We need to get someone to provide a definitive explanation of what each part of the file system is for, and how they should be used, so that we'll be able to say "RTFM", and have a sounder understanding of our own operating system.
Did anyone else notice the poor quality of the BBC page? I'm not expecting a midi file to play as I browse, but just
wedging images in with the text is kind of silly. Or are all/. links going through dejavu.org now?
I went to Netcraft's site and this was the response back from a request to Hotmail.
www.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 SSLeay/0.9.0b on Windows 2000
I am not one to jump to conclusions but something strange seems to be going on (or is it just me). Unix version of Apache on Windows 2000????
Conspiracy theorists will have a field day with this one.
It's quite simple actually. The machine that accepts the TCP connection (the load balancer) forwards it on to one of a pool of webservers. Sometimes also called reverse proxying. Obviously the load balancer and the webservers do not need to run the same OS, as you see in this example.
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HTML - WML gateway at google
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The nice folks at google run a HTML->WML gateway, enabling any WAP device to access all HTML pages out there. Just try something like http://wap.google.com/?u=www.example.com/example.h tml --
In your example, only $34 worth of VAT (exactly 17% of the price the consumer paid) ends up going to the government. Namely, the $17 on the first purchase of the iron, and the $17 of value-added-tax that SuperCorp collected (the $34 they collected from the consumer, minus the $17 they can deduct because they paid $17 in VAT themselves).
Put another way, the consumer pays the full amount, fixed percentage, and all companies "in between" are responsible for collecting a part of it.
The European taxes are actually value-added taxes, not sales taxes, and therefore the true costs are higher, but hidden. Additionally, they cascade on each other, so that you have tax on tax.
The European VAT system does not work like this since companies can deduct the amount of VAT they paid for products they bought from the amount of VAT they collected from products they sold. Balancing these out against each other means that in effect only the consumer pays a fixed percentage of the price as tax. --
information about each person's education, marital status, ethnic origin, mobility, disabilities, income tax, employment and social assistance history
Aren't these all legitimate things where you'd expect a government to have databases about? Whether it should be in a single centralized database is another matter, of course. --
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The way I read it, that applies to headers associated with "all modules it contains", where "it" is the GPL code. And, I wouldn't say that Qt is a module of KDevelop at all.
In my opinion, the "it" refers to the executable work, and I would definitely consider Qt to be a module of KDevelop.
Can you actually point to a phrase in the GPL that could prohibit an end user from dynamically linking (via ld.so or some other mechanism) a GPL app to a QPL library?
Indeed, the GPL does not prohibit use, but it does prohibit distribution if the license terms are not met (in this case distribution of modified versions, which is disallowed by the QPL). Please take a look at section 3:
For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable.
Certainly, shared libraries fall under that clause.
MSCS and other "trade certificates" are not so useful
Since when is a "master of science in computer science" degree regarded as a trade certificate? I agree with you if you are referring to MCSE etc., though.
I mean, can you imagine what the people that have spent 6 years getting a MSCS have gone through? Let's see, in 1994 they were using Win3.11/Dos5. 1995, Win95A. '96-Win95B. 1998 - Win98. 1999 - Win98SE. Toss in the changes made to Windows NT/2000 (That would be from 3.51 to W2K) and all of the different *nixs and look what you have... People with a lot of knowledge about outdated, mundane, obsolete technology. I guess you could argue that they still have that knowledge and can use it towards modern stuff, but I would still rather have the education in things that can help me get a job today...
A university degree in CS is not about knowing how to use an operating system. It's about the concepts and the theory behind it. If you want to learn to use a specific technology, get a MCSE or equivalent.
A while ago I was at Philips labs where they demo'ed a similar device. One of the things that struck me as most useful (and cool) is that you can start watching the beginning of a show while the end of the same show is still being taped. Then if you skip commercials, you can actually "catch up" and watch the end of the show in real time. --
The DNS records you posted map _any_ host onto the address 195.122.187.3, using the * wildcard DNS record, whether or not the hostname was generated by their server. It's actually quite trivial to set up a CGI/PHP/ASP/whatever script to redirect you to a randomly generated hostname --
The advantage here is that realistic amounts of memory--128MB or more--can be put on chip with the processor. In effect, all memory is cache. This would be fantastic both in terms of speed and low cost.
If you can make processors with this technique, I'm sure you can also make memory with it. So you would still have off chip memory that is far bigger than cache. So instead of 512k cache and 128M main memory, wouldn't you have 128M cache and a few gigs main memory... --
So what, technically, is there preventing me from putting a DNS server on the internet, and encouraging others to add it to their list of DNS servers (after their regular servers, that way I'm not taking over any domains). I could add any TLD I like, and I could probably convince quite a crowd to add my server. I understand this has been tried before, did it die out because of lack of use?
Your plan would work except for the after their regular servers bit. If a resolver receives a "domain doesn't exist" response, it will not query any additional nameservers. What you can do, though, is to completely take over the root zone, and simply delegate the existing TLD's to their appropriate authorative servers.
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We need to get someone to provide a definitive explanation of what each part of the file system is for, and how they should be used, so that we'll be able to say "RTFM", and have a sounder understanding of our own operating system.
