Well, the thing is, when KDE4 was released, I liked various changes they did to the desktop manager, but hated many things they did to the applications, they completely destroyed all usefulness and productivity that Kate had for programming by destroying the search function, its dialogs, and making it per-file. It's stupid that changing your window manager also requires changing to crippled versions of applications. Plus it also makes me wonder what the KDE developer's focus is. I care about the window manager part of KDE. But they appear to care more about the applications, when looking in the changelists. And I didn't like a single change they did to the applications ever since after the latest KDE 3.5 was released.
You know, it doesn't. KDE 3.5 programs work fine under KDE4, but KDE3.5 have problems with obsolete dependencies.. especially Qt3. Those problems would persist if you had stuck with KDE3 through and through.
I also find it interesting that you find Kate destroyed. I use it daily, and I haven't even noticed any significant changes. But perhaps the keyword is "by-file"... as that is how I tend to operate, I might not have noticed any mulit-file features (for C++ I use KDevelop 4.2, which also uses Kate beneath. Except the menu layout, that is another quite good KDE4 application).
The top layers can only take really light containers, so I bet that those would be cheap.. especially if there has been a lot of heavy containers booked, and cell space is going to waste.
Or they could just use the library which actually does the heavy lifting in evince (and Okular and nearly all the other pdf viewers for linux out there)Poppler.
I'm sure that this is exactly what they intend to do.
Actually, GPL+exception can very well be GPL-compatible. Case in point: BSD-license is compatible, which is sort of a GPL-except-just-about-everything.
The heroes in Denmark are the ones who get to work every day despite being paid only a little more than they would get on welfare. My respect for them is so huge that it leaves little room for other people.
As for the unemployed, it's like singles: It's not like most people are unemployed most of the time, it's that most people experience short spans of unemployment. It's not that bad, being unemployed for a few months. Of course, for the ones who cannot get or keep a position, it can be hard (like being single permanently), but freedom ultimately has no meaning if you do not have the freedom to fail, harsh as it is.
Denmark had a period of very low unemployment recently. Believe, that is not something to be desired. The economy starts heating up very quickly, and the crash is not very pretty.
Oh and as an Austrailian I would like to say " Fuck Telstra" they are the worst company in this once great country that is rapidly descending into mediocrity.
The thing is: If it is not binding for whatever reason, you cannot distribute the software at all. That is, without GPL giving you a license to use the software, normal copyright applies and you are not allowed to just copy and distribute copyrighted software. I don't believe there is more than a handful or 2 countries in the world who does not have copyright on software, and certainly, Australia is not exempt.
Touched a nerve there, did I? Tell me, do you really believe that I should fear no gun owners at all? Even the mad, the sad and the jealous? Can you be such a fool?
But if you prefer, here is one the Americans seem to prefer: My freedom to shout "fire" in a crowded cinema curtails your freedom to be able to walk to the cinema untrampled. The world is not a simple place, with simple truths.
A comment like that implies that you have never worked with ZFS. Snapshots are simple, are constant time, and don't have a performance overhead, and don't require any preconfiguration. A fairly typical ZFS setup has a cron job that takes snapshots every hour and preserves hourly ones for a while, daily ones for a bit longer, and then monthly ones, so you can always go back and find the file that you deleted by mistake.
I haven't benchmarked it, I admit, but neither have I noticed a performance overhead with either LVM snapshots or btrfs. Neither requires any preconfiguration, except installing it in the first place (same as ZFS). I suppose I could setup a cronscript like that, but given that I already have a cronscript due a backup to a remote server, why should I bother? I could enhance this using LVM to get an "frozen" image to backup from, but in reality, what I have works fine, and is dead simple. I like simple. But no, I have not used ZFS because it doesn't work in Linux except through fusefs, which I do not have good experiences with.
The trouble is to come up with a good usecases for snapshots on the desktop, especially since a good backup solution is still needed in case of hardware failure
zfs send / receive makes backups trivial to a NAS. Just take a snapshot, and you can then send all of the deltas between that snapshot and the previous one to a remote drive, over SSH (for example). Then, on the NAS, you also have the snapshots, as well as the latest version, so you can revert to earlier versions easily.
