Ubuntu is not an exeption. It is how forks work. At a certain moment you have a large enough user base that different people will see things differently. At that moment one or the other will say, hey we will fork. In an ideal situation this would mean that 50% use the old version and 50%.
It is evolution, one could say. Not forking is the unnatural way. It would mean no diversity. I leave it to the reader as an excersise wether this is a good or bad thing.
A developers community can only listen to so many people at the same time. Some will have opposite interests and conflicting interests.
By the by - RedHat has had the same stance: you trademark the name and logos, no problem. That protects your name.
Novell did the same and went one step further. If you want to make a distribution based on openSUSE, all you need to do is remove the trademarks and such. Now how do you do that? Novell has kindly made rembrand which removes the branding.
That way it is fairly easy to make your own distribution. No need to recompile, unless you want to. If you so desire, you CAN recompile everything and then use makeSUSEdvd to make your ISO.
All the rest of the packages has their own licences and regulations.
I would just put extra HD's into my PC. I just bought an extra IDE card to add all the IDE cards I have.
However if you want to have it cheap and ONLY for NAS/Backup, then I would buy a cheap PC via Ebay that still works, put any Linux distribution I like on it and put as much HD in it as I can lay my hands on. Connect it to a network and done. The only connection you need is a network card and even if it is not on the mobo, a cheap 100MB card will be enough for any homeuse.
Alternatively, if you like to do much more with it for more PC's and have it as a multimediaserver, then http://plutohome.com/ might be a good distribution. Based on Debian, it can do all of your domotica. Why stop at NAS if you can have so much more for the same price.
The Americans and many other countries face a difficult choice here. On the one side we have instand reports on the outcome of the voting even before the voting is completely over. On the other side we have the democratic process.
And in the UK it is O2 that they have a deal with.
Apple just looks at each country what will be the best deal they can get. Which one will give them the biggest patrt of their profit.
Luckily/unfortunatly selling locked phones in Belgium is against the law, so no Iphones here. OTOH, we have the best beers in the world, so who realy cares.
Just block them on your machine. As the first line of defence I use http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt, which is a hostlist that, among others, points doubleclick and googleads to 127.0.0.1. At this momen more then 30.000 domains.
It speeds up those slow websites a LOT and already reduces the amount of adds. Also it will work for all your broswers.
I asume there will be many more lists like that, yet this one is the best that I know.
All of the above, or just use DSL from a USB key. That way when the cops come, nobody will be the wiser as it will be very easy to get rid of/erase/whatever.
I have the same idea about car safety. Let people speed as much and drive as irresponsible as they like and the ones that can not jump aside fast enough will get taken out of the gene pool.
In just a few geerations, we wil have no car accidents anymore.
I used to work at a company some ten years ago and we used Yahoo Messenger all the time. We had email and phones and we could easily walk to each other, yet Yahoo Messenger was much easier a LOT of the time. If you needed a short answer on a short question, you would just send the message and have a further conversation if needed.
This all while on the phone with somebody else. It realy held down the noiselevel, because instead of people shouting questions to each other, you just send the message. In about 95% of the cases you could see the person. Sometimes you would see that the person was on the phone himselef and would thus be doing two things at a time.
Unfortunatly no other company I have worked for since has been willing or daring to implement it or even try it out. A big loss for them, especialy as you can now just set up your own server, so no contact is possible with the ousde world.
I highly recomend it. It is NOT a replacement for email. In fact it is not a replacement for anything. It is just an aditional tool to communicate with your fellow workers.
There already is and still people are willing to wait.
If Windows 7 does not work, they will wait till windows 8 and they will be running Vista by then. Did you not listen what they did before? Why would it be different now?
Or more likely the US a a very real hatres for anybody elses interests,
It is funny when people talk about the UN as if it were a country that has a clear goal to overtrown the USofA, while the real enemy comes within and is already there in the form of a president among others.
Perhaps there should be a law to have Wifi routers labelled with a warning that anyone can access it unless they secure it.
Perhaps the default should be secure, where the owner puts in his own password before making the device operational (no default passport please) and if he so desires, he can open it. Closed by default, open by request.
