Excellent point. To extend that, how about allowing dynamic licensing, allowing the author at the time of commenting what the license for it should be. For example, I may not want my JK flame to be taken and put in a book, but I may want comments about MS and Kerberos to be freely used by anyone.
Here's a thought. Can the Kerberos group sue MS to prevent them from using the Kerberos name? Sun did the same with Java when MS "embraced and extended" Java.
Strange thing is, though, that this is the same logic that MS uses with their EULA. In MS making/.'s copyright statement invalid, they may make their own EULA invalid.
Why? Because after about a year or two, the batteries are no longer made by the manufacturer. They rechargers are often specific to each kind of battery, forcing you to buy *another* charger and set of batteries. If you bought enough rechargable batteries to last for 10 years, then they would pay for themselves. I'm all for saving energy, but if it comes down to $20 worth of batteries for a year vs $75 for charger/batteries/spare batteries per year that you'll wind up throwing out anyway, I'll stick with the $20 batteries. As it is, my palm lasts for 30+ days (about 24H runtime) off two AAA batteries.
The closest I got to good batteries was the Millenium that was around in '93 or so. But they're not being made anymore, and I have two chargers gathering dust in the basement.
If you're going to get a battery-power whatzit, make sure it has the batteries (and charger) built into it. Palm V, cell phones, laptop, UPS, digital cameras, Minidisc, etc all have batteries built in that can be recharged easily and last for a while.
Some recievers (like my Delorme Earthmate) can do some compensation for SA, but I think it's only good for 2d (lat and long) location. There was many a time where my receiver told me I was anywhere between -100 ft and +300 ft while walking a few yards. I'll check tonight and if there's any interst, report my findings...
I bought a mouse in 1989 for $50. Used it for about 8 years. Any mouse I paid less than $30 would last only about 6-8 months before it wore out. Only reason I got rid of it was because it was serial.
Save your time, money, and sanity and buy a nice Microsoft or Logitech mouse. If you want real fun, get the MS IntelliMouse Optical. No wheel to get gummed up.
There is certainly a big advantage to having books in electronic format: searching.
C'mon, go find in Snow Crash the part where the Metaverse is introduced for the first time. How long did it take? Was it more than.002 sec? I'd *love* to be able to do quick searches on some books, at least for the quotes. Even better if I can get a page number (page 100 paperback, page 110 hardcover, etc).
Other than that, I prefer reading a physical book over an e-book any day. Paper is much nicer on the eyes than an LCD screen.
You may want to make sure that the bus is terminated with an active termination. At least with Adaptec cards, this makes a real difference. Fortunately, many newer drives come with termination on-board, so you may just need to turn it on at the last drive on the chain. Also make sure there's power on the bus for the termination.
If your drive doesn't support it, you can buy a physical terminator for the chain for maybe $50 at any good computer store.
The Palm VII uses a GSM chip, meaning it'll only work on GSM networks. In the US, that means Bell South in the south, Omnipoint in the NE, and Pac Bell in the west. There are no other GSM networks here in the states. Now, you could set up your own GSM network in a building, provided you're under the FCC limits. But, that means that you'll be interfering with other GSM services within that area.
DISC: I'm not a lawyer, financial planner, stock broker, or accountant, nor do I play them on TV. Spend your money however you want, and don't cry to me if you lose your shirt.
I bought CORL in september when it was about 6. I knew that Corel Linux would be coming out soon, and saw it flutter between 1-5 for a while. With the recent acceptance for RHAT on the market, I figured this would be a no-brainer.
I was right. Watched it go all the way to 44. The stock market *did* take notice of what Corel was doing, and the stock value rose as a result.
Then some funny things happened to the company, and I sold. Took my money and plunked it down on someone else (who isn't doing as nicely, but didn't drop as much as CORL did).
What a particular stock does day-to-day should not concern you, unless you're a day trader. Sure it's down today. So were a lot of other stocks (the NASDAQ was down 258 points today, whaddya expect?).
