The gpl might be a monolicense, but there is a shitload of a code out there which uses it. This at least makes it a USEFUL monolicense; notwithstanding my next point....... regarding people adopting non-gpl code and releasing it under the gpl. My only advice to the original author is: license your code under a copyleft license, preferably the gpl. It's the only way to guarantee you get to use other peoples' modifications. That's the point, duh.
Or you could use a proprietary license, and then people never end up making modifications to your code. Or you could release it under CDDL or some other ghetto-license, in which case your code gets stuck in the Sun ghetto. Same problem.
I've seen debian stable dist-upgraded (security updates only) hundreds of times and have never once seen it doe from a libc undate. I expect you've got some backports, a bad repository and/or some bad hardware to blame.
So you fucking override it manually. If you don't want DHCP you're clearly capable of setting up a network connection manually, and navigating an ncurses interface, rather than foaming at the mouth and mashing keys randomly, then whining about how it doesn't work.
A really good game designer could make it just like real prison. More crime in than out. An economy based on contraband, violence and sexual favours. How you behave in prison and what happens to you determines how your life is when you get back out, etc.
Every problem has an elegant, non-intrusive in-game solution; it's just a matter of developing what would logically and normally happen as a result of that given problem.
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RPM doesn't contain anything like the same amount of control data as deb packages: depends, conflicts, provides, suggests, recommends, etc. Debian's packages are just more powerful, and better designed to be used in a holistic packaging system than rpm can ever be.
Still: 1) the US would need to be able to match the artillery batteries in numbers - maybe not 1:1, but they'd need quite a few thousand to deal with the ~16k pieces the DPRK has. 2) Presumably the US would need to know with a reasonable degree of accuracy where the pieces are located. This is a problem; many are located in caves or underground, and they're apparently moved on a regular basis. 3) It doesn't take many chem/bio/nuke rounds to kill a shitload of people in a city like Seoul. one or two per piece still means ~20,000 rounds.
My main point was that it's unwise to look at this conflict as a pissin' contest, or a wild west shootout. It's more valuable to look at it as a hostage situation - and it's generally only in the movies that hostage situations are resolved successfully by force.
Such a war will be fought with bombs. Hope the North Koreans understand that they will get their butts kicked.
But at what cost? You do realise that NK can pretty much destroy central Seoul (pop ~10,000,000) in the first 24 hours of their artillery bombardments... and that's presuming they DON'T use chemical/biological/nuclear weapons.
In this case, it's not about "kicking butt" - it's about finding a way to defuse the situation without massive carnage. Unfortunately, most USians, including those in office, seem not to realise this.
The really interesting thing about this is the insinuation that China would be NK's enemy, and that the US would be on the Chinese side in this conflict. It presumes a lot about China (eg: China really wants to thaw, to become a part of the capitalist world, despite what they say), and a lot about North Korea (the idea that an individual or faction in the military could actually take power from the all-powerful Kim Family Regime).
As a furriner living in South Korea, I'd be interested to see what part South Korea has in this game - that will be the true test of its importance as speculative analogy.
And apart from anything else, this game would pretty much be reason enough for me to buy a gaming rig and install windows on it... though I'd still need to use debian for everything else, natch.
I don't think XP Pro will install with 128 MB RAM. 256 Min.
Nope. Installs fine on 128, runs tolerably if you turn chrome off.
Basically, people's expectations for old hardware are pretty high. To run most modern software suites (which are written for modern machines) you need to turn some chrome off. Yes, I mean transparency, desktop applets, system monitors, tickers, animations, blending and other such shit.
As it happens, I run two systems: a p2-233 laptop and a celeron 500 desktop, both with 256MB ram. Both run Debian unstable. Both run KDE 3.2.2, and most of the time will be doing all of the following: evolution for email, beep-media-player for music, gaim for im, a dozen konq windows, a half dozen konsoles, including giFTcurs, irssi and emacs.
Recently, on the laptop, I've dropped back from KDE to XFCE4, which I used before the release of 3.2.2. I have noticed a performance boost, but not a huge one.
The blame here lies squarely with Fedora, Mandrake and the other "big" distros. The fat is there to be trimmed; why isn't it trimmed by default?
Rosebud is a sled, and Verbal is a huge liar. Darth Vader is Luke's father, and the Sixth Sense guy is actually dead. The planet of the apes is Earth, and Rocky loses.
the problem is that I fucking hate goths. WW games (specifically Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse and Mage: The Ascension) are the archetypal goth-games.
I want a game which doesn't come with a naff prefab theme and wack gothique iconography. Fuck all that. I want a game I can tune to my requirements. Another reason I write my own.
It's like Mick said - you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need.