See www.pathname.com.
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Did anyone else notice the poor quality of the BBC page? I'm not expecting a midi file to play as I browse, but just wedging images in with the text is kind of silly. Or are all /. links going through dejavu.org now?
Replace lo with hi in the URL.
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I went to Netcraft's site and this was the response back from a request to Hotmail.
www.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 SSLeay/0.9.0b on Windows 2000
I am not one to jump to conclusions but something strange seems to be going on (or is it just me). Unix version of Apache on Windows 2000????
Conspiracy theorists will have a field day with this one.
It's quite simple actually. The machine that accepts the TCP connection (the load balancer) forwards it on to one of a pool of webservers. Sometimes also called reverse proxying. Obviously the load balancer and the webservers do not need to run the same OS, as you see in this example.
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The nice folks at google run a HTML->WML gateway, enabling any WAP device to access all HTML pages out there. Just try something like http://wap.google.com/?u=www.example.com/example.h tml
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Put another way, the consumer pays the full amount, fixed percentage, and all companies "in between" are responsible for collecting a part of it.
So no, VAT is not a cascading tax.
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The European VAT system does not work like this since companies can deduct the amount of VAT they paid for products they bought from the amount of VAT they collected from products they sold. Balancing these out against each other means that in effect only the consumer pays a fixed percentage of the price as tax.
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Aren't these all legitimate things where you'd expect a government to have databases about? Whether it should be in a single centralized database is another matter, of course.
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My first reaction was "Red Hat is dumping their imaginary IPO-generated money into other things before people realize its imaginary."
What is so imaginary about the IPO-generated money?
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In my opinion, the "it" refers to the executable work, and I would definitely consider Qt to be a module of KDevelop.
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Can you actually point to a phrase in the GPL that could prohibit an end user from dynamically linking (via ld.so or some other mechanism) a GPL app to a QPL library?
Indeed, the GPL does not prohibit use, but it does prohibit distribution if the license terms are not met (in this case distribution of modified versions, which is disallowed by the QPL). Please take a look at section 3:
Certainly, shared libraries fall under that clause.
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Or did the kdevelop authors put in an exception clause which they did not document on their web page?
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What about sleep? :-)
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I can't believe Linus allowed "sponsored by MP3.com" to be applied to the master source tree.
He didn't. ReiserFS is not part of the official kernel.
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Name 3 interesting open-source projects using Motif/LessTif for anything
DDD, xmcd, xacc
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but maybe we'll see an open sourced win9x compiler
There already is an open source compiler for windows: look here.
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MSCS and other "trade certificates" are not so useful
Since when is a "master of science in computer science" degree regarded as a trade certificate? I agree with you if you are referring to MCSE etc., though.
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I mean, can you imagine what the people that have spent 6 years getting a MSCS have gone through? Let's see, in 1994 they were using Win3.11/Dos5. 1995, Win95A. '96-Win95B. 1998 - Win98. 1999 - Win98SE. Toss in the changes made to Windows NT/2000 (That would be from 3.51 to W2K) and all of the different *nixs and look what you have... People with a lot of knowledge about outdated, mundane, obsolete technology. I guess you could argue that they still have that knowledge and can use it towards modern stuff, but I would still rather have the education in things that can help me get a job today...
A university degree in CS is not about knowing how to use an operating system. It's about the concepts and the theory behind it. If you want to learn to use a specific technology, get a MCSE or equivalent.
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A while ago I was at Philips labs where they demo'ed a similar device. One of the things that struck me as most useful (and cool) is that you can start watching the beginning of a show while the end of the same show is still being taped. Then if you skip commercials, you can actually "catch up" and watch the end of the show in real time.
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In fact, the ability to create a fork is what characterizes any true free (open source) software project.
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The DNS records you posted map _any_ host onto the address 195.122.187.3, using the * wildcard DNS record, whether or not the hostname was generated by their server. It's actually quite trivial to set up a CGI/PHP/ASP/whatever script to redirect you to a randomly generated hostname
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What's a Trimuverant? If you want to use "difficult" words, at least know how to spell them. Maybe you mean tri umvirate?
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The advantage here is that realistic amounts of memory--128MB or more--can be put on chip with the processor. In effect, all memory is cache. This would be fantastic both in terms of speed and low cost.
If you can make processors with this technique, I'm sure you can also make memory with it. So you would still have off chip memory that is far bigger than cache. So instead of 512k cache and 128M main memory, wouldn't you have 128M cache and a few gigs main memory...
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So what, technically, is there preventing me from putting a DNS server on the internet, and encouraging others to add it to their list of DNS servers (after their regular servers, that way I'm not taking over any domains). I could add any TLD I like, and I could probably convince quite a crowd to add my server. I understand this has been tried before, did it die out because of lack of use?
Your plan would work except for the after their regular servers bit. If a resolver receives a "domain doesn't exist" response, it will not query any additional nameservers. What you can do, though, is to completely take over the root zone, and simply delegate the existing TLD's to their appropriate authorative servers.
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How are purchases made on-line different from purchases made through mail order? Aren't there already regulations for that in the US?
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