The question you have to ask yourself is: Will there be a time in the future where someone will want to pay more than what you paid for this stock? If yes, buy more. If no, hold or sell.
E-Trade accepts a min. amount of $1000, and most others sounds to be the same.
For those of us that know the tech sector well, there's plenty of opportunity to turn this into something.
Example:
Say it was about 6-8 months ago. Buy 100 shares of Corel at 4, 100 shares of Xybernaut at 6. Corel peaked at 44 (it's now at 10) and Xybernaut hit about 24 or 26 or so. Assuming you hit the peaks and sold, you'd have $7000.
Yay in the fact that the authors intend to keep only the CSS/Dolby/Navigation stuff closed source. Given other comments regarding look-and-feel of DVD players, this gives us a real chance at making the screen look nice.
Boo on the cost. $50 for Dolby 5.1? Not bad, but you may as well buy a component player for your TV after buying all the parts and software. "Buy us because we're the only legal ones" isn't necessarily a great marketing strategy either. And then there's the issue of the MPAA and having to make major portions of the software closed-source.
My guess is you'll see this software bundled with the major distros in the next year or two, which then makes much of this a moot point.
In terms of this "debt" do you mean besides those of us HOWTO authors who send any book profits to the FSF, or the coders that contribute back to GNU software? Perhaps you mean the people that use Linux, GNU, and Open Source Software in the same breath and gave GNU the popularity it deserves. Let's face it, GNU helped Linux with software, but Linux made GNU popular.
My personal opinion is that RMS is peeved that Linus is the Open Source poster child and not him. Which is probably a valid point, but shouldn't cause him to be this mean towards us Linux users.
Unless the copyright is renewed, that's correct. That's why you can sometimes get Bugs Bunny or Three Stooges videos on CD (remember those days?) for $5. And I remember when "It's a Wonderful Life" was on just about every channel on TV around the holidays. A few years ago, the copyright holder renewed the copyright, and now only a few channels carry it, since they now have ot pay the copyright holder.
a) I could b) My boss paid for it c) I was at Red Hat the day they had their IPO d) Nice ego boost, having used Linux for 8 years.
Anyway, the certification isn't easy unless you know Linux like the back of your hand. I can't really go into the details of the RHCE exam (hellooo NDA), but I'm pretty sure I can tell you that you *really* need to know what you're doing. It's more than just studying the manual the day before the exam and passing. Most of it isn't RH-specific, so if you knew Debian really well, you could take the week-long course and do just fine.
To be fair, I never took any of the CNE or MCSE exams, so I can't do a good comparison of the two.
My company went through ISO 9000 a few years ago, and the basic idea is the same as TrustE: Say what you do, do what you say.
In my mind, it doesn't mean that the company is any better organized than others, but it means that their business process is in a book somewhere and they follow what's in the book. Reviewers don't care what the actual processes are, as long as there's enough documentation to prove that those processes are followed.
Sounds like TrustE is doing the same thing: Does this company have a privacy policy for web-based information? Do they follow it?
Trying to lose some karma here, let me throw this out: I think TrustE is following their charter by not coming down on Real or MSFT. Why? Their charter doesn't include non-web based information gathering. If this means that TrustE should change their charter, or start a new group for non-web-based privacy certification.
But make no mistake: All TrustE is saying is that their "approved" company has a web-based privacy policy and that they follow it. Even if that policy says that they'll sell your name and phone number to anyone that asks.
I caught them a few months ago and realized they were a joke. I wrote CmdrTaco about it, and he said it was part of an April Fools joke. I figured everyone else knew about it and I just missed it till November.
The point of OSS (to me) was never to make it easier for anyone to use. It's to make it easier for you to use.
Is there a difference? You bet!
Windows 98 has to be written to the lowest common denomonator of user. Limit configurability and leave that to the programmers. It made it easy for anyone to walk up and use.
OSS (take GNOME, which I'm using now) is highly configrable. My bottom panel is probably guaranteed to not look like anyone else's, and if someone else walked up and used my machine, they'd be lost trying to figure it all out. Heck, people get messed up enough since I have "focus follows mouse" and "auto-raise" on.
