A 6% share in a company gives you the right to take a shit in their bathroom. Nothing more. So Bill gets the right to piss in the Waz Washroom. He doesn't control Apple and neither is Troll Tech controled by SCO. End this thread now. TT, QT and KDE are ok, but use Gnome if it suits you. End Of Line.
I recently set up a box running Debian Woody and pointed to a back port of Gnome 2.2. Well to put it lightly, it sucked canal water bad. Most apps opened with windows docked to the top of the screen and I couldn't move them. The Gnome configuration utility was castrated, where were the options from gnome 1.x? I liked the Sawfish WM MUCH better, but maybe just lack of configuration was the problem. I think the author of this piece hit the nail on the head here, something IS broken, though it may be the Debian packages (which after all ARE NOT official yet). Actually the version of Gnome packaged with stock Woody has problems. I have to disable the esound demeon or no sound applications (such as XMMS) work. KDE had no such problems. So for the time being, I've switched to KDE for Woody after using Gnome on Potato. I think much of the problems were config issues in the Debian packages, I even have a few ideas of how to fix it, but the documentation isn't good enough to point me to the files responsible for the problem!
I think it's a good idea though for me to give KDE a try. I can always go back to Gnome when Sarge comes out, if Debian fixes the configuration issues.
IIRC Pioneer's transmitter uses a Pencil tube. If the power supply is crapping out the tube may not be getting enough power to run it's cathode and no longer has enough emission to generate a signal. Damn old fashioned empty state devices!
I need hardly mention that the Linux kernel itself is currently in violation of the DMCA w.r.t media systems, as it has no TCPA to prevent criminally stolen movies from being played. The Linux kernel does not in anyway perform any act that will allow you to play stolen movies. It does not circumvent any protection put in place by the makers of DVD hardware to prevent you from unauthorized viewing of DVD's. You need additional software to do that (the same is true of the Windows OS). Do not make the false claim that the Linux kernel violates the DMCA, it does NOT, you need to install DeCSS to do that. DeCSS will run fine under the Windows OS as well. Just because no one has offered a legal, licensed DVD player (for encrypted disks, un-incrypted disks may be legally played anywhere) for linux, does not mean that one could not be produced. And there ARE hardware solutions that available for playing DVD's on linux that ARE legal (at least as long as the hardware protections are not circumvented by the driver).
It should be ok to patent genes, IF you created a new one, and didn't just discover one that was already there. For example, you combine the genes of a killer bee, a cockroach, and Richard Nixon and make some kind of monster. That you could patent. ("Digital Dog and the DNA monster that Ate Cambridge Mass." Any ex DEC employees out there?)
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I don't know if it was a "scam". Apparently the 486SX came about because Intel had a large number of parts with defective FPUs and it was a way to increase yields. Basicly correct. Intel DID also come out with 486sx chips that were based on a new mask, they OMITTED the FPU completly. This shunk the die, reduced the heat output, and made it possible to house the chip in a plastic surface mount package. This was just what the embedded market wanted, and the mother board people liked it too. They also put a socket3 socket on the board which was wired to accept a 486DX, or a 487DX chip for upgrade. (as well as the pentium overdrive chips when they came out).
Kinda like the same story with the celeron cpu, early ones were just PII's with no cash, but latter Celeron chips were new masks with smaller on board cash.
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Maybe. How many people were smart enough to sell their stocks before the.com crash?
Don't forget that they modified POSE, a GPLd program, and distributed it without making source available. When called on it, a Sony employee basically told the author he could fuck himself and sue. Owned the first CLIE' at the time, and haven't bought a Sony product since. If that's true then why hasn't the FSF sic'ed their lawyers on sony. They would make a GREAT GPL test case!
I hope this means they are working on larger 16:9 CRT's I love my mitsubishi 40" direct view tv (which they don't make anymore). My next TV is going to be a 16:9 screen size, and the largest direct view (crt) is 34" in this size, just a bit smaller than I'd like. If a direct view CRT at 40" in a 16:9 could be made cheaper than a plasma display they would have something! With plasma displays going for $20k in these sizes a CRT could be a real winner. I HATE rear projection sets!
I make it a point to pass any SUV in front of me, blocking my view of the road ahead. Bring back the gas guzzler tax! The Explorer isn't really that bad, anyone driving an empty Expedition should be charged double tolls on the turnpike, and anyone caught solo in an unloaded Excursion should be arrested as a road hog. The only Humvees on the road should be painted olive drag. If you NEED the cargo hauling space fine, but to commute to work leave the SUV in the garage and take the civic! In case you didn't hear, oil production will peak in about 3-5 years and decline after that. The days of excess are over.
When Europeans start LEGALLY posting MP3's of this material on the internet? After all it IS legal in Europe so those countries don't have to demand this stuff be banned from the 'net. Oh it's illegal here in the states, well foo on you!
