On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:43:17 -0500 begin Marvin Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:
[snip] > > But then again, what do I know...?... Kurt and David B. are better > equipped than I am at this sort of thing. > OK, straight off the top of my head for creating a filesystem: 1. use fdisk (or cfdisk) to create partitions on your drive. 2. use mke2fs (for ext2), mke2fs -j (for ext3), mkreiserfs (for reiserfs) on the newly created partition (for example /dev/hdb1) to format it 3. create a mountpoint for the partition using mkdir 4. mount the partition (mount /dev/hdxx /new/mountpoint) The above is straight from my head. No reference (in years) to any material, I just remember how to do it. Could you look around and find something that looks similar? YES Is it plagiarism? NO Why not, it looks and reads like someone else's material? Because in the case of a cook-book recipe like the above where certain steps are involved, must be accomplished in a certain order, they will _always_ look like someone else's cookbook recipe to do exactly the same thing, copied or not. So in this case, plagiarism would be difficult if not impossible to prove as long as the _exact_ same words, punctuation, mispellings, aren't used. Although the below is plagarised from the above (because I'm reading and rewording slightly), it would not convince a judge: 1. create a partition with fdisk 2. format the partition with mke2fs -j 3. create a mountpoint with mkdir 4. mount the filesystem with mount But is there another way to do it? No (at least not correctly). Have I been to court? No. But I have discussed this with legal counsel. Why? I write one book for one author. I write another book with some chapters that cover some of the same material for another author. Can I copy from one book to another? NO! By rewriting the same material, am I plagiarising myself? Perhaps. The two texts can read substantially the same, but cannot be identical. If any two paragraphs from the two books are exactly the same, I could be open to a lawsuit. A pattern of several paragraphs that are identically worded would almost certainly net me major problems. Fiction is a lot easier to prove plagiarism than technical writing. (Just how many ways are there to screw in a light bulb?) You just need to say in good conscience that you did not copy someone else's work. Ciao, David A. Bandel -- Focus on the dream, not the competition. -- Nemesis Racing Team motto _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.