it's pretty unhelpful when the community is rude and condescending.
The community isn't rude and condescending, a few vocal individuals are. Some people enjoy telling people that they are "n00bs" and that they should just RTFM. They are individuals, and their stance is not indicative of the stance of the whole community.
You just undid all the goodwill that the previous, very informative reply might have generated.
I doubt that, at least if he is smart enough to understand that there are dicks in every community. If you receive a hostile reply, you just ignore it instead of thinking that the poster is representative of the whole community.
Sometimes, Windows Explorer just randomly locks files, preventing you from moving, removing, renaming (those I know for sure) and even copying the file (this I'm not completely certain about). This is extremely irritating. Especially since when it is moving a whole tree of files and one file is locked, it just aborts the move instead of doing what it can and leaving the locked file. And when you try to rename a file, it only checks to see if it is locked after you have typed in the possibly lengthy name, reverting the name to the old one in the process.
Since I can do all these things in *nix, I feel handicapped when I run into the stupidity of the file locking behavior in Windows.
I completely agree. Now I only wish there would be an SSH server for Windows so that people could just ditch the problematic FTP protocol for anything other than anonymous access. With problematic I'm referring to the problems you'll have if at least one of the endpoints is behind a firewall. Then you need to choose active/passive mode, which won't work if both ends are firewalled. SSH, on the contrary, uses a single port for everything, making it much easier to use in firewalled environments.
I don't think Microsoft was involved in the beginning of the SCO campaign. They just quickly saw this as a perfect opportunity to help slowing down Linux adoption in the marketplace, and thus started sponsoring SCO in various ways. First the initial "IP license" money, and then the BayStar investment money.
But none of the companies entering the agreements have ever stated that is was to gain protection from Microsoft IP that linux violates or infringes on.
No?
They have tried to stress the interoperability (and in the Novell case, virtualization) aspects of the deal, but didn't hide that an additional benefit would be protection from patent infringement lawsuits from Microsoft. Now that it has turned out that this protection excludes just about everything, this "benefit" has simply vanished.
Besides, playing up the patent protection aspect would have been certain to cause even more enmity in the F/OSS community. And biting the hand that feeds you has never been a good idea.
I guess all those computers are botnets (check out the other connections, DoD is only one among a whole bunch of seemingly random international sites including a couple universities from Brazil and China) trying to get more bots using security holes and trying if they have yet been patched on random IPs.
That was exactly what I thought when I read the article. I mean, many random computers try to connect to mine every day, probably to infect it with some crap, and that's why I have a firewall.
Window's has a userspace driver framework as well as a FUSE equivalent (I think)
There are two ways to make new filesystems for Windows. You can make an Installable FileSystem (IFS) driver that runs in kernelspace, and you can make a Shell Namespace Extension to the Explorer shell. There is no shell-independent way of making userspace filesystems in Windows that I know of.
Note that I'm not a Windows programmer, but a Unix one. I did look into this however, when I was thinking of making an SSHFS equivalent for Windows, so that my friends and family could access my SSH server. I never got anywhere though, and settled for SftpDrive.
Would the pharma companies really let this thing live? There is more money to be made controlling the disease with a daily regiment of drugs.
Since AIDS/HIV is a very serious disease, even being an epidemic in some parts of the world, do you think that governments would allow pharmaceutical companies to kill it? I think that at least regarding their own population, governments might just ignore any patents to be able to administer such a vaccine.
Just a question, what do you think AIDS means? AIDS is not plural of AID, and thus calling it AIDs is wrong. AIDS expands to Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome, so either capitalize every letter or capitalize nothing.
You don't even have to send them. You can form an organization claiming to be about protecting copyright of your members, and then send a (false) infringement notice in strong language. It is likely that the student would get cut off, just so that the university can show the world that they take copyright infringement seriously.
Presuming they have some way of verifying claims made against students
If you read their terms, you'll find that a letter from the MAFIAA is enough proof to cut your connection permanently, unless you prove that you are innocent within five business days. That to me means that they won't investigate any infringement claims, but rather take it at face value and assume that they are correct.
Actually, it looks like they will. I read the information, and it surely reads like a letter from the MAFIAA is enough. If you haven't proved that you are innocent within five days, your network access is permanently removed.
what about installing ntfs-3g? what about using an unlicenced mp3 codec? any unlincenced codec? just using linux (assuming they believe MS's claims about infringement)?