I think that copyrights on books, music, plays (any performance or written art) should only be legally held by individuals NOT corporations and the copyright limited in term to the lifetime of that individual. IOW it becomes public domain AFTER the copyright holders death.
Now when it comes to things like movies where there isn't a single person to claim the copyright things do get a little muddy, but since a human lifetime is about 72 years on average and a person might copyright something at anytime during that lifetime set the life of a corporate copyright on art at something between 50-75 years NO LONGER!!!!
Debians biggest problem in the install process is that you still need to know the answers to many of the questions, and there isn't enough help info presented during the install process. Do you know if a program should be installed SUID? Are the defaults safe in most cases, and some questions don't even have a default? You need to know your hardware, Debian doesn't auto probe for your graphics card or your network card (well if your network card was built into the kernel you are in luck, it will probably be found. Otherwise..... Ditto for your scsi card).
The package 'tasks' help to select a group of packages needed for specific tasks, but they are too broad. The X11 task installs ALL of the X servers, but you only need one or two. The desktop task installs BOTH Gnome and KDE. If you don't want both, well there IS a virtual package for KDE (apt-get install kde will do it), but none for Gnome. I still don't know how to install ONLY Gnome in debian Woody. And BTW, sound is broken in the standard install of Gnome in woody. At least I can't get XMMS or any sound app to work under Gnome (so I am using KDE). Problem seems to be in the set up of ESD, If I kill ESD in gnome then sound apps work, but other things are then broken. ESD worked in gnome under Potato, so I think it is the configuration.
It wasn't for the speed that I got DSL. It was to free up the phone line. Imagine, being able to surf the web and answer the phone at the same time, without an extra phone line! Before ADSL service became available in our neighborhood we had to settle for ISDL at 'only' 144/144K. Still much faster than the 56k dialup (which my ISP had only supported at 33K if I was lucky....even with a 56K modem). The extra speed was handy for last second snipes on ebay, and downloading the latest linux kernel tar image, but otherwise not really needed.
Now with full speed ADSL I can download CD iso images in 'just' a few hours. Handy for when a new Redhat release comes out. The speed can justify the price difference between dial up and DSL service, especially if you factor in the cost of an extra phone line (you don't need). But the fact is that most web sites I've visited don't seem to load much faster than they did over the modem. (The slashdot effect maybe?) Few servers have the bandwidth or horsepower to feed broadband, or are just not optimized for it. Those that are are A/V sites, and at the moment are not sites that have my interest.
You are confusing a source license with open source. You need to grant them a license to have a copy of the source, but just because they can see the source does not make it an open source license. You didn't give them an open BINARY license did you? You may license them to have a copy of the source in the same way as the binary. IE: they can't make any copies of the computer readable source (except as required to do maintance), they can't make any human readable copies of the source (via photocopy means), you may limit the number of printouts of the source that they may keep on hand, etc. Microsoft and other software houses would grand a source license to clients that needed them where support or perhaps custom mods were an issue. The use of NDA's were involved, you should use them too.
Intersil used to make a CMOS microprocessor chip that used the pdp8 instruction set. It was a 12 bit micro processor. They also made a chip that acted as the memory address extension controller. You still might find some of these chips for sale someplace. DEC even used the 'cmos 8' inside one of their terminals to run pdp8 based word processing software. If you want to build your own pdp8 today, I'd look for some of those old intersil chips.
The company I work for is still selling a product that uses MS-DOS (version 3.x no less!), desqview, and qemm (among other things). I think they purchased an unlimited distribution license for desqview and qemm, I don't know what they did for dos. The product is still being sold. I wonder what legal issues there might be. If they were able to purchase an unlimited distribution license for dos from MS, (and back then MS would probably have done something like that....we are talking circa 1991 here) I guess things are still status quo.
I would consider the issue something like my not answering the phone when the caller blocks caller id. If he doesn't want to let me know who is calling, he can listen to my answering machine. If some website won't open for me if I block his popups, that's ok by me, it's his right. But don't call me a theif. He is the theif, he want's to steal MY bandwith to download his crap.
....my father got a cell phone from sprint (he got a REAL good deal with SOoooo many minutes included that he calls all the time now) and doesn't use his land line phone any more. Now if only the cell phone didn't keep dropping out every 3 minutes and he has to call again and again and again every time it hangs up by itself. (Can't they do ANYTHING right in NYC?).
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A 6% share in a company gives you the right to take a shit in their bathroom. Nothing more. So Bill gets the right to piss in the Waz Washroom. He doesn't control Apple and neither is Troll Tech controled by SCO. End this thread now. TT, QT and KDE are ok, but use Gnome if it suits you.
