That's why I love VMWare's "undoable" mode. You can mess up your
machine in all kinds of horrible ways, and all you have to do to get it
working again is shutdown and don't apply the changes. Real Windows PCs
should come with an option like that.
I assume you've heard the saying, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." My first impulse is to classify this as massive incompetence rather than deliberate tampering. But, as always, I Could Be Wrong.
Hey, at least you had phones. In my day, we had to carve the HTTP commands into rocks and throw them at the server. Then we had to get under cover before the response rocks started flying back. What was even worse was that sometimes the rocks would collide with the neighbors' RFC1149 carriers and we'd both lose packets.
Or how about hurt feelings or wounded pride or offended sensibilities
That was an issue in at least one of the robot stories. Dr. Calvin managed to destroy a telepathic robot by pointing out that there was no way it could avoid hurting someone's feelings. The robot couldn't cope with violating the First Law, and it crashed, hard.
It depends on strategy. If your opponent doesn't know what s/he is doing, you can win. But if both players know what they're doing, it is always a tie. (That was probably what you meant.)
There are fewer games than 362880, since many games end before the ninth move. I wrote a program recently to print out every possible game, and it gave me 255168 games. I'm also trying to add code to eliminate rotations and mirror-images, but that part doesn't work yet.
That's a somewhat common thing with DJB's software. He generally doesn't support features that he thinks are inferior, broken, or useless. Zone transfers are supported, but their use is discouraged, for various reasons.
If you go to the tinydns site, you can read quite a lot of ranting about the brokenness of BIND and how it doesn't conform to various RFC's. DJB hates BIND with a fiery passion, and his rants make for interesting reading if you have nothing better to do.
That might be true if i read MSDN about FAT32. But FAT32 isn't that hard to re-implement using reverse engeneering.
Reverse engineering is prohibited too. That's the difference between copyright and patents -- with copyright, only copying is prohibited, but with patents, you're not allowed to use the technology at all without the patent holder's permission, no matter how you managed to obtain it. Even if you thought of the same idea completely independently, you can't use it until the patent expires.
Or is there some ultra-important distinction I'm missing?
Yes. You're thinking of copyright. FAT32 is patented, which means you need a license to use the technology, even if you wrote the code from scratch. MS has never enforced the patent, but now that FAT32 is so popular, they're apparently going to, just like Unisys and GIF.
On the plus side, patents only last for 20 years, unlike forever-and-a-day for copyrights.
The original post was obviously a troll, but there's actually more of a parallel here than most realize. The code that SCO claims was stolen from them (specifically, the Unix ABI) was actually contributed to Linux by SCO under the GPL, which the full knowledge and blessing of SCO management. SCO now claims the code was stolen. SCO is obviously smoking a very interesting variety of crack, but it's concievable that Sun may someday get ahold of that same crack and claim infringement.
If I can't get a working XF86Config file, I generally follow the procedure in the FreeBSD handbook. It's surprisingly simple, and (usually) works just fine on Linux, although it does require some hand-editing of the generated file.
Don't forget the modules. On my system (Debian Sarge, kernel 2.6.3), modules take up 38M. Granted, a lot of those probably wouldn't be necessary for a recovery kernel, but some of them would still have to be included, either as modules or compiled into the kernel.
There will be a functional language in.Net, called F#. Slashdot had an article about it some time ago. But, like all.Net languages, it has to fit the.Net design, which was build around Java^H^H^H^HC#.
I seem to remember reading in more than one place that NAT will not be used with IPv6. The reason NAT was developed was to delay the exhaustion of the IPv4 address space, but with IPv6, we'll never run out of addresses, so there's no need for NAT. (And 640K will always be enough for anyone.)
Gentoo will win next year, and EVERY YEAR AFTER FOR ALL ETERNITY!!!!!!!!!
Seriously, Gentoo is my favorite distribution, but I'm willing to admit it does have its disadvantages. Ever try to compile KDE on a Pentium II? I have. Multiple times. And every single upgrade, no matter how minor, requires a complete recompile. (Yes, I'm aware that I could just use binary packages, but I'm a control freak, and I can't stand the thought of using any software that wasn't compiled with -O47 -fabsolutely-suicidal-optimizations.)
