Most of the smaller distros aim at a specific niche, very technical users, those that want to tweak the system, novice users, embedded systems, wireless hacking the list goes on.
It doesn't change the fact that choice is good, each distro puts improvements it makes back into the whole.
I can't imagine any other case where people would say more choice is bad
Do more LCD TVs on the market make it more likely people will buy a plasma instead?
Do more car models available mean people will look at a motorbike instead?
My wife much prefers silver (and is allergic to almost any other metal, especially gold due to the level of impurities even in 24ct) and also prefers semi precious stones to the now rather generic precious stones.
Now the hard part is finding something original and unique - especially since she makes jewelry herself she is quite critical of the quality of other pieces in the same way most artists are...
Shameless plug for those who also prefer something less generic: Silver Gilt Garden
So the question becomes was any version of CUPS distributed with the "or later" clause?
If so then it continues to be possible to GPL3 is in a fork - I can't see any ethics against it personally, people contributed to the CUPS project knowing it was open source and assigned copyright because that was the only way to submit code - as pointed out it is recommended by FSF.
I don't really see anything wrong in what the developer has done either - ok he has sold out - but all the work done previously is still available in the GPL, he just will be working on his private copy now - any future work becomes a different matter
Does anyone familiar with EU law know how this stands with free movement of legal materials between member states?
As I understand it, if you can legally purchase it in one member state you are free to carry it back to your home country and own it there?
I'm currently living in Amsterdam and given the quickest route to work and back is walking through the red light area I'm quite familiar with what dvds can be purchased here...
I use spam@mydomainnamebutimnottellingyouwhatitis.com as a spam harvester - I registered it on several mailing lists and forums and then plugged it directly into my spam assassin learning filters since everything to that address is guaranteed to be spam - since I did that the accuracy of spam assassin has certainly increased.
I suspect I could do a little more with auto blacklisting of mail servers and such things but haven't got around to it yet
I also find it rather amusing to give that address to companies over the phone when they can't give me a sensible reason for wanting my email address (ie its purely for "marketing purposes")
Thats not really the point - because in many areas its not actually legal for you to format shift anyway - it falls somewhere between copyright, fair use and the DMCA (in the US) and gets complicated
I'm more curious about how they know that the 700Mb file that you created from/dev/urandom and called Transformers-cam-divx.avi is a pirate film??
I'd be more than tempted to set up a system with several of these files in a fire walled network to effectively honey pot them, depending on the terms of the EULA they could quite well be breaking various uk laws... but to be honest I don't really have the time and I'm not sure they'd be active in pursuing that in the uk anyway.
Producing anhydrous ethanol is difficult, or rather requires a very large energy input.
Thats where the problem comes in - engines require ethanol that is not mixed with water. The only realistic way to separate ethanol from water is distillation which requires a lot of energy (ok I'll admit you can use a centrifuge to do the first stage of separation though I'm not sure if this is used commercially.
I'm also curious if the methanol is kept from the distillation... methanol burns quite happily, its not quite as high efficiency as ethanol so you may not want it in the mix in order to calibrate the engine correctly...
If someone can come up with a biological process to create ethanol that has zero water mixed with it then they will likely be very rich.
Personally I think its far more likely that we'll either use a difference fuel source or someone will redesign the engines to be happy running with ethanol/water mix - getting 24% ethanol is easy - there are GM yeasts that can do that already for wine making - I wouldn't be surprised if there were yeasts that could go to 40% or more (though not necessarily suitable for wine due to flavour concerns)
Foosball tables (table football here in the uk) have been a fixture at most of the companies I've worked at (or visited the dev departments) - pool tables on occasion too.
As well as start ups these include bigger firms like IBM and symantec
Being able to unwind for 10 minutes helps you work faster on the whole - and a grand for a table isn't exactly much out of a corporate budget
I took a rather cynical bet with a friend of mine when the 1st bush election happened (actually to be truthful it was a few months after that) that bush would attempt to declare some state of emergency to stay in for a 3rd term.
I'd been living in the states for a year at that point, but am very glad to be out of there now. (Not to say that blair or brown are any better than bush though)
I still wouldn't sell the bet as I suspect he will at least try it - whether the public finds out or whether he actually suceeds is another matter.
