I'm certain, in the US, at least, there was a case that set a precedent on this sort of data collection. Not long after the man who made the first telephone directory did so (yes he had to call *everyone* to get it), a second lazier man made his own, copying the numbers from the first directory. The first man accused the second of this, taking his ass to court on copyright infringement. The verdict: The court ruled you couldn't own the truth, the information had always existed. The first man had collected it, but he hadn't *created* it, so he couldn't enforce copyright. Copyright applies to works of art, not to facts. . The source of information was irrelevant, if you ignore typesetting etc..
No-one does own the data on freedb. Sure it's now avaliable through many sources, freedb, cddb, Wikipedia, but most importantly it's on the CD. When a CD is released, that data is made public. It doesn't hold significance, it's for reference. freedb don't own it, nor do the record companies. 'Public domain' doesn't even apply, it's not a work of art under threat of imitation. just another catalogue of factual data, like a reference of the colours of common objects. And the truth is everyone's.
Does anyone know of any [graphical] tree representations of all the linux distributions. This would look great, it's fantastic to see how the hundreds of distributions we have now are the forks of forks of only four maternal Eve's.
What drew you to using NTFS on your drives? That data is destined to obsolete itself. No other operating system can write to it ( Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, you name 'em) can write to it. Nor can older versions of Windows (98, ME). That leaves only Windows 2000 and XP. Vista may well stick with NTFS rather than WinFS, but the installer won't let you install over XP, but demand to reformat the target disc.
But other operating systems can *read* NTFS, so you can just copy it off, format the drive to a better file system, and put the data back.
This anyone find this concept of Mac on Intels, virtual platforms, and emulation makes them physically sick? I feel like I'm looking into a pair of mirrors, staring into infinity. Yes, that's it I'm giving up computers. Goodbye everyone.
You could say that to anybody making any kind of commentary on anything, do you have a problem with that? There isn't a button on slashdot for start pressure group, just one for comment. Now time for the other clichéd argument - if everyone is saying such stuff, why did you pick on me?
The current software situation cannot be likened to a dictatorship. There is a monopoly, but it does not arise from unfair manipulation. The people are not opressed, users are free to use what they like. Many of them do choose something different. The truth that we find scarier than an malovent monopoly, is that most users just DON'T CARE. They're not born indoctrinated, nor does Microsoft brainwash them. They do it to themselves. No-other business can dream of such brand loyalty, even if the majority of users will exclaim daily at the product and even ridicule it. They've never even tried a competing product and will fervently deny their existence.
Fighting Microsoft gains nothing. They have nothing we want to take. Users themselves have the keys to their chains. We need to teach them.
I misread your comment (i skim) to something liek the following
what we need is a system for evaluating lawyers similar to myspace. the lawyers take scene photos in their bathrrom mirror, hiding behind their fringes, making cpu-intensive profiles. you stalk the hottest ones (you secretly think emos are *cute*) and leave them creepy messages. you join groups toa lign yourself with specific policies. the lawyers with the most friends win.
Hah. Lovely as that sounds, I don't think that is the truth. Court cases are brought against filesharers, ISP illegally supplying their addresses to record companies who lack court orders.
In truth, no-one here cares about DRM, free software or copyright. It's well outside the public conscience. Media coverage of this stuff, with the exception of the technology program on BBC world/news, there is none. Any colunns in newspaper typically contain laudible inaccuracies, laughible misconceptions and livacious prejudices. Most people don't know what DRM (or a stem cell) is.
In France, the parliament lobbied to rule the development of free software illegal (1), a threat to french software businesses. So much for freedom, equality and brotherhood. In the UK, *very* few people outside labs and universities use linux. Some people use FireFox cos it's quite good but they wouldn't understand the GNU public license. *I* get out, too.
In LAMP - Don't use MySQL. It's as dumb as it's name. Use PostgreSQL if you need a real database, use sqlite if you don't. - Don't use PHP, it's sloppy. Use python or perl.
The MySQL/PHP combination has not provne itself. As stated it's left thousands of sites vulnerable to SQL-injection hacks and it's certainly not as durable and reliable as other combinations. Let's look at some of the most popular sites online, and how they cope with ridiculous quantities of traffic 1 - Google. Uses python and their own database servers they developped. Problems? Never. 2 - bbc.co.uk - a GIANT site supplied with continuous news and audio. Runs on perl. Nothing else could cope. 3 - Slashdot. Copes with the traffic that destroys anything it links to. Perl again. Rarely down. And lastly Wikipedia. Runs with PHP and MySQL! Their servers blow weekly, copious lengths of downtime, search function regularly disabled. Pages are nearly always slow to respond. QED
Excuse me, I'm high but: Studies show that most spreadsheets have critical errors in one percent of their cells, well beyond a permissible level. What the fuck does that actually mean? A critical error is by definition badness beyond a permissible level. What is a critical error? Diviiding by zero? Oh fucking no.
