GNAA announces switch to Windows Vista
by Abdul Al-Felashis
GNAA announces switch to Windows Vista
fellacious (GNAP) Intercourse, PA- Windows Vista appears to finally be
taking off, at least within one Fortune 100 company. The GNAA had for the
past 13 years been using Red Hat Linux and it's successor, Fedora Core, but
growing discontent with the free software operating system forced CTO Jmax
to declare on Wednesday that the company was to be switching its entire
infrastructure to the new version of Windows, effective immediately. "I'm
not going to theatrically claim that I wasn't expecting to have to do this,"
Jmax said. "This has been coming for quite some time."
The GNAA's troubles with Red Hat's Linux system included chronic
governance problems, a persistent failure to maintain key repositories, a
complex and undocumented submission process which has kept the GNAA's free
trolling utilities off the Red Hat-based desktops of thousands of would-be
trolls, inability to keep RPM up to date, and a failure to address the
problem of Firefox not crashing a entire computer when the user loads Last
Measure. "The deal-breaker, though, was when a key Last Measure server
remained down for four hours while our entire Intercourse development team
tried desperately to bring it up despite not having statically-linked
package manager binaries." What had happened was Dikky, visiting from
Norway, wanted to play the child pornography mod of Doom 3 on that server-
which had to drag several libraries with it.
"In addition," said Jmax, "several key software applications used in the
GNAA's corporate workflow are proprietary software- which means that they
had to be run in an Ubuntu compatibility environment anyway." However,
being as those unnamed applications were written in C#.NET, "We expect that
our transition to Windows Vista will come off without a hitch."
About Jmax:
The CTO of the GNAA, Jmax also has a seat on Microsoft's board of
directors. His resume can be accessed at http://goatse.fr/
About Windows Vista:
The fastest-growing desktop operating system on the market, Windows Vista
combines the legendary security of Windows 98 with the legendary ease of use
of those computer interfaces you see in the movies into one ultra-fast,
ultra-stable computing platform.
About Red Hat:
A failure of a computer company, Red Hat burns through investor money while
giving its products away for free. It is currently under investigation from
the SEC for misuse of invested funds, and being sued by the GNAA for breach
of contract for sucking more than specified in the GNAA's contract with Red
Hat.
About the Linux community:
Trolled.
17 years, 2 months
Is there room for improvement in rescue mode? (was Re: Goodbye, Fedora)
by Jef Spaleta
On 2/22/07, Thomas M Steenholdt <tmus(a)tmus.dk> wrote:
> In all fairness, I wouldn't have performed that backup neither, as I
> expect is true for a lot of even semi-knowledgable sysadmins and generic
> linux powerusers. Not sor something as simple as this. However - There
> is still the rescue mode that's been mentioned a few times already,
> which could have fixed the issue in a matter of minutes. Without the backup!
In an effort to chart a new course of constructive discussion... is it
worth brainstorming a bit about how to make rescue mode better or more
accessible?
For the purposes of this discussion, we will take it for granted that
at some point in the course of a 3 or 4 releases, many (i dare not say
most..but many) people who are acting as the primary sysadmin for a
fedora install will experience some sort of human error which will
render their system unbootable. This is an unasailable axiom for the
rest of this discussion.
What can we do in the timescale of an F8 release to make using the
rescue mode easier and more obvious course of action. Are there ways
we can advertise its existence as part of sysadmin interaction with a
normal operating system? Would it be helpful to slip in a rescue
environment as a grub menu option instead of relying on install media?
Does it make sense to spend some effort making a more featurefull
rescue-like environment with guided troubleshooting characteristics?
What are the top three implementable ideas which would encourage
casual admins to reach for the rescue environment instead of a full
wipe and re-install?
-jef"we ran out of coffee at work, I've resorted to going outside and
rubbing snow on my face to stay awake"spaleta
17 years, 2 months
Re: [Mandrakeot] ESR gives up on Fedora
by Avi Kivity
Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 21:34 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 03:22:45PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
>>
>>>> Because that also means that I control what is done with my code. You
>>>> make it sound like all ideas should be in the public domain.