I'm rather glad I made the bet in sterling, since right now the dollar is in the toilet
The problem with films like fight club is that people watch them, people agree with them, people think "wow, that's so true, I really should be more like that and challenge the system"
Then they go back to their lives, following the rules, working a job they hate to earn money they don't want to buy stuff they don't need.
Call me cynical but I can't see that changing any time soon.
Its nice true, but I prefer something a little more portable.
The dev machines running solaris 8 in most financials dont have the gnu utilities on them, let alone the productions machines
However even the default install will give you/bin/sh, tar, gunzip and hopefully awk, sed, grep and if you are really lucky, perl (though for solaris 8 its going to be perl 5.0)
Its a very old trick thats been on unix for years. you make an install shell script, you put a tag that signifies the end of it, then you appaend the tgz of the package you want to install.
Set this installer to executable and voila you have a self extracting installer - feel free to add gui's etc.
You might be familiar with the concept - pretty much every installer you use on windows employs this kind of system - its not exactly difficult to create or use.
Financial services are probably the best paying jobs in IT - ok they have a lot of pressure but if you can handle it then its very rewarding
Approx 55k-75k perm or about 450-650 a day contracting is the going rate right now (that's in GPB for USD double it for current exchange rates)
You won't get a look in at these places without a degree - preferably from a good university. Your degree doesn't have to be amazing - I got a 2ii (where uk degrees are ranked 1, 2i, 2ii, 3, pass) which isn't ideal but I made sure the experience I have gained since more than makes up for it.
That's the key really, you need a degree to get your first job, and you need the existence of that degree on your CV (resume) for the future, but its the skills you learn in industry that will progress your career, not what you did in the 3 years before staring your career proper.
No idea about landlords in the US - but I know a few personally in the uk that follow the cash in hand system - and it is simply for the reason of paying less tax.
That probably what he told you, however if he only accepts payment in cash the most common reason is that he will only declare 1/2 - 3/4 of it as the actual income from rent and pocket the rest.
Oh it gets worse - even if you took the assumption that red dwarf was real, that particular scene occurred during an hallucination caused by the despair squid!!
Simple solution - buy an IBM server with RAID 1 battery backed RAM
(yes they have them, the x366 iirc)
The ram banks were hot swap and had enough battery to preserve the contents for a week or two - in theory one of the banks could be sent to IBM with data included in order to debug a problem with the exact state recorded
Of course these servers don't come cheap - but if the RIAA want to provide me with a 4 way xeon with hot swap battery backed redundant RAM I'm sure I can send them the contents of the RAM from my torrent tracker - after I rewrite the software so IPs are stored hashed only:)
Yes thank you - wrong term. I blame it entirely on 10 a hour day in the office and not enough sleep:)
As you say a lot slower - perhaps they could drive the same route three times - probably quicker than doing long exposure - then they just need to be very clever with their graphics merging tools:)
Doesn't google know how to do a time lapse digital photography?
If you set your shutter speed to 30 minutes its pretty rare to get any people in the image - or cars for that matter unless they are parked.
How else do you think you get pictures of busy public buildings but without any people on them (well before the days of photoshop)
Ok so time lapse is very old school and would probably take too long to get all the photos they want - but wouldn't some hybrid of time lapse and digital processing work quite well? (eg 10 stills over 60 seconds and an algorithm to create a composite using only the static parts?)
The UK age certificates are legally enforced with heavy fines for anyone selling or renting films or games to those below the age of the rating. I think vendors that persist in selling media to those under age can be barred from selling dvds or games in the future.
The ratings are also pretty fair and its not that expensive to get something rated (a couple of thousand for a 90 minute film)
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Most of the smaller distros aim at a specific niche, very technical users, those that want to tweak the system, novice users, embedded systems, wireless hacking the list goes on.
It doesn't change the fact that choice is good, each distro puts improvements it makes back into the whole.
I can't imagine any other case where people would say more choice is bad
Do more LCD TVs on the market make it more likely people will buy a plasma instead?
Do more car models available mean people will look at a motorbike instead?
Choice is a good thing
I consider myself lucky in that department.