So you wouldn't be botherd if I went into your house and watched TV while you are not in. Or to swim in your pool. Or use your pool while you are at home, but not actualy are using the pool.
I can not see what harm is done in either of those cases. It might become complicated when use the pool while you are there as well, but I can say that I did not interupt the ability to use your pool, so no harm is done.
I am currently working on a database for company knowledge and the first thing I have in the back of my mind is that information might be available to more people that I anticipated.
To me that means that I will not put some data online, untill I am sure how this can be blocked for sure. Also in the back I am thinking about data security. If I am not sure, I do not put it online.
Koval was born in Iowa, spoke fluent American English
So why is it importand to mention that he, as a born American, spoke American Enlish? It would be more surprising would he have talked with a russian dialect.
But memorial day (or whatever it is)? Hello? Ask anyone in Europe when that day is and you get a "What's Memorial day? Did they move our national holiday again?"
That might depend on the country you are in. Obviously it will have a different name in most countries, but e.g. the UK knows about it. They could have put poppies onn the site as a symbol. Belgium obviously is also aware of why that day is importand.
Other counries celebrate something else on that day as well.
Yes it has. It is just that some get more then others. We call it unemployment.
The reason is simpe: think of getting payed per hour, instead of per task AND we are greedy, so that if we can do more tasks in the same time, we do not take more time off, we do more tasks.
That way if we both can de the task we previously did in the same time twice as fast, either you or I will be out of a job. Most likely the person who is willing to do it for the least amount.
First you got payed per hour to do 1 taks. Now you are able to do 2 tasks. You will not get payed double, you most likely get payed the same, giving me all of the leisure time.
The endresult? You get nothing more (exept more tasks to do). I get time, but no money to spend it, so I will be trying to wor for 90% undercutting you. The only one who wins are the shareholders.
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Ubuntu is not an exeption. It is how forks work. At a certain moment you have a large enough user base that different people will see things differently. At that moment one or the other will say, hey we will fork. In an ideal situation this would mean that 50% use the old version and 50%.
It is evolution, one could say. Not forking is the unnatural way. It would mean no diversity. I leave it to the reader as an excersise wether this is a good or bad thing.
A developers community can only listen to so many people at the same time. Some will have opposite interests and conflicting interests.
Novell did the same and went one step further. If you want to make a distribution based on openSUSE, all you need to do is remove the trademarks and such. Now how do you do that? Novell has kindly made rembrand which removes the branding.
That way it is fairly easy to make your own distribution. No need to recompile, unless you want to. If you so desire, you CAN recompile everything and then use makeSUSEdvd to make your ISO.
All the rest of the packages has their own licences and regulations.
I would just put extra HD's into my PC. I just bought an extra IDE card to add all the IDE cards I have.
However if you want to have it cheap and ONLY for NAS/Backup, then I would buy a cheap PC via Ebay that still works, put any Linux distribution I like on it and put as much HD in it as I can lay my hands on. Connect it to a network and done.
The only connection you need is a network card and even if it is not on the mobo, a cheap 100MB card will be enough for any homeuse.
Alternatively, if you like to do much more with it for more PC's and have it as a multimediaserver, then http://plutohome.com/ might be a good distribution. Based on Debian, it can do all of your domotica. Why stop at NAS if you can have so much more for the same price.
The Americans and many other countries face a difficult choice here. On the one side we have instand reports on the outcome of the voting even before the voting is completely over. On the other side we have the democratic process.
One side is money, the other side is the people.
Darn, which one could be more importand?
And in the UK it is O2 that they have a deal with.
Apple just looks at each country what will be the best deal they can get. Which one will give them the biggest patrt of their profit.
Luckily/unfortunatly selling locked phones in Belgium is against the law, so no Iphones here. OTOH, we have the best beers in the world, so who realy cares.
Just block them on your machine. As the first line of defence I use http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt, which is a hostlist that, among others, points doubleclick and googleads to 127.0.0.1. At this momen more then 30.000 domains.
