Perhaps (and I remain unconvinced) there's some aspect of evince that can make use of nautilus being present. But if so, I haven't seen it. I could well believe that nautilus could make use of evince, but not really the other way around. But assume for the sake of argument that it can use nautilus. That still isn't a reason to have it depend on it.
I thought the US had the corner on the market for the most retarded copyright laws, but the Australians have surged into the lead with this ruling.
Australians can thank the USA for the free trade agreement that extended the criminal provisions of Australian copyright law. It's amazing what a change of one word can achieve. Prior to the US FTA the criminal provisions could be enacted if an infringement was performed
"by way of trade and with the intention of obtaining a commercial advantage or profit".
As part of the FTA that provision was changed to
"by way of trade or with the intention of obtaining a commercial advantage or profit".
You obviously didn't get the humour in my post. I was pointing fun at the grand parents post.
Believe you me, if MS tried to 'crush' the only more or less competing 3D accelerated API besides Direct3D, there'd be another antitrust suit faster than Ballmer can spell out innovation.
I don't see how an antitrust case could be brought against MS for destroying OpenGL as OpenGL is not a completing business. The last antitrust case hasn't stopped MS from doing anything either so that's not a solution.
SGI is the inventor and care taker of OpenGL. Without OpenGL, desktop 3D graphics would be completely monopolised by Microsoft's Direct3D. If SGI goes down, what's going to happen to OpenGL and the OpenGL Architecture Review Board that's responsible for advancing OpenGL?
SGI already sold patents that cover some aspects of OpenGL to MS. It's been mentioned here previously in the MS Buys (Some) SGI Patents article. You have permission to be afraid, very afraid.;-)
Moving the drivers into the kernel is crazy. It might simplify the X server code, but it will be a bitch to maintain for several operating systems.
It looks like you haven't been bitten by the bug where the X server dies before restoring the video context or manages to bugger up the video context while it's running. That sort of crash leaves your video and keyboard in an unusable state that is very hard to recover from without rebooting.
What the grandparent was suggesting wasn't moving all of the X server code into the kernel. I suggest you enable something like the Secure Access Key in Linux and kill X and see how well you go at getting your video back in a usable state. I have also managed to put the video into an unknown state by simply switching to a text virtual console while X is starting up.
I don't believe X should be responsible for restoring the video context other than its own.
Copyright infringement is a civil offence, It requires court action before it can be acted upon.
Australian Copyright Law has criminal provisions. These criminal provisions were broadened as part of the Australia-US free trade agreement at the beginning of this year. It is now a crime if you infringe on copyright of an encoded broadcast "by way of trade or with the intention of obtaining commercial advantage or profit".
Is Konqueror affected? If Safari is, then it may be. But if not, then it proves yet again that Konqueror is quickly rising to be one of the Big Boys in the browser world.
Yes, Konqueror is affected by this problem. To fix it they'll have to make the JavaScript dialogues display the address of the page they originated from. Uses the title wouldn't be good enough as it can be spoofed too. It's funny though that it's a called a spoofing bug since I can't remember using a browser that ever actually provided an identity in a dialogue to spoof.
I have always found Konq to be the best alternative to FireFox on sites that are "IE-only". (including my companies intranet.)
As a general web-browser I find Konq to be slow and kludgy, but it has never dissappointed me on the stubborn sites.
Anybody found similar situations?
For my purposes I've found Konqueror to be a viable alternative to Firefox. A custom CSS stylesheet trick to block ads made it viable by removing the lag caused by the ads.
In terms of performance I've found Konqueror to be faster in my situation. I keep use Firefox to a lesser extent for it's other abilities such as multiple profiles.
Apple went with KHTML instead of Mozilla. Instead of gratitude, the KDE devs are angry that Apple isn't tailoring their patches for them? The fact that Safari uses KHTML has done more for web page compability with Konqueror than years of development and advocacy could ever have done. Just look at the proportion of top-tier web designers on Macs.
The KDE developers were complaining about people who say they should be grateful for Safari. Perhaps you need to look more closely at Zack Rusin's blog on the topic.
It says over and over again that this is "volunteer" work, right? An OSS project can't exactly demand a certain number of programmer hours, can it? If people want to contribute, they do--and they get a check from the Aussie gov't, to boot. If they don't want to participate, they don't. They can make Access databases for their local church or boy scout troop, instead.
It's essentially "volunteer" for an approved activity or get breached and have your benefits cut off. The requirements under mutual obligation are 15 hours a week. Not completing the required hours also would leave the participant open to be breeched.
If the Australian government makes it a requirement that new passports be e-passport then anyone holding them might as well walk around with T-shirts with all our passport details on them. Given their current track record on privacy you know that they'll stuff this up and make it relatively easy for someone with a high power transmitter and high gain antenna to snoop personal details.
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I can see why evince depends on nautilus:
This is a case where packaging the extension in an evince sub-package (i.e. evince-nautilus) should be considered.
What the grandparent was suggesting wasn't moving all of the X server code into the kernel. I suggest you enable something like the Secure Access Key in Linux and kill X and see how well you go at getting your video back in a usable state. I have also managed to put the video into an unknown state by simply switching to a text virtual console while X is starting up.
I don't believe X should be responsible for restoring the video context other than its own.
The KDE developers were complaining about people who say they should be grateful for Safari. Perhaps you need to look more closely at Zack Rusin's blog on the topic.
Right... So are you saying I'm correct, or that the OP is correct? I honestly can't tell.
You are correct in that it isn't the OSS Project that sets the requirements on how many hours are required to fulfil mutual obligation requirements.
It says over and over again that this is "volunteer" work, right? An OSS project can't exactly demand a certain number of programmer hours, can it? If people want to contribute, they do--and they get a check from the Aussie gov't, to boot. If they don't want to participate, they don't. They can make Access databases for their local church or boy scout troop, instead. It's essentially "volunteer" for an approved activity or get breached and have your benefits cut off. The requirements under mutual obligation are 15 hours a week. Not completing the required hours also would leave the participant open to be breeched.
This looks like an attempt to implement an open source flash library - http://www.schleef.org/swfdec/.
If the Australian government makes it a requirement that new passports be e-passport then anyone holding them might as well walk around with T-shirts with all our passport details on them. Given their current track record on privacy you know that they'll stuff this up and make it relatively easy for someone with a high power transmitter and high gain antenna to snoop personal details.