You might WANT several things out of your OS, but if that OS simply doesn't exist, you're simply going to have to choose one which does, or bite the bullet and be a luddite. Whining about *viable* alternatives, about how you don't want to spend a lot of time/money on a computer is sort of like complaining that the sun is hot or the snow is cold - it's just how life is. One day, perhaps there'll be a magical operating system which is both idiot-proof and rock solid, but until that day, it's a case of Simple, Cheap, Secure: pick any two.
Thanks for this comment. I'd seen them before, but was a bit peery of some random bunch of Russians.
Signed up a half hour ago, already downloaded about a dollar's worth - a 70-minute album @ 192kbps. Awesome stuff.
Cheers,
L
I suspect that slashdotters would be perfectly happy if there was some form of weighting which meant that "better" songs were worth more and filler was worth less - but it ain't so. There's no upside to the consumer in this action.
Vote with your wallet by enrolling in a few computer education classes and a few rounds of beers at the local LUG meeting. The $ per hour you'll get from these guys makes a spotty-faced MCSE with six months experience look like lawyer's fees.
You either give enough of a shit about your security to run a secure, free operating system and invest time in learning it, or you give enough of a shit to pay hundreds of dollars for security suites to tack onto the side of an OS you already paid hundreds of dollars for. Or, the third option, you don't give anmy shit about whether your box and your data is safe, whether your home computer is being used as a spam relay, a child porn warehouse and an irc relay for al-Qaeda.
If you want to own a computer, them's your choices. No matter what they say, you always have choices.
You, and my mother (who now thinks of KDE as home), and my friend whose win2k box I locked down yesterday, and my employer who won't upgrade from win98 to 2k "because it's not as stable" and my grandmother may not think that owning a computer requires any degree of responsibility - but it does. The biggest of all of Microsoft's evils, in my opinion, is the propagation of this lax attitude towards computer security - the attitude that you shouldn't HAVE to worry about it. It'll take years, maybe decades to breed out of the computer-using populace.
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The gpl might be a monolicense, but there is a shitload of a code out there which uses it. This at least makes it a USEFUL monolicense; notwithstanding my next point... .... regarding people adopting non-gpl code and releasing it under the gpl. My only advice to the original author is: license your code under a copyleft license, preferably the gpl. It's the only way to guarantee you get to use other peoples' modifications. That's the point, duh.
Or you could use a proprietary license, and then people never end up making modifications to your code. Or you could release it under CDDL or some other ghetto-license, in which case your code gets stuck in the Sun ghetto. Same problem.
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I've seen debian stable dist-upgraded (security updates only) hundreds of times and have never once seen it doe from a libc undate. I expect you've got some backports, a bad repository and/or some bad hardware to blame.
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Debian Distro Stats on sarge... 15400 packages, 1386 maintainers, 28553 MB installed size, 9132 MB compressed size.
Debian Distro Stats on sid... 16447 packages, 1429 maintainers, 32302 MB installed size, 10338 MB compressed size.
from http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/applications/do
Yup, just another
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For truly great Indian cinema, you need to watch Satyajit Ray.
Not bollywoody at all, though.
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Economy of Scale
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So you fucking override it manually. If you don't want DHCP you're clearly capable of setting up a network connection manually, and navigating an ncurses interface, rather than foaming at the mouth and mashing keys randomly, then whining about how it doesn't work.
Regarding CPAN and debian's package management, I have but one thing to say: man dh-make-perl.
A really good game designer could make it just like real prison. More crime in than out. An economy based on contraband, violence and sexual favours. How you behave in prison and what happens to you determines how your life is when you get back out, etc.
Every problem has an elegant, non-intrusive in-game solution; it's just a matter of developing what would logically and normally happen as a result of that given problem.
L
PEBCAK.
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RPM doesn't contain anything like the same amount of control data as deb packages: depends, conflicts, provides, suggests, recommends, etc. Debian's packages are just more powerful, and better designed to be used in a holistic packaging system than rpm can ever be.
L
You turned out alright i suppose? You turned out alright i suppose?
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Apparently not. The OP seems to have turned out to be a control freak. No comment on what being surveilled as an infant might do instead
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Interesting.
Still:
1) the US would need to be able to match the artillery batteries in numbers - maybe not 1:1, but they'd need quite a few thousand to deal with the ~16k pieces the DPRK has.
2) Presumably the US would need to know with a reasonable degree of accuracy where the pieces are located. This is a problem; many are located in caves or underground, and they're apparently moved on a regular basis.
3) It doesn't take many chem/bio/nuke rounds to kill a shitload of people in a city like Seoul. one or two per piece still means ~20,000 rounds.
My main point was that it's unwise to look at this conflict as a pissin' contest, or a wild west shootout. It's more valuable to look at it as a hostage situation - and it's generally only in the movies that hostage situations are resolved successfully by force.
L
Such a war will be fought with bombs. Hope the North Koreans understand that they will get their butts kicked.
