I've been using atapi packet cd/dvd writing ("acting as an IDE device") since 2.6.10 (when the kernel changelog mentions it being fixed) with no problems at all, even when burning "on the fly" at 6MB/sec (DVD 8x) across my network.
You must be using debian (or at least their update policies) to have such an old kernel;)
The hurricanes killing many members of the species whose activities are likely exacerbating them could be seen as a natural cycle approaching a balance I suppose...
Currently, there are too many people for our current economic and political climate to support, so while mass deaths are rather unfortunate I don't see it purely as a bad thing. A personification of the earth would suggest that she's just defending herself, and increasingly violent weather is unlikely to kill everyone - there are plenty of survivalists in the woodwork waiting to jump out and say "I told you so".
Debian (and by extension ubuntu) has always fought with me when I want to do things, especially the package manager. I find gentoo's portage works better for me. Portage allows one to customise a system a *lot* more before it descends into anything even resembling dependency hell, and one doesn't need to scour the internet for alternative repositories which, in my mind, is one of the main reasons that apt always chokes when installing more than 10 or so applications.
Note that I'm not saying debian has a poor system, just that its often completely incapable of doing things that I do on a daily basis.
I find Gentoo's longer and more involved (hence easier for those who know exactly what they want) install process is well worth it purely for its package management system, especially since debian has descended into dependency hell immediately after a fresh install every time I've touched it in the past couple of years.
Installing KDE without the crashtastic aRts? debian: requires manual compile from source. gentoo: unset a "use" flag
Use a different mpm with apache? debian: manual compile from source. gentoo: change a use; flag
Set up transcode on a headless machine without pulling in xorg (for clustered encoding)? debian: manual compile of transcode from source, and most other packages it uses too, plus some clobbering of apt so it doesn't choke. gentoo: set a couple use flags.
Samba without ldap or kerberos?
PHP with x,y and z but not a, b or c? gentoo has 108 use flags for php alone last time I checked
The list goes on...
ps: one could substitute almost any binary package based distro in the above list with the same outcome, so don't take it as a tirade singling debian out from the flock
Delerium's pre-karma albums are much better, although a little harder to find.. my favourite is Reflections II, which to this day I have not seen in a shop for less than $50 or i'd have bought it on the spot:(
Spheres II is divine as well, especially when you play dimensional space, hypoxia and otherworld in sequence
English was well developed long before there was anyone other than indians in america... It developed from latin roots, as are (almost?) all other british and european languages too, many of which english has stolen words and phrases from.
so which part of that would make _american_ english any kind of "standard"? I seem to be missing something there...
I believe the word accent indicates the fact that there are differences in pronunciation at all, as opposed to particular differences vs some given norm, thus all english speakers have an accent, even if a fairly neutral one.
well, opera is faster and more resource efficient than firefox, better integrated, has more options out of the box, doesn't crash anywhere near as much, doesn't have chronic memory leaks, has a zoom function, has user mode viewing and a quick options menu, has a 'frame' menu (maximize frame, view frame source, etc), doesn't have a chronic problem with opening new windows even with 5 different extensions loaded to stop it, has more, better, and fully configurable shortcut keys and toolbars, has runtime user agent selection, "continue from last time", mouse gestures, can pass urls to handler programs, allows you to actually customise all the various mime type handlers including ones it thinks it should open itself, and doesn't need 50 or more extensions loaded to have only the same set of features as opera.
after using opera, going back to firefox is almost as bad as going back to IE except you have tabs.
I might try firefox again when it doesn't need 800mb of ram to keep 30 tabs open for a week or so, and can actually stay open for a week without segfaulting.
oh yeah, opera also has an integrated mail client although i don't use it.
the _only_ thing firefox has over opera, even with all the available extensions, is adblock.
windows 2k/xp also runs beautifully in qemu, which is open source. '98 doesn't run quite so well, but it doesn't run quite so well natively either;)
qemu has available a free (as in beer) kernel module that turns it into a virtualiser rather than an emulator, which you can use if you want the speed of vmware without the cost, and are not bothered by non-oss modules in your kernel.
with the kernel module, its slower than vmware only by a negligible amount, and vmware is definitely not worth the cost for the speed increase alone.