All of these possible violations would be patent infringements. Patents are not dealt with in the DMCA, as it only deals with copyright. And the university rule only talked about copyright infringement.
If the University of Kansas receives notice of a copyright violation
What is a "notice of copyright infringement"? A letter from the RIAA? Sure, the RIAA has never filed a erroneous lawsuit. Just like dead people can download movies and music from p2p networks.
The interesting question then becomes: What will the university accept as proof that a student violated copyright law? A letter from the RIAA? A lawsuit? Or a judgement against the student? In my opinion, only the last one should count. And even that isn't as clear-cut as it seems to be, as the student could still appeal to a higher court.
Virtual machines can be very useful in the server room, especially those with advanced features such as live migration. A guest can be migrated between different hosts without shutting the guest down. It was previously quite common to run each service on its own computer, and still is, but now we can run these services on its own virtual machines instead, making each system fairly clean and only used for one service.
Several different virtual machines can run on one host, making it possible to aggregate many low-load services onto one host, removing the necessity to have a large amount of nearly idle computers. If you find that you need more computing power, just buy a new computer and configure it as a host. Then you can move guests there or create new guests for new services.
if I recall correctly, the EULA for Vista forbids running in a virtualised environment.
At least the Enterprise and Ultimate editions are okay per the EULA to run in a virtualized environment, but I'm not sure about the rest. I faintly recall Microsoft being opposed to using the same copy of the cheaper editions as both the host and the guest OS. It is possible that it is legal to run a separately purchased copy as a guest in a virtual machine.
IANAL though, and I don't have Vista, so I cannot check its EULA.
Or they have different advantages for different use cases, which would mean that all of they stays there.
By the way, to merge means to take two things and make one thing of of them. You don't merge out something out of another thing. A better word would probably be split.
Namely, would Windows XP still be able to have sufficient access to the actual video hardware for gaming purposes?
AFAIK, Direct3D support is highly experimental in VMware, and I haven't heard of it being available in any of Xen or KVM (Lguest can only run Linux guests, so Direct3D support is a moot point). So the answer is probably no.
Try running your games under Wine instead. It would probably be a safer bet, but it isn't guaranteed to work especially not without hitches. I've read it has improved a lot since I tried it 4-5 years ago, but it isn't 100% complete yet.
Only if enabled in the distribution. It doesn't harm anyone to have it available in the kernel source tarball. And both KVM and Lguest are implemented as modules, so if you don't load them, they aren't there.
The electrical interface of IDE is certainly a bus, since it connects more than one device to each channel. On the other hand, SATA is not a bus, it is a point-to-point link, which connects exactly one device to each channel.
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The community isn't rude and condescending, a few vocal individuals are. Some people enjoy telling people that they are "n00bs" and that they should just RTFM. They are individuals, and their stance is not indicative of the stance of the whole community.
I doubt that, at least if he is smart enough to understand that there are dicks in every community. If you receive a hostile reply, you just ignore it instead of thinking that the poster is representative of the whole community.
Sometimes, Windows Explorer just randomly locks files, preventing you from moving, removing, renaming (those I know for sure) and even copying the file (this I'm not completely certain about). This is extremely irritating. Especially since when it is moving a whole tree of files and one file is locked, it just aborts the move instead of doing what it can and leaving the locked file. And when you try to rename a file, it only checks to see if it is locked after you have typed in the possibly lengthy name, reverting the name to the old one in the process.
Since I can do all these things in *nix, I feel handicapped when I run into the stupidity of the file locking behavior in Windows.
I completely agree. Now I only wish there would be an SSH server for Windows so that people could just ditch the problematic FTP protocol for anything other than anonymous access. With problematic I'm referring to the problems you'll have if at least one of the endpoints is behind a firewall. Then you need to choose active/passive mode, which won't work if both ends are firewalled. SSH, on the contrary, uses a single port for everything, making it much easier to use in firewalled environments.
Well, that's strange. I've never had MySQL servers crash on me, and I've used them quite a bit.
I don't think Microsoft was involved in the beginning of the SCO campaign. They just quickly saw this as a perfect opportunity to help slowing down Linux adoption in the marketplace, and thus started sponsoring SCO in various ways. First the initial "IP license" money, and then the BayStar investment money.
No?
They have tried to stress the interoperability (and in the Novell case, virtualization) aspects of the deal, but didn't hide that an additional benefit would be protection from patent infringement lawsuits from Microsoft. Now that it has turned out that this protection excludes just about everything, this "benefit" has simply vanished.
