insurmountable, at least with *.debs you can make them provide arbitrarily choosen "virtual" packages, "xserver-xorg" and "xserver-xorg-dbg" both provide "xserver" (which in turn other debian packages can list as a dependency). If diffrent package namespace was the only blocking issue, the debian packages could add an additional provides: xorg-x11 and you'd be able to install them on redhat. Shared namespace while providing separate function seems to me, a bit harder.
Well, I can tell you that the swedish minister of culture (Leif Pagrotsky) who was recently asked about the fairness of our blank media levy said (roughly translated):
"You don't get the music for free just because you bought a piece of plastic,...and it's the music that's important"
Which I think pretty much sums how the industry with the aid of our elected are trying to play this (in a 1984-ish kind of way), I never did:
"pay[ing] for the music, not the plastic and mylar"
I was thinking of building a small server out of one and did some research; turns out they are not stable at all, some sort of dma issue is plaguing all via mini-itx. According to http://epialinux.org/drivers.html/ the M series (that's an old board) might work with a beta bios.
I'd bet that you can't market your distro using the Debian Common Core Alliance name, unless you cough up some cash for a license, and what that license contains is obviously their prerogative. The DCC can't LSB certify your custom distro, that's for the opengroup.org people to do. Pure Debian as it stands now, wouldn't pass a LSB certification (atleast not the most recent spec.).
Well, the name Debian is a registered trademark and they haven't afaik (and I've checked the various debian mailing lists), got an approval to use it (yet).
I'm under the impression that removing the cancel button on the properties dialogue is a "feature" they are particulary proud of.
But of course you are right, issues like these should be reported.
While wading tru the many bugreports against nautilus I just tried to reproduce the issue, and happily (although embarrassed) I can report that it's actually been fixed. And not only that, another issue that's been bugging me, select properties, "accidentally" press delete, and you have to re-type the filename, has been fixed as well (right-click and it comes back).
Might as well file some bugs before i start trolling on the rhytmbox nuisance, to save me from public humiliation.
I'm not particulary fond of the way gnome changes some things without my explicit approval. I have a file with a win32 filname encoding, the filesystem doesn't really mind and the gnome gui changes the regional characters it can't display to a ? and adds (invalid encoding) when displaying the filename. Now I'd like to know a bit more about the file and select properties from the context menu and boom, it changes the filename on the fs to what you see in the gui,and there's nothing you can do about. That's data loss in my book and extremely annoying.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/9/3/151048/0948 First part of a series written by someone who went to Kenya volunteering as a Computer Instructor. (He wrote a full serie, but you'll have to find them yourself, the search page is broken).
This has been debated in debian, and the resolution was to not distribute debian with the original trademark, just the swirl (the other one is with the bottle). See screenshots at: http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?re lease=361&slide=41&title=debian+gnu/linux+3.1+scre enshots
The're not making up rules for others they don't abide themselves, MoFo has repeatedly been asked to provide for such an alternative but denied it (for obvious reasons)
They removed xfree3.3 from woody after it was released becurse they couldn't handle the security issues, to much differed from the 4.x versions. Unless you specifically check for removed packages, you're just stuck with the old, apt won't warn you. Sometimes there just isn't an upstream, like for example if you upgrade from woody to sarge not having changed the default mta (it's installed as a base package), then you're afaik stuck with exim3 and that's been dead upstream since quite some time.
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Did you try the rawphoto plugin? http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/. 30 seconds with google gives a lot of options.
If the usb video class takes off like usb mass storage (Logitec is using it for one). Have a look at work of Laurent Pinchart http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/.
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Debian Woody has LFS for ext3 (although I belive it was a backport and 2.4 only) and that was released on 19th of July 2002; what distro are you refering to?
AFAIK all VIA C3 boards has a DMA bug triggered under linux, there's a bios fix but only for the M series.
I was thinking of building a small server out of one and did some research; turns out they are not stable at all, some sort of dma issue is plaguing all via mini-itx.
According to http://epialinux.org/drivers.html/ the M series (that's an old board) might work with a beta bios.
No?
I'd bet that you can't market your distro using the Debian Common Core Alliance name, unless you cough up some cash for a license, and what that license contains is obviously their prerogative. The DCC can't LSB certify your custom distro, that's for the opengroup.org people to do. Pure Debian as it stands now, wouldn't pass a LSB certification (atleast not the most recent spec.).
Well, the name Debian is a registered trademark and they haven't afaik (and I've checked the various debian mailing lists), got an approval to use it (yet).
I'm under the impression that removing the cancel button on the properties dialogue is a "feature" they are particulary proud of.
But of course you are right, issues like these should be reported.
While wading tru the many bugreports against nautilus I just tried to reproduce the issue, and happily (although embarrassed) I can report that it's actually been fixed. And not only that, another issue that's been bugging me, select properties, "accidentally" press delete, and you have to re-type the filename, has been fixed as well (right-click and it comes back).
Might as well file some bugs before i start trolling on the rhytmbox nuisance, to save me from public humiliation.
I'm not particulary fond of the way gnome changes some things without my explicit approval.
I have a file with a win32 filname encoding, the filesystem doesn't really mind and the gnome gui changes the regional characters it can't display to a ? and adds (invalid encoding) when displaying the filename. Now I'd like to know a bit more about the file and select properties from the context menu and boom, it changes the filename on the fs to what you see in the gui,and there's nothing you can do about. That's data loss in my book and extremely annoying.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/9/3/151048/0948 First part of a series written by someone who went to Kenya volunteering as a Computer Instructor. (He wrote a full serie, but you'll have to find them yourself, the search page is broken).
Link goes to "We Be Hackin'" by Erinn Clark (loosely based on Ice Cube's "We Be Clubbin'). http://lists.debian.org/debian-women/2005/04/msg00 006.html
http://www.advogato.org/person/vorlon/
This has been debated in debian, and the resolution was to not distribute debian with the original trademark, just the swirl (the other one is with the bottle). See screenshots at: http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?re lease=361&slide=41&title=debian+gnu/linux+3.1+scre enshots
The're not making up rules for others they don't abide themselves, MoFo has repeatedly been asked to provide for such an alternative but denied it (for obvious reasons)
They removed xfree3.3 from woody after it was released becurse they couldn't handle the security issues, to much differed from the 4.x versions. Unless you specifically check for removed packages, you're just stuck with the old, apt won't warn you. Sometimes there just isn't an upstream, like for example if you upgrade from woody to sarge not having changed the default mta (it's installed as a base package), then you're afaik stuck with exim3 and that's been dead upstream since quite some time.
Using mozilla (1.7.8-1 from debian sid) the spoof works when I open in a new window , but not when open in tabs.