Does this make OSS harder to use? There's a learning curve to figure out the interface, but not a whole lot. The concepts between Windows 98 and GNOME are similar, which were mostly developed 20 years ago.
Take another fun OSS example - Emacs. There's a steep learning curve, but those that get past it swear by it and use nothing else. It's probably a dismal failure when looked at in a general usability standpoint, but for each person that customized Emacs to work the way they do, it's a success.
Qmail is a bit more logical in it setup than Sendmail, but that's not saying much. Setup is fairly simple (an hour at most after reading the docs).
There are two places where Qmail really shines for me:
1) Security. There was a $1,000 reward to anyone who could find a bug in Qmail that would allow access to the host. The deadline was a year (IIRC) and it came and went without being paid. Sure, it's not as gone over as Sendmail, but in three years, noone has reported a security bug of this nature. 2) Mailing Lists. There's a package for mailing lists called ezmlm that really works. Normal users can create their own mailing lists as a part of their name (like markk-linux@fixbang.com) with all the regular features of Majordomo - automated sub/unsub, digests, etc. Creation is two or three commands - no editing files, no running "newaliases". It's available immediately.
I'm not sure how it handles big loads, but I have it on a few smaller boxes and I've never had trouble with it.
What would you say if I said that Openssh.com *could* be data mining, I just don't know? Your statement is similar to asking "do you still beat your kids?". The statement/accusation/comment should have *never* been made in the first place. Shame on you.
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Excellent point. To extend that, how about allowing dynamic licensing, allowing the author at the time of commenting what the license for it should be. For example, I may not want my JK flame to be taken and put in a book, but I may want comments about MS and Kerberos to be freely used by anyone.
Here's a thought. Can the Kerberos group sue MS to prevent them from using the Kerberos name? Sun did the same with Java when MS "embraced and extended" Java.
Probably depends on the way Kerberos is licensed.
Strange thing is, though, that this is the same logic that MS uses with their EULA. In MS making /.'s copyright statement invalid, they may make their own EULA invalid.
Why? Because after about a year or two, the batteries are no longer made by the manufacturer. They rechargers are often specific to each kind of battery, forcing you to buy *another* charger and set of batteries. If you bought enough rechargable batteries to last for 10 years, then they would pay for themselves. I'm all for saving energy, but if it comes down to $20 worth of batteries for a year vs $75 for charger/batteries/spare batteries per year that you'll wind up throwing out anyway, I'll stick with the $20 batteries. As it is, my palm lasts for 30+ days (about 24H runtime) off two AAA batteries.
The closest I got to good batteries was the Millenium that was around in '93 or so. But they're not being made anymore, and I have two chargers gathering dust in the basement.
If you're going to get a battery-power whatzit, make sure it has the batteries (and charger) built into it. Palm V, cell phones, laptop, UPS, digital cameras, Minidisc, etc all have batteries built in that can be recharged easily and last for a while.
-Mark
Some recievers (like my Delorme Earthmate) can do some compensation for SA, but I think it's only good for 2d (lat and long) location. There was many a time where my receiver told me I was anywhere between -100 ft and +300 ft while walking a few yards. I'll check tonight and if there's any interst, report my findings...
I bought a mouse in 1989 for $50. Used it for about 8 years. Any mouse I paid less than $30 would last only about 6-8 months before it wore out. Only reason I got rid of it was because it was serial.
Save your time, money, and sanity and buy a nice Microsoft or Logitech mouse. If you want real fun, get the MS IntelliMouse Optical. No wheel to get gummed up.
If you'll notice, the first answer for each question is positive towards Microsoft. Example:
Should Microsoft be split?
o) No
o) Yes
o) Not sure
Is Microsoft stock a "buy"?
o) Yes
o) No
o) Not sure
This is pretty much leading the respondant into the anwers, a nice way of screwing up the results (read: Getting the answers you really want).
Ow. I'll have to go beat up the wireless person that told me the wrong information.
The hockey team is full of aliens now? First the administration, now the hockey team, what next? I hear SLU did rather well though.
