Does anyone to have a nice resource site which is Linux-friendly and contains reviews about printer quality as well?
I currently have a Lexmark Z51 which ain't well supported on Linux. Its cardridge is currently empty as well so i figured i could just as well buy a new printer (2nd hand, dumpster a laser-printer, or just buy a new one based on good, Linux-friendly advice).
IP issues have been solved a long time ago. While Microsoft didn't publicly comment on IP issues in Mono, the legal department at Novell feels that any action taken by Microsoft against mono would be in amazingly bad faith and for 90% of Mono would be impossible to impose.
MS has been quiet but not silent Quote: Herman (remember, MS director of IP) explicitly says, "the field of use (...) and the prohibition on sub-licensing are inconsistent with the requirements of Sec. 7 of the GPL. Sec. 7 of the GPL says that if you do not have the rights to distribute the code as required under the GPL then you do not have the right to distribute at all. The GPL says you must have the rights to sublicense and to freely modify outside the field of use limitation."
Source: http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/mono
Its a quote, quoted from an older (19 may 2004) view/opinion, by RedHat's Seth Nickel -- but still useful, i believe. Seth Nickel included the following analysis based on that quote (also see the complete article!): The GPL incompatibility presumably isn't a big problem for Mono since (I think) its under an X style license, and GPL'd apps can still run atop it. However, this underscores that Microsoft knows full well that their particular terms have interactions with free software. Given the potential for sub-licensing to wreak havoc (as outlined above), I'm very worried that we, the free software community, are not flying "under the radar".
Are you sure AVG didn't actually use the WinRAR you have installed to extract the files, so it can scan them? I know that Ark (a KDE file archiving utility) uses Rarsoft's unrar to operate on RAR files.
While i'm not KDE or Ark user, i seriously doubt this statement. Rarsoft's Linux binary is called 'rar' and is shareware. It can rar and unrar. There is an open source program called unrar which has roughly the same features but a slightly different syntax. I think you meant that instead.
Also, i just checked and 'unrar' ain't using some kind of library for its functions so e.g. Ark or a AV scanner must run the program directly, if it uses that. Neither does Rarsoft's 'rar', btw.
I was thinking: Perhaps its good for competition (and hence price)?
Last time i checked, the Sharp Zaurus was pretty expensive, especially the newer models. What was it again, like $700 for the newer model in Japan. I know PDAs sell like baked bread in Japan but still, why are these toys so expensive? A friend of mine has a CL 5500 and while its a very nice PDA it was also pretty expensive when he bought it. And, newer versions are more convenient.
I hope to see more competition / prices going more down since i'd love to see the GSM (as in, a telephone) integrated with the PDA (as in, basic simple office work, e-mail synced, WiFi/UMTS) with a multimedia player (preferably also Vorbis-compatible). I want 1 device which is small enough but also gives me the features i want to have without using a beast such as a laptop and without having 1 device like e.g. the GSM which can phone (what i actually want), SMS (expensive!), play retro games (boring!) without the features i also would like to have.
This is probably FUD but we need solid arguments to debunk it. Slashdot, Groklaw et al can contribute to this but saying its 'crap' right away because of the conclusion which you may dislike is not entering the discussion from a pragmatic or rational point of view (quite the contrary).
I'm gonna give it a try and quote here what I read in the VNUnet article (which is the most informative one IMO since it contains a few details, in contrast to the other one) and try to express some reasoning. Until the real analysis is out we cannot be sure about anything though.
analysed vulnerabilities and patching and were forced to conclude that Windows Server 2003 is more secure than Red Hat Linux.
Classic strategy: minimize your enemy by defining it tightly as a dogma, then attack that dogma. I've seen this from Sun Microsystems as well. Basically, they ignore e.g. Novell. At least Novell is also a big player in terms of market share.
That said I remain interested in learning why they chose to compare to Red Hat and Red Hat alone.
