Not from Debian, just from Anthony Towns. He was soundly thrashed for this on debian-legal and debian-devel -- he's pretty much the only person who seems to believe Sun's new license is any good.
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However, if the exception was not there, anything that needs autoconf would have to be licensed under a GPL-compatible license. Not necessarily GPLed itself -- if your piece of software is, for example, under BSD3, anyone can replace GPLed parts with something else and be not bound by the GPL any more.
In nVidia's case, though, there is no such exception, and it would be next to impossible to get it, considering that every single contributor to the Linux kernel would have to grant it. Including those who are dead (in which case you need to track down whoever inherited the copyright) or in persistent vegetative case (in that case you're simply out of luck until they die).
And trying to claim that Opera beats FireFox feature-wise is just a pathethic piece of FUD. First, FireFox intentionally gives you the choice to use a lean bare-bones trunk, and add any features of your choice to it. Even if you count just the officially approved ones, you can choose from 1365 extensions. Without AdBlock, Opera is useless on the IntarWeb of today, where nearly every page consists mostly of ads.
Speaking of ads, let me throw in a blatant pitch for my Debian package to eliminate 18-33% of http requests at DNS lookup phase so your network will get at least a bit less clogged by users of lesser browsers: dnscruft.
as a member of the NTP pool [...] At this moment, I'm supporting roughly 1500 clients
Somehow, I find this value flawed. On my server, also in the pool, I logged requests from 161683 different IPs within just the first 24 hours after joining the pool; thus, only those who just resolved the name accessed it. Most NTP clients do a DNS lookup only once during the startup, thus I expect the usage to increase over time.
I'm in the pool for just over a month; I'll turn on logging for another day to gather the new data.
On the other hand, the percentage values about abusers are roughly the same here.
Hell yeah. Irices were maybe not impressive, but certainly cool.
I browsed some SGI docs literally a hour ago just to make a piece of software portable to Irix -- not out of any necessity or even utility, but just because of the old fondness.
Well, I tried this detector on this/. article with all the comments, and got that it has a 94.3% chance of being a human-written authentic scientific document.
Which debunks the myth that this detector has any worth:-p
What auto-update services were you talking about, again?
As restarting most daemons is likely to cause disruption, you can't do this without thinking; thus, fully automatic updates are a bad idea unless the users are mindless. As servers are not operated by monkeys but by people who are *supposed* to have a clue, notification is a must, but actually applying the update shouldn't be done as a cronjob. (Of course, apt-get update && apt-get -d -y dist-upgrade (cron-apt) is a worthy thing).
You are asked to choose between various free sites and have to judge just buy a screenshot wich one is save. That of course is very hard to do. Worse is that you can't choose the answer "none of the above" wich I think is the only real answer.
Also, in the case of the lyrics site, you can't choose "both". I hardly ever switch to X, play music using a perl script that runs mpg321, ogg123, timidity or mpc123, and thus if I want to look up the lyrics of a song, I do so using eLinks. Bite me.
Virus scanner == safety belt. Wearing a safety belt doesn't make you a safe driver.
Wrong analogy. A virus scanner = hiring a nanny. She takes up place, costs you a lot, is annoying, and can't drive well anyway. Thus, the only case when this could be beneficial is when you actually drive worse than her.
Come on, virus scanners are nothing but snake oil. They don't protect you against crapware, they just give you an incomplete chance of perhaps curing part of the infection (and all modern pieces of spyware download a bunch of "friends" anyway), while being a security risk in themselves. We had quite a lot of viruses targetting Symantec products specifically already...
Common sense is a misnomer because whatever it is it sure as hell ain't common.
Thus, I take a pride when people tell me I lack the common "sense". With Asperger's, I'm an idiot in social situations, but at least I know to check if a device is plugged in when it won't turn on.
a service designed to boost domain parking on open source software.
Er... and how is this a good thing? Parked domain are an atrocity, something that should be eradicated off the face of the public namespace; the only legitimate use is an "under construction" marker before a real service gets put onto that name.
Somehow, I wouldn't want to push the stats of people who pee on the street the most. The "market presence" isn't always good.
I've seen a live SCO OpenServer recently. A friend was getting rid of it so he gave shell accounts to buddies just for a quick play; if you don't care about being legal, you can even grab it off P2P.
It is absolutely abysmal. Hell, it is far worse than Ultrix I have seen in '97. It is as if all Unix innovation from 90s and 00s haven't happened at all.
These days, an Unix distribution is considered all musty if it has remnants of non-UTF8ness or has issues with IPv6. But for SCO, do you know what they are lacking? Command-line editing in all shipped shells! A brief glance at google says they don't have support for >2GB files and the like!
