England have got a remote chance to winning the european championship as on their day they can beat quite good teams[0]. If you add Brazil[1], they haven't got a hope in hell[2].
[0] i dont consider any of the teams in europe, bar portugul[3] and spain as really good any more. Italy have had their day, France are on the same path as Italy, Germany haven't been a good side since the mid 90s (when their team wasn't drawing their state pensions). Holland aren't that good, although they are showing promise of becoming good. Greece? they are crap, dispite them winning euro2004 - they just dont compare with spain, portugul, brazil etc.
[1] yes, i am aware this is a completely hypothetical scenario.
[2] brazil aren't as good as they were circa 96, but they are still a really good side and have proved they can churn out tallent time and time again.
[3] I recon portugul will be a great side in the next few years
There's lots of things you can do with your computer while you sleep (i dont leave mine on every night but here's some reasons ive left it on before and reasons i might in the future)
installing gentoo a lot of updating gentoo downloading something really big transcoding video's recording a tv program with mythtv
no, the reason RMS wants linux distro's to be Debian GNU/Linux, Mandrake GNU/Linux etc is because the userspace applications are mostly GNU. I read once that about a third of all software in the average linux distro is GNU written software.
Thats why there isn't such thing as GNU/ReactOS (iirc ReactOS is GPL)
about 6 months ago i got a call from my grandma. she said "my next door neighbours computer is broke, will you come and have a look at it. he'll pay you". So i went round (only round the corner) and had a look. The Microsoft Javascript Debugger was on screen. I said "whats your problem" thinking he was debugging JS and it had really fucked up. he said "whats this? i was on the internet and this came up" i suppressed my laughter, closed it and disabled it (about 6 clicks in all).
He was a nice guy and he didn't take more than 10 minutes of my time, plus he's my grandma/grandads friend/neighbour so i just said "its fixed and it wont bother you again. I'll be off"
He practically forced me to take £20 (probably about 30USD) for my 6 clicks.
Why not, do "they" have some religious prohibition on writing custom code that parses output of fdisk? Even then, they can just assume boot == hda1, swap == hda2, root == hda3 and most people will be happy.
Without meaning to sound elitist, if you cant manage to partition your disks with cfdisk (not fdisk) then you shouldn't be using gentoo
Then of course you can unmerge them and install components of your choice.
Alternatively you just follow the instructions and merge them yourself - its not hard and it doesn't take long (emerge vixie-cron syslog-ng)
With that said, the install process has several steps with no apparent purpose except for being 1337. They didn't really have to make you install cron, syslog and dhcpd, or make you deal with fstab or grub.conf.
How do you propose they setup fstab or grub.conf (everybody's partitions/kernel setup is different)? You mean you want them to create an installer program for you?
What if you dont like a particular cron deamon? what if you like a particular logger? What if you dont use dhcp (i dont)?
I agree with him. I know that everything in debian's repositories or portage, or mandrake cooker, etc are all trustworthy applications verified by the disto maintainers.
The debian team would never include gator (claria??) in their repositories but i know tucows or downloads.com might do.
I prefer portage myself, but am just as happy with apt and wont be going back to a MSI style system in a hurry.
Besides, this is a local machine exploit - I have another "pressing the power button on a local machine results in denial of usage", should MS prevent that happening as well?
have a broken ACPI implementation (not that acpi in linux is great at the moment either)?
My point was that it cant be too bad. Plus its arguable that an LGPL type license is not in the spirit of the GPL, that would be the spirit of the LGPL.
We should also remember the part of the GPL that says something like "future versions of the gpl will be of the same spirit but with different bits to address new concerns"
By the same logic, a libary is not an information service as the information comes from the books, the library is just a provider (the pipe in cable internet) of books.
kind of offtopic, i know but anyway. i was bored in college once, so i wrote a VB app in about30 seconds with a textbox, a go button and an IE OCX. the code was this (might not be perfect, ive not done any VB for a long time now):
sub command1_click()
iecontrol.navigate2 text1 end sub
And it was suprising how the security of IE is tied to the address bar and the rendering portion of the browser allowed me into c:, which i wasn't allowed to do in windows explorer. i cant remember if i was able to add/edit/delete files or not though.
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England have got a remote chance to winning the european championship as on their day they can beat quite good teams[0]. If you add Brazil[1], they haven't got a hope in hell[2].
[0] i dont consider any of the teams in europe, bar portugul[3] and spain as really good any more. Italy have had their day, France are on the same path as Italy, Germany haven't been a good side since the mid 90s (when their team wasn't drawing their state pensions). Holland aren't that good, although they are showing promise of becoming good. Greece? they are crap, dispite them winning euro2004 - they just dont compare with spain, portugul, brazil etc.
[1] yes, i am aware this is a completely hypothetical scenario.
