And Ursula LeGuin arguably has more to gain from free internet exposure than, e.g., Mercedes Lackey.
Particularly since in my experience people who read LeGuin's work and dislike it just find her dull, whereas people who read Lackey's work and "dislike" it tend to want to gouge out their eyes.
I'm not sure how they'd enforce it, but according to the language in the bill, if you're a MS resident, the tax applies regardless of where you happen to be when you make the purchase.
Printing is special? I rarely (read: never) use X11 apps in OS X, but I'd just assumed that since OS X's printing system is CUPS, which is become the de facto printer queue on Unix-like systems, and includes analogues of older tools (lpr, lpq, etc.), that printing under X11 would Just Work (assuming, of course, that you've set up your printer in OS X). Am I wrong?
What you want is called "pinning." A quick Google search came up with "Apt-Pinning for Beginners"; it refers to Debian, but substitute, say, "dapper" for "unstable" and you should be good to go. Or you can check Debian's official documentation.
Of course, that assumes that the package you want is in a repository. If it's not, then you'll have to build the package yourself.
The diaresis (aka umlaut, although that's more properly the name of a vowel change) has historically been used in English to denote that both vowels are pronounced; if you look in some older editions of Jane Austen, for example, the word "cooperate" often has a diaresis on the second "o."
Just for the record--though not entirely to the point, perhaps--one correction: OpenBSD supports SMP on i386 and amd64. Granted, it's only done so since 3.6. Supposedly work is ongoing to support SMP on SPARC and (I believe) PPC.
This theory would immediately make the fast-forward button on VCRs/DVD players illegal.
That's absolutely correct, actually, if I remember the Betamax decision correctly. Fast-forwarding through commercials creates an unauthorized derivative work.
...after he'd made public statements to the effect that he wasn't going to run, and then--suprise!--the Republican Party didn't give him the nomination. The short-lived Bull Moose Party was Teddy Roosevelt wanting to have it both ways.
Having used three distributions which use apt-get, (Debian, Libranet, and Ubuntu, for the record) I can say that only once did I run into a problem updating--and then it was my fault, because I had inadvertantly mixed stable and unstable repositories. Though I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say as neither apt-get nor emerge are actual updates; they're the update managers, analogous to the Windows Update site.
As for 2.4 to 2.6, that's an incorrect comparison. These updates (and Windows Updates in general) are like moving from 2.4 to 2.4.1; 2.4 to 2.6 is like moving from Win2K to WinXP.
Out of curiousity, why are you saying no to an update? I am given to understand (I'm operating mostly on hearsay; I haven't owned or had control of a box running Windows since just after WinXP came out) that some Windows updates (SP2 in particular) broke some poorly-designed applications. However, I've never heard much about updates breaking Linux apps.
Well, if you're asking the question seriously, I think it's important to point out that an installable AbiWord binary is available for Windows; a word processor is, after all, the most important part of an "office suite," for most users. A testing build of Gnumeric is also available. I personally don't give a damn if OO.o relies on Java since most of my writing these days is in TeX, but if it's something that concerns you, there are options.
Pot encourages free thinking? Please. Pull the other one, it has bells on. Potheads are the most congregational bunch of sheep I've ever seen in my life. That their ovine tendencies are slightly askew with regard to the mainstream norm does not invalidate the point.
The US military (well, the Army at least, and I assume the rest of the services) does exactly this with its own sites (e.g., Army Knowledge Online and 2XCitizen). Most of the ID cards now are actually smart cards; it being the military they have a new name, too: they're now a "Common Access Card" or CAC.
As for "don't use their service then", that sounds nice, but, please, tell me, which service should I use? None? Oh, that's realistic.
Er, why is that not realistic? If you don't like the terms (or price or restrictions or whatever) of their service, you don't use their service. You find somebody else. That's pretty much the definition of capitalism.
The other thing I hope it will lead to (you knew this was coming, right?) is much better logging being done. For example, when journaling information is recorded, access logs can be recorded as well. I would like a Star Trek-esque log which tells when (and by who) a file was created, accessed, and eventually deleted. Metadata which pertains to deleted files can be discarded (or, preferrably to me, moved to offline storage somewhere but you might not want that feature for reasons which should be obvious to the security crowd) as it ages.
My understanding is that this is already available; it exists, but it's ungodly expensive. Hans Reiser gained his filesystem knowledge working on something like this, if I remember correctly. Damned if I can remember the name of it, though.
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And that would be different from the "old" Star Trek how?
And Ursula LeGuin arguably has more to gain from free internet exposure than, e.g., Mercedes Lackey.
Particularly since in my experience people who read LeGuin's work and dislike it just find her dull, whereas people who read Lackey's work and "dislike" it tend to want to gouge out their eyes.