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I recently set up a box running Debian Woody and pointed to a back port of Gnome 2.2. Well to put it lightly, it sucked canal water bad. Most apps opened with windows docked to the top of the screen and I couldn't move them. The Gnome configuration utility was castrated, where were the options from gnome 1.x? I liked the Sawfish WM MUCH better, but maybe just lack of configuration was the problem. I think the author of this piece hit the nail on the head here, something IS broken, though it may be the Debian packages (which after all ARE NOT official yet). Actually the version of Gnome packaged with stock Woody has problems. I have to disable the esound demeon or no sound applications (such as XMMS) work. KDE had no such problems.
So for the time being, I've switched to KDE for Woody after using Gnome on Potato. I think much of the problems were config issues in the Debian packages, I even have a few ideas of how to fix it, but the documentation isn't good enough to point me to the files responsible for the problem!
I think it's a good idea though for me to give KDE a try. I can always go back to Gnome when Sarge comes out, if Debian fixes the configuration issues.
IIRC Pioneer's transmitter uses a Pencil tube. If the power supply is crapping out the tube may not be getting enough power to run it's cathode and no longer has enough emission to generate a signal.
Damn old fashioned empty state devices!
They forgot the Pentium Pro, Xeon cpus, and the winchip. As someone else mentioned as well, cyrix.
Also forgot the 486SX (worth forgetting). BTW the celeron came AFTER the PII.
I need hardly mention that the Linux kernel itself is currently in violation of the DMCA w.r.t media systems, as it has no TCPA to prevent criminally stolen movies from being played.
The Linux kernel does not in anyway perform any act that will allow you to play stolen movies. It does not circumvent any protection put in place by the makers of DVD hardware to prevent you from unauthorized viewing of DVD's.
You need additional software to do that (the same is true of the Windows OS). Do not make the false claim that the Linux kernel violates the DMCA, it does NOT, you need to install DeCSS to do that. DeCSS will run fine under the Windows OS as well. Just because no one has offered a legal, licensed DVD player (for encrypted disks, un-incrypted disks may be legally played anywhere) for linux, does not mean that one could not be produced. And there ARE hardware solutions that available for playing DVD's on linux that ARE legal (at least as long as the hardware protections are not circumvented by the driver).
Wonder what you'd get if you crossed 'Junkyard Wars' with
'Monster Garage' and 'Robot Wars'.
It should be ok to patent genes, IF you created a new one, and didn't just discover one that was already there. For example, you combine the genes of a killer bee, a cockroach, and Richard Nixon and make some kind of monster. That you could patent.
("Digital Dog and the DNA monster that Ate Cambridge Mass." Any ex DEC employees out there?)
Here's a book on how to build these things....
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I don't know if it was a "scam". Apparently the 486SX came about because Intel had a large number of parts with defective FPUs and it was a way to increase yields.
Basicly correct. Intel DID also come out with 486sx chips that were based on a new mask, they OMITTED the FPU completly. This shunk the die, reduced the heat output, and made it possible to house the chip in a plastic surface mount package. This was just what the embedded market wanted, and the mother board people liked it too. They also put a socket3 socket on the board which was wired to accept a 486DX, or a 487DX chip for upgrade. (as well as the pentium overdrive chips when they came out).
Kinda like the same story with the celeron cpu, early ones were just PII's with no cash, but latter Celeron chips were new masks with smaller on board cash.
Maybe. How many people were smart enough to sell their stocks before the .com crash?
Don't forget that they modified POSE, a GPLd program, and distributed it without making source available. When called on it, a Sony employee basically told the author he could fuck himself and sue. Owned the first CLIE' at the time, and haven't bought a Sony product since.
If that's true then why hasn't the FSF sic'ed their lawyers on sony. They would make a GREAT GPL test case!
I hope this means they are working on larger 16:9 CRT's
I love my mitsubishi 40" direct view tv (which they don't make anymore). My next TV is going to be a 16:9 screen size, and the largest direct view (crt) is 34" in this size, just a bit smaller than I'd like. If a direct view CRT at 40" in a 16:9 could be made cheaper than a plasma display they would have something! With plasma displays going for $20k in these sizes a CRT could be a real winner. I HATE rear projection sets!
I make it a point to pass any SUV in front of me, blocking my view of the road ahead. Bring back the gas guzzler tax! The Explorer isn't really that bad, anyone driving an empty Expedition should be charged double tolls on the turnpike, and anyone caught solo in an unloaded Excursion should be arrested as a road hog. The only Humvees on the road should be painted olive drag. If you NEED the cargo hauling space fine, but to commute to work leave the SUV in the garage and take the civic! In case you didn't hear, oil production will peak in about
3-5 years and decline after that. The days of excess are over.
When Europeans start LEGALLY posting MP3's of this material on the internet? After all it IS legal in Europe so those countries don't have to demand this stuff be banned from the 'net. Oh it's illegal here in the states, well foo on you!