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That's why I love VMWare's "undoable" mode. You can mess up your machine in all kinds of horrible ways, and all you have to do to get it working again is shutdown and don't apply the changes. Real Windows PCs should come with an option like that.
I assume you've heard the saying, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." My first impulse is to classify this as massive incompetence rather than deliberate tampering. But, as always, I Could Be Wrong.
Hey, at least you had phones. In my day, we had to carve the HTTP commands into rocks and throw them at the server. Then we had to get under cover before the response rocks started flying back. What was even worse was that sometimes the rocks would collide with the neighbors' RFC1149 carriers and we'd both lose packets.
That was an issue in at least one of the robot stories. Dr. Calvin managed to destroy a telepathic robot by pointing out that there was no way it could avoid hurting someone's feelings. The robot couldn't cope with violating the First Law, and it crashed, hard.
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It depends on strategy. If your opponent doesn't know what s/he is doing, you can win. But if both players know what they're doing, it is always a tie. (That was probably what you meant.)
There are fewer games than 362880, since many games end before the ninth move. I wrote a program recently to print out every possible game, and it gave me 255168 games. I'm also trying to add code to eliminate rotations and mirror-images, but that part doesn't work yet.
We're talking about government systems. They probably use an unsorted flat file, or maybe a single multi-terabyte string.
Why not use djbdns then?
If you go to the tinydns site, you can read quite a lot of ranting about the brokenness of BIND and how it doesn't conform to various RFC's. DJB hates BIND with a fiery passion, and his rants make for interesting reading if you have nothing better to do.
You mean like this?
Reverse engineering is prohibited too. That's the difference between copyright and patents -- with copyright, only copying is prohibited, but with patents, you're not allowed to use the technology at all without the patent holder's permission, no matter how you managed to obtain it. Even if you thought of the same idea completely independently, you can't use it until the patent expires.
Yes. You're thinking of copyright. FAT32 is patented, which means you need a license to use the technology, even if you wrote the code from scratch. MS has never enforced the patent, but now that FAT32 is so popular, they're apparently going to, just like Unisys and GIF.
On the plus side, patents only last for 20 years, unlike forever-and-a-day for copyrights.
The original post was obviously a troll, but there's actually more of a parallel here than most realize. The code that SCO claims was stolen from them (specifically, the Unix ABI) was actually contributed to Linux by SCO under the GPL, which the full knowledge and blessing of SCO management. SCO now claims the code was stolen. SCO is obviously smoking a very interesting variety of crack, but it's concievable that Sun may someday get ahold of that same crack and claim infringement.
On the plus side, you could remotely redirect 50000 volts to your favorite spammer.
If I can't get a working XF86Config file, I generally follow the procedure in the FreeBSD handbook. It's surprisingly simple, and (usually) works just fine on Linux, although it does require some hand-editing of the generated file.
Don't forget the modules. On my system (Debian Sarge, kernel 2.6.3), modules take up 38M. Granted, a lot of those probably wouldn't be necessary for a recovery kernel, but some of them would still have to be included, either as modules or compiled into the kernel.
There will be a functional language in .Net, called F#. Slashdot had an article about it some time ago. But, like all .Net languages, it has to fit the .Net design, which was build around Java^H^H^H^HC#.
Please try to be less sesquipedalian.
Um, I just clicked on that link, and it's good. I tried downloading the source for aalib (picked at random), and it worked.
How dumb do you have to be to infuriate the entire Open Source community by claiming you own Linux and trying to license it for $699 per CPU?
Personally, I'd love to see which distro Linus uses (or whether he still rolls his own).
I seem to remember reading in more than one place that NAT will not be used with IPv6. The reason NAT was developed was to delay the exhaustion of the IPv4 address space, but with IPv6, we'll never run out of addresses, so there's no need for NAT. (And 640K will always be enough for anyone.)
Seriously, Gentoo is my favorite distribution, but I'm willing to admit it does have its disadvantages. Ever try to compile KDE on a Pentium II? I have. Multiple times. And every single upgrade, no matter how minor, requires a complete recompile. (Yes, I'm aware that I could just use binary packages, but I'm a control freak, and I can't stand the thought of using any software that wasn't compiled with -O47 -fabsolutely-suicidal-optimizations.)
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