Probably the "giving back" is a reference to XFS. They may have given more, but nothing else that I'm aware of has been high-profile.
For the record, that's Keesler AFB, *MS*, not MI. :)
I'm not sure how they'd enforce it, but according to the language in the bill, if you're a MS resident, the tax applies regardless of where you happen to be when you make the purchase.
RAWDOG (RSS Aggregator Without Delusions of Grandeur) springs to mind—it's a Python script that is quite content to run as a cron job.
Quick (off-topic) semi-correction: bash is included in OS X from 10.2 forward, and is the default shell (i.e., symlinked to /bin/sh) from 10.3 forward.
Printing is special? I rarely (read: never) use X11 apps in OS X, but I'd just assumed that since OS X's printing system is CUPS, which is become the de facto printer queue on Unix-like systems, and includes analogues of older tools (lpr, lpq, etc.), that printing under X11 would Just Work (assuming, of course, that you've set up your printer in OS X). Am I wrong?
What you want is called "pinning." A quick Google search came up with "Apt-Pinning for Beginners"; it refers to Debian, but substitute, say, "dapper" for "unstable" and you should be good to go. Or you can check Debian's official documentation.
Of course, that assumes that the package you want is in a repository. If it's not, then you'll have to build the package yourself.
Perhaps the most famous silent film, Modern Times[1], was made after the advent of talkies. Chaplin just wanted a silent film.
[1] The film does actually contain some dialogue, amounting to a few lines.
The diaresis (aka umlaut, although that's more properly the name of a vowel change) has historically been used in English to denote that both vowels are pronounced; if you look in some older editions of Jane Austen, for example, the word "cooperate" often has a diaresis on the second "o."
**BUZZ** Thank you for playing, but I believe you're incorrect. :)
According to Wikipedia, it's licensed under the GNU FDL, which I believe isn't precisely the same thing.
Of course, I could be wrong: this isn't my forte, so please correct me if I've gone astray.
Just for the record--though not entirely to the point, perhaps--one correction: OpenBSD supports SMP on i386 and amd64. Granted, it's only done so since 3.6. Supposedly work is ongoing to support SMP on SPARC and (I believe) PPC.
That's absolutely correct, actually, if I remember the Betamax decision correctly. Fast-forwarding through commercials creates an unauthorized derivative work.
Then start contributing to ReactOS. :)
...after he'd made public statements to the effect that he wasn't going to run, and then--suprise!--the Republican Party didn't give him the nomination. The short-lived Bull Moose Party was Teddy Roosevelt wanting to have it both ways.
OpenBSD 3.7 (to be released next month) will have Xorg (or more properly has Xorg, since the OPENBSD_3_7 is live). 3.6 still has XFree86.
Having used three distributions which use apt-get, (Debian, Libranet, and Ubuntu, for the record) I can say that only once did I run into a problem updating--and then it was my fault, because I had inadvertantly mixed stable and unstable repositories. Though I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say as neither apt-get nor emerge are actual updates; they're the update managers, analogous to the Windows Update site.
As for 2.4 to 2.6, that's an incorrect comparison. These updates (and Windows Updates in general) are like moving from 2.4 to 2.4.1; 2.4 to 2.6 is like moving from Win2K to WinXP.
Out of curiousity, why are you saying no to an update? I am given to understand (I'm operating mostly on hearsay; I haven't owned or had control of a box running Windows since just after WinXP came out) that some Windows updates (SP2 in particular) broke some poorly-designed applications. However, I've never heard much about updates breaking Linux apps.
Well, if you're asking the question seriously, I think it's important to point out that an installable AbiWord binary is available for Windows; a word processor is, after all, the most important part of an "office suite," for most users. A testing build of Gnumeric is also available. I personally don't give a damn if OO.o relies on Java since most of my writing these days is in TeX, but if it's something that concerns you, there are options.
Pot encourages free thinking? Please. Pull the other one, it has bells on. Potheads are the most congregational bunch of sheep I've ever seen in my life. That their ovine tendencies are slightly askew with regard to the mainstream norm does not invalidate the point.
Nah, those guys switched to OpenBSD.
The US military (well, the Army at least, and I assume the rest of the services) does exactly this with its own sites (e.g., Army Knowledge Online and 2XCitizen). Most of the ID cards now are actually smart cards; it being the military they have a new name, too: they're now a "Common Access Card" or CAC.
Er, why is that not realistic? If you don't like the terms (or price or restrictions or whatever) of their service, you don't use their service. You find somebody else. That's pretty much the definition of capitalism.
My understanding is that this is already available; it exists, but it's ungodly expensive. Hans Reiser gained his filesystem knowledge working on something like this, if I remember correctly. Damned if I can remember the name of it, though.