Of course there's a way to disable it... a hex editor comes to mind. Assuming the IP addy is stored as a string, one could change it to a different address as long as it had the same number of digits... Now, which dll's are those? .
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Diety of my choice, eh? I'll take Thor! He's cool with that hammer and stuff... Hmmmm... "Oh for Thor's sake!" Not too catchy but I like it. .
Hehehe, she speaks! OK, now I KNOW she's cool! I agree with your assessment of StarOffice Judith... I found it perplexing that so many people recommended the beast. Not only is it a piece of bloatware that would make Bill Gates proud, it does a crappy job of translating all but the simplest of Office97 docs. But I also found your characterization of vi a bit misleading... years? I know you meant no harm by your exaggeration, but think how intimidating that is to someone who wants to try Unix ("it will take me years to learn to edit an ASCII file?"). Oh yeah, I liked that sushi analogy too... damn I'm hungry now. Cheers, .
But how do you WRITE PDF files from Linux? I've never looked into it, I know Adobe has an Acrobat Reader for Linux but does it have Acrobat too? Isn't Acrobat kind of expensive? Is there a PS to PDF converter I don't know about? Inquiring minds want to know:) .
Well, to your average Joe-Windows-User upgrading by recompiling your kernel, editing flat text files to configure your system, and using obscure commands like "ps aux" or "chmod" are not very elegant solutions... and they're right. Aside from the elegance of simplicity and modularity, UNIX as a whole has a very arcane and "hacked together" feel (well, it has been hacked together)... just ask someone who used to code on those old LISP machines... UNIX sucks. The thing is it's simple, robust, modular, well tested and, once you get used to it, very straightforward. Sure UNIX sucks, but all OSes do. Linux just sucks less;^) As far as eye candy, well, my Window Maker desktop never fails to awe and impress Windows users... but that's not what I meant by "pretty". .
"Great. Educate Indians so that they can become computer literate, come to the US and take our jobs." May the best programmer win... if you think you can't compete, study harder.
"Before we know it, they'll be shutting down Burger King." Huh? Ohhhh.... the cow thing. Very funny;^P
"What are they going to run the CDs on anyway?? Do they have electroicity in India yet?" Electroicity? What's that? I know they've had electricity for quite some time... unless they developed nuclear weapons by candlelight.
Hmmmm, maybe you should be worried... a complete idiot like you would never compete... .
And this is just RedHat being nice... technically, they don't HAVE to let anyone download the distro for free. They DO have to let anyone who bought the distro download the source code to any GPL'ed RPMs though... or include it or send it to them if they have no net connection. (What fun UNIX would be without a net connection, I don't know;) .
Man... there's all kinds of auto mounting techniques. And telneting into your Mom's computer is generally easier than trying to explain things over the phone. .
Think free speech not free beer! Examine the GPL... there is nothing that says you can't charge for your software... just that you must make the source available to people who have the binaries. There is no reason to GPL if you're not using anyone else's GPL'ed code, except to be nice and contribute to the free software world. If you think your code will be ripped off and resold because it's something that the average Joe Blow would want, then don't GPL... But if it's, for example, software for blind real estate agents... who cares if you have to give them source if they ask? They most likely won't ask or even care. Remember, you CAN charge as much as you can get away with, and you don't have to give your source code to anyone who doesn't cough up the dough for the binaries. Best of luck! .
Is is just me or is there a disproportionate number of kick-ass programmers coming out of India? Seems the CS grad schools here in the U.S. are full of them, and most of them are really good! Must be something in the water;^) .
I would put my secretary on linux... with WordPerfect and a postscript printer... why not? It won't crash like Windows 95... I'd just set it up for him/her once and never give him/her root access to screw up the machine with. Perfect!
If you're going to label people morons you might want to make sure you spell "category" correctly. Just a suggestion. .
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Most software development consists of custom software for one company or another developed by their own or contracted programmers (who get paid well, usually) the source code would have little value to anyone else. Programmers/companies who make a general purpose over-the-counter package and market it themselves have a decision to make... GPL or not. There is NOTHING in the GPL that states that you can't charge for the software, only that you must make the source available to people who get the binaries. There is admittedly a danger of people just getting the source and giving it away / selling it to everyone else... and you have no legal recourse. Or they could make a few changes, compile it, and illegally sell it as a non-GPL product; it would be very hard to prove that a particular compiled binary contains GPLed code. However, if you are selling only to other businesses, why would they give away the source to other businesses and give them an edge with a free version of what they just forked over a bunch of cash for? And if they have no programmers, they won't even know what source code IS, much less compile it and sell it non-GPL. The only real problem is for those who make programs for the end user... and this is really a small market compared to solutions for business. .
I have no problems with QT... even if it was a completely closed and proprietary license I would have no problems with it. What I do have a problem with is the KDE team statically linking OTHER PEOPLES' GPL'ed CODE with a non-free toolkit and distributing the binaries in a BLATANT VIOLATION of the GPL. They might as well just bomb the FSF and get it over with... .
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Shouldn't your 13-year-old ass be in school right now?
Get a clue.
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Everyone's favorite vi is vim... unless they're also the type that prefers whips and chains ;)
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Can you say slow and buggy?
Why do you think most people replace them with gnu utilities?
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Of course there's a way to disable it... a hex editor comes to mind. Assuming the IP addy is stored as a string, one could change it to a different address as long as it had the same number of digits... Now, which dll's are those?