My wife much prefers silver (and is allergic to almost any other metal, especially gold due to the level of impurities even in 24ct) and also prefers semi precious stones to the now rather generic precious stones.
Now the hard part is finding something original and unique - especially since she makes jewelry herself she is quite critical of the quality of other pieces in the same way most artists are...
Shameless plug for those who also prefer something less generic: Silver Gilt Garden
So the question becomes was any version of CUPS distributed with the "or later" clause?
If so then it continues to be possible to GPL3 is in a fork - I can't see any ethics against it personally, people contributed to the CUPS project knowing it was open source and assigned copyright because that was the only way to submit code - as pointed out it is recommended by FSF.
I don't really see anything wrong in what the developer has done either - ok he has sold out - but all the work done previously is still available in the GPL, he just will be working on his private copy now - any future work becomes a different matter
Does anyone familiar with EU law know how this stands with free movement of legal materials between member states?
As I understand it, if you can legally purchase it in one member state you are free to carry it back to your home country and own it there?
I'm currently living in Amsterdam and given the quickest route to work and back is walking through the red light area I'm quite familiar with what dvds can be purchased here...
I get the impression an SSL standard for packet encryption is going to get put together for torrent fairly soon...
Either that or a couple of the bigger ones are going to get updates/patches/plugings so when sharing with the same client they will be encrypted...
I use spam@mydomainnamebutimnottellingyouwhatitis.com as a spam harvester - I registered it on several mailing lists and forums and then plugged it directly into my spam assassin learning filters since everything to that address is guaranteed to be spam - since I did that the accuracy of spam assassin has certainly increased.
I suspect I could do a little more with auto blacklisting of mail servers and such things but haven't got around to it yet
I also find it rather amusing to give that address to companies over the phone when they can't give me a sensible reason for wanting my email address (ie its purely for "marketing purposes")
Thats not really the point - because in many areas its not actually legal for you to format shift anyway - it falls somewhere between copyright, fair use and the DMCA (in the US) and gets complicated
/dev/urandom and called Transformers-cam-divx.avi is a pirate film??
I'm more curious about how they know that the 700Mb file that you created from
I'd be more than tempted to set up a system with several of these files in a fire walled network to effectively honey pot them, depending on the terms of the EULA they could quite well be breaking various uk laws... but to be honest I don't really have the time and I'm not sure they'd be active in pursuing that in the uk anyway.
Producing ethanol is easy.
Producing ethanol in large quantities is easy.
Producing anhydrous ethanol is difficult, or rather requires a very large energy input.
Thats where the problem comes in - engines require ethanol that is not mixed with water. The only realistic way to separate ethanol from water is distillation which requires a lot of energy (ok I'll admit you can use a centrifuge to do the first stage of separation though I'm not sure if this is used commercially.
I'm also curious if the methanol is kept from the distillation... methanol burns quite happily, its not quite as high efficiency as ethanol so you may not want it in the mix in order to calibrate the engine correctly...
If someone can come up with a biological process to create ethanol that has zero water mixed with it then they will likely be very rich.
Personally I think its far more likely that we'll either use a difference fuel source or someone will redesign the engines to be happy running with ethanol/water mix - getting 24% ethanol is easy - there are GM yeasts that can do that already for wine making - I wouldn't be surprised if there were yeasts that could go to 40% or more (though not necessarily suitable for wine due to flavour concerns)
Foosball tables (table football here in the uk) have been a fixture at most of the companies I've worked at (or visited the dev departments) - pool tables on occasion too.
As well as start ups these include bigger firms like IBM and symantec
Being able to unwind for 10 minutes helps you work faster on the whole - and a grand for a table isn't exactly much out of a corporate budget
Gruntled could possibly be thought of as an approximate inverse of chuffed
I took a rather cynical bet with a friend of mine when the 1st bush election happened (actually to be truthful it was a few months after that) that bush would attempt to declare some state of emergency to stay in for a 3rd term.
I'd been living in the states for a year at that point, but am very glad to be out of there now. (Not to say that blair or brown are any better than bush though)
I still wouldn't sell the bet as I suspect he will at least try it - whether the public finds out or whether he actually suceeds is another matter.