after 9 months of using both dvorak and qwerty regularly (with 9 years qwerty experience, and switching back and forth through the entire 9 months so far), i can touch type on both at similar speeds.
dvorak is definitely much easier on the wrists and fingers, and is much faster to program in than qwerty.
if you're worried about RSI, i suggest throwing out your mouse and grabbing a thumb trackball, eg the logitech trackman wheel -- i've found that the switch from mouse to thumb-trackball has made a far more dramatic difference to my RSI woes than changing to dvorak. also, my fps gameplay improved too -- no more running out of mousepad, and no more unwanted movements when you click the button (makes double clicking way easier too). plus, your wrist/arm never needs to move much at all, unless you're switching back and forth from keyboard to rodent.
I don't like the way debian works, or ubuntu. its a subjective thing - I appreciate their strengths, and recommend ubuntu to friends who aren't up for a steep learning curve. (I use gentoo btw)
If all linux distros were united into one great distro, I wouldn't have this choice anymore, and its the amount of choice that users get with linux about every aspect of the system's operation that makes it popular.
Also, you'd see linux worms appearing in the wild, as all linux boxen would be similar enough to be cracked autonomously, whenever a remote code execution vulnerability is found in core software.
at the moment, there are enough security bugs around for many linux boxes to be taken over by a relatively skilled and knowledgeable cracker (or someone with such friends), who is capable of working out what's installed, how it all fits together, what bugs exist, and has a good enough reason to justify the time and effort. If all boxen were as similar as (eg.) windows boxes, this discovery process would no longer be necessary. The counter-point to this argument is OSX, and various MacOs' (and others i'm sure), although there have been proofs of concept..
I think the (relative) complexity of linux scares away many of the type of people who will ignorantly download, unzip and execute malware, thus i don't see it as necessarily a bad thing.. its sort of like the "licence to use a computer" concept, except that instead of requiring a certain amount of knowledge to get the licence, you need (or quickly acquire) that certain amount of knowledge to install anything but windows.
unfortunately the first fusion reaction was the trinity test, or possibly beforehand, and further fusion reactions have been happening in experimenter's basements since the 60s with the Farnsworth Fusor, among many other efforts.
Perhaps what the submitter meant was "hopefully first greater than unity reaction"...
1) Xandros is not a company. its an installer for an extensive software repository, very little of which is actually "Xandros software"
2) its not exclusively bundling software from a single source which has financial incentive to make alternatives prohibitive.
3) it also comes with konqueror, opera and others afaik, thus isn't anti-competitive
4) Xandros don't do anything to try and make moving away from Xandros a headache
5) Xandros doesn't coerce as much competition as possible into enforcing their dominance.
6) Xandros don't intentionally break standards used in their software to limit interoperability.
7) Xandros aren't exhibiting a burning desire to be considered the only option, at the expense of being nice to people.
8) Microsoft's "package" really can't compete until the software is of similar quality and price, and they include software from thousands of different vendors on their installation CDs/OEM installs...
9) Microsofts' products' biggest selling points are market dominance and self-integration, at the deliberate expense of compatibility with competing products. Ianal, but that's the real crux of the legal issue.
I'd say that those who release fonts under the gpl would only be annoyed if you re-released the same font or one you created by changing their work under a different name and non-gpl licence <i>as a font</i> rather than a graphic design, but that in itself won't save you in court if its not true.
you're distributing a work containing (linking) the binary result (rasterised fonts) of a GPLed "program" (the font generating datafile/code), thus you should ensure that the fonts are available to those who recieve the binary result (they're freely available online)
thus you shouldn't have a problem unless you modify the font's original datafile - which would be creating a deriviative work of the font, and even then you'd only have to provide that deriviative to people you send your binary result to...
other posters have stated that a font in itself is not copyrightable in the US, but its name may be, so if that is true you're still in the clear anyway...
you'd only have a problem if someone considers your design a deriviative work of the font, in which case you'd just have to send the project file in your designer's native format or at least one that allows full editing possibility if you send the binary result which afaik you'd do anyway since printing houses prefer vector graphics over raster...
some other posts note that the GPL faq says that fonts' licences should add a clause that excludes works using the font from having to be GPLed, similar to the clause in GCC's license that excludes the binary output of GCC from being GPLed, so you might wish to check that for the simplest clarification of your position.