"Vulnerability counts are much higher with Red Hat than with Microsoft," said Dr Ford.
Definition of 'vulnerability counts' and which vulnerabilities are counted. For example, lets say Red Hat has a patch for OpenLDAP while i run LAMP or LAPP then who cares about the fact that there's an OpenLDAP patch? Not me.
In all three cases Windows Server 2003 came out ahead, with an average of 30 "days of risk" between a vulnerability being identified and patched compared to 71 from Red Hat.
71 days is long! How they got to these numbers is also very interesting. For example, does this include e.g. the Mozilla bug which was alleged to be known (but not fixed) in 2001? It reminds me about MSIE for which vulnerabilities took long as well and remember 1 patch != 1 vulnerability either.
"I am a huge Linux fan, and I have a Linux server in my basement. The first time I saw the statistics I thought someone had mucked about with my database."
"There are some people who are sceptical [of the results]," said Dr Thompson. "We would encourage them to replicate this type of study. If you see flaws please tell us."
Statements like these may just as well be from astroturfers. Its also a classic strategy: basically, you play as if you're convinced by the study you conducted yourself while you expected a different result. In all honesty, why would you believe the judgement about the conclusion ("FUD!") from someone who hasn't read the study over the one from the person who's got convinced by his own study? This is why there's not much we can currently do except arguing over the existing details! This is why we need to stress about where the missing details are. This is why we cannot judge yet.
One last note:
"You would be a fool to make platform decisions without thinking about security," said Dr Ford. "When you choose a platform you have to factor in the costs of intrusion. It is not just the costs of a break in; it is the time spent running around making sure no one gets in."
With that last statement he Dr Ford basically says to take this study with a grain of salt because thats precisely what he hasn't researched!
BNR2 is -unfortunately- bloated, not very stable and not feature-complete IMO. If your father runs KDE he may be interested in KLibido (http://klibido.sourceforge.net) or KNZB (http://www.dmp.org.uk/linux/knzb). One related problem is that he'll have to get a binary for it somehow cause nobody includes this in their distribution.
QuickPar runs fine in WINE however there's also native PAR2 support. Its for CLI only and runs slightly less well than QuickPar. Nget, a console binary leecher, has automatic PAR2 repair support. It'll automatically repair and when needed download more PAR2 blocks. It slows things down abit (obviously), is CLI, but convenient.
There's a lot more software available such as a Java web client which can run stand-alone. Web frontends, such as one for Nget, but in the end there's just not a very good solution available and there's a lot of double/triple work. If you're interested in contributing (in any way!) to develop a full-featured client / server architectured Usenet binary leecher check out the project 'nntpgrab' http://nntpgrab.2y.net another issue is that there are no PAR2 libraries.
The fact one runs WINE to run a certain Windows program doesn't mean that person doesn't have a valid Windows license (for whatever version the program is compatible with).
Backwards compatibility might bite here as well. E.g. say you have a Windows 95 OSR2 license whereas you'd like to run Microsoft Office 95 in WINE.
You don't need a Windows license to use WINE to run a Windows program by definition. You can, for example, run Adobe Photoshop + WINE without a Windows license. You may need a Windows license together with WINE to run a certain program (for example because you use certain DLLs) but not by definition!
What do US politicians provide as alternative measure? I mean, if you disagree with a set of principles to benchmark X to reduce Y whereas you do agree with the goal (reduce Y) then certainly you provide an alternative?
This is the kind of stories which need to be harvested and about which a compilation needs to be written to EU representatives. Especially positive if its to a EU representative who got a connection to the fellow (same nationality, left-wing -- for example). Also, especially the EU states which are able to change or make a difference need to be notified.
No offense, but blogs are regulary of low quality IMO. A lot of brogs are. Hence, i'm not so sure how many of those blogs actually are qualified as 'journalism'.
Futhermore the text is often copyrighted but not in an 'open source' style such as CC og GFDL (of which i don't consider the latter 'free').
