This goes for anything that you post publically including your blog, your gallery, your Slashdot posts, your old usenet posts, your random Dodgeball history, etc.
At least you continue to own the copyright to these things.
It's Free. Free as in "Microsoft can't take the Linux kernel, use it for themselves, and enslave the code for their own proprietary purposes". I'm glad that people feel that their code should be free as in "anyone is free to use it for whatever, and I don't care if they don't want to allow their users the same freedom", but I agree with RMS that software should be Free, and it should remain Free.
Probably because people get Open Source and Free Software mixed up. Many people don't consider that the word "free" has multiple meanings (common usage: "free of charge", often shortened to "free" in colloquialisms, often replaced with "complementary" in businessisms), so it comes as a shock when they hear that many OSS and FS developers get paid for their work.
So you're assuming that at least 50% of the people using Windows are going to get new machines in less than 6 months? Ha! I'd say at least 50% of Windows machines in existence are enterprise/corporate desktops/workstations, and many of those are finally upgrading to XP. Maybe in 6 years Vista will be the most widely deployed Windows OS, but in the meantime, XP and 2000 will continue to dominate.
What's with the wrong use of data capacity measurements? n-bit is only useful for network speeds (historical I'm assuming since 1 baud = 1 bps), encryption, and very small data sizes (e.g. CPU register sizes; places where every bit counts). The article should use n-byte measurements since it's measuring storage...
But logrotate will take care of that for you using a user-space program (gzip, or any program you specify). You don't just make/var/log a compressed filesystem...
Yes, the beauty of lossless archival copies is the ease of transcoding. Got an iPod? Transcode to AAC. Got a Vorbis-compatible player? Transcode to Ogg Vorbis. Got an MP3 player in general? Transcode to MP3 (via LAME of course).
I was just basing my post on what the EFF (DVD Jon's defence) said. Sure, they might be random people on the net, but at least they're a bunch of random lawyers on the net.
By the way, DeCSS was protected under free speech in the US. Don't you remember the T-Shirts, songs, poems, and other random variants of the DeCSS code inspired by the lawsuit?
That's not web design; that's print design. If they want perfectly static content, they can distribute their websites as PDFs or PostScript files. The web is supposed to be liquid!
8) Learn to use HTML properly (it's quite redundant to use an unordered list and prefix each list item with a number; there's the ordered list element (ol) that you might like to use instead).
And if you want to do what you just said, congratulation, you've just reinvented gopher!
Fine, advertise the fuck out of Red Hat/Fedora or SLED/OpenSuSE; they're both backed by successful commercial companies. Fuck your idea of monoculture, though; as long as the software remains free, anyone can improve upon it. Humans aren't complete conformists; they want the best they can get for the least amount of effort and expenses.
Also, let's go with a counter-point to monoculture. Let's say you have a business-critical app written for Windows and replacing it in the near future is completely out of the question. One day, Microsoft gets bought by IBM after some frivolous lawsuit, and they decide to discontinue Windows in favour of their AIX and Linux systems. A few days later, blackhats everywhere begin to pile on all their unused exploits and wreck havoc on all Windows PCs. Your network is reliant on Windows, yet you (nor anyone else) cannot fix the deluge of problems being revealed. Now you're fucked, and since all Windows installations are basically the same, it was trivial to create worms, trojans, rootkits, and virii that can infect virtually all networked Windows PCs in existence. Linux distros are looking good right about now, right? Too bad your Windows app won't run on it, and you can't disconnect it from the network because it interfaces with the public as well. Oh well, tough luck. Don't forget that IBM will sue your ass if you're able to fix and distribute said fixes for Windows due to copyright infringement.
Separate desktops are separate logical screens for putting running programs in, not for icons/wallpapers/etc. For instance, you could make a desktop for your IM conversations, another for your web browser, another for your e-mail and other PIM, another for programming, another for photo editting, and so forth.
Most people don't care about DRM because either they've never encountered it (just use CDs or download MP3s) or don't know even about it. Geeks like us care about it because we're forward-thinking people and want to prevent a probable future of DRM.
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It's Free. Free as in "Microsoft can't take the Linux kernel, use it for themselves, and enslave the code for their own proprietary purposes". I'm glad that people feel that their code should be free as in "anyone is free to use it for whatever, and I don't care if they don't want to allow their users the same freedom", but I agree with RMS that software should be Free, and it should remain Free.
