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All you need is one Unchecked Array bound
That's why you use classes that do the checking for you, no?
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what??? try hard? Sure!
Your programming example exactly meets my definition of "try hard". You consciously abused C++ (or so I hope ate least)
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It's a C++ app
I mean, you're absolutely right about getting some facts . But still, I'd think you really have to try hard to build code that's vulnerable to buffer overflows in C++
if you install RH7.2 and use the default ext3 filesystem, you need to make sure that your future kernels all have ext3 patched in
If you install a vanilla kernel, the machine will not be able to mount the root filesystem when you reboot (since it doesn't know anything about ext3 filesystems).
ext3 filesystems can be mounted by ext2 kernels as long as the fs was cleanly unmounted. (Doesn't help you after a crash, though, there you're right) That's the nice thing aout ext3. That and conversion to ext3 on the fly. And that it claims to be as fast or faster than ext2
Of course it does - it's only version 2 to play catch up with KDE version numbers, silly really
Bull. It's a major number change because they are breaking API compatibility (move to Gtk 2.0). And guess what - that's just what major number increments are for.
Not any more than we need to create an environment where users can easily create customized furniture, cars, or whatnot
Most people I know (and no, their ar mostly not geeks) would love to have customizable, but mass produced, furniture. Everybody is sick of the crap that's available. Either buy IKEA stuff that never really fits and have it break down after 2 weeks () or pay through your nose for custom stuff that mostly looks horrible, too.
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Paste this into prefs.js -->
Ack! prefs.js is overwritten everytime you change Preferences in the dialog. Create user.js in the same dir and put your customizations there. See this doc. And spread that URL, spread it. Nobody seems to know about it
Except that Antarctica is not a big floating ice cube (Arctica is, though), but a continent in its own right that's covered with ice. So tell me, if you put more water in a glass, does it rise or fall?
Perl update basically removed the working perl from the system, the time the lilo package maintainer decided that always starting the lilo configuration over from scratch was a good idea, and the ssh that wasn't synced with the encryption libraries
And then there was the not working login a few days ago. I see how one can decide to go with sid and take the consequences, even on production machines. But only when there is a really stable system available one deliberately chooses not to use. If sid represented the stability level of debian, people would be pissed no end. You wouldn't say everything has worked reasonably well about a regular, stable system that randomly breaks essential system services every few weeks.
You can have that with debian: just use unstable (sid). Do it for a while and then come back and tell me you want that for a production machine.
You need a freeze to set a date from which on only bugfixes go into the system and everything else stays untouched, while new features go into unstable. Otherwise life expectancy for sysadmins would quickly drop below 40
Some more info about piracy:
Germany's famous pirate Klaus Störtebeker is still a kind of a people's hero in Germany, both feared and loved. A google search turns up mostly tourist info, names of public baths and yearly theater festivals. Very little is known, but he seems to have been a kind of Northern Germany's Robin Hood. Legendarily strong and a big drinker, he and the crew of his ship (the "Bunte Kuh", Multicoloured Cow:) were known as the "Likedeelers", old German for Gleichteiler or Even-sharers, because all profit was shared evenly between all. When finally he was captured, he demanded that those of his comrades that he manages to run past after being beheaded shall be set free. Legend tells that after the 11th he was tripped up by the henchman.
Also worth mentioning are the bucaneers and their caribbean self-goverened community, of course. The google situation is similar to the Störtebeker search, only this time you get caribbean cruises.
Hakim Bey mentions somewhere that there were rather many of these mini-nations on tropical islands. Many of them seem to have been quite cool, especially compared to slaving away on a merchant ship. Even-sharing seems to have been common, as was the practice of voting for the captain. Slaves captured on boarded ships seem to have been often given the choice of "Freedom or Death" (freedom of course implying joining of the pirates). Tales of decidedly anarchist practice wrt to ownership of goods and government of the free nations seem to have survived in people's myth
I wonder if those who call people who do unwanted (by the corporations) things with digital info, be it sharing of code or unauthorized copying of CDs, a "pirate", sense somehow the deeper truth of this term that lies beneath the wish to have a fear-inducing, supposedly depreciating (right word? or devaluing?) name for them
Please, if anyone has more info on piracy (the real one) or knows books that try to tell the real story, not the official history written by governments, shipowners and slave-traders, online or not, mail me.
think it's really important for the Free Software/Open Source communities to make sure that everyone knows that merely USING GPL'd software exposes you to zero risk. It only comes into play when you start to modify it.
Not even that. With the GPL you can modify it all you want. It only comes into play when you distribute it.
Bill is able to compare people who
make unauthorized backups of his
software to thieves and murderers on
the high seas
Funnily enough, not only is it a lie to
compare making backups (or copying CDs
from a friend for that matter) with
"thieves and murderers of the high
seas", but the fabrication of the image
of "pirates" being only thieves and
murderers by the empires of the
17th/18th century has never been the
whole truth either. This
may serve to show that the piracy issue
was not that simple even then.
