I thought that since my computer is now a MacMini, and I no longer need to carry the computer around with me all the time, I could deactivate FileVault. Unfortunately, that won't work for now, as Mac OS X tells me that I need 4 terabytes of free disk space to deactivate it. I'll have to save up for a while before I can afford that.
I'm not the only one with this problem. Apparently, OS X makes a mistake in its calculation when it seems like there isn't enough disk space (even though my home directory only takes up 31 GB, but I have 44 GB free) when displaying the required additional disk space.
Stephen Walli(Ex-Microsofter) über die zu erwartenden Fallstricke in der letzten Microsoft-Aktion:
It will likely be a royalty free license, because the current patent license around the proprietary specification is royalty free. That patent license, however, couldn't be sublicensed, so an implementer that wanted to license their implementation under the GPL couldn't. Indeed previous examples around the IETF SenderID standard would force users of other implementations to engage in a license with Microsoft which is a rather onerous problem for free and open source licensed software.
Der Hinweis auf die SenderID-Geschichte ist durchaus wichtig: dort hat Microsoft auch ständig davon geredet, das es ein offener Standard sei, aber dabei immer unterschlagen, das deren Verständnis von offenen Standards absolut inkompatibel mit vielen Bereichen der Open Source Entwicklung sind - mit Sicherheit wird Microsoft wieder die GPL blockieren.
Abgesehen davon, ich find es schon ziemlich armselig, wenn Microsoft sich schlicht weigert ODF zu implementieren und meint einen eigenen Pseudo-Standard ihres Krams machen zu müssen - zumal man ja genau weiss, wie sich Microsoft dann zu solchen Standards verhält. Die werden dann wieder in den passenden Stellen erweitert und schon ists vorbei mit dem freien Zugriff.
Strong move: according to Georg Greve, a closing statement of a WSIS working group in Austria was changed at the request of Microsoft. Instead of a sentence about the success of free software, there was suddenly a never-before-seen sentence about the advantages of DRM. This is how an unwanted voice is simply silenced - and then it is claimed that everything is fine ...
The pope's hunt for gays continues:
The Vatican does not want to see active gays and people who support the homosexual movement in priestly offices. There is only an exception if the persons concerned have overcome their inclinations for at least three years, as emerges from a document that the Catholic news agency Adista published on the Internet yesterday.
Exactly. Overcome homosexual inclinations. Yes, of course. Actually, one should sue Bildzeitung for its "We are Pope" headline for defamation ...
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