And yes here's a fucking comment to you sir: this ain't On The Hour.
Why did Lenovo ever commit to linux in the first place? Do you think they believe in ideals of freedom? No, they are a business, and they lust for profit. Linux *doesn't* pay, Microsoft does. No, the reason Lenovo *threatened* to supply linux PCs is as a bargaining tool against Microsoft, to lever themselves into better substudies.
SITE DOWN - WILL BE UP AND FULLY FUNCTIONAL WITHIN A DAY OR TWO
In the morning of 2006-05-31 the Unitied Kingdom Metropolitan Police showed a search warrant to employers of Canonical Ltd. The warrant was valid for all datacentres of Canonical Ltd and was directed at Ubuntu. The allegation was breach of copy-right law, infringement of patents held by Microsoft, assisting piracy by distributing software freely, and theft of intellectual property from the SCO unix group.
The police officers were allowed access to the racks where the Ubuntu servers and other servers are hosted. All servers in the racks were clearly marked as to which sites run on each. The police took down all servers in the racks, including ubuntuforums, to silence any debate.
The south african entrepreneur and space tourist Mark Shuittleworth was taken in for questioning by the police, under more serious allegations of creating Ubuntu linux to harm American business interests in the companies Microsoft and Apple.
Kids aren't afraid of science. It's politicians who fear that science will be used against them. That's why they're happy with this culture in which the word 'scientist' is nothing most people can relate to. A letter from 2000 qualified climatologists is something Tony Blair can ignore, he's more worried about the political opposition. A degree in law is now worth more than a real PhD. The bush adminstration has an official lutheran attitudes - refusing to support stem cell research, and you bet george dubwa wouldn't speak out against teaching evolution in schools.
That's why they love 'public debate' - which isn't that, just dumb journalists sharing their petty opinions amongst themselves - has brought society to the stage where most ppl during an episode of newsnight debated to a climate conference would side with Jeremy Paxman (because they think he's sweet on university challenge) than David King. Yes everyone is entitled to draw their conclusions, but to then present yourself as an authority is atrocious.
Who at firefox started the whole 'switch to firefox or fucking die you infidel' attitude? It's not pleasant, and certainly doesn't help free software. The whole getfirefox project is just about indoctrination and brand-loyalty. So users start demanding websites are *firefox compatible* - which as bad a blow to standards as 'ie compatible'. If firefox really worked like a free software project, wouldn't there be more forks?
Who would throw red paint over IE users? Sure, I may encourage and help a friend to install linux if they ask me about it, but nothing will ever come of insulting them. It's about open-mindedness - none but ourselves can set us free.
So onto DRM. The industry isn't *forcing* it onto consumers. They're consenting to it. We should warn them of the dangers and help them, but I wouldn't agree to burning down Sony. If need be, users will learn themselves in 10 years when they can't play any of their music.
The google one is supposedly good and it doesn't cost anything.
But frankly, I'd rather not let anyone hold all the details of my site, even Google who of course want it for the mass of applicable marketing data. And the concept of linking to foreign scripts on my site isn't too tasty. Really, you should go for a SERVER solution, that you run yourself. Apache can give you a wealth of information already. Posting every users details every minute to Google is just crude.
I've read about this - if you're some trendy blogger this looks like an ipod http://www.haveamint.com/ , I don't know of any free equivalents./
You don't need to read books to learn linux. On the contrary, I'd say any book is going to be irrelevant to 2006, your distro, what you want to accomplish.
How I got here: man, online documentation, and helpful community forums. Don't play down that last one. If you don't have a linux geek friend or brother to call on, forums will save you time and time again. Thanks y'all.
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I'm certain, in the US, at least, there was a case that set a precedent on this sort of data collection. Not long after the man who made the first telephone directory did so (yes he had to call *everyone* to get it), a second lazier man made his own, copying the numbers from the first directory. The first man accused the second of this, taking his ass to court on copyright infringement. The verdict: The court ruled you couldn't own the truth, the information had always existed. The first man had collected it, but he hadn't *created* it, so he couldn't enforce copyright. Copyright applies to works of art, not to facts. . The source of information was irrelevant, if you ignore typesetting etc..
