"The web has created a new class of computer user which the GPL does not adequately address as per the intentions of the authors of the GPL, so they are quite rationally working to update the GPL."
I broadly agree with you but am not sure that it's really a new class of computer user. Is there really much difference between a web application running on a remote machine which presents it's users with a browser based interface and a normal X Window System client application running on a remote machine which presents it's users with an Xt/Qt/Gtk based interface? They're just programs that run on a remote machine with different interfaces. I suppose the problem is how you define the user - is it the person responsible for setting up the remote machine or the one who interacts with the running program? I, like you, would argue the latter.
Thanks for that tip. I just tried it but, when used with the google toolbar, thought it took up too much vertical space. This seems to do the trick though.
An empty file might do the trick as this should make your browser use it's default fonts and colours etc. How to get slashdot/your browser to use your css file instead of the default one defined in the HTML might be a little trickier... Anyone got any ideas?
I agree. The light version used to be great because it would use the browsers defaults and so was much more discrete for those of us reading while at work! Please fix this...
This might come across as a bit paranoid, but isn't it in Symantec's best interests for users to have problems with viruses etc? After all, if everyone was using secure software they wouldn't have a market...
There's also a growing trend here in the states of people moving further away from cities into rural farming areas.
I might suggest that this trend will reverse if prices continue to rise. You're right that back in the days of cheap oil much of Americas infrastructure was designed around the car, but if the energy crisis continues to escalate (and it seems quite possible) more and more people will relocate or demand better public transport/bike facilities.
It will be interesting to see just how much worse things have to get before we start to see these things change.
I've been thinking about starting up a file system project (as you do), and was wondering if anyone has thought of using something like the FUSE kernel module with a database (say MySQL or Berkeley DB) to create an easily indexible file system. The idea is to create a basic proof of concept using FUSE and if it gets any interest turn it into a proper (kernelspace) FS.
Technically CRLF is the correct way to end a line.
LF only moves down a line without returning the carraige (positioning the cursor/printhead at 0)... CR repositions the print head at position 0 but without moving down a line, so you get over print.
Of course this makes sense on a teletype, but the semantic model used nowadays in text files does not need to describe the actions of a print carriage. Given this, one character is fine.
"for example, building the next Windows on BSD (if they haven't done it already with Longhorn/Vista)"
IIRC, MS has already used BSD code for the TCP/IP stack in NT 3.1. MS bought the code from a third company called Spider that had copied and modified the BSD TCP/IP stack.
I don't know that that's such a good thing. A couple of years ago I was hoping that Itanium would supercede the clunky x86. I guess that was wishful thinking:(
It's interesting to read about why a settlement developed in that area - from wikipedia
"The site was selected because it was a rare bit of natural high ground along the flood-prone banks of the lower Mississippi, and was adjacent to a Native American trading route and portage between the Mississippi and Lake Pontchartrain via Bayou St. John (known to the natives as Bayou Choupique)."
"the POSIX personality never reached a state where it was really usable"
Wasn't this needed in order for Windows to be used by certain US governmental agencies that stipulated that all OSs they used must have POSIX compliance. If I'm right in thinking that they must have been accredited with being POSIX compliant from someone so it can't have been all that bad...
You're right that Cygwin's the way to go though. I'm hoping that one day Microsoft will resurrect Xenix and port the Win32 API to it;)
I'm surprised no one's mentioned them yet, but what about the Amiga 500 and 1200? Lovely lovely machines with a great operating system and cool custom chips. It was fun to program too because you didn't need to use a hardware abstraction layer since all machines were essentially the same.
Aren't you thinking of the Mega CD add on for the Mega Drive (called Genesis in the States)?
I guess many Americans might have missed it (the Amiga only really taking off in Europe) but the Amiga CD32 came out at around the same time. I remember seeing the game Microcosm on both platforms and the CD32 really showed up the Mega CD...
It does sound great. I just wonder if there is likely to be an increased chnace of cancer with this sort of regerative tissue. Mind you if someone does get cancer perhaps with this technology the affected part of the body can simply be removed and regrown...
It's because he knows he'd better start making some real money real soon:
If Novell gets the preliminary injunction it's asking for, SCO will no longer have any money. None. SCO would be out of business -- something IBM, Red Hat, AutoZone and DaimlerChrysler could never have made happen. (from Novell to SCO Group: Drop Dead)
Here are some responses from the Kansas School Board, and according to the New Scientist: THE board for Beebe School District in Arkansas voted on 12 July to remove from textbooks stickers promoting an "intelligent designer" over evolution.
This is the view of most European protestant Christians, and is like the old theory of Deism. It's only Catholics and Americans who take the bible literally.
Actually, in between Leif Eriksson/the failed Vinland colonies and Columbus it is believed that some knowledge of land to the west survived. There are stories that Columbus had heard rumours from various Atlantic fisherman (Irish and or Icelandic IIRC).
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"The web has created a new class of computer user which the GPL does not adequately address as per the intentions of the authors of the GPL, so they are quite rationally working to update the GPL."
