Why would anyone want to do that? What's wrong with popping a CD in the drive and rebooting? Because not all machines are capable of booting from a CD, and, even if it's possible with a given machine, in many BIOSes this capability is not enabled by default. And telling a newbie to go into BIOS setup to change settings is likely to scare the crap out of them.
(I know that is possible for a large number of specific Windows applications -through Wine-, but I meant everywhere, transparent, use Windows executables *as if* they were normal Linux binaries) That already exists. It's called binfmt_misc.
If automatic updates are turned on or off, according to TFA, the update is supposed to occur. That's the problem. Some people don't turn on automatic updates because they need to test whether or not the updates conflict with applications, hardware or other aspects of their system before they apply the update. Most of these people would be corporate users or power users at home/home office who know what they're doing.
Judicial oversight of spying is not a "constitutional right." To the degree that the spying is for military intelligence rather than criminal prosecution, the ABSENCE of judicial oversight is a "constitutional right." These are United States Citizens they are spying on, not foreign nationals! Here's the text of the Fourth Amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Show me where it draws the line between "criminal prosecution" and "military intelligence." You can't because it doesn't. Colonials had their homes searched British soldiers. The law is clearly intended to apply to military action as well as police action against all U.S. citizens.
Oh, come on. You're telling me that you believe that the Director of National Intelligence, who has been on record has vehemently defending the unwarranted wire taps, didn't know how a long-term intelligence operation conducted in Germany with the help of the German government went down?
I live in Florida. I've got acres and acres of swamp land down South of me that I'd like to sell you.
Well, you know what? Looking at the other candidates, I think Ron Paul is better than anyone else one the list, including Fred Thompson, Hillary, Obama, and Giuliani. Hillary is a power-hungry sociopath, Obama is too wet-behind-the-ears to win, Fred is a Washington insider who's been in and out of the intelligence community for decades, and Giuliani is a hard right-winger.
Paul at least never voted for the war and Iraq, has been vocal about pulling troops out of Iraq, has never voted for a Congressional pay raise, and has never voted to extend the power of the executive branch. He's the closest thing to a libertarian (small 'l') that I've seen running. No, I won't vote for the Libertarian candidate, because, well, the Libertarian Party and I have parted ways on wayyyyy too many issues.
Exactly. This is a case of open mouth, insert foot. McConnell was lying deliberately because TPTB want this law badly, and they'd like it to permanent, thank-you-very-much. McConnell lied in his statement towards that end, without knowing that public statements had already been made, according to TFA, by American and German intelligence working the case. Once he was told, "uhhh, sir, but they already said they used old-fashioned police work!" he had to back-pedal.
They'll say anything to try to garner the support of Congress and the American people to have unwarranted spying going on this country. Pay attention people, this is your Constitional rights that they are messing with here. Write your Congresscritter. Write the newspapers. E-mail Robin Meade. Do whatever it takes to let them know that you don't want your Constitutionally-protected rights taken away from you.
Every TCP/IP packet has a source address and a destination address. But that doesn't necessarily mean that every TCP/IP packet has an accurate TCP/IP packet. See spoofing attack for more info.
It's interesting because previously OS winners weren't split like that. It's also interesting because CentOS and Ubuntu are two completely different distributions, yet both are community-maintained and supported.
Constitutionally speaking, your right to free speech ends where it steps on someone else's right. Just like my right to swing my arm ends before it connects with your nose.
The classic example is why you can't yell 'fire' in a crowded theatre -- the real reason is that it intrudes on the private property owner's rights to operate his business in a peaceful manner.
I'm willing to believe that the MS engineers joining this interoperability effort will genuinely do good work towards making MS products work with Linux in a smart and efficient way. So, I can see a lot of good coming out of this. Um, no. They will do work towards making Linux work with MS products. Whether this work will be good or not remains to be seen, but their track record does not speak well for them. No doubt much of this work will be closed-source proprietary software designed to run on Linux. And I have no doubts that one of their first jobs will be porting WGA to Linux.
It's a technical discussion, yes, but the quote in question (which is in my above post if you read it), IMHO, is a bit beyond just a technical dissing of Hurd. Clearly, Linus thinks that the Hurd developers are idiots, and he simply doesn't care what anyone thinks of his disdain.
As naive as I find it, Torvalds has always made a big thing about "not doing the politics", so if you're looking to him for anything other than commentary on patches and architectural discussions, you're looking in the wrong place. Riiight. Linus Torvalds never says anything controversial or political.
An appropos comment for this story:
In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people. -- Linus Torvalds on
The Hurd is slow in coming due to the extreme lack of developers. There's what? 17 registered developers on Savannah? Compared to how many Linux kernel hackers out there? Despite the previous lack of motivation in developing a kernel, The Hurd has made great strides despite relatively small developer base.
So how am I going to 'lose' my software freedom by 'following' Linus? Really, is there some reason that Linus is going to all of a sudden change from GPL V2? Because from where I sit, he probably can't and that's the main reason why there is no one looking to make or fork off a GPL V3 kernel -- because it probably can't be done.