Probably because people get Open Source and Free Software mixed up. Many people don't consider that the word "free" has multiple meanings (common usage: "free of charge", often shortened to "free" in colloquialisms, often replaced with "complementary" in businessisms), so it comes as a shock when they hear that many OSS and FS developers get paid for their work.
So you're assuming that at least 50% of the people using Windows are going to get new machines in less than 6 months? Ha! I'd say at least 50% of Windows machines in existence are enterprise/corporate desktops/workstations, and many of those are finally upgrading to XP. Maybe in 6 years Vista will be the most widely deployed Windows OS, but in the meantime, XP and 2000 will continue to dominate.
Oh, that makes sense. I'm into computer science much more than electrical engineering.
What's with the wrong use of data capacity measurements? n-bit is only useful for network speeds (historical I'm assuming since 1 baud = 1 bps), encryption, and very small data sizes (e.g. CPU register sizes; places where every bit counts). The article should use n-byte measurements since it's measuring storage...
PRAM is Parameter RAM in Apple Macs, and that's a vital part of the computer (well, logic board). Maybe Apple will start using PRAM for its PRAM?
You mean that if the user is under eighteen, they get redirected to Digg? Sounds good to me!
I browse with sigs disabed, too. I think people do that to spam. I wish mods would browse with sigs disabled so they could downmod those spammers.
But logrotate will take care of that for you using a user-space program (gzip, or any program you specify). You don't just make /var/log a compressed filesystem...
Someone figure out how to apply this problem to Windows Media DRM and we'll get a fix in no time!
6 minutes of battery? Should've used a 5400 rpm hdd.
Yes, the beauty of lossless archival copies is the ease of transcoding. Got an iPod? Transcode to AAC. Got a Vorbis-compatible player? Transcode to Ogg Vorbis. Got an MP3 player in general? Transcode to MP3 (via LAME of course).
Having WMV files not play on an iPod is a loss of virtually all customers.
There, fixed for you.
I was just basing my post on what the EFF (DVD Jon's defence) said. Sure, they might be random people on the net, but at least they're a bunch of random lawyers on the net.
By the way, DeCSS was protected under free speech in the US. Don't you remember the T-Shirts, songs, poems, and other random variants of the DeCSS code inspired by the lawsuit?
I think it's due to the large amount of libertarians here, but that's just me.
Nah, there's Sprint Relay Online already available for deaf[-mute] people who need to use the phone.
I'm sorry that you have a disability, but I don't think every business on the web needs to cater to you.
I guess it's too bad that the law disagrees with you, eh?
That's not web design; that's print design. If they want perfectly static content, they can distribute their websites as PDFs or PostScript files. The web is supposed to be liquid!
8) Learn to use HTML properly (it's quite redundant to use an unordered list and prefix each list item with a number; there's the ordered list element (ol) that you might like to use instead).
And if you want to do what you just said, congratulation, you've just reinvented gopher!
An unencrypted encryption key? Uh...
That won't be a problem when hardware decoders are added to all new graphics cards.
Fine, advertise the fuck out of Red Hat/Fedora or SLED/OpenSuSE; they're both backed by successful commercial companies. Fuck your idea of monoculture, though; as long as the software remains free, anyone can improve upon it. Humans aren't complete conformists; they want the best they can get for the least amount of effort and expenses.
Also, let's go with a counter-point to monoculture. Let's say you have a business-critical app written for Windows and replacing it in the near future is completely out of the question. One day, Microsoft gets bought by IBM after some frivolous lawsuit, and they decide to discontinue Windows in favour of their AIX and Linux systems. A few days later, blackhats everywhere begin to pile on all their unused exploits and wreck havoc on all Windows PCs. Your network is reliant on Windows, yet you (nor anyone else) cannot fix the deluge of problems being revealed. Now you're fucked, and since all Windows installations are basically the same, it was trivial to create worms, trojans, rootkits, and virii that can infect virtually all networked Windows PCs in existence. Linux distros are looking good right about now, right? Too bad your Windows app won't run on it, and you can't disconnect it from the network because it interfaces with the public as well. Oh well, tough luck. Don't forget that IBM will sue your ass if you're able to fix and distribute said fixes for Windows due to copyright infringement.
Separate desktops are separate logical screens for putting running programs in, not for icons/wallpapers/etc. For instance, you could make a desktop for your IM conversations, another for your web browser, another for your e-mail and other PIM, another for programming, another for photo editting, and so forth.
Most people don't care about DRM because either they've never encountered it (just use CDs or download MP3s) or don't know even about it. Geeks like us care about it because we're forward-thinking people and want to prevent a probable future of DRM.