No-one does own the data on freedb. Sure it's now avaliable through many sources, freedb, cddb, Wikipedia, but most importantly it's on the CD. When a CD is released, that data is made public. It doesn't hold significance, it's for reference. freedb don't own it, nor do the record companies. 'Public domain' doesn't even apply, it's not a work of art under threat of imitation. just another catalogue of factual data, like a reference of the colours of common objects. And the truth is everyone's.
Does anyone know of any [graphical] tree representations of all the linux distributions. This would look great, it's fantastic to see how the hundreds of distributions we have now are the forks of forks of only four maternal Eve's.
Those are Debian, Gentoo, Red Hat, Slackware.
What drew you to using NTFS on your drives? That data is destined to obsolete itself. No other operating system can write to it ( Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, you name 'em) can write to it. Nor can older versions of Windows (98, ME). That leaves only Windows 2000 and XP. Vista may well stick with NTFS rather than WinFS, but the installer won't let you install over XP, but demand to reformat the target disc.
But other operating systems can *read* NTFS, so you can just copy it off, format the drive to a better file system, and put the data back.
This anyone find this concept of Mac on Intels, virtual platforms, and emulation makes them physically sick? I feel like I'm looking into a pair of mirrors, staring into infinity. Yes, that's it I'm giving up computers. Goodbye everyone.
We want to know about Tom, the face of myspace.
I don't even live in said country.
You could say that to anybody making any kind of commentary on anything, do you have a problem with that? There isn't a button on slashdot for start pressure group, just one for comment. Now time for the other clichéd argument - if everyone is saying such stuff, why did you pick on me?
Matt - professional hypocrit.
The current software situation cannot be likened to a dictatorship. There is a monopoly, but it does not arise from unfair manipulation. The people are not opressed, users are free to use what they like. Many of them do choose something different. The truth that we find scarier than an malovent monopoly, is that most users just DON'T CARE. They're not born indoctrinated, nor does Microsoft brainwash them. They do it to themselves. No-other business can dream of such brand loyalty, even if the majority of users will exclaim daily at the product and even ridicule it. They've never even tried a competing product and will fervently deny their existence.
Fighting Microsoft gains nothing. They have nothing we want to take. Users themselves have the keys to their chains. We need to teach them.
What is being abused here is the legal system.
Open-source is an industry buzzword. It means nothing. They've taken free software, lost our idealogy and the four freedoms, and our now selling it.
I misread your comment (i skim) to something liek the following
what we need is a system for evaluating lawyers similar to myspace. the lawyers take scene photos in their bathrrom mirror, hiding behind their fringes, making cpu-intensive profiles. you stalk the hottest ones (you secretly think emos are *cute*) and leave them creepy messages. you join groups toa lign yourself with specific policies. the lawyers with the most friends win.
Hah. Lovely as that sounds, I don't think that is the truth. Court cases are brought against filesharers, ISP illegally supplying their addresses to record companies who lack court orders.
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In truth, no-one here cares about DRM, free software or copyright. It's well outside the public conscience. Media coverage of this stuff, with the exception of the technology program on BBC world/news, there is none. Any colunns in newspaper typically contain laudible inaccuracies, laughible misconceptions and livacious prejudices. Most people don't know what DRM (or a stem cell) is.
In France, the parliament lobbied to rule the development of free software illegal (1), a threat to french software businesses. So much for freedom, equality and brotherhood. In the UK, *very* few people outside labs and universities use linux. Some people use FireFox cos it's quite good but they wouldn't understand the GNU public license. *I* get out, too.
http://fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.ht
In LAMP
- Don't use MySQL. It's as dumb as it's name. Use PostgreSQL if you need a real database, use sqlite if you don't.
- Don't use PHP, it's sloppy. Use python or perl.
The MySQL/PHP combination has not provne itself. As stated it's left thousands of sites vulnerable to SQL-injection hacks and it's certainly not as durable and reliable as other combinations. Let's look at some of the most popular sites online, and how they cope with ridiculous quantities of traffic
1 - Google. Uses python and their own database servers they developped. Problems? Never.
2 - bbc.co.uk - a GIANT site supplied with continuous news and audio. Runs on perl. Nothing else could cope.
3 - Slashdot. Copes with the traffic that destroys anything it links to. Perl again. Rarely down.