I broadly agree with you but am not sure that it's really a new class of computer user. Is there really much difference between a web application running on a remote machine which presents it's users with a browser based interface and a normal X Window System client application running on a remote machine which presents it's users with an Xt/Qt/Gtk based interface? They're just programs that run on a remote machine with different interfaces. I suppose the problem is how you define the user - is it the person responsible for setting up the remote machine or the one who interacts with the running program? I, like you, would argue the latter.
Thanks for that tip. I just tried it but, when used with the google toolbar, thought it took up too much vertical space. This seems to do the trick though.
"Are you sure about that?!"
Not 100%, but what else would the browser do if the fonts, colours etc weren't defined? It should use the browser's defaults right?
"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability." - Edsger Dijkstra
An empty file might do the trick as this should make your browser use it's default fonts and colours etc. How to get slashdot/your browser to use your css file instead of the default one defined in the HTML might be a little trickier... Anyone got any ideas?
I agree. The light version used to be great because it would use the browsers defaults and so was much more discrete for those of us reading while at work! Please fix this...
Take a look here. Note the replacement of the menus with tabs!
"Symantec is shilling for Microsoft"
This might come across as a bit paranoid, but isn't it in Symantec's best interests for users to have problems with viruses etc? After all, if everyone was using secure software they wouldn't have a market...
Yggdrasil was probably the first, but it's been dead for a decade or so.
There's also a growing trend here in the states of people moving further away from cities into rural farming areas.
I might suggest that this trend will reverse if prices continue to rise. You're right that back in the days of cheap oil much of Americas infrastructure was designed around the car, but if the energy crisis continues to escalate (and it seems quite possible) more and more people will relocate or demand better public transport/bike facilities.
It will be interesting to see just how much worse things have to get before we start to see these things change.
Next week! - I've got loads of outstanding patches to review and merge with some existing projects, along with loads of work for my dayjob.
:)
Apart from that though you've given me enough to think about for the time being. Thanks for the reply
I've been thinking about starting up a file system project (as you do), and was wondering if anyone has thought of using something like the FUSE kernel module with a database (say MySQL or Berkeley DB) to create an easily indexible file system. The idea is to create a basic proof of concept using FUSE and if it gets any interest turn it into a proper (kernelspace) FS.
What sort of problems can I expect to face?
Technically CRLF is the correct way to end a line.
...
LF only moves down a line without returning the carraige (positioning the cursor/printhead at 0)
CR repositions the print head at position 0 but without moving down a line, so you get over print.
Of course this makes sense on a teletype, but the semantic model used nowadays in text files does not need to describe the actions of a print carriage. Given this, one character is fine.
"for example, building the next Windows on BSD (if they haven't done it already with Longhorn/Vista)"
IIRC, MS has already used BSD code for the TCP/IP stack in NT 3.1. MS bought the code from a third company called Spider that had copied and modified the BSD TCP/IP stack.
I don't know that that's such a good thing. A couple of years ago I was hoping that Itanium would supercede the clunky x86. I guess that was wishful thinking :(
It's interesting to read about why a settlement developed in that area - from wikipedia
"The site was selected because it was a rare bit of natural high ground along the flood-prone banks of the lower Mississippi, and was adjacent to a Native American trading route and portage between the Mississippi and Lake Pontchartrain via Bayou St. John (known to the natives as Bayou Choupique)."
"the POSIX personality never reached a state where it was really usable"
;)
Wasn't this needed in order for Windows to be used by certain US governmental agencies that stipulated that all OSs they used must have POSIX compliance. If I'm right in thinking that they must have been accredited with being POSIX compliant from someone so it can't have been all that bad...
You're right that Cygwin's the way to go though. I'm hoping that one day Microsoft will resurrect Xenix and port the Win32 API to it
I'm surprised no one's mentioned them yet, but what about the Amiga 500 and 1200? Lovely lovely machines with a great operating system and cool custom chips. It was fun to program too because you didn't need to use a hardware abstraction layer since all machines were essentially the same.
Aren't you thinking of the Mega CD add on for the Mega Drive (called Genesis in the States)?
I guess many Americans might have missed it (the Amiga only really taking off in Europe) but the Amiga CD32 came out at around the same time. I remember seeing the game Microcosm on both platforms and the CD32 really showed up the Mega CD...
It does sound great. I just wonder if there is likely to be an increased chnace of cancer with this sort of regerative tissue. Mind you if someone does get cancer perhaps with this technology the affected part of the body can simply be removed and regrown...
It's because he knows he'd better start making some real money real soon:
If Novell gets the preliminary injunction it's asking for, SCO will no longer have any money. None. SCO would be out of business -- something IBM, Red Hat, AutoZone and DaimlerChrysler could never have made happen. (from Novell to SCO Group: Drop Dead)
"gimp has taken a turn for the worst since switching to gtk2"
Got anything to back this up?
Here are some responses from the Kansas School Board, and according to the New Scientist: THE board for Beebe School District in Arkansas voted on 12 July to remove from textbooks stickers promoting an "intelligent designer" over evolution.
This is the view of most European protestant Christians, and is like the old theory of Deism. It's only Catholics and Americans who take the bible literally.
Actually, in between Leif Eriksson/the failed Vinland colonies and Columbus it is believed that some knowledge of land to the west survived. There are stories that Columbus had heard rumours from various Atlantic fisherman (Irish and or Icelandic IIRC).