Lots of people have mentioned the double-dash that makes getopt (the argument processor that rm uses) stop processing flags. But there's a simpler solution:
rm./-
Since the dash is no longer first, it's not confused with a command.
That's ridiculous. The entire point of Subversion is that it uses atomic operations. If you update against a corrupted database, and so much as ONE FILE has a sync error, your local copy gets unrolled to where it was before you ran `svn update`.
So even if you could somehow connect to a corrupt BDB in such a way that the transaction could even start (instead of just returning an error before any files could be read at all), and you could download 99% of the changes before hitting a corruption, you'd STILL not be in any danger, because none of your files would have changed.
But while using the Subversion client, you don't have to care what backend the project managers are using. If the project database crashes, it's not your fault as a user.
If you're really super ultra paranoid, you could set up your own svn repository with your favorite backend, sync it up with KDE's project, and work from there, but then you're just making trouble for yourself.
SVN in client mode uses.svn directories (similar to CVS directories) with XML files and such to manage your local copy. Those big bad BDBs never come near you unless you're managing the repository.
They're not obligated to share unless they are planning on redistributing the software. They are perfectly free to patch their own software and use the patched versions for their servers without sharing those modifications.
The GPL does not force them to do anything unless they wish to redistribute the software.
Why doesn't samsung introduce a cell phone that lasts for 6 months on a charge [standby not talk] or that can take a 5 story fall off a balcony or something. Or at least a fall from 6 ft without splitting in half... of the three cell phones I've had the cheapest POS motorola v120c was the toughest. My 300$ flip phone and my current c256 phone both will split open upon the slighest drop...
If they did this, you would buy one, and then never buy another cell phone ever again. They have a vested interest in ensuring that you will eventually need to replace your cell phone. Compare to Microsoft Office, Gillette, and toilet paper.
Except obidos is somewhere around 600 MB of compiled code. This is not a joke -- the machine code with all debugging information and symbols stripped is 600+ MB large.
Compiling it takes upwards of five minutes just to wind through the recursive makefiles, and linking it takes upwards of half an hour on most developer machines. The development cycle was quite painful when I worked there, leading to all sorts of workarounds that introduced more issues than they solved.
In this climate? Please. He'd pin it on 'evil hackers', promise to spearhead a few bills further restricting the rights of American citizens, and see a minor uptick in the polls. He certainly wouldn't lose a moment's sleep over it.
Slashdot doesn't serve much in the way of images -- most of the content is textual -- so the bandwidth doesn't fill up as easily as it would if they were serving movies.
The server configuration is designed to handle the load, with multiple servers, load-balanced arrays, that sort of thing, whereas the people they link to are typically running on shared servers, or have only a single server.
Slashdot uses cached pages to avoid hitting the DB on every page load (mostly for the front pages), whereas smaller sites can get away with making a direct connection and doing more processor-intensive queries. Until they get linked by a site like Slashdot, anyway.
Slashdot's DB server is most likely of the 'fire-breathing god' variety, able to handle standard Slashdot traffic without too much difficulty. Smaller sites typically have the database server on the same machine as the webserver, and sometimes both are shared.
In general, it's all a matter of configuration. When you run a moderately successful small site, you're generally prepared for the amount of traffic you have, plus or minus 50%. Traffic generally grows slowly, so you have time to make adjustments when things start to get tight.
When Slashdot links your site, you get a huge influx of traffic to a site that is designed to handle a tiny fraction of that traffic. It leads to badness.
It's like trying to put an elephant into your freezer. If you're prepared for it, you have a big walk-in freezer. But most sites only need a small half-height fridge to keep their beer cold.
In terms of pure energy costs (neverminding money) it takes a typical solar panel about three years to generate the amount of energy it took to produce. Some panels are made from recycled wafers (typically wafers which were rejected for chip manufacture) these take about 3 months to make the electricity that went into their production.
My ignorance is showing. Why does it take vastly less time for a wafer rejected for chip manufacture to recoup the energy spent on its production, compared to the 'typical' solar panel? 3 months versus three years? Wouldn't the rejected panel take just as much energy to produce, and probably be less efficient?
The ink is, uh, a copyrighted formula? And the printer access hatch is an access device. Yes, yes, and by opening up the printer to refill it and walking backwards, you are reverse engineering!
"any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, and any union or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity."
Any legal entity or associated group of people, even if they're not a legal entity.
No, because Windows has been 'improved' in the meantime. They'll probably raise prices to cover the loss from the settlement.