when i did the queensland/australia equivalent, i used a combination of incredible arrogance and not giving two hoots about the result.. consequently, i wrote utter drivel and got top marks.
such a thing isn't hard to do. google "streamlining windows xp"
I have an XP cd pre-patched to sp2 lying around somewhere, and another that has that, plus all my most common software also streamlined in (firefox, opera, zonealarm, avg, nero, notepad++, putty, etc etc) - also has IE disables as much as possible, a completely different to default service on/off set, "web view" in explorer off and tree on by default. the only part of your description i haven't done is user accounts != admin by default...
if you decide to make such a disc, vmware/equivalent is your friend!
i believe you can even streamline your xp key into the process.
its a pity so little of the info required to do this is released by ms itself - it'd be interesting to see "distributions" of winXP available in shops...
i'm in brisbane, australia here.. the weather lately has been 35+ degrees centigrade/85% humidity except when it storms (about once a fortnight) when it changes to 30+/99% for about 4 hours.
I class it as disgustingly horrid weather myself.. its too hot to sleep, and even when one does, you gain little to no rest.. you're constantly irritable and sweaty, and showers just make you that much more aware of how horrible the weather is.. your brain shuts down out of protest, you get strange hours of delerium as one's internal organs go into hyperthermia control mode...
I'd LOVE to be able to fix my weather problems by wearing more clothes, but it seems my only recourse is to shell out hundreds on air conditioning, which will only make the problem worse in the long run...
sounds like i need to move far further from the equator than here..
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opera's zoom has done exactly what you want for a number of years... and as of recently, it's free too :)
I've been using atapi packet cd/dvd writing ("acting as an IDE device") since 2.6.10 (when the kernel changelog mentions it being fixed) with no problems at all, even when burning "on the fly" at 6MB/sec (DVD 8x) across my network.
;)
You must be using debian (or at least their update policies) to have such an old kernel
The hurricanes killing many members of the species whose activities are likely exacerbating them could be seen as a natural cycle approaching a balance I suppose...
Currently, there are too many people for our current economic and political climate to support, so while mass deaths are rather unfortunate I don't see it purely as a bad thing. A personification of the earth would suggest that she's just defending herself, and increasingly violent weather is unlikely to kill everyone - there are plenty of survivalists in the woodwork waiting to jump out and say "I told you so".
Even if we were to be thrown back into the stone age by war or weather, humanity would survive, and there is evidence to suggest that this has already happened at least once before.
Debian (and by extension ubuntu) has always fought with me when I want to do things, especially the package manager. I find gentoo's portage works better for me. Portage allows one to customise a system a *lot* more before it descends into anything even resembling dependency hell, and one doesn't need to scour the internet for alternative repositories which, in my mind, is one of the main reasons that apt always chokes when installing more than 10 or so applications.
Note that I'm not saying debian has a poor system, just that its often completely incapable of doing things that I do on a daily basis.
I find Gentoo's longer and more involved (hence easier for those who know exactly what they want) install process is well worth it purely for its package management system, especially since debian has descended into dependency hell immediately after a fresh install every time I've touched it in the past couple of years.
Installing KDE without the crashtastic aRts? debian: requires manual compile from source. gentoo: unset a "use" flag
Use a different mpm with apache? debian: manual compile from source. gentoo: change a use; flag
Set up transcode on a headless machine without pulling in xorg (for clustered encoding)? debian: manual compile of transcode from source, and most other packages it uses too, plus some clobbering of apt so it doesn't choke. gentoo: set a couple use flags.
Samba without ldap or kerberos?
PHP with x,y and z but not a, b or c? gentoo has 108 use flags for php alone last time I checked
The list goes on...
ps: one could substitute almost any binary package based distro in the above list with the same outcome, so don't take it as a tirade singling debian out from the flock
Delerium's pre-karma albums are much better, although a little harder to find.. my favourite is Reflections II, which to this day I have not seen in a shop for less than $50 or i'd have bought it on the spot :(
Spheres II is divine as well, especially when you play dimensional space, hypoxia and otherworld in sequence
English was well developed long before there was anyone other than indians in america... It developed from latin roots, as are (almost?) all other british and european languages too, many of which english has stolen words and phrases from.
so which part of that would make _american_ english any kind of "standard"? I seem to be missing something there...