Strangely, given the amount of studies
done by non-establishment historians on
topics that seemed "not worth it" to
taditional academia, very little
serious research has been done on
so-called
Pirate
Utopias. Peter Lamborn Wilson, aka
Hakim
Bey, has done
a
bit of research and seems to work
on a larger project.
BTW, I strongly recommend Hakim Beys
works to everyone who is interested in often
complicated, very very strange and
interesting writings on anarchism and
related topics like magic and love
in history and everyday life. IMO that
stuff fits better to Free Software
people than Ayn Rand, but that's me.
Maybe try a chapter from the
Temporary
Autonomous Zone on
the first settlements in Roanoke or an essay on the
Assassins
Umm, could you give a reference for that? Because I can't believe it, since Tolkien explicitly wrote in the foreword of LOTR that it is not to be read as an allegory.
But in the first case, there is no pretense of it being free
You aren't talking about free as in beer, are you? Now, it's clear that the GPL does impose restrictions on the distribution of the code. It still frees the code, simply because if the code is not GPL'd but only copyrighted, you can't do anything with it, unless you are the copyright holder. The BSD licenses free the code even more, that's true, and I understand and have a lot of sympathies for people that use it (or other free licenses). But I still think that the GPL frees humanity (as opposed to the code) more than the BSD licenses do.
Someone writes code. He/she copyrights it and puts it under a proprietary license. Someone else wants to use that code. Calls original coder: "Can I use it?" Original coder: "Sure, I want $$ as compensation"
Anotherone writes code. He/she copyrights it and puts it under GPL. Someone else wants to use that code. Calls original coder: "Can I use it?" Original coder: "Sure, I want your contribution to the source pool as compensation"
See? No difference. He/she who writes the code chooses the terms. Don't like it? Don't use it
Me too. Not only did Tai Chi help with back pains, but lots of other mental and physical trouble, too. I can concentrate better, my posture is better, my breathing is calmer and deeper, my reflexes are better (Now I can actually catch stuff that I knock off the table - remember Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?;o) I feel more at home in my body. The school I attend is The International Tai Chi Chuan Association. They do Original Yang Style.
You do need commitment, but I recommend to at least try it out.
Agreed, too. Jackson's perfect. The main reason I think so is Heavenly Creatures: He hs used a lot of special effect in it, but never in a way that makes them stand out in the "look what we can do" hollywood way. Instead, they were perfectly blended into the "real" scenes, giving them a special kind of magic. Also, on the LotR official movie page they have Jackson answering a lot of fan's questions which seem to have come from various Tolkien fan sites. The answers are in Real video format. He obviously has put a lot of thinking into the translation of the book to movie format, and not only that, he has come to goog conclusions, too.
Hmm, it depends on what services they would have offered. I don't think they were anywhere near the point where they could seriously think about what profitable service they should have. But I once read Ximian's services plans include subscription of calendar entries pushed to Evolution and Palm, like concert dates of the bands/music type you want. Well, I would pay for that, just as I pay for having a newspaper at my door every morning.
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All you need is one Unchecked Array bound
That's why you use classes that do the checking for you, no?
what??? try hard? Sure!
Your programming example exactly meets my definition of "try hard". You consciously abused C++ (or so I hope ate least)
It's a C++ app
I mean, you're absolutely right about getting some facts . But still, I'd think you really have to try hard to build code that's vulnerable to buffer overflows in C++
next time it might be the good guys getting fucked by the government
But the good guys already show you the source code
If you install a vanilla kernel, the machine will not be able to mount the root filesystem when you reboot (since it doesn't know anything about ext3 filesystems).
ext3 filesystems can be mounted by ext2 kernels as long as the fs was cleanly unmounted. (Doesn't help you after a crash, though, there you're right) That's the nice thing aout ext3. That and conversion to ext3 on the fly. And that it claims to be as fast or faster than ext2
Of course it does - it's only version 2 to play catch up with KDE version numbers, silly really
Bull. It's a major number change because they are breaking API compatibility (move to Gtk 2.0). And guess what - that's just what major number increments are for.
Most people I know (and no, their ar mostly not geeks) would love to have customizable, but mass produced, furniture. Everybody is sick of the crap that's available. Either buy IKEA stuff that never really fits and have it break down after 2 weeks () or pay through your nose for custom stuff that mostly looks horrible, too.
Ack! prefs.js is overwritten everytime you change Preferences in the dialog. Create user.js in the same dir and put your customizations there. See this doc. And spread that URL, spread it. Nobody seems to know about it
Except that Antarctica is not a big floating ice cube (Arctica is, though), but a continent in its own right that's covered with ice. So tell me, if you put more water in a glass, does it rise or fall?
And then there was the not working login a few days ago. I see how one can decide to go with sid and take the consequences, even on production machines. But only when there is a really stable system available one deliberately chooses not to use. If sid represented the stability level of debian, people would be pissed no end. You wouldn't say everything has worked reasonably well about a regular, stable system that randomly breaks essential system services every few weeks.
