Debian comes with non-free blobs. Taking the first Debian system to hand (Etch) and pulling the kernel source I see the very first file we remove is in there (drivers/atm/atmsar11.data) and many others.
Ubuntu adds a few (and I believe is taking the kernel from kernel.org rather than Debian these days), but Debian is not all-free.
Actually Gnubuntu existed first (November 2005), but nothing more than an IRC channel and some artwork came of it. We started talking about gNewSense in May 2006 as a way to make Gnubuntu happen, with the first release 2 years ago today (August 25th 2006).
A quick check indicates that Gobuntu was first released July 10th 2007.
Remember, this is the Free Software Foundation, which doesn't do anything non-ideological.
This is a common misconception - gNewSense is not and has never been run by the FSF. They approached us after our first release. Since then, they have provided us with hardware and helped out here and there. We're obviously on very friendly terms and help them out where we can, but they don't run the show.
Given his strong opinion on the topic of non-Free software, I can't really understand this sentence: "Since the last release, more non-free binary blobs have been removed,....". Does that mean GNewSense included and still includes non-Free blob's?
We keep finding more of them in odd places.
See http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00164 for the background to that particular sentence. In Hardy, some non-free blobs moved from the kernel to a package we'd never heard about before. Once this was reported, they were removed within 5 hours.
I'm not currently aware of any non-free blobs in gNewSense. To ensure it stays that way, some time ago we kicked off an exhaustive check of the Kernel, which has already gone through all the "hotspots". We also did a check of all of 'main' for 1.1.
99% of windows users have no need for partitioning their hard drive. Do you know what happens most of the time when people create windows partitions? Someone thinks they are clever and creates seperate partition for their data, another for their programs, and another for a swap file, etc... This whole system quickly breaks down when one partition becomes full.
Eh, no. Seperating user data from applications is a very good idea. It has saved me a lot of time and trouble (on Windows and Unix) when things went wrong, and I've helped other people who really wished that they'd done it too.
Kinda makes for a self perpetuating system of complex laws. What incentive do politicians have to simplify the legal system?
Laws aren't as easy to write as you might think. Over the last month a friend and I have worked every night in order to draft a 11 page constitution for a group.
We'd like it smaller and simpler but there was no other way to have it 'correct' and without loopholes. It seem resonable to assume that the legal system has the same problem.
You'd just add extra headers and increase file size. If you want to dynamically alter sounds in 3d space dependant on temporal and frequency factors a plugin might be more appropriate. How often do you listen to all of your mp3 collection?
Actually its 64Gb. Around the PII 4 extra bits were added to bring it to 36bits.
Of course its a bit faster to access 16Gb rather than 64Gb and faster againt access 4Gb for some PAE reason.
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Debian comes with non-free blobs. Taking the first Debian system to hand (Etch) and pulling the kernel source I see the very first file we remove is in there (drivers/atm/atmsar11.data) and many others. Ubuntu adds a few (and I believe is taking the kernel from kernel.org rather than Debian these days), but Debian is not all-free.
Actually Gnubuntu existed first (November 2005), but nothing more than an IRC channel and some artwork came of it. We started talking about gNewSense in May 2006 as a way to make Gnubuntu happen, with the first release 2 years ago today (August 25th 2006).
A quick check indicates that Gobuntu was first released July 10th 2007.
See https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2005-November/013261.html http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/130
Remember, this is the Free Software Foundation, which doesn't do anything non-ideological.
This is a common misconception - gNewSense is not and has never been run by the FSF. They approached us after our first release. Since then, they have provided us with hardware and helped out here and there. We're obviously on very friendly terms and help them out where we can, but they don't run the show.
Given his strong opinion on the topic of non-Free software, I can't really understand this sentence: "Since the last release, more non-free binary blobs have been removed, ....". Does that mean GNewSense included and still includes non-Free blob's?
We keep finding more of them in odd places.
See http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00164 for the background to that particular sentence. In Hardy, some non-free blobs moved from the kernel to a package we'd never heard about before. Once this was reported, they were removed within 5 hours.
I'm not currently aware of any non-free blobs in gNewSense. To ensure it stays that way, some time ago we kicked off an exhaustive check of the Kernel, which has already gone through all the "hotspots". We also did a check of all of 'main' for 1.1.
http://www.kubuntu.org/ is one option.
99% of windows users have no need for partitioning their hard drive. Do you know what happens most of the time when people create windows partitions? Someone thinks they are clever and creates seperate partition for their data, another for their programs, and another for a swap file, etc... This whole system quickly breaks down when one partition becomes full.
Eh, no. Seperating user data from applications is a very good idea. It has saved me a lot of time and trouble (on Windows and Unix) when things went wrong, and I've helped other people who really wished that they'd done it too.
The register had an article on this two days ago
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/27/patent_off ice_technical/
Doesn't support Windoze 98. Win 2k/XP only.
Trust me install it - change two bytes to nulls and it runs fine. Instructions here (I run 98SE)
Before anyone asks yes, I did buy the game
Kinda makes for a self perpetuating system of complex laws. What incentive do politicians have to simplify the legal system?
Laws aren't as easy to write as you might think. Over the last month a friend and I have worked every night in order to draft a 11 page constitution for a group.
We'd like it smaller and simpler but there was no other way to have it 'correct' and without loopholes. It seem resonable to assume that the legal system has the same problem.
One Solaris 8 system I use runs Apache 1.3.27. We can't upgrade due to the complexity of getting PHP to work - as it stands its got a few bugs.
Maybe this will help to get a better version of Apache up...
Here's a Stallman Stallman Lecture from Ireland a few months back.
Not a good idea. If the expert was doing research in the same field they would reject the patent so that they could get one themselves.
Also the Programmer from Mars would cause problems - something inovative seems obvious after it is discovered.
I'm pretty sure Linux can do this. Proof - GPG's secmem-warning. I don't get it on Woody. Solaris is different. I think it needs root.
Try rfc1149. Its better. I'm much looking forward to April the First. Last Year's was quite 'evil'.
RFC3251 - Electricity over IP
http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2004-January/00 9863.html
Takes a bit to get into the discussion though
Relavent system has 2TB of data(6TB space), max recorded throughput is 550Mb/s, over 20000 concurrent http requests.
What would be the point of converting?
You'd just add extra headers and increase file size. If you want to dynamically alter sounds in 3d space dependant on temporal and frequency factors a plugin might be more appropriate. How often do you listen to all of your mp3 collection?
Of course its a bit faster to access 16Gb rather than 64Gb and faster againt access 4Gb for some PAE reason.
'The Tipping Point' by Malcom Gladwell. Looks at the spread of ideas/diseaeses. Quite interesting but the conclusion is a bit strong.
From the article:
2. Take steps to transfer the Domain Name to Google;
Now what could google do with this...
IIRC due to the maximum size of a UDP packet you can't have more then 13 root servers. Of course anycast would allow this to be distributed somewhat.
t ings/duba i-2003/presentations/k_root_nameserver_operations. pdf
Quick google:
http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/regional-mee