There is certainly a big advantage to having books in electronic format: searching.
.002 sec? I'd *love* to be able to do quick searches on some books, at least for the quotes. Even better if I can get a page number (page 100 paperback, page 110 hardcover, etc).
C'mon, go find in Snow Crash the part where the Metaverse is introduced for the first time. How long did it take? Was it more than
Other than that, I prefer reading a physical book over an e-book any day. Paper is much nicer on the eyes than an LCD screen.
You may want to make sure that the bus is terminated with an active termination. At least with Adaptec cards, this makes a real difference. Fortunately, many newer drives come with termination on-board, so you may just need to turn it on at the last drive on the chain. Also make sure there's power on the bus for the termination.
If your drive doesn't support it, you can buy a physical terminator for the chain for maybe $50 at any good computer store.
The Palm VII uses a GSM chip, meaning it'll only work on GSM networks. In the US, that means Bell South in the south, Omnipoint in the NE, and Pac Bell in the west. There are no other GSM networks here in the states. Now, you could set up your own GSM network in a building, provided you're under the FCC limits. But, that means that you'll be interfering with other GSM services within that area.
I disagree, and I'll say why just after this:
DISC: I'm not a lawyer, financial planner, stock broker, or accountant, nor do I play them on TV. Spend your money however you want, and don't cry to me if you lose your shirt.
I bought CORL in september when it was about 6. I knew that Corel Linux would be coming out soon, and saw it flutter between 1-5 for a while. With the recent acceptance for RHAT on the market, I figured this would be a no-brainer.
I was right. Watched it go all the way to 44. The stock market *did* take notice of what Corel was doing, and the stock value rose as a result.
Then some funny things happened to the company, and I sold. Took my money and plunked it down on someone else (who isn't doing as nicely, but didn't drop as much as CORL did).
What a particular stock does day-to-day should not concern you, unless you're a day trader. Sure it's down today. So were a lot of other stocks (the NASDAQ was down 258 points today, whaddya expect?).
The question you have to ask yourself is: Will there be a time in the future where someone will want to pay more than what you paid for this stock? If yes, buy more. If no, hold or sell.
E-Trade accepts a min. amount of $1000, and most others sounds to be the same.
For those of us that know the tech sector well, there's plenty of opportunity to turn this into something.
Example:
Say it was about 6-8 months ago. Buy 100 shares of Corel at 4, 100 shares of Xybernaut at 6. Corel peaked at 44 (it's now at 10) and Xybernaut hit about 24 or 26 or so. Assuming you hit the peaks and sold, you'd have $7000.
Alas, knowing when to sell is the hard part....
Yay in the fact that the authors intend to keep only the CSS/Dolby/Navigation stuff closed source. Given other comments regarding look-and-feel of DVD players, this gives us a real chance at making the screen look nice.
Boo on the cost. $50 for Dolby 5.1? Not bad, but you may as well buy a component player for your TV after buying all the parts and software. "Buy us because we're the only legal ones" isn't necessarily a great marketing strategy either. And then there's the issue of the MPAA and having to make major portions of the software closed-source.
My guess is you'll see this software bundled with the major distros in the next year or two, which then makes much of this a moot point.
Channel 44 tonight at 10PM. The link also lists repeat times, in case your VCR/TiVO/Replay are acting up...
In terms of this "debt" do you mean besides those of us HOWTO authors who send any book profits to the FSF, or the coders that contribute back to GNU software? Perhaps you mean the people that use Linux, GNU, and Open Source Software in the same breath and gave GNU the popularity it deserves. Let's face it, GNU helped Linux with software, but Linux made GNU popular.
My personal opinion is that RMS is peeved that Linus is the Open Source poster child and not him. Which is probably a valid point, but shouldn't cause him to be this mean towards us Linux users.
Unless the copyright is renewed, that's correct. That's why you can sometimes get Bugs Bunny or Three Stooges videos on CD (remember those days?) for $5. And I remember when "It's a Wonderful Life" was on just about every channel on TV around the holidays. A few years ago, the copyright holder renewed the copyright, and now only a few channels carry it, since they now have ot pay the copyright holder.