Now, i'm involved as techie in a local media project and one of our concerns is: How can we build up a mediapool while also having some kind of quality assurance? To explain it futher: people, or certain subjects or happenings who or which normally are ignored have a chance at our network. Basically we use 'karma' but we're trying to find a way how new people will have to proof themselves -- which makes it different than say Indymedia. From what i can say, its definetely not easy.
The guy received feedback from Sun regarding his optimalisations. So he's open to optimalisations.
He didn't recompile his Linux kernel for i686 and even if he did that won't give you a lot more performance.
He compiled MySQL for every OS he posted. Fair compare ain't it.
He compiled Gentoo from the ground, yes. So? Gentoo's default compile options are just as FreeBSD's aimed at stability and it has conservative flags. I've never seen benchmarks which showed Gentoo, with whatever flags, delivers a significant better performance than e.g. Mandrake or Debian (fact i named *those* 2 is a hint!). With significant i mean ~ 5% or more.
As for his Linux knowledge i don't see why he's a Linux guru. In the past his articles were just as well about OpenBSD and other BSDs. Perhaps you're just seeking stupid arguments? Why not whine that he didn't use the same filesystem?!
You BSD zealots are losers who can't stand it that Linux is better in a regard such as this. Even though its quite known FreeBSD 5.3 ain't doing very well (DFBSD is) and even though its known NetBSD and OpenBSD have biglock and even though they weren't doing well in Fefe's Scalability benchmark (but improved a lot!!!) why not cut the dodging and admit? Or start doing something about it? When you'd just said: "this is merely MySQL, i'll do the same test but then with PostgreSQL" i'd say 'good point' and 'kudos' afterwards because those are valid points. Go ahead, go test it with Debian instead of Gentoo while you're at it. I challenge you -- but n/m, i already know its just chewbacca who's talking..
Afaik you can't sue someone for 'wasting time and money' or something similar. You can't get the money back either because you have to pay your attorneys yourself in the USA.
I read a number of interesting posts on Groklaw though. One included a mention that SCO has to pay *3rd party* analysts to hunt for 'the proof' in AIX which they aren't able to find. Now that IBM will have to give SCO full access to all interim revisions of AIX as well they'll have to pay these experts even *much more*. It seems thats SCO's last chance. After that, they're done.
As for IBM countersuing, they already do that, but with other arguments than the ones you state.
* Patent infringement (on several key products of SCO) * Copyright infringement (since SCO distributes the Linux kernel whereas SCO doesn't accept the GPL) * Lanham Act (trade libel, in effect)
Here's the post explaining them in detail: http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&si d=20050210075456474&title=Unfortunate&type=article &order=&hideanonymous=0&pid=274063
Good post, but you don't go futher in the situation of this very problem. In this specific issue people who have money are included on both sides and whereas there is a lot at stake, most people who have democratic power (every citizen) either: haven't heard of it or don't care about software patents or don't understand it (in that order). Remember, the regular media don't bother explaining the situation at all either (at least afaik they don't). That's why the right wing policians don't listen to the people now. They're just selling themselves to the biggest buyer because it won't change the next election results!
Uhm well, there's FFII and they have a wiki and IRC for example. There's a demonstration in Brussel soon. Problem with demonstrating is that its hard to centralize that due to traveling costs. Politicians can travel far more easier.:-(
PS: To the person who replied to you: India has softpats since dec 2004. It went quiet.. it was reported on/. but i know nothing more about it. Sad, sad...
Who cares who the head is? Or what that one looks like? Those are just useless, distracting details.
Everyone with a slight clue knows its the people behind that one man and the ideology behind them who are the governing people. You really thought the leader can say and do everything?
And if you don't get it yet: thats true for both EU countries as well as the USA.
So the original Greek meanings aren't far off at all.
Ad for the US Constitution. I'm not from the USA and i probably don't understand a lot surrounding it but when i look at the Constitution and the Law then the Law is certainly 'interpretated' by the court in favor of the prosecutor hence not the people.