I believe the word accent indicates the fact that there are differences in pronunciation at all, as opposed to particular differences vs some given norm, thus all english speakers have an accent, even if a fairly neutral one.
religion dictates how the universe came to be, and science dictates what it's done with itself since then... works for me.
;)
note i didn't say which religion, if any
in the words of the late douglas adams, "In the beginning was nothing, which exploded."
well, opera is faster and more resource efficient than firefox, better integrated, has more options out of the box, doesn't crash anywhere near as much, doesn't have chronic memory leaks, has a zoom function, has user mode viewing and a quick options menu, has a 'frame' menu (maximize frame, view frame source, etc), doesn't have a chronic problem with opening new windows even with 5 different extensions loaded to stop it, has more, better, and fully configurable shortcut keys and toolbars, has runtime user agent selection, "continue from last time", mouse gestures, can pass urls to handler programs, allows you to actually customise all the various mime type handlers including ones it thinks it should open itself, and doesn't need 50 or more extensions loaded to have only the same set of features as opera.
after using opera, going back to firefox is almost as bad as going back to IE except you have tabs.
I might try firefox again when it doesn't need 800mb of ram to keep 30 tabs open for a week or so, and can actually stay open for a week without segfaulting.
oh yeah, opera also has an integrated mail client although i don't use it.
the _only_ thing firefox has over opera, even with all the available extensions, is adblock.
windows 2k/xp also runs beautifully in qemu, which is open source. '98 doesn't run quite so well, but it doesn't run quite so well natively either ;)
qemu has available a free (as in beer) kernel module that turns it into a virtualiser rather than an emulator, which you can use if you want the speed of vmware without the cost, and are not bothered by non-oss modules in your kernel.
with the kernel module, its slower than vmware only by a negligible amount, and vmware is definitely not worth the cost for the speed increase alone.
my desktop box (running 2.6.12-gentoo-r6) has a couple of unkillable processes..
apart from that my desktop and two servers have been rock solid stable since 2.6.7 when I set them all up
after 9 months of using both dvorak and qwerty regularly (with 9 years qwerty experience, and switching back and forth through the entire 9 months so far), i can touch type on both at similar speeds.
;)
dvorak is definitely much easier on the wrists and fingers, and is much faster to program in than qwerty.
if you're worried about RSI, i suggest throwing out your mouse and grabbing a thumb trackball, eg the logitech trackman wheel -- i've found that the switch from mouse to thumb-trackball has made a far more dramatic difference to my RSI woes than changing to dvorak. also, my fps gameplay improved too -- no more running out of mousepad, and no more unwanted movements when you click the button (makes double clicking way easier too). plus, your wrist/arm never needs to move much at all, unless you're switching back and forth from keyboard to rodent.
and the usual, set up your workspace properly
hth
I don't like the way debian works, or ubuntu. its a subjective thing - I appreciate their strengths, and recommend ubuntu to friends who aren't up for a steep learning curve. (I use gentoo btw)
If all linux distros were united into one great distro, I wouldn't have this choice anymore, and its the amount of choice that users get with linux about every aspect of the system's operation that makes it popular.
Also, you'd see linux worms appearing in the wild, as all linux boxen would be similar enough to be cracked autonomously, whenever a remote code execution vulnerability is found in core software.
at the moment, there are enough security bugs around for many linux boxes to be taken over by a relatively skilled and knowledgeable cracker (or someone with such friends), who is capable of working out what's installed, how it all fits together, what bugs exist, and has a good enough reason to justify the time and effort. If all boxen were as similar as (eg.) windows boxes, this discovery process would no longer be necessary. The counter-point to this argument is OSX, and various MacOs' (and others i'm sure), although there have been proofs of concept..
I think the (relative) complexity of linux scares away many of the type of people who will ignorantly download, unzip and execute malware, thus i don't see it as necessarily a bad thing.. its sort of like the "licence to use a computer" concept, except that instead of requiring a certain amount of knowledge to get the licence, you need (or quickly acquire) that certain amount of knowledge to install anything but windows.
unfortunately the first fusion reaction was the trinity test, or possibly beforehand, and further fusion reactions have been happening in experimenter's basements since the 60s with the Farnsworth Fusor, among many other efforts.