Again, you could easily do the same with LVM or btrfs, but in reality, you can skip both an just use an ordinary backup system like rsnapshot. Again, why make it more complicated? In both cases, you risk backing something up in the middle of some undefined state of some program, leaving (part of) that backup unusable. I like the *idea* of backing up from a snapshot, but I must admit that I could not write a real business case for it off the cuff. Perhaps research can be found that shows one is better than the other in practice.
Heres a pro tip for installing Debian: Do NOT select any of the suggested bundles, especially not "desktop". If you want to avoid Mono, install KDE or some other environment, or use Gnome without Mono.
As long as you call people who disagree with you quasi-religious, I will doubt your ability to look objectively at the matter at hand.
As for (L)GPL and BSD-licensed: Both are terms, both are written in plain English. You can take or leave either one, and no one can dictate anything except as stated in those terms. Remember, your freedom to carry guns might well curtail my freedom to walk in the park after dark: the world is not a simple place.
If you really want snapshots, LVM is probably easier and works on all filesystems, though recently I have had a bit of fun with btfs, which also offers checksums. Truth to tell, I can't remember the last time I've had data corruption on my drives. Even the times where HDD have failed, I have been able to copy off the data (if SLOWLY), and I haven't noticed corruption yet.
The trouble is to come up with a good usecases for snapshots on the desktop, especially since a good backup solution is still needed in case of hardware failure. The only thing I use it for is to keep a "pristine" Debian sid+stable around for building packages, so that I know for sure that I only depend on what I think I do. I know one who takes a snapshot before upgrading, so that he can revert... cool, but perfectly achievable with LVM.
Say what? Of course my setup finds the location of the nameservers. Otherwise it would be rather useless, no? I can't remember how it works exactly, though.
Actually, DHCPv6 is not going to be deployed by many, as I understand. I've set up IPv6 at home through a tunnel (really easy, at least for linux), and it uses a DCMP (I think is called) protocol to broadcast the prefix, and some magic to avoid clashes. It's nice & simple, compared to DHCP. I just use the MAC address as the postfix -- that means I can add the resultant address to my DNS, and access all my machines individually at home. Sweet! Much, much better than port forwarding.
There are lots of pay channels, all encrypted, and that seems to work. So I'd say: Yes. And if BBC makes it too hard, more people will elect to not pay them, which should motivate BBC to make it easier.
In other words, this is a solved problem. It's only the "not invented here"-mentality that is the barrier now, not the technicalities.
Those boxes cost, what, £5 if mass produced? So the ROI is maybe a year or two. Less, probably, because a lot of those who previously were freeloading are suddenly inclined to pay.
Though honestly, I thought decoders were an integral part of a TV set these days, but I freely admit I know nothing about it. I just know that there are lots of pay channels which are encrypted and that those work just fine.
On the contrary, be glad! This sort of thing shows just how dangerous it is to have only one app store. The solution, of course, is to have 3 or 5 independent stores.
Well, rentals/pools/sharing have their own problems. Whos responsibility is it that the car is properly maintained? Do people drive as carefully in rentals as in their own? These matters will drive up the cost of the car. Then there is the convenience factor: Will a car be available (almost) every time you need one? Also, there isn't a boot to stash stuff in while at work in the same way.
I am not saying it can't be done, I'm just saying that it isn't so very clear what the best solution could be.
Sure, but what about the buzz? I often overhear when someone is doing something interesting and/or wrong, and can instantly intervene. Also, whenever someone swears at something it is quite possible someone will say: Just do this or that, and your problem will go away. It is that sort of communication that I think is lost when telecommuting.
Such solutions have been proposed many times. The main problem appear to be economic: You need a lot of those rails before they are interesting. So it's a big investment, and when it is build, will enough people actually use it?
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Well, the thing is, when KDE4 was released, I liked various changes they did to the desktop manager, but hated many things they did to the applications, they completely destroyed all usefulness and productivity that Kate had for programming by destroying the search function, its dialogs, and making it per-file. It's stupid that changing your window manager also requires changing to crippled versions of applications. Plus it also makes me wonder what the KDE developer's focus is. I care about the window manager part of KDE. But they appear to care more about the applications, when looking in the changelists. And I didn't like a single change they did to the applications ever since after the latest KDE 3.5 was released.
