Ignoring that what you just said is barely coherent, if you look at the motivation behind every new part of the GPL v3, it has to do with ensuring that software users get the four freedoms that define free software, and nothing to do with giving the FSF control over anything. Even the parts of it specifically designed to prevent deals like the MS/Novell one are there to protect software from becoming free for only _some_ people, or from getting treated as such by people who spread FUD.
I misunderstood the parent to be talking about the O2 Micro reader rather than the one that comes with the Eee. In any case, I've seen my own laptop's card reader work out of the box with a fresh install of Ubuntu.
The NTFS-3G driver is an open source, freely available read/write NTFS driver for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, NetBSD, and Haiku. It provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows Vista file systems. Most POSIX file system operations are supported, with the exception of full file ownership and access right support.
I think the video game industry needs to learn what the MPAA and cable telecommunications giants have learned. Campaign contributions. Lobbyists. "Favors." You scratch my back we'll scratch yours.
Sure, the video game industry obviously needs to just get with the program. It's not like the political system is broken or anything. Seriously, you'd actually prefer that the video game industry helps perpetuate corruption? I'm sure that would end well.
Well, my impression is that the OP is probably still very inexperienced, based on how they phrased the question (though I don't have significantly more experience, to be honest). It seems to me that by now, a more experienced coder would have found a hobby project that gives them the freedom to write code as cleanly as they want, and/or realized that C's error handling isn't all that bad. With throwaway code, exceptions are better, because you don't have to explicitly propagate them up the stack, but if you're handling errors robustly, there isn't any difference in effort between the two. I find allocating buffers for strings to be a bigger source of pain with C style code than the error handling would be.
You have the reading comprehension of something that doesn't have a very admirable level of reading comprehension. It's only random the first time you call it, and apparently qmail calls it many more times than that. At the very least, the author of the code could have stored the return value in a global and used that to avoid making a system call a bunch of times on each connection. Beyond that, its usage also seemed pretty braindead (random timeouts using getpid()?).
On another note, I'm willing to bet that the person asking/. this question has spent more time reading about writing code than he/she has spent actually writing code.
I would guess that once the software has been rebranded under the rights granted by the GPL, Red Hat can't enforce any export restrictions on it (because I'm guessing it would conflict with the GPL. So this story is probably just baseless fearmongering, or perhaps even anti Red Hat FUD.
I wouldn't know for sure, but I don't think it's valid to compare any form of computing based on binary logic with quantum computing. I searched for "quantum transistor" and found this, which makes use of the term to refer to transistors that rely on principles of quantum mechanics to function properly. This would be relevant to conventional computing, but not quantum computing. If I understand correctly, quantum computing is not a replacement for binary logic computing, but an alternative or supplement.
Sorry for overlooking my unclear wording in that sentence, but I did include a link that makes it pretty clear that I'm talking about AACS and not CSS. You can watch regular DVDs just fine using GUI applications that are usable to the average person. What I meant was that I think it's possible to decrypt HD DVD and Blu-ray discs that transparently, but nobody has bothered to write the code, so as it is now, you have to pop open a terminal, decrypt to a file, and then watch the file.
slim? my understanding is that the DRM is already cracked badly enough that it would be technically possible to transparently decode the DVDs on Linux, it's just that nobody has bothered to make it that simple yet.
See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormat s/BluRayAndHDDVD
I also agree completely with this advice. I can recall being very eager but
clueless a few years ago, and the only way to fix it is to spend a lot of time
reading mailing lists, source code, documentation (man pages may seem terse, but
they can be very valuable, and you should get comfortable with them, in my
opinion), etc. until you have the background you need in order to be able to do
something meaningful. I don't think there are any quick shortcuts to make it easier, but you shouldn't give
up - if what you say about your teachers is any indication, you'll probably
learn a lot of valuable skills that you
did not get taught in school if you try to contribute to something.
