Postscript wasn't reverse engineered, it was re-implemented based on the published PostScript standard. See the "PostScript Language Reference Manual" (ISBN: 0201181274).
Of course, if companies that enforce software patents (particularly ridiculous ones) get boycotted, then profits will go down, and shareholder value will not be maximized.
A succesful boycott would make Amazon's officers required, by the same fiduciary responsibility you cite above, to *not* enforce these patents.
OK, so unless I completely misunderstand this whole stock market thing, in order for the value to have reached 146, somebody must have paid $146 for shares of Cobalt stock. But who's doing this? It's common knowledge that new tech stocks start off low, skyrocket to an absurd number, then fall back to reality over the next few months and start behaving rationally. So somebody who bought at 146 is going to have to wait years for it to go up to beyond that.
Are these daytraders, hoping to buy at 146 and sell 20 minutes later at 147? Or people who just don't get it? Or what?
This is kinda off topic, but close enough to topic that I wanted to mention it...
I finished a copy of Marge Piercy's "He, She, and It" a few weeks ago, and thought it was a really interesting take on the topic of artificial intelligence. It intertwines the in-the-future story of a human-like AI creation with the in-the-past story of a Golem, a creature from Jewish legends created from mud.
It drew a lot of parallels that hadn't ever occured to me, and was just altogether a different approach to sci-fi than I'm used to reading.
Anybody else have some favorite Gibson-esque books they'd like to recommend?
It's not quite so simple; if I downloaded Update.tar.gz last week, and I want to get up to date again today, I don't want to download the entire tarfile, including the packages I just updated last week. Similarly, if I don't have Apache installed, I don't want to download a large replacement package for something I don't even use.
What you want is to only download and apply the patches you need, based on what you have installed and on when you last updated, automatically.
rhlupdate (search freshmeat) is one way to do this, although I had to modify it to get it to do what I wanted.
I believe that the "up2date" software in RedHat 6.1 is supposed to solve the same problem in a more GUI way.
OK, I'm not ESR, but I thought I'd comment on this. Twice...
1) I have heard it said (perhaps by Guy Kawasaki of Apple fame?) that good software gives users what they ask for, and great software gives users what they haven't yet realized they can't live without. I think that programmers scratching itches often creates software of the latter type.
2) As people coming in to the Open Source community are increasingly coming over from Windows/MacOS/etc. instead of other kinds of UNIX, I think that their itches will increasingly be to make software easier to use and more graphical. And as programmers' itches start to be for free UNICES to take over the world, or even just to be able to let their parents, spouses, or children enjoy the same stability and flexibility they do with their computers, you will see this same effect.
You're starting to see it now, with KDE and GNOME; but rather than just shoving stuff out the door and calling it done, open source programs tend to take a while to consider things, and put out something that's well designed. In the next several months, I think you'll start to see a convergence with this, and a lot of half-finished projects will start to become very high quality software.
When my number has come up to be a moderator, I shift the way I read SlashDot. I make an effort to read comments I wouldn't normally read, and I refrain from participating in conversations if I think I can add more to the discussion by moderating up some interesting posts.
I think that this shift is necessary to be a good moderator. And I'm not sure I'd be willing to make the shift if I wasn't confident I'd be able to moderate up the good posts, and down the really bad posts, because which articles I could moderate was chosen randomly.
My girlfriend and I are 25 and 24, respectively. National Amusements *still* wouldn't let us buy tickets for friends that were meeting us there.
So much for corporate policy...
My attack strategy would be to have your friends show up right when the movie is about to start, be surprised they have to wait through the line to get tickets, and after the movie demand a refund for their two tickets because the unexpected policy change made them miss the start of the movie.
There is no compiler that I know of that restricts you from selling source code written and tested with it, or the binaries that it compiles from that code.
If you think that's the license for the GNU compiler GCC, you are mistaken.
Mach is actually a microkernel, which acts as an abstraction layer between the hardware and the OS kernel. In other words, for Darwin, your programs run on top of the BSD kernel, which runs on top of the Mach microkernel, which runs on the actual hardware.
It's a clever little monitor that is about the size of a legal pad, and pivots so that it can be vertical (8 1/2" long x 11" tall) or horizontal (11" long x 8 1/2" tall). Tall is great for working on documents, and long is great for spreadsheets.