But at what cost? You do realise that NK can pretty much destroy central Seoul (pop ~10,000,000) in the first 24 hours of their artillery bombardments... and that's presuming they DON'T use chemical/biological/nuclear weapons.
In this case, it's not about "kicking butt" - it's about finding a way to defuse the situation without massive carnage. Unfortunately, most USians, including those in office, seem not to realise this.
L
The really interesting thing about this is the insinuation that China would be NK's enemy, and that the US would be on the Chinese side in this conflict. It presumes a lot about China (eg: China really wants to thaw, to become a part of the capitalist world, despite what they say), and a lot about North Korea (the idea that an individual or faction in the military could actually take power from the all-powerful Kim Family Regime).
As a furriner living in South Korea, I'd be interested to see what part South Korea has in this game - that will be the true test of its importance as speculative analogy.
And apart from anything else, this game would pretty much be reason enough for me to buy a gaming rig and install windows on it... though I'd still need to use debian for everything else, natch.
L
I don't think XP Pro will install with 128 MB RAM. 256 Min.
Nope. Installs fine on 128, runs tolerably if you turn chrome off.
Basically, people's expectations for old hardware are pretty high. To run most modern software suites (which are written for modern machines) you need to turn some chrome off. Yes, I mean transparency, desktop applets, system monitors, tickers, animations, blending and other such shit.
As it happens, I run two systems: a p2-233 laptop and a celeron 500 desktop, both with 256MB ram. Both run Debian unstable. Both run KDE 3.2.2, and most of the time will be doing all of the following: evolution for email, beep-media-player for music, gaim for im, a dozen konq windows, a half dozen konsoles, including giFTcurs, irssi and emacs.
Recently, on the laptop, I've dropped back from KDE to XFCE4, which I used before the release of 3.2.2. I have noticed a performance boost, but not a huge one.
The blame here lies squarely with Fedora, Mandrake and the other "big" distros. The fat is there to be trimmed; why isn't it trimmed by default?
L
Nah, Septium ain't gonna be worth nothing, it's the Sexium chips which will really take off...
L
When did you last saw a proof reader in media?
Well, you certainly don't has one.
L
Rosebud is a sled, and Verbal is a huge liar. Darth Vader is Luke's father, and the Sixth Sense guy is actually dead. The planet of the apes is Earth, and Rocky loses.
Best... sig... ever!
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the problem is that I fucking hate goths. WW games (specifically Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse and Mage: The Ascension) are the archetypal goth-games.
:)
I want a game which doesn't come with a naff prefab theme and wack gothique iconography. Fuck all that. I want a game I can tune to my requirements. Another reason I write my own.
Yeah, go on, flame my goth-hatin' arse
L
It's like Mick said - you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you get what you need.
You might WANT several things out of your OS, but if that OS simply doesn't exist, you're simply going to have to choose one which does, or bite the bullet and be a luddite. Whining about *viable* alternatives, about how you don't want to spend a lot of time/money on a computer is sort of like complaining that the sun is hot or the snow is cold - it's just how life is. One day, perhaps there'll be a magical operating system which is both idiot-proof and rock solid, but until that day, it's a case of Simple, Cheap, Secure: pick any two.
L
Thanks for this comment. I'd seen them before, but was a bit peery of some random bunch of Russians. Signed up a half hour ago, already downloaded about a dollar's worth - a 70-minute album @ 192kbps. Awesome stuff. Cheers, L
Fast Food: Corporate America in your body
Television: Corporate America in your mind.
RIAA Music: Corporate America in your ears.
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For fuck's sake.
I suspect that slashdotters would be perfectly happy if there was some form of weighting which meant that "better" songs were worth more and filler was worth less - but it ain't so. There's no upside to the consumer in this action.
Prices only going up = bad. Savvy?
L
Vote with your wallet by enrolling in a few computer education classes and a few rounds of beers at the local LUG meeting. The $ per hour you'll get from these guys makes a spotty-faced MCSE with six months experience look like lawyer's fees.
You either give enough of a shit about your security to run a secure, free operating system and invest time in learning it, or you give enough of a shit to pay hundreds of dollars for security suites to tack onto the side of an OS you already paid hundreds of dollars for. Or, the third option, you don't give anmy shit about whether your box and your data is safe, whether your home computer is being used as a spam relay, a child porn warehouse and an irc relay for al-Qaeda.
If you want to own a computer, them's your choices. No matter what they say, you always have choices.
You, and my mother (who now thinks of KDE as home), and my friend whose win2k box I locked down yesterday, and my employer who won't upgrade from win98 to 2k "because it's not as stable" and my grandmother may not think that owning a computer requires any degree of responsibility - but it does. The biggest of all of Microsoft's evils, in my opinion, is the propagation of this lax attitude towards computer security - the attitude that you shouldn't HAVE to worry about it. It'll take years, maybe decades to breed out of the computer-using populace.
L
I vote we call them viruxen just to avoid confusion.
L