I thin kthe one thong that may not have been mentioned here is the fact that Linus may be trying to preserve the principles of the GPL, and many developer ARE NOT being acknowledged for their work by these larger companies making these distributions.
The purpose of the GPL is to make sure that all developers are credited for their work towards the open source community, and with them just allowing their software to be distributed for free (not all but many cases), they deserve that right.
Many of us are greatful for all the hard work that the developers put in, but what about the large firms selling linux distros? They are entitled to sell their own proprietory applications and modifications, but are they acknowledging the developers and giving them the true credit they deserve?
Linus filing this trademark i beleive is in aid of the this fight to allow the developers to get acknoledged. I mean, how many distro setup's hav a "And Special Thanks To" section?
Man I hate British Telecom at the best of times! They only get numerous cases for preferential treatment filed against them every week. This would be disasterous.
Particle physics is so much more interesting when being discussed with the right people! I dropped A-Level physics because my teachers made it sooo boring!
Anyway storage will be amazingly difficult, surely it'd begin to anihilate the container it is stored in.
Agrred. On my server I have asPhpFtp, A FTP Client written in PHP.
Native DOZE Solutions: IIS6 has EVERYTHING required built in.
WebDAV can be enabled, and permissions can be set on the filesystem as you would home directories.
To make FTP work properly on non-DOZE systems IIS has to be configured to use *nix directory listings.
Personnally, i'd go down the linux route. Apache has many many many mods. Supports many authentication methods, and again, takes not of filesystem permissions. Also, install PHP and ASPHPFTP, as I have, Works perfectly. All users on my server can access their home directories through a browser.
IIS can also be configured to authenticate FTP access through Active Directory.
Even google plants an unnessecary cookies! Sure i dont mind PHP/ASP Session cookies, they have a genuine purpose.
The "Cookie Barrage" is really painfull for all those people still unlucky enough to only have dial up connections, as not only do you have to download them in the first palce, your browser sends them back with every request!
I hate marketing personnel at the best of times, especially whne they're trying to sell me something i dont want or stop me in the street to ask me questions about a product i've never heard of.
It's just the same, just as annoying, just digitally and discretely.
Seriously! go to any of my sites, you get ONE session cookie, that tracks your username should you log in. http://www.bytz.co.uk/ (Incomplete at the moment. Work is slowly but surely being done)
Indeed, I had to do a full reinstall on a friends Dell, it worked so much better with real software on it.
On the custom built front, I have built a fair few computers for people, and the fact remains that I have had no returns or phone calls for support. The only problem froma a build I have had is the person kept it near a radiator...
And besides, Dell have only just started making use of dual channel memory!
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I much prefer my debian box to my windows box (Until I want to play gaems ;) )
I thin kthe one thong that may not have been mentioned here is the fact that Linus may be trying to preserve the principles of the GPL, and many developer ARE NOT being acknowledged for their work by these larger companies making these distributions.
The purpose of the GPL is to make sure that all developers are credited for their work towards the open source community, and with them just allowing their software to be distributed for free (not all but many cases), they deserve that right.
Many of us are greatful for all the hard work that the developers put in, but what about the large firms selling linux distros?
They are entitled to sell their own proprietory applications and modifications, but are they acknowledging the developers and giving them the true credit they deserve?
Linus filing this trademark i beleive is in aid of the this fight to allow the developers to get acknoledged. I mean, how many distro setup's hav a "And Special Thanks To" section?
Man I hate British Telecom at the best of times! They only get numerous cases for preferential treatment filed against them every week. This would be disasterous.
Particle physics is so much more interesting when being discussed with the right people! I dropped A-Level physics because my teachers made it sooo boring! Anyway storage will be amazingly difficult, surely it'd begin to anihilate the container it is stored in.
Agrred. On my server I have asPhpFtp, A FTP Client written in PHP.
Native DOZE Solutions: IIS6 has EVERYTHING required built in.
WebDAV can be enabled, and permissions can be set on the filesystem as you would home directories.
To make FTP work properly on non-DOZE systems IIS has to be configured to use *nix directory listings.
Personnally, i'd go down the linux route. Apache has many many many mods. Supports many authentication methods, and again, takes not of filesystem permissions. Also, install PHP and ASPHPFTP, as I have, Works perfectly. All users on my server can access their home directories through a browser.
IIS can also be configured to authenticate FTP access through Active Directory.
Over here in the UK they are so obseesed with people having computer skills that they are made use the things in primary school (ages 5-13) anyway.
Even google plants an unnessecary cookies! Sure i dont mind PHP/ASP Session cookies, they have a genuine purpose. The "Cookie Barrage" is really painfull for all those people still unlucky enough to only have dial up connections, as not only do you have to download them in the first palce, your browser sends them back with every request! I hate marketing personnel at the best of times, especially whne they're trying to sell me something i dont want or stop me in the street to ask me questions about a product i've never heard of. It's just the same, just as annoying, just digitally and discretely. Seriously! go to any of my sites, you get ONE session cookie, that tracks your username should you log in. http://www.bytz.co.uk/ (Incomplete at the moment. Work is slowly but surely being done)
We all love code, but I must admit a majority of the time I would prefer to spend time with my Girlfriend.
However, all you PPC fans should look to Amiga in the long run. Yes, they're back with a line of G3 and G4 based systems. They are very pricey, mind.
I'm with you on this one. Wouldn't have anything else. Games don't run as well! lol! And when you can compile a linux kernel in under 15mins...
The amount of times i've heard that one!
So that means that all these SEO companies are just a con! It'll also expalin why my advertising campaign failed miserably.
Indeed, I had to do a full reinstall on a friends Dell, it worked so much better with real software on it.
On the custom built front, I have built a fair few computers for people, and the fact remains that I have had no returns or phone calls for support. The only problem froma a build I have had is the person kept it near a radiator...
And besides, Dell have only just started making use of dual channel memory!