Oh, and by the way. Please plop the following into your autoconfage: AC_DEFUN([AC_SCO], [ AC_MSG_CHECKING([for SCO's intellectual property]) case `uname -s`X in
SCO_*) AC_MSG_RESULT([nope, it belongs to Novell]);;
*) AC_MSG_RESULT([not found]) esac ])
It is a hacking contest to quite some extent. Unlike most programming contests I've taken part in, coding skills have far more importance than the ability to come with the best algorithm in O(n) sense.
An example: in my time (1998), we didn't whack our teammate upside the head for doing one of the tasks the real way instead of just going for the naive algorithm. The naive one was O(n^3), the optimal one -- O(n), but max n was... 100. In our national competitions and on most exams done by folks from our faculty, tasks and tests are carefully designed to give few if any points to optimized but asymptotically slow code; on the ACM contest we simply didn't realize the bias is different. Just a knee-jerk reaction; we assumed that if n is so small, the time limits will be in the range of milliseconds.
And either doing that task the naive way or shaving like 30 seconds from the time wasted by that teammate would get us 1st place instead of 9th. Blargh:p
The thing is, GPLv3 just clarifies the incompatibility between DRM and GPL, to make it yet harder to twist the wording of the license. Even stock GPLv2 means you have to provide everything except for the compiler and/or system libraries.
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. 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. However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
If your "source" doesn't produce a working binary, it is not the real source. Source in the meaning of GPLv2 must be complete, that is, it must include all parts needed to duplicate the executable you distribute, starting from nothing but what is distributed with the operating system and/or compiler.
Judging from the climate, we can safely guess how the last elections on Venus went like. However, Veneral Republican Party spokesman said: "Global warming is just an unproven myth".
We are also sure that Democrats don't rule Mars, either -- they haven't yet ran out of sand.
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Not from Debian, just from Anthony Towns. He was soundly thrashed for this on debian-legal and debian-devel -- he's pretty much the only person who seems to believe Sun's new license is any good.
In this case, people will be pushing that pr0n download masqueraded as VoIP traffic to get better speeds.
No, stop the FUD, please.
As a special exception, the Free Software Foundation gives unlimited
permission to copy, distribute and modify the configure scripts that
are the output of Autoconf. You need not follow the terms of the GNU
General Public License when using or distributing such scripts, even
though portions of the text of Autoconf appear in them. The GNU
General Public License (GPL) does govern all other use of the material
that constitutes the Autoconf program.
However, if the exception was not there, anything that needs autoconf would have to be licensed under a GPL-compatible license. Not necessarily GPLed itself -- if your piece of software is, for example, under BSD3, anyone can replace GPLed parts with something else and be not bound by the GPL any more.
In nVidia's case, though, there is no such exception, and it would be next to impossible to get it, considering that every single contributor to the Linux kernel would have to grant it. Including those who are dead (in which case you need to track down whoever inherited the copyright) or in persistent vegetative case (in that case you're simply out of luck until they die).
Speed-wise, the browser I use most of the time beats everything trolls like him can throw its way.
And trying to claim that Opera beats FireFox feature-wise is just a pathethic piece of FUD. First, FireFox intentionally gives you the choice to use a lean bare-bones trunk, and add any features of your choice to it. Even if you count just the officially approved ones, you can choose from 1365 extensions. Without AdBlock, Opera is useless on the IntarWeb of today, where nearly every page consists mostly of ads.
Speaking of ads, let me throw in a blatant pitch for my Debian package to eliminate 18-33% of http requests at DNS lookup phase so your network will get at least a bit less clogged by users of lesser browsers: dnscruft.
Perhaps it's just those bloodsuckers in the government wanting to satisfy their craving for blood? And not just from convicts, but from everyone.
as a member of the NTP pool
[...]
At this moment, I'm supporting roughly 1500 clients
Somehow, I find this value flawed. On my server, also in the pool, I logged requests from 161683 different IPs within just the first 24 hours after joining the pool; thus, only those who just resolved the name accessed it. Most NTP clients do a DNS lookup only once during the startup, thus I expect the usage to increase over time.
I'm in the pool for just over a month; I'll turn on logging for another day to gather the new data.
On the other hand, the percentage values about abusers are roughly the same here.
And now there is one more reason to emigrate: terrible political state (PIS, Lepper and Giertych).
Don't worry, under such leadership we'll quickly remove the gap that divides us from the US level, at least in the area of education.
Hell yeah. Irices were maybe not impressive, but certainly cool.
I browsed some SGI docs literally a hour ago just to make a piece of software portable to Irix -- not out of any necessity or even utility, but just because of the old fondness.
Sleep well, Indy. We'll miss you.
Well, I tried this detector on this /. article with all the comments, and got that it has a 94.3% chance of being a human-written authentic scientific document.
:-p
Which debunks the myth that this detector has any worth
blah blah DSA-1234 blah blah
*triggered*! Doing: ssh foo;su -;apt-get update;apt-get dist-upgrade; ssh bar...
What auto-update services were you talking about, again?
