Perhaps it is necessary. But on the Internet, 'who' is always a tricky question. Are all contributors at this point even tracable to a real name? Do they need to be, if a 'peer review' culture of enough people who ARE tracable is in place?
There's a certain amount of secureness in running all your computers behind a hardware firewall/NAT server, and not even giving the Windows machines the gateway IP address to reach out through it.
That's what Linux and NetBSD boxes are for in my house. Windows machines are for Office Apps and games, and all the jolly stuff we were doing back in the classic Microsoft days (pre-network, Personal computers were little islands). Don't even install TCP/IP on more than one of your Windoze boxes. NetBUI is fine for the rest to talk among themselves.
Or, it could be that it's about the cost of the expensive Internet bandwidth. If 90% of the traffic is in movies and other entertainment, the University is in order to review if it's economical to permit wide-open consumption of said bandwidth.
To argue otherwise is the equivalent of saying that the University should be required to provide any DVD or Music CD to any student, on demand, any time they want it.
Most Campus IT Centers would be happy to make available local mirrors of software like Mandrake Linux. That saves them considerable expensive bandwidth off the local campus net.
Many campuses already have this sort of arrangment, and it would be a practical thing for those who don't to put such a mirror in place. Some will even be happy to facilitate distribution of actual burned CDs, as that saves them even MORE bandwidth consumption.
It just doesn't make sense for hundreds of people to be shuffling all those bits around. (And it's a good way for the University to reduce cost AND get rid of what some use as a lame excuse)
Don't you see, though? It's important for us ALL to stand together. It's VERY important for us all to claim that no matter what content is being transferred, it's all the same.
Child Pornographers in Phoenix DEPEND on this solidarity. Don't let them down.
And it's a shame nobody has brought up Ebbers' recent conviction to counter the nonsense that 'big business guys never get punished.' He's convicted now, and will be sentenced in about a month. He's in deep shit (where he should be).
But banging the Class War 'the rich get away with it' tamborine is noisier and gets far more attention.
People die each and every day. Does this mean that 'the value of more than every car ever made' disappears each day multiple times?
Life is far different from 'every car ever made' and your comparison is ludicrious.
Human society is full of compromises and trade-offs. Without 'value measures' that determine the value of individual human lifes, no industry at all would be possible.
And yes, that includes the auto industry calculating 'deaths/injuries versus including every concievable safety measure.'
But your approach produces better rhetoric, and appeals to people's emotions much more strongly.
An experimental port of FrameMaker for Linux was released about four years ago. It was a Linux binary, time-limited in some fashion. It was not followed up by a Linux version of the product. Apparently they decided not to go forward with the idea.
It would be great if they had done so. Perhaps they'll try again. But they did already try once.
People who have never used the actual Adobe Acrobat product likely will not understand.
There are a number of decent and reliable methods to output to a 'PDF-format'. There is only one tool, the Adobe Acrobat Suite, to annotate and augment your PDF files.
I like to produce tables-of-content, to be able to use an easy graphical method to arrange pages, crop them, etc. I am afforded this ability by the commercal Adobe Acrobat product (which is rather expensive per-seat)
Adobe should get beyond their 'touch it gingerly' approach to Linux. Release some of your actual tools for Linux, not just a half-baked 'Reader' to look at their output.
What are the rules if you are using linux to drive a Tivo or an elavator or something?
The rules are that the litigants WILL be able to dig into the source and compile a list of people to sue, when the elevator crashes and kills a loved relation.
Believe me, in the current tort environment, the 'NO WARRANTY' section of the GPL might not suffice. If you've contributed to the kernel source tree, better keep your long-term savings in the form of Kruegerrands in a steel chest down in the celler next to your gun safe.
The only change I'd like to see is " this code cannot be used by Microsoft or SCO or its subsidiaries, or employees in any fasion ". Or better "this code cannot be used by GW Bush to kill innocent people in any country under any circumstances whatsoever" or something to that effect.
One of the biggest threats facing the Free Software movement is people like you.
Microsoft actually SELLS certain packages (well, they used to. Services for UNIX are free now) that contain GPL'd software, you know. When I've run the install.exe to install it, there are explicit click-through popups that notify the installer of the fact.
RMS is gonna die. Don't let anybody ever tell you otherwise. Hopefully it won't be for a long, long time, but since he's about 10 years older than I am, I suspect I'll be around to see it happen.
As to there being 'absolutely no possibility' the FSF could change policy, keep the faith, brother.
You are forgetting all the 'cease and desist' orders sent out to any entity that continues to distribute the older kernel source tarballs, and/or any ISO containing the 'offending' binaries.