[2] brazil aren't as good as they were circa 96, but they are still a really good side and have proved they can churn out tallent time and time again.
[3] I recon portugul will be a great side in the next few years
That would be bad - how the hell are england supposed to win the european cup with brazil in the UEFA group?
seriously though: YEAH!!!
There's lots of things you can do with your computer while you sleep (i dont leave mine on every night but here's some reasons ive left it on before and reasons i might in the future)
installing gentoo
a lot of updating gentoo
downloading something really big
transcoding video's
recording a tv program with mythtv
link?
(woman, not government)
i didn't say i agree'd with RMS about linux distro's being called GNU/Linux, i was just giving his justification.
dunno, try it
anti-aliased fonts! thats just bloat! we should learn to listen and type in binary (beep beep BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!)
seriously though i prefer blackbox to fluxbox and openbox (if i ever break kde or need my resources i use blackbox)
I personally believe the PC would have been brought to peoples homes without Microsoft's help (although it was them who made it happen).
Some other company would have provided an operating system, maybe on a non x86 arch
Im from the UK and ive never cared enough to learn about the USA much.
Whats the difference between USA and America (or is America north,central and south america??)
no, the reason RMS wants linux distro's to be Debian GNU/Linux, Mandrake GNU/Linux etc is because the userspace applications are mostly GNU. I read once that about a third of all software in the average linux distro is GNU written software.
Thats why there isn't such thing as GNU/ReactOS (iirc ReactOS is GPL)
No, people call the monitor the "tv".
about 6 months ago i got a call from my grandma. she said "my next door neighbours computer is broke, will you come and have a look at it. he'll pay you". So i went round (only round the corner) and had a look. The Microsoft Javascript Debugger was on screen. I said "whats your problem" thinking he was debugging JS and it had really fucked up. he said "whats this? i was on the internet and this came up" i suppressed my laughter, closed it and disabled it (about 6 clicks in all).
He was a nice guy and he didn't take more than 10 minutes of my time, plus he's my grandma/grandads friend/neighbour so i just said "its fixed and it wont bother you again. I'll be off"
He practically forced me to take £20 (probably about 30USD) for my 6 clicks.
Why not, do "they" have some religious prohibition on writing custom code that parses output of fdisk? Even then, they can just assume boot == hda1, swap == hda2, root == hda3 and most people will be happy.
Without meaning to sound elitist, if you cant manage to partition your disks with cfdisk (not fdisk) then you shouldn't be using gentoo
Then of course you can unmerge them and install components of your choice.
Alternatively you just follow the instructions and merge them yourself - its not hard and it doesn't take long (emerge vixie-cron syslog-ng)
With that said, the install process has several steps with no apparent purpose except for being 1337. They didn't really have to make you install cron, syslog and dhcpd, or make you deal with fstab or grub.conf.
How do you propose they setup fstab or grub.conf (everybody's partitions/kernel setup is different)? You mean you want them to create an installer program for you?
What if you dont like a particular cron deamon? what if you like a particular logger? What if you dont use dhcp (i dont)?
What about netmeeting and other such protocols for voice/video over IP? would these be affected by these new laws?
I agree with him. I know that everything in debian's repositories or portage, or mandrake cooker, etc are all trustworthy applications verified by the disto maintainers.
The debian team would never include gator (claria??) in their repositories but i know tucows or downloads.com might do.
I prefer portage myself, but am just as happy with apt and wont be going back to a MSI style system in a hurry.
i dont trust anybody that drives on the wrong (right hand) side of the road
Besides, this is a local machine exploit - I have another "pressing the power button on a local machine results in denial of usage", should MS prevent that happening as well?
have a broken ACPI implementation (not that acpi in linux is great at the moment either)?
Thats because they couldnt trademark america.
My point was that it cant be too bad. Plus its arguable that an LGPL type license is not in the spirit of the GPL, that would be the spirit of the LGPL.
We should also remember the part of the GPL that says something like "future versions of the gpl will be of the same spirit but with different bits to address new concerns"
The KDE team owns the copyright of the code if you send a patch (iirc). This could be worked round in the kernel by some legal bollocks like
"This code is released under the GPL3 although may be relicensed by the maintainer of the Linux kernel to any OSI compatible license)"
By the same logic, a libary is not an information service as the information comes from the books, the library is just a provider (the pipe in cable internet) of books.
kind of offtopic, i know but anyway. i was bored in college once, so i wrote a VB app in about30 seconds with a textbox, a go button and an IE OCX. the code was this (might not be perfect, ive not done any VB for a long time now):
sub command1_click()
iecontrol.navigate2 text1
end sub
And it was suprising how the security of IE is tied to the address bar and the rendering portion of the browser allowed me into c:, which i wasn't allowed to do in windows explorer. i cant remember if i was able to add/edit/delete files or not though.
Opera on the other hand is suprisingly fast and runs on linux.