I'm rather glad I made the bet in sterling, since right now the dollar is in the toilet
The problem with films like fight club is that people watch them, people agree with them, people think "wow, that's so true, I really should be more like that and challenge the system"
Then they go back to their lives, following the rules, working a job they hate to earn money they don't want to buy stuff they don't need.
Call me cynical but I can't see that changing any time soon.
Well people have been saying for years that hardware is getting more and more like software....
Its nice true, but I prefer something a little more portable.
/bin/sh, tar, gunzip and hopefully awk, sed, grep and if you are really lucky, perl (though for solaris 8 its going to be perl 5.0)
The dev machines running solaris 8 in most financials dont have the gnu utilities on them, let alone the productions machines
However even the default install will give you
A self extracting tar file with installer?
.debs
Its a very old trick thats been on unix for years. you make an install shell script, you put a tag that signifies the end of it, then you appaend the tgz of the package you want to install.
Set this installer to executable and voila you have a self extracting installer - feel free to add gui's etc.
You might be familiar with the concept - pretty much every installer you use on windows employs this kind of system - its not exactly difficult to create or use.
Personally though I much prefer apt-get and
What absolute nonsense!!
Financial services are probably the best paying jobs in IT - ok they have a lot of pressure but if you can handle it then its very rewarding
Approx 55k-75k perm or about 450-650 a day contracting is the going rate right now (that's in GPB for USD double it for current exchange rates)
You won't get a look in at these places without a degree - preferably from a good university. Your degree doesn't have to be amazing - I got a 2ii (where uk degrees are ranked 1, 2i, 2ii, 3, pass) which isn't ideal but I made sure the experience I have gained since more than makes up for it.
That's the key really, you need a degree to get your first job, and you need the existence of that degree on your CV (resume) for the future, but its the skills you learn in industry that will progress your career, not what you did in the 3 years before staring your career proper.
No idea about landlords in the US - but I know a few personally in the uk that follow the cash in hand system - and it is simply for the reason of paying less tax.
Different countries different loop holes
That probably what he told you, however if he only accepts payment in cash the most common reason is that he will only declare 1/2 - 3/4 of it as the actual income from rent and pocket the rest.
Cash is nice and untraceable like that
Oh it gets worse - even if you took the assumption that red dwarf was real, that particular scene occurred during an hallucination caused by the despair squid!!
Simple solution - buy an IBM server with RAID 1 battery backed RAM
:)
(yes they have them, the x366 iirc)
The ram banks were hot swap and had enough battery to preserve the contents for a week or two - in theory one of the banks could be sent to IBM with data included in order to debug a problem with the exact state recorded
Of course these servers don't come cheap - but if the RIAA want to provide me with a 4 way xeon with hot swap battery backed redundant RAM I'm sure I can send them the contents of the RAM from my torrent tracker - after I rewrite the software so IPs are stored hashed only
The big bang was jump started by Lister using the jump leads from star bug
;)
You've seen back to reality right?
Yes thank you - wrong term. I blame it entirely on 10 a hour day in the office and not enough sleep :)
:)
As you say a lot slower - perhaps they could drive the same route three times - probably quicker than doing long exposure - then they just need to be very clever with their graphics merging tools
Doesn't google know how to do a time lapse digital photography?
If you set your shutter speed to 30 minutes its pretty rare to get any people in the image - or cars for that matter unless they are parked.
How else do you think you get pictures of busy public buildings but without any people on them (well before the days of photoshop)
Ok so time lapse is very old school and would probably take too long to get all the photos they want - but wouldn't some hybrid of time lapse and digital processing work quite well? (eg 10 stills over 60 seconds and an algorithm to create a composite using only the static parts?)
Maybe I should apply for a patent on coin operated home stereos....
Though obviously the lack of coin storage space would drastically reduce the playback time between empting of something like a nano...
The UK age certificates are legally enforced with heavy fines for anyone selling or renting films or games to those below the age of the rating. I think vendors that persist in selling media to those under age can be barred from selling dvds or games in the future.
The ratings are also pretty fair and its not that expensive to get something rated (a couple of thousand for a 90 minute film)