There are vulnerabilities there that make the 'opening' that SCO exploited look minor.
A lot of embedded controllers have the firmware directly burned into an area of ROM in the CPU that is not aceessable to the outside world. Some have a provision to extract and/or verify the contents of this ROM. Others have hardware 'protection' schemes, such as a bit that can be set, that permanmently disables the ability to access the ROM code. With some parts, you'd have to have access to the firmware used to produce the silicon mask pattern to access the binary.
And who says that v3 has to be backward compatible?
Anybody who has released any code under the old license that the maintainers have any hope of relicensing under the new license. It's really that simple.
It's the same for just about any other modern OS. It's perilous to jump in and start deleting library files and other binaries in Linux, BSD, and MacOS just the same.
That's what modern package handling tools are supposed to do for us.
Except for those special "./configure; make; make install" goodies you can only find a source tarball for.
>Why is that everyone is so brainwashed today >that they think you need a movie-quality flashy >3D game to be sellable? Of all my favorite games, >not a SINGLE ONE fits that profile.
Seconded. I play Diablo II these days for fun and a release. But the game play, and complexity of the objects points system, etc. is inferior to Castle Of the Winds, a primative old 'fighting icons' move-based game that ran in Windows 3.1.
(all the various monsters were actually Windows icons built into the binary, which could be 'farmed' out for your desktop, etc. Fun days those were.)
Unions work to the benifit of their members, sometimes at the expense of the industry itself.
Not always. Often enough, Unions work to the benefit of the International Organization. I.e. here in smalltown flyover, a muffler plant closed last year. Net result- 800 jobs eliminated locally. Apparently it didn't matter enough to the Intenational in Detroit.
Unions are rife with corruption and cronyism. There needs to be vigorous reform before they can be taken seriously again by the workers.
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You're right. Universities should codify strict limits and hold people to them. It isn't sufficient to be moderate about it.
The 'downloading Linux ISOs' is a red herring, in the majority of the cases. And people will figure that out.
How do you credentialize all the contributors?
Perhaps it is necessary. But on the Internet, 'who' is always a tricky question. Are all contributors at this point even tracable to a real name? Do they need to be, if a 'peer review' culture of enough people who ARE tracable is in place?
There's a certain amount of secureness in running all your computers behind a hardware firewall/NAT server, and not even giving the Windows machines the gateway IP address to reach out through it.
That's what Linux and NetBSD boxes are for in my house. Windows machines are for Office Apps and games, and all the jolly stuff we were doing back in the classic Microsoft days (pre-network, Personal computers were little islands). Don't even install TCP/IP on more than one of your Windoze boxes. NetBUI is fine for the rest to talk among themselves.
Or, it could be that it's about the cost of the expensive Internet bandwidth. If 90% of the traffic is in movies and other entertainment, the University is in order to review if it's economical to permit wide-open consumption of said bandwidth.
To argue otherwise is the equivalent of saying that the University should be required to provide any DVD or Music CD to any student, on demand, any time they want it.
Most Campus IT Centers would be happy to make available local mirrors of software like Mandrake Linux. That saves them considerable expensive bandwidth off the local campus net.
Many campuses already have this sort of arrangment, and it would be a practical thing for those who don't to put such a mirror in place. Some will even be happy to facilitate distribution of actual burned CDs, as that saves them even MORE bandwidth consumption.
It just doesn't make sense for hundreds of people to be shuffling all those bits around. (And it's a good way for the University to reduce cost AND get rid of what some use as a lame excuse)
Don't you see, though? It's important for us ALL to stand together. It's VERY important for us all to claim that no matter what content is being transferred, it's all the same.
Child Pornographers in Phoenix DEPEND on this solidarity. Don't let them down.
Or, perhaps, I was augmenting your point, and it swooped over your head.
Let the readers decide.
And it's a shame nobody has brought up Ebbers' recent conviction to counter the nonsense that 'big business guys never get punished.' He's convicted now, and will be sentenced in about a month. He's in deep shit (where he should be).
But banging the Class War 'the rich get away with it' tamborine is noisier and gets far more attention.
Some part of your income is more important to preseve than a life.
How come you haven't donated your entire net worth to some nursing home somewhere, then?
There's an elderly man in that nursing home. Your entire net worth could make it possible for him to live two entire weeks longer! Get to it!
People die each and every day. Does this mean that 'the value of more than every car ever made' disappears each day multiple times?
Life is far different from 'every car ever made' and your comparison is ludicrious.
Human society is full of compromises and trade-offs. Without 'value measures' that determine the value of individual human lifes, no industry at all would be possible.
And yes, that includes the auto industry calculating 'deaths/injuries versus including every concievable safety measure.'