You know, it doesn't. KDE 3.5 programs work fine under KDE4, but KDE3.5 have problems with obsolete dependencies.. especially Qt3. Those problems would persist if you had stuck with KDE3 through and through.
I also find it interesting that you find Kate destroyed. I use it daily, and I haven't even noticed any significant changes. But perhaps the keyword is "by-file"... as that is how I tend to operate, I might not have noticed any mulit-file features (for C++ I use KDevelop 4.2, which also uses Kate beneath. Except the menu layout, that is another quite good KDE4 application).
The top layers can only take really light containers, so I bet that those would be cheap.. especially if there has been a lot of heavy containers booked, and cell space is going to waste.
It is probably for that reason that valuables are loaded under deck.
Or they could just use the library which actually does the heavy lifting in evince (and Okular and nearly all the other pdf viewers for linux out there)Poppler.
I'm sure that this is exactly what they intend to do.
Actually, GPL+exception can very well be GPL-compatible. Case in point: BSD-license is compatible, which is sort of a GPL-except-just-about-everything.
The heroes in Denmark are the ones who get to work every day despite being paid only a little more than they would get on welfare. My respect for them is so huge that it leaves little room for other people.
As for the unemployed, it's like singles: It's not like most people are unemployed most of the time, it's that most people experience short spans of unemployment. It's not that bad, being unemployed for a few months. Of course, for the ones who cannot get or keep a position, it can be hard (like being single permanently), but freedom ultimately has no meaning if you do not have the freedom to fail, harsh as it is.
Denmark had a period of very low unemployment recently. Believe, that is not something to be desired. The economy starts heating up very quickly, and the crash is not very pretty.
Is the GPL legally binding in Australia?
Oh and as an Austrailian I would like to say " Fuck Telstra" they are the worst company in this once great country that is rapidly descending into mediocrity.
The thing is: If it is not binding for whatever reason, you cannot distribute the software at all. That is, without GPL giving you a license to use the software, normal copyright applies and you are not allowed to just copy and distribute copyrighted software. I don't believe there is more than a handful or 2 countries in the world who does not have copyright on software, and certainly, Australia is not exempt.
The right time to do that was 11 years ago. Now, we need IPv6.
About TCP, you are very much free to try something else. Replacing or upgrading that part is nowhere near as painful.
Touched a nerve there, did I? Tell me, do you really believe that I should fear no gun owners at all? Even the mad, the sad and the jealous? Can you be such a fool?
But if you prefer, here is one the Americans seem to prefer: My freedom to shout "fire" in a crowded cinema curtails your freedom to be able to walk to the cinema untrampled. The world is not a simple place, with simple truths.
A comment like that implies that you have never worked with ZFS. Snapshots are simple, are constant time, and don't have a performance overhead, and don't require any preconfiguration. A fairly typical ZFS setup has a cron job that takes snapshots every hour and preserves hourly ones for a while, daily ones for a bit longer, and then monthly ones, so you can always go back and find the file that you deleted by mistake.
I haven't benchmarked it, I admit, but neither have I noticed a performance overhead with either LVM snapshots or btrfs. Neither requires any preconfiguration, except installing it in the first place (same as ZFS). I suppose I could setup a cronscript like that, but given that I already have a cronscript due a backup to a remote server, why should I bother? I could enhance this using LVM to get an "frozen" image to backup from, but in reality, what I have works fine, and is dead simple. I like simple. But no, I have not used ZFS because it doesn't work in Linux except through fusefs, which I do not have good experiences with.
The trouble is to come up with a good usecases for snapshots on the desktop, especially since a good backup solution is still needed in case of hardware failure
zfs send / receive makes backups trivial to a NAS. Just take a snapshot, and you can then send all of the deltas between that snapshot and the previous one to a remote drive, over SSH (for example). Then, on the NAS, you also have the snapshots, as well as the latest version, so you can revert to earlier versions easily.