Besides, playing up the patent protection aspect would have been certain to cause even more enmity in the F/OSS community. And biting the hand that feeds you has never been a good idea.
That was exactly what I thought when I read the article. I mean, many random computers try to connect to mine every day, probably to infect it with some crap, and that's why I have a firewall.
Those are just translators that still use the in-kernel device drivers, that can use DMA.
There are two ways to make new filesystems for Windows. You can make an Installable FileSystem (IFS) driver that runs in kernelspace, and you can make a Shell Namespace Extension to the Explorer shell. There is no shell-independent way of making userspace filesystems in Windows that I know of.
Note that I'm not a Windows programmer, but a Unix one. I did look into this however, when I was thinking of making an SSHFS equivalent for Windows, so that my friends and family could access my SSH server. I never got anywhere though, and settled for SftpDrive.
Since AIDS/HIV is a very serious disease, even being an epidemic in some parts of the world, do you think that governments would allow pharmaceutical companies to kill it? I think that at least regarding their own population, governments might just ignore any patents to be able to administer such a vaccine.
Just a question, what do you think AIDS means? AIDS is not plural of AID, and thus calling it AIDs is wrong. AIDS expands to Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome, so either capitalize every letter or capitalize nothing.
You don't even have to send them. You can form an organization claiming to be about protecting copyright of your members, and then send a (false) infringement notice in strong language. It is likely that the student would get cut off, just so that the university can show the world that they take copyright infringement seriously.
If you read their terms, you'll find that a letter from the MAFIAA is enough proof to cut your connection permanently, unless you prove that you are innocent within five business days. That to me means that they won't investigate any infringement claims, but rather take it at face value and assume that they are correct.
Actually, it looks like they will. I read the information, and it surely reads like a letter from the MAFIAA is enough. If you haven't proved that you are innocent within five days, your network access is permanently removed.
All of these possible violations would be patent infringements. Patents are not dealt with in the DMCA, as it only deals with copyright. And the university rule only talked about copyright infringement.
From the quote posted by OverlordQ:
If the University of Kansas receives notice of a copyright violation
What is a "notice of copyright infringement"? A letter from the RIAA? Sure, the RIAA has never filed a erroneous lawsuit. Just like dead people can download movies and music from p2p networks.
The interesting question then becomes: What will the university accept as proof that a student violated copyright law? A letter from the RIAA? A lawsuit? Or a judgement against the student? In my opinion, only the last one should count. And even that isn't as clear-cut as it seems to be, as the student could still appeal to a higher court.
Virtual machines can be very useful in the server room, especially those with advanced features such as live migration. A guest can be migrated between different hosts without shutting the guest down. It was previously quite common to run each service on its own computer, and still is, but now we can run these services on its own virtual machines instead, making each system fairly clean and only used for one service.
Several different virtual machines can run on one host, making it possible to aggregate many low-load services onto one host, removing the necessity to have a large amount of nearly idle computers. If you find that you need more computing power, just buy a new computer and configure it as a host. Then you can move guests there or create new guests for new services.
At least the Enterprise and Ultimate editions are okay per the EULA to run in a virtualized environment, but I'm not sure about the rest. I faintly recall Microsoft being opposed to using the same copy of the cheaper editions as both the host and the guest OS. It is possible that it is legal to run a separately purchased copy as a guest in a virtual machine.
IANAL though, and I don't have Vista, so I cannot check its EULA.
Or they have different advantages for different use cases, which would mean that all of they stays there.
By the way, to merge means to take two things and make one thing of of them. You don't merge out something out of another thing. A better word would probably be split.
Then Lguest is not for you, since it requires a guest kernel with Lguest support, which Windows most certainly don't have, or will ever have.
AFAIK, Direct3D support is highly experimental in VMware, and I haven't heard of it being available in any of Xen or KVM (Lguest can only run Linux guests, so Direct3D support is a moot point). So the answer is probably no.
Try running your games under Wine instead. It would probably be a safer bet, but it isn't guaranteed to work especially not without hitches. I've read it has improved a lot since I tried it 4-5 years ago, but it isn't 100% complete yet.
Only if enabled in the distribution. It doesn't harm anyone to have it available in the kernel source tarball. And both KVM and Lguest are implemented as modules, so if you don't load them, they aren't there.
The electrical interface of IDE is certainly a bus, since it connects more than one device to each channel. On the other hand, SATA is not a bus, it is a point-to-point link, which connects exactly one device to each channel.