But your approach produces better rhetoric, and appeals to people's emotions much more strongly.
Linux is x86-mostly.
You should look elsewhere for a robust cross-platform OS. It'd be nice if Linux actually had more of a cross-platform focus, but it generally doesn't.
(Hint: NetBSD would be a good place to start)
Maybe at his school the IT Department is considered a service organization, rather than an overbearing group who define policy.
An experimental port of FrameMaker for Linux was released about four years ago. It was a Linux binary, time-limited in some fashion. It was not followed up by a Linux version of the product. Apparently they decided not to go forward with the idea.
It would be great if they had done so. Perhaps they'll try again. But they did already try once.
People who have never used the actual Adobe Acrobat product likely will not understand.
There are a number of decent and reliable methods to output to a 'PDF-format'. There is only one tool, the Adobe Acrobat Suite, to annotate and augment your PDF files.
I like to produce tables-of-content, to be able to use an easy graphical method to arrange pages, crop them, etc. I am afforded this ability by the commercal Adobe Acrobat product (which is rather expensive per-seat)
Adobe should get beyond their 'touch it gingerly' approach to Linux. Release some of your actual tools for Linux, not just a half-baked 'Reader' to look at their output.
What are the rules if you are using linux to drive a Tivo or an elavator or something?
The rules are that the litigants WILL be able to dig into the source and compile a list of people to sue, when the elevator crashes and kills a loved relation.
Believe me, in the current tort environment, the 'NO WARRANTY' section of the GPL might not suffice. If you've contributed to the kernel source tree, better keep your long-term savings in the form of Kruegerrands in a steel chest down in the celler next to your gun safe.
(only halfway tongue-in-cheek here)
The only change I'd like to see is " this code cannot be used by Microsoft or SCO or its subsidiaries, or employees in any fasion ". Or better "this code cannot be used by GW Bush to kill innocent people in any country under any circumstances whatsoever" or something to that effect.
One of the biggest threats facing the Free Software movement is people like you.
Microsoft actually SELLS certain packages (well, they used to. Services for UNIX are free now) that contain GPL'd software, you know. When I've run the install.exe to install it, there are explicit click-through popups that notify the installer of the fact.
Lots of us just use one of the BSD Unixes. However, all three of the main BSD 'forks' still use the GNU C Compiler.
RMS is gonna die. Don't let anybody ever tell you otherwise. Hopefully it won't be for a long, long time, but since he's about 10 years older than I am, I suspect I'll be around to see it happen.
As to there being 'absolutely no possibility' the FSF could change policy, keep the faith, brother.
You are forgetting all the 'cease and desist' orders sent out to any entity that continues to distribute the older kernel source tarballs, and/or any ISO containing the 'offending' binaries.
There are vulnerabilities there that make the 'opening' that SCO exploited look minor.
A lot of embedded controllers have the firmware directly burned into an area of ROM in the CPU that is not aceessable to the outside world. Some have a provision to extract and/or verify the contents of this ROM. Others have hardware 'protection' schemes, such as a bit that can be set, that permanmently disables the ability to access the ROM code. With some parts, you'd have to have access to the firmware used to produce the silicon mask pattern to access the binary.
And who says that v3 has to be backward compatible?
Anybody who has released any code under the old license that the maintainers have any hope of relicensing under the new license. It's really that simple.
It's the same for just about any other modern OS. It's perilous to jump in and start deleting library files and other binaries in Linux, BSD, and MacOS just the same.
That's what modern package handling tools are supposed to do for us.
Except for those special "./configure; make; make install" goodies you can only find a source tarball for.
That's interesting. I was thinking of registering HillaryClinton2008.org and making it a redirect to the douchebag page of a Medical Supply Vendor.
>Why is that everyone is so brainwashed today
>that they think you need a movie-quality flashy
>3D game to be sellable? Of all my favorite games,
>not a SINGLE ONE fits that profile.
Seconded. I play Diablo II these days for fun and a release. But the game play, and complexity of the objects points system, etc. is inferior to Castle Of the Winds, a primative old 'fighting icons' move-based game that ran in Windows 3.1.
(all the various monsters were actually Windows icons built into the binary, which could be 'farmed' out for your desktop, etc. Fun days those were.)
Unions work to the benifit of their members, sometimes at the expense of the industry itself.
Not always. Often enough, Unions work to the benefit of the International Organization. I.e. here in smalltown flyover, a muffler plant closed last year. Net result- 800 jobs eliminated locally. Apparently it didn't matter enough to the Intenational in Detroit.
Unions are rife with corruption and cronyism. There needs to be vigorous reform before they can be taken seriously again by the workers.