If you're looking at a project and you're not sure where to start figuring
out how to make an improvement that you've decided to make, it probably means
you need to learn more background knowledge. However, you can always ask the mailing
list for advice, if you know what it is you want to improve. Nobody is going to
hold your hand though, so you're eventually going to have to start reading
through source code.
If you're wondering how to start making debian packages, you should look at
the Debian New Maintainers Guide, the manual for CDBS, and the documentation for
make. "Upstream", in the context of packaging, are the original authors of the
application being packaged - it's an analogy comparing code to water flowing
down a stream
Your warnings are based on a misunderstanding of what the OP wants. The OP wasn't looking for a foolproof system to remaster foolproof CDs, but a system to remaster foolproof CDs. Note the extra foolproof in the first case.
You also seem to think that there aren't already decent tools for making live/install CDs, when there are several in existence. No reinventing of installers is necessary.
Hmm, but imagine if someone automated this, and also stored some metadata, like mimetype and last modified date, etc, so you only have to swap disks when it tells you to? That would be pretty convenient.
If he was behaving like a brutal dictator, a busload of people would have ended up in prison or dead after that 2002 coup attempt. If he was democratically elected with a wide margin, and he isn't violating human rights, on what grounds can you accuse him of being a dictator?
The TV station wasn't closed, it merely lost its license to broadcast over the air. This means that it can now only be viewed using cable.
You seem confused - "unusual circumstances" doesn't really explain anything, and the constitution wasn't "tampered", Chavez declared a referendum, and 92% of voters wanted a new constitution. Hard to see what's wrong with that.
After my first comment in this thread, I did some research, and found this documentary about the failed Venezuelan coup in 2002. After watching that, I can't really blame Chavez for not renewing the license of a private TV station, they seem to lie through their teeth. Also, Chavez is so tolerant of opposition that after regaining power following the 2002 coup, he didn't go around and exile or imprison everybody involved. Some have most probably been charged for their actions, but some prominent leaders from the coup government are still supposedly part of public life in Venezuela.
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Ignoring that what you just said is barely coherent, if you look at the motivation behind every new part of the GPL v3, it has to do with ensuring that software users get the four freedoms that define free software, and nothing to do with giving the FSF control over anything. Even the parts of it specifically designed to prevent deals like the MS/Novell one are there to protect software from becoming free for only _some_ people, or from getting treated as such by people who spread FUD.
I misunderstood the parent to be talking about the O2 Micro reader rather than the one that comes with the Eee. In any case, I've seen my own laptop's card reader work out of the box with a fresh install of Ubuntu.
Don't hold your breath, there's no PCMCIA slot on these laptops. They do have 3 USB ports, modem, ethernet, and VGA out.
See above.
Sounds like a an on-disk format involving hash tables. They'd probably win a patent on it, too.
Sure, I agree with you, but notice that my wording was reading about writing code, not simply reading code.
Well, my impression is that the OP is probably still very inexperienced, based on how they phrased the question (though I don't have significantly more experience, to be honest). It seems to me that by now, a more experienced coder would have found a hobby project that gives them the freedom to write code as cleanly as they want, and/or realized that C's error handling isn't all that bad. With throwaway code, exceptions are better, because you don't have to explicitly propagate them up the stack, but if you're handling errors robustly, there isn't any difference in effort between the two. I find allocating buffers for strings to be a bigger source of pain with C style code than the error handling would be.
You have the reading comprehension of something that doesn't have a very admirable level of reading comprehension. It's only random the first time you call it, and apparently qmail calls it many more times than that. At the very least, the author of the code could have stored the return value in a global and used that to avoid making a system call a bunch of times on each connection. Beyond that, its usage also seemed pretty braindead (random timeouts using getpid()?). On another note, I'm willing to bet that the person asking /. this question has spent more time reading about writing code than he/she has spent actually writing code.
Looks like copyright is returning to its roots..
I would guess that once the software has been rebranded under the rights granted by the GPL, Red Hat can't enforce any export restrictions on it (because I'm guessing it would conflict with the GPL. So this story is probably just baseless fearmongering, or perhaps even anti Red Hat FUD.
