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Introducing The Dave/Dina Multimedia Distro
thomasvs writes "The Dave/Dina project is a small enthusiastic group of developers working on a complete open-sourced distribution for home entertainment systems. You can record and watch TV, watch DVD's, grab and listen to CD's, rate your music, videochat with other people, watch pictures, and all this on your TV set in the living room, with a remote control.
The first .iso set has just been released. This is a beta release meant to attract new developers, testers, and hackers, who want to work towards a similar goal. It works fine for us, but it might need fixing on other hardware, which is our next goal. On a related note, Happy New Year to everyone !"
Life still sucks.
Use ISO 8601 dates [YYYY-MM-DD]
Me Me Me!
When I get home tonight I'm going to wrap myself in Saran Wrap, black plastic garbage bags, and clear packing tape, and then beat myself off silly. Who wants to join me?
Funny how CNN has withdrawn all quotes from a certain authority who acknowledged that some civil rights have been infringed (for the common good).
Looks like the terrorists won...
Consumers will be allowed to purchase opportunites.
Viewing opportunites for films,listening opportunites for music.After all only the rightsholder can truly "own" intellectual property.
Liscenses will be available at low cost to share these one time only opportuniteies with friends and family members.
This guy is always trolling...Mod Down. Better yet make him your enemy.
"gay" has many meanings unrelated to homosexuality.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
Allow me to rephrase it (I mean, after all, this is /.! :-D):-
/.-aimed humour inspired by an earlier Web is dying troll [slashdot.org], which in turn was inspired by earlier "BSD is dying" trolls. And oh, I got the post by googling slashdot for "Kreskin" [google.com].)
It is now official - SearchEngineWatch has confirmed: Google is dying.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Google community when recently IDC confirmed that the Google accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all search engine usage. Coming on the heels of the latest SearchEngineWatch survey which plainly states that Google has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Google is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive search engine usage test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Google's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Google faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Google because Google is dying. Things are looking very bad for Google. As many of us are already aware, Google continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Google Groups is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core posters.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
The Google CEO Eric Schmidt states that there are 7000 users of Google. How many users of other protocols are there? Let's see. The number of Google versus other search engine hits when you search "search engine" on Google is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 other search engine users. Google posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of other protocols posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Google. A recent article put Usenet at about 80 percent of the Internet market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Google users. This is consistent with the number of Usenet posts about Google on Google.
Due to the troubles of Mountain View, abysmal sales and so on, Google went out of business and was taken over by Slashdot who sell another troubled web service. Now Slashdot is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Google has steadily declined in market share. Google is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Google is to survive at all it will be among search engine hobbyists. Google continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Google is dead.
Fact: Google is dead.
(Credits: This is a revisionist post-modernist
I much prefer smarter P2P (like Gnutella).
Does gnutella actually exist? Over the past few weeks, my mom (who I converted to linux some time ago) has been complaining that she needs some way of getting music on her computer. I've been trying various gnutella clients, but NOTHING has been able to work (ie, no gnutella client can successfully connect to the gnutella network, let alone search out and download files from it). And yes, my firewall was opened for gnutella properly.
My failure in finding a linux p2p app for mom has caused her to change back to windows, where she now enjoys kazaa (much to my chagrin).
I personally use bittorrent as my primary p2p app, but I decided that was inappropriate for mom because of the passive nature of bittorrent (IE, you can't really search for files on bittorrent, you have to go to BT pages and wait for interesting files to come to you).