It speeds up those slow websites a LOT and already reduces the amount of adds. Also it will work for all your broswers.
I asume there will be many more lists like that, yet this one is the best that I know.
So what we should do is all answer yes ans swarm them with false positives. And on the other upside, we will not be able to enter the US.
The month December. That was absolutely the best of 2007.
St00pid lists that round up years before they are over. Almost like an OS that calls his OS for the NEXT year. Mandriva anybody?
All of the above, or just use DSL from a USB key. That way when the cops come, nobody will be the wiser as it will be very easy to get rid of/erase/whatever.
They are now so small that they can be anything. You have a lot of lying around? Just dropt it in there and nobody will be the siser.
You can desguise them as almost anything.
And how easy is it to 'loose' this one
And there are many more things where you would not know that they are USB drives.
If it is good enough for the governement, it is good enough for me.
I have the same idea about car safety. Let people speed as much and drive as irresponsible as they like and the ones that can not jump aside fast enough will get taken out of the gene pool.
In just a few geerations, we wil have no car accidents anymore.
I used to work at a company some ten years ago and we used Yahoo Messenger all the time. We had email and phones and we could easily walk to each other, yet Yahoo Messenger was much easier a LOT of the time. If you needed a short answer on a short question, you would just send the message and have a further conversation if needed.
This all while on the phone with somebody else. It realy held down the noiselevel, because instead of people shouting questions to each other, you just send the message. In about 95% of the cases you could see the person. Sometimes you would see that the person was on the phone himselef and would thus be doing two things at a time.
Unfortunatly no other company I have worked for since has been willing or daring to implement it or even try it out. A big loss for them, especialy as you can now just set up your own server, so no contact is possible with the ousde world.
I highly recomend it. It is NOT a replacement for email. In fact it is not a replacement for anything. It is just an aditional tool to communicate with your fellow workers.
There already is and still people are willing to wait.
If Windows 7 does not work, they will wait till windows 8 and they will be running Vista by then. Did you not listen what they did before? Why would it be different now?
Or more likely the US a a very real hatres for anybody elses interests,
It is funny when people talk about the UN as if it were a country that has a clear goal to overtrown the USofA, while the real enemy comes within and is already there in the form of a president among others.
Since ever, or do you think people did not play games before Zork or Pong?
... and what would that do to patents considering there is previous art?
Doesn't matter. You can still become president.
So you wouldn't be botherd if I went into your house and watched TV while you are not in. Or to swim in your pool. Or use your pool while you are at home, but not actualy are using the pool.
I can not see what harm is done in either of those cases. It might become complicated when use the pool while you are there as well, but I can say that I did not interupt the ability to use your pool, so no harm is done.
Mod this up. Either as insightfull or funny.
I am currently working on a database for company knowledge and the first thing I have in the back of my mind is that information might be available to more people that I anticipated.
To me that means that I will not put some data online, untill I am sure how this can be blocked for sure. Also in the back I am thinking about data security. If I am not sure, I do not put it online.
Ghandi was an Open Source Person? Never knew that.
So why is it importand to mention that he, as a born American, spoke American Enlish? It would be more surprising would he have talked with a russian dialect.
That might depend on the country you are in. Obviously it will have a different name in most countries, but e.g. the UK knows about it. They could have put poppies onn the site as a symbol. Belgium obviously is also aware of why that day is importand.
Other counries celebrate something else on that day as well.
Yes it has. It is just that some get more then others. We call it unemployment.
The reason is simpe: think of getting payed per hour, instead of per task AND we are greedy, so that if we can do more tasks in the same time, we do not take more time off, we do more tasks.
That way if we both can de the task we previously did in the same time twice as fast, either you or I will be out of a job. Most likely the person who is willing to do it for the least amount.
First you got payed per hour to do 1 taks. Now you are able to do 2 tasks. You will not get payed double, you most likely get payed the same, giving me all of the leisure time.
The endresult? You get nothing more (exept more tasks to do). I get time, but no money to spend it, so I will be trying to wor for 90% undercutting you. The only one who wins are the shareholders.
yes, this is very much simplified.