Hey, could you go buy one of those phat TiBooks? Thanks dude.:)
Re:This is not a "bad" thing...
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Debian And WineX
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I'm fairly sure that the deal with hte LGPL is that All modifcations remain under the LGPL. You have to grant royalty-free patent licenses, but you can link non-Free code against LGPL code. So, Transgaming can use LGPL code if they want to, but it would be a bitch to set up their build system. I think they're just whining because they can't Close the entire Win tree.
For those who don't remember why GNU didn't support KDE way back in the day, the story happened thusly:
KDE (most of which was licensed under the GPL) links against Qt, which, at the time (pre Qt 1.44, IIRC), was licensed under a non-Free license which was (obviously) not compatible with the GPL, which means that it was not possible to run KDE without breaching someones license. All the KDE guys had to do was add a specific exception to the KDE license that specifically allowed people to use KDE with the non-Free Qt and everyone would be (fairly) happy. For one reason or another, they did not, meaning it was impossible to use KDE without breaching it's license (the GPL). This is the reason that Debian and Red Hat, among others, did not distribute KDE before version 2.0, whence KDE was linked against Qt 2.2, licensed under a dual QPL/GPL license. This was a serious issue at the time, since it made the whole KDE project rather legally dubious; GNU tried to convince Trolltech to Free up Qt, then when that failed, they tried to start up a Free clone (Harmony). Harmony stalled, so GNU threw their support behind GNOME, based on the LGPL'd Gtk+. The outcry from a whole lot of people (including GNU, Debian, Red Hat and especially RMS) eventually convinced Trolltech to release Qt under the QPL, a slightly more Free license than before (modifcations could only be released as patches), then later, under a dual QPL/GPL license.
Has there been any news about how much hardware this is going to take? Are we talking Duron 1GHz/GeForce2 or more like Athlon 2.2GHz/GeForce4? Either way, I guess I'm gonna have to do something about this P3-450MHz/TNT box if I want the latest in simulated violence!
Thanks guys! First you spoiled the final season by telling me that the Lone Gunmen die, then, before I've even had a chance to see that friggin' episode, you tell me "er..no, not really", thus spoiling the final episode!
Hmmm...I'm not sure I want to read a Heinlein book about Human-Mouse hybrids...the memories the various incestuous orgies in the the Moon series are still too fresh;)
If you don't nip something in the bud, eventually you can't litigate against it.
If you DO nip something in the bud, well then you're evil THEN TOO! Now THERE'S some logic for ya.
I'm not sure about anyone else, but I would question WHY they want to be able to eventually litigate against it. Isn't bnetd just a Free battle.net server clone? Why on earth should Vivendi or Blizzard or whoever have any right to be able to shut that down?
Here at uni, all the win2000 machines (too lazy to walk to the cs building) run McAfee Virus Scan. When I tried to save the exploit code from the bugtraq archive, it pops up to tell me the file is infected with 'Exploit-CodeBase'. Fair enough, I thought, McAfee is certainly on the ball today, getting an update out so quickly. On further inspection, however, the virus definition file was updated on the 10th of April!. According to the bugtraq message, it was only made public on the 14th. I'm not sure, but isn't only the vendor involved given advanced warning about exploits? How on earth did Network Associates know?
Firstly, if you don't want to see any HTML, why do you refuse to use a text-mode mail client? Secondly, mutt, setup to prefer text/plain over text/html and autoview html with html2txt does exactly what you want. No webbugs (or whatever), no downloading images, no HTML exploits. Small, neat, efficent: just the way I like it.
Re:What's the correct way to upgrade my KDE?
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KDE 3.0 is Out
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Was it a program to build an ISO which you can then install from? If so, you're missing the point.
If your connection is fast enough to download entire.ISOs, then just use apt-get or dselect or whatever to download whichever packages you actually want. If, after doing that, you still want something to burn onto CD, use debian-cd to convert your downloaded packages to a Debian archive ISO.
[Talking about the impact of TeX on publishing...] I can't go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu. Five minutes later I realize that it's also talking about food. If I had never thought about computer typesetting, I might have had a happier life in some ways.