Unfortunately, the Windows drivers for the WinPortrait don't even work that well; we ended up relegating the only one we had in the office to the computer of somebody who didn't upgrade to MS Win98 (where the drivers don't work at all), and didn't mind their computer crashing once in a while. If somebody can get the rotating working under X, I'd love to hear about it.
I'm not even sure that's true. Taking the GPL, changing a few lines, and calling it your own license is akin to taking somebody else's code, changing a few lines, and calling it your own. If nothing else, it's plagairism.
At least, that's how I have always read the GPL. In my younger days, I once licensed a program under the GPL simply because it was easier than coming up with my own licensing terms, and I have always assumed that was part of the point.
It probably does send the POWEROK signal, but by that time, the OS is already shut down. Maybe I could create a special init state that mounted everything readonly and then just watched for POWEROK, and switched init states...
Actually, GNUstep is just proving that people very much prefer to play with something that is finished enough to be generally usable. I think that when GNUstep gets to the point where you can use it for everyday applications, it will take off quickly. But right now, it's just not complete enough.
We've hooked things up like this before, but had the occasional problem where the machine got the POWERFAIL signal from apcd, shut itself down properly, then power came back on before the UPS battery went dead. The machine ends up sitting there, properly shut down, until somebody drives to the site and flips the power off and on. Anybody got any ideas for working around this?
I couldn't get anything to compile with my 2.2.1 kernel until I updated my C library to the latest GLibC. When I did that, StarOffice stopped working, and I had some other miscellaneous problems. These are all known problems, I believe, but does anybody have any workarounds? Anybody got 2.2.1 working (and stuff compiling) with libc 2.0.7, or have a workaround to make StarOffice work with the new GLibC?
I don't see at all how a CPU ID can provide any type of Internet security. Does anybody know of how they plan to implement this, or where I can find a white paper or other document on it?
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As for a UNIX version of Windows, see WINE:
http://www.winehq.com/
It's a joke, man. That's what you're missing.
Anybody know what's new in this release?
VHS Video has no concept of regions, and that doesn't seem to have delayed releases of VHS movies . . .
Of course, if companies that enforce software patents (particularly ridiculous ones) get boycotted, then profits will go down, and shareholder value will not be maximized.
A succesful boycott would make Amazon's officers required, by the same fiduciary responsibility you cite above, to *not* enforce these patents.
Which is why we are doing it.
OK, so unless I completely misunderstand this whole stock market thing, in order for the value to have reached 146, somebody must have paid $146 for shares of Cobalt stock. But who's doing this? It's common knowledge that new tech stocks start off low, skyrocket to an absurd number, then fall back to reality over the next few months and start behaving rationally. So somebody who bought at 146 is going to have to wait years for it to go up to beyond that.
Are these daytraders, hoping to buy at 146 and sell 20 minutes later at 147? Or people who just don't get it? Or what?
This is kinda off topic, but close enough to topic that I wanted to mention it...
I finished a copy of Marge Piercy's "He, She, and It" a few weeks ago, and thought it was a really interesting take on the topic of artificial intelligence. It intertwines the in-the-future story of a human-like AI creation with the in-the-past story of a Golem, a creature from Jewish legends created from mud.
It drew a lot of parallels that hadn't ever occured to me, and was just altogether a different approach to sci-fi than I'm used to reading.
Anybody else have some favorite Gibson-esque books they'd like to recommend?
It's not quite so simple; if I downloaded Update.tar.gz last week, and I want to get up to date again today, I don't want to download the entire tarfile, including the packages I just updated last week. Similarly, if I don't have Apache installed, I don't want to download a large replacement package for something I don't even use.
\ *
What you want is to only download and apply the patches you need, based on what you have installed and on when you last updated, automatically.
rhlupdate (search freshmeat) is one way to do this, although I had to modify it to get it to do what I wanted.
I believe that the "up2date" software in RedHat 6.1 is supposed to solve the same problem in a more GUI way.
Somebody else suggested doing:
rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/6.0/i386/
although I wasn't able to get that to work.
I do agree, though, that software to do this automatically should have been included in RedHat a long time ago.
OK, I'm not ESR, but I thought I'd comment on this. Twice...
1) I have heard it said (perhaps by Guy Kawasaki of Apple fame?) that good software gives users what they ask for, and great software gives users what they haven't yet realized they can't live without. I think that programmers scratching itches often creates software of the latter type.