Again, you could easily do the same with LVM or btrfs, but in reality, you can skip both an just use an ordinary backup system like rsnapshot. Again, why make it more complicated? In both cases, you risk backing something up in the middle of some undefined state of some program, leaving (part of) that backup unusable. I like the *idea* of backing up from a snapshot, but I must admit that I could not write a real business case for it off the cuff. Perhaps research can be found that shows one is better than the other in practice.
Heres a pro tip for installing Debian: Do NOT select any of the suggested bundles, especially not "desktop". If you want to avoid Mono, install KDE or some other environment, or use Gnome without Mono.
As long as you call people who disagree with you quasi-religious, I will doubt your ability to look objectively at the matter at hand.
As for (L)GPL and BSD-licensed: Both are terms, both are written in plain English. You can take or leave either one, and no one can dictate anything except as stated in those terms. Remember, your freedom to carry guns might well curtail my freedom to walk in the park after dark: the world is not a simple place.
If you really want snapshots, LVM is probably easier and works on all filesystems, though recently I have had a bit of fun with btfs, which also offers checksums. Truth to tell, I can't remember the last time I've had data corruption on my drives. Even the times where HDD have failed, I have been able to copy off the data (if SLOWLY), and I haven't noticed corruption yet.
The trouble is to come up with a good usecases for snapshots on the desktop, especially since a good backup solution is still needed in case of hardware failure. The only thing I use it for is to keep a "pristine" Debian sid+stable around for building packages, so that I know for sure that I only depend on what I think I do. I know one who takes a snapshot before upgrading, so that he can revert... cool, but perfectly achievable with LVM.
Say what? Of course my setup finds the location of the nameservers. Otherwise it would be rather useless, no? I can't remember how it works exactly, though.
Actually, DHCPv6 is not going to be deployed by many, as I understand. I've set up IPv6 at home through a tunnel (really easy, at least for linux), and it uses a DCMP (I think is called) protocol to broadcast the prefix, and some magic to avoid clashes. It's nice & simple, compared to DHCP. I just use the MAC address as the postfix -- that means I can add the resultant address to my DNS, and access all my machines individually at home. Sweet! Much, much better than port forwarding.
It does, however, fuel my hatred for Oracle.
My hatred was already maxed out for the null/empty-string screwup. I fail to see how it could get worse ;)
Wanting something to be harder than it needs to be doesn't make you a professional or a "true" anything, it makes you a masochist.
Indeed, but people usually don't want things to be harder than it needs to be, they just don't want change.
There are lots of pay channels, all encrypted, and that seems to work. So I'd say: Yes. And if BBC makes it too hard, more people will elect to not pay them, which should motivate BBC to make it easier.
In other words, this is a solved problem. It's only the "not invented here"-mentality that is the barrier now, not the technicalities.
Those boxes cost, what, £5 if mass produced? So the ROI is maybe a year or two. Less, probably, because a lot of those who previously were freeloading are suddenly inclined to pay.
Though honestly, I thought decoders were an integral part of a TV set these days, but I freely admit I know nothing about it. I just know that there are lots of pay channels which are encrypted and that those work just fine.
Same issue here. Encrypt the signal and save a lot of money, I say, and save those of us with no interest in the state television the bother.
On the contrary, be glad! This sort of thing shows just how dangerous it is to have only one app store. The solution, of course, is to have 3 or 5 independent stores.
Well, rentals/pools/sharing have their own problems. Whos responsibility is it that the car is properly maintained? Do people drive as carefully in rentals as in their own? These matters will drive up the cost of the car. Then there is the convenience factor: Will a car be available (almost) every time you need one? Also, there isn't a boot to stash stuff in while at work in the same way.
I am not saying it can't be done, I'm just saying that it isn't so very clear what the best solution could be.
Sure, but what about the buzz? I often overhear when someone is doing something interesting and/or wrong, and can instantly intervene. Also, whenever someone swears at something it is quite possible someone will say: Just do this or that, and your problem will go away. It is that sort of communication that I think is lost when telecommuting.
Such solutions have been proposed many times. The main problem appear to be economic: You need a lot of those rails before they are interesting. So it's a big investment, and when it is build, will enough people actually use it?