Static Rights have an upside and a downside. They can't be evaded even when the people want to. However it seems to me the USA is finally doing these evasions quite right now.
Q3, RTCW, RTCW: ET, RTCW: ETF and many, many others also use a master server to authenticate with and/or get the list of servers. What i mean is what if these services are stopped? They're gonna be, some day. Then you can't play the game anymore. Similar as with HL2 except that you can play offline with the examples i made. I admit HL2 takes it a few steps futher, but what i mean is: the symtons of the problem is not unique!
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Does anyone to have a nice resource site which is Linux-friendly and contains reviews about printer quality as well?
I currently have a Lexmark Z51 which ain't well supported on Linux. Its cardridge is currently empty as well so i figured i could just as well buy a new printer (2nd hand, dumpster a laser-printer, or just buy a new one based on good, Linux-friendly advice).
(TIA.)
Source: http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/mono
Its a quote, quoted from an older (19 may 2004) view/opinion, by RedHat's Seth Nickel -- but still useful, i believe. Seth Nickel included the following analysis based on that quote (also see the complete article!): The GPL incompatibility presumably isn't a big problem for Mono since (I think) its under an X style license, and GPL'd apps can still run atop it. However, this underscores that Microsoft knows full well that their particular terms have interactions with free software. Given the potential for sub-licensing to wreak havoc (as outlined above), I'm very worried that we, the free software community, are not flying "under the radar".
Remember, posted on 19 may 2004.
Also, i just checked and 'unrar' ain't using some kind of library for its functions so e.g. Ark or a AV scanner must run the program directly, if it uses that. Neither does Rarsoft's 'rar', btw.
I was thinking: Perhaps its good for competition (and hence price)?
Last time i checked, the Sharp Zaurus was pretty expensive, especially the newer models. What was it again, like $700 for the newer model in Japan. I know PDAs sell like baked bread in Japan but still, why are these toys so expensive? A friend of mine has a CL 5500 and while its a very nice PDA it was also pretty expensive when he bought it. And, newer versions are more convenient.
I hope to see more competition / prices going more down since i'd love to see the GSM (as in, a telephone) integrated with the PDA (as in, basic simple office work, e-mail synced, WiFi/UMTS) with a multimedia player (preferably also Vorbis-compatible). I want 1 device which is small enough but also gives me the features i want to have without using a beast such as a laptop and without having 1 device like e.g. the GSM which can phone (what i actually want), SMS (expensive!), play retro games (boring!) without the features i also would like to have.
I'm gonna give it a try and quote here what I read in the VNUnet article (which is the most informative one IMO since it contains a few details, in contrast to the other one) and try to express some reasoning. Until the real analysis is out we cannot be sure about anything though.
Classic strategy: minimize your enemy by defining it tightly as a dogma, then attack that dogma. I've seen this from Sun Microsystems as well. Basically, they ignore e.g. Novell. At least Novell is also a big player in terms of market share.
That said I remain interested in learning why they chose to compare to Red Hat and Red Hat alone.
Definition of 'vulnerability counts' and which vulnerabilities are counted. For example, lets say Red Hat has a patch for OpenLDAP while i run LAMP or LAPP then who cares about the fact that there's an OpenLDAP patch? Not me.
71 days is long! How they got to these numbers is also very interesting. For example, does this include e.g. the Mozilla bug which was alleged to be known (but not fixed) in 2001? It reminds me about MSIE for which vulnerabilities took long as well and remember 1 patch != 1 vulnerability either.
Statements like these may just as well be from astroturfers. Its also a classic strategy: basically, you play as if you're convinced by the study you conducted yourself while you expected a different result. In all honesty, why would you believe the judgement about the conclusion ("FUD!") from someone who hasn't read the study over the one from the person who's got convinced by his own study? This is why there's not much we can currently do except arguing over the existing details! This is why we need to stress about where the missing details are. This is why we cannot judge yet.
One last note:
With that last statement he Dr Ford basically says to take this study with a grain of salt because thats precisely what he hasn't researched!
BNR2 is -unfortunately- bloated, not very stable and not feature-complete IMO. If your father runs KDE he may be interested in KLibido (http://klibido.sourceforge.net) or KNZB (http://www.dmp.org.uk/linux/knzb). One related problem is that he'll have to get a binary for it somehow cause nobody includes this in their distribution.
QuickPar runs fine in WINE however there's also native PAR2 support. Its for CLI only and runs slightly less well than QuickPar. Nget, a console binary leecher, has automatic PAR2 repair support. It'll automatically repair and when needed download more PAR2 blocks. It slows things down abit (obviously), is CLI, but convenient.
There's a lot more software available such as a Java web client which can run stand-alone. Web frontends, such as one for Nget, but in the end there's just not a very good solution available and there's a lot of double/triple work. If you're interested in contributing (in any way!) to develop a full-featured client / server architectured Usenet binary leecher check out the project 'nntpgrab' http://nntpgrab.2y.net another issue is that there are no PAR2 libraries.
The fact one runs WINE to run a certain Windows program doesn't mean that person doesn't have a valid Windows license (for whatever version the program is compatible with).
Backwards compatibility might bite here as well. E.g. say you have a Windows 95 OSR2 license whereas you'd like to run Microsoft Office 95 in WINE.
You don't need a Windows license to use WINE to run a Windows program by definition. You can, for example, run Adobe Photoshop + WINE without a Windows license. You may need a Windows license together with WINE to run a certain program (for example because you use certain DLLs) but not by definition!
What do US politicians provide as alternative measure? I mean, if you disagree with a set of principles to benchmark X to reduce Y whereas you do agree with the goal (reduce Y) then certainly you provide an alternative?
This is the kind of stories which need to be harvested and about which a compilation needs to be written to EU representatives. Especially positive if its to a EU representative who got a connection to the fellow (same nationality, left-wing -- for example). Also, especially the EU states which are able to change or make a difference need to be notified.
No offense, but blogs are regulary of low quality IMO. A lot of brogs are. Hence, i'm not so sure how many of those blogs actually are qualified as 'journalism'.
Futhermore the text is often copyrighted but not in an 'open source' style such as CC og GFDL (of which i don't consider the latter 'free').
Now, i'm involved as techie in a local media project and one of our concerns is: How can we build up a mediapool while also having some kind of quality assurance? To explain it futher: people, or certain subjects or happenings who or which normally are ignored have a chance at our network. Basically we use 'karma' but we're trying to find a way how new people will have to proof themselves -- which makes it different than say Indymedia. From what i can say, its definetely not easy.
Is it just me, or does it smell like this is the result of the DeCSS cases (Norway and USA)?
1.0 got released in july 2004. But i weren't even meaning it terms of 'stability' or 'stable version' so back off.
Whine, whine.
The guy received feedback from Sun regarding his optimalisations. So he's open to optimalisations.
He didn't recompile his Linux kernel for i686 and even if he did that won't give you a lot more performance.
He compiled MySQL for every OS he posted. Fair compare ain't it.
He compiled Gentoo from the ground, yes. So? Gentoo's default compile options are just as FreeBSD's aimed at stability and it has conservative flags. I've never seen benchmarks which showed Gentoo, with whatever flags, delivers a significant better performance than e.g. Mandrake or Debian (fact i named *those* 2 is a hint!). With significant i mean ~ 5% or more.
As for his Linux knowledge i don't see why he's a Linux guru. In the past his articles were just as well about OpenBSD and other BSDs. Perhaps you're just seeking stupid arguments? Why not whine that he didn't use the same filesystem?!