Don't know what version of FlexLM you used, but every version I've used does nodelocked licenses by tying to a machine's 'lmhostid', which typically matches the MAC address on the machines first Ethernet card. Hardly unique, to be sure, but AFAIK, faking the MAC address with software doesn't work (but changing it using firmware that allows the MAC to be changed does.)
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Ah, never mind. It's a small download that starts a net-based install. Would help if I would RTFA.
My question is, what, exactly, is wrong with loadlin?
If automatic updates are turned on or off, according to TFA, the update is supposed to occur. That's the problem. Some people don't turn on automatic updates because they need to test whether or not the updates conflict with applications, hardware or other aspects of their system before they apply the update. Most of these people would be corporate users or power users at home/home office who know what they're doing.
That was written 10 years ago. You sure it's still not time for the revolution yet? *raised eyebrow*
I didn't know that. Thank you for making things clearer.
Oh, come on. You're telling me that you believe that the Director of National Intelligence, who has been on record has vehemently defending the unwarranted wire taps, didn't know how a long-term intelligence operation conducted in Germany with the help of the German government went down?
I live in Florida. I've got acres and acres of swamp land down South of me that I'd like to sell you.
Well, you know what? Looking at the other candidates, I think Ron Paul is better than anyone else one the list, including Fred Thompson, Hillary, Obama, and Giuliani. Hillary is a power-hungry sociopath, Obama is too wet-behind-the-ears to win, Fred is a Washington insider who's been in and out of the intelligence community for decades, and Giuliani is a hard right-winger.
Paul at least never voted for the war and Iraq, has been vocal about pulling troops out of Iraq, has never voted for a Congressional pay raise, and has never voted to extend the power of the executive branch. He's the closest thing to a libertarian (small 'l') that I've seen running. No, I won't vote for the Libertarian candidate, because, well, the Libertarian Party and I have parted ways on wayyyyy too many issues.
Under cygwin, you can type:
/cygdrive/c/windows/system32/wuapi.dll | grep 7\.0\.6
strings
If you get back something like:
7.0.6000.381
7.0.6000.381 (winmain(wmbla).070730-1740)
7.0.6000.381
then Microsoft has secretly updated you.
Exactly. This is a case of open mouth, insert foot. McConnell was lying deliberately because TPTB want this law badly, and they'd like it to permanent, thank-you-very-much. McConnell lied in his statement towards that end, without knowing that public statements had already been made, according to TFA, by American and German intelligence working the case. Once he was told, "uhhh, sir, but they already said they used old-fashioned police work!" he had to back-pedal.
They'll say anything to try to garner the support of Congress and the American people to have unwarranted spying going on this country. Pay attention people, this is your Constitional rights that they are messing with here. Write your Congresscritter. Write the newspapers. E-mail Robin Meade. Do whatever it takes to let them know that you don't want your Constitutionally-protected rights taken away from you.
Well, I for one welcome our new gamma-ray laser wearing shark overlords!
It's interesting because previously OS winners weren't split like that. It's also interesting because CentOS and Ubuntu are two completely different distributions, yet both are community-maintained and supported.
Constitutionally speaking, your right to free speech ends where it steps on someone else's right. Just like my right to swing my arm ends before it connects with your nose.
The classic example is why you can't yell 'fire' in a crowded theatre -- the real reason is that it intrudes on the private property owner's rights to operate his business in a peaceful manner.
Stallman is human? *shocked horror*
The current WRT54Gs don't use Linux, they use Windriver's VxWorks. LinkSys does have a WRT54GL, which still uses Linux, but at 2x the asking price.
When the Porcine Aviation Assocation makes WiFi as secure as wired LAN, then we'll see the end of Ethernet. Until then, no.
It's a technical discussion, yes, but the quote in question (which is in my above post if you read it), IMHO, is a bit beyond just a technical dissing of Hurd. Clearly, Linus thinks that the Hurd developers are idiots, and he simply doesn't care what anyone thinks of his disdain.
An appropos comment for this story:
The Hurd is slow in coming due to the extreme lack of developers. There's what? 17 registered developers on Savannah? Compared to how many Linux kernel hackers out there? Despite the previous lack of motivation in developing a kernel, The Hurd has made great strides despite relatively small developer base.
So how am I going to 'lose' my software freedom by 'following' Linus? Really, is there some reason that Linus is going to all of a sudden change from GPL V2? Because from where I sit, he probably can't and that's the main reason why there is no one looking to make or fork off a GPL V3 kernel -- because it probably can't be done.
Don't know what version of FlexLM you used, but every version I've used does nodelocked licenses by tying to a machine's 'lmhostid', which typically matches the MAC address on the machines first Ethernet card. Hardly unique, to be sure, but AFAIK, faking the MAC address with software doesn't work (but changing it using firmware that allows the MAC to be changed does.)