Comment In memory of Dennis Ritchie... (Score 2) 176
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Debian releases when *everything* is ready, which means that it release well after *some* things are ready. More frequent releases means less pressure on developers to make deadlines, and less pressure on users to upgrade to bleeding-edge software just to get a few new features they want.
If you recall,there was a campaign to make Mudge the USA cyber-czar back when Obama created that post. The guy knows what he's doing, and even now that he's in big-government stuff, the community still trusts him.
The GPL is a distribution license. There are no restrictions on the *use* of GPL software - it's not a EULA. So if the programmer isn't distributing his program to other people, the GPL has nothing say say about it.
TPB's firewall has always blocked ICMP. No one can "ping" them even when everything is working fine.
The Story of Mel! http://foldoc.org/The+Story+of+Mel (That's not the original, that's the "free verse" version which is better IMHO.) It might even be a true story! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Kaye
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred. -- Superchicken