You don't have to use OpenBSD. If you want to use Wine and Xen, use FreeBSD or Linux. OpenBSD is targeted at people who want a clean, simple and secure OS. Use the best tool for the job, don't complain to the OpenBSD developers they wont provide the features YOU want. If you want some feature, take the source and implement it yourself (you don't even have to contribute your code to the project). Why should the OpenBSD developers spend THEIR OWN time on something they don't want?
The GPL is copyrighted, but you CAN modify it. You just don't have the right to call it the GPL if you modify the licence.
Can I modify the GPL and make a modified license?
You can use the GPL terms (possibly modified) in another license provided that you call your license by another name and do not include the GPL preamble, and provided you modify the instructions-for-use at the end enough to make it clearly different in wording and not mention GNU (though the actual procedure you describe may be similar). ...... From: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL
Every line in the GPL is optional for developers. You can release your code with any license you want, including one you made up yourself.
I can not understand why anyone would want to release their code with a "or any future version" clause. With this clause, you give away all control of the content of the license. If RMS suddenly decides the BSD license is great and writes a GPL4 with the contents of the BSD license, your code is BSD licensed too.
Of course this is bad news. And I don't know how most countries are going to react to this.
But I still plan to buy the OLPC for myself. It's a completely open platform, a portable and rugged design and I will support a good cause when I buy it.
Don't just expose these kids just to science. Let them try all kinds of different subjects like history, literature, math, art, biology, etc. And don't let them write reports about it, the report writing almost killed my interest in art when I was in school. Try to do fun field-trips or experiments once in a while and let the kids experience "the real thing". I went through several years of physics classes that where not really interesting. But partly because some field trips to real physics research institutes I knew there was more physics than just newtonian physics. The best physics course I have ever had was in my first year of university; special relativity. This was the kind of physics I liked!
My computer doesn't install random applications from websites I visit. I have to download and install them manually. When my browsers Java plugin is enabled all java applets start without my intervention.
I know this post was meant to be funny, but the design actually is multithreaded.
The weight is connected with a string to each of the wheels, so each wheel has it's own "thread" that controls it. And of-course all threads run in parallel.
The problem with OSX running on lots of cores is the hardware.
Apple does not sell hardware with more than 8 cores as for as i know.
Maybe some people have tried with Darwin.
I study physics and in about 2 week I have to take a compulsory "LaTeX introduction" course.
This is in the end of the second year. I have not used Microsoft Word to write stuff in about 2 years.
LaTeX is all I use when I hand in assignments.
There's basically no way to solve this problem other than to love thy neighbor and do what you can to raise your children with a sense of respect.
I could not agree more!
I should clarify my statement about not understanding why anyone would want to own a gun. In Holland where I live, there are virtually no people who really hunt animals for food. Most of the hunting is done for "fun" or to "maintain the natural balance". Of course, hunting for your food is only natural. I have nothing against it (if done with care).
I only know two people who live in the United States and I have never been there. In my post I tried to make it clear that I was talking about the impression I get from the "general" population. I am fully aware that this impression is very biased by the media who only tell the spectacular stories which often involve guns.
I don't think the solution is to outlaw guns for two reasons: It does not help. People who really want to can get guns even if it's illegal. People have the right to carry a firearm. While I personally don't want to own a gun and don't see a reason for most people to own one, I agree with the fact that most people should have the right to own one (or more). Just don't make it too easy to buy a gun. Let everyone who wants to own a gun get a license for it. Sort of like a drivers license. So the people who have a gun have at least a basic understanding of how to handle a gun.
The most difficult to change is the mindset of people. Where I live (In Holland) there is only a relatively small group of people with a gun. I have spoken once with someone who owns a gun. Although this person is very friendly, I got an uncomfortable feeling while talking about why she had a gun. In my mind a gun is a device created for the sole purpose of killing people (or animals) and I don't understand why you would even want to own such a device. I get the impression people in the United States are (in general) too comfortable with owning and handling guns. It's much easier to take a gun when you are comfortable with it, especially when you cant think clearly and want to go on a killing spree.
My sympathies to all people involved in this terrible event.
Maybe this "atack" is not useful to remotely hack into the box.
But there are other reasons to hack a device. It could help with reverse engineering for example.
This is what I get when I type screen in my terminal:
Screen version 4.00.02 (FAU) 5-Dec-03
Copyright (c) 1993-2002 Juergen Weigert, Michael Schroeder
Copyright (c) 1987 Oliver Laumann
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See
the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program (see
the file COPYING); if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite
330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
Send bugreports, fixes, enhancements, t-shirts, money, beer & pizza to screen@uni-erlangen.de
[Press Space or Return to end.]
Cosmic rays appear to exist with much higher energies than 10GeV.
A while ago the http://www.hisparc.nl/ project reconstructed a cosmic particle with the energy 7.6x10^19 eV.
This is more than the GZK cutoff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GZK_cutoff), a theoretical limit on the energy of cosmic rays.
Labview itself would not be useful for high performance computing because it's made for data acquisition.
The concept of programming with blocks and wires forces you to split your "code" in independent pieces which can be executed independently. Maybe an add-on to Labview or just a similar language written for high performance computing could make it very easy to create great parallel software.
I'm very happy with my Powerbook G4 as primary desktop and a dual cpu Alpha as a server.
Sure I use x86 from time to time, but I can name at least 3 architectures I use more.
I take it back, my Wii just crashed while watching a video from video.google.com.
It did not respond to anything, I had to pull out the power cord.
It's a good thing it's still a trial version.
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Not if that's the energy of a single proton.
Yes, but does it run OpenBSD? Seriously, I would like to know if all devices (wireless, graphics...) work under OpenBSD.