I think that copyrights on books, music, plays (any performance or written art) should only be legally held by individuals NOT corporations and the copyright limited in term to the lifetime of that individual. IOW it becomes public domain AFTER the copyright holders death.
Now when it comes to things like movies where there isn't a single person to claim the copyright things do get a little muddy, but since a human lifetime is about 72 years on average and a person might copyright something at anytime during that lifetime set the life of a corporate copyright on
art at something between 50-75 years NO LONGER!!!!
I've seen this before. The computers on 'Max Headroom' had
old Underwood keyboards (and the cars were all Studerbakers).
Debians biggest problem in the install process is that you still ..... Ditto for your scsi card).
need to know the answers to many of the questions, and there isn't enough help info presented during the install process. Do you know if a program should be installed SUID? Are the defaults safe in most cases, and some questions don't even have a default? You need to know your hardware, Debian doesn't auto probe for your graphics card or your network card (well if your network card was built into the kernel you are in luck, it will probably be found. Otherwise
The package 'tasks' help to select a group of packages needed for specific tasks, but they are too broad. The X11 task installs ALL of the X servers, but you only need one or two.
The desktop task installs BOTH Gnome and KDE. If you don't want both, well there IS a virtual package for KDE (apt-get install kde will do it), but none for Gnome. I still don't know how to install ONLY Gnome in debian Woody. And BTW, sound is broken in the standard install of Gnome in woody. At least I can't get XMMS or any sound app to work under Gnome (so I am using KDE). Problem seems to be in the set up of ESD, If I kill ESD in gnome then sound apps work, but other things are then broken. ESD worked in gnome under Potato, so I think it is the configuration.
Still, in all, Debian rocks.
California is an open air nut house. At least southern CA is.
Cost of living is too high, smog still a problem, and now
brown outs.
It wasn't for the speed that I got DSL. It was to free up the phone line. Imagine, being able to surf the web and answer the phone at the same time, without an extra phone line! Before ADSL service became available in our neighborhood we had to settle for ISDL at 'only' 144/144K. Still much faster than the 56k dialup (which my ISP had only supported at 33K if I was lucky....even with a 56K modem). The extra speed was handy for last second snipes on ebay, and downloading the latest linux kernel tar image, but otherwise not really needed.
Now with full speed ADSL I can download CD iso images in 'just' a few hours. Handy for when a new Redhat release comes out. The speed can justify the price difference between dial up and DSL service, especially if you factor in the cost of an extra phone line (you don't need). But the fact is that most web sites I've visited don't seem to load much faster than they did over the modem. (The slashdot effect maybe?) Few servers have the bandwidth or horsepower to feed broadband, or are just not optimized for it. Those that are are A/V sites, and at the moment are not sites that have my interest.
You are confusing a source license with open source. You need to grant them a license to have a copy of the source, but just because they can see the source does not make it an open source license. You didn't give them an open BINARY license did you? You may license them to have a copy of the source in the same way as the binary. IE: they can't make any copies of the computer readable source (except as required to do maintance), they can't make any human readable copies of the source (via photocopy means), you may limit the number of printouts of the source that they may keep on hand, etc. Microsoft and other software houses would grand a source license to clients that needed them where support or perhaps custom mods were an issue. The use of NDA's were involved, you should use them too.
spy this instruction, CIA. Then again the PDP 10 had a 'floating add register triple' or FART instruction.
Intersil used to make a CMOS microprocessor chip that used the pdp8 instruction set. It was a 12 bit micro processor. They also made a chip that acted as the memory address extension controller. You still might find some of these chips for sale someplace. DEC even used the 'cmos 8' inside one of their terminals to run pdp8 based word processing software. If you want to build your own pdp8 today, I'd look for some of those old intersil chips.
Windows ME still has till dec 31, 2005 to live.
The company I work for is still selling a product that uses
MS-DOS (version 3.x no less!), desqview, and qemm (among
other things). I think they purchased an unlimited distribution
license for desqview and qemm, I don't know what they did for dos. The product is still being sold. I wonder what legal issues there might be. If they were able to purchase an unlimited distribution license for dos from MS, (and back then MS would probably have done something like that....we are talking
circa 1991 here) I guess things are still status quo.
I would consider the issue something like my not answering
the phone when the caller blocks caller id. If he doesn't want to let me know who is calling, he can listen to my answering machine. If some website won't open for me if I block his popups, that's ok by me, it's his right. But don't call me a theif.
He is the theif, he want's to steal MY bandwith to download his crap.
....my father got a cell phone from sprint (he got a REAL good deal with SOoooo many minutes included that he calls all the time now) and doesn't use his land line phone any more. Now if only the cell phone didn't keep dropping out every 3 minutes and he has to call again and again and again every time it hangs up by itself. (Can't they do ANYTHING right in NYC?).