I think better AI is represented in things like Q3A and Unreal Tournament. The bots are pretty bright.
Ya, I went through it. Mostly because:
a) I could
b) My boss paid for it
c) I was at Red Hat the day they had their IPO
d) Nice ego boost, having used Linux for 8 years.
Anyway, the certification isn't easy unless you know Linux like the back of your hand. I can't really go into the details of the RHCE exam (hellooo NDA), but I'm pretty sure I can tell you that you *really* need to know what you're doing. It's more than just studying the manual the day before the exam and passing. Most of it isn't RH-specific, so if you knew Debian really well, you could take the week-long course and do just fine.
To be fair, I never took any of the CNE or MCSE exams, so I can't do a good comparison of the two.
My company went through ISO 9000 a few years ago, and the basic idea is the same as TrustE: Say what you do, do what you say.
In my mind, it doesn't mean that the company is any better organized than others, but it means that their business process is in a book somewhere and they follow what's in the book. Reviewers don't care what the actual processes are, as long as there's enough documentation to prove that those processes are followed.
Sounds like TrustE is doing the same thing: Does this company have a privacy policy for web-based information? Do they follow it?
Trying to lose some karma here, let me throw this out: I think TrustE is following their charter by not coming down on Real or MSFT. Why? Their charter doesn't include non-web based information gathering. If this means that TrustE should change their charter, or start a new group for non-web-based privacy certification.
But make no mistake: All TrustE is saying is that their "approved" company has a web-based privacy policy and that they follow it. Even if that policy says that they'll sell your name and phone number to anyone that asks.
I caught them a few months ago and realized they were a joke. I wrote CmdrTaco about it, and he said it was part of an April Fools joke. I figured everyone else knew about it and I just missed it till November.
Guess it was that obscure.
The point of OSS (to me) was never to make it easier for anyone to use. It's to make it easier for you to use.
Is there a difference? You bet!
Windows 98 has to be written to the lowest common denomonator of user. Limit configurability and leave that to the programmers. It made it easy for anyone to walk up and use.
OSS (take GNOME, which I'm using now) is highly configrable. My bottom panel is probably guaranteed to not look like anyone else's, and if someone else walked up and used my machine, they'd be lost trying to figure it all out. Heck, people get messed up enough since I have "focus follows mouse" and "auto-raise" on.
Does this make OSS harder to use? There's a learning curve to figure out the interface, but not a whole lot. The concepts between Windows 98 and GNOME are similar, which were mostly developed 20 years ago.
Take another fun OSS example - Emacs. There's a steep learning curve, but those that get past it swear by it and use nothing else. It's probably a dismal failure when looked at in a general usability standpoint, but for each person that customized Emacs to work the way they do, it's a success.
Qmail is a bit more logical in it setup than Sendmail, but that's not saying much. Setup is fairly simple (an hour at most after reading the docs).
There are two places where Qmail really shines for me:
1) Security. There was a $1,000 reward to anyone who could find a bug in Qmail that would allow access to the host. The deadline was a year (IIRC) and it came and went without being paid. Sure, it's not as gone over as Sendmail, but in three years, noone has reported a security bug of this nature.
2) Mailing Lists. There's a package for mailing lists called ezmlm that really works. Normal users can create their own mailing lists as a part of their name (like markk-linux@fixbang.com) with all the regular features of Majordomo - automated sub/unsub, digests, etc. Creation is two or three commands - no editing files, no running "newaliases". It's available immediately.
I'm not sure how it handles big loads, but I have it on a few smaller boxes and I've never had trouble with it.
Fair Use covers research. I guess debugging a CD-Ripper and MP3 encoder (and player, obviously) could count as research.
I mean, you're making sure it all works together....
What would you say if I said that Openssh.com *could* be data mining, I just don't know? Your statement is similar to asking "do you still beat your kids?". The statement/accusation/comment should have *never* been made in the first place. Shame on you.