>>>>
>>> That is the natural order of things. "Information wants to be free" is
pretty
>>> sound economics. Copyright and friends exist[ed] to motivate people to
>>> behave in a way that benefitted society.
>>>
>> It's completely off-topic, but still...
>>
>> I am not completely sure about that (at least for art). In France, there
>> is a kind of property right which tie a piece of work to the author in a
>> very specific way. It cannot be abandonned or transfered (although
>> strangely it is possible to fake the author). It is called le 'droit
>> moral'. It covers the right to divulgate to public or not, right to be
>> recognized as the author, right to enforce respect on the piece of art
>> and the right to remove the piece of art from the commercial circuit.
>> The jurisprudence may limit in fact that right.
>>
>
> And yet, amazingly, it is all just a convention between people,
> information itself is abstract and you can't physically own it no matter
> how hard you try.
>
> Law may declare the world is flat, that doesn't change the physical
> nature of the world, it may decree the end of your life if you dissent
> though ...
>
Physical ownership is as much a fiction as information ownership.
There's no physical law that says that just because you gave a
shopkeeper some green pieces of paper, I can't take your new iPod when
you aren't looking [1]. It's just a convention that allows society to work.
[1] Or even if you are looking.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to
panic.
17 years, 2 months
rawhide report: 20070225 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
(none)
Broken deps for ia64
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pcmciautils - 014-5.ia64 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.12-1.1411_FC5
systemtap - 0.5.10-1.fc7.ia64 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.9-11
systemtap-runtime - 0.5.10-1.fc7.ia64 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.9-11
Broken deps for s390
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systemtap - 0.5.10-1.fc7.s390 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.9-11
systemtap-runtime - 0.5.10-1.fc7.s390 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.9-11
17 years, 2 months
rawhide report: 20070224 changes
by Build System
Removed package gimp-data-extras
Updated Packages:
fedora-logos-6.0.93-1.fc7
-------------------------
* Fri Feb 23 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 6.0.93-1
- New backgrounds (dual versions still missing)
* Fri Feb 23 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 6.0.92-5
- Directory ownership fixes
fedora-release-6.91-1
---------------------
* Fri Feb 23 2007 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> - 6.91-1
- Bump for Test 2
* Tue Feb 13 2007 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> - 6.90-4
- Specfile cleanups
* Mon Feb 05 2007 Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> - 6.90-3
- Drop the legacy repo file.
gnome-session-2.17.91-2.fc7
---------------------------
* Fri Feb 23 2007 Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com> - 2.17.91-2
- disable a11y registry timeout so that we don't get the popup with
the livecd (#227214)
initscripts-8.51-1
------------------
* Fri Feb 23 2007 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 8.51-1
- fix 'Fedora Fedora' in rc.sysinit
- halt: use kexec -x to not shut down network (#223932, <mchristi(a)redhat.com>)
- network_functions: fix is_bonding_device logic (#229643)
- translation updates: nb
* Mon Feb 19 2007 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 8.50-1
- lang.csh, lang.sh: if $LANG is set, don't override it (#229102)
- initlog.1: fix man page formatting (<esr(a)thyrsus.com>)
- network-functions: simplify bonding test (#215887, <herbert.xu(a)redhat.com>)
- fix ifup-post when lookup fails (#220318, <hiroshi.fujishima+redhat(a)gmail.com>)
- add bridging docs (#221412, <markmc(a)redhat.com>)
- release bonding slaves properly (#220525)
- fix ppp-watch with ONBOOT=yes (#216749)
- support VLAN_PLUS_VID_NO_PAD (#222975, #223011)
- remove NETWORKING_IPV6; to disable, use a modprobe rule
- translation updates: ms, de, el, pt_BR, fi, bs, sr, it, ko
* Tue Dec 19 2006 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> 8.49-1
- rc.sysinit: remove raidautorn (#219226)
- ifup-eth: set MACADDR, MTU before initializing bonding slaves, etc (#218792)
- translation updates: mr, ms, hi, te, ml
kernel-2.6.20-1.2942.fc7
------------------------
* Thu Feb 22 2007 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Disable speedstep-centrino in favour of acpi-cpufreq
* Thu Feb 22 2007 John W. Linville <linville(a)redhat.com>
- Add new wireless infrastructure from wireless-dev git tree
libvirt-0.2.0-4.fc7
-------------------
* Fri Feb 23 2007 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com> - 0.2.0-4.fc7
- Fix loading of guest & network configs
Broken deps for ia64
----------------------------------------------------------
pcmciautils - 014-5.ia64 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.12-1.1411_FC5
systemtap - 0.5.10-1.fc7.ia64 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.9-11
systemtap-runtime - 0.5.10-1.fc7.ia64 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.9-11
Broken deps for s390
----------------------------------------------------------
systemtap - 0.5.10-1.fc7.s390 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.9-11
systemtap-runtime - 0.5.10-1.fc7.s390 requires kernel >= 0:2.6.9-11
17 years, 2 months
hald keeps dying?