You can have that with debian: just use unstable (sid). Do it for a while and then come back and tell me you want that for a production machine.
You need a freeze to set a date from which on only bugfixes go into the system and everything else stays untouched, while new features go into unstable. Otherwise life expectancy for sysadmins would quickly drop below 40
Also worth mentioning are the bucaneers and their caribbean self-goverened community, of course. The google situation is similar to the Störtebeker search, only this time you get caribbean cruises.
Hakim Bey mentions somewhere that there were rather many of these mini-nations on tropical islands. Many of them seem to have been quite cool, especially compared to slaving away on a merchant ship. Even-sharing seems to have been common, as was the practice of voting for the captain. Slaves captured on boarded ships seem to have been often given the choice of "Freedom or Death" (freedom of course implying joining of the pirates). Tales of decidedly anarchist practice wrt to ownership of goods and government of the free nations seem to have survived in people's myth
I wonder if those who call people who do unwanted (by the corporations) things with digital info, be it sharing of code or unauthorized copying of CDs, a "pirate", sense somehow the deeper truth of this term that lies beneath the wish to have a fear-inducing, supposedly depreciating (right word? or devaluing?) name for them
Please, if anyone has more info on piracy (the real one) or knows books that try to tell the real story, not the official history written by governments, shipowners and slave-traders, online or not, mail me.
Not even that. With the GPL you can modify it all you want. It only comes into play when you distribute it.
Funnily enough, not only is it a lie to compare making backups (or copying CDs from a friend for that matter) with "thieves and murderers of the high seas", but the fabrication of the image of "pirates" being only thieves and murderers by the empires of the 17th/18th century has never been the whole truth either.
This may serve to show that the piracy issue was not that simple even then.
Strangely, given the amount of studies done by non-establishment historians on topics that seemed "not worth it" to taditional academia, very little serious research has been done on so-called Pirate Utopias. Peter Lamborn Wilson, aka Hakim Bey, has done a bit of research and seems to work on a larger project.
BTW, I strongly recommend Hakim Beys works to everyone who is interested in often complicated, very very strange and interesting writings on anarchism and related topics like magic and love in history and everyday life. IMO that stuff fits better to Free Software people than Ayn Rand, but that's me. Maybe try a chapter from the Temporary Autonomous Zone on the first settlements in Roanoke or an essay on the Assassins
Thanks
Umm, could you give a reference for that? Because I can't believe it, since Tolkien explicitly wrote in the foreword of LOTR that it is not to be read as an allegory.
You aren't talking about free as in beer, are you? Now, it's clear that the GPL does impose restrictions on the distribution of the code. It still frees the code, simply because if the code is not GPL'd but only copyrighted, you can't do anything with it, unless you are the copyright holder. The BSD licenses free the code even more, that's true, and I understand and have a lot of sympathies for people that use it (or other free licenses). But I still think that the GPL frees humanity (as opposed to the code) more than the BSD licenses do.
Someone writes code. He/she copyrights it and puts it under a proprietary license. Someone else wants to use that code. Calls original coder: "Can I use it?" Original coder: "Sure, I want $$ as compensation"
Anotherone writes code. He/she copyrights it and puts it under GPL. Someone else wants to use that code. Calls original coder: "Can I use it?" Original coder: "Sure, I want your contribution to the source pool as compensation"
See? No difference. He/she who writes the code chooses the terms. Don't like it? Don't use it
Me too. Not only did Tai Chi help with back pains, but lots of other mental and physical trouble, too. I can concentrate better, my posture is better, my breathing is calmer and deeper, my reflexes are better (Now I can actually catch stuff that I knock off the table - remember Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? ;o) I feel more at home in my body. The school I attend is The International Tai Chi Chuan Association. They do Original Yang Style.
You do need commitment, but I recommend to at least try it out.
Agreed, too. Jackson's perfect. The main reason I think so is Heavenly Creatures: He hs used a lot of special effect in it, but never in a way that makes them stand out in the "look what we can do" hollywood way. Instead, they were perfectly blended into the "real" scenes, giving them a special kind of magic. Also, on the LotR official movie page they have Jackson answering a lot of fan's questions which seem to have come from various Tolkien fan sites. The answers are in Real video format. He obviously has put a lot of thinking into the translation of the book to movie format, and not only that, he has come to goog conclusions, too.
It's called Heavenly Creatures were I live
And Braindead. Don't forget Braindead :)
Hmm, it depends on what services they would have offered. I don't think they were anywhere near the point where they could seriously think about what profitable service they should have. But I once read Ximian's services plans include subscription of calendar entries pushed to Evolution and Palm, like concert dates of the bands/music type you want. Well, I would pay for that, just as I pay for having a newspaper at my door every morning.
Amen
Of course you could also let the script play a mp3 when the compile dies