A recommended text for my second year programming course, it's a bit different to all the other C books I've read. Instead of just going over the syntax, and (intermitently) mentioning that X is a good way to do Y or foo should be baz'ed, it's a set of chapters on different aspects of C. There's on declarations, a chapter on how pointers and arrays are not the same, etc. Also nice is the humourous and informal style the author uses, peppered with jokes about PC architecture and Microsoft.
Is anyone actually surprised? MS has just found a way to increase short term revenues, to the detriment of eceryone but them; certainly a rarity in the modern Western world.
Does anyone else get the feeling that Microsoft is slowly and carefully setting the stage for a major big-brother operation in the medium turn?
Everywhere you look, they're setting up user-tracking systems, which are implemented, discovered and then explained away as either conveniences or mistakes...
What happens when they get linked up? Hotmail, your WinXP registration code, any of the merchants that sign up to use Passport and now your CD/DVD/streaming-media listening preferences.... How much information is there in these systems? Hotmail alone must have tens of millions of users and XP is now pretty muc hstandard on new machines. Of course, it hasn't happened yet, and it probably won't happen tommorow, but how much longer can they hold out/resist the urge?
Interestingly enough, one of the rights not listed in American Bill of Rights is the right to life; one that nearly every country in the world respects, aside from the US and China.
There's a Free (GPL) re-implementation of DivX;-) v4 available here that is apparently pretty good. I haven't tried encoding anything, but it seems to decode nicely (as an MPlayer plugin).
GPL is the Gnu Public License. Alot of people share your view about it though. I'm not saying I'm for it or against it (below). Just commenting on it Actually, GPL stands for General Public License.
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Hey, could you go buy one of those phat TiBooks? Thanks dude.:)
I'm fairly sure that the deal with hte LGPL is that All modifcations remain under the LGPL. You have to grant royalty-free patent licenses, but you can link non-Free code against LGPL code.
So, Transgaming can use LGPL code if they want to, but it would be a bitch to set up their build system.
I think they're just whining because they can't Close the entire Win tree.
For those who don't remember why GNU didn't support KDE way back in the day, the story happened thusly:
KDE (most of which was licensed under the GPL) links against Qt, which, at the time (pre Qt 1.44, IIRC), was licensed under a non-Free license which was (obviously) not compatible with the GPL, which means that it was not possible to run KDE without breaching someones license. All the KDE guys had to do was add a specific exception to the KDE license that specifically allowed people to use KDE with the non-Free Qt and everyone would be (fairly) happy. For one reason or another, they did not, meaning it was impossible to use KDE without breaching it's license (the GPL). This is the reason that Debian and Red Hat, among others, did not distribute KDE before version 2.0, whence KDE was linked against Qt 2.2, licensed under a dual QPL/GPL license.
This was a serious issue at the time, since it made the whole KDE project rather legally dubious; GNU tried to convince Trolltech to Free up Qt, then when that failed, they tried to start up a Free clone (Harmony). Harmony stalled, so GNU threw their support behind GNOME, based on the LGPL'd Gtk+. The outcry from a whole lot of people (including GNU, Debian, Red Hat and especially RMS) eventually convinced Trolltech to release Qt under the QPL, a slightly more Free license than before (modifcations could only be released as patches), then later, under a dual QPL/GPL license.
Has there been any news about how much hardware this is going to take? Are we talking Duron 1GHz/GeForce2 or more like Athlon 2.2GHz/GeForce4?
Either way, I guess I'm gonna have to do something about this P3-450MHz/TNT box if I want the latest in simulated violence!
Thanks guys! First you spoiled the final season by telling me that the Lone Gunmen die, then, before I've even had a chance to see that friggin' episode, you tell me "er..no, not really", thus spoiling the final episode!
Hmmm...I'm not sure I want to read a Heinlein book about Human-Mouse hybrids...the memories the various incestuous orgies in the the Moon series are still too fresh;)
Love the books, but Heinlein was a sick fuck.;)
I don't know if it's your server or my browser (Galeon 1.2.0), but those links are spitting out perl code rather than .pngs.
If you don't nip something in the bud, eventually you can't litigate against it.