by Michel Salim
Recently I've been having to restart haldaemon periodically (to get
battery status from gnome-power-manager back), and after a few minutes
'service haldaemon status' will report that hald is stopped.
Nothing about hald shows up in /var/log/messages, and setroubleshooter
is quiet. There's this bug in Bugzilla, but it's probably a different
problem:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229580
Has anyone noticed something similar?
Thanks,
--
Michel Salim
http://hircus.wordpress.com/
17 years, 2 months
Re: [Mandrakeot] ESR gives up on Fedora
by Avi Kivity
Simo Sorce wrote:
> No, what I mean is that "Intellectual Property" is not natural law,
> children do not understand ownership of a song, they just sing it if
> they like. Children do understand perfectly ownership of an apple, just
> because only one can hold the same apple, and it can be eaten only once.
>
>
It's just a matter of age. Very young children do not understand
ownership at all. Older children understand physical ownership, but
things like information are too abstract for them.
Nor do we want to base our society on how children behave.
> "Intellectual Property" it is an artificial construct made up by
> societies to achieve some goal in the belief that these rules are an
> overall benefit to the society as a whole. For the American society the
> goal should be to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts"(from
> the constitution), the mean is Copyright/Patents.
>
> You cannot physically posses a piece of code, you can physically own the
> specific instance of the code you have saved on your disk. But the code
> by itself is abstract, if I copy it from you, you still have your copy
> and it is intact. So "taking" your code didn't leave you without it.
>
> Property make sense only when taking something from someone leaves him
> without it.
>
If you borrow my bicycle while I'm asleep, I'm still have it when I wake
up, but you've undermined by bicycle-rental business. Think of
licensing intellectual property as renting a bicycle. Copying my code
(or book, or movie) doesn't leave me without it, but it takes away my
freedom to do what I want with it, including witholding it from others,
or charging them for it.
> Copyright can be seen as a form of property, as if I have the copyright
> on something, you don't. But you have to realize that this works at a
> different level. You own the "right to copy" the code, an artifact made
> by law, you do not technically own the code itself.
>
>
Ok. I have a bicycle, I own the right to decide how it's used. Even if
you promise to return it later, I can still choose not to let you ride it.
>> Because that also means that I control what is done with my code.
>> You
>> make it sound like all ideas should be in the public domain.
>>
>
> Ideas are technically and by law in the "public domain", as they are
> abstract and you can't copyright nor patent an ideas.
> Code is a different thing, see above.
>
> Finally, can we close this thread on a devel list?
> I am happy to debate around law philosophy elsewhere if you like.
>
Ok.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to
panic.
17 years, 2 months
Re: [Mandrakeot] ESR gives up on Fedora
by Avi Kivity
Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 09:09:22PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>>> zero cost without destroying the original, can't be subject to real
>>> property.
>>>
>>>
>> You mean I can't put a license on my code that says: you may use this,
>> but if you change it and redistribute it you must also redistribute your
>> changes?