I wouldn't know for sure, but I don't think it's valid to compare any form of computing based on binary logic with quantum computing. I searched for "quantum transistor" and found this, which makes use of the term to refer to transistors that rely on principles of quantum mechanics to function properly. This would be relevant to conventional computing, but not quantum computing. If I understand correctly, quantum computing is not a replacement for binary logic computing, but an alternative or supplement.
My thoughts exactly, from the moment I saw the headline.
Sorry for overlooking my unclear wording in that sentence, but I did include a link that makes it pretty clear that I'm talking about AACS and not CSS. You can watch regular DVDs just fine using GUI applications that are usable to the average person. What I meant was that I think it's possible to decrypt HD DVD and Blu-ray discs that transparently, but nobody has bothered to write the code, so as it is now, you have to pop open a terminal, decrypt to a file, and then watch the file.
slim? my understanding is that the DRM is already cracked badly enough that it would be technically possible to transparently decode the DVDs on Linux, it's just that nobody has bothered to make it that simple yet. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormat s/BluRayAndHDDVD
I also agree completely with this advice. I can recall being very eager but clueless a few years ago, and the only way to fix it is to spend a lot of time reading mailing lists, source code, documentation (man pages may seem terse, but they can be very valuable, and you should get comfortable with them, in my opinion), etc. until you have the background you need in order to be able to do something meaningful. I don't think there are any quick shortcuts to make it easier, but you shouldn't give up - if what you say about your teachers is any indication, you'll probably learn a lot of valuable skills that you did not get taught in school if you try to contribute to something.
If you're looking at a project and you're not sure where to start figuring out how to make an improvement that you've decided to make, it probably means you need to learn more background knowledge. However, you can always ask the mailing list for advice, if you know what it is you want to improve. Nobody is going to hold your hand though, so you're eventually going to have to start reading through source code.
If you're wondering how to start making debian packages, you should look at the Debian New Maintainers Guide, the manual for CDBS, and the documentation for make. "Upstream", in the context of packaging, are the original authors of the application being packaged - it's an analogy comparing code to water flowing down a stream
Your warnings are based on a misunderstanding of what the OP wants. The OP wasn't looking for a foolproof system to remaster foolproof CDs, but a system to remaster foolproof CDs. Note the extra foolproof in the first case. You also seem to think that there aren't already decent tools for making live/install CDs, when there are several in existence. No reinventing of installers is necessary.
hahahaha, thanks for a good laugh, I'm still laughing as I type this.
Hmm, but imagine if someone automated this, and also stored some metadata, like mimetype and last modified date, etc, so you only have to swap disks when it tells you to? That would be pretty convenient.
Neither ATI nor NVidia fab their own chips, so I don't think this heralds a drastic reduction in price of low quantity orders.
First thing that pops into my head upon seeing this news is a punchline
If he was behaving like a brutal dictator, a busload of people would have ended up in prison or dead after that 2002 coup attempt. If he was democratically elected with a wide margin, and he isn't violating human rights, on what grounds can you accuse him of being a dictator?
The TV station wasn't closed, it merely lost its license to broadcast over the air. This means that it can now only be viewed using cable.
You seem confused - "unusual circumstances" doesn't really explain anything, and the constitution wasn't "tampered", Chavez declared a referendum, and 92% of voters wanted a new constitution. Hard to see what's wrong with that.
After my first comment in this thread, I did some research, and found this documentary about the failed Venezuelan coup in 2002. After watching that, I can't really blame Chavez for not renewing the license of a private TV station, they seem to lie through their teeth. Also, Chavez is so tolerant of opposition that after regaining power following the 2002 coup, he didn't go around and exile or imprison everybody involved. Some have most probably been charged for their actions, but some prominent leaders from the coup government are still supposedly part of public life in Venezuela.
Indeed, but said interests have enough influence to convince many other people that Chavez is some sort of malevolent dictator.
For St. Ignucious' sake!