You don't have to use OpenBSD. If you want to use Wine and Xen, use FreeBSD or Linux. OpenBSD is targeted at people who want a clean, simple and secure OS. Use the best tool for the job, don't complain to the OpenBSD developers they wont provide the features YOU want. If you want some feature, take the source and implement it yourself (you don't even have to contribute your code to the project). Why should the OpenBSD developers spend THEIR OWN time on something they don't want?
I've been enjoying iTunes U for a while. It's good to see more universities publishing their courses for free online.
You can use the GPL terms (possibly modified) in another license provided that you call your license by another name and do not include the GPL preamble, and provided you modify the instructions-for-use at the end enough to make it clearly different in wording and not mention GNU (though the actual procedure you describe may be similar).
Every line in the GPL is optional for developers. You can release your code with any license you want, including one you made up yourself. I can not understand why anyone would want to release their code with a "or any future version" clause. With this clause, you give away all control of the content of the license. If RMS suddenly decides the BSD license is great and writes a GPL4 with the contents of the BSD license, your code is BSD licensed too.
Of course this is bad news. And I don't know how most countries are going to react to this. But I still plan to buy the OLPC for myself. It's a completely open platform, a portable and rugged design and I will support a good cause when I buy it.
Don't just expose these kids just to science. Let them try all kinds of different subjects like history, literature, math, art, biology, etc. And don't let them write reports about it, the report writing almost killed my interest in art when I was in school. Try to do fun field-trips or experiments once in a while and let the kids experience "the real thing". I went through several years of physics classes that where not really interesting. But partly because some field trips to real physics research institutes I knew there was more physics than just newtonian physics. The best physics course I have ever had was in my first year of university; special relativity. This was the kind of physics I liked!
I don't care about drivers from them. I want good and public documentation of the hardware.
My computer doesn't install random applications from websites I visit. I have to download and install them manually. When my browsers Java plugin is enabled all java applets start without my intervention.
I know this post was meant to be funny, but the design actually is multithreaded. The weight is connected with a string to each of the wheels, so each wheel has it's own "thread" that controls it. And of-course all threads run in parallel.
I don't think coffeeshops sell a lot of coffee.
The problem with OSX running on lots of cores is the hardware. Apple does not sell hardware with more than 8 cores as for as i know. Maybe some people have tried with Darwin.
I study physics and in about 2 week I have to take a compulsory "LaTeX introduction" course. This is in the end of the second year. I have not used Microsoft Word to write stuff in about 2 years. LaTeX is all I use when I hand in assignments.
I could not agree more!
I should clarify my statement about not understanding why anyone would want to own a gun. In Holland where I live, there are virtually no people who really hunt animals for food. Most of the hunting is done for "fun" or to "maintain the natural balance". Of course, hunting for your food is only natural. I have nothing against it (if done with care).
I only know two people who live in the United States and I have never been there. In my post I tried to make it clear that I was talking about the impression I get from the "general" population. I am fully aware that this impression is very biased by the media who only tell the spectacular stories which often involve guns.
I don't think the solution is to outlaw guns for two reasons:
It does not help. People who really want to can get guns even if it's illegal.
People have the right to carry a firearm. While I personally don't want to own a gun and don't see a reason for most people to own one, I agree with the fact that most people should have the right to own one (or more). Just don't make it too easy to buy a gun. Let everyone who wants to own a gun get a license for it. Sort of like a drivers license. So the people who have a gun have at least a basic understanding of how to handle a gun.
The most difficult to change is the mindset of people. Where I live (In Holland) there is only a relatively small group of people with a gun. I have spoken once with someone who owns a gun. Although this person is very friendly, I got an uncomfortable feeling while talking about why she had a gun. In my mind a gun is a device created for the sole purpose of killing people (or animals) and I don't understand why you would even want to own such a device. I get the impression people in the United States are (in general) too comfortable with owning and handling guns. It's much easier to take a gun when you are comfortable with it, especially when you cant think clearly and want to go on a killing spree. My sympathies to all people involved in this terrible event.
Maybe this "atack" is not useful to remotely hack into the box. But there are other reasons to hack a device. It could help with reverse engineering for example.
This is what I get when I type screen in my terminal: Screen version 4.00.02 (FAU) 5-Dec-03 Copyright (c) 1993-2002 Juergen Weigert, Michael Schroeder Copyright (c) 1987 Oliver Laumann This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program (see the file COPYING); if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. Send bugreports, fixes, enhancements, t-shirts, money, beer & pizza to screen@uni-erlangen.de [Press Space or Return to end.]
I think they mean "rare" as in there are not many PLACES you can find this. As opposed to there are not many TIMES you can find this.
A game like: "Another code: Two memories"?
Cosmic rays appear to exist with much higher energies than 10GeV. A while ago the http://www.hisparc.nl/ project reconstructed a cosmic particle with the energy 7.6x10^19 eV. This is more than the GZK cutoff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GZK_cutoff), a theoretical limit on the energy of cosmic rays.
Labview itself would not be useful for high performance computing because it's made for data acquisition. The concept of programming with blocks and wires forces you to split your "code" in independent pieces which can be executed independently. Maybe an add-on to Labview or just a similar language written for high performance computing could make it very easy to create great parallel software.
I'm very happy with my Powerbook G4 as primary desktop and a dual cpu Alpha as a server. Sure I use x86 from time to time, but I can name at least 3 architectures I use more.
I take it back, my Wii just crashed while watching a video from video.google.com. It did not respond to anything, I had to pull out the power cord. It's a good thing it's still a trial version.
It's great! Now I can watch google video on my tv. Youtube doesn't seem to work though, something about the version of flashplayer or javascript.