As restarting most daemons is likely to cause disruption, you can't do this without thinking; thus, fully automatic updates are a bad idea unless the users are mindless. As servers are not operated by monkeys but by people who are *supposed* to have a clue, notification is a must, but actually applying the update shouldn't be done as a cronjob. (Of course, apt-get update && apt-get -d -y dist-upgrade (cron-apt) is a worthy thing).
Actually, it's not -- but the second iteration is!
Well, do you have the unicode for that? :p
You are asked to choose between various free sites and have to judge just buy a screenshot wich one is save. That of course is very hard to do. Worse is that you can't choose the answer "none of the above" wich I think is the only real answer.
Also, in the case of the lyrics site, you can't choose "both".
I hardly ever switch to X, play music using a perl script that runs mpg321, ogg123, timidity or mpc123, and thus if I want to look up the lyrics of a song, I do so using eLinks. Bite me.
Virus scanner == safety belt. Wearing a safety belt doesn't make you a safe driver.
Wrong analogy. A virus scanner = hiring a nanny. She takes up place, costs you a lot, is annoying, and can't drive well anyway. Thus, the only case when this could be beneficial is when you actually drive worse than her.
Come on, virus scanners are nothing but snake oil. They don't protect you against crapware, they just give you an incomplete chance of perhaps curing part of the infection (and all modern pieces of spyware download a bunch of "friends" anyway), while being a security risk in themselves. We had quite a lot of viruses targetting Symantec products specifically already...
Common sense is a misnomer because whatever it is it sure as hell ain't common.
Thus, I take a pride when people tell me I lack the common "sense". With Asperger's, I'm an idiot in social situations, but at least I know to check if a device is plugged in when it won't turn on.
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
Damn right. That's why I never play chess.
Yeah, I always suspected I can't trust the security of *BSD...
In other words, they are incompetent.
Wrong. Never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by malice.
Thats just how politics work in a corporate environment. People will cover their arses first, do the sensible thing second.
I'm afraid that you have never seen a corporate environment; otherwise you wouldn't mention "doing the sensible thing".
Which head?
a service designed to boost domain parking on open source software.
Er... and how is this a good thing? Parked domain are an atrocity, something that should be eradicated off the face of the public namespace; the only legitimate use is an "under construction" marker before a real service gets put onto that name.
Somehow, I wouldn't want to push the stats of people who pee on the street the most. The "market presence" isn't always good.
I've seen a live SCO OpenServer recently. A friend was getting rid of it so he gave shell accounts to buddies just for a quick play; if you don't care about being legal, you can even grab it off P2P.
;;
It is absolutely abysmal. Hell, it is far worse than Ultrix I have seen in '97. It is as if all Unix innovation from 90s and 00s haven't happened at all.
These days, an Unix distribution is considered all musty if it has remnants of non-UTF8ness or has issues with IPv6. But for SCO, do you know what they are lacking? Command-line editing in all shipped shells! A brief glance at google says they don't have support for >2GB files and the like!
Oh, and by the way. Please plop the following into your autoconfage:
AC_DEFUN([AC_SCO], [
AC_MSG_CHECKING([for SCO's intellectual property])
case `uname -s`X in
SCO_*) AC_MSG_RESULT([nope, it belongs to Novell])
*) AC_MSG_RESULT([not found])
esac
])
It is a hacking contest to quite some extent. Unlike most programming contests I've taken part in, coding skills have far more importance than the ability to come with the best algorithm in O(n) sense.
:p
An example: in my time (1998), we didn't whack our teammate upside the head for doing one of the tasks the real way instead of just going for the naive algorithm. The naive one was O(n^3), the optimal one -- O(n), but max n was... 100. In our national competitions and on most exams done by folks from our faculty, tasks and tests are carefully designed to give few if any points to optimized but asymptotically slow code; on the ACM contest we simply didn't realize the bias is different. Just a knee-jerk reaction; we assumed that if n is so small, the time limits will be in the range of milliseconds.
And either doing that task the naive way or shaving like 30 seconds from the time wasted by that teammate would get us 1st place instead of 9th. Blargh
Reversed? It looks fine to me...
The thing is, GPLv3 just clarifies the incompatibility between DRM and GPL, to make it yet harder to twist the wording of the license. Even stock GPLv2 means you have to provide everything except for the compiler and/or system libraries.
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
making modifications to it. 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. However, as a
special exception, the source code distributed need not include
anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the
operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component
itself accompanies the executable.
If your "source" doesn't produce a working binary, it is not the real source. Source in the meaning of GPLv2 must be complete, that is, it must include all parts needed to duplicate the executable you distribute, starting from nothing but what is distributed with the operating system and/or compiler.
Judging from the climate, we can safely guess how the last elections on Venus went like. However, Veneral Republican Party spokesman said: "Global warming is just an unproven myth".
We are also sure that Democrats don't rule Mars, either -- they haven't yet ran out of sand.
Well, but how does this compare to the nice infrared/ultraviolet/X-ray vision thingies?
Ah, the choice...