>>
>
> So called "IPR" isn't a property right, its a temporary monopoly right -
if
> you call them "Intellectual Monopoly Rights" it makes much more sense both
> in how the work, what they do and how they need to be regulated
>
>
Isn't property a monopoly? I have a bicycle, I'm the only one who can
ride it. I may license it to you for a ride if you ask (but please, I
don't want any modifications).
I write a book, no one else can print it. Even if they buy a physical
copy, they can't do what they like with it (like photocopy it for backup
purposes, and maybe give the copies to friends). I own the monopoly on
the contents of the book.
>> Because that also means that I control what is done with my code. You
>> make it sound like all ideas should be in the public domain.
>>
>
> That is the natural order of things. "Information wants to be free" is
pretty
> sound economics.
Information, by itself, wants to bitrot. You actually have to expend
effort to push it around networks, explain it to people, port it to
latest -git, etc.
> Copyright and friends exist[ed] to motivate people to
> behave in a way that benefitted society.
>
Exactly.
If we are to hypothesize about what IPR/IMR should be like, it shouldn't
be done from the point of view of right and wrong, or what information
wants (who cares what it wants anyway), but from the point of view of
how it benefits society. Right now that means that people need to be
given control over their creation, because greed is a major motivation
and control allows them to reap the rewards. The laws also need to at
least seem right, otherwise people won't accept them.
That's applicable to all laws as well. If people naturally behaved in a
way that benefited society, we wouldn't need them. But we aren't bees,
unfortunately (and the bees' work doesn't benefit the bees, it benefits
the beekeeper).
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to
panic.
17 years, 2 months
Re: [Mandrakeot] ESR gives up on Fedora
by Avi Kivity
Simo Sorce wrote:
> You should understand that "property" is natural only for physical
> objects, just because possession of a physical object can be controlled
> by physical means and cannot be easily replicated.
>
> Abstract objects like ideas, but also anything that can be replicated at
> zero cost without destroying the original, can't be subject to real
> property.
>
You mean I can't put a license on my code that says: you may use this,
but if you change it and redistribute it you must also redistribute your
changes?
Because that also means that I control what is done with my code. You
make it sound like all ideas should be in the public domain.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to
panic.
17 years, 2 months
Re: NVIDIA graphics driver version format announcement
by Axel Thimm
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 01:30:03PM -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> This post is an early notification to anyone that repackages the
> NVIDIA UNIX Graphics Driver.
>
> Starting in the Release 100 driver series, NVIDIA will revise the
> format of the version number for the UNIX Graphics Driver.
>
> In the past, the NVIDIA UNIX Graphics Driver version format was
> "1.0-XXXX" (e.g., "1.0-9746"). Starting in Release 100, the new
> format will be a collection of period-separated fields (e.g.,
> "100.17.03").
>
> The left-most field will indicate the major release series ("Release
> 100", Release "105", etc.). The second field and optional third or
> additional fields will be used for NVIDIA tracking.
>
> The version number will be a variable number of fields, however it
> will consist only of digits and periods.
>
> This version format change will apply to both the package filenames,
> and the names of the libraries.
>
> Examples:
>
> /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.100.17
do you intend to do so with libGL.so.1, too? Because that would break
a lot of stuff and would render the nvidia-graphics libs not adequate
for in-place-substitutes for any system shipped libGL.so.1 anymore.
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.17-pkg1.run
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.17-pkg2.run
> NVIDIA-Solaris-x86-100.17.run
> NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-100.17.tar.gz
>
> # glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version string"
> OpenGL version string: 2.1.1 NVIDIA 100.17
>
> # cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
> NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 100.17 Mon Feb 12
> 14:37:08 PST 2007
> GCC version: gcc version 4.1.1 20060525 (Red Hat 4.1.1-1)
>
> After the Release 100 driver series is released, we will make a
> similar change to the 1.0-96xx and 1.0-71xx legacy GPU release
> branches.
>
> Thanks,
> Lonni J Friedman
> NVIDIA Corp
>
--
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
17 years, 2 months