2) As people coming in to the Open Source community are increasingly coming over from Windows/MacOS/etc. instead of other kinds of UNIX, I think that their itches will increasingly be to make software easier to use and more graphical. And as programmers' itches start to be for free UNICES to take over the world, or even just to be able to let their parents, spouses, or children enjoy the same stability and flexibility they do with their computers, you will see this same effect.
You're starting to see it now, with KDE and GNOME; but rather than just shoving stuff out the door and calling it done, open source programs tend to take a while to consider things, and put out something that's well designed. In the next several months, I think you'll start to see a convergence with this, and a lot of half-finished projects will start to become very high quality software.
I agree with this completely.
When my number has come up to be a moderator, I shift the way I read SlashDot. I make an effort to read comments I wouldn't normally read, and I refrain from participating in conversations if I think I can add more to the discussion by moderating up some interesting posts.
I think that this shift is necessary to be a good moderator. And I'm not sure I'd be willing to make the shift if I wasn't confident I'd be able to moderate up the good posts, and down the really bad posts, because which articles I could moderate was chosen randomly.
My girlfriend and I are 25 and 24, respectively.
:)
National Amusements *still* wouldn't let us buy
tickets for friends that were meeting us there.
So much for corporate policy...
My attack strategy would be to have your friends
show up right when the movie is about to start,
be surprised they have to wait through the line
to get tickets, and after the movie demand a
refund for their two tickets because the
unexpected policy change made them miss the start
of the movie.
It might not work, but it would be fun!
Hubs don't route, they just broadcast everything
they receive to every other node on the
ethernetwork. So this should work fine.
There is no compiler that I know of that restricts
you from selling source code written and tested
with it, or the binaries that it compiles from
that code.
If you think that's the license for the GNU
compiler GCC, you are mistaken.
Could you recommend such a book?
FWIW, this is corrected later in the thread
containing that announcement. The compiler
actually does the right thing, just the post
was incorrect.
Mach is actually a microkernel, which acts as an
abstraction layer between the hardware and the OS
kernel. In other words, for Darwin, your programs
run on top of the BSD kernel, which runs on top
of the Mach microkernel, which runs on the actual
hardware.
Depending on who you ask, the spelling can also be
"Berzerkeley"...
It's a clever little monitor that is about the size of a legal pad, and pivots so that it can be vertical (8 1/2" long x 11" tall) or horizontal (11" long x 8 1/2" tall). Tall is great for working on documents, and long is great for spreadsheets.
Unfortunately, the Windows drivers for the WinPortrait don't even work that well; we ended up relegating the only one we had in the office to the computer of somebody who didn't upgrade to MS Win98 (where the drivers don't work at all), and didn't mind their computer crashing once in a while. If somebody can get the rotating working under X, I'd love to hear about it.
I'm not even sure that's true. Taking the GPL,
changing a few lines, and calling it your own
license is akin to taking somebody else's code,
changing a few lines, and calling it your own.
If nothing else, it's plagairism.
At least, that's how I have always read the GPL.
In my younger days, I once licensed a program
under the GPL simply because it was easier than
coming up with my own licensing terms, and I
have always assumed that was part of the point.
I think you're thinking of the Geek Code.
;-)
It probably does send the POWEROK signal, but by that time, the OS is already shut down. Maybe I could create a special init state that mounted everything readonly and then just watched for POWEROK, and switched init states...
Actually, GNUstep is just proving that people very much prefer to play with something that is finished enough to be generally usable. I think that when GNUstep gets to the point where you can use it for everyday applications, it will take off quickly. But right now, it's just not complete enough.
We've hooked things up like this before, but had the occasional problem where the machine got the POWERFAIL signal from apcd, shut itself down properly, then power came back on before the UPS battery went dead. The machine ends up sitting there, properly shut down, until somebody drives to the site and flips the power off and on. Anybody got any ideas for working around this?
I couldn't get anything to compile with my 2.2.1
kernel until I updated my C library to the latest
GLibC. When I did that, StarOffice stopped working, and I had some other miscellaneous problems. These are all known problems, I believe, but does anybody have any workarounds? Anybody got 2.2.1 working (and stuff compiling) with libc 2.0.7, or have a workaround to make StarOffice work with the new GLibC?
Thanks for any pointers,
-----Scott.
I don't see at all how a CPU ID can provide any
type of Internet security. Does anybody know
of how they plan to implement this, or where I
can find a white paper or other document on it?