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The Red Queen
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Somehow I doubt, rkz, that you are also Gilly Collinson from North Yorkshire who wrote this review on Amazon.co.uk over two years ago, and are just duplicating it here for the edification of us all.
Mod the parent down. Moderators, please stop smoking the crack.
Yes, I'm sure criminals who are about to commit wire fraud and identity theft (punishable by 5 to 30 years in prison depending on circumstance) are very concerned that they may also be breaking another law at the same time.
"Holy shit, when we took off after robbing that bank we ran through a red light! The cops are really going to be on us now!"
But you're out of your mind
They said with a shrug
The customer is happy
What's one little bug?
But he was determined
The others went home
He spread out the program
Deserted, alone
The cleaning men came
The whole room was cluttered
With memory dumps
I'm close, he muttered.
The mumbling got louder
Simple deduction
I've got it, it's right
Just change one instruction.
It still wasn't perfect
As year followed year
And strangers would comment
Is that guy still here?
He died at the console
Of hunger and thirst
Next day he was buried
Face down, nine edge first.
And the last bug in sight
An ant passing by
Saluted his tombstone
And whispered - Nice try!
Note that "face down, nine edge first" is a reference to an IBM puch card reader which had those words printed on it ("place cards face down, nine edge first"), the 'nine edge' typically being the lower edge of the card where the row of nines were.
I would imagine that they're betting on the offical numbers. So, you give them your dollar and if your numbers come up in the offical drawing (run by the state), you go to Fat Tony and he gives you your cash.
Of course, Fat Tony then probably shoots your kneecaps and takes the money back, but that's the other bet you're making. It's like placing two bets at once!
I think you took a wrong turn on the internet somewhere, man.
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Nice rant, but you're wrong. I wanted to be the chump that paid for the music while the IMC was all the rage. I've never used Napster, Kazaa, or any of their clones, and I never will. The only MP3s I own I ripped myself from discs I bought and still own. While everyone else was looting the town square, I was standing in line at the checkout with money in my hand.
Am I in the minority? Probably. But I did this because it's just wrong to take something that you didn't pay for. If you want to justify your actions by saying the RIAA is fucking you over, fine. But there are lots of record companies that aren't in the RIAA, and oddly enough their CDs cost $18 too.
As for the other crap, whatever. Look at the 21st century USA. Freedoms are being taken left and right and the populace is just taking it. Governments can't tighten the screws? Like hell they can't.
Slashdot Mirror
Lots of people have mentioned the double-dash that makes getopt (the argument processor that rm uses) stop processing flags. But there's a simpler solution:
./-
rm
Since the dash is no longer first, it's not confused with a command.
(Typed with -v to evade the lameness filter.)
That's ridiculous. The entire point of Subversion is that it uses atomic operations. If you update against a corrupted database, and so much as ONE FILE has a sync error, your local copy gets unrolled to where it was before you ran `svn update`.
So even if you could somehow connect to a corrupt BDB in such a way that the transaction could even start (instead of just returning an error before any files could be read at all), and you could download 99% of the changes before hitting a corruption, you'd STILL not be in any danger, because none of your files would have changed.
But it's nice FUD.
But while using the Subversion client, you don't have to care what backend the project managers are using. If the project database crashes, it's not your fault as a user.
.svn directories (similar to CVS directories) with XML files and such to manage your local copy. Those big bad BDBs never come near you unless you're managing the repository.
If you're really super ultra paranoid, you could set up your own svn repository with your favorite backend, sync it up with KDE's project, and work from there, but then you're just making trouble for yourself.
SVN in client mode uses
They're not obligated to share unless they are planning on redistributing the software. They are perfectly free to patch their own software and use the patched versions for their servers without sharing those modifications.
The GPL does not force them to do anything unless they wish to redistribute the software.
Except obidos is somewhere around 600 MB of compiled code. This is not a joke -- the machine code with all debugging information and symbols stripped is 600+ MB large.
Compiling it takes upwards of five minutes just to wind through the recursive makefiles, and linking it takes upwards of half an hour on most developer machines. The development cycle was quite painful when I worked there, leading to all sorts of workarounds that introduced more issues than they solved.
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw hammers.
I'm still in bed. Some of us can't shake our hangovers that quickly.
In this climate? Please. He'd pin it on 'evil hackers', promise to spearhead a few bills further restricting the rights of American citizens, and see a minor uptick in the polls. He certainly wouldn't lose a moment's sleep over it.
Because, uh, the advertising revenue, mumble mumble, complexity of asking permission, cough, uh, hey look, shiny!