And lastly Wikipedia. Runs with PHP and MySQL! Their servers blow weekly, copious lengths of downtime, search function regularly disabled. Pages are nearly always slow to respond. QED
Excuse me, I'm high but: Studies show that most spreadsheets have critical errors in one percent of their cells, well beyond a permissible level. What the fuck does that actually mean? A critical error is by definition badness beyond a permissible level. What is a critical error? Diviiding by zero? Oh fucking no.
And yes here's a fucking comment to you sir: this ain't On The Hour.
Hey, I'm moving there.
Is this still wise given you just slashdotted your broadband and electricity?
No it's not.. it's password protected!
Oh right, I get it.
Why did Lenovo ever commit to linux in the first place? Do you think they believe in ideals of freedom? No, they are a business, and they lust for profit. Linux *doesn't* pay, Microsoft does. No, the reason Lenovo *threatened* to supply linux PCs is as a bargaining tool against Microsoft, to lever themselves into better substudies.
I visited release.ubuntu.com and found this
SITE DOWN - WILL BE UP AND FULLY FUNCTIONAL WITHIN A DAY OR TWO
In the morning of 2006-05-31 the Unitied Kingdom Metropolitan Police showed a search warrant to employers of Canonical Ltd. The warrant was valid for all datacentres of Canonical Ltd and was directed at Ubuntu. The allegation was breach of copy-right law, infringement of patents held by Microsoft, assisting piracy by distributing software freely, and theft of intellectual property from the SCO unix group.
The police officers were allowed access to the racks where the Ubuntu servers and other servers are hosted. All servers in the racks were clearly marked as to which sites run on each. The police took down all servers in the racks, including ubuntuforums, to silence any debate.
The south african entrepreneur and space tourist Mark Shuittleworth was taken in for questioning by the police, under more serious allegations of creating Ubuntu linux to harm American business interests in the companies Microsoft and Apple.
Kids aren't afraid of science. It's politicians who fear that science will be used against them. That's why they're happy with this culture in which the word 'scientist' is nothing most people can relate to. A letter from 2000 qualified climatologists is something Tony Blair can ignore, he's more worried about the political opposition. A degree in law is now worth more than a real PhD. The bush adminstration has an official lutheran attitudes - refusing to support stem cell research, and you bet george dubwa wouldn't speak out against teaching evolution in schools.
That's why they love 'public debate' - which isn't that, just dumb journalists sharing their petty opinions amongst themselves - has brought society to the stage where most ppl during an episode of newsnight debated to a climate conference would side with Jeremy Paxman (because they think he's sweet on university challenge) than David King. Yes everyone is entitled to draw their conclusions, but to then present yourself as an authority is atrocious.
He's such a whore http://myspace.com/tom
Who at firefox started the whole 'switch to firefox or fucking die you infidel' attitude? It's not pleasant, and certainly doesn't help free software. The whole getfirefox project is just about indoctrination and brand-loyalty. So users start demanding websites are *firefox compatible* - which as bad a blow to standards as 'ie compatible'. If firefox really worked like a free software project, wouldn't there be more forks?
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Who would throw red paint over IE users? Sure, I may encourage and help a friend to install linux if they ask me about it, but nothing will ever come of insulting them. It's about open-mindedness - none but ourselves can set us free.
So onto DRM. The industry isn't *forcing* it onto consumers. They're consenting to it. We should warn them of the dangers and help them, but I wouldn't agree to burning down Sony. If need be, users will learn themselves in 10 years when they can't play any of their music.
AWWW get this one of my fish has had babies
The google one is supposedly good and it doesn't cost anything.
But frankly, I'd rather not let anyone hold all the details of my site, even Google who of course want it for the mass of applicable marketing data. And the concept of linking to foreign scripts on my site isn't too tasty. Really, you should go for a SERVER solution, that you run yourself. Apache can give you a wealth of information already. Posting every users details every minute to Google is just crude.
I've read about this - if you're some trendy blogger this looks like an ipod http://www.haveamint.com/ , I don't know of any free equivalents./
So they'd let me build this for peoples' gardens?
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http://snow.prohosting.com/sthemes/Windows_XP_Wal
Maybe with Microsoft embrazed in Hollywood hill letters.
.doc should be served as text/obfuscated
Are you saying that we shouldn't expect his 'new' hardware to be compatible with a later, *upgraded* version of the OS it was designed for?
You don't need to read books to learn linux. On the contrary, I'd say any book is going to be irrelevant to 2006, your distro, what you want to accomplish.
How I got here: man, online documentation, and helpful community forums. Don't play down that last one. If you don't have a linux geek friend or brother to call on, forums will save you time and time again. Thanks y'all.