Perhaps what the submitter meant was "hopefully first greater than unity reaction"...
you haven't tried gentoo
gentoo has decent amd64 support.. its not great, but its as far as its gotten.. they also have install cds primarily as torrents ;)
using your examples :-
1) Xandros is not a company. its an installer for an extensive software repository, very little of which is actually "Xandros software"
2) its not exclusively bundling software from a single source which has financial incentive to make alternatives prohibitive.
3) it also comes with konqueror, opera and others afaik, thus isn't anti-competitive
4) Xandros don't do anything to try and make moving away from Xandros a headache
5) Xandros doesn't coerce as much competition as possible into enforcing their dominance.
6) Xandros don't intentionally break standards used in their software to limit interoperability.
7) Xandros aren't exhibiting a burning desire to be considered the only option, at the expense of being nice to people.
8) Microsoft's "package" really can't compete until the software is of similar quality and price, and they include software from thousands of different vendors on their installation CDs/OEM installs...
9) Microsofts' products' biggest selling points are market dominance and self-integration, at the deliberate expense of compatibility with competing products. Ianal, but that's the real crux of the legal issue.
that's all i can think of for now..
IANAL, but this is how I see your position:
I'd say that those who release fonts under the gpl would only be annoyed if you re-released the same font or one you created by changing their work under a different name and non-gpl licence <i>as a font</i> rather than a graphic design, but that in itself won't save you in court if its not true.
you're distributing a work containing (linking) the binary result (rasterised fonts) of a GPLed "program" (the font generating datafile/code), thus you should ensure that the fonts are available to those who recieve the binary result (they're freely available online)
thus you shouldn't have a problem unless you modify the font's original datafile - which would be creating a deriviative work of the font, and even then you'd only have to provide that deriviative to people you send your binary result to...
other posters have stated that a font in itself is not copyrightable in the US, but its name may be, so if that is true you're still in the clear anyway...
you'd only have a problem if someone considers your design a deriviative work of the font, in which case you'd just have to send the project file in your designer's native format or at least one that allows full editing possibility if you send the binary result which afaik you'd do anyway since printing houses prefer vector graphics over raster...
some other posts note that the GPL faq says that fonts' licences should add a clause that excludes works using the font from having to be GPLed, similar to the clause in GCC's license that excludes the binary output of GCC from being GPLed, so you might wish to check that for the simplest clarification of your position.
HTH
at that rate of flops, i think software rendering would be orders of magnitude faster :P
that sounds about right from my experience :)
when i did the queensland/australia equivalent, i used a combination of incredible arrogance and not giving two hoots about the result.. consequently, i wrote utter drivel and got top marks.
perhaps he was in the xhtml conformance section?
Abuse was a crack dot com game, not id. you can find it on home of the underdogs, as crack dot com has since vanished.
such a thing isn't hard to do. google "streamlining windows xp"
I have an XP cd pre-patched to sp2 lying around somewhere, and another that has that, plus all my most common software also streamlined in (firefox, opera, zonealarm, avg, nero, notepad++, putty, etc etc) - also has IE disables as much as possible, a completely different to default service on/off set, "web view" in explorer off and tree on by default. the only part of your description i haven't done is user accounts != admin by default...
if you decide to make such a disc, vmware/equivalent is your friend!
i believe you can even streamline your xp key into the process.
its a pity so little of the info required to do this is released by ms itself - it'd be interesting to see "distributions" of winXP available in shops...
anyone remember the "Advanced Mircofusion Generator" in Tyrian?
i'm in brisbane, australia here.. the weather lately has been 35+ degrees centigrade/85% humidity except when it storms (about once a fortnight) when it changes to 30+/99% for about 4 hours.
I class it as disgustingly horrid weather myself.. its too hot to sleep, and even when one does, you gain little to no rest.. you're constantly irritable and sweaty, and showers just make you that much more aware of how horrible the weather is.. your brain shuts down out of protest, you get strange hours of delerium as one's internal organs go into hyperthermia control mode...
I'd LOVE to be able to fix my weather problems by wearing more clothes, but it seems my only recourse is to shell out hundreds on air conditioning, which will only make the problem worse in the long run...
sounds like i need to move far further from the equator than here..