I have my filters set up to give a -5 to all posts, and I browse at 3+. I can read all the comments on a dozen articles in less than a minute now.
What's really strange is that ever since I excluded all of the articles from the front page, slashdot doesn't seem to ever update anymore.
Needless to say, my productivity has gone through the roof.
Slashdot doesn't serve much in the way of images -- most of the content is textual -- so the bandwidth doesn't fill up as easily as it would if they were serving movies.
The server configuration is designed to handle the load, with multiple servers, load-balanced arrays, that sort of thing, whereas the people they link to are typically running on shared servers, or have only a single server.
Slashdot uses cached pages to avoid hitting the DB on every page load (mostly for the front pages), whereas smaller sites can get away with making a direct connection and doing more processor-intensive queries. Until they get linked by a site like Slashdot, anyway.
Slashdot's DB server is most likely of the 'fire-breathing god' variety, able to handle standard Slashdot traffic without too much difficulty. Smaller sites typically have the database server on the same machine as the webserver, and sometimes both are shared.
In general, it's all a matter of configuration. When you run a moderately successful small site, you're generally prepared for the amount of traffic you have, plus or minus 50%. Traffic generally grows slowly, so you have time to make adjustments when things start to get tight.
When Slashdot links your site, you get a huge influx of traffic to a site that is designed to handle a tiny fraction of that traffic. It leads to badness.
It's like trying to put an elephant into your freezer. If you're prepared for it, you have a big walk-in freezer. But most sites only need a small half-height fridge to keep their beer cold.
"Now, admittedly, it's critical software. This is the 'let's go kill people' software."
Man, I need to get a new job.
In terms of pure energy costs (neverminding money) it takes a typical solar panel about three years to generate the amount of energy it took to produce. Some panels are made from recycled wafers (typically wafers which were rejected for chip manufacture) these take about 3 months to make the electricity that went into their production.
My ignorance is showing. Why does it take vastly less time for a wafer rejected for chip manufacture to recoup the energy spent on its production, compared to the 'typical' solar panel? 3 months versus three years? Wouldn't the rejected panel take just as much energy to produce, and probably be less efficient?
Honest questions.
The ink is, uh, a copyrighted formula? And the printer access hatch is an access device. Yes, yes, and by opening up the printer to refill it and walking backwards, you are reverse engineering!
Et voila!
Read the whole clause again.
"any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, and any union or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity."
Any legal entity or associated group of people, even if they're not a legal entity.
No, because Windows has been 'improved' in the meantime. They'll probably raise prices to cover the loss from the settlement.
Somehow I doubt, rkz, that you are also Gilly Collinson from North Yorkshire who wrote this review on Amazon.co.uk over two years ago, and are just duplicating it here for the edification of us all.
Mod the parent down. Moderators, please stop smoking the crack.
Yes, I'm sure criminals who are about to commit wire fraud and identity theft (punishable by 5 to 30 years in prison depending on circumstance) are very concerned that they may also be breaking another law at the same time.
"Holy shit, when we took off after robbing that bank we ran through a red light! The cops are really going to be on us now!"
Note that "face down, nine edge first" is a reference to an IBM puch card reader which had those words printed on it ("place cards face down, nine edge first"), the 'nine edge' typically being the lower edge of the card where the row of nines were.
I would imagine that they're betting on the offical numbers. So, you give them your dollar and if your numbers come up in the offical drawing (run by the state), you go to Fat Tony and he gives you your cash.
Of course, Fat Tony then probably shoots your kneecaps and takes the money back, but that's the other bet you're making. It's like placing two bets at once!
That bug was fixed in 1.1; it now reads "lather, rinse, repeat as desired."
It helps to facilitate intelectual discourse.
I think you took a wrong turn on the internet somewhere, man.
Nice rant, but you're wrong. I wanted to be the chump that paid for the music while the IMC was all the rage. I've never used Napster, Kazaa, or any of their clones, and I never will. The only MP3s I own I ripped myself from discs I bought and still own. While everyone else was looting the town square, I was standing in line at the checkout with money in my hand.
Am I in the minority? Probably. But I did this because it's just wrong to take something that you didn't pay for. If you want to justify your actions by saying the RIAA is fucking you over, fine. But there are lots of record companies that aren't in the RIAA, and oddly enough their CDs cost $18 too.
As for the other crap, whatever. Look at the 21st century USA. Freedoms are being taken left and right and the populace is just taking it. Governments can't tighten the screws? Like hell they can't.