If you DO nip something in the bud, well then you're evil THEN TOO! Now THERE'S some logic for ya.
I'm not sure about anyone else, but I would question WHY they want to be able to eventually litigate against it. Isn't bnetd just a Free battle.net server clone? Why on earth should Vivendi or Blizzard or whoever have any right to be able to shut that down?
Here at uni, all the win2000 machines (too lazy to walk to the cs building) run McAfee Virus Scan.
When I tried to save the exploit code from the bugtraq archive, it pops up to tell me the file is infected with 'Exploit-CodeBase'. Fair enough, I thought, McAfee is certainly on the ball today, getting an update out so quickly.
On further inspection, however, the virus definition file was updated on the 10th of April!. According to the bugtraq message, it was only made public on the 14th. I'm not sure, but isn't only the vendor involved given advanced warning about exploits? How on earth did Network Associates know?
This site lists dozens of IE holes, 13 of which still are open!
13 remote compromises in a web browser!?!?! Good to see that Microsofts one month 'security' jihad went so well.
Firstly, if you don't want to see any HTML, why do you refuse to use a text-mode mail client?
Secondly, mutt, setup to prefer text/plain over text/html and autoview html with html2txt does exactly what you want. No webbugs (or whatever), no downloading images, no HTML exploits.
Small, neat, efficent: just the way I like it.
Switch to Debian:)
Where's the (-1, Dick) mod option when you need it?
Dude, where are my mod points when I need them...
You're oh so OT, but oh so right.
Was it a program to build an ISO which you can then install from? If so, you're missing the point.
.ISOs, then just use apt-get or dselect or whatever to download whichever packages you actually want. If, after doing that, you still want something to burn onto CD, use debian-cd to convert your downloaded packages to a Debian archive ISO.
If your connection is fast enough to download entire
Fortunately Debian has this covered as well. Have a look at debian-cd: it'll take your downloaded debs, and build an installable, bootable CD.
[Talking about the impact of TeX on publishing...]
I can't go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu. Five minutes later I realize that it's also talking about food. If I had never thought about computer typesetting, I might have had a happier life in some ways.
Donald Knuth, uber-geek!
Expert C Programming by Peter Van Der Linden
A recommended text for my second year programming course, it's a bit different to all the other C books I've read. Instead of just going over the syntax, and (intermitently) mentioning that X is a good way to do Y or foo should be baz'ed, it's a set of chapters on different aspects of C. There's on declarations, a chapter on how pointers and arrays are not the same, etc. Also nice is the humourous and informal style the author uses, peppered with jokes about PC architecture and Microsoft.
Is anyone actually surprised? MS has just found a way to increase short term revenues, to the detriment of eceryone but them; certainly a rarity in the modern Western world.
Does anyone else get the feeling that Microsoft is slowly and carefully setting the stage for a major big-brother operation in the medium turn?
Everywhere you look, they're setting up user-tracking systems, which are implemented, discovered and then explained away as either conveniences or mistakes...
What happens when they get linked up? Hotmail, your WinXP registration code, any of the merchants that sign up to use Passport and now your CD/DVD/streaming-media listening preferences....
How much information is there in these systems? Hotmail alone must have tens of millions of users and XP is now pretty muc hstandard on new machines. Of course, it hasn't happened yet, and it probably won't happen tommorow, but how much longer can they hold out/resist the urge?
Interestingly enough, one of the rights not listed in American Bill of Rights is the right to life; one that nearly every country in the world respects, aside from the US and China.
There's a Free (GPL) re-implementation of DivX;-) v4 available here that is apparently pretty good. I haven't tried encoding anything, but it seems to decode nicely (as an MPlayer plugin).
I've often found that to be useful advice.:)
(Moderators, please note the presence of humour in this post)
Will there be another episode of Geeks In Space?
Please......
Pretty Please.............
(this line added to counter lameness filter....erk)
(as is this one)
(please Lord, make the filter go away)
(*sob*, i just wanted to get a +5, Funny, can't you just let me post?)
GPL is the Gnu Public License. Alot of people share your view about it though. I'm not saying I'm for it or against it (below). Just commenting on it
Actually, GPL stands for General Public License.