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Diety of my choice, eh?
I'll take Thor! He's cool with that hammer and stuff...
Hmmmm... "Oh for Thor's sake!"
Not too catchy but I like it.
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Oh... duh. Here it is! ps2pdf !
/me slaps forehead
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Hehehe, she speaks!
OK, now I KNOW she's cool!
I agree with your assessment of StarOffice Judith... I found it perplexing that so many people recommended the beast. Not only is it a piece of bloatware that would make Bill Gates proud, it does a crappy job of translating all but the simplest of Office97 docs.
But I also found your characterization of vi a bit misleading... years? I know you meant no harm by your exaggeration, but think how intimidating that is to someone who wants to try Unix ("it will take me years to learn to edit an ASCII file?").
Oh yeah, I liked that sushi analogy too... damn I'm hungry now.
Cheers,
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Hmmmm... I always thought crackers were white folks from down south... the opposite of yankees.
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Oooohhhh... you're a homicidal maniac.
Oops, I think I pissed him off.
Cringe.
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Borish?
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A fiance who groks LaTeX ?!
You lucky bastard!!!
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But how do you WRITE PDF files from Linux? I've never looked into it, I know Adobe has an Acrobat Reader for Linux but does it have Acrobat too? Isn't Acrobat kind of expensive? Is there a PS to PDF converter I don't know about? :)
Inquiring minds want to know
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Well, to your average Joe-Windows-User upgrading by recompiling your kernel, editing flat text files to configure your system, and using obscure commands like "ps aux" or "chmod" are not very elegant solutions... and they're right. Aside from the elegance of simplicity and modularity, UNIX as a whole has a very arcane and "hacked together" feel (well, it has been hacked together)... just ask someone who used to code on those old LISP machines... UNIX sucks. ;^)
The thing is it's simple, robust, modular, well tested and, once you get used to it, very straightforward.
Sure UNIX sucks, but all OSes do. Linux just sucks less
As far as eye candy, well, my Window Maker desktop never fails to awe and impress Windows users... but that's not what I meant by "pretty".
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"Great. Educate Indians so that they can become computer literate, come to the US and take our jobs."
;^P
May the best programmer win... if you think you can't compete, study harder.
"Before we know it, they'll be shutting down Burger King."
Huh? Ohhhh.... the cow thing. Very funny
"What are they going to run the CDs on anyway?? Do they have electroicity in India yet?"
Electroicity? What's that? I know they've had electricity for quite some time... unless they developed nuclear weapons by candlelight.
Hmmmm, maybe you should be worried... a complete idiot like you would never compete...
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And this is just RedHat being nice... technically, they don't HAVE to let anyone download the distro for free. They DO have to let anyone who bought the distro download the source code to any GPL'ed RPMs though... or include it or send it to them if they have no net connection. (What fun UNIX would be without a net connection, I don't know ;)
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Man... there's all kinds of auto mounting techniques.
And telneting into your Mom's computer is generally easier than trying to explain things over the phone.
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Think free speech not free beer!
Examine the GPL... there is nothing that says you can't charge for your software... just that you must make the source available to people who have the binaries.
There is no reason to GPL if you're not using anyone else's GPL'ed code, except to be nice and contribute to the free software world.
If you think your code will be ripped off and resold because it's something that the average Joe Blow would want, then don't GPL... But if it's, for example, software for blind real estate agents... who cares if you have to give them source if they ask? They most likely won't ask or even care.
Remember, you CAN charge as much as you can get away with, and you don't have to give your source code to anyone who doesn't cough up the dough for the binaries.
Best of luck!
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Is is just me or is there a disproportionate number of kick-ass programmers coming out of India? Seems the CS grad schools here in the U.S. are full of them, and most of them are really good! Must be something in the water ;^)
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and in addition to many users... I think that each CD will probably be installed on numerous machines...
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I would put my secretary on linux... with WordPerfect and a postscript printer... why not? It won't crash like Windows 95... I'd just set it up for him/her once and never give him/her root access to screw up the machine with. Perfect!
Waddaya think HDTV is for?
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I don't see how you got RedHat out of his post...
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If you're going to label people morons you might want to make sure you spell "category" correctly.
Just a suggestion.
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Most software development consists of custom software for one company or another developed by their own or contracted programmers (who get paid well, usually) the source code would have little value to anyone else.
Programmers/companies who make a general purpose over-the-counter package and market it themselves have a decision to make... GPL or not.
There is NOTHING in the GPL that states that you can't charge for the software, only that you must make the source available to people who get the binaries. There is admittedly a danger of people just getting the source and giving it away / selling it to everyone else... and you have no legal recourse. Or they could make a few changes, compile it, and illegally sell it as a non-GPL product; it would be very hard to prove that a particular compiled binary contains GPLed code.
However, if you are selling only to other businesses, why would they give away the source to other businesses and give them an edge with a free version of what they just forked over a bunch of cash for? And if they have no programmers, they won't even know what source code IS, much less compile it and sell it non-GPL.
The only real problem is for those who make programs for the end user... and this is really a small market compared to solutions for business.
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I have no problems with QT... even if it was a completely closed and proprietary license I would have no problems with it.
What I do have a problem with is the KDE team statically linking OTHER PEOPLES' GPL'ed CODE with a non-free toolkit and distributing the binaries in a BLATANT VIOLATION of the GPL.
They might as well just bomb the FSF and get it over with...
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