You BSD zealots are losers who can't stand it that Linux is better in a regard such as this. Even though its quite known FreeBSD 5.3 ain't doing very well (DFBSD is) and even though its known NetBSD and OpenBSD have biglock and even though they weren't doing well in Fefe's Scalability benchmark (but improved a lot!!!) why not cut the dodging and admit? Or start doing something about it? When you'd just said: "this is merely MySQL, i'll do the same test but then with PostgreSQL" i'd say 'good point' and 'kudos' afterwards because those are valid points. Go ahead, go test it with Debian instead of Gentoo while you're at it. I challenge you -- but n/m, i already know its just chewbacca who's talking..
Afaik you can't sue someone for 'wasting time and money' or something similar. You can't get the money back either because you have to pay your attorneys yourself in the USA.
i d=20050210075456474&title=Unfortunate&type=article &order=&hideanonymous=0&pid=274063
I read a number of interesting posts on Groklaw though. One included a mention that SCO has to pay *3rd party* analysts to hunt for 'the proof' in AIX which they aren't able to find. Now that IBM will have to give SCO full access to all interim revisions of AIX as well they'll have to pay these experts even *much more*. It seems thats SCO's last chance. After that, they're done.
As for IBM countersuing, they already do that, but with other arguments than the ones you state.
* Patent infringement (on several key products of SCO)
* Copyright infringement (since SCO distributes the Linux kernel whereas SCO doesn't accept the GPL)
* Lanham Act (trade libel, in effect)
Here's the post explaining them in detail: http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&s
Nah. Not everywhere. If MS loses a case then they have to pay the court costs (not in US, but thats broken in the US).
But MS would easily cross-license the patents. EXCEPT with a patent farm. They don't want to have your license. They're after your money.
And quite frankly i like that view of someone who's getting bitten by their own dogfood. Hopefully it means they learn something from it for a change.
Good post, but you don't go futher in the situation of this very problem. In this specific issue people who have money are included on both sides and whereas there is a lot at stake, most people who have democratic power (every citizen) either: haven't heard of it or don't care about software patents or don't understand it (in that order). Remember, the regular media don't bother explaining the situation at all either (at least afaik they don't). That's why the right wing policians don't listen to the people now. They're just selling themselves to the biggest buyer because it won't change the next election results!
Uhm well, there's FFII and they have a wiki and IRC for example. There's a demonstration in Brussel soon. Problem with demonstrating is that its hard to centralize that due to traveling costs. Politicians can travel far more easier. :-(
/. but i know nothing more about it. Sad, sad...
PS: To the person who replied to you: India has softpats since dec 2004. It went quiet.. it was reported on
Who cares who the head is? Or what that one looks like? Those are just useless, distracting details.
Everyone with a slight clue knows its the people behind that one man and the ideology behind them who are the governing people. You really thought the leader can say and do everything?
And if you don't get it yet: thats true for both EU countries as well as the USA.
Yes and now compare that to:
DEMO KRATIA - people rule
So the original Greek meanings aren't far off at all.
Ad for the US Constitution. I'm not from the USA and i probably don't understand a lot surrounding it but when i look at the Constitution and the Law then the Law is certainly 'interpretated' by the court in favor of the prosecutor hence not the people.
Static Rights have an upside and a downside. They can't be evaded even when the people want to. However it seems to me the USA is finally doing these evasions quite right now.
Me2[/aol]. Great post. But he's at +4 already :)
Q3, RTCW, RTCW: ET, RTCW: ETF and many, many others also use a master server to authenticate with and/or get the list of servers. What i mean is what if these services are stopped? They're gonna be, some day. Then you can't play the game anymore. Similar as with HL2 except that you can play offline with the examples i made. I admit HL2 takes it a few steps futher, but what i mean is: the symtons of the problem is not unique!
Yeah i was thinking among the same lines. I mean, those kids already made similar software.
However regarding data integrity i rather run an application by the EFF than by some random kid i don't know. I trust the EFF more.
Oh, don